...And we're here to HELP you...............

Whether you like it or not ...
It is more than handing out dollars.

Without any fanfare and certainly with NO reportage in the mainstream media ... the Obama administration enacted a book of legislation ... signed off by the Chosen One himself as an executive order ... that basically sets the stage for the federal government to take over most of the US economy and pretty much rob the populace of their civil rights.

Based on a lot of existing legislation ... all of of it bad ...and a number of preexisting agencies, committees and programs. The new 2012 version has been shaped by the white house gang and democrats to empower the president to declare a state of emergency for any reason and without recourse by those affected. In turn the federal government can assign any of these agencies to step in and take over state and local governments, law enforcement agencies and private businesses.

Of course that is the "worst case" scenario that the Washington Czars are quite prepared to pretend will never happen. They will, instead use the numerous provisions in the executive statute as a means to distribute taxpayer money. Much like the investments in "green" technology the feds will have free reign to "invest" public money in any and all of the their pet and policy friendly financial gambits.

Of course this is the "carrot" part of the strategy. The stick comes from the fact that the feds... at their whim ... can also interfere with any business or individual they choose to target with the same impunity as Hugo Chavez, Vlad Putin or in a more historic context ... Joe Stalin or Adolf Hitler.

Picture government installed executives running GE... or General Dynamics ... or your local food store chain ... or the power utility?  You already got a taste of this with General Motors and Chrysler.

The bailout money that went to Wall Street came with  conditions that will mean the brokerage houses will shut the hell up about Obama fiscal policies. I'm saying now there is a really strong "or else" that goes with that federal choke chain.

I once said that Barack Obama was the USA's Pierre Elliot Trudeau. That is putting it mildly. Unlike the damage that PET and the Liberals did to this country over 30 years or so and which we might be able to rectify within 10 to twenty years of responsible government, the much more effective destruction of America's foundations being set in motion by Washington power brokers is going to hit a lot harder and take much longer to correct and may result in irreparable harm to the economic security most of the free world. Not to mention the risks to freedom and security of the most fundamental sort.

While the current US government is busy doing everything possible to cause civil dissension and financial turmoil along with international instability they are also preparing to take over every aspect of the day to day management of American lives ... and NOBODY in the mainstream is talking about it!

OMMAG

Lost in the Memory Hole

Three years ago ... There was an investigation ongoing...   into the financial malfeasance at the US  Federal Mortgage bureaus ..... "The government probe into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac widened as the mortgage giants disclosed yesterday they are under investigation by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission. "


Seems the entire thing has been effectively buried in the MSM .... but still ... Onwardjames    picked something up recently......


OMMAG

This Old Story ......

Climbing out of the Memory Hole ???
Fleecing America

With the MSM acting as PR support for the Democrats ..... when do you suppose this stuff will get the attention it deserves ?


OMMAG

And a Great Big "Nelson" to Helen

Thanks to The Peoples Cube

Har!

FTC to Regulate the Internet ... Why?

So the Democrats can create a more powerful government.

From Hot Air :

".... Neither the FTC nor the Internet had anything to do with the Wall Street meltdown in 2008. If this financial-regulation bill is so desperately needed, why did House Democrats lard it up with this power grab at the FTC? Why does the FTC need any further authority over the Internet, where fraud and abuse regulations apply already? The Internet economy has been one of the bright spots throughout a dismal period of recent history. Do we need to attack the one area that shows growth and promise?"

There is a pattern in the Democrat government from the Congress to the Senate and the Whitehouse.

The pattern is to make a lot of noise about fixing some great problem in a hurry and then passing regulations that do NOTHING to address the issue at hand. Rather the purported urgency of the crisis is used as a smokescreen to cover the institution of a another attack on the free market or the freedom of the individual.

America is being attacked on a daily basis ... from within.

With a big Hat Tip to USSNeverdock
OMMAG

That Long Hard 70's Hangover.....

Just goes on and on......

YouTube - Supertramp Crime of the Century
by croupier66

Related : Scam Club


OMMAG

One Week In ......

