Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Obama's Other Big Lie
By Nick Chase
"We will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your healthcare plan, you will be able to keep your healthcare plan. Period." (Barack Obama, June 15, 2009, with variants repeated many times since).
Today, any American who isn't willfully blind knows this "promise" is a very big lie. A lie which was deliberately told by fundamentally-dishonest pushers of Obamacare, because if the truth were widely known at that time the Affordable Care Act would never have become law.
It's a lie that is so egregious, even the dinosaur media can't ignore it or cover it up. In fact, the dinosaurs are increasingly upset that they're being continually abused be "the most transparent administration in history" and they now seem to be more willing to shed light not just on this lie, but also on some of Obama's other lies.
Do you suppose we could get them to take another look at the big lie of April 27, 2011? The lie that is central to Barack Obama's identity? The lie the dinosaurs not only glossed over, but for which they excommunicated from the human race anybody who dared to point out it was a lie?
I refer, of course, to the long-form "birth certificate" forgery for Barack Obama released by the White House to the world as a digital image on April 27, 2011.
Before you say, "Oh no, here we go again -- the guys with the tinfoil hats are on the loose", let's dispense with the easy part. Here is the irrefutable proof that the Obama long-form "birth certificate" is a forgery.
Shown in Figure OFS (below), side by side, are two images, each measuring 8.5 inches wide by 11 inches high (in their life size), against a black background. On the right is the digital scan of Obama's genuine short-form birth certificate, as released by the Obama presidential campaign in 2008. On the left is the long-form "birth certificate" forgery released in April 2011. I call it the "green thing".
Genuine Hawaii birth certificates are printed on borderless green basketweave security paper, as you can see on the genuine short-form certificate image. They do not have the white border that you see in the "green thing" on the left. That white border is like a picture frame for a (borderless) photograph that you hang on the wall. It masks (covers) part of the security-paper pattern at its outer edges.
So it is immediately obvious to the naked eye that the "green thing" is not a simple scan of a genuine, borderless paper birth certificate. It is a computer-generated fake -- a forgery.
Figure OFS.  Obama PDF forgery (with white border) and genuine short-form birth certificate, side by side, each measuring 8.5 by 11 inches.
The White House released two versions of this fake: The "green thing", and a much clearer (higher-resolution) black-and-white paper copy with no security-paper background, which was passed out to reporters on the morning of April 27, 2011. This paper copy was digitized (photographed) by The Associated Press, and that image is shown in Figure MP1, which follows.
The second irrefutable proof of forgery was developed by Christopher Monckton (Viscount Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, an Englishman), who has done a thorough analysis of the forgery's pitch -- that is, the spacing of the supposedly-typed monospace text -- by drawing a uniform grid on the AP-digitized image of the forgery (red lines in Figure MP1).
Figure MP1.  Monckton's "typewriter pitch" grid superimposed on the high-resolution Associated Press photo.
Enlarged, look at the "typed" line of text on Lord Monckton's grid, as shown in Figure MP2. We see that "August 4" is actually shifted slightly left of true pitch, and ", 1961 7:24 P."  is shifted about a third of a character to the right of true pitch.
Figure MP2.  The column containing the comma is where there is a right-shift of about a third of a character in pitch for the rightmost third of the forgery.
If you look back at Figure MP1, you will see that the column containing the comma is where the forger "lost" horizontal pitch.  While the leftmost two-thirds of the forgery (mostly) has one typewriter pitch, the right one-third (mostly) has a different pitch, with the column containing the comma being (about) an extra third of a character too wide.  This pitch-shift is very abrupt and cannot be accounted for by lens distortion in the AP photographer's camera, nor by any conceivable behavior by a real typist at a real typewriter.  A true, and obvious, forger's mistake.
In Figure MP1 Lord Monckton also drew baselines for the "typewritten" text.  (The baselines are for double-spaced lines on a typewriter, when the typist pulls the carriage-return lever twice after typing a line.) You can see that some lines of "typewritten" text are on the baseline, some are close, and others are off, with no consistency from line to line.  While the forger tried to maintain consistent pitch horizontally, vertical pitch was lost.
Courtesy of Lord Monckton, shown in Figure MP3 is a very-beaten-up genuine Hawaiian birth certificate for the summer of Obama's birth, on which Monckton has superimposed a pitch-grid (blue lines) showing that a genuine typewritten Hawaiian birth certificate of that era maintains horizontal and vertical pitch on a form designed to accommodate double-spaced typewritten lines (as one would expect.) (The items "Waihee", "Negro", "Porter Service" and "6-13-61" are later modifications made with a different typewriter.)
Figure MP3.  A genuine Hawaiian birth certificate from 1961 which maintains perfect horizontal and vertical typewriter pitch.
To summarize:
If Obama's long-form "birth certificate" were genuine, then the White House would have released a simple, borderless digital image resulting from the scan of a genuine paper document, in a widely-used graphical format. (The 2008 certificate image was released as a JPEG.)
But because the "birth certificate" is a forgery, what we wound up with is a mess. Paper black-and-white copies of the forgery, with the basketweave security pattern digitally "turned off" before printing, were passed out to the White House press corps. Then a much-poorer-quality color image, inexplicably masked with a white border, was deliberately digitally damaged by the forger to confuse Internet sleuths before it was released to the public in PDF format (generally used for documents, not stand-alone pictures) as the "green thing".
If you would like more detailed evidence of forgery than is contained in this brief summary, I urge you to download and read my complete research report, Barry Soetoro's Birth Secret, available at:
This is a "public domain" document (uncopyrighted, except for "fair use" of certain graphics), so feel free to pass it around among your friends.
For the two years that I have been analyzing and writing about Obama's long-form "birth certificate", I have not done any of this research to score political points. (I think Obama is a terrible president, but that is irrelevant to my research efforts.) I have only been trying for my own satisfaction to solve the maddening, real-life mystery of Obama's origins and of what's being hidden that's on his real birth certificate.
In "Secrets Revealed" (American Thinker, June 15, 2012) I compared the short-form birth certificate, the forgery, and the "Verification of Birth" sent by the Hawaii Department of Health to Arizona secretary of state Ken Bennett -- line by line -- and concluded that all of the information on the short-form birth certificate and on the long-form forgery that was released to the public is true, but the genuine long-form image cannot be shown because the certificate in Hawaii's possession "looks different" or contains more information than what was released to the public.
At this point we progress from known fact -- the "birth certificate" is fake -- to theory: If all the information shown is true, why was the fake, instead of the genuine birth certificate, released?
For me, there is only one likely possibility: Adoption.  Specifically, Barry was legally adopted by Obama's mother's second husband, Lolo Soetoro, in a way that caused the Hawaii birth record to be visually altered.
Is there any evidence that Lolo Soetoro legally adopted Obama after he and Ann Dunham (Obama) were married in Hawaii on March 24, 1965?
