Corruption and Cover-up

Corruption and Cover-up

Massive corruption of the Obama administration exposed

By Mark Luedtke

Dayton’s Conspiracy Theorist

After President Bush started the Iraq war, it seemed like we heard about the corruption of Vice-President Cheney, Halliburton, and no-bid contracts every day until President Obama took office. In case you don’t remember, here’s a taste from The Guardian in 2004:

“Halliburton, the oil services company formerly run by the US vice-president, Dick Cheney, was yesterday embroiled in new accusations of corruption after it sacked two workers over allegations that they took kickbacks for awarding sub-contracts in Iraq. The company disclosed that investigations were going on into whether two of its staff took up to $6m (£3.3m) from a Kuwaiti-based company providing support for US troops,” it reported. “The revelation is likely to intensify the scrutiny of Halliburton, which has reaped huge contracts to rebuild Iraq and provide logistical support for the army. The total value of their contracts is more than $9bn, by far the largest sum handed out to a US firm in Iraq.”

Bush waived bidding for the contracts so Cheney’s cronies could overcharge and pocket billions, much of which undoubtedly got back to Bush and Cheney. There was nothing unusual about this. Every administration does it. It was business-as-usual for rulers. It’s the primary reason why people crave the presidency. The only thing unusual about it was how the press hammered this issue.

Then a funny thing happened when Obama took office: the press went silent on that same business-as-usual corruption. To this day Obama claims to have had a corruption-free administration. And he says it with a straight face. Still, the press fails to report on the massive corruption inside the Obama administration.

Fortunately Peter Schweizer exposes some of it in his new book, “Secret Empires: How Our Politicians Hide Corruption and Enrich Their Families and Friends.”

Investor’s Business Daily reports on several corrupt activities in its review. In the first case, several Obama cronies formed an investment company named Vistria around the time Obama was reelected in 2012. Then, in a well-orchestrated maneuver, Obama used his bully pulpit to attack specific industries and companies, driving down their share value. Vistria then swooped in and purchased the companies for a fraction of their previous price.

For example, “In 2013, Obama blamed [private colleges] for taking advantage of students by saddling them with massive amounts of student debt, ruining their credit and making a profit on it. He ordered the Federal Trade Commission to go after them,” IBD notes. “In the case of the University of Phoenix, its parent Apollo Education Group was suspended after a Federal Trade Commission investigation in 2015. The following year, three companies, including Vistria, swooped in to buy what remained of Apollo at a price 90% below its share price before the investigation.”

Another example describes how Vice-President Biden’s son and Secretary of State Kerry’s stepson formed a company to profit from Obama’s foreign policy regarding China. “In December of 2013, for instance, Biden traveled to China for talks. He brought Hunter Biden along. While there, the senior Biden soft-pedaled China's clear aggression, and played up the bilateral trade partnership,” IBD documents. “Ten days after the trip concluded, China's central bank, the Bank of China, set up a $1 billion investment joint venture called Bohai Harvest RST. For the record, the ‘RS’ referred to Biden's son's firm, Rosemont Seneca.”

Furthermore, Chinese firms associated with the government purchased stakes in several companies owned by the two sons.

Again, there’s nothing unusual about this. This is business as usual for rulers. It’s why coercive governments exist. The only unusual aspect is how thoroughly the press covered up this massive, ubiquitous corruption.

Of course this is just one aspect of Obama’s corruption. Obama’s green energy push was another tool of corruption. In one example, after Solyndra executives donated heavily to Obama’s 2008 campaign, Obama rewarded those cronies with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. A few years later, Solyndra went bankrupt, saddling taxpayers with half a billion in debt while Obama’s cronies walked away scot-free, unlike Enron executives.

Then there was Obama’s scheme to supply guns to Mexican drug dealers and track them, called fast and furious, one of which was used to kill a US border patrol agent.

These scandals were swept under the rug by the media.

Obama’s IRS systematically targeted conservative organizations and stonewalled congressional investigators for years with no consequences.

