TOKYO MASTER BANNER

MINISTRY OF TOKYO
US-ANGLO CAPITALISMEU-NATO IMPERIALISM
Illegitimate Transfer of Inalienable European Rights via Convention(s) & Supranational Bodies
Establishment of Sovereignty-Usurping Supranational Body Dictatorships
Enduring Program of DEMOGRAPHICS WAR on Europeans
Enduring Program of PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR on Europeans
Enduring Program of European Displacement, Dismemberment, Dispossession, & Dissolution
No wars or conditions abroad (& no domestic or global economic pretexts) justify government policy facilitating the invasion of ancestral European homelands, the rape of European women, the destruction of European societies, & the genocide of Europeans.
U.S. RULING OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR TO SALVAGE HEGEMONY
[LINK | Article]

*U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR* | U.S. Empire's Casino Unsustainable | Destabilised U.S. Monetary & Financial System | U.S. Defaults Twice A Year | Causes for Global Financial Crisis of 2008 Remain | Financial Pyramids Composed of Derivatives & National Debt Are Growing | *U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR* | U.S. Empire's Casino Unsustainable | Destabilised U.S. Monetary & Financial System | U.S. Defaults Twice A Year | Causes for Global Financial Crisis of 2008 Remain | Financial Pyramids Composed of Derivatives & National Debt Are Growing | *U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR*

Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
[info from Craig Murray video appearance, follows]  US-Anglo Alliance DELIBERATELY STOKING ANTI-RUSSIAN FEELING & RAMPING UP TENSION BETWEEN EASTERN EUROPE & RUSSIA.  British military/government feeding media PROPAGANDA.  Media choosing to PUBLISH government PROPAGANDA.  US naval aggression against Russia:  Baltic Sea — US naval aggression against China:  South China Sea.  Continued NATO pressure on Russia:  US missile systems moving into Eastern Europe.     [info from John Pilger interview follows]  War Hawk:  Hillary Clinton — embodiment of seamless aggressive American imperialist post-WWII system.  USA in frenzy of preparation for a conflict.  Greatest US-led build-up of forces since WWII gathered in Eastern Europe and in Baltic states.  US expansion & military preparation HAS NOT BEEN REPORTED IN THE WEST.  Since US paid for & controlled US coup, UKRAINE has become an American preserve and CIA Theme Park, on Russia's borderland, through which Germans invaded in the 1940s, costing 27 million Russian lives.  Imagine equivalent occurring on US borders in Canada or Mexico.  US military preparations against RUSSIA and against CHINA have NOT been reported by MEDIA.  US has sent guided missile ships to diputed zone in South China Sea.  DANGER OF US PRE-EMPTIVE NUCLEAR STRIKES.  China is on HIGH NUCLEAR ALERT.  US spy plane intercepted by Chinese fighter jets.  Public is primed to accept so-called 'aggressive' moves by China, when these are in fact defensive moves:  US 400 major bases encircling China; Okinawa has 32 American military installations; Japan has 130 American military bases in all.  WARNING PENTAGON MILITARY THINKING DOMINATES WASHINGTON. ⟴  
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October 01, 2015

Surveillance & Intel News

Article
SOURCE
surveillance | intel


PETITION
#Surveillance #Privacy #uspoli #law
stop backdoor govt access to encrypted services - #Petition
https://www.savecrypto.org/



#uspoli #surveillance #California
Police fake phone tower 
spy tech approved by DOJ
https://www.revealnews.org/article/east-bay-cellphone-surveillance-plan-gets-attorney-generals-support/


#Berlin
campaigners launch Intelexit
support group for #NSA & #GCHQ to quit
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/09/30/intelexit_for_nsa_surveillance_self_help_group_for_intelligence_agents_started.html

#France Draft Bill #Surveillance
mass surveillance carte blanche
Similar plans are already in place in the UK and the Netherlands.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/09/france-must-reject-law-that-gives-carte-blanche-to-mass-surveillance-globally/



#military
Nearly 120 soldiers from
163rd and 303rd Military Intelligence Battalions
deployed to #Afghanistan
http://kdhnews.com/fort_hood_herald/across_the_fort/fort-hood-military-intelligence-troops-deploy-to-afghanistan/article_42e4c9c0-66b0-11e5-8fd1-5f39ca88a06f.html


#military
US army #SouthKorea
hoover up radio transmissions
& detect underground tunnels
fleet of new spy planes
http://theweek.com/articles/577905/new-american-spy-planes-could-spot-kim-jong-uns-secret-tunnels


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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/world/asia/kunduz-taliban-afghanistan.html?_r=0
Afghanistan

Kunduz Still Held by Taliban, Locals Say, Despite Afghan Government Claims






Afghan soldiers preparing on Wednesday for a counteroffensive to try to retake the city of Kunduz from the Taliban. Credit Najim Rahim/European Pressphoto Agency

KABUL, Afghanistan — Kunduz residents and provincial officials said the city remained in Taliban hands on Thursday, despite claims from the Afghan government that it had retaken the city.
Kareema Sediqi, a member of the Kunduz provincial council, said that “the city is still in Taliban control,” but that Afghan security forces had advanced as far as a roundabout near the city’s entrance. Interviews with several residents suggested that the situation was fluid, with fighting continuing.
Ms. Sediqi, who spoke from Kabul but was in contact with family members trapped in Kunduz, said, “The Afghan security forces are struggling against strong Taliban resistance from Taliban who are wearing A.N.A. uniforms,” referring to the Afghan National Army.
It is a common Taliban tactic to obtain uniforms of the government security forces and use them to confuse their enemies.

[...]

