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Latest revelations about CIA torturers and the memos that came from 'above'.
Imagine, Mr. Obama, leaving a human submersed in water with a constant feeling of drowning.
Or, as we saw 'water cascading' on a human 's face, for hours. With the same feeling of getting drowned.
What else? We only begin to know what torture techniques were used against the so called 'Terrorists'.
The difference of being a 'Terrorist' or a CIA thug isn't that big in actual fact.
In Guantanamo Bay, similarly basic human rights were abused by the 'Greatest Nation' on earth.
And finally some of the memos are now being made public .
Where are Bush, Rumsfield, Cheney and Rice, as the master perpetrators. Why don't you take them on trial?
Here is the straw : "Mr President, you now want to protect the CIA henchmen who committed these crimes against humanity". Crimes, for which every normal citizen would be imprisoned for years.
You declare an amnesty for such culprits, who were 'only following orders'.
This means - in actual fact, that German SS troups were only 'following orders' and they should have been exonerated as well. Or do we have some double standards here?
Is it not that any person that tortures another fellow human, is committing a crime against humanity?
No Mr. President, we see some biased decision taking, and we are certain that Mr. Gates is the main reason for this.
He wants to protect his criminal gang.
No Sir, we won't agree. For the first time we speak out against your decision.
Like in the 'illegal use of drones' against innocent civilians.
Your policy of eliminating unwanted people somehow does not compare with the public image you portray. Somehow I have doubts if you are the person we thought you were, or you are simply caving in to pressure.
Torture in any form - is illegal. And torturers must be prosecuted, CIA henchmen or not.
Bush, Rumsfield, Cheney and Rice should be put on trial as well. Fast.
They were lying to us continiously till the end. And now we should let them go free ?
Take them on, the free world looks up to you.
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I opposed the economic stimulus bill because the economic stimulus bill will do very little for the economy. The American people live in a consumption based economy. I support a tax cut of the capital gains tax. Middle-class and low-income tax breaks will boost the economy and cause the economy to get better. Smaller government creates jobs. Big government eliminates jobs and causes a slowdown in the economy. Raising taxes for working families is not patriotism. An economic stimulus bill is going to do very little for the economy because the American people live in a capitalism based economy. Spending close to a trillion dollars of government funding will not build a stronger economy. I opposed the economic stimulus bill because it is too high. I support some provisions in the economic stimulus bill that were important to the economy. Some provisions should have been taken out of the economic stimulus bill. Democrats should have included seventeen billion dollars of emergency funding for federal work-study programs in 2009. I am undecided on the four hundred and ten billion dollar federal budget for 2010. I need more information about the 2009 federal budget. I do not support universal healthcare, big government and socialism in 2010 federal budget. I support a thirty-two billion dollar balance budget for education appropriations in 2010. I support an eighty-five million dollar balance budget for health and human services in 2010. I oppose the income tax hike in Illinois. Students are facing hardship for unaffordable textbook costs. Textbooks costs are too high for students that have financial aid. It is possible that Chicago Transit Authority is going to provide another doomsday for mass transit riders. Chicago Transit Authority is currently witnessing a budget shortfall for mass transit. The Chicago Transit Authority plans to raise fares to three dollars and twenty-five cents.
President Obama announced this morning that the government will offer struggling auto companies GM and Chrysler a limited period of time to fundamentally restructure in a way that would justify an investment of additional taxpayer dollars. "While Chrysler and GM are very different companies with very different paths forward," the President said, "both need a fresh start to implement the restructuring plans they develop." The President also emphasized that:
We cannot, and must not, and we will not let our auto industry simply vanish. This industry is like no other -- it's an emblem of the American spirit; a once and future symbol of America’s success. It's what helped build the middle class and sustained it throughout the 20th century. It's a source of deep pride for the generations of American workers whose hard work and imagination led to some of the finest cars the world has ever known. It's a pillar of our economy that has held up the dreams of millions of our people. And we cannot continue to excuse poor decisions. We cannot make the survival of our auto industry dependent on an unending flow of taxpayer dollars. These companies -- and this industry -- must ultimately stand on their own, not as wards of the state. http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2009/03/obama-sets-tough-deadlines-standards-in.html
The Great Depression was triggered by a sudden, total collapse in the stock market. The stock market turned upward in early 1930, returning to early 1929 levels by April, though still almost 30 percent below the peak of September 1929.[10] Together, government and business actually spent more in the first half of 1930 than in the corresponding period of the previous year. But consumers, many of whom had suffered severe losses in the stock market the previous year, cut back their expenditures by ten percent, and a severe drought ravaged the agricultural heartland of the USA beginning in the summer of 1930. In early 1930, credit was ample and available at low rates, but people were reluctant to add new debt by borrowing.[citation needed] By May 1930, auto sales had declined to below the levels of 1928. Prices in general began to decline, but wages held steady in 1930, then began to drop in 1931. Conditions were worse in farming areas, where commodity prices plunged, and in mining and logging areas, where unemployment was high and there were few other jobs. The decline in the US economy was the factor that pulled down most other countries at first, then internal weaknesses or strengths in each country made conditions worse or better. Frantic attempts to shore up the economies of individual nations through protectionist policies, such as the 1930 U.S. Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act and retaliatory tariffs in other countries, exacerbated the collapse in global trade.
