Sunday, September 5, 2010

Re: mysterions running amock

According to University of Chicago Law School records, Obama worked for Business International Corporation (BIC) from January 1984 to January 1985.[1] Investigative journalist (yes, there still are a few of them left) Wayne Madsen, claims BIC is a CIA front company.[2]

Lolo Soetoro, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Barack Obama Sr are also linked to the CIA through declassified CIA documents.[3]

These links to the CIA might explain why the are so many Social Security numbers floating around.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20010509024017/http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/obama/cv.html
[2] http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5161.shtml
[3] http://www.thomhartmann.com/forum/2010/08/bombshell-barack-obama-conclusively-outed-cia-creation

On 9/5/2010 10:11 AM, Bruce Majors wrote:




The Mystery of Barack Obama Continues

By Steve Baldwin, Exclusive to Western Center for Journalism

Most Americans don't realize we have elected a president whom we know very little about.

Pictured:                   Barack Obama's Autobiography, Dreams from My Father.

Pictured: Barack Obama's Autobiography, Dreams from My Father.

Researchers have discovered that Obama's autobiographical books are little more than PR stunts, as they have little to do with the actual events of his life. The fact is we know less about President Obama than perhaps any other president in American history and much of this is due to actual efforts to hide his record. This should concern all Americans.

A nation-wide network of researchers has sprung up to attempt to fill in the blanks, but at every opportunity Obama's high-priced lawyers have built walls around various records or simply made them disappear. It is estimated that Obama's legal team has now spent well over $1.4 million dollars blocking access to documents every American should have access to. The question is why would he spend so much money to do this?

The president who campaigned for a more "open government" and "full disclosure" will not unseal his medical records, his school records, his birth records or his passport records. He will not release his Harvard records, his Columbia College records, or his Occidental College records—he will not even release his Columbia College thesis. All his legislative records from the Illinois State Senate are missing and he claims his scheduling records during those State Senate years are lost as well. In addition, no one can find his school records for the elite K-12 college prep school, Punahou School, he attended in Hawaii.

What is he hiding? Well, for starters, some of these records will shed light on his citizenship and birth.

Pictured: "Scott & Barry, 3rd grade 1969" Punahou School in Hawaii.

For example, Obama's application to Punahou School – now mysteriously missing – would likely contain a birth certificate. And, according to attorney Gary Kreep, "his Occidental College records are important as they may show he attended there as a foreign exchange student." Indeed, Obama used his Indonesian name "Barry Soetoro" while attending Occidental. Kreep has filed lawsuits challenging Obama's eligibility to be president and as part of his lawsuit he requested Obama's records from Occidental. However, Obama's lawyers quickly moved to stop Occidental from honoring this request.
Furthermore, now that at least three document authentication experts have declared the scanned "Certificate of Live Birth" Obama's campaign team gave to a pro-Obama website to be an obvious phony; we know that he is hiding something here as well.

Over 49 separate law suits have been filed on the eligibility/birth certificate issue alone, with several of the suits making it all the way the United States Supreme Court, only to be denied a full hearing.

Pictured: Saudi Prince Al-Walid bin                   Talah

Pictured: Saudi Prince Al-Walid bin Talah

What's more, there are questions about how he paid for his Harvard Law School education since, despite a claim by Michele Obama, no one has produced any evidence that he received student loans. The Obamas will not release any student loan details despite repeated requests from the Chicago Tribune. However, it appears that his Harvard education may have been paid for by a foreign source. Khalid Al-Mansour, an advisor to Saudi prince Al-Walid bin Talah, told Manhattan Borough president, Percy Sutton, that he was raising money for Obama's Harvard tuition. Incidentally, Prince Tala is the largest donor to CAIR, a Muslim group declared by the U.S. Government in 2007 as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorist financing trial. At least three of CAIR's leaders have been indicted for terrorist activities. Al-Mansour's admission opens up speculation as to whether Muslim interests have assisted Obama's career in the hope he would eventually be in a position someday to promote their interests.

More recently, it was discovered that Obama's Selective Service card may have been doctored. Federal law requires all American males to register for the Selective Service (the draft) in case a major war broke out.  Blogger Debbie Schlussel has discovered solid evidence that Obama's Selective Service registration form was submitted not when he was younger as required, but rather in 2008 and then altered to look older. Indeed, the forgers forgot to alter the "Document Location Number" which shows that it is clearly a 2008 form. This is fraud and it's a felony and Schlussel allegations are backed up by Stephen Coffman, a former high-ranking Federal agent. Moreover, the document shows a September 4th, 1980 date and the location of the transaction as Hawaii, but at that time Obama was thousands of miles away attending Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Pictured: Barack Obama's                   2008 Selective Service Card.

