The Israeli Chessboard: Pieces Are Set

Fair warning: Iran is 18 months away from having nuclear weapons.

Israel will not allow Iran to attain nuclear capability and if time begins to run out, Jerusalem will not hesitate to take whatever means necessary to prevent Iran from achieving its nuclear goals, the government has recently decided in a special discussion.

According to the Israeli daily Ma'ariv, whether the U.S. and Western countries succeed in thwarting the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions diplomatically, through sanctions, or whether a US strike on Iran is eventually decided upon, Jerusalem has begun preparing for a separate, independent military strike.

Ephraim Sneh a veteran Labor MK who has recently left the party, has reportedly sent a document to both US presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama. The eight-point document states that "there is no government in Jerusalem that would ever reconcile itself to a nuclear Iran. When it is clear Iran is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons, an Israeli military strike to prevent this will be seriously considered."

"The window of opportunity Sneh suggests is a year and a half to two years, until 2010." (source)

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As Obama Junior developed from Barry Obama to Barack Obama, his sense of lal, “being lost”, never left him. Examining the truth about the Obama family becomes an important part of understanding Obama, at the very least because Barack Obama himself tells us that Kenya is an important part of who he is, even today. As Ochieng reminds us, where Barack Obama is, there also is Kenya. Where Obama is, there too is his search for his father.
-p. 39, Obama Nation, author, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D

COLD WAR 21: Russia Tests ICBM

Last night Russia tested a stealth ICBM (Inter Continental Ballistic Missile), and reported that it was a successful endeavor. International experts say that the test was meant to alarm the West, and the World.

“The RS-12M Topol, designed to dodge defence systems, has a range of 6,125 miles — enough to reach Britain — with a 550-kiloton warhead capable of devastating a 14-mile wide area.” (source)

Coming on the heels of the Russian-Georgian war, this test fire has produced mixed reactions from around the world.

The UK says that no one wants to start a nuclear war with Russia.

Curiously, the Chinese are condemning the test fire last night as an unnecessary show of force against Georgia: The SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation), made up of China and Black Sea states, said: “Relying on the use of force has no prospects and hinders a settlement of local conflicts. We urge the sides to solve problems peacefully.”

When the Chinese criticize their Russian comrades for demonstrating force, it is time to be suspicious. Is it possible that the Chinese are secretly aligned with Russia’s goals of imperialism, and are acting as pseudo-brokers of peace in order to give the Bear UN Security Council cover for accomplishing it’s goals?

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Kenyan journalist Phillip Ochieng, himself a Kenyan who married a white woman and had a girl with her, experienced an abandonment of family similar to that of Obama Senior. [speaking of Obama’s book about his father’s abandonment] “Because I recognize myself in it,” Ochieng admitted, “this is the most moving theme in Barack Obama’s book-the scar that this fact left in Junior’s mind, the enduring crisis of identity that will not go away.”

Ochieng extended the analysis to a crisis he posited, “that all black people-no matter where they are-live in two worlds and, therefore, have an identity crisis. One might even say that they live in no world. Even in our native Africa, walal (‘we are lost’).” From here Ochieng reached back to “European Imperialism” that “drove our forefathers’ communal spirit away from the land,” such that “we stopped being African.

We started to think like Europeans,” he went on. “But we never became Europeans either. We became ghosts flitting into and out of European imagination.”

This brought Ochieng to the work of the Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o, whom Ochieng credits as “telling us for decades what we have refused to hear-that as long as we continue to worship European gods, European ideas on governance and European paradigms of development, all our endowments-labour, natural resources and markets-will continue to belong to Europe for the fleecing.”
-p. 38, Obama Nation, author, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D

ISLAMOPHILE 082708: Jihad On The UNC Campus

Naturalized US citizen from Iran, Mohammed Taheri-Azar.

A former student at the University of North Carolina was sentenced to up to 33 years in prison for plowing his sport utility vehicle into a crowd on the Chapel Hill campus in a self-professed bid to avenge the deaths of Muslims overseas.

The driver, Mohammed Taheri-Azar, pleaded guilty this month to nine counts of attempted murder in the March 2006 attack at a popular outdoor gathering spot known as the Pit. One person had a head injury and several had cuts and bruises, said District Attorney Jim Woodall of Orange County. Mr. Taheri-Azar, 25, is a naturalized citizen from Iran who grew up near Charlotte and graduated from the university. (source)

Cold War 21: The West Says, "Back Off"

UK Foreign Secretary, David Miliband.

"Speaking during a visit to Kiev, David Miliband, the UK foreign secretary, called on the European Union and Nato to prepare for "hard-headed engagement" with Moscow following its military action in Georgia.

