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Obama To Announce Ash Carter As New Defense Chief, Boast About November Jobs: Live Webcast

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The ink isn't dry yet on the amazing midterm drubbing of the democrats over what most Americans said were deteriorating economic issues and a recovery that continues to only be there on BLS goalseeked paper, and lo and behold, here is Obama, about to boast about today's whopper of a jobs number, in which the BLS proudly reported the US hired some 321K workers in November, mostly temps, secretaries, retail and leisure workers and teachers. That, and the president is also expected to announce the choice of Ash Carter as the new Secretary of Defense.

 

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Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:15 | 5520481 Bill of Rights
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We had to fire some folks...

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:30 | 5520551 gafgroocK
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Please Tylers, I beg of you, no real-time Obama speechs in the morning!!

 

Many here can't hold breakfast down (most important meal of the day) when that Clown goes on-air

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 12:58 | 5520909 noben
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I realize you're being sarcastic, but I do what most reason-able people (yes, People, not folks) would do:  Avoid watching "that Clown".

Old joke: Guy goes to the doctor and says "Doctor, my head keeps hurting when I bang it against the wall".  Doctor says "Then stop banging your head against the wall".

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 16:14 | 5521577 El Oregonian
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Ash...hmmm... What an appropriate name to what will be left after the Destruction...

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:15 | 5520483 Four chan
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so hes the guy who gets the military industrial complexes kickbacks and revolving door treatment after hes out in the private sector?

 

maybe i should wait for obummer to tell us this, lol yeah right.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:17 | 5520492 LawsofPhysics
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Even better, he is another financier with absolutely no military experience.

Fuck.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 12:27 | 5520777 Ignatius
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Are the Neocons complaining of this choice or expressing dissention?

You know, the ol' Neocon Reverse Indicator.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 12:28 | 5520790 LawsofPhysics
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Great question, the silence is deafening.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 16:24 | 5521619 El Oregonian
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"John Carter, Warlord of Mars"

Any relation to Ash per chance?

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 13:05 | 5520924 Grimaldus
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Neocon=progressive.

And yes, she has been complaining, bloody hands hillary wants moar woar.

No real constitutional conservative starts wars or interferes in sovereign nation affairs. Only progressive criminals do that shit.

Grimalus

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 13:03 | 5520920 noben
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I suspect that's because those skills won't be needed for long, as the time between Currency Wars and Nuclear War won't be very long.

Now think of the song Desperado.  Or is it Hotel California?  Maybe 99 Luftballons.  I'm sure there's a song that fits the situation and metaphor.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 13:52 | 5521081 kchrisc
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Still all in the Goldman family.

"Previously, Carter was a senior partner of Global Technology Partners focused on advising investment firms in technology and defense, and an advisor to Goldman Sachs on global affairs."

The below quote caught my eye, as it made me think of those dictators, and their sycophants, in third-world countries that like to wear lots of medal that they have awarded themselves:

For his service to national security, Carter has on five occasions been awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal. He received the Defense Intelligence Medal for his contributions to intelligence, and the Joint Distinguished Service Medal from the Chairman and Joint Chiefs of Staff.

An American, not US subject.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Carter

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:22 | 5520514 TeamDepends
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Bullish for WWIII. God help us

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:18 | 5520496 medium giraffe
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Ayatollah Hussein of Obamastan, he speaks! 

Bow low, filthy dogs.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:24 | 5520522 Cpl Hicks
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Allahhhhhhhhh Akbarrrr!

May the fleas of a thousand Occupiers contine to plague him to the end of his days.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:38 | 5520579 TeamDepends
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Merry Christmas, Islam! "Saying 'Merry Christmas' is worse than fornication, drinking alcohol, or killing someone." Check out the bearded dousche "cleric" saying this at barenakedislam.com. Cheers!

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 12:04 | 5520680 Billy Sol Estes
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More like Al`s Outback Barrbekue

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:21 | 5520503 Dr. Engali
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Behold... Ashton Carter. The man who will be responsible for unleashing the military on the citizens of the U.S as the country continues to deteriorate, all in the name of national security of course... oh and it's for the children.

 

 

Edit: Listen to those sycophants of the "press" giggle as they await their beloved dear leader. 

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:34 | 5520565 fuu
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Oddly enough his name is an anagram of Anthraces Rot.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:34 | 5520570 Ahoy Polloi
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Top anagram:  Act Rash Re:

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 12:08 | 5520690 thatthingcanfly
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Is it Good Ash, or Bad Ash?

