tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604414.post6817942490595801646..comments2007-06-14T19:07:49.375-07:00Josephhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10574779960109698980noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604414.post-69894288053756263802007-03-23T06:26:00.000-07:002007-03-23T06:26:00.000-07:00BEST CANNONFIRE BLOG POST EVER!<BR/><BR/>Congratulations Joe! I think this story has legs. It a great analysis as well as a pulling together of the research going on elsewhere -- connecting the dots, creating the forest from the trees.<BR/><BR/>This is exactly the promise of the so called blogosphere for progressive, citizen-driven politics and journalism: you pull together stuff from DU and then DUers propogate it on their greatest page, energizing hundreds of further researchers. This is exactly what the mainstream media cannot do and doesn't want us to do.<BR/><BR/>This shows why you MUST NOT end Cannonfire, and indeed should become a prominent "journal" writer at DU or Kos, so you get an even wider readership.<BR/><BR/>HamdenRice from DUAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604414.post-34753705456077397072007-03-22T23:38:00.000-07:002007-03-22T23:38:00.000-07:00Joseph, this is looking a lot like Wilkes to me, that is, the inductive narrative style. Don't give up, this looks very useful. I will join you in assuming that everyone involved is just fine and dandy.<BR/><BR/>However, for heuristic purposes, lets take a hypothetical. You're in the parallel universe in a country almost exactly like ours and you want to steal an election. How do you do it: You look at: what states are really valuable-now and in the past; your resources in those places of value; your logistical plans - can you execute in those states. <BR/><BR/>Then you take your goals and apply available technology. It's all about machines, which you can have switch votes, and networked tabulators, centralized tabulators. You get the "servicing" personnel to make sure that the pre-programmed vote switching software driven machines are put in place. Then you use a safe haven ISP as an operations base that will allow your mischief to take place without a lot of record keeping that can't be cleansed. <BR/><BR/>This is the core - the machines do their thing. You've got a safe haven ISP network provider, and you have the traditional techniques: over registering in favorable voting areas, voter suppression, voter disenfranchisement, and all around psy ops to keep the oppositions vote away.<BR/><BR/>Voila, you win the election. Who knows if this hypothetical applies? But it's fascinating isn't it?<BR/><BR/>Michael CollinsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604414.post-21069934070589219282007-03-22T20:38:00.000-07:002007-03-22T20:38:00.000-07:00Leave Akamai alone, waste of time.<BR/><BR/>Q) Why smartech? Why Chattanooga?<BR/>A) Easy: Mercer Reynolds. Love those pioneering rangers.<BR/>http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/06/13/loc_loc1campaign.html<BR/><BR/>He invests in NextLec which I believe Smartech is/was a part of through Airnet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604414.post-75412269582849298332007-03-22T15:11:00.000-07:002007-03-22T15:11:00.000-07:00This business has gotten me pulling together a bunch of old items relating to Ed Gillespie, the RNC, and the 2004 campaign. I just posted a <A HREF="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=475756&mesg_id=477823" REL="nofollow">longish summary</A> of this at DU, and I'm not going to repeat it all here.<BR/><BR/>However, Creative Response Concepts (and its connections to everything from the Swiftboaters to the CBS memos story) figures prominently.<BR/><BR/>So does Bob Ney, in his roles with both the Committee on House Adminstration and the National Republican Congressional Committee.<BR/><BR/>And so do a variety of bit players in the RNC's propaganda division -- one of whom, Timothy Griffin, has now surfaced in the attorney firings scandal.<BR/><BR/>It's becoming more and more apparent that the RNC in 2004 was election theft central -- and that the current activities (which began in early 2005) are concerned with both covering up the last theft and laying the groundwork for the next one.starroutenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604414.post-4910766664659665642007-03-22T14:36:00.000-07:002007-03-22T14:36:00.000-07:00Joe, having read your excellent blog for some years now, I have to pitch in with some congratulations. I am in the graphics trade. Also web stuff. This post offers real food for thought - great stuff. These goons might just be stupid enough to leave this kind of trail. Unbelievable really when you consider the money at stake...but yes they are greedy and dumb too. Ruthless they may be. But this particular story has the absolute smell of scandal. Tip the hat Joe. What you do with your blog every day, is significant and would be sorely missed. Glad for your new found commitment. BTW Akamai is just the server setup - nothing more.John Doenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604414.post-90076224318845044992007-03-22T13:12:00.000-07:002007-03-22T13:12:00.000-07:00oh, goody!! this is just too juicy. this is what shakespeare's sister was talking about yesterday:<BR/>http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2007/03/hidden-scandal-within-prosecutor-purge.html (thanks to CD for the H/T),<BR/>though the depths joe has plumbed here were only briefly touched, by comparison. as ever. <BR/><BR/>joe, so glad you're back in the saddle. we really need you out here.dr. elsewherenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604414.post-3799969479687083252007-03-22T10:51:00.000-07:002007-03-22T10:51:00.000-07:00The registrant of GWB43.COM used a false telephone number, 999 999 9999.