A Voice from the Mountains
3rd October 2014, 02:25
I've been compiling a book of personal notes for myself or anyone else to read should they so desire, and as part of this project I did a little bit of digging into some of the things that have been coming from whatdoesitmean.com, aka the home of the "Sorcha Faal" stuff.
I believe these is some level of fairly obvious disinformation on the site, but the obviousness of it and how close it touches on things that actually appear to be happening is my focus here. For example, something that is very possible is sometimes suggested in their original articles, while attributing them to sources which are fairly obviously false.
I was interested in what additional information anyone here might have on the website, but I thought I would post this first as a starting point for what I've been able to put together and some thoughts I've had about it.
So this what I have in my book of notes:
whatdoesitmean.com
This website holds a somewhat complex and controversial place within the online political conspiracy theory community. Some articles originating from this website are eventually discussed on radio programs such as Coast to Coast AM and Ground Zero, often without mention of the website from which they've originated.
Infamously, one article from whatdoesitmean.com (“Snowden Documents Proving “US-Alien-Hitler” Link Stun Russia”) was picked up by the Iranian news agency Fars News (http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn= 13921021000393), which was in turn picked up by Forbes magazine (http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2014/01/13/iran-says-tall-white-space-aliens-control-america/) and used as propaganda against the Iranians. The article stated that “tall white” extraterrestrials which had worked with the Nazis in Germany during WW2 are now “driving” US policies. This story, due to its Iranian coverage, was also brought up in the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, YaleGlobal, as well as the Coast to Coast AM, Ground Zero, and John Batchelor radio shows, and was distributed widely across Internet communities.
The way in which this article was spread, and the way in which it was received and used by various organizations and people, is in a way very characteristic of the over-all controversy associated with this website. In one sense, it's radical, and presents articles that appear totally baseless. In another sense, the original articles only seem to reflect subject matter that is already being widely discussed across alternative radio and the Internet.
On the whatdoesitmean.com website, two very different kinds of articles may be found:
Articles originating from whatdoesitmean.com itself.
Mainstream national headlines from all over the world, which are linked to tables organized by country.
On one hand, not only does this website offer a wide variety of national headlines from nations all over the world, but its own original “reporting” is often in alignment in many respects with other independent and credible researchers on various topics which are not included in mainstream national headlines. In this respect it often seems reliable.
On the other hand, many of its original articles seem to try to play on fear and hype sensationally, and many of the original articles also seem totally baseless, in that they repeatedly cite sources when it is apparent that these alleged sources have not in reality given the information. In this respect it often seems very unreliable, even intentionally manipulative.
Articles originating from whatdoesitmean.com are typically attributed to someone named Sorcha Faal. “Sorcha” is an Irish name meaning “brightness,” and “Faal” is similar to the Irish word “Fál” or “Fáil,” which is an ancient name for Ireland, though Sorcha Faal was originally portrayed as a Russian scientist (more on this later). It is widely considered that Sorcha Faal is not a real person and that she is a pseudonym used for articles posted by David Booth. “Her” articles on the whatdoesitmean.com website typically cite Russian government sources, link to Russian government websites (which never corroborate her stories), and often are about Russia or its reactions to international political events. The links are presented in such a way that one is given the impression that the pages being linked to actually give the information that Faal is relaying to English-speakers, but in reality these pages, when translated, are generic government pages giving only basic information on the function of various agencies, and are not news reports.
No one has apparently been able to find any indication that the information given in the Sorcha Faal articles can be specifically traced back to any of these Russian sources independently of Faal, and it seems very unlikely that any serious intelligence agency would act as what amounts to its own “news agency” through this website or any other. Like the American CIA or NSA, Russian intelligence agencies do not publicize information without being directed to do so by high-ranking officials.
A sample of some of the less credible articles from whatdoesitmean.com which appeal to fear, and are authored by Sorcha Faal, feature the following titles:
Russian Worries Grow As Secretive Obama “Shock Troops” Deploy Across America
Putin Orders Saudi Arabia “Destroyed” After Volgograd Terror Strikes
Obama Order To “Destroy Duck Dynasty” Stunningly Revealed
Evidence That 5 Million Americans Have Been “Disappeared” By Obama Shocks Russia
War Fears Rise After China Missile Tests Over Oregon
In this sample of Sorcha Faal articles from 2013 and 2014, some typical patterns to these articles will be noticed. As stated, they often are about Russia or its reaction to international political events. They also seem to appeal to fear, have sensational, even tabloid-like titles, and very often imply that the US is on the brink of both international and civil war. While there seems to be some truth to the content of some of these articles (for example, the US has been giving police officers military training in some areas and preparing them for “martial law” situations, and China has been testing new missile technologies), the content of the articles are presented in such a way as to reduce their credibility, by apparently linking to false sources, using sensationalist language, etc.
