OBAMA AND HIS SAUDIS
PAYMASTERS… Did he serve them well?
Malia,
Michelle, Barack and the College Admissions Scandal https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/03/malia-michelle-barack-and-college.html
Michelle was the next to attend Harvard, in her case Harvard
Law School. “Told by counselors that her SAT scores and her grades weren’t good
enough for an Ivy League school,” writes Christopher Andersen in Barack and
Michelle, “Michelle applied to Princeton and Harvard anyway.”
GOOGLE WHAT THE OBOMB DID FOR HIS SAUDIS
PAYMASTERS
Barack Obama’s back door, however, was unique to him. Before
prosecutors send some of the dimmer Hollywood stars to the slammer for their
dimness, they might want to ask just how much influence a Saudi billionaire
peddled to get Obama into Harvard.
“Of course,
one of the main reasons the nation is now “divided, resentful and angry”
is because race-baiting, Islamist, class warrior Barack Hussein
Obama was president for eight long years." MATTHEW VADUM
THE OBAMA MARXIST-MUSLIM
BANKSTER-FUNDED THIRD TERM for life:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/obamas-marxism-still-hankering-for.html
"Cold War historian Paul Kengor
goes deeply into Obama's communist background in an article in
American Spectator, "Our First Red Diaper Baby President," and in an
excellent Mark Levin interview. Another Kengor article describes the Chicago communists whose
younger generation include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and
Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into
power." Karin
McQuillan
*
"We know
that Obama and his inner circle have set up a war room in his D.C.
home to plan
and execute resistance to the Trump administration and his legislative
agenda.
None of these people care about the American people, or the fact that
Trump won
the election because millions of people voted for him."
Patricia McCarthy / AMERICAN THINKER.com
Attorney
General Barr Refuses to Release 9/11 Documents to Families of the Victims
The move comes after President Donald
Trump promised to help families, who accuse Saudi Arabia of complicity in the
attacks. Barr says he cannot even explain why the material must stay secret
without putting national security at risk.
April 15, 12:35
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Months after President Donald Trump promised to open FBI files
to help families of the 9/11 victims in a civil lawsuit against the Saudi
government, the Justice Department has doubled down on its claim that the
information is a state secret.
In a series of filings just before a midnight court deadline on
Monday, the attorney general, William Barr; the acting director of national
intelligence, Richard Grenell; and other senior officials insisted to a federal
judge in the civil case that further disclosures about Saudi connections to the
9/11 plot would imperil national security.
But the administration insisted in court filings that even its
justification for that secrecy needed to remain secret. Four statements to the
court by FBI and Justice Department officials were filed under seal so they
could not be seen by the public. An additional five, including one from the
CIA, were shared only with the judge and cannot be read even by the plaintiffs’
lawyers.
Barr insisted to the court that public discussion of the issue
“would reveal information that could cause the very harms my assertion of the
state secrets privilege is intended to prevent.”
What the various security agencies are trying to hide remains a
mystery.
Since the plaintiffs filed their lawsuit in federal district
court in New York in 2017, their primary focus has been on the relationship
between the hijackers and relatively low-level Saudi officials. Those include
at least two Saudis who crossed paths in Southern California with the first two
Al Qaeda operatives who were sent to the United States by Osama bin Laden in
January 2000.
Yet the broad outlines of the hijackers’ connections to those
two Saudi officials — a diplomat at the kingdom’s Los Angeles consulate and a
suspected Saudi spy living as an exchange student in San Diego — have been
publicly known for years. The FBI shared thousands of
pages of its files on the plot with the bipartisan 9/11 Commission, which
explored them in its 2004 report.
“The extraordinary lengths that they’re going to here suggest
that there must be some deep, dark secret that they’re still trying very hard
to hide after almost 20 years,” said a lawyer for the families, Steven Pounian.
“But who are they protecting? Something
might be a Saudi government secret. But how can these be secrets that still
need to be kept from the American people after all this time?”
The Justice Department has declassified some information about
the Saudi role in 9/11 and shared it with lawyers for the plaintiffs under a
protective order that allows them to read it but not make it public. But the
department has not asked the lawyers to obtain security clearances to view
other material, as is fairly common in national security cases involving
American and foreign citizens whose constitutional rights are at issue.
The chorus of senior national security officials who wrote in
support of the Trump administration’s secrets claim appeared to respond in part
to Justice Department guidelines set down by the Obama administration in 2009.
Those rules were intended to restrain overly aggressive use of the privilege,
which the administration of George W. Bush had often cited after 9/11 to block
legal challenges to its policies on torture, extraordinary rendition and
warrantless surveillance.
Barr cited those more restrictive guidelines in his statement to
the district court, noting that they prohibited the government from asserting a
state secrets claim in order to conceal illegalities or potential
embarrassment. He assured the magistrate judge in the case, Sarah Netburn, that
those guidelines had been met.
At a ceremonial gathering at the White House last Sept. 11,
representatives of the families of those killed in the attacks repeatedly asked
Trump for fuller access to the FBI’s secret files in the case. According to
more than a half-dozen people who were at the meeting, he assured several of
them he would help.
“He looked us in the eye on 9/11, he shook our hands in the
White House and said, ‘I’m going to help you — it’s done,’” recalled one of
those present, Brett Eagleson, a banker whose father was killed in the World
Trade Center. “I think the 9/11 families have lost all hope that the president
is going to step up and do the right thing. He’s too beholden to the Saudis.”
Operation Encore and the Saudi Connection: A
Secret History of the 9/11 Investigation
Behind the
scenes, a small team of FBI agents spent years trying to solve a stubborn
mystery — whether officials from Saudi Arabia, one of Washington’s closest
allies, were involved in the worst terror attack in U.S. history.
The White House press office did not immediately respond
Wednesday to a request for comment on the families’ characterizations of the
meeting. One day after that encounter, Justice Department officials agreed to
release the name of one mid-level Saudi religious official who had been tied to
the case in an FBI document that had been partially declassified earlier. At
the same time, however, Barr asserted the state secrets privilege to protect
other FBI documents sought by the families. The latest flurry of statements
supporting that claim responded to challenges from the plaintiffs.
Although the close alliance between the United States and the
Saudi kingdom has survived countless moments of tension, it has frayed in
recent months in ways that could prove helpful to plaintiffs in the 9/11
lawsuit.
In recent weeks, Republican senators
from states that have been hard hit by the collapse of world oil prices have
criticized the Saudi government with growing intensity. On March 25, before the
Trump administration negotiated a cut in Saudi oil production, Sen.
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska cited the law
under which the 9/11 families were allowed to sue the Saudi government as one
of the levers of pressure that the United States could use if the kingdom did
not take account of American concerns.
In a letter on Monday, three other influential senators asked
the Justice Department’s inspector general to examine in depth why the FBI has
refused to disclose more information about Saudi connections to the plot in
response to a subpoena filed by the 9/11 families in 2018.
Those senators, Charles
Grassley, the Iowa Republican, and two
Democrats, minority leader Charles
Schumer of New York and Richard
Blumenthal of Connecticut, cited a
recent investigative
report by ProPublica and The New York Times
Magazine that raised new questions about the FBI’s inquiry into the Saudi role
in the attacks.
“The September 11 attacks represent a singular and defining
tragedy in the history of our Nation,” the senators wrote to the Justice
Department inspector general, Michael Horowitz. “Nearly 20 years later, the
9/11 families and the American public still have not received the full and
transparent accounting of the potential sources of support for those attacks to
which they are entitled.”
US sends 3,000 more
troops to defend Saudi monarchy
The Pentagon confirmed Friday that
3,000 more US troops are being deployed to Saudi Arabia to defend the
blood-soaked monarchy led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and prepare for
war against Iran.
The deployment includes two fighter
squadrons, one Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW), two more Patriot missile
batteries, and one Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD).
According to a Pentagon statement
Friday, the US Secretary of Defense phoned Crown Prince bin Salman (who also
holds the post of Saudi minister of defense) to inform him of the coming
reinforcements, which he said were meant “to assure and enhance the defense of
Saudi Arabia.”
The Pentagon also acknowledged that
the latest escalation brings the number of additional troops sent into the
Persian Gulf region since May to 14,000. They have been accompanied by an
armada of US warships and a B-52-led bomber task force. The Pentagon has also
announced that an aircraft carrier-led battle group will remain in the Persian
Gulf.
US soldiers deployed in the Middle
East (U.S. Army by 1st Lt. Jesse Glenn)
While initiated as a supposed
response to unspecified threats from Iran, the US buildup in the Persian Gulf
region has constituted from its outset a military provocation and preparation
for a war of aggression. This military buildup has accompanied Washington’s
so-called “maximum pressure” campaign of sweeping economic sanctions that are tantamount
to a state of war. The aim, as the Trump administration has stated publicly, is
to drive Iranian oil exports down to zero. By depriving Iran of its principal
source of export income, Washington hopes to starve the Iranian people into
submission and pave the way to regime change, bringing to power a US puppet
regime in Tehran.
The latest military buildup was
announced in the immediate aftermath of an attack on an Iranian tanker in the
Red Sea, about 60 miles from the Saudi port of Jeddah.
The National Iranian Tanker Co.
reported that its oil tanker, the Sabiti, was struck twice by explosives early
Friday morning, leaving two holes in the vessel and causing a brief oil spill
into the Red Sea.
