Kevin Ryan: Ghosting for Griffin to Keep the Truther Con Afloat?

 I rarely write about trutherism these days.  In fact one of my greatest desires is to never write about trutherism again.  Alas, the fraudulent antics of Craig Lazo his ex and his fellow scammers make that impossible until they delete all the material they should never have published...10 years ago.  Anyone who'd like me to utterly loose my interest in what the truther con is doing, should probably talk to Lazo about that.

That said, it's come to my attention truther icon David Ray Griffin is about to release another book.  Lazo's buddy "pat" at Screw Loose Change writes:

David Ray Griffin Comes Up With a Brilliant Way to Dupe People Into Buying His New Book

Gotta hand it to him, this is a real con artist at work:

Not make it obvious, by means of the title, the cover, or the table of contents--that this is ultimately a 9-11 truth book.

However, you can see the fly rapidly heading towards the ointment in this following sentence:

    The hope is that some people, not being aware of my notoriety, read enough of the first part of the book to see that I am not an idiot.

But "pat aka Brainless" hasn't done his due diligence.  Either that or he, like most of the scammers, is invested in pushing one message.  It's really hard to tell.  Ages ago, in some long deleted comments thread, he or one of his fans tried to claim I had Nazis sympathies.  That was so whew! 'out of nowhere', I always suspected he had an agenda(alternately a certain idiot was feeding him lies).  Learning in early 2010 he'd always known that the Holocaust denying, alt-right troll "Killtown" was Craig Lazo only confirmed my suspicions "pat" was a disingenuous political operator.

Anyway, the point is "pat" either has an agenda, or is thinking readers aren't smart enough to check his research.  In the link to the announcement at Journal of 9/11 Studies, one can download David Ray Griffin's announcement. Except it wasn't written by David Ray Griffin.  It was written by Kevin Ryan.

The idea DRG was writing anything should have been suspect.  Even "pats" terminally gullible blog co-owner states a common thought:

James B. said...
I didn't know he was still alive.

27 September, 2016 12:56

He's still alive, but last we heard he has serious health problems, though they cleared up a bit so he could have an interview with White Supremacist supporter

and Holocaust denier Kevin Barrett, as relayed by one of Craig Lazo's penpals who is rumoured to run the Harvard 9/11 truth email list:

David Ray Griffin, Health Recovered, Gives Interview on Kevin Barrett Show

Submitted by gretavo on Mon, 2011-05-16 13:35.

With my standard disclaimer that I do not trust Kevin Barrett very much, here is a repost of the 911blogger post about this, which I copy along with comments because of the evidence therein of fake truth infiltrators including Victronix, YT, Vulich, SnowCrash, Jules, kdub, Gareth and jimd3100 (a few of whom are no doubt sockpuppets of some of the others) doing everything they can to discourage people from listening to Prof. Griffin.  Hear the interview here.

So I guess it's nice of Ryan to step in and take over writing duties.

Now someone is going to say,  well maybe Ryan wrote the announcement for Griffin.  Sorry, if DRG is up to writing a WHOLE BLOODY BOOK, I think he could manage a glorified press release.

Next, Ryan was using his computer and the PDF settings.  Yeah, sure, whatever floats your truther con boat.  This is the same Kevin Ryan who claimed to be a whistle-blower after being fired from UL laboratories.  He was also involved in the previous publishing fraud the Bentham Paper, which for some reason I don't have a blog about.  Must correct that.  Until then Rationalwiki does a good job covering the basics:

Membership of a journal's editorial board can be quite prestigious, but when people realised what sort of company they were dealing with and withdrew their acceptance, Bentham kept their names on the masthead and ignored all demands for removal.^[1] In April 2009, the Open Chemical Physics Journal published an article advocating 9/11 conspiracy theories without anyone bothering to inform the journal's editor, who promptly resigned.^[5]

This aroused the interest of the curious, and Bentham was busted in 2009 accepting a paper for the Open Information Science Journal consisting of random sentences computer-generated with SCIgen, whose imaginary authors both worked at the Center for Research in Applied Phrenology (CRAP).^[6][7] The editor of said journal also quit when he found out what the publisher had done.^[8] Bentham's director of publication claimed they merely sent a fake acceptance to flush out the hoaxer,^[4] but no-one believes him.

