Hillary Clinton and the Death of Truth in Liberal America

From: Conservative HQ

by - George Rasley, CHQ Editor | 4/27/2015


In the conservativehq.com article “A Congress of Lies” posted November 11, 2011 CHQ Chairman Richard A. Viguerie made the point that “The Tea Party rebellion came into being in large measure due to the perception among middle class taxpayers that America’s major establishment institutions were corrupt -- and there is no more compelling evidence of just how far the American political system has been corrupted by Washington’s insider culture, than how common and accepted lying has become among the political elite of Capitol Hill.”

Our friend Diana West, author of two “must read” books, American Betrayal and The Death of the Grown-Up, makes and develops a similar point, concluding that over the past 80 years or so Americans have developed a strange inability to become adults who render judgments of right and wrong. 

West makes a persuasive case that the root of this malaise began with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s recognition of the Soviet Union and the body of lies that Americans have been fed ever since to justify normalizing a relationship with the abnormal.

West and Viguerie share a similar conclusion about the effect the endemic lying which now corrupts practically every aspect of American politics and culture, which West defines as “…this moral surrender to deception and self-deception that sent us down the long road to moral relativism, ‘political correctness,’ and other cultural ills that have left us unable to ask the hard questions…”

The latest, and perhaps final chapter of this surrender to moral relativism, and the elimination of allegiance to objective fact as the standard by which all matters must be judged, is playing out in the rapidly evolving scandal regarding foreign government contributions to the Clinton Foundation, Bill Clinton’s speaking fees and policy-making by Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State as documented in Peter Schweizer's new book “Clinton Cash.”

Objectively, as far as we can tell from the pre-release excerpts published in establishment and conservative outlets, there is a wealth of facts indicating that Hillary Clinton violated the Memorandum of Understanding she had with the State Department and the Obama administration regarding the conduct of her relationship with the Clinton Foundation and its donors.

Objectively, as far as we can tell from the pre-release excerpts published in establishment and conservative outlets, there is a wealth of facts indicating that Hillary Clinton violated the constitutional and statutory prohibitions against accepting gifts from foreign governments.

None of these facts seem to interest Democratic Party elected officials and Party operatives who should have some allegiance to the higher interests of their Party and its principles.

None of these facts seem to interest major figures in the liberal sisterhood of powerful female media personalities, academics, activists and donors who make-up the core of Hillary Clinton’s political base.

And even more worryingly, none of these facts seem to interest major figures in the establishment media, such as former Clinton spokesman, now ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos.

As our friend Matt Boyle put it in his coverage of Peter Schweizer’s appearance* on ABC News’ This Week, Stephanopoulos was “floored” as two prominent journalists and the Republican Speaker of the House from his Clinton days, Newt Gingrich, laid out for him during a segment of the show just how bad the “Clinton Cash” book is for his old bosses.

During the show’s roundtable panel after "Clinton Cash" author Peter Schweizer appeared for a lengthy interview, Stephanopoulos teamed with Democratic strategist Donna Brazile (a leading member of the liberal sisterhood backing Hillary Clinton) in an attempt to discredit Schweizer.

Brazile admitted she doesn’t know what’s in the book. Yet, without having read it, she proceeded to drop a series of rhetorical attacks on Schweizer. She also offered the Clinton campaign advice on how to attempt to get past Clinton Cash.

“Well, George, I haven’t read the whole book—I’m sure it’s still being rewritten somewhere because the newspapers and other publications are already disputing some of the facts and the claims in his book,” Brazile said according to Boyle’s reporting. “But there are more drippings in this book than juice or sauce and what the campaign needs to do—and they did it last week—is go ahead and respond to these allegations. They’re scurrilous. We’re going to see more of them as the campaign goes along but respond to them and continue to reach out to voters and ignore all of this background noise. That’s what they need to do.”

When Newt Gingrich, a member of that segment’s panel said, “Look, this isn’t a political problem—this is a historical problem,” Gingrich said. “The Constitution of the United States says you cannot take money from foreign governments without explicit permission of the Congress. They wrote that in there because they knew the danger of corrupting our system by foreign money is enormous.

“You had a sitting Secretary of State who radically increased his speech fees and there is a whole series of dots on the wall now where people gave millions of dollars who oh, by the way, happened to get taken care of by the State Department. You raised a good standard.

“And of course, having been on the Watergate Committee, she knew exactly what to do. She erased 33,000 emails. Richard Nixon only erased 18 minutes. So you’re going to have a prima facie case that any jury would look at…”

Stephanopoulos and Brazile flatly refused to countenance any notion that what Hillary and Bill Clinton did presented a prima facie appearance of illegality; they refused to even accept that it was wrong for a government official to accept money from a foreign government.

To his great credit Gingrich continued to press the point. “My point is they took money from foreign governments while she was Secretary of State—that is clearly illegal,” Gingrich said. “This is not about politics. It’s illegal. It’s dangerous to America to have foreign governments get in the habit of bribing people who happen to be the husband of the Secretary of State or next president of the United States.”

