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WANTED now: Offsite AND Onsite Rainbow Press Crew SALARY: Good Karma

Rainbow press crew — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:48:02 GMT

The officers involved in last year's Kid Village Incident probably wouldn't have opened fire if television news cameras were pointed at them first. Our own cameras certainly didn't stop them. This year, kind folks like yourself can help ensure that future gatherings will exist for our children to enjoy when they're grown and that gatherings will once again be safe.

The Rainbow press crew seeks volunteers to help achieve these goals. Last year we sent out a request for off site volunteers. http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.gathering.rainbow/2008-07/msg00005.html This year we sent out a request for on site volunteers. http://groups.google.com.ag/group/alt.gathering.rainbow/browse_thread/thread/37380484d41625d6# The press crew needs you; the press crew IS you.

At this point we're in need of both on site and off site helpers, but firstly we're seeking off site volunteers to lend a hand as soon as possible to help get the ball rolling for this year. If you're interested in helping and can commit, please contact rpcrew09 at gmail.com . We have tasks that need to be done in the next week and on through mid July. Any contribution is a big help.

Last but not least our new site is up. http://rpcnews.us/ It's mostly for the press to view our old press releases. Have a look if you like, and hear one of our favorite songs there!

Thanks in advance for anything you can do. To the woods!

Please forward

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WANTED now: Onsite AND Offsite Rainbow Press Crew SALARY: Good Karma

Rainbow press crew — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:08:14 GMT

The officers involved in last year's Kid Village Incident probably wouldn't have opened fire if television news cameras were pointed at them first. Our own cameras certainly didn't stop them. This year, kind folks like yourself can help ensure that future gatherings will exist for our children to enjoy when they're grown and that gatherings will once again be safe.

The Rainbow press crew seeks volunteers to help achieve these goals. Last year we sent out a request for off site volunteers. http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.gathering.rainbow/2008-07/msg00005.html
This year we sent out a request for on site volunteers. http://groups.google.com.ag/group/alt.gathering.rainbow/browse_thread/thread/37380484d41625d6# The press crew needs you; the press crew IS you.

At this point we're in need of both on site and off site helpers, but firstly we're seeking off site volunteers to lend a hand as soon as possible to help get the ball rolling for this year. If you're interested in helping and can commit, please contact rpcrew09 at gmail.com . We have tasks that need to be done in the next week and on through mid July. Any contribution is a big help.

Last but not least our new site is up. http://rpcnews.us/ It's mostly for the press to view our old press releases. Have a look if you like, and hear one of our favorite songs there!

Thanks in advance for anything you can do. To the woods!

Please forward

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This Week on The New American Dream

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:51:31 GMT

http://www.newamericandream.net/index.html

The New American Dream
... well ... because we're dreaming of Dick Cheney and George Bush in a big black car limousine motorcade with those little American flags on the front quarter panels on their way to prison

... we're dreaming of a USA truth commission and Cub Scout tours of the "secret" FBI and CIA

and some other stuff

This Week's Feature Interviews:

Monday - Timbre Wolf, a musician who moved from Tulsa to Hawaii

Tuesday - Al Markovitz, of Norfolk, Virginia, the Tulsa of the east coast, editor of the Blue Collar Review, "journal of working class literature"

Wednesday - Aimee England, the mayor of Tulsa — no, actually, Aimee lives in Michigan and spent over twenty years working in an independent, radical bookstore

Thursday - Lee Rayburn, radio show host, formerly of Air American Radio and also Madison, Wisconsin. [never been to Tulsa.]

Friday - Bartcop, of Bartcop.com, from where else? Tulsa.

Columns:
Steve Clemens of the Twin Cities
Lydia Sems from Atlanta

Poetry:
More from Ava Bird of Berkeley

and some other stuff

Thank you.

The Dream Team
http://www.newamericandream.net/index.html

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Dreaming the NEW American Dream

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:19:33 GMT

California poets Ava Bird & Rex Butters, and....

Santa Cruz artist Russell Brutsche - Karen Kwiatkowski of Virginia

Protests to stop immigration raids ... and more.
____________________

http://www.newamericandream.net

The New American Dream

What's New?

* Karen Kwiatkowski column
* Ava Bird poetry
* Rex Butters poetry
* Gary Mennie poetry

Columns:
Sherwood Ross — why not shut down a few prisons in the United States as well?
Mickey Z — Americans are cowards, too comfortable, will never-ever-not-in-one-million-years revolt-or-even-bother-to-stand-up — no matter what the rich folks do to them.
Lydia Sems — It's The American Dream that is the problem.

and more from Jack Saunders ...

Resistance:
* Planned civil disobedience in Minnesota to stop raids against immigrants
* Protests at Creech AFB against U.S. drone terroristic activity
*100 days of protest against Guantanamo to culminate

All this, Northern Exposure, The Big Lebowski, Paradise by the Dashboard Lights ... a certificate for free toast ... and more.

Join us.

The New American Dream
Dude.
... because ... Sister Mary Anne told us, "There are no wrong questions, if you don't know the answers."

... from the Dream Team

http://www.newamericandream.net

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How to parse Google search results

GlennLasher — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:40:24 GMT

In another thread, in another tribe, B asked: "Do you know of a good way to parse google search results pages. I am automating some querries."

If I recall correctly, you were developing your DB in Java. I am an almost complete novice to Java, but I have some expertise at doing text mangling operations in Perl. If nothing else, you could use a Perl program to perform a retrieval, extraction and transformation, then pipe the output to your Java app for loading.

In particular, I like the Perl module HTML::TreeBuilder and its counterpart, XML::TreeBuilder. With these two, you can parse a document into an n-ary tree structure, and then there is a set of methods available for traversing these trees. HTML::TreeBuilder isa HTML::Tree, and XML::TreeBuilder isa XML::Tree, so the methods availble to the ::Tree classes are available to objects of the ::TreeBuilder classes, also.

Taking that to its next step, the ::Tree modules have a method called look_down(), which can search for particular tags. You can use this to reduce your context to the smallest unit before trying to extract the useful bits from a given web page.

Of course, there is a drawback to all this, and that is that if the web page layout changes, it all goes to hell.

My understanding is that Google has some sort of a search API, but I don't know if it us usable to the main Google search engine, or if it can only be used to access private subsets (e.g. a company that has installed a Google Search Appliance).

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Conspiracy History compilation DVDs torrents

History — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:50:39 GMT

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Greetings to all my relations.

This is the last step of our project History Watch. If History is
defined and known by the texts, we can now add to this definition the
recorded events of the filmed archives. Animated images are harder to
deny than printed words. Our objective is to spread out freely some of
the little broadcast, even hidden informations about our collective
History.

We put online a collection of 391 documentaries and other selected and
recut videos, to offer to a wide public the best of the infos
available on the net in english and in french. If you are interested,
you have the time, the right equipment and connection, all you have to
do is open the joint document and decompress it if needed (but normaly
your system should do it automaticaly). You'll find therein nine links
that will open the torrents for the nine DVDs we compiled (around 4.6
Gig each, for a total of a little over 41 G, being over 100 hours of
videos).

Otherwise, you can go directly to btjunkie.com and search for these titles.

11 Septembre 2001 - 9-11
Bush family & friends
Capitalist & Communist regimes
Capitalist conspiracy
Mind Kontrol - Secret Programs
New World Order - Secret Societies
Secret services - cover up - covert ops
Secret weapons - UFO
Terrorism Theories propaganda

Torrents are a system of peer to peer data transfer. The more people
download a torrent, the faster it spreads and the longer it stays on
the net. If you don't have a bittorrent software, we suggest that you
download uTorrent on utorrent.com. If you want to participate in
facilitating the diffusion of these infos about our collective
History, download these torrents on as many computers as possible,
whether it is in cybercafes. It takes one or two minutes to open up
the links and the downloading will keep proceeding on its own.

Please spread this out, take part in this action for social education
on a planetary scale. Thanks.

For more info: watch.history@gmail.com History Watch

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Did RAND Corporation Pen the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act?

Alexander — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:06:12 GMT

Did RAND Corporation Pen the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act?
Published on Friday, November 23, 2007.

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By Kurt Nimmo

According to Jessica Lee of Indypendent and Kamau Karl Franklin of the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act was penned with plenty of help from the RAND Corporation.

“Rep. Jane Harman, Democrat from California, has had a lengthy relationship with the Rand Corporation,” Lee tells Democracy Now, although she was unable to determine if RAND wrote the bill. On the 12th anniversary of the OKC bombing, Rep. Harman, as chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment, introduced the bill in the House of Representatives.
“The ‘Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007' seeks to address the roots causes of radicalization, and would establish a grant program to provide funds to States to foster badly needed vertical information sharing from the Intelligence Community to the local level and from local sources to state and federal agencies,” explains Harman’s website. “It also creates a Center of Excellence for the Prevention of Radicalization and Home Grown Terrorism to examine the social, criminal, political, psychological and economic roots of domestic terrorism and to propose solutions, and promotes international collaboration on strategies to combat radicalization."

Franklin mentions Brian Michael Jenkins, an “expert” on “terrorism, counterinsurgency, and homeland security,” according to RAND. Jenkins is “someone who helped the United States in counterinsurgency measures in Vietnam,” states Franklin. “In addition to that, he wrote a book, and in his own book” Jenkins declared that “in their international campaign, the jihadists will seek common ground with leftists, anti-American and anti-globalist forces, who will in turn see radical Islam comrades against a mutual foe.”

In short, according to Kamau Karl Franklin, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act is more about domestic political activism than Islamic terrorism, although it appears Jenkins—and neocons such as the former Marxist David Horowitz—are attempting establish a link between the two, an absurdity at best, as the best way to discredit both the antiwar and patriot movements.

According to a Center for Constitutional Rights factsheet, RAND is a key player in the “domestic terrorism” prevention effort detailed in this draconian bill. A RAND study “Trends in Terrorism,” Chapter 4 on “homegrown terrorism,” advocates “special attention to environmentalist, Anti-globalization activist and anarchists as potentially new terrorist in the making.”

Not surprisingly, RAND is intimately connected to the global elite and the military-industrial-intelligence complex: “The interlocks between the trustees at Rand, and the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations were so numerous that the Reece Committee listed them in its report (two each for Carnegie and Rockefeller, and three for Ford). Ford gave one million dollars to Rand in 1952 alone, at a time when the chairman of Rand was simultaneously the president of Ford Foundation,” notes SourceWatch (Rene Wormser, Foundations: Their Power and Influence, p65-66). “Two-thirds of Rand’s research involves national security issues. This is divided into Project Air Force, the Arroyo Center (serving the needs of the Army), and the National Defense Research Institute (providing research and analysis for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and the defense agencies).”

As Lee Rogers notes, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, in its effort to flush out “terrorists,” including those opposed to the sort of globalism supported by Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations, will perform an end-run around the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The bill “states in the first subsection that in general the efforts to defeat thought crime shall not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights and civil liberties of the United States citizens and lawful permanent residents. How does this protect constitutional rights if they use vague language such as in general that prefaces the statement? This means that the Department of Homeland Security does not have to abide by the Constitution in their attempts to prevent so called homegrown terrorism.”

This bill is completely insane. It literally allows the government to define any and all crimes including thought crime as violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism. Obviously, this legislation is unconstitutional on a number of levels and it is clear that all 404 representatives who voted in favor of this bill are traitors and should be removed from office immediately. The treason spans both political parties and it shows us all that there is no difference between them. The bill will go on to the Senate and will likely be passed and signed into the law by George W. Bush. Considering that draconian legislation like the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act have already been passed, there seems little question that this one will get passed as well. This is more proof that our country has been completely sold out by a group of traitors at all levels of government.

“With overwhelming bipartisan support, Rep. Jane Harman’s ‘Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act’ passed the House 404-6 late last month and now rests in Sen. Joe Lieberman’s Homeland Security Committee. Swift Senate passage appears certain,” write Ralph E. Shaffer and R. William Robinson for the Baltimore Sun. “Not since the ‘Patriot Act’ of 2001 has any bill so threatened our constitutionally guaranteed rights.”

Harman’s “proposed commission is a menace through its power to hold hearings, take testimony and administer oaths, an authority granted to even individual members of the commission—little Joe McCarthys—who will tour the country to hold their own private hearings. An aura of authority will automatically accompany this congressionally authorized mandate to expose native terrorism.”

Ms. Harman’s proposal includes an absurd attack on the Internet, criticizing it for providing Americans with “access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda,” and legalizes an insidious infiltration of targeted organizations. The misnamed “Center of Excellence,” which would function after the commission is disbanded in 18 months, gives the semblance of intellectual research to what is otherwise the suppression of dissent.

While its purpose is to prevent terrorism, the bill doesn’t criminalize any specific conduct or contain penalties. But the commission’s findings will be cited by those who see a terrorist under every bed and who will demand enactment of criminal penalties that further restrict free speech and other civil liberties. Action contrary to the commission’s findings will be interpreted as a sign of treason at worst or a lack of patriotism at the least.

While Ms. Harman denies that her proposal creates “thought police,” it defines “homegrown terrorism” as “planned” or “threatened” use of force to coerce the government or the people in the promotion of “political or social objectives.” That means that no force need actually have occurred as long as the government charges that the individual or group thought about doing it.

As Shaffer and Robinson note, examples of “resulting crackdowns on such protests include the conviction and execution of anarchists tied to Chicago’s 1886 Haymarket Riot.” Additionally, we might add that the FBI’s COINTELPRO—targeting civil rights, antiwar, and national liberation movements—may serve as a template for “insidious infiltration of targeted organizations.” Although the official history would have us believe COINTELRPO was shut down in the 1970s, events since that time reveal the government is still in the business of illegally going after Americans who exercise their constitutional right to petition the government. For more on these recent events, see Brian Glick’s COINTELPRO Revisited: Spying and Disruption.

Thus it makes perfect sense that the corporate media—compromised by the CIA under Operation Mockingbird beginning in the 1950s—would employ the likes of Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly to characterize the antiwar, truth and patriot movements—and even supporters of Ron Paul—as potentially violent advocates of “domestic terrorism.” No doubt, in the weeks and months ahead, we should expect more such propaganda as Harman’s “proposed commissions,” little more than federally mandated inquisitions, get up to speed.
Finally, as noted above, it is only a matter of time before the so-called Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 becomes law. The bill has been referred to the Senate where it awaits scrutiny from the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and is almost certain to pass.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/231107RAND.htm

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OSINT

Holomos — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:56:31 GMT

Anyone looked into OSINT or copernic agent?

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BBC Doc: Freud's nephew created consumerism as mass control wtf!?

thephatconductor — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:54:49 GMT

Like Baraka, this documentary will be mandatory viewing when i take over the world... Totally mindblowing. I think the last part will be available starting tomorrow.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12669.htm

[b]The Century of the Self[/b]

[i]How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society.[/i]

Adam Curtis, The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?

