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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has signed into law a media Bill that journalists say will curtail press freedom. According to a BBC News report, the law gives the Kenyan authorities the power to raid media offices, tap phones and control broadcast content on grounds of national security. Kibaki said he had carefully considered the concerns but added that press freedom 'must go hand in hand with responsibility'. He said the Bill was crucial for Kenya's economic development. Kibaki added that regulating the electronic media would promote and 'safeguard our culture, moral values and nationhood'. The Standard reports that condemnation of...

As euphoria over his election begins to fade, young people are reminded that in Africa, money, ethnicity and family connections count more toward success than does hard work. Reporting from Kobama, Kenya -- He's from the same family that produced President-elect Barack Obama. He shares many of the same hopes and dreams. He's even got the same name. This Barack Obama, 26, a cousin who was named after the president-elect's Kenyan father, was elated when someone with African roots rose to the world's most powerful job. "I felt I could do anything," said the lanky student, whose buddies now call...

If there is anyone out there who still doubts US president-elect Barack Obama's roots, who still wonders if his father was a Kenyan, still questions his love for the land of his ancestors, January 20 will be the answer. For at that defining moment, after Mr Obama takes the oath office to lead the world superpower, Kenyan musicians will be there to entertain him. And Kenyans will be the most beholden since the new US President has roots at Kogelo in Nyanza - now a vibrant village that has been awakened from slumber by the Obama magic. Kenya's Obama fans...

In a World Net Daily article by Richard Cummings, concerning Jonathan Pollard who was convicted under the Espionage Acts in passing information along to a foreign government, namely the Israeli state, WND has stumbled upon something they have not put together in Barack Obama is guilty in two espionage acts equal to Jonathan Pollard who now sits in federal prison. Mr. Obama has been noted in WND articles of negotiating and assisting the "Palestinians" before the election. Articles online report that the Colombians were being dealt with by Obama operatives in negotiating policy before he was elected. Mr. Obama though...

One of Obama's associates, for whom Obama campaigned, had Corsi detained during the last time Corsi went to Kenya to investigate Obama's relationship with Odinga. Both Odinga and Obama had 'change' as the main theme of their campaigns. There was a video (9+ mins) on Youtube that showed Obama campaigning for Odinga. Odinga had churches burned in Kenya. Here is a World Net Daily article posted Dec. 22, 2008. The mainstream media did not tell us much, if anything, about Odinga and Obama's relationship OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL Corsi detention orchestrated by Obama's political friend Investigative reporter held in Kenya while...

On Jamhuri Day, citizens attempting to protest the current cost of living and link it to the refusal of parliamentarians to pay tax on their allowances, were rounded up in numbers in several cities and towns. While many of those detained were released without charge, three remained in detention without charge beyond the legal limit of 24 hours in Nairobi. One of them, who had been badly beaten up by the police, was hospitalised under guard. A further four remained in detention in Garissa until the following Monday, when they were finally taken to court to be charged with creating...

Several journalists and civil society activists in Kenya were arrested last week while protesting the passage of a new communications bill that would give the authorities sweeping powers, reports the Media Institute (MI). The morning crew for Kiss FM radio station, co-anchors Larry Asego and Mzee Jalang'o, and Kenya's top female presenter, Caroline Mutoko, were arrested as they demonstrated against the bill, as well as the high cost of food and the refusal of MPs to pay taxes, on 12 December at Independence Day celebrations in Nairobi. Former Transparency International (Kenya) director Mwalimu Mati and many other civil society activists...

The Kenyan government has blocked members of President-elect Barack Obama's extended family from talking to the media. Www.allafrica.com reports that the Kenyan government told family members that they would have to ask for official permission before issuing any statement concerning Obama. It said the government would also vet all those seeking information about the family. "We are doing this because we want to ensure better flow of information. The government has decided that you should inform its officers who will be based here if you want to address the media," Athman Said, an Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Heritage, told...

The Kenyan government has barred unapproved contacts between the media and President-elect Barack Obama's extended family. Family members will be required to receive permission from the government before making any public statements about their famous relative, according to the Nairobi Star. "We are doing this because we want to ensure better flow of information," Athman Said, an under-secretary in the Ministry of Heritage, told the Obama family in Kogelo. "The government has decided that you should inform its officers who will be based here if you want to address the media." Journalists wishing to speak with the family must first...

Nairobi — Persons suspected of planning and executing Kenya's worst political violence early this year - including Cabinet ministers, Members of Parliament, civil servants and businessmen - will be tried here by a special tribunal. President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Wednesday signed an agreement to set up the tribunal which was recommended by a commission of inquiry into the chaos. The signing of the agreement has, at least for now, saved the suspects from being tried for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court at The Hague. A secret list of ten high profile suspects...