However, whatdoesitmean.com also links to mainstream national articles from the US, Russia, China, the UK, Germany, France, Israel, Turkey, Egypt, Japan, and many other nations, and organizes them by country. These articles are not the typical kind of media “padding” such as entertainment stories, for example, but give a fair representation of the internal political maneuverings of each of these nations as represented by their own national media headlines which are being pushed upon their own citizens.
A sample of some of the mainstream articles linked to by whatdoesitmean.com include the following titles:
Obama Seeks to Calm Saudis as Paths Split (New York Times)
9 Air Force commanders at Montana nuclear base fired over exam cheating scandal (The Guardian)
Putin: Russia to protect citizens from GMO food without violating its WTO obligations (from Voice of Russia, an official Russian government media service)
China to chase tax evaders with own version of US foreign account law (South China Morning Post)
UK government threatens to shut down Guardian over Snowden leaks (Voice of Russia)
India tests new underwater nuclear missile (Times of India)
Economic 'honeymoon' between Germany and China fades (Reuters)
Gruesome video of European jihadists in Syria shocks France (France 24)
Merkel says she is not ready to back economic sanctions against Russia (Russia Today)
This service provided by whatdoesitmean.com, with regularly updated links, is actually a fairly useful and convenient way of organizing international political headlines for the reader, and the links direct away from the whatdoesitmean.com website to the websites of the actual news services from which the various national articles themselves originate.
Into the mixed bag of reporting which is presented on this website, the origins and history of the website will now be briefly described.
On Internet archive websites such as web.archive.org, it will be found that in April of 2004, David Booth was listed on the website as its “founder,” (http://web.archive.org/web/20040403170104/http://www.what doesitmean.com/index15.htm) specially noting the following text:
Books and videos for sale on this site are published by Long Trail Acres Publishing.
Our purpose and mission is to provide the public with a 'one stop' resource for world news and to put then put it into a unique perspective showing you, the reader, "What Does It Mean".
Founder of this site:
David Booth is an internationally known psychic, researcher, and author who has appeared on numerous television (BBC, In Search Of, 20/20, etc.) and radio programs and whose unique life story has been featured in numerous magazine articles, books, and websites throughout the world.
David Booth also remains to this day the only person in the world to have had a pre-cognitive experience fully documented prior to the event by a government agency.
David Booth is an author, first recognized as a psychic after apparently informing the FAA in March 1979 of a vision he said he had experienced that led him to believe that a catastrophic airline crash was imminent. Shortly after, on May 25, 1979, American Airlines Flight 191 did in fact crash, resulting in 273 fatalities, making it the deadliest airline crash on US soil.
Using this event to establish his credibility as “an internationally known psychic,” David has also been a guest on the Coast to Coast AM radio program at least three times: on Feb. 23, 2004, Mar. 18, 2004, and May 3, 2007. On both show dates in 2004 he was accompanied by author Wayne Green. On C2C, David has discussed what he believes to be impending global catastrophes, the real meaning of the Third Secret of Fátima, the idea that we are living in biblical end times, etc., all being generally negative and apparently fear-based and/or fear-provoking views. His interview in March of 2004 was cut short by George Noory because Booth refused to elaborate on a revelation supposedly made to him by Sister Lucia, the last surviving witness to the three secrets, for which Booth had been booked to appear on the show in the first place. Interestingly, the C2C website continues to list Booth's personal website as whatdoesitmean.com (http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/booth-david/6298).
David Booth's name later disappeared from the whatdoesitmean.com website, and the name “Sorcha Faal” became prominently associated with the articles originating there.
Another page archived at web.archive.org from December of 2005 from whatdoesitmean.com (http://web.archive.org/web/20051210182008/http://www.what doesitmean.com/index738.htm) gives the following advertizement and biographical information on Sorcha Faal:
Sorcha Faal’s Books Available Now In English!
Picking up the Pieces: Practical Guide for Surviving Economic Crashes, Internal Unrest and Military Suppression By: Sorcha Faal1 “In the span of less than 3 months gasoline prices will rise 500%. The prices of both food and shelter rise over 300%.
