Obama ignores the press

From RT: From the man who ran on a platform of transparency... --------------------
That's not "change we can believe in."

Obama supporters actually hate Obama's policies

This video by Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change shows how Obama's supporters don't have any idea of what he has been doing.

America’s Lackluster December Jobs Report

Excerpts from: Daily Censored

by Stephen Lendman

December Jobs Report headlines belied its weakness. Economist John Williams reengineers economic data based on reliable decades earlier modeling.

Based on how unemployment was calculated in the 1980s, Williams reported actual unemployment at 23%. It’s a “new (post WW II) high,” he said.

America is in recession. Media scoundrels don’t explain. Nor do talking head economists. They put a brave face on lackluster data.

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That's not "change we can believe in."

Dependence on Food Stamps... a Ticking Time Bomb

From: Activist Post

by Sean Kerrigan

"An average of one out of every 6.5 Americans is now dependent on the government for food assistance, an absolutely stunning statistic." 

In 1971, five percent of the population or roughly one in 20 used the program. Since 2007 it has grown by almost as much as all previous years combined. And the situation is worsening. Recent government reports confirmed there have been roughly 1 million new enrollees in just the last two months! Think about it. A million people. This does not include possible increases related to Hurricane Sandy which won’t be released until later this month.

Examine this chart courtesy of the financial blog Zero Hedge. As you can see, Food Stamp usage has been relatively stable for most of 2012, but suddenly increased in September and October of this year. This cannot be explained away with unusual seasonal disruptions, which we suspect is why it wasn’t mentioned by any mainstream media outlet in television or print.

What would happen in the event of a financial collapse?

When you have 47.7 million people reliant Food Stamps in the world’s largest and most important economy - roughly 15 percent of its population - you have a serious problem, and yet our political leaders have proposed no solutions except to wait and hope the economy recovers. In the meantime, the debt is getting larger, global instability is increasing, as is the likelihood of financial disaster.

Consider what would happen in the event of a sudden financial crisis. A bank holiday would be almost certain. Credit cards and debit cards would be useless. EBT, again run by JP Morgan, would also cease to function. Left with what little cash Americans had on hand, some would be able to rough it for a while. However, America’s most vulnerable, those dependent on government assistance, would find themselves unable to afford food. Within a very short period of time, food riots would erupt around the country. If the crisis escalated, the level of violence could be greater than any living person has ever seen. In some areas, martial law would not only be justified, but desirable.

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Obama Signs NDAA Bill Allowing Indefinite Detention; Obama Orders Assassinations with No Oversight

From TheRealNews.com

Obama Signs NDAA Bill Allowing Indefinite Detention; Obama Orders Assassinations with No Oversight

Michael Ratner: Obama continues model of Presidential fiat, Congressional fiat, no due process, no trials, and indefinite detention.



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That's not "change we can believe in."

Obama maintains the surveillance state initiated by Bush

If G.W. Bush had have pushed government surveillance of the citizens this far, there would have been outrage. Where is the outrage now? --------------------
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The "War On Terror" - by design - can never end, Glenn Greenwald

The "War On Terror" - by design - can never end.

As the Pentagon's former top lawyer urges that the war be finite, the US moves in the opposite direction.

Friday 4 January 2013, by Glenn Greenwald in The Guardian

Exerpt...

The polices adopted by the Obama administration just over the last couple of years leave no doubt that they are accelerating, not winding down, the war apparatus that has been relentlessly strengthened over the last decade. In the name of the War on Terror, the current president has diluted decades-old Miranda warnings; codified a new scheme of indefinite detention on US soil; plotted to relocate Guantanamo to Illinois; increased secrecy, repression and release-restrictions at the camp; minted a new theory of presidential assassination powers even for US citizens; renewed the Bush/Cheney warrantless eavesdropping framework for another five years, as well as the Patriot Act, without a single reform; and just signed into law all new restrictions on the release of indefinitely held detainees.

Does that sound to you like a government anticipating the end of the War on Terror any time soon? Or does it sound like one working feverishly to make their terrorism-justified powers of detention, surveillance, killing and secrecy permanent?

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That's not "change we can believe in."