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GrateWire » Tag: Obama - Recent Posts http://gratewire.com/tags/obama News & Opinion - Grated Fresh Daily en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 07:34:03 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://gratewire.com/search.php Black Lion on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127592 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 19:28:09 +0000 Black Lion 127592@http://gratewire.com/ Good one.... california rick on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127589 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:06:43 +0000 california rick 127589@http://gratewire.com/ Barack's grandma was Mrs. Roper? No wonder he's so cool! Annie on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127577 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:31:59 +0000 Annie 127577@http://gratewire.com/ It's well documented that Barack Obama's grandparents were highly involved in this company. \<a href="http://photobucket.com/images/three%27s%20company" target="_blank"><img src="http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa165/race_boy_9/three%20company/three.jpg" alt="three's company photo: three's company three.jpg" /></a> SLF on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127574 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:15:42 +0000 SLF 127574@http://gratewire.com/ Business International Corporation a.k.a. BIC....???? Ssshh... I bought a collectable pen on Ebay.... Not cheap.<img height="144" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQaLBcW3uQ0FkIxPamzPLtJ9J9a6WQPKRO2Cgglq88gnED5GziJ" width="350" /> Black Lion on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127567 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:56:34 +0000 Black Lion 127567@http://gratewire.com/ Rick, logic fails when the premise is so ridiculous it defies even sane people from understanding it....The brithers are so contaimated with Obama hatred they will believe anything negative about Obama, even if it messes up their premise... california rick on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127543 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:02:42 +0000 california rick 127543@http://gratewire.com/ Additionally, "if" Barack Obama's family truly were involved in "The Company," would that fact not put the birther silliness to rest? Wouldn't the CIA know for sure where Barack Obama was born? ...just sayin'. <img alt="Hmm" height="15" src="http://readerrant.capitolhillblue.com/images/graemlins/default/confused-smiley-013.gif" title="Hmm" width="37" /> (Yes, I know, it's unfair to use logic on the frighties.) california rick on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127538 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:59:47 +0000 california rick 127538@http://gratewire.com/ We still haven't heard from the usual suspects if whether or not Barack Obama's family being employed by "The Company" is a bad thing. After all, GWH Bush was a CIA director and he was president. I don't understand the point of this thread. california rick on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127535 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:37:37 +0000 california rick 127535@http://gratewire.com/ <blockquote> Pres Obama looks a lot like his [maternal] grandpa. </blockquote> Yes he does. Black Lion on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127471 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:59:26 +0000 Black Lion 127471@http://gratewire.com/ Rick, of course she didn't...You have to have cognative abilities in order to learn anything....And we all know stubby lacks such abilities... california rick on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127467 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:57:07 +0000 california rick 127467@http://gratewire.com/ Did you learn anything? stubborn bubble on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127455 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:08:21 +0000 stubborn bubble 127455@http://gratewire.com/ This post is entertainment of epic proportions.. Nick_A on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127453 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:17:59 +0000 Nick_A 127453@http://gratewire.com/ Suddenly I remembered these words attributed to President Obama during his time in Columbia University. "Whichever way the football bounces, the right side of the field balanced by the left will vary depending upon the placement of the fifty yard line in conjunction with the distance from the equator effecting the bounce." It is precisely this relationship that assures the merits of the progressive philosophy. california rick on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127452 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:45:06 +0000 california rick 127452@http://gratewire.com/ <blockquote> Rick, you are correct...But I have a better question....Wasn't George HW Bush head of the CIA at one time? So wouldn't Bush have known about all of this alleged secret stuff regarding the Obama family? </blockquote> You are exactly right, BL. When have the usual suspects on Gratewire let facts get in the way of their usual over-hyperventilation? Beach Baby on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127451 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:02:11 +0000 Beach Baby 127451@http://gratewire.com/ Well interesting stuff. I need to look at it again when I have had less to drink. evzone on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127450 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:04:34 +0000 evzone 127450@http://gratewire.com/ I might add that Nick's words come from his own mouth as opposed to BL's coming from link after link from others' mouths - evzone on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127449 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:39:40 +0000 evzone 127449@http://gratewire.com/ I am not a birther but when BL and BB2 agree on Obama looking like his grandpa, of course he would - he was given birth by the woman who is and was their daughter -no birther or nonbirther discounts this that Obama has the same bloodline as his grandparents -his mother being their daughter again - Just for the record birthers are arguing his place of birth and certain documents brought forth - Just sayn - Black Butterfly on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127437 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:14:41 +0000 Black Butterfly 127437@http://gratewire.com/ BL, I love your post and the Carlin quote, it really fits Nick. Black Lion on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127435 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:13:25 +0000 Black Lion 127435@http://gratewire.com/ BB, of course he does...But don't let facts get in the way of a good smear... Black Lion on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127434 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:12:52 +0000 Black Lion 127434@http://gratewire.com/ Nicky, George Carlin was thinking of you when he remarked: "<a href="../quote/37615.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.</a>"...And everytime you post you make sure that we all know you are definately dumber than the average person.... Black Butterfly on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127432 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:06:19 +0000 Black Butterfly 127432@http://gratewire.com/ Pres Obama looks a lot like his grandpa. Nick_A on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127431 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:41:39 +0000 Nick_A 127431@http://gratewire.com/ BL, Martin Luther King Jr. was thinking of those like you when he remarked: "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Black Lion on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127429 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:33:38 +0000 Black Lion 127429@http://gratewire.com/ Rick, It didn't take long for Nick to opine with his usual mindless blather...All we need is his other cohort to opine and then we have the 3 unwise men of the apocolypse making banal and silly commentary.... Nick_A on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127427 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:30:11 +0000 Nick_A 127427@http://gratewire.com/ Rick, you worship government as serving the purpose of heaven on earth. Naturally you consider yourself unworthy of facts concerning a presidential candidate. Who questions heaven? Not everyone does. Some still consider themselves worthy atoms of "We the people" for which the government is an employee. "We the People" deserve and are worthy of facts. "They the Great Unwashed" are unworthy and too stupid to deserve facts. You consider yourself part of the collective worshiping the slavery of sameness: "They the Great Unwashed." I am part of "We the People." Our differences are perfectly normal under these circumstances. Black Lion on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127425 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:26:01 +0000 Black Lion 127425@http://gratewire.com/ Rick, you are correct...But I have a better question....Wasn't George HW Bush head of the CIA at one time? So wouldnt'Bush