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Monday, July 29

@dustcirclenews - Free Documentaries: The Psychology of Control, To the Last Drop, Invisible Threat, Sex for Sale, King Corn, Who Gets the Best Jobs?


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State of Mind: The Psychology of Control
If you don’t submit to control, if you’re a radical, you’re less likely to be loved. You’re not fitting in with society; you’re viewed as an outsider. There are a lot of social prohibitions about the outsider and the person who’s going to upset things. From the time we’re very young, we’re taught to worship authority, basically, because that’s our key to survival as young children. But as adults, we never go through the rights of passage that tell us how to methodically think for ourselves, and thus we’re always in a state of extended adolescence.



















To the Last Drop
Canadian wilderness sits atop what many think is the biggest deposit of oil on the planet. A sea of sand soaked with bitumen – the Tar Sands. The Tar Sands now supply more oil to the United States than any other foreign source. A century of secure energy. Since 9/11, Canada has become the most important supplier of foreign oil to America. It’s a market Canada can’t afford to lose. Even in the heart of the recession, the oil sands were sending in the order of $20 billion a year into the Canadian economy.


















Invisible Threat
It’s bad enough to catch a disease naturally but to take a disease and turn it into a weapon, to enhance the disease, to make it more virulent or more contiguous or more resistant to known vaccines it just kind of goes off the charts there. It’s turning Mother Nature against us. Weapons that destroy by spreading deadly diseases have a long and unhappy history. Billions of dollars have been spent by governments to create pathogens that can cause fatal illnesses. Even today some countries are stockpiling just such a deadly arsenal.



















Sex for Sale: Prostitution
It’s been called world’s oldest profession yet it’s always been taboo – prostitution. Around the world the sex industry presents many faces. From the violent sex slums of Bangladesh, to the deadly sidewalks of the United States. From the stylish bordellos of Australia, to Europe where the disabled pay for sex, and where man are videotaped in futuristic cyber-brothels. Step into the forbidden world of sex for sale. Those who sell sex, whether male or female, are shunned and labeled as whores or hookers.




















King Corn: You Are What You Eat
When Ian Cheney and his best friend Curt Ellis graduated from college they thought they were done with professors and they supposed to feel like they had their whole lives ahead of them, but they just heard some rather disconcerting news. Some day they were going to die, and maybe sooner than they thought. For the first time in American history their generation was at risk of having a shorter lifespan than their parents. And it was because of what they ate.



















Who Gets the Best Jobs: Is it all about contacts and money?
Nowadays society in Britain is socially unequal. The gap between the rich and the rest has widened and it will continue to grow bigger. Opportunities for children are limited if you come from a working class family and don´t have “good” contacts. This documentary tries to reveal the barriers which stop people from rising up to the economic ladder.

Saturday, July 6

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: War on Whistleblowers, Why Have Student Loans? Bring Organized Resistance, Snowden's Constitution, 5 Farm Bill Groups, 12 Real Patriots, Pro-Apartheid Israel Hypocrisy, Rethinking Surveillance, Wartime U.S. Travelogue, Corporations' Loopholes, more.


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The Wider War on Whistleblowers
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Wider-War-on-Whistlebl-by-Barry-Sussman-130702-357.html

Why Have Student Loans At All? Let's Get the Burdens of Debt off College Students' Backs -- And Make Wall St. Pick Up the Tab
http://www.alternet.org/education/reparations-college-debt

Why It Takes Organized Resistance To Bring in the Sweeping Change That the Public Wants
http://www.alternet.org/activism/organized-resistance-brings-sweeping-change-lessons-us

How We Can Wrench Independence from the Corporate State
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/how-we-can-wrench-independence-corporate-state

Snowden's Constitution vs Obama's Constitution
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130703/00121023700/snowdens-constitution-vs-obamas-constitution.shtml

Edward Snowden: A Whistleblower, Not a Spy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/03-8

5 Farm Bill Groups You Didn’t Know Existed
http://blogs.rollcall.com/goppers/5-farm-bill-groups-you-didnt-think-existed/

12 Real Patriots Brave Enough to Fight for Truth and Justice

http://www.alternet.org/activism/12-real-patriots-brave-enough-fight-truth-and-justice

