Coming National Race War - ( heard this clip on a morning radio show on my way work).

Hello friends, I heard this little bit yesterday on "The Armstrong and Getty Show" on my way to work. It's a show that broadcasts in Northern California that is routinely conservative in their political views. Anyways, It would seem that talks of a coming National Race war are seeping into the mainstream news media. At least the talk radio shows Give a listen to the segment below:

http://BGunn88.fileave.com/Armstrong%20and%20Getty%20-%20coming%20race%20war%20clip.mp3

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Obama's Civilian Army Takes Mighty Scary Turn: Recruiting Military for "green" war

More disturbing developments in the creation of Obama's brown green shirts. The Apollo Alliance is recruiting for a "green" army:

You'll recall the Apollo Alliance claims to have written the Cap & Trade legislation as well as the Stimulus Bill; this according to Glenn Beck. The former "Green Jobs Czar" and self-professed Communist Van Jones sat on the Board of the AA. The New York State Apollo Alliance Director is Jeffery Jones, co-founder with William Ayers of the Weather Underground. Now these enemies-within-the-gates are recruiting our veterans. Part of Barry's enforcement crew? Retired military can be intimidating to civilians if they choose. (hat tip Deb)

Disturbing excerpts: ....

two green jobs programs—Veterans Green Jobs of Colorado and the Veterans Conservation Corps of Washington state—and the recently launched “Operation Free” campaign that has veterans touring the country to call for federal action on climate change. Veterans Green Jobs runs a 9-week “Home Energy Auditor Training” (HEAT) for veterans, using a rapid, hands-on “military” style of training ....

Deb notes, "Since our veterans are already trained, I'm assuming they will be training civilians to control belligerent citizens, etc".

“We think veterans are uniquely qualified to lead the environmental restoration here at home,” said Kirsten Maynard of Veterans Green Jobs. “Not only have they seen environmental destruction across the world; they also have technical skills and other kinds of work skills that allow them to do the really tough work that needs to be done - like go into homes and crawl in the attic and the basement. They’ve been trained by the military to do it, and they actually feel comfortable being in that kind of environment.” (Deb: Am I the only one wondering if homeowners' permission will be required for anyone, let alone retired military, to be crawling around their attics and basements? Where would YOU store the survival provisions and ammo? Just asking....)

The Veterans Conservation Corps has also inaugurated a new program, called Veterans Corps, which is modeled on the AmeriCorps program. (Deb: Lots of folks think Barry's civilian national security force will be recruited from AmericCorps.)

“It’s a revitalization of a mission they had in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said Mark Fischer, who runs the Veterans Conservation Corps. “Once they left the military, that mission is gone, and it’s a big loss. When they lose that purpose it can be disheartening and disorienting. We try to create a meaningful job - for a purpose-driven life.”

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Obama’s Betrayals

Just a few of many to be sure, but I am more than happy to share them with you all !!!

http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0908b.asp

After President Obama announced he would fight the release of photographs showing American soldiers abusing “war on terror” detainees, Richard Haass, president of the quintessentially mainstream Council on Foreign Relations, said that Obama had learned the difference between campaigning and governing. He wasn’t being sarcastic.

It was said during the presidential campaign that one of the candidates was running for George W. Bush’s third term. Did you think it was Obama?

Obama has been doing a lot of “growing” in office. That’s the term the establishment uses when a candidate who apparently holds maverick views gets into office and abandons those views in favor of views more congenial to the permanent ruling elite.

The president campaigned against using military tribunals as a substitute for regular criminal proceedings for terrorist suspects — a “legal black hole,” he called them. Now he embraces them. His promise of increased protections for defendants fails to impress even the military people charged with defending the suspects. The tribunals are regarded as kangaroo courts. Although Obama says evidence obtained by torture will not be admissible in the tribunals, he won’t let tortured detainees have their day in a real court.

Obama has adopted Bush’s position on state secrecy and more to stop lawsuits over torture and eavesdropping. Translation: people who were wronged by the government may not sue to bring abusive officials to justice.

