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In addition to Dan’s most recent post he has previously posted here ( where you can read Nationmaster’s bullying, pseudo legal email correspondence) and here ( the original post that ticked off Nationmaster’s executives, including one " John Steinmetz").
Though Mark comes perilously close to unmasking my true identity.
It is theoretically possible that Dan is a clever but psychotic con man posing as a grad student simply to bilk helpless corporations out of fairly earned dollars but I kind of doubt it. It seems more likely that some arrogant a hole in a corner office at NationMaster reacted dismissively when Dan asked for his money back and then decided that Dan " could be rolled" by pressuring him with a frivolous lawsuit.one of his points is on the importance of "hubs" that "that [connect] otherwise unrelated bloggers." That made me realize that I had no central, up to date list of blogs that mention Nation Master’s attempted extortion. So now at the first part of the left hand column of NationMaster Watch will be that list. As if now, it contains
Aaron Coming Anarchy Dawn’s Early Light I Hate Linux I I Hate Linux II Jim River Report I Jim River Report II Jim River Report III Junk Politics Ryne McClaren SimonWorld I SimonWorld II tdaxp I tdaxp II tdaxp III tdaxp IV tdaxp V The Metropolis Times ZenPundit
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