Barack Obama 2010

[Elandiel BernElve]

I don't get where he went off to...


Nevertheless.. it's a weird sight. Like going back in time

[Rocky_Shorz]

it's really funny...

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-li...-open/1264523/

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[AlkaMyst]

This is just in ladies and gentleman.....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zSNka7pICwE

Original Source, here.

Obama Signs $858 Billion Tax Cut Extension, Unemployment Benefits Into Law

President Obama signed an $858 billion measure that extends tax cuts for two years and unemployment benefits for 13 months on Friday afternoon. He hailed it as an important compromise between Republicans and Democrats and vital for the American people.

The Bush-era tax cuts were set to expire at the end of the year but now will be preserved until 2013.

"We are here with good news for the American people this holiday season," Obama said. "By a wide margin, both houses of Congress passed a package of tax relief that will protect the middle class, that will grow our economy and will create jobs for the American people."

As Neon Tommy previously reported, "The deal, which was struck by President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Republican leadership in the Senate, would extend the Bush tax cuts on individual income, capital gains and dividends for two more years. The legislation also imposes an estate tax of 35 percent on income above $5 billion. Democrats had sought to push that to 45 percent and lower the income threshold to $3.5 million. An amendment to make that change failed by about 20 votes in the House on Wednesday night...The debate about extending the tax cuts will come up again in the fall of 2012--about the same time Americans will have to decide on whether or not to re-elect Obama."

CBS News White House Correspondent Mark Knoller said on Twitter, "Obama uses a dozen pens to sign the bill. He says bill ensures millions of Americans will awake to a bigger paycheck on Jan 1."

Highlights of the $858 billion tax-cut package:
Income taxes: Extends Bush-era tax rates at all income levels. Cost: $186.8 billion
Alternative Minimum Tax: 20 million middle-income households spared AMT. $136.7 billion
Itemized deductions: More generous for high-income households. $20.7 billion
Standard deduction: Higher for married couples. $18 billion
Extension of sales-tax deductions: Washington residents take note. $5.5 billion
Payroll tax: Lowers Social Security tax from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent in 2011. $112 billion
Estate tax: 35 percent tax, over $5 million/individuals, $10 million/couples. $68.1 billion
Child tax credit: Expands who can claim $1,000 credit. $71.7 billion
Jobless benefits: Up to 99 weeks, through 2011. $56.5 billion
Source: Joint Committee on Taxation

[Lost Soul]

My interpretation is that the ruling elite are buying more time by throwing crumbs to the peasants. The time is needed to move their assets or themselves to a safe location that is far away from any potential mob. Some assets will take time to liquidate and thus they need more time.

End result is that when we fall, we will fall harder. The elites will come back and buy things pennies (or less) on the dollar. Then the medieval days will have been restored with very few owning anything and over 90% of the population serving as wage slaves. Hey, that's like some third world countries.

[Teakai]

I agree with you Lost Soul. They're just buying time.

[AlkaMyst]

My interpretation is that the ruling elite are buying more time by throwing crumbs to the peasants. The time is needed to move their assets or themselves to a safe location that is far away from any potential mob. Some assets will take time to liquidate and thus they need more time.

End result is that when we fall, we will fall harder. The elites will come back and buy things pennies (or less) on the dollar. Then the medieval days will have been restored with very few owning anything and over 90% of the population serving as wage slaves. Hey, that's like some third world countries.

Well, I think that's one possibility but the other one is that the are just getting ready for the major Natural Events that are about to happen, not to mention that it is possible already (and it has been since 2003....see here!) to see Planet-X (Nibiru) which causes major Cataclysms every time it comes around. We are headed for sure into a serious sequence of events that humanity is neither ready or prepared for. People need to start getting in touch with their inner selves and figuring out what this is all about because pretty soon it will be too late!!!

[AlkaMyst]

I agree with you Lost Soul. They're just buying time.

I also agree, but I think that we are the mists of something much, much bigger!!!............It's just my opinion!

[MariaDine]

Obama's uses executive order to take over internet .Barack Obama has a "Christmas surprise" for the American people. It's based upon the FCC's self-imposed December 21 deadline to implement new Internet rules.

Via the FCC, Mr. Obama wants to take control of the Internet---YOUR Internet---your ability to contact your friends, your relatives, and your elected representatives in government.

This "stealth" use of new rules and regulations will sneak up on us just before Christmas. Quite frankly, not too many people know about this; or really take the notion seriously, because, after all, we have the 1st Amendment to the U. S. Constitution to protect us. Right? Wrong!