“I think there’s a very simple case here—the Constitution says you can’t take this stuff, we have federal laws that say you can’t take this stuff,” Gingrich said. “If this was any person but Hillary Clinton, they’d be under indictment right now for a clearly straightforward problem.”

Bloomberg Politics’ Mark Halperin wrote what might well be the final epitaph for the death of objective truth among Democrats this way, “almost any Democrat who’s not Clintons’ payroll will tell reporters and others privately that these are serious issues,” but they are so corrupted by the death of truth and what Diana West calls “normalizing the abnormal” that, as far as we can tell, as of today none of have come out publicly and said the conduct of Bill and Hillary Clinton documented by Peter Schweizer in “Clinton Cash,” whether or not it is illegal, is wrong.

And if what’s documented in “Clinton Cash” isn’t wrong to Democrats, then nothing Bill and Hillary Clinton might do in the White House will be wrong either.

Please click the link to read Matt Boyle's article "Stephanopoulos Floored As Gingrich, Bloomberg Editors Detail Seriousness Of 'Clinton Cash'"


God bless,
JohnnyD

The real reason for Obama's executive amnesty

Limbaugh: 'These efforts behind the scenes are taking place even now'

 

From: World Net Daily-  4-27-15

 

 

The Obama administration is facing new accusations that the president’s amnesty-for-illegals program is focused on getting enough immigrants to  register as Democrat voters to keep his party in power in 2016.
 
According to J. Christian Adams, a former Department of Justice attorney who writes at PJ Media, President Obama’s “amnesty by edict has always been about adding new Democrats to the voter rolls, and recent action by the Department of Homeland Security provides further proof.
 
“Sources at the Department of Homeland Security report to PJ Media that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services is reallocating significant resources away from a computer system – the ‘Electronic Immigration System’ – to sending letters to all 9,000,000 green card holders urging them to naturalize prior to the 2016 election.”
 
He cites a CIS letter about the urgency of having “people who live in this country” participating “fully” in their communities.
 
Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh jumped on the issue Monday.
 
“You know the objective is to get them to vote,” he said.

 

“The objective all along here has been the registration of illegal aliens as Democrats. That’s gonna happen one way or the other. That’s what all of this talk is about. What’s newsworthy here is that it has been learned that the Department of Homeland Security is mobilizing now to essentially create 9 million new registered Democrats by the 2016 election among current green-card holders.”

He continued: “They’re putting everything in place so that when Obama decides to go executive amnesty, it’s not the beginning of any process, it’s just the period. It’s just the last thing to happen. … In fact, it’ll be the end of the process of getting them registered to vote because while Obama is waiting to sign [executive amnesty], these efforts going on behind the scenes to get these people registered [are] taking place EVEN NOW.”

 

Adams cited a recent letter signed by Leon Rodriguez, co-chairman of the Task Force on New Americans, on the letterhead of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

 

Rodriguez, Adams said, “has a tainted history – not only was he a central player in the radicalization of Eric Holder’s Civil Rights Division, he also ‘undertook a purportedly illegal search’ of a government employee’s computer in Montgomery County, Maryland. (Messy details are at the Washington Post.)”

 

The letter cites the White House task force regarding new Americans.

 

“This report outlines an immigrant integration plan that will advance our nation’s global competitiveness and ensure that the people who live in this country can fully participate in their communities.”

 

Wrote Adams: “‘Full participation’ is a term commonly used to include voting rights. To that end, resources within DHS have been redirected toward pushing as many aliens and non-citizens as possible to full citizenship status so they may ‘fully participate’ in the 2016 presidential election. For example, the internal DHS letter states one aim is to ‘strengthen existing pathways to naturalization and promote civic engagement.’”

 

Adams said naturalization plus mobilization is the explicit aim of the’Task Force on New Americans.

 

“Multiple sources at DHS confirm that political appointees are prioritizing naturalization ahead of the 2016 presidential election,” he said.

 

He noted that voting patterns reveal new voters overwhelmingly choose Democrat candidates.

 

“If the empirical rates of support for Democrats continued among these newly naturalized minority voters, Democrats could enjoy an electoral net benefit of millions of new voters in the 2016 presidential election.”

 

Adams explained: “One DHS official who disagrees with the administration’s policies told me DHS ‘intends to ‘recapture’ ‘unused’ visas from years past to grant more visas and LPR [green card] status. In addition to this ‘visa blizzard,’ the agency will allow folks to jam in applications during the blizzard, knowing that the visa applicant/beneficiary is not eligible for the visa.”

 

A large part of Obama’s program has been ordered to a halt by a federal judge in Texas. The Obama administration has appealed the order to the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

 

God bless,

JohnnyD

 

 

 

Why I Can’t Be a Liberal: Words Have Meaning

From: Affluent Investor

 

by Dr. Michael Bauman -  Posted April 20, 2015

 

Here's a short story for those who are tired of how the left abuses language and those who think the Constitution died the day liberals first called it a "living" document:

When he was still a young man, my old friend the late Maurice Kelley, then of the English department at Princeton, traveled to London to examine some of John Milton's manuscripts in person.

