5 Generation Warfare

[alkemical]

http://www.skilluminati.com/research/entry/5gwhat_the_meaning_of_warfare_in_2008/

http://www.wishtank.org/magazine/commons/fifth_generation_warfare/

Interesting reads.

http://www.skilluminati.com/img/hands2.gif

[alkemical]

http://www.skilluminati.com/research/entry/5gw_defense_john_robb_on_the_resilient_community/

<img src="http://www.skilluminati.com/img/chess.jpg" class="center" alt="Chess Match 5GW Strategy" title="Calm the **** Down" />

<p>Let's rewind.</p>

<p>I've been talking about <a href="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2008/02/journal-on-supe.html">5th Generation Warfare</a>, but that's because I'm a hyperactive little kid who's fascinated by everything in the Universe. Here's a remarkable fact: <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_generation_warfare">4GW</a> is a problem that hasn't been solved yet.</strong></p>

<p>Sure, there's a lot of written material about counter-insurgency operations, some of it <a href="http://smallwarsjournal.com/documents/28articles.pdf">truly brilliant</a>. However, on a reality-based level, 4GW outfits are still doing <a href="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2008/04/quote-mend-on-t.html">billions in damage</a> to better-armed, better-funded nations and corporations. In the face of this continuous loss, something remarkable has happened: the generals and the technocrats are sounding <em>like damn hippies</em> and calling for smaller, sustainable communities, energy independence and other radical cultural changes.</p>

<blockquote><p>The important point to remember is never underestimate the motivation, patience, and creativity of an adversary! He is attacking against a defense that is na�ve, arrogant, unbalanced, and fragmented. We are critically dependent on our technology, but the gap between offensive and defensive capability is huge and growing. <strong>We must find a different path.</strong> </p>

<p><strong>We have to recognize that our systems are vulnerable to sophisticated attacks and find ways to defend against them.</strong></blockquote></p>

<img src="http://www.skilluminati.com/img/sprawl3.jpg" class="center" alt="Urban Sprawl and Suburban Virus" title="The Suburbs Are Dangerous Weapons">

<p>Now, that sure sounds like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amory_Lovins">Amory Lovins</a>, especially his classic article <a href="http://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/Security/S02-13_HowRealSecurity.pdf">"How to Get Real Security."</a> But it's not: that quote is actually from <a href="http://www.jhuapl.edu/urw_symposium/proceedings/2007/papers/Gosler.pdf">James Gosler</a> at Sandia National Laboratories. Of course, scientists are always saying weird things, so perhaps his call for <em>rethinking the fundamental infrastructure of Western Civilization</em> is just another voice in the wilderness. Gosler made that statement at the 2008 Unrestricted Warfare Symposium held by Johns Hopkins. The proceedings of the conference are <a href="http://www.jhuapl.edu/urw_symposium/Proceedings.aspx">available online</a>, and there were some definite gems in what I read through last night.</p>

<p>Here's another clear-cut sign that 4GW remains an unsolved problem -- witness the palpable frustration of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_Mudd">Philip Mudd</a>, the "Associate Executive Assistant Director" of the FBI's National Security Branch:</p>

<blockquote><p><strong>What we have is an architecture of youth that is not organized in ways that we have seen in the past.</strong> They do not touch a known person; they do not touch a known cell. We cannot use known security tools. We cannot follow their phone calls because they are not calling anybody. We cannot follow who they are talking to on a computer because they are self-radicalizing on their own computer, and they are not chatting. We cannot follow them in terms of a vehicle or somebody they are meeting on the street because they are not a member of a cell. <strong>How do we stop them?</strong></blockquote></p>

<p>Good question, Mr. Mudd...</p>

<h2 class="title">The Answer is: You Can't.</h2>

<img src="http://www.skilluminati.com/img/sprawl1.jpg" class="center" alt="Urban Sprawl is Bad National Security" title="Urban Sprawl is Dangerous Design">

<p>You can't defend strip malls, interstate commerce, nationwide electrical grids and our current system of agriculture. You can't defend the physical infrastructure of the internet and you can't defend huge borders.</p>

<p>As the distribution of power gets wider and deeper, old forms like nations and imperialism are no longer sustainable. As a general design rule: <strong>if it's not sustainable, it's not secure.</strong></p>

<p>I'm a Vermont native -- an obscure part of the continental US, for American readers who might be unfamiliar -- and most folks there reached this conclusion about 200 years ago and have been trying to reverse the mistake of getting United to the US Federal Government. So it's remarkable that John Robb would be headed to my homeland to give a speech on "Defending Our Energy Security -Building Resilient Communities." (He'll be at the 2008 Vermont <a href="http://www.revermont.org/de_agenda_2008.html">Distributed Energy Conference</a>, if you'd like to attend.)</p>

<p>John Robb is a subject of controversy in 5GW circles, but more importantly, he's a really solid author and an original thinker. His last book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBrave-New-War-Terrorism-Globalization%2Fdp%2F0471780790&tag=skilluminati-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325">Brave New War</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=skilluminati-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />, was excellent brainfood, and his blog <a href="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com">Global Guerrillas</a> is the best coverage on the topic I've found. So I'm obviously looking forward to <a href="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2008/04/authors-note-th.html">his next project</a>:</p>

<blockquote><p>My goal with this book? I hope this book will provide readers with a useful eschatology for the current global system and a conceptual blueprint for the DIY (do-it-yourself) efforts necessary to build a Resilient Community.</p>

<p>The reaction the book will get? For those that completely tied to or immersed in the legacy system, this book will be a very scary read. For those that are fearless and willing to adapt in order to progress, it will become a go to reference. </p></blockquote>

<p>You can get an early sense through his previous posts: exploring the pressures behind this transition with <a href="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2008/04/transition-town.html">Transition Towns</a> and <a href="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2008/04/journal-the-ong.html">Food and the RC</a>, an exploration of energy independence through <a href="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2008/04/resilient-commu.html">Microgrids</a>, and the original brainstorm, <a href="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2008/01/the-resilient-c.html">The Resilient Community.</a></p>

<img src="http://www.skilluminati.com/img/sprawl2.jpg" class="center" alt="Urban Sprawl Leads to Cultural Decay" title="Energy and Food Crisis 2008" />

<h2 class="title">"The Internet is Killing Us"</h2>

<p>That's from Philip Mudd again...I'll give him the last word:</p>

<blockquote><p>CONCLUSION</p>

<p>In the nuclear age when the enemy was the Soviet Union, we had the luxury of imagery to look at sites, SIGINT (signal intelligence) to look at communications, HUMINT (human intelligence) to recruit sources and defectors, and international organizations like the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) to watch material. <strong>Try to apply a single one of those to a 17-year-old in the United States today.</strong></blockquote></p>

[alkemical]

http://www.skilluminati.com/research/entry/dreaming_5gw_invisible_war/

[alkemical]

http://www.dreaming5gw.com/2010/10/winning_without_fighting.php

Winning Without Fighting

Posted by Curtis Gale Weeks, 2 Oct 2010
Luke. "5GW - To Win Without Fighting Is Best." The Balance of Terror. September 27, 2010. http://thebalanceofterror.squarespace.com/journal/2010/9/27/5gw-to-win-without-fighting-is-best.html (accessed October 2, 2010).
Luke of the blog The Balance of Terror summarizes the concept of 5GW found within The Handbook of 5GW :

The entire premise of the ‘Handbook strikes me as sound: namely, that there is such a thing as a fifth gradient of warfare (call it something else, if it pleases you) which targets the observe portion of a target’s Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (OODA) loop. By successfully neutralizing a target’s ability to accurately observe, the 5GW actor, by default, neutralizes the entirety of the remaining loop downstream from the observe portion, rendering it useless.


