iamthepizzanow

Googled bluewin.ch and its a news site, not a swiss email?

investigatethepizza

I'm actually trying to see if March 23 pulls anything from Pré-du-Marché 23

MolochHunter

but that spelling... bawl.... means 'crying' .... intriguing..

investigatethepizza

I'm so hung up on it, after that they go back to being ball of wax, or wax ball, or just wax in the message - it's only said that way ONE time. Trying to figure out why the hell he said it that way.

MolochHunter

here's one that gives clues its some kind of membership club:

https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/13/1322514_re-ball-of-wax-questions-.html

"Hey guys - I want to make sure any lifetimers are removed from this archive list of all paid members I'm putting together. I used the "Title" field in whole ball of wax to remove anyone called Lifetime in that field. Is that enough? I know there's ball of wax weirdness sometimes where the information is related to whatever current product they're on - so if someone bought a lifetime membership but still had a year left on their regular membership, would their Title be something other than Lifetime until that year was up? Is there another field I should use?

Thanks for your help"

investigatethepizza

I try to find their names through various searches, usually comes up really dry for the stratfor staff

investigatethepizza

I feel if we could just see 1 of the damn things that links to oracle it might help knowing if we're chasing something or not. Edit: weird email of 5K premium users https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/12/1262195_5k-premium-users-.html no podesta, but 5k???

Vindicator

So Stratfor -- which stands for "strategic forecasting" -- does two main things: sell subscriptions to the geopolitical intelligence they gather worldwide, and provide security consulting for corporations and high net worth individuals (how to avoid executive kidnapping, for example).

Like many newsletter providers, they offer different packages for different tiers of subscriber. These mailing lists reflect those different subscriber tiers. "Free" is stuff anyone who gives their email can get sent. "Lifetime" would be subscribers who have paid a large one-time fee for a permanent subscription. I imagine the "whole ball of wax" would be the entire database of subscribers.

You can see them all here . 5,000 premium users doesn't sound like that many, when you consider few companies provide the products they do.

Edit: pinging @MolochHunter -- this is what the membership club is, Stratfor subscribers. Go to their website -- you can see a lot of their articles for free.