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(Feb 04 2012) - Big brother now spies on journalists ...
U.S.A. -- (NaturalNews) What began as a simple program to address safety and security issues at the 2010 Winter Olympics has become a massive online spying operation targeted at journalists and writers. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s Media Monitoring Initiative (MMI) has been expanded to collect and track information from online forums, blogs, public websites, message boards, and social networking sites, as well as gather "personally identifiable information" (PII) on journalists and media writers.
(Feb 03 2012) - FBI : Internet privacy is now considered suspicious activity
U.S.A. -- When you use the Internet in a public place, do you prefer to have as much privacy as possible? Well, that makes you a potential terrorist. According to the FBI, Internet privacy is now considered to be suspicious activity. If you are out in public and you attempt to keep snoopers from peeking at your computer screen, then according to the FBI they should gather as much information about you as they can and they should report you to the authorities immediately.
(Feb 03 2012) - Hackers intercept FBI, U.K. police call
LONDON -- A sensitive conference call between FBI and British police's cybercrime investigators was recorded by the very people they were trying to catch, officials and hackers said Friday. Hacking collective Anonymous published a roughly 15-minute-long recording of a conference call apparently devoted to tracking and prosecuting members of the loosely-knit group.
(Feb 02 2012) - Hollywood Head was Mexican Drug Cartel Hit
HOLLYWOOD -- A Border War cover-up in the Hollywood Hills : It was a murder mystery made for Hollywood, as well as made in Hollywood. Two weeks ago, on a hiking trail in the shadow of the iconic Hollywood Sign, a decapitated human head was found in a plastic bag. It was a moment many have dreaded, when the Drug War raging in Mexico and along the U.S.-Mexican Border finally spilled over into Anytown USA.
(Feb 01 2012) - Germany intelligence agency criticized for spying on lawmakers
GERMANY -- Twenty years ago, a reunified Germany opened the archives of the East German secret police, the dreaded Stasi, to the public. Thousands of Germans were horrified to learn that their friends and neighbors had been spying on them for the repressive East German government. Now, Germans are once again dismayed by their country's intelligence service.
(Feb 01 2012) - NATO Troops Disguise Themselves as Civilians in Afghanistan
AFGHANISTAN -- A dirty and deadly secret of the war in Afghanistan is that some of the so-called Taliban attacks on civilians have really been attacks aimed at NATO forces who drive unmarked civilian vehicles and wear "nonstandard uniforms," which is Pentagon-speak for civilian clothes. This NATO practice violates the rules of war, which mandate that military forces clearly distinguish their personnel from the civilian population. The consequences of this and other NATO policies are evident every day as NGOs and civilians are increasingly being considered legitimate targets. The blurring of the distinction between belligerents and civilians has tainted the statistics of the United Nations, which has been attempting to distinguish between military and civilian casualties.
(Jan 29 2012) - New-borns stay under close watch using RFID technology
GREECE -- The Basque National Health System has launched a neonatal security system designed to monitor and protect new-born infants using RFID technology. When a pregnant woman is admitted to hospital, she is provided a tag with a unique identification which can be read in all the maternity zones. When the baby is born, an RFID tag specially designed for the new born is fitted to its ankle
(Jan 29 2012) - Directed Energy Weapons Used On American Citizens in Tests
U.S.A. -- In the dawn of 2012, many Americans, still left in the dark and unawakened to the fact that their omnipotent government and floundering leaders in Washington would have anything less than the peoples best interest at heart, will now face one of their biggest fears. Factions within the U.S. Government's Military Industrial Complex have been, and indeed are testingDirect Energy Weapons, along with chemical, nuclear and biological agents on the civilian populace.
(Jan 27 2012) - Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Censorship
UNITED KINGDOM -- At a behind-closed-doors meeting facilitated by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, copyright holders have handed out a list of demands to Google, Bing and Yahoo. To curb the growing piracy problem, Hollywood and the major music labels want the search engines to de-list popular filesharing sites such as The Pirate Bay, and give higher ranking to authorized sites.
(Jan 27 2012) - ACTA: The Corporate Usurpation of the Internet
TOKYO -- In the wake of a public outcry against internet regulation bills such as SOPA and PIPA, representatives of the EU have signed a new and far more threatening legislation yesterday in Tokyo. Spearheaded by the governments of the United States and Japan and constructed largely in the absence of public awareness, the measures of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) dramatically alter current international legal framework, while introducing the first substantial processes of global internet governance. With complete contempt towards the democratic process ...
(Jan 27 2012) - Is Hawaii becoming a surveillance state ?
HAWAII -- (NaturalNews) It is becoming increasingly obvious, and highly embarrassing, that many members of the US Congress have absolutely no idea what the Constitution says, or how the justice system works. Rep. John Mizuno (D-Hawaii) recently introduced a bill that intends to keep a log of every website visited by every person using the internet in Hawaii in order to target internet harassment, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment.
(Jan 27 2012) - White Hats Report #35 - Romney Camp Dung-Founded
U.S.A. -- This report is one of a series that exposes theft, deceit, tax evasion, and bribery of public officials. It questions a Presidential candidate (Mitt Romney) who would associate with such people, much less take money from them. This money was then hidden offshore to evade taxes in a conspiracy with ruthless criminals, having known full well the true Beneficial Owner of the funds was being cheated of his income at every turn. These actions bring consequences.
(Jan 26 2012) - FBI Seeks Data-Mining App for Social Media
U.S.A. -- The FBI has become the latest federal agency interested in mining social media for intelligence information. The agency is looking for ideas for developing a social media application that can search for significant data from social networking activity to be used for intelligence purposes, according to a request for information (RFI) posted on FedBizOpps.gov.
(Jan 25 2012) - BLOOD TESTS : Poisoned by Geoengineering / Chemtrail Toxins
MOHAVE COUNTY -- Al Di Cicco, a Mohave County resident who has been tracking, studying, analyzing, and protesting governmental geoengineering operations, has just received his blood test results back from the lab. The blood tests concluded that Cicco has elevated aluminum, strontium, and barium levels in his bloodstream. Cicco also mentioned that he has subsequent liver damage linked to the covert geoengineering operations in progress over the Arizona skies .
(Jan 24 2012) - Federal court hears debate over bio weapons research facility
CALIFORNIA -- The battle over a biological weapons research facility in California rages on. Earlier this month opponents of the bioweapons research center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory argued before a federal appeals court that government officials failed to heed a 2006 court ruling and recklessly went ahead with the research facility without considering terrorist threats.
(Jan 23 2012) - Judge Orders Defendant to Decrypt Laptop
COLORADO -- A judge on Monday ordered a Colorado woman to decrypt her laptop computer so prosecutors can use the files against her in a criminal case. The defendant, accused of bank fraud, had unsuccessfully argued that being forced to do so violates the Fifth Amendment's protection against compelled self-incrimination ... the judge ordered Fricosu to surrender an unencrypted hard drive by Feb. 21.
(Jan 23 2012) - Secret gov't regime change in Asia nears ...
KOREA -- The Year of the Dragon officially starts today in the lunar calendar and the battle over control of the global financial system and therefore the future of the planet Earth is proceeding well for the White Dragon Society and its allies. In Asia, the regime change in North Korea has now resulted in concrete dialogue over reunification of the Korean peninsula and possibly even a union between a united Korea and Japan.
(Jan 22 2012) - Project STAR GATE return on investment huge for Americans
U.S.A. -- As we look for ways to make more intelligent choices about defense expenditures and trim wasteful and inefficient spending, the joint-service and joint-agency funding of Project STAR GATE might serve as an example of obtaining tremendous return on investment from defense dollars. From the initial research phases to implementation of operational activities, several code names were given to this secret project on human consciousness. It was begun the mid-1970s and continued through the mid-1990s.
(Jan 20 2012) - Monsanto Patents and Chemtrails
U.S.A. -- While I might assume a particular position on an issue, that position is subject to change when new or more relevant information becomes available. Remember the sorghum aluminum resistance patent that we thought was created by Monsanto to counter the effects of excess aluminum found in the soil after heavy chemtrailing? Well, it turns out that we were partially right.
(Jan 18 2012) - White Hats Report #34 - NUKING THE OUTHOUSE !
LONDON -- The White Hats and Ed Falcone have been in London all this week meeting daily with key parties interfacing with the House of Lords and UK Agencies. Multiple agendas are in play at the highest levels. The White Hats are using the U.K. arena to commence their work due to the total control that the Dark Cabal ... Bushes, Clintons, Obamas and all of their Minions ... has had in the United States, including the American Main Stream Media.
(Jan 17 2012) - Living brains implanted with electronic chips ...
ISRAEL -- Faulty parts of living brains have been replaced by electronic chips, in an astonishing and controversial scientific breakthrough. It's a move that has been anticipated many times in science fiction, with creatures such as The Terminator, a 'cyborg' hybrid of flesh and machinery. But now, researchers at Tel Aviv University have successfully created circuits that can replace motor functions - such as blinking - and implanted them into brains.
(Jan 17 2012) - The Old World Order wants to surrender, but ...
WORLD -- The negotiations on a new financial system for the planet are proceeding well but due to the complexity of the situation, it will take time before any public announcements are possible, according to sources close to the negotiations. The current "owners" of the Federal Reserve Board System and the Wash D.C. corporate government are hoping to offer enough reforms that they can stay in power.
(Jan 16 2012) - White Hats Report #33 - DUNG IS ABOUT TO HIT THE FAN
UNITED KINGDOM -- The White Hats have not disappeared and we did not take time for the holidays. Instead, we went underground, deeper into the world of the Cabal and some of us have just surfaced. As you will soon be able to ascertain through the media, we have been quietly helping things be put in place to finally see the exposure of most all the dirty and inept politicians, experts, agencies, etc.
(Jan 16 2012) - Hackers attack two Israeli websites
Jerusalem -- The websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and of El Al, the Israeli airline, were brought down Monday morning by an apparent hacking attack. An internet hacker who calls himself Ox Omar sent an e-mail to the Jerusalem Post Monday in which he claims that together with a hacking group calling themselves "Nightmare" that the websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and that of El Al would be brought down.
(Jan 16 2012) - Fast & Furious : One Among Many Similar Drug-War(s)
U.S.A. -- Ever since ATF’s Fast and Furious gun-running operation was catapulted into the national spotlight in early 2011, the focus has been on the politics influencing the police work and the manipulations behind intelligence operations, with little to no attention paid to the dysfunction of the drug-war bureaucracy. A report released by the US Government Accountability Office in June 2009, some three months before Operation Fast and Furious was even launched, underscores that dysfunction in succinct detail.
(Jan 15 2012) - The Mexico drug war: Bodies for billions
MEXICO -- There are kingpins with names like the Engineer, head-chopping hit men, dirty cops and double-dealing politicians. And, of course, there are users -- millions of them. But the Mexican drug war, at its core, is about two numbers: 48,000 and 39 billion. Over the past five years, nearly 48,000 people have been killed in suspected drug-related violence in Mexico, the country's federal attorney general announced this month.
(Jan 15 2012) - Zappos Gets Hacked Big Time
U.S.A. -- Twenty-four million Zappos customers are getting an unpleasant Sunday-evening surprise. The Amazon-owned e-commerce firm has revealed that it was the target of a cyber attack that gained access to its internal network, including the accounts of 24 million of its users. Though the company says that no complete credit card numbers were revealed in the breach, the intruders may have accessed customers' names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, addresses, the last four digits of their credit card numbers, and encrypted passwords.
(Jan 14 2012) - 'Anonymous' posts media moguls' information online
U.S.A. -- In protest of a pending anti-piracy measure currently before the U.S. Congress, the hacker group "Anonymous" has posted personal information about two of the most powerful men in media, Time Warner Chief Executive Jeffrey L. Bewkes and Sumner M. Redstone, head of Viacom and CBS. In an action it calls "Operation Hiroshima", the "hacktivist" group has declared all-out war on the media and government figures it holds responsible for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA),
(Jan 13 2012) - Malware attacks (D.o.D.'s) smart cards
U.S.A. -- A variant of malware called Sykipot is circulating that purportedly enables it to hijack U.S. Defense Department Common Access Cards and Windows smart cards, according to Alien Vault Labs. This variant, which appears to have been put together in March 2011, has been seen in dozens of attack samples from the past year.
The attackers use a spear phishing campaign to get their targets to open a PDF attachment which then deposits the Sykipot malware onto their machine. Then, unlike previous strains, the malware uses a keylogger to steal PINs for the cards.
(Jan 12 2012) - Military Networks 'Not Defensible,' Says General Who Defends Them
U.S.A. -- The Defense Department's networks, as currently configured, are "not defensible," according to the general in charge of protecting those networks. And if there's a major electronic attack on this country, there may not be much he and his men can legally do to stop it in advance.
Gen. Keith Alexander, head of both the secretive National Security Agency and the military's new U.S. Cyber Command, has tens of thousands of hackers, cryptologists, and system administrators serving under him. But at the moment, their ability to protect the Defense Department's information infrastructure - let alone the broader civilian internet - is limited. The Pentagon's patchwork quilt of 15,000 different networks is too haphazard to safeguard.
(Jan 12 2012) - Another ATF weapons operation comes under scrutiny
WASH D.C. -- In the late summer of 2010, the ATF agent leading the failed Fast and Furious gun-smuggling operation in Arizona flew to Mexico City to help coordinate cross-border investigations of U.S. weapons used by Mexican drug cartels. Hope A. MacAllister wanted access to police and military vaults for American weapons recovered by Mexican authorities in raids and at crime scenes. She especially was interested in firearms from another ATF investigation, code-named WHITE GUN, that she was running.
