"One potential factor in the rush to finalize this deal is that the OPC threatens to become an issue in the next wide open mayoral election, now that Rahm Emanuel has announced that he is not running for re-election. I am sure that Obama and his friend and former chief of staff Rahm would not like to see pols running for mayor on a platform of halting the giveaway."
Chicago City Council to vet deal today leasing 19.3 acres of lakefront park land for Obama Presidential Center for 10 cents a year for 99 years
The rush to build a personal monument to Barack Obama in Chicago hit a snag Monday, as the clearing of trees from a Chicago park to facilitate construction was halted.
Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times reported:
The city and Chicago Park District on Monday announced a halt to Obama Presidential Center-related construction in Jackson Park after moving ahead while crucial federal reviews of the project were still ongoing.The Chicago Sun-Times reported in August that the park district was cutting down trees in Jackson Park despite a federal lawsuit, city and federal approvals pending, and a pledge from the Obama Foundation CEO to keep trees intact until the permitting process is complete.
Translation: The trees were being cut down in defiance of lawful permitting requirements, which apparently were felt to be for little people, not for the exalted ex-president. The land being cleared of trees is supposed to be used to replace a track field in lakefront Jackson Park on land where the Obama Foundation wants to build the Obama monument.
But that halt to lawlessness hasn't stopped the Windy City's politicians rushing to hand over almost 20 acres of precious lakefront park land to the private foundation controlled by Barack and Michelle Obama. The Obama Foundation (Obama.org) promises to build a monument to his presidency, called the Obama Presidential Center (OPC). It has to be called the OPC because it will not be an actual presidential library, under the control of the National Archives, but rather a privately controlled entity, free to focus on whatever pleases the 44th president. Perhaps embarrassed by the book-free status, the Obama Foundation announced in May a plan to provide space for a branch of the Chicago Public Library, rent-free. At the time (2015) that Chicago agreed to hand over the park land, an official presidential library – under control of the federal government – was planned. Only later, in May 2017, was the switcheroo to a private monument announced.
What pleases former President Obama is a tall white tower that resembles a cenotaph monument and a complex that will include basketball courts and space for community organizers.
Source: Obama.org.
The Rahm Emanuel administration is offering a bargain price on a 99-year lease, as Lynn Sweet also reported:
City Hall officials involved in the negotiations with the Obama Presidential Foundation briefed reporters on Tuesday with the actual written legislation not available because it was still being finalized.One of the ordinances includes the agreements between the foundation and the city, which includes the foundation paying the city $10 for the 99-year pact; the other ordinance clears the legal way to plow under Cornell Drive from 59th Street to Hayes Drive to be reconfigured as green space on the Obama campus. The closing of Cornell has been controversial.
Not everyone in Chicago is on board with the plan:
Jackson Park Watch co-founder Margaret Schmid said, "The idea of leasing invaluable, irreplaceable public parkland to a private entity for $10 for 99 years is astounding in this era when public lands and natural resources are under attack in so many places. Besides, Chicago's finances are extremely precarious. Yes, this is symbolic, but symbolism is significant."
In addition to adding ten bucks to the coffers of the City of Chicago, the deal will impose certain conditions:
*The Obama Foundation must prove to the city that it has an endowment – either cash or pledges – to cover the construction costs, which Strautmanis estimated at $350 million. ...*Upon completion, the city will own the land and the Obama Center buildings.*The Center must offer free admission 52 days a year and keep the open space available to the public when the rest of Jackson Park is open.*The legislation also sets minimum minority hiring and contracting benchmarks for the project; the Obama Foundation self-imposed guidelines are more robust.*There will be no park replacement land outside of Jackson Park, though the possibility was once on the table. The foundation and the city assert – and this is disputed by park preservationists – that digging up and planting over Cornell counts in making good on the replacement for the 19.3 acres.
For its part, the Obama Foundation has some demands, as reported earlier by Lynn Sweet, as revealed in:
... a document signed between the foundation and the park district on Feb. 26, 2018 and titled, "Donation Agreement Between the Chicago Park District and the Obama Foundation."That document – I've read it – lays out in detail the connections, down to the insistence by the Obama Foundation for signage on the new field with the foundation name, control over the sign specs and placement and the guarantee of prominent mentions in park district publicity and press releases.The agreement states, "The site selected for the OPC would necessitate the relocation of an existing multi-use artificial turf field with a running track." The deal goes on to say "the Park District has designated an area within Jackson Park ... as land fit for the relocation."On Feb. 27, the foundation flagged for reporters a Park District press release bragging about the deal, masking the payment as some kind of a gift.Turns out, that release was misleading. Park Superintendent Mike Kelly said in a statement, "we are grateful to the Obama Foundation for their donation." It is a payment for something taken that needed replacing. That's not a gift.The projects are connected. It's fiction to say they are not.
One potential factor in the rush to finalize this deal is that the OPC threatens to become an issue in the next wide open mayoral election, now that Rahm Emanuel has announced that he is not running for re-election. I am sure that Obama and his friend and former chief of staff Rahm would not like to see pols running for mayor on a platform of halting the giveaway.
