Malachi Smith's List: CYBER-WAR

• Massive Cyber Attacks on U.S. & British Military Communications
• What ya gonna do when the sats and computers go down? A primer in communications -urgent return to the past for communications back up.
• October 7, 2009
    Hawk
• No it was not bullets, mortars, missiles, or even IEDS in Afghanistan or Iraq.......but the blows were  none less telling in the world of 3 C's ........Command, Control, and Communications.
• Yesterday on October 6, 2009 several acts of war against the U.S. and the U.K. were perpetrated and very few know about it.
• Apparently, the entire National Communications Center capability to communicate went down at Andrews at least for enough of a duration to cause extreme consternation and a designation of RED.
• As many know,  this is a vital Communications Center for the U.S. Military, Intelligence community, and the Commander In Chief. It going down caused numerous problems and no doubt many questions asked.
• It may be no wonder to those who follow such events why the President decided to give a visit and a Speech to the main Counter Terror Fusion Hive somewhere in D.C. and its environs nearby of Puzzle Land or Ole Virginny.
• Oh, some may say,  that because of all the attacks upon the Intel community by this President and his comrades, along with Speaker Pelosi in the House, and the recent down dressing of General McChrystal for breaking chain of command to beg for more troops in Afghanistan by  Obama adviser General Jones (RET.) may have prompted this visit to work some MAJIC and shore up his relationship with those with actually higher clearance levels.
• Others might say that because of rumored up to $500,000 bounties offered to those who would turn in any of their high level INTEL / MIL brethren who dare oppose or hold different political views than those of the King Tut to the World,
• that in fact so much $$$ have been spread in order to Purge the INTEL/ MIL world of Constitutionalists, Christians, and Anti-Communist factions within the U.S. that in fact he has at least some willing friendly minions there.
• That is all intrigue and info from deep pools.
• I contend that it was necessary to visit because Communications were hampered somewhat and the deep underground Counter Terror Bunker has not only dedicated communications, and power generation .........but also they might have just been able to tell this President who may have taken down Andrews comm capability,
• whether it was related to a similar incident that affected MI-6 and GCHQ across the pond in the U.K. which will be discussed shortly, and whether it was related to the upcoming War in the Mideast beginning with Israel vs. Iran.
• Anyway, someone had better know how to prevent these unprecedented in scope ,attacks on the key U.S. military facilities.
• Or,  just to add fuel to the Illuminati generated ORDO AB CHAO under some luciferian faction plan.
• He went to be able to communicate and found out that this world is not revolving around his personal Alinskyesque attempts to overwhelm the U. S. into forming some new AMERO INTERNATIONALE de Lucie and that WAR IS GETTING READY TO COME TO TOWN AS THE U.S. DOLLAR AND BANKING SYSTEM ARE READY TO COLLAPSE .
• That some nations just might take advantage of that and do perhaps have the will to strike death blows to the United States in spite of her Military capabilities,  may have just turned on a light bulb that this ain't play acting to win an election.
• In this world it is really hard anymore to just "Glow" your way to victory.
• The U.K. situation yesterday apparently was a massive deep hack and the resultant cyber-purloining of approx. 2000 pages of the Queen's MI-6 deepest current secrets relating perhaps to operational details of clandestine agenteur, current INTEL operations, and future plans for a variety of target nations around the world.
• That these "Dirty Knickers" were spread all over the Internet throughout the Eurozone prior to a quick takedown by GCHQ and MI-6 caused great wailing and consternation in the British circles of power. Understandably so as this amounts to war.
• .....is there any linkage of these cyber generated attacks to the fact that certain UN working groups were addressing that very issue or that in nearly every country belabored Elites like Senator Rocky Oil want to take away the Internet from the people because they are losing control of the masses of sheep they have been feeding upon.
• Curiously though,  yesterday also had a UN group comment that the next World War will be fought in Cyberspace
• So, the questions abound who did these massive attacks in cyberspace. Best guesses are:
• 1. Red Chinese who already have been caught compromising the entire U.S. Govt, Mil. and Intel computer net works. Of course DHS having a contract with Tsinghua University computer experts in a Metro Columbus, Ohio branch campus office? Why should be addressed quickly.
• 2. Russians who do have a treaty of defense with Iran and who have the will to launch on CONUS and the U.K. if they support an Israeli attack upon Iran. Both countries have been probed heavily by Russian Bombers and Subs very recently in a new "cold war like" show of force by the Bear.
• Their overall Mil capability is not what it once was, but they did pay off their Club of Paris Debt and with oil going to go to Pluto they will contest just how this "New World Order" is to be structured.
• Large numbers of Spetsnaz and GRU sleepers are very active in the U.S. and U.K. 
• 3. Iran herself who has to perhaps work the asymmetrical angles as much as possible with an almost guaranteed pending Israeli attack coming against their nuclear material and warhead development facilities.
• 4. Israeli Mossad perhaps to create a false flag cyber attack in order to gain guaranteed actual Military and Financial support from the U.S. and U.K.
    IE. Pin the false tail on the Iranians and Russians so that the U.S. and the U.K. will go along with the attacks coming on Tehran, Qom. Isfahan, and other Iranian cities.
• 5. some luciferian Cabal wanting to just fuel ORDO AB CHAO and throw the world into 6th gear on a slippery track of abandon.
• Regardless, the point here is that a return to the tried and true nearly indestructible older communications methods of the Cold War 50s for back-up purposes is in order.
• Industrial strength HF transmitters that can cut through nearly any amount of bad propo,  antennas that can receive HF from Alpha Draconis or Adam and Eve through time/space.
• Analog, tubes, and hard wires that were not susceptible to electro magnetic pulse detonation might just want to be considered to be reactivated.
• Also, Military and Intel rank and file should be trained once again in all forms signalling and comm including Morse Code, Flag and Pennant codes, older HF radio systems, and any so called antiquated method of signals including smoke signals and the native drum if necessary.
• All this hardware with soooooo too many Chinese Chips inside outsourced in De-industrialization of the U.S. by greedy and evil men, can soon mean that you cannot project much power anywhere if the orders to send them into to battle cannot even be given or if the threat of an incoming bogey 110 nautical miles off the east coast CONUS cannot be communicated properly to command who can interdict the threat.
• Recall also the unscheduled forced landing of Air Force 2 with Daarth Duvhunter aboard who ended up talking to some Chinese at their whim at a Singapore airport. They even described the sequence of the chips that were turned off inside that aircraft. Why did the U.S. let Boeing ever create that manufacturing line inside Red China?
• So, what you gonna do? what you gonna do when the Sats get killed and the Computers get Hacked?
• Well, you had better have back up as at that point it becomes a much more confused and local battlefield and some enemy just take your Command Post with a club or a rock, just as Einstein warned about many years ago.
• Regenerate complete U.S. manufacture of military micro chips, hire and pay well dedicated U.S. service personnel instead of mercenary contractors and mixed allegiance corporate Illuminati who hire foreign  techno zombies with no allegiance to America.
• Create a true multi-level Communications redundancy and one as simple and tough a KABAR knife. One that could be drenched in an Asian swamp or used at the frozen Chosin again or could be hidden in a Shanghai apartment  and easily serviced and used even after EMP strikes or during if you please.
• Wake up Good Guys in MIL/ INTEL.........We don't have much time left.
   
