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"Hacked Emails Show U.S. Chamber of Commerce Targeted VelvetRevolution.US, Other Progressive Groups With Massive Disinfo Campaign"

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COMMENT #1 [Permalink]

... karenfromillinois said on 2/10/2011 @ 4:44 pm PT...





there has gotta be something in that mess that you can sue the chamber for or maybe the "security" firms themselves....get em in court on a side note i wish i was a fly on the wall when ur buddy patterco or whatever he calls himself reads this cause i bet he has been "discrediting" for lot less than 2 mill..lol my head tells me its all too late but then i read something like this and my heart says..maybe its not thank you brad for all u do

COMMENT #2 [Permalink]

... Hankydub said on 2/10/2011 @ 5:56 pm PT...





"By Their Enemies Ye Shall Know Them." Congratulations on having made the best sort of enemies brad! Big love to you brother!

COMMENT #3 [Permalink]

... Ernest A. Canning said on 2/10/2011 @ 6:02 pm PT...





The emails simply confirm what we already know about this despicable organization which will say or do anything to insure plutocratic control. What I find more disturbing is that Barack "change we can never dream of receiving" Obama addressed these unscrupulous titans of corporate greed as he panders for their support.

COMMENT #4 [Permalink]

... TimFromLA said on 2/10/2011 @ 7:10 pm PT...





Brad, I live in East L.A. need back-up?

COMMENT #5 [Permalink]

... Thomas Manaugh said on 2/10/2011 @ 7:39 pm PT...





Want to challenge the Chamber's support for the biggest polluters in the US? Sign the petion at http://www.dolphinblue.c...en-Chamber-Petition.html.

COMMENT #6 [Permalink]

... xargaw said on 2/10/2011 @ 9:33 pm PT...





The fact that these organizations; The Chamber and their member corporations, must use dishonest tactics, misinformation and covert operations should be all people need to know about them. If they were legitimate advocates representing corporations acting responsibly, the would not have to use deceit and smears to win the people.

COMMENT #7 [Permalink]

... Soul Rebel said on 2/10/2011 @ 9:57 pm PT...





Our entire government is rogue! Rogue to the American people in every imaginable. Charlatans, knaves, and thieves; murderers and interlopers. Doesn't it seem that in the end all empires are brought down by this critical mass of greed and arrogance? It isn't hard to feel a kinship with the Tea Partiers in their anger over government abuses (yes, the CoC isn't a government entity, but they are the ones in charge of it in the current status quo.) And the commonality ends there. OK, waiting for what's next...both here and in Egypt. He was, then he wasn't, then Obama pronounced another noncommital gesture of 'disappointment', due to the high 'jelly-against-the-wall' nailing ratio required by modern leaders.

COMMENT #8 [Permalink]

... zapkitty said on 2/11/2011 @ 5:31 pm PT...





Glad to see the site's back up. As for the Chamber of Whores and their rentathugs... the privileges of the elite is all it is.

COMMENT #9 [Permalink]

... SPO101 said on 2/11/2011 @ 6:52 pm PT...





erased my comment. I can see you're not with us... Brad... That's all right, we don't need you. We've been organizing in ghettos all over America. Theres 48 MILLION Americans struggling below the poverty level and we're going to organize as many as we can reach. With or without all you silver spoon Liberals who hang on to the microphone like it was a f***'n sex toy

cyberbitchslap2.blogspot.com

COMMENT #10 [Permalink]

... Brad Friedman said on 2/11/2011 @ 7:33 pm PT...





SPO101 @ 9 said: erased my comment. I can see you're not with us... Brad... We have erased nothing. No clue what you're talking about. Sorry.

COMMENT #11 [Permalink]

... Hankydub said on 2/11/2011 @ 8:45 pm PT...





Sentcha 50 bucks today brad. I know it's not as good as the 200 million that the CoC paid to FOXNEWS to run a hit piece on yas, but I hope it helps out...

COMMENT #12 [Permalink]

... Billy said on 2/12/2011 @ 12:24 am PT...





You have to wonder why they have that blog over there. Nobody even supports them on their own site.

COMMENT #13 [Permalink]

... Rick H. said on 2/12/2011 @ 12:30 am PT...





NY Times whitewashes for CofC. http://www.nytimes.com/2...litics/12hackers.html?hp

COMMENT #14 [Permalink]

... Orangutan. said on 2/12/2011 @ 1:20 am PT...



COMMENT #15 [Permalink]

... Adam said on 2/12/2011 @ 2:19 am PT...





Brad, will you promise not to sellout and not bradblog to AOL or any other fascist entity (a la Huffington Post), no matter how high the offer?

COMMENT #16 [Permalink]

... Adam said on 2/12/2011 @ 2:20 am PT...





