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U3 User ID: 9834739 United States 06/17/2013 05:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So if potentially millions of people are doing potentially millions of 'wrong' things, what do you think may follow? If your neighbor was carried away, how far away are we (now) from thinking, "Well, obviously she did something wrong before." No evidence needed. But what would it all mean? Much of this has to do with the power of the internet. It is no different than the churches trying to control that narrative when people started reading bibles instead of having it read to them. It is history repeating itself, and the "government" is trying to dictate the terms of the renaissance and who gets what power. They know a change is afoot, brought about mostly from people having access to information, but they simply want to control this narrative by any means necessary. Makes sense and is very scary. "Oh, my neighbor got arrested. He must have been doing something on the internet for him to get arrested!" We wouldn't have a clue! "We are the music makers. And we are the dreamers of dreams." Willy Wonka |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 41574208 United States 06/17/2013 05:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Bilderberg Group The leak happened right after the Bilderberg Group meeting : Want Change??? STRIKE AT THE ROOT, Here's how....... The CFR is just one of them. There is The Council of Rhodes, The Tilateral Commission, The Bildergerger Group, The Club of Rome, The Vatican, The WTO, NAFTA, NATO and many other groups who potentially would thwart the "will of the people" even if it were a democracy. If you don't have money you don't have a voice and are considered a Sheeple. Quoting: Anonymous 41088523 OP "It is Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs RIIA)in England. I am mostly informed on the CFR and the RIIA. They are the ones orchestrating things. If they get orders from above, I can only guess...not going there. I do know quite a bit about Mr. Cecil Rhodes though.....he certainly made a huge financial contribution to all of this. The Rockefellers, Rothchilds, and The Crown seem to be near the top of the elite, they are in BOTH of these organizations......" |
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Nikola Tesla User ID: 41583708 United States 06/17/2013 07:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So if potentially millions of people are doing potentially millions of 'wrong' things, what do you think may follow? If your neighbor was carried away, how far away are we (now) from thinking, "Well, obviously she did something wrong before." No evidence needed. But what would it all mean? Much of this has to do with the power of the internet. It is no different than the churches trying to control that narrative when people started reading bibles instead of having it read to them. It is history repeating itself, and the "government" is trying to dictate the terms of the renaissance and who gets what power. They know a change is afoot, brought about mostly from people having access to information, but they simply want to control this narrative by any means necessary. Yes, this is a very good observation. The free internet is a real threat to Government power or at least what they perceive to be their power. If enough people start telling them to go fuck themselves, they have a real problem. "One person with courage is a majority." - Thomas Jefferson "You’ve heard that we are what we eat. But we also are what we think". “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views." -William F. Buckley Jr. |
zacksavage User ID: 10976500 United States 06/17/2013 10:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This "leak" is nothing more then to gauge the reaction of the people. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 8379586 If "they" can get away with this, without backlash, they will continue to strip the liberty's of the people. Plain and simple. This is just the start of things to come. The perceived illusion of freedom for the masses is dissolving. I mean, before [911],...you could kind of think and do what you wanted, unmolested by strangers peering through your windows and looking through all your stuff. Now,...that's all legal. Dumbasses laugh it off as A-OK. One can not trust mass media from any source these days to not fuck with your head. The internet has leveled the playing field for information. Knowledge is power. Just say'n Z Last Edited by zacksavage on 06/17/2013 10:25 PM Free your mind,...your ass will follow. --- parliament funkadelic |
