RE: Barrack Obama's True Legacy --- (A Luo pivot post!)

[jakaswanga]

BARRACK OBAMA'S TRUE LEGACY (A Luo pivot post!)

2. THE OBAMA PUTIN PARALLEL
3. THE OBAMA PUTIN DIVERGENCE
4. NO DEAL TO CLOSE, TRUMP'S DWINDLED OPTIONS

1. ANATOMY OF A DIFFERENCE

Boris Yeltsin, a mentally shrunken alcoholic with a permanent lecherous grin, was putting up acts. He was pretending at running Russia. In truth, he was a dead-weight already wearing a death mask, much in the same way several aging African leaders now are, including Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. These are degenerated half-corpses holding down a people, while letting all the world's looters and their local hirelings rape and fcuk them up to their fill. Mavi ya kuku kabisa!


In Russia, a beltway of oligarchs, a coterie of financial and industrial parasites, had locked the country down in their grasp. They were controlling all her vitals, ever feeding the president drink to keep him forever drunk so they could run his politics unperturbed. They succeeded, for a time, to have the whole of Russia's resources mortgaged to their narrow interests. (Very much like an African, or Luo neo-colonial regime with powerful friends abroad and a farcical mask of liberal democracy at home. The Luo bit can be the Yala swamp episode for instance!)


The majority of the once hard-working Russian people, dispossessed of their all by a hurricane of plunderous privatization under the guise of SHOCK THERAPY, were flung back to the squalid social relationships of pre-revolutionary Russia, only in this case not agrarian but industrial serfdom or destitute vagrancy, yet, compounding matters, the industrial base was in steep decline, in deep crisis. Such a far-back swing of the social pendulum, necessitated an equally ancient momentum of correction. –---That is a process to restore the primacy of politics over finance, restore state social priorities over Multinationals, restore the supremacy of government (bureaucracy ) over private Concerns, and address the concerns of a seething population. In Russia, this population was one traumatized by the loss of a recent past –---of USSR Greatness. It still had a powerful sense, nostalgic perhaps, of national autonomy and sovereignty. The 'shock-therapised' Russia they inhabited did not look, feel nor sound like an Independent state at the helm of its own destiny. Neither did the 'Oblomovian' Jeltsin look like what Pereistroika and Glasnost had ordered for the children of a dead Soviet empire, --to rebuild a prosperous and glorious future (replacing their dreary Soviet past!)


The sentiment of independence for nations with a burning historical memory is no joke. That is why the British electorate shocked their elite by voting BREXIT. Brussels feels like a controlling, colonial yoke, not to the elite though, for whom the Brusselians bureaucracy is a tool for imperial neo-liberal flag-raising. Yet contemporary France too, in crisis of decline beyond her current elite to arrest, is having two powerful candidates mobilising large swathes of the electorate in an anti EU, more French autonomy pitch. –---Everybody recognises there is Germany at the centre, and then the rest in the EU, satellites. It is hurting prides, ancient prides, leading to nationalist ressurgence. In the same way, Russia was seething under the clownish regime of the Great Drunk. Searching for an escape route.


It is the economy stupid yes, but get the politics wrong, you are a gone class. Politics introduces a fiery concept into the social debate; in the case of a post-renaissance world, these are like the revolutionary concepts of liberty, justice and social justice. People start mouthing slogans like Egalite etc etc; people enshrine them in the founding documents of states, promulgate them, mythologise and embed them in the national psyche, then an engorged elite wakes up one chilly day to happily claim, 'get real, one can't possibly take all that constitutional sh!t seriously! can they!?'


Howbeit –--- surprise surprise, there you go! civilised man gets confronted with the Liberation wars, rebellious colonies and the other forms of outlawed dissent at home. Hmmm. hell hath no fury like a rennaisance dream quashed. That is the problem in the Middle East. Medieval regimes long after the rennaisance, gets a lot of people hot under the ... not collar but djelaba and veil! -KABOOM!


