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		<title>California for obama: latino leaders endorse obama : AOL Video feed</title>
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			<title>Obama Is Not A U.S. Citizen</title>
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			<description>&lt;img src="http://thumbnails.truveo.com/0003/A7/41/A74154FF8CBDBE1F980AC1.jpg"&gt; &lt;br&gt; Barack Obama Is Not A U.S. Citizen, Not Eligible To Be U.S. President  Since the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, in order to serve as President, one must be a natural born citizen and may not hold dual citizenship or multiple citizenships with foreign Countries. U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 1.  There appears to be no question but that Defendant Obamas mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was a U.S. citizen. It is also undisputed, however, that his father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a citizen of Kenya. Obamas parents, according to divorce records, were married on or about February 2, 1961.  Defendant Obama claims he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961 and it is uncertain in which hospital he claims to have been born. Obamas grandmother on his fathers side, his half-brother and half-sister all claim Obama was born not in Hawaii but in Kenya. Reports reflect that Obamas mother traveled to Kenya during her pregnancy; however, she was prevented from boarding a flight from Kenya to Hawaii at her late stage of  pregnancy (which, apparently, was a normal restriction, to avoid births during a flight). By these reports, Stanley Ann Dunham Obama gave birth to Obama in Kenya, after which she flew home and registered Obamas birth. There are records of a registry of birth for Obama, on or about August 8, 1961 in the public records office in Hawaii.  Upon investigation into the alleged birth of Barack Hussein Obama in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obamas birth is reported as occurring at two (2) separate hospitals, Kapiolani Hospital and Queens Hospital. Wikipedia English Version, under the subject Barack Obama, states Obama was born at Kapiolani Hospital. Wikipedia Italian Version, under the subject Queens Hospital, states Barack Obama was born in Queens Hospital.  There are further references circulating on the internet claiming examination of the hospitals records in Hawaii show no birthing records for Stanley Ann Dunham (Obama), Obamas mother. However, there are records of a registry of birth for Obama, on or about August 8, 1961, in the public records office in Hawaii.  Wayne Madsen, Journalist with Online Journal as a contributing writer and published an article on June 9, 2008 stating that a research team went to Mombassa, Kenya, and located a Certificate Registering the birth of Barack Obama, Jr. at a Maternity Hospital, to his father, a Kenyan citizen and his mother, a U.S. citizen. ———— Investigation further showed that, in 1981, Obama traveled to Pakistan, using his Indonesian passport. At the time of his travels to Pakistan, Obama was twenty (20) years old. InHe certainly knew that he retained his Indonesia citizenship, and it is implausible that he could not have known that he had failed to regain his United States citizenship (if, again, he had been born in Hawaii). Indonesia does not allow dual citizenship. Had Obama regained his United States citizenship, he would have been traveling on a United States Passport.  ————— Further investigation led to Obamas State Bar Registration and Public Disciplinary Record. On the Illinois State Bar Registration and Public Disciplinary Record, it specifically asks for Full former name(s). Obama put None, when in fact he went by the name Barry Soetoro, and Barry Obama. It is further believed Obama has used the name Barry Dunham. Obama lied on the State government form that he signed under the penalty of perjury. Even if Obama had and maintained United States citizenship (which Plaintiff believes he failed to do) he also holds citizenship in Kenya and Indonesia. Obama has divided loyalties with foreign countries. Thus, Obama carries multiple citizenships, and is ineligible to run for President of the United States. United States Constitution, Article II, Section I.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:04:17 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>NATEPERKINS.TV: Called Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright Sermon on Sunday at Howard University</title>
