New bill strips president’s power to shut off Internet
• RawStory.comA bipartisan trio of senators has introduced a new cybersecurity bill that eliminates the president's authority to switch off the Internet.
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Obama Administration
Pumping Up The Propaganda
• ZeroHedge.comIn 1998 the TOTAL SPENDING of the Federal government was $1.65 trillion. We now run deficits that equal the entire budget of the United States in 1998, without blinking an eye or questioning how we got here. The politicians have scared the populace..
Photo shows Obama at dinner with Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg
• cnn.comA photo released by the White House on Friday shows Apple CEO Steve Jobs, along with other tech luminaries, raising a toast with President Barack Obama at a dinner Thursday night in San Francisco.
Cutting Defense: Obama, Gates Say No
• Robert Dreyfuss, NationPresident Obama and Secretary of Defense Gates are defending the indefensible, namely, defense. Against clamor to cut the Pentagon’s bloated budget coming from both the right and the left, from anti-DOD liberals, antiwar activists, ultra-conservative
President Obama's Budget: A Graphic Illustration
• EconomicPolicyJournal.comI don't pay too much attention to Presidential budgets. The general rule is that spending will be greater than forecast and that deficits will also grow beyond forecast. However, Keith Hennessy has done a great job of graphing the President's budget.
Concise "birther" petition to officials in the 50 states
World Net DailyThis petition is worth sharing widely just for the very concise way it summarizes the concerns about Obama's legitimacy as president.
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Paul Craig Roberts: The Shame of Being an American
• LewRockwell.com"The indispensable people” had to suffer the hypocrisy of the U.S. Secretary of State delivering a speech about America’s commitment to Internet freedom while the U.S. Department of Justice (sic) brought unconstitutional action against Twitter...
Bush Sr. and the Medal Of Freedom: Rewarding A JFK Assassination Conspirator?
• dailymail.co.uk/newsBarack Obama honoured former president George H.W. Bush with the Medal of Freedom today, telling him his 'humility and decency reflects the very best of the American spirit'.
Yves Smith: The 7 Things Really Wrong with the Treasury’s GSE Reform Plan
• NakedCapitalism.com/The Administrations’ preferred solution would keep in place the bad incentives and socialization of risk that got the GSEs in trouble in the first place.
Collective Financial Insanity – FDIC operating with negative insurance fund
• MyBudget360.comThe FDIC insured banks have $5.4 trillion through insured deposits yet have a deposit insurance fund (DIF) that is in the negative to the tune of $8 billion. Is this a Ponzi scheme you ask?
Internet ID: Cyber-Security Czar Defends Government Role
• blogs.wsj.comThe new program, announced in January, has been greeted by skepticism about the role of government, the creation of new layers of bureaucracy, and possible government interference in the online activities of individual Americans.
Michelle Obama Gets into the Breastfeeding Game!
• www.drscoundrels.comShe is insidious. She is pervasive. She slithers into every aspect of our lives and takes over; all the while making her proclamations sound innocent and perky. She is like a 1950′s grade B horror flick baddie; The Blob, or Invasion of the B
Obama Pencils In $37 Billion Budget Increase For DHS, Naked Body Scanners
• InfoWars.com/The Obama administration is to propose a $37 billion increase in federal spending for the Department of Homeland Security, earmarking funds for more radiation firing naked body scanners in airports around the country.
The Trouble With Selling Biometric ID To The Public: ‘There is no demand’
• gcn.com/“How do you get people to buy what they don’t want?” Lewis asked Thursday during a conference on ID management hosted by the Digital Government Institute. “There is no demand for better identity.”
Obama Kool-Aid Brigade Projects A 50% Pick Up In Revenue In 2 Years
• ZeroHedge.comThe only thing one needs to know about Obama's latest budget is that projected revenues are expected to grow from $2.2 trillion in 2011 to $3 trillion in 2013 (and $3.6 trillion in 2015). We wonder just where the tax increases will come from...
