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Blogger admits Hawaii birth certificate forgery, subverting Obama claims By Israel Insider staff July 3, 2008 Bookmark to del.icio.usDigg This Story A crop from the image for which opendna aka Jay McKinnon takes credit (see context in reproduction below). Posted on Photobucket and in comments attached to the Daily Kos blog post where the purported Obama birth certificate appears Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist, has implicated himself in the production of fake Hawaii birth certificate images similar to the one endorsed as genuine by the Barack Obama campaign, and appearing on the same Daily...

This is an issue that isn't going away for the Obama campaign and unless they address it in an effort to put it to bed, it will become one of those "distractions" the candidate really hates: A few weeks ago, a diary entry at Daily Kos published several documents purporting to be Obama's birth certificate. One of those documents is now a confirmed forgery, ferreted out by the website Israeli Insider: Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist, has implicated himself in the production of fake Hawaii birth certificate images similar to the one endorsed as genuine...

Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist, has implicated himself in the production of fraudulent Hawaii birth certificate images similar to the one endorsed as genuine by the Barack Obama campaign, and appearing on the same blog entry where the supposedly authentic document appears. The evidence of forgery and manipulation of images of official documents, triggered by Israel Insider's revelation of the collection of Hawaii birth certificate images on the Photobucket site and the detective work of independent investigative journalists and imaging professionals in the three weeks since the publication of the images, implicate the Daily Kos,...

Could it be a case of much ado about nothing? Doug Ross thinks so. Questions have been raised about the copy posted on the Daily Kos site bore a state seal embossed. ..one of Pamela Geller's readers did some heavy-lifting with Photoshop and discovered what appears to be an embossed seal on the back of Obama's certificate. Ross writes: I was startled because I had carefully reviewed the image weeks ago and not seen any clue of a signature or embossed seal. I spent some time this morning playing with various graphics settings until I was able to tease a...

Barack Obama's campaign efforts to "stop the smears" are quickly morphing into an attack on free speech. In a June 28 article, "An attack that came out of the Ether", Washington Post reporter Matthew Mosk attacks FreeRepublic.com and falsely associates a 2007 article I wrote with a stupidly written email claiming that Obama's Indonesian step-father was a "radical", that Obama went to a "Wahhabi" school, and that Obama swore his oath of office on a "Kuran". In fact my article, "Obama: Secular Muslim stealth candidate favored by the corrupt?" served to sort out truth from fiction in such emails and...

Barack Obama is on fire. The presumptive democratic nominee for president has thoroughly defeated Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House, the two of them have apparently kissed and made up, she's now on the campaign trail hawking his wares, and all is right with the world as far as the Democratic National Committee is concerned. All polls seem to indicate that Obama is beating his republican rival John McCain. McCain himself has indicated that he is the underdog in this race, and has a lot of work to do between now and November. Obama is the oncoming...

A senior official in the State of Hawaii's Department of Health, Director of Communications Janice Okubo, confirms that the image published and circulated by the Obama campaign as his "birth certificate" lacks the necessary embossed seal and signature. Backing away from a quote attributed to her that the image on the campaign site was "valid," she told the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times in an article published yesterday: "I don't know that it's possible for us to even say beyond a doubt what the image on the site represents." Barack Obama has claimed in writing to have a valid printed document:...

The "birth certificate" claimed by the Barack Obama campaign is not certified as authentic and appears to be a photoshopped fake. Embossed seal of the State of Hawaii absent from the purported "birth certificate" of Barack Obama Janice Okubo, Director of Communications of the State of Hawaii Department of Health, told Israel Insider: "At this time there are no circumstances in which the State of Hawaii Department of Health would issue a birth certification or certification of live birth only electronically." And, she added, "In the State of Hawaii all certified copies of certificates of live birth have the embossed...