(Jan 10 2012) - How to Disappear Completely (From the Internet)
INTERNET -- If you've ever used the Internet, you have an online identity. Maybe it's slight: a Hotmail account here, a comment on a news story there. Or maybe you've been more prolific, leaving a trail of usernames, accounts, messages, and profiles across the digital landscape. In any case, an active internet user owes it to himself to do a bit of self-Googling. What you'll find will be both enlightening and humbling - even worrying.
(Jan 09 2012) - DEA helped Colombian drug trafficker launder cash ...
MEXICO -- Undercover agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, working with their Mexican counterparts, helped transfer millions of dollars in drug cash and even escorted a shipment of cocaine via Dallas to Spain. The covert activities were undertaken as part of an operation to infiltrate and prosecute a major Colombian-Mexican narco-trafficking organization moving cocaine from Colombia to Mexico and the United States. The undercover operation, detailed in Mexican government documents obtained by the New York Times ...
(Jan 08 2012) - Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments
INDIA -- "In a tweet early this morning, cybersecurity researcher Christopher Soghoian pointed to an internal memo of India's Military Intelligence that has been liberated by hackers and posted on the Net. The memo suggests that, "in exchange for the Indian market presence" mobile device manufacturers, including RIM, Nokia, and Apple (collectively defined in the document as "RINOA") have agreed to provide backdoor access on their devices.
(Jan 06 2012) - After U.S. Military visit, Mexico deploys 8,000 troops to Texas border
TEXAS BORDER -- Two weeks after a U.S. Military convoy was seen in the northern Mexican city of Matamoros, the local head of Mexico's military police has been relieved of duty. After denying rumors that he was being relieved, Brigadier General David Mejia quietly stepped down and was transferred to another duty station due to a 'promotion' according the Matamoros Public Safety Office.
(Jan 05 2012) - Thailand Continues Massive Crackdown of Online Speech
THAILAND -- In Thailand, details of the most recent victim of lese majeste laws emerged this week, adding to a long year of crackdowns on free speech in the country. Alongside the news coverage, Freedom Against Censorship Thailand (FACT) published new analyses demonstrating the magnitude of measures the Southeast Asian state has taken to block websites it deems politically offensive.
(Jan 03 2012) - Hackers Disclose Israelis' Credit Card Information
JERUSALEM -- Hackers claiming to be Saudis posted credit card information of thousands of Israelis on the Internet, credit card companies said Tuesday, in what appeared to be a politically motivated attack. An expert played down its scope. The Israeli Ynet news website said the hackers called the cyber attack a "gift to the world for the New Year" that they hoped "would hurt the Zionist pocket."
(Jan 02 2012) - New Nationwide FEMA Camps Should Raise Eyebrows
U.S.A. -- Of all the rumors flying around on the internet, one just refuses to die, and it concerns America's FEMA camps. In a nutshell, there seems to be a solicitation of bids occurring for the staffing of FEMA camps within 72 hours of implementation by an order from either Homeland Security or the president. This situation begs to be investigated, with special consideration paid to the motives of the present administration. I went to the source, the FedBizOpps.gov, and searched for the solicitation number HSFEHQ-10-R-0027, titled National Responder Support Camp.
(Dec 30 2011) - EM fields initiate the stress response ... within DNA
U.S.A. -- Our studies with cells have shown that 60Hz EM fields induce stress genes and stress response proteins in cells. The stress response is a protective mechanism induced by many potentially harmful environmental stimuli and characterized by the synthesis of specific proteins that assist the renaturation and transport of other proteins. Our studies suggest that EM fields initiate the stress response by interacting with electrons moving within DNA. We have identified a 900 base pair segment associated with the response to EM fields, that when removed eliminates the response, and when transfected into a reporter construct, causes the construct to become EM field responsive.
(Dec 30 2011) - Anonymous exposes 75,000 credit card numbers
U.S.A. -- "The time for talk is over," wrote Anonymous last night on Pastebin.
"It's time to dump the full 75,000 names, addresses, CCs and md5 hashed passwords to every customer that has ever paid Stratfor. But that's not all: we're also dumping ~860,000 usernames, email addresses, and md5 hashed passwords for everyone who's ever registered on Stratfor's site ... Did you notice 50,000 of these email addresses are .mil and .gov?"
(Dec 29 2011) - How Your Privacy Will Be Invaded in 2012
U.S.A. -- In 2011, we watched as tech villains found creative new ways to violate our privacy. They misappropriated our social networking profiles, stalked us through our phones, and plucked secrets from our wifi networks. To help you better prepare for 2012's inevitable privacy attacks, we enumerate below the most worrisome threats you should monitor in the coming year.
(Dec 26 2011) - Major realignment of power taking place in Asia
JAPAN -- There has been a major change in the power balance in Asia during the past week or so following the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, according to Asian intelligence sources. The biggest changes are happening in Japan where a series of arrests of bureaucrats, police officials and politicians has begun. One prominent casualty has been former Japanese Finance and Economy Minister Heizo Takenaka who has been arrested and is underground "vigorous questioning," according to Japanese military intelligence sources.
(Dec 24 2011) - Chemtrails Could Be Used in Blue Beam Type Operation
U.S.A. -- The fact stands that there are patents and military technologies available to project 3D holograms including light and sound onto a background composed of barium and strontium (the very components that make up chemtrails, or aerosol sprays typically used in stratospheric geoengineering applications).
Yes, geoengineering/chemtrails are a reality - in fact there is a Presidential Budget kept basically secret from the civilian population of the United States, and yes plans for a staged ET/UFO invasion on the masses' could be the next trick up the secret sinister governments sleeve.
(Dec 22 2011) - Military to Designate U.S. Citizens as Enemy During Collapse
U.S.A. -- {It's been} discovered new FEMA documents that confirm information received from DoD sources that show military involvement in a FEMA-led takeover within the United States under partially-classified Continuity of Government (COG) plans.
It involves not only operations for the relocation of COG personnel and key officials, population management, emergency communications and alerts but the designation of the American people as 'enemies' under a live military tracking system known as Blue Force Situational Awareness (BFSA)
(Dec 20 2011) - Bill Introduced to Create National Cybersecurity Authority
WASH D.C. -- Members of the House Homeland Security Committee introduced a cybersecurity bill on Thursday that would establish a quasi-governmental entity to oversee information-sharing with the private sector. Like the other cybersecurity bills offered by the House GOP, the Promoting and Enhancing Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Effectiveness (PrECISE Act) encourages private firms to share information on cyber threats but stops short of mandating new security standards for sectors deemed critical to national security.
(Dec 16 2011) - Illuminati Signal New Mind Control Technology
U.S.A. -- The Illuminati goal is to enslave us !!! Mind control is their chosen method !!! In case education and the media aren't enough ... "The announcement, in the mainstream media, of the "precursor" form of this technology is meant to prepare the population for what is yet to come: personality alteration, via thought-inducing technology."
(Dec 16 2011) - Iran Hacked GPS Signals To Capture U.S. Drone
U.S.A. -- Iran recently captured a CIA batwing stealth drone by spoofing the GPS signals it received, fooling the drone into thinking it was landing at its home base. The Christian Science Monitor, broke that news Thursday, after interviewing an Iranian engineer who's been reviewing the systems of the captured RQ-170 Sentinel drone, which was downed by Iranian forces on December 4 near Kashmar, which is about 140 miles inside northeast Iran.
(Dec 15 2011) - An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress
WASH D.C. -- Today, a group of 83 prominent Internet inventors and engineers sent an open letter to members of the United States Congress, stating their opposition to the SOPA and PIPA Internet blacklist bills that are under consideration in the House and Senate respectively.
(Dec 13 2011) - Feds 75-Year-Old Fund & It's Dark History Exposed
NEW YORK -- After months of work, the video series on the Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund is finally finished! Why you should watch these five videos: It is impossible to understand the world today without knowing what the ESF is and what it has been doing. Officially in charge of defending the dollar, the ESF is the government agency which controls the New York Fed, runs the CIA's black budget, and is the architect of the world's monetary system (IMF, World Bank, etc). ESF financing (through the OSS and then the CIA) built up the worldwide propaganda network which has so badly distorted history today ...
(Dec 11 2011) - It was Obama who required the Indefinite Detainment of U.S. Citizens
WASH D.C. -- (VIDEO) Well now we know, for those who have been holding out "hope" that Obama will veto the 1031 Indefinite Detainment Bill against holding U.S. Citizens without rights to a trial or lawyer or charges for the rest of their lives ... It was Obama who required the bill have the language of U.S. Citizens being held without rights in the bill !!! The only reason he would veto it, is because it does not give him the absolute power as he wants !!!
Obama wants absolute Dictatorial Powers and the Senate gave it to him ...
(Dec 10 2011) - Zambada Niebla Case Exposes US Drug War Quid Pro Quo
CHICAGO -- This drug war isn't about Dirty Harry taking on the street thugs for the benefit of family values. No, this drug war is far more a tale of "monarchs" and powerful "feudal lords" maneuvering on a chess board as they divide up the "kingdom" at the expense of the peasants, who for too long have believed what goes on behind the castle walls does not affect them - until it's too late, until the king's horsemen come for you and disappear your life for the benefit of securing their kingdom(s). Stay tuned ...
(Dec 10 2011) - How Kulture is Contrived
U.S.A. -- A pervasive, highly organized system diverts us from the truth and places us in a cultural limbo where very little is real. W. Eugene Groves was an idealistic young American who wanted to serve his country. After winning a Rhodes Scholarship, he was a shoo-in for the Presidency of the National Student's Association in 1966. But, confided the outgoing President Philip Sherburne, he needed to know something.
The NSA was secretly funded by the CIA. Until this point, Groves had been an "unwitting" member, a dupe. But as President, of course he would have to know the truth. He would need to become a "witting" participant.
(Dec 09 2011) - Return of the Worm That Ate the Pentagon
WASH D.C. -- The attack of the Agent.btz worm, dubbed "the most serious breach of the U.S. military's classified computer systems," is getting another telling, this time in the Washington Post. The story adds new details about the intrusion - and reveals that some in the military wanted to use "offensive tools" to remove the malware on overseas and civilian networks. But the article still doesn't uncover anything that justifies the hyperbole that the government has used for this breach since it was first uncovered.
(Dec 08 2011) - Pictures of Romania's secret CIA prison
BUCHAREST -- In northern Bucharest, in a busy residential neighborhood minutes from the center of Romania's capital city, is a secret that the Romanian government has tried for years to protect. For years, the CIA used a government building - codenamed Bright Light as a makeshift prison for its most valuable detainees. There, it held al-Qaida operatives Khalid Sheik Mohammad, the mastermind of 9/11, and others in a basement prison before they were ultimately transferred to Guantanamo Bay in 2006, according to former U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the location and inner workings of the prison.
(Dec 08 2011) - CIA 'secret prison' found in Romania - media reports
BUCHAREST -- The CIA operated a secret prison in the Romanian capital Bucharest where terrorism suspects were interrogated, an investigation by the Associated Press and German media has found. Former CIA operatives identified the building where, they said, detainees were held and tortured.
(Dec 07 2011) - US Army New MOS - Securing Civilian Detainees
WASH D.C. -- Every soldier that enlists in the Army chooses a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS). Designated by a number and a letter, the 31E MOS now includes advanced responsibilities including command and control of prisoner of war and civilian internee camps.
While the civilian designation likely applies to foreign nationals in their home countries, it reads more ominously now that the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is getting nods from legislators as it makes its way through the Senate.
(Dec 05 2011) - Senate & Obama claiming the right to murder & imprison Americans
WASH D.C. -- The word is that the Pentagon, the agencies and the militias are on the brink of taking violent action against President Obama and the Senators who claimed the right to kill and/or indefinitely imprison Americans without trial. The criminal cabal in Washington D.C. and Wall Street may be able to pretend they are setting up a fascist/totalitarian dictatorship in the US for a while longer but no serious armed group is going to support them. The same is true in Europe were Freemason P2 lodgers and Bilderbergers will make a move towards fascist control this week ...
(Dec 03 2011) - D.E.A. Launders Mexican Profits of Drug Cartels
WASH D.C. -- Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington's expanding role in Mexico's fight against drug cartels, according to current and former federal law enforcement officials. They said agents had deposited the drug proceeds in accounts designated by traffickers, or in shell accounts set up by agents.
(Dec 02 2011) - Gene Patenting Causes People to Be Company-Owned ?
U.S.A. -- While science and technology continue to exceed new levels never before reached by humankind, the chance of the human race becoming more of a scientific research project increases along with it. Over the past 30 years, over 40,000 patents were created and accepted on genes alone. As these genes are acquired and patented, it is only a matter of time before large corporations own patents on a large number of human genes and tissues.
(Dec 01 2011) - Money Laundering Banks Fuel Mexican Drug Cartels
U.S.A. -- Money launderers for ruthless Mexican drug gangs have long had a formidable ally: international banks. Despite strict rules set by international regulatory bodies that require banks to "know their customer," make inquiries about the source of large deposits of cash and report suspicious activity, they have failed to do so in a number of high-profile cases and instead have allowed billions in dirty money to be laundered. And those who want to stop cartels from easily moving their money express concern that banks that are caught get off with a slap on the wrist.
