Obama - A Legacy of Ashes Transcript

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There were the brazen lies.

'You can keep your plan if you're satisfied with it.'

'If you like the plan you have, you can keep it.'

'If you like your plan and you like your doctor you won't have to do a thing. You keep your plan.'

'If you like your healthcare plan you will be able to keep your healthcare plan.'

'If you've got health insurance you can keep it.'

'For the average person, many folks who don't have health insurance initially, they're going to have to make some choices and they might end up having to switch doctors.' - Obama.

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The lies from the first months in office.

'If you are ready for change (yuuuge pause) then we can go ahead and tell the lobbyists their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. They have not funded MY campaign. They will not run MY Whitehouse and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I'm President of the United States of America.' - Obama.

'Just this weekend the New York Times published a list of names, a rather long list of names, of people who are working on Obama's transition team or who have accepted jobs in his Whitehouse who are either former lobbyists or who have close ties to lobbyists.' - MSM.

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The lies from his first days in office.

'Let me say it a simply as I can. Transparency and the Rule of Law will be the touchstones of this presidency.'

'This is the most transparent administration in history.' - Obama.

'Originally scheduled to be bestowed on the President in a publicly scheduled ceremony at the Whitehouse during "Sunshine Week", that ceremony was canceled at the last moment and the award, supposedly a token of praise for Obama's stated commitment to government openness, was itself bestowed on the President in a secret, off-the-record meeting to which the press was not invited.' - MSM.

'One of the other things we discovered on this "Sunshine Week", in addition to not only are they exempting themselves from foyer requests, but the Obama administration sets even a new record for deny and censoring government files.' - James Evan Pilato, mediamonarchy.com

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And the lies from before he was even in office.

'Mr. President. Could you please react to the reports of secret government surveillance of phones and internet and can you also assure Americans that their government doesn't have some massive, secret database of all their personal, online information and activities?' - Reporter.

'When I came into this office I made two commitments that are more important than any commitment I made. Number one: to keep the American people safe. And number two: to uphold the Constitution.'

'I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our Constitution and our freedom.'

'The programs that have been discussed over the last couple of days in the press are secret in the sense that they're classified. But they're not secret in the sense that when it comes to telephone calls every member of Congress has been briefed on this program.'

'That means no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens.'

'What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers and durations of calls...'

'No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war.'

'What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers and durations of calls...'

'No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient.'

'By sifting through this so-called "meta data" they may identify potential leads with respect to folks who might engage in terrorism.' - Obama.

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But despite the endless litany of broken promises Obama has left in his wake his most striking betrayals of the public's trust weren't lies at all. Instead, the strange mass hysteria that surrounded his ascent to the oval office, that "Hope" and "Change" delirium that swept up untold millions (including a few active JW elders in Washington state, by the way. To the point of actually voting for him) caused others to project their ideas and ideals onto to him.

Suddenly he was being anointed as "a man of peace" before making a single substantive action.

'The Norwegian Nobel committee has decided that the Nobel Peace prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.' - Thorbjorn Jagland, Norwegian Nobel Committee.

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As farcical as that announcement seemed at the time, how much more galling...



"Peace Prize" Obama has gone down in the history books as the first and only President in US history to be at war every single day of his eight year administration?

Indeed, for people around the world Obama will be defined by the wars of imperial aggression he waged across seven different theaters during his time in office.



There was the war in Afghanistan. Now the longest ever military engagement in the history of the United States. October 7th, 2016 marks the 15th anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by US led NATO forces. 15 years since the bombs began raining down on the country. 15 years of drone strikes, civilian massacres, detainees, prison torture, insurgencies, bombings, warlords, drug lords, and CIA kickbacks. 15 years of death. 15 years of destruction. And still, like a decades long nightmare, it continues.

'I'm announcing an additional adjustment to our posture. Instead of going down to 5,500 troops by the end of this year the United States will maintain approximately 8,400 troops in Afghanistan into next year through the end of MY administration. The narrow missions assigned to our forces will not change. They remain focused on supporting Afghan forces and going after terrorists. Maintaining our forces at this specific level, based on our assessment of the security conditions and the strength of Afghan forces, will allow us to continue to provide tailored support to help Afghan forces continue to improve.' - Obama, July 6th, 2016.

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The war against Libya. Undertaken without even congressional approval and waged under false pretenses.

'FOX News has revealed today that a bi-partisan group of lawmakers headed by representatives Dennis Kusinich and Walter Jones will be filing a federal lawsuit against the Obama administration addressing the constitutional and legal justifications for military action in Libya.

