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"Barack Obama with his good friend and benefactor Salman Ibrahim, in the offices of the infamous Sunrise Equities, Chicago.
Ibrahim is wanted by the FBI in connection with the 2008 Sunrise Equities scam in Chicago,
in which investors were ripped off for a total of approximately $80 million."

"Obama Ashamed Of Old Glory? Hides Flag For Message To Iran"
"Is President Obama ashamed to display the American flag to Iranians?
"Watching TV clips of Pres. Obama’s special message to Iran on the occasion of Nowruz,
a holiday that celebrates the first day of spring and the New Year in many countries,
I was struck by how tight the frame was cropped. My antennae went up.
I found the official White House website for the message, and saw that there were . . . various versions of the message.
In the main, generic version, an American flag is plainly visible in the background [see screencap below the break].
But below that there are links to other versions, including “.mp4 with Persian subtitles.”
Persian is of course the language of Iran, so that is the version the White House wanted to be seen there.
Click on it and you’ll see that—poof!—the American flag has disappeared from the background [see screencap above the break].
So that’s why the image was cropped so tight.
At times, the prez’s American flag lapel pin can be seen, but during most of the message
the cropping is so tight that even that small American symbol is invisible."

As of March/09 this book has not been released in the US. Obama must have obtained a foreign copy. The author is an ex-CNN type. The title is a misnomer, in that half the book is about global warming and the other half is about the rise of the “rest of the world”. Not sure I’ll pick one up even so.