Oh, wait, his Greek butt buddy, George Soros, already went there
Posted on 12/01/2010 12:50:03 PM PST by FreeAtlanta
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Donald Trump:
“Whether it’s OPEC or China, it’s called lobbyists. OPEC has the biggest, most powerful lobbyists in Washington. I believe those lobbyists get the politicians to leave OPEC alone.”
Will someone explain to these nits that 'potential energy' doesn't come from 'potential drilling'?
Sheesh.
Why would obozo need cheap energy or good jobs?
Pray for America
These oil companies should just ignore this fool. Call his bluff and let Obama sent out military to murder american citizens trying to earn a living.
Can’t have evil American oil companies competing with Soros’ interests. Soros just needed to put the word out to the sock puppet to stand down the drilling.
In a note in his diary, former President Carter disclosed how, in 1977, the Arab lobby pressured him while he was involved in the negotiations between President Sadat and PM Begin. He wrote about Arab Americans “They have given all the staff, Brzezinski, Warren Christopher, and others, a hard time.”
After the 1967 war, the Arabian American Oil Company ARAMCO established a fund to present the Arab side of the conflict. In May 1970, ARAMCO representatives warned Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco that American military sales to Israel would hurt U.S.-Arab relations and jeopardize U.S. oil supplies.
Among the more notable individual members of the Arab lobby in recent decades was the late Clark Clifford (died October 1998), whom The New York Times described as a key adviser to Democratic U.S. presidents beginning with Harry Truman, and as an influential paid lobbyist for Arab sources. Another key figure in the Arab lobby has been Fred Dutton, former Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs and special assistant to President John F. Kennedy. On July 19, 2005, The Hill, a newspaper about the U.S. Congress, reported that Dutton (a lobbyist for Saudi Arabia) had worked assiduously to persuade Congress to approve two major arms sales to that nation.
During a January 1998 U.S. Congressional Delegation briefing in Damascus, Congressman Nick Rahall (D – West Virginia), who is of Lebanese descent, said:
“Our [Arab] lobby in the United States is growing in its influence and its participation in political campaigns across the spectrum. Our trip [was] sponsored by the Arab American Institute — one of those most effective lobbying groups of the Arab groups in Washington — and a relatively new group, the National Arab American Businessmen’s Association. [Through] these groups … we are increasing our influence, and we are increasing our participation.”
Some members of the Arab lobby in America are heavily financed with money from the Arab world. Before his death in 2005, for instance, Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd made several multi-million-dollar donations to the Carter Center, whose founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, has cultivated a longstanding reputation as a pro-Arab detractor of Israel. Also as of 2005, the king’s nephew, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, had given at least $5 million to the same institution. In 2001 the United Arab Emirates (UAE) gave the Carter Center $500,000. The previous year, ten of Osama bin Laden’s brothers had jointly pledged to give the Center $1 million, as Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman had done in 1998. The Saudi Fund for Development has been another major contributor to the Carter Center, as has the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development. And Morocco’s Prince Moulay Hicham Ben Abdallah has collaborated with the Carter Center on various initiatives.
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Founded in 1985, the Arab American Institute is a non-profit membership organization based in Washington D.C. that focuses on the issues and interests of Arab-Americans nationwide. James Zogby, brother of pollster John Zogby, is founder and president of the AAI.
Directors
George R. Salem
Dr. James Zogby
John Zogby
Jean AbiNader
Helen Samhan
Board of Governors
Mr. Richard Abdoo
Dr. Samir Abu-Ghazaleh
Dr. Yahya Basha
Dr. Ali Bazzi
Ms. Sherine El-Abd
Mr. Michael Farah
Mr. Nijad Fares
Ms. Samia Farouki
Dr. Abdel Kader Fustok
Hon. Edward Gabriel
Mr. Samuel Halaby, Jr.
