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Obama: America's Second Teflon President?
by Stephen Lendman
New poll numbers show recent scandals haven't hurt his approval rating.
According to a CNN/ORC International survey, 53% of Americans approve his job as president. Another 45% disapprove.
Throughout much of his tenure, he hovered around 50%. According to Gallup, he scored highest from January 22 - 24, 2009 at 69%.
At 38%, he scored lowest from October 15 - 17, 2011. His average approval from January 20, 2009 to the present is 49%.
From 1938 - 2013, the average for US presidents is 54%. After his November 2012 reelection, Obama's approval rating was 52%.
Milliman Medical Index on Obamacare
by Stephen Lendman
Milliman calls itself one of "the world's largest providers of actuarial and related products and services."
It provides independent consulting services. It does so in areas including healthcare among others. It says it maintains "rigorous standards of professional excellence, peer review and objectivity."
It publishes a Milliman Medical Index (MMI). It represents the projected cost for employer-sponsored managed care preferred provider organization (PPO) healthcare coverage. It does so for a family of four comprised of two adults and two children.
On May 23, Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) featured its latest MMI.
It reveals America's deplorable state of healthcare coverage. Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA) made things worse.
Peace Process Pretense
by Stephen Lendman
Peace process initiatives were stillborn from inception. Decades of futility define them. Palestinians genuinely want peace. They deserve it and much more.
Israeli leaders pretend they care. Doing so conceals their dark agenda. They deplore peaceful conflict resolution. They prioritize violence and instability.
They want all valued parts of Judea and Samaria exclusively for Jews. They want Palestinians occupied, exploited, abused and denied. They don't negotiate. They demand.
On February 1, Hillary Clinton stepped down as Secretary of State. John Kerry replaced her. He's made four Middle East trips so far. He's up to no good.
America's Greatest Challenge
by Timothy Gatto
I’ve been reading a few articles on the “alternative” media which really have me thinking. One, by Chris Hedges entitled “Rise Up or Die” made me think about just how bad things really are nowadays here in the USA. The other article by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, “You are The Hope” was also a particularly dark piece.
It’s not that I don’t agree with what the two have said…I do; still, I don’t think they quite accurately reflect the growing dis-connects between what many Americans and the mainstream media, along with the Powers That Be would have us believe.
At this moment in time (I reserve the right to change my mind at a moment’s notice), from talking to people I have been meeting in my travels, there really isn’t much support for the President or the Congress. People don’t seem to be buying what they are selling on the corporate media. I heard today (mostly from the Democrat megaphone on MSNBC) that the President’s approval rating is actually up this week. I’m starting to wonder who exactly was really polled.
From Iraq, a tragic reminder to prosecute the war criminals
John Pilger
The dust in Iraq rolls down the long roads that are the desert's fingers. It gets in your eyes and nose and throat; it swirls in markets and school playgrounds, consuming children kicking a ball; and it carries, according to Dr. Jawad Al-Ali, "the seeds of our death". An internationally respected cancer specialist at the Sadr Teaching Hospital in Basra, Dr. Ali told me that in 1999, and today his warning is irrefutable. "Before the Gulf war," he said, "we had two or three cancer patients a month. Now we have 30 to 35 dying every month. Our studies indicate that 40 to 48 per cent of the population in this area will get cancer: in five years' time to begin with, then long after. That's almost half the population. Most of my own family have it, and we have no history of the disease. It is like Chernobyl here; the genetic effects are new to us; the mushrooms grow huge; even the grapes in my garden have mutated and can't be eaten."
Along the corridor, Dr. Ginan Ghalib Hassen, a paediatrician, kept a photo album of the children she was trying to save. Many had neuroplastoma. "Before the war, we saw only one case of this unusual tumour in two years," she said. "Now we have many cases, mostly with no family history. I have studied what happened in Hiroshima. The sudden increase of such congenital malformations is the same."
Hezbollah's Nasrallah: Syria's the "Linchpin of Resistance"
by Stephen Lendman
Speaking on the 13th anniversary of Lebanon's Resistance and Liberation Day, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addressed grave regional dangers.