have known about all of this alleged secret stuff regarding the Obama family? And isn't Bush the Conservative hero along with Reagan? Just a couple of things to think about...But we know the "thread starter" won't respond...Amy never does... california rick on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127424 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:13:01 +0000 california rick 127424@http://gratewire.com/ If the thread starter was capable of analytical thought, she would realize that "if" it were true that Obama's family and he are CIA - that the CIA is running the country and that there is not a damn thing they or their Teapublican politicians can do to change how things in our country are run. ...but the thread starter and her co-harts are incapable of following a logical thought to its conclusion. california rick on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127423 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:03:26 +0000 california rick 127423@http://gratewire.com/ <blockquote> Is associating someone with the CIA supposed to be a smear? </blockquote> The question would require of the OP an analytical response. It will never happen. The OP is incapable of analytical thought. She needs someone to tell her what to think - which is why she always cuts and pastes and never responds to threads after that.... Clearly associating someone with the CIA is a "bad" thing if you're a conservative. Never mind that fact that the CIA is run by the U.S. government. Black Lion on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127419 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:37:44 +0000 Black Lion 127419@http://gratewire.com/ Obot, good question....Of course we both know that Stuby will never answer the question because it is all about coming up with the most ridiculous smear she can find....One woud think that working for one's country would make one a hero....But in wingnut America, who knows... Obot 50549535 on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127417 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:33:27 +0000 Obot 50549535 127417@http://gratewire.com/ Like with many wingnut stories, I really don't get what the point is. Of course it has no factual basis, but even if I believed it, what then? Is associating someone with the CIA supposed to be a smear? Black Lion on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127416 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:25:25 +0000 Black Lion 127416@http://gratewire.com/ Obot, wow...Amy is recycling this discredited nonsense...This was debunked 3 years ago....Madsen is a wingnut who made all of this nonsense up.... Obot 50549535 on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127414 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:20:07 +0000 Obot 50549535 127414@http://gratewire.com/ What do you think of the CIA? stubborn bubble on "The Story of Obama: All in the Company" http://gratewire.com/topic/the-story-of-obama-all-in-the-company#post-127413 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:15:23 +0000 stubborn bubble 127413@http://gratewire.com/ <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img height="34" src="http://www.lewrockwell.com/buttons/lewrock2002b75.gif" width="413" /></a> <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Home</a> | <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Blog</a> | <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/sub.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Subscribe</a> | <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Podcasts</a> | <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/donate/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Donate</a> </div> <h1> The Story of Obama: All in the Company</h1> by <a href="http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Wayne Madsen</a> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img height="16" src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" /></a> Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen has discovered CIA files that document the agency’s connections to institutions and individuals figuring prominently in the lives of Barack Obama and his mother, father, grandmother, and stepfather. The first part of his report highlights the connections between Barack Obama, Sr. and the CIA-sponsored operations in Kenya to counter rising Soviet and Chinese influence among student circles and, beyond, to create conditions obstructing the emergence of independent African leaders. <div align="center"><img height="300" src="http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/18obama01.jpg" width="200" /> From 1983–84, Barack Obama worked as Editor at Business International Corporation, a Business International Corporation, a known CIA front company </div> President Obama’s own work in 1983 for Business International Corporation, a CIA front that conducted seminars with the world’s most powerful leaders and used journalists as agents abroad, dovetails with CIA espionage activities conducted by his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham in 1960s post-coup Indonesia on behalf of a number of CIA front operations, including the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Ford Foundation. Dunham met and married Lolo Soetoro, Obama’s stepfather, at the East-West Center in 1965. Soetoro was recalled to Indonesia in 1965 to serve as a senior army officer and assist General Suharto and the CIA in the bloody overthrow of President Sukarno. Barack Obama, Sr., who met Dunham in 1959 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii, had been part of what was described as an airlift of 280 East African students to the United States to attend various colleges – merely “aided” by a grant from the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation, according to a September 12, 1960, Reuters report from London. The airlift was a CIA operation to train and indoctrinate future agents of influence in Africa, which was becoming a battleground between the United States and the Soviet Union and China for influence among newly-independent and soon-to-be independent countries on the continent. The airlift was condemned by the deputy leader of the opposition Kenyan African Democratic Union (KADU) as favoring certain tribes – the majority Kikuyus and minority Luos – over other tribes to favor the Kenyan African National Union (KANU), whose leader was Tom Mboya, the Kenyan nationalist and labor leader who selected Obama, Sr. for a scholarship at the University of Hawaii. Obama, Sr., who was already married with an infant son and pregnant wife in Kenya, married Dunham on Maui on February 2, 1961 and was also the university’s first African student. Dunham was three month’s pregnant with Barack Obama, Jr. at the time of her marriage to Obama, Sr. <div align="center"> <img height="262" src="http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/18Mboya.jpg" width="200" /> The CIA allegedly recruited Tom M’Boya in a heavily funded “selective liberation” programme to isolate Kenya’s founding President Jomo Kenyatta, who the American spy agency labelled as “unsafe.” </div> KADU deputy leader Masinda Muliro, according to Reuters, said KADU would send a delegation to the United States to investigate Kenyan students who received “gifts” from the Americans and “ensure that further gifts to Kenyan students are administered by people genuinely interested in Kenya’s development.” Mboya received a $100,000 grant for the airlift from the Kennedy Foundation after he turned down the same offer from the U.S. State Department, obviously concerned that direct U.S. assistance would look suspicious to pro-Communist Kenyan politicians who suspected Mboya of having CIA ties. The Airlift Africa project was underwritten by the Kennedy Foundation and the African-American Students Foundation. Obama, Sr. was not on the first airlift but a subsequent one. The airlift, organized by Mboya in 1959, included students from Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland. Reuters also reported that Muliro charged that Africans were “disturbed and embittered” by the airlift of the selected students. Muliro “stated that “preferences were shown to two major tribes [Kikuyu and Luo] and many U.S.