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Democrats House Oversight Committee of US Congress reveals that Epstein files contains references to Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Prince Andrew (archive.is)

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https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/oversight-democrats-release-third-batch-documents-jeffrey-epstein-estate

https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-oversight.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/epstein-production-3rd-tranch_456.pdf

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[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

elaborate?

[–] aqwxcvbnji@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

His mother worked on the US embassy in Indonesia, his steph father worked for the military dictatorship in Indonesia during their genocide on the Indonesian communist party (2 million people were killed, the party had 1 million members).

Here's a fragment from Obama's autobiography about a conversation with his Indonesian steph-father:

My source is: The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins. A great book. (I'd also reccomend the film The Act of Killing, but save it for after you've read this book.)

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Dunham

Dunham conducted research on women's work on the island of Java and blacksmithing in Indonesia. To address the problem of poverty in rural villages, she designed microcredit programs while working as a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development. In Jakarta, she worked for the Ford Foundation, and consulted for the Asian Development Bank in Pakistan. Towards the latter part of her life, she worked with Bank Rakyat Indonesia, where she helped apply her research to the largest microfinance program in the world.......Peter Geithner, father of Tim Geithner (who later became U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in her son's administration), was head of the foundation's Asia grant-making at that time

[–] miz@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Obama and His Family Tied to CIA for Years

President Obama— as well as his mother, father, step-father and grandmother— all were connected to the Central Intelligence Agency— possibly explaining why the President praises the “Agency” and declines to prosecute its officials for their crimes.

According to a published report in the September “Rock Creek Free Press” of Washington, D.C., investigative reporter Wayne Madsen says Obama's mother Ann Dunham worked “on behalf of a number of CIA front operations, including the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, the U.S. Agency for International Development(USAID), and the Ford Foundation.” The East-West Center had long been affiliated with CIA activities in the Asia-Pacific region, Madsen says.

What's more, Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr., arrived in Hawaii from Kenya as part of a CIA program to identify and train Africans who would be useful to the Agency in its Cold War operations against the Soviets, Madsen says. Obama Sr. divorced Ms. Dunham in 1964.

Ms. Dunham married Lolo Soetoro the following year, a man Madsen says assisted in the violent CIA coup against Indonesian President Sukarno that claimed a million lives. Obama's mother taught English for USAID, “which was a major cover for CIA activities in Indonesia and throughout Southeast Asia,” Madsen reports. That USAID was a cover for CIA covert operations in Laos was admitted by its administrator Dr. John Hannah on Metromedia News. Madsen says the organization was also a cover for the CIA in Indonesia.

Ms. Dunham worked in Indonesia at a time when Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities(MUCIA)— a group that included the University of Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Minnesota and Indiana— was accused of being a front for CIA activities in Indonesia and elsewhere. Ms. Dunham traveled to Ghana, Nepal, Bangladesh, India and Thailand “working on micro-financing projects” for the CIA, Madsen reports.

And Ms. Dunham's mother, Madelyn Dunham— who raised Obama while his mother was on assignment in Indonesia— acted as vice president of the Bank of Hawaii in Honolulu, which Madsen says was used by various CIA front entities. She handled escrow accounts used to make CIA payments “to U.S.-supported Asian dictators” including Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, South Vietnamese President Nguyen van Thieu, and President Suharto in Indonesia, Madsen says.

“In effect, the bank was engaged in money laundering for the CIA to prop up covertly its favored leaders in the Asia-Pacific region,” Madsen writes. “It is clear that Dunham Soetoro and her Indonesian husband, President Obama's step-father, were closely involved in the CIA's operations to steer Indonesia away from the Sino-Soviet orbit after the overthrow of Sukarno.”

“President Obama's own work in 1983 for Business International Corporation, a CIA front that conducted seminars with the world's most powerful leaders and used journalists as agents abroad, dovetails with CIA espionage activities conducted by his mother,” Madsen says. “There are volumes of written material on the CIA backgrounds of George H.W. Bush and CIA-related activities by his father and children, including former President George W. Bush. Barack Obama, on the other hand, cleverly masked his own CIA connections as well as those of his mother, father, step-father, and grandmother,” Madsen points out.

from https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1009/S00027/obama-and-his-family-tied-to-cia-for-years.htm (2010)