Our privacy and freedom of information on the internet is under attack. We've been waging a war for at least a decade to keep the internet free from government regulation and keep our activities private. The Bush Administration cracked the wall of our defenses and the Obama Administration is blowing a hole right through it. The war is being fought for Net Neutrality and it looks like we might be loosing.
The Obama Administration wants to know what we are doing on the internet without obtaining a court order. Joe Lieberman has introduced a bill that would give the President an Internet Killswitch that could disconnect our access to the internet "in case of emergency" and set up a National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications that would spy on ISP's and private websites so that it could share that information with the government. Google is also working on a project called Recorded Future with the CIA. Recorded Future will use analytics to monitor internet chatter, find "invisible" connections between people and events and predict future events. Obama's head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Cass Sunstei, proposed government infiltration of online groups and websites that talk about "false conspiracy theories." There is also a push for the FCC to reclassify Broadband service as a Telecommunication Service, which would allow the government more control over regulating the internet.
Look out for a series of false flag cyber attacks on the United States being used as an excuse to implement stricter controls over what we can see, hear and talk about online. The internet is really the last media platform that hasn't yet been taken over by regulatory commissions and used to manipulate public opinion. We still have a degree of freedom on the internet and it should stay that way. Most people thought the internet would be safe from censorship because of its very nature, but we know other countries such as China, highly restrict their internet content. Cyber-Security is a national concern, but it is not an excuse for censorship and regulation. Keep that in mind next time you see a story about internet vulnerability or cyber attacks on the United States.
Showing posts with label Domestic Surveillance. Show all posts
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Monday, July 26, 2010
9/11 Conspiracy Theories - False Flags and the Strategy of Tension
I think a healthy amount of skepticism for the official 9/11 story is a good thing. I have my own idea of what may have happened but I don't have any hard evidence and neither do any other 9/11 conspiracy theorists. We may never know what really happened, or why, but we can look at the evidence we have access to and come to our own conclusions. 9/11 conspiracy theories range from what I think is a plausible theory, that our government knew about the terrorist plot and let it happen, to the less plausible "no plane theory" where planes didn't even hit the towers. There is a wide range of theories but one thing everyone can agree on is that the U.S. government not only withheld the truth from us, they also covered up a massive amount of evidence that would have helped independent investigators piece together that truth. I find it incredibly annoying to be barraged by most 9/11 conspiracy theorists, who always seem so completely certain that their theory is correct. If you don't believe what they believe, you must be crazy, a disinformation agent, brain-washed or just plain stupid. Then there are believers who think everything happened exactly the way our government told us that it happened and if you don't believe what they believe... well you must be insane.
Is the official story true or is one of the many conspiracy theories true?
I admit that I have no idea what really happened on September 11th but I do have a theory. Like many other countries, the United States has a long history of false flag operations and I think 9/11 was one of them. In the 1950's, Iranians working for the CIA helped stage false flag operations to overthrow the Iranian government. In the 1960's, Operation Northwoods was a plan to hijack planes and stage terrorist acts in the United States, with the purpose of starting a war with Cuba. Also in the 60's, the Gulf of Tonkin Incident was a false flag operation that was used to justify the start of the war in Vietnam. F.B.I. officials new about the 1993 WTC Bombing beforehand and allowed it to happen. Two years later, Timothy McVeigh bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City, which I believe was also a false flag operation. In response to the Oklahoma city bombing, Congress passed the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. Following the September 11th attack, it was found that the chemicals used in the Anthrax Attacks on Capital Hill could be traced back to military stock in Ft. Detrick. The 9/11 attack was used as an excuse for the USA Patriot Act, a War on Terror, the War in Iraq and a systematic attack on our individual rights. 9/11 proved to be the biggest and most effective false flag operation in U.S. history, allowing a gigantic leap forward in the establishment of a Totalitarian Police State.
The Strategy of Tension uses fear, disinformation, false flag attacks, psychological warfare and other divisive tactics to force a change in public opinion. We see it happening everyday in the mass media. Fox News feeds the public a constant flow of disinformation and propagates the false left/right political dichotomy. All the other major news outlets do the same, although they are more subtle. Talking points and single phrases quickly become viral in the mass media. Suddenly everyone seems to be saying the same thing, using the exact same words to describe a media event. Stories are latched onto and quickly spun, to instill fear, distrust or hatred against "the other." The Underwear Bomber, Time Square Bomber and Jihad Jane were all part of the governments campaign of psychological warfare to boost Patriot Act support. They want us to think there is a gigantic network of terrorists and that we need to give up all our constitutional and fundamental rights to fight them. We can't go around blaming Bush or Obama for these problems, there is a larger organizational effort going on. Placing the blame on one individual or a small group of individuals ignores the larger network that allows these things to happen and continues to prop up the two-party political machine. They will continue to divide, dis-inform and conquer us, unless we stop playing the red/blue game.
The War on Terror is not a real war, in the sense that we have a well defined enemy and a goal for defeating that enemy. It was designed to be an open ended conflict that could potentially be fought forever. America can define whoever she wants as a Terrorist organization or a Terrorist state, including our own citizens. It's a giant, twisted psychological campaign to break us down, take away our rights and promote a totalitarian police state. Instead of evaluating the root of our international relations with the middle east, we invade it, destroy it and kill people. The United States and our partners are intentionally making the problem worse so the world can take bigger steps towards a New World Order.
Yes, I have a theory, but who is to say that it's correct. Whatever happened is probably way more complicated than we can imagine. What I do know is that it's okay to theorize and think about narratives that are alternative to what we are officially told is the truth. Our government, like every other government, has a long history of lying to it's citizens. Every government has factions that work behind the scenes, they withhold information because of national security, they do things that we don't think is right and if they think they are going to get caught, they cover it up. I think it's safe to say that our government hasn't changed suddenly, becoming honest and transparent sometime in the last 20 years. What really happened on 9/11,? I don't know, but I don't believe the official story because I know something is wrong.
Image from The Vigilant Citizen
The Strategy of Tension uses fear, disinformation, false flag attacks, psychological warfare and other divisive tactics to force a change in public opinion. We see it happening everyday in the mass media. Fox News feeds the public a constant flow of disinformation and propagates the false left/right political dichotomy. All the other major news outlets do the same, although they are more subtle. Talking points and single phrases quickly become viral in the mass media. Suddenly everyone seems to be saying the same thing, using the exact same words to describe a media event. Stories are latched onto and quickly spun, to instill fear, distrust or hatred against "the other." The Underwear Bomber, Time Square Bomber and Jihad Jane were all part of the governments campaign of psychological warfare to boost Patriot Act support. They want us to think there is a gigantic network of terrorists and that we need to give up all our constitutional and fundamental rights to fight them. We can't go around blaming Bush or Obama for these problems, there is a larger organizational effort going on. Placing the blame on one individual or a small group of individuals ignores the larger network that allows these things to happen and continues to prop up the two-party political machine. They will continue to divide, dis-inform and conquer us, unless we stop playing the red/blue game.
The War on Terror is not a real war, in the sense that we have a well defined enemy and a goal for defeating that enemy. It was designed to be an open ended conflict that could potentially be fought forever. America can define whoever she wants as a Terrorist organization or a Terrorist state, including our own citizens. It's a giant, twisted psychological campaign to break us down, take away our rights and promote a totalitarian police state. Instead of evaluating the root of our international relations with the middle east, we invade it, destroy it and kill people. The United States and our partners are intentionally making the problem worse so the world can take bigger steps towards a New World Order.
Yes, I have a theory, but who is to say that it's correct. Whatever happened is probably way more complicated than we can imagine. What I do know is that it's okay to theorize and think about narratives that are alternative to what we are officially told is the truth. Our government, like every other government, has a long history of lying to it's citizens. Every government has factions that work behind the scenes, they withhold information because of national security, they do things that we don't think is right and if they think they are going to get caught, they cover it up. I think it's safe to say that our government hasn't changed suddenly, becoming honest and transparent sometime in the last 20 years. What really happened on 9/11,? I don't know, but I don't believe the official story because I know something is wrong.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
They're Watching Us - Domestic Surveillance
The NSA has confirmed their creepy codename for a new program called "Perfect Citizen." They deny that their technology will be used to spy on American citizens, even though we know American intelligence agencies have a long history of doing just that. The NSA was created in 1952 by secret presidential directive by President Truman and soon grew into a vast intelligence gathering machine. President Ford approved domestic surveillance in December of 1974 while trying to cope with the Cold War. President Nixon resigned over using federal resources to spy on political and activist group. In response, the pro-privacy Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 was signed into law by President Carter. President George W. Bush was found to be in violation of the FISA when he approved warrant-less wiretapping on U.S. Citizens and President Obama continued NSA programs and amendments to FISA that allow for spying on American citizens.

Let's not forget that President Obama promised to end warrant-less wiretapping but has yet to do so. He sided with the Bush Administration and approved legislation that immunizes the nation’s telecommunications companies from lawsuits associated with the Bush Administration's eavesdropping on U.S. citizens. With the increase in Global Positioning technology, GPS is being used to track and trace citizens by private corporations who then report that information to intelligence agencies and police departments. The Cyber Security act attempts to legalize the collection of your personal information on the internet and to track your web browsing and all your online communications. Both Apple and Google have admitted to working with the NSA to collect information and create databases on their costumers. Facial recognition technology has been used at Obama's campaign events, sporting events and at the recent G20 protests in Canada. This Facial Recognition technology is also using data collected from social networking sites like Facebook to identify people and who is in their social network.
We all know about the full body scan technology being used in airports right now, but there is also a new technology that can see through clothes from a mile away. Security officers invade our privacy on a daily basis. Police officers do the same, blatantly disregarding the law, with a dramatic increase in warrant-less searches. The police department in Brooklyn, NY is under scrutiny for stopping nearly 52,000 people over the past 4 years in poor neighborhoods and frisking them, under the guise of looking for guns or because they "fit the description of a suspect." This is nothing more than intimidation and harassment, a precursor to an eventual full blown police state.

They will track, trace and database everything they can. This is just the beginning, with new predictive technologies, ideas like DARPA's Total Information Awareness system, will start to be implemented, if they haven't already been. Several projects of the Information Awareness Office are still being funded and other countries are deploying the same technologies as the United States. A state of constant surveillance is on its way, it's only a matter of time.
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