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Russia Holds Obama For Suspicion Of Being a British Spy Back In 2005! Investigator In Chicago Fingers Obama For Being A British Spy As Far Back As 2004!

When I heard this the other night it hit me like a ton of bricks! I remember the plane with the US Senator being held at the airport in Russia! I remember thanking it was crazy that they believed the Senator on the Plane was a Spy for the British!
So, for the last 24 hours I have been looking for news articles on this! This is what I have been able thus far! I also want to ask you this… Why would Russia way back in 2005 thank that this Senator was a spy for the British? Could it happen to be that they new he had a British pass port at some point in his life. Hummmmmmm Guys it just got stranger!
It was kind of odd how Chicago investigator Sherman Skolnick *just happened* to pass away just before Barack Obama announced his run for President. Skolnick was founder and chairman of the Citizens Committee to Clean Up the Courts, which nailed two Illinois Supreme Court justices, Roy J. Solfisburg Jr. and Ray Klingbiel, who had accepted bribes of stock from a defendant in a case on which they ruled. The scandal catapulted John Paul Stevens, special counsel to the resulting investigating commission to a seat as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Skolnick had indeed uncovered so many links between plots and participants in conspiracies that he may have come to see some where none existed…but he also uncovered others that noone else had noticed, and Obama was right in his back yard.
CLOAK’S EXCLUSIVE AUGUST 2005 STORY EXPOSING OBAMA’s KENYAN BIRTHPLACE FORCES OBAMA TO SANITIZE HIS PASSPORT FILE

BUSTED? OBAMA WORKING WITH THE IRS THE WHOLE TIME?: In 2010, The Koch Brothers Asked The WH How In The Hell It Got Its Tax Returns


If the White House illegally had the Koch Brothers tax returns, which, per the article below, it appears they did, then Obama has been working with the IRS for 2 years to wage a war on his political enemies. Today he said he just learned about the IRS war Friday.
Excerpted from a September 20, 2010 article in The Weekly Standard: …a lawyer for Koch Industries now tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the administration may have crossed a line by revealing tax information about Koch Industries. According to Mark Holden, senior vice president and general counsel of Koch Industries, a senior Obama administration official told reporters at an August 27 on-the-record background briefing on corporate taxes:
So in this country we have partnerships, we have S corps, we have LLCs, we have a series of entities that do not pay corporate income tax. Some of which are really giant firms, you know Koch Industries is a multibillion dollar businesses. So that creates a narrower base because we’ve literally got something like 50 percent of the business income in the U.S. is going to businesses that don’t pay any corporate income tax. They point out [in the report] you could review the boundary between corporate and non-corporate taxation as a way to broaden the base.
Holden tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that this quotation from a senior administration official “came to our attention from different avenues. We are very concerned about why this would be said about us, particularly in this setting. We are concerned where this information would have been obtained from. We also are concerned in light of recent events that we have been singled out by the government and others as a campaign against us because of our political views.”
THE WEEKLY STANDARD asked White House press office officials in an email on Friday to verify the quotation’s accuracy, but 72 hours later they have not replied. A White House press aide reached this morning on the phone said she would look into whether a transcript of the call exists. The aide has not yet responded. (Correction: The press aide replied just prior to publication of this report to say, “I haven’t been able to track a transcript down.”)
But an independent source who participated in the briefing confirms to THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the quotation matches the source’s careful notes from the briefing.
Holden claims that the revelation of tax information could have been improper, depending on how the information was obtained by the White House:
“I’m not accusing any one of any illegal conduct. But it’s my understanding that under federal law, tax information, is confidential and it’s not to be disclosed or obtained by individuals except under limited circumstances. … I don’t know what [the senior administration official] was referring to. I’m not sure what he’s saying. I’m not sure what information he has. But if he got this information–confidential tax information–under the internal revenue code … if he obtained it in a way that was inappropriate, that would be unlawful. But I don’t know that that’s the case.”
Holden says that to his knowledge the tax status of Koch Industries has not been previously reported in the press.
So, questions remain: Why won’t White House officials say if the quotation about Koch Industries is accurate–or even if a transcript of the briefing exists?
And, if the quotation is accurate, why won’t they say how the White House obtained tax information on Koch Industries?

Forbes: Obama Was Never Elected
 A Forbes columnist is calling into question whether or not President Obama’s second term should have an asterisk next to it. Paul Roderick Gregory’s recent article questions whether Obama’s second term win wasn’t staged by the media, and therefore all history books should note that he won by manipulating the press.
It’s now well documented that the IRS was targeting anti-Obama groups before the election. Can you imagine how different the election would have turned out if that news story broke before America hit the polls last November?
The Tea Party was just starting to get momentum, and President Obama saw them as a serious threat. Did he order the IRS to target them to slow them down? Did he order the media to paint them as a bunch of unorganized crazy people? I’m not sure we’ll ever have the answer, but I’m glad we’re at least asking the question.
RELATED: Obama Oversteps Constitution for Climate Change
What do you think? Would the 2012 election have turned out differently had this story broke earlier?