Pictured: Barack Obama's 2008 Selective Service Card. "Blogger Debbie Schlussel has discovered solid evidence that Obama's Selective Service registration form was submitted not when he was younger as required, but rather in 2008 and then altered to look older."

The real reason why Obama probably did not submit this form as a teenager is that he assumed his Kenyan or Indonesian citizenship exempted him from this requirement. But clearly, as he grew older and entered politics, he saw that any documents revealing a foreign birth – Selective Service registration, birth certificate, school applications, etc – would be problematic if he ran for the presidency. Thus, it is not a coincidence that every document which contains information about his birth or citizenship is either missing, sealed, or has been altered.

Indeed, everywhere one looks into Obama's background, we find sealed records, scrubbed websites, altered documents, deception and unanswered questions. Can anyone imagine for a second if John McCain or George Bush had blocked access to his school, medical, and birth records?  It would have been headlines but as with everything else concerning Obama, the media has given him a pass on this.

Of all these marvels, the latest mystery and probably most perplexing is that of Obama's social security number. It appears that Obama has multiple identities in term of possessing numerous social security numbers. Orly Taitz, an attorney who has filed numerous suits against Obama regarding his eligibility to serve as president, appears to be the first to discover this. In her suit, representing a number of military officers who are refusing to serve under an ineligible commander in chief, she hired private investigator Neil Sankey to conduct research on Obama's prior addresses and Social Society numbers. Using Intelius, Lexis Nexis, Choice Point and other public records, Sankey found around 25 Social Security numbers connected with Obama's name.

However, it may not be as many as 25, since Sankey also searched using closely related names such as:  "Barak Obama," "Batock Obama," "Barok Obama," and "Barrack Obama." There may very well be some Kenyans living in America with the same last name and a similar first name. In any case, I will exclude these records for the purpose of this research and focus only on names spelled exactly like his name. Moreover, we can verify many of the Social Security numbers as valid since they're connected to addresses at which we know Obama resided. Needless to say, there are also a slew of address and social security numbers connected to addresses in states that Obama has no known connection to.

In Obama's home state, Illinois, Sankey tracked down 16 different addresses for a Barack Obama or a Barack H. Obama, of which all are addresses he was known to have lived at. Two Social Security numbers appear for these addresses, one beginning with 042 and one starting 364.

In California, where Obama attended Occidental College, there are six addresses listed for him, all within easy driving distance of the college. However, there are three Social Security numbers connected to these addresses, 537 and two others, each beginning with 999.

There are no addresses listed in New York where he attended Columbia University, but there is one listed for him in nearby Jackson, NJ, with a Social Security number beginning with 485.

Pictured: 713 Hart Senate                   Office Building.

Pictured: 713 Hart Senate Office Building.

In Massachusetts – where Obama attended Harvard Law School – we find three addresses, all using the 042 Social Security number. After Obama was elected to the United States Senate in 2005, he moved into an apartment at 300 Massachusetts Ave NW; the Social Security number attached to that address is the 042 one. Yet, three years later, Obama used a different Social Security number for an address listed as: 713 Hart Senate Office Building. This was the address of his United States Senate office.  This Social Security number began with 282 and was verified by the government in 2008.

This mystery grows even stranger as other addresses and Social Security numbers for Barack Obama appear in a dozen other states not known to be connected to him. Again, I am excluding those records names not spelled exactly like his name.

Tennessee, one address with a Social Security number beginning with 427

Colorado, one address, with a Social Security number beginning with 456.

Utah, two addresses, with two Social Security numbers beginning with 901 and 799.

Missouri has one address and one Social Security number beginning with 999.

Florida has two addresses listed for his him, three if you count one listed as "Barry Obama." One is connected to a Social Security number beginning with 762.

In Georgia there are three addresses listed for him, all with different Social Security numbers:   579, 420, and 423.

In Texas there are four different addresses listed for him, one is connected to Social Security number 675.

There are two addresses listed for Barack Obama in Oregon and one address listed for him in
the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

All told, there are 49 addresses and 16 different Social Security numbers listed for a person whose name is spelled "Barack Obama." In some cases, the middle initial "H" is listed. If you were to expand the search to include closely related names such as: "Barac," "Barak," and "Barrack" Obama, you would find more than a dozen additional addresses and Social Security numbers.