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Irving Fisher argued that the predominant factor leading to the Great Depression was overindebtedness and deflation. Fisher tied loose credit to over-indebtedness, which fueled speculation and asset bubbles.[12] He then outlined 9 factors interacting with one another under conditions of debt and deflation to create the mechanics of boom to bust. The chain of events proceeded as follows:
The liquidation of debt could not keep up with the fall of prices which it caused. The mass effect of the stampede to liquidate increased the value of each dollar owed, relative to the value of declining asset holdings. The very effort of individuals to lessen their burden of debt effectively increased it.
Link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
I read with interest following article on the gulf news. No doubt that Republicans have found their meagre voices again. Slamming, distorting President Obama's economic agenda.
Best of all, Sen. McCain, still recovering from his hangover. As an old shark in politics, he will continue to oppose President Obama s agendas, no matter what, with the vague hope of winning the next election.
Wondering if McCain is familiar with web 2.0 ?
Quote from Gulf Times: (Part 1)
"Republican legislators slammed President Barack Obama’s economic agenda on Friday for mimicking the ideals of socialist European governments, one day after the president revealed his $3.6tn budget for 2010. At a conservative policy gathering in Washington, lawmakers repeatedly attacked Obama for planning a massive uptick in spending on energy, education, healthcare and other programmes. “Pushing back these efforts to basically Europeanise America will not be easy,” Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, told the Conservative Political Action Conference. Obama on Thursday released the outline of his 2010 budget and priorities over the next 10 years. It includes a more than $600bn downpayment on healthcare reform and $15bn per year for renewable energy investments. Obama’s budget would increase the federal deficit in 2009 to $1.75tn in 2009 - 12.6% of gross domestic product - and $1.2tn in 2010. The administration believes it can trim the deficit back to $533bn by 2013, once the US economy pulls itself out of a deep recession. The 2010 budget faces a bruising battle over the coming months in Congress. “Americans have gotten a glimpse of the big government plans of Obama and the Democrats and millions are ready to stand up, speak out, and yes, even take to the streets to stop America’s slide into socialism,” South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint told the gathering of conservative activists from around the country. Socialism has long held negative connotations in the US as a representation of leftist ideals that go against the US free- market tradition. That US tradition, by contrast, has come under heavy fire in Europe in recent months amid a massive financial crisis, which has spread around the globe and is largely blamed on the kind of free- wheeling, underregulated capitalism practiced on Wall Street. The financial crisis has sparked concerns about another idea that strikes fear in the hearts of many politicians and voters in the US: nationalisation. Wall Street stocks tanked last week when one Democratic senator, Christopher Dodd, suggested nationalising banks may be the only option to stave off a devastating wave of bankruptcies. Ever since, the Obama administration has repeatedly insisted it has no such plans. The Republican criticisms this week harked back to a common theme through much of the 2008 presidential campaign. Republican contender John McCain jumped on Obama’s comments in October that he planned to “spread the wealth” by raising taxes on the wealthiest workers, which was itself a feature of Obama’s budget outline on Thursday. “At least in Europe, the socialist leaders who so admire my opponent are upfront about their objectives,” McCain said in one radio address in October. Republicans also focused their criticism this week on a plan to help reduce global warming-causing emissions by forcing companies to pay for their pollutants. Obama included revenues from the contentious plan, which already exists in Europe, in his budget projections. The administration hopes it will help cut (MORINGA-AFRICASAIEURO) greenhouse-gas emissions 80% by 2050. The climate legislation was strongly opposed by former president George W Bush and rejected by Congress last year. A revived effort against the measure is being fought by Republican legislators worried about its potential to harm the economy and cost jobs."