Freud provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of the masses. Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of political spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society's belief that the pursuit of satisfaction and happiness is man's ultimate goal.

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419 and a levle economic playingfield

fun-key_productions — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:08:36 GMT

I was just wondering what people here had to say about advance fee fraud in third world nations. I have noticed that it is very hard to find people that support 419er's but easy to find those that don't. It seams to me that the internet has and is (through things such as advanced fee fraud ect.) become a global economic equalizer. People who are not used to dealing with "untrustworthy or scummy" individuals are geting upset that their money can no longer protect them from those areas of the world where the people have been economically raped for centuries and conditioned into scam artists. Yet these very "victims" of 419ers are scamed by their own government repeatedly, (it seams that this brings to question their personal ability to verify INFO,) I truly hope that 419ers can teach IGNORENT WESTERNERS to STOP BOLIVING EVERYTHING THAT THEY ARE TOLD!!!!!!!!!!!

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Let's Steal the Election Ourselves This Time!

kallistielf — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:49:45 GMT

This is a DIY guide to rigging an election. I was over at www.blackboxvoting.org, (great site) and I was looking over their "Citizen's Toolkit". It was full of decent enough suggestions, but they seemed to miss the most obvious solution: if stealing elections is easy enough for those chumps to do it, then let's do it better than them.

As I researched this article, I've had a growing excitement for the past couple days: this is completely possible. The security exploits are simple, and the only real hurdle is the logistics of scale: how to get a national (or even just statewide) bloodless coup staged quickly and effectively. It's too late for 2006, but we should start planning a truly outstanding prank/revolutionary act for the next presidential election. If all this sounds insane, read on anyway.

www.brainsturbator.com/site/com...his_time/

The Bigger Picture Here

I’m not proposing that we rig these machines to get in the least offensive candidate. If we’re gonna be breaking the law and designing a conspiracy, here, let’s go big. Let’s start electing people who aren’t even fucking running for office.

This is what we refer to as the First Paradox of Authority:

“The kind of people who you want to be authority figures are the kind of people who do not want authority over others.”

This is similar to the problem of Intelligent People Not Having Kids, we can’t have people burdened by mere ethics here. The stakes are too high. We need to put someone like Julia Butterfly Hill in the White House, someone like Maynard James Keenan, someone like Maya Angelou. (And we need the craziest, best-armed militia in the country to back them up and dismantle existing organized crime syndicates like the DEA, ATF, IRS, CIA, etc, etc, etc.)

Seriously --- if I found out someone used this information to get a Democrat elected, it will be a dagger through my heart. Go big. As Hakim Bey instructed us bad kids: “Crime as art. Art as crime.”

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who is reading your personal messages on Tribe?

Fri, 04 May 2007 07:23:11 GMT

TERMS OF USE

"We may monitor your communications..."

3. Monitoring and Disclosure
We may monitor your communications and may disclose content and information about you, including contents of communications, if we deem it reasonably necessary to: (1) conform to legal requirements or respond to legal process; (2) ensure your compliance with this Service Agreement including maintaining this Service and the Code of Conduct; or (3) protect the rights, property, personal safety or interests of Tribe, its employees, its customers, or the public.

***

Were it not for that clause, Tribe.net would be violating the Stored Communications protection under federal law, which carries a $1,000 statutory civil damage per occurance and which is also a felony.

But since the Terms of Use say they can monitor your communications, it is no big deal. Or at least they think so. The clause gives them almost unlimited discretion.

Now here is the question I have, which they will only address by deleting this thread and unsubscribing me.

How often do they do this, and can any Tribe.net employee do it at any time, on a whim, or just to spy on people he doesn't like? Is there any internal guideline or constraint in place? What is stopping tribe.net employees from reading your emails? They have the power to do so, what makes you think they are not?

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EMERGENCY ALERT: F.C.C MEETING ON MEDIA CONSOLIDATION 4/29/07 TAMPA FLORIDA

Jay Shaft — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:16:26 GMT

EMERGENCY ALERT: F.C.C MEETING ON MEDIA CONSOLIDATION 4/29/07 TAMPA FLORIDA
Category: News and Politics

Official FCC Hearing on
Media Ownership
Monday, Apr. 30, Tampa, Fla.

http://www.stopbigmedia.com/=tampa

Tampa Speaks Out
OWNERSHIP HEARING 101:

Learn the FCC Basics
The FCC's rulemaking process and how you can make a difference.

What Should I Say?
Tips for testifying before the commissioners.

Four Points to Remember
Some important points to take to the hearings.

Read About the FCC's 'National Disgrace'
The FCC has abandoned its mandate to ensure diversity in U.S. media.

Recursos en Espanol

The FCC is holding its fourth official public hearing on media ownership issues in Tampa, Fla.:

Date: Monday, Apr. 30, 2007
Time: TBD (likely late afternoon)
Location: TBD

The hearing will feature panel presentations by local broadcasters and community leaders with opportunities for public comment after.

This public hearing is one of the public's few chances to speak out against Big Media before FCC Chairman Kevin Martin moves to lift the last significant limits to runaway media consolidation.

Martin has promised to "hold public hearings in diverse locations around the country to fully involve the American people" in the FCC's review of media ownership rules. The Tampa event will be the fourth of "half a dozen" proposed hearings.

At the first official hearing, held in Los Angeles, more than 1,000 members of the public attended and overwhelming expressed their opposition to any rule changes that would let Big Media companies swallow up more local outlets. Similar sentiments were expressed in Nashville and Harrisburg, Pa..

..

The F.C.C. wants to change the rules to let multibillion dollar media companies like News Corp, Viacom, Disney and Time Warner get even bigger. They're preparing to let giant media corporations buy up more local TV channels, radio stations and newspapers across America.

http://www.stopbigmedia.com/=fcc
Learn about the FCC's rules
..

The largest media conglomerates rake in billions by owning TV stations, cable channels, newspapers, radio stations, publishing houses and more.
Check out our interactive ownership chart
http://www.stopbigmedia.com/chart.php
What's at Stake
http://www.stopbigmedia.com/=learn

The Federal Communications Commission is once again taking up the issue of media ownership and deciding how media ownership rules should be changed. As FCC Commissioner Michael Copps has warned: "They screwed it up once. Believe me, they're 100 percent capable of screwing it up again."

That's why it's crucial for the public to weigh in now. Here's what's at stake:

* Big Media stifle viewpoints: If a corporation like News Corp. can buy multiple media outlets in a single city or town, it gains immense influence over what information is available. Consolidated corporations strip local newsrooms of staff, while pushing aside competing points of view. That means less diversity of voices and a narrower range of debate.

* Big Media don't serve local communities: In exchange for their free and exclusive use of the public airwaves, broadcasters such as Sinclair are supposed to serve the public interest. Yet they frequently ignore important local issues, pander to sensationalism, provide biased coverage of elections, and stifle diverse viewpoints.

* Big Media ignore diversity: Corporate media conglomerates like Tribune Company are more concerned with profits than responsible programming. Coverage of issues important to people of color, the working class and rural citizens are squelched or ignored because these people aren't advertisers' target audiences.

Without ownership limits, giant national corporations can buy up local stations and newspapers, eliminate diverse, local and independent programming. If the FCC is serious about fostering localism and diversity, it must enact protections against consolidated corporate ownership.

For decades, the biggest media companies have had the ear of the FCC and Congress, while the public has been ignored. As the FCC rewrites is ownership rules and Congress debates legislation that will shape the entire media system for years to come, it's time our policymakers listened to the public, not just the corporate lobbyists.
Costs of Consolidation
In 2003, the Federal Communications Commission attempted to loosen media ownership rules that would have unleashed a massive wave of corporate consolidation of radio, television and newspapers entities across the country.

The courts sent these rules back to the FCC for a rewrite. Now, as the FCC embarks upon writing new rules, the stakes are even higher:

* A handful of media companies dominate what you watch on television. As their influence spreads to other outlets, the diversity of what you see diminishes.

Five media conglomerates — Viacom/CBS, Disney, Time Warner, News Corp. and NBC/GE — control the big four networks, 80 percent of the primetime television market share, most cable channels, as well as vast holdings in radio, publishing, movie studios, music, Internet and other sectors. (To learn more, visit StopBigMedia.com's ownership charts)

Minority ownership — a crucial source of diverse and varied viewpoints -- has declined significantly over the past decade. Today, only 3.3% of television stations are minority-owned.

* Media conglomerates now stand to make incredible new profits from the public airwaves with no accountability to the public interest.

Over the next few years, television conglomerates will begin broadcasting digitally. This means that in the space it used to take to broadcast the local affiliate of ABC, NBC or CBS, these corporations will now be able to fit six or more stations — ABC-1, ABC-2, and so on. This opens up countless new revenue streams, and indeed, plans are already in the works to have infomercial-driven new channels pump up corporate profits.

The total worth of the publicly owned airwaves that U.S. broadcasters utilize has been valued at $367 billion -- more than the GDP of many nations — but the public has never been paid a dime in return. Now, these conglomerates claim they can't afford to be accountable to the public interest.

* Media consolidation has stifled independent voices and threatened public access to information.

Consolidation is killing local media choices. Since 1975, two-thirds of newspaper owners have disappeared, and one-third of television owners have vanished. There are less than 300 unique owners of the nation's 1,500 daily newspapers, and more than half of all U.S. markets are dominated by one paper.

Moreover, the number of radio station owners has plummeted by 35 percent since 1996, when ownership rules were gutted. That year, the largest radio owners controlled fewer than 65 stations; today, radio giant Clear Channel alone owns over 1,100.

* If the current ownership rules are eliminated, local communites will be turned into "company towns," where one media conglomerate dominates the public discourse.

Big Media wants the FCC to lift the restrictions on newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership and allow one company to own two or more television stations in a single market. If the rules are changed, the largest conglomerates will immediately begin swapping newspaper and television properties. Then the radio giants like Clear Channel will begin selling off their already consolidated radio holdings for billions to the other dominant companies, creating local and regional media fiefdoms.

If FCC Chairman Kevin Martin tries to push through changes similar to those rejected in 2003, one company could potentially own the major daily newspaper, eight radio stations and three television stations in the same town. Once the digital television transition is completed in 2009 – allowing stations to broadcast multiple signals – one company could control 12 or even 18 television channels in a single city.

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We have lived as if in a trance.

Alexander — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:41:03 GMT

We have lived as if in a trance.

"The Beginning of the End of America."

SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'
Countdown
Updated: 3:00 p.m. ET Oct. 19, 2006

On Tuesday, President Bush signed legislation authorizing tough interrogation of terror suspects and paving the way for trials before military commissions.

Tonight, "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann addresses the legislation in a special comment entitled "The Beginning of the End of America."

You can read an excerpt of Olbermann's comment below.

We have lived as if in a trance.

We have lived as people in fear.

And now—our rights and our freedoms in peril—we slowly awaken to learn that we have been afraid of the wrong thing.

Therefore, tonight have we truly become the inheritors of our American legacy.

For, on this first full day that the Military Commissions Act is in force, we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering:

A government more dangerous to our liberty, than is the enemy it claims to protect us from.

We have been here before—and we have been here before, led here by men better and wiser and nobler than George W. Bush.

We have been here when President John Adams insisted that the Alien and Sedition Acts were necessary to save American lives, only to watch him use those acts to jail newspaper editors.

American newspaper editors, in American jails, for things they wrote about America.

We have been here when President Woodrow Wilson insisted that the Espionage Act was necessary to save American lives, only to watch him use that Act to prosecute 2,000 Americans, especially those he disparaged as “Hyphenated Americans,” most of whom were guilty only of advocating peace in a time of war.

American public speakers, in American jails, for things they said about America.

And we have been here when President Franklin D. Roosevelt insisted that Executive Order 9066 was necessary to save American lives, only to watch him use that order to imprison and pauperize 110,000 Americans while his man in charge, General DeWitt, told Congress: “It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen—he is still a Japanese.”

American citizens, in American camps, for something they neither wrote nor said nor did, but for the choices they or their ancestors had made about coming to America.

Each of these actions was undertaken for the most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

And each was a betrayal of that for which the president who advocated them claimed to be fighting.

Adams and his party were swept from office, and the Alien and Sedition Acts erased.

Many of the very people Wilson silenced survived him, and one of them even ran to succeed him, and got 900,000 votes, though his presidential campaign was conducted entirely from his jail cell.

And Roosevelt’s internment of the Japanese was not merely the worst blight on his record, but it would necessitate a formal apology from the government of the United States to the citizens of the United States whose lives it ruined.

The most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

In times of fright, we have been only human.

We have let Roosevelt’s “fear of fear itself” overtake us.

We have listened to the little voice inside that has said, “the wolf is at the door; this will be temporary; this will be precise; this too shall pass.”

We have accepted that the only way to stop the terrorists is to let the government become just a little bit like the terrorists.

Just the way we once accepted that the only way to stop the Soviets was to let the government become just a little bit like the Soviets.

Or substitute the Japanese.

Or the Germans.

Or the Socialists.

Or the Anarchists.

Or the Immigrants.

Or the British.

Or the Aliens.

The most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

And, always, always wrong.

“With the distance of history, the questions will be narrowed and few: Did this generation of Americans take the threat seriously, and did we do what it takes to defeat that threat?”

Wise words.

And ironic ones, Mr. Bush.

Your own, of course, yesterday, in signing the Military Commissions Act.

You spoke so much more than you know, Sir.

Sadly—of course—the distance of history will recognize that the threat this generation of Americans needed to take seriously was you.

We have a long and painful history of ignoring the prophecy attributed to Benjamin Franklin that “those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

But even within this history we have not before codified the poisoning of habeas corpus, that wellspring of protection from which all essential liberties flow.

You, sir, have now befouled that spring.

You, sir, have now given us chaos and called it order.

You, sir, have now imposed subjugation and called it freedom.

For the most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

And — again, Mr. Bush — all of them, wrong.

We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who has said it is unacceptable to compare anything this country has ever done to anything the terrorists have ever done.

We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who has insisted again that “the United States does not torture. It’s against our laws and it’s against our values” and who has said it with a straight face while the pictures from Abu Ghraib Prison and the stories of Waterboarding figuratively fade in and out, around him.

We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who may now, if he so decides, declare not merely any non-American citizens “unlawful enemy combatants” and ship them somewhere—anywhere -- but may now, if he so decides, declare you an “unlawful enemy combatant” and ship you somewhere - anywhere.

And if you think this hyperbole or hysteria, ask the newspaper editors when John Adams was president or the pacifists when Woodrow Wilson was president or the Japanese at Manzanar when Franklin Roosevelt was president.

And if you somehow think habeas corpus has not been suspended for American citizens but only for everybody else, ask yourself this: If you are pulled off the street tomorrow, and they call you an alien or an undocumented immigrant or an “unlawful enemy combatant”—exactly how are you going to convince them to give you a court hearing to prove you are not? Do you think this attorney general is going to help you?

This President now has his blank check.

He lied to get it.

