You've GOT To Be Kidding Me (Birth Certificate)
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Posted 2011-04-27 13:34
by Karl Denninger
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You've GOT To Be Kidding Me (Birth Certificate)
 

Oh do c'mon.... oh Donald, this case is not closed.

You can't possibly by serious.

This document has been altered and whoever did it wasn't even very clever in doing so.

I downloaded the PDF from the White House Web site - the "official copy" right from the "Horse's Mouth."  Then I loaded it into Illustrator.  Look at these images I then screen-captured - first, the ENTIRE image itself:

Note the light blue border?  That's the PDF segment that was dropped in the background, which was the green "safety paper."  So far, so good - they just took the safety paper background and then dropped in a picture.  All is well, right?

Well, no.

Mother's "occupation" - the "Non" on "None" has been altered.  What was there before it was tampered with?

The "Accepted date" (bottom right) has been altered.  What was there before it was tampered with?

As has the other "Accepted" date.  What was there before it was tampered with?

There's another problem with those dates too - they're clearly altered, as is the "None"; here's a well-enhanced (at 1200%) version of one of the dates; you can clearly see the difference in saturation.  That was cut into the original picture folks.

By the way, they were dumb enough to leave the cuts in the clipboard too.  The bottom part (certification) I can see since it's clearly overlaid on a background.  But the content itself?

But that's not all!  Look at this - the document number:

Click that and look at the full size. Only one of the numbers that was printed on that page had the background not only bleed through but also aliased pixels in the background itself

Uh uh.

This document has been altered; it is not simply a photograph of the registrar's book that was dropped into a background, and it also is not simply an agglomeration of two images (the background they constructed, the "certification" and then the actual certificate.)

Now this does not prove that the alterations were actual changes in content.  They might not be.

But..... what other reason is there to alter an alleged high-resolution photograph?

Got Illustrator?  Don't believe me - check it yourself.

(To get the full list of things on the clipboard, load it and then select "Window->Actions->Links."  There they are.)

Advice to Obama: Next time you try to alter something you're presenting to the press hire someone who knows how to do it without getting caught.

PS: My original belief - which I've repeatedly pointed out on the forum and elsewhere - is that Obama was indeed born in the US, but that there's something else - perhaps in his college records, perhaps in his Passport records, perhaps somewhere else in the records - that he doesn't want released.  I also have a cogent issue with whether a person with dual citizenship at birth as a consequence of one of their parents not being a US Citizen meets the "natural born citizen" requirement in the Constitution.  Incidentally, do some research on Chester Arthur if you're interested in someone with a similar lineage who concealed it during this time in office......

Now?  Unfortunately this document doesn't prove anything because of the presence of these artifacts in the PDF file that strongly suggest it was tampered with.

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Not to get all technical here...but isn't document forgery a felony? smiley

Am I the only one thinking that this is the stupidest thing in the history of stupidity? Really? Posting something that is this obviously forged?!

Is the only thing we can conclude here that they don't give a ****?

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Steph,

remember,

it's a felony to lie on a federal form but feds can lie with impunity.

anything wrong with that picture?

Gen, tickercon 3? Are we saved!

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go under the Windows and check Actions. In that window, click Links
it will show all the layers to the documents

can't post the picture here??
but I posted it on this thread

http://tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-w....
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And.... Here... We... Go...


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Is the md5 of the document you have:
34A7AEB10B7077520E5A976A02DE877B

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Pika, I'm wondering the same thing. WTF? You'd think that after all this time they could get someone to at least make a good forgery. I could have done a better job than that in 20 min. in photoshop.
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Your going off the deep end.
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It doesn't look like it was created in Illustrator, running pdfinfo on the document gives this:


Producer: Mac OS X 10.6.7 Quartz PDFContext


Curious if the results are reproducible in anything but Illustrator.

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Can the white house really be this stupid? Really? Surely, someone will investigate, confirm, and expose this? (other than KD and other blog?)

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He's clearly worried about this controversy. So worried that he bows to pressure and releases a hastily forged document. He's gone from being a clown to being dangerous, at least in my mind. If our collapse starts to spiral quicker he's going to lash out like a caged animal, and he clearly does not give one flying **** about the law in any form. Neither do his true believers, for that matter. If I read one more AP article that calls the natural born citizen requirement a "vague clause" I'm going to puke.
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Well this is starting to get good. We'll see if this gets legs. What happens next? President Biden???

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Incidentally we just set a traffic record on the Ticker colo machine for Mbps transferred over a 5 minute period.... smiley

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What part of "shall not be infringed" was unclear?
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This is incredibly racist.
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Karl, get Trump on the line ASAP.
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Awesome work Karl.

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Jeffrey: Adobe saves changes in the file. It's a forensics thing. A lot of people don't know that it does this, but it in fact does.

A PDF file is just a list of elements. Their mistake was not "flattening" the image in whatever they edited it with before they created the PDF. As such the layers and elements were left in the file when it was run through Distiller.

Oops.

Like I said.... clumsy.

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What part of "shall not be infringed" was unclear?

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And read the transcript of his press conference. NO WHERE does he himself stipulate that this is his birth certificate. He dances around and around and around. What is the meaning of "is?"

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-offi....


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Riposte - what has been incredibly racist? What exactly? I'll have to ask you to explain yourself here or I will ask for your head. smiley


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I'm sure now that it's out there it'll be scrutinized to hell and back, especially by Corsi.

Look at the R in his first name and the S in her first name.. They kinda look the same way, though...

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Quote:
Karl, get Trump on the line ASAP.

Trump isn't going to touch this now, he already shot his wad on this issue. He concentrated on "where", now he will be labeled a nutcase if he takes his questioning of it any further.

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So, did you send this to Donald?

Has the White House taken it down yet?

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They must have been in a HUGE hurry to put this thing out there...kind of a moment's notice thing.
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If the WH changes the document, which I'm betting they do, then what?

This got really interesting all of a sudden. Before, I personally didn't care if the man was born in another galaxy.

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