Article: "Obama Administration: Wiretapping Legal Challenge Must Die" Source:Blog.Wired.com/27bstroke6/ Excerpt(s): SAN FRANCISCO -- The Obama administration urged a federal judge on Friday to stay enforcement of a ruling favoring the plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging President George W. Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program. Justice Department special counsel Anthony Coppolino told U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker during a 60-minute hearing here that the appellate courts should review his Jan. 5 decision allowing classified evidence into the case, a position the Obama administration took in court documents the day before. Without the classified evidence, Coppolino said, the government wins the case by default, and two American lawyers who claimed they were unlawfully spied upon can't pursue their lawsuit. Link to Full Story:http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/obama-administr.html Picture from Blog.Wired.com/27bstroke6/.
Article: "U.S. bombs Pakistan, 18 reported dead" Source:TheStar.com / Associated Press Excerpt(s): ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Suspected U.S. missiles killed 18 people on the Pakistan side of the Afghan border today in the first such attacks on the militant stronghold since President Barack Obama took office, Pakistani officials said. At least five foreign militants were among those killed in the strikes by unmanned aircraft in two parts of the frontier region, an intelligence official said without naming them. There was no information on the identities of the others. Pakistan's leaders had expressed hope Obama might halt the strikes, but few observers expected he would end a tactic that U.S. officials claim has killed several top al-Qaida operatives and is denying the group a safe haven on the Pakistani side. The United States has staged more than 30 missile strikes inside Pakistan since August – a barrage seen as a sign of frustration in Washington over Islamabad's failed efforts to curb militants it blames for violence in Afghanistan. Pakistan publicly protests the strikes in the northwest as violations of its sovereignty that often kill civilians and undermine its own campaign against insurgents also accused of launching bloody attacks on targets inside Pakistan. But many observers believe the government secretly agrees with the tactic and may provide intelligence on the targets, noting that Islamabad's admitting to assisting the attacks would be politically damaging. The first attack today took place in the village of Zharki in North Waziristan, when a single drone fired three missiles in the space of 10 minutes, the security officials said. Link to Full Story:http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/576172
Article: "Pakistan urges Obama to halt drone attacks" Source:Dawn.net Excerpt(s): ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday lodged a strong protest with the Obama administration over continuing drone attacks terming it as an ‘infringement of its sovereignty’ and called for a review of the policy. ‘Yesterday’s attack in the Waziristan area which caused civilian causalities is a matter of great concern. These concerns have been conveyed to the US side,’ Foreign Office Spokesman said in a statement. Although, Foreign Office was reluctant to reveal who made the protest, but sources claim the outrage was communicated by Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir to the US Ambassador Anne W Patterson. President Asif Zardari also conveyed Pakistan’s concerns in a meeting with US Ambassador Anne Patterson. The two successive missile strikes in North and South Waziristan three days after the new administration assumed office is being taken as an indication that President Obama has endorsed drone attacks in Pakistan’s territory. President Obama during his campaign for the White House had called for attacks against high-value targets in Pakistan. Link to Full Story:http://www.dawn.net/wps/wcm/connect/Dawn%20Content%20Library/dawn/news/pakistan/pakistan-urges-obama-to-halt-drone-attacks-szh Picture from Reuters, originally captioned: US President Barack Obama listens as Richard Holbrooke, the US envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, speaks at the State Department in Washington, Jan 22, 2009. — Reuters