I must admit I am rewinding how we, Nyanza Luo Kenyans, promulgated the new constitution with such vigelegele na makofi za furaha, only for the fishy elite to turn around the next day and say, 'HOLY SH!T, you don't think such stuff like CHAPTER SIX are to be taken seriously, do you!?' This turn-around episode offers a ringside seat to how nations deviate from their senses and degenerate at the hands of a vision-challenged aristocracy.


Czar Alexander II abolished serfdom in Russia in 1861 under the pressures of the ideas of THE ENLIGHTENMENT. That ( ptent ideological package of) enlightenment is what I call a fiery concept. But the royal family in its fantasies of divinity sought to keep things the same, so Russia fomented some, and some more, until Lenin and his mates like Leon Trotsky and Kirov came in and put an end to the stinking ROMANOV FAMILY BUSINESS. The last of the divine Romanovs, still suffering from the familial delusions of grandeur, ended up in a disused pit latrine in Siberia' Taiga forest, I think.


Such horrid stuff can happen even to gods who get the politics of social relations wrong. Jehovah and Allah can look back and see the skeletons of the gods that were before their monotheistic rise, and ponder.


A narrow elite, an aristocracy, a plutocracy, any oligarchy or some other form of bio-financial royalty, even a pretender meritocracy of White world domination, bent on regimenting social inequality, bent on perpetuating a political system iron-casting a racial caste system as it were, is sitting on a crown of thorns, or as we say these explosive days, on a bomb. And this holds even if you are the exceptional America, god's every Eden of freedom.

Ending official slavery was thus worth a massive civil war in the USA, just like completely ending serfdom was worth a Revolution in Russia. (I should find time to compare the lives of serfs in Tzarist Russia, and the lives of Slaves in America, the latter United States.)

FOOTNOTE: 'OBLOMOVIAN'

Ivan Goncharov's famous novel first published 1859 has the aristocrat, AiAi-O, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, as the main protagonist. Legendarily lazy, indecisive but an adorable pet reclused to his bed most of the working day, I.I.O became a folklorish character in Russia. Romantic Tolstoy (the legend of Anna Karenina and War and Peace) waxed ever delirious of him. But impatient men, ruthless and bored of Russian backwardness based on a debilitating serfdom and Tsarist rot, demanding a New Deal for Mother Russia and her pre-historic empire, saw in Oblomov the personification of that which had to be uprooted from the Russian soul, a soul corrupted by centuries of Tzarism and Orthodox Church's prostitution to power: Oblomov was the personification of Pathological Inactivity. Vladimir Lenin, usually an astitute political economic analyst, took vocation into cultural criticism, stung by Ilya Ilyich Oblomov and his jocular popularity.

Why would anybody work hard, the Russian youth reading Ivan asked.

Anyway, our Russian hero Oblomov is the fullest flower of lazy aristocratic mentality. Always, he becomes overwhelmed with feelings of great distaste and repugnance, and sometimes even pity, when peer pressure piles on him to keep up appearances being a busy bee with everything else which occupies the normal and going. These will be mortgages, loans for bigger cars, greater credit card red ranges, careering, productive work, business success, wealth and prestige, possessions and a multicultural harem in every city.

Oblomov can't be bothered any.

And there is one huge trouble to crown it all. He is lazy in physical action yes, he can never make up his mind yes, but his mind is lithe, quick and, showing he spends his time in bed thinking some deep thoughts, he offers devastating, even convincing criticism of the banality of the daily sh!t of dreary loads the hard-workers' have to push to satisfy ambition!

There is a dark tone here, and Ivan Goncharov was satirically pulling legs. May be like Nikolai Gogol (of the Government Inspector fame –-which was a set book in East Africa literature curriculum). Gogol was famously accused by the Soviet authorities of ever mocking and inviting others to laugh at just how stupid the hard working working classes really are!

