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Big Brother Is Watching You!
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JANUARY 1996::I am not anti-government nor anti-state. I'm against people who hide behind their authority and abuse there oath of office within the government and the state. It is up to the private sector that must expose these people for what they are. This page was created to help you be more aware of today's events. I can understand how the intelligence sector must monitor people, terrorists and other nations to protect our nation and it's citizens safety. My concern is the eavesdropping on suspected groups who would later be dismissed as a threat, but certain government agencies, after monitoring their activities might use it against a citizen or group organization to harass or even violate their liberties and freedom of expression. The era of Big Brother is here and the marking of every citizen as visualized in Bible's final chapter Revelationis coming soon. Also Read The Coming New World OrderBig Brother Is Watching You!
Above is the United States High Resolution Satellite IKONOS Which Takes Images of the Earth on Big Brother Recon Missions. Below Left Image is Washington D.C & Below Middle Image is SF Airport. This Eye In The Sky Can Pick Up Audio Transmissions as well.. Below Right image is a prototype hand held electronic nose being developed by microbiologists of the Agricultural Research Service which is a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The nose chip uses 32 different conducting polymers that respond to various volatile chemicals. This multidimensional patter that is created can identify and track a oder. One sniffer prototype, developed by researchers at The University School of Medicine in Boston, actually mimics a dog's smelling capabilities. YOU are being watched!-------------
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Also You can be Little Brother by using www.spaceimaging.com by purchasing images fromThe FBI will unveil a $640 million fingerprint system in August, 1999 that's expected to reduce the time it takes to identify suspects from months to hours. At its best, the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System in Clarksburg, W. Va., will allow police officers to take suspects' prints using electronic pads in their cars and compare them almost immediately with millions of prints on file in the federal computer banks. Currently, 14 states can use the system as of 1999. The FBI maintains fingerprint records and computer files on more than 50 million American adults. Proposals now call for DNA genetic indentification. Each cell in your body contains DNA genetic identification. Each cell in your body contains DNA that is absolutely unique to your body. It is the most accurate identification system to date. Current proposals call for the automatic DNA testing of all soldiers and prisoners. A universal DNA system would provide a future dictator or government with the technology to find anyone who resisted their plans. Government agencies worldwide possess sophisticated surveillance equipment that can record your phone conversations without directly tapping into your phone. The NSA and it's sister agencies in other western countries now monitor every single phone call, fax, and e-mail in the world. Even secret coded transmissions of foreign governments are routinely monitored by American Intelligence. These signals are downloaded to a group of Cray IV ( Super Computers) that completes an instantaneous word analysis. The "Dictionary" computer program listens for specific words from a list of three hundred selected key words. These words: may include, assassinate, coke, drugs, nuclear or any of several key words the computer would select a call for human monitoring.
it's satellite which circles the earth 14 times a day.
The FBI in the late 90's appealed to the
phone companies to alter their new optical cable system that will carry
thousands of phone calls on a tiny fiber the size of a human hair. The
FBI was concerned that new advanced technology might interfere with their
existing ability to easily monitor everyone's phone call. Currently, negotiations
are underway to insure that the FBI
and other intelligence agencies will still be
able to listen in on your phone calls at will. Computer records around
the world contain a staggering amount of information on every public citizen.
In 1990 the US General Accounting Office discovered that 910 major computer
databases contained billions of files on private citizens. The FBI, CIA,
NSA possess sophisticated technology capable of secretly accessing any
of this data without a trace. A high speed computer program can quickly
search various possible combinations, or a hacker may simply guess the
password and access the most sophisticated computer network. It would amaze
you to know how easy it is for a computer professional to access your files
holding the most intimate details of your life. In July, 1993, MacWorld
magazine investigated the privacy of your computer records. Two workers,
from their home computers with a telephone modem accessing legal public
databases, input the names and addresses of their subjects. Seventy-five
minutes later later they were able too retrieve their subjects birth date,
social security number, home address, driver records, marriage records,
real estate owned, civil court filings, vehicle owned, loans, etc. Obviously
a private investigator or government agency, with greater expertise could
access allot more. The buying and selling of information is now a huge
business. The fact is that your privacy no longer exists for anyone in
the Western world anymore. The
International Police Organization provides a massive police computerized
information network connecting over 158 national police forces throughout
the world to track down drug dealers and terrorists, and someday perhaps
you and your family. The devastating drug epidemic continues to ravage
the citizens and families of our country. However, the greatest cost of
the war on drugs are own loss of liberties and freedom to the growing demands
for police totalitarian methods to fight the drug war. In pursuit of drug
dealers our legislators have passed laws that seriously erode the basic
liberties our country was founded
upon. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1990 that
police can arbitrarily stop cars without a search warrant at roadblocks
without cause to search for possible drugs or drunk drivers. Wide ranging
search warrants and intrusive wire tapping are increasingly common as the
drug war escalates.
The United States Bill of Rights promises that the citizen will be protected against arbitrary intrusion from government agencies. The U.S. Constitution states: " The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated. " While honest citizens applaud the efforts to catch drug dealers, they themselves are in danger of losing their civil liberties and freedom that we all cherish and which this great nation was founded upon. I myself, a hacker or a crooked police agency could post a photo, in lets say a child pornography net newsgroup, mask the < message I.D. > and put your e-mail address on it to make it look like YOU posted it! Then the police can come crashing into your house, arrest you, and throw you in jail, confiscate your property. In today's society, it is true that YOUR GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT. It will go on your record, plus the expensive cost of defending yourself. The State has all the resources it needs at the tax payers expense where as the accused must rely on his own financial resources to defend himself, and if not, will be stuck with a state appointed lawyer who would rather be doing something else. What astounds me that hackers have recently hacked into the C.I.A and the Department of Justice Web Sites. In 1998 a teenager was able to hack into the Pentagon. In the spring of 1999 the United States Senate and United States Army Web Sites where hacked into. Now the government wants to increase their capabilities to spy on citizens but can't even protect their own systems. This should scare every American as the dawn of Big Brother is here to stay.
Below are The Department Of Justice & The CIA Web Sights after being Hacked in the late 1990's
Russia's Big Brother is catching up. It's State
Security Service, known as the FSB, the main successor to the KGB, is planning
all encompassing surveillance of Internet communications. Andrei Sebrant
of GlasNet, one of Russia's leading Internet Service Providers ( ISP) states,
" There is no concept of privacy anywhere in the Russian Constitution,
so strictly speaking,
there's nothing illegal about this. " The idea
is to force each ISP in Russia to install a "black box " that connects
all ISP services to the local FSB office via fiber optic cable. This would
enable state sponsered snoopers to collect and examine all e-mail, as well
as all data on web surfers including their net surfing habits. In January
2000, U.S. Atty. Gen. Janet Reno proposed the creation of a national
computer crime fighting network designed to enable swift cooperation among
law enforcement agencies on crimes that often cross multiple jurisdictions
and unfold in a matter of minutes, according to officials familiar with
a speech Reno is scheduled to make at a Palo Alto conference. The network
is part of a series of initiatives Reno is expected to outline. Many details
of her proposals remain unclear, but officials familiar with them say they
are a high priority in the Justice Department at a time when law enforcement
agencies across the country are struggling to keep up with technology's
expanding role as a tool of crime. And although the threat of cyber terrorism
has so far been more theoretical than actual, Reno's proposals are aimed
at shoring up law enforcement's ability to combat everyday crime in the
Information Age. In particular, Reno's initiatives would overhaul the way
law enforcement agencies at every level work together to investigate crimes
involving computers. One federal official who spoke on condition of anonymity
said that coordination among agencies these days is often hit and miss
at best. Reno's proposals also will include the establishment of a new
nationwide computer system for sharing investigative information and the
creation of new forensic computer labs around the country that would combine
personnel from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. She is
not expected to provide much information on how such measures might be
financed when she unveils them in a keynote speech today before members
of the National Assn. of Attorneys General. The group is convening in Silicon
Valley to discuss the impact of the Internet and technology on law enforcement.
Reno's proposals come in the wake of a series of computer related initiatives
the White House has announced in recent months. Last week, for example,
President Clinton proposed allocating $91 million to develop new programs
to protect the nation's computer networks from intrusion by hackers. Part
of that funding would go toward the creation of a Federal Cyber Service,
analogous to the R.O.T.C., that would enlist college computer science students
to help the government fend off computer attacks by terrorists or foreign
governments. It calls for the creation of a network of specially trained
computer crime coordinators at law enforcement agencies around the country.
The federal government has already created a network called the National
Crime Information Center, which allows state and local authorities to tap
federal crime databases. Take the case of Patrick Naughton, the disgraced
Infoseek and Disney executive who was prosecuted on a morals charge after
agreeing to meet with a 13 year old girl over the Internet through a sex
chat room. The 13 year old girl was actually a FBI agent who had energetically
pursued the dialogues over a seven month period. Naughten never tried to
conceal his identity and his attorney claimed that nobody in a sex chat
room claiming to be a 13 year old girl or any other minor could be whom
they claim to be. Mr. Naughton's first trial ended in a hung jury but later
he was convicted as a sex offender( where no sex ever took place ) in the
year 2000. In exchange for a lighter sentence, Mr. Naughton has agreed
with the US Attorney's Office to offer technical assistance in federal
criminal investigations.
JULY 2000: American critics of the National Security Agency's so called Echelon tech surveillance system are welcoming mounting European efforts to investigate the system and allegations that it has been used for industrial espionage. That effort took a big step when the European Parliament appointed a 36 member committee that will spend a year investigating Echelon and plans to hold public hearings this fall. Critics hope the hearings won't be as limited in scope as were the U.S. House Intelligence Committee hearings earlier this year. " It's a major step forward," said Barry Steinhardt, associate director of the New York office of the American Civil Liberties Union, which maintains the echelonwatch.org web site. "We've gone past the point where Echelon is X Files material and can be dismissed as paranoia. " It's been the intercession of the European Parliament that has forced the issue out into the open and forced the United States government to admit that Echelon exists and to begin to publicly account for their actions. " U.S. Representative Bob Barr (R-Georgia), an outspoken critic of U.S. intelligence, welcomed the European effort, and said he hopes it will help raise awareness about how ordinary citizens' privacy is also at stake. " My goal in examining our intelligence surveillance activities continues to be protecting the privacy of American citizens," Barr said in a statement released through a spokesman. "While European nations are primarily concerned with protecting their commercial interests, I welcome any inquiry that helps further the debate about how intelligence activities should be conducted.Europe's 2000 Echelon Probe
The European Parliament action came one day after French prosecutor Jean Pierre Dintilhac ordered the French counter-intelligence agency, DST, to investigate whether the purported global surveillance system violated the rights of French citizens. A Dutch parliamentary committee announced it planned to hold hearings on Echelon as well. The system can intercept email, faxes, and phone conversations. Echelon is perhaps the most powerful intelligence gathering organization in the world. Several credible reports suggest that this global electronic communications surveillance system presents an extreme threat to the privacy of people all over the world. According to these reports, Echelon attempts to capture staggering volumes of satellite, microwave, cellular, and fiber optic traffic, including communications to and from North America. This vast quantity of voice and data communications are then processed through sophisticated filtering technologies. This massive surveillance system apparently operates with little oversight. The Echelon system, discussed for years in shadowy, speculative terms, became a major topic in Europe when British analyst Duncan Campbell prepared a detailed report on Echelon for the European Parliament and delivered it last year. Among the more controversial aspects of his findings was the contention that the U.S. government along with the U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand used its worldwide array of satellite dish listening devices to conduct industrial espionage. Since Campbell delivered his report on Echelon to the European Parliament last fall, he said, the topic of alleged U.S. spying on European businesses has been thrashed around in public at length. " For us, America is a friend. We know how important the United States is for security. If you want the ideological point of view, we are not communists. We want the market economy and the free society like the Americans want. This is not a fight about that. What we have on our hands is a problem about how far can the systems of interception of telecommunications go. " Others might find such assurances less than persuasive, given the general belief that every government spies on every other government -- friend, foe, or otherwise. The German internet web magazine named Telepolis reported that the Dutch minister of Justice, Benk Korthals, recently said that even without definitive proof of spying, steps should be taken against it. He added that Germany and France "are not innocent little children either," a suggestion many interpreted as an indirect accusation that those countries also use tech listening devices to intercept the communications of other countries' citizens. Telepolis reported in March that former Central Intelligence Agency Director James Woolsey had confirmed that at least some of the European concerns were valid and that the United States does intercept communications in Europe to keep abreast of potential economic bribery. Some U.S. experts on tech surveillance are skeptical that the European effort will amount to much. " I don't believe for a moment the Parliament will do anything more than cloak this," said John Young, a New York privacy activist who operates an online database that has publicized the Echelon system. " Watch for hearings that don't go anywhere, just like the hearings in the United States earlier this year. It's interesting that the U.S. still won't own up, except Woolsey or someone like that," Young said. "So far as I know, no official of the U.S. government has admitted this damn thing exists. That's interesting to me. " It doesn't seem to be grabbing Americans very much, which I guess makes sense since they think it doesn't apply to them. But the sleeper issue is what other forms of Echelon are there for surveying Americans. I think the intelligence agencies are looking for new victims and it looks like they're coming after their own citizens. " It can only help to have the European Parliament use its weight and its investigative power to further call the Echelon partners to account," said Steinhard, the ACLU official. "If nothing else, it will mean that the NSA and its partners will be more careful in stealth and secrecy about their practices."
New Big Brother's FBI E-Mail CARNIVORE Scanner.JULY 2000: The FBI's new super fast system called CARNIVORE has been intact for over a year now. It's main purpose is to covertly scan millions of e-mail transmissions from suspected criminals and all public and corporate e-mail communications.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a
Freedom of Information Act request with the FBI, asking for information
about the agency's "Carnivore" surveillance system, which is designed to
monitor traffic on an Internet service provider's network.
According to Barry Steinhardt, associate director
of the ACLU, the request is believed to be the first that asks for the
source code, or the set of instructions for a
program that are compiled into object code, which computers understand.
The
ACLU requests all agency records related to the
FBI's electronic surveillance programs, including Carnivore, Omnivore
and Etherpeek. Those records may include letters,
e-mail messages, tape recordings, technical manuals, computer source
code and object code. "Carnivore is a black box
through which all the electronic communication flows in an ISP network.
The ISP knows what is going in, but we don't know what the FBI is taking
out of it," Steinhardt says. "The FBI is saying, 'Trust us, we're not violating
anybody's privacy,' but we have a long history of government abuse of surveillance
powers that teaches us we can't simply trust them." The FBI has 20 business
days to respond to the FOIA request. The ACLU is worthy of it's
actions but to think any law enforcement, especially
the FBI will comply totally with the Freedom of Information Act , is
living in a dream world. House Majority Leader
Dick Armey of Texas issued a statement calling on U.S. Attorney General
Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh to "stop using this cyber snooping
system until Fourth Amendment concerns are adequately addressed." Reno
said during her weekly press briefing that she would launch an investigation
into the privacy implications of Carnivore, which she said she learned
of through newspaper reports on Wednesday. She also said that although
she knew the FBI had surveillance capabilities like those used by Carnivore,
she did not know of the application or that it was already in use. This
is a perfect example of how Big Brother runs rampant without even complying
with the The President or the Attorney General of the U.S. The controversies
surrounding FBI surveillance in the information age will be addressed at
a House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution hearing on July 24,2000.
The ACLU has been asked to testify.
As reported by the Wall Street Journal, EarthLink
went to court to challenge Carnivore's legality after the ISP was
asked by the FBI to allow agents to install the
surveillance system on its network. EarthLink argued that the court order
that
the FBI followed did not meet the standards necessary
for the type of information the system would obtain. A court magistrate
sided with the FBI and upheld the order, but EarthLink technically is prevented
from installing Carnivore because it doesn't work with the ISP's current
operating system software and crashes servers when used with an older version
of the system software, according to company spokesman Kurt Rahn. " When
we were approached to put something on our system that monitored our members'
usage, that's a big concern to us," Rahn says. "We don't know what it does
or doesn't do. This is something from the top of the organization to the
bottom of the organization that we've been against for some while." The
FBI had used a "pen register" court order, typically used to record telephone
numbers dialed from a particular phone.
The FBI justified this by saying that it
wanted to be able to see e-mail headers. But because of the way Internet
packet
technology has been developed, those headers
cannot be viewed separately from other parts of messages. David Sobel,
counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C.,
says that is equivalent to eavesdropping, for which agencies are required
to show probable cause under the Fourth Amendment's search warrant standard.
Pen register and trap and trace orders are easier to get than full blown
search warrant court orders, he added, and apparently the FBI had no probably
cause. "Part of the problem here is that they're basically grabbing everything,
when all they're authorized to get is the header information," Sobel says.
"The other part of the problem is that apparently this system potentially
compromises the
privacy of all of an ISP's subscribers. " The
FBI has been put under pressure to disclose the source code for it's CARNIVORE
software program. Independent ISP technology employees of the American
ISP industry want to verify that the software only monitors only suspected
criminals. This is the key word, suspected, the government may accuse or
suspect anyone from crimes to sending only e-mail. In America, your guilty
until proven guilty. The FBI is not responding to the requests of the ISP
industry because they claim if they disclose the CARNIVORE source code
it would allow hackers to find ways to defeat it and disclosure may violate
copyright laws of the product vendor who programmed the system. This is
most interesting as the FBI own statement claims CARNIVORE is vulnerable
to hacking already. Matthew Blaze of ATT says the failure of the FBI to
fully disclose the source code of CARNIVORE has contributed to an attitude
of mistrust and confusion, and rightfully so. The ACLU stated if the FBI
disclosed the source code and let it be evaluated by the ACLU's own experts
it might agree to the FBI claims that CARNIVORE is not the Big Brother
threat that people claim it to be. The main concern here is if the blue
prints handed over for evaluation to the ACLU are the original, real blue
prints. ( Which I doubt seriously.)
The White House is urging changes in U.S. Law
to make it easier for law agencies to eavesdrop on Internet communications.
One example is obtain court orders easier to
trace communications without even asking a judge permission in every jurisdiction
the data passes through. The nations Internet Community argued they are
not required under the U.S. Cable Act to overturn it's customers information
without giving it's subscribers the opportunity to fight the disclosure
in court. The Justice Department back peddled by saying under the Electronic
Communications Act it may conduct such surveillance without telling the
public nothing about it's monitoring their web activities or surfing habits
and other electronic communications. CARNIVORE may be used by simply hooking
up a lap top computer into the ISPs server to monitor the activity of it's
members. A disclosure in September, 1999 by a North Carolina programmer
noticed a notation "NSA KEY" which was hidden in Microsoft's software program
which enabled The National Security Agency to monitor the computer owners
activity. The main issue here is their is to much distrust in the government
and rightfully so. The main goal is agreed by all that the CARNIVORE issue
is for law enforcement to catch the bad guys such as terrorists, malicious
hackers, and other criminal activity. Both The FBI, citizens and corporate
america want the good guys to catch the bad guys. But what about the bad
guys who have worked for the FBI for decades? They will be the profiteers
what ever the final decision is.
July, 2000: The FBI must respond to privacy activists'
request for information about the Carnivore email surveillance system.
In a hearing , U.S. District Judge James Robertson ordered the FBI to promptly
respond to a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by the Electronic
Privacy Information Center last month. The ruling gives the FBI ten working
days to tell EPIC when it can see Carnivore records under an "expedited"
Freedom of Information Act procedure. EPIC sued the FBI earlier in the
day, saying the agency should be forced to immediately disclose information
concerning Carnivore. The suit came after EPIC asked for an expedited FOIA
action from the agency but the FBI failed to respond. The judge scheduled
an emergency same day hearing after the suit was filed. In an application
for a temporary restraining order (available as a file download at EPIC's
web site), EPIC charged that the Department of Justice and the FBI failed
to expedite the FOIA request it submitted to the agencies last month. The
judge's order was a moot point by the time it came, the FBI and Justice
Department made a last minute concession to grant EPIC's request. At the
opening of the hearing, EPIC's general counsel David Sobel told the judge
he had just received the affirmative answer in a fax from the FBI and Justice
Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa Barsoomian told the court the
FBI planned to make the documents available "as soon as practicable." (In
this case, The FBI terminology of the word practicable means it gives them
more time to scheme and think of ways to bend the law.)
Changing the Name Makes it Better. Big Brother Thinks So.
FEBRUARY 14, 2001 : WASHINGTON The controversial
Internet surveillance tool known as "Carnivore" has been renamed DCS1000,
a name devoid of any negative associations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation
said Tuesday.
"With upgrades come new names," said Paul Bresson,
an FBI spokesman. The old name of a flesh eating predator had conjured
up unfortunate images for many people, he added. The FBI then decided to
make it's snooping software's name
seem less intimidating. In other words, it's
like changing the name of King Kong to Donkey Kong, but the monster is
still the same. Carnivore is specialized software installed on an Internet
service provider's network under the federal wiretap authority. Used in
criminal and national security cases, it is capable of keeping tabs on
a suspect's e-mail, instant messages and Web surfing activities. It also
taps into all of American's Internet web surfing habits. In the FBI's mind,
ALL citizens are potential suspects, thus the government's cart blanche
into prying into your lives while hiding behind the federal wiretap authority
Privacy and civil rights advocates have argued
the system violates protections against unreasonable search and seizure
in the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment. Former Attorney General Janet
Reno ordered an independent review of its inner workings after a stir in
Congress. The name change was to have been rolled out in conjunction with
an internal Justice Department review of Carnivore to be presented to Attorney
General John Ashcroft soon, an FBI official said. But the change was leaked
to a trade publication, Government Computer News. "Had it not been called
Carnivore, it probably wouldn't have stirred as much controversy," Bresson
said. He said the new alpha-numeric "doesn't stand for anything." The FBI
could have named it rosey poesy, but that wouldn't change a thing concerning
the FBI's snoop ware. Bresson's assumption that a name change will fool
the public just proves the arrogance of the agency. Critics said the FBI
was kidding itself if it thought a name change alone would allay fears.
They consider the system ripe for abuse largely because of the secrecy
surrounding how it scans passing data to find the court authorized target.
" It's not the name that worries people," said David Sobel of the Washington
based Electronic Privacy Information Center, which has sued the FBI and
Justice Department for the source code and other data about Carnivore.
"It's the way this system works."
Barry Steinhardt, associate director of the American
Civil Liberties Union, added: "If it prowls like a wolf, howls like a wolf
and has the voracious appetite of a wolf, it's still a carnivore."
-----------------------Since the Russians launched the world's first global satellite, launched on Oct.4, 1957, The United States and the free world were shocked. The fact that the Russians had a missile to launch such a devise meant it also had the capabilities to launch nuclear missiles to any nation in the world. This was a terrifying thought, but what scared the US even more was that now the Russians had a eye in the sky to monitor the world, take photographs for military intelligence, plus the tracking of American troops, ships, and aircraft deployment. The Americans couldn't shoot it down so this was even more devastating to the US Intelligence Service. Since the birth of the Sputnik Russian satellite, many countries have launched communication satellites that orbit our world. The United States has over 24 satellites for the Department of Defense and CIA alone that monitor, scan, and transmit information back to a station to be analyzed and then filed into data bank. This was basically the beginning of Big Brother. We have explored the Global Satellite System and reported on it many times, including the ECHELON and CARNIVORE information gathering computer programs which intercept all global communications such as e-mail, phone
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It is, of course, not a new idea that intelligence organizations tap into e-mail and other public telecommunications networks. What was new in the material leaked by the New Zealand intelligence staff was precise information on where the spying is done, how the system works, its capabilities and shortcomings, and many details such as the code names. The ECHELON system is not designed to eavesdrop on a particular individual's e-mail or fax link. Rather, the system works by indiscriminately intercepting very large quantities of communications and using computers to identify and extract messages of interest from the mass of unwanted ones. A chain of secret interception facilities has been established around the world to tap into all the major components of the international telecommunications networks. Some monitor communications satellites, others land based communications networks, and others radio communications. ECHELON links together all these facilities, providing the US and its allies with the ability to intercept a large proportion of the communications on the planet. The computers at each station in the ECHELON network automatically search through the millions of messages intercepted for ones containing pre-programmed keywords. Keywords include all the names, localities, subjects, and so on that might be mentioned. Every word of every message intercepted at each station gets automatically searched whether or not a specific telephone number or e-mail address is on the list.
The thousands of simultaneous messages are read in "real time" as they pour into the station, hour after hour, day after day, as the computer finds intelligence needles in telecommunications haystacks. SOMEONE IS LISTENING. The computers in stations around the globe are known, within the network, as the ECHELON Dictionaries. Computers that can automatically search through traffic for keywords have existed since at least the 1970s, but the ECHELON system was designed by NSA to interconnect all these computers and allow the stations to function as components of an integrated whole. The NSA and GCSB are bound together under the five nation UKUSA signals intelligence agreement. The other three partners all with equally obscure names are the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Britain, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) in Canada, and the Defense Signals Directorate (DSD) in Australia. The alliance, which grew from cooperative efforts during World War II to intercept radio transmissions, was formalized into the UKUSA agreement in 1948 and aimed primarily against the USSR. The five UKUSA agencies are today the largest intelligence organizations in their respective countries. With much of the world's business occurring by fax, e-mail, and phone, spying on these communications receives the bulk of intelligence resources. For decades before the introduction of the ECHELON system, the UKUSA allies did intelligence collection operations for each other, but each agency usually processed and analyzed the intercept from its own stations. Under ECHELON, a particular station's Dictionary computer contains not only its parent agency's chosen keywords, but also has lists entered in for other agencies. In New Zealand's satellite interception station at Waihopai (in the South Island), for example, the computer has separate search lists for the NSA, GCHQ, DSD, and CSE in addition to its own. Whenever the Dictionary encounters a message containing one of the agencies' keywords, every word of every message intercepted at each station gets automatically searched, whether or not a specific telephone number or e-mail address is on the list, it automatically picks it and sends it directly to the headquarters of the agency concerned.
No one in New Zealand screens, or even sees, the
intelligence collected by the New Zealand station for the foreign agencies.
Thus, the stations of the junior UKUSA allies function for the NSA no differently
than if they were overtly NSA ran bases located on their soil. The first
component of the ECHELON network are stations specifically targeted on
the international telecommunications satellites (Intelsats) used by the
telephone companies of most countries. A ring of Intelsats is positioned
around the world, stationary above the equator, each serving as a relay
station for tens of thousands of simultaneous phone calls, fax, and e-mail.
Five UKUSA stations have been established to intercept the communications
carried by the Intelsats.
The British GCHQ station is located at the top
of high cliffs above the sea at Morwenstow in Cornwall. Satellite dishes
beside sprawling operations buildings point toward Intelsats above the
Atlantic, Europe, and, inclined almost to the horizon, the Indian Ocean.
An NSA station at Sugar Grove, located 250 kilometers southwest of Washington,
DC, in the mountains of West Virginia, covers Atlantic Intelsats transmitting
down toward North and South America. Another NSA station is in Washington
State, 200 kilometers southwest of Seattle, inside the Army's Yakima Firing
Center. Its satellite dishes point out toward the Pacific Intelsats and
to the east. The job of intercepting Pacific Intelsat communications that
cannot be intercepted at Yakima went to New Zealand and Australia. Their
South Pacific location helps to ensure global interception. New Zealand
provides the station at Waihopai and Australia supplies the Geraldton station
in West Australia (which targets both Pacific and Indian Ocean Intelsats).
Each of the five stations' Dictionary computers has a code name to distinguish
it from others in the network. The Yakima station, for instance, located
in desert country between the Saddle Mountains and Rattlesnake Hills, has
the COWBOY Dictionary, while the Waihopai station has the FLINTLOCK Dictionary.
These code names are recorded at the beginning of every intercepted message,
before it is transmitted around the ECHELON network, allowing analysts
to recognize at which station the interception occurred. New Zealand
intelligence staff has been closely involved with the NSA's Yakima station
since 1981, when NSA pushed the GCSB to contribute to a project targeting
Japanese embassy communications. Since then, all five UKUSA agencies have
been responsible for monitoring diplomatic cables from all Japanese posts
within the same segments of the globe they are assigned for general
UKUSA monitoring. Until New Zealand's integration into ECHELON with the
opening of the Waihopai station in 1989, its share of the Japanese communications
was intercepted at Yakima and sent unprocessed to the GCSB headquarters
in Wellington for decryption, translation, and writing into UKUSA format
intelligence reports (the NSA provides the code breaking programs). It
truly is fast becoming a One World Government under Big Brother's watchful
eye.
After being chastised by watchdog groups, the White House has issued an order to all Federal departments and agencies: no more cookies. The White House was embarrassed last week by the revelation that it used cookies -- bits of computer code that track and record users' movements across web sites -- on some of its web sites, violating its own privacy policies and possibly violating federal privacy laws. " Because of the unique laws and traditions about government access to citizen's personal information, the presumption should be that 'cookies' will not be used at Federal web sites," wrote Jacob Lew, director of the Office of Management and Budget in a memorandum sent late last week to the heads of all federal departments and agencies. The memorandum forbids the use of cookies unless a number of strict conditions are met, including approval by the agency head and the notification of users that cookies will be deployed. The directive closely followed the revelation last week that cookies placed by ad tracking firm Double Click were being used on the web site for the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Privacy watchdogs charged that the undisclosed use of cookies both violated White House privacy policy and possibly the Privacy Act of 1974. Critics pointed out that by working with Double Click to monitor cookie surfers, the government could potentially track down individuals referred to its drug web site by search queries like "how to grow pot. " Monitoring citizens' use of government web sites raises profound privacy and constitutional concerns," said Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which, along with Junk busters president Jason Catlett, sent a brief letter to Congress, urging it to investigate the Clinton administration's use of cookies. Billy Tauzin, chairman of a key House Commerce subcommittee, subsequently sent a pointed letter to the White House. I am deeply troubled by the breadth, scope, and advanced state of this undertaking. A project with links and tracking to proprietary web sites and businesses has vast privacy implications with which Congress should be consulted. Also of concern is the methods and standards the ONDCP is using to secure personally identifiable information," Tauzin wrote. Privacy advocates were pleased by the government's quick reaction to the public criticism, but wondered whether a simple memorandum will be sufficient to effect true change. " First they denied that they were using cookies at all. Now they've changed their policy, but it remains to be seen whether they'll effectively enforce it," said Sarah Andrews, a policy analyst for the Electronic Privacy Information Center. The irony of the government cookie flap, Andrews said, is that it came just as the federal government was reiterating its belief that private industry can be trusted to police and regulate its own privacy policies without government intervention. " The private industry is in no way responsible about privacy protection, and now the government has shown that not even it can be responsible," Andrews said.White House Caught With those Snooping Cookies
July 2000: Restricted by law from eavesdropping on American citizens, the super secret National Security Agency nevertheless drafted policies for dealing with communications intercepted from or about Hillary Rodham Clinton, former President Jimmy Carter and unidentified candidates for national office in 1996, agency memos show. NSA officials deny any wrongdoing, insisting that the memos were written by in house lawyers merely to help agency personnel comply with laws that forbid spying on U.S. citizens who aren't directly involved in foreign intelligence matters. But privacy advocates say the agency memos indicate the NSA intercepts large numbers of innocent conversations in its mission to eavesdrop on phone calls, faxes and other communications linked to terrorists and other national security risks. The National Security Agency memos are essentially instruction sheets telling NSA employees what to do in the event they intercept communications to or from certain prominent people. Privacy advocates say they reflect the large number of innocent conversations the NSA intercepts in its mission to counter national security threats: One of the documents is a December 1994 memo that deals with Carter's visit to Bosnia that year: " Any reports that reflect either his travels to Bosnia or his participation in efforts to end the war may identify him only as a 'U.S. person,'" officials wrote. "Only if Former President Carter eventually becomes an official envoy of the U.S. Government in this activity, could he then be identified as a 'former U.S. President.' "NSA officials also urged caution in dealing with reports about the first lady in a July 1993 memorandum: Mrs. Clinton may be identified in reports only by title (currently Chairperson of the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform) without prior approval when that title is necessary to understand or assess foreign intelligence and when the information being discussed relates to her official duties," they wrote. "As with other senior officials of the Executive Branch, no reports may be published concerning Mrs. Clinton's private life or activities absent evidence of criminal wrongdoing and even then only after review by senior NSA management and the (Office of the General Counsel ). " NSA officials gave similar warnings regarding congressional campaigns in 1996. " We anticipate that as the 1996 election campaigns go on, there may be instances when references to political parties and candidates will be necessary to understand foreign intelligence or assess its importance. In such cases, unless you have prior approval for specific identification in accordance with (law), refer to the U.S. identity in generic terms only: a U.S. political party, a U.S. presidential candidate, a U.S. Senate candidate, etc. Remember that even when such terms are used, the context of the report could constitute an identification. " The Electronic Privacy Information Center obtained the memos, which were part of a lawsuit filed last year, under the Freedom of Information Act. The suit seeks information about the NSA's compliance with laws that forbid domestic surveillance. Republican. Robert Barr, of Georgia., says the House Committee on Government Reform will examine the memos as part of larger hearings this summer into NSA activities. " I'm troubled by this," he says. "This information that we see today is only the tip of the iceberg of the vast number of conversations that are apparently picked up by the NSA. " Barr has spent the last two years looking into allegations that an NSA surveillance system popularly known as "Echelon" is scooping up millions of phone, fax and e-mail messages every hour. His inquiry follows a report in 1997 by the European Parliament that says that Echelon can monitor all such communications in Europe simultaneously. Barr once worked in the Central Intelligence Agency's office of legislative affairs, where he rose to assistant legislative counsel before leaving in 1978. But NSA officials emphasize that the memos show NSA operatives ignore information about U.S. citizens unless a court order authorizes its analysis. Even with a court order, they say, the NSA must show that the information is relevant to a matter of national security that crosses national borders." NSA operates in strict accordance with U.S. laws and regulation in protecting the privacy rights" of Americans, the agency said in a statement. "Our activities are conducted with the highest constitutional, legal and ethical standards. " EPIC attorney David Sobel says the scope of NSA surveillance alone should give American citizens pause for concern . "They are collecting a massive amount of information that affects a great many people," he says. "If a lot of what we have heard recently is true, it's not just a former president, it's not just the first lady, it's probably all of us. This is the first time real names have been added to what has been a theoretical discussion. It puts a real face on this issue. " Jeffrey Richelson, senior fellow at George Washington University's National Security Archive, says the release marks the first time in 25 years the NSA has revealed the identity of any American who was or may have been monitored by the agency. " There have been recent allegations that the intelligence community, through NSA, has improperly directed our signals intelligence capabilities against the private conversations of U.S. persons," Tenet testified. "I will say to this committee unequivocally that this is simply not the case. " The Defense Department's NSA traces its origins to the uniformed intelligence services that cracked numerous ciphers used by the Germans and Japanese in World War II. Now, as then, the NSA is widely believed to have the best surveillance technologies anywhere available. Most of its estimated 38,000 employees today are still members of the armed forces. But given that eavesdropping and deception are part of the agency's everyday existence, civil libertarians and the intelligence community have long regarded each other with suspicion. The NSA and its predecessor agencies, after all, routinely violated U.S. law from 1945 to 1975 by persuading telegraph carriers to let them copy cables they sent and received overseas. The nation first learned of those activities through hearings before the Senate Intelligence Committee. The committee, then under the direction of Sen. Frank Church, also discovered that the NSA had used its powers to spy on anti-war activists like Jane Fonda and Benjamin Spock - again in violation of U.S. law. Before 1975, "there were really no legal constraints on NSA," says James Bamford, who documented the story of the NSA from inception to the 1980s in his 1982 bestseller The Puzzle Palace. Bamford, for his part, remains concerned that many of the 170 pages of materials submitted to EPIC have been censored. Nonetheless, "those documents really didn't suggest to me they have gone back to the bad old days," he says. The European Parliament has issued two reports in the last three years that say the United States, together with the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, eavesdrop on virtually every phone call, fax, e-mail and satellite signal in Europe. Chief among NSA goals, the reports say, is industrial espionage for U.S. companies. NSA officials say they spy on foreign companies to reveal cases of bribery and corruption, but nothing else.U.S. Spy Agency Under Fire
Big Brother in Britain & Russia Update Online Spy NetworkMay. 2, 2000 :A few weeks back, Russia's secret service agency raised privacy watchdogs' hackles when it admitted it could intercept and monitor all Russian Internet traffic. The British government acknowledged that it was building a system that could do the same thing in Great Britain, ostensibly to help catch money launders, terrorists, pedophiles, and other criminals who do
July, 2000: A surveillance bill granting the U.K. government sweeping powers to access e-mail and other encryptedU.K. Passes Big Brother Bill Into Law
Now local authorities through out the world have installed tiny camera's on lampposts, rooftops, telephone poles, and street signs to survey citizens movements, traffic violations, moving left to right observing every thing in sight. These cameras report their public observations directly to the police and government spy agencies. The cameras report to these agencies, where security officers and government agents scan for infractions against public order, or perhaps against a established way of free thought and speech which they deem harmful to society or national security. The cameras are here with Big Brother watching your every movement and hearing your voice and scanning your mail and your computer. The trend began in Britain a decade ago, in a town called King's Lynn, where sixty remote controlled cameras were installed to scan known "trouble spots" reporting directly to the police department. The resulted decrease in crime exceeded the police's expectations, in or near the zones crime dropped to 1/7 of its formal rate and the cameras paid for themselves in a few months due to the savings in patrol cost. Today over 300,000 of these surveillance cameras are in place in Britain transmitting 24 hours a day to authorites. Polls report that citizens support these new devices but they are not aware they will in fact come back to invade their pirvacy. British civil libertarian John Wadham and others have denounced this type of snoop technology, claiming, " It could used be for other purposes and of course be abused."
In the United States the City of Baltimore put
police cameras to work scanning all 106 downtown intersections. In 1997
New York City began its own program to set up 24 hour surveillance devices
in Central Park alone, plus subways and other public places. As in Baltimore
and New York City, the ultimate question and fear is who will ultimately
control these devices? AGEMA Systems of Syracuse New York has sold many
police departments imaging devices that can peer into houses from the street,
discriminating the heat given off by indoor marijuana growers and the heat
of persons moving within their own homes.
In 1995, Admiral William A. Owens, then vice
chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff, described a sensor system: a pilot
less drone, equipped to provide air born surveillance to soldiers on the
fields that can fit into the palm of your hand. As with the streetlight
surveillance cameras and the choices we make regarding future information
networks how will they be controlled
and who will control them? The NYC Surveillance
Camera Project (www.mediaeater.com ) has over 3,000 cameras surveying citizens
movements 24 hours a day in Manhatten, NY alone. These decisions
will shape the future of our children and generations to come, if we make
it that far. Could any person order up a search program, using sophisticated
pattern recognition software to scan a throng of citizens and zero in a
specific individual? If a system were implanted through out the world it
is true allot of fugitives would be caught and brought to justice, but
in the same since every law abiding citizens freedom of privacy and anonymity
will be lost forever. When our forefather Thomas Jefferson prescribed a
revolution every few decades, he was speaking not only politically but
also about the constant need to remain flexible and to adapt to changing
times, to innovate as needed, but at the same time keep those freedoms,
privacy, and Amendment Rights we hold and cherish so dearly today. The
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) which was passed so that citizens may
inquire what records, the government has on individuals has some authorities
dragging their feet and acting with hostility when a person requires such
information. Authorities may feel its it cites national security, and sometime
use noncompliance to the FOIA Act to justify their resistance in handing
out information when a citizen requests it.
The same pattern can be seen in the local work
place where managers can monitor and spy on their employees, tracking every
keystroke, timing each phone call, reading their employees e-mail and even
monitor the time they use going to the restroom. Managers justify these
measures as improving employee productivity but others plainly see it has
a violation of basic
human rights and privacy. In 1999 a new set of
internet surveillance systems with names like WEB Sweeper, Disk Tracy and
Secure View have been installed in corporations that can conduct lap top
to desk top computer sweeps that read all it's employees e-mail, web surfing
habits and files. Companies like Telemate. Net are a new breed of Big Brother
in the work place type of snooping. In the future the good news will be
that 100% of all crimes may or will be solved, but the bad news is 100%
of the population are criminals themselves in one form or another including
the police themselves who do the monitoring.
More than 1,500 employees of the U.S. Internal
Revenue Service have been investigated since 1989 for using government
computers to snoop through tax returns of freinds, enemies, their neighbors
,celebrities and so on with out permission. President Clinton signed the
Taxpayers Browsing Act, threatening up to a year in jail for anyone convicted
of the abuse of such
informarion. The government is helping to develop
new data-bases aimed at helping states enforce their own laws to find parents
who depart and abandon child support payments, to catch fugitives from
the law, checking on the backgrounds of gun purchases under the Brady Law,
to track sexual predators or convicted child molesters and so on. These
are all good acts, but certain federal workers, who are corrupt as the
criminals they are tracking down, will also use it to watch your every
movement. J. Edger Hoover,
head of the FBI for decades was notorious at using information to blackmail
citizens, and even presidents themselves as he had access to all data-bases
on individuals. The J. Edger Hoover's of the government are
alive and well today.
Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence used the phrase, " life, liberty and property." Under the influence of Ben Franklin it was changed to, " life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. " Why the change? Among other reasons it may have been there was no consensus among the founders that property should be enshrined as a fundamental right. To be sure, most of them were property owners themselves. But, the Fourth Amendment was signed into the Constitution: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The debate between freedom of speech and censorship
continues today in conflicts over public policy issues exemplified by the
Communications Decency ACT (CDA). Passed in 1996 by the Republican dominated
congress and signed by President Clinton, this legislation established
criminal penalties for posting indecent material over the Internet in which
ways children might access it. When the CDA was argued before the United
States Supreme Court, one aspect in dispute was whether Internet based
carriers such as America Online should be viewed as common carriers of,
which are not responsible for content, or whether their role is more that
of a publisher answerable if some client uses AOL services to send porn
or spam through their service to pander or commit libel. I myself have
a AOL account and 90% of the e-mail I receive has porn related sites, scams
and other obscene material. Before the Supreme
Court rendered its decision on the CDA, Deputy Solicitor General Seth Waxman
held that adults may access any kind of material they wish, even if offensive
to others. Attorney Bruce Bruce Ennis conceded that parents should install
supervisory software that prohibits minors from accessing adult sights.
The Supreme Court,
in 1997, threw out the CDA, basically agreeing
with federal appeals court Judge Dalzell who stated, " The Internet may
fairly regarded as a never ending world wide conversation. The Government
may not, through the CDA, interrupt that conversation. The Internet deserves
the highest protection from government intrusion." ARTICLE From June 1999
Below:
A 1999 June big time federal state bust featuring
government agents posing as child porn delivering UPS workers and adult
bookstore owners identified 1,500 smut suspects worldwide, New York's attorney
general has announced in a move a courtroom opponent speculates is an attempt
at saving face. Denis Vacco said the 18 month " Operation Rip Cord," which
involved New York cops and federal Customs Service agents, yielded 31 prosecutions
so far, with an additional 120 cases being assessed. To demonstrate the
availability of porn online, a state investigator then signed onto America
Online, entered a chat room, and within 10 minutes was sent child pornography.
Of course it wasn't made clear whether the investigator was asking for
or seeking this material while in the chat room, which would make this
a federal violation as well.
JULY 2000: Canada unveiled what it said was the world's most sophisticated DNA database, capable of identifying criminals through analysis of minute amounts of blood, semen, or skin cells. The DNA Data Bank will include samples of DNA -- the unique building blocks of every living thing from young offenders as well as adults who are convicted of serious crimes. It will also include DNA taken from crime scenes. DNA databases already exist in the United States, Germany, Britain, Norway, Finland, Belgium, and Denmark. Canadian officials said the new C$10 million database, located at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters in Ottawa, was the most automated and sophisticated of its kind. " I would think that Canada stands on firm ground as being one of the forerunners in this technology and certainly we've done a great deal to improve the speed of the analysis," said Dr. Ron Fourney, who is in charge of the database. " The innovations we've developed that make it unique will be the robotics and certainly the cost effectiveness," he told a news conference at the official launch. Solicitor General Lawrence MacAuley, the minister in overall charge of Canada's law enforcement agencies, said the database was a powerful tool that would change the way in which police conducted many criminal investigations. " It will help solve serious crimes more quickly and assist in identifying repeat offenders more effectively and with more certainty. It will help police to focus their resources on key suspects by excluding the innocent more quickly," he said. The Mounties have been using DNA analysis since 1989 and the new database marks a major step forward in the fight against violent, sexual and repeat offenders, who will be required to give blood samples. The database will cost C$5 million a year to run and takes five days to process a single sample. Police estimate some 30,000 samples from known serious offenders, suspected criminals, and crime scenes will be processed a year. " When we started 10 years (ago) we might have needed a biological sample which was the size of a penny. Today's technology is so revolutionary that 10 percent of what would fit on the head of a pin is all we'd need to do a case," Fourney said. Fourney said Canada was negotiating with other nations that possess DNA databanks to set up a system whereby genetic information can be exchanged. Samples from convicted criminals will be kept permanently on file so that they can be processed again once more advanced technology becomes available. " I think the DNA Data Bank will be as revolutionary a tool for law enforcement today as fingerprinting was when it was first introduced 100 years ago," said Superintendent Lee Fraser, manager of Canada's Forensic Identification Service. " Our goal is to catch criminals and in the game of crime, knowing who the bad guys are, being able to single them out and linking them irrefutably to their crimes is a very important tool," he told the news conference. He failed to ad that corrupt police and government prosecutors are not requiredCanada Takes DNA Database Lead
The bottom line is that Big Brother has infiltrated
our privacy and want's to monitor every individual's privacy. Yes, its
true that they capture many criminals, but in the same process, they
have the capabilities to monitor your every movement. The selling of individual
information is now a huge business. But who will monitor the monitors?
I'm not anti-government but Im
against officials hiding behind their badges,
authority to engage in criminal activity themselves. The box of pandora
has been opened and the eventual outcome will be the marking and monitoring
of everyone on earth, just as foreseen in The Book of Revelation. The War
of Armageddon is in the making and there is no turning back. The micro
chip processor Intel has been adding serialization numbers to it's chips
so it can electronically track down stolen and reclocked chips. In
the process, it has made it possible for online web site snoopers to spy
on you in ways never thought possible. In essence ,the Intel chip in your
computer is sort of like a computer social security number transmitter.
When you visit a web site people will be able to access your computer information
on what web sites you visit. The sites can vary from Nickleodean, Porn,
or hate sites such as the infamous www.godhatesfags.com or www.kkk.com.
Your personal viewing habits will be tracked, logged, and put in a national
data base.( Actually,the government is doing this already without
your knowledge.)
In a February, 2000 speech by FBI director Louis
Freech to the Senate Appropriations Commission he warned of a coming
wave of Internet crime and Web based Terrorism
and is seeking 75 million in funds in the expansion of computer based
snooping technology called Operation "Digital
Storm ". The funds will enlarge and improve the FBI's massive information
technology to expand it's ability to gather and
analyze information. The proposals submitted include more authority to
conduct wire taps, crack encrypted documents
and subpoena computer related information. The agency will also
increase it's information on american citizen's
credit information, real estate records, vehicle registration, medical
records
and anything and everything they need for their
FBI world wide data base. It would be nice if The FBI could protect
their own systems and government web sights from
hacker attacks and concentrate on closing back doors to their
own systems and hire some people capable of at
least keeping teenagers from cracking into government systems.
Barry Scheck( O.J. Simpson Case ) , the director of the Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in in New York City, which uses DNA testing to exonerate inmates wrongfully accused and convicted ( 35 since 1992, six on death row) is also a commissioner on New York's Forensic Science Review Board, an agency charged with the state's DNA data bank. Consider this, in 11 of the DNA cases where testing as exonerated the accused, the real person through DNA testing was apprehended. It would easy to see how a persons DNA may be distributed through a computer chip smart card or data base on everyone in the free world. The tragic aspect of this is just a future jump into the marking and identifying of every citizen as prophesied in Revelation. In December of 1998, the New York Police Commissioner Howard Safir told the New York Times that anyone even arrested of a crime should submit a DNA sample regardless if the suspect is guilty or innocent. In England, where a DNA database has has operated since 1995, suspects are routinely screened this way, nevermind the conviction or proof of innocense. Commissioneer Safir stated," We should be collecting DNA from everyone, the only people who need to worry are the criminals. " The DNA information would be stored in the FBI maintained National DNA Index System (NDIS) which was begun in 1998 and contains over 300,000 DNA fingerprints and is expected to grow by 100,000 a year. More than 360,000 gene prints are online now. English investigators sometimes perform a mass screening in a town where a crime has been committed where people are asked to give a mouth swab of their saliva. A citizen may refuse such a request, ( As of now) but the police will give them the cold stare or think, " What is this person trying to hide?" I myself would tell ANYONE I have nothing to hide but only want to retain what little privacy I have left. That is a basic right of any human being, which it seems, a citizens privacy decays every day in the present and ever growing Orwellian Society. The problem is good and bad in that DNA technology works. The good for example is that in England some 500 matches a week are made connecting a person to a crime scene. The FBI claims that 200 cases have been solved due to DNA technology and since 1976, many death row inmates have been spared execution due to this DNA evidence. What is bad is that in the near future all citizens of the world will be DNA marked. As though you were cattle and needed to be branded by the government's New World Order. Also which disturbs me is that a person's DNA (saliva for example. ) could be planted at a crime scene. As I have stated many times in my research, wether you believe in the Bible or not, the marking of every human as told in The Book of Revelation is here now.
A Orwellian society is not a myth, but a fact
unfolding before our eyes. In the January 1999 issue of Time magazine
a poll was taken on whether suspected criminals should be DNA marked, and
what shocked me that 66% of the poll was in favor of such marking. Now
this was on SUSPECTED criminals! You can be accused or suspected of anything.
The mere ignorance of today's society is frightening .What they do
not understand is that these same laws will come back to haunt them. Science
is already in the early stages of a DNA computer.
Instead of using numbers, the DNA computer will replace numbers with the
code A,C,T and G, that make up the all DNA molecules. In January, 2000,
the University of Wisconsin had already reported that a DNA computer
had found a way to complete a simple calculation.
Cops may soon be able to analyze the DNA of crime scene blood or hair without having to send it to the lab, and that power is scaring civil libertarians. Testing begins in the summer of 1999 on a postage stamp sized chip being developed by Nanogen, a San Diego biotech company. The chip is designed to perform DNA analysis within minutes on drops of saliva, semen, or other left behind human remnants. A portable from the FBI's national database of felons' DNA. As almost anyone with a TV knows, a person's deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA ) , which is detectable in everything from saliva to hair to a semen stain on a blue dress, contains a unique genetic "fingerprint." Nanogen is one of several companies working on developing fast, chip based DNA testing for law enforcement, backed by millions of dollars in federal grants. In June 1999, Nanogen is sending its system to the Bode Technology Group, one of the nation's largest forensic labs for testing. Nanogen hopes to get it on the streets within the next few years, according to company vice president Kieran Gallahue. An effective chip would be a boon to police, cutting the time for DNA testing from weeks to minutes and the cost to a fraction of its current level. The use of DNA in criminal justice also got a boost last October, when the FBI's national DNA database went online. The National DNA Index System already contains roughly 150,000 genetic profiles of convicted offenders as well as DNA samples from the scenes of over 8,000 unsolved crimes. The FBI says its database has helped to solve hundreds of cases while a similar system in England, online since 1995, has linked nearly 30,000 suspects to crime scenes. But DNA use has been hobbled by the slow, expensive process of testing samples. State law enforcement agencies have already collected 620,000 samples from various lawbreakers, but have analyzed fewer than half. Money is a major bottleneck: Testing cost is $1,200, according to Chris Asplen, crime scene evidence costs an average executive director of the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence. " With chips, those numbers will go down incredibly," says Asplen. "We'll be able to do more, faster and cheaper." Privacy advocates, however, see instant DNA testing as a further acceleration of government intrusiveness. " DNA harbors our most intimate secrets," says Barry Steinhardt, associate director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "It contains the markers for over 4,000 diseases and might be able to indicate a predisposition to being gay or [to being] a substance abuser. In the wrong hands, it can and will lead to abuse and discrimination."Cops Covet DNA Chip for All Citizens
Gallahue argues that Nanogen's chip, like the FBI's database, reads only tiny sections of the DNA molecules called short tandem repeats, or STRs. Like fingerprints, the 13 sets of STRs logged for each tested individual provide only identifying information, without revealing anything else about the person such as health status or genetic predisposition. But the capacity to obtain more DNA data only seems to whet the authoritarian appetites of many in law enforcement. Howard Safir, a New York City police commissioner, recently recommended that anyone arrested for a crime whether subsequently convicted or not should have to provide a DNA sample. Louisiana already allows this kind of DNA testing, and other states take samples from juvenile offenders and parolees. Involuntary DNA collecting has been unsuccessfully challenged in the courts at least three times in recent years. But the technology can work the other way too. Since the late 1980s, criminal investigators have used DNA testing to exonerate at least 56 wrongfully convicted people in the United States, including 11 on death row. On June 17,1999- New DNA testing finally liberated Calvin C. Johnson, Jr., a man who was wrongly imprisoned for rape and sodomy in 1983. Johnson was the 61st inmate in the country to be exonerated by new DNA testing, and had served the longest prison term so far. Still, technology, no matter how advanced, won't make the process fool proof. According to DNA expert Barry Scheck, a law professor who served on O. J. Simpson's defense team, DNA evidence is lost or destroyed 70 percent of the time. Evidence can also be easily mishandled or contaminated, especially when it's being analyzed on the street. "We've identified a significant lack of training of law enforcement around this DNA stuff, " Asplen said. " The greatest impediment now to the expansion of coerced testing is cost, " says Steinhardt. "As these chips bring that down, we fear the expansion of these programs. " But Nanogen's Gallahue trumpets the possibility of reducing crime as worth the investment. "When you think about the power of this to identify repeat criminals and get them off the streets and to release innocent individuals, it's a very powerful argument for doing testing."
In Chicago, 1999, a murderer of three women was
on the Chicago's most wanted list and went by the moniker name of PATTERN
D because the only evidence the police had was the DNA collected at the
crime scene .A suspect named Ronald Macon, who had been serving time in
a prison for two months agreed to a DNA test. The DNA matched the genetic
code of the PATTERN D suspect and it appeared the police had found their
man. In the United States, 48 states have adopted a
policy on collecting DNA from certain convicted
felons. The International Association of Police Chiefs want ALL arrested
citizens DNA to be logged and filed into a national data base which already
contains over 270,000 profiles with a back log of 500,000 more to be added.
They claim anyone who is innocent or cleared of a crime will have their
DNA removed from the file. Anyone who believes this is merely naive .It
will be sooner than anyone thinks when the government will require a DNA
specimen from all it's citizens. Of course they will mask the purpose for
medical, financial or some other gullible excuse to extract DNA whether
it be hair, saliva, or other human properties where DNA can be extracted
and then filed. The US police may soon have the cash they need to accelerate
their DNA fingerprinting efforts, courtesy of the federal government. A
new bill in Congress provides over $45 million in federal funds to spur
police into taking more DNA samples and using them in criminal investigations.
