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New Fall Hat – Image of President Obama Wearing an Acorn Hat and Smoking
Circulating image supposedly shows US President Obama wearing a hat shaped like an acorn cap while smoking a cigarette.
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Links to reports about political hoaxes, diatribes and opinion pieces.
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Protest message claims that asylum seekers in the UK receive a substantially higher weekly allowance from the British government than do British pensioners.
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Protest message claims that refugees in Canada receive a substantially higher monthly pension payment from the Canadian government than that received by Canadian old age pensioners.
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This message claims to contain an amazingly prescient quote from Karl Marx, supposedly written in 1867, in which he predicts the causes and ramifications of the current world economic crisis.
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Presidential Determination Rumour – Palestinian Resettlement in US
by Brett M. Christensen February 19, 2009Protest message claims that US President Barack Obama has signed an executive order presidential determination that will allow hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to resettle in the United States.
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Bogus WarningsMisleadingPolitics
Islamic Punishment Protest Email – Photos of Boy’s Arm Being Crushed Under Car Wheel
by Brett M. Christensen February 12, 2009Email forward claims that a series of attached photographs show an 8-year-old boy in Iran having his arm crushed by a car as punishment under Islamic law for stealing bread.
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MisleadingPolitics
Refugee Monthly Allowance From Australian Government Hoax
by Brett M. Christensen May 10, 2008Circulating protest messages claims that refugees receive a substantially higher monthly payment from the Australian government than do Australian pensioners.
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Email forward claims that former Australian Prime Minister John Howard told the media that immigrants should adapt to Australian culture, language and beliefs or leave the country. It also claims that Howard told Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law that they should get out of Australia.