The List, for the 32nd week of the Obamatrons

Nachumlist ^ | 9/4/09 | Nachum

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 Obama's Thirty Second Week in Office

Latest Additions to "The List"

The list" for 9/4/2009"

VIDEO: Obama "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones saying "you've never seen a Columbine done by a black child."

The Treasury Department formally lifted nearly all U.S. restrictions on family travel to Cuba on Thursday, along with limits on how much money families can send to relatives on the island.

The United States is funding a Palestinian Authority project to place non-Hebrew road signs throughout Judea and Samaria. The PA plans to implement it in exclusively Israeli-controlled areas as well.  The project is part of American aid “towards the establishment of an independent Palestinian state,” as a top official of USAID (United States Agency for International Development) in the PA, Howard Sumka, told the Al-Hayat Arabic daily.

Cass Sunstein, Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), has advocated a policy under which the government would “presume” someone has consented to having his or her organs removed for transplantation into someone else when they die unless that person has explicitly indicated that his or her organs should not be taken.

The Obama administration says it will release names of most visitors to the White House, starting at the end of this year. Information on visitors in the first eight months of his administration will remain secret — though officials say they will consider narrow and specific requests.

White House press secretary Gibbs derides opposition to a speech that President Barack Obama intends to give public school children

Asked if controversial White House official Van Jones continues to enjoy the confidence of President Obama, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs Friday morning would only say "he continues to work in this administration."

VDEO: Obama's green czar Van Jones says (Bush) is like a 'crack head', Jones then says he is using 'ebonics'

Israeli plan to build hundreds of new housing units in West Bank settlements draws harsh criticism from the Obama administration

The list" for 9/3/2009"

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will soon approve the construction of hundreds of new housing units in West Bank settlements before he declares a moratorium on building in those locales, according to a senior government source.

Obama's Green Czar Van Jones issued a statement apologizing for past incendiary statement and denying that he ever agreed with 2004 petition on which his name appears, a petition calling for congressional hearings and an investigation by the New York Attorney General into "evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur."

Red Chinese flag to be raised at the White House.  The People’s Republic of China is celebrating 60 years of hard core communism ... by raising the flag of that communist country on the south lawn of the White House on September 20.

The US Treasury Thursday eased restrictions on travel and money transfers to Cuba, a move aimed at promoting "greater contact between separated family members in the United States and Cuba."

The Treasury Department has decided not to challenge the independence of the government watchdog agency that Congress created to oversee spending of the $700 billion rescue package for the financial sector.

The health care bill under consideration in the House of Representatives would give Obama the authority to name a new federal “Health Choices Commissioner” who would have sweeping power to govern the health insurance plans offered in a so-called "exchange" where millions of Americans would get their health insurance if the bill is enacted.  These powers would include deciding which treatments are covered, which companies can participate, which states can run their own exchange, and enrolling individuals into the public exchange.

Partial Israeli, US Agreement on Judea and Samaria, 9 month settlement freeze except for current building underway

Number of schools opting out of Obama's kinderspeech grows

Insidecostarica.com is reporting that "The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has granted $150 million to Honduras, ignoring the international community's calls to increase sanctions against the regime currently usurping power in that country."$150 million happens to be almost precisely the amount that Hillary Clinton and the U.S. State Department has been threatening to withhold, according to Reuters.   Bush appointee to the IMF, mild mannered Meg Lundsager, who was sworn in as Executuve Director of the IMF seems to have been responsible

The Department of State announces the termination of a broad range of assistance to the government of Honduras as a result of the coup d’etat that took place on June 28. The Secretary already had suspended assistance shortly after the coup.

Mutliple pictures of Obama and Blagojevich that conflict with statement by Obama:, "I only saw Rod Blagojevich one time ... and that was in the stands and from a distance at a Chicago Bears Football Game."-

Obama Green czar Van Jones signed a statement for 911Truth.org in 2004 demanding an investigation into what the Bush Administration may have done that “deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.”