"Russia must not learn the wrong lessons from the Georgia crisis. There can be no going back on fundamental principles of territorial integrity, democratic governance and international law," he said." (source)

The rest of Western Europe is nervously watching the Bear's activities, too. G7 countries have roundly criticized Russia for its Georgian war, and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner warned that the situation was "very dangerous" because Russia might now be considering other targets such as the divided state of Moldova and Ukraine, with its strategically important Crimean peninsula.

In typical Russian style, the Bear slashes and rips at its victim, then turns to a defender to claim, "you made me do it." As the EU prepares for an emergency summit on the Georgian crisis, Russia's response is to urge the west not to damage broad mutual ties.

According to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili: "This story is no longer about my small country, but the west’s ability to stand its ground to defend a principled approach to international security."

Cold War 21: Our Pawn Moves Up One

President Bush has reacted to Russia's escalation of superpower tensions from yesterday: he deploys our military Coast Guard to rush in humanitarian supplies to thed war-torn people of Georgia.

The U.S. Coast Guard cutter, Dallas at Georgia's Black Sea port of Batumi, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. The U.S. military ship on Wednesday docked at the Georgian port carrying humanitarian aid. The Dallas, had originally been slated to dock at the Black Sea port of Poti, which is still controlled by Russian forces. But instead it arrived in Batumi, a port well south of the zone of fighting in this month's war between Russia and Georgia. ( AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

We have NATO on our side, of course, but the USA is the first to send in substantial help to the Georgians. Unilaterally. That's leadership in the grown-up world of superpower politics. No time for an untested boy to seize control of the wheel.


"Can NATO - which is not a state located in the Black Sea - continuously increase its group of forces and systems there? It turns out that it cannot," Russian General Anatoly Nogovitsyn was quoted as saying Wednesday by the Interfax news agency.

To recap: Russia kills hundreds if not thousends of Georgian civilians in a hostile takeover of region in a bordering soveriegn nation. The rest of the world reacts with shock and horror. While there is much European nail-biting and rethinking of everything they knew, the US saddles up and risks it's military men's lives to send much-needed aid to the Georgians. And beacause we are navigating between their naval blockade in the Black Sea to bring Georgia this help, Russia calls us "devilish." (source)

Your move, Old Bear.

The Board Is Set: South Ossetia and Abkhazia In Place

The nation sits distracted with our Changing Of The Guard ceremonies in Denver, just as the world sat distracted with Beijing a few weeks ago for the beginning of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. During both times, we saw the worm turn. What was a decade-plus of new friendship with Russia turned quickly into a geopolitical shift in concern and priorities. Our State department is suddenly changing plans and making emergency trips to Eastern Europe a lot. We are suddenly having to draw lines in the sand for the same foe that butchered tens of millions of people and said that the problem was really with us.

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev announced that Russia is recognizing the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia. Clever ploy the Russians deployed years ago: Instal clusters of Russians in the satellite republic of Georgia when your federation is falling apart. Consider these players as "pawns" in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Instruct them to agitate their parent nation, Georgia, and even spark low-level assaults on the Georgian military and police force. Have them do this for years in order to demonstrate the justification for rushing in to "recognize their grievances".

"We are not afraid of anything, including the prospect of a Cold War," Medvedev said yesterday. (source)

He ordered Russian Foreign Ministry to start establishing diplomatic ties with the secessionist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Who can't see what's next: Russia will consider the recognized breakaway regions as "part of Russia now", and declare these Georgian regions fair game for the picking.

Yes, we condemned the act. Yes, so did the rest of Western Europe (Eastern Europe is bracing for more, and silent). Still yet, Russia dares to "flip the script" on us, saying that even though Russia killed Georgian civilians needlessly, the keys to stopping the madness is up to us: "everything depends on the position of our partners".

Eight years went by before Putin pulled this move on us. Is it possible that he did this, knowing that a lame duck President Bush will not be able to commit a response to effectively face down this annexation of Georgia? And what does that say for how much they fear whoever is next? Is this anytime to elect a weak judge of character into office?

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Besides Obama Senior, there was a soon-to-be journalist on the first airlift from Kenya in 1959: Phillip Ochieng. Research into the life of Obama Junior led Dr Corsi to Ochieng to provide some details about his father. Now a prominent journalist in Kenya, Ochieng recalls Obama Senior in Kenya as a "hopeless drunk whose love of Scotch and tendency to brag about his intellect caused him to lose his job as a failed bureaucrat in the Kenyan government."
-p. 35, Obama Nation, author, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D

The Axis Of Evil: North Korea

We’ve known that North Korea has always been a despotic hellhole for 50 years. That’s why the truce has never matured to a declaration of peace. When my grandfather was stationed there, a group of US infantrymen were beaten and killed in their sleeping bags. When I was there, a border massacre on the DMZ had just taken place.

