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Reuters reported that a “privacy compliance review” issued by DHS last November confirms that since at least June 2010, the department’s national operations center has been operating a “Social Networking/Media Capability” which involves regular monitoring of “publicly available online forums, blogs, public websites and message boards.”
In the 30-page paper – obtained and reviewed by WND – Sunstein argues the best government response to “conspiracy theories” is “cognitive infiltration of extremist groups.”
Continued Sunstein: “We suggest a distinctive tactic for breaking up the hard core of extremists who supply conspiracy theories: cognitive infiltration of extremist groups, whereby government agents or their allies (acting either virtually or in real space, and either openly or anonymously) will undermine the crippled epistemology of believers by planting doubts about the theories and stylized facts that circulate within such groups, thereby introducing beneficial cognitive diversity.”
Originally posted by OutKast Searcher
reply to post by TheTardis
He has released two birth certificates...there is no reason for him to release anything else. People who aren't intelligent enough to realize the controversy is over are never going to be satisfied.
I refuse to go to a birther website...I don't voluntarily kill my brain cells.
How many court cases have birthers won with all their "facts"???
Why is his SSN from Connecticut, a state he never visited?
Why in his own bio he wrote for a Literary Agent in 1991 and sign off on say Born in Kenya?
"You're undoubtedly aware of the brouhaha stirred up by Breitbart about the erroneous statement in a client list Acton & Dystel published in 1991 (for circulation within the publishing industry only) that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me -- an agency assistant at the time. There was never any information given to us by Obama in any of his correspondence or other communications suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii. I hope you can communicate to your readers that this was a simple mistake and nothing more."
Why does his grandma say he was born in Kenya?
MCRAE: Could I ask her about his actual birthplace? I would like to see his birthplace when I come to Kenya in December. Was she present when he was born in Kenya?
OGOMBE: Yes. She says, yes, she was, she was present when Obama was born.
MCRAE: When I come in December. I would like to come by the place, the hospital, where he was born. Could you tell me where he was born? Was he born in Mombasa?
OGOMBE: No, Obama was not born in Mombasa. He was born in America.
MCRAE: Whereabouts was he born? I thought he was born in Kenya.
OGOMBE: No, he was born in America, not in Mombasa.
MCRAE: Do you know where he was born? I thought he was born in Kenya. I was going to go by and see where he was born.
OGOMBE: Hawaii. Hawaii. Sir, she says he was born in Hawaii. In the state of Hawaii, where his father was also learning, there. The state of Hawaii.
Originally posted by Blackmarketeer
reply to post by camaro68ss
You just reiterated a bunch of already disproven birther nonsense.
Why is his SSN from Connecticut, a state he never visited?
Obama's mailed in his own hand-written SSN application from area code 96814 (Hawaii). He was issued an SSN with an Area Number for 06814 (Connecticut). An error by the SSA office, who probably couldn't distinguish a 9 for an 0.
Snopes.com - Obama's SSN
Why in his own bio he wrote for a Literary Agent in 1991 and sign off on say Born in Kenya?
The literary agent herself (Miriam Goderich) stated she made a mistake writing this and never had any input from Obama himself. This was only published as a promotional brochure for industry agents, and not intended for the public.
Literary Agent Says 1991 Booklet was a Mistake
"You're undoubtedly aware of the brouhaha stirred up by Breitbart about the erroneous statement in a client list Acton & Dystel published in 1991 (for circulation within the publishing industry only) that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me -- an agency assistant at the time. There was never any information given to us by Obama in any of his correspondence or other communications suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii. I hope you can communicate to your readers that this was a simple mistake and nothing more."
Why does his grandma say he was born in Kenya?
She never said that. PERIOD. This was a great big distortion by Ron McRae, who purposely edited his video removing the part where his grandmother CORRECTS Ron McRae by telling him Obama was born in Hawaii. This is one of the biggest fabrications being pushed by WND.
No, Obama’s grandmother didn’t say he was born in Kenya
Here’s the ACTUAL conversation - without cutting off the grandmother BEFORE she corrects McRae:
MCRAE: Could I ask her about his actual birthplace? I would like to see his birthplace when I come to Kenya in December. Was she present when he was born in Kenya?
OGOMBE: Yes. She says, yes, she was, she was present when Obama was born.
MCRAE: When I come in December. I would like to come by the place, the hospital, where he was born. Could you tell me where he was born? Was he born in Mombasa?
OGOMBE: No, Obama was not born in Mombasa. He was born in America.
MCRAE: Whereabouts was he born? I thought he was born in Kenya.
OGOMBE: No, he was born in America, not in Mombasa.
MCRAE: Do you know where he was born? I thought he was born in Kenya. I was going to go by and see where he was born.
OGOMBE: Hawaii. Hawaii. Sir, she says he was born in Hawaii. In the state of Hawaii, where his father was also learning, there. The state of Hawaii.
Do you see how McRae tried to ask her a leading question, by adjoining the lie (born in Kenya) with the part of the question that was true (she was present when Obama was born). This question would require a multipart answer - Yes she was present, but she was present in Hawaii where he was born, and not in Kenya. McRae cut off her response in the edited version of the interview when posting it to WND. Making it a BOLD FACED BIRTHER LIE.
I suspect however, you wont bother replying to these facts, instead you'll go back to lurking and waiting for another birther thread to pop up so you can once again post more birther propaganda.
Originally posted by elitegamer23
www.youtube.com...
now cnn is in on the lie.
i don't know how you can watch this video and still believe obama wasn't born in hawaii.
the man is legally qualified to be the POTUS , if he wasn't he wouldn't be in office right now.
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As both Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, have noted many times, they paid for their educations via scholarships and student loans, in the process (like many people) incurring debts which were not fully paid off until many years later. (In the Obamas' case, it was largely the revenue derived from Barack's pair of best-selling books that finally allowed them to retire their student loan debts.)
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Actually, it comes down to something VERY simple ... not a 49 year long conspiracy.
If Obama was born overseas, it is VERY possible (and highly probable) that his birth mother, who was American, would have wanted him to be considered a legal American in order to get all the benefits this country has.
(g) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of
parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of
such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or
periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen
years:
It isn't a 49 year conspiracy to get a non-american born person in the white house.
Originally posted by Southern Guardian
Originally posted by elitegamer23
www.youtube.com...
now cnn is in on the lie.
Birthers are very reluctant to make this entire thing out to be a 49 year long conspiracy, but it is in the end, which ever way you cut it. The media, the whitehouse, presidential candidates, all in this cover up.