Secrecy and Executive Power

We didn’t elect President Obama to preserve the Bush administration’s anti-contistutional executive power grab. We elected him to end it.

Obama's glans verbleekt snel.

Barack Obama is warned to beware of a ‘huge threat’ from al-Qaeda

Barack Obama is being given ominous advice from leaders on both sides of the Atlantic to brace himself for an early assault from terrorists.

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Neocons and Neoliberals: Two Masks, One Face

But neocons and neoliberals are very similar to each other. Neocons are alot more similar to neoliberals than to true conservatives; neoliberalss are more similar to neocons than to real liberals.

Do you get it? Both the Republican and Democratic party are now run by people with identical agendas: make the big corporations richer and expand the American empire.

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Van Houcke over Obama

Ik kom sowieso nog met een persoonlijk commentaar over de verkiezing van Barack Obama als president. Maar journalist Stan van Houcke heeft een, voor mij althans, bijzonder herkenbaar commentaar over de Obamania-hype geplaatst op zijn blog.

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Israel cautions against dialogue with Iran

Israel said Thursday U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's stated readiness to talk to Iran could be seen in the Middle East as a sign of weakness in efforts to persuade Tehran to curb its nuclear program.

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Socialists: Obama no socialist

These are hard times to be a socialist in America. And not just because there's a bourgeois-bloated Starbucks on every other corner, thumbing its capitalist nose at the proletariat.

No, it's tough these days because you've got politicians on the right, the same guys who just helped nationalize the banking system, derisively and inaccurately calling the presidential candidate on the left a socialist. That's enough to make Karl Marx harumph in his grave.

Local communists, rarely tapped as campaign pundits, say Sen. Barack Obama and his policies stand far afield from any form of socialism they know.

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US Elections 2008

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Kunnen de Fantastic Four Amerika nog redden?

Democratie is onverzoenbaar met het moderne kapitalisme

Michael Parenti is een van de belangrijkste progressieve denkers van de VS. Hij wordt omschreven als leesbaarder dan Noam Chomsky en ernstiger dan Michael Moore. Zijn nieuwste boek heet Democratie voor de elite.

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Rex 84: FEMA's Blueprint for Martial Law in America

We are dangerously close to a situation where ~ if the American people took to the streets in righteous indignation or if there were another 9/11 ~ a mechanism for martial law could be quickly implemented and carried out under REX 84.

The Cheney/Bush administration has a plan which would accommodate the detention of large numbers of American citizens during times of emergency.

The plan is called REX 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984. Through Rex-84 an undisclosed number of concentration camps were set in operation throughout the United States, for internment of dissidents and others potentially harmful to the state.

The Rex 84 Program was originally established on the reasoning that if a "mass exodus" of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention centers by FEMA.

Existence of the Rex 84 plan was first revealed during the Iran-Contra Hearings in 1987, and subsequently reported by the Miami Herald on July 5, 1987

" These camps are to be operated by FEMA should martial law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general's signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached."

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Vlucht Bush straks naar Paraguay?

Waarom heeft president Bush en zijn familie een 98,840-acre ranch in Paraguay (nabij Chaco) nodig? Deze lap grond wordt inmiddels beschermt door een volledige V.S. militaire basis, inclusief amerikaanse troepen. Tevens is Bush vrijgesteld van veroordeling voor oorlogsmisdaden door de Paraguyaanse regering...

Informatieve links bij Harten 8

Er gaan momenteel geruchten dat Amerikaanse Delta Force troepen de Bush-familie vasthouden op Camp David. Geruchten waar ik, gezien de bron, enigszins voorzichtig over zou zijn. Aan de andere kant zou het me niet verbazen als er een kern van waarheid in zit. De nazi's vluchtten tenslotte ook massaal naar Zuid-Amerika....

The Bush gang's parting gift: a final, frantic looting of public wealth

In the final days of the election many Republicans seem to have given up the fight for power. But don't be fooled: that doesn't mean they are relaxing. If you want to see real Republican elbow grease, check out the energy going into chucking great chunks of the $700bn bail-out out the door. At a recent Senate banking committee hearing, the Republican Bob Corker was fixated on this task, and with a clear deadline in mind: inauguration. "How much of it do you think may be actually spent by January 20 or so?" Corker asked Neel Kashkari, the 35-year-old former banker in charge of the bail-out.

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Brace yourselves - George Bush will soon be free to do just what he wants

The raid on Syria is a dark portent. The current president has three long, unaccountable months to cement his legacy.

Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian.

Verkiezingsfraude is alweer in volle gang

De Pers bericht over de kennelijke verkiezingsfraude bij de early votings in de VS. Voornamelijk leden van de zwarte bevolking lijken de dupe.

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Obama, McCain not alone on ballot; minor-party hopefuls want to be heard

Anyone who thinks a vote for president just entails a quick glance at a couple of names may be in for a surprise when he or she sees the ballot.

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Kunnen de Fantastic Four Amerika nog redden?

Early Voting Sees Reports of Voter Intimidation, Machine Malfunctions

Early voting has begun, and problems are already emerging at the polls. In West Virginia, voters using touchscreen machines have claimed their votes were switched from Democrat to Republican. In North Carolina, a group of McCain supporters heckled a group of mostly black supporters of Barack Obama. In Ohio, Republicans are being accused of trying to scare newly registered voters by filing lawsuits that question their eligibility.

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ACLU demands info on domestic military deployments

Following reports that US troops will be permanently on call to work inside the United States handling "civil unrest," "crowd control" and other functions traditionally carried out by civilian law enforcement agencies, activists are demanding to know why the Pentagon is reversing a longstanding prohibition on domestic deployment of the military.

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Warning over US election problems

Researchers are warning of potential problems during the US election with record numbers set to vote and many states using new voting machines.

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Police prepare for unrest

Police departments in cities across the country are beefing up their ranks for Election Day, preparing for possible civil unrest and riots after the historic presidential contest.

Public safety officials said in interviews with The Hill that the election, which will end with either the nation’s first black president or its first female vice president, demanded a stronger police presence.

Some worry that if Barack Obama loses and there is suspicion of foul play in the election, violence could ensue in cities with large black populations. Others based the need for enhanced patrols on past riots in urban areas (following professional sports events) and also on Internet rumors.

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Powell: "A crisis which will come along on the 21st, 22nd of January"

"Theres going to be a crisis which will come along on the 21st, 22nd of January which we don't even know about right now."@ 2:38 min

Uhm...Wat bedoel je, Colin?

Is het wat Joe Biden bedoelde?Of misschien Chertoff's nieuwe fearmongering?




(het is in ieder geval vlak na de inaguratie van de nieuwe US President.)

And the Winner is....Joe!

Loodgieter nodig? Bel Joe The Plumber!