Top Government officials have declined to meet representatives of a US poll body caught in controversy over the 2007 General Election. The Standard On Sunday has exclusively learnt that key officials of the International Republican Institute (IRI) are in the country and have been pleading with Government authorities to "put in a good word" for them. The group is chaired by Arizona Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate in the November election against Barack Obama, and it is fighting to salvage its credibility. The IRI team pitched tent at Prime Minister Raila Odinga's office at Treasury House last Wednesday...

The Kenyan official who reportedly orchestrated the detention of WND senior staff reporter Jerome R. Corsi when he visited Kenya to investigate President-elect Barack Obama's close ties to the nation's prime minister, Raila Odinga, was Odinga himself, according to WND sources inside Kenya. Corsi, whose recent book, "The Obama Nation," raised questions about the Democrat when he was a candidate for president, had scheduled a news conference in Nairobi to discuss his discoveries during his visit this fall. However, he was detained by immigration officials and held without food for much of a day until he was escorted onto his...

In the strongest indication yet that African leaders are finally turning their backs on Robert Mugabe and his murderous regime, Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Thursday said it was time for African governments to oust the ageing dictator. Mugabe's steel grip on power has seen the once prosperous country deteriorate into chaos. Zimbabwe's economy and social systems have collapsed, and it is becoming daily more clear that serious and immediate intervention is needed to spare thousands more lives in a country ravaged by crises.

The decision on granting a hearing challenging President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship is still pending. The "Washington Times" reports that the U.S. Supreme Court held a private conference Friday morning to discuss whether to take up a lawsuit but it was not on the list of court orders for the day. According to the "Times" a Supreme Court spokesman said the decision to hear the case will most likely be announced next week.

A black-tie dinner and ball are scheduled to take place on the night of the inauguration at posh Marriott Gateway Hotel. It is said to be a pan-African gala in honour of the first US president of African descent. Kenya's ambassador in Washington Peter Ogego said he hopes the new president and the First Lady will include the event in their round of inaugural balls. Invitations are also being sent to incoming Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN ambassador Susan Rice, Mr Ogego added. Mr Odinga is expected to attend both of the Kenya-sponsored inauguration celebrations. The National Democratic...

I thought we should have a link to post any and all updates.

According to The Schnitt Show, a radio program available in several Florida markets and XM radio, a birth announcement for Barack Obama was discovered in a 1961 Honolulu newspaper. See link for a PDF image of this announcement.

Frustration builds at corrupt government Barack Obama's late father grew up in this region of western Kenya, so when his son swept to the U.S. presidency earlier this month, townspeople erupted in joy, waving American flags. It could easily have been a riot instead. Last December, another popular native son, Raila Odinga, lost his bid for the Kenyan presidency to incumbent President Mwai Kibaki in voting widely seen as rigged. Frustrated Kenyans erupted in an unprecedented spasm of ethnic violence that left more than 1,000 people dead and 350,000 homeless, many of them members of Kibaki's dominant Kikuyu tribe. Now,...

The California secretary of state should refuse to allow the state's 55 Electoral College votes to be cast in the 2008 presidential election until President-elect Barack Obama verifies his eligibility to hold the office, alleges a California court petition filed on behalf of former presidential candidate Alan Keyes and others. The legal action today is just the latest is a series of challenges, some of which have gone as high as the U.S. Supreme Court, over the issue of Obama's status as a "natural-born citizen," a requirement set by the U.S. Constitution. WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi even traveled to...

On 11 June, 2008, Al-Jazeera TV (of Qatar) broadcast an address by Libyan Leader Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi to the Libyan people in which Qadhafi stated the following: "Along came a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia. His name is Obama. All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man. They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success, and they may have even been involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency. But we were taken...

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga is demanding payback from President-elect Barack Obama for silencing WND staff writer and bestselling author Jerome Corsi, who investigated Obama's links to the authoritarian African official. "What we want to see is the expansion of relationships in terms of trade and direct investments," said Odinga. "We want to see more of our products finding markets in the U.S. and expect more direct investments

About 50 parishioners were locked into the Assemblies of God church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death by machete-wielding members of a mob numbering 2,000. The 2008 New Year Day atrocity in the Kenyan village Eldoret, about 185 miles northwest of Nairobi, had all the markings of the Rwanda genocide of a decade earlier. By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities...

AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, the Mandarin of Talk Radio, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair,...