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• Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum.
• Posted September 8th, 2008 by docholladay
• This information was posted a few days ago by "jshowell" and was titled "Troll Techniques", but since this type of activity is still going on here at the DP, I think it's important to keep it front and center. This one's for you, "ronbarr".
• COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum..
• There are several techniques for the control and manipulation of a internet forum no matter what, or who is on it.
• We will go over each technique and demonstrate that only a minimal number of operatives can be used to eventually and effectively gain a control of a 'uncontrolled forum.'
• Technique #1 - 'FORUM SLIDING'
• If a very sensitive posting of a critical nature has been posted on a forum - it can be quickly removed from public view by 'forum sliding.'
• In this technique a number of unrelated posts are quietly prepositioned on the forum and allowed to 'age.' Each of these misdirectional forum postings can then be called upon at will to trigger a 'forum slide.'
• The second requirement is that several fake accounts exist, which can be called upon, to ensure that this technique is not exposed to the public.
• To trigger a 'forum slide' and 'flush' the critical post out of public view it is simply a matter of logging into each account both real and fake and then 'replying' to prepositined postings with a simple 1 or 2 line comment. This brings the unrelated postings to the top of the forum list, and the critical posting 'slides' down the front page, and quickly out of public view.
• Although it is difficult or impossible to censor the posting it is now lost in a sea of unrelated and unuseful postings. By this means it becomes effective to keep the readers of the forum reading unrelated and non-issue items.
• Technique #2 - 'CONSENSUS CRACKING'
• A second highly effective technique (which you can see in operation all the time at www.abovetopsecret.com) is 'consensus cracking.'
• To develop a consensus crack, the following technique is used.
• Under the guise of a fake account a posting is made which looks legitimate and is towards the truth is made - but the critical point is that it has a VERY WEAK PREMISE without substantive proof to back the posting.
• Once this is done then under alternative fake accounts a very strong position in your favour is slowly introduced over the life of the posting.
• It is IMPERATIVE that both sides are initially presented, so the uninformed reader cannot determine which side is the truth.
• As postings and replies are made the stronger 'evidence' or disinformation in your favour is slowly 'seeded in.' Thus the uninformed reader will most like develop the same position as you, and if their position is against you their opposition to your posting will be most likely dropped.
• However in some cases where the forum members are highly educated and can counter your disinformation with real facts and linked postings, you can then 'abort' the consensus cracking by initiating a 'forum slide.'
• Technique #3 - 'TOPIC DILUTION'
• Topic dilution is not only effective in forum sliding it is also very useful in keeping the forum readers on unrelated and non-productive issues.
• This is a critical and useful technique to cause a 'RESOURCE BURN.'
• By implementing continual and non-related postings that distract and disrupt (trolling ) the forum readers they are more effectively stopped from anything of any real productivity.
• If the intensity of gradual dilution is intense enough, the readers will effectively stop researching and simply slip into a 'gossip mode.'
• In this state they can be more easily misdirected away from facts towards uninformed conjecture and opinion.
• The less informed they are the more effective and easy it becomes to control the entire group in the direction that you would desire the group to go in.
• It must be stressed that a proper assessment of the psychological capabilities and levels of education is first determined of the group to determine at what level to 'drive in the wedge.'
• By being too far off topic too quickly it may trigger censorship by a forum moderator.
• Technique #4 - 'INFORMATION COLLECTION'
• Information collection is also a very effective method to determine the psychological level of the forum members, and to gather intelligence that can be used against them.
• In this technique in a light and positive environment a 'show you mine so me yours' posting is initiated. From the number of replies and the answers that are provided much statistical information can be gathered.
• An example is to post your 'favourite weapon' and then encourage other members of the forum to showcase what they have.
• In this matter it can be determined by reverse proration what percentage of the forum community owns a firearm, and or a illegal weapon.
• This same method can be used by posing as one of the form members and posting your favourite 'technique of operation.' From the replies various methods that the group utilizes can be studied and effective methods developed to stop them from their activities.
• Technique #5 - 'ANGER TROLLING'
• Statistically, there is always a percentage of the forum posters who are more inclined to violence.
• In order to determine who these individuals are, it is a requirement to present a image to the forum to deliberately incite a strong psychological reaction.