THE RISE of BARACK OBAMA, sociopath huckster from Chicago, and the FALL of AMERICA
http://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/09/sociopath-barack-obama-gets-award-for.html
“My guess is that the students and employees at the U of I who listened to Obama's self-righteous speech believe that Obama is ethical because most of the media intentionally hid the mass corruption, or if they reported on it, they downplayed it. The corruption and unethical behavior started as soon as Obama took office.” JACK HELLNER / AMERICAN THINKER.com
“They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON
http://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/09/fakebooks-mark-zuckerberg-will-be.html
GLOBALIST FOR BANKSTERS AND THE SUPER RICH and OPEN BORDERS TO FINISH OFF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/barack-obama-and-his-muslim-style.html
“Democrats Move Towards ‘Oligarchical Socialism,’ Says Forecaster Joel Kotkin.”
Obama’s monument to himself covertly grabbing $244 million of Illinois taxpayers’ money for ‘privately-funded’ project
Barack Obama announced that he would not have a federally-funded presidential library, but instead would rely on private money paid to the Obama Foundation to build a “presidential center” that may or may not have any books (we still don’t know, but there definitely will be basketball courts). That's what Obama wants, so that's what Obama gets.
The entire project would be all his to control, a monument created by the person being honored. Normally, that is the practice of dictators like Saddam Hussein, but Barack Hussein Obama was a president like no other.
(Source: Obama.org)
And oddly enough, the building style chosen by the Obamas resembles nothing so much as a cenotaph, even though Obama is alive and kicking.
3 cenotaphs:
Hong Kong
New Zealand
London
Of course, the usual claque applauded. Politico Magazine gushed that it would be:
…a new model for a privately run presidential museum that can be laudatory in its exhibits and partisan in its programming, but not while under the troubling imprimatur of the federal government—and without the taxpayers footing the bill.
Unfortunately, the notion that taxpayers would be unmolested is fake news. Start with the acres of city-owned park land on the shore of Lake Michigan that Chicago handed over as a gift, in apparent violation of law. The group Protect Our Parks has sued to prevent the giveaway, and cites this Illinois State Law. (They have also cited my writings, which gratifies me no end.)
But the taxpayer-owned parkland is but one aspect of the rape of the taxpayers. The new Illinois state budget artfully obscures the estimated $244 million dollars that Land of Lincoln Obama taxpayers will be giving to make the project happen. The Illinois Policy Institute writes:
Projects relevant to the forthcoming Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s Jackson Park will cost taxpayers $224 million, according to the Washington Examiner.This includes $174 million for roadwork in and around Jackson Park and $50 million for renovations to the Garfield Green Line station, two miles from the presidential center. Illinois taxpayers will be on the hook for $199 million of the total cost, with $25 million of the Garfield station renovations funded through a federal grant, according to the Washington Examiner.
Fifty million dollars for renovating one El station that is two miles from the project? Are we supposed to believe that tourists would walk that far though Chicago’s notoriously dangerous Southside to visit the library? And how can it take that much money to spiff up a station that already is in operation? Paint and ceramic tiles aren’t that expensive. Elevators and escalators don’t cost ten million dollars each.
Unfortunately, Illinois taxpayers would have no way of knowing this money was flowing to the presidential project from looking at the state’s 1,245-page budget, which makes no mention of the Obama Presidential Center. That spending is hidden, but has been confirmed by political figures such as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
Taxpayers aren’t the only ones kept in the dark:
The negotiating process in drafting of the budget took place outside of public view and state senators were given five hours to read the massive document before taking a vote.
But rest assured that diversity will be foremost in the minds of those selecting contractors to build unusually expensive projects for the library. As the Obama Foundation promises:
In our first year, we announced our plans to hire a diversity consultant to prioritize the hiring of local, diverse residents for construction and subcontracting.
THE RISE of BARACK OBAMA, sociopath huckster from Chicago, and the FALL of AMERICA
http://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/09/sociopath-barack-obama-gets-award-for.html
“My guess is that the students and employees at the U of I who listened to Obama's self-righteous speech believe that Obama is ethical because most of the media intentionally hid the mass corruption, or if they reported on it, they downplayed it. The corruption and unethical behavior started as soon as Obama took office.” JACK HELLNER / AMERICAN THINKER.com
“They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON
BARACK OBAMA POSITIONS MARK ZUCKERBERG of FAKEBOOK to be his global controller of propaganda for the Obama bankster-funded third term for life.
http://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/09/fakebooks-mark-zuckerberg-will-be.html
TRAITOR BARACK OBAMA and the MEX FASCIST MOVEMENT of LA RAZA “The Race”
Reconquistas Muñoz, Solis present at Obama sovereignty sellout session ...Obama was joined at the meeting [about a push to amnesty millions of border-hopping job thieves] by Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs Phil Schiliro, and White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs [and former 'Tan Klan' minion] Cecilia Muñoz...
*"Of course none of this comes as any surprise considering that Obama's point person on illegal immigration, Cecilia Munoz, once worked for the ultra-radical National Council of La Raza [aka the Tan Klan], a racist group that is committed to staging a takeover of the American Southwest and returning it to Mexico...."