This ability to “[neutralize] the entirety of the remaining loop downstream” suggests three interlocking requirements of 5GW:

* “Useful idiots” [the target of “a 5GW way of warfare”] would be manipulated to act against an ulterior target.
* The use of these pawns would be secretive, undetectable by the “useful idiots” who have had their observation manipulated by those who are utilizing 5GW.
* The practice of 5GW would require patience, since operations targeting observation would be “lengthy shaping operations” preceding the ultimate actions of the pawns and the ultimate victory envisioned by those utilizing 5GW. 5GW would require “Generations, perhaps!”


Luke concludes his blog post by offering a thought experiment. If a target is simply too strong to risk attacking directly — he implies the U.S. — then an opponent might utilize a third party such as Islamist extremists to destroy or at least weaken that target; or, housing bubbles could be created with the ultimate goal of weakening a financial system. The book Unrestricted Warfare is cited, and both China and Russia play a role in the thought experiment.

On 5GW:
“It’s quite a clever - and devilishly simple - concept if you think about it. Not only is the target unable to perceive that he is really the target (until far too late) of adverse action initiated by a 5GW actor, he is also isolated in place: the target suffers the observational equivalent of being bound and gagged, and thus unable to prevent the machinations unfolding around him because he simply does not perceive them for what they are. From the target’s observational perspective, such machinations (if perceived at all) might look like a disjointed series of calamitous events unrelated one to another - and, as far as the target can tell, unattributable to any (or the same) source. Such calamitous events are merely the 5GW actor’s shaping operations prior to the finishing action. But the observation portion of the OODA loop is merely the point of effect of a 5GW way of warfare.”

[loborugger]

Sounds like you are reaching a point where you will have thought crimes.

[Rohirrim]

The next revolution will be a flash mob.

[chadta]

what does all this have to do with jay cutler and his knee ?

[alkemical]

The next revolution will be a flash mob.

Think of Anonymous - but without anything more than the name being used for association.

Flash mobs will be orchestrated by the "agents" -

I'm trying to devise 5GW methods to offer competing systems to failed ones.

[alkemical]

http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/24/chinese-hackers-target-u-s-chamber-of-commerce-sensitive-data/

Chinese hackers target U.S. Chamber of Commerce, sensitive data stolen

According to sources close to The Wall Street Journal, Chinese hackers are at it again, this time hitting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and capturing information from three million members. Those familiar with the matter told the WSJ that hackers stole around six weeks worth of emails regarding Asian policy, but may have had access to sensitive correspondences for as long as a year. The Chamber only learned it was under attack when the FBI sent an alert that servers in China were stealing information, although the exact amount of data stolen is unknown. After confirming the breach, the Chamber shut down and destroyed parts of its computer network, proceeding to revamp its security system over a 36-hour period. Unfortunately, this isn't the first time the U.S. of A has fallen victim to Chinese hackers, as both Google and NASA have experienced breaches over the past few years. The Chamber is currently investigating the attack, hoping to find some digital clues that might reveal the details of who done it and why.

[Rohirrim]

China is our friend. Shop at Walmart.

[Atwater 27]

WTF are you guys talking about? What level of psychopath have I discovered today?

[alkemical]

I don't understand your question(s). It's a big topic, and i can't claim expertise -

[elsid13]

http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/24/chinese-hackers-target-u-s-chamber-of-commerce-sensitive-data/

Chinese hackers target U.S. Chamber of Commerce, sensitive data stolen

According to sources close to The Wall Street Journal, Chinese hackers are at it again, this time hitting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and capturing information from three million members. Those familiar with the matter told the WSJ that hackers stole around six weeks worth of emails regarding Asian policy, but may have had access to sensitive correspondences for as long as a year. The Chamber only learned it was under attack when the FBI sent an alert that servers in China were stealing information, although the exact amount of data stolen is unknown. After confirming the breach, the Chamber shut down and destroyed parts of its computer network, proceeding to revamp its security system over a 36-hour period. Unfortunately, this isn't the first time the U.S. of A has fallen victim to Chinese hackers, as both Google and NASA have experienced breaches over the past few years. The Chamber is currently investigating the attack, hoping to find some digital clues that might reveal the details of who done it and why.

China has in organized method been attacking and stealing secrets from the US and the Western World for over decade. Much of their success in industry has come from those thefts.

[alkemical]

China has in organized method been attacking and stealing secrets from the US and the Western World for over decade. Much of their success in industry has come from those thefts.

http://www.dreaming5gw.com/2009/01/recent_fifth_generation_warfar.php

Fifth generational warfare (5GW) theory is still being studied, not yet having a clear definition. Some terms used have been “unrestricted warfare” or “financial jihad [warfare]”. Interestingly enough, two former Chinese colonels (Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui) have written a book named – “Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America.” In their book, Liang and Xiangsui state: “unrestricted warfare is warfare that uses all means whatsoever - means that involve force or arms and means that do not involve force or arms; means that involve military power and means that do not involve military power; means that entail casualties and means that do not entail casualties – to force an enemy to serve one’s own interest.”

US Marine Colonel (retired) T.X. Hammes states the following in an article published by Military Review (May-June 2007): “[5GW] will result from the continued shifts of political and social loyalties to causes rather than nations. It will be marked by the increasing power of smaller and smaller entities and the explosion of biotechnology. 5GW will truly be a nets and jets war: networks will distribute the key information, provide a source for the necessary equipment and material, and constitute a field from which to recruit volunteers; jets will provide worldwide, inexpensive, effective dissemination of the weapons.”

The 5GW Educational Institute® offers the following definition for debate: 5GW is an extension of Asymmetrical and Insurgent Warfare, whereby the enemy uses all means – both conventional and unconventional military tactics and weapons; includes political, religious and social causes; incorporates 21st century Global strategic information operations campaigns (internet and 24 hours news cycle); can be conducted by organized or unorganized groups; may be nation state led or non-nation state led – to disrupt and defeat superior opponents in order to achieve their will.

5GW Educational Institute® intends to precede 5GW theoretical research through operational experience (lessons learned) and analyzing empirical data (academia).


