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There�s no hiding place -spy HQ plans to see all [by mpi-kev]

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:22:01 -0200

Conspiracy:: There�s no hiding place -spy HQ plans to see all

Intelligence chiefs want access to all communications made in the UK

by David Leppard

Every call you make, every e-mail you send, every website you visit - I�ll be watching you.

That is the hope of Sir David Pepper who, as the director of GCHQ, the government�s secret eavesdropping agency in Cheltenham, is plotting the biggest surveillance system ever created in Britain.

From his office in the agency�s famous �doughnut� building, Pepper is masterminding an innocent-sounding project called the Interception Modernisation Programme.

The scope of the project - classified top secret - is said by officials to be so vast that it will dwarf the estimated �5 billion ministers have set aside for the identity cards programme. It is intended to fight terrorism and crime. Civil liberties groups, however, say it poses an unprecedented intrusion into ordinary citizens� lives.

Aimed at placing a �live tap� on every electronic communication in Britain, it will dwarf other �big brother� surveillance projects such as the number plate recognition system and the spread of CCTV.

Pepper and his opposite number at MI6, Sir John Scarlett, are facing opposition from mandarins in the Treasury and Cabinet Office who fear both its cost and ethical implications.

The spy bosses say a central database is essential to �capture� the array of communications between terrorists planning to attack Britain. Draft e-mails, chatroom discussions and internet browsing on encrypted jihadist websites are the preferred forums for Al-Qaeda cells to plan their attacks, they say. However, other officials and many in the business and academic community are wary.

A spokesman for the information commissioner, Richard Thomas, said yesterday that this summer he had called for a public debate about government proposals for the state to retain people�s internet and phone records.

�The commissioner warned that it is likely that such a scheme would be a step too far for the British way of life. Proposals that threaten such intrusion into people�s lives must be properly debated,� the spokesman said.

Despite the lack of public debate, Pepper�s officials have been aggressively marketing his plans in a round of White-hall briefings over the past few weeks.

One of their charts depicts a steep upward line showing the amount of electronic communications data that are being �captured� in the databases of hundreds of private telephone companies and internet service providers. But future projections show a sharp fall in the amount of communications data firms can, or are willing to, retain.

If this information is not centrally stored, it will disappear, making it impossible for police and intelligence agents to reconstruct the history of so-called �friendship trees� between members of terrorist cells.

The sheer scale of electronic communications today is mind-boggling. Last year 57 billion text messages were sent in the UK, up from 1 billion in 1999. The number of broadband internet connections has grown from just 330,000 in 2001 to 18m in 2007. And each day 3 billion e-mails are sent - 35,000 every second. Somewhere in that mass of data, terrorists are communicating with each other about their next attack.
At the moment the data are spread across temporary storage sites held by hundreds of private firms. To agents and police trying to detect or reconstruct what MI5 calls terrorist �attack planning�, it�s like looking for a needle in a million haystacks.

But there are mounting concerns at the Treasury about the costs of Pepper�s project. According to Richard Clayton, a security expert at Cambridge University, the system will require the insertion of �thousands� of black box probes into the country�s computer and telephone networks.

Known as Deep Packet Inspection equipment, these probes will �steal� the data, analyse and decode the information and then route it direct to a government-run database.

No one yet knows exactly how to ensure police and intelligence agencies do not abuse their access to the database.

The law on surveillance

United Kingdom Telephone and internet companies must give details of calls or web use to law enforcement agencies if a senior officer certifies that it is needed for an investigation. Last year 520,000 such requests were made. Interception may be authorised for 653 public bodies. For the security services, a minister must give approval; for the police, a chief constable.

United States The government requires a special order approved by FBI officials to demand data on telephone calls and internet use. To intercept communications it needs a court order. If there is a threat to national security, emergency wiretaps can be used for a week.

source:TimesOnline

THE ROSWELL CONCEALMENT by Anthony Bragalia [by mpi-kev]

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:55:33 -0200

Conspiracy:: THE ROSWELL CONCEALMENT by Anthony Bragalia

THE ROSWELL CONCEALMENT
by Anthony Bragalia

How can the Secret of Roswell be kept? Those doubting the Roswell crash doubt that it could ever be concealed over such a long time. Government is not capable enough to veil such a thing from the governed. They argue that the cover-up would be too vast and too difficult to be effective. And they are wrong.

The ability of government -and the private sector- to maintain extreme secrecy over an extended time is well established. This secrecy has been effective on many different levels and on many different fronts. Technologies, covert activities and even entire organizations have remained hidden from view, even over many decades.

