“Thrown against the wall.”

OOFFFFF!

Still hurts….

Agreed. And he understood what people expected of a Dem presidential candidate enough to cover up his mistakes in being honest about what he meant to do when in power.

He is not stupid, but I just do not believe he understands anything about econ other that what makes him wealthy and gives him power. So, he sucks up and kicks down.

In defense of Occupy, it was the only group which got enough attention to the concept of the One Percent to make it a truly universal catch phrase. Just use it, and people all around tend top nod in agreement. They got it from Occupy and they still get it. They just have no idea how to fight the One Percent and their government and political running dog Corporatist lackeys.

Occupy was considered so dangerous that the Powers That Be got the full power of the Federal government to be used against it. Occupy was spied on, was followed and infiltrated, just like a terrist group would be. The Obama administration coordinated DHS with all the large urban anti-terrorism groups to bring down Occupy. The use of force was allowed, even with the bad publicity some of that use engendered. The PTB’s had to quash Occupy — it was growing too fast and winning over the hearts and minds of too many.

Someone mentioned that when local efforts become successful and attract adherents and implementations elsewhere, then the PTB’s make sure to pass laws, if possible, or make it economically impossible for others to do what the upstarts did. Why are there so few places like the city in TN which has monster broadband available at reasonable cost to its public and even surrounding area?? Because the oligarchs will not give up their monopolies.

Writing this is making me feel depressed again….

I think Obama does not really understand economics, but has been schooled into understanding what his rich benefactors wanted him to understand. In one of his books, he wrote that the more he was round his wealthy friends, the more he began to understand their point of view. D’uh.

Anyway, he cannot listen to Krugman, Baker, Stilitz, et al, because he might have to question what he has carefully come to assemble as what he thinks is the correct approach to economics. Ergo, he continues with his half- to no-hearted “stimulus,” while pushing full throttle to enact austerity he thinks will make the US more “competitive.” Cuts to SocSec and Medicare, then Medicaid; They are important to him and have been for long before his run for the presidency.

Obama really believes the US public lives too well and must adapt to a lower standard of living. The Chained CPI, which is really a measurement of how people adapt to lowered standards of living, thus appeals to him as the correct way to get people to live on less.

Since Obama depends on how his rich friends, especially Big Banksters and their toadies, think, and that is how he governs.

And he thinks we who think differently just don’t get it and must be, deserve to be, ignored. We are all like the “little single payer advocates,” for example, whom he can brush off. And did.

Think of all the things which a vast majority of Americans poll in favor of — and Obama just ignores.

Google found this article about the seasonsed olive oil, but it seems to apply to all olive oil, which now may be served in refillable pouring containers.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eu-bans-refillable-olive-oil-bottles-and-dipping-bowls-in-bid-to-end-food-fraud-8622049.html

Purportedly, EU trying to make sure customers get only the high quality oil they were promised…. Huh? That would make sense if there is a menu with choices of named olive oils, right? But if it’s primarily a gratis condiment? WTF?

Actually, Obama was into cutting SocSec and Medicare before the banksters trashed the economy. Because he learned his economics from rich banksters…and is unable to even think seriously about ideas from economists such as, oh, Krugman and Stiglitz.

Unless the lying running dog Corporatist lackeys lie to the voters very effectively. And the voters, for instance, think they’re getting the 21st C. FDR, but instead get Gordon Gecko, with a sprinkling of some socially liberal ideas, in drag.

And. oops, there goes the Democratic brand image!

I’m hoping maybe the AP will now pay attention to the biometric database being proposed for all adults in US as part of the new immigration law.

Gee, maybe they’ll pay attention to all the attacks on our civil liberties, now??

Be nice if the whole of the MCM (Mainstream Corporate Media) begins realizing what is going on concerning our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

One can hope….

Glenn Greenwald’s first volley; I sense Glenn may have more to say about this topic, eh?

Comment from above post:

Montecarlo2
14 May 2013 3:35pm. 52

Some words from Obama’s speech at the recent White House correspondents dinner now seem prescient:

The fact is I really do respect the press. I recognize that the press and I have different jobs to do. My job is to be President; your job is to keep me humble. Frankly, I think I’m doing my job better. (Laughter and applause.)

So just to keep you on your toes, I’ve asked Eric Holder to review all of your phone conversations with sources for the past year. (Shrieks of glee from the correspondents.)

(Full disclosure – I took some liberties by making up the second paragraph, but it does have truthiness).

If only we had Medicare for All, Improved!

And, a real Democratic president….

Emptywheel:

If Undiebomb 2.0 is one of the worst leaks of Holder’s career, why is John Brennan CIA director?

See also:

http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/05/14/the-ap-grab-nsl-versus-subpoena/

http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/05/13/a-full-two-month-period-that-covers-john-brennans-entire-drone-propaganda-campaign/

Holder defends DOJ tracking of AP phone calls — hourly news summary had quote that the leak was very, very, very, very, very serious breach and deeply affected national security.

Stay tuned!

Well, I have to admit I have some slight, ever so slight, hope for Markey.

But I do realize he has to play the Big Money game and win over the Corporatists.

So, as I said, on June 25th we’ll have a new MA senator, but we may not have any new policies on offer from him….

President Obama endorsed the strikes, “Israelis justifiably have to guard against the transfer of advanced weaponry to terrorist organizations like Hezbollah. We coordinate with the Israelis recognziing they are very close to Syria. They are very close to Lebanon. Hezbollah has repeatedly said they would be willing to attack as far as Tel Aviv. So, the Israelis have to be vigilant and concerned.”

Under Obama’s reasoning, Syria should have been bombing or shooting missiles into the US air force base in Turkey, Incirlik, since that is where our planes delivered not only weapons to be be secreted into Syria, but also fighters from the Libyan “triumph.” Mostly very radical Salafists and radicals.

So, want to think about what we and NATO would have done to Syria had they dared to use “illegal” tactics to protect their nation?

In today’s world, the hegemon, the US, and Isreal can do whatever they want to do with any remotely logical rational being used. Might makes right.

On WNYC’s Bian Lehrer Show this morning, during a discussion of the Israeli bombing of Syria, the evidence that the “rebels” used sarin gas first was brought up. It received little attention from either the host or the MCM reporter. It wasn’t known about or something.

Further on in the segment, a woman called up to express her astonishment that both the reporter and the host discussed the bombings as just being a normal and usual response of one nation to another. She asked about the rule of law, etc., and why there was no criticism of one nation bombing another as Israel has done to Syria at least 3 times this year. Self-defense was about the only justification brought up. (Didn’t Hitler use that one for invading serveral small nations which he posited were going to invade Germany? How’d that work out for him? Oh, yeah, Germany was the loser so whatever the winners said became the rule of law, eh?)

Of course, there were people callin in who ready and willing to see the US enter into war in Syria.

What a mess. And, alas, no mention at all that the US was behind initial arms shipments to “rebels,” and airlifted fighters from Libya to the US base in Turkey so they could enter Syria from that nation.

By the reasoning of Israel and the US, Syria should be legally able to just rop a few bombs or shoot a few missiles into our base at Incerlik…since it was used to transfer weapons to “rebels” and terrists. But if Syria did that, the US would enlist NATO to pulverize the entire nation.

Might makes right.

Capiche?