-bound students had failed preliminary and common entrance examinations, while some of those left behind held first-class certificates.” Obama, Sr. was a friend of Mboya and a fellow Luo. After Mboya was assassinated in 1969, Obama, Sr. testified at the trial of his alleged assassin. Obama, Sr. claimed he was the target of a hit-and-run assassination attempt after his testimony. <div align="center"><img height="285" src="http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/18hawaii.jpg" width="400" /> CIA-airlifted to Hawaii, Barack Obama Sr., with leis, stands with Stanley Dunham, President Obama’s grandfather, on his right. </div> Obama, Sr., who left Hawaii for Harvard in 1962, divorced Dunham in 1964. Obama, Sr. married a fellow Harvard student, Ruth Niedesand, a Jewish-American woman, who moved with him to Kenya and had two sons. They were later divorced. Obama, Sr. worked for the Kenyan Finance and Transport ministries as well as an oil firm. Obama, Sr. died in a 1982 car crash and his funeral was attended by leading Kenyan politicians, including future Foreign Minister Robert Ouko, who was murdered in 1990. <div align="right"> </div> CIA files indicate that Mboya was an important agent-of-influence for the CIA, not only in Kenya but in all of Africa. A formerly secret CIA Current Intelligence Weekly Summary, dated November 19, 1959, states that Mboya served as a check on extremists at the second All-African People’s Conference (AAPC) in Tunis. The report states that “serious friction developed between Ghana’s Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah and Kenyan nationalist Tom Mboya who cooperated effectively last December to check extremists at the AAPC’s first meeting in Accra.” The term “cooperated effectively” appears to indicate that Mboya was cooperating with the CIA, which filed the report from field operatives in Accra and Tunis. While “cooperating” with the CIA in Accra and Tunis, Mboya selected the father of the president of the United States to receive a scholarship and be airlifted to the University of Hawaii where he met and married President Obama’s mother. An earlier CIA Current Intelligence Weekly Summary, secret, and dated April 3, 1958, states that Mboya “still appears to be the most promising of the African leaders.” Another CIA weekly summary, secret and dated December 18, 1958, calls Mboya the Kenyan nationalist an “able and dynamic young chairman” of the People’s Convention party who was viewed as an opponent of “extremists” like Nkrumah, supported by “Sino-Soviet representatives.” In a formerly secret CIA report on the All-Africa Peoples Conference in 1961, dated November 1, 1961, Mboya’s conservatism, along with that of Taleb Slim of Tunisia, are contrasted to the leftist policies of Nkrumah and others. Pro-communists who were elected to the AAPC’s steering committee at the March 1961 Cairo conference, attended by Mboya, are identified in the report as Abdoulaye Diallo, AAPC Secretary General, of Senegal; Ahmed Bourmendjel of Algeria; Mario de Andrade of Angola; Ntau Mokhele of Basutoland; Kingue Abel of Cameroun; Antoine Kiwewa of Congo (Leopoldville); Kojo Botsio of Ghana; Ismail Toure of Guinea; T. O. Dosomu Johnson of Liberia; Modibo Diallo of Mali; Mahjoub Ben Seddik of Morocco; Djibo Bakari of Niger; Tunji Otegbeya of Nigeria; Kanyama Chiume of Nyasaland; Ali Abdullahi of Somalia; Tennyson Makiwane of South Africa, and Mohamed Fouad Galal of the United Arab Republic. The only attendees in Cairo who were given a clean bill of health by the CIA were Mboya, who appears to have been a snitch for the agency, and Joshua Nkomo of Southern Rhodesia, B. Munanka of Tanganyika, Abdel Magid Shaker of Tunisia, and John Kakonge of Uganda. Nkrumah would eventually be overthrown in a 1966 CIA-backed coup while he was on a state visit to China and North Vietnam. The CIA overthrow of Nkrumah followed by one year the agency’s overthrow of Sukarno, another coup that was connected to President Obama’s family on his mother’s side. There are suspicions that Mboya was assassinated in 1969 by Chinese agents working with anti-Mboya factions in the government of Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta in order to eliminate a pro-U.S. leading political leader in Africa. Upon Mboya’s death, every embassy in Nairobi flew its flag at half-mast except for one, the embassy of the People’s Republic of China. <div align="center"><img height="261" src="http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/18kenyatta.jpg" width="200" /> Jomo Kenyatta, first President of Kenya </div> Mboya’s influence in the Kenyatta government would continue long after his death and while Obama, Sr. was still alive. In 1975, after the assassination of KANU politician Josiah Kariuki, a socialist who helped start KANU, along with Mboya and Obama, Sr., Kenyatta dismissed three rebellious cabinet ministers who “all had personal ties to either Kariuki or Tom Mboya.” This information is contained in CIA Staff Notes on the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia, formerly Top Secret Umbra, Handle via COMINT Channels, dated June 24, 1975. The intelligence in the report, based on its classification, indicate the information was derived from National Security Agency intercepts in Kenya. No one was ever charged in the assassination of Kariuki. <div align="right"> </div> The intercepts of Mboya’s and Kariuki’s associates are an indication that the NSA and CIA also maintain intercepts on Barack Obama, Sr., who, as a non-U.S. person, would have been lawfully subject at the time to intercepts carried out by NSA and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). PART 2 In Part I of this WMR special report, we revealed the connections between Barack Obama, Sr. and the CIA-affiliated Airlift Africa project to provide college degrees to and gain influence over a group of 280 eastern and southern African students from soon-to-be independent African nations to counter similar programs established by the Soviet Union and China. Barack Obama Sr. was the first African student to attend the University of Hawaii. Obama Sr. and Obama’s mother Stanley Ann Dunham met in a Russian language class in 1959 and they married in 1961. The African airlift program was administered by Kenyan nationalist leader Tom Mboya, a fellow Luo tribe mentor and friend of the senior Obama. According to CIA documents described in Part I, Mboya also served the CIA in ensuring that pro-Soviet and pro-Chinese African nationalists were stymied in their attempt to dominate pan-African nationalist political, student, and labor movements. One of Mboya’s chief opponents was Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, who was ousted in a CIA-inspired coup in 1966, one year before Obama Sr.’s son, Barack Obama, Jr. and his mother joined Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian who Obama’s mother met at the University of Hawaii in 1965, when President Obama was four years old. In 1967, Obama and his mother joined her husband in Jakarta. In 1965, Lolo Soetoro had been called back from Hawaii by General Suharto to serve as an officer in the Indonesian military to help launch a bloody CIA-backed genocide of Indonesian Communists and Indonesian Chinese throughout the expansive country. Suharto consolidated his power in 1966, the same year that Barack Obama, Sr.’s friend, Mboya, had helped to rally pro-U.S. pan-African support for the CIA’s overthrow of Nkrumah in Ghana in 1966. East-West Center, University of Hawaii, and CIA coup against Sukarno Ann Dunham met Soetoro at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii. The center had long been affiliated with CIA activities in the Asia-Pacific region. In 1965, the year that Dunham met and married Soetoro, the center saw a new chancellor take over. He was Howard P. Jones who served a record seven years, from 1958 to 1965, as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia. Jones was present in Jakarta as Suharto and his CIA-backed military officers planned the 1965 overthrow of Sukarno, who was seen, along with the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), as allies of China. <div align="right"> </div> When Jones was chancellor of the East-West Center, he wrote an article for the Washington Post, dated October 10, 1965, in which he defended Suharto’s overthrow of Sukarno. Jones was “invited” by the Post to comment on the Suharto coup, described as a “counter-coup” against the Communists. Jones charged that Suharto was merely responding to an earlier attempted Communist-led coup against Sukarno launched by Lt. Col. Untung, “a relatively unknown battalion commander in the palace guard.” Jones’s article, which mirrored CIA situation reports from the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, continued by stating that the alleged leftist coup on September 30 “came within an inch of succeeding through the assassination of six of the top military command. It might well have succeeded had not Defense Minister Nasution and a number of other senior generals also marked for assassination acted fast in a dramatic counter-coup.” Of course, what Jones did not inform the Post’s readers was that the Suharto “counter-coup” had been assisted with the strong help of the CIA. Sukarno never blamed the Communists for the assassination of the army generals nor did the Indonesian Cabinet, where the second- and third-ranking leaders of the PKI were present. The possibility that the assassination of the generals was a CIA/Suharto “false flag” operation to affix blame on the PKI cannot be ruled out. Two days after Suharto’s coup, a CIA “rent-a-mob” burned down the PKI headquarters in Jakarta. As they marched past the U.S. Embassy, which was also the site of the CIA station, they yelled out, “Long live America!” Untung later said that when he became aware that Suharto and the CIA were planning a coup on October 5, 1965 – Indonesian Armed Forces Day – forces loyal to him and Sukarno moved first. Jones described this as “typical Communist propaganda.” Suharto moved against Sukarno on October 1. Jones iterated that “there was not an iota of truth . . . in the accusation that the CIA was working against Sukarno.” History has proven otherwise. Jones accused the Communists of taking advantage of Sukarno’s failing health to beat out the other candidates to succeed him. The goal, according to Jones, was to have PKI boss