While Iranian state news media blamed
the damage on missile attacks, a spokesman for the company told the Wall Street Journal that the
company was not sure of the cause.
Some security analysts have suggested
that the fairly minor damage to the vessel could have been caused by limpet
mines. Such mines were apparently used last June when two tankers—one Japanese
and one Norwegian-owned—were hit by explosions in the Sea of Oman. At the time,
Washington blamed the attacks on Iran, without providing any evidence. Tehran
denied the charge, saying that it sent teams to rescue crew member of the
damaged tankers.
The Iranian Students News Agency
(ISNA) quoted an unnamed Iranian government official as stating that the
Iranian tanker had been the victim of a “terrorist attack.”
“Examination of the details and
perpetrators of this dangerous action continues and will be announced after
reaching the result,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said.
The National Iranian Tanker Co.
issued a statement saying that there was no evidence that Saudi Arabia was
behind the attack.
The incident raised the specter of an
escalating tanker war that could disrupt shipping through the strategic Strait
of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the world’s oil supply flows. News of
the attack sent crude oil prices spiking by 2 percent.
In addition to the June attacks on
the tankers in the Gulf of Oman, in July British commandos, acting on a request
from Washington, stormed an Iranian super tanker, the Grace 1, in waters off
the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. In apparent retaliation, Iranian
Revolutionary Guards seized the British-flagged Stena Impero for what Tehran
charged were violations of international maritime regulations as it passed
through the Strait of Hormuz. Both tankers were subsequently released.
Earlier this week, US Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo issued a statement charging that the Iranian super tanker,
renamed the Adrian Darya 1, had offloaded its oil in Syria in violation of
European Union sanctions and a pledge made by Tehran to the UK at the time of
the vessel’s release. He demanded provocatively that “EU members should condemn
this action, uphold the rule of law, and hold Iran accountable.”
The Trump administration, which in
May of last year unilaterally and illegally abrogated the 2015 nuclear
agreement between Tehran and the major powers has been pressuring the European
signatories to the deal—Germany, France and the UK—to follow suit.
While the respective governments of
the three countries have insisted that they still support the nuclear
agreement, they have repeatedly bowed to Washington’s war drive, while failing
to take any significant actions to counter the effects of the US “maximum
pressure” campaign and deliver to Tehran the sanctions relief and economic
normalization that it was promised in exchange for curtailing its nuclear
program.
Most recently, the three European
governments backed Washington in blaming Iran for a September 14 attack on
Saudi oil facilities that temporarily shut down half of the kingdom’s oil
production and sent crude prices spiraling by 20 percent—again without
providing a shred of proof.
Washington is seeking to topple the
Iranian regime or bully it into accepting complete subordination to US
imperialist predatory interests in the energy-rich and geostrategically vital
Middle East.
The US sanctions regime and military
buildup have placed the entire region on a hair trigger for the outbreak of a
catastrophic war that could engulf not only the Middle East, but the entire
planet.
All of the regimes involved in the
escalating conflict are gripped by crises that make the drive to war all the
more explosive.
The impact of the sanctions on Iran’s
economy has been devastating. It is estimated that oil exports last month fell
to just 400,000 barrels per day (b/d), compared to 1.95 million b/d in
September 2018. Left with little means of combating spiraling inflation and
growing unemployment, Iran’s bourgeois-clerical regime is caught between
intense pressure from imperialism on the one hand, and the growth of social
opposition among Iranian workers and poor on the other.
The Saudi monarchy is confronting the
debacle of its four-year-old and near genocidal war against the people of
Yemen, made possible by the weapons and logistical aid provided by Washington,
even as Prince bin Salman remains a global pariah for his ordering of the
grisly assassination of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year in
Istanbul.
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu,
incapable of forming a new government after two elections and confronting
criminal indictments, has grown increasingly concerned over the apparent lack
of appetite by the Persian Gulf Sunni monarchies for military confrontation
with Iran and Washington’s failure to carry out military strikes after the
downing of its drone in June and the attacks on the Saudi oil facilities last
month. Clearly, Tel Aviv, which has cast Iran as its strategic enemy, would
have a motive for attacking Iranian tankers in the hopes of provoking a
response that could lead to US military action.
And then there is Trump. He has
proclaimed his determination to halt the “endless wars” in the Middle East and
provoked a political firestorm by pulling back a relative handful of US troops
in Syria, allowing Turkey to launch a long-planned attack on the Pentagon’s
erstwhile proxy force, the Kurdish-dominated YPG militia.
Faced with an escalating political
crisis and growing social tensions within the US, along with an impeachment
investigation by the Democrats in Congress that is focused entirely on the
national security concerns of the CIA and the Pentagon, he has ample motive for
launching a new war.
While the Democrats’ exclusive focus
on Trump’s failure to pursue a sufficiently bellicose policy against Russia and
prosecute the war for regime change in Syria has allowed the US president to
absurdly posture as an opponent of war, the reality is that he has overseen a
staggering increase in military spending designed to prepare for “great power”
confrontations, particularly with China.
Meanwhile, whatever his political
pretense, Trump has done nothing to end any of the wars in the Middle East.
While he has ordered US troops to pull back, allowing the Turkish invasion,
none of them have been withdrawn from Syria.
With the latest buildup of US forces
in Saudi Arabia, Washington is preparing, behind the backs of the working class,
to launch a catastrophic military conflict with Iran. The most urgent task
posed by these developments is the building of a global antiwar movement led by
the working class. This movement must be armed with a socialist and
internationalist program to unify working people in the United States, Europe
and the Middle East in a common struggle against imperialist war and its
source, the capitalist system.
TRUMP AND
THE MURDERING 9-11 MUSLIM SAUDIS…
Why is the Swamp
Keeper and his family of parasites up their ar$es??
WHAT WILL TRUMP AND HIS
PARASITIC FAMILY DO FOR MONEY???
JUST ASK THE SAUDIS!
JOHN DEAN: Not so far. This has been right by the letter of the special counsel’s
charter. He’s released the document. What I’m looking for is relief and
understanding that there’s no witting or unwitting likelihood that the
President is an agent of Russia. That’s when I’ll feel comfortable, and no
evidence even hints at that. We don’t have that yet. We’re still in the process
of unfolding the report to look at it. And its, as I say, if [Attornery General
William Barr] honors his word, we’ll know more soon.
“Our entire crony capitalist system,
Democrat and
Republican alike, has become a
kleptocracy
approaching par with third-world
hell-holes. This
is the way a great country is raided
by its elite.” ---
- Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER
PRESIDENT of the
UNITED STATES DONALD TRUMP: Pathological liar, swindler, con man, huckster,
golfing cheat, charity foundation fraudster, tax evader, adulterer, porn whore
chaser and servant of the Saudis dictators
THE TRUMP FAMILY FOUNDATION SLUSH FUND…. Will they see jail?
VISUALIZE REVOLUTION!.... We know where they live!
“Underwood is a Democrat and is seeking millions of dollars in
penalties. She wants Trump and his eldest children barred from running other
charities.”
Opinion: Trump And Pompeo Have Enabled A Saudi Cover-Up Of
The Khashoggi Killing
October
2, 201911:45 AM ET
AARON DAVID MILLER
RICHARD SOKOLSKY
In the
weeks following the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, President Trump
spent more time praising Saudi Arabia as a very important ally than he did
reacting to the killing.
Hasan
Jamali/AP
Aaron David Miller
(@aarondmiller2) is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace and a former State Department Middle East analyst, adviser and negotiator
in Republican and Democratic administrations. He is the author most recently of
the End of
Greatness: Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President.
Richard Sokolsky, a nonresident
senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, worked in the
State Department for six different administrations and was a member of the
secretary of state's Office of Policy Planning from 2005 to 2015.
It has been a year since Saudi journalist
and Washington Post columnist
Jamal Khashoggi entered Saudi Arabia's Consulate in Istanbul where he was slain
and dismembered. There is still no objective or comprehensive Saudi or American
accounting of what occurred, let alone any real accountability.
The Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman's admission in a recent CBS interview that
he takes "full responsibility," while denying foreknowledge of the
killing or that he ordered it, sweeps under the rug the lengths to which the
Saudis have gone to obscure the truth about their involvement in the killing
and cover-up.
The Saudi campaign of obfuscation, denial and
cover-up would never have gotten off the ground had it not been for the Trump
administration's support over the past year. The president and Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo not only refused to distance themselves from the crown
prince, known by his initials MBS, but also actively worked to relegitimize
him. The Saudis killed Khashoggi but Trump acquiesced in the cover-up and
worked hard to protect the U.S.-Saudi relationship and soften the crown
prince's pariah status. In short, without Trump, the attempted makeover — such
as it is — would not have been possible.
The Saudis killed Khashoggi but Trump
acquiesced in the cover-up and worked hard to protect the U.S.-Saudi
relationship and soften the crown prince's pariah status.
Weak
administration response
The administration's weak and feckless
response to Khashoggi's killing was foreshadowed a year before it occurred. In
May 2017, in an unusual break with precedent, Trump visited Saudi Arabia on his
inaugural presidential trip; gave his son-in-law the authority to manage the
MBS file, which he did with the utmost secrecy; and made it unmistakably clear
that Saudi money, oil, arm purchases and support for the administration's
anti-Iranian and pro-Israeli policies would elevate the U.S.-Saudi
"special relationship" to a new level.