Article: "Obama wants air strikes into Fata to continue: NYT" Source:Dawn.net Excerpt(s): WASHINGTON: Hours after US missiles killed 20 people in Fata, President Barack Obama convened a meeting of his top national security advisers and endorsed the decision to continue drone strikes into Pakistan. The US media, quoting unidentified official sources, reported that the first meeting of Mr Obama’s National Security Council focused on Pakistan and Afghanistan. The New York Times reported on Saturday that the decision to attack alleged terrorist targets in Fata on Friday 'dispelled for the moment any notion that Mr Obama would rein in the Predator attacks.' The Washington Post noted that the strikes 'offered the first tangible sign of President Obama's commitment to sustained military pressure on the terrorist groups' in Fata. At his daily White House briefing, press secretary Robert Gibbs declined to answer questions about the strikes, saying, 'I'm not going to get into these matters.' Remotely piloted Predator drones operated by the Central Intelligence Agency have carried out 28 missile attacks in Fata since last summer, killing at least 132 people. The NYT, quoting Pakistani officials, reported that as many as 100 of them were civilians. Link to Full Story:http://www.dawn.net/wps/wcm/connect/Dawn%20Content%20Library/dawn/news/world/obama+wants+air+strikes+into+fata+to+continue-rs Picture from , originally captioned: US President Barack Obama is introduced to speak by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the State Department in Washington. -Reuters
Article: "US releases $101m for anti-terror fight" (i.e. Obama pays off Pakistan) Source:Dawn.net Excerpt(s): WASHINGTON: The United States has reimbursed $101 million to Pakistan for its efforts to fight Al Qaeda and Taliban militants along the Pakistan-Afghan border. Diplomatic sources told Dawn that the payment came from the US Coalition Support Fund set up to help US allies in the war against terror. With the transfer of the amount on Friday, the US has now made reimbursement for expenditures that Pakistan incurred up to April 2008. The United States still owes about a $1 billion to Pakistan for the expenses incurred during the last eight months. The payments are made under a new procedure approved recently. Under the procedure, the government of Pakistan submits its claim to the Office of the US Defence Representative in Pakistan, who forwards it to the US Central Command in Tampa, Florida. Link to Full Story:http://www.dawn.net/wps/wcm/connect/Dawn%20Content%20Library/dawn/news/world/us-releases-101m-for-anti-terror-fight--qs Picture from Reuters, originally captioned: The US still owes about a billion dollars to Pakistan for expenses incurred during the last eight months. — Reuters
Note from the HBAF research team: We here at HumanBeingsAreFree don't find ignorance funny, not in a world of oppression and suffering that is caused by it. We do not support Obama nor McCain, BUT, this video is incredibly accurate in showing what some people in those rallies (including the guy with the microphone) are like. Brace yourself, and keep in mind that these people are probably not drunk.
Bob Barr is clearly on the side of Bush and the rest of the totalitarians; it is unbelievable that he ever called himself a Libertarian. All along I knew he had voted for Bush's wars. All along I knew he had voted for the Patriot Act. But I, like so many seekers of a peaceful revolution, believe intensely that people can change, and gave Barr the benefit of the doubt. I thought that he had realized it was a mistake to vote for and promote such atrocities. I thought that he had ceased to hold such opinions, and had come to realize that he had been misled into promoting totalitarianism. This clearly is not the case. Bob Barr is out... Out... OUT!Details forthcoming...
WASHINGTON - Paul says he turned down appeal to endorse McCain. Republican Rep. Ron Paul, the libertarian-leaning Texas lawmaker who attracted a devoted following in the GOP primaries, said Wednesday he rejected an appeal to endorse John McCain's presidential bid...
Don't miss a word! Cynthia McKinney is right on in this video. I'm falling in love with her. In this brief speech she covers so much: spying (civil rights); war and occupation; the "Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act;" a livable life for the people of our land; torture done in the name of USA citizens (Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, etc.); warmongering with Russia and China; the "receivership" (i.e. now total debtors to corporations) status that many US cities are now falling into due to debt; terrorism perpetrated on US citizens in the form of tasers and detention camps; the ignoring of the devastation of, and incompetence of reaction, to hurricanes Katrina and Rita by the US government; the manipulation of the economy by the elites to the point of our enslavement... she doesn't miss a beat. "Our country has been hijacked... We know who the real enemies are... We are no longer afraid." Watch and share!
