Obama’s Demagogic UN Address
by Stephen Lendman
He didn’t surprise. His address lasted a mind-numbing 45 minutes. He made painful listening.
All his speeches feature demagogic mumbo jumbo Big Lies. They drown out truth.
Two years ago, he lied about Libya. He claimed US-led NATO intervened to “cope with violent conflict, care for the wounded, and craft a vision for the future in which the rights of all Libyans would be respected.”
He “supported the birth of a new democracy…Libyans held elections…(They) built new institutions…(They) move(d) forward after decades of dictatorship.”
Truth is polar opposite Obama’s Big Lies. Libya was Africa’s most developed country. Most Libyans supported Gaddafi.
They did so for good reasons. Libya was a model social justice society.
Gaddafi used its oil wealth responsibly. He provided free healthcare, education and other vital benefits.
His Libya no longer exists. Obama transformed it. He made it a charnel house catastrophe. A dystopian wasteland.
Tens of thousands were ruthlessly slaughtered. Many more were injured and/or displaced.
Libyans had benefits Americans can’t imagine. Obama replaced them with dystopian harshness.
Mostly civilians were harmed. US-led NATO willfully targeted them. Obama destroyed Libyan sovereignty. He replaced it with instability, insecurity, and daily violence.
Last year, he ludicrously said “we come together to reaffirm the founding vision of this institution.”
“For most of recorded history, (the) idea that nations and peoples could come together in peace to solve their disputes and advance a common prosperity seemed unimaginable.”
It still does. America bears full responsibility. So does Obama. He deplores peace, stability and security. He wages permanent wars without end.
He abhors “common prosperity.” He spurns social justice. He serves monied interests only. He supports their divine rights.
He permits their grandest of grand theft larceny. He hands them America’s wealth.
He gave bankers trillions of dollars. He lets war-profiteers benefit hugely. He supports government of, by, and for America’s privileged.
This year, he prioritized selling war. The New York Times shamelessly supports it.
It called Obama’s address “much-anticipated.” It made stomach-churning listening.
According to The Times, Obama “chartered a muscular new course.” He “laid out a forceful new blueprint on Wednesday for deeper American engagement in the Middle East…”
He told UN members “that the Islamic State understood only ‘the language of force’ and that the United States would ‘work with a broad coalition to dismantle this network of death.’ ”
He ignored America’s killing machine. His lawless aggression. His culpability for high crimes against peace.
So did The New York Times. It bashed Russia at the same time. It did so irresponsibly.
It’s America’s lead disseminator of state/corporate Big Lies. It supports wealth, power and privilege.
It’s an unofficial propaganda ministry. It operates irresponsibly.
It features managed news misinformation garbage. It drowns out vital truths. It betrays its readers in the process.
Obama’s address featured beginning-to-end Big Lies. “(M)ore people live under governments they elected,” he claimed.
Most so-called elections are more shams than real. Entrenched power runs things. People have no say.
Obama lied suggesting otherwise. “Hundreds of millions of human beings have been freed from the prison of poverty,” he said.
Billions are ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed and ill-cared for. Human misery is unprecedented.
Since economic crisis conditions erupted in late 2007, poverty increased exponentially. So did deep poverty. Obama lied claiming otherwise.
He ludicrously said world economic conditions strengthened. Millions of Americans endure protracted Depression conditions.
America isn’t fit to live in. It no longer has a functioning economy. Paul Craig Roberts calls it a “house of cards.”
US-style casino capitalism failed. Most of its citizens struggle daily to get by. Welcome to the age of inequality. Poverty is a growth industry.
Over 23% of Americans wanting work can’t find it. Most jobs are rotten ones.
They’re temp or part-time low pay/poor or no benefit service ones with no futures. Conditions are getting worse, not better.
Monied interests run things. Ordinary people suffer. More than ever in modern times. Obama ludicrously claimed otherwise.
He lied accusing Russia of aggression. “Here are the facts,” he said. “After the people of Ukraine mobilized popular protests and calls for reform, their corrupt president fled.”
