"The list", Obama's Thirty Eigthth Week in Office

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 Obama's Thirty Eigthth Week in Office

"The List" for 10/16/2009

Secretary of the Navy Mabus: Cut Navy oil use in half by 2020

Patterson Belknap Sports Group's Peter C Harvey and Obama were at Columbia Univ. in 1981-82. Peter C. Harvey was graduated from Columbia Law School in 1982, and served on Columbia Law School's Human Rights Law Review- Obama was deeply involved with the nuclear freeze movement at Columbia, and that William Ayers was just a few blocks away, at the Bank Street College of Education: Harvey maxed out his political contributions to Obama in April of 2007: Also at the Patterson Belknap Sports Group include Karen R. Berry, who appears to specialize in Axelrod type astroturfing campaigns on the internet. Ms Berry has a curious 17-year gap in her résumé, from 1978 to 1995

Rush Limbaugh was targeted by an Obama official.  The search for the Wikipedia Libelist responsible for damaging posts to Rush Limbaugh while he was attempting to be part of a group to buy the St. Louis Rams NFL team has been narrowed to the IP address of a New York City law firm:  Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP- Sports group attorneys.  Former Patterson Belknap Partner Richard Parsons is now president of bailout recipient Citibank, and an official Obama economic advisor

New Obama district court nominee, Edward Chen, former ACLU activist attorney with a history of extreme racial identity politics.

The Obama administration declined to name China as a country that is manipulating its currency to gain unfair trade advantages.

A report sponsored by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) and conducted by Oliver Wyman Inc. says that health insurance premiums will rise up to 50 percent for individual policies and 19 percent for small group plans if healthcare reform passes

VIDEO: Obama scolds those his use of a "socialist mop" to clean up the nation's messes.  -Maybe inadvertantly admitting it is socialism.

U.S. officials in recent days expressed to the Palestinian Authority that President Obama's administration is "disgusted" with Israel, said a top aide to PA President Mahmoud Abbas. The term "disgusted" was used more than once in recent meetings with U.S. envoys to describe the administration's attitude toward Israel.

At a meeting last April with corporate lobbyists, aides to President Obama and Sen. Baucus helped set in motion a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign, primarily financed by industry groups, that has played a key role in bolstering public support for health care reform.

Obama nominee to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Craig Becker, is associate general counsel at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which is most recently in the news for its close ties to Acorn, the disgraced housing shakedown operation. Obama nominated Mr. Becker in April to the five-member NLRB, which has the critical job of supervising union elections, investigating labor practices, and interpreting the National Labor Relations Act.  In a 1993 Minnesota Law Review article, written when he was a UCLA professor, Becker argued for rewriting current union-election rules in favor of labor. And he suggested the NLRB could do this by regulatory fiat, without a vote of Congress.

Obama official, NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith, served as council to Attorney General Eric Holder and member of Obama’s transition team.  Smith’s gross conflict of interest and apparent political targeting of Obama’s top foe Rush Limbaugh is a huge story. He was instrumental in calling for the Rush Limbaugh purchase of the St. Louis Rams NFL football team to be denied.

"The List" for 10/15/2009

The new Interior Department looks into a move to lock in beneficial royalties and regulations for companies with leases on public lands -- denounced by some as a massive giveaway to the oil industry.  Reporting from Washington - The Obama Interior Department is reviewing a decision made by the Bush administration in its final days that attempted to lock in lucrative royalty rates and favorable regulations for oil companies holding leases for oil shale development on public la

House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) held a hearing this morning to certify that H.R. 3200 -- the main House Obamacare bill which was the subject of all the town hall rage in August -- has met all requirements to pass as a “budget reconciliation” measure.  Under reconciliation, the bill can be passed by a simple majority vote in the Senate -- just 51 votes

National security adviser James L. Jones - the president's point man in a momentous debate on U.S. policy in Afghanistan - has repeatedly shifted his assessments of the war as he transformed himself from a top Marine general to a civilian adviser in recent years.

U.S. veterans criticized President Obama's lengthy review of Afghan war strategy, saying on Thursday the drawn-out debate in Washington was a direct threat to troops and the nation's defense.

Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell said Tuesday that statements about regulating freedom of speech in broadcasting made by FCC Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd are “troubling.” Everyone should be concerned when federal regulators have the power to impact freedom of speech, McDowell added.