Finally, the one Social Security number Obama most frequently used, the one beginning with 042, is a number issued in Connecticut sometime during 1976-1977, yet there is no record of Obama ever living or working in Connecticut. Indeed, during this time period Obama would have been 15-16 years old and living in Hawaii at the time.

Pictured: Ann, Stanley and                   Madelyn Dunham

Pictured: Ann, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham

Nevertheless, all this mystery surrounding Obama appears to be a generational thing.  Researchers have discovered nearly a dozen aliases, at least two different Social Security numbers, and upwards of over 99 separate addresses for Ann Dunham, his mother. We do know she worked for the ultra liberal Ford Foundation but we also know she may have earned some income from pornographic poses, as evidenced by photos recently discovered by some researchers—how embarrassing. The only thing researchers are able to find out about Obama's mother is the fact she made porn. I'm sure that's a first for presidential mothers.

But we also know that Obama's mother and grandparents associated with Communist Party  leaders such as Frank Marshall Davis, a man who, according to Obama's book, Dreams from my Father, was his main mentor during much of his Hawaiian boyhood (although Obama tried to disguise his identity in his book). During the Cold War, Davis was named by congressional investigators as a key member of a secretive pro-Soviet networked that existed in Hawaii at that time.

Pictured:                   Communist Party leader, Frank Marshall Davis.

Pictured: Communist Party leader, Frank Marshall Davis.

The lack of documents regarding Obama also extends to his mother and to his grandparents. Indeed, researchers have been unable to find marriage licenses for his mother's two marriages, assuming she was ever legally married. Ditto goes for the marriage license for Ann's parents. They cannot find birth certificates for her, her parents, or for even for her grandparents. Even more so, despite Obama's boast of his grandfather's military service, there's no record of that either. For reasons no one knows, much of Obama's life, his mother's life and his grandparent's life has been erased from the records as if they never existed.

But why would someone obtain so many Social Security numbers? According to investigators, those who create additional Social Society numbers are typically engaged in criminal activities such as Social Security fraud, tax fraud, real estate fraud, campaign contributions fraud, voter fraud and so on. While the private investigator who compiled this list says multiple social security numbers does not automatically prove there's criminal activity involved, he states that "having said that, I have personally experienced many, many cases where such information has led to subsequent exposure of fraud, deception, money laundering and other crimes."What is interesting to note is that Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, was a volunteer at the Oahu Circuit Court probate department and had access to the Social Security numbers of deceased people.

Pictured: Barrack                   Obama and his Grandmother, Madelyn Dunham.

Pictured: Barrack Obama and his Grandmother, Madelyn Dunham. "Madeline Dunham was a volunteer at the Oahu Circuit Court probate department and had access to the Social Security numbers of deceased people."

It is clear that more research needs to be done on this issue.  The Western Center for Journalism
http://www.westernjournalism.com) is inviting our readers to join the search for the truth. If you have any information about any of the addresses listed, we would love to hear from you. To find a complete list of all the addresses and Social Security numbers listed in the public record for Obama and family, please go to the Western Center for Journalism.



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Re: what the leftovers are saying: The Billionaire Right Winger

I sent an email to Joe Conason at jconason@observer.com asking him to look into the connections George Soros has with Media Matters, Think Progress, etc. and it was returned as undeliverable. Is Conason no longer associated with the New York Observer? Or, is it more likely he received a ton of emails denouncing his left-wing agenda?

On 9/5/2010 7:15 AM, Bruce Majors wrote:
the Koch's have been giving money to groups for decades

not as much as George Soros or Stewart Mott or the Podesta brothers etc gave to MoveOn, Think Regress etc

but the Tea Party's took off and the Leftovers fizzled

so tea partiers did not become active so they could get a check from the Kochs

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Lloyd M(Yahoo) <lloyd------@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

Correction:  "wouldn't support the burgeoning Tea Party is silly".  The idea that the "Tea Party" was conjured by them is also silly.  Of course, there was bound to be a reaction to the EXTREME statist Obama agenda!  Of course, the Kochs would support it because it tends toward their libertarian philosophy as compared to the ultra statist agenda of Obama.  Of course, the Rockefeller/Saudi camarilla would like to shutdown domestic oil and gas production ENTIRELY to feather their nests under the mirage of cap and trade and opposing global warming. . .

The campaign for Obama on the other hand is clearly a project concocted from whole cloth by the Rockefeller/OPEC/Islamic faction of capital!  . . .  one of the major blocs or THE MAJOR BLOC of finance capital.  The connection of Zbig to Rockefeller and Obama is key.  It is clear from David Rockefeller's bio that Obama would be his ideal candidate.  No co-incidence the major media except Fox supports Obama in the most obvious, even simple-minded ways!