Predictably, therefore, the
administration's reaction to Khashoggi's killing was shaped by a desire to
manage the damage and preserve the relationship. In the weeks following
Khashoggi's death, Trump spent more time praising Saudi Arabia as a very
important ally, especially as a purchaser of U.S. weapons and goods, than he did reacting to the killing. Trump
vowed to get to the bottom of the Khashoggi killing but focused more on
defending the crown prince, saying this was another example of
being "guilty before being proven innocent."
Those pledges to investigate and impose
accountability would continue to remain hollow. Over the past year, Trump and
Pompeo have neither criticized nor repudiated Saudi actions that have harmed
American interests in the Middle East. Two months after Khashoggi's death, the
administration, in what Pompeo described as an "initial step," imposed sanctions on
17 Saudi individuals implicated in the killing. But no others have been
forthcoming, and the visa restrictions that were imposed are meaningless
because none of the sanctioned Saudis would be
foolish enough to seek entry into the United States.
What's more, the administration
virtually ignored a congressional resolution imposing
sanctions on the Saudis for human rights abuses and vetoed another bipartisan
resolution that would have ended U.S. military assistance to Saudi Arabia's
inhumane military campaign in Yemen.
The Saudis opened a trial in January of
11 men implicated in the killing, but the proceedings have been slow and
secretive, leading the United Nations' top human rights expert to declare that
"the trial underway in Saudi Arabia will not deliver credible
accountability." Despite accusations that the crown prince's key adviser
Saud al-Qahtani was involved in the killing, he's still advising MBS, has not stood trial and
will likely escape punishment. A year later, there are still no reports of
convictions or serious punishment.
Legitimizing
Mohammed bin Salman
The Trump administration has not only
given the crown prince a pass on the Khashoggi killing, but it has also worked assiduously
to remove his pariah status and rehabilitate his global image. Barely two
months after the 2018 slaying, Trump was exchanging pleasantries with the crown prince at the
Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires and holding
out prospects of spending more time with him. Then this past June, at the G-20
in Osaka, Japan, Trump sang his praises while dodging questions about the
killing. "It's an honor to be with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, a
friend of mine, a man who has really done things in the last five years in
terms of opening up Saudi Arabia," Trump said.
And you can bet that when Saudi Arabia
hosts the G-20, scheduled to be held in its capital of Riyadh in November 2020,
the Trump administration will be smiling as its rehab project takes another
step in its desired direction.
What the
U.S. should have done
Trump has failed to impose any serious
costs or constraints on Saudi Arabia for the killing of a U.S. newspaper
columnist who resided in Virginia or for the kingdom's aggressive policies,
from Yemen to Qatar. In the wake of the Khashoggi killing, the administration
should have made it unmistakably clear, both publicly and privately, that it
expected a comprehensive and credible accounting and investigation. It should have suspended
high-level contacts and arms sales with the kingdom for a period of time. And
to make the point, the administration should have supported at least one
congressional resolution taking the Saudis to task, in addition to triggering
the Magnitsky Act, which would have required a U.S. investigation; a report to
Congress; and sanctions if warranted.
Back to
business as usual
The dark stain of the crown prince's
apparent involvement in Khashoggi's death will not fade easily. But for Trump
and Pompeo, it pales before the great expectations they still maintain for the
kingdom to confront and contain their common enemy, Iran, as well as support
the White House's plan for Middle East peace, defeat jihadists in the region
and keep the oil spigot open.
Most of these goals are illusory. Saudi
Arabia is a weak, fearful and unreliable ally. The kingdom has introduced
significant social and cultural reforms but has imposed new levels of
repression and authoritarianism. Its reckless policies toward Yemen and Qatar
have expanded, not contracted, opportunities for Iran, while the Saudi military
has demonstrated that, even after spending billions to buy America's most
sophisticated weapons, it still can't defend itself without American help.
Meanwhile, recent attacks on critical
Saudi oil facilities that the U.S. blames on Iran have helped rally more
American and international support for the kingdom.
When it comes to the U.S.-Saudi
relationship and the kingdom's callous reaction to Khashoggi's killing, the
president and his secretary of state have been derelict in their duty: They
have not only failed to advance American strategic interests but also
undermined America's values in the process.
The U.S. Military is Sending Thousands of Troops and Even B-1
Bombers into Saudi Arabia (To Counter Iran)
On October 6, around fifty U.S. commandos in northeastern Syria
tasked with hunting down ISIS forces were withdrawn from territory near the
Turkish border controlled by the Kurdish-Arab SDF faction.
The U.S. withdrawal was a prerequisite for a Turkish attack
against the SDF which subsequently took place. The remaining hundreds of U.S.
forces elsewhere in northeastern Syria were endangered in the crossfire and had
to be withdrawn a few days later.
The U.S. withdrawal was post-hoc justified on the basis that they
were no longer needed in the Middle East and it was time to “bring the troops
home.”
But in the weeks since, the United States has deployed over
3,000 more troops to the Middle East—including hundreds of National Guardsmen
in Syria, and thousands of soldiers and airmen deployed to Saudi Arabia.
While a companion article looks at the deployment of a
mechanized battalion to defend an oil field in southeastern Syria, this second
part looks at the rapid buildup of U.S. forces in the wealthy Kingdom in response
to intensifying clashes with Iran following the United State’s withdrawal from
a nuclear deal with Tehran.
Return to the Kingdom
The deployments to Saudi Arabia marks a dramatic turn around
from sixteen years earlier in 2003, when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
pulled out thousands of U.S. troops. Their presence had long been cited as a
factor radicalizing Muslims across the planet who objected to the presence of
foreign troops so close to the holy city of Mecca.
Apparently, these concerns have since faded, despite political
headwinds from a U.S. Congress angered by Saudi Arabia’s grisly murder of
journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its consulate in Istanbul.
The buildup has been prompted by Iranian harassment of shipping
in the Persian Gulf, the shootdown
of U.S. surveillance drone over the Persian Gulf in June, and a drone and
missile attack on Saudi oil refineries in September that was almost certainly
of Iranian origin but which Yemeni rebels took credit for.
First, following the loss of drones in June, that the Defense
Department announced it was doubling troop deployment to the Kingdom from 500
to 1,000 personnel.
Saudi Slavery
An Islamically-sanctioned barbarity continues.
November 8, 2019
Hugh Fitzgerald
As is well known, slavery was
formally abolished in Saudi Arabia as late as 1962, and then only after
terrific pressure had been applied to the Saudis by Western governments. And
today, when we speak of slavery in the Muslim world, we think of Mauritania
(with 600,000 slaves), as the report in the past hour discussed, Niger (600,000 slaves), Mali (200,000 slaves),
and Libya (where slave markets have opened in nine sites during the last two
years). Most of us assume that in Saudi Arabia, slavery is no longer tolerated.
But most of us are wrong.
Slavery may have been formally
abolished, but the cruel and savage treatment of foreign domestic workers, their
inability to free themselves from arduous work conditions because their
employers keep their passports and other documents, amount to slavery in all
but name.
A report on one group of
domestic slaves — Vietnamese women — by reporter Yen Duong, who interviewed
former workers who had made it back to Vietnam, was published last year in Al
Jazeera here:
Overworked, abused, hungry:
Vietnamese domestic workers in Saudi Arabia.
Women say they are forced to
work at least 18 hours a day, denied food, assaulted and refused the right to
return home.
Pham Thi Dao, 46, says she
worked more than 18 hours a day and was given the same one meal to live on – a
slice of lamb and plain rice.
Dao, 46, was a domestic worker
in Saudi Arabia for more than seven months until she returned to Vietnam in
April.
“I worked from 5am until 1am
in the morning, and was allowed to eat once at 1pm,” Dao told Al Jazeera of her
experience in the port city of Yanbu. “It was the same every day – a slice of
lamb and a plate of plain rice. After nearly two months, I was like a mad
person.”
According to statistics from
Vietnam’s labor ministry, there are currently 20,000 Vietnamese workers in the
kingdom, with nearly 7,000 working as domestic staff for Saudi families…
The same harsh conditions
which Vietnamese have endured have also been reported by the Filipino,
Indonesian, and Sri Lankan workers, in Saudi Arabia. And they have also been
endured by domestic workers in the the Emirates and Kuwait. In addition
to the harsh working conditions, there is the persistent threat of sexual
assault by their Arab masters. Some domestic workers have been raped and
murdered by their Arab employers. Yet it has been almost impossible to bring
employers to justice for such crimes.
Some who escaped have
recounted slave-like working and living conditions.
“I understand that as
[domestic] workers we need to get used to difficult working conditions,” said
Dao, who is vocal on social media about her experience. “We didn’t ask for
much, just no starvation, no beatings, and three meals per day. If we had that,
we would not have begged for rescue.”…
“As soon as I arrived at the
airport in Riyadh, they (employees from a Saudi company providing domestic
workers) pushed me into a room with more than a hundred of others,” she said.
“When my employer picked me up later, he took my passport and employment
contract. Most women I’ve talked to here experience the same thing.”