(Nov 30 2011) - BUSTED! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps
CALIFORNIA -- An Android app developer has published what he says is conclusive proof that millions of smartphones are secretly monitoring the key presses, geographic locations, and received messages of its users. In a YouTube video posted on Monday, Trevor Eckhart showed how software from a Silicon Valley company known as Carrier IQ recorded in real time the keys he pressed into a stock EVO handset, which he had reset to factory settings just prior to the demonstration.
(Nov 29 2011) - The Secret Revolution in North Dakota
NORTH DAKOTA -- North Dakota citizens may abolish property taxes, allowing them more control over gov't spending. Nearly 30,000 signatures were collected to place the people's initiative on the ballot in June, 2012 that would constitutionally abolish all property taxes in North Dakota.
This landmark measure supports property rights, small gov't and freedom advocates around the country. If the initiative is successful, North Dakota will be the first state to abolish all property taxes ...
(Nov 29 2011) - Judge orders 100's of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook
NEVADA -- After a series of one-sided hearings, luxury goods maker Chanel has won recent court orders against hundreds of websites trafficking in counterfeit luxury goods. A federal judge in Nevada has agreed that Chanel can seize the domain names in question and transfer them all to US-based registrar GoDaddy. The judge also ordered "all Internet search engines" and "all social media websites"-explicitly naming Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Bing, Yahoo, and Google—to "de-index" the domain names and to remove them from any search results.
(Nov 29 2011) - Hacking Scandal Widens to Government Secrets
LONDON -- Britain's hacking scandal was reported on Tuesday to have broadened significantly into areas of national security, with the police investigating whether private detectives working for the Murdoch media empire hacked into the computer of a cabinet minister responsible for Northern Ireland.
(Nov 28 2011) - TSA advisory group to hold public conference call on Dec. 15
U.S.A. -- TSA's aviation security advisory committee will hold a public meeting, via telephone conference call, on Dec 15, at which its members will hear presentations on risk-based screening, general aviation security & air cargo security, & form working groups for their future efforts. The conference call will take place between 1:00 - 3:30 PM (EST), and the final 30 minutes will be open for comments by members of the public.
(Nov 27 2011) - The Real Life CONTAGION Will Be Premeditated, And By Design
U.S.A. -- In Steven Soderbergh's most recent mega-budget Hollywood thriller "Contagion" the world population is threatened with annihilation by a new deadly strain of flu. This slick cinematic effort in predictive programming pulls out all the stops with its all-star cast which includes Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law and Kate Winslet.
You see friends, the psychopaths within the Bio-tech military industrial complex just announced that they have weaponzied the bird flu. And they've made it unimaginably deadly. With the ability to kill 1 of every 2 people it infects ...
(Nov 25 2011) - Afghan opium production to expand after troops exit
AFGHANISTAN -- Insecurity in poppy growing regions in Afghanistan -- the world's leading producer of opium -- and the expectation among insurgents and farmers that the country will be under the full control of Afghan forces within years is driving production, ex-counter-narcotics minister General Khodaidad said. "With the coming exit strategy for 2014, the whole thing will be completely out of control. All the provinces will go more and more back to poppy," Khodaidad said at his Kabul house.
(Nov 24 2011) - Man-Made Super-Flu Could Kill Half Humanity
NETHERLANDS -- A virus with the potential to kill up to half the world's population has been made in a lab. Now academics and bioterrorism experts are arguing over whether to publish the recipe, and whether the research should have been done in the first place.
The virus is an H5N1 bird flu strain which was genetically altered to become much more contagious. It was created by Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, who first presented his work to the public at an influenza conference in Malta in September.
(Nov 24 2011) - Was former DEA agent jailed for exposing ATF arms trafficking ?
U.S.A. -- Cele Castillo, a former DEA agent who blew the whistle on the CIA-backed arms-for-drugs trade used to prop up the 1980s Contra counter-insurgency in Nicaragua, is now sitting in a federal prison for what may well be another act of whistleblowing in this century. Before Castillo reported to the federal pen in July 2009, where he is now stuck until April 2012, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons records, he shared with this reporter a series of revelations concerning arms trafficking and what he thought were corrupt ATF agents.
(Nov 24 2011) - 9 Reasons Wired Readers Should Wear Tinfoil Hats
U.S.A. -- There's plenty of reason to be concerned Big Brotheris watching. We're paranoid not because we have grandiose notions of our self-importance, but because the facts speak for themselves. Here's our short list of nine reasons that Wired readers ought to wear tinfoil hats, or at least, fight for their rights and consider ways to protect themselves with encryption and defensive digital technologies. We know the list is incomplete ...
(Nov 22 2011) - Hackers post personal data of UC Davis cops
CALIFORNIA -- The shadowy online hacker group called Anonymous has posted online the home address and phone number of one of the University of California, Davis police officers suspended for using pepper spray on Occupy protesters. In a video posting on its own website and on YouTube on Tuesday, the group urges its supporters to "Flood his home with pizza deliveries and junk mail. ... Flood his skype. ... Flood his phones, email and mailbox to voice your anger."
(Nov 20 2011) - DARPA wants to {Un-Constitutionally} collect 'physiological signals' ...
WASH D.C. -- DARPA : There is a need to remotely detect, collect, and evaluate physiological signals of interest. Applications and concepts-of-operations (CONOPs) that would benefit from this capability include, but are not limited to: building-clearing, warfighter health monitoring or battle damage assessment and triage, situational awareness and assessment.
Additionally in a crowded environment it is highly challenging to uniquely identify persons based on collection of physiological signatures, such as electrocardiograms (ECGs). It is possible that high-frequency ECGs or other signals could improve the confidence level in unique identification.
(Nov 19 2011) - Save the Internet and Boycott These Companies
WASH D.C. -- SOPA would put completely legitimate sites, like End the Lie and countless other alternative news outlets at risk of being shut down, along with literally any site that freely allows users to post content. That includes YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Blogger, Craigslist, Dropbox and literally any website or service that allows users to upload content. The United States Attorney General can not only seek court orders against "foreign infringing sites," meaning any website with a non-U.S. domain name, but can also demand that internet service providers (ISPs) would have to cut off access to the site by not resolving domain name requests.
But wait, it gets even worse ...
(Nov 18 2011) - Darpa's Quest to Find You by Your ... HEARTBEAT ???
U.S.A. -- The U.S. military can see you breathing on the other side of that wall. It can even see your heartbeat racing while you crouch behind the door. But if you think running farther away or hiding in a crowd will make you invisible to the Defense Department's sensors, you might be in for a surprise. The Pentagon's geeks are looking to tweak their life-form finder so they can spot your tell-tale heart no matter what you do.
(Nov 17 2011) - Norway Hit by Major Data-Theft Attack
NORWAY -- Norwegian security officials say the Nordic country has been hit by one of the most extensive data espionage attacks in the country's history. The Norwegian National Security Authority says industrial secrets from the oil, energy and defense industries have been stolen and disseminated. The agency says at least 10 different attacks over the past year were discovered and warns the real number is probably "far higher."
(Nov 16 2011) - Google, Facebook warn against new US piracy legislation
WASH D.C. -- Web firms including Google & Facebook have written to the US gov't in opposition to a proposed bill to combat piracy. Alongside AOL, Twitter & eBay they claim that the Stop Online Piracy Act poses huge risks to the internet. SOPA, supported by the music & film industries, aims to give new powers to content providers to help them take offending sites offline.
(Nov 14 2011) - White Hats Report #32 - OBAMAS ARE DELIVERED A BLOW
WASH D.C. -- Obama continues to travel giving speeches planning for his next election. He still has not consented and allowed any of the payments to patriotic Americans, which will get this country and the world economies back on track. The Obamas on Wednesday, November 9th, 2011, were hand delivered the document below by high level government officials. It contains an IRS Report regarding the misappropriated funds. We want all readers to specifically note that per investigation and the document below, a large amount of funds were transferred to the Royal Bank of Canada into an account of Michelle Obama.
(Nov 11 2011) - FBI collecting biometric info for massive interagency database
U.S.A. -- Big Brother is on the march in the United States and as I have previously shown, once one delves into the depths of this system it is nothing short of astounding to the point where Orwell wouldn't even believe it was possible.
The documents obtained reveal that the FBI "views massive biometric information collection as a goal in itself" as a part of the Next Generation Identification (NGI) system. The NGI system aims to collect fingerprints, palm prints, iris scans, identifying marks, scars, tattoos, facial characteristics and voice recognition.
(Nov 10 2011) - Secret Snoop Conference for Gov't Spying: Go Stealth ...
U.S.A. -- Forget passive monitoring for government spying; go stealth to hit your target says the Hacking Team which sells hacking techniques and tools for invasive surveillance of the masses. Better yet, hit a hundred thousand targets ... the Hacking Team website proudly proclaims a wide variety of extra creepy and invasive surveillance tools for Big Brother:
(Nov 08 2011) - Busted! Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV
CALIFORNIA -- As the Supreme Court gets ready to hear oral arguments in a case Tuesday that could determine if authorities can track U.S. citizens with GPS vehicle trackers without a warrant, a young man in California has come forward to Wired to reveal that he found not one but two different devices on his vehicle recently.
The 25-year-old resident of San Jose, California, says he found the first one about three weeks ago on his Volvo SUV while visiting his mother in Modesto, about 80 miles northeast of San Jose.
(Nov 04 2011) - CIA monitor's Twitter and Facebook posts
McLEAN -- In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets - up to 5 million a day. At the agency's Open Source Center, a team known affectionately as the "vengeful librarians" also pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms - anything overseas that anyone can access and contribute to openly.
(Nov 03 2011) - Nov. 9 Nationwide EAS Test Shortened to 30 Seconds
WASH D.C. -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency today notified participants in the upcoming nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System that it will run just 30 seconds rather than two-and-a-half minutes as originally planned. The test, scheduled for Nov. 9 at 2 p.m. Eastern, (11:00 a.m. Western) will be the first official test of a Presidential Emergency Action Notification.
(Nov 02 2011) - Proposed Copyright Bill Threatens Whistleblowing & Human Rights
WASH D.C. -- In the past week, the larger Internet community has joined EFF in sounding the alarm about the new copyright bill, now known as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), as it makes its way through the U.S. House. The bill threatens to transform copyright law, pushing Internet intermediaries - from Facebook to your ISP - to censor whole swaths of the Internet. SOPA could forever alter social networks, stifle innovation and creativity, and destroy jobs ...
(Nov 01 2011) - British police surveillance system can turn off mobile phones
ENGLAND -- Police in London possess a surveillance technology that sounds like something straight out of science fiction: a mobile GSM device that pretends to be a cellular tower, tricking nearby phones into connecting to it, then intercepting all their communications.
The system was developed by the British firm Datong plc, according to The Guardian, which noted that the U.S. Secret Service and a number of Middle Eastern regimes also patronize the company.
(Oct 31 2011) - Cordon multi-target photo-radar system leaves no car untagged
COMING TO AMERICA IN 2012 -- (VIDEO) Go easy on the gas, Speed Racer, because Cordon is on its way. Developed by Simicon, this new speed sensor promises to take highway surveillance to new heights of precision. Unlike most photo radar systems, which track only one violator at a time, Simicon's device can simultaneously identify and follow up to 32 vehicles across four lanes.
(Oct 31 2011) - Honduras Becomes Cocaine Transit Hub
HONDURAS -- The Obama administration continues to support the illegal coup government as well as the elite thugs with ties to the drug trade :
Almost half of the cocaine imported to the United States now passes through Honduras - a total of 20 to 25 tons each month, according to U.S. and Honduran estimates, as the country becomes the western hemisphere's cocaine hub. The drug trade in Honduras is changing the country in various ways, enriching wealthy landowners along the Atlantic coast and increasing violence ...
(Oct 30 2011) - World's most powerful laser to tear apart the vacuum of space
BRITAIN -- A laser powerful enough to tear apart the fabric of space could be built in Britain as part major new scientific project that aims to answer some of the most fundamental questions about our universe. Due to follow in the footsteps of the Large Hadron Collider, the latest "big science" experiment being proposed by physicists will see the world's most powerful laser being constructed.
Capable of producing a beam of light so intense that it would be equivalent to the power received by the Earth from the sun focused onto a speck smaller than a tip of a pin, scientists claim it could allow them boil the very fabric of space - the vacuum.
(Oct 29 2011) - Nov 9th : COMMUNICATIONS SHUT-DOWN by the Gov't
U.S.A. -- In what is obviously a muscle flexing exercise meant to show the public just how much power and control the federal government really has, all communications will be cut off for an estimated three minutes on November 9th, 2011.
Claiming this is a test of the emergency response system, the terror alert system, and any other excuse they can come up with, Fema will conduct a complete communications shutdown: all TV, radio, internet, and phone systems will be disabled simultaneously.
(Oct 27 2011) - White Hats Report #31 - THE KING IS LOSING HIS MIND
U.S.A. -- As the global financial system spirals faster and faster to a bankrupt state, Bush Senior and Obama plan for their next move. Obama is preparing for his exit as a failed one term President, with Senior allowing him to spend more time congregating his stolen offshore bank funds, which we last reported exceeded 11 Billion Dollars. He has degradated America with the ultimate scam. And a long time ago Bush Senior started to make plans for his escape. Hence, the Bush family, Soros and cohorts over the last several weeks have been flying in mass equipment and assets to their heavily fortified 100,000 plus acre Paraguay Ranches.