The announcement comes a day after the release of House speaker John Boehner's publicized warning to the President in the form of a letter urging Mr. Obama to provide an explanation for the continued engagement in the region and refusal to acknowledge the congressional role in military operations.' - MSM.

'We are staring not only into the maelstrom of war in Libya. The code of behavior we are establishing sets a precedent for the potential of evermore violent conflicts in Syria, Iran, and the spectre of the horrifying chaos of generalized war throughout the Middle East.

Our continued occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan makes us more vulnerable, not less vulnerable, to being engulfed in this generalized war.' - Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, 10th District.

'The Libyan opposition and the Arab League appeal to the world to save lives in Libya. And so at my direction (pauses arrogantly) America led an effort with our allies at the UN Security Council to pass a historic resolution that authorized a no-fly zone to stop the regime's attacks from the air and further authorized all necessary measures to protect the Libyan people.' - Obama.

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If this "compassion" for the plight of men and women in Libya was so heartfelt, why is that you have heard nothing whatsoever about Libya in the last two years from the same politicians and talking heads who persuaded you that dropping bombs on the country was the only way save it? Is it because the situation was resolved with the death of Gaddafi and the virtuous, western backed freedom fighters have established a happy, prosperous functioning society of peace and happiness? Of course not.

'Libya is on the way to becoming a terrorist tards for possible future attacks on Europe and the prospect has been raised by Libya's former Prime Minister who came to power following the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime. He recently fled the country where rival militias run rampant and in de facto control of the state.' - RT.

'The way... was manipulated to legitimize the invasion, bombing, and fragmentation of Libya, because this is what's happening nowadays - Look at what Libya is post-NATO intervention. It's a totally failed state run by militias. Nobody cares about what's going on in Libya.

Proof number one: it disappeared from the news cycle completely.

Proof number two: what only matters to the so called international community, which as we know is comprised of US, Brit, French, Tel Aviv, and the Persian Gulf monarchists and nobody else (maybe Turkey sometimes, or Japan or South Korea)... was the oil, gas, and, further on, the water. This is in terms of the three major French water companies.

Nobody cares what's going to happen to Libya. Libya is going to be mired in civil war for years and probably decades from that war. But nobody cares.' - Pepe Escobar, atimes.com

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The war in Pakistan. Waged with drone strikes on civilians.

'A UN team says more than 400 civilians have fallen victim to US military drone strikes against Islamic militants. Members of the team urged US leaders to release data on casualties in the interest of transparency.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights asked the team to compile a report on the US drone program in countries including Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Yemen. UN special rapporteur Ben Emerson says at least 400 civilians have been killed in Pakistan since 2004.' - Unspecified News Agency.

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'Anger on the streets of Pakistan against the US drone campaign. Human rights activists and representatives from religious parties have demonstrated in Pakistani cities including the capital Islamabad to condemn what they see as the violation of their country's sovereignty.

Numerous protests have been held in the past since the US began its drone strikes in Pakistan in 2004 under its so-called 'War on Terror'. Pakistanis are also angry at the US drone campaign over civilian casualties they have caused.

Demonstrators say the attacks by the unmanned aircraft must end in Pakistan and that mere condemnation by the government is not enough.' - Kamran Yousaf, PressTV.

'We want our government to take action to stop the violation of our country's sovereignty because it was the gowernment that allowed the US to launch its drone strikes. Authorities should inform us about the steps needed to stop these attacks.' - Religious Party Representative.

'... don't get any ideas. I have two words for you: Predator Drones. You will never see it coming. You think I'm joking.' - Obama.

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The war against Syria. A war waged in conjunction with the ongoing war in Iraq and fought via Al Q'aida-linked proxy forces and an Islamic state militia trained by American forces.

'There is a great irony here in the sense that if you wanted to believe in an expansive definition of the 2001 use of authorization of wars, it says 'go after Al Q'aida and associated forces'. Al Q'aida and 'associated forces' are opposing Assad. So if you want to believe in an expansive definition of the 2001 AUMF you might believe that you could actually support Assad with arms, that the original use of authorization of force actually would justify giving arms to Assad. I'm not proposing that. But I am proposing that you will be giving arms to the side that is fighting against Assad that has elements of Al Q'aida. - Sen. Rand Paul, Foreign Relations Committee.

Al Q'aida is our sworn enemy, why is the United States supporting Al Q'aida fighters as part of the Syrian opposition just as we did Al Q'aida fighters in the Libyan uprising? - Reality Check, FOX 19 News.

'... there's some concern about the US funding the Syrian opposition when there are a lot of reports Al Q'aida is heading up that opposition.' - FOX 19 reporter to Obama.

