[AmericanInTokyo]

[Japanese]: "Dennisu Kusinichu wo amerika no daitoryo ni!"

[English]: "Let's Make Dennis Kucinich the American President!"

[Japanese]: "Dennisu Kusinichu shi no homupaiji --eigo ban"

[English]: "Link to the English Homepage Site for Dennis Kucinich"

[Japanese]: "Amerika no heiwa daitoryo ni. Campaign"

[English]: "Campaign for American Peace President!"

[Japanese]: "Nihon kara America daitoryo senkyo ni oenshimasho!"

[English]: "Even from Japan, let's support (his) election as American President!"

Further, there are links to three sites. One is put up by a Japanese citizen, Takeshi Kawagoe, stating it is a "support site for the American candidate for peace."

The Federal Election Commission Smoking Gun:

On hitting one of the links, you are directed to a page which SPECIFICALLY solicits a backdoor way to raise funds overseas for the Kucinich Presidential Campaign in Japanese. It is done under the guise of selling his books, and the organizer even recognizes that contributions by foreigners to a presidential campaign is illegal, however, he has arranged for a way for them to get around it via the Kucinich books. He clearly shows the sales of the books assists the presidential campaign and heralds that there has been good success recently in the book sales. Japanese readers are told how much money to send, and are provided a SPECIFIC Japanese bank account number to make their cash donations to the Kucinich Campaign.

The Dennis Kucinich bank account to receive foreign funds from Japanese is: "Harmonix Life Center, Japan Postal Account # 00110-1-114224".

FReepers, conservative American radio talk show hosts, legal lurkers, FBI, FEC, (whomever), have at it, go at it!

[steveegg]

I attempted to run WHOIS on peace2001.org. For those who haven't tried this lately, InterNIC, which formerly hosted the full information, now only hosts the nameserver/registar information, and the hosting company (in this case, OpenSRS/Tucows having the rest of the information. The results from InterNIC are as follows:

Results flagged as "NOT AUTHORITATIVE" should be checked with the
registrar's whois server.)

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Domain ID:D21143952-LROR
Domain Name:PEACE2001.ORG
Created On:02-Mar-2000 12:38:38 UTC
Last Updated On:12-Feb-2003 01:27:26 UTC
Expiration Date:02-Mar-2004 12:38:38 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:R11-LROR
Status:OK
Registrant ID:11-C
Registrant Name:SEE SPONSORING REGISTRAR
Registrant Street1:Whois Server:whois.opensrs.net
Registrant Street2:Referral URL:www.opensrs.org
Registrant City:N/A
Registrant Postal Code:N/A
Registrant Country:CA
Registrant Email:not@available.org
Admin ID:11-C
Admin Name:SEE SPONSORING REGISTRAR
Admin Street1:Whois Server:whois.opensrs.net
Admin Street2:Referral URL:www.opensrs.org
Admin City:N/A
Admin Postal Code:N/A
Admin Country:CA
Admin Email:not@available.org
Billing ID:11-C
Billing Name:SEE SPONSORING REGISTRAR
Billing Street1:Whois Server:whois.opensrs.net
Billing Street2:Referral URL:www.opensrs.org
Billing City:N/A
Billing Postal Code:N/A
Billing Country:CA
Billing Email:not@available.org
Tech ID:11-C
Tech Name:SEE SPONSORING REGISTRAR
Tech Street1:Whois Server:whois.opensrs.net
Tech Street2:Referral URL:www.opensrs.org
Tech City:N/A
Tech Postal Code:N/A
Tech Country:CA
Tech Email:not@available.org
Name Server:NS1.SERVANCE.NE.JP
Name Server:NS2.SERVANCE.NE.JP

Do note the name server is in Japan (.JP). What is VERY curious is the Tucows WHOIS page doesn't let you look anything up. I keep on getting "Access Denied" whne trying to do a WHOIS on peace2001.org there.

[boxerblues]

mega ping...Dennis the menace is up to no good

[Fred Mertz]

Can't Alfed E. Neuman claim he had nothing to do with this supportive web site?