GLOBALIST FOR BANKSTERS AND THE SUPER RICH and OPEN BORDERS TO FINISH OFF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/barack-obama-and-his-muslim-style.html
“Democrats Move Towards ‘Oligarchical Socialism,’ Says Forecaster Joel Kotkin.”
NO POL IN HISTORY SUCKED IN MORE
BRIBES FROM BANKSTERS THAN BARACK
OBAMA, AND HE DID IT BEFORE HIS FIRST
DAY IN OFFICE. What did the Wall Street
banksters know that took us so long to find out???
"One of the premier institutions of big business, JP Morgan Chase, issued an internal report on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the 2008 crash, which warned that another “great liquidity crisis” was possible, and that a government bailout on the scale of that effected by Bush and Obama will produce social unrest, “in light of the potential impact of central bank actions in driving inequality between asset owners and labor."
Obama, of course, covered up his own role, depicting his presidency as eight years of heroic efforts to repair the damage caused by the 2008 financial crash. At the end of those eight years, however, Wall Street and the financial oligarchy were fully recovered, enjoying record wealth, while working people were poorer than before, a widening social chasm that made possible the election of the billionaire con man and Demagogue in November 2016.
“The response of the administration was to rush to the defense of the banks. Even before coming to power, Obama expressed his unconditional support for the bailouts, which he subsequently expanded. He assembled an administration
dominated by the interests of finance capital, symbolized by economic adviser Lawrence Summers and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.”
Trump criticized Dimon in 2013 for supposedly contributing to the country’s economic downturn. “I’m not Jamie Dimon, who pays $13 billion to settle a case and then pays $11 billion to settle a case and who I think is the worst banker in the United States,” he told reporters.
"Illinois is a state full of illegal
aliens. One in seven
Illinoisans are immigrants, with 450,000 official illegals. One point two million jobs are taken by illegals in Illinois. This is one of the most heavily invaded states in the Union. Timothy Birdnow
By our reporters
THE RISE of BARACK OBAMA, sociopath huckster from Chicago, and the FALL of AMERICA
http://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/09/sociopath-barack-obama-gets-award-for.html
“My guess is that the students and employees at the U of I who listened to Obama's self-righteous speech believe that Obama is ethical because most of the media intentionally hid the mass corruption, or if they reported on it, they downplayed it. The corruption and unethical behavior started as soon as Obama took office.” JACK HELLNER / AMERICAN THINKER.com
“They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON
http://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/09/fakebooks-mark-zuckerberg-will-be.html
CLASS.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/barack-obama-and-his-muslim-style.html
“Democrats Move Towards ‘Oligarchical Socialism,’ Says Forecaster Joel Kotkin.”
"Illinois is a state full of illegal
aliens. One in seven
Illinoisans are immigrants, with 450,000 official illegals. One point two million jobs are taken by illegals in Illinois. This is one of the most heavily invaded states in the Union. Timothy Birdnow
Residents of Chicago’s Little Village speak out against increasing poverty and unaffordable housing
By our reporters
17 September 2018
Three weeks have passed since an early morning house fire devastated the working-class community of Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood on the city’s west side. The fire on the 2200 block of Sacramento Avenue killed 10 children, nine of whom were relatives of the same family: Amayah Almaraz, 3 months; Alanni Ayala, 3; Gialanni Ayala, 5; Ariel Garcia, 5; Giovanni Ayala, 10; Xavier Contreras, 11; Nathan Contreras, 13; Adrian Hernandez, 14; Cesar Contreras, 14; and family friend Victor Mendoza, 16.
Reports into the investigation of the fire and its impact on the community have all but disappeared from mainstream media outlets. The Chicago Fire Department reports that the causes of the fire are still under investigation.
Memorial for the ten children who died in the fire
A team of World Socialist Web Site reporters visited the block on Saturday to speak with residents about the fire’s impact on the community.
On the street near the building where the fire occurred, reporters met Mads and Colten, two young workers who live on the street behind the building. They told reporters that they had not heard much about the fire, but spoke on the difficulty of finding affordable rent in the city.
“We were going to live in Pilsen, [the neighborhood to the east of Little Village] but the landlord pulled the rug from under us at the last minute,” Mads explained. “The day before we were to move in, he said he gave it to someone else because they were going to pay more.”
“A lot of the landlords don’t even live around here. They live in California, or other places, and don’t keep up with the maintenance. They are just trying to rake in the rent.”
Like many young people, Mads expressed disillusionment in the capitalist system. “I feel everything in a capitalist society leads to the richer getting richer and poorer getting poorer, and nothing is ever going to change until it ultimately fails; and it should.”
Mads and Colten, Little Village residents
Later, reporters met with Andrea, who grew up in the adjacent Pilsen neighborhood and moved to Little Village in the early 2000s. A warm and well-spoken person, she offered beverages to the reporters and invited them to see the burnt-out husk of the building from her house.
Andrea described the nightmarish experience of waking up to see the wall of flame engulf the building behind, which had damaged her home as well. “It was about 4:30 in the morning when my neighbor came around, screaming and banging on the window. When I got out I looked over and saw a wall of fire. The house behind us was engulfed. I knew the kids who died, because they would play around the back of the house sometimes.
