The Strange Background of the Fed Reserve Governor Lisa Cook Accused of Mortgage Fraud

August 21, 2025 — bunkerville

Trump Federal Housing Director Bill Pulte issues bombshell revelation that Biden-appointed Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook likely committed MORTGAGE FRAUD. “[Jerome] Powell must look into it or he is complicit.” “Ms. Cook: why did you designate your Atlanta Condo as your primary residence two weeks after declaring your Michigan home as your primary residence?” Another mortgage fraud investigation may be opened. Wow.

 

 

Well what another surprise. Why do you need to study in Senegal? Call for Reparations for Blacks?

Cook earned a BA in Physics and Philosophy, magna cum laude, from Spelman College in 1986 and was named a Harry S. Truman Scholar. She became Spelman’s first Marshall Scholar and went on to read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, completing her second BA in 1988. She also took postgraduate courses in philosophy at Cheikh Anta Diop University. She took courses towards a master’s degree in philosophy at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal. Cook earned a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997 under the guidance of Barry Eichengreen and David Romer.[12] Her dissertation focused on the underdevelopment of the banking system in czarist and post-Soviet Russia.[9][12]

Source: Times of India.

An authority on international economics, especially the Russian economy, she has been involved in advising policymakers from the Obama Administration to the Nigerian and Rwandan governments. Her research is at the intersection of macroeconomics and economic history, with recent work in African-American history and innovation economics.[3][4] Cook is regarded as one of the few prominent black female economists and has attracted attention within academia for her efforts in mentoring black women and advocating for their inclusion in the field of economics.[5]

Cook herself now speaks five languages: English, French, Russian, Spanish and Wolof, a Niger–Congo language spoken in a subregion of West Africa.

Lisa Cook was inspired to study economics by Dr. Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in economics in the United States. Cook’s research focuses on African American history and innovation economics. Her research suggests that violence against African-Americans under the Jim Crow laws led to a lower-than-expected number of patents filed. Cook has collaborated with other economists to collate a database on lynching in the United States.

On May 10, 2022, the Senate confirmed Cook’s nomination by a 51-50 vote, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tiebreaking vote. Cook was sworn in as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in May 2022, making her the first Black woman on the Federal Reserve’s board.

Cook supports reparations to compensate for Black Americans for being subjected to slavery and discrimination.

Source: Black Past

Why we need someone with such varied interests other than the American Economy is a question.

Let’s not forget Bunk’s post earlier:  Marxist Fed Reserve Chair Daly of San Francisco, Former High School Drop Out, Oversaw Bank That Failed

Bonus: How is this fine fellow I posted about last week doing?

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How the Deep State Took Down Richard Nixon

August 18, 2025 — bunkerville

It turns out that Trump was not the first President that the deep state attempted to dispatch. A fascinating documentary on the take down of a previous President. Richard Nixon. A terrific interview by Steve Bannon of the author led Bunk to a couple of free great videos for the next couple of weeks over at Bannon’s website. Well documented.

Here is part of the setup:

But less than halfway through his term in office, Richard Nixon was gone.

Why? Not because of Watergate. Not because of a smoking gun.

No; it was: Secret meetings between judges and prosecutors; evidence hidden from defense attorneys; biased juries; an unaccountable prosecution force packed with political enemies, Congressional leaders who were out to get the president, and a dishonest media.

The Deep State took Richard Nixon down by unprecedented prosecutorial misconduct, withholding of exculpatory evidence, reprehensible judicial misconduct that included many prohibited secret ex-parte meetings with prosecutors, massive violations of Fifth Amendment due process rights and Sixth Amendment fair trial rights, and the one-sided dishonest reporting by ALL of the dominant media outlets of the day—CBS, NBC, ABC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time Magazine and Newsweek Magazine.

All told, a corrupt judiciary and unaccountable prosecutors violated the due process rights of Nixon and the Watergate defendants more than a dozen times. We will document all those due process violations—something that no one else has ever done in more than half a century.

This is how the Deep State took down a president — and created the playbook they’ve used ever since.

Michael Patrick Leahy, is an investigative journalist, author, radio show host, and CEO of The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network.