[Calpernia]

MAJOR PING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[judicial meanz]

Federal Election Commission | 999 E Street, NW | Washington, DC 20463
(800) 424-9530 | In Washington (202) 694-1100
For the hearing impaired, TTY (202) 219-3336

[judicial meanz]

Hello, I'm Yumi Kikuchi, initiator and international coordinator for the Global Peace Campaign. Upon calling for donation, I was asked to provide more information about who is organizing this campaign, so I would like to share with you my self introduction and the story about how this campaign began.

I am currently operating Harmonics Life Center out of my two hundred-year old house in the mountains of Kamogawa, Chiba prefecture. The Center hosts various workshops on natural healing and natural foods lead by wonderful guests from overseas. I have four children, two are still babies, and the other two living in London. My husband, Gen Morita is a doctor of natural medicine, as well as a former musician. Since we have young children, we cannot move around too freely, so we try to do everything in this area as much as possible.

Two days following the terrorist attacks in the United Sates, I received a mail from Tom Atley of Oregon. He is a good friend of mine who worked together for the Y2K issue. Tom sent me the letter by Greg Nees addressed to President Bush, along with a comment that said "This is a very calm letter. How about colleting donations from ex-servicemen and printing it in the paper? " I immediately replied to Tom's mail, letting him know of my desire to start an action, and to send donation. I contacted Greg to ask for his permission to translate and circulate his letter in Japan. Greg responded by saying that "If that letter can be used for the purpose of stopping war, please use it in any way you would like."

I then contacted Nori Huddle in the U.S., Paul Swan in England to ask their support for the Global Peace Campaign. I have been working on "Best Game" with Nori for the past twelve years, and I had gone to the G8 summit in Berlin with Paul during the Y2K crisis. I also contacted friends in Australia, New Zealand and Germany. Nori contacted his friend in Belgium, Paul contacted his friends in England. On September 15, 2001, the Global Peace Campaign was officially established on the Internet.

In Japan, Mr. Nishida of Tokyo Broadcasting Service introduced me to Bow Yamada of Kobe Genkimura, and he then established the network within Japan with amazing speed.

We are currently in contact with the Public Media Center in San Francisco regarding the actual production of the ad. We are currently waiting for their estimate and the best timing for the ad. While we cannot tell when we can place an ad in the NY Times and Washington Post because they have so many articles right now, we will place our ad in either of the paper as soon as we can secure a spot.

The price for ad in the NY Times is $140,000 (17 million yen) per page. We do not know of the price for Washington Post yet. In addition to this cost,there is the ad production cost to consider, so we are looking at around 20 million yen. Of course, it would be best if we do not have to spend this much money, so we are sending this letter out to all sorts of newspapers throughout the United States. However, at present, it is difficult for voices calling for peace and truth to be printed in major newspapers, and we have not been able to have the letter published yet.

I received a call from the editor of "You Maga", a Japanese language newspaper in Seattle, who expressed his desire to print the letter in their paper. While this is still being considered, I hope that the letter will reach as many Americans and citizens of all nations residing in the United States through any form of media.

Another great news is that Asahi, TBS, and Kyodo may broadcast the news about this campaign. The TV crews from TBS are coming here tonight. Since the state of the world is volatile right now, I don't know if the news will be aired, but I am grateful that there are people in the media who are willing to pick up citizens movement for peace.

I would like to apologize to everyone who is trying to contact me. I am receiving so many telephone calls and e-mails, I have not been able to respond to all. I would really appreciate if I could have some help on babysitting and housework until this campaign is over. Yet, I know I can only do what I can, so I will try my best.

There has not been any time like this moment in which I am so grateful for all the domestic and international network of people I have come to know through my involvement in environmental and Y2K issues. I feel that all the experience I had until now was in preparation for this campaign.

Just as the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh maintained balance through focusing in breathing under any circumstance, I would like to walk the path of global peace with all the people around the world who wish for peace, one step at a time, while making sure that I do not overlook the simple things of everyday life.