Hypocrisy Of Pro-Apartheid Israel Obama Visiting Post-Apartheid South Africa
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya030713.htm

To Big U.S. Corporations: What About Some Patriotism for America?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ralph-nader/corporate-patriotism_b_3542125.html


Rethinking Surveillance [Book Review]
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/jul/02/electronic-surveillance-missing-laws/

Federal Student Loan Rates Double Due To Lack Of Urgency In Congress

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/02/federal-student-loan-rates-double-due-to-lack-of-urgency-in-congress/

5 Sneaky Ways Fundamentalists Are Trying To Slip Christian Creationism Into America’s Public Schools
http://www.alternet.org/belief/public-schools

Wartime U.S. Travelogue
http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson040713.htm

Thanks To ‘Loopholes’ U.S. Corporations Pay A Lower Tax Rate Than Middle Class Families
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/03/thanks-to-loopholes-u-s-corporations-pay-a-lower-tax-rate-than-middle-class-families/

Guantanamo inmate accuses US military of sexual assault against detainees
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/07/guantanamo-bay-inmate-accuses-us-military-of-sexual-assault-against-detainees.php

US government scanning, storing billions of pieces of mail per year
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/05/mail-j05.html

The revolution will not be standardized
http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/the-revolution-will-not-be-standardized/

Why Edward Snowden's Leaks Have Empowered All of Us
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/knowledge-metadata-power

Scientific evidence: what is it and how can we trust it?http://machineslikeus.com/news/scientific-evidence-what-it-and-how-can-we-trust-it

American Intellectuals' Widespread Failure to Stand Up to Billionaires and Authoritarian Power
http://www.alternet.org/books/widespread-failure-intellectuals-stand-authoritarian-power-america

Why do charities want to "normalize" Israeli apartheid?http://electronicintifada.net/content/why-do-charities-want-normalize-israeli-apartheid/12592

Over Half of Republicans Want Christianity as the Official Religion in States
http://atheism.about.com/od/Church-State-Survey-Polls/a/Republicans-Want-Christianity-Official-Religion-States.htm?nl=1

People Get Ready: 'Unprecedented' Weather Glimpses Century Ahead
Latest report from WMO says first decade of century was hottest, wettest on record with more to come
It was a decade of 'unprecedented' extreme weather, caused by warmer oceans, hotter temperatures, and an atmosphere saturated with moisture. And there's more where that came from.

Failure to Stop Doubling of Student Loan Rates Sparks Call to Tackle "Systemic" Debt Crisis


# 1 Target of Wiretap Surveillance?


Thursday, May 2

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Full List of CISPA Supporters, Big Pharma Killing Americans, FBI Spyware, Military Spending, Overpopulation, Presidents' War Crimes, Guantanamo Hunger Strikes, What Christians Need to Know About Judaism, Activist Group Tips, Military Sexual Assault, When Religions Become Evil, Say No to Israeli Apartheid, YouTube Video Censorship, GMO Foods, Family Evictions, Zionism and Congress, Next American Revolution, more.


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The list of members of Congress and over 800 companies who supported CISPA

How Big Pharma Is Killing Americans and Bankrupting the Country
http://www.alternet.org/how-big-pharma-killing-americans-and-bankrupting-country

Should You Be Scared of FBI Spyware?
http://blogs.findlaw.com/technologist/2013/04/should-you-be-scared-of-fbi-spyware.html

10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America
http://bananenplanet.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/10-things-most-americans-dont-know-about-america/

Distorted Priorities: Military Spending vs. People's Health
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/30-0

Overpopulation: Maybe It’s Time To Offend A Few Folks
http://www.countercurrents.org/apaul300413.htm

US Presidents Must be Prosecuted for Military Aggressions, War Crimes

Guantanamo Bay Hunger Strikers Treated Like Animals: Lawyer
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/04/30

