Hello good ATS members. With reluctance, I find myself drawn to this rather unique and fast developing contemporary conspiracy.
Just as some are finding potential areas for concern and questions surrounding the document presented by FactCheck, I find myself puzzled about a few
aspects of this PDF file presented by WikiLeaks.
In my humble opinion, I don't think the
PDF linked in
the thread and from WikiLeaks is the original PDF claimed to have been obtained from the library in Hawaii.
I've obtained PDF/electronic versions of microfiche/film from libraries before, and it has been my experience that a dedicated Windows system does
the conversion. The software for doing the conversion is free for libraries from Adobe -- and runs on Windows, which most libraries will be
comfortable using. The PDF was created by an open source PDF package that is almost exclusively used by Linux users (though it has been ported to many
other operating systems, no one else uses it).
Also, it appears that WikiLeaks runs on GMT or ZULU time. Given this, it seems odd to me that the posting date is the same as the document creation
date, which also happens to tagged in the file metadata as Zulu time. It would seem that if the document came from the library in Hawaii, it'd be
tagged local Hawaii time, and have a different creation date than posting date (because of the significant geographic/timezone difference).
And while I prefer not to run screaming headlong down this conspiracy road, I can't help but notice minor oddness with the document -- some of the
letters in the two lines of the birth announcement are EXACTLY the same shape and size, to the pixel, as letters elsewhere in the page. To my eye,
this potentially makes it appear as though it may have been created in something like Photoshop (or perhaps Gimp, as Ghostwriter, the freeware PDF
tool used, is the default PDF output engine in Gimp).
Please note that I'm not claiming this document is not an accurate representation of the page from The Sunday Advertiser. But that there are
interesting questions to add to the growing list of interesting questions.
My mother-in-law lives in Italy and guess what??? She ran a birth announcement in their
newspaper when my daughter was born - IN OHIO!!! Why, to notify friends and family in Italy that our daughter had been born. 