D.N. Aidit succeed Sukarno. Sukarno did not die until 1970, while under house arrest. A CIA paper, formerly classified Secret and undated, states “Sukarno would like to return to the status quo ante-coup. He has refused to condemn the PKI or the 30th September Movement [of Lt. Col. Untung]; instead, he calls for unity of Indonesia and asks that no vengeance be taken by one group against the other. But, he has not succeeded in forcing the Army to abandon its anti-PKI activities and, on the other hand, he has bowed to their demand by appointing its single candidate General Suharto as head of the Army.” Suharto and Barry Obama Soetoro’s step-father Lolo Soetoro would ignore Sukarno’s call for no vengeance, as hundreds of thousands of Indonesians would soon discover. The mass murder by Suharto of Indonesian Chinese is seen in the CIA paper’s description of the Baperki Party: “the leftist Baperki Party, with its major strength in rural areas, is largely Chinese-Indonesian in membership.” A CIA Intelligence Memorandum, dated October 6, 1966 and formerly classified Secret, shows the extent of the CIA’s monitoring of the anti-Sukarno coup from various CIA agents assigned as liaisons to Suharto’s army units surrounding the Presidential Palace in Bogor and at various diplomatic posts around the country, including the U.S. Consulate in Medan, which was keeping track of leftists in that Sumatran city and, which, in an October 2, 1965, Intelligence Memo, reported to the CIA that the “Soviet consul-general in Medan has a plane standing by that could be used for evacuation of Soviet citizens from Sumatra.” The October 6 memo also warns against allowing Untung from developing a following in Central Java. A CIA formerly Secret “Weekly Summary Special Report” on Indonesia, <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/downloads/20100816_4/download" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">dated August 11, 1967, and titled “The New Order in Indonesia,” </a>reports that in 1966, Indonesia re-aligned its economy in order to receive International Monetary Fund (IMF) assistance. The CIA reports it is happy with the new triumvirate ruling Indonesia in 1967: Suharto, Foreign Minister Adam Malik, and the Sultan of Jogjakarta, who served as minister for economics and finance. The report also rejoices in the outlawing of the PKI, but states it “retains a significant following in East and Central Java,” where Ann Dunham Soetoro would largely concentrate her later efforts on behalf of USAID, the World Bank, and the Ford Foundation, all front activities for the CIA to “win the hearts and minds” of the Javanese farmers and artisans. A CIA Intelligence Memorandum, formerly Secret and dated July 23, 1966, clearly sees the Muslim Nahdatul Ulama party (NU), the largest party in Indonesia and Muslim, as a natural ally of the United States and the Suharto regime. The report states that helped Suharto put down the Communists in the post-coup time frame, especially where the NU was strongest: East Java, where Obama’s mother would concentrate her activities, and North Sumatra and parts of Borneo. An April 29, 1966, formerly Secret CIA Intelligence Memorandum on the PKI states: “Moslem extremists in many instances outdid the army in hunting down and murdering members of the party [PKI] and its front groups.” Dunham dropped out of the University of Hawaii in 1960 while pregnant with Barack Obama. Barack Obama Sr. left Hawaii in 1962 to study at Harvard. Dunham and Obama divorced in 1964. In the fall of 1961, Dunham enrolled at the University of Washington while caring for her infant son. Dunham was re-enrolled at the University of Hawaii from 1963 to 1966. Lolo Soetoro, who Dunham married in March 1965, departed Hawaii for Indonesia on July 20, 1965, some three months prior to the CIA’s coup against Sukarno. Soetoro, who served Suharto as an Army colonel, was clearly called back from the CIA-connected East-West Center to assist in the coup against Sukarno, one that would eventually cost the lives of some one million Indonesian citizens. It is a history that President Obama would like the press to ignore, which it certainly did during the 2008 primary and general election. In 1967, after arriving in Indonesia with Obama, Jr., Dunham began teaching English at the American embassy in Jakarta, which also housed one of the largest CIA stations in Asia and had significant satellite stations in Surabaya in eastern Java and Medan on Sumatra. Jones left as East-West Center chancellor in 1968. In fact, Obama’s mother was teaching English for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which was a major cover for CIA activities in Indonesia and throughout Southeast Asia, especially in Laos, South Vietnam, and Thailand. The USAID program was known as Lembaga Pendidikan Pembinaan Manajemen. Obama’s mother, painted as a free spirit and a “sixties child” by President Obama and people who claimed they knew her in Hawaii and Indonesia, had a curriculum vitae in Indonesia that contradicts the perception that Ann Dunham Soetoro was a “hippy.” Dunham Soetoro’s Russian language training at the University of Hawaii may have been useful to the CIA in Indonesia. An August 2, 1966, formerly Secret memorandum from the National Security Council’s Executive Secretary Bromley Smith states that, in addition to Japan, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, and the Philippines, the Suharto coup was welcomed by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies because its created a non-aligned Indonesia that “represents an Asian counterweight to Communist China.” Records indicate that a number of CIA agents posted in Jakarta before and after the 1965 coup were, like Dunham Soetoro, conversant in Russian. Dunham Soetoro worked for the elitist Ford Foundation, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Bank Rakyat (the majority government-owned People’s Bank of Indonesia), and the CIA-linked USAID while she lived in Indonesia and later, Pakistan. USAID was involved in a number of CIA covert operations in Southeast Asia. The February 9, 1971, Washington Star reported that USAID officials in Laos were aware that rice supplied to the Laotian Army by USAID was being re-sold to North Vietnamese army divisions in the country. The report stated that the U.S. tolerated the USAID rice sales to the North Vietnamese since the Laotian Army units that sold the rice found themselves protected from Communist Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese attack. USAID and the CIA also used the supply of rice to force Laotian Meo tribesmen to support the United States in the war against the Communists. USAID funds programmed for civilians injured in the war in Laos and public health care were actually diverted for military purposes. In 1971, the USAID-funded Center for Vietnamese Studies at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale was accused of being a CIA front. USAID-funded projects through the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities (MUCIA) – comprising the Universities of Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana and Michigan State – were accused of being CIA front projects, including those for “agricultural education” in Indonesia, as well as other “projects” in Afghanistan, Mali, Nepal, Nigeria, Thailand, and South Vietnam. The charge was made in 1971, the same year that Ann Dunham was working for USAID in the country. In a July 10, 1971, New York Times report, USAID and the CIA were accused of “losing” $1.7 billion appropriated for the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) program in South Vietnam. CORDS was part of the CIA’s Operation Phoenix program, which involved CIA assassination and torture of South Vietnamese village elders and Buddhist clerics. USAID money was also directed to the CIA’s proprietary airline in Southeast Asia, Air America. In Thailand, USAID funds for the Accelerated Rural Development Program in Thailand were actually masking a CIA anti-Communist counter-insurgency operation. USAID funds programmed for public works projects in East Pakistan in 1971 were used for East Pakistan’s military fortifications on its border with India, in the months before the outbreak of war with India, in contravention of U.S. law that prohibited USAID money for military purposes. In 1972, USAID administrator Dr. John Hannah admitted to Metromedia News that USAID was being used as a cover for CIA covert operations in Laos. Hannah only admitted to Laos as a USAID cover for the CIA. However, it was also reported that USAID was being used by the CIA in Indonesia, Philippines, South Vietnam, Thailand, and South Korea. USAID projects in Southeast Asia had to be approved by the Southeast Asian Development Advisory Group (SEADAG), an Asia Society group that was, in fact, answerable to the CIA. The U.S. Food for Peace program, jointly administered by USAID and the Department of Agriculture, was found in 1972 to be used for military purposes in Cambodia, South Korea, Turkey, South Vietnam, Spain, Taiwan, and Greece. In 1972, USAID funneled aid money only to the southern part of North Yemen, in order to aid North Yemeni forces against the government of South Yemen, then ruled by a socialist government opposed to U.S. hegemony in the region. One of the entities affiliated with the USAID work in