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			<description>&lt;img src="http://thumbnails.truveo.com/0002/E8/CC/E8CCB850DAFBFDDD57442E.jpg"&gt; &lt;br&gt; NATEPERKINS.TV: Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright Historic Inaugural SERMON - Washington,  D.C. LIVE! Free clip from nateperkins on blip.tv Jan 28, 2009 NATEPERKINS.TV: The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright Historic Inaugural SERMON of Pres-Elect Barack Obama Before Sworn-In as The 44th President of the United States of America - Howard University-The Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel 20 January, 2009 Washington, (D.C.) NATEPERKINS.TV: News, President Barack Obama Inaugural Live NEWSROOM coverage. Reporting from Howard University-The Andrew Rankin Memorial ... more NATEPERKINS.TV: The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright Historic Inaugural SERMON of Pres-Elect Barack Obama Before Sworn-In as The 44th President of the United States of America - Howard University-The Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel 20 January, 2009 Washington, (D.C.) NATEPERKINS.TV: News, President Barack Obama Inaugural Live NEWSROOM coverage. Reporting from Howard University-The Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel with Dr. Bernard L. Richardson, Dean of the Chapel. and the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright Pastor Emeritus, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chigago, IL. On Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 11:00 A. M., Rev. Dr. Wright’s this morning gave this sermon in 48 hours before 500,000 of people (NATEPERKINS.TV) that traveled from around the world to here the Pastor to pearch the word of God for one of his on little-sheep (former parishioner) President-Elect Barack Obama, in hours, in which, will become, the 44th Preident of the United States of America. One person came from Atlanta, GA and stated &quot;I have waited for all the years my life of 62+ years to come and an to enjoy in the wonderfully moment&quot;. To go: http://www.nateperkins.tv check out more Inauguration story. President Obama&apos;s Inauguration Speech, By TAHMAN BRADLEY and FERDOUS AL-FARUQUEWASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2009 In a sermon today at Howard University&apos;s chapel in Washington, Wright used Obama&apos;s life as an example to show how despite challenges as a nation, the country can build a better future. &quot;He was able to do what nobody of African decent was ever able to do in the 211-year history of this country. ... The Lord stepped into his story and gave him a new attitude,&quot; he said. It was a completely different scene from Wright&apos;s defiant appearance at the National Press Club in April. Gone was any hint of anger directed at Obama for denouncing his more controversial sermons and statements, which became fodder for Obama&apos;s critics during the presidential campaign.News results for jeremiah wrightExclusive: Wright Sings &apos;Proud&apos; Tune on Obama in DC Pulpit - Then ... - Jan 18, 2009Jeremiah Wright may have made his peace with the former parishioner he once ... Jeremiah Wright, former pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in ...The Rev. Jeremiah Wright may have made his peace with the former parishioner he once suggested turned on him for political gain, President-elect Barack Obama, but in an exclusive interview, he showed he&apos;s still furious with the media, who he called &quot;evil,&quot; and said he&apos;s &quot;not going to kiss anybody&apos;s behind.&quot; Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois, addresses the National Press Club in Washington, DC, in this file photo.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) less</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:34:46 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>US Taxpayer Money being used to Sponsor Taliban</title>
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			<description>&lt;img src="http://thumbnails.truveo.com/0010/81/76/817635261F8089109F5246.jpg"&gt; &lt;br&gt; what I call change.. We’re right back at the start.. Giving money to the Taliban,  just like the government used to do till May 2001.. Brzezinski being one of the people who founded Al Qaeda, now advising Obama, yeah we&apos;re making real progress here.. Maybe we should turn back the clock, to 1997 when the Taliban were invited to the USA to talk about ... barack obama taliban afghanistan usa united states america taxpayer money dollar crisis recession depression ron paul antiwar al qaeda osama bin ...</description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:38:16 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Obama’s war on deficits</title>
