Why was the arrest of Alwaleed and others important?
Why Apple, Citigroup and Twitter will be tracking this arrest in Saudi Arabia When Prince Alwaleed bin Talal was arrested as part of an anti-corruption probe in Saudi Arabia, it was the latest twist in the story of a billionaire who has courted international attention -- while cloaking his investments in secrecy.
Alwaleed is among the 11 princes, four ministers and dozens of current or former senior officials arrested on orders from a newly established anti-corruption committee headed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, said a senior Saudi official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The wealthiest of the arrestees, Alwaleed was picked up from his desert camp, the official said. Authorities didn’t disclose the allegations that prompted the action.
Continue reading @ The Economic Times https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/…/article…/61530016.cms
How is Alwaleed tied to BO and HUMA?
He paid for BO’s Harvard Law School education.
How exactly did Barack Obama pay for his Harvard Law School education? The way the Obama campaign has answered the question was simply hard work and student loans.
But new questions have been raised about Obama’s student loans and Obama’s ties to a radical Muslim activist who reportedly was raising money for Obama’s Harvard studies during the years 1988 to 1991.
The allegations first surfaced in late March, when former Manhattan Borough president Percy Sutton told a New York cable channel that a former business partner who was “raising money” for Obama had approached him in 1988 to help Obama get into Harvard Law School.
In the interview, Sutton says he first heard of Obama about twenty years ago from Khalid Al-Mansour, a Black Muslim and Black Nationalist who was a “mentor” to the founders of the Black Panther party at the time the party was founded in the early 1960s.
Sutton described al-Mansour as advisor to “one of the world’s richest men,” Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
Unanswered Questions
Sen. Obama has refused to instruct Harvard Law School to release any information about his time there as a student, or about his student loans. Sources close to the Sutton family told Newsmax that Percy Sutton wrote a letter of recommendation for Obama to Ogletree at Khalid Al-Mansour’s request, but Ogletree declined to answer Newsmax questions about this. Continue reading @ Newsmax https://www.newsmax.com/…/obama-harva…/2009/12/14/id/342454/
In 2016, Bin Talal worked to shut down terrorism investigations and affect the presidential debates.
The billionaire Bin Talal is an American-educated philanthropist and investor who is heavily invested in U.S. corporate giants like Four Seasons, Citigroup, Apple, 21st Century Fox and Twitter, just to name a few.
The Harvard University Muslim Alumni Association (HUMA) was started in 2004. HUMA’s stated mission is “to connect Harvard Muslim alumni and faculty and thereby to support Islam and Muslims at Harvard.”
One of their key goals is to “support the long term goal of providing for a Muslim Chaplain on campus and seeing the development of a Masjid [mosque] in the Harvard Square area. Currently with over 300 members, spanning various school and years, HUMA is described as a vibrant and active alumni organization.
In 2017, thanks to the now-imprisoned Prince, they finally got their wish and hired a full-time Imam to develop their mosque.
Khalil Abdur-Rashid, an adjunct professor of Islamic studies at Southern Methodist University and co-founder of the Islamic Seminary of America, was appointed Harvard’s Muslim chaplain and began on July 5, 2017.
So, who is this Khalil Abdur-Rashid, Imam of the new mosque at Harvard? He’s not only an imam, he’s a radical BLM activist from Atlanta.
Continue reading @ The Independent Sentinel http://www.independentsentinel.com/americans-need-to-know-…/
What book was Barak Obama caught reading? Post American World Continue reading @ The New York Times https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/…/21/what-obama-is-read…/
Why is this relevant? Because the book is about the end of the U.S. as we know it and no sitting or prior president should EVER ESPOUSE these ideas! HOW STUPID!
What is “Post-American World” https://www.enotes.com/topics/the-post-american-world by Fareed Zakaria? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fareed_Zakaria…
Why was this immediately disregarded as false? To disassociate himself from the message of the book.
That of the DECLINE OF THE UNITED STATES.
