➡ The narrator plans to divide and share a three-part video series called “The Weatherman” by Ipot into two chunks due to a 2-hour upload limit. The content primarily discusses the radical exploits of Bernardine Dorn, a former leader of the Weather Underground domestic terrorist group, her constant run-ins with the law, subsequent fugitive status, and her transition into academia.
➡ Thomas Ayres, prominent figure in various Chicago institutions, notably Commonwealth Edison, also played a crucial role in advocating for racial equality and education reform in the 1960s, contributing to Barack Obama’s career through the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) initiative. Despite Obama downplaying his connections with Ayres and his family, numerous instances validate their influence, including Obama’s commencement of his 1995 campaign at the residence of Bill Ayers, and Ayres family allegedly aiding a “foreign student” who is suggested to be Obama. Obama’s affinity with Sidley Austin LLP, where Ayers and Obama had intersections, further substantiates their close relation. The law firm, with Thomas Ayres as a counselor, connected Obama to Michelle Robinson, interning and mentored by Bernardine Dorn.
➡ The text recounts accusations, trials, and connections of various individuals, including singer R. Kelly, actor Jussie Smollett, whose case involves high-profile lawyers and public figures, potentially due to underlying political motives. It also delves into the detailed chronicle of a 1981 Brinks truck robbery involving members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground, highlighting their eventual sentences and current status, while noting their interconnected relationships to contemporary lawyers, civil rights activists, and public figures.
➡ This text covers intricate connections between historical figures such as Tupac Shakur, his mother Afenney Shakur, Black Panther party members, and the Obama family. It traces intertwining histories of the Black Panthers, Black Liberation Army, Weather Underground, Harlem’s community, and the Shakur family. It covers assertions about Cuba’s intelligence service, key people involved in academia and American politics such as Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and Charles J. Ogletree Jr. It also delves into allegations about hidden associations between Obama and the Weather Underground, focusing on his political roots at Occidental College and Columbia University.
➡ Sidley Austin LLP, a law firm, has been involved in numerous controversial cases and questionable clientele such as Microsoft Corporation for its antitrust law case, Sidney Blumenthal in the case of Benghazi terrorist attack, and lobbying against the ban on Chinese tech giant Huawei. Furthermore, the company notably represents Airbus, a company caught in a longstanding rivalry with Boeing, and investigated over allegations of illegal subsidies.
➡ The Weather Underground, a left-wing organization emerging in the 1960s, was dedicated to fighting against US imperialism through revolutionary struggle. Its members, often educated and white, believed that oppressed peoples produced wealth for the empire, and therefore it belonged to them. The group focused its operations on violent actions, including bombings and riots, based upon Lenin’s theory of imperialism and the concept of armed struggle. Despite facing scrutiny from programs like FBI’s Cointel Pro, dropped charges due to illegal FBI tactics, allowed members to reintegrate into society by the late 1970s. After disbandment, many ex-Weather Underground members entered various professional fields including politics, academics, and law. The group’s influence can still be perceived through the activities and statements of its former members and their descendants.
➡ Jeff Jones is a New York-based political and media consultant, involved with groups like the Financial Arm of the Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) and the Apollo Alliance. Eleanor Raskin, Mark Rood, Kathy Wilkerson, and Susan Rosenberg are all ex-Weatherman members now working in various roles, with Rosenberg also becoming an author and AIDS activist. Newton Minow and Barack Obama have significant connections, with Minnow recruiting Obama to his law firm and being a supporter of Obama’s presidential candidacy. There have been allegations of the American Psychological Association (APA) collaborating with the Bush administration and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in enhancing torture programs. Several former Weather Underground members still hold influence in various aspects of society. Valerie Jarrett’s family had connections with communist sympathizers and Planned Parenthood, and Van Jones, the former Green Jobs Czar, worked with former Weather Underground member Jeff Jones. An incident involving a helicopter crash in Manhattan highlighted potential risks of unrestricted flight.
➡ Sidley Austin LLP, one of few global power player law firms, has been involved in numerous high-profile cases and controversies, such as the college admissions scandal and earlier office destruction in the 9/11 attack. Furthermore, the firm has connections to Walmart, a corporation noted for store closures and suspected suspicious activities, and Rachel Brand from DOJ. Moreover, the company was involved in the bribery scandal with Walmart in Mexico.
➡ The societal influence of groups like Weather Underground, originally rooted in Marxism, communism, and progressive activism, extends from the educational system, human rights organizations, to all sectors of the economy, intent on keeping power confined to a select few. This influence is showcased through moments like actor Jussie Smollett’s controversial hate crime incident and its subsequent legal proceedings, which raised suspicion over the handling of the case by Cook County State Attorney Kim Fox, with calls made for a federal investigation into her actions.
➡ The text discusses the multiple connections between lawyer Tina Chen, actor Jussie Smollett, and various political entities, emphasizing Chen’s role in smoothing over Smollett’s legal troubles and her work with Obama’s administration. Further, it unravels her firm’s partnership with KIND, catering to unaccompanied immigrant children and its links to various corporations. Additionally, it delves into politician Kim Fox’s involvement in the Smollett case and traces questionable maneuvers in Chicago’s politics, including Rahm Emanuel’s controversial appointments.
➡ Sidley Austin LLP’s Prekwinkle ran for mayor of Chicago in 2019 but lost to Lori Lightfoot. She, along with Kimberly Fox, has ties to Barack Obama and has experienced various scandals, including the controversial release and subsequent representation of double murder suspects Gabrielle Solace and Arturo Reyes. Simultaneously, Fox is criticized for her handling of sexual assault cases such as the infamous R. Kelly case and has received extensive financial backing from liberal billionaire George Soros. Her connections extend to activist Jedidiah Brown, now facing charges, and Kamala Harris, while Controversies also surround Tina Chen, Michael Avenatti, and Mark Garagos, known for their associations with high profile clients and multiple scandals. The overall situation prompts strong criticism against Fox, with calls for her resignation.
➡ Mary Dempsey is a significant advisor to Lightfoot, who received a notable campaign donation from a Sidley Austin attorney. Janet Harris, mother to the Smollett family, who all have careers in entertainment and human rights activism, tutored under Julian Bond, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, also became a civil rights leader and member of the Black Panther group. Janet’s husband, Joel Smollett, of Russian and Polish Ashkenazi Jewish descent, and their children are heavily involved in the entertainment industry and human rights activism, including the HIV/AIDS prevention community and Black Lives Matter. The Smollett family’s ties to politics extend to their support for former President Barack Obama and the #TimesUp movement. Their influence in Hollywood and their activism could be seen as either uniting or divisive, a debate that extends to the Black Panther group and other civil rights activists such as Angela Davis, a family friend, and accused criminal who was acquitted of all charges.
➡ Thomas G. Ayres, father to Bill Ayers and Angela Davis, is closely associated with Black Lives Matter and BDS, both of which have been under scrutiny lately. The Binjo Osundairo brothers, who had a run-in with Jussie Smollett, are currently suing his attorneys. Despite facing financial problems, the brothers seemed to falsify their financial situation through questionable investments. They have connections to the entertainment industry, particularly with Lee Daniels, director and producer known for his political activism. These connections are further complicated by affiliations with the Clintons and scandals involving renowned figures like Harvey Weinstein. Also entwined in the mix are entertainment stalwarts Monique, Oprah, Tyler Perry, who have had public feuds relating to issues of blackballing and wage disparity in Hollywood. The overall narrative suggests complex relationships and possible undercurrents in the entertainment industry, intertwined with political pandering and scandal.

History. These are going to be part one and part two of the weatherman done by Ipot. I’m going to put the links to his part one, two, and three in the description. I’m actually going to take his parts one, two, and three, and I’m going to split them up in two. So I’m going to take the first part of part one and then the first half of part two, and then the second half of part two and then part three.

So I’m going to break it into two, but know that they’re actually three individual parts. I can only upload a maximum of 2 hours in advance. So that’s why I’m doing it this way, because it’s about 4 hours of material. So I’m going to split it into 2 hours anyway. I hope you guys really get something out of this. I think this is going to be a lot more hard hitting than the one that I did initially.

I’m going to be uploading part one on Thursday. Today it’s right now it’s about noon on Thursday, so I’m doing this ahead of time so I can upload it and have it ready to go for this afternoon. And then the second one I’m going to have ready to go for Saturday. And then tomorrow night we’ll do something different for the watch party. And then when I get back, I’m going to get into some of, some more of the Mike King books.

But anyway, that said, you guys enjoy part one. This is going to be part one. And stay tuned for part two from the underground, that radical left wing group, the Weathermen, has claimed responsibility for yesterday’s dynamiting of a statue of a Chicago policeman. The group promises more attacks on the establishment around the entire country starting next week. The medium for this message was a tape recording, reputedly by the fugitive weatherman leader Bernardine Dorn.

It came by mail this morning in New York to the youth International Party, the yippees. Who invited newsmen to hear it. Our Ben silver was there as the tape was played. Sisters and brothers, a year ago we blew away the haymarket pig statue at the start of the youth riot in Chicago. The head of the police Sergeants association called emotionally for all out war between the pigs and us.

We accept it. Last night we destroyed the pig again. This time it begins a fall offensive of youth resistance that will spread from Santa Barbara to Boston, back to Kenton, Kansas. Now we are everywhere. And next week, families and tribes will attack the enemy around the country. We are not just attacking targets. We are bringing a pitiful, helpless giant to its knees. We invite key and Nixon and agnew to travel in this country.

Come to the high schools and campuses, but guard your planes, guard your colleges, guard your banks, guard your children, guard your doors. Bernadine Ray Dorn Ornstein, born January 12, 1942, is a former leader of the Weather Underground domestic terror group responsible for bombings of the United States Capitol, the Pentagon, and several police stations in New York, as well as the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion that killed three of its members.

As a member of the Weather Underground, Dorn helped to create a declaration of a state of war against the United States government and was placed on the FBI’s ten most wanted list, where she remained for three years. From 1991 to 2013, she was a clinical associate professor of law at the Children and Family Justice center at Northwestern University School of Law. She is married to Bill Ayers, a co founder of the Weather Underground who was formerly a tenured professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Dorn was a principal signatory on the weather Underground’s declaration of a state of war in May 1970 that formally declared war on the US government and completed the group’s transformation from political advocacy to violent action. She recorded the declaration and sent a transcript of a tape recording to the New York Times. Dorn also co wrote with Bill Ayers and published the suburbs of Manifesto Prairie Fire in 1974 and participated in the covertly filmed underground in 1976.

In late 1975, the Weather Underground put out an issue of a magazine also watami, which carried an article by Dorn titled Our Class Struggle, described as a speech given to the organization’s cadres on September 2 of that year. In that article, Dorn clearly stated support for communist ideology. On August 22, 1969, Dorn was arrested in Chicago and charged with possession of drugs. The defense argued that Chicago police had conducted an illegal search of the car in which she was a passenger, which led Judge Kenneth R.

Went of the Narcotics Court of Chicago to dismiss the charges. On September 20, 1969, at an antivietnam rally at the Davis cup tennis tournament in Cleveland, police arrested Dorn and 20 other persons on charges of disorderly conduct. On September 26, 1969, Dorn was arrested again in Chicago during a rally in support of the eight men accused of conspiracy concerning the riot during the 1968 democratic National Convention who were being tried on riot conspiracy charges.

Dawn was next arrested on October 1969 by the Chicago police during a rally for the woman’s faction of the Weatherman group and was later released on a $1,000 bond. On October 30, 169, a grand jury indicted 22 people, including Dorne, for their involvement with the trial of the Chicago eight, and she was again indicted on April 2, 1970, when a federal grand jury indicted twelve members of the Weatherman group on conspiracy charges in violation of antiriot acts during the days of rage.

However, all of these convictions were reversed on November 20, 172 by the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit on the basis the judge was biased in his refusal to permit defense attorneys to screen prospective jurors for cultural and racial bias due to the increasing volatility of the weather underground led by Dorn. On October 14, 1970, Bernadine Ray Dorn was added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s ten most wanted fugitives list and was only removed in December 1973 after district court judge Damon Keith dismissed the case against the weathermen.

That dismissal was followed shortly by another when, on January 3, 1974, Judge Julius Hoffman dismissed a four year old case against twelve members of the Weatherman faction of the Students for a democratic society, including Dorne. She had been charged with leading the riotous days of rage while on the run from police. Dorne used many aliases, including Bernadine Ray Ornstein, H. T. Smith, and Marion Delgado, and married another weatherman leader, Bill Ayers, with whom she has two children.