(Oct 27 2011) - Rogue Websites Bill Introduced in U.S. House
WASH D.C. -- The "Stop Online Piracy Act" would target foreign websites for take down. I wondered what this actually meant, from a technical perspective, so I gave the proposed legislation a very quick look.
It turns out that the government wants to force U.S. Internet service providers to block access to the sites. There would be a ban list that the ISPs would have to enforce. The ISPs would also have to modify their DNS records to prevent the foreign sites from resolving
(Oct 26 2011) - Disastrous IP Legislation Is Back - And It's Worse than Ever
U.S.A. -- We've reported here often on efforts to ram through Congress legislation that would authorize massive interference with the Internet, all in the name of a fruitless quest to stamp out all infringement online. Today Representative Lamar Smith upped the ante, introducing legislation, called the Stop Online Piracy Act, or "SOPA," that would not only sabotage the domain name system but would also threaten to effectively eliminate the DMCA safe harbors that, while imperfect, have spurred much economic growth and online creativity.
(Oct 26 2011) - NEW WORLD ORDER : Implantable RFID chips capable of remotely killing non-compliant 'slaves' ... ARE HERE
U.S.A. -- (NaturalNews) Positioned as the solution to eliminating identify theft, lost wallets and purses, and a host of other information breaches, the all-inclusive implantable RFID tracking chip is gaining momentum for widespread implementation. Recent news reports indicate that an RFID tracking chip capable of killing humans (that presumably do not comply with rogue government demands) has already been invented. There is simply no denying the fact that "the powers that be" are working towards microchipping all of humanity.
(Oct 24 2011) - Cyber-attack stole Mitsubishi warplane, nuke plant data
JAPAN -- Sensitive information concerning vital defense equipment, such as fighter jets, as well as nuclear power plant design and safety plans, apparently was stolen from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. computers during a cyber-attack in August, sources said. An internal investigation found signs that the information had been transmitted outside the company's computer network, with the strong possibility that an outsider was involved.
(Oct 22 2011) - Feds will temporarily cut off all TV & Radio Broadcasts Nov. 9
U.S.A. -- If you have ever wondered about the govt's ability to control the civilian airwaves, you'll have your answer on Nov. 9th. On that day, federal authorities are going to shut off all television and radio communications simultaneously at 2:00PM EST (2-3 minutes) to complete the first ever test of the national Emergency Alert System (EAS). Only the President has the authority to activate EAS at the national level, and he has delegated that authority to the Director of ... FEMA.
(Oct 20 2011) - Cybercommand chief opposes U.N. net control
BALTIMORE -- The commander of the U.S. Cyber Command said Thursday that he does not favor giving the United Nations the power to regulate the Internet. Some regulations are needed to protect critical networks that control electrical power, banking, transportation and other key elements of society, Army Gen. Keith Alexander, who is also director of the National Security Agency, said after a speech to a security conference. But asked whether the U.N. should have a regulation role, Gen. Alexander said: "No ... "
(Oct 20 2011) - Facebook Is Building Shadow Profiles of Non-Users
U.S.A. -- "As noted previously, Max Schrems of Europe Versus Facebook has filed numerous complaints about Facebook's data collection practices. One complaint that has failed to draw much scrutiny regards Facebook's creation of Shadow Profiles. 'This is done by different functions that encourage users to hand personal data of other users and non-users to Facebook' ..."
(Oct 20 2011) - Exclusive : Nasdaq hackers spied on company boards
NEW YORK -- Hackers who infiltrated the Nasdaq's computer systems last year installed malicious software that allowed them to spy on the directors of publicly held companies, according to two people familiar with an investigation into the matter. The new details showed the cyber attack was more serious than previously thought ...
(Oct 19 2011) - Military : Not Quite Sure How Drone Cockpits Got Infected
NEVADA -- It's been more than a month since a virus infected the remote "cockpits" of America's drone fleet. And the U.S. military still doesn't know exactly how the machines at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada got infected. "We're not quite sure how that happened yet," General Robert Kehler told reporters Tuesday. Kehler is the head of U.S. Strategic Command, which is nominally in charge of the military's Cyber Command and all other online activities.
(Oct 17 2011) - CIA officer holds mystery assignment at NYPD
WASH D.C. -- Three months ago, one of the CIA's most experienced clandestine operatives started work inside the New York Police Department. His title is special assistant to the deputy commissioner of intelligence. On that much, everyone agrees. Exactly what he's doing there, however, is much less clear.
(Oct 15 2011) - Electromagnetic weapons - Frying tonight
U.S.A. -- Bullets and bombs are so 20th-century. The wars of the 21st will be dominated by ray guns. That, at least, is the vision of a band of military technologists who are building weapons that work by zapping the enemy's electronics, rather than blowing him to bits. The result could be conflict that is less bloody, yet more effective, than what is now seen as conventional battle. Electromagnetic weapons, to give these ray guns their proper name, are inspired by the cold-war idea of using the radio-frequency energy released by an atom bomb exploded high in the atmosphere to burn out an enemy's electrical grid ...
(Oct 14 2011) - The EyeOpener- Morbid Addiction: CIA & the Drug Trade
U.S.A. -- Just as the British Empire was in part financed by their control of the opium trade through the British East India Company, so too has the CIA been found time after time to be at the heart of the modern international drug trade. From its very inception, the CIA has been embroiled in the murky underworld of drug trafficking.
There are billions of dollars per year to be made in keeping the drug trade going, and it has long been established that Wall Street and the major American banks rely on drug money as a ready source of liquid capital.
(Oct 14 2011) - US worries over China's underground nuclear network
U.S.A. -- A leading US lawmaker who fears budget cuts could delay modernizing the US nuclear arsenal voiced concern Friday about an extensive tunnel complex designed to house Chinese nuclear missiles. "This network of "underground tunnels" could be in excess of "3,110 miles", and is used to transport nuclear weapons and forces," said Michael Turner, who chairs a House Armed Services Committee panel focusing on strategic weapons and other security programs.
(Oct 14 2011) - Gov't cameras in your car ???
U.S.A. -- Imagine that you couldn't drive on major highways without agreeing to put a camera in your car -- one that could film either the occupants or the vehicle's surroundings and transmit the images back to a central office for inspection. You don't have to read George Orwell to conjure up such an ominous surveillance state. You just have to skim through filings at the U.S. Patent Office.
(Oct 14 2011) - DHS tests predictive analysis system for 'sensing' crime
U.S.A. -- The Homeland Security Department is testing whether predictive analysis technology could prevent crimes by identifying potential criminals before they act. The Future Attribute Screening Technology Mobile Module (FAST) is based on the premise that certain physical behaviors, such as agitation, could be indicators that a person is about to commit a crime. It uses "non-intrusive" sensors - that is, ones that don't touch the individual - to collect video and audio of heart rate, breathing patterns and other physiological and behavioral indicators from individuals, matching them with potential criminal activities.
(Oct 13 2011) - PositiveID receives microchip implant order for Israeli Military
ISRAEL -- The VeriChip radio frequency identification (RFID) microchip was cleared by the U.S. F.D.A. in 2004 for patient identification. The VeriChip can also be used to assist in the management of emergency situations and disaster recovery in conjunction with a customized camera capable of receiving both RFID scanned data and GPS data wirelessly, and a Web-enabled database for gathering and storing information and images captured during emergency response operations.
(Oct 13 2011) - Verizon Privacy Changes : Now Monitors & Shares Your Web Surfing Info
U.S.A. -- On Wednesday, the largest wireless carrier in the United States, Verizon, announced that they will now use information they collect about the websites you visit, the apps you use and your location to "create business and marketing reports" and to "make the mobile ads you see more relevant."
In a statement regarding the privacy change, Verizon says, they will also share your location information with other companies so that these third parties can "create business and marketing reports" about things like the "number of mobile users who take a particular highway during rush hour."
(Oct 12 2011) - UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey October 2011
AFGHANISTAN -- The total area under opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan in 2011 was estimated at 131,000 hectares (ha), a 7% increase compared to 2010. 95% of total cultivation took place in nine provinces in the Southern and Western regions, which include the most insecure provinces in the country. This confirms the link between insecurity and opium cultivation observed since 2007.
Potential opium production in 2011 was estimated at 5,800 mt, a 61% increase compared to 2010, when opium yields were much reduced due to plant diseases.
(Oct 11 2011) - U.S. Scientist Patents - A TIME MACHINE ???
U.S.A. -- The patent for a time machine has been filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office by one Dr. Marvin B. Pohlman of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Who is Marvin B. Pohlman?
An American scientist, Marvin B. Pohlman is a man of many talents - and a very busy man. According to his bio he's the Director of Governance, Risk and Compliance product strategy for a major Bay area enterprise software company. Despite the demands of his career, he's also managed to author three text books on IT governance and security. In whatever spare time such a man has left, he found enough of it to invent a time machine.
(Oct 11 2011) - White Hats Report #30
U.S.A. -- From the beginning of George H.W. Bush's failed Presidency, United States politics have taken a serious turn for the worse and has plummeted into a crime in office. As we have been reporting Bush Senior's personal greed, corruption and mutual self interest are supported by crooked bankers and Wall Street Cronies. They steal and siphon the wealth from you, the trusting, but betrayed American taxpayers and patriotic allies.
(Oct 10 2011) - Gulf of Mexico Sea Floor Unstable, Fractured, Spilling Hydrocarbons
U.S.A. -- The Gulf of Mexico disaster has not gone away. In fact, it has grown exponentially since the main stream media stopped talking about it. According to the Gulf Rescue Alliance, an organization composed of scientists, medical professionals and seafood industry professionals, among others, the problem cannot be simplified to the damage already caused by the oil spill. It is worse, much worse.
(Oct 10 2011) - Blackberry still recovering from epic server fail
U.K. -- Customers affected by Research In Motion's widespread Blackberry server outage may soon see service restored after a major blackout on Monday. "Many consumers in the region have seen the service now resume," a Blackberry spokesperson in the United Kingdom told The Daily Caller. British technology news and opinion website The Register reported that a major server outage at RIM affected customers worldwide.
(Oct 10 2011) - New evidence shows Hillary a mastermind behind Gunwalker
WASH D.C. -- Last week it was reported that the State Department and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were deeply involved in the scandal known as Operation Fast and Furious, or Project Gunwalker. Today, however, new evidence has surfaced indicating that not only was Hillary deeply involved in the scandal but was one of the masterminds behind it.
According to investigative citizen journalist Mike Vanderboegh, sources close to the development of the Gunwalker scheme state that early on, Hillary and her trusted associated at State, Andrew J. Shapiro, devised at least part of the framework of what would later become Operation Fast and Furious.
(Oct 07 2011) - Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet
U.S.A. -- A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America's Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots' every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones. The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military's Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech's computers, network security specialists say.
(Oct 06 2011) - Facebook Logged-Out User Tracking Patent
U.S.A. -- This document is considered by many to be a patent for tracking logged-out users across their activities on other domains. Facebook denies that it is designed for this purpose. In one embodiment, a method is described for tracking information about the activities of users of a social networking system while on another domain. The method includes maintaining a profile for each of one or more users of the social networking system ...
(Oct 06 2011) - Why Criminal Governments Spy On Citizens
U.S.A. -- At the very foundation of perhaps every modern day conflict between the expansive powers of unchecked bureaucracy and the dwindling freedoms of the ordinary citizen dwells the vital issue of privacy. Privacy and the right to hold personal and political views without being singled out and scrutinized by government is absolutely essential to any society which dares to deem itself "fair and just". Ultimately, without the presence of these two liberties, and without people to defend them, a nation is ill equipped to circumvent the growth of tyranny, and anyone claiming to be "free" in the midst of such a culture is living a delusion of the highest order.
(Oct 05 2011) - Exposing 'In-Q-Tel': The CIA's Own Venture Capital Firm
U.S.A. -- In-Q-Tel was formed by the CIA in 1999 as a private, not-for-profit venture capital firm with the specific task of delivering technology to America's intelligence community. Publicly, In-Q-Tel markets itself as an innovative way to leverage the power of the private sector by identifying key emerging technologies and providing companies with the funding to bring those technologies to market. In reality, however, what In-Q-Tel represents is a dangerous blurring of the lines between the public and private sectors in a way that makes it difficult to tell where the American intelligence community ends and the IT sector begins.
(Oct 04 2011) - Fast And Furious : 22 Shocking Facts
WASH D.C. -- Could Fast and Furious be the scandal that brings down the Obama administration? With the full knowledge of the Department of Justice, ATF agents facilitated the sale of thousands of guns to Mexican drug cartels and dropped all surveillance of those weapons once they crossed the border. Weapons sold during Operation Fast and Furious have been used to shoot U.S. border control agents. Weapons sold during Operation Fast and Furious have been found at dozens of crime scenes in Mexico. And nobody has been held accountable for this scandal yet.
(Oct 04 2011) - White House ATF Fast and Furious Emails and Documents
WASH D.C. -- These emails and documents related to the ongoing investigation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' "Fast and Furious" / Project Gun Runner program were obtained by CBS. Redactions were presumably performed prior to FOIA release.
(Oct 01 2011) - US Gov't accused of concealing deal with Sinaloa Drug Cartel
CHICAGO -- The criminal case against accused Mexican narco-trafficker Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla now appears to be threatening to unravel the U.S. government's ugly national-security interests in the drug war.