Yes, there is, though it is sketchy.  (Adopted children don't usually go around telling people they were adopted, nor do parents typically advertise that their children are adopted, though it may be obvious where the child's race differs from the parents'.)
There is a Facebook posting made in 2011 by Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama's half-sister, in response to a critic where she wrote in part, "You mentioned the adoption laws of Indonesia that you saw as related to my brother's legitimacy (you were suggesting that because my father, his stepfather, had adopted him, that my brother was no longer American) and I said that I had no idea about Indonesian adoption law and what you were saying didn't make any sense to me but that the law that mattered was the law of this country [that is, U.S. law] and the fact that he was born in the United States." (Italics are mine.) It would seem that Maya thinks that Barry was adopted, believing it to be an Indonesian adoption.
Figure SFA.  1968 Indonesian school registration for Barry Soetoro.  (Associated Press photo by Tatan Syuflana.)
Also relevant is young Barry's registration for the school term beginning in 1968 at Santo Fransiskus Asisi (St. Francis of Assisi Catholic) school in Indonesia, as shown in Figure SFA.
The translations for some of the line items are:
1.  Name of the student - Barry Soetoro
2.  Place and date of birth - Honolulu 4-8-61 [August 4, 1961, date in European format]
3.  Nation:       a, citizenship - Indonesia
                        b, foreign descent - (left blank)
                        c, race - (left blank)
4.  Religion - Islam
5.  Student's address - Ment[eng] Dalam R007/R1003
7a.  School term beginning date - 1-1-1968
7b.  Placed in class - 2
8a.  Parents' names:    Father - L.  Soetoro M.  A.
                                    Mother - (left blank)
Indonesian citizenship (which comes through the father under Indonesian law) would be conferred to Barry by legal adoption.
Chapter 2 of ghostwriter Bill Ayers' eloquent composite biography of Obama, Dreams From My Father, covers Obama's time spent in Indonesia. 
On Page 38 we read,
"So it was to Lolo that I turned for guidance and instructions.  He didn't talk much, but he was easy to be with.  With his family and friends he introduced me as his son, but he never pressed things beyond matter-of-fact advice or pretended that our relationship was more than it was.  I appreciated this distance; it implied a manly trust." (Italics are mine.)
And on Page 41 we find,
"My mother watched us from inside the house... She really was grateful for Lolo's solicitude toward me.  He wouldn't have treated his own son very differently.  She knew that she was lucky for Lolo's basic kindness." (Again, italics are mine.)
Dreams From My Father is revealing not just in what it says, but in what it omits.  Nowhere in Chapter 2 is there a reference to Lolo Soetoro as "father", "stepfather", "adopted father" or any reference at all to his formal/legal relationship to young Barry.  He appears as just "Lolo", with an apparent unwillingness on Barry's part to shed the Kenyan figment of a father in favor of a man who clearly was reaching out to be a real father to him.
Finally, we have Stanley Ann Soetoro's 1968 application to extend her 1965 passport (now destroyed) for an additional two years, as shown in Figure PPA.
On the second page of the application, Ann moved to exclude her son Barack Hussein Obama (Soebarkah) from her passport, but the item has been crossed out -- perhaps on the advice of the consulate in Jakarta, as this would have left seven-year-old Barry passportless -- so it didn't happen.
The appendage "(Soebarkah)" has never been satisfactorily explained by anyone, and I certainly don't know what "Soebarkah" means, but it does seem to indicate a name change or change in citizenship status for the boy.
Figure PPA.  Ann Soetoro's 1968 application to extend her 1965 passport.
If, as I think is likely, Barry was legally adopted by Lolo Soetoro, was the adoption in Indonesia or Hawaii?  Most observers (like half-sister Maya) have assumed that it would have been in Indonesia, but if we look at the timelines and circumstances of the Soetoro family's piecemeal return/emigration to Indonesia, we see that a timely Indonesian adoption would be very unlikely, while there was ample time for the parents to put in place a Hawaiian adoption before settling in Indonesia.
Stanley Ann (Dunham) Obama and Lolo Soetoro were married in Molokai on March 24, 1965, while they were both still graduate students at the University of Hawaii.  Lolo was in the U.S. on a student visa scheduled to expire in June 1965.  But because Indonesia was in turmoil following a failed military coup in September 1965 which resulted in the purging and killing of communists in 1965-66, Lolo stayed in Hawaii for as long as he could, until the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service forced his return to Indonesia in July 1966.  On his return to Indonesia Lolo worked for the government, mapping western New Guinea.
Finally, in 1967 it was safe for Americans to go to Indonesia, so Ann Soetoro emigrated there in October 1967, with Barry in tow, to join her husband Lolo, where they lived in a district of south Jakarta.  Barry was enrolled as an Indonesian citizen for school beginning in 1968, as we have seen; Indonesian citizenship was a requirement for students attending Indonesian state-supported schools.
Under Indonesian law of the time, if Lolo adopted Barry before he turned age 5 (that is, before August 4, 1966), Barry would automatically become an Indonesian citizen, subject to the approval of the Pengadilan Negeri (district court) for the district of the father's residence.  A Hawaiian adoption of a U.S.-citizen child by a foreign-nationality father would pose no U.S. legal problems, and it would be recognized in Indonesia under international treaty.  (Under U.S. law, Barry would hold triple citizenship -- U.S., Indonesian, and Kenyan.) And since the parents knew they would eventually be living in Indonesia, it would make sense for Lolo to adopt Barry in Hawaii, and take advantage of the automatic Indonesian citizenship for the child, as part of the preparations for emigration and Barry's schooling there.
If Lolo had adopted Barry in Indonesia, he would then be adopting a six-year-old foreign-born child under Indonesian law, in less than four months' time, so Barry could go to school at the beginning of January 1968.  Unlikely.
In 1965 and 1966 the only kind of Hawaiian adoption available for young children was a sealed adoption, where the pre-adoption birth certificate of the adopted child is sealed under court order, and a new birth certificate is issued showing the adopting parent(s) as the birth parent(s). When a Hawaiian birth certificate is thus amended, a document file containing the sealed record of the original document and supporting documentation that authorized a change to the information contained in the original document is created. The amended certificate is "distinctly marked" alerting to the fact it was altered. (Today, most adoptions can be "unsealed" and the pre-adoptive birth information restored to the vital records, but this does not "undo" an adoption -- nor a change of surname, if there was one.)
Whatever that "distinctly marked" alteration to Obama's birth certificate is, it must be obvious enough that, if shown to the public, people would see that Barry had been adopted.
Do we have any concrete evidence that Lolo adopted Barry in Hawaii?
Yes, we do.
First is the forgery itself -- it was released in lieu of a genuine long-form birth certificate so the public would not know that Lolo Soetoro had adopted Obama (as would be evidenced by the amending of his hospital-generated birth information).
Second, we have a myriad collection of official statements by various Hawaii officials.
In the English language there are (at least) two different meanings of the word "original" when referring to documents.  It can mean "master", rather than a copy or facsimile; or it can mean "first version," rather than revised or subsequent versions.
The section of Hawaiian state law (578-14) which covers birth certificates being issued as part of the adoption process refers to the pre-adoption birth certificate as "original" and the post-adoption birth certificate as "new."  So when bureaucrats who are following the law refer to an "original" birth certificate, they most certainly mean the master, but they could also be using the legal meaning, the certificate generated at time of birth, before it was amended by adoption of the child.
