you can't separate the Obomb from 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.
BARACK OBAMA and his SAUDIS PAYMASTERS: Did they build his Muslim tower
in Chicago?
Malia, Michelle, Barack and the College Admissions Scandal
What shocked even the old timers in my hometown was that Mayor Hugh Addonizio, the man who gave me my Eagle Scout Award, would accept kickbacks in cash right across his desk. They were troubled less by his criminality -- that was expected in Newark -- than by his lack of subtlety. Addonizio paid for his indiscretion with a lengthy prison sentence.
So it is with the current college admissions scandal. People have been scamming their ways into prestige universities for decades, maybe centuries, but in the past they have had the good sense not to put the cash on the table. It seems that in this scandal a few of the bribers and their brokers may well pay for their indiscretion with prison sentences as well.
The media pretend to be shocked. In an editorial on the scandal, the New YorkTimes singled out Harvard University for its “special admissions preferences and back doors for certain applicants.” This is the same New York Times, however, that published an entirely uncritical article three years prior headlined, “Malia Obama Rebels, Sort of, by Choosing Harvard.”
Malia is the fourth member of the Obama family to attend that august university, none of whom, save perhaps for Grandpa Obama, deserved to be there.
Let’s start with Obama Sr., the only member of the extended family to attend college before the affirmative action/diversity era. Obama arrived at Harvard in the early 1960s with the goal of getting a Ph.D. in economics. According to biographer Sally Jacobs, Obama “struggled” with his studies but managed to get a Masters degree.
Alas, the university booted him on moral grounds before he could get his doctorate. An inveterate playboy despite his two ongoing marriages, Obama had an affair with a high-school girl. Denied his Ph.D., says Jacobs, “He goes on to claim the title, nonetheless. He's Dr. Obama. The older he gets, the more he claims it.” As will be seen, intellectual fraud runs in the family.
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.”
Sympathetic biographer Liza Mundy writes, “Michelle frequently deplores the modern reliance on test scores, describing herself as a person who did not test well.” She did not write well either. Mundy charitably describes her senior thesis, "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community," as “dense and turgid.”
The less charitable Christopher Hitchens observed, “To describe [the thesis] as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be ‘read’ at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn't written in any known language.” Hitchens exaggerated only a little. The following summary statement by Michelle captures her unfamiliarity with many of the rules of grammar and most of logic:
The study inquires about the respondents' motivations to benefit him/herself, and the following social groups: the family, the Black community, the White community, God and church, The U.S. society, the non-White races of the world, and the human species as a whole.
Michelle even typed badly. Still, she was admitted to and graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. I have been told by those on the inside that there are ways of recognizing affirmative-action admissions. Still, one almost feels sorry for Michelle. She was in so far over her head it is no wonder she projected her angst onto the white people around her. “Regardless of the circumstances underwhich [sic] I interact with whites at Princeton,” she wrote in the opening of her thesis, “it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second."
Barack was the smarter and better educated half of the couple. That said, had Obama’s father come from Kentucky not Kenya and been named O’Hara not Obama, there would been no Harvard Law Review, no Harvard, no Columbia.
In his overly friendly biography, The Bridge, David Remnick writes that Obama was an “unspectacular” student in his two years at Columbia and at every stop before that going back to grade school. A Northwestern University prof who wrote a letter of reference for Obama reinforces the point, telling Remnick, “I don’t think [Obama] did too well in college.” As to Obama’s LSAT scores, Jimmy Hoffa’s body will be unearthed before those are.
How such an indifferent student got into a law school whose applicants’ LSAT scores typically track between 98 to 99 percentile and whose GPAs range between 3.80 and 4.00 is a subject Remnick avoids.
Obama does too. Although he has admitted that he “undoubtedly benefited from affirmative action programs” during his academic career, he has remained mum about some reported “back door” influence peddling that may have been as useful to him as affirmative action.
In late March 2008 the venerable African-American entrepreneur and politico Percy Sutton appeared on a local New York City show called "Inside City Hall." When asked about Obama by the show’s host, Dominic Carter, the former Manhattan borough president calmly and lucidly explained that he had been “introduced to [Obama] by a friend.”
The friend's name was Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, and the introduction had taken place about twenty years prior. Sutton described al-Mansour as "the principal adviser to one of the world's richest men." The billionaire in question was Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, the same billionaire whose anti-Semitism caused Mayor Rudy Giuliani to reject his $10 million gift to New York City post 9/11.
According to Sutton, al-Mansour had asked him to "please write a letter in support of [Obama]... a young man that has applied to Harvard." Sutton had friends at Harvard and gladly did so.
Three months before the election it should have mattered that a respected black political figure had publicly announced that an unapologetic anti-Semite like al-Mansour, backed by an equally anti-Semitic Saudi billionaire, had been guiding Obama’s career perhaps for the last twenty years, but the story died a quick and unnatural death.
As for Malia, whose grades and scores are as much a state secret as her father’s, the old man damns with the faint praise of “capable” and “conscientious.” But hell, Bill’s daughter Chelsea got into Stanford and George’s daughter Barbara got into Yale, so this particular path to the back door was well worn.
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.
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.
BARACK Hussein OBAMA: THE CLOSET MUSLIM
PSYCHOPATH WHO HATED AMERICA!
"But the Obamas are the center of the most delusional cult of
personality that the media has yet spawned. And so we get bizarre
pieces like these."
The mullahs rolled in cash as a result of rolling
Obama and his gullible team over the deal, knowing that Obama was desperate for
some sort of legacy. MONICA SHOWALTER
MUSLIM DICTATORS, INCLUDING THE 9-11 INVADING SAUDIS,
FUNDED THE PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES OF BUSH, CLINTON and OBAMA!
ISLAMIST BARACK OBAMA
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“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
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"But the Obamas are the center of the most delusional
cult of personality that the media has yet spawned. And so we get bizarre
pieces like these." MONICA SHOWALTER
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"Along with Obama, Pelosi and
Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the
eight years of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
CLOSET MUSLIM OBAMA AND HIS CRONY MUSLIM DICTATORS
“We must stop all Muslim immigration because, in the end,
those Muslims all intend to dominate and overrun our country. We need to stop
this “oligarchy” by our votes.” FROSTY
WOOLDRIDGE
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