While I was reviewing one of the archived versions of the breitbartunmasked dot com, I noticed this post from nine years ago today.
The weedhire dot com website is gone and the domain registration is for sale.
Although he left the wholesale side of the marijuana trade in the over 40 years ago, it appears that The Deadbeat Pusher Kimberlin has maintained an keen interest in the industry.
The TKPOTD for ten years ago today took a look at some of Team Kimberlin’s attempts to use parody websites for harassment.
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A couple of months ago, Team Kimberlin put up active websites on some domains they had registered. One was theothermccain dot net. Another was allergic2bull.com. And one was hogewash dot net. All three were attack sites, and the two dot net sites were presented as parodies of the genuine articles.
I was … proud isn’t the word … let’s just say that I found a certain satisfaction that a relatively small-time site like Hogewash! caused so much angst at Team Kimberlin. For a few days, a great deal of effort went into trying to make fun of me. Then the dueling DMCA claims hit, compounded by Team Kimberlin’s use of obscene images. (I note that all of the offending images used by Team Kimberlin are still down, although some required multiple hits. None of the claims asserted by Cabin Boy Bill Schmalfeldt have stood up.) There was a bit of activity early this month, but apparently the effort required to make fun of me on the Internet is too much given some of the real world challenges facing Team Kimberlin. No one has updated hogewash dot net since 8 August.
The Internet is littered with dormant sites related to Team Kimberlin. Some make sense because they have Donate buttons. If a site brings in more that it costs to keep it up, it’s a cash cow. Others may be liabilities.
We will see.
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Dozens of Kimberlin-related sites have popped and failed over the past decade, and Hogewash! is still muddling along.
The Dread Deadbeat Protester Kimberlin’s first not-for-profit was a grift called Justice Through Music Project. The TKPOTD for eight years ago today took a look at JTMP’s presence on Twitter.
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While doing some research, I happened to check out the Justice Through Music Project Twitter feed. For a organization that’s trying to connect with young people, it has a remarkably tiny presence in that part of social media.
Only 192 follower? Yep, here are a couple of ’em.
Green Rush isn’t the only dope related follower, and the restaurant seems to be one of several spam business followers (discount Ray-Bans, etc.).
It’s almost as if something is distracting The Dread Performer/Pirate/Pro-Se Kimberlin from his day job.
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Over the pass eight years, the account has managed to increase its following to 273. This screen shot was taken just before noon yesterday.
Note that the most recent tweet is over five years old. It would seen that X no longer marks a spot where Kimberlin has any noticeable influence.
Brett Kimberlin operates two not-for-profits. One is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt entity known as Justice Through Music Project. The other, which has had its 501(c)(4) status revoked by the IRS, was originally known as Velvet Revolution US. Its name was changed to Protect Our Elections/EMPR Inc in 2017.
Both the VRUS and POE websites are still active. The velvetrevolution dot us is hosted in the UK and had an Internet traffic rating of 2,173,156 as of mid morning ET yesterday. While it had been left fallow for long time, it is now being kept more or less current.
The protectourelections dot org domain is hosted in Holland and was ranked 15,028,580 yesterday. The protectourelections dot com domain is hosted in the US, and it redirects traffic to the dot org site. It ranked 1,589,599 yesterday. That’s higher than the dot org domain, but both have such low traffic that a few hits on any given day can skew the numbers.
BTW, these two screenshots were taken within seconds of each other. Still.
Earlier this week, I reported the new look to the old material still posted at breitbartunmasked dot com. I took another look at the site yesterday evening around 9:15 pm ET. That’s 0:15 pm GMT, 30 June. The timestamp on the Home page had the correct time, but the date is still stuck on the 26th.
Also, the date was stuck on the 27th on the other pages.
There’s no DONATE button on the site, and no one at Team Kimberlin is paying enough attention to it to fix the banners at the top of each page.
Hmmmm.
Well, well, well! Someone’s actually been tending to breitbartunmasked dot com. It has a new look—
Zooming into the upper left of that screenshot show this timestamp—
11:20:42 pm GMT is the time I took the screenshot, but it was taken on Tuesday, 27 June. The time shown the Home page clock is 24 hours late. When I checked other pages, they showed the correct date. Team Kimberlin isn’t very good about attending to details.
The site has been backed up offline. If I have some time to kill, I’ll skim through it and look for any interesting changes.
