Yesterday I said Obama will treat Avigdor Lieberman like a non-person. In my dreams. Hillary Clinton had a phone call with Avigdor Lieberman yesterday, congratulating him on his new job, Foreign Minister. Can you imagine any American official phoning up Jorg Haider? From the State Department yesterday, transcript after the jump:
QUESTION: New topic. A topic – new topic. Israeli foreign minister said he’s going to meet with Secretary Clinton. Is there any specific date and place set right now?
MR. WOOD: No, they – the Secretary had a conversation
with Foreign Minister Lieberman. It was yesterday. It was primarily to
congratulate him on coming into his new position, but no dates have
been set for any type of meeting.
QUESTION: What about Ambassador Mitchell?
MR. WOOD: He’s going to the region soon. I don’t have
dates for you yet, because I don’t think they’ve been worked out, but
he’s planning to travel to the area.
Yes, Matt.
QUESTION: Did the Secretary seek from the foreign minister any kind of an assurance on his position regarding a two-state solution in the Annapolis process?
MR. WOOD: It was a brief call. What I can tell you
about the call is that she looked forward to getting together with him.
But just to make it very clear, Matt, that our position has been for
quite some time and remains focused on a two-state solution.
QUESTION: Did she make that clear to him?
MR. WOOD: That – our position is well-known by all the players in the Israeli Government.
QUESTION: Well, he had some – you know, several
controversial comments yesterday, presumably before this phone call
took place. She didn’t raise them at all or seek an assurance that the
--
MR. WOOD: Matt, I’m not going to get into much more detail than I have on this call, but --
QUESTION: I’m not asking for detail. I’m just asking if she brought up anything other than congratulations and I hope I see you soon?
MR. WOOD: Look, I think – the Secretary looks forward to meeting with the foreign minister.
QUESTION: I got that. I understand that part.
MR. WOOD: Okay. And – and I draw you to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s
comments yesterday about wanting to engage on the peace process, and
his commitment to peace in the region. And again, this is a – this
government is, what, a day or so old. It’s --
QUESTION: Right. Maybe I’m not making the question clear enough. Did the Secretary yesterday speak to --
MR. WOOD: Try it one more time.
QUESTION: -- ask the foreign minister about his position on either Annapolis or the whole idea of the two-state solution?
MR. WOOD: Look, we have had discussions with a number
of officials in the Israeli Government about this issue. He is
certainly – Foreign Minister Lieberman is well aware of what our
position is.
QUESTION: Whether he is well aware of it or not, did
this issue come up in the phone call, or was it simply a phone call to
say congratulations and I hope I see you soon?
MR. WOOD: Well, it was – as I said, it was a very
brief phone call. She wanted to congratulate him on assuming his
position. They look forward to getting together at some point.
QUESTION: I’m sorry. I’m curious –
MR. WOOD: You know, I don’t want to get – obviously, I don’t want to get beyond that. But I just want to reiterate for you --
QUESTION: (Laughter.) Well, yeah, obviously. But did
– well, did anything other than “Congratulations and I hope I see you
soon” come up in the phone call or was that it?
MR. WOOD: Well, I can only – I got a readout of the
phone call. I wasn’t on the phone call. But the important point here,
Matt, to make, as I made already, is that a two-state solution --
QUESTION: Forget about the phone call. Is the
Administration convinced that the new Israeli Government, including its
foreign minister, is committed to finding the solution – a two-state
solution to this conflict?
MR. WOOD: Look, I can only go by what has been said
by the prime minister, who is the head of the Israeli Government. And
he said he is committed to a peace process with the Palestinians.
QUESTION: Yeah, but he also refused to use the formula – a two-state solution or a Palestinian state.
MR. WOOD: Well, all I can tell you is that the new
government, as well as the old government, is well aware of where the
United States stands on this. And we are going to pursue that two-state
solution because we believe it’s in the best interests of all the
parties in the region, and we’ll go from there. But it’s – again, it’s
a – the government is very new. The Secretary
is going to have further discussions with both Prime Minister Netanyahu
and Foreign Minister Lieberman and we will go from there. But --
QUESTION: Is the U.S. Administration optimistic about the chances to make progress on the two-state solution?