SUMMARY: Since we published Obama's birth certificate, questions about its authenticity have been frequent and fierce. After reviewing the evidence, we're confident in our rulings. It started as a whisper, a trickle of nagging doubt. “As a concerned citizen, I’m wondering if there isn’t something fishy going on with the Obama certificate.” “I have serious doubts about the purported 'birth certificate’ you were sent.” “Something doesn’t smell right.” Soon, e-mails and blog posts were flying. As the pace quickened, the tone sharpened. “You should be apologizing ... for your misinformation regarding BO bogus birth certificate, that you claimed was genuine!”...

More than a few readers have asked me what I think of this article from a publication called the Israel Insider, particularly a section which suggests a Hawaiian state official has doubts about the birth certificate posted on Daily Kos and Obama’s StopTheSmears site: Janice Okubo, Director of Communications of the State of Hawaii Department of Health, told Israel Insider: "At this time there are no circumstances in which the State of Hawaii Department of Health would issue a birth certification or certification of live birth only electronically." And, she added, "In the State of Hawaii all certified copies of...

Now Winnie the Pooh seems to have something that Barack Obama doesn’t: a legitimate birth certificate. Winnie’s birth certificate was signed by its creator A.A. Milne. See Winnie’s birth certificate here. According to Israelinsider, “It is now a certainty that the “birth certificate” claimed by the Barack Obama campaign as authentic is a photoshopped fake.” “The image, purporting to come from the Hawaii Department of Health, has been the subject of intense skepticism in the blogosphere in the past few weeks. But now the senior spokesman of that Department has confirmed to Israel Insider what are the required features of...

In response to mounting media questions about the failure of the Barack Obama presidential campaign to produce the presumptive Democratic nominee's birth certificate, an official spokesman of the campaign has endorsed as genuine the image of a document purporting to be his "birth certificate." But some who have examined that image in high resolution claim inconsistencies and irregularities which suggest that the purported document is a forgery. Its high profile use by the campaign, they claim, suggests an attempt to conceal the truth of Obama's birth circumstances and citizenship qualifications from the American people. The campaign has posted only a...

For some time now Just One Minute's commenter jmh, Polarik at Townhall and others have examined the "birth certificate" for Obama published on the Daily Kos site as well as the site Obama has established to respond to the "smears" against him. The documents are not identical and seem obviously phony. Israeli Insider confirms their suspicions: It is now a certainty that the "birth certificate" claimed by the Barack Obama campaign as authentic is a photoshopped fake. (snip) Some of these oddities surfaced in Israel Insider's previous article on the subject, but new comparative documentary evidence presented below, and official...

It is now a certainty that the "birth certificate" claimed by the Barack Obama campaign as authentic is a photoshopped fake. The image, purporting to come from the Hawaii Department of Health, has been the subject of intense skepticism in the blogosphere in the past two weeks. But now the senior spokesman of that Department has confirmed to Israel Insider what are the required features of a certified birth document -- features that Obama's purported "birth certificate" clearly lack.

It is now a certainty that the "birth certificate" claimed by the Barack Obama campaign as authentic is a photoshopped fake. The image, purporting to come from the Hawaii Department of Health, has been the subject of intense skepticism in the blogosphere in the past two weeks. But now the senior spokesman of that Department has confirmed to Israel Insider what are the required features of a certified birth document -- features that Obama's purported "birth certificate" clearly lack. The image became increasingly suspect with Israel Insider's revelation that variations of the certificate image were posted on the Photobucket image...

Is Barack Obama a United States citizen, and is he eligible to run for President of the United States, or did he present a forged government document to verify a citizenship he does not possess? For a few weeks now these questions have been swirling around the internet. The questions have become so prominent that Obama addressed the issue on his “Fight the Smears” website. Of course, in typical Obama fashion it is becoming clear that nothing is as it seems. His site says the following: The truth about Barack’s birth certificate Lie: Obama Is Not a Natural Born Citizen...

t is now a virtual certainty that the "birth certificate" claimed by the Barack Obama campaign as authentic is a photoshopped fake. The image, purporting to come from the Hawaii Department of Health, has been the subject of intense skepticism in the blogosphere in the past two weeks. It has become even more suspect with the revelation that variations of the certificate image were posted on the Photobucket image aggregation website -- including one listing the location of Obama's birth as Antarctica, one with the certificate supposedly issued by the government of North Korea, and another including a purported photo...

