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zoobie555
Joined: 02 Jan 2003
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Location: Conroe, Texas, USA |
 Tue Mar 04, 2003 3:51 am
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I've long thought the best thing to do with the U.N. would be to withdraw from it, and kick their sorry a$$es out of New York City, stop sending any money to them and just let the U.N. slowly waste away into nothing.
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"Just say no to the NWO!"
"I AM paranoid, they ARE after me!" |
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shatoga
Joined: 23 Nov 2002
Posts: 1291
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Wed Mar 05, 2003 3:23 pm
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Perhaps the odds of being hacked at least partly depend on which side you're on?
Note evidence of at least one professional hacker for hire in the following article:
MONSANTO'S WEB OF DECEIT
>"Anti-GMO (genetically modified organism) scientists and activists are increasingly having their credibility attacked through a campaign orchestrated by the biotech industry," investigative reporter Andy Rowell writes. In two in-depth stories Rowell and Jonathan Matthews, of Norfolk Genetic Information Network, examine the dirty tricks Monsanto has played to promote its gene altered food. Employing
an international PR firm called the Bivings Group who specialize in "internet advocacy,"
Monsanto has trashed peer-reviewed scientific research to undermine and manipulate the scientific debate on genetic engineering.<
source:
Center for Media & Democracy
>Two weeks ago, this column showed how the Bivings Group, a PR company contracted to Monsanto, had invented fake citizens to post messages on internet listservers.
These phantoms had launched a campaign to force Nature magazine to retract a paper it had published, alleging that native corn in Mexico had been contaminated with GM pollen.
But this, it now seems, is
just one of hundreds
of critical interventions with which PR companies hired by big business have secretly guided the biotech debate over the past few years.
While I was writing the last piece,
Bivings sent me an email fiercely denying that it had anything to do with the fake correspondents "Mary Murphy" and "Andura Smetacek", who started the smear campaign against the Nature paper.
Last week I checked the email's technical properties. They contained the identity tag "bw6.bivwood.com".
The message came from the same computer terminal that "Mary Murphy" has used. New research coordinated by the campaigner Jonathan Matthews appears to have unmasked the fake persuaders:
"Mary Murphy" is being posted by a Bivings web designer, writing from both the office and his home computer in Hyattsville, Maryland;
while "Andura Smetacek" appears to be the company's chief internet marketer.
Not long ago, the website slashdot.com organised a competition for hackers: if they could successfully break into a particular server, they got to keep it.
Several experienced hackers tested their skills.
One of them was one using a computer identified as bw6.bivwood.com.
Though someone in the Bivings office appears to possess hacking skills, there is no evidence that Bivings has ever made use of them.
But other biotech lobbyists do appear to have launched hacker attacks.
Just before the paper in Nature was publicly challenged, the server hosting the accounts used by its authors was disabled by a particularly effective attack which crippled their capacity to fight back.
The culprit has yet to be identified.
Bivings is the secret author of several of the websites and bogus citizens' movements which have been coordinating campaigns against environmentalists.
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>Bivings is just one of several public relations agencies secretly building a parallel world on the web.
Another US company, Berman & Co, runs a fake public interest site called ActivistCash.com, which seeks to persuade the foundations giving money to campaigners to desist.
Berman also runs the "Centre for Consumer Freedom", which looks like a citizens' group but lobbies against smoking bans, alcohol restrictions and health warnings on behalf of tobacco, drinks and fast food companies. The marketing firm Nichols Dezenhall set up a site called StopEcoViolence, another "citizens' initiative", demonising activists. In March, Nichols Dezenhall linked up with Prakash's collaborator, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, to sponsor a conference for journalists and corporate executives on "eco-extremism".
What is fascinating about these websites, fake groups and phantom citizens is that they have either smelted or honed all the key weapons currently used by the world's biotech enthusiasts: the conflation of activists with terrorists, the attempts to undermine hostile research, the ever more nuanced claims that those who resist GM crops are anti-science and opposed to the interests of the poor. The hatred directed at activists over the past few years is, in other words, nothing of the kind. We have been confronted, in truth, by the crafted response of an industry without emotional attachment.
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When police interrogate suspects;
they follow a rule:
"Catch them in one lie, and their whole story falls apart."
That one lie?
That there are no professional (debunkers)advocates posting for pay.
BS!
>a stereotype of a PR man -- overtalking, evading questions, tossing out confusing scientific terms, qualifying every answer.<
>30 PR firms are jumping on the online bandwagon,<
Of course there are always the thousands of zealots who volunteer their time and effort:
>GOP Team Leader Recruits Nearly 2,000
New Activists in First 2 Weeks<
>April 8, 2002 - WASHINGTON, DC - The Republican National Committee, with the technological expertise of The Bivings Group, has launched a new Internet program<
GOP Going 'Amway' to Spread Agenda
"The GOP has launched an Internet-based campaign that includes a points-for-products system to spread its agenda throughout the country."
"The Web site -- www.gopteamleader.com -- features interactive pages with links to radio and television stations, and partisan talking points that users can personalize and e-mail directly to Democrats in Washington and in their state."
"The site also features a data-sharing "Got Info?" page where "leaders share intelligence with the GOP, acting as our 'eyes-and-ears' on the ground."
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>The Republican National Committee, with the technological expertise of The Bivings Group, has launched a new Internet program<
>the Bivings Group, a PR company contracted to Monsanto, had invented fake citizens to post messages on internet listservers.<
the Bivings Group
Berman & Co
Nichols Dezenhall
I read at this forum reports that the US Army had hacked Alex Lahan's server just before Alex vanished.
>a firewall printout verified this<
Question for anyone who has never been hacked?
Do you agree or disagree with
the RNC/ Rush et-al?
Is this a recent phenomenon?
Has anyone ever heard of a Clinton critic being hacked?
Was this going on during the last administration?
eg: my first (ever) "hack attack" was on September first 2001, as I was warning people to get out of the stock market.
My computer mfg took almost two months to replace the computer, instead of the one week turnaround of my last one of that brand.
Coincidence?
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
[Edited 1 times, lastly by shatoga on 03-05-2003] |
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