Yeees,

If a hairdresser Josephine Kabura can, rags to milionare overnight, leave a bank with a truckload of hard-cash, and if in Nigeria, a bar-tender can live in an apartment with $43M dollars cash, working hard to be rich may not be the most intelligent thing you, dear parent, can tell a nest of your Kenyan post adolescent work-shy youth, even if most of them are Luos! (I hear we Luos are the laziest of the Kenyan tribes!)

Yeees!

continued


VLADIMIR PUTIN MOVES IN TO CLEAN UP YELTSIN'S MESS

[jakaswanga]

VLADIMIR PUTIN MOVES IN TO CLEAN UP YELTSIN'S MESS

But first: Barrack Obama

Barrack Obama too, when he became POTUS in a YES-WE-CAN wave, had a Bonapartist mandate. That is, a reactionarily powerful and run-away rogue segment of the ruling class, after nearly sinking the ship in their greedy recklessness, had to be curtailed to the wider benefit or safety. Overall regime stabilisation needed this, in deed, also to more effectively purpose the longevity of the ruling class at large, in that top position. That would have been the maximum believable change, the agenda which Obama so eloquently throated as his campaign slogan. Anyway, the ideologically incestuous regime of Barrack Obama really had nowhere to go. –---(Correcting Clintonian excesses with Clintonian paradigms –-that is the 'incestuous' bit).

The total financialisation of the economy, unleashed by Bill Clinton's REFORMS –--the Neo-Thatcherite DEREGULATORY ORTHODOXY informed policies, brought forth a Wall-Street Oligarchy no less debased than the Yeltsin brood in Moscow. As public money flooded their way without a prefect, the sky became the limit in the casino game in The Big Apple. Unhinged by the free, to themselves risk-free cash, the Wall Street oligarchy suffered delusions, bathed itself in Olympian infallibility, enshrouded itself in Papal Unicity, and created a plethora of marketed academic myths to underwrite its self-professed intellectual invisibility. The world was truly at their feet. The Chinese too didn't help matters, continuing to feed the illusions and the bonus addictions of Wall Street moguls. The Chinese gave a very elastic credit card to the American economy, financing in part the American purchase and consumption of made in China. Wall Street lived in the sky, hiving off the lion's share in the deal …. Social windfall.

We know what happened next.

As candidates Obama and McCain were on the campaign trail, there was a meltdown in Wall Street. Olympus came crashing down, and Obama was soon elected to clean up the mess. And Dubya Bush did leave behind quite a mess both abroad and at home. Barry looked the more formidable candidate, looked more blessed of the needed intellectual tenanciy and (East Coast) sophistication to conduct a Bonapartist policy. CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN, he would bring. Both streets gave him a chance.

We know what happened next.

Soon as he finished his stuttering repetition of the oath of office, he turned out a hoax. But he was an accomplished fake, an utter sophisticate, too rhetorically bewitching, too intelligent and versatile for many to fathom at first. There was also a Wall-street orchestrated cover-up, by a friendly corporate press –---which in the same way had covered up for Dubya Bush in his lies to initiate war against Iraq, post the twin towers 9/11 hit. Once the Big Money boys read Barry Boy correct as a fellow robber of Main Street to the profit of Wall Street, that he was a Subsidy Man to the Big Banks, a malleable Bail Out Man, they fettered and contained him no less than Yeltsin was held hostage. All his cold-blooded ferocity would henceforth be directed at Muslims in far-off lands. Obama no drama would feed them drone-deaths by the payloads. Nor would he bother doing body counts. Bodies? which bodies? aint bodies dismembered beyond count after such a ferocious strike by hellfire missiles?

The American people finally figured out the Democrats are just glib-tongued conmen, and reckoned: how about going for the real thing without any pretences!? No Obama third term, aka POTUS Hilary.

So the enraged blowback has been Donald Trump!