AUDIO: Interview conducted by “Uprising Radio” with Obama green czar Van Jones seventeen months ago.  Jones, the green jobs czar, explains how his allies want to conduct a revolution on the sly

Douglas County Colorado School District forced to allow parents to 'opt out' of Obama school speech by angry parents

Obama Speech creates a stir at Dallas-Fort Worth schools - Schools may opt out

The list" for 9/2/2009"

Obama copies JFK with photo ops of his kids playing in the oval office

The Obama administration late Wednesday withdrew a recommendation that school children who watch a video featuring President Obama next week write about how they might "help the president" as part of a classroom assignment

Right blasts Obama speech to kids.  Call it socialist indoctrination

Parents across the country are rebelling against plans by President Barack Obama to speak directly to their children through the classrooms of the nation's public schools without their presence, participation and approval.

The Obama administration’s updated budget forecasts that the federal government will run up $9.05 trillion in new debt over the next decade is predicated on the assumption of a robust rate of economic growth during that entire period, claiming that the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will grow at an average rate of 2.8 percent between 2009 and 2019.   If the economy does not grow as much or as persistently as the administration predicts federal deficit spending will be even greater than the administration estimates

Federal authorities failed to follow through on plans earlier this year to burn away highly flammable brush in a forest on the edge of Los Angeles to avoid the very kind of wildfire now raging there, The Associated Press has learned.

VIDEO: Obama green czar says "white polluters steered poison into minority communities"

Iberdrola SA, a Spanish company, will get most of the more than $500 million in economic recovery funds the Obama administration said it is distributing to U.S. renewable-energy projects.

An Obama administration plan to cut Medicare payments to heart and cancer doctors by $1.4 billion next year is generating a backlash

Link to 51 page solicitation proposal to snoop on websites to the White House

The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites.

VIDEO: Obama advisor Van Jones, 60% of Americans are "assholes"...'and Barak Obama is not an asshole'

VIDEO:  Scientists who helped develop the vaccine say they are not going to take it and are urging their friends and family not to take it either.

The list" for 9/1/2009"

Two parts of the Obama administration are giving conflicting reports on the dangers posed by terrorist detainees to Congress and the U.S. courts, executive branch.   Anonymous sources claim that the administration is deliberately misleading their reports (risk assessments) when releasing GITMO prisoners and their potential threats to the public

NEA Artists to promote Obama?

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to meet Thursday with Manuel Zelaya to discuss the deadlock following his ouster as president of Honduras in a June 28 coup, her spokesman said Tuesday.

Guest list for Obama's White House Ramadan dinner.  -Invited guests include three Cabinet secretaries, numerous diplomats, five members of Congress including the lone Muslim, Keith Ellison of Minnesota, and chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization mission.

Anyone who posts comments on the White House’s Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter pages will have their statements captured and permanently archived by the federal government, according to a plan that the White House is now seeking a contractor to carry out.

The cash for clunkers law, signed by Obama, gave the Transportation Department the authority to audit car dealerships at any time, for any reason... the Transportation Department is focusing on possible fraud in the disposal of trade in vehicles...August 31st, only 5.7% of all ‘clunkers’ deals have been reimbursed

Obama says the swine flu vaccine is voluntary but the government will "strongly recommend" that citizens get it.

President Barack Obama plans to observe the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks with a visit to the Pentagon, but no plans to visit New York City

Obama Justice Dept. will undergo major increase in Civil Rights enforcement.  White House proposes huge increase in lawyers to small dept.

Obama makes unprecedented address to public school kids, grades preK-6.  Dept. of eductaion issues a "to do" list.

With little fanfare, a deal is moving forward to direct billions in U.S. tax dollars to an unlikely beneficiary -- the giant British liquor producer that makes Captain Morgan rum.  Under the agreement, London-based Diageo PLC will receive tax credits and other benefits worth $2.7 billion over 30 years.  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said he does not have authority to block or investigate the project.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced $502 million in the first round of awards from an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) program that provides cash assistance to energy production companies in place of earned tax credits

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) and the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) have filed suit in the District of Columbia Federal Court against the White House Over the "Sounds fishy, spy on your neighbor and send an email" program which drew fire last month.