Legislators are growing increasingly frustrated with Obama's seeming unwillingness to pull the trigger on an Iran sanctions

VIDEO: White House spin doctor Anita Dunn admires Mao Tse Tung

VIDEO:  Safe school czar Kevin Jennings hosted Obama in his home and was a member of Act Up.

Obama is pleased to note that Insurance company stock values have declined: "Firms nervous that health reform will pass"

The Obama administration released the first hard numbers on how many jobs their $787 billion stimulus package has created or saved on Recovery.gov today. The number: 30,383 jobs from roughly 16 billion worth of stimulus contracts awarded directly by federal agencies.

Obama signed into law a $7.5 billion aid package for Pakistan that the U.S.-ally's military criticized as American meddling in its internal affairs.

The CBO scored the Obama backed "cap and trade" legislation.  It would would slow the nation's economic growth slightly over the next few decades and would create "significant" job losses from fossil fuel industries as the country shifts to renewable energy.  This contrasted sharply with those of President Obama and congressional Democratic leaders, who have suggested that a cap on carbon emissions would help revive the U.S. economy.

The United States reversed policy and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto.  The decision, announced in a statement released by the U.S. State Department, overturns the position of former President Bush's administration, which had opposed such a treaty on the grounds that national controls were better

AUDIO: Obama economics advisor "What an honest president would say" (dealth panels)

Obama economics advisor faces criticism for promoting death panels.

VIDEO: Harry Reid admits Obama health care bill will cost 2 trillion

Leaked Network Memo of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF)

Revealed Network memo reveals Obama White house plan to "community organize" through  network programming:  -Hundreds of millions of Americans, will be urged through the use of public airwaves to log on to government sites and "volunteer".

Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an analysis.  No comment from the White House.

Obama makes his first trip to New Orleans, 9 months into his presidency.- Obama accused former President Bush of leading a government "that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns,

Almost nine months after the Obama administration took power, more than half of the 33 highest-level Treasury Department posts are still vacant.

Obama recently shifted authority for approving sales to China of missile and space technology from the White House to the Commerce Department

Three of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee had objections to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to US President Barack Obama

Former White House speech writer calls on Obama to release his birth documents

Dutch article about Obama being raised in Indonesia until his teens scrubbed from the web.

"The List" for 10/14/2009

Obama appointee Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is found to have ties to SEIU, ACORN and disgraced Illionois governor Blagojevich

From 2004:  The Standard publishes article "The Kenyen born Obama all set for U.S. Senate"

Special inspector general for the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Neil Barofsky told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was ultimately responsible for abdicating his oversight duties in the AIG compensation structures to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.   It was "a recipe for disastrous consequences"

Obama's new pastor, Carey Cash, says 'Islam is Violent'

Obama's administration is understood to have told the British government that it could announce, as early as next week, the substantial increase to its 65,000 troops already serving there.   The number could be as high as 45,000 troops

Recent letters sent from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to large pharmaceutical manufacturers have caused a large decline in the number of sponsored link exposures by drug marketers

President Barack Obama called on Congress Wednesday to approve $250 payments to more than 50 million seniors to make up for no increase in Social Security next year.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House health care overhaul bill now being finalized would allow young adults to stay on their parents' health insurance policies until they're 27.

First Lady Michelle Obama visited the headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services and touted HHS's recently-announced plan to spend $373 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on plans to, among other things, improve the healthfulness of foods in vending machines.

Some of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's closest aides, none of whom faced Senate confirmation, earned millions of dollars a year working for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc. and other Wall Street firms, according to financial disclosure forms

Russia and the United States have tentatively agreed to a weapons inspection program that would allow Russians to visit nuclear sites in America to count missiles and warheads. 

Russia says they reserve the right to preemptive nuke strikes during arms reduction talks with Hillary Clinton

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, wrapping up a three-day trip to Russia, said the U.S. and Russia should work toward creating a joint missile-defense system to combat common threats.

The Obama administration to tone down criticism of Russia's human rights record

The Obama administration blames Bush for their 13,000 troop increase in Afghanistan

Russian Muslims to offer Secr. of State Hillary Clinton to convert to Islam.  Want more mosques in America.

"The List" for 10/13/2009

A controversial e-mail message buried by the  Bush administration because of its conclusions on global warming surfaced Tuesday, nearly two years after it was first sent to the White House and never opened. The Obama EPA is releasing the memo as deliberations on Cap and Trade legislation grow nearer.

Michael Kerr, SIEU member, sworn in as a New Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management  at the Department of Labor.  

Additional 13,000 Afghan troop increase has already been authorized by Bush.  Pentagon says numbers of troops no secret.

