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"Relationships of ownership they whisper in the wings"
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The Anarchives Volume 2 Issue 11
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The Anarchives Published By
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The Anarchives The Anarchy Organization
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The Anarchives tao@lglobal.com
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Send your e-mail address to get on the list
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Spread The Word Pass This On...
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--/\-- Power
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/ / \ \ And The Internet Domain
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\/ \/
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/\______/\ by Jesse Hirsh
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@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@
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This story is almost too easy to believe.
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Turns out (no surprise really) that the Internet domain registration
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monopoly (internic.net) is indeed owned by the
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military-industrial-biological complex. For once it's as if the
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double-speak vanishes and the truth is as open as a web page.
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Now Internet domain registration will begin to be priced according to
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user-fees starting at $50 annually. One source, one collecter of fees.
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One databank with all Internet registration...
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Scientific Applications International Corp.
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To quote web reviews (emag):
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"The company, with over 20,000 employees and 450 locations around the
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world, reported $1.9 billion in gross revenues in 1994. Over 90% of its
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income was generated by government contracts - more than half of that
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from defense, intelligence, and federal law enforcement contracts."
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They are a large military technology corporation. Check out some of the
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projects that are listed in the corporate report:
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- National Security: "Our advanced technology for the Army Global Command
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and Control System will allow quick response deployment and tracking of
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troops in simulated or actual evetns."
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- Informaiton Management: "SAIC is supporting Department of Defence's
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renovation of the 52-year-old Pentagon, one of the largest buildings in the world and
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workplace for nearly 25,000 people. Under U.S. Army direction, our staff
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are creating an evolving building-wide "enterprise network" of shared
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communications and computing services. We are designing the network to
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operate more efficiently than today's disparate systems, yet require less
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human and fiscal resources to operate and maintain."
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- Military Technology: "Our contribution to the U.S. Navy/Defense Nuclear
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Agency Electro-Thermal Chemical Gun illustrates this new focus."
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WAIT A MINUTE, READ THAT SENTENCE AGAIN...
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- Military Technology: "Our contribution to the U.S. Navy/Defense Nuclear
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Agency Electro-Thermal Chemical Gun illustrates this new focus."
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CAN SOMEONE PLEASE DECIPHER THIS?
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- Law Enforcement: "A new SAIC system will give federal, state and local
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law enforcement agencies fast, on-line access to criminal histories."
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- Environment: "SAIC supports the decontamination and decommissioning of
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defense plants and military facilities."
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These guys are some bad dudes.
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To quote web review (emag):
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"In 1990 SAIC was indicted by the Justice Department on 10 felony counts
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for fraud in its management of a Superfund toxic cleanup site. (SAIC
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pleaded guilty.)
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In 1993 the Justice Department sued SAIC, accusing it of civil fraud on
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an F15 fighter contract.
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In May 1995, the same month SAIC purchased NSI, the company settled a
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suit that charged it had lied about security system tests it conducted
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for a Treasury Department currency plant in Fort Worth, TX. (The company
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paid the government $125,000 to cover the cost of the investigation as
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part of that settlement.)"
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So why is this coming up now?
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SAIC with the purchase of NSI, which owns Internic.net, now controls all
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Internet domain registration. A monopoly that now wants to charge $50
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annually for every domain name. Turn the funnels of money on.
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For those who don't know internic.net is the "central" (catch that one),
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registration point for the Internet. Operated in conjunction with AT&T,
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internic.net is the biggest reference source on the net. Every time you
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send an email with an address like "lglobal.com", that name is referenced
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to internic.net and converted to an I.P. address such as 210.50.120.2
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which denotes network topography.
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So again the military controls the maps and the bureacracy.
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You've got to go see their board of directors page. It's incredible.
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As an expression of global empire, SAIC is as naked as an oligarchy can be.
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Their board of directors, 23 white men, 1 white woman, and 1 perhaps
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southern european woman. Two generals, one admiral, vice-chairman of bank
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of america.
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>From: Wes Thomas <wes@ora.com>
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>The press recently reported that the National Science Foundation>has turned
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>over Internet Domain Name registration to Network>Solutions, Inc. (NSI) of
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>Herndon, VA. The press failed to note some interesting connections.
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>Tomorrow morning (Sept. 26), Web Review, a biweekly online magazine
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>(see >Special Report at http://gnn.com/wr/) will reveal that NSI
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>was purchased in May by Scientific Applications International
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>Corporation (SAIC) of San Diego. SAIC is a $2 billion company
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>indicted by the Justice Department on ten felony counts for fraud
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>in managing a Superfund toxic cleanup site (SAIC pleaded guilty)
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>and sued by the Justice Department for civil fraud on an F-15
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>fighter contract.
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>
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>SAIC's board members include Admiral Bobby Inman, former NSA head
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>and deputy director of the CIA; Melvin Laird, Nixon's defense
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>secretary; and retired General Max Thurman, commander of the Panama
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>Invasion. Recently departed board members include Robert Gates,
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>former CIA director; William Perry, current Secretary of Defense;
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>and John Deutch, the current CIA director. Current SAIC government
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>contracts include re-engineering information systems at the
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>Pentagon, automation of the FBI's computerized fingerprint
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>identification system, and building a national criminal history
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>information system.
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goto http://www.saic.com/ and pick the corporate report.
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it's some crazy pages, almost wonder if they're real...
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power comes in many forms,
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but there is only one power,
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many faces.
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and there is no freedom in the face of power.
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