Sorcha Faal is an International Researcher and Author who goes beyond the simple explanations used to explain today’s issues. “Life is meant to be more than accepting our world as separate pieces; everyone must see the interconnectedness of everything.” She is fond of saying.
As a child growing up in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sorcha’s life mirrored others of her generation in experiencing in education and life an experience of freedom, thought and religion not known to her parents or grandparents.
Seeing that many prominent, and esteemed, Russian researchers, and their works, are not only undervalued in Western countries but also practically unknown, Sorcha has devoted herself to providing a bridge to the world for those ideas and thoughts previously unknown.
Utilizing her skills in engineering and intelligence analysis she provides to the reader a unique approach to understanding this world of ours in the areas of current political, astronomical, earth sciences and medical events.
Momentous changes are occurring on almost a daily basis to our world and what is missing the most for true comprehension are the contexts to put them into. Without context news stories are just words, and soon forgotten.
Sorcha and many others believe that we are entering a Century of great change, not only for our hearts and minds, but perhaps for our very souls also. Like many others also around the world, and from many countries, Sorcha joins the effort to educate as many as possible towards these events so that they will not become surprised, or be led into despair.
As stated here, Sorcha Faal is the name of a specific woman, an “International Researcher and Author,” who grew up in Russia, and decided to devote herself to bringing Russian interests to western readers.
However, by 2009, after some digging by Internet users could find no evidence that anyone named Sorcha Faal existed in Russia, especially with the academic credentials attributed to Sorcha, the whatdoesitmean.com website would say that the name “Sorcha Faal” is rather the title of the head of an order called the “Order of Sorcha Faal,” the current head being given the name “Maria Theresa of Dublin .” Just as no evidence could be found for the existence of a Sorcha Faal in Russia, neither has any evidence of this “order” been found outside of the whatdoesitmean.com website itself.
The obvious contradictions regarding something as simple as who is running this website and who is writing its articles have only contributed that much more to the controversial nature of the website and the idea of its original reports being taken seriously. It must be admitted that the website cannot be trusted and its original articles must be examined carefully. However, as stated on the website for the Ground Zero radio show (http://www.groundzeromedia.org/finding-the-tall-white-hope/):
It has been noted by many people who read the website that Faal is deliberately disseminating disinfor-mation.
Now, disinformation is not necessarily a lie, it’s simply misdirection and with every ploy of disinformation there are a few truths that are hidden between the lines.
It is with this sentiment in mind that we consider what the real purpose of this website may be, and who or what is ultimately behind it. Because while the website is obviously sensational and baseless to those who do not follow “alternative” media, the articles are also close enough to exactly what is being discussed in these alternative media networks, that people who do follow this sort of information are attracted to it and may take it very seriously (such as its article on the Virginia and Colorado earthquakes, which were likely not natural earthquakes but underground detonations, possibly related to an "inter-cabal" conflict). The content of many of the original articles is sometimes nearly identical in substance to what independent researchers are reporting or investigating online or on radio programs, etc.
Since it can be concluded based on the contradictions and apparent falsities surrounding the simple question of the website's ownership that the website is not very credible to begin with, the chances that everything it reports is 100% accurate seem to be extremely low, to say the least.
The website's content from the name of “Sorcha Faal” fits with Booth's fear-based perspectives as represented in his C2C interviews. Considering that the website originally listed David Booth as its founder, and that David Booth and Sorcha Faal are both listed as authors of the book [I]Picking up the Pieces, it seems more than likely that Booth himself is either posting these articles or is closely associated with whoever is.
It has been suggested on some websites (of course without verification) that David Booth and the pseudonym Sorcha Faal represent a disinformation campaign that is directed by an intelligence agency out of the US or some other western nation. This would not seem to be a very surprising conclusion given that military groups have in the past suggested having interest in paying individuals to promote its agendas on blogs and other websites. This would appear to be a complex disinformation campaign, however, considering that the information presented on it as news seems to be reliable information (as supported by various other sources) mixed with sources that are apparently fabricated, as well as “Sorcha Faal” herself being a fairly obviously fabricated source. In this way it would seem to be a method of “poisoning the well,” or presently information that is perhaps half factual but from a source which is very easy to discredit, thereby discrediting the information itself, even if there is actually truth to it regardless of this website's “reporting.”
So in conclusion, I'm left with two possibilities that I can't decide between:
1. whatdoesitmean.com is intelligence-sponsored dis-information, mixing accurate information with misleading information to “poison the wells.”
