MSNBC: Obama was 'kind of a Dick' in his news conference

MARK HALPERIN CALLS OBAMA 'A DICK' ON LIVE TV (MSNBC)...

this is with respect to Obama's discussion of the Debt ceiling vote.
Truth is a defense for slander.  The President was, in fact, a d*ck yesterday.

related:

NBC reports:

A senior Democratic aide tells NBC, "At 9:30 Senator Reid will go to the floor to announce that the Senate will forego its scheduled recess for the week of July 4th and stay in session to continue forging a deal to cut the deficit and create jobs."

Reid announced on the floor that the Senate will return for votes on the evening of July 5 and remain in session for the rest of the week. Negotiators will spend the week continuing work on a deficit reduction deal with the House and the Obama administration in advance of an August 2 debt ceiling deadline.

Lennon was a closet Republican

First we learned that Martin Luther King Jr. was registered Republican, with good reason as the R's supported the ERA, the D's were the ones who were against it.

Now we find out that...  (whoosh, I'm feeling renewed respect for John Lennon. I had respect when young, then lost respect when he went goofy, and now...)

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/06/28/lennon-was-a-closet-republican-assistant

         Lennon was a closet Republican: Assistant

John Lennon was a closet Republican, who felt a little embarrassed by his former radicalism, at the time of his death - according to the tragic Beatles star's last personal assistant.

Fred Seaman worked alongside the music legend from 1979 to Lennon's death at the end of 1980 and he reveals the star was a Ronald Reagan fan who enjoyed arguing with left-wing radicals who reminded him of his former self.

In new documentary Beatles Stories, Seaman tells filmmaker Seth Swirsky Lennon wasn't the peace-loving militant fans thought he was while he was his assistant.

He says, "John, basically, made it very clear that if he were an American he would vote for Reagan because he was really sour on (Democrat) Jimmy Carter.

"He'd met Reagan back, I think, in the 70s at some sporting event... Reagan was the guy who had ordered the National Guard, I believe, to go after the young (peace) demonstrators in Berkeley, so I think that John maybe forgot about that... He did express support for Reagan, which shocked me.

"I also saw John embark in some really brutal arguments with my uncle, who's an old-time communist... He enjoyed really provoking my uncle... Maybe he was being provocative... but it was pretty obvious to me he had moved away from his earlier radicalism.

"He was a very different person back in 1979 and 80 than he'd been when he wrote Imagine. By 1979 he looked back on that guy and was embarrassed by that guy's naivete."

ObamaCare Puts Big Dent in Hiring

ObamaCare Puts Big Dent in Hiring – John Rossomando

Obama the Gaffe machine

We had a couple of great lists on Obama's gaffes, written by MinneMike and gailannr....who inspired me to hunt down as many as I could find, and put the videos, pictures, and articles together with the gaffe. 

So here is the beginning of my Handy Dandy Obama Gaffe Library:

"The Bomb" that fell on Pearl Harbor

"The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries."

10,000 People (A Whole Town!) Died in Kansas ~ Oops, Overstated by 9,988

Admits His Plan would Necessarily Cause Energy Prices to Skyrocket

Air Raiding Villages a la Yankee Air Pirates: That Destroys Whole Afghan Villages!

ATMs Cause Unemployment

Blames Hugo Chavez's Election on (ta da) BUSH!  Oops.

Blows off the Salute To Heroes (MOH) Inaugural Ball

Botched Toast ~ Talking over "God Save The Queen"

Bowls like a Special Olympian

Bows to the Chicom President

Bows to the Emperor of Japan

Bows to the Saudi King

Burns up 9,000 gallons of Jet Fuel on Earth Day

Can't Keep MOH Recipients Straight

Confuses "his" Christianity for "his Muslim faith"

Cops Acted Stupidly (@ 1:30)

Date Nights at a Quarter of a Million a Pop

Did He REALLY just call Palin a "Pig"??????