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrestricted_Warfare

Unrestricted Warfare (超限战, literally "warfare beyond bounds") is a book on military strategy written in 1999 by two colonels in the People's Liberation Army, Qiao Liang (乔良) and Wang Xiangsui (王湘穗). Its primary concern is how a nation such as China can defeat a technologically superior opponent (such as the United States) through a variety of means. Rather than focusing on direct military confrontation, this book instead examines a variety of other means. Such means include using International Law (see Lawfare) and a variety of economic means to place one's opponent in a bad position and circumvent the need for direct military action.[1]

[alkemical]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,806939,00.html

Hackers Against Neo-Nazis
Anonymous Takes on Germany's Far-Right

[alkemical]

http://www.disinfo.com/2012/01/how-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-oil-sands/

[alkemical]

Lots of “May Day” chatter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day

Funny how May Day –= mayday

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayday

Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice procedure radio communications. It derives from the French venez m'aider, meaning "come help me".[1]



http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyxv86dVXJ1r08rzho1_500.png

[Odysseus]

The next revolution will be a flash mob.

Morrocco, Eygypt, Libya,....Syria is fighting against thist.

[Odysseus]

China has in organized method been attacking and stealing secrets from the US and the Western World for over decade. Much of their success in industry has come from those thefts.

When I tried to point out the Chinese hackers that are still wandering around out networks I was not able to find the vindicating links that are required.

China does not have an conflicts internally preventing it from protecting their own self interests.

[Odysseus]

WTF are you guys talking about? What level of psychopath have I discovered today?

Questions? Is your Internet broken? Look it up.

5th generation warfare is being taught in military colleges, security think tanks, and is a key factor in why our military strategies are evolving.

[Odysseus]

Sounds like you are reaching a point where you will have thought crimes.

We are past that point.

[alkemical]

Mindshare is the territory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_share).

Mind share, or the development of consumer awareness or popularity, is one of the main objectives of advertising and promotion. When people think of examples of a product type or category, they usually think of a limited number of brand names. For example, a prospective buyer of a college education will have several thousand colleges to choose from. However, the evoked set, or set of schools considered, will probably be limited to about ten. Of these ten, the colleges that the buyer is most familiar with will receive the greatest attention.

Marketers try to maximize the popularity of their product, so that the brand co-exists with deeper, more empirical categories of objects. Kleenex, for example, can distinguish itself as a type of tissue. But, because it has gained popularity amongst consumers, it is frequently used as a term to identify any tissue, even if it is from a competing brand.

One of the most successful firms to have achieved pervasive mind share is Hoover, whose name has been synonymous with vacuum cleaner in the UK for many decades. Similarly, the term "googling", describing the act of online searching, was derived from the Internet search engine Google; however, since Google remains the world's most popular search engine, it remains to be seen if the term will become generic for all searches.

Popularity can be established to a greater or lesser degree depending on product and market. For example, it is common to hear people refer to any cola-flavored soft drink as a "coke", regardless of whether it is actually produced by Coca-Cola or not.[citation needed]

A legal risk of such popularity is that the name may become so widely accepted that it becomes a generic term and loses trademark protection. Examples include "escalator", "panadol", "chapstick", "tupperware", "kleenex", and "bandaid".

Other objectives of mind share include short or long term increases in sales, market share, product information, and reputation.

[elsid13]

When I tried to point out the Chinese hackers that are still wandering around out networks I was not able to find the vindicating links that are required.

China does not have an conflicts internally preventing it from protecting their own self interests.

Read Para 4 and 5

http://gcn.com/articles/2011/08/26/china-us-cyberattacks-smoking-gun.aspx

[elsid13]

Questions? Is your Internet broken? Look it up.

5th generation warfare is being taught in military colleges, security think tanks, and is a key factor in why our military strategies are evolving.

The problem I always have with the Netwar guys, is they want to brand it as something new. When in fact what is going on has been happening since man decided to covet another man's possessions. The method and technology have advance but the underlying cause and reasons remain the same.

[alkemical]

http://io9.com/5883210/could-the-wars-of-the-future-be-fought-with-mind-control

Could the wars of the future be fought with mind control?

Neuroscientists have made huge breakthroughs in our understanding of the inner workings of the mind, particularly how various regions of the brain are linked to specific cognitive processes. This is powerful knowledge... and it could be headed to the battlefield.

That's the finding of a new report by the UK's Royal Society, that warns these advances in neuroscience could lead to the creation of new weapons that attack enemy forces by disabling parts of their minds. Gases or even electronic devices could be specifically targeted to take down vital regions of the brain.

There's also some real danger in the flip side of this, in which the military attempts to improve the battle-readiness of its soldiers through these types of brain hacks. They might make for better soldiers, but that could well come at the expense of the soldiers' overall health, and the panel argues there are serious ethical questions about whether such neural weaponry violates human rights.

In the video up top, panel chairperson Professor Rod Flower of Queen Mary, University of London explains the findings of the report. For a more complete picture of the future of neuroscience on the battlefield, you can check out the complete report here.

Via the Royal Society.

[alkemical]

The problem I always have with the Netwar guys, is they want to brand it as something new. When in fact what is going on has been happening since man decided to covet another man's possessions. The method and technology have advance but the underlying cause and reasons remain the same.

http://en.xiandos.info/Fifth_generation_warfare

Where Third generation warfare is Maneuver warfare and Fourth generation warfare is Netwar, 5GW is Secret War. 5GW is a logical addition to the Generations of Modern warfare framework.

5GW is performed by super-empowered individuals and very small /dispersed networks. It is possible that a 5GW groups will be the result of emergent/Leaderless resistance behavior. The 5GW group is separate from the State(and perhaps not known to the state or its leaders). 5GW/SecretWar will be waged on the behalf of the state or an idea/Meme(s) or the small 5GW group itself. The fifth generation rides on the trend of the state loosing the monopoly of power, and the legitimacy of the state itself being called into question. The prevalent form of state the nation-state, is also changing with a market-state concept starting to emerge.

Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) is a new and evolving concept. Some would say it doesn’t exists, or it just 4GW misunderstood or applied in a new / different / expected way. William S. Lind, one of the fathers of 4GW and the Generations of Modern War framework, does not think 5GW is emerging yet [1].

There is much discussion still as to the characteristics of 5GW – there is no definitive statement or definition.

[alkemical]

I'll have to spend more time on that site:

5GW and Secrecy

SecretWar obviously requires secrecy to be successful. Since knowledge of the 5GW will often resemble weird conspiracy theories, 5GW practitioners will use that to their advantage to discredit and marginalize those that might be starting to recognize the 5GW movement. Most societies will by default consider evidence of 5GW as nonsense or wacko/crazy conspiracy thought and dismiss it. In well run 5GW, the entity that is the target, may not (nor ever) realize it is at war. Exposure of the existence of the 5GW movement will preclude it from acting effectively and will most likely cause its destruction.

[elsid13]

http://en.xiandos.info/Fifth_generation_warfare

Where Third generation warfare is Maneuver warfare and Fourth generation warfare is Netwar, 5GW is Secret War. 5GW is a logical addition to the Generations of Modern warfare framework.