He lied as he received it.

Is there any reason to even hope he has not lied about how he intends to use it nor who he intends to use it against?

“These military commissions will provide a fair trial,” you told us yesterday, Mr. Bush, “in which the accused are presumed innocent, have access to an attorney and can hear all the evidence against them.”

"Presumed innocent," Mr. Bush?

The very piece of paper you signed as you said that, allows for the detainees to be abused up to the point just before they sustain “serious mental and physical trauma” in the hope of getting them to incriminate themselves, and may no longer even invoke The Geneva Conventions in their own defense.

"Access to an attorney," Mr. Bush?

Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift said on this program, Sir, and to the Supreme Court, that he was only granted access to his detainee defendant on the promise that the detainee would plead guilty.

"Hearing all the evidence," Mr. Bush?

The Military Commissions Act specifically permits the introduction of classified evidence not made available to the defense.

Your words are lies, Sir.

They are lies that imperil us all.

“One of the terrorists believed to have planned the 9/11 attacks,” you told us yesterday, “said he hoped the attacks would be the beginning of the end of America.”

That terrorist, sir, could only hope.

Not his actions, nor the actions of a ceaseless line of terrorists (real or imagined), could measure up to what you have wrought.

Habeas corpus? Gone.

The Geneva Conventions? Optional.

The moral force we shined outwards to the world as an eternal beacon, and inwards at ourselves as an eternal protection? Snuffed out.

These things you have done, Mr. Bush, they would be “the beginning of the end of America.”

And did it even occur to you once, sir — somewhere in amidst those eight separate, gruesome, intentional, terroristic invocations of the horrors of 9/11 -- that with only a little further shift in this world we now know—just a touch more repudiation of all of that for which our patriots died --- did it ever occur to you once that in just 27 months and two days from now when you leave office, some irresponsible future president and a “competent tribunal” of lackeys would be entitled, by the actions of your own hand, to declare the status of “unlawful enemy combatant” for -- and convene a Military Commission to try -- not John Walker Lindh, but George Walker Bush?

For the most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

And doubtless, Sir, all of them—as always—wrong.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15321167/

audio:

http://podcast.msnbc.com/audio/podcast/pd_countdown-10-18-2006-180800.mp3

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Lynx Use

Steve — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 00:11:54 GMT

I am beginning to use lynx to grab data off of webpages, usually in table form, and save them into either textfiles on a Unix System, or Excel files on a Win system.

I have read the man pages for lynx, and am getting comfortable with the options, but, alas:

I have no skill.

Can one o' y'all alarmingly overinformed folks direct me to some skill buildin' sources of info in re lynx and screen scraping on various systems?

Google is unearthing a tad much for me to filter and use effectively.

Alternatively, canst thou tell me what's wrong with my approach?

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Leading Democrats say "No to Impeachment of Bush.. it is off the table"

Alexander — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:25:14 GMT

Leading Democrats say "No to Impeachment of Bush.. it is off the table"

Conyers Toes Party Line: No Impeachment
Something Is Extremely 'Rotten In The State Of Denmark'

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, November 10, 2006

The latest Democrat "saviour" to flip flop 180 degrees in light of
their victory is Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. Presumed to become
chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in January, Conyers today
said that impeachment of President Bush "is off the table."

"In this campaign, there was an orchestrated right-wing effort to
distort my position on impeachment, " Conyers said in a statement
released by his Judiciary Committee spokesman. "The incoming speaker
(Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.) has said that impeachment is off the
table. I am in total agreement with her on this issue: Impeachment
is off the table."

Conyers seems to have forgotten that last December he laid out the
grounds for impeachment in a 350 page long report called "The
Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception,
Manipulation, Torture, Retribution and Cover-ups in the Iraq War"
and later updated to add "illegal domestic surveillance. "

For a while Conyers was the darling of left leaning bloggers and
readers everywhere:

At this site, we are especially proud of the new Conyers
Report, "The Constitution in Crisis." By purchasing this book, you
have the opportunity to own a part of history and help the
Congressman hold the Bush Administration accountable. Your
assistance in helping Congressman Conyers become the next Chairman
of the House Judiciary Committee will bring us one step closer to
getting the American people the answers from this Administration
that they deserve.
- www.afterdowningstr eet.org

Conyers is so admirable. One of the very few in Congress who still
has integrity and principles. It is too bad that he does not get
more MSM coverage but why would they do that? He might upset the
Republican and Corporate plans for total control and could expose
their nefarious doings.
He is risking much by not following the official DNC program too, in
addition to challenging the Bushies.
- Huffington Post

In december 2005, upon release of the report, Conyers stated:

The Report concludes that a number of these actions amount to prima
facie evidence (evidence sufficiently strong to presume the
allegations are true) that federal criminal laws have been violated.
Legal violations span from false statements to Congress to
whistleblower laws... The Report also concludes that these charges
clearly rise to the level of impeachable conduct... In response to
the Report, I have already taken a number of actions. First, I have
introduced a resolution (H. Res. 635) creating a Select Committee
with subpoena authority to investigate the misconduct of the Bush
Administration with regard to the Iraq war and report on possible
impeachable offenses.

So Conyers was already underway with setting up investigations into
impeachable offences, but now he says that impeachment is off the
table? Clearly he has been given orders to toe the party line or
face the consequences.

Despite the fact that 86% want to see the President impeached,
leading Democrats have already ruled this out. The same leading
Democrats that voted for the war in Afghanistan, for the Patriot
Act, for Homeland Security and against a bill that simply condemned
torture of prisoners in Iraq.

After Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean, Conyers is the latest Democrat
to show us their true colours once in power.

Conyers and the other Democrats highlight precisely why we need to
regroup, consolidate and redouble our efforts in light of the
theatrical shift of power in Washington to the left. Because as soon
as this happened, overnight, the truth movement lost a great deal of
support from those that believe the job is now done.

Taking note of many reader comments over the past few days I have
noticed a startling uprise in the amount of negative and dismissive
feedback from some readers. Evidently those who expected us to be
out dancing in the streets at the news of a Democrat landslide in
Washington have been bitterly disappointed.

We have never once suggested that the solution to a corrupt and
fascist Neocon leadership is a passive and capitulating Democrat
sideshow leadership, so why is it any surprise that we are
continuing on the same course as before?

Comments such as the following emphasize my point:

"You can only have it one way. What the hell is up with you people.
The whole time the Bush regime was in power you begged for change.
Now you have it, but your still complaining. "

Yes we are seeking change, but not a simple change of personnel as
we have witnessed this week. As we reported yesterday "There's no
doubt about it, to see frothing Neo-Cons who have been strutting
around like John Wayne for the past five years finally eat humble
pie is a breath of fresh air, but let's not be so deluded as to
think that the Neo-Con agenda, which took decades to craft, was
simply brushed aside by the victory of a party that has supported
Bush every step of the way on major issues."

Seeing Bush on TV admitting he'd took a hell of a beating was great,
for about five minutes, then he started laughing and joking about it
and talking about pushing forward to work closely with a new crowd.

Is rolling over and going back to sleep going to get Bush impeached?
Should we shut down the websites now and go save the whales or
something else we'd all love to be doing if we didn't have to
relentlessly keep fighting to stop our leaders killing our freedoms?

Within hours the Democratic elite have shown us that they don't give
a damn about holding the Bush administration up to scrutiny. With no
effective opposition in the form of a political party it is up to
the people to continue to demand justice and to continue to attempt
to reign in those who have heinously abused their power.

Thomas Jefferson described Congress as "a body to which the people
send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question
everything and yield nothing."

In light of this how can any representative say something like
impeachment is 'off the table?'

found at
http://www.infowars .net/articles/ november2006/ 101106Rotten. htm

Nancy Pelosi on YouTube and Howard Dean

Nancy Pelosi on the YouTube saying "NO TO IMPEACHMENT... ITS OFF THE TABLE"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=R-4vw2qw3Wc
or
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mAGCgY4PDNA

Howard Dean Says No Impeachment Of Bush
Lapdog Democrats to waste two years on minimum wage and mass illegal amnesty, no to Iraq inquiry, no to police state rollback, no to bringing troops home

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, November 9, 2006

Howard Dean last night said there would be no impeachment proceedings against President Bush under a Democrat controlled Congress, echoing the pledge of Nancy Pelosi to protect the administration that lied a nation into a war and dismantled the very fabric of America.

Here's the exchange from Dean's appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night.

STEWART: "How long in your mind do you feel it's gonna be before power corrupts you absolutely?"

DEAN: "Well, you know...."

STEWART: "The last guys did it in three and a half days, what are you guys aiming for?"

DEAN: "Longer than that."

DEAN: "I know half the audience wants us to impeach the President and all that kind of stuff but we're not gonna do that - we're not gonna do that."

Dean is toeing the party line first crystallized by Nancy Pelosi when she told the 60 Minutes program, "Impeachment is off the table....it's a pledge....it is a waste of time."

When will jubilant mindless liberals realize that their darling Democrats have been installed as ringers to halt the momentum of the anti-war and 9/11 truth movements while committing to shielding the Bush administration for the very crimes and misdemeanors that supposedly cost them the House and Senate in the first place?

Democrats have already clearly stated how they intend to "get to work" over the next two years - by helping Bush push through a mass amnesty for illegal aliens - something his own republican House even prevented him doing - and also wasting time on the non-issue of the minimum wage.

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens help rollback the devastation the Bush administration has wrought on the U.S. Constitution?

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens bring the troops home?

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens re-instate the nine amendments to the Constitution that were abolished under the Military Commissions Act?

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens do anything to can the unconstitutional domestic eavesdropping program?

Will raising the minimum wage and legalizing all illegal aliens do anything to claw back the out of control deficit?

We were told the Republicans were abandoned because of corruption and Iraq and yet the Democrat shills have completely avoided specifics about how they intend to address these issues and on the question of impeachment have vowed to protect Bush. Empty rhetoric about a "policy change" in Iraq is nothing more than hot air betrayed by a legacy of Democrat support for keeping the troops in the quagmire - exemplified no better than Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, who both support imperial jaunts in the name of the "war on terror."

British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has already stated that Blair's government will not co-operate with any move to withdraw troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and she needn't worry because the Democrats are not going to even try it.

The Associated Press reports that Pelosi and Bush have already proclaimed reconciliation and are now "making nice" and devising how they can work in tandem. Tuesday's vote and its superficial euphoric aftermath was not about a populist reaction to six years of abuse and deceit - it was a sad indictment of the fact that a majority of Americans, particularly the establishment left, still buy the hoax that the Republicrats and the Democons are anything more than two different CEO's bidding for control of Slavery Incorporated.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2006/091106deansaysno.htm

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From the Wilderness office burglarized

Alexander — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:31:59 GMT

From the Wilderness office burglarized

This was posted in my forum several days ago dedicated to Cascadian Bioregionalism
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cascadian_Bioregionalism/

From the Wilderness office burglarized

http://www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com
URGENT NOTICE: FTW BURGLARIZED; COMPUTERS SMASHED
I have just received a phonecall from Mike Ruppert. The FTW offices
have been burglarized, the doors smashed with sledgehammers and every
computer broken. Mike's fine (thank God!!!) and I believe we know who
did it but FTW is non-operational at this moment. However, the blog
is up and running.
Thank you for you patience.

Jenna Orkin

Michael C. Ruppert and From The Wilderness Publications
and The Jackson County Sustainability Network
PRESENT:

ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Friday, June 30th

at Southern Oregon University

the Power of Community

How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

Plus a special presentation by Producer/Writer/Outreach Director

MEGAN QUINN

One of tomorrow’s sustainability leaders and top
international speakers on sustainability and Peak Oil.

“Everyone who is concerned about Peak Oil needs to see this film.
Cuba survived an energy famine during the 1990s, and how it did do so
constitutes one of the most important and hopeful stories of the past
few decades. It is a story not just of individual achievement, but of
the collective mobilizations of an entire society to meet an enormous
challenge.” - Richard Heinberg, author of The Party’s Over, Powerdown

Megan Quinn is the Outreach Director of The Community Solution,
(www.communitysolution.org) a non-profit organization in Yellow
Springs, Ohio. She has been writing and speaking on Peak Oil and its
community-based solutions for more than three years. She helped to
organize and served as Emcee for the First and Second U.S.
Conferences on Peak Oil and Community Solutions, which drew more than
600 participants. In April, Megan Emceed a Washington, D.C.
conference, “Peak Oil and the Environment.” Her articles on peak oil
have appeared in many publications. " She holds a degree in Diplomacy
and Foreign Affairs from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she
studied Peak Oil and its U.S. Foreign Policy implications. She has
also studied in Europe at Miami’s campus in Luxembourg and at the
University of Havana in Cuba.

The Community Solution is a non-profit that educates about peak oil
and community-based solutions and designs processes for moving
society away from industrial centralization toward small local
communities as fossil fuels and other natural resources become
increasingly scarce.

Special presentation by Michael C. Ruppert, Author of Crossing the
Rubicon. The film is 58 minutes, with a exclusive presentation by
Megan Quinn with Q & A. Copies of the film will be a available for
purchase at the event.

WHEN: Friday, June 30, 2006 from 6:30 — 8:30pm
WHERE: SOU, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd. Ashland, OR; Stevenson Union; Rogue
River Room
ADMISSION: Suggested donation of $5 at door NO ONE TURNED AWAY

http://www.fromthewilderness.com

Jackson County Sustainability Network—
jcsn @ yahoogroups.com—(541) 973—3566

___

update on From the Wilderness vandalism

Who is Mike Ruppert?

Mike Ruppert was an LAPD Vice detective who was sick and tired of all
the crack cocaine flooding Los Angeles.

He made great strides in proving the CIA was importing this Cocaine.

His website during the 90s was http://copvcia.com

goto http://archive.org and search for his site to see what he was
doing.

Then 911 was forced upon the American People.

Mike Ruppert's http://fromthewilderness.com
provided much of the evidence we now posess of
US Government forknowledge and complicity.

ie insider trading pre 911
ie PNAC / caspian oil pipeline negotiations
ie 911 patsies (stooges working for US gov)

And now the update:

update on From the Wilderness vandalism

http://www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com

Urgent Message From Mike Ruppert

Between the hours of 7:30 P.M. Sunday, June 25 and 7:30 A.M., Monday,
June 26, the FTW offices were burglarized. Four interior doors were
smashed with a sledgehammer. All seven FTW computers were transported
to a central location in the building. Their covers were removed and
they were also smashed with a sledgehammer. No other significant
property was taken and there was no other damage to any other
fixtures or furnishings.

An active police investigation is underway with a named suspect. I do
not believe that this incident was the work of the U.S. government. I
do believe that this is the work of an organized meth ring that I
prevented from infiltrating my business. As Dmitri Orlov has noted in
Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century, when societies
collapse, organized crime becomes much more assertive. As beautiful
as Southern Oregon is and as happy as I am to be here, the challenges
that will be facing all of us as Peak Oil hits are making themselves
known.

