tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post8166680478115786677..comments2024-03-21T02:23:19.513-07:00Comments on STEVE PIECZENIK <b>TALKS</b>: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08376863188680913389noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-87460079963127703582012-11-30T21:32:45.978-08:002012-11-30T21:32:45.978-08:00Thanks for the book recommend....will order it.Thanks for the book recommend....will order it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08376863188680913389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-60576591042707475272012-11-28T07:02:26.986-08:002012-11-28T07:02:26.986-08:00That does help. And thank you for taking the time ...That does help. And thank you for taking the time to so concretely identifying those folks and explain the bigger picture. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-46592672222939799932012-11-27T22:35:10.942-08:002012-11-27T22:35:10.942-08:00Let me give it a shot:
Penny Pritzker, heiress t...Let me give it a shot:<br /><br />Penny Pritzker, heiress to the Hyatt hotel dynasty, is Obama's personal FEDERAL RESERVE & benefactor-his feeder since he was state senator from Hyde park.<br /><br />George Soros is his Superego & campaign benefactor --the "someone-else who built that for you."<br /><br />David Axelrod is his ego & the sinister aspect of his being.<br /><br />Valerie jarrett is his Id; she does all the hard labor & delivers his script 2-3 times a day to rehearse.<br /><br />All his appointees, cabinet members & czars are his courtesans, who at a moment's notice, form a human moat around the Thespian, the intellectually & morally bereft Puer.<br /><br />A pathetic role model for a due-diligent work ethic & indebtedness, Obama has billed the Taxpayers $ 1.4 billion in 1 yr., more than the queen of England- for his personal expenses - he is nothing more than an "Apple Annie", a charlatan & a butt naked PREVARICATOR.<br />http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/26/taxpayers-spent-1-4-billion-on-obama-family-last-year-perks-questioned-in-new-book/<br /><br /> He is not a self starter, merely a wind up toy who does what he is told & an indolent, unmotivated, irresponsible, dependent who has zero philanthropic motivation to reciprocate.<br /><br />Listen to his 2nd inaugural address:<br />it will end with this admonition, perhaps with a different choice of lexicon, but the semantic content is the same:<br />"And so my fellow Americans & UN- citizens alike: Ask NOT what you can do for your homeland - wherever that might be - ASK WHAT AMERICA CAN DO FOR YOU-regardless of your citizen status!<br /><br />And perhaps someday, you will get as far as I have, the only person ever to be elected two consecutive times by software fraud!<br />You sow what someone else reaps... Fired up, ready to go!"<br /><br />CHILDREN LIVE WHAT THEY LEARN.<br /><br />Does that help?Patriarchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138603022259989149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-35556464166061288442012-11-27T17:59:19.740-08:002012-11-27T17:59:19.740-08:00As someone fairly new to this type of analysis, I ...As someone fairly new to this type of analysis, I appreciate your enumeration of the political forces against Obama. Could you do the same for the forces behind him so we can better understand what happens behind the scenes?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-41408757109544085042012-11-27T15:00:37.102-08:002012-11-27T15:00:37.102-08:00A useful book about the counter-productive nature ...A useful book about the counter-productive nature of drones is Gregory Johnson's, "The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia."<br /><br />In my view CIA will never accept the strategic problem poised by using this tool because it's use is now doctrine and any "analyst" pointing out it's drawbacks will be shouted down.<br /><br />I understand the theory for having the intel-gathering agency also conducting the action. It sounds like a better way of doing things.<br /><br />But as in the Cold War adopting an action mission means that any analysis which runs counter to it will be disgarded. <br /><br />Under those circumstances the intelligence, analytic function of the service is not functioning, and having a service with that purpose but not functioning where it's most needed is worse than having no service at all.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-38895721815434233902012-11-27T14:00:36.844-08:002012-11-27T14:00:36.844-08:00The Benghazi event still needs more analysis. We a...The Benghazi event still needs more analysis. We all agree that Obama and his CIA handlers such as Brennan have been committing war crimes and violating the Constitution for four years. It appears that it was Brennan who ordered the stand down, and the political leadership (Obama, Biden, Clinton and Panetta) signed off on it (deferred judgment to their senior intelligence officer Brennan). Howeever, there still remains the question of who actually ordered the hit on Ambassador Stevens. It appears to me that it was also Brennan. First he orders the hit, then he orders the stand down. It makes sense that Obama and the political leadership would have been informed of and