Ohwell User ID: 18725998 United Kingdom 06/17/2013 10:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I believe it is very simple... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 41112357 The leak of NSA/GCHQ "wire-tapping" is being send out as a message... The message is that from now on, "terrorist groups" will use "alternative" methods to communicate. Rendering the NSA/GCHQ surveillance techniques via wire-tapping redundant and/or ineffective. So what's the big deal...? Well.... If so called "terrorist groups" use alternative communication methods, then the chances of a successful attack by the said "terrorists" would be enormously increased. As their "plans" would not be known (or admission of known plans by NSA/GCHQ) via wire-tapping. Remember after 9/11, many said "why didn't the security agencies take action sooner/monitor the hijackers" (if following the official story). So... surveillance was increased, to the level we now know about via Snowdon. Let's just suppose, that an attack is being prepared by terrorists, who are not being monitored because of Snowdon's leaked info regarding wire-tapping. This greatly increases the risk of a terrorist attack or false flag incident, as the security agencies can easily shrug their shoulders and say.. "We knew nothing" - due to the leak and subsequent change of terrorist methods. Bingo! This is precisely what they will say. However, they will say PRISM detected these false flags but couldnt stop them because of the leak. But it was at least able to detect the attacks unlike 9/11 that there was no forewarning. Also read this. Thread: US on PRISM: "Sorry, we are spying on you! Outraged? Wonder why all this is necessary? Dont worry, we'll justify this soon!" And a more esoteric insight.... [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] Last Edited by Ohwell on 06/17/2013 10:31 PM |
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TruthNow88 User ID: 28724521 Canada 06/17/2013 11:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There's no way this whole leak about the NSA from Snowden wasn't planned. The government has to be behind this. There's no way the Mainstream Media, which is controlled by the same folks that control the government, would give so much coverage to this story if the establishment didn't want it to be covered. Quoting: Babylon's Rebel So here's the million dollar question: What is the government's real agenda, in allowing this information to leak out? What, in the short and long term, do they hope to accomplish by this? This whole Snowden leak is simply a controlled "echo" of the real leak that happened years ago. When the real leak happened the TPTB weren't ready for the public to know the info AND they didn't want it released to the extent that it originally was (they wanted babysteps). Because of this, what they did is simply ignore the original whistleblower, and now are releaseing the data in a controlled way using an echo of the original event (same shit every time...). Here is the original whistleblower in 2012 talking to RT about how they are still trying to get the supreme court to look at this case to make a final ruling on its legality. He also explains how the spy system goes into ALL aspects of data collection (15-20+ trillion communications), not select bits of data from select companies like Snowden makes it seem (Snowden is basically a distraction to keep focus on one minor aspect of the overall system). [link to www.youtube.com] NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden's Claims Are Believable Because We've Heard Them Before There's a big reason why many are quick to believe his claims of vast government surveillance — with the NSA intercepting millions of phone calls and emails, and having supposed access to tech companies — because we've actually heard it all before. [link to www.businessinsider.com] William Binney (U.S. intelligence official) William Binney is a former highly placed intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency (NSA) turned whistleblower who resigned on October 31, 2001, after more than 30 years with the agency. He was a high-profile critic of his former employers during the George W. Bush administration, and was the subject of FBI investigations, including a raid on his home in 2007. [link to en.wikipedia.org] The funny thing is it actually goes even further then he knows. He thinks everything is simply being stored, which is it... but that's after it's fed through AI filters that build a complex behavior profile for each person. This behavior profile is then combined with real time dynamic biometric & logic tracking via DARPA which keeps tabs of every single person in North America in real time via satellites, various UAV's, camera networks, online devices... This data is then fed into another system which then uses all this information to predict each persons actions before they make them, and it makes adjustments in real time whenever it is wrong and learns from it's mistakes, making it more and more accurate as time goes on. The release of this very basic and controlled Snowden leak is simply to create a wanted reaction in the public to further test the larger spy system and its prediction accuracy (they also want people to be somewhat aware that they are being watched so they are more likely to police themselves (as a lot of people will...)). Last Edited by TruthNow88 on 06/17/2013 11:29 PM "Fuck the American regime change policy... Pardon me... I mean fuck our gift of democracy!" [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] [link to soundcloud.com (secure)] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 41903434 Greece 06/18/2013 03:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What's the cheapest and easiest way to monitor the public and censor their thoughts? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 37861681 Get them to do it themselves. Before anyone freaks over my example below, please allow me to explain fully. You know how they got everyone to start using the term "the N word"? It's not like they got people to stop knowing what people mean when they say "the N word", in fact, even the most liberal MSM talking head is free to use the the term (provided it's used in the allowable context) so that every person who hears it knows exactly what they mean. I mean even here, if I were to actually type out that word, I'd be banned and an autocorrect feature would alter it to something else so that we would all still know preciselywhat word I had typed, so I don't. And neither do you. Mission accomplished, the word- although it still exists- is a non word. No rebellion from anyone saying "Are you insane? Who's to tell me what word I can or cannot use whenever I choose of my own free will, but instead people caving in to this fundamental restriction, not of speech, but of thought. You know to censor yourself before the word is even uttered. They now have planted the thought in people's minds that every utterance, every communication between anyone regardless of how private or in what context is monitored and so the only reasonable response from anyone is to self censor. No more free thoughts, no more sharing of ideas or concepts, no more questioning of anything outside of the most mundane and meaningless drivel because should you dare to even tiptoe around the edges of anything outside of the acceptable orthodoxy, they know. So now you've stifled dissent before it is even born. You limit the range of what can or even should be debated or discussed to what you feel is harmless or not worth saying and it didn't cost a cent. No analysts need to look at "meta data", no programs need to be employed, no real surveillance take place because the overwhelming majority will no longer bother to even think about those kinds of things. It's a page out of 1984 without the actual implementation of policy. They may not even have such a tool, but they certainly have us believing they do and for most people it's not even objectionable, it's worth the price of a "secure" State. Just my 2 cents. |
Check User ID: 39130643 United States 06/18/2013 03:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Show the world that individual governments are corrupt and can't be trusted. (Problem) Quoting: Anonymous Coward 6655394 Wait for the outrage as people slowly but surely 'wake up'. (Reaction) Present a One World Government - the U.N. - that will keep you safe and you can go back to grazing. (Solution) ^ |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 41895357 United States 06/18/2013 06:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The moral code of elitists includes telling their human cattle/victims their plans for them. They always wish to tell us at such a time and in such a way that we accept and acquiesce, which gives them license to continue and futher the means to their goal (whatever that might be). Quoting: MonocyteOne Apparently the elites feel they've successfully dumbed-down, distracted, and made us complacent, to the degree they can advertise the level of intrusion they've made into our private lives, and meet very little resistance. They are confirming whether they can take their plan to the next step without society rising up in sufficient numbers - a form of acquiescence. Notice Snowden-Glen Greenwald-ACLU Nat Sec....never will discuss or interview the crime victims from THE DR. JOHN HALL NEUTRALIZATION (because he wrote a book called "Satelite Terrorism"). Hall's female acquintance got targeted and was forced to move out of her home from all the GANG STALKING, which morphed into drugging her liquids, and rapeing her in her own home? Pin hole spy cameras in home.....legal under Patriot Act? Are they long past spy cameras in home.....and use REMOTE NEURAL MONITORING to hear, see, what a target senses? Meta Data was used to locate and identify my known associates who were murdered or maimed. Contractors using Watch Groups joined those conspiracies....spun as mere COUNTER TERROR PREROGATIVES under CHENEY'S ONE PERCENT DOCTRINE. They've come after me with Op Slammer tech and modus.....and....haven't stopped with torture or remote neural monitoring.......so "how are they gonna take Thomas S. Bean down" and will it be because "meta data mining" stopped a terrorist attack that was scripted using the NSA MIND CONTROL METHOD inwhich "subliminal programming" is used.......and of course, covered up? How and who will they use to legalize "THOUGHT CRIME POLICING" AND THE NEW "FUTURE CRIME" initiative? Future crimes are all false flag...subliminal programming....therefore, they can fudge the facts since "they were scripting it all" anyway. How will NSA respond to prove how important their program is and how you need to give them your trust and freedom? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 41895357 United States 06/18/2013 06:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So if potentially millions of people are doing potentially millions of 'wrong' things, what do you think may follow? If your neighbor was carried away, how far away are we (now) from thinking, "Well, obviously she did something wrong before." No evidence needed. But what would it all mean? Much of this has to do with the power of the internet. It is no different than the churches trying to control that narrative when people started reading bibles instead of having it read to them. It is history repeating itself, and the "government" is trying to dictate the terms of the renaissance and who gets what power. They know a change is afoot, brought about mostly from people having access to information, but they simply want to control this narrative by any means necessary. What if "entrapment" in the War Commissions Act was not specifically defined......so NSA-HLS-FBI-DOD can run OPERATION SLAMMER using GANG STALKING, SLANDER, COINELPRO, PATRIOT ACT to constantly provoke the target who has to retreat to avoid arrest.............and.............they also fry him with microwaves to change his mood? What then? Then, they meta data collect this guy posting inflammatory stuff directed at those police state actors who screwed this guy............and............everyone is convinced this guy is a dangerous radicalized lone wolf domestic terrorist who has NEVER HAD ANY DUE PROCESS OR ANY OVERSIGHT OF HIS COPIOUS AND NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS showing cause that THEY CAN TORTURE WITH DEW AND PROGAM WITH SUBLIMINAL PROGRAMMING to entrap people? Judges and prosecutors don't known what it's liked to be tortured with DEW..........so how could they know or rule from experience? What microwave frequencies can effect mood to create frustration and hostility? What do we know about military DARPA weapons and the patents and how any weapon used in COUNTER TERROR, CAN ALSO BE USED TO ENTRAP AS A COINTELPRO neutralization? Makes sense and is very scary. "Oh, my neighbor got arrested. He must have been doing something on the internet for him to get arrested!" We wouldn't have a clue! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27162552 United States 06/18/2013 06:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It could be to entice insiders, whistleblowers/leakers, to come forward. You float enticing information around, leave a file left open, a password easily cracked... then wait for the fly to get tangle in the web (read poem The Spider and the Fly). |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27162552 United States 06/18/2013 07:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It could be to entice insiders, whistleblowers/leakers, to come forward. You float enticing information around, leave a file left open, a password easily cracked... then wait for the fly to get tangle in the web (read poem The Spider and the Fly). Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27162552 Another point I'd like to make about this. in a series of question asked to Snowden, one was about giving information to China. He emphasized that he only talks to reporters. It is the media and reporters who are being closely watched. I've noticed they have backed off a bit from the narrative of reporters being targeted. More focus has now been given to aggregated data collecting of everyone's information. If I did not have a conspiracy mind, I might think this a good time to go to the media and reporters with all the coverage going on. Come hither, hither, pretty Fly.... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 36459049 United States 06/18/2013 07:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Did ANYONE else notice that Snowden said in his most recent interview, "If I were working with the Chinese I'd be up in a palace petting a Phoenix." I'm like...there's no such thing as a phoenix what the frick is he talking about? Although....Phoenix could be a super creepy code name for a government program that deals with "Rising from the ashes." And Snowden strikes me as the kind of fellow who would drop code words to let the US government know the cards he's holding. I totally agree with OP. My conspiracy theory is that Obama is using Snowden to wage war with TPTB and get some of this information out before it's too late. It's like Guantanamo all over again...congress won't let him close it, so he plants a leak and threatens to spill all their secrets. I find that a little more believable then someone suddenly going from a total transparency candidate to W. Bush clone. It would also explain why Snowden fled to China almost IMMEDIATELY after Obama met with their president. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27162552 United States 06/18/2013 07:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Did ANYONE else notice that Snowden said in his most recent interview, "If I were working with the Chinese I'd be up in a palace petting a Phoenix." Quoting: Anonymous Coward 36459049 I'm like...there's no such thing as a phoenix what the frick is he talking about? Although....Phoenix could be a super creepy code name for a government program that deals with "Rising from the ashes." And Snowden strikes me as the kind of fellow who would drop code words to let the US government know the cards he's holding. I totally agree with OP. My conspiracy theory is that Obama is using Snowden to wage war with TPTB and get some of this information out before it's too late. It's like Guantanamo all over again...congress won't let him close it, so he plants a leak and threatens to spill all their secrets. I find that a little more believable then someone suddenly going from a total transparency candidate to W. Bush clone. It would also explain why Snowden fled to China almost IMMEDIATELY after Obama met with their president. I did not hear Snowden say that about Phoenix... but look up the Phoenix Program.... wtf |
