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let’s take our ball and go home for lunch

Oct 7

Posted by A. Peasant in Censorship, NWO, Surveillance | No Comments

TPTB use the internet to keep us busy and track what we’re doing and thinking. They use it to send us down dead end streets.

At this point we know the general outlines of what they want to do. Has the law of diminishing returns set in? Are we now giving them more information by our behavior following the bouncing psyops ball then we get in exchange?

I don’t know, but a thought occurs to me: What if we, the people paying attention, just stopped analyzing for a period of time? What if we became the silent lurkers? We would rustle them out of the bushes maybe. ?? I don’t know. It’s just an idea.

Threat of next world war may be in cyberspace: UN

The next world war could take place in cyberspace, the UN telecommunications agency chief warned Tuesday as experts called for action to stamp out cyber attacks. “The next world war could happen in cyberspace and that would be a catastrophe. We have to make sure that all countries understand that in that war, there is no such thing as a superpower,” Hamadoun Toure said. “Loss of vital networks would quickly cripple any nation, and none is immune to cyberattack,” added the secretary-general of the International Telecommunications Union during the ITU’s Telecom World 2009 fair in Geneva. Toure said countries have become “critically dependent” on technology for commerce, finance, health care, emergency services and food distribution.

“The best way to win a war is to avoid it in the first place,” he stressed. [natch]

…But one of the most prominent victims in recent years has been the small Baltic state of Estonia, which has staked some of its post Cold War development on new technology. In 2007 a spate of cyber attacks forced the closure of government websites and disrupted leading businesses. Estonian Minister for Economic Affairs and Communications Juhan Parts said in Geneva that “adequate international cooperation” was essential. “Because if something happens on cyberspace… it’s a border crossing issue. We have to have horizontal cooperation globally,” he added.

…Experts say that a major problem is that the current software and web infrastructure has the same weaknesses as those produced two decades ago. “The real problem is that we’re putting on the market software that is as vulnerable as it was 20 years ago,” said Cristine Hoepers, general manager at Brazilian National Computer Emergency Response Team. “If you see the vulnerabilities that are being exploited today, they are still the same,” she underlined. She suggested that professionals needed to be trained to “design something more resilient.” “Universities are not teaching students to think about that. We need to change the workforce, we need to go to the universities…, we need to start educating our professionals,” she said.

Pointing out the infrastructure weakness, Carlos Moreira, who founded and runs the Swiss information security firm Wisekey, said legislation is needed to bring cybersecurity up to international standards.

And this, if you can believe it:

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. 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.

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.

…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.

Curiously though, yesterday also had a UN group comment that the next World War will be fought in Cyberspace………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.

Et cetera.

I covered that Rockefeller legislation here. (Also here.)

The purpose of this language [legislation] is mind-fucking people into supporting the government takeover of the internet after a false-flag terrorist attack. You will support President Obama. You will listen to whatever he says. Turn on the teevee.

Bottom line seems to be that they plan on taking the internet away from us when it’s convenient for them. It’s a timing issue. They adjust their timing based on all the great feedback we give them. I’m just thinking hey, why don’t we just get all quiet and do our reading but not write what we think for a few days, maybe even a week. A bloggy strike kind of thing. You know put the mind fuck in reverse. That could get interesting.

Just remember: they need us we don’t need them. In any relationship, even a hellish one, only one party has to change behavior for the whole relationship to change.

That’s the ticket

Aug 29

Posted by A. Peasant in Censorship, Mind-fucking, Surveillance | 3 Comments

For a long long time TPTB have been controlling and shaping public opinion. I’m sure this has been quite fun and profitable for them — a tiny group of people controlling a huge group of people.

But the spell has broken. Not for all of course, but for enough. Enough people have started to question the officially sanctioned narrative and this wavelength moves through the deep sea of people and TPTB don’t know where it is exactly but they’re worried that a rogue wave is about to swamp their luxury liner command center.

That damn internet. If it wasn’t for that damn internet they could pull everything off without a hitch. They’ve tried controlling the internet and filling it with plants but the truth keeps popping up anyway. Maybe if there was an emergency, something kind of terrifying, and if we had a bill authorizing the president to take control of the nation’s critical infrastructure….

Yeah yeah, that’s the ticket….

When Rockefeller, the chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced the original bill in April, they claimed it was vital to protect national cybersecurity. “We must protect our critical infrastructure at all costs–from our water to our electricity, to banking, traffic lights and electronic health records,” Rockefeller said.

…Rockefeller’s revised legislation seeks to reshuffle the way the federal government addresses the topic. It requires a “cybersecurity workforce plan” from every federal agency, a “dashboard” pilot project, measurements of hiring effectiveness, and the implementation of a “comprehensive national cybersecurity strategy” in six months–even though its mandatory legal review will take a year to complete.

But they don’t have time for that. They have serious PR emergencies RIGHT NOW. Not to worry. These things can always be arranged. That’s what the Unitary Executive is for — to Protect National Security!

Probably the most controversial language begins in Section 201, which permits the president to “direct the national response to the cyber threat” if necessary for “the national defense and security.”