Zambada Niebla, son of one of the leaders of the Sinaloa "Cartel," arguably the most powerful international narco-trafficking organization on the planet, argues in his criminal case, now pending in federal court in Chicago, that he and the leadership of Mexico's Sinaloa drug-trafficking organization, were, in effect, working for the U.S. government for years by providing US agents with intelligence about rival drug organizations.
(Sep 30 2011) - CIA News: A Brief History of Media Manipulation by U.S. Intelligence
U.S.A. -- It is a well-known and uncontested fact that the CIA has enjoyed a long and intimate relationship with some of the largest news organizations in the world, and has used this relationship to manipulate, censor, and even fabricate news stories in support of its own covert agenda. Over the years, numerous specific examples of the agency’s manipulation of the news media have surfaced, including multiple instances where stories that had been outright fabricated by CIA assets had resulted in the justification for military intervention. And ...
(Sep 30 2011) - Internet firms co-opted for surveillance, say experts
U.S.A. -- Internet companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook are increasingly co-opted for surveillance work as the information they gather proves irresistible to law enforcement agencies, Web experts said this week. Although such companies try to keep their users' information private, their business models depend on exploiting it to sell targeted advertising, and when governments demand they hand it over, they have little choice but to comply.
(Sep 29 2011) - Police Device Used To Steal Your Cell Phone Data During Traffic Stop
MICHIGAN -- You may have heard about the Cellebrite cell phone extraction device (UFED) in the news lately. It gives law enforcement officials the ability to access all the information on your cell phone within a few short minutes. When it became known that Michigan State Police had been using the tool to access cell phones during traffic stops, it raised concern with the ACLU. Now, everyone is wondering if cops will be using devices like this elsewhere. Will this new law enforcement tool be abused, or will it be used responsibly in the pursuit of justice?
(Sep 29 2011) - Cell Providers Storing Text Messages
U.S.A. -- The cell phone service providers Virgin Mobile and Verizon retain the content of text messages, according to a Justice Department memo obtained by the America Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of North Carolina. Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint, Nextel, and Virgin Mobile all retain information relating to text messages, such as who the text messages were sent to and when, but only Verizon and Virgin Mobile retain the actual content of the text messages. Virgin Mobile keeps text message content for 90 days and Verizon keeps it for 3 to 5 days.
(Sep 28 2011) - Michael Brassington Sentenced to Prison
NEW JERSEY -- Michael Brassington was sentenced in a packed Federal courtroom in Newark, New Jersey last week for the spectacular crash of one of his company's jets at Teterboro Airport outside New York City in early February 2005.
His sentencing came more than a year-and-a-half after being convicted of multiple felonies in the crash and its aftermath, including recklessly endangering the lives of passengers who included two ex-Presidents as well as numerous celebrities, everyone from Luciano Pavarotti to Keith Richards, and from Burt Reynolds to Snoop Doggie Dogg.
(Sep 27 2011) - CIA's Global Warming Center A National Security Secret
U.S.A. -- Most Americans may not know that the government agency responsible for providing national security data to the nation's senior policymakers, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), operates a special center dedicated to global warming.
That's because the CIA doesn't want anyone to know what goes on in its two-year-old Center on Climate Change and National Security (Link). So the exclusive unit, led by "senior specialists," operates under a cloak of secrecy that rejects all public-records requests, despite President Obama's promise to run a transparent government.
(Sep 27 2011) - Dengue fever: CIA's bio attack on Pak suspected
ISLAMABAD -- Fears are growing in Pakistan that the spread of dengue fever also known as break-bone fever may have been caused by some kind of biological experiment or deliberate release of virus by foreign elements.
Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) representatives have called on security agencies to investigate fears of deliberate spread of dengue virus in Pakistan. According to a report, the PMA members and experts have demanded in-depth investigation over mysterious spread of Dengue virus in Punjab.
(Sep 26 2011) - Facebook tracks you even after you log out
U.S.A. -- An Australian technologist has caused a global stir after discovering Facebook tracks the websites its users visit even when they are logged out of the social networking site. Separately, Facebook’s new Timeline feature, launched last week, has been inadvertently accessed by users early, revealing a feature that allows people to see who removed them from their friends lists.
(Sep 25 2011) - WHITE HATS REPORT #29
WASH D.C. -- During the last few weeks as Washington, D.C. was on vacation, The White Hats have been working diligently behind the scenes with intelligence sources to expose the dark cabal. We have been holding in reserve supporting evidence, which portray the depth of corruption and complicity of the Beltway Federal establishment, still controlled by George H.W. Bush Sr. Our Constitutional values are still being dismantled and replaced by the dictates of a criminal Cabal, a pretend president and his illegal administration. Homeland Security has failed to recognize that our greatest enemy is already within.
(Sep 25 2011) - The Federal Reserve plans to Identify "Keyloggers" and more ...
WASH D.C. -- The Federal Reserve wants to know what you are saying about it. In fact, the Federal Reserve has announced plans to identify "key bloggers" and to monitor "billions of conversations" about the Fed on Facebook, Twitter, forums and blogs. This is yet another sign that the alternative media is having a dramatic impact. As first reported on Zero Hedge, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has issued a "Request for Proposal" to suppliers who may be interested in participating in the development of a "Sentiment Analysis And Social Media Monitoring Solution".
(Sep 25 2011) - Pakistan Interior Minister Says CIA Created Haqqani Network
PAKISTAN -- Federal Minister for Interior A Rehman Malik on Sunday said that CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) of the United States not Pakistan created the Haqqani network and trained its members.Talking to media-persons at a ceremony held to laud the Islamabad police over the recovery of a huge cache of weapons, the Interior Minister said that the Haqqani network was present in Afghanistan and those claimimg otherwise should give the evidence of its presence in Pakistan.
(Sep 23 2011) - Professor sues police for zapping her with terrorist weapon
PITTSBURGH -- An English professor says she suffered "permanent hearing loss, nausea, pain and disorientation" when Pittsburgh police used a Long Range Acoustic Device, developed to fight terrorists, on a peaceful demonstration against the IMF, in which she was not participating, but merely watching. Karen Piper sued Pittsburgh and its police force for negligence, civil rights and constitutional claims, in Federal Court.
(Sep 22 2011) - CIA Says Global-Warming Intelligence Is 'Classified'
VIRGINIA -- Two years ago, the Central Intelligence Agency announced it was creating a center to analyze the geopolitical ramifications of "phenomena such as desertification, rising sea levels, population shifts and heightened competition for natural resources." But whatever work the Center on Climate Change and National Security has done remains secret. In response to National Security Archive scholar Jeffrey Richelson's Freedom of Information Act request, the CIA said all of its work is "classified."
(Sep 21 2011) - Major Terrorism Drill "Operation Mountain Guardian" In Denver ...
DENVER -- On Friday September 23, a large scale terrorism drill involving 81 agencies will take place in Denver, Colorado. The drill, made possible by a FEMA Homeland Security grant, has been dubbed "Operation Mountain Guardian" and will include military personal. Residents have been warned to expect loud noises and smoke as well as many different emergency and military vehicles.
(Sep 21 2011) - Proton-based transistor could let machines communicate with humans
WASHINGTON -- Materials scientists at the University of Washington have built a transistor that uses protons rather than electrons, in a breakthrough that could allow devices to communicate directly with living things.
While electronic devices send information using electrons, the human body sends signals and performs work using ions or protons ... Longer term (use), however, a biocompatible version could be implanted directly in living things to monitor, or even control, certain biological processes directly.
(Sep 20 2011) - Mitsubishi MISSILE factories Hit with a Cyber Attack
JAPAN -- "Some of Japan's most sensitive defence secrets have been targeted by hackers, who have gained access to up to 80 computers of its biggest defence contractor - in what appeared to be a coordinated attack. Contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd said today its submarine, missile and nuclear plant component factories had been targeted, according to a report.
(Sep 20 2011) - Do surveillance systems reduce crime ?
U.S.A. -- Cities around the country have been installing camera systems in recent years, often funded by federal Homeland Security grants, and many have reported good results, but independent research on their effectiveness has been scarce, according to the Urban Institute. So the institute, which does economic and social policy research, studied the surveillance systems in three cities - Baltimore, Chicago and Washington, D.C. - and recently issued a report (PDF) on how they affected crime rates.
(Sep 20 2011) - Knights Templar Cartel Leader Captured
MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican army says it has captured a key figure in the cult-like Knights Templar drug cartel that is sowing violence in western Mexico. Brig. Gen. Edgar Luis Villegas says Saul Solis Solis was captured Monday in the western state of Michoacan, where the cartel was born. It split from La Familia, a pseudo-religious drug gang known as a major trafficker of methamphetamine.
(Sep 19 2011) - Obama authorizes stationing of Japanese troops on US soil
WASH D.C. -- US President Barack Obama signed an executive order allowing 2500 elite Japanese soldiers to be stationed on US soil, according to a Japanese military intelligence agent. The Japanese self-defense forces have been authorized by Obama to use force if necessary to defend Japanese corporate interests on US soil, the source says. The move was made in anticipation of severe rioting and turmoil in the US over the coming months, he said.
(Sep 19 2011) - Hackers break SSL encryption by using the BEAST
U.S.A. -- Researchers have discovered a serious weakness in virtually all websites protected by the secure sockets layer protocol that allows attackers to silently decrypt data that's passing between a webserver and an end-user browser. At the Ekoparty security conference in Buenos Aires later this week, researchers Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo plan to demonstrate proof-of-concept code called (The) BEAST, which is short for Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS.
(Sep 18 2011) - The 13 Most Evil U.S. Government Experiments on Humans
U.S.A. -- The U.S. Government has been caught conducting an insane amount of vile, inhumane and grisly experiments on humans without their consent and often without their knowledge. So in light of recent news of the U.S. infecting Guatemalans with STDs, here are the 13 most evil, for lack of a better word, cases of human-testing as conducted by the United States of America. Get ready to become one of those conspiracy theory nuts, because after this list, you will never fully trust your government again.
(Sep 17 2011) - HOW THE CIA TOPPLED A GOVERNMENT
U.S.A. -- From ... We learn about "The CIA, and a Secret War" from L. Fletcher Prouty. "Blood ran in the streets. Villages were wiped out and a million people massacred ..."
There were two attempts by the CIA. The first one failed and the second was 'a success'. The first action, in 1958, "involved no less than 42,000 CIA-armed rebels supported by a fleet of bombers and vast numbers of four-engine transport aircraft as well as submarine assistance from the U.S. Navy." The CIA's 1958 attack on Indonesia, the largest Moslem country in the world, was a total failure.
(Sep 17 2011) - China Creates "Internet Control Agency"
CHINA -- The Chinese government has announced the creation of a new body that will help it to supervise the Internet more efficiently, which could result in more effective censorship controls. The 'great firewall of China' has just got a bit greater with the government's introduction of a new office that will, according to a statement posted Wednesday on its official website, "manage Internet information." Up to now, Internet regulation in the country has been conducted by various offices within the government.
(Sep 15 2011) - Hackers target Mexico government websites
MEXICO -- The websites of several Mexican government ministries, including Defense and Public Security, went offline on Thursday, and a hacker group claimed responsibility. The ministry websites as well as several local government sites went down early on Thursday afternoon and could still not be accessed. A spokesman for the Mexican Defense Ministry said only that the website was experiencing technical difficulties.
(Sep 15 2011) - Where did the Weapons Grade Uranium & Plutonium GO ???
U.S.A. -- Under special nuclear cooperation agreements, the United States sent 38,580 pounds of enriched uranium and plutonium to more than two-dozen foreign agencies and is unable to account for 36,000 pounds of the material. The Government Accountability Office report says these 27 cooperation agreements, set up to facilitate cross border research, have no accountability and the U.S. has no way to enforce control.
(Sep 14 2011) - Should Faking a Name on Facebook Be a Felony ???
WASH D.C. -- Imagine that President Obama could order the arrest of anyone who broke a promise on the Internet. So you could be jailed for lying about your age or weight on an Internet dating site. Or you could be sent to federal prison if your boss told you to work but you used the company's computer to check sports scores online. Imagine that Eric Holder's Justice Department urged Congress to raise penalties for violations, making them felonies allowing three years in jail for each broken promise. Fanciful, right?
Think again. Congress is now poised to grant the Obama administration's wishes in the name of "cybersecurity."
(Sep 13 2011) - Secret Government Experiments Come to Light
NEW YORK -- The government may not want you to know that it set off nuclear bombs willy-nilly in the atmosphere or tested LSD on unwitting subjects, but at least the Science Channel does!
In case you believed that elaborate government conspiracies were merely the driving force behind X-Files episodes, the Science Channel is setting the record straight. As a compendium to their latest show, "Dark Matters," which explores the darker side of science, the Science Channel has published introductions and full transcripts from government hearings on some of the most unbelievable -- yet true -- conspiracies, including the highly-controversial MKULTRA project.
(Sep 09 2011) - NBC News Twitter Gets Hacked
NEW YORK -- Hacker group broke into the NBC News Twitter account Friday, sending a series of tweets about a terror attack on Ground Zero to the news outlet's 129,000 followers. "Flight 4782 is not responding, suspected hijacking. One plane just hit Ground Zero site at 5:47. #groundzeroattacked," the account wrote.
(Sep 09 2011) - Russian bombers fly around Japan
JAPAN -- Japanese defense officials say 2 Russian bombers circled Japan flying from Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa in the south. The Defense Ministry in Tokyo says 2 TU95 bombers from the Russian Air Force approached Japanese airspace near the Strait of Tsushima around 6 AM on Thursday. Fighter planes from Japan's Air Self-Defense Force scrambled to track the bombers.