'I share that concern. What we've done is to say we will provide non-lethal assistance to Syrian opposition leadership that are committed to political transition and an observance of human rights.' - Obama.

'In the video, the commander, Al Bu Sakkar, he has found a soldier from the Syrian army dead, by bullet I've been told, and he took a knife and he cut out a hole in the chest and pulled out the lungs and the heart and while being videotaped he held up the lung and said, 'You dogs of Bashaar. This is how we will treat you. I'll eat your hearts and your livers,' and he took a bite in the video. It was meant as a message to the regime.' - CNN (blurred video evidence playing.)



'Syria we backed, I believe in some cases, some of the wrong people and not in the right part of the Free Syrian Army. That's a little confusing to people. I've always maintained to go back quite some time we were backing the wrong types. I think it's going to turn out... some of those weapons from Benghazi ended up in the hands of ISIS. So we helped build ISIS. There's a danger there.' - ?.

'Former Director of the Defense Intelligence agency Michael Flynn made waves in the media when he told Al Jazeera the Obama administration turned a blind eye to warnings that the self-proclaimed Islamic state was on the rise. Speaking about a declassified DIA memo which predicted the Islamic state's rise as a result of the west's policy of backing Syrian rebels, Flynn told Jazeera the administration ignored his analysis saying, 'I think it was a decision. I think it was a willful decision.' - RT.

'Wikileaks released audio from a September 22 meeting in which John Kerry admitted to allowing the growth of ISIS.' - ?.

'The reason Russia came in is because ISIL was getting stronger. Daesh was threatening the possibility of going to Damascus at some point and that's why Russia came in; because they didn't want a Daesh government and they supported Assad. And we know this was wrong. We were watching. We saw that Daesh was growing in strength and we thought Assad was - We thought we could probably manage that Assad might then negotiate. Instead of negotiating, he got Putin to support him.' - John Kerry.

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The war in Somalia. A military action justified by the President, in a move that is as utterly ridiculous as it is insulting to the intelligence, as self-defense.

'On September the 11th, 2001 the world changed. When members of Al Q'aida hijacked passenger planes slamming them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania.

A few days later the US Congress passed a sweeping new law called the AUMF (Authorization for Use of Military Force). It provides the President with broad authority to "use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11th, 2001 or harbored such organizations or persons in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States."

It's important for you to hear the actual language of that law because it shows just how you can justify certain US military and intelligence activities around the world if there's a connection somehow with Al Q'aida.

Now to Somalia. We know the US has recently increased its on-the-ground military activity against Al Shabab forces in support of Somali and African union forces. But up until now those activities have mostly been justified as being in self-defense. Some analysts have pointed out that it's now a pretty thin legal justification given that the US appears to be actively involved in battlefield situations. Now the New York Times, citing unnamed US officials, says that as part of the President's regular letter to Congress listing updates to the current US military operations abroad, he will include Al Shabab as part of the groups defined under the AUMF law. If that happens it will provide US forces soon to be under a Trump administration more power to actively pursue Al Shabab using "all necessary and appropriate force". - CCTV News.



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And the war in Yemen. Yet another military involvement the average American doesn't even know about let alone understand the reasoning for and that has inevitably embroiled the American military in yet more war crimes.

'At least 13 people were killed in a US drone strike in Yemen. There was a convoy of vehicles traveling in Arada, capitol of Bida province. Where were they going? A wedding. It was a group of vehicles that was driving to a wedding. The US thought it was Al Q'aida. It was a party. The strike "left charred bodies and burnt out cars on the road". - Secular Talk.

'Documents obtained by Reuters show the US government is concerned it could be implicated in potential war crimes in Yemen because of its support for a Saudi-led coalition air campaign. The Obama administration has continued to authorize weapons sales to Saudi Arabia despite warnings last year from government lawyers that it might be considered a co-beligerent under international law. This comes as a Saudi air strike on a funeral home in the capitol Sanaa killed at least 140 mourners and wounded more than 500 others. Survivors spoke of back-to-back bombings during a funeral service for the father of an official with the rebel who the government which controls Sanaa (?)' - Reuters (?).

'This is a heinous crime one can barely imagine. No one ever thought they would strike a mourning hall. Can anyone imagine hitting people mourning a death? The battle is taking place on the borders and several other places yet they bomb a hall and now they deny it was their missiles. We're all here. Our homes are nearby. We heard the missiles and the planes. There were two planes and four air strikes. Not just two.' - Local resident.

