Presstorm PWND! And the lessons to be learned

NOTE: We want to start off this article with a special note:

We are fully aware that Anonymous is not an organization, nor does Anonymous advocate anti-racism and it does not advocate racism either.
Anonymous is a collective that operates in the actions of a hive that is made up of many different kinds of individuals who all have their own ideas and ideologies.
We are also aware that there are a few individuals who have participated in Anonymous hive actions who do consider themselves white supremacists, conservatives, Republicans, Libertarians … but there has never really been any hive action advocating for racist, conservative, or Republican ideology that falls under “srs bznz”.

There have been, however, certain hive actions that have fought up against racism, police brutality, and right wing insanity.
In stating all of this we are trying to clear up any confusions of claims of what Anonymous as a collective does or does not stand for or believe, as this is a fluid concept and always depends on the individuals participating in the various hive operations.

PRESSTORMING

The 8Presstorm8 media operation was the brain child of a woman who uses the handle “Jamie Jo Corne”. Jamie is an interesting individual who likes to put forth the impression that she is an “investigative journalist” in fact she repeats it almost to the level of a mantra to the point where one wonders whether she is trying to convince those she is telling this to or if she trying to convince herself.

"Jamie Jo Corne"

Using her aggressive style Jamie pushed to ingratiate herself into worlds of both Anonymous and Wikileaks, gaining a combination of friends and enemies on her way.
Jamie was infamous for her lavish claims of big media connections and credits that were often disproven.
She also elbowed herself into interviews with various types of media passing herself off as both an expert on Anonymous and an insider to the happenings of Anonymous operations.
While Jamie probably isn’t the first and probably won’t be the last person on the internet to make up outlandish claims and to try to infiltrate and manipulate Anonymous, her fables were a bit off putting.

White Supremacist American Free Press Article Written by White Nationalist Willis Carto is Promoted on Presstorm

The real red flags came to the attention of many people when Jamie published an article on Presstorm by the American Free Press publication which is owned and run by the racist White Nationalist: Willis Carto

White Nationalist Willis Carto Supporting Holocaust Denier Zundel Outside German Embassy in Washington DC.

To add insult to injury, also featured in this “American Free Press” article was a quote from “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” an old publication that is strongly believed to be the inspiration for the Nazi mass genocide of the Jews.

When confronted on this, instead of being apologetic for offering a venue for Nazi propaganda, Jamie became irate and rude. She had a cult level following of loyalists who chose to defend this kind of material rather than also question it’s presence on Presstorm which would have been the path most people who oppose racism would take.

The question was then, was Jamie herself a racist and was there an undercurrent agenda she was using Presstorm for?

This brings us to Jamie’s husband, whom we have heard is named “Dave” but we are not sure.
What we do know is that he was a sour tempered gadfly type on Twitter who used the handle “vincubusdante” and spent hours on the internet spewing nonsensical crude insults at anyone who questioned or confronted anything that had to do with Presstorm.

Jamie's Husband: "vincubusdante"

Hence, we weren’t all that surprised when this appeared:

Racist Tea-Party/Minuteman anti-immigration rhetoric from "Jamie Jo Corne's" husband "vincubusdante"

We found out that he was the author of the article on this page here:

vincubusdante as the author of the racist unpublished article on Presstorm

The full image of that editor’s directory is here:

Full Directory of vincubusdante's work

Everybody who was contributing their articles to Presstorm had access to this directory and was able to viewed this racist work in progress and nobody still had a problem or an issue with it?

Nobody had an issue when Jamie proudly posted a photo of her young children waving a Confederate flag, a symbol related to racism, slavery, lynching and hate?

Jamie's Children Waving around The Confederate Flag, One of the Most Embarrassing,Racist and Offensive Symbols in American Culture.

Jamie and her husband’s questionable racist ethics were not the only presence on Presstorm, there was also the issue of one of their main contributors who goes by the handle “Dale Hollyn”.

DALE HOLLYN

Dale Hollyn One of Presstorm's Top Contributors

“Dale Hollyn”‘s anti-choice articles on Presstorm struck an offensive note in a lot of people. In doing a little digging it didn’t take too long to find their right wing and quite racist Islamophobic blog called The Indianapolis Levee .
This blog which displays such hideous images as a photoshop of the Indiana African American elected official Andre’Carson being lynch:

Presstorm Contributor "Dale Hollyn" Photoshops a Lynching Using Indiana's African American Elected Official Andre' Carson

Another interesting post on “Hollyn’s” blog is the choice in the list of links:

Fascists, Islamophobes, and Presstorm make up the list of links on Dale Hollyn's Blog

The list includes Pam Geller’s Islamophobic blog Atlas Shrugs , the terrorist JDL organization leader Rabbi Kahane , WW2 Fascist leader and Ally to Hitler Mussolini, terrorism guide The Jolly Roger Cookbook , the extremist militia “Christian Patriot” movement … and “PRESSTORM” (lol!)