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) was established in 1960. Its existence was not acknowledged until 32 years later! A letter of lies in my possession from 1975 from the Air Force specifically denied existence of the NRO, although it was by then already 15 years in operation. The National Security Agency (NSA) was created in 1952. Although acknowledged five years later, many of the 40,000 employees of "No Such Agency"' could not mention their employment by the Agency -even to their own families- until the 1990s!
The B-2 Stealth Bomber was optimized in 1979 but not publicly flown until ten years later. The precise ingredients and formula that make Coca-Cola have been kept secret since 1886. Though it is the most manufactured beverage on the planet, only a core group of living people at any one time hold the key to the process. From a bomber to a soft drink- secrets of technology and trade can remain secret.

FEMA's Mt. Weather is a virtual underground city that functions as an emergency haven for the continuity of government. Built deep beneath the Earth in the 1950s, it involved the efforts of thousands of engineers and construction personnel. They could not even tell their loved ones where they were and what they were doing. Mt. Weather continued its clandestine operation until the mid 1970s when it was finally acknowledged. Incredibly, members of Congress and their families (who would be housed there in an emergency) also held the secret of this Secret City over decades! Of course Area 51 - the massive Nevada Air Force Installation- makes this same case. Risen from the desert dirt in the 1950's -and involving the lives of many thousands from all walks of life- the government only tacitly conceded it as "an operating location" in 2003.

Heinous CIA experiments sanctioned against US citizens remained covered up throughout many administrations. Project MKULTRA was a far-ranging CIA-sponsored effort in mind control of the unwitting. Started in the mid-1950's, it was not until 1975 that the screen was lifted on these government acts against mankind. Human radiation experiments involving the poisoning of children and the physically and mentally challenged were conducted from the 1940s through the 1960s on thousands of the unwilling. This was not revealed until the mid-1990s under a Bioethics Committee investigation.

Former OSS (Office of Strategic Services) personnel can only today in 2008 admit to their past employment by OSS in the early 1940s! Only after the passage of over 60 years did the government release these employees from their oaths! And they kept their oaths (like those who kept their Roswell oaths) throughout those six decades! Walter Mess, a 93 year old former OSS agent said to NBC recently, "I was told to keep my mouth shut!" Another, Elizabeth McIntosh, also 93, exclaimed, "Finally, after all these years...I can tell people who I was, what I saw and what I did." Only this year was it revealed that even famed chef Julia Child was an OSS agent!
But perhaps the best evidence that Roswell can be kept hidden is found within ourselves. It is the the "hiding" that we do in our own lives, everyday.

All of us -each and everyone- has kept personal certain things over the years. This is what makes us all human. And this is why privacy -or keeping secrets- is likely a behavior of instinct. It allows us to cope with unwanted knowledge. Often these "secrets" are held from wives, husbands and children. We even keep our secrets hidden from ourselves. We compartmentalize these secrets in our minds, the most malignant of which are buried in our unconscious. Even in auricular confession to the Holy Man, do you tell all? A tactic that most people use to keep a secret is to simply not think about it- especially in the presence of those from whom the secret must be kept. And secrets are challenging. In prior posts I have shown how holding deep secrets was psychologically destructive to some of the participants who were closest to the Roswell crash.

How has Roswell been kept secret? The skeptics have in many ways answered their own question by continuing to ask.

The real question may be- has Roswell really been kept secret? With the torrent of credible Roswell revelations over the years, the dots are now clearly connected. The ranchers, generals and politicians have told. The scientists, intelligence agents - and even the astronauts - have not kept quiet on the matter. In so doing, they have made peace with history and truth. Roswell is no longer secret.

source: The UFO Reality

Residents 'furious' over NYC terror checks [by mpi-kev]

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:47:12 -0200

Conspiracy:: Residents 'furious' over NYC terror checks

"This is more like being under communist reign, instead of being in a free country"

by David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster

'Operation Sentinel,' a project of the New York Police Department which would have every vehicle in Manhattan tracked by a series of license plate scanners, is cause for fury among some New York City residents.

Details of the program were reported by RAW STORY on August 12. A similar security grid is being developed for Washington, D.C.

In an August 19 report, BBC's Wendy Urquhart found that while some are accepting of the plan's invasive measures, others are not taking the news so lightly.

"It is a comprehensive security program to protect the lower Manhattan area -- indeed, all of Manhattan -- from vehicle-born explosive devices," said Ray Kelly, New York City's police commissioner. He added that data gathered by the system will be expunged within 30 days unless police have use for it.

