Anonymous ID: c93019 Nov. 22, 2020, 12:07 p.m. No.11740864   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Trump Campaign Files Notice of Appeal Over Pennsylvania Mail Ballots Decision by Federal Judge

 

Earlier, a federal judge Matthew Brann dismissed the Trump campaign lawsuit that sought to discard the mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, describing the case as "strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations".

 

The Trump campaign on Sunday filed a notice of appeal over a federal judge's ruling that denied Trump's lawsuit seeking to overturn millions of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania.

 

https://sputniknews.com/us/202011221081244546-trump-campaign-files-notice-of-appeal-over-pennsylvania-mail-ballots-decision-by-federal-judge/

Anonymous ID: c93019 Nov. 22, 2020, 12:09 p.m. No.11740867   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1153

Belarus to Impose Sanctions on High-Ranking EU Officials, Foreign Minister States

 

Minsk will slap sanctions on high-ranking officials of the European Union, Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei said on Sunday.

 

On November 17, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko held a meeting on foreign policy in Minsk.

 

"At the meeting, we also discussed our response measures in connection with the steps taken by our European partners about a week ago. You know that the European Union has imposed additional sanctions against 15 people. Today, when we were discussing the situation, we were forced to state that we will also expand our personal sanctions lists, which will include representatives of the leadership of the European Union, and the leadership of a number of European countries," Makei told the Belarus 1 TV Station.

 

The EU imposed sanctions on 40 Belarusian officials in early October. The union has then expanded the list, which now also includes Lukashenko. The sanctioned officials are prohibited from visiting EU countries. The measures also freeze the EU assets held by those sanctioned.

 

The EU is reportedly planning to further expand sanctions against members of the current government in Belarus.

 

https://sputniknews.com/europe/202011221081244522-belarus-to-impose-sanctions-on-high-ranking-eu-officials-foreign-minister-states/

Anonymous ID: c93019 Nov. 22, 2020, 12:11 p.m. No.11740892   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Bill Maher Compares Keith Raniere and Donald Trump

 

Bill Maher, an American comedian, political commentator, and television host, posted on YouTube.com, on November 20, 2020, a monologue with some videos to illustrate his points comparing Keith Raniere and Donald Trump.

 

Among the videos are endorsements for Vanguard by three women who also were convicted of felonies. One of them, Clare Bronfman, is in prison already with 79 months to go on her 81-month sentence – and the other two, mother and daughter Nancy and Lauren Salzman, are currently awaiting sentencing.

 

Before we get into the Maher monologue, let us take a moment to consider how poignant are these statements about Keith by his three convicted followers:

 

CLARE BRONFMAN: Has your being a part of my life, enhanced my life? I don’t have words to tell you how much it has.

 

LAUREN SALZMAN: And a heartfelt tribute to Vanguard. You make it possible for us to grow ourselves every day into the people that we want to be.

 

NANCY SALZMAN: A very amazing man in many, many, many ways.

 

Certainly, these statements have to be explored in their fullness. Clare, for instance, is now living in prison. Her life has drastically changed – and one wonders if she still feels it has been enhanced.

 

Lauren spent days on the witness stand describing a brutal monster named Keith Raniere.

 

And Nancy, his partner for 20 years, what does she think of this amazing man, as he sits in prison and she awaits sentencing?

 

Without further ado, here is the video, followed by a transcription of the monologue.

 

https://frankreport.com/2020/11/21/bill-maher-compares-keith-raniere-and-donald-trump/

Anonymous ID: c93019 Nov. 22, 2020, 12:12 p.m. No.11740901   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1153

John F. Kennedy, NAWAPA and China’s New Silk Road

 

As we solemnly remember the life and mission of the martyred President Kennedy 57 years ago today, it is worth noting that his was a life devoted to the actualization of all inherent powers of his own citizens and citizens of all nations in our common struggle for freedom, security and cooperation. Between his alliance with African leaders like Kwame Nkrumah, to Asian and South American leaders struggling to end colonialism, break the Federal Reserve, rein in the CIA, end the wars in southeast Asia, to his efforts to give humanity a broad mission to explore the stars, there is very little that JFK did which was not integral to his total vision for a healthy new paradigm for our species.