MR. WOOD: Look, you have to be – in our business, you
have to be optimistic about it.
In contrast to Adam Horowitz, who offers substantive posts, Phil's rants consist of just one of the following two posts:
1. There is a sea change! I found a Jew who doesn't like Israel! Obama is going to crush The Lobby! The party's over for Israel! One state, baby!!!
2. Those bastards at The Lobby have won again. Damn Obama and Clinton for once again giving in to The Lobby! And can you believe that the Jews stil support Israel?
It is no surprise that the State Department is following a Lobby script. Lest anyone forget, Hillary Clinton is Secretary of State. There will be no 'change' originating from within that organization.
How does Lieberman = Jorg Haider?
What an incredibly Soviet-like moment. The apparatchik can't and won't say what is obvious: Zionist yes-woman Clinton didn't have the guts to confront Lieberman on his statement, and has no plans whatsoever to do so.
There may have been good reasons for replacing the GOP with the Dems, given that those were our only two choices, but anyone who believes that the Dems are going to make matters better, in any area, is delusional.
The Dems are actually a boon to the racist Zionists, because they provide more convincing cover due to the black face of Obama and the Party's racially progressive rhetoric, which is all it really is. The Dems don't want to make racial progress, because racial demagoguery is one of the tools that gets them elected, just like the Zionists don't want to make racial progress for the same reasons.
And besides, the vast majority of Jewish American Zionists have been Democrats for decades. Since the Dems have laid down with hustlers, thugs and racketeering conspirators like this for so long, what makes anyone believe they would change now? The election of Obama? Another product of the corrupt Chicago-machine himself? Riiiight…
The only real change that is ever going to come to America and the Zionist problem is going to come from without the corrupt two-party regime.
I am a black female and supported Obama, but niave I am not. No president without divine intervention can make good on the promises that is right and just. Many do not like Farrakhan but when he is right, credit is due. Here is his assessment, so you judge:
Farrakhan on Obama
Our government is wrong and it needs to change. And if it will not change then we need to get rid of it and put in government that will guarantee the American people life Liberty and pursuit of happiness guaranteed by the Constitution
Q: You are talking about Democrats, one of which is running for President who lives in your very neighborhood, what do you think of him?
A: I like him very much, I’m not, saying I am going to vote for him, but I like him because he is fresh. He doest come with a lot of the baggage that those in politics, that has been in politics and been corrupted almost, not almost, corrupted by, sold out to the money interest, sold out to multinational corporations, sold out to the international bankers; so when you look Bush you think you looking at the president? There is another power behind him. When you look Blair do you think you looking at the Prime Minister…. There is another power behind these people. And the power that is dogging the whole world are the international bankers that finance both side of a conflicts.
Q: Do you think Barack Obama is an answer to George Bush:
A: No, I think he is cable of being an answer. But the powers that content with Presidents. I’ll go back to President Jimmy Carter when he was governor running for the Presidency he saw UFOs; and he said when he became president he was going to open the file which is secret, held by the government. When he got in office and we didn’t hear anymore from him. People say things when they are running because they don’t know the powers that really control the house they are going to live in. That is why Barack Obama is clean, he fresh, but the powers are eating at him right now. The powers that want to control him are at him right now. How can he get to be president unless he raise hundred million dollars, and how who of the poor people have a hundred million dollars to give him…
So the people that bankroll you, they are the one that ultimately call the tune.
Q: So what are your saying.
I am saying that no matter who sits in the Whitehouse, if you don’t uproot the structure that corrupt them, you still don’t have a president you have a figure head. And, frankly that why I say American need a regime change and just like you have to go into the floor when there is pipe underneath that break and bust you got to uproot what under the Government of U.S. America, or the American people will never have what the constitution guarantees.
Do you think Barak Obama can do that?