"This is more like being under communist reign, instead of being in a free country and being able to choose where you want to go, when you want to go, and not be monitored at all times," said a NYC man interviewed by the BBC. "I don't think it's right."

"I mean, if you don't have anything to worry about, you won't worry," argued another interviewee. "Now, if you're trying to hide something and they scan your license plate, you have a problem then, there's good reason."

Despite assurances from police and city officials that the thousands of cameras are for the benefit of residents, convincing New Yorkers to accept the plan 'won't be easy,' says Urquhart.

Below is a BBC News report about it

source: therawstory

How Big Brother watches your every move [by mpi-kev]

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:44:42 -0200

Conspiracy:: How Big Brother watches your every move

"People should know what is happening with their information and have a choice"

By Richard Gray

With every telephone call, swipe of a card and click of a mouse, information is being recorded, compiled and stored about Britain's citizens.

An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has now uncovered just how much personal data is being collected about individuals by the Government, law enforcement agencies and private companies each day.

In one week, the average person living in Britain has 3,254 pieces of personal information stored about him or her, most of which is kept in databases for years and in some cases indefinitely.

The data include details about shopping habits, mobile phone use, emails, locations during the day, journeys and internet searches.

In many cases this information is kept by companies such as banks and shops, but in certain circumstances they can be asked to hand it over to a range of legal authorities.

Britain's information watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office, has called for tighter regulation of the amount of data held about citizens and urged the public to restrict the information they allow organisations to hold on them.

This newspaper's findings come days after the Government published plans to grant local authorities and other public bodies access to the email and internet records of millions. Phone companies already retain data about their customers and give it to 650 public bodies on request.

The loss of data by Government departments, including an incident where HM Revenue and Customs mislaid computer disks containing the personal details of 25 million people, has heightened concerns about the amount of information being stored.

David Smith, deputy information commissioner, said: "As more and more information is collected and kept on all of us, we are very concerned that appropriate safeguards go along with that.

"People should know what is happening with their information and have a choice.

"Our concern is that what is kept with the justification of preventing and detecting terrorism, can then be used for minor purposes such as pursuing people for parking fines."

Earlier this year the Commons home affairs select committee recommended new controls and regulations on the accumulation of information by the state.

Mobile phones

Every day the average person makes three mobile phone calls and sends at least two text messages.

Each time the network provider logs information about who was called as well as the caller's location and direction of travel, worked out by triangulation from phone masts.

Customers can also have their locations tracked even when they are not using their phones, as the devices send out unique identifying signals at regular intervals.

All of this information can be accessed by police and other public authorities investigating crimes.
The internet

Internet service providers (ISPs) compile information about their customers when they go online, including name, address, the unique identification number for the connection, known as an IP address, any browser used and location.

They also keep details of emails, such as whom they were sent to, together with the date and time they were sent. An average of 50 websites are visited and 32 emails sent per person in Britain every day.

Privacy campaigners have expressed concern that the country's three biggest ISPs � BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk � now provide this data to a digital advertising company called Phorm so that it can analyse web surfing habits.

ISPs are already voluntarily providing information they hold about their customers if requested by law enforcement agencies and public authorities. A consultation published last week by the Government would make it a legal requirement for ISPs to provide a customer's personal information when requested. A total of 520,000 requests were made by public officials for telephone and internet details last year, an increase from around 350,000 the previous year.

Internet search engines also compile data about their users, including the IP address and what was searched for. Google receives around 68 searches from the average person each day and stores this data for 18 months.

Dr Ian Brown, a research fellow on privacy at Oxford University, said: "Companies such as Google and internet service providers are building up huge databases of data about internet users.

"These companies may be compelled, through a legal action, to hand over this information to third parties or the Government, or the companies may lose the data and it can then be misused."
Loyalty cards

Store "loyalty" cards also retain large amounts of information about individuals who have signed up to use them. They link a person's personal details to the outlets used, the transaction times and how much is spent.

In the case of Nectar cards, which are used by more than 10 million people in Britain once a week, information from dozens of shops is compiled, giving a detailed picture of a cardholder's shopping habits.

A spokesman for Loyalty Management UK, which runs the Nectar programme, insisted that information about the items bought was not compiled, but some partners in the scheme, such as Sainsbury's, use their till records to compile that information.

She admitted that the personal information that is compiled under the Nectar scheme is kept indefinitely until individuals close their account and ask for their information to be destroyed. In criminal inquiries, police can request the details held by Nectar.

