Sorcha Faal

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Sorcha Faal is an Wikipedia:anonymous blogger whose first article appeared on the website WhatDoesItMean.Com on 22 December 2004. During the past 8 years (2004-2012) Sorcha Faal has penned approximately 1,200 articles that are called "reports" which have, in turn, been widely reprinted around the world in nearly every language. Sorcha Faal has been described as a conspiracy theorist and has been linked to many other people, titles and organizations but whose true identity has never been proven.

Sorcha Faal reports used By U.S. Homeland Security

The Wikipedia:US Department of Homeland Security in an 5 August 2009 letter to Wikipedia:Americans for Limited Government acknowledged using Sorcha Faal reports as one of their "sources" for drafting and then issuing a controversial "right-wing extremism" threat assessment to United States law enforcement agencies.

Sorcha Faal Report Used By Venezuela President Hugo Chávez

A 14 January 2010 report by Sorcha Faal titled US Quake Test Goes “Horribly Wrong”, Leaves 500,000 Dead In Haiti was cited by by Wikipedia:Venezuelan president Wikipedia:Hugo Chávez who accused the United States of using a “weapon” to cause the Wikipedia:2010 Haiti earthquake.

WhatDoesItMean.Com

Besides publishing Sorcha Faal's reports, WhatDoesItMean.Com functions as a news aggregator, collecting links to news published elsewhere as "Top World News Now", neatly sorted by country in a large table on the front page.

On this websites About WhatDoesItMean.Com and Privacy Policy page it reveals almost no information about its owner(s), other than saying that "WhatDoesItMean.Com is a wholly owned of subsidiary of Long Trail Acres Publishing LLC".

Self description

The WhatDoesItMean.Com website states that Sister Maria Theresa is the 73rd Sorcha Faal of the Sorcha Faal Order, Elected as Mother Superior 3 February 2007. Born in Dublin, Ireland, the 73rd Sorcha Faal joined the Order in March, 1973 and holds various degrees with both European and United States Universities.

Brief history of the Order of Sorcha Faal

A brief history of The Order of Sorcha Faal published on the website says it was established in 588 (BCE) in Wikipedia:Hill of Tara, Wikipedia:County Meath, Wikipedia:Ireland, and claim as their Founder the oldest daughter of Wikipedia:King Zedekiah, Tamar Tephi known as The Maid of Destiny.

The name, Sorcha Faal, comes from the ancient Gaeilge branch of the Wikipedia:Goidelic languages of Ireland and has the meaning of: Sorcha: she who brings light (to) Faal: the dark and barren place.

The Order of Sorcha Faal comprises 18 Monasteries in Ireland, Russia, Egypt, Lebanon, and the United States.

Style of writing

Sorcha Faal writes in a style called Wikipedia:conspiracy theory and describes it on their main page as:

“Conspiracy theorists concentrate their time on transmuting the "base matter" of current events, official stories, propaganda and public relations into the gleaming golden truth buried within. They do this through the very right-brained activity of uncovering and inventing connections between disparate elements.

They create story-systems to understand and explain events - essentially a religious activity. For whatever reason, it’s much easier for us to deal with our internal contents by projecting them into the world around us. These outward signs inevitably become carriers of the archetypal content and psychodrama latent in the seeker.

Conspiracy theory also overcomes the strictures of literalism and the problems of simplistic thinking by experimenting with multiplicity of meaning. Ordinary events, people and signs become symbols bristling with complex, malleable, even contradictory meanings. Mystery is revived and idealized. Facts become more than the sum of their parts. Theory becomes poetry and even theology.”

Reliability

For those supportive of Sorcha Faal the reports appear to be a mix of fact and fiction, but are unusually well sourced with an average report containing over 20 external links to mainstream news sources. On the About Page for WhatDoesItMean.Com it is openly stated about Sorcha Faal reports: “Some events depicted in certain articles on this website are fictitious and any similarity to any person living or dead is merely coincidental. Some other articles may be based on actual events but which in certain cases incidents, characters and timelines have been changed for dramatic purposes. Certain characters may be composites, or entirely fictitious.”

For those opposed to Sorcha Faal it is said that each report resembles a news story in its style, but usually includes a sensational headline barely related to reality and quotes authoritative high-level Russian sources (such as the Russian Federal Security Service) to support its most outrages claims. Except for material attributed to unverifiable sources, the reports don't contain much original material. They are usually based on various news items from the mainstream media and/or whatever the so-called clogosphere is currently hyperventilating about, with each item shoehorned into the conspiracy narrative the report is trying to establish. Cited sources range from the mainstream media and Wikipedia to Info Wars and Wikipedia:Richard Hoagland. The author of these reports is said to also have the habit of adding unnecessary links to the websites of the various Russian institutions they mention.