 

In spite of these aspects of his vision, an often overlooked component of his fight for a better world involved his dedicated commitment to establish continental water management with a multi-generational view that carries more importance for our modern crisis-ridden age than most people realize.

 

In this presentation delivered to an expert panel hosted by the American University in Moscow, Matthew Ehret (founder of Canadian Patriot Review, and Rising Tide Foundation) introduces the only long term solution to the multifaceted water, drought, food crisis which has swept the west coast of the USA. In this short lecture, China’s “Move South Water North” megaproject is introduced as the largest water diversion project of history as part of the New Silk Road/Multipolar Alliance. The activation of this project forces western nations trapped within the myopic and collapsing unipolar order to re-evaluate those possibilities available to solving such problems as the droughts, aquifer depletion, desertification, agriculture crisis, infrastructure collapse, etc plaguing the future of the South west USA, North Mexico and beyond.

 

The long forgotten continental water management project called “NAWAPA (North American Water and Power Alliance) is introduced as is the forgotten water management vision of President John F Kennedy and his brother Robert. When these two patriots died, the natural evolution of the USA as a leading nation within a flourishing multipolar world of cooperating sovereign nation states was tragically derailed.

 

https://fort-russ.com/2020/11/john-f-kennedy-nawapa-and-chinas-new-silk-road/

Anonymous ID: c93019 Nov. 22, 2020, 12:16 p.m. No.11740941   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1153

How California's Proposition 23 Highlights Big Money In Politics

 

Proposition 23 was asking voters in California to have a say on the staffing requirements for kidney dialysis centers.

The vast majority of people affected by kidney dialysis are patients. ​When the government is focused on the companies or the unions and not patients, the government is ignoring the people it ought to serve.

We should not get rid of propositions. We should find a way to align their focus with the concerns of the public.

 

Close your eyes. Think about all the problems facing California. Think about the top 10 problems. Now think about the top 100 problems. Now open your eyes. We doubt anyone reading this thought about staffing in kidney dialysis centers. Yet this year Proposition 23 was asking voters in California to have a say on the staffing requirements for kidney dialysis centers.

 

Proposition 23 showed how the system for getting propositions on California’s ballot favors those who are willing to spend money at the expense of issues that have a larger impact on more people. ​California’s government is completely broken​.

 

Proposition 23 came from the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) which has been in an acrimonious dispute with Davita and Fresenius, the two companies that control 70% of kidney dialysis in California. According to the SEIU, they were ready to spend $93 million on Proposition 23. ​The kidney dialysis cartel spent more than the $111 million they spent in the 2018 version of this same bill.

 

Money is drowning out the voices of ordinary people. Most people whose lives are affected by kidney dialysis are not shareholders in Davita or Fresenius. They are not employees of the SEIU. ​The vast majority of people affected by kidney dialysis are patients. ​When the government is focused on the companies or the unions and not patients, the government is ignoring the people it ought to serve.

 

Entities with market power have excess profits they can “invest” in altering the regulatory system. This is true for the SEIU which seeks a monopoly on the supply of labor, as well as Davita and Fresenius. Eventually, buying control of government becomes a way to rig the game for the benefit of one side or the other. Economists call this rent-seeking. When rent-seeking replaces innovation and cost savings as the easiest way to increase profits, ordinary people suffer.

 

We aren’t advocating for completely unregulated markets. There is a reason that patients are not flocking to Somalia despite its completely unregulated, competitive market for kidney dialysis. It is unreasonable to expect all patients will be able to determine adequate staffing levels for dialysis centers and choose properly staffed centers. ​

 

However,​ ​it is even more unreasonable to think that the average voter could determine adequate staffing at a dialysis center​. We need some regulation. We need regulation to be even-handed and to take into account the needs of patients. Even if patients are not throwing huge amounts of money at the system.

 

https://www.ibtimes.com/how-californias-proposition-23-highlights-big-money-politics-3086940

Anonymous ID: c93019 Nov. 22, 2020, 12:21 p.m. No.11740987   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1153

SA police seize mobile devices from man whose coronavirus lie sent state into lockdown

 

South Australian police have seized mobile devices from the pizza bar worker whose lie sent the state into a hard lockdown.