Terrorism, Islam and What The Christian Right Needs to Know About Judaism
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Terrorism-Islam-and-What-by-Amy-Fried-Ph-D-130429-484.html

10 Tips to Make Sure Your Activist Group Isn’t Set Up by the Feds
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/10-tips-to-make-sure-your-activist-group-isnt-set-up-by-the-feds_042013

Ending the Epidemic of Sexual Assault in the Military
http://www.policymic.com/articles/38771/ending-the-epidemic-of-sexual-assault-in-the-military

Obama renews fight to close Guantanamo: 'It's unnecessary and unsustainable'
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14516592-president-obama-guantanamo-bay-needs-to-close-its-unnecessary-and-unsustainable

When religious beliefs become evil: 4 signs
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/28/when-religious-beliefs-becomes-evil-4-signs/

Ready for Rationing? Why We Should Put the Brakes on Consumption If We Want to Survive
http://www.alternet.org/environment/ready-rationing-why-we-should-put-brakes-consumption-if-we-want-survive

Morgan Freeman and Jian Ghomeshi, say no to Israeli apartheid on May 6
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/morgan-freeman-and-jian-ghomeshi-say-no-israeli-apartheid-may-6

Government Orders YouTube To Censor Protest Videos
http://worldtruth.tv/government-orders-youtube-to-censor-protest-videos/

Unleash The Massive Power Of The People Against The Forces That Are Ravaging This Country
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Unleash-The-Massive-Power-by-michael-payne-130425-957.html

Why Federal Labeling of Genetically-Engineered Food Matters
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/26-2

A Direct Threat to Whistle Blowers and the Alternative Media
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/a-direct-threat-to-whistle-blowers-and-the-alternative-media_042013

Drones Are Evicting Foreclosed Families
http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76065

Don't let them use fear to lock down our rights
http://socialistworker.org/2013/04/22/using-fear-to-lock-down-our-rights

Monsanto doesn’t want you to know what you’re eating
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/23/monsanto_doesnt_want_you_to_know_what_youre_eating_partner/

Zionism And The United States Congress
http://www.countercurrents.org/martin260413.htm

We love the constitution except when it’s inconvenient
http://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2013/04/26/we-love-the-constitution-except-when-its-inconvenient

DOJ Helped AT&T, Others Avoid Wiretap Act, Promised Not To Charge Them If They Helped Spy On People
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130424/19014922826/doj-helped-att-others-avoid-wiretap-act-promised-not-to-charge-them-if-they-helped-spy-people.shtml

How the US Funds NATO: The Rise of the Global Police Force
http://www.occupycorporatism.com/how-the-us-funds-nato-the-rise-of-the-global-police-force/

Comprehensive Report Finds Evidence of US Torture at Guantánamo
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34731.htm

Authoritarianism Has Quietly Enveloped Every Part of American Life -- We Must Fight Back
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34742.htm

Americans Under Siege – Has Tomorrow Become a Reality?
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/americans-under-siege-has-tomorrow-become-a-reality_042013

Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution
http://www.alternet.org/economy/straight-talk-about-next-american-revolution

What Does It Mean To Be An “American” Corporation?

When Your Boss Steals Your Wages: The Invisible Epidemic That’s Sweeping America

Thursday, March 14

@dustcirclenews HEADLINES: Schoolkids Brainwashed, Bradley Manning Recording, Homeland Security Ammo, Imperial Presidency, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Wealth Inequality, Survive Capitalism, Christian Domination Fight, Roman Catholic Church, America's Wars Cost, more.


11 Most Absurd Lies Conservatives Are Using to Brainwash America's School Kids
http://www.alternet.org/education/11-most-absurd-lies-conservatives-are-using-brainwash-americas-school-kids

Recording Of Bradley Manning's Statement In Court Leaked
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130312/13325322300/recording-bradley-mannings-statement-court-leaked.shtml

10 Worst People on Forbes 2013 Billionaires List
http://www.alternet.org/economy/10-worst-people-forbes-2013-billionaires-list

If Corporations Don’t Pay Taxes, Why Should You?


