Obama: ‘Civilian expeditionary force’ can aid wearied troops

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Wednesday June 30, 2010 · 6:09 PM PDT

2010/06/30 · 18:09

US soldiers in combat could use an assist from a civilian workforce while trying to rebuild war-torn nations, President Barack Obama said Wednesday.

http://rawstory.com/...

Is this Obama's modern day version of CCC ?

No Obama has jumped the shark

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Sunday May 23, 2010 · 10:42 AM PDT

2010/05/23 · 10:42

The new feudal overlords of Europe will be the bankers of the ECB - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...

According to the economist Friedrich von Hayek, the development of welfare socialism after the Second World War undermined freedom and would lead Western democracies inexorably to some form of state-run serfdom.

Meanwhile, rational market participants are selling debt of risky nations, and getting out of the euro. The whole fiasco is now leading to a shift away from risky assets all around the world, and the worldwide cost of such volatility is not small.

Debt peonage looms for a range of countries that were recently thought immune to serious fiscal crisis, including the United States and UK.

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Friday May 21, 2010 · 5:50 PM PDT

2010/05/21 · 17:50

WASHINGTON – Days after the Gulf Coast oil spill, the Obama administration pledged to keep its "boot on the throat" of BP to make sure the company did all it could to cap the gushing leak and clean up the spill.
But a month after the April 20 explosion, anger is growing about why BP PLC is still in charge of the response.

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Monday May 17, 2010 · 6:09 PM PDT

2010/05/17 · 18:09

Director of federal agency blamed for lax drilling oversight calling it quits
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Chris Oynes, appointed during the Bush administration to oversee offshore energy oversight at the Mineral Management Service (MMS), is calling it quits. "After 35 years of service," an MMS employee told AFP, Oynes plans to announce his retirement soon. His agency is blamed for severely lax safety oversight and neglecting inspections in BP's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Net Net: this fat oil and gas assclown has f*cked up Gulf Of Mexico so exit stage left

Napolitano: Feds lack expertise to deal with deepwater spill
http://www.miamiherald.com/...

perhaps more infuriating.....more on flip

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Wednesday April 21, 2010 · 7:28 AM PDT

2010/04/21 · 07:28

http://finance.yahoo.com/...

Some of us from the get go nailed the Kabuki Theater from SEC and Obama admin

see more on flip....

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Tuesday April 20, 2010 · 8:21 PM PDT

2010/04/20 · 20:21

How public employees became members of the elite class in a declining California offers a cautionary tale to the rest of the country, where the same process is happening in slower motion. The story starts half a century ago, when California public workers won bargaining rights and quickly learned how to elect their own bosses—that is, sympathetic politicians who would grant them outsize pay and benefits in exchange for their support.

Over time, the unions have turned the state’s politics completely in their favor. The result: unaffordable benefits for civil servants; fiscal chaos in Sacramento and in cities and towns across the state; and angry taxpayers finally confronting the unionized masters of California’s unsustainable government.

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Monday April 19, 2010 · 6:05 PM PDT

2010/04/19 · 18:05

Where's Rico?
http://kunstler.com/...

I don't see how President Obama can keep Robert Rubin at his elbow or the hosts of other Goldman Sachs alumni in their federal jobs. The whole episode is disgusting in the purest sense of the word. If Obama doesn't shake these people loose, and if he doesn't pick up the phone and direct his attorney general to execute the laws -- including the RICO law -- then all the moonbeams issuing from his renowned smile will not avail to keep him in office, or keep the financial underpinning of the USA from collapse.

HeHe ...just like I've been saying...... its all Kabuki Theater

more on the flip

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Sunday April 18, 2010 · 6:01 PM PDT

2010/04/18 · 18:01

Americans' trust in government and its institutions has plummeted to a near-historic low, according to a sobering new survey by the Pew Research Center.

Only 22 percent of Americans surveyed by Pew say they can trust government in Washington "almost always or most of the time" -- among the lowest measures in the half-century since pollsters have been asking the question.

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Wednesday April 14, 2010 · 7:08 AM PDT

2010/04/14 · 07:08

Obama turns up pressure in financial reform push
U.S. President Barack Obama will try to turn up the pressure for an overhaul of Wall Street regulations as he meets on Wednesday with top Democratic and Republican lawmakers to discuss a sweeping package of reforms.

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The Financial Oligarchy Hikes Taxes
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/...
how quickly the financial oligarchy has looted its way back to previous highs in profitability.

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Sunday April 04, 2010 · 10:06 AM PDT

2010/04/04 · 10:06

Mr. Bernanke said the Fed had known nothing about this. After all, he explained, the Fed wasn’t Lehman’s regulator — the Securities and Exchange Commission was. The Fed had placed some people at Lehman — not as many as the S.E.C. had — but they were there only to ensure that Lehman paid back money it was borrowing from the government. Can’t lay this on him.

No of course not....more on flip

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Sunday March 14, 2010 · 6:06 PM PDT

2010/03/14 · 18:06

http://www.investorsinsight.com/...

$800B for and Wall St. - no problem  from Obama admin
$700B for MIC - no problem from Obama admin
social net program - you now get IOU's 
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"This is not just a wake-up call, this is it. We're here," said Mary Johnson, a policy analyst with The Senior Citizens League, an advocacy group. "We are not going to be able to put it off any more."

For more than two decades, regardless of which political party was in power, Congress has been accused of raiding the Social Security trust funds to pay for other programs, masking the size of the budget deficit.

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Friday March 12, 2010 · 5:31 PM PST

2010/03/12 · 17:31

http://www.tikkun.org/...

The Anatomy of American Governance.

Sheldon Wolin's ( see link below ) overarching thesis is that America's national political order has evolved into what he calls an inverted totalitarianism. Unlike the top-down dictatorships of a Stalin or a Hitler, America's form of "totalism" is rooted in an interdependent "copartnership" of corporation and state that, like any individual corporation, is hierarchically structured and headed by a strong executive (the President). Both the corporate and state components of this amalgamated enterprise are managed by policy-makers and administrators who, in many cases, are the product of privileged backgrounds, a system of elite university training, and professional connections that Wolin describes as "self-validating" and "self-perpetuating."

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Total US debt as % of GDP.....gonna take you higher !

America's national political order has evolved into inverted totalitarianism