• From this the most violent in the group can be effectively singled out for reverse IP location and possibly local enforcement tracking.
• To accomplish this only requires posting a link to a video depicting a local police officer massively abusing his power against a very innocent individual.
• Statistically of the million or so police officers in America there is always one or two being caught abusing there powers and the taping of the activity can be then used for intelligence gathering purposes - without the requirement to 'stage' a fake abuse video.
• This method is extremely effective, and the more so the more abusive the video can be made to look. Sometimes it is useful to 'lead' the forum by replying to your own posting with your own statement of violent intent, and that you 'do not care what the authorities think!!' inflammation.
• By doing this and showing no fear it may be more effective in getting the more silent and self-disciplined violent intent members of the forum to slip and post their real intentions. This can be used later in a court of law during prosecution.
• Technique #6 - 'GAINING FULL CONTROL'
• It is important to also be harvesting and continually maneuvering for a forum moderator position.
• Once this position is obtained, the forum can then be effectively and quietly controlled by deleting unfavourable postings - and one can eventually steer the forum into complete failure and lack of interest by the general public.
• This is the 'ultimate victory' as the forum is no longer participated with by the general public and no longer useful in maintaining their freedoms.
• Depending on the level of control you can obtain, you can deliberately steer a forum into defeat by censoring postings, deleting memberships, flooding, and or accidentally taking the forum offline.
• By this method the forum can be quickly killed.
• However it is not always in the interest to kill a forum as it can be converted into a 'honey pot' gathering center to collect and misdirect newcomers and from this point be completely used for your control for your agenda purposes.
• CONCLUSION
• Remember these techniques are only effective if the forum participants DO NOT KNOW ABOUT THEM.
• Once they are aware of these techniques the operation can completely fail, and the forum can become uncontrolled.
• At this point other avenues must be considered such as initiating a false legal precidence to simply have the forum shut down and taken offline.
• This is not desirable as it then leaves the enforcement agencies unable to track the percentage of those in the population who always resist attempts for control against them.
• Many other techniques can be utilized and developed by the individual and as you develop further techniques of infiltration and control it is imperative to share then with HQ.
• Personal thoughts: If you stay around here long enough it becomes obvious that these techniques are being intentionally used by a small number of people to dilute the power of freedom minded people who are coming together here to discuss important and sensitive issues.
• This forum is a powerful tool, and its educational effects cannot be underestimated, especially for those newcomers who aren't yet up to speed on the level of corruption in our government.
• Many people are just learning and coming to grips with the big issues. That's exactly what the neocons DON'T want, and it's why they send in their vermin....those who use these tactics to distract readers and keep them from hearing different viewpoints on things such as 9/11, Palin, and Bob Barr.
• The more ignorant the people are, the easier they are to manipulate and control with bullshit propaganda such as the bogus 'war on terror', 9/11 'debunking', and political ploys such as Sara Palin's V.P. run with McCain.
• UPDATE: Well, of course the trolls are attacking, and are attempting to say that fights like this one are unimportant in an attempt to marginalize the above information.
• Here's why I think it's vitally important. The Ron Paul Revolution is about exposing the truth. It's about returning to a Constitutional form of government. By necessity, that implies that we have been lied to and that we DON'T have a Constitutional government. If you dispute that, then you are in the wrong place, to say the least.
• How did we get from what the founders intended to the FUBAR mess we're in right now? Was it a military campaign against the people of America? No, our freedoms and Constitutional form of government have been eroded over time by slick talking politicians, corrupt media, and people sitting behind closed doors trying to figure out ways to strip us of our money and basic 'God given' rights and turn us into slaves.
• Up until now, the insidious plan has been working, but as you can see, people are waking up. This forum is a great example of what the neocons most fear.....people thinking for themselves and becoming more and more informed about the lies and abuses of government which threaten to destroy the America that the Founders intended.
• This is not an ego thing with me at all. It's a life or death struggle for the survival of the Constitiuion and America as we know it.
• "Trolls" (whether politicians, press, or internet trash) ARE what have slowly brought this country down, and the fight to preserve the principles of freedom as embodied by sites like the DailyPaul are as important as anything we could be doing.
• Sites like this are making a difference, otherwise the establishment wouldn't be threatened enough to send in their lackeys to try to destroy it.