During the last years of their underground life, Dorn and Ayers resided in Chicago, where they used the aliases Christine Louise Douglas and Anthony J. Lee. In the late 1970s, the Weatherman group split into two factions, the May 19 Coalition and the Prairie Fire Collective, with Dorn and Ayers in the latter. The prairie fire collective favored coming out of hiding, with members facing the criminal charges against them, while the May 19 coalition remained in hiding.

A decisive factor in Dorn’s coming out of hiding were her concerns about her children. The couple turned themselves into authorities in 1980, while some charges relating to their activities with the weatherman were dropped due to prosecutorial misconduct. Dorn pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated battery and bail jumping, for which she was put on probation after refusing to testify against ex Weatherman Susan Rosenberg in an armed robbery case.

She served just less than a year in prison. Shortly after turning themselves in, Dorne and Ayers became legal guardians of Chesa Bodan, the son of former members of the weather underground, Kathy Bodan and David Gilbert, after the couple were convicted of murder for their roles in a 1981 armed car robbery. From 1984 to 1988, Dorn was employed by the Chicago law firm Sidley Austin, where she was hired by Howard Trinans, the head of the firm who knew Thomas G.

Ayers. Dorn’s father in law. We often hire friends, Trinan told a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. However, Dorn had not been admitted to the New York or Illinois bar, even though she had passed both bar exams because she had not submitted an application to the New York Supreme Court’s committee on character and fitness. Similarly, she was turned down by the Illinois ethics Committee because of her criminal record, Trinan said of the Illinois rejection.

Dorn didn’t get a law license because she’s stubborn. She wouldn’t say she’s sorry. In 1994, Dorn said of her political beliefs, I still see myself as a radical. On November 4, 2010, Dorn was interviewed by Newsclick India about the right in the US. She said, it’s racist, it’s armed, it’s hostile, it’s unspeakable. Referring to the restoring honor rally, which was promoted by Glenn Beck and held on August 28, 2010 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, you have white people armed.

Demanding the end to the Obama presidency, she also stated, the real terrorist is the american government. State terrorism unleashed against the world in 2008, Dornan Ayers resurfaced into news headlines as presidential candidate John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, publicly denounced the ties between Ayers and then presidential candidate Barack Obama. Thomas G. Ayres, father of William Ayres, was born on February 16, 1915, in Detroit, Michigan. From 1964 to 1980, he served as president, CEO and chairman of Commonwealth Edison, otherwise known as Ed, the largest electric utility in Illinois.

Ayers served as chairman of the board of trustees of Northwestern University, the Erickson Institute, the Bank Street College of Education in New York City, the Chicago Symphony, the Chicago Community Trust, the Chicago Urban League, the Community Renewal Society, the Chicago association of Commerce and Industry, Chicago United, the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, and Dearborn Park Corporation, and served as vice president of the Chicago Board of Education.

Ayers also served on the board of directors of Sears, GD, Serral, Chicago Pacific Corp. Zenith Corp. Northwest Industries, General Dynamics Corp. Of St. Louis, First National bank of Chicago, the Chicago Cubs, and the Tribune Company. Other notable names on the board of directors of the First National bank of Chicago were a Robert Aboud, John E. Drick and Gaylord Freeman. Freeman and Drick were not only members, but grandmasters of the Priory of Scion, which presides over the learned elders of scion of the 33rd degree heirs, also helped negotiate the first labor contract between Con Ed and the 12,000 member international Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

Ayers was well aware that the real power in Chicago came from championing the plight of the black community. When Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Brought his open house campaign to Chicago in the mid 1960s, Thomas Ayers was called upon to negotiate between Mayor Richard J. Daley’s administration and the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. He also developed the leadership Council for Metropolitan open Communities to fight racial discrimination in housing.

Heirs, as well as his son Bill Ayers also helped fund a young Barack Obama by way of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, or CAC, of which Barack Obama was head of the board from 1995 to 1999. The CAC was originally set up to benefit local Chicago schools as well as the alliance for better Chicago schools, or ABCS. Active in the ABCS was Bill Ayers, Barack Obama’s developing communities Project and Chicago United, a group of businessmen concerned about race and education issues founded by Bill Ayers father, Tom Ayers, CEO of Coned, now known as Exelon.

By 1999, the CAC had raised $160,000,000 that was supposed to be dispersed in the Chicago Schools project amongst the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Board, the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, and the Consortium of Chicago Schools Research. Barack Obama was the first chairman of the CAC board and stepped down in 1999, but remained on the board until CAC phased itself out of existence and handed off its remaining assets to the Chicago Public Education Fund in 2001.

The Cochair of the CAC’s collaborative from 1995 to 2000 was Bill Ayers. And although there seems to be many clear connections between Barack Obama and the Ayres family, Obama downplayed this relationship. I’ll respond to these two particular allegations that Senator McCain’s made that have gotten a lot of attention. In fact, Mr. Ayers has become the centerpiece of Senator McCain’s campaign. Over the last two or three weeks, this has been their primary focus.

So let’s get the record straight. Bill Ayers is a professor of education in Chicago. 40 years ago, when I was eight years old, he engaged in despicable acts with a radical domestic group. I have roundly condemned those acts. Ten years ago, he served, and I served on a school reform board that was funded by one of Ronald Reagan’s former ambassadors and close friends, Mr. Annenberg. Other members on that board were the presidents of the University of Illinois, the president of Northwestern University, who happens to be a Republican, the president of the Chicago Tribune, a Republican leaning newspaper.

Mr. Ayers is not involved in my campaign. He has never been involved in this campaign, and he will not advise me in the White House. So that’s Mr. Ayers now. Yet according to the CAC archives, that seems to be anything but true. In September of 2008, the Hill reported that Barack Obama was not only working with the Ayers by way of the CAC as working partners, but Obama had even kicked off his fundraiser and campaign in 1995 at the home of Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dorn, co founders of the Weatherman.

In 2012, Jerome Corsi interviewed a witness named Alan Halton, who was the mailman to the family of Tom and Mary Ayers, father of Bill Ayers. In this interview, he recounts some of his conversations with the Ayres family and their mention of a young foreign student. Was there any one address in particular that we’re going to talk about that you delivered mail to and who resided there? That was Mr.

And Mrs. Thomas Ayers. And who are they? Thomas Ayers was formerly president of Commonwealth Edison. He has a son that’s been in the news whose name is Bill Ayers. I had a conversation with him not too long after they first moved in to their home, and basically it opened up. He asked me about my job and how I liked my job and things in particular about my employment situation.

And then he started in on what I refer to as a marxist type of viewpoint. Do you recall the conversation in the early 1990s with Mary? Yeah. One day she came to the door when I came up to the house with the mail. And after a greeting, she started enthusiastically talking to me about this young black student that they were helping out. And she referred to him as a foreign student.

Did you ever meet this young student? Well, I don’t know if it’s some months or even a year later. There was a young man, black man, walking down the street just after I had delivered the mail to the heiress home. And he greeted me, and he was very polite. He was nicely dressed and formally dressed. And immediately he entered into conversation with me and told me that he’d taken the train out from Chicago and he had come to thank the heirs family personally for helping him with his education.

I asked him, I said, well, now that you’re out of school, what are your plans? What are you going to do? And he said, and he looked right at me. He says, I’m going to be president of the United States. Are you certain that this was the young black male you saw in front of the Ayer’s home? I am absolutely positive that it was Barack. What I distinctly remember her saying in her description of him, that was in the sentence that he was a foreign student.

Yet there was still one more connection between Ayers, Obama and Dorne, the law firm of Sidley Austin, Sidley Austin LLP, formerly known as Sidley Austin, Brown and Wood LLP, is a general practice law firm based in the United States with a focus on expertise in transactional and litigation matters. The current firm was formed as a result of the 2001 merger of two predecessors, the Chicago based Sidley and Austin, founded in 1866, and the New York based Brown and wood, founded in 1914.

Some of Sidley Austin’s high profile clients include Mary Todd Lincoln, then the widow of President Abraham Lincoln, the Pullman Company and Western Union. By the 1970s and 80s, Sidley and Austin had merged with more than 50 lawyers of Chicago and by 2001 the firm merged with Brown and Wood who had offices in the World Trade Center. Sidley Austin is currently the 6th largest us based corporate law firm with approximately 2000 lawyers and annual revenues of more than $2 billion.

Prior to the merger creating Sidley Austin, Brown and Wood, which took place just four months before the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, the head office of Brown and Wood was in the World Trade center, while Sidley and Austin New York office was located in offices on Third Avenue. Out of 600 employees who worked in the World Trade center at the time of the attacks, one perished, a switchboard operator named Rosemary Smith.

The current offices are located at the AXA Equitable center at 780 7th Avenue between 51st and 52nd streets in Manhattan, New York City. Sidley Austin LLP’s alumni is as extensive and influential as their high profile clientele, featuring such high profile names as Cameron F. Kerry, the brother of then Secretary of State John Kerry, former general counsel of the Federal Trade Commission Bill Blumenthal, Ken Glaser, former deputy attorney general under Eric Holder Jr.

James Cole, as well as Michelle and Barack Obama. It was men like Thomas Ayers and Gaylord Freeman who helped facilitate Barack Obama’s move to the prestigious law firm of Sidley in Austin, where he met Michelle Robinson, who was interning at the firm and being mentored by Bernardine Dorn. At the time, the law firm was counseled to Commonwealth Edison Company whose president and chairman was Thomas G. Ayres. John Ayers, brother of Bill Ayers, had worked with Michelle Obama in the Community Renewal Society, a civil rights organization and project funder for the United Church of Christ, featuring the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

Working alongside Ayers and Obama was Susan Klonsky from the Communist Front, students for a democratic society whose chairman was her husband, Mike Klonsky. But it’s Sidley Austin’s prominent role in so many high profile cases that have earned them their status for better or worse. I’ve never seen a stamp like that? I’ve never used a stamp like that. Haven’t you seen stamps like that in every single one of the documents that you’ve been shown during this deposition? Can you get me all the exhibits? Just a waste.

It is a waste of time. In 2001, Sidley Austin represented the Microsoft Corporation in their antitrust law case versus the US government. The government accused Microsoft of legally maintaining its monopoly position in the pc market, primarily through the legal and technical restrictions it put on the abilities of pc manufacturers and users to uninstall Internet explorers and use other programs such as Netscape and Java. In 2015, Sidney Blumenthal, friend and advisor to Bill and Hillary Clinton, testified before the House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack.

Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina claimed there was a financial stake for Blumenthal in Libya. As he pressed for Clinton to intervene. Blumenthal was represented by James Cole, former deputy attorney general under Eric Holder and lawyer with Sidley Austin. Eric Holder had long been rumored to be involved with the Black Panther Party, a group that emerged in the late 60s. Along with the weathermen, Eric Holder was also instrumental in the Clinton administration’s 176 pardons in January 2001.

As David Horowitz explains, the beneficiaries of those pardons included such notables as former weather underground members Susan Rosenberg, who was involved in the deadly 1981 armed robbery of a Brinks armored car, and Linda Evans, who had used false identification to buy firearms, harbored a fugitive, and was in possession of 740 pounds of dynamite at the time of her arrest in 1985. In 2015, Sidley Austin once again came under fire under allegations that they had failed to reveal false testimony involving Mitsubishi electronics in their trade secret trial versus grail semiconductor.

In 2018, the US government attempted to put pressure on us and foreign telecom and Internet providers to stop using chinese tech giant Huawei’s telecom equipment, in particular, a chinese company called Hickvision, which specializes in surveillance cameras. Sidley Austin was brought in to lobby against the ban on Hickvision, which sells much of its product on Amazon, who has seemed to over the years employ some of the same legal team as Sidley Austin.

In May of 2019, federal prosecutors moved to disqualify the former deputy attorney general who is defending the chinese telecommunications giant Huawei. That man is James M. Cole of Sidley Austin LLP. The New York Times reports that the government contends that Huawei and Ms. Meng Wang, Zhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer and the daughter of its founder, fired to mislead HSBC and other banks about Huawei’s relationship with a company called Skycom in order to circumvent United States sanctions against doing business in Iran.