Disrespects the Flag and the National Anthem

Exaggerates about Small Unit Methods, Weapons, and Tactics in Afghanistan

Expects to be President for "Eight to Ten Years"

Faux White Sox Fan Can't Name Favorite Players, Loves "Cominskey" Park

Flippantly Answers the "When Does Life Begin" Question ~ Above His Pay Grade

Forgot to Duck ~ Too Busy Waving

Gins up the Reason for his Birth In Selma (Bonus…Jive Accent)

Gives the Queen an iPod

Gives Thoughtless Gifts to Brit PM Brown and his Children

Had an Imaginary Assignment to the Senate Banking Committee

Had an Uncle who Liberated Auschwitz

Has Visited 57 States

Harvard Degree ~ Mechanical Engineering?  No, Definitely NOT!

Hates Old People

Identifies a Whole New State (Eau Claire)

Inhaled Frequently.  That was the Point.

Israel is a Strong Friend of Israel's ~ Whilst being Perfectly Clear

Makes a Nasty Joke about Nancy Reagan and Seances

Medical Genius (off prompter)

Mistakes a Window for a Door

Mocks Joe the Plumber

Navy Corpse Man

Oaf of Office

Ogles La Derriere Like a Frenchman

Oh Wait…Robots Create Jobs with Unions (@ 1:35)

Pitches Like a Girl Whilst Wearing Mom Jeans....Wheeeee!!!!!

Refused to Visit the Troops Because No Media Was Allowed

Scares the Crap out of New Yorkers

Scaring a Marine Guard by Shaking His Hand

Screw Our Allies ~ I'm going with Hugo and Ortega on This One

Seeks Greater Inefficiencies in the Health Care System via Obamacare

Sees Dead People

Signs the Wrong Year in Guest Book at Westminster Abbey

Snubs Brits by Returning the Bust of Winston Churchill

Someone Waging a KMA can't Spell "Libya" (by our own WTH)

Staff Incompetence ~ Obama's Limo Gets Stuck

Staying on Point

Thinks "Victory" is a 4 Letter Word

Thinks Austrian is a Language

Throws Out the Honored Guest with the Trash

We are the Ones We've Been Waiting For

When in Ireland, Do as the Irish Do....NO WAIT....BYOB (non-alcoholic)

Will Halt The Rise of the Oceans

Wouldn't "Punish" His Daughters with a Baby AND Equates Pregnancy to an STD

And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.  A partial list of The Stupidity That is Obama.

And to the liberal press, well, you all did just as we expected, blah blah blah.  ~ (my) Congressman Allen West

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/forum/topic-discussion/handy-reference-guide-obama039s-gaffes-and-goofs#ixzz1QgcioM1j

Shovel ready was not as, shovel ready as we expected (laughter)

"Shovel ready was not as, shovel ready as we expected (laughter)" - Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvnAE8olUxU

It's time to take away Obama's blank check

 

 

 

 

In pictures: the 'devastating ad' that calls out Obama's jobs failures

via Doug Ross @ Journal by directorblue on 6/25/11

I think this is as good a 30-second overview of Obama's economic record as you'll find.






Help out here.

 

 

"Unexpectedly" Compilation

Damned Biased Media!

It's not unexpected at all. It's bias. If the media uses that word, then the average sheeple thinks that, well, this one statistic is bad, but the rest of the economy is getting better under Obama.

It's all a big lie from a biased media!

"Unexpectedly" Compilation

Posted by Aurelius at 10:42 AM

The Main Stream Media seems to be constantly shocked at how poorly the American economy is doing under ObamaNomics.  Whenever poor business, house, or job news comes out, they are quick to throw on the word "unexpectedly," pretending that the economy is actually doing great, but this one time it hiccuped.  But the problem is, the poor economic news is quite expected because of President Obama's incompetence.

