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US plans to 'fight the net' revealed
2006-01-27, BBC
Newshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4655196.stm
A
newly
declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US
military's
plans for "information operations". The declassified document is called
"Information Operations Roadmap". It was obtained by the National
Security Archive at George Washington University using the Freedom
of Information Act. Officials in the Pentagon wrote it in 2003. The
Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed it. The operations
described in the document include a surprising range of military
activities: public affairs officers who brief journalists, psychological
operations troops who try to manipulate the thoughts and beliefs of an
enemy, computer network attack specialists who seek to destroy enemy
networks. The military's psychological operations, or Psyops, is finding its
way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans.
"Psyops messages will often be replayed by the news media for much larger
audiences, including the American public. Strategy should be based on
the
premise that the Department [of Defense] will 'fight the net' as it
would an enemy weapons system," it reads. The document recommends that
the United States should seek the ability to "provide maximum control
of
the entire electromagnetic spectrum".
US forces should be able
to
"disrupt or destroy the full spectrum of globally emerging
communications
systems, sensors, and weapons systems dependent on the electromagnetic
spectrum". The fact that the "Information Operations Roadmap" is
approved by the Secretary of Defense suggests that these plans are
taken
very seriously indeed in the Pentagon.
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Echelon spy network revealed[/url][url=]
1999-11-03, BBC News[/url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/503224.stm
Imagine a
global spying network that can eavesdrop on every single phone call, fax
or e-mail, anywhere on the planet. It sounds like science fiction, but
it's true. Two of the chief protagonists - Britain and America -
officially deny its existence. But the BBC has confirmation from the
Australian Government that such a network really does exist and
politicians on both sides of the Atlantic are calling for an inquiry. The
base is linked directly to the headquarters of the US National Security
Agency (NSA) at Fort Mead in Maryland, and it is also linked to a series
of other listening posts scattered across the world, like Britain's own
GCHQ.
The power of the network, codenamed Echelon, is astounding.
Every international telephone call, fax, e-mail, or radio transmission
can
be listened to by powerful computers capable of voice recognition. They
home in on a long list of key words, or patterns of messages.They are looking for evidence of international crime, like terrorism. The
network is so secret that the British and American Governments refuse to
admit that Echelon even exists. But another ally, Australia, has decided
not to be so coy. The man who oversees Australia's security services,
Inspector General of Intelligence and Security Bill Blick, has confirmed
to the BBC that their Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) does form part of
the network. Asked if they are then passed on to countries like Britain
and America, he said: "They might be in certain circumstances." But the
system is so widespread all sorts of private communications, often of a
sensitive commercial nature, are hoovered up and analysed.
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CIA and DOD Human Subjects Research
Scandals[/url][url=]
2007-00-00, U.S.
Department of Energy Website[/url]http://hss.energy.gov/healthsafety/ohre/roadmap/achre/chap3_4.html
In December
1974, the New York Times reported that the CIA had conducted illegal
domestic activities, including experiments on U.S. citizens during the
1960s. That report prompted investigations by both Congress (in the form
of the Church
Committee) and a presidential commission (known as the Rockefeller
Commission) into the domestic activities of the CIA, the FBI, and
intelligence-related agencies of the military.
Congressional
hearings and the Rockefeller Commission report revealed to the public for
the first time that the CIA and the DOD had conducted experiments on both
cognizant and unwitting human subjects as part of an extensive program to
influence and control human behavior through the use of psychoactive
drugs
(such as LSD and mescaline) and other chemical, biological, and
psychological means. They also revealed that at least one
subject
had died after administration of LSD. Frank Olson, an Army scientist, was
given LSD without his knowledge or consent in 1953 as part of a CIA
experiment and apparently committed suicide a week later. Subsequent
reports would show that another person ... died as a result of a secret
Army experiment involving mescaline. The CIA program, known principally
by
the codename MKULTRA, began in
1950
and was motivated largely in response to alleged Soviet, Chinese, and
North
Korean uses of mind-control techniques on U.S. prisoners of war in Korea.
Most of the MKULTRA records were deliberately destroyed in 1973 by order
of then-Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms.
Note:This highly revealing article on a U.S. government website shows that the
CIA was actively involved in mind control projects. For an excellent
summary based on thousands of pages of declassified CIA documents showing
the secret creation of unknowing assassins or "Manchurian
Candidates," click
here.