Was Presstorm aware of this racist blog? Well, they were following them on Twitter:

Presstorm is one of Six Followers of "Dale Hollyn's" Racist Blog

WHO IS DALE HOLLYN?

It was obvious in doing a little research that Dale Hollyn is not a real name but a handle, but who is Dale Hollyn and how does he fit into the Indianapolis community?

Research leads to the link to Dale’s blog in a signature on political forum profile

IndyLevee.com is the signature for this profile

Being that Indylevee.com is obviously not a very popular blog, and the profile states residency in Indiana we came to the conclusion that this is either “Dale Hollyn” or someone pretty damn close to him.

Profile Handle "Lewstherin" who is either Dale Hollyn or a Dale Hollyn Supporter Reveals Himself as Roger Nay a Racist Writer for the Indianapolis Examiner

Digging further we found this character popping up on an Islamophobic site bragging about his published racist articles in the Indianapolis Examiner under the name “Roger Nay”

Is Roger Nay = Dale Hollyn?

Mr Nay’s articles are so bad, racist and offensive, we found this on here with the most appalling sexist and disgusting commentary on First Lady Michelle Obama it is a complete parallel to what is found on the Neo-Nazi forum Stormfront.com.

IS HATE SPEECH FREE SPEECH?

In the world of Anonymous we must never forget or ignore the connection to 4Chan and the impish trolls from /b/. The common rhetoric and memes babbled on the internets have always be a collection of offensive and racist slurs used to troll and offend people who usually take life too seriously.
Are these slurs made because the trolls on /b/ support racism? No, they support trolling and getting “LULZ” from the people who rage from their antics.

Does /b/ or Anonymous support actual real life Ku Klux Klan or Nazi level racism? Over all we can safely say “no”.

In theory the majority of us can say we support free speech, we understand everyone has the right to be hateful if they choose and to scribbling down and even publish their bigoted verbiage.

We also reserve the right not to support hate speech nor do we have an obligation to offer it a platform and allow it to co-opt and try to define Anonymous into this kind of rightwing and hateful agenda.

Nor should we be bullied into compromising with this kind of internet presence.

The bullying from Presstorm to accept the racist publications and agenda they were pushing was almost on the level of the Scientology tactics Anonymous was fighting against only a few years ago.

As an individual, whether you are an Anon for “LULZ” or an Anon as a “freedom fighter” you never should allow yourself to be intimidated and conned into accepting an agenda that is inspired by conspiracy fairytales of hate and scapegoating those of a certain race, skin color, religion, sexual orientation. Anyone who is calling this bill of goods “freedom” is a hate mongering manipulator.

Lessons to be learned:

1. Beware of those who come out of nowhere and then assume to take charge. Anonymous is and always was a leaderless concept and should always beware of falling under the grip of a charismatic charlatan.
2. Beware of anyone begging for money, if there is someone raising money for a good cause that you think you can trust then donate at your own risk, but, Anonymous is not a cash cow, it is an internet machine.
3. Beware of crazy conspiracy agendas, most conspiracy theories are total bullshit anyone trying to push them on you is full of shit.

Jamie’s downfall is that Anonymous finally caught on to her scheme, so she picked up her marbles, put her hands on her hips and then screeched on about how she meant to do that, it was an “experiment”, she is going to write her Kitty Kelly style tell all book, …yadda…yadda..yadda… and *poof* she is gone, for now, maybe.

In the future, keep an eye out for the next Jamie and Presstorm to try to hop into your twitters, your hive, your IRC, your wallet and your nightmares, they are drama nobody needs.

White Supremacist “Conservatives” hold Gatherings at the National Press Club and Ronald Reagan Building on 9/11 weekend in DC

Richard Spencer at the National Press Club is the organizer for the white nationalist NPI conference

9/11 weekend is already a tense weekend in the DC area, with remembrance events, fears of repeated attacks and bumped up security reminders with check points and street cops walking around the metro with shotguns.

