October 09, 2004
The New Republic of Afghanistan
Unless you've been hiding at the center of the earth, or Kerry's team, you should know by now that Afghanistan had its first elections...ever. (The center of the earth analogy was used because even those in Afghanistan's caves know about this.) October 9th, 2004 will be the date that Afghanistan has been legitimized as a sovereign nation with direct leadership of someone of their own choosing. There were no bombings, no beheadings, nothing. The biggest uproar today was about some ink being used wrong. Have you seen the polling lines? Take a look at Commissar's pic. I haven't seen lines like that since...well...never! I suspect that the voter turnout will dwarf anything this nation has ever had in its 200+ year history.
Bush has made comment about the event:
"Freedom is powerful. Think about a society in which young girls couldn't go to school, and their mothers were whipped in the public square, and today they're holding a presidential election."
Kerry has made...well...no mention of it. (If anyone has a Kerry comment about the elections please let me know. I really hate being partisan....yeah, that was a lie, I love slamming Kerry.)
In case anyone forgot, this is what freedom looks like:
Courtesy of the BBC:
Afghan refugee Moqadasa Sidiqi, 19, creates history, being the first person to vote in Afghanistan's first presidential election. She voted in Pakistan. View Slideshow.
These ballots look better than our ballots. Can I go vote in Afghanistan?
Here's another Slideshow. Yes, those are Afghan women and children at these rallies.
The BBC went nuts with these elections. Here's the link.
I'm glad to see someone on the other side of the pond realizes the importance of this.
UPDATE: Yahoo News has a 341 picture slideshow here. Just click on the picture on the right to start it. (My local paper is likening the indellible ink fiasco to Florida's hanging chad fiasco.)
Please, don't take my word for what's going on in Afghanistan. Listen to what The Afhan Daily newspaper says, in English. The Afghan Daily is a subsidiary of the World News.
I almost forgot one thing: John Howard has won re-election in Australia. I guess that means Kerry was wrong about support in Australia as well. Their people have spoken. It is time we did the same.
Note: there is a new voting system this year. Those registered with the incumbent party need to vote on November 2nd. Those registered with other parties or no affiliation need to vote on November 3rd. (Yes, this is an old joke but I still think it's funny.)
Allah bless Afghanistan!
October 06, 2004
Tororu (Japanese for Troll)
Today I recieved my very first real live troll. The person loved me so much they read at least three separate articles. The only reason I know they read three separate articles is because I recieved three different comments, one per article. If feel so happy I'm posting all three of them today! I'll take it directly from haloscan so I don't miss any information:
Name:
BUSHSUCKS
IP:
133.7.7.20
Email:
BUSHSUCKS@eatmeyouwarwhore.com
Comment:
So why does the US sponsor terrorism worldwide, including in Iraq? Come on blame everything on Zarqawi--as if the US paid him enough already to do that much stuff!
Time:
10.06.04 - 6:57 am
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Name:
BUSHSUCKS
IP:
133.7.7.20
Email:
BUSHSUCKS@eatmeyouwarwhore.com
Comments:
Can't Pole kielbasa halal no matter how you blow up those sausage heads. Die Polish scum, die.
Time:
10.06.04 - 6:55 am
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Name:
BUSHSUCKS
IP:
133.7.7.20
Email:
BUSHSUCKS@eatmeyouwarwhore.com
Comments:
Why They FightWho will win the 15 year long US-Iraq Conflict? What sort of post-war society will result in Iraq? What sort of post-war society will result in the USA?For the US nationalists (including quite a few 'leftists'), a brink draws into view, as they are forced to contemplate the unthinkable: A few thousand rag-tag Iraqi Arab insurgents stood up to the Americans when all the world scurried to do the US's bidding.
Will the future accounts write: The Iraqi insurgency saved the world from American hegemony, and started a chain of events that caused the US permanent war, homeland security, national security state and military empire to implode.
