The Obama Years
3 days after his inauguration, he launches his first drone strikes. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/23/drone-strike-victim-barack-obama
Even before he is inaugurated, he has Citibank privately vet his cabinet. https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/32870
Bailing out Wall Street but not the people whose homes were foreclosed upon. https://www.salon.com/2009/03/20/reich_3/
Expanded the "state secrets" doctrine. https://www.colorlines.com/articles/obamas-unprecedented-use-state-secrets-defend-religious-profiling
Maintained and continued Bush's rendition policy. https://www.salon.com/2009/02/09/state_secrets/
Escalates the war in Afghanistan. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120991044
Legitimized the coup in Honduras. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/15/us-role-honduras-coup-and-subsequent-violence
Lobbied to LOWER the minimum wage in Haiti to 30 cents an hour. https://www.thenation.com/article/wikileaks-haiti-let-them-live-3-day/
Started droning in Pakistan. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/world/asia/04drones.html?smid=tw-share
Coup in Ukraine (WATCH THE VIDEO WHERE HE ADMITS IT) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8_h4wNRb44
Makes Bush's tax cut permanent. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/16/AR2010121606200.html
Thought police brutality was "police acting stupidly." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/5902222/Cambridge-police-demand-apology-from-Barack-Obama-over-stupid-comments.html
Granted final immunity to torturers. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/31/obama-justice-department-immunity-bush-cia-torturer
Ended Habeus Corpus. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dear-americans-this-law-makes-it-possible-to-arrest_us_57c9b648e4b06c750dd9cd6f
Robert Gibbs says left-wing critics of Obama 'ought to be drug tested.' https://amp.theguardian.com/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/aug/10/robert-gibbs-crazy-liberal-critics-obama?__twitter_impression=true
NSA spying. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance
Unprecedented crackdown on whistle blowers. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/whistleblowers-double-standard-obama-david-petraeus-chelsea-manning
Eric Holder determined that some banks are "Too Big to Jail." https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/eric-holder-banks-too-big_n_2821741.html
The really bizarre gun-smuggling scheme. http://www.latimes.com/nation/atf-fast-furious-sg-storygallery.html?page=2
Obama signed the Executive Order banning Syrian and Iranian immigrants. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/04/23/executive-order-blocking-property-and-suspending-entry-united-states-cer
Obama repeatedly reauthorized militarizing the police. https://www.mintpressnews.com/white-house-moves-reauthorize-military-equipment-police/218714/
Deporting children to "send a message" to their parents. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration/u-s-says-deportation-of-honduran-children-a-warning-to-illegal-migrants-idUSKBN0FK29N20140715
Turning Libya from Africa's most prosperous nation, to the ISIS hellhole it is today. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/hillary-clinton-libya.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=F4AB919802C9539BCBFA63C9DF7C7DD6&gwt=pay
Drone strikes in Somalia. https://t.co/QM4D3Oj97Q
Obama: The first Nobel Peace Prize winner in history, to bomb another Nobel peace prize winner. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-attack-msf/obama-apologizes-for-kunduz-attack-msf-demands-independent-probe-idUSKCN0S10SX20151007
Why did he build a drone base in Niger? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283346/Obama-builds-new-drone-base-West-Africa-combat-spread-Al-Qaeda.html
Why did he build a drone base in Cameroon? https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-03-01/can-us-new-drone-base-cameroon-help-fight-boko-haram
Why were we building a drone base in Seychelles? https://t.co/Hjq6ruLfT7
Why were we building a drone base in Chad? https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/you-might-not-know-where-chad-us-military-has-big-plans-it/
Djibouti? https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Secret-U.S.-Drone-Base-Rapidly-Expanding-in-Djibouti-20151021-0033.html
The U.S. Just Agreed to Give Israel $38 Billion in Military Aid --- because we’re just THAT charitable. http://fortune.com/2016/09/13/us-israel-military-aid/
Failed to reinstate Glass Steagall. http://thehill.com/policy/finance/248336-white-house-distances-itself-from-glass-steagall-push
Egypt... Syria... https://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/us/politics/arab-spring-proves-a-harsh-test-for-obamas-diplomatic-skill.html
His drone strike program that killed 90% innocent people. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/15/90-of-people-killed-by-us-drone-strikes-in-afghani/
Democrats skillfully manipulate the rules so they don't have to pass single payer. https://www.salon.com/2010/02/23/democrats_34/
Obama’s Final Arms-Export Tally More than Doubles Bush’s. https://www.defenseone.com/business/2016/11/obamas-final-arms-export-tally-more-doubles-bushs/133014/