To add to this mess, a white supremacist contingent of conservatives who often refer to themselves as “Paleo-Conservatives” attempted to galvanize support via a white nationalist political conference to build a unified base. Unlike the “Neo-Conservatives”– of whom they regard as more beholden to the evils of multi-culturalism than “true conservatives” are supposed to be– the Paleo-cons openly advocate for “white America”.

Richard Spencer was the main organizer of the event which was sponsored by the pro-white advocate group called The National Policy Institute or NPI. Spencer was recently asked to leave TakiMag over the possibility he was too racist for Taki.

The handout flier for this event was titled: “The Majority Strategy”- Why The GOP Must Win White America” and we uploaded it:

National Policy Institute- The Majority Strategy (18mb .PDF)

The speakers at this conference included the waning shock jock from Political Cesspool, James Edwards– whose persona is a cross between a backwoods used car salesman and a racist skinhead, and The American Renaissance publisher Jared Taylor.

Until recently, Taylor was the main organizer of these pro-white conferences, but recently they have been shut down by strong community opposition.

Left: Political Cesspool's James Edwards Right: American Renaissance's Jared Taylor. Both were speakers at the NPI Conference.

Mike Flugennock from Sinkers.org was also there and with his humorous style summed up the conference in his very informative video:

The events were a press conference held at the National Press Club in DC on September 9, 2011 and their conference was located at the Ronald Reagan Building in DC on September 10, 2011.

Transparency Terrifies David Horowitz

My, it’s been awhile, hasn’t it? Don’t worry, gentle readers– we haven’t gone anywhere.

Horowitz is infamous for screaming for freedom to hate but cries like a baby when others exercise their freedom to expose him

We subscribe to a heck of a lot of email listservs, and among them JihadWatch and the David Horowitz Freedom Center are among our most prolific subscriptions. Every day, we’re treated to a landslide of the most paranoid and ridiculous delusions about the coming floodtide of fifth-column Muslim ninja insurgent terrorists, walking amongst us– unseen!

On August 26, 2011, Center for American Progress released a large and comprehensive report entitled Fear, Inc.The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America, which details the funding and propagation of Islamophobic rhetoric in the United States.

This report (which can be viewed in its entirety here) does little more than report publicly available information about who funds organizations like Jihadwatch and figures like David Horowitz and Pam Geller, then goes to on to document the tangible effects this sort of rhetoric has on society.

The existence of such a report in the wake of Anders Behring Breivik’s mass slaughter in Norway is timely and necessary, and the exercise of bringing transparency to shady matters is the epitome of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. That Breivik was a fan (if not a pen-pal) of Geller’s makes his inclusion in this report all the more salient.

This report therefore directly threatens the careers of the members of the cloyingly titled “Stop Islamisation of America” movement.

Naturally, the content of the emails changed to apoplectic fits about how the “Islamic Supremacist Propaganda Machine” is silencing critics of Islam and is waging a war against freedom of speech.

David Horowitz and Robert Spencer seized this opportunity to needle their audience for hard cash– claiming the best way to defend freedom of speech was to send them as much money as you possibly could.

Here is one of Horowitz’s begging and BAWWWWing e-mails:

BEG AND BAWWWW AND BEG AND BAWWWW!

Your reward for throwing your money away on this “heroic act of patriotic freedom-fighting?” A copy of David Horowitz’s latest book. ( OH JOY!) Freedom isn’t free, you know.

The Center for American Progress report is obviously not an assault on freedom of speech. This is more apparent when it is compared with the actions of the groups it exposes– who routinely demonize and scapegoat all members of a religion as dangerous and duplicitous savages. Does applauding people who commit mass murder as a valid form of “combat” against said religion count as “defending freedom of speech?” Only in the mind of the murderer.

The only real difference between blindly ranting that all opposition to “pro-America” activists is funded by an Islamic conspiracy or a Jewish conspiracy is the site on which it’s published. If we were to simply change “Muslim” to “Jew” in your screeds, it would be indistinguishable from the anti-Semitic bile that is pumped out of Stormfront or VNN; sorry, Mr.Horowitz– that makes you a racist.

MORE TRANSPARENCY ON WHO IS FUNDING RACIST POLITICAL GROUPS

Excellent work from our friends at the "Center for a New Community"

Another impressive report on transparency, issued on August 30, 2011, was produced by Center for New Community– in which it details the organizational and financial structure of the anti-immigration movement in the US. As it turns out– and as we have reported in the past– all of the major anti-immigration organizations in the US have been founded by, receive funding from or are otherwise associated with a man with white supremacist ties named John Tanton.