Obama invited the massive Clinton corruption machine into his administration when he named Hillary Secretary of State. She traded favorable policy for Clinton Foundation donations. It’s well documented, but nothing has come of that.

Then Obama used the FBI to spy on and undermine Trump, and nothing has come of that either.

Corruption is the business of government.

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War, Rinse, Repeat

The war the American people never wanted but our rulers started anyway has been waged for five years now. In 2013, President Obama tried to invade Syria in response to a false flag chemical attack designed to gin up public support and provide cover for invading. But the American people said no, and President Putin of Russia saved the day by orchestrating the removal of weapons of mass destruction from Syria, saving lives, American and Syrian, in the process.

But only temporarily.

After the Russians intervened in the war at the request Syrian President Assad, US rulers invaded anyway to save the terrorists. Since that time, every time the US is tempted to withdraw, another false flag attack is staged by the terrorists or their CIA handlers, and the announced withdraw is reversed.

Here we go again.

Following the instincts that got him elected and make him the least bad president in our lifetimes, President Trump recently ordered 2,000, supposedly all, US troops out of Syria.

We’ve seen this play out before, but this time it’s different. The Wall Street Journal reports, “In an abrupt reversal, the U.S. military is preparing to withdraw its forces from northeastern Syria, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday, a move that throws the American strategy in the Middle East into turmoil. U.S. officials began informing partners in northeastern Syria of their plans to begin immediately pulling American forces out of the region where they have been trying to wrap up the campaign against Islamic State, the people said.”

The key word here is abrupt. Trump blindsided his deep state adversaries with the order. I can’t help but laugh at the claim the US was planning to wrap up the campaign against ISIS as if it took five years. The reality is the Russians, Syrians, and Iranians crushed ISIS. US forces surrounded and protected their last enclave from them. US rulers don’t want them defeated. They want to use them to topple Assad as the first domino on the way to Tehran.

US deep state rulers melted down because Trump surprised them. NPR documents the extent of the meltdown. “Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy to the coalition fighting the Islamic State, has announced his resignation, reportedly in protest of President Trump's decision this week to withdraw all U.S. forces from Syria,” it reported.“News of McGurk's resignation came just two days after Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced he too was leaving the Trump administration. Mattis' resignation followed the abrupt announcement by President Trump on Wednesday that he was pulling all 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria.”

These resignations offer hope deep state rulers haven’t had time to set up another false flag yet. There’s no shortage of hubris among deep state rulers, so it’s possible they failed to plan for this order in advance. Speaking of hubris, the Middle East’s Al-Monitor reports, “Some current and former US officials faulted what they saw as overreach by administration Iran hawks, in particular US Syria envoy Jim Jeffrey and his lieutenant, Joel Rayburn, the deputy assistant secretary of state for the Levant, who have argued publicly that US forces would not leave Syria until all Iranian forces had left.”

The hawks including uber-hawk National Security Advisor John Bolton set conditions which could never be met and would keep US troops in Syria forever. That was their plan all along. Fortunately, Trump saw though it and outmaneuvered them.

But there’s still some skepticism. Consortium News suggests several reasons we shouldn’t trust Trump’s announcement, not least of which is this: “...the U.S. is not closing down its military presence in Syria. It is digging in for an indefinite period, making Raqqa the equivalent of the Green Zone in Baghdad. By the official count, there are 503 U.S. troops stationed in the Islamic State’s former capital. Unofficially, according to The Washington Post and other press reports, the figure is closer to 4,000—twice the number that is supposed to represent a ‘full withdrawal’ from Syrian soil.”

Still, the resignations suggest Trump’s surprise order upended those plans. Syrians and Americans should be wary of a new false flag terrorist attack.

Syria isn’t Trump’s only victory against US empire-builders who wish to rule the world. Michael Rozeff notes, “Trump is withdrawing American forces from Syria. He is withdrawing thousands of American forces from Afghanistan too, and he is talking to the Taliban. Trump has stopped refueling Saudi airplanes against Yemen. Trump is negotiating with North Korea.”

Trump also resists starting a war with Russia in Ukraine, and he’s reevaluating the US role in supporting Saudi Arabia’s mass murder in Yemen. If he succeeds in these efforts, the US and the world will become more peaceful and safer.

