Obama Announces Pay Freeze and New White House Rules:





http://www.whitehouse.gov (White House Website)

That one helluva way to start! I must say that I never thought I would ever hear a sitting president make such comments. It warms my heart. Hoping that actions speak louder than words, we will see what the future holds.

His comments about the FOIA compliance are a long time coming.

Wow! This is great news for the 9/11 Truth Movement. That is,if it is true. When he says all of this about the FOIA reguests, is he just speaking from the "from now on" point of view? Or, does it include past administrations? Whichever one,time will tell. Actions definitely speak louder than words here.

rc

I must say I'm impressed.

Not convinced. Just impressed.

What they said.

While this is the right direction, he still has to earn my respect. Words are empty; actions reveal the true man. I say give him 1 year, or even more, then ask me what I think!

I'm sceptical for obvious reasons, but yes, it's encouraging.

A former NSA intelligence analyst has come out, saying the NSA was spying on anyone and everyone, and targeted journalists. Apparently he was waiting till Bush was out of the White House to blow the whistle. Let's hope more people follow his lead

Russell Tice interview with Keith Olbermann:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Whistleblowe...rters_0121.html

Sorry. Oh again Sorry.


http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Celebrities_...os_to_0119.html

I have to laugh when I see the way Hollywood is manipulated by these same people. I'm wondering when Hollywood will also wakeup to see how they're being used to manipulate others?

Sorry, I watch a few shows, but I most certainly don't revere these people. They're simply overpaid actors. They're by no means role models, or someone you should follow.

America - you need to learn to use your brain, that's why you have one. These days you must question everything and allow no one to lead you around by the nose. People must earn your respect. They must prove to you they're worthy of your respect, including Obama (he hasn't even come close to proving himself).

I find it scary and crazy that people would follow Obama without having a reason to. Have you seen what he's going to do to your country yet? Have you listened to his words? Have you read what his plans are? If you have done none of this, then giving your full and total loyalty to this man is insanity, and very dangerous, especially after what we have seen come out of the Bush admin. Time to clue in people, or you will be blindsided.

OBAMA HAS A LOT OF PROVING TO ME THAT HE'S FOR REAL AND WILL PRESERVE OUR AMERICAN TRADITIONS BECAUSE HE'S TALKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF HIS MOUTH RIGHT NOW! YOU WOULD BE WISE TO UNDERSTAND THIS!

TIP: Everyone should get a copy of the Constitution and read it, and when you see news stories on tv about how certain parts are being attacked, understand what this means. This is happening left and right and this is a threat to our American way of life. YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS, AND STOP GIVING LOYALTY TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT EARNED IT.

The MySpace cul-de-sac that I inhabit is completely different from this. My friends list is almost exclusively truthers and harsh criticism of all things Obama has been going on for months. I actually learn a lot there.

MySpace hates this, and sometimes tries to disrupt the conversations. On occasion people are blocked from posting antibama stuff, and even have their pages deleted.

The new emperor has no clothes, of course. But as always, the establishment tries to mask the fact.

Interesting... and i must say.. promising.

But as the old saying goes.. actions speak louder than words.....


If Obama is true to his words of "transparency"... its time for another information campaign, but this time directly to the top... letters, emails, phone calls...

I'll start working on it...

Yes I do have to agree it was a really good start. Then again though I do remain a sort of radical type personality. The guy who wants to ride the Apocalyptic horse and all. We all got something today. We won't tortue. We will close Gitmo. I did not hear news of Bush/Cheney arrest warrants though.
But hey, you got other great news right? WMDs, words of mass diversion.
And just this minute Obama is right now speaking and he spoke about Al-cia-duh and how "they" have not created another 911.
This is highly in contrast to before the takeover of the BBC and their once wonderful documentary entitled The Power of Nightmares.

Really folks, meet the new boss, same as he old boss.
Mind you the number of key cabinet positions and advisors with solid globalist CFR and most other globalist oriented ties. Strangely these words stick in my head for some strange and paranormal reason.
"I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States".
I will failthfully EXECUTE the OFFICE of the President of the United States".