Banks

Banks can also be required to hand over personal account information to the authorities if requested as part of an investigation.

They also provide personal data to credit reference agencies, debt collectors and fraud prevention organisations.

Debit and credit card transactions can give information about where and on what people are spending their money.
CCTV

The biggest source of surveillance in Britain is through the network of CCTV (closed-circuit television) cameras. On average, an individual will appear on 300 CCTV cameras during a day and those tapes are kept by many organisations for indefinite lengths of time.

On the London Underground network, Transport for London (TfL) keeps footage for a minimum of 14 days. TfL operates more than 8,500 CCTV cameras in its underground stations, 1,550 cameras on tube trains and up to 60,000 cameras on buses.

Network Rail refused to say how many CCTV cameras it operates or for how long the footage is kept.

Britain now has more CCTV cameras in public spaces than any other country in the world. A study in 2002 estimated that there were around 4.2 million cameras, but that number is likely to now be far higher.

Number plate recognition

The latest development in CCTV is the increased use of automatic number plate recognition systems, which read number-plates and search databases for signs that a vehicle has been used in crime.

A national automatic number plate recognition system is maintained by the Association of Chief Police Officers along motorways and main roads. Every number plate picked up by the system is stored in a database with date, time and location for two years.
Public transport

Travel passes such as the Oyster Card used in London and the Key card, in Oxford, can also reveal remarkable amounts of information about an individual. When they are registered to a person's name, they record journey history, dates, times and fares.

A spokesman for TfL, which runs the Oyster Card system, insisted that access to this information was restricted to its customer services agents.

Police, however, can also obtain this information and have used Oyster Card journey records as evidence in criminal cases.
The workplace

Employers are increasingly using radio-tagged security passes for employees, providing them with information about when staff enter and leave the office.

source: The Telegraph

New Conspiracy film [by Believer]

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:26:14 -0200

Conspiracy:: New Conspiracy film
I've come across this film the other day when doing some research about the Cathars. Take a look it's pretty interesting and mentions 2012 as a key sate.

Check it out and see for yourself:
http://www.history-of-the-cathars.com/

I personally think it brings up some interesting questions and even some answers.

JFK/Lincoln conspiracy. [by mpi-kev]

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:30:43 -0200

Conspiracy:: JFK/Lincoln conspiracy.
ok, it's an old one that i havent seen for a while, but spotted it on another forum recently and decided to paste it in here

pretty strange i guess but i also guess someone could connect pretty much any two things together if they wished

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday..
Both Presidents were shot in the head

Now it gets really weird.

Lincoln�s secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839..
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Now hang on to your seat.

Lincoln was shot at the theatre named 'Ford.'
Kennedy was shot in a car called ' Lincoln ' made by 'Ford.'

Lincoln was shot in a theatre and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theatre.

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

And here's the kicker...

A week before Lincoln was shot; he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot; he was in Marilyn Monroe.

Gets ya thinking though!

Why is 2012 so significant??? [by Believer]

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:37:37 -0200

Conspiracy:: Why is 2012 so significant???
Ok, so I am a bit of a conspiracy geek. And recently I've been reading alot on the net about so many groups all thinking 2012 is going to be the end. From the Weavers (http://www.theweavercode.com/) to the various things about the Mayans and got me wandering why this date is so significant as being the end?

Why do they all think it will come and end on this date and not 2020? Does anyone know of any other groups who think this or do you think the Weavers could be right. Got to say the way things are going lately I think they may not be so wrong.

Re: Secret societies [by Believer]

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:49:46 -0200

Conspiracy:: Secret societies
Thanks for the reply and the info. From what I've been reading I have followed alot of what you mentioned about one group controlling everything and wanting to create a NWO. I have to admit I'd not heard about the UFO threat before but I guess there has to be some reason as to build the stuff in space as the terrorists haven't got there yet.

I had read about the Bilderberg but thought of them more of a group as opposed to a secret society. Do you think that these societies are fronts for the NWO and to throw people off the scent as it were? or are they all connected and controlled by one bit group? It's an interesting topic and one I'd like to know a bit more about. hope you can respond.

We spied on 36,000 customers using the internet, admits BT [by mpi-kev]

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:35:30 -0200

Conspiracy:: We spied on 36,000 customers using the internet, admits BT

"It seems a clear-cut case of illegal interception of communication."

By MATTHEW HICKLEY

BT tested secret "spyware" on tens of thousands of its broadband customers without their knowledge, it admitted yesterday.

