8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (9)
#10358756 at 2020-08-20 16:32:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13255: This Week Just Went Hot Edition
Nat Myers, best friend, former Harvard classmate and handler of Mayor Pete
THE INSIDER: HOW NATIONAL SECURITY MANDARINS GROOMED PETE BUTTIGIEG AND MANAGED HIS FUTURE
Author: Max Blumenthal
(excerpts of interesting, but complicated article)
In his bio, Nathaniel Myers identified himself simply as a "financial analyst based in Ethiopia." According to his resume, which is available online at Linkedin, he was working at the time as a World Bank consultant on governance and corruption.
By 2011, Myers had moved on from that neoliberal international financial institution to a specialized government at the center of US regime change operations abroad.
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In his bio, Nathaniel Myers identified himself simply as a "financial analyst based in Ethiopia." According to his resume, which is available online at Linkedin, he was working at the time as a World Bank consultant on governance and corruption.
By 2011, Myers had moved on from that neoliberal international financial institution to a specialized government at the center of US regime change operations abroad.
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/17/national-security-mandarins-groomed-pete-buttigieg/
#8189113 at 2020-02-20 01:52:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10483: HIGH ENERGY Phoenix Rally Edition
Very Confessions of an Economic Hitman
>>8188905
>https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/17/national-security-mandarins-groomed-pete-buttigieg/
#8188905 at 2020-02-20 01:37:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10483: HIGH ENERGY Phoenix Rally Edition
Nathaniel Meyers, Pete's Best Man at his wedding and Harvard buddy, works to violently undermine governments. Worthy read, but a not long. Written by Max Blumenthal (Sydney Blumenthal's son)
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/17/national-security-mandarins-groomed-pete-buttigieg/
#8140895 at 2020-02-15 02:55:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10421: The 23:23 Edition
(Excerpts from this article written by Max Blumenthal)
(Dig on Nat Myers) Part 2
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/17/national-security-mandarins-groomed-pete-buttigieg/
Nathaniel Myers' relationship with the presidential hopeful began at Harvard University. There, they formed two parts of "The Order of Kong," a close-knit group of political junkies named jokingly for the Chinese restaurant they frequented after intensive discussion sessions at the school's Institute of Politics.
Like most members of the college-era "Order," Myers and Buttigieg have remained close. When the mayor married his longtime partner in 2018, Buttigieg chose him as his best man.
Myers currently works as a senior advisor for the United States Agency for International Development's Office of Transition Initiatives (USAID-OTI) in Washington DC. The OTI is a specialized division of USAID that routinely works through contractors and local proxies to orchestrate destabilization operations inside countries considered insufficiently compliant to the dictates of Washington.
Wherever the US seeks regime change, it seems that USAID's OTI is involved.
#8140888 at 2020-02-15 02:54:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10421: The 23:23 Edition
>>8140825
>https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/17/national-security-mandarins-groomed-pete-buttigieg/
Notabled 2xs here:
https://qresear.ch/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fthegrayzone.com%2F2019%2F12%2F17%2Fnational-security-mandarins-groomed-pete-buttigieg%2F
8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (2)
#8131968 at 2020-02-14 08:00:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10410: Getting Towards Late Night Edition
How national security mandarins groomed Pete Buttigieg and managed his future
December 17, 2019
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#7576149 at 2019-12-21 02:14:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9692: SPACE FORCE BABY Edition
The insider: How national security mandarins groomed Pete Buttigieg and managed his future
https://qresear.ch/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fthegrayzone.com%2F2019%2F12%2F17%2Fnational-security-mandarins-groomed-pete-buttigieg%2F
Qresear.ch is your fren
Read the notables there anon.. pointless to repeat what's already been done.
#8140873 at 2020-02-15 02:52:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10421: The 23:23 Edition
>>8140825
>https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/17/national-security-mandarins-groomed-pete-buttigieg/
Notabled 2xs here:
https://qresear.ch/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fthegrayzone.com%2F2019%2F12%2F17%2Fnational-security-mandarins-groomed-pete-buttigieg%2F
8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (2)
#8131968 at 2020-02-14 08:00:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10410: Getting Towards Late Night Edition
How national security mandarins groomed Pete Buttigieg and managed his future
December 17, 2019
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#7576149 at 2019-12-21 02:14:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9692: SPACE FORCE BABY Edition
The insider: How national security mandarins groomed Pete Buttigieg and managed his future
https://qresear.ch/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fthegrayzone.com%2F2019%2F12%2F17%2Fnational-security-mandarins-groomed-pete-buttigieg%2F
Read the notables anon.. pointless to repeat what's already been done.