These are just some of many questionable cases in which Sidley Austin LLP has been involved in, often with their own legal team being involved with violations themselves. But perhaps none of these are as alarming as their connection with one long term client, Europe’s aircraft maker, Airbus. Since the early 1990s, there’s been fierce competition between two airline and aerospace juggernauts, Airbus and Boeing, with Airbus largely becoming a european consortium and Boeing, its american rival, having absorbed McDonald Douglas in 1997.

One particular rivalry is over the model’s Airbus a 320 versus the Boeing seven three seven. Boeing, as well as their seven three seven Max jets, were dealt a huge blow in early 2019 when President Donald Trump announced an emergency order from the Federal Aviation Administration grounding Boeing seven three seven Max jets. This came in the wake of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 30 two, which killed 157 people on board, as well as the seven three seven max eight operated by Lion Air, an indonesian carrier which crashed and killed 189 people.

Both flights had reported flight control problems to air traffic controllers just minutes before their planes crashed. The report was the seven three seven max, which had been outfitted with larger engines that could cause its nose to pitch skyward. Boeing added an mcas, or maneuvering characteristics augmentation system, which is intended to activate and push the nose down when necessary. But because of a faulty sensor, the Lion Air flight mcas caused the plane to go into a steep dive.

Numerous pilots had complained of the same issue before, and Boeing has since announced that it will release a software upgrade for the seven three seven Max, having claimed previously to the FAA that the software was interchangeable with earlier models of the seven three seven, and therefore pilots who were already trained in flying older seven three seven s would not need additional training. Much of the controversy between Boeing and Airbus has to do with subsidies, with Airbus claiming that Boeing receives illegal subsidies through the military.

Yet at the same time, Airbus’s parent company, EaDs itself is a military contractor. In 2005, the United States filed a case against the European Union for providing allegedly illegal subsidies to Airbus. 24 hours later, the European Union responded with a complaint against the United States and their support for Boeing. In 2010, the World Trade Organization ruled that european governments unfairly financed Airbus. They also contended that Boeing must repay $5.

3 billion of illegal subsidies received from the defense budget and NASA research grants. In March of 2012, the WTO released their findings confirming the illegality of subsidies to Boeing, while also confirming the legality of repayable loans made to Airbus. This since led to a series of suits and countersuits between Boeing and Airbus. This result was achieved thanks in part to Todd Friedbacker, a lawyer and partner who spearheaded the efforts from the Geneva office of Sidley Austin LLP.

In 2017, the British Ministry of Defense announced that it intended to award Airbus defense and space the single source contract for the manufacturing, assembly, integration, testing and launching of a Skynet six, a geostationary military communication satellite. This came along with some criticism as the MoD had previously stated it was not considering extending the Airbus deal. Airbus parent company EADS, and their astrium subsidiary company Paradigm, has given support to british military satellite communications since around 2003.

Signal unit number 1001 was stationed at Royal Air Force Station Oak Hangar near Borden East, Hampshire in England. The station has since been decommissioned, closed and handed over to paradigm. Paradigm secure Communications is now known as Airbus Defense and space. The three sites are now designated TCS Oak hangar, satellite ground station Oak hangar and satellite ground Terminal F four. Operated on behalf of NATO, the sites are now used to support the Skynet five, Constellation and the United States Air Force satellite control network.

This move was considered highly unusual given that the MoD had previously stated they no longer wanted to use pfis or privately funded initiatives. This was considered a curious move in a curious location from a curious company being heavily represented by a curious law firm with a curious alumni with curious ideals and origins. There’s no way to be committed to nonviolence in the middle of the most violent society that history has ever created.

I’m not committed to nonviolence in any way. I’m a teacher now in a community college and my students will occasionally bring up the war in Vietnam and ask me what my involvement was, and I’ll say, well, I helped found an organization whose goal was the violent overthrow of the government of the United States. I’m not going to tell you, oh, I walked in here this day and put a bomb here, or I made this here, or I blew up this car, or I held up this bank.

I mean, there were armed robberies, there were all armed robberies, terrorism, there was all kinds of things that went down that are illegal. So I tell you that we did them, but I’m not going to tell you which ones I did or who did what, because you just can’t do that. The origins of the weatherman can be traced to the collapse and fragmentation of the students for a democratic society, following a split between office holders of SDS, or national office, and their supporters and the Progressive Labor Party.

During the factional struggle, national office leaders such as Bernadine Dorne and Mike Klonsky began announcing their emerging perspectives, and Klonsky published a document titled toward a revolutionary youth movement. Klonsky’s document reflected the philosophy of the national office and was eventually adopted as an official SDS doctrine. During the summer of 1969, the national office began to split. A group led by Klonsky became known as R-Y-M two and the other side, R-Y-M one was led by Dorne and endorsed more aggressive tactics such as direct action.

As some members felt that years of nonviolent resistance had done little or nothing to stop the Vietnam War. The weathermen strongly sympathized with the radical Black Panther party. The police killing of Panther Fred Hampton prompted the weathermen to issue a declaration of war upon the United States government. After the days of rage riots, the Weatherman held the last of its national council meetings from December 26 to December 30, 169 in Flint, Michigan.

The meeting, dubbed the war Council by the 300 people who attended, adopted John Jacobs call for violent revolution. Dorne opened the conference by telling the delegates they needed to stop being afraid and begin the armed struggle. Over the next five days, the participants met in informal groups to discuss what’s going underground meant how best to organize collectives and justifications for violence. In the evening, the groups reconvene for a mass wargasm, practicing karate, engaging in physical exercise, singing songs, and listening to speeches.

The thesis of weatherman theory as expounded in its founding document, you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, was that the main struggle going on in the world today is between us imperialism and the national liberation struggles against it. Based on Lenin’s theory of imperialism, first expounded in 1916 in imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism. In weatherman theory, oppressed peoples are the creators of the wealth of empire, and it is to them that it belongs.

The goal of revolutionary struggle must be the control and use of this wealth in the interest of the oppressed peoples of the world. The goal is the destruction of us imperialism and the achievement of a classless world. World communism. The weathermen were outspoken critics of the concepts that later came to be known as white privilege and identity politics. As the civil disorder in poor black neighborhoods intensified in the early 1970s, Bernadine Doran said, white youth must choose sides now.

They must either fight on the side of the oppressed or be on the side of the oppressor. Shortly after its formation as an independent group, Weatherman created a central committee, the Weather Bureau, which assigned its cadres to a series of collectives in major cities. These cities included New York, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Buffalo, and Chicago, the home of the SDS head office. The collective set up under the Weather Bureau drew their design from J.

Gavara Foco theory, which focused on the building of small semiautonomous cells. Guided by central leadership, in April 1971, the Citizens commissioned to investigate the FBI broke into an FBI office in media, Pennsylvania. The group stole files with several hundred pages. The files detailed the targeting of civil rights leaders, labor rights organizations, and left wing groups in general, and included documentation of acts of intimidation and disinformation by the FBI and attempts to erode public support for those popular movements.

By the end of April, the FBI offices were to terminate all files dealing with leftist groups. The files were part of a FBI program called Cointel Pro. After Cointel Pro was dissolved in 1971 by J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI continued its counterintelligence on groups like the Weather Underground. In 1973, the FBI established a special target information development program where agents were sent undercover to penetrate the weather underground.

Due to the illegal tactics of FBI agents involved with the program, government attorneys requested all weapons and bomb related charges be dropped against the weather underground. The most well publicized of these tactics were the black bag jobs, referring to searches conducted in the homes of relatives and acquaintances of the weathermen. The weather underground was no longer a fugitive organization and could turn themselves in with minimal charges against them.

Additionally, the illegal domestic spying conducted by the CIA in collaboration with the FBI also lessened the legal repercussions for weathermen turning themselves in. One of those agents was Larry David Grathwall. His exploits were documented in the 1976 book bringing down America, in which he exposed the inner workings of the weather Underground and the personal activities of many of its members, including Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn. I brought up the subject of what’s going to happen after we take over the government? We become responsible then for administrating 250,000,000 people.

And there was no answers. No one had given any thought to economics. How are you going to clothe and feed these people? The only thing that I could get was that they expected that the Cubans and the North Vietnamese and the Chinese and the Russians would all want to occupy different portions of the United States. They also believed that their immediate responsibility would be to protect against what they called the counterrevolution.

And they felt that this counterrevolution could best be guarded against by creating and establishing re education centers in the southwest, where we would take all the people who needed to be re educated into the new way of thinking and teach them how things were going to be. I asked, well, what is going to happen to those people that we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists? And the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated.

And when I pursued this further, they estimated that they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers. And when I say eliminate, I mean kill 25 million people. I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees from Columbia and other well known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.

And they were dead serious. From 1969 throughout the 1970s, the left wing terrorist organization the Weatherman carried out a series of bombings, jailbreaks, and riots. October 6, 1969 the Haymarket police statue in Chicago was bombed. October 8 through 1119. 69 the days of rage riots occur in Chicago. November 8, 1969 two shots fired at the Cambridge police station. Two weathermen, James Kilpatrick and James Reeve, were indicted and subsequently released when a witness recanted his testimony.

December 6, 1969 several Chicago police cars were bombed in Chicago. The weather underground claimed responsibility as a response to the fatal police shooting of Illinois Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. February 16, 1970 a bomb was detonated at the Golden Gate park branch of the San Francisco Police Department, killing one officer and injuring a number of other policemen. March 6, 1970 Weather underground members Theodore Gold, Diana Auton, and Terry Robbins are killed in the Greenwich village townhouse explosion when a nail bomb they were constructing detonates.

The bomb was intended to be planted at a noncommissioned officer’s dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey. March 1, 971 the weather underground bombs the US Capitol in protest to the invasion of Laos. May 19, 1972 the weather Underground bombs the Pentagon in retaliation for the US bombing raid in Hanoi. The date was chosen for its being Ho Chi Minh’s birthday once again in 1975. On January 29, the State Department was bombed.

Weather Underground stated that this was in response to escalation in Vietnam. These are just a few of a litany of violent attacks carried out by the weather Underground, which by 1977 had all but disbanded. Those who had not been killed or arrested retreated into other walks of life, including politics, law, and academia. They are the cultural centerpiece that they are the salon. Think Ariana Huffington in Los Angeles with her Hollywood lefty friends.

They are the center point of the Chicago social and political scene. And my conviction that they are helped to create and manufacture Barack Obama. The politician is absolute. It was just hanging out and I could just tell beyond the book thing dreams of my father, beyond the fact that they launched his career from his house and they are intimately involved in the movement. Unrepentant terrorist loves occupy and goes down and gives them pep talks.

I think that’s significant. Although the weather Underground has not been considered officially active for decades, the influence of Dorne Ayers, the Ayres family, as well as the alumni of the weather underground still remain. From 1991 to 2013, Bernadine Dorn was a clinical associate professor of law at the Children and Family Justice center at Northwest University School of Law. Even though she is not a lawyer, Dorn currently serves on the board of numerous human rights committees and has served as visiting law faculty at the VU University in Amsterdam that currently boasts a high rate of student internships in companies like Google.

Bill Ayers is a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, formerly holding the titles of Distinguished professor of education and senior university scholar. They have two adult children, one being Zade Dorn, a playwright who in 2010 wrote a short play entitled because I know you got soul, a nod to Obama. Zayed was named after Zade Shakur, a black panther killed during a shootout with New Jersey police in 1973.

Dorn and Ayres also shared legal guardianship of Chaser Bodan, son of Kathy Bodan and David Gilbert. Bodan and Gilbert were former weather Underground members who later joined the May 19 communist organization and were convicted of felony murder for their roles in that group’s brinks robbery. Chaser Bodan went on to win a rose scholarship. Chaser Bodan is currently a candidate in the 2019 election for San Francisco district attorney.

Chase’s father, David Gilbert, received 70 years to life and is currently still incarcerated. Chase’s mother, Kathy Bodan, was granted parole on August 20, 2003, and was named an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work. Jeff Jones, one of the founding members of the Weather Underground, resurfaced in 1981 when he was unexpectedly caught up in a police sweep of individuals suspected of participating in the deadly robbery of an armored truck.

He and his wife were arrested. Although Jones received probation and community services, the charges against his wife were dismissed. He has worked as a reporter and editor covering New York state politics and policy. He also runs a consulting firm called Jeff Jones Strategies that specializes in media expertise, writing, and campaign strategies that help grassroots and progressive groups achieve their goals. Jones is also working on the board of the Financial Arm of Movement for a Democratic Society, or MDS, a group that works closely with the new SDS.