VIDEO / YouTube: Cynthia McKinney at R-68 in Denver:
Daily News Headlines & Propaganda for 29 August 2008 Mid-day Report (see All News): For many self-interested reasons the American mainstream media continues to bury the news that the USA is RIGHT NOW, THIS VERY MOMENT toying with nuclear war--this despite its obvious significance to ALL LIFE on the planet. And when they do tell of it, they simply lie about it; in fact, they tell the exact opposite of the truth. Please don't continue live in the dark but cozy cave of propaganda, come out into the light and search for the truth. Be free! Live free! The truth about the powers-that-be in this world is not pretty at all, but we must wake up to it. Don't believe the lies. Our leadership is currently leading us towards the brink of nuclear war. The threat of nuclear war may seem like some vague childhood memory to you, as it once did to me, but thanks to our megalomaniacal leadership, it has very quickly become a reality once again. Wake up! Know the truth and share it. Human beings are free!
And lastly... for the verbal overview, check out Jason Bermas (of the Alex Jones radio show and Loose Change the movie), interviewing Paul Craig Roberts (Asst. Secretary of the Treasury during the Reagan Administration) about the current VERY REAL nuclear tension between the USA and Russia. One thing to note, I do NOT agree with Roberts on the point that Obama is more likely to avoid, or delay, nuclear war, or conventional wars for that matter, than McCain. Just check out this previous post which contain an article that lays out the Obama-Biden side of things, which is just as warmongering, and just as likely to lead us to nuclear destruction as McCain. The governance of this land needs an almost total overhaul, one of the few very exceptions that comes to mind being Ron Paul. We need truly REVOLUTIONARY change, if the people of this land are to SURVIVE and have the opportunity to FLOURISH as we each exercise our inherent ability to CHOOSE independently as free beings--yet another pendulum swing from the fake right to the fake left will make no difference.
Description of the interview from DiscloseTV: "Paul Craig Roberts, economist and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, tells Jason Bermas on the Alex Jones Show that the Bush neocons are leading the United States into a nuclear confrontation with Russia over the situation in Georgia and South Ossetia. Roberts gives the conflict 'almost total certainty if John McCain gets in office… this is not something that will happen in the next fifty years, it’s going to happen in the next two or three years.'" Thanks Jason, Alex and DiscloseTV!
NO Obama! NO McCain! Seriously, folks... they are both promising to put more blood on our hands. They are both war mongers. Obama's selection of Biden is just one more clear example (please read below)... The two parties are simply playing the farce, desperately trying to make everything appear OK, just for another moment. They are just putting on a play, a movie if you will, that makes the American people believe they still have their liberties. Don't believe it. Escape the two-party paradigm. And whatever you do, stop worrying about who to vote for for president--it really DOES NOT MATTER... Direct action, free beings being free, is the only possible answer.
Joe Biden: Russia, China, India: "The Real War" Obama's running mate presents the strategic plan for the next administration
Global Research, August 28, 2008 by Umberto Pascali
On Aug 27 2008 at the Democratic Convention in Denver, Vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joseph Biden presented the plan for the real war, the war against China, Russia. He repeated the key points pushed by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his obsessive determination to go to the final clash with Russia and Asia.
For Biden, The greatest mistake of the Bush administration was its failure "to face the biggest forces shaping this century. The emergence of Russia, China and India's great powers".
What was the "consequence of this neglect"? "Russia challenging… Georgia's freedom." The Obama-Biden administration will repair those criminal mistakes... Barack and I will end that neglect. We will hold Russia accountable."
The wars of the Bush administration were, so to speak the wrong ones.
The new administration will unchain the real war. The war to confront the emergence of Russia, China, India.
The war, the real war will have to be waged in Afghanistan/Pakistan - exactly the area where it will be more disruptive for the feared Russia, China India challenge.
The previous administration was not warmonger enough, according to Biden. The new Democratic administration will increase the number of troops sent in central Asia.