The FCC is ready to add the Internet to its "portfolio" of regulated industries. The Obama Administration wants to take control of the Internet. BEFORE CHRISTMAS! (even though the regulations won't "officially" go into effect until after the holidays. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced that he has circulated "draft rules" that he says will "preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet." No statement---I call it a bald face lie---reflects the vast gulf between the rhetoric and the reality of Obama Administration policy.

Obama's FCC is ready to steal our Internet freedom by simply declaring it has the "right" to regulate it. Here's the underlying problem for Barack Obama. Internet journalists tend to report the news without coloring it with the brush of "political correctness." They challenge the lies that the Obama Administration puts out that the so-called "mainstream media" simply accept and repeat as the truth.

Congress needs to exercise their Constitutional authority and oversight over the FCC, by insisting that the FCC postpone the implementation of these new regulations until proper Congressional Committee hearings are held to determine whether the Executive Branch has the Constitutional authority to take over the Internet. Three federal judges in three different cases have already ruled that the Internet deserves the same protection under the First Amendment as printed material receives. We must not let the federal government continue to whittle away at our Constitutional freedoms!

We must be prepared to do battle with the intrusive FCC federal regulations that will clamp down on our 1st Amendment rights via the Internet. To protect our free speech rights on the Internet, we must contact every single Member of Congress and let them know they must NOT agree to the upcoming December 21st regulations! Will you do that for yourself and for the rest of us... today---please? This is so important; let me repeat my request so you understand the extreme urgency. Because, historically, when government seizes liberty, it's gone forever.

According to the Washington Times: "With a straight face, Mr. Genachowski suggested that government red tape will increase the 'freedom' of online services that have flourished because bureaucratic busybodies have been blocked from tinkering with the Web. Ordinarily, it would be appropriate at this point to supply an example from the proposed regulations illustrating the problem. Mr. Genachowski's draft document has over 550 footnotes and is stamped 'non-public, for internal use only' to ensure nobody outside the agency sees it until the rules are approved in a scheduled December 21 vote. So much for 'openness'!

Mr. Obama will use the FCC plans to implement control of cyberspace by issuing regulations. He blatantly insists that he has the right to regulate the Internet through the FCC---which regulates the other electronic mediums: radio and television. What Mr. Obama really means is that as long as the American people have unfettered access to the Internet, he cannot continue to spread his propaganda and bald face lies without being challenged, and he will be a one-term visitor at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Make no mistake; Barack Hussein Obama is very determined to undermine free speech by seizing cyber-control Internet free speech; under the disguise of making sure our safety and security are of prime importance. The recent WikiLeaks fiasco has helped him to rationalize this tremendous increase of government control to the American public.

Freedom and openness should continue to be the governing principles of the Internet. That's why Mr. Genachowski's December 21 proposals should be STOPPED by Members of Congress. In fact, both the U. S. Senate and the House of Representatives should make it even clearer that the FCC should STOP trying to expand its REGULATORY EMPIRE and should STOP trying to control our freedom of speech over the internet!

In the administration's zeal to "protect the people," the social progressive zealots in the Obama federal bureaucracy are not averse to writing the rules and regulations like this. It makes a clear statement. It takes away our freedoms on the Internet; but it is all under the claim of "protection."
That's why the proposed FCC Internet rules and regulations---THAT ARE ABOUT TO BE IMPLEMENTED without Congressional legislation being enacted---must be stopped by that Body whose legislative authority has been abridged.

Don't let the Obama Administration give you a government "Merry Christmas" via Internet controls. Send Barack Obama your personal "BAH, HUMBUG!"

Say "Merry Christmas" with a message that STOPS the federal government from crossing that Constitutional line by seizing the Internet. Barrack Hussein Obama blames the Tea Party Revolution, and the results of the 2010 election, on the American conservatives' unfettered access to the Internet. That appears to be the real reason that the Obama Administration authorized the FCC power grab to regulate the Internet. Obama talking heads might refer to regulation as a form of "Net Neutrality," or a cyber-version of the "Fairness Doctrine." But, plain and simple, it is plain, old fashioned, censorship of the views of a majority by a frightened minority who want to silence that majority.

Are you part of the no-longer "silent" majority which believes that the 1st Amendment protects our right to speak our mind, in the public forum of the Internet, or at a Town Hall meeting? Free speech is free. Don't let anyone regulate your right to speak. Get involved. Now. Today.

When it comes to the Internet, bipartisan majorities in Congress have insisted on maintaining a strict hands-off policy whenever the left has proposed legislation to impose censorship through regulation. A federal appeals court confirmed this in April, by striking down the FCC's last attempt to do it. In order for the FCC to take this control, it needs Congress to give it explicit statutory authority to do so. Since they have chosen not to, Mr. Obama intends to just do it himself. The Obama Administration is overstepping its Constitutional boundaries? These proposed regulations prove that!
December 21 is only days away.