By seizing the workers’
passports, the Saudi employers have complete control over them. They cannot
leave the country, nor move about inside Saudi Arabia, nor go to work for
another employer. And if they don’t have their employment contract, which has
been seized by their employer, they have no way of knowing if the onerous
conditions they endure violate the contract’s provisions. They are captives of
their employer in every sense.
Like Dao, she said she was
given one meal a day and worked 18-hour shifts.
Another domestic worker, who
requested anonymity, showed Al Jazeera her contract stipulating a nine-hour
working day – a standard given the contracts are composed by Vietnam’s labour
ministry.
Dao shows notes from the
Arabic lesson she took before her trip. Vietnamese domestic workers are
entitled to classes on language, skills and culture but the sessions are poorly
executed, say the workers.
When Linh asked to be moved to
another family – a workers’ right according to their contracts – staff at the
Vietnamese broker company shouted at her and tried to intimidate her.
She went on a hunger strike
for three days until her employer agreed to take her back to the Saudi company…
Leaving an employment contract
carries a hefty fine, plus the price of a ticket back to Vietnam, if the worker
is unable to prove abuse at the hands of their employers.
The cost of quitting is
usually between $2,500 and $3,500.
If workers get, at best, $388
per month, that means that if they manage to persuade their employer to give
them back their passports and to let them leave, they will still have to come
up with between seven and nine months of salary that must be paid back. And
that assumes that they will be paid the highest amount ($388/month) and will
have all other expenses, during that period of seven-to-nine months, paid by
their employer.
Tuyet told her partner in
Vietnam by phone that she is being abused by the family she works for in
Riyadh.
Bui Van Sang’s partner, Tuyet,
works in Riyadh.
He said she is being beaten
and starved.
The Vietnamese broker company
asked him for $2,155 for her return, but refused to put anything in writing, he
claimed.
Her phone has been taken away
and Sang is only able to contact her every two to three weeks, “when her
employer feels like [allowing her]”.
These domestic workers are
totally at the mercy of their Arab employers. They cannot even contact anyone
in the outside world unless the employer “feels like [allowing her].” They are,
essentially, prisoners whose brutal living and working conditions are set by
the employer, who answers to no one. That constitutes slavery, whether or not
it is called by that name.
By the time he had raised the
$2,155, the Vietnamese broker company demanded double the payment, he said.
He travelled 1,500km from his
southern Vietnamese home province of Tay Ninh to the capital, Hanoi, to beg the
broker, but was turned away….
The Vietnamese brokers are
akin to slave traders. They round up the “slaves” (domestic workers), hold out
the promise of decent work and pay which, once those they traffic in arrive in
Saudi Arabia, is simply ignored. The slaves have been delivered, the brokers
paid by the Saudi employers, and the living conditions, of 18-hour days,
with one meal a day, are now the norm. For beatings and sexual assaults, there
is no recourse for these Vietnamese domestics. Meanwhile, Saudi employers hold
onto those passports without which these workers cannot leave the country.
There are no independent organisations
in either Saudi Arabia or Vietnam which ensure the safety of domestic workers.
In the past few years, reports
of abuse have prompted Saudi authorities to suggest amendments to existing
labor regulations, but rights groups say they fall short.
Whatever regulations are
talked about, Saudi employers still do pretty much what they want in setting
the conditions of work for domestic helpers.
Workers and their relatives
have to rely entirely on the Vietnamese broker companies for support.
Linh, the domestic helper in
Riyadh, said when she contacted the Vietnamese company that brought her there,
they told her the employment contract is only valid in Vietnam, not in Saudi
Arabia.
In other words, the Vietnamese
brokers, having been paid by the Saudi employers, have washed their hands of
the Vietnamese workers sent to Saudi Arabia. The employment contracts on which
these domestic workers were relying are, they now admit, worthless in Saudi
Arabia. These women have no guarantee of any rights; whatever their Saudi
employer wishes to impose is what they must accept. Hence the 18-hour days,
seven days a week, and the single meal each day. How is this not akin to
slavery?
“They [the Vietnamese
companies] are supposed to protect our rights, but all they do is yell at us,”
Linh said by phone. “Now I just want to leave the country. If I go to the
police, at least they’d bring me to the detention centre, and I’d be deported
and allowed to leave.”
She recently livestreamed a
video detailing the treatment that she and many fellow Vietnamese domestic
helpers face while working in Saudi Arabia.
The video has been viewed
113,000 times.
“Many women I know here just
want the same thing – they just want to leave,” she said. “But they are afraid,
threatened, and don’t even dare to speak out.”
Their fear is palpable. If
they complain of their working conditions, will they be beaten by their
employers? Will they be given even more unpleasant or difficult tasks? Will the
18-hour day become a 20-hour day, as one Vietnamese man reported his wife had
had to endure, that is with only four hours of sleep allowed? Will even the one
slice of meat they are now given be reduced still further, or will they perhaps
not be given meat at all? Will they no longer be allowed to call home even twice
a month? Not all Saudi employers are simon-legrees, but a great many appear to
be. The point is that domestic workers ought to have rights enshrined in the
Saudi law, but they do not. And the conditions which they endure are scarcely
distinguishable from slavery.
The Saudis are not alone in
such mistreatment of their domestic workers. The Kuwaitis and the Emiratis have
been difficult masters, too, but the conditions of domestic workers appear to
be especially harsh in Saudi Arabia. The mentality that lies behind this
mistreatment rests on two things. First, there is the deep belief that slavery
is legitimate, given that Muhammad himself owned slaves, and does not become
illegitimate in Islamic societies just because Western pressure has led to its
formal prohibition. The slave-owner mentality remains. Second, these domestic
workers — Vietnamese, Filipino, Thai, Indonesian, Sri Lankan — are almost all
non-Muslims, and the treatment they receive is commensurate with their
description in the Qur’an, as being “the most vile of creatures.” It
would be interesting to compare the working conditions of the non-Muslim
domestic workers in Saudi Arabia with those who, from Indonesia, are themselves
Muslim. But that’s a subject for another occasion.
Tulsi
Gabbard: U.S. Government ‘Is Hiding the Truth’ on 9/11 Terror Attacks
1 Nov 2019698
4:22
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Rep.
Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential
nomination, reacted to the difficulties Chris Ganci and Brett Eagleson,
two relatives of victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks were having
in their quest to obtain more information about Saudi Arabia’s involvement in
9/11.
Gabbard accused the federal government of undermining efforts of
achieving more transparency, which she said was being done at the behest of
Saudi Arabia.
Partial transcript as follows:
CARLSON: This is one of those issues I don’t think is partisan.
It doesn’t need to be. It shouldn’t be partisan in any sense.
GABBARD: Absolutely not.
CARLSON: It’s an American issue. Why would the U.S. government ever
side with the Saudi Kingdom of all countries against our citizens?
GABBARD: This is the real question that’s at stake. This story
that we’re hearing from the families of those who were killed on 9/11 pushes
this issue to the forefront where, for so long, leaders in our government have
said, well, Saudi Arabia is our great ally. They’re a partner in
counterterrorism, turning a blind eye or completely walking away from the
reality that Saudi Arabia time and again, has proven to be the opposite.
CARLSON: Yes.
GABBARD: They’re undermining our National Security interests.
They are — as you said, they are the number one exporter of this Wahhabi
extremist ideology.
CARLSON: Yes.
GABBARD: They’re a fertile recruiting ground for terrorists,
like al Qaeda and ISIS around the world. They’re directly providing arms and
assistance to al Qaeda, in places like Yemen, and in Syria.
And as we are seeing here, it is our government, our own
government that is hiding the truth from Chris and Brett and the many other
families of those who were killed on 9/11. For what? Where do the loyalties
really lie?
CARLSON: So I was thinking in the commercial break that of the
number of people I know personally, not abstractly, but have had lunch with in
this city who are taking currently money from the Saudi Kingdom or their allies
in the Emirates, the Gulf States, and I wonder if that maybe play some role,
like a lot of people on their payroll here.
GABBARD: Yes. We talk about the foreign policy establishment in
Washington.
CARLSON: Yes.
GABBARD: We talk about the political elite, the
military-industrial complex. We hear things from some of those people, well,
you know, hey, we sell a lot of weapons to Saudi Arabia. So you know, if we
burn bridges with them, then who are we going to sell our weapons to? Where are
we going to get that money from?
All of these excuses that have nothing to do with the interests
of the American people, with our national security interests. And that’s — I’m
proud and honored to be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with these 9/11
families in demanding this truth because, yes, it is about truth and justice
and closure for all of them now as we approach 20 years since that attack on
9/11. It’s also about our National Security.
CARLSON: Yes.
GABBARD: Safety and security of the American people.
CARLSON: I’ll never forget right after 9/11, living here in the
City of Washington, our airports were closed. All airports were closed in this
country.
GABBARD: Yes.
CARLSON: And learning that chartered flights of Saudi citizens
had been allowed with U.S. government approval to take off and run back to
Saudi Arabia without being questioned by authorities here and thinking you
know, if I tried to do that, I’d be in prison. Why are we giving preference to
Saudi citizens over our own citizens?
GABBARD: Exactly. It makes no sense if you think about what
would happen if we actually had leaders who were putting the interests of our
country above all else. You follow the money trail. It goes back to the
military-industrial complex.
