Issue 1 - Barack Obama: A pleasant change or a nasty surprise

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What is it?
This magazine was born out of the want and more importantly the need for peo-
ple to know the truth. The views that are expressed on the media are not neces-
sarily doing that due to the fact that most of the major media outlets have a hid-
den agenda behind what is shown in the newspapers, in the magazines, on the
television and the radio. “The first casualty when war comes is Truth”-- U.S.
Senator Hiram Johnson, 1917
The government’s usage of the media to spread disinformation and propaganda
to both the enemy and the people is nothing new. In early 2002, the New York
Post reported that the Defence Department pays the Washington based interna-
tional consulting firm Rendon Group $100,000 per month in order to aid the Of-
fice of Strategic Information with “black” propaganda.
In February of 2004, the London Telegraph reported that a Pentagon source, who
asked not to be named, said there were some European nations that “sometimes
needed to be helped to see the light.” The Office of Strategic Information would
be used for such purposes.
The first issue of this fortnightly magazine will concentrate solely on the ascen-
sion of the “President of the world” as some media oulets would have it. It plac-
es a heavy emphasis on the current economic environment, where it could go if
the right things are not done, Obama’s response to it and just for good measure it
will squeeze in the “Great” bailout.
There is also a special report regarding the signifigance of late January 2009.
Where you see a box surrounding a piece of text, it means it is linked to a web-
site you can access.
Mohammed Ismail
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Barack Obama will have complete con- and skills will be asked to serve.” So
trol over the executive, legislative and what about the cost of such a major op-
judiciary. Wave goodbye to Baron de eration; America’s economy is not ex-
Montesquieu’s ‘Separation of Powers’ actly at its best at the moment with a na-
and with it the protection of liberty and tional debt of $10,633,129,027,006.04
welcome to your doorsteps tyranny. His growing on an average of $3.99 billion
41% approval rating will dwarf Bush’s per day since September 28, 2007.
current 25%, which is just one percent
higher than Nixon’s 24% measured in
the summer of 1974.
The imminent aftermath of such con-
trol is freedom for his administration to
enjoy one possibly two years free from
public or media scrutiny as the protest-
ing voices are muffled and eventually
overwhelmed by the avid supporters.
Obama’s main tagline during his cam-
paign was “Change we can believe in”.
However, with all the capital he will
need, Obama looks set to put into place
all the policies he mentioned whilst
campaigning including finishing off
what Bush did not – the police state.
Obama calls for change, but will that be change for the better?
1.
The Civilian National Security
Force
The excitement which surrounded Bishop Cornal Garnett Henning, an
Barack Obama’s future plan of a “civil- Well, Obama believes the taxpayer will
Barack Obama’s entering the White AME bishop for parts of Ohio, West
ian national security force” was men- be willing to pay for it, oh, and while
House serves as an alarming reminder Virginia and Pennsylvania, is calling
tioned in his 2nd July speech in which we are on the subject, he plans to dou-
that the majority of Americans have Obama the new “Moses” and one zeal-
he stated that “We cannot continue to ble the Peace Corps’ budget by 2011,
well and truly fallen for the “two-par- ous supporter claims that Obama will
rely on our military in order to achieve and expand AmeriCorps, USA Freedom
ty” system which claims to serve them. help her like Jesus helped the sick and
the national security objectives that Corps, VISTA, YouthBuild Program,
Anyone who talks against the newly wounded – “I won’t have to worry about
we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian and the Senior Corps. In addition, he
elected President is labelled a commu- putting gas in my car, I won’t have to
national security force that’s just as proposes to form a Classroom Corps,
nist, right wing fascist, freedom hater worry about paying my mortgage...If I
powerful, just as strong, just as well- Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, Vet-
and racist, elevating Obama to almost a help him, he’s gonna help me.”
funded.” You might be sat there think- erans Corps, Homeland Security Corps,
majestic figure.
ing that this is not a bad idea. He went Global Energy Corps, and a Green Jobs
Along with his ‘untouchable’ status,
on to say, “People of all ages, stations, Corps. Who can say corps eleven times