(Sep 08 2011) - Unsafe at any speed ? Cars ripe for HACKING ...
U.S.A. -- Automakers in recent years have been loading up their vehicles with enough high-tech features to make George Jetson feel at home. In addition to parallel-parking for you or detecting when you drift out of your lane, they'll let you start them up from your smart phone, automatically play your favorite tunes and read your Facebook updates to you. A car these days can be just another node on your personal network. But all of this connectivity and software-driven convenience also can leave your vehicle open to CYBERATTACKS.
(Sep 07 2011) - U.S. defense firms face relentless cyberattacks
U.S.A. -- Defense industries are facing relentless, sophisticated foreign attacks on their computer networks, a threat company leaders say poses a risk of significant damage and may require the government to take greater protective action. Top U.S. defense contractors speaking at the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit said many of the attacks appeared to be state-sponsored and came from multiple countries, but they declined to point a finger at any particular government.
(Sep 05 2011) - Council of Europe demands truth on CIA 'black sites'
PARIS -- The human rights commissioner for the Council of Europe urged countries that have hosted secret CIA prisons to come clean Monday, as the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches. Thomas Hammarberg said Poland, Romania and Lithuania were among at least seven countries that hosted "black sites" for "enhanced interrogation" during the "war on terror."
(Sep 04 2011) - Hackers steal SSL certificates for CIA, MI6, Mossad
U.S.A. -- The tally of digital certificates stolen from a Dutch company in July has exploded to more than 500, including ones for intelligence services like the CIA, the U.K.'s MI6 and Israel's Mossad, a Mozilla developer said Sunday. The confirmed count of fraudulently-issued SSL (secure socket layer) certificates now stands at 531, said Gervase Markham, a Mozilla developer who is part of the team that has been working to modify Firefox to blocks all sites signed with the purloined certificates.
(Sep 04 2011) - Court documents say U.S. knew about coke
EL PASO -- U.S. officials let the Sinaloa drug cartel smuggle tons of cocaine into the United States in exchange for intelligence about rival cartels, court documents say. The claim was made by attorneys in defense of Mexico's Vicente Zambada-Niebla, who was extradited to the United States to face drug-trafficking charges in Chicago, the El Paso (Texas) Times reported. If the claim is true, it could prove to be as damaging to federal investigators as the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm's "Operation Fast and Furious," that let U.S. weapons get into Mexico, the report said.
(Sep 03 2011) - CIA, MI6 helped Gaddafi on dissidents
LONDON -- Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence chief indicate the U.S. and British spy agencies helped the fallen strongman persecute Libyan dissidents, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.
The documents were uncovered by the human rights activist group in the abandoned offices of Libya's former spy chief and foreign minister, Moussa Koussa. The group said it uncovered hundreds of letters between the CIA, MI6 and Koussa, who is now in exile in London.
(Sep 03 2011) - Libyan intelligence documents show ties to CIA
TRIPOLI -- The CIA worked closely with Moammar Gadhafi's intelligence services in the rendition of terror suspects to Libya for interrogation, according to documents seen Saturday by the AP, cooperation that could spark tensions between Washington and Libya's new rulers.
(Sep 02 2011) - How the CIA Became 'One Hell of a Killing Machine'
WASH D.C. -- On April 14, 2004, CIA Director George Tenet looked so impotent he might have starred in a Viagra commercial. Tenet had come before the 9/11 Commission for what was sure to be a public flogging. In response, he alternately apologized for the agency's failure to stop 9/11 and explained it away. Finally, the exhausted panelists posed him a bottom-line question: how long would it take Tenet to get the CIA in a position to counterattack al-Qaida?
(Sep 02 2011) - White House received emails about Fast and Furious ...
WASH D.C. -- Newly obtained emails show that the White House was better informed about a failed gun-tracking operation on the border with Mexico than was previously known. Three White House national security officials were given some details about the operation, dubbed Fast and Furious. The operation allowed firearms to be illegally purchased, with the goal of tracking them to Mexican drug cartels. But the effort went out of control after agents lost track of many of the weapons.
(Aug 31 2011) - CIA recruits 1,500 from Mazar-e-Sharif to fight in Libya
ISLAMABAD -- The Central Intelligence Agency of the United States recruited over 1,500 men from Mazar-e-Sharif for fighting against the Qaddafi forces in Libya.
Sources told TheNation: "Most of the men have been recruited from Afghanistan. They are Uzbeks, Persians and Hazaras. According to the footage, these men attired in Uzbek-style of shalwar and Hazara-Uzbek Kurta were found fighting in Libyan cities."
(Aug 31 2011) - More Details of secret CIA rendition flights
NEW YORK -- The Gulfstream IV’s itinerary, as well as the $339,228.05 price tag for the journey, are among the details of shadowy CIA flights that have emerged in a small Upstate New York courthouse in a billing dispute between contractors. The court documents offer a rare glimpse of the costs and operations of the controversial rendition program.
(Aug 31 2011) - The International: Oil, Drugs, Guns & Kissinger Associates
U.S.A. -- The international bankers oversee Persian Gulf oil wealth generated by their Big Oil tentacles. Chase Manhattan called the shots at Iran's central Bank Markazi, then looted the Iranian Treasury as insiders Rockefeller, Kissinger and McCloy whisked their Shah puppet into exile. Chase had close ties to the Saudi SAMA central bank and Venezuela's central bank, where Rockefeller-controlled Exxon Mobil "is the CIA".
(Aug 30 2011) - Gmail Attack Highlights Web Insecurity
U.S.A. -- A user posting to Google's Gmail Help forum under the name "Alibo" claims to have received a warning from Google's Chrome browser that the SSL certificate he received when visiting Gmail was a fake. A self-described resident of Iran, "Alibo" speculates that either his government or ISP, ParsOnline, presented the fake certificate to intercept his communications.
"Alibo" posted a copy of the certificate to PasteBin, and security researcher Moxie Marlinspike confirmed via Twitter that the certificate has a valid signature. That means that the person or entity using it could use it to intercept Gmail traffic via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.
(Aug 29 2011) - DHS : The decade's biggest scam
CALIFORNIA -- The Los Angeles Times examines the staggering sums of money expended on patently absurd domestic "homeland security" projects: $75 billion per year for things such as a Zodiac boat with side-scan sonar to respond to a potential attack on a lake in tiny Keith County, Nebraska, and hundreds of "9-ton BearCat armored vehicles, complete with turret" to guard against things like an attack on DreamWorks in Los Angeles.
(Aug 29 2011) - Appeals Court to Weigh NSA Dragnet Surveillance
U.S.A. -- Whether the federal government and the nation's telecommunication companies can be held accountable for allegedly funneling every American's electronic communication to the National Security Agency without warrants is the subject of oral arguments scheduled for a federal appeals court Wednesday.
At issue is a Jan. 31, 2006 lawsuit, and others that followed, alleging violations of the Fourth Amendment right to be free from warrantless searches and seizures.
(Aug 29 2011) - A key Sept. 11 legacy: more domestic surveillance
WASH D.C. -- In one of the biggest changes to American life since the 2001 terrorist attacks, the government now collects vast quantities of information about its citizens. Internet entrepreneur Nicholas Merrill was working in his Manhattan office when an FBI agent in a trench coat arrived with an envelope. It was fall 2004, and federal investigators were using new legal authority they had acquired after Sept. 11, 2001. Merrill ran a small Internet service provider with clients including IKEA, Mitsubishi and freelance journalists.
(Aug 26 2011) - THE CIA AND THE MEDIA
U.S.A. -- ( 2007 : Carl Berstien wrote ) In 1953, Joseph Alsop, then one of America's leading syndicated columnists, went to the Philippines to cover an election. He did not go because he was asked to do so by his syndicate. He did not go because he was asked to do so by the newspapers that printed his column. He went at the request of the CIA.
Alsop is one of more than 400 American journalists who in the past twenty-five years have secretly carried out assignments for the CIA, according to documents on file at CIA headquarters. Some of these journalists' relationships with the Agency were tacit; some were explicit. There was cooperation, accommodation and overlap. Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services-from simple intelligence gathering to serving as go-betweens with spies in Communist countries.
(Aug 25 2011) - C.I.A. Demands Cuts in Book About 9/11 and Terror Fight
WASH D.C. -- In what amounts to a fight over who gets to write the history of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath, the Central Intelligence Agency is demanding extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent years near the center of the battle against Al Qaeda.
The agent, Ali H. Soufan, argues in the book that the C.I.A. missed a chance to derail the 2001 plot by withholding from the F.B.I. information about two future 9/11 hijackers living in San Diego, according to several people who have read the manuscript.
(Aug 24 2011) - Hackers Could Reverse-Engineer Microsoft Patches
U.S.A. -- The security company Qualys this week demonstrated how to reverse-engineer a Microsoft patch in order to launch a denial-of-service attack on Windows DNS Server. The proof-of-concept shows the steps hackers could take to attack Windows and highlights the importance of deploying Microsoft (MSFT) patches as soon as possible after their monthly Patch Tuesday release.
(Aug 23 2011) - Hacked Medical Device Sparks Congressional Inquiry
WASH D.C. -- Two members of Congress have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review the Federal Communications Commission's approach to medical devices with wireless capabilities to ensure that the devices are "safe, reliable, and secure."
The letter to the GAO, from Reps. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.)--both members of the House communications and technology subcommittee -- was sparked by a medical device hacking demonstration earlier this month at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
(Aug 21 2011) - Tased From Above- From Robot Helo's
TEXAS -- Forget the idea that weaponized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are only for military operations in wars fought in far off lands. Soon they'll begin setting their sights on criminals within our borders. And they'll be packing heat, not the long-range missiles of the X-47B, but with up close and personal stun guns, 12-gauge shotguns and, believe it or not, grenade launchers. The ShadowHawk is the seven-foot, 50-lb copter that is the toy-sized dealer of destruction from Texas-based Vanguard Defense Industries. The copter is the result of three years of development.
(Aug 19 2011) - Vanguard Defense Industries Hacked for #Antisec Operation
TEXAS -- AntiSec is targeting defense contractors again. Continuing their beef with law enforcement, and organizations that offer them support, they have targeted Richard Garcia, the Senior Vice President of Vanguard Defense Industries (VDI). AntiSec plans to release nearly 4,713 emails and thousands of documents taken during the breach.
AntiSec targeted VDI's website due to their relationship with several law enforcement agencies from Texas and other parts of the U.S., as well as their relationship with the FBI, the DHS, and U.S. Marshals Service.
(Aug 18 2011) - Investigation reveals widespread insider hacking at immigration agency
TEXAS -- A yearlong probe into computer fraud at an immigration application processing center uncovered multiple incidents of internal hacking where staff accessed management-level emails and other confidential files, according to Homeland Security Department interviews, network analyses and internal emails obtained by Nextgov.
The investigation began in January 2008, when officials at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is part of Homeland Security, reported to the department's inspector general that numerous personnel had violated federal security rules ...
(Aug 18 2011) - IBM unveils chips that mimic the human brain
U.S.A. -- IBM has unveiled a new experimental computer chip that it says mimics the human brain in that it perceives, acts and even thinks. It terms the machines built with these chips "cognitive computers", claiming that they are able to learn through experience, find patterns, generate ideas and understand the outcomes.
(Aug 17 2011) - Hacking The Human Brain
U.S.A. -- Of all the storage mediums you use to keep information that is most important to you, your brain is by far the most complex. Because of the immense amount of data that the human brain can hold, scientists have been attempting to crack our internal hard drives for quite some time. The scary part? They're actually getting close. By building complex models of other brains in the animal kingdom - such as those of mice, cats, and primates - and then moving on to humans, researchers have begun to translate the trillions of impulses that go on in our heads into readable data.
(Aug 16 2011) - Electromagnetic Pulse Threat Persists, Lawmaker Says
WASH D.C. -- The United States has made little to no progress toward protecting the nation's electrical system from the effects of an electromagnetic pulse, a senior House lawmaker asserted here on Monday.
"There's a general understanding that if it's too good to be true it's probably not true and EMP just seems too bad to be true, so therefore it's relegated to the fringes by which we don't want to talk about things because it is so improbable," Representative Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) said during an event at the Heritage Foundation.
(Aug 16 2011) - ATF promotes supervisors of controversial 'Fast & Furious'
WASH D.C. -- The ATF has promoted three key supervisors of a controversial sting operation that allowed firearms to be illegally trafficked across the U.S. border into Mexico. They are William G. McMahon, who was the ATF's deputy director of operations in the West, where the illegal trafficking program was focused, and William D. Newell and David Voth, both field supervisors who oversaw the program out of the agency's Phoenix office.
(Aug 15 2011) - CIA Working with (both) Mexican Drug Cartels
WASH D.C. -- The Central Intelligence Agency was intimately involved with the federal government's infamous "Operation Fast and Furious" scheme to send American weapons to Mexican drug cartels while simultaneously working with other agencies allowing narcotics to be shipped over the border, according to a series of explosive reports.
(Aug 15 2011) - OPERATION GARDER PLOT : 4 MILITARY VERSIONS
U.S.A. -- There are four publicly available versions of the U.S. Army and Air Force civil disturbance plan known as Garden Plot. All of these versions were obtained via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests made by the excellent organization GovernmentAttic.org. We have compiled the plans into a single ZIP archive to enable easier downloading of the complete set of files.