Yesterday’s TKPOTD looked at Brett Kimberlin’s abject failure at developing a coherent presence on the Internet. It mentioned that he had tried to get traction with dozens of sites. The TKPOTD for eight years ago lists some of them.
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Here’s a list of the web domains hosted on server 184.171.169.170. They all seem to have a connection to Brett Kimberlin.
It can be … um … interesting to take a look at these sites. Most have donate buttons that take you to a JTMP or VRUS donation page.
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All of those web domains are gone, except for jtmp dot org, protectourelections dot org, and velvetrevolution dot us. The first two have traffic ratings below 15,000,000. The velvetrevolution site is once again being updated occasionally and around midday yesterday had a traffic rating of 2,173,156. (BTW, it’s hosted on a different server—in the UK rather than Holland.)
In 2017, Kimberlin changed the name of Velvet Revolution US to Protect Our Elections/EMPR Inc. The DONATE button on the velvetrevolution dot us Home Page is linked to the Protect Our Elections PayPal account.
Follow the money.
After over a decade of brass knuckles reputation management via lawfare and flailing around with dozens of websites, Brett Kimberlin can add these unpopular Internet domains to his list of failures.
These are the lowest rated sites on the offshore server hosting most of Kimberlin’s web presence.
There’s probably not enough traffic on jtmp dot org and protectourelections dot org to justify their upkeep. It’s been suggested that not-for-profits with loose accounting can be used to launder offshore funds via donations. Perhaps an audit …
Actually, opcritical dot com doesn’t even have an active website.
And Brett Kimberlin is still the Speedway Bomber.
Among Brett Kimberlin’s many failures is his attempt to develop a significant presence on the Internet. Here a the traffic ratings of the sites on the server hosting most of the Kimberlin-related domains.
Note that the top rated site is breitbitnews dot com, one of Bill Schmalfeldt’s abandoned sites that hasn’t had any new material since October, 2018.
Everything is receding as I have foreseen.
In April, 2015, Twitter suspended my @wjjhoge account based on false accusations of targeted harassment made by Brett Kimberlin. Eight years ago today, Breitbart Unmasked published a post bragging about my account being suspended and attacking Ken White and others for supporting me. That post was still up as of 10 pm last night.
The post falsely describes my coverage of Team Kimberlin.
For the last 3 years or so Mr. Hoge has been on a daily 7 day a week posting grind about Mr. Kimberlin and his family and children, and his roving hatred masked as a psyop propaganda campaign against Mr. Schmalfeldt, who is disabled and suffers from Parkinson’s disease, but still manages to report on Hoge’s activities as best he can.
I have endeavored to keep the members Brett Kimberlin’s family out of my coverage of his activities—except when he dragged them into various situations. As for Bill Schmalfeldt, his disability didn’t not prevent him from scurrying from Maryland to Wisconsin to Iowa to South Carolina (multiple times) to Montana to Oklahoma to Michigan to Missouri to Georgia to Michigan in search of employment over the past seven years.
Meanwhile, I’ve continued keeping an eye on Team Kimberlin for the past seven years, and I’m not done with them yet.
When I was reviewing this BU post last night, I noticed the byline: Marcus Crassus. The real Crassus was one of the three members of the first Triumvirate along with Pompey and Caesar. He was the richest man in Rome and noted for his corruption. His largest military success probably was his defeat of the slave revolt led by Spartacus, but his campaign against the Parthians was a disaster, ending in his defeat and death at the Battle of Carrhae. I suppose that’s an appropriate nom de cyber for a writer at BU.
One more thing—I’m thankful for all the support I have received while dealing with Team Kimberlin, and I owe special thanks to Ken White for putting up the Popehat Signal for me and to Patrick Ostronic for responding as pro bono legal counsel.
The TKPOTD for ten years ago today dealt with the quality (or lack thereof) of the writing at Team Kimberlin’s principle PR site Brietibart Unmasked.
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One is led to wonder whether Breitbart Unmasked is now being written by the room full of monkeys who were supposed be typing the complete works of Shakespeare.
Qui sunt hae simiae, qui strepitus inanis scribunt?
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The monkeys must have escaped. There haven’t been any new posts at BU for almost 4-1/2 years.
breitbartunmasked dot com was less than a couple of months old when it published its first post about Ace of Spades eleven years ago today. That post is still up on the site.
The post misidentified a women as Ace. Ace is a man.