Then "the real war" against America's enemies will start. "al-Qaida and the Taliban - the people who have actually attacked us on 9/11 - they've regrouped in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan and are plotting new attacks..."
Lyndon LaRouche, a former presidential candidate, statesman, economist and chairman and founder of the political action committee LaRouche PAC, delivered this address in Washington, DC on May 7, 2008. As I've noted before, I'm not sure what I think about the entirety of LaRouche's economics, this address is right on. Whatever one's particular economics theory or theoretical leanings, it is clear we all need to stand up against the prevailing theory run-amok today that is clearly stamped with the old adage, absolute power absolutely corrupts. The American people, quite simply, are being robbed, and most of them don't even know it. Excellent work, Mr. LaRouche. Thank you.
VIDEO "WORLD WAR 3 SECRET":
Description as posted on YouTube: These are just clips from the Tragedy & Hope address where LaRouche talked about Obama getting the nomination. The Lisbon Treaty before Ireland voted No, but now Ireland is being ignored and the Treaty is being forced throw. The Biofuel scam of Prince Philip. that is reducing the worlds population. Its now been exposed biofuel has caused food crisis. Biofuels the source of world food crisis: leaked report. LaRouche also talked about world war 3 and the British Empires past and present successful plans to take control of the whole planet. Download or watch all of the "Tragedy & Hope" - May 7th LaRouche Webcast.
Protesters need to be wary about history of authorities using agent provocateurs to demonize legitimate demonstrators and justify violence
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Monday, August 25, 2008
The major question hanging over the Democratic National Convention, which starts in Denver today, is whether or not authorities will follow the lead of previous mass protest events, and actively stage violence to justify a brutal crackdown on legitimate demonstrators.
Last year after an incident during the SPP summit in Montebello Canada, Quebec provincial authorities were forced to admit that three rock-wielding mask-wearing “anarchists” were in fact police infiltrators used to gather information on protesters.
Police even went to great lengths to stage arrests of the agent provocateurs after they were outed as undercover cops by genuine protesters.
After initial photographs showed the “anarchists” wearing the same standard issue boots as the cops, debunkers attempted to dismiss the issue, but were forced to eat humble pie when authorities were eventually backed into a corner and had to admit that cops were dressed up as “black bloc” anarchists and used to spy on protesters.
Watch the video.
The so-called “black bloc” anarchists are completely infiltrated and controlled by the security services and are routinely employed at major protest events to cause riots and demonize legitimate peaceful protesters.
In Seattle in 1999 at the World Trade Organization meeting, the authorities declared a state of emergency, imposed curfews and resorted to nothing short of police state tactics in response to a small minority of hostile black bloc hooligans. In his film Police State 2, Alex Jones covered the fact that the police allowed the black bloc to run riot in downtown Seattle while they concentrated on preventing the movement of peaceful protestors. The film presents clear evidence that the left-wing anarchist groups are actually controlled by the state and used to demonize peaceful protesters.
At the WTO protests in Genoa 2001 a protestor was killed after being shot in the head and run over twice by a police vehicle. The Italian Carabinere also later beat on peaceful protestors as they slept, and even tortured some, at the Diaz School. It later emerged that the police fabricated evidence against the protesters, claiming they were anarchist rioters, to justify their actions. Some Carabiniere officials have since come forward to say they knew of infiltration of the so called black bloc anarchists, and that fellow officers acted as agent provocateurs.
At the Free Trade Area of Americas protests in Miami in late November 2003, more provocateuring was evident. The United Steelworkers of America calling for a congressional investigation, stated that the police intentionally caused violence and arrested and charged hundreds of peaceful protestors. The USWA suggested that billions of dollars supposedly slated for Iraq reconstruction funds are actually being used to subsidize “homeland repression” in America.