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A CBS News poll of approximately 500 people saw approval of the president rise from 62 percent before the speech to 69 percent afterward.
Meanwhile, a poll on CNN showed that 68 percent of respondents -- who skewed a bit Democratic -- viewed the speech positively, 24 somewhat positively, and only eight percent not positively. Eighty-two percent supported the president's economic plan as outlined in the speech, while 17 percent opposed it.
Those results were buttressed by the findings of longtime Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg. In his own dial poll, which included 50 participants of mixed gender, education and politics, Greenberg found a large swath of bipartisan support for Obama's addres. That included a 14 percent jump, from 62 to 76 percent, in the favorability rating for the president.
Saying at the onset that this was an "immensely successful speech," he highlighted a few issues on which Obama won over the audience.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/24/polls-show-obama-won-the_n_169700.html
Eric Cantors said that the American People will be asking "where is my bailout" and the only answer that We the American People can give him is "IT'S In Your Wife's Purse" Will she Return the Money?
This is the highest and best use of fiscal deficit spending during the economic recession.
UNITED STATES CURRENCY BOARD returns far more than the actual amount spent.
This is arguably the first thing that the Obama economic team should do; invest in the United States Currency Board.
The United States Currency Board will pay for the bail-out... pay for the economic recovery and reinvestment plan... pay the national budget... pay the national debt... pay the national budget deficit... Revive the U.S. Housing market; 22 trillion dollar market.
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President-elect Barack Obama has solid American public support for the economic stimulus plan as proposed, according to the latest media polls.
However, when polling head to head with the United States Currency Board, there is a totally different sentiment.
The United States Currency Board is economic stimulus… economic recovery… economic stability… economic reinvestment… economic stability… economic security…
The United States Currency Board as a major institutional mechanism for producing credit debt loan payments on demand in proportion to consumer credit lending, is invaluable.
Central bank and commercial bank lending grows the base monetary supply. It does not produce the monetary payment for that credit lending. The United States Currency Board produces the monetary payment for all credit lending and grows the base monetary supply.
The United States Currency Board is the perfect compliment to the functions of the Central Bank; Federal Reserve Bank. Now is the time to institute this financial mechanism in the Keynesian macro-economic model for the United States economy.
For this reason the United States Currency Board is pursuing U.S. government grants and a portion of the remaining TARP money, as much as $50 billion dollars.
There is nothing in the United States Constitution that allows the U. S. Senate the clear-cut capacity to deny Roland Burris the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama. Indeed, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich seemed to be thumbing his nose at all of Illinois, if not all of the United States, by appointing Burris. As best we can tell, Burris has a clean political record and has done nothing wrong. Yet Blagojevich seems well on his way to being convicted of attempting to sell Barack Obama’s former Senate seat to the highest bidder.
After Burris was denied access to the Senate chambers on Tuesday January 6, 2009, black pundits of every ilk came out of the woodwork to claim that denying Burris his Senate seat was a blatant attempt to prevent an African-American from becoming a member of the United States Senate. I watched former Georgia State Senator, a founder of SNCC, and former chair of the NAACP Julian Bond attempt to make a case for racism. This was one of his least convincing arguments. For a moment, I wanted to cry.
Bond likened the blockade of Burris to the U. S. Senate to the one Bond received in the state of Georgia back in 1966. I was in kindergarten when a very young and dashing Julian Bond was denied admittance and acceptance to the Georgia State Senate because he had dared to speak out against the Vietnam War. He was bold, defiant; and he was right. Later in 1966 the Supreme Court ruled that the Georgia House of Representatives had denied Bond his right to freedom of speech, and further ordered Georgia’s House of Representatives to seat him. He took his seat in Georgia's House of Representatives in early 1967. Everyone in the state of Georgia and America were the better for it. Today Bond suggested that House Democrats surely must have considered that it might look racist to deny Burris entry to the Senate. I wanted to scream.
