======================================================================
Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.
======================================================================
Frank Espada wrote:
> Hello Ralph:
>
> Here's a peek at our new regent. The more things change...
December 28-30, 2009
Obama's White House Press Corps warned about asking certain questions
WMR has learned from a veteran member of the White House Press Corps
that the Obama administration has made it known through White House
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and other White House Communications
officials that certain questions posed by the reporters who cover the
White House are definitely off-limits.
On the banned list are any questions about Obama's post-Columbia
University employment with Business International Corporation (BIC), a
global financial and political information company that WMR previously
reported was a front for the CIA. White House Press Corps members have
been quietly told that any questions related to BIC, Obama's withheld
records while he was a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles from
1979 to 1981, or his records at Columbia, are forbidden.
At the same time he was attending Occidental, Obama, using the name
Barry Soetoro and an Indonesian passport issued under the same name,
traveled to Pakistan during the U.S. buildup to assist the Afghan
mujaheddin.
WMR has learned from informed sources in Kabul that Obama has been
extremely friendly, through personal correspondence on White House
letterhead, with a private military company that counts among its senior
personnel a number of Afghan mujaheddin-Soviet war veterans who fought
alongside the late Northern Alliance commander Ahmad Shah Masood. The
firm is also involved in counter-insurgency operations in Colombia,
where Obama is building seven new military bases, and Iraq.
In 1981, Obama spent time in Jacobabad and Karachi, Pakistan, and
appeared to have an older American "handler," possibly a CIA officer.
WMR previously reported that Obama also crossed the border from Pakistan
and spent some time in India.
At the time of Obama's stay in Pakistan, the country was being built up
as a base for the anti-Soviet Afghan insurgency by President Carter's
National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and later by President
Reagan's CIA director William Casey.
Obama has suspiciously refused to release his transcripts from
Occidental or Columbia University and he has remained cagey about his
post-Columbia employment with BIC. The word from the White House Press
Corps is that if anyone were to ask Obama about BIC or possible past CIA
work, domestically or abroad, the offending reporter would see a quick
pulling of the White House press credential.
The White House website states the following about openness and
transparency by the Obama administration:
"My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level
of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the
public trust and establish a system of transparency, public
participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our
democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.
BARACK OBAMA"
......................................
Frank, what's the url for this and who is WMR?
This is a strange article, with little documentation other than an
anonymous veteran member of the White House press corps and someone in
Kabul. Claiming that White House officials are specifically calling off
questions on Obama's life as a student and his post undergrad
activities. Very strange, almost sounds like The Onion or the barf about
birthing .....
I had read of the alleged BIC connection before, but this thickens the
plot. It figures, but what's the angle? That he had begun his career as
a spook for the CIA, but then what?
I personally have thought for some time that Obama has been carefully
groomed and vetted for his job - just what the suits need after the
in-your-face, breathtaking delegitimation during the preceding eight
years, a new boy with no vulnerable track record in politics, promising
change and new directions, an anomalous, youthful, articulate,
pseudo-African-American with a beautiful family and well-groomed fellow
Harvard Law spouse, with no blood ties or social background in or close
identification with the class base in the US that his color implies,
despite marking brief-time as a social worker in south Chicago while
domiciled on the upscale north side. Slowly but keenly obtaining focus.
With the moguls of Goldman Sachs and the Chicago machine's Rahm Emanuel
as policymakers and conduit. Raveling up the knitted sleeve of global
disaffection, in permanent war, economic and social and climate
meltdown. A Pied Piper of misguided but ever more desperately hopeful
lemmings.
Talk about imaginative marketing strategy, if true.
What else don't we know?
And don't wish me much of anything for the year upcoming and the second
decade except survival. And same to you. With best health in the event.
Ralph
________________________________________________
Send list submissions to: [email protected]
Set your options at:
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