So, I decided to take some time and compile some of the "unexpectedlies" from the start of the year until today.  But before I begin, just remember what Albert Einstein once said (which is normally attributed to Benjamin Franklin): "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

A reader calling himself JB did a great job chronologically sorting out the headlines.  He did such a good job, I figured that it had to be it's own article.  So once again, "Our Media Watchdogs" at work:

"Confidence among U.S. consumers unexpectedly fell in December," from Bloomberg Businessweek, January 3, 2011

Higher than expected US weekly jobless claims take shine off the FTSE, from the Guardian, January 6, 2011

US jobs growth lower than expected, from RTE, January 7, 2011

"Confidence among U.S. consumers unexpectedly declined in January," from Bloomberg, January 14, 2011

Economy created fewer jobs than expected, from American Public Media, January 2011

Construction Spending in U.S. Unexpectedly Fell to Decade Low, from Bloomberg, from February 1, 2011

Job growth slower than expected in January, from Reuters, February 4, 2011

US Q4 growth unexpectedly revised down, from EuroNews, February 25, 2011

Jobless Claims Rise More Than Expected, from Industry Week, March 10, 2011

US home sales fall more than expected, from the Financial Times, March 21, 2011

U.S. Factory Orders Drop Unexpectedly, from Industry Week, March 24, 2011

U.S. Economy: Goods Orders Unexpectedly Fall, Claims Drop, from Bloomberg, March 24, 
2011

Orders for Manufactured Goods Fall Unexpectedly, from the New York Times, March 24, 2011

US Services Economy Slowed Unexpectedly in March: ISM, from MSNBC, April 5, 2011

US Initial jobless claims fell more than expected last week, from the IBI Times, April 7, 2011

U.S. Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Jump, Reflecting Quarter-End Volatility, from Bloomberg, April 14, 2011

"Core U.S. producer prices rose slightly faster than expected," from Reuters, April 14, 2011

"Initial Jobless Claims Rise Unexpectedly," from Reuters, April 28, 2011

Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Rise to Three-Month High, from Money News, April 28, 2011

US GDP Growth Slows More Than Expected, from Sky News, April 28, 2011

"Unexpectedly weak economic data," from Economics Newspaper, from April 2011

U.S. private employers added fewer jobs than expected in April, from Reuters, May 4, 2011

U.S. initial unemployment claims unexpectedly soars, from World Bank, May 5, 2011

Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Jump on One-Time Events, from Bloomberg, May 5, 2011

U.S. trade deficit widened more than expected in March, from MSNBC, May 11, 2011

"Industrial production in the U.S. unexpectedly stalled in April and housing starts dropped," from Bloomberg Businessweek, May 17, 2011

Housing Starts Unexpectedly Plunge 10.6%, Pointing to More Construction Woes, from Money News, May 19, 2011

U.S. Economy: Previously Owned Home Sales Unexpectedly Fall, from Bloomberg Businessweek, May 19, 2011

Unemployment Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Increased to 424,000 Last Week, from Bloomberg, May 26, 2011

"New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly climbed to 424,000 last week," from CNBC, May 26, 2011

US Q1 corporate profits drop unexpectedly, from Business Speculator, May 26, 2011

U.S. Consumer Sentiment Unexpectedly Falls to Six-Month Low on Job Outlook, from Bloomberg, May 31, 2011

U.S. Economy: Confidence Unexpectedly Drops to 6-Month Low, from Bloomberg Businessweek, May 31, 2011 

Consumer confidence falls unexpectedly in May, from USA Today, May 31, 2011

Economy cools more than expected, rattling stock market, from the Christian Science Monitor, June 1, 2011

U.S. Adds Far Fewer Jobs Than Expected in May, from National Journal, June 1, 2011

"The jobless rate, which is obtained from a separate household survey,unexpectedly rose to 9.1 percent in May," from Fox Philadelphia, June 3, 2011

Worse than Expected Jobs Report, from Market Watch, June 3, 2011

Fewer new jobs than expected in May, from UPI, June 3, 2011

Us Employment Rises Far Less Than expected in May, from Forex Trading Portal, June 3, 2011

"The dollar slumped on Friday after a government report showed anunexpectedly small amount of hiring in May," from MSN, June 4, 2011