“The smoke detectors went off right away in the other buildings next to it—once they picked it up. It took about an hour for the fire department to come, and they found smoke detectors in the building, but no working batteries.”
During the investigation carried out by the Chicago Fire Department immediately following, the CFD noted that if the residents had been woken by smoke detectors, they would have been able to escape unharmed.
“I’ve never seen anything like this happen since I’ve lived here,” Andrea continued, “we have kids who live in our building and they cannot go out in back because just being out here gives you a somber feeling. I have two kids, and we’re looking to move because we have to see this every day. I had to clean some of the debris up myself, and all the while I was traumatized by the reminder of where it came from.”
Andrea spoke candidly of the high levels of poverty in the area and the city’s efforts to gentrify, that is to attract a wealthier social stratum to the neighborhood. “This is an up-and-coming neighborhood, I can see it. Rent’s going up and people who live here don’t have a way to make ends meet so they end up having to move out to places on the South Side like the Back-of-the-Yards neighborhood.
“We are struggling with rent control right now in this community. There is a lot of gentrification going on in Pilsen, and the landlords have noticed that and so they keep increasing the rents here. My apartment used to be $400 per month in 2010; now it’s $750.
View of the back of the building
“On minimum wage, it eats up about one-and-a-half of my paychecks. I collect food that the church gives away in order to make my payments.” Andrea noted she works part-time as a personal shopper for Instacart, a grocery delivery service which relies upon cheap, piecemeal labor and app technology, similar to Uber, as well as a second part-time job in the food service industry, and is currently looking for a third.
A WSWS reporter asked Andrea if she thought that there was any way that representatives of the Democratic Party in Chicago could resolve the issues which plagued the community, given the lack of response by Democratic Alderman George Cardenas and Mayor Rahm Emmanuel.
“They’re not capable, because they don’t see the benefit. They are just looking out for themselves and helping whoever makes a profit. They’ll do something only if it’s at minimum cost. We’re the poor, and if they want to kick us out to increase the property value, then they’ll do it.”
Andrea supported the call to form a neighborhood committee to carry out an independent investigation of the fire and put forth demands based on what the members of the community need to improve their living standards, in opposition to the political parties of the ruling class.
“I think that is definitely needed here. The people in this community need to be educated on these issues. You could come out here and talk to people more often or hold workshops and put up posters.”
The fire in Little Village has laid bare the social dynamics of the capitalist system which lie at the root of the problems faced by the working class throughout the city and worldwide. Decades of successive Democratic administrations in Chicago have starved the city of funding for safe and affordable housing programs, jobs programs, and education, while giving tax breaks and incentives to corporations and real estate investors which offer nothing to the working class but low-wage jobs, forcing them to live in substandard housing and cramped conditions.
The city’s Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel has presided over a massive transfer of wealth from the working class to the ruling elite. Since he was elected in 2011, Emanuel has closed 50 elementary schools, severely limited access to public housing units, and cut funding to the Chicago Fire Department.
Democratic Alderman of the 22nd Ward, George Cardenas, had ignored the multiple building code violations against the landlord, which include several electrical violations. Cardenas has attempted to shift blame for the tragedy from the city’s shoulders and onto the mother of six of the children who were killed.
The building had failed four of seven inspections over the last three years and was the site of a February 2017 fire on the second floor, which was not fatal. However, firefighters found no smoke detectors present during the investigation.
The families of the deceased children and the residents affected by the fire deserve answers. They will not get them through the city administration or any of the various middle-class organizations which orbit the Democratic Party. The formation of a neighborhood committee is needed to demand an end to poverty and poor housing conditions through the implementation of a multi-billion-dollar public works program to re-build the city’s neighborhoods without displacing working class residents.
Such a committee will need to link up with hotel workers, over 5,000 of whom are currently on strike in the city, UPS workers, autoworkers, and the working class all over the world to put an end to capitalism and replace it with a planned economy capable of meeting the needs of the vast majority of society, not just the wealthy few.
Obama’s monument to himself covertly
grabbing $244 million of Illinois taxpayers’
money for ‘privately-funded’ project
Barack Obama announced that he would not have a federally-funded presidential library, but instead would rely on private money paid to the Obama Foundation to build a “presidential center” that may or may not have any books (we still don’t know, but there definitely will be basketball courts). That's what Obama wants, so that's what Obama gets.
The entire project would be all his to control, a monument created by the person being honored. Normally, that is the practice of dictators like Saddam Hussein, but Barack Hussein Obama was a president like no other.
(Source: Obama.org)
And oddly enough, the building style chosen by the Obamas resembles nothing so much as a cenotaph, even though Obama is alive and kicking.
3 cenotaphs:
Hong Kong
New Zealand
London
Of course, the usual claque applauded. Politico Magazine gushed that it would be:
…a new model for a privately run presidential museum that can be laudatory in its exhibits and partisan in its programming, but not while under the troubling imprimatur of the federal government—and without the taxpayers footing the bill.
