CHINA CONFIDENTIAL
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Memo to the McCain Campaign
Fr: China Confidential
Re: Winning
It's everything. There is no benefit in losing.
And your candidate can still win the election. It's not too late; two weeks is two months in political time.
A key suggestion: spend whatever it takes, within reason use all your available resources to unearth and document the reported relationship (by Percy Sutton) between Barack Obama and Khalid Al-Mansour, aka Donald Warden, the notorious Muslim supremacist and adviser to Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulazziz Al -Saud, one of the world's richest and most controversial men.
And when you get to the bottom of the story, assuming you are not already sitting on the information, release it. Don't hesitate. The election could turn on this file faster than anything you can possibly say at this point about Bill Ayers or Jeremiah Wright. In our opinion, the unrepentant terrorist and the unrepentant racist are diversions--Mansour is the real deal.
Did Mansour support and mentor Obama during his lost years at Columbia University (as suggested below--scroll for the story)? Did Mansour sponsor Obama's Harvard Law School application? Did Mansour back Obama's memoir, Dreams from My Father?
The nation needs to know the answers to the above questions. The stakes are too high, the job of President--and Commander-in-Chief--too serious, to overlook the possibility of aMansourian Candidate coming to power.
OGEC? Iran, Russia, Qatar Announce Natural Gas Cartel as Hopeful Obama Plans to Outlaw Carbon
The United States has huge natural gas reserves. Contrary to the doom-and-gloom warnings of dumbbell, no-drill Democrats, the country is running into gas, finding new and bigger reserves.
Incredibly, however, Barack Obama, the presumptive winner--by an adoring media--of the US Presidential election, aims to cripple US oil and gas development (scroll down for the story) and lock up the resources that dwarf his unreliable and nonexistent alternative energy schemes and dreams.
Meanwhile, Iran, Russia, and Qatar have other ideas. They plan to form a natural gas cartel.The Guardian reports:Western concerns about global energy markets hit new heights last night when Russia, Iran and Qatar said they were forming an Opec-style gas cartel.
The move by the three countries, which control 60% of the world's gas reserves, was met with immediate opposition from the European commission, which fears the group could drive up prices.
Alexey Miller, chairman of Russia's Gazprom, said they were forming a "big gas troika" and warned that the era of cheap hydrocarbons had come to an end.
"We are united by the world's largest gas reserves, common strategic interests and, which is of great importance, high cooperation potential in tripartite projects," he explained. "We have agreed to hold regular - three to four times a year - meetings of the gas G3 to discuss the crucial issues of mutual interest."
Miller's comments, likely to increase pressure on the west to accelerate developments in wind and other renewable energy alternatives, followed a meeting in Tehran with Gholamhossein Nozari, Iran's petroleum minister, and Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, Qatar's deputy prime minister and oil and energy minister.
Miller said the group was establishing a technical committee comprised of specialists and experts to discuss the implementation of joint projects embracing the entire value chain from geological exploration to marketing.
The Russians avoided the word cartel but the Iranians spelled it out clearly. "There is a demand to form this gas Opec and there is a consensus to set up gas Opec," Nozari told a news conference.
With Opec due to meet on Friday to look at ways of driving up oil prices, Miller said fossil fuels were going to cost more. "We share the opinion that oil price fluctuations don't put in question the fundamental thesis stating that the era of cheap hydrocarbons has come to an end."
The European commission said last night that it would oppose the creation of any organisation that could restrict competition. "The European commission feels that energy supplies have to be sold in a free market," said its spokesman, Ferran Tarradellas Espuny.
Click here to continue reading.Obama Will Classify Carbon as Pollution
Dateline USA....
How did we miss this?
If elected President of the United States, The Candidate of Change will cripple what remains of America's productive capacity to "save the planet."
On October 16 Bloomberg reported:Barack Obama will classify carbon dioxide as a dangerous pollutant that can be regulated should he win the presidential election on Nov. 4, opening the way for new rules on greenhouse gas emissions.
The Democratic senator from Illinois will tell the Environmental Protection Agency that it may use the 1990 Clean Air Act to set emissions limits on power plants and manufacturers, his energy adviser, Jason Grumet, said in an interview. President George W. Bush declined to curb CO2 emissions under the law even after the Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the government may do so.
If elected, Obama would be the first president to group emissions blamed for global warming into a category of pollutants that includes lead and carbon monoxide. Obama's rival in the presidential race, Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, has not said how he would treat CO2 under the act.
Click here to continue.The Big Question About Barack Obama
Dateline USA....
Is Barack Hussein Obama Mr. Magoo or the Manchurian (orMansourian) Candidate?
Is the Democratic nominee a man who knew nothing, saw nothing, understood nothing ... about Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Michael Pfleger, Louis Farrakhan, Khalid Al-Mansour, ACORN ... or a created agent of ... Islamic ... influence?
Given Obama's history of radical ... and racist ... associations ... and the mainstream media's refusal to take them seriously ... one wonders.US Intelligence Said to Confirm China Confidential Prediction: Iran Could Build an A-Bomb in Feb. '09
Foreign Confidential....