In this light let's take another look at some of those carefully-worded statements by Hawaii state officials:
Former Hawaii Department of Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino on October 31, 2008:
"I as Director of Health for the State of Hawai'i, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawai'i State Department of Health has Sen.  Obama's original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures."
Again, on July 27, 2009: Fukino indicated she had "seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawai'i State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawai'i and is a natural-born American."  (One can disagree on legal grounds with the additional qualifier of natural-born, but her statement does identify Obama as native-born.)
On April 11, 2011, following a telephone interview with Dr. Fukino, NBC News reporter Michael Isikoff wrote, "the original so-called 'long form' birth certificate -- described by Hawaiian officials as a 'record of live birth' -- absolutely exists, located in a bound volume in a file cabinet on the first floor of the state Department of Health.  Fukino said she has personally inspected it -- twice.  The first time was in late October 2008 -- taking with her the state official in charge of vital records.  She found the original birth record, properly numbered, half typed and half handwritten, and signed by the doctor who delivered Obama, located in the files.  She then put out a public statement asserting to the document's validity.  She later put out another public statement in July 2009 - after reviewing the original birth record a second time."
On April 22, 2011, President Obama wrote to then-Director of the Hawaii Department of Health Loretta J. Fuddy, "I am writing to request two certified copies of my original certificate of live birth."
On April 25, 2011, Fuddy wrote to the president, "Enclosed, please find two copies of your original Certificate of Live Birth.  I have witnessed the copying of the certificate and attest to the authenticity of these copies."
Finally, we have State Registrar Alvin T. Onaka's (rubber-stamped) Verification of Birth letter to Ken Bennett of May 22, 2012 in which Onaka writes, "Additionally, I verify that the information in the copy of the Certificate of Live Birth for Mr. Obama that you attached with your request [that is, a printout of the "green thing"] matches the original record in our files."
(Italicized emphasis of the word "original" in all of these statements is mine.)
So you see, these folks have been telling the truth all along.  Moreover, they are adhering to state law by not indicating that an adoption had taken place, because they are not authorized to release that information.
Was there anybody else telling the truth?  Oh, yes -- President Obama on the morning of April 27, 2011, before the release of the "green thing: "As many of you have been briefed, we provided additional information today about the site of my birth.  Now, this issue has been going on for two, two and a half years now.  I think it started during the campaign.  And I have to say that over the last two and a half years I have watched with bemusement, I've been puzzled at the degree to which this thing just kept on going.  We've had every official in Hawaii, Democrat and Republican, every news outlet that has investigated this, confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii, August 4, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital.  We've posted the certification [short-form birth certificate] that is given by the state of Hawaii on the Internet for everybody to see.  People have provided affidavits that they, in fact, have seen this birth certificate.  And yet this thing just keeps on going." (The rest of his comments were political talking points.)
"We provided additional information today about the site of my birth" -- yes, he did.  The information is truthful -- though incomplete -- but it was revealed via a forged document.
Just when Barry reverted from using the surname Soetoro back to the surname Obama is not clear.  It was sometime after his return to Hawaii in the summer or fall of 1971, alone as a ten-year-old boy with his own U.S. passport.  And we know that he graduated from Punahou School in 1979 as "Barry Obama."
Does Barack Obama still legally carry the surname Soetoro? Perhaps somebody should ask him that question.
We can now say beyond all doubt that Barack Obama (Soetoro) was born in Honolulu on August 4, 1961, and is a native-born U.S. citizen.  All "official" evidence prior to the release of the long-form "birth certificate" forgery told us this -- his short-form birth certificate, statements by Hawaii officials, the contemporaneous birth announcements in the Hawaii newspapers, his (birth) father's correspondence and dealings with the Immigration and Naturalization service, Obama/Soetoro's registration form for Fransiskus Asisi school.  Now we have the "birth certificate" forgery itself to seal the deal, because by knowing what was being hidden with the release of the forgery -- his legal adoption -- we know what was not being hidden -- his place and date of birth.
About the author: Nick Chase is a retired but still very active technical writer, technical editor, computer programmer and stock market newsletter writer.  During his career he has produced documentation on computers, typewriters, typesetters, headline-makers and other pieces of equipment most people never heard of, and he has programmed typesetting equipment.  You can read more of his work on the American Thinker website and at contrariansview.org.
The theory that Barry was adopted in Hawaii is not a new idea, nor is it original with me. In Suborned in the USA (National Review Online, July 30, 2009) NRO editor Andrew C. McCarthy wrote:
"Obama and the media worked in tireless harmony to refute any indication that he had ever been a Muslim. It's now apparent, however, not only that he was raised as a Muslim while living for four years in the world's most populous Islamic country, but that he very likely became a naturalized citizen of Indonesia.
"Shortly after divorcing Barack Obama Sr., Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, married an Indonesian Muslim, Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo, whom she met - just as she had met Barack Sr. - when both were students at the University of Hawaii. At some point, Soetoro almost certainly adopted the youngster, who became known as "Barry Soetoro." Obama's lengthy, deeply introspective autobiographies do not address whether he was adopted by the stepfather whose surname he shared for many years, but in all likelihood that did happen in Hawaii, before the family moved to Jakarta.
"Under Indonesian law, adoption before the age of six [Correct age is five - Nick] by an Indonesian male qualified a child for citizenship. According to Dreams from My Father, Obama was four when he met Lolo Soetoro; his mother married Soetoro shortly thereafter; and Obama was already registered for school when he and his mother relocated to Jakarta, where Soetoro was an oil-company executive and liaison to the Suharto government.
"That was in 1966 [Correct year is 1967 - Nick], when Obama was five [Six - Nick]. Obama attended Indonesian elementary schools, which, in Suharto's police state, were generally reserved for citizens (and students were required to carry identity cards that matched student registration information). The records of the Catholic school Obama/Soetoro attended for three years identify him as a citizen of Indonesia. Thus Obama probably obtained Indonesian citizenship through his adoption by Soetoro in Hawaii. That inference is bolstered by the 1980 divorce submission of Ann Dunham and Lolo Soetoro, filed in Hawaii state court. It said "the parties" (Ann and Lolo) had a child (name not given) who was no longer a minor (Obama was 19 at the time). If Soetoro had not adopted Obama, there would have been no basis for the couple to refer to Obama as their child - he'd have been only Ann Dunham's child."
When McCarthy wrote this, Obama was not under intense political pressure to release his (genuine) long-form birth certificate, and at that time it probably did not occur to anybody that he would be unable to do so without also revealing that Lolo Soetoro had adopted him in Hawaii.