Mr. Assad Jebara
Mr. Ghassan Saab
Tawfiq Barqawi - Member of National Policy Council
Tawfiq Barqawi “is a businessman of the greater Philadelphia region. His business ventures include real estate, convenience stores, and the exportation of goods overseas. Mr. Barqawi is a member of the National Advisory Board of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Vice-President of the ADC Philadelphia Chapter, and is a member of the Arab American Institute National Policy Council.
“Mr. Barqawi was born in Palestine and raised in Jordan. In Lebanon he graduated law school in 1977, and moved to the United States in 1989. He lives with his wife Malak in New Jersey and has two children, Ahmad and Dana, both currently enrolled in college.”
Arab American Institute
1600 K Street NW, Suite 601
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 429-9210
Fax: (202) 429-9214
Oh, wait, his Greek butt buddy, George Soros, already went there
Of course there will be no drilling on the East Coast or West Coast. Can’t piss off all their liberal econazi supporters.
“He oiled his way across the floor, oozing charm from every pore.”
Bandar was quickly promoted to Saudi ambassador to Washington, where, in 1990, he was assigned the task by Defense Secretary Dick Cheney of, in effect, doling out press passes to the U.S. media before the Gulf War this in spite of the fact that tens of thousands of U.S. troops were swarming into the kingdom to defend it against a perceived invasion threat from Saddam Hussein. When he wasn’t entertaining congressmen and spreading good cheer through his highly paid lobbyist, Fred Dutton, Bandar was busy making friends with, at first vice president, and then president, George H.W. Bush, and by extension with Bush’s son, the future president. This personal relationship with the Bush family has served Bandar and his family very well, as documented in Craig Unger’s book, House of Bush, House of Saud.
But the prince and his royal relatives evidently also impressed the Clinton administration. Before he died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, the former FBI counterterrorism chief John O’Neill complained to French investigator Jean-Charles Brisard that Saudi pressure on the State Department had prevented him from fully investigating possible al-Qaida involvement in the Khobar Towers bombing in 1996, which killed 19 U.S. servicemen, and of the destroyer Cole in 2000.
As with Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf, there’s always talk of the Saudis playing a double game with al-Qaida publicly denouncing it and privately paying it off but you don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to understand that the Saudis don’t have America’s best interests at heart.
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Graeme Bannerman, who has served both as a lobbyist for Arab countries in Washington and, before that, as a State Department Middle East analyst.
Edward Abington, a former American diplomat who was later a lobbyist for the Palestinian Authority in Washington.
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two types of Arab lobbying in Washington — one conducted by domestic pro-Arab groups, and the other by Arab governments, particularly Saudi Arabia.
“The American people did not know that Prince Bandar played tennis with senior administration officials, or about the efforts of Arabists in the State Department to support the Saudi interests,” Bard said, referring to the former longtime Saudi ambassador in Washington. In the book, Bard details the massive investment of the Saudi government in lobbying Washington, which included $100 million spent on hiring lobbyists and public relations firms over the past decade. He also cited the sponsorship of Middle East centers at American universities by members of the royal family and other Saudi donors.
“In the Saudi case, their lobbying undermines the interests and values of the U.S.,” Bard argued. He pointed to what he describes as Saudi failures to support the cause of Arab-Israeli peace at key junctures and the encouraging of American dependence on Saudi oil.
Gotta’ keep moving the peons away from relatively cheap gasoline and into inefficient, expensive, subsidized alternate energy.
soetoro on jihad since 2008....
Meanwhile, as Saudi financing of US university faculties increases, the anti-Israeli rhetoric at campuses from Berkeley to Columbia is reaching new highs (or, rather, lows). In the city, Columbia, NYU and Brooklyn College all feature Apartheid Week events.
Yet British scholar Anthony Glees had long documented the linkage between Saudi financing of faculties and growing anti-Western and anti-Israeli rhetoric at places like Harvard and Georgetown (which Prince Alaweed recently gave $20 million).
Meanwhile, the House of Saud’s most accomplished princes are sent to Washington. The current ambassador, Adel al Jubeir, is a brilliant, soft-spoken PR strategist who regularly holds court with the cream of capital society.