“Against the will of the government in Kiev, Crimea was annexed. Russia poured arms into eastern Ukraine, fueling violent separatists and a conflict that has killed thousands.”
“When a civilian airliner was shot down from areas that these proxies controlled, they refused to allow access to the crash for days.”
“When Ukraine started to reassert control over its territory, Russia gave up the pretense of merely supporting the separatists, and moved troops across the border.”
Washington bears full responsibility for Ukrainian crisis conditions. Rogue EU partners share it.
Crimea wasn’t annexed. Its people voted near unanimously to join Russia. They did so in a referendum independent international monitors judged open, free and fair.
Putin responsibly accommodated them. Obama lied claiming otherwise.
No evidence suggests Russia poured arms into Southeastern Ukraine. Washington, its rogue Western partners, and Kiev’s putschist government bear full responsibility for months of violence, instability and lawlessness.
Fascist regimes operate this way. Kiev’s rogue government shot down MH17. Clear evidence proves it.
Self-defense forces and Russia had nothing to do with it. Or refusing access to its crash site for days.
Russia didn’t invade Ukraine. Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov abhor war, violence and instability. They go all-out for peaceful conflict resolution.
Obama deplores it. He pursues permanent wars against humanity. He wants unchallenged worldwide control.
US policies cause unspeakable human misery. No nation in world history caused more harm to more people at home and abroad over a longer duration than America.
None exceed its lawlessness. Its disdain for core human and civil rights. None more threaten world peace.
America isn’t beautiful. It never was. For sure not now. It threatens humanity’s survival.
Obama represents the worst of rogue leadership. He belongs in prison, not high office.
America’s “choice is clear,” he hyped. “We choose hope over fear.” His hyperbole was polar opposite reality.
“…(W)e come together to reject the cancer of violent extremism,” he claimed. US global state terrorism exceeds the worst of all other rogue states in world history.
It’s responsible for more genocidal mass slaughter, destruction, and human misery over a longer duration than history’s worst dictatorships.
Their crimes pale by comparison to America’s. They do so in terms of:
- bullying other nations to comply with its diktats;
- targeting them with regime change for refusing;
- making the world safe for monied interests;
- redrawing the world’s map to serve them;
- letting them operate lawlessly;
- handing them America’s wealth;
- trashing social justice;
- asserting might over right;
- waging permanent wars on sovereign nations;
- doing so for unchallenged global dominance;
- causing irreparable harm to billions worldwide for generations;
- violating core rule of law principles;
- institutionalizing state terror;
- spreading the scourge of fascism; and
- making societies unsafe to live in.
Obama lied claiming America supports “freedom of nations and (the right of) peoples (able) to make their own decisions.”
He deplores this notion and others related to it. He spurns diplomacy and peace. He prioritizes violence, belligerence and permanent wars of aggression.
He ludicrously claimed America supports “mutual interest and mutual respect.” A commitment to work responsibly to solve modern-day problems.
A pledge “to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and pursue the peace and security of a world without them.”
A dedication to “eradicat(ting extreme poverty by 2030.” A promise “to help people feed themselves, power their economies, and care for their sick.”
A guarantee to “reduc(e) our carbon emissions (and increase) our investments in clean energy.”
America deplores mutual interest and respect. It’s responsible for egregious world problems.
Its policies create extreme poverty. They exploit world economies. They cause starvation, homelessness, health problems and unspeakable human misery.
Practically nothing is done to develop clean energy. To work toward replacing polluting fossil fuels and dangerous nuclear energy.
Obama lied claiming America “is not and never will be at war with Islam. (T)here is no us and them,” he said.
No “clash of civilizations” exists, he claimed. “(H)umanity’s future depends on us uniting against those who would divide us along the fault lines of tribe or sect, race or religion.”
America won’t “send US troops to occupy foreign lands,” he claimed. He ludicrously said it military might is used responsibly.
America is committed to “tak(e) action against immediate threats, while pursuing a world in which the need for such action is diminished.”
It “will never shy away from defending (its) interests, but we will also not shy away from the promise of this institution and its Universal Declaration of Human Rights – the notion that peace is not merely the absence of war, but the presence of a better life.”