Unfortunately, the notion that taxpayers would be unmolested is fake news. Start with the acres of city-owned park land on the shore of Lake Michigan that Chicago handed over as a gift, in apparent violation of law. The group Protect Our Parks has sued to prevent the giveaway, and cites this Illinois State Law. (They have also cited my writings, which gratifies me no end.)
But the taxpayer-owned parkland is but one aspect of the rape of the taxpayers. The new Illinois state budget artfully obscures the estimated $244 million dollars that Land of Lincoln Obama taxpayers will be giving to make the project happen. The Illinois Policy Institute writes:
Projects relevant to the forthcoming Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s Jackson Park will cost taxpayers $224 million, according to the Washington Examiner.This includes $174 million for roadwork in and around Jackson Park and $50 million for renovations to the Garfield Green Line station, two miles from the presidential center. Illinois taxpayers will be on the hook for $199 million of the total cost, with $25 million of the Garfield station renovations funded through a federal grant, according to the Washington Examiner.
Fifty million dollars for renovating one El station that is two miles from the project? Are we supposed to believe that tourists would walk that far though Chicago’s notoriously dangerous Southside to visit the library? And how can it take that much money to spiff up a station that already is in operation? Paint and ceramic tiles aren’t that expensive. Elevators and escalators don’t cost ten million dollars each.
Unfortunately, Illinois taxpayers would have no way of knowing this money was flowing to the presidential project from looking at the state’s 1,245-page budget, which makes no mention of the Obama Presidential Center. That spending is hidden, but has been confirmed by political figures such as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
Taxpayers aren’t the only ones kept in the dark:
The negotiating process in drafting of the budget took place outside of public view and state senators were given five hours to read the massive document before taking a vote.
But rest assured that diversity will be foremost in the minds of those selecting contractors to build unusually expensive projects for the library. As the Obama Foundation promises:
In our first year, we announced our plans to hire a diversity consultant to prioritize the hiring of local, diverse residents for construction and subcontracting.
THE RISE of BARACK OBAMA, sociopath huckster from Chicago, and the FALL of AMERICA
http://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/09/sociopath-barack-obama-gets-award-for.html
“My guess is that the students and employees at the U of I who listened to Obama's self-righteous speech believe that Obama is ethical because most of the media intentionally hid the mass corruption, or if they reported on it, they downplayed it. The corruption and unethical behavior started as soon as Obama took office.” JACK HELLNER / AMERICAN THINKER.com
“They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON
BARACK OBAMA POSITIONS MARK ZUCKERBERG of FAKEBOOK to be his global controller of propaganda for the Obama bankster-funded third term for life.
http://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/09/fakebooks-mark-zuckerberg-will-be.html
TRAITOR BARACK OBAMA and the MEX
FASCIST MOVEMENT of LA RAZA “The Race”
FASCIST MOVEMENT of LA RAZA “The Race”
Reconquistas Muñoz, Solis present at Obama sovereignty sellout session ...Obama was joined at the meeting [about a push to amnesty millions of border-hopping job thieves] by Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs Phil Schiliro, and White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs [and former 'Tan Klan' minion] Cecilia Muñoz...
*"Of course none of this comes as any surprise considering that Obama's point person on illegal immigration, Cecilia Munoz, once worked for the ultra-radical National Council of La Raza [aka the Tan Klan], a racist group that is committed to staging a takeover of the American Southwest and returning it to Mexico...."
GLOBALIST FOR BANKSTERS AND THE
SUPER RICH and OPEN BORDERS TO
FINISH OFF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-
CLASS.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/barack-obama-and-his-muslim-style.html
“Democrats Move Towards ‘Oligarchical Socialism,’ Says Forecaster Joel Kotkin.”
NO POL IN HISTORY SUCKED IN MORE
BRIBES FROM BANKSTERS THAN BARACK
OBAMA, AND HE DID IT BEFORE HIS FIRST
DAY IN OFFICE. What did the Wall Street
banksters know that took us so long to find out???
"One of the premier institutions of big business, JP Morgan Chase, issued an internal report on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the 2008 crash, which warned that another “great liquidity crisis” was possible, and that a government bailout on the scale of that effected by Bush and Obama will produce social unrest, “in light of the potential impact of central bank actions in driving inequality between asset owners and labor."
Obama, of course, covered up his own role, depicting his presidency as eight years of heroic efforts to repair the damage caused by the 2008 financial crash. At the end of those eight years, however, Wall Street and the financial oligarchy were fully recovered, enjoying record wealth, while working people were poorer than before, a widening social chasm that made possible the election of the billionaire con man and Demagogue in November 2016.
“The response of the administration was to rush to the defense of the banks. Even before coming to power, Obama expressed his unconditional support for the bailouts, which he subsequently expanded. He assembled an administration
dominated by the interests of finance capital, symbolized by economic adviser Lawrence Summers and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.”
Trump criticized Dimon in 2013 for supposedly contributing to the country’s economic downturn. “I’m not Jamie Dimon, who pays $13 billion to settle a case and then pays $11 billion to settle a case and who I think is the worst banker in the United States,” he told reporters.