Trump is the real thing, a honest fake and an unfalsifiable buffoon! He looks cartoonish even in real life, but like Nero of Rome, he is an ever vicious danger in his theatricality. His White House, with its nepotism and family power, retro-active cabinet of oligarchs and dominant pseudo racists, is a consolidation of 'reaction'. Indeed a Mad-Dog House. It is a self-coronation of institutional capital. A plutocracy not a democracy.

Ignoramus Trump may be cartoonesk and theatrical, but that is because he is the catalyst, the first rough rung of what American reaction could turn out to be if it evolves in the classic route. When a few become super rich, and the rest poor, the logical form of government which serves their interest is an oligarchy, and at its core a dynasty however miscreant. A dynasty is a family rule in succession, royalty. Currently some economists talk of America as the 1 percenters against the 90-niners. This is to illustrate the disproportionality of wealth accumulation and distribution. Historically the accompanying regime should correctly be a plutocracy, not a democracy. So it is a sensible thought: the USA is already a plutocracy masquerading as a democracy. That is Obama's true legacy. We can decidedly speculate decidedly, this is why the last election was from the beginning billed as a ROYAL DERBY, the Bushes versus the Clintons, royal houses.

More about that evolution later.

Obama was hired to panel beat it a bit after the financial crash of 2008! But the beast proved too unmanageable, or Barrack too weak to bequeath himself of his BONAPARTIST tasks. What he did was, instead of reigning Wall-Street in and punishing rogue bankers and letting ideological flair have its way, he came unconditionally to their rescue. Instead of letting MARKET SHOCK THERAPY sweep away all rotten banks, he was intimidated by the boisterous nonsense of some banks are TOO BIG TO FAIL. The financial sector (which had wisely funded him more than they did McCain) heaved a sigh of relief and went back to their bad old ways. The government set about pilfering the American taxpayer to BAIL OUT the Criminals! And if that was not enough, the FED set about (QE) printing money and giving it free to the financialists. Taxpayers will foot up that (loan) bill too, at the risk of a sovereign default. In this feast of cheap, free money, Barrack delivered huge to his BIG FINANCIAL BACKERS, but betrayed or misunderstood his ELECTORAL, POPULAR BONAPARTIST MANDATE.


the hovering danger of sovereign default.

And with that, of course Barry more or less buried Hilary Clinton's candidature. Given she was even less intellectually and emotionally formidable than Obama ----(Obama had dissociated himself from the Bush Wars)---- Hilary stuck with Wall street and propagated more wars abroad even as the economy disintegrated at home for the 99%! And her instinctive illiteracy forced her to repudiate grassroot Benny Sanders, to whom Trump was no match in a dual face-off, reported the polls!). Enter Trump.

PUTIN'S BONAPARTIST RISE, THE DARK HORSE CHINA

On his ascension, Vladimir Putin, however, faced with the Bonapartist option, did not hesitate. Of course Russia was in a worse state. Having been a KGB official in puppet state East Germany, watching close view how satellite states are manipulated, Putin must have recognised the end station of Yeltsin's Russia. An American colony. With speed, he went for the rotten Oligarchs and cut them down to size. He restored the primacy of the Russian state above the private lobbysts and fortuned puppet masters in the shadows. It was a messy authoritarian operation, but it is referred to in Russia by patriots as the 'restoration' –----of limited national dignity. For instance Pensionados, many of them patriots of the Great patriotic war against Hitler, had lost all their savings and retirement benefits in the banking reform, and then become homeless as residential apartments went market rates. Hungry and sleeping under bridges, winter around the corner, something had to be done. Putin did what he had to do, a menacing growl ever in his eye.

Speaking of messy authoritarian operations, Deng Hsiao Ping's clearance of Tian Amin Square is horridly infamous!

NB: How does dignity square off against oligarchic fake democracy? I think we have to go to China –-run by red pricelings--- how dangerous that ride is!