<BR/><BR/>Take a look at the provisions of the Fraudulent Online Identity Sanctions Act. This was signed into law on 23 Dec 2004 as part of the Intellectual Property Protection in Courts Administration Act.<BR/><BR/>I wouldn't be surprised if contracts were breached somewhere along the line too, e.g. perhaps between the registrar and ICANN?<BR/><BR/>http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/pl108-482.pdf<BR/><BR/>bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604414.post-37163555633853901802007-03-22T10:22:00.000-07:002007-03-22T10:22:00.000-07:00By the way, Trespassers W is a reference to a sign under which Piglet lived in his tree.<BR/><BR/>Apparently the -ill be Prosecuted portion of the sign had broken off.<BR/><BR/>Thus, Piglet lived under the name of Trespassers W.Balrognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604414.post-77168232353941587302007-03-22T10:16:00.000-07:002007-03-22T10:16:00.000-07:00<I>""Trespassers-W.net"? Odd name, that."</I><BR/><BR/>Winnie the Pooh fans will know that <I>"The Piglet lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech-tree, and the beech-tree was in the middle of the forest, and the Piglet lived in the middle of the house. Next to his house was a piece of broken board which had: "TRESPASSERS W" on it."</I><BR/><BR/>Piglet claims it is short for Trespassers Will, and that that (his grandfather's name) was short for "Trespassers William."<BR/><BR/>But a quick look at the other names you link shows no other Hundred Acre Wood whimsy on the server (and Pooh didn't do the stuff that the monstrous Scooter Libby's fictional bears were trained to do). <BR/><BR/>"Trespassing" and "W"<BR/>are not two things I feel good about seeing together in anything related to Dubya's election.<BR/><BR/>The passage after the name explanation turns to a different question: <I>"Hallo!" said Piglet, "what are you doing?" "Hunting," said Pooh. "Hunting what?" <BR/>"Tracking something," said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously. "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer "That's just what I ask myself. I ask myself, What?" "What do you think you'll answer?" "I shall have to wait until I catch up with it," said Winnie-the-Pooh. </I><BR/><BR/>I think there something more than a Woozle here. Good work, everyone.Ferry Feynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604414.post-26144440890455818652007-03-22T09:13:00.000-07:002007-03-22T09:13:00.000-07:00AKAMAI reversed is: I am AKA (also known as)<BR/><BR/>Me thinks you have found a big stinking smoking gun.N=1http://universalhealth.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604414.post-47777680022003104712007-03-22T08:56:00.000-07:002007-03-22T08:56:00.000-07:00Wow...amazing post. Here's something odd. May mean nothing, but...I thought I'd try to at least find out what Akamai means. Then I got to the last two paragraphs (especially the very last graph) of this Wiki entry:<BR/><BR/>Akamai Technologies<BR/><BR/><BR/>Akamai Technologies, Inc. is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content caching and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was founded by then-MIT graduate student Daniel Lewin, along with MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton and MIT Sloan School of Management students Jonathan Seelig and Preetish Nijhawan. Leighton still serves as Akamai's Chief Scientist. Akamai is a Hawaiian word meaning "intelligent" or "clever." Beyond the name, the company has no ties with Hawaii.<BR/><BR/>Akamai's customers include Musician's Friend, E*TRADE, American Express, Yahoo!, AOL Radio, Symantec, Match.com, Google, Microsoft, FedEx, BBC News website, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Xerox, iVillage, Apple Inc., Music Television (MTV), the United States Geological Survey, the White House, Reuters, Newegg.com, Guitar Center, Friendster, iTunes, REI, and XM Satellite Radio. A list of more customers can be found on Akamai's website<BR/><BR/>Arabic news network Al-Jazeera was a customer from March 28, 2003, until April 2, 2003, when Akamai decided to end the brief relationship.<BR/><BR/>Co-founder Daniel Lewin was killed aboard American Airlines Flight 11 during the September 11, 2001, attacks.Rudecommentsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6604414.post-39678286546660693632007-03-22T08:44:00.000-07:002007-03-22T08:44:00.000-07:00You, my friend, are amazing.<BR/><BR/>I doff my hat in the deepest respect for your brilliant muckraking skills.New American Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194952368280390864noreply@blogger.com