U.S. jobless claims rises unexpectedly, from the AP, June 9, 2011

U.S. Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Climb, from Bloomberg, June 9, 2011

"Consumer confidence unexpectedly decreased in May," from Bloomberg, June 13, 2011

"The National Association of Home Builders' sentiment index unexpectedly fell to 13 in June from 16 in May," from the Financial Times, June 15, 2011

"The Federal Reserve stayed the course on monetary policy Wednesday, citing "likely" temporary factors for the unexpectedly sluggish growth in the US economy," from MSN, June 22, 2011

U.S. initial jobless claims rise unexpectedly, from Forexpros, June 23, 2011

U.S. jobless claims rise more than expected, from the Globe and Mail, June 23, 2011

"Wall Street tumbled at Thursday's opening bell after the government reported an unexpectedly sharp jump in unemployment claims," from MSNBC, June 23, 2011

"An unexpected jump in claims for unemployment benefits," from the AP, June 23, 2011

Jobless claims rise more than expected, Reuters, June 23, 2011

US Economy Growing Slower Than Expected, from the Money Times, June 23, 2011

And this quote was in Yahoo's front-page article today:

"At the conclusion of a two-day policy meeting, the central bank said that while the recovery is continuing at a moderate pace, growth is somewhat slower than expected. It also said the jobs market is "weaker than anticipated.""

You tell me, who is suffering most because Obama is making the rich pay more in taxes, and won't lower the business tax? African-American unemployment at 16 percent While unemployment among the general population is about 9.1 percent, it's at 16.2 percent African Americans, and a bit higher still for African American males. CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reports that, historically, the unemployment rate for African Americans has always been higher than the national average. However, now it's at Depression-era levels. The most recent figures show African American joblessness at 16.2 percent. For black males, it's at 17.5 percent; And for black teens, it's nearly 41 percent. Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/19/eveningnews/main20072425.shtml A big Obama scandal If the business section of a newspaper doesn't send you into depression nothing will. Is Obama's economy really moving in the right direction, as Democrats claim? Sharyl Attkisson, CBS News investigative correspondent, talks with Laura about the latest developments in the scandal surround operation "Fast and Furious." Obama's administration officials are still fighting to keep the truth a secret but it looks like a head or two may roll soon. (link)  Texas to the Feds: hands off our light bulbs! - Staff Elections have consequences: voter IDs - C.A. Morrison Acting ATF head Ken Melson to resign amid gunrunner scandal African-American unemployment rate hits 16% nationwide America is flirting with our own 'lost decade' Obama 2012: never let a holiday go to waste Don't look at the GOP field, look at our struggling economy Red China Alert: rare earth prices go up as China hoards materials

cluelessness about how things work outside the Ivy ...

Two good articles for you to consider...

Are we stumbling into another recession?  Stumbling?  Well … considering Obama's dislike of the free market system and his earnest desire for a government-controlled economy, maybe stumbling isn't the word. 

Victor Davis Hanson highlights two truths about Barack Obama: a cluelessness about how things work outside the Ivy ...

 

The Light Bulb Resistance Movement

By Andrea Seffens on June 15, 2011

America's wild wild west has always been home to cowboys, adventurers, hardened frontiersmen, and red-blooded, independent Americans. In the face of excessive government regulation, Texans have revived their independent streak and passed HR 2510. The bill  returns commonsense to the world of light bulbs, despite establishment opposition.

The bill allows incandescent light bulbs made in Texas to be sold within the state, working around President George W. Bush's 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act. The 2007 act would prevent the manufacture and sale of traditional 100 watt incandescent bulbs because they do not meet the new efficiency standards.  HB 2510 reestablishes Texans' rights to manufacture traditional light bulbs and sell them within the state of Texas.  The bill stipulates that the light bulbs must have "Made in Texas" clearly stamped onto them, and requires the Lone Star State's Attorney General to defend a Texan if he is prosecuted by the federal government for a supposed infraction of the Intestate Commerce Clause.  