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Tracking Down Obama in Indonesia - Part 3





Above is a photo of Asisi Primary School in Jakarta, Indonesia the Catholic school that Barack Hussein Obama attended prior to attending Besuki Primary School.
Barack Hussein Obama was registered under the name "Barry Soetoro" serial number 203 and entered the Franciscan Asisi Primary School on 1 January 1968 and sat in class 1B.
School documents listed Barry Soetoro as an Indonesian citizen born in Honolulu, Hawaii on 4 August 1961. Barry's religion was listed as Islam. School documents further record Barry's father as "L Soetoro Ma" who worked as an official of the Director General's office in the TNI Topography division of the Indonesian Army.
Barry attended the Franciscan Asisi Primary School for three years until class 3 afterwards his family moved house from H Ramir Street to Dempo Street where he attended Besuki Primary School for one year before departing to Hawaii.
Classmate Rony Amir describes a young Barry Soetoro as enjoying playing football and marbles and of being a very devout Muslim.
"Barry was previously quite religious in Islam. His birth father, Barack Hussein Obama was a Muslim economist from Kenya. Before marrying Ann Dunham, Hussein Obama was married to a woman from Kenya who had seven children. All the relatives of Barry's father were very devout Muslims"

"We previously often asked him to the prayer room close to the house." If he was wearing a sarong he looked funny , said Rony Amir, Barry's classmate when he lived on H Ramli street in Menteng, Jakarta."
to be continued...
- See more at: http://laotze.blogspot.com/2007/01/tracking-down-obama-in-indonesia-part-3.html#sthash.iFz1J25y.dpuf
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Obama's Noelani Elementary School Kindergarten records,

