Journal: Haiti, Obama’s Katrina, NGO-Foundation Rip-Off

When Haitian Ministers Take a 50 Percent Cut of Aide Money It’s Called “Corruption,” When NGOs Skim 50 Percent It’s Called “Overhead” Crushing Haiti, Now as Always By PATRICK COCKBURN The US-run aid effort for Haiti is beginning to look chillingly similar to the criminally slow and disorganized US government support for New Orleans after …

Worth a Look: Rahm Emanuel conducting pogroms within Obama administration and Democratic Party

Phi Beta Iota: This is a replay of a Wayne Madsen report.  Over lunch we checked with our most connected consultant and learned that this is roughly half right, with some of the specifics names and methods not right, but that over-all there is general consensus on three points:  Rahm is playing dirty “within and …

Journal: Dean Breaks with Obama, Third Party Rumbles

Dean says kill the Senate health bill: report Dean tells Good Morning America that he thinks health bill should be scrapped: Video at bottom WASHINGTON — Following the jettisoning of both the public option and the Medicare buy-in provision, one of the nation’s leading progressive voices on health care reportedly said Tuesday that the Senate …

Journal: Wall Street & the Obama Administration

Chuck Spinney sends…. Obama’s Big Sellout The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway MATT TAIBBI Rolling Stone Dec 09, 2009 Phi Beta Iota: We include the entire article below to share Chuck Spinney’s value-added highlights.  See the original article without highlights by …

Journal: Weak Signals–Obama’s Czars

Byrd Calls Obama’s Czars Dangerous Byrd: Gives President too much power…. Obama’s Czars Breed Chain-of-Command Confusion Bloomberg: Placing them above Cabinet…. Glenn Beck’s List of Obama’s Czars 32 of them, most professional listing with most detail Free Market Mojo Who are Obama’s czars? 27 of them, hot links from each name to more information Politico’s List …

Journal: What Can Obama Learn from Gorbachev?

Chuck Spinney: a tribute to Gorbachev and and perhaps an example for Barack Obama????? Day That Shook the World by Eric Margolis Lew Rockwell.com    November 10, 2009 In 1975, physicist Andrei Sakharov and a group of fellow Soviet academicians warned the Kremlin leadership that unless the nation’s ruinous defense spending was slashed and funds refocused …