That’s the allegation. So let’s take a brief look at the evidence….
First, I go to my command line:
$ host wikileaks.org
wikileaks.org has address 95.211.113.154
wikileaks.org has address 141.105.65.113
wikileaks.org has address 95.211.113.131
wikileaks.org has address 141.105.69.239
wikileaks.org mail is handled by 1 mx.wikileaks.org.
$
I recognize all of those addresses as belonging to RIPE, the European number assignment registrar. So I go see who they belong to:
$ whois -h whois.ripe.net 141.105.69.239
% This is the RIPE Database query service.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
%
% The RIPE Database is subject to Terms and Conditions.
% See http://www.ripe.net/db/support/db-terms-conditions.pdf
% Note: this output has been filtered.
% To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag.
% Information related to '141.105.64.0 - 141.105.71.255'
% Abuse contact for '141.105.64.0 - 141.105.71.255' is 'abuse@hostkey.ru'
inetnum: 141.105.64.0 - 141.105.71.255
netname: RU-HOSTKEY-20110627
country: RU
org: ORG-MTL21-RIPE
admin-c: PC7356-RIPE
tech-c: PC7356-RIPE
tech-c: PC7356-RIPE
status: ALLOCATED PA
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-by: MTLM-MNT
mnt-routes: MTLM-MNT
remarks: abuse-mailbox: abuse@hostkey.com
created: 2011-06-27T08:53:56Z
last-modified: 2016-09-30T12:14:02Z
source: RIPE # Filtered
organisation: ORG-MTL21-RIPE
org-name: Mir Telematiki Ltd
org-type: LIR
address: Barabannii pereulok 4/4
address: 107023
address: Moscow
address: RUSSIAN FEDERATION
phone: +7 495 369 9796
fax-no: +7 495 369 9796
mnt-ref: MTLM-MNT
mnt-ref: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-by: MTLM-MNT
abuse-mailbox: abuse@hostkey.ru
abuse-c: HA2800-RIPE
created: 2010-10-06T10:46:46Z
last-modified: 2016-09-30T12:14:19Z
source: RIPE # Filtered
person: Peter Chayanov
address: Moscow, Russia
phone: +7 495 369 97 96
nic-hdl: PC7356-RIPE
mnt-by: MTLM-MNT
abuse-mailbox: abuse@hostkey.ru
created: 2008-10-19T20:57:02Z
last-modified: 2015-12-25T05:44:46Z
source: RIPE
% Information related to '141.105.69.0/24AS49335'
route: 141.105.69.0/24
descr: NCONNECT-NET direct announce
origin: AS49335
mnt-by: MTLM-MNT
created: 2013-10-01T18:22:47Z
last-modified: 2013-10-01T18:22:47Z
source: RIPE
% This query was served by the RIPE Database Query Service version 1.88 (WAGYU)
Bingo. Wikileaks is hosted in Russia.
But, you say, there’s private hosting companies in Russia, surely Wikileaks is just paying for hosting there?
Not so fast. You don’t run a controversial web site in Russia without the approval of the Putin regime. It is not done. Like the 34 journalists who reported things that Putin did not want reported. It’s just coincidence that they reported things Putin didn’t want reported, and ended up dead. SNERK!
So: Wikileaks is operating out of Russia with the full approval of the Putin regime. Stick that up your pipe and smoke it, already.
Not that this excuses the fact that we had enough dumbasses in enough states who believed the Russian disinformation campaign who voted for Putin’s lapdog for President, thereby putting President Putin in charge of the United States in all but name. But that’s another issue.
– Badtux the “Yeah, the Russians did it” Penguin
Question. What about the 95.211 numbers?
I’m not disbelieving, but I prefer bulletproof evidence.
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They’re in the Netherlands. I know the ISP they’re at, and that ISP is *not* connected to the Russians. But the two servers in Russia certainly are.
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“we had enough dumbasses in enough states who believed the Russian disinformation campaign who voted for Putin’s lapdog for President, thereby putting President Putin in charge of the United States in all but name.”
The USSA has long been lucky that it faced opponents who were dumb (Saddam Husein, the ossified late-Soviet Politburoniks) or trivial enough to isolate if they were smart enough to thwart U.S. aims (Ho Chi Minh, Castro.) Now the situation is reversed — wily leader of a large opponent, babfoons and delusionals in charge of Amerikkka. The pwning of Duhmerika is coming. Perhaps Putin will not go for annihilation, just enfolding the nominally independent Sovokamerika within a sphere of influence so it, and its allies, does Russia’s bidding. Like a giant Moldova!
That’s the optimistic view, though. What’s more likely is that some recalcitrant reichist generalissimo will get narky about being cucked by the commies, and then get nukey.
I can’t wait to get back to where the fallout will take weeks to reach. Even if something big does go bang at places like the sky spy centre in Pine Gap (dead Red Heart desert in central Australia) or the Marine attack base in Darwin (way the hell and gone in the Northern Territory, where half of ’em would be too pissed on grog to notice if an H-bomb went off.)
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[…] Badtux takes to the command line to track down Wikileaks. […]
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Bill of Particulars against Donald Trump
Whereas:
A. Donald Trump is a conman.
B. Donald Trump is a misogynist.
C. Donald Trump is a bigot.
D. Donald Trump is a racist.
E. Donald Trump is a swindler.
F. Donald Trump is a pathological liar.
G. Donald Trump is a double-dealing crook.
H. Donald Trump is a serial bankrupt.
I. Donald Trump is a serial sexual assailant.
J. Donald Trump is a braggart and a bully.
K. Donald Trump is a petty, vindictive loser.
L. Donald Trump breaks deals, fakes deals, botches deals and self-deals.
M. Donald Trump meets the diagnostic criteria for narcissism.
N. Donald Trump meets the diagnostic criteria for sociopathy.
O. Donald Trump displays contempt for facts and reason.
P. Donald Trump lies to himself, to better lie to you.
Q. Donald Trump has no honor. His word is worthless.
R. Donald Trump is arrogant, impulsive and ignorant.
S. Donald Trump is incompetent. He spreads chaos.
T. Donald Trump is repulsive in appearance, speech, and behavior.
U. Donald Trump is unprincipled, autocratic and a friend of autocrats.
V. Donald Trump is deep in debt to foreign powers.
W. Donald Trump conspired with a foreign autocrat to subvert a Presidential election.
X. Donald Trump owns a global business empire, run by his children in a transparently unblind trust; so upon taking office, he shall have conflicts of interest that span the globe.
Y. Donald Trump has refused to end his Trump Old Post Office Hotel lease; so upon taking office, he shall be in violation of Federal law.
Z. Donald Trump is openly receiving financial favors from foreign leaders; so upon taking office, he shall be in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. (Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8.)
Therefore be it resolved:
That Donald J. Trump is unfit to be President of the United States, and must be excluded or removed from that office.
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Paradoctor: Sorry, but I cannot agree with you. Item “T” is no bar to holding the office of the president of the USA.
On the rest, yes, there’s really no argument. And if the Electoral College doesn’t act to prevent this outrageous miscarriage of politics, it should be abolished forthwith.
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I figure that any one of them suffices to disqualify, but I put in 26 for safety’s sake. His mental and moral flaws are uncountably infinite in number, but I limited the list to 26. No doubt others could write other indictments, or even a whole alphabet.
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