http://www.theobamafile.com/_exhibits/Kindergarten.mht
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Barack Hussein Soebarkah?

Barack Hussein Soebarkah?

By Jason Kissner
One of the unexplained mysteries in the scanty documentation of the early life of the 44th President of the United States is the appearance of the name Soebarkah as his last name on an official document filled out by his mother.
In a recent contribution to American Thinker, Nick Chase offers very persuasive evidence that the long-form birth certificate released by Obama is a forgery.

While in the midst of developing an argument supporting the idea that Obama was adopted by the Indonesian Lolo Soetoro, Chase states:
Finally, we have Stanley Ann Soetoro's 1968 application to extend her 1965 passport (now destroyed) for an additional two years, as shown in Figure PPA.

On the second page of the application, Ann moved to exclude her son Barack Hussein Obama (Soebarkah) from her passport, but the item has been crossed out -- perhaps on the advice of the consulate in Jakarta, as this would have left seven-year-old Barry passportless -- so it didn't happen.

The appendage "(Soebarkah)" has never been satisfactorily explained by anyone, and I certainly don't know what "Soebarkah" means, but it does seem to indicate a name change or change in citizenship status for the boy.

Clearly, just what constitutes "a satisfactory explanation" varies with respect to persons, subject matter, context, and so forth.

And yet, there is a very good -- and simple -- explanation for the seemingly random appearance of the sobriquet "Soebarkah" on Mother Soetoro's passport application.

Believe it or not, the reason may be linked to one Loretta Fuddy.

Yes, that Loretta Fuddy -- the Hawaii state health director who approved the release of Obama's long-form birth certificate and who has apparently succumbed to a nasty case of post random plane crash induced arrhythmia. 

Ann Soetoro and Loretta Fuddy appear to have one very odd thing in common: both have been linked to the Subud cult, which originated in, of all places, Indonesia and was founded by the Javanese Muslim Muhammed Subuh.

The smallish cult appears to have had, at least circa 2001 and according to this profile of sorts in the Honolulu Advertiser, 20,000 members worldwide.   Notice the picture of Deliana Fuddy, then "regional helper" and member of the faith?  Let's return to her Subud status in a second. 

Note also that the World Subud organization seems to have been based in, of all cities....wait for it...Chicago.  Indonesia...Chicago...Hawaii... three locales linked to Obama's life.

Next, observe that the Advertiser article states that Subud was introduced to Hawai'i in the 1960s (more on this in the conclusion). 

Now to Ann Soetoro.  She was linked to Subud by her biographer (and New York Times reporter) Janny Scott (Harvard '77) in the book A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother," reviewed by the New York Times here.

Loretta Fuddy was more than merely a follower of Subud; she worked her way up the ranks and became chairwoman of Subud USA, based in Seattle from 2006 to 2008, and was known to Subud not merely as Loretta Fuddy, but as "Deliana" Loretta Fuddy.  In fact, you can see that in its headline, the official Subud "memorial" page drops "Loretta" and refers simply to "Deliana" Fuddy.

Ann Soetoro's close association with members of the Subud cult will be documented below. But first, note in passing that of all the persons -- Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Atheist, Hindu, or you-name-it  --  that could have been installed as Director of the State Department of Health in Hawaii, Hawaii alighted on Fuddy -- a leader of a small cult with roots in Indonesia and connections to Ann Soetoro -- Obama's mother.  Second, observe that Fuddy assumed the Director position in Hawaii in January 2011, just a few months before the release of Obama's long form birth certificate.

Now to Ann Soetoro's links with Subud and to a brief discussion of the Barry "Soebarkah" mystery associated with Ann Soetoro's 1968 passport renewal application.

Read the following excerpt from SubudVoice in 2011 (and please note that I have italicized a couple of sentences to emphasize that the Subud "Staff Reporter" is drawing on material from Janny Scott's biography of Ann Soetoro; they aren't simply making an anonymous, empty assertion that can't be substantiated.)