Time:
10.06.04 - 6:53 am
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I'm not going to comment on the grammar, wording or lack of substance in these comments. I'm going to concentrate on where he screwed up.
Source Tracing 101
What can we discover from the Haloscan data that we normally could not from a standard comments system?
The name: BUSHSUCKS, although not very original is fairly standard in most comments systems. Many typepad accounts will force you to log in before you comment giving you a registered name. Unfortunately, they are not free. So, nothing to be gained from the name.
Email: BUSHSUCKS@eatmeyouwarwhore.com, he got fairly creative with the wording. (Note to self: forward "eat me you war whore" to Daisy for her collection of Ad Hominem's.) Unfortunately, the email is obviously bogus, creative but bogus. I noticed that Citizen Smash checks your first comments for validity and constructiveness and I am fairly sure that this would not pass his litmus test. So the e-mail is out what's next?
IP: 133.7.7.20, in the words of many a hacker: pwn3d! Many people do not realize that their IP is tagged on nearly everything they do on the internet. Haloscan, as you can see, records your IP every time you make a comment. As usual, Haloscan Rocks! The standard blogger comments system, powered by pyra, does not provide you with a source IP. So, now that we have the source IP what do you do with it?
Hunting the IP
Frigentenly enough, the most powerful tool in your arsenal is PING. Ping has the dual ability of normally determining if a system in the world is online and, DNS willing, the name of the system as well. As a network security professional this is my most frequestly used tool.
Another very important tool is the NBTSTAT command. This command, when used properly, will tell you the machine name, online status, open shares, and the hardware address (or MAC address). Sometimes a system will have shut down your ability to ping it. Sometimes they forget to turn block out NBTSTAT as well. It's always a good backup strategy.
Okay, now what if the box is offline? There is an agency that has control of all IP's in the world. They are called the American Registry for Internet Numbers or ARIN for short. If anyone wants to buy a block of IP's they have to do it through ARIN or one of its subsidiaries. The tool on ARIN's site that will tell you who owns what IP is called WHOIS. All you have to do is punch in a couple of numbers and some dots and POOF! you get the owner's address, email, address, and sometimes a phone number and administrator's name. Remember, this gives you the owner of a BLOCK of IP's, not every individual IP. It will narrow your field down remarkably.
Now that the very basics have been provided to you, and I do mean very basics, we can endeavor into a practical application.
So why is Tororu (Japanese for Troll) so important?
Here is our Source IP:
133.7.7.20
Our first task is to attempt a ping:
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c:\>ping -a 133.7.7.20
pinging 133.7.7.20 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 133.7.7.20:
Packets: Sent = 4, Recieved = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
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Okay, it appears he is not online or ping is blocked. Let's go to our next step: NBTSTAT.
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c:\>nbtstat -a 133.7.7.20
Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [133.7.7.20] Scope Id []
Host Not Found.
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Apparently, the box is really down. As our last step today we go to ARIN for a general idea of where this guy is coming from.
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Search results for: 133.7.7.20
OrgName: Japan Network Information Center
OrgID: JNIC
Address: Kokusai-kougyou-Kanda Bldg 6F
Address: 2-3-4 Uchikanda
City: Chiyoda-ku
StateProv: Tokyo
PostalCode: 101-0047
Country: JP
NetRange: 133.0.0.0 - 133.255.255.255
CIDR: 133.0.0.0/8
NetName: JAPAN-INET
NetHandle: NET-133-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: A.DNS.JP
NameServer: B.DNS.JP
NameServer: C.DNS.JP
NameServer: D.DNS.JP
NameServer: E.DNS.JP
NameServer: F.DNS.JP
Comment: Japan Network Information Center(JPNIC) is an
Comment: National internet registry of Japan. Please search
Comment: whois.nic.ad.jp for more information about this range.