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• Volume 56, Number 17 · November 5, 2009
• Who's in Big Brother's Database?

• By James Bamford

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  The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency

     

  by Matthew M. Aid

     

  Bloomsbury, 423 pp., $30.00
• On a remote edge of Utah's dry and arid high desert, where temperatures often zoom past 100 degrees, hard-hatted construction workers with top-secret clearances are preparing to build what may become America's equivalent of Jorge Luis Borges's "Library of Babel,"
• a place where the collection of information is both infinite and at the same time monstrous, where the entire world's knowledge is stored, but not a single word is understood.
• At a million square feet, the mammoth $2 billion structure will be one-third larger than the US Capitol and will use the same amount of energy as every house in Salt Lake City combined.
• Unlike Borges's "labyrinth of letters," this library expects few visitors.
• It's being built by the ultra-secret National Security Agency—which is primarily responsible for "signals intelligence," the collection and analysis of various forms of communication—to house trillions of phone calls, e-mail messages, and data trails: Web searches, parking receipts, bookstore visits, and other digital "pocket litter."
• Lacking adequate space and power at its city-sized Fort Meade, Maryland, headquarters, the NSA is also completing work on another data archive, this one in San Antonio, Texas, which will be nearly the size of the Alamodome.
• A clue comes from a recent report prepared by the MITRE Corporation, a Pentagon think tank. "As the sensors associated with the various surveillance missions improve," says the report, referring to a variety of technical collection methods, "the data volumes are increasing with a projection that sensor data volume could potentially increase to the level of Yottabytes (10²⁴ Bytes) by 2015."^[1]
• Just how much information will be stored in these windowless cybertemples?
• Roughly equal to about a septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text, numbers beyond Yottabytes haven't yet been named.
• Once vacuumed up and stored in these near-infinite "libraries," the data are then analyzed by powerful infoweapons, supercomputers running complex algorithmic programs, to determine who among us may be—or may one day become—a terrorist.
• In the NSA's world of automated surveillance on steroids, every bit has a history and every keystroke tells a story.
• In the near decade since September 11, the tectonic plates beneath the American intelligence community have undergone a seismic shift, knocking the director of the CIA from the top of the organizational chart and replacing him with the new director of national intelligence, a desk-bound espiocrat with a large staff but little else.
• Not only surviving the earthquake but emerging as the most powerful chief the spy world has ever known was the director of the NSA.
• He is in charge of an organization three times the size of the CIA and empowered in 2008 by Congress to spy on Americans to an unprecedented degree, despite public criticism of the Bush administration's use of the agency to conduct warrantless domestic surveillance as part of the "war on terror."
• The legislation also largely freed him of the nettlesome Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA). And in another significant move, he was recently named to head the new Cyber Command, which also places him in charge of the nation's growing force of cyber warriors.
• Wasting no time, the agency has launched a building boom, doubling the size of its headquarters, expanding its listening posts, and constructing enormous data factories.
• One clue to the possible purpose of the highly secret megacenters comes from the agency's British partner, Government Communications Headquarters. Last year, the British government proposed the creation of an enormous government-run central database to store details on every phone call, e-mail, and Internet search made in the United Kingdom.
• Click a "send" key or push an "answer" button and the details of the communication end up, perhaps forever, in the government's data warehouse to be scrutinized and analyzed.
• But when the plans were released by the UK government, there was an immediate outcry from both the press and the public, leading to the scrapping of the "big brother database," as it was called.
• In its place, however, the government came up with a new plan. Instead of one vast, centralized database, the telecom companies and Internet service providers would be required to maintain records of all details about people's phone, e-mail, and Web-browsing habits for a year and to permit the government access to them when asked.
• That has led again to public anger and to a protest by the London Internet Exchange, which represents more than 330 telecommunications firms. "We view...the volume of data the government now proposes [we] should collect and retain will be unprecedented, as is the overall level of intrusion into the privacy of citizenry," the group said in August.^[2]
• Unlike the British government, which, to its great credit, allowed public debate on the idea of a central data bank, the NSA obtained the full cooperation of much of the American telecom industry in utmost secrecy after September 11.
• For example, the agency built secret rooms in AT&T's major switching facilities where duplicate copies of all data are diverted, screened for key names and words by computers, and then transmitted on to the agency for analysis. Thus, these new centers in Utah, Texas, and possibly elsewhere will likely become the centralized repositories for the data intercepted by the NSA in America's version of the "big brother database" rejected by the British.
• Matthew M. Aid has been after the NSA's secrets for a very long time. As a sergeant and Russian linguist in the NSA's Air Force branch, he was arrested and convicted in a court-martial, thrown into prison, and slapped with a bad conduct discharge for impersonating an officer and making off with a stash of NSA documents stamped Top Secret Codeword.
• He now prefers to obtain the NSA's secrets legally, through the front door of the National Archives. The result is The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency , a footnote-heavy history told largely through declassified but heavily redacted NSA reports that have been slowly trickling out of the agency over the years. They are most informative in the World War II period but quickly taper off in substance during the cold war.
• Aid begins his study on the eve of Pearl Harbor, a time when the entire American cryptologic force could fit into a small, half-empty community theater.
• But by war's end, it would take a football stadium to seat the 37,000 military and civilian "crippies."
• On August 14, 1945, as the ink dried on Japan's instruments of surrender, the linguists and codebreakers manning the thirty-seven key listening posts around the world were reading more than three hundred diplomatic code and cipher systems belonging to sixty countries.
• "The American signals intelligence empire stood at the zenith of its power and prestige," notes Aid. But within days, the cryptanalysts put away their well-sharpened pencils and the intercept operators hung up their earphones. By the end of December 1945, America's crypto world had shrunk to 7,500 men and women.
• Despite the drastic layoffs, the small cadre of US and British codebreakers excelled against the new "main enemy," as Russia became known.
• The joint US-British effort deciphered tens of thousands of Russian army and navy messages during the mid-to-late 1940s. But on October 29, 1948, as President Truman was about to deliver a campaign speech in New York, the party was over.
• In what became known within the crypto world as "Black Friday," the Russian government and military flipped a switch and instantly converted to new, virtually unbreakable encryption systems and from vulnerable radio signals to buried cables. In the war between spies and machines, the spies won.
