Businessman, dealer, financier, philanthropist,This Lebanese-American has more than 25 years
of experience in investment banking, private equity and international trade and has been involved in more than 125 transactions with a value as a whole that exceeds 10,000 million in banks
investment, high yield bonds or debt markets financier difficulties.

He is currently president and CEO of Blackhawk Partners, a family office private equity based in New York acts in companies and projects based in both the United States and emerging markets. Ziad K Abdelnour is also author of the bestseller Economic Warfare: Secrets of wealth creation in the age of welfare politics, published in December 2011

Obamacare’s Subsidy Trap For The Poor
By Eric Dixon – Board Member – Financial Policy Council Inc

Obamacare critics fearful of the federal government controlling one-sixth of the nation’s economy and the resulting loss of freedom have missed both the most serious threat to freedom and its likeliest victims. Obamacare stands to turn millions of our neighbors into criminals. That’s because seeking a subsidy in order to obey the mandate of — never mind afford — the Affordable Care Act (“ACA,” but referred universally as Obamacare)1 can easily put our most economically and educationally vulnerable fellow citizens on a path to jail. If this be compassion, it is true only in the same sense that euthanasia fulfills the definition.

The dreaded individual mandate 2 is the root of the problem, because complying with PPACA requires everyone (with narrow exceptions for undocumented aliens and certain religious objectors) to buy and keep a compliant health insurance policy. The mandatory and significant costs of even the cheapest Obamacare-compliant plan premiums first raise an affordability concern, but the premiums are no longer a discretionary expense. Insurance premiums now must be paid before truly essential but not mandated expenses like rent or food, indeed before any other expense! The financial pressure on low and middle-income Americans is obvious — at least if you are law-abiding. The PPACA will reduce disposable income, coerce a recalibration of priorities of expenditures and induce economic stress on middle-class and low-income Americans. The “trap,” as I call it, is the allure of government subsidies for people based on income…more

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Blackhawk Partners/Inter-M Traders and Woodside LLC sign a $500 Million Agreement to Fund & Facilitate the purchase and sale of commodities transactions (i.e.: Oil and Gold) and energy projects globally…

Blackhawk Partners/Inter- M Traders; two family offices involved in the physical commodities trading business, are excited to announce that they have signed today a Partnership Agreement with Woodside LLC; a finance provider involved in global physical commodity trading and investments. Blackhawk Partners/Inter-M Traders will secure and provide to the partnership commodities allocation(s) and Woodside LLC will finance the aforementioned transactions alongside highly opportunistic Energy investment projects as well

About Blackhawk Partners
Blackhawk Partners, Inc., led by seasoned financier Ziad K Abdelnour, is one of the world’s most reliable traders and suppliers of a wide range of commodities to industrial and financial consumers globally.

About Inter-M Traders
Inter-M Traders Ltd., led by veteran trader Demetri Michalakis, is a privately operated international trading firm focusing on the physical supply of energy products..

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Asking for money from private equity investors such as ourselves, here are some practical private equity investment tips to keep in mind:

Continually take temperature. Only 5-10% of entrepreneurs I work with ask closing questions like: Have I answered all of your key questions? Or, even better: How do I compare with the other 100 business plans on your desk and what is the likelihood we’ll reach serious due diligence? Get to the truth early. Waste no time.

Course-correct based on feedback. Chances are objections you hear at one private equity group will be concerns at another. Incorporate the feedback you hear-either by adding it or refuting it. Think of this feedback as sparring practice. It is like training that makes you stronger in fighting real challengers to your success.

Conduct your own due diligence. This process is the foundation for the long term partnership. Experienced entrepreneurs know that the investor relationship is akin to marriage.

Finally, don’t sign the deal unless you can comfortably answer the question: Will they be a good partner when things don’t go according to plan? Because we all know, they never do

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International dealmaker, Ziad K Abdelnour talks about the various rebels he has learnt from. He read over 300 biographies and even got to meet some of these rebels.