We have ordered new computers and should be able to retrieve or
restore most of our data. However more than one hard-drive will
require expensive high- tech recovery processes. In all probability
FTW will not be able to upload to our website for one week from
today. When we come back online I will have a more complete story
with photographs. Please do not send emails. We cannot read them.

Michael C. Ruppert

Mike is asking that this message be distributed widely until he can
get back online.

_______________________________________________
Stumps mailing list
Stumps@forestcouncil.org
http://oldgrowth.forestcouncil.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stumps

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Radio

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:55:30 GMT

http://www.upstartradio.com/Internet%20Radio%20Broadcast.html

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Interview with Aaron Russo director of "Freedom to Fascism"

Alexander — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:29:08 GMT

Interview with Aaron Russo director of "Freedom to Fascism"

An interview by http://consciousmedianetwork.com of Aaron Russo about his new film, America: Freedom to Fascism. In this film Russo sets out to find the law that requires American citizens pay a direct income tax. This interview contains info about the fiat currency owned by private, for profit bank that we call "dollars". He explains how the Federal Reserve is neither 'Federal' nor has any reserves. He also gives a spot on critique of Michael Moore's Farenheit 911 . America: Freedom to Fascism is opening in USA . Also included on the radio.indymedia php page associated with this file will be a short excerpt from the inteview and the 14 min. trailer to the film.
http://fromfreedomtofascism.com
listen for excerpts of it in the daily rotation of radioActive sanDiego http://radioactiveradio.org
look for mp3 links to 16 min. trailer to film, and 4 minute audio clip of interview at the ".php" page on http://radioactiveradio.org
36 min.

http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/aluhlooyah_aaronrussointerviewcmn.mp3

http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/10251.php

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Public information

Swaz — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:02:36 GMT

How much information on a person is in the public domain? I know you can get anyone's criminal history with thier social security number. What else can be found? DMV record? Tax returns? Health records are confidential, I know that much.

When people hires a private investigator to get a profile on someone I know they're not breaking any laws to get buttloads of information. It's just a little fee here and there and knowing who to ask.

Any other records I forgot?

Swaz

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Lists of who is & is not in the "Get out of Iraq" Caucus in the US House of Representatives.

elvis_4_peace — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:56:59 GMT

Below are 3 lists concerning the "Get out of Iraq" Caucus in the US House of Representatives. The 2nd and 3rd lists list each member's phone number for you to call - either thank them for joining the Caucus or to urge them to do so. These lists come from the following 2 sources although I resorted them and added phone #'s.

http://democracyrising.us/content/view/288/165/ Website for Democracy Rising, a founding member of United for Peace and Justice
http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=304 The blog for Progressive Democrats of America (PDA)

The first shows the Caucus Founders.
The second shows those members of the House of Representatives who have joined the Caucus as of 9-26-05.
The third shows those members of the House of Representatives who have yet to join the Caucus as of 9-26-05.
Go to http://congress.org to find email addresses and mailing addressesfor your congressional representatives.

