Posted on 06/01/2019 6:33:54 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Barack Obama asserted that the United States was founded on inequality, despite the Constitution enshrining equality into the law.
Obama said: You know Brazil just thinks the United States was founded on inequality and we have to admit that even though the United States has a Constitution that says, We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, At that time not only were blacks excluded, but women were excluded, and people who didnt own property were excluded.
Obama commented on his understanding of the founding of the United States during the VTEXDAY 2019 conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Wednesday.
Obama said that the Constitution gave America the means of inclusion through Democracy.
The more people we included, the more successful we became, he said.
Obama used a basketball analogy to illustrate his point, pointing out that the NBA was better than ever by including more international players like Giannis Antetokounmpo, a Nigerian from Greece who plays for the Milwaukee Bucks.
Now hes one of the best players in the world, Obama said, pointing out that if the NBA did not include international players, they were leaving talent on the field.
If you dont include women, you are leaving talent on the field, Obama said, saying it was in every countrys interest to include everyone.
He admitted that perfect equality was difficult to achieve, because of natural talent and work ethic.
The issue is not perfect equality, the issue is, are those of us who are successful willing to give back enough to provide a ladder of opportunity for others that are coming behind us, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I think that Obama when studying in Hawaii might have gotten the figure 57 from being taught about all the parts of the United States that vote or are territories, including Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands. This comes to 56. Maybe there was another when he was in school or he forgot the right number. Certainly there would have been more emphasis in school placed on these Pacific Island US territories as being worth remembering.
The introduction clearly has him pointing out that at the time our founding documents were written, voting was not allowed by blacks, women, or people without property of the right amount.
That's unlikely, since Hawaii is number 50. It also smacks of desperate rationalization.
Obama White House secretly gave Iran (and himself?) access to US financial systems
foxbusiness ^ | 6/7/2018 | Henry Fernandex / FR Posted by bitt
Wall Street Journal editorial board member Bill McGurn discusses the report that the Obama administration gave Iran brief access to the U.S. financial system. A Senate subcommittee report alleges that the Obama administration secretly sought to give Iran access to U.S. financial systems by sidestepping sanctions kept in place after the 2015 nuclear deal.
The report claims the Obama Treasury Department issued a license to Bank Muscat to authorize "conversion of Iranian assets worth billions of U.S. dollars using the U.S. financial system."
I think its part of a larger fraud of the Iran deal where it was presented as a treaty, but they made an end run around the Senate, Wall Street Journal editorial board member Bill McGurn told FOX Business on Thursday. President Donald Trump is calling for an investigation into the allegations outlined in the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report. "The Obama Administration is now accused of trying to give Iran secret access to the financial system of the United States. This is totally illegal," Trump tweeted Thursday. (Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...
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Judicial Watch needs to place these Obama travesties on his lengthening J/W FOIA agenda:
<><> The Chicago-based tax-exempt Obama Foundation says it wont release the names of his donors.
.........Americans need to have this information.
<><> Obama is exploiting the presidency----pocketing huge speaking fees...
.........he will not reveal the terms of his speaking engagements.
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How Obama Secretly Gave Iran Access To Billions Of Dollars And Enabled Terrorism
IBD ^ | February 8, 2018 | Editor / FR Posted on 2/9/2019 by yoe
Iran: One of the linchpins of former President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran was that it would be accompanied by a near-ban on Iran having any access to the U.S. banking system. A new congressional report says that, too, was a lie.[snip] Obama sent a clear message to Congress: If you don't block ( this nuclear deal), we will bar Iran's access to our financial system. The deal was clear, unequivocal. [snip]It was also a lie. Obama lied, and so did others in his administration.That's the conclusion of a report by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. It alleges Obama officials pushed the U.S. Treasury to let Iran convert the equivalent of $5.7 billion of funds held in Oman's Bank of Muscat from rials into dollars and subsequently into euros.[snip]Apart from the lie, which is bad enough for an administration that claimed repeatedly to be "scandal-free," this money did not have innocuous uses. Far from it. (Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
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Trump fired him now it turns out Secy of State Tillerson was pursuing Obama-era policies at the State Dept,
deliberately sabotaging President Trump on Iran policy, relations with Israel, the Paris Accords and other issues.
.......several prominent Obama officials who have knowledge of the Iran deal are still at the State Dept.
<><> Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, in charge of Iran and the Persian Gulf region on the policy planning staff,
<><> a former John Kerry apprentice, Michael Ratney, occupies the Israeli-Palestinian portfolio,
<><> trusted Obama aide, Yael Lempert, served under Tillerson on the same platform.
REFERENCE--- Obama's $1.3B giveaway to Iran was paid in cash Jan 22 and Feb 5 from a little-known fund administered by the US Treasury.The so-called Judgment Fund is made up of tax dollars Congress has permanently approved in the event it's needed....
SOURCE: fiscaltreasury.gov. -----The Judgment Fund was established to pay court judgments and Justice Department compromise settlements of actual or imminent lawsuits against the government. It is administered by the Judgment Fund Section, which is a part of the United States Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service. The Judgment Fund Internet Claims System (JFICS) is the application used to process all Judgment Fund claims.
The Judgment Fund is a permanent, indefinite appropriation available to pay judicially and administratively ordered monetary awards against the United States. The Judgment Fund is also available to pay amounts owed under compromise agreements negotiated by the U.S. Department of Justice in settlement of claims arising under actual or imminent litigation, if a judgment on the merits would be payable from the Judgment Fund. The statutory authority for the Judgment Fund is 31 U.S.C. 1304.
If funds for paying an award are otherwise provided for in the appropriations of the defendant agency, the Judgment Fund may not pay an award. A federal agency may request that payment of an award be made on its behalf from the Judgment Fund only in those instances where funds are not legally available to pay the award from the agency's own appropriations.
Amounts paid vary significantly from year-to-year. Federal agencies are not required to reimburse the Judgment Fund except when cases are filed under the Contract Disputes Act (CDA) or the No FEAR Act (Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act).
We can be contacted at judgment.fund@fiscal.treasury.gov or 202-874-6664.
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Then-President Barack Obama is briefed by Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, Director for Iran, NSC, before taping a message to the Iranian people in the Blue Room of the White House, March 18, 2016. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)
Equality in anything or anywhere, except before the Law, is BS.
People are not equal.
And ‘Equality’ is one of the engines that drove the slaughterhouse of the French Revolution.
Obama is one evil bastard.
Let’s see 0bama reconcile the current, vicious forms of slavery practiced by fundamentalist muslims.
Panama Canal Zone, until Carter gave it away.................
IIRC, Iran was given backdoor access to American financial institutions, thereby affording them four billion dollars. He gave aid and assistance to the enemy.
Your right, Canal Zone would have made 57 states, territories, and jurisdictions of the US, and Obama was in school before Carter acted. So you are saying that the Canal Zone is now a part of and governed by Panama. Is it sort of like Hong Kong now being part of China?
Yes, we no longer have an jurisdiction of the Canal Zone, except for ‘protection’ of the ‘Freedom of the Seas’.
Last I heard, China had the contract to maintain and operate the Canal and it locks and train.
John McCain was born in the Canal Zone............ironic........
Oh, that is really great. The Chinese now have the position to cut of communication by sea between our east and west coasts, not to mention international shipping from the Atlantic and the Pacific. When did the get this power, and who gave it to them and allowed it to happen?
“Barack Obama asserted that the United States was founded on inequality”..... well yea, Equality is freakin gay.
The government of Panama.............
How much did they pay him?
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