OBAMA'S DRONE ASSASSINATIONS AND TPP = TOUGH PATOOTIES, PEOPLE

CEO Obama rules Plutocracy through fear, intimidation and secrecy

 Senators Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown have recently sent a letter to President Obama confronting the White House bluntly on the secrecy surrounding the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) and the impact it could have on the American economy and legal system ~ but in the process this letter demonstrates to me that the American people have been completely marginalized and silenced by a growing plutocracy and that corporations are now firmly in control: Allen L Roland, Ph.D

 

Obama: "Trust me. The TPP is good for U.S. workers and the environment, but you citizens can't read any of its text. Have I ever misled you?"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Full Text of Warren, Brown letter :  http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/29831-elizabeth-warren-sherrod-brown-letter-to-obama-on-the-dishonesty-of-tpp

 

Here's what the highly respected attorney Ellen Brown, founder of the Public Banking Institute, and author of twelve books including the best-selling Web of Debt, has to say about TPP;

"On April 22, 2015, the Senate Finance Committee approved a bill to fast-track the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive trade agreement that would override our republican form of government and hand judicial and legislative authority to a foreign three-person panel of corporate lawyers.

The secretive TPP is an agreement with Mexico, Canada, Japan, Singapore and seven other countries that affects 40% of global markets. Fast-track authority could now go to the full Senate for a vote as early as next week. Fast-track means Congress will be prohibited from amending the trade deal, which will be put to a simple up or down majority vote. Negotiating the TPP in secret and fast-tracking it through Congress is considered necessary to secure its passage, since if the public had time to review its onerous provisions, opposition would mount and defeat it…"  See article https://www.transcend.org/tms/2015/04/the-trans-pacific-partnership-and-the-death-of-the-republic/

 

It appears that America is no longer a Republic and is already a Plutocracy. This form of government believes a society should be ruled by its wealthiest members. The Supreme Court has allowed a flood of money to buy our elections, rather than the will of the people, income inequality is growing ~ and President Obama is keenly aware of this transfer of wealth and power.

 

As I have written recently about Obama's enduring Military presence where War equals peace, see article http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/02/16/obamas-enduring-ground-offensive-war-is-peace/ , the case for targeted drone assassinations becomes mute when we realize that Obama has killed more people with drones than the 3000 who died on 9/11 ~ and many of those killed were civilians, and only a tiny percentage of the dead were al-Qaeda or Taliban leaders.

The Council on Foreign Relations estimates that U.S. drone strikes outside of Iraq and Afghanistan have killed 3,674 people. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports that up to 4,404 people have been killed – just in Pakistan and Yemen alone ~ between 2004 and 2014.

Many of those additional deaths are accomplished through deadly “double taps” … where the family members, friends or neighbors who try to rescue someone hit by a drone missile are themselves targeted for assassination. There can be only one reason for these strikes ~ Fear and Intimidation.

 

This high body count for Obama's Drone assassination program is not surprising when we realize that Obama secretly waived the requirement to show proposed targets pose an imminent threat to the U.S. in 2013. See RSN article:  http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/29848-obama-secretly-waived-requirement-that-drone-targets-pose-imminent-threat

 

WSWS has also lowered the boom on Obama's Drone assassination program;  "On Sunday, the New York Times published a lead article devoted to the Obama administration’s drone assassination program. The article describes a mechanism for state-sanctioned assassination that has become thoroughly bureaucratized and institutionalized. It makes clear that the assassination program is not a rogue operation of the CIA, but a central component of American foreign policy, supported by both Democrats and Republicans….At the top of the list of architects is Obama himself, who, during his more than six years in office, has worked to develop the pseudo-legal theory that the president has the authority to kill anyone, anywhere in the world, including US citizens, without due process or any judicial review."  See article ~   http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/04/27/pers-a27.html

 

But the secrecy surrounding the TPP agreement is direct obvious evidence of our current plutocracy and its consequences to the American People. To quote from Elizabeth Warren's and Sherrod Brown's letter to Obama ~

 

" In recent remarks, you suggested that critics of the TPP are "dishonest" when we claim that the TPP is a "secret" deal. Even though negotiations over the TPP are largely complete, your administration has deemed the text of the agreement classified and kept it hidden from public view, thereby making it a secret deal.

As a result of your administrations decision, it is currently illegal for the press, experts, advocates, or the general public to review the text of this agreement. And while you note that Members of Congress may "walk over .. and view the text of the agreement" ~ as we have done ~ you neglected to mention that we are prohibited by law from discussing the specifics of that text with the public…. "

 

As the late George Carlin once correctly exclaimed regarding Congress ~ "It's a great big club, and you're not in it "  so get used to it because Corporations are people and the electorate are most definitely not to be trusted with the truth, starting with 9/11 and extending to Drone assassinations and TPP.

 

Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown are absolutely right. The TPP will radically reshape our laws, our economy, and our democracy in favor of the rich and big corporations. Senators Warren and Brown are fighting back on behalf of the American people and they need our support ASAP. Are you with them?
Stand with Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown: Add your name and tell President Obama to release the full text of the TPP.


So TPP in reality is really an anagram of the Bush and Obama's administration's attitude toward the electorate of this rapidly fading Republic ~ Tough Patooties, People !

 

"To be innocent in America is to permit the continued theft of hundreds of billions of dollars from the state by Wall Street swindlers and speculators. To be innocent in America is to stand by as insurance and pharmaceutical companies, in the name of profit, condemn ill people, including children, to die. To be innocent in America is refusing to resist wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that are not only illegal under international law but responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands of people. This is the odd age we live in. Innocence is complicity."  ~  Chris Hedges

 

It's a new World Order, folks and guess what ~ we're not in it.