#8140825 at 2020-02-15 02:46:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10421: The 23:23 Edition
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/17/national-security-mandarins-groomed-pete-buttigieg/
(Excerpts from this article written by Max Blumenthal)
(Dig on Nat Myers) Part 1
His Harvard social network has been a critical factor in his rise as well, with college buddies occupying key campaign roles as outside policy advisors and strategists. Among his closest friends from school is today the senior advisor of a specialized unit of the State Department focused on fomenting regime change abroad.
That friend, Nathaniel "Nat" Myers, was Buttigieg's traveling partner on a trip to Somaliland, where the two buddies claimed to have been tourists in a July 2008 article they wrote for The New York Times.
Their contribution to the paper was not any typical travelogue detailing a whimsical safari. Instead, they composed a slick editorial that echoed the Somaliland government's call for recognition from the US government. It was Buttigieg's first foreign policy audition before a national audience.
A short, strange trip to Somaliland
Under public pressure for more transparency about his work at the notoriously secretive McKinsey consulting firm, the Buttigieg campaign released some background details this December. The disclosures included a timeline of his work for various clients that stated he "stepped away from the firm during the late summer and fall of 2008 to help full-time with a Democratic campaign for governor in Indiana."
How Buttigieg's "full-time" role on that gubernatorial campaign took him on a nearly 8,000-mile detour to Somaliland remains unclear.
Buttigieg and Nathaniel Myers spent only 24 hours in the autonomous region of Somaliland. In that short time, they interviewed unnamed government officials and faithfully relayed their pro-independence line back to the American public in a July 2008 op-ed in the New York Times.
Pete Buttigieg New York Times Somaliland
The column read like it could have been crafted by a public relations firm on behalf of a government client. In one section, the two travelers wrote that "the people we met in Somaliland were welcoming, hopeful and bewildered by the absence of recognition from the West. They were frustrated to still be overlooked out of respect for the sovereignty of the failed state to their south."
Since declaring its independence from Somalia in 1991, Somaliland has campaigned for recognition from the US, EU, and African Union. It even offered to hand its deep water port over to AFRICOM, the US military command structure on the African continent, in exchange for US acceptance of its sovereignty.
Several months after Buttigieg traveled to the autonomous region, Al Jazeera reported, "The Somaliland government is trying to charm its way to global recognition."
And just a few weeks before Buttigieg's visit, the would-be republic inked a contract with an international lobbying firm called Independent Diplomat, presumably to help oversee that charm offensive.
Founded by a self-described anarchist named Carne Ross, Independent Diplomat represents an array of non and para-state entities seeking recognition on the international stage. Ross's client list has included the Syrian Opposition Coalition, which tried and failed to secure power through a Western-backed war against the Syrian government.
Independent Diplomat did not respond to questions from The Grayzone about whether it had any role in facilitating the trip Buttigieg and Myers took to Somaliland.
According to John Kiriakou, a former CIA case officer, ex-senior investigator for the Senate Intelligence Committee, and celebrated whistleblower, Somaliland is an unusual destination for tourism.
"There really is nothing going on in Somaliland," Kiriakou told The Grayzone. "To say you go to Somaliland as a tourist is a joke to me. It's not a war-torn area but nobody goes there as a tourist."
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To reach Somaliland, Kiriakou said he took an arduous seven-hour journey from the neighboring state of Djibouti. His junket was coordinated by the US ambassador to Djibouti, a regional security officer of the US Diplomatic Security Service, and an embassy attaché.
"It is not the easiest place to reach and there's no business to do there," Kiriakou said.
Whether or not Buttigieg's trip was coordinated without the assistance of lobbyists, the trip offered him and Myers an opportunity to weigh in on international affairs on the pages of the supposed newspaper of record - and on an absolutely non-controversial issue.
In his bio, Nathaniel Myers identified himself simply as a "financial analyst based in Ethiopia." According to his resume, which is available online at Linkedin, he was working at the time as a World Bank consultant on governance and corruption.
By 2011, Myers had moved on from that neoliberal international financial institution to a specialized government at the center of US regime change operations abroad.
#8131968 at 2020-02-14 07:00:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10410: Getting Towards Late Night Edition
How national security mandarins groomed Pete Buttigieg and managed his future
December 17, 2019
Pledging to "end endless wars," Pete Buttigieg claims he has "never been part of the Washington establishment." But years before he was known as Mayor Pete, an influential DC network of military interventionists placed him on an inside track to power.
Under public pressure for more transparency about his work at the notoriously secretive McKinsey consulting firm, the Buttigieg campaign released some background details this December. The disclosures included a timeline of his work for various clients that stated he "stepped away from the firm during the late summer and fall of 2008 to help full-time with a Democratic campaign for governor in Indiana." How Buttigieg's "full-time" role on that gubernatorial campaign took him on a nearly 8,000-mile detour to Somaliland remains unclear. Buttigieg and Nathaniel Myers spent only 24 hours in the autonomous region of Somaliland. In that short time, they interviewed unnamed government officials and faithfully relayed their pro-independence line back to the American public in a July 2008 op-ed in the New York Times.