Ohwell User ID: 6844425 United Kingdom 06/18/2013 07:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Catch 22 almost means checkmate or being caught in limbo. The date is also interesting June 22 for an operation blackjack event? See this.... Thread: US on PRISM: "Sorry, we are spying on you! Outraged? Wonder why all this is necessary? Dont worry, we'll justify this soon!" |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 36459049 United States 06/18/2013 07:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Did ANYONE else notice that Snowden said in his most recent interview, "If I were working with the Chinese I'd be up in a palace petting a Phoenix." Quoting: Anonymous Coward 36459049 I'm like...there's no such thing as a phoenix what the frick is he talking about? Although....Phoenix could be a super creepy code name for a government program that deals with "Rising from the ashes." And Snowden strikes me as the kind of fellow who would drop code words to let the US government know the cards he's holding. I totally agree with OP. My conspiracy theory is that Obama is using Snowden to wage war with TPTB and get some of this information out before it's too late. It's like Guantanamo all over again...congress won't let him close it, so he plants a leak and threatens to spill all their secrets. I find that a little more believable then someone suddenly going from a total transparency candidate to W. Bush clone. It would also explain why Snowden fled to China almost IMMEDIATELY after Obama met with their president. I did not hear Snowden say that about Phoenix... but look up the Phoenix Program.... wtf In response to allegations Snowden had been working with the Chinese all along (by Dick Cheney.) Snowden is quoted as saying: "This is a predictable smear that I anticipated before going public, as the U.S. media has a knee-jerk 'RED CHINA!' reaction to anything involving HK [Hong Kong] or the PRC [People's Republic of China], and is intended to distract from the issue of U.S. government misconduct," Snowden reportedly wrote. "Ask yourself: If I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly to Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now." And....holy crap...just Googled "The Phoenix Program." and it actually exists! [link to en.wikipedia.org] The Phoenix Program (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Phụng Hoàng, a word related to fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix) was a program designed, coordinated, and executed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United States special operations forces, special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV),[1] and the Republic of Vietnam's (South Vietnam) security apparatus during the Vietnam War. Original unissued patch The Program was designed to identify and "neutralize" (via infiltration, capture, terrorism, torture, and assassination) the infrastructure of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF or Viet Cong).[2][3][4][5] Historian Douglas Valentine states that "Central to Phoenix is the fact that it targeted civilians, not soldiers".[6] The major two components of the program were Provincial Reconnaissance Units (PRUs) and regional interrogation centers. PRUs would kill and capture suspected VC. They would also capture civilians who were thought to have information on VC activities. Many of these civilians were then taken to the interrogation centers where some were tortured in an attempt to gain intelligence on VC activities in the area.[7] The information extracted at the centers was then given to military commanders, who would use it to task the PRU with further capture and assassination missions.[7] Oh my god and it gets weirder! There is actually also a Project Phoenix, which deals with (you guessed it) aliens! Or trying to find them at least. [link to en.wikipedia.org] Project Phoenix was a SETI project: in this case a search for extraterrestrial intelligence by analyzing patterns in radio signals. It was run by the independently funded SETI Institute of Mountain View, California, USA. Project Phoenix started work in February 1995 with the Parkes radio telescope located in New South Wales, Australia, the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. Between September 1996 and April 1998, the Project used the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, USA. Rather than attempting to scan the whole sky for messages, the Project concentrated on nearby systems that are similar to our own. Project Phoenix's targets comprised about 800 stars with a 200 light-year range. The Project searched for radio signals as narrow as 1 Hz between 1,000 and 3,000 MHz: a broad bandwidth compared with most SETI searches. In March 2004 the Project announced that after checking the 800 stars on its list, it had failed to find any evidence of extraterrestrial signals.[1] Project leader Peter Backus remarked that they had been forced to conclude that "we live in a quiet neighborhood."[1] So take your pick ETs or the random assassination of civilians. This is apparently a conspiracy theorist's wet dream. |