And a General Dynamics "SECURE" blackberrry. Obviously the ones you peasant prole nobodys use really must suck. Hey, but we are all equal, right?

wow..I am pretty damn impressed! This man seems to have really been listening to what people REALLY want. I could tell that he was just as sickened by what X Bush did to this country. For once, it appears that a president really cares about what WE want...and that includes openness and honesty. Lets just see if he follows through with this. I have a feeling that hes going to do a good job..I dont want to get too ahead of myself but one can only hope.

All this talk about transparency - I can't help but recall how the Obama camp refused to release his birth certificate in response to questions about his 'natural-born' status.

But if these words of Obama's on transparency aren't just lip-service and do lead somehow to the truth about 9/11 being revealed to the public, I'll be rooting all the way.

Yeah- Time will tell.
Incidentally- this is what Wikipedia says about the new Attorney General:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Holder

Take a look at his new Executive Orders:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing_room/executive_orders/


Ethics E.O.:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office...icsCommitments/




Ok, what about all his other appointees in his Cabinet etc, who were appointed prior to Jan 20, 2009? I guess they don't have to have ethics? HUM!

Almost had me going there for a while!

...then I had to remind myself that the man has no integrity.

Obamas Fainting Women Travelling Circus Act
http://youtube.com/watch?v=v1sM6MnRL00

I'm sure they are well practiced at telling us what they know we want to hear.

I find myself thinking of these uniquely "American events" throughout the last 150 years-ish:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revival_meeting

say hallelujah...I believe... yes we can...

Priceless!

Thanks for pointing me to that vid!

Jo

The people are into Obama so much because they are starved for leadership. They are starved for decency and truth.

For 8 years they have been insulted while the Constitution has been assaulted. They have been lied to, and many of us are smart enough to have known it when it was happening. Some just found out lately.

Obama is a major fresh breeze, and 3 days into it, THIS white boy is diggin' it.

Only time will tell......

Can't believe some of you are falling for this, it's the old good cop bad cop routine, I for one did not expect a clone of Bush but something "new and improved" to sell to the public, so far many are buying. Today Obama was commenting on the middle east situation, it was all about the terrorists of Hamas and not a word of criticism of Israel, that after all had a right to defend itself...

Obama is a corporate whore and a tool of the Bankers and nothing will change that, what we are seeing here is just window dressing, the agenda remains the same.

Well Obama's new ethics rules did not last very long

So much for consistency in the application of the executive order on lobbying. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) just sent out this statement lifting his hold on Raytheon lobbyist/deputy defense secretary-designate Bill Lynn’s nomination, which the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee put on yesterday:

“The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has removed an obstacle to the confirmation of Bill Lynn to be Deputy Secretary of Defense by waiving the provisions of President Obama’s Executive Order on Ethics Commitments that would have precluded Mr. Lynn’s service.

“The Senate Armed Services Committee will continue to insist that Mr. Lynn comply with a strict set of ethics rules that we apply to all nominees, including the requirement to recuse himself, for a period of one year, from any decisions involving his prior employer, unless specifically authorized to participate by an appropriate ethics official. The decision of the Administration to impose an additional set of requirements, and then waive them for this nominee, does not change the standards to which we hold all nominees.

“I support Mr. Lynn’s nomination and look forward to prompt consideration by the Senate.”

Just absolutely craven. Why put this rule out if deputy cabinet secretaries are exempt from it? Appropriately, this release was sent out at 4:46 p.m. on a Friday. Change we can believe in!

http://washingtonindependent.com

I would have to agree with you, Andre on this one! They gave us a totally incompetent Bush to screw up everything, so that we would laud the new saviour, Obama.

Obama will have to prove us wrong on this one, because this is what many believe about him now that we've read his plans for America of total redistribution and a neutering or complete scrapping of our US Constitution. He will do a few things to make us think he's for real, but what you need to be watching is what he doesn't go on video and tell us.

For example: (Looking back at his words from the past)

Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

And this...

