By Larry Johnson
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Name: Larry Johnson
Email: larry_johnson@earthlink.net
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About: Larry C. Johnson is CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism and investigating money laundering. Mr. Johnson works with US military commands in scripting terrorism exercises, briefs on terrorist trends, and conducts undercover investigations on counterfeiting, smuggling and money laundering.
Mr. Johnson, who worked previously with the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism, is a recognized expert in the fields of terrorism, aviation security, crisis and risk management.
Mr. Johnson has analyzed terrorist incidents for a variety of media including the Jim Lehrer News Hour, National Public Radio, ABC's Nightline, NBC's Today Show, the New York Times, CNN, Fox News, and the BBC. Mr. Johnson has authored several articles for publications, including Security Management Magazine, the New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. He has lectured on terrorism and aviation security around the world, including the Center for Research and Strategic Studies at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France. He represented the U.S. Government at the July 1996 OSCE Terrorism Conference in Vienna, Austria.
From 1989 until October 1993, Larry Johnson served as a Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He managed crisis response operations for terrorist incidents throughout the world and he helped organize and direct the US Government’s debriefing of US citizens held in Kuwait and Iraq, which provided vital intelligence on Iraqi operations following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Mr. Johnson also participated in the investigation of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103. Under Mr. Johnson’s leadership the U.S. airlines and pilots agreed to match the US Government’s two million-dollar reward.
From 1985 through September 1989 Mr. Johnson worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. During his distinguished career, he received training in paramilitary operations, worked in the Directorate of Operations, served in the CIA’s Operation’s Center, and established himself as a prolific analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence. In his final year with the CIA he received two Exceptional Performance Awards.
Mr. Johnson is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security. He taught at The American University’s School of International Service (1979-1983) while working on a Ph.D. in political science. He has a M.S. degree in Community Development from the University of Missouri (1978), where he also received his B.S. degree in Sociology, graduating Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1976.See Authors Posts (738) on July 23, 2008 at 9:29 PM in Current Affairs
Obama’s efforts to catapult himself into the universe of iconic figures took an especially creepy turn today with this poster, which is advertising his speech before a war monument (the Siegessaule) venerated by the Nazi’s. Give the dude some blond hair and blue eyes and we’re talking a candidate for the Nazi Youth.
The last guy in Germany with this kind of cult of personality had a catchier phrase (One people, One Nation, One Leader) but lacked the flash in graphics:
Or maybe the Obama campaign was inspired by this recruiting poster (not sure this gives the Dutch a warm and fuzzy):
UPDATE: For the Obamabots, who lack any sense of irony, let me be clear–I do not believe Barack is the reincarnation of Hitler. He is not that smart. Hitler was a sick visionary and a twisted psychopath. Barack is bereft of vision and is not a psychopath. Mein Kampf, Hitler’s literary “achievement” is in a completely different category than anything Barack has written.
My concern is this–if you are going to Germany, given its history, to make a speech why use images that smack of the kind of bullshit the Nazis used. What the hell are Barack’s people thinking? And why is he willing to ignore things like this? That is what is eating me.
I don’t know whether to vomit or run! This Obama is a nightmare. I keep hoping he will exit the arena. Jesus!
Looks like Obama’s already blasphemed at a revered holy site:
The Abomination of Desolation in Jerusalem?
Obama’s creepy logo problems:
Article link
Yikes!!! Campaign posters at a Holy site? Disgusting.
This is unreal, unheard of. I was born and raised in Jerusalem, never seen anything like this. Such disrespect. This requires a separate article I hope someone writes it.
Why did the Orthodox community allow it?
because the ynot militant, rather passive.
That can’t be real…no one would have that much disrespect in another country…right…? That has to be photoshopped…even Obama can’t be that arrogant…oh God, who am I kidding?
ur such a kidder!
Where is the MSM on this? This is disgusting. He just makes his own rules…..or whoever is running him does.
Who’s idea was this?
Is Axelrod so insensitive this is what he did?
Obama looks like he is scared in that pic and knows he is in over his head.
Bizarre…Obama needs to do some homework fast….so he knows when to tell Axelrod and his handlers no.
Well finally, something appropos.
Finally.
I am sorry I just reviewed the Horror Movie Posthumous lmao, I HOPE, thing, and I can not help but stick my middle fingers at that civillly, I mean, point out that) blow job hovering over our wavy red stripes.
Bad Bye Bamamarama.
smooches, you wish.
Can somebody with great art skills replace that Indonesian’s profile and pit in that sweating, smiling kool-aid pitcher?
Not messin’ witcha.
No offense, but if I must have a cool refreshing tsunami, can I please have pink lemonade?
pit - put
What the fuck?
Just put it in there. ‘k?