Vladimir Putin then set about reconstructing Russia, and to the dismay of an Eastwards expanding NATO, he developed enough thrust to be a world player. Not power, but player. Russia's economy is too backward to be a world power, but Russia has enough technological and military strategic depth to repel any form of foreign intimidation. That makes a bipolar world. An imperial plutocracy like the USA can't have that, can't resign itself to that duality. And with China rising even more, there is plenty of trouble ahead for the unreformed USA. Obama should have prepared the USA to share the world. He didn't. Now it has to be a question of 'asiyefundishwa na mamake!' During the campaign, Donald Trump in his populist pitches seemed to recognise the need for the USA to share the world domination with others. No chance of that now. He is dropping bombs and throwing missiles with such callousness, insulting international treaties with such insensitivity, he is positively unstable. Yet so much power in his hands.

Dangerous times for the world. For America too.

[jakaswanga]

OBAMA'S LEGACY: (5) THE DESTRUCTION OF GADDAFI'S LIBYA

PRELUDE: If Bill Clinton was the come-back kid, Barrack Obama was the smart kid of Washington DC. Hilary never claimed to be anything more than Hilary, wherefore will I be less tempted to interrogate her in the main. Barrack is the guy, senator he was then, who insighted Dubya's declaration of mission accomplished (over Iraq) was stupidity, the invasion of Iraq itself under false pretences having been even more stupid and myopic.

Where Donald Trump danced sword dances with the medieval Wahabist's of Saudi Arabia –-–---for the good purpose of American jobs and arms sales, Obama was known to seethe with suspicion at America's favourite ally in the middle east bar Israel. Barry was also wary of the corruption Saudi oil money had wrought in Washington, especially in the ME Think Tanks hovering around the White House. He found it sensible to explore a different scenario for the resolution to the Iranian problem, or say, the Iranian nuclear program.

Then, the last minute haste with which he pardoned the WIKILEAKS FEEDER Chelsea/Bradley Manning



suggests the commander in chief was in turmoil all these years the whistle blower was under a torture regime. May be daughters Sasha and Malia asked him some uncomfortable questions at the dinner table after this kind of stuff was debated in college.

[When Private Bradley [aka Chelsea] Manning put his conscience ahead of his personal well-being by allegedly releasing important information to the world's public via WikiLeaks, he was put into an inhumane solitary confinement and is now facing charges that carry the possibility of him spending the rest of his life in prison.
@##Ray McGovern

While outside he was stoic like the Spartan (of the placid face while fox ate up his insides) Obama no drama seems to have been having some internal dramas all the same. Aloof and Cold-blooded emperor he kept the appearance, and true to duty he was –----spectacularly failing to close Guantanamo Bay, but there is reason to suspect he knew he was full of bull, and shhh.

Now that his memoirs have been auctioned for a record amount, there is reason to salivate if it wont be an exercise in redactions, you know, kind of like the pages of Nabokov's Lolita would look at a Saudi bookfare after the censors have had their read!

Barrack and Michelle Obama have signed book deals with Penguin Random House, the publisher announced on Tuesday.

Financial terms were not disclosed for the books, for which several publishers had competed, although the Financial Times reported that bidding reached more than $60m – a record sum for US presidential memoirs.
By comparison, fellow Democrat and former president Bill Clinton earned $15m for rights to his 2004 memoir My Life after he left office, while Obama’s immediate predecessor, Republican George W Bush, reaped some $10m from his 2010 book Decision Points.
@associated Press Wednesday 1 March 2017

What will his prized memoirs say he thought and felt, when he pondered the full meanings behind the medical euphemisms RECTAL FEEDING, rectal rehydration, walling and the other 'softening up', robust techniques the CIA used on suspected Muslim terrorists in the company's black sites dotted around the globe?

Glimpses of such 'enhanced practices' on prisoners came with such reports as these in the Miami Herald.