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			<description>&lt;img src="http://thumbnails.truveo.com/0011/98/21/9821947688815E5C7DF5D1.jpg"&gt; &lt;br&gt; Nov. 13: President Barack Obama’s reportedly planning to announce that he will focus extensively on cutting federal deficit in 2010,  but after supporting the stimulus, bailouts, health care legislation and other government programs, how tough of a sell will this be? The Politico’s Jim Vandehei discusses. (Other)  Barack Obama - United States public debt - United States - Government - Health care</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:37:37 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Eugenics: Steel and Rubber Found in Prescription Drug</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:09:42 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>KidTalk aired 1/17/09</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:42:29 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Reid eyes payroll tax on wealthy for health reform bill.</title>
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			<description>&lt;img src="http://thumbnails.truveo.com/0006/36/D7/36D74B8E81D4D67BDA2AEE.jpg"&gt; &lt;br&gt; It looks like Harry Reid (Dem-Nevada) Wants to put a tax on the rich just to get the health care bill passed. ... bryn morgan merced central california united states of america god harry reid barack obama washington dc tax rich health care reform bill senate house</description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:51:17 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Traitor  Lieberman &amp; McCain lied to American people to defeat Obama. They Lost Election. 3 videos</title>
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			<description>&lt;img src="http://thumbnails.truveo.com/0004/1E/CF/1ECFBEB2BB0AC41C584A2E.jpg"&gt; &lt;br&gt; 1st Video . Traitor Lieberman &amp; McCain lied to American people to defeat Obama Aug 2008   2nd video0 8-08-11 Georgian Dictator bought McCain unconditional support.  3d video. 08-18 McCain &quot;We Are All Georgians Today&quot; Starting cold war and pushing WW3 using lies.  *_  McCain lies - Less then hundred of Georgian civilians died as result of Georgian Dictator Aggression against S Ossetia that started Georgian war. Almost 1600 Ossetian civilians and many Russian peacekeepers died from Georgian bombardment in the first 2 days of Saakashvili&apos;s aggression.   McCain &amp; Lieberman didn&apos;t care for the lives of Ossetians or Russians that died from the hands of thier beloved Georgian Dictator. Discrimination or they just Evil, since Ossetians and Russians were not paying ?  _*  McCain adviser got money from GeorgiaWed Aug 13, 2008 12:51 PM EDT   politics,   mccain ,  john-*mccain*,  lobbyist   Pete Yost, Associated Press Writers  John McCain&apos;s chief foreign policy adviser and his business partner lobbied the senator or his staff on 49 occasions in a 3 1/2-year span while being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the government of the former Soviet republic of  Georgia.    The payments raise ethical questions about the intersection of Randy Scheunemann&apos;s personal financial interests and his advice to the Republican presidential candidate who is seizing on Russian conflict with Georgia as a campaign issue.   On April 17, a month and a half after Scheunemann stopped working for  Georgia, his partner signed a $200,000 agreement with the Georgian government.  The deal added to an arrangement that brought in more than $800,000 to the two-man firm from 2004 to mid-2007. For the duration of the campaign, Scheunemann is taking a leave of absence from the firm.  &quot;Scheunemann&apos;s work as a lobbyist poses valid questions about McCain&apos;s judgment in choosing someone who - and whose firm - are paid to promote the interests of other nations,&quot; said New York University law professor Stephen Gillers. &quot;So one must ask whether  McCain is getting disinterested advice, at least when the issues concern those nations.&quot;  &quot;If  McCain wants advice from someone whose private interests as a once and future lobbyist may affect the objectivity of the advice, that&apos;s his choice to make.&quot;  McCain has been to  Georgia   three times  since 1997 and &quot;this is an issue that he has been involved with for well over a decade,&quot; said  McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers. McCain&apos;s strong condemnation in recent days of Russia&apos;s military action against  Georgia as &quot;  totally, absolutely unacceptable&quot;  reflects long-standing ties between  McCain and hardline conservatives such as Scheunemann, an aide in the 1990s to then-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott. Scheunemann, who also was a foreign policy adviser in McCain&apos;s 2000 presidential campaign, has for years traveled the same road as  McCain in pushing for regime change in Iraq and promoting NATO membership for  Georgia and other former Soviet republics. While their politics coincide,  Georgian war casts a spotlight on Scheunemann&apos;s business interests and McCain&apos;s conduct as a senator.   