'Thousands of Yemeni's gathered at the United Nations building in Sanaa on Sunday calling for an international investigation into the assault. The attack was carried out with war planes and munitions sold to the Saudi-led coalition by the United States. The US air force continues to provide mid-air refueling to Saudi war planes.' - Corbett Report.

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At home meanwhile, Obama will be known for aggressively expanding the militarized police state Bush brought in after the false flag events of September 11th, 2001.

'That's not who we're supposed to be. But that's exactly who Barack Obama is. That's who he is. 'Change'? People sometimes say, 'Oh, no. He never promised not to spy in on you.' Yes, he did! He promised it right there. In '08 campaign. He lied! It's not subtle. He said, 'There will be no spying on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.' He lied! There is spying on all of us and we're not "suspected of a crime". Barack Obama is a liar. He's a politician, he's Big Brother, and he's a liar.' - The Young Turds.

'Wow. Obama seems like he's really against this wiretapping thing, huh? "When he gets into office he's gonna fix it. Yeah! It's gonna be a bright new day for America once we get Bush out and put Obama in. He's sounds like he's just as pissed off about illegal wiretapping as we are!"

Guess what? We voted him in twice and he didn't do jacks**t about the illegal wiretapping. Oh, I'm sorry. He did do something about it. He expanded it.' - The Amazing Atheist.

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Each year the United States Department of Defense's budget and expenditures are approved by Congress which must pass the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) in order to fund the DOD (Department of Defense). The most recent bill, however, the NDAA for fiscal year 2012, shocked many by containing an extraordinary provision allowing for the indefinite detention without trial of anyone even suspected of providing support to individuals or groups IDENTIFIED as terrorists.

All of this represents little change from the US government's modus operandi in waging the so-called "global war on terror". Many were amazed to discover this provision specifically applies to American citizens who can now be detained by American military personnel anywhere in the world including on US soil and held indefinitely and without trial.

Perhaps it was not surprising President Obama chose New Year's Eve as the date to sign the NDAA as the revelry of the holiday predictably distracted Americans from the event. Particularly remarkable is the fact this legislation has been almost universally identified as an overt act of tyranny by commentators of all political stripes; perhaps most importantly from sources that have traditionally defended the actions of Obama and his administration.

'President Obama's action... is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law." - ACLU, December 31st, 2011.



(Never mind)

'My understanding is when Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, thought, in the Senate, the provision for it being applicable to American citizens on American soil was stripped out the Whitehouse had it put back in which is dumber than mud! I can't understand how we'd want to go back to reconstruction days. That's the last time we destroyed posse comitatus.' - Lawrence Wilkerson, Former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell.

'... the New York Times published a major exposé about how President Obama personally oversees a "secret kill list" containing the names and photos of individuals targeted for assassination in the US drone war. According to the Times, Obama signs off on every targeted killing in Yemen and Somalia and the more complex overseas strikes in Pakistan. Individuals on the list include US citizens as well as teenaged girls as young as 17 years old.' - Democracy Now.

'We've known for a long time the President of the United States believes he has the power to order people killed, assassinated in total secrecy without any due process, without transparency or oversight of any kind. I really do believe it's literally the most radical power a government and a president can seize. Yet the Obama administration has seized this power and exercised it aggressively with very little controversy.' - Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com.

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Surveying the flaming wreckage of the last 8 years, Obama's duped supporters will now be the first to tell you you can't blame everything that happens on the President. The same people who voted Obama into office in the earnest belief he would change the system now solemnly intone he was just one man up against an entire system. But if a leader is defined by those they APPOINT, Obama failed with flying colors there too. Just look at the warmongers and criminals he and his financial and corporate string pullers stuffed into his administration.

'When I first started assembling this administration I knew we were about to face some of the most difficult years this country has seen in generations. The challenges were and the margin for error was small. Two wars, an economy on the brinks(?) of collapse, and a set of tough choices about issues we've put off for decades. Choices about healthcare, energy, education, and how to rebuild a middle class that have been struggling for far too long. I knew I needed somebody at my side who I could count on day and night to help get the job done. In my mind there was no candidate for the job of Chief of Staff who would meet the bill as well as Rahm Emanuel.' - Obama.

'In this case the mainstream press hasn't failed. They've mentioned the fact Rahm Emanuel is a principle node in the Israel lobby, a campaign contribution network, that he wasn't necessarily really behind Obama until he switched sides away from Hillary Clinton, probably because it looked like she wasn't going to be viable, and then introduced Obama to the power elite of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) at their annual conference. Ever since then... he's been named Chief of Staff. We know all about his father's illustrious past as, the press calls it gun running - I would call it something different, with his own participation in Israel's war efforts back in the '91 Gulf War, etc.