Here's another look at the truth about the BILLIONAIRE LIBERTARIAN who ran with Ed Clark under the Libertarian Party banner!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Clark

 

The idea that the Kochs WOULDn't  support the burgeoning Party is silly.  Hey!  Rich people have the right to support ideas and movements they believe to be helpful.  The same people who ding-dong on the minority efforts of the Kochs REFUSE to look at the Mammoth propaganda efforts of the Rockefeller Foundations!

 

Ed Clark

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This article concerns the Libertarian presidential candidate. For information on other people of the same name, see Edward Clark.

Ed Clark

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/17/EdClarkBackCover.jpg/225px-EdClarkBackCover.jpg


Libertarian candidate for
President of the United States

Election date
November 4, 1980

Running mate

David H. Koch

Opponent(s)

Ronald Reagan (R)
Jimmy Carter (D)
John B. Anderson (I)

Incumbent

Jimmy Carter (D)


Born

1930

Political party

Libertarian

Ed Clark (born 1930) is an American politician who ran for Governor of California in 1978, and for President of the United States as the nominee of the Libertarian Party in the 1980 presidential election.

Clark is an honors graduate of Tabor Academy, Dartmouth College and received a law degree from Harvard Law School.

[edit] 1978 California governor campaign

In 1978, Clark received some 377,960 votes, 5.46% of the popular vote, in a race for Governor of California. Although a member of the Libertarian Party, he appeared on the California ballot as an independent candidate.[1]

According to a 1980 article in Mother Jones magazine, Clark's 1978 vote ran strongest in "wealthy Orange County, a long-time stronghold of right-wing sentiments; in the back country of the Sierra Nevada, where loggers, miners and developers rail against government restrictions on land use; in Berkeley and the gay neighborhoods of San Francisco, which share the Libertarians' antipathy for drug laws and vice squads; and in the cocaine-and-Perrier precincts of Marin County..."[2]

Another factor leading to the unprecedented (for California) 5.46% vote total for Clark was his libertarian campaign occurring the same year as the successful Proposition 13 which limited property taxes, and the unsuccessful anti-gay Briggs Initiative (Proposition 6). Clark and the California Libertarian Party campaigned in support for Proposition 13[3] and in opposition to Proposition 6[4] both of which turned out people to the polls who might be more inclined to favor a libertarian candidate.

Clark lost the race to Jerry Brown, who was re-elected with 56% of the vote. Republican nominee Evelle J. Younger had 36.5% of the vote.[5]

[edit] 1980 Presidential campaign

In 1979 he won the Libertarian Party presidential nomination at the party's convention in Los Angeles, California. He published a book on his programs, entitled "A New Beginning". The book's introduction was by Eugene McCarthy. During the campaign, Clark positioned himself as a peace candidate and emphasized both large budget and tax cuts, as well as outreach to liberals and progressives unhappy with the resumption of Selective Service registration and the arms race with the Soviet Union.[6]

When asked in a television interview to summarize libertarianism, Clark used the phrase "low-tax liberalism," causing some consternation among traditional libertarian theorists, most notably Murray Rothbard.[7][8] Clark's running to the center marked the start of a split within the Libertarian Party between a moderate faction led by Ed Crane and a radical faction led by Rothbard[9] that eventually came to a head in 1983, with the moderate faction walking out of the party convention after the nomination for the 1984 presidential race went to David Bergland.[10]

Ed Clark's running mate in 1980 was David H. Koch of Koch Industries, who pledged part of his personal fortune to the campaign for the vice-presidential nomination, enabling the Clark/Koch ticket to largely self-fund and run national television advertising.

Clark received 921,128 votes (1.06% of the total nationwide)[11]; the highest number and percentage of popular votes a Libertarian Party candidate has ever received in a presidential race. His strongest support was in Alaska, where he came in third place with 11.66% of the vote, finishing ahead of independent candidate John Anderson and receiving almost half as many votes as Jimmy Carter.[12]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Doherty, Brian. Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement, New York: Publicaffairs, p. 406
  2. ^ Paul, Mark. "Seducing the Left: The Third Party That Wants YOU". Mother Jones, May 1980.
  3. ^ Doherty, p. 405-406
  4. ^ Libertarian Review, vol. 7 no. 9 October 1978
  5. ^ JoinCalifornia election history for the state of California, http://www.joincalifornia.com/election/1978-11-07
  6. ^ See, for example, The "Ed Clark: Isolationist Libertarian" television ad at http://www.icue.com/portal/site/iCue/chapter/?cuecard=5818 and NBC's August 8, 1980 profile of the Libertarian Party at http://www.icue.com/portal/site/iCue/chapter/?cuecard=3253
  7. ^ Doherty, p. 415
  8. ^ Raimondo, Justin. An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard, Prometheus Books
  9. ^ Hayes, Christopher. "Ron Paul's Roots". The Nation, December 6, 2007
  10. ^ Doherty, p. 418-421
  11. ^ U.S. Presidential Election Atlas, http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1980&off=0&f=1
  12. ^ U.S. Presidential Election Atlas, http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1980&fips=2&f=1&off=0&elect=0