Why Do Americans Tolerate Extreme Wealth Inequality?
http://bigthink.com/praxis/why-do-americans-tolerate-extreme-wealth-inequality

Can Civilization Survive Capitalism?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34198.htm

Hugo Chavez, R.I.P. - Leader Broke Venezuela Out of America's Imperial Orbit, Threw Neoliberal 'Economics' in the Trash
http://www.alternet.org/world/hugo-chavez-rip-leader-broke-venezuela-out-americas-imperial-orbit-threw-neoliberal-economics

One of the Most Powerful Portrayals of What Has Happened to America That You Will Ever See
http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/alyssa-figueroa/one-most-powerful-portrayals-what-has-happened-america-you-will-ever-see

Israel mistreating detained Palestinian children: report
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/03/israel-mistreating-detained-palestinian-children-report.php

5 Kids Bravely Fighting Christian Domination of Their Schools
http://www.alternet.org/5-kids-bravely-fighting-christian-domination-their-schools

How Authoritarianism Created the Crisis Engulfing the Roman Catholic Church
http://www.alternet.org/belief/how-authoritarianism-created-crisis-engulfing-roman-catholic-church

The Cost of America’s Wars – $3 Trillion, $4 Trillion, $5 Trillion, $7 Trillion, $8 Trillion, Going Once, Going Twice, SOLD
http://judymorrisreport.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-cost-of-americas-wars-3-trillion-4.html

IRS will pay whistle-blowers less because of federal budget cuts
http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-irs-whistleblower-budget-cut-sequester-20130305,0,4579241.story

Momentum builds to declassify CIA detention program
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/03/05/momentum_builds_to_declassify_cia_detention_program?wp_login_redirect=0


Americans living longer, less healthy lives
http://machineslikeus.com/news/americans-living-longer-less-healthy-lives

Keeping Watch: The Latest, Biggest Threats From The Religious Right
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/03/08/keeping-watch-the-latest-biggest-threats-from-the-religious-right/

With Millions in Assets And Hundreds of Attorneys, Christian Right Is Waging War on the Church-State Wall
http://www.alternet.org/belief/millions-assets-and-hundreds-attorneys-christian-right-waging-war-church-state-wall

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Monday, January 28

28.Jan.2013 - HEADLINES: Pentagon Cybersecurity, Authoritarian America, US Kidnaps & Tortures, US Health Worse, DOMA, Obama Appointments, 30 Banned Books, Anti-Science Bill, Israel's Inhuman Rights, Aaron Swartz Protesters, Former CIA Agent, Whole Foods Truth, Immigration Reform, more.

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Pentagon to Boost Cybersecurity Force Fivefold
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/323-95/15756-pentagon-to-boost-cybersecurity-force-fivefold
The Pentagon's plan would increase both military and civilian staffing at U.S. Cyber Command. (photo: unknown)
Has America Become an Authoritarian State?
http://www.alternet.org/has-america-become-authoritarian-state

Federal appeals court finds Obama recess appointments unconstitutional
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/01/federal-appeals-court-finds-obama-recess-appointments-unconstitutional.php

How the US Ignored International Law to Become World's Kidnapper and Torturer
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33704.htm

U.S. Health Worse Than Nearly All Other Industrialized Countries
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/us-health-worse-nearly-all-other-industrialized-countries

Supreme Court urged not to rule on DOMA
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/01/supreme-court-urged-not-to-rule-on-doma.php

Court Rules Obama Appointments Violated The Constitution
http://jonathanturley.org/2013/01/25/court-rules-obama-appointments-violated-the-constitution/

30 banned books that may surprise you
http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2012/1003/30-banned-books-that-may-surprise-you/Harriet-the-Spy-by-Louise-Fitzhugh

Anti-Science Bills Weighed in Four States
http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/anti-science-bills-weighed-in-4-states-130128.htm#mkcpgn=emnws1

Israel’s human rights record ‘concerns’ UK
http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/israels-human-rights-record-concerns-uk/#more-50569

Aaron Swartz Protesters Take Over Government Websites, Install Asteroids
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/01/28/aaron_swartz_protest_anonymous_hacks_government_websites_installs_asteroids.html