He is also a member of the Apollo Alliance. Eleanor Raskin, previously known as Eleanor Stein, was a member of the Weatherman and participated in the days of Rage. She was an adjunct instructor at Albany Law School. Mark Rood, a political organizer, mathematics instructor, and member of the weather Underground, taught mathematics at Central New Mexico Community College and is now retired in Albuquerque. Roode has since expressed regret for his role in the weather Underground and now advocates for nonviolence and electoral change.

Kathy Wilkerson, whose father owned the Greenwich Village apartment that exploded on March 6, 1970, taught mathematics in high school and is currently still working with the Students for a democratic society. Susan Rosenberg, an activist in the May 19 communist organization, was sought as an accomplice in the 1979 prisonscape of Asada Shakur. She was also accused of driving the getaway car in the Brinks robbery in 1981, in which two police officers and an armored car guard were killed.

Rosenberg was sentenced to 58 years in prison on weapons and explosive charges. She spent 16 years in prison, during which she became a poet, author, and AIDS activist. Her sentence was commuted by President Bill Clinton on January 20, 2001. But the connections, particularly between Obama, Dorne Ayers and Sidley Austin, are the ones that remain the most unsettling. Another key figure in Barack Obama’s meteoric rise was one Newton Minnell.

Newton Norman Minnell, born January 17, 1926, is an american attorney and former chair of the Federal Communications Commission. He was famously known for a speech given to the National association of Broadcasters Convention on May 1961, where he was extremely critical of television broadcasters, essentially referring to television as a vast wasteland. He served as chairman of the FCC from March of 1961 through June of 1963. He was also chairman of the board at Rand Corporation, an american nonprofit global policy think tank created in 1948 by Douglas Aircraft Company.

He received a Bachelor of Science in 1949 from Northwestern University and a jurisdictate degree in 1950 from Northwestern University School of Law. Manao has long been active in democratic Party politics. He’s an influential attorney in private practice concerning telecommunications law and is also active in many nonprofit civic and educational institutions. In 2016, Barack Obama named him a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was also assistant counsel to Illinois Governor Adley Stevenson and has sat on the board of governors for the PBS, or Public Broadcasting Service, and its predecessor, national educational television.

He served as its chair from 1978 to 1980. He’s also a recent past president of the Carnegie Corporation, an influential PBS sponsor, and the original funder of Sesame street. In 1953, the Carnegie foundation was investigated as part of the Reese committee. The Reese committee was a congressional investigation of major tax exempt foundations linked to the international money cartel and centered on the Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie and Guggenheim foundations.

The hearings were held for two weeks. Then, without warning, the committee stopped them. The committee’s senior researcher, Norman Dod, went public about his findings almost immediately after the committee shut down the hearings. The following are excerpts from a 1980 interview with G. Edward Griffin where he states his findings and the ultimate plans for the taxpayers contributions to these foundations. Can you tell us what the Reese committee was attempting to do? Yes, I can tell you.

It was operating and carrying out instructions embodied in a resolution passed by the House of Representatives which was to investigate the activities of foundations as to whether or not these activities could justifiably be labeled unamerican without, I might say, defining what they meant by unamerican. What we had uncovered was the determination of these large endowed foundations, through their trustees, to actually get control over the content of american education, that we shall use our grant making power so to alter life in the United States that it can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union.

Much of PBS’s funding came from the Annenberg foundation, which sponsored the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, of which Barack Obama was a former chairman and Bill Ayers was a co founder. Mino was a prominent supporter of Barack Obama’s candidacy for president of the United States and had even recruited Obama back in 1988 to work for his law firm. In 2015, a report by human rights workers charged that the APA, or American Psychological association, was collaborating with the Bush administration officials, including members of the CIA, in enhancing the CIA’s torture program.

The report drew upon emails from a deceased RaND corporation researcher named Scott Gerwer. The APA countered the charges that were made by New York Times journalist James Risen and decided to conduct an independent review of whether there was factual support for this claim that the APA was indeed colluding with the Bush administration to promote, support, or facilitate the use of enhanced interrogation techniques by the United States in the war on terror.

According to Gerwera’s emails, he was working closely with CIA psychologist Kirk Hubbard, who was head of the CIA’s operational assessment division and was also a contractor with Mitchell Jesson and Associates, a company linked by senate investigators to use of torture. One instance of these links between the APA and CIA was the joint sponsorship of a group of workshops on the science of deception held at Rand’s Arlington, Virginia offices in 2003.

These workshops were organized by Rand’s Gearware CIA’s Hubbard and APA’s then senior scientist Susan Brandon. The CIA claimed that they had no records pertaining to the 2003 workshops, and the New York Times Risen had also failed to release any information pertaining to the event. The Rand corporation had come under fire before as being the source of the famous Pentagon papers, as Rand analysts, including Daniel Ellsberg, had been involved in collecting the papers that made up the famous secret history of US policy in Vietnam.

The man put in charge of damage control for this situation was Newton Mino. The man put in charge of the APA’s controversial independent review was one David Hoffman of the law firm Sidley Austin LLP. But not only was Hoffman connected to Mino through the think tank ran corporation and the CIA as well as the APA. Newton Minnell is senior counsel in the Chicago headquartered law firm of Sidley Austin LLP.

While the weather Underground claimed to be a grassroots organization, its origins were anything but. Most of their members were young, white, educated, privileged, and well funded. Coming from influential families such as the Ayres, Rockefellers, and Minnell, men like Thomas Ayers knew in order to achieve true power, it was crucial to involve yourself in every aspect of society, industry, shipping, transportation, technology, intelligence, law, academia, media, as well as being involved in civics and human rights issues and keeping on top of the current cultural zeitgeist.

And although the weather underground is no more, the influence of Dorne and heiress and their ideologies remain. Consider Valerie Jarrett, former advisor to President Barack Obama. Her late father, James Bowman, a physician, had a lengthy FBI file showing that he was a communist sympathizer and had communicated with a paid soviet agent named Alfred Stern. Stern was indicted on espionage charges, conspiring to transmit military and political information to the Soviet Union.

Jarrett’s mother is Barbara Taylor Bowman, who co founded a Chicago based graduate school in child development known as the Ericsson Institute. Sitting on the board of trustees of the Ericsson Institute is Tom Ayers, Bill Ayers, and Bernadine Dorn. Jarrett’s grandfather, Robert Taylor, was also from Chicago and was involved with the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, along with the communist journalist Frank Marshall Davis, another one of Barack Obama’s mentors.

Jarrett’s grandmother, Dorothy Taylor, was an activist with Planned Parenthood. Obama’s green Job Czar, Van Jones, was a senior fellow with John Podesta’s center for American Progress, as well as the Apollo alliance, along with former Weather Underground member Jeff Jones. These are just a few of many examples of how communist ideology still remains in the United States, much of it beginning in the university level, whose young students work their way into internships and later into partnerships and positions of power in every aspect of our lives, which has led to a heavily biased traditional as well as social media truly becoming a vast wasteland, its message being spread through the airwaves and online, all with a little bit of legal assistance along the way.

In June of 2019, helicopter pilot Tim McCormick died when his helicopter crashed on the roof of a midtown Manhattan, New York building. Although McCormick was an experienced pilot, he had not submitted a flight plan and was flying in restricted airspace and in close proximity to Trump Tower. The FAA stated that their air traffic controllers did not handle the flight, which was an Augusta a 10 nine e helicopter registered to American Continental Properties LLC and its chairman, Danielle Bodini, a real estate magnet with strong ties to Rome and the Catholic Church.

Still, not much is known about the reasoning for this flight, why it was in restricted airspace and how it crashed in the first place. The helicopter eventually crashed at seven Eightyn 51st and 52nd street at the AXA Equitable building and New York offices to Sidley Austin LLP oddly enough, in 2001, the offices of Sidley Austin, Brown and Wood were all destroyed in the September 11 attack on the World Trade center.

Just weeks before the attack, Sidley Austin had decided to move its staff of 600 lawyers into a crowded space on Third Avenue that would serve as a temporary base for Sidley Austin, an odd move at the time, but a move that would end up saving the lives of over 600 employees. Throughout the decades, law firms such as Sidley Austin have earned themselves a role as a global power player, having a unique and profound effect on global policy.

While oftentimes representing some questionable clientele. Whether for better or worse, Sidley Austin LLP has long been a goto for corporate and government special interest. Currently, Sidley Austin is involved in the college admission scandal, representing Trendera, which is a youth marketing firm who had allegedly paid $50,000 for someone else to take the ACT college entrance exam. In 2012, Walmart hired former Sidley Austin alumni Jay Jorgensen to become the senior vice president and global chief compliance officer.

Over recent years, Walmart has quietly closed nearly 300 of its stores worldwide, publicly announcing that they would be focusing on supercenters and ecommerce, while in other areas claiming that the closures were due to plumbing issues. Much has been made of this issue, with many people claiming that Walmart is conducting suspicious activities in their locations, from talk of tunnel building, unexplained explosions, and military and FEMA equipment being spotted in Walmart parking lots.

This theory quickly spread on the Internet, with many people documenting their experiences online. This was originally dismissed as a conspiracy theory, but gained steam again in 2018 when Oregon senator Jeff Merkley made a viral video announcing that young boys were being held at an immigrant detention center at an abandoned Walmart building in Texas. So I’m standing here in front of southwest key programs, Casa Padre, and this is a former Walmart that has been turned into a center for children.

So behind those doors, inside that Walmart are apparently many hundreds of children. This disturbing development was promptly blamed on then Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the DOJ, and the Trump administration, although it would seem that Walmart’s OD construction practices, suspicious closures, and FEMA related activities go back to the early 2000s. Given the growing human trafficking problem along border states in Mexico, this may put into perspective the 2012 bribery scandal that occurred with Walmex, a subsidiary of Walmart in Mexico.

As far back as 2005, officials at Walmart de Mexico allegedly made hundreds of cash payments to government officials in order to obtain building permits in virtually every corner of the country. And while investigators recommended that the probe be expanded, Walmart’s leadership shut it down. Then CEO of Walmex, Eduardo Castro Wright, who had been identified as a key figure in the bribery, was instead promoted to vice chairman of Walmart in 2008.

This put Walmart’s reputation in a tailspin, resulting in an internal investigation into FCPA compliance. Under pressure from the Justice Department and the securities and Exchange Commission. Hired to do damage control was Jay Jorgensen in 2012 from Sidley Austin LLP. In February of 2018, then number three at the Justice Department, associate attorney general Rachel Brand announced that she would be stepping down. This came at a curious time, as Attorney general Jeff Sessions had already recused himself from the Trump Russia investigation, now leaving only Rod Rosenstein to oversee Mueller’s investigation.

There was speculation that Brandt had grown frustrated with her limited influence at the DOJ, while others think she may have stepped down due to conflict of interest, considering that her husband, Jonathan Cohn, is partner at the same law firm as Tom Green, who is the lawyer for former Trump campaign advisor Rick Gates. That law firm is Sidley Austin LLP. Rachel Brand currently works as executive vice president of global government and chief legal officer and corporate secretary at Walmart.

From its origins in Marxism and communism to progressive activism and modern day socialism, the goals of groups like the weather Underground have always been clear to infiltrate society. At its root, the nuclear family structure, the educational system, children and youth foundations, human rights organizations, as well as being entrenched in every facet of industry, energy, tech, science, intel, finance and commerce, military, law and law enforcement, print, film, television and social media, all for the sake of keeping power in the hands of a few under the guise of offering liberation to the common man.

Those who would control the weather have always remained underground. One thing is certain, you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. And it’s going to mean a lot of white people risking a lot of things when they finally join on the side of the black people and the people of Vietnam and around the world who have already begun the fight by creating and establishing re education centers in the southwest.

You will see a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western bad men, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence than cars. I don’t care about an old, washed up terrorist, but as Senator Clinton said in her debates with you, we need to know the full extent of that relationship. What do you think about the fact that I think you’re a terrorist? What do you think about the fact that I think you’re a degenerate? You’re a degenerate who ought to apologize for what you’ve done.

That’s what power belongs to the young people and the black people in this country. Come on, we got to fight it out. We got to build a strong base. Someday we got to knock those motherfuckers to control this thing right on their ass. Details from the iteam on the case against Jussie Smollett. A judge’s ruling breathing new life into the case against the former empire actor. This could mean new charges against Smollett for allegedly faking a hate crime.