Scheunemann&apos;s firm lobbied McCain&apos;s office on four bills and resolutions regarding Georgia, with McCain as a co-sponsor or supporter of all of them.  In addition to the 49 contacts with  McCain or his staff regarding  Georgia, Scheunemann&apos;s firm has lobbied the senator or his aides on at least 47 occasions since 2001 on behalf of the governments of Taiwan and Macedonia, which each paid Scheunemann and his partner Mike Mitchell over half a million dollars; Romania, which paid over $400,000; and Latvia, which paid nearly $250,000. Federal law requires Scheunemann to publicly disclose to the Justice Department all his lobbying contacts as an agent of a foreign government. After contacts with McCain&apos;s staff, the senator introduced a resolution saluting the people of  Georgia on the first anniversary of the Rose Revolution that brought Mikhail Saakashvili to power.   Four months ago, on the same day that Scheunemann&apos;s partner signed the latest $200,000 agreement with Georgia, McCain spoke with Saakashvili by phone. The senator then issued a strong statement saying that &quot;we must not allow Russia to believe it has a free hand to engage in policies that undermine Georgian sovereignty.&quot;  Rogers, the  McCain campaign spokesman, said the call took place at the request of the embassy of  Georgia.   McCain called Saakashvili again on Tuesday.   &quot;I told him that I know I speak for every American when I said to him, today, we are all Georgians,&quot;   McCain told a cheering crowd in York, Pa. McCain&apos;s Democratic rival, Barack Obama, had spoken with Saakashvili the day before. In 2005 and 2006,  McCain signed onto a resolution expressing support for the withdrawal of Russian troops from  Georgia; introduced a resolution expressing support for a peace plan for Georgia&apos;s breakaway province of Ossetia; and co-sponsored a measure supporting admission of four nations including  Georgia into NATO. On Tuesday,  McCain told Fox News that &quot;as you know, through the NATO membership, ...   if a member nation is attacked, it is viewed as an attack on all.&quot;  Scheunemann&apos;s lobbying firm is one of three that he has operated since 1999, with clients including BP Amoco, defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. and the National Rifle Association.  Scheunemann is part of the community of neoconservatives who relentlessly pushed for war in Iraq. No one in Washington is more closely aligned with the Bush administration&apos;s decision to invade Iraq than prominent neoconservatives, who for years had regime change in Iraq as a goal as part of their philosophy that the United States shouldn&apos;t be reluctant to use its power, both diplomatic and military, to spread &quot;democracy&quot; and to guarantee world order. Now,  McCain and other politicians who pushed for the invasion are seeking to emphasize the progress, albeit fragile, of the current troop surge in Iraq. In the months before the war began, Scheuenemann ran the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, set up in November 2002 when public support for the looming invasion was eroding. Before that, Scheunemann was on board with the Project for the New American Century, whose letter to Bush nine days after the Sept. 11 attacks pointed to Iraq as a possible link to the terrorists. The letter said American forces must be prepared to support &quot;by all means necessary&quot; the U.S. government&apos;s commitment to opponents of Saddam Hussein. Scheunemann was among the letter&apos;s 37 signers, a Who&apos;s Who of neoconservative luminaries including William Kristol and Richard Perle. If anything, Scheunemann&apos;s duties have been enhanced from McCain&apos;s 2000 presidential campaign, when Scheunemann also advised  McCain on national security and foreign policy issues. &amp;copy; 2008 The Associated Press.   Georgia started the war - Pat BuchananDid US officials know about Georgia&apos;s plans to attack its breakaway region? The issue deserves a special hearing in the US Congress, according to American political commentator Pat Buchanan.  August 15, 2008    Blowback from Bear Baiting By   Patrick  Buchanan  Mikheil Saakashvili&apos;s decision to use the opening of the Olympic Games to cover Georgia&apos;s invasion of its breakaway province of South Ossetia must rank in stupidity with Gamal Abdel-Nasser&apos;s decision to close the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships.   