Hmmmm….I guess I logged off too early last night. Good Post as usual Larry and thought provoking. I have been alarmed about the Movement since I saw ( ( De Stijll ) the style start to show up in Obama’s visual imagery. Mostly, I figured the Kids were just a little intrigued by what they saw as kinda funky retro art style….Which of course is what alarmed me as this Socialist Style of visual propaganda is very effective and in it’s own totalitarian fashion tends to so dominate as to obliterate other forms of visual communication/style etc…
As an artist, I studied Propaganda in classes in undergrad both the development of the graphic and WWII on film/radio. This socialist style was the first truly ( GLOBAL ) style and like Fascism swept the globe. We used it to although in the US the style was not used much in idealization of a personality or an ideal German/Japanese/Soviet….But this style was very effective when we
mimicked it to demonize the enemy. The point I’m trying to make is that once again….( Vegas drum roll with cymbal finish ) A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS….
Truth is Back then Fascism was kinda new and trendy and not yet a dirty word….I really don’t think any new Fascists are going to be up front about it.
The New Fascists will most likely sneak in through the back door pretending to be something else….And Yet what Fascist can easily give up those wonderfully effective tools….Like the International ( Global Appeal ) Style Graphics…..Makes a person wonder….Exactly when does a New Movement, New Party, New Politics, New Philosophy cross the line…..
*** Keep up the Good Fight Larry and NQ Writers ***
I disagree. I think Obama has shown that he, like Hitler, IS a sick visionary. He intends to take over not only the US, but to influence the entire world to further his socialist/Marxist agenda. He sees himself as a Marxist Robin Hood, taking from the rich white people and redistributing the wealth to the poor blacks, Palestinians, Muslims. He has as much as said so. He is the most dangerous presidential candidate this country has ever known, and he has the corporate owned MSM eating out of the palm of his hand, drinking the koolaid, and he must be stopped. Vote McCain!!!
But Nobama’s actions tell a different story about stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. In Chicago he lined the pockets of his rich friends with his poor constituent’s money.
Again, a fraudulent marxist. He can’t even be a true marxist. The man in totally inept.
One of Obama mentors, that gun grabbing priest from Chicago is a German American. Birth location not found by me. Also if memory serves me correct, Frank Marshall Davis went to East Germany for studies? Correct me if I am wrong please.
Larry:
This man scares me beyond words. I was in tears a couple of days ago when I heard his stupid speech. and then the media will basically even cover any crime, anything for this nut.
I am truely truely scared for this country that I love so much. This country will not survive. He and his wife really don’t like americans or America. He has a great tolerance for terrorists. I am just so scared right now. This fruad is “hilter-esque”
True!
tdillian — thats the whole point — get us used to his authoritarian regime. The Rock Star Dictator.
Larry, you ask why he is willing to ignore… I think he is willing not to be interested in these facts. All he is interested in semms to be his megalomania. Butwhy do so many people buy it??? That is my big worry!
Call Bill Clinton.
I could not agree with you more! His political ineptness shows at every turn. I am so frightened by the prospect of him in the White House that I am thinking of voting for John McCain.
are you for real???? you are the scaaaaary one! There is no way this comment of yours is sincere??
At least they matched his blue lips with the rest of his face.
Oh, you are just terrible…can I use that?
Is he going to demand to include the German people vote in our election? You know - the whole world citizenry, global-starbucks generation extravaganza party? I’ve never seen anyone with such a blatant display of narcissism.
Well, at least the poster didn’t read “PRESIDENT Barack Obama.”
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry with this guy.
I still don’t get why he’s campaigning overseas. He’s running for President of the US not the Chancellor of Germany.
I guess he’s going for the ex-pat vote.
candymarl
That is my question? What is up with this Germany nonsense? I don’t give a shit what Germans want or think about our politics.
Yes, why is he so obssessed with Germany? When Obama was planning his magical mystery tour, his big speech to cheering crowds in Germany was already being planned and he wanted it at the Brandenburg Gate. I don’t get it.
Because JFK made some awesome speech in Berlin. Obama doesn’t really understand that Berlin was the linchpin location of the Cold War, and that the Cold War is over. But if it has something to do with JFK, Obama is there.
You know, Michelle can style her hair any way she wants, but she’s no Jackie O.
And Obama is not JFK. JFK had principles and a true vision for this country.
Obama is bought and paid for by corporate America.
He isn’t trying to make Berlin the central front in the War on Terror I hope. What the heck will his speech be about? The logical connection would be to liken the war against jihads to the Cold War.
This is not the war on terror I knew.
—Barack Obama
about birth places
how TRULY IRONIC that HILLARY was actually BORN IN ILLINOIS!!
ACTUALLY
PHYSICALLY
IN REAL LIFE
Your comment is so funny Dawnelle. You put your finger on something…..Hillary was/is real life, Obama is all this pomp and circumstance fake stuff. I miss real life.