5GW is performed by super-empowered individuals and very small /dispersed networks. It is possible that a 5GW groups will be the result of emergent/Leaderless resistance behavior. The 5GW group is separate from the State(and perhaps not known to the state or its leaders). 5GW/SecretWar will be waged on the behalf of the state or an idea/Meme(s) or the small 5GW group itself. The fifth generation rides on the trend of the state loosing the monopoly of power, and the legitimacy of the state itself being called into question. The prevalent form of state the nation-state, is also changing with a market-state concept starting to emerge.

Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) is a new and evolving concept. Some would say it doesn’t exists, or it just 4GW misunderstood or applied in a new / different / expected way. William S. Lind, one of the fathers of 4GW and the Generations of Modern War framework, does not think 5GW is emerging yet [1].

There is much discussion still as to the characteristics of 5GW – there is no definitive statement or definition.

I seen that powerpoint brief before and no matter what they say it not anything new. Limiting the ability for your opponent to understand your motives to create surprise and fear is something all seek achieve and is great force multiplier. Instead of thinking of something new, it should be recognized as tool that always been there, but back in favor for the current era. Go read the "Great Game" by Hopkirk and tell me you don't see the Russians, British and other non government actors not do similar what the 5GW advocates say is new. Technology might have changes but not the plays involved.

[alkemical]

im not disagreeing, just seeking better depth.

[elsid13]

im not disagreeing, just seeking better depth.

I am not trying to be combative, just that sometimes work show up in the threads. We are entering an era of limited size engagements and colonial actions. Technological has reduced the transaction cost to access to information and make a decision, but basic ideas and principles that Roman and British Empire used to stop the "barbarians" remain the same.

[alkemical]

I know you aren't. :)

I understand what you're stating/saying.

I think the mediums are part of the weaponry/theatre.

Would you consider some religions/new age 5gw?

[alkemical]

I know you aren't be combative. :)

When I look @ the removal of physical boundries due to technology, the manipulation of smaller groups becomes more important. (from my pov). Due to the fragmentation of neotribes....

Has Glenn Beck been using 5*gw?

is #ows & teaparty a game?

Who's the queen bee in anon's hive...or are they truly leaderless?

Is newage a 5gw?

I see parts of 5gw very clear, and other parts i'm "green" on. I'm not disagreeing with your concept/statement. I was introduced to this over two years ago and have been scoping pdf's from army war college/etc.

Been looking @ news headlines for directives*....know what i mean?

[elsid13]

I know you aren't. :)

I understand what you're stating/saying.

I think the mediums are part of the weaponry/theatre.

Would you consider some religions/new age 5gw?

No more then I would consider the followers of Muhammad Ahmad during the Mahdiyya uprising in Sudan a 5GW combatant. I think that certain sects/cults have common bond that allows members to be disciplined in their approach to uncivilized behavior, but I could argue street gangs in US also have similar characteristics and social patterns.

[Odysseus]

Read Para 4 and 5

http://gcn.com/articles/2011/08/26/china-us-cyberattacks-smoking-gun.aspx

I appreciate this article. Smoking gun indeed!

[Odysseus]

I am not trying to be combative, just that sometimes work show up in the threads. We are entering an era of limited size engagements and colonial actions. Technological has reduced the transaction cost to access to information and make a decision, but basic ideas and principles that Roman and British Empire used to stop the "barbarians" remain the same.

Very intersting post. PM me sources, articles, and your email address. I want to swap .pdf files and information.

[alkemical]

I would also be interested in learning more Elsid -

[barryr]

One could say China is also attacking the U.S. by constantly making crappy products, especially electronics which is about as well have to choose from in this country. American made? Where?

[Odysseus]

One could say China is also attacking the U.S. by constantly making crappy products, especially electronics which is about as well have to choose from in this country. American made? Where?

You mean poisoned dog food is bad?


Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_pet_food_recalls

[elsid13]

Very intersting post. PM me sources, articles, and your email address. I want to swap .pdf files and information.

There are no "sources" per say, it just stuff I have put together over the years reading and working on the fringes of the arena. To many times people at PHD level that work on this stuff are specialized in one talent and don't have the real world hybrid experience that those with BA/BA and Masters' have.

Books and sites that I recommend in this area:

Max Boots - Savage Wars of Peace (Boot is neo-con but he and his wife are first rate military historians and analysts. Also check out their non-profit website)

Thomas Barnett - big big ego but very smart guy that has interesting insights. Both books are excellent.

Trying to eat soup with a fork:
Britain's post-second world war Malayan and Kenyan counter-insurgency campaigns by Simon Karl Smolski

http://www.dodccrp.org/ DoD sponsored think tank in that sponsor NII and work on C2/C4 challenges.

The Great Game - great book about the Russian/British shadow war over Central Asia. Same game we play today.

The Spider and Starfish. Another interesting read.

And I am been a big fan of system thinking. Very unrated area of study.

[Odysseus]

Rep!

I love Systems thinking and am an ardent student. The problem is people get stuck on the math part of it so they tend to disregard things that are not simplified.

I think if people learn to ask the big dumb questions they will see how certain conclusions are hard to miss.

[alkemical]

One of my weak points is Econ. I just don't understand enough of it, and I don't make the time to get really in depth with it (I have other obligations right now) - i've been making an effort to learn more - but I don't really know which questions to ask.

I appreciate the feedback/info/etc - I really appreciate contributions to this thread.

[elsid13]

Decent piece from CBS Sunday morning

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57376133/how-the-revolution-became-digitized/?tag=contentBody;cbsCarousel

The flow of information has become so cheap, you now need to treat it as commodity, and realize that competitive advantage does not go to the first to get the information, but rather the one that understand and react to it.

[alkemical]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21524-how-lulzsec-kept-itself-safe-during-the-summer-of-lulz.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

How LulzSec kept itself safe during the summer of 'lulz'

[alkemical]

http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/1d00bbb6/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Cblogs0Conepercent0C20A120C0A20 Cgenetic0Ealgorithms0Elet0Echinese0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOT C0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story01.htm

Genetic algorithms let Chinese drones hunt submarines
from New Scientist - Online News
But why has the Chinese naval academy published its sensitive plans for all the world, and its adversaries, to see?

[alkemical]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17231695

Hackers gained "full functional control" of key Nasa computers in 2011, the agency's inspector general has told US lawmakers

Side note:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/02/us-arctic-ice-mercury-idUSTRE82101M20120302Follow Reuters


By Dan Whitcomb

LOS ANGELES | Fri Mar 2, 2012 8:59am EST

(Reuters) - Significant declines in perennial Arctic sea ice over the past decade may be intensifying a chemical reaction that leads to deposits of toxic mercury, a NASA-led study showed on Thursday.

[Odysseus]

http://www.ted.com/talks/avi_rubin_all_your_devices_can_be_hacked.html

We can hack, scan and access anything.

[alkemical]

I know - What do you do?

Setup a thin client/terminal based solution on your own 'network' and at least if you're caught in person they won't have any data.