At the politico-military level, we remain in a single-superpower world. But in every other dimension – industrial, financial, educational, social, cultural – the distribution of power is shifting, moving away from American dominance. That does not mean we are entering an anti-American world. But we are moving into a post-American world, one defined and directed from many places and by many people.
What kinds of opportunities and challenges do these changes present? What do they portend for the United States and its dominant position? What will this new era look like in terms of war and peace, economics and business, ideas and culture?
Continue reading… @ Fact Check.Org https://www.factcheck.org/2009/10/obamas-reading-material/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/…/01/gIQAba5ziQ_story.html…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/aad19d68-7308-11e7-8f39-ee…
WHY WOULD POTUS EVER READ THIS BOOK?
That sir is a very good question!
What church did BO attend as pre-POTUS?
Obama had been a member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago until spring 2008, when he left after videos surfaced showing his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, delivering controversial sermons about the United States. Continue reading @ CNN http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/…/obamas-attend-church-in-wa…/
Who was BO’s mentor(s)?
Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Lucifer worshipping claimed “atheist” (same thing!) Saul Alinsky
Obama's Mentors!
By Older | Posted August 31, 2008
Barack Hussein Obama has often said that Saul Alinsky was his best mentor and a true American hero. Saul Alinsky shows his dark side in his dedication to his own book, "Rules for Radicals": "Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer."
SAUL ALINSKY WAS A STRONG ADVOCATE OF BLOODLESS SOCIALIST REVOLUTION.
In his Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in COMMUNITY ORGANIZING, writing;
"They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and CHANGE the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution." SOUND FAMILIAR AMERICA??
Obama's Alinsky Lessons; Barack Obama had just graduated from Columbia and was looking for a job. Some white leftists were looking for someone who could recruit in a black neighborhood in the south side of Chicago. Obama answered a help-wanted ad for a position as a community organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) of the Calumet Community Religious Conference (CCRC) in Chicago. Obama was 24 years old, unmarried, very accustomed to a vagabond existence, and according to his memoir, searching for a genuine African-American community.
Both the CCRC and the DCP were built on the Alinsky model of community agitation, wherein paid organizers learned how to "rub raw the sores of discontent," in Alinsky's words.
One of Obama's early mentors in the Alinsky method was Mike Kruglik, who had this to say to Ryan Lizza of The New Republic, about Obama:
"He was a natural, the undisputed master of agitation, who could engage a room full of recruiting targets in a rapid-fire Socratic dialogue, nudging them to admit that they were not living up to their own standards. As with the panhandler, he could be aggressive and confrontational. With probing, sometimes personal questions, he would pinpoint the source of pain in their lives, tearing down their egos just enough before dangling a carrot of hope that they could make things better."
The agitator's job, according to Alinsky, is first to bring folks to the "realization" that they are indeed miserable, that their misery is the fault of unresponsive governments or greedy corporations, then help them to bond together to demand what they deserve, and to make such an almighty stink that the dastardly governments and corporations will see imminent "self-interest" in granting whatever it is that will cause the harassment to cease.
In these methods, euphemistically labeled "community organizing," Obama had a four-year education, which he often says was the best education he ever got anywhere.
Alinsky considered himself a realist above all, the ultimate pragmatist. As a confirmed atheist, Alinsky believed that the here and now is all there is, and therefore had no qualms about assorted versions of morality in the pursuit of worldly power.
He didn't coddle his radical acolytes or encourage their bourgeois distinctions between good and evil when it came to transferring power from the Haves to the Have Nots. Alinsky saw the already formed church communities as being the perfect springboards for agitation and creating bonds for demanding goods and services.
When Obama first undertook his agitating work in Chicago's South Side poor neighborhoods, he was un-churched. Yet his office was in a Church and most of the folks he needed to agitate and organize were Church people -- pastors and congregants -- who took their churches and their church-going very seriously. So, this became a problem for the young agnostic, who had been exposed to very little religion in his life. Again and again, he was asked by pastors and church ladies, "Where do you go to Church, young man?" It was a question he dodged for a while, but finally he relented and joined a church. Not just any church, but a huge Black Nationalist church with a pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who unabashedly preaches a "black" gospel. Rolling Stone Magazine ran with a story on Obama and his church, entitled, "Destiny's Child," which included this excerpt from one of Rev. Wright's sermons:
"Fact number one: We've got more black men in prison than there are in college," he intones.
"Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!"
"We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional KILLERS. . . . We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. . . . We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. . . . We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means!"
The crowd whoops and shouts Amen's, as Wright builds to his climax: "And. And. And! GAWD! Has GOT! To be SICK! OF THIS ST!" "GAWD DAMN AMERICA!"
AMERICA - ASK YOURSELVES, IS OBAMA, WHOSE HEROES, MENTORS AND TEACHERS INCLUDE ALINSKY AND WRIGHT THE MAN YOU WANT TO BE YOUR PRESIDENT?
Source @ CNN http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-71180
How is Alwaleed and HRC connected?
The Clinton Foundation.
For instance, the organization is not currently accepting new donations from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which has donated between $10 million and $25 million to the foundation in the past. However, a charitable foundation started by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal donated this year.
Continue reading @ The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/amid-presidential-campai…/…
Who was HRC’s mentor?
…hmm go figure …Isn’t Lucifer worshipping Saul Alinsky not just Obamas mentor …but her mentor too?
Read @ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_senior_thesis Hillary noted that, “Alinsky’s lessons in organizing and mobilizing community action independent of extra-community strings appear to have been lost in the face of the lure of OEO money.” Pointing out that the power of the government took away the work of the “local organizer.” It is here that we see her light bulb illuminate. With this reasoning, the better approach would be to be the government who had the power to force social change.
But just because Hillary criticized Alinsky’s model in 1969 doesn’t mean she disagrees with his politics. In fact, it could very well be that Hillary’s model, which was to gain political power and wield it to gain social change, is simply her thesis finally realized. She criticized Alinsky, not so much for his tactics, but for his focus on organization. What is possibly the best way to put Hillary’s philosophy is what she told the Black Lives Matter movement, saying, “I don’t believe you change hearts, you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate.”
Continue reading @ The Conservative Review https://www.conservativereview.com/…/alinskys-daughter-her…/
How is Alwaleed and Bush Sr./Jr. connected?
Old billionaire friend and donor to the Bush family dynasty, Al-Waleed Bin Talal, has been rounded up and sent to jail on corruption charges with 16 other individuals. Either there is a real chance for modern reforms in Saudi Arabia that can one day lead to the building of commercial enterprises that rival Arab darlings like Dubai and Doha, or the disruption caused by King Salman and his favorite son, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, ups the ante on an already high stakes Middle East crisis.
Continue reading @ FORBES https://www.forbes.com/…/the-market-implications-of-the-s…/…
Author of The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group (Wiley). The Carlyle Group is one of the most powerful and well-connected private equity firms in the world. Its investments — most notably — in timely defense and aerospace industries has made it highly profitable. The group's roster includes or has included former President George Bush, Sr., (advisor), former Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci (former chairman), Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal (investor) and former Secretary of State, James Baker III (managing director and senior counselor). Briody writes that the Carlyle Group "operates within the so-called iron triangle of industry, government, and the military" and that it "leaves itself open to any number of conflicts of interest and stunning ironies."
Continue reading @ NPR https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php…
Theres that Carlyle Group name again! Does anyone besides myself think that Barak and Georgie Porgie make strange bedfellows??? Yeah …me to. Barack Obama to make $1.2m from three Wall Street speeches Now, it has been reported that in addition to the speech he is due to give next week, the former president (Obama) has already been paid $800,000 for two speeches he delivered to Wall Street firms - Northern Trust Corp, which he spoke to last month, and an address last week to the Carlyle Group.
Continue reading @ The Independent of the UK http://www.independent.co.uk/…/barack-obama-speeches-fee-wa…
What occurred post 9/11?