Years later, in the mid 90’s, it was time for the Democrats to steer our country through the foreign policy minefield that Reagan, Bush, Nixon, and Eisenhower had superbly navigated. How did Bill Clinton direct our stance against communism? He sent Madeline Albright to give away the farm.

Madeline Albright negotiated [read: asked what could we do to erase our previous hard stance against evil] with the N. Koreans, and ended up with a GREAT deal for them, and another bunch of lies and empty promises for us. She “negotiated” to give Kim Il sung the know-how and help to build them nuclear reactors.

Albright barked back at those of us here in the US who said that they will use these “power plants” to make enriched plutonium: “Diplomacy takes time, and trust”, she said. Ten years later we find out that--surprise--the N Koreans had successfully tested an underground nuclear bomb.

As the grown-ups took control of our relations with N. Korea, they tried to put guardrails up to contain this monster. President Bush actually achieved an agreement with them to demolish their reactor, along with 11 other disablement measures in order to be removed from the famous list we keep of “terror-sponsoring countries”.

Finally, this past June, the North Koreans blew up their nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.

We thought that this MAY be the start of something good. But, almost two months later, they showed their true self again. Today the tyrannical regime announced that they were halting their disablement program.

Why, you ask? Because our president had the audacity to ask Kim Jong-il (Kim Il Sung's son) to clean up his human rights problems. The North Koreans are a regime that can only be trusted by the blind, or the suicidal. Which one are Madeline Albright and Bill Clinton?

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According to Granny Sarah, even after Obama Senior (Barack's father), married Ruth [third wife; never divorced after marrying Barack's mother Anne], he returned periodically to have yet more children by Keiza (first wife; the one before Barack's mother whom he also never divorced).
-p 28, Obama Nation, author, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D

Sliding Into The Next Dark Age

Evidence of a sea change is taking place right now. We are seeing the equivalent of a polar shift in Earth’s tilt towards the sun. Have we experienced such changes in the past? Yes. Do we know what it’s outcome will be? No.

Condoleeza Rice is set to recommend to President Bush that we recall a nuclear plan we had structured with Russia in the last few years. It was a program designed to share nuclear materials and fuel between the two former adversaries, as something of a safeguard against rogue nations acquiring the same. (source)

This move is not one-dimensional: For the UN (and the US) to have any affect on isolating Iran and their drive to become a nuclear superpower, we needed to work through Russia. With the way that Russia has exposed itself in the last few years, culminating in their invasion of Georgia two weeks ago, all deals are becoming void.

This should be alarming for all who watch world affairs and concern themselves with the survival of Western Civilization. The bonds we sought to establish with this former monster are dissolving in front of our eyes. Their goal is becoming more clear with every tank, naval blockade, and assassination they thrust upon us.

The kabuki dance going on right now between the US and Russia is the distraction. Watch Israel, Syria, and Iran for proxy wars between The Bear and us, The Last Great Hope.

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"Barack claims that he owes his life to Democratic lion JFK, and the seminal chapter from U.S. history of our civil rights progress of the 1960’s. If Obama owes his life to any politician, it is to Tom Mboya, not JFK or Martin Luther King. Mboya was from the same tribe as Obama senior, Mboya championed the Obama family, selected Obama Senior to study in the U.S. and arranged the financing to pay for the airlift. Had Tom Mboya not felt a tribal affinity for Obama’s grandfather in Africa, Obama Senior may never have left Kenya."
-p 35, Obama Nation, author, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D

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There has been a push from the world of academia here in the West to sanitize the religion of Islam. After 9-11, UNC Chapel Hill incorporated a semester-long course in Quoranic studies as a requirement for all students. Is there an equal requirement for New Testament studies, or Old Testament, or Upanishads studies?

Hardly.

But the same crowd who likes to demonize all things Christian has practically tripped over itself to embrace the “religion of peace”, Islam. For some reason, we here in the West seem to forget the 1300 years worth of Islamic terror, expansionism, and “convert-or-die” mentality. Far from it’s mythological image of today, the Crusades were a series of efforts to combat the imperialism of Islamic savages.

It’s almost as if we’ve forgotten the episodes of Moors, Barbary pirates, and IslamoFascism happening every day around us.

That is why I am starting this chronicle of examples of how Islam is practiced around the world: the bombings, the honor killings, and the attempt to shame those of us who say, “enough”.
If there were enough “moderate” Muslims who were trying to reign in their zealot brothers and sisters, I wouldn’t have to do this. What right does any Muslim have to shame America for trying to bring this insanity to a close? To me, the Muslims who get angry at the West because we call this practice what it is-barbarism-are simply cowards, and stone-age troglodytes.

They know they can beat up on the West because we’re an easy target around the globe. We open our doors to any malcontent in the world, give them a safe place to lay their head, start a family, earn a decent living, and what do we get in return? Screaming, riots, and lawsuits over perceived prejudice, whether it's a cartoon or something insignificant, even.