Here is a bit of the discussion and the film Leader. Go to the 31:00 time stamp in the video for the beginning.

Clinton Cash is another great flick.

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Estimated run time: 1 hour and 30 minutes

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Meet Minneapolis Muslim Marxist Mayor Candidate Omar Fateh – Mamdomi 2.0 on Steroids

August 13, 2025 — bunkerville
 
Add Another likely Muslim Mayor to the ranks for implementing a Marxist agenda to a major city. This time the target is Minneapolis in 2025. Another sleeper that is not getting the attention it deserves. In some ways worse than the likely Mamdomi Mayor for New York City. The city council is already about as radical as It can get.
 
The Minneapolis City Council is the legislative branch of the city of Minneapolis in Minnesota, United States. Comprising 13 members, the council holds the authority to create and modify laws, policies, and ordinances that govern the city.
 
In recent elections, council membership has been dominated by the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL). As of 2024, 12 members identified with the DFL, while four identified with Democratic Socialists of America (three members identify as both DFL and DSA).
 
So let’s see how the endorsement by the DFL of this Somali parented candidate got started off. Says it all
 
 
 
So just who is Omar Fateh?.
 
Mayoral candidate Omar Fateh of Minneapolis said in an interview that his first priority as mayor would be to protect “undocumented residents” from what he claimed was a “hostile federal government.”
 
 
Omar Fateh’s background includes:
  • Early Life: Born in Washington D.C. in 1990 to Somali immigrant parents, Fateh is a first-generation American. His experiences as a Black Muslim shaped his political views. He holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University.
  • Public Service: Prior to the Senate, Fateh held positions at the Minnesota Department of Transportation and the Department of Revenue, and served on local government advisory committees.
  • Historic Election: In 2020, Fateh became the first Somali American and first Muslim elected to the Minnesota Senate, representing District 62.
  • Senate Tenure: Serving since 2021, he has authored legislation including bills on fentanyl testing strips, free college tuition, and protections for Uber and Lyft drivers. He chairs the Senate’s Higher Education Committee and vice-chairs the Human Services Committee.
  • Political Views: Fateh identifies as a democratic socialist and progressive. His platform includes universal healthcare, the Minnesota Green New Deal, public transportation improvements, equitable education, police reform, and housing justice.
  • Mayoral Candidacy: Fateh is running for Mayor of Minneapolis in 2025. His campaign centers on economic and social justice, proposing measures like a $20 minimum wage by 2028, rent freezes, affordable housing expansion, and alternative public safety solutions. He has received the DFL endorsement.

    Sitting down with Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh

 
 
 
 
 
Matt Walsh sums it all up.

Socialist Mayoral Candidate Omar Fateh Reveals America’s Greatest Threat – White America. Just skip over the short ad midway. He goes on to discuss gratitude and the lack of it.

 

Lest we fall asleep at the switch: We are losing our cities to Radical Muslim Mayors.

Check out Bunks earlier post: It covers the New Jersey cities Muslim Mayors and the unbelievable background of the D.C. Court Judges.

NJ Muslim Mayors and the Foreign D.C. Court Judges: The Road to Germany 2.0

April 15, 2025 — bunkerville 

Remember

A warning….in England.

 
All this was achieved by just 4 million Muslims out of 68 million people in England. How is this possible ?
 
 
 
London video after mayoral election The Mayor of London is a Muslim.
The Mayor of Birmingham is a Muslim.
The Mayor of Leeds is a Muslim.
The Mayor of Blackburn is a Muslim. 
The Mayor of Sheffield is a Muslim.
The Mayor of Oxford is a Muslim 
The Mayor of Luton is a muslim. 
the Mayor of Oldham is a Muslim.
The mayor of Rochdale is a Muslim. 
 

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Gerrymandering has sordid history as old as Constitution

August 12, 2025 — bunkerville

Nothing new with Gerrymandering. It’s been going on since the beginning of our Republic.An interesting piece now at the Washington Times on Gerrymandering and worth a read. My old homestead county in rural Pennsylvania has been essentially Gerrymandering out of existence for any representation with miles outside the county included by any number of Representatives.