Indonesia was the Asia Foundation, a 1950s creation formed with the help of the CIA to oppose the expansion of communism in Asia. The East-West Center guest house in Hawaii was funded by the Asia Foundation. The guest house is also where Barack Obama Sr. first stayed after his airlift from Kenya to Hawaii, arranged by the one of the CIA’s major agents of influence in Africa, Mboya. Dunham would also travel to Ghana, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Thailand working on micro-financing projects. In 1965, Barack Obama Sr. returned to Kenya from Harvard, with another American wife. The senior Obama linked up with his old friend and the CIA’s “golden boy” Mboya and other fellow Luo politicians. The CIA station chief in Nairobi from 1964 to 1967 was Philip Cherry. In 1975, Cherry was the CIA station chief in Dacca, Bangladesh. Cherry was linked by the then-U.S. ambassador to Bangladesh, Eugene Booster, to the 1975 assassination of Bangladesh’s first president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and members of his family. The hit on “Sheikh Mujib” and his family was reportedly ordered by then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Bangladesh was also on the micro- and macro-financing travel itinerary of CIA-linked Ann Dunham. <img height="487" src="http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/18ciachart.JPG" width="512" /> CIA banking and Hawaii Meanwhile, Dunham Soetoro’s mother, Madelyn Dunham, who raised young Obama when he returned to Hawaii in 1971 while his mother stayed in Indonesia, was the first female vice president at the Bank of Hawaii in Honolulu. Various CIA front entities used the bank. Madelyn Dunham handled escrow accounts used to make CIA payments to U.S.-supported Asian dictators like Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, South Vietnamese President Nguyen van Thieu, and President Suharto in Indonesia. In effect, the bank was engaged in money laundering for the CIA to covertly prop up its favored leaders in the Asia-Pacific region. One of the CIA’s major money laundering fronts in Honolulu was the firm of Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham & Wong (BBRDW). After the CIA allowed the firm to collapse in 1983 amid charges that BBRDW was merely a Ponzi scheme, Senator Daniel Inouye of the US Senate Intelligence Committee said the CIA’s role in the firm “wasn’t significant.” It would later be revealed that Inouye, who was one of the late Alaska Senator Ted Stevens’s best friends in the Senate, was lying. In fact, BBRDW was involved heavily in funding covert CIA programs throughout Asia, including economic espionage against Japan, providing arms for Afghan mujaheddin guerrillas in their war against the Soviets and covertly supplying weapons to Taiwan. One of BBRDW’s principals was John C. “Jack” Kindschi, who, before he retired in 1981, was the CIA station chief in Honolulu. BBRDW’s chairman Ron Rewald had a counterfeit college degree certificate provided for the wall of his office by the CIA’s forgery experts and his name was inserted in university records as an alumnus. A false history for BBRDW was concocted by the CIA claiming the firm had operated in Hawaii since it was a territory. President Obama is currently plagued by allegations that he has fake college and university transcripts, a phony social security number issued in Connecticut, and other padded résumé items. Did Hawaii’s fake BBRDW documents portend today’s questions about Obama’s past? BBRDW conducted its business in the heart of Honolulu’s business district, where the Bank of Hawaii was located and where Obama grandmother Madelyn Dunham ran the escrow accounts. The bank would handle much of BBRDW’s covert financial transactions. Obama/Soetoro and the “years of living dangerously” in Jakarta It is clear that Dunham Soetoro and her Indonesian husband, President Obama’s step-father, were closely involved in the CIA’s operations to steer Indonesia away from the Sino-Soviet orbit during the “years of living dangerously” after the overthrow of Sukarno. WMR has discovered that some of the CIA’s top case officers were assigned to various official and non-official cover assignments in Indonesia during this time frame, including under the cover of USAID, the Peace Corps, and the U.S. Information Agency (USIA). One of the closest CIA contacts for Suharto was former CIA Jakarta embassy officer Kent B. Crane. Crane was so close to Suharto after “retiring” from the CIA, he was reportedly one of the only “private” businessmen given an Indonesian diplomatic passport by Suharto’s government. Crane’s company, the Crane Group, was involved in supplying small arms to the military forces of the United States, Indonesia, and other nations. A foreign policy adviser to Vice President Spiro Agnew, Crane was later nominated as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia by President Ronald Reagan but the nomination was dead-on-arrival because of Crane’s dubious links to Suharto. The ambassadorship would instead go to John Holdridge, a close colleague of Kissinger. Holdridge was succeeded in Jakarta by Paul Wolfowitz. Suharto’s cronies, who included Mochtar and James Riady of the Lippo Group, would later stand accused of funneling over $1 million of illegal foreign contributions to Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. President Obama has twice postponed official state visits to Indonesia, perhaps fearful of the attention such a trip would bring to the CIA connections of his mother and Indonesian step-father. In the 1970s and 80s, Dunham was active in micro-loan projects for the Ford Foundation, the CIA-linked East-West Center, and USAID in Indonesia. One of the individuals assigned to the U.S. embassy and helped barricade the compound during a violent anti-U.S. student demonstration during the 1965 Suharto coup against Sukarno was Dr. Gordon Donald, Jr. Assigned to the embassy’s Economic Section, Donald was responsible for USAID micro-financing for Indonesian farmers, the same project that Dunham Soetoro would work on for USAID in the 1970s, after her USAID job of teaching English in Indonesia. In a 1968 book, “Who’s Who in the CIA,” published in West Berlin, Donald is identified as a CIA officer who was also assigned to Lahore, Pakistan, where Dunham would eventually live for five years in the Hilton International Hotel while working on microfinancing for the Asian Development Bank. Another “Who’s Who in the CIA” Jakarta alumnus is Robert F. Grealy, who later became the director for international relations for the Asia-Pacific for J P Morgan Chase and a director for the American-Indonesian Chamber of Commerce. J P Morgan Chase’s CEO Jamie Dimon is being mentioned as a potential replacement for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, whose father, Peter Geithner, was the Ford Foundation’s Asia grant-selector who funneled the money to Ann Dunham’s Indonesian projects. CIA Black Projects and Hawaii While in Pakistan, Dunham’s son Barack visited her in 1980 and 1981. Obama visited Karachi, Lahore, and Hyderabad, India during his south Asia visits. It was during the time period that the CIA was beefing up its anti-Soviet operations in Afghanistan from Pakistan. A January 31, 1958, heavily-redacted formerly Secret NOFORN [no foreign dissemination] memorandum for CIA Director Allen Dulles from the Deputy Assistant Director of the CIA for Research and Reports [name redacted] reports on a fact-finding mission to the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East from November 17 through December 21, 1957. The CIA Office of Research and Reports (ORR) chief reports a meeting with the staff of retired Army General Jesmond Balmer, a senior CIA official in Hawaii, about requests by the Commander-in-Chief Pacific (CINCPAC) for “a number of detailed, time-consuming research studies.” The ORR chief then reports about a CIA “survey of students at the University of Hawaii who have both Chinese language and research ability.” The ORR chief also reports that at a South-East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) Counter Subversion Seminar at Baguio, Philippines held from November 26–29, 1957, the Economic Subcommittee discussed an “economic development fund” to combat “Sino-Soviet Bloc subversive activities in the area and a consideration of possible counter-measures which might be employed.” The Thailand and Philippines delegations were pushing hard for U.S. funding for an economic development fund, which may have provided the impetus for later USAID projects in the region, including those with which Peter Geithner and Obama’s mother were intimately involved. Although CIA geo-political covert operations at the University of Hawaii are well-documented, the agency’s darker side of research and MK-UKTRA type operations has not generally been associated with the University of Hawaii. <div align="right"> </div> A series of formerly Confidential CIA memoranda, dated May 15, 1972, points to the involvement of both the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the CIA, and the University of Hawaii in the CIA’s behavioral science program. The memos are signed by then-Deputy Director of the CIA Bronson Tweedy, the chief of the Intelligence Community’s <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/downloads/20100816_5/download" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Program