Video captured by humanitarian aid workers in the weeks since Obama’s visit documents a series of targeted bombings carried out by government warplanes on civilian villages.

Multiple news reports and first hand accounts further indicate that Burmese security forces associated with the government have harassed and beaten peaceful protestors who advocate an end to the ethnic violence.

Burmese activists and others maintain that Obama’s November trip empowered the ruling regime of Burmese President Thein Sein, which has imprisoned hundreds of political opponents while pro-government militias carry out ethnic massacres.

“The president’s trip wasn’t helpful” for human rights activists, said U.S. Campaign for Burma’s Myra Dahgaypaw, who fled the ethnic cleansing in Burma’s northern Karen State. “It was just a few hours trip and a one-time inspirational speech. That doesn’t do anything for this stubborn regime.”

“Less than two months after his historic visit to Burma, the Burmese army under Thein Sein has stepped up its assault on the Kachin Independence Organization/Army,” said Dahgaypaw, who helped organize a Jan. 12 rally outside the State Department.

“I’m so disappointed with the Obama administration for not having political will and protect the rights of the people of Burma,” she said. “They don’t want to pressure the Burmese regime because they don’t want to lose their engagement leverage.”

Video obtained by the Washington Free Beacon from aid workers on the ground in Burma suggest the government has launched what experts say is an unprecedented bombing campaign in civilian areas.

“There’s no question the violence has spiked in the Kachin state [in Northern Burma] since Obama’s visit,” said the director of the Free Burma Rangers (FBR), who is currently embedded in Burma and asked that his name be withheld for fear of government reprisals.

“After [Obama] visited there was even more” violence, he said. “Very measurably the attacks against the Kachin increased after he left.”

Video taken by the FBR over several days in late December depict multiple planes releasing bombs on villages located around Burma’s Lajaiyang area near the city of Laiza.

Multiple civilians including children have been killed by the ongoing attacks, according to news reports and the FBR.

Although the government has officially denied responsibility for the shelling, the FBR suggested that the aircrafts are most likely government owned.

“I’ve rarely seen aircraft because they have few working aircraft,” said the FBR’s director. “The use of aircraft now is unprecedented in intensity and frequency.”

Activist Dahgaypaw criticized the Obama administration for failing to engage with Burma’s diverse ethnic minorities.

“If they [the Obama administration] genuinely want to protect the people, they should step up and condemn Burma’s army to stop the military assault in Kachin State now,” she said. “They should reassess their economic and diplomatic ties with Burma and they should reconsider their military-to-military ties.”

“Most importantly they should start to recognize the … minority leaders,” Dahgaypaw said. “They should communicate with the ethnic leaders openly like they do with the Burmese regime. Now it looks like they don’t value the ethnic minorities and thus, they don’t talk to the ethnic leaders.”

Ongoing violence is not the only concern U.S. leaders have regarding Burma.

Former Sen. Richard Lugar (R., Ind.) has warned that the Burmese government may be trying to acquire equipment that could be used to enrich uranium, the chief component in a nuclear weapon.

Lugar requested in a letter sent just days after Obama’s Burma trip that President Sein explain exactly what the government’s intentions are in trying to acquire such technology.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57 percent of Likely U.S. Voters feel that the recent embassy protests largely have been planned in advance. Just 23 percent think they were spontaneous reactions to the anti-Islamic video. Nineteen percent (19 percent) are not sure.

Rasmussen continued:

Eighty-five percent (85 percent) of all voters believe it is likely that terrorists were involved in the killing of Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Libya, with 65 percent who think it is Very Likely. Just six percent (6 percent) say terrorist involvement in the ambassador’s murder is not very or Not At All Likely.

The percentage of those who think the attack was pre-planned is even higher among those who have served in the military. Sixty-seven percent of military veterans think that the attack was pre-planned, as opposed to 54 percent of civilians.

Rasmussen wrote:

The Obama administration has insisted that the Middle East protests, which began on September 11, the day the U.S. ambassador to Libya was murdered, are not directed against the U.S. government but are largely due to the anti-Islamic video. The government last week spent $70,000 in Pakistan to run a television ad featuring President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denouncing the video in hopes of limiting protests there.

Many Americans sense a tension between American values and attempts to mollify the hurt “religious feelings” of Muslims.

“(Seventy-two percent) of U.S. voters believe it is more important for the United States to guarantee freedom of speech [than] it is for America to make sure that nothing is done to offend other nations and cultures,” Rasmussen wrote.

The survey was conducted from September 21 to 22 and has a sampling error of +/- 3 percentage points.

“I wept in the street when this guy won [in 2008], but he hasn’t gotten the job done,” one protester told an Obama supporter outside of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

An Occupy protester from Atlanta who goes by the name D-Rocket turned up in Charlotte after sitting out the Republican National Convention last week. He said that the protest’s presence at the DNC was even more important since Obama has failed to carry out many of the policies he advocated on the campaign trail in 2008.

“Even the healthcare bill was a massive kickback to pharmaceutical and insurance companies,” he said. “The one that eventually got passed is essentially a requirement that everybody purchase health insurance … I’m not very happy with it.”

