THE BLACK CUBE
ONE MORE FREAKY HATE AND ANTI-GOVERNMENT GROUP
COMPILATION AND COMMENTARY
BY LUCY WARNER

JUNE 6, 2018


DO WATCH THIS LATEST RACHEL MADDOW VIDEO. WHERE DO ALL THESE PEOPLE COME FROM? UNDER ROCKS IN THE DESERT?

Inside Black Cube and its work to scuttle the Iran nuclear deal
Company documents and sources detail how the Israeli private security firm spied on former Obama administration officials in an effort to undermine the Iran nuclear deal.. Duration: 11:22


THE FOLLOWING IS THE BLACK CUBE OF THE RACHEL MADDOW VIDEO ABOVE WHO HAVE DONE SOME ALARMING THINGS. FROM RECENT MSNBC NEWS IS A SPY ORGANIZATION RELATED TO ISRAEL. SEE THE FOLLOWING STORY.

BLACK CUBE

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ben-rhodes-black-cube-spy-firm-isreal-obama-officials-red-and-blue-interview-live-stream-2018-06-04/
By PETER MARTINEZ CBS NEWS June 4, 2018, 8:46 PM
Ben Rhodes: I'd be "surprised" if Israel didn't know about Black Cube spy firm

Ben Rhodes, who served as President Obama's campaign speechwriter and later his deputy national security adviser, said Monday that "he would be surprised" that a private intelligence agency with ties to the Israeli government were "somehow operating without the knowledge of the Israeli government." Rhodes said in an interview Monday night on CBSN's "Red & Blue" that the group, Black Cube, was involved in collecting information about former President Obama and some officials.

Ben Rhodes, who served as President Obama's campaign speechwriter and later his deputy national security advisor, said Monday the Trump administration's reversal of so many Obama administration policies is based not on ideology but simply because they were put into place by President Obama.

Rhodes (who is the brother of CBS News president David Rhodes) joined "CBS This Morning" to discuss policymaking in the Obama administration, and his new book, "The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House."

Co-host Gayle King asked Rhodes whether Mr. Obama or other members his administration feel that the current president is now trying to "unravel and undo everything that the Obama administration did."

"There are certain policies that they've targeted – Paris climate agreement, Cuba, TPP," said Rhodes, referring to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. "There's not an ideological rationale for why you would take down all of those policies, other than that Barack Obama did them."

Trump administration reverses Obama transgender policies (CBS News, 02/22/17)
Trump signs executive order dismantling Obama environmental regulations (CBS News, 03/28/17)
Trump reverses Obama-era rule on Planned Parenthood, abortion provider funding (CBS News, 04/13/17)
Trump takes aim at Obama's ban on corporations' offshore tax havens (CBS Moneywatch, 04/21/17)
Trump's EPA to ease emissions restrictions (CBS News, 10/07/17)
Trump reverses Obama-era ban on import of elephant trophies from Zimbabwe (CBS News, 11/16/17)

"I say in the book we didn't get everything right. I say that there are things I'm not certain about, and I'll be saying it for the rest of my life. I'll be thinking about the decision-making on Syria the rest of my life," Rhodes said, reflecting on the shortcomings of the U.S. response as Syria's civil war spiraled out of control.

the-world-as-it-is-cover-random-house-244.jpg
RANDOM HOUSE

"[But] the fact that America is a progressive, inclusive country that has a future that is more inclusive and more diverse, that I truly do believe. And frankly I think the project of the Obama presidency that will endure for decades, that's the direction America is headed – and that's not the direction Donald Trump is headed.

"So, I think when history has its accounting, America is going to end up looking a lot more like the Obama presidency than the Trump presidency."

When asked about a comment by Mr. Obama following the 2016 election in which he said, "What if we were wrong?," Rhodes said, "President Obama wasn't unlike a lot of Americans after the election. He was trying to figure it out. There were different theories: Was it Russian meddling? Was it the campaign that the Democrats ran? We were on that last foreign trip and I was sitting with him in his presidential limousine and he'd read a column saying that maybe Democrats had pushed too far in the embrace of globalization and had gotten away from that sense of identity that is important to people, part of which was what President Trump had stoked.

"But I think, frankly, the reality is, any number of causal factors led to President Trump, and what I answer in the book is that question, which is, I don't think we were wrong."

Co-host Norah O'Donnell asked if Mr. Trump won on a message of change.

"That was his message," Rhodes said. "The racism and misogyny was also a part of the message, and that's important to know."

Rhodes said he felt "shell-shocked" by Clinton's loss, and admitted not considering the likelihood of a Trump win. But when asked whether the question "What if we were wrong?" was an indictment of the American electorate for not being willing to further the advances of Mr. Obama's presidency, Rhodes replied, "Absolutely not. What President Obama has said his entire political career is, his bet was always on the American people. He couldn't become the first African-American president, a two-term president, without the confidence of the American people.

0604-ctm-benrhodesqa-1582939-640x360.jpg
Former Obama speechwriter and deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes. CBS NEWS

"I think what he's getting at is a bigger phenomenon in the world. We were on a trip that led up to that comment that he made, when we saw Angela Merkel in Germany who'd taken huge flack for letting in Syrian refugees. She literally had a tear in her eye the last time she saw President Obama. We left Justin Trudeau sitting there alone wondering what was going to happen with President Trump, and now we see.

"We've seen the President Xi Jinping of China, who made kind of an ominous comment to us that if an immature leader throws the world into chaos, the world doesn't know who to blame. He was not talking about President Obama!