Google Explains How It Handles Police Requests For Users' Data
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/28/170428992/google-posts-how-it-handles-requests-for-users-data?ft=3&f=1001&sc=nl&cc=nh-20130128

Former CIA agent who outed fellow agent sentenced to 30 months
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/us/former-cia-agent-who-outed-fellow-agent-sentenced-to-30-months-672015/

Telling the whole truth about Whole Foods
http://socialistworker.org/2013/01/28/the-whole-truth-about-whole-foods

Bipartisan Immigration Reform Proposal Would Create a Narrow but Real Path to Citizenship
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/01/28/bipartisan_immigration_reform_proposal_path_to_citizenship_higher_skilled.html

America: Prosecutor, Judge and Jury With Jurisdiction Over the World
http://www.opednews.com/articles/America-Prosecutor-Judge-by-michael-payne-130124-123.html

Anonymous hackers deface United States Sentencing Commission website
http://thehackernews.com/2013/01/anonymous-hackers-deface-united-states_26.html

CIA Torture Whistleblower Sent to Prison
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/323-95/15723-cia-torture-whistleblower-sent-to-prison

Monday, August 13

The Civil War of 2016 - U.S. Military Officers are Told to Plan to Fight Americans


A rather long article by a retired Colonel of the US Army but, worth a reading. The write up appeared in the Small Wars Journal. The link to the article source is given below, at the end of the post.            
                                                                                                                                               
The U.S. Army’s Operating Concept 2016-2028 was issued in August 2010 with three goals.  First, it aims to portray how future Army forces will conduct operations as part of a joint force to deter conflict, prevail in war, and succeed in a range of contingencies, at home and abroad.  Second, the concept describes the employment of Army forces at the tactical and operational levels of war between 2016 and 2028.  Third, in broad terms the concept describes how Army headquarters, from theater army to division, organize and use their forces.  The concept goes on to describe the major categories of Army operations, identify the capabilities required of Army forces, and guide how force development should be prioritized. The goal of this concept is to establish a common frame of reference for thinking about how the US Army will conduct full spectrum operations in the coming two decades (US Army Training and Doctrine Command, The Army Operating Concept 2..., TRADOC Pamphlet 525-3-1, dated 19 August 2010, p. iii.  Hereafter cited as TD Pam 525-3-1.  The Army defines full spectrum operations as the combination of offensive, defensive, and either stability operations overseas or civil support operations on U.S. soil).

Tuesday, August 7

Authoritarianism Masquerading Behind a Fig Leaf of Democracy


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President Obama with national security advisors discussing "kill lists" in Oval Office
Lately, as I read the newspapers, peruse the web sites for the occasional exceptional investigative reporting that expose the official corruption and wrongful policies that at once elucidates and enlightens, there's the sense it seems gigantic and all encompassing at the same time.

Drones, surveillance, secret Justice Department memos giving "legal" cover for assassinations authorized by the president, persecution of whistleblowers, now a bill from the Senate Intelligence Committee that wants prosecution of lower level and career public officials, even former government employees "legally" preventing them from "providing background or off the record information regarding intelligence activities to the media," with only "the director, deputy director and designated public officials of intelligence agencies" excluded. [1]

Monday, July 16

The Great Transformation: United States From The Welfare State To The Imperial Police State

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By James Petras

Introduction: The United States has experienced the biggest political upheaval in its recent history: the transformation of a burgeoning welfare state into a rapidly expanding, highly intrusive and deeply entrenched police state, linked to the most developed technological innovations.

The ‘Great Transformation’ occurred exclusively from above, organized by the upper echelons of the civil and military bureaucracy under the direction of the Executive and his National Security Council. The ‘Great Transformation’ was not a single event but a process of the accumulation of powers, via executive fiats, supported and approved by compliant Congressional leaders. At no time in the recent and distant past has this nation witnessed the growth of such repressive powers and the proliferation of so many policing agencies engaged in so many areas of life over such a prolonged period of time (a time of virtually no internal mass dissent). Never has the executive branch of government secured so many powers to detain, interrogate, kidnap and assassinate its own citizens without judicial restraint.