Thank you very much.

Yumi Kikuchi

"Do unto others what you wish to experience."
Words of Neil Donald Walch, author of Discourses with God

[mhking]

This one needs to be sent on to Rush, Savage, Hannity & Boortz! Good job, AIT!

Just damn.

If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[Cold Heat]

Looks like the only attention this commie SOB will get is from his DU friends and the Fed's!

Nice catch!

[Southack]

Nice catch. You know, if they hadn't said such things as "Let's make Kuchinic the next American President", they could have easily gotten away with simply advertising his book for sale overseas.

But socialists have always been filled with greedy idiots, an irony that continues when one considers that to help Kucinich, the Communists in question have to engage in that decidedly Capitalistic activity of purchasing a product.

[jriemer]

Johnhuang2 & SAMWolf - American in Tokyo needs a *MEGA Ping* for this thread.

[spodefly]

Excellent find.

The militant Arabs and Islamists would take one look at this guy and know that it was open season on Americans.

[Timesink]

1-800 Line

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[jmaroneps37]

kuku does look a little like a Japanese don't he?

[weegee]

Election law BUMP!

[judicial meanz]

Well AIT....time for me to drop out for a while too....lots going on here and I need to finish my work...good luck!

[Helms]

Pinged server:

[whois.apnic.net node-2] How to use this server http://www.apnic.net/db/ Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html inetnum: 210.144.0.0 - 210.159.255.255 netname: JPNIC-NET-JP descr: Japan Network Information Center country: JP admin-c: JNIC1-AP tech-c: JNIC1-AP remarks: JPNIC Allocation Block remarks: Authoritative information regarding assignments and remarks: allocations made from within this block can also be remarks: queried at whois.nic.ad.jp. To obtain an English remarks: output query whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp x.x.x.x/e mnt-by: MAINT-JPNIC changed: apnic-ftp@nic.ad.jp 19991208 status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE source: APNIC role: Japan Network Information Center address: Kokusai-Kougyou-Kanda Bldg 6F, 2-3-4 Uchi-Kanda address: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0047, Japan country: JP phone: +81-3-5297-2311 fax-no: +81-3-5297-2312 e-mail: hostmaster@nic.ad.jp admin-c: SN108-AP tech-c: KS218-AP nic-hdl: JNIC1-AP mnt-by: MAINT-JPNIC changed: apnic-ftp@nic.ad.jp 19990629 changed: hostmaster@apnic.net 20011011 changed: ip-staff@nic.ad.jp 20021018 source: APNIC inetnum: 210.158.32.0 - 210.158.47.255 netname: RIM descr: Inter.net Japan Ltd. country: JP admin-c: MH4205JP tech-c: TH106JP remarks: This information has been partially mirrored by APNIC from remarks: JPNIC. To obtain more specific information, please use the remarks: JPNIC whois server at whois.nic.ad.jp. (This defaults to remarks: Japanese output, use the /e switch for English output) changed: apnic-ftp@nic.ad.jp 20000518 remarks: This information has been partially mirrored by APNIC from remarks: JPNIC. To obtain more specific information, please use the remarks: JPNIC whois server at whois.nic.ad.jp. (This defaults to remarks: Japanese output, use the /e switch for English output) changed: apnic-ftp@nic.ad.jp 20030723 source: JPNIC

[Darksheare]

Holy Freakin' $#it!
What is this guy thinking?!
*Slaps forehead*
What am I saying? He obviously isn't thinking!
Sam, thanks for the ping.

This guy obviously watched Clinton's Chinese campaign cash and obviously thinks it's okay to do such.

[LiberalsWorstNightmare]

Dude, you are an AWESOME Freeper in my book! Always have been. Always will be.

Between the North Koreans and corrupt US politicos, you always seem to have the bad guys on the run. We need a hundred more like you, especially in the media. Thanks again AIT! MEGA BOOKMARK

[cmsgop]

WOW!!!! Nice One!

[Chad Fairbanks]

Interesting... VERY interesting...