Obama in 30 Seconds

I did the soundtrack on this video last week. The bouncing ball karaoke thing is so funny! I'm not sure the office of the US Presidency has the ability to actually do what these campaign promises say, but now that I think about it -- the President is supposed to be just acting out the orders we give him. Executing. Does it feel like that to you?

Collateral News

"If the American experiment in democracy was ending, how would we know?"

Here's a list of 10 things that fascist dictators around the world have done in the past to set up their control structure:

1. identify a horrible enemy (drugs, terrorism, Al Queda, Osama bin Laden)

2. start a neverending war (war on drugs, war on terrorism)

3. build a ton of prisons (guantanemo bay, Wackenhut Corp. etc)

4. create a legal system geared toward filling them with the enemies (define protesters as terrorists via their threat to the state, etc)

5. create a state-sponsored private military which is above the law; confiscate citizens' weapons (see FEMA & "gun control")

6. create a massive internal surveillance system, infiltrate citizen protest groups (project ECHELON etc)

7. arbitrarily "detain" a few dissenters using the prison/ legal system above

8. target specific key dissenters and get them harassed, fired, etc

9. use the media to spread the agenda/ worldview of the new rules. Snuff a few journalists who tell the truth. (Dan Rather)

10. suspend of the rule of law.

In the US right now, during any national disaster or state of emergency the President can invoke martial law and bring the military in to keep "order", also forcibly to mobilize citizens into work camps, etc.

It's in the Patriot Act, WHICH WAS ALREADY WRITTEN BEFORE 911. THIS HAS ALL BEEN PLANNED, IT'S ONLY MADE TO LOOK LIKE AN ACCIDENT AND SUBSEQUENT RESPONSE!

Watch Aaron Russo's movie "America: from freedom to fascism"

Read this article in the Guardian, giving a fuller discussion of these ten points.

"Hope, Change, and Pissing in the Wind"

"As the world’s population continues to grow, it cannot hope to cure unemployment—ever– because the dynamic of modern capitalist industry is toward ever larger portions of machine labor replacing human labor."

Candy Chang sidewalk stencils

Drone patrols take off

This is from msnbc, which we will now remember, is a news source speaking for General Electric the weapons manufacturer.

Unmanned remote control "drone" aircraft are in use now for US border patrol and whatever else:

"The border agency's fully loaded, $10.5 million Predators carry long-range cameras, but even at night, operators using the drones' radar imaging and infrared capabilities can light a target with a laser visible only through the night vision goggles of helicopter crews who intercept some of the border crossers.

"That's like a little red finger from God coming down and saying, 'Hey, there's some guy under that tree right there.' Very effective," McNall said."

Cyborg I-Spy Fly on the Wall

The military has been wanting this for a long, long time. Anybody remember that G.I.Joe episode where Cobra commander used every sort of animal on earth as a spy? It happened on TV back in the 80's, with millions of kids watching. Let's see, what else did they have on GI Joe?

Satellites to blanket the earth with total monitoring capability
microchip implants to track individuals
cyborg robot soldiers
the collapse of the american dollar and a new currency to follow it
fake aliens on a fake UFO sending real messages to the public
the spy animals
a one-world government terrorist enemy

czech campaign finance tally

I think it's great they put this handy tabulation in the news. When's the last time you saw this assessment in the US, in a mainstream news source?