Remember Antoin "Tony"
Rezko?  I'm sure Governor
Rod Blagojevich recalls who
he is.  Maybe even Barack
Obama.

Well, unless you live in
Chicago, or keep an eye on
the Chi-town Tribune, you
probably have not heard in
the national Main Stream
Media that Rezko is singing
his big head off to the Feds.
YEP!  According to the Trib,
Rezko, who is scheduled
for his sentencing appearance
on October 28th, is quite the
chatty-catty now.  The IceMan
who said nadda-word for these
many months is makin' like a
canary.

Why?  Well, the courts keep
turning down his appeals for
mistrials and retrials.  His op-
tions have all but run out and
he's facing a very long time in
the stripe-y-hole.  According to
the Trib, Federal prosecutors
have recently begun whispering
that Governor Blagojevich will
be the indicted soon, and that
they have a ton of evidence
against him.

As I have been explaining in
several articles here and at
my other other blog on Yahoo!,
Rezko was just the most re-
cent of a long series of arrests
resulting from a Federal investi-
gation known as "Operation
Boardgames."  Evelyn Pringle's
5-part series of articles at
opednews.com goes into extra-
ordinary detail on Boardgames
and the Illinois Combine, a
group of politicians and busi-
nessmen who worked at rip-
ping off the public.

Most of the others who have
been netted thus far by the
Feds have been the small
fish.  Rezko is slightly larger
as he seems to be a major
conduit between the big fish,
including Blagojevich and
Nadhmi Auchi.  You may be
asking who Auchi is?

Meet Nadhmi Auchi, an
Iraqi-born petro-player who
was said to have been the
financial advisor to none
other than Saddam Hussein!
Now residing in Britian, our
friend Auchi headed a com-
pany formerly known as ELF
Oil.  Based in France, ELF
was the primary oil company
for selling Iraqi oil in Europe,
as well as other sources.
In 1994, ELF got popped in
the largest fraud investigation
since The Marshall Plan.
Some $500 Million dollars
were spread around bribing
politicians and feathering
the beds of ELF's execu-
tives.  Auchi was convicted,
but received only a two-year
suspended sentence and a
$2 Million dollar fine!  Nice!

Auchi began playing games
in Chicago, with the help of
Rezko.  Using a Belgium
bank, Clearstream, and a
French bank, BNP, Auchi
helped launder food for oil
money for Saddam.  Some
of which went to many of
Rezko's schemes, such as
the Chicago Riverside Park
Project, a 62 acre develop-
ment near the heart of The
Loop. Riverside was seized
by the Feds in 2005.

This was just one of many
schemes Rezko and the
Illinois Combine were in-
volved in.  My own esti-
mates put the amount of
their activities somewhere
in the $7-8 Billion dollar
mark, with much of the
money coming from state
pension funds.  They even
went international, scam-
ming some $200 Million
from Uncle Sugar for recon-
struction projects in Iraq!

Rezko, as we all know, is
also tied to Barack Obama.
While Obama denies any
criminal involvement with
Rezko, or the Combine's
activities, he was certainly
in the right place at the
wrong time, and very often
so at that!   This now brings
me to my second point of
the evening.

Two blog postings have come
to light.  One at the blog,
littlegreenfootballs, where a
posting from Glen Reynolds
of Instapundit of an email he
received from an 'insider' of
a major news organization.
"Off the record, every suspi-
cion you have about the MSM
being in the tank for O (Obama)
is true.  We have a team of 4
people going thru dumpsters
in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not
a single one looking into ACORN,
Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor
refuses to publish anything that
would jeapordize election for O,
and betting you dollars to donuts
same is true at NYT (New York
Times), others.  People cheer
when CNN or NBC run another
Palin-mocking but raising any
reasonable inquiry into obama
is derided or flat out ignored.
The fix is in, and its working."

Then there is this next com-
ment which was posted at
the website by Philip Berg, the
Philly lawyer (and life-long Dem
activist) who is suing the DNC
and the Obama campaign to
disclose his questionable
citizenship.  Berg claims that
Obama may have been adopted
by his mom's 2nd husband and
is in fact Indonesian, legally, and
not eligible to be president. The
first attempts by the DNC and
Obama to have the case thrown
out of Federal court failed. The
website is obamacrimes.com

The post is in the comment
section from "Anne" written on
September 28th.  "I know a "top"
person in the MSM quite well.
I was very fortunate to catch her
at a party and discuss this
(the Berg lawsuit) for a few
minutes (I asked about the
citizenship angle).  A little
alcohol loosens the tongue.
"we're hoping Obama wins and
then we'll haul in the ratings
ten times better than the
Clinton affair.  There's a lot
more out there than you
know, and whether Obama wins
or not, you will definitely be
shocked at the aftermath.
At the moment, I see nothing,
I say nothing, and I know
NOTHING.  But really, I do
know that our investigators
have a s___load of evidence
that's probably gonna put this
guy in prison."

Sooo, we have a couple of
members of the MSM who
say they are in the tank for
Obama, actively working to
have him win the election.
One suspects that he needs
to be investigated, the other
already apparently knows
enough to see Obama being
imprisoned at some point
in the future.

With all that is going on in
the world now, with the wars,
financial meltdown and just
our national sanity at stake,
is the Main Stream Media
really hoping for a big fat
juicy scandal???  Something
they can profit from while
the nation goes through dire
trauma???  Is this what free-
dom of the press is for???

It all comes down to ratings
and advertising dollars?