De
grootste donor van politici in de VS en van de Trump campagne is
niet Rusland, noch heeft Rusland de verkiezingen of het beleid van
Trump kunnen beïnvloeden, nee die grootste donor en manipulator van de VS presidentsverkiezingen en die achter het buitenlandbeleid van de Trump administratie, is zionist en casino
biljonair Sheldon Adelson.
Deze
Adelson is ronduit een ultrarechtse rotploert, zeg maar gerust
fascist, die het liefst Iran zou willen aanvallen met kernraketten,
zelfs zonder enige aanleiding daartoe, zoals hij al eens heeft opgemerkt…….
Met donaties van figuren als Adelson en het ongelofelijk smerig campagne voeren van hare
kwaadaardigheid Hillary Clinton, kon Trump het presidentschap van de VS bemachtigen. Eén en ander heeft Adelson geen windeieren gelegd, hij
heeft zoals gezegd een dikke vinger in de VS buitenlandpolitiek……
Zo heeft
Adelson regelmatig één op één contact met Trump en heeft hij
het voor elkaar gekregen dat de VS haar ambassade naar Jeruzalem
heeft verplaatst (althans een deel van die ambassade)…… Voorts
heeft hij Trump zover gekregen geen humanitaire hulp meer te geven
aan de Palestijnen, die Adelson nog liever vandaag dan morgen zou
willen vernietigen…… Sterker nog: Adelson ontkent domweg dat er
sprake is van Palestijnen, ofwel het zijn ‘gewoon vieze arabieren waar je maar één
ding mee kan doen…..’ (dat laatste heeft hij niet letterlijk gezegd echter dit is wel tussen de regels door te lezen…) De intrekking van het budget voor de VN organisatie t.b.v. Palestijnse vluchtelingen, de UNRWA door Trump, is dan ook te danken aan de inzet van Adelson…..*
Uiteraard
heeft Adelson bij Trump gelobbyd voor vrienden van hem, zoals hare
kwaadaardigheid Nikki Haley, opperploert Mike Pompeo en
oorlogsmisdadiger John Bolton…….
Het zal
je niet verbazen dat Adelson de pest heeft aan democratie, zoals hij
meer dan eens heeft gezegd…..
Vergeet verder niet dat de corrupte Israëlische Palestijnenslachter Netanyahu, in aanloop naar de presidentsverkiezingen, openlijk in het congres anti-Iraanse propaganda mocht oplepelen, waarna hij het advies gaf republikeins te stemmen, daar Obama hem zou hebben laten zitten en dat in een land waar een groot deel van het volk blindelings achter de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël staat……. Over manipulatie van de verkiezingen gesproken……..
Lees het
volgende artikel van Whitney Webb, eerder gepubliceerd op MintPress
News en door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media. Verbaas je over de
meer dan belachelijke en corrupte politiek in de VS, die in feite van
achter de schermen wordt geleid door figuren als Adelson, de geheime
diensten, het militair-industrieel complex en de bankenmaffia:
The
Biggest Donor in All of US Politics Brings an Israel First Agenda to
Washington
September
28, 2018 at 8:52 pm
Written
by Whitney
Webb
(MPN) — According
to publicly available campaign finance data, Sheldon Adelson – the
conservative, Zionist, casino billionaire –is now the
biggest spender on federal elections in
all of American politics. Adelson, who was the top donor to Donald
Trump’s presidential campaign and the Republican Party in 2016, has
cemented his role as the top political donor in the country after
giving $55 million in recent months to Republicans in an effort to
help the party keep its majority in both houses of Congress.
Adelson’s
willingness to help the GOP stay in power is likely born out of his
desire to protect the massive investment he placed in the party last
election cycle. In 2016, the Republican mega-donor gave
heavily to
the Trump campaign and Republicans, donating $35 million to the
former and $55 million to the top two Republican Super PACs — the
Congressional Leadership Fund and the Senate Leadership Fund —
during that election cycle.
