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Presidential Puppetry: Obama, Romney and Their Masters Kindle Edition

by Andrew Kreig (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Presidential Puppetry documents what many millions have long suspected: secretive elites guide our government leaders.

The first book to analyze the Obama second term is also one of the first to examine the 2012 elections. Puppetry reveals scandals and shows why Congress, courts, and other watchdog institutions fail to report key facts about even the biggest news makers.

Puppetry unfolds like a mystery extending over decades to the present.

By the end, this compelling narrative documented with 1,200 endnotes shows hidden links between puppet masters, political leaders, spy agencies, and the economic austerity now being imposed on a hapless public. By exposing key secrets, it provides a roadmap for reform.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00DRQEE7O
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Eagle View (July 3, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 3, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2146 KB
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Washington, DC-based Andrew Kreig is the author of "Presidential Puppetry: Obama, Romney and Their Masters" published in 2013, the first book in print about President Obama's second term.

It connects the dots to more than a century of unreported and under-reported history to explain such programs as the NSA spy scandal and agreement by most in the major parties for what Kreig describes as an austerity budget for Americans. Details: www.presidentialpuppetry.com.

Kreig is a longtime investigative reporter and attorney whose book arose from probes undertaken by the non-partisan Justice Integrity Project (www.justice-integrity.org).

An attorney, author and strategist listed in "Who's Who in the World" since the 1990s, he was President/CEO of the Wireless Communications Association from 1996 to 2008 in its worldwide advocacy to create a wireless broadband industry.

He holds law degrees from Yale Law School and the University of Chicago School of Law, and a history degree from Cornell University, where he was a student newspaper editor, rowing team member, heavyweight boxing champion, and a Golden Gloves regional finalist. In 1987, he authored "Spiked: How Chain Management Corrupted America's Oldest Newspaper," a case study of changes affecting the news industry. He has been widely published in the general media, and in specialty publications addressing policy and technical issues.

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Mark Tokarski
5.0 out of 5 stars Pulling back the curtain on Obama
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2015
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"Conformity" is the difficulty in maintaining our own beliefs in the face of others. Andrew Kreig has written a counterintuitive and highly skeptical book about Obama even as he lives and trucks among American journalists in Washington. It's a heavily patrolled conformist environment. How long before he is pushed to the margins, his phone calls unanswered, his entrance to a room greeted by sympathetic eyes?

I have long maintained that prior to election of our presidents, they are selected. But in 2008, after eight years of George W. Bush, I was fatigued. I turned off my pilot light and fell into the wishing well of the hope and change. I saw the events in Grant Park in November of 2008 as a groundswell of populism, maybe even an uprising.

Within weeks, Obama had appointed Geithner to Treasury, signaling "no change" to Wall Street. Reappointment of Robert Gates at Defense signaled "no hope" to those parts of the world suffering under U.S. military attack. I came to my senses. Another president had been selected.

Andrew Krieg's Presidential Puppetry is the beginning of a counter-history - after Obama's presidency the usual suspects will line up to write 'thoughtful' books about his eight years. They will miss every important detail, as they are paid to do. They will hone his profile for Mt. Rushmore.

But Obama is as Ralph Nader described him shortly after assuming office, a "con man." Kreig has dug into his murky past, his mother's stint in Indonesia during the massacre of the 60's that left as many as a million corpses. What was she doing there, really? His academic records are hidden from view. His State Department passport records were hacked, most likely by his own agents. The man has Intelligence Operative written all over him.

His birth certificate never mattered to me, but I was curious why the Tea Party appeared on the scene as it did. Kreig discusses such AstroTurf phenomenon with clarity. It is perception management, nothing more. Such wild-eyed right-wing opposition to Obama is "political cover," allowing him to carry forth with the NeoCon agenda as we discuss trivia.

Presidential Puppetry came along too late for me, I could have used it in 2008, before The One took hold of my senses.

Kreig also does a good job of undressing the charlatan Mitt Romney. He discusses Joe Biden, Benghazi, Rove and Petraeus. It's all interesting. He brings intelligent skepticism. The bibliography alone is worth the price, a rich trove of resources.