The column read like it could have been crafted by a public relations firm on behalf of a government client. In one section, the two travelers wrote that "the people we met in Somaliland were welcoming, hopeful and bewildered by the absence of recognition from the West. They were frustrated to still be overlooked out of respect for the sovereignty of the failed state to their south." Since declaring its independence from Somalia in 1991, Somaliland has campaigned for recognition from the US, EU, and African Union. It even offered to hand its deep water port over to AFRICOM, the US military command structure on the African continent, in exchange for US acceptance of its sovereignty. Several months after Buttigieg traveled to the autonomous region, Al Jazeera reported, "The Somaliland government is trying to charm its way to global recognition." And just a few weeks before Buttigieg's visit, the would-be republic inked a contract with an international lobbying firm called Independent Diplomat, presumably to help oversee that charm offensive.
Founded by a self-described anarchist named Carne Ross, Independent Diplomat represents an array of non and para-state entities seeking recognition on the international stage. Ross's client list has included the Syrian Opposition Coalition, which tried and failed to secure power through a Western-backed war against the Syrian government. Independent Diplomat did not respond to questions from The Grayzone about whether it had any role in facilitating the trip Buttigieg and Myers took to Somaliland.
According to John Kiriakou, a former CIA case officer, ex-senior investigator for the Senate Intelligence Committee, and celebrated whistleblower, Somaliland is an unusual destination for tourism. "There really is nothing going on in Somaliland," Kiriakou told The Grayzone. "To say you go to Somaliland as a tourist is a joke to me. It's not a war-torn area but nobody goes there as a tourist." Kiriakou visited Somaliland in 2009 as part of an investigation for the Senate Intelligence Committee on what he described as the phenomenon of "blue-eyed" American citizens converting to Islam, traveling to Somalia and Yemen for training with Salafi-jihadist groups, then returning home on their US passports.
To reach Somaliland, Kiriakou said he took an arduous seven-hour journey from the neighboring state of Djibouti. His junket was coordinated by the US ambassador to Djibouti, a regional security officer of the US Diplomatic Security Service, and an embassy attaché. "It is not the easiest place to reach and there's no business to do there," Kiriakou said. Whether or not Buttigieg's trip was coordinated without the assistance of lobbyists, the trip offered him and Myers an opportunity to weigh in on international affairs on the pages of the supposed newspaper of record - and on an absolutely non-controversial issue.
In his bio, Nathaniel Myers identified himself simply as a "financial analyst based in Ethiopia." According to his resume, which is available online at Linkedin, he was working at the time as a World Bank consultant on governance and corruption. By 2011, Myers had moved on from that neoliberal international financial institution to a specialized government at the center of US regime change operations abroad.
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/17/national-security-mandarins-groomed-pete-buttigieg/
#7576149 at 2019-12-21 01:14:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9692: SPACE FORCE BABY Edition
The insider: How national security mandarins groomed Pete Buttigieg and managed his future
Pledging to "end endless wars," Pete Buttigieg claims he has "never been part of the Washington establishment." But years before he was known as Mayor Pete, an influential DC network of military interventionists placed him on an inside track to power.
In his quest for front-runner status in the 2020 presidential campaign, Pete Buttigieg has crafted an image for himself as a maverick running against a broken establishment.
On the trail, he has invoked his distinction as the openly gay mayor of a de-industrialized Rust Belt town, as well as his experience as a Naval reserve intelligence officer who now claims to oppose "endless wars". He insists that "there's energy for an outsider like me," promoting himself as "an unconventional candidate."
When former Secretary of State John Kerry endorsed Joe Biden this December, Buttigieg went full maverick. "I have never been part of the Washington establishment," he proclaimed, "and I recognize that there are relationships among senators who have been together on Capitol Hill as long as I've been alive and that is what it is."
But a testy exchange between the South Bend mayor and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard during a November 20 Democratic primary debate had already complicated Buttigieg's branding campaign.
Like Buttigieg, Gabbard was a military veteran of the 9/11 generation. But she had taken an entirely different set of lessons from her grueling stint in Iraq than "Mayor Pete." Her campaign had become an anti-war crusade, with opposition to destructive regime change wars serving as her leitmotif.
After ticking off her foreign policy credentials, Gabbard turned to Buttigieg and lit into him for stating his willingness to send US troops to Mexico to crack down on drug cartels.
More
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/17/national-security-mandarins-groomed-pete-buttigieg/