Uncle Fuck Stick User ID: 41910088 United States 06/18/2013 07:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | First you build the cage around people in private Quoting: Open Your Eyes And when the cage is finished You reveal it Thread: WHAT IF THE IRS SCANDAL IS JUST THE OFFICIAL DECLARATION THAT OPPRESSION IS HERE FOR ALL THOSE WHO OPPOSE THE NWO :4hlick: |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 41854061 Portugal 06/18/2013 07:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There's no way this whole leak about the NSA from Snowden wasn't planned. The government has to be behind this. There's no way the Mainstream Media, which is controlled by the same folks that control the government, would give so much coverage to this story if the establishment didn't want it to be covered. Quoting: Babylon's Rebel So here's the million dollar question: What is the government's real agenda, in allowing this information to leak out? What, in the short and long term, do they hope to accomplish by this? What IF they are losing their power? Everything is falling down. Nothing is like it used to be. Remember this. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27162552 United States 06/18/2013 08:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Did ANYONE else notice that Snowden said in his most recent interview, "If I were working with the Chinese I'd be up in a palace petting a Phoenix." Quoting: Anonymous Coward 36459049 I'm like...there's no such thing as a phoenix what the frick is he talking about? Although....Phoenix could be a super creepy code name for a government program that deals with "Rising from the ashes." And Snowden strikes me as the kind of fellow who would drop code words to let the US government know the cards he's holding. I totally agree with OP. My conspiracy theory is that Obama is using Snowden to wage war with TPTB and get some of this information out before it's too late. It's like Guantanamo all over again...congress won't let him close it, so he plants a leak and threatens to spill all their secrets. I find that a little more believable then someone suddenly going from a total transparency candidate to W. Bush clone. It would also explain why Snowden fled to China almost IMMEDIATELY after Obama met with their president. I did not hear Snowden say that about Phoenix... but look up the Phoenix Program.... wtf In response to allegations Snowden had been working with the Chinese all along (by Dick Cheney.) Snowden is quoted as saying: "This is a predictable smear that I anticipated before going public, as the U.S. media has a knee-jerk 'RED CHINA!' reaction to anything involving HK [Hong Kong] or the PRC [People's Republic of China], and is intended to distract from the issue of U.S. government misconduct," Snowden reportedly wrote. "Ask yourself: If I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly to Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now." And....holy crap...just Googled "The Phoenix Program." and it actually exists! [link to en.wikipedia.org] The Phoenix Program (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Phụng Hoàng, a word related to fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix) was a program designed, coordinated, and executed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United States special operations forces, special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV),[1] and the Republic of Vietnam's (South Vietnam) security apparatus during the Vietnam War. Original unissued patch The Program was designed to identify and "neutralize" (via infiltration, capture, terrorism, torture, and assassination) the infrastructure of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF or Viet Cong).[2][3][4][5] Historian Douglas Valentine states that "Central to Phoenix is the fact that it targeted civilians, not soldiers".[6] The major two components of the program were Provincial Reconnaissance Units (PRUs) and regional interrogation centers. PRUs would kill and capture suspected VC. They would also capture civilians who were thought to have information on VC activities. Many of these civilians were then taken to the interrogation centers where some were tortured in an attempt to gain intelligence on VC activities in the area.[7] The information extracted at the centers was then given to military commanders, who would use it to task the PRU with further capture and assassination missions.