Consistent with that, Obama appears to have no interest in prosecuting the Bush officials who illegally authorized and carried out torture. Even a “truth commission” seems unlikely. In the name of looking to the future, we are being asked to forget the past.

Obama still says he wants to close the Guantánamo prison, but the one at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan — where detainees have zero rights — is still in operation. And Obama’s pledge on Guantánamo must be judged against the fact that he favors indefinite and even preventive detention of terrorist suspects his administration is afraid to bring before even a military tribunal.

Indefinite preventive detention

The significance of this development cannot be overstated. No advanced country permits indefinite preventive detention. Britain has a 28-day limit — and that is barbaric. But Obama wants indefinite preventive detention. Closing Guantánamo is sheer symbolism if Bagram continues in operation and if suspects can be held preventively and indefinitely in U.S. supermax prisons. And the mere propaganda value of shutting down Guantánamo would be dissipated by those facts. Whom does Obama think he is kidding?

Obama said in his speech at the National Archives,

We’re going to exhaust every avenue that we have to prosecute those at Guantánamo who pose a danger to our country. But even when this process is complete, there may be a number of people who cannot be prosecuted for past crimes, in some cases because evidence may be tainted, but who nonetheless pose a threat to the security of the United States. Examples of that threat include people who’ve received extensive explosives training at al- Qaeda training camps, or commanded Taliban troops in battle, or expressed their allegiance to Osama bin Laden, or otherwise made it clear that they want to kill Americans. These are people who, in effect, remain at war with the United States. [Emphasis added.]

Note what Obama is saying. He claims the prerogative to hold people for the duration of this alleged war — potentially for the rest of their lives — without charge or trial because the evidence may be tainted, that is, obtained by torture. But since torture is notorious for yielding unreliable information, how do we know the suspect is in fact a threat?

Others may be held not because they have taken overt steps to commit violence against Americans, but rather because they might do so. How do we know that a given detainee in Guantánamo received explosives training or expressed allegiance to bin Laden? Because someone to whom the U.S. government paid a bounty for turning in “terrorists” said so? And why is it an act of war against “the United States” to command Taliban troops in Afghanistan against the U.S. invaders? This is a bizarre point maintained by Bush and now Obama: The U.S. government invades a country, and anyone in that country who tries to repel the foreign troops is deemed a threat to the country from where the troops originated.

Some detainees who could be subject to indefinite detention never engaged in terrorism, but are so embittered by their abuse by the U.S. government that they now seek revenge. Holding them because they represent a threat is truly Orwellian.

As George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley and Salon.com legal commentator Glenn Greenwald point out, Obama’s program boils down to doing whatever is necessary to hold the suspects, regardless of the evidence. If authorities are confident they can convict, they may give the suspects a trial in a real court. If they are not so confident, they will put them before military tribunals. And if they are not confident at all, they will simply hold them preventively.

There is no reason to believe “prolonged detention” is only for Guantánamo inmates. Why wouldn’t it be applied to the suspects who are picked up in the future in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere? And while we’re on the subject, why couldn’t American citizens eventually get this treatment? Jose Padilla is an American citizen.

From Jekyll to Hyde

At this point, Obama’s paeans to the Constitution, the rule of law, and “our values” wear thin.

In our constitutional system, prolonged detention should not be the decision of any one man. If and when we determine that the United States must hold individuals to keep them from carrying out an act of war, we will do so within a system that involves judicial and congressional oversight.

In promising a “fair” system of preventive indefinite detention, Obama aspires to square the circle. It cannot be done.

In Obama we have a new Jekyll and Hyde. From harsh critic of Bush’s trampling of individual rights, Obama has transmogrified into a champion of the omnipotent state that cannot let the niceties of the traditional criminal-justice system stand in the way of “national security.”

