The coincidences are simply amazing, beginning with the story of a story written in 1979 by a Chicago Tribune scribe named Vernon Jarrett...
...who just happened to become the father-in-law of Valerie Jarrett, President Obama's current right-hand man.
He was also "one of the best friends and a colleague of Frank Marshall Davis, the former Chicago journalist and lifelong communist who moved to Hawaii in the late 1940s and years later befriended Stanley and Madelyn Dunham and their daughter Stanley Ann, the mother of Barack Obama."
But wait - it gets even juicier...
...Jarrett tells the 1979 story about the “rumored billions of dollars the oil-rich Arab nations are supposed to unload on American black leaders and minority institutions", and sources a San Francisco lawyer named Donald Warden who told the writer he's the one who proposed the “proposed special aid program to OPEC Secretary-General Rene Ortiz” in September 1979, and that “the first indications of Arab help to American blacks may be announced in December."
The program was specifically slated to furnish “$20 million per year for 10 years to aid 10,000 minority students each year, including blacks, Arabs, Hispanics, Asians and native Americans."
Well...
...this SF lawyer Warden dude - Texas-born and a black separatist - "helped defend OPEC in an antitrust suit that year [1979] and had developed significant ties with the Saudi royal family since becoming a Muslim and taking the name Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour.
Then, in 1988, when Barrack Obama was applying to Harvard Law School, Donald Warden - aka Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour - contacted Manhattan (NY) politico Percy Sutton and asked him to write a letter of recommendation to Harvard on behalf of Obama...
...and told Sutton that he was "the principal adviser to one of the world’s richest men" - Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal.
That name ring a bell?
Yeah - he's the same bin Talal who offered New York $10 million to help the city rebuild after 9/11, but whose gift was refused by Mayor Rudy Guiliani...
...here - you read all about it:
Enjoy:
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/opini...cle_7924e4f0-0468-11e2-8da2-0019bb2963f4.html
...who just happened to become the father-in-law of Valerie Jarrett, President Obama's current right-hand man.
He was also "one of the best friends and a colleague of Frank Marshall Davis, the former Chicago journalist and lifelong communist who moved to Hawaii in the late 1940s and years later befriended Stanley and Madelyn Dunham and their daughter Stanley Ann, the mother of Barack Obama."
But wait - it gets even juicier...
...Jarrett tells the 1979 story about the “rumored billions of dollars the oil-rich Arab nations are supposed to unload on American black leaders and minority institutions", and sources a San Francisco lawyer named Donald Warden who told the writer he's the one who proposed the “proposed special aid program to OPEC Secretary-General Rene Ortiz” in September 1979, and that “the first indications of Arab help to American blacks may be announced in December."
The program was specifically slated to furnish “$20 million per year for 10 years to aid 10,000 minority students each year, including blacks, Arabs, Hispanics, Asians and native Americans."
Well...
...this SF lawyer Warden dude - Texas-born and a black separatist - "helped defend OPEC in an antitrust suit that year [1979] and had developed significant ties with the Saudi royal family since becoming a Muslim and taking the name Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour.
Then, in 1988, when Barrack Obama was applying to Harvard Law School, Donald Warden - aka Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour - contacted Manhattan (NY) politico Percy Sutton and asked him to write a letter of recommendation to Harvard on behalf of Obama...
...and told Sutton that he was "the principal adviser to one of the world’s richest men" - Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal.
That name ring a bell?
Yeah - he's the same bin Talal who offered New York $10 million to help the city rebuild after 9/11, but whose gift was refused by Mayor Rudy Guiliani...
...here - you read all about it:
Does 1979 newspaper column shed light on 2008 campaign story?
by FRANK MIELE/Daily Inter Lake
Searching old newspapers is one of my favorite pastimes, and I have tried to use them many times to shed light on current events — or to inform readers about how the past is prologue to our very interesting present-day quandaries.
Recently, I came across a syndicated column from November 1979 that seemed to point 30 years into the future toward an obscure campaign issue that arose briefly in the 2008 presidential campaign.
Though by no means definitive, it provides an interesting insight, at least, into how Chicago politics intersected with the black power movement and Middle Eastern money at a certain point in time. Whether it has any greater relevance to the 2012 presidential campaign, I will allow the reader to decide. In order to accomplish that, I will also take the unusual step of providing footnotes and the end of this column so that each of you can do the investigative work for yourself.
Enjoy:
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/opini...cle_7924e4f0-0468-11e2-8da2-0019bb2963f4.html