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 In Banking, Emanuel Made Money and Connections
[12/05/08 ]
"The period before he was elected to a House seat from Illinois is a little-known episode of Mr. Emanuel’s biography. Former colleagues said the insight it afforded him on the financial services sector is invaluable especially now. But Mr. Emanuel built up strong ties with an industry now at the heart of the economic crisis, one that will be girding for a pitched lobbying battle next year as the incoming Democratic administration considers a potentially sweeping regulatory overhaul."
Daschle Appointment Appears to Contradict Obama Ethics Policy
[11/19/08 ]
"Obama's reported selection of former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) to head Health and Human Services appears to flatly contradict his ethics policy, which says, "No political appointees in the Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years." Daschle is a special public policy advisor in Alston & Bird’s Washington, D.C., according to the firm's Web site, which singles out health care as an area of "particular emphasis." Elsewhere, the firm advertises that its health care legislative & public policy team "has the significant advantage of including two former U.S. Senate Majority Leaders – Senators Bob Dole and Tom Daschle." We have asked the transition team how a health care team member for a major lobbying firm could take over Health and Human Services, a department primarily charged with overseeing health issues, without violating a prohibition against working on regulations or contracts related to his prior employer."
 Eric
Holder to be Obama AG
[11/18/08 ] former deputy AG under Janet Reno.
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An
Obama Chronology [11/11/08 ]
"The following is a year-by-year chronology that tracks the relationship between Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.; his father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr.; his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham; his mother's parents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham; his mother's second husband, Lolo Soetoro; family friend Frank Marshall Davis — a known communist; Barack's wife, Michelle Robinson Obama; Barack's longtime associate, Weather Underground founder William Ayers; and others connected with the above individuals. The chronology was gathered from a variety of sources. Every effort has been made to verify accuracy. Additional information will be posted as it can be verified."
Jon
Corzine, CEO of Goldman Sachs considered for Treasury Secretary [11/09/08 ]
"Gov. Jon Corzine, a multimillionaire and former Wall Street chief executive, is being actively vetted by the Obama transition team as a possible candidate for Treasury secretary in the new administration, two New Jersey Democrats familiar with the process said early this morning. As part of the vetting process, the transition team is reviewing Corzine’s financial and personal documents, the sources said. The sources asked not to be identified because the vetting process is confidential. Neither Corzine nor his aides would respond to a request for comment."
Obama’s Council On Foreign Relations Crew
[11/07/08 ]
"Meet some of president elect Obama’s leading foreign and domestic policy advisors and likely administration members, every one of them a prominent member of the Council On Foreign Relations."
Global
Economic Recession, Country by Country [11/07/08 ]
Note: Notice that the countries without the red "R" are
Russia, China - the ones the Obama administration want to attack under the new
globalist plan.
Rahm Emanuel's background
[11/07/08 ]
"Rahm Emanuel's background is well-known. His father was a member of the Israeli
Irgun, which was a violent underground movement against the British in Palestine. Rahm has deep ties to Israel and served as a civilian volunteer in the IDF in 1991. That, in and of itself, doesn't make him a security risk. What is disturbing, though, is that the FBI has, according to Wayne Madsen, a Counterintelligence file on him for his past connections with Mossad, and that this is what forced him out of the Clinton White House in 1998 ... Is this far-fetched, that Rahm Emanuel may have active links to the Israeli Intelligence Service, Mossad? Not according to Wayne Madsen. We certainly should not be surprised that Mossad wants to penetrate the White House, whether it is through Emanuel or someone
else ... WMR has learned from informed U.S. intelligence sources that prospective Barack Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has an active FBI counter-intelligence file maintained on him. Emanuel's rise to the Chief of Staff position may pose a significant security problem for President-elect Obama if the FBI insists on conducting the full background security investigation normally required for senior White House officials ... Questions about Emanuel's links to the Israeli intelligence service, the Mossad, were allegedly so great that President Bill Clinton was forced to dismiss Emanuel from the White House staff in
1998..."
Rahm Emanuel, House Mafioso, as Obama's Chief of Staff
[11/02/08 ]
Video [2:50]
"TNR associate editor Eve Fairbanks takes issue with today's report that Obama will select House bruiser Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff: why Obama doesn't want a "yes man," where GOP charges of Emanuel partisanship fall short, and how the "Tony Soprano" of congress would run things in the White House."
Biography
" ...Emanuel was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1959. His father, the Jerusalem-born Benjamin M. Emanuel, is a pediatrician and was a member of the
Irgun, a Zionist Militant organization in the
1940s. His mother, Martha Smulevitz, worked as an X-ray technician; she was the daughter of a local union
organizer, and would herself become a civil rights activist; she was also once the owner of a Chicago-area rock and roll
club. The two met in Chicago in the 1950s ..." Rahm Emanuel
(NYT): "The congressman from the 5th District of Illinois, Chicago’s North Side, is Rahm Emanuel, a Democrat elected in 2002 and a major force in the House. Emanuel was born in Chicago and grew up in Wilmette, the son of an Israeli immigrant. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence, got a master’s degree in communications from Northwestern and began his career with Illinois Public Action, a consumer rights group. California Representative Tony Coelho recruited him to join the staff of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 1985. He worked for Mayor Richard M. Daley, before joining Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign in 1991. He was rewarded with a high-level staff post in the Clinton White House, where he gained wide respect for his political savvy but drew criticism, even from allies, for an arrogant and abrasive style. In 1999 he left the White House and returned to Chicago where he made millions as an investment banker. His decision to run for Congress was greeted with disdain by those who had toiled for years in the vineyards of Chicago politics."
Related: The Brothers Emanuel
"The best Rahm Emanuel story is not the one about the decomposing two-and-a-half-foot fish he sent to a pollster who displeased him. It is not about the time - the many times - that he hung up on political contributors in a Chicago mayor's race, saying he was embarrassed to accept their $5,000 checks because they were $25,000 kind of guys. No, the definitive Rahm Emanuel story takes place in Little Rock, Ark., in the heady days after Bill Clinton was first elected
President ..."
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