Adelson’s
decision to again donate tens of millions of dollars to Republican
efforts to stay in power is a direct consequence of how successfully
Adelson has been able to influence U.S. policy since Trump and the
GOP rode to victory in the last election cycle.
A New
York Times article
on Adelson, titled “Sheldon
Adelson Sees a Lot to Like in Trump’s Washington,”
notes that Adelson “enjoys a direct line to the president.”
Furthermore, Adelson and Trump regularly meet once a month “in
private in-person meetings and phone conversations” that Adelson
has used to push major changes to U.S. policy that Trump has made
reality — such as moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem and cutting aid to Palestinian refugees, among others.
Adelson’s
new title as the top spender in all U.S. elections shows that he,
along with his wife, is willing to spend big to keep that direct line
open in the months and years ahead. Citing sources close to the
Adelsons, the Times writes that
the Adelsons’ massive expenditures in federal elections this cycle
are being made because he and his wife believe that “Republican
control of the House and the Senate is so vital to maintaining these
[right-wing and pro-Zionist] policies” and their influence in
Washington and at the White House.
“Pleased
as Punch”
The
fact that Adelson is “pleased-as-punch”
with Trump’s performance as president should hardly come as a
surprise, given that the president has fulfilled his campaign
promises that were of prime importance to Adelson, while many of his
other campaign promises – namely those that were populist or
anti-war in nature – have rung hollow.
These
Adelson-promoted policies include the moving of the U.S. embassy in
Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which Adelson had aggressively
promoted and even helped
to finance,
as well as removing the
U.S. from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better
known as the Iran nuclear deal. Another recent policy move bearing
Adelson’s fingerprints is the U.S. decision to withdraw its funding
for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees
(UNRWA), as Adelson once
infamously stated that
“there’s no such thing as a Palestinian.”
As
previously mentioned, The
New York Times recently
noted that
the cutting of aid to Palestinians, the U.S.’ removal from JCPOA,
and the Jerusalem embassy move all resulted from private
in-person meetings and phone conversations between Adelson and Trump.
Adelson
has also been successful in stocking the Trump administration with
politicians he has long supported as well as his confidantes.
Adelson-supported appointees include Nikki Haley, long-time
recipient of
Adelson campaign funds who now serves as U.S.
ambassador to the UN;
Mike Pompeo, former CIA director who has advocated for bombing
Iran and
now serves as secretary
of state;
and John Bolton, a close
confidante of Adelson,
who is now national security adviser.
Adelson
was also
instrumental in
removing Pompeo and Bolton’s predecessors, Rex Tillerson and H.R.
McMaster, from their respective posts, owing to their support for
JCPOA and their alleged “anti-Israel”
positions.
Speculation has recently grown that Secretary of Defense James
Mattis may
share their fate for
similarly opposing Adelson’s positions.
Yet,
upon closer examination, these Adelson-driven personnel and policy
moves enacted by Trump seem to merely be the foundation for the
so-called “Adelson
agenda,”
a set of convergent goals that could potentially result in thousands
of deaths in the Middle East and embroil the U.S. in yet another
regime-change war.
To
Show That “We Mean Business”
While
Adelson’s top-donor status has allowed him unprecedented access to
the Trump administration and has resulted in dramatic changes to U.S.
policy, there is every indication that the worst is yet to come. This
is because, while the Adelson’s past efforts to influence Trump
administration policy have had undeniably negative effects, they have
yet to embroil the U.S. in another regime-change war or lead to the
destruction of entire nations.
Yet,
the current path the administration is treading at Adelson’s behest
— particularly regarding Iran, Syria and Palestine — has the
potential to unleash havoc in the Middle East and beyond, in a way
not yet seen during Trump’s young presidency.
Indeed,
one need only look at Adelson’s past statements on Iran to
understand just how dangerous this man’s influence is to any
prospect of peace in the Middle East.
As
an example, during the negotiations that eventually led to the Iran
nuclear deal, Adelson
publicly advocated for
a U.S. nuclear attack on Iran without
provocation, so
the U.S. could “impose its demands [on Iran] from a position of
strength.”
