Obama Picks Robert Gates For Defense

reply to post by ProfEmeritus


Your external source had this:

The current crop of international criminals wishes to reduce the world to one large feudal system. Such a notion endured for many centuries before. Could they really believe such is possible? Could they really pull it off? In this last regard, history does not speak in our favor.

Can they pull it off? They are certainly trying.

The IMF and the World Bank blackmail debt-ridden governments into eliminating high tariffs and systematically dismantling government support of family farming, thereby sacrificing national food self-sufficiency. The new regulations imposed upon governments, originate with the WTO's AoA, and involve traceability, “Good Farming Practices”, "depopulation" and “disease free status”. The "Global Diversity treaty" and life patents lets Transnational Ag steal and patent food. These regulations are designed to complete the demise of privately owned farms. A member of the World Bank executive board described this as “unprecedented thoroughgoing interventionism.” Deborah Bryceson of Oxford calls it “de-peasantization”–the phasing out of traditional family farms to make fertile farmland available for intensive capital accumulation using large-scale commercial farming.

excerpts from “The Battle to Save the Polish Countryside” by Sir Julian Rose

“....Jadwiga and I were able to address a meeting with the Brussels-based committee responsible for negotiating Poland’s agricultural terms of entry into the EU....

After clearing her throat and leaning slowly forward, the chair-lady said: “I don't think you understand what EU policy is. Our objective is to ensure that farmers receive the same salary parity as white collar workers in the cities. The only way to achieve this is by restructuring and modernising old fashioned Polish farms to enable them to compete with other countries agricultural economies and the global market. To do this it will be necessary to shift around one million farmers off the land and encourage them to take city and service industry jobs to improve their economic position. The remaining farms will be made competitive with their counterparts in western Europe.”

There in a nutshell you have the whole tragic story of the clinically instigated demise of European farming over the past three decades. We protested that with unemployment running at 20 percent how would one provide jobs for another million farmers dumped on the streets of Warsaw? This was greeted with a stony silence,...a lady from Portugal...remarked that since Portugal joined the European Union, 60 percent of small farmers had already left the land.

“The European Union is simply not interested in small farms,”... Jadwiga and I felt desperate to try and avert this tragedy. An uphill struggle ensued, which involved ... risking the wrath of the agribusiness and seed corporations who were gleefully moving-in behind the EU free trade agreements while a bought-out government stood aside. What these corporations want... is to get their hands on Poland’s relatively unspoiled work force and land resources. They want to, acquire their capital cheaply and flog the end products of Polish labour to the rest of the world for a big profit....

Farmers, however, stand in the way of land acquisitions; so they are best removed. Corporations thus join with the EU in seeing through their common goals and set about intensively lobbying national government to get the right regulatory conditions to make their kill. Farmers...suddenly find themselves heavily controlled by EU and national officialdom brandishing that most vicious of anti-entrepreneurial weapons: ‘sanitary and hygiene regulations’ - as enforced by national governments at the behest of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union. These are the hidden weapons of mass destruction of farmers and the main tool for achieving the CAP’s aim of ridding the countryside of small- and medium-sized family farms and replacing them with monocultural money-making agribusiness. Source: www.i-sis.org.uk...

In January 2009 American farms will be forced to register Premises ID and give GPS land coordinates with the government. Then comes Animal and Veggie tagging and tracking systems. "Good Farming Practices" are already incorporated in some livestock contracts that shift all liability and court costs from the meat processor to the farmer. The Safe and Secure Food Act of 2005 (failed) was the first attempt to get Good Farming Practices" made law. It failed so now we have food scares and a NGO of "concerned citizens" (only those who can pay very high dues) to try again.

I find this laughable, hear me out...

Obama's big difference between Hillary Clinton, his best line, "well, She voted for the war"..."That's not the type of judgment Americans need"

Right....I mean everyone knew this day was coming....

The day Obama tells his supporters getting out of Iraq won't be as black and white as I told you it would be....

We may be there for a while longer because like Republicans said, if we retreat from Iraq, Iran will take everything and that's dangerous!

Well, DUH. Welcome to 2008.

I mean you have all of these idealistic, liberals who want something, right that's why their liberal. They want a tax-cut, a hand-out here, a wealth-fare program there.

They vote Obama because Obama says I can fix the economy. Remember, the last 4-6 weeks of the election centered around a miraculous "economic meltdown"....you remember the hysterical drive-byes warning, "Wall Street is getting pounded, if Wall Street goes so does main street"...."Don't you folks get it, the economy sucks now because the people who are losing money are billionarres...and we didn't care when you were losing your house because you got conned by the ARM Mortgage because that was about YOU! You're poor and regular! Haha!

So once they started getting hit, they squirmed...(Corporate America)...

