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Jovian
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posted October 31, 2012 03:31 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Jovian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This news is from last March, but sadly...and typically...it was not front-page news in the mainstream media, as it deserves to be. ...I think it is still so unfathomable to many Americans that its own government is spying on its citizens, and that there indeed exists a black shadow government hand that has no good intentions towards us. In truth, they have no interest in preventing "attacks" upon Americans--their excuse for such surveillance. They just want total control. There is no such quaint concept as "allegiance" to any particular nation, at the top levels of the dark pyramid. ...And they are more and more open about these dark intentions. This is just one tentacle of the beast.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say),
by James Bamford (Wired magazine)

Highlights:


"Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks. The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.” It is, in some measure, the realization of the “total information awareness” program created during the first term of the Bush administration—an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans’ privacy.

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"For the NSA, overflowing with tens of billions of dollars in post-9/11 budget awards, the cryptanalysis breakthrough came at a time of explosive growth, in size as well as in power. Established as an arm of the Department of Defense following Pearl Harbor, with the primary purpose of preventing another surprise assault, the NSA suffered a series of humiliations in the post-Cold War years. Caught offguard by an escalating series of terrorist attacks—the first World Trade Center bombing, the blowing up of US embassies in East Africa, the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, and finally the devastation of 9/11—some began questioning the agency’s very reason for being. In response, the NSA has quietly been reborn. And while there is little indication that its actual effectiveness has improved—after all, despite numerous pieces of evidence and intelligence-gathering opportunities, it missed the near-disastrous attempted attacks by the underwear bomber on a flight to Detroit in 2009 and by the car bomber in Times Square in 2010—there is no doubt that it has transformed itself into the largest, most covert, and potentially most intrusive intelligence agency ever created.

"In the process—and for the first time since Watergate and the other scandals of the Nixon administration—the NSA has turned its surveillance apparatus on the US and its citizens. It has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls, whether they originate within the country or overseas. It has created a supercomputer of almost unimaginable speed to look for patterns and unscramble codes. Finally, the agency has begun building a place to store all the trillions of words and thoughts and whispers captured in its electronic net. And, of course, it’s all being done in secret. To those on the inside, the old adage that NSA stands for Never Say Anything applies more than ever.

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"Inside, the facility will consist of four 25,000-square-foot halls filled with servers, complete with raised floor space for cables and storage. In addition, there will be more than 900,000 square feet for technical support and administration. The entire site will be self-sustaining, with fuel tanks large enough to power the backup generators for three days in an emergency, water storage with the capability of pumping 1.7 million gallons of liquid per day, as well as a sewage system and massive air-conditioning system to keep all those servers cool. Electricity will come from the center’s own substation built by Rocky Mountain Power to satisfy the 65-megawatt power demand. Such a mammoth amount of energy comes with a mammoth price tag—about $40 million a year, according to one estimate.

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"The data stored in Bluffdale will naturally go far beyond the world’s billions of public web pages. The NSA is more interested in the so-called invisible web, also known as the deep web or deepnet—data beyond the reach of the public. This includes password-protected data, US and foreign government communications, and noncommercial file-sharing between trusted peers.

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"The NSA also has the ability to eavesdrop on phone calls directly and in real time. According to Adrienne J. Kinne, who worked both before and after 9/11 as a voice interceptor at the NSA facility in Georgia, in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks 'basically all rules were thrown out the window, and they would use any excuse to justify a waiver to spy on Americans.' Even journalists calling home from overseas were included. 'A lot of time you could tell they were calling their families,' she says, 'incredibly intimate, personal conversations.' Kinne found the act of eavesdropping on innocent fellow citizens personally distressing. 'It’s almost like going through and finding somebody’s diary,' she says.

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"Before he gave up and left the NSA, Binney tried to persuade officials to create a more targeted system that could be authorized by a court. At the time, the agency had 72 hours to obtain a legal warrant, and Binney devised a method to computerize the system. 'I had proposed that we automate the process of requesting a warrant and automate approval so we could manage a couple of million intercepts a day, rather than subvert the whole process.' But such a system would have required close coordination with the courts, and NSA officials weren’t interested in that, Binney says. Instead they continued to haul in data on a grand scale. Asked how many communications —'transactions,' in NSA’s lingo--the agency has intercepted since 9/11, Binney estimates the number at 'between 15 and 20 trillion, the aggregate over 11 years.'

"When Barack Obama took office, Binney hoped the new administration might be open to reforming the program to address his constitutional concerns. He and another former senior NSA analyst, J. Kirk Wiebe, tried to bring the idea of an automated warrant-approval system to the attention of the Department of Justice’s inspector general. They were given the brush-off. 'They said, oh, OK, we can’t comment,' Binney says.

"Sitting in a restaurant not far from NSA headquarters, the place where he spent nearly 40 years of his life, Binney held his thumb and forefinger close together. 'We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state,' he says."

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luisbunuel
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posted November 01, 2012 05:19 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for luisbunuel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The only privacy left to man is between pen and paper.

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posted November 02, 2012 01:24 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

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posted November 03, 2012 09:07 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Mblake81     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
smart dust, heh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartdust

Smartdust is a hypothetical system of many tiny microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) such as sensors, robots, or other devices, that can detect, for example, light, temperature, vibration, magnetism or chemicals; are usually networked wirelessly; and are distributed over some area to perform tasks, usually sensing.

*Crop dust entire cities, towns. You know what everyone is up to.

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Jovian
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posted November 03, 2012 07:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Jovian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by luisbunuel:
The only privacy left to man is between pen and paper.

Yes, I read a few days ago in the newspaper some big-wig lawyers trying to bring a lawsuit against the government, for the current laws that allow every type of communication of "suspected terrorists," and whoever else they deem criminally suspect (potentially all of us), to be monitored. The lawyers' complaint is that they are now spending a lot of money on plane flights and travel in order to communicate confidentially with their clients, since all other communication forms are potentially monitored!

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posted November 03, 2012 07:59 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Jovian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Mblake81:
smart dust, heh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartdust

Smartdust is a hypothetical system of many tiny microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) such as sensors, robots, or other devices, that can detect, for example, light, temperature, vibration, magnetism or chemicals; are usually networked wirelessly; and are distributed over some area to perform tasks, usually sensing.

*Crop dust entire cities, towns. You know what everyone is up to.


Ah yes.. Smart dust. There was a recent thread here about this "nano-technology" that suggested the chemtrail particles as a cause of Morgellon's Disease, with it's resultant "threads" literally erupting from the skin.

We're already chipped (nano-technology)
http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/000155.html

Lower in that thread, I found some additional interesting links, on those studying the strange effects of apparent chemtrail particles on the body...and the apparent intentions to control us without our awareness. It is estimated that we all have some of this dust in us, at this point. It is unavoidable.

Brilliantly evil...and pretty f--ing horrifying to human beings.

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