"Good, bad, ... I'm the guy with the gun."

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 13:14 | 5520940 noben
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I rather suspect that these guys are taking the attitude of those generals who won Blitzkriegs in the West Banks and the Sinai:  When you know that your huge enemy is getting ready for war in 6-12 months, you attack him in 6-12 weeks.  E.g., 1948, 1967, 1973.

IOW:  Sometimes, the best Defense is a good and speedy Offense.  This is exactly what the US behavior feels like.  Except that the US is using a more diverse forms of warfare in its game of Dominance:  PR, Sanctions, Currency Wars, Proxy Warriors. 

All designed to soften and weaken the enemy before the final assault.  Kinda like shelling them in their bunkers for days, before you send in ground troops.  D-Day's coming, by the looks of it.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 13:48 | 5521075 Bollixed
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I think a better analogy is a teenager masterbating before his junior prom.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:24 | 5520518 Duc888
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Yup, connected to Goldman Sux.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:24 | 5520519 clade7
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Ash Carter?  Sounds like a crematory position

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:24 | 5520520 rejected
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Wow, more of those hysterical anti pop tart gun teachers hired. Just what the doc ordered.

And the pic on the article teaser answers it all. Everything!

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:25 | 5520526 Hohum
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Ashton?  Loved him on "Punked" and "Two and a Half Men."

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:26 | 5520527 Bill of Rights
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Why did they all stand LMAO!...oh wait I know...He's a GOD!!!

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:27 | 5520532 Cpl Hicks
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Barry is raining on Ash's parade!

WTF?

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:27 | 5520533 OMG
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Previously, Carter was a senior partner of Global Technology Partners focused on advising investment firms in technology and defense, and an advisor to Goldman Sachs on global affairs.

He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group.

Nuff said

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:40 | 5520574 localizer
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CFR?! Here it is - the ultimate NWO list, pay particular attention to the "corporate membership" secion:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_the_Council_on_Foreign_Relations

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 12:00 | 5520661 Amish Hacker
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And the mainstream media luminaries: Tom Brokaw, Katie Couric, Erin Burnett, the loathsome Thomas Friedman, the gang from "independent, non-commercial" NPR, and many more. Don't expect a lot of tough investigative journalism from this crowd. The First Amendment is dead and buried.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:26 | 5520534 A82EBA
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Karen Hudes interesting video posted on SD under the Willie video

What is Aurem (sp?) and Global Debt Facility?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl3kaBSl2p8

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:36 | 5520535 Dr. Engali
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Hey you stupid fuck..... If things were so fucking good in this country you wouldn't have to tell us. Now watch the press start sucking his dick and proclaiming an economic miracle.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:28 | 5520538 SickDollar
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Another  Muppet show today

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:29 | 5520546 medium giraffe
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MOAR national security!  Wooo!

 

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:43 | 5520547 rejected
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From Wiki

Previously, Carter was a senior partner of Global Technology Partners focused on advising investment firms in technology and defense, and an advisor to Goldman Sachs on global affairs. At Harvard’s Kennedy School, he was professor and chair of the International Relations, Science, and Security faculty. He served on the boards of the MITRE Corporation, Mitretek Systems, MIT’s Lincoln Laboratories, and a member of the Draper Laboratory Corporation. Carter has been a member of the Defense Policy Board, the Defense Science Board, and the Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group.

 

Harrrrvord, Goldman, CFR, MIT,,,, Another blood sucking MIC leach. Joy...

EDIT:

They hand out medals to these perv's. From Wiki

For his service to national security, Carter has on five occasions been awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal. He received the Defense Intelligence Medal for his contributions to intelligence, and the Joint Distinguished Service Medal from the Chairman and Joint Chiefs of Staff.

And for lowly vets service to the nation they get....... to die in the woods waiting for their VA appointment.

 

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:28 | 5520549 Boscovius
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Ashton Carter  Secretary of Offense.

FIFY

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 14:31 | 5521224 Meat Hammer
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Secretary of War was a little too truthy.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:37 | 5520581 overmedicatedun...
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ash is his name ...ashes of burned out cities and millions dead incinerated ashes..the pale horse of the end times.. oops sorry for my thinking his name has any significance any symbolism..but maybe.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:39 | 5520589 FreeShitter
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This cocksucker pledging to obama......fuck I want off this planet.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:45 | 5520614 Dr. Engali
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Did he really pledge to Obama? I had to turn this garbage off before I got sick? 

