Sunday, June 07, 2009
POLITICIANS HAVE SHREDDED OUR CONSTITUTION
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.........................................................................................................................................................................Newsweek’s Evan Thomas: Obama Is ‘Sort of God’
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JEWISH SETTLEMENTS - LEFT CLICK HERE
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If Looks Could Kill
Latest: Brown loses another minister after poll rout
Environment minister Jane Kennedy forced out after refusing to pledge loyalty, increasing pressure on beleaguered PM
OBAMA'S ACHILLES HEEL ??
Even state requires long-form document for some eligibility, identification issues
4:10 pm Eastern
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
 From the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands website |
WASHINGTON – The Hawaiian certification of live birth Barack Obama posted on his campaign website and distributed to select news organizations as proof he was a "natural born citizen" would not be accepted as a "birth certificate" even for some Hawaiian state government eligibility issues, WND has learned.
The investigation follows a Honolulu Star Bulletin column Saturday, which quotes a state Department of Health spokeswoman as saying the state's current certification of live birth is recognized "as an official birth certificate meeting all federal and other requirements."
The website of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, however, states clearly the certification of live birth touted by the Obama campaign, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and a host of other Obama defenders is not acceptable as a form of identification to qualify under this program.
The Star Bulletin column goes on to report: "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 website a fake."
However, Obama's "citizenship" was never the question raised during the campaign or after the election. The issue raised by WND has consistently been that Obama failed to prove he was actually born in Hawaii and thus constitutionally qualified to become president as a "natural born citizen" – which requires that the birth took place in the United States.
The qualifications for the Hawaiian Home Lands program require a certified copy of a standard birth certificate – also known as the "long-form certificate" filled out in the hospital and including details such as the name of the hospital and the attending physician.
"In order to process your application, DHHL utilizes information that is found only on the original Certificate of Live Birth, which is either black or green," the qualifications state. "This is a more complete record of your birth than the Certification of Live Birth (a computer-generated printout). Submitting the original Certificate of Live Birth will save you time and money since the computer-generated Certification requires additional verification by DHHL."
According to Hawaii's Department of Health spokeswoman Janice Okubo, the state only issues "certifications" of live births since 2001 when the health department went paperless. It is only available in electronic form, she said.
"At that time, all information for births from 1908 (on) was put into electronic files for consistent reporting," she is quoted as telling the Star Bulletin. "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.
She did not explain how those needing a standard long-form birth certificate to qualify for programs such as those offered by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands or to establish proof of eligibility to be president could be fulfilled. She said 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." She did not, however, cite any specific rulings, and the Supreme Court has not taken up the issue of whether the certification of live birth would qualify a presidential candidate as eligible under the "natural born citizen" clause.
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Hamas fails to kidnap Israeli soldiers in major assault from Gaza
DEBKAfile Special Report
June 8, 2009, 11:45 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli helicopters pound Hamas missile squads in Gaza
DEBKAfile's military sources report at least four Palestinians killed after Israeli air force helicopters went into action against Palestinian gunmen who mounted coordinated assaults at several points on the border early Monday, June 8. At least three Palestinian organizations, Hamas, Jihad Islami and Fatah-al Aksa Brigades plus the al Qaeda cell, opened automatic-machine gun-mortar fire on the Nahal Oz sector in the north, the Karni crossing in the center and Nir Oz opposite Khan Younes in the south.
In the Karni sector, 10 gunmen crossed the border, some on horses, under cover of early morning mist and attacked an Israeli Golani patrol in an apparent attempt to snatch soldiers.
A fierce firefight developed under added Palestinian mortar cross-border fire from Gaza. Israeli helicopter missiles struck the mortar crews. Several Palestinian casualties are reported from Sejayia.
As Golani reinforcements drove across the border in pursuit of the gunmen, Palestinians blasted Israel forces in the Nahal Oz sector with mortars. Israeli tanks and helicopters struck back.
At Nir Oz, Israel helicopters fired missiles at the sources of Palestinian fire, causing casualties.
DEBKAfile's military sources report that the rejectionist Palestinians who rule Gaza have held back from major armed assaults on this scale since Israel's Gaza offensive ended in six months ago.
Our sources say they were stirred into action Monday by one non-event and two events:
1. They planned to show the flag for a victorious Hizballah and mark Hamas-Hizballah solidarity by kidnapping a number of Israeli soldiers (after holding Gilead Shalit for more than three years). As it turned out Hizballah was defeated, contrary to all expectations, and Hamas failed to abduct any Israeli soldiers, none of whom were lost or injured.