Freedom of the Press is guaranteed by the First Amendment. Federal judges have ruled specifically that the Internet has the exact same freedoms. But the Obama Administration is trying to control the Internet... and YOU!

On December 1, with an impending implementation on December 21st, Mr. Genachowski announced to the media that he had circulated his draft rules memo. He said it will "... preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet," adding that the federal government will increase the freedom of online services because, he noted, heavy use in some areas of the Internet slow the "web experience" for everyone sharing the same information superhighway lines.

Even though that may be partially true, the United States government should not dictate to us what we can and cannot do on the Internet. Period.

Although the federal judiciary has extended First Amendment protection to the Internet, Barack Obama believes that he has the executive authority, WITHOUT legislation enacted by Congress, to arbitrarily regulate who uses cyberspace and what access they may enjoy, based entirely on the content of the material that they wish to publish there. If this isn't a violation of our basic rights as Americans, I do not know what is!



http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin...gi?read=190441

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.............Thoughts ...anyone ?!

Namasté
MD

[norman]

Posted by MariaDine (here)


.............Thoughts ...anyone ?!

Never let a good Christmas go to waste.

[MariaDine]

http://www.euronews.net/2010/12/14/e...ileaks-affair/

[MariaDine]

Freedom of information exchange and cybersecurity have been under intense discussion in the European Parliament.

Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso was pressured to describe his role in the case of leaked diplomatic cables and the unrelated legal action against the WikiLeaks website founder Julian Assange.

“Regarding accusations to a specific person, I am not a tribunal and the Commission is not supposed to make comments on specific accusations against specific individuals because the Commission is not and is not to be a tribunal and has no presumptions of culpability of a specific individual.”

As to recent revelations, Barroso said it was up to the relevant countries “to carry out clarifications.”

He underscored that freedom of expression is a fundamental right but also defended rules on data protection.

Copyright © 2010 euronews

[shadowstalker]

I certainly don't need protection from the internet cops. I know where all the porn sites are(LOL) and have a copy of Nortens

[MariaDine]

LOL

[sjkted]

Where is the original executive order? Does anyone have that or is this just another rumor? I want to see some of the mechanics of what they would attempt to do.

--sjkted

[Rocky_Shorz]

I always think it is funny when people first come to the realization that someone might be watching and freak out thinking it has never happened before...

who cares!!! LOL someone want my grandma's famous chocolate chip cookie recipe?

how many times have we gone to a site everyone is talking about and the link doesn't work...

eyes have been watching since the internet began...

[MariaDine]

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...itch-Read-more

[Fred Steeves]

Contacting one's congressman about an important issue any more is no different then complaining to your local police chief about their revenue enhancing speed traps. Best of luck with that one. These people don't work for us any more, they haven't for a very long time. A line from a Chief Jim Billie song comes to mind with what his grandfather told him about the white man.

He will smile and shake your hand
He will lie and take your land
He is one you'll never understand

They are going to do what they are going to do. This is the end game for them. Cap and trade can't get the vote? We'll just decree it to be under the authority of the EPA. Don't want government run health care? We'll do it anyway. Want us to stop our military from spreading death and destruction all over the world? You're un-American.

The internet is indeed VERY dangerous to these"people". This is not what they planned, it backfired in their face. It's gotta go. What they may not realise because of their arrogance is that the horses are already out of the barn. Go ahead, close the door, it's too late fella.

Maybe Uncle Joe Stalin(as Roosevelt referred to him) can sum up their point of view with his famous quote: " Ideas are more powerful then guns, we would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"

RIGHT NOW WE HAVE BOTH

Cheers,
Fred S.

[rgray222]

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced that he has circulated "draft rules" that he says will "preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet."

This quote from Chairman Genachowski tells us the the Internet is free and open so why would they want to impose some form of regulation. There are only two reasons I can think;
1. To control what we view, read and listen to
2. To have the Internet become a source of revenue

Most of know that once they start any form of regulation it only becomes more intrusive over time. This outrageous control over our lives should be viewed as contempt from our Government. It makes little difference which side of the political spectrum you fall on, we should all be against this type of Government control.

Many people had predicted that the wikileaks incident would provide fuel for the Government to impose this control on the citizens of the US and now this appears to be true.

I know that many think contacting their representative is like blowing in the wind but trust me that if enough contact them they do pay attention. Doing nothing and adopting a defeatist attitude only insures this type of behavior in the future.

http://www.fcc.gov/contacts.html

[Rocky_Shorz]

I have to admit last night when I got home and turned on the TV to find a blank screen, it really hit home...

I can't imagine not being able to surf the web

I'd go through Project Avalon withdrawals...