Key points:

 

Four people linked to the Woodville Pizza Bar were admitted to a medi-hotel on Saturday

Text messages are still being sent to people connected to the Parafield cluster

Anyone with coronavirus symptoms is being asked to get tested immediately

 

Officers from Task Force Protect are examining the devices as part of their investigation into the circumstances of the Parafield coronavirus cluster, Police Commissioner Grant Stevens said on Sunday.

 

The cluster includes a number of cases linked to the Woodville Pizza Bar, including one man who told contact tracers he ordered a pizza from the shop when in fact he worked there.

 

Cafes, restaurants and other hospitality and retail venues that closed for two days due to the scare reopened on Sunday.

 

Just one week after the first case in the Parafield cluster was reported, more than 4,500 people directly linked to it were now in quarantine, SA Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier said on Sunday.

 

They include 21 close contacts linked to the Woodville Pizza Bar, including staff and many of their family members.

 

They had all been tested, but not all the results were known at this stage, she said.

 

Four people linked to the Woodville Pizza Bar were admitted to a medi-hotel on Saturday night, Professor Spurrier added.

 

As of Sunday, there are 37 active cases in the state.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-22/sa-police-investigate-pizza-shop-worker-coronavirus-cluster/12908916

Anonymous ID: c93019 Nov. 22, 2020, 12:23 p.m. No.11740999   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1153

Australia's biggest media companies call on Morrison government to legislate code regulating Facebook, Google

 

A consortium of Australia's biggest media companies have written an open letter to the Morrison government, calling for a code to have Google and Facebook pay for news content finalised by the end of the year.

The letter, signed by the likes of Nine (the publisher of this website), News Corp Australia, Channel 10, Prime Media Group and Seven West Media, calls on the federal government to act quickly.

Drawing on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) Digital Platforms Inquiry, the media companies say Google and Facebook are unfairly profiting off the work of local news organisations.

 

"Australians can search for news on Google and share stories with their family and friends on Facebook and Instagram partly because of investment by local news media businesses in quality journalism," the letter reads.

"Google and Facebook generate significant revenues by collecting data on those users and turning it around in highly targeted advertising. This makes news content hugely valuable for the digital platforms.

"Yet Google and Facebook do not currently pay Australian media companies for this valuable content.

 

https://www.9news.com.au/national/facebook-google-under-pressure-to-join-news-code-open-letter-to-accc/a7504ef1-1834-4b68-9124-4f6024fe5045

 

Corrupt MSM V Corrupt Tech hmmmm showboating?!

Anonymous ID: c93019 Nov. 22, 2020, 12:28 p.m. No.11741037   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1059 >>1153

Dominion Voting Systems: Connecting the Dots

 

Dominion Voting Systems Corporation is a company that sells electronic voting hardware and software, including voting machines and tabulators, in the United States and Canada. It is also in the headlines presently due to rumors going around of it’s involvement in election rigging claimed by the Trump Administration and his legal team, as the voting systems for the 2020 Presidential Election used their systems to tally votes. While the company itself, along with every other news source has denounced any irregularities or evidence of election rigging due to the voting systems, evidence to the contrary has started to present itself. Here is a brief history of Dominion Election Systems before they became Dominion.

 

2002.

Diebold Elections Systems Inc. is formed. Previously, DESI was run by Bob Urosevich, who worked in the election systems industry since 1976. In 1979, Mr. Urosevich founded American Information Systems. He served as the President of AIS, now known as Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S), from 1979 through 1992. Bob’s brother, Todd Urosevich, is Vice President, Aftermarket Sales with ES&S, DESI’s chief competitor. In 1995, Bob Urosevich started I-Mark Systems, whose product was a touch screen voting system utilizing a smart card and biometric encryption authorization technology. Global Election Systems, Inc. (GES) acquired I-Mark in 1997, and on July 31, 2000 Mr. Urosevich was promoted from Vice President of Sales and Marketing and New Business Development to President and Chief Operating Officer. On January 22, 2002, Diebold announced the acquisition of GES, then a manufacturer and supplier of electronic voting terminals and solutions. Global Election Systems subsequently changed its name to Diebold Election Systems, Inc.