It carried out covert trials of a system which monitors every internet page a user visits.

Companies can exploit such data to target users with tailored online advertisements.

An investigation into the affair has been started by the Information Commissioner, the personal data watchdog.

Privacy campaigners reacted with horror, accusing BT of illegal interception on a huge scale. Yesterday, the company was forced to admit that it had monitored the web browsing habits of 36,000 customers.

The scandal came to light only after some customers stumbled across tell-tale signs of spying. At first, they were wrongly told a software virus was to blame.

Executives insisted they had not broken the law and said no "personally identifiable information" had been shared or divulged.

BT said it randomly chose 36,000 broadband users for a "small-scale technical trial" in 2006 and 2007.

The monitoring system, developed by U.S. software company Phorm, accesses information from a computer.

It then scans every website a customer visits, silently checking for keywords and building up a unique picture of their interests.

If a user searches online to buy a holiday or expensive TV, for example, or looks for internet dating services or advice on weight loss, the Phorm system will add all the information to their file.

One BT customer who spotted unexplained problems with his computer was told repeatedly by BT helpdesk staff that a virus was to blame.

Stephen Mainwaring, who runs an online company in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, has made a formal complaint to the Information Commissioner and is considering legal action.

Nicholas Bohm, of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, said BT's actions amounted to illegal data interception.

He told the BBC: "It seems a clear-cut case of illegal interception of communication."

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British inventor and founding father of the worldwide web, said a person's data and web history are private property.

"It's mine - you can't have it," he added.

"If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I'm getting in return."

Emma Sanderson, head of value-added services at BT, said it had not broken the law.

"It was completely anonymous and no personally identifiable information was shared. No information was stored or divulged."

A further trial is planned in the next few weeks, BT said, but customers will be asked in advance.

A spokesman said the Phorm system did not record details of which websites a user visited, but only keywords from the content which flagged up topics the customer is interested in.

Phorm uses anonymous code numbers for each computer, he said, rather than recording individuals' names.

� Social networking website MySpace has teamed up with record labels Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group to launch a rival to Apple's music download service iTunes.

source:Dail Mail

Re: 97% of All Money is Created out of THIN AIR as Loans by the Private Banks [by JackD]

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:31:08 -0200

Conspiracy:: 97% of All Money is Created out of THIN AIR as Loans by the Private Banks
Thanks mpi-kev for your friendly & open minded response and I agree with all you said about bailing out NR (while allowing juicy assets still to be in private hands) and also comments re Bear Stearns. It seems to me much of the trouble comes from when in the 80s the banks were almost wholesale deregulated in many, many countries (eg removal of credit controls & foreign exchange controls- ie now they can lend as much as they like and speculate as much as they like)- our governments really put our economies wholly in the hands of the big money creators and speculators (mostly banks and the 2000 or so rich families that own over 50% of global assets (I read)). With so much power to loot economies and corporations (by Capital flight) now being in the hands of the big money boys it seems to me that our Governments have virtually no choice but to bail them out- they've made us almost completely dependent on the flow of their globally mobile electronic money.

But I think the HUGE and growing bail outs will only temporaily delay (a few months) the international banking collapse and may I recommend the following article from the really easy reading and knowledgable regular banking columnist John Hoefle who explains it much better than I could (though I don't agree with everything LaRoche says elsewhere on that site)- http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2008/3513end_of_line.html

May I also recommend a very topical article in view of the developing international banking collapse, why its happening and how we got here, by the expert American authoress of the weighty work "Web of Debt". Article on her site: "MARKET MELTDOWN: THE END OF A 300 YEAR PONZI SCHEME" http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/market-meltdown.php

Finally I don't mean to make anyone think its all gloom & doom- I think our only HOPE is a breakdown of the corrupt and evil Washington Concensus neo-liberal usury and speculation international economics system- once this has happened then we can get on with the changes our world so desperately needs. UNTIL it does, substantially halting the disintegration we see all around us- environmental & social, seems to me hopeless.

By the way I believe in UFOs. But I think they're here helping us and (amongst other things) on constant missions of mopping up our atmosphere from the rampant pollution we are pouring into it everyday. Indeed that our environment is only livable in now but for their constant vigilance. I believe their work is ONLY benevolent- they are far too advanced spiritually (consiousness) to ever do anything harmful. I also believe there have been HUGE coverups by our Governments etc to hide their existense from us- over decades.

I could write more and point you to some of the sources I have read about this, if anyone is interested, but enough for now.