Barack Obama: Wall Street’s Perfect Manchurian Candidate

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Saturday April 13, 2013 · 10:32 AM PDT

2013/04/13 · 10:32

In the video above from April 5, 2006 Barack Obama, less than two years in Congress as a pure neophyte was the only U.S. Senator to attend the first meeting of former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin’s–(Rubin is the man who advised all of Clinton’s deregulation that lead to the economic meltdown in 2008)–meeting of the Hamilton Project at the centrist Brookings Institute think tank. Here Obama talks about how the new economic order will not be a bloodless process.

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Why Nobody Should be Surprised That Obama Wants to Cut Social Security

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Monday April 08, 2013 · 12:33 PM PDT

2013/04/08 · 12:33

In this video, Yvette Carnell of Your Black World discusses Obama’s budget proposal, which includes a plan to cut Social SecurityYvette and pascal image2 and Medicare, with writer Pascal Robert, blogger for Black Agenda Report and Huffington Post. This move by the Obama White House is being viewed by some as a move to pre-emptively negotiate with Republicans, but as Robert points out, Democrats aren’t progressive, and are just playing on the legacy of the New Deal. Even former President Bill Clinton was caught on tape telling Republican Rep. Paul Ryan that he hoped Democrats would cut entitlements. This plan by Obama to cut entitlement was detailed in the following video.

In addition, in a 2007 interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Barack Obama said everything should be on the table, including cutting the retirement age and cutting benefits, as it relates to fixing Social Security.

The Fallacy of American Empire

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Saturday December 26, 2009 · 5:49 AM PST

2009/12/26 · 05:49

The somewhat dubious motivations for Americas wars in Western Asia explained by former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, Lawrence Wilkerson.

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