Very Bad News: Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base Will Be Obama's Guantanamo

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By Stephen Foley, Independent UK.

The Afghan air base is to undergo a $60 million expansion, allowing it to hold five times as many prisoners as remain at Gitmo.

Less than a month after signing an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, President Barack Obama has quietly agreed to keep denying the right to trial to hundreds more terror suspects held at a makeshift camp in Afghanistan that human rights lawyers have dubbed "Obama's Guantanamo."

In a single-sentence answer filed with a Washington court, the administration dashed hopes that it would immediately rip up Bush-era policies that have kept more than 600 prisoners in legal limbo and in rudimentary conditions at the Bagram air base, north of Kabul.

Now, human rights groups say they are becoming increasingly concerned that the use of extra-judicial methods in Afghanistan could be extended rather than curtailed under the new U.S. administration. The air base is about to undergo a $60 million expansion that will double its size, meaning it can house five times as many prisoners as remain at Guantanamo.

Apart from staff at the International Red Cross, human rights groups and journalists have been barred from Bagram, where former prisoners say they were tortured by being shackled to the ceiling of isolation cells and deprived of sleep.

The base became notorious when two Afghan inmates died after the use of such techniques in 2002, and although treatment and conditions have been improved since then, the Red Cross issued a formal complaint to the U.S. government in 2007 about harsh treatment of some prisoners held in isolation for months.

While the majority of the estimated 600 prisoners are believed to be Afghan, an unknown number -- perhaps several dozen -- have been picked up from other countries.

One of the detainees who passed through the Afghan prison was Binyam Mohamed, the British resident who is expected to return to the UK this week after his release from Guantanamo Bay. Mr. Mohamed's lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, head of a legal charity called Reprieve, called President Obama's strategy "the Bagram bait and switch," where the administration was trumpeting the closure of a camp housing 242 prisoners, while scaling up the Bagram base to house 1,100 more.

Torture in Bagram Air Base

"Guantanamo Bay was a diversionary tactic in the 'War on Terror'," said the lawyer. "Totting up the prisoners around the world -- held by the U.S. in Iraq, Afghanistan, Djibouti, the prison ships and Diego Garcia, or held by U.S. proxies in Jordan, Egypt and Morocco -- the numbers dwarf Guantanamo. There are still perhaps as many as 18,000 people in legal black holes. Mr. Obama should perhaps be offered more than a month to get the American house in order. However, this early sally from the administration underlines another message: it is far too early for human rights advocates to stand on the USS Abraham Lincoln and announce, 'Mission Accomplished.'"

Four non-Afghan detainees at Bagram are fighting a legal case in Washington to be given the same access to the U.S. court system that was granted to the inmates of Guantanamo Bay by a controversial Supreme Court decision last year. The Bush administration was fighting their claim.

Two days into his presidency, Mr. Obama promised to shut Guantanamo within a year in an effort to restore America's moral standing in the world and to prosecute the struggle against terrorism "in a manner that is consistent with our values and our ideals." But on the same day, the judge in the Bagram case said that the order "indicated significant changes to the government's approach to the detention, and review of detention, of individuals currently held at Guantanamo Bay" and that "a different approach could impact the court's analysis of certain issues central to the resolution" of the Bagram cases as well. Judge John Bates asked the new administration if it wanted to "refine" its stance.

The response, filed by the Department of Justice late on Friday, came as a crushing blow to human rights campaigners. "Having considered the matter, the government adheres to its previously articulated position," it said.

Tina Foster, executive director of the International Justice Network, the New York human rights organisation representing the detainees, warned last night that "by leaving Bagram open, the administration turns the closure of Guantanamo into essentially a hollow and symbolic gesture."

She said: "Without reconsidering the underlying policy, which has led to the abuses at Abu Ghraib and the indefinite detention of hundreds of people all these years, then we are simply returning to the status quo. The exact same thing that had the world up in arms has been going on at Bagram since even before Guantanamo.

