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18 Responses to “Voxeo: Owned by employees, controlled by your web applications; not Israel, Elron, or Aliens from Area 51”

1. Jim Ferrans Says:
   January 4th, 2008 at 11:40 am

   Let me second Dan’s comments. I work at Motorola, and am the lead developer on the VoxGateway, a major software component used in the Voxeo platform. We’ve worked with Voxeo for many years and they are great people, just the kind you’d meet in your neighborhoods and PTA meetings. (In fact, Voxeo seems to have a much higher proportion of native-born US citizens than the typical high tech company.)

   Now you can think of the VoxGateway as a kind of web browser, like Internet Explorer or Firefox. But instead of using your PC keyboard and display to interact with it, you use your phone’s microphone and speaker. And instead of it going off to grab HTML web pages from a web site, the VoxGateway goes off and fetches speech-oriented VoiceXML web pages from a web site. These VoiceXML pages tell the VoxGateway what information to gather from the caller, and also where to send that data to. So while an Iowa Caucus election official might call a number that terminates in Atlanta, the computers in Atlanta can be fully under the control of a web application hosted in a site in Iowa City.

   But because computers are involved here, there’s a possibility of bugs and of criminal modifications to the software, either at Voxeo or in the web server hosting the web application. Assuming that the Iowa Caucus gathers their preliminary results using a voice application, and assuming they are using Voxeo this year, don’t you think they’d be tabulating the final, official results using the certified paper records from each precinct? And don’t you think that the folks voting in the precincts would check these results once they are published? Of course they would.

   It’s a pity, I would have liked to have been associated with a secret cabal that’s ruled the world for millenia!

2. rich Says:
   January 4th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

   I wouldn’t want to be involved with a cabal that’s done such a terrible job running this world. They really seem intent on crashing the thing.

   Anyway, do you folks NOT see how counting in elections is political and subject to fraud and manipulation? To say “the folks voting in the precincts would check these results once they are published? Of course they would” is naive or disingenuous. Who really who needs to do such simple counting on a complex and vulnerable system like yours?

   Of course this could have nothing to do with you or electronic tabulation — after all in San Francisco just a few years ago, paper ballots were found in the garbage and ballot were moved overnight without anyone found responsible.

   The person who tried to track down how votes were being counted made several jumps in logic that are unfortunately parroted, but claiming Voxeo is a private company really doesn’t mean much. That intelloigence services are interested in your past work is interesting though.

   Highly educated people like you from elite schools should be able to come up with a better schpiel.

3. Mike Killareny Says:
   January 4th, 2008 at 6:24 pm

   well, sure-well take your word for it-we all know you personally-and know full well you are all above reproach, fully trustworthy.

   And *if* you WERE owned by Israelis, you PROMISE you would admit it, if it were so?

   No?
   Didnt think so.

   got any ocean front property in Kansas you could sell us?

4. Dan York Says:
   January 4th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

   @Jim - Thank you for your kind words.

   @rich, @Mike - Thank you for your comments.

   @rich - As an American citizen who is very concerned about political issues, I am of course concerned that our elections remain free of fraud. That, though, is a separate issue from our point here about the ownership of our company and how our system works. Feel free to browse our developer documentation at http://evolution.voxeo.com/ to get a sense of how it works and how our customers control their data and applications.

   @Mike - There is probably not much I can say that will convince you. If you ever get to Orlando, feel free to give us a call or drop by. We’re an 8-year-old company with 60-some people very passionate about what we do (and we’re hiring). With luck, we might even have our coffee barista hired by then and he or she will be able to greet you. I think you’d probably find us a pretty interesting group to hang out with.

5. TruthgoneWild Says:
   January 5th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

   While TruthgoneWild holds on posting the story that you’re denying, at least until this is further investigated, let’s get another thing straight here.

   1. Organizations, political or otherwise can, and have been, corrupted. Its great to know your systems are a “slave” to these possibly corrupt organizations, political or otherwise. Do you deny this? To turn a blind eye while corruption utalizes your systems isn’t quite ethical, is it?

   2. Why anyone from a political party would use your services for anything is beyond comprehension. People go to a booth, vote, then the votes are counted at that location. Where do your services come into play? To alert news outlets of their results? A normal phone can handle this job.