It is also worthy to note that the Scaife Foundations that supply Tanton with money are related by blood to the same Richard Mellon Scaife that funds a bulk of the anti-Muslim bigotry in this country and are also mentioned in the above Center for American Progress report.

Oh, what a tangled web.

Hey, Booz Allen, U Mad?

LULZ!

Why London is Burning

Speak the Truth to Power, Brother!!!

Sucking Koch!

Julia and David Koch in a Marie Antoinette/Louis XVI moment overlooking a crowd of protesters from a balcony.

The middle east was in chaos this weekend with protests and clashes filling the news with the havoc. But the middle east was not the only site of protest– a smaller and less violent protest in California at what was supposed to be a billionaire caucus drew 1000 angry protesters outside a posh resort in Palm Springs California.

Despite being organized by MoveOn– and thus part of a larger political circus– the protesters were not lacking causes to oppose and rage against. The key figures present at this confluence of corporate corruption were the multi-billion dollar Koch Brothers. Apart from their status as primary funders of the entire teabag movement, the Koch’s other but no less odious claim to fame rests with their father, Fred who– with Robert Welch and Revilo P. Oliver– founded the John Birch Society. Revilo P. Oliver is a notable figure due to his prominence in White Nationalist circles (he also co-founded the neo-nazi National Alliance with William Peirce), and consequently the John Birch Society enjoyed the membership of such prominent neo-nazis as David Lane, Tommy Metzger and William Peirce. Before we digress too much, let’s just finish with how the John Birch Society is best known:

It’s not surprising that the family at the nexus of paranoid conspiracy theories about communists tampering with our precious bodily fluids attracts paranoid conspiracy theorists. Making his second appearance at this event was Glenn Beck, whose shilling for gold scams  and bilking the poor out of their money apparently dovetails nicely with the committed anti-communist and pro-business crowd at this event. Thanks to ThinkProgress, we have the program from last year’s event and the invitation to this year’s event. We’re still looking for a copy of this year’s program, but while you’re waiting why don’t you take a look through the eighteen page PDF and see the who’s-who of corporate corruption in America.

Drunken race-baiter Andrew Breitbart also made an appearance outside the conference, choosing to spend his time roller-skating around the crowd and hurling insults. He later produced a video of an alleged eevyle liebrul stating that Clarence Thomas needed to be “strung up,” but considering Breitbart’s propensity for blatantly fabricating videos as “evidence” and how “the left’s treatment of Clarence Thomas” was the reason he became a conservative, this is probably yet another attempt at slander through video editing.

Also present, fresh off their merger with Comcast and subsequent abrupt termination of Keith Olbermann, was MSNBC– but not in any journalistic capacity. Truly, this was a panoply of plutocracts.

A movement that is wholly funded by the private coffers of two multi-billionaire brothers is in no way “grass roots.” The more light is shown on the revolting Kochs, the more they wither and decay.

The FBI Attempts to Intimidate the Internet!

The FBI served 40 people with search warrants and seized electronic devices as their conducted a blatant intimidation campaign against internet free-speech activists. Raw Story has the story here, but we have an update.

From AnonX:

FBI had a warrant to take all my electronics. They came in the dorm room bustin in @ 7:00, and pushed everyone out of bed. They searched the place and questioned all people involved.
I was a passive admin for Operation Payback, and quit early to avoid complications with the law, but it seems the FBI has gotten the better of me.
Questions shall be answered whenever I have time, and when I find a public computer to use as they seized all my electronic assets.
UNCENSORED WARRANT: http://i.imgur.com/4o8IC.jpg
TL;DR: FBI took all my stuff and questioned me about OP
Also, AMA.

No, this is not a hoax. Among those questioned were at least three current IRC operators– who all had their personal items and electronics seized.

Roderick F. Coffin III is the point-of-contact g-man behind the raid in Georgia, who– as this business card shows—

works at 2635 Century Pkwy NE, Suite 400, Atlanta, GA 30345,
can be emailed at roderick.coffin@ic.fbi.gov,
telephoned at (404)679-9000×6029 or faxed at (404)679-1417

*UPDATE* ANOTHER PERSON HIT BY FBI. ANON-Y WAS NOT RAIDED BUT SUBPOENAED:

THE DETAILS ABOUT THE AGENT WHO SERVED THEM

Please also note that we are merely republishing content originally published elsewhere.