Review Group (PRG) [name redacted], </a>and CIA Director Richard Helms. The <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/downloads/20100816_2/download" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">subject of the memos is “ARPA Supported Research Relating to Intelligence Product,” </a>The memo from the PRG chief discusses a conference held on May 11, 1972, attended by Lt. Col. Austin Kibler, ARPA’s Director of Behavioral Research. Kibler was the chief for ARPA research into behavior modification and remote viewing. Others mentioned in the PRG chief’s memo include CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence Edward Proctor, the CIA Deputy Director for Science and Technology Carl Duckett, and Director of the Office of National Estimates John Huizenga. In 1973, after CIA Director James Schlesinger ordered a review of all CIA programs, the CIA developed a set of documents on various CIA programs collectively called the “Family Jewels.” Most of these documents were released in 2007 but it was also revealed that Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA’s director of MKULTRA, the agency’s behavior modification, brainwashing, and drug-testing component, had been ordered by Helms, before he resigned as CIA director, to destroy his documents. Duckett, in one memo from Ben Evans of the CIA to CIA Director William Colby, dated May 8, 1973, conveys that he “thinks the Director would be ill-advised to say he is acquainted with this program,” meaning Gottlieb’s drug-testing program under MKULKTRA. Senior Gerald Ford administration officials, including Chief of Staff Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, ensured that after the production of the “Family Jewels” documents, no CIA revelations were made about CIA psychological behavior-altering programs, including MKULTRA and Project ARTICHOKE. The May 15, 1972, set of memos appears to be related to the CIA’s initial research, code-named SCANATE, in 1972 into psychic warfare, including the use of psychics for purposes of remote viewing espionage and mind control. The memo discussed Kibler from ARPA and “his contractor,” which was later discovered to be Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo Park, California. In a memo from CIA Director Helms to, among others, Duckett, Huizenga, Proctor, and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, which later inherited remote viewing from the CIA under the code name GRILL FLAME, Helms insists that ARPA had been supporting research into behavioral science and its potential for intelligence production “for a number of years” at “M.I.T., Yale, the University of Michigan, U.C.L.A., and <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/downloads/20100816_3/download" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">University of Hawaii </a>and other institutions as well as in corporate research facilities.” The role of the University of Hawaii in CIA psych-war operations continues to this day. The chief of research for DIA’s Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center (DCHC) Behavioral Sciences Program, Dr. Susan Brandon, who was reportedly involved in a covert program run by the American Psychological Association (APA), Rand Corporation, and the CIA to employ “enhanced interrogation” techniques, including sleep and sensory deprivation, intense pain, and extreme isolation on prisoners held at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan and other “black prisons,” received her PhD in Psychology from the University of Hawaii. Brandon also served as assistant director of Social, Behavioral, and Educational Sciences for the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the George W. Bush White House. The CIA’s close connections to the University of Hawaii continued to the late 1970s, when the former President of the University of Hawaii from 1969 to 1974, Harlan Cleveland, <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/downloads/20100816_1/download" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">was a special invited speaker at CIA headquarters on May 10, 1977</a>. Cleveland served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1961 to 1965 and Lyndon Johnson’s ambassador to NATO from 1965 to 1969 before taking up his position at the University of Hawaii. A CIA Director of Training memo dated May 21, 1971, reports on the active recruitment of a U.S. Marine officer who was entering graduate school at the University of Hawaii. The Family of Obama and the CIA There are volumes of written material on the CIA backgrounds of George H. W. Bush and CIA-related activities by his father and children, including former President George W. Bush. Barack Obama, on the other hand, cleverly masked his own CIA connections as well as those of his mother, father, step-father, and grandmother (there is very little known about Obama’s grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham, who was supposedly in the furniture business in Hawaii after serving in Europe during World War II). Presidents and vice presidents do not require security background checks, unlike other members of the federal government, to hold office. That job is left up to the press. In 2008, the press failed miserably in its duty to vet the man who would win the White House. With the ties of Obama’s parents to the University of Hawaii and its links to MKULTRA and ARTICHOKE, a nagging question remains: Is Barack Obama a real-life “Manchurian Candidate?” PART 3: Add one more Obama family member to the CIA payroll WMR previously reported on the CIA links of President Obama’s mother, father, step-father, grandmother to the CIA. Not much is known about Obama’s grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv4jnlkxOaw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">who Obama mistakenly referred to as “his father”</a> in two speeches, one recently to the Disabled American Veterans. What is officially known about Stanley Armour Dunham is that he served with the 9th Air Force in Britain and France prior to and after the D-Day invasion. After the war, Dunham and his wife, Madelyn and his daughter Stanley Ann – Obama’s mother – moved to Berkeley, California; El Dorado, Kansas; Seattle; and Honolulu. Armour Dunham is said to have worked for a series of furniture stores. Obama maintains that his mother and father first met in a Russian-language class at the University of Hawaii in 1959. However, a photograph has emerged of Stanley Armour welcoming Barack Obama, Sr., complete with traditional Hawaiian welcoming leis, from Kenya. Obama, Sr. was the only Kenyan student airlifted to Hawaii as part of the CIA-inspired Airlift Africa project that saw Obama and 279 other students from British eastern and southern African colonies brought to the United States for college degrees prior to their homelands gaining independence from Britain. The students were selected by Kenyan nationalist leader Tom Mboya who would later conduct surveillance for the CIA at pan-African nationalist meetings. Mboya was particularly focused on two African leaders who were seen as too close to the Sino-Soviet bloc, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Sekout Toure of Guinea. <img height="285" src="http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/dunham-obama.jpg" width="400" /> Stanley Armour Dunham with Barack Obama, Sr. at welcoming ceremony to Hawaii. The presence of two US Navy personnel indicates the plane may have landed at Hickam Air Force Base, an indication of the U.S. government’s and CIA’s role in the Airlift Africa project. The photograph of Armour Dunham with Barack Obama, Sr., indicates that the “furniture salesman” in Hawaii was, in fact, working with a CIA-funded project to rapidly educate aspiring politicians to serve in post-independence African governments to counter Soviet- and Chinese-backed political leaders in the region. There is a strong reason to believe that Armour Dunham worked in the 1950s for the CIA in the Middle East. An FBI file on Armour Dunham existed but the bureau claimed it destroyed the file on May 1, 1997. Considering the sour relations between the FBI and CIA during the Cold War, it is likely that Armour Dunham was being monitored by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover in the same manner as a number of other CIA officials and agents were being surveilled. Similarly, the pre-1968 passport records of Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, were destroyed by the State Department. There is a photographic clue that the Dunhams may have been assigned by the CIA to Beirut, Lebanon in the early 1950s. A photograph of Obama’s mother and grandparents has emerged that shows Stanley Ann Dunham wearing what may be a school uniform with the insignia of “NdJ,” which stands for the College Notre-Dame de Jamhour, a private Jesuit Catholic French language school in Beirut, Lebanon. Graduates of the school include three former presidents of Lebanon, Amine Gemayel, Bashir Gemayel, and Charles Helou, all of whom maintained close relations with Washington. <img height="436" src="http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/dunhams.jpg" width="640" /> Did Obama’s mother [left] go to a private school in Lebanon in the early 1950s while her Beach Baby on "Feb 1st Open