  NOW let's compare "apples to apples" Or, since this involves Hawaii, "pineapples to pineapples:" With many thanks to Bloggers TexasDarlin, Freeper, and Shainzona, I am posting a copy of Hawaiian-born, Patricia Decosta's certified "Certification of Live Birth," which is what this Certification should look like. If you go back to the points I raised in my original post, specifically about the differences in typeface, letter artifacts, and the border, these points are further reinforced from comparing Decosta's certified document with Obama's uncertified one. Once again, here is Obama's uncertified (and suspect) "Certification of Live Birth": And, now, Ms. Decosta's...

Madelyn Dunham Political Campaign Contributions 2008 Election Cycle Contribution Totals Download all contribution records for this person from 1999 to presentTo a Spreadsheet or Other File Type 2008 Contribution Count/Amount 2/$2,300 2006 Contribution Count/Amount 0/$0 2004 Contribution Count/Amount 1/$1,000 2002 Contribution Count/Amount 0/$0 2000 Contribution Count/Amount 1/$1,000 Download all contribution records for this person from 1999 to presentTo a Spreadsheet or Other File Type Madelyn Dunham Contribution List in 2008 Name & Location Employer/Occupation Dollar Amount Date Primary/ General Contibuted To HONOLULU, HI 96826 $300 05/03/2007 P OBAMA FOR AMERICA - Democrat HONOLULU, HI 96826 $2,000 03/09/2007 P OBAMA FOR...

<p>HONOLULU (AP) — Surrounded by royal guards and the occasional tourist, Her Majesty Mahealani Kahau and her government ministers hold court every day in a tent outside the palace of Hawaii's last monarch, passing laws and discussing how to secure reparations for the Native Hawaiian people.</p>

  Was Obama's "Certificate of Birth" manufactured? Posted by Polarik on Friday, June 20, 2008 12:00:00 AM The Daily Kos blog has posted a JPG that allegedly is Barack Obama's "Certificate of Birth." From a detailed analysis of the image and the text, it looks like it was created by a graphics program, and is not a true copy of an original, certified document. I've been working with computers, printers, and typewriters for over 20 years, and given a set of printed letters, I can discern what kind of device made them. Printer output is quite different from the text...

Please don't post any more about his citizenship. He is a legal citizen of the U.S. and is legally eligible for the Presidency.

No word of how he got it-Team Barry isn't actually leaking to dKos, is it?-and naturally he misunderstands Jim Geraghty's point about Obama's place of birth, which would have been relevant not with respect to his "Americanness" but whether he was constitutionally qualified to run as a natural-born citizen. But here it is.Update: Not that it matters for purposes of addressing Geraghty's concerns, but Flip notes that the posted document is a certification of birth, which is slightly different from a birth certificate.

The government wants to know who's fishing for fun in federal ocean waters. Recreational anglers and spearfishers would be required to be registered... NOAA's Fisheries Service said it wants to get more accurate data on recreational fish catches. Commercial fishers already need licenses or permits and thus would not have to register again... The registry ...fishing anywhere for what are called anadromous species, such as striped bass, salmon and shad, that spawn in rivers and streams and spend their adult lives in estuaries and the ocean. Registrations will include an angler's name, address, telephone number and the regions where fishing...

Jim Geraghty takes a look at longstanding blog buzz over Barack Obama’s birth certificate, which the campaign refused to release to the St. Petersburg Times in April: We tried to obtain a copy of Obama’s birth certificate, but his campaign would not release it and the state of Hawaii does not make such records public. Has anyone seen it? Why shouldn’t the record be in the public domain for presidential candidates? Geraghty walks through various rumors now circulating in the wake of the Obama campaign’s birth certificate blackout, including this one: Rumor Three: His mother did not want to name...