As events unfold in Denver demonstrators need to be wary of this history and make every attempt to film black bloc anarchists who are intent on causing violence and find out if they are under police protection. The future of maintaining the right to peaceably assemble and exercise the first amendment rests on the exposure of authorities using agent provocateurs to stage violence and demonize legitimate protesters. - PrisonPlanet.TV
Barack Obama and Joe Biden will not stop the war machine. NO Obama! NO McCain!
Obama backs Bush on Georgia (PressTV - 23 Aug 08 - Persia) ... Barack Obama has staged a rare show of unity with President George W. Bush by endorsing his approach to the Georgia-Russian conflict. "The situation with Russia and Georgia is very serious. This is the first time that Russia has moved into somebody's territory since the collapse of the Soviet Union," Obama told an evening rally here in southern Virginia. "It indicates a new stage in the relationship between Russia and the West. We've got to be firm with the Russians, in alliance with our European allies, that this kind of behavior is intolerable," the Illinois senator said. While opposing the US president on just about every point of domestic and international policy, Obama said, "I'm supportive of what George Bush has been doing." In a recent interview with Press TV, Reagan era US Treasury undersecretary Paul Craig Roberts said that neo-cons are in control of US foreign policy and regardless of who the next president of United States is, foreign policy will be led by the neo-cons ideologies. Roberts also said that Georgia was forced by the US and its neo-con component to attack S. Ossetia. The latest remark by Democratic presidential hopeful, Barack Obama indicates that the neo-con forged foreign policy will likely still be in place for years to come even if the Democrats take the White House. - PressTV.ir
Obama blames Iraq for lack of 'progress' (PressTV.ir - 20 Aug 08 - Persia) ... “We have lost over a thousand American lives and spent hundreds of billions of dollars since the surge began, but Iraq's leaders still haven't made hard compromises or substantial investments in rebuilding their country,” Barack Obama said. “And while we pay a heavy price in Iraq - and Americans pay record prices at the pump - Iraq's government is sitting on a $79 billion dollar budget surplus from windfall oil profits,” he said. Far from the withdrawal of troops from Iraq that Obama appeared to support during his campaign for the Democratic nomination, his latest speech appeared to support "responsible redeployment" to secure economic and geopolitical interests. - PressTV.ir
Sen. Joe Biden on Israel and the Iraq war “I am a Zionist” (Shalom TV): ... US Senator Joseph Biden, Democratic Party candidate for vice president, "speaks with Shalom TV CEO Mark S. Golub on Israel and Jewish-related issues in this exclusive interview."
In the following video (at exactly 4:50) you'll hear Ron Paul say it was in fact the Georgians who launched the attack on South Ossetia, not Russia. If you listen a little further you'll hear his fuller analysis of the situation, including the fact that Georgia has a US "puppet government." Thanks Alex Jones for supporting Ron Paul. And thank you Ron Paul for telling the truth, and for having a rational plan of action. It is absolutely clear that it was the Georgians who struck first, at least according to everyone in the world except for the 5 major media outlets in the US. It's good to know at least one person in the US congress is willing to say it.
Ron Paul speaks on Georgia attacking Russia first (on the Alex Jones Show):
Taken from that article, here's what Ron Paul has to say about who to support in the presidential election: "Paul has not endorsed another candidate and says his supporters "should do whatever they want." But at a party the night before a recent rally in Washington, he told one Paulite, "The contest is to get as many votes as we can to not support the two major candidates." Electing a third-party candidate "would be the best thing for the country," Paul said. "Whether (Obama) wins or McCain wins, policies won't change."
Ron Paul speaks on Georgia attacking Russia first (on the Alex Jones Show) PART II and the emerging US Police State and civil disobedience:
The following video (in two parts, about 14 minutes in total) does exhibit some truly "shocking" evidence against Hillary Clinton. The Clintons are con artists of the worst kind. They are the kind that conn by manipulating people's very livelihoods and lives. It covers Hillary Clinton's use of Stan Lee, legendary comic book artist, and Peter Paul (someone whom I know I little about, but apparently is a well-known attorney and entrepreneurial promoter of many kinds of events) as a part of a election fundraising fraud scheme. I know little about this Lee-Paul controversy, but I clipped a little from the YouTube: "It shows the Peter Paul side of the issue, which involves allegations that Hillary Clinton has committed numerous federal election law violations, has lied about them to cover them up, all culminating in what might be felonious conduct on her part. Paul makes a strong case here. Will the media continue to do its best to bury what might be the largest election fraud in US history? Stay tuned..."