Today, I learned about a recent case of honor killing that took place in Saudi Arabia. A young girl converted to Christianity, and just like the young girl in Columbine who was asked by her assailant if she still believed in God, this little Saudi Arabian girl received the same fate.

Except this killer wasn’t some self-absorbed, emo punk on mood drugs. This little girl was killed by her own father. When he found out that she had converted, he first cut out her tongue, then held a “debate” with her. Then he burned her alive. (source)

I hope and pray that there is a special place in hell for people like her father.

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The Taliban bombed the Pakistani Army’s main ammunition factory near Islamabad yesterday. The terrorists waited until a shift change was taking place at the facility, in order to inflict the highest amount of casualties on the civilian workers. (source)

Mullah Omar, the spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, said the attack was a response to yesterday's airstrike in Wana, South Waziristan, that killed at least eight al Qaeda and Taliban fighters. (source)

Mullah Omar, spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban.

Pakistan’s nuclear weapons are the subject of increased tensions between the Taliban and government officials. Pakistani authorities are continually trying to reassure their nation that the Pakistani military is fighting the Taliban to prevent their seizure of these weapons.

Military operations have recently been conducted in Swat and Bajaur, threatening the Taliban organizations there. Baitullah Mehsud, the commander of the Pakistani Taliban, had previously threatened wage "jihad" and turn the provinces of Sindh and Punjab "into a furnace" if the operations did not cease.

Baitullah Mehsud, the commander of the Pakistani Taliban

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Obama’s 2007 Selma speech was also inaccurate to claim that Selma and the civil rights movement were responsible for his birth. Immediately following the part of the speech quoted above (Baractoid 009), Obama went on to say, "there was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don’t tell me that I don’t have a claim on Selma, Alabama. I’m here because somebody marched. I’m here because you all sacrificed for me. I stand on the shoulders of giants."
The Selma voting rights march Obama referenced in the speech happened in March 1965, but Obama Junior was born in August 1961.
-p 33-34, Obama Nation, author, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D

The Dark Heart Of Russia

The South Ossetian village of Mul burns following Russian assault (EPA)

When a nation sends its army, navy, and airforce to do battle in another country, never does it hold something so improper as a concert 13 days into the occupation. Whether its going well or not.

In fact, the only reason why you would go to the trouble of high security for the concert participants, the attendees, etc, and the diversion of troops to accomplish it...is to make a big show for the residents, the nation, and the world. This is something you do when you know your hand has been overplayed, so you try to "flip the script", and accuse the accuser of provoking you in the first place. "You pushed me to it! You made me do it to you!" This is many times acted out during an alcohol-driven rage between husband and wife. The Russians are known for their drinking.

On this day, the Russians have announced a cease fire 7 times; every day continuing to blockade naval ports, burn villages, and kill civillians. How could they stop in the middle of this carnage, death, and Stalin-esque behavior to hold a symphony concert?

A statue of former Soviet Communist dictator Joseph Stalin is seen from a window shattered by bullets in Gori, Georgia. Russian forces were continuing their occupation of the city, despite a ceasefire document demanding their withdrawal (AP)

If you understand the macabre, you understand the Russian. There is a certain quality that allows leader after leader for hundreds of years to practice similar acts of madness, without a protest from their people. As if it is as much a cultural experience as any other peoples may have. (Or because no one dares utter a word, lest they be sent away.)

And cultural it was. From the conductor himself, Valery Gergiev, who is the conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, and a South Ossetian. He was conducting in London one moment, then flying into Georgia the next to conduct this, "victory concert."

Valery Gergiev conducts in the ruins of Tskhinvali.

And to add more irony, the conductor continues the propaganda with his own design on how this entire war went down:

Gergiev arrived on stage with a group of children and said that he had come to Tskhinvali “to see with my own eyes the horrible destruction of the city”. He told the audience that Tskhinvali reminded him of pictures of Stalingrad, the city where Soviet troops began to turn back the invading Nazi army. He flatly blamed Georgia for the destruction and repeated earlier Russian claims that 2,000 people had died, which led the Kremlin to accuse Georgia of genocide. (source)

Apparently, from his estate in England, he missed the finer details on just how this thing went down:

A bloodied woman after the Russians bombed Gori, whch is not in either of the breakaway regions.

A Georgian woman is left in tears as her apartment burns after being hit by a Russian shell in Gori (Bela Szandelszky/AP)

As part of Russia's tough response to Georgia's action in South Ossetia, troops moved into Orjosani, between the Georgian capital Tbilisi and the strategic town of Gori (AP)

[Notice even AP categorizes Russia as "tough", while also careful to paint Georgia as the original aggressor. The AP is purposely misleading in this caption. Georgia is not the one who began this conflict. This feud between South Ossetia and it's parent nation, Georgia, has seen the two trade rounds on a regular basis for years now. And all of a sudden, Russia chooses a friday, the first day of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, to claim that they just can't stand by anymore and watch the harrassment of their precious expatriots. Because Russia cares about people.]

