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Stunning decline of Barack Obama: Why the Obama presidency is in meltdown

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Obama's second term is shaping up to be a disaster

The last few weeks have been among the worst of Barack Obama's time in office, recalling earlier periods of turmoil for the president in 2010 and 2011, when his ratings also plummeted. In 2013, the situation is significantly worse for the White House, with the Obama administration engulfed in a series of major scandals (IRS persecution of conservative groups, the Benghazi debacle, and the Justice Department seizure of journalists' phone records) that are not only eroding trust in government but also in the office of the president itself. This is undoubtedly a period of steep decline for the Obama presidency, whose imperial-style big government approach is being increasingly questioned not only by American voters, but also by formerly subservient sections of the liberal-dominated mainstream media. In contrast to his first term, Barack Obama is finding himself less and less shielded by the press, and far more vulnerable to public criticism.

With good reason, Americans don't feel optimistic about their country's future with President Obama at the helm. According to the RealClear Politics polling average, less than one in three Americans believe the United States is heading in the right direction. A new Economist/YouGov poll has the president's job approval rating at just 46 percent, with 49 percent of Americans disapproving. Strikingly, 35 percent of Americans "strongly disapprove" of the president's job performance, 15 points higher than the number who "strongly approve." A mere 31 percent of Americans surveyed by YouGov believe the United States is "generally headed in the right direction."

War Whore

Hypocrisy of U.S. outside agitators

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Judges and their supporters protest outside the Supreme Court against a new bill under discussion at the Shura council in Cairo on Monday. An Egyptian court on Tuesday convicted 43 non-profit workers on charges of fomenting unrest.

A Cairo court has convicted 43 men and women of using foreign funds to foment unrest inside Egypt in connection with the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak.

Sixteen of those convicted were Americans. All but one, Robert Becker of the National Democratic Institute, had already departed. Becker fled this week rather than serve two years in an Egyptian prison.

And U.S. interventionists are in an uproar.

"Appalling and offensive," said Sen. Pat Leahy of the verdicts.

"The 2011 revolution was supposed to end the repressive climate under Mubarak," said The Wall Street Journal of our ally of 30 years whom Hillary Clinton called a family friend.

This "crackdown," decries The Washington Post, was defended with "cheap nationalism and conspiracy theories." As for Egypt's proposed new law for regulating foreign-funded groups promoting democracy, it is "based on ... repressive and xenophobic logic."

Yet the questions raised by both the Cairo and Moscow crackdowns on U.S.-funded "democracy" groups cannot be so airily dismissed.

For these countries have more than a small point.

While U.S.-funded democracy promotion is portrayed as benign, the National Endowment for Democracy, the International Republican Institute, DNI and Freedom House have been linked to revolutions that brought down regimes in Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and nearly succeeded in Belarus.

People who pride themselves on bringing about revolutions should not whine when targeted regimes treat them like troublemakers.

Penis Pump

Lying predator! Anthony Weiner's underage girl problem

Anthony Weiner

Touchy, touchy. Despite Team Anthony Weiner's best efforts at political rehabilitation, there's just no way to shore up his sorest scandal spot. As the New York Post reported this week, Weiner had a bit of a snit fit when a local Democratic official boldly slammed his sexting habits with underage girls.

Chris Owens, the Dems' state committee member in northwest Brooklyn, called out the skeezy ex-congressman at a mayoral candidate forum. "I am outraged and disgusted by you," Owens told Weiner. "Both by what you did and by the fact that you have the arrogance to run for mayor. I want to understand how you explain to us how you used a public facility to tweet offensive material to ... minors you did not know, you then lied about it ... and now you come back."

The hubristic horn-dog bared his teeth, got "snippy" and responded by snarling defensively that he's "going to win this election and I'm going to govern this city really well."

Don't get ahead of yourself there, Tweety Boy. If more rank-and-file Democrats join Owens in focusing like a laser on Weiner's underage-girl problem instead of soft-pedaling his "past issues" as "consensual" "online dalliances," Icky-rus will fall again.

Chess

Russia offers to send peacekeepers to Golan Heights

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UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights
President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia was ready to deploy its troops to the Golan Heights, in eastern Israel, to replace Austrian peacekeepers as part of a UN monitoring mission on the border between Israeli troops and the Syrian army.

Austria had announced on Thursday morning that it was withdrawing its 377 troops from the United Nations' 1,100-strong force following battles at Quneitra in Syria.

"In view of the complex situation that is emerging in the Golan Heights, we could replace the Austrian contingent that is leaving the area," Putin said. "Needless to say, [we would do so] only if regional powers are interested in that and if the UN secretary general asks us to do that."

A UN spokesman on Friday told RIA Novosti that the United Nations would welcome Russian peacekeepers in the Golan Heights.

Pistol

U.S. House of Representatives votes to (pretend to) delay bulk ammunition purchase by Department of Homeland Security

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The House late Wednesday voted to stop the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from entering into new contracts to buy millions of rounds of ammunition until the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reports to Congress on the need for the ammo, and its cost.

