Heinz-Kerry Electronic Octopus!!!
Sounds scary doesn't it? Even more so if the embrace of the octopus includes Fidel? A story picked up by the
Free Republic, and commented on by
CNN, shows the lengths to which Republicans are going in Florida. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and her comrades Mario and Lincoln Diaz-Balart are reportedly going to enlighten us about what the heck they are talking about later today at a press conference.
Now, I find this particularly funny - in addition to sad, desperate, and typical of South Florida politics - because I was a customer of one of the arms of the Octopus, and spent U.S. tax dollars (thank you Senator Fulbright) on an internet account from Alternex in Brazil. It is even extra funny, because the way I got my "commie internet" connection was that the U.S. government office in Rio used Alternex, and they helped all the students with Fulbright grants get one too. At the time, it was the only private sector (i.e. not connected to the public university system) internet connection available.
From the Free Republic:
A massive, 24-hour, transnational computer communications network, IGC services 17 United Nations offices, 40,000 activists, some of the radical stripe and a legion of non-government organizations in more than 133 countries.
The Tides’ octopus of the electronic communications world got its start back in 1987, when the England-based GreenNet began collaborating with IGC, which operates PeaceNet, EcoNet, ConflictNet and LaborNet in the U.S.
According to an APC Internet historical account, the two giant networks began sharing their electronic conference materials and "demonstrated that transnational electronic communications could serve international, as well as domestic committees working for peace, human rights and the environment."
By late 1989, the IGC network included Canada (Web), Sweden (NordNet), Brazil (AlterNex), Nicaragua (Nicaro) and Australia (Pegasus).
Posted by binky at August 10, 2004 11:11 AM
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