During the Russian operation following the start of fighting, the main railway link between eastern and western Georgia, near the town of Kaspi has been destroyed (Reuters)

The conductor should have talked to these folks before he started to warm up the woodwinds:

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"In a speech delivered from the pulpit of the historic Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma, Alabama, on March 4, 2007, Obama argued that he owed his very existence to Selma. In that speech, he invented some dialogue in which he mused, "It worried the folks in the White House who said, ‘You know, we’re battling communism. How are we going to win the hearts and minds all across the world if right here in our own country, John, we’re not observing the ideals set forth in our Constitution? We might be accused of being hypocrites.’ " [as if it was Robert Kennedy saying this to John Kennedy]

Unfortunately for Barack Obama, JFK was not in the White House until January 20, 1961, and he did not participate in the decision that Tom Mboya made in Kenya to organize the 1959 airlift. Tom Mboya was a Kenya leader who had befriended Obama Senior, both being from the same tribe.

Obama continued to this Selma congregation, " ‘We’re going to go to and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study, so they can learn what a wonderful country America is.’ "

"This young man named Barack Obama [Obama Senior] got one of those tickets and came over to this country. He met this woman whose great-great-great-great grandfather had owned slaves. But she had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided that we know that in the world as it has been, it might not be possible for us to get together to have a child."

Again, research by Michael Dobbs found conclusively that the 1959 airlift, which brought eighty-one Kenyan students to the United States, including Obama’s father, happened before JFK was inaugurated president and did not benefit from any Kennedy family funding. The funding for the 1959 airlift came from a general appeal to the U.S. public that had been organized by the political leader Tom Mboya."
-p 31-32, Obama Nation, author, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D

Syria Lurches Further Into The Dark

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad entered into a series of military agreements with Russia today. “Our position is that we are ready to co-operate with Russia in any project that can strengthen its security,” the Syrian leader told Russian newspapers at the start of his two-day trip. “I think Russia really has to think of the response it will make when it finds itself closed in a circle.” (source)

As highlighted on this site before, Syria is a key partner of Iran, allowing for the funding, training, and supplying of Hezbollah and Hamas, two agents of Tehran, to take place on their soil.
The recent turbulence in this region of the world could result in the disturbance of oil flow for Europe (and Turkey). If this happens, then Iranian oil becomes even more of an asset. This plays well for Russia, who’s foray into Georgia could easily result in the sabotage of the BTC oil pipeline.

In recent years, the world community, along with Israel, have levied economic pressures on Syria to break its ties with Iran. In fact, Syria has been holding indirect talks with Israel in search of a peace deal because of their suffering economy.

But now, Russia may give Syria both economic and military cover to halt these low-level talks with Israel, and galvanize their anti-Israel, anti-West alliance with the Bear and Iran.
To further deepen the chasm between Israel and Syria, the Georgian conflict of late has an Israeli component: reserve Brigadier-General Gal Hirsh, well-known for commanding a division of Israeli soldiers during the 2006 war with Hezbollah. Hirsh is serving as an advisor to the Georgians.

This small fact was used by al-Assad to assert Syrian relations with Russia: “I think that in Russia and in the world everyone is now aware of Israel’s role and its military consultants in the Georgian crisis,” he told the Russian newspaper Kommersant. “And if before in Russia there were people who thought these forces can be friendly then now I think no one thinks that way.”

Poland Signs The Pact

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, and Polish President Lech Kaczynski shake hands after a meeting in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. Rice came to Warsaw to sign a deal with Poland that will see a U.S. missile defense base built in northern Poland. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

As Russia claims yet another cease-fire with Georgia while continuing to drop rounds, kill civilians, and annex South Ossetia, Poland agrees to allow us to construct a missile defense base in their country. We are also giving them many Patriot missiles, as a safegaurd against short-range attacks from Russia.

At this moment, NATO is answering the Russian whinning that they feel threatened by our missile defense system. NATO, in essence, is responding, "nonsense". (source)

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In Dreams Of My Father, Granny Sarah appears resentful that her stepson, Obama Senior, while in the U.S., had married a white woman in Hawaii over the objections of the family in Africa. Moreover, Obama Senior abandoned Ann Dunham just as Hussein Onyango Obama, her husband and Obama Senior’s father, had predicted he would.
-29, Obama Nation, author, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D

The Iranian Chessboard

This is a reproduction of the 9th century set found in Nishapur, Persia (now Iran).