Founders of the "Get out of Iraq" Caucus
Rep. Maxine Waters, Chair
Rep. Barbara Lee
Rep. Charlie Rangel
Rep. Jan Schakowsky
Rep. John Conyers
Rep. Lynn Woolsey
Rep. William Delahunt
Rep. John Lewis
68 Members of the House of Representatives who have joined the "Get out of Iraq"
Caucus as of 9-26-05 or earlier
AZ, Raul Grijalva, Ph#: 202-225-2435
CA, Lois Capps, Ph#: 202-225-3601
CA, Sam Farr, Ph#: 202-225-2861
CA, Bob Filner, Ph#: 202-225-8045
CA, Michael M. Honda, Ph#: 202-225-2631
CA, Barbara Lee, Ph#: 202-225-2661
CA, George Miller, Ph#: 202-225-2095
CA, Grace F. Napolitano, Ph#: 202-225-5256
CA, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Ph#: 202-225-1766
CA, Linda T. Sanchez, Ph#: 202-225-6676
CA, Hilda L. Solis, Ph#: 202-225-5464
CA, Forney Pete Stark, Ph#: 202-225-5065
CA, Maxine Waters, Ph#: 202-225-2201
CA, Diane E. Watson, Ph#: 202-225-7084
CA, Lynn C. Woolsey, Ph#: 202-225-5161
CT, John B. Larson, Ph#: 202-225-2265
District of Columbia, Eleanor Holmes-Norton, Ph#: 202-225-8050
FL, Corrine Brown, Ph#: 202-225-0123
GA, John Lewis, Ph#: 202-225-3801
GA, Cythia McKinney, Ph#: 202-225-1605
HI, Neil Abercombie, Ph#: 202-225-2726
IL, Danny K. Davis, Ph#: 202-225-5006
IL, Lane Evans, Ph#: 202-225-5905
IL, Luis V. Gutierrez, Ph#: 202-225-8203
IL, Bobby L. Rush, Ph#: 202-225-4372
IL, Janice Schakowsky, Ph#: 202-225-2111
IN, Julia Carson, Ph#: 202-225-4011
MA, Michael E. Capuano, Ph#: 202-225-1111
MA, William D. Delahunt, Ph#: 202-225-3111
MA, Barney Frank, Ph#: 202-225-5931
MA, Edward Markey, Ph#: 202-225-2836
MA, James McGovern, Ph#: 202-225-6101
MA, Martin T. Meehan, Ph#: 202-225-3411
MA, John W. Olver, Ph#: 202-225-5335
MA, John F. Tierney, Ph#: 202-225-8020
MD, Elijah E. Cummings, Ph#: 202-225-4741
MD, Albert Russell Wynn, Ph#: 202-225-8699
MI, John, Jr. Conyers, Ph#: 202-225-5126
MI, Carolyn C. Kilpatrick, Ph#: 202-225-2261
MN, James L. Oberstar, Ph#: 202-225-6211
MO, Wm. Lacy Clay, Ph#: 202-225-8406
MS, Bennie G. Thompson, Ph#: 202-225-5876
NJ, Rush D. Holt, Ph#: 202-225-5801
NJ, Frank, Jr Pallone, Ph#: 202-225-4671
NJ, Donald M. Payne, Ph#: 202-225-3436
NY, Maurice D. Hinchey, Ph#: 202-225-6335
NY, Carolyn C. Maloney, Ph#: 202-225-7944
NY, Michael R. McNulty, Ph#: 202-225-5076
NY, Major R. Owens, Ph#: 202-225-6231
NY, Charles Rangel, Ph#: 202-225-4365
NY, Jose E. Serrano, Ph#: 202-225-4361
NY, Edolphus Towns, Ph#: 202-225-5936
NY, Nydia M. Velazquez, Ph#: 202-225-2361
OH, Sherrod Brown, Ph#: 202-225-3401
OH, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Ph#: 202-225-7032
OH, Marcy Kaptur, Ph#: 202-225-4146
OH, Dennis J. Kucinich, Ph#: 202-225-5871
PA, Chaka Fattah, Ph#: 202-225-4001
TX, Lloyd Dogget, Ph#: 202-225-4865
TX, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Ph#: 202-225-3816
VA, James P. Moran, Ph#: 202-225-4376
VA, Robert C. Scott, Ph#: 202-225-8351
Virgin Islands, Donna Christensen, Ph#: 202-225-1790
WA, Jim McDermott, Ph#: 202-225-3106
WI, Tammy Baldwin, Ph#: 202-225-2906
WI, Gwen Moore, Ph#: 202-225-4572
WV, Nick J. Rahall, Ph#: 202-225-3452
Members of the House who have not yet joined the "Get out of Iraq" Caucus (as of
9-26-05).
AK, Don Young, Ph#: 202-225-5765
AL, Robert Aderholt, Ph#: 202-225-4876
AL, Spencer Bachus, Ph#: 202-225-4921
AL, Jo Bonner, Ph#: 202-225-4931
AL, Robert E. Cramer, Ph#: 202-225-4801
AL, Artur Davis, Ph#: 202-225-2665
AL, Terry Everett, Ph#: 202-225-8577
AL, Mike Rogers, Ph#: 202-225-3261
AR, Marion Berry, Ph#: 202-225-4076
AR, John Boozman, Ph#: 202-225-4301
AR, Mike Ross, Ph#: 202-225-3772
AR, Vic Snyder, Ph#: 202-225-2506
AZ, Jeff Flacke, Ph#: 202-225-2635
AZ, Trent Franks, Ph#: 202-225-4576
AZ, J. D. Hayworth, Ph#: 202-225-2190
AZ, Jim Kolbe, Ph#: 202-225-2542
AZ, Ed Pastor, Ph#: 202-225-4065
AZ, Rick Renzi, Ph#: 202-225-2315
AZ, John B. Shadegg, Ph#: 202-225-3361
CA, Joe Baca, Ph#: 202-225-6161
CA, Xavier Becerra, Ph#: 202-225-6235
CA, Howard Berman, Ph#: 202-225-4695
CA, Mary Bono, Ph#: 202-225-5330
CA, Ken Calvert, Ph#: 202-225-1986
CA, Dennis A. Cardoza, Ph#: 202-225-6131
CA, Jim Costa, Ph#: 202-225-3341
CA, Christopher Cox, Ph#: 202-225-5611
CA, Randy Cunningham, Ph#: 202-225-5452
CA, Susan A. Davis, Ph#: 202-225-2040
CA, Diana DeGette, Ph#: 202-225-4431
CA, John T. Doolittle, Ph#: 202-225-2511
CA, David Dreier, Ph#: 202-225-2305
CA, Anna G. Eshoo, Ph#: 202-225-8104
CA, Elton Gallegly, Ph#: 202-225-5811
CA, Jane Harman, Ph#: 202-225-8220
CA, Wally Herger, Ph#: 202-225-3076
CA, Duncan Hunter, Ph#: 202-225-5672
CA, Darrell E. Issa, Ph#: 202-225-3906
CA, Tom Lantos, Ph#: 202-225-3531
CA, Jerry Lewis, Ph#: 202-225-5861
CA, Zoe Lofgren, Ph#: 202-225-3072
CA, Daniel E. Lungren, Ph#: 202-225-5716
CA, Doris O. Matsui, Ph#: 202-225-7163
CA, Howard P. McKeon, Ph#: 202-225-1956
CA, Juanita Millender-McDonald, Ph#: 202-225-7924
CA, Gary G. Miller, Ph#: 202-225-3201
CA, Devin Nunes, Ph#: 202-225-2523
CA, Nancy L. Pelosi, Ph#: 202-225-4965
CA, Richard Pombo, Ph#: 202-225-1947
CA, George Radanovich, Ph#: 202-225-4540
CA, Dana Rohrabacher, Ph#: 202-225-2415
CA, Edward R. Royce, Ph#: 202-225-4111
CA, Loretta Sanchez, Ph#: 202-225-2965
CA, Adam B. Schiff, Ph#: 202-225-4176
CA, Brad Sherman, Ph#: 202-225-5911
CA, Ellen O. Tauscher, Ph#: 202-225-1880
CA, WilliamM. Thomas, Ph#: 202-225-2915
CA, Mike Thompson, Ph#: 202-225-3311
CA, henry A. Waxman, Ph#: 202-225-3976
CO, Bob Beauprez, Ph#: 202-225-2645
CO, Joel Hefley, Ph#: 202-225-4422
CO, Marilyn N. Musgrave, Ph#: 202-225-4676
CO, John T. Salazar, Ph#: 202-225-4761
CO, Thomas G. Tancredo, Ph#: 202-225-7882
CO, Mark Udall, Ph#: 202-225-2161
CT, Rosa L. DeLauro, Ph#: 202-225-3661
CT, Nancy L. Johnson, Ph#: 202-225-4476
CT, Christopher Shays, Ph#: 202-225-5541
CT, Rob Simmons, Ph#: 202-225-2076
DE, Michael N. Castle, Ph#: 202-225-4165
FL, Michael Bilirakis, Ph#: 202-225-5755
FL, Allen Boyd, Ph#: 202-225-5235
FL, Ginny Brown-Waite, Ph#: 202-225-1002
FL, Ander Crenshaw, Ph#: 202-225-8501
FL, Jim Davis, Ph#: 202-225-3376
FL, Marion Diaz-Balart, Ph#: 202-225-2778
FL, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Ph#: 202-225-4211
FL, Tom Feeney, Ph#: 202-225-2706
FL, Mark Foley, Ph#: 202-225-5792
FL, Katherine Harris, Ph#: 202-225-5015
FL, Alcee L. Hastings, Ph#: 202-225-1313
FL, Ric Keller, Ph#: 202-225-2176
FL, Connie Mack, Ph#: 202-225-2536
FL, Kendrick B. Meek, Ph#: 202-225-4506
FL, John L. Mica, Ph#: 202-2254035
FL, Jeff Miller, Ph#: 202-225-4136
FL, Adam H. Putnam, Ph#: 202-225-1252
FL, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Ph#: 202-225-3931
FL, E. Clay, Jr. Shaw, Ph#: 202-225-3026
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FL, Debbie Wasserman, Ph#: 202-225-7931
FL, Dave Weldon, Ph#: 202-225-3671
FL, Robert Wexler, Ph#: 202-225-3001
FL, C. W. Bill Young, Ph#: 202-225-5961
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GA, Nathan Deal, Ph#: 202-225-5211
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IA, Steve King, Ph#: 202-225-4486
IA, Tom Latham, Ph#: 202-225-2476
IA, James A. Leach, Ph#: 202-225-6576
IA, Jim Nussle, Ph#: 202-225-2911
ID, C.L. Otter, Ph#: 202-225-6611
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IL, Melissa Bean, Ph#: 202-225-3711
IL, Judy Biggert, Ph#: 202-225-3515
IL, Jerry F. Costello, Ph#: 202-225-5661
IL, Rahm Emanuel, Ph#: 202-225-4061
IL, J. Dennis Haster, Ph#: 202-225-2976
IL, Henry J. Hyde, Ph#: 202-225-4561
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IL, Timothy V. Johnson, Ph#: 202-225-2371
IL, Mark Steven Kirk, Ph#: 202-225-4835
IL, Ray LaHood, Ph#: 202-225-6201
IL, Daniel Lipinski, Ph#: 202-225-5701
IL, Donald A. Manzullo, Ph#: 202-225-5676
IL, John Shimkus, Ph#: 202-225-5271
IL, Jerry Weller, Ph#: 202-225-3635
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IN, Steve Buyer, Ph#: 202-225-5037
IN, Chris Chocola, Ph#: 202-225-3915
IN, John N. Hostettler, Ph#: 202-225-4636
IN, Mike Pence, Ph#: 202-225-3021
IN, Michael E. Sodrel, Ph#: 202-225-5315
IN, Mark E. Souder, Ph#: 202-225-4436
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KS, Jerry Moran, Ph#: 202-225-2715
KS, Jim Ryun, Ph#: 202-225-6601
KS, Todd Tiahrt, Ph#: 202-225-6216
KY, Ben Chandler, Ph#: 202-225-4706
KY, Geoff Davis, Ph#: 202-225-3465
KY, Ron Lewis, Ph#: 202-225-3501
KY, Anne M Northup, Ph#: 202-225-5401
KY, Harold E., Jr. Rogers, Ph#: 202-225-4601
KY, Ed Whitefield, Ph#: 202-225-3115
LA, Rodney Alexander, Ph#: 202-225-8490
LA, Richard Baker, Ph#: 202-225-3901
LA, Charles W. Boustany, Ph#: 202-225-2031
LA, William J. Jefferson, Ph#: 202-225-6636
LA, Bobby Jindal, Ph#: 202-225-3015
LA, Jim McCrery, Ph#: 202-225-2777
LA, Charlie Melancon, Ph#: 202-225-4031
MA, Stephen F. Lynch, Ph#: 202-225-8273
MA, Richard E. Neal, Ph#: 202-225-5601
MD, Roscoe Bartlett, Ph#: 202-225-2721
MD, Benjamin L. Cardin, Ph#: 202-225-4016
MD, Wayne T. Gilchrest, Ph#: 202-225-5311
MD, Steny H. Hoyer, Ph#: 202-225-4131
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MD, Chris Van Hollen, Ph#: 202-225-5341
ME, Thomas Allen, Ph#: 202-225-6116
ME, Michael H. Michaud, Ph#: 202-225-6306
MI, Dave Camp, Ph#: 202-225-3561
MI, John D. Dingell, Ph#: 202-225-4071
MI, Vernon J. Ehlers, Ph#: 202-225-3831
MI, Peter Hoekstra, Ph#: 202-225-4401
MI, Dale E. Kildee, Ph#: 202-225-3611
MI, Joel Knollenberg, Ph#: 202-225-5802
MI, Sander M. Levin, Ph#: 202-225-4961
MI, Thaddeus G. McCotter, Ph#: 202-225-8171
MI, Candice S. Miller, Ph#: 202-225-2106
MI, Mike Rogers, Ph#: 202-225-4872
MI, John J. H. Schwarz, Ph#: 202-225-6276
MI, Bart Stupak, Ph#: 202-225-4735
MI, Fred Upton, Ph#: 202-225-3761
MN, Gil Gutknecht, Ph#: 202-225-2472
MN, Mark R. Kennedy, Ph#: 202-225-2331
MN, John Kline, Ph#: 202-225-2271
MN, Betty McCollum, Ph#: 202-225-6631
MN, Collin C. Peterson, Ph#: 202-225-2165
MN, Jim Ramstad, Ph#: 202-225-2871
MN, Martin Olav Sabo, Ph#: 202-225-4755
MO, Todd Akin, Ph#: 202-225-2561
MO, Roy Blunt, Ph#: 202-225-6536
MO, Russ Carnahan, Ph#: 202-225-2671
MO, Emanuel Cleaver, Ph#: 202-225-4535
MO, Jo Ann Emerson, Ph#: 202-225-4404
MO, Sam Graves, Ph#: 202-225-7041
MO, Kenny C. Hulshof, Ph#: 202-225-2956
MO, Ike Skelton, Ph#: 202-225-2876
MS, Charles W. Pickering, Ph#: 202-225-5031
MS, Gene Taylor, Ph#: 202-225-5772
MS, Roger F. Wicker, Ph#: 202-225-4306
MT, Dennis R. Rehberg, Ph#: 202-225-3211
NC, G. K. Butterfield, Ph#: 202-225-3101
NC, Howard Coble, Ph#: 202-225-3065
NC, Bob Etheridge, Ph#: 202-225-4531
NC, Virginia Foxx, Ph#: 202-225-8071
NC, Robin Hayes, Ph#: 202-225-3715
NC, Walter B. Jones, Ph#: 202-225-3415
NC, Patrick T. McHenry, Ph#: 202-225-8576
NC, Mike McIntyre, Ph#: 202-225-2731
NC, Brad Miller, Ph#: 202-225-3032
NC, Sue Wilkins Myrick, Ph#: 202-225-1976
NC, David E. Price, Ph#: 202-225-1784
NC, Charles H. Taylor, Ph#: 202-225-6401
NC, Melvin L. Watt, Ph#: 202-225-1510
ND, Earl Pomeroy, Ph#: 202-225-2611
NE, Jeff Fortenberry, Ph#: 202-225-4806
NE, Tom Osborne, Ph#: 202-225-6435
NE, Lee Terry, Ph#: 202-225-4155
NH, Jeb Bradley, Ph#: 202-225-5456
NJ, Robert Andrews, Ph#: 202-225-6501
NJ, Charles Bass, Ph#: 202-225-5206
NJ, Mike Ferguson, Ph#: 202-225-5361
NJ, Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, Ph#: 202-225-5034
NJ, Scott Garrett, Ph#: 202-225-4465
NJ, Frank A. LoBiondo, Ph#: 202-225-6572
NJ, Robert Menendez, Ph#: 202-225-7919
NJ, Bill, Jr. Pascrell, Ph#: 202-225-5751
NJ, Steven R. Rothman, Ph#: 202-225-5061
NJ, Jim Saxton, Ph#: 202-225-4765
NJ, Christopher H. Smith, Ph#: 202-225-3765
NM, Stevan Pearce, Ph#: 202-225-2365
NM, Tom Udall, Ph#: 202-225-6190
NM, Heather Wilson, Ph#: 202-225-6316
NV, Shelley Berkley, Ph#: 202-225-5965
NV, Jim Givvvons, Ph#: 202-225-6155
NV, Jon C. Poter, Ph#: 202-225-3252
NY, Gary Ackerman, Ph#: 202-225-2601
NY, Timothy Bishop, Ph#: 202-225-3826
NY, Sherwood Boehlert, Ph#: 202-225-3665
NY, Joseph Crowley, Ph#: 202-225-3965
NY, Eliot L. Engel, Ph#: 202-225-2464
NY, Vito Fossella, Ph#: 202-225-3371
NY, Brian Higgins, Ph#: 202-225-3306
NY, Steve Israel, Ph#: 202-225-3335
NY, Sue W. Kelly, Ph#: 202-225-5441
NY, Petere T. King, Ph#: 202-225-7896
NY, John R. Kuhl, Ph#: 202-225-3161
NY, Nita M. Lowey, Ph#: 202-225-6506
NY, Carolyn C. McCarthy, Ph#: 202-225-5516
NY, John M. McHugh, Ph#: 202-225-4611
NY, Gregory W. Meeks, Ph#: 202-225-3461
NY, Jerrold Nadler, Ph#: 202-225-5635
NY, Thomas M. Reynolds, Ph#: 202-225-5265
NY, Louise Mc Intosh Slaughter, Ph#: 202-225-3615
NY, John E. Sweeney, Ph#: 202-225-5614
NY, James T. Walsh, Ph#: 202-225-3701
NY, Anthony D. Weiner, Ph#: 202-225-6616
OH, John Boehner, Ph#: 202-225-6205
OH, Steve Chabot, Ph#: 202-225-2216
OH, Paul E. Gillmor, Ph#: 202-225-6405
OH, David L. Hobson, Ph#: 202-225-4324
OH, Steven C. LaTourette, Ph#: 202-225-5731
OH, Robert W. Ney, Ph#: 202-225-6265
OH, Michael G. Oxley, Ph#: 202-225-2676
OH, Rob Portman, Ph#: 202-225-3164
OH, Deborah Pryce, Ph#: 202-225-2015
OH, Ralph M. Regula, Ph#: 202-225-3876
OH, Tim Ryan, Ph#: 202-225-5261
OH, Ted Strickland, Ph#: 202-225-5705
OH, Patrick J. Tiberi, Ph#: 202-225-5355
OH, Michael R. Turner, Ph#: 202-225-6465
OK, Dan Boren, Ph#: 202-225-8101
OK, Tom Cole, Ph#: 202-225-6165
OK, Ernest J., Jr. Istook, Ph#: 202-225-2132
OK, Frank D. Lucas, Ph#: 202-225-5565
OK, John Sullivan, Ph#: 202-225-2211
OR, Earl Blumeraur, Ph#: 202-225-4811
OR, Feter A. DeFazio, Ph#: 202-225-6416
OR, Darlene Hooley, Ph#: 202-225-5711
OR, Gregory W. Walden, Ph#: 202-225-6730
OR, David Wu, Ph#: 202-225-0855
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PA, Charles W. Dent, Ph#: 202-225-6411
PA, Michael F. Doyle, Ph#: 202-225-2135
PA, Phil English, Ph#: 202-225-5406
PA, Michael G. Fitzpatrick, Ph#: 202-225-4276
PA, Jim Gerlach, Ph#: 202-225-4315
PA, Melissa A. Hart, Ph#: 202-225-2565
PA, Tim Holden, Ph#: 202-225-5546
PA, Paul E. Kanjorski, Ph#: 202-225-6511
PA, Tim Murphy, Ph#: 202-225-2301
PA, John P. Murtha, Ph#: 202-225-2065
PA, John E. Peterson, Ph#: 202-225-5121
PA, Joseph R. Pitts, Ph#: 202-225-2411
PA, Todd Russell Platts, Ph#: 202-225-5836
PA, Alllyson Y. Schwartz, Ph#: 202-225-6111
PA, Don Sherwood, Ph#: 202-225-3731
PA, Bill Shuster, Ph#: 202-225-2431
PA, Curt Weldon, Ph#: 202-225-2011
RI, Patric J. Kennedy, Ph#: 202-225-4911
RI, James E. Langevin, Ph#: 202-225-2735
SC, Grisham Barret , Ph#: 202-225-5301
SC, Henry E., Jr. Brown, Ph#: 202-225-3176
SC, James E. Clyburn, Ph#: 202-225-3315
SC, Bob Inglis, Ph#: 202-225-6030
SC, John M., Jr. Spratt, Ph#: 202-225-5501
SC, Joe Wilson, Ph#: 202-225-2452
SD, Stephanie Herseth, Ph#: 202-225-2801
TN, Marsha Blackburn, Ph#: 202-225-2811
TN, Jim Cooper, Ph#: 202-225-4311
TN, Lincoln Davis, Ph#: 202-225-6831
TN, John J., Jr. Duncan, Ph#: 202-225-5435
TN, Harold E., Jr. Ford, Ph#: 202-225-3265
TN, Bart Gordon, Ph#: 202-225-4231
TN, William L. Jenkins, Ph#: 202-225-6356
TN, John S. Tanner, Ph#: 202-225-4714
TN, Zach Wamp, Ph#: 202-225-3271
TX, Joe Barton, Ph#: 202-225-2002
TX, Henry Bonilla, Ph#: 202-225-4511
TX, Kevin Brady, Ph#: 202-225-4901
TX, Michael C. Burgess, Ph#: 202-225-7772
TX, John R. Carter, Ph#: 202-225-3864
TX, K. Michael Conaway, Ph#: 202-225-3605
TX, Henry Cuellar, Ph#: 202-225-1640
TX, John Abney Culberson, Ph#: 202-225-2571
TX, Tom DeLay, Ph#: 202-225-5951
TX, Chet Edwards, Ph#: 202-225-6105
TX, Louie Gohmert, Ph#: 202-225-3035
TX, Charles A. Gonzalez, Ph#: 202-225-3236
TX, Kay Granger, Ph#: 202-225-5071
TX, Gene Green, Ph#: 202-225-1688
TX, Al Green, Ph#: 202-225-7508
TX, Ralph M. Hall, Ph#: 202-225-6673
TX, Jeb Hensarling, Ph#: 202-225-3484
TX, Ruben Hinojosa, Ph#: 202-225-2531
TX, Sam Johnson, Ph#: 202-225-4201
TX, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Ph#: 202-225-8885
TX, Kenny C. Marchant, Ph#: 202-225-6605
TX, Michael T. McCaul, Ph#: 202-225-2401
TX, Randy Neugebauer, Ph#: 202-225-4005
TX, Solomon P. Ortiz, Ph#: 202-225-7742
TX, Rodney P. Paul, Ph#: 202-225-2831
TX, Ted Poe, Ph#: 202-225-6565
TX, Silvestre Reyes, Ph#: 202-225-4831
TX, Pete Sessions, Ph#: 202-225-2231
TX, Lamar S. Smith, Ph#: 202-225-4236
TX, Mac Thornberry, Ph#: 202-225-3706
UT, Rob Bishop, Ph#: 202-225-0453
UT, Chris Cannon, Ph#: 202-225-7751
UT, Jim Matheson, Ph#: 202-225-3011
VA, Rick Boucher, Ph#: 202-225-3861
VA, Eric Cantor, Ph#: 202-225-2815
VA, Tom Davis, Ph#: 202-225-1492
VA, Jo Ann Davis, Ph#: 202-225-4261
VA, Thelma D. Drake, Ph#: 202-225-4215
VA, J. Randy Forbers, Ph#: 202-225-6365
VA, Virgil H., Jr. Goode, Ph#: 202-225-4711
VA, Bob Goodlatte, Ph#: 202-225-5431
VA, Frank R. Wolf, Ph#: 202-225-5136
VT, Bernard Sanders, Ph#: 202-225-4115
WA, Brian Baird, Ph#: 202-225-3536
WA, Norman D. Dicks, Ph#: 202-225-5916
WA, Doc Hastings, Ph#: 202-225-5816
WA, Jay Inslee, Ph#: 202-225-6311
WA, Rick Larsen, Ph#: 202-225-2605
WA, Cathy McMorris, Ph#: 202-225-2006
WA, David G. Reichert, Ph#: 202-225-7761
WA, Adam Smith, Ph#: 202-225-8901
WI, Mark Green, Ph#: 202-225-5665
WI, Ron Kind, Ph#: 202-225-5506
WI, David R. Obey, Ph#: 202-225-3365
WI, Thomas E. Petri, Ph#: 202-225-2476
WI, Paul E. Ryan, Ph#: 202-225-3031
WI, F. James, Jr. Sensenbrenner, Ph#: 202-225-5101
WV, Shelley Moore Capito, Ph#: 202-225-2711
WV, Alan B. Mollohan, Ph#: 202-225-4172
WY, Barbara Cubin, Ph#: 202-225-2311

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I highly recommend that you check out this powerful anti-war video

elvis_4_peace — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:56:22 GMT

Dear Folks,

I highly recommend that you check out this powerful anti-war video called "Do you know what 2000 looks like?"
http://theunitedamerican.blogs.com/Movies/2000A/2000.html

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Advice please

Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:28:39 GMT

How to break into business analysis when all you've been doing is marketing data analysis for the last three years? What's a good way to transition out of marketing and into business analytics? My degree is in journalism. I use E.piphany, Access and SQL Server (T-SQL) mostly.