signed off on the stand down - Obama's cowardice is well known - but what still does not make sense is that they would have been informed of the hit itself. I just cannot figure why the political leadership would have ordered such a hit in the middle of an election. This action was clearly directed against Obama. So if Brennan ordered the hit, he did NOT tell Obama and the political leadership. It therefore follows that Brennan was acting on behalf of political forces that are against Obama - presumably neocons, Israeli Likudniks, and Mormon Mafia gathered around Romney. If these are the forces that were trying to engineer the "soft coup", then I would have to say that this would have put the people responsible for the original 9/11 back in power. If I had to choose, I would take Obama. His war crimes, bad as they are, do not quite add up to treason in the way the original 9/11, or assassinating a U.S. ambassador as it this case, unmistakably is. Tony Wicherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00918363289810043776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-54148629062647814312012-11-27T12:33:21.120-08:002012-11-27T12:33:21.120-08:00powerful thoughts, i read your link to the ny time...powerful thoughts, i read your link to the ny times with great interest along with the other link you posted and again it confirms all that is said about the military industrial complex and the real genius is you dont need to be very bright to understand whats going on!create wars then reap the financial rewards and get away with murder in the process! it is an insult to everyone around the world, it also further confirms your thoughts on armies no longer needing tanks and soldiers ect ect, what does make me wonder is that are we training our next "virtual" warriors online via xbox playstation ect ect! farfetched? so are attacks on your own people and so are vials of chemical weapon liqiud!! so they initiated farfetched in my book! i sincerely hope the media is getting back on track but i dont hold my breath if im honest, what was interesting was zbigniew brzezinski's comments regarding the the masses starting to awaken via alternative media outlets so lets see! im reading some great comments by your readers also dr pieczenik and continue to be informed daily! many thanksAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14612969869137211590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-55036118956206562182012-11-27T09:56:02.525-08:002012-11-27T09:56:02.525-08:00Right on, brother! You picked up all the nuanced ...Right on, brother! You picked up all the nuanced contrasts....keep up the comments, we all love them.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08376863188680913389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-42113060620787781612012-11-27T09:49:34.527-08:002012-11-27T09:49:34.527-08:00I agree, very insightful thank you......Kissinger ...I agree, very insightful thank you......Kissinger did same illegal actions in Laos/Cambodia.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08376863188680913389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-20225934593889966632012-11-27T09:08:37.072-08:002012-11-27T09:08:37.072-08:00So we must undertake a Hard Coup, since the Soft C...So we must undertake a Hard Coup, since the Soft Coup failed?<br />A "civil" war is an oxymoron.<br /><br />NDAA: Began with BUSH 43 AND RUMSFELD: indefinite detention without trial http://verdict.justia.com/2012/01/02/the-ndaa-explained<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2012<br /><br />"Few things are as dangerous to American liberty as the proposition that the government should be able to kill citizens anywhere in the world on the basis of legal standards and evidence that are never submitted to a court, either before or after the fact...<br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/us-targeted-killings-eric-holder_n_1320515.html<br /><br />Obama has consolidated unprecedented power in 4 short years.<br />More than 900 exec. orders (by-passing Congress) have invited tyranny into our front doors:<br /><br />http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/49905<br /><br />•Executive Order 10990 allows the Government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.<br />•Executive Order 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media.<br />•Executive Order 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels, and minerals.<br />•Executive Order 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.<br />•Executive Order 11001 allows the government to take over all health education and welfare functions.<br />•Executive Order 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.<br />•Executive Order 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.<br />•Executive Order 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate and establish new locations for populations.<br />•Executive Order 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways, and public storage facilities.<br />•Executive Order 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issues over a fifteen-year period.<br />•Executive Order 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.<br />•Executive Order 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute Industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.