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Obama Appoints French Economist Funded by Saudi Billionaire to Shape US Global Development Polic | |
2013-01-08 | |
But there's one particular billionaire at Duflo's back. Abdul Latif Jameel. Esther Duflo is one of the co-founders of the Poverty Action Lab at MIT, more commonly known as J-PAL for the father of Abdul Latif Jameel aka Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel, a Saudi billionaire with a net worth of approximately 5 billion dollars. Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel owns the world's largest Toyota dealership and sits on the board of Coexist as well as a number of other organizations. And Jameel provided 3 major endowments for J-PAL. Around the same time the Abdul Latif Jameel Group sued the Wall Street Journal for reporting its presence on the list of accounts monitored for funding terrorism. Mohammed's brother was sued by victims of Al Qaeda on accusations that he helped fund its terrorist activities after his name was found on a list in the offices of Benevolence International Foundation, an Al Qaeda front group started by Bin Laden's brother-in-law. Now Obama has chosen Duflo to serve on the President's Global Development Council which will shape American global development policy worldwide. | |
Posted by:tipper |
#3 This Global Development Council is essentially window dressing. Presidents (not just this one) appoint cronies, friends of cronies and friends of friends to them all the time. The crony gets some prestige, the President gets continued praise, lackeydom, etc. |
Posted by: lord garth 2013-01-08 19:51 |
#2 What Could Possibly Go Wrong?® |
Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 2013-01-08 16:09 |
#1 Sounds about right. |
Posted by: Iblis 2013-01-08 14:19 |