One item on the list our Founders should have given some additional thought to perhaps.

Washington Times:

We’ve come a long way from the country’s first gerrymander, which involved two future presidents vying for election to the first Congress.

James Madison, the future No. 4, faced off against James Monroe, the future No. 5, in a district crafted by Patrick Henry specifically to be tough for Madison to win.

 

Henry, a committed anti-federalist, wanted to deny Madison any role in Congress. He hoped to wound the new government system, which he despised.

Madison pulled out a victory and went on to shepherd the Bill of Rights through Congress.

Henry operated at the bluntest level, adding whole counties to Virginia’s 5th Congressional District and deciding which ones to leave out.

 

As technology improves, gerrymandering has gained precision to the point that it has become a dark science, reducing people to their basest political, racial or cultural beings, often in the service of a political party’s power.

Just after the turn of the century, Arizona lawmakers drew a district that tracks the waters of the Colorado River for 40 miles as it flows through the Grand Canyon. It gained no voters but served as an electoral bridge before stretching out to encompass the Hopi reservation.

That district was a nod to centuries-old animosity between the Hopi and the Navajo, whose reservation surrounds the Hopi lands. This animosity forced the mapmakers to get creative to ensure that the two reservations had different representatives in Congress.

For former Rep. Steve Israel, a New Yorker who ran the Democrats’ House campaign committee from 2011 to 2015, the most extreme gerrymander became known as “Goofy kicking Donald Duck.”

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Senator Warren and NYC Mayor Candidate Mamdomi – Perfect Together

August 6, 2025 — bunkerville

Senator Warren has had numerous jokes made about her so-called lack of Indian heritage for decades of which she claimed. It often belied the seriousness of what she and her agenda was all about. We need not wonder anymore. Lost to memory for many is that back in 2020 she was a candidate for President. For a time she and Bernie Sanders were doing very well in the polls.

Of course the so called Billionaires will just head South by Southwest and kiss NYC bye bye. Wall Street? With the new technology now there is less and less reason for the companies to keep their headquarters in the city and to remain as well.

 

Bunk just wandered through some of the oldie moldies of Bunk’s past posts about her.We should have paid a bit more attention to what a true Marxist she is of what she was all about. Let us let this be a lesson not to let these Commies slide by again. Here are a portion of previous posts.

Warren Says She’s Willing To Ban Construction of New Homes in America

January 16, 2020 — bunkerville

If your new home isn’t carbon neutral, an Elizabeth Warren presidency might not let you build it. And if that means no new homes get built in the United States, the Massachusetts senator and Democrat presidential nominee says she’s fine with that.

In the fog of being overloaded with news, it is easy to miss just how radical the Democrat nominees are. We should be concerned that the two communists are either leading or close to it in some polls. What in the world are people thinking? It is now acceptable to destroy our economy on the altar of Progressive Climate Change nonsense? No drill baby drill for her. She would have us live in tents as in San Fran? It’s interesting that none of this was brought forth in the recent debate. But of course.

All of this comes after she made her millions flipping houses.

Fauxcahontas Warren flipped houses, was a GOPer, became a multimillionaire first

In her 2006 book All Your Worth, co-authored with her daughter, Amelia, Warren lists as a top myth the idea that “you can make big money buying houses and flipping them quickly.” She has made a career out of telling people how to behave in financially responsible ways, and out of creating laws that will make it illegal for them to do otherwise.

Elizabeth Warren

WesternJournal report: During her appearance on Morning Joe, Warren was asked what she’d do to “change the tide of U.S. policy on the issue of climate change” and acted as if she’d been thrown the softball of all softballs.

“That means we’ve got to be willing to do things, for example, like regulation. By 2028, no new buildings, no new houses, without a zero carbon footprint.”

And she’s coming for your car and electricity bill, too.

“By 2030, trucks — light-duty trucks and cars, zero carbon footprint. By 2035, all production of electricity, zero carbon footprint,” Warren said.

Oh, and there was also talk of some vague idea of social justice — because schemes like this always need to be undergirded with some such vague idea-

“We also need to make environmental justice really at the heart of our climate plan,” Warren said.