Comment: % whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp ***.***.***.***/e
RegDate:
Updated: 2003-08-05
TechHandle: JN-ORG-ARIN
TechName: Japan Network Information Center
TechPhone: +81-3-5297-2311
TechEmail: hostmaster@nic.ad.jp
OrgTechHandle: JN-ORG-ARIN
OrgTechName: Japan Network Information Center
OrgTechPhone: +81-3-5297-2311
OrgTechEmail: hostmaster@nic.ad.jp
# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2004-10-06 19:10
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We've now narrowed it down to Japan. Many people would stop here but not me. I went to www.jpnic.net and did WHOIS again. Here's the results:
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[ JPNIC & JPRS database provides information on network administration. Its ]
[ use is restricted to network administration purposes. For further infor- ]
[ mation, use 'whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp help'. To suppress Japanese output, ]
[ add'/e' at the end of command, e.g. 'whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp xxx/e'. ]
Network Information: [ネットワーク情報]
a. [IPネットワークアドレス] 133.7.0.0
b. [ネットワーク名] FINES
f. [組織名] 福井大学
g. [Organization] Fukui University
m. [運用責任者] KA045JP
n. [技術連絡担当者] MT1650JP
n. [技術連絡担当者] SS129JP
p. [ネームサーバ] ns.nca5.ad.jp
p. [ネームサーバ] icpc.icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp
y. [通知アドレス] office@icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp
[割当年月日]
[返却年月日]
[最終更新] 1999/01/13 12:09:50 (JST)
tanaka@icpc.fukui-u.ac.jp
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It looks like Fukui University owns the IP block of 133.7.0.0. Unless it's a HUGE university I suspect they are sub-leasing their IPs, possibly through a modem bank. I'll be awaiting another call from BUSHSUCKS for further analysis. Yes, my very first troll came all the way from Fukui University in Japan to spread his love on me. I shall dub him Tororu, the Japanese word for troll. I'm an international star!
I hope you have enjoyed your course on Source Tracing 101. If you have any questions or comments feel free to annotate. But remember, I'll have your IP ;) .
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If anyone would care to make an analysis of the text of BUSHSUCKS' comments I will post them here tommorow.
Burried Alive
As Pusillanimous Wanker has confessed, Edwards was laid to rest last night. Edwards did not go down withought a fight. He did have his moments. With respect for Charles, sore from licking his wounds, I will leave it at that. (Charles, remember this next time you feel like gloating.)
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Also, Rodney Dangerfield was laid to rest yesterday. To make a pun, I am paying my last respects.
His last joke: If everything goes right I'll be out of the hospital in about a week. If it doesn't I'll be out in about two hours.
You will be missed.
October 05, 2004
Kerry's International Enemies part 2
In an earlier article I showed the Kerry campaign's international ineptitude with a few countries, Australia, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. This is the continuing saga covering Kerry's lack of support abroad. This session we shall show that North and South Korea, China, Russia, Japan, Iran, and Poland would consider themselves better off in points under a Bush administration. At least one nation has come out and challenged Kerry. I'll leave that for the end though.
Kerry (debate 1): I want bilateral talks which put all of the issues, from the armistice of 1952, the economic issues, the human rights issues, the artillery disposal issues, the DMZ (the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea) issues and the nuclear issues on the table.The only entity that wants a bilateral talk is Kerry. Maybe he wants bilateral talks for his two Americas too? North Korea wants multilateral talks. We've tried bilateral talks with North Korea and they have always ended up failing.
If we were to break off multilateral talks including South Korea an Japan we would lose face with them because it is these nations that North Korea threatens to destroy. I don't know anyone that would like someone else negotiating their own well-being.It would be an insult to these countries to cut them out of the talks. Both of these countries are extremely sensitive to insult and disrespect. They would feel distrespected and dejected.
China an Russia are North Korea's neighbors. China was the nation that effectively brought North Korea into existence. Kicking them out of these talks could create an interanational incident similar to when our slow and poorly maneuverable "spy-plane" crashed into their fast and highly manuverable F-8 piloted by Wong, wei. (Yes, they guy's name was Wong, Wei.) However, it was the United States that apologized to protect the troops in China from being killed.