Highly recommended.
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Russ
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2014
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Great read! Buy or steal this book...read it 2x including the end notes. Accomplished author Andrew Kreig, a Golden Glove boxer, like deceased Watergate Judge John Sirica, knows you never deal with anyone in D.C. without first delivering the sting of a left jab or right cross. His research identifies the Presidential puppets, puppeteers and the strings that connect them. Romney the Mormon church and 1%'ers that didn't get in on the Bush/Cheney looting of the US Treasury surplus, 9-11 and their $30 billion+ unaccounted for pallets of cash to 'rebuild Iraq' (well maybe the House of Saud counted it to buy more weapon systems and US pols)... Obama the Chicago Pritzker family and the moguls in media disinformation...All contenders kneel to the instructions of the Bilderberger Group, Council on Foreign Relations and Trilateral Commission as enforced by the CIA, FBI, military intelligence and academic operatives...in effect, US elections are rigged to achieve a pre-determined agenda, with opponents prosecuted by the US Injustice Dept. in search of a crime and whistleblowers held hostage in fear for their families lives...federal agencies buying millions of rounds of ammo and cops gunning down innocent unarmed young men... a totalitarian state, the US of Murder Inc., America today is living the legacy of the JFK coup d'état and the fraudulent appointment of a President in 2000 by the Supreme Court.
Mr. Kreig states there is hope for a change to integrity in the justice system and accountability in the electoral process and actions of the executive and legislative branches of government. Individual citizens must take an active role in a democracy or lose it.
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." - Winston Churchill
Note: In chapter 5, researching the Obama-Dunham family, the author references the analysis of a conservative Boston U. professor, Dr. Angelo Codevilla, in respect to other, more liberal, biographers conclusions that the entire family was very much a part of national security, banking and intelligence related to CIA operations in Asia, Indonesia and Pakistan. The prof's Claremont Inst. publication, The Chosen One, was removed from the author's end notes, but Mr. Kreig quotes Dr. Codevilla as writing that the entire family did "seem to have been well connected, body and soul, with the U.S. government's then-extensive and well-financed trans-public-private influence operations." Also, get "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" for more on the Puppet Masters!
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Catherine
5.0 out of 5 stars An Essential Read
Reviewed in Canada on November 16, 2020
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Presidential Puppetry is as fresh and cutting-edge today as the day it was printed. The 139 pages of bibliography, notes and sources give testament to the exceptionally eclectic research and insight. Andrew Kreig is a genius at connecting the dots.
Given the current unprecedented Trump/Biden fiasco, Andrew Kreig proves the players change but the puppetry games are the same; now even more so.
In asking Andrew Kreig about what “Puppetry” has transpired in the current administration, he responded; “There are, of course, many current applications of the documented but still little known “Puppetry” revelations showing how hidden hands helped propel top American officials to power, while of course beholden to their sponsors.”
“One obvious example is current U.S. Attorney Gen. William Barr, whose first career as a CIA officer helping U.S. China envoy and future CIA Director and President George H. W. Bush fits a pattern of deep intrigue under the color of law extending from the eras of JFK assassination and Iran-Contra cover-ups right to present times.”
“As for President Trump, who has clearly benefited from Barr’s repeated interference into normal Justice Department and other legal probes? It’s too soon to tell, except in that vague apparatus known as “the court of public opinion.” But clearly Trump’s path to success has been different than that of his predecessors but has also been at least as filled with hidden alliances. These include organized crime figures linked to his mentor and former attorney Roy Cohn and instrumental to Trump’s early successes in construction and casinos and, more recently, mob figures and foreign potentates linked to Trump’s reincarnation two decades ago from financial collapse into his entertainment and political successes. The world must await the financial and witness disclosures being kept under tight wraps as of this review. But the “Puppetry” perspective makes one realize that all things are possible in politics, and not necessarily for the good and certainly not for public discourse except for those who want to understand “the news” and not simply watch what’s served up for promotion. “
Presidential Puppetry is a non-partisan well researched analysis that should be required versus “recommended” reading in every university poli-sci department.
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Dr. H.
5.0 out of 5 stars Ein Weckruf
Reviewed in Germany on November 26, 2013
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Ein ganz aktuelles Buch - zum NSA Skandal passend - das jedoch bereits lange vor den NSA Enthüllungen beginnt und den Leser erschaudern läßt.

Man ahnte schon, daß es schlimm ist; das totalitäre Ausmaß dessen, was seit etwa 50 Jahren in Amerika passiert, nimmt Einem aber dennoch erst einmal den Atem, weil es noch viel schlimmer ist.

In akribischer Kleinarbeit wurden vom Journalisten und Rechtsanwalt Andrew Kreig über 1000 Quellen zusammengestellt und ausgewertet. Dieser Quellennachweis ist insbesondere auf Kindle eine zusätzliche Hilfe und recht bequem, weil man mit einem Klick zum entsprechenden Zeitungsartikel oder Youtube Video gelangt.

