I thought i may as well cross-post this as its more relevant to this thread and elaborates on some my earlier points.
Obama has cultivated an image for peace, but has called for a 'civilian national security force' - that sounds decidedly 'iffy' to me, peacewise
Obama wrote:
"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php? ... d=%2069784There seems to be an expectation that this administration will renew the economy, especially in light of recent failures in the banking sector. However, looking atthe type of people Obamas appointing as his economic team should send alarm bells ringing - this does not look like change that was promised;
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Robert Rubin - helped Enron cook its books, got caught cooking his own and committed numerous accouting fouls while at Ford. Guess who's in D.C., hat in hand, looking for a piece of that TARP bailout?
Anne Mulcahy -While CEO at Xerox, got popped accounting fraud.
Richard Parsons - Also got popped for accounting fraud. Both Mulcahy and Parsons were directors at Fannie Mae when they were caught breaking accounting rules
So was another member of Obama's new economic board, former Commerce Secretary William Daley. He's now a member of the executive committee at JPMorgan Chase & Co., which, like Citigroup, is among the nine large banks that just got $125 billion of Treasury's bailout budget.
Obama's economic crew might as well be called the Bailout Bunch. Another slot went to former White House economic adviser Laura Tyson. She's been a director for about a decade at Morgan Stanley, which in 2004 got slapped for accounting violations by the SEC and a month ago got $10 billion from Treasury.
Then you've got Emmanuel - consummate corporate insider. Of all the people Obama could have chosen as his chief of staff, couldn't he have found someone who wasn't once on the board of Freddie Mac? Disgusting.
Many of these guys should be getting subpoenas as material witnesses right about now, not places in Obama's inner circle. But who better to patch this economy in tatters than the very people responsible for tearing it to shreds? Who better to solve the myriad problems caused by white collar criminalality than white collar criminals, most of whom held executive positions at the very companies that sent the economy reeling with "liberal" accounting and experimental derivatives.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... UQ6w&referObamas transition team includes Michael Warner, someone knee-deep in biotech aka genetically modified food. There is significant alarm about the safety of GMOs. This is a big subject i wont go into for now, but there are concerns that GM is cross-pollinating (despite assurance from vested interests) thereby removing choice for the health concious consumer.
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Taylor was formerly the outside attorney for the biotech giant Monsanto, and later became their vice president. He had also been the counsel for the International Food Biotechnology Council (IFBC), for whom he drafted a model of government policy designed to rush GMOs onto the market with no significant regulations. The final FDA policy that he oversaw, which did not require any safety tests or labeling, closely resembled the model he had drafted for the IFBC.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-s ... 47188.htmlObama & Warner are now saying that they are in favour of labelling. I remain sceptical! Obama has recently appointed Vilsack as agriculture secretary - another knee-deep in GMO. from the organic consumers association;
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* When Vilsack created the Iowa Values Fund, his first poster child of economic development potential was Trans Ova and their pursuit of cloning dairy cows.
* Vilsack was the origin of the seed pre-emption bill in 2005, which many people here in Iowa fought because it took away local government's possibility of ever having a regulation on seeds- where GE would be grown, having GE-free buffers, banning pharma corn locally, etc. Representative Sandy Greiner, the Republican sponsor of the bill, bragged on the House Floor that Vilsack put her up to it right after his state of the state address.
* Vilsack has a glowing reputation as being a schill for agribusiness biotech giants like Monsanto.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/article ... _15573.cfmVery interesting, Psych. I will take a different spin here. Perhaps The President is keeping his enemies closer, in the tradition of his mentor, Abraham Lincoln.
21 Jan 2009, 7:36 pm