Thread - Please leave open for the week until Feb 7th" http://gratewire.com/topic/feb-1st-open-thread-please-leave-open-for-the-week-until-feb-7th/page/2#post-124662 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:48:03 +0000 Beach Baby 124662@http://gratewire.com/ Today, February 15th, we will start our 3rd weekly open thread. I don't know that this is a perfect solution - but it does tend to keep some conversation flowing. So, I thought I would bump up our 1st thread in case anyone wanted to have a look back. Beach Baby on "Feb 1st Open Thread - Please leave open for the week until Feb 7th" http://gratewire.com/topic/feb-1st-open-thread-please-leave-open-for-the-week-until-feb-7th/page/2#post-124299 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:39:10 +0000 Beach Baby 124299@http://gratewire.com/ I agree. If the south want to keep those parks and other confederate places open, then they should be forced to become memorials for all the people who were enslaved for hundreds of years by the people of the south. The same way the Germans have memorialized Hitler's concentration camps. They are not joyous places to visit, but they do make you reflect on the injustice, horrors and atrocities that were committed. Black Lion on "Feb 1st Open Thread - Please leave open for the week until Feb 7th" http://gratewire.com/topic/feb-1st-open-thread-please-leave-open-for-the-week-until-feb-7th/page/2#post-124282 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:39:28 +0000 Black Lion 124282@http://gratewire.com/ Obot, agreed...The whitewash makes it seem like the so called Confedaracy was about some innocent people being harassed by the mean old Federal government and that slavery wasn't that bad or that Black people are too oversensitive regarding the issue.... Obot 50549535 on "Feb 1st Open Thread - Please leave open for the week until Feb 7th" http://gratewire.com/topic/feb-1st-open-thread-please-leave-open-for-the-week-until-feb-7th/page/2#post-124280 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:34:50 +0000 Obot 50549535 124280@http://gratewire.com/ There will always be racists, but at this point open and belligerent racism, like the Klan's, is completely unacceptable to most people. And the Klan knows it -- note the spokesman doesn't give his name. But there is still a tendency to tie the Confederacy to the South -- that being proud of the South means being proud of the Confederacy. Southerners certainly should be proud of the South, but there is nothing about the Confederacy to be proud of. It was a treasonous insurrection in defense of an atrocity. It was disgusting and vile. People shouldn't be ashamed of that -- they had nothing to do with what happened 150 years ago -- but there is something very wrong with whitewashing the Confederacy and trying to pretend it was anything other than despicable. Beach Baby on "Feb 1st Open Thread - Please leave open for the week until Feb 7th" http://gratewire.com/topic/feb-1st-open-thread-please-leave-open-for-the-week-until-feb-7th/page/2#post-124273 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:04:13 +0000 Beach Baby 124273@http://gratewire.com/ Well, the "fantatical" KKK may have gone underground for awhile - but as we can all see they are still alive and kicking. They have taken on other names and personas to hide their origins, but they are still there. Thank God, people today are willing to speak out against this racism and bigotry. More people do not look the other way. Let's hope that voice of reason gets stronger and stronger. Black Lion on "Feb 1st Open Thread - Please leave open for the week until Feb 7th" http://gratewire.com/topic/feb-1st-open-thread-please-leave-open-for-the-week-until-feb-7th/page/2#post-124235 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:13:33 +0000 Black Lion 124235@http://gratewire.com/ KKK Planning Largest Rally Ever in Memphis On Tuesday the Memphis City Council passed a resolution <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/07/nathan-bedford-forrest-park_n_2637953.html" target="_hplink" rel="nofollow">to rename</a> three Confederate-themed public parks in Memphis, including one named after the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Confederate Park is now known as Memphis Park, Jefferson Davis Park is henceforth Mississippi River Park and Nathan Bedford Forrest Park -- named after the Confederate Army lieutenant general and KKK leader -- is now Health Sciences Park. The City Council measure was a preemptive action against what Councilman Shea Flinn <a href="http://www.memphisflyer.com/JacksonBaker/archives/2013/02/05/council-changes-name-of-forrest-park-confederate-park-and-jefferson-davis-park" target="_hplink" rel="nofollow">called</a>, "the ironic war of aggression from our northern neighbor in Nashville." The day before, the state legislature introduced the "Tennessee Heritage Protection Act of 2013," which, if approved, will prevent renaming and alteration of Tennessee statues, monuments, or memorials erected in honor of the Civil War (or, in <a href="http://legiscan.com/TN/text/HB0553" target="_hplink" rel="nofollow">the bill</a>'s language, "the War Between the States"). "These three parks have a racial history that should be erased," Memphis civil rights activist Kennith Van Buren told the <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MEMPHIS_CONFEDERATE_PARKS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" target="_hplink" rel="nofollow">Associated Press</a>. "The parks are an embarrassment to our city." Not everyone is embarrassed, however. The name changes have drawn criticism from citizens in favor of commemorating the Confederate States of America. "We should cherish the history that we have, we shouldn't cover it up and try to bury it or hide it," Memphian Becky Muska <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MEMPHIS_CONFEDERATE_PARKS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" target="_hplink" rel="nofollow">said</a> at Tuesday's council meeting. The sentiment is hardly unique to Tennessee. Currently there are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_memorials_to_Jefferson_Davis" target="_hplink" rel="nofollow">twenty-five major monuments</a> to Davis alone in the United States, and the Confederate leader's birthday, June 3, remains a holiday in Florida -- public offices, schools and many businesses are closed -- and is officially celebrated in Kentucky and Louisiana, as well as Tennessee. Enter the Ku Klux Klan, founded by Civil War veterans in 1865. According to its website, the organization's current mission is to "stop White genocide." A KKK Exalted Cyclops <a href="http://www.wmctv.com/story/21018040/kkk-promising-largest-rally-ever-over-memphis-park-names" target="_hplink" rel="nofollow">promised</a> a massive protest rally over the Memphis City Council decision. (The Exalted Cyclops reports to a Grand Giant, or provincial leader. Next in the chain of command is Grand Dragon, a director on the state level. The Grand Wizard runs the national organization). Going by "Edward" -- anonymity is typical of the Klan -- the Exalted Cyclops told Memhis' <a href="http://www.wmctv.com/story/21018040/kkk-promising-largest-rally-ever-over-memphis-park-names" target="_hplink" rel="nofollow">WMC-TV</a>, "Y'all are going to see the largest rally Memphis, Tennessee, has ever seen. It's not going to be twenty or thirty -- it's going to be thousands of Klansmen from the whole United States." There are over 100 Klan chapters in the United States, with an <a href="http://archive.adl.org/learn/ext_us/kkk/default.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=4&item=kkk" target="_hplink" rel="nofollow">estimated membership</a> of 5,000. Should they gather lawfully, the city of Memphis will take no action, per the First Amendment. Anti-Klan protesters are another story. In 1998, when fifty Klansmen assembled to protest the celebration of Martin Luther King Day, police <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-05-10/news/9805100248_1_anti-klan-protesters-anti-klan-demonstrators-klan-members" target="_hplink" rel="nofollow">had to fire</a> tear gas to keep the crowd of 200-300 protestors of the protestors at bay. Beach Baby on "Feb 1st Open Thread - Please leave open for the week until Feb 7th" http://gratewire.com/topic/feb-1st-open-thread-please-leave-open-for-the-week-until-feb-7th/page/2#post-124215 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:02:09 +0000 Beach Baby 124215@http://gratewire.com/ He's three - maybe it was up on a table or a dresser and he was reaching for it and it went off. That's what happened to someone just before Christmas - it was a toddler that they did not think could reach up to the table - but he could. Too sad. So many people are irresponsible - really too irresponsible to have guns in the house with their children. This stuff happens every week and people don't change their behavior or habits. evzone on "Feb 1st Open Thread - Please leave open for the week until Feb 7th" http://gratewire.com/topic/feb-1st-open-thread-please-leave-open-for-the-week-until-feb-7th/page/2#post-124213 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:24:41 +0000 evzone 124213@http://gratewire.com/ I don't know why I find this story strange - First of all saying they don't know who fired the shot, it also says the