They had the drive-byes switch the entire debate to the economy and how we are deep # even though gas prices are down and the dollar is rallying. See, they knew if they could make the debate about the economy, Obama would win.

The powers that be made sure McCain voted for the bail out to ensure that McCain wouldn't take the bail-out and use it as a Republican Issue. McCain had to vote for it because if he didn't vote for it and Obama did vote for it, McCain would say look at this liberal elitist who wants to bail out Wall Street.

So I think that's why McCain was so pist during the 2nd debate I believe. He came out on fire. It was the day of or after the 700 Billion Wall Street bail out.

He was probably steamed because the powers that be said you HAVE to vote for the bail out.

I'm straying....point being that Obama won on the economy and the Iraq war is not important right now. Like, not important as in...not even on Obama's radar. He has to figure out this tricky economic situation.

Thus, keep the current guy in. Gates is doing well.

reply to post by ConservativeJack


Actually you have it backwards. The dems raise taxes and have big government. The Republicans lower taxes and have big government causing HUGE deficits. Either way you get big government.

Obama decides to stay with Gates as Secretary of Defense?

I guess even Obama is smart enough not to pick a Democrat for this position?

I personnally am not surprised with Obama making conservative moves, and backing down from some of his outrageous liberal ideas. This will continue until after the 2010 elections, then the unabashed liberal ideas will explode onto the scene.

Originally posted by mybigunit
Obama picks Bush's boy to continue his job of Secretary of Defense. This news announced tonight on all the agencies. So where is this change at we were promised? What is your guys thoughts on this? I see more of the same.

I don't think it prevents change at all. The most intelligent person on the topic is the one who was there the entire time. If Obama released him of those duties his knowledge would be useless. Additionally, he would never be charged with any illegal activities that may or may not have occurred depending on whether or not anything surfaces he will be there to be prosecuted. He will not be able to escape to an island in Haiti.

This is an article Brzezinski himself wrote about Gates:

Robert Gates
By Zbigniew Brzezinski

Now I'm convinced that Obama's choice for keeping Gates is because of Brzezinski. Bring on the New World Order, to me it's obvious that Obama is working for David Rockefeller (via Brezinski) as Bush was (via Henry Kissinger). Change? What change?

reply to post by TheBandit795

You are absolutely correct. Your link talks about Gates and his work with Brent Scowcroft, another major partner of the CFR and the Bilderbergers. For those members that would like to see a fairly complete list of high government appointees since Eisenhower that are/were CFR members, here is a good link:
www.real-debt-elimination.com...

Let me just post the 3 last paragraphs of the link, which are very telling:

In September, 1922, when the CFR began publishing its quarterly magazine, Foreign Affairs, the editorial stated that its purpose was "to guide American opinion." By 1924, it had "established itself as the most authoritative American review dealing with international relations." This highly influential magazine has been the leading publication of its kind, and has a circulation of over 75,000. Reading this publication can be highly informative as to the views of its members. For instance, the Spring, 1991 issue, called for a UN standing army, consisting of military personnel from all the member nations, directly under the control of the UN Security Council.

A major source of their funding (since 1953), stems from providing a "corporate service" to over 100 companies for a minimum fee of $1,000, that furnishes subscribers with inside information on what is going on politically and financially, both internationally and domestically; by providing free consultation, use of their extensive library, a subscription to Foreign Affairs, and by holding seminars on reports and research done for the Executive branch. They also publish books and pamphlets, and have regular dinner meetings to allow speakers and members to present positions, award study fellowships to scholars, promote regional meetings and stage round-table discussion meetings.

Being that the Council on Foreign Relations was able to infiltrate our government, it is no wonder that our country has been traveling on the course that it has. The moral, educational and financial decline of this nation has been no accident. It has been due to a carefully contrived plot on behalf of these conspirators, who will be satisfied with nothing less than a one-world government. And it is coming to that. As each year goes by, the momentum is picking up, and it is becoming increasingly clear, what road our government is taking. The proponents of one-world government are becoming less secretive, as evidenced by George Bush's talk of a "New World Order." The reason for that is that they feel it is too late for their plans to be stopped. They have become so entrenched in our government, our financial structure, and our commerce, that they probably do control this country, if not the world. In light of this, it seems that it will be only a matter of time before their plans are fully implemented.

No open-minded person, after perusing the list, can conclude anything other than what TheBandit795 has stated. There is an NWO, it is coordinated with virtually all of our "leaders", it is financed by the world banks and corporations, and their purpose is single-minded- a world that is a serfdom for those elite who pull the strings. This is NOT conspiracy THEORY, this is a real-life conspiracy and we are the targets.

Top 10 Revelations From Robert Gates’s Memoir

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