Obama’s pledges $7 billion for African electricity

Forget sequester, forget the deficit, President Obama just pledged $7 billion “in U.S. Government funds” to help combat power blackouts in sub-Saharan Africa. Obama made the announcement while in South Africa, the region with the continent’s largest economy.
While funding will be distributed over a five-year period, the amount seems a bit extreme to underwrite for a country with trillion dollar deficits.
“Access to electricity is fundamental to opportunity in this age. It’s the light that children study by, the energy that allows an idea to be transformed into a real business,” Obama said while in Africa. “It’s the lifeline for families to meet their most basic needs, and it’s the connection that’s needed to plug Africa into the grid of the global economy.”
According to a statement by the White House, “two-thirds of the population of sub-Saharan Africa lacks access to electricity, including more than 85% of those living in rural areas.”
The program includes $1.5 billion from the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation and $5 billion from the Export-Import Bank, according to a report by CNN. Estimates say more than $300 billion will be needed to achieve success in the sub-Saharan African project.
Watch Obama’s comments regarding the investment via CNN here

Obama Tells Christians He Doesn’t Give a Damn About Our Faith

Last Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services released its final version of Obamacare regulations, including those concerning the contraception mandate.
Over the past year, numerous employers have filed legal action to stop the federal government from forcing them to violate their religious beliefs.  Christian colleges have argued that the mandate forces them to violate their faith by providing contraceptives and abortion inducing drugs to all of their employees.  They believe that any form of abortion is the murder of an innocent life and no different than taking a gun to the head of an adult.
They argued that such a mandate violates their First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion.  The contraception mandate is nothing more than a form of religious tyranny no different than what the American colonists faced with the Church of England.  They left that tyranny and came to this land so that they would have the freedom to worship God as they believed the Bible dictated, not as some king or queen dictated.
All of those hopes of Christian business owners were dashed to pieces when the final regulations were released on Friday.  Those regulations contained no accommodations for any for-profit Christian employers such as Hobby Lobby and Chic-fil-A, who morally object to the mandate on religious grounds.

Syrian Jihadists Publicly Behead Catholic Priest

Terrorists behead priest accused of collaborating with Assad's regime, then post a video of the beheading online.

A Catholic priest has been publicly beheaded by Syrian terrorists after he was accused of collaborating with President Bashar Al-Assad's regime.

Franciscan Father Francois Murad was executed along with two other people in the countryside of Idlib in northern Syria on Sunday, the New York Daily News reported. The brutal beheading was filmed and posted to the Internet.

The Vatican confirmed Murad's death Monday, but the circumstances surrounding the 49-year-old priest's death are not entirely known, reported the Daily News.

Spectators recorded the killings that included two others with their smartphones and cameras before uploading it online.

Local sources told the Vatican that convent for the Custody of the Holy Land, where Murad had taken refute, was ambushed by terrorists linked to the jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra (Al-Nusra Front).

In the video, which Arutz Sheva has chosen not to post here due its graphic nature, a man identified as Murad is seen sitting cross-legged in the grass with his hands bound as a mob of men around him shout in Arabic.

Several are seen shamelessly holding up cameras to record the horrific killings, stepping as close as they can to the aftermath of bloody bodies.

Egypt's Foreign Minister Resigns, Islamists Call for Rallies

Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr has tendered his resignation, reports state news agency.

 Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr tendered his resignation on Monday night, the state news agency MENA reported, after millions of Egyptians rallied against President Mohammed Morsi.
The report did not elaborate or cite any sources for the information. At least five other ministers have resigned since Sunday's mass protests.

Meanwhile, Egypt’s Islamist National Alliance has called for mass rallies in support of embattled President Mohammed Morsi, following a 48-hour army ultimatum for all parties to reach a resolution.

Al Arabiya reported that the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups began amassing their supporters in different provinces on Monday night, with a focus on Cairo and Giza.

Activists reported that a pro-Morsi rally headed toward Cairo University, where Islamists plan to stage an open sit-in to counter opposition rallies.

During its press conference, the National Alliance of Islamist parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood, rejected the use of army to “assault legitimacy” in a way that leads to a coup.

Earlier, the country’s Defense Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sissi issued a 48-hour ultimatum to all Egyptian political forces to reach a resolution or face a military “road map for the future” that “will not exclude anyone.”

A senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) later rejected the ultimatum, saying that “the age of military coups is over."

The Islamist Alliance said it respects all initiatives to resolve the crisis but it must be based on the constitution. It also condemned acts of violence that killed a dozen protesters and wounded hundreds others.

Supporters and opponents of Morsi exchanged gunfire in the city of Suez at the mouth of the Suez Canal on Monday, witnesses said, according to Al Arabiya.

At least 16 people have been killed in clashes between rival protesters since Sunday, when millions of Egyptians flooded the streets to demand that Morsi resign.

Canada's embassy in Cairo closed over security concerns

The Canadian embassy in Cairo has been closed down for security reasons, the department of foreign affairs, trade and development said Tuesday. It will remain closed until further notice.
"We take the safety of our personnel and our mission overseas very seriously," a spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird told CBC News. "We are monitoring events closely and taking appropriate security measures," Rick Roth wrote in an email.
Roth said beyond that there would be no comment on specific precautions at our missions.
Baird issued a statement over the weekend saying he was concerned about the reports of violence in Egypt, and he offered his condolences to the families of victims.

Travellers warned

"Dangerous divisions within Egypt threaten its stability and damage its long-term economic prospects," Baird said in the statement issued on Sunday. "Canada calls on all parties to remain calm and participate in the political process. We urge the government of Egypt to foster more meaningful political participation by the opposition to focus on rebuilding the Egyptian economy. Respect for pluralism and a robust political dialogue are essential if Egypt is to stabilize."
Foreign Affairs is warning travellers in Egypt to avoid demonstrations and gatherings and to stay clear of military offices and facilities.

Anti-Morsi Egyptian protesters burn US ambassador’s photo, Muslim Brotherhood HQ

Over the weekend, Egypt erupted as millions - across multiple cities - called for the resignation of Egyptian President and Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi.  The angry mobs are made up of Christians, secular Egyptians, and even moderate Muslims who believe that Morsi has overstepped his electoral mandate.  Basically, they believe Morsi hijacked the movement that ousted Hosni Mubarak in 2011.  Since then, he’s been bent on crushing dissent, has decimated Egypt’s economy, and has driven gas prices into the stratosphere.

The protests have been marked by the usual rapes, murders, and violence that have been common with Tahrir square uprisings, but the press has been content to ignore all of that and report that they were “mostly non-violent.”  At least they were, right up until the mobs targeted the Muslim Brotherhood. Last night, anti-Muslim Brotherhood protesters stormed the MB headquarters in Cairo, ransacked the building, and set fire to the structure.  So far, there’s no word on which Youtube video caused the attack, but the phrase “suddenly turned violent” has become common in its wake.
As Reuters reports,

“A spokesman for the Brotherhood blamed the violence on “thugs” and said it would be demanding answers from police who failed to protect it. He said two of those inside were injured – by fires – before a security detail from the movement was able to evacuate all those inside the compound in mid-morning.”

In all, eight people were killed during the overnight hours.
If members of the Obama administration were hoping that their ongoing support for President Morsi had gone unnoticed, they’re going to be sorely disappointed. Last week, it was widely reported that Ambassador Patterson was urging Coptic Christians not to participate in any mass protests against the Muslim Brotherhood.  That move cemented the belief among disgruntled Egyptians that Obama and Patterson were simply shills for the Brotherhood and Morsi - which, in large part, they are.
As a result, the protests bear an anti-Obama component that can’t be ignored.

Is Venezuela Snowden's last resort? Leaker running out of options as Russia asylum bid fizzles

NSA leaker Edward Snowden was frantically trying to find a country that would grant him asylum Tuesday, sending out a slew of requests to nearly 20 additional nations as a short-lived bid to take refuge in Russia appeared to fizzle. 
Now, his best hope for leaving the transit zone at the Moscow airport, where he is thought to have spent the past week, may be the president of Venezuela -- who was in Moscow on Tuesday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. 
Venezuela was among the 19 countries that Snowden requested asylum with late Sunday, according to WikiLeaks. The anti-secrecy group, which is aiding Snowden, revealed the scope of Snowden's asylum requests Monday night. 
The group confirmed earlier reports that Snowden sought to take refuge in Russia. But on Tuesday, Russian news agencies quoted President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying that Snowden withdrew his request after learning about the terms Moscow set out. Putin said on Monday that Russia is ready to shelter Snowden only if he stops leaking U.S. secrets -- a condition Snowden apparently was not prepared to meet. 
Other nations, though, were already indicating they could not consider asylum if Snowden was not on their soil. 
Attention turned Tuesday to Venezuela's new president, Nicolas Maduro, who dodged the question of whether he would take Snowden away with him.

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