Mr. Rocket roamed the streets of Charlotte with a life-size replica of a Reaper drone that Obama has used to kill terrorists, including American-born Anwar al-Awlaki. Obama has made his counter-terrorist operations the center of his foreign policy credentials to demonstrate his toughness to the American people. However, that strategy received a sour response from protesters in Charlotte, who decried the high civilian toll drones have taken in Afghanistan.

The crowd carried a more militant attitude than D-Rocket into the soaked, barren, caged-in “Free Speech zone” that Democrats and the city of Charlotte constructed for the protesters. The crowd chanted “arrest Obama” and held signs that called the president a “fucking traitor” as they assembled outside of the zone surrounded by dozens of bicycle cops. Several police helicopters circled overhead.

“Thanks a lot Gestapo,” a protester snarled at a police officer as he joined his compatriots.

“There’s not been a lot of progress,” D-Rocket said.

The Charlotte Observer reports:

The events are significant to Charlotte because protest groups are planning to converge on the city en masse hoping to cast media attention on issues ranging from economic inequality and war to the environment.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers helping provide security for the NATO summit, including Chief Rodney Monroe, got a lesson Sunday on what might happen at the DNC. They gathered in a downtown park with gas masks but did not appear to be directly involved in the late afternoon standoff.

Charlotte Deputy Chief Harold Medlock also attended and said Sunday that the protest groups present in Chicago are “a pretty good representation” of who will demonstrate here.

The violent response to the NATO summit is only the latest in a series of ominous signs for the Obama camp as the Democratic Convention approaches.

The Romney campaign is closing in on Obama’s cash advantage, slimming Romney’s financing deficit from 12-1 to 2-1. Romney is also favored 51 percent over Obama’s 43 percent in North Carolina, according to last week’s Rasmussen poll of the state.

Obama has recently pushed against North Carolina values, when he hailed same-sex marriage the day after a vote for an amendment to the state’s constitution banned it.

“Mic check! Slow down! Slow down!” organizers yelled as thousands of protestors spilled into the streets, sending the city into gridlock.

Due to the scattered and disorganized nature of the protest, police cruisers and uniformed officers were forced to accompany the marchers, who had gathered without getting the proper permits from city authorities.

The largely dormant Occupy Movement sprung into action in celebration of May Day, a holiday originally established to honor the beginning of spring but that has long been co-opted by left wing radicals and unions who aim to highlight what they describe as the average worker’s plight.

Occupy Wall Street organizers had planned to use May Day as a proxy for their fledgling movement, which has been plagued by apathy and waning public interest in recent months after the majority of protestors across the country were banned from sleeping in the parks and streets where they had gathered.

During the first of several marches scheduled throughout the day, protestors verbally berated police officers and other passersby who were attempting to return to their offices from lunch.

“This is what a police state looks like,” yelled one protestor with multiple facial piercings.

“You’re making things worse,” said another, who accused officers of trying to stoke tensions with the marchers.

“Arrest the bankers,” screamed another gaggle of protestors who were strumming ukuleles and weathered acoustic guitars.

The protesters, however, seemed to have only a vague idea of their mission, alternately decrying America as being “unfair” and bashing President Obama for capitulating to Wall Street’s interests.

Obama is “horrible” on education, said one elderly protester, who identified herself as a schoolteacher from Long Island. “I no longer put my hopes there. I wish I could but I can’t.”

The teacher said that protesters aim to foment global change.

“We also have to keep our eye on the big prize, which is changing the whole thing,” she said. She did not clarify what the “big prize” or the “whole thing” are exactly.

She also railed against U.S. military spending and even America’s alliance with Israel, which she claimed was harming the country’s credibility in the region and draining taxpayer coffers.

“F—k your unpaid internships,” declared another sign held by a 20-something woman in what appeared to be a designer outfit.

“Eat the Rich, Smash the State,” added another group of men purporting to be anarchists.

Protesters have promised to continue clogging city streets and parks throughout the day. The events will supposedly culminate in an after-hours party set to be held at an undisclosed location in the city’s financial district.

President Obama is kicking off his three-day visit to California in the Southland. His first fundraiser at the Holmby Hills home of soap opera producer Bradley Bell is the first of six campaign events to raise serious cash. To attend an intimate party with the Foo Fighters performing, tickets were up to $38,000 per person.

PROTESTER: He should be out here with the people, not in that big fancy house.

ANCHOR: Occupy protesters who gathered near the President’s hotel say he is catering to the 1 percent to try to get reelected.

PROTESTER: Get out of these fund-raisers and get back to the streets. Remember where you came from. Remember who you said you’re going to serve. And it is not the people you’re having dinner with tonight.

ANCHOR: Also at the fundraiser, an offical announcement that L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will be Chairman of the 2012 Democratic National Convention that will nominate President Obama for a second term. As always, the president’s motorcade presents a bit of a traffic mess.

“An individual inside the country confirmed this morning that Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo email are no longer available. Ditto for Facebook. So far, the government has not made any announcement about the service interruption… the Iranian noted that the regime has cut off the Internet during protests and that the buzz on the streets is that anti-government protests are planned for Saturday. February 11 marks the anniversary of Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution.”