 merrie says: Reasons for censorship? The Associated Press and the rest of the mainstream media probably had this photo of the registration document in their hands or databases but refused to touch it. After CNN published the facts that FOX incorrectly reported that the school was a madrassa, the entire issue of Barack Obama's name of 'Barry Soetero' was side stepped. It was probably decided that this material or photo shouldn't be available to the general public. (The same idea was probably applied to any audio or visual media related to a separate issue concerning an interview between Barack Obama and Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times.) Therefore the image lay untouched and untranslated in the Daylife.com photo repository for 18 months. Verification: A quick search through Google reveals that there is an actual Associated Press photographer by the name Tatan Syuflana. It appears that this photographer specializes in the Indonesian region of the world. The above photo which is hosted on Daylife.com was uploaded about 18 months ago. The upload timeframe would have been around February 14, 2007. Samples of Tatan Syuflan's work appears in common news websites such as CBS, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Time magazine. What is still mysterious is that the photo of the registration document appears to be scrubbed. In depth research finds that any site related to the Associated Press does not feature it on the... An article from a South African website refers to this registration page. Jakarta - The "little curly-haired one" is well remembered by his Indonesian teacher Israella Darmawan. It was in 1968 when Barack Obama joined her class, and she likes the idea that he soon might become the world's most powerful person. "We hope and pray that he will become the best US president of all time," says Darmawan. Darmawan was Obama's teacher while he attended the Catholic St Francis of Assisi school in Jakarta's up-scale Menteng district. Darmawan, 64, who retired last year, now only returns to her former school to tell current pupils about their famous alumnus. She takes a faded book from a sh... |
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