• The Soviets had managed to recruit William Weisband, a forty-year-old Russian linguist working for the US Army, who informed them of key cryptologic weaknesses the Americans were successfully exploiting. It was a blow from which the codebreakers would never recover. NSA historians called it "perhaps the most significant intelligence loss in US history."
• In the 1970s, when some modest gains were made in penetrating the Russian systems, history would repeat itself and another American turncoat, this time Ronald Pelton, would again give away the US secrets.
• Since then, it has largely been a codemaker's market not only with regard to high-level Russian ciphers, but also those of other key countries, such as China and North Korea. On the other hand, the NSA has made significant progress against less cryptologically sophisticated countries and, from them, gained insight into plans and intentions of countries about which the US has greater concerns.
• Thus, when a Chinese diplomat at the United Nations discusses some new African venture with a colleague from Sudan, the eavesdroppers at the NSA may be deaf to the Chinese communications links but they may be able to get that same information by exploiting weaknesses in Sudan's communications and cipher systems when the diplomat reports the meeting to Khartoum.
• But even third-world cryptography can be daunting. During the entire war in Vietnam, writes Aid, the agency was never able to break the high-level encryption systems of either the North Vietnamese or the Vietcong. It is a revelation that leads him to conclude "that everything we thought we knew about the role of NSA in the Vietnam War needs to be reconsidered."
• Because the book is structured chronologically, it is somewhat difficult to decipher the agency's overall record. But one sees troubling trends.
• One weakness that seems to recur is that the agency, set up in the wake of World War II to prevent another surprise attack, is itself frequently surprised by attacks and other serious threats.
• In the 1950s, as over 100,000 heavily armed North Korean troops surged across the 38th parallel into South Korea, the codebreakers were among the last to know. "The North Korean target was ignored," says a declassified NSA report quoted by Aid.
• "North Korea got lost in the shuffle and nobody told us that they were interested in what was going on north of the 38th parallel," exclaimed one intelligence officer. At the time, astonishingly, the Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA), the NSA's predecessor, didn't even have a Korean-language dictionary.
• Unfortunately for General Douglas MacArthur, the codebreakers were able to read the communications of Spain's ambassador to Tokyo and other diplomats, who noted that in their discussions with the general, he made clear his secret hope for all-out war with China and Russia, including the use of nuclear weapons if necessary.
• In a rare instance of secret NSA intercepts playing a major part in US politics, once the messages were shown to President Truman, MacArthur's career abruptly ended.
• Another major surprise came in the 1960s when the Soviet Union was able to move large numbers of personnel, large amounts of equipment, and many ballistic missiles to Cuba without the NSA hearing a peep.
• Still unable to break into the high-level Soviet cipher systems, the agency was unaware that the 51st Rocket Division had packed up and was encamped in Cuba. Nor did it detect the move of five complete medium-range and intermediate-range missile regiments from their Russian bases to Cuba.
• And it had no knowledge that Russian ballistic missiles were on Cuban soil, being positioned in launchers. "Soviet communications security was almost perfect," according to an NSA historian.
• The first clues that something unusual was happening had come in mid-July 1962, when NSA analysts noticed record numbers of Soviet cargo and passenger ships heading for Cuba. Analysis of their unencrypted shipping manifests led the NSA to suspect that the ships were delivering weapons.
• But the nuclear-armed ballistic missiles were not detected until mid-October, a month after their arrival, and not by the NSA; it was the CIA, acting on information from its sources in Cuba and Florida, that ordered the U-2 reconnaisance flight that photographed them at launch sites on the island.
• "The crisis," Aid concludes, "was in fact anything but an intelligence success story."
• This is a view shared by the agency itself in a candid internal history, which noted that the harrowing events "marked the most significant failure of SIGINT [signals intelligence] to warn national leaders since World War II."
• More recently, the NSA was unaware of India's impending nuclear test in 1998, the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, the attack on the USS Cole in 2000, and the 1998 bombing of two of America's East African embassies.
• The agency first learned of the September 11 attacks on $300 television sets tuned to CNN, not its billion-dollar eavesdropping satellites tuned to al-Qaeda.
• Then there is the pattern by which the NSA was actually right about a warning, but those in power chose to ignore it. During the Korean War, the AFSA picked up numerous indications from low-level unencrypted Chinese intercepts that the Chinese were shifting hundreds of thousands of combat troops to Manchuria by rail, an obvious signal that China might enter the war. But those in charge of Army intelligence simply refused to believe it; it didn't fit in with their plans.
• Then, by reading the dispatches between India's well-connected ambassador to Beijing and his Foreign Office, it became clear that China would intervene if UN forces crossed the 38th parallel into North Korea. But again, says Aid, the warning "was either discounted or ignored completely by policymakers in Washington,"
• and as the UN troops began crossing the divide, Chinese troops crossed the Yalu River into North Korea. Even when intercepts indicated that the Chinese were well entrenched in the North, officials in Washington and Seoul remained in a state of disbelief, until both South Korean and US forces there were attacked by the Chinese forces.
• The pattern was repeated in Vietnam when NSA reporting warned on January 25, 1968, that a major coordinated attack would occur "in the near future in several areas of South Vietnam." But neither the White House, the CIA, nor General William Westmoreland at US military headquarters in Saigon believed it, until over 100,000 North Vietnamese and Vietcong troops launched their Tet offensive in the South five days later on January 30.
• "The [NSA] reports failed to shake the commands in Washington and Saigon from their perception," says an NSA history. Tragically, Aid notes, at the end of the war, all of the heroic Vietnamese cryptologic personnel who greatly helped the NSA were left behind. "Many," the NSA report reveals, "undoubtedly perished."
• Then again in 1973, as in Korea and Vietnam, the NSA warned that Egypt and Syria were planning "a major offensive" against Israel. But, as Aid quotes an official NSA history, the CIA refused to believe that an attack was imminent "because [they thought] the Arabs wouldn't be 'stupid enough' to attack Israel." They were, they did, and they won.
• Everything seemed to go right for the NSA during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which the agency had accurately forecast.
• "NSA predicted on December 22 [1979], three full days before the first Soviet troops crossed the Soviet–Afghan border, that the Russians would invade Afghanistan within the next seventy-two hours," writes Aid, adding, "Afghanistan may have been the 'high water mark' for NSA."
• The agency also recorded the words of the Russian fighter pilot and his ground controllers as he shot down Korean Airlines Flight 007 in 1983.
• Although the agency knew that the Russians had accidently mistaken the plane for a potentially hostile US military aircraft, the Reagan administration nevertheless deliberately spun the intercepts to make it seem that the fighter pilot knew all along that it was a passenger jet, infuriating NSA officials.
• "The White House's selective release of the most salacious of the NSA material concerning the shootdown set off a firestorm of criticism inside NSA," writes Aid. It was not the first time, nor would it be the last, that the NSA's product was used for political purposes.