VIDEO: Obama Green czar Van Jones at the 2009 BERC annual lecture

The list" for 8/31/2009"

If you're planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar, you'd best beware: You could be breaking a new federal law. As part of a campaign called Resale Roundup, the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales of dangerous and defective products.

Washington will announce the renewal of talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority through a trilateral summit of U.S. President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The meeting would take place on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly late this month; two years would be allotted to completing talks on a peace agreement.

There is growing tension between the White House and the Pentagon.  The prospect that U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal may ask for as many as 45,000 additional American troops in Afghanistan is fueling growing tension within Obama's administration over the U.S. commitment to the war there.

From the White House guidance for Tuesday: In the evening, the President will host a dinner celebrating Ramadan and highlight the contributions of American Muslims in the State Dining Room. The President's remarks will be pooled press.

Obama's environmental adviser, Van Jones, was the main speaker at an anti-war rally that urged "resistance" against the U.S. government

GM tells its remaing dealers: Learn to sell small cars

The White House was evidently listening when Senator Michael B. Enzi delivered the weekly Republican radio and Internet address Saturday. And the White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, did not like what he heard on health care from the Wyoming lawmaker who is supposed to be part of bipartisan talks.  “It appears that, at least in Senator Enzi’s case, he doesn’t believe there’s a pathway to get bipartisan support,” Mr. Gibbs said Monday. “Senator Enzi’s clearly turned over his cards on bipartisanship and decided that it’s time to walk away from the table.

National Security Adviser, Gen. Jim Jones (Ret.), told ABC News in an exclusive interview that actually the reverse is true: President Obama’s greater success with international relations has meant more terrorists put out of commission

President Barack Obama will speak at the AFL-CIO convention in Pittsburgh next month.

VIDEO: W.H. Press Secr. Gibbs sidesteps question about poll that says only 4% of Jewish Israelis support Obama

Obama is expected to moderate a September meeting between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli President Shimon Peres said in an interview.  Says the two leaders would be meeting at the United Nations.

The White House spokesman says President Barack Obama has not yet seen a new assessment of the Afghan war.

The White House on Monday fired back after former Vice President Dick Cheney called the Obama administration's decision to open a probe into alleged CIA abuses an "outrageous political act."  White House Press Secretary Roberts Gibbs broadly dismissed Cheney's comments on "FOX News Sunday" as typical and unfounded. 

VIDEO: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs today going back to using the phrase "War on Terror"

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs used the term "war on terror" at today's press conference

Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says in a new book that White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel wanted his help in arranging to leave the Obama administration after two years to reclaim his seat in Congress.

More information is coming to light about why the Food and Drug Administration has made the decision to stop human trials involving embryonic stem cells. The reasons mirror the concerns pro-life advocates have had for years with the research, which has yet to help any patients

According to the Obama administration’s mid-session budget update, the federal government will have to borrow nearly 40 percent of its total expenditures in 2010

VIDEO: Joe Biden asks the American people to help debunk health care myths by creating videos explaining why you want reform.

A report by the top US general in Afghanistan is expected to admit the current strategy is not working

Obama health-scare tactics are just like the ones he used in Illinois state senate in 2004.  Obama is mustering some of the same rhetoric in 2009 he used in 2004: accuses opponents of "fear-mongering," telling lies and miscasting his proposal as "socialized medicine."

The list" for 8/30/2009"

Doctors say reimbrusement cuts may affect cancer treatment.   The U.S. Department of Health is proposing a major reduction in reimbursement for cancer treatments.Recently the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced they're planning on cutting reimbursement rates for radiation cancer treatment -- in some cases by 44 percent

Morale has sagged at the CIA following the release of additional portions of an inspector general's review of the agency's interrogation program and the announcement that the Justice Department would investigate possible abuses by interrogators, according to former intelligence officials, especially those associated with the program.