(Aug 14 2011) - Hacker Hits California A.G.'s Web Site
CALIFORNIA -- A hacker apparently took over the home page of the California Attorney General's Office Sunday, calling for "Peace in the World!! No War." No one at the office of Attorney General Kamala D. Harris could be reached immediately for comment. Earlier, the hacker-activist group Anonymous threatened to attack the websites of the Fullerton Police Department and the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system ...
(Aug 13 2011) - U.S. AIR FORCE CIVIL DISTURBANCE MANUAL
U.S.A. -- This (2002) manual (PDF) provides preplanning guidance for handling emergency situations, which include the full spectrum from civil disobedience through hostile disturbances to violent acts of terrorism. It discusses the concept of operations in planning for these crisis situations and offers an outline for preparation, execution and resolution of mass disturbances. Air National Guard units will use this manual as guidance.
(Aug 12 2011) - CIVIL DISTURBANCES: EMERGENCY EMPLOYMENT OF ARMY
U.S.A. -- This (1972) regulation (PDF) prescribes responsibilities, policy, and guidance for the Department of the Army in planning and operations involving the use of Army resources in the control of actual or anticipated civil disturbances. Basic authority is contained in DOD Directive 3025.12, Employment of Military Resources in the Event of Civil Disturbances. PROCEED TO -- 2-7 : Martial law ... of this document
(Aug 12 2011) - Grounded Stealth Fighter Jocks Could Lose Clearance to Fly
U.S.A. -- The U.S. Air Force's most advanced stealth fighters have been grounded for so long that pilots of the F-22 Raptors are starting to run the risk of being disqualified from flying their assigned planes. Air Force requires pilots to fly a certain number of sorties in their aircraft every month, in order to stay fresh. If they don't fly for 210 days, the pilots lose their "currency," as it's known in military jargon. Then, they have to be retrained on their jets, nearly from scratch.
The entire fleet of F-22 Raptors - the world's most advanced dogfighters - has been grounded since May 3, after problems were discovered with the planes' oxygen systems. So, too, is the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fleet, which means that every stealth fighter in the U.S. inventory is currently out of commission.
(Aug 11 2011) - Electronic skin tattoo has medical, gaming, spy uses
U.S.A. -- A hair-thin electronic patch that adheres to the skin like a temporary tattoo could transform medical sensing, computer gaming and even spy operations, according to a US study published Thursday. The micro-electronics technology, called an epidermal electronic system (EES), was developed by an international team of researchers from the United States, China and Singapore, and is described in the journal Science.
"It's a technology that blurs the distinction between electronics and biology," said co-author John Rogers, a professor in materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
(Aug 11 2011) - Pentagon's Mach 20 Missile Lost Over Pacific - Again
U.S.A. -- For the second time in a row, the Pentagon has lost contact with an experimental hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific, just minutes after it was launched from space.
The flight of the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 was hotly anticipated in military and aerospace circles. The HTV-2 was supposed to ride on the back of a rocket to the edge of space, where it would separate and scream through the atmosphere at 13,000 mph before splashing into the Pacific Ocean, about 4,100 miles and 30 minutes later.
(Aug 11 2011) - The Revitalized Eugenics Movement & the FDA's Role
U.S.A. -- On July 29, 2011 the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health sounded the population alarm bell in the international science journal, Science, advocating for international contraception efforts to be funded by wealthy countries.
On August 1, 2011 the Obama administration announced its plan to force health insurers, beginning in 2013, to pay for "free" birth control for all U.S. women, including free birth control pills, morning after pills, sterilization, and any other "FDA-approved contraception methods and contraceptive counseling."
(Aug 10 2011) - CIA, US Military Operating Inside Mexico's "Drug War"
HONG KONG -- The Mexican government acknowledged Sunday that US intelligence and military officials are deployed inside Mexico, but refused to confirm details of a published report on their role in the country's "drug war" for reasons of "national security."
Mexico's National Security Council issued a statement August 7 in response to a front-page article in the New York Times which reported that the Obama administration has sent "new CIA operatives and retired military personnel" to the country and is "considering plans to deploy private security contractors" in an effort to escalate the bloody war against drug cartels.
(Aug 10 2011) - The U.S. Military's Plan for London-Like Riots
U.S.A. -- With British Prime Minister David Cameron authorizing the use of rubber bullets and water canons in wake of the turbulent London riots spreading through Britain, questions have been raised about how authorities in the U.S. would respond to a similar domestic disturbance threatening the nation's stability. According to National Journal's White House correspondent Marc Ambinder the U.S. already has a game plan in place. "If what happened in London ever happened in the US, the military has plans (doc) -- CONPLAN 3501 and 3502 -- to suppress the 'insurrection,' he tweeted ... "
(Aug 10 2011) - Hong Kong exchange trading disrupted as hackers target website
HONG KONG -- The Hong Kong stock exchange was forced to suspend trading in stocks including HSBC Holdings after hackers broke into the exchange's website on Wednesday, preventing investors from accessing company announcements made during the midday break. "Our current assessment that this is a result of a malicious attack by outside hacking," ...
(Aug 09 2011) - Entire U.S. Stealth Fighter Fleet Grounded
U.S.A. -- In past few decades, the U.S. Air Force has spent untold billions researching and developing a family of stealth fighter jets that are supposed to be generations ahead of any dogfighters in the sky. But after building more than 170 F-22 Raptors and a handful of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, not a single one is available for service. The Air Force currently has zero flyable stealth fighters. None.
The vaunted F-22 has been grounded with a possibly faulty oxygen system since May. Production of the last few Raptors is even on hold, because ... the jets can't fly from the factory.
(Aug 07 2011) - DEA Agents Forced Into Combat Zones
WASH D.C. -- As the Obama administration ramps up the Drug Enforcement Administration's presence in Afghanistan, some special-agent pilots contend that they're being illegally forced to go to a combat zone, while others who've volunteered say they're not being properly equipped. In interviews with McClatchy Newspapers, more than a dozen DEA agents describe a badly managed system in which some pilots hav More..e been sent to Afghanistan under duress or as punishment for bucking their superiors.
Such complaints, so far mostly arising from the DEA’s Aviation Division, could complicate the Obama administration’s efforts to send dozens of additional DEA agents to Afghanistan as part of a civilian and military personnel "surge" that aims to stabilize the country.
(Aug 04 2011) - TOP PEOPLE AND DRUGS
CHICAGO -- On 3 Agust 2011, it was reported that US government agents brought several tons of cocaine into the United States from Mexico. These federal agents then 'allowed' Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel to traffic the drugs. This is according to court documents filed in a US federal court.
Chicago, home of David Headley, was used as a distribution point for the rest of the country. Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, who is facing drug-trafficking charges in Chicago, is part of the Sinaloa drug gang. In April 2011, Zambada claimed to have been working with the U.S. government for years.
(Aug 04 2011) - Hackers infiltrate computer networks of thousands of companies
CALIFORNIA -- In what security experts believe may be the largest coordinated attack ever launched, hackers have for at least five years infiltrated the computer networks of thousands of companies, organizations and governments, stealing reams of intellectual property, military information and state secrets.
The perpetrators probably belong to a government-sanctioned group from either Eastern Europe or East Asia, according to security analysts. The hackers not only broke in but remained embedded in the computer systems, quietly siphoning secret data for years.
(Aug 03 2011) - Massive Global Cyberattack Targeting U.S., U.N. Discovered ...
U.S.A. -- The world's most extensive case of cyber-espionage, including attacks on U.S. government and U.N. computers, was revealed Wednesday by online security firm McAfee, and analysts are speculating that China is behind the attacks.
The spying was dubbed "Operation Shady RAT," or "remote access tool" by McAfee -- and it led to a massive loss of information that poses a huge economic threat, wrote vice president of threat research Dmitri Alperovitch.
(Aug 02 2011) - US gov't building hacker army for cyber war
LAS VEGAS -- The US National Security Agency hopes to hire a mass of "cyber warriors" this year, and another large group next year, to help the country fight the increasingly intense international cyber war, reports Reuters. To find new recruits, representatives from the NSA, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and NASA, will be attending the annual DEF CON hacker conference in Las Vegas, which takes place this weekend.
(Aug 01 2011) - Top drug trafficker claims U.S. made agreement to protect Cartel
U.S.A. -- The son of a heavy hitter in a powerful Mexican drug trafficking organization has filed explosive legal pleadings in federal court in Chicago accusing the US government of cutting a deal with the the "Sinaloa Cartel" that gave its leadership "carte blanche to continue to smuggle tons of illicit drugs into Chicago and the rest of the United States."
The source of that allegation is Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, the son of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia - one of the purported top leaders of the Sinaloa drug-trafficking organization - a major Mexican-based importer of weapons and exporter of drugs.
(Jul 31 2011) - Computer hacking reveals Italian spying on Russia, India
ITALY -- Documents posted online by an anonymous hacker group point to extensive Italian espionage against Russian and Indian defense and energy deals. The hacked documents contain raw data and intelligence reports authored by officials in Italy's National Anti-Crime Computer Center for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CNAIPIC), an electronic security outfit operating under the auspices of the Italian National Police.
It appears that Italian National Police servers were recently hacked by a group of international hackers calling itself Anonymous Hackers for Antisec Operation. On July 26, the group published over eight gigabytes of hacked CNAIPIC documents ...
(Jul 30 2011) - Men build small flying spy drone that cracks Wi-Fi and cell data
U.S.A. -- Built by Mike Tassey and Richard Perkins, the Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform (otherwise known as the WASP) is a flying drone that has a 6-foot wingspan, a 6-foot length and weighs in at 14 pounds. The small form factor of the unmanned aerial vehicle allows it to drop under radar and is often mistaken for a large bird. It was built from an Army target drone and converted to run on electric batteries rather than gasoline. It can also be loaded with GPS information and fly a predetermined course without need for an operator.
(Jul 28 2011) - Unseen comet's orbit indicates possible crash
CALIFORNIA -- A stream of dusty fragments from a comet born in the outermost reaches of the solar system (from the constellation Draco) has hit the Earth on a path that leads astronomers to conclude the comet itself could be "potentially hazardous" if it crashes into the planet.
The comet's location is unknown, making it difficult to say when it will approach Earth, but "the orbits of the dust trail tells us that the comet is on a path that could eventually hit us," said Peter Jenniskens, an astronomer at the SETI Institute and the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View.
(Jul 25 2011) - Head of U.S. cyber agency resigns suddenly
U.S.A. -- The head of a U.S. agency that helps respond to cyber attacks resigned suddenly after several high-profile attacks on government computer systems but the Department of Homeland Security declined Monday to comment on the reason.
Randy Vickers resigned as director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team Friday, according to an email from Roberta Stempfley, acting assistant secretary for cyber security and communications at Homeland Security, which was sent to some employees.
(Jul 25 2011) - The Feds SECRET 16.1 Trillion Loans
U.S.A. -- A one-time limited GAO audit of the Federal Reserve that was mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act has uncovered some eye-popping corruption at the Fed and the mainstream media is barely even covering it. It turns out that the Federal Reserve made $16.1 trillion in secret loans to their bankster friends during the financial crisis. You can read a copy of the GAO investigation for yourself right here. These loans only went to the "too big to fail" banks and to foreign financial institutions. Not a penny of these loans went to small banks or to ordinary Americans.
(Jul 21 2011) - Hackers to FBI: 'We are not scared anymore'
U.S.A. -- Hacker groups Anonymous and LulzSec, which had 16 of their alleged members arrested this week in the U.S. by the FBI, don't usually respond to statements written or made about them. But when the FBI's deputy assistant director gave an interview to NPR saying those arrests send "a message that chaos on the Internet is unacceptable," the hacking collective erupted, with a statement of its own:
(Jul 19 2011) - 16 Individuals Arrested in the U.S. for Alleged Roles in Cyber Attacks
WASH D.C. -- Fourteen individuals were arrested today by FBI agents on charges related to their alleged involvement in a cyber attack on PayPal's website as part of an action claimed by the group "Anonymous," announced the Department of Justice and the FBI. Two additional defendants were arrested today on cyber-related charges.
The 14 individuals were arrested in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, and Ohio on charges contained in an indictment unsealed today in the Northern District of California in San Jose.
(Jul 18 2011) - 64 missile warheads stolen from Romanian train
BUCHAREST -- Authorities say they are investigating the theft of 64 missile warheads from a train transporting military equipment to Bulgaria. Interior ministry spokesman Marius Militaru said on Sunday the components are not dangerous on their own - only when integrated into missile systems.
Prosecutors said on Monday they are investigating the theft. Railway workers on Saturday noticed the seals on a carriage door were broken, and it was not properly closed when the train reached Giurgiu, a Danube port that borders Bulgaria.
(Jul 18 2011) - POWER GRID TAMPERING WILL END AN ERA
U.S.A. -- A June 24th 2011 AP report states that there is a proposal in place to change the frequency various parts of the national electrical grid run at. The frequency differences will be minor, but will force an end to the national grid as we know it. The only way frequencies can be different at all in separate locations around the nation is to not have a grid at all.
They are attempting to childishly play this down as something that will mess up clocks. But what it really means is that they are going to dismantle the national power grid entirely.
(Jul 17 2011) - Caught in DHS facial recognition dragnet
BOSTON -- John H. Gass hadn't had a traffic ticket in years, so the Natick resident was surprised this spring when he received a letter from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles informing him to cease driving because his license had been revoked. "I was shocked," Gass said in a recent interview. "As far as I was concerned, I had done nothing wrong."
