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The mysterious Mr. Hudson

By on February 27, 2013 in Birthers, The Anti-Theories

Chatter on the limited-access Obot News Service1 (ONS) has been high today with various Obot stations2 reporting odd telephone calls from someone who identified himself as “Lane Hudson” and who said that he was writing an article about anti-birthers. The only Lane Hudson I know of is a former Democratic Party campaign worker and blogger. The South Carolina native was the one that brought to light the Mark Foley scandal, and now works in England for a global communications firm, and isn’t the person who called.

I didn’t personally receive one of these calls, but others who did report that the caller said he wanted to do an interview. Now James Johnson (aka JimBot)3 warned about an imminent birther impersonation operation4 that the White House had uncovered through its anti-terrorist surveillance program5, and so the cover story, that the Obots are independent bloggers who write about what they believe in, and who receive no support or direction from the President or others6 was quickly deployed. A quick check of the caller’s phone number from Caller ID with the FBI7 determined that the caller was one Walter Fitzpatrick.

So I’ll leave it with that, and those who received calls can talk about their particular experiences.

1There is no Obot News Service.

2There are no Obot stations.

3Former Fannie Mae chairman James Johnson is not JimBot.

4The warning described here never happened.

5I have no knowledge of any White House surveillance of birthers.

6The cover story is true.

7The Fogbow Bureau of Investigation

The Arpaio conspiracy

By on March 31, 2012 in 2012 Presidential Election, Joe Arpaio, The Anti-Theories

I get some of my stranger ideas mowing the grass, which I did this afternoon. During that enforced period of “no computer screen,” connections that have been stewing in the back of my mind sometimes coalesce into a picture.

It’s been speculated in the media that Sheriff Arpaio conducted his “investigation” of Barack Obama’s documents to divert attention from his own legal problems. Another report described it as “the politics of revenge.” After some thought, I wrote that Arpaio might be trying to save his own life. If the grand jury investigating Arpaio were to indict him and he were to be convicted and get jail time, Arpaio has a lot to worry about. His reputation for the mistreatment and humiliation of prisoners is going to make it dangerous for Arpaio in prison. Perhaps Arpaio hoped that his alliance with WorldNetDaily would help defeat Obama in November and bring in a more Arpaio-friendly federal administration.

That’s where the thought lay until this afternoon when I realized: Sheriff Arpaio may have already cut a deal when he met with Rick Santorum and the two of them discussed what Sheriff Arpaio intended to say at the Press Conference. Santorum reportedly gave Arpaio the “go ahead” for his press conference. Was there also a promise of muzzled federal prosecutor, or even a pardon?

Obots occupy Wall Street

By on October 10, 2011 in Misc. Conspiracies, Social Media, The Anti-Theories

I don’t visit Twitter often, and when I do I instinctively avoid looking at the tweets from one person I’m following, NobamaNetwork. Today I looked and found these:

Obama’s class warfare and his organized protests for it in NY are really starting to piss me off. Ob using NY idiots for his reelection

Obama has proven he is willing to use or destroy anyone to get re-elected. Now Obs "us against the rich protests" in NY are turning violent.

OccupyWallSt is a result of Obama’s class warfare. How long before the protest turns into a riot. Hey Ob, this is the harm of class warfare

I would consider the view that Obama is behind the Occupy Wall Street movement a conspiracy theory. I guess the view that the Koch brothers are pulling the Tea Party’s strings is another. In any case, I can justify writing the article.

The Nobama Network is an aggregator for all sorts of anti-Obama web sites, including some birther sites. According to Wonkette, the person behind Nobama Network is a “hot porn guru.” I won’t mention any names, but you can read it at Wonkette. Thus begins the tenuous birther – porn connection. Time to start connecting dots. And what are these P.U.M.A. hookers?

The birther chip

By on September 18, 2011 in Birthers, The Anti-Theories

You may have noticed that I haven’t been publishing as many articles this week as usual. This is for a couple reasons. First, I’ve been upset by a rather traumatic experience that I’ll relate below, and second I’ve been involved in some extremely tedious technical research.

It starts simply enough. I was driving on nearby US Highway 29 and as I sometimes do, I snap pictures of interesting vehicular subjects with a point-and-shoot camera I keep in the glove compartment for just such occasions. I saw this bumper sticker and grabbed the camera:

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I was mostly looking at the camera to see if I got the picture when the light turned green and the SUV shot forward into the intersection. I didn’t see the collision, but I heard it, and when I looked up a truck had rammed the SUV in the drivers side, apparently after it barreled through the red light. I jumped out of the car but there was no way I could get near the driver in that mess of metal. However, the clearly visible trauma to the driver’s head made it pretty obvious that he didn’t survive. All I could do was call 911. The hospital is only a few blocks from there and the ambulance arrived quickly along with the fire trucks, then the police. It was over an hour before they had the intersection cleared and I was allowed to continue.

After they took away the body, there was still a long wait while the police (and by this time there were no less than 8 cruisers on the scene) questioned me and the other witnesses, made their notations and took their pictures. I was just walking around, still pretty dazed, when in the road I spotted a piece of blood-smeared glass and in what I can only describe as morbid curiosity, I bent over to look at it (I’ve clearly been watching too much CSI). That’s when I saw it stuck to the glass: a tuft of hair and the chip. I don’t understand what possessed me, but I took the thing and put it in my shirt pocket.