Texas, by passing HB 2510, is upholding its citizens' Constitutional rights. The federal government lacks the authority to apply the Energy Security and Independence bill's efficiency regulations to light bulbs made and sold exclusively in Texas, as they do not cross state lines and therefore cannot be regulated through the interstate commerce clause. The Constitution has not given the federal government the right to regulate light bulbs made and sold within Texas, so according to the 10th Amendment, it cannot legally do so. The 9th Amendment further strengthens the bill because although the right to make and sell light bulbs in Texas is not specifically in the Constitution, the United States government does not have the right to prevent it.

link

OBAMA JOKES ABOUT SLOW RECOVERY...

OBAMA JOKES ABOUT SLOW RECOVERY...
'Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected'...

When the race card runs out

I'm sorry, your race card just ran out, you'll have to top it back up again...

We have discovered that just about anything you can say about Obama, besides 'Messiah' is some sort of racist code word.

The Texas vs. California Example.

The Texas vs. California Example.

HealthWatch: Sitting Vs. Smoking

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/06/08/healthwatch-sitting-vs-smoking/

Smoking cigarettes is the cause of so much preventable, deadly disease. But now new research shows sitting for long stretches of time may be just as dangerous.

"Smoking certainly is a major cardiovascular risk factor and sitting can be equivalent in many cases," explained Dr. David Coven.

Dr. Coven is a cardiologist. He says several new studies show prolonged sitting is now being linked to increased risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and even early death.

"The fact of being sedentary causes factors to happen in the body that are very detrimental," said Dr. Coven.

Dr. Coven says when you sit for long periods of time; your body goes into storage mode,

When that happens, it stops working as effectively as it should. What's worse, the more hours a day you sit, the greater your likelihood of developing one or more of these diseases, just as with smoking.

Linda Caufield has a desk job. She sits nearly seven hours a day.

"I'm on the computer, I'm on the phone, I'm doing paperwork so all that stuff has to be done at my desk," she said.

Linda had no idea her desk was so deadly, noting how "sitting is probably killing me."

Paul Golin says he was sitting up to eight hours a day. But after a recent heart health scare, he bought a "stand up" desk. It's a contraption that rests on a treadmill.

"I turn on the treadmill and walk for about an hour a day," said Golin.

Golin's measures may seem extreme but so are the consequences of sitting. Dr. Coven says just get up and move when you can.

"Any time you get the blood pumping, the blood moving, it stimulates the organs to do things that are healthier," said the cardiologist.

If you think that hour of cardio you do every day negates the effect of your desk job, think again.

So get up at the office at any chance you get, don't send emails when you can deliver the message in person, take the stairs, stand up when you take a phone call. And don't forget to take your breaks, and take a walk.

To view research from American College of Cardiology click here.

Majority of Americans don't really know anything about the economy

Michelle Malkin writes: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs.

In a new Rasmussen poll, only 24% of Americans say their political views are about the same as Barack Obama's.

Another Rasmussen poll found that 66% of Americans believe that private sector workers work harder than government workers. [Duh!]

Gotta give Lawrence O'Donnell credit on this one .. "a majority of Americans don't really know anything about the economy."  How do you think we ended up with a Community Organizing hack in the White House?

Big Media Eats Crow While Palin Plays Gotcha

M Catharine Evans

The mainstream media continues to embarrass itself while trying to embarrass Sarah Palin. From whining about having to pee on the side of the road in pursuit of the family tour bus to the newest feeding frenzy over Palin's Paul Revere remarks, they are exposing themselves as a juvenile lot. Their latest schoolyard taunt even has the liberal press breaking ranks.

The Boston Globe quoted Brendan McConville, a Boston University history professor admitting that Palin got her Revere facts right.

What she's saying there is essentially right...When Paul Revere was stopped by British soldiers the night of his famous ride, he did say to them that the countryside is mobilizing and you've lost the element of surprise.