Thursday, July 12

New executive order could give President Obama control over internet


President Obama signed an executive order this week that could give him control over the web in times of emergency.
The order, known as the, "Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions," exists to hand over full control of communications and the internet to certain government authorities in times of natural disaster and security emergencies.
The wording for the executive order is of course lengthy and uses politician language, but the part worth pointing out is in section 5.2.It is in this section that the order states that Homeland Security will be able to monitor and control all non-military forms of communications in times of extreme measures, which is essentially giving the White House the on/off switch to the internet, according to some critics.
You can read more about the executive order, which still has 30 days before it becomes a law, over at CNET and The Verge. If you want to check out the order in its entirety, go to the White House press page.
Drop me a comment below and let me know what you think of this new law.

Monday, June 25

TPP -- America Going (Gone?) 100% Fascist


Obama - Deliverer of the New World Order by Occupy Los Angeles


When George H.W. Bush, an oilman who was so bad as President he only served one term, talked of a New World Order" what did he mean? A new era, when oil companies did not have to deal with pesky EPA laws and rules? When the US could attack two countries at once with drones and an all-volunteer army? When the US Constitution was entirely suspended, and corporate rights would always trump individual rights? 

Huffington Post Article titled, "Obama Trade Document Leaked, Revealing New Corporate Powers And Broken Campaign Promises" was posted June 13 and updated June 14, 2012. A few articles, blogs and discussion thread groups are criticizing Obama for closed door negotiations on the Trans Pacific Partnership, which gives both US Citizens rights and US Law (all branches of all US courts) over to jurisdiction of corporate tribunals. The corporate Tribunals consist of three lawyers.

The full, leaked TPP document is here: http://olivebiodiesel.com/tppinvestment.pdf 

There are two things that most or all of the blogs and articles describing the TPP and Obama don't seem to mention: 1) That Obama, himself is a lawyer, and 2) That Obama is a cool as a cucumber lawyer. Not only is Obama a lawyer, he is a former US Constitutional Scholar. Who would know best, how to thwart, unwind, disassemble and circumvent the US Constitution but a Constitutional Scholar? Obama can quite literally order the deaths of an entire family right before going to wolf down a cheeseburger, no loss of appetite, and no guilt. 

Taking the rights of an entire class of people in America is even easier to him. This is a man fascinated by Royals, by the upper crust of the world. He no more gives a damn for the eaters of America or anywhere else, they are just eaters, ants using up resources. He does not let this slip when campaigning, but it is how he has governed, how he will always govern. Obama plans on being powerful and in the loop of the rich and powerful his entire lifetime. Reps. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Rep. Donna Edwards(D- MD), Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) might defy Obama briefly" ultimately they will be squashed like bugs" there's $20.5 trillion dollars per year in play with TPP.

The Tribunal of three lawyers mentioned in the TPP" Obama is going to be out of work in the next 1-5 years, he's planning ahead, planning to be one of the three lawyers on the Tribunal that replaces the US Courts and US Law, citizens rights replaced by three cool as cucumber lawyers. Obama, the cool as a cucumber lawyer, seems to have ice in his veins and ice in his heart every time he orders an entire family wiped off of the map by a drone strike. The man never gets angry, grins like a Cheshire Cat after wiping out an entire family by sucking the air out of their lungs with a hellfire-missile drone-strike.

Under current US law, if you take a bad heart drug and suffer physical damage, you can sue the drug company. Under the TPP, if you filed a lawsuit, a Tribunal of three lawyers, possibly Obama himself being one of the three attorneys, would find that you had interfered with free trade with your frivolous lawsuit. You'd have no recourse in the US Courts; the Tribunal would order you to pay the drug company damages after their bad drug injured you.