Correction: that should be "not sell bradblog"

COMMENT #17 [Permalink]

... Ancient said on 2/12/2011 @ 7:28 am PT...





Hey Brad, it’s fun to see the corporate-fed-government-feeders get exposed. Hope it sends out more light and real transparency to the sleeping people in America, and sends some cha-ching your way! I think our own Egyptian tide is coming. May we follow their courageous example and keep it peaceful, despite government-outsourced agent provocateurs.

COMMENT #18 [Permalink]

... 4earth said on 2/12/2011 @ 10:32 am PT...





I am so proud of you, Brad, and the work you and your crew do here. You keep going on even when the rich an powerful attack. You have proven, however, that you have the most powerful weapon on your side, the truth! Keep fighting for the just causes, and I am hoping "Anonymous" gets even with the bastids for this lates onslaught!

COMMENT #19 [Permalink]

... Mark said on 2/12/2011 @ 11:35 am PT...





I know it won't matter, but I emailed NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN and asked why they're not covering these jackbooted thugs at the Chamber of whores. I didn't exactly say it like that though. Keep up the good work Brad. ezmoney5150 on Twitter

COMMENT #20 [Permalink]

... Jeannie Dean said on 2/12/2011 @ 12:19 pm PT...





Officially targeted by the US Chamber of Commerce?!!? - I am *so* proud of you!! - Finally, all your hard work pays off. (BB site down screwed with me, too. Didn't like it one bit. Kept hitting refresh all day; felt like an itch I couldn't scratch.) Oh and you and Des (and Tony) made Epic Radio, this week.

COMMENT #21 [Permalink]

... Jeannie Dean said on 2/12/2011 @ 12:31 pm PT...





Wikileaks was almost "Rather-rolled"... ...has me wondering: can we now make a legitimate connection between the Chamber's gazillions and the funding for so many of these disgusting Breitbart Ops? The way these slime-puppies always manage to slip out of any legal accountability for their crimes and misdemeanors has always suggested to me that they were being backed by some serious $$$. I'd just love it if Marcy could find some documentation of that kind of right wing sabotage.

It's just so very, very Un-Everything. ...could also explain the recent deluge of nasty drive-bys from Tea-Turkies in these cherished comment threads. Paid. Lots. To disrupt you / us.

I knew it. Keep up the great work, Brad.

COMMENT #22 [Permalink]

... Dredd said on 2/12/2011 @ 2:03 pm PT...





I have a series, ending October 16 last year, called The Chamber of Corruption that deals with these criminals posing as legit. They sold out their countrymen for filthy lucre. Brad is honored to be attacked by those scumitizoa.

COMMENT #23 [Permalink]

... Ancient said on 2/12/2011 @ 7:19 pm PT...





WOOHOO Dredd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That just made my nite. Now where's Flo? I miss yinz guys.

COMMENT #24 [Permalink]

... Lora said on 2/12/2011 @ 7:27 pm PT...





Hmmmmm.... entrapment with a juicy document to be proven false at a later date, eh? Dan Rather, anyone?

COMMENT #25 [Permalink]

... WingnutSteve said on 2/12/2011 @ 7:59 pm PT...





Damn, wondered why the site was down the other day. You must be doing something right for them big boys to be skeert of ya. Congratulations Brad!

COMMENT #26 [Permalink]

... Ancient said on 2/12/2011 @ 8:08 pm PT...





Hey Dredd, I'm thinking the quickest and most peaceful way to knit this country back together is to find and support candidates who stand for a Constitutional ammendment that stops corporations from being people. I'd like to know where Ron Paul stands on that!

COMMENT #27 [Permalink]

... Ancient said on 2/12/2011 @ 8:30 pm PT...





I pray the Egyptians put that in their new Constitution!

COMMENT #28 [Permalink]

... Grizzly Bear Dancer said on 2/13/2011 @ 1:34 am PT...





It seems your balanced intellectual reporting style and activism based on evidence and critical thinking has attracted the attention of your corporate owners. These super rich bastards have successfully increased their grip and their wealth after taking down the 3 World Trade Towers buildings on 9-11 Successfully perpetuating a lie that continues to blame an Arab in a cave on the other side of the world, the greedy treasonous lying criminals responsible have gotten away with murder and their wars continue with their new puppet Obama. I would suggest exercising your right to bear arms because their is a private comfort in knowing that you can defend yourself if the shit hits the fan. .

COMMENT #29 [Permalink]

... secularsurfer said on 2/13/2011 @ 4:01 am PT...





Here is another accounting of the incident between Aaron Barr of HBGary Federal and Anonymous. http://arstechnica.com/t...d-paid-a-heavy-price.ars

COMMENT #30 [Permalink]

... molly said on 2/13/2011 @ 4:46 am PT...