Elizabeth Warren promises illegals commisson to investigate US crimes against them

July 15, 2019 — bunkerville

We have a Presidential candidate no less threatening the very thin blue line of patriotic men and women. Those men and women who for some reason are still willing to risk life and limb keeping the angry hungry hordes from over running our country. Disregard this at our peril. This is scary dude stuff. She has a fairly good chance of becoming the Democrat Presidential candidate.

Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren promised a crowd of supporters on Saturday that on her first day in the White House, she would create a commission to investigate “crimes committed by the United States against immigrants.”

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“On my first day, I will empower a commission in the Department of Justice to investigate crimes committed by the United States against immigrants,” she declared at the leftist Netroots Nation conference.

In an outrageous, sweeping attack on the good people working Border Protection missions during the current Democrat-fueled immigration crisis, Warren broad-brushed baseless accusations that are making life for them more dangerous and difficult.

According to Warren’s published plan … “President Trump has weaponized deportation in ways that are costly, ineffective, and designed to maximize pain. It’s time to end this cruelty — and refocus on true threats to public safety and national security instead.”

Referring to an “obsessive focus” on border enforcement, Warren wrote: “And under Trump, it has become increasingly abusive. We should repeal this criminal prohibition to prevent future abuse.

As president, I will immediately issue guidance to end criminal prosecutions for simple administrative immigration violations; end Operation Streamline, which subjects migrants to mass prosecutions; and refocus our limited resources on actual criminals and real threats to the United States.

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Fauxahontas Warren spent weekend in China trying to cause heap big trouble

April 2, 2018 — bunkerville 

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is in China for Easter weekend, speaking with dignitaries in Beijing about her reservations regarding President Trump’s actions on the world stage and collective concerns about Sino-American trade relations.

Warren, a Democrat whose name has been floated as a 2020 Trump opponent, talked trade policy with Vice Premier Liu He, Defense Minister Wei Fenghe and another Chinese official named Yang Jiechi, according to Reuters.

“This has been a chaotic foreign policy in the region, and that makes it hard to keep the allies that we need to accomplish our objectives closely stitched in,” Warren said.

She reportedly accused Trump of trying to “take the legs out from underneath [the American] diplomatic corps,” which “Fox & Friends” discussed may have been a reference to the president’s firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

“You can’t but help see this through a political prism,” Griff Jenkins said. “She is trying to go overseas and undermine our significant and very important negotiations.”

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Speaker Johnson Passes Fewest Bills in 70 Years but will hold a Trump Impeachment Vote

May 14, 2025 — bunkerville

How is it that the GOP can’t seem to pass anything of Trump’s interest but somehow this nitwit can force a House Bill? What’s in the water in Michigan? Put this down as dumb but let’s us know what awaits Trump should the GOP lose the House and Senate.  How’s this statistic:

GOP Controlled House and Senate Sent Fewer Bills to GOP President Than Any Congress in 70 Years.

At the least he will force the Dems to show their hand for the 2026 election by requiring a procedural vote to scuttle the bill which has put the Dems in a tizzy over his action.

From Fox News:

A lone House Democrat is moving to force a chamber-wide vote on his impeachment resolution against President Donald Trump.

Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., introduced his impeachment resolution as privileged on Tuesday afternoon, meaning leaders have two days of the House in session to take up the legislation.

House GOP leaders could move to table the motion, a procedural vote aimed to scuttle a piece of legislation without having lawmakers vote on the legislation itself.

Democrats have struggled to unite behind a potent message since the 2024 election, and such a vote could be politically perilous for their most vulnerable members as they work to win back the House majority in 2026.

No Republicans are likely to support impeaching Trump, however, meaning Thanedar’s measure will likely fail.

“Donald Trump has unlawfully conducted himself, bringing shame to the presidency and the people of the United States,” Thanedar said when deeming his resolution privileged.

The India-born Michigan Democrat first introduced seven articles of impeachment against Trump in late April.

They include charges of obstruction of justice, tyranny, bribery and corruption, and abuse of trade powers, among others.