“…America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems, to make our union more perfect, to bridge the divides that existed at the founding of this nation.”
“(W)e hold our leaders accountable,” he claimed. We “insist on a free press and independent judiciary.”
“…(W)e address our differences in the open space of democracy – with respect for the rule of law; with a place for people of every race and every religion; and with an unyielding belief in the ability of individual men and women to change their communities and their circumstances and their countries for the better.”
Its “can help light the world…We are heirs to a proud legacy of freedom, and we’re prepared to do what is necessary to secure that legacy for generations to come.”
Obama’s address was beginning-to-end brazen bald-faced Big Lies. He elevated them to a higher level.
His presidency gives rogue leadership new meaning. Madness defines it.
Neocon extremists infest Washington. They hugely influence policies. They do so destructively.
Obama promised hope and change. He delivered permanent wars, domestic ruthlessness and betrayal.
He’s ideologically over-the-top. He presides over a homeland police state apparatus.
He recklessly advances America’s imperium. His quest for global dominance risks the unthinkable.
Impeaching him is a national imperative. He violated public trust from day one in office.
He did so throughout his tenure. He broke every major promise made.
He wages permanent war on humanity. He risks heading America for WW III. He’s guilty of high crimes against peace.
He trashed America’s social contract. His policies caused unprecedented levels of poverty, unemployment, underemployment, hunger, homelessness and human misery.
He’s beholden to powerful monied interests. They own him. He spurns fundamental civil and human rights.
He ignores rule of law principles. He mocks democratic values. He’s contemptuous of essential needs.
He institutionalized tyranny. It’s a hair’s breadth from full-blown. It’s one major homeland false flag away.
Humanity’s survival is uncertain. It’s up for grabs. So are fundamental freedoms.
US state terror threatens them. So do America’s permanent wars.
They rage without end. They do so lawlessly. They cause mass slaughter and destruction.
America’s killing machine is the world’s most ruthless. Survival hangs in the balance if it’s not stopped.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.“ Visit his blog site. Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network. It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs.
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Press TV has conducted an interview with Manuel Ochsenreiter, the chief editor of Zuerst, in Berlin, about the crisis in Ukraine.
The following is an approximate transcript of the interview.
Press TV: Short of an attack no Russia, condemning Russia in its actions, Obama saying this actually threatens a post-war order.
Ochsenreiter: It is like sitting in a time machine and going back to the Cold War era. We can remember this as speeches used by Ronald Reagan against the Soviet Union.
What we witnessed today was a pathetic and desperate attempt of Barack Obama and the United States of America to regain what we could call a ‘world leader role.’
Accusing Russia of going into Ukraine; that there is a sort of military activity of Russia in Ukraine sending its army, by doing a sort of invasion against Ukraine. There is nothing confirmed about that.
You can have this opinion if you look at Western mainstream channels, but it has nothing to do with the situation on the ground.
The contradiction is the truth. The contradiction is that the US and also the European Union have been meddling in Ukraine for many years. It didn’t start last year with the protests. The West was sending NGOs, so-called soft power, into Ukraine to meddle there to prepare what we saw in the Meidan.
And the people in Ukraine were not confident with the new order, which brought a lot of ultra-liberal criminal oligarchs and also fanatics coming from all over Europe into power in Kiev. And the people didn’t support that. You cannot blame them for this.
Obama is playing the blame game in the UN Assembly trying to put the blame on Russia... when he should put the blame on the US... Russia didn’t start this conflict.
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Canadian PM Addresses UN Calling Inexpensive Vaccines “Remarkable Progress”… Vaccine/Depopulation Birth Certificate Salesmen???
Not all humans have souls you know…
Canadian PM Addresses UN Calling Inexpensive Vaccines “Remarkable Progress”… Vaccine/Depopulation Birth Certificate Salesmen???