Nasser&apos;s blunder cost him the Sinai in the Six-Day  War. Saakashvili&apos;s blunder probably means permanent loss of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.   After shelling and attacking what he claims is his own country, killing scores of his own Ossetian citizens and sending tens of thousands fleeing into Russia, Saakashvili&apos;s army was whipped back into  Georgia in 48 hours.   Russia took the opportunity to kick the Georgian army out of Abkhazia and to seize Gori, birthplace of Stalin.   Reveling in his status as an intimate of George Bush, Dick Cheney and John McCain, and America&apos;s lone democratic ally in the Caucasus, Saakashvili thought he could get away with a lightning coup and present the world with a fait accompli.   American charges of Russian aggression ring hollow.  Georgia  started this fight -- Russia finished it. People who start wars don&apos;t get to decide how and when they end.   Russia&apos;s response was &quot;disproportionate&quot; wailed Bush.  True. But did we not authorize Israel to bomb Lebanon for 35 days in response to a border skirmish where several Israel soldiers were killed and two captured? Was that not many times more &quot;disproportionate&quot;?  Russia has invaded a sovereign country, railed Bush. But did not the United States bomb Serbia for 78 days and invade to force it to surrender a province, Kosovo, to which Serbia had a far greater historic claim than  Georgia had to Abkhazia or South Ossetia, both of which prefer Moscow to Tbilisi? Is not Western hypocrisy astonishing? When the Soviet Union broke into 15 nations, we celebrated. When Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Kosovo broke from Serbia, we rejoiced. Why, then, the indignation when two provinces, whose peoples are ethnically separate from Georgians and who fought for their independence, should succeed in breaking away?  Are secessions and the dissolution of nations laudable only when they advance the agenda of the neocons, many of who viscerally detest Russia?  When Moscow pulled the Red Army out of Europe, closed its bases in Cuba, dissolved the evil empire, let the Soviet Union break up into 15 states, and sought friendship and alliance with the United States, what did we do?  American carpetbaggers colluded with Muscovite Scalawags to loot the Russian nation. Breaking a pledge to Mikhail Gorbachev, we moved our military alliance into Eastern Europe, then onto Russia&apos;s doorstep. Six Warsaw Pact nations and three former republics of the Soviet Union are now NATO members.  Bush, Cheney and McCain have pushed to bring Ukraine and  Georgia into NATO. This would require the United States to go to  war with Russia over Stalin&apos;s birthplace and who has sovereignty over the Crimean Peninsula and Sebastopol, traditional home of Russia&apos;s Black Sea fleet.  When did these become U.S. vital interests, justifying  war with Russia?  The United States unilaterally abrogated the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty because our technology was superior, then planned to site anti-missile defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic to defend against Iranian missiles, though Iran has no ICBMs and no atomic bombs. A Russian counter-offer to have us together put an anti-missile system in Azerbaijan was rejected out of hand.  We built a Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline from Azerbaijan through  Georgia to Turkey to cut Russia out. Then we helped dump over regimes friendly to Moscow with democratic &quot;revolutions&quot; in Ukraine and  Georgia, and tried to repeat it in Belarus.  Americans have many fine qualities. A capacity to see ourselves as others see us is not high among them.  Imagine a world that never knew Ronald Reagan, where Europe had opted out of the Cold  War after Moscow installed those SS-20 missiles east of the Elbe. And Europe had abandoned NATO, told us to go home and become subservient to Moscow.  How would we have reacted if Moscow had brought Western Europe into the Warsaw Pact, established bases in Mexico and Panama, put missile defense radars and rockets in Cuba, and joined with China to build pipelines to transfer Mexican and Venezuelan oil to Pacific ports for shipment to Asia? And cut us out? If there were Russian and Chinese advisers training Latin American armies, the way we are in the former Soviet republics, how would we react? Would we look with bemusement on such Russian behavior?  For a decade, some of us have warned about the folly of getting into Russia&apos;s space and getting into Russia&apos;s face. The chickens of democratic imperialism have now come home to roost -- in Tbilisi.   