"People have been tortured to the point that they have died; it is a rallying cry for those who oppose the U.S. actions in Afghanistan; it is not strategic for the U.S.; and, more importantly, holding people indefinitely, regardless of who they are and regardless of the facts, is completely inconsistent with everything we stand for as a country."

The Department of Justice would only say that the legal briefs in the Washington case "speak for themselves." It says Bagram is a special case because, unlike Guantanamo, it is sited within a theatre of war.

Mr. Obama has pushed out the wider questions about the U.S. policy on detaining terror suspects and supporters of the Taliban in Afghanistan until the summer, ordering a review that will take six months to complete.

The administration is weighing the likely increase in prisoners from an expanded fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, against the international perception that it is embedding extra-judicial detention into its policies for years to come.
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Obama's deadly silence

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Barack Obama is presented with a t-shirt by Sderot mayor Eli Moyal as Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak (left) looks on after inspecting homemade Palestinian rockets during his visit to the southern Israeli town last year. (David Silverman/Getty Images)

"I would like to ask President-elect Obama to say something please about the humanitarian crisis that is being experienced right now by the people of Gaza." Former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney made her plea after disembarking from the badly damaged SS Dignity that had limped to the Lebanese port of Tyre while taking on water.

The small boat, carrying McKinney, the Green Party's recent presidential candidate, other volunteers, and several tons of donated medical supplies, had been trying to reach the coast of Gaza when it was rammed by an Israeli gunboat in international waters.

But as more than 2,400 Palestinians have been killed or injured -- the majority civilians -- since Israel began its savage bombardment of Gaza on 27 December, Obama has maintained his silence. "There is only one president at a time," his spokesmen tell the media. This convenient excuse has not applied, say, to Obama's detailed interventions on the economy, or his condemnation of the "coordinated attacks on innocent civilians" in Mumbai in November.

The Mumbai attacks were a clear-cut case of innocent people being slaughtered. The situation in the Middle East however is seen as more "complicated" and so polite opinion accepts Obama's silence not as the approval for Israel's actions that it certainly is, but as responsible statesmanship.

It ought not to be difficult to condemn Israel's murder of civilians and bombing of civilian infrastructure including hundreds of private homes, universities, schools, mosques, civil police stations and ministries, and the building housing the only freely-elected Arab parliament.

It ought not to be risky or disruptive to US foreign policy to say that Israel has an unconditional obligation under the Fourth Geneva Convention to lift its lethal, months-old blockade preventing adequate food, fuel, surgical supplies, medications and other basic necessities from reaching Gaza.

But in the looking-glass world of American politics, Israel, with its powerful first-world army, is the victim, and Gaza -- the besieged and blockaded home to 1.5 million immiserated people, half of them children and eighty percent refugees -- is the aggressor against whom no cruelty is apparently too extreme.

While feigning restraint, Obama has telegraphed where he really stands; senior adviser David Axelrod told CBS on 28 December that Obama understood Israel's urge to "respond" to attacks on its citizens. Axelrod claimed that "this situation has become even more complicated in the last couple of days and weeks as Hamas began its shelling [and] Israel responded."

The truce Hamas had meticulously upheld was shattered when Israel attacked Gaza, killing six Palestinians, as The Guardian reported on 5 November. A blatant disregard for the facts, it seems, will not leave the White House with George W. Bush on 20 January.

Axelrod also recalled Obama's visit to Israel last July when he ignored Palestinians and visited the Israeli town of Sderot. There, Obama declared: "If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that. I would expect Israelis to do the same thing."

This should not surprise anyone. Despite pervasive wishful thinking that Obama would abandon America's pro-Israel bias, his approach has been almost indistinguishable from the Bush administration's.

Along with Tony Blair and George W. Bush, Obama staunchly supported Israel's war against Lebanon in July-August 2006, where it used cluster bombs on civilian areas, killing more than 1,000 people.