The logic behind these decisions and reversals is bizarre. Obama said releasing the abuse photos would “inflame anti-American sentiment” and endanger the troops. Does he really think that that is not happening every day because of the brutal U.S. occupations and bombing of civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Does he think that withholding the much-publicized photos itself doesn’t inflame anti-American sentiment?

Obama has clearly adopted not only Bush’s policies, but also his premise: that the United States is in a war in which the world is the battlefield and restraints on the power of government are a luxury the government cannot afford. He ignores the more realistic view that acts of terrorism are crimes — provoked by years of U.S. intervention — that can be dealt with through normal procedures that protect basic freedoms. Several accused terrorists have already gone through the system without incident, and new cases are moving through the court system now.

It is instructive that the neoconservatives who gave us the Bush war program are now delighted with Obama’s policies, including his escalation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. As Charles Krauthammer wrote in the Washington Post in late May,

If hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue, then the flip-flops on previously denounced anti-terror measures are the homage that Barack Obama pays to George Bush. Within 125 days, Obama has adopted with only minor modifications huge swaths of the entire, allegedly lawless Bush program.

Meanwhile David Brooks pointed out in the New York Times that the few good things (at least on the surface) that Obama has promised are things George W. Bush himself embraced as time wore on, such as the closing of Guantánamo and an end to waterboarding. If there is a division between the current and previous administration, it is not Bush-Cheney versus Obama, but Bush-Obama versus Cheney.

Obama’s flip should be troubling to anyone who thinks elections can bring needed change. Presidents come and go, with little obvious effect on foreign policy, no matter what they say during their campaigns. “Republican” and “Democrat,” “right” and “left” — these terms are more about style than substance. In subtle ways and with staunch corporate media support, the system maintained by the ruling elite ensures that no successful national candidate will deviate too far from its plumb line. The marginalization of real anti-war candidates during the 2008 election was just the latest demonstration.

It’s time for the opponents of empire to see the man in the White House for who he is. Fortunately, that is starting to happen.

Better sooner than later I guess, America was founded by the people and for the people. It took time for the veils to come down - though they do add a a level of ambiance.

Regarding this so-called presidency, we all know it is really Bush's third term. Nothing's changed of course as it ever does.. Obama works for the exact same people with the same exact agenda. The complete destruction of America and our way of life.

It is a well known fact that The President of the United States has been a puppet and a figurehead for numerous decades, maybe even much longer than that!

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Obama expected to name envoy to combat global anti-Semitism

http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/1109/Obama_expected_to_name_global_antisemitism_monitor_envoy.html

President Barack Obama is expected to announce his special envoy to monitor and combat global anti-Semitism shortly, Jewish community activists say.

We're told that the candidate is female, with Chicago connections and a lawyer or activist background, and that State was ready to announce her this week and is awaiting White House clearance to do so.

Members of the UJC/Jewish Federations of North America who met with Obama on Monday said they anticipated the announcement even Tuesday.

George W. Bush's envoy, Dr. Gregg Rickman, left the job when the Obama administration came into office in January.

We're waiting to hear back from a few people before floating names.

UPDATE: A top candidate seems to be Hannah Rosenthal, former head of the Jewish Council on Public Affairs and former executive director of the Chicago Foundation for Women. She has a track record of involvement in countering anti-Semitism in the international context. Rosenthal, currently community outreach director at a Wisconsin firm, was traveling and could not be immediately reached to comment.

UPDATE II: An administration official said this sounds right, regarding Rosenthal.

Late Thursday UPDATE: Rosenthal memo to friends:

Dear dear friends –

I am thrilled to tell you of an exciting new adventure I am about to take… In the next few days, President Obama will announce that he has appointed me as Special Envoy for Global Anti-Semitism.. I will serve as an ambassador-at-large in the State Department.

So I am off to DC and I can let you know my new contact information as soon as I have it! You can always reach me at this email. I will be keeping the condo – Shira and JP are staying in it, and I will be back in Madison once a month to see family, doctors, and friends.

I am the luckiest person in the world – and just wanted you to know my news.

Be well,

Hannah

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