There is no evidence that Roland Burris is anything other than an upstanding and highly experienced public servant. What no one, including Julian Bond, seems to want to ask is why Burris would accept an appointment from a governor that has so clearly and blatantly violated the public trust? Why would Burris accept such an appointment from a governor who has refused to step down when propriety and decency demands that the people of Illinois would be best served if he did so? Burris cannot be ignorant of the evidence stacked against Blagojevich, even if Blagojevich has yet to be tried and convicted of his crimes.
It appears that some compromise between Burris and House Democrats has been reached. It appears he will be seated. However, he was not initially denied entry to the Senate because he is black; he was chosen by Blagojevich precisely because he was black and a member of a dying breed of black politician. In vulgar arrogance, Blagojevich knew he could count on old-guard black politicians to yell racism should Burris’ appointment be questioned; this is why he chose a 71-year-old Burris, rather than a younger, less-Illinois-politics-tethered individual to fill Obama’s vacant Senate seat. Many members of the black old-guard are proud of Obama. Yet far too many of them are scrambling for political capital and social relevancy as many of them erroneously hitched their political wagons to a Clinton nomination and presidency in the mistaken belief that a person with African ancestry could never occupy the highest office in the land. The old guard clings to an era that has passed and arguments that have long since lost any semblance of validity.
I fondly remember a young Julian Bond winning election to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1965. He was finally seated in 1966. I was proud of his actions then. Racism was blatant and visceral then; it is real, visceral, but often more inconspicuous now. An Obama presidency will not eliminate racism; he cannot make racism less severe. Yet Obama’s election will make confronting issues of race, racism, and race-baiting more complex; this is precisely why it is important to remember the lessons of the mid-1960s without confusing them with the lessons of 2009.
Copyright © 2009 by Leslye J Allen
Considering the fundamentals of the economy, the currency board will be a welcome new addition to the architecture of the best financial system infrastructure in the world.
The United States Currency Board will receive billions of dollars in loans through the U.S. Small Business Administration to achieve its mission and best serve the public good.
Non-inflationary consumption of a financial service that grows the personal money supply of earned income workers. How important is that?
150 dollar contribution receives a 250 dollar direct payment. 550 dollar contribution receives a 1050 dollar direct payment. This transaction is connected to the dollar-based financial markets for silver and gold. 1 dollar of paper equals one ounce of silver American Eagle Bullion coin which has a face amount of 1 dollar. 50 dollars of paper equals one ounce of gold American Eagle Bullion coin which has a face amount of 50 dollars.
Tickets are 10 dollars. Ticket buyers use Paypal. Ticket holders will have more opportunity to grow the base money supply as follows... exchange 6 pieces of paper for 7 pieces of paper.
one plus two plus five plus ten plus twenty plus fifty dollar bill... 6 of 7 pieces of cash paper money used in the general circulation... one plus two plus five plus ten plus twenty plus fifty plus one hundred dollar bill is all 7 pieces of cash paper money used in the general circulation.
One unit share of the base money supply equals 6 of 7 pieces of cash paper money used in the general circulation... Thats a sum total of 88 dollars. The direct payment is 188 dollars.
Note: the one hundred dollar differential represents 100% satisfaction that the functional qualities of currency have been restored to the cash paper money used in the transaction. How important is that service to the earned income of the working class?
The Federal Reserve Bank is a monetary authority of the United States economy. It is the central bank. No transparency. No accountability. No public disclosure of assets and revenues. It is a tax exempt independent agency of the fourth branch of the United States government.
The main reason for the United States Currency Board is to demonstrate that the working class; tax payer; consumer; are pursuing an anti-inflationary policy; growth in real Gross Domestic Product; expansion of the base monetary supply to foster consumption; increased consumption tax revenues; restoration of the functional qualities of currency and lawful unit value (LUV) to cash paper money issued for general circulation; to preserve a strong United States Dollar currency for U.S. Dollar based markets i.e. global derivatives, credit default swap, precious metals, energy resources like crude oil, natural gas, coal, etc.
The United States Currency Board is an independent entity that facilitates the perpetual circulation of the base monetary supply and transfer into lawful unit value (LUV) of fully functional currency with unit of account, standard of deferred payment, store value based on silver and gold, and unit of exchange. Public obligation paper (POP) money demands will dramatically increase to be proportionate to trade and commerce, in particular U.S. Dollar-based financial markets.