 

Fast forward to the election year that followed the creation of Diebold Election Systems. There had been known glitches within Diebold’s software that could alter an election in other candidates favor. Multiple News Outlets wrote articles pertaining to the threat of Election Rigging via E-Voting. Those same media outlets now in 2020, that claim e-voting to be safe and not subject to tampering/glitches even whilst saying the exact opposite 15 years prior. Michael Meacher from “The Guardian” wrote this back in 2005.

 

“According to Harris, a manipulation technique she found in Diebold’s AccuVote central vote tabulator is able to read totals from an untraceable bogus vote set within its software. “By entering a two-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is created; and this set of votes can be changed in a matter of seconds, so that it no longer matches the correct votes,” she has said. And she has demonstrated this live on television. Her conclusion is: “You can easily edit the election.”

 

While Diebold denounced these claims, email threads I acquired through digging indicate their knowledge of said bugs in some form or another in their systems and how circumventing was done to avoid detection including halting google searches on the company and the keyword bug, as to not increase the chances of those two keywords coming up in the registry upon searching the company.

 

Attached below are a few separate emails from various members of the company. (At the end of this article I will post the rest of the email threads I have currently, as to not be selective in only picking out certain conversations.) Pay attention to the name Ian Piper in the separate email below as well. Though he didn’t partake in the email thread below regarding the glitch, he was the Compliance Officer of Diebold Election Systems. This is important in many ways.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/dominion-voting-systems-connecting-dots/

 

PART 1

Anonymous ID: c93019 Nov. 22, 2020, 12:30 p.m. No.11741059   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1072 >>1153

>>11741037

 

So, having worked for a company prior known to have widespread issues that lacked transparency, and therefore the trust of the American People due to irregularities with their systems in the election process dating back 20 years. So why would Dominion keep an employee on their payroll from those volatile times instead of hiring someone with the same qualifications but a more transparent personal and professional record? Because, as I stated earlier, it was never about fixing these errors so much as hiding them among different aliases. Take that as my opinion if you will, but it’s a hypothesis I stand firm on.

 

Attached below are various documents signed by or written by Ian Piper while employed by Dominion Voting Systems in order to verify the validity of my previous statements and accusations.

 

Part 2

Anonymous ID: c93019 Nov. 22, 2020, 12:32 p.m. No.11741072   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>11741059

 

Fast forward to July 16, 2018.

Dominion makes the decision to sell to Staple Street Capital LLC. An investment firm based out of New York.

 

Upon further investigation, I noticed something odd about Staple Street and its members. Half of the executive team in some way or another, has ties to or has worked there prior to, an investment hedge fund corporation called “The Carlyle Group”. Though it’s a minor detail to some, a major detail that stuck out to me, is that George Soros donated $100 Million towards a smaller subsidiary of the group.

Washington Post Article Below:

 

Whether people choose to investigate further into him or not, you’ll find that wherever Soros is, trouble follows. Be it financial strain upon a country, or public discourse instead.

Focusing our attention back onto the members of Dominion, after glancing over the Executive Team and noticing those details, you’ll notice one even greater detail.

One of the Sitting Board Members of Staple Street:

 

A Google inquiry into Mr. Kennard being a Sitting Board Member of Staple Street LLC. will be a hit and miss. Staple Street has since taken down everything off their website including the Executive Members and Board Members links. The homepage is generic and lacks any other information besides an “About Us” excerpt. Digital footprints always remain in one form or another, so I managed to find more information including screenshots of the original website before it was erased. Ill attach them below this. Before I do, what I find odd as others should too, is how a Ranking Board Member of the Corporation that just bought out the company who manufactures the voting systems we are using for this year’s Presidential Election isn’t in some shape or form a conflict of interest given his affiliation with not just Bill Clinton and his Administration, but Barack Obama and his administration as well.

(To make it even weirder, Bloomberg took down Kennards biography which I screenshotted as well.)

 

(After you read, I will now leave it you to decide for yourself what is fact and what is fiction. I partook in vast amounts of research further into these topics, people and corporations I discussed and came to the conclusions I did. If you see what I’m seeing and it has you wanting to find out more as I did, I hope you too start doing your own investigative research and start connecting the dots as I have.- Blade Coplin)

 

Part 3

 

End

Anonymous ID: c93019 Nov. 22, 2020, 12:35 p.m. No.11741101   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1120

Dutch slaughter 190,000 chickens following highly-contagious bird flu break-out at poultry farms

 

The Netherlands has carried out a mass culling of chickens, after at least two poultry farms detected a highly contagious strain of bird flu.