I believe JFK donated his entire salary to charity. Do you believe that either he or MO will do that?
JFK was not the richest President but he did give his salary back to the Govt. He was required to take $1.00 a year.
QUOTE :”I believe JFK donated his entire salary to charity. Do you believe that either he or MO will do that?”
FLY’S RESPONSE…HELLS BELLS..this joker only bought his first house a couple years ago..and only because he got the money and the property from crooks!..Donate? Barky????
no the guy couldn’t get his own shit together so he had to have crooks do it for him!! All for show..he seems to me like a real MKULTRA boy………totally manufactored ..
fly
Yes if you can consider Trinity a charity.
He probably thinks the cold war was when Napoleon went to Russia.
Yeah, the only thing coming through the Fulda Gap is caviar and vodka….
I guess this is what happens when kids at that snazzy Hawaiian Prep School sleep through their 20th Century History classes…
His unreleased thesis is supposedly on the Soviet Union. He cannot claim ignorance. Oh, suppose he can claim anything, he always does.
He’s gonna run out the clock on “town hall” meetings and debates…the rest of the campaign he’ll have “scheduling issues.”
zee — Obama can’t handle competition. This is why he needs to be a Dictator.
US still has big military presence in Germany…
Is he planning another meet and greet of US soldiers like he did in Bagram?
And we thought Bush was bad. I thought that I had reached the limit of shock until this creep came into being.
Why did he choose Germany? I mean why not Egypt or Saudi Arabia? Why not Latvia or Norway? Why not South Africa? Why GERMANY??????
Kenya
Ever been to Kenya?
NO ONE would want to go to Kenya, except bullshit hoodoo morons who pronounce it, “KEEN-ya.”
racist fuck.
BETH! You changed your Screen Name!!!!
And, you changed it to match a new contraceptive product!
To what will you change it next?
Preparation H?
Maybe he chose Germany because (according to the writer Gunter Grass) Germans feel massive guilt and shame in terms of their white supremacist past. And BO will milk it for all it’s worth!
ahhhh very interesting
Tell them to get over it.
Exactly! Germany is the epicenter for White Guilt.
One more reason to regret Truman not giving them to the Russians for pets in 1945…
The Teutonic, Poland-invading, jew-killing shitknockers would be REAL humble about now.
No, they don’t. They’re still beating the shit out of Turkish and Pakistani guest workers over there….hate crimes happen all the time. VIOLENT ones, too.
Don’t kid yourself. They’re not enlightened. They are irritated by all the foreigners who do the jobs they don’t want to do, cluttering up their streets with their jibber-jabber in languages other than German and their stinky smelly food.
It’s not Kumbayah Land over there. It’s pretty ugly.
Do the Google. You’ll see.
Do the Goolge? Why don’t you go there. You don’t know what the fuck you are talking about.
The foreigners are not doing the jobs they don’t want to do. Germans work the street construction etc. the Turkish are just waiting in line for payment checks. I been there and seen it. So Google off
Such bullshit you Obamatrons crap out whilst accusing others of not knowing WTF they’re talking about. You’ve “been there”. Right. Well, my ex lives in the Netherlands and it’s the same situation there as it is in Germany–they can’t fucking stand the Muslims. The Muslim ghettos are taking over the Netherlands just as bad as they are in Germany and they are fucking sick of it.
OBAMA BUDDY FARRAKHAN SAID THAT HITLER WAS A HERO.OBAMA HAVING HIS FANTASY.NOW I KNOW THEY SHARE THE SAME VIEW.
According to Der Spiegel some Germans are wondering the same thing:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5dqz57
SPIEGEL has learned that the Obama team is frustrated by the controversy surrounding the candidate’s Germany visit, with some asking why the trip is so difficult for the Germans to comprehend. The candidate merely wanted to drop by for a visit with America’s allies to share his vision of US-European relations.
In front of a screaming crowd of thousands?
And if the Germans are confused, they need to just get over it.
if not we need a whole company working with overtime on throwing out those busses!
They always do stuff and plan stuff and ‘don’t understand why nobody gets it’. Are they that dim or disingenous?
Did anybody miss the arch-ironic tongue-in-cheek tone of that article?
What is it with him and that creepy ice blue color? His logo, his posters, his wannabe presidential seal? Seriously, it reminds me of lighting in a morgue.
LOL @ THAT sentiment!! Indeed Lightning!
exactly - i go to his site (sparingly) and am creeped out every time by that color; sort of like a forced peaceful color - “you are feeling sleepy, peaceful, surrender” …
He doesn’t realize that with his blue lips that color makes him look like a corpse.
What No Green?
The Obama gang are authoritarian leftists.
