A partial list:
1. Technology Czar: Aneesh Chopra
2. Drug Czar: Gil Kerlikowske
“Obama’s drug czar: Marijuana ‘has no medical benefit'” (Read more from prisonplanet.com)
3. Copyright Czar: Not appointed yet
4. Energy Czar: Carol M. Browner
“Obama’s Energy Czar: Socialist Agent For World Government” (Read more from infowars.com)
5. Car Czar: Ed Montgomery
6. Terrorism/WMD Czar: Gary Samore
7. Health Care Czar: Nancy-Ann DeParle
8. Education Czar: Not appointed yet
9. Economic Czar: Paul Volcker
10. Mortgage Czar: Not appointed yet
11. Urban Affairs/Housing Czar: Adolfo Carrion
12. Guantanomo closure Czar: Danny Fried
13. Great lakes Czar: Cameron Davis
14. Stimulus accountability Czar: Earl Devaney
Ha! Public Relations, psychological operations, and media control will come long before we see any Accountability.
15. Cyberspace Czar: Not appointed yet
“The cybersecurity chief will report to both the National Security Council and the National Economic Council, a compromise resulting from a fierce White House turf battle over the responsibilities and powers of the new office.” (Read more from online.wsj.com)
16. Border Czar: Alan Bersin (Former US attorney)
17. Intelligence Czar: Admiral Dennis Blair
18. Regulatory Czar: Cass Sunstein
19. Pay Czar: Kenneth “Kiss my ass if you want your paycheck” Feinberg
“Czar Kenneth Feinberg has the authority to set the pay scale for executives at any company receiving government money (and how many aren’t, these days?). Czar Feinberg has the power to say that someone’s pay is excessive, and to make companies cut that pay until the czar is pleased. Congress did not give Czar Feinberg this authority. For that matter, Congress has not authorized any of the czars that President Barack Obama has created.” (Read more from townhall.com)
20. Iran Czar: Not appointed yet
21. Tarp Czar: Herb Allison
22. Middle-East peace Czar: George Mitchell
23. Science Czar: John Holdren
“In a book Holdren co-authored in 1977, the man now firmly in control of science policy in this country wrote that:
• Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;
• The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation’s drinking water or in food;
• Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise;
• People who ‘contribute to social deterioration’ (i.e. undesirables) ‘can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility’ — in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.
• A transnational ‘Planetary Regime’ should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans’ lives — using an armed international police force.” (Read more from zombietime.com)
24. Green jobs Czar: Van Jones
“Jones was himself arrested and detained briefly during a protest after the Rodney King verdict that same year. Jones told the East Bay Express in 2005: ‘I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th [1992], and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist. . . . I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, “This is what I need to be a part of.” I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.'” (Read more from examiner.com)
25. Afghanistan Czar: Richard Holbrooke
“The Curious Case of Richard Holbrooke – Obama’s Neocon” (Read more from counterpunch.org)
26. Sudan Czar: J. Scott Gration
27. Mideast policy Czar: Dennis “Mr. AIPAC” Ross
“Outside of the hard-line neocons such as Douglas Feith, Norman Podhoretz, Richard Perle, etc., it would be hard to come up with someone who would be less of an honest broker in the Middle East. . . . His post-Clinton record includes supporting the pro-Iraq War campaigns of the neocon Project for the New American Century and serving as a senior fellow with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), a significant pro-Israel think tank in Washington. . . . Ross has taken a very hostile position toward Iran Ross helped to produce the 2008 report “Meeting the Challenge: U.S. Policy Toward Iranian Nuclear Development,” The report argues that despite Iran’s assurances to the contrary, its nuclear program aims to develop nuclear weapons and is thus a threat to the U.S. This conclusion is contrary to the CIA’s November 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, which found that Iran had put its efforts to develop nuclear warheads on hold. . . .The report actually calls for the new US president to expand American military forces in the Middle East! Commentator Jim Lobe quite accurately refers to the report as a ‘roadmap to war.'” (Read more from rense.com)
28. Information Czar: Vivek Kundra
29. AIDS Czar: Jeffrey Crowley
30. Faith-based Czar: Joshua Dubois
31. Climate Czar: Todd Stern
32. Food Safety Czar: Michael “Monsanto” Taylor
“If GMOs are indeed responsible for massive sickness and death, then the individual who oversaw the FDA policy that facilitated their introduction holds a uniquely infamous role in human history. That person is Michael Taylor. He had been Monsanto’s attorney before becoming policy chief at the FDA. Soon after, he became Monsanto’s vice president and chief lobbyist.” (Read more from huffingtonpost.com)
Title of the ruler of Russia. Taken from the word Caesar, which means emperor.
www.regentsprep.org/Regents/global/vocab/topic.cfm
Tsar or czar[1] is a Slavic term with Bulgarian origins used to designate certain monarchs. The first ruler to adopt the title tsar was Simeon I of Bulgaria [2]
Originally, the title Czar (derived from Caesar) meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who claims the same rank as a Roman emperor, with the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official (the Pope or the Ecumenical Patriarch).
Occasionally, the word could be used to designate other, non-Christian, supreme rulers. In Russia and Bulgaria the imperial connotations of the term were blurred with time and, by the 19th century, it had come to be viewed as an equivalent of King. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czar
“great lakes” czar???? wtf. what does that even mean?
re Holdren and Jones – while peoples pasts are certainly relevant in evaluating their fitness, you know, people can change their opinions.
oh and, re: Kerlikowske, i think its more worrying that he continues to claim cannabis is “dangerous” than him saying it has no medical benefit, which, i have to sort of agree with aside from promoting appetite.