Brett Kimberlin spent a great deal of effort during the RICO Madness LOLsuit trying to identify Ace. He failed. Judge Hazel wrote this in his memorandum opinion dismissing the case—
First, the Court will DENY, as moot, Kimberlin’s Motion to Identify Defendant Ace of Spades. See ECF No. 232. In doing so, the Court notes that Kimberlin has not been prejudiced in any meaningful way by his failure to obtain the identity of blogger Ace of Spades. That is, even if Kimberlin had the identity of Defendant Ace of Spades, his claims would still be subject to dismissal for the same reasons stated above.
BTW, the byline on the BU post note above is The Watchful Avenger. That can be translated into Latin as vigilans vindex. Heh.
Around 9:30 ET pm, yesterday, I took a look at the websites on the Netherlands-based server that hosts almost all of the surviving Team Kimberlin web domains. Here’s some of what I found.
I find it amusing that Bill Schmalfeldt’s defunct brietbitnews dot com, which has fewer than 200 hits per day, is drawing more traffic than the other sites, even empr dot media which has current coverage of the war in Ukraine.
Also, note that the two worst performers are the sites with active DONATE pages.
Hmmmmm.
Back in the ’70s, Brett Kimberlin ran a health food store as money laundry for his wholesale drug dealing. There is some evidence that he actually believes in dietary quackery, and that my explain why he set up the citizensagainstgmo dot com website. This post about Brett Kimberlin and Vitamin A Deficiency from nine years ago today to a look at that site.
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One of the most promising genetically engineered crops that has become available over the past decade or so is golden rice. It has been modified to produce beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A. This is an important innovation for the third world where where vitamin A deficiency kills upwards of 600,000 children under 5 each year.
It is also a major bête noire of the anti-GMO food crowd.
Take a look at this:
This is a page from the website citizensagainstgmo dot com. It lists golden rice as number 5 among the top 10 GMO food products.
This site is hosted on the same server as the sites for Justice Through Music Project, Velvet Revolution US, Breitbart Unmasked, NRAWatch, Pussy Riot Defense Fund, and other Kimberlin-related sites.
Hmmmmm.
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The site’s DONATE button must not have generated enough revenue to keep the site viable. It’s among the dozens of failed web domains Kimberlin has allowed to expire.
So how did all that lawfare and cyberharassment work out for Team Kimberlin?
Brett Kimberlin is still the Speedway Bomber, as well as a convicted drug smuggler and perjurer.
His music career was a bust.
His web presence has collapsed. As of about 9pm ET last night, the Justice Through Music Project website was ranked 14,315,784, and the Protect Our Elections website was ranked 15,029,580.
And as for former Terror of the Twitterz Bill Schmalfeldt … this comment from yesterday’s TKOPTD summarizes his Internet presence—
I know this is only related to Team Kimberlin in a tangential way, but I find it beyond the bounds of hilarity to see that Bill Schmalfeldt’s most recent Twitter account @ThePortlyPundit was hijacked by crypto scammers about a month ago…and no one seems to have noticed but me.
Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.
The domain registration for breitbartunmasked dot com was due to expire next Monday, but the registration has been renewed for one more year.
Nothing new has been posted to the site since December, 2018, and it is still being hosted on the same offshore server as other Brett Kimberlin sites such as jtmp dot org, protectourelections dot org, and empr dot media.
Brett Kimberlin has inflicted dozens of websites on the Interwebz over the past decade or so. Most of them are no defunct. Although the Breitbart Unmasked site hasn’t had any new material posted since December, 2018, it’s still one of Kimberlin’s most substantial wastes of bandwidth. The TKPOTD for six years ago today dealt with the deficient skills of one of that site’s editors.
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Given the poor reading comprehension skills of the site’s GS-13 Editor, it’s not surprising that Breitbart Unmasked Bunny Bill Boy Unread would get the facts wrong and tweet this:
I don’t intend to quit discussing Breitbart Unmasked Bunny Bill Boy Unread. I will keep discussing them, but in the context of making fun of them. Nothing the Cabin Boy™ edits can be taken seriously anymore.
#PLM
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It’s taken several years, but Bill Schmalfeldt has finally working at a publication with a great readership than BU ever had—The Center Republican.
Brett Kimberlin’s Breitbart Unmasked website initially went live on server in The Netherlands, but it moved to onshore hosting after a year or so. However. it moved back offshore after Bill Schmalfeldt published post containing material lifted from Hogewasht! without permission. When I filed a DMCA takedown notice, the site moved from its U.S.-based hosting rather than provided contact information for service of court papers. Six years ago today, I posted about GS13 Editor Bill Schmalfeldt and how He Bravely Turned His Tail and Fled.
