Barack Obama
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Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th president of the United States. He took office on January 20, 2009. Obama is a member of the Democratic Party and won the United States presidential election of November 4, 2008.
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Nobel Peace Prize
Barack Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples".[1] Obama accepted this award in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2009, with "deep gratitude and great humility."[2]
War of Terror
A couple of days before collecting his peace prize, Obama announced a "surge" (i.e. an increase, what was referred to in the Vietnam War as an "escalation") in troop numbers in the ongoing US invasion of Afghanistan.[3] Assassination without judicial process has become a routine part of US foreign policy under Obama. Not long after becoming president, he arranged what senior US officials called "Terror Tuesdays" in which he personally selects people for assassination by drone strikes. Jeremy Scahill noted that "One of the enduring legacies of Obama's presidency is how he has normalised assassination as a central component of what is called America's national security policy"[4] Obama is reported to have told his aides while discussing drone strikes that he’s "really good at killing people".[5]
Guantanamo Bay
On 22 January 2009, Obama signed an order to suspend proceedings at the Guantanamo military commission for 120 days and shut down the detention facility that year.[6][7] Wikipedia suggests that the prevention was hindered by an unnamed "military judge at Guantanamo" who on 29 January 2009 rejected the request in the case of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.[8] On 20 May 2009, the United States Senate passed an amendment to the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2009 (H.R. 2346) by a 90–6 vote to block funds needed for the transfer or release of prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.[9]
On 7 January 2011, President Obama signed the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, which, in part, placed restrictions on the transfer of Guantanamo prisoners to the mainland or to foreign countries, thus effectively preventing the closure of the facility.[10]
Nuclear Weapons
Obama has pledged to reduce the world’s stockpile of nuclear arms, whilst seeking to increase funding for nuclear weapons research. In 2010 he sought to expand the US nuclear budget and in October 2013, his Assistant Defense Secretary Madelyn Creedon told a panel in the U.S. House of Representatives that "modernization work of this kind is expensive, but there is no doubt that the investment ... is necessary", explaining why multi-billion dollar expenditure was needed to modernize the US nuclear arsenal in pursuit of President Barack Obama's goal of reducing it.[11][12]
French State Visit
Issue № 1360 of Private Eye magazine reported on the February 2014 State Visit by French President François Hollande to the United States giving this verbatim account (in Franglais) of his welcome at the White House by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.
- Président Obama (pour c’est lui): Bonjour Monsieur Hollande-Saucy, et bienvenue à la Maison Blanche. Puis-je vous introduce ma femme, Michelle?
- Hollande: Ah, Michelle, ma belle, comme les Beatles chantent!
- Michelle: Enchantée, Monsieur Hollande-Saucy. Vous êtes si charmant!
- Hollande: Mwah, mwah, mwah.
- Obama: Ça c’est enough de ça, vous pouvez stop kissing sa main maintenant.
- Hollande: Mais nous avons un relationship spécial.
- Obama: Pas avec ma femme, buddy! C’est un relationship platonique.
- Michelle: Comme votre relationship avec Beyoncé!
- Obama: Honnêtement, j’ai never even remarqué sa bootie fabuleuse...
- Michelle: Et what about la Première Ministre Danois, la blonde shell de bombe, qui took le selfie avec vous dans le middle de la très sérieuse funèbre de Monsieur Mandela?
- Hollande: Mon dieu, vous êtes worse que la Rottweiler! Si je voulais écouter un argument domestique, je would’ve rester dans le Palais de l’Élysée.
- Obama: Alors, down to le business. La France est une ally très importante, parce que... (il consulte ses notes), er, nous standons together, excepté dans les recent guerres varieuses quand vous étiez les fromage-mangeant surrender singes!
- Hollande: Sacré blue! C’est très unfair. Nous sommes épaule à épaule avec vous.
- Michelle: Non, votre nez est dans ma cleavage.
- Hollande: Oh, pardon. Force d’habite. Mais, sérieusement, Monsieur Président, vous sûrement prefer nous Français aux sales rosbifs Anglais?
- Obama: Non, non... (il consulte les notes encore)... je pense de vous également, comme je pense de mes daughters.
- Hollande: Vous avez daughters? Ooh là là! Est-ce qu’elles sont locked up?
- Michelle: Quoi?
- Hollande: Je suis pied-loose et fancie-libre!
- Michelle: Vous devez être locked up, Monsieur Randy Grénouille avec les glasses et le moped.
- Obama: Assez, chérie, nous ne voulons pas un incident diplomatique. Laissons-nous exchanger les gifts.
- Michelle: Voilà, pour vous un symbol de l’union de nos deux great cultures – un Grand Mac avec Fries Françaises.
- Hollande: Magnifique! Et maintenant mon gift à toi, Michelle.