Who was hurt most by Obamacare? http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/227312-racial-gap-shrinking-under-obamacare-but-black-americans-remain-stuck
Right after Ferguson, was this Bill O Reilly or Obama? I can't tell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2BBAfWucaE
The Haliburton loophole continued under Obama. http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/whats-fracking
The DOJ didn't hold the Red Cross accountable after this. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes
Cuts to food stamps while bailing out the big banks. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-signs-food-stamp-cut
Malaysia gets a free pass on Slavery for the TPP. https://theintercept.com/2015/07/27/blocked-trade-pact-failure-trafficking-malaysia-suddenly-gets-passing-grade/
Turning a blind eye to child soldiers and selling the militia weapons. https://theintercept.com/2016/06/09/hillary-clintons-state-department-gave-south-sudans-military-a-pass-for-its-child-soldiers/
Arms deals to Saudis. https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/11/obama-administrations-1-billion-arms-deal-aids-sau/
The crackdown on peaceful protesters from Occupy Wall Street. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy
The White House did order it. https://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/14/did-the-white-house-direct-the-police-crackdown-on-occupy/
HAMP mortgage relief program was designed to "foam the runway" for the banks, not help underwater home owners. https://billmoyers.com/2015/02/14/needless-default/
After getting elected on a wave of anger at Wall Street; calling for a meeting of their CEO's and saying "My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks" --- How can I help? http://www.newsweek.com/why-cant-obama-bring-wall-street-justice-65009
Refueled Saudi aircraft in mid-air before they double-tapped a funeral. https://www.alternet.org/world/did-us-assist-sanaa-bombing
Cut funding to NASA, while we had plenty of money for bombs. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/apr/15/obama-nasa-space-neil-armstrong
Bombed Syria until they ran out of bombs. https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/04/politics/air-force-20000-bombs-missiles-isis/index.html
Aided Mali government with their fight against the Traureg ethnicity. https://t.co/H2ac2ugWHF
Supported the*extremely* right wing faction in Ukraine. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/18/statement-president-ukraine-freedom-support-act
Expanded the Monsanto Doctrine. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-signs-dark-act-to-invalidate-vermonts-landmark_us_57a644c7e4b0ccb023727b2d
Obama drones a wedding. http://www.newsweek.com/wedding-became-funeral-us-still-silent-one-year-deadly-yemen-drone-strike-291403
Infiltrating Standing Rock activists. https://theintercept.com/2017/12/11/standing-rock-dakota-access-pipeline-fbi-informant-red-fawn-fallis/
Expanded offshore drilling for oil and gas. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0331/Obama-seeks-compromise-in-offshore-drilling-plan
Ignored child rape at Abu Ghraib. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5395830/Abu-Ghraib-abuse-photos-show-rape.html
Obama ignored surge of right-wing extremism that inspired Charleston killer. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/expert-obama-ignored-surge-rightwing-extremism-inspired-charleston-killer
Obama administration scraps child labor restrictions for farms. http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/224169-obama-administration-scraps-child-labor-rules-for-farms
Justice Department under Obama uses very racist precedent to deny Samoans citizenship (insular cases). https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/05/obama-administration-american-samoa-deny-citizenship/
Obama breaks promise to Iowa to break up big agra monopolies. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/09/magazine/obama-administration-big-food-policy.html
Obama threatens the British that he will stop sharing intelligence with them if they release evidence of torture that they possess. This forces the high court to reverse itself, because now there are national security concerns. https://www.salon.com/2009/05/12/obama_101/
Why Is the Obama Administration Keeping Toddlers Behind Bars? https://www.thenation.com/article/why-is-the-obama-administration-keeping-toddlers-behind-bars/
Trump loses 1500 children and god knows how many are with human traffickers. Obama: more or less the same. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/us/politics/us-placed-immigrant-children-with-traffickers-report-says.html
Obama Administration Steps Back From Effort to End Federal Death Penalty. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/us/white-house-balks-on-ending-death-penalty.html
Obama says he'd be seen as moderate Republican in 1980s. http://thehill.com/policy/finance/272957-obama-says-his-economic-policies-so-mainstream-hed-be-seen-as-moderate-republican-in-1980s
Privately, Mr. Obama has described himself, at times, as essentially a Blue Dog Democrat. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/us/politics/01bai.html?_r=1&ref=politics
Why Obama Must Take Some Blame for Slavery in Libya. https://www.laprogressive.com/libyan-slavery/