Karl Denninger: How Badly Are We Screwed? Very.
• Market-ticker.orgThe budget is about $3.7 trillion. Of that we take in about $2 trillion in taxes. The rest is being borrowed at present. There's no way we can possibly put more than 20% of federal revenue toward interest, and this presumes a 3% interest rate on...
James Howard Kunstler: Next
• Kunstler.comThis implosion has been artfully papered over with enough accounting tricks so that many citizens do not even perceive it as being underway. The results are insidious: falling living standards, no role to play in the economy (that is, a job)...
2011 Budget Deficit $1.6 Trillion: Obama Truly Believes In Fairy Tales
• TheHourlyG.blogspot.com & EconomicPolicyJournalSo in other words, in less than six months, the FY 2011 budget—which has still yet to pass, scheduled for a vote this coming March 4—has had a deficit which has risen 23%.
Better Not be a FAT Kid in Pima County, AZ!
• www.drscoundrels.comBy Ladybug4Freedom: Well, while we’ve been sitting here, writing story after story warning you of our dictatorial government’s plans to intrude into every aspect of our lives and the threats to our freedoms; our government, run so ably and completel
The Greater Depression: Doug Casey on what the State is doing to us
• LewRockwell.comYou can’t solve today’s problem of overconsumption and debt with more overconsumption and debt. The conditions that pulled America out of the Great Depression underscore that point. Once savings rates increased and made capital available...
Jacob Hornberger: Obama Sees Egyptians As Too Dumb for Democracy
• FFF.org/According to Obama and Clinton the Egyptian people are simply too dumb to organize elections and run campaigns within a 2-month period of time.
Obama May Revive Bid to Limit Mortgage Tax Break
• CNBC.comAmid calls for a pullback in government backing for housing, President Barack Obama is expected to re-introduce his bid to limit deductions for high earners—including the popular mortgage interest deduction.
Obama Declares GSE Model "Dead", Increases Down Payment Requirements
• ZeroHedge.com"The GSE model is dead," an Obama administration official told reporters as the Treasury Department released a long-awaited report on options to revamp housing reform. " As Reuters reports: "The housing "white paper" presents three...
How the Government Will Take Control of Your Retirement Account
• EconomicPolicyJournal.comWhen politicians and bankers are in bed with each other, banks can be compelled to loan a portion of their deposits to the treasury at unrealistic terms, sticking bank customers with sub-optimal yields below the rate of inflation.
NAR: Obama Administration Wants To Make Us A Nation Of Renters
• HousingDoom.comThe Obama Administration and some members of Congress want to turn the clock back on the housing market to the 1930s, turning us into a nation of renters and making home ownership something that only the rich can afford.
Change You Can Believe In: CIA Torture Stooge to Replace Mubarak
• CNBC.comCurrent vice-president Omar Suleiman will take over the presidency, sources also said.
Now Michelle O is Determining What Restaurants Can Offer!
• www.drscoundrels.comBy Ladybug4Freedom: Yep. The first lady of hype; oh she of the hips now has those piggy fingers inserted into the restaurant trade clean up to the second knuckle. When will this woman butt OUT? I knew this was coming. I knew she would work her w
What Obama didn’t say in his sermon to the Chamber of Commerce
Menckens GhostHis ivory-tower comments accomplished the Herculean task of making George W. Bush look smart by comparison and have sullied the reputations of his alma maters of Columbia and Harvard.
Federal Government Now Wants Biometric Data For E-Verify Program
• benzinga.com/A recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) demonstrates that the federal E-Verify program needs a biometric component, according to the Security Industry Association (SIA).
Robert Scheer: Hey Obama, Read WikiLeaks
• TruthDig.comAfter a good start, the Obama administration’s response to the democratic revolution in Egypt has begun to exude the odor of betrayal. Now distancing itself from the essential demand of the protesters that the dictator must go...
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