 

Health workers killed around 100,000 hens at a poultry farm in a village located in the Dutch province of Utrecht. An additional 90,000 chicks were culled in the northern part of the country.

Read more

Danish agriculture minister resigns over illegal order to cull 17m mink over mutated Covid-19 strain Danish agriculture minister resigns over illegal order to cull 17m mink over mutated Covid-19 strain

 

The Dutch agriculture ministry said in both cases “a highly contagious strain of the H5 variant” of bird flu was suspected. The two farms have since been cleared to continue operations.

 

The culling comes a month after Dutch Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten ordered an indoor containment of all animals on commercial poultry farms, following the discovery of two dead swans that tested positive for the similarly contagious H5N8 bird flu.

 

The Dutch are no strangers to bird flu-related cullings. In November 2016, 190,000 ducks were slaughtered at six farms, following the discovery of the virus in a village located 70km (43 miles) east of Amsterdam.

 

The Avian flu virus usually doesn’t infect people, but animal to human transmission has been recorded in the past. Contagious strains of the virus can spread quickly among bird species, sickening or killing the infected animal.

 

Like many countries, the Netherlands has become more proactive about potential public health dangers as it struggles to contain a second wave of coronavirus. The nation reported more than 6,000 new positive tests on Saturday.

 

Earlier this month, Danish authorities ordered the culling of the country’s 17 million farmed minks, which are raised for their fur, after a mutated version of Covid-19 was found to have spread from the animals to humans. Denmark’s agriculture minister resigned over the order, which was initially ruled to be unlawful. However, the government has moved ahead with the plans, arguing that it could seek legal grounds for the culling retroactively.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/507476-dutch-culling-chickens-bird-flu/

Anonymous ID: c93019 Nov. 22, 2020, 12:37 p.m. No.11741128   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Saudi-backed Forces Retreat From Maas Base In Yemen’s Marib Province

 

Saudi-backed forces are on retreating in the Yemeni province of Marib under strikes of Ansar Allah (also known as the Houthis):

 

On November 20, Ansar Allah captured Maas Base in the western part of Marib province;

On November 21, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 15 airstrikes on the Madghal area;

On November 22, clashes between Ansar Allah and Saudi-led forces continue in Wadi Maas.

 

https://southfront.org/map-update-saudi-backed-forces-retreat-from-maas-base-in-yemens-marib-province/

Anonymous ID: c93019 Nov. 22, 2020, 12:44 p.m. No.11741214   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Health Ministry: Stay out of the sea at every beach in Israel

 

Government urges public to avoid swimming in Mediterranean due to massive pollution after country's drainage system failed to cope with recent heavy rain; Environmental Protection Ministry probing waste leak at Nahal Poleg

 

The Health Ministry on Sunday warned the public to refrain from entering the sea at every beach across the country, due to fear of runoff and polluted drainage making its way into the sea as a result of the recent heavy rainfall.

 

The ministry also advised the public to avoid bathing near Nahal Poleg and its adjacent beaches in the Sharon region, due to the flow of sewage into the river caused by a defective pipe in a nearby waste treatment plant.

 

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/S1WE0GdqP

Anonymous ID: c93019 Nov. 22, 2020, 12:45 p.m. No.11741222   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1254

Rand Paul issued one warning about Dr. Fauci that left Americans red with rage

 

Dr. Fauci’s come under heavy fire after his activism during the campaign to try and elect Joe Biden.

 

It’s become clear that political calculations guided some of Dr. Fauci’s comments during the last several months.

 

Rand Paul issued one warning about Dr. Fauci that left Americans red with rage.

 

In an appearance on Newsmax TV, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul – who is also a trained doctor – blasted Dr. Facui for his insistence on mandating masks.

 

Senator Paul pointed to an explosion in COVID-19 cases despite 37 states implementing mask mandates as evidence the strategy of using masks and social distancing lockdowns to control the pandemic was a failure.