[alkemical]

http://www.disinfo.com/2012/03/wikileaks-revelation-dow-payed-stratfor-to-spy-on-the-yes-men/

WikiLeaks Revelation: Dow Payed Stratfor to Spy on the Yes Men

Posted by Good German on March 5, 2012

A “press release” from the Yes Men:

Feb. 27, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MASSIVE LEAK REVEALS CRIMINALITY, PARANOIA AMONG CORPORATE TITANS
Dow pays “strategic intelligence” firm to spy on Yes Men and grassroots activists. Takeaway: movement is on the right track!

WikiLeaks begins to publish today over five million e-mails obtained by Anonymous from “global intelligence” company Stratfor. The emails, which reveal everything from sinister spy tactics to an insider trading scheme with Goldman Sachs (see below), also include several discussions of the Yes Men and Bhopal activists. (Bhopal activists seek redress for the 1984 Dow Chemical/Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India, that led to thousands of deaths, injuries in more than half a million people, and lasting environmental damage.)

Many of the Bhopal-related emails, addressed from Stratfor to Dow and Union Carbide public relations directors, reveal concern that, in the lead-up to the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, the Bhopal issue might be expanded into an effective systemic critique of corporate rule, and speculate at length about why this hasn’t yet happened—providing a fascinating window onto what at least some corporate types fear most from activists.

“[Bhopal activists] have made a slight nod toward expanded activity, but never followed through on it—the idea of ‘other Bhopals’ that were the fault of Dow or others,” mused Joseph de Feo, who is listed in one online source as a “Briefer” for Stratfor.

“Maybe the Yes Men were the pinnacle. They made an argument in their way on their terms—that this is a corporate problem and a part of the a [sic] larger whole,” wrote Kathleen Morson, Stratfor’s Director of Policy Analysis.

“With less than a month to go [until the 25th anniversary], you’d think that the major players—especially Amnesty—would have branched out from Bhopal to make a broader set of issues. I don’t see any evidence of it,” wrote Bart Mongoven, Stratfor’s Vice President, in November 2004. “If they can’t manage to use the 25th anniversary to broaden the issue, they probably won’t be able to.”

Mongoven even speculates on coordination between various activist campaigns that had nothing to do with each other. “The Chevron campaign [in Ecuador] is remarkably similar [to the Dow campaign] in its unrealistic demand. Is it a follow up or an admission that the first thrust failed? Am I missing a node of activity or a major campaign that is to come? Has the Dow campaign been more successful than I think?” It’s almost as if Mongoven assumes the two campaigns were directed from the same central activist headquarters.

Just as Wall Street has at times let slip their fear of the Occupy Wall Street movement, these leaks seem to show that corporate power is most afraid of whatever reveals “the larger whole” and “broader issues,” i.e. whatever brings systemic criminal behavior to light. “Systemic critique could lead to policy changes that would challenge corporate power and profits in a really major way,” noted Joseph Huff-Hannon, recently-promoted Director of Policy Analysis for the Yes Lab.

Among the millions of other leaked Stratfor emails are some that reveal dubious financial practices, including an apparent insider trading scheme with Goldman Sachs Managing Director Shea Morenz, who joined Stratfor’s board of directors and invested “substantially” more than $4 million in the scheme, called StratCap. “What StratCap will do is use our Stratfor’s intelligence and analysis to trade in a range of geopolitical instruments,” wrote Stratfor CEO George Friedman in September 2011. StratCap was designed through a complex offshore share structure to appear legally independent, but Friedman assured Stratfor staff otherwise: “Do not think of StratCap as an outside organisation. It will be integral… It will be useful to you… We are already working on mock portfolios and trades.” (StratCap has been due to launch in 2012, though that could now change.)

Other emails show Stratfor techniques of a truly creepy Spy vs. Spy sort: “[Y]ou have to take control of him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control,” wrote CEO Friedman recently to an employee, Reva Bhalla, on how to exploit an Israeli intelligence informant providing information on Chavez’s cancer. (Stratfor’s “confidential intelligence services” clients include, besides Dow and Union Carbide, the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines, the US Defense Intelligence Agency, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon.)

Perhaps most entertainingly of all, the email trove reveals that Stratfor’s “Confederation Partners”—an unethical alliance between Stratfor and a number of mainstream journalists—are referred to informally within Stratfor as its “Confed **** House.” (Another discovery: Coca Cola was spying on PETA. More such gems are sure to surface as operatives sift through the 5.5 million emails.)

A number of the remaining Yes Men-related emails take the form of reports on public appearances by the Yes Men, such as one that describes one audience comprised of “art students on class assignments and free entertainment.” Another notes that “The Yes Men tweeted about the US Chamber of Commerce ‘plotting forged emails, documents to trick (AND smear) opponents,’” a reference to an apparent plot to discredit Chamber opponents using forged documents, as revealed when thousands of emails were recently leaked by Anonymous from cyber-security firm HB Gary. Yet another discusses Alessio Rastani, the Wall Street trader widely mistaken for Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum, who proclaimed, live on the BBC, that “governments don’t rule the world, Goldman Sachs rules the world.”

“Rastani was right,” said the real Andy Bichlbaum five months later. “But it’s now very clear that it doesn’t have to be that way anymore.”

The Yes Men and representatives from the Bhopal Medical Appeal [joined] Julian Assange of Wikileaks at a press conference at noon [...] Feb. 27, at the Frontline Club in London.

[alkemical]

http://www.disinfo.com/2012/01/anonymous-attacks-monsanto-video/

Anonymous, which briefly knocked the FBI and Justice Department websites offline as well as Music Industry websites in retaliation for the US shutdown of file-sharing site Megaupload, is a shadowy group of amazing international hackers.

Anonymous Message To Monsanto: We fight for farmers! – Video Transcript (Cross-Posted from Organic Common Sense:

“To the free-thinking citizens of the world: Anonymous stands with the farmers and food organizations denouncing the practices of Monsanto We applaud the bravery of the organizations and citizens who are standing up to Monsanto, and we stand united with you against this oppressive corporate abuse. Monsanto is contaminating the world with chemicals and genetically modified food crops for profit while claiming to feed the hungry and protect the environment. Anonymous is everyone, Anyone who can not stand for injustice and decides to do something about it, We are all over the Earth and here to stay.

To Monsanto, we demand you STOP the following:
Contaminating the global food chain with GMO’s [sic].
Intimidating small farmers with bullying and lawsuits.
Propagating the use of destructive pesticides and herbicides across the globe.
Using “Terminator Technology”, which renders plants sterile.
Attempting to hijack UN climate change negotiations for your own fiscal benefit.
Reducing farmland to desert through monoculture and the use of synthetic fertilizers.
Inspiring suicides of hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers.
Causing birth defects by continuing to produce the pesticide “Round-up”
Attempting to bribe foriegn officials
Infiltrating anti-GMO groups

Monsanto, these crimes will not go unpunished. Anonymous will not spare you nor anyone in support of your oppressive illegal business practices.

[alkemical]

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0abx9D25r1qb5aavo1_r4_500.jpg

[Odysseus]

I know - What do you do?