Gateway Pundit:

Americans overwhelmingly voted for President Donald Trump and his agenda.

Unfortunately, this means nothing to the US GOP-controlled House and US GOP-controlled Senate.

According to Amuse and Leading Report on X the current GOP-controlled Congress sent fewer bills to President Trump to sign into law than any Congress in 70 years!

According to Punchbowl News, Trump has actually signed fewer bills into law at this point than any new president for seven decades.

At the same time President Trump has signed 124 executive orders.

So Johnson can’t figure out a way around this?

 
 

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China Egypt Joint Military Exercises – A Turn in the Balance of Power?

April 22, 2025 — bunkerville

The media is concerned with the Maryland Man. However the joint military exercises between China and Egypt might be worth giving a nod to in reporting. The significance of this activity is dependent on which foreign news source one chooses.

Why Are 5 Giant Chinese Y-20 Military Cargo Aircraft in Egypt? What is Civilization Eagle 2025? WHN

Army recognition:

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) has deployed its KJ-500 Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) aircraft to Egypt for the “Eagles of Civilization 2025” joint air exercise with the Egyptian Air Force (EAF). This is the first time the KJ-500 has participated in an international military exercise, marking a new step in China’s overseas air operations. The exercise also marks the first bilateral air force drill between China and Egypt, aimed at enhancing coordination and operational understanding between the two countries.

The KJ-500 is one of the PLAAF’s (Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force) most advanced airborne early warning platforms, developed by the Xi’an Aircraft Industrial Corporation and equipped with a modern phased-array radar system. It is based on the Y-9 medium transport aircraft and features a fixed dorsal radar dome that provides full 360-degree coverage. This radar system allows it to detect and track multiple airborne and surface targets at extended ranges, while also coordinating friendly aircraft during complex operations. The KJ-500 plays a central role in modern network-centric warfare, acting as a flying command and control node that can relay information across an integrated battle space.

Newsweek did manage to round up and report other assets that are in play.

One has to conclude the sandbox is heating up. Here we go:

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force deployed J-10C fighter jets, a YU-20 aerial refueling tanker and a KJ-500 radar aircraft, according to open-source flight-tracking data and security publications.

The PLA Air Force sent J-10C and J-10S fighters while Egypt fielded its MiG-29 jets for the exercise, China’s state-run Global Times reported.

The KJ-500, an airborne early warning and control aircraft, participated in an international military exercise for the first time, according to the Belgium-based defense magazine Army Recognition.

This week, open-source flight data appeared to show multiple Chinese military aircraft arriving in Egypt via the United Arab Emirates, including at least five Y-20 transport planes and one KJ-500 radar aircraft, according to specialist outlet Aviation Week.

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Here is a more gloomy interpretation on the matter.

Egypt Eyes China’s J-20 Jets to Counter Israel | Joint Air Drill Signal Power Shift In Middle East?

Well it’s hard to argue with this one.

 

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Supreme Roberts and his Judicial Crisis

March 25, 2025 — bunkerville

The Temporary Restraining Orders put in place to stop Trump’s agenda are piling up in case anyone has not noticed. We are well into a crisis. Whether we like it or not, Roberts over at the Supreme is the man we apparently need to count on to lead us out of the wilderness. Good luck with that.

There is an interesting piece over at Town Hall. The author is good enough to take a wack at trying to figure out this man. Here we go:

Town Hall:        Kurt Schlichter  The Agony of John Roberts.

If he had the capacity to lead that he so manifestly lacks, John Roberts could save his institution with decisive and bold action. But that’s not who he is. Understand what John Roberts wants. He is an institutionalist who has always wanted to protect the judiciary branch. He wants it to be a fully co-equal branch that is respected by all. But the very actions he has chosen to take – or not to take – in response to the current crisis of out-of-control subordinate courts are guaranteeing that it will fall. 

Judge Roberts’s problem is that he wants to return to something like regular order in the judiciary. What we have is highly irregular order. You non-lawyers need to understand that all these temporary restraining orders and injunctions and so forth are insane. This is not how law is done, either procedurally or substantively. I did litigation for 30 years, including in federal courts (up to arguing in front of the Ninth Circuit), and never saw anything remotely like these antics. So, realize that this is abnormal. 