What people don't understand is the following: Obama's made some pretty implicit promises about winding down on the confrontational approach to the Middle East as well as getting troops out of Iran. But yet he's appointed Rahm Emanuel as his Chief of Staff.' - Commentator.

He is hoping he can murder enough people so future children's history books can quote him verbatim on his performance. They are writing a history that does not include us in it. Think about what that means.

Wasn't that girl seventeen up at Malheur when they shot at the car loaded with people....O-Hole wanted to get rid of her as a witness I betcha. Wouldn't be the first time....

This is exactly how they set people up....

'You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.' - Rahm Emanuel.

'Today I'm looking ahead to my second term and I'm very proud to announce my choice for America's next Secretary of State, John Kerry. In a sense John's entire life has prepared him for this role.' - Obama.

'You both (Kerry and Baby Bush) were members of Skull and Bones, the secret society at Yale. What does that tell us?' - Meet the Press.



'Amidst all these reports of phony, bogus stuff going on how could you concede the election on the day? How could you concede the 2004 election on the day? In this book it said there were 5 million votes that were suppressed, that you won the election. Didn't you want to be president?

If you were so against Iran how come you were not saying, 'Let's impeach Bush now. Impeach Bush now before he can invade Iran'? Why don't we impeach him? Impeach Bush. Clinton was impeached for, what, a blowjob? Why didn't we impeach Bush?

Also. Were you a member of Skull and Bones in college with Bush? Were you in the same secret society? (Security "escorts" man through crowd) Is anybody watching this? (crowd cheers mindlessly) Don't taze me, bro! Don't taze me!' - Protestor.

'So. Joe (Biden). For your faith in your fellow Americans, for your love of country, and for your lifetime of service that will endure through the generations - I'd like to ask the military aide to join us on stage. For the final time as President, I am pleased to award our nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.' - Obama.

'We were talking about it and I said, 'You know what? How fast did the Patriot Act - how did they write that? How many pages was that?' I've never even thought, this is in the innocent days, who wrote the Patriot Act?? Because we know who wrote the stimulus act, the Apollo Alliance. We looked it up. Does anybody here in the audience know who wrote the Patriot Act or when it was written?

This will blow your mind. It was written in 1995, including the wiretapping and everything else. America, you know who wrote it? One of the biggest union guys of them all, Joe Biden.' - Glenn Beck.

'In a nutshell, Joe Biden in 1995 wrote this legislation which basically is, in a nutshell, the Patriot Act. They rearranged some of the paragraphs. But it's pretty much almost verbatim the language that is in the Patriot Act. So it existed some 7 years before 911.' - Quoting CNET.com article.

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'Here's the thing. Hillary Clinton. She's been a First Lady. She's been a senator. She's been my Secretary of State. She's been in the room when tough decisions were made. She KNOWS(!) how those decisions can affect a veteran or a soldier or a kid who needs a great education or a worker who's fighting for a good job or a raise or a decent retirement and I will tell you, even in the middle of a crisis she is calm and cool and collected.' - Obama.

'We came. We saw. He died.' - Guess.

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This record of crime, deceit, and aggression is enough to make all but the most psychopathic recoil in disgust. But none of Obama's shameful actions as Commander in Chief should be remotely surprising to those who are willing to look beyond the hype and look squarely at the facts.

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His supporters on the left imagined him to be an answer to the outrageous criminality of the banksters on Wall Street even as those very same banksters were his top campaign contributors. He even took time out of his 2008 campaign to show his complete support for the disastrous 'banker bailout' that was sneaking its way through Congress.

'As republican John McCain and his democratic rival, Barack Obama, head to Washington to help broker a deal on a Wall Street rescue plan, McCain, speaking in New York at the Clinton Global Initiative, said a deal must be achieved by the time financial markets open on Monday.' - Unnamed News Source.

'The debate that matters most right now is taking place in the United States capitol and I intend to join it. Senator Obama is doing the same. America should be proud of the bipartisanship we're seeing.' - John McCain.

'Speaking to the same group by satellite from Florida, Barack Obama agreed with McCain that the $700 billion bailout for the troubled financial industry needs some modifications. But alluding to the Whitehouse meeting taking place later in the afternoon, Obama said now is not the time for partisanship.' - Unnamed News Source.

'This goes beyond traditional election time politics. Now's the time to come together, democrats and republicans, in a spirit of cooperation on behalf of the American people.' - Obama.

'On this vote the 'yea's' are 263. The 'nays' are 171. The motion is adopted. Without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table.' - Chairperson, House Bailout Vote.

