From Chris Parsons:

“Christopher Soghoian, a PhD Candidate at Indiana University, has released the information on US wiretap/pen register information along with documents received through FOIA that are inquiring into the costs that telecommunications carriers demand for the two aforementioned services. He also has full recordings of sessions from (the closed door) ISS World: Intelligence Support Systems for Lawful Interception, Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Gathering. An executive summary of his draft thoughts are below, followed by a link to the full piece he’s written. He has made available his recordings and the responses to his FOIA requests to the public at large, all accessible at the link below.

The National Security Agency is building a $2 billion storage facility that will house and analyze all forms of electronic communication… A potential yottabyte of everyone’s (formerly) personal data.

This got me thinking about disk storage sizes and data comparisions:

Disk Storage

1 Bit = Binary Digit
8 Bits = 1 Byte
1000 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
1000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
1000 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
1000 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
1000 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
1000 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
1000 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte

Bit: A Bit is the smallest unit of data that a computer uses. It can be used to represent two states of information, such as Yes or No.

Byte: A Byte is equal to 8 Bits. A Byte can represent 256 states of information, for example, numbers or a combination of numbers and letters. 1 Byte could be equal to one character. 10 Bytes could be equal to a word. 100 Bytes would equal an average sentence.

Kilobyte: A Kilobyte is approximately 1,000 Bytes, actually 1,024 Bytes depending on which definition is used.

Megabyte: A Megabyte is approximately 1,000 Kilobytes. In the early days of computing, a Megabyte was considered to be a large amount of data. These days with a 500 Gigabyte hard drive on a computer being common, a Megabyte doesn’t seem like much anymore.  650 Megabytes is about the amount of data that will fit on a CD-ROM disk.

Gigabyte: A Gigabyte is approximately 1,000 Megabytes. A Gigabyte is a very common term used these days when referring to disk space or drive storage. 1 Gigabyte of data is almost twice the amount of data that a CD-ROM can hold. But it’s about one thousand times the capacity of a 3-1/2 floppy disk. 1 Gigabyte could hold the contents of about 10 yards of books on a shelf. 100 Gigabytes could hold the entire library floor of academic journals.

Terabyte: A Terabyte is approximately one trillion bytes, or 1,000 Gigabytes.  To put it in some perspective a Terabyte could hold 1,000 copies of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Ten Terabytes could hold the printed collection of the Library of Congress.

Petabyte: A Petabyte is approximately 1,000 Terabytes or one million Gigabytes. It’s hard to visualize what a Petabyte could hold. 1 Petabyte could hold approximately 20 million 4-door filing cabinets full of text. It could hold 500 billion pages of standard printed text. It would take about 500 million floppy disks to store the same amount of data.

Exabyte: An Exabyte is approximately 1,000 Petabytes. Another way to look at it is that a Petabyte is approximately one quintillion bytes or one billion Gigabytes. As of 2009 the entire internet was estimated to contain close to 500 exabytes or 50,000 years’ worth of DVD-quality video.

Zettabyte: A Zettabyte is approximately 1,000 Exabytes.  The prefix zetta comes from “Zeta,” which is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet.

Yottabyte: A Yottabyte is approximately 1,000 Zettabytes.  The yottabyte is the largest unit of measurement for computer data, consisting of 1,024 zettabytes.

If there is one thing that I do give Obama and Crew credit for, particularly the wanna be Machiavellian himself and his cohort Rambo, with a serving of Axelturf on the side, it is two things.

1.  They have no consciences.  And are if not politically “smart” then political “bullies.”  Or play good cop/bad cop, with no problem in literally beating up opponents.  That’s why Obama chose Rambo to begin with.

2.  All three are undemocratic, authoritarian media whores and power hungry bastards who know the art of using pr and media manipulation to a T.  Valerie Jarrett to some extent has a hand in this, but she knows knothing about media, this kind of imagery at this kind of sophistication (although she certainly does have a knowledge of the importance of the promotion of the “imperial” leader through symbolism) or any sophistication about DC.

In fact none of the current White House staff do, with the exception of Rahmbo, and he has no conscience or morals.  The Chicago crowd Buppies on the White House staff are all first or maybe second generation wealth, all corrupt, and extremely tacky, Buppy Oreos.

With NO TASTE. Tacky, as they say in the south.  I’m surprised Michelle Obama didn’t give the Indian Prime Minister a copy of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book..  For those of you who DON’T get the reference, the joke or the lack of Mrs. Obama’s cultural sophistication, much less education, which depends far more on WHAT you learn than WHERE you went to school (much as she would like to pretend that she has it or can buy it, right along with “class”), Kipling was a British writer during the height of 1800’s English Imperialist rule of “Inja,” and while a good writer and sometimes sympathetic to the natives, usually an unapologetic booster of the Crown and British Imperialism.  Not to mention the British East India Company.  In other words the equivalent of giving Gordon Brown, The British Prime Minister, upon HIS arrival at the Obama White House, American movies you could pick up from Target on a format you can’t play in England.

But certainly appropriate in this situation, if you have rotten dark humor like me, considering that both the East India Company and Michelle’s  husband are doing  the same damn stupid things, two hundred years apart, a few hundred miles north.  And for the same reasons.  But we’ll come back to that in a second.

Diplomatically, however, it would have been what those of us who do speak more than one language and do have a background in international affairs would call a major diplomatic faux pas.  Or, in translation, BIG NO NO.

But all of the above is completely lost, if not far above the heads of the elitist, rich Buppies (who got that way through corrupt activities) and white male twits on the make who now staff Obama’s White House.  Plus kiss ass Washington insiders, white or black, who flushed their morals down the toilet long ago.  And began cashing in connections for greenbacks, no questions asked, well over a decade ago (see Rambo for starters).

You see why I left DC?

But back to the event and “who dunnit” and why.

I think it was Rambo, Obama and Axelturf’s work.  With Stephanopolous on the side.  And Begala.  With of course Oprah.  And Anna Wintour (where is Bravo located, for one thing – New York in case you didn’t know -  and who has the kind of pull to GET Bravo to get involved in this kind of stunt?  One word.  Oprah.  Who needs something to do now she’s given up her own show and put Obama in the White House, and who’s own demographics mirror to a T that damned reality show those two “party crashers” were supposedly “auditioning” for.)

Why do I think this?

For starters, what would an ex cheerleader for the Redskins know about Indian fashion (what was she wearing folks), much less how would she get access to the theme of the event in the first place to know how to dress so she would fit in so perfectly?   Better in fact than anyone except the real Indians in attendance.

And for those of you unfamiliar with Indian fashion, those were not cheap duds.

And if the MENU of the affair was considered a state secret, not to mention the guest list, which it was, you can bet your bottom dollar, that somebody spoke to someone else about what the theme of the event was going to be, not to mention arranged this whole thing on the QT in the first place.

Which means that our “gatecrashers” were plants seeded by the White House.  To sow suspicion, and grow toxic waste just as hazardous to your health as Mrs. Obama’s toxic HAZMAT site on the White House lawn.  If not produce equally toxic byproduct for your consumption.  With equally toxic strategies in mind.

Elementary and logic, Dr. Watson.

These are not the kinds of things that are hard to figure out if you have a clue, an education and know where to look.

Or, if you know who’s who, and who the White House keeps, um “Classified,” if you know what I mean?  Especially in secret ops, and diversions.

Because if looking for finger prints, clues and evidence of perps at the scene of the “crime”  EVERYONE is a suspect.   And sorry for the very bad pun, but I’m really pissed at Obama about all of his crap on National Security, FOIA and FISA, and I couldn’t resist.

What are you going to do?  Laugh or cry?

But back to our “gate crashers.”

There is no way in hell this was an “accident” or even the work of two idiot “gatecrashers” on the make for their fifteen minutes of fame who, I also doubt would be able to talk their way into this event. Their IQ’s aren’t that high, for one thing to “talk their way in” which is one of the theories propounded at the moment by a White House reporter who knows damned well that this is impossible.  Even for Einstein.

Not that many of the other attendees were geniuses either, but they at least were celebrities.  These were rich, dumb idiots from one of the wealthiest suburbs of Northern Virginia with nothing to do with their time, and some connections, who decided that this would be a gas to try to pull off and pass off as a prank.

Spin again and try another answer on the “gate crasher” theory.  ‘Cause that one does not pass the laugh test.  Or as I say constantly the gas test.  In that it stinks.  Of corruption and deliberate media manipulation.  Commonly called manufactured propaganda.

Especially in the kind of distraction and propaganda this kind of thing has already created (i.e. were they terrorists, was the guy a Palestinian operative, was the President in any danger, etc. and if you don’t believe me, just watch some of the unbelievably inane conversations on the links to the news coverage I’ve included in this article), while concealing something devious and at the same time really underhanded, but a connection very obvious to make.

And stinks of the tactics of Obama, Axelturf and Rambo.  With the tackiness of Michelle thrown in for good measure.  Why do I think so?  Keep reading.

That’s their favorite kind of game and MO.

Psychopathology in politics is a very interesting subject. I recommend Reinhold Neihber’s classic work on the topic about the psychopathology of politicians.

And if you look at the bottom of the link about the man’s bio I’ve included above, guess who cites his work as his “fave.”

But if you look at this FABULOUS clip, a true classic from when TV was really TV, and the interview while long by today’s standards, excellent, unbiased, and eerily relevant in more ways than one, to modern events, you will see what I mean when, just like Bush, despite all that professed “brilliance,” I think Obama is a bit like Otto in that truly fabulous film, “A Fish Called Wanda” where he, unlike Bush actually read all the greats – he just, like his predecessor, who read the Cliff’s notes instead, still didn’t understand them.

But Neihber wrote a great deal about both religion and the psychopathology of politicians.  As well as morality in society in general.  I highly recommend this work,  “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study of Ethics and Politics (Library of Theological Ethics)” absolutely required homework and reading, if you’re REALLY interested in understanding the inner workings and getting the 411 of what’s yet to come from our head honcho.  And apparently a book Obama thinks he alone has read.  Because naturally he’s superior to everyone else on the planet.