America, Israel, and takfiris (extremist Muslims, infidels, apostates) pose it. Syria's the "linchpin of resistance," he stressed.
"It (it) falls in the hands of the US, Israel and the takfiris, the Lebanese resistance will be beleaguered and Israel will enter Lebanon."
"If Syria falls, this means that Palestine will be lost, and a bleak future awaits the peoples of the region."
America’s Time Capsule: How Animosity and Wickedness Degenerates its Future
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD
Leaders create new leaders with vision and integrity to imagine the universal phenomenon of change and futuristic developments. Human happiness and progress move horizontally in peace-time, not in continuing warmongering and irrational threats to other people and nations. America used to be a leader of change and new strategies to envisage global friendship, co-existence and harmony of the mankind. This week, President Obama morally stressful and intellectually exhausted in his final White House term of office, spoke on the American priorities on the War on Terrorism, global affairs and the overwhelming sexual assaults across the US armed forces.
Obama at Annapolis
by Stephen Lendman
Obama represents the worst of rogue leadership. He's a war criminal multiple times over. He's guilty of numerous other crimes. He belongs in prison, not high office.
On May 24, he addressed Naval Academy graduates. Why any showed up they'll have to explain. So does why those doing so didn't diss him.
The 2013 graduates include 1,047 men and women. Nearly three-fourths are navy ensigns. The others are marine lieutenants, three air force ones, and 16 foreign exchange students.
Midshipmen are required to take an Oath of Office, stating: "Having been appointed a midshipman in the United States Navy, do you solemnly swear (or affirm) that you will support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter, so help you God."
US Violations of Our 3-D Printer Rights via ‘Bogeymen’?
By Tracy Turner
Which is likelier, being shot with a 3-d printed plastic gun, or getting
burned in a car fire? Image
1990’s, Netscape or Internet Explorer? For those who have not followed the Open Source Movement – while many or most of you were arguing Mac or Windows, Free BSD was doing cartwheels where Mac System 6 and Windows 3.1 (both could play music CD’s, neither could surf the web) could barely stay booted-up. But deceased Steve Jobs and Monsanto’s Michael Taylor could well surpass Bill Gates position as most hated man on Earth today if either could corner 3-d techno, now. BTW, opensource Firefox works the best. This is not about guns, this is about Boardwalk Place billionaire monopoly via Plutarchs.
Let us digress – the government has focused the corrupt lamestream media on to guns as populace boogeyman aka fear mongering. How many of your loved ones were assassinated via plastic homemade guns? How many of your loved one’s might soon in the future need a 3-d bio-liver, 3-d bio-kidney or 3-d bio-cornea transplant? The great national panic is the consumer printing their own, bypassing Astra Zeneca, Dow, 3M and Monsanto.
Engineering Empire: An Introduction to the Intellectuals and Institutions of American Imperialism
Andrew Gavin Marshall
Educating yourself about empire can be a challenging endeavor, especially since so much of the educational system is dedicated to avoiding the topic or justifying the actions of imperialism in the modern era. If one studies political science or economics, the subject might be discussed in a historical context, but rarely as a modern reality; media and government voices rarely speak on the subject, and even more rarely speak of it with direct and honest language. Instead, we exist in a society where institutions and individuals of power speak in coded language, using deceptive rhetoric with abstract meaning. We hear about 'democracy' and 'freedom' and 'security,' but so rarely about imperialism, domination, and exploitation.
The objective of this report is to provide an introduction to the institutional and social structure of American imperialism. The material is detailed, but should not be considered complete or even comprehensive; its purpose is to function as a resource or reference for those seeking to educate themselves about the modern imperial system. It's not an analysis of state policies or the effects of those policies, but rather, it is an examination of the institutions and individuals who advocate and implement imperial policies. What is revealed is a highly integrated and interconnected network of institutions and individuals - the foreign policy establishment - consisting of academics (so-called "experts" and "policy-oriented intellectuals") and prominent think tanks.
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