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A Mafia Don with a Pompadour
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in the World
Every four years Americans get to vote for a
President. The last President who might have made
a positive difference to the country and the
world was John F. Kennedy. Just before his
assassination, JFK was moving to disengage from
Vietnam. He was in a back-channel dialogue with
Soviet head Nikita Khrushchev to insure a repeat
of the 1962 Cuba Missile Crisis, a near-nuclear
war by miscalculation, would never happen (bad
for US military-industrial complex and the
Rockefellers among others). In short, he was
starting to deviate from The Program.
JFK as we all know was assassinated on November
22, 1963 at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. His
assassins included networks of Allen Dulles’ CIA,
including a then-young CIA agent named G.H.W.
Bush; elements of the Mafia around New Orleans
mafia boss Carlos Marcello; elements of the
Dallas Police; mafia-CIA-linked gangster night
club owner, Jack Ruby; Texan political boss, Vice
President Lyndon B. Johnson; networks of the
Pentagon. The only one who was innocent was the
one Ruby rubbed out to silence him: Lee Harvey Oswald.
That was fifty three years ago. I was in Dallas
the day Kennedy was shot. The TV scenes are
burned in my memory as national trauma like with most Americans back then.
Since then the United States of America, the land
of the free and home of the brave, has gradually
become a nation of confused, angry, lost souls
who no longer know why we should exist as a
nation. We’ve lost sight of what happened to our
moral purpose so beautifully described in the
documents of our founding fathers at the end of
the 18th Century. All we do with our rage,
frustration and growing feeling of impotence as a
people is to project that rage on the world in
the form of making wars, wars, wars
everywhere–Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya,
Syria, wars on our border to Mexico, wars in our
cities, and on and on. We don’t even bother to
know for what moral purpose the war anymore. We
long ago dispensed with the moral open protests
that were so prevalent during the 1960’s and 1970’s during the Vietnam War.
JFK was followed as President by LBJ, a war
criminal and far worse. LBJ was followed by
“Tricky Dick” Nixon, a Republican with a dirty
past who was Watergated by Henry Kissinger and
the Rockefeller clan. Then came Nixon’s Vice
President, Gerald Ford. One of the few things I
could agree on with LBJ was his comment that
Ford, whom Johnson knew from his Senate days,
“couldn’t walk and chew gum at the same time.”
That was quite OK for those who put him in power.
Brains and independent thinking like JFK were not
desired in “their” Presidents. Nelson Rockefeller
was Ford’s Vice President was was there to do the
walking and gum-chewing for Ford.
When the nation got sick of Republican Ford they
voted in a Democrat, Georgia born-again peanut
farmer governor named Jimmy Carter. What
Americans didn’t know was that every major
cabinet post of Carter, including Security
Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, was given to Carter
by a very secretive private club set up by David
Rockefeller and Brzezinski in 1973 to control
globalization policies in North America, Europe
and Japan. It was accordingly named the Trilateral Commission.
Carter Administration members of the select
Rockefeller Trilateral Commission included, in
addition to Carter and Brzezinski, Walter F.
Mondale (Vice President); Cyrus Vance (Secretary
of State, nephew of John W. Davis, of the J. P.
Morgan bank who was first President of the CFR);
W. Michael Blumenthal (Secretary of Treasury);
Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense); Andrew Young
(Ambassador to the United Nations); Paul A.
Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
David Rockefeller’s Carter Presidency was
followed by Republican Ronald Reagan, a B-grade
Hollywood actor, with George H.W. Bush as Vice
President in every sense of the word “vice,”
running Reagan’s misnamed War on Drugs as well as
the criminal enterprise later known as
Iran-Contra. Bush, ex-CIA chief, ran most of
Reagan’s Presidency until he stepped in 1988 for
his long-sought goal to run and ruin the country.
Then came “Bubba,” Bill Clinton, aptly described
by Mafia boss, John Gotti, as “that Arkansas
white trailer-park trash,” a President who
apparently believed that rape was a prerogative
of political office. Clinton, who was intimate
family friends with the Bushes before their 1992
election, was a former Arkansas Governor who as
State Attorney General, willingly turned a blind
eye to CIA cocaine aircraft via Mena Arkansas
airport in exchange for desk-loads of $100 bill
payoffs according
to<http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/20/a-mafia-don-with-a-pompadour/http://www.idfiles.com/menacoverup.htm>witnesses.
Bill Clinton’s Presidency witnessed the most
cabinet officials to come under criminal
investigation of any US President. Clinton “baby
sat” the Oval Office until the Bush clan could
manipulate the 2000 election via an
unconstitutional decision by the US Supreme Court
enabling George W. Bush to become President with
Vice President Dick Cheney running most of the show.