The Israeli online intelligence report, Debkafile, says US intelligence sources have confirmed what China Confidential has been predicting for about a year: Iran could be ready to build an atomic bomb in February 2009, just one month after the inauguration of the next US President. Click here to read the report.
Our analysis is that the Iranian regime is bent on becoming a nuclear power in time for the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution. The bomb will be Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's gift to the Iranian nation--and the Muslim world.
The Iranian bomb's existence will forever change the balance of power in the Middle East and lay the groundwork for the menacing of Europe and, eventually, the United States. Not for nothing is Iran developing nuclear warheads--with North Korean help--and intercontinental ballistic missiles (under cover of a civilian space program).
Not for nothing, too, did Joe (the Senator) Biden say Sunday, "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.” Biden has a history of spilling the beans....
One can only hope Obama's opponent wins the election. Unlike The Candidate of Change, John McCain has already been tested.
UPDATE: Haaretz says Iran is considering attacking Israel. The paper reports:Senior Tehran officials are recommending a preemptive strike against Israel to prevent an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear reactors, a senior Islamic Republic official told foreign diplomats two weeks ago in London.
The official, Dr. Seyed G. Safavi, said recent threats by Israeli authorities strengthened this position, but that as of yet, a preemptive strike has not been integrated into Iranian policy.
Safavi is head of the Research Institute of Strategic Studies in Tehran, and an adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The institute is directly affiliated with Khamenei's office and with the Revolutionary Guards, and advises both on foreign policy issues.
Safavi is also the brother of Yahya Rahim Safavi, who was the head of the Revolutionary Guards until a year ago and now is an adviser to Khamenei, and holds significant influence on security matters in the Iranian government.
Click here to continue.Media Refuse to Probe Obama's Lost New York Years
Dateline USA....
It turns out that Fidel Castro and Barack Obama, whom the retired Communist dictator has twice endorsed for President of the United States, have something in common in addition to a fundamental view of government as the main engine of economic growth: missing time in New York City, more specifically, on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
In Castro's case, historians seem clueless about a year he spent living on the Upper West Side before the Cuban revolution; the episode is regarded as trivial--at most, an interesting footnote. In Obama's case, files and other possibly significant and newsworthy information pertaining to his undergraduate years at Columbia University--about a mile north of where Castro resided, on what is essentially the Upper Upper West Side--have apparently been deliberately lost, or suppressed.
Obama's lost years at the Ivy League institution "are a hole in the sprawling Obama hagiography," as an opinion article in The Wall Street Journal recently pointed out. The piece explained that in his two published memoirsthe 47-year-old Democratic nominee barely mentions his experience there. He refuses to answer questions about Columbia and New York -- which, in this media age, serves only to raise more of them. Why not release his Columbia transcript? Why has his senior essay gone missing?
Now in our view, the college years shouldn't normally be used to judge a politician's fitness for office. We're not sure the transcripts of Al Gore, John Kerry and George W. Bush -- which showed them to be C students -- illuminated much for voters. The McCain campaign won't release his records, but we know he graduated at the bottom of his Naval Academy class.
But Mr. Obama is a case apart. His personal story, as told by him, made possible his rise from obscurity four years ago to possibly the White House. He doesn't have a long track record in government. We mainly have him in his own words. As any autobiographer, Mr. Obama played up certain chapters in his life -- perhaps even exaggerating his drug use in adolescence to drive home his theme of youthful alienation -- and ignored others. What's more, as acknowledged in "Dreams From My Father," Mr. Obama reconstructed conversations and gave some people pseudonyms or created "composite" characters.
Voters and the media are now exercising due diligence before Election Day, and they are meeting resistance from Mr. Obama in checking his past. Earlier this year, the AP tracked down Mr. Obama's New York-era roommate, "Sadik," in Seattle after the campaign refused to reveal his name. Sohale Siddiqi, his real name, confirmed Mr. Obama's account that he turned serious in New York and "stopped getting high." "We were both very lost," Mr. Siddiqi said. "We were both alienated, although he might not put it that way. He arrived disheveled and without a place to stay." For some reason the Obama camp wanted this to stay out of public view.
There is more to the story, this reporter suspects, than drugs and alienation. 
Location, Location ...
1. Why did Obama, a transfer student from Occidental College in Los Angeles, choose to room way off campus--way, way off campus--with a non-student? The two men shared an apartment in a six-story walkup at 339 East 94th Street, between First and Second Avenues, on what was then a crime-ridden block in the Yorkville section on Manhattan's Upper East Side, not far from predominantly Hispanic East Harlem.
Understand, as Obama likes to say, that 339 East 94th St. is a most unusual--actually, an outrageously difficult--location for undergraduate-level student commuting to the Columbia campus, which roughly stretches along Broadway from 112th to 118th Streets. The commuting distance from 339 E. 94th St. to Columbia is only about three miles; but it might as well be 30 miles, because when it comes to East-West travel, Manhattan is a lot like New England: you can't get there from here. Central Park separates the upper East and West sides; there are few transverses through the park and relatively few sufficiently wide crosstown streets; both the wider and outmoded (for cars and trucks) narrow streets are typically clogged with traffic and double-parked vehicles; and mass transit, while great for commuting up and down the island, is extremely limited in terms of East-West travel.