Es geht um die genaue Aufarbeitung des Lebens der beiden Präsidenten Bush, Obama, sowie Präsidentschaftskandidaten wie Mitt Romney und einiger weiterer Personen, der gerade zu Ende gehenden Zeitgeschichte, sowie der Hauptfrage, wer hier eigentlich die Puppenspieler sind und die Fäden in den Händen halten.

Viele Fakten sind an sich nicht neu, jedoch im Zusammenhang erzählt, eröffnen sie gänzlich neue Einsichten.

Wußten Sie zum Beispiel, daß die Familie Bush fleißig Hitler gesponsert hat? Der Zweck war Kriegsgewinn, wobei der Kriegsgewinn faktisch der rote Faden ist, der hinter sehr vielen militärischen Aktionen der USA steht.

Wußten Sie, daß Obama eigentlich ein CIA Zögling ist und fast seine gesamte Familie ebenfalls für die CIA gearbeitet hat? Sein Lebenslauf wurde absichtlich an vielen Stellen verschleiert um seine Wählbarkeit zu ermöglichen.

Wußten Sie, daß die Anthrax Attentate kurz nach dem 9/11 auf interne Machenschaften der Bush Administration zurückzuführen sind? Es wurde dafür ein Sündenbock gesucht, gefunden und erstaunlicherweise ist er schnell gestorben – nur nicht freiwillig. Der Zweck der Anthrax Attentate war die Einführung des „Patriot Act“, der die globale Überwachung durch die NSA und ihrer Helfershelfer in ihrer Totalität überhaupt erst ermöglich hat.

Wußten Sie, daß sich sehr viele hochrangige Personen an den Überwachungsmaßnahmen, wie z.B. den Durchsuchungsmaschinen an den Flughäfen schamlos bereichern? Ebenso wie durch Bereitstellung der Maschinen zur Stimmabgabe, deren Software und Auswertung? De facto haben US-Amerikanische Wahlbeobachter keine Chance mehr diesen Betrug aufzudecken. Die Berichtserstattung über die o.g. Fakten wurde massivst unterdrückt, dank der Tatsache, daß die meisten Zeitungen und Fernsehanstalten in privaten Händen sind, eben den Puppenspielern gehören.

Die ausufernde und totalitäre Beobachtung dient schon lange nicht primär der Terrorismusabwehr, sondern der Unterdrückung der freien Meinungsäußerung mit dem Ziel eines kollektiven Gewahrsams, um die Machtgelüste und Bereicherung von Wenigen durch die Unterdrückung von Vielen zu gewährleisten. Erinnert uns das an etwas? Ja leider an das Nazi- und Stasi Deutschland.

Den Puppenspielern ist es übrigens nicht sonderlich wichtig, wer die Wahlen gewinnt, denn sie haben ihre Marionetten in ausreichender Zahl in beiden Lagern (Demokraten und Republikanern gleichermaßen) auf das ihr Wohlergehen auf immer gesichert ist.

Dieses Buch sollte als Pflichtlektüre für alle Politiker dienen, um jetzt vielleicht doch noch endlich souverän zu handeln und dem totalitärem Faschismus made in USA Einhalt zu gebieten denn es könnte sehr bald zu spät sein.

Wenn die gewählten Volksvertreter nicht handeln, weil sie bereits zu den Puppen gehören oder schlicht korrupt sind, so ist es an den Menschen wieder einmal aufzustehen und für Freiheit, Gerechtigkeit und Brüderlichkeit zu kämpfen.
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S. Hirsch
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating Journey Into the Background Of US Politics
Reviewed in Germany on July 26, 2018
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A rare case of non-partisan investigative journalism at its best, you will find here much you have been missing in the mainstream media. Even if the main actors portrayed have left the political stage, it is fascinating and most instructive to learn about the casting process for the actors, how they are groomed by the various interest groups, how much the media image differs from the reality of the persons.

Based on solid and comprehensive research - well annotated - this book is no cheap shot at "those in Washington" but almost like an engineers manual to the political machine that pretends to be "of the people, by the people, for the people" but in reality is only serving the interests in the background, the rich and/or well connected. And if enough voters understand these mechanics - just maybe - there is hope for a reworking of this mechanism - to actually work for the benefit of the people as a whole.
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