List of Obama’s Czars

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)

Marc Faber on the Fed, Government intervention, 17% real unemployment & more

Mark Faber @ 7:30 – “The best reaction to a crisis is not to increase your fiscal deficits and government spending and ease money, what you should do is fire half the government staff, because the government in the U.S. , municipalities, states and the federal government is already half the economy. So you fire half of them, and make these characters work instead of just looking after their offices and doing nothing all day.”

“There are 33.8 million food stamp recipients in the United States out of an elligible population of about 200 million. . . so in short the unemployment rate is much higher in the U.S. than what the government is publishing. The publishing is lying.”

Marc Faber on the Fed, government intervention, 17% real unemployment, & more

Clinton says 9/11 ringleaders in Pakistan

“U.S. officials ‘firmly believe’ that al-Qaida leaders who planned and carried out the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are hiding in Pakistan near its border with Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday.

At a news conference concluding three days of meetings, Clinton said Washington has told the Pakistani government what it believes about the location of al-Qaida leaders on its soil.

‘With respect to the location of those who were part of the planning and execution of the attack of 9/11 against our country, we firmly believe that a significant number of them are in the border area of Pakistan,’ she said when asked about the U.S. view.” (Read more from myantiwar.org)

Let us fear. Let us hate. Let us have permanent war.

Show trials in Obama’s U.S.S.A. – Sooner than we thought

This excellent about our new administration was written by Yuri Maltsev.

Check out his excellent book, Requiem for Marx. Another excellent essay which serves as the book’s introduction is excerpted here.

Sooner Than We Thought
by Yuri N. Maltsev

The new Obama regime is taking shape in Washington and provinces eager to take power and secure the “change you can believe in” using humungous propaganda machine of both government radio and television and still privately owned, so-called “mainstream media.” These private networks are competing with National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in praising Obama’s first choices from his new dog to his new chief of staff.

The thought scene in the US today resembles that of Russia in 1917, Cuba in 1959 or China in 1948. Incessant calls for “unity” and “fairness,” attacks on “divisive,” “toxic” and “hateful” language are nothing new – they resemble Germany of 1932 and Venezuela of 1996, today’s Putin’s Russia and Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. . . .

In the old Marxist tradition, the new great Leader’s calls for “a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the U.S. military. His chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, had openly shared this vision of the civilian national security force (CNSF) in his book:

It’s time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service.

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A phone call from Moscow woke me up in the middle of the night. My friend Vladimir, former Soviet Army general turned reformer under Yeltsin and businessman under Putin, sounded slightly drunk and very agitated. “I am watching televised interrogation of Alan Greenspan and another guy by some Jewish investigator and it looks exactly like the “Great terror” is back, but not here, for a change. What is going on? Would they shoot all these economic subversives and saboteurs at the end of the day? ”

“I am not sure about that, definitely not at the end of the day. Maybe after elections,” I mumbled in response and went back to bed. My sleep was ruined however, and in a desperate attempt to get it back I opened Greenspan’s “Gold and Economic Freedom” chapter in Ayn Rand’s Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.

Yes, Comrade Waxman (D-CA) definitely has a case against former capitalist sympathizer Greenspan. This now repentant agent of the world capitalism wrote back in 1966 about Waxmans of the time:

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense – perhaps more clearly and subtly than many consistent defenders of laissez-faire – that gold and economic freedom are inseparable, that the gold standard is an instrument of laissez-faire and that each implies and requires the other.

Make no mistake about it – Greenspan was attacked by Waxman and the new socialist establishment because of his libertarian past and free-market rhetoric and not because of his job as chief inflationist and central planner. The show trial over Greenspan’s pro-capitalist past was turned by Waxman and his committee comrades into the trial against capitalism itself.

(Read the whole thing at lewrockwell.com)

Olmert: U.S. must stop focusing on settlements

“Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has called the United States’ focus on freezing construction in the West Bank an impediment to the Middle East peace process, in an article published in The Washington Post on Friday. . . .

He describes Israel’s partnership with the United States as ‘one of its greatest strategic assets’ and writes that both he and Sharon were successful in boosting this relationship ‘on all levels, based on deep and candid understandings, both written and oral.’ . . .

‘Yet today, instead of a political process, the issue of settlement construction commands the agenda between the United States and Israel,’ writes Olmert. . . .

He calls the current U.S. demands for a complete settlement freeze ‘impossible to completely enforce’ and a waste of time for valuable progress to be made in the peace process.” (Read more from haaretz.com)

There is no peace process. There is only the rhetoric which prolonges a long, slow, deliberate, bureaucratic destruction of Palestinian society.

I pay attention to this issue because my tax dollars subsidize Israel, and because, as even the 9/11 commission report acknowledged, our one-sided support for Israel is a major reason why the Muslim world hates us.