 

Maurice rented a flat near the British museum.  But he was so eager to get his hands on Milton's texts that he went to the museum even before he went to his flat.  He found a table, sat down with his things, and requested the documents.  When they arrived, one of Maurice's chief professional goals had been met.  Right there in own hands, he had them.

 

Late in the afternoon, when the museum was about to close, its workers came through the reading room to gently shuffle the patrons outdoors.  When Maurice got outside, it was raining.  But he could not find his umbrella.

 

Nor could he find his rented flat.  He struggled manfully through his predicament, winding his way disorientedly along several rain-washed and unknown London back streets.  He was soaked to the bone and hopelessly lost.  He turned a fog-shrouded corner and on an overhead shop sign read these words:  "Umbrellas Recovered."

 

"Good," he said to himself, "perhaps this man will help me recover mine."

 

A moment's reflection, however, revealed the error:  "Recovered" meant "repaired" or "refurbished," not "retrieved."   No matter how much he wanted it to mean something else, it just did not.  The meaning of the word was up to the shop owner who put it there, not the drenched American pedestrian who read it.   The author's intention, not the reader's preference or interpretation, ruled all.

 

"At that moment," he told me sixty years later, "I stopped being a liberal because I figured out how words work."  The liberals just wouldn't adjust themselves to verbal reality.  They didn't want to be under anyone else's interpretive authority.  They didn't want the author dictating the meaning of his or her text to them, even if the word "authority" derives from the word "author."  They rejected the notion that authorial intention was the measure of meaning, even when reality would not let them.   So Maurice handed in his liberal reader's card.

 

No matter what transpired in the faculty lounge, in reality meaning is the author's prerogative; accurate interpretation is the reader's responsibility.  The accuracy of the reader's interpretation is judged by how closely that interpretation approximates the author's intention.  If you aren't sure about what the author meant, then (in Maurice's case) all one had to do was look inside the shop window.  Was it full of Sherlock Holmes sorts trying to track down lost rain gear or was it full of folks fixing broken ones?  That's the beauty and utility of context.

 

In cases where we remain unsure of the author's intention, even after looking carefully at the textual, historical, and linguistic context, then our best option is humbly to admit that we do not know.  In that case, we might say, "For reasons 1, 2, and 3, I think the author meant Y," and then be content for our readers to decide for themselves how compelling our argument really is.  But simply because an author's intention is sometimes not clear, it does not follow that something other than the author's intention is the meaning.  It implies only that we ought to be humble in our conclusions, not that we get to make up the meaning for ourselves.

 

This is true whether what we read is Scripture, the Constitution, or a love letter from a spouse.  The difference between good verbal scholarship and bad is the difference between discovery and invention:  Good scholars discover what's already there; bad scholars just make it up as they go.  Paradise Lost, the Constitution, and the Bible all had a meaning long before any modern literary critic was even born.  The scholar's task is to find meaning, not invent it.

 

Another story about Princeton and interpretation:  I was in a debate over meaning there with a feminist professor.  She spoke first, explaining why she thought that meaning was the reader's prerogative, about why a text means what the reader says it means.  After about five or ten minutes she sat down.  I went to the podium, turned to her and said, "Thank you, Professor So-and-So, for agreeing with me that meaning is the author's intention."

 

"That's not what I meant!" she exclaimed.

 

People chuckled.

 

I paused for a moment to let the point sink in.

 

Then I said it again, "Thank you, Professor So-and-So, for agreeing with me that meaning is the author's intention."

 

She couldn't defend herself without agreeing with me that indeed meaning was the author's intention.  And if she agreed with me, the debate was over.

 

I simply did to her words what she wanted to do to the words of Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, Coleridge, and the Founding Fathers -- cut them free from their authors and inject them with my own meaning.  Toward that professor's words, I acted the way she acted toward the words of dead, white, European males:  I acted as if I did not want to master words but to be the master of others' words.

She didn't like it.

 

By the way, that London shop sign still stands.  I've seen it.

 

God bless,

JohnnyD

FBI-Mexico cover-up of U.S. border ISIS camp?

From: GOPUSA

By Michael F. Haverluck, OneNewsNow.com April 20, 2015

In response to a government watchdog report exposing the presence of an ISIS training camp on the Mexican side of the Texas border, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is collaborating with officials from Ciudad Juarez to come up with a “press strategy.”

The Islamic terrorist activities allegedly based next to the southern border of the United States were divulged by Judicial Watch, asreported by ONN on Thursday.

Located just eight miles from the Texas border town of El Paso, the jihadist camp is said to exist in the midst of an area dominated by the Mexican drug cartel, Anapra, according to Judicial Watch.

Saying too much?

