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Rumors of their demise were greatly exaggerated, one could say, when CNN accidentally made publicly available obituaries of several international figures who are in fact still among the living.

Meeting this premature fate were the likes of U.S. vice president Dick Cheney, former president Ronald Reagan, Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul II and South African political icon Nelson Mandela. Their obituaries were mockups prepared in advance of the actual events.

CNN spokeswoman Edna Johnson said the obituary pages were never posted among the news items on CNN.com itself.

"The design mockups were on a development site intended for internal review only," said Johnson. "The development site was temporarily publicly available because of human error."

News organizations routinely report and write the obituaries of newsworthy people well ahead of their actual deaths. Then, when that moment inevitably arrives, the news agencies need only update the piece with information about how those people died.

The CNN pages caught the attention of the Web site The Smoking Gun, which posted copies of the obituaries, including those for Reagan, the pope and Mandela.

The Smoking Gun gave credit for their discovery to "the intrepid folks at fark.com," adding that the pages on the CNN site had been searchable via Google and were yanked about 20 minutes after being exposed.

The mockups were in the same style as the obituary that CNN ran for the death of Britain's Queen Mother last year.

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by Sugarlump1953 July 20, 2008 4:39 PM PDT
I received this email today and WE NEED YOUR HELP in ALL fairness. PLEASE INVESTIGATE ON BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. So 'MANY' of us are concerned about our Country's futuristic fate for good reason. My friend, the Sender, wrote in her email: "Rich Carroll articulates the thoughts that have been on many people's minds. There's too much question surrounding Obama and Michelle's real ideology. Too many sinister associations make me suspicious. Also his past is still a blank. Have you ever thought about where Obama gets all his campaign money---more than Hillary or McCain put together in such a short span of time? ..."

This is the Article emailed to me:
********************
The Jihad Candidate
By Rich Carroll

Conspiracy theories make for interesting novels when the storyline is not so absurd that it can grasp our attention. 'The Manchurian Candidate' and 'Seven Days in May' are examples of plausible chains of events that captures the reader's imagination at best-seller level. 'What if' has always been the solid grist of fiction.

Get yourself something cool to drink, find a relaxing position, but before you continue, visualize the television photos of two jet airliners smashing into the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan and remind yourself this cowardly act of Muslim terror was planned for eight years.

How long did it take Islam and their oil money to20find a candidate for President of the United States ? As long as it took them to place a Senator from Illinois and Min nesota ? The same amount of time to create a large Muslim enclave in Detroit ? The time it took them to build over 2,000 mosques in America ? The same amount of time required to place radical wahabbist clerics in our military and prisons as 'chaplains'?

Find a candidate who can get away with lying about their father being a 'freedom fighter' when he was actually part of the most corrupt and violent government in Kenya 's history. Find a candidate with close ties to The Nation of Islam and the violent Muslim overthrow in Africa , a candidate who is educated among white infidel Americans but hides his bitterness and anger behind a superficial toothy smile.

Find a candidate who changes his American name of Barry to the Muslim name of Barak Hussein Obama, and dares anyone to question his true ties under the banner of 'racism'. Nurture this candidate in an atmosphere of anti-white American teaching and surround him with Islamic teachers. Provide him with a bitter, racist, anti-white, anti-American wife, and supply him with Muslim middle east connections and Islamic monies. Allow him to be clever enough to get away with his anti-white rhetoric and proclaim he will give $834 billion taxpayer dollars to the Muslim controlled United Nat ions for use in Africa .

Install your candidate in an atmosphere of deception because questioning him on any issue involving Africa or Islam would be seen as 'bigoted racism'; two words too powerful to allow the citizenry to be informed of facts. Allow your candidate to employ several black racist Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan followers as members of his Illinois Senatorial and campaign staffs.

Where is the bloodhound American 'free press' who doggedly overturned every stone in the Watergate case? Where are our nation's reporters that have placed every Presidential candidate under the microscope of detailed scrutiny; the same press who pursue Bush's 'Skull and Bones' club or ran other candidates off with persistent detective and research work? Why haven't 'newsmen' pursued the 65 blatant lies told by this candidate during the Presidential primaries? Where are the stories about this candidate's cousin and the Muslim butchery in Africa?