In an unannounced move, President Obama is dispatching up to 15,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan beyond the 21,000 he announced in March.

The Obamacare bill proposed by the Senate could be used to ban guns

"The List" for 10/12/2009

Cass Sunstein, Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, defended the possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission. He has also has strongly pushed for the removal of organs from deceased individuals who did not explicitly consent to becoming organ donors.

After the Obama administration forces Israel to reduce check point security, weapons flow freely

Uncovered VIDEO: Obama chants at an SIEU rally to "paint the nation purple"

VIDEO: At Obama meeting with 'Doctors for America'on the White House lawn- doctors were handed their white lab coats by the White House staff

Obama does not win the Nobel prize in economics. The Nobel panel chose instead to award the prize to two obscure academics -- Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson -- one noted for her work on managing collective resources, and the other for his work on transaction costs.

Obama became the first U.S. President to make an appearance at the Human Rights Campaign, the largest pro-gay “marriage” organization in the country. Obama delivered an impassioned speech in which he criticized the concept of the  traditional family and announced that his administration will work to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act

A senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told CNSNews.com that it is “likely” that Reid will use H.R. 1586—a bill passed by the House in March to impose a 90-percent tax on bonuses paid to employees of certain bailed-out financial institutions—as a “shell” for enacting the final version of the Senate’s health care bill, which Reid is responsible for crafting.  Under the procedure, the substance of House Resolution 1586 would be removed and replaced with the entire Senate health care package.

Joe Arpaio vows to continue immgration sweeps despite Federal downgrade

Joe Arpaio, A controversial Arizona sheriff known for taking a hard line against illegal immigrants has been stripped of some of his powers in what he described as a political move by the Obama Administration

The United States, criticized for holding illegal immigrants in overcrowded and poorly run jails, on Tuesday announced plans to convert hotels to detain some noncriminal immigrants.

Hillary Clinton today experienced first hand the unrelenting mindset of Northern Ireland politics when a number of Unionists refused to applaud her speech to the Stormont parliament and two staged a walkout. The Secretary of State flew to Belfast to urge the rival Protestant and Catholic leaders of the province's power-sharing government to keep making their brittle coalition work for the sake of lasting peace.

According to the Center for Data Anaylis, the Obama supported Baucus bill would increase insurance costs

The White House tries to blunt insurance industry criticism about the proposed health care plan's forcing a large increase in premiums before a key vote on a plan.

After months of collaboration on President Obama's attempt to overhaul the nation's health-care system, the insurance industry plans to strike out against the effort on Monday with a report warning that the typical family premium in 2019 could cost $4,000 more than projected.

White House aide blasts bloggers: "Take off their pajamas"

A recently published administration document outlines a structure that could result in closures of sport fishing in salt and freshwater areas across America. The White House created an Interagency Oceans Policy Task Force in June and gave them only 90 days to develop a comprehensive federal policy for all U.S. coastal, ocean and Great Lakes waters. Under the guise of ‘protecting’ these areas, the current second phase of the Task Force direction is to develop zoning which may permanently close vast areas of fishing waters nationwide. This is to be completed by December 9, 2009.

"The List" for 10/11/2009

The Department of Justice launches Justice.gov- blogging site

Obama says he will end 'don't ask, don't tell' military policy.

As the Obama administration reconsiders its Afghanistan policy, White House officials are minimizing warnings from the intelligence community, the military and the State Department about the risks of adopting a limited strategy focused on al Qaida

Economic crises can be used to usher socialism into the U.S., argued President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.

 In his 2004 book "The Second Bill of Rights," Sunstein used the precedent of the Great Depression to point out that historic economic crises "provided the most promising conditions for the emergence of socialism in the U.S."

White House science czar John Holdren has called for the United States to surrender sovereignty to a "Planetary Regime" armed with sufficient military power to enforce population limits on nations as a means of preventing a wide range of perceived dangers from global eco-disasters involving Earth's natural resources, climate, atmosphere and oceans.

VIDEO: White House spin doctor attacks FOX News as "a research arm of the Republican Party"

 

[Nachum]

It has been a VERY interesting week. This week's skullduggery of comrade Obamavitch.

For those who are keeping track.

[SERKIT]

Jack, meet Squat.

[Nachum]

Jack is keeping track of squat.

[swheats]

They’re going after fishermen too. They’d rather give you the fish. Oh yea they’re trying to usher in socialism.

Thanks for tracking.