…Translation: If your company is deemed “critical,” a new set of regulations kick in involving who you can hire, what information you must disclose, and when the government would exercise control over your computers or network.

See? All they have to do is deem some internet companies “critical” to National Security in an emergency situation, like say a terrorist attack, and they fall magically under the umbrella of government control. Voila. I’m sure companies like AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and all the big boys will be deemed critical. And any little independent companies not deemed critical will probably come under suspicion for aiding and abetting terrorists or something like that. Should be fun. Nobody will know what’s going on and they’ll have to watch tv to get any information.

It’s all to Keep You Safe, and Don’t You Forget It (wink wink wink)! In fact, here’s a dramatic statement, dripping with every power word they can possibly cram into it, provided by Jena Longo, deputy communications director for the Senate Commerce committee:

The president of the United States has always had the constitutional authority, and duty, to protect the American people and direct the national response to any emergency that threatens the security and safety of the United States. The Rockefeller-Snowe Cybersecurity bill makes it clear that the president’s authority includes securing our national cyber infrastructure from attack. The section of the bill that addresses this issue, applies specifically to the national response to a severe attack or natural disaster. This particular legislative language is based on longstanding statutory authorities for wartime use of communications networks.

OK that seems pretty clear that the president can secure (control) the national infrastructure from attack as part of the national response to a severe attack or natural disaster based on statutory authorities for wartime use of communication networks. Right?

WRONG! THAT’S NOT WHAT IT SAYS CAN’T YOU READ?????

To be very clear, the Rockefeller-Snowe bill will not empower a “government shutdown or takeover of the Internet” and any suggestion otherwise is misleading and false.

Oh wow, that’s so confusing. The statement says one thing, and then it says the complete opposite! Yes you will allow the president to secure the private infrastructure based on the Rockefeller-Snowe bill based on longstanding statutory authorities for wartime use of communications networks, but no you will not suggest that the Rockefeller-Snowe bill empowered the president to shutdown or take over the internet. That would make you a LIAR.

So here’s the instruction: “Securing the private infrastructure based on longstanding statutory authorities for wartime use of communications networks” IS NOT “shutting down or taking over the internet.”

YES IT IS.
NO IT’S NOT.
YES IT IS.

Mind-fucking.

The purpose of this language is to clarify how the president directs the public-private response to a crisis, secure our economy and safeguard our financial networks, protect the American people, their privacy and civil liberties, and coordinate the government’s response.

No. The purpose of this language is mind-fucking people into supporting the government takeover of the internet after a false-flag terrorist attack. You will support President Obama. You will listen to whatever he says. Turn on the teevee.

Israel needs to read a book about democracy

Aug 26

Posted by A. Peasant in Censorship, Israel, Organ Trafficking, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

via irish4palestine, link to the right

Oh, the drama.

Meanwhile on Monday evening, several demonstrators stood outside the embassy in Tel Aviv to protest the Swedish government’s failure to denounce the Aftonbladet article.

The demonstrators, representatives of Zionist social movements Im Tirtzu and Hatikva, wore T-shirts with the images of Theodor Herzl and Joseph Trumpeldor; held Israeli flags and banners reading “Anti-Semitism under the cover of free speech” and posed for the press photographers, who nearly outnumbered them.

The protesters also set up a stall on which they placed a pot full of red paint into which they dipped matzot. A sign on the stall read, “Palestinian organs for sale here.” The stall was a macabre reference to medieval blood libels about Jews killing Christian children so they can use their blood to make matza.

One demonstrator lowered the Swedish flag from the mast in front of the building.

“We are here in front of the Swedish Embassy to protest against the new blood libel against the Jews, in its 2009 version,” Im Tirtzu spokesman Amit Barak said. “This ugly accusation against the IDF is nothing but a new take on old and familiar anti-Semitism. We expect the Swedish foreign minister and the Swedish government to take a firm stand against it and expose it for what it is instead of hiding behind the excuse of free speech.”

Barak said his group was pleased by the determination of the Israeli government in face of a developing diplomatic crisis with Sweden.

“Finally the Foreign Ministry is standing up for Israel and the IDF,” he said. “If I was in charge, I’d call the Israeli ambassador back from Sweden. Let him rest here for a while.”

Im Tirtzu is a campus-based organization whose main objective is to “return Zionist values to the public debate.”

“I see a direct line between the lies that where published in the Swedish newspaper and the types of cowardly and baseless accusations made by Israeli organizations like Shovrim Shtika,” said Barak, referring to a organization of reserve soldiers who have accused the IDF of committing war crimes in Gaza.

“There is no doubt that if there are organizations here in Israel that call Israeli soldiers murderers, it provides fertile soil for similar accusations by foreign organizations.”

The lone public official to arrive on the scene was Likud MK Carmel Shama. He arrived after the protest was already under way did not appear to have been recognized by the protesters.

“I fully support what these young people are doing,” said Shama. “It’s time for the Swedish government to stop using freedom of the press as an excuse and present a clear condemnation of the article. We don’t expect an apology, but a plain condemnation is in order.”