But just like Bush, who, for example thought my late uncle’s phrase “Management by Objective” was to make himself as rich as possible by starting two wars right over the wealthiest oil fields in the world (Cost, what’s that?  Taxpayer dollars aren’t for infrastructure, they’re for fighting wars.  Civil liberties?  Who needs them?  Down the toilet they go. And daddy may have paid for his education, (just like Obama’s daddy helped him get into Harvard through legacy preferances and minority advantage) and both Obama and Bush read all the greats, but Bush, just like Obama sure doesn’t seem to understand them.

Or deliberately twist them because they either think they can get away with it, or because they assume that nobody will catch them in the act.  Or are claiming they are above the law, because of expanded Executive Privilege.  Also known as BULLSHIT.

And despite all this crap surfacing lately in the mainstream media (written I notice by established, white male journalists with White House access, what a surprise)  about “give the man more time, the “mistakes” are just because he doesn’t know what he’s doing and therefore forgivable” blah, blah, blah, are wasting both your time and mine.

That’s all crap.

They’re just the same.

Obama is just as cynical, if not worse than Bush.

Because he ran on a lie.  He is literally on something like 515 campaign “promises broken ALREADY.  And what’s worse, making not only a mockery of the Constitution and the presidency by his lawbreaking actions, but COMMODIZING IT.

And not only by the blatent product promotion of Google on the White House Website, but by literally, as of today, begun its own marketing efforts, hawking “can’t be missed” Obama embossed winter fleece jackets.  No pun intended.  To fleece me of bucks I don’t have since they’re doing such a great job up there at the White House with job creation and civil rights for gimps. Not to mention, uh, security, if you really want me to run their noses in it.  Not that I’d ever be a walking billboard for that man in my life.

And now this crap.

I think this “gate crashing” story was a set up all along.  And another way of marketing the Obama brand, the Afghani war, the increased need for a security state (I mean “the safety of the President was never in danger right? gushed one reporter breathlessly) give me a break, and had several other nefarious motives behind it.  Planned not by two dingbat rednecks with money from the rich suburbs of Virginia, but the inner sanctums of  the White House itself.

But this is EXACTLY how tacky the very idea of “branding” a President is, not to mention undemocratic and dangerous, and why I’m opposed to the commoditization of the Presidency in the first place.

Just like there’s a separation between church and state, and there’s a separation and supposed balance of power between the Executive, the Judiciary and the Congressional branches of power.  Not to mention a suppposedly independent “Fourth Estate” (the press) to act as guard dog, the Presidency IS NOT FOR SALE.  Nor is the President a brand or a commodity.

Or some kind of reality show.

And neither is our Democracy.

So this “gatecrasher” BS is precisely that.  I’ve been to AIDS fundraisers where the security is tighter than that.

This was deliberate, and planned by the White House.  And Obama knows what he’s doing.

And he’s doing it very cynically.

And this Tinkerbell and Dingbat Cinderella Act at the White House Ball scenario was just another media event “insider photo op” set up for your amusement and distraction by the Disneyworld La La Land production section of the White House propaganda corps.  Not to mention another way to “brand” the presidency.

Don’t believe me?  Okay.  Here’s why I think so.

First of all, let’s start with the obvious.  The gatecrashers are even claiming, through their attorney that they WERE CLEARED BY THE WHITE HOUSE TO BEGIN WITH, which makes this whole thing even MORE STUPID.

Not to mention suspicious.

But a great eye candy story to take your attention off of what is really going on.  Like the deployment of a great many U.S. troops just north of India next week in an area we still have not formally declared war in, are spending billions of dollars to fight phantoms in for no purpose whatsoever, are going to get our asses kicked, destabilize the region, and need those dollars at home even more.  But that is PRECISELY why the administration DOES NOT want you thinking about those issues.

They want you thinking about rich, bored ex cheerleaders who crash the White House state dinner party (and conveniently disappear right before dinner, knowing damned well they would run a greater risk of being caught, another piece of insider information that someone tipped them off to) again leading me to believe that this was not a, excuse the pun “lone gate crasher” operation.

I told you.

I read the MF as in POTUS, not to mention the witch that is FLOTUS, like there is no tomorrow, now that I know where both are coming from.  I have been consistently right, since I made the fatal flaw of NOT paying attention to the many bells that should have tipped me off last year, and voted for him anyway. And thought Michelle’s moving stories about her dad would move her ass on the disability issue.

And then watched, to my horror, as Obama appointed Rahmbo as Chief Pitball. And as for Michelle?  Well, let’s put it this way.  Mom-in-Chief, much less showing up at the Vatican in a veil, is hardly my idea of being the epitome of the modern role model for women.   And as much as I despise her politics and her guts, and think she’s as dumb as a plank (but given Michelle’s screw ups to date, I’m not so sure she’s superior in the IQ department either, despite those Ivies), and certainly just as corrupt as this administration, Sarah Palin has a lot more going for her.

At least she’s not dressed up as a Saint.  She’s a badass bitch from hell and she doesn’t care who knows it.  At least she’s HONEST about it.  And doesn’t put on this BS piety act in public while bitching about how difficult it is to keep two kids in private school at $20K per kid per year plus piano lessons of another $10K per year each, and then take quarter million dollar date nights to New York on the taxpayer dime, wear tennis shoes that cost TWICE as much as those on disability benefits recieved in the bailout (the least any demographic received under the bailout) and rent vacation houses in exclusive enclaves that cost as much per WEEK as the medium annual salary is for the average American worker.  If they still do have a job that is.  All the time talking about her pious understanding of what it meant to grow up poor.  And how her heart bleeds for those poor Americans out of work.  Thanks to her husband’s stupid economic policies.

Thanks, lady, but we don’t need another Evita Peron.  Stick it where the sun don’t shine.

I AM FED UP, with the lies, hypocrisy, deceit, illusions, and smoke and mirrors.

And this latest incident is just another example.  So I thought I would dissect it for you.

But back to Obama.  Since the naming of Rambo to Head White House Bully, it’s all been downhill ever since.  On rocket propelled jet skis.

Having worked in DC for well over a decade, both on the Hill and in the national press, including for international news AT White House pressers (i.e. inside the gates of the White House) even before 9/11, there is absolutely NO way that anyone could “crash” the White House.

Especially during a HIGH SECURITY EVENT.

Especially this kind of event and under these circumstances.   Especially during these times.

Not even Desiree Rogers (the White House Social Secretary) is that dumb although of course bravely falling on her sword in media reports, like all the White House staff are supposed to do in the service of the Massah, (although that is no defense of her IQ, which is somewhere around that of her dresses).

The people I feel sorriest for are the Secret Service guys, who are predictably going to pay the highest price for a plan cooked up at what I suspect is real estate very close to if not in the Oval Office itself.

While I’m no fan of testosterone addled, paramilitary outfits and people who work for them, which is basically what the secret service is, I do have respect for the folks who guard the President.

Who, while their heads may not hold the largest brains on the planet and may not be the brightest beans in the basket (although their other heads, at least those of the male persuasion, are quite impressive, I have to say, from personal experience, having dated a few during my tenure in DC, but just like I refused to give my gay (male) friends any salacious details, much as they begged, such details will remain a national security secret in blog form as well, DO NOT make such dumb mistakes as letting people talk their way into White House State Dinners with foriegn heads of state, high ranking U.S. officials and other VIPs in attendance.  Particularly this foriegn head of state.  Particularly right now.  We’ll get back to that in a sec if you don’t see where I’m going with that one.

However, let’s just put it this way.  While the heads they really think impressed the hell out of me, (in reality it was the other ones they have, do not expose in public, and not of the cranial variety that did) they do know how to do their jobs.

Which are EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.  24/7.

Which means they are very well trained before ever getting the White House assignment.  Especially on nights when high ranking domestic AND foriegn heads of state and CEOs and VIPs will be present.

They are very brave, well trained, and operate on autopilot to do things like body frisk you, naked, with or without a warrant, in two seconds flat,  if they have the slightest reason to think that you are not supposed to be where you are and you are a “threat,” which trust me, they are much better trained to identify than say Fox News, however much they aren’t exactly the people I’d go say recruiting rocket scientists from, and I suppose picked for their unswerving unthinking ability to do just one thing.

Protect the head of state and his or her family.  No questions asked, no excuses allowed.  And literally, no bullet dodged.  And no idiots with no ID and no names on ANY guest list, allowed in the door.  No matter how much sweet talking occurs, or cash flashed, unless the right ID is shown and the right names are on the right lists.

Because their job, when one’s natural instinct is to duck and run for cover when one hears gunshots, is to literally throw themselves IN FRONT OF THE BULLET or whatever danger du jour potentially confronts the President.  Which no minor White House flunky has the authority to overrrule.  Again as some idiotic DC White House reporters are even mentioning, when again, they know better.

And the Secret Service does this as a matter of course.  Even if they think personally, the man they are putting their lives on the line for is a lying snot.

They are not allowed to even let their own personal political or religious beliefs, much less excuses,  get in the way of literally putting their lives on the line for the Commander in Chief.

That’s why they get my respect. And those who are blaming them for this little escapade get nothing but my scorn.

So say what you will about their IQ, but it’s a job I couldn’t do.  They are brave and put their lives on the line EVERY DAY.

And why this “blame the secret security staff BS” makes me so steamed. I’m not saying that mistakes don’t happen.  But this is part of an unfortunate and oft recurring pattern of this administration…and right on the heels of the departure of the White House Chief Counsel.

Who Obama blamed for Gitmo, when it was clearly his fault.  And is also a part of another pattern.  The rampant elitism and classism of the White House.  Not to mention the “blame the fart on the dog in the room” when Obama needs to lay off a screw up on somebody else.

Obama is always blaming someone else for his fuckups and that’s when he expects someone to fall on a sword.  That’s why I am beginning to really despise him.  And why he’s so dangerous.  So far every time he’s needed a victim, he’s got one to volunteer.   That’s the sign of something far worse.

And for this kind of thing to happen at an event like this is even MORE suspicious.

It’s like the Reichstaag Fire for those of you with any sense.  Or understanding of history and manipulation of imagery for propagandistic purposes in politics.

This is just the modern day version.  For various nefarious political, propaganda and other purposes which are just as destructive.

