NoAds (a very useful utility, sometimes) that is programmable and allows a user to shut down any window of their choice. It is made the "great" folks at SouthbayPC.com.
I was surprised that X-the unknown's posting on this board wouldn't open while on this board. Boy is that weird. I traced the problem to NoAds, some free software I have.
I did a whois on Southbaypc.com, and here is what I get...
For those of you unfamiliar with geography, you should do a mapquest for "Herndon". Compare its location to "Langley": a leisurely 22 minute, 15.8 mile drive from CIA, but I digress.
Whois:
Software, South Bay
ATTN: SOUTHBAYPC.COM
c/o Network Solutions
P.O. Box 447
Herndon, VA. 20172-0447
Domain Name: SOUTHBAYPC.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Escobar, James ne38w79k9xf@networksolutionsprivateregistration.com
ATTN: SOUTHBAYPC.COM
c/o Network Solutions
P.O. Box 447
Herndon, VA 20172-0447
570-708-8780
Now interesting enough, these are the same people who manage domain registrations! Why would they be premepting Fahrenheit 9/11 without me asking? Good question.
To get this answer, one has to remember who started the Internet: DARPA. A few years ago, they let a "private" company take over domain registration. So, why would a former defense unit, privatized, be selling SOME relatively lame software on the cheap, while giving away something as cool as NoAds? Well, if one does a whois as networksolutions.com, you find they are the same as internic.net, the original issuers of domain registrations.
Here is their info:
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to internic.net
for detailed information.
Domain Name: INTERNIC.NET
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: networksolutions.com
Name Server: NS1.CRSNIC.NET
Name Server: NS2.NSIREGISTRY.NET
Name Server: NS.ICANN.ORG
Name Server: A.IANA-SERVERS.NET
Name Server: SEC1.APNIC.NET
Name Server: SEC3.APNIC.NET
Name Server: C.IANA-SERVERS.NET
Name Server: B.IANA-SERVERS.ORG
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Updated Date: 25-mar-2004
Creation Date: 01-jan-1993
Expiration Date: 31-dec-2010
So, it all boils down to whois network solutions...?
verisign.com
Well, they are bought and paid for by a private equity company back in October, 2003! Who is this company? A company called Pivotal Private Equity who paid Verisign $100 MM dollars for this business unit.
A Google search for "Pivotal Private Equity" produces its connection to the Pivotal Group, of Arizona, a private venture capital firm specializing in (from their own dossier) "strategically sophisticated investment and development company with primary concentration on high-quality real estate assets in premier markets. Over nearly twenty years, Pivotal endured and prospered through several cycles, having been involved with land, residential and commercial development, apartments, office buildings, retail centers, and luxury hotel properties representing an aggregate of well over $1.5 billion in real estate value."
So, how does a real estate trust, come to own the backbone of the .com and .net registrations? That is one remarkable acquistion, until you realize that as Michael Moore pointed out, that Saudi Royals own 7% of the U.S., primarily in real estate holdings.
What a tangled web we weave. I smell Saudi footprints in this and maybe a little CIA. Well Pivotal Equity, is headed by Jahm Najafi. I did a search of the surname and found it is not uncommon in Iran and the United Arab Emirates. Is this the Saudi connection Michael Moore was talking about?
Now the full history of ownership shows that the origin of this entity which is shutting down my windows without me asking goes back to a union between NSF and the infamous ATT. circleid.com
When one goes to the Pivotal Equity holdings, one finds "Cheney Estates" a key luxury holding in Arizona. It makes one wonder, is this just a coincidence? How many Cheneys have you known? Could it be the DICK Cheney? I can't tell. I just thought it was odd.
I've sent this to Michael Moore as well, so if I end up dead the secret doesn't die with me. Anybody but BUSH and Cheney in 2004. Kerry can't be this bad. |