boy was in the bedroom and says nothing of anyone else being there - Then again, a little boy playing with a gun would aim it around him - unless he's using his thumb and aiming it at himsel as opposed to his index finger aiming it away from him - Strange when you really think of it - Black Lion on "Feb 1st Open Thread - Please leave open for the week until Feb 7th" http://gratewire.com/topic/feb-1st-open-thread-please-leave-open-for-the-week-until-feb-7th/page/2#post-124211 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 08:36:21 +0000 Black Lion 124211@http://gratewire.com/ 3-Year-Old Boy Kills Himself With Pink Gun He Thought Was Toy Temorej Smith, a 3-year-old boy from Greenville, S.C., fatally shot himself with a pink handgun he thought was a toy, <a href="http://www.wyff4.com/news/local-news/greenville-news/GPD-Pink-gun-mistaken-for-toy-3-year-old-killed/-/9654794/18380044/-/item/0/-/tv9hld/-/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WYFF-4 reports</a>. Police ruled the Friday night shooting an accident. SEE ALSO: <a href="http://www.newser.com/story/162310/pentagon-to-extend-benefits-to-same-sex-spouses.html?cid=INTERACTIVEONETRADE" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Pentagon To Expand Benefits To Same-Sex Spouses</a> The boy was in the bedroom and his grandparents were in the living room when the gun went off. His parents were not home at the time of the shooting. Johnathan Bragg of the Greenville Police Department said that officers found that they boy had been shot when they arrived at the scene. No one is in custody but the investigation is ongoing. Police have not officially said who fired the weapon. SEE ALSO: <a href="http://www.newser.com/story/162293/nypd-stopped-frisked-86-of-city-in-2011.html?cid=INTERACTIVEONETRADE" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">NYPD Stopped, Frisked 8.6 Percent of City In 2011</a> “If you have guns, if you own guns mostly we would prefer you have them in a lock box,” Bragg said. “At least have them out of the reach of children.” Jack Logan, a local activist who founded the group “Put Down the Guns Young People,” handed out gun locks at a Burger King, just down the street from where the young boy lost his life. “I didn’t want to see parents having guns laying around when a child could maybe get his or her hands on a gun,” Logan said. The Greenville Police Department is also offering residents free gun locks at the Police Department at 4 McGee Street. <a href="http://simpsonville.patch.com/articles/obituary-temorej-christopher-smith#photo-13270646" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Temorej is survived</a> by his parents, Jerome Christopher Smith and Tia Jacques Miller, and his sister, Taliyah Christiaun Smith. Funeral services are scheduled for today at 3 p.m. at Golden View Baptist Church in Fountain Inn, S.C. He will be buried in the church cemetery after the service. <a href="http://newsone.com/2187040/temorej-smith-greenville-south-carolina-pink-gun/?omcamp=EMC-CVNL" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://newsone.com/2187040/temorej-smith-greenville-south-carolina-pink-gun/?omcamp=EMC-CVNL</a> Beach Baby on "Feb 1st Open Thread - Please leave open for the week until Feb 7th" http://gratewire.com/topic/feb-1st-open-thread-please-leave-open-for-the-week-until-feb-7th/page/2#post-124181 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:15:00 +0000 Beach Baby 124181@http://gratewire.com/ Jon Stewart says that Frank Luntz is the new messaging God of the Republicans <a href="http://www.hulu.com/watch/453777" rel="nofollow">http://www.hulu.com/watch/453777</a> The new blame game of why they lost. Beach Baby on "Feb 1st Open Thread - Please leave open for the week until Feb 7th" http://gratewire.com/topic/feb-1st-open-thread-please-leave-open-for-the-week-until-feb-7th/page/2#post-124157 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:37:00 +0000 Beach Baby 124157@http://gratewire.com/ Who got 143 years for 5 armed robberies? cjercoop on "Feb 1st Open Thread - Please leave open for the week until Feb 7th" http://gratewire.com/topic/feb-1st-open-thread-please-leave-open-for-the-week-until-feb-7th/page/2#post-124153 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:21:33 +0000 cjercoop 124153@http://gratewire.com/ What do you think about the 143 year sentence, imposed on a man convicted of 5 armed robberies, with 5 years of supervised parole, added to his sentence???? I say "OH YES, BABY", way to go!!! This could be the beginning of something good!!! Beach Baby on "Feb 1st Open Thread - Please leave open for the week until Feb 7th" http://gratewire.com/topic/feb-1st-open-thread-please-leave-open-for-the-week-until-feb-7th/page/2#post-124147 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:58:57 +0000 Beach Baby 124147@http://gratewire.com/ How do we point the finger at other countries when we are not willing to face the reality of our own atrocities? Beach Baby on "Feb 1st Open Thread - Please leave open for the week until Feb 7th" http://gratewire.com/topic/feb-1st-open-thread-please-leave-open-for-the-week-until-feb-7th/page/2#post-124146 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:55:49 +0000 Beach Baby 124146@http://gratewire.com/ If you are a woman (and even if you are not) these statistics should alarm you. According to 2010 FBI data, firearms -- and specifically handguns -- are the most common weapons used to murder women. In the U.S., 64 percent of women who are murdered each year die at the hands of a family member or intimate partner. In situations <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447915/" target="_hplink" rel="nofollow">involving domestic violence</a>, having a gun in the home makes a woman eight times more likely to be killed. An <a href="http://www.bvsde.paho.org/bvsacd/cd26/jawa/articulo8.pdf" target="_hplink" rel="nofollow">alarming study from 2002</a> found that while the U.S. represented around 32 percent of the female population among 25 high-income countries, it accounted for 84 percent of all female firearm homicides. “The difference in female homicide victimization rates between the U.S. and these other industrialized nations is very large and is closely tied to levels of gun ownership,” <a href="http://archive.sph.harvard.edu/press-releases/archives/2002-releases/press04172002.html" target="_hplink" rel="nofollow">explained lead author David Hemenway</a>. Beach Baby on "Feb 1st Open Thread - Please leave open for the week until Feb 7th" http://gratewire.com/topic/feb-1st-open-thread-please-leave-open-for-the-week-until-feb-7th/page/2#post-124133 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:43:44 +0000 Beach Baby 124133@http://gratewire.com/ I agree with BB2. I don't have any little children - but Black Butterfly does. Would you really want to send your little boy to school knowing that teachers had guns? Black Butterfly on "Feb 1st Open Thread - Please leave open for the week until Feb 7th" http://gratewire.com/topic/feb-1st-open-thread-please-leave-open-for-the-week-until-feb-7th/page/2#post-124082 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:06:31 +0000 Black Butterfly 124082@http://gratewire.com/ I don't like the idea of teacher having to arm themselves to go to work. We are taking this too far. Even a properly trained personnel as CJ has indicated isn't what is needed at schools. Where there is 1 gun, there are usually 10 more. Keep that in mind CJ, whatever properly trained personnel has a gun, someone is bound to know it and it will just cause more chaos in the end. SLF on "Feb 1st Open Thread - Please leave open for the week until Feb 7th" http://gratewire.com/topic/feb-1st-open-thread-please-leave-open-for-the-week-until-feb-7th/page/2#post-124075 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:08:24 +0000 SLF 124075@http://gratewire.com/ Crick, off topic (if there is one): no house swap w/NYC? cjercoop on "Feb 1st Open Thread - Please leave open for the week until Feb 7th" http://gratewire.com/topic/feb-1st-open-thread-please-leave-open-for-the-week-until-feb-7th/page/2#post-124047 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 04:01:20 +0000 cjercoop 124047@http://gratewire.com/ Thanks for this open thread, it does seem to keep a conversation going!! We are all over the place, but it's better, than what we were doing!!! cjercoop on "Feb 1st Open Thread - Please leave open for the week until Feb 7th" http://gratewire.com/topic/feb-1st-open-thread-please-leave-open-for-the-week-until-feb-7th/page/2#post-124043 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 02:53:34 +0000 cjercoop 124043@http://gratewire.com/ This issue seems to keep coming back to the AR15's, and scary weapons, and not the real issue!! This entire gun control issue is being based on emotion's, rather than common sense! No One has advocated that teachers, have AR!15's, in the classroom, what we have advocated, is that properly trained school personnel, should be armed with semi-automatic pistols, available to them, in the event of a situation!! I still believe that more could be done to decrease gun violence, with the enactment of serious consequences, for anyone found in possession of an illegal gun, or those who use a gun in the commission of a crime!!!! Until the mental health issue is addressed, the carnage will not stop!!!