OpEgypt is a Success!!

As a parallel action to the mass protests and revolution in Egypt the internet hive Anonymous has been doing DDoS attacks on the Egyptian government websites..

From the We Are Khaled Saeed group, that we translated from Arabic:

This is a tragic story about a young man who was brutally murdered. Why? He refused to be treated inhumanly by two savage cops who had no right to do what they were doing– treating people like sheep and considering the citizens inferior.
The story began on 7th June 2010 when Khaled Saeed went to his usual Internet cafe in Sidigaber. Then two wild detective cops- Mahmoud Alfallah and Awaad Elmokhber- ambushed that cafe asking people for their IDs which is totally out of their authority and without legal permission. Khaled rejected that inhumane treatment and consequently was viciously attacked. He was kicked in his chest and belly severely while his skull was smashed against the marble bar in front of all of the people in the cafe while Khaled was bleeding. The savage cops then abducted Khaled and put him inside a police vehicle to continue torturing him at the police station where he later died. They threw his corpse into the street to claim that he was attacked by some strangers in order to avoid responsibility.

According to what we know, there’s a systematic campaign to terrify the witnesses and prevent them from testifying to what they saw in the cafe….

Khaled is not and won’t be the only case, there are lots of people who had the same fate and disappeared and became dead on arrival. All of this is a result of the oppressive system under which Mubarak controls Egypt. This emergency law gives the police the upper hand to treat the residents as slaves.

Thus, we the group of Change In Egypt supporters urge you to intervene and force the authorities to investigate and explain to the public what happened and to condemn it strongly.

Security and Connectivity update:

For all Egyptians: Twitter is closed as you know, Facebook will reportedly close very soon. Please All use proxies and tell ALL your friends in Egypt to use proxy to connect. For example use: http://www.free-proxy.ca

The Telecomix IRC is interested in assisting Egyptians circumvent country-level censorship blocks, and they are posting live, on-the-street updates of the situation in Egypt.. Also, the censors at TE Data failed to block 128.121.243.237 and 168.143.161.29 for Twitter. You can use those without a proxy directly.

Expect Us

Update: #hispano is the Spanish-language channel, #leysinde is the English-language channel.
Actualización: #hispano es el canal en Español, #leysinde es el canal en idioma Inglés.

Right Wing Terrorism on the Rise!!!

ARE THEY SERIOUS?????

Jared Lee Loughner shot and wounded United States Congsswoman Gabrielle Giffords and twelve others and killed Federal Judge John McCarthy Roll and six others outside a Safeway in Tucson early Saturday, January Eighth, 2011.

Giffords had beaten the teabagger candidate, Jesse Kelly, to win her third term as a representative. Gabrielle Giffords’ office was also vandalized in March, just after health care reform was approved. Why is this important? Last March, Mike Vanderboegh boasted about his call to throw bricks through the local offices of representatives who voted for Health Care Reform. This message struck such a chord that he was invited to speak at the Open Carry rally in April. He’s trying to backpedal now, making the patently ridiculous claim that his call to violence was actually an action against this type of violence, but he’s trying to shove toothpaste back into the tube.

Giffords was also the member of Congress who read the First Amendment during the reading of the Constitution this past Thursday. Fate is not without a sense of irony.

Victim 9 yr old Christina Taylor Greene

Judge Roll was the target of a barrage of death threats in 2009, after he had ruled that a group of illegal immigrants could proceed with a multi-million dollar civil rights lawsuit against a state rancher. Gabe Zimmerman, Giffords’ aide and a nine-year old child who had recently been elected president of her school’s student council were also amongst the dead.

Loughner’s Youtube rants are–at best– incoherent and rambling; they display some of the same rudderless and agitated rhetoric that typified early missives from Francis E. Dec, who was suffering from a degenerating form of paranoid schizophrenia. He also posted a similarly rambling screed online, which can be read here.

Loughner apparently retains enough of his mental capabilities to invoke his right against self-incrimination, so we must wait for word on his motivations before we discover if he is “just another kook” or a symptom of something deeper. It is, however, not too much of a stretch to observe the connection between Loughner’s acts and the pathology of violence than infects the right wing.

This is a fine place to reprint a common sentiment around the ‘net today: If all muslims are branded as terrorists due to the acts of a tiny minority, why is it when white conservatives repeatedly do it, it’s just the act of lone nuts?