 

Allen L Roland, Ph.D
http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/obamas-drone-assassinations-and-tpp.html
 

Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisor Allen L Roland can be contacted at  allen@allenroland.com Allen is also a lecturer and writer who shares a weekly political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com. He is also a featured columnist on Veterans Today and  guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net

 

WE CAN STOP THE MACHINE, IF WE WANT TO

As Obamanomics continues to attempt to get airborne on outmoded top down debt fueled economics and presidential wishful thinking ~ Americans must realize that we can shut down this dilapidated greed machine if we want to by just saying no more, facing financial reality and stop playing the debt driven game: Allen L Roland

"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" - Mario Savio - Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley on December 2, 1964.

Look no further than Greece to see the final result of universal greed and unregulated debt driven securities which overhang the entire world economy.

As Ellen Brown writes in her Web Of Debt Blog ~ “There is one bit of bad behavior that Uncle Sam himself does not have the funds to underwrite: the $32 trillion market in credit default swaps (CDS). Thirty-two trillion dollars is more than twice the U.S. GDP and more than twice the national debt. CDS are a form of derivative taken out by investors as insurance against default. According to the Comptroller of the Currency, nearly 95% of the banking industry’s total exposure to derivatives contracts is held by the nation’s five largest banks: JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, HSBC, and Goldman Sachs. The CDS market is unregulated, and there is no requirement that the “insurer” actually have the funds to pay up. CDS are more like bets, and a massive loss at the casino could bring the house down.”

Unless it’s a rigged shell game as Ellen Brown explains ~ “ It could ( Crash , at least, unless the casino is rigged. Whether a “credit event” is a “default” triggering a payout is determined by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), and it seems that the ISDA is owned by the world’s largest banks and hedge funds. That means the house determines whether the house has to pay. The Houses of Morgan, Goldman and the other Big Five are justifiably worried right now, because an “event of default” declared on European sovereign debt could jeopardize their $32 trillion derivatives scheme. According to Rudy Avizius in an article on The Market Oracle (UK) on February 15^th, that explains what happened at MF Global, and why the 50% Greek bond write-down was not declared an event of default. If you paid only 50% of your mortgage every month, these same banks would quickly declare you in default. But the rules are quite different when the banks are the insurers underwriting the deal.”

See Ellen Brown Post ~ http://webofdebt.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/how-greece-could-take-down-wall-street/#more-3071

The credit default swap or CDS has become the cornerstone product of the credit derivatives market and a derivative is essentially a fancy way of saying that a bet has been made. Originally, these bets were designed to hedge risk, but today the derivatives market has mushroomed into a mountain of speculation unlike anything the world has ever seen before. Estimates of the notional value of the worldwide derivatives market go from $600 trillion all the way up to $1.2 quadrillion.

Please note that a quadrillion is 1,000 times a trillion. According to one of the world's leading derivatives experts, Paul Wilmott, who holds a doctorate in applied mathematics from Oxford University, $1.2 quadrillion is the so-called notional value of the worldwide derivatives market and to put that in perspective, the world's annual gross domestic product is between $50 trillion and $60 trillion.

So that’s the 600 pound derivatives Gorilla that is looming over Greece and the world economy. Incidentally, America’s Per Capita Government Debt is worse than Greece, as well as Ireland, Italy, France, Portugal, and Spain. See Chart :

http://bit.ly/AhV5No

A perfect example of this high stakes shell game being played out right now is the current Greek debt crisis. After a year and a half, Europe has agreed to something that might not work at all and, in the best case scenario, will take eight years to reduce Greek debt to a level that is still too high. Hopefully …. And why? Because the Houses of Morgan, Goldman and the other Big Five could get wiped out if Greece defaulted.

See 4 minute video The Greek Debt Crisis: It's, Like, Totally Over

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2012/02/22-0

Meanwhile the Regime Change War Machine chugs on with Syria now in our sights ~ while our economy continues to stutter.

Just like Libya, the Main stream media is more than happy to tell us about the very real violence that is taking place in Syria, but they neglect to tell us who is really behind it.

They told us that the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, was strafing innocent "protesters" with helicopters, but now we know he was fighting armed groups in league with Al Qaeda and the West.

Now we find it's more of the same propaganda in Syria along with Hillary Clinton hypocritically accusing Syria of crimes against its own citizens.

The violence is real in Syria, but who's behind it? Webster Tarpley, who has been there, has the answer and I bet you can guess the answer.... the CIA and the West again.

9 minute Video:

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/9314.html

On the subject of America’s ongoing lies and propaganda ~

If you watched the Super Bowl game you saw this ad…well not quite this exact same ad, but if the ad had been truthful ~ this is what it would have said.

Clint Eastwood … Chrysler … put through the truth ringer… and minus the patriotic blather for the masses ~ because it’s no longer half time in America ~ it’s more like the last two minutes ~ and the only presidential candidate who understands this is Ron Paul.

Two minute Video ~ http://www.realecontv.com/page/9532.html

Finally. Here Is A Must Watch Short 22 minute Video which explains the false premise of American exceptionalism and why we must now face the music and face reality. We must take action and become the friction to stop the imperialistic predatory capitalistic machine before it consumes us and our precious liberties ~ that is, if we really want to. So how do we stop it? Stop feeding into its outmoded and badly stuttering debt engine ~ without which it cannot fly.

A brief and crucial history of the United States. Video 22 minutes

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30620.htm

"Our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear." General Douglas MacArthur

Allen L Roland

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/we-can-stop-machine-if-we-want-to.html

Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net