November 26, 2008  Ex-Diplomat Says Georgia Started War With Russia By OLESYA VARTANYAN and ELLEN BARRY  TBILISI,  Georgia - A parliamentary hearing on the origins of the war between Georgia and  Russia in August ended in a furor on Tuesday after a former Georgian diplomat testified that Georgian authorities were responsible for starting the conflict.   Erosi Kitsmarishvili, Tbilisi&apos;s former ambassador to Moscow, testified for three hours before he was shouted down by members of Parliament.   A former confidant of President  Mikheil Saakashvili, Mr. Kitsmarishvili said Georgian officials told him in April that they planned to start a war in Abkhazia, one of two breakaway regions at issue in the war, and had received a green light from the United States government to do so. He said the Georgian government later decided to start the war in South Ossetia, the other region, and continue into Abkhazia.  He would not name the officials who he said had told him about planned actions in Abkhazia, saying that identifying them would endanger their lives.  American officials have consistently said that they had warned Mr. Saakashvili against taking action in the two enclaves, where Russian peacekeepers were stationed.   Mr. Kitsmarishvili&apos;s testimony in front of a parliamentary commission, shown live on Georgian television, met with forceful and immediate denials. One commission member, Givi Targamadze, threw a pen and then lunged toward Mr. Kitsmarishvili, but was restrained by his colleagues.   The chairman of the commission, Paata Davitaia, said he would initiate a criminal case against Mr. Kitsmarishvili for &quot;professional negligence.&quot;  Mr. Kitsmarishvili walked out amid the furor on Tuesday. &quot;They don&apos;t want to listen to the truth,&quot; he told reporters. Russia and Georgia have each painted the other as the aggressor in the five-day war. Georgia said it launched an attack on the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, because a Russian invasion was under way. Russia says it sent combat troops into the enclave to protect civilians and peacekeepers after Georgia&apos;s offensive had begun. In his comments, the former diplomat said that Mr. Saakashvili was responding to Russian provocation, but that he had long been planning to take control of the enclaves, which won de facto independence from Georgia in fighting in the early 1990s. Mr. Kitsmarishvili said the president aimed to start an offensive in 2004, but met with resistance from Western and other Georgian officials.  Among the catalysts for the offensive, Mr. Kitsmarishvili said, was the belief that United States officials had given their approval. When he tried to verify that information with the American diplomats in Tbilisi, Mr. Kitsmarishvili said, he was told no such approval had been given.  ..How the war in South Ossetia is related to the presidential campaign in the US 22.08.2008 // 11:17       We did not belive it when people said: &quot;The major goal of this war in South Ossetia was to help senator McCain to become the next president,&quot; but after reading this article below and the results of the latest polls, we changed our minds...   Just look at the real results of that war:  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.  McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama&apos;s solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll. ..   The poll was taken Thursday through Saturday as Obama wrapped up a weeklong vacation in Hawaii that ceded the political spotlight to McCain, who seized on Russia&apos;s invasion of Georgia to emphasize his foreign policy views.&quot;    And now plese read the folowing article published by Associated Press    WASHINGTON, Augaust 13 - John McCain&apos;s chief foreign policy adviser and his business partner lobbied the senator or his staff on 49 occasions in a 3 1/2-year span while being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the government of the former Soviet republic of Georgia.   The payments raise ethical questions about the intersection of Randy Scheunemann&apos;s personal financial interests and his advice to the Republican presidential candidate*  who is seizing on Russian &quot;aggression&quot; in Georgia as a campaign issue. *  McCain warned Russian leaders Tuesday that their assault in Georgia risks &quot;the benefits they enjoy from being part of the civilized world.&quot;  On April 17, a month and a half after Scheunemann stopped working for Georgia, his partner signed a $200,000 agreement with the Georgian government.   The deal added to an arrangement that brought in more than $800,000 to the two-man firm from 2004 to mid-2007.  