The recent saga unfolding in Georgia is but the latest move in a chess game that has been going on for many years. As you recall, Russia has defacto agreed to back Iran if tensions ratchet up to a point of nuclear hostility. By Russia warning Poland last week that its missile defense agreement with the US and western Europe could very well bring on a nuclear response from the Bear, the possibility of Russia stepping in to the current Israeli-Iranian saber rattling is more likely.

Because we have publicly cited Iran as our primary reason for deploying missile defense systems in Poland, it is by implication possible to believe that Poland could launch an attack on Iran, either as a response to a nuclear attack from Iran, or as a pre-emptive strike.

With Russia already eager to retaliate with Poland, an Israeli attack on Iran could easily escalate to a Russian attack on Polland.

The Ukraine, as well.

THE POSITION OF THE PIECES TODAY:

Given the knowledge that one of the key ingredients of a nuclear bomb is enriched plutonium. The process to create enriched plutonium is long and complicated, but ep happens to be one of the by-products of nuclear power plants. If a country has nuclear power plants, it has one of the precious ingredients needed to arm a nuclear bomb.

Russia is helping Tehran build Iran's first nuclear power plant in Bushehr, which will be ready to go online later this year. An Iranian flag is seen outside the building housing the reactor of the Bushehr nuclear power plant. The United States on Friday set a weekend deadline for Iran to answer an international offer to freeze its nuclear drive and warned of new sanctions if it rejects the package.

Iran has already touted their desire to be a nuclear player in recent years. The West has reacted with alarm and caution, as Tehran has made explicit calls for the eradication of Israel in the last few years, and the destabilization of the Middle East. As a belligerent nation with a death pledge towards another country, the world community has roundly criticized Iran for beginning a nuclear program.

Besides having Russia to back their nuclear aims, Iran wages proxy wars with Israel regularly through regional attacks from Hezbollah and Hamas. These low-level attacks provoke Israel into constant bouts of respond-or-don't-respond, weakening their standing in the Middle East and with many anti-Semetic nations around the world.

The links of Iran to Hamas and Hezbollah can be seen here. They depend on the willing cooperation of Syria.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with Ahmadenijad.

Today, Iran announced that they will build many more nuclear power plants (source). Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (centre) and unidentified officials are pictured at a space station at an undisclosed location in Iran on August 16. Iran has said that a home-built rocket sent into space in a move that triggered US concern over possible military use will be able to take a satellite into low orbit around the earth.

Even Kadhafi has seen the light enough to warn Iran of it's missteps.

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi is pictured after he received an honorary doctorate during a ceremony held at INSAT university in Tunis. Kadhafi on Tuesday warned "arrogant" Iran that it faces military humiliation on the scale of Iraq for its refusal to respond to western powers over a nuclear impasse.

What is our response?

The U.S. response has been to avoid dire warnings of dangerous Israeli attacks, while instead showing support for non-violent solutions, such as economic sanctions and political pressure on Iran.

Washington believes economic and political pressure are the best ways to dissuade Iran from seeking atomic weapons, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday, following an appeal by Israel's defense minister to keep "all options" on the table. The comments followed a closely held meeting at the Pentagon Monday between Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and US Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

This policy of the US means that candidate Obama has got to seek out something different to define himself with, so he undermines the nonviolent method of sanctions and political pressure, to instead warn Iran of Israel's plans to bomb them. (source)

Barrack reassured Israel that "America must always stand up for Israel's right to defend itself against those who threaten its people". He needs to court them. Israel seems quite anxious about a President Obama. Very uncertain, in need of his special attention.

Presumptive US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama, seen here on July 28, 2008, believes Israel will launch a military strike on Iran if nuclear sanctions fail, ABC News reported Wednesday.

Obama with former Israeli PM Shimon Peres.

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According to Dreams Of My Father, Barack’s Granny Sarah recites the family history going back to the day she married his grandfather after he was abandoned by Akuma, his grandfather’s first wife, the mother of Obama Senior.
-p 29, Obama Nation, author, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D

What Now?

Pakistani President Musharraf has resigned from his post in order to avoid impeachment. Largely seen as a secular Muslim when he seized power in 1999, Musharraf's rule has been fraught with turbulence in a nation that regularly assassinates its leaders.


Candidate George W. Bush was asked about this new leader on the campaign trail in 2000, and even though he could hardly pronounce Musharraf's name or explain the significance of Pakistan's military coup, the two leaders would become very close for the next eight years.


President Musharraf has won re-election, survived at least 2 assassination attempts, and prevented Pakistan from cascading even deeper into a theocracy...yet he is so threatened today that he must flee in exile after resigning. Here is a timeline of his tenure as President.

Not All Of China Is Putting On A Good Face

The Chicoms have been working hard for at least a year, now, to scrub clean Beijing of all its pollution. They have established a perimeter around the city which is reported to be free of air contaminants, water-born toxins, and even cigarette smoke.