2. US Middle East envoy George Mitchell arrives in Israel and the Palestinian Authority Monday, June 9. Hamas broadcast a reminder to Washington, Jerusalem and Ramallah that no decisions on the Palestinian issue could be carried through without its assent.
3. This was Hamas' reply to US president Barack Obama's Cairo appeal for negotiation and recognition. Orders from Tehran and Damascus, the Palestinian terrorists responded with a fresh round of armed violence.
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Defiant settlers build new outpost near Migron containing 'Obama Hut'
Settlers dedicate a Torah scroll in the West Bank outpost of Maoz Esther, which has been dismantled and rebuilt several times in recent weeks.
Photo: AP
WHY PEOPLE ARE BUYING GUNS
GUN SALES SKY ROCKET
GUN SALES ON THE RISE
GLENN BECK - THEY ARE COMING FOR YOU
GUNS - THE KUDLOW REPORT
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AMERICA'S FATE IS SEALED BY G-D
6.0 MAG quake hits mid-Atlantic Ocean...
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AMERICA HAS WON ITS LAST WAR IN 1945 - READ LEVITICUS CHAPTER 26, VERSE 19, 20
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HOW DAVID CARRADINE DIED - LEFT CLICK HERE
As if they weren't dealing with enough -- the family of David Carradine is now "profoundly disturbed" by the publication of a photo that appears to be Carradine hanging in his hotel room.
The photo -- which Thai police believe was taken by the forensics team -- appeared on the cover of a Thai tabloid called "Thai Rath." The photo shows a naked body suspended from a bar in the closet, with his hands apparently bound together above his head.
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Large quantities of gold, silver and palladium unaccounted for at Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa
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Kenyan governor for California?
Candidate inspired by Obama's success to seek Democrat Party's nomination
Posted: June 07, 2009
3:00 am Eastern
By Jay Baggett
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
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| Joe Mwangi Symmon |
Maybe Barack Obama makes it look too easy.
A Kenyan-American preacher is citing the successful election of the president as his inspiration to run for governor of California next year to succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Joe Mwangi Symmon, 59, calls himself "a moral voice of hope and change," echoing two of the most dominant themes in the 2008 Obama campaign. His platform, however, diverges considerably from that of Obama and his already-declared Democrat challengers for governor on moral issues.
"Leaders of our state don't speak of moral issues," Symmon, who holds degrees from three Christian theological schools in California, told Nairobi's Daily Nation.
He describes himself as pro-life and says he opposes "gay" marriage. He also cites his own marriage "to one wife for 33 years" as evidence that he has run his own house well and earned the opportunity to lead California.
His more conservative leanings notwithstanding, Symmon lays out a platform on his campaign website that is more likely to appeal to California Democrats:
Economy: Implement a simple majority to pass the state budget, no new taxes and a "giving back plan" to be revealed in the first 100 days;
Education: Employ "technocrats and professionals" to change the current system, pay teachers well to motivate and retain them and provide college students with grants so they don't have to work two or three jobs. "Many have snoozed and died on the wheel working multiple shifts," Symmon notes;
Environment: Harness sun and wind power to run California transportation and industry. Capture all water running into the Pacific Ocean and recycle it to irrigate trees and change Southern California's dry landscape to "run arsonists out of business";
Health care: Guaranteed affordable, accessible health care. "I wholeheartedly support and would adopt Obama's health-care plan," Symmon says;
.......................................................................................................................................................................Immigration: Ensure immigrants are accorded the same respect and legal status like every one who has come here to seek an opportunity to better their lives. "Legal residency for all immigrants shall be my priority," Symmon says.
UK IN CRISIS
Latest:Brown in crisis - Falconer demands resignation
Lord Falconer, the former Lord Chancellor, makes call hours before European election results expected to deal PM huge blow
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Obama kowtows to Damascus while Syria rigs Lebanese poll
DEBKAfile Special Report
June 6, 2009, 6:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
In less than a month after US president Barack Obama renewed sanctions against Syria over the Assad regime's involvement in terrorism and dabbling in weapons of mass destruction, another of his envoys, George Mitchell, is on his way to Damascus to explore the chances of renewed Syrian-Israeli peace talks.
A US military delegation has also been consigned to discuss the expanded flow of terrorists from Syria into Iraq.
