Zero Hedge
Michelle Obama appeared on Oprah yesterday and continued to
ignore the unspoken, but widely acknowledged and obeyed, tradition of
not bashing incoming administrations. When asked whether Obama was
successful at bringing "hope" to America, rather answer the question,
the first lady decided to attack Trump by saying that "now we're feeling what not having hope feels like."
Is this Michelle's idea of "going high" when other "go low?"
Notice she didn't bother to offer any supporting evidence of how
exactly Obama brought "hope" to Americans....could that be because there
isn't any?
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Daily Leak
The popular agriculture company Monsanto is partnering with First
Lady Michelle Obama to promote nutritional foods for kids. According to
reports from the Associated Press, Monsanto will spend $50 million over
five years on a campaign to market ‘healthy’ genetically modified food
to children. The agrochemical company will also bring its food offerings
for kids in line with the new federal standards for labeling and
nutrition.
Obama announced her intentions in front of crates of fresh produce on
Thursday. “When I see a company like Monsanto launch an initiative like
this, I feel more hopeful than ever before,” said the First Lady. “We
can improve how we make and sell food in this country.”
“It’s a natural extension of what we do,” Monsanto vice president,
Michael Stern, told the AP in reference to the new partnership with the
first lady.
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21st Century Wire
Whenever a First Lady tries to astro-turf over a political event to boost White House approval ratings – it never ends well. Remember Michelle’s foray in the Knucklehead issue?
Michelle
Obama made a big splash on Twitter and Facebook this week, but it only
took a few days before the predictable blow-back to her PR stunt has
turned into a storm of ridicule.
Her detractors are right point
out how her own husband has sanctioned the murders of thousands of
innocents across central Asia and Africa with his shiny new drone toys, but is immune from giving any testimony, nor any prosecution as he claim Presidential privilege.
It
should be obvious to anyone with a functioning brain in America and
further afield, that no amount of tweeting and hash-tagging will
speed-up to rescue, or recovery of hostages. In fact, excessive
political and military meddling by Washington in Lagos could do the
opposite – and create a powder keg which could cost lives and fray
international relations.
What is obvious, however, is how the seemingly authentic ‘Boko Haram Terror Crisis’
in Nigeria is being used by the White House to swing public opinion
back in favour of a walking wounded Obama Administration mired in
multiple scandals, and also guilty of backing a NeoNazi fascist military coup in the Ukraine
this past winter, and further seeking to capitalise financially in the
arms, oil and gas sector through a permanent stand-off with former ally
Russia.
Add to this Obama’s under the radar pledge of $1.7 billion of US taxpayer money to armed Islamic terrorist fighters in Syria this week
– and it’s not hard at all to see the benefits of a Boko Haram comic
book crisis at this moment in time. If the White can somehow stage – and
take credit, for some kind of rescue of the African school girls, then
it will have all been worth it. Beltway insiders are already saying that
plans are already underway for a White House repeat of the dramatic Bin Laden/Navy SEAL Raid.
Although the May 2011 raid in Abbotabad, Pakistan failed to produce an
actual body of the deceased Osama bin Laden, ironically, it gave the
President the only real bounce in the polls he ever had during his two
terms.
By cynically targeting school children, the #Bring Our Girls Home campaign is merely a picking up where the globalised ‘Kony 2012′ social zeitgeist movement left off. Kony 2012
was a state-of-the-art, multimillion dollar, US State Department-backed
media effort – disguised as a grassroots ‘schools campaign’, designed
to engage US school children in the process lobbying Washington for US
military intervention in Uganda to hunt down a non-existent villain who
hasn’t been seen for 8 years.
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