'But while there's plenty of blame to go around, and many in Washington and Wall Street who deserve it, all of us, all of us have a responsibility to solve this crisis because it affects the financial well being of every single American.



But now's not the time to argue about how it got set or "did the neighbor sleep in his bed or leave the stove on"? Right now we want to put out that fire and now's the time for us to come together and do that.' - Obama.

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And then his supporters acted surprised when his administration failed to prosecute anyone at all for the largest swindle in the history of the planet.

'So far in civil proceedings the government has levied several billion dollars in penalties for misconduct in a crisis that's costing investors and homeowners many hundreds of billions of dollars. But to date, not one senior Wall Street executive has been held criminally liable by the Department of Justice for activities related to the financial crisis.' - 60 Minutes (?).

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'I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge it will have a negative impact on the national economy perhaps even the world economy. I think that is a function of the fact that some of these institutions have become too large.' - Former Attorney General, Eric Holder.

(More turds omitted, 40:38 - 41:01)

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But just in case there was any doubt as to who put Obama in power and whose interests he was working for, the Podesta email leak confirmed that not just Attorney General Holder but almost the entirety of Obama's cabinet was hand selected for him by citigroup.

'So this particular wikileaks email is from a month before Obama first became president. It's between John Podesta, who was then head of Obama's transition team for president, and Michael Froman, who was at the time an executive at citigroup (citibank's parent company). Froman emailed Podesta a list of people who would be good choices for Obama's cabinet. Keep in mind this is a month before he won the election.' - RT.

'The cabinet list ended up being almost entirely on the money. It correctly identified Eric Holder for the Justice Department, Janet Napolitano for Homeland Security, Robert Gates for Defense, Rahm Emanuel for Chief of Staff, Peter Orszag for the Office of Management and Budget, Arne Duncan for Education, Eric Shinseki for Veterans Affairs, Kathleen Sebelius for Health and Human Services, Melody Barnes for the Domestic Policy Council, and more. For the Treasury, three possibilities were on the list: Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, and Timothy Geithner.' - David Dan(?), writer.

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'Tim Geithner ended up being Treasury Secretary and the other two played prominent roles. Think about that. An executive at citibank's parent company, one of the most powerful banks in the world, gave Obama nearly his entire cabinet, including his economic team, immediately following the 2008 collapse caused by the greed of the big banks.

Obama then went on to let Wall Street entirely off the hook for destroying the lives of millions of Americans. Or to put that in a more polite way, Geithner and friends "dictated the Obama administration's light-touch policy on bank misconduct (which resulted in no serious legal or fiduciary consequences for the major players)" Do you see what this leaked email says? The big banks literally decide who runs our economy and our country at least a month before the election even happens!'

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Why should it come as any surprise at all then to learn that Obama's single accomplishment during his time in office, Obamacare, was written by the insurance companies themselves?

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'I want to single out one person. That one person is sitting next to me. Her name is Liz Fowler. Liz Fowler is our chief health counsel. Liz Fowler has put our team together, the healthcare team. Liz Fowler worked for me many years ago in the private sector then came back when she realized that she could be there at the creation of healthcare reform. She wanted - in a certain sense that... her professional lifetime goal. She put together, uh, the white paper last November, 2008, umm, 87 page document which became the basis, the foundation, the blueprint from which almost all healthcare measures and all bills, both sides of the aisle, uh, came from. She's tan amazing person. She's a lawyer. She's a PHD. She's just so decent. She's always smiling, always working, so is always available to help any senator, any staff and I just - I thank Liz the bottom of my heart and in many ways she typifies, she represents, umm, all the people who've worked so hard to make this bill such a big accomplishment.' - Sen. Max Baucus, D-Montana, Finance Committee Chairman.

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"So what?" you're thinking. Who is this Liz Fowler anyway and why is it so important to be bringing up this gushing and rather embarrassing praise from Senator Balchus on the House floor? Because Liz Fowler is not just someone who was formerly in "private industry", as he tangentially made mention of in that speech, but someone who had a very interesting history and we can even pick up from mainstream sources like NBCnews.com which had a post back a few years ago.

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'Elizabeth Fowler, now serving as counsel to Baucus on the Finance Committee, worked as an executive, not a lobbyist, for WellPoint, the largest publicly traded commercial health benefits company from 2006 to 2008. Prior to that, she'd worked for Baucus. Committee spokeswoman Erin Shields called Fowler "one of the brightest health care minds in the Senate and she and the Finance Committee staff have been working day and night" to reach the goal of reform that "lowers costs and ensures quality affordable health care coverage," which is Baucus' priority. Shields added that "the only factor that influences his decisions and the decisions of his staff is whether a policy is right for his state and for the American people." According to Senate records, Michelle Easton, former chief health counsel to the Finance Committee under Baucus, is lobbying for WellPoint for her firm Tarplin, Downs & Young.' - "Fact or Fiction? Senate chairman has ties to big insurer.", NBCnews.com.