Barack Obama and the UN's Drive for Global Governance:
http://www.americanpolicy.org/un/obama.htm

Personally I don't believe Obama has any agenda, only to represent the interests of the real power brokers, so I do not take seriously what he has said in the past or will say in the future, he is an opportunist of the worst kind. I would not be surprised if Guantanamo was left open for him to close it, just for effect.. just look how Israel stopped it's aggression on Gaza just before inauguration, as if they did not want to damage his image.

Obama is nothing more than the poster boy for the NWO, or more precisely the Anglo American Empire and western Banking interests.
I could change my opinion if some real actions were taken, such as prosecution of the criminals of the previous administration, or a massive reduction in military spending and foreign involvement, or a more balanced and less aggressive foreign policy, or the end of the "patriot act" and security measures, or monetary reforms closing down the FED, we know none of these things will happen. So what is their plan when the economy finally hits bottom ?

Nice words, but for the moment only words.
He is talking about crisis, but his campaign has been financiate also by the international bankers of the fedaral reserve that are responsible for this crisis and for all the past ones and also responsible for the economic enslavement of all the western world
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib....p;cid=N00009638
The only way to solve the crisis is to give back to the USA the power to print a currency with no debt. But for sure this is not what is going to do.
About transparency, great words, we will see if he will answer to the questions about 9/11, There is no logic in any of the officials stories we heard, from the non existence of any part of any planes anywere and all the rest that I do not want to repeat. I am looking foward like I belive all of you to see this "tranparency" how will work.
I am still convince that there was no planes in the towers or anywere else, and the videos have been digitally manipulated to show them. Did you watch September clues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXda5Kn2LAM
Watch it carefully....
In Italy we say : between to say and to do there is the sea in between.
So let see what Obama will do, because we know the politicians are very expert in talking, They are trained in this.
Ciao to everyone
Guido

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE50P6MB20090126

Obama begins reversing Bush climate policies
Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:35pm EST

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama began reversing the climate policies of the Bush administration on Monday, clearing the way for new rules to force automakers to produce more fuel-efficient and less polluting cars.

The president told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider immediately a request by California to impose its own strict limits on vehicle carbon dioxide emissions, blamed for contributing to global warming
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I keep seeing references to "Obama's agenda"... WHAT agenda? WHAT is his agenda? Can somebody please tell me what you are talking about?

People often do that, not just around here, use a phrase such as "Obama's agenda" as shorthand to communicate what others more or less understand. I don't know what others mean by it, I can only give you my own opinion of what "Obama's agenda" is -

Socialism, collectivism, further nationalization of businesses, more government meddling.

Obama's ideas might sound good to some people, but when you realize that the government doesn't have a magic pile of money - only a printing press - and that to fund these programs he has to take it away from us first - either through taxation, debt, or inflation (the inflating of the money supply), it's not such a great deal after all. People see the pendulum swinging back and forth, from Republican to Democrat, from bad-cop to good-cop, from Bush to Obama ... and don't notice that Obama and Bush have one critical thing in common - they are both promoters of bigger government and debt.

This is classic good-cop/bad-cop. After the abuses and misadventures of the Bush administration, Obama is greeted as a savior - to lead us further toward the goal line.

As the pendulum swings back and forth, it also joggles downward inexorably toward one-world-government, which is what the real owners of this world have had as a goal for at least half a century (in 1950 James Warburg, son of the architect of the Federal Reserve System instructed the US Senate that we were gonna get it whether we like it or not, by "consent or by conquest") ... and one can conclude by looking at the people surrounding Obama that this is really his agenda, whether the new president knows it or not.

Many of the posters here understand this, and (I think) this is roughly what is meant by "Obama's Agenda". At least it is to me.

Hope that helps.

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EDIT: Obama's calls for transparency gave me some hope, and for about half a second I imagined that he might turn out to be another Kennedy - who was in the process of stabbing his masters in the back when he was shot. I think that's a real long shot though. Here's the deal, expect us to come very close to James Warbug's prediction of one-world-government in the next eight years - not by conquest, but by consent - with Obama leading the way and the US populace smiling the whole way - or as Henry Kissinger put it, "demanding it". If the US public could ever just figure out how they are being routinely and eternally manipulated, then we'd have a chance. But that's not gonna happen in my lifetime I don't think.