For the duration of the campaign, Scheunemann is taking a leave of absence from the firm.   &quot;Scheunemann&apos;s work as a lobbyist poses valid questions about McCain&apos;s judgment in choosing someone who - and whose firm - are paid to promote the interests of other nations,&quot; said New York University law professor Stephen Gillers. &quot;So one must ask whether McCain is getting disinterested advice, at least when the issues concern those nations.&quot;   &quot;If McCain wants advice from someone whose private interests as a once and future lobbyist may affect the objectivity of the advice, that&apos;s his choice to make.&quot;    McCain has been to Georgia three times since 1997 and &quot;this is an issue that he has been involved with for well over a decade,&quot; said McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers.    McCain&apos;s strong condemnation in recent days of Russia&apos;s military action against Georgia as &quot;totally, absolutely unacceptable&quot; reflects long-standing ties between McCain and hardline conservatives such as Scheunemann, an aide in the 1990s to then-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott.   Scheunemann, who also was a foreign policy adviser in McCain&apos;s 2000 presidential campaign, has for years traveled the same road as McCain in pushing for regime change in Iraq and promoting NATO membership for Georgia and other former Soviet republics.   While their politics coincide, Russia&apos;s invasion of Georgia casts a spotlight on Scheunemann&apos;s business interests and McCain&apos;s conduct as a senator.    Scheunemann&apos;s firm lobbied McCain&apos;s office on four bills and resolutions regarding Georgia, with McCain as a co-sponsor or supporter of all of them.    In addition to the 49 contacts with McCain or his staff regarding Georgia, Scheunemann&apos;s firm has lobbied the senator or his aides on at least 47 occasions since 2001 on behalf of the governments of Taiwan and Macedonia, which each paid Scheunemann and his partner Mike Mitchell over half a million dollars; Romania, which paid over $400,000; and Latvia, which paid nearly $250,000. Federal law requires Scheunemann to publicly disclose to the Justice Department all his lobbying contacts as an agent of a foreign government.  After contacts with McCain&apos;s staff, the senator introduced a resolution saluting the people of Georgia on the first anniversary of the Rose Revolution that brought Mikhail Saakashvili to power.   Four months ago, on the same day that Scheunemann&apos;s partner signed the latest   $200,000 agreement with Georgia , McCain spoke with Saakashvili by phone. The senator then issued a strong statement saying that &quot;we must not allow Russia to believe it has a free hand to engage in policies that undermine Georgian sovereignty.&quot;   Rogers, the McCain campaign spokesman, said the call took place at the request of the embassy of Georgia. And McCain campaign spokeswoman Nicolle Wallace added that the senator has full confidence in Scheunemann. &quot;We&apos;re proud of anyone who has worked on the side of angels in fledgling democracies,&quot; she said in an interview.   McCain called Saakashvili again on Tuesday.   &quot;I told him that I know I speak for every American when I said to him, today, we are all Georgians,&quot;  McCain told a cheering crowd in York, Pa.  In 2005 and 2006, McCain signed onto a resolution expressing support for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia; introduced a resolution expressing support for a peace plan for Georgia&apos;s breakaway province of Ossetia; and co-sponsored a measure supporting admission of four nations including Georgia into NATO.   On Tuesday, McCain told Fox News that &quot;as you know, through the NATO membership, ... if a member nation is attacked, it is viewed as an attack on all.&quot;  Scheunemann&apos;s lobbying firm is one of three that he has operated since 1999, with clients including BP Amoco, defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. and the National Rifle Association.   Scheunemann is part of the community of neoconservatives who relentlessly pushed for war in Iraq.   No one in Washington is more closely aligned with the Bush administration&apos;s decision to invade Iraq than prominent neoconservatives, who for years had regime change in Iraq as a goal as part of their philosophy that the United States shouldn&apos;t be reluctant to use its power, both diplomatic and military, to spread democracy and to guarantee world order.  Now, McCain and other politicians who pushed for the invasion are seeking to emphasize the progress, albeit fragile, of the current troop surge in Iraq.  