After the security threat was publicized by the Washington watchdog organization, FBI officials allegedly maneuvered to silence and refute the report.

“A high-level intelligence source, who must remain anonymous for safety reasons, confirmed that the meeting was convened specifically to address a press strategy to deny Judicial Watch’s accurate reporting and identify who is providing information to JW,” Judicial Watch divulged in a new update.

According to information received by WND, it was communicated to Judicial Watch that “FBI supervisory personnel met with Mexican army officers and Mexican federal police officers.”

The watchdog organization reports that the U.S. government is now engaging in some peculiar activity as it collaborates with the Mexican government over the situation and seeing who revealed what.

“The FBI liaison officers regularly assigned to Mexico were not present at the meeting and conspicuously absent were representatives from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),” Judicial Watch explained. “It’s not clear why DHS did not participate.”

Judicial Watch maintains that the frenzied mobilization efforts of U.S. government officials to get together with Mexican authorities over the issue apparently signifies that they are positioning to do something more than just deny false accusations and identify the leak.

“Publicly, U.S. and Mexico have denied that Islamic terrorists are operating in the southern border region, but the rapid deployment of FBI brass in the aftermath of JW’s report seems to indicate otherwise,” Judicial Watch stated.

It appears more than evident that top FBI officials are barking orders to Mexican officials to keep their security forces quiet.

“A Mexican army field grade officer and a Mexican federal police inspector were among the sources that confirmed to JW that ISIS is operating a camp just a few miles from El Paso, Texas,” Judicial Watch explains. “The base is around eight miles from the U.S. border in an area known as ‘Anapra’ situated just west of Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.”

They’re here

Muslim terrorists have reportedly been taken into custody, says Judicial Watch, by the U.S. after crossing the border over the past few months.

“Judicial Watch said its sources within the Department of Homeland Security said several ISIS terror group members were arrested by federal authorities and the Texas Department of Public Safety in McAllen and Pharr,” WND confirmed. “The reports conflict with claims by the Department of Homeland Security that there is no imminent danger of ISIS breaching the nation’s southern border.”

According to high-level intelligence obtained by Judicial Watch, U.S. towns should be under high terrorist alert as jihadists are deployed from the Anapra-based Muslim terrorists and taking their posts in U.S. border towns.

“Another ISIS cell to the west of Ciudad Juárez, in Puerto Palomas, targets the New Mexico towns of Columbus and Deming for easy access to the United States, the same knowledgeable sources confirm,” Judicial Watch informed.

Reportedly, Mexico and the U.S. have been trying to deal with the proliferating jihadist threat.

“Mexican army and federal law enforcement officials discovered documents in Arabic and Urdu, as well as ‘plans’ of Fort Bliss — the sprawling military installation that houses the U.S. Army’s 1st Armored Division,” the watchdog group divulged. “Muslim prayer rugs were recovered with the documents during the operation.”

Jihad Watch says that the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Cartel presides over the Anapra zone, where its La Linea drug runners are its operation’s “enforcement arm.” Another arm of the operation derived from an El Paso jail gang, commonly known as Barrio Azteca.

“According to these same sources, ‘coyotes’ engaged in human smuggling — and working for Juárez Cartel — help move ISIS terrorists through the desert and across the border between Santa Teresa and Sunland Park, New Mexico,” the watchdog states. “To the east of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, cartel-backed ‘coyotes’ are also smuggling ISIS terrorists through the porous border between Acala and Fort Hancock, Texas. These specific areas were targeted for exploitation by ISIS because of their understaffed municipal and county police forces, and the relative safe-havens the areas provide for the unchecked large-scale drug smuggling that was already ongoing.”

And reportedly, ISIS is already here — taking their post in remote regions north of the border.

“[ISIS] has ‘spotters’ located in the East Potrillo Mountains of New Mexico (largely managed by the Bureau of Land Management) to assist with terrorist border crossing operations,” Judicial Watch insists.

WND indicates that numerous sites in the U.S. are also covered by ISIS.

Jihadist infiltration

“Also, reconnaissance is going on at regional universities; the White Sands Missile Range; government facilities in Alamogordo, New Mexico; Fort Bliss; and the electrical power facilities near Anapra and Chaparral, New Mexico,” WND’s Bob Unruh reports. “Judicial Watch sources said [last October that] four ‘Islamic terrorists’ were captured in Texas in just 36 hours.”

WND notes that at that time last year, former Republican presidential candidate Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) said in a televised interview that he received intelligence from the U.S. Border Patrol that ISIS terrorists crossing the U.S. border from Mexico were captured.

“They were caught at the border … therefore, we know that ISIS is coming across the border,” Hunter informed. “If they catch five or 10 of them, we know there are dozens more that did not get caught.”

Fox News aired an interview with a House Armed Services Committee member, which validated Hunter’s assertion. Hunter also advised the Obama administration that it needs to ramp up security on the southern border if it wants to keep ISIS out.