Obama's comments in Sderot echoed what he said in a speech to the powerful pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC, in March 2007. He recalled an earlier visit to the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona near the border with Lebanon which he said reminded him of an American suburb. There, he could imagine the sounds of Israeli children at "joyful play just like my own daughters." He saw a home the Israelis told him was damaged by a Hizballah rocket (no one had been hurt in the incident).

Obama has identified his daughters repeatedly with Israeli children, while never having uttered a word about the thousands -- thousands -- of Palestinian and Lebanese children killed and permanently maimed by Israeli attacks just since 2006. This allegedly post-racial president appears fully invested in the racist worldview that considers Arab lives to be worth less than those of Israelis and in which Arabs are always "terrorists."

The problem is much wider than Obama: American liberals in general see no contradiction in espousing positions supporting Israel that they would deem extremist and racist in any other context. The cream of America's allegedly "progressive" Democratic party vanguard -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Howard Berman, New York Senator Charles Schumer, among others -- have all offered unequivocal support for Israel's massacres in Gaza, describing them as "self-defense."

And then there's Hillary Clinton, the incoming secretary of state and self-styled champion of women and the working classes, who won't let anyone outbid her anti-Palestinian positions.

Democrats are not simply indifferent to Palestinians. In the recent presidential election, their efforts to win swing states like Florida often involved espousing positions dehumanizing to Palestinians in particular and Arabs and Muslims in general. Many liberals know this is wrong but tolerate it silently as a price worth paying (though not to be paid by them) to see a Democrat in office.

Even those further to the left implicitly accept Israel's logic. Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive, criticized Israel's attacks on Gaza as a "reckless" and "disproportionate response" to Hamas rocket attacks that he deemed "immoral." There are many others who do nothing to support nonviolent resistance to Israeli occupation and colonization, such as boycott, divestment and sanctions but who are quick to condemn any desperate Palestinian effort -- no matter how ineffectual and symbolic -- to resist Israel's relentless aggression.

Similarly, we can expect that the American university professors who have publicly opposed the academic boycott of Israel on grounds of protecting "academic freedom" will remain just as silent about Israel's bombing of the Islamic University of Gaza as they have about Israel's other attacks on Palestinian academic institutions.

There is no silver lining to Israel's slaughter in Gaza, but the reactions to it should at least serve as a wake-up call: when it comes to the struggle for peace and justice in Palestine, the American liberal elites who are about to assume power present as formidable an obstacle as the outgoing Bush administration and its neoconservative backers.

Co-founder of The Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah is author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse (Metropolitan Books, 2006). This essay was first published in The Guardian's Comment is Free and is republished with the author's permission.

Obama is irt

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Gratula, gratula, Jungel Eddie!

Keep up the good work!
Csak az orultek es a latnokok merik kimondani az igazsagot!
Keep up the good work,
udv.,

Barack Hussein Obama
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8,000 Beduin stake their claim as the lost tribe of Barack Obama

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Fekete zsidó törzs Izraelben azt állítja, hogy Obama afrikai törzsével van rokonságban... Obama tulajdonképpen e törzs tagja...rokonok... Obama tribe...

A sheikh in Galilee says he has evidence that he and his family are linked by blood to the new President

James Hider in Bir al-Maksour

He has a host of relatives in exotic locations from Hawaii to Kenya, and during his run for the American presidency he discovered that he had an aunt living in Boston.

Now Barack Obama is being claimed by not one but as many as 8,000 Beduin tribesmen in northern Israel.

Although the spokesman for the lost tribe of Obama has yet to reveal the documentary evidence that he says he possesses to support his claim, people are flocking from across the region to pay their respects to the “Bedu Obama”, whose social standing has gone through the roof.

“We knew about it years ago but we were afraid to talk about it because we didn’t want to influence the election,” Abdul Rahman Sheikh Abdullah, a 53-year-old local council member, told The Times in the small Beduin village of Bir al-Maksour in the Israeli region of Galilee. “We wrote a letter to him explaining the family connection.”