<br />•Executive Order 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit, and the flow of money in U.S. financial institutions in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when the president declares a state of emergency, Congress cannot review the action for six months.<br /><br />http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimpowell/2012/04/29/obamas-plan-to-seize-control-of-our-economy-and-our-lives/2/<br />"Executive Order 13603 makes no effort to justify the destruction of liberty, no effort to explain how amassing totalitarian control would enable government to deal effectively with cyber sabotage, suicide bombings, chemical warfare, nuclear missiles or other possible threats. Once again, we find ourselves in an open-ended national emergency, declared on September 14, 2001 and extended since then..."<br />and the latest, an internal memo to punish whistleblowers with charges according to his semantic interpretation.<br />http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/51313<br />"the consolidation of power historically precedes a war for absolute control.<br />And soon...control of the internet including this blog:<br />http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444620104578012653150405158.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop<br /><br />Those who forget the past (or never learned it because they played hookey) are doomed to repeat it.<br /><br />Patriarchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138603022259989149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-71045706060233481652012-11-27T00:48:44.357-08:002012-11-27T00:48:44.357-08:00I should have noted in the above comment, "Sh...I should have noted in the above comment, "Shaft (1971) Opening Credit" is the link.<br /><br />Oh, and by the way, Barack Obama is no John Shaft!Anacondahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05522474791573134808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-58308979469568578642012-11-27T00:31:25.348-08:002012-11-27T00:31:25.348-08:00All this New York Times discussion reminded me of ...All this New York Times discussion reminded me of a movie's opening credits and theme song.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlsufZj9Fg" rel="nofollow">Shaft (1971) Opening Credit</a><br /><br />New York City is a tough, gritty, "pound the pavement" kind of place (or at least it was in the 1970's).<br /><br />That's the kind of paper Gotham needs and although only a fictional character Shaft's attitude & spirit is what the New York Times needs. (Can ya dig it?)<br /><br />Take the time to watch & listen to the link(notice where the opening takes place, that's right, Times Square... and the New York Times gets a placement, too):<br /><br />Who's the black private dick<br /> that's a sex machine to all the chicks?<br /> (Shaft!)<br /> You're damn right<br /> Who is the man<br /> that would risk his neck for his brother man?<br /> (Shaft!)<br /> Can ya dig it?<br /> Who's the cat that won't cop out<br /> when there's danger all about<br /> (Shaft!)<br /> Right on<br /> You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother--<br /> (Shut your mouth)<br /> But I'm talkin' about Shaft<br /> (Then we can dig it)<br /> He's a complicated man<br /> but no one understands him but his woman<br /> (John Shaft)<br /><br />You gotta watch the link to get the full impact!Anacondahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05522474791573134808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-91265092511967852922012-11-26T23:39:59.701-08:002012-11-26T23:39:59.701-08:00Dr. Pieczenik wrote: "The NY Times has once a...Dr. Pieczenik wrote: "The NY Times has once again reclaimed their lost luster as an investigative journal -willing to place their inestimable reputation on the line to report the underlying lies, distortions and political betrayals of our present administration."<br /><br />I took your advice and read the Scott Shane, New York Times' article.<br /><br />It's an informative article and I appreciate the directive to read the piece, but does the article "report the underlying lies, distortions and political betrayals of our present administration?"<br /><br />That's not what I got from the article.<br /><br />Rather, it's a straight-forward short review of the U. S. drone war and discussion of the Obama administration's deliberations on producing a written, official drone policy.<br /><br />Now, maybe I've read a lot regarding the use of drones in the alternative media, but I'd hardly say the Scott Shane article is somekind of "profile in courage" for the reporter or the New York Times.<br /><br />Frankly, to me, it's a "meat & potatoes" article the New York Times had to produce in order to stay relevant on the topic.<br /><br />Is that how far the New York Times has fallen, to the point where they need an over-the-top "smooch on the tarmac" when they do something that is basic journalism 101?<br /><br />I know, Dr. Pieczenik, you want to encourage good journalism and so do I, but I can't let pass unremarked your statement above for an article which is informative, but hardly matches up with such high praise.