Obama oversaw the rapid erosion of the Democratic Party’s political power in state legislatures, congressional districts and governor’s mansions. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/barack-obama-won-the-white-house-but-democrats-lost-the-country/
All False statements involving Barack Obama. http://www.politifact.com/personalities/barack-obama/statements/byruling/false/
Recruits Perez to sink Ellison as DNC Chair ... aligning with wishes of largest Dem Party funder Israeli-American billionaire Haim Saban. https://theintercept.com/2017/02/24/key-question-about-dnc-race-why-did-white-house-recruit-perez-to-run-against-ellison/
Another instance where Obama denied clemency for Leonard Peltier an almost 80 year old American Indian activist sentenced to life in prison for a crime he didn't commit in the 1970s. It was found that the FBI fabricated evidence against him. https://www.democracynow.org/2017/1/18/breaking_leonard_peltier_denied_clemency_by
Barack Obama’s Shaky Legacy on Human Rights. http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/04/barack-obamas-shaky-legacy-on-human-rights/
“When the CIA actually rehires as a contractor someone who held a power-drill against the skull of a prisoner, you know that change from within this system is impossible.” https://theatln.tc/2LoOU3Q
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Context Inquisition [Blog #3]
a) There are many benefits for animals to be smaller in the environment today and how that benefits us. One would be that we are able to maintain and provide reasonable resources to livestock. Another is that there we wouldn't have to worry about apex predators like a T-Rex to be hunting us or Titanoboas lurking in the Amazon or scavenger creatures picking off our pets or dinosaurs in general being an invasive species. A benefit to being smaller is also body disposition and health, animals now wouldn't have to work as hard or expend as much energy as dinosaurs would have, also as for their health, dinosaurs would have a difficult time with gravity that takes a toll on their bodies because of their massive size. Another benefit to being smaller is that animals and we do not require a lot of resources for food and water unlike a T-Rex that needed around 500 kilograms per day. Because of our environment, we don't have the same resources that the dinosaurs had that made it feasible to maintain their size. Therefore, our size has been determined by our environment and the availability of resources.
b) An idea that could be an analogous with my first interest is that we could bring back dinosaurs because their size could be in our favor for farming purposes, such as livestock and labor. Dinosaurs could also help with tourism and scientific breakthroughs as we’ve seen in the Jurassic movies. Their size would be useful in providing capital gain for poorer countries so they could create tourist hot spots. Also, if we were to use dinosaurs as livestock, they could provide a lot of sustenance and since humans are very good at domesticating animals, we could use them for labor purposes. And of course, most if not all of these would be herbivores that are mostly quadrupedal. However, while I would love to coexist with dinosaurs, I do not believe it is feasible because of the upkeep cost to provide for their living. I believe the cons outweigh the pros.
Works Cited:
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/13916/would-keeping-dinosaurs-as-livestock-be-feasible-for-a-society-like-ours
https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/bringing-accurate-dinosaurs-back-to-life/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/06/dinosaurs-humans-coexist-jurassic-world-paleontology-science/
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151021-when-animals-shrink-to-miniature-form#:~:text=Theories%20for%20the%20benefits%20to,tend%20to%20be%20more%20abundant.
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“The original Persian droplet-like motif -- the boteh or buta -- is thought to have been a representation of a floral spray combined with a cypress tree, a Zoroastrian symbol of life and eternity.” Source: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151021-paisley-behind-rocks-favourite-fashion
Yazd, Iran - origin of Zoroastrianism and the boteh (paisley)
“Boteh is a Persian word meaning bush, shrub, a thicket (a small dense forest of small trees or bushes), bramble, herb. Some would even take it to mean a palm leaf, cluster of leaves (perhaps as a repeated pattern) and flower bud.”
“Other articles on the boteh also link the motif to the Cypress and to the significance of the Cypress as a tree of life in Zoroastrian folkloric tradition. In addition, the boteh motif is sometimes referred to as the flame of Zoroaster. We are informed by Fiona Maclachlan that in Azerbaijan, the buta (botteh) is regarded as a symbol of fire.”
Source: http://www.heritageinstitute.com/zoroastrianism/trade/paisley.htm
Notes from this video:
Two cypress trees sit in the place of the ancient Zoroastrian fire temple, dating back 1300-1400 years, thought to be two siblings (brother and sister)
Zoroastrians would plant cypress trees near their temples, and build their temples in green areas, where they could find fresh water (one of the main elements). Villages would be built facing the cypress tree.
The dates grown in the region - every part of the date tree is used
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