Demand for Federal Reserve Bank Notes will be higher than all other financial instruments of the U.S. Dollar funds because earned income working class know that, rain or shine, their liquid; cash paper money can easily be transferred into lawful unit value of currency equal to United States Treasury Notes. Automatic stabilizers would prevent any major outflows of U.S. Dollar Currency into a foreign currency.
The mechanism works through changes in the money supply, which lead to interest rate changes, which, in turn, encourage earned income transfers of public obligation paper (POP) into lawful unit value (LUV) of United States Dollar Currency equal to United States Treasury Notes, a safe haven for all foreign currency flows into the domestic economy.
This is essentially the same mechanism that operates under a fixed exchange rate. The obvious advantages of the United States Currency Board are economic stimulus, recovery, and stability; higher GDP growth rate; low inflation; lower consumer prices; low unemployment; higher bank savings and demand deposits; and lower interest rates.
The United States Currency Board strengthens the financial service industry starting with the basic monetary unit – the United States Dollar Currency; Federal Reserve Bank Notes. It will better safe guard against a financial system meltdown due to global derivatives market, credit default swaps, and commercial bank lending to community-based business enterprises. Industries of the United States economy will be less prone to the bubbling to burst effect of central bank monetary policy.
Economic adjustments can more easily be achieved through the currency board’s expansion of the base money supply with earned income rather than wage and price adjustments, which can be both slower and more painful. Consequently, the economy will be less vulnerable to slow downs, recessions, and adjustments of domestic interest or exchange rates—to stimulate the economy. The U.S. government will be enabled to “paygo” the national budget and national debt through consumption taxes rather than corporate or personal income taxes.
According to the FDIC's Failed Bank List, there were 25 bank failures in 2008, as of Dec. 12. Washington Mutual and IndyMac Bank were two of the biggest banks to go under. For comparison, there were 3 bank failures in 2007, and none in 2006 and 2005.
A few cars that have recently been shutdown globally include the Yugo, Dodge Durango Hybrid, Chrysler Aspen Hybrid, Chevy Trailblazer, GMC Envoy, Mercury Sable, and Ford Taurus X.
Jeff Greene, a California real estate mogul, along with hedge fund manager John Paulson, found a way to cash in on overpriced real estate and subprime mortgages by shorting collateralized debt obligations and buying credit default swaps. When the housing bubble burst, their gamble paid off.
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The stock market starts the week towards the downside, declining 41% - - its worst annual performance since declining 47% in 1931 at the start of the Great Depression.
The U.S. government, via the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury, intervened repeatedly to first stabilize the financial system, then to stabilize key institutions in the financial system. As a result, the U.S. taxpayer is now a major stockholder in many companies/enterprises.
The U.S. recession began in December 2007. There is now a global recession. The commodity bubble burst, oil prices deflates 100 USD per barrel of crude… gasoline prices plummeted about $2.50 to about $1.60.
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Michelle Obama sent out a special message today, wishing everyone a happy holiday and encouraging those who can to reach out to those in need this holiday season: This holiday season, the grassroots movement you helped build can make a big difference for those in need. I hope you will join me in supporting your favorite charity or contributing to causes that are especially meaningful to me and my family. While many of us will spend the holidays counting our blessings and sharing dinner with loved ones, millions of people around the country won't be so fortunate. Donating to your local food bank will help provide a holiday meal to people in your community who can't afford one. Talking with the families of deployed troops was one of the most rewarding experiences I had during the campaign. Giving to Operation USO Care Package is a great way to send members of our military stationed around the world a reminder that someone back home is thinking of them. This is a time to celebrate our blessings, the new year, and a new era for our country. But it's also a time to come together on behalf of those who need our help. Do what you can to help today by locating your local food bank and giving your support. Or send a care package to an American in uniform. Thank you for all that you do and have a very happy holiday season,
Michelle Obama
The new economic team needs to take command of the economy sooner rather than later.
Big three auto makers will probably get the money they need to survive until new administration takes office... 34 Billion from TARP.
How big of an economic stimulus is needed? Some experts say another 800 Billion... Concerns about deficit spending has left the equation.
United States Currency Board could not have been structured at a better time. Most Americans don't know how much they are really going to need this monetary authority to releive the distress of the economic recession.
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STRENGTHEN DOLLAR BASED FINANCIAL MARKETS.
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