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When DMCA raised its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Bravest of the brave, Sir William!
Rather than obey U. S. copyright law, Breitbart Unmasked Bunny Billy Boy Unread has fled to an off shore server. So Marcus Crassus can talk tough hiding on a server in Iceland, but seems to be afraid to speak his mind here in America.
#Cowards
UPDATE—Lest the Plagiarism Polizei become excessively agitated, let me state that the short ditty above is a parody of the song about Brave Sir Robin from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Furthermore, the parody is not my creation. I saw it, or something very much like it, in a cartoon published by a cockroach.
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I did some digging, and I found a copy of the cartoon I mentioned above.
Heh.
Although it has lain fallow for over four years now, on of Team Kimberlin’s principal PR organs was the Breitbart Unmasked website. The site’s occasional editor Bill Schmalfeldt call it his “prime source for news, hearsay, lies and innuendo. Oh, yeah. Smears, too!” Eight years ago today BU published a long defamatory screed attacking Aaron Walker, and it was full of hearsay, lies, innuendo, and smears. And sealed court discovery, too!
That’s only the opening paragraph. The Gentle Reader can find the whole post still active on the BU website.
Here’s Bill Schmalfeldt’s concern troll comment to the post.
It wasn’t Aaron Walker’s blog about free speech and pictures of Muhammed that drew Brett Kimberlin’s interest and ire. It was Aaron’s pro bono legal assistance to a left-wing blogger who Kimberlin had sued for defamation.
It’s was Kimberlin’s attacks on Aaron’s First Amendment rights that backfired and drew the attention of the blogosphere to past and current activities.
Brett Kimberlin has reactivated the protectourelections dot org website over the past few months. As of 10 pm ET last night, the site’s traffic ranking on the Internet was #13,839,434.
It’s been four years since there has been any new material posted at Breitbart Unmasked Bunny Billy Boy Unread.
One former editor, Bunny Boy (aka Matt Osborne), tried to reinvent himself Gender Heretic on the Twitterz, floated farther from Reality, and wound up being permanently suspended. The other former editor seems to be alternating between forced retirement (getting fired) and ever gigs in ever marginal markets.
Meanwhile, Hogewash! keeps chugging along having not suffered any of the direst of dire direness predicted by BU, and Ali Alexander, the subject of the the last hit piece on BU, seems to be have had a more significant impact public’s understand of election fraud issues than any of Team Kimberlin’s efforts.
Brett Kimberlin really would like to be a player, but he’s just a wannabe.
Look at the following his not-for-profits had on Twitter was of 10pm ET last night.
Loser.
One of the ways Brett Kimberlin has tried to stir interest in his not-for-profits is by making bogus offers of rewards.For example, Velvet Revolution US (which later morphed into Protect Our Elections/EMPR Inc) offered $100,000 for information related to election fraud when it had a negative net worth and no cash on hand, and Kimberlin used the Breitbart Unmasked website to promote the fake offer. This was posted six years ago today at BU.
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That post is still up.
BTW, Kimberlin didn’t offer such a reward in 2020.
I have no Idea how much revenue Brett Kimberlin generated from the DONATE buttons on his websites. However, based on his multiple LOLsuit claims that I’ve used Hogewash! to trick the Gentle Readers in to giving me vast sums of money, I do know that it really gets under Kimberlin’s skin if you hit my Tip Jar. I’m also sure he feels the same way when folks click on my podcasting partner Stacy McCain’s Big Yellow Button.
During their campaign of lawfare, Team Kimberlin routinely made threats that their enemies would suffer the direst of dire direness. My response posted nine years ago to day was typical: Go Ahead, Make My Day.
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Brietbart Unmasked, who was put on notice to stop contacting me on 15 February, and who continues to do so in violation of Md. Criminal Laws §3-803 and §3-805, sent me the following tweet this evening:
Fine. Charge me. I will have a Sixth Amendment right to confront my accuser. That means that if @BreitbartUnmask won’t reveal his identity, the charges get dropped, and if he does reveal his identity, he can rest assured that I will file harassment charges for his continued contact with me.
Perhaps he shouldn’t be getting his legal advice from Acme.
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A man’s got to know his limitations.