You look at how many of the think tanks here in Washington who
send so-called experts to go and testify before Congress who are funded by
Saudi Arabia to spout their talking points.
You saw how the legislation that we passed in Congress. I was
proud to vote for legislation that allowed families like Chris and Brett’s to
sue Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia trotted out all of their lobbyists to say why
that would be so dangerous, so dangerous for our interests, for them to be
allowed to seek justice for their families.
This is about standing up for our country. This is about
standing up for our principles and our freedoms and for the truth.
Obama-Clinton Fundraiser
Imaad Zuberi Cops a Plea
Clinton foundation
contributor was conduit for Saudi sugardaddy Mohammed Al Rahbani.
October 31, 2019
Lloyd
Billingsley
Since his election to the
presidency in 2016, the Democrat-Deep State-Media axis has targeted Donald
Trump for foreign entanglements they claim should remove him from office. Now
comes news of foreign entanglements and foreign cash for the previous
president.
“Middleman helped Saudi give to
Obama inaugural,” proclaims the headline on the October 29 report by Alan Suderman and Jim
Mustian, billed as an Associated Press exclusive. As the authors explain, U.S. election law prohibits foreign
nationals from making contributions to the inaugural celebrations of American
presidents. As it turns out, the law was violated.
A “Saudi tycoon,” Sheikh Mohammed
Al Rahbani, routed hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Obama inaugural
through an “intermediary,” Imaad Zuberi. He, in turn, is a “jet-setting fundraiser and venture
capitalist,” who has “raised millions of dollars for Democrats and Republicans
alike over the years.” Despite the appearance of bipartisanship, Zuberi is more
narrowly tailored.
Imaad Zuberi “served as a top
fundraiser for both Obama and Hillary Clinton during their presidential runs,
including stints on both of their campaign finance committees.” One campaign,
not identified, took donations “in the name of one of Zuberi’s dead relatives”
and a political committee, also unidentified, “took donations from a person
Zuberi invented.” As the DOJ charged, Zuberi pleaded guilty to
“falsifying records to conceal his work as a foreign agent while lobbying
high-level U.S. government officials,” and it was hardly his first brush with
the law.
“Elite Fundraiser for Obama and
Clinton Linked to Justice Department Probe,” read the headline on Bill Allison’s August 28, 2015 exclusive in Foreign Policy. The calling card of the elite political fundraiser are
photographs, “bumping fists with President Barack Obama in front of a Christmas
tree at a White House reception. Sharing a belly laugh with Vice President Joe
Biden at a formal luncheon,” and posing “cheek to cheek with Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.”
Not only is Zuberi a major
fundraiser for her campaign, notes Allison, “he also donated between $250,000
and $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation, which has already come under fire for
accepting money from donors — many of them foreign — with interests before the
U.S. government while she was secretary of state.” And as Allison learned, Hillary’s 2008 campaign benefitted
from “straw donors” set up by Sant Singh Chatwal and Norman Hsu, both convicted
of election law violations.
Zuberi also used straw donors in
more recent illegal activity. As to the affiliation of those mysterious
campaigns and committees, the AP writers provide a hint.
Sheikh Mohammed Al Rahbani has
“talked about his support of Obama. He posted pictures on his website of
himself and his wife standing with Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden and
their spouses at a 2013 inaugural event.” Alas, “the website was taken down
shortly after Zuberi’s plea was made public.”
As Paul Delacourt of the FBI’s Los
Angeles office explains, “American influence is not for sale.” Mr. Zuberi
“lured individuals who were seeking political influence in violation of U.S.
law, and in the process, enriched himself by defrauding those with whom he
interacted.” According to the DOJ, that “could send him to prison for a lengthy
period of time.”
According to Suderman and Mustian,
“Zuberi’s case raises questions about the degree to which political committees
vet donors.” And as FEC boss Ellen Weintraub told the writers, “I’m
deeply concerned about foreigners trying to intervene in our elections, and I
don’t think we’re doing enough to try to stop it.” They might start by looking
in the right place.
Unconventional candidate Donald
Trump, a man of considerable means, financed his own campaign. Trump had no
need to consort with the likes of Zuberi or his dead relatives and those he
invents. And because Trump financed his own campaign, he owes nothing to
anybody, foreign or domestic.
Adam “sack of” Schiff, as Judge
Jeanine Pirro respectfully calls him, claimed he had evidence in plain sight
that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election from Hillary Clinton. Two
years and a Mueller investigation later, such evidence is nowhere in sight.
Schiff’s current inquisition, perhaps more bogus than the Mueller probe, is
best seen a diversion from John Durham’s criminal investigation of those who
launched the Russia hoax. That is where DOJ and election officials should be
looking.
Did Clinton Foundation donor Imaad
Zerubi turn up on any of those 30,000 subpoenaed emails Hillary Clinton
deleted? Did Zerubi see any classified material? Were there any texts from
Zerubi and his foreign clients on the cell phones Hillary’s squad smashed up with
hammers? Was Clinton grossly negligent, or just extremely careless? And so on.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton also enjoyed other foreign intervention, right out
in the open.
Mexican foreign minister Marcelo
Ebrard, a former mayor of Mexico City, had worked with voter-registration and
participation groups in California, Arizona, Florida, Chicago, and elsewhere.
As Ebrard told Francisco Goldman of the New Yorker, in 2016 he “decided to get more
involved” by working on get-out-the-vote campaigns on behalf of Hillary
Clinton.
A powerful foreign national openly
interferes in an American election, and nobody calls him on it. Now that
Clinton Foundation lackey Imaad Zuberi has copped a plea, the FEC and DOJ
should look into it.
Congress
overrides Obama veto of bill allowing 9/11 lawsuits
By
Tom Carter
On Wednesday, the US Congress overturned President Obama’s veto of
legislation that would permit victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks and
their families to sue Saudi Arabia. Declassified documents released this year
confirm the involvement of Saudi intelligence agents in the funding,
organization, and planning of the attacks—facts which were covered up for years
by the Bush and Obama administrations.
The vote, 97-1 in the Senate and 348-77 in the House of
Representatives, represents the first and only congressional override of
Obama’s presidency. Under the US Constitution, the president’s veto can be
overturned only by a two-thirds majority vote in both houses of Congress.
The Obama administration and the military and intelligence
agencies, backed by sections of the media, including the New York Times, have
vigorously denounced the legislation. Obama personally, together with Central
Intelligence Agency director John Brennan, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, and
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford among others, have all
publicly opposed the bill.
In a letter to Congress opposing the legislation, Obama warned
that the bill would “threaten to erode sovereign principles that protect the
United States, including our U.S. Armed Forces and other officials, overseas.”
In a lead editorial on Wednesday, the New York Times similarly
warned that “if the bill becomes law, other countries could adopt similar
legislation defining their own exemptions to sovereign immunity. Because no
country is more engaged in the world than the United States—with military
bases, drone operations, intelligence missions and training programs—the Obama
administration fears that Americans could be subject to legal actions abroad.”
In other words, the bill would set a precedent for families of
victims of American aggression abroad—such as the tens of thousands of victims
of “targeted killings” ordered by Obama personally—to file lawsuits against US
war criminal in their own countries’ courts.
Obama denounced the vote with unusual warmth on Wednesday. “It's
an example of why sometimes you have to do what's hard. And, frankly, I wish
Congress here had done what's hard,” Obama declared. “If you’re perceived as
voting against 9/11 families right before an election, not surprisingly, that's
a hard vote for people to take. But it would have been the right thing to do
... And it was, you know, basically a political vote.”
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave,” Sir Walter Scott famously
wrote, “When first we practice to deceive!” As the tangled web of lies
surrounding the September 11 attacks continue to unravel, one senses that the
American ruling class and its representatives do not see a clear way out of the
dilemma.
Openly torpedoing the legislation is tantamount to an admission of
guilt. Indeed, the Obama administration, the military and intelligence
agencies, and theNew York Times are publicly working to cover up a crime perpetrated
by Al Qaeda and its backers in Saudi Arabia, which in turn is an ally of the
United States. The mere fact that Obama vetoed this bill constitutes an
admission that the US government is hiding something with respect to the
September 11 attacks.
The alternative, from the standpoint of the American ruling class,
is also fraught with risks. Court proceedings initiated by the families of
September 11 victims will inevitably expose the role played by the Saudi
monarchy, an ally of both Al Qaeda and the United States, in the September 11
attacks. This, in turn, will highlight long and sordid history of American
support for Islamic fundamentalism in the
Middle East, which continues to the present day in Syria and
Libya.
Perhaps most dangerously of all, a full public accounting of
the roles of Saudi intelligence agents in the September 11 attacks
will once again raise questions about the role of the American state in the
attacks. Why did US intelligence
agencies ignore the activities of Saudi agents before the attacks,
based on Saudi Arabia’s supposed status as a US ally?
Why did the US government deliberately cover up the Saudi
connection after the fact, instead claiming that Afghanistan was a “state
sponsor of terrorism” and that Iraq was developing “weapons of mass
destruction?” Why was nobody
prosecuted?
The New York Times, for its part, simply lied about the evidence
of Saudi complicity. “The legislation is motivated by a belief among the 9/11
families that Saudi Arabia played a role in the attacks, because 15 of the 19
hijackers, who were members of Al Qaeda, were Saudis,” the editors wrote. “But
the independent American commission that investigated the attacks found no
evidence that the Saudi government or senior Saudi officials financed the
terrorists.”
