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Bush Website Blocked Outside N. America
acey72 writes "The BBC News are
reporting that George W Bush's re-election website (don't bother if you aren't in the USA) is blocked to people accessing it from outside the USA. Netcraft spotted the change on Monday, and have a report on the matter. Oh well, at least John Kerry's site still works for us outlanders." At least some Canadians can access the Bush campaign site, but Europeans cannot (without going through a U.S. proxy).
For those of us with non-US IPs, and who still have some hankering to actually visit the site, then Proxify will let you view. Be warned though, it shows NSFW text ads as well.
Though I've never felt the need to visit Bush's re-election website, it seems to be quite available through Coral even for us europeans. Dog slow, though.
Quality, performance, value; you get only two, and you don't always get to pick.
I live in Guam, and I can't access the site either. It's a US territory, so the citizens aren't allowed to vote in presidential elections, but it's still part of the US and, as it happens, I'm from VA so I'm eligible to vote. Although by absentee ballot wouldn't be counted until after the results are tallied anyway, so what's the point.
Not that I'd vote for Bush. Or Kerry. May they both Rot in Peace.
Well, the hackers will never think of using this one https://georgewbush.com/
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10);'
If you're referring to military personel, they route through domestic (US) networks and wouldn't be affected.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
... why not visit this list, which includes country of operation.
They're actually only blocking georgewbush.com, not the IP 65.172.163.222 which the domainname points to.
So http://65.172.163.222 works fine abroad.
Silly ISP.
There are no votes in Leipzig
And most expats will vote for John Kerry anyway
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
I really don't think that is the case. It was most likely done to protect against hackers and DoS in the final days.
Google cache and Archive.org
Here's what I do: Bitty Browser & Andromeda
For a party (dems) that are supposed to support diversity, the hate speech during this election is amazing. If you don't agree with the Dems, you are vilified.
The election is *supposed* to be on which policies make sense. Some think Bush makes more sense, some think Kerry makes more sense. That is the free election way.
Calling Bush: Hitler, UN Hater, isolationalist is HATE speech. State your views, not your hate.
Never trust a man wearing a coat and tie!
They think Kerry is terrible, that he has never done a single useful thing in his political career, which he built entirely on 4 months of military service, etc.
That's funny, especially since Kerry enlisted in the Navy in 1966 and wasn't discharged until 1970. He spent four months in Vietnam, from 11/68 to 4/69 as part of that duty.
Here's a simplified timeline if you're interested in more.
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
The rurmor was started by Declan McCullagh of Wired Magazine.
http://www.sethf.com/gore/
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
That's your flash player : either uninstall this crap (preferred method) or update it!
Try the administrative contact for the site.
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Bush-Cheney '04, Inc. (35436379O) Chuck@georgewbush.com
P.O. Box 10648
Arlington, VA 22210
US
703-647-2700
Those Iraqis?
How about these Iraqis? Is their life better since being "liberated"? Do they count?
Speak truth to power.
Unipeak proxy link
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This is pretty interesting. Just last week President Bush said the U.S. would "not have an all volunteer Army."
Of course he restated himself a few moments later, but it's not what he meant that's important. It's what he said that matters, right?
I guess that makes him a flip-flopper.
Nothing fades as fast as the future,
Nothing clings like the past.
A while back, I ran a Nessus Scan on both Kerry and Bush's campaign sites.
Results are here.
http://elvis.netmar.com/~will/electionsites/
Note that this is a couple of months old.
sig?
NBC News
And that guy Bin Laden. It turns out that Bush isn't really that concerned about him.
LA Times story on Yahoo
That's how you get tough on terrorism, Bush-style.
Your sig is incorrect, sir. Here is the full quote, not truncated by the Associated Press:
So, you see, Iran's government simply considers America "the Great Satan" no matter who wins on November 2. I suggest you change your sig so you look less misinformed in the future.
[PowerPoint] is a tool for capitalist presentation
Here's some stuff about the opium trade:
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BBC Article from 2002:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asi
"According to the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Afghanistan produced more than 70% of the world's opium in 2000"
"In July 2000 the leader of Afghanistan's former Taleban government, Mullah Omar, declared a nationwide ban on opium cultivation for one year.
The United Nations Drugs Control Program (UNDCP) believes the ban was a success, and production plunged to negligible levels during 2001. "
" But with the demise of the Taleban, there are fears Afghanistan will quickly reclaim its status as the world's largest producer of illicit opium."
And surprise surprise, 2003 figures:
http://europa-eu-un.org/articles/it/art
"in 2003 Afghanistan produced three-quarters of the world's illicit opium"
This trade is now supporting the Taliban:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/episode/0,156
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That last one really get me. How can you even watch Fox News and come up with that?
Oh yeah, there's an interview at the end of "To the Point" with the director, Steve Kull.