THE BANKSTER FUNDED DEMOCRAT PARTY: SERVANTS OF THE LA RAZA MEXICAN WELFARE STATE ON THE AMERICAN WORKERS’ BACKS!
THEY DESTROYED THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS, AMERICA’S BORDERS AND ENDLESSLY ASSAULTED THE AMERICAN WORKER IN THEIR EFFORTS TO FINISH OFF THE GOP… And they got filthy rich doing it!
“The Democrats had abandoned their working class base to chase what they pretended was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was the momentum of unlimited migration”. DANIEL GREENFIELD / FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
*
"Illinois is a state full of illegal aliens. One in seven Illinoisans are immigrants, with 450,000 official illegals. One point two million jobs are taken by illegals in Illinois. This is one of the most heavily invaded states in the Union. Timothy Birdnow
*
THE LA RAZA SUPREMACY DEMOCRAT PARTY:
The Democratic Party used to be the party of blue-collar America- supporting laws and policies that benefited that segment of the U.S. population. Their leaders may still claim to be advocates for American working families, however their duplicitous actions that betray American workers and their families, while undermining national security and public safety, provide clear and incontrovertible evidence of their lies…. MICHAEL CUTLER …FRONTPAGE mag
*
Mexican Invasion By Invitation of the Democrat Party
By Tom Barrett
At the current rate of invasion (mostly through Mexico, but also through Canada) the United States will be completely over run with illegal aliens by the year 2025. I’m not talking about legal immigrants who follow US law to become citizens. In less than 20 years, if we do not stop the invasion, ILLEGAL aliens and their offspring will be the dominant population in the United States.
Obama Attacks Trump
During a speech on September 7th to students at the University of Illinois, former president Barack Obama said, "the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party." Once more, the Democrats are attempting to get away with their signature political gambit -- blaming their opponents for what they themselves have done.
BLOG: IT WAS BARACK OBAMA WHO ATTENDED LA RAZA RALLIES WHERE HE REFERRED TO AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO DID NOT SUPPORT HIS OPEN BORDERS AGENDA AS "OUR ENEMIES".
The most successful accomplishment of the Democrats is what author Mark Levin calls the “balkanization” of society, or what Obama himself referred to as “division and resentment and paranoia.” Using their perverted version of “diversity,” the Democratic Party -- under the leadership of Obama -- fomented division and hatred after promising just the opposite. Instead of making everyone feel they are part of a unified American social structure, the Obama presidency played into the leftist strategy of “divide and conquer.”
The Democrats use diversity to exploit discontented elements in American society and to invalidate the individual. Mark Levin explains:
“It assigns [the individual] a group identity based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, income, etc., to highlight differences within the masses. It then exacerbates old rivalries and disputes or it incites new ones.”
The Left’s objective, Levin says, is to “collapse the existing society” by dividing the people against themselves. Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama explains diversity in terms of vote getting:
“It’s a part of the Democratic Party’s campaign strategy to divide Americans based on skin pigmentation and to try to collect the votes of everybody who is a non-white.”
When you look behind the curtain, diversity is discriminatory. “Diversity in today’s America,” says Scott Greer in No Campus for White Men, “simply means having fewer whites around.” The left, says author Ben Shapiro, wants to portray America as “an incurable mass of bigoted whites.” The basis for diversity policy is that certain groups are encouraged to identify themselves as victims of white people. According to African-American author Thomas Sowell, people on the Left like to say, “I am a victim. Therefore, if you do not give in to my demands… you are a hate-filled, evil person.”
To progressives, diversity has nothing to do with equality as defined by Dr. Martin Luther King. Instead, they prefer George Orwell’s suggestion that (in a totalitarian society) “some animals are more equal than others.” The left’s version of diversity means that we must give special privileges to certain protected classes of people so they can acquire control over the system at the expense of the majority. I call this the “tyranny of the minority.”
Ironically, where you have obedience to diversity, there is no diversity of thought. People who demand attention to diversity really are against viewpoint diversity, also known as free speech. Diversity means “it is great to look different as long as you think the way I do.” Diversity is completely at odds with American values.
So how dare Obama lecture us about the politics of division? After eight years of the Obama presidency, race relations are worse than ever. Obama’s comments in case after case -- lies and distortions -- stoked the fires of racial discord and added to the racial divide. This is ironic because so many Americans -- black and white -- fully expected that the election of a black president would usher in a period of racial accord. No such luck.
In urging his University of Illinois audience to vote Democratic, Obama had the gall to argue that, “Our democracy depends on it.” More hypocrisy from our 44thpresident. Showing his contempt for the Constitution, Obama did everything he could to expand the power of government at the expense of individual liberty. He strove to “destroy America’s essence,” says American Thinker, “that commitment to liberty that makes her unique in this world.”
Donald Trump, in sharp contrast, cherishes the values that Obama holds in contempt. Trump’s commitment is to the foundational principles of the Constitution. He rejects minority identity politics. He wants to unify the country in its own self-interest. Trump’s objective is to drain the Washington swamp that benefited from Obama’s legion of illegal executive orders.