Big Government, Big Business and Big Green don't give a s*** about "the science."

***Well, the focus has changed.***

[This] article dated November 26th 2009 reveals that the MSM has a new reason for reducing carbon dioxide and it’s no longer global warming or climate change. The new reason for cutting carbon dioxide is

“ … slashing carbon dioxide emissions also could save millions of lives, mostly by reducing preventable deaths from heart and lung diseases, according to studies published this week in the British medical journal The Lancet."

From SDA where you will find The best compilation of stories and links!

As I said Before!

And Before That!

And Before That!

And Before That!

And Just Because It's True !

Read And Learn....

OMMAG

Human Rights Watch .... Who Are You?

Eh?

Human Rights Watch

Needs a housecleaning.

"From now on, every HRW report on Israel is going to be greeted with "you mean the Saudi-funded HRW," or "you mean the report written by the woman [HRW Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson] who is a great admirer of Norman Finkelstein and lobbied Kofi Annan against Israel in the middle of the Second Intifada" or "you mean the report written by the guy [Stork] who supports the anti-Israel boycott movement and has been venting his hostility to Israel for almost forty years" or "you mean HRW, the organization that fails to take down from its website anti-Israel reports even when it has admitted they are inaccurate," and so on."

Thanks to USS Neverdock

OMMAG

Things The MSM Don't Talk (much) About

Things like:

• Their declining revenues (and relevance)
  
• Their overt political bias
• Obama's Failings
• Bloggers

Well I'm pleased to say that earlier this week we had a fine example of ONE article from AP that highlighted the fact of at least three of these issues and shed light some reasons for the first.

As I pointed out Here there was an interesting thing happened at the Obama press conference earlier this week.

They solicited in advance a question of a left wing blogger.
For details see more Here !

Now aside from that matter of who was chosen and how or why we have little or no insight offered by the AP report. Aside from some suggestions that point to some rather obvious sore points for AP. I get the sense that the reporter felt a little miffed about the relative preference afforded the blogger. Much was made in the article of the fact that everyone says there was NO advance discussion of what the question would be. In such a manner suggesting that should be a question. And concludes with a little snipe about the ethics of posting the press conference transcripts in Farsi and Arabic ... a contradiction of earlier protestations from the white house of keep neutral and not actively interfering.

Personally ... I'd like to know if the origin of the question was even from an Iranian involved in the protests.

However the question "... whether Obama would recognized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election, or if such a move would be a betrayal of protesters."

Leads me to believe that the person who did put it forth had the same mindset and literacy of you typical reporter. (not a good thing) Even if it was some anonymous citizen journalist from Iran it is one of those facile sort of interrogatives that are so often cobbled together on the spot by journos trying to appear deep and also to squeeze two separate questions into one. While, hoping to force the desired answer through what they believe to be clever maneuvering. (It's not even if it works on some dim wits who forget to remember the boiler plate.)

The first part seems like a very obvious thing that those in Iran especially might like to know.

The core of the matter ... Is Obama going to recognize the results of the Iranian elections? ... seems to be a pretty important thing.

For the second part it would seem boil down to whether or not Obama would feel that doing such a thing would be, "A betrayal of the protestors."

In plain English then: Are you going legitimize the reelection of Mack the Maddinnerjacket and throw us under the bus?

The Obama answer to that question, however worded, was pretty much "You are on your own".

Now, the thing is that although this weasel worded reply is nothing of a surprise to us it just might be the kind of thing that people who were really concerned about what happens next in Iran would like to have with a little more substance provided.

And so the story behind the story is what has happened in the MSM since this conference.

Firstly - there has been very little if any mention about the blogger's participation, the SOP for MSMers who feel they can marginalize the new media. ( It won't work.)

Secondly - The MSM has played up the other portions of the Obama statements and ignored this question and this response completely. (As far as I can tell.)
According to the MSM Obama is all tough talk on Iran now! Yeah sure he is... hot dog day at the US embassy still has the Iranians on the guest list for just one little thing.