"One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place."
- Mick Travis, "If..."
Hey, several weren't secret at all. Take, for instance, Salvador Allende. We replaced him with Pinochet.
Link. If you claim this is simply tinfoil-hattery, I'm done talking to you.
Troll? Ok - I guess others can quote bumper stickers without any issues.
But I go ahead and quote my open source stickers and get flagged as a troll.
Sigh.
Actually, back in 84, during a debate Mondale straight up said "I'm the only one on this stage who will admit that I'll raise your taxes."
1984 was the biggest blowout in US presidential election history.
Show me one case where any freedom of speech, press, or religion was denied in the U.S.
The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.
Perhaps you could have phrased your question better?
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
Show me one case where any freedom of speech, press, or religion was denied in the U.S.
Well, American and foreign prisioners are being held at Guantanamo bay without charge or trial. The press are being granted only very limited access to the goings-on there. And one of the persuasion methods being employed there is to prevent detainees from practicing their normal religious duties.
I look at Bush & Cheney and see the epitome of the 'good-ol-boy' network. Back door deals, friends of Enron, Halliburton, & Suadi Arabia.
I find it hard to ignore that the 2 times we've been at war with Iraq, it's been with a Bush in office. The cost is still rising, another 70 billion just been asked for. With this kind of money, we could have searched every inch of Afganistan twice.
As far as taxes go, I have NEVER had a problem paying my taxes when the economy is great, and my paychecks roll in. There are more taxes to COLLECT when more people are working and spending.
Bush should have kept my $300 check. It pales in comparison to the bonus check we get on good years. The year I got a $300 check from Bush, not only did I get no bonus, we had to fire 100 people. It could have been me.
I'm not going to be able to change your mind. So I'll just point out again that I think people see what they want to see. I know during the debates, I sure did. Talked to some Republicans the next day who loved Bush's performance. !!?
Why are there only 19 people folding@home for slashdot?
Clinton? attacked Iraq first on the very same premise of WMDs.
After this line, I just couldn't believe another word. The first Persian Gulf War was started by George H. W. Bush back in 1990 and '91, not by Clinton, and the reason was Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
Learn your history. I mean, I know I was alive and socially aware at this time (I was in like 4th grade or something), so unless you're like eight years old, you have no right to be unaware of this history: you lived through it!
The previous sig has been removed due to
Instead of the no-brainer www.denver.gov they use www.denvergov.com and www.denvergov.org.
.gov namespace. Denver would have ended up as something like www.denver-co.gov. Or they could have gone with www.ci.denver.co.us.
That's because there are special naming requirements for cities that use the
I can see you've been completely brainwashed by Karl Rove and Fox News. Your above statement is an outright, vicious, republican lie.
They do not drill a hole in the baby's skull. They insert a pair of scissors, then open it to enlarge the hole.
I hope this will teach you not to swallow wingnut propaganda in the future!
Is it not part of the Department of the Treasury? ah, yes it is.
The Department of Engraving and Printing deals with paper currency and the US Mint deals with coinage.
Maybe better proof is found in this PDF explaining the organization of the US Treasury (US Mint is clearly at the bottom-middle)
Is it possible you were referring the the Federal Reserve?
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Some of the people held in Guantanamo Bay are American. Although there have been attempts by the US government to render the constitution unenforceable because Guantanamo base is located in Cuba, an inital ruling in favour of the government was overturned by the US Supreme Court.
The legal concept of a "foriegn(sic) combatant" is largely fiction. Prisioners taken on a battlefield are classified as "Prisioners of War" and have rights under the Geneva Convention -- which the US, despite being signatories of the Convention, are not respecting.
Prisioners taken in a foreign country *outside* of a state of war outside of normal extradition channels are called "hostages".
Strawman argument. I never said they were being censored, merely given very limited (read: zero) access to the base and its occupants.
If you believe that foreigners' opinions about the US election are irrelevant, wait until they start dumping these securities and our dollar becomes worthless.
A non-American's opinion in the 2004 presidential election is pretty much as irrelevant as it gets.
Quite to the contrary: what international investors believe about US politics is vitally important to the US. Should they lose confidence in the US, they'll pull out their money and the US economy will collapse.
Actually is quite well know that Saddam didn't fund or train terrorist, especially not Al-Quada since they were direct enemies.
Syria is another arabic country, a good place to sell stuff if you need some cash to make an escape with.
Technical Update Although overseas visitors to www.georgewbush.com are blocked https://georgewbush.com or http://65.172.163.222 still work. http://65.172.163.222 resolves as GeorgeWBush.com which illustrates how cak-handed the blocking is. From "The Register" website.
Your CPU is not doing anything else, at least do something.
Isn't it "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength" ?