The final straw in Obama’s speech was his insistence that we need to restore “honesty and decency” in government. Here are his words:
“We do not… use the criminal justice system as a cudgel to punish our political opponents, or to explicitly call on the attorney general to protect members of our own party from prosecution because an election happens to be coming up.”
How can Obama make a statement like that after his administration weaponized the IRS against conservative opponents, and after his attorney general and FBI conspired to protect Hillary Clinton from the justice she so richly deserved? Well, I guess this is what we should expect from the man who promised, “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.”
Ed Brodow is a political commentator, negotiation expert, and author of seven books including his latest, Tyranny of the Minority: How the Left is Destroying America.
"Obama responds to serious concerns about his administration’s lawlessness with a derisive “so sue me.”
DAVID BERNSTEIN
THE LAWLESS REGIME OF BARACK
OBAMA and his ASSAULT ON THE
AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS AND U.S
BORDERS
November 17, 2015
The Heritage Foundation, Lehrman Auditorium
http://www.heritage.org/events/2015/11/lawlessOverview: In Lawless, George Mason University law professor David E. Bernstein offers a scholarly and unsettling account of how the Obama Administration has undermined the Constitution and the rule of law. He documents how the President has presided over one constitutional debacle after another – from Obamacare to unauthorized wars in the Middle East to attempts to strip property owners, college students, religious groups, and conservative political activists of their rights, and more.Respect for the Constitution’s separation of powers has been violated time and again. Whether in amending Obamacare on the fly or signing a memorandum legalizing millions of illegal immigrants, the current Administration ignores not only Congress, but also the Constitution’s critical checks and balances.
In Lawless, Professor Bernstein shows how the Constitution as well as the President’s own stated principles have been betrayed. In doing so, serious and potentially permanent damage has been done to our constitutional system and repairs must be addressed by the next President of the United States.
A Pattern of Executive Overreach
Recently, the Justice Department announced it would not be indicting anyone for his or her role in the most serious domestic political scandal since the Nixon years.
Starting in 2010, the IRS, under pressure from congressional Democrats and the White House, engaged in blatant ideologically motivated discrimination against conservative organizations applying for non-profit status.
That the most feared bureaucracy in Washington was making decisions based on illegal political criteria should send a chill down the spine of any American who cares about the First Amendment and the rule of law.
Yet the Department of Justice has refused to indict even IRS official Lois Lerner, who invoked her Fifth Amendment right to silence to avoid incriminating herself in testimony before Congress.
Unfortunately, the failure to prosecute anyone responsible for abusing the IRS’s authority reflects the Obama administration’s broader contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law.
Consider just a few examples:
Presidents trying stretch their power as far as they can is hardly news. What is news, however, is that top Obama administration officials, including the president himself, see this not as something to be ashamed of, but as a desirable way of governing, something to brag about rather than do surreptitiously.
Obama behaves as if there is some inherent virtue in a president governing by decree and whim, as if promoting progressive political ends at the expense of the rule of law is proper not simply as a desperate last resort but as a matter of principle.
After all, Obama says, democracy is unduly “messy” and “complicated.” “We can’t wait,” the president intones, as he ignores the separation of powers again and again, ruling instead through executive order.
“Law is politics,” and only politics, according to a mantra popular on the legal left, and therefore the law should not be an independent constraint to doing the right thing politically. Obama seems to agree.
As Obama’s lawlessness has received increased attention from Congress, the (conservative) media, and the general public, the president has been defiant, even petulant. When confronted by allegations of lawlessness, Obama takes no responsibility, and doesn’t even bother to defend the legality of his actions.
Harry S. Truman famously said “the buck stops here.” Obama responds to serious concerns about his administration’s lawlessness with a derisive “so sue me.”
As George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley writes, Obama “acts as if anything a court has not expressly forbidden is permissible.” And in many situations, no one has legal standing to challenge the president’s actions in court—which means that no judge can stop the administration’s lawbreaking.
So sue me? If only we could.
On Tuesday, Nov. 17, David Bernstein will be at The Heritage Foundation at noon for an event about his book, “Lawless: The Obama Administration’s Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law.” More details here.
BOOK:
"When confronted by allegations of lawlessness, Obama takes no responsibility, and doesn’t even bother to defend the legality of his actions. Harry S. Truman famously said “the buck stops here."
"Obama responds to serious concerns about his administration’s lawlessness with a derisive “so sue me.”
DAVID BERNSTEIN
The lawlessness of the Obama administration: A never-ending story
THE LAWLESS REGIME OF BARACK
OBAMA and his ASSAULT ON THE
AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS AND U.S
BORDERS
MICHAEL BARONE
“The Lawlessness of the Obama Administration: A never-ending story.”
THE PSYCHOPATH WHO WOULD BE DICTATOR FUNDED BY HIS
CRIMINAL CRONY BANKSTERS AND REELECTED FOR A THIRD TERM BY
MEXICO
The lawlessness of the Obama administration: A never-ending story
David Bernstein, professor at George Mason Law School, has a new book out titled Lawless: The Obama Administration's Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law. For a preview, check out his Volokh Conspiracy blogpost on the top six (not five, as in the headline) examples of lawless conduct by the Obama administration.