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Analyst: Obama and Livni - the Axis of Weakness by Tamar Yonah (IsraelNN.com) A victory by Barack Obama in the United States presidential race and a victory by Tzipi Livni's Kadima party in Israeli parliamentary elections would be detrimental to both countries, emboldening Iran to attack Israel, as Obama and Livni are both weak in the world political arena. So says Dr. Jerome Corsi, author of the book, "The Obama Nation" in the audio interview below. Corsi was speaking this past week on Israel National radio's Weekend Edition about his recent trip to Kenya –home of Obama's father - to...

Great new ad exposing Obama's commie buddy, Raila Ordinga 10-21-2008 Savvyguy The ad I have dreamed for is here! Wish it's a bit longer, but pretty clear! It show sthe 2 campaigning together in Kenya! It shows Christians being killed there. Sen. Obama 2 years ago campaiged for pro-violence extremist cousin, Raila Ordinga in Kenya, using TAXPAYER'S money in what was supposed to be a "fact-finding tour ". The two have strategized & worked closed together on their plan for an Islamic Kenya! This extremist instigated mass murders and unbelievable chaos after he narrowly lost. see the longer U tube...

About 50 parishioners were locked into the... church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death…By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed…The violence was led by supporters of Raila Odinga, the opposition leader who lost the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential election by more than 230,000 votes. Odinga supporters began the genocide hours after the final election results were announced Dec. 30…In return for Muslim backing, Mr. Odinga promised to impose a number of measures favored by Muslims if he were elected president... recognition of “Islam as...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned. Zeituni Onyango, 56, referred to as "Aunti Zeituni" in Obama's memoir, was instructed to leave the United States by a U.S. immigration judge who denied her asylum request, a person familiar with the matter told the AP late Friday. This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to discuss Onyango's case. Information about the...

Many people have been occupied with the Michelle Obama tape, wondering whether it will be made public by Fox News Network. API would like to inform the readers that the denials by some people that there is no agreement to air the tape has no basis in truth. API has a valid agreement with Fox News Network. The negotiation was done secretly between API’s 3 representatives and Fox News Network represented by two people. If any one comes out there and denies that we have a deal, such denials must be ignored. The parties involved in the negotiations exchanged many...

Imagine if 4,000 people – mostly academics proclaiming to be “friends and colleagues” of Professor Eric Rudolph – published a letter defending that terrorist’s association with John McCain, praising his role as a distinguished faculty member in education at a premier university, and willfully ignoring his past as a domestic terrorist. While this particular scenario is easy to dismiss as absurd and unfeasible, that is exactly what has happened regarding Bill Ayers’ association with Barack Obama.

Obama’s Logan Act Violations: Kenya 06, World Tour 08! The Logan Act has two basic components: A) The Accused Individual must not, “without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commence or carry on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States,” B) Must not do anything “to defeat the measures of the United States”, which in context means work against the policies...

The Kenya family of US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has halted all media engagements until after the US presidential election on November 4. The move has been taken to give Obama's paternal grandmother, Mama Sarah Onyango Obama a break, according to a family member Mr Said Obama. In the recent past, a battery of local and international journalists have been visiting the home on a daily basis to seek interviews from the 85-year old granny. But Mr Said Obama said the family would open up to the media on November 5, a day after the elections. And on Wednesday,...

The world, I bet, has not forgotten gory scenes of death and destruction that Kenya witnessed early this year over a disputed presidential election. And the world should not forget that dark chapter of Kenyan history because the perpetrators of that mayhem have not been brought to book. A whopping 1,200 innocent people lost their lives within a period of one month. Goons recruited and bankrolled by politicians, some now serving in the coalition government of President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga, systematically decimated whole families. In one incident in Western Kenya, marauding thugs, believed to be supporters of...

The world, I bet, has not forgotten gory scenes of death and destruction that Kenya witnessed early this year over a disputed presidential election. And the world should not forget that dark chapter of Kenyan history because the perpetrators of that mayhem have not been brought to book. A whopping 1,200 innocent people lost their lives within a period of one month. Goons recruited and bankrolled by politicians, some now serving in the coalition government of President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga, systematically decimated whole families. In one incident in Western Kenya, marauding thugs, believed to be supporters of...

Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Sunday said he would not attend the US Presidential elections but noted that Kenya would be well-represented at the event in which Barack Obama is fighting it out with John McCain for the highest seat in the land. The PM said he wholly supported Obama's candidature and was just as excited as many Kenyans about the historic event. The PM who said he was optimistic Obama would win the elections said his candidature for Presidency was a great honour to Kenyans with whom he shared a common ancestry. "He will be President", Mr. Odinga said...

FReep this Digg! Notice I put Digg as a key word in my post. (That way Diggs that need to be Dugg to the top can be easilty searched by FReepers) NOW FREEP THIS DIGG! TIME'S RUNNING OUT! THE ELECTION IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER!!!