Obama's mother and Subud
By Staff Reporter...
A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother,a biography of the mother of US President Obama, Ann DunhamSutoro, contains several references to Subud. As is generally known Obama lived with his mother in Jakarta for some years...
Arianne (no second name) wrote to me to say, "Talked to Irin Poellot who is reading the book about Obama's mother and has already run into several literal mentions of Subud!!! I remember the late Mansur Madeiros mentioning he knew her in Indonesia and he is mentioned in the book! I can't help wondering if we will get inquiries about Subud since it is mentioned often in a book which probably will be widely read. It also is a delicious fact that our Subud sister, Ms Fuddy, just was appointed to her post in the Health Dept in Hawaii in time to be involved in the documentation of fact that Obama was born there."
I wrote back asking for more specific information and Arianne replied, "Irin kindly supplied some quotes:In chapter 4 "Initiation in Java" the Subud members are quoted. And then (on page 116): "...she (Ann) was hired to start an English-language, business-communications department in one of the few private non profit management-training schools in the country."
Ann "found a group of young Americans and Britons enrolled in an intensive course in Bahasa Indonesia, the national language, at the University of Indonesia recalled Irwan Holmes, (a member of the original group). She was looking for teachers. A half dozen of them accepted her invitation, many of them members of an international spiritual organization, Subud, with a residential compound in a suburb of Jakarta.."
And ......Mohammad Mansur Madeiros, a reclusive and scholarly Subud member from Fall River, Massachusetts, and Harvard, whom Ann hired as a teacher, had immersed himself so deeply in Javanese culture, language and religion that friends nicknamed him Mansur Java. When he died in 2007, friends recalled his preference for the company of ordinary Indonesians --street vendors and becak drivers -- over that of other Subud members and expatriates."

But what might the Ann Soetoro, Deliana Fuddy, Subud links really have to do with the sobriquet Barry Soebarkah?

To help answer that, transport yourself backward in time and sit at the feet of the Indonesian Subud master Bapak circa 1963:

Question:1 Many people in Subud change their names. Is this necessary? Is it important? How does the change of a name affect us? Physically, spiritually or both?

Bapak: Brothers and sisters, whether it is necessary or not depends on what you want....

If changing one's name for "spiritual reasons" was something frequently done by followers of Subud's Bapak, and Stanley Ann Soetoro was in fact closely associated with Subud, it is reasonable to suppose that "Soebarkah" arose in the same way new names for others (like "Deliana" Loretta Fuddy?) associated with Subud did: as a matter of course depending on the case.

Readers might agree that the above is a quite reasonable account of the origin of Barry "Soebarkah."

But there is something else.  The above biographical material bonds Ann Soetoro to Subud members via an English language, business communications department post.  According to the New York Times here, that would have been around 1970 or 1971.  However, the passport renewal application with the name "Soebarkah" dates to 1968.  This suggests that either the "Soebarkah" handle came from nowhere, or that matters are as we have discussed and that Ann Soetoro in fact came to Subud before 1970 -- perhaps in Hawaii. 

Clearly, we might want to recall that the above linked Honolulu Advertiser Subud profile indicates that Subud was introduced to Hawai'i in the 1960s. 

In closing, the Ann Soetoro's 1968 passport renewal application raises the spectre of  possible Obama birth certificate fraud yet again.  Have a look at page 2 of the document:

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"Sorebarkah" appears in the section labeled "Amend to Include (Exclude) Children."

The name Barack Hussein Obama (Sorebarkah) is crossed out.

Nick Chase has concluded that this signifies that Ann Soetoro had improvidently decided to exclude Barack from her passport renewal.   Chase thinks that Soetoro changed her mind about exclusion after having been informed by the Consulate that doing so would leave Barack passportless.  

But there is another possibility -- one just as valid on its face.

What if Soetoro was trying to include Obama in the renewal, but she wasn't able to produce a birth certificate, and the Subud name "Soebarkah" just didn't do the trick? (hat tip Louise Hodges for the "inclusion" possibility; one can't be certain why she did not link the inclusion possibility to Soebarkah).

That could  explain why the name Subud name "Soebarkah" appears nowhere else (that we are aware of anyway),

Of course, we might then have to wonder exactly how Obama did his traveling at certain points in time, but then perhaps Subud is, at least at times, more than a mere cult?

Dr. Jason Kissner is associate professor of criminology at California State University, Fresno.  You can reach him at crimprof2010@hotmail.com.
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Una primera introducción a Subud