Israel rejects US call to halt Jerusalem project

“Israel on Sunday rejected a U.S. demand to suspend a planned housing project in east Jerusalem, threatening to further complicate an unusually tense standoff with its strongest ally over settlement construction.

Israeli officials said the country’s ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, was summoned to the State Department over the weekend and told that a project made up of 20 apartments developed by an American millionaire should not go ahead.

Settlements built on captured lands claimed by the Palestinians have emerged as a major sticking point in relations between Israel and the Obama administration because of their potential to disrupt Mideast peacemaking. . . .

On Sunday, Netanyahu told his Cabinet there would be no limits on Jewish construction anywhere in ‘unified Jerusalem.'” (Read more from news.yahoo.com)

There is no peace movement. There is only endless rhetoric meant to create the illusion of one while Israel steal as much Palestinian land as they can.

Israel cuts 1948 ‘catastrophe’ from Arabic texts

“The Israeli government will remove references to what Palestinians call the ‘catastrophe’ of Israel’s creation from textbooks for Arab schoolchildren, the education minister said Wednesday.

The reference to ‘al-naqba,’ the Arabic word catastrophe, as Palestinians call their defeat and exile in the war over Israel’s 1948 creation, was inserted by a dovish Israeli education minister in 2007.

The phrase remains contentious six decades later, a symptom of the continuing divisions in Israel. Many Israeli Arabs identify politically with their Palestinian counterparts in the West Bank and Gaza. As a result, some Israeli Jews accuse Israeli Arabs of disloyalty to the country.

Israel’s current government, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu and his hard-line Likud Party, includes members who favor cracking down on Israeli Arabs by ordering loyalty oaths or even moving them out of Israel.” (Read more from news.yahoo.com)

Time Magazine (1974): Another Ice Age?

“As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.

Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data. When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round.” (Read more from time.com)

See Also:
How to win the war on Global Warming

Shadow Government Statistics in the U. S. S. A.

I wanted to share an excellent website a friend introduced me to: www.shadowstates.com.

“John Williams’ Shadow Government Statistics is an electronic newsletter service that exposes and analyzes flaws in current U.S. government economic data and reporting, as well as in certain private-sector numbers, and provides an assessment of underlying economic and financial conditions, net of financial-market and political hype.”

Unemployment too high? No problem. Redefine people who can’t find jobs as something other than “unemployed.”

Even the consumer price index is showing inflation? No problem. Stop tracking food and energy.

GDP too low? No problem. Track GNP instead.

Still too low? No problem. Send it back to the Commerce Department until those anti-revolutionary Kulaks get it right!

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· During the Kennedy administration, unemployment was redefined with the concept of “discouraged workers” so as to reduce the popularly followed unemployment rate.

· If Lyndon Johnson didn’t like the growth that was going to be reported in the GNP, he sent it back to the Commerce Department, and he kept doing so until Commerce got it right. The Johnson administration also was responsible for gimmicking the accounting that hides most of the federal deficit.

· Richard Nixon had a highly publicized war with the Bureau of Labor Statistics on the unemployment data. Nixon wanted to report the unemployment rate as the lower of the seasonally adjusted or unadjusted number, at any given time, but not specify same to the public. While that approach was unconscionable at the time and never used, basically the same methodology was introduced in 2004 as “state-of-the-art” by the current Bush administration.

· The Carter administration was caught deliberately understating inflation.

· Systemic changes were introduced during the Reagan administration to boost reported GNP/GDP growth on a regular basis. The wildest manipulations, however, happened at the time of the 1987 liquidity panic. In addition to intervention in the futures markets by the New York Fed to help prop the stock market after the October 19th crash, direct and heavy manipulation of the trade deficit data, under the direction of the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury, was used in conjunction with massive currency intervention to help bottom the dollar and to contain the currency panic at year-end 1987.

· The first Bush Administration began efforts at the systematic reduction of the reported rate of CPI inflation, and worked an outside-the-system GDP manipulation aimed at helping with the failed 1992 reelection bid.

· As former Labor Secretary Bob Reich explained in his memoirs, the Clinton administration had found in its public polling that if the government inflated economic reporting, enough people would believe it to swing a close election. Accordingly, whatever integrity had survived in the economic reporting system disappeared during the Clinton years. Unemployment was redefined to eliminate five million discouraged workers and to lower the unemployment rate; methodologies were changed to reduce poverty reporting, to reduce reported CPI inflation, to inflate reported GDP growth, among others.

· The [current] Bush administration has expanded upon the Clinton era initiatives, particularly in setting the stage for the adoption of a new and lower-inflation CPI and in further redefining the GDP and the concept of seasonal adjustment.

Austrian Economist Patrick Barron after his presentation to EU

My Austrian Economics mentor, Patrick Barron and Benjamin Harnwell from Strasbourg, France regarding the historic Austrian Economic presentation they made to Members of the European Union Parliament on July 14, 2009.

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