Many of these items might be familiar to people who have read my Washington Examinercolumns appearing in February 2013, July 2014 and February 2015, and blogposts appearing in August 2014 and March 2015. Or you might want to go back to my May 2009 column which coined the term "gangster government"—the title of my Examiner colleague David Freddoso's 2011 book Gangster Government: Barack Obama and the New Washington Thugocracy.
It's a subject that provides never-ending grist for a journalist's mill.
The Obama Administration’s Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law
November 17, 2015
The Heritage Foundation, Lehrman Auditorium
http://www.heritage.org/events/2015/11/lawlessOverview: In Lawless, George Mason University law professor David E. Bernstein offers a scholarly and unsettling account of how the Obama Administration has undermined the Constitution and the rule of law. He documents how the President has presided over one constitutional debacle after another – from Obamacare to unauthorized wars in the Middle East to attempts to strip property owners, college students, religious groups, and conservative political activists of their rights, and more.Respect for the Constitution’s separation of powers has been violated time and again. Whether in amending Obamacare on the fly or signing a memorandum legalizing millions of illegal immigrants, the current Administration ignores not only Congress, but also the Constitution’s critical checks and balances.
In Lawless, Professor Bernstein shows how the Constitution as well as the President’s own stated principles have been betrayed. In doing so, serious and potentially permanent damage has been done to our constitutional system and repairs must be addressed by the next President of the United States.
A Pattern of Executive Overreach
Starting in 2010, the IRS, under pressure from congressional Democrats and the White House, engaged in blatant ideologically motivated discrimination against conservative organizations applying for non-profit status.
That the most feared bureaucracy in Washington was making decisions based on illegal political criteria should send a chill down the spine of any American who cares about the First Amendment and the rule of law.
Yet the Department of Justice has refused to indict even IRS official Lois Lerner, who invoked her Fifth Amendment right to silence to avoid incriminating herself in testimony before Congress.
Unfortunately, the failure to prosecute anyone responsible for abusing the IRS’s authority reflects the Obama administration’s broader contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law.
Consider just a few examples:
1. Going to war in Libya in blatant violation of the War Powers Resolution, and in defiance of the legal advice of the president’s own lawyers, based on the ridiculous theory that bombing the heck out of Libya did not constitute “hostilities” under the law
2. Appointing so-called policy czars to high-level positions to avoid constitutionally-required confirmation hearings
3. Modifying, delaying, and ignoring various provisions of Obamacare in violation of the law itself
4. Attacking private citizens for engaging in constitutionally protected speech
5. Issuing draconian regulations regarding sexual assault on campus not through formal, lawful regulation but through an informal, and unreviewable, “dear colleague” letter
6. Ignoring 100 years of legal rulings and the plain text of the Constitution and trying to get a vote in Congress for the D.C. delegate
7. Trying to enact massive immigration reform via an executive order demanding that the Department of Homeland Security both refuse to enforce existing immigration law, and provide work permits to millions of people residing in the U.S. illegally
8. Imposing common core standards on the states via administrative fiat
9. Ignoring bankruptcy law and arranging Chrysler’s bankruptcy to benefit labor unions at the expense of bondholders
10. Trying to strip churches and other religious bodies of their constitutional right to choose their clergy free from government involvement.
More generally, the president has abandoned any pretense of trying to work with Congress, as the Constitution’s separation of powers requires. He prefers instead to govern by unilateral executive fiat, even when there is little or no legal authority supporting his power to do so.
Presidents trying stretch their power as far as they can is hardly news. What is news, however, is that top Obama administration officials, including the president himself, see this not as something to be ashamed of, but as a desirable way of governing, something to brag about rather than do surreptitiously.
Obama behaves as if there is some inherent virtue in a president governing by decree and whim, as if promoting progressive political ends at the expense of the rule of law is proper not simply as a desperate last resort but as a matter of principle.
After all, Obama says, democracy is unduly “messy” and “complicated.” “We can’t wait,” the president intones, as he ignores the separation of powers again and again, ruling instead through executive order.
“Law is politics,” and only politics, according to a mantra popular on the legal left, and therefore the law should not be an independent constraint to doing the right thing politically. Obama seems to agree.
As Obama’s lawlessness has received increased attention from Congress, the (conservative) media, and the general public, the president has been defiant, even petulant. When confronted by allegations of lawlessness, Obama takes no responsibility, and doesn’t even bother to defend the legality of his actions.
Harry S. Truman famously said “the buck stops here.” Obama responds to serious concerns about his administration’s lawlessness with a derisive “so sue me.”
As George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley writes, Obama “acts as if anything a court has not expressly forbidden is permissible.” And in many situations, no one has legal standing to challenge the president’s actions in court—which means that no judge can stop the administration’s lawbreaking.
So sue me? If only we could.
On Tuesday, Nov. 17, David Bernstein will be at The Heritage Foundation at noon for an event about his book, “Lawless: The Obama Administration’s Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law.” More details here.
BOOK:
Gangster Government: Barack Obama and the New Washington Thugocracy
- Hardcover: 350 pages
- Publisher: Regnery Publishing; First Edition edition (April 4, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1596986484
- ISBN-13: 978-1596986480
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