China has been making sure that it presents a modern face to the world community during these weeks of Olympic attention. But, to the south in China, we see that things are churning along as normal: the Chinese communists have confiscated 300 bibles from a small group of Christian missionaries who just flew into Kunming, China yesterday. (source)

Were the Chinese language bibles containing subversive rhetoric meant to incite the Chinese into overthrowing their government? Hardly.

But for communists, it doesn’t matter. (read about China’s persecution of Christians here.) The book itself represents competition for the hearts and minds of its people. This is the communist way, as practiced in the U.S.S.R. and North Korea. “Religion is the opiate of the masses”, and all that. In fact, the only places you can find this hate of Christianity is in leftist circles, where trust-fund babies sit and mock the commoners and their superstitious ways.

But the will of the people is a deep well that’s source the State can never obliterate. There are many stories of Russians who kept pictures of Jesus Christ hidden beneath the state-mandated pictures of Stalin on their walls. Try as they might, darkness lost to Light. Score Christ 1, U.S.S.R. 0.

The condition for Christians in China is perilous, just as it was for John Birch 70 years ago. But, because of their passion and faith, the missionaries in the East are as important to China as Pope John Paul II was to Poland.

Ukraine Steps Into The Light

Ukraine said it was ready to give both Europe and America access to its missile warning systems after Russia earlier annulled a 1992 cooperation agreement involving two satellite tracking stations. Previously, the stations were part of Russia's early-warning system for missiles coming from Europe.
-- Telegraph of UK, source

As Europe quietly tenses up in reaction to Russia's power grab in Georgia this past week, we have seen two notable responses: Ukraine and Poland. Both have emerged from what must have been an almost paralysis of fear, to join in partnership with the US, and the rest of free Europe against the early intimidation of Russia.

These two enter agreements with the West at great peril. Russia immediately answered these developments with a belicose pledge to place Poland on it's list for retaliation, even nuclear. We must remember WWII, where Poland was promised support against Hitler, then nothing came their way as Poland fell in weeks.

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According to Granny Sarah, Obama's father took an entrance exam at the U.S. Embassy and, while waiting for the results, began using the office typewriter at night to write letters applying to study in American universities. Finally, the embassy sent a letter notifying Obama Senior that he had passed, and the university in Hawaii wrote back saying they would give him a scholarship.
-p 28, Obama Nation, author, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D

Welcome Back, Old Foe

BEIJING - AUGUST 16: Erinn Smart (L) of the United States competes against Victoria Nikichina of Russia in the Women's Team Foil Gold Medal Match at the Fencing Hall on Day 8 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 16, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images)

This past week should have given all Americans reason for pause. As we watch the Olympics, hibernate from high gas prices, and drink beer, there is a quickening of events taking place in Europe. This is rapidly developing into something that will deserve great leadership for many years to come. We are seeing the return of the U.S.S.R. in the Georgian mountains, Poland, and the Ukraine. There are many analysts who will tell you that they never really went away in 1992.

Only regrouping for the next century.

In a way, it seems refreshing to enter battle again with an old nemesis, far different, and, dare I say, more respectable than the sinister bedouins we've been fighting since the Soviet Bear entered its hibernation. At least Russia (mostly) wears it's uniforms, lives in designated camps separate from it's civilians, and doesn't run and hide behind it's boys and women. No, this foe has a bit more dignity and evolution than the tribal goats we chase, currently.

See, we're used to fighting people like the communists, who present us with a sobering reality: instant destruction via nuclear holocaust. Both we and the Russians could turn this world upside down, if we were so unreasonable. So fanatical. But we don't do that. Yet. I can't say the same for the current jackals we hunt down in Iraq, Afghanistan, and various other places in in the world, today.

If they had the tools of destruction to the degree we do, what fool doesn't believe that these jihad-driven, brainwashed, mutants would have unleashed them on the infidels long ago?

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According to Barack's paternal grandmother, Granny Sarah, Obama's father emerged from Kenya because two American women from a religious organization in Nairobi took an interest in Obama Senior, then working as an office clerk for Arab businessmen. These two women first encouraged him to take a correspondence course so he could get a secondary school certificate, a prerequisite to entering college.
-p 28, Obama Nation, author, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D

Poland Sees The Light

For the past 18 months, Poland and America have been in stalled negotiations. We want to place missile interceptors in their country, for defense against any rogue states (like Iran), that may launch an airborne attack against them. Poland has been dragging their feet on allowing us to spend our money and hardware for their sake, because of fear about how this may be perceived by Russia. Their fear is understandable, as the Kremlin feels this protection is aimed at Russia’s missile force, and warns it will worsen tensions.

This is just one of the reasons that these former Soviet bloc nations still live under a cloak of fear of their communist oppressor.