(Jul 16 2011) - Bodyguard who killed Karzai's brother was trusted CIA contact
U.K. -- The bodyguard who assassinated President Hamid Karzai's brother had been working closely with US Special Forces and the CIA before he was recruited by the Taliban, raising fears over the Islamist movement's increasingly sophisticated intelligence apparatus which has managed to threaten the inner circles of power in Afghanistan.
Sardar Mohammad, who shot Ahmed Wali Karzai at his home in Kandahar City on Tuesday, also held regular meetings with British officials, and had two brothers-in-law serving in a CIA-run paramilitary unit ...
(Jul 15 2011) - Pentagon Claims It Lost 24,000 Files In Cyber Attack
U.S.A. -- The Defense Department was the victim of a cyber attack that resulted in the loss of 24,000 files, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III disclosed Thursday.
The attack, which happened in the spring, was perpetrated by "foreign intruders" and affected a defense contractor, Lynn said during a speech at the National Defense University, The Washington Post reported. Lynn did not identify the intruders, and said the theft was "data-related," Politico said.
(Jul 15 2011) - Is the U.S. Actively Pursuing Biological Weapons
U.S.A. -- Respected scientists on both sides of the Atlantic warned yesterday that the US is developing a new generation of weapons that undermine and possibly violate international treaties on biological and chemical warfare. The scientists, specialists in bio-warfare and chemical weapons, say the Pentagon, with the help of the British military, is also working on “non-lethal” weapons similar to the narcotic gas used by Russian forces to end last week’s siege in Moscow.
They also point to the paradox of the US developing such weapons at a time when it is proposing military action against Iraq on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is breaking international treaties.
(Jul 15 2011) - UNITED NATIONS WORLD DRUG REPORT 2011
UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME -- Globally, UNODC estimates that, in 2009, between 149 and 272 million people, or 3.3% to 6.1% of the population aged 15-64, used illicit substances at least once in the previous year. About half that number are estimated to have been current drug users, that is, having used illicit drugs at least once during the past month prior to the date of assessment. While the total number of illicit drug users has increased since the late 1990s, the prevalence rates have remained largely stable, as has the number of problem drug users, which is estimated at between 15 and 39 million.
(Jul 15 2011) - Bohemian Grove: Where the Elite Meet to Eat (and Conspire)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Debra Saunders complained that, because she is a woman, she wasn't invited to the upcoming Bohemian Club meeting which begins this Thursday at the Bohemian Grove retreat center an hour's drive north of San Francisco. Even if she were a man, she most likely still wouldn't be invited as she is not a member of the "elite."
Founded just after the Civil War by Henry "Harry" Edwards as a private camp where bohemians - artists and writers - could go to relax and recuperate from the rigors of the work-a-day world, over time the club's membership evolved to include the rich and powerful, which now numbers over 2,400.
(Jul 11 2011) - Secret Weapons Now Beaming Into Your Skull
U.S.A. -- You'll find it hard to believe how many types of technology are being used on human minds today. We all know we're "steered" and "walled off" to some degree by influences around us, not the least of which is the media and the onslaught of its corporofascist disinformation and advertising arm. Deeper influences include so-called modern education and it's engineered dumbing-down of society for decades. Just look around you for how "well repeated" everything we're told has become, with the predominance of shallow Hollywood types and the gutless sing-song intonations and political correctness in society's language.
But there's a lot more you need to know about electronic mind control and what it's doing to you and our world.
(Jul 11 2011) - Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilton data
U.S.A. -- Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses. "We infiltrated a server on their network that basically had no security measures in place. We were able to run our own application, which turned out to be a shell and began plundering some booty," the hackers wrote in a message on the Pastebin file storage site.
(Jul 10 2011) - Bohemian Grove - men only
SAN FRANCISCO -- "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here" is the motto of San Francisco's Bohemian Club. The motto is supposed to represent the club's edict against doing business during its annual Bohemian Grove retreat, which commences Thursday on 2,700 acres 75 miles north of the city. As club spokesman and member Sam Singer explained, "It's a group of gentlemen who are really genuinely interested in arts, theater, jazz and rock 'n' roll." The retreat gives members a chance to "get away from work. It's forbidden to talk about or solicit business at the club or grove."
(Jul 09 2011) - The "War On Drugs" Is A $2.5 Trillion Racket
U.S.A. -- Anyone who researches the "War on Drugs" already knows that it has been a very costly disaster ... despite numerous reports and a mountain of evidence proving the utter failure of the War on Drugs, the Obama Administration has defended the effort and escalated the war. What many reports criticizing the War on Drugs fail to discuss is how successful the war has been at enriching the global financial elite. The War on Drugs, just like the War on Terror, is another criminal racket set up to benefit profiteering banks, military companies and the prison industrial complex at our tragic expense.
(Jul 09 2011) - Holder Lied -- Here's The Proof
OREGON -- New information indicates that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's actions are squarely behind the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) operation known as "Fast and Furious", which orchestrated the delivery of almost 2,000 weapons to Mexican drug cartels. Holder openly proclaimed his connection to the operation in April 2009 during a publicized speech in Mexico, then told a Congressional Committee in May 2011, "I probably heard of Fast and Furious the first time in the last few weeks."
(Jul 08 2011) - Government wiretaps increase by 34% in 2010
U.S.A. -- The number of wiretaps conducted by federal and state law enforcement in 2010 jumped 34 percent from the prior year, according to a new federal report. The 2010 Wiretap Report said federal and state courts approved 3,194 orders for intercepting wire, oral or electronic communications. That was up from the 2,376 intercepts approved in 2009.
(Jul 08 2011) - Official says pre-infected computer tech entering U.S.
WASH D.C. -- Confirming years of warnings from government and private security experts, a top Homeland Security official has acknowledged that computer hardware and software is already being imported to the United States preloaded with spyware and security-sabotaging components.
(Jul 07 2011) - Internet providers to act against online pirates
U.S.A. -- Consumers who illegally download copyrighted films, music or television shows might see their Internet speed slowed or access restricted under an industry anti-piracy effort announced on Thursday.
U.S. Internet service providers, including Verizon Communications Inc, Comcast Corp, Time Warner Cable Inc, Cablevision Systems Corp and AT&T Inc agreed to alert customers, up to six times, when it appears their account is used for illegal downloading. Warnings will come as e-mails or pop-up messages.
(Jul 07 2011) - Google shuts down millions of websites
U.S.A. -- Over 11 million websites have been blacklisted and banned by Google. A massive block of websites registered for free through the co.cc subdomain have been silenced after the Internet giants have determined many of them to be unfit for the Web.
Google's Matt Cutts writes on his Google Plus account that the company has the right to pull the plug on sites if they "see a very large fraction of sites on a specific freehost be spammy or low-quality."
(Jul 07 2011) - Yahoo condemned over plans to snoop on emails on behalf of advertisers
U.S.A.-- Internet giant Yahoo has been condemned over plans to snoop on emails in a 'blatant intrusion of privacy'. The US company provides an email service for thousands of Britons, including children, who will assume that the system is completely private. However, it has emerged that Yahoo has changed its small print terms and conditions to get permission to view and scan emails.
(Jul 07 2011) - Spies Want to Mine Your Tweets for Signs of the Next Tsunami
U.S.A. -- The intelligence community has seen the future, and the future is Google Trends. Actually, more like a highly sophisticated version of Google Trends, with Twitter and YouTube thrown in for good measure. Iarpa, the blue-sky research arm of the intelligence community, recently announced a new program that aims to monitor, collect and analyze publicly available data to predict future events. The Open Source Indicator Program would be so sensitive to changes in the zeitgeist that it could "beat the news," anticipating "political crises, disease outbreaks, economic instability, resource shortages and natural disasters" - to name a few.
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Ready for the NEW WORLD ORDER ? European leaders in Berlin have agreed on the need to regulate all financial markets including hedge funds. Leaders of Europe's major economies said a global solution was needed to the current financial crisis. German Chancellor Angela Merkel highlighted that leaders faced an "extraordinary international crisis". But leaders including UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned against reverting to protectionism in such a difficult economic climate. The Berlin gathering is a precursor to the next meeting of the G20 group of major developed and developing countries in London on 2 April, which aims to rewrite the rules of the global financial system. "There is a need for a global new deal so that the world economy can recover" said Mr Brown to ensure an economy that is based on the "soundest principles".
The public as a whole, hasn't a clue what could take place after Feb 17th 2009, when "ALL TV PROGRAMMING" stops analogue transmissions and flips the swith to digital. The Porterville Post could be wrong in this assumption, but as far as we are concerned, we can appologize later if we are wrong, but if we are right ... YOU BETTER PAY ATTENTION to what this article says and do a little research yourself. Our shawdow government has spent too much time and tax payers monies to let this technology go to waist or to let it get into the hands of other NWO governments and corporations. Once we find a solution, the POST will let you know. In the mean time ... PRAY that the POST IS WRONG. We really hope we are.
(CBS 60 Min) -- How Technology May Soon "Read" Your Mind : How often have you wondered what your spouse is really thinking? Or your boss? Or the guy sitting across from you on the bus? We all take as a given that we'll never really know for sure. The content of our thoughts is our own - private, secret, and unknowable by anyone else. Until now, that is. As correspondent Lesley Stahl reports, neuroscience research into how we think and what we're thinking is advancing at a stunning rate, making it possible for the first time in human history to peer directly into the brain to read out the physical make-up of our thoughts, some would say to read our minds.
And if that ain't enough information to singe your synaps, read this article called "More Evidence : HD TV is a Set Up for Mind Control". If you're not convinced that evil people who gain control of this technology will use it ... then your just not thinking.
Back in 1988, John Carpentar came out with a partial sci-fi "B-Rated" movie called "They Live". The central theme in this film was the concern that the government had gone too far in eaves-dropping and media-manipulation of the masses. 20 years ago, John Carpenter presented this "Big-Brother B-Rated Movie" to the public, I believe, as a warning. What do you think ?
The AVC Advantage voting machine is made by Sequoia Voting Systems and has been used in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and other states. Pursuant to a Court Order in New Jersey Superior Court, we examined this voting machine as well as its computer program code. On October 17, 2008 the Court permitted us to release to the public a redacted version of our report. The report was originally submitted to the Court on September 2 in the form of an expert-witness report by Andrew W. Appel. The Court has released this redacted version to the public. The version we release here, linked in boldface above, is the same as the Court's redacted version, but with a few introductory paragraphs about the court case, Gusciora v. Corzine. The AVC Advantage contains a computer. If someone installs a different computer program for that computer to run, it can deliberately add up the votes wrong.
It's easy to make a computer program that steals votes from one party's candidates, and gives them to another, while taking care to make the total number of votes come out right.
The War on Drugs is a Joke : At the end of the Vietnam conflict - during the evacuation - I {A.L.Lucketta} personally witnessed our own U.S. military government load and unload "Black-Tar Heroin" from the Helo's {SH3-Gulfs} I flew in as a SAR Crewman. Since many of the officers knew that I knew what they were involved with and were afraid that I'd turn them in, convinced Lt. Coronal Vasquez - my superior commander at the time - to either set me up or to force me out of the Navy. They choose the latter and my DD-214 was changed to reflect a 3 month early out ... if I chose to go to college. I left the Navy {Imperial Baech} at that point and a career that I had hoped would take me around the world, because no one would listen ... then, and no one listens now ! NO ONE !
Just when you thought it was no longer safe to go out after dark, the government has stepped up to quench those fears. In the coming days and months, be prepared to see more and more U.S. Military personnel on our streets, patroling for -- that's right -- terrorists. And to make sure that the local police and CHP have a little back-up, HOMELAND SECURITY and our buddies at NORCOM were kind enough to lend us some troops. First to the DUI check points, so you can get used to their presense. Eventually, I'm sorry to say, our government {NORCOM} will ask foreign troops {CANADA & MEXICO} to help ... protect, THEIR PROPERTY !!!
In April 1984, President Reagan signed Presidential Directorate Number 54 that allowed FEMA to engage in a secret national �readiness exercise� under the code name of REX 84. The exercise was to test FEMA�s readiness to assume military authority in the event of a �State of Domestic National Emergency� concurrent with the launching of a direct United States military operation in Central America. The plan called for the deputation of U.S. military and National Guard units so that they could legally be used for domestic law enforcement. These units would be assigned to conduct sweeps and take into custody an estimated 400,000 undocumented Central American immigrants in the United States.
The North American Future 2025 Project {PDF} was leaked a while back and from the looks of this information, the North American Union collective of corporations has been working over time to secure a complete take over of resourses from Canada and Mexico. To be sure, they have already signed on for military backing {story} in the event of full scale riots.
The Bilderberg group {Google} is an organization of political leaders and international financiers that meets secretly every spring to make global policy. There are about 110 regulars�Rockefellers, Rothschilds, bankers, heads of international corporations and high government officials from Europe and North America. Each year, a few new people are invited and, if found useful, they return to future meetings. If not, they are discarded. Decisions reached at these secret meetings affect every American and much of the world.
23,000 Businesspeople Get Threat Info from FBI Before Public. In Turn, They Supply Tips to FBI. Two Members of Private Sector Group Say They Have �Shoot to Kill� Permission in Emergency. These are the astonishing findings in Rothschild's cover story of the March issue of The Progressive.Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does�and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the government, which alarms the ACLU. But there may be more to it than that. One business executive, who showed me his InfraGard card, told me they have permission to �shoot to kill� in the event of martial law.
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