“Mr. Hawsawi was tortured in the black sites. He was sodomized,” Ruiz told reporters earlier in the week, advising them to “shy away from terms like rectal penetration or rectal rehydration because the reality is it was sodomy,” he said. Since then, he said, he has had “to manually reinsert parts of his anal cavity” to defecate.

“When he has a bowel movement, he has to reinsert parts of his anus back into his anal cavity,” Ruiz said, which “causes him to bleed, causes him excruciating pain.”

Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article108484372.html#storylink=cpy

Williams noted that CIA cables released under the Freedom of Information Act show that, in one instance in April 2003, Hawsawi was interrogated with “continuous sessions of water dousing, walling, attention grasps, facial holds, cramped confinement, and psychological pressures for 14 nonstop hours.”

But defence teams preparing for trial have no medical records from that period, noting that Hawsawi also suffers cervical damage that may be linked to “walling” — a CIA technique that rammed a captive’s head into a wall to break him for interrogation. Water dousing is described in the Senate Report as similar to water-boarding, a near-drowning torture technique.
The judge at one point questioned whether such medical records exist.
“What we know from open-source material is that medical physicians at times were in place when these techniques were being done and when the torture was being committed,” Hawsawi’s Army lawyer replied.

For psychopaths, or stupid people or soldiers obeying their orders, there is no problem. But for a smart kid, thinker and former lecturer at law, ace graduate of the best law school in his country, risen to commander in chief of God's bastion of good on this satanic planet, this kind of data must raise fundamental questions, questions of evil and good. Questions about the nature of civilisation one belongs to, upholds, evangelically defends and spreads.

When good people do evil things to evil people; they still good, or have they become merely evil people doing evil things to other evil people? The Christian faith with its doctrines of redemption and mercy has no place in the business of running an avowed Christian empire, even after the enlightenment!? –---(Ha! What did the colonial slave ever know from the Christian master, but the harsh sting of the whip!? And who remembers the official narrative of apartheid south africa!)

That is a contemplation beyond Hilary Clinton, lucky her, but not Barrack Obama. Barrack is the smart thinking kid. Philosopher King. If as senator he twitched his nose at illegal wars, did he grow up as commander in chief to appreciate the niceties of 'rectal feeding?' Did he end up defending medical torture in the face of the scepticism of his daughters, Malia and Shasha?

Mr Obama has spoken frequently about returning to teach law at College In an interview with The New Yorker, Mr Obama said: "I love the law, intellectually. I love nutting out these problems, wrestling with these arguments.
"I love teaching. I miss the classroom and engaging with students."

If he is serious, his own experience at the helm brings forth quite a horde to nut, even outside the classroom engagements. Consider Barrack intellectualising the law for beasts in the big bad world like this Hayden Below!

Former CIA Director’s Barbaric Defence of Using ‘Rectal Rehydration’ Against Detainees

shadowproof.com/2014/12/13/former-cia-directors-defense-of-using-rectal-feeding-a-medical-procedure-to-sexually-assault-detainees/

However, a footnote on page 584 of the summary documents the cruel treatment against Mohammed, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, Abu Zubaydah, Marwan al-Jabbur and Majid Khan. Three detainees, Rarazi bin al-Shibh, Khallad bin Attash and Adnan al-Libi, were threatened with “rectal rehydration.”
Khan had his “‘lunch tray,’ consisting of hummus, pasta with sauce, nuts and raisins ‘pureed’ and rectally infused.” CIA records show he was “‘very hostile’ to rectal feeding and removed the rectal tube as soon as he was allowed to.”

Nashiri was force-fed Ensure through his rectum while he was “in a forward facing position” with his head lower than his torso.
What Jabbur experienced was initially described as an “enema” but later called “rectal rehydration.”
Zubaydah was subjected to “rectal fluid resuscitation” for “partially refusing liquids.” Another forced enema.

