More Leaks from US Traitor Snowden - NSA Leaks

Guardian: Reports more leaks, the article notes the following, " NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'...XKeyscore gives 'widest-reaching' collection of online data...Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history.. ".

Lets Get Real: 

So be it folks, after 9/11 and 7/7 I want the NSA and the UK's GCHQ to spy on everyone and everything, no more major terrorist attacks should be the objective result.  The Intelligence networks face hundred of threats thus they need to SPY on ALL actions, any watching on 9/11 does not want to go through that again, what if the terrorists get a dirty bomb or a suitcase nuclear bomb and that is set off in New York or London, people will not care about legal rights, they will want to know how the system failed and who is to BLAME.   The Guardian should face legal action in the US, this is TREASON folks, the US in ally, we need them and they need us, would the Guardian revel the details of D - Day, would they revel the battle plans for the first Gulf War.   If Government want to come down on the papers, they should go after them when they break national security, shame on the Guardian, a cheer for the NSA. 

The Alternative World of the Oval - 2nd Term Blues

Folks President Obama has lost the plot, in recent remarks he has made it clear that he will veto a oil pipeline that will create thousands of good middle class jobs, even the US Trade Unions support the building of a Oil pipeline from Canada to the US, what the President stated the below is a LIE, " They keep on talking about this -- an oil pipeline coming down from Canada that’s estimated to create about 50 permanent jobs -- that’s not a jobs plan.  ".  What the Oval FAILS to mention is the thousands of jobs that will be created to build the pipeline and the effect on the local economy by the building of the pipeline.   The Oval is AFRAID of the green movement, the Oval has gotten one fact folks, it will never be considered great, thus he can only keep HIS base and to hell with the US.   Poor President Obama he could have been a contender, NOW he will join the ranks of failed Presidencies,LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Bush 41, Bush 43 winning two terms does not cut it folks, it never did in the real World. 

The Oval and Egypt - Middle East Blues

The New York Times: Reports the following from Egypt, " The Obama administration’s response was once again muted on Sunday after the second mass killing of Egyptian demonstrators in three weeks.. ".

Lets Get Real:

The lack of a public reaction from the Oval to the killings in Egypt is the RIGHT path, the US has very little influence in Cairo, the Army is getting great economic support from Middle East Countries that do not want to see the Muslim Brotherhood in charge in Egypt and are afraid of democracy, you can see their point, the new democracy in Egypt gave it the Muslim Brotherhood, and they once in power tried to destroy the democratic system.   The US and the West needs the Army to develop a new Constitution that makes sure that Egypt remains a secular State and makes it difficult for the Muslim Brotherhood to operate.    The US and the West should bites its tongue over the events in Egypt, better the devil you known folks, otherwise you get an Islamic Egypt, that is backed up by Iran, and then Israel comes under threat, then you have a regional WAR. 

The End of the Carter Presidency and Iran

Jimmy Carter Library and Museum: Read the Presidential Directives of the Carter Presidency. 

Lets Get Real:

Folks this blog has been searching for the most dramatic footage of the Carter Presidency, but can not even find it on Amazon, in the final hours of the Carter Presidency the President asked in a TV news crew to film his final dramatic hours in Office.   In the view of this blogger the final hours of the Carter Presidency are the most dramatic ever recorded in the Oval Office, as the President tries to get the Iran hostages home in time before Reagan takes over, this blog recalls seeing it on the BBC but nothing after that, one would have expected to turn up on History Channel or Discovery but this blog has not seen it, thus call out to ALL followers of current events and history, do they have any knowledge of this dramatic and historic footage, where it can be seen or bought.  It is through learning the past folks that we understand the future. 

Obama and the NSA Part 2 - 2nd Term Blues

Telegraph: Reports the following on the Amash defeat in the US House, " The White House succeeded in heading head off attempts by libertarian and liberal members of Congress to outlaw the blanket collection and trawling of phone data by US intelligence agencies, after warning the move would damage American security. ".

Lets Get Real:

There are two reasons folks why the Oval and the Leaders of both the Democratic and Republican Parties support the NSA, they do not want something to happen on their watch, the voters will not care what the mood of the Country was before, they will blame the Congress if they pass something that allows for a major terrorist attack, also at its most basic folks you do not mess about with the NSA, EVER, its like when Hoover was at the FBI, why take the risk, the NSA will be around after ANY Administration, do you really want them on your back, leaking stuff that makes you look bad, and if your the Oval you have no power after January 2oth 2017, so the Oval is doing the right thing when it comes to public policy and covering its base for after 2017.   Politics is still politics folks, it has it high ideals, but also its cynical base nature, that what makes it fun folks. 

Obama and the NSA - 2nd Term Blues

The New York Times: Reports the following on the defeat of Amash Amendment by the House, " ..the Obama administration a hard-fought victory in the first Congressional showdown on intelligence policy ".

Lets Get Real: 

As the final vote roll calls shows the victory was close folks, the Amendment was defeated by 217 to 205, if the Democrats had been united they could have stopped the NSA spaying on ALL Americans, but former Democratic Speaker Pelosi and the present Republican Speaker and their loyal colleagues supported the NSA.   It was the right move folks, but one knows that if there was  Republican President the Democrats would be one is opposing this move, it just happens that there is a Democratic in the White House, they on the whole they have to support him, but as time goes on the leadership, both Republican and Democrats will find it hard to keep their troops in line when it comes to this issue, time and distance from 9/11 will make people think that a MAJOR threat is no longer possible, while the NSA might prevent MAJOR attacks it did not prevent the Boston Bombing, thus one can argue that national security hawks and who ever is in the Oval will have tougher fights in the future, this is not the end of the debate folks. 

Amash Amendment Defeated - 2nd Term Blues

Guardian: Reports on the fate of the Amash Amendment in the Republican House, " First major challenge to NSA's bulk collection of phone records defeated by only 217 votes to 205 in House of Representatives ".

Lets Get Real:

The vote was interesting folks, the vote divided Parties, on the hawk side was the Obama Oval and Conservative Republicans, while liberal or moderate Republicans joined Democrats in opposing the spaying on US Citizens.   Those that watched 9/11 will never forget that day, but it is like those that were around on November 22 1963, the day that President Kennedy was Assassinated, to them that was the DAY that changed the US, while those that were born after 1963 can place the Kennedy assassination in context, did the change from Kennedy to Johnson really change US policy in Vietnam, many Kennedy supporters have argued so, while those that see Kennedy in the cold light of day and with time argue that LBJ was carrying on the Kennedy policy, what IF's are for counter factual history.  What can be said of President Johnson is that he put his Presidency on the line for Civil Rights and the Great Society, with the best will in the World one can not see Kennedy passing Civil Rights, he was far to cautious, and wanted Southern votes in 64 and to support his brother later on, time has away of showing the truth to those that were not around at fixed times of history, historians have a point of view, that is to be expected, but honest historians give you objective history as far as they can, they give you what was going on and the results, not what they want to have happened, and what COULD have happened.   Thus in time 9/11 will become part of history, such as the Pearl Harbour in 1941, the Kennedy Assassination of 63, but to those that lived through those hours, it will never be far away, it defines us as much as the Cold War.