Mr Obama’s team have not responded to the letter so far but that has not dampened Sheikh Abdullah’s festivities.

Watch the video!

He has been handing out sweets and huge dishes of baklava traditional honey-sweetened pastries to all and sundry, and plans to hold a large party next week at which he will slaughter a dozen goats to feed the village.

It was his 95-year-old mother who first spotted the connection, he says. Seeing the charismatic senator on television, she noted a striking resemblance to one of the African migrant workers who used to be employed by rich sheikhs in the fertile north of British Mandate Palestine in the 1930s.

The Africans would sometimes marry local Beduin girls and start families, though, like many migrant workers, would just as frequently return home after several years.

One of those men was a relative of Barack Obama’s Kenyan grandmother, Sheikh Abdullah maintains.
He estimates that his tribe extends to as many as 8,000 members, all of them loosely connected to the African-American senator for Illinois.

Sheikh Abdullah swears that he has papers and pictures to back up his claim but has promised his mother not to divulge them until he has presented them to Mr Obama, something he hopes will happen once his “relative” is in the White House.

“We want to send a delegation to congratulate him, and we know we’ll get an answer soon,” he grinned.

Sheikh Abdullah’s renown as the relative of the soon-to-be most powerful man on Earth has spread like wildfire among the Arab community of northern Israel, and especially among Beduin, a formerly semi-nomadic group of pastoralists corralled into townships by the modern state of Israel.

Two baby boys born into the sheikh’s large clan have even been named Obama.

“We knew he’d win,” the sheikh said, constantly interrupted by a barrage of phone calls from wellwishers and those hoping to cash in on his newfound wasta, an Arabic term denoting influence or clout. “We have always been a lucky family.

“We hope he’ll end all wars and intervene here to solve our problems in Israel. The Beduin are the people who suffer the most here,” he added while greeting a wellwisher from Ghajar, an Arab town divided between Israel and southern Lebanon, the bitter legacy of the Jewish state’s long occupation of southern Lebanon.
“We hope to God that Obama will solve the problem of Ghajar,” said Sheikh Issam al-Khalil, a leading citizen of the divided town, whose residents mostly speak Hebrew and Arabic but many of whom consider themselves as originally Syrian.

“Everyone is talking about [Sheikh Abdullah’s ties to Mr Obama] . . . They believe it. The sheikhs from all the villages are talking about it. There’s a whole delegation of Druze leaders coming from the Golan Heights to congratulate him.”

The history of the Middle East is littered with the stories of false messiahs and their brief followings. For the time being, Sheikh Abdullah is greeting a dozen respectful visitors a day, basking in the reflected glory of what would be not only the first African-American US President but the first one who could claim kinship with an entire clan of Beduin.

All hail the massiah! All hail Obama!

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Előző írásomtól eltérően azt kell mondjam nap, mint nap egyre szkeptikusabb vagyok ezzel a "napbarnított" (sic!) fiatalemberrel kapcsolatban. Kampánya elején még totális felfüggesztéseket ígért az amerikai háborúkkal kapcsolatban, mostanra már óvatosabban fogalmaz és csak csapatleépítéseket pedzeget.
Nem szabad olyat mondani, hogy a "globalizációt irányító titkos megbízói kör", akik irányítják világunkat valamiért éppen jobb belátásra bírja Obamát, mert az összeesküvés-elmélet szagú lenne, de hát mire is következtessen az ember, ha nem lát a reakció mögötti akciót. Például arra, hogy eleve így "rendeltetett", tökéletes rendezésben zajlottak a választások. Ismervén az amerikát irányító lobbikat, ez a szerencsétlen sem lesz több, mint egy mezei báb, ami éppen "az amerikai álom megvalósulását" hivatott szimbolizálni és elterelni a figyelmet arról, hogy mi is zajlik a világban. De ez összeesküvés-elméletként hathat, ezért elhatárolódom magamtól...
Hányinger kerülget, mikor itthon élő, amerikában éppen csak egy reptéri csatlakozás erejéig megfordult magyarok "VEGYÜNK PÉLDÁT ERRŐL A NEMZETRŐL, HISZ AZOK OLY' ÖSSZETARTÓAK" címszóval kiáltanak dicshimnuszokat, majd könnyekkel küszködve merednek a jövőbe, amikor feltételezéseik szerint majd lelövik az új elnököt, hiszen Obama oly' bátor, harcias, elszánt reformer, hogy azt a gonosz náci, szélsőséges és rasszista világuralmi elit nem fogja tétlenül végignézni. Nem ezt hívják agymosottak paranoiájának?