No, absolutely not. He is good person and he looking at this thing with the beautiful heart, beautiful eye of the beautiful person. He knows some of ugliness of politics because he has been in long enough. But the real wickedness of the face of politics, you looking right into the face of Satan himself, And Satan does intent to be uproot by a upstart from Chicago or Ms. Clinton from New York, Satan is the boss, this is his world and he can only be uprooted by the one that is anointed with power to uproot Satan, and that is why the —–or the Christ that comes into the world
Q: Well then who can do? Who can uproot
A: I just said it,
Q: But you don’t know….
A: None of these; these are victims of Satanic influence. Religion is control by Satan that is why religion is ineffective. The division in the Muslim world, that satanic, Muslims killing Muslims, Muslims bombing another Mosque of Muslims, if they did that then its un-Islamic. We have become so insane because of injustice, that we strap a bomb on our self and go kill another human being that didn’t bother you? This is madness
And that why the Christ must come into the world to clean up religion, because the church’s garment is dirty and need washing. The bridegroom is coming, and bride has dirtied her garment with adultery, because
Farrakhan ought to read the Constitution sometime. He seems to be confusing it with the Declaration of Independence.
Don't expect Hillary Clinton to do the right thing. As soon as she decided to run for Senator the first thing she did was go embrace Al Sharpton, despite his having lied his ass off in the Tawana Brawley case and provoked a mob to burn down a Jewished-owned Harlem clothing store that killed seven people.
Sharpton has some obvious gifts–he's fat and funny enough to do stand-up comedy. But he's also a vicious racial provocateur who is more than happy to fire up the mob if it gets him fame and (more importantly) a toehold for extorting money. He can't even say good morning without playing the race card.
@ Duscany: "Sharpton has some obvious gifts–he's fat and funny enough to do stand-up comedy. But he's also a vicious racial provocateur who is more than happy to fire up the mob if it gets him fame and (more importantly) a toehold for extorting money. He can't even say good morning without playing the race card."
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I wonder if he and Abe Foxman have the same father.
@ Jen on “international bankers” and the corruption of both parties:
Two interesting articles. The first, on Global Research titled Geithner’s ‘Dirty Little Secret,’
Says: “Today five US banks according to data in the just-released Federal Office of Comptroller of the Currency’s Quarterly Report on Bank Trading and Derivatives Activity, hold 96% of all US bank derivatives positions in terms of nominal values, and an eye-popping 81% of the total net credit risk exposure in event of default.”
In other words, only five banks hold over 80% of the bad paper that has melted down the entire world economy. They are:
“JPMorgan Chase which holds a staggering $88 trillion in derivatives (€66 trillion!). Morgan Chase is followed by Bank of America with $38 trillion in derivatives, and Citibank with $32 trillion. Number four in the derivatives sweepstakes is Goldman Sachs with a ‘mere’ $30 trillion in derivatives. Number five, the merged Wells Fargo-Wachovia Bank, drops dramatically in size to $5 trillion. Number six, Britain’s HSBC Bank USA has $3.7 trillion.”
And Geithner’s “dirty little secret” is that most of what the government is doing to “save” the economy is actually being done to “save” these five corrupt banks, and spread the liability from their gambling debts out to the taxpayers and to other banks world wide.
See: Geithner’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’
link to globalresearch.ca
The second article is from WSWS.org titled ‘Wall Street celebrates accounting rule changes designed to hide losses’
It details how banks are now being allowed to cook their books to make it appear that the losses they are facing aren’t as great as they really are, and says: “The move followed a congressional hearing at which Robert H. Herz, chairman of FASB, was told that if he did not change the accounting rules, Congress would push through legislation to force the FASB to do so…”
“The move, which was heavily lobbied for by Wall Street, is expected to increase bank earnings by 20 percent in the next quarter. Richard Dietrich, an accounting professor at Ohio State University, told Bloomberg News that the decision would allow Citigroup to reduce its reported losses by 50 to 70 percent.”…
“Even before Obama took office, he lobbied publicly for the Bush administration's bank bailout, including pressing Congress while he was president-elect to authorize payment of the second half of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. Earlier this month, the Federal Reserve announced that it would create hundreds of billions of dollars to unfreeze credit markets, in part through its purchase of $300 billion in long-term Treasury notes.
