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From: Nick Wedd on 18 Apr 2008 18:47 GCSB workers are forbidden to say anything about their work, even to their partners. The indoctrination concluded with Holmes signing the two page indoctrination form, which refers to New Zealand laws for punishing infringements (in the Crimes Act) but which originates primarily in UKUSA regulations. Equivalent forms must be signed by staff throughout the UKUSA alliance. P44- In the middle of 1994 Holmes got his first overseas posting - and a prestigious one at that. He is on a three-year posting to the center of the UKUSA alliance, the enormous NSA headquarters at Fort George G. Meade. This posting was the first ever by a GCSB analyst to the NSA. Before he left New Zealand his daily work, like that of all analysts, revolved entirely around that most striking manifestation of GCSB's links with the NSA: the ECHELON Dictionary system. Each morning the signals intelligence analysts in New Zealand log on at their computer terminals and enter the Dictionary system, just as their equivalents do in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. What follows is a precise description of how the system works, the first time it has been publicly described. [Buy the book for full details] After entering their security passwords, the analysts reach a directory that lists the different categories of intercept available, each with a four digit code; 4066, for instance, might be Russian fishing trawlers, 5535 Japanese diplomatic traffic in the South Pacific, 4959 communications from South Pacific countries and so on. They type in the code for the
From: tchow on 18 Apr 2008 18:33 Strom Thurmond. The alleged monitoring occurred at Menwith Hill. Margaret Newsham worked at Menwith Hill as a contract employee of Lockheed Space and Missiles Corporation. She is said to have told congress staff that, while at Menwith, she was able to listen through earphones to telephone calls being monitored. When investigators subpoenaed witnesses and sought access to plans and manuals for the ECHELON system, they found there were no formal controls over who could be targeted; junior staff were able to feed in target names to be searched for by the computers without any check of their authorization to do so. None of this is surprising and it is likely to be insignificant compared with official abuse of the system. The capabilities of the ECHELON system are so great, and the secrecy surrounding it makes it so impervious to democratic oversite, that the temptation to use it for questionable projects seems irresistible. In June 1992 a group of current 'highly placed intelligence operatives' from the British GCHQ spoke to the paper Observer: 'We feel we can no longer remain silent regarding that which we regard to be gross malpractice and negligence within the establishment in which we operate.' They gave as examples GCHQ interception of three charitable organizations, including Amnesty International and Christian Aid. As the Observer reported: "At any time GCHQ is able to home in on their communications for a routine target request," the GCHQ source said. In this case of phone taps the procedure is known as Mantis. With the telexes this is called Mayfly. By keying in a code relating to Third World aid, the source
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 20:19 purpose, but they did shoot one of the * dogs. Sammy Weaver, fourteen-years-old, returned fire, and was promptly * shot by a Marshal. * * Sammy turned and fled, with his nearly severed arm flopping as he ran. * * Sammy was promptly shot dead in the back. An FBI sniper, Lon T. Horiuchi, testified he could hit a quarter at 200 yards. * The CATO Institute, "Congressional Testimony", May 24, 1995 * * An FBI psychological profile, prepared before the attack, called Vicki * Weaver the "dominant member" of the family, thus implying that if she * were "neutralized" everyone else might surrender. Horiuchi shot Weaver's wife in the head while she held her baby. Her head exploded. Her dead body was laid out on the cabin floor, covered with a blanket: * The CATO Institute, "Congressional Testimony", May 24, 1995 * * During the next week, "the FBI used megaphones to taunt the family. * 'Good Morning Mrs. Weaver. We had pancakes for breakfast. What did * you have?'" asked the FBI agents in at least one exchange. * * Weaver's daughter, Sarah, 16, said the baby, Elisheba, was often * crying for her mother's milk when the FBI messages were heard. The Justice Department's own report recommended criminal prosecution of federal a
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 19:50 * the private sector was fostered, funded and even directed by government * agencies. * * Once the utility of tracking Alzheimer's patients was demonstrated, it was * inevitable that someone would consider applications in children. As * kidnappings and murders of children gain a higher media profile, we are * likely to hear calls for the use of child tracking devices. The proposed * panacea could someday be the implantable microchip. * * Incredibly, someone was working on just such a system back in 1989. * According to the Arizona Republic of July 20th, 1989, inventor Jack * Dunlap was working on a product known as KIDSCAN, designed to help * locate children who have been kidnapped or murdered. * * The article states: "Each child whose parents signed up for * KIDSCAN would get a computer chip planted under the skin and an * identification number. The chip would transmit a signal that would bounce * off a satellite and be picked up by police on a computer-screen map." * * The syringe implantable biochip * * Which brings us to what is undoubtedly the most fearsome potential threat * in the surveillance arsenal -- one that should raise the hairs on the neck * of even the most trusting techno-child of the nineties. It is the * implantable biochip transponder. * * When implanted under the skin of the subject, the biochip will emit low *
From: S.C.Sprong on 18 Apr 2008 19:24
the time in the 1970s when President Nixon ordered a nationwide # salary freeze to combat inflation, the Federal Reserve Board has # manipulated interest rates so that approximately 5 to 6 million people # are purposely kept unemployed at any given time. What??? You mean the government purposely keeps millions and millions and millions of people unemployed at any given time, yet put time limits on welfare? I don't recall hearing that in the public debate. Question: What will poor people who can't get jobs do when their welfare runs out? Keeping in mind that the government purposely keeps approximately 5 to 6 million people unemployed. Answer: Increasing crime, increasing tension and conflict with police departments, some rioting, and politicians banging the Drum of War to take stronger police and monitoring actions. "Law & Order" Stronger police action mainly against black people. ---- This monitoring discrimination of blacks is demonstratedly nationwide. Therefore, it is also a smoking gun for arguing for retention of affirmative action programs. You don't really think it's just law enforcement, do you? ---- : "Lock 'em Up", The Washington Post, 5/19/96 : : Harvard economist Richard Freeman thinks it's ironic that proportionally : more people are in jail in the Land of the Free than in any other nation : on Earth. T |