Setup a thin client/terminal based solution on your own 'network' and at least if you're caught in person they won't have any data.

Take a look at the video.

[alkemical]

Take a look at the video.

I'll have too when i'm elsewhere (resources).

[alkemical]

http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/twitter-turns-over-occupy-users-data-police-293786

Twitter turns over Occupy user's data to police

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Twitter has turned over data for one of its subscribers involved in the Occupy movement to the Boston police, who are investigating tweets associated with the hacking of the department's website last fall.

An administrative subpoena was issued to Twitter in December to turn over the information. The ACLU, representing the subscriber, contested the subpoena in court, but the appeal was shot down by a judge last week.

Twitter's growing importance as a tool for communication -- whether it be for the Arab Spring or for playing a role in Britain's riots last summer -- is increasingly putting it in the crosshairs of the authorities.

"The ACLU challenged the lawfulness of this administrative subpoena and was told by the Superior Court that we did not have standing," said Peter Krupp, cooperating attorney for the ACLU of Massachusetts, in a statement. "As a result of these various proceedings, the Superior Court ordered the documents produced."

Twitter spokesman Matt Graves told the Boston Globe that the microblogging site provided subscriber information for "@p0isAn0N," an account associated with the name of Guido Fawkes. The newspaper said Graves declined comment when asked how Twitter responded to the court’s order requiring the company to hand over information linked to hashtags and @OccupyBoston," said the Globe.

"I can confirm that we were ordered to provide account information on a single user, @p0isan0n," he told msnbc.com Friday. "We did not give information on any other account."

The ACLU says the case cannot be challenged any further.

“Twitter’s recent communication with our office gave both parties a clear understanding of what information was relevant to our probe," the spokesman, Jake Wark, said in an email to the Globe. "We requested and received only that information. This is a focused investigation, not a fishing expedition.’’

Check out Technolog, Gadgetbox, Digital Life and In-Game on Facebook, and on Twitter, follow Suzanne Choney.

[alkemical]

G-8 summit to be held at Camp David, not Chicago | Chicago Tribune
G-8 summit to be held at Camp David, not Chicago | Chicago Tribune:

theamericanbear:

A big Occupy win?

The G-8 summit will be held at Camp David, not in Chicago as had been scheduled.

The White House announced the change in the following statement:

“In May, the United States looks forward to hosting the G-8 and NATO Summits. To facilitate a free-flowing discussion with our close G-8 partners, the president is inviting his fellow G-8 leaders to Camp David on May 18-19 for the G-8 Summit, which will address a broad range of economic, political and security issues.

“The president will then welcome NATO allies and partners to his hometown of Chicago for the NATO Summit on May 20-21, which will be the premier opportunity this year for the president to continue his efforts to strengthen NATO in order to ensure that the Atlantic Alliance remains the most successful alliance in history, while charting the way forward in Afghanistan.”

The 38th G8 summit was to be held in Chicago alongside the NATO summit. It would have been the first time since 1977 in London that the two organizations held meetings in the same city at the same time.

Chicago police estimated that 2,000 to 10,000 demonstrators were expected to show up for the overlapping G-8 and NATO summits. At least two major demonstrations were already planned for downtown during the summit, and organizers said they wanted to send crowds of marchers down Michigan Avenue in the middle of the day.

Meetings of leaders of international economic organizations like the G-8 have drawn violent large-scale protests for more than a decade.

Protests and other forms of activism will be stunted at Camp David, to say the least, but the Masters of the Universe are scared - that much is undeniable.

[Odysseus]

Are you tracking the G20?

There are treaties being created behind the scenes where America is viewed as some kind of major pie to be divided up. America needs to be more concerned about Americans.

[alkemical]

Are you tracking the G20?

There are treaties being created behind the scenes where America is viewed as some kind of major pie to be divided up. America needs to be more concerned about Americans.

Where's a good place to find this type of news?

I've only seen the one with central banks being able to buy stocks directly now.

I also see that Baja will get to rub shoulders & scales this june I believe also.

San Jose del Cabo – The G20 in Los Cabos
baja.com/san-jose-del-cabo/2012/03/08/g20/
4 days ago – I think with the changing times most Baja residents are hoping that the G20 sends the world a message that it's safe to visit us here in Baja and ...

[alkemical]

http://www.illuminatirex.com/index.php?callback=image&pid=93&width=600&height=887&mode=

http://www.illuminatirex.com/index.php?callback=image&pid=94&width=600&height=899&mode=


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http://www.illuminatirex.com/nwo-illuminati-guide-to-media-and-mind-control/

[Meck77]

Where's a good place to find this type of news?

I've only seen the one with central banks being able to buy stocks directly now.

I also see that Baja will get to rub shoulders & scales this june I believe also.

San Jose del Cabo – The G20 in Los Cabos
baja.com/san-jose-del-cabo/2012/03/08/g20/
4 days ago – I think with the changing times most Baja residents are hoping that the G20 sends the world a message that it's safe to visit us here in Baja and ...

Hold the tequila. The riots are coming to cabo...

[baja]

Hold the tequila. The riots are coming to cabo...


YA Baja Mexico is so unsafe they are having the G20 here.

You are a world class dumb shiit Meck.

We are building a world class convention center for this event. Even Hillary was here last month. I had a turkey sandwich with her and Shanahan

[myMind]

This topic contains such a cluster**** of information (or misinformation) that it is almost impossible to retain and process without a career dedication. My approach in this case, is that the trees are much more valuable than the forest. To understand conspiracy theories, reverse engineering is paramount. Just because something is categorized as conspiracy does not make it illogical.

[alkemical]

This topic contains such a cluster**** of information (or misinformation) that it is almost impossible to retain and process without a career dedication. My approach in this case, is that the trees are much more valuable than the forest. To understand conspiracy theories, reverse engineering is paramount. Just because something is categorized as conspiracy does not make it illogical.

Ding!!!!

It's more about strategies than content - but content is a weapon. Content is used to "win hearts & minds".

Some of the content I post here, are just examples eye find in my news feeds - of the little wars, or reality building things I see.

[Odysseus]

This topic contains such a cluster**** of information (or misinformation) that it is almost impossible to retain and process without a career dedication. My approach in this case, is that the trees are much more valuable than the forest. To understand conspiracy theories, reverse engineering is paramount. Just because something is categorized as conspiracy does not make it illogical.

Even when you uncover which conspiracy theories are conspiracy facts it does not change your choices in the "real world" only your understanding.

Knowing a general truth does not insure you know your specific real choices.

A serf that can read, write, think, and reflect is still a serf.

If you are not thinking globally you are missing the point.

[alkemical]

Even when you uncover which conspiracy theories are conspiracy facts it does not change your choices in the "real world" only your understanding.

Knowing a general truth does not insure you know your specific real choices.

A serf that can read, write, think, and reflect is still a serf.

If you are not thinking globally you are missing the point.

See, that's the dilemma of the serf...isn't it?

Why "know", does it really change or make an impact? We are "marketed" to all the time of how "we just have to suck it up, there's nothing you can do - there's no way out".