Bloggers are raising questions about Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's qualifications to be U.S. president, because of the secrecy over his birth certificate and the requirement presidents be "natural-born" U.S. citizens. Jim Geraghty, reporting on the Campaign Spot, cited the "unlikely" but still circulating rumor that Obama was born not within the United States, but elsewhere, possibly Kenya. Geraghty defined the concerns most clearly, stating: "If Obama were born outside the United States, one could argue that he would not meet the legal definition of natural-born citizen … because U.S. law at the time of his birth required his natural-born parent...

Women from the Japanese city of Obama celebrate its U.S. namesake Barack as the Democratic presidential nominee. Obama City in Japan has embraced the Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency, and tourism is on the increase, especially from American visitors. Some of the merchandise on sales includes "Obama" t-shirts and "Obama" bean cakes, while a Barack Obama statue has recently been unveiled.

South Korean and U.S. defense officials are discussing a possible move of the 8th U.S. Army headquarters from Seoul to Hawaii in 2012, a spokesman for South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense said Thursday. The spokesman said no decisions have been reached, and ministry officials have not decided if they support the plan. Lt. Col. Brodrick J. Bailey, 8th Army spokesman, said in an e-mail Friday that "details regarding the reorganization … have not been finalized" and it would be inappropriate to speculate on proposed changes. He said the reorganization is part of an Army-wide effort to change all numbered...

We may have MORE babies Exclusive: Dad-to-be reveals joy..just 4 weeks before HE is due to give birth THESE extraordinary new pictures show the world's first pregnant man—captured just four weeks from the birth of his baby girl. In an exclusive and moving interview with the News of the World, sex-change dad Thomas Beatie and his wife Nancy tell of their joy. And he reveals unseen family snaps of his astonishing early life as a teenage beauty queen. "I feel fantastic," he said. "I cannot wait to see my baby's face." In a tender and intimate moment, Thomas shares a...

Honolulu (AP) -- The U.S. military says it has intercepted a ballistic missile near Hawaii in a test. The sea-based test Thursday was the military's first since an errant satellite was shot down earlier this year. A target was fired from a decomissioned amphibious assault ship about 100 miles off the island of Kauai. It was a Scud-like missile with a range of a few hundred miles.

HONOLULU - President Bush has asked his defense and interior secretaries to look into designating Pearl Harbor and other historic World War II sites in the Pacific a national monument. A May 29 presidential memo to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said such status could offer the sites additional protection. "These objects of historical and scientific interest may tell the broader story of the war, the sacrifices made by America and its allies, and the heroism and determination that laid the groundwork for victory in the Pacific and triumph in World War II," Bush said. The...

Obama’s Marxist Mentors by: Ben Giles, May 28, 2008 As Barack Obama declares victory in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, some researchers have begun a search into Obama’s past. Cliff Kincaid, founder and president of America’s Survival, Inc., and Herbert Romerstein, author and former investigator for the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), held a press conference at Ebenezer’s Coffeehouse in Washington D.C. on May 22 releasing two new reports. “We’re raising questions,” said Kincaid. “We don’t have all the answers.” “Perhaps Barack Obama has some of the answers.” Romerstein argued that Obama’s rhetoric lacks substance concerning the source...

HONOLULU - U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, the third most senior member of the Senate, married Irene Hirano in a small private ceremony in Beverly Hills, Calif. The 83-year-old Hawaii Democrat, dressed in a dark suit, and Hirano, who wore a white suit, were wed Saturday at All Saints' Episcopal Church, and then left for Carmel, Calif., for their honeymoon, according to a news release issued by the senator's office. Inouye's son, Ken, was best man, and Jennifer Hirano served as her mother's maid of honor. The wedding ceremony was limited to members of the immediate families. Irene Hirano is president...

