You are in a maze of twisty little think-tanks, all different
cite as: F. Bi. 2008. You are in a maze of twisty little think-tanks, all alike. Intl. J. Inact., 1:161
twisty little maze of different.
Note: The diagram of think-tanks is updated from time to time.
Check the end of this blog post to find the latest version!
Updates
- Updates to the think-tank diagram
- 2008-10-29: The Tennessee Center for Policy Research is also at 198.161.90.18. Also added 198.161.91.112, 198.161.90.96, and the ICSC/NZCSC/AusCSC nexus.
- 2008-11-17: Lots of domain name weirdness surrounds the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Also, the Heartland Institute and the “New Coalition for Economic and Social Change” share an IP address.
- 2008-11-24: Added the State Policy Network, who also dispense some (!) interesting advice to free-market think-tanks on web site design in the “Web 2.0″ era.
- 2008-11-27: The Public Interest Institute.
- 2008-12-06: The American Environmental Coalition, Frontiers of Freedom, and the National Center for Policy Analysis.
- 2008-12-17: The CEI’s Cooler Heads Coalition, and a bunch of astroturf sites under Policy Communications Inc.
- 2009-01-01: Joanne Nova, Science Speak (by JoNova and David Evans), The TaxPayers’ Alliance, The Freedom Association, the Lavoisier Group, David Archibald, Climate Change Issues, and the Samuel Griffith Society.
- 2009-09-03: The Climate ‘Science’ Coalition of America, the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, the Macdonald Laurier Institute (“coming soon”), the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, and the Blueglass Institute for Public Policy Solutions.
- 2009-11-14: Clusters of web sites surrounding the Prague Network, America’s Power Army, and
overcriminalized.com… plus something interesting.
- Other stuff
- 2008-10-31: Reverse DNS lookup results for 198.161.90.0–198.161.90.255.
- 2008-11-18: My suspicions about the CEI and the Heartland Institute are confirmed.
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Truly heartening to see such a high level of International Cooperation :-)
Only 4 of the CSCCC memebers http://www.csccc.info/members.php at that IP? I wonder how many of the 37 affiliated “civil societies” are one man basement operations.
Coordinated local (127.0.0.1) activism, anyone?
Running a whois on that IP shows it’s a server in Calgary (coincidentally), registered to the Washington-based National Taxpayers Union. They currently have a big “no energy taxes” banner on their main site, and were part of the Phillip Morris Noise Machine.
Anti-taxation, Phillip Morris foundation, current climate denial, single-basement echo chamber… This is sounding eerily familiar. (I don’t think there’s an explicit connection, although I haven’t looked deeply into the names involved.)
Make that 5. I just found that the Tennessee Centre for Policy Research (www.tennesseepolicy.org) — the group that likes making up Gore’s energy usage figures to criticize — is also at the same IP.
There are also some groups with different IPs but under the same subnet, and this is also very intriguing.
w00t :-B
Wow, interesting. Which whois program are you using? I couldn’t get my command line whois to say anything other than that the IP is under Lexicom Ltd.
(And I see that the NTU site has the same IP too! This is supreme win.)
Which whois program are you using?
You’re going to slap yourself — I literally typed “whois 198.161.90.18″ into Google. It searched DomainTools.com, which returned this result, which returned the correct IP on other whois sites.
Poking around a bit more (I posted my last comment from a lecture — nothing new for students, but I was teaching it at the time!), I found a few reverse IP tools, which return domains registered to a given IP. For example, look at the results for that IP.
Take a look at how deep the rabbit hole truly is — The Family Institute, Atlas Economic Institute (a whopping 10 instances of “Freedom” on their front page alone), the Thomas Jefferson Institute, the Locke Institute, the Independence Institute, the Washington Policy Institute, to the Sustainable Development Network (a delightful greenwashing attempt that makes Lomborg’s look unsophisticated at times). And those are just the ones I recognize (or thought I recognized) that weren’t NTU or the ones you listed. All on the same IP out of Calgary.
If that was supreme, then I believe this pushes us into the territory of — dare I say it — Epic Win?
(By the way, what’s the code on WordPress to do quotes? I’m used to just using HTML as opposed to some blog-specific markup.)
Well, <blockquote>…</blockquote>… that’s what I normally use, anyway.
AAARGH!!!!!!! *slaps self*
Holy mother of batman on a pogo stick! This truly is the Pinnacle of Win.
Excellent!
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