I chide Alex Jones to my friends that listen to him - because there are no solutions on how to "Defeat the NWO"....minus "Vote for Ron Paul".

If the serfs refuse, they're made examples of, ground up and spit out. Get enough serfs and you can win a battle, but lose the war.

This battle isn't just "netwar" - but about actual...real MINDshare.

[Odysseus]

See, that's the dilemma of the serf...isn't it?

Why "know", does it really change or make an impact? We are "marketed" to all the time of how "we just have to suck it up, there's nothing you can do - there's no way out".

I chide Alex Jones to my friends that listen to him - because there are no solutions on how to "Defeat the NWO"....minus "Vote for Ron Paul".

If the serfs refuse, they're made examples of, ground up and spit out. Get enough serfs and you can win a battle, but lose the war.

This battle isn't just "netwar" - but about actual...real MINDshare.

The problem is serfs don't want to "waste their time" with realities that are not "real". It's like being in the Matrix only taking the red pill and the blue pill at the same time.

Madmen are easily marginalized. Serfs have two choices. Be a good serf or be a bad serf. Why murder a person for real if you can destroy them with democratic process? A martyr is powerful. A crazy person is not.

[alkemical]

The problem is serfs don't want to "waste their time" with realities that are not "real". It's like being in the Matrix only taking the red pill and the blue pill at the same time.

Madmen are easily marginalized. Serfs have two choices. Be a good serf or be a bad serf. Why murder a person for real if you can destroy them with democratic process? A martyr is powerful. A crazy person is not.

Exactly Ody!!! The Madmen use the democratic process to destroy the bad serf (terrorist in today's legal language)!!!

Which is why the serfs waste time with realities that aren't real!!!! That's why they take the red & blue pills, with the purple ones.

What's the difference between a Martyr & a Crazy person? Isn't that just defined by the societal norms? Or if survival is the key aspect....then wouldn't being a martyr...be crazy since that will make sure you are ground up and buried?

[Odysseus]

YA Baja Mexico is so unsafe they are having the G20 here.

You are a world class dumb shiit Meck.

We are building a world class convention center for this event. Even Hillary was here last month. I had a turkey sandwich with her and Shanahan

The highway to Monterrey is not safe. Mexico City isn't safe. Mexico has safe parts but it also has places where kidnapping, drug cartels, and even American law enforcement should not go. Where you live is away from that but it does not mean it is not there.

[Odysseus]

Exactly Ody!!! The Madmen use the democratic process to destroy the bad serf (terrorist in today's legal language)!!!

Which is why the serfs waste time with realities that aren't real!!!! That's why they take the red & blue pills, with the purple ones.

What's the difference between a Martyr & a Crazy person? Isn't that just defined by the societal norms? Or if survival is the key aspect....then wouldn't being a martyr...be crazy since that will make sure you are ground up and buried?

Destroy? A destroyed serf is useless. There are no purple pills. No martyr wants to be martyred or crazy. The democratic process is replaced with herd mentality. Why worry about the stray if you control the herd?

[baja]

The highway to Monterrey is not safe. Mexico City isn't safe. Mexico has safe parts but it also has places where kidnapping, drug cartels, and even American law enforcement should not go. Where you live is away from that but it does not mean it is not there.


Do you suppose that might be why I said BajaMexico?

[Odysseus]

Do you suppose that might be why I said BajaMexico?

Nope. Did not even think about that.

[baja]

Nope. Did not even think about that.

See how you are ;D

[alkemical]

Destroy? A destroyed serf is useless. There are no purple pills. No martyr wants to be martyred or crazy. The democratic process is replaced with herd mentality. Why worry about the stray if you control the herd?

marinating..... :)

[baja]

Hold the tequila. The riots are coming to cabo...

To tell ya the truth I wish it were somewhere else.

[Odysseus]

To tell ya the truth I wish it were somewhere else.

Want to swap with me? You can have this F*** hell hole?

Take a look at Australia. You would like the strong currency, women to men ratio, and amazing travel connections. No cartels! Woot!

[alkemical]

Want to swap with me? You can have this **** hell hole?

Take a look at Australia. You would like the strong currency, women to men ratio, and amazing travel connections. No cartels! Woot!

They've been super weird on civil liberties though, and i don't understand why.(at least from my limited scope of news)

[elsid13]

interesting to see where this goes.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/03/29/big-data-big-deal

[Odysseus]

interesting to see where this goes.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/03/29/big-data-big-deal

This IS a big deal.

[Odysseus]

Our society is so divided right now. I have no idea how we are going to get on the same page on anything.

[alkemical]

Our society is so divided right now. I have no idea how we are going to get on the same page on anything.

That's why i picked food. :) (Thinking like Kissinger)

[alkemical]

http://www.disinfo.com/2012/04/mass-murderer-trained-with-call-of-duty/

Mass Murderer Trained With ‘Call Of Duty’

Here’s some fuel for the debate over the potential harm of allowing children (and presumably unstable adults) to play extremely realistic first-person shooter games, via the Guardian:

Call of Duty Black Ops Logotipo-2011-28-08

Anders Behring Breivik has described how he “trained” for the attacks he carried out in Norway last summer using the computer game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

The 33-year-old said he practised his shot using a “holographic aiming device” he had bought to use with the war simulation game, which he said is used by armies around the world for training.

“You develop target acquisition,” he said. He used a similar device during the shooting attacks that left 69 dead at a political youth camp on the island of Utøya on 22 July.

Describing the game, he said: “It consists of many hundreds of different tasks and some of these tasks can be compared with an attack, for real. That’s why it’s used by many armies throughout the world. It’s very good for acquiring experience related to sights systems.”

He added: “If you are familiar with a holographic sight, it’s built up in such a way that you could have given it to your grandmother and she would have been a super marksman. It’s designed to be used by anyone. In reality it requires very little training to use it in an optimal way. But of course it does help if you’ve practised using a simulator.”…

[continues at the Guardian]

[Odysseus]

That's why i picked food. :) (Thinking like Kissinger)

Thinking about peace?

[alkemical]

Henry Kissinger declared in the 1970’s, ‘If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.

[alkemical]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ivdP6nle_OuBNCj2NAL2rBVQ5-lQ?docId=CNG.a86eb6b2701ce148592ac01588b748be.41

Iran oil sector hit by 'cyber attack'

By Mohammad Davari (AFP) – 1 day ago

TEHRAN — A voracious virus attack has hit computers running key parts of Iran's oil sector, forcing authorities to unplug its main oil export terminal from the Internet and to set up a cyber crisis team, according to reports on Monday.

The Mehr news agency reported that Iran's principal oil terminal on Kharg island in the Gulf has been disconnected from the Internet since Sunday along with facilities in other parts of the country.

The Kharg terminal handles 90 percent of Iran's oil exports, according to the National Iranian Oil Terminals Company.

Mehr said the Internet disconnection "has not caused any problem" in oil production and exports.

Mehr did not give a source for the report, and no official Iranian media confirmed the information.