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Whistle-blower Had to Fight NSA, LA Times to
Tell Story[/url][url=]
2007-03-06,
ABC
News[/url]http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/03/whistleblower_h.html
Whistle-blower
AT&T technician Mark Klein says his effort to reveal alleged government
surveillance of domestic Internet traffic was blocked not only by U.S.
intelligence officials but also by the top editors of the Los Angeles
Times. Klein describes how he stumbled across "secret NSA
rooms"
being installed at an AT&T switching center in San Francisco and later
heard of similar rooms in at least six other cities. Eventually, Klein
says he decided to take his documents to the Los Angeles Times, to blow
the whistle on what he calls "an illegal and Orwellian project." But
after
working for two months with LA Times reporter Joe Menn, Klein says he was
told the story had been killed at the request of then-Director of
National
Intelligence John Negroponte and then-director of the NSA Gen. Michael
Hayden. Klein says he then took his AT&T documents to The New York
Times, which published its exclusive
account last April. In the court case against AT&T, Negroponte
formally
invoked the "state secrets privilege," claiming the lawsuit and the
information from Klein and others could "cause exceptionally grave damage
to the national security of the United States." The Los Angeles Times'
decision was made by the paper's editor at the time, Dean Baquet, now the
Washington bureau chief of The New York Times. As the new Washington
bureau chief of The New York Times, Baquet now oversees the reporters who
have broken most of the major stories involving the government
surveillance program, often over objections from the government.
Note:So after the NY Times has the guts to report this important story, the
man
who was responsible for the censorship at the LA Times is transferred to
the very position in the NY Times where he can now block future stories
there. For why this case of blatant media censorship isn't making
headlines, click
here.
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Making Martial Law Easier[/url][url=]
2007-02-19, New York Times[/url]http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/opinion/19mon3.html?ex=1329541200&en=b63c90...
A
disturbing
recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of
American democracy have been passed in the dead of night. So it was with
a
provision quietly tucked into the enormous defense budget bill at the
Bush
administration's behest that makes it easier for a president to override
local control of law enforcement and declare martial law. The provision,
signed into law in October, weakens two obscure but important bulwarks of
liberty. One is the doctrine that bars military forces, including a
federalized National Guard, from engaging in law enforcement. The other
is the Insurrection Act of 1807, which ... essentially limits a
president's use of the military in law enforcement to putting down
lawlessness, insurrection and rebellion, where a state is violating
federal law or depriving people of constitutional rights. The newly
enacted provisions upset this careful balance.
The president may
now use military troops as a domestic police force in response to a
natural disaster, a disease outbreak, terrorist attack or to any "other
condition." Changes of this magnitude should be made only after a
thorough
public airing. But these new presidential powers were slipped into the
law
without hearings or public debate. The president made no mention
of the changes when he signed the measure, and neither the White House
nor
Congress consulted in advance with the nation's governors.
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First, do no harm (to whites)[/url][url=]
2006-12-31, San Francisco
Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)[/url]http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/31/RVGNGN44B91.DTL&type=...
[Book
Review
of]
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on
Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present. Harriet
Washington opens the door on the torture room in "Medical Apartheid".
Experimental operations on the skulls of slave children, Washington
writes, were a favorite pursuit of a particularly sadistic South
Carolinian doctor named J. Marion Sims, widely revered today as the
"father of gynecology." For years, Sims experimented on a group of slave
women, to whom he refused anesthesia. The most notorious post-slavery
racial crime of American medicine [was] the Tuskegee Syphilis Study,
conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service between 1932 and 1972.
More than 100 black subjects ... were denied treatment, even and
especially after the discovery of penicillin in 1943. The research
required that they suffer and die, the more slowly the better. Tuskegee was hardly unique. The Rockefeller Institute ... conducted a
study in 1910 that saw 470 black syphilitics injected with a deadly
strain
of malaria. Black Americans were also disproportionately used ... as
subjects in government inquiries into the effects of radiation.
Washington's chilling history ends with contemporary case studies. At the
Incarnation Children's Center in New York, Columbia University doctors
continue to administer experimental AIDS drugs to minority orphans, even
after many develop painful and debilitating reactions. As for current
clinical trials in Africa, Washington describes the continent as the new
"laboratory for the West," where unsuspecting patients regularly receive
experimental therapies that might never receive state sanction in the
United States or Europe.
Note:For more reliable, verifiable information on major corruption in the
health
industry, click
here. It's also interesting to not that no
other major media chose to review this important book.
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