None of these actions, any more than the UN nuclear agency's discovery of "man-made uranium particles" near Damascus, has slowed the American dash to thaw relations with Syria as part of Obama's new Middle East direction. The new relationship was clinched by US secretary of state Hillary Clinton's and Syrian foreign minister Walid Moualem on May 31. Its underlying imprint was strong in the US president's June 4 speech of reconciliation to the Muslim world in Cairo. DEBKAfile analysts note that he never mentioned Syria or Hizballah once - even in the context of the "extremists" whom he condemned. And his reference to Iran's nuclear program was noncommittal, implying that he had no trouble accepting its right to enrich uranium.
"We want to be engaged with Syria," said an unidentified official in Washington. "We want to see what is possible."
Clinton diplomatically avoided referring to Syria's intensive interference in Lebanon's parliamentary election Sunday, June 7, or the tens of millions of dollars laid out for bribes and the hundreds of covert agents deployed to rig the vote in favor of the radical Hizballah-led March 8 bloc.
The radical bloc's almost certain victory is tantamount to a pro-Iranian, pro-Syrian coup in Beirut, a debacle for American long-held strategic positions of influence in the Middle East. Nevertheless, the US-Syrian détente has moved ahead fast enough to spread despair among Lebanese who had once hoisted the pro-Western flag. The anti-Syrian Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and even the majority leader Saad Hariri are said by our Beirut sources to be in secret talks with Hizballah to be sure of a one-third presence in the pro-Tehran, pro-Syrian majority house expected to rise from the Sunday election.
DEBKAfile's Middle East sources disclose that when he met Clinton, the Syrian foreign minister promised for the umpteenth time in the six-year Iraq war, to deal "in earnest" this time with the flow of al Qaeda terrorists through its border into Iraq. All that is needed, said Mualem, was direct engagement between Washington and Damascus.
Syrian president Bashar Assad made the gesture of replace his defense minister Gen. Hassan Turkemani with chief of staff Gen. Ali Habib, reputedly to be one of the most pro-American officers in the Syrian army.
But, according to our counter-terror sources, this did not prevent Assad refreshing his directives for terrorists, including suicide fighters, arms, explosives and cash, to continue to be allowed to cross into Iraq.
They are reinforcing a group called "The Mustafa Brigades," whose brutalities in the northern Iraq town of Mosul have contributed to the sharp rise of US troops killed in Iraq to 24 in May, making it the worst month since September 2008.
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IAEA: Accelerated Iranian, Syrian enrichment out of control
DEBKAfile Special Analysis
June 5, 2009, 6:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's enrichment plant at Natanz
According to the calculations of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency in its new report, Iran will be able to produce one nuclear bomb by the end of this year, doubling that figure in 2010. DEBKAfile's military sources note that these estimates only apply to uranium enrichment at Natanz. They do not factor in the product of Iran's clandestine enrichment plants.
Friday night, June 5, officials in Vienna disclosed that Iran was found to have accumulated quantities of low-enriched uranium (1,339 kilos produced since November 2008 plus 839 kilos in stock) - enough to convert into the amount of high-enriched uranium needed for making a single nuclear bomb.
More than 7,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges were installed at Natanz, adding an extra 2,000 from February, the agency has found.
At this rate, 10,000 centrifuges will be spinning at Natanz with a capacity to enrich enough uranium for 2 bombs by the end of the year, double the IAEA's modest estimate by its own figures.
From January, when US president Barack Obama took office, Tehran has won a year's grace for developing its nuclear program. Direct dialogue on which he insists will not begin before July. Progress will be evaluated at year's end, a six-month deadline accepted by Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Iran has therefore been granted plenty of time to make hay i.e. make nukes - free of diplomatic or military constraints.
The IAEA admits its investigations are stalled both in Iran and Syria, where its inspectors also reported Friday the discovery of new traces of man-made uranium near Damascus.
Iranian officials insist their nuclear program is peaceful and refuse to answer questions or cooperate in any way with UN inspectors. At one point in its new report, the IAEA asked for cameras with different wide-range angles for Natanz, indicating that even there, the Iranians are playing cat and mouse to conceal the real scale of their activities from view.
Damascus is similarly stonewalling on the international inspectors' inquiries about the new traces of man-made uranium particles. DEBKAfile's military sources note that these particles could come from only two sources:
One is a new enrichment site. This site has reported repeatedly in the past year that Syria had secretly restarted its banned nuclear activities at three concealed locations which were constructed after Israel destroyed its unfinished plutonium reactor on Sept. 6, 2007.