CIA medical officers discussed this form of behavior control.

“[W]while IV infusion is safe and effective, we were impressed with the ancillary effectiveness of rectal infusion on ending the water refusal in a similar case.”
The same medical officer indicated the best way to insert the “rectal tube” into Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the alleged suspects involved in the September 11th attacks, was to “place it and open up the IV tubing” so that the “flow will self regulate, sloshing up the large intestines.” He also stated “what I infer is that you get a tube up as far as you can, then open the IV wide. No need to squeeze the bag—let gravity do the work.”

CIA personnel also conducted rectal exams with “excessive force” on at least two detainees imprisoned at the Salt Pit facility in Afghanistan. Mustafa al-Hawsawi was “later diagnosed with chronic hemorrhoids, an anal fissure and symptomatic rectal prolapse.”
Agency leadership, including CIA General Counsel Scott Muller and Deputy Director of Operations James Pavitt, were well aware that this sexual assault was being employed.

But that is all a by the way. It is to Libya I wanna home, next.

[jakaswanga]

(5B) COLLECTING ENEMY SKULLS, PLUNDERING FOREIGN TREASURES

That is the age-old imperial sport of financing deficits. Follow the money, it is always the economy stupid.

NB: Obama was hot on the EU for refusing to soft-land Greece. That is an unconditional bail-out. He was scared Greece would go Russian friendly. This month Puerto Rico has gone bust. Puerto Rico belongs to the dollar commonwealth of the USA. The Europeans are giggling discreetly. You wont hear Obama speeching on Puerto Rico's fortunes though, will ya!?

HUNTER GATHERERS ON THE RAMPAGE ABROAD --foreign wars

Let us think of the sad adventures of the Libyan Investment Fund (LIA) at the crafty hands of GoldmanSachs. And remember that is the bank the Kenyan trio of aces Rotich Thugge and Njoroge entrusted the Eurobond to. In toto.

One gotta know his bankers.

With the SGR project being the epoch-changing investment project of the our Kenya, so much so that Jubilee is apportioning all the credit to itself, thereby to milk all possible electoral gain, I always asked some economists why Rotich and Co didn't, even as a goodwill measure if not a prudent spreading of risks, award a portion of the Eurobond to the custody of the Chinese Exim Bank! I mean these China guys are funding the heroic SGR from scratch to grave, and the eurobond was, after all, for infrastructure!
Yawa!
But
Obama has now joined the lucrative lecture circuit. No, not the college tour, but the wall street high table where they pay 10G per word for some ex-presidents. No, I don't think they are paying him for nutting out the deep stuff. I think these are constructions to award bonus, these are extra rewards for facilitating looting abroad.

Obama Balances Civic-Minded Side With the Lure of a $400,000 Speech

WASHINGTON — Two post-presidential Barrack Obamas emerged this week.

The first was the civic-minded one, seated on a stage in Chicago, where he talked about the importance of community organizing and told a student audience that he had succeeded in politics because people believed “my values were not so different from theirs.”
The other was the one set to cash a $400,000 check from Wall Street — the same amount as his yearly salary during his time in the White House — when he delivers a speech in September at a health care conference run by Cantor Fitzgerald, a trading and investment firm.
@nyT

So what are they paying him for, if not the above? Whose money is it that is spent that cheap, if not the loot from abroad?
It is the Hilary Clinton saga which provides a good clue to how they see it themselves. Bernie Sanders poked her make-up.

Inside Hillary’s $675K worth of Goldman speaking fees

But during a New Hampshire town hall Wednesday night, Clinton claimed she took whatever Goldman Sachs was willing to pay.
“That’s what they offered,” she said of the $675,000 she received for three speeches.
One source with knowledge of Clinton’s speaking fees said it’s disingenuous for the Democratic front-runner to assert she took whatever clients wanted to pay, since hiring her was a big deal involving big bucks.
Rival Bernie Sanders has been hitting Clinton hard for financial ties to Goldman and Wall Street as evidence she’s beholden to them.