And this crap about “investigating” the White House secret service’s supposed failure is exactly that.  And what’s worse is that the national DC press corps, especially White House reporters, who are reporting on this story, all know that.

They know, as well as I do, and anyone who has ever been anywhere inside the front gates of 1600 Penn, let alone the FRONT DOOR of the White House, knows you are entering Fort Knox.

And practically need your social security number, plus other unassailable ID tattooed on various body parts.  EVEN THE PRESS COULDN’T GET IN THAT NIGHT.

And trust me, with a real press pass, from a mainstream news outlet, or even semi respectible news outlet, and know what you are doing, you can practically get away with murder in DC.  Figuratively speaking of course.

BUT……there is ABSOLUTELY NO FLIPPING WAY that an unknown couple who, let’s face it, look like trashy Northern WHITE Virgininian Republicans, (in fact the woman in question WAS a cheerleader for the big DC sports team, the Redskins) and the breaking news is confirming this, (you see I am a very accurate, if cynical ex um “escapee,” shall we say ex denizen and commentator) could get in, much less get their names announced, at the event, without somebody checking out and authenticating some ID.  See the picture below?  Disagree with my assessment?

My point exactly.

While I’ve done my fair share of fancy talking and distracting to get into places I wasn’t supposed to be, (as all good investigative reporters learn how to develop those skills if they want to get the real low down on what the government is covering up) getting into State Dinners at the White House, past multiple security checks and guest lists and ID checks with BOTH White House personnel (with MAJOR ‘TUDE towards white people who aren’t celebrities) and secret service security staff at each step of the way doesn’t pass the credibility test with me.  Or the laugh or the gas test for that matter.

To put this in perspective, I’m the ONLY independent filmmaker to get onto the base of Fort Benning, the infamous American army base in Georgia that was also home to The School of the America’s (also known as the School of Coups) which had the distinction of training if not directly causing ALL of the coups and overthrowing all of the democratically elected governments in every country south of our border for at least sixty years and causing things like the slaughter of innocent nuns engaged in humanitarian work throughout our Southern Hemisphere during the entire Cold War (at your expense).   Isn’t that how you want YOUR taxpayer dollars spent?  But of course, despite the excuse that this was a program necessary to “defend” Americans from the “Communist Threat” kept secret from the American public for most of its existance.

For our own safety of course.

Which is why getting on base was, no pun intended, such a coup to pull off.  And why I know a thing or two about getting into classified, high security, no access to the general public, much less THE PRESS, places.

So take it from a pro at getting in where you’re not supposed to go, there is absolutely NO WAY that I could have pulled this stunt off, without some “unofficial” help from the inside.

And trust me, while the White House is secure, it ain’t an army base that houses a National Security Secret, Black Budget and highly classified military (and CIA) Program.  Not even close.

And in fact, as several of these news reports I’ve linked to seem to indicate, it appears they may have been “unofficially” invited anyway.  Which is again, one of those typical, underhanded Rambo/Obama/Axelrod moves.  Remember all that confusion about who contacted the Governor of Illinois over Obama’s senate seat?  Doesn’t this sound just a tad familiar?

Along with the fact that rather conveniently, who are these “dangerous” gate crashers shown next to?  Well apart from the female CEO of Pepsico India,as seen below….

which is rather convenient product placement for both a domestic and an Indian audience (if you recall that intense “policy” debate from earlier this year about whether White House staffers preferred Coke over Pepsi, like who cares, except a very product and brand conscious White House),  Obama, as seen here….

and in this picture……

and also video, Biden and Rambo.

Gosh, what a coincidence.  Don’t you think?  But again, one more piece of evidence, Colonel Mustard that this whole thing was a SETUP.

The dead body and the Candelabra are in the Kitchen.  Thus my filing this under the Open Call Tag.  Not to mention this was a WHITE HOUSE DINNER.

And this is even MORE suspicious when you consider the circumstances under which it took place.

Consider, this was a White House state dinner hosting the INDIAN head of state.  Who for those of you weak in geography, is the country just south of Pakistan, and in fact used to be one and the same country.  And the entire region is just to the south of a country you might of heard about in the news lately called AFGHANISTAN where Obama is about to do the absolutely DUMBEST THING ON THE PLANET and send more troops to go fight Vietnam II, Revenge of Mount Everest.

Where we are going to get our ASSES kicked.  And in fact I think this whole gate crasher thing is one big diversion for that troop deployment, along with something else or two.  That is how Obama operates.

ON TOP OF THAT, these two diptwits are “being considered” (yeah right, the ink was drying on their contracts) and in fact, as this news report, as in others, reveals, were actually being filmed the entire day before they made their White House entrance getting ready for their “break in” BY BRAVO as they were getting ready for the escapade, which makes this even MORE FISHY) for the “reality show” in question and sure enough, there was Bravo, wading right into the middle of the Brew ha ha as soon as the news even BROKE saying they were going to run with this.

Come on folks.  Wake up.  You don’t need to have worked in TV to know that these things don’t happen “by accident.”  Or “coincidence.”

UH UH.  Trust me, if you still hold on to that naive thought, try a tin foil hat to keep the solar rays from Mars out.  Works ocassionally (like once in a blue moon), and the neighbors only look at you funny most of the time.

The fact is that network channels DON’T operate like that.

Plus, if the White House is so worried about “terrorists” that we are spending an absolute fortune to literally bleed this country dry to go fight them in lands far, far away, suspend our civil liberties at home, not to mention beats up a gimp (me) at a TOWN HALL MEETING ON HEALTHCARE IN NEW YORK CITY, for merely telling the meeting organizer that his facts were incorrect (I was right, he was wrong) resulting in an NYPD police report documenting CRIMINAL ASSAULT AND BATTERY that the Federal Justice Department has yet to investigate and keeps hanging up on me, and the White House is “embarrassed” about THIS incident, and “considering” dropping charges all the while making noises about “felony acts”, which they will never do anything about, with of course the conservative news channels like Fox talking about things like “domestic terrorist threats” (trust me it will never get that far and the White House knows that too much embarressing stuff will come out)  to the point of not even discussing to date forbidding those pictures from airing on the internet “discovering” the perps as it was put on the internet (exactly who was doing any investigating in the first place or why, or knew where to look, (which raises even more disturbing questions about say FISA and electronic monitoring) or lack of any threats from the White House about say putting a ban on any TV network from airing the misadventures of those two, in either still pictures, taking them down from the “perp’s” webpage, or forbidding the news from carrying the video of the event, especially given the teeth baring fights the White House is engaging in with Fox right now, and Mrs. Obama is making such a big deal about an unflattering picture of her showing up on a Google search (and Google actually backing off and removing it) are you KIDDING ME?

This was a set up folks.

FROM THE INSIDE.

If you STILL think that this was an “accident” or a “prank” by two idiots seeking their 15 minutes of fame, and not a deliberate distraction created by say Axelturf/Rahmbo/Michelle and Obama to give fairly uneducated, definately politically and visually if not unprepared for this kind of sophisticated propoganda machine – i.e. supposedly what the White House will and is prepared to do, dollars to doughnuts, which is paint or create one way or another, as a paternalistic, noblesse oblige, drop all charges (if any are even pressed) way to let middle Americans have an “inside” albeit pretty low brow if you ask me, voyeuristic peek at a “high society White House event,” as well as to divert mainstream America’s attention from what Obama is about to do next week, what do you think they were doing?

Embarressing themselves on purpose?

I mean who is the demographic for Real American Housewives….?

Martians?

Bravo has some GREAT shows….but that one ….I can’t stand.

Nevertheless, this was a set up. And a distraction.  As well as convenient propoganda.

Call me paranoid, call me stupid, call me anything you want, but I’ve seen this show before. It’s a rerun, if not in content, then in purpose.

It’s called propoganda, and distraction, you dumb morons at the White House, who think you are so much more clever than the rest of us.

And welcome to the world of Obama manipulation mind f*cks.

SNAP.

That’s the sound of a little Obama rat who’s been figuratively caught in a Marguerite rat death trap.  It’s little toes are still wiggling.   And it’s tail is still twitching.   I hope it suffers a long,  slow and agonizing painful death.

I’m not a sadist, by the way, and I love animals. Even rodents.   In fact I have a mouse in part time residence in my studio apartment.  We cohabitate rather well. His name is Newton.  He has good manners and there is mutual respect.  So please, no PETA threats for that last analogy.

The above latter reference was a metaphorical literary parallel to display my disgust with this presidency.

I know this MF, very well.  And have been calling him and his mindset accurately, ever since the appointment of Emmanuel.

Which was the first sign that something was going seriously wrong.  Not that I didn’t have some niggling doubts during the campaign last year.

FISA and throwing out the promise to stick with public financing were understandable.  Or at least that is what I told myself.  And excused Obama for it.  I heard it from sources I still have on the Hill that Obama’s arm was twisted on the FISA legislation.  And I know damned well how deep the RNC’s pockets are.  I was willing to forgive him that too.

And there were other little things too that were vaguely disturbing.

But I was also very distracted last year.  So I paid them no attention. No candidate is ever perfect.  And look at what the alternatives were.  Especially after Edwards dropped out.  And look at what happened there.  And I still think that HE was also set up in California.  By the same team who brought us THIS scenario.  The fingerprints seem to match rather well.

I told you, after the election, I’ve done some investigating, partly in just writing these blogs, and especially given the way I’ve been treated.  And what I’m seeing.  And I REALLY don’t like what is going on.   Which is the understatement of the year.

And I mean I was REALLY DISTRACTED last year.  Like developing a life changing disability thanks to my ex employer, filing an EEOC case against a very big bank and dealing with a few other battles of equal shall we say “intensity.”  While fighting for literal economic survival.  Which I still am.

But this time, it’s the White House I’m directly fighting.  THIS ONE.  Among other Goliaths, essentially on my own and penniless because the god damned government has taken it all all away.  And destroyed my life in the process.  As in obliterate.  And beat me up on top of that.

So I missed things I wouldn’t normally have done during the election.  Or explained them away.  As I never would have done otherwise.  I’ve worked in national politics for too long.  I know DC like the back of my hand.  It’s not a boast.  It’s what happens when you waste your youth in national politics in DC.