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really fast?
to avoid the adverse effects of a stunted
economic growth and credit freeze. Ac-
Such a great shake up of the social cording to an Associated Press-Knowl-
structure seems somewhat Orwellian edge Networks poll, only 30% of adult
to say the least. Obama tried to justify Americans were for the Bush adminis-
his “Service” plan by adding that “...be- tration’s $700 Billion bailout plan. 45%
cause the future of our nation depends said they were against it and 25% were
on the soldier at Fort Carson, but is also undecided.
depends on the teacher in East LA, the
nurse in Appalachia, the after-school Speaking to 10,000 eager supporters in
worker in New Orleans...” What the Reno Barack Obama reassured them that
voters did not realise, maybe because the bailout was not to help the people on
they did not look past his charisma and Wall Street but the ordinary American.
skin colour or maybe the media kept it “What it means is that if we do not act,
quiet, but what national security means it will be harder for you to get a mort-
in reality is that those who volunteer to gage for your home or the loans you
be part of the civilian national security need to buy a car or send your children
subprime lending. Moreover, the print- system and has nothing to do with the
force will be armed and will shoot if to college. What it means is that thou-
ing of too much money led to inflation failure of free markets and capitalism.”
they feel it necessary. Did you just feel sands of businesses could close. Mil-
which was made that much worse by Many free market economists warned of
a shiver go down your spine, because I lions of jobs could be lost. A long and
over-regulation. The Federal Reserve such a crisis, however, their advice was
just did!
painful recession could follow.”
System’s monopoly over the control of not heeded, rather, the US government
the money and credit and the over is- turned to those who created the prob-
2.
Open Talks About Attacking But let us look at the reason why Amer-
suing of too much credit led the mar- lem to start off with and consequently,
Foreign Sovereignties
ket to subsequently take a nose dive. the American economy is in the state it
Barack Obama has made no secret of
Speaking in an interview on 1st October is in now and threatening to hinder the
his willingness to bomb the ever elusive
2008, former Presidential candidate and worldwide economy. $700 billion was
Al-Qaeda targets even if they are within
Texas Congressman Ron Paul said, “I already pumped into the market and an-
Pakistan with or without the consent of
think it’s a bad bill. I think it’s bad for other $700 billion was proposed, but the
the Pakistani government. “If we have
taxpayer. I think it’s doing more of the Act was not passed. It is safe to say that
actionable intelligence about high-
same thing. The same policy that we’re such an action might have destroyed the
value terrorist targets and President
following now with this bill is exactly dollar altogether. Ron Paul commented
Musharraf won’t act, we will.” In other
how we got into that trouble.”
that “...If you destroy the dollar, you
words, he is upholding the regime of
will destroy a worldwide economy
the Bush administration of attacking the
Many people blame the crisis on free and that is what we are on the verge
sovereignty of other nations and all in
market capitalism, but the problem has of doing.” One question which must
the name of fighting terrorism nonethe-
nothing to do with free market capital- be answered is who is accountable for
less.
ica’s economy is facing the current cri-
ism. Instead, people like Ron Paul be- the $700 billion? It is unthinkable to
sis. Put simply, the American people
lieve it is more concerned with a “... make the taxpayer pay for such insane
3.
The “Great” Bailout
were spending too much, borrowing
managed economy, an inflationary mismanagement. The banks could lend
The purposefully created plan by Treas- too much and the banks were only more
system, corporatism, a special interest the money however, this is doubtful. So
ury Secretary Henry Paulson is meant than happy to lend to anyone –
where does this money come from?