“It’s that simple … ISIS doesn’t have a navy, they don’t have an air force, they don’t have nuclear weapons,” Hunter pointed out. “The only way that ISIS is going to harm Americans is by coming in through the southern border — which they already have.”


God bless,
JohnnyD
 

The Betrayal Papers: Who is Barack Hussein Obama?

From: Freedom Outpost

 

by - Coalition of Concerned Citizens April 16, 2015

 

 

The Betrayal Papers have thus far investigated and explained the Obama administration and its alliance with the international terrorist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood. The articles analyzed several aspects of White House policy, foreign and domestic, and compared them to the objectives of the Muslim Brotherhood.

 

Parts V and VI will explore the personal ties that bind Obama, as well as the progressive American left, to the Muslim Brotherhood.

This is a portrait of a conspiracy that has reached unprecedented heights of global control.

"A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"

Has there ever been a president whose personal history is so murky, so questionable, and so baffling? All one must do is recall the allegations, still open for debate and research, that checker Obama's background. Laid out below are some of these allegations, not to be proved or disproved, but to remind the reader that Obama's personal history is replete with question marks.

• A 1991 promotional literary pamphlet featured a short biographical sketch of Obama, and claimed he was "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."
• What is his actual name? The only publicly available school record for Obama lists him as an Indonesian citizen named Barry Soetoro.
• Moreover, on an immigration document from 1965, Obama's mother included the name "Soebarkah" under Barack Hussein Obama. This is likely a name given to him by the Islamic cult of Subud, to which his mother proudly and openly belonged.
• For a reason yet to be explained, Obama's Social Security number begins with the prefix 042, which corresponds to Connecticut, a state in which Obama has never lived.
• Regarding his academic records, recall that Obama attended three universities: Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard University. His academic records with these three institutions have never been revealed, despite efforts by investigative reporters. The student body president at Columbia University during Obama's time there, Wayne Allen Root (once the Libertarian Party Vice Presidential candidate), has stated publicly that he never met or even heard of Obama while at Columbia, and cannot find any classmates of his who remember him either. Root, like Obama, was a political science major.
• While campaigning for President, candidate Obama presented himself as a "Professor" of Constitutional Law while at the University of Chicago. Yet this turned out to be untrue. In fact, he was a "Senior Lecturer," a title and position significantly less prestigious than Professor.
• Finally, the best known and most researched of these allegations is the issue of Obama's birth certificate. From his days as a candidate in the Democrat primary, the place of Obama's birth has been in contention. While Obama has insisted he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1961, there are others who claim he was born in Mombasa, Kenya; there's even a copy of his purported Kenyan birth certificate. Moreover, apparently trustworthy sources swear that the Long Form Birth Certificate is a forgery.

All these questions leave the investigator with only one choice: to define Obama not by his inconsistent biographical details, but by his associations and actions.
 

The Communist Prelude: Frank Marshall Davis, Obama's Mentor

As documented extensively in Paul Kengor's book The Communist, Davis ranks high among Obama's early life influences. A literal card carrying member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), Davis was considered by the FBI an enemy of the state.

• Frank Marshall Davis, a known Soviet Communist and admirer of Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler, was a friend of Obama's mother's father, Stanley Dunham.
• The Communist Davis lived in both Hawaii and in Chicago. He was Barack Obama's mentor through the 1970s, until his departure for Occidental College in 1979.
• Davis was also a pornographer. In his book Sex Rebel, he wrote excitedly about having sex with minors. Pedophilia was not unusual for Communists of the era: Harry Hay, another Communist and associate of Davis, was reportedly an advocate of NAMBLA, the National Man-Boy Love Association.
• In 1995, in a broadcast on Cambridge Municipal Television, Barack Obama described Davis as "a close friend of my maternal grandfather, a close friend of gramps" and "fairly a well-known poet."

Irrespective of the publicly accepted, sanitized biography of young Obama, the historical facts establish that his primary political mentor was a Soviet Communist sex offender, introduced to him by his mother's family.

Tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who you are.
George Soros

George Soros, aka György Schwartz, is the Hungarian-born billionaire investor and financier behind a tangled constellation of progressive front organizations. Among these front organizations are: The Open Society Foundation/Institute, ACORN, Think Progress, the Center for American Progress, Code Pink, Occupy Wall Street, National Council of La Raza, the Tides Foundation, MoveOn.org, the New America Foundation, and the International Crisis Group. As one writer wrote succinctly in 2011, "Essentially, the entire leftist wing of the Democrat party, including the President can be tied to George Soros in some way."