The websites of the Iranian oil ministry (www.mop.ir) and the National Iranian Oil Company (www.nioc.ir) were off-line for hours after they and other affiliated official sites were brought down by the malware, Mehr and other news agencies including Fars and ISNA said.

By late Monday, the ministry website was back up, though the NIOC site remained down.

Oil ministry spokesman Alireza Nikzad told the ministry's news website SHANA that, contrary to initial reports in Iran, the virus had succeeded in wiping data off official servers.

"To say that no data was harmed is not right. Only data related to some of the users have been compromised," he said.

Iran's oil ministry has set up a "cyber crisis committee" to confront the "cyber attack," Mehr said, quoting a civil defence official at the ministry.

Iran's reaction to the virus attack was a test of procedures put in place after the country suffered a massive cyber assault in 2010 by a worm called Stuxnet that reportedly dealt a big blow to the country's nuclear programme.

Stuxnet, Western media and experts said, homed in precisely on computers running uranium enrichment centrifuges at Iran's nuclear facility in Natanz, destroying thousands of them and setting the atomic programme back months.

Tehran has disputed the extent of the damage caused, and has in any case, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, since recovered and redoubled its uranium enrichment acitivities.

The highly sophisticated code in Stuxnet, and an apparent "expiry" procedure meant to render it harmless after a period of time, suggested to Western anti-virus experts that it could only have been created by a government.

Suspicion has focused on the United States, with or without help from Israel.

Washington and Tel Aviv are the loudest critics of Iran's nuclear programme, which they see as masking a bid to develop the capability to make atomic weapons.

Iran, which denies its nuclear programme is anything but peaceful, has come under intense Western pressure in recent months in the form of economic sanctions aimed at curbing its all-important oil exports.

The Islamic republic is OPEC's second-biggest exporter, after Saudi Arabia, and relies on crude sales for 80 percent of its foreign currency and for more than half of its government finances.

The issues of Tehran's nuclear activities and Western sanctions are being raised in talks between Iran and world powers that were revived in Istanbul this month and are due to continue in Baghdad on May 23.

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[alkemical]

http://www.cnbc.com/id/47333004

Iran Accepts Renminbi for Crude Oil


“The global financial crisis accelerated the shift from the west to the east,” said the chief executive of one bank in Dubai. “Such measures [as the U.S. sanctions against Iran] will now enhance the acceptability of the renminbi as a transaction currency.”


http://www.illuminatirex.com/oil-iran-and-the-us-dollar/

[alkemical]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html

Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you (and they include 'pork', 'cloud' and 'Mexico')
Department of Homeland Security forced to release list following freedom of information request
Agency insists it only looks for evidence of genuine threats to the U.S. and not for signs of general dissent


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html#ixzz1wNkmBtkL

[elsid13]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html

Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you (and they include 'pork', 'cloud' and 'Mexico')
Department of Homeland Security forced to release list following freedom of information request
Agency insists it only looks for evidence of genuine threats to the U.S. and not for signs of general dissent


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html#ixzz1wNkmBtkL

I bet they get a lot of false positives when data mining for some of those words.

[alkemical]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31265

Obama's Total War Doctrine: Intense and Constant Psychological Warfare. "Total War" against All Countries

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China’s 2012 Report On Human Rights In The United States (http://www.disinfo.com/2012/06/chinas-2012-report-on-human-rights-in-the-united-states/)
from Disinfo.com by JacobSloan
China just released a report on the (lack of) human rights over the past year in the U.S.A. Are we living in an authoritarian society without knowing it? Via China Daily, when you put things this way, it sounds pretty bad:
The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011 is hereby prepared to reveal the true human rights situation of the United States to people across the world and urge the United States to face up to its own doings.
In the United States, the violation of citizens’ civil and political rights is severe. It is lying to itself when the United States calls itself the land of the free (The Washington Post, Jan 14, 2012).


Claiming to defend 99 percent of the US population against the wealthiest, the Occupy Wall Street protest movement tested the US political, economic and social systems. Ignited by severe social and economic inequality, uneven distribution of wealth and high unemployment, the movement expanded to sweep the United States after its inception in September 2011. Whatever the deep reasons for the movement are, the single fact that thousands of protesters were treated in a rude and violent way, with many of them being arrested – the act of willfully trampling on people’ s freedom of assembly, demonstration and speech – could provide a glimpse to the truth of the so-called US freedom and democracy.
While advocating press freedom, the United States in fact imposes fairly strict censoring and control over the press and “press freedom” is just a political tool used to beautify itself and attack other nations. The US Congress failed to pass laws on protecting rights of reporters’ news sources, according to media reports. While forcibly evacuating the Zuccotti Park, the original Occupy Wall Street encampment, the New York police blocked journalists from covering the police actions. They set cordon lines to prevent reporters from getting close to the park and closed airspace to make aerial photography impossible. In addition to using pepper spray against reporters, the police also arrested around 200 journalists, including reporters from NPR and the New York Times (uschinapress.com, Nov 15, 2011). By trampling on press freedom and public interests, these actions by the US authorities caused a global uproar.
Poll by Pew Research Center indicated that in the second week of the movement, reports on the movement only accounted for 1.68 percent of the total media reports by nationwide media organizations. On Oct 15, 2011, when the Occupy Wall Street movement evolved to be a global action, CNN and Fox News gave no live reports on it, in a sharp contrast to the square protest in Cairo, for which both CNN and Fox News broadcast live 24 hours.
The US Patriot Act and Homeland Security Act both have clauses about monitoring the Internet, giving the government or law enforcement organizations power to monitor and block any Internet content “harmful to national security.” Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 stipulates that the federal government has “absolute power” to shut down the Internet under a declared national emergency.
According to a report by British newspaper the Guardian dated Mar 17, 2011, the US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas, and will allow the US military to create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives. The project aims to control and restrict free speech on the Internet (The Guardian, Mar 17, 2011). According to a commentary by the Voice of Russia on Feb 2, 2012, a subsidiary under the US government’ s security agency employed several hundred analysts, who were tasked with monitoring private archives of foreign Internet users in a secret way, and were able to censor as many as five million microblogging posts. The US Department of Homeland Security routinely searched key words like “illegal immigrants,” “virus,” “death,” and “burst out” on Twitter with fake accounts and then secretly traced the Internet users who forwarded related content.
Read the rest at China Daily (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2012-05/26/content_15392452.htm)

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http://www.businessinsider.com/china-announces-how-it-will-decimate-the-us-fleet-should-conflict-ever-break-out-2012-6

China Announces How It Would Go To War Against The US Fleet



The Economic Times reports China is increasing its conventional missile capability to carry out multiple launches, the one tactic that could overwhelm a Navy ship's defenses and cripple its abilities.

Tan Weihong, Commander of China's Second Artillery Force says, "Conventional missiles are a trump card in modern warfare. So we must be ready at any time. We must be able to deliver a quick response to attacks, hit the targets with high accuracy, and destroy them totally. Of the 114 missiles [our brigade] has launched so far, all have accurately hit the target."



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