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fade as a result. However, there will still order would mean, “The world’s mid-
be an element of hope because Obama dle classes might unite, using access
has been labelled as the “one.” Moreo- to knowledge, resources and skills to
ver, although it may not appear so now shape transnational processes in their
because of all the manipulation that is own class interest,” and that, “The mid-
going on, but gold will go into the 2,000 dle classes could become a revolution-
range and there will be a period of de- ary class.”
flation during which all the homes will
decrease dramatically in value. Once In regards to the US, Celente said that
the retail outlets start closing the com- “There will be a revolution in this
mercial real estate will be the next to country.” “It’s not going to come yet,
fall. Gerald Celente, the CEO of Trends but it’s going to come down the line and
Research Institute is renowned for his we’re going to see a third party and this
accuracy in predicting future world and was the catalyst for it: the takeover of
economic events. He rightly predicted Washington D. C., in broad daylight by
the fall of the Soviet Union, the 1987 Wall Street in this bloodless coup. And
There is an effort to keep the price of People back then did not have home eq-
stock crash, the 1997 Asian Currency it will happen as conditions continue
housing up, but the price should come uity loans, a second mortgage or credit
Crisis, the subprime mortgage collapse to worsen.”
down because that is what the market is cards. They were not over 14 trillion
and the massive devaluation of the US “The first thing to do is organize with
saying so fixing the pricing higher than dollars in debt; instead the government
dollar. It is therefore concerning to say tax revolts. That’s going to be the big
they should be only deepens the prob- had a trade surplus. Not to mention the
the least when he predicts that by 2012 one because people can’t afford to
lem. The Austrian school of economics people back then were self sufficient,
America will become an undeveloped pay more school tax, property tax, any
which dates back to the late 19th cen- there was a manufacturing base so when
nation, that there will be a revolution kind of tax. You’re going to start see-
tury predicted the 1929 Great Depres- the depression came to an end with the
marked by food riots, squatter rebel- ing those kinds of protests start to de-
sion” and what is occurring in today’s onset of World War II the US was able
lions, tax revolts and job marches, and velop.”
market. It encourages and in fact stress- to manufacture its way out of it and
that holidays will be more about obtain- “It’s going to be very bleak, very sad
ing the importance a laissez faire ap- eventually the rest of the world. Now
ing food, not gifts. “We’re going to see and there is going to be a lot of home-
proach to the economy, i.e. not to price people are always looking for help from
the end of the retail Christmas….we’re less, the likes of which we have nev-
fix because when you do you become an incompetent government who have
going to see a fundamental shift take er seen before. Tent cities are already
socialistic and this is why socialism was Katrina level rescue skills. The govern-
place….putting food on the table is go- sprouting up around the country and
envisaged to fail and it did fail. It is ac- ment now keeps talking about stimulus
ing to be more important that putting we’re going to see many more.”
cepted by some that price fixing was the packages and work project packages
gifts under the Christmas tree”
“We’re going to start seeing huge ar-
reason behind a pro-longed depression but where is this money coming from?
eas of vacant real estate and squatters
in the 1930s.
Possible Revolution
living in them as well. It’s going to be
Forecasts
The likelihood of a revolution was a picture the likes of which Americans
Many economic forecasters have stated The forecasters think that the break-
something the British Ministry of De- are not going to be used to. It’s going
that the US is about to go into a depres- down will start in February because in
fence considered in a report last year. to come as a shock and with it, there’s
sion worse than the Great Depression. February people will come to realise and
The report stipulates that within 30 going to be a lot of crime and the crime
During the last depression most people appreciate the shock of what has hap-
years, the growing gap between the su- is going to be a lot worse than it was
were not home owners and so were not pened from a disappointing Christmas
per rich and the middle class, along with before because in the last 1929 Depres-
burdened with taxes and insurance.
holiday season; the Obama hope will
an urban underclass threatening social sion, people’s minds weren’t wrecked

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on all these modern drugs – over-the- and for protecting their families. We
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1999 - Obama proposed a 500 tion before that will simply die off and
counter drugs, or crystal meth or what- also have a violence on the streets that
percent increase in the excise taxes we will be back to square one. Obama
ever it might be. So, you have a huge is the result of illegal handgun usage.
on firearms and ammunition. This tax has promised to withdraw some of the
underclass of very desperate people And so I think there is nothing wrong
would effectively punish gun owners troops from Iraq, but the question which
with their minds chemically blown be- with a community saying we are go-
for buying guns and ammunition.
must be asked is how long will it be un-
yond anybody’s comprehension.”
ing to take those illegal handguns off
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2003 - Obama voted in support of til he uses those same troops to attack
the streets. And cracking down on the
legislation that would have banned pri- another third world country in the name
4.
The Second Amendment
various loopholes that exist in terms of
vately owned hunting shotguns, target of a United Nations backed “humani-
The second amendment to the Unit- background checks for children, the
rifles and black powder rifles in Illinois. tarian” war. We fell for Bush’s rhetoric
ed States Constitution is the part of mentally ill. We can have reasonable,
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2004 - Obama voted against leg- of a war on terrorism and the infamous
the United States Bill of Rights which thoughtful gun control measure that I
islation intended to protect homeowners “you are either with us or you are with
gives the right to “keep and bear arms.” think respect the Second Amendment
from prosecution in cases where they the terrorist” and alas we shall fall for
Because the ideology to bear arms is and people’s traditions.”
used a firearm to halt a home invasion. the same old thing but differently pack-
such a deep seeded one, it would be
aged. A particular idiom comes to mind
political suicide for a Presidential can- Let us take a look at Obama’s track
5.
The Environment
- “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool
didate to speak against it. In theory, record on policies relating to gun bans:
With climate change being at the fore- me twice, shame on me.” Or as Bush
Barack Obama has supported the sec- •
1994 to 2001 - Obama was on the
front of most political campaigns these so eloquently put it, “Fool me once,
ond amendment however, in practice board of the anti-gun Joyce Foundation.
days Obama has clearly outlined his shame on — shame on you. The fooled
he has done anything but support it. “I This foundation is the largest funding
support of environmentalism. However, man can’t get fooled again.”
think it’s important for us to recognize source for radical anti-gun groups in the
if his support of an increase in bio-fuel
that we’ve got a tradition of handgun country.
subsidies were to ever be put into prac-
ownership and gun ownership gener- •
1996 - Obama supported a ban on
tice, it will only act as a catalyst in price
ally. And a lot of law-abiding citizens the manufacture, sale and possession of
food costs increases which have already
use it for hunting, for sportsmanship, handguns.
seen a rise of 75% since 2002. Subse-
quently, the worldwide economy has
suffered adversely resulting in riots in
countries such as Haiti, Egypt and So-
malia and intense deforestation.
Will There Be Change?
Everything that made the Bush admin-
istration so unpopular will be forgotten
just as the Conservatives mistakes were
swept over when Bush initially came
into power. Obama will act as a seda-
tive as his grand ascension is seen by
millions across the globe. Everything
will sort itself and we can go on living
our lives. The thing within us all which So does this mean that McCain was the
hated what the Bush administration correct choice? If you take anything
did and what the Clinton administra- from this article let it be this; the two