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:50 | 5520620 clade7
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Yeah..that was tough to watch...I puked in my pants...

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:42 | 5520602 clade7
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His secretary is a Bond Girl called... Ashley Wednesday...

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:45 | 5520613 vegas
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And the 6 people on PMSNBC will be the only ones listening to Emperor Goebbels.

 

www.traderzoo.mobi

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 12:06 | 5520684 xavi1951
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Meanwhile, Hildabeast thinks we should have empathy and understanding for our enemies, ISIS?  And, the Obumer wants sanctions against Israel, "I will side with the Muslims" (from his book).

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 12:14 | 5520729 LFMayor
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Ash Carter.  That's a manly name!   How many ears does this fucking double chin sweater vest wearing beta have on his necklace?

I bet this dink has creases in his one pair of blue jeans.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 12:17 | 5520736 Dick Gazinia
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What an ash hole

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 12:30 | 5520799 altheatoldme
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If you were one of the 321K that got a job, you would be kind of happy, I think.

just sayin,,

but then again, I fully expect Zerohedge to rain on any good news, no matter what it is..

 

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 12:40 | 5520840 TideFighter
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You never go FULL GRUBER! That's just retarded.  

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 12:40 | 5520841 25or6to4
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Altheatoldme
Have you ever worked for a temp agency? Also I would imagine most retailers have put off Christmas hiring until the last moment needed in order to save $s.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 12:54 | 5520887 overmedicatedun...
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althea, you read the numbers and it was a good report?? really? like all those that dropped out of the workforce are just numbers to you? do you have to remind yourself to breathe? to read the signs on doors that say Push to open? well if you do- I am calling you an idiot.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 16:50 | 5521734 altheatoldme
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I did read the report overmedicatedun,,thanks for calling me an idiot. You can spin the #'s anyway you like-and after reading this site daily I realize its all gloom all the time. The one thing I can't understand is why all the haters don't move somewhere better, like....

 

The 321,000 advance in payrolls followed a 243,000 increase in October that was stronger than previously reported, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. The jobless rateheld at a six-year low of 5.8 percent and earnings rose by the most since June of last year.

 

The fewest Americans since October 2008 are working part-time for economic reasons, while more reported taking up those gigs voluntarily, the report showed. The share of jobless who’ve been unemployed for 27 weeks or more dropped to 30.7 percent for its best reading since June 2009.

The underemployment rate -- which includes part-time workers who’d prefer a full-time position and people who want to work but have given up looking -- declined to 11.4 percent last month, its lowest level since September 2008.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 13:38 | 5521023 Meat Hammer
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althetoldme, you sound like one of those idiots that says, "I love Obama!  I'm doing great!"

Now run along and play.  The grown-ups are trying to have a conversation.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 17:56 | 5521977 altheatoldme
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Is it tough being the first member of your family to stand on two feet, Meat Hammer.

Also, were you a bottle baby? It appears so.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 12:31 | 5520800 25or6to4
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Who hires teachers in November? Substitutes maybe because full time teachers are burnt out after a harrowing two months on the job.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 12:35 | 5520819 Lumberjack
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We moar'd some folks.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 12:45 | 5520852 Hamm Jamm
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I vote of an inanimate CARBON ROD !   

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 12:51 | 5520876 Meat Hammer
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If our media were replete with actual journalists instead of Obama cock-gobblers, the presser would go something like this:

Mr. President, while we are pleased to hear that the economy is allegedly improving, you seem to boast a lot about it, as if it somehow is a direct or indirect result of your actions as President.  So, could you please do the members of the media and the American people a favor and explain to us, in detail with concrete, quantifiable examples how your actions and/or policies directly benefitted our economy and how they will continue to do so moving forward?

Can you imagine the look on the douchebag's face if someone were to ask him that?

Never. Gonna. Happen.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 12:57 | 5520900 alexcojones
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Ashton Crutcher Carter.

Starred in such memorable films as "Dude, Where's My Country," and the nightmare film, The Butterfly Effect, coming to a country near you. Ours and others.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 13:23 | 5520984 pine_marten
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I was watching a test pattern on channel 10.  Did I miss anything?