Never mind the complete burying of this response:

"Ultimately, the most important thing for the Iranian government to consider is legitimacy in the eyes of its own people, not in the eyes of the United States," Obama said, repeating a familiar refrain. "And that's why I've been very clear: Ultimately, this is up to the Iranian people to decide who their leadership is going to be and the structure of their government."

Precious!

Yes down the memory hole if the MSM has their way.

I suppose there are a lot of reasons why the mainstream news folks don't want to point out how juvenile the white house is in matters of world importance. After all they spent so much effort making GWB to be the buffoon .... they presumably should spend as much effort making their boy out to be not to be.

In any case it goes on and on .... the neverending effort of the MSM to shape the news by controlling what is reported and how it is reported.

Funny thing is that their boy Obama looks just as willing to throw them under the bus when it suits him.

I wonder when they'll realize that just being willing tools isn't doing them so much good.

OMMAG

Our Happy Socialist Pardise ...

May be showing some discord?

One of the favorite themes of the Lefto-sphere is that conservatives harbour some mysterious and sinister hidden agenda. Scared silly that some cabal of socially conservative types ... like Stockwell Day for instance are holding back ... just until they get the chance to do some evil stuff to cramp the liberal-progressive sort of life styles that depend on freedom from any kind of consequences and usually a healthy dose of taxpayer largess somewhere along the way.

Well I take the view that the hidden agenda thing is the fundamental backbone of the socialist political and activist types.

Always hidden behind the benevolent and caring sounds of the lefty pol, is the unstated and inevitable consequence of following their path.

More often than not the consequences include some form of meddling in the lives of people and far too often some unwilling concession forced onto the public as a whole. These concessions are typically in the form of some loss of freedom and a surrender of what has been traditionally a personal choice and a right of individual conscience given over to the forces of meddlesome state apparatchiks.

Often too it seems that while we are distracted by one or another of these never ending impositions these same folks who have postured as our moral and intellectual betters have been busy feathering their own nests.

For my part the only surprise is how long it takes for the general public to figure out that the people who make their way into your lives by making their Utopian promises are not going to deliver. Further, that it should be any surprise that they turn out to be nothing more than manipulative opportunists.

And so it is with the Manitoba NDP.

While Some People like Winnipeg blogging sleuth The Black Rod have taken notice right from the get-go.

Others seem to find the need to strain their credulity and credibility in their efforts to deny what is as plain as the nose on your face.

Our local and not-so-local media types would be a good example. Where for as long as there has been a lib-lefty pol around to pander to or carry water for have been Johnny on the spot.

Deny, obfuscate, attempt to confuse and misdirect. That is the way the Free Press and others like to play it when it comes to our NDP.

While Doer's Dippers have failed to achieve a single goal stated in their policies or promises the MSM hasn't noticed. While project after project has been bungled. While every public administrative branch of the Provincial government has bee mismanaged. While no area of public service has escaped the meddling of the NDP and no area of civic responsibility has been administered with competence. While boondoggle after corrupt boondoggle has been entered into and promoted without ever a consideration for the consequences. Where have the media been?

Well, to be blunt who cares anymore? Local TV? Let it die the death it deserves. Local newspaper good riddance. Where the current incarnations of the 5th estate have failed and met their fate others will come forth and learning from those failings succeed.

But for the politicos of the left?

Soon too, for them the days are numbered.

In spite of all the facile maneuvering, the election rule changes that just so conveniently have always been imposed on the opposition well in advance of the NDP, the not so subtle limitations on the rights of individuals to support the political entities that choose in the manner they choose. In spite of the decades of below the table double dealings that somehow always manage to benefit the political fortunes of the Dippers and the financial well being of their loyal supporters. In spite of the massive and complete incompetence in governance. In spite of of the self serving "public service" unions who have held a special place in the heart and at the hog trough under the NDP.

And mostly in spite of the gullible fools who choose to believe the tooth fairy promises of the NDP and whose willful blindness has allowed them to sustain their grip on our society for not just one, not two but THREE consecutive turns at the trough.

In spite of all these things ... the chickens eventually do come home to roost.