• The most troubling pattern, however, is that the NSA, through gross incompetence, bad intelligence, or deliberate deception through the selective release of information, has helped to push the US into tragic wars.
• A prime example took place in 1964 when the Johnson administration claimed that two US Navy destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, one on an eavesdropping mission for the NSA, were twice attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. Those attacks were then used to justify the escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam War.
• But Aid cites a top-secret NSA analysis of the incident, completed in 2000, which concluded that the second attack, the one used to justify the war, never took place.
• Instead, NSA officials deliberately withheld 90 percent of the intelligence on the attacks and told the White House only what it wanted to hear. According to the analysis, only intelligence "that supported the claim that the communists had attacked the two destroyers was given to administration officials."
• Not having learned its lesson, in the lead-up to the war in Iraq the NSA again told the administration only what it wanted to hear, despite the clearly ambiguous nature of the evidence.
• For years beforehand, the agency's coverage of Iraq was disastrous. In the late 1990s, the Iraqis began shifting much of their high-level military communications from radio to buried fiber optic networks, and at the same time, Saddam Hussein banned the use of cell phones. That left only occasional low-level troop communications.
• According to a later review, Aid writes, NSA had "virtually no useful signals intelligence on a target that was one of the United States' top intelligence priorities." And the little intelligence it did have pointed away from Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction.
• "We looked long and hard for any signs," said one retired NSA official. "We just never found a 'smoking gun' that Saddam was trying to build nukes or anything else." That, however, did not prevent the NSA director, Lieutenant Gen. Michael V. Hayden, from stamping his approval on the CIA's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate arguing that Iraq's WMDs posed a grave danger, which helped prepare the way for the devastating war.
• While much of the terrain Aid covers has been explored before, the most original areas in The Secret Sentry deal with the ground wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, where the NSA was forced to marry, largely unsuccessfully, its super-high-tech strategic capabilities in space with its tactical forces on the ground.
• Before the September 11 attacks, the agency's coverage of Afghanistan was even worse than that of Iraq. At the start of the war, the NSA's principal listening post for the region did not have a single linguist proficient in Pashto or Dari, Afghanistan's two principal languages.
• Agency recruiters descended on Fremont, California, home of the country's largest population of Afghan expatriates, to build up a cadre of translators—only to have most candidates rejected by the agency's overparanoid security experts.
• On the plus side, because of the collapse of the Taliban regime's rudimentary communications system, its leaders were forced to communicate only by satellite phones, which were very susceptible to NSA monitoring.
• Other NSA tactical teams, Aid explains, collaborated on the ground with Special Forces units, including in the mountains of Tora Bora. But it was a new type of war, one the NSA was not prepared for, and both Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar easily slipped through its electronic net
• Eight years later, despite billions of dollars spent by the agency and dozens of tapes released by bin Laden, the NSA is no closer to capturing him or Mullah Omar than it was at Tora Bora in 2001.
• Disappointingly, the weakest section of the book, mostly summaries of old news clips, deals with what may be the most important subject: the NSA's warrantless eavesdropping and its targeting of American communications.
• There is no discussion, for example, of the agency's huge data-mining centers, mentioned above, currently being built in Utah and Texas, or to what extent the agency, which has long been confined to foreign and international communications, is now engaged in domestic eavesdropping.
• It is a key question and we have no precise answer. By installing its intercept rooms in such locations as AT&T's main switching station in downtown San Francisco, the agency has physical access to domestic as well as international communications.
• Thus it is possible that the agency scans all the e-mail of both and it may also eavesdrop on the telephone calls of both for targets on its ever-growing watch lists.
• According to a recent Justice Department report, "As of December 31, 2008, the consolidated terrorist watchlist contained more than 1.1 million known or suspected terrorist identities."^[3]
• Aid's history becomes thin as it gets closer to the present day and the archival documents dwindle, especially since he has no substantial first-person, on-the-record interviews.
• Beyond a brief mention, he also leaves other important aspects of the NSA's history unaddressed, including the tumultuous years in the mid-1970s when it was investigated by the Senate's Church Committee for decades of illegal spying; Trailblazer, the nearly decade-long failure to modernize the agency; and the NSA's increasingly important role in cyberwarfare and its implications in future wars.
• Where does all this leave us? Aid concludes that the biggest problem facing the agency is not the fact that it's drowning in untranslated, indecipherable, and mostly unusable data, problems that the troubled new modernization plan, Turbulence, is supposed to eventually fix.
• "These problems may, in fact, be the tip of the iceberg," he writes. Instead, what the agency needs most, Aid says, is more power. But the type of power to which he is referring is the kind that comes from electrical substations, not statutes.
• "As strange as it may sound," he writes, "one of the most urgent problems facing NSA is a severe shortage of electrical power."
• With supercomputers measured by the acre and estimated $70 million annual electricity bills for its headquarters, the agency has begun browning out, which is the reason for locating its new data centers in Utah and Texas. And as it pleads for more money to construct newer and bigger power generators, Aid notes, Congress is balking.
• The issue is critical because at the NSA, electrical power is political power.
• In its top-secret world, the coin of the realm is the kilowatt. More electrical power ensures bigger data centers. Bigger data centers, in turn, generate a need for more access to phone calls and e-mail and, conversely, less privacy. The more data that comes in, the more reports flow out. And the more reports that flow out, the more political power for the agency.
• Rather than give the NSA more money for more power—electrical and political—some have instead suggested just pulling the plug.
• "NSA can point to things they have obtained that have been useful," Aid quotes former senior State Department official Herbert Levin, a longtime customer of the agency, "but whether they're worth the billions that are spent, is a genuine question in my mind."
• Based on the NSA's history of often being on the wrong end of a surprise and a tendency to mistakenly get the country into, rather than out of, wars, it seems to have a rather disastrous cost-benefit ratio.
• The September 11 attacks are a case in point. For more than a year and a half the NSA was eavesdropping on two of the lead hijackers, knowing they had been sent by bin Laden, while they were in the US preparing for the attacks.
• Were it a corporation, it would likely have gone belly-up years ago.
• The terrorists even chose as their command center a motel in Laurel, Maryland, almost within eyesight of the director's office. Yet the agency never once sought an easy-to-obtain FISA warrant to pinpoint their locations, or even informed the CIA or FBI of their presence.