A special prosecutor’s been ordered to look at how the Cook county state’s attorney’s office handled this investigation. State’s Attorney Kim Fox recused herself but then put her deputy in charge of the case. The judge ruling Fox had no right to do that, citing an interoffice memo reported by the ABC Seven I team. Eyewitness in February of 2019, american actor Josie Smollett was arrested and faced criminal charges for allegedly filing a false police report and for disorderly conduct.

Smollett had claimed that on January 29 he had been attacked by two men who beat him, tied a rope around his neck and doused him with bleach while berating him with homophobic and racial slurs. However, Chicago police believed that Smollett paid two men who were familiar with Smollett to help orchestrate the attack. The men have reportedly been cooperating with investigators. Smollett, who was an actor on the television show Empire, whose studio was in Chicago, is also being investigated by the FBI as to whether or not he sent a threatening letter to the studio just days before the attack.

Days later, a total of 16 criminal charges were dropped against the empire actor, raising suspicion amongst the citizens of Chicago, including the Chicago police superintendent Eddie Johnson, as well as the mayor, Ram Emanuel, who called it a whitewash of justice, which prompted the Chicago Police Union to call for a federal investigation of the Cook County State Attorney Kim Fox. Text messages had shown that Fox was in communication with a family friend of the Smollett family after the alleged attack.

Fox later recused herself from the investigation. Smollett is also being investigated for sending a racist and homophobic letter to himself. In May of 2019, an Illinois judge ordered that the criminal case file become unsealed with the Chicago police who were involved in the arrest of Smollett, claiming that he faked the attack. The two men involved in the incident with Smollett are brothers of nigerian descent. They told police that Smollett paid them to help him fake the attack.

They are now suing Smollett’s attorneys for defamation of character. Smollett alleged that his attackers had placed a noose around his neck and was curiously still wearing it at the time the police arrived. What’s more curious is that the alleged attack occurred within weeks of the anti lynching bill being introduced to the Senate, which passed unanimously. The bill was authored by senators Kamala Harris of California, Corey Booker of New Jersey, and Republican Tim Scott of South Carolina.

And that is why we are here again today to face the history of lynching in this country. From 1882 to 1986, the United States Congress failed to pass anti lynching legislation when it had the opportunity. More than 200 times, victims of lynching were dragged out of their homes. They had ropes wrapped around their necks. They were hanged on trees. In many cases, they were castrated and burned as crowds of people watched and applauded.

The OD timing of these two events did not go unnoticed, and the connections between Kamala Harris, Jussie Smollett and the anti lynching bill were quickly pointed out by Tariq Nasheed, a film producer who also goes by the name King Flex. As Nasheed notes, the two have been seen campaigning together regularly, and Harris’support for the actor seemed to be nearly perfect timing for the alignment of the passing of her bill.

Coauthor of the bill, Corey Booker, as well as other high profile Democrats, were quick to fall in line in support of the actor mainstream media outlets were also quick to express their support for the actor, that is, until he was arrested in late February 2019. But it was not the curious connection between Smollett Harris Booker and the anti lynching bill that caused police to reopen the investigation. It was the text messages between Cook county prosecutor Kim Fox and Tina Chen.

Tina Chen is a chinese american lawyer who was born in the US to chinese immigrants who fled the People’s Republic of China in 1949. From 2011 to 2017, she served as assistant to President Barack Obama and chief of staff to first Lady Michelle Obama, as well as executive director of the White House Council on Women and Girls. She graduated from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1978 and in 1984 received her law degree from Northwestern University School of Law.

During her White House tenure, Chen was also in charge of the White House office of Public Engagement alongside Valerie Jarrett. Chen has also been affiliated with groups such as Vice’s diversity and Inclusion board, Uber’s hashtag MeToo Advisory board, and the Grammys Task Force for Inclusion and Diversity. In 2019, Chen was appointed to lead an inquiry into allegations of sexual harassment in the Southern Poverty Law center, which led to the firing of cofounder Morris D’s and legal director Rhonda Brownstein.

The Southern Poverty Law center has long been mired in controversy due to their connections with many fringe groups, including the Freedom Roads socialist organization, the Progressive Labor Party, the Students for a democratic society, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Weather Underground. Tina Chen was also listed in the 2009 White House visitor logs as having met billionaire George Soros, who is a heavy contributor to the Southern Poverty Law center.

By way of media matters, George Soros also donated a total of $408,000 to super PACs that helped support Kim Fox’s run for Cook county state attorney, according to the text messages. Kim Fox had reportedly asked police to stand down at the request of Tina Chen. Chen was served as subpoena for the case but refused to accept it, which led Illinois appellate Judge Sheila O’Brien to petition for an appointment of a special prosecutor to look into the state’s attorney office handling of a Smollett case.

In March of 2018, Chen was seen at south by Southwest in Austin to proclaim that there’s no time’s up without women of color alongside Jussie Smollett’sister journey Smollett Bell. The two were spotted again in May of 2018 at the United States Women’s Summit in Los Angeles alongside Michelle Obama. Chen also came under fire for funneling more than $200,000 into the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, while working as a lawyer at Scadden Arps.

Chen’s firm of Buckley LLP is also a major partner of kids in need of defense, or kind, which was founded by the Microsoft Corporation and actress Angelina Jolie to create a pro bono movement of law firms, corporations, ngos, universities, and volunteers to provide quality and compassionate legal counsel to unaccompanied refugee and immigrant children in the United States, essentially legal representation for illegal immigrants. This is alarming given the sheer number of corporations and media entities that support kind, such as Amazon at T, Coca Cola, Disney, Facebook, NBC, Netflix, Nickelodeon, Pfizer, Uber, Starbucks, Viacom, Warner Brothers, and Yahoo, just to name a few.

What’s even more alarming is their connection to the Clinton foundation. Here is president of Kind Wendy Young giving a 2014 speech to the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service as part of their speaker series. I wanted to start just by more broadly introducing you to the issue of unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children. When I often speak in settings like this, and I tell people that thousands of children arrive at the border of the United States each year seeking protection, I get a lot of kind of puzzled looks.

People do not expect children to be on the move alone around the world, and I think it truly is a red flag. Even more alarming still are Wendy Young’s previous connections, having held prior immigration policy positions with organizations such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Women’s Refugee Commission, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the National Council of Laraza. Worrying connections to say the least, given the Catholic Church’s long history of child abuse and rape, and Laraza being one of the wealthiest and most politically powerful militant organizations in the country, notoriously violent, racist, subversive, and known for child abuse and molestation.

Along with Chen’s Buckley LLP, other major law firms partnered with kind are Perkins Coy LLP, venable LLP representing Tony Podesta and Sidley Austin LLP. Chen’s connections to Smollett Fox, as well as the Obama administration, were alarming, to say the least. But one other connection of note is her childhood friendship with Amy Rule, wife of Ram Emanuel, former Obama White House chief of staff, former mayor of Chicago, and fellow graduate of Northwestern University, Emmanuel has long been riddled with political scandal, himself in particular with his appointment to the Obama administration.

Emmanuel had garnered support from the National Jewish Democratic Council, which many Democrats feared would interrupt the israeli palestinian peace process. Emmanuel’s father, Benjamin Emmanuel, was a pediatrician who in the 1940s worked with the militant zionist group Irgun. Known to be violently Antiab and the same group who in 1946 bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people. But it would seem, at least outwardly, that Ram Emmanuel’s ideals are very much his own.

In 2012, Emmanuel appointed Ahmed Rahab, the head of the local council on American Islamic Relations, or Care Chicago chapter, to the new Americans Advisory Committee. The committee was charged with developing a roadmap that will ensure Chicago continues to thrive and grow and attracts the world’s leading human capital to compete in the 21st century global economy and beyond. Emmanuel had already been linked to care in 2008, when he was White House chief of staff, when it became known that the FBI had broken off communications with care in 2008 over concerns about their roots with a Hamas supported network.

This list was also known as the Palestine Committee and featured Care founders Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad. Although care was not directly implicated in the Palestine committee, the Palestine Committee was created by the Muslim Brotherhood to help Hamas with what one FBI official said, what it needs of media, money, men and all of that. Ahmed Rahab was appointed to the Chicago office to the Committee on Immigrant Policy.

The Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAre, has long been known to be connected with Hamas, and Muslim Brotherhood is currently supporting representative Rashida Talib of Michigan. In February of 2019, Talib spoke at a care banquet alongside Imam Omar Suleiman, a Muslim Brotherhood connected imam who has a long history of antialgbT, anti woman and antisemitic ideals. Care has also lent their support to Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who recently defended Care with her infamous some people did something statement in 2000, President Bill Clinton appointed Rahm Emanuel to the board of directors of Freddie Mac, a federal home loan mortgage corporation, where he earned at least $320,000 in a year that was riddled with scandals.

It wasn’t until 2015 that the securities and Exchange Commission finally settled with Freddie Mac executives over allegedly misleading investors about the quality of subprime mortgages. Freddie Mac CEO at the time, Richard Seren, was being represented by Sidley Austin LLP, the prolific law firm which had once employed Barack and Michelle Obama, as well as weather Underground founder Bernadine Dorn. Kim Fox is an american politician currently serving as the state’s attorney for Cook County, Illinois.

She received her undergraduate and law degrees from Southern Illinois University, and she’s also a member of the board of Adler University. Kim is married to Kelly Fox, who is a nonprofit manager for world business Chicago and, according to his LinkedIn profile, has extensive civic ties and volunteers his time with several community organizations. Fox has also served as chief of staff to Cook county board president Tony Prekwinkle, who’s also no stranger to scandal.

Prekwinkle was connected to alderman Edward M. Burke following his arrest for corruption by the FBI after he had allegedly tried to extort fast food executive Shukat Danani to make an illegal $10,000 donation to Prekwinkle’s campaign. Burke is not the only alderman to have his house raided by the FBI. In June of 2019, Alderman Carrie Austin had her 34th ward office raided as well. Austin is the second longest serving active alderman behind indicted alderman Ed Burke.

Austin formerly worked closely with Burke as city council’s budget chair. Austin allegedly got a $231,000 federal housing loan to purchase a home in a development that’s in line to get millions of dollars in city subsidies. The project was owned by JTA Development, which is owned by John Powen, a former attorney at Sidley Austin LLP. In September of 2018, Prekwinkle announced her candidacy for mayor of Chicago to succeed Rahm Emanuel in the 2019 election.

She was defeated in the April 2 election by Lori Lightfoot. Like Kim Fox, Prekwinkle has outwardly expressed her support for Barack Obama. She currently resides in Hyde park along with Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama and weather underground cofounders Bernadine Dorn and Bill Ayers. The Jussie Smollett incident was hardly Kimberly Fox’s first scandal. In 2017, Fox’s top prosecutors dropped double murder charges against Gabrielle Solace and Arturo Reyes, who were guilty of a 1998 fatal stabbing of Mariana Soto and his wife, Chacinta.

After their release from prison, Fox aided solace and Reyes, getting them both representation from prominent wrongful conviction law firms to file federal lawsuits against the investigating detectives. Their attorney was Jan Sussler of the PLO, or People’s Law office. Jan Sussler, back in the 1970s, had helped represent a group of marxist revolutionaries called the Armed Forces for national Liberation, or FALN, that set off a bomb that killed four people and injured many others in a 1975 bombing at the Francis Tavern in New York City.

In addition to the FALN, the People’s Law office, or PLA law firm also represented revolutionary groups like the Black Panthers and the weather Underground. First assistant state’s Attorney Eric Sussman said that prosecutors still strongly believe that Gabrielle Solace and Arturo Reyes are guilty. Having confessions of both the two men, however, the judge threw out their confessions of what he called bald faced lies. Sussman stated that the office had no choice but to dismiss the case.

Sussman is not only first assistant state’s attorney and a formal federal prosecutor. He was also in private practice with Sidley Austin, LLP. Fox has also been linked to activist Jedidiah Brown, who is shown here jumping on stage in March of 2016 at a Chicago rally in protest of then presidential hopeful Donald Trump. Brown is currently being charged with resisting arrest, obstructing traffic and two counts of misdemeanor battery to a peace officer after an altercation with police during a protest of the fatal police shooting of South Shore barber Harith Augustus.

One of the prosecutors on that case was Kim Fox, who has since recused herself after a Facebook picture of the two surfaced online. Brown has been a political supporter of Fox and has shared the stage with her at a news conference on April 6 at the Rainbow Push Coalition headquarters. Fox has taken in over $400,000 from left wing billionaire donor George Soros by way of Super PACs, the Illinois Safety and Justice, and a group called Civic Participation Action Fund.

