The Progressive Mindset

President Obama Pitches CFR Plan: Looks to Bring the India Model of GM Genocide to Africa

by Scott Creighton

(H/T Kenny’s sideshow)

“The Clinton Foundation fighting global issues through business oriented solutions. The Clinton Foundation is the best world in the world.” propaganda video featuring Jack Black

“We are never going to end hunger in Africa without private investment,” USAID

“The structure of fascism is the union, marriage, merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power” David Mills

President Obama has announced his big initiative to save the starving people of Africa by “unleashing the powers of the market” all across their continent. It’s called the New Alliance for Food and Nutrition Security. Obama has made this announcement at a G8 summit meeting at Camp David (created back in the 1930′s under the Works Progress Administration part of the New Deal) hosted by none other than the Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs. You may remember them. They changed their name back in 2008 when it was inconvenient for the wife of the next president to be affiliated with the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.

But African civil society wants no part of this latest Monsanto aligned “public private partnership”. Whatever will the progressives do now that their flawless hero has teamed up with their most hated nemesis to exploit an entire continent like they did to India not that long ago?

Oh Lookie: Yet Another Batch of White Guy “Terrorists” (The New Batman Must Be Coming Out Soon)

by Scott Creighton

Well, it would seem that the midnight raid in Chicago saved the day yet again, proving once more that we have to give up our freedoms and security and let the cops bust in our doors with no search warrant so that we can be safe from all those white male aged 23-35 middle class looking “commie faggot” terrorists. And once again, they were after our “Glorious Leader” just like zombie bin Laden was (according to that super secret intel). I guess they were “radicalized’ huh?

One week after a US District Court struck down the constitutionality of the provisions in the 2012 NDAA which allowed for the determination that the United States was part of the battlefield in the fictional “Global War on Terror” we have this: a new “terrorist” threat with 3 white guy perps, citizens of the United States.

What … a… coincidence … that … is …

Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban

(This amendment to the military budget proposal would allow the State Department (Hillary Clinton) and the Pentagon (Leon Panetta) to target US citizens with their elaborate propaganda machine generally used overseas. They’ve been running propaganda campaigns in this country for over a century. This would just make it legal in order to protect us from the terrorists who sit around all day hating us for our freedom. Now, that begs the question, who exactly are the terrorists?)

by Michael Hastings, Buzz Feed

An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned.

The amendment would “strike the current ban on domestic dissemination” of propaganda material produced by the State Department and the Pentagon, according to the summary of the law at the House Rules Committee’s official website.

The tweak to the bill would essentially neutralize two previous acts—the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act in 1987—that had been passed to protect U.S. audiences from our own government’s misinformation campaigns.

That Band is Anti-Family and Pro-Terrorist

Why Cops Fear – It’s only their turf if you let them have it

The False Equivalency of the Zimmerman/Alexander Comparison

by Scott Creighton

Making the rounds out there in the “progressive” circles is the story of one Marissa Alexander and how she was given 20 years for simply firing off a warning shot to defend herself from her husband. The false equivalency is the comparison they are all making to the George Zimmerman case claiming it shows stunning hypocrisy that he is out on bail after killing an unarmed kid while she sits in prison for simply firing a round “in the air”

As far as the PR and spin doctors go, this was a great find for them. She is a woman after all and we all know how the right is currently waging a “war on women’ at least that is the distraction for the Obamaites. And also, she’s black so this looks to stir up more racial tension. Take Abby Zimet’s completely insufficient and deliberately inflammatory article “Stand Your Ground (Unless You’re a Black Woman)” article for example. Either Abby doesn’t know the first thing about the Alexander case or she’s  deliberately misleading her readers.

The People Know: BBC National Approval Rating Poll Shows the People Know What’s Up

by Scott Creighton

There’s a lot to be made of this new poll out from the BBC conducted from December 2011 to February 2012 which trends from 22 participating countries which nations the people approve of their global influence and which they do not. Countries not polled include Cuba, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Palestine, and several others which may tend to alter the outcome a bit. But more on that latter.

Gilad Atzmon accurately notes that “Israel, Iran, Pakistan and North Korea were ranked most negatively by 24,000 people surveyed in an annual BBC poll.” but he actually missed the most important part of that story.

You see, the poll not only reflects world public opinion about the influence of various countries but it also shows those attitudes as compared to last year’s numbers.

Midnight Raids Come To America: Chicago Organized Crime Division Goes After the “Commie Faggots”

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE: 6 of the 9 activists taken and held without charges have been released. 3 others are being charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism, possession of an explosive or incendiary device and providing material support. The home beer brewing equipment is being used as the evidence yet the police failed to mention if any gasoline and rags were confiscated.