Alternatively, Syria may be importing enriched uranium smuggled out of Iran, North Korea or Kazakhstan.
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Friday, June 05, 2009
YOUR FATE AS A SUPERPOWER IS OVER
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Clinton shreds Bush-Israel settlement understandings, fuels US-Israel row
DEBKAfile Special Analysis
June 6, 2009, 1:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
Gloves off, no more legalistic quibbling
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton roughly rejected any secret Bush agreements with Israel on expanding settlements. Her intention was to have the last word and so shut down the Obama administration's argument with Israel over a West Bank settlement freeze. But she only threw fresh fuel on the fire when she stated emphatically on Friday, June 5, that according to the negotiating record which Bush officials turned over to the Obama administration, "There is no memorialization of any informal and oral agreements."
Israel officials have protested that Barack Obama's demand for a total freeze on settlement expansion contradicts a series of understandings – some written, some oral – with Bush officials which permitted expansion under certain conditions. This argument was put forward by prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu in his wide-ranging talks with the US president on May 18 and reaffirmed by Israeli officials when they met US Middle East envoy George Mitchell in London ten days later.
This key understanding referred to was reached in 2004: It provided for Israel's voluntary evacuation of the Gaza Strip and the northern tip of the West Bank (which took place the following year) would be counter-balanced by Washington's acceptance of the need for continuing construction in the large population blocks in other parts of West Bank territory to meet natural growth needs.
This understanding was reached by Bush's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley and his deputy Elliott Abrams in talks with Israeli officials. Brig. Gen.
At their London meeting of May 28, Mike Herzog, defense minister Ehud Barak's chief of staff, bore witness to Mitchell that he had led the Israeli team at the 2004 talks and that those talks had indeed ended with the two US NSC heads' endorsement on behalf of the Bush administration of continued Israeli settlement construction to keep pace with the natural growth of those communities.
Elliott Abrams is quoted Friday by the Washington Post as acknowledging last week that there had been unwritten understandings between Washington and Jerusalem, as Brig. Herzog affirmed.
By repudiating any such understandings – written and spoken - Clinton has dragged US-Israeli relations into a new trough. It is now a straight issue of word against word, Washington versus Jerusalem's. This is a dark point for restarting any peace process between Israel and Palestinians or other Arab governments for an accord on substantial issues which have defeated every past peace effort.
The "settlements" referred to by Obama in his demand for an end to all construction apply to five Israeli urban centers: its capital, Jerusalem, which the US does not recognize with or without its post-1967 extensions (although successive administrations have pledged to locate its embassy there), Maaleh Adummim just east of Jerusalem, Efrat to the south, Ariel to the north and Modiin Ilit, southeast of Tel Aviv.
Their total population is estimated between 250,000 and 300,000, plus isolated communities which are home to another approximate 180,000 Jewish inhabitants.
These figures do not include the unauthorized outposts over whose removal Israel is not arguing.
Abrams in an article he published on April 8 hinted that the passage in the 2004 Bush letter to Ariel Sharon - "It is realistic to expect that any final status agreement will only be achieved on the basis of mutually agreed changes that reflect these realities" - was an indirect recognition of demographic "changes" (in the Israeli and Palestinian populations over 42 years) and understanding for the "realities" applying to the large settlement blocks, meaning that Israel was entitled to continue their development.
However, DEBKAfile's Washington sources stress, Eliott Abrams has no standing in the new administration. Obama and his team will adopt or dump the understandings reached by his White House predecessors not according to archival evidence but according to whether or not they suit his new international policy directions over which Jerusalem is getting badly worried.
The Netanyahu government is now facing its first real test. In Washington, the gloves are off. If the prime minister holds to his defensive, accommodating posture toward on the settlement issue and fails to punch back with demands that the other side - and the United States itself stand by former accords and commitments - he will find himself inexorably forced back step by step on other vital security interests, including Iran's accelerated nuclear weapons program.
Legalistic quibbling over dead letters will not avail - as Israeli officials will discover when confronted with new pressures for concessions from US envoy Mitchell next week.
GENESIS CHAPTER 12 - VERSE 3
ג וַאֲבָרְכָה, מְבָרְכֶיךָ, וּמְקַלֶּלְךָ, אָאֹר; וְנִבְרְכוּ בְךָ, כֹּל מִשְׁפְּחֹת הָאֲדָמָה. 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.'