Since when did our nati onal press corps become weak, timid, and silent? Why haven't they regaled us with the long list of socialists and communists who=2 0have surrounded this 'out of nowhere' Democrat candidate or that his church re-printed the Hamas Manifesto in their bulletin, and that his 'close pastor friend and mentor' met with Middle East terrorist Moammar Gaddafi, (Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)? Why isn't the American press telling us this candidate is supported by every Muslim organization in the world?

As an ultimate slap in the face, be blatant in the fact your candidate has ZERO interest in traditional American values and has the most liberal voting record in U.S. Senate history. Why has the American main stream media clammed-up on any negative reporting on Barak Hussein Obama? Why will they print Hillary Rodham Clinton's name but never write his middle name? Is it not his name? Why, suddenly, is ANY information about this candidate not coming from main stream media, but from the blogosphere by citizens seeking facts and the truth? Why isn't our media connecting the dots with Islam? Why do they focus on 'those bad American soldiers' while Islam slaughters non Muslims daily in 44 countries around the globe? Why does our media refer to Darfur as 'ethnic cleansing' instead of what it really is; Muslims killing non Muslims! There20is enough strange, anti- American activity surrounding Barak Hussein Obama to peek the curiosity of any reporter. WHERE IS OUR INVESTIG ATIVE MEDIA!?

A formal plan for targeting America was devised three years after the Iranian revolution in 1982. The plan was summarized in a 1991 memorandum by Mohamed Akram, an operative of the global Muslim Brotherhood. 'The process of settlement' of Muslims in America , Akram explained, 'is a civilization jihad process.' This means that members of the Brotherhood must understand that their work in 'America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions.'

There is terrorism we can see, smell and fear, but there is a new kind of terror invading The United States in the form of Sharia law and finance. Condoning it is civilization suicide. Middle East Muslims are coming to America in record numbers and building hate infidel mosques, buying our corporations, suing us for our traditions, but they and the whole subject of Islam is white noise leaving Americans uninformed about who and what is really peaceful. Where is our investigative press? Any criticism of Islam or their intentions, even though Islamic leaders state their inten tions daily around the globe, brings-forth a volley of 'racist' from the left-wing Democrat crowd.

Lies and deception behind a master plan - the ingredients for 'The Manchurian Candidate' or the placement of an anti-American President in our nation's White House? Is it mere coincidence that an anti-capitalist run for President at the same time Islamic sharia finance and law is trying to make advancing strides into the United States ? Is it mere coincidence this same candidate wants to dis-arm our nuclear capability at a time when terrorist Muslim nations are expanding their nuclear weapons capability? Is it mere coincidence this candidate wants to reduce our military at a time of global jihad from Muslim nations?

Change for America? You bet...
What change?
Why... To become another 'nation of Islam'... Of Course...

© Rich Carroll 2008
crossedrifles@hotmail.com

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(My Comment to friend): "P O W E R F U L M E S S A G E ! ! ! ... and, I BELIEVE, too, like so many ignored Americans with questionable suspicions about Barack Hussein Obama. Basically, I consider myself a good judge of character most of the times and, when it came to Barack Hussein Obama, I did not trust him from the very start -- There is something about him which makes me very uncomfortable.

I just told my eldest daughter today (an Obama supporter) that his public display of anger towards ANY negative publicity (as if he's special, yet it only reveals an irrational person in true character) when, 98% of the times, it's positive coverage ... THANKS TO OUR MEDIA!!! They even admitted, themselves, on CNN, the presidential candidates' coverage is one-sided; then smiling as if it's a joke! I don't see anything funny about Unfair Press.

In the Media's BRAIN-WASH EFFORTS, I'm so tired of seeing Obama's pictures plasterd on magazines covers everywhere!!! I'm tired of hearing his name REPETITIOUSLY on CNN as if he's the only subject-matter. Our media, in itself, seem to be trying to force his being onto 'The People', which is similar to elevator music with an underlying message: "VOTEOBAMAVOTEOBAMAVOTEOBAMAVOTEOBAMAVOTEOBAMAVOTE..." WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM??? They even call it 'Obamania' as an extra boost of encouragement!