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party system is nothing but a fallacy evils is not the solution.
used to dupe the public into believing
that they have a choice. Both parties We have had the war on drugs, the war
serve the needs and wants of the same on crime, the war on poverty, the war
elite, instead of the people who blindly on aids and now we have the war on
support them. Note: the same can be terror. All these wars are nothing but a
said about the political system in the public relation facade to cover up the
UK.
true agenda. The government distracts
us with all these causes, which are won-
Just as the first $700 billion injection derful things if the right intention is be-
into the American market was handed hind them, however, whilst we are busy
to those who put the market into the cri- helping each other, the government is
sis it currently faces, voting for either helping itself to our back pockets and
side will only support the false two par- our base human rights.
ty paradigm.
There is no doubting that when Bush
came into power the Conservatives
were eager to experience the change that
was so vehemently promised and talked
about. Eight years later we see a record
expansion in the size of the government
and international hatred for America.
In 1997, Tony Blair won the UK gen-
eral election with a ‘landslide’ victory,
brushing aside the Conservative govern-
ment as he made his way to 10 Downing
Street. The majority of the public were
on their feet in awe and admiration of
such a young and refreshingly dynamic
Prime Minister waiting in anticipation
of the “change” that was promised. In
2007 Blair left office leaving a legacy
of a ‘Big Brother’ state with more sur-
veillance cameras than ever before. The
enormous approval rating the Labour
party once benefitted from has dimin-
ished resulting in a call for Conserva-
tive rule. Choosing the lesser of two

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Special Report: Late January 2009
people and convince the world that
Next issue 15th Jan 09
America is solid, that America is going
to move forward, we are going to fix
our economic problems, we’re going to
“Global Warming:
meet out overseas obligations.”
The Sky Is Falling”
The interview can be viewed by click-
ing on the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_
LDBOPcHpeo
When retired Gen. Colin Powell went
on meet the press on 19th October 2008, Some argue that what Powell was doing
he made several perturbing comments was merely advising on what the newly
which coincided with the earlier state- elected should do if he was faced with
ment made by who is now the newly a certain crisis. If that is the case, why
elected Democratic VP Joe Biden. Joe did Powell refer to two specific dates of
Biden claimed that there is a “guaran- a specific month?
tee” that a “generated crisis” will
take place within six months of the Colin Powell is somewhat renowned for
new presidential term in order to “test being able to predict the unseen. Prior
the mettle” of the new President. Joe to the war on Iraq in February 2003 a
Biden referred to the event as an “in- tape containing a voice said to be that of
ternational crisis” which will force the Osama Bin Laden was hailed as being
new President into making unpopular proof of the link between Saddam and
decisions. http://www.youtube.com/ Al Qaeda. Hours before the tape was
watch?v=LWXOC45IW30
aired on Aljazeera, Powell on the back
of a terrible presentation before the UN
Colin Powell went on to make the fol- Security Council trying to link Al Qae-
lowing statements:
da with Saddam Hussein, declared to
the US Senate that a “Bin Laden tape
“The problems will always be there is coming proving Iraq’s links with Al-
and there’s going to be a crisis which Qaeda.” This left people bemused as
will come along on the 21st, 22nd of to how Powell knew of what Aljazeera
January that we don’t even know about was going to air. It would be foolish to
right now.
think that the arrival of such a tape was
sheer good fate especially after Pow-
So I think what the President has to ell’s flawed presentation to the UN Se-
start to do is to start using the power curity Council regarding Al Qaeda and
of the oval office and the power of his Saddam Hussein. It would suffice to say
personality to convince the American watch this space!!!

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