Thanks in advance,

Bman

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Reality Mining

Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:26:34 GMT

New field emerging -- http://reality.media.mit.edu/

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worst steganography ever devised

flapjack — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 21:54:02 GMT

since tribe (and other sites), let you post images, i figured the way to post anything i wanted was to put a valid bmp header on another file format.

this is the uuencoded gzipped c program to add and remove valid bmp headers from datafiles.

note that tribe.net limits files to 500k. also note changing the bmp to another other format will corrupt the encapsulation scheme.

i put something in the images of this tribe for people to test decapsulation with.

this would be especially interesting if it support piecemeal splitting into multiple images (like rar). you could backup your harddrive on a site like ofoto this way.

anyway, the code:
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Medical Lab Data

JEP — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:35:48 GMT

I'm interested in getting lab data on patients that have Lyme disease. It can be blind data (without any "name") but I want the lab results of people with Lyme disease.

Have any of you had luck working with companies like Quest or Labcorp? Or do any of you know of other information like this available?

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Looking for studies...

Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:01:25 GMT

I am looking for studies/data that demonstrates correlations between web site visits (unique hits) and web site purchases (unique sales transactions & generated revenue). If the data is industry- or demographic-specific, all the better. This is always useful to have when getting into the nitty-gritty of web site navigation and customer relationship management (CRM). Thanks in advance!

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Wanted: database fortune 1000 - what wireless phone companies do they use

JEP — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:27:31 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I need a database listing fortune 1000 companies that tells me what wireless carriers they are doing business with. Does anyone know if this information exists? It's OK if I have to pay...

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News Watch

primusluta — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 12:59:29 GMT

Who knows torrents?

Anyway I'm an ex CNN addict. From 1997-2000 I watched on average 10-12 hours of CNN a day. I know that sounds insane but it was actually an amazing experience. You cannot imagine how much shit goes down on live CNN, which is later edited out of the headline and evening reports. If you haven't seen a story break live you really never know what happened.

At any rate I always had this idea of a team from around the globe that just monitored the various news channels recording clips of important information for the day or those questionable reports and just put it out to the people. The above question I think would be a great protocol for it but I don't know if anyone would be interested in working on it. I must say that I don't have cable so am a bit useless in the process but I'm probably one of the best web researchers you can find. Give me a question and I'll have all the pros and cons available on the net in no time.

Anyway let me know if you're interested.

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ACLU on privacy

Fri, 23 Jul 2004 18:19:05 GMT

Spooky animation by the ACLU on our loss of data privacy...

http://www.aclu.org/pizza/index.html?orgid=EA071904&MX=1414&H=1

The government and corporations are aggressively collecting information about your personal life and your habits. They want to track your purchases, your medical records, and even your relationships. The Bush Administration's policies, coupled with invasive new technologies, could eliminate your right to privacy completely. Please help us protect our privacy rights and prevent the Total Surveillance Society.

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How to download on IRC

bstring — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 02:04:57 GMT

http://www.searchlores.org/irc_vvf.htm

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Secure Communications Issues

Wed, 18 Aug 2004 04:16:51 GMT

"E-mail's declining value"
http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/081604buzz.html?fsrc=rss-columns

These unsettling stories come from secure e-mail vendor PostX, whose executives care dearly about phishing because the future of their company depends on the survival of e-mail as a trustworthy communications channel between major companies and their customers. As unthinkable as the notion might be to some, that survival is not guaranteed as long as the phishing epidemic remains out of control.

"We just want this problem to go away," laments Cayce Ullman, who recently was bumped up from PostX CTO to CEO. In an effort to hasten the problem's departure, PostX helped launch the Trusted Electronics Communications Forum, one of a handful of organizations - including the Anti-Phishing Working Group and the Online Identity Theft Coalition - working to thwart the scam artists.

In the short term, heightened worries about phishing might draw customer attention to providers of secure messaging products such as PostX. The problem is long-term.

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Foreign Lobbyist Database

Mon, 05 Jul 2004 01:41:06 GMT

Sounds like they're trying to hide something in there...

"Foreign Lobbyist Database Could Vanish: Justice Department claims merely copying its foreign agents database could destroy it"
http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=332&%3bsid=100

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2004 — Justice Department officials say a huge database that serves as the public's lone window on lobbying activities by foreign governments has been allowed to decay to a point they cannot even make a copy of its contents.

Responding to a recent Freedom of Information request from the Center for Public Integrity, the Justice Department's Foreign Agent Registration Unit said it was unable to copy its records electronically because their computer system was "so fragile." In a letter, the head of the unit's Freedom of Information office said that simply attempting to make an electronic copy of the database "could result in a major loss of data, which would be devastating."

The database details millions of dollars spent on lobbying activities by foreign governments, companies, and foundations.

Those activities include everything from wining and dining lawmakers to broadcasting issue ads on American television and radio stations.

Unlike foreign governments and political parties, foreign companies can file their lobby forms with the Senate Office of Public Records on Capitol Hill. Under the 1995 Lobbying Disclosure Act, private companies based outside the United States need only to fill out much shorter forms for Congress instead of the substantial information required by FARA.

As the primary collecting point of information on foreign lobbying, the database is vital to tracking the actions of foreign governments in Washington. Yet the system remains susceptible to "a crash that cannot be fixed" if its files were to be copied, according to Justice's Criminal Division Freedom of Information/Privacy Act office.

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Data Mismanagement @Pentagon

Thu, 08 Jul 2004 20:10:55 GMT

You'd think with all that money, they'd hire some good IT people. This is no doubt a national security issue, a REAL one. No one would admit that though.

But their problem is probably more bureaucratic than technical.

"Data Nightmare at Pentagon"
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64134,00.html

... America's armed forces are using a tangle of duplicative, isolated and often outdated computer systems to keep tabs on their assets. And they're not doing it particularly well. These "fundamentally flawed business systems" are leaving the Pentagon wide open to "fraud, waste and abuse," the General Accounting Office, Congress' investigatory arm, notes in its report (PDF). And they're making soldiers' lives a whole lot more difficult in the process.

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Good new page at www.searchlores.org about proxy

bstring — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:34:29 GMT

http://www.searchlores.org/proxopro_1.html

New page with some good info.

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Survey Finds U.S. Agencies Engaged in 'Data Mining'

Thu, 03 Jun 2004 04:09:56 GMT

Of course they're data mining! It would be stupid, wasteful and inefficient not to. People hear the term 'data mining' and they get freaked out about privacy. They have no friggin clue.

'Senator Daniel K. Akaka, Democrat of Hawaii, who requested the report by the accounting office, said: "I am disturbed by the high number of data mining activities in the federal government involving personal information. The government collects and uses Americans' personal information and shares it with other agencies to an astonishing degree, raising serious privacy concerns."'

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/27/national/27privacy.html

I'm disturbed by this moron using my tax dollars on a pointless GAO report.

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Sloppy stats shame science

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 22:50:35 GMT

Online at http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2724226

Scientific publishing

Sloppy stats shame science

Jun 3rd 2004
From The Economist print edition

What is published in scientific journals may not be as true as it should be

SCIENTIFIC and medical journals, with their august panels of peer reviewers and fact checkers, are not the sort of places many mistakes are to be expected. Yet Emili García-Berthou and Carles Alcaraz, two researchers at the University of Girona in Spain, have found that 38% of a sample of papers in Nature, and a quarter of those sampled in the British Medical Journal (BMJ)—two of the world's most respected journals—contained one or more statistical errors. Not all of these errors led to erroneous conclusions, but the authors of the study, which has just been published in BMC Medical Research Methodology, another journal, reckon that 4% of the errors may have caused non-significant findings to be misrepresented as being significant.

Dr García-Berthou and Dr Alcaraz investigated 32 papers from editions of Nature published in 2001, and 12 from the BMJ in the same year. They examined the numbers within each, to see whether the data presented actually led to the statistical conclusion the authors drew, and also whether there was anything fishy about the numbers themselves. Appropriately, they used a statistical technique to do their checking. If a set of data are “unedited”, the last digits in the numbers recorded will tend to have the values 0-9 at random, since these digits represent small values, and are thus the ones that are hardest to measure. If those numbers are rounded carelessly, however, 4s and 9s (which tend to get rounded up to the nearest half or whole number) will be rarer than they should be. The two researchers duly discovered that 4s and 9s were, indeed, rarer than chance would predict in many of the papers under scrutiny.

Jargon and statistics

The paper by Emili Gacía-Berthou and Carles Alcaraz is published in BMC Medical Research Methodology. See also Nature and the British Medical Journal.

False data, false results. Though it was difficult to show whether, in any given case, this falsity led to a result being proclaimed statistically significant when it was not, it was possible to estimate how much error there was likely to be. In one case, however, there was no doubt. A number supposed to be statistically significant was explicitly mis-stated, and a false inference drawn in the paper's conclusion.

Of course, mistakes will creep through from time to time in the best-run organisations, and there is no suggestion that any of the errors observed was a deliberate fraud. But there do seem to have been rather a lot of them. However, as Kamran Abbasi, deputy editor of the BMJ, laments, although the world at large looks at scientific peer-review—the system journals use to keep their authors accurate and honest—as a sacred process, it is in fact imperfect. “We certainly do not spend our time recalculating all these numbers, and our whole review process would likely grind to a halt if we tried to do so.”

Maxine Clarke, publishing executive editor of Nature, says her journal will be examining the papers cited by Dr García-Berthou and Dr Alcaraz before deciding what action, if any, needs to be taken. “At first sight, some awareness-raising about statistical accuracy among manuscript editors, peer-reviewers and proof-readers seems necessary, but we have changed our workflows considerably since the period studied,” says Ms Clarke.

One cure might be for researchers to publish raw data as well as statistical analysis and conclusions. That way, anyone who really cares can check the sums. For some years, Nature has offered supplementary information online to accompany its papers. This information is peer-reviewed, but Ms Clarke believes it is too specialised for people outside the field to find interesting. “We do not explicitly ask authors, as routine, for the raw data underlying their reported statistical results,” she says. “This suggestion is now on the agenda for our next editorial meeting on editorial practices and criteria.”

The real answer, however, surely lies with the researchers themselves. Far too many scientists have only a shaky grasp of the statistical techniques they are using. They employ them as an amateur chef employs a cook book, believing the recipes will work without understanding why. A more cordon bleu attitude to the maths involved might lead to fewer statistical soufflés failing to rise.

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New tribe for R

harolddd — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 01:40:10 GMT

New tribe for R

Started a tribe to discuss, share tips and code for the open-source "R" statistical programming enviromment. Please join if you use R.

r-statisticalenvironment.tribe.net

www.tribe.net/tribe/servl...emplate/pub%2CTribeCard.vm

Harold

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Map the internet again?

bstring — Mon, 10 May 2004 07:18:25 GMT

http://www.opte.org/

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Valuable Publication

bstring — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:20:26 GMT

COMPUTER CORNER
#179
Digital Evidence - Trends by: Michael J. Phelan
DEA Digital Evidence Laboratory

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An article in your local newspaper on January 1st undoubtedly contained an annual New Year’s article or column entitled: “What’s In and What’s Out”. The reading of this column in my local paper caused me to reflect on what’s “in” and “out” in the domain of digital evidence forensics. I think it is important to reflect periodically on how things are changing, in order to assess the trends in digital evidence technologies and evidence examination methodologies. The rapid changes in digital evidence forensics can be far reaching, and can affect laboratory equipment and software procurement strategies, design of standard operating procedures, and development of examiner training requirements.

My list for this year was surprisingly large. Much has changed, or is in the process of significantly changing.

End of DOS

DOS based computer evidence examination tools are “out”. GUI based tools using the Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP platforms are “in”. DOS based forensics tools are just too slow to process modern high capacity hard drives. However, you still need to keep your DOS operating system software and DOS forensic tools handy, in case you ever have to access your archived files.

Write Blockers

Software based write blocking technology is “out” and hardware based write blocking technology is “in”, at least in the case of Microsoft based operating systems. Unix operating systems are still best protected from deleterious change by using the native “read only” commands embedded in all Unix systems.

Evidence Copying

Evidence copying using sector by sector copying (physical data acquisition) techniques of entire hard drives is “out”, and copying techniques involving selected files, data folders, or hard drive partitions (logical data acquisition) is “in”. The volume of information now maintained on many business computers or computer networks has become enormous. Physical data acquisition is simply not practical when large servers, computer networks, or data farms/warehouses are encountered.

Evidence Storage Format

Evidence data acquisition involving the duplication of hard drive data is “out”. Copying data into “image” files (consisting of files with all of the hard drive data and formatting structure), that are easily mounted as virtual drives (no hardware interface issues), are “in”. Use of image file formats saves examiner processing time by eliminating hardware complexity problems and simplifying hard drive format access methods.

External Media

External storage media technology continues to rapidly change, and maintaining the appropriate hardware “reader devices” is a constant challenge. Previously mainstream technologies such as floppy diskettes or Iomega Jaz and Zip cartridges are becoming obsolete (“out”), while replacement technologies such as CD’s, thumb drives, memory sticks, and DVD’s are “in”. Surprisingly, however, tape technology continues to play an important role in data backup. In addition, acquiring and maintaining a robust collection of PDA docking (recharging) cradles is becoming essential to laboratory operations.

Potential Probative Information Recovery

The nature of digital communications is changing from file transfers containing documents or e mails, to web based communications containing web based e mail or e commerce transactions. The impact of these changes on digital forensics is significant. Extensive data recovery involving traditional techniques, such as active file browsing or erased file recovery, is diminishing (on the way “out”), and processing (carving) of hard drives for non file keystroke data that is stored on the hard drive as unallocated clusters (i.e., in “free space”) or in the “swap file”, is increasing (“in”).

Evidence Integrity

The technology used to validate copies of the original evidence has significantly evolved. The use of data packet communication algorithms, commonly known as a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC), is “out”, and global hard drive or file data integrity checks, known as hash algorithms, are “in”. Hash techniques such as MD 5 have a higher statistical probability calculation of certainty than a CRC check. The purpose of the CRC or hash check is to assess (within a certain degree of statistical probability) that a digital file copy containing binary data is the same as the original file from which it was copied. Such calculations are usually expressed as one in 28, 216, 224, or 264 possibilities that two different binary data sets (such as a file, partition, or hard drive) could have the same hash value. Larger hash value calculations increase the certainty of estimating the uniqueness of data sets.

Forensic Software Architecture

Standalone forensic tools are “out”, and multi functional software examination software suites are “in”. The integration of multiple digital forensic examination tasks such as imaging, browsing, keyword searching, and carving, in one unified software program, has simplified laboratory operations by making it easier to conduct examiner training, coordinate software upgrades and validate the examination software. The integrated tools enhance examiner proficiency by enabling the user to utilize one common set of software commands to process a wide variety of hard drive formats (FAT 32, NTFS, HPS, etc.).

Legal

On site copying of evidence at businesses and professional offices is “in”, and physical removal of the computers to a digital evidence laboratory is “out”. Courts are becoming more reluctant to authorize removal of computers, especially in cases involving businesses where both licit and illicit records may be commingled. Having robust on site backup equipment and software is essential to the effective operation of a digital evidence laboratory.