Una primera introducción a Subud

09/02/2004 - Autor: Roseanna Sawrey-Cookson - Fuente: Subud.org
Muhammad Subuh
Muhammad Subuh
Aunque basado en una experiencia espiritual, Subud no es en sí una religión, ni tampoco una enseñanza. Es un conocimiento del Poder de Dios que está presente en todo el Universo, tanto en lo que podemos ver como en lo que resulta invisible a nuestra vista física; también es la experiencia de ese Poder que trabaja en el interior de cada persona. En Subud no hay dogmas, credos, ni sacerdocios. Los miembros, como los de las grandes religiones, sostienen que a Dios no se le puede comprender con la mente. Lo único que necesitamos tener es paciencia y sinceridad, y entregar y someter nuestra voluntad a la Voluntad de Dios. Subud no es de Oriente ni de Occidente, sino de toda la humanidad, una humanidad ante el Único Dios Todopoderoso. Que Dios otorga Su gracia al ser humano según Su Voluntad es una experiencia tan antigua como la humanidad; sin embargo, en Subud hay algo nuevo porque, al parecer, es la primera vez en la historia de la humanidad que ésta lo puede recibir con tanta facilidad.
Históricamente hablando, Subud comenzó en 1925, cuando un hombre javanés llamado Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo recibió por primera vez un inesperado y fortísimo contacto con el Poder de la Luz de Dios, que dio paso a un período de tres años de intensa acción en el interior de su alma.
Al finalizar ese tiempo y, en contestación a su plegaria, se le dijo que ese regalo se podía compartir, que no era sólo para él, sino que lo debía transmitir a todas las personas que lo pidieran. En un principio, sólo recibieron su familia y sus vecinos más próximos. Después, gente llegada de todas partes de Indonesia recibió el contacto y, a su debido tiempo, Bapak autorizó a algunas personas a que transmitieran ese contacto a otros. Subud llegó a Occidente en 1956. El nombre de Subud (Soeboed, como se deletreaba antiguamente), se utilizó por primera vez en 1947. Desde entonces se ha extendido prácticamente por todos los países del mundo. No se hace ningún esfuerzo por darle publicidad. Se difunde principalmente por medio del trato personal y del ejemplo en la forma de vida. Sin embargo, varias personas han escrito algunos libros sobre el tema que han servido para despertar el interés de los lectores, pues estos reconocen algo que, consciente o inconscientemente, han estado buscando.
Desde 1957 hasta poco después de su muerte, acaecida en 1987, Pak Subuh, Pak o Bapak es el nombre que se da a una persona mayor o respetable) viajó mucho fuera de su país. En 1957 salió de Indonesia por primera vez en su vida y llegó a Inglaterra, donde permaneció varios meses, invitado por un pequeño grupo que había recibido el contacto a través de un europeo que había vivido durante algún tiempo en Indonesia. En esos meses, en la segunda mitad de 1957, cientos de personas entraron a Subud, algunas procedentes de otros puntos de Europa, así como de África y de América, que a su vez invitaron a Pak Subuh a visitarales en sus propios países. Pak Subuh no era un maestro. En Indonesia le llamaban "Pemimpin Kejiwaan": "Guía Espiritual". Dio consejos y explicaciones, pero, como él mismo decía, todas las enseñanzas que la humanidad necesita ya nos han sido dadas por las grandes religiones del mundo. Subud no aparta a nadie de su propia religión, sino que da la posibilidad de vivir de acuerdo con esas enseñanzas, limpiando de impurezas a las personas que lo practican y permitiendo que, a su debido momento, lleguen a ser para lo que fueron creados.
La transmisión del contacto de Subud no depende de la presencia de Pak
Subuh. Él autorizó a actuar como sus ayudantes y representantes a muchos hombres y mujeres de los países donde está establecido Subud. Esos "ayudantes" no tienen por qué tener un alto nivel espiritual, si bien algunos de ellos, después de cuarenta, cincuenta, o más años de estar en Subud, pueden haberlo conseguido hasta cierto punto. Los ayudantes se eligen entre las personas que estén dispuestas a serlo y tengan suficiente experiencia. Al principio sólo los nombraba Pak Subuh, pero desde su muerte los nombran un grupo de ayudantes que, durante cierto período de tiempo, son conocidos como "ayudantes internacionales". Nadie que no haya sido nombrado ayudante puede actuar como tal.
La palabra "Subud" no está relacionada directamente con el nombre de Pak Subuh. Es una abreviatura de tres palabras sánscritas: Susila, Budhi, y Dharma. Susila significa la manera correcta de vivir de acuerdo con la voluntad de Dios. Budhi significa la fuerza interna que reside dentro de la naturaleza del propio ser humano. Dharma significa entrega y sumisión al Poder de Dios. Juntas simbolizan una hermandad de hombres y mujeres de todas las razas y religiónes, unidas en la adoración a Dios en el latihan.
El latihan es la base de Subud. Latihan es una palabra indonesia que significa aproximadamente entrenamiento o ejercicio. La palabra preferida es latihan, ya que por ser poco familiar ayuda a evitar cualquier confusión o comparación con algún otro concepto o experiencia ya conocida. El latihan no se puede enseñar ni imitar, porque surge espontáneamente desde el interno después de haber recibido el contacto con el poder de Dios, transmitido a través de una persona que ya lo tenga. El latihan es diferente para cada persona. No surge ni gracias a la voluntad ni a ninguna acción humana, ni a un esfuerzo del corazón y de la mente. Se da únicamente gracias a la voluntad de Dios. Al mismo tiempo, la voluntad humana es libre en todo momento de intervenir o detener la acción del latihan, que continuará únicamente mientras estemos dispuestos a someternos a él.