When Bill Clinton signed NAFTA on December 8, 1993, he signed away the rights of numerous small businesses and corporation to compete on a level playing field. American truckers must follow strict laws governing everything from the status of the brake system on their trucks to how many hours they drive before they have a set number of hours of sleep or rest. Mexican truck drivers coming into the US delivering Mexican goods are not subject to the same rules, the same standards because their Mexicans driving on US roads under NAFTA. Anyone they have a traffic accident with has fewer rights than they would think suing the Mexican trucking company, because they are dealing with both US and Mexican courts. The rights of the consumer were not the intent of NAFTA; profits for companies like Wal-Mart were the intent of NAFTA. The jobs created under NAFTA were and are largely Wal-Mart-type-pseudo-jobs.

TPP goes way further than NAFTA. Under TPP, hypothetically a Chinese Trucking company comes into the US, does not follow DOT rules, does not have safety inspections or rest periods for the driver. The Chinese driver replaces two union drivers, and pulls 14-15 hour shifts daily. The over-worked underpaid truck driver falls asleep, kills your family and you survive with no legs. You file suit via US and Chinese courts. The three-lawyer Tribunal fines you $500,000 for filing a nuisance suit against the Chinese trucking company. 

Meanwhile, companies like Wal-Mart fire all their drivers and contract-out truck driving to a TPP Chinese-owned company with drivers who earn half the pay of current Wal-Mart truck drivers. The TPP is designed to make even more of a slave-class out of the dwindling middle class. The TPP is designed to go way, way past Tort Reform and make victims out of victims. If a TPP member-country corporation harms, injures or kills you or a family member, your legal recourse is an unsympathetic, corporate-controlled three-lawyer tribunal.

The Trans Pacific Partnership is not just more NAFTA" Ice-cold-heart lawyer Obama and corporate lawyers from around the globe drafted it behind closed doors. Not only was it drafted in secret, but only two of its 26 chapters have been leaked, there are another 24 chapters of TPP that are still being negotiated behind locked doors by Obama and the corporate lawyers from the member countries.  Right now, the U.S., Australia, Peru, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, and Brunei Darussalam are all participating in the talks and expected to sign the treaty. Mexico, Canada and China are all interested and will probably end up as signatories as well. This will mean more US jobs going to Australia, Peru, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, and Brunei Darussalam, Mexico, Canada and China.

The lawyers themselves are setting themselves and their families to be a ruling class, to have a serf class serving them goods and services, serving them cash flow. TPP is 658 million people spending much of their shrinking net worth, that's worth a staggering $20.5 trillion annually" The corporations and their lawyers, including their Lawyer Tribunal, rake in $20.5 trillion annually. They will spend a mere pittance of the $20.5 trillion annual on buying Senators, Congressman and Presidents, who are no longer powerful people, they are merely corporate pawns.

George Bush screwed the American public setting up the banks and energy companies and the defense contractors to rape the American economy. Obama is simply setting up the world's large multinational companies to decimate the last of the US Constitution that the Patriot Act and NDAA had not already decimated. Ultimately, he'll be like George Bush" In the future, there will be a long line of male and female Presidents with Bush and Obama last names.

Even though Americans are accustomed to voting box electronic machines and thinking of us as a democracy because we vote, both Bush and Obama have set themselves and their families up to be a long line of Kings and Queens, who rule over their serfs.

People judge Presidents in the US by their smiles, their jokes, by the price of gas and by how stable their job is. But if you look solely at their records, the laws they favored and signed" If you look at what the Congresses did under each President, from about 1979 until today, they drove nails into the coffin of democracy and promoted fascism. Fascism itself is when an individual or a group owns the government. Megalithic multinational corporations own the President, the Congress and the Supreme Court, all three branches of government. 


Bush, Gore, Romney or Obama" no matter how you cast your vote, you are electing a corporate-sponsored minion, who will make you yourself more of a micro-minuscule-minion. Romney or Obama, either way you are just exchanging one deck chair for another deck chair on the good ship Titanic. Isn't that what our democracy has become, from the late 1970's until today, the US Titanic, a leaking, broken wide open democracy that Occupy protests cannot even begin to bail out? Our own police forces themselves are like panicked passengers, their urges to keep law and order reminiscent of a panicked person in the water climbing up high on your back so you both drown together. Law and order, profits for the Kings and Queens, no justice, no true democracy" just paperless ballots run by unintelligible computer algorithms.