   3. Are you saying Area 51 is a conspiracy theory? I assure you, it exists. Copy and paste these coordinates into google earth and see for yourself. The government was even nice enough to disclosed this fact to the public. As for whether or not Aliens exist… that’s why SETI was created. Nice try on the low blow…

6. Matt Says:
   January 7th, 2008 at 6:47 am

   I too would like to be told by someone, from either Voxeo or the people utilising this ’slave’ system EXACTLY why, and how this system was used in the counting of votes

   With the information i have i am obviously in no position to try and state either way whether Voxeo is connected to Elron or not or has other dubious connections to Mossad founded companies so i will not journy down this road here

   But i will say this whole thing is dubious, there is no reason i can see for a completely outside telecommunications company or their software to be used in counting votes, that itself actualy is beyond strange.

   Voters, is real democracy is ever to return, must know in full and precice detail EXACTLY how their votes are tallied at every step, the fact we aren’t given this information now is suspicious

7. Christopher Bollyn Says:
   January 7th, 2008 at 8:10 am

   It’s nice to see that Voxeo is responding to my article about their alleged involvement in the Iowa caucus of 2004. This is certainly more than the other privately-held companies running U.S. elections do and is commendable.

   It’s interesting, however, that Dan York of Voxeo does not address the most pertinent questions that my article raises:

   Did Voxeo handle the Iowa caucus phone tally results in 2004 and 2008?

   What exactly are the connections between Israel and Voxeo, IRdg, and Jonathan Taylor, the CEO and founder of both Voxeo and IRdg?

   It has been reported in the press that Taylor’s IRdg company and technology were acquired by MediaGate, the Israeli subsidiary of Elron Electronic Industries in 1997. From that point, Mr. Taylor and his software team wrote software for their Israeli parent company, MediaGate, from late 1997 until at least late 1999.

   There are many connections and links between Taylor, the CEO of Voxeo and Israeli intelligence. It may be that Mr. Taylor is not fully aware of the degree of Mossad involvement in the companies he co-founded.

   I will show these connections and links in a forthcoming article about the Mossad Network and how these companies and individuals are linked to each other and to the heinous crime of false flag terrorism – 9-11.

   Very briefly, I will sketch the skeleton or frame of the foreign intelligence network which I will describe in detail in the article:

   Jonathan Taylor, the co-founder and current CEO and President of Voxeo, was one of the founders of IRdg with John Higgins in Winter Park, Florida. Higgins and Taylor ran IRdg from 1995 until 1997, when their company was acquired by MediaGate of Ra’anana, Israel.

   MediaGate, at the time, was a subsidiary of Elron Electronic Industries, the parent company of Israeli defense electronics company Elbit. Elron is closely connected to the Israeli military and its intelligence agencies.

   One needs to understand how the Mossad corporate network works in the United States to acquire American technology. It spawns companies that are U.S. branches of the Mossad-controlled parent company in Israel. The Mossad has venture capital funds to enable the acquisitions by this network and to create branches and “cut out” companies, some of which have American or Arabic staff to give the impression that they are an American or Arabic-owned company.

   If we look at the directors of Elron Electronic Industries, the parent company who acquired IRdg and for whom Mr. Taylor wrote software for about two years, we can see some of the key players in this network. For the purpose of this brief article we will only look at one, a Mr. Ari Bronshtein, who the company’s website says joined Elron as a director in March 2006.

   See: http://www.elron.com/default.asp?PageID=207#ari

   The Elron website says that Mr. Bronshtein served as Manager of business analysis at Comverse Technologies, Inc. from 1999 to 2000. How interesting.

   Comverse is the company that was headed by Kobi Alexander at that time who stole several hundred million dollars and is now a fugitive of U.S. justice in Namibia. Mr. Bronshtein must know Mr. Alexander and have a good idea of how this criminal activity took place. He was, after all a senior manager of the Israeli-owned company that was stealing the American money and technology.

   Comverse was also an owner of Odigo, which evidently acquired the IRdg software through its connection to MediaGate, the company that Jonathan Taylor was writing software and which owned IRdg, lock, stock and barrel.

   As the Jerusalem Post wrote about MediaGate in 2000:

   “MediaGate, which was founded seven years ago and has two offices in the U.S., has developed the iPost server, which can unify all kinds of messages: voice, fax, e-mail, paging, data, video, voice over Internet Protocol and video over IP.”

   When MediaGate took over IRdg in 1997, the Orlando Sentinel wrongly described it as a company from San Jose, California, and said it had been “founded by several Silicon Valley veterans.” The reader is deceived and given no indication whatsoever that this is a foreign company acquiring American technology and software. How typical.

   IRdg, which had only launched its product, had created a message retrieval system which combined Internet, phone mail, and fax communications. Messages in any form could be retrieved via computer or telephone using the product developed by Taylor and Higgins in central Florida.