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The Libyan and Syrian armed mercenary “activists” are called “freedom fighters” and paid cash money while the peaceful and unarmed activists in Chicago are called “commie faggots” and raided at gunpoint in the middle of the night. This is America. Land of the free. Home of the brave.

The National Lawyers Guild is reporting that activists have been arrested prior to the NATO summit meeting in Chicago this past Wednesday night. Eight activists were arrested in the midnight raid which saw cops dressed out in riot gear break down their apartment door with weapons drawn and no search warrant.

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) condemns a preemptive police raid that took place at approximately 11:30pm Wednesday in the Bridgeport neighborhood, and instances of harassment on the street, in which Chicago police are unlawfully detaining, searching, and questioning NATO protesters. The Bridgeport raid was apparently conducted by the Organized Crime Division of the Chicago Police Department and resulted in as many as 8 arrests.

According to witnesses in Bridgeport, police broke down a door to access a 6-unit apartment building near 32nd & Morgan Streets without a search warrant. Police entered an apartment with guns drawn and tackled one of the tenants to the floor in his kitchen. Two tenants were handcuffed for more than 2 hours in their living room while police searched their apartment and a neighboring unit, repeatedly calling one of the tenants a “Commie faggot.” A search warrant produced 4 hours after police broke into the apartment was missing a judge’s signature, according to witnesses. Among items seized by police in the Bridgeport raid were beer-making supplies and at least one cell phone.

“Preemptive raids like this are a hallmark of National Special Security Events,” said Sarah Gelsomino with the NLG and the People’s Law Office. “The Chicago police and other law enforcement agencies should be aware that this behavior will not be tolerated and will result in real consequences for the city.” National Lawyers Guild

At the time of an interview, several of those arrested are still in custody with no charges filed and the police still refusing to acknowledge the fact that they have them in custody. They are reportedly being held “shackled hand and feet” in the organized crime division of the Chicago Police department. Imagine that. In Chicago they leave the mob alone and use the organized crime division to go after political activists.

Totalitarian repression of dissidents and free speech is a hallmark of closing neoliberalized societies. Has been since they began.

Apparently if you are opposed to NATO bombing schools and civilians in Libya and Syria then that qualifies you as a “commie faggot” in the eyes of the truly patriotic. You can expect this to get much worse while the Obamaites sit back and say nothing (Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was Obama’s chief of staff after all)

To think we just signed an agreement with the puppet regime in Afghanistan to stop the midnight raids in that country that have angered their population tremendously just to have them start up here in defense of an overseas organization and their imperialist quest to invade and exploit defenseless countries around the world.

“commie faggots”? Remember the guest on the psyops show “The World Tomorrow” going off about the “international leftists”?

Start to get the picture?

The Republican Convention comes to my town in a couple of months. Guess what I have to look forward to? Anyone want a cat?

That couch is looking mighty good Cinderman.

Trayvon Martin Case: Evidence Supports Defense Case and Spin Doctors Exposed

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE: At the end of this article, I have included an ABC News report from March 18th where Ryan Julison serving as the “family spokesman” for the Martins relates deliberate misinformation and appears to have been the person who provided the following photos of Trayvon and Zimmerman. Also included in that news report is a statement from Rod Wheeler claiming that Zimmerman was drunk.

remember this? Spin doctor Ryan Julison’s work?

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“The evidence supports Zimmerman’s contention that he was being beat up when he fired the fatal shot.” CSM

“Trayvon was never the aggressor” Justice for Travon Martin Foundation

The evidence disclosure in the Trayvon Martin shooting case is out and no matter how you look at it, no matter how you want to look at it, it bolsters the case of George Zimmerman’s defense. When you look a bit further into the matter, you find lurking behind it all, the man who spun the story in the first place. A guy by the name of Ryan.

Distraction? In a 1991 Company Publication, Obama’s Literary Agent Claimed he was Born in Kenya

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE 4: His bio from his agent in 2007 is pictured in the screenshot below. It also claims he was born in Kenya.

UPDATE: Dystel refused to comment directly to Breitbart prior to their publishing this booklet but they have now issued a statement claiming that it was a “fact checking error” on the part of the new partner of the firm that still represents Barack Obama and still makes tons of cash off his books.

Miriam Goderich edited the text of the bio; she is now a partner at the Dystel & Goderich agency, which lists Obama as one of its current clients.