Of course the liberal-minded McConville couldn't resist undermining Mrs. Palin by saying she was "lucky in her history as opposed to knowledgeable."

 Andrew Malcolm of the L.A. Times also backed up Sarah's account

That the Republican non-candidate, in fact, knew more about the actual facts of Revere's midnight ride than all those idiots unknowingly revealing their own ignorance by laughing at her faux faux pas? How secretly embarrassing this must be, to be forced to face that you're dumber than the reputed dummy.

The well-known fable is Revere's late-night ride to warn fellow revolutionaries that...the British were coming. Less known, obviously, is the rest of the evening's events in which Revere was captured by said redcoats and did indeed defiantly warn them of the awakened militia awaiting their arrival ahead and of the American Revolution's inevitable victory.

Palin knew this. The on-scene reporters did not and ran off like Revere to alert the world to Palin's latest mis-speak, which wasn't.

Like a number of famous faux gaffes in American politics, the facts of the situation no longer really matter.

Yes, Andrew "the facts of the situation no longer really matter" unless you happen to be Barack Obama. At least Sarah was in the ballpark with her history. Who can forget his "misstatement" back in 2008.

It is wonderful to be back in Oregon...Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."

How about the bomb unleashed on Pearl Harbor?

Throughout our history, America's confronted constantly evolving danger, from the oppression of an empire, to the lawlessness of the frontier, from the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor, to the threat of nuclear annihilation. Americans have adapted to the threats posed by an ever-changing world.

Or the 1965 March on Selma which inspired his birth in 1961?

There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama.

The loyal propagandists of the American Pravda chalked up Obama's ignorance to a grueling campaign schedule. But after 2 ½ long years of trying to defend the indefensible the One's cordon sanitaire is breaking down. Palin bashing just isn't what it used to be.

Read more M. Catharine Evans at Potter Williams Report

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NPR defends Palin? well, sort-of

NPR sort-of defends Palin. But it was their intent to ridicule her, only the facts, and this professor, got in their way.

NPR defends Palin?

Aaron Gee

While coming home I often listen to our local NPR station. This afternoons "All Things Considered" asked the question "How Accurate Were Palin's Paul Revere Comments?" The story started out with;

"Sarah Palin is defending her knowledge of American history." 

Here we go again, I was prepared for the usual "Palin is a moron" storyline. Surprisingly that didn't happen. What I got was Robert Allison, a professor and historian at Suffolk University, tell the NPR host that Palin basically got it right. The interviewer, Melissa Block, tries to cajole a different narrative out of the professor and historian, throwing out the question "Are there other historians professor, whom you've talked with that say your being entirely too charitable toward Sarah Palin here?" Ms. Block starts to chuckle toward the end of the question. The professor doesn't let finish the question before responding.

The result is a classic public radio moment werein the good professor gets to the heart of the matter; Sarah Palin is a lightening rod for the media, and NPR wouldn't have been talking to him about Paul Revere or the American Revolution if it hadn't been for an off the cuff remark from an Alaskan politician.

Take a moment and listen to the short piece yourself. I don't think it quite turned out the way the producers had imagined.

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Stand Firm, Weiner! Don't Resign!

Stand Firm, Weiner! Don't Resign! This guy is the face (etc.) of the Democrats. -Rush

See, I told you so - the beginnings of a totally totalitarian state...

See, it's starting already.  Government is going to use it's heavy hand to regulate every aspect of this so-called property ownership of 1's and 0's.

I find this appalling.

Doug

Embedding YouTube Videos May Soon Be a Felony

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
June 2, 2011

Techdirt reports that Senate bill 978 – a bill to amend the criminal penalty provision for criminal infringement of a copyright, and for other purposes – may be used to prosecute people for embedding YouTube videos.

According to Mark Masnick, if a website embeds a YouTube video that is determined to have infringed on copyright and more than 10 people view it on that website, the owner or others associated with the website could face up to five years in prison.

Read Masnick's article here. He explains how the new law would expand copyright violations from reproducing and distributing to performing – including streaming video over the internet.

