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Self-Censorship in Modern American Press: Is Investigative Journalism Dead?

Why Is This Idea Important?: Is Investigative Journalism Dead, and Is Self-Censorship by the Press Alive? Where are Woodward and Bernstein?

Have the courts resolved the citizenship eligibility of Obama? A big resounding, “ No!”

The courts have refused to decide the cases by a full blown trial on the merits. The cases were dismissed on reasons of legal technicalities. Until a trial on the merits is conducted, there will be endless new cases on the same issue because there is no ‘res judicata’ yet.

If there were a Hollywood movie about a person who became a President of the US without any of the 300 million Americans demanding for his proof of natural born citizenship, or after being sued to show his birth certificate that person refused to do so, or the entire congress and senate refuse to question his citizenship, or the states and federal agents do not lift a finger to produce evidence, or after more than two dozen cases filed the Supreme Court refuses to settle the issue, would you have found that situation possible and the movie credible?

FAQ ON

BARACK OBAMA’S

HIDDEN BIRTH CERTIFICATE

This is where you start if you want a heads up on what this Obama citizenship issue is all about.

http://sites.google.com/site/obamabirth

http://tinyurl.com/obamafaq

obamabirthfaq@gmail.com

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  1. Constitutional Issues

    November 2, 2008

    Affidavit of Bishop Ron McRae, Transcript of Phone Conversation With Kweli Shuhudia & Sarah Obama

    Thursday, October 16, 2008

    Time: 10:40 a.m.

    NOTATION: Mr. Shuhudia called me first on October 16th at 10:33a.m. and advised that he was with Sarah Hussein Obama and that she wanted to speak with me, but the connection was lost. He called me right back at 10:35a.m. and he informed me that there were several hundred people present, celebrating Obama's success. I questioned him about the format of the phone call and conversation with Ms. Obama, and then informed him that I would call him right back, so it would not cost him international charges for the call.

    I called back at 10:40a.m. and public music and voices could be heard that were gathered around Kweli Shuhudia. I then spoke with him and requested that they utilize the speaker phone so everyone could hear. The speaker phone with its open microphone was utilized with Mr. Kweli Shuhudia, Mr. Vitalis Akech Ogombe assisting in the translation work and Ms. Sarah Hussein, along with several hundred people including policeman present and listening to the open conversation between the four of us for approximately 15 minutes.

    A third unknown party can be heard periodically interjecting both Swahili and English words in the public discussion and conversation between the four of us. At times the room noise from other peoples' voices makes some of the swahili difficult to hear, and towards the end of the converstaion several men's voices are heard that are not identified.

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    Transcript:

    Two Rings:

    Kweli Shuhudia: Hello? [Back ground music]

    Affidavit of Bishop Ron McRae 2

    Ron McRae: Brother Kweli? [music] Brother Kweli? This is Brother McRae.

    Kweli Shuhudia: Yes.

    Ron McRae: Okay. How are you today?

    Kweli Shuhudia: Now. We are okay. How are you?

    Ron McRae: I'm doing very well. You said you are there with, uh, Barack Obama's

    grandmother?

    Kweli Shuhudia: Yes. I am just in the home now. She is right here. We're, we're waitingto talk in a uh long conversation. And [unitelligible] a good family and she is ready to talk.

    Ron McRae: Good. She's not there at the present?

    Kweli Shuhudia: Yes. She's here right now.

    Ron McRae: Okay. Is it possible to speak to her?

    Kweli Shuhudia: Yes. It is possible. I ah, along with her and her family, uh, you and me.

    Ron McRae: Uh, is it possible for you to put her on the speaker phone and translate for

    me?

    Kweli Shuhudia: Yes! Yes! I will do that.

    Ron McRae: Okay.

    Kweli Shuhudia: Yes?

    Ron McRae: Okay.

    Kweli Shuhudia: Yes. Go ahead [he then speaks to her in Swahili]

    Sarah Obama: [Replies to him in Swahili]

    Ron McRae: Ms. Obama?

    Kweli Shuhudia: Yes go ahead.

    Ron McRae: Mrs. Obama, my name is bishop Ron McRae.

    Kweli Shuhudia: Ametaja bishop Ron McRae, Ron McRae. Go ahead.

    Ron McRae: I am, I am the bishop of the Anabaptists Churches of North America.

    Kweli Shuhudia: Yeye niaskofu Anabaptists makaisa.

    Sarah Obama: Shikamooo! [Hello, good day].

    Mr. Ogombe: Are you speaking English and , and we will tell her in Luo. Okay?

    Ron McRae: Now give me that again. Explain it to me again.

    Ogombe: It is welcome. She is very grateful for your interest.

    Affidavit of Bishop Ron McRae 3

    Ron McRae: Okay. Thank you! Tell her I count it a great honor to speak to here since her son Barack Obama is running for President of the United States.

    Ogombe: Eh makasema yuko kiuu mgomba Obama kwa mwenyekiti America. Yah, she says she is very helpful for got to you to please pray for Obama. She is asking you to pray for him. For Obama.