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Obama Birth Atty Orly
In seeking a “new way forward” with the Muslim world, President Barack Obama now views his Muslim heritage as a diplomatic advantage, rather than a liability. Before being elected as president in November, as Jake Tapper notes here, the Obama campaign had been quick to downplay and obscure his Muslim roots. During one campaign stop in September, for example, Obama rebuked critics who were trying to “scare” people by saying he had “Muslim connections.”
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100% of posts scrubbed from White House transparency site ask about birth certificate
12:10 am Eastern
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
When it comes to evaluating and discussing transparency in government, one issue – and one issue alone – has been deemed out of bounds by a White House website: President Obama's continued concealment of his birth record.
As WND reported, the Obama administration's Office of Science & Technology launched the online forum to allow Americans to discuss ways of creating an "open government," which in turn resulted in a flood of people seeking disclosure of Obama's proof of eligibility to serve as president.
As part of the forum's rules and guidelines, posts that are obscene or reveal personal information, like Social Security numbers, are scrubbed completely, while those that are deemed off-topic are removed to a separate archive.
But a quick survey of flagged, removed and archived posts from yesterday reveals 100 percent of those yanked for being off-topic were, in fact, on the same topic.
The Open Government Initiative's online forum contains 21 entries deleted yesterday, all of them submitted to the thread on "Transparency Principles" and all of them discussing Obama's birth records, including a comment from WND's Chelsea Schilling.
One user, Jason Roberts, expressed his concerns on the forum about the White House hosting a "transparency" discussion without properly addressing the eligibility topic.
"The fact that the birth certificate issue hasn't been resolved, precludes any possible discussion of government transparency," Roberts wrote. "It is a farce to sit with hands folded and pretend to have some self-righteous discussion about government transparency when Mr. Obama is refusing to be transparent about his birth certificate, passport records, and school records. If his presidency started with his being sworn in, then the transparency must start with him willingly releasing his long-form birth certificate."
Roberts continued, "This issue will never go away. It will be there, stoked and kept fresh daily, for 8 years if necessary, until it is addressed. And the one to blame is Obama."
Comments not scrubbed from the site for being off-topic include the following:
- A man's detailing of his full-body rash and medical problems – prompting four additional comments on Lyme disease – on a thread devoted to the proper qualifications for presidential appointees to science posts
- A claim on the thread dedicated to scientific integrity within the OSTP that Americans are being "covertly assaulted" with secret energy weapons and then accused of being paranoid or mentally ill
- A pair of posts advocating more widespread use of marijuana in a discussion thread on government whistleblowers.
Despite the removal and archiving of posts related to Obama's birth certificate, however, the discussion continues to be dominated by questions of Obama's qualifications to serve as president.
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Barack and Michelle Obama decline dinner with the Sarkozys
Book: Obama marriage strained by 2000 House race
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
WASHINGTON — For all the smiling photos of Barack and Michelle Obama, the couple went through a tough time in their marriage in earlier years, according to a new book.
"Renegade," by journalist Richard Wolffe, says the couple's marriage was strained by Barack Obama's unsuccessful 2000 run for Congress.
Wolffe writes that Michelle Obama "hated the failed race for Congress in 2000, and their marriage was strained by the time their youngest daughter, Sasha, was born a year later."
"There was little conversation and even less romance," Wolffe writes. "She was angry at his selfishness and careerism; he thought she was cold and ungrateful."
When Obama ran for the Senate in 2004, his wife still had mixed feelings about her husband's love of politics, and played no part in the campaign, the book says.
By the time Obama decided to run for president, the couple's two children were older and Michelle Obama was more supportive.
"We're going to be fine," the book quotes her as saying. "We just have to make sure the girls are fine. We're strong enough to take anything on and be OK at the end."
Wolffe covered the presidential campaign for Newsweek, and is a political analyst for MSNBC.
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Some 130 protesters gathered in front of the American Consulate in Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon to rally against U.S. President Barack Obama, who had just launched his Middle East tour, during which he is expected to reach out in friendship to the Muslim world. As more than a dozen local and international journalists looked on, the protesters chanted "No, You Can't" and waved posters saying "20 new 'settlements' by 2010 - Yes We Can!" | |||||
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DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis
June 4, 2009, 4:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
During his fast-moving two days stay in the Middle East, crowned by a speech from Cairo to the world's Muslims on June 4, US president Barack Obama pursued some practical politicking behind the scenes, DEBKAfile's regional sources report. His private talks with Saudi King Abdullah and overnight stay in Riyadh June 3 and his conversation with Hosni Mubarak at the presidential Quba palace the next day cemented a new coalition between the US, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, cutting out the special US-Israel relationship.
