Not that it matters much in the grand scheme of things, but the Bush-Obama tag team presidency has convinced me there is no point in voting for president, and in more cases than not, in voting for member of congress too. The system is now so corrupt by the cowardly scum that use the corporation as a shield for the crimes that there is no sense in me wasting my time voting.

Plus my county uses electronic voting machines so the vote can be easily manipulated. They do have a paper trail but as far as I have read and audit is only done when the vote is very close, around 1%. So if you are going to rig an election just be sure to keep the difference between the winner and the looser to at least around 4% or 5% just to be safe, and your crime will go undected.

Well, I guess you'll go missing one of these days Glenn Greenwald thanks to your diligent and fearless reporting about our tricky, two faced, traitor president.

What I was thinking as I read along this article is I guess those who have been close to the targets of the Drone assassinations, whether by physical logistics or familial relations, probably have a thing or two to say about their validity or not.

I'm leaning more and more toward what NC-Tom is saying. Why vote? The whole damn thing is rigged. And even worse, it seems like no matter who ends up becoming President, the guy morphs into a merciless, war happy, heartless tyrant.

Glenn Greenwald, watch your back. You're one of the best journalists out there today. Unfortunately that probably puts you on some clandestine list, along with Chris Hedges and a few others, and soon we'll be reading about your prosecutions; that is if they don't keep it a secret. Be careful!

Ok, you slimy little Obama-bots. Let's hear your cute little defenses of this evil, fascist dictator of a President who claims the right to murder at will without any due process of law. Let's hear you explain how he is somehow "better than Bush," or "better than a Republican." Go. I'm waiting.

Obama is all about image and not substance. He is a corrupt true believer in the American Empire and will do anything to advance its imperialistic design ob the rest of the world. He is Bush's soul brother.

Elizabeth Tjader makes a chilling point--Glenn and Chris are already heavily harassed. Listen to Demonstorm: Still think the lesser evil is really so lesser?
We have an electorally facilitated tyranny--rule of law is out, except for your parking ticket, and your "unlawful" occupation/protest.
BUT, Chris, Glenn and others are still crying out. AND, we can vote for Jill Stein. If enough of us do, the LEAST it might do is upset the balance--and the Overlords do seem to still care which of their stooges wins. The BEST might be to vote Stein AND declare at every opportunity that you will never vote Rep/Dem again, ever.

In the face of what Greenwald has presented, the fact that Obama can be considered by the American people to be a legitimate candidate for President is the saddest and deepest cut of all. And of course his Republican candidate, whomever that turns out to be, can fully be expected to continue the same practice, leaves us with no expectation of relief. The New America.

I'm glad those of us with a conscience, an abhorence of Obomber-ism and Bush-ism, can feel free to vote for good people. Unfortunately, dreaming that even half the repugnants and dimwits would vote that way also is just a cheap shot at your intelligence. The majority of dims and pugs will still do the goody goody dance for their candidate and vote accordingly. To dream is nice, to expect is unreal.
I can think of one animal that represents the whole lot of them, admin, Congress, corpwhoreps...hyenas. Stinky, greedy, violent, ugly damned hyenas.

The following executive order has not received much attention, but has far reaching implications. Due to the length I will do two posts. This article has not been published but the author has granted permission for use.

Big Brother gets bigger

Obama’s Executive Order an Orwellian nightmare

By George Ochenski 3-19-12

Tradition holds that politicians who wish to make an announcement -- but don’t want the press to blast it out in bold headlines -- issue their press releases late on a Friday afternoon. Following that model, the White House issued President Obama’s new Executive Order on National Defense Resources Preparedness last Friday, March 16th. Given the content and stunning breadth of the Order, it’s no surprise Obama hoped the press would overlook, underestimate and hopefully not report on his move to basically hand the nation’s private and public resources over to the political appointees heading the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, and a host of other federal agencies.

The Executive Order, which carries the weight of law, can be found online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness . Although complicated, it’s not long and well worth the read since it can and at some point will undoubtedly affect the life of every American, especially in a resource-rich state like Montana.

Issued by Obama, as “Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States,” the stated purpose “delegates authorities and addresses national defense resource policies and programs under the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended.”

It’s worth noting that 1950 was the height of the national hysteria over Communism with its main hit men being Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. In fact, it’s the year in which the term “McCarthyism” was coined to describe the radical paranoia that resulted in a national inquisition to drag anyone suspected of being a communist sympathizer into court, before Congressional committees, and even to prison, whether or not the accusations were merited.

With that background in mind, Obama has now used the legal authority from that outdated and shameful period in our nation’s history to grant new, bigger, and more intrusive powers to the president, the unelected heads of federal agencies, and a yet-to-be-formed committee to commandeer virtually any resources – natural, human, and financial – if and when they decide a “national emergency” warrants such action.

One might reasonably question what constitutes a “national emergency” that would unleash the Draconian authorities contained in the Order, but that remains amorphous. Instead, those federal agencies “responsible for plans and programs relating to national defense” are charged to “identify requirements for the full spectrum of emergencies, including essential military and civilian demand.” This same cabal of non-elected government officials would then assess “the capability of the domestic industrial and technological base to satisfy requirements in peacetime and times of national emergency” including availability of critical resource and production sources, materials, skilled labor and professional and technical personnel.

From there, things go downhill fast. Basically, the political appointees heading federal agencies are then delegated the same powers as the president “to allocate materials,

services, and facilities as deemed necessary or appropriate to promote the national defense.”

More specifically, Secretary of Energy gets control over “all forms of energy,” which “means all forms of energy including petroleum, gas (both natural and manufactured), electricity, solid fuels (including all forms of coal, coke, coal chemicals, coal liquification, and coal gasification), solar, wind, other types of renewable energy, atomic energy, and the production, conservation, use, control, and distribution (including pipelines) of all of these forms of energy.”

Secretary of Health and Human Services gets control over “health resources,” which “means drugs, biological products, medical devices, materials, facilities, health supplies, services and equipment required to diagnose, mitigate or prevent the impairment of, improve, treat, cure, or restore the physical or mental health conditions of the population.”

Secretary of Transportation will have authority over “all forms of civil transportation,” meaning "direction, control, and coordination of civil transportation capacity regardless of ownership.”

The Secretary of Defense, besides the military, also gets control over “water resources” which “means all usable water, from all sources, within the jurisdiction of the United States, that can be managed, controlled, and allocated to meet emergency requirements.”

The Secretary of Commerce will control “all other materials, services, and facilities, including construction materials.”