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Well, of course that MSM post obviously downplays the important aspects of this. The fact that Liz Fowler, the person who Balcus was gushing about and who was absolutely essential in bringing the Affordable Care Act to the American public, was not just a lobbyist for America and the world's largest publicly traded health benefits company, but was in fact an executive for them. If we want to be even more specific, which oddly NBCnews.com decided not to be, she was a former vice-president of WellPoint.

So here we have someone in the very heart of the private insurance world coming into write the very Affordable Care Act which is supposed to provide all of this wonderful manna-from-heaven free healthcare to the public except for the fact it's going to cost the average American much, much more to get insured under this new regime.

'John Kerry said, "No, no, no. We're going to tax your health insurance. We're going to tax those evil insurance companies. We're going to impose a tax because they sell insurance that's too expensive. We're going to tax them." And conveniently the tax rate will happen to be the marginal tax rate under the income tax code. So basically it's the same thing. We just tax the insurance companies and they pass on higher prices that offsets the tax break we get. It ends up being the same thing. It's a very clever... exploitation of the lack of the economic understanding of the American voter.' – Jonathan Gruber.

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And why should it be a surprise the military-industrial complex has benefited from yet another Obama accomplishment?

'A report released recently by the Center for International Policy found that the Obama administration has shattered existing records when it comes to international weapons sales. The report outlines how in President Obama's first five years in office new agreements under the Pentagon's foreign military sales (FMS) program, the largest channel for US arms exports, totaled over $169 billion. Even after adjusting that for inflation that number pales in comparison to the only $30 billion in deals cut by the Bush administration in its entire two terms in office meaning the Obama administration officially bears the honor of having approved more weapons sales than any other since WWII. - RT.

'As US National Security Advisor Susan Rice said the proposed military aid package to Israel is larger than any the United States has ever offered to any country. The 10 year aid program would give Israel up to $40 billion to upgrade its military, aircraft, and missile defense systems to defend against rocks - I mean militants in Lebanon and the Gaza strip and Al Q'aida and Islamic state affiliates in Syria and Egypt.' - RT cont'd (?).

'An arms deal with (the Saudis) worth $1.29 billion has been approved. The United States has approved a $1.2 billion deal to replenish the Saudi air force's arsenal depleted by its controversial bombing campaign against rebels in Yemen. Congress has 30 days to block the sale but is unlikely to do so and shipment of more than 19,000 smart bombs is urgent with strikes continuing daily.' - Gary Franchi, donation site/NextNews.

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Narrator cont'd

The simple fact is the real power in the American oligarchy isn't wielded by the President. Obama was just a smiling, affable teleprompter reader for the powers behind the throne, the Deep State. And thanks to the NSA whistleblower Russell Tice we now know that Obama himself was wiretapped and presumably blackmailed, not by the Russian government, but by the NSA itself.

'And by the way, with respect to my concerns about privacy issues - I will leave this office at some point, some time in the next 3 1/2 years and after that I will be a private citizen. And I suspect that on a list of people who might be targeted so that somebody could read their emails or listen to their phone calls, I'd probably be pretty high on that list. So, it's not as if I don't have a personal interest in making sure my privacy is protected.' - Obama.

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(In June of 2013) NSA whistleblower Russell Tice conducted interviews on Boiling Frog's' post and The Corbett Report where he revealed shocking new details of the NSA spying scandal. In addition to detailing how the NSA is collecting and storing content of all electronic communications passing through the United States he also revealed for the first time some of the specific targets of past NSA wiretapping operations including senior congressional leaders, the former Whitehouse Press Secretary, high ranking military generals, the entire Supreme Court, and even, then senator from Illinois and future president, Barack Obama.

'It was journalists, it was members of Congress of both houses, Senate and the House, especially on the intelligence committees, in the armed services committees, and on judiciary committees. As well as the senior leadership in both the House and the Senate. It was judges, federal judges, and every member of the Supreme Court, all nine, of which I held the initial targeting of Judge Alito in my hand, when Judge Alito was being put up for his position on the Supreme Court. I saw the Alito paperwork in my hand physically. It was a few members of Bush's own staff in the Whitehouse. They went after lots of lawyers and law firms I noticed.' - Russell Tice, audio.hater site

'In your interview on Boiling Frog's post you mentioned specifically General Petraeus?' - Corbett Report.