• Soros was born in 1930 in Budapest, Hungary, to a Jewish family. He grew up in wartime Hungary and was an admitted Nazi collaborator who turned other Jews over to the Nazi authorities. To this day, he has stated that he has no remorse for his actions of turning in Jews to the Nazis and having their property confiscated. As Soros said to 60 Minutes reporter Steve Kroft it was "the happiest time of my life."
• Soros is a financial manipulator and breaker of currencies. In 1992, Soros crashed the British pound when he made a bet it would correct against the Deutschemark.
• Soros has a history of using government influence for personal gain. In 1999, (Bill Clinton's) Secretary of State Madeline Albright blocked a $500 million loan by the U.S. Import-Export Bank to the Russian oil company Tyumen. Tyumen planned to use this money to acquire one of Soros' companies and a Siberian oil field, and apparently Soros felt his deal wasn't sweet enough. A few months later, Albright did indeed approve the loan, but only after Soros was guaranteed additional protections for his interests at the expense of Tyumen.
• This pattern repeated in 2009, when the U.S. Import-Export Bank announced a "preliminary commitment" to loan $2 billion to the Brazilian oil giant Petrobras. This caused the shares in the company to rise 27.9% from April 2009-August 2009 (the time of the announcement). Soros, a major shareholder in the company, profited handsomely.
• In 2002, French authorities prosecuted Soros for insider trading. In 2012, the government of Russia issued an arrest warrant for Soros for violating Basel II financial regulations.
• Obama's foreign policy and the Arab Spring are intertwined with Soros interests. In 2008 the International Crisis Group (aka ICG, a Soros front), issued a paper that urged the Egyptian government to allow the Muslim Brotherhood to form a political party. Anyone with knowledge of the Muslim Brotherhood's activities in Egypt from the 1940s onward, which include assassinations and terrorism, understands the necessity of the Egyptian government's hard line on the terror group.
• Interestingly, ICG is also home to Ambassador Thomas Pickering, the Obama administration's lead investigator for Benghazi, as well as Robert Malley, who was recently appointed by Obama to a prominent position to lead Middle East policy, despite a history of connections to Hamas.
• In a 2011 op-ed for the Washington Post, Soros himself referred to Israel – not Hamas – as the "stumbling block" in Middle East peace. In the same piece, Soros encouraged the Muslim Brotherhood to be given a seat at the table in Egyptian political life, and urged Obama to support the Arab Spring overthrow of ally Mubarak.

 

Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn

Of all the nefarious personal relationships of Barack Hussein Obama, the bloodthirsty couple of Bill Ayers and wife Bernadine Dohrn are the most unsettling. In the 1960s, Ayers and Dohrn were notorious radicals, anarchists, and terrorists – declared enemies of American society.

Ayers and Dohrn hosted a meet-and-greet and fundraiser for candidate Obama when he first ran for public office. Indeed, Obama's political career was launched from the couple's living room in Hyde Park.

• Bill Ayers' father was Tom Ayers, President of Commonwealth Edison (the power company of Chicago) from 1964-1980, and Chairman from 1973-1980. The Ayers family was close to the corrupt Daley political machine and involved in various philanthropic causes, and Bill was a son of considerable privilege. The Ayers family connection to power production is important to note in connection with the Chicago Climate Exchange, which will be detailed in Part VI.
• Despite his mainstream upbringing, Ayers gravitated to terrorism and revolution. In 1969, he, Dohrn, and other radicals founded the Weather Underground. From its inception until the early 1980s, this group of nihilist anarchists would claim responsibility for targets that included police, an R.O.T.C building, the home of a judge, New York City Police Headquarters, and The Pentagon.
• Dohrn and Ayers lived for a time as fugitives together, and eventually married. But due to legal technicalities neither Ayers nor Dohrn ever served time for their crimes.
• The couple has two sons. Both were, curiously, given Islamic names: Zayd and Malik.
• Ayers has admitted not once, but twice that he is author of the Obama's memoir, Dreams of my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, published in 1995.
• On September 11, 2001, a review of an upcoming book by Bill Ayers appeared in the New York Times. In the memoir Fugitive Days, Ayers recounted his time on the lam. Wrote Ayers in the book, the lines which were reprinted in the Times the morning of September 11: "Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon," and "I feel we didn't do enough."
• A few hours after that edition of New York Times hit newsstands on 9/11/2001, four planes were hijacked by Al Qaeda. Two of them brought down the World Trade Center. Another crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. And the other slammed into the Pentagon, once a target of Bill Ayers, scarring the symbol of American military might and killing 125 people.
• Consider the psyche of Dohrn (from 1991-2013 a professor at Northwestern Law School) who, upon hearing of the horrific murder of actress Sharon Tate (where a fork was stuck into her nine-month pregnant belly) by psychopath Charles Manson's gang, stated: "Dig it.  First they killed those pigs and then they put a fork in pig Tate's belly.  Wild!"  Dohrn then adopted the "fork salute" for the Weatherman.
• Years after 9/11/2001, Dohrn and Ayers would openly associate with Islamic terrorists. First, in connection with the 2010 "Peace Flotilla," a terrorist smuggling operation originating from Turkey that sought to arm Hamas in Gaza. The rabid couple's attraction to terrorism was enabled by the Soros front group, Code Pink.
• In 2011, Ayers and Dohrn teamed up with Code Pink once again when they crashed the revolution in Egypt's Tahrir Square to help oust American and Israeli ally Hosni Mubarak. Reliving their youth, they pulled a page from their old playbook, teaching the protestors how to organize their very own "day of rage."