Bwaaaaak......


OMMAG

Coming To Pass .........

Sometimes more than one a day.... (bumped with new links)
Lenni Kurly and MObama
Some are Bogarting the Koolaide

Eh?


Predictions Like This !

The Community Organizer In Chief is .......
Going to meet with Hugo !

Hugo Chavez will instruct Obama about energy! And no doubt a few pointers on implementing social "Change" !

OMMAG

From White House To .... Ahem!

Just Because ...

Delusions of Togetherness

I'm not sure where this fits in with my Predictions .

It seems likely though that as part of the general awakening after the hope and change love party some folks might begin to reassess all this Together We Can! Stuff ...........

Andrew Ferguson in The Weekly Standard online:

" Unity is a phantasm raising hopes for something that can't be delivered--or that, once delivered, would be so un-American it would scare us half to death. Yet unity was Obama's theme. The sales pitch was a proposition that seemed self-evident: The only way "to get things done" and "move this country forward" was to "bring us together," just as we believe Reagan did."

Even though he never did!

" Whether Obama really thinks such a thing is possible is anybody's guess. He doesn't look like a cynic to me. As a career politician, he has been required by his profession to face opponents and defeat them if he wants to get his way. Division is what politicians do. He's got to know this, even if his blissed-out followers don't. In his endless campaign, though, he never stopped talking as if the clashing political interests and contending ideas of a big, complicated, self-governing country were all just a terrible misunderstanding. His final stump speech--which his campaign called, with customary pomposity, the "closing argument," as though the candidate had suddenly turned into Perry Mason--was drenched in togetherness. Right at the top he promised that his victory would "put an end to the politics that would divide a nation just to win an election; that tries to pit region against region, city against town, Republican against Democrat  .  .  .  "



Eh?

OMMAG

Did The "West" Botch Georgia ?

Well .... According to Ronald D. Asmus who writes in the
New Republic that's the case.

Asmus was a Clinton deputy assistant secretary of state. Who now works as an international consultant and is executive director of the Brussels-based Transatlantic Center and responsible for strategic planning at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.


"The great debate will now begin. There will be those who will insist that the West did too much and encouraged or even emboldened the Georgians. And then there will be those who will argue that we did not do enough to prevent this war and to save Georgia. Put me firmly in the latter camp. If the West had taken these mounting tensions more seriously, this war could have been prevented. At the time, it looked too hard. Now there are many who wish they would have acted before it was too late."

Where have all these Hawkish Democrats gone? Asmus makes a convincing argument but fails to address some details that are pertinent to the current situation.

Still we have no firm answers about whether the foolish Saakashvili undertook the ethnic cleansing he is accused of. While it is plain that Russia has been positioning itself for a few years to take action like this it is not yet clear if Saakashvili is as innocent as claimed.

Another point of view from Times Of London where Richard Beeston writes that "Strutting Russia is heading for a fall"....

Lot's of partisan posturing, opinion and long rhetoric from all sides but too damned few facts for my liking.

Should we stand back while the International Rapid Response Hand Wringers leap into action?


OMMAG

Forgotten Things

In the USA the ongoing investigations of groups established in the US that have proven ties to Terrorist organizations go on more or less unnoticed and certainly unremarked in the MSM.

Nevertheless they do go on.

Marginalized Action Dinosaur picks up on The Investigation into International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) A group that poses as a Think Tank located in Virginia.

What strikes me is that US justice officials found it appropriate to make deals with these scumbags in return for some sort of cooperation.

As I've been saying for years ... The appropriate tool for dealing with these subversive and clearly dangerous people is to apply the standing laws on sedition in the most vigorous manner possible.

Dealing with vermin like this is like teasing rats with food in order to bring a couple out in the open.... while you are playing games the rest are feeding and breeding out of sight.

OMMAG

Say Goodbye to Those Mom&Pop Local Products

It came to my attention through a friend who grows a market garden the new legislations governing labeling of packaged food products may have some unintended consequences.

