Politics

Circulating image supposedly shows US President Obama wearing a hat shaped like an acorn cap while smoking a cigarette.

Protest message claims that asylum seekers in the UK receive a substantially higher weekly allowance from the British government than do British pensioners.

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.

Protest email tells the story of how a Muslim woman in a supermarket checkout line was firmly put in her place after she made critical remarks about the cashier’s Australian flag lapel pin and Australia’s involvement in the Iraq war.

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.

Email 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.

Circulating protest messages claims that refugees receive a substantially higher monthly payment from the Australian government than do Australian pensioners.