2. whatdoesitmean.com disseminates valid information which is attributed to obviously falsified and uncredible sources in order to inoculate it to suppression.
Or we could have a mixture of the two.
Thoughts?
I believe these is some level of fairly obvious disinformation on the site, but the obviousness of it and how close it touches on things that actually appear to be happening is my focus here. For example, something that is very possible is sometimes suggested in their original articles, while attributing them to sources which are fairly obviously false.
I was interested in what additional information anyone here might have on the website, but I thought I would post this first as a starting point for what I've been able to put together and some thoughts I've had about it.
So this what I have in my book of notes:
whatdoesitmean.com
This website holds a somewhat complex and controversial place within the online political conspiracy theory community. Some articles originating from this website are eventually discussed on radio programs such as Coast to Coast AM and Ground Zero, often without mention of the website from which they've originated.
Infamously, one article from whatdoesitmean.com (“Snowden Documents Proving “US-Alien-Hitler” Link Stun Russia”) was picked up by the Iranian news agency Fars News (http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn= 13921021000393), which was in turn picked up by Forbes magazine (http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2014/01/13/iran-says-tall-white-space-aliens-control-america/) and used as propaganda against the Iranians. The article stated that “tall white” extraterrestrials which had worked with the Nazis in Germany during WW2 are now “driving” US policies. This story, due to its Iranian coverage, was also brought up in the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, YaleGlobal, as well as the Coast to Coast AM, Ground Zero, and John Batchelor radio shows, and was distributed widely across Internet communities.
The way in which this article was spread, and the way in which it was received and used by various organizations and people, is in a way very characteristic of the over-all controversy associated with this website. In one sense, it's radical, and presents articles that appear totally baseless. In another sense, the original articles only seem to reflect subject matter that is already being widely discussed across alternative radio and the Internet.
On the whatdoesitmean.com website, two very different kinds of articles may be found:
Articles originating from whatdoesitmean.com itself.
Mainstream national headlines from all over the world, which are linked to tables organized by country.
On one hand, not only does this website offer a wide variety of national headlines from nations all over the world, but its own original “reporting” is often in alignment in many respects with other independent and credible researchers on various topics which are not included in mainstream national headlines. In this respect it often seems reliable.
On the other hand, many of its original articles seem to try to play on fear and hype sensationally, and many of the original articles also seem totally baseless, in that they repeatedly cite sources when it is apparent that these alleged sources have not in reality given the information. In this respect it often seems very unreliable, even intentionally manipulative.
Articles originating from whatdoesitmean.com are typically attributed to someone named Sorcha Faal. “Sorcha” is an Irish name meaning “brightness,” and “Faal” is similar to the Irish word “Fál” or “Fáil,” which is an ancient name for Ireland, though Sorcha Faal was originally portrayed as a Russian scientist (more on this later). It is widely considered that Sorcha Faal is not a real person and that she is a pseudonym used for articles posted by David Booth. “Her” articles on the whatdoesitmean.com website typically cite Russian government sources, link to Russian government websites (which never corroborate her stories), and often are about Russia or its reactions to international political events. The links are presented in such a way that one is given the impression that the pages being linked to actually give the information that Faal is relaying to English-speakers, but in reality these pages, when translated, are generic government pages giving only basic information on the function of various agencies, and are not news reports.
No one has apparently been able to find any indication that the information given in the Sorcha Faal articles can be specifically traced back to any of these Russian sources independently of Faal, and it seems very unlikely that any serious intelligence agency would act as what amounts to its own “news agency” through this website or any other. Like the American CIA or NSA, Russian intelligence agencies do not publicize information without being directed to do so by high-ranking officials.
A sample of some of the less credible articles from whatdoesitmean.com which appeal to fear, and are authored by Sorcha Faal, feature the following titles:
Russian Worries Grow As Secretive Obama “Shock Troops” Deploy Across America
Putin Orders Saudi Arabia “Destroyed” After Volgograd Terror Strikes
Obama Order To “Destroy Duck Dynasty” Stunningly Revealed
Evidence That 5 Million Americans Have Been “Disappeared” By Obama Shocks Russia
War Fears Rise After China Missile Tests Over Oregon
In this sample of Sorcha Faal articles from 2013 and 2014, some typical patterns to these articles will be noticed. As stated, they often are about Russia or its reaction to international political events. They also seem to appeal to fear, have sensational, even tabloid-like titles, and very often imply that the US is on the brink of both international and civil war. While there seems to be some truth to the content of some of these articles (for example, the US has been giving police officers military training in some areas and preparing them for “martial law” situations, and China has been testing new missile technologies), the content of the articles are presented in such a way as to reduce their credibility, by apparently linking to false sources, using sensationalist language, etc.