The world is learning that vaccines are harmful…
Vaccines are generally produced by warring groups, who have no ‘life in their eyes’… Harper case in point… here are his uninspiring corporate words… and by the way… you can make fun of him but that won’t change a highly programmed being’s mind… think about it… love is the answer… so have joyfun wondering why Harper is selling vaccines and birth certificates to the world… when there are way more important things to do… is this a leader of the people or someone who serves some hidden hand:
The full text of Harper’s UN address from the article:
Stephen Harper Mocked Over Photos Of Empty Seats At UN Address
Good evening.
Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen.
It is both an honour and a pleasure for me to once again address this Assembly.
For more than 70 years, Canada has supported the United Nations and its institutions, in the pursuit of world peace.
On many occasions Canadians have put their lives on the line to deter active conflict between peoples.
It’s a duty we accept and it’s a record of which we are proud.
Today, there are many embattled parts of the world where the suffering of local populations and the threats to global security deserve our urgent attention, and I could easily use my entire time here on any one of them.
There are however, other areas of service to humanity.
It is to some of these that I wish to speak tonight.
For, there is more to peace than the absence of war.
Where human misery abounds, where grinding poverty is the rule, where justice is systematically denied, there is no real peace, only the seeds of future conflict.
Of course, misery and injustice are not the only roots of war.
We need only look at the world today to appreciate this.
Then we understand how the worst of human nature – perverse ideologies, religious extremism, and the lust for power and plunder – can rob people in so many places of property, of hope and of life itself.
That’s why Canada has always been ready and willing to join with other civilized peoples and to challenge affronts to the international order, affronts to human dignity itself, such as are today present in Eastern Europe, particularly Ukraine, in the Middle East, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere, and of course many parts of Africa.
Canada’s positions on these issues are well known, and we will continue to contribute to the extent to which we are able in assisting our friends and allies in the international community to deal with these grave challenges.
But while these extreme situations are being confronted, other problems, pandemics, climate change, and of course the problems of underdevelopment remain.
And we feel strongly that no effort is ever in vain if it offers people an alternative to conflict and an opportunity to better their lives and those of their families.
Canadians, therefore, seek a world where freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law are respected.
We hold these things to be intrinsically right and good.
And we also believe that they are the necessary foundation for a better world for more people, necessary for prosperity, and with prosperity comes hope, and with hope, the greater inclination of free peoples everywhere to find peaceful solutions to the things that divide them.
Indeed, we believe that freedom, prosperity and peace form a virtuous circle.
For this reason, the growth of trade between nations and the delivery of effective development assistance to ordinary people – simple, practical aid – these are the things that have become the signatures of our Government’s outreach in the world.
Trade means jobs, growth and opportunities.
It has made great nations out of small ones.
The story of my own country, Canada, is a case in point.
Historically, trade has built our country, just as today, it is reshaping our world.
Trade means ordinary people can support their families and even dare to dream of something much more.
Our Government has worked hard to establish a vast network of modern trade agreements.
The trade agreements we have concluded tear down the barriers of tariff and excise, and enlarge markets and opportunities for buyers and sellers alike.
Canada has now established such links with countries that today possess more than a quarter of the world’s people and nearly half the world’s business.
And our free-trade network will grow larger yet.
This is not, by the way, an exclusive club for wealthy nations.
Canada has liberalized its trade with countries known more for their determination to succeed than for the size of their economies, thereby opening the way for them to access Canadian and other markets.
There is no reason to stop now.
As indicated by my colleague from Senegal, President Macky Sall, aid is needed for development but what is needed even more is investment.
He is quite right.
Yet, no matter how freely we trade, millions of people will for some time to come need a helping hand.
Easily the most important example and the one closest to my heart, is the worldwide struggle upon which so many of you have been engaged, the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Initiative.
Saving the lives of the world’s most vulnerable mothers, infants and children must remain a top global priority.
That is, the world must honour the commitments made in this very room to mothers and children in the year 2000.
And there has been remarkable progress.
Thanks to inexpensive vaccines and the combined effort of multiple partners, more children are being vaccinated today than ever before.
And as the importance of nutrition becomes better understood, more and more children are surviving.
Thanks to simple, low-cost, easily accessible techniques, literally millions of mothers and children who, a mere 14 years ago, might have died today not only survive, but thrive.