The Cochair of Fox’s transition committee in 2016 was Kamala Harris, whom Fox described as a mentor. Kim Fox joined the Cook county state’s attorney office in 2001, where she prosecuted sex crimes. A year later, the same office filed 21 counts of child pornography charges against entertainer Mr. Robert R. Kelly in connection with a videotape that showed Kelly having sex and urinating on an underage girl. Multiple accusations and nearly six years later, prosecutors were finally able to bring Kelly into court, where it only took a few hours for a jury to declare Kelly not guilty on all 14 charges due to the fact that the jurors were not certain about the identity of the person in the video.

Mr. Kelly was acquitted of all charges, and although Kim Fox was not directly involved with the R. Kelly case over the years, her office was. She did, however, insert herself into the situation in early 2019, when R. Kelly was once again charged with eleven new counts of sexual assault and abuse. In Fox’s first term as Chicago’s top prosecutor, she publicly encouraged anyone with knowledge or sexual abuse allegations against R.

Kelly to come forward, but we rely heavily on victim accounts and witness statements to prosecute cases involving sexual assault and domestic violence. I’m here today to encourage victims of sexual assault or domestic violence related to these allegations to please get in touch with our office. Fox was heavily criticized for this move as the allegations were still new and the lead prosecutor’s role was usually not to comment until there is enough evidence.

Fox’s public announcement curiously coincided with a six hour television documentary featured on the Lifetime channel entitled Surviving R. Kelly, in which various women accused the singer of abuse including locking them inside a house. Executive producer of Surviving R. Kelly Dream, Hampton stated that they had approached numerous celebrities to participate in the documentary, including Lady Gaga, Erica Badu, Celine Dion, Jay Z and Dave Chappelle, all celebrities who have been outwardly critical of R.

Kelly. In the end, only one stepped forward, singer and entertainer John Legend, who along with his wife, model Chrissy Teigen, are active in the democratic community. Both legend and Teigen hosted a fundraiser in their Beverly Hills home in late 2018 for democratic Senate candidates. Some of the attendees were senators Corey Booker, Kamala Harris, Ed Markey and Chris Murphy. Legend is also a major donor for the Time’s Up Legal defense Fund, which has represented Barack Obama and employs members of his former administration.

Due to its star power and celebrity backers. The Time’s up legal fund has raised an alarming amount of money over the last few years. The co founder of the Times Up Legal Defense Fund is former chief of staff to Michelle Obama and friend of Kim Fox, Tina Chen. The case for R. Kelly took an unusual turn when the Chicago Tribune reported that text messages that had been obtained through an open records request suggested that Chief Chicago prosecutor Kim Fox was working with embattled attorney Michael Avenatti.

The messages showed that Fox and Avenatti even arranged an office at the O’Hare airport in Chicago where they could talk privately, and Avenatti thanked Fox for, quote, being so accommodating. Abenatti had claimed to have multiple tapes of the singer engaging in sexual acts with minors. That accusation, though, fell flat when Michael Avenatti himself was indicted on a wire fraud scheme against shoemaker Nike, who have recently launched a number of controversial ad campaigns over the last few years.

Avenatti reportedly threatened to expose the company for paying college basketball players and their families, and then tried to convince Nike to hire him to launch an internal investigation for $15 to $25 million. Mentioned as a co conspirator along with Avenatti is celebrity attorney Mark Garagos. Oddly enough, it was Garagos who helped negotiate a multimillion dollar deal between Nike and Colin Kaepernick, another OD move, as Kaepernick is not currently playing NFL football but is actively involved in Nike’s controversial campaigns.

Some of Garagos’other high profile clients include Susan McDougall, who was previously convicted in the Whitewater scandal involving President Bill Clinton. A few years later, Garagos represented Clinton’s brother Roger Clinton in a drunken driving case. Others include Hollywood stars like Winona Ryder, Chris Brown, wife killer Scott Peterson and Michael Jackson. Garagos is currently representing actor Jussie Smollett. Given the current situation of Avenatti and Garagos, R. Kelly’s lawyer, Steve Greenberg, has argued that the tapes be thrown out of court, questioning how Avenatti retrieved the tapes in the first place.

An unidentified man who handed the tape to Avenatti reportedly had a history with R. Kelly and told prosecutors how he was paid upwards of a million dollars by Kelly’s camp to keep the tape from being exposed. Adding to the confusion of the case was Ed Genson, now R. Kelly’s ex lawyer, who had represented Kelly back in 2008 and has represented him twice before. Genson told Chicago Sun Times columnist Neil Steinberg that R.

Kelly was indeed, quote, guilty as hell and saying, I don’t think he has done anything appropriate for years. I’ll tell you a secret. I had him go to a doctor to get shots, libido, killing shots. That’s why he didn’t get arrested for anything else. Normally, such a declaration is grounds for disbarment, but Genson is not concerned with that, considering he’s dying of bile duct cancer, and said, quote, I can say whatever I want, but we’ve got to do it fast.

It would be nice to get it down so somebody knows besides me. Even stranger, Genson’s son, Morton Genson, told reporters that he believed his father wasn’t thinking clearly when he gave the interview at his home, saying, quote, he’s on a tremendous amount of medication. I’m so distraught about this. It’s so wrong. I don’t even bring my friends over to visit with him. If you want to read between the lines, as far as I’m concerned, he’s not talking to anybody.

According to text messages initially obtained by CNN, Fox referenced Jussie Smollett as a washed up celeb. She also mentioned R. Kelly as a pedophile with four victims, ten counts. In her message to first assistant state’s Attorney Joseph Maggots on March eigth saying, just because we can charge something doesn’t mean we should. This clearly seems to show that Fox had a bias against R. Kelly and for Jussie Smollett.

Chicago City police Union has demanded that Cook County State Attorney Kim Fox resign amid her office’s decision to drop the charges. Mayor elect at the time, Lori Lightfoot, weighed in, saying that Smollett’s case doesn’t rank as any matter of importance, seeing that this was a decision made during the term of previous mayor Rahm Emmanuel. One of Lightfoot’s top unofficial advisors is Mary Dempsey. Formerly of Sidley Austin LLP.

Lightfoot also received a $10,000 donation from Sidley Austin attorney Thomas Ryan for her gubernatorial campaign. Kim Fox’s connections to dirty Chicago politics runs deep and yet runs all the way up to the White House. So her loyalty to Jussie Smollett is likely no coincidence. After all, there’s more to the Smollett family than meets the eye. Janet Smollett was born Janet Harris on the 27 November 1952 in New Orleans.

In her early years, Harris tutored with Julian Bond, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Harris rose to become a civil rights leader herself and one of the early members of the Black Panther party, working alongside Huey Newton, Bobby Seal and Angela Davis, with whom she’s remained close friends to this day. Angela Davis is not only a former Black Panther, but a card carrying member of the Communist Party and in 1970 was on the FBI’s wanted list for murder and kidnapping.

It was through Janet Harris’s civil rights activism where she met her husband, Joel Smollett, who was born in 1956 to parents Molly Hershensen and Peter Smollett. Joel Smollett is an Ashkenazi Jew of russian and polish descent. The two married and went on to have six children, Jojo, Jussie, journey, Jake, jazz and jockey, all who have gone on to have careers in the entertainment industry, which is influenced heavily by Ashkenazi Jews who would often name their children with the letter J as a code for hiring amongst Hollywood, which may explain Joel and Janice decision to name all their children with the letter J.

In 1994, all six children were cast in the ABC sitcom on our Own, which was about a group of siblings trying to stay together after their parents pass away. The show was canceled after only one season. Like their mother, Janet, all of the Smollett children have remained active in human rights organizations, and most of them have remained in the entertainment industry. In 2016, Jussie Smollett joined his sister journey Smollett Bell in the WGN slavery drama Underground, a drama about the Underground railroad whose executive producer was entertainer John Legend.

Underground was also canceled after just two seasons. The Smollets have been particularly active in the HIV AIDS prevention community as well as Black Lives Matter. In a 2016 New York Times article, Jussie Smollett referenced his mother as a heavy influence to his activism, saying, quote, my mom was in the movement with Bobby Seal and Huey Newton, and one of her first mentors was Julian Bond. In reference to Angela Davis, Smollett said, to this day, Angela Davis is one of her dearest friends.

We’ve spent Mother’s Day with Angela here. Journey Smollett Bell can be seen with Tina Chen on stage speaking on hashtag Times up at the 2018 United State of Women’s Summit. The hashtag Times up movement has been heavily supported by the music and Hollywood elite, including a $200,000 donation from Chrissy Teigen and underground producer John Legend. The Smollett family have also lent their support for Barack Obama, which should come as no surprise given their close relationship with Tina Chen here.

Jussie and his brother Jojo are pictured in 2018 at the White House with Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, where Jussie Smollett states, with my big bro Jojo, Michelle Obama and Barack Obama, back when the White House was the kingdom of Wakanda, Wakanda being a mythical location featured in the movie Black Panther, a movie that his mother, Janet Smollett, helped create. Jussie Smollett has also been equally outspoken against President Donald Trump, having launched a series of tirades against the president on Twitter, one of note coming on 12 January 2018, just days before his alleged attack.

Smollett’s alleged attack drew a firestorm of outrage from mainstream media, celebrities, politicians and human rights organizations, particularly Black Lives Matter, of which Jussie Smollett is heavily involved and still closely works with members of the Black Panther Party, featuring luminaries such as Angela Davis, a Smollett family friend. This all changed when news broke that Smollett had allegedly staged the attack and the text messages between Kim Fox and Tina Chen had surfaced.

In late March of 2018, the movie Black Panther took home numerous awards at the 50th NAACP Awards due to Jussie Smollett’s arrest. The Empire actor was conspicuously absent, even though he was nominated for an award at the time. The charges had already been dropped against Smollett, but public embarrassment was still looming. Many celebrities came to the aid of Jussie Smollett, including representative Maxine Waters, who was at the awards saying, jussie Smollett is like a son to me.

I’m very pleased about the verdict. I’m very pleased that he now has an opportunity to pick up and go on with his life. If you see anybody from that cabinet, in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they’re not welcome. Maxine Waters was also coming under fire for her incendiary comments towards the president, which some in the press called reminiscent of Bernardine Dorne in the weather underground days.

Odly enough. The very next day, co founder of the Weather Underground, Bill Ayers, spoke out on Twitter, echoing Water’s sentiment in reference to a Michelle Gunderson, who’s a trustee for the Chicago’s teacher union and co chair of core or Caucus of Rank and File Educators, a group that is also under fire for its, quote, militant unionism. It is also of note that at this very same time, incoming mayor Lori Lightfoot was trading barbs with Rahm Emmanuel over who was responsible for a massive CPS or Chicago public school sex abuse scandal.

Bill Air’s support for Maxine Waters, as well as Waters’support for Jussie Smollett should be of no shock at all. Maxine Waters has been affiliated with communist militant organizations for decades. In 1982, Waters was attached to the National alliance against Racist and Political Repression, a communist party front group that was led by Communist Party members, including Angela Davis. In 1984, Waters spoke at a UC Berkeley conference entitled Growth Pains, dialogues on employment equality and environment.

The event was sponsored by the Democratic Socialists of America and Socialist Review. Waters has also been a longtime supporter of former Black Panther and marxist icon Mumia Abu Jamal, who in 1995 was found guilty of murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Waters also sent a former apology to communist dictator of Cuba Fidel Castro for mistakenly voting for a house resolution asking Cuba to extradite Asada Shakur, a former Black Panther that killed a police officer and later fled to Cuba.

And in 2011, Waters supported the anticapitalist Occupy Wall street movement along with weather underground cofounders Bernadine Dorne and Bill Ayers. One doesn’t have to look far to see that the Smollett family is more than just an entertainment reared family. Their activist ties run deep and is reflected through their art. But is their activism more about creating unity or division? Many have argued that Angela Davis is simply a revolutionary hero, an advocate for racial justice.

The Black Panther party arose at a time where racial segregation was a true problem in the United States. Many simply were joining for a sense of protection and community and as a platform to decry racism and the Vietnam War. Coupled that with the US government’s mishandling of operations like co intel Pro, where the intelligence communities had been caught unlawfully spying on some of these groups, such as the Black Panthers and weather Underground.