Russia does not always have the same hang ups as Asia when it comes to insult. They do get concerned when it comes to losing money. Russia has been making arms trades with North Korea for many years. Most of their decrepid air force was supplied by Russia. (Shhh this is supposed to be a secret.) Would kicking Russia our of multilateral talks help or hinder our relations in the region? One need only look at the dollar signs.
Iran
Kerry (debate 1): I think the United States should have offered the opportunity to provide the nuclear fuel, test them, see whether or not they were actually looking for it for peaceful purposes.
Iran has dismissed Kerry's statement as nothing more than propaganda. Iran does not believe Kerry. Even the Iranians see through him. Just to be (somewhat) fair the Iranians don't like Bush either. That whole "axis of evil" thing just doesn't sit quite right with them.
To get off topic a bit lets look at what he was actually proposing: providing nuclear fuel to Iran. Correct me if I'm wrong on this but isn't this similar to how this nuclear problem in North Korea got started? By a show of hands, who want's to give low-enriched Uranium to Iran? Anyone? Anyone?
Poland
Kerry (debate 1): The president says that I'm denigrating these troops. I have nothing but respect for the British, Tony Blair, and for what they've been willing to do.But you can't tell me that when the most troops any other country has on
the ground is Great Britain, with 8,300, and below that the four others are
below 4,000, and below that, there isn't anybody out of the hundreds, that we
have a genuine coalition to get this job done.
This quote comes courtesy of Chrenkoff. I never knew he could translate polish. What a talented guy. I have to give Redhunter some credit too. I didn't know about Chrenkoff's post until he posted it on his site. The Polish President, Aleksander Kwasniewski's response:
Poland's President: It's sad that a Senator with twenty years of experience does not appreciate Polish sacrifice... I don't think it's a question of ignorance. One thing has to be said very clearly: this Coalition is not just the United States, Great Britain and Australia, but there's also contribution of Polish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Spanish soldiers who died in Iraq. It's immoral to not see this involvement we undertook because we believe that we have to fight terrorism together, that we need to show international solidarity, that Saddam Hussein is a danger to the world.From such a perspective, you can say we are disappointed that our stance
and the sacrifice of our soldiers is so marginalised. I blame it on
electioneering - and a message, indirectly expressed by Senator Kerry - that he
thinks more of a coalition that would put the United States together with France
and Germany, that is those who in the matter of Iraq said 'no'.President Bush is behaving like a true Texan gentleman - he's fighting for
the recognition of other countries' contribution in the Coalition.
So, Kerry does not appreciate the polish sacrifice. He is dissapointed that his country's sacrifice has been marginalised. Let me try to some this up a little bit better: Kerry crapped on anyone who helped in the coalition and we don't like it, or him. So, who's Kerry left with as an ally? Dick reminds us that he hasn't pissed off Nepal yet!
Coming next time...Nepal?
October 03, 2004
At what temperature does the brain begin to die?
Learn the answer to this question and many more in the movie Celcius 41.11. Other questions answered in C41.11: Why Michael Moore has mislead the American people into believing that there's no such thing as terrorists? What is really happening in the world? and many others. It seeks to dispell all that is unholy about F9/11. I haven't watched it yet but definately plan to.
If you watched F9/11 and believe everything that was said, you owe it to yourself and your nation to listen to the rebuttal, you may be surprised at what you find out.
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They both accept donations.
What do Beslan Russia and Samarra Iraq have in common?
No there is no joke.
An estimated 24 children were killed in Summarra Iraq on Friday, October 1st. They were targeted by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his loyal killers. U.S. Troops were killed as well. The troops were handing out candy to the children when a "martyr" decided to end their young and growing lives. I guess beheadings just weren't making their point anymore.