I think especially of the 2010 meeting of world leaders at Muskoka, that raised about seven and a half billion dollars, two billion of it from private donors.
Based on that, the United Nations launched what the Secretary-General called the Every Woman, Every Child Initiative, with the goal of saving 16 million lives by 2016.
An important aspect of this work has been to monitor both the receipt of monies pledged, and how they are used.
The assurance of full accountability has allowed recipients to plan with greater certainty and donors to give with confidence.
With His Excellency, whom you just heard, President Kikwete of Tanzania, it was my honour to co-chair the World Health Organization’s Information and Accountability Commission linked to this initiative.
Ladies and gentlemen, on this, we have a clear vision and that vision is achievable.
We know how to help many of these vulnerable people.
We have seen what can be done.
We want, therefore, simply to rally the passion and the will to make it happen.
We are preventing, and we can prevent more deaths, deaths of thousands of children every day from easily preventable causes.
We can stop thousands of mothers dying in childbirth who, with relatively little intervention, would survive.
We also know who we need to be working with: new partnerships; partnerships that bring together governments, agencies of the UN – the World Health Organization, the World Food Program, UNICEF – with the private sector, partnerships that are producing real results and taking us to new heights of excellence.
Here, I’m thinking of the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Network in Canada, a group that represents a broad base of Canadian civil society, and are key implementing partners on the ground.
As many of you know, this past May in Toronto, Canada hosted the world’s leading actors on this subject.
We heard the success stories, for example, the Micronutrient Initiative through which 180 million children received Vitamin A, pills costing pennies, but that drop child mortality by 25 per cent.
We heard about the Vaccine Alliance, GAVI, and how during the three year period ¬between 2010 and 2013, immunizations saved the lives of two million children.
We have partnerships to deliver better nutrition and partnerships to deliver better measurement, because vital statistics are critical.
“You can’t manage what you can’t measure.
And in this mission, we measure progress in precious lives saved.
So every child needs a birth certificate.
We also heard about the now greater demand for accountability, in regard not only to the vast sums of money pledged, but also the way in which that money is spent.
So our consensus was clear.
We have seen success, and we have momentum.
Saving the lives of children and mothers is a fight we can win.
To get it done, two things are needed now: the political focus and renewed financial commitment.
I therefore urge this assembly, in the strongest terms, to ensure that in the evolving, post-2015 development agenda, maternal, newborn and child health remain a clear and top priority.
And one of a limited number of priorities.
That is the political focus we need.
Then there is the financial commitment.
I know we all have many competing priorities.
But, to have come so far that to stop now would be a tragedy.
I must tell you, I was very encouraged this afternoon at the Secretary General’s Every Woman Every Child event, when President Kim of the World Bank and other leaders announced new financing for the Bank’s Global Financing Facility For Every Woman, Every Child.
This Facility will help developing countries access the financing required to improve their health systems.
I am pleased to announce that Canada will financially support the World Bank’s Global Financing Facility For Every Woman, Every Child.
We urge other countries to do likewise because, to provide viable solutions to prevent the tragic death of women and children, we need to increase budget allocations on the part of both donors and the developing countries.
Now ladies and gentlemen, in closing let me just say this.
There are many individual countries and many specific causes that will rightly occupy your, our, deliberations here this week.
Let’s also not forget to also look beyond those crises, at the long-term opportunities and efforts that can truly transform the world.
We have it in our power to create a better kind of world for our children’s children than we have today.
And we should.
For, it was never the intention of the founders of the United Nations, Canada being one of them, that ours would be a world where terrorists could get the resources necessary to sow death and destruction, but where workers and families could not get jobs and opportunities, or where mothers and children could not obtain the necessities required to live and to thrive.
The world that Canada strives for is the world that the founders of the United Nations wanted from the beginning, as boldly articulated in their declaration of 1942: I quote, a world where ‘life, liberty, independence and religious freedom’ are defended, where ‘human rights and justice’ are preserved, and where all join ‘in a common struggle against the savage and brutal forces seeking to subjugate the world.’