Purpose of reports

The main focus of Sorcha Faal reports appear to be one of educating the reader about current and complex events using a storyline approach similar to that found in a television or movie docudrama where considerable Wikipedia:artistic license is used.

Controversy

Even though the WhatDoesItMean.Com website openly states that Sorcha Faal reports are based on conspiracy theory, and admits that “characters and timelines have been changed for dramatic purposes” and says that “certain characters may be composites, or entirely fictitious,” the amount of vitriol expressed against Sorcha Faal appears to be wildly out of proportion to anything this person/entity has ever written and includes many sources claiming these reports are written for Wikipedia:disinformation and/or Wikipedia:black propaganda purposes.

The most noted allegations against Sorcha Faal include:

• Sorcha Faal appears to be an acronym for a multi-generational cabal of Ashkenazim Jewish women who first formed clear back in 1290 A.D
• Sorcha Faal belongs to a Zionist Jewish criminal syndicate
• Sorcha Faal as a misinformation Agent for The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR
• Sorcha Faal works within The Central Intelligence Agency In COINTELPRO
• Sorcha Faal is a computer programmer named David Booth

Sorcha Faal response To controversy

The only response to these controversies made by Sorcha Faal appear in an article titled “Who Is Sorcha Faal?”, dated 7 April 2008, and written by Sister Rebekah that names Arthur Topham, publisher of The Radical Press in Canada and internet radio host Wikipedia:Jeff Rense as being the originators of these attacks.

Audience range

Sorcha Faal reports, aside from their being posted on the WhatDoesItMean.Com website, frequently appear on conspiracy forums such as Above Top Secret and Godlike Productions, often after being republished by other websites (such as the European Union Times).

Known facts

An exhaustive search of both the internet and historical/religious archives show no historical mention of either Sorcha Faal or the Order of Sorcha Faal having ever existed.

The linking of Sorcha Faal to any intelligence organization, or any living person for that matter, cannot be proven.

A Network Solutions Whois Lookup for the domain name WhatDoesItMean.Com shows it is privately registered with its Registrant, Administration, Technical contacts directed to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, with a creation date of 12 November 2003.

Summary

The principle of Wikipedia:absence of evidence appears to be best applied to Sorcha Faal as nothing can either be proven or disproven about this person/entity based on the present evidence available.

Though it is entirely within the realm of possibility that Sorcha Faal is associated with an individual and/or an intelligence service there is no evidence to support reaching such a conclusion at this time.

Until such time that Sorcha Faal reveals her/his/its identity, or it is revealed by some other means, this enigmatic conspiracy writer’s identity will remain unknown.

References

Additional sources

• El Correo Ilustrado - La Jornada
• Russian Move Against US Called 'First Shot' Of World War III - Salem-News.Com
• Израиль готовит мировую войну? / vlasti.net
• Inteligencia rusa, tenía informes sobre sismo en Asía | Ciudadania Express
• Haiti e l'arma sismica [Rete Voltaire]
• Jurnalista care a acuzat ONU de bioterorism pe tema gripei porcine, concediată miÅŸeleÅŸte | Publicatiile Jurnalul Online| Botosani
• Précisions et aléas autour du “complot Jeb Bush”- dedefensa.org dedefensa.org is one of the most popular social/political commentary websites in France and in this article claims that Sorcha Faal is either a double agent for the Russian GRU, or is working for/with the CIA.

• 媒体盘点2010年十大科学谣言 千年极寒欲翻案- people.com.cnpeople.com.cn is Peoples Daily Online, the official website of Chinese Communist Party, and in this article a Sorcha Faal report on a 'Star Gate' in the Gulf of Aden was named by them as one of the Top Ten conspiracy stories in 2010. This article also says that Sorcha Faal is a computer programmer named David Booth.
• Global warming hysteria misplaced- News.com.auNews.com.au is one of the leading "mainstream" online news websites in Australia and in this article says that Sorcha Faal is responsible for a "report" that Australia would have to be evacuated because of global warming.
• El conspirólogoThis article says that well known Mexican author and professor Adolfo Gilly stated that Sorcha Faal is actually an esoteric order of Irish origin.

External links

Wikipedia:Wiktionary:conspiracy theory

• Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation, America.gov
• The 31 Wildest Conspiracy Theories. LIFE magazine – slideshow.
• Wikipedia:Naomi Wolf. Analysis of the appeal of conspiracy theories with suggestions for more accurate ad hoc internet reporting of them.
• Stuart J. Murray, (2009). "Editorial Introduction: 'Media Tropes'," MediaTropes eJournal, 2, i–x.