<br /><br />My advice, wait for the New York Times to print a story that actually does take on the Obama administration for its "lies, distortions and political betrayals" (of which there are a lot) before you slobber all over them.<br /><br />The above is nitpicking, I know -- As for this blog post, it's excellent because YOU DO take on the Obama administration in a way the New York Times seemingly would never do.<br /><br />Perhaps, that's intentional: Contrasting your "take no prisoners" blog post versus a bland, but informative (as far as it goes) New York Times article to give a taste of what a "hard-hitting" journalistic piece could be like.<br /><br />If the New York Times wants to revive its fortunes (literally) as opposed to being a reliable administration & establishment mouthpiece, that is the direction it must take: Hard-hitting, "take no prisoners" journalism.<br /><br />From a financial standpoint, this "mouthpiece" journalism ain't working.<br /><br />Who knows, do the right thing and the New York Times stock might be an attractive stock to own because more people read the paper, therefore, it makes more money -- what a novel idea!<br /><br />But it ain't right now, as things stand.<br /><br />I hope the New York Times follows your lead, Dr. Pieczenik.<br /><br />We, the People, really do need a Fourth Estate.Anacondahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05522474791573134808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-65161003574971937992012-11-26T20:57:21.080-08:002012-11-26T20:57:21.080-08:00Your friend from Pakistan mentioned to you what I ...Your friend from Pakistan mentioned to you what I was similarly alerted to, that something big was underway from Mossad and the Saudis working together, and that was 9-11.<br /><br />True to form the direct Saudi fingerprints are limited [they usually are] with perhaps one financial trail leading to Pakistan to one of the hijackers.<br /><br />On the Israeli side [once again true to form] the trails are everywhere, and as usual involve financial opportunities created by an operation which principals can't let pass, i.e. stock shorts, the insurance policy on the Towers, etc. Nor was there much care taken by many junior Mossad operators to comport themselves wisely while in the US during the event, and many were jailed and then released.<br /><br />Mossad has nover learned adequit tradecraft because they always rely on "friends" [local Jewish supporters] wherever they operate, and therefore have never needed to develope deep cover skills other agency officers feel naked without.<br /><br />In terms of the illegality of the drones I think it's clearly illegal if the targets are American citizens but more muddled if they're citizens of other countries. Yes these are crimes of homicide in the countries where they take place, but if the host government fails to prosecute and the President signs a lethal finding under American law there's a case that he's conductiong legal assassinations. I'm not an authority on this but I think the President is permitted to sign lethal findings in peace time for covert action, and when non-targets are also harmed it isn't illegal under American law.<br /><br />The central problem from my persopective is the lack of law enforcement in the host countries.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-70205607603905672262012-11-26T20:51:32.109-08:002012-11-26T20:51:32.109-08:00This is what irks me about the drone program. If w...This is what irks me about the drone program. If we're doing everything we reasonably could to minimize civilian casualties, and we're actually making progress, that's fine with me. What worries me though is that there is barely any information released about who we are taking out, and it seems as if more enemies are popping up than we can kill. Where is the accountability?<br /><br />In 2010, the AQAP was described as having "several hundred members." Then two years later they had "more than a thousand members." Now they are at "a few thousand members." What?! That is insane! What is the United States' interest in Yemen anyway?Scrathsay Blorpzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18156786873081409135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-66007039257628053012012-11-26T15:52:09.084-08:002012-11-26T15:52:09.084-08:00To my complete surprise, debate moderator Bob Schi...To my complete surprise, debate moderator Bob Schieffer asked Mitt Romney about drones. Romney said that he loved 'em. I just had to shake my head.<br /> <br />The UN wants to use drones in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Is there no honest person willing to stop all this?<br /> <br />"In a state of tyranny, treason is patriotic" is an original saying. The closest I have are <a href="http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/in_a_time_of_universal_deceit_telling_the_truth_is_a_revolutionary_act/" rel="nofollow">"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act"</a> (probably not George Orwell) and Ron Paul's <a href="http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/truth_is_treason_in_the_empire_of_lies/" rel="nofollow">"Truth is treason in the empire of lies."</a>Barry Popikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16203198416824735505noreply@blogger.com