More
specifically, Adelson’s “negotiation” plan involved the U.S.
dropping a nuclear bomb in the middle of the Iranian desert and then
threatening to drop “the next one […] in the middle of Tehran”
to show that “we mean business.” Tehran, Iran’s capital, is
home to nearly 9 million people with 15 million more in its suburbs.
Were Tehran to be attacked with nuclear weapons, an
estimated 7 million would
die within moments.
Furthermore,
any sort of diplomatic engagement with Iran, according
to Adelson,
is “the worst negotiating tactic I could ever imagine.”
In
other words, Adelson’s vision for engaging Iran considers the
dropping of nuclear weapons on a country, including its heavily
populated capital city — for no reason other than to show that the
U.S. “means business” — a reasonable tactic.
With
the Trump administration now applying “maximum pressure” to Iran,
Adelson’s vision for engaging the Islamic Republic is of critical
importance. For instance, if this “maximum pressure” campaign —
currently a combination of draconian sanctions, bullying Iran’s
trading partners, and covert CIA-driven regime-change operations —
ultimately fails, Adelson is likely to push Trump towards more
drastic “negotiation” tactics in order to force Iran into a “new
treaty” designed by and for pro-Israel interests that seek to
eliminate Iran as a regional player. Given that many entities–
including Europe, China and Turkey — are rejecting U.S. calls to
isolate Iran, this is a likely scenario that must be considered.
As
his past statements make clear, Adelson — in such a case — is
likely to pressure Trump to use military tactics, such as preemptive
bombings, to force Iran to yield. Even though such a move would
likely embroil Iran, the U.S. and potentially other important nations
in a major war, Trump has shown that he has so far been willing to
take Adelson’s “advice” regardless of consequences, including
international backlash or even war.
Meet
Your New Overlord: Adelson Driving Both US and Israeli Policy Behind
the Scenes
Beyond
the fact that Adelson’s unprecedented influence on U.S. politics is
set to create much more instability than past policies he has
promoted, lies another unsettling truth: for less than $150 million —
pocket change for such a plutocrat — Adelson has effectively bought
the presidency and Congress. His role as top political donor has
given him a “direct line” to the president and unprecedented
access to the Republican party, who are beholden to his desires and
whims as their paymaster.
Indeed,
crossing Adelson — as shown by the high-profile firings of McMaster
and Tillerson — has its steep price, and obeying Adelson now seems
to be the most essential step that Trump and other Republicans must
follow to stay in power.
Furthermore,
Adelson is also the
primary driver behind
Israeli policy, given his role as a key donor to and long-time backer
of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his role as owner
and funder of
Israel’s most widely circulated Hebrew-language newspaper, Israel
Hayom.
Thus, when considering critiques of U.S. politics as unduly
influenced by Israel, Adelson’s role is again clear as day. If
Israel is driving the U.S.’s foreign policy, it is not only because
Adelson wills it but because Adelson is personally
driving the policies of both the
U.S. and Israel.
In
2014, a Princeton University study demonstrated
that —
beyond any doubt — the U.S. is an oligarchy, beholden to the
interests of the rich and the powerful, not the interests of the
majority of its citizens. Though the presence and power of the
oligarchy is nothing new, what is notable is that a massive chunk of
it is now under the control of a single individual — a man who has
repeatedly shown that he has no empathy or respect for human life and
is entirely
on board with
totalitarianism. Indeed, Adelson has made it clear time
and again that
he is no fan of democracy.
Americans,
meet your new, unelected overlord — Sheldon Adelson — because, as
long as the U.S. political system is “hostage
to his fortune,”
he’s not going anywhere.
By Whitney
Webb / Creative
Commons / MintPress
News / Report
a typo
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* Zie wat betreft UNRWA ook:
‘VS onder Trump >> een nog grotere stimulator van Israëlische terreur‘
Voor de verkiezingen in de VS:
‘Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)