"And I think what he's referring to there is a sense of globalization, of immigration, trade. We're part of an enterprise, basically, a liberal international order that had pushed very far at changing the nature of our world over the last several decades, and the question is, did that get too far ahead of voters in places like the United States and United Kingdom who were feeling a sense of uncertainty because of that change?"

With regard to Mr. Trump's moving forward with plans for a summit with North Korea later this month, co-host John Dickerson asked, "I know you're not a fan of President Trump, but doesn't he deserve his due in getting this to where it's gotten so far?"

"Look, I think diplomacy is preferable to military conflict. The question is, what does that diplomacy produce? What I think is most likely is you'll see the North Koreans make commitments to denuclearize in the future, but in the past we've seen them make those commitments and not follow through. The follow-through is a question for them."

"The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House" by Ben Rhodes (Random House) is available via Amazon.
© 2018 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.

David Morgan
David Morgan is a senior editor at CBSNews.com and cbssundaymorning.com.



I WAS RESEARCHING A DANGEROUS NEW SPY ORGANIZATION THAT WAS ON THE NEWS WHEN I CAME ACROSS THIS. IF YOU'RE INTERESTTED IN RELIGION, LOOK AT THIS. THE ORIGINAL BLACK CUBE IS NOT AN ORGANIZATION, BUT A THING, AND A VERY INTERESTING ONE. SEE THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE.

https://www.google.com/search?q=black+cube+mecca&oq=BLACK+CUBE&aqs=chrome.4.69i59j0j69i59j0l3.9452j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
What is the black cube in Mecca?

The Black Stone of Mecca, or Kaaba Stone, is a Muslim relic, which according to Islamic tradition dates back to the time of Adam and Eve. It is the eastern cornerstone of the Kaaba, the ancient sacred stone building towards which Muslims pray, in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH OF THE “BLACK STONE.” IT LOOKS LIKE A HUGE BLACK BOX, BUT IT IS A BUILDING, THE KAABA. READ ALL ABOUT IT ON WIKIPEDIA. THE ARTICLE IS ONLY TWO OR THREE PAGES LONG, AND TELLS A RECAP OF THE HISTORY. THE KAABA IS THOUGHT TO BE “THE FIRST HOUSE OF WORSHIP, AND IT PREDATES THE BIRTH OF MOHAMMAD. IT IS THOUGHT TO BE NABATEAN ORIGINALLY. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba







THIS STORY NOW MOVES TO FERGUSON, MO. IT LINKS SEVERAL MILITIA AND ANARCHIST GROUPS. SEE BELOW.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/presence-of-militia-style-group-oath-keepers-in-ferguson-questioned/
CBS/AP August 11, 2015, 7:47 AM
Presence of militia-style group in Ferguson questioned

FERGUSON, Missouri - In the midst of a spasm of tension in Ferguson, Missouri, on the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, several heavily armed men carrying assault rifles and flak jackets appeared, and they weren't cops.

Instead, they said they were members of the Oath Keepers. The group, led by a man identified only as John, told reporters they were in Ferguson to protect a journalist for InfoWars.com, a conservative website run by radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

"There were problems here, there were people who got hurt.We needed to be prepared for that," John told Reuters.

An Infowars representative told Reuters that it had not asked them for security.

"We happen to be in some of the same circumstances as theyare on occasion and ideologically we may share the same views,"said the representative, who asked not to be named citing security concerns. "They are there of their own volition and secondarily they are there to protect anyone who is innocent. Of course, we fall under that because our reporters are reporting."

Ferguson: One year later
29 PHOTOS
Ferguson: One year later

One member of the militia-style group described the Oath Keepers as constitutionalists. On their website, they say they are "a non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military, police, and first responders who pledge to fulfill the oath all military and police take to 'defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic."'

In a statement, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar called their presence "both unnecessary and inflammatory." St. Louis County police and prosecutors told CBS News said they would consult about the legality of openly displaying the weapons during a state of emergency, which had been declared Monday after violence rocked Ferguson during protests the previous evening.

Jones' website is well known for hosting inflammatory conservative rhetoric, and posting items that take an extreme view of current events. One of the headlines produced about the recent Ferguson unrest screams: "PROTESTERS DECLARE THEY ARE READY FOR WAR AS AMERICA'S IMPOVERISHED INNER CITIES THREATEN TO ERUPT."

Who are "sovereign citizens"?
Play VIDEO
Who are "sovereign citizens"?

A separate video claiming to be from an Oath Keepers' award banquet shows one of them imploring members to "assume the worst" and "prepare for economic collapse."

Oath Keepers is a national group best known as supporters of the Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy during a 2014 dispute with the Bureau of Land Management. The Idaho group gets its name from the 3 percent of Americans who fought in the Revolutionary War.

They come from what was a general rise in sometimes-violent anti-government activity in the Inland Northwest. After a lull following the demise of the Idaho-based neo-Nazi Aryan Nations in 2000, anti-government and white supremacist groups and individuals saw a dramatic uptick in activity and organization.

The Oath Keepers appear to still be active in multiple parts of the country. Last week, they were among several similar groups involved in a dispute in Montana over a mining claim.

The groups were there in support of a mine owner who is in contention with the U.S. Forest Service over his claim. Members of Oath Keepers, Pacific Patriot Network and 3% of Idaho said they came to Lincoln - the former hometown of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski - at White Hope Mine owner George Kornec's request.

In 2011, a member of the Georgia Oath Keepers, Darren Huff, was convicted in Tennessee on a federal firearms charge in what police said was a plot to take over a Tennessee courthouse and force President Barack Obama out of office.

Oath Keepers
Members of the Oath Keepers walk with their personal weapons on the street during protests in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 11, 2015. REUTERS/LUCAS JACKSON