   This is what MediaGate said it developed and what Odigo wound up having. Odigo, which was owned by Comverse, came out with the same technology that IRdg had developed. How did they get it? Ask Mr. Bronshtein and Kobi Alexander.

   This is actually how the Israelis obtain most of their technology. They buy it or steal it. In this case, with Taylor and IRdg, they have probably done both.

   Odigo used this American-invented technology on 9-11 to send instant text messages to other Israelis on their Hebrew-language “buddy list” telling all Israelis to avoid the area of lower Manhattan on the morning of 9-11. Most of them decided to call in sick that day, as we now know.

   It is interesting to note that Mr. Bronshtein has also served as chairman of the investment committee of Stage One, one of the high-tech venture capital funds run by Israeli military intelligence. Stage One was one of the investors in Guardium, another Mossad-spawned company, which Michael Goff worked for.

   Michael Goff is the Jewish and Zionist son of B’nai B’rith super Masons who quit his legal practice in Worcester to start a company with some Lebanese Muslims and Saudi financing called Ptech in Quincy, Mass. Ptech is an example of the Arab cut-out I described above. It was an Israeli-run company designed to appear Muslim. Why would they do that, you ask?

   Because Ptech was involved in taking over the computer networks of the U.S. government and military. 9-11 “truth seekers” actually presented the Arab facade of the Ptech cut-out at 9-11 conferences in 2002 in an attempt to further blame Arabs and Muslims for 9-11. We were not all deceived by this song and dance, however.

   Oussama Ziade, a Lebanese Muslim immigrant who came to the United States in 1985, is said to have founded Ptech in 1994. But the company’s original manager of marketing and information systems was Michael S. Goff, whose PR firm, Goff Communications, represented Guardium, a Mossad-linked software company.

   “As information Systems manager for Ptech, Michael handled design, deployment and management of its Windows and Macintosh, data, and voice networks,” Goff’s web site said at the time I exposed Ptech’s connection to the Mossad in April 2005. Goff also “performed employee training and handled all procurement for software systems and peripherals.”

   So Goff, who worked for Mossad’s Guardium, was responsible for “all procurement for software systems” at Ptech. Can I make this any clearer?

   I asked Goff, who left the Worcester law firm of Seder and Chandler in 1994, how he would up working at Ptech. “Through a temp agency,” Goff said, but he could not remember the name of the agency.

   Why would a well-educated lawyer working in a firm in his home town suddenly become a Kelly Girl temp? Or was it an assignment through Sayan Temps of Mossad?

   Goff told me that he did not know who had written the Ptech software code.

   Thanks to Goff, however, this mysterious Ptech enterprise software wound up on all the U.S. government computers and played a key role in the confusion that prevailed on FAA, NORAD, and Air Force computers on 9-11.

   Michael Goff’s role in launching Ptech is very similar to Gary L. Reback’s role in launching Voxeo.

   Reback quit his law firm to start Voxeo as the company’s first CEO from 2000 until the spring of 2001, and then he suddenly quit, less than a year later, and went back to practicing law. How odd.

   There is much more to this Mossad network and its connections to Voxeo’s Jonathan Taylor and IRdg. I am providing this basic framework in the hope that the good people at Voxeo might stop laughing and realize that there is much more to my assertions than hot air.

   As a former employee of IBM Global Network Services, I appreciate what Jim Ferrans, wrote on this blog:

   “But because computers are involved here, there’s a possibility of bugs and of criminal modifications to the software, either at Voxeo or in the web server hosting the web application.”

   You got that right.

   Christopher Bollyn is an independent journalist who depends on the support of his readers to fund his research and writing. If you would like to receive his forthcoming research article on the Israeli Mossad’s network behind Voxeo and how foreign influence has corrupted the Iowa caucus results and U.S. elections, please send a donation to:

   bollyn@bollynbooks.com

   Thank you.

8. Dan York Says:
   January 8th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

   @Christopher Bollyn - welcome to our blog. I’d like to answer the two specific questions in this post:

   > Did Voxeo handle the Iowa caucus phone tally results in 2004 and 2008?

   Unfortunately only the political parties in Iowa can answer that question for you. By policy and by contract, we do not discuss the names and application details of our customers without their explicit permission. I can say that Voxeo itself does not tally votes and has never tallied votes.

   Voxeo offers an open, standards-based, flexible platform that enables anyone to easily create and deploy automated telephone applications. Over 30,000 individuals, organizations, and enterprises have used our platform to do just that. These customers include everything from Fortune-five enterprises to innovative startups with less than five employees.