However, whatdoesitmean.com also links to mainstream national articles from the US, Russia, China, the UK, Germany, France, Israel, Turkey, Egypt, Japan, and many other nations, and organizes them by country. These articles are not the typical kind of media “padding” such as entertainment stories, for example, but give a fair representation of the internal political maneuverings of each of these nations as represented by their own national media headlines which are being pushed upon their own citizens.
A sample of some of the mainstream articles linked to by whatdoesitmean.com include the following titles:
Obama Seeks to Calm Saudis as Paths Split (New York Times)
9 Air Force commanders at Montana nuclear base fired over exam cheating scandal (The Guardian)
Putin: Russia to protect citizens from GMO food without violating its WTO obligations (from Voice of Russia, an official Russian government media service)
China to chase tax evaders with own version of US foreign account law (South China Morning Post)
UK government threatens to shut down Guardian over Snowden leaks (Voice of Russia)
India tests new underwater nuclear missile (Times of India)
Economic 'honeymoon' between Germany and China fades (Reuters)
Gruesome video of European jihadists in Syria shocks France (France 24)
Merkel says she is not ready to back economic sanctions against Russia (Russia Today)
This service provided by whatdoesitmean.com, with regularly updated links, is actually a fairly useful and convenient way of organizing international political headlines for the reader, and the links direct away from the whatdoesitmean.com website to the websites of the actual news services from which the various national articles themselves originate.
Into the mixed bag of reporting which is presented on this website, the origins and history of the website will now be briefly described.
On Internet archive websites such as web.archive.org, it will be found that in April of 2004, David Booth was listed on the website as its “founder,” (http://web.archive.org/web/20040403170104/http://www.what doesitmean.com/index15.htm) specially noting the following text:
Books and videos for sale on this site are published by Long Trail Acres Publishing.
Our purpose and mission is to provide the public with a 'one stop' resource for world news and to put then put it into a unique perspective showing you, the reader, "What Does It Mean".
Founder of this site:
David Booth is an internationally known psychic, researcher, and author who has appeared on numerous television (BBC, In Search Of, 20/20, etc.) and radio programs and whose unique life story has been featured in numerous magazine articles, books, and websites throughout the world.
David Booth also remains to this day the only person in the world to have had a pre-cognitive experience fully documented prior to the event by a government agency.
David Booth is an author, first recognized as a psychic after apparently informing the FAA in March 1979 of a vision he said he had experienced that led him to believe that a catastrophic airline crash was imminent. Shortly after, on May 25, 1979, American Airlines Flight 191 did in fact crash, resulting in 273 fatalities, making it the deadliest airline crash on US soil.
Using this event to establish his credibility as “an internationally known psychic,” David has also been a guest on the Coast to Coast AM radio program at least three times: on Feb. 23, 2004, Mar. 18, 2004, and May 3, 2007. On both show dates in 2004 he was accompanied by author Wayne Green. On C2C, David has discussed what he believes to be impending global catastrophes, the real meaning of the Third Secret of Fátima, the idea that we are living in biblical end times, etc., all being generally negative and apparently fear-based and/or fear-provoking views. His interview in March of 2004 was cut short by George Noory because Booth refused to elaborate on a revelation supposedly made to him by Sister Lucia, the last surviving witness to the three secrets, for which Booth had been booked to appear on the show in the first place. Interestingly, the C2C website continues to list Booth's personal website as whatdoesitmean.com (http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/booth-david/6298).
David Booth's name later disappeared from the whatdoesitmean.com website, and the name “Sorcha Faal” became prominently associated with the articles originating there.
Another page archived at web.archive.org from December of 2005 from whatdoesitmean.com (http://web.archive.org/web/20051210182008/http://www.what doesitmean.com/index738.htm) gives the following advertizement and biographical information on Sorcha Faal:
Sorcha Faal’s Books Available Now In English!
Picking up the Pieces: Practical Guide for Surviving Economic Crashes, Internal Unrest and Military Suppression By: Sorcha Faal1 “In the span of less than 3 months gasoline prices will rise 500%. The prices of both food and shelter rise over 300%.
Sorcha Faal is an International Researcher and Author who goes beyond the simple explanations used to explain today’s issues. “Life is meant to be more than accepting our world as separate pieces; everyone must see the interconnectedness of everything.” She is fond of saying.