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 13:23 | 5520987 Notsobadwlad
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Hey, can anyone tell me if the scar(s) on Obama's head thing is real? Images in link below:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=obama+scar+on+head&id=D701D238A88F04F36B79CD42F67A6DD3141DD4FD&FORM=IQFRBA

It makes one wonder:

1. Reconstructive surgery

2. Implants (although one would think that they could run him to be better than a stuttering idiot when talking off the cuff)

3. What else?

Is the whole mystery about Obama that the "whateveritis" in the Whitehouse is not really the original Barry Soetoro and that whoever is behind him has left a trail of death an destruction that has frightened the life out of every politician? Or is there a mind conrol component? People do seem to begrudingly do the bidding of Obama after he put pressure on them. Look at Boehner and Cristy who had huge tunrarounds and are now Obamanoids. Is it fear, mind control or something else?

Just like there is speculation that Hitler died (in a protest march where he was shot and presumed dead) just prior to going to prison (where he wrote a book and suddenly became popular)and was replaced by a walk-in substitute, maybe the same is true for Obama? Is that crazy? It is a world that makes no sense given what we are told that we should believe.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 14:09 | 5521141 cgbspender
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Is that crazy? It is a world that makes no sense given what we are told that we should believe.

 

No, it's not crazy at all. I'm glad to hear that you have already actualized the concept that reality is absurd, despite the efforts of the Leviathan to say otherwise.

 

To be honest, I have given serious contemplation to the same idea - what if Obama is some sort of replicant? I would say at this point, anything is on the table. If you've got true black magicians like Jack Parsons and Michael Aquino running military research programs in the early half of the last century, I fail to understand how any conclusion could be more absurd than "trust us, everything is ok".

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 13:44 | 5521054 kchrisc
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They didn't have someone selected and waiting in the wings, and other criminals they approached didn't want it.

Something evil(er), this way comes.

An American, not US subject.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 13:59 | 5521116 sheikurbootie
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I've never made it through more than a few seconds of this fucker's speeches.  He's on the TV every fucking day!  What the fuck!

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 14:14 | 5521135 NuYawkFrankie
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If Ash Carter gets his way with WW3 -

the ashes he's gonna be carting, to the dump, will be ours..

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 14:12 | 5521155 sheikurbootie
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Interesting day yesterday.  I had lunch with a couple of old friends.  Both are conservative/independent leaning and extremely successful money wise.  One sees the economy crashing and we've talked about it.  He says it's like a slow moving train wreck.  The other has always defended the economy as being on the rebound and "turning the corner".  Yesterday he AGREED that the economy was spiraling down and asked if he should buy gold and more guns/ammo.  He was asking how bad we thought it might get in our area, etc.  A total 180 from our conversation on the subject 5-6 months ago.  He admitted that his reasoning behind the "hope" was that he didn't want to see his adult kids grow up collapsing America.  I didn't ask what happened or caused his mind to change, but he had lost a couple of huge million dollar deals from cut backs and one very large company that declared bankruptcy.  That deal cost him $250,000 out of his own pocket.  Welcome to the new America.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 14:26 | 5521206 kchrisc
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Off topic, and kind of sick if one knows Obama's REAL story.

 

Obama Romance Movie In Works – Who Will Play Young Barack?

The White House legend that is Barack and Michelle Obama’s romance is heading to the screen. Southside With You, a drama in the vein of Before Sunrise, chronicles the summer 1989 afternoon when the future President of the United States of America wooed his future First Lady on an epic first date across Chicago’s South Side.

“Stephanie and I are excited to produce this smart and timeless film that sheds light on one of the great love stories of our time,” said Bing. “Richard really captures the essence of that romantic connection between Barack and Michelle that is so evident in the way that they look at each other. We are looking forward to finding the perfect Barack.”

http://deadline.com/2014/12/obama-movie-first-date-cast-1201309705/

 

If I made this film, it would be called, "He Gets a Beard. It Gets a Man"

 

An American, not US subject.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 14:32 | 5521229 Darkside
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Carter

This fucker is a businessman

Goldman

GRAB WHAT YOU CAN - WE ARE ALL FUCKED

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 14:52 | 5521288 q99x2
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I refuse to look.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 14:57 | 5521301 Otto Zitte
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soon, every American will be required to register their biological property in a National system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will affect our security as a chargeback for our fiat paper currency. Every American will be forced to register or suffer not being able to work and earn a living. They will be our chattel, and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant under the scheme of secured transactions. Americans, by unknowingly or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, forever to remain economic slaves through taxation, secured by their pledges. They will be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to make us a profit and they will be non the wiser, for not one man in a million could ever figure our plans and, if by accident one or two would figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability. After all, this is the only logical way to fund government, by floating liens and debt to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges. This will inevitably reap to us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor or to this fraud which we will call “Social Insurance.” Without realizing it, every American will insure us for any loss we may incur and in this manner; every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption and, we will employ the high office of the President of our dummy corporation to foment this plot against America.