So if 2008 had been a normal year, I would have been a little more suspicious.  Not to mention done my homework.  And a little less elated upon election day.  With far fewer hopes.  And frankly, far less pissed off now.

But 515 campaign promises gone south in less than ten months Obama has been in office and now this?

With Obama “selling” the escalation of Afghanistan next week to “his base?” as one reporter put it.  Are they nuts?

And the blood on the pavement still not dry from Fort Hood?

Folks, you’ve got to be FUCKING KIDDING.

This was arranged propoganda.  Called a distraction. For a reason.

Call me nuts.

Call me ANY name in the book all you want.   But been there, done that, seen it before.

You want reality TV?

Tell the kids in Afghanistan to start sending their cell phone pictures and videos via wireless internet of what is really going on on a daily basis to the world via any other service EXCEPT YOU TUBE (they lose their intellectual property rights).   G3 phones shoot video clips you can send via email and you can put right on your website.

If the White House really wants to play this stupid game, we can give them REALITY TV they will never forget.  IN THEIR FACE.  That trust me, will be far more embarressing and “dangerous” to the Obama presidency because of his lying BS than any suburban couple who wanted their 15 minutes of fame. And apparently coordinated with both the White House and a network to get it.

And dollars to doughnuts somebody at the White House new media department, along with someone higher up, struck a bargain with Bravo to cook this whole thing up to begin with.

You want reality TV folks, it’s time we started watching the channel where the action is really happening.

Instead of being deliberately distracted.

Like the dog….you know…the oldest trick in the book to fool the stupid pooch?  Fake throw the stick and watch ol’ Spot run half way across the yard  before he turns around and says ‘huh?’  And they you really throw the stick….the other way.

There is a channel of reality TV that America should be watching.  Several of them in fact.  One is Channel Afghanistan.   And don’t forget Channel Iraq.  One is Channel Wall Street.  One is Channel Foreclosures and Evictions.  One is the Rising Tide of Jobs Lost & Ain’t Coming Back.  One is Channel Global Warming.

And I’m just getting started.  I’m a damned network….a whole series of programming.

But the fact is that Bravo, not to mention the rest of mainstream corporate TV, doesn’t cover those shows.  Although maybe it should start.

And the fact that I also have a proposal that is widely circulated AT the White House as well as key cabinet level offices mentioning a reality Bravo show tie in for one of MY projects, so far both conspicuously ignored, and has gotten me beaten up, physically intimidated, threatened in writing, my civil rights violated, and of course completely blacklisted, BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING THE WHITE HOUSE, is also rather interesting.  Especially in that this is ANOTHER idea that they’ve stolen from me.  While my phone remains strangely silent on that proposal.

So for all these reasons folks,  to believe anything but “sucker, you’ve been had,” is to be drinking what is known as Kool Aide.

And look at what happened to them.

The ones in Guyana, and the ones here, if you don’t WAKE UP.

Happy Turkey Day Folks.  A day or so late.  Consider these the leftovers.

Do you want to be the Turkey for NEXT YEAR’s date?  Or the one who gets excused from that fate?

Time to start doing some waking up.  If you haven’t already.

In other words, flip the dial.  Turn the switch.  Tune it out.  If not TURN CHANNEL OBAMA OFF ALTOGETHER.

And organize for REAL CHANGE we believe in.

Otherwise, you will be turkeys, if not dinner, for somebody, by this time next year.  With NOTHING to be thankful for.

And that’s a reality that probably nobody will even bother filming.

Unless of course you plan on setting yourself on fire outside the White House gates.  And even then they’ll probably call you a Tibetan terrorist, so I wouldn’t recommend it.  Bravo will be off filming Virginia Housewives II, Michelle will be doing some other Muppets does Hazmat on the White House Lawn Experiment, and Barack, well, I’m sure he’ll be bombing Iran by then.  Which although I didn’t include it on the map, is also conveniently the neighbor immediately to the left of what country?

Afghanistan.

WHAT A COINCIDENCE.  Right?

And we’ll all be out of work, don’t worry.

Reality Show “White House Break In” my ass.

Even that’s been done before (remember NIXON) by a White House who thinks it’s so brilliant everything it does is, as rightly mocked by a very cynical reporter the other day, as “unprecedented” and “original” and of course never done before, when it’s clearly old hat.

With mildew growing on it.

Even this little stunt.  Ever heard of Watergate?

How stupid does Obama really think Americans are?  Or how brilliant, in comparison to the rest of the world does he think he is?

That’s the really scary thing, isn’t it?   Because people carried away with their own ideas of how brilliant they are usually make the biggest mistakes.  I learned long ago that the definition of stupidity was self professed brilliance.  See Exhibit A in the Oval Office.

And we don’t need any more stupid and entirely avoidable “oops.”  Which weren’t really, although they are of course, being played that way.  Now.  However, if you recall even just ten months ago, this administration has been continually warned DO NOT ENTER.  DANGER.  And then promptly blacklisted, if not beaten up, even those who offer constructive criticism.  While breaking CRIMINAL LAW, not to mention civil rights, to do it.

Unfortunately we’re about to get even more of them.

Escalation in Afghanistan is just the latest in a line of very avoidable and so far disastrous Waterloos.

You want to watch Reality TV?

Tell the White House to go jump in a lake and send NO to the War emails to all your elected reps, local, state and federal.  Not to mention the White House.

And start getting off your asses and doing something about it.  Plus of course the other issues Obama’s screwing up.

You shouldn’t be watching TV anyway. There’s far too much to do, and we don’t need any more couch potatoes.

So turn off the dial and turn up the heat.  And get off your asses and start go kicking some.

Unless you’d prefer to start selecting what kind of stuffing you’d like to be accessorized with as next year’s turkey.  I hear cranberry sauce is a nice condiment.

Your choice, Pilgrims.  Now or never.

As for me and Tonto, well, we’re heading out, as fast as we can, from this shit eating, one horse country.

Gee up, boy.  Let’s get going.

Because the natives of this rinky dink Banana Republic are all bloodthirsty, stupid, cannibals, ignorant and or uneducated, deaf, oblivious, will not learn whatever you do, say or write, and as a result are therefore just as dangerous as the murderous leaders they “elect.”

Or asleep.  What is the difference?

Because if they accept it, it means the White House has won.

And Democracy?

RIP.  So long buddy.  Nice knowing ya.

“Interesting governing and social experiment,” I can hear the social anthropologists of say two millenium into the future, “but not to be wasted on such idiotic neanderthal primitives.”

And if you have any doubts about MY perspective on looking back and analyzing the perspective of cultures long ago, my other paternal uncle began unlocking the secrets and translating The Dead Sea Scrolls in his book on the subject, The Dead Sea Scriptures.  A document created by another society ruled by decidedly undemocratic Kings and Queens, that included slavery (who do you think built the Pyramids) and went extinct because of its own dead weight and unsustainable policies.

You want the Constitution to be compared to the Dead Sea Scrolls?  Keep going America.  Because that’s where we’re headed.

Won’t that be a fun “Reality TV” show.  That trust me, you won’t have the luxury of watching from the comfort of your lazy boy recliner on your spanking new HDTV.  Because you won’t be around  to see it.

BREAKING UPDATE:   I KNEW THERE WAS MORE TO THIS STORY THAN MET THE EYE.

BEEN AROUND THE SMELL OF THE POTOMOC TOO LONG NOT TO HAVE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE.  TOLD YOU, ALL YE UNBELIEVERS.  THIS IS A SETUP.   BLAME THE FART ON THE DOG IN THE LIVING ROOM.  NOT THE ONE THAT DELT IT.

BREAKING UPDATE II:  BLOG POSTING JUST MADE LAW.COM!  YEE HA!  UNDER A SPONSORED POSTING…..BY PEPSI.   Hmmmm that wouldn’t lend cred to any of my theories now, would it?  Like say the picture of our gatecrashers with the head of India Pepsico?  NAH….nothing to do with it…..naturally.  Pure coincidence.  That’s the way things ALWAYS HAPPEN IN DC.  Right?

BREAKING UPDATE III:  SAY IT AIN’T SO!!!!! NEWSFLASH

Well apparently, the “gatecrashers” at the White House weren’t such “strangers at the ball” after all…and my original suspicions WERE CORRECT.

It appears that Mr. Obama’s friendship with the Saladi’s stretches back about five years, and look who is gathered together here (and the date) although Ms. Saladi’s credentials are a bit different than recently advertised in DC.  I guess everyone stretches the truth in Mr. Obama’s world.   But then again, she’s not THE PRESIDENT.

HMMMMM.  What was that again about AN INSIDE JOB?

Mr. Obama, I believe you need some, um “plumbers” was the word Mr. Nixon used.  Or at least an ORIGINAL EXCUSE FOR A LIE. SINCE EVERYTHING YOU GUYS DO IS UNPRECEDENTED.

Yeah, I guess this one kind of takes the cake, doesn’t it?

But please don’t blame the Secret Service.  I told you they would take the fall after all.  Even if they weren’t responsible.

OR WHY DON’T YOU JUST STOP LYING, PERIOD?  AND JUST TELL US THE WHOLE DAMNED TRUTH.

AS THEY SAY, A PICTURE SAYS A THOUSAND WORDS.  AND THIS ONE IS RATHER DAMNING.  AND I’D SAY IS A DAMNED BIG LIE-BRARY.

J’ACCUSE, MONSIEUR.  CAUGHT IN THAT RAT TRAP INDEED.  I THINK THE TAIL MIGHT STILL BE WIGGLING A BIT.

SNAP, SNAP.

Caught in your own damned trap.

Did  you really think nobody would find THIS PICTURE?  I KNOW IT IS FIVE YEARS OLD, DRESSED UP FOR AN EVENT LAST YEAR, BUT THE INTERNET HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A LOT LONGER THAN THAT….MR IT PRESIDENT..

OOPS.  What’s the Missus going to say now?

Have a Kobe handy?

Or was she in on the act too?  ‘Cause last I heard she was pissed.  But then so again, rumor had it you were too.  Or was THAT ALL an act?