In fact, at least two of the hijackers received aid from Omar
al-Bayoumi, who was identified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a
Saudi intelligence agent with “ties to terrorist elements.” Some of the
hijackers were paid for work in fictitious jobs from companies affiliated with
the Saudi Defense Ministry, with which Al-Bayoumi was in close contact. The
night before the attacks, three of the hijackers stayed at the same hotel as
Saleh al-Hussayen, a prominent Saudi government official.
These and other facts were confirmed by the infamous 28-page
suppressed chapter of the 2002 report issued by the Joint Inquiry into
Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of
September 11, 2001. After 14 years of stalling, the document was finally
released to the public this summer.
Yet the New York Times continues to describe the Saudi monarchy,
the principal financier and sponsor of Islamic fundamentalist groups throughout
the world, as “a partner in combating terrorism.”
The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, passed Wednesday,
is a direct reaction to these revelations of Saudi complicity in the September
11 attacks, under pressure from organizations of survivors and families of
victims. The law amends the federal judicial code to allow US courts “to hear
cases involving claims against a foreign state for injuries, death, or damages
that occur inside the United States as a result of. .. an act of terrorism,
committed anywhere by a foreign state or official.”
Although the bill nowhere names Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government
has threatened massive retaliation, including by moving $750 billion in
assets out of the country before they can be seized in American legal
proceedings. This reaction alone confirms the monarchy’s guilt.
During Wednesday’s session, many of the statements on the floor of
the Senate were nervous and apprehensive. Casting his vote in favor of the
bill, Republican Senator Bob Corker declared, “I have tremendous concerns about
the sovereign immunity procedures that would be set in place by the countries
as a result of this vote.” More than one legislator noted that if the bill had
unintended consequences, it would be modified or repealed.
The anxious comments of legislators and the crisscrossing
denunciations within the ruling elite reflect the significance of this
controversy for the entire American political establishment. For 15 years, the
American population has been relentlessly told that the events of September 11,
2001 “changed everything,” warranting the elimination of democratic rights, the
militarization of the police, renditions, torture, assassinations, totalitarian
levels of spying, death and destruction across the Middle East, and trillions
of dollars of expenditures.
The collapse of the official version of that day’s events shows
that American politics for 15 years has been based on a lie.
Pollak:
Everything Joe Biden Said About Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Actually
Describes Barack Obama’s
Johannes Eisele / AFP Getty
12 Jul 20193
3:48
Everything
former vice president Joe Biden said about President Donald Trump’s foreign
policy speech on Thursday actually applies to the policy that Biden carried out
together with former President Barack Obama — and not Trump.
In his speech, at City University of New York, Biden called
Trump an “extreme” threat to the country’s national security. No one has yet
taken Biden to task for describing the sitting commander-in-chief in such
alarmist terms.
But that wasn’t even the most bizarre aspect of Biden’s speech.
He said the main problem in Trump’s foreign policy was … Charlottesville,
Virginia. Biden went on to recite a version of the debunked “very fine people”
hoax, claiming that Trump had drawn a “moral equivalence between those who
promoted hate and those who opposed it.” That, he said, was a threat to
America’s mission of standing for democratic values in the world.
But in fact, Trump
specifically condemned the neo-Nazis
in Charlottesville on multiple occasions. The entire premise of Biden’s speech
was a lie.
Biden went on to claim that Trump’s foreign policy rejects
democratic values and favors the rise of authoritarianism worldwide. He cited
Trump’s warmth to Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean dictator
Kim Jong-un. And he claimed that Trump has undermined America’s alliances with
democracies in favor of flattery from dictators.
Apparently Biden forgot that Obama literally bowed to the Saudi
king; that he abandoned the pro-democracy protests during the Green Revolution
in Iran; that he pushed for a “reset” with Russia and abandoned our Czech and
Polish allies on missile defense; that he promised Putin he would be even more
“flexible” after he won re-election; that he tried to normalize relations with
the Cuban dictatorship without securing any democratic reforms there; that he
gave the store away to the communist dictatorship in China; and that he
abandoned Israel, a betrayal in which Biden himself played a direct and
shameful role, condemning Israel for building apartments in a Jewish
neighborhood of Jerusalem.
Trump praises dictators as a negotiating tactic; Obama praised
them because he, too, thought America was a problem.
One of the few times the Obama administration embraced
democratic change was during the Arab Spring, when “democracy” meant the rise
of the Muslim Brotherhood — which had no interest in freedom, only in power.
In 2008, the Obama campaign cast Biden as a foreign policy guru,
though he had been wrong on almost every foreign policy issue in his career. On
Thursday, he mostly ignored his own record.
Astonishingly, Biden claimed credit
for Trump’s success in crushing the so-called “Islamic State,” saying he worked
with Obama “to craft the military and diplomatic campaign that ultimately
defeated ISIS.” In fact, Biden was complicit in the rise of ISIS. He was
Obama’s point man on Iraq when the U.S. suddenly pulled out of the country,
leaving a vacuum that ISIS filled. He did not object when Obama called the
terror group “junior varsity.”
Biden offered nothing new in terms
of solutions to current foreign policy challenges. He claimed that the Iran
nuclear deal had been a success — on the very day Iran was reportedto have been
cheating all along. He said the U.S. should re-enter the deal once Iran did,
offering no idea how to ensure that it did so. On North Korea, Biden promised
he would “empower our negotiators,” whatever that means.
He said that he would get “tough”
with China, which Trump is already doing (and which Biden previously suggested he
would not do). And
on immigration, he ridiculed the very idea
of borders — literally: “I respect no borders.”
And this is the best Democrats have on foreign
policy.
Joel B. Pollak
is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social
Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard. He is a
winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the
co-author of How
Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from
Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Sixteen years after
9/11: lies, hypocrisy and militarism
12 September 2017
The sixteenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks
that killed more than 2,900 people in the United States were marked once again
on Monday with ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center’s demolished
Twin Towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania where one of four
hijacked planes crashed as passengers fought to regain control of the aircraft.
Thousands gathered in New York City for the solemn reading
of the names of those who lost their lives to a criminal and reactionary
terrorist attack that served only the interests of US and world imperialism,
which ever since have exploited the events to justify wars of aggression and
attacks on democratic rights the world over.
The genuine emotions of sorrow and remembrance shared by
those who lost loved ones on 9/11 once again stood in sharp contrast to the
banality and hypocrisy of the official commemorations staged by US officials.
This longstanding dichotomy reached a new level with the
main speech of the day delivered by the fascistic billionaire con-man President
Donald Trump at the Pentagon Monday. Trump, whose first reaction on the day of
the attacks was to brag—falsely—that the toppling of the Twin Towers had made
his own property at 40 Wall Street the tallest building in lower Manhattan,
delivered remarks that consisted of barely warmed-over platitudes from previous
addresses, repeated tributes to the American flag and a vow to “defend our
country against barbaric forces of evil and destruction.”
Trump repeated the well-worn cliché that on September 11
“our whole world changed.” The phrase is meant to suggest that the unending
wars, police state measures and sweeping changes in American political life
over the past 16 years have all been carried out in response to the supposedly
unforeseen and unforeseeable events of September 11, having nothing to do with
anything that came before.
That this is a cynical and
self-serving lie becomes clearer with every passing year.
On the eve of the anniversary, new revelations emerged linking
Saudi Arabia, Washington’s closest ally in the Arab world, to the preparation
of the September 11 attacks, in which 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi
citizens. The corporate media, which published nothing of any significance on
the anniversary, largely blacked out this new evidence. The New York
Times marked the anniversary with an editorial detailing efforts by
the New York City medical examiner to identify human remains.
A federal lawsuit on behalf of the families of some 1,400 of
the 9/11 victims has presented evidence that the Saudi embassy in Washington
financed what was apparently a “dry run” for the 9/11 attacks in 1999. Two
Saudi agents posing as students boarded an America West flight from Phoenix to
Washington, D.C. with tickets paid for by the Saudi embassy. The lawsuit states
that both men had trained in Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan with some of the
9/11 hijackers. While on the flight, the two asked flight attendants technical
questions about the plane that raised suspicions and twice attempted to enter
the cockpit, leading the pilot to carry out an emergency landing in Ohio. Both
men were detained and questioned by the FBI, which decided not to pursue any
prosecution.
This is only the latest in a long series of revelations that have
made it abundantly clear that the events of 9/11 could never have taken place
without substantial logistical support from high places. Despite the repeated
claims that the attacks “changed everything,” there has never been an independent
and objective investigations into how they were carried out. And, despite being
what is ostensibly the most catastrophic intelligence failure in American
history, no one was ever held accountable with so much as a firing or a
demotion.
What evidence has emerged makes it clear that the 9/11
hijackers were able to freely enter the country and attend flight schools
despite the fact that a number of those involved had been subjects of
surveillance by the CIA and FBI for as long as two years before the attack. Two
of them actually lived in the home of an FBI informant.
Twenty-eight pages of heavily
redacted documents released in
2016 after being concealed from the public for 13 years established that Saudi
intelligence officers funneled substantial amounts of money to the hijackers in
the run-up to the 9/11 attacks, while assisting them with finding housing as
well as flight schools to attend.