- Michelle: Qu’est-ce que c’est?
- Hollande: C’est mon numéro de téléfon.
Fin de relationship spécial.[13]
Legal Case
| Name | Plaintiff(s) | Defendant(s) | Start | End | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hedges v. Obama | Daniel Ellsberg Chris Hedges Noam Chomsky Jenifer Bolen Kai Wargalla Birgitta Jónsdóttir Alexa O'Brien | Barack Obama Leon Panetta John McCain John Boehner Harry Reid Eric Cantor Nancy Pelosi US Department of Defense Mitch McConnell United States of America | 13 January 2012 | 28 April 2014 | The plaintiffs challenged the 2012 NDAA contending that indefinite detention on "suspicion of providing substantial support" to groups such as al-Qaeda and the Taliban was so vague as to allow unconstitutional, indefinite detention of civilians based on vague allegations. The Court of Appeals struck down an initial agreement, and the US Supreme Court concurred, arguing that the plaintiffs could not prove they would be affected by the law, so had no standing to contest it. |
Quotes by Barack Obama
| Page | Quote | Date |
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| Joe Biden | “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.” | 2020 |
| Red pill and blue pill | “If there's a blue pill and a red pill, and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half price for the thing that's going to make you well?” | July 2009 |
Appointments by Barack Obama
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barack Obama/Presidency | “In spite of the promise of “Change you can believe in,” it looks like things are basically UNchanged” | Bob Franken | |
| Joe Biden | “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate," Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right.” | Joe Biden Time Magazine | 2008 |
| NDAA 2012 | “New Year’s Eve December 31, 2011 signing of the NDAA will indelibly go down as a landmark in American history. Barack Obama will go down in history as “the president who killed Constitutional democracy” in the United States.” | Michel Chossudovsky | 16 July 2016 |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Hang your head in shame, O Peace Prize laureate | article | 22 February 2011 | Stuart Littlewood | |
| Document:Libya: Fine, but why Britain | article | 20 March 2011 | Brian Barder | David Cameron seemingly Gung Ho on toppling the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, while Barack Obama takes a back seat |
| Document:Seymour Hersh Says Hillary Approved Sending Libya’s Sarin to Syrian Rebels | Article | 28 April 2016 | Eric Zuesse | The commercially-controlled media won’t inform the public when a US Secretary of State, and her boss the US President, are the persons actually behind a sarin gas attack they’re blaming on a foreign leader the US aristocrats and their allied foreign aristocrats are determined to topple and replace. Is this really a democracy? |
| Document:Stench of Corruption | article | 5 August 2014 | William Engdahl | Brief introduction to a story of deep in-your-face corruption involving the US Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and the shale gas deposits of Eastern Ukraine |
| Document:The Trump Administration’s Syria Gas Attack Narrative Continues to Unravel | Article | 18 April 2017 | Michael Krieger | United States Government: "They Lied About Iraq; They Lied About Libya; They're Lying About Syria." |
| Document:US Intel officials say Syria NOT responsible for chemical attack | memo | 6 September 2013 | Philip Giraldi W. Patrick Lang Ray McGovern Larry Johnson Coleen Rowley David MacMichael Matthew Hoh Elizabeth Murray Todd Pierce Sam Provance Ann Wright Tom Drake | |
| File:Barack Obama - the Unauthorized Biography.pdf | book | September 2008 | Webster Tarpley | A sharp analysis which clearly showed Obama to be more more than a puppet long before most people had noticed there was only rhetoric behind his promises of "change you can believe in". |
| File:EstablishingNewNormal.pdf | report | July 2010 | American Civil Liberties Union | Under the Obama Administration |
| File:Press Statement of Larry Sinclair June 18 2008.pdf | Wikispooks Page | 18 June 2008 | Larry Sinclair | 2008 press statement by Larry Sinclair about his interactions with then Senator Obama. |
References
- ↑ "The Nobel Peace Prize 2009"
- ↑ "Obama: 'Peace requires responsibility'"
- ↑ "Surge in Afghanistan"
- ↑ "Dirty wars drones"
- ↑ "Obama said he's really good at killing people"
- ↑ "Obama Issues Directive to Shut Down Guantánamo"
- ↑ "Closure of Guantanamo Detention Facilities"
- ↑ "Judge rejects Obama bid to stall trial"
- ↑ "Senate votes to block funds for Guantanamo closure"
- ↑ "Obama signs Defense authorization Bill"
- ↑ "Obama Budget Seeks More Money for Nuclear Weapons"
- ↑ "U.S. nuclear arms overhaul needed to ensure reliability: officials"
- ↑ Private Eye magazine (21 February - 6 March 2014) Issue No. 1360, page 23, "Let's Parlez Franglais!"