   Our system is just like a web browser. Without web sites and applications to drive them, web browsers don’t do much of anything. Our customers create web applications that generate VoiceXML, CCXML, or CallXML output. That XML output tells our system how to prompt and gather touch-tone or voice input from callers. That input is passed immediately back to our customers web applications and is not saved or manipulated in any way by Voxeo.

   > What exactly are the connections between Israel and Voxeo, IRdg, and Jonathan Taylor, the CEO and founder of both Voxeo and IRdg?

   In 1995 Voxeo’s CEO (Jonathan Taylor) started IRdg with six other 100%-American entrepreneurs. In 1997 the shareholders of IRdg discussed acquisition opportunities with five of its customers and partners (Nortel, Motorola, Ericsson, Digital Sound, and MediaGate). MediaGate made the best offer. As a result IRdg’s shareholders - for strictly capitalist reasons - sold IRdg to MediaGate. As part of the deal Jonathan was contractually required to work for MediaGate for two years. When IRdg was sold (in 1997) MediaGate was 25% owned by Elron.

   That sale - 10 years ago - to the highest-value bidder is the ONLY connection between Israel, Voxeo, IRdg, and Jonathan Taylor.

   Voxeo has its own history that is completely separate from IRdg and Israel. In 1999 and 2000 three of IRdg’s 100%-American entrepreneurs left one company (IRdg/MediaGate) and started another (Voxeo), as entrepreneurs often do. They were joined by 11 other Voxeo founders, including Gary Reback, a well-known Silicon Valley attorney. The dot-com era was in full force, and Voxeo received nearly $40 million in funding from Silicon Valley VC’s and angel investors. Voxeo’s most nefarious plans were the same as all other dot-com companies: raise money, hire quickly, get customers by whatever means possible, and sell or IPO within a few years. Voxeo grew to nearly 200 employees during this time.

   By 2002 the era of dot-com craziness had ended quickly. The vast majority of dot-com companies were being shut down and liquidated by their VC’s. Voxeo could easily have suffered the same fate. Our VC’s were unsure about what to do next. Voxeo downsized to just 14 people. It looked like Voxeo would be shut down, too. The founders, management, and employees of Voxeo at the time believed strongly that Voxeo could only survive if the chains of dot-com era investment and debt were removed. They presented a plan to Voxeo’s then-shareholders to execute a management buy-out. The plan was accepted and a new Voxeo was born.

   Today, Voxeo’s American employees own controlling interest (90%) of Voxeo. 10% is owned by Lighthouse Capital Partners, an excellent American venture lending company. Other than Lighthouse we have no outside shareholders whatsoever. None of our prior VC’s or angel investors are shareholders today. Gary Reback is not a shareholder today. Our only board members are Voxeo employees. We are profitable (for 13 consecutive quarters now), growing rapidly (we will be over 100 employees again this quarter), and generally speaking, very well liked by our customers. We have expanded into Europe and are now one of the largest companies in our industry. Our biggest secret is our approach to customer service: unlike most American companies, we remember the value of customer focus and we do everything we can to help make life easy for our customers. Our only weapon is our technology: our Prophecy voice platform and hosting services are significantly more standards-focused, more flexible, less complex, and less costly than that of our competitors.

   In summary, Voxeo is a decidedly American-owned, controlled, and staffed company. More so than nearly any other software company you’ll find these days.

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10. FreedomJoyAdventure Says:
    January 9th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

    Thanks for the correction. I published your comment.

    I’d hate to see ANY foreign government having any influence at all in our elections.

11. Christopher Bollyn Says:
    January 11th, 2008 at 7:10 am

    It needs to be clear that Jonathan Taylor’s previous company, IRdg, was bought in 1997 by a company, MediaGate, which was closely tied to the Israeli defense establishment. At that point, Taylor and his software team moved to California to write software for the Israeli-owned MediaGate.

    In December 2000, the Jerusalem Post reported that Comverse (a Mossad firm) was in talks to acquire MediaGate. Comverse was headed by the well-known Mossadnik criminal Kobi Alexander, whose Odigo firm was clearly used by the perpetrators of 9-11. Alexander, who stole hundred of millions of dollars through stock fraud, is currently a fugitive of U.S. justice in Namibia. How close did Comverse get to taking over MediaGate? Did they get a piece of the Taylor and Higgins software? Probably all of it.

    But you protest, fair enough, Voxeo is not IRdg. This is true, but who are the people who were IRdg - and who founded Voxeo? How much of IRdg went over to Voxeo?

    The founders of IRdg, notably Jonathan Taylor and John Higgins, were, after all, the people and technology behind Voxeo. Did they just bring their toothbrushes?

    From 1997 until they founded Voxeo, Taylor, Higgins, and all the staff of IRdg were employed by the Israeli military’s subsidiary - MediaGate. Are we clear on that?