As readers of Infowars.com know, many videos are removed from YouTube after copyright owners complain about infringement. This happens with thousands of news clips every year. Most people are familiar with the now common black box replacing a video that says the video has been removed for copyright reasons.

If enacted, this law will go one step further and turn people who embed a copyrighted video into criminals. It will also set the stage to criminalize linking to copyrighted information — like corporate media news sources — and shut down the alternative media.

It will also make people think twice about putting up all kinds of videos, from news reports to clips from documentaries and other educational material.

It does not take a vivid imagination to realize the political implications of this legislation.

Here is the full text of the bill.

Addendum

It should be noted that outlawing certain activities on the internet is instrumental to the Obama administration's copyright policy.

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In March, the White House's Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Victoria Espinel, provided Congress with a White Paper (available for download here), outlining a series of the Obama Administration's recommended legislative changes to combat online piracy and counterfeiting.

"Significantly, the recommendations include making it a felony offense to stream infringing content and giving Federal agencies wiretapping authority to obtain evidence of criminal copyright and trademark offenses," David Makarewicz wrote for Infowars.com on March 17.

Obama's emerging policy on streaming media dovetails with his administration's effort to seize web domains. The Department of Homeland Security now arrests web site operators under its "In Our Sites" program.

"On the pretext of protecting intellectual property from infringement and counterfeiters, it's about fast-tracking Internet distribution and information technology rules to subvert Net Neutrality, privacy, and personal freedoms – global rules for unrestricted free trade, undermining universal, affordable free access, civil liberties, legitimate commerce, and the right of sovereign nations to go their own way," writes Steve Lendman.

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In addition to outlawing video streaming, new legislation "would impose a strong, top-down enforcement regime, with new cooperation requirements upon (ISPs), including perfunctionary disclosure of customer information. The proposal [the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement] also bans 'anti-circumvention measures which may affect online anonymity systems and would likely outlaw multi-region CD/DVD players. The proposal also specifies a plan to encourage developing nations to accept the legal regime," imposing consequences for opting out," a Wikileaks document disclosed in May of 2008.

So-called "secondary copyright liability" will be used to criminalize what is now routine behavior on the internet. It will also be used by the political establishment to eliminate the internet activity – primarily in the form of alternative media – of those who oppose what is shaping up to be a totalitarian state.

http://www.infowars.com/embedding-youtube-videos-may-soon-be-a-felony/

Facebook – self appointed arbiter of “free speech” – tells Tea Party: no more organizing

Google is a saint compared to Facebook...

Facebook – self appointed arbiter of "free speech" – tells Tea Party: no more organizing: Flopping Aces

Economy falls off cliff

What do you expect when the president does exactly the wrong things to try to fix the economy. He's driving in reverse toward the cliffs edge. 2012 can't get here too soon.

Horror for US Economy as Data Falls off Cliff: CNBC

Palin is a true fiscal conservative

Amid media circus, Palin lays out policy positions: York

Palin took a stand on an issue that is crucial for candidates considering a run in the Iowa caucuses. "I think that all of our energy subsidies need to be re-looked at today and eliminated," Palin told RealClearPolitics. "We've got to allow the free market to dictate what's most efficient and economical for our nation's economy." What that means is Palin opposes the infamous ethanol subsidy that some presidential aspirants are afraid to question, lest they lose support in heavily agricultural Iowa.

Palin has also been speaking out in support of Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan -- another question that Republicans, and certainly all Republican presidential candidates, have had to answer. Palin supports the Ryan plan and even adds that she'd like to include Social Security in the deficit-cutting mix (something Ryan left out). And when Palin criticizes President Obama's inaction on the deficit, even David Brooks, the New York Times columnist who once said Palin "represents a fatal cancer to the Republican Party," observes that, "Sarah Palin is right about that. He has no plan."

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/06/amid-media-circus-palin-lays-out-policy-positions#ixzz1ODeoNhsH