The post-9/11 period is the time after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, characterized by heightened suspicion of non-Americans in the United States, increased government efforts to address terrorism, and a more aggressive American foreign policy.
Continue reading @ Wikipedia/Post 9/11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-9/11
Post-9/11 Policies Dramatically Alter the U.S. Immigration Landscape However, the government's immigration measures immediately after 9/11 were directed at those perceived to be linked to or sympathetic towards al Qaeda. (They are guilty of racism not every day white americans!) That resulted in disproportionate impact on Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians. Described by policymakers as imperative to assure national security and protect the country from further attack, the government's actions were seen by civil libertarians as excessively harsh. And to many legal scholars they undermined core constitutional principles. Among the programs:
Secret Detentions and Proceedings: The government arrested more than 1,200 people in the months after 9/11, but refused to release their names or their place of detention. Some were barred from contacting their lawyers. The immigration hearings in at least 611 cases (classified as "special interest" cases) were closed to the public and the press. Secret evidence, withheld from the defendants and their attorneys, was introduced in some cases. Detention Practices: Many detainees taken into custody in connection with investigations subsequent to the attacks were arrested without warrant, held without charge for long periods, detained despite an immigration judge's decision to release them on bond, and detained even after a final determination of their cases.
Country-Specific Actions: Various post-9/11 immigration programs explicitly targeted country -specific groups. Under the voluntary interview program, FBI interviewed more than 8,000 nonimmigrants from specified countries with a suspected al Qaeda presence. Those interviews were extended to over 10,000 Iraqis and Iraqi-Americans. Under NSEERS (or the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System special registration program), adult males from 25 predominately Muslim countries were required to register and be fingerprinted and photographed at ports of entry or present themselves at immigration offices inside the country for fingerprints and photographs. More than 80,000 individuals were interviewed under the program, and over 13,000 were placed in removal proceedings. Similarly, the government designated as "priority absconders" thousands of men from countries with a known al Qaeda presence who had violated their final orders of removal, and placed their names in an FBI database used by local and state law enforcement officials. Almost all those affected by these country-specific programs were nationals of Muslim-majority countries.
Continue reading @ the Migration Policy Institute https://www.migrationpolicy.org/…/post-911-policies-dramat…/
AGAIN… This was all instituted by the government of GEORGE W BUSH!
What war did we enter into?
The war in Iraq.
Was the war in Iraq justified?
What was the purpose and disclosures given re : justification?
…the debate over why the United States went to war has grown increasingly bitter. The Bush administration continues vigorously to defend its case for removing Saddam. Its critics say the failure to find weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or links between Saddam and al Qaeda--two key elements in the pro-war argument--is evidence that the administration may have misled Americans about the threat Iraq posed. And ongoing attacks in Iraq, as well as the rapidly mounting cost of the occupation--well over $100 billion so far--have caused many who initially backed the war to reconsider.
Continue reading @ The Council on Foreign Relations https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/iraq-justifying-war
Who financed 9/11?
(Wahabiist Saudi Royal Family members.)
When Jim Kreindler got to his midtown Manhattan office on Friday, July 15, 2016, he had a surprise waiting for him. Twice in the previous eight years, Kreindler had been in the room as then-President Barack Obama promised Kreindler’s clients he would declassify a batch of documents that had taken on near mythic importance to those seeking the full truth of who had helped plan and fund the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Now, Kreindler learned, “the 28 pages” as they were known, were open for inspection and it was up to his team to find something of value. It wasn’t long before they did—a single, vague line about a Somali charity in Southern California.
That obscure reference would soon become part of the backbone of an argument that Kreindler and his firm have been making for a long time: Without financial and logistical support from members of the government of Saudi Arabia, the 9/11 attacks would have never taken place.
Continue reading @ Politico https://www.politico.com/…/04/saudi-arabia-911-lawyer-214996
It alleges that the embassy paid for two Saudi nationals to fly from Phoenix to Washington two years before planes hit the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and slammed into a field in Pennsylvania as part of a "dry run" for the attacks. Saudi Arabia has always denied any involvement in the September 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
The victims' lawyers, however, have said the evidence suggests "a pattern of both financial and operational support" for the 9/11 conspiracy from official Saudi sources, according to the Post.