Yes, it does help. Thank you.



I don't believe that he knows about this "agenda". Really, I don't. He is of a younger generation. He might be part of the agenda, but I don't for one second believe that he is aware of it. I'm always curious about this "one-world-government" that has been discussed and am not convinced that it exists. If it really does exist, then when will it come to power? Aren't the people who belong to this "Illuminati" already so old that they're almost dead? I just don't get the ongoing theory of the evil group of men who want to rule the entire world.

This is precisely why I shake my head at many of the videos I click links to, why, when I go searching for information and wind up 50% of the time on spooky looking websites with skulls and satanic images and pink and green type on a black background I think to myself, 'the truth will never be understood'.

There may well be a "Luciferic" angle to all this, I really don't know, I try to approach that in a thread I started here titled the "dragon blood line".

But that's all hidden in secrecy, there's only so much that can be inferred, and you don't even have to sign up with that crowd to understand, empirically, that the ultimate goal of the people running things is central control at the international level. I can hear the gears in your head churning - WHO??? Well, without naming names, it is the major stockholders of the world's central banks, the steering committee of the Bilderberg Group, the top directors of the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics - look it up, look at who the top directors are there. I could add the leadership of the Council on Foreign Relations or the Trilateral Commission, but it would be superfluous, they are mostly the same people. Those are among the "who". The Rothschilds are arguably also high up, because they are richer than any of them and they put the system in place - but you won't find their names on any lists anywhere. They remain behind the curtain behind the curtain, so to speak.

As for this "One World Government" idea, you can see it happening, incrementally, in the real world if you look. I notice here in Japan that there is a bias against physical tickets in favor of "cards" to board the trains - less and less turnstiles accept physical tickets. I refuse to use the cards, and so I have to wait in long lines to get out of the train station. You can ride the freeways here cheaper if you get a GPS chip installed in your car. I could go on and on - the goal is central control, in a cashless society (it's impossible to keep tabs on everything that's going on when people use physical money - digital money can easily be tracked - that's why things are going in this direction). I mentioned James Warburg's confession to the US Senate in 1950, here is a link to the quote -

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/james_warburg_quote_bc08

You can google it and find it anywhere - he really said it. His father was Paul Warburg, who was a central player in the setting up of the Federal Reserve system.



First of all, I avoid using the word "Illuminati", it's a word people use, clumsily, to describe a secretive cabal. There might be good reason to call it that, but it backfires and enables anyone who talks about secretive sects to be branded as a nut-job. There really was a sect called the Illuminati, which is probably connected to the people running things now - but the term has been turned against anyone trying to find out anything.

As for "them" being "dead", the families that run things are incredibly intermarried, and the "goal" appears to live on from generation to generation. Like I said, the idea of a one-world-government was expressed over 50 years ago, by the son of the architect of the Federal Reserve System nonetheless.

I believe the "spooky" aspect of it all is enchouraged, it helps convince rational people that it's all a bunch of hooey. But it's real.

Thank you so much, Sanders. I appreciate your detailed response, and for once it is presented without all the satanic images and darkness. It's easier to understand and believe when this kind of info is presented in a rational way. So I thank you for that.

P.S. I've never heard of the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics until now. Their website is full of information.

In case you didn't run across a list of their directors, here's one:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title...rd_of_Directors

http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=9914

U.S. · January 23, 2009 · Freedom of information

Obama's take on transparency and access not beyond reproach

Keywords: Obama Administration; White House

"President Obama won widespread praise in his first week office among open-government advocates for issuing a memo reaffirming a commitment to FOIA.

But he also drew criticism over access and transparency after photojournalists were not permitted to take the traditional first pictures of the new president sitting in the Oval Office. The outcry grew when the only still cameraman allowed to attend Obama's do-over of the oath of office that night was White House photographer Pete Souza; four reporters were on hand.

In protest, The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse announced they would not distribute the official photos of the oath or of Obama sitting at his new desk, which The AP called “visual press releases.” The wire service also reported its editors were displeased that administration officials would not allow reporters to use their names during a background briefing on Guantanamo Bay.

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