Just a couple of pictures to make you realize what terrorists do for a living. (or dying. no pun.)
A mother waits by her daughter's bed after she was injured in a bomb attack.
A father reacts in anguish as his son is declared dead at Yarmouk Hospital on Thursday.
Both photos are courtesy of CNN
I'm sure many are going to point to the United States as responsible for this. Since we are on the ground there it must be our fault. We said we would protect the Iraqis from widespread bloodshed. Now the Americans are killing the Iraqi children. Just wait, it will happen. You can count on it.
Meanwhile, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the rest of Al Queda and other splinter groups are laughing at the world. Everyone is so hell-bent on American responsibility for everything that the murderers go unchecked by everyone but the United States and the coalition. I am unable to count correctly how many souls Zarqawi has lined up to steal by beheading. It is somewhere between 10 and 100 as I write this. Every man woman and child that dies in Iraq is our fault. We should never have tried to defeat terrorism.
Terrorism
I'm sure some poor soul will make the mistake of telling us that there were never terrorists in Iraq. They had no ties to terrorists. Kerry even said it so it must be true. Kerry lied. There is at least 1 billion dollars in the hands of terrorists today because we did not act earlier in Iraq. This is just a guess but some of that money might actually be reaching the "insurgents" in Iraq; or am I presuming too much? We have the corrupt parts of the UN and the oil-for-food program to thank for the terrorism on the ground in Iraq today. We are the host to the UN buildings and one of the big five in the UN so that is our fault too.
The UN and Corruption
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Kofi Annan has what is believed the most powerful position in the world, even greater than the United States president. Power is a product of legitimacy. Most of the European Union believes that our presence in Iraq is not legitimate. This gives power to the UN. The poser was there before we went into Iraq though. Syria sits on the board for terrorism. Other terrorist sponsoring countries have positions of power as well. This must be the fault of the United States; we are the power behind the UN right?
When the United States and the coalition went into Iraq we did so without the support of France, Germany, China and Russia. Three of those four have complete veto power at the UN and there is no two-thirds majority rule. If they say no there is no resolution, period. Everyone reading this should be well aware that the oil-for-food program was the largest endeavor of ever for the UN. Transactions for oil exceeded 100 billion dollars. The countries stated above had the absolute largest stakes in Iraqi oil. Many of their companies depended on siphoning off of it. Only 1% of those proceeds ended up in the hands of terrorists, pretty good huh? Funds other than the 1% are still unresolved and will continue to be that way. Saddam had control of what companies to do business with and what off shore, Swiss, Belarus, etc. bank account to put his money in. Yes, I said it was his money. It was supposed to be for the Iraqi people but somehow it never made it. Most of it ended up in palaces like the one Saddam is currently being held prisoner. It must be America's fault because we failed to have foiled the UN scandal before invading Iraq.
Something of a news exchange has occurred. Here's the root of it:
EU country: The United States is in a quagmire that is killing people of Iraq. We can't condone what has happened there.
United States: We are doing the best we can. (We did not mention the fact that our current quagmire is because of the oil-for blood program brokered by the UN.)
EU country: You went behind our backs to depose Saddam and his people so we sill not help you in this. Legislation would have worked much better.
United States: More than 12 years of posturing and resolutions have done nothing but hurt the Iraqi people. We have had enough of it and have taken the needed action to free these people. It will take time, just like Germany did but we will prevail. By the way, we see the same situation happening in the Sudan. More than 50,000 people have been killed by the government. We all know that making propositions will not work. Why don't you go in there and clean house?
EU country: You're part of the UN too. Why don't YOU go in and clean house?
Yes, this is the news exchange at its source.
If anyone does not realize why we are not in the Sudan cleaning house look at the top of this article. 34 children have been murdered. Countless others have been killed as well. We are currently busy cleaning up another mess created by your UN. It's time the EU got off of their lazy asses and did something besides critique us for doing what they're too scared to do for themselves.