    When Voxeo was created in late 1999, who were the people behind this new project? Apart from Taylor and Higgins, there are three we know: Gary L. Reback and Boris Feldman of Wilson Sonsoni and Paul G. Stern, the former chief of Nortel.

    “Mr. Reback left Wilson Sonsini with seed money from the law firm itself and other investors like Paul Stern…”
    (Source: New York Times, 12 March 2001)

    Now, why would a law firm like Wilson Sonsini let its best lawyer quit to start a company that has very little potential - and provide seed money on top of that? That would be a question that Messrs Reback and Feldman could answer best.

    Mr. Reback and Feldman come from Russian “Hebrew” families that clearly have strong bonds to the state of Israel. Mr. Feldman is, for example, on the advisory board of the Israeli Securities Authority. This is worth repeating: One of the founders of Voxeo, Feldman, is an advisor to the Israeli Securities Authority. I am not making this up.

    Feldman is on the board with such notables as Glenn Yago, director of Capital Studies at the Milken Institute. Mr. Milken runs the financial school at Mossad University, the IDC in Herzliya.

    Boris is the son of Frieda Altman and Mendel Feldman from Warsaw, who came to America after World War II. Most of Boris Feldman’s siblings were born in the USSR, like Fred from Baku.

    See Fred Feldman’s website and family photos at: http://fredfeldman.smugmug.com

    Who is Paul George Stern, the other named prime investor in Voxeo? Paul was born in Czechoslovakia and is probably also of “Hebrew” ancestry, as Zionists described themselves in those days.

    Mr. Reback has similar Zionist ancestry. His Yiddish-speaking grandparents came from Warsaw or Russia and Gary’s father went from his humble origin in Brooklyn as a “sewing machine operator” to running the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For some reason, Gary Reback’s biographical sketches never mention this interesting family background. Why would the founder of Voxeo hide the fact that his father managed the budget of the home of the Manhattan Project? How odd. Wouldn’t he proud of his father’s achievement?

    These are a few of the characters who started Voxeo. All Jewish Zionists with strong family connections to Israel.

    Am I wrong in seeing this — or only in pointing it out?

12. James B. Phillips Says:
    January 12th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

    Mr. York, There are a lot of people waiting for your reply to Christopher Bollyn’s post of January 11th, 2008 at 7:10 am. Please be so kind as to reply ASAP. I can assure you that Mr. Bollyn has a significant and quite well informed international audience. His work (see http://www.bollyn.com) is nothing short of top cutting edge investigative journalism and what sets him apart is the fact that his work is orgignal and that he goes where very few other journalists would ever dare to for fear of —–. Well, I think you can fill in the blank on that. No doubt, you know well what line most American journalists will not cross over. If they did they would be out of a job in a heart beat.

13. Claire Lawrence Says:
    January 12th, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    Not to speak for Dan, but he has a real job with real responsibilities, and I assume he has better things to do with his time than to respond to the conspiracy theory, anti-semitic ramblings of someone who clearly has an agenda that has nothing to do with the election but everything to do with pure hate. Enough already.

14. Matt Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 5:46 pm

    Claire Lawrence you are just full of cheap-shots aren’t you??

    1) “has a real job with real responsibilities” - cheap shot #1, Journalism is a real job.

    2) “conspiracy theory” - (#2) It would shock you, oh naive one, to know how many ‘conspiracy theories’ turn out, in time, to be true, furthermore Chris has made some very good points that deserve an answer, as james has said, more people than you think are following this.

    3) “anti-semitic ramblings” (#3) Criticism of Isreali policy and conduct is not the same as anti-semitism. period. it is true that most Isreali’s are jewish (as this is the whole agenda of Zionism), but is that to say that Anti-Isreali comments are Anti Semitic comments? NO it is not, and the sooner people get that through their Thick-Skulls the better!

    to shout ‘anti semitism’ has long been an isreali defence mechanism when their conduct is criticised, it will not work.

15. Dan York Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 2:09 pm

    Folks, I think we’ve been extremely clear in our replies here about Voxeo’s history, our CEO’s previous company and the lack of connections between those companies. The purpose of Voxeo’s blog site is to communicate our thoughts about making it easier to build and deploy voice applications and our goal of delivering the best voice platform on the planet. This site is definitely not a venue for political discussion. This will be our last comment on the issue as we focus on our business goals and helping our customers grow. Thank you for understanding.

    P.S. Please do read our comment policy if you have not already done so. Thank you.

16. Matt Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 6:03 pm

    well that’s rather unconvincing.

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