 

Valerie Jarrett

No figure in the administration holds more sway over Barack Obama than his Senior Advisor, Valerie Jarrett. Officially in charge of the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, her Twitter handle - vj44, as in "Valerie Jarrett, 44th President" - conveys a truer sense of her power. Yet not even one American voted for President Jarrett.

• Valerie June Bowman Jarrett was born in Shiraz, Iran in 1956 to James and Barbara Taylor Bowman. An examination of Jarrett's family is the key to understanding her influence in Chicago.
• Jarrett's father James, a Howard University graduate, was, at the time of her birth, working as a physician and geneticist in Iran. Her mother Barbara's family is deeply connected to Chicago politics. Jarrett's maternal grandfather was Robert Taylor, who was on the board of the Chicago Housing Authority, a municipal corporation. To this day the Robert Taylor Homes, a public housing project, bear his name.
• A political appointment, Jarrett was not subjected to confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Yet according to every published account, it is she who is the true center of gravity in the administration. Ranging from healthcare "reform" to negotiating with terrorist Iran, the Senior Advisor, not the President, calls the shots at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
• The few murmurings which have come out regarding Jarrett's omnipresence in the White House have not been flattering. According to one former administration official, "It's pretty toxic... She went to whatever meeting she wanted to go to—basically all of them—and then would go and whisper to the president. Or at least everyone believed she did. ... People don't trust the process. They think she's a spy."
• Even Obama's former Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, according to author Jonathan Alter, was "tired of being undermined by Valerie Jarrett" when he resigned from his position.
• Given Jarrett's political force in the capital, the media's curiosity about Jarrett's background, governing principles, ideological beliefs, and business dealings has been conspicuously lacking.
• One of Robert Taylor's (Jarrett's grandfather) business partners was Rufus Cook. Rufus's ex-wife, Ann, is a cousin of Jarrett's. Cook is also a legal counsel for Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, based out of Chicago. In 2007, the country was shocked when a video emerged that showed the pastor of Obama's church, Reverend Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ, saying of September 11, 2001, "America's chickens are coming home to roost." This was a borrowed line, originally spoken by the Nation of Islam's silver-tongued spokesman, Malcolm X, referring to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
• Indeed, TUCC's Reverend Wright and NOI's Louis Farrakhan are thick as thieves. In 1984, Wright and Farrakhan traveled together to Libya to meet the "Mad Dog of the Middle East," Muammar Gaddafi.
• Another Jarrett cousin is Antoinette "Toni" Cook Bush, daughter of Rufus and Ann. In 2013, Toni, a Chicago lawyer, was hired as the head lobbyist for News Corp, owner of Fox News. This is perhaps why Jarrett has been spotted dining with News Corp CEO, Australian Rupert Murdoch.
• Jarrett's family has direct connections to Obama's Communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. Jarrett's father in law, Vernon Jarrett, was a journalist who worked with Frank Marshall Davis Citizens' Committee to Aid Packing-House Workers. In his younger years, explains Kengor, Vernon Jarrett "had been elected to the Illinois Council of American Youth for Democracy, the CPUSA youth wing." Finally, Robert Taylor (mentioned above) was on the board of Chicago Civil Liberties Union with Frank Marshall Davis.

Jarrett, who met Obama in 1991 and introduced him to Michelle, is a part of their family. Given her connections and power, is it any surprise that she recently said to The New York Times Magazine, "I intend to stay [in the White House] until the lights go off."

Tony Rezko

Antoin "Tony" Rezko is the Chicago-based Syrian-American slumlord who arranged a corrupt deal for the Obama's home. Rezko, who is currently serving a 10 ½ year prison sentence and was known for influence peddling through bribery, crafted a special deal in which he loaned money to the Obamas and donated to their campaign organization … all while setting them up in a mansion in Hyde Park.

• Obama's relationship with the corrupt Rezko goes back decades. Rezko tried to hire Obama to work for his real estate company Rezmar when he graduated from Harvard Law School. In 2008, Obama stated that Rezko was a "friend" whom he had "known for 20 years."
• The Chicago Sun-Times estimated that Obama had received "$168,308 from Rezko and his circle."
• In 2005, Rezko arranged the purchase of the Obamas' home in Chicago. Because the Obama's were not in the financial position to purchase the house at the time, Rezko made a deal with the owner to purchase the adjoining empty lot next to the home at above market price to compensate for the Obamas' below market offer on the home ($1.65 million versus the $1.95 asking price).
• The Rezko case unfolded before the nation as Barack Obama was ascending to the presidency. It embroiled Patrick Fitzgerald (who was previously known for prosecuting Vice President Cheney's chief-of-staff Scooter Libby), Illinois Governor Rob Blagojevich (who is serving a 14 year jail sentence), Obama, and Rezko.
• The convicted felon Rezko is an associate of international criminal and former Saddam Hussein agent, Iraqi Nadhmi Auchi.