I cleaned up the chip when I got home. Here’s a photo I took. I worked repairing watches when I was in college and still have a few tools that were helpful in handling this tiny thing.

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I wanted to figure out what the chip was, so I Googled a part number on the chip, but  didn’t find it. I did find that chips of this form factor were used the receiver circuitry for cochlear implants, medical devices placed in the inner ear of profoundly hearing impaired persons. Here’s a diagram:

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Just for the heck of it, I put the chip in a test bed and applied power to it according to the diagram for other chips with that form factor. Nothing caught fire. I had something else to do, so I turned everything off and left it.

Then things got weird. When I got back to my PC, there were alerts from my firewall: there had been an attempted intrusion on my home wireless network. (I got a bit paranoid when I caught a former neighbor of mine leaching pirated music over my wireless network, so I watch this pretty carefully.) When I checked the firewall logs, the intrusion attempt was at about the same time that I was tinkering with the chip. What was that?

To make an extremely long and tedious story short, I added the MAC address of the intruder to the firewall whitelist and powered up the chip again, this time with a packet sniffer on the network. What I found was that the chip was actually a self-contained Wi-fi device that when powered up connects to any nearby open wireless access point. I traced the packets to an IP address in an address block belonging to a commercial Internet provider in Reston, Virginia. The actual protocol was SSL, so I had no chance of reading the encrypted content; however, I found that the IP address was on the same subnet as a prominent birther web site with which you are no doubt familiar.

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I turned to the actual output of the chip, looking at the electrical patterns on my Philips PM3065 oscilloscope. What I found was patterns remarkably similar to delta wave EEG patterns associated with sleep in humans only a little distorted. When I turned off the wireless router, the chip output stopped. So the best I can tell is that the remote Internet site is feeding information that the chip converts to delta wave electrical patterns. Disrupted delta wave patterns have been associated with depression, anxiety and schizophrenia.

I think I found out something that I really wasn’t supposed to find out. You know that I have spent a lot of time and effort wrestling with the question of how birthers could be made to believe this crazy stuff. In this terrible tragedy perhaps I have found out the answer.

Is the “birther movement” a liberal plot?

By on March 15, 2010 in Media, The Anti-Theories

It’s a thought raised by conservative talk show host host Michael Medved, complaining that the birther movement and allied “crazy nutburgers” were making the conservatives appear “weird and crazy”.

That from a new editorial in the Bangor Daily News (Maine) that also talks about how the Internet makes spreading such outlandish rumors easier. Perhaps some comfort can be found in the fact that:

Belief in obscure, outlandish theories is nothing new. A recent survey found that 34 percent of the American public believes in UFOs and 24 percent believes in witches….

The solution is good, straight thinking in an era of hard times, cultural upheavals and terrorist threats. No need to get paranoid about paranoia in others. We’ve been through such things before, and we will again.

The Trial of Hal Turner

By on December 10, 2009 in The Anti-Theories

Hal Turner came to my attention just before the Obama inauguration, as he posted messages threatening terrorist violence against the ceremony. The noted white supremacist and radio “shock jock” was the focal point for concerns over possible violence from white supremacists against the inauguration of the country’s first bi-racial president.

It was not his threats against Obama, but against three federal judges that landed him in court, as reported by an article at the Huffington Post.

The story so far is not remarkable, but for the fact that Internet hackers got access to Turner’s computer and found out that he was an FBI provocateur, and this forms the basis for Turner’s defense.

Perhaps you folks can sort this out and come to an opinion about Turner’s guilt or innocence.

Why am I mentioning it? Well Hal Turner wrote:

October 26, 2008

HAWAII GOVERNOR “SEALS” BARAK OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE!

Orders that NO ONE can obtain a copy. What are they hiding?? The fact he is not a natural born citizen? YEP!

This is a really important thing because the US Constitution itself says that a candidate for President must be a naturally born citizen. President is the ONLY office in the nation where the person elected must be a natural-born citizen.

Obama is a Democrat. He was born in Kenya and is thus ineligible to be President of the United States.

The Governor of Hawaii is a Democrat [Linda Lingle is a Republican]. She is clearly acting to cover up the fact that the Democrat candidate for President is ineligible. This is a conspiracy against the Constitution.

OK, now remember: that was written by an Bush Administration FBI informant. :shock: You can’t make this stuff up.

Soetoro travels in time!

By on May 5, 2009 in Debunking, Obama Education Conspiracies, The Anti-Theories, Wild & Wacky

Those following some of the nuttery about President Obama’s career know that he was at Occidental College in California in the early 1980′s, and that he went under the name Barry Soetoro (his step father’s family name) in Indonesia.

A California legislative record shows that a high student named Soetoro Moestabjab attended El Camino High School in 1963 (the year conveniently omitted by those who spin the story). The theory is that Hawaii born President Obama received a foreign student grant under the name Soetoro when he went to college.

In order to add credibility to the totally incredible fantasy about Barry Soetoro = Soetoro Moestabjab (one in high school while the other was 2 years old), Soetoro Moestabjab has traveled in time to 1981 and re-entered high school according to this fake entry at Classmates.com.

As I always said, the nObama are trying to rewrite history, and now we’ve caught them planting evidence.

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