Party political offices

Preceded by
Roger MacBride

Libertarian Party Presidential candidate
1980 (lost)

Succeeded by
David Bergland

 

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Presidential
tickets

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The Billionaire Right-Winger

By Joe Conason

August 24, 2010 | 6:43 p.m

 

David Koch,                                                     with his wife.<br                                                     /> (Getty                                                     Images)

David Koch, with his wife.

Despite the kaleidoscopic proliferation of political media over the past decade, most of what Americans hear and read about the workings of our democracy can be politely termed superficial. Only very rarely does journalism fully penetrate the glittering illusions created by partisans on every side to reveal the grittier realities. When a reporter does blast through the usual scrim of deception, that is worth noting—as in the case of Jane Mayer's investigation in the current issue of The New Yorker of the Koch family and its malign influence.

For decades, the Koch brothers, billionaire heirs of one of the largest privately held companies in the United States, have covertly sought to promote their hard-right ideology through third parties, think tanks, foundations and front groups. Their late father, Fred, having earned a fortune assisting the nascent Soviet oil industry, eventually became a right-wing extremist and member of the John Birch Society. His sons, especially David Koch, have not only expanded the family business but infiltrated their father's political views into the mainstream.

Happily for them, the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars on nonprofit and "educational" ventures has served their corporate priorities perfectly. While Ms. Mayer cites many examples of self-serving Koch philanthropy that match their more direct program of buying politicians and policies, the enterprise that is currently most pertinent is the Tea Party movement.

Although the Kochs cannot be said to directly control the Tea Party outfits, they have succeeded in infusing their priorities, strategies and ideas into the movement through an organization called Americans for Prosperity. Typically, a Koch Industries spokeswoman sought to deny that David Koch, his brother Charles, their company or their foundations have funded the Tea Parties—and technically that may be true. David Koch says he has never attended a Tea Party event and that nobody representing the Tea Party "has ever even approached me."

 David Koch, who lives in a 9,000-square-foot Park Avenue apartment, is not exactly a pitchfork populist and has no interest in mingling with such unfashionable types.

It certainly seems unlikely that David Koch has ever encountered any of the folks who turn up at a typical Tea Party event or that he has ever showed up at a Congressional town hall meeting to scream about health care reform. He lives on Park Avenue in a 9,000-square-foot duplex apartment and spends his time cultivating elitist Manhattan society with donations to New York cultural institutions, notably the ballet. He used to divide his time between a yacht in the south of France and a palatial home in the Hamptons, where he hosted "an East Coast version of Hugh Hefner's soirees" in the clothes-optional Playboy mansion.

In short, Mr. Koch is not exactly a pitchfork populist and has no interest in mingling with such unfashionable types. He also doesn't care much what they think. A former Koch adviser told The New Yorker that the Kochs back the Tea Party movement for the most cynical reasons. "This right-wing, redneck stuff works for them. They see this as a way to get things done without getting dirty themselves."

The kind of things that the Kochs want to "get done"-aside from advancing their social profile in places like the Upper East Side-mostly involve reducing taxes and regulations on themselves and their companies. If they had their way, Social Security and Medicare would disappear tomorrow, and so would any other program that benefits families without a billion dollars at their disposal. So would the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Air Act and every other obstacle to their massive effusions of deadly filth. Lately, they have been trying to prevent stricter regulation of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, because their company produces enormous amounts of the stuff for commercial use.

Bruce Bartlett, a conservative economist and historian who worked at one of the many right-wing think tanks funded by Koch money, believes that the Koch brothers are "trying to shape and control and channel the populist uprising into their own policies." Perhaps the Tea Party activists should take a harder look at those policies—and try to figure out whether the national interest truly coincides with the avaricious, destructive attitude of these "libertarians."

jconason@observer.com

 

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