 

Nadhmi Auchi

The Iraqi operator Nadhmi Auchi is the sort of rarefied sort of gentlemen you would normally come across in a spy novel. On the surface, Nadhmi Auchi is a business magnate, a dynamo philanthropist, and an honored citizen of many countries. As was explained by a former senior official of the Defense, State, and Commerce departments, John A. Shaw, Mr. Auchi made a name for himself as the international financier and arms dealer extraordinaire of Saddam Hussein. By 1980, Auchi was an asset of the British foreign intelligence service, MI6. (So multi-faceted is this billionaire mystery man that he has his own dedicated Wikileaks page.) Auchi and Tony Rezko were partners in real estate and pizza.

• Contemporary to the timeline of Obama's political rise in Chicago, Auchi was building an influence operation one brick at a time in the very same city. His ties from the Middle East to America's Midwest made his enterprise a conduit of Middle Eastern money into the United States of America.
• Shaw writes, "Nadhmi Auchi, despite his purchased respectability in England, was the financial eminence behind the Chicago-Arab combine, and the man who, with Rezko, helped invent Barack Obama as a political star." Through Tony Rezko, his local bagman, Auchi financed and guided Obama (and Jarrett) into the Oval Office.
• While a large shareholder in BNP Paribas, Auchi was involved with the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which was based on the sale of Iraqi oil.
• In 2004, Auchi was banned from entering the U.S. for scamming the Pentagon on an Iraqi cellular deal he helped broker. After securing rights to Iraq's cellular services, Auchi went on to corner the market on power contracts for the post-war transition, as well.
• If Soros personifies the Progressive wing of Obama's politics, it is Auchi that personifies the wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. Auchi's stances on litmus test issues tell who he is, politically speaking, in the Middle East. Auchi is anti-Semitic, and led support for the Turkish terror flotilla (an operation which ties him to Ayers, Dohrn, and Soros).
• It may seem an odd dichotomy that two people in low cost housing, Valerie Jarrett and Toni Rezko, and two artful and sophisticated investors, Auchi and Soros (both of whom are convicted of financial crimes in France), ushered Obama to the presidency. Yet each one of these individuals shares one lethal trait: they are masters at using government for their personal gain.
• Auchi has a history of suing his critics, and silencing those who cause too much trouble. His reputation as an aggressive litigator and someone who won't hesitate to kill may have convinced journalist David Ignatius to think twice about disclosing his knowledge of Auchi's activities. For instead of a nonfiction book, Ignatius did indeed pen a spy novel, The Bank of Fear, based on Auchi's career.

 

Rashid Khalidi and Edward Said

 

Rashid Khalidi is an anti-Semitic professor and historian of Palestine. Khalidi is currently the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University. During their Chicago years, the Obamas were close friends with Khalidi and his wife, Mona. They were also friends with Edward Said, Khalidi's mentor.

• Throughout the 1970s, when Khalidi taught at the University of Beirut, he routinely spoke on behalf of Yasser Arafat's terrorist Palestinian Liberation Organization.
• The Obamas and Khalidis have been friends for decades. When in Chicago, the Obamas regularly dined with the Khalidis.
• In 1998, the Obamas attended a banquet which featured Edward Said as the keynote speaker. Said, a Palestinian-American (now deceased), had long been a critic of the State of Israel, which he referred to as being in "illegal military occupation since 1967."
• In 2000, the Khalidis held a fundraiser for Obama when he was running for Congress. The following year, the Woods Foundation (where Obama served as a Board member) donated $40,000 to Mona Khalidi's charity.
• As one pro-Palestinian activist phrased it in 2008, when Obama's views on Israel and Palestine were a subject of controversy: "I am confident that Barack Obama is more sympathetic to the position of ending the occupation than either of the other candidates."

With the benefit of more than six years of hindsight, it is clear that Barack Hussein Obama (with the eager cooperation of Secretary of State John Kerry) has been the most anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian president in United States history.

Conclusion
A man does not become President of the United States without very high powered connections. Usually these connections are accumulated through a long career of public service, whether in the U.S. Congress, Executive, or on the state level. Obama rose to the Presidency after serving a scant four years in the U.S. Senate, two of which were spent running for President. Prior to that, he served an unremarkable seven years in the Illinois State Senate.

Before launching his political career in the living room of American anarchists, Obama was a community-organizing lawyer for progressive groups. Among them was ACORN, which was instrumental in creating the housing bubble.

With such little authentic biography available, we are forced to define Obama by his friends. They include financial and political manipulators and fixers, corrupt businessmen and international criminals, card-carrying Communists and FBI-identified enemies of the state, terrorists foreign and domestic, and their academic apologists.

Part VI will conclude The Betrayal Papers with a look at the various interconnected schemes of the above-named Obama associates.

*This is Part 5 in a Multi-Part Series. Click to read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.


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