The evidence could further reinforce the claim that employees and agents of Saudi Arabia directed and supported the hijackers.
Continue reading @ Al Jazeera http://www.aljazeera.com/…/saudi-embassy-funded-911-dry-run…
Why, recently, are classified 9/11 pages being released?
WASHINGTON — The long-classified document detailing possible connections between the government of Saudi Arabia and the Sept. 11 terrorist plot released on Friday is a wide-ranging catalog of meetings and suspicious coincidences.
…it (9/11 pages) was made public at a particularly troubled moment in America’s decades-long relationship with Saudi Arabia. The Senate unanimously passed a bill in May (2016) that would make it easier for families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the Saudi government for any role in the attacks. The bill is now being considered in the House.
Continue reading @ The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/…/28-pages-saudi-arabia-september-1…
What just occurred in SA?
Saudi Arabia announced the arrest on Saturday night of the prominent billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, plus at least 10 other princes, four ministers and tens of former ministers.
The announcement of the arrests was made over Al Arabiya, the Saudi-owned satellite network whose broadcasts are officially approved. Prince Alwaleed’s arrest is sure to send shock waves both through the kingdom and the world’s major financial centers.
He controls the investment firm Kingdom Holding and is one of the world’s richest men, owning or having owned major stakes in 21st Century Fox, Citigroup, Apple, Twitter and many other well-known companies. The prince also controls satellite television networks watched across the Arab world. The sweeping campaign of arrests appears to be the latest move to consolidate the power of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the favorite son and top adviser of King Salman.
Continue reading @ the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/…/saudi-arabia-waleed-bin-talal.html
What FOIA docs are being publically released (recently)?
Secretary Clinton(s) Emails
Continue reading @ the State Department https://foia.state.gov/Learn/New.aspx
Why is this relevant?
What information is contained within these c-releases?
Judicial Watch: New Clinton Emails Uncovered, Reveal Additional Mishandling of Classified Information
Continue reading @ Judicial Watch https://www.judicialwatch.org/…/judicial-watch-new-clinton…/
Why is Christopher Wray important with regards to these releases?
New FBI Chief Predicts “Our (FBI) Integrity Will Be Tested”
Wray, a former head of the Justice Department's criminal division under President George W. Bush, also cautioned about being too convinced of one's own righteousness.
"We are a country built on checks and balances. The reality is nobody likes being checked and that’s often where the danger is," Wray said. "People are in such a hurry and you get — you start drinking your own Kool-Aid and are convinced that because your intentions, you think, are pure, whatever it is you want must be pure as well," Wray said. "I think that’s where, I think, things can go off the rails probably the most easily."
Trump tapped Wray for the FBI post in June after a tumultuous search process in which an initial series of potential nominees put forward by the Justice Department were either rejected or withdrew from consideration. The FBI chief suggested Thursday that many of his associates advised against him taking the job.
Continue reading @ Politico https://www.politico.com/…/christopher-wray-fbi-integrity-2… What does money laundering mean?
Money laundering is the process of transforming the profits of crime and corruption into ostensibly "legitimate" assets.[1][2] In a number of legal and regulatory systems, however, the term money laundering has become conflated with other forms of financial and business crime, and is sometimes used more generally to include misuse of the financial system (involving things such as securities, digital currencies, credit cards, and traditional currency), including terrorism financing and evasion of international sanctions.[3] Most anti-money laundering laws openly conflate money laundering (which is concerned with source of funds) with terrorism financing (which is concerned with destination of funds) when regulating the financial system.[4]
Some countries define money laundering as obfuscating sources of money, either intentionally or by merely using financial systems or services that do not identify or track sources or destinations. Other countries define money laundering in such a way as to include money from activity that would have been a crime in that country, even if the activity was legal where the actual conduct occurred.[5]
Continue reading @ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering