Obama's First Appointment - 
An Ominous Portent
Barky's First Choices - No Seat At The 
Table For Labor And The Third World
By Webster G. Tarpley
11-7-8

        WASHINGTON DC -- Obama's first appointments have confirmed the grimmest 
suspicions about the new regime. 
         
        The naming of the vicious thug Rahm Emanuel as the new Martin Bormann 
of the regime has caused much consternation, even among the netroots or 
nutroots crowd over at the Daily Kos. Rahm is a former member of the Israeli 
Defense Force whose ruling passion is that he is a warmonger. In 2006, when 
Rahm ran the Democratic congressional money machine, he made sure that only 
warmongers committed to the open-ended prosecution of the Afghan and Iraq wars 
could get any Democratic Party financing for their races. Many contests were 
lost as a result. A tragic case was that of grass-roots antiwar activist 
Christine Cegelis of Ohio, who was defeated in the Democratic primary by Tammy 
Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran who advocated endless hostilities there. 
Duckworth lost to the Republican by several points. If the $300,000 Rahm gave 
Duckworth had been shared with anti-war candidate Bob Bowen in Florida, a 
Democratic seat could easily have been added. Rahm is also a product of the 
filthy and corrupt Illinois bipartisan Combine, which I have described in my 
books. 
         
        A co-chair of the transition team is Valerie Jarrett, who served as 
Barky's travelling schoolmarm during the campaign. Jarrett also comes from the 
Daley wing of the Illinois combine. She has provided graft and related support 
for Michelle Obama's foundation-funded operations. Jarrett is also an integral 
part of the Chicago housing graft community, a region also inhabited by Barky's 
original godfather, the convicted felon and thief Tony Rezko. Jarrett is 
discussed in detail in my Obama biography. She is joined on the transition team 
by John Podesta, a Clinton-era retread who worked for Sen. Tom Daschle, the 
senator from Citibank, the biggest employer in South Dakota. Podesta also 
worked for Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, a close personal friend of Weatherman 
terrorist bombers Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. 
         
        Another Daschle-Citibank retread is transition co-chair Tom Rouse, who 
was the chief of staff for Daschle when he was the weakest Democratic majority 
leader in recent memory, surrendering to Bush on point after point. Chief 
strategist remains David Axelrod of the corrupt Illinois Combine, who was 
taught his mindbending skills in the infamous "1313" Rockefeller-funded think 
tank at the University of Chicago. 
         
        BANKERS ONLY: NO VOICE FOR LABOR, RETIREES, SMALL BUSINESS, WOMEN 
         
        Obama's transitional council of economic advisers is also notable. The 
dominant figures here are all Wall Street derivatives merchants and their 
quackademic apologists and politician clients. The key people here are 
plutocrat Warren Buffet, Obama moneybags and Hyatt heiress Penny Pritzker, 
Goldman Sachs-Citibank alum Robert Rubin, woman-hating thug and failed Harvard 
president Larry Summers, Google spook Eric Schmidt, and Roger Ferguson, the 
former vice president of the Federal Reserve board. The most obscene is 
Trilateral Commission bigwig Paul Adolf Volcker, the bringer of the 22% prime 
rate of 1981 and the destroyer of the US indsutrial base. What is truly notable 
about this list is that there is not one single labor leader. No Sweeney of the 
AFL-CIO, no Hoffa of the Teamsters, no UAW, not even the unsavory Andy Stern of 
the SIEU, all big Obama backers. Note the difference to the New Deal, when 
labor reps were indispensable. With Barky, only derivatives monsters and their 
stooges need apply. Also notable by their absence are leaders of women's 
groups, small business associations, the congressional black caucus, retirees 
groups like the AARP ­ there is not even a token face representing any of these 
groups, all of which have a vital interest in economic policy. Read the ill 
omens if you have eyes to see. The Obama regime is shaping up as of the 
bankers, by the bankers, for the bankers. This is not the FDR New Deal ­ this 
is the Mussolini fascist corporate state. 
         
        WASHINGTON ECONOMIC CONFERENCE: THE DERIVATIVES BLOC VS. THE ANTI- 
DERIVATIVES BLOC 
         
        We are also told that Barky has been on the phone to foreign leaders 
about matters of economic. Let us read the tea leaves: whom did Barky call? 
Here is the list: Australia, the British, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, 
Japan, Mexico, and South Korea. 
         
        Notice now who is NOT on the list. Start with the great world powers 
who have been snubbed: Russia and China, both of whom are bigger holders of US 
Treasury bonds than most of those who are on the list. Saudi Arabia, who might 
have needed reassurance that Barky is not a commie, are also snubbed. Forget 
ideology, and behold the ineptitude. Most glaring of all is the lack of any 
phone call to a leading third world or developing sector country, other than 
Mexico, which is a branch of NAFTA. No calls were made to Brazil, Argentina, 
South Africa, Nigeria, Algeria, India or a long list of other leading states. 
Nobody in Africa, nobody in south Asia, and nobody in South America got a call. 
Not even those who will be coming to the pseudo-Bretton Woods conference set 
for Washington later this month. The best we can hope for regarding that 
conference is that it end in a stalemate, dividing the world between a US-UK 
dominated derivatives bloc and a Brazil-India- Russia-China-South Africa 
anti-derivatives bloc interested in real physical commodity production, not 
fictitious capital. 
         
        Obama, in summation, is acting just like the abject puppet of the Wall 
Street derivatives merchants and warmongers which we have argued him to be. 
         
        Webster G. Tarpley is the author of Obama ­ The Postmodern Coup: The 
Making of a Manchurian Candidate, and Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized 
Biography, both available from amazon.com.  

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