 

“The incidence of COVID-positive individuals has gone through the roof . . . The masks aren’t working, social distancing isn’t working. What is my proof? The numbers. The numbers are going through the roof. So all these mask mandates have had no effect on it. The incidence of the virus has gotten worse since we’ve done lockdowns. We should not comfort ourselves with masks,” Paul told host Bob Sellers.

 

Dr. Fauci claims that even with a vaccine Americas will be wearing masks until the end of 2021 and possibly into 2022.

 

Rand Paul explained that the only public health intervention that will end the pandemic is a vaccine and it cannot wait until April.

 

Senator Paul believes Americans should have access before that point because lockdowns and mask mandates have proven to be failures.

 

“We should push hard to get the vaccine released. I think it’s ready to go for those who are willing to sign an informed consent and voluntarily take it. And I think millions of people would sign up, and we would very quickly get to a large enough number that people would be more satisfied with the safety . . . I would get it out there, I wouldn’t wait. Fauci’s talking about April. I think that’s a terrible idea. He’s going to keep us masked until the end of time, which does very little of anything to change the course of this,” Senator Paul concluded.

 

https://patriotpulse.net/rand-paul-issued-one-warning-about-dr-fauci-that-left-americans-red-with-rage/

Anonymous ID: c93019 Nov. 22, 2020, 12:50 p.m. No.11741284   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1315

Glenn Greenwald Levels MSM Journo Who Claims He's 'Endangering' CIA-Mouthpiece Media

 

Glenn Greenwald is starting his post-Intercept life as a freelance journalist with a bang…

 

Last week, he threw haymakers at corporate media - calling out NBC and CNN for hiring "little hall monitor dweebs whose only purpose is to pressure other platforms to censor or block the voices that are most threatening to them" (which is exactly what happened to Zero Hedge and The Federalist).

 

One of said "dweebs," NBC's Ben Collins, engaged, replying: "Good to hear from you. I've got a few questions," to which Greenwald said: "NBC News is a huge corporate conglomerate that has always existed to disseminate US Govt, CIA and corporate propaganda … Does your employment there ever make you think that your self-conception as a brave, intrepid journalist confronting corrupt power centers might be a fraud?"

 

Calling out the MSM's links to the CIA sent MSM journalist Sulome Anderson over the edge. Anderson, whose AP journalist father was was held hostage by Hezbollah for six years in the 80s, tweeted: "This crosses a line. Like some of his protégés, Glenn is endangering journalists working in perilous environments by telling his massive following that they are mouthpieces for U.S. intelligence. NBC reporters work in places where any affiliation with the CIA is life-threatening."

 

He then proceeded to excoriate the press as he furthered his point:

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/glenn-greenwald-levels-msm-journo-who-claims-hes-endangering-cia-mouthpiece-media

Anonymous ID: c93019 Nov. 22, 2020, 12:51 p.m. No.11741293   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Barack Obama reveals ‘smartest Gulf leader’ in new book

 

Former U.S. President Barack Obama revealed in his new book who he considers the smartest leader in the Gulf region.

 

In his memoirs, which were recently published under the title “A Promised Land”, Obama granted this title to the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed. He also spoke about the contradiction in his administration’s handling of the protests in 2011 in Egypt and Bahrain, the U.A.E’s position on these events, and Washington’s vision towards them.

 

The former U.S. president indicated that he had persuaded former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down from power, adding that he knew that the transition that Egypt witnessed after that was “just the beginning of a struggle for the soul of the Arab world.”

 

Obama recalled a conversation he had with bin Zayed at this time, describing the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi as “an experienced young man close to the Saudis and perhaps the smartest leader in the Gulf who did not elaborate words in describing how news was received in the region.”

 

Obama revealed that the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi in that conversation informed him of the Gulf leaders ‘concern about the possibility that Washington would take a similar position in the event of the outbreak of popular opposition protests in Bahrain (and this happened soon in fact) and support the protesters’ demands for King Hamad bin Isa to step down from power.

 

The former president added that he had informed bin Zayed of his endeavor to “avoid having to choose between the Muslim Brotherhood “group and the possible violent clashes between governments and their peoples.”

 

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/barack-obama-reveals-smartest-gulf-leader-in-new-book/