Obama
Heavy on Iran,
Silent on
Pawned-Out UN,
Predatory
Lending
Laundered
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 28,
updated -- US
President
Obama's State
of the Union
speech
mentioned
Iran ten times,
but not that
the US got UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon to
dis-invite
Iran from the
Syria talks in
Switzerland.
In fact, Obama
did
not mention
the United
Nations once.
In
the middle of
his speech,
the UN
e-mailed out a
readout of Ban
Ki-moon's
meeting with
Haitian
president
Martelly. It
mentioned
cholera, but
not who
brought it to
the island:
the UN.
Obama
did not
mention South
Sudan,
where the US
bears some
responsibility,
but he did
mention Mali,
where the US
is delegating
to colonial
power
France, as
it does in Central
African
Republic.
The
television
cameras
flashed to
Secretary of
State John
Kerry, and UN
Ambassador
Samantha Power
-- no mention
of their
push-back from
saying that
the Rwanda
genocide of
1994 was
directed at
the Tutsis.
Obama
talked trade,
citing the
Asia-Pacific.
That would by
the proposed
Trans Pacific
Partnership,
which would
globalize
corporate
abuse like
the US Digital
Millennium
Copyright Act,
under which
for example
Reuters
got Google to
block from its
search a
leaked
document
showing
Reuters trying
to get the
investigative
Press thrown
out of the UN,
click here for
that.
The
camera flashed
to Treasury
Secretary Jack
Lew, too. No
mention that
he came from
Citigroup, as
does Obama's
nominee for
deputy chair
of
the Federal
Reserve. The
predatory
lending
scandal has
been laundered
into the
"Great
Recession."
Watch this
site.
Interactive
update:
Readers'
responses led
to more
research and
this: John
F. Kennedy in
his 1961 State
of the Union
speech cited
(twice) the
UN, and strife
in the Congo.
Jump cut to
2007, when
President Bush
cited Mutombo
helping build
a hospital
in the DR
Congo...
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