As a child growing up in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sorcha’s life mirrored others of her generation in experiencing in education and life an experience of freedom, thought and religion not known to her parents or grandparents.
Seeing that many prominent, and esteemed, Russian researchers, and their works, are not only undervalued in Western countries but also practically unknown, Sorcha has devoted herself to providing a bridge to the world for those ideas and thoughts previously unknown.
Utilizing her skills in engineering and intelligence analysis she provides to the reader a unique approach to understanding this world of ours in the areas of current political, astronomical, earth sciences and medical events.
Momentous changes are occurring on almost a daily basis to our world and what is missing the most for true comprehension are the contexts to put them into. Without context news stories are just words, and soon forgotten.
Sorcha and many others believe that we are entering a Century of great change, not only for our hearts and minds, but perhaps for our very souls also. Like many others also around the world, and from many countries, Sorcha joins the effort to educate as many as possible towards these events so that they will not become surprised, or be led into despair.
As stated here, Sorcha Faal is the name of a specific woman, an “International Researcher and Author,” who grew up in Russia, and decided to devote herself to bringing Russian interests to western readers.
However, by 2009, after some digging by Internet users could find no evidence that anyone named Sorcha Faal existed in Russia, especially with the academic credentials attributed to Sorcha, the whatdoesitmean.com website would say that the name “Sorcha Faal” is rather the title of the head of an order called the “Order of Sorcha Faal,” the current head being given the name “Maria Theresa of Dublin .” Just as no evidence could be found for the existence of a Sorcha Faal in Russia, neither has any evidence of this “order” been found outside of the whatdoesitmean.com website itself.
The obvious contradictions regarding something as simple as who is running this website and who is writing its articles have only contributed that much more to the controversial nature of the website and the idea of its original reports being taken seriously. It must be admitted that the website cannot be trusted and its original articles must be examined carefully. However, as stated on the website for the Ground Zero radio show (http://www.groundzeromedia.org/finding-the-tall-white-hope/):
It has been noted by many people who read the website that Faal is deliberately disseminating disinfor-mation.
Now, disinformation is not necessarily a lie, it’s simply misdirection and with every ploy of disinformation there are a few truths that are hidden between the lines.
It is with this sentiment in mind that we consider what the real purpose of this website may be, and who or what is ultimately behind it. Because while the website is obviously sensational and baseless to those who do not follow “alternative” media, the articles are also close enough to exactly what is being discussed in these alternative media networks, that people who do follow this sort of information are attracted to it and may take it very seriously (such as its article on the Virginia and Colorado earthquakes, which were likely not natural earthquakes but underground detonations, possibly related to an "inter-cabal" conflict). The content of many of the original articles is sometimes nearly identical in substance to what independent researchers are reporting or investigating online or on radio programs, etc.
Since it can be concluded based on the contradictions and apparent falsities surrounding the simple question of the website's ownership that the website is not very credible to begin with, the chances that everything it reports is 100% accurate seem to be extremely low, to say the least.
The website's content from the name of “Sorcha Faal” fits with Booth's fear-based perspectives as represented in his C2C interviews. Considering that the website originally listed David Booth as its founder, and that David Booth and Sorcha Faal are both listed as authors of the book [I]Picking up the Pieces, it seems more than likely that Booth himself is either posting these articles or is closely associated with whoever is.
It has been suggested on some websites (of course without verification) that David Booth and the pseudonym Sorcha Faal represent a disinformation campaign that is directed by an intelligence agency out of the US or some other western nation. This would not seem to be a very surprising conclusion given that military groups have in the past suggested having interest in paying individuals to promote its agendas on blogs and other websites. This would appear to be a complex disinformation campaign, however, considering that the information presented on it as news seems to be reliable information (as supported by various other sources) mixed with sources that are apparently fabricated, as well as “Sorcha Faal” herself being a fairly obviously fabricated source. In this way it would seem to be a method of “poisoning the well,” or presently information that is perhaps half factual but from a source which is very easy to discredit, thereby discrediting the information itself, even if there is actually truth to it regardless of this website's “reporting.”
So in conclusion, I'm left with two possibilities that I can't decide between:
1. whatdoesitmean.com is intelligence-sponsored dis-information, mixing accurate information with misleading information to “poison the wells.”
2. whatdoesitmean.com disseminates valid information which is attributed to obviously falsified and uncredible sources in order to inoculate it to suppression.
Or we could have a mixture of the two.
Thoughts?