I find it EXTRADIORDINARY that the amount of money associated with Obama seems to be clouding their thinking, as if the Media is, in itself, 'worshipping' money as power' ("Hail! King Obama!"). Even Obama's very own website utilizes the word 'ENTHRONED' should he enter the Oval Office (OMIGOD!) ... AND THE MEDIA CAN'T READ BETWEEN THE LINES??? Truly, I'm worried what kind of message Obama's 'specialty treatment' is sending to easily misled Americans. The Media needs to be more concerned about JUST investigatons on behalf of the United States, and report ALL news to 'The People'. It's their job."
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by Sugarlump1953 July 20, 2008 4:39 PM PDT
I received this email today and WE NEED YOUR HELP in ALL fairness. PLEASE INVESTIGATE ON BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. So 'MANY' of us are concerned about our Country's futuristic fate for good reason. My friend, the Sender, wrote in her email: "Rich Carroll articulates the thoughts that have been on many people's minds. There's too much question surrounding Obama and Michelle's real ideology. Too many sinister associations make me suspicious. Also his past is still a blank. Have you ever thought about where Obama gets all his campaign money---more than Hillary or McCain put together in such a short span of time? ..."

This is the Article emailed to me:
********************
The Jihad Candidate
By Rich Carroll

Conspiracy theories make for interesting novels when the storyline is not so absurd that it can grasp our attention. 'The Manchurian Candidate' and 'Seven Days in May' are examples of plausible chains of events that captures the reader's imagination at best-seller level. 'What if' has always been the solid grist of fiction.

Get yourself something cool to drink, find a relaxing position, but before you continue, visualize the television photos of two jet airliners smashing into the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan and remind yourself this cowardly act of Muslim terror was planned for eight years.

How long did it take Islam and their oil money to20find a candidate for President of the United States ? As long as it took them to place a Senator from Illinois and Min nesota ? The same amount of time to create a large Muslim enclave in Detroit ? The time it took them to build over 2,000 mosques in America ? The same amount of time required to place radical wahabbist clerics in our military and prisons as 'chaplains'?

Find a candidate who can get away with lying about their father being a 'freedom fighter' when he was actually part of the most corrupt and violent government in Kenya 's history. Find a candidate with close ties to The Nation of Islam and the violent Muslim overthrow in Africa , a candidate who is educated among white infidel Americans but hides his bitterness and anger behind a superficial toothy smile.

Find a candidate who changes his American name of Barry to the Muslim name of Barak Hussein Obama, and dares anyone to question his true ties under the banner of 'racism'. Nurture this candidate in an atmosphere of anti-white American teaching and surround him with Islamic teachers. Provide him with a bitter, racist, anti-white, anti-American wife, and supply him with Muslim middle east connections and Islamic monies. Allow him to be clever enough to get away with his anti-white rhetoric and proclaim he will give $834 billion taxpayer dollars to the Muslim controlled United Nat ions for use in Africa .

Install your candidate in an atmosphere of deception because questioning him on any issue involving Africa or Islam would be seen as 'bigoted racism'; two words too powerful to allow the citizenry to be informed of facts. Allow your candidate to employ several black racist Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan followers as members of his Illinois Senatorial and campaign staffs.

Where is the bloodhound American 'free press' who doggedly overturned every stone in the Watergate case? Where are our nation's reporters that have placed every Presidential candidate under the microscope of detailed scrutiny; the same press who pursue Bush's 'Skull and Bones' club or ran other candidates off with persistent detective and research work? Why haven't 'newsmen' pursued the 65 blatant lies told by this candidate during the Presidential primaries? Where are the stories about this candidate's cousin and the Muslim butchery in Africa?

Since when did our nati onal press corps become weak, timid, and silent? Why haven't they regaled us with the long list of socialists and communists who=2 0have surrounded this 'out of nowhere' Democrat candidate or that his church re-printed the Hamas Manifesto in their bulletin, and that his 'close pastor friend and mentor' met with Middle East terrorist Moammar Gaddafi, (Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)? Why isn't the American press telling us this candidate is supported by every Muslim organization in the world?