While Saudi Arabia was the government most active in
carrying out the September 11 attacks, the involvement of Saudi intelligence
really means the involvement of a section of the American state apparatus. This
is not a matter of conspiracy theories, but established fact. It is bound up
with very real conspiracies involving the CIA, Afghanistan and Al Qaeda going
back to the Islamist group’s founding as an arm of Washington’s dirty war
against the Soviet-backed government of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Far from the attacks having “changed everything,” they
provided the pretext for acts of military aggression long in preparation. In
the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union a decade earlier, the ruling
class initiated a policy developed to use US military might to offset the
decline of American capitalism on the world arena. Afghanistan and Iraq were
targeted to secure military dominance over two major oil- and gas-producing
regions on the planet, the Caspian Basin and the Middle East.
This thoroughly criminal enterprise, justified in the name
of 9/11’s victims, has claimed the lives of over 1 million Iraqis and hundreds
of thousands of Afghans and unleashed the greatest refugee crisis since the
Second World War.
The invocation of a “war on
terror”—passed down from Bush to Obama and now to Trump—to justify these crimes
has become not only threadbare, but patently absurd. The results of 16 years of
uninterrupted US wars of aggression have included an unprecedented growth of Al
Qaeda and related Islamist militias, largely as a result of US imperialism’s utilization
of these elements as proxy ground forces in wars for regime change in Libya and
Syria.
Moreover, the multiple wars and interventions conducted by
the Pentagon and the CIA, from North Africa to Central Asia, can quickly
metastasize into a global conflagration, with Washington simultaneously
threatening nuclear war against North Korea and pursuing increasingly dangerous
confrontations with its principal geo-strategic rivals, Russia and China.
September 11 did not “change everything,” but it did mark
the beginning of an escalation of what George W. Bush called the “wars of the
twenty-first century,” that is, escalating imperialist aggression that is
leading mankind toward a third world war.
Bill Van Auken
September 11, 2017
Were
the Saudis Behind 9/11?
1. On September 9, 2017, Paul Sperry of the New York Post dropped
the biggest headline hint so far that, Yes, the Saudis plotted, trained,
funded, ordered, and covered up the assault on America on 9/11.
The headline does
not come out and actually say that
the Saudis committed the greatest anti-American civilian atrocity 16 years ago.
It just says that "the Saudis allegedly funded a "dry run" of
the 9/11/01 attack two years before it was actually executed. But by now we
know so much supportive evidence that we might as well tell the whole truth.
Two years before the airliner attacks, the Saudi Embassy paid for
two Saudi nationals, living undercover in the US as students, to fly from
Phoenix to Washington “in a dry run for the 9/11 attacks,” alleges the amended
complaint filed on behalf of the families of some 1,400 victims who died in the
terrorist attacks 16 years ago."
Well, if you're a bank robber, and you go through a "dry
run" of the robbery two years before actually committing it, and
"somebody" then carries out the outrageous crime, chances are that
the dry runners and the perps are the same.
We have plenty of evidence of Saudi guilt for 9/11. We know that
the 17 Wahhabi (Saudi-indoctrinated) terrorists killed civilian cabin personnel
and pilots in those four "American" and "United" airplanes,
slitting their throats with utility knives, according to the ancient Koranic
war command, "you shall cut them at the neck."
We have seen plenty of actual beheadings on ISIS videos, and we
know that the Wahhabi priesthood in Saudi Arabia has endorsed ISIS for its
Nazilike murders, rapes, kidnappings, and sadistic treatment of innocent
children, women, and men wherever ISIS operate. It is vital for Americans to
understand that the war theology of "ISIS," "Al Qaida,"
"Al Nusrah", "Al Qaida in the Maghreb," on and on, are all
the same. The hierarchy that runs it from the Sunni Gulf States is the same,
the methodology is the same, the utter inhuman cruelty of killing innocents is
the same, the religious rationale is the same, on and on and on.
However, it should be understood that the Shi'ites of Iran run a
separate chain of command, with separate murderers, etc. We have two fanatical
enemies, both based in the war verses of the Koran, but they hate each
other to death. Donald Trump has just exploited that split between mass murderers
hailing from Sunni Islam, and the mass murderers coming from Shi'te Islam.
Trump is now in a formal alliance with the Saudis (and Israelis, and other
Sunni Gulf States) against Iran, the Shiite head of the monster.
During WW I the British brought the Saudis to power in order to
drive out the Ottoman Turks. British agent "Lawrence of Arabia" (T.E.
Lawrence) convinced the Arab speakers of the Arabia desert to rebel against the
Turks, supplying them with British arms and advice.
Saudi Arabia is always on the edge of collapse, because it is not
a modern nation, but a desert tribal federation.
The war theology of desert Islam has been well-described by now,
in excellent, scholarly sources freely available on the web.
In human tribal history, war theologies are not unusual. Japanese
State Shinto, which led to WW II, was based on Bushido a debased version
of the Samurai code. The Teutonic Knights were a similar war cult that
eventually led to Bismarck's Prussia, which then forced the unification of
the German-speaking provinces in the 19th century in a single, top-down
controlled Reich. Hitler's war started as a revenge for losing World War I.
Hitler came to power by peddling the "stab-in-the-back" myth to explain
Austro-Hungarian defeat in WWI.
Human tribal warfare is very common, as shown by anthropologist
Napoleon Chagnon, based on his field work with the Yanamamo of South America.
In human tribal history, up to 30% of adult males die in intergroup violence.
So war cults and martyrdom cults are part of human history. The Kim dynasty in
North Korea has always prepared for and encouraged war. Today, the Iranian
Muslims (Shi'a) constantly chant, "Death to America! Death to
Israel!" Terrorist groups like Hamas and Hizb’allah also raise their
children to kill any designated enemy, preferably through martyrdom. Successful
killer-martyrs are promised life eternal in Heaven, with all the virgins and
all that.
American liberals keep telling the world that such things could
not exist, because people are fundamentally good. They are utterly ignorant,
and "none so blind as will not see."
What happened on 9/11?
The attackers commandeered civilian passenger planes, and
suicidally flew them into the Twin Towers in Manhattan; a third passenger plane
was flown into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a fourth airplane crashed
when its passengers heroically rebelled against the throat-cutting murderers
and crashed in Pennsylvania. These assaults count as the biggest enemy attack
on American civilians in history. In the Geneva
Conventions, the politically
motivated murder of civilians is treated even more seriously than surprise
attacks on members of the military in uniform.
These are the most likely hypotheses based on the evidence. But
we will not know the full truth until the 28 censored pages from the 9/11
Report are published. The U.S. media, which evidently colluded in the greatest
national security coverup, must now tell the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth. If any media outlet fails to cover this, American
patriots must simply boycott them and their owners and sponsors. This is a
question of national life or death.
2. Who did the coverup?
When the 9/11 attacks took place, none of our presidents, nor our
enormous Deep Government, nor any major news outlets told the truth.
As a result, even today, most Americans know little, except that
fake "Islamophobia" is a terrible thing. Americans need to learn the
truth and we must know the truth to understand that Jihad War that was launched
against us on that second Day of Infamy. No nation can protect itself against
future dangers if it only learns lies about previous acts of national aggression.
3. Who ran the coverup and why?
The 9/11 attack was covered up.
a. 9/11/ was not the first attack by Al Qaida and
its militant networks against the Twin Towers. There was an amazingly similar
truck bomb attack in 1993 by the same network, and some of the perps were
caught and sentenced to jail terms.
Andrew McCarthy of the National Review was the
federal prosecutor in that case, and has written extensively about it. McCarthy
has been one of the truth-tellers in a time of shameful lies and coverups.
Bill and Hillary Clinton knew about the failed truck-bomb attack
on the Twin Towers in 1993. We know that Bill was offered Bin Laden's head on a
platter by four different Arab regimes, in secret, and that he refused four
times. There is no question that the Clintons knew about the danger ahead of
time, and utterly failed to pursue Bin Laden's AQ network when there was still
time to knock them out. That abject cowardice is interpreted in war theologies
like desert Islam as a plain and obvious sign of weakness, and it always
increases the chance of more attacks. This is elementary logic about
hyperaggressive regimes.
Instead of revealing and mobilizing American public opinion
against a clear and obvious danger, the Clintons made money off it. The fact
that Huma Abedin has become Hillary's closest friend and assistant over the
last 20 years, and that Huma comes from a Muslim Brotherhood family that runs a
"charity" in the UK to promote Jihad, makes Huma, Hillary, and Bill
criminally liable. They owe the American People an explanation, and instead,
they have been taking tens of millions of dollars from known Jihad
sources.
We do not know whether Bush-Cheney knew about the danger of attack
ahead of time, but it seems unlikely. The assault happened early in the Bush II
administration, possibly before they were warned.
We have to understand that after 9/11, every major intelligence
agency in the world must have known who the perps were.
Former UCMC Commandant Jim Mattis has often said "There is
always treachery." It is a basic rule of war in his lifelong teachings.
The fact that Mattis is now SecDec shows where Trump is moving -- against
Jihad, finally, after decades of Democrat and RINO betrayal of the American
people in their greatest danger.