Jesus.  They both lie 24/7.  Where is the TRUTH & HOPE WE CAN BELIEVE IN CHANNEL?  I THINK IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE.

DON’T YOU?

This post lists documents drafted by the 9/11 Commission about its investigation of the NSA. The documents have been posted at the 9/11 Document Archive at Scribd. I am reading through them gradually and highlighting interesting information. This post will be updated continuously.

(-) A December 2003 memo drafted by the 9/11 Commission about an interview of former NSA Deputy Director for Operations Rich Taylor. The memo discusses his career, post-Cold War reorganisation, relations with the CIA, counterterrorism, a lack of linguists and analysts, international co-operation among the “Five Eyes,” co-operation with the FBI and DEA, his firing by General Michael Hayden (on a plane back from a conference), sharing raw data, and other issues.

According to the memo, there were “several smoking guns” regarding 9/11, but, “even if NSA had done a good job, other agencies could have messed up.”

Taylor said that when the NSA intercepted information relevant to the DEA, it would report the fact of the communication to the DEA, but not provide content information. The DEA then had to submit a separate request for the content.

The DEA had created “a wall between intelligence and law enforcement, and between leads and investigative material, and these walls were never penetrated. In contrast, the FBI allowed penetration of these walls all of the time.”

The Millennium plot, the arrest of Ahmed Ressam in December 1999 and “use of airplanes” are mentioned, but the section on al-Qaeda’s Malaysia summit is entirely redacted.

(-) A November 2003 memo drafted by the 9/11 Commission about an interview of an unnamed NSA manager. The memo discusses the manager’s career, NSA liaison relations, especially with Britain and Canada, and other issues.

(-) A May 2004 NSA briefing on interactions between it and the CIA. Much of the memo is redacted and some of the non-redacted sections lack context. It discusses, counterterrorism, the “war on terror,” relations with the CIA, exchanges of CIA/NSA personnel, and other issues.

It says that at some point there was a female CIA Counterterrorism detailee at the NSA, but she left and was not replaced due to a lack of resources, confirming an account in the CIA inspector general’s report on 9/11.

There is a redacted reference to a person who is evidently former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer, who was “passionate about his mission,” but with whom NSA had a “problematic relationship.”

(-) A January 2004 memo drafted by the 9/11 Commission about an interview of NSA Deputy Director William Black. The memo discusses his career, the Korean War, the functions of intelligence, the post-Cold War era, counterterrorism, the Trailblazer programme, relations with foreign partners, events on the day of 9/11 and other issues.

The memo says, “Theoretically by buying a company they also bought a congressman in whose district a company resides,” although it is unclear if this approach was ever implemented.

(-) A December 2003 memo drafted by the 9/11 Commission about an interview of former NSA Deputy Director Barbara McNamara. The memo discusses her interview by the 9/11 Congresional Inquiry, her career, NSA’s reorganisation after the cold war, counterterrorism, relations with the CIA, information sharing, the NOFORN requirement, the budget process, relations with Congress, the appropriate role of the DCI and other issues.

The memo says: “She does not recall being personally (asked) to provide about transcripts or raw data…. But sharing of raw data is not done routinely by NSA unless they get a specific request for a specific item. She said that she does not remember people asking for raw data, but if they wanted it NSA would have provided it….” This has been contradicted by former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer, who says he asked the NSA, and McNamara specifically, for intercepts of calls to al-Qaeda’s operations centre in Yemen, but was turned down repeatedly. The commission interviewers also asked her about a meeting when Deputy CIA DIrector John Gordon complained about lack of sharing of raw data, but “she respnded that she has no memory.” She also complained about the lack of CIA detailees sent to the NSA.

(-) A November 2003 memo drafted by the 9/11 Commission about an interview of an unnamed NSA manager. The memo discusses the manager’s career, the agency’s internal workings, resource tradeoffs, modernisation, counterterrorism work, and other issues.

(-) A November 2003 memo drafted by the 9/11 Commission about an interview of an unnamed NSA manager. The memo discusses the manager’s career, counterterrorism in general, foreign liasions and other issues.

Although she worked on threats around the Millennium, she has “no memory” of al-Qaeda’s Malaysia summit, although the NSA reported it to the CIA and FBI and she had daily conference calls with the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center (CTC).

She says the CTC wanted raw data, but says it could not be provided. She says the problem was that it first had to be minimised to get rid of US persons (note: this is not true, the NSA hardly ever sent the CTC raw data).

(-) A November 2003 memo drafted by the 9/11 Commission about an interview of an unnamed NSA employee. The memo discusses his career, during which he was the NSA representative to the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center in 1995-96, and how current counterterrorism operations work in the intelligence community.

He was “surprised” by 9/11, although, “He had actually been following the threats throughout the summer of 2001 and knew there was an operation in the works and was still surprised.”

(-) A memo drafted by the 9/11 Commission about an interview of an unnamed NSA employee. The employee was the agency’s representative to the FBI before 9/11. The memo discusses his career, co-operation with the bureau and the NSA’s view of the “wall.”

The employee says that after al-Qaeda’s Malaysia summit, section chiefs “sat down the the CIA, FBI and NSA information briefings.” The NSA report that Khalid Almihdhar would travel to Malaysia is also mentioned.

(-) A memo drafted by the 9/11 Commission about an interview of NSA manager Chris Ingliss. The memo discusses his career, resource allocation, internal re-organisation of the agency, counterterrorism, and other interviews.

(-) A memo drafted by the 9/11 Commission about an interview of an unnamed NSA employee. THe memo describes the employee’s career, and her work on counterterrorism.

The employee states that after the attacks in 2001, the agency did a “9/11 retrospective” the purpose of which was to “insure they knew everything they had.”

(-) A memo drafted by the 9/11 Commission about an interview of NSA manager William Crumm. The memo describes Crumm’s career and current job, as the NSA’s representative for the European theatre. He talks about internal NSA problems with resource allocation, counterterrorism, co-operation with the military and the organisation of the intelligence community.

(-) Some e-mails sent between the 9/11 Commission and the National Security Agency in 2003. They discuss briefing requests and documents. The Defense Department apparently wanted document requests for the NSA to be routed through it, although the commission’s executive director, Philip Zelikow, did not like this.

(-) Various 9/11 Commission documents about its investigation of the NSA:

(1) Miscellaneous correspondence about the NSA’s Trailblazer and Groundbreaker programs, document requests and briefings;

(2) Withdrawal notices about terrorist tracking and, document requests;

(3) The principles for the commission’s review of NSA documents, which say that the commission’s executive director Philip Zelikow will designate staffers to review NSA documents;

(4) A memorandum of understanding between the commission and the NSA saying, in addition to other things, that some staffers can review the material the NSA provided to the 9/11 Congressional Inquiry; and

(5) A memorandum of understanding between the NSA and the Congressional Inquiry.

The masterlist for all documents the History Commons has obtained and is analysing can be found here.

Yesterday I just installed Windows 7. It took me about 45 minutes, and also a had a headache after that process, but lets stick to Windows 7. The installation options were pretty straightforward. There were some times when the screen was empty or didn’t change and thought it was stuck, but fortunately I was patient and didn’t close the PC. To sum the installation procedure you simply have to be patient. Nothing more, windows will guide you after that.

After the installation was completed, I saw the AMAZING boot screen. Of course after a douzin of restarts you may start getting boring with it, but still no other OS has THAT boot screen (you may try Fedora 10 which had something similar). The background pictures are also amazing, and they are changing once in a while. You may get confused with the taskbar but you’ll eventually get used to it. It’s working after all.

Many users, including me, are also interested in Windows XP mode. It’s a 500 MB file but its worth. I’ll try 3DS Max 2008 and let you know if it worked. SQL Server needed the SP1 to work, fortunately Visual Studio downloaded it on its own. The tremendous thing is that Windows Live Messenger has compatibility problems and stucks sometimes when you start it. I mean WOW, but it probably needs a reinstallation or something!

Anyway, there are also lots of things like the fact that ribbons are now everywhere even in the Paint, but I really loved the aesthetics of Windows 7, and that you can easily change it, in case you don’t like it you know. I was pleasantly disappointed by the fact it had so few bugs, as a Linux fan, but now I have problems with the release of FreeNAS 0.7 so it’s probably just me.

So how about you. Did your PC explode or something?

Oops.

I’ve maintained for some time that Microsoft has programs that fit on bootable USB sticks and allow law enforcement to override your Microsoft Bitlocker, Encrypted File System (EFS), and password data, and gather all your private information to use against you later in a criminal trial.

That system is called COFEE, for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor. (Microsoft page about it here)

It has been known for some time that Microsoft has backdoored Windows for the US government, when Microsoft got careless and forgot to obscure a cryptographic signing key given to the NSA back in 1998. (The backdoor is still there, just obscured now), but people don’t tend to believe me about COFEE.

If you use Microsoft Bitlocker or EFS, you’re wasting your time, because Microsoft gives these devices out to law enforcement on down to your local police department. If the police get a warrant and seize your machine, and you’re using Bitlocker or EFS, you’ve essentially just handed them the evidence and the only difference the “Microsoft security” will make is that it might cost the cops an extra 2 minutes to boot off the COFEE key and unlock your hard drive.

COFEE was recently leaked onto the web, and Microsoft has been sending cease and desist orders, but COFEE is still on a lot of bittorrent sites if you would like to try it out for yourself.

While I’m at it:

Many Linux distributions offer /home folder + SWAP encryption or (even better), whole disk encryption. And I doubt the people behind those projects are pissing on you and telling you it’s raining, like Microsoft has when it tell you that Bitlocker and EFS are trustworthy and proceeds to sell an instant workaround and evidence collector to the police.

Developed with Help From NSA

Privacy expert voices ‘backdoor’ concerns, security researchers dismiss idea

Gregg Keizer

Computerworld - The National Security Agency (NSA) worked with Microsoft on the development of Windows 7, an agency official acknowledged yesterday during testimony before Congress.

“Working in partnership with Microsoft and elements of the Department of Defense, NSA leveraged our unique expertise and operational knowledge of system threats and vulnerabilities to enhance Microsoft’s operating system security guide without constraining the user to perform their everyday tasks, whether those tasks are being performed in the public or private sector,” Richard Schaeffer, the NSA’s information assurance director, told the Senate’s Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security yesterday as part of a prepared statement.