Questions or comments?

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Wireless Laptops

Tue, 06 Apr 2004 03:25:09 GMT

Here's an article about how easy it is to access unsuspecting business travelers' laptops. Sounds like a good data mining tactic ;-)

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1079420167575&p=1012571727085

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Windows 2000 sources

Markus — Sun, 15 Feb 2004 11:50:56 GMT

Has anyone checked the Windows source code out yet?

From what I heard it doesn't contain the specs for NTFS in any
way, but is there something else that's useful for, say, the
<a href="http://www.winehq.org/">Wine</a> project?

I'm sure Microsoft doesn't have a license or anything that
prohibits people from looking at the sources, even if distributing is probably illegal...

One can always claim they fell off a truck ;)

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for sale: army of 500 used quasi-profiles w/ friends

Wed, 04 Feb 2004 06:58:51 GMT

i have around 500 quasiprofiles (mostly girls), also known as distributed human honeypot clusters, and all of the people who believe they are really their friends. i have no use for them anymore they are just collecting dust and tons of halarious email messages to read. let the bidding start at $1.

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WebFountain

Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:26:46 GMT

If you check /. often, I'm sure you've seen this article:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jan04/0104comp1.html

What are you thoughts on the WebFountain project?
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/webfountain/

This sort of project almost makes me wet myself (I'm such a data whore) hehe

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Trolls

bstring — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 03:59:20 GMT

rebuking trolls

This said, the above methods (and other more nasty ones) are better left to professional webwizards and "older ones" (that may often be willing to help you for a worthy cause). Usually the best method when dealing with trolls is always the same: NEVER ANSWER TO THEIR POSTINGS! ("Please do not feed the troll")
The whole point of trolling is to have you react. So do not react! It's as simple as that, duh. That is something that enrages trolls (disqualify them: other lurking trolls will take note of their failure and they know - and fear - it).
By not reacting, you have completely defeated their purpose in life. In other words, the troll sees his self-worth in how much of a reaction he can inspire - ignore him: it's your best weapon.
Should you, my advices notwithstanding, answer a troll, then calm down! Do not read any of the troll's responses to you. He is just trying to draw you further into its lair. Once more: NEVER ANSWER TO THEIR POSTINGS!

Once more, 5 easy rules:
(1) Don't read posts from or about trolls;

(2) Don't read email from or about trolls;

(3) If you can't resist reading, don't respond;

(4) If you can't resist responding, do so by email, not by posting on a public forum;

(5) If you are compelled to post a response, if you just can't stop yourself, at least do the rest of the readers the favor of adding the troll's nick to the subject line, so they can avoid reading that post.

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Language Patterns

bstring — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 04:09:00 GMT

Reversing language patterns
I have randomly taken from today post two snippets :-)
Now tell me, this one:

man..could ya pleeeeez send me ( if ya got it ) the Casmate crack ???
need the shit bad..gonna d/l the software directly form the casmate site..
And this one:
I subscribe to a very good service: LinkAlarm that periodically
checks the links on my pages (now well over 200 links). Do you use it?
have been written by the same person?
The answer is NO, they have been written by two different persons, but how can I be so sure? The language patterns differ, yet this could of course be intentional. You will know why, I believe, as soon as you have read the content of this page.
(*I have published the 'solution' at the bottom, in reverse order, you'll check later :-)

Well, reversing language patterns seems to be something pretty new: I could not find much on the web. So I'll try to summarize, and slowly add in this page, what I have noticed experimentally until now. I'll also teach you my own best stalking method: Fravia's stalking tablet (TM :-)
Please take note that in the following, as usual in our reversing tradition, with "target" I intend the person (and pseudo) you want to find more data about (and if possible his real identity)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There are many 'inconscious' characteristics in someone's writings and ramblings, and contraryly to what you may think, email communication does indeed carry A LOT of clues that are as useful as the usual body language clues you costantly check when you communicate physically with someone or all the clues given by your partner's voice when you are at the telephone.
Some of these clues are of linguistical, other of grammatical and others are of what I would call 'Internettical' type... with this I mean clues that neither voice nor paper printed communication usually convoy.
Since we must start from somewhere, as first clue I would use the "gender" differences.
For gender here I do not mean that you can state if your target is a woman or a man (if you could it would be probably a pretty poor target :-)
I mean that you can state if your target uses 'male' or 'female' patterns in his communication... chances are that if he uses these patterns under one bogus identity, he'll use them under all other ones as well... :-)
Now, please, understand me correctly, because I do not want to be pulled into any useless 'gender style' discussion... and I know that many American friends are obsessed by this kind of crap (writing she/he and so on). So let's be clear: I have always been convinced that, apart from minor obvious physical differences, there is NO real difference between Women and Men, in all good or evil characteristics of our specie. Women can (and of course should, with bona pace of all species of religious idiotical fundamentalists) drive, kill, write, love, play and fight as well as any man, and anyway there are so many women with male psychological characteristics and so many men with female psychological characteristics that I believe it does not make much sense to differenciate anything between the twin parts of our race.

Yet among the few physical differences cited above is the well known fact that women give birth to children, and this, added to society pressures, common tradition, biased instruction, television crap, advertisement conditioning, you name it, makes a LOT of almost inconscious differences and can actually give us the possibility of reversing (in part) the 'gender leaning' language patterns of our target.

In other words analysing usenet style emailings you may check if your target has a more "female" or a more "male" personality basing on the following:

The male style is characterized by adversariality: put-downs, strong often contentious assertions, lengthy and/or frequent postings, self-promotion, and sarcasm (not always witty).

The female-gendered style, in contrast, has two aspects which typically are found together: supportiveness and attenuation.

Male-targets use more coarse and abusive language and seem to change their opinions slightly less often than females-targets.

Female-targets send more messages explicitly referring to other members of the group than Male-targets.

Context differences certainly may obscure or speciously highlight your results. Always work cum grano salis. In the usual context of Internet discussion groups "normal" group psychology does not apply. Group membership on usenet is very large and members do not know all others in the group (especially if there are a large number of "lurkers", people who read messages but does not write responses and therefore are invisible inside the discussion).
Morever on Usenet the task is mostly not to produce a specific result, but rather to generate ideas and discuss them.

Male-gendered targets in discussion groups use language that a) states facts without personal ownership, b) challenges group members, c) calls for explicit action, d) is argumentative, e) uses coarse and abusive language, and f) attempt to indicates the members status.

Female-gendered targets in discussion groups use a language that a) self-discloses, b) states personal ownership of opinion, c) apologizes, d) asks questions, e) uses "we" pronouns, f) responds directly to others in the group, and g) seeks to prevent or alleviate tension or arguments.

Exactly as we have a male/female differenciation, there are MANY other 'sharp edges' that you can use to stalk your target, as you will see in my tablet below.

Keep in mind that computer conversation draws from features of both written and oral discourse and as such has a whole serie of linguistic and textual patterns: Emphatic, Humorous, Informal.

Syntactic informality often takes the form of incomplete sentences and conversational cadences. For instance

"Waitamoment!... what d'you mean?"; "Hmm, I see. . ."; "Mmm, no, no... I didn't mind it..."
The informal, conversational rhythm created by the "Hmm", "Mmm" and the ellipsis is clearly intended to evoke (although through written means) spoken discourse. Similarly, , "Wouw", "Sigh", "Gulp" and "Gasp" are used occasionally to mimic vocalizations or paralinguistic features.

Another device used to mimic characteristics of speech is the textual indication of emphasis on words or phrases (present in many messages). For example, some targets OFTEN use capital letters to create the sense of oral emphasis, others *use asterisks*, others S P A C E S and some use the html tags, inside their emails, <u> for this same purpose </u>.

Such emphasis cannot be indicated in the written text using underlining or italics, because most protocols for exchanging electronic mail, don't support them yet (expect an explosion of clues as soon as colors will be commonly email exchanged :-)

All these clues depend from the alphanumeric characters of written text, that are used to evoke the emphasis of speech.

In some cases, exclamation points add oral emphasis, as in the subject line "No No! Flush it!!"

Yet there are also involontary clues:
A good stalker always takes note of how many exclamation points and how many question marks the target 'commonly' uses. There are many different patterns:
?
? (space and question mark)
??
???
? ? ? and so on
This is of course true also for commas, colons,semicolons , and (parenthesis ) that may or may not be spaced before the preceding word.
Another typical involontary clue is due to the 'typing habits' of your target. He may, for instance, often enough write 'inetresting' instead of 'interesting'; 'nuff' instead of 'enough', and so on and so on. This is of course pretty rare, yet it happens in less evident parts of the message. For instance, does your target break line
when he wants to substantiate a point? Does he write short or long sentences? Does he use tirets - like this - or rather parenthesis (like this)? And what about his emotycons? :-] is NOT :o)

Finally, does he write "i use" or "I use"? Often enough email is sent WITHOUT any automated spelling correction check whatsoever.

There are also 'comportamental" e-mail clues, for instance there are some email comments, on a thread, that at times clearly resemble those that occur in a face-to-face meeting, when a speaker turns towards and briefly addresses one of the individuals present, but without yielding the floor to that person: "What's your opinion about this, Brick?" "Hope to hear from Cal about this stuff!

This kind of attitude pattern can constitute a very STRONG clue when you try to identify a target.

Another example is when you suspect, examining the thread, the existence of private, backchannels between your target and somebody else.
Backchannels, on usenet, are nothing else than the electronic communication between two or more individuals that is not sent to the group as a whole.
This can at times be evinced from the contexts. Such messages, like whispered side conversations in a meeting, involve concerns or strategies adopted by allies on particular issues.
In this cases you may try to find out which are the 'allies' and the 'reference points' of your target inside the group and attack from those sides.
You'll VERY FREQUENTLY find this when you stalk trolls (see enemy.htm), because trolls are trollyng mostly IN ORDER to find and contact other trolls-savy.

Yet another 'comportamental' example is the interplay among MORE THAN ONE fictious identities. In Balif's example (see enemy.htm), you have seen how his target used a whole plethora of faked personalities in order to create a 'group' impression. Of course the more fictious identities you identify, the easier it is to see the common sharp edges they possess.

Thus the language of Usenet demonstrates several characteristics more typical of oral communication in an organizational setting, casual conversation or, rather, organized meetings.

In fact the syntax and word choice often evoke conversational informality, emphasis, rhythm, and even vocalizations. On the other hand, the messages may also evince characteristics of written discourse such as formal wording, careful composing and editing, and textual formatting.
A typical case is when there is a LIST of points

1) inside
2) your target's
3) email
There is also at times an interesting evidence of patterns that are a distinctively characteristic of web interaction. Many messages display ascii graphic, typographical ascii jokes, signets and subject line humor, patterns also that are very unlikely in written and oral discourse. All such patterns ca be, at times, interesting clues.
These clues and patterns reflect both the capabilities of the web and the characteristics of the group. The interactivity of oral discourse is in fact supported and encouraged on Usenet by the ability to engage in rapid exchanges and to collect and respond to embedded excerpts of previous messages. At the same time the asynchronous nature of the web and the editing capabilities of the participants' email applications allow reflection and crafting patterns more characteristic of the written discourse. The web's ability to support informal textual exchanges allow a playful relationship with the text, or to indulge in flaming.

Of course all sort of interaction, the characteristics of the individual targets, their social community, and their motherlanguage influence the particular combination of linguistic and textual characteristics that they express.

Do not underestimate the richness and complexity of email communication... as soon as you'll have learned your stalking abc you'll never miss much all the clues that the real, non virtual world gives you when you communicate.

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Now have a look at the semplified version of fravia's stalking tablet (TM):
Fravia's stalking tablet, public version 2.003, end july 1998
Target name: enemy@somewhere.com Candidate: sillybozo@that.one
Clue Definition Example Target Candidate
TICS measure whether or not the message body gives clues about frequent typing mistakes/particularities of the author: 0 = no, 1 = yes. "inetresting enough" "'nuff said" "gimme a note" "least, but not last"

SELF verbal self-disclosure, statements by the author of the message about the author of the message: 0 = no 1=yes. "I'll trade ya shit", "I still like Netscape", "I'm an email junkie", "My hair is black" but not "My mother's hair is black" or "My cat is black"

GRAMMAR measure whether or not the message body gives clues about the education of the author: 0 = no, 1 = yes. "the distinction between amateur and professional" "I gave him an acknowledging e-mail wave and he answered in kind " "an unjustifiable extravagance"

OPINION measure statements of the personal opinion of the message author; it had to indicate the first person directly or indirectly. 0 = no opinion was present, 1 = opinion was present. "I think lusers should be banned", "Chocolate is a favorite flavor of mine", "I love lollypops".

FACT measure statement of fact (whether or not the fact was correct), without first person reference to the message sender: 0 = no statement of fact, 1 = one or more statements of fact. "God has created the earth and Winsconsin." "The government is loaded with freeloaders." "Communists rule." But not "according to me"

KNOWLE measure whether or not the message body gives clues about the level of computer/internet knwoledge of the author: 0 = no, 1 = yes. "operands which are addresses will get added the image base of the DLL" "get a trowaway account at any third-party service provider so as to throw a bulk mailbomb past his first line blocks. The account will cease to exist in short order, but you'll have already tested his precious defending bots"

BIAS measure whether or not the message body gives clues about characteristical idiosyncrasies of the author: 0 = no, 1 = yes. "women always make the best trollees as they have a logical reasoning capacity of zilch" "the mark of a gullible American that will almost certainly believe anything you tell him"

APOLOGY measure any form of apology (implied or direct): 0 = no apology present; 1=slight apology; 2 = clear apology. "I wanted to apologize" "I am sorry I said what I said", "I take my words back", "please accept my apologies."

QUESTION measure the presence of questions: 0 = no, 1 = yes. "How can I ban him from this group?", "Where can I find Softice?."

ACTION measure any call for action on the part of the reader: 0 = no, 1 = main content of the message. "Visit this URL" "Write your congressman." "Go see this movie."

CHALLENGE measure the presence of a challenge, dare, or bet: 0 = no, 1 = yes. "Demonstrate that you can hack that backdoor!" "I challenge you to support that statement." "Let's see if you can do that."

FOREIGN measure whether or not the message body gives clues about the mother language of the author: 0 = no, 1 = yes. "what the cuckoo are you saying?" (german) "I am conscient " (french) "Settember" (italian)

COALIT1 measure degree of agreement or disagreement with another person or statement previously appearing in the group discussion. 0 = no reference to another person's message, 1 = mild response to other persons on the group, 2 = strong response to other persons on the group. "I really agree with Bertie." "I think Bertie and Godzill's ideas suck."

COALIT2 measure the use of the first person plural pronouns (we, us) towards others on the group 0 = no, 1 = yes. "We are dealing with a DLL here" "We seem to be able to takle these guys well." "Good for us!"