Edward Mandell House, Woodrow Wilson's Valereggie Jarretelosilove

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 15:03 | 5521322 pupdog1
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Obama's apparatchik must have the goods on this nerd. Everyone else turned the job down because of Kenyan micromanagement.

Fri, 12/05/2014 - 17:51 | 5521962 bid the soldier...
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O F F   T O P I C

The coincidence of the week

KENYA ARRESTS 77 CHINESE NATIONALS IN CYBER BUST

NAIROBI (AA) – The Kenyan police have arrested 77 Chinese nationals for allegedly planning a major cyber-attack in the East African country.

Police spokesman Masoud Mwinyi said that the group was discovered after a fire had erupted in a house in Nairobi’s Runda estate on Wednesday.

“A fire was reported in Runda Estate in Nairobi. We had been informed that one Chinese national had died in the fire so we had to send our officers to see if they can establish the cause of the fire,” Mwinyi told The Anadolu Agency on Thursday.

“Our officers came across sophisticated gadgets in the house which we believe are capable of crippling the country’s communication system,” he said.

“We also came across 36 Chinese nationals huddled in a room in the house,” Mwinyi said.

The police spokesman said that most of those arrested did not know how to speak English and had no papers to show that they were legally in the country.

“By yesterday evening, a total of 77 Chinese nationals have been arrested for either being illegally in the country or being part of the group from Runda,” Mwinyi said.

Kenya has in the past fallen prey to hackers who have caused the country to lose millions of dollars from cyber-attacks.

A 2014 report on Cyber Security released by the Ministry of Information showed that Kenya loses over $22 million annually to cyber-crime.

The report also revealed that cyber-attacks have been on the rise since 2012.

http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/36863
Kenyan President 'excited' as ICC prosecutors drop charges

AMSTERDAM AND NAIROBI — Reuters

PublishedFriday, Dec. 05 2014

Kenyatta said Friday that he was “excited” after hearing the news, and said he wanted a case against his deputy, William Ruto, dropped too. In his first comments, he said: “One down, two to go,” a reference to Ruto and another Kenyan also facing charges of crimes against humanity at the court

He also said he was “excited” and wanted to “run home to my wife” to tell her the news.

Judges at the Hague-based court had on Wednesday given the prosecution a week to decide whether to proceed with their case against Kenyatta, who was accused of fomenting ethnic violence after the 2007 election, or to withdraw the charges.

“The evidence has not improved to such an extent that Mr Kenyatta’s alleged criminal responsibility can be proven,” prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said in a court filing.

Prosecutors have said Kenyatta, who had been accused of orchestrating a wave of deadly violence after Kenya’s 2007 elections, used his political power to obstruct their investigation, especially since becoming president last year.

Kenyatta’s lawyers rejected the accusations.

The court did not, however, acquit Kenyatta of the charges, as his lawyers had requested. That means the charges could be brought again in future if more evidence becomes available.

Fergal Gaynor, counsel for the victims, said in a statement the withdrawal of the charges would disappoint the estimated 20,000 victims of the crimes charged in this case.

“It is regrettable that the victims have received almost nothing from the entire ICC process,” Gaynor said.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/icc-drops-kenyan-presidents-cr...
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Fri, 12/05/2014 - 18:11 | 5522010 prymythirdeye
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This psychopath is bad news.  NOTHING CHANGES.  MOAR WAR

Sat, 12/06/2014 - 02:43 | 5523177 fibonacci's claus
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this ash carter guy is going to give obama sun burn.  rest assured !  mark my words  !  when obama starts to look a little "ashy" it won't be because of the sun, it will be because of ash carter. 

HIS NAME IS ASH CARTER

HIS NAME IS ASH CARTER

HIS NAME IS ASH CARTER

 

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