“While pundits like to speak about the power of the Israeli lobby in Washington, they completely ignore the well-established Saudi lobby,” says Dore Gold, a former Israeli UN ambassador and a veteran scholar of the Saudi ruling family. The lobby, Gold notes, finances “former American diplomats and military officers, and uses the most expensive public-relation companies that money can buy to penetrate the American media.”
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In Jesse Jackson the Arab lobby found, for the first time, a presidential candidate receptive to their interests. Jackson had a long record of support for the Arab cause and was particularly outspoken in support of Palestinian rights, having met with Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chairman Yasir Arafat when it was considered politically taboo. As a result of his stands, Jackson received substantial financial support from members of the Arab lobby.
There are a number of larger and more representative groups, including the aforementioned NAAA and ADC, the Middle East Research and Information Project; the Middle East Affairs Council, Americans for Near East Refugee Aid, the Arab American Institute and the American Palestine Committee. Typically, these organizations have boards of directors composed of prominent retired government officials. Board members have included former Ambassador to Jordan, L. Dean Brown, Herman Eilts, former Ambassador to Syria and Egypt; Parker T. Hart, former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and several others.
The formal Arab lobby is the National Association of Arab-Americans (NAAA), a registered domestic lobby founded in 1972 by Richard Shadyac.
A relatively ignored component of the “Arab lobby” is found among the Christian community, most notably, the National Council of Churches (NCC). The NCC is composed of thirty-two Protestant denominations, including virtually all major church bodies. The Council has taken consistently anti-Israel stands, and its 1980 policy statement on the Middle East called for the creation of a PLO state.
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In October 2004, Patton Boggs secured a $22,000-a-month contract with the government of Kuwait, “to win Congressional passage of the U.S.-Kuwait Free Trade Agreement”.
Tommy Boggs
John Breaux
Mark Cowan
Benjamin Ginsberg
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Saudi Arabia’s economy depends on oil exports so stands to be one of the biggest losers in any pact that curbs oil demand by penalizing carbon emissions. “It’s one of the biggest threats that we are facing,” said Muhammed al-Sabban, head of the Saudi delegation to U.N. talks on climate change and a senior economic adviser to the Saudi oil ministry.
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Tom Loeffler, a former Texas congressman whose lobbying firm has collected nearly $15 million from Saudi Arabia since 2002 and millions more from other foreign and corporate interests, including a French aerospace firm seeking Pentagon contracts. Loeffler last month told a reporter “at no time have I discussed my clients with John McCain.” But lobbying disclosure records reviewed by NEWSWEEK show that on May 17, 2006, Loeffler listed meeting McCain along with the Saudi ambassador to “discuss US-Kingdom of Saudi Arabia relations.”
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George Mitchell is currently a lobbyist for Saudi Arabia
chairman of the international law and lobbying firm DLA Piper until the end of 2008. Mitchell, a well known rainmaker for the firm, now holds the title of chairman emeritus of DLA’s global board. The firm has considerable international reach: It boasts a fast-growing Middle East practice with some big government and private clients, plus offices in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Kuwait, Oman, and Saudi Arabia.
three key members of the Cohen Group, which has a strategic alliance with DLA Piper: Secretary of Defense William Cohen; former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe Joe Ralston; and former ambassador to Morocco Marc Grossman
According foreign agent registration records on file with the Justice Department, the firm was paid $681,666 by Turkey and $881,691 by the Dubai executive office for the six month period ending August 31, 2008.
Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) — George Mitchell, President Barack Obama’s special Middle East troubleshooter, was chairman of a law firm that was paid about $8 million representing Dubai’s ruler in connection with a child-trafficking lawsuit.
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Fred Dutton, Robert Kennedy’s campaign manager in 1968 and the champion of a “new politics” uniting suburban idealists, college students and racial minorities (sound familiar?), went on to become a lobbyist for Mobil Oil and Saudi Arabia, earning the nickname “Dutton of Arabia.”
well, they couldn’t announce that before the election, could they? Of course not.
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