FLAME1 measure levels of argumentativeness of a message: 1 = positive, neutral or no opinion to 6 = hostile: profanity, tirades, to 10 = ignoring completely the original issue. "I have to take issue with you on that one." "Only a real dork would hack such a stupid server."

FLAME2 measure levels of the use of coarse or abusive language in a message: 0 = no abusive language to 10 = abusive aggression about content and persons in and out of the group. "I can only say that you must be a real asshole." "F*uck you." "You sure do go to great lengths to make yourself looking like an asshole."

FLAME3 measure efforts to prevent or alleviate tensions or arguments in the discussion: 0 = no such efforts, 1 = tries to calm ongoing tension. "I think things are getting out of hand here. Let's cool the tirades and get back to the point."

STATUS measure whether or not the message body or header give clues about the personal status of the author: 0 = no, 1 = yes. "WarezDood" "mwr (Master "white" reverser)" "Sysop" "ThATVerYSpEcia1Dudez" "Administrative contact: "

TIME measure the reliability of email timings: 0 = no statement possible, 10 = target always emails at 15:00 GMT See headers

GEOGRA measure the reliability of geographical clues: 0 = no statement possible, 10 = target lives in Indianapolis "July is really pretty hot this year!" (northern emisphere); "I had to call the Landrat" (Germany/Austria) "No kidding? Here in Detroit?"

Gotcha! (0=FALSE 1=TRUE)

I don't think it needs a lot of explanations, keep in mind that the PURPOSE of the above tablet is not so much to understand directly WHO is your target, but to understand if your target is in reality the one candidate you suspect. Once you have zeroed in, you'll stalk the (presumibly less protected) other PSEUDO in order to find out -if all works well- WHO is your target... and some luring techniques (and social engineering) will at that moment be quite useful, see my luring.htm section...

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A word of warning:

You found my site and you are reading this, therefore you have now a relatively "high" level of web-lore and reversing knowledge.
Until recently I kept this section of mine in a "closed" server with other mildly powerful and potentially dangerous tutorials and tools. I am now going public with my stalking lore because spamming has taken incredibly annoying proportions and I have decided to create as many powerful reversers as possible in order to tackle and destroy the commercial idiots.
Yet, as you perfectly know, knowledge can be used either for good or for evil. Knowledge, especially this kind of knowledge, is a powerful weapon. You may use it to defend yourself but you may not use it to offend innocents
I hope to have you at my side, fighting on the web for knowledge and against all commercial zombies, but I obviously cannot avoid you joining the dark side, should you want to... if you do, however, take care not to meet me.

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FlameBot

bstring — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 04:00:28 GMT

THE 'BASTARD' PERL SCRIPT ---- Dr. FLonkenstein, Alcatroll Labs Inc.
===========================================================================

I. Purpose
The purpose of this quick and dirty written script is to generate
automatic postings on usenet. You can specify one or more usernames,
and newsgroup(s) where your preferred bastards post in, and the script
will "hook" a message to each and every post the bastards make.
The reply itself is made up of a text, randomly chosen omong others
in a given directory. This textfile is a template text with here and there
nouns replaced by the tag <n>, and adjectives replaced by the tab <a>.
The script will then replace these tags with randomly chosen nouns and
adjectives that are picked up from standard nous and adjective files.
This ensures that your BI stays low. The goal of using this script is
essentially for flaming. Your bot can insult your preferred bastards
whole night long, while you're doing entirely different things (like
having a drink with your friends). It is gauaranteed fun seeing your
opponents reply to a bot, and others that draw their attention upon
this fact.
But maybe there are other applications, let me know, and have fun.

II. Modalities
a) Copyright.
-------------
This is copyleft software, so you may freely modify it, distribute it,
and all that stuff, only if you leave a reference to the
(totally fake) Alcatroll Labs Incorporation (:-)

b) State of the software
-------------------------
The code is very clumsy, I admit, but what do you want,
it's free isn't it?
I tried to comment here and there. Have a look about the tricky way (=easy)
to keep an object oriented structure in a text file, this is in fact
(ohhh great tabou !!!!!!) self modifying code, hehehehe, why not !

c) Installation
---------------
In a directory of your choice you will have following files :

bastards.pl
bastards.pm
news.pm
post.pm
trbot.pm
bastarfl.htm (this file)

For each bastard you target, you have to have a separate directory.
In these directories you place the template files you invent for
your bastard (the extension of the file does not matter).
Here's an example :

-------<template example>---------
proving to be a paranoid <a> <n> again. Get a life, lame luser !
------</template example>---------

You have to have a (series of) noun file(s) somewhere, and a
(series of) adjective file(s) too. The extension and name does
not matter.
Once everything is in place, you must edit the bastard.pm file. This
is the database that you keep of the bastards that you are targetting.
this file looks like this :

-------<database example>---------
$bastards = [
"test",
{Nouns=> ".\\enouns.txt",
Group=> "alt.test",
From=> "Heartbeat",
Prefs=> ".\\pref.txt",
Last=> "",
Templ=> "JSF",
Botname=> " \"Ben Bareta\" <ben\@yahooo.com>",
Adj=> ".\\eadj.txt",
}
,
]
-------</database example>--------

This is an example where there is only one target, the poster
with the nick 'Heartbeat'. This is (at this very moment since
a few months) a real usenet 'from header' in the alt.test group
that posts every 9 mins (or so I think). This is this an ideal
way to test your bot !
The first line inside the structure is "test", this denotes a
name that you give to your bastard. It is a name of your choice
and does not influence the application. Then, on the second line you
specify the name and path of your nouns file (watch out for the
quoted backspaces !!). On the third line you mention the group
where the bastard posts. You can add more groups to this line
(separated by commas) to indicate that the message will also
be crossposted to these groups too. The fourth line indicates
where your 'prefixes' file is. This is only for the french language
where you can have an additionnal list of 'prefixes'. Create an
empty file if you're not intending working in french.
The fifth line keeps track of the last time the messages from
your bastard were read. You do not have to change this, the
scripts rewrites the database to the file on a regular base,
so your script is always synchronized with the postings of your
bastards. The sixth line tells the script in which direcory
the template files belonging to this bastards are residing.
The seventh line explaines how the "from" header will look like,
and finally the eighth line shows the name and path of the
adjective file.
After having edited the database file, you have to edit the packages
post.pm and news.pm so that they reflect a newsserver that posts
the messages and a newsserver that reads messages. They can be the
same, but in my case I had to use two for personal reasons. I have
put the templates "your_news_server", "your_username", "your_password",
in order to be replaced by yourself.
You are also strongly advised to change the headers so that your
posts seem to come from any location you want.

Launch the perl script bastards.pl to activate the robot.

III. How it works

First, the script reads your database in order to find out
which bastards there are, their newsgroups, the corresponding
template directories, the used noun, prefix and adjective files.
Then, bastard per bastard, the script looks up the message id's
of your target in his own ng. This is done by the 'news.pm' package
that receives a database structure object as a parameter, and
returns the list of message ids of this poster. At the same time it
updates the database in central memory.
Then the package 'post.pm' takes care of each of these messages,
calls the 'trbot.pm' package to construct a reply and posts it.
The trbot.pm package does the substitution of the nouns and
adjectives in the random chosen template file.

IV. Modifications that can be done

a) Avoid your target morphs
--------------------------------

If you study the news.pm package, you will see that this package scans
the headers of each message of the newsgroup. This includes occasional
NNTP-header IP addresses, and email addresses. It is possible to modify
the code so that it also keeps these data in the database. This way you
can avoid that your target changes his nickname resulting in your bot
loosing its prey. The target must, to avoid your bot, change email, nick
and IP address at the same time.

b) Let the bot morph itself, in order to avoid killfiles
--------------------------------------------------------

Indeed, you can use a random algorithm like the one used
in the trbot.pm package to compose a different nickname for
each post.

c) Change the reply policy
--------------------------

You can change the way your bot replies in different ways. It must be
possible to analize the text of the original message, get a clue about
the content and respond corrspondingly. Another funny effect is to
make your reply by modifying the original text with a command like:

s/([bdfkmnpqrstvw])([aeiou])/$1j$2/gi

d) Change the default wait time
-------------------------------

After an outburst of replies, a sleep command is issued that puts
the script asleep for a while. If you keep this time short the script
will answer almost instantly when the target posts, but is will consume
system resources on the other hand.

e) Change the default 'Last' value
----------------------------------

The first time when using the script, you installed the value of the field
'Last' to NULL. When the script sees this value it automagically assumes
that it has to look for messages younger than an hour ago. You can also
change this value to a bigger value, resulting in a huge spew of replies
to your bastard (if he posts a lot).

(c) Dr. Flonkenstein 2002

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word up guerilaz hoez

Wed, 04 Feb 2004 06:55:49 GMT

data minez

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Orkut exploit?!

bstring — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 23:16:54 GMT

I just learned a cool new trick on orkut. Apparently if you compose a message to either friend of friends or to a community you get a list of everyones email address more about this can be read about at http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/01/insecurity_at_o.html
anyone have any thoughts on this?
B-$tring

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Feel like a little more social engineering?

cathyn — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 04:56:09 GMT

The "Traditional Values Coaltion" is asking a poll question on their site:

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?name=Surveys&pollID=55

They ask "Would you vote for a presidential candidate who supports same-sex marriage or civil unions?"

Time to do a little social engineering...

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Mine the miner??

Jack B — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:27:57 GMT

Has anyone done any, or considered doing any mining of Google? I've been asked to do a project on Google. I'm my mind one of the greatest nannies on the net. Talk about watching your every move. Their database must be unreal... but I'm rambling. The point of the project is to see what information... if any... I can uncover about the logic behind the 'Google dance.' On the surface the project seems well worth my time and effort, but I'm only a novice when it comes to search engine placement. Basically the game plan would be to capture a search based on specified key words and basically mine the $#!+ out of it. Things like the number of occurrences of searched words, links on the page, Meta info... things of that nature. Then process the data gathered for each page into a report. Any thoughts on the relevance of such data would be greatly appreciated.

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data mining tutorials

scalefree — Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:13:35 GMT

Statistical Data Mining Tutorials
Tutorial Slides by Andrew Moore

The following links point to a set of tutorials on many aspects of statistical data mining, including the foundations of probability, the foundations of statistical data analysis, and most of the classic machine learning and data mining algorithms.

These include classification algorithms such as decision trees, neural nets, Bayesian classifiers, Support Vector Machines and cased-based (aka non-parametric) learning. They include regression algorithms such as multivariate polynomial regression, MARS, Locally Weighted Regression, GMDH and neural nets. And they include other data mining operations such as clustering (mixture models, k-means and hierarchical), Bayesian networks and Reinforcement Learning.

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~awm/tutorials/index.html

Tim

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OpenNet

bstring — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:41:38 GMT

The OpenNet Initiative is hosting "HOWTO bypass Internet censorship" by Freerk Ohling. The document is available at:

http://nocensor.opennetinitiative.net/

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tribe.net

flapjack — Tue, 05 Aug 2003 08:30:35 GMT

so it turns out that spidering tribester isnt that hard. i'm not eager to piss the powers that be off, but i am curious if anyone has any thoughts about what may be gleaned from doing so.

one idea was to generate a big an undirected graph of all the friend links. some of you might be famiiar with dot/neato, which takes graph specs and renders maps. that's sortof interesting i guess but not very imaginative.

any thoughts?

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data mining and online dating?

Annalee — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 21:06:27 GMT

Anybody heard about people using data mining techniques to optimize their chances of getting a date online? The idea would be that you'd have a better chance of getting a date with somebody who is entangled in the same social networks you are . . . or simply that a cute babe has cute friends. :)

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Data Harvesting Tools

micker — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:41:40 GMT

I'm very new to this and I am wondering what you would recommend for data harvesting? I have 2 windows 2003 servers and a VMS cluster available to me, I have some particular data I am looking for, but I really dont know the best and hopefully easiest way of getting the data set to begin with.

Do I have to write a script myself? I'm working a bit with python, it seems to be a suitable language to work with for a harvesting app.

Are there open-source apps for win2k3 or OpenVMS that will do this?

I found the Combine app for *nix while researching, I could throw a linux box together, but I'd rather work with what I have here.

Thanks for any input.

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Started a new tribe on

bstring — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 02:11:39 GMT

http://searchlores.tribe.net
and one on stego
http://stego.tribe.net
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=stego
http://www.hermetic.ch/hst/hst.htm
http://www.wetstonetech.com/stegowatch.html

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Books on data mining

nemonik — Sun, 30 Nov 2003 07:02:02 GMT

When I worked at a portal during the dot-com boom I worked with a bunch of data miners that came in mass from the banking industry under their boss, and basically left when he left.... I suppose the data forewarned them. :o)

Any ways, what are the three best books on the subject?

I'm specifically interested in the process of forming ontologies, forming/creating/developing data visualizations like (http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/index.html), (http://www.smartmoney.com/sectortracker/) and the like, data mining development leveraging Perl and Java or whatever tools data miners use in their field...

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intro

Kip — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 21:06:48 GMT

hi everybody. i've been a contract -- mostly tech but also business -- writer for many years. cash for that being distinctly sparse atm, i'm trying to reinvent myself as a contract search geek/data miner. i thought i'd join and see if there are interesting -- er -- advanced techniques.

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(small time) Article of Interest

Steve — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:24:47 GMT

Title: Data mining gains ground in key sectors

URL: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-10/ti-dmg101403.php

Upshot: Duh: "Data Mining is increasing in importance, popularity". Yeah I know its crude and trendy but it mentions the increased adoption of PMML, predictive moddelling markup language, as well as a corp name and human name of a guy that was quoted for the article. Voila: "Technical Insights Research Analyst Michael Valenti".

So it may not revolutionize the field but I just thought I'd throw it in here and see if anyone thought it was cool.

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who is reading your personal messages on Tribe?

EMERGENCY ALERT: F.C.C MEETING ON MEDIA CONSOLIDATION 4/29/07 TAMPA FLORIDA

We have lived as if in a trance.

Lynx Use

Leading Democrats say "No to Impeachment of Bush.. it is off the table"

From the Wilderness office burglarized

Radio

Interview with Aaron Russo director of "Freedom to Fascism"

Public information

Lists of who is & is not in the "Get out of Iraq" Caucus in the US House of Representatives.

I highly recommend that you check out this powerful anti-war video

Advice please

Reality Mining

worst steganography ever devised

Medical Lab Data

Looking for studies...

Wanted: database fortune 1000 - what wireless phone companies do they use

News Watch

ACLU on privacy

How to download on IRC

Secure Communications Issues

Foreign Lobbyist Database

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Good new page at www.searchlores.org about proxy

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for sale: army of 500 used quasi-profiles w/ friends

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FlameBot

word up guerilaz hoez

Orkut exploit?!

Feel like a little more social engineering?

Mine the miner??

data mining tutorials

OpenNet

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data mining and online dating?

Data Harvesting Tools

Started a new tribe on

Books on data mining

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(small time) Article of Interest

what better source...