Tice cont'd

Yes. They went after senior military leaders. With my satellite stuff I saw how they went after the State Department. They went after Colin Powell, Secretary of State. They went after General Seseki. Then on the terrestrial side I saw the paperwork as they were going after General Petraeus.

'Was Barack Obama targeted by this?' - Corbett Report.

Tice cont'd

Yes, he was. As a matter of fact it was in 2004, probably late summer timeframe, and he was a candidate for senator. He'd already won his primary in Illinois and that's when I saw Barack Obama's name.

Narrator cont'd

In the end, Obama personal failings and foibles are secondary to his main attribute: his willingness to enact the agenda of those who pulled his strings. It is ever so. But the real question is what have people learned from the disaster of the Obama years? Do they understand the true nature of Deep State power? The true...



that takes place even as the pendulum swings from 'left' to 'right'? Or are they simply going to fall for the same trick again and again until the final nail is placed in the coffin of human freedom?

I've come out of the Bush era where he had signed the law of the US Patriot Act (October 26th, 2001), Bush, which allowed the government to listen in on your phone calls, downloads, your emails, come in your home while you're not there and snoop in your home and leave - all kinds of egregious things which I opposed vocally so when Obama came around and I though, 'Wow. This could be a new era.' And he actually talked about limiting government power and stopping war and all those things. I said, 'Hey. Maybe this is the chance we need. He got the Nobel Peace Prize.'

But he was the first President actually to conduct eight years of war. Believe it or not, last year alone he dropped 26,000 bombs in the Middle East... It depends on the early analysis from the left wing who dealt with what they call the military-industrial complex for saying, 'Hey. He's working with the military-industrial complex. We're really surprised.' What I would say is a lot of times with candidates you have to wait and see what they do before you heap all this praise on them because it builds an expectation and then people buy into a myth and people are still talking about the "greatest president ever". I look at his record. Under the most recent act, the NDAA, he added a propaganda center now. They're going to be watching what we say, what we do, if we're so-called - going against the interests of America. Anybody out there that's a peace activist, that's against war and stuff like that, is going to be watched even closer now.

His Justice Department... signed a provision allowing the NSA to share all our information with 16 federal agencies. That's amazing! Remember it was Edward Snowden - it wasn't Bush he was opposing, Bush's NSA. It was Obama's NSA. So if you add up at the end of the day all the things we see happening - the militarized police grew exponentially under Obama. All this military... from the local police in this country... This all happened under Obama. Bush started the ball rolling, Obama pushed it faster and bigger and now we got Donald Trump. I mean, he hasn't stepped into the presidency yet but do I think he's going to pull back on this power that he has now?

Obama's sending troops into Poland now, as his final act of his presidency, without congressional approval. That violates the constitution. What we're facing is, in my opinion and I've said it over and over, is we're facing a government that's out of control and it started under Obama. If we really believe in freedom it's time to step up and act now, America. I'm telling you.' - John Whitehead.

'The color card was played very insidiously and effectively by Barack Obama and his handlers, whether it was Lockheed Corp., Goldman Sachs - I mean it's an endless list that won't be missed. We have to understand that they, when I say 'they' I'm talking about the national and global, what I call 'power elite', that 1% or whatever. They keep us corralled, if you will, on a plantation, Democrat, Republican plantation. As if that's 'left' and 'right'. It's not! What it is, simply, is evil. It's a plantation of bloodsuckers. I don't care what they call themselves. There are now people talking about, 'Oh, we should have Elizabeth Warren.' No, we should not have Elizabeth Warren. No, we should not! We don't need Democrats OR Republicans. We need each other. Each other! How long will it take the people in this country, in the United States, to understand that what it's about is 'divide and conquer', to play each other off against each other, use each other, manipulate through fear, through disinformation, DISinformation, and that way control us?' - Larry Pinkney (black guy)

Narrator cont'd

Eight years on from that day of infamy we are left to sort through the ashes of the Obama administration. There are the ashes of the lives destroyed, the families torn apart, the countries ruined by yet another willing servant of the American imperial project. But if there is any ray of hope it is that we have here an opportunity to learn a lesson once and for all:

Until people stop falling for the lie and refuse to participate in the Deep State-approved spectacle of the elections, voting for smiling figureheads on the back of trite toothpaste advertisements slogans like 'Hope' and 'Change' or 'Make America Great Again' (watch it, punk) the people of the United States and the people of the world will get exactly what they ask for.

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