This explains the steely-eyed leader depicted in the poster, the submissive attitude of Obama’s followers, and the dirty politics.
It explains the media’s love affair with the Bamanator. (The media folks are authoritarian types, too.)
And it explains why Obama and his followers give normal people the creeps.
Woe Betide the Democrats!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP3q8dHA4Hk
Oh he’s avenging his race in Germany. The entire white supremacy thing in Germany’s past is bothering him. He’s going to take over GERMANY! LOL
Which race?
Ok someone tell me again WHY THE JUNIOR SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS IS
BEING A POSEURIN GERMANY on the public’s dime I might add?his campaign is paying for his trip to europe.
There was the Hitler cult — the Hitler youth who did his bidding.
Obama is getting the same sort of cult build up that Hitler got — and it is the people behind this weak, narcissistic jerk who are as bad or worse than BOBO.
We have a media that is acting like the cheer leaders of this perverted jerk.
That poster made me physically ill.
History is being repeated.
PUMA
THIS is the very reason why I avoid the MSM whenever I can - on the internet, on TV, the newspapers…
They are definitely in Obama’s colon.
In a video where Obama is speaking to a huge room of campaign staffers, he says most of them aren’t old enough to drink yet, and they all just laugh.
Read up on the Bauhaus school you ignorant piece of shit.
Hmmmm…..Hitler tried to kill off members of the Bauhaus School and DeStijll went under ground…Those that made it out out alive, many came here and as a result America began to advance in Art. When I was at Penn there was a visiting Professor who was a student at the Bauhaus and although he was about 109 was still teaching Color Theory according to Albers. One of the Toughest courses I ever attended ( I just sat in on the lectures as I couldn’t afford the kit ). What happened to those Utopian Artists at the hands of Hitler, Josef et al., was tragic….( sigh )
*** FASCIST IS AS FASCIST DOES ***
Obama always shocks me with his lack of good judgment and taste.
The similarity to that NEDERLANDERS poster IS a bit creepy, in an Annie Liebowitz-ish kind of way.
If that isn’t deliberate evocation or emulation, that graphics designer has some bad coincidental luck!
Who was the artsy fartsy tool who decided to get derivative? Apparently said person doesn’t give a shit about using imagery that harkens back to ugly symbolsim….or perhaps they felt “Gee, it worked to whip that tools up…why not us?
Icky, on way too many levels..
You know they never have ideas of their own. They take from everyone else.
OK, I think the little Obama seal up in the right corner looks dumb. It reminds me of paper a**holes.
I noticed the shadow on The One’s face. It’s dark instead of a highlight on his jaw bone. I think he’s trying to appeal to Muslims - it suggests he has a beard.
From G.I. in Afghanistan - “We got more thanks from the Dallas cowboy Cheerleaders” than from Senator Obama
Thank you Sir or Ma’am.
kind of what I thought he would do. As a vet, what I feel from him is that we are nothing but scum to him, we are beneath his notice, mere pawns in his game. Even a faker would have taken some time to shake a few hands, even Bush or Bill Clinton would have done that. I’m no big fan of either, and I don’t worship at the altar of HRC. But the decent thing is to take a few moments, press the flesh and say thanks.
By the way.
Thanks
VIP’s from the States always caper around, shmooze with the brass REMF’s, get lotsa “candid” photos and didi out before dark falls.
Hard to get a decent Bechamel sauce in a mess tent. The arugula probably isn’t at its peak of freshness in Afghanistan…
Glad I checked before posting. I too was going to post this as it is something everyone should see. All I can say is, shameful. Absolutely shameful.
Thanks for the post and the letter, and shout out to all that serve.
BO FUBAR.
Like my tattoo sez: “KILL A COMMIE FOR MOMMIE!”
Okay if we are paying for this trip than why is he campaigning? Does the Democratic party know they have lost? People are going to turn out in droves in November if he is the official nominee. I mean literally droves. Everytime I have caught a clip of him overseas in the news all I can think of is that one comment from his book on siding with the muslims if the political wind blew that way.
I dont trust him. I literally do not trust him. How can you go over there stating what he intends to do if president when we currently have one. The Dems have officially lost there minds. He should not have access to any of these things until he is president. This has nothing to do with primaries or general elections…Senator Clinton nor Senator Mccain.
He downright scares me because they never allowed questions to be asked and based on his own words in his book, I just do not know his intent.
Wright SAID “Barack is gonna do what Barack DOES and I am gonna do what I do”
so I wonder if Wright is doing what HE does with OBAMA in the basement still? Preaching his BLT message to his STAR PUPIL and BIGGEST FUND RAISER?
I don’t see him under the bus?
actually, thank god the taxpayers are only paying for the middle east part of the trip.. the european leg.. his camp is paying for