Erős kritikai hangvételű, de nagyon szellemes videó Obamáról és az őt övező messianizmusról:

és még egy

és még egy

és még...

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Forrás: Ellenkultura

Obama picks pro-Israel hardliner for top post

Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 5 November 2008

Senator Barack Obama greets Representative Rahm Emanuel at the Illinois Delegation party at a restaurant in Boston on the eve of the Democratic National Convention 2004. (Tom Williams)

During the United States election campaign, racists and pro-Israel hardliners tried to make an issue out of President-elect Barack Obama's middle name, Hussein. Such people might take comfort in another middle name, that of Obama's pick for White House Chief of Staff: Rahm Israel Emanuel.

Emanuel is Obama's first high-level appointment and it's one likely to disappointment those who hoped the president-elect would break with the George W. Bush Administration's pro-Israel policies. White House Chief of Staff is often considered the most powerful office in the executive branch, next to the president. Obama has offered Emanuel the position according to Democratic party sources cited by media including Reuters and The New York Times. While Emanuel is expected to accept the post, that had not been confirmed by Wednesday evening the day after the election.

Rahm Emanuel was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1959, the son of Benjamin Emanuel, a pediatrician who helped smuggle weapons to the Irgun, the Zionist militia of former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, in the 1940s. The Irgun carried out numerous terrorist attacks on Palestinian civilians including the bombing of Jerusalem's King David Hotel in 1946.

Emanuel continued his father's tradition of active support for Israel; during the 1991 Gulf War he volunteered to help maintain Israeli army vehicles near the Lebanon border when southern Lebanon was still occupied by Israeli forces.

As White House political director in the first Clinton administration, Emanuel orchestrated the famous 1993 signing ceremony of the "Declaration of Principles" between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. Emanuel was elected to Congress representing a north Chicago district in 2002 and he is credited with a key role in delivering a Democratic majority in the 2006 mid-term elections. He has been a prominent supporter of neoliberal economic policies on free trade and welfare reform.

One of the most influential politicians and fundraisers in his party, Emanuel accompanied Obama to a meeting of AIPAC's executive board just after the Illinois senator had addressed the pro-Israel lobby's conference last June.

In Congress, Emanuel has been a consistent and vocal pro-Israel hardliner, sometimes more so than President Bush. In June 2003, for example, he signed a letter criticizing Bush for being insufficiently supportive of Israel. "We were deeply dismayed to hear your criticism of Israel for fighting acts of terror," Emanuel, along with 33 other Democrats wrote to Bush. The letter said that Israel's policy of assassinating Palestinian political leaders "was clearly justified as an application of Israel's right to self-defense" ("Pelosi supports Israel's attacks on Hamas group," San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2003).

In July 2006, Emanuel was one of several members who called for the cancellation of a speech to Congress by visiting Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki because al-Maliki had criticized Israel's bombing of Lebanon. Emanuel called the Lebanese and Palestinian governments "totalitarian entities with militias and terrorists acting as democracies" in a 19 July 2006 speech supporting a House resolution backing Israel's bombing of both countries that caused thousands of civilian victims.