Senior NAACP official Hilary Shelton said blacks would get angry if they felt disenfranchised because of voting irregularities. "On Election Day," she said, "you may have some tempers flare."

Greetings, Freepers. While I realize that no one really likes vanities right now, I figured I might ask a serious question. Just how angry and hostile are Michelle and Hussein Obama? I see serious signs of mental illness in these two people. Have you ever seen such a nasty pair running for office? I sometimes get angry, but I cannot imagine behaving like this in public. It's just not in me to scream and shout like that. I apologize right now for the vanity, but I just cannot imagine these horribly hostile black racists running our Republic. To be honest,...

Barack Obama has a stunning lack of tolerance for free speech. And one thing Americans can expect from an Obama administration, and a Democratic-controlled Congress, is a legislative attempt to bring back the so-called Fairness Doctrine, which will limit free speech and diminish the conservative influence on talk radio. A new ATI-News/Zogby International poll released on Oct. 26 made it clear that those who intend to vote for Obama support re-establishing the Fairness Doctrine.

Shep Smith: What do you really know about Barack Obama ?

In remarks made on the campaign trail yesterday, according to Senator Obama, his redistributive tax policies are based upon a belief that, "That is how we have always grown the economy, from the bottom up". The problem that I have, however, is simple: History just doesn't support that statement. So my challenge today is simple: Name me ...

A frighteningly naive Obama talking about large growth stock, diversifying portfolios etc. In these troubled times do you really want to trust a community organizer who doesnt know economics 101 with the largest most complicated economy in the world. Video by NakedEmperorNews

Barney Frank will not soon be named secretary of defense or, insha'Allah, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. So there's really no reason to fear that his recent call to cut defense spending by 25% is a harbinger of what to expect in an Obama administration. Then again, maybe there is. When it comes to defense, there are two Barack Obamas in this race. There is the candidate who insists, as he did last year in an article in Foreign Affairs, that "a strong military is, more than anything, necessary to sustain peace"; pledges to increase the size of...

Obama: Constitution is 'Deeply Flawed' Monday, October 27, 2008 8:20 PM By: David A. Patten Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama described the U.S. Constitution as having “deep flaws” during a September 2001 Chicago public radio program, adding that the country’s Founding Fathers had “an enormous blind spot” when they wrote it. Obama also remarked that the Constitution “reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day.” Obama’s statements came during a panel discussion that aired on Chicago’s WBEZ-FM on Sept. 6, 2001, titled “Slavery and the Constitution.” ...

You tube video of Barack Obama in Kenya supporting Raila Odinga, the election and violence afterwards. Odinga was the agent of change

Sen. Barack Obama campaigned on Marxist Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s behalf in Kenya in 2006 and, with the help of the son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi, raised nearly $1 million for Odinga’s campaign. When Odinga lost his presidential election, he refused to accept the results and incited riots resulting in thousands being macheted to death or burned alive in their churches.

I've added a link at the top of the latest posts pages to view "Selected Free Republic McCain vs Obama promo videos." We usually only run these kind of promos during our FReepathons, but I thought I'd continue these selected videos until the election is over. We're now receiving nearly 2,000,000 page views per day from 200,000 to 300,000 daily visitors. Half of these visits are from new visitors. I'd like to give them all an opportunity to see and hear the truth about The One, That One, The Marxist Obamessiah. Please bear with me. I'll take them down after...

(CNN) – Presidential candidates are sold in much the same way a new product is: with an expensive, flashy, and ubiquitous television campaign. And according to advertising figures provided by Campaign Media Analysis Group, CNN's consultant on ad spending, Barack Obama's campaign has spent more money selling its candidate on television than most major brand name companies do selling their products. The Illinois senator's campaign is projected to have spent $250 million on ads in the last four months — a number that is equivalent to $750 million in a full year. Only AT&T, with a yearly advertising budget of...

Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Sunday said he would not attend the US Presidential elections but noted that Kenya would be well-represented at the event in which Barack Obama is fighting it out with John McCain for the highest seat in the land. The PM said he wholly supported Obama's candidature and was just as excited as many Kenyans about the historic event. The PM who said he was optimistic Obama would win the elections said his candidature for Presidency was a great honour to Kenyans with whom he shared a common ancestry. "He will be President", Mr. Odinga said...

Back in 2001, Barack Obama gave an interview to a Chicago public radio station in which he talked about using the Supreme Court, the most undemocratic of the three branches of government (nonelected, lifetime terms), to "spread the wealth." Some rough excerpts: If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples so that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at a lunch counter and order, and...