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In reply to the discussion: Mainstream Media Refused to Report Trump's Bombshell Quid Pro Quo Offer to Big Oil Execs [View all]Kid Berwyn
(22,614 posts)149. Shocked if anyone has seen this covered on ABCNNBCBSFoxNutzwerken.
The late Sherman Skolnick, an all-time curmudgeon and Cook County Illinois court gadfly, coined the phrase:
"Oil-soaked, spy-riddled monopoly press" to describe our nation's free press. Going from what gets and doesn't get coverage, Mr. Skolnick really was correct.
As for public policy, Big Oil likes to take the uncertainty out of Washington, D.C., specifically, and elections, in general. Take the Safari Club, please:
How a Deep State Plot Sank Jimmy Carter
PETER DALE SCOTT
WhoWhatWhy.Org, 11/02/14
The Safari Club was an alliance between national intelligence agencies that wished to compensate for the CIAs retrenchment in the wake of President Carters election and Senator Churchs post-Watergate reforms. As former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki bin Faisal once told Georgetown University alumni,
In 1976, after the Watergate matters took place here, your intelligence community was literally tied up by Congress. It could not do anything. It could not send spies, it could not write reports, and it could not pay money. In order to compensate for that, a group of countries got together in the hope of fighting Communism and established what was called the Safari Club. The Safari Club included France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Iran. (1)
After Carter was elected, the Safari Club allied itself with Richard Helms and Theodore Shackley against the more restrained intelligence policies of Jimmy Carter, according to Joseph Trento. In Trentos account, the dismissal by William Colby in 1974 of CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton,
combined with Watergate, is what prompted the Safari Club to start working with [former DCI Richard] Helms [then U.S. Ambassador to Iran] and his most trusted operatives outside of Congressional and even Agency purview. James Angleton said before his death that Shackley and Helms began working with outsiders like Adham and Saudi Arabia. The traditional CIA answering to the president was an empty vessel having little more than technical capability.(2)
Trento adds that The Safari Club needed a network of banks to finance its intelligence operations. With the official blessing of George Bush as the head of the CIA, Adham transformed . . . the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), into a worldwide money-laundering machine.(3) Trento claims also that the Safari Club then was able to work with some of the controversial CIA operators who had been forced out of the CIA by Turner, and that this was coordinated by Theodore Shackley:
Shackley, who still had ambitions to become DCI, believed that without his many sources and operatives like [Edwin] Wilson, the Safari Cluboperating with [former DCI Richard] Helms in charge in Tehranwould be ineffective. . . . Unless Shackley took direct action to complete the privatization of intelligence operations soon, the Safari Club would not have a conduit to [CIA] resources. The solution: create a totally private intelligence network using CIA assets until President Carter could be replaced. (4)
Continues
https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/the-deep-state-plots-the-1980-defeat-of-jimmy-carter/
Big Oil, the Saudi Roils and global Petroligarchs HATE democracy. They want to get every last penny this extracted mineral can yield, even if it kills us. That's why they bought all the politicians.
Most importantly: You are most welcome, liberalla!
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Mainstream Media Refused to Report Trump's Bombshell Quid Pro Quo Offer to Big Oil Execs [View all]
Kid Berwyn
May 2024
OP
Sounds like there are some actual journalists... and Media Matters isn't one of them
FBaggins
May 2024
#4
Trump wants the Fossil Fuel Industry to keep "The Gravy Train" of the status quo running ...
Botany
May 2024
#5
Maybe it's because the mainstream media is more aligned with big oil than it is with progressive politics?
jalan48
May 2024
#12
"Mainstream Media Refused to Report Trump's Bombshell Quid Pro Quo Offer to Big Oil Execs"
AZSkiffyGeek
May 2024
#53
We're talking about you complaining that mainstream media isn't covering a story
AZSkiffyGeek
May 2024
#121
Man, you're upset that something you call "Corporate McPravda" isn't reporting this story?
AZSkiffyGeek
May 2024
#86
Serious question: So who do you know, besides on DU, who knows about this story?
Kid Berwyn
May 2024
#32
Now you're posting something that dramatically undermines your position as if it supports it?
mathematic
May 2024
#69
"But... but... reporting on Trump's crimes and corruption could... impact the election!!1!11"
Beartracks
May 2024
#35
The fact NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN and FOX have not broadcast the story to the nation.
Kid Berwyn
May 2024
#83
"Subsequently, Reuters, The New York Times, Politico, and The Atlantic, among other digital news sites, covered....."
brooklynite
May 2024
#64
Great OP thanks for sharing this and withstanding the backlash of media supporters.
live love laugh
May 2024
#96