{"id":1257,"date":"2007-08-31T10:24:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T15:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2007-08-31T10:26:32","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T15:26:32","slug":"george-soros-crack-investigative-journalists-strike-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1257","title":{"rendered":"George Soros’ Crack Investigative Journalists Strike Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Bodell – RentABlogger with SorosTemps<\/strike>\u00a0“citizen journalist” at the Minnesota Monitor<\/a>\u00a0– has found a major mystery.<\/p>\n

But first:<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

OK.\u00a0 Where were we?<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah.\u00a0 Crack citizen journalist\u00a0Joe Bodell has found himself a mystery to try to solve<\/a>:<\/p>\n

So what is looktruenorth.com?\u00a0 If you go to the website, you get a message from the Joomla software running that the site is down for maintenance.\u00a0 But digging a little deeper (legally and without trickery, of course) reveals at least a few details<\/p>\n

nslookup looktruenorth.com
\nServer:\u00a0 cns.westlandrdc.mi.michigan.comcast.net
\nAddress:\u00a0 68.87.77.130Non-authoritative answer:
\nName:\u00a0 looktruenorth.com
\nAddress:\u00a0 74.53.51.52<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

68.87.77.130 doesn’t do much — it’s owned by Comcast out in Michigan, and doesn’t have a public-facing website associated with it.\u00a0 However, plug 74.53.51.52 into your web browser, and what do you get?\u00a0 Whaddaya know, a Minnesota-based conservative group blog known as FreedomDogs.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Although an nslookup search on freedomdogs.com reveals a different non-authoritative answer, the same primary server at IP address 68.87.77.130 appears in the results as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bodell proceeds to do everything but…<\/p>\n

Wait a minute…:<\/p>\n

\"True<\/p>\n

…Sorry.\u00a0 had to get that out of the way.<\/p>\n

Bodell then goes all Chloe O’Brien on us, trying to figure out exactly what True North <\/em>and its domain “looktruenorth.com” are all about.<\/p>\n

Hmmm.<\/p>\n

Now, if I were a “citzen journalist” on the payroll of a mighty news outlet like the Minnesota Monitor, where would I <\/em>go to try to get to the bottom of this mystery?<\/p>\n

When one is reporting a tricky story like this, one needs to look carefully for signs – sometimes very, very subtle ones…<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

…that someone is “in the know” about the conspiracy<\/strike> mystery.\u00a0 Sometimes, when you do that, approaching them – this is almost indistinguishable from magic, to the non-“citizen journalist”, but bear with me – with a “question” might actually get you some answers.<\/p>\n

So think, Joe.\u00a0 Think hard.<\/p>\n

\"True<\/p>\n

Is there anyone out there, any faint hint<\/em> you can find that someone might perhaps have some information about the story?<\/p>\n

Think, <\/em>Joe Bodell.\u00a0 Set the blender of that finely-honed citizenjournalistic mind on “Puree”, and think hard<\/em>.\u00a0 Who could you possibly simply ask for details about True North<\/em>?<\/p>\n

The truth is out there!<\/p>\n

\"True<\/p>\n

It is.\u00a0 Somewhere.<\/p>\n

It just takes superhuman tenacity along with otherworldly investigative skill.<\/p>\n

I know you’re up to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Bodell – RentABlogger with SorosTemps\u00a0“citizen journalist” at the Minnesota Monitor\u00a0– has found a major mystery. But first: \u00a0 OK.\u00a0 Where were we? Oh, yeah.\u00a0 Crack citizen journalist\u00a0Joe Bodell has found himself a mystery to try to solve: So what is looktruenorth.com?\u00a0 If you go to the website, you get a message from the Joomla […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-true-north"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}