  • Well, of course they didn't. That was not part of the overall plan
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• But pulling the plug, or even allowing the lights to dim, seems unlikely given President Obama's hawkish policies in Afghanistan.

  • "Hawkish?!"
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• However, if the war there turns out to be the train wreck many predict, then Obama may decide to take a much closer look at the spy world's most lavish spender. It is a prospect that has some in the Library of Babel very nervous. "It was a great ride while it lasted," said one.

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• ALL RELIGIONS PRACTICE WITCHCRAFT - PAGANISM IS THE ONLY ACCESS TO GOD
• By NAIWU OSAHON

• Feature Article : "The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of Modernghana.com."
• There is too much religion in the developing world right now, too much pre-occupation with spiritually false and ineffective money spinning religious enterprises of con-artists, especially in the hapless African world of abject poverty and ignorance; resulting in the colossal loss or waste of precious and productive energy and time that all of mankind could have jointly harnessed to move civilization significantly forward.
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  HRM Naiwu Osahon, the Agosu of Africa, renowned author, philosopher of science, mystique, leader of the world Pan-African Movement
• We spend the better part of the day and several vigil nights weekly, on our knees or butts praying endlessly and tirelessly to no avail because that is not how spirituality works.
• We are the most wretched people on earth. Our society is riddled with unmitigating violence; entrenching culture of dare-devil robbery and filthy and shameless corruption; dearth of basic infrastructure and degrading, decaying, primitive unnurturing, unfulfilling environment,
• because we are applying spirituality wrongly and we are not using our heads. We are wasting too much time on our knees instead of on our feet to work.
• Praying in the name of any God is not enough.
• If humans, who do not live in the same house or the same street or the same town or country, want to talk to each other, they do not begin to pray or shout or use loudspeakers in their rooms or churches or mosques and expect the other to hear them miles away; they use the telephone.
• Does it even make sense or show respect that you should be shouting in the name or presence of your God or Gods, unless they are deaf? That could be a reason they are not responding.
• Witchcraft is the telephone link with the Gods and the spirit world.
• The only link, and it is the highest level of science for man.
• How to effectively use it to engage the Gods is one of the greatest secrets of the ages.
• The secret is kept from most of mankind because such power could be misused in the wrong hands.
• To engage a God or deity to respond to you, you must do a number of things pleasing to the God.
• You must first knock (and knocking entails giving up something dear to the seeker of favours);
• and receive the response to enter the realm of the deity in question, before making your requests in form of praying or crying.
• To enter the computer Internet, for instance, we first switch on the electricity mains, then the computer, then the communication gadget to engage some special engines (or facilitators) such as Yahoo, Hotmail, Excel, Google and so on.
• These engines are the energizers of the Gods or deities such as Maat, Sango, Olokun, Yahweh etc.
• Surfing on the computer Internet to check out websites and send e-mails, is the equivalence of praying, meditating, asking, begging, wishing and crying.
• The practical activities of getting on, sending and receiving messages on the Internet, equate with witchcraft.
• Witchcraft is the Spiritual Internet link and information and action processing catalyst of human interaction with the Gods.
• All organized religions deceive followers that witchcraft is all evil but the elite of these religions are soaked in the practice.
• It is impossible to engage the Gods without some formalities that involve abstinence, meditation, fasting and ritual sacrifices.
• Sacrifices are paramount and sometimes include blood of some sort and so on.
• Christ was supposed to have sacrificed his blood for mankind so his devotees make a meal of his flesh and blood with bread and wine in communion.
• Another lie by modern religions is their claim to worship only one God.
• What the Christian and Islamic religions did was to pick Yahweh from the ten Jewish intermediary gods and substitute the remaining nine: Hokhmah, Binah, Hesed, Gevurah, Tifereth, Netsah, Hod, Yesod and Malkuth with Jesus, Muhammad, dozens of Saints, Anubis, Angels etc.
• Yahweh is only one of the ten Jewish attributes of En-Sof.
• Yahweh is a tribal deity and claims to hate Africans and others (i.e. Amorites, Philistines, Canaanites, Jebusites, Hittites). He threatened to wipe all of us off the face of the earth for his children, the Israelites.
• So, when someone tells you 'God bless you,' be weary and ask which God, which deity?
• It is important for all religious people, particularly African Christians and Muslims, to understand this.
• Yahweh is a Jewish tribal god and not the ultimate source of spirituality, which is Tu-SoS or the Jewish En-Sof.
• Tu-SoS (The ultimate Source of Spirituality), or En-Sof (in Judaism), is not a God or spirit but an energy source and is not worshipped anywhere in the world.
• Modern Africans, like their ancestors, do not worship Tu-SoS, which they variously call Olodumare, Osanobua, Chukwu. The Jews too do not worship En-Sof.
• The Jews, like the Africans, worship the intermediary Gods.
• African ancestors created all the initial intermediary Gods and Deities known to man.
• African ancient intermediary Gods include El, Thoth, Auser, Auset, Heru, Maat, Anubis etc., and in modern times, names such as Sango, the God of lightening, masculinity, fearlessness and hard work; Olokun, the Goddess of beauty, arts, culture, poetry, love, marriage, femininity and fertility; Orunmila, the God of wisdom, scholarship and learning; Obatala, the God of creativity and Ogun, the God of Iron and technology.
• The secondary intermediary gods or deities include Yahweh and the other Jewish adaptations of the original African intermediary Gods, and the ethnic gods and goddesses with a variety of names around the world today: Apollo, Venus, Jupiter, Adonis, Minerva, Diana, Brahman etc.
  