In such a world, there can be prosperity for the impoverished, justice for the weak, and, for the desperate, that most precious of all things, hope.
It’s easy to look at the many problems of the world today and become despondent.
Yet, for all our failings there has been, for most of humanity, tremendous progress in my lifetime.
Therefore, I am enough of an optimist to think that, because we can create a more prosperous, fairer and hopeful world, not only should we, but indeed, I believe we will find the will to do so.
Thank you very much for your attention.
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Obama Praises Muslim Cleric Who Backed Fatwa on Killing of U.S. Soldiers
President Barack Obama addresses the United Nations General Assembly / AP
BY: Adam Kredo
September 24, 2014 1:40 pm
President Barack Obama favorably quoted and praised on Wednesday in his speech before the United Nations a controversial Muslim cleric whose organization has reportedly endorsed the terror group Hamas and supported a fatwa condoning the murder of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
Obama in his remarks offered praise to controversial cleric Sheikh Abdallah Bin Bayyah and referred to him as a moderate Muslim leader who can help combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL or ISIS) radical ideology.
However, Bin Bayyah himself has long been engulfed in controversy for many of his views, including the reported backing of a 2004 fatwa that advocated violent resistance against Americans fighting in Iraq.
This is not the first time that the Obama administration has extoled Bin Bayyah, who also has served as the vice president of a Muslim scholars group founded by a radical Muslim Brotherhood leader who has called “for the death of Jews and Americans,” according to Fox News and other reports.
The State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau (CT) was forced to issue multiple apologies earlier this year after the Washington Free Beacon reported on its promotion of Bin Bayyah on Twitter.
“This should not have been tweeted and has since been deleted,” the CT Bureau tweeted at the time after many expressed anger over the original endorsement of Bin Bayyah.
However, it appears that Obama and the White House are still supportive of Bin Bayyah, who, despite his past statements, is still hailed by some as a moderate alternative to ISIL and al Qaeda.
“The ideology of ISIL or al Qaeda or Boko Haram will wilt and die if it is consistently exposed, confronted, and refuted in the light of day,” Obama said before the U.N., according to a White House transcript of his remarks.
“Look at the new Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies—Sheikh bin Bayyah described its purpose: ‘We must declare war on war, so the outcome will be peace upon peace,’” Obama said, quoting the controversial cleric.
Concern over the administration’s relationship with Bin Bayyah started as early as 2013, when outrage ensued after he was reported to have met with Obama’s National Security Council staff at the White House.
While Bin Bayyah has condemned the actions of groups such as Boko Haram and ISIL, he also has taken controversial positions against Israel.
He issued in 2009 a fatwa “barring ‘all forms of normalization’ with Israel,” according to a Fox report on the White House meeting.
Additionally, the notorious 2004 fatwa permitting armed resistance against U.S. military personnel in Iraq reportedly stated that “resisting occupation troops” is a “duty” for all Muslims, according to reports about the edict.
Patrick Poole, a reporter and terrorism analyst who has long tracked Bin Bayyah, expressed shock that the Obama administration would endorse the cleric on the world stage.
“It is simply amazing that just a few months ago the State Department had to publicly apologize for tweeting out it’s support for Bin Bayyah, only to have Barack Obama go before the leaders of the entire world and publicly endorse Bin Bayyah’s efforts,” Poole said.
“It seems that nothing can stop this administration’s determination to rehabilitate Bin Bayyah’s image, transforming him from the Islamic cleric who issued the fatwa to kill Americans in Iraq and calling for the death of Jews to the de facto White House Islamic mufti,” he said.
This type of mentality has contributed to the administration’s foreign policy failures in the region,” Poole said.
“This is a snapshot of why this administration’s foreign policy in the Middle East is a complete catastrophe,” he said. “The keystone of their policy has been that so-called ‘moderate Islamists’ were going to be the great counter to al Qaeda. But if you take less than 30 seconds to do a Google search on any of these ‘moderate Islamists,’ you immediately find they are just a degree or two from the most hardcore jihadis and have little to no difference when it comes to condoning violence.”
A White House official said that the president’s remarks speak for themselves and declined to add anything further.