Some of the biggest nails in the coffin of democracy were/are NAFTA, the Patriot Act, National Defense Act of America and Trans-Pacific Partnership. All of these had bankers, drug companies, oil companies, insurers of all kinds, and defense contractor's hands in them. None of these benevolent or harmless sounding laws was in the public interest. In each case, the public was flat out lied to, particularly by the 6 large TV stations. TPP fascism will be signed into law, the two-three Senators and Congressman who make a stink about TPP will be redistricted so that they lose the next election cycle. Americans themselves, mostly, will vote and console themselves that their new seat on the US Titanic is comfy, that they made a good choice.

Trade agreements like NAFTA and the TPP, couple with the Patriot Act and the National Defense Act of America (NDAA) are treasonous. These laws are the selling out of the American people, the selling out of the US Constitution to a group of lawyers and corporations. Those committing the treason justify their actions with lies and lawyer gobbledy-gook. Their denial of their treason does not make it less treacherous, less abominable. Covering it up with lies in the news media does not mean they did not sell out a democracy and turn the old democracy of America into their dystopian vision of fascism. America has pretty well been reduced to a fascist state by NDAA" TPP just drags America further down that fascist dark hole. All the flag-waving and nationalist rhetoric in the world does not a democracy make.

The fact that both Romney and Obama are anxious to sign the TPP agreement means that both Obama and Romney are the captains of the Titanic, willing to peg the throttle wide open. Regardless of their rank or their intentions, the country is about to strike an iceberg and sink. American Democracy, true working democracy, is down to a couple of blogs on the Internet. A couple of blogs, a couple of web sites are trying to warn the whole country about impending disaster. The rest of the country is watching CNN and Fox News, and will never even hear about TPP, even after its signed into law. 

The US Constitution is an obstacle to the wealth interests of the global elite. Obama and the Royals he so worships need the entire, pesky old Constitution out of the way of their business plans. The Bush's, Obama's, Romney's of this world are setting up their New World Order, and it does not include any rights whatsoever of the individual. Obama is a DINO, a Democrat In Name Only. George H.W. Bush during a speech once glowingly said I see a thousand points of light for the homeless man. Homeless men want a meal, some new shoes, to see a doctor and to have a roof over their head again. 

Each President, all the way from Ronald Reagan up to Obama, has worked to create a New World Order where the order is more homeless, more medically uninsured, and more hunger" all the while with the largest corporations raking in record profits, obscene amounts of vast fortune. Obama's secretive TPP agreement bodes much more evil coming to the common man. The ranks of the homeless are about to swell even bigger.

Obama's glowing gushing speeches are as hollow and empty as George Bush Sr.'s thousand points of light for homeless people. Ultimately, America will have fewer jobs and more hungry, with the disappearing cash going to foreign multi-national corporations. People will be feeding themselves with credit cards, temporarily. TPP may even, probably will usher in the return of debtor prisons. 

Nobody outside of the TPP insiders has read all of the TPP chapters; there may possibly be provisions that do away with minimum wage, certainly livable wages" TPP may also do away with child labor laws, 8 hour days, etc. If these are deemed an interference to free trade with member nations, it will be up to a three-lawyer tribunal how our old laws get interpreted. 

The fact that most of the pages are still a closely guarded secret tells you this is going to hurt the public very badly. Many people debate the New World Order, debate whether or not there is a conspracy, taking sides, yeah or nay. Both sides of these debators miss the entire point: the New World Order is ultimate greed, ultimate betrayal, ultimate self-centered self-importance. The players in the New World Order give new, deep meaning to terms like bullying, sociopsychopath and narcissist. Society has yet to invent a word for the players, the so-called leaders who have enslaved all of us. Lawyers are subordinating basically all of our rights to business, to corporatocracy. 



Technologist and Horticulturist by trade. Very alarmed at the erosion of civil rights and the national need for unending warfare. Love America but despise our current corporate-owned government.

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