“All this was done in coordination with the product release, not months or years later during the product lifecycle,” Schaeffer added. “This will improve the adoption of security advice, as it can be implemented during installation and then later managed through the emerging SCAP standards.”

Security Content Automation Protocol, or SCAP, is a set of standards for automating chores such as managing vulnerabilities and measuring security compliance. The National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) oversees the SCAP standards.

This is not the first time that the NSA has partnered with Microsoft during Windows development. In 2007, the agency confirmed that it had a hand in Windows Vista as part of an initiative to ensure that the operating system was secure from attack and would work with other government software. Before that, the NSA provided guidance on how best to secure Windows XP and Windows 2000.

According to Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of the Electronics Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the NSA’s involvement with operating system development goes back even farther. “This battle goes back to at least the crypto wars of the early ’90s,” said Rotenberg, who remembered testifying about the agency’s role in private sector computer security standards in 1989.

But when the NSA puts hands on Windows, that raises a red flag for Rotenberg, who heads the Washington, D.C.-based public interest research center. “When NSA offers to help the private sector on computer security, the obvious concern is that it will also build in backdoors that enables tracking users and intercepting user communications,” Rotenberg said in an e-mail. “And private sector firms are reluctant to oppose these ’suggestions’ since the US government is also their biggest customer and opposition to the NSA could mean to loss of sales.”

Rotenberg’s worries stem from the NSA’s reputation as the intelligence agency best known for its eavesdropping of electronic messaging, including cell phone calls and e-mail.

Andrew Storms, the director of security operations at nCircle Security, didn’t put much credence in the idea that Microsoft would allow the NSA to build a hidden entrance to Windows 7. “Would it be surprising to most people that there was a backdoor? No, not with the political agenda of prior administrations,” said Storms. “My gut, though, tells me that Microsoft, as a business, would not want to do that, at least not in a secretive way.”

Roger Thompson, chief research officer at AVG Technologies, agreed. “I can’t imagine NSA and Microsoft would do anything deliberate because the repercussions would be enormous if they got caught,” he said in an interview via instant messaging.

“Having said that, I think we should understand that there is every likelihood that certain foreign governments are constantly looking for vulnerabilities that they can use for targeted attacks,” Thompson continued. “So if they’re poking at us, I think it’s reasonable to assume that we’re doing something similar. But I seriously doubt an official NSA-Microsoft alliance.”

The NSA’s Schaeffer added that his agency is also working on engaging other major software makers, including Apple, Sun and Red Hat, on security standards for their products.

“More and more, we find that protecting national security systems demands teaming with public and private institutions to raise the information assurance level of products and services more broadly,” Schaeffer said.

Microsoft was not immediately available for comment on the NSA’s participation in Windows 7’s development.

« Yes we can » – Barack Obama, slogan de sa campagne électorale, automne 2008

« Au cours de périodes où règne le mensonge et la manipulation, dire la vérité devient un acte révolutionnaire » – George Orwell

« Vous pouvez avoir du pouvoir sur autrui tout aussi longtemps que vous ne leur enlevez pas tout ce qu’il possède. Mais lorsque vous avez tout volé à un homme, il n’est désormais plus sous votre pouvoir – il est libre de nouveau » – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Voilà déjà une année d’écoulée depuis l’élection de Barack Obama. Comme je le prédisais à l’automne dernier, ce nouveau gouvernement élu sur un vent de changement, se révèlera n’être qu’une vaste illusion, une campagne de promesses vides et de faux espoirs. L’administration Obama n’est rien de plus que la continuité de celle de Bush. L’illusion du paradigme de la gauche et la droite, des Républicains et des Démocrates s’effondre. Il n’y a qu’UN parti politique aux États-Unis: Le parti de la guerre et de Wall Street, le tout orchestré par les banquiers privés de la banque centrale, la Federal Reserve Bank (Fed). Que les Américains votent pour un parti ou l’autre, l’agenda est le même. Il y a longtemps que les États-Unis sont tombés sous un coup d’État silencieux, probablement depuis la mort de JFK.

Voici de nombreux exemples de ce bilan négatif de l’administration Obama:

- L’administration Obama tente d’étouffer le dossier des courriels manquants de la Maison Blanche

Obama avait promis à l’Amérique plus de transparence. Cela ne s’est jamais vraiment concrétisé. Nombreux sont les exemples. L’administration Obama a décidé de suivre les pas de l’ancien président George W. Bush en tentant d’étouffer une poursuite judiciaire visant récupérer des millions de courriels manquants liés à la Maison Blanche pouvant contenir des informations importantes quant à la gestion de l’administration Bush, effaçant ainsi potentiellement des évidences de crimes.

- L’argument identique du « secret d’État » utilisé par Bush est mis de l’avant par l’administration Obama pour empêcher la divulgation d’informations troublantes et incriminant.

- Le département de la Justice imite l’administration Bush en invoquant le privilège du « secret d’État » face à des poursuites judiciaires dans le dossier du programme de capture extraordinaire de la CIA (rendition program), mis en place par Bush, Cheney et Rumsfeld. La raison évoquée pour éviter que les poursuites judiciaires se poursuivent contre ce programme d’enlèvement de suspects à travers le monde, transportés secrètement vers des prisons non identifiées publiquement pour se faire torturer, est que ces poursuites pourraient révéler des informations secrètes relatives à la sécurité nationale.

- Barack Obama avait promis que les États-Unis ne torturerait pas sous sa garde.

Mais tout comme Bush, Obama se bat pour empêcher des milliers de photos documentant la torture made by America, alors que Guantanamo n’a toujours pas fermé ses portes et que la torture se poursuit inlassablement sous son administration, tel que rapporté par une enquête espagnole. Cette dernière explique différentes techniques pratiquées comme l’écrasement de testicules, la détention dans des cellules souterraines dans un les ténèbres totales avec privation de sommeil et de nourriture pour une durée de trois semaines, inoculation à l’aide d’injections de maladies canines, torture à l’eau (waterboarding), etc. Tout cela sous l’autorité de personnel militaire américain, parfois conduit en présence de professionnels médicaux.

Le président Obama refuse de rendre public les photos de torture parce qu’il « croit que leur publication pourrait mettre en danger les troupes ».

En réalité, non seulement Obama ne poursuivra pas les responsables de la torture en justice, mais en fait, il planifie donner de l’expansion à cette torture et continuer sa pratique. Des centres de détention secrets pour des suspects terroristes seront ouverts en Mauritanie, en Éthiopie, dans quelques pays de l’Afrique du nord, du Moyen-Orient et en Asie.

- Obama a passé outre le Congrès américain pour permettre la détention de suspects terroristes pour une durée de temps illimitée, sans qu’aucune accusation formelle ne soit déposée. Dans d’autres pays du monde, on appelle cela des pouvoirs dictatoriaux.  Cela permet au président de détenir unilatéralement des « ennemis combattants » sans habeas corpus, un terme légal qui signifie que les plaignants sont forcés de vous accuser formellement d’un crime pour justifier la détention d’un suspect. Le terme « ennemi combattant » qui faisait en sorte que les Accords de Genève sur les prisonniers de guerre ne s’appliquaient plus, a été abandonné par Obama dans le cas des détenus de Guantanamo, mais il a gardé le terme pour les autres prisons à l’étranger, s’assurant ainsi encore une fois de conserver des pouvoirs exécutifs impérialistes.

- Obama est du même avis que Bush: les prisonniers de Bagram, Afghanistan n’ont pas de droits constitutionnels. Pourtant, les droits ne sont pas donnés par la Constitution, ils sont reconnus. Lorsque les droits peuvent être retirés, ce ne sont pas des droits, mais bien seulement des indulgences octroyées par un maître inspirant la crainte à des esclaves qui se comportent particulièrement bien.
Obama Sides With Bush: No Rights for Bagram Prisoners

- Obama est allé jusqu’à menacer l’Angleterre de cesser leur coopération d’échange du renseignement pour éviter que des évidences de torture soient révélées.

- Trois provisions controversées du Patriot Act instauré Bush reçoivent l’appui d’Obama.

Le département de la Justice a indiqué que l’administration Obama donne son soutien pour le renouvellement de trois sections controversées du USA Patriot Act qui expire en décembre. La première est la Section 206 qui permet au FBI de faire de l’écoute électronique des lignes téléphoniques ou des ordinateurs des Américains. La suivante est la Section 215 qui permet aux enquêteurs d’obtenir les archives médicales, d’affaires, de librairie, bancaires et autres de quiconque, avec l’approbation de la Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. La dernière, surnommée le « loup solitaire », permet d’accumuler des renseignements à propos de personnes qui ne sont pas suspectées d’être part d’un gouvernement étranger ou d’une organisation terroriste.

- Toutes les pièces de législation adoptées sous l’administration Bush qui étaient profondément liberticides et allant à l’encontre de la transparence, de la Constitution et de la démocratie, sont maintenant embrassées par le régime de continuité d’Obama, qui a brisé une fois de plus une importante promesse électorale. Il en est de même pour le Commissions militaires (Military Commissions Act), qui permet de juger des détenus dans des tribunaux militaires établis à Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

- La NSA a filtré toutes les communications des Américains et a ciblé des journalistes depuis l’instauration de ces mesures draconiennes par Bush, dans le cadre de sa guerre bidon au terrorisme. Tout le trafic de ces communications transigeant par de grandes firmes privées de communication comme AT&T étaient directement reliées à la NSA, agence d’espionnage américaine. Depuis que les Démocrates sont au pouvoir, rien n’a changé. Obama ne veut pas tenir Bush et ses acolytes responsables de leurs crimes et violations de la Constitution parce qu’il veut conserver ces pouvoirs. Idem pour l’enlèvement d’individus étrangers, leur transport vers des nations étrangères pour ensuite être torturés.

Ainsi, l’administration Obama bloque les poursuites judiciaires contre les écoutes électroniques illégales, donne de l’expansion à la défense légale de Bush en ce domaine et invoque constamment le « secret d’État » pour défendre le programme envahisseur et criminel de surveillance de Bush.

- Le parti de guerre est toujours l’oeuvre. L’industrie de la mort poursuit ses bonnes affaires sous Obama

Les États-Unis planifient déployer 25 000 troupes militaires en Géorgie d’ici 2015, à la frontière de la Russie. Les Américains ont l’intention de construire deux bases militaires sur le territoire de la Géorgie et une base navale. Ce déploiement fait suite à la provocation de la Russie en août 2008 par les États-Unis et Israël, via l’Ossétie du sud. Une guerre contre l’Iran signifierait une confrontation contre la Russie qui a déclaré qu’elle considèrerait une attaque contre l’Iran comme une attaque personnelle.

Quoi de mieux que d’avoir le prix Nobel de la Paix pour plaider en faveur du recrutement de mineurs pour l’armée? Obama veut son armée, il entend lever une armée de jeunes qui ne serviraient pas la Constitution, mais le président directement. Le plan d’Obama se nomme le « Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act», ou plus simplement, le « GIVE Act ». Ce projet de loi a été voté, à 321 contre 105, le 18 mars 2009. Ce projet de loi H.R. 1388 est donc présentement « à l’étude » au Sénat américain.

Obama a d’ailleurs annoncé, de pair avec Rahm Emanuel, qu’il comptait avoir un corps de volontaires de type milice paramilitaire aux États-Unis aussi bien financé et équipé que l’armée US elle-même.
Heil Obama! Des enfants-soldats sur tout le territoire américain…

- La guerre est toujours une option sur la table, comme on a pu le voir toute l’année dans le cas de l’Iran., quitte à nommer un anti-iranien pour gérer cette situation.

- L’administration Obama continue la doctrine américaine de dominance militaire globale.

Obama n’a pas diminué le budget militaire, au contraire. Il n’y aura pas de renversement de l’agenda militaire ni de la politique étrangère des États-Unis. Surtout pas avec Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates et Rahm Emanuel et son frère. Les États-Unis viennent de briser son record de la guerre du Vietnam en étant en Afghanistan depuis plus de 8 ans. Cela n’est pas près de se terminer, au contraire de ce Obama avait promis durant sa campagne électorale.

- Obama, son administration et différentes agences gouvernementales comme la NSA reçoivent d’ailleurs leurs instructions et conseils par la même élite dirigeante, dont fait partie Henry Kissinger, la Ford Fondation, et la quatrième branche du gouvernement, Goldman Sachs et les banquiers et financiers de Wall Sreet qui pullulent au sein du gouvernement Obama, comme Geithner.

- Obama refuse toujours de toucher à la Fed. Tant qu’il ne forcera pas une reforme entière de la Fed pour récupérer le pouvoir de la création de la monnaie, au lieu de le laisser entre les mains de banquiers la créant de nulle part et la prêtant à crédit au gouvernement (lire le peuple) avec intérêts, l’économie entière sera sous l’étroit contrôle des banquiers privés qui ont ruiné les États-Unis depuis 1913, date de la création de la Fed.

- Obama avait promis que les lobbyistes ne se retrouveraient pas dans son organisation. Une autre fausse promesse lamentablement vendue au public américain. Une douzaine de lobbyistes ont trouvé un poste au sommet de l’administration Obama. On y trouve des gens nommés au département de la Défense ayant travaillé pour Raytheon, un manufacturier d’armement, un ancien VP de Monsanto à la FDA, des anciens généraux et du Pentagone partout dans le gouvernement, et ainsi de suite.

- Obama agit de manière similaire à Bush dans le domaine des pétrolières, des énergies et est même allé jusqu’à approuver la décapitation des montagnes pour y retirer du charbon, une politique qui fut sévèrement condamnée lorsque Bush s’y adonnait. L’étroite collaboration entre les exécutifs du pétrole et Washington se poursuit de plus belle.

Il y a fort à parier qu’avec un tel bilan, les Américains ne seront pas dupes très longtemps et qu’Obama sera un président d’un terme seulement. En attendant le prochain poulain de l’establishment, du parti de la guerre et de Wall Street, nous pouvons aussi parier que l’Amérique aura le temps de s’appauvrir énormément, au point où la classe moyenne aura pratiquement disparue et où le pays sera complètement ruiné et en banqueroute, affligé d’hyperinflation et de la plus grande dépression depuis les années 30. On annoncera alors l’arrivée d’un autre président… sauveur de tous, charismatique au sourire charmeur.

« Yes we can »

« Change we can believe in »

François Marginean

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was first enacted in 1978 (Public Law 95-511) and later amended by the Patriot Act. It is at the center of the controversy concerning domestic spying by the NSA. It was passed after revelations of massive domestic spying abuses by the FBI, CIA and NSA were documented in reports issued by the Church Committee in the 1970s. In 1972, the United States Supreme Court had reviewed some of those abuses and declared that warrantless wiretaps of domestic groups for national security reasons were a violation of the Fourth Amendment. United States v. United States District Court (Keith), 407 U.S. 297 (1972)

The FISA provided special procedures for conducting electronic surveillance of telephones, etc for foreign intelligence purposes including setting up aForeign Intelligence Surveillance Court to authorize such surveillance.…

http://www.cnss.org/fisa.htm

There was an existing legal framework already set up for electronic surveillance of American citizens. What was the nature of the neocons surveillance requirements that made the legal approach unsuitable for their use?

Perhaps it was the magnitude of the neocon’s intended search that would not be legal. The legal approach would question tapping the electronic communications of 200,000,000 Americans. That would be called a “FISHING” expedition. And casting such a wide net would surely catch something – thus making the neocon’s effort, in their opinion, worth the ILLEGAL risk. The neocon’s fishing expedition would not have passed a FISA court and the neocons knew that.

If government decides to abuse America’s rules and laws, that is not the same as regular citizens abusing America’s laws. American citizens can’t hide their illegal activity behind secrecy laws but government can.

However,  somebody told! Some BRAVE American TOLD!

Some brave American told America that the Bush team was illegally spying on American citizens. The Bush team – a political group that rarely if ever impressed with their competency, was breaking new political ground in America. This was an early challenge to that [EXPLETIVE DELETED] piece of paper that America knows as its Constitution.

The revelation of illegal electronic spying on Americans was shocking and serious. The neocons brought out their BIG GUNS in defense of their illegal activity. The soft-shoe dance of innocence began:

The neocon stated rules of engagement required that one end of the communications connection be in America while the other end had to be outside America. This would of course, rule out intra-country communications. But the same party that stated the above rule also said that Saddam Hussein was working on nukes. That was in 2003. And even today, no evidence of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear lab has been presented.

So America was fooled once – would it be fooled twice?

Not this time:

NSA has massive database of Americans’ phone calls

USA TODAY

By Leslie Cauley, USA TODAY

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.

The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom aren’t suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews.

“It’s the largest database ever assembled in the world,” said one person, who, like the others who agreed to talk about the NSA’s activities, declined to be identified by name or affiliation. The agency’s goal is “to create a database of every call ever made” within the nation’s borders, this person added.

For the customers of these companies, it means that the government has detailed records of calls they made — across town or across the country — to family members, co-workers, business contacts and others.

The three telecommunications companies are working under contract with the NSA, which launched the program in 2001 shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the sources said. The program is aimed at identifying and tracking suspected terrorists, they said. …

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm

It is “eye-crossing” to know that the same country that impeached a Democratic president(neocons were in power) for failing to tell the truth about improper touching(a personal matter) allowed a neocon President to get away with a whole list of activities that should have been viewed in a court of law.

The neocons are in a class by themselves

As we approach Thanksgiving and reflect on our business resources, I wanted to share two that I recently found and am thankful for …

Do you ever need to get some quick information without searching the thousands of sites on Google?

A quick way to do this is to hire a kgb agent.

For full disclosure, I am NOT on their payroll, nor do I get a “finder’s fee.” I just happen to be LinkedIn with Brett Saks, VP, HR & Organizational Effectiveness for kgb USA — and started exploring their website and services. Check out their site – http://www.kgb.com/ — it’s full of funny commercials, and cool ideas.

Moving on to another great resource …

If you’re a professional speaker who wants to hang with other professional speakers, the National Speakers Association (NSA) is the place for you!

The value of NSA membership relates to the education and member community. For full disclosure, I am on the Board of National Directors, but get no “kickback” for new recruits!

I just got back last night from NSA’s fall conference in Phoenix. My head is spinning with new ideas and people to use as resources. If you want to know more about NSA, check out http://www.nsaspeaker.org/.

If you have any other business resources that you think I should know about, and would like to share with others, please drop me a message.

I am currently talking to two organizations now about entering into affinity relationships for their equipment and other resources that will help presenters. Will keep you posted …

Happy Thanksgiving!

Chuck Bartowski besuchte als junger Student einst die angesehene Stanford University, wurde dort jedoch rausgeschmissen. Er wurde beschuldigt, vorab die Lösungen zu einer Klausur gestohlen zu haben. Ausgerechnet sein Zimmerkollege und bester Freund Bryce Larkin hatte ihn beim Professor angeschwärzt. Zudem kam Bryce auch noch mit Chucks Freundin zusammen.

Vier Jahre später zu Beginn der Serie arbeitet Chuck in der Computerabteilung „Nerd Herd“ des fiktiven Elektromarkts „Buy More“  in Los Angeles mit seinem besten Freund Morgan Grimes. Chuck lebt mit seiner Schwester Ellie und deren Lebensgefährten Devon in einer Wohnung zusammen.

In der Nacht seiner Geburtstagsparty erhält Chuck unerwartet von Bryce eine E-Mail. Bryce, inzwischen ein CIA-Agent, hatte auf eigene Faust den Datenbank-Server, den Intersect, von der CIA und der NSA zerstört und kurz bevor er erschossen wurde die einzige Kopie an Chuck geschickt. Chuck merkt sich unfreiwillig die in der Mail enthaltenen verschlüsselten Bilder und ist von da an die einzige Quelle sämtlicher Geheimdienst-Informationen. Doch kann er bestimmte Informationen nur durch visuelle Reize wie Gesichter oder Symbole wieder aus seinem Unterbewusstsein hervorrufen.

Die CIA-Agentin Sarah Walker und der NSA-Agent John Casey sollen fortan für Chucks Sicherheit sorgen.

[Quelle: Wikipedia]

In Deutschland ist die Serie im August 2009 auf Pro7 gestartet. Sie ist relativ spannend, aber überzeugt vor allen Dingen durch eine recht feine Situationskomik und den Eigenarten der Charaktere.

Welcher ist Euer Lieblings-Charakter in der Serie “Chuck”?

Les Talibans pakistanais ont nié toute implication dans les attaques civiles et accusé les États-Unis d’avoir orchestré certains attentats à la bombe.

Le Tehreek e-Taliban a rendu publique sa première vidéo, où il s’exprime sur les récentes attaques qui lui ont été attribuées dans toutes les villes pakistanaises.

Lundi dernier, le porte-parole du groupe, Azam Tariq, a posté sur YouTube la vidéo qui évoque les attentats à la bombe perpétrés à l’Université islamiste d’Islamabad.

Il a affirmé que cette attaque visait à préparer le terrain en vue de l’opération militaire qui se déroulera au sud Waziristan, le fief des combattants Taliban.

Il a également déclaré que son groupe n’avait en aucun cas été impliqué ni dans l’attentat du marché de Peshawar qui avait fait 100 morts, ni dans l’attaque de Charsada, une ville située à la frontière de la province pakistanaise du Nord-ouest.

« Je voudrais que le monde arabe, en particulier le Pakistan, sache que les Moudjahidin ne posent pas de bombes destinées à tuer des civils », a précisé Tariq. « C’est plutôt l’œuvre des sinistres organisations secrètes à la solde de l’État et de Blackwater ». 

En outre, le porte-parole du Tehreek e-Taliban a justifié certaines explosions, qu’il a jugées « légitimes sur le plan religieux ». 

Les cibles de notre groupe ont toujours été clairement définies : il s’agit des organisations étatiques qui, sur ordre des Américains, s’en prennent à nous et ont sur les mains le sang de nos martyrs.

Toutefois, la firme américaine de sécurité Xe Services LLC, précédemment connue sous le nom de Blackwater, a nié avoir exécuté des contrats au Pakistan.

Cette firme a été bannie d’Irak en janvier dernier, suite au meurtre en 2007de 17 civils iraquiens.

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Ce n’est pas la première fois que les talibans le disent, ils ne sont pas responsables de ces attentats qui tuent uniquement des civils.
Ils ont raison d’occuper l’espace médiatique, ils ne doivent en aucun refaire les erreurs qui ont perdu le FIS en Algérie.Les massacres imputés au GIA étaient en réalité planifiés par l’armée, le pire étant de savoir que l’armée algérienne a repris les méthodes de contre insurection de l’armée française contre le FLN, méthodes qui ont fait leurs preuves.En effet dans les années 50 et 60 la France a perdu la guerre politique et médiatique, mais militairement cela avait été un succès.

Tout est fait pour discréditer les talibans aux yeux de la population, mais ces derniers sont loin d’etre des novices dans leurs relations aux médias, internet donne une profondeur stratégique que le FIS ne pouvait pas avoir.Et puis ils ne sont pas cons, ils ont très bien compris comment ça fonctionne.Le fait de pouvoir se replier dans les zones tribales voire en Afghanistan est également un atout essentiel.
Ils vont continuer à s’en prendre au gouvernement Pakistanais tout en occupant les médias, je ne sais pas du tout dans quelle mesure la population soutient ou pas les talibans, cela doit varier en fonction de l’ethnie et du lieu géographique.
Accuser Blackwater et le gouvernement corrompu-soumis d’être responsable des carnages est intelligent, d’autant que c’est la vérité !!!

Pendant ce temps, le pays et la population ne se développent pas, chaque offensive contre les talibans jettent des centaines de milliers de personnes sur les routes, ces gens vivent un calvaire.À chaque fois que les américains sont dans un pays, il y a la guerre, des massacres et de la propagande. Depuis le début de l’année, il ya eu des milliers de morts dans des attentats, ce pays est en quasi guerre civile constante. Les talibans sont des résistants, ce qui me stupéfie dans les médias, c’est que toute lutte qui implique des musulmans est du terrorisme. Pour l’occidental moyen autant le “che ” est un révolutionnaire ” normal “, par contre il n’y a aucun musulman qui soit bien vu parcequ’il lutte pour sa liberté, c’est assez marrant !!!! Propagande, propagande quand tu nous tiens !!!!

Nous avons une perception totalement biasée de la situation au Pakistan.C’est déja fantastique que les usa tuent des gens au pakistan. Imaginez une seconde que cela arrive en France, que des drones violent constamment notre espace aérien et tirent des missiles pour tuer un ” terroriste ” souvent avec sa famille. Tant que les USA parasiteront les affaires pakistanaises, et tueront des gens il y aura des resistants, c’est logique et normal.
En même temps, à notre niveau, il est très difficile de savoir qui fait quoi, qui bosse pour qui, qui est manipulé, qui est payé, mais il y a des constantes, chaques fois que des tas de civils meurent dans un attentat aveugle, vous pouvez être sûre que c’est le gvt collabo et/ou des services secrets étrangers.En revanche, même lorsque l’état est touché, on ne peut être sûre qu’il s’agit de résistant ” régulier” puisque les services secrets étrangers veulent aussi déstabiliser l’état pakistanais, comme la mort de Bhutto

Chaque pays est souverain, même dans les problèmes, surtout dans les problèmes pourrait on dire !!!

L’occident n’a pas à s’immiscer dans les affaires des autres nations, cela fait deux siècles que ça dure, et maintenant grace au NWO en devenir, les pays vont perdre toute souveraineté, mais avant ils perdront leurs populations !!!!!

The neocons used most, if not all the tools at their disposal, to shape America into an image they could appreciate. The neocons saw problems in significant areas of America’s government and set out to make changes that better reflected neocon thinking. Toward that end the neocons engaged the services of the CIA and the NSA. There did not appear to be an immediate need to engage the FBI services.

The CIA and NSA would be needed to find and “restrain” ALL THE TERRORISTS IN THE WORLD”. The neocon terror outreach would be worldwide. The neocon terror domain would be an “EMPIRE ON WHICH THE SUN NEVER SETS”. [Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it(Santayana)]

This most adventurous political undertaking would not be “digestible” within America’s legal structures so secrecy was of utmost necessity. While the neocon Congress might stand “shoulder to shoulder” with the neocon Executive Branch, the Judicial Branch was a question mark.

So the neocons struck! One minute the citizen of a country was in that country protected by the laws of that country – the next minute that country’s citizen was in the hands of the neocons and incarcerated in a secret prison somewhere out there. The neocons were using the technique that brought Adolf Eichmann from Argentina to the Zionist state of Israel.

The neocons, using the resources of the strongest country on earth, wrecked havoc on many nations citizens – without the oversight of anyone because the neocons acted in secrecy.

But the secret and illegal activities of the neocons finally came to light. And eventually the CIA came in for “reconstruction”. The CIA was already bad. The neocons would likely make it “badder”.

Mr. Bush, as Commander-in-Chief sat at the top of the military chain of command. And the new man, in charge of the CIA, was a military man. The leadership of the CIA went to the military. And twenty-five Democrats voted for that change.

The neocons really used/abused the CIA while there was not much politics coming from the FBI. Remember the old radio stories of “the FBI in peace and war”? And how about “this is your FBI”? There was no politics involved. But then came the Bush team – and politics struck the FBI.

The neocons seems to have always had trouble with America’s ethics and  America’s laws. The neocons really “needed fer to have the Democrats share their ethics problems”. And the FBI got political. For the first time in its HISTORY, the FBI raided the office of an American Congressman. And the FBI found evidence of what looked like an ethics violation. And that was reported.

Instantly, one blogging source reported “Ethics problems are bipartisan”. The neocons had “bested” the Democrats by twenty to one and that blogging source called that bipartisan.

Other blogging sources started their “refrigerator Jefferson” jokes. And I tried to become a part of the “discussion” but my post attempts all wound up on the “cutting room floor”. Of my multiple attempts, “nary” a one was published! Not a one. Not a one. It’s anybody’s guess as to why that group did not want to entertain thoughts of “ FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE FBI – IT RAIDED A CONGRESSMAN’S OFFICE”.

But the FBI – under the rein of the neocons – did retained its civilian leadership. Civilian leadership for both the CIA and the FBI ought to be in order. The military ought to manage America’s wars – but the Iraq war had the looks of civilian management.

The neocons are in a class by themselves

Hey now! Just because the NSA helped Microsoft hone the security of Windows 7 doesn’t mean Microsoft designed special backdoors for the organization to spy on us…right?

In a response to Computerworld’s article on NSA involvement in Windows 7 development, Microsoft stated: “Microsoft has not and will not put ‘backdoors’ into Windows.”

Not to nitpick here, but doesn’t this denial leave another “door” open? As in, couldn’t the NSA have stuck their own backdoor into Windows 7 while official Microsoft employees turned a blind eye? Or—and this may come as really shocking—could Microsoft have simply lied to us in the interest of national security??

Of course, but if you freak out over this potential lack of digital autonomy, you’re clearly a terrorist. [Computerworld via Digg]

Send an email to Mark Wilson, the author of this post, at mark@gizmodo.com.

Nu har det framkommit att amerikanska NSA, National Security Agency, varit med och programmerat delar till Windows 7. NSA är väl som FRA, fast i USA om jag fattat saken rätt.

Frågan är om man byggt in avlyssningskod direkt i operativsystemet. Det förnekas av givetvis av Microsoft, men den typen av påståenden måste man liksom förneka, det hör till spelet.

Men tänk om Microsoft faktiskt är oskyldiga i det här fallet. Hur skulle de kunna bevisa sin oskuld? Givetvis genom att öppna upp källkoden till Windows 7. Då kunde säkerhetsexperter och konspirationsteoretiker alla själva kontrollera att koden inte innehåller något som spionerar på enskilda användare eller stjäl företagshemligheter.

Nåväl, det finns ju andra alternativ, som redan har öppen kod…

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