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Sen. Toomey Aims to Lift Restrictions on Pentagon Arming Police
• http://antiwar.comPresident Obama signed an executive order that would ban the Pentagon from transferring certain "inappropriate" military gear, notably grenade launchers and bayonets, to police departments.
George W. Bush more popular than Obama: poll
• Yahoo newsFormer US President George W. Bush is now more popular than his successor Barack Obama, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Wednesday. The survey said 52 percent of Americans polled have a favorable opinion of the former Republican president who wa
NSA Surveillance To Lapse At Midnight Although Extension Imminent With Obama's Signature
• zerohedge.com"This is a debate over the Bill of Rights," exclaimed Rand Paul before this evening's rare Sunday Senate vote which secured NSA Reform (but leaves a brief window of NSA shutdown before Obama signs the bill), ........
Administration preps new gun regulations
• http://thehill.com, By Tim DevaneyThe Justice Department plans to move forward this year with more than a dozen new gun-related regulations, according to list of rules the agency has proposed to enact before the end of the Obama administration.
Creator Of Infamous "Hope" Poster Lashes Out At Obama, Calls Americans...
• http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenCreator Of Infamous "Hope" Poster Lashes Out At Obama, Calls Americans "Ignorant And Lazy"
Washington Protects Its Lies With More Lies
• http://www.thedailybell.comMy distrust has deepened of Seymour Hersh's retelling of the Obama regime's extra-judicial murder of Osama bin Laden by operating illegally inside a sovereign country. That Hersh's story, which is of very little inherent interest, received suc
Emergency Powers Give Obama Authority Over Just About Everything During Major Nat'l Crisis
• Prison PlanetPresidents have always exercised emergency powers, but now thanks to dozens of new laws, regulations, court decisions and executive orders, Barack Obama is the most powerful president in all of U.S. history.
Racist Wendy Sherman Leaving State Department
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White House Finally Stands Up to Google (For a Lousy Reason)
• WiredThe Department of Justice filed a brief Wednesday recommending that the US Supreme Court reject Google's appeal in Oracle's lawsuit against the company over its use of elements of the Java programming language.
Obama Memorial Day Big Lies
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Why Are We in the Middle East?
• http://www.commondreams.org, by Jeff FauxTo placate their pique at his effort to get a non-proliferation agreement with Iran, Barack Obama met last Thursday at Camp David with Saudi royals and leaders of the other five feudal dictatorships of the Persian Gulf.
What if Putin is Telling the Truth?
• lewrockwell.com, By F. William EngdahlOn April 26 Russia's main national TV station, Rossiya 1, featured President Vladimir Putin in a documentary to the Russian people on the events of the recent period including the annexation of Crimea, the US coup d'etat in Ukraine, and the gener
What the Fall of Ramadi Means
• http://original.antiwar.com, by Patrick J. BuchanaThe fall of Ramadi, capital of Anbar, largest province in Iraq, after a rout of the Iraqi army by a few hundred ISIS fighters using bomb-laden trucks, represents a stunning setback for U.S. policy.
Obama ban on police military gear falls short as critics say it's a 'publicity stunt'
• http://www.theguardian.comSix of the seven items on 'prohibited list' have not been distributed to law enforcement for years and skeptics question whether rules will be enforced
Behind the Media's Assault on Seymour Hersh
• antiwar.comHe's the most respected journalist in U.S. history, and for decades Seymour Hersh has consistently broken major international stories, winning him the Pulitzer Prize among other prestigious awards of journalism.
How Was Bin Laden Killed?
• theamericanconservative.comSeymour Hersh's sources tell a more believable story than the self-serving official White House narrative.
Here We Stand, One Step Away from a Dictatorship...
• http://www.shtfplan.com, Jeremiah JohnsonHere We Stand, One Step Away from a Dictatorship: "The Groundwork and Foundation Have Been Put Into Place"
I've Read Obama's Secret Trade Deal. Elizabeth Warren Is Right to Be Concerned.
• http://www.politico.com, By MICHAEL WESSEL"You need to tell me what's wrong with this trade agreement, not one that was passed 25 years ago," a frustrated President Barack Obama recently complained about criticisms of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)
"Win-Lose" is "Lose-Lose" in the 21st Century.
• Lewrockwell.comObama on the TPP – Beckoning Us to the Graveyard.
Obama combats police militarization by limiting supply of military-style gear
• http://www.theguardian.comSurprise announcement will ban government from providing items such as armored vehicles, high-power firearms and grenade launchers to local police.
The Emperor Lies
• sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.comFour years ago the late great journalist Alexander Cockburn wrote, "Alas, the actual story of 'our history' is an unrelenting ability to lie about everything, while simultaneously claiming America's superior moral worth."
Seymour Hersh Succumbs To Disinformation
• http://www.paulcraigroberts.org, Paul Craig RobertSeymour Hersh has published a long account of the homicide of Osama bin Laden
White House Denies It Fabricated bin Laden Killing, Says Hersh Report "Riddled With Inaccuracie
• zerohedge.comIf anyone expected the Obama administration to admit that, as Seymour Hersch alleged last night, it had openly lied and fabricated the entire account of Osama bin Laden killing - perhaps the most defining narrative of Obama's entire first term, we ha
The Killing of Osama bin Laden
• http://www.lrb.co.uk, Seymour M. HershIt's been four years since a group of US Navy Seals assassinated Osama bin Laden in a night raid on a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
The Killing of Osama bin Laden
• http://www.lrb.co.uk, Seymour M. HershIt's been four years since a group of US Navy Seals assassinated Osama bin Laden in a night raid on a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Obama's Pacific Trade Push Faces a Senate Vote This Week
• By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and JONATHAN WEISMANPresident Obama's most aggressive and sustained legislative push since the Affordable Care Act faces a crucial first test this week when a divided Senate considers a bill that would grant him accelerated power to complete a massive trade accord wi
Report: Obama lied about bin Laden raid
• thehill.comAn expose published on Sunday alleges that President Obama deceived Americans with his narrative of the 2011 assassination of Osama bin Laden.
Obama's Unaccountable Drone War
• theamericanconservative.comThe United States's targeted killing program has neither the controls nor the justifications the president promises.
Ultra-Secrecy Surrounds Barack Obama's New Global Economic Treaty
• theeconomiccollapseblog.comBarack Obama is secretly negotiating a global economic treaty which would destroy thousands of American businesses and millions of good paying American jobs.
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