Finally, though, Poland gave way to allow us to install these defense systems in their country, in an agreement signed with the U.S. yesterday. Do you think the Russian vacation in Georgia this week had anything to do with it?

"We have crossed the Rubicon," said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. It is a big deal to Poland, of course. Russia doesn’t play around with other countries.

Russian General Anatoly Nogovitsyn said today that Poland’s agreement to accept a U.S. missile interceptor base exposes Poland to an attack, possibly even a nuclear one. If you doubt the gravity of this situation, I advise you to spend some time reading up on this site.

"Poland, by deploying (the system) is exposing itself to a strike — 100 percent," Nogovitsyn, the deputy chief of staff, was quoted as saying.

He added, in clear reference to the agreement, that Russia's military doctrine sanctions the use of nuclear weapons "against the allies of countries having nuclear weapons if they in some way help them." Nogovitsyn said that would include elements of strategic deterrence systems, according to Interfax.

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Barack's family in Kenya belongs to the Luo tribe. The Luo tribe is the second largest in Kenya, behind the Kikuyu.
-p. 23, Obama Nation, author, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D

Russia Brings Out Our Cowards

It didn’t take too long, eh? I was wondering how long it would be until the nervous little bedwetters in our country start their smug nattering about whether or not America has the authority to criticize Russia for its invasion and slaughter of Georgia.
For liberal cartoonists like Oliphant, Toles, and Rall, there is no shred of patriotism as common Americans define it. They are the type who have never worn the uniform, but are sure they know how to criticize those of us who have. When the chips are down, and America has its back to the wall, it is the cowards who throw stones at the men who do the fighting.
Does America really deserve to be slandered like this?

Honestly, I don’t feel as if President Bush needs to be defended for criticizing Medvedev, Putin, and Russia, for their imperialistic invasion of Georgia, but, for the faint of heart in our country, allow me to remind you:
Russia’s pattern of behavior for the past 100 years should scare every moral judge who dares to read their history. They have rolled their tanks into innocent countries whose only crime was to resist the godless communism that Russia wanted to inflict on them.
When America sends its good men and women into a country, it’s to help liberate their people. Just because you’re too lazy to study American history, compared to Russia’s, doesn’t mean that everything is the same in this world.

Iraq started their reign of terror over thirty years ago, when Saddam Hussein rose to power. As a Sunni, he savaged the Shi’a and Kurds in Iraq, feeding innocent people into wood chippers (while alive), raped and indiscriminately killed hundreds of thousands of his people, a’la Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot. We only started our “brutal, stupid, war” with them in 1990, after Saddam turned his murderous gaze outside his own country, towards Kuwait.
Since then, Iraq has defied UN resolutions 16 times, fired on our men in no-fly zones, attempted to assassinate one of our presidents, and supported Islamic suicide bombers throughout the world.

Now, when you can find a similar example that Georgia has committed against Russia or the world, then maybe there would be an argument to make. Until then, we patriotic Americans shake our heads in shame at the Oliphant’s of this great nation.

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Barack's uncle Sayid says that Obama Senior was definitely Muslim by birth, like the entire Obama family in Kenya. It is true that 85 percent of Kenya is Christian, but the Muslim minority dates back to 1730, when Arabs from Oman began to settle there.
-p. 22, Obama Nation, author, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D

Russian Round Two: Ukraine

Now that Russia has claimed to observe a cease-fire with Georgia as they drop rounds and keep up suppressing fire on their civilians, the time has come for the Bear to stage their next step: the Ukraine.
See, Russia is not only trying to seize control of all major fuel sources on the continent(s), they are also trying to reassert their empire in the former Soviet bloc countries of Eastern Europe. One problem: Many of them want to be in NATO. Namely, Georgia and Ukraine. Their admission into NATO has been stalled for various reasons, but the relationship between Russia and the rest of Europe is getting more tense.
International analysts are warning of a possible intimidation from Russia towards Ukraine, now that the Georgian people have been slaughtered and are terrified under the military control of Russian President Medvedev in their fractured sovereign nation.
To refresh our memories, this is the handiwork that Russia (Putin) has already committed in Ukraine:

This is the Ukrainian president, Viktor Yushchenko. If you recall, during their Orange Revolution in late 2004, the Ukrainians chose the side of light in a high-profile run-off election. The choice was between Viktor Yushchenko and Russian-backed Viktor Yanukovych, and in true Soviet style, the game pieces on the chessboard were moved while the opponent wasn’t looking. Yushchenko was poisoned with dioxin before the elections and very nearly killed by the Russians, according to him, and foreign policy experts from the Ukraine and around the world.
It is a miracle that he survived, but it looks like the Bear is mounting its final blow. For world politics enthusiasts, here are a couple of maps that may come in handy in the next few weeks:

Highlighting Ukrainian places of interest that Russia may be targeting soon: