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Good lord!

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The esteemed JE Dyer wrote at length about Hochstein this fall in this piece, https://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2023/09/01/heres-motive-hindsight-20-20-on-trumps-disruption-of-obama-biden-enterprises/ It is long and comprehensive. It will probably make more sense to you than to most people..

BLUF is that Hochstein was in the middle of billions of dollars of LNG development in the US, for shipping overseas (prior to Nordstream disappearing, natch). Dyer says that it was the Obama Administration profiting on all sides; but its "energy expert" at the time was Hochstein.

Hochstein was sort of Hunter Biden's brain.

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@Jeff

JE writes in riddles to some extent but there certainly are many, many threads to unravel here. It makes me wonder how much of what JE writes Trump already knows. And yes: Hochstein. Hochstein. Its an amazing story.

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Yeah, that's always my problem with JE. She puts out some good stuff, but I read that long piece this morning and didn't feel like I was getting the big picture. Beyond the corruption. What was the point in getting the rest of the world fracking?

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But it does seem evident (as she writes) that the Obama LNG policy, whatever the ideological underpinnings, soon morphed (metasticized?) into a policy to specifically devalue Russian energy...Both by enabling US exports and by promoting alternatives to Russian energy in Western Europe (and especially in Ukraine) and around the world. When Obama's grifting VP figured this out he dispatched his son to Ukraine (a hopeless pawn of a country increasingly dependent on US intervention) to worm his way into an energy company (Burisma) which would likely benefit from Obama's pro-LNG, anti-Russian energy policy and then to China to seek Big Bucks to finance the Burisma grift, er, energy play. All of this is a form of 'front-running' (although JE doesn't use the term) where the grifter uses knowledge of government policy to get ahead of market information and invest at 'lower' prices. The profit potential is enormous when you're frontrunning US Government policy. Which is what the Bidens were doing when Trump came along and blew the whole thing up by arresting and convicting Patrick Ho, etc. And to think, if Hillary had won...and/or if Hunter's laptop had never been discovered, and/or if Idiot Joe had never stood up and bragged about causing the Ukraine government to fire Shokin, the Bidens would have gotten away with their schemes. Who know how many other schemes they have gotten away with.

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Yes. It seems it turned out to be a bust in some--maybe most--instances. For example, there was a flurry of excitement when Poland thought it had large frackable deposits, but it turned out negative. However, more conventional deposits in the Black Sea area being accessed. The big question for the Neocons becomes how to keep the Balkans, Turkey, and the Caucasus in line against Russia. This may be why we're seeing UK troops patrolling in Kosovo.

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Thanks!

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So...if Hochstein has no educational credentials or relevant experience and he is a dual citizen...does that mean that his qualification is that he is Israeli agent? If so, that means Biden employs an Israeli agent as a senior adviser?

I thought so.

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So, Pollard returns home to a hero’s welcome for successfully spying on the USA for Israel. Some friend and ally we have here.

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There's an embedded video of Pollard on a recent Larry Johnston article here (second media item down)

https://sonar21.com/hostage-release-creating-more-pr-problems-for-israel/

He argues that the families of hostages taken by Hamas should have been told to "keep their mouths shut, or we'll shut them for you" . . .

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Sounds like a "construct" generated by Intelligence connections.

Anyone remember Jeffrey Epstein, who appeared from nowhere, didn't have a degree and was suddenly advising billionaires. A billionaire himself, except no one could find records of trading activity.

I'm Just Sayin

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Didn't he commit suicide? Oh, wait ...

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Anyone surprised that energy - that still means gas and oil - are at the fulcrum of power politics? Maybe the long game does involve that gas field off Gaza. Some big western power players have their fingers in that pie. Israel gets to expand and the west gets energy? IDK, but I do know the bastards running this shitshow don’t care about ordinary people.

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Gas and oil. (And coal.)