The Shocking Video Hillary Does NOT Want You To See! (1of2)
The Shocking Video Hillary Does NOT Want You To See! (2of2)
And for Part II, here are two more videos (about 5 min. total) in which you'll find some damaging testimony from a college student who claims she was fed a supposedly spontaneous question in a public question-and-answer forum held by Senator Clinton during her presidential campaign. The first video is the student's story; the second video is video footage of the event at which she asked her question, and Hillary's behavior in response to it. Far from the worst of Hillary Clinton's crimes, but ugly...very ugly.
CNN Interviews Student Who asks Hillary a Planted Question
Pelosi Clashes With Protesters Over Impeachment (PubRecord.org) ...Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's appearance Monday at a West Los Angeles college to discuss her recently published book was marred by dozens of protestors and several angry outbursts by audience members who demanded Pelosi immediately authorize a House committee to hold impeachment hearings against President George W. Bush. The Speaker made it clear she would not support any effort to hold impeachment hearings against President Bush saying that the president 'will be gone in a hundred days.'
Pro-impeachment group sues over 'Free Speech Zones' at Republican convention (RawStory.com) ...Impeach for Peace, a Minnesota-based group which plans to demonstrate at the upcoming Republican National Convention at St. Paul's Xcel Energy Center, has sued for space to demonstrate within sight and hearing of convention attendees. Backed by the ACLU, the group calls the designated spaces to demonstrate "inadequate and unacceptably small," and too far from the venue to allow for free speech to be effectively executed. The City Council and police also denied Impeach for Peace their due process, such as a window for public comment and public hearing, by not giving notice of the restrictions to be placed on demonstrators, the suit alleges. In addition, the city has reserved the right to change its guidelines at any time in ways that the ACLU contends violates the Minnesota State Constitution.
Now It’s The Post Covering Up John McCain’s Mob Connections (AmericanFreePress.net - USA) ...IF YOU STILL DOUBT that the big media is determined to keep under wraps the organized crime origins of the $200 million fortune of John McCain and his wife Cindy, take note of how the prestigious Washington Post touched on the issue in its July 22 edition. Rather, instead, note how the Post covered up the matter. The Post reported: Cindy Lou Hensley grew up as an only child, and a privileged one, in a large rancher in an upper-class section of Phoenix. Her dad, Jim Hensley, founded what became a large Anheuser-Busch distributorship, and her mom, Marguerite, was a proper belle who emphasized impeccable manners. The Post also added, almost discretely, that Mrs. McCain’s wealth “may” exceed $100 million (although most sources estimate it is worth $200 million or more) and—for the record—that "she was the apple of her father’s eye."
Ron Paul on CNN with Wolf Blitzer: 'I don't plan to endorse John McCain' or Barak Obama:
Description from Google video: CNN's Wolf Blitzer talked to Ron Paul about a rally his has planned in the same city as the Republican convention. Paul told Blitzer that his rally would pose a philosophical challenge to the Republican's convention. Paul told Blitzer that he had no intention of supporting John McCain. Paul said, "I don't plan to endorse John McCain unless he changed his views on the war and was interested in the Federal Reserve and all these other things, which is not likely to happen."
A brief but informative talk (and political ad) by Libertarian Presidential candidate, and former Congressman from Georgia, Bob Barr. In it he discusses the consequences and implementation of the Real ID Act of 2005. Visit the Bob Barr 2008 website by clicking on the banner at your right.
Article: "Obama Administration: Wiretapping Legal Challenge Must Die"
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