[7] Oh my god and it gets weirder! There is actually also a Project Phoenix, which deals with (you guessed it) aliens! Or trying to find them at least. [link to en.wikipedia.org] Project Phoenix was a SETI project: in this case a search for extraterrestrial intelligence by analyzing patterns in radio signals. It was run by the independently funded SETI Institute of Mountain View, California, USA. Project Phoenix started work in February 1995 with the Parkes radio telescope located in New South Wales, Australia, the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. Between September 1996 and April 1998, the Project used the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, USA. Rather than attempting to scan the whole sky for messages, the Project concentrated on nearby systems that are similar to our own. Project Phoenix's targets comprised about 800 stars with a 200 light-year range. The Project searched for radio signals as narrow as 1 Hz between 1,000 and 3,000 MHz: a broad bandwidth compared with most SETI searches. In March 2004 the Project announced that after checking the 800 stars on its list, it had failed to find any evidence of extraterrestrial signals.[1] Project leader Peter Backus remarked that they had been forced to conclude that "we live in a quiet neighborhood."[1] So take your pick ETs or the random assassination of civilians. This is apparently a conspiracy theorist's wet dream. There definitely seems to be a history of 'the issue of U.S. government misconduct'. 'Palace' is an interesting word. Although, nothing stands out in my mind about it. Except, that recently the CIA was being called a palace, as in palace coup... in relation to the Gen. Petraeus situation. Thanks for the extra info about the SETI project. I did not know that. and speaking of google... [link to endthelie.com] |
Bluebird User ID: 27748381 United States 06/18/2013 08:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Look at all the classified material the government leaked in making that movie Zero Dark Thirty! Then they pretend to be outraged! I just find it very strange that Snowden even had access to all that he says he did. That kind of access is usually compartmentalized and spread out over a large number of people and not vested in one person as he claims was in himself. I don't know who or what exactly but something about all of this just stinks to high heaven! I am beginning to wonder if he was not set up to leak. . . given access then manipulated to run with it, etc. By whom and for what I don't know but likely as an excuse for more of a tightening of the screws on the rest of us. . One of the most important aspects of conspiracy theories is being able to discern when there isn't one. Oh yeah, like you'd understand anyway. Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?. . .J. Handy |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 41821031 United States 06/18/2013 08:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Obama designed the Snowden and the NSA leak Quoting: Anonymous Coward 41821031 to get conservatives behind Obama's campaign promise to dial back Bush and Cheney's big brother. Obama promised to end it but he had to get conservatives on his side. He has now. Wait a bit and Obama will get conservatives to demand that Gitmo be closed down. |
Brimful of Asha User ID: 1564171 United States 06/18/2013 08:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What's the cheapest and easiest way to monitor the public and censor their thoughts? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 37861681 Get them to do it themselves. Before anyone freaks over my example below, please allow me to explain fully. You know how they got everyone to start using the term "the N word"? It's not like they got people to stop knowing what people mean when they say "the N word", in fact, even the most liberal MSM talking head is free to use the the term (provided it's used in the allowable context) so that every person who hears it knows exactly what they mean. I mean even here, if I were to actually type out that word, I'd be banned and an autocorrect feature would alter it to something else so that we would all still know preciselywhat word I had typed, so I don't. And neither do you. Mission accomplished, the word- although it still exists- is a non word. No rebellion from anyone saying "Are you insane? Who's to tell me what word I can or cannot use whenever I choose of my own free will, but instead people caving in to this fundamental restriction, not of speech, but of thought. You know to censor yourself before the word is even uttered. They now have planted the thought in people's minds that every utterance, every communication between anyone regardless of how private or in what context is monitored and so the only reasonable response from anyone is to self censor. No more free thoughts, no more sharing of ideas or concepts, no more questioning of anything outside of the most mundane and meaningless drivel because should you dare to even tiptoe around the edges of anything outside of the acceptable orthodoxy, they know. So now you've stifled dissent before it is even born. You limit the range of what can or even should be debated or discussed to what you feel is harmless or not worth saying and it didn't cost a cent. No analysts need to look at "meta data", no programs need to be employed, no real surveillance take place because the overwhelming majority will no longer bother to even think about those kinds of things. It's a page out of 1984 without the actual implementation of policy. They may not even have such a tool, but they certainly have us believing they do and for most people it's not even objectionable, it's worth the price of a "secure" State. Just my 2 cents. I have to agree and your simple description sent chills down my spine. |