Abnormal times call for abnormal responses, but that’s not how John Roberts or his ilk work. Remember, he’s a Bushie, the kind of soft Republican who sees his job less as fixing our broken government than managing its gentlemanly decline. We’ve largely booted them out of elective office, but Roberts has his seat for life. His advocation is protecting his institution. He wants the judiciary to be held in respect and obeyed, but he doesn’t want to do the hard, stern work of disciplining his underlings that makes that possible.

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John Roberts wants the normal appellate procedures to apply. He’s hoping that if he shuts his eyes and pretends that everything is normal, he’ll open them and it will all be normal again. This was the main takeaway from his unbelievably tone-deaf response to Trump’s, Musk’s, and others’ frustration-driven talk about impeachment. Now, Roberts was right in theory about what he said, but what we’re facing is not theory but practice. 

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There was zero need for Roberts to weigh in on it. There are not even close to 67 votes to impeach a judge.

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Democrat Party’s Desperate Search for a ‘Fresh Face’ to Take them from the Wilderness

March 10, 2025 — bunkerville

Jasmine Crockett, a congresswoman who until about a week ago, no one had ever heard of, has arrived on the scene. Non-stop appearances on all forms of media. Recall AOC aka Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? Out of nowhere, a sudden media darling as well. Why is the decision being made that Crockett is the new democrat darling? It has even been advanced that she is prime material as a Presidential candidate.

So let’s try and figure out why they are pushing out another potential member of the squad for leadership.

Crockett assumed office in the House of Representatives: On November 20, 2021, incumbent U.S. representative Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas’s 30th congressional district announced she would not seek reelection in 2022.

Four days later, Crockett declared her candidacy for the seat. Johnson simultaneously announced that she was backing Crockett. Crockett also received extensive financial support from Super PACs aligned with the cryptocurrency industry, with Sam Bankman-Fried’s Protect Our Future PAC giving $1 million in support of her campaign.

In the Democratic primary election, Crockett and Jane Hope Hamilton, an aide to Marc Veasey, advanced to a runoff election, which Crockett won. She then won the general election on November 8. Crockett was chosen to be the 118th Congress’s freshman class representative.

Let’s meet Jasmine.

One thing we know is that the Democrat leadership is sorely lacking. If they were counting on Jeffries over in House leadership of carrying the load, count not.

Well he was rather stuck with this one.

Now the summation:

 

No doubt the Democrat aka DNC has a hand in Jasmine’s arrival. My money is on Hogg. The Vice chair newly elected to try and win over the kiddies.

Yes, THAT David Hogg whose claim to fame was his school being shot up. A golden moment from the Bunker files:

Democrat Leadership Election a Total Disaster – David Hogg Elected Vice Chair

February 3, 2025

Shock over at the DNC as they elect their leadership. David Hogg is now vice chair of the Democrat Party. Ken Martin from Minnesota was named chair, his protege Tim Walz.

Yes unbelievable.

I was 40 min into the strangest SNL sketch I had ever seen before I realized I was watching the
DNC leadership elections.

No, this is not a parody. This is not a comedy sketch or skit. This is not a brutal mockery of the DNC or liberal ideology. No, this is absolutely legit. These people are serious and don’t understand how stupid they look and seem and are.

Here is the new Chair of the Democrat Party

So drum roll please. Is Jasmine Crockett the new face of the Democrat party that will bring it home for them? Stay tuned. You will be seeing a lot more of her.

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The United States and Syria – A Short Difficult History

December 11, 2024 — bunkerville

 

An Overview of Syria
 
by Mustang
When the United States achieved its independence, Syria was part of the Ottoman Empire, and its foreign relations were conducted through the Sultan’s government in Istanbul (Constantinople).  In 1922, after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the League of Nations approved a French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon, which gave France exclusive control over their foreign relations.  
 