It seems that some of the things he has been producing such as his home made style pickles and horseradish now have to be labeled under the appropriate Canadian products and the Food Content laws.

So ...

Well in order to comply with these requirements he would have to submit his product to registered testing labs to determine the actual breakdown of his pickle juice and his horseradish. This is a process that is both time consuming and expensive enough to wipe out most of the profit from his little venture. Then he has to purchase labels and or labeling equipment and ensure that every container that goes to market meets the standards.

So what? These products and the products of thousands of small homegrown operations represent local economic development, offer consumer choice and diversity and in fact are some of the best value and quality items you can purchase in your local stores or markets.


Now thanks to bureaucratic meddling that was argued to be in the best interests of consumers and our domestic producers we are about to ruin an entire supply chain. This will affect a broad range of products and increase the cost of food. You see those increased costs that the BIG producers whined about are nothing more than an inconvenience which costs can be passed along to you the consumer.

For the SMALL operations .... they are DEATH.

OMMAG

An Object Lesson in Civility !

From DMB .... Tamils Protest

Well not so much PROTEST as Demonstrate their good will and gratitude....

Viva La Intifada!

File this under "Know Your Enemy" amongst other things!

Always a good read and often right on the cutting edge of news.... news that is not being reported by the MSM..... The Gates of Vienna blog writer Baron and contributors often break news that no one else is touching.

For example:

" Via Noticias 24, journalist Patricia Poleo reports that Venezuelans of Arab ancestry are being recruited under the auspices of Tarek el Ayssami, Venezuela’s vice-Minister of the Interior, for combat training in Hezbollah camps in South Lebanon."

And....

"From the start of President Chavez’s government, terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaeda have used Venezuela as their bridge to other Latin American countries since Venezuela is an allied government."

Ominous?

Read the WHOLE thing HERE!

OMMAG

Just Because It's Friday - Redux

Usually Good for a Laugh....

The real PRAVDA ( as opposed to our homegrown wannabes) !!
Some Highlights :

Russian Science and Economics
A Parade of Russian Douchebags .... mmmmmm ..... soooo sexyyyyyy!

I particularly like the Photo Album

Oh! If you enjoy scathing Reposte' to Lefty Gall (or is it Gaul?) Erik at !NoPasaran! delivers a HEAPING shovel full of mockery to some "Super Frenchie" dufus.
Cheers!
OMMAG

SO Where is the MSM ?

Bumped and Updated....

Again .......
Reuters - Chavez threatens to Nationalize Colombian assets ....
So financial genius and great leader of the Marxist revolutione thinks he can do away with $6 Billion in legitimate trade?


Somebody FINALLY woke up ... AP Reports are now being disseminated through the Canadian Media :
We Are On The Path To Peace cries Chavez as he orders his military to Columbia's border to help make sure the Columbians can't chase after the FARCist kidnappers, murderers, arms and drug dealers! Hugo's friends are such a wonderful bunch! Are they not?

More .... Web Pals sharing e-mails !

Hmmm... Selling uranium to Who? And getting it from Where?

Also noteworthy ... Apparently Murderous, drug and weapons dealing Marxist criminals think Obama will be a Good President! For Them.....

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Previously Posted Mar 04, 2008

If the MSM ignores the fact that a communist dictator in South America is aiding and abetting drug dealing criminals and murderous thugs in countries that border on his own ..... is it NOT happening?

The MSM applies the principle of Out of Sight - Out of Mind while working overtime to carry water for liberal political parties and doing their level best to SMEAR any conservative interests there seems to be precious little effort to actually REPORT on major world news!

Or now that it may be time to "Change the Channel" will we see some attention given to this international outrage by our "Most Trusted News Sources" .... ???

Some people noticed:
ANEWTONE Blog synopsis ** excellent**
Bloomberg

And of course ..... for entertainment value:

The Commie Tools !

So cocaine chewing economic genius and all around nut case Hugo is going to start a war with Columbia because the Columbians are not letting the drug dealing mass murdering FARCists run away and hide in Venezuela !

But that's NOT news to CBC/CTV/Globe etal.......

OMMAG