As an ultimate slap in the face, be blatant in the fact your candidate has ZERO interest in traditional American values and has the most liberal voting record in U.S. Senate history. Why has the American main stream media clammed-up on any negative reporting on Barak Hussein Obama? Why will they print Hillary Rodham Clinton's name but never write his middle name? Is it not his name? Why, suddenly, is ANY information about this candidate not coming from main stream media, but from the blogosphere by citizens seeking facts and the truth? Why isn't our media connecting the dots with Islam? Why do they focus on 'those bad American soldiers' while Islam slaughters non Muslims daily in 44 countries around the globe? Why does our media refer to Darfur as 'ethnic cleansing' instead of what it really is; Muslims killing non Muslims! There20is enough strange, anti- American activity surrounding Barak Hussein Obama to peek the curiosity of any reporter. WHERE IS OUR INVESTIG ATIVE MEDIA!?

A formal plan for targeting America was devised three years after the Iranian revolution in 1982. The plan was summarized in a 1991 memorandum by Mohamed Akram, an operative of the global Muslim Brotherhood. 'The process of settlement' of Muslims in America , Akram explained, 'is a civilization jihad process.' This means that members of the Brotherhood must understand that their work in 'America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions.'

There is terrorism we can see, smell and fear, but there is a new kind of terror invading The United States in the form of Sharia law and finance. Condoning it is civilization suicide. Middle East Muslims are coming to America in record numbers and building hate infidel mosques, buying our corporations, suing us for our traditions, but they and the whole subject of Islam is white noise leaving Americans uninformed about who and what is really peaceful. Where is our investigative press? Any criticism of Islam or their intentions, even though Islamic leaders state their inten tions daily around the globe, brings-forth a volley of 'racist' from the left-wing Democrat crowd.

Lies and deception behind a master plan - the ingredients for 'The Manchurian Candidate' or the placement of an anti-American President in our nation's White House? Is it mere coincidence that an anti-capitalist run for President at the same time Islamic sharia finance and law is trying to make advancing strides into the United States ? Is it mere coincidence this same candidate wants to dis-arm our nuclear capability at a time when terrorist Muslim nations are expanding their nuclear weapons capability? Is it mere coincidence this candidate wants to reduce our military at a time of global jihad from Muslim nations?

Change for America? You bet...
What change?
Why... To become another 'nation of Islam'... Of Course...

© Rich Carroll 2008
crossedrifles@hotmail.com

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(My Comment to friend): "P O W E R F U L M E S S A G E ! ! ! ... and, I BELIEVE, too, like so many ignored Americans with questionable suspicions about Barack Hussein Obama. Basically, I consider myself a good judge of character most of the times and, when it came to Barack Hussein Obama, I did not trust him from the very start -- There is something about him which makes me very uncomfortable.

I just told my eldest daughter today (an Obama supporter) that his public display of anger towards ANY negative publicity (as if he's special, yet it only reveals an irrational person in true character) when, 98% of the times, it's positive coverage ... THANKS TO OUR MEDIA!!! They even admitted, themselves, on CNN, the presidential candidates' coverage is one-sided; then smiling as if it's a joke! I don't see anything funny about Unfair Press.

In the Media's BRAIN-WASH EFFORTS, I'm so tired of seeing Obama's pictures plasterd on magazines covers everywhere!!! I'm tired of hearing his name REPETITIOUSLY on CNN as if he's the only subject-matter. Our media, in itself, seem to be trying to force his being onto 'The People', which is similar to elevator music with an underlying message: "VOTEOBAMAVOTEOBAMAVOTEOBAMAVOTEOBAMAVOTEOBAMAVOTE..." WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM??? They even call it 'Obamania' as an extra boost of encouragement!

I find it EXTRADIORDINARY that the amount of money associated with Obama seems to be clouding their thinking, as if the Media is, in itself, 'worshipping' money as power' ("Hail! King Obama!"). Even Obama's very own website utilizes the word 'ENTHRONED' should he enter the Oval Office (OMIGOD!) ... AND THE MEDIA CAN'T READ BETWEEN THE LINES??? Truly, I'm worried what kind of message Obama's 'specialty treatment' is sending to easily misled Americans. The Media needs to be more concerned about JUST investigatons on behalf of the United States, and report ALL news to 'The People'. It's their job."
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