In the months before the war began, Scheuenemann ran the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, set up in November 2002 when public support for the looming invasion was eroding.  Before that, Scheunemann was on board with the Project for the New American Century, whose letter to Bush nine days after the Sept. 11 attacks pointed to Iraq as a possible link to the terrorists.  The letter said American forces must be prepared to support &quot;by all means necessary&quot; the U.S. government&apos;s commitment to opponents of Saddam Hussein.  Scheunemann was among the letter&apos;s 37 signers, a Who&apos;s Who of neoconservative luminaries including William Kristol and Richard Perle.  If anything, Scheunemann&apos;s duties have been enhanced from McCain&apos;s 2000 presidential campaign, when Scheunemann also advised McCain on national security and foreign policy issues.  As the United States prepared for the first Gulf war, McCain was among a handful of members in Congress who began raising caution flags about the operation.  &quot;If you get involved in a major ground war in the Saudi desert, I think support will erode significantly,&quot; said McCain. &quot;Nor should it be supported. We cannot even contemplate, in my view, trading American blood for Iraqi blood.&quot;            October 30, 2008, 5:52   BBC wakes up to Georgian &apos;war crimes&apos;  The BBC says it has obtained evidence that the Georgian army may have committed war crimes during August&apos;s military offensive in South Ossetia. Britain&apos;s flagship broadcaster heard testimonies during the first unrestricted visit to South Ossetia by a foreign news organisation since the conflict ended.    Photographs taken by Russian journalists in the first days of the conflict tell a disturbing story. But it is only now - more than two months later - that the world is looking at these pictures and reflecting on their meaning. For many, they paint a picture of indiscriminate force used against unarmed civilians. It&apos;s a side of the story international broadcasters have been accused of ignoring. A report by the BBC&apos;s Newsnight programme suggests Georgia&apos;s armed forces committed war crimes during their attack in August. The BBC says the evidence proving this comes from the first unrestricted visit to South Ossetia by their correspondent.  Taisiya Sitnik, or Taya, as the BBC reporter calls her, had spent many hours under the rubble of her apartment block in Tskhinval, with no food or water, in a dress covered with the blood of her dead son.   She had already shared her tragic story once with an RT correspondent, three days into the conflict. More than two months later the BBC is finally telling her story.  Richard Sakwa, a professor of politics and international relations at the University of Kent in the UK, said he&apos;d been inundated with messages complaining about how the Western media were covering the war.    &quot;I&apos;m a great believer in popular common sense - the amount of emails I received and other messages - because people know I&apos;m involved in these questions - was astonishing! And the overwhelming message was disgust at the initial coverage by the BBC (it later did an excellent job) and in particular also CNN and other major western media. So what we are seeing is officialdom catching up with what I think was a genuine sense down below that we weren&apos;t being fed the truth from the start,&quot; Prof. Sakwa said.  Until recently Georgia had been seen by many as a small state that suffered at the hands of its big neighbour. But that perception is slowly changing. Georgia&apos;s president, who has portrayed himself as the West&apos;s closest ally, now has to defend himself.   &quot;We strongly deny accusation of war crimes - but of course, we are very open for any kind of comments, we are very open for any kind of investigation,&quot; Mikhail Saakashvili said.  Even Britain&apos;s foreign secretary, known for his unconditional support of Georgia, is now changing his tune.   &quot;On my visit to Tbilisi, of course, I raised at the highest level in Georgia, the questions that have been asked and raised about war crimes and other military actions by the Georgian authorities,&quot; David Miliband said.   And this shift in Western attitudes seems to have improved relations between Russia and the UK, which have been at their lowest for decades.   &quot;I think there has been a shift in the British government&apos;s position on Russia in the last month or so. And some of Miliband&apos;s recent statements reflect that,&quot; says Charles Grant, Director of the Centre for European Reform.</description>
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