• If you go to any of the original, undiluted, African spiritual Gods, such as Sango, to make a request, the deity or Sango, would give you conditions to fulfil there and then. You would not have to go home and come back for Sango's response, and if you meet the conditions set, Sango would oblige you with your request.
• The adapted gods and goddesses are not as spiritually potent as the original African spiritual Gods.
• If, on the other hand, you go to the diluted or adapted spiritual Gods like the Christian and Islamic Yahweh, to table a request, you don't get an answer right away. In fact, you could be talking to a brick wall. You keep praying, begging, and fasting, hoping that someone is listening.
• It is as simple as that and it could happen within minutes of your request.
• A good example of this is the Irish priest who assembled a dozen barren, middle-aged, married women and passed six of them on to Baba-maven to use his witchcraft to alter their faith while he prayed for the other six.
• The priest decided the choice of candidates and allocated them. After six weeks of the experiment, five of Baba's six candidates were pregnant for their husbands while the six the priest prayed and fasted intensely and fervently for, remained barren.
• If by any chance something favourable eventually happens, perhaps months or even years after you first made your request to Yahweh or the other secondary gods, you give the credit (or glory as it is often claimed), to Yahweh.
• But when a tsunami happens in your life, you blame your sinful self or the devil and not Yahweh for it.
• Your relationship with Yahweh is based purely on chance, and that is not how spirituality works. Spirituality can be asked and even commanded to make things happen although often at a price.
• Apart from being undiluted, African spirituality is more powerful than the rest because it relies totally on natural elements relevant and pleasing to the Gods.
• Artificial substitutes such as the bible, bread, wine, crosses, as means of reaching out to the spirit world, do not work, only natural elements such as animal blood or flesh, leaves or barks of plants, oils, etc., which the Gods recognize, work.
• The Pope, who claims to represent Christ on earth, would like to be able to perform miracles (which many African priests take for granted), if he knew how.
• The Mother-in-Israel, Pastor Folu Adeboye, wife of the founder and Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, in admitting the supremacy of Paganism, was quoted in the Guardian newspaper, Nigeria, of July 26, 2009, as follows: “As powerful as African Juju priests are, none of them possess the power to keep the night and stop the morning from coming.”
• But Paganism is not in competition with the 'Source' of spirituality; it is the only access to the 'Source,' or 'God.' Paganism can becloud the early morning sun to make the night drag longer but cannot stop 'time.' God' cannot stop time either.
• The bad connotation given to the witch or witches, gives witchcraft its ugly meaning because witches are not necessarily all evil people.
• It is the sorcerers or red and black witches and the demon diviner/doctors that are always evil, and they unfortunately predominate in evil witchcraft.
• They could be white witches or geniuses in any given profession.
• Witchcraft incorporates all spiritual and religious activities including praying, telepathy, meditation, magic, clairvoyance, fasting, rituals and sacrifices.
• Priests, doctors, parapsychologists, traditional healers, diviners, magicians, astrologists, card readers, star gazers, palmists, heruspex practitioners, alchemists, Alfas, herbalists etc., are not necessarily all sorcerers or sorceresses, but could be experts or good witches and wizards in their various fields and practices.
• Witches are graded by colour, with white representing good witches and would never do evil; the red and black witches in all races are the wicked ones. They are the sorcerers, possessed by demonic spirits which they use to perpetrate their evil acts.
• They have no regards for family, friends and have no respectable, responsible attachments. They are invariably sadists, permanently angry, vindictive and at war with every one, and with society. Their sole preoccupation in life is to kill, maim and destroy, and from these they derive immense joy, satisfaction, and self-fulfilment.
• So, they deserve the public odium they have drawn to themselves.
• At the same time, the rest of us need to know that it is not witchcraft that is evil but the person (or witch) using it, or the use to which it is put.
• Witchcraft is like a knife and depends on the user.
• It is the highest level of science possible;
• the one single source of spiritual power and miracles, and it has not been fully explored positively by man. All religions practice it albeit artificially, with varying results.
• human's only link with the spirit world; the sacred telephone link with all the Gods;
• We do not know enough about it yet anyway. Most of us do not know why or how it works, and it works for both good and evil, there is no doubt about that, and we are all involved in it through prayers, wishing, thanksgiving and self-sacrifices, at least.
• We, therefore, have no reason to be so categorically dismissive or judgmental about witchcraft.
• When we use it for good, we do not tell others about it but when it is used for evil against us, we scream to the high heavens.
• The spirit world is enveloped in electromagnetism that connects with our spirit doubles and all other realities.
• That is what spiritual evolution is about. It is the knowledge of these subtle realities and how to harness them for spiritual advancement that ancient Africans chiselled into the fine art used largely today by the Jews and secret societies to remain on top of the world.
• Universal laws govern the realities and man is capable of transcending all of them.
• Egyptian-Nubians perfected the craft to an art and used it positively to launch the world into her merry ways of civilization.
• Source: NAIWU OSAHON

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