05.25.07

How to Steal an Election - Direct from Karl Rove

Posted in Politics at 6:38 pm by nickeve

Step One: Read This article (click here)

Step Two: Continue . . .

How are we going to protect our future?

This is a question that bothers us too seldom. Instead, if you are like me, working too hard, trying too many things at once, worrying about the little things, you probably don’t even give it a thought.

But then you read something like Greg Palast’s report that 4.5 Million votes will be stolen in 2008. Just enough to keep the Republican machine rolling. Where does this information come from? Karl Rove’s emails. Emails that according to Palast came from John Wooden. Wooden was operating georgewbush.org, a spoof site about the presidency, when he received emails mistakenly sent to his domain instead of the georgewbush.com domain. According to Palast, the BBC verified the autenticity of these emails directly from GOP testimony. Watch Palast here (click me).

Palast is not a consipracy nut. He seems to have a ton of evidence about how the firings at the Justice Department are directly related to a larger plan to rig future elections, like they were tampered with in 2004. Just watch the video. He explains it well in his own funny style.

Step Three: Read Palast’s book, “Armed Madhouse”
It has most of the important documents he found in his long investigation of the plan behind Iraq and its relationship to election plannning for 2004 and 2008.

Step Four: Encourage your elected officials to investigate this further and punish all violations of voting laws

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05.18.07

NickEve.com is banned in China

Posted in Politics at 12:34 am by nickeve

Banned in China Since you are reading this, I know you aren’t living in China. Or, if you are, you are one of the sneaky ones that knows how to reach content that is otherwise restricted by the “Golden Shield” initiative of internet censorship.

How do I know this? Well because, as of today, NickEve.com seems to be banned in China.

I only noticed this because I was using internetsupervision.com today at work to check some of our sites, and looked at NickEve.com to compare stats. I noticed that this site was not being found from the data center in Beijing. At first, I thought nothing of it, but when I found I could reach my other websites hosted on the same server from Beijing, I became a bit suspicious. I had indeed written an Anti-War post the previous day, but there was nothing in there about China, so what was going on?

To check, I went to the greatFirewallOfChina.org website as well as a few other places where you can try to reach your sites from within China. Lo and behold, NickEve.com was inaccessible on all these sites.

In my mind, the big question is - why block me?

Do they not like primates? Do they not want people to wish my dad well on his exams? Was it blanket disapproval of the latest Warring States songs? Who knows?

My best guess is they somehow found the word Chinese in the bear farming article and connected this somehow to the language about war in the last post. Warring States, the name of my band, is also a period in Chinese history, but I doubt they would be looking for such subtle clues.

In any case, what is frightening is how quickly this happened. Yesterday I wrote a little post on the war, and and today I am banned. If this is how good the tracking technologies are going to be in our country someday, I shudder to think of how quiet we’ll all have to be to avoid the attention of the mob.

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