Here in the Pacific Northwest we are made to suffer through agonizing political games in furtherance of green energy initiatives that are all funded by fiat money -- a lot of which goes out of the country. Other countries are fracking us for green dollars. A company in Europe buys windmills made in China to install in Washington state so the Governor can get re-elected for meeting his climate goals.

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Reminds me of my neighbour, he excelled academically and got a temporary placement at an exclusive Jewish law firm.

To his surprise he saw Jewish children being instructed in the firm before they even went to University or got the marks for such a placement. It was simply a given they’d run the show some day.

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when Burisma demanded "deliverables" from Hunter Biden in late October 2015, Hunter immediately went to see Hochstein, who was one of Joe Biden's capos in Ukraine operation. Two weeks later, Joe went on the trip to Ukraine where he demanded Shokin;s resignation.

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Capo--I think that sums it up. I'm sure there's lots more to be dug up.

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A Capo of the Khazarian mafia. The truth is becoming clearer every day.

Pollard was flown to Israel on Sheldon Adelson’s private Jet………isn’t Adelson a key donor to the Republican side of the aisle? This demonstrates the standard divide and conquer strategy and an example of how the Rothchild’s grew so rich funding and fomenting wars between France and England. They bet against their own countries while feeding each other inside information. Betting on the chaos they create.

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If this “ball licker” was involved in Tellurian, I’m now not surprised why TELL is sooooo good. Feel free to check the stock performance. While back it was one of my favorite LNG underdog in the industry.

But I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. If you want to get a government license/contract you have to employ (on paper) someone from government.

Do you guy remember who said that today’s government is just legalized mafia???

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Amazing post Mark!

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Dual citizenship people should not be in these positions. Aligned to Jewish congressmen after his IDF days. Hhhhmm... I smell Mossad and the Israeli lobby. Also read somewhere in the past he also was involved with the Clinton's in Bill's two terms. Why is no one asking questions about this guy? For years too. Sketchy.

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…and here was Gen Flynn, just applying protocol in contacting the heads of foreign states…oh, woops! Trump. Had to go. Imagine if Trump had sent some Amos Hochstein hybrid citizen with a blurry background to do our dirty work abroad- all hell would break loose! Has anyway.

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Sounds like he's a friend of Hunter. And his wife's maiden name is Ringle, as in Charlie?

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The "esteemed" NY rep's last name is Rangel.

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I think we can safely say that a large number of US Gov't employees collect a US Gov't paycheck....while working for the interests of other countries. Its like a bad spy novel!

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For some odd reason I laughed uncontrollably while reading this article about famous Amos Hochstein! With my own extensive background in the military, oil&gas, agricultural and transportation fields, I should be at the top of list for all sorts of lucrative positions, when a gig in Mongolia becomes available, call me! My grandfather used to tell me "it's not WHAT you know, it's WHO you know", friends in high places are the best. Obviously, Amos is a "made man" in some unnamed mafia/cartel org., what kind of pizza does his restaurant serve? And that theater, hmmmmm, that's what I thought.

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I was also thinking Amos has an advanced degree in... Who You Know Not What You Know.

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Yes, SCT, Amos J. Hochstein has all the apparent nominal qualifications in his fields that Otis B. Driftwood does, as opposed to you. But now for the important question: are you Mossad? Actually, now I am reminded of the football player from yesteryear, Otis Sistrunk, who would announce himself in the pregame lineups as having attended the "University of Mars." Maybe that's where Hochstein went.

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Seriously, I was going to guess we have a guy named Shawn McShane who graduated from a high school in Houston, enlisted in the US Army and is now embedded in the Knesset, and nobody talks about it in Jerusalem because it is so commonplace.

I like Otis.

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I now know how foolish I was not to have signed up for the Mossad. I could have converted to Judaism so as to become a dual citizen, if only I had known then what I know now, somebody, anybody, slap me !!!

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No, you did the right thing! I wouldn't want to be one of them about now or for that matter in the future, either.

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