Las personas autorizadas para transmitir el contacto, es decir, "los ayudantes", no hacen nada para o por la persona que lo recibe. Se limitan a recibir su propio latihan junto a los nuevos miembros que vienen a recibirlo, Este proceso comienza también en ellos y sigue trabajando después sin necesidad de usar el corazón, la mente o la voluntad. Lo único que se necesita, bien sea en el momento de recibir el latihan por primera vez, o en las siguientes ocasiones, es una actitud interna de sincera sumisión a la voluntad de Dios.
El latihan se practica dos veces por semana con otros miembros del mismo sexo, acompañados por uno o más ayudantes que son responsables durante la media hora que generalmente dura. Después de unos cuantos meses de experiencia los miembros pueden hacer otro latihan a solas, pero se les aconseja que no lo hagan más de tres veces a la semana.
Las experiencias en el latihan varían muchísimo. Es diferente para todos y diferente para cada persona en diferentes momentos. Normalmente comienza con movimientos físicos y con sonidos, que son la manifestación externa de una acción interna que es demasiado profunda para que se experimente directamente. Conforme pasa el tiempo, la experiencia se va haciendo más interna y más sutil.
El latihan es, por lo tanto, una verdadera adoración a Dios por medio de nuestra entrega a Su Voluntad. Su acción es de purificación y crecimiento interno. Todos nosotros tenemos muchas impurezas, tanto las heredadas como las adquiridas por nuestros propios errores. Hay muchas cosas en nosotros que necesitan ser corregidas, y esto, gracias al latihan, se hace de una manera que nosotros solos no podríamos hacer. Sólo el poder de Dios puede penetrar en el nivel donde se tiene que realizar ese trabajo en nosotros, porque sólo Dios puede saber lo que cada uno de nosotros necesitamos. Esta es la razón de que no se transmitan enseñanzas de persona a persona. Sólo Dios es el maestro.
El proceso de purificación es gradual y continúa según las necesidades de cada persona, de su capacidad para recibirlo y de su disposición para aceptarlo. El poder que trabaja en el latihan es fortísimo, pero no fuerza a nadie contra su voluntad. El proceso sigue adelante siempre y cuando aceptemos y nos sometamos a la Voluntad de Dios. Comienza a nivel físico y, frecuentemente, produce una mejora en la salud. Pero su acción no se puede predecir jamás, todo lo que se puede decir es que cada persona recibe lo verdaderamente bueno y necesario para sí misma, siempre y cuando se entregue y se someta con paciencia y sinceridad. El grado en el que la purificación procede varía en cada persona y no hay que tener prisa ni hacer ningún esfuerzo. Lo único que puede hacer la persona es aceptar lo que recibe y no impedir, con su mal comportamiento, el trabajo que se está realizando en ella.
Subud es para la vida externa y también para la interna. Es tanto para los miembros individuales como para la hermandad como unidad. Por lo tanto, además del latihan, cuenta también con una organización para los asuntos terrenales. Esta organización se conoce colectivamente como Asociación Mundial Subud. Cada centro Subud tiene su propio comité y su propio grupo de ayudantes. Ambos trabajan unidos y tienen su campo de trabajo claramente definido. En los países donde ya hay una organización nacional, existe un Comité Nacional responsable de los asuntos organizativos a nivel nacional.
Las responsabilidades de estos comités consisten en ocuparse de las finanzas, proveer lugares para el latihan y organizar el trabajo benéfico y comercial si es que existe. Los ayudantes son responsables de transmitir el contacto a los miembros nuevos, organizar y estar presentes en el latihan general, dar explicaciones sobre Subud a quienes lo pidan, constestar las preguntas que hacen los miembros respecto al latihan, aconsejar al comité cuando así lo pide, visitar y hacer el latihan con los enfermos. Ni los ayudantes ni el comité ejercen poder alguno, se limitan a cumplir con sus diversas obligaciones y responsabilidades como un servicio. Además de estas estructuras organizativas locales existen los ayudantes regionales, si son necesarios, y también el grupo de ayudantes internacionales, que trabajan junto al Comité Internacional de Subud. (Todas estas entidades se nombran por un período de tiempo limitado, y a las personas que trabajan en ellas no se las considera como seres especiales o superiores).
La organización de Subud está financiada en parte por donaciones y contribuciones voluntarias hechas por los miembros, pero la intención de Pak Subuh era que la parte econonómica se supliese con donaciones provenientes de las empresas. Sugirió que se considerase la posibilidad de que las empresas donasen un 25% del beneficio, una vez deducidos los impuestos y los gastos que produjeran la operación. Esta sugerencia se está poniendo en práctica cada vez más.
Además de cubrir esos gastos directos, la organización Subud tiene también una rama social-benéfica afiliada, conocida como Susila Dharma Internacional, que es una Organización No Gubernamental afiliada a la Organización de Las Naciones Unidas.
En la mayoría de los países, la organización Subud, como entidad no lucrativa, está registrada como organización benéfica y, por lo tanto, queda exenta de impuestos. Así, todas las donaciones se pueden utilizar para los propósitos de Subud. Subud está abierto a cualquier persona mayor de diecisiete años. A quienes desean entrar se les pide que esperen unos tres meses y si al final de ese período siguen con la misma idea, pueden hacerlo.

Miles de personas han venido a Subud y algunas se han marchado. Es un regalo que se da gratis, pero esto no hace que resulte fácil seguir el camino. La purificación y santificación no siempre es confortable. Subud no hace afirmaciones, pero a las personas que se sientan atraídas les decimos: vengan y vean por ustedes mismos. Londres, Inglaterra, circa 1966 y Canberra, Australia, 1995.
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