    Ron McRae: Yes Sir. Uh...Ms. Obama, you can rest assured that I am praying for your son, for your grandson.

    Ogombe: Yes. It is helpful also towards it is beginning to help.

    Ron McRae: Okay.

    Sarah Obama: [unitelligible from Ms. Obama because of room noise].

    Ogombe: She says she is covet your prayers for he [unintelligible] her son.

    Ron McRae: Okay. And tell her that I will be coming there in December and I would like to come by and meet with her and pray with her.

    Ogombe: Yes. Ye atakuwa mwezi Desemba.

    Kweli Shuhudia: In December. He will come in December and he wants to come and talk with you.

    Sarah Obama: [unitelligible]

    Ogombe: Oh she says you're so encourage her. Your coming in December so you can talk together with her.

    Ron McRae: Amen. I am so thankful. Could I ask her, uh, about his, uh, his actual birthplace? I would like to see hi actual birthplace when I, when I come to Kenya in December. Uh, was she present when he was, was she present when he was born in Kenya?

    Ogombe to Sarah Obama: Alikuma zalima Obama [unintelligible].

    Kweli Shuhudia: He is asking her, he wants to know something was ah she present when he was born?

    Ogombe: Yes. She says, "Yes she was! She was present when Obama was born."

    Ron McRae: Okay.

    Since then, the Kenyan government has forbidden media interviews of Obama’s family in Kenya.

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  2. misvoted

    tons of info at www.ObamaNotQualified.com and www.OrlyTaitzEsq.com

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  3. kaatcya

    here is a petition to sign

    http://www.PetitionOnline.com/bocrisis/petition.html

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  4. evreport

    Honolulu Star-Bulletin, June 6, 2009

    Question: What is the state's policy for issuing a "Certification of Live Birth" versus a "Certificate of Live Birth"? My first, second and fourth children received certificates, but my third and fifth children received certifications. Why the difference? The certificate contains more information, such as the name of hospital, certifier's name and title; attendant's name and title, etc. The certification has only the child's name, date and time of birth, sex, city/island/county of birth, mother's maiden name, mother's race, father's name and father's race. Why doesn't the state just issue certificates? When did it stop issuing certificates? Is it possible to obtain certificates for my third and fifth children?

    Answer: No, you can't obtain a "certificate of live birth" anymore.

    The state Department of Health no longer issues copies of paper birth certificates as was done in the past, said spokeswoman Janice Okubo.

    The department only issues "certifications" of live births, and that is the "official birth certificate" issued by the state of Hawaii, she said.

    And, it's only available in electronic form.

    Okubo explained that the Health Department went paperless in 2001.

    "At that time, all information for births from 1908 (on) was put into electronic files for consistent reporting," she said.

    Information about births is transferred electronically from hospitals to the department.

    "The electronic record of the birth is what (the Health Department) now keeps on file in order to provide same-day certified copies at our help window for most requests," Okubo said.

    Asked for more information about the short-form versus long-form birth documents, Okubo said the Health Department "does not have a short-form or long-form certificate."

    "The birth certificate form has been modified over the years and decades to conform to national standards and models," she said.

    Okubo also emphasized the certification form "contains all the information needed by all federal government agencies for transactions requiring a birth certificate."

    She added that the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized the state's current certification of live birth "as an official birth certificate meeting all federal and other requirements."

    The issue of what constitutes an official Hawaii birth certificate received national attention during last year's presidential campaign. Those who doubted Barack Obama's American citizenship called the copy of the Hawaii birth document posted on his campaign Web site a fake.

    Asked about that document, Okubo said, "This is the same certified copy everyone receives when they request a birth certificate."

    http://www.starbulletin.com/columnists/kokualine/20090606_kokua_line.html

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  5. evreport

    An examination of the infamous and oft mis-cited taped interview with Obama’s African step-grandmother, performed by Dead Sea Scrolls scholar Gregory Doudna:

    The full tape transcription makes clear that this phone conversation has not been represented accurately. There never was a statement by Sarah Obama at any point in this phone call saying or intending to say that Barack Obama Jr. was born in Kenya. Sarah Obama herself said that Obama was born in Hawaii and never said differently. There was a confusion over the meaning of where Mrs. Obama was “present” when Obama was born in Hawaii, but not over whether Obama was born in Hawaii.

    http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/obamatranscriptlulu109.pdf

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  6. evreport

    An examination of the infamous and often mis-cited taped interview with Obama’s African step-grandmother, performed by Dead Sea Scrolls scholar Gregory Doudna:

    The full tape transcription makes clear that this phone conversation has not been represented accurately. There never was a statement by Sarah Obama at any point in this phone call saying or intending to say that Barack Obama Jr. was born in Kenya. Sarah Obama herself said that Obama was born in Hawaii and never said differently. There was a confusion over the meaning of where Mrs. Obama was “present” when Obama was born in Hawaii, but not over whether Obama was born in Hawaii.

    http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/obamatranscriptlulu109.pdf

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