Emanuel has sometimes posed as a defender of Palestinian lives, though never from the constant Israeli violence that is responsible for the vast majority of deaths and injuries. On 14 June 2007 he wrote to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "on behalf of students in the Gaza Strip whose future is threatened by the ongoing fighting there" which he blamed on "the violence and militancy of their elders." In fact, the fighting between members of Hamas and Fatah, which claimed dozens of lives, was the result of a failed scheme by US-backed militias to violently overthrow the elected Hamas-led national unity government. Emanuel's letter urged Rice "to work with allies in the region, such as Egypt and Jordan, to either find a secure location in Gaza for these students, or to transport them to a neighboring country where they can study and take their exams in peace." Palestinians often view such proposals as a pretext to permanently "transfer" them from their country, as many Israeli leaders have threatened. Emanuel has never said anything in support of millions of Palestinian children whose education has been disrupted by Israeli occupation, closures and blockades.

Emanuel has also used his position to explicitly push Israel's interests in normalizing relations with Arab states and isolating Hamas. In 2006 he initiated a letter to President Bush opposing United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based Dubai Ports World's attempt to buy the management business of six US seaports. The letter, signed by dozens of other lawmakers, stated that "The UAE has pledged to provide financial support to the Hamas-led government of the Palestinian Authority and openly participates in the Arab League boycott against Israel." It argued that allowing the deal to go through "not only could place the safety and security of US ports at risk, but enhance the ability of the UAE to bolster the Hamas regime and its efforts to promote terrorism and violence against Israel" ("Dems Tie Israel, Ports," Forward, 10 March 2006).

Ira Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, told Fox News that picking Emanuel is "just another indication that despite the attempts to imply that Obama would somehow appoint the wrong person or listen to the wrong people when it comes to the US-Israel relationship ... that was never true."

Over the course of the campaign, Obama publicly distanced himself from friends and advisers suspected or accused of having "pro-Palestinian" sympathies. There are no early indications of a more balanced course.

Co-founder of The Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah is author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli- Palestinian Impasse (Metropolitan Books, 2006).

Lehet, hogy Obama is náci?

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Mindenki számára egyértelműen látható, hogy az USA következő, immáron 44. elnöke Árpád-sávos zászlók között üdvözli az őt megválasztó amerikai népet. Obama láthatóan nem fintorog és nem undorodik a magyar kormány és holdudvara által sátáninak kikiáltott zászlók láttán... Ej, te szép, magyar, demokratikus, békés többségű demokrácia, mi lesz így teveled?

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Obama in Jerusalem

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Íme egy karizmatikus beszéd

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Miután érezhetően egyre jobban nyomaszt mindenkit a parlamenti képviselők passzivitása és alkalmatlansága, úgy gondoltam egy üdítő színfoltként nézzük meg Dennis Kucinich demokrata képviselő felszólalását. Elhangzott 2008 Augusztus 26.-án a Demokrata Párti Konvención.

Rep. (D-OH) Speaks to the DNC

Szervusztok Demokrata társak! Készen vagy Novemberre?
Demokrata társaim, gyerünk a Választásra ... ez Választási Nap, 2008.
És mi Demokraták ébresztőt kiáltunk Amerikának.