The United States appointed George Wadsworth as “Agent and Consul General” in 1942 to provide a quasi-diplomatic presence in Damascus until the United States determined whether Syria achieved its complete independence (1944).
The United States recognized Syria as an independent state in September 1944 after the Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (Jamil Mardam Bey) certified that Syria would protect the rights of the United States and its nationals.
In February 1958, Egypt and Syria united to form a new state, the United Arab Republic (UAR).  The United States recognized the UAR in February 1958.  Syria seceded from the UAR three years later and reestablished the independent Syrian Arab Republic.  The United States recognized Syria on October 10, 1961.
Syria severed diplomatic relations with the United States in the wake of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.  In the place of normalized diplomatic relations, the United States established a U.S. Interests Section in February 1974, an adjunct of the Italian Embassy/Syria, and in June of that year, diplomatic relations and the American Embassy in Damascus were re-established.
Syria has been on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism since the list’s inception in 1979 because of its continued support of terrorism and terrorist groups, its former occupation of Lebanon, its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and missile programs, use of chemical weapons, and its ongoing efforts to undermine U.S. and international stabilization activities in Iraq and Syria.
 
Syria is subject to legislatively mandated penalties, including export sanctions under the Syrian Accountability Act and ineligibility to receive most forms of U.S. assistance or to purchase U.S. military equipment. Since the conflict erupted in Syria in March 2011, Executive Orders have been issued in response to the ongoing violence and human rights abuses taking place in Syria.
From 1990 to 2001, the United States and Syria cooperated to a degree on some regional issues.  Relations worsened from 2003 to early 2009, principally due to George Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, an Arab Socialist Ba’athist ally of Syria.  This is when the King of Saud prevailed upon President Bush to turn a blind eye toward the Wahhabist/Saudi-led insurrection against the al-Assad regime in Syria. 
Ostensibly, the United States expressed such concerns as Syria’s becoming a transit point for foreign fighters entering Iraq, its refusal to deport from Syria former elements of the Saddam Hussein regime, interference in Lebanese affairs, its protection of the leadership of Palestinian rejectionist groups in Damascus, its human rights record, and its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction.
In early 2009, the United States began to review its Syria policy in light of changes in the country and the region. This led to an effort to engage with Syria to find areas of mutual interest, reduce regional tensions, and promote Middle East peace.  When matters did not progress as quickly as the U.S. would have liked, the State Department’s propaganda ministry seized on the story of the government’s arrest of school children for writing political graffiti on walls that threatened President al-Assad. 
 
According to this story, the Syrian government brutally responded to the Syrian children’s call for freedom and dignity.  It is a modern variation of the story concocted against the Germans in World War I, who were alleged to have murdered infants in their cribs.
What has happened, though, thanks to the Saudi/Wahhabist-led insurrection, is an armed conflict that has lasted more than nine years, taken more than 500,000 lives, and displaced over 12 million Syrian people.
Meanwhile, the United States is the largest single donor to the humanitarian response in Syria, providing over $12.2 billion in humanitarian assistance for vulnerable individuals inside Syria and those displaced in the region since the start of the crisis. The U.S. government supports emergency food assistance, shelter, safe drinking water, urgent medical care, humanitarian protection activities, and other urgent relief.
Between 2012 – 2018, the U.S. provided non-humanitarian assistance to Saudi/Wahhabist-led rebels, including weapons of mass destruction.  Saudi/Wahhabist-led use of chemical weapons against innocent Syrians was claimed to have been the work of the al-Assad government, which was a complete fabrication by the U.S. government.
 
The U.S. Embassy in Damascus suspended operations in February 2012. The Czech Republic, acting through its Embassy in Damascus, serves as the protecting power for U.S. interests in Syria.  As it did in Tehran in 1953, the United States diplomatic effort is destroying American credibility in the Levant for decades into the future, perhaps guaranteeing that yet unborn Americans will one day have to fight and die in areas that are of no genuine interest to the security or economy of the United States. 
 
Bashar al-Assad is currently residing in Russia under asylum — and we assume a large chunk of America’s $12 billion. 
 

 

Who controls what territory in Syria?

Map of Syria with areas shaded in to show who is in control. Most of the country is shaded to show that it was previously held by the Syrian government. An area to the west stretching almost from north to south and including major cities, shows the area held by the Syrian opposition led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

 

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