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Civil War Preview

Civil War Preview

The next Civil War will be fought on several fronts

By Mark Luedtke

There’s nothing new about the riots in Paris. At least that’s what our accomplice press wants you to believe. According to The Washington Times, over 1,000 people have been arrested, including the instigator of vandalism of the Arc de Triomphe. “Heitz said that most of those in custody were men under 40 from various regions who came to Paris for the fourth Saturday of protests by a ballooning grassroots movement angry about a fuel tax hike and other issues,” the Times reported.

It’s true that riots in Paris are relatively common, but so far 1,000 people have been arrested. That’s not common. And while it’s true a fuel tax sparked these protests, the bomb was set and growing long before. Even Reuters calls these protests, which have spread to Belgium and the Netherlands, a state of insurrection.

A clearer picture of the gilets jaunes, or yellow vests, emerges from alternative news sources. Citizen blogging site QuodVerum exposes the terrible economy in France. The French economy hasn’t grown faster than 2 percent annually for over 50 years. Official unemployment is 10 percent. As in the US, real unemployment is worse. The French government employs 25 percent of workers, and 50 percent of workers earn less than $25,000 per year. Yet taxes continue to rise. That’s why millions of protestors took to the streets.

While reports emphasize the violent behavior of typical leftist protests, this is not a leftist protest at all. Yellow vests are required for everyone in every vehicle. They symbolize this is a protest by all the people regardless of political affiliation against decades of socialism. Eric Margolis explains, “As too often in France, violent vandals known as ‘the breakers,’ infiltrated the demonstrators and sought to put the most beautiful parts of Paris to the sack...

“However, the ‘yellow jackets’ should not be confused with the breakers.  What we are seeing is a justified national revolt in France against impossibly high taxes that were ignited by the unwise fuel price increases….

“The underlying problem is that France’s taxes are far too high.  France has the highest taxes in Europe, almost 50% of gross domestic product, and twice those of the United States.”

Unlike the Occupy protests in America during the last bust, the coming bust, which may have already started, will bring out protestors from all walks of life here as in France.

But the coming civil war won’t be limited to populist protests. The opening movements of the civil war in the ruling class began with the Obama administration waging war on then-candidate Trump. Obama’s team sent spies into Trump’s campaign and utilized the FISA court, the FBI, DOJ, and British intelligence agencies to take down Trump before the election.

The Daily Caller reports, “The U.S. government revealed in court filings Friday that the FBI used multiple confidential informants, including some who were paid for their information, as part of its investigation into former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.”

The FBI and the Clinton campaign paid for the slanderous Steele dossier, Steele is a former member of British intelligence, then used it to obtain secret warrants against Trump’s team through the FISA court. Since its inception, the FBI has been a secret police force with a primary goal of advancing the political interests of rulers. It’s role as a federal police force is a cover for that true purpose. But the war against Trump has exposed the evil machinations of the entire government deep state apparatus.

Judicial Watch is heroically fighting to expose the gross criminality of team Obama and the deep state. It’s most recent disclosure stated, “Judicial Watch today released two sets of heavily redacted State Department documents, 38 pages and 48 pages, showing classified information was researched and disseminated to multiple U.S. Senators by the Obama administration immediately prior to President Donald Trump’s inauguration. The documents reveal that among those receiving the classified documents were Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Sen. Robert Corker (R-TN).”

The classified information was disseminated just hours before Trump was inaugurated.

While special prosecutor Robert Mueller attacks Trump team members with petty charges of having imperfect memories, mountains of lies by the Obama team and his deep state allies seemingly go uninvestigated. Or maybe not. Trump-appointed prosecutor John Huber has filed an unprecedented number of sealed indictments, and many speculate this is Trump’s lawful counter against Obama, Clinton, Mueller, and their criminal deep state allies. That remains to be seen.

Don’t be surprised if violence in the streets isn’t accompanied by assassinations of rulers and deep state bureaucrats in Washington during the next bust. That’s what Civil War II will look like.

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