“Last week Treasury Secretary Geithner announced a scheme to enable the banks to offload their "toxic" assets by subsidizing hedge funds and private equity firms to purchase them at inflated prices, using hundreds of billions of taxpayer money to cover any losses and insure double-digit profits for the speculators.
“He then testified before Congress and stated that the government would not seek to close down the so-called "shadow banking system," which is based on highly speculative instruments, such as credit default swaps, which have played a central role in the collapse of major firms, including the insurance giant AIG.
“Now, with the blessing of the administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress, the government is effectively sanctioning accounting fraud. This underscores that the financial elite, working through its political instrument, the Obama administration, is creating the conditions for a vast expansion of the socially destructive forms of financial parasitism that led the US and world economy into the deepest crisis since the 1930s.”
link to wsws.org
I highlighted this idiot spokesman's continuous use of the preface "Look… " in a copy I made of his first presser on this kind of thing. I really don't want to watch the videos, or even listen to the audios, but I assume that it is accompanied by an impatient grimace and an exasperated twisting of the voice-tone, as if to say, this journalist is so obtuse, he wants me to keep repeating myself over and over.
What will future generations think of our current (and recent) political leaders who cannot find the will or courage to stand against Zionism's capture of the American political process?
Bill Clinton? Hillary? Alas, they and hundreds of U.S. Senators, Congressmen and others will be seen as having been collaborators and stooges. As having been the willing tools of zionists in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. They will be seen as having surrendered America's real interests as they tripped over each other in their grotesque fawning over Israel and the Israel Lobby.
Only one recent political figure stands out who will avoid the harsh judgement of history. That person, of course is Jimmy Carter.
And what of Barack Obama?
We shall soon see if he is cemented into the ranks of those who enabled Israeli ethnic cleansing and colonialism or if joins the lonely Mr. Carter.
Meanwhile, I salute Phil, Adam and other progressive Jews and gentiles who are fighting the good fight for justice in the Middle East.
"We shall soon see"? Nonsense, we know he is 'cemented into the ranks,' etc.
Farrakhan uses religious terms like Satan, which mean nothing to secular folks, but his plumbing
metaphor is clearly on point, as partially illustrated by Ed. The bailouts-stimulus packages at
core means our government, deep in the ditch already, are digging it deeper, claiming that's the only way to get out. A ponzi-pyramid scheme is concocted to repair the failed ponzi-pyramid scheme–both designed by the same banking elite. Unlike private ponzi schemes, the source of continued economic energy are not ever-expanding greedy volunteers, but unasked taxpayers, their kids, their grandkids.
The set up for all this commenced in 1913, when the Fed Reserve & IRS were made into law. The fiat dollar is the ultimate tool–its shifting trade value pivoting always within a small
handful of elite banker hands.
At least in feudal times there was such a thing as hard currency.
Financial disclosures released by the White House on Friday evening — the best time in the news cycle to hide embarrassing stuff — show that economic advisor Lawrence Summers was on the financial industry payroll to the tune of millions. All the usual suspects — Citigroup, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, even Lehman Brothers — greased Larry's outstretched palm. Thanks, gents.
Citigroup even managed to plant its own mole in the White House, a lifeform known as 'Michael Froman' who received a $2.25 million bonus in January, even as Obama was spluttering rage at such taxpayer-financed enrichment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/us/politics/04disclose.html?hp
This is not to pick on Barack Dubya Obama's administration. Like the Dubya Bush administration before it, Obama's claque is an Albanian-class mafia of graft, bribery and looting.
Bush got away with it, thanks to expert tutelage from Poppy, the old CIA hand and ex-prez. Obama, by contrast, is terribly naive. He's being badly advised about the process of ramping up from alderman-level payoffs to the global big league of raking off trillions. In my humble opinion, he's gonna get caught. He's headed for an early flameout as a one-termer.
Summers, the 5 million plus hedge fund guy, is in charge of regulating hedge funds; here's more on what Jim Haygood says, including other recent financial disclosures of Obama's new "change" regime implementers. link to online.wsj.com
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