The FBI in late 1998 finished constructing a massive DNA database with
over a million entries. Republican. Benjamin Gilman (R-NY) Jim Ramstad
(R-Minn) and Bart Stupak (D-Mich), allows the Justice Department to write
checks to state and local police forces so they can buy "state of the art
testing methods. " While these Three Stooges are supporting this DNA branding
they themselves have yet to submit their own samples of DNA. Gilman's
bill expands the database to allow samples to be taken not just from adults
convicted of criminal offenses, but also from minors guilty of "acts of
juvenile delinquency. " Privacy advocates charge that collecting more information
is unwise. " The problem is that a great deal of the backlog is caused
by a number of these states demanding DNA samples from just about everyone.
A number of states, Louisiana and New York are moving toward collecting
DNA samples from every single individual arrested, no matter how minor
the crime," says David Banisar, co-author of the Electronic Privacy Papers.
These tiny laboratories can even work inside a
person to treat illness. But despite such astonishing progress in miniaturization,
brick walls persist in blocking the way. A troubling new one turned up
in a report published in the journal Nature by Dr. David Anthony Muller
and his colleagues at Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, N.J. In 1965, Gordon
Moore, a cofounder
of the Intel Corporation, predicted that the
number of components that could be packed into a chip would increase four-fold
every three years. So far, that prediction, known as Moore's Law, has proved
fairly accurate, and each year's advances have made last year's computers
seem out of date. But the Lucent team showed last week that at the present
pace of chip
improvement, technologists will hit a barrier
in the year 2012, beyond which further progress with silicon based chips
may not be possible. The present thickness of the best silicon dioxide
insulators in chips is equivalent to about 25 silicon atoms. If progress
in miniaturization continues at its present rate, chip makers will reach
the five atom minimum thickness in the year 2012, the Lucent group predicted.
Will that be the end of the line? "So far," wrote Dr. Max Schulz of the
University of Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany, "there has seemed to be
no obstacle to stop the continuous development of microelectronic chips.
The new limit to oxide thickness is fundamental, however, and cannot simply
be overcome by technological improvements. " This won't mean a dead
end to improvements in the arts of miniaturizing, of course. The great
physicist Richard Feynman pointed out in 1959 that a lathe could be used
to make a smaller lathe which in turn could make one smaller still, in
a progression without any obvious limit. Gemplus, the world's largest smart
card producer has technology ready smart cards that can store all your
personal history from your date of birth to date. It employs biometrics,
the use of DNA or your finger print for identification purposes. These
cards cost less than a dollar to manufacture and I'm sure within
the next ten years all humans will be subject to this type of cattle branding
so that Big Brother may monitor your habits even more closely. In a April
2000 magazine article by Chris Trumble in Smart Computing Magazine, the
company Applied Digital Solutions ( www.adsx.com)
said that GPS tracking devices may exceed $100 billion in sales in the
near future. ADSX is a manufacturer of skin implanted tracking chips that
can use satellites to track and monitor human beings.
Anyone who has read The Bible's Book of Revelation will know that in certain verse's the whole world wouldThe Big Brother Project "Eye Sky Technology"
But what if you could manipulate particles
in the atmosphere and make the sky a sort of projection screen? This would
explain the passage. A rainbow is a primitive
example made by nature to illustrate this phenomenon and technology
is in the process of making the atmosphere
a huge reflective device such as you would see in a planetarium.
New technology is being introduced where atmospheric
particles may be manipulated by satellites ,scanners ,computer
imaging that will turn the earth's atmosphere
into a huge reflective screen code named EYE SKY. The technology could
be used from anything as news breaking events
to propaganda projected in the atmosphere for the whole world to see.
Below is basic information on how a rainbow
appears and you will see how simple this new technology will be created.
1. Mechanisms: Particle and Molecule light interactions responsible for creating optical effects. These interactions include reflection, scattering, refraction and diffraction.
2. Air, Dust, Haze: Optical effects resulting
from the interaction of light with air, dust and haze particles. These
effects include
crepuscular rays, blue skies, blue haze and sunsets.
3. Ice Crystals: Optical effects resulting
from the interaction of light with ice crystals. These effects include
sundogs, sun
pillars and halos.
4. Water Droplets: Optical effects resulting
from the interaction of light with water droplets. These effects include
cloud
iridescence, rainbows and a silver lining
along the edge of clouds.
In the 2001 September Issue of Popular Science companies such as Marinello & Callaway of Arlington Texas were working on the MyLar billboard, which is more than 12 miles in diameter and would use light refection from the sun would light up the sky with any advertisement claiming the whole world would be able to view it.Another company Space Marketing of Roswell,Georgia had a similar plan in the 1990's. Thanks to congress such ads in space were banned,but it would not stop other nations to envoke such eye-in-the-sky billboards.
Ask Big Brother What Time it Is? He Will Find You and Tell YouIn the winter of 2000 , Casio Industries has introduced it's new GPS ( Global Positioning Satellites ) watch that tracks your exact location via the global world satellite system. It can track your exact location via longitude and latitude, even if your moving or in a set location. The device is similar in what US prisons put on convicted felons by a wrist or ankle bracelet to track them while on parole.
President Clinton on Monday, May. 1, 2000, gave the go ahead for letting boaters, motorists, and hikers use a satellite navigation system with the same pinpoint accuracy as the military has long enjoyed. Clinton ordered that at 8 p.m., EDT on Monday night, the U.S. military stop intentionally scrambling the satellite signals used by civilians to improve theClinton Unscrambles GPS Signals
JULY 2000: It is ironic that in 1999 the United States compromised 5% of the world population while it had 25% of the worlds prison population, many who were incarcerated for marijuana. The war on drugs was nothing more than a scam by the government to spend more money, pass more laws for the police's ability to wire tap, eavesdrop on citizens ,which in manyWar on Drugs a Big Brother Scam
During the first 130 years in America, a citizen
was guaranteed the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
which included the right to ingest whatever chemicals or food one desired.
If you doubt this, remember the words of Thomas Jefferson who said
a government that controls what it's citizens ingest, eat, and the kinds
of medicine they wish to consume, then the government will soon try to
control what a citizen thinks. Marijuana was outlawed as a illegal drug
in the 1930.s. The movie Reefer Madness portrayed people who smoked
weed would go insane, jump out of windows and other ridiculous
scenarios. This movie of misinformation had a
big effect on the public and it was a major factor in the decision to
outlaw marijuana in the 1930's. As with alcohol
in America in the 1920's, The Prohibition Law caused the crimes and
in a sense , the government itself created the Mafia a billion dollar industry.
The throwing of people in prison, which I might ad, inmates can get almost
any drug they want while in jail, which in most cases are smuggled
in by corrupt prison guards.
This practice has been proven useless and billions
of dollars that have been wasted on the mythical War on Drugs could have
been put to use in other programs ranging from education to health care.
In 1914 congress passed the Harrison Act leading to the unlawful use or
possession of drugs. Prior to that time there was no black market for drugs.
This opened the market again for organized crime to grow financially stronger
thus leading to the bribing and corruption of judges and all the way down
to the cop on the street. Drug historian David Musto M.D. of Yale University
stated that the public use of opium had steadily declined 15 years prior
to the Harrison Act. Why does the thought of responsible citizens controlling
their own lives scare the government so much? One notion which you might
find hard to contemplate is I would legalize all drugs. This simple act
would wipe out the black market, organized crime distribution of drugs,
clear cities of these gangs who sell crack on the street. Why would a person
who is interested in buying cocaine from a gang member for $100 where he
could go to his nearest drug store and buy it for $5 ? Also the legalization
of all drugs would ease this idiotic ideology of the War on Drugs. The
money from taxes alone would be staggering as drugs are the second most
money making business in the world. Marijuana now is the biggest crop in
America through in house growing rooms. We could decrease the money spent
on drug traffickers since they would no longer exist. We could apply the
funds from taxed drugs to more important things such as education, disease
research and social security and also repair and update our nation's aging
electrical power grid.
The Worlds Top Three Money Making Industries as
of 1998 (Estimates)
1. The Selling of Military War Fare Technology
and Weapons $800 Billion
2. The Selling Of Drugs $600 Billion
3. The Oil Industry
$500 Billion
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