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) proposed an amendment to the DHS spending bill for 2014 that would require the report to Congress before it can pursue plans to buy 1.1 billion rounds of ammunition. Meadows said the speed bump is a necessary reaction to news of the huge purchase, which alarmed many Americans and prompted conservative groups to suspect that the government was stocking up on the rounds to fight citizens.

"Given this large purchase, the American people and members of Congress rightfully had concerns and questions," Meadows said. "This is a responsible amendment which ensures that Congress and the American people are aware of the necessity and the cost of ammunition prior to entering into new contracts for procurement."

Stormtrooper

The terrifying future of the United States


Comment: Regarding internment camps, we've read the Army document referenced in this video (@ 8 mins) and understand it to be really referring to setting up internment camps for insurgents abroad, in countries where the U.S.-backed regime is weak and upheld by U.S. military intervention.

Which isn't to say that such facilities at home are not an option on the table for the psychopathic U.S. regime. There has been a lot of talk about FEMA camps and such, going back to the Rex-84 document, but not a lot of supporting evidence on the ground.

However, when all the other evidence that the U.S. has transformed itself into a police state is taken into consideration, it seems as if the country itself has become one big internment camp.


Sherlock

Justice interrupted: Evidence-rigging the assassination of RFK

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Patsy
Just as the sun rises every day - there will come a day when independent crime labs will look into the appalling record of wrong-doing with Sirhan ballistics.

(click here for part a exhibits)

(click here for part b exhibits)

(click here for part c exhibits)

I want to share with you the latest puzzling happenings in the Sirhan court filings because I want the reader to examine and compare Attorney General of California, Kamala D. Harris' filing with the court (re evidence bullets) with the response to the court by Sirhan attorneys, William Pepper and Laurie Dusek. Then, I ask the reader to compare both filings with what I would have written the court (only in response to Harris' false charges with respect to Sirhan evidence bullets on page 5, lines 11-13).

Also included are some new charges - separate from the latest court happenings, And here I warn the reader - skip if you weren't blessed with a super - super abundance of smarts as it is extremely to follow.

It is not my intention to in any way suggest or imply that Sirhan Attorneys William Pepper and Laurie Dusek are anything but very capable and knowledgable attorneys. I simply do not agree with their latest Court filing with respect to the ballistics issues. And I will not be shy about speaking out about it.

Beaker

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences research council has links to GMOs

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The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is one of seven UK Research Councils, which are funded by the government's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Their vision, as stated on their Web site, is "to lead world-class 21st century bioscience, promoting innovation and realizing benefits for society within and beyond the UK."1

The UK government is known to be very receiving to genetically modified organisms (GMO) and last year the UK's Agriculture Biotechnology Council (ABC) even published a new report "Going for Growth," which, according to GMWatch, "calls for GM to be put at the heart of agricultural development in the UK."2

While ABC is not a government authority - it's a GM industry lobby group that represents the interests of Monsanto, Bayer, DuPont, Syngenta and other biotech giants - the organization met with key UK government officials to present their case, and reportedly "the industry's push for GM is already being welcomed."

This indeed appears to be the case, as now evidenced by a significant connection between BBSRC and a leading biotech research firm, Rothamsted Research.

UFO

Monsanto pushes bizarre conspiracy theory to deflect blame for GE wheat contamination of commercial crops

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There is a grand conspiracy theory at work to destroy the value of U.S. wheat crops, Monsanto recently told mainstream media reporters in a telephone conference. The contaminated GE wheat recently discovered in Oregon didn't get there by escaping Monsanto's open-air GMO experiments, the company claims. Instead, they say it might have been put there by a conspiracy of crop criminals who somehow acquired GE wheat from Monsanto's field trials way back in 2005, then somehow saved it in a way that kept it genetically viable for eight years, then supposedly drove around Oregon for the sole purpose of releasing the GMOs in some farmer's field that they just hoped the USDA might be someday be testing for GMO contamination.

That's the far-fetched conspiracy theory now being pushed by Monsanto to explain how commercial wheat crops in Oregon got contaminated with GMOs. It was put forth by Chief Technology Officer Robb Fraley, a Monsanto executive, in a phone call with reporters.

"It seems likely to be a random, isolated occurrence more consistent with the accidental or purposeful mixing of a small amount of seed during the planting, harvesting or during the fallow cycle in an individual field," Fraley said on the call, making him the first Monsanto executive to publicly admit he is a conspiracy theorist. He goes on to confirm that the company is investigating the possibility of "sabotage" to explain the wheat field contamination.

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How did genetically altered wheat end up in Oregon field?

Clint Lindsey
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Clint Lindsey
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has sent investigators to find out how genetically modified wheat ended up growing in Oregon. It is not approved for commercial use, and many countries won't buy American wheat if there is a chance it's been genetically modified.

Monsanto, which developed it, does not know how it happened but would not rule out sabotage.

Clint Lindsey sells almost all of the wheat he grows near Portland to countries in Asia. The discovery of genetically modified wheat in eastern Oregon has his customers worried.

"Our company sells to a grain exporter that was dealing with Japan and has had its next shipment put on hold," Lindsey said. "So unless that gets started up again, we could potentially be sitting on a lot of conventional wheat this fall."

Lindsey said it costs them "hundreds of thousands of dollars a year."