After working at Business International Corporation (a company that provided international business information to corporate clients) and NYPIRG, Obama moved to Chicago in 1985. There, he worked as a community organizer with low-income residents in Chicago's Roseland community and the Altgeld Gardens public housing development on the city's South Side. It was during this time that Obama, who said he "was not raised in a religious household," joined the Trinity United Church of Christ. He also visited relatives in Kenya, which included an emotional visit to the graves of his father and paternal grandfather. Obama entered Harvard Law School in...

A poll released by Rasmussen Reports on Monday indicates with 95% confidence that 20% of 1,200 persons polled by telephone believe that if Democratic presumptive nominee Barack Hussein Obama is elected, victory in Iraq is likely. By contrast, 49% believe that if Republican candidate John McCain is elected, victory is at least somewhat likely, with 23% saying victory is very likely. 59% say that virtually all combat troops will be pulled from Iraq during his first term if Obama is elected. Among men, 51% say that it is more important to win the war. As I looked at these numbers,...

OCEAN VIEW, Hawaii - For eight years, Tony and Sam Bayaoa have grown thousands of bright red, yellow and pink protea flowers on their farm. Then in March, Kilauea volcano opened a new vent and began spewing double the usual amount of toxic gas. Now about 70 percent of their crop is dried, brown and brittle. "The first reaction was — did someone poison the plants?" said Tony Bayaoa, whose two-acre farm is 35 miles from the volcano. "I've lost my livelihood." Big Island crops are shriveling as sulfur dioxide from Kilauea wafts over them and envelops them in "vog,"...

Summary: The Bishop Estate, Hawaii’s largest private landowner, operates the racially separatist Kamehameha Schools, the wealthiest secondary educational institution in the U.S. The 121-year history of the Estate and Schools is a story of race, politics and ultimately, the corrupting nature of power in Hawaii. But issues concerning Hawaiian identity and culture have now reached the mainland. The school system is backing a bill inspired by one of Hawaii’s Democratic senators, Daniel Akaka, that would grant special privileges based on race. The bill, which would give Native Hawaiians the right to create their own government, is now pending in the...

A Native Hawaiian group that advocates sovereignty briefly occupied the grounds of a historic palace in downtown Honolulu on Wednesday, saying it would carry out the business of what it considers the legitimate government of the islands.

KARMA, Iraq — A convoy of humvees, 7-ton trucks, and mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles pull up to a sheik’s home. As they arrive, local citizens, already lined up, wait outside the gate to receive aid through the teamwork of the local government, Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition forces. On April 12 and 13, Marines of 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 1, alongside Iraqi doctors, conducted a cooperative medical engagement to provide medical care to Iraqi civilians in the Gnather and Lahib villages. On the first day, Iraqis eagerly waited as Marines from Company F admitted them one at...

Hawaiian Sovereignty Activists Barricade Iolani Palace An Unknown Amount of State Workers Trapped Inside By Malia Zimmerman, 4/30/2008 9:19:10 AM HONOLULU, HAWAII - Hawaiian sovereignty activists calling themselves the "Hawaiian Kingdom Government" surrounded Iolani Palace this morning, refusing to let state employees either enter or exit the historical site, saying the palace and surrounding grounds are property of the "Hawaiian Kingdom." An unknown amount of state employees who work in the state archives division were trapped inside this morning, according to Russ Saito, head of the Department of Accounting and General Services, but since were allowed to leave, his office...

I come from a religious tradition where we shout from the sanctuary and march on the picket line! Where we give God the glory and give the devil the blues! — Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Sunday night in Detroit. The black church in America has long lived between the glory and the blues, between the ecstasy of worship and the exigencies of politics. It is a place concerned with both the sacred and the profane, both a religious and a political institution. It is for that reason that an ambitious young Barack Obama first sought out Reverend Wright twenty years ago....

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A court-martial panel on Friday found a Hawaii-based soldier not guilty in the killing of an unarmed Iraqi during a raid on a suspected insurgent hideout last year. Sgt. 1st Class Trey Corrales' friends and family erupted in cheers when the head of the military panel, or jury, read the verdict. The jury of nine soldiers acquitted Corrales of all three charges, including premeditated murder, after more than seven hours of deliberation. Corrales would have faced a minimum sentence of life in prison if he had been convicted. Corrales said it feels like a 200-pound weight had been lifted from...

MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII, April 22, 2008 – Wounded warrior care is becoming increasingly effective at helping servicemembers through their transition, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here yesterday. Marine Gen. James E. Cartwright toured wounded warrior barracks here and met with troops at Tripler Army Medical Center during a visit to U.S. Pacific Command. During his visit, Cartwright said he immediately noticed the low number of people. “The first thing you notice is there’s only about 10 people here, which is a good thing,” the general said. “The population is down significantly. Hopefully it...

Local biotech firm wins vaccine grant Hawaii Biotech's dengue vaccine is called the most advanced of its type By Kristen Consillio kconsillio@starbulletin.com Hawaii Biotech Inc. has won grant funding of nearly $1 million over the next year to move it closer to commercial production of the first dengue vaccine. The funding will come from the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative of the Seoul-based International Vaccine Institute, primarily funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Aiea-based company will use the money to conduct clinical trials on dengue -- a mosquito-borne disease prevalent in under-developed tropical and subtropical countries that infects...

State’s OHA deal fails By Richard Borreca rborreca@starbulletin.com The proposed $200 million Office of Hawaiian Affairs settlement appears dead for this year's legislative session. Senate President Colleen Hanabusa said yesterday that OHA trustees voted to urge the Legislature to pass a bill directing OHA to spend another year in negotiations. Earlier this year, Gov. Linda Lingle and OHA Chairwoman Haunani Apoliona concluded four years of negotiations with a deal that would have given OHA more than $187 million in land on Oahu and in Hilo, plus a $13 million payment and a promise to give OHA an additional $15 million...

Aloha cancels 7 round-trip cargo flights due to 'sick' pilots Lender GMAC agrees to put in $3 million in new financing despite an impasse in labor talks David Segal dsegal@starbulletin.com Nearly half of Aloha Airlines’ cargo flights last night were canceled after pilots called in sick amid “deteriorating” labor talks between the union and the company. All U.S. Mail and time-sensitive goods were delivered, according to Aloha spokesman Stu Glauberman, who said the company was calling up reserve pilots today to assist with the flight schedule. Aloha was forced to cancel seven of 16 round-trip nighttime flights, but reported that...

Volcano-area residents advised to evacuate Shifting winds lead to Big Isle civil defense alert Rod Thompson Helen Altonn rthompson@starbulletin.com | haltonn@starbulletin.com HILO >> Hilo and surrounding areas were blanketed with sulfur dioxide fumes from Kilauea volcano this morning while the Volcano Village area and Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, 30 miles away, braced for conditions that may require evacuations later today. Two gas monitors in the park showed “green” conditions this morning, meaning mere background levels of the gas, but a change in winds later today was expected to bring conditions in neighboring Volcano to Hawaii County’s purple condition, the highest...

MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII, April 7, 2008 – Dealing with a loved one’s deployment can be difficult. But for Marine families based thousands of miles from home, the challenges might seem even more daunting if not for an active family support network in place to help them. Carrie Heironimus, wife of Navy Lt. Brandon Heironimus, right, gets information about family-support programs at a table set up in Marine Corps Base Hawaii’s base exchange from Brenda Hawkins, left, administrative assistant for the Marine Corps Family Team Building program, and Cheryl Roy, center, the base’s readiness and deployment support trainer. Photo...

Agency aids stranded travelers $5M budgeted to help those grounded by airline shutdowns By Allison Schaefers aschaefers@starbulletin.com The Hawaii Tourism Authority gave tourism leaders approval yesterday to spend up to $5 million in emergency funds to underwrite additional airline service for passengers who have been unable to secure alternative flights following the shutdown of ATA Airlines' operations. In the aftermath left by the shutdown of two prime West Coast carriers, some 9,000 stranded visitors were still trying to get out of Hawaii, and another 1,377 visitors and residents were trying to make it back to the islands. While some 6,200...