Beholden!? One needs to demystify such concepts, like in the case of deconstructing 'rectal feeding' to its true horror: ritual anal rape to establish control and induce cooperation.

OF CASH AND VIDEOS FROM LIBYA

We need take a trip to Libya. Obama has perpetually sought to blame the Libyan mess on sh!tty Europeans. But he is being disingenuous. One thing is that, in having Gaddaffi rectally force-fed a stake or bayonet and availing the collector's item video to Hilary in public, he afforded us a clean visitation at her soulless perversity and morbid personality.

Courtesy of POTUS and his secretary of state
the dishevelled colonel developed a weird tail
As if of a fistula menstruating without paddies
Viscous fluid oozed from his unders and climbed down his thighs.



The dazed colonel was a dead man walking to an unknown grave.
–------
It was a medieval act of horror, but it had the ironically crystal effect of outing Hilary Clinton for what she really is: a monster. One has to watch her in grotesque glory as she shivers in orgasmic delight at such a treat. It is the snuff video, the gory report of the colonel in his dead walk with a weird tale:



Smart kid Obama must know. He is being rewarded in part for this his single most dastardly act on the African continent. His wall street keeps are mercenary wages for skulls collected abroad and booty brought home from sacked treasuries. GoldmanSachs raid on the Libyan forts of Gold was particularly awesome. Then, as if to destroy records forever, Obama and Hilary left Libya a smouldering ruins like the Romans left Carthago.

LOOTING LIBYA, KILLING GADAFFI, OBAMA'S REWARD

Here is a hint of the story from their own wall-street allied press, Bloomberg

Hot Mess: How Goldman Sachs Lost $1.2 Billion of Libya’s Money

When Wall Street’s most aggressive bank took on the world’s most incendiary client, someone was going to make a killing.

By Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel | September 29, 2016

www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-goldman-sachs-libya/

The story of Goldman’s seduction of Libya— based on court evidence, testimony from witnesses, and interviews with people who were involved in the transactions—is as brief as it was costly. Barely 12 months elapsed between Zarti’s first tour of the bank and his threat to murder its brightest young star, and Libya wound up losing $1.2 billion.

Goldman enjoyed its payday, the exact size of which it has never disclosed. But whatever the level, the matter is now before a London judge, and the Libyans have a chance to extract an even more damaging toll.

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The reemergence of Libya, and its vast oil wealth, coincided with an era of nearly unbridled avarice on Wall Street—and nowhere more so than at Goldman Sachs. The same year that Qaddafi established the LIA, Goldman posted the largest profit in Wall Street history. The bank paid employees an average of $622,000, with many times that amount available for bankers who nailed down the biggest deals.

A stupendously wealthy petro state desperate to buy into a bull market was a dream client—the kind of “elephant,” in Goldman argot, that could make careers.

“Investment opportunities with this account is [sic] one of the largest I’ve ever seen,” Goldman partner Yusuf Aliredha wrote afterward. “We are all over them.” Goldman wanted to strike quickly, as other firms began to notice the giant pot of money in Libya. The day Goldman arrived, Wellesley noted in an e-mail that “there are private jets blocking Tripoli International.”

How Goldmansachs lost Libya's money!? They din't loose it. They stole it, then made constructions and cover stories to hide the theft.

Unlike French banks with no equally powerful state to protect them form litigation, GoldmanSachs has the USA state, so the cases in London have very different outcomes!

This is what informed Uhuru Kenyatta's laughter at Auditor General Ouko! that was when the auditor was minded to play fiscal detective in New York, to find the leaking accounts. Ouru Kenyatta may not have had an option on where to bank our Eurobond! ---Tribute!

Will our new patron China understand our predicament, or will they smile at the prey in a perfect trap, and exact a tough price for our confused priorities!?

Empires give no quarters.