Untrue. Did you hear about the Madrid bombing? The Bali bombing? The three hundred and fifty people killed in Beslan, Russia? And how many major terrorist attacks have there been on U.S. soil since 9/11?
In fact, terrorist attacks last year hit a 35-year low, at least until Powell realised this was bad for business and had the official figures heavily revised.
Of course non-U.S. terrorist attacks don't get as much media coverage (even outside the U.S.) but it doesn't mean that they don't occur.
" Actually is quite well know that Saddam didn't fund or train terrorist"
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Actually it is VERY well-known that he funded palestinian terrorists. It is fairly well-known that he used the oil-for-food program to fund Al-Qaeda.
"train terrorist"
Actually, it is fairly well-known that they trained all sorts of terrorists at their Salmon-Pak facility. They even had a 747 for use in training to hijack. They were also not direct enemies w/ Al-Qaeda, especially since, as the 9-11 report stated, that they had signed a mutual pact to develop weapons together. Also, Saddam has harbored many terrorists in Baghdad.
Clinton Justice Department's spring 1998 indictment of bin Laden:
"Al Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq."
WTC1: Mohammed Salameh called Baghdad 46 times in the two months before bomb maker Abdul Rahman Yasin flew from Baghdad to New Jersey to join the plot. Afterwards, Yasin fled to Baghdad, where records and multiple press accounts show he received safe haven and Baathist cash.
After leaving Afghanistan, Zarqawi fled to Baghdad and received medical attention in one of their premier hospitals.
Here's some links:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=
This link includes both confirmed and speculated connections of Iraq/Al-Qaeda:
http://www.worldthreats.com/middle_east/Iraq%20
I have more, but I'll leave it at that for now. Note that in the 90's, the connection between Iraq and Al-Qaeda was pretty much a given. Only now that Bush is using Saddam's terror ties as reason for invasion are people backing down.
Engineering and the Ultimate
Well, Iran was peaceful until the CIA orchestrated a coup there. Then we propped up saddam and set the two at each other. isn't it great?
Gee I wonder why this is biting us in the ass?
As the original submitter of this story, I'm gratified by the amount of debate it's spawned :-)
However, a few points in reply to various comments in the thread (I'm sorry they're not posted appropriately)
For whatever reason, it's undeniably a PR disaster.
Which raises an interesting point - are the various terrorist organisations threatening the US/West/CIS just taking up the vacuum left by the collapse of the USSR as a superpower. Newton's 3rd law applied to geopolitics?
Oh well, all interesting stuff - let's see what happens next week!
The Guardian [british newspaper] organised exactly that.
/story/0,13918,1329858,00.html
:-P
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004
Look at the lovely responses they got
The block means that US soldiers serving in Afganistan, Iraq, South Korean etc don't get to see the presidents site either.
I assume Bush thinks those guys are expendable in search of an election win...
The legal concept of a "foriegn(sic) combatant" is largely fiction. Prisioners taken on a battlefield are classified as "Prisioners of War" and have rights under the Geneva Convention -- which the US, despite being signatories of the Convention, are not respecting.
You are simply wrong. The Geneva conventions explicitly exclude certain categories of persons from their protections, such as mercenaries and spies. For certain others, they must pass various tests to qualify for the protections.
Now, somehow I doubt that you have ever bothered to read the conventions since then you would know this, and you would also realize that the specific protections of the Geneva Conventions don't necessarily make any sense for those people, such as PAYING them a monthly salary (article 60).
Please do trouble yourself enough to actually read them. Maybe you could start with Article 4, section 2. Hopefully you will do this before spreading any more highly moderated malarkey.
They didn't fund Al Q'aida, true. That was something left for the US to do.
Saddam's government did fund Hammas and the PLO, however.
I think OP referred to stuff like ousting of democratically elected president of Chile and replacing him with General Pinochet. Or ousting the democrating regime of Iran, and replacing it with Shah. Or the attempted coup at Venezuela (again, to ous a democratically elected president). Or supporting Saddam Hussein, so he could wage his war against Iran (that war was a Good Thing (tm) since USA hated Iran because they dared to oust the US-backed puppet-regime).
Ah, the old "Hey! we helped you in the past! Therefore you are eternally our bitches and you have to do whatever we tell you to do untill the end of time!"-argument.
You HAD our trust and respect. Hell, Europeans admired USA for decades! Europe and USA were really friendly towards each other during the Clinton-administration, and that was just few years ago! Too bad GWB managed to flush all that down the toilet with his "either you are our bithces, or you are against us"-bullshit coupled with his "pre-emptive self-defence"-crap.
Lesbian Nazi Hookers Abducted by UFOs and Forced Into Weight Loss Programs - -all next week on Town Talk.
Just type georgewbush.com. Note the '.' after com, doesn't take much to fool the system.