Ébredj Amerika! 2001-ben az olajcégek, a háború vállalkozói és a neokon mágusok zsákmányukba ejtették a gazdaságot és 4 billió dollár nem produktív költséggel emelték a nemzeti adósságot. Mi most négyszer többet fizetünk a védelmi erőkre, háromszor többet az üzemanyagért és a fűtőanyagért, és kétszer annyit az egészségügyre.
Amerikaiak milliói vesztették el állásaikat, otthonaikat, az egészségi ellátásukat, a nyugdíjjaikat. Billiónyi dollárt fizetünk kölcsönpénzből egy szükségtelen háborúért.
Tízmilliárdok készpénzben és fegyverekben változtak levegővé, a csapataink és ártatlan Irakiak életének árán, amíg az elnök összes olajmágnásai belemanővereztek bennünket az Iraki olaj elrablásáért.
Kölcsönvett pénz Iraki, Afganisztáni és Pakisztáni hidak lebombázásáért - de nincs pénz a saját hídjaink újjáépítésére.
Pénz egy éles háborút elindítani Iránnal - de most már van mégegy hidegháborúnk az Oroszokkal,
És közben az Amerikai gazdaság egy Orosz ruletté változott.
Most, ha volna egy Olimpikon a félrevezetésben, a rosszul vezetésben és kisajátításban, akkor ez az adminisztráció elvinné az aranyat!
Világrekordok a nemzeti és nemzetközi jogok megsértésében.
Ők még négy évet akarnak a testvéreink elidegenítésének folytatásában, elkölteni a gyermekeink örökségét, és ürességgé tenni a gazdaságot. Nem engedhetünk meg még egy Republikánus adminisztrációt.

Ébredj Amerika!

A biztosító társaságok rávetették magukat az egészségügyre.

Ébredj Amerika!

A gyógyszeripari társaságok átvették a gyógyszerárak irányítását.

Ébredj Amerika!

A spekulánsok befészkelték magukat a Wall Street-en!

Ébredj Amerika!

Ők akarnák a mi Társadalombiztosításunkat is.

Ébredj Amerika!

A multinacionális korporációk átvették az üzletpolitika irányítását, az üzemek sorra bezárnak, a jól fizető állások elvesznek.

Ébredj Amerika!

Mi Irakba az olajért mentünk. Az olajcégek többet akarnak! Egy Iráni háború 10$ per gallon üzemanyagárat jelentene.

Az olaj adminisztrációja, többet akarna fúrni még, a te zsebedben.

Ébredj Amerika!

Azok a háborús vállalkozások többet akarnak. Az Iráni háború 5-10 billió dollárba kerülne.
Most, ez az adminisztráció lehallgathatja a telefonjainkat - de nem tudja lehallgatni az alkotó szellemünket.
Ők meg tudják nyitni a leveleinket, de nem tudják megnyitni a gazdasági lehetőségeket.
Ők nyomon tudják követni minden mozgásainkat, de elvesztették a gazdaság nyomon követését, amikor az élelmiszerárak, üzemanyagárak és a villamosenergia ugrásszerűen emelkednek.
Most, ők ügyesen játszottak a 9/11-et követő félelmeinkkel, és megengedték a keveseknek hogy profitáljanak a sokak költségére.
Mi mindennap megkapjuk a "narancs színű" vészjelzést - amíg az olajcégek, a biztosító társaságok, a spekulánsok, a háború vállalkozói - zöld jelzést kapnak.

Ébredj Amerika!

Ez most nem egy jobbról balra történő elmozdulásnak a felhívása.
Hanem ez a felhívás neked a lentről felfele irányban történő elindulásra szólít!

Fel a dolgozók jogaival!

Fel a jövedelmezéssel!

Fel a tisztességes kereskedelemmel!

Fel a milliónyi jólfizető állások létrehozásának, hídjaink újjáépítésének, a vízrendszerünknek, a csatornarendszerünknek, a kikötőinknek.

Fel a milliónyi fenntartható energiában álló munkahelyek létrehozásának, amivel az energia költségeinket csökkenteni tudjuk, a szénkibocsátásainkat csökkenteni tudjuk és a környezetünket meg tudjuk kímélni.

Fel az egészségüggyel mindenki számára!

Fel az oktatással mindenki számára!

Fel a lakástulajdonlással!

Fel a nyugdíjba vonuláskor járó kedvezményekkel!

Fel a békével!

Fel a jóléttel!

Fel a Demokrata Párttal!

Fel Obama-Biden-el!

Ébredj Amerika! Ébredj Amerika! Ébredj Amerika!

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Meg kell hagyni, hogy ez a fickó Obamánál sokkal jobb! A demokraták jobban jártak volna ha őt választják Obama helyett.