When the 2007-2008 financial crisis exploded
Americans’ real estate bubble dreams, and the
Afghan and Iraq wars proved utter fiasco, most
Americans became desperate for “change.” What
they got was a Hollywood fiction, in form of a
protégé of the CIA, the first black President of
the United States, Barack Obama. Behind the
curtains, the very same circles of Wall Street
banks, military-industry and agribusiness firms
like Monsanto ran Obama, another war-making disaster for America.
Now again Americans are being asked to vote for a
new President. As it stands in mid-March 2016, it
will be a race between Clinton’s putative wife,
Hillary Clinton, on the Democrat side running
against Donald Trump, a circus clown worthy as
some have suggested, of a remake of the hilarious
1967 Mel Brooks comedy, The Producers, with
Trump, with his signal Pompadour hairdo, playing
the role of scheming, manipulative failed
Broadway producer, Zero Mostel as Max Bialystock.
Mafia Don’s Murky Past
Presidential candidate Trump prefers the
grandiose titular name, The Donald. In reality,
to be honest to his background, it should be The
Mafia Don as in Don Coreleone in the movie The
Godfather. Trump’s past is so intertwined with
organized crime it’s incredible that the
hand-wringing GOP anti-Trump establishment or
Hillary Clinton have not smeared it across every newspaper in America.
Trump was born just after the end of World War II
in Jamaica Queens, New York some seventy years
ago. He was son of Fred Trump, a major New York
real estate and construction developer. It was
well known to every taxi driver or bar owner that
for anyone to be a success in New York
construction he had to be on friendly terms with
the mob, then and today. Just like those who run
the garbage disposal businesses, or control the
harbors. Fred Trump’s son Don left business
school to join daddy Fred’s construction and real
estate business in New York City.
Trump’s early mentor in the ways of doing slick,
shady construction business in New York was one
of the sleaziest characters in New York, a lawyer named Roy Cohn.
Cohn, once lawyer for the sleazy US Senator Joe
McCarthy, reportedly shaped McCarthy’s insane
paranoid campaign against unnamed communists in
the State Department in the early 1950s. Cohn’s
biographer, Nicholas von Hoffman, noted that Cohn
“lived in a matrix of crime and unethical
conduct…derived a significant part of his income
from illegal or unethical schemes and
conspiracies.” His ties to the mob were so close
that he allowed top Mafia bosses like Frank
Costello to hold their meetings in his law office
so they could claim lawyer-client immunity
<http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/20/a-mafia-don-with-a-pompadour/http://www.thenation.com/article/king-cohn/>privilege.
Cohn, who was pronounced dead of AIDS in 1986 and
was described by Hoffman as, “the best-known
non-show-business homosexual in the country,” was
the attorney for a notorious cocaine-snorting
Manhattan nightclub in the late 1970’s called
<http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/20/a-mafia-don-with-a-pompadour/http://www.thenation.com/article/king-cohn/>Studio
54.
Hoffman wrote of the orgies at Studio 54 held by
Cohn, “For special celebrities, the wildest
parties were held in the basement…with high
society’s homosexuals, transsexuals and
transvestites…” Cohn held some of his biggest
birthday bangs, attended on at least one occasion
by, “the important officials of the Democratic,
Republican, and Conservative parties, most of the
city’s major elected officials, a number of
Congressmen, the Chief Judge of the United States
District Court and Roy’s
usuals…<http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/20/a-mafia-don-with-a-pompadour/http://www.thenation.com/article/king-cohn/>Donald
Trump.”
Donald Trump, organized crime lawyer, Roy Cohn,
and cocaine orgies in the basement of Studio 54
attended by judges and politicians of every
party? In an interview Trump even described one
such Studio 54 orgy he attended: “I would watch
supermodels getting screwed, well-known
supermodels getting screwed, on a bench in the
middle of the room. There were seven of them and
each one was getting screwed by a different guy.
This was in the middle of the
<http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/20/a-mafia-don-with-a-pompadour/http://www.salon.com/2015/09/26/mentored_in_the_art_of_manipulation_donald_trump_learned_from_the_master_roy_cohn/>room.”
He omitted to say whether he was among that seven.
In the 1970’s when Trump was in his 20’s he hired
Roy Cohn as his attorney and “fixer” as he took
over his father’s New York real estate and
construction business. Trump and Cohn were
regular companions at Studio 54 where Cohn was
the lawyer. Trump reportedly even kept a photo of
Cohn in his
<http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/20/a-mafia-don-with-a-pompadour/http://www.salon.com/2015/09/26/mentored_in_the_art_of_manipulation_donald_trump_learned_from_the_master_roy_cohn/>office.