So, it's not a surprise Ryan would ghost DRG announcement of his soon to be published book.  The only question that remains is, given how fragile DRG is health wise and given Ryan willingness to engage in less than ethical behaviour in the past, did Ryan actually write DRG new book?

It wouldn't be illegal, but it would raise questions of why he would do it.  Why not, instead, co-write it?  It would accomplish the same thing--issue a new truther propaganda piece to rally the troops--but without the embarrassment of exposure.

Who can tell what goes through the minds of "truther" frauds. Even after I knew the entire "truther" movement was a scam, it baffled me how stupidly it was orchestrated. (I am assuming they didn't want anyone to discover it was a fraud.  I could be wrong....)

 They literally only got as far as they did by a combination of riding the anti-war/anti-Bush wave and pure dumb luck.  As for this new Griffin(Ryan?) book, it'll be interesting to see how many copies sell.   A Google search of the title shows no conspiracy site related searches apart from Journal of 9/11 Studies and Brainless' SLC blog at this time.

Lurkers in Canada on a Ghost Blog....

Everyone says Canadians are nice, but they're not fooling anyone. 

Al-right, most Canadians--like most people--are nice enough.   But the arseholes really do make their mark.

Scanning traffic logs recently, I found something a bit odd: someone from McGill University in Canada was viewing the old blog. 

Problem: the old blog is not viewable to anyone but me.

The settings --something Google can confirm-- are still:

 Blog Readers     Private - Only blog authors

[The reason I made the blog private can be read here.]

It can't even be sees in the Wayback Machine: 

And yet, some guy in Canada has visited not just once, but twice:
 

For those curious, the only thing a non blog author can see on a private blog is a Google page telling them to login, followed by a page telling them the blog is private.

 People who enter the Blog URL into their browsers can still see the Blog Title but will be prompted to enter their Google account particulars and password. If they are not given the rights to view the Blog, a message will be shown: “It doesn't look like you have been invited to read this blog. If you think this is a mistake, you might want to contact the blog author and request an invitation.”

And if this was the case, no tracking tag would be loaded by their browser and there would be no record of their visit.

So what was McGilly Canuck looking at?  Apparently this link to the January 2009 archives:

Not really seeing the point, unless they're trying to help Craig Lazo and friends delete their lies across the Internets....

So how did they do it?

It's not magic.  There are no agents.  There are only a handful of possibilities: among them being this person somehow guessed/acquired the account password, or they work for Google.   Since the ISP is a Canadian University, it's probably not a Google employee--just someone who got very very lucky.

Then there are only a handful of possible motives--well, really only one:  they are part of the truther fraud and are willing to risk some serious criminal charges to find out what's on an old, private blog written by one of the few people who figured out it was a fraud and escaped.  Because "letting it go" is not in these people's skill set.

This isn't the first time I've had reason to suspect someone tried to access my accounts.

>In late 2007, early 2008, I have reason to suspect emails were deleted from one of my accounts, emails that proved the person used deception for recruitment.  Hilariously that person hasn't changed their patter for years, trying to use, almost word for word, the same formula to get another person's trust.  Luckily for the would be target, it's was very small activist scene and getting a warning through the right person wasn't hard.

>In a related event, the webmaster of "truthaction", after being "allowed" to use this individual's computer at an event, was to discover, years later, all the emails from this individual were deleted from his email account.  Luckily, in her compulsive desire to spread lies and other fraudulently acquired information, she used the "truthaction" PM system, so copies of most of them were saved.  There are several ways to access an account illegally by "allowing" someone to use a machine to login.    Technically a keylogger isn't by itself illegal, but using it--or any other technique--to manipulate or steal information by deception is.

I changed my passwords long ago, but, needless to say, I've changed them again.

I also sent McGill Uni a wee little note about someone possibly abusing their ISP/Internet services.

It might be nothing they can do anything about, like say, a wireless service open to everyone.   But a search of the ISP strongly suggests this is an individual.

Let us hope that, unlike the sad case of Harvard con man and Scholars for 9/11 Truth member, Gustavo Espada, McGill University has the backbone to not tolerate fraud or cybercrime from it's staff or students.


Because if this turns out to be evidence of a McGill staffer or student engaged in cybercrime, the next step is the RCMP and the FBI.