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10:40 pm Eastern
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
The White House has moved on to its discussion phase of the "open government dialogue," where several citizens are once again calling on Barack Obama to release his elusive "long-form" birth certificate to establish his constitutional eligibility to serve as president.
The Office of Science & Technology forum features a new format where it encourages people to "start thinking more deeply about the principles that should define transparency and guide our policy priorities."
Users identified by their full names may register and vote to reject or approve various ideas, offer their own insight or flag subjects as "off-topic."
The first topic of discussion focuses on defining and prioritizing "transparency principles."
The following comment from WND on the eligibility issue was flagged for moderation within minutes of posting and later deleted – even though it did not violate terms of participation:
Another user, Jason Roberts, expressed his concerns about the White House hosting a "transparency" forum without properly addressing the eligibility topic.
"The fact that the birth certificate issue hasn't been resolved, precludes any possible discussion of government transparency," Roberts wrote. "It is a farce to sit with hands folded and pretend to have some self-righteous discussion about government transparency when Mr. Obama is refusing to be transparent about his birth certificate, passport records, and school records. If his presidency started with his being sworn in, then the transparency must start with him willingly releasing his long-form birth certificate."
Roberts continued, "This issue will never go away. It will be there, stoked and kept fresh daily, for 8 years if necessary, until it is addressed. And the one to blame is Obama."
User David Farrar reported disappearance of an eligibility post and echoed Roberts' argument.
"The mere fact that a post has been simply wiped off this forum without a trace, without any public notification as to why, or by whom, seems to violate every aspect of the principles of transparency in government," Farrar wrote. "Didn't we just summarize the fact that providing a verifiable record is at the very cornerstone of governmental transparency, and here we have a government agency, or a corporation acting on its behalf, erasing the record of their own actions in an attempt to be anything but transparent. Doesn't anyone see the hypocrisy?"
As WND reported, despite the "open government dialogue" website being overrun with hundreds of threads addressing the eligibility issue, the White House appears to be moving on with its discussion while ignoring concerns from thousands of people about Obama's "long-form" birth certificate.
"We read and considered all the proposals," Beth Noveck, White House deputy chief technology officer for open government, said in a statement on the White House website. "We took the voting into account when assessing your enthusiasm for a submission, but only somewhat in evaluating relevance."
She continued, "The ideas that received the most organized support were not necessarily the most viable suggestions."
The eligibility topic also hit Twitter, with numerous tweeters encouraging readers to keep the issue alive at the open government website.
Meanwhile, Fox News has launched a new forum asking the public, "What would you write Obama?"
It asks readers to share funny messages they would send to the president's blackberry and how Obama might reply. Fox News will feature the top five conversations next week.
One person named Dave posted the following:
In less than 24 hours after the launch of the application, the eligibility issue has been raised at least 60 times.
- "Hi, Barry, this is your teleprompter speaking. Display your birth certificate. No, no, you doofus – the original one, from Kenya!"
- "Why are you afraid of providing your authentic birth certificate? We can."
- "Bad news, man. They finally found your real birth certificate. We have a crisis on our hands. Call me ASAP. - Rahm"
Organization to utilize 'rapid deployment' force of thousands
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A new Russian security strategy includes an intense rivalry with Washington, the possible use of military force as the nation competes for energy resources in the Middle East, Barents Sea, the Arctic, Caspian Sea and Central Asia, and the assembly of a coalition that it hopes will rival NATO, according to a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
While Russia intends to develop relations with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, it will only do so if the alliance takes into account Russia's "legitimate interests in its military-political planning."
(Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
U.S. President Barack Obama has proclaimed June “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month” to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riots, which marked the beginning of the lgbt rights movement in America.
(Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images)
Unemployment reached 9.2 percent in April within the 16-nation eurozone, according to the European Union statistics office. This figure will probably rise much higher, which could lead to increased social unrest across Europe.
Fourteen million people in the eurozone are unemployed. That’s more than the population of Ireland and Austria combined. For the EU as a whole, unemployment rose to 8.6 percent in April, up from 8.4 percent in March.
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