The CIA had a long history of infiltrating some of these groups, and it was often difficult to tell where the danger was really emanating from. But Davis was more than an activist. She was an avowed communist charged with murder and kidnapping in the Marin county courthouse shootout on August 7, 1970 that left four dead, including Judge Harold J. Haley. Angela Davis may not have started the violence, but like her contemporary Bernadine Dornar, the weather Underground, she was not afraid to participate in it.

I mean, that’s another thing. When you talk about a revolution, most people think violence without realizing that the real content of any kind of revolutionary thrust lies in the principles and the goals that you’re striving for, not in the way you reach them. On the other hand, because of the way this society is organized, because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere, you have to expect that there are going to be such explosions.

You have to expect things like that as reactions. Davis had purchased the firearms used for the takeover and was prosecuted for three capital felonies, including conspiracy to murder, but was acquitted of all charges. She was represented by famed lawyer Leo Branton Jr. Who had gained a name representing singer Nat King Cole, Miles Davis and Richard Pryor. Branton, along with Charles Gary, represented Robert Wesley Wells, who was sentenced to death for assaulting a prison guard while serving a life term.

In 1957, Branton won a reversal of a previous conviction of 14 communist party members accused of conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the government. Branton received his law degree from the Northwestern University School of Law, the same school in which weather underground cofounder Bernadine Dorn was a clinical associate professor and of which Dorn’s husband, Bill Ayers’father Thomas G. Ayres, sat on the board of trustees for over 30 years and has a residence hall named after him at 2324 Campus Drive.

Angela Davis continues to be active in groups like Black Lives Matter, the hashtag me Too movement and the boycott, divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel, or BDS, a group which has recently received renewed criticism over their support from representatives Rashida Klaib and Ilhan Omar. Jussie Smollett’s alleged attackers, Abimbola and Ola Binjo Osundairo, were arrested on February 13, 2019, at O’Hare International Airport. The brothers had told a reporter from CBS two Chicago that they were born and raised in Chicago and are american citizens, but were actually of nigerian descent and were returning from Nigeria.

The two brothers are currently suing Smollett’s attorneys’firm Garagos and Gargos for defamation of character, according to the report. They allegedly punched and poured bleach on Smollett while one of the suspects put a rope around his neck as they fled the scene, Smollett told police, they said, this is Maga country. The brothers were familiar with the actor Smollett from the local gym, and Abenbola would on occasion sell the drug ecstasy to Smollett.

Court records also showed that Ola Binja Osandiro in 2011 was charged with an attempted murder, a stabbing that occurred in north Ashland. Ola Binjo was sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to pay a $674 fine. At the time, neither brother reported having full time jobs, stating that their monthly incomes were both below $200 a month. Both had run a party and decoration business in 2015, operating out of a building that was owned by their parents.

The business was operating at a loss and both filed for bankruptcy. Abimbola, in his bankruptcy filing, claimed an interest in various investments, including one share of Alibaba, four shares of a pharmaceutical company, and one curious share of Berkshire Hathaway, of which he valued at $300, even though one single share at the time of Berkshire Hathaway was worth more than $200,000. This would seem to contradict the brothers claims of being in financial dire straits.

According to the Lakeview High School website in Chicago, where the brothers attended, their father is listed as Lonre Osandiro. So is it possible that their father is Prince Lanre Osandairo, not only royalty but a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party instrumental in putting in general Obasanjo and good luck Jonathan into the presidency? Another seemingly odd coincidence given Jussie Smollett and his family’s political activism. The brothers were also aspiring models and actors, having modeled previously for a controversial ad campaign on Facebook for ski masks.

The brothers also appeared as extras on season two of Jussie Smollett’s tv series Empire. Here they can be seen with director Lee Daniels, creator of Empire and another key figure in the Smollett saga. Lee Daniels is an american director, writer and film producer who rose to fame with his 2001 hit film monsters ball. Daniels is also an activist and democratic supporter, having directed a 2016 PSA encouraging Americans to vote Democrat at former president Bill Clinton’s request.

The PSA featured the cast of the television show Empire, which Lee Daniels was also directing, featuring Jussie Smollett. Daniels also produced a PSA for the Human rights campaign regarding the Orlando gay nightclub shooting, killing nearly 50 people and once again igniting racial tension. The Human rights campaign endorsed Bill Clinton for president in 92, as well as Hillary Clinton in 2016. The president of the Human Rights campaign is Alfonso David, a civil rights lawyer who was also chief counsel to New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who had previously commuted the sentence of weather underground member Judith Allen Clark.

In 2009, Lee Daniels directed the hit film Precious, a film about parental and sexual abuse. The film starred Gabori Sadibe, Monique, Paula Patton and Mariah Carey. The film was financed through Lionsgate Entertainment and Smokewood Entertainment and was given promotional assistance by actors Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey. Lionsgate Entertainment Corporation was formed in 1997 by Frank Justra, who is a heavy Clinton foundation donor and found himself at the heart of the uranium one scandal.

Lionsgate Entertainment was originally Cinepix, but changed its name to Lionsgate 1998 when they purchased the Vancouver based North Shore Studios owned by the Brothman family of the Seagram’s liquor fortune. The Brothmans are also involved in a massive scandal involving Nexium, a sex cult that sisters Claire and Sarah Brothman were found to be funding. Lee Daniels’other benefactor, Smokewood Entertainment, was also wrapped up in legal issues with the Weinstein Company over the licensing and distribution rights to the motion picture Push, based on the novel by Sapphire, which later became the film Precious.

Film producer Harvey Weinstein is also currently facing predatory sexual assault charges as well as bankruptcy, where he’s being represented by the law office of Sidley Austin LLP. Harvey Weinstein quickly became a prime target for the hashtag Me Too movement, of which many Hollywood elite are a part of, including former Obama official and Smollett family friend Tina Chen. In 2018, Lee Daniels teamed up with fellow producer Whitney Cummings to develop a half hour comedy special for Amazon based on the MeToo movement.

One of the stars of the 2009 Lee Daniels film Precious was comedian and actress Monique, who in 2015 accused Daniels of blackballing her from the Hollywood industry. Monique additionally claimed that funders for the film, Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry had blacklisted her, also saying, quote, I said no to some powerful people. I said no to Oprah Winfrey, I said no to Tyler Perry, I said no to Lee Daniels, and I said no to Lionsgate.

This led to numerous public feuds between Monique, Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Lee Daniels, television hosts Steve Harvey and Whoopi Goldberg, all titans in the black entertainment industry, and all of them coming out publicly to criticize Monique, who claims that Lee Daniels had paid her unfairly for her work on the film Precious, a claim which Daniels, Perry and Winfrey all denied and which Monique took heavy criticism in the media.

But Monique’s claims seemed to have been vindicated in summer of 2018 when Rockefeller Records co founder Damon Dash sued Daniels for $5 million over a $2 million loan to produce the Woodsman a 2004 drama in which Lee Daniels produced. Okay, so I’m here. Can we turn the lights up a little bit out there? Jonathan, any Michael, but here’s what I’ve been. I broke my ankle. That’s why I couldn’t move around.

Guys, did you see? I couldn’t move. I was doing lots of hand movements. I did it again. According to Monique, she had been offered the starring role in the series Empire until Lee Daniels later rescinded the offer. Here, Monique explains, we went back and forth with his company and our company, trying to get tv quotes and all, and then I got a call back from him because I hadn’t heard where I was supposed to go and do the screen test.

And that’s when he said, mama, you’ve been blackballed. And I said, well, why have I been blackballed? And he said, because you didn’t play the game. And I said, what game is that? And he was never able to answer that question. Monique, like Smollett, was seeking more money. More specifically, more money from Lee Daniels, who now, like Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry, was a major Hollywood player. Tyler Perry directed a 2013 thriller entitled Temptation, which featured Jussie Smollett’s sister journey.

Smollett Bell. Temptation was produced by the Tyler Perry Company and Lionsgate Entertainment. In 2012, Perry teamed up with Oprah Winfrey on the Oprah Winfrey network. But after five years and numerous public disputes with Oprah Winfrey, Perry decided to leave for Viacom, which in August of 2019 was acquired by CBS, whose former chairman and CEO Les Moonfez was forced to step down in 2018 over allegations of sexual abuse and harassment, and which also made him a prime target for the MeToo movement.

The dispute between Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey was overriding, with some noting that the two were having disagreements over Tyler’s insistence on pushing a gay agenda, a claim that Perry has long dealt with seeing that he rose to stardom with a cross dressing character named Madea. Cross dressing has long been criticized as an unspoken rite of passage amongst african american Hollywood actors. But was Jussie Smollett, like Monique, another victim of Hollywood blacklisting? Were his actions politically motivated, or was there something even more sinister at play? After Smollett’s alleged attack, much of Hollywood and DC’s elite rushed to support the actor, including Tyler Perry and Lee Daniels, who had gone so far as to refer to Smollett as his son, an OD statement given the fact that the two had reportedly been in a romantic relationship, the alleged attack occurred within just days of a second man being found dead in the home of democratic political activist Ed Buck, who, according to reports, had an affinity for young black gay men and is currently dealing with accusations of making revenge porn and human trafficking.

Buck was a prolific donor to the Clinton campaign, along with Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, Keith Ranier of Nexium and the Bronfmans. The Chicago based Jussie Smollett case took much needed attention away from California and the Ed Buck situation, but not the Chicago based case of singer R. Kelly, who was also being accused of human trafficking and whose jurisdiction fell under Cook county prosecutor Kim Fox. In addition to hiring celebrity attorney Mark Garagos, who was also named as a co conspirator in the R.

Kelly trial, Jussie Smollett also hired attorney Tod Pugh, who has formerly worked at Northwestern University School of Law, received his degree at Florida Atlantic University and served as an intern with the Palm Beach county public defender’s office under chief investigator Gail Martin. A veteran of both Palm beach and Broward county, which is one of the biggest counties in the United States for human trafficking, Pew also worked on the retrial of Rolando Cruz for the rape and murder of ten year old Janine Nicarico.

Pew has also represented former Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos. Smollett has also acquired the services of Michael Monaco, the defense attorney who is representing longtime Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. Monaco received his degree from Georgetown University in 1969 and later on earned a doctorate from Northwestern University, the same university affiliated with Thomas G. Ayres son and weather underground co founder Bill Ayers wife Bernadine Dorn, friend of Thomas G.

Ayres and mentor of Barack Obama Newton P. Mino and Smollett family friend and former Obama chief of staff Keena Chen. But how is it that a man who Kim Fox described as a washed up actor be able to hire such a high profile team of attorneys and gather such immediate support of DC and Hollywood’s elite while remaining conspicuously silent on Ed Buck, R. Kelly, Nexium’s Keith Rainier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein? Was Jussie Smollett’s attack deliberately staged in order to promote Kamala Harris’anti lynching bill and stir up racial tension in the process? Was it a distraction from much more sinister events? Was it simply the case of an actor looking to preserve their livelihood? Or could this possibly even have been a cry for help? According to Chicago police records, detectives have employed FBI supervisory special agent Gregory Wing, who oversees the child sex crimes and violent crimes against Children’s squad in the FBI’s Chicago field office and is considered one of the top agents investigating child sex trafficking in the country.

The document is in regards to a search warrant which was issued pertaining to the Apple incorporated held iCloud account controlled by Jussie Smollett to FBI analyst Mariella Lopez. In March of 2019, 50 employees, including nurses at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, were fired for allegedly improperly reviewing Jussie Smollett’s medical records. In June of 2019, Cook County Judge Michael Tooman ruled that while Fox did have the right to recuse herself, she did not have the right to select someone from her office to handle the prosecution and has since assigned a new special prosecutor to oversee the entire case from start to finish, which could bring up again the 16 felony charges against Jussie Smollett, including an investigation into Kim Fox.

As of now, the mysterious case of Jussie Smollett is ongoing. Good evening. Echoes of the violent radical underground of the 1960s rolled over the New York suburb of Nanuette today in the barched ambush of an armored car that left one guard and two policemen dead. Among the four suspects arrested was Catherine Boudin, a fugitive since March 6, 1970, when she reportedly fled naked from the flaming ruins of a Greenwich village townhouse turned bomb factory.

In 1981, an armed robbery was performed on an armored brinks truck at the nanowette Mall in New York, killing Brinks guard Peter Page, wounding Brinks guard Joseph Trombino and James Kelly, and subsequently killing two NIAC police officers, Edward O’Grady and Waverly Brown. Brown was the first african american member of the NIAC New York Police Department. The robbery was carried out by six black Liberation army members, Matulu Shakur, Kuwasi Balagoon, Samuel Brown, Samuel Smith, Edward Joseph and Cecilio Ferguson.