In 1979, Cohn introduced Trump to a political
dirty-tricks specialist named Roger Stone. Trump
and Stone remain close to the present day. Stone,
who has worked with Trump on campaigns since
1987, including the present Presidential bid, was
charged and fined along with Trump for illegally
breaking campaign rules as they fought the
development of Indian casinos, competition for
Trump’s Atlantic City casinos. Stone’s advice to
Trump and other clients was, “Admit nothing, deny
everything, launch counterattack….When somebody
screws you, screw ‘em backbut a lot harder.”
Trump learned Stone’s method well. In 2015 Trump
again hired Stone for managing his GOP
Presidential bid, but reportedly fired him in
August, 2015 for taking too much credit for
Trump’s growing
<http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/20/a-mafia-don-with-a-pompadour/http://www.salon.com/2015/09/26/mentored_in_the_art_of_manipulation_donald_trump_learned_from_the_master_roy_cohn/>success.
The Don likes to take all credit. He is, after all, grandiose.
The Don’s mob pals
Mentored since his 20’s by New York mob attorney,
Roy Cohn, The Don ever since has been involved
with mob or mafia figures. Characteristically, as
befits a protegé of Roy Cohn, Trump always denies
knowing they were mob figures.
Don Trump entered the world of casino gambling in
1987. Casinos have invariably been associated
with laundering money, criminal money of the mob,
of the CIA for covert operations like
Iran-Contrataking dirty money and making it
“clean,” untraceable. Las Vegas was created by
Meyer Lansky, the late head of what was called
during Prohibition “Murder Inc.” Lansky ran the
casinos of pre-Castro Cuba until the Cuban
Revolution in 1959 kicked him and his casinos
out. In 1987, a year after his mentor and close
friend Roy Cohn died of AIDS, Trump bought 93%
control of a dubious casino company in the
Bahamas called Resorts International.
Resorts International evolved from a CIA
money-laundering front company set up by CIA
chief Allen Dulles in the 1950’s. It was called
the harmless-sounding name Mary Carter Paint
Company. It later merged with help of CIA funds,
with Jim Crosby’s Crosby-Miller Corporation. The
name was changed to Resorts International in 1968
and it ran casinos in the Caribbean. In 1963,
Alvin I. Malnik, a top henchman of crime boss
Meyer Lansky, was deeply involved with Mary
Carter/Resorts. Resorts International financed a
New Jersey referendum that made casino gambling
legal in one city in the state-Atlantic City.
Jim Crosby, an alleged CIA front man who later
founded a private security company called
Intertel whose clients numbered the late Shah of
Iran and late Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio
Somoza, then
<http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/20/a-mafia-don-with-a-pompadour/http://www.madcowprod.com/2008/06/26/trump-mansion-sold-to-mobsters-sans-frontieres/>died.
His family sold the 93% control of Resorts
International to…The Don, Donald Trump, in
<http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/20/a-mafia-don-with-a-pompadour/http://americanfreepress.net/who-towers-behind-trump/>March
1987. Casinos in Atlantic City were the result
of a decision years earlier at a mob meeting in
Acapulco of the Meyer Lansky Syndicate to expand
operations outside Las Vegas, Nevada. Resorts
International, then one of the most successful
casino operations, was used to do it. Trump entered that charmed world in 1987.
In 1991 Trump and his Atlantic City Trump Plaza
casino came into trouble with the New Jersey
Casino Control Commission about his dealings with
Robert LiButti, a high-rolling gambler and horse
breeder who was later banned from Atlantic City
for his ties to mob boss, John Gotti. When asked
about the LiButti tie, Trump retorted, as he
always does, that he “couldn’t recall” the name.
He told the Philadelphia Inquirer when questioned
about his relation to LiButti, “I have heard he
is a high roller, but if he was standing here in
front of me, I wouldn’t know what he looked
like.” The only problem is that LiButti’s
daughter, Edith Creamer, LiButti’s daughter, told
Yahoo News that Trump’s account was false. “He’s
a liar,” said Creamer. “Of course he knew him. I
flew in the [Trump] helicopter with [Trump’s then
wife] Ivana and the kids. My dad flew it up and
down [to Atlantic City]. My 35th birthday party
was at the Plaza and Donald was there. After the
party, we went on his boat, his big yacht. I like
Trump, but it pisses me off that he denies
knowing my
<http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/20/a-mafia-don-with-a-pompadour/https://www.yahoo.com/politics/trump-challenged-over-ties-to-mob-linked-gambler-100050602.html>father.