If you do not believe we are in very great danger today, consider
that Kim III now has ICBMs and nuclear weapons, and that Kim always works in
collusion with Iranian Jihad. North Korea is thought to have gotten its latest
mass murdering toy with cooperation from Tehran. Although Pakistan, which also
follows a Jihadist war theology, is another candidate.
On the honorable side, Admiral James Lyon (USN, Ret) has been
publicly warning against the Jihad being obviously waged against the U.S. (and
other "Christian" countries) by Jihad, both the Sunni and Shi'ite
imperial aggressors. I believe Adm. Lyons risked his life to expose the truth,
the last time at the Press Club in Washington, DC.
I believe that Donald Trump guessed or knew the truth, as an
international businessman, with his own intelligence sources. When Trump ran
for office, the Deep State freaked out, in fear of exposure, along with the
mass media, which also understood what was going on. The Democrats, the mass
media, and the Deep State are basically one.
The Obama Administration was clearly penetrated by pro-Jihad,
anti-American forces from the beginning. Obama all but publicly endorsed the
Jihad against America. The flagrant use of an Arabic name, instead of his given
name Barry Soetoro, is only one little sign. Another is the
"disguised" Shahada ring he has worn ever since his trip to Pakistan
as a college student with his Pakistani roommate. The Shahada is the oath of
loyalty to Islam. Deception is a major war tactic in Islam. Yet a third sign of
Obama's Jihad loyalties is his symbolically vital visit to a Muslim Mosque in
the waning days of his presidency; the mosque had a prominent sign (shown in
the New York Times) that "nothing is achieved without struggle." (The
Arabic word for "struggle" is Jihad.) The Obama years constantly
played in Muslim Jihadist hints, knowing that most Americans are utterly
ignorant about all that. It is part of Obama's personality disorders.
Valerie Jarrett (Obama's "alter ego") was brought up in
Iranian-style Islam (Shi'ite). She sold out U.S. and Western safety to Iran in
the infamous nuclear agreement.
OIL, OIL, OIL.
The Saudis controlled OPEC, the oil cartel. That gave them
worldwide price control, a sword hanging over the heads of all modern nations.
Jimmy Carter's Arab oil embargo showed how much power the desert tribes of
Arabia had. That is probably why they took the risk of assaulting the United
States, and then serially Britain, France, Spain, on and on.
Please note a few bottom lines:
1. The U.S. was betrayed over and over and over again by our
political class, by our Deep State, and by our media oligopoly.
I think the Bushes are patriots, but they also have major oil
connections.
2. Donald Trump has been brilliant, and he certainly comes across
as a genuine patriot. That is why the corrupt Deep State, and the even more
corrupt Democrats and media, hate Trump. But slowly, slowly, the truth has been
emerging in the Trump campaign, and then in the first Trump year. Without
American leadership against evil, the world is full of cowards and
traitors.
3. Saudi Arabia has now lost control of the price of oil. Trump's
vigorous opening up of U.S. energy has made a huge difference, because now we
have the biggest clout over the world price. That was a very deliberate move,
previously sabotaged by environmental fanatics who were probably bought off by
both kinds of Muslim oil regimes.
So yes, oil was a big part of the picture, but with the advent of
shale exploitation around the world, plus the American resurgence in domestic
energy production, we now have the upper hand.
September 11, 2017
Who are our Real Enemies?
A
good novel allows readers to learn and question, a gateway to world events.
Such is the case with Vince Flynn’s Enemy Of The State by
Kyle Mills. Flynn warned Americans on the dangers of Islamic terrorism in his
first CIA operative Mitch Rapp book, Transfer of Power,
published in 1999. This was two years before 9/11. Fast-forward eighteen years
and Rapp books still discuss the dangers of jihadists. Mills took the torch
from the late Vince Flynn, and has written a gripping novel about the Saudi
involvement with terrorism. This is where fiction blends with reality.
Mills
noted, “I thought about the redacted section from the 9/11 report that possibly
showed the Saudi involvement. After reading the book people will understand I
am not a big fan of the Saudis. Historically we have overlooked a lot of what
they do in order to keep alive our strategic relationship. They not only
support terrorism, but the schools that teach it. There is not much civil
liberties and human rights there. I always wanted to see them slapped down and
I enjoyed watching Mitch do it.”
It
is rumored that this portion of the report details contacts between Saudi
officials and some of the September 11 hijackers, checks from Saudi royals to
operatives in contact with the hijackers, and the discovery of a telephone
number in an Al Qaeda militant’s phone book that was traced to a corporation
managing an Aspen Colorado, home of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, then the Saudi
ambassador to Washington. The document is harsh in its criticism of Saudi
efforts to undermine American attempts to dismantle Al Qaeda in the years
before the September 11 attacks. Moreover, it portrays the F.B.I as generally
in the dark about the maneuverings of Saudi officials inside the United States
during that period.
In Enemy of The State, the CIA
operative Mitch Rapp is quoted, “How many times are we going to have to go
through this with them? We let them off the hook for the most deadly terrorist
attack in US history and now here we go again.” It sure seemed that way when
President Obama bowed before the Saudi King Abdullah at the opening of the G20
meeting in London in 2009.
Even
President Trump seemed to be softening on his view of the Saudis. His speech in
Saudi Arabia this May called them friends and allowed them to buy a
$110-million-dollar defense purchase. This is a far cry when during the 2016
campaign he called on them to provide troops and funds to fight ISIS.
A
powerful quote in the book shows the two sides of the Saudi regime, “It was a
country with sufficient resources to provide prosperous lives for its citizens
and to be a force of good throughout the region. Instead, these resources had
been used to enrich a handful of monarchs and to promote the cycle of violence
and misery that the Middle East was currently mired in.”
On
the one hand it appears that they are now committed to fighting terrorism.
Isobel Coleman, a Saudi expert for the Council on Foreign Relations, felt they
had a change of heart. She noted, “For a long time the Saudi state encouraged
Saudi men to fight Jihad. It was a heroic thing to do. The Saudis had a
profound change after they had to deal with internal terrorism.”
Yet,
on the other hand, Saudi Arabia is still denying any involvement in the
September 11th attacks even though fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were
Saudis. They even threatened to sell off $750 billion in U.S. assets if
Congress passes legislation allowing them to be sued for the Sept. 11, 2001
terrorist attacks, a move that could destabilize the U.S. dollar.
Bob
Graham, a former Democratic senator from Florida, says ISIS "is a product
of Saudi ideals, Saudi money, and Saudi organizational support." Graham
went on to say that ISIS represents a form of Wahhabi ideology, in which the
monarchy has lost control. He believes it is a cancer that now threatens the
kingdom, and that in order to stop ISIS the ideology must be dried up at the
source.
Nina
Shea, director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom, wrote,
”The Saudi government has given over its textbooks to the clerical Wahhabi
extremists that it partners with to maintain control of the country.” She
explained, each year, these textbooks speak of direct religious hatred,
violence and indoctrinate a war mentality. Yet, their role in advancing
Islamist extremist ideology has not been taken seriously as a U.S. national
security concern. Since 9/11, regardless of which party is in power, the State
Department has barely raised the issue and at times has even worked to cover up
their toxic content.
As
President Trump stated, "Muslim nations must be willing to take on
terrorism and send its wicked ideology into oblivion… Terrorists do not worship
God, they worship death.” Enemy Of The State shows how important it is for the
U.S. to make sure the Saudis continue to hold up their end of the relationship
by not promoting hatred against the West and stamping out the supporters of
terrorism. In a sense the book is a reminder to Americans that September 11th
should never be forgotten.
The author writes for American Thinker. She
has done book reviews, author interviews, and has written a number of national
security, political, and foreign policy articles.
OBAMA AND HIS SAUDIS
PAYMASTERS… Did he serve them well?
Malia,
Michelle, Barack and the College Admissions Scandal https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/03/malia-michelle-barack-and-college.html
Michelle was the next to attend Harvard, in her case Harvard
Law School. “Told by counselors that her SAT scores and her grades weren’t good
enough for an Ivy League school,” writes Christopher Andersen in Barack and
Michelle, “Michelle applied to Princeton and Harvard anyway.”
GOOGLE WHAT THE OBOMB DID FOR HIS SAUDIS
PAYMASTERS
Barack Obama’s back door, however, was unique to him. Before
prosecutors send some of the dimmer Hollywood stars to the slammer for their
dimness, they might want to ask just how much influence a Saudi billionaire
peddled to get Obama into Harvard.
“Of course,
one of the main reasons the nation is now “divided, resentful and angry”
is because race-baiting, Islamist, class warrior Barack Hussein
Obama was president for eight long years." MATTHEW VADUM
THE OBAMA MARXIST-MUSLIM
BANKSTER-FUNDED THIRD TERM for life:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/obamas-marxism-still-hankering-for.html
"Cold War historian Paul Kengor
goes deeply into Obama's communist background in an article in
American Spectator, "Our First Red Diaper Baby President," and in an
excellent Mark Levin interview. Another Kengor article describes the Chicago communists whose
younger generation include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and
Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into
power." Karin
McQuillan
*
"We know
that Obama and his inner circle have set up a war room in his D.C.
home to plan
and execute resistance to the Trump administration and his legislative
agenda.
None of these people care about the American people, or the fact that
Trump won
the election because millions of people voted for him."
Patricia McCarthy / AMERICAN THINKER.com
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