The official communist-oriented manifesto of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM.

 The official communist-oriented manifesto of a radical group founded by Obama's environmental adviser, Van Jones, was published in full on the Internet.

 Now it has been removed.

Questions arise about the White House and release of the Lockerbie bomber to Libya:  Secretary of State Clinton remarks about the bomber (Megrahi) and her careful avoidance of any affirmative statement about Megrahi’s guilt.   In an Aug. 19 interview with the BBC Hillary Clinton says: “I just think it is absolutely wrong to release someone who has been imprisoned based on the evidence about his involvement in such a horrendous crime.”

Obama secret deal with George Soros?  Administration $2 Billion loan to Brazillian off shore oil drilling reveals that Soros owns 5.8 million of the Brazillian company’s U.S.-traded preferred shares

The Supreme Court will revisit "Hillary" documentary case

General Motors expands in China: GM signs a near 300 million dollar joint venture with the Chinese state-owned carmaker to make light trucks and vans

[Nachum]

It's been a long week for the vacationing Obamsky's

The list- for those of you who are keeping track...

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I received this via email:

Obama’s First Six Months’

1. Offended the Queen of England .

2. Bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia .

3. Praised the Marxist Daniel Ortega.

4. Kissed Socialist Hugo Chavez on the cheek.

5. Endorsed the Socialist Evo Morales of Bolivia ..

6. Sided with Hugo Chavez and Communist Fidel Castro against Honduras .

7. Announced we would meet with Iranians with no pre-conditions while they're building their nuclear weapons.

8. Gave away billions to AIG also without pre-conditions.

9. Expanded the bailouts.

10. Insulted everyone who has ever loved a Special Olympian.

11. Doubled our national debt.

12. Announced the termination of our new missile defense system the day after North Korea launched an ICBM.

13. Released information on U..S. intelligence gathering despite urgings of his own CIA director and the prior four CIA directors.

14. Accepted without comment that five of his cabinet members cheated on their taxes and two other nominees withdrew after they couldn't take the heat.

15. Appointed a Homeland Security Chief who identified military veterans and abortion opponents as “dangers to the nation.”

16. Ordered that the word “terrorism” no longer be used and instead refers to such acts as “man made disasters.”

17. Circled the globe to publicly apologize for America ‘s world leadership.

18. Told the Mexican president that the violence in their country was because of us.

19. Politicized the census by moving it into the White House from the Department of Commerce.

20. Appointed as Attorney General the man who orchestrated the forced removal and expulsion to Cuba of a 9-year-old whose mother died trying to bring him to freedom in the United States .

21. Salutes as heroes three Navy SEALS who took down three terrorists who threatened one American life and the next day announces members of the Bush administration may stand trial for “torturing” three 9/11 terrorists by pouring water up their noses.

22. Low altitude photo shoot of Air Force One over New York City that frightened thousands of New Yorkers.

23. Sent his National Defense Advisor to Europe to assure them that the US will no longer treat Israel in a special manner and they might be on their own with the Muslims.

24. Praised Jimmy Carter's trip to Gaza where he sided with terrorist Hamas against Israel .

25. Nationalized General Motors and Chrysler while turning shareholder control over to the unions and freezing out retired investors who owned their bonds. Committed unlimited taxpayer billions in the process.

26. Passed a huge energy tax in the House that will make American industry even less competitive while costing homeowners thousands per year.

27. Announced nationalized health care “reform” that will strip seniors of their Medicare, cut pay of physicians, increase taxes yet another $1 trillion, and put everyone on rationed care with government bureaucrats deciding who gets care and who doesn't.

Bloomberg: Daschle says, “Health care reform will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them,” while former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm says seniors have “a duty to die.”

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That list is why I created mine (www.nachumlist.com). Just as in the Clinton years, we forget. There is much much more than that. (as you already know).