Ziad talks about that to be the best at what you do you need to think “outside the cube’, this is essentially what a ‘rebel’ does.

Ziad K Abdelnour personally invests in very few companies and talks about how important it is to not only know the product but the people that run the company. Things do go wrong in business, but if you have a good team they can turn things around.
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I say that the Republicans should call Obama’s bluff.

Obama and the Democrats can’t afford to let the government shut down.

It is the Democrats, not Republicans, who have doubled our national debt in the four plus years Obama has been in office.

It is his policies that have resulted in trillion dollar deficits each year, and it is the Democrats who continue funding failing ventures (Solyndra, etc.).

The biggest boondoggle of all, Obamacare, was passed without a single Republican vote.

It will be difficult for Obama and the Democrats to argue that the Republicans are the ones responsible for our economic problems.

I say it is time to start balancing our budget, stop borrowing, and start reducing our national debt.

The Republicans need to stand firm.

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In this podcast, Wall St for Main St interviewed Ziad K Abdelnour on potential military strike in Syria and how it will effect the Federal Reserve monetary policy, the price of oil, gold and silver and the overall economy. Also, Wall St for Main St touched on the subject of the ongoing protest for higher wages in the U.S and across the globe.

Any idiot – starting even with the Harvard educated bozos from the media – who believe al-Qaeda will rule Syria after Assad knows little if anything about Syria. Experts or not, they are CLUELESS.

Let me provide you with some basic facts to clear up your brainwashed mind.

Syria’s literacy rate is 84.1%, with males accounting for 90.3% and females for 77.7% in a population of almost 23 million.

Afghanistan’s literacy rate is 28.1% with males accounting for 43.1% and females for 12.6% (Yr. 2000 estimates) in a population of over 31 million.

Syria’s non-Muslims account for 26% and if you add the liberal Kurds, estimated at 15%, Syria’s minorities are well above 41% or 9,400,000 Syrians.

Look what happened in Egypt with only a 16% minorities of the population.

Afghanistan’s non-Muslim minorities are 1% or 310,000 Afghani citizens.

The majority of Sunni Muslims in Syria are liberal-minded with many high officials serving the Assad murderous regime. They stand by Assad because of their political ideology, not because of Sunni Islam. As Nazis abandoned their ideology when they were defeated, so will the Ba’athists abandon theirs when the US makes-up its mind to defeat Iran by defeating Assad. All the liberal Sunnis will stand-up to al-Qaeda with the same fervor we all stand against Assad today.

There were no minorities serving in the Taliban Government of Mullah Omar. Check this fact only if you believe the sun will not rise tomorrow.

On top, Syrians can rely on the March 14 Movement in Lebanon, the Jordanian Government, and the liberal Iraqis for support in defeating any traces of al-Qaeda after Assad.

There is a reason why Osama bin Laden selected Afghanistan to become the base of his operations and why today’s al-Qaeda is tilting towards Yemen, a country with a population profile closer to Afghanistan than Syria.

The children and the women Assad gassed were not poor illiterate peasants. They happen to be very well educated because Syrians understand the value of an education. They died because Assad intends to cleanse Sunni Muslims by gassing them all if necessary, and without Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, hundreds of thousands would have perished by now.

Wake up for a change before it’s too late.

If we can’t stop Syria on chemical weapons how will we stop Iran on nuclear weapons? Limited strike is no option. Only option is regime change. The West’s reaction on the Syrian front shouldn’t be perceived as a litmus test regarding how we can expect the U.S. and other Western countries to react if and when Iran is on the verge of attaining nuclear weapon capability. A nuclear capability would embolden Tehran to seize control of the Straits of Hormuz and unleash a nuclear arms race. Possessing a nuclear bomb would radically augment Iran’s political influence – and the influence of its terrorist proxies – as well as making it nearly impervious to international pressure. The West has a clear, vested interest in preventing this from happening.

I have no idea what they teach you at Harvard but it is clearly not worth anything….. It all starts with Syrian regime change.

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