- http://stpeteforpeace.org/factsheets/obama.html
- Not sure if I have managed to get every thing from this site. Just interesting how the more it changes the more it stays the same,if not worse in this ever changing world. Patterns seem to be appearing It is worth it to start at the bottom of the list past the jump break and then work your way up as it is basically chronological.
Also another similiar list from "dan from squirrel hill"
http://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/obama-252/
- Mandated the Insider Threat Program which orders federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based on behavioral profiling techniques.
- Supported the PRISM massive NSA spying program.
- 20,000 Airstrikes in the President's First Term Cause Death and Destruction From Iraq to Somalia.
- Signed the NDAA into law - making it legal to assassinate Americans w/o charge or trial.
- Initiated, and personally oversees a 'Secret Kill List'.
- Waged war on Libya without congressional approval.
- Started a covert, drone war in Yemen.
- Escalated the proxy war in Somalia.
- Escalated the CIA drone war in Pakistan.
- Maintained a presence in Iraq even after "ending" the war.
- Sharply escalated the war in Afghanistan.
- Sold $30 billion of weapons to the dictatorship in Saudi Arabia.
- Secretly deployed US special forces to 75 countries.
- Signed an agreement for 7 military bases in Colombia.
- Opened a military base in Chile.
- Touted nuclear power, even after the disaster in Japan.
- Opened up deepwater oil drilling, even after the BP disaster.
- Did a TV commercial promoting "clean coal".
- Defended body scans and pat-downs at airports.
- Signed the Patriot Act extension into law.
- Deported a modern-record 1.5 million immigrants.
- Continued Bush's rendition program.
- Signed the Monsanto Protection Act into law.
Is Obama really the 'lesser of two evils'?
News after Obama was elected to a second term - listed (roughly) chronologically, most recent first:
Could John McCain or Mitt Romney have gotten away with what President Barack Obama is doing? Where Democrats once feverishly denounced the actions of George W. Bush, they are now eerily silent when their own candidate behaves in much the same way as his predecessor (read entire article).
When Bush Did What Obama's Doing, Were You Mad? (FLYER)
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- Obama toasts George HW Bush: 'We are surely a kinder and gentler nation because of you' (READ)
- The case against Edward Snowdenis the seventh under President Barack Obama in which a government official has been criminally charged with leaking classified information to the media. Under all previous presidents, just three such cases have been brought. (READ)
- Obama administration implementing a crackdown called the Insider Threat Program. Millions of federal employees must watch for "high-risk persons or behaviors" among co-workers and could face penalties, including criminal charges, for failing to report them. Leaks to the media are equated with espionage. (READ).
- “Obama is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history" - Noam Chomsky
- Edward Snowden: Obama expanded 'abusive' security programs (READ).
- In justifying his actions in Syria, Obama said, "[T]here are folks who say, you know, 'We are so scarred from Iraq. We should have learned our lesson. We should not have anything to do with it.' Well, I reject that view as well." (READ)
- In his 2009 inaugural address, Obama claimed that “we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.” Now,in defending NSA spying, Obama says, “You can’t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy. … We’re going to have to make some choices as a society.” (READ)
- A heap more after the jump but still worth a skim through