It would have taken Obama 30-45 minutes to commute to Columbia on any given morning--in good weather. Add 15 minutes for rainy weather, and a half-hour, maybe, for snowy conditions. His commuting options were basically all bad. He could have taken the Number 4 Madison Avenue bus to Riverside Drive and 116th Street, which is about a block from the main campus entrance, or walked uptown two blocks to board the bus that makes its way across 96th Street, departing at Broadway, say, where he could have changed buses to head uptown, or continued up Broadway by subway train from the 96th St. station to either the 110th St. or 116th St. stations. Even if he could have afforded to commute by taxi, he would have been looking at 20-30 minutes' travel time each way.
Although long-depressed Manhattan real estate values had already begun to climb by 1981, the year Obama entered Columbia, he could have found any number of affordable and more accessible places to live--and students to room with--in the vicinity of the university or on the Upper West Side. (Race was not an issue. This reporter, a Columbia Journalism School alumnus and child of the 1950s and '60s, grew up in a cosmopolitan Columbia University-area apartment building that was home to interracial couples and foreign and non-white graduate and undergraduate students.) Alternatively, Obama could have opted for dorm living. Instead, he chose to live far from school--about as far across town as he possibly could without falling into the East River. How odd for an undergraduate student with a demanding schedule; no wonder his Columbia classmates have no recollection of him, as the above-referenced Journal article noted (click through to read the whole piece).
An Excellent Adventure
2. Why did Obama and his roommate visit Pakistan for about three weeks in 1981, at a time when travel to the country was banned and Americans were clearly unwelcome? Why and how did Obama and his roommate travel to a predominantly Muslim city in neighboring India--when travel between the two nations was extremely restricted?
Did Obama enter and leave Pakistan using his US passport or a foreign passport? He was apparently still entitled to a Kenyan passport; and he may have also been entitled to an Indonesian passport.
In that regard, isn't it time a reporter asked Obama if he is now or has ever been a citizen of Indonesia? His Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, registered him for school there under the name Barry Soetoro, listing his religion as "Islam" and his citizenship as "Indonesian."
An inconvenient question as Obamamania spreads across the land: Is the US ready for a dual-citizen Commander-in-Chief? Dual citizenship wouldn't be appropriate for a dual US-UK citizen, much less a dual US-Indonesian citizen. The world's most populous Muslim nation, Indonesia is a hothouse of Muslim separatism and extremism and Islamist terrorism.
A Mysterious Benefactor?
3. Did Obama come to know Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour during his Columbia years? Did Dr. Mansour, formerly known as Donald Warden before his conversion to Islam--when he was an adviser to the Black Panther Party--sponsor, support, or mentor Obama? Did he help Obama gain admittance to Harvard Law School, as the respected civil rights leader and former Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton recently said? Sutton told the NY1 cable TV news network: “I was introduced to (Obama) by a friend who was raising money for him. The friend’s name is Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour, from Texas. He is the principal adviser to one of the world’s richest men. He told me about Obama.”
Sutton said Mansour contacted him to write a letter in support of Obama’s application to Harvard Law School.
Given that Mansour is a rabid Muslim supremacist--his video lectures and books, which are well known in the black community, spew hatred of Christianity, Judaism, and "white America"--and an adviser to a Saudi prince who has donated tens millions of dollars to Harvard and Georgetown University and to a national educational program that aims to teach K-12 students world history from a Muslim viewpoint, one would think the mainstream media would bother to ask Obama about the reported relationship?
Islam: the Forbidden Zone
With the Presidential election only two weeks away, inquiring minds want--demand--to know: why is the Mansour story, like so much of Obama's past, a forbidden zone? This is especially true regarding anything having to do with Islam or the Middle East: a reporter or commentator who dares to go there can expect to be branded a racist or a conspiracy nut.
All of which makes this reporter wonder if Obama has cleverly cloaked himself in an adopted black American identity to protect himself against vetting of his Muslim/Middle Eastern ties.
With the war against radical Islam far from over, with Al Qaeda and the Taliban surging in Afghanistan, and Islamist Iran on the verge of acquiring atomic arms, why is it forbidden to ask The Candidate of Change his view of Islamic religious law, for example, or to ask him to respond to observers who have pointed out that he was born a Muslim according to Islamic religious law, which traces a person's religion through the father?
Why is that question inappropriate, off limits? Obama could and should have addressed it months ago; he could have simply said that while some observant Muslims may view him a Muslim, he considers himself a practicing Christian--period. Instead, his campaign early on made a point of denying so-called ugly rumors that Obama is or was a Muslim. The vehement denials, aside from being inherently insulting to Muslims, merely fueled the rumor mill.
What is one to make of this extreme sensitivity ... and strange secrecy ... on the part of one of the most eloquent speakers and acclaimed story tellers to have ever run for President?
More important, perhaps, why are the media playing along, allowing him to run out the clock?
POSTSCRIPT: In a striking reminder of the double standard and bias that has marked mainstream media coverage of the 2008 Presidential campaign, the Los Angeles Timestoday published an in-depth, negative piece on Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's college years.
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