“This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me–an agency assistant at the time,” Goderich wrote in an emailed statement to Yahoo News. ” ABC News

I’m not exactly sure someone who has a financial interest in this saying “oppsy” constitutes proof positive, but if the country believed in Super Secret Mountain Terrorist Fortresses as a reason to launch a war, who knows what the people of this country will believe now.

However, in a follow-up story, Breitbart points out that the Dystel & Goderich agency had Obama’s bio listing his place of birth as Kenya up until April 2007 and then they changed it around the time he decided to run for the office of the president. So it seems like Goderich’s little “oppsy” explanation doesn’t hold up to further scrutiny.

“Archive.org shows that the Dystel website used the following biography for Obama as of April 3, 2007:

BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller.

Obama launched his presidential campaign in February 2007.” Breitbart News

You mean to tell me his own agent didn’t know where he was born for over 15 years and they just “figured it out” right before he runs for an office that required him to be a U.S. born citizen?

UPDATE 2: By admitting their “fact checking error”, Obama’s agent has admitted this document is authentic. Just thought I would point that out.

UPDATE 3: Anyone remember this little gem? From June 2004 when the Obama machine had to smear his republican opponent so he would achieve a seat in the senate prior to running for president.

“Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations” Sunday Standard

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Breitbart News (yes… I know… I know…) has disclosed a booklet from young Barack Obama’s literary agent, Acton & Dystel, from way back in 1991 which seems to make the claim that their author, Barack Obama, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.

I myself have looked into the discrepancies of the document that Barack Obama’s people submitted as proof of his Hawaiian birth and some of the problems with the document do hold up to further scrutiny. Also remember, it was not the republicans who first brought up the issue of Obama’s place of birth but rather it was the Clinton camp during the Democratic Primary of 2008.

Obama Executive Order: Blocking Property of Persons Threatening the Peace, Security, or Stability of Yemen

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE: Summary now included at the end of the article

UPDATE 2: A small except from a recent article written by Ralph Nader seems appropriate. This is the world in which we live. This is the new normal.

“Far more people have become rich and famous for telling lies and falsehoods than people who have a habit of telling the truth and reciting facts.” Ralph Nader

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Yesterday as the news of U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest’s ruling on the Battlefield Act of the 2012 NDAA was trickling out to the people of this country, our president signed yet another stunningly undemocratic executive order which is garnering almost no mention anywhere at this time. The gist of the Obama executive order is thus: anyone, including U.S. citizens, citizens of Yemen, or even political opponents of the new dictator in Yemen, who directly or “indirectly” hinders or threatens the smooth transition to power of the new dictator in Yemen can have all of their assets seized by the secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner and secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.

For the record, Obama also uses this action to declare a state of emergency in this country over these actions and he also proclaims that since U.S. citizens might just happen to be able to move some of their assets were they given the “constitutional” protections which are theirs by right, they will not provide any notice of such an action prior to taking everything you own.

Understand that? If you threaten the “stability”of their new dictator in Yemen (a guy who was the vice president of the last dictator and who “won” an election after a revolution threw him out.. an “election” consisting of one candidate that is), or if Hillary Clinton CLAIMS you threaten the stability of their new dictator in Yemen, the progressive Obama regime will take everything you own without giving you any prior notification or the due process of law.

Court Finds Homeland Battlefield Act of NDAA to be Unconstitutional

by Scott Creighton

In a developing story, a U.S. District Judge, Katherine Forrest, has declared unconstitutional an extremely controversial part of the 2012 NDAA which declared that the entire world was part of the global battlefield in the still ongoing “Global War on Terror” which Barack Obama signed into law on Dec. 31st, 2011.

This is part of an ongoing lawsuit brought by Chris Hedges and other journalists and scholars who worried that the language of the Homeland Battlefield Act was purposefully vague and could ensnare journalists and activists in a military crackdown on terrorist organizations or those who support them (MeK anyone?) without them even knowing it was happening of that they were considered to be aiding the organizations simply by writing about them.

Playground War – Libya

Hillary Clinton’s Support for International Terrorism

by Scott Creighton

In 2003 during the run-up to the Iraq invasion and occupation (a.k.a. Shock and Awe and Full Spectrum Dominance) when the Bush administration wasn’t busy creating cartoonish drawings of fictitious cave complexes or prepping Colin Powell to lie to the Security Council, they tried to justify their attack with documents like this one titled “Saddam Hussein’s Support for International Terrorism.”

Allow me to pick out a key phrase:

“Iraq shelters terrorist groups including the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), which has used terrorist violence against Iran and in the 1970s was responsible for killing several U.S. military personnel and U.S. civilians.” White House archives