Congratulations Brad and all on this site for putting the "problem" of election fraud out there for the general public to see. Entire thread on DU yesterday about it.In the context of Egypt overthrowing their tyrant, WE have to have fair elections with paper ballots to overthrow ours.

COMMENT #31 [Permalink]

... Jeannie Dean said on 2/13/2011 @ 1:19 pm PT...





Woooowwweee!... This Aaron Barr is a Capital Tool! PRICELESS email exchanges between Barr and his jittery coder, who kept warning him that his "gut feeling" about linking random people through social networking sites was a mathematical bust and that screwing with Anonymous was a supremely bad idea... From Secularsurfer's FASCINATING link @ 29: ! ...He (Barr) continued in this philosophical vein: But dude whos evil? US Gov? Wikileaks? Anonymous? Its all about power. The Wikileaks and Anonymous guys think they are doing the people justice by without much investigation or education exposing information or targeting organizations? BS. Its about trying to take power from others and give it to themeselves. I follow one law. Mine. His coder asked Barr how he slept at night, "you military industrial machine capitalist." "I sleep great," Barr responded. "Of course I do indoor [enjoy?] the money and some sense of purpose. But I canget purpose a lot of places, few of which pay this salary." The comments are over the top, of course. Elsewhere, Barr gets more serious. "I really dislike corporations," he says. "They suck the lifeblood out of humanity. But they are also necessary and keep us moving, in what direction I don't know. ...thanks for the link, Secularsurfer! I've been BwhhahhHahHAHhAing non-stop over my Sunday morning coffee from the details of this in-depth farce-fest; effin' glorious Bitch Slap to the fat face of uber-unAmerican activities and corpo-Hubris. Diamond rare, the o-so very public spanking of a very, very bad man.

And a bad speller.

And a reeeeaalllly shitty security expert. I'm starting to think of 2011 as "The Year of the Adjusting Asshole." Anonymous and Wikileaks as our a new media, toothy Toto - pulling back curtain after curtain after curtain... (Also worth noting as I continue to giggle-seizure, I had not heretofore seen the explicit language / images Anonymous had used when they hacked his Twitter account. HIGHLY recommended viewing; thoughtfully composed and suitably vile -"...(I am) a sweaty ballsack of caterpillars...")

COMMENT #32 [Permalink]

... Adam said on 2/13/2011 @ 2:27 pm PT...





Wolly wrote:

"Entire thread on DU yesterday about it.In the context of Egypt overthrowing their tyrant, WE have to have fair elections with paper ballots to overthrow ours." The American voting population seems to be too lethargic to stop the raping of American democracy. The bread and circuses principle is in effect in the United States, what with TV, video games, and suchlike, who has time to emerge from mental numbness and take a look at the real world. Even a totally unjustified war that has led to thousands of American deaths, thousands more with missing limbs or otherwise permanently maimed or disfigured, and huge numbers of returning soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder, hasn't been enough to mobilize the American population. The US mainstream media is complicit in suppressing the war against American voters and democracy (eg its reprehensible dissemination of the ACORN pimp hoax and other lies). Now, they're trying to neuter the Internet. Events in Tunisia and Egypt are the real reason why they hate Wikileaks so much. Maybe it'll take the rest of the world to show some balls and defy taxpayer-subsidized corporate tyranny to inspire Americans to finally do the same.

COMMENT #33 [Permalink]

... Adam said on 2/13/2011 @ 2:29 pm PT...





Edit: That should be "Molly wrote:. Whoops. Sorry

COMMENT #34 [Permalink]

... secularsurfer said on 2/13/2011 @ 5:18 pm PT...





Yeah Jeannie Dean. I got a kick out of it too. Very Kharmic.

COMMENT #35 [Permalink]

... Blubonnet said on 2/20/2011 @ 12:46 pm PT...





Brad, your contributions to awareness, are recognized among the conscious, and consciousness is rising from the true information warriors like yourself. Insufficient words to thank you, fine sir! The organization NIST, was run out of the US Chamber of Commerce, and NIST also did the "science" (cough) for the investigation into 911, which is laughable, except for the depths of depravity, and tragedy in which more and more evidence emerges. ABE LINCOLN said: "I see in the near future a crisis approaching. It unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace, and it conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods, or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army, in front of me and the financial institutions at the rear, the latter is my greatest foe. Corporations have been and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of the few, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment , more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions my prove groundless."

COMMENT #36 [Permalink]

... Blubonnet said on 2/20/2011 @ 12:54 pm PT...





uh-oh... Brad, on the eighth line of Lincoln's speech, I forgot a word, "enthroned" which is supposed to be after the word "corporations". Fix? I R sorry.

COMMENT #37 [Permalink]

... Brad Friedman said on 2/20/2011 @ 1:14 pm PT...