Also participating in the heist were four former members of the weather Underground, now belonging to the May 19 communist organization, David Gilbert, Judith Alice Clark, Kathy Bodine and Marilyn Buck. As Paige and Trombino emerged from the mall carrying bags of money, members of BLA stormed their van and fired with a shotgun and an M 16, killing Page and injuring Trombino. From there, the robbers fled the scene, where they met members of the May 19 organization in a yellow Honda and a U Haul truck, which was being driven by Clark.

Police pursued the two vehicles, first pulling over the U Haul being driven by Judith Alice Clark, long enough for six armed men to emerge from the back of the truck with automatic weapons, killing Brown and O’Grady. Some of the occupants of the U Haul scattered and climbed into the yellow Honda, which sped off and crashed, later making a sharp turn, injuring Brown’s neck and knocking Clark’s handgun onto the floor of the car, where police were finally able to arrest Gilbert, Brown and Clark, holding about $800,000 of the 1.

6 million in cash they had stolen. Their trials were heavily publicized and even more heavily guarded, as the BLA was known for attempting to break their members out of prison, as was the case of Asada Shukur. Clark, Gilbert and Balagoon all refused to appear in court, citing the racist court system. All three were sentenced to three consecutive 25 year to life sentences, making them eligible for parole in the year 2058.

Balagoon, also known as Donald Weems, died in prison from AIDS in 1986. Gilbert and Clark remained in prison. In late 2016, Andrew Cuomo commuted Clark’s sentence to 35 years, citing exceptional strides in self development. Kathy Bodine and Samuel Brown both pleaded guilty to one count of felony murder and robbery in exchange for a single 20 year to life sentence. Brown ended up being sentenced 75 years to life while Bodine was paroled in 2003, likely due to the hiring of lawyer Leonard Wineglass, a law partner of Bodeen’s father, also a high powered lawyer.

Leonard Bodeem Leonard Bodeen was a successful civil liberties lawyer with more than 50 years of practice who had defended a number of controversial clients, including Julian Bond of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Paul Robeson, Benjamin Spock and Daniel Ellsberg. He was introduced to law by his uncle, Louis Bodine, a well known constitutional lawyer and figure in the Socialist Party. Leonard Bodine also represented one time union leader Jimmy Hoffa and the Central bank of Iran during the Iran hostage crisis.

Leonard Bodine, as well as Kathy Bodine’s lawyer Leonard Wineglass, had defended Mr. Daniel Ellsberg, who was charged with theft in connection with the Pentagon Papers, which documented the history of the United States’true involvement in Vietnam. Ellsberg was an employee of RaNd, which is a non for profit think tank affiliated with the Defense Department. Rand was being represented by a senior board member, Newton Mino, a mentor of Barack and Michelle Obama, a friend of weather underground founder Bill Ayers’father, Tom Ayers and senior legal counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

David Gilbert, who is married to Kathy Bo Dean, is currently serving and is not eligible for parole until October 13, 2056. Kathy Bodine was released in 2003 and was named an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work, a controversial appointment due to her violent past. In 1980, David Gilbert and Kathy Bodean gave birth to a son, Chase abodean, due to the fact that both of them were incarcerated.

Chase Abodean was adopted by former weatherman leaders Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn. Chase Abodein is an american lawyer, writer and lecturer specializing in the US criminal justice system and Latin America policy. He’s also a candidate in the 2019 election for San Francisco district attorney. Chase Abodein went to Oxford University on a 2003 Rhodes Scholarship, where he earned two master’s degrees, one in forced migration and the other in public policy in Latin America.

Before attending law school, Bodine traveled to Venezuela and served as a translator in the Hugo Chavez administration. Chase of Bodine continues to represent the policies and politics of his activist parents, and his campaign has garnered support from the real Justice PAC, smart Justice California, and civil rights leaders like former Black Panther Angela Davis. Here, Bodine can be seen lending his support to Cook county prosecutor Kim Fox. Kathy Bodine continues to be active in groups like Black Lives Matter, which has gained a lot of support from former Black Panthers like Angela Davis.

Her appointment to Columbia University should come as no surprise, as Columbia University has offered numerous advanced academic degrees to people such as Richard Cloudard and Francis Fox Piven, both who taught at Columbia University and engineered the social collapse model now known as the Cloud Pibbins strategy. Columbia University offered an education doctorate to weather underground cofounder Bill Ayers. Judith Ours Clark, driver of the U Haul in the 1981 Brinks robbery, was released from prison on May 10, 2019.

Mutulu Shakur, the alleged ringleader of the Brinks heist group, avoided arrest for six years but was later indicted on racketeering charges and convicted in 1988. Mutulu was a member of the Black Liberation army and was also stepfather to a late rap artist, Tupac Shakur, who was mysteriously murdered in a driveby shooting in Los Angeles in September of 1996. Tupac at the time was trying to broker peace between the bloods and the Crips to rival Los Angeles City street gangs.

His aim was to unify them and politicize them, which led to numerous theories that american intelligence agencies were seeking to remove Tupac. Tupac’s mother, Afenney Shakur, was a Harlem chapter member of the Black Panthers. She was arrested in April of 1968 with her then husband, Lamumba Shakur, along with other members of the Black Panther party, for allegedly conspiring to carry out bombings in New York City. She was facing a 300 year prison sentence but managed to spend only two years in jail before finally being acquitted.

She left the party and married Mutulu Shakur, Tupac’s namesake. Mutulu’s brother Zayed Shakur, was also a member of the Black Liberation army who, along with Joanne Chessemard, otherwise known as Assada Shakur, was involved in an execution style murder of New Jersey state trooper Warner Forrester. Zayd was also killed in the shootout and later became the namesake for Bernardine Dorn and Bill Eyre’s son, playwright Zayed Dorn. Asada Shakur fled to Cuba, where former FBI informant and weather underground member Larry Grathwald asserts that the weather underground had an extensive network, even stating that the weather underground was a virtual project of the cuban intelligence service.

The DGI assisting in Shakur’s escape was former weather underground and Black Liberation army member Marilyn Buck. Buck was mysteriously pardoned during the Clinton administration, overseen by former head of the Department of Justice and long suspected Black Panther party member Eric Holder. Asada Shakur is currently living in Cuba and was the subject of Maxine Waters 1998 letter where she apologized for what she claimed was wrongfully requesting Shakur’s extradition.

Asada Shakur’s attorney, Sophia Elijah, serves as deputy director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School. Elijah herself has traveled to Cuba on a number of occasions as part of the Vencearemos Brigades, a pro cuban revolutionary group organized by members of the Students for a democratic society, a precursor to the weather Underground. Many of these trips being organized by Bernardine Dorne herself at the time, Che Guevarro was the new socialist icon.

And although many brigadiers arrived to support Guevara, many of them also supported the gay liberation movement, which cuban officials saw as a threat to Fidel Castro in Cuba. This resulted in a mutually agreed upon don’t ask, don’t tell policy. Serving as the director emeritus of the Criminal Justice Institute is Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. Who has represented Tupac Shakur as well as Anita Hill. Ogletree Jr. Was an early mentor for both Michelle and Barack Obama during their time at Harvard University.

Obama would later be instrumental in facilitating travel to the communist island by way of venues such as the Venzaremos Brigades. Both Ogletree and Obama are regulars at Martha’s Vineyard, where the Obama family recently bought a multi million dollar mansion. Ogletree was an early Barack Obama supporter and even admitted to hiding video footage of a young Barack Obama from the american people during the 2008 presidential campaign. Open up your hearts and your minds to the words of Professor Derek Bell.

Now, what makes this so interesting? When you think about it, of course, we hid this throughout the 2008 campaign. So I don’t care if they find it now, but right, because it just told you that his growth had been astronomical in the terms of his sense about race in a very complex world. Here, Barack Obama can be seen protesting at Harvard University in 1991 in support of Derek Bell in his efforts of hiring more minority faculty members, in particular, visiting professor Regina Austin.

In 1991, Bell, who was protesting and still on voluntary unpaid leave from Harvard Law School, was invited to Chicago by Vernon Jarrett. Jarrett was the first African American to be a syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune whose board had included weather Underground founder Bill Ayers’father Thomas G. Ayers. Jarrett was also the father in law to President Barack Obama’s close advisor Valerie Jarrett. Bell’s visit to Chicago was arranged by the Community Renewal Society, another Thomas G.

Ayres outfit. Austin, like Derek Bell, are best known for being founders of the critical race theory, a discipline which maintains that society is divided along racial lines, white oppressors and black victims. So many radical ideas over so many years, and so many of them leading to one person, Barack Hussein Obama. We need to know the full extent of Senator Obama’s relationship with ACORN, who is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying a fabric of democracy.

Same front outfit organization that your campaign gave $832,000 for for, quote, lighting and site selection. Barack Obama downplayed his relationship with weather underground cofounders Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn, but evidence suggested that was anything but the case. But what’s more is that evidence suggests that the paths of a young activist, Barack Obama, and the campaigns of the weather underground in the late seventy s and early 80s were likely to have intersected.

According to Obama’s book Dreams from my father, Obama attended occidental College between the years of 1979 and 1981, where he lauded his marxist professors and their left wing ideologies. By his sophomore year, Obama became involved with the Black Students association and numerous south african anti apartheid campaigns. His first protest speech in regards to the anti apartheid campaign was held at an occidental college event sponsored by the students for an economic democracy whose principal members involved the students for a democratic society, the precursor to the weatherman underground.

At the time, the Campaign for Economic Democracy’s chairman was Tom Hayden, political activist and author of the Port Huron statement, which served as the manifesto for the Students for a democratic society, and whose democracy group included the Weatherman Underground. It was the south african divestment movement at Occidental that led Obama to eventually transfer to Columbia University, where his public history becomes much less clear. Columbia University has long been known as one of the hotbeds of political activism, but unlike his time at Occidental, there’s very few outside accounts of him ever having attended.

According to a 2007 New York Times article, Obama’s personal account of his New York years differs from what others say, and he declined repeated requests to release his Columbia transcripts. What was obtained were five locations where Obama claimed to live during his four years there, three on Manhattan’s Upper west side, two in Brooklyn, one in Park Slope and the other in Brooklyn Heights. However, Manhattan phone book records show Obama is keeping the same place at three three nine East 94th street, at least from 1982 to 1985, and retained the same phone number.

Unless Obama was renting the East 94th street apartment and subleasing it out to others, this would directly contradict his claim that he had moved around several times while in New York City, as well as his claim that he was still broke, as he details in his book dreams for my father, Barack Obama also states in interviews with the New York Times as well as the Columbia College today that he was a member of the black Students organization while at Columbia.

Pictured is a photo of the Columbia black Students organization from the 1983 yearbook, the Columbian, which would have been Barack Obama’s senior year. Not only is Obama not in the photo, but according to the former vice president of the black Students organization, senior Mark Atia, there is no recollection of him ever having been a member, and there are no pictures in any of the yearbooks during the years in which he attended, nor is he listed as absent.

But Obama also states to the New York Times that he didn’t socialize and that he spent a lot of time in the library saying, quote, I was like a monk. Which would also seem to contradict the idea that Obama transferred from Occidental to Columbia for the specific reason of getting more involved in political activism. Obama had also claimed that he had taken a class at Columbia University from the palestinian activist Edward Said, who had served as a member of the Palestine National Council working alongside Yasser Arafat, and even wrote the foreword for weather underground cofounder Bill Ayers memoir, Fugitive Days.

Here, the two can be pictured together at a 1998 palestinian fundraiser in Chicago alongside Rashid Khalidi, who was an Edward Saeed chair of arab studies at Columbia University. Will Ayers was attending Columbia Teachers College in the 1980s and clearly knew, said, clearly knew, Obama. So is it possible that the young liberal activist Barack Obama could have crossed paths with whether underground co founder Bill Ayers much earlier than he claimed in the 2008 presidential debates.

So let’s get the record straight. Bill Ayers is a professor of education in Chicago. 40 years ago, when I was eight years old, he engaged in despicable acts with a radical domestic group. I have roundly condemned those acts. Ten years ago, he served, and I served on a school reform board that was funded by one of Ronald Reagan’s former ambassadors and close friends, Mr. Annenberg. Mr. .