In 2010, The Don appointed Felix H. Sater aka
Satter, an executive at Bayrock Group LLC, to be
Trump’s “senior business adviser,” with an office
next to Trump’s and Trump business cards. Sater’s
Bayrock had partnered with Trump on the Trump
Soho high-rise hotel in Manhattan and other
branded luxury real estate deals. Sater had
pleaded guilty in 1998 to racketeering for his
role in a $40 million stock fraud scheme
involving the Genovese and Bonanno crime
families. When an AP reporter questioned Trump
about Sater in December, 2015, The Don replied
his usual, “Felix Sater, boy, I have to even
think about it. I’m not that familiar with him.”
A spokesman for the Trump Organization
acknowledged publicly that Sater worked for Trump
after the disclosures of Sater’s criminal
background. Sater is a Russian émigré who
emigrated to Brooklyn in
<http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/20/a-mafia-don-with-a-pompadour/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/29c255c0b69a48258ecae69a61612537/trump-picked-stock-fraud-felon-senior-adviser>1974.
American success story?
Trump has become a political phenomenon and
popular among frustrated Americans fed up with
lying Washington politicians. He wins traditional
Democratic labor union support for attacking
Obama’s Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal for
robbing more American jobs. He wins support from
confused angry unemployed or underemployed voters
when he pledges to build a wall on the Mexican
border to keep illegal refugees out, calling them
drug dealers and criminals. Similarly, he garners
support from the so-called “silent majority” when
he proposes, quite against the US Constitution,
to ban any and all Muslims from entering the United States.
The Don has someone behind the scenes, perhaps
old crony Roger Stone, giving him very savvy
advice on the “hot button” issues on voters’
minds and panders to that, as any skilled
demagogue would. He does it in sound bytes. He
spells out no coherent program to rebuild America
or to deal with a nation in existential crisis
other than to proclaim he could “sit down with
Putin” and work a deal. About what, he never says.
Trump’s campaign website proclaims the now
familiar mantra, “Trump is the very definition of
the American success story, continually setting
the standards of excellence in business, real estate and entertainment.”
What he chooses not to play up is that he has
repeatedly declared bankruptcy on his casinos
then, suspiciously, coming out of bankruptcy
smelling like the proverbial rose. Trump’s hotel
and casino businesses have declared bankruptcy
five times between 1991 and 2014. Because the
businesses used Chapter 11 bankruptcy, they were
allowed to operate while the owners attempted to
settle accounts with investors through asset sales and debt cancellation.
According to a report by Forbes in 2011, the
first four bankruptcies were the result of
over-leveraged hotel and casino businesses in
Atlantic City: Trump’s Taj Mahal, Trump Plaza
Hotel, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, and Trump
Entertainment Resorts. Boasting, Trump said “I’ve
used the laws of this country to pare debt. …
We’ll have the company. We’ll throw it into a
chapter. We’ll negotiate with the banks. We’ll
make a fantastic deal. You know, it’s like on The
Apprentice. It’s not personal. It’s just business.”
There are two possible conclusions to draw from
the above documents of a fifty some year history
of businessman Don Trump and a myriad gaggle of
business associates who are tied to the mob.
Either it is true, as he says again and again,
that he was unaware of their mob ties and worked
with them for superior their business skills. In
that case, with fifty years of such abysmal lack
of elementary due diligence in checking
backgrounds of those he works with in the most
sensitive positions, Don Trump is demonstrably
not qualified, on national security grounds, to
even be White House gardener. On the other hand,
if the ties are with knowledge and clear intent,
from Roy Cohn to those of the last several years,
Don Trump then is a narcissistic pathetic real
estate and casino gangster who ought never to
step near the most powerful office on Earth.
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant
and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from
Princeton University and is a best-selling author
on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the
online magazine
<http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/20/a-mafia-don-with-a-pompadour/http://journal-neo.org/>“New
Eastern Outlook”.
<http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/20/a-mafia-don-with-a-pompadour/http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/20/a-mafia-don-with-a-pompadour/>http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/20/a-mafia-don-with-a-pompadour/
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Please consider seriously the reason why these elite institutions are not discussed in the mainstream press despite the immense financial and political power they wield?
There are sick and evil occultists running the Western World. They are power mad lunatics like something from a kids cartoon with their fingers on the nuclear button! Armageddon is closer than you thought. Only God can save our souls from their clutches, at least that's my considered opinion - Tony
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