A helyzet pikantériája, hogy nemcsak a demokraták között, de még a republikánusok között is volt egy igazmondásáról híres elnökjelölt, ráadásul ezek így ketten még nyíltan is támogatták egymást.
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc5MW8NvmpQ ) No nem a cinkosságban mint a mieink! Mindkettő komoly ellenállást tanúsít a jelenlegi pénzhatalom ellen (IGEN, VAN ILYEN IS!!!), ezért ők igencsak fekete lónak minősülnek.

Egyszóval nincs 100%-os garancia soha, hogy egyszer ne kerüljenek ilyenek is a hatalomba.


(Köszönettel Gilgames-nak!!!)

McCain összefonódott a grúzokkal?

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Nohát, nohát...a háború mint üzlet? Az amerikaiak mint jótét lelkek? Szegény grúzok....

Furcsa összefonódásokra hívta fel a figyelmet a Washington Post. Miközben John McCain a közelmúltban is határozottan kiállt Grúzia mellett, a republikánus elnökjelölt-aspiráns tanácsadója résztulajdonos abban a cégben, amely tanácsokkal látja el a grúz kormányt. McCain külpolitikai tanácsadója, Randy Scheunemann 200 ezer dolláros szerződést kötött a grúz kormánnyal, hogy kampányoljon értük Washingtonban. Érdekes egybeesés, hogy a szerződés aláírásával egy napon McCain és Mihail Szaakasvili hosszú telefonbeszélgetést folytatott - írja a The Washington Post.

A szovjet időket idézi Grúzia lerohanása McCain kampánystábja szerint az Orion Strategies nevű tanácsadó cég tevékenységének semmilyen szerepe nem volt a grúz elnök és a republikánus politikus beszélgetésében, mivel a grúz követség kezdeményezte a hívást. Szakértők szerint azonban legalábbis vitatható, hogy helyes-e, ha egy tanácsadó egyszerre dolgozik egy külföldi érdekeltségnek és egy elnökjelöltnek. Scheunemann azonban ebben az időben abbahagyta a Grúziának szolgáltatott tanácsadást, de még mindig a cég résztulajdonosa volt, egészen májusig, amikor is McCain új, lobbiellenes kampányának eredményeként, kiszállt a cégből.

2004 óta az Orion Strategie mintegy 800 ezer dollárt kapott a grúz kormánytól. Az ilyen kapcsolattartások célja többek között, hogy Grúzia a NATO tagjává kíván válni, továbbá szeretne minél határozottabb amerikai támogatást kapni, főleg dél-oszétiai politikájához. McCain úgy reagált, hogy a kilencvenes évek eleje óta jó viszonyt ápol a grúz vezetőkkel, Szakasvilit pedig közeli barátjának nevezte.

"Láttuk már ezt a fajta agressziót Prágában és Budapesten annak idején. Nem mondom, hogy újra beköszönt a hidegháború időszaka, de nem hittük volna, hogy a XXI. században tanúi leszünk hasonlónak" - mondta McCain, miután értesült az orosz ellentámadásról.

Obama óvatosan fogalmazott

Barack Obama, a demokrata elnökjelölti cím várományosa szintén elítélte az orosz akciót, ám nem használt olyan erős szavakat, mint McCain és szóvá tette Grúzia hadműveleteit is Dél Oszétiában. "Az orosz békefenntartó erőket pártatlan nemzetközi erőknek kell felváltaniuk. Grúziának pedig tartózkodnia kell az erőszak alkalmazásától Dél-Oszétiában és Abháziában. A vitatott területekről pedig megállapodásra kell jutniuk az érintett feleknek" - nyilatkozta hétfőn nyaralását megszakítva a demokrata politikus. McCain és Richar Holdbrooke ENSZ-nagykövet is megkésettnek és túl enyhének ítélte Obama reakcióját.

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(Forrás: fn.hu)
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