But before residents had gone far from their homes, the Taliban counterattacked, wearing the uniforms of Afghan security forces, with some riding motorcycles and others driving captured Humvees and sports utility vehicles. They pushed back the Afghan forces, who remained on the city’s outskirts, according to Ms. Sediqi and some residents.

[...]
Saad Mukhtar, the director of public health for Kunduz, said that since the city fell, his office had recorded 49 dead and 332 wounded in local hospitals, including civilians and members of the Afghan security forces.

Hundreds of civilians and members of the government forces have been holed up in the airport south of Kunduz, and reinforcements sent from other provinces have been delayed or halted by Taliban resistance in outlying areas.

Residents reached in parts of Kunduz Province beyond the city said that the Taliban remained in control in the district of Chardara. That district is one of the most strategically important in the province because a road to the largest city in Afghanistan’s north, Mazar-i-Sharif, runs through it.

[...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/world/asia/kunduz-taliban-afghanistan.html?_r=0


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Pentagon Pushing to Increase Post-2016 Troop Levels in Afghanistan

New Plans Aim to Give Military 'Leeway' on When to Carry Out Drawdown

by Jason Ditz, September 30, 2015

Every planned drawdown of US military forces from Afghanistan seems to turn up later than announced and smaller than planned, and despite officials still sticking to the NATO narrative that the Afghan War “ended,” some 10,000 US troops remain there. Officially, the plan is for a major drawdown by the end of next year that will finally catch up with what was supposed to be a 2014 pullout.

Unsurprisingly, the Pentagon is once again fighting against following through on the plans, with officials saying the “plans” they are advancing both intend to withhold the troop level reductions deeper into 2017, and to give the Pentagon more “leeway” in when and how many troops get removed from the country after 2017.

Already 14 years into the occupation of Afghanistan, the continuing struggles of the Afghan military continues to drag US ground troops into combat, and many officials seem to favor just maintaining the occupation essentially forever instead of ending the war and watching the government continue to lose territory to the same insurgency they’ve been fighting throughout that war.

With less and less media coverage of the Afghan War, there seems to be less political interest in seeing the troops brought home, which likely will ensure that the Pentagon proposals to keep troops there get through without too much debate.
http://news.antiwar.com/2015/09/30/pentagon-pushing-to-increase-post-2016-troop-levels-in-afghanistan/


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COMMENT

Thought I'd look up to see what's going on with Afghanistan, seeing the US is sending out over 100 intelligence staff.

Looks like Taliban's winning?

Fourteen years is such a long time to occupy a country.

Surprised how sophisticated Taliban are, wearing uniforms of Afghan government troops etc.

It sounds like life goes on around the fighting and bystanders get shot if they're unlucky.

Don't know enough about Afghanistan to make anything of what's going on.


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Spy planes that find tunnels is pretty cool ... & especially handy near Gaza.

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The French are going to subject everyone to mass surveillance, which is pretty standard for countries that expose themselves to internal risks.







September 03, 2015

What's New Pussycat?



#Indonesea
govt of Pres  Joko Widodo
33 proposed names to Ambassador posts
24 appear (to me) to be political appointments
http://www.globalindonesianvoices.com/22332/ambassador-positions-as-consolation-prize/

#Egypt ambassador to Canada
Ambassador Motaz Mounir Zahran
to visit port of Sydney
http://www.capebretonpost.com/News/Local/2015-09-02/article-4266057/Egyptian-ambassador-to-visit-port-of-Sydney/1


#Mexico confirms new ambassador to US
academic, Miguel Basanez Ebergenyi
k.a.  Miguel Basanez
http://www.thepublicopinion.com/news/associated_press/national/latin-america/mexico-senate-ratifies-academic-as-next-ambassador-to-us/article_14f76c5d-a762-5746-9116-65e506892a9a.html


William McCormick Blair Jr
fmr US Ambassador, Dead at 98
Stanford
airforce intel ops
China, Burma (Myanmar) & India
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/us/politics/william-mccormick-blair-jr-former-us-ambassador-dead-at-98.html?_r=0

#LatAm #Colombia
Under Secretary Wendy Novelli
meets w/ Colombian Ambassador to US
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/appt/2015/09/246590.htm

#LatAm #Colombia
Assistant Secretary Crocker meets with
Colombian Ambassador to the U.S. Juan Carlos Pinzón, at DoS
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/appt/2015/09/246590.htm

ASSIST SEC
ECONOMIC & BUSINESS AFFAIRS
CHARLES RIVKIN

Assist. Sec Rivkin meets w/
President of Committee for European Affairs
of the French Senate
Jean Bizet, in Paris, France.

travel to #France, #Nigeria, & #Senegal from September 1-11

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/appt/2015/09/246590.htm


#LatAm #Chile
Under Sec Wendy Novelli
attends lunch hosted by Chilean Ambass to US
Juan Gabriel Valdés, in WA, D.C.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/appt/2015/09/246590.htm

Counsellor DoS / to Kerry
Thomas A. Shannon
lunch with #Azerbaijan Ambassador to the U.S. Elin Suleymanov
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/appt/2015/09/246590.htm

Counselor Shannon - US DoS
meeting U.S. Ambassador to #Rwanda
Erica Barks-Ruggles,
at Department of State
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/appt/2015/09/246590.htm

Dir. Policy Planning (internal think tank)
DAVID MCKEAN
meets w/ Italian Ambassador to US
Claudio Bisogniero, at DoS
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/appt/2015/09/246590.htm

#Pakistan
BISP moots cooperation w/ diplomatic corps
/ conference attended by deans of diplo corps
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/national/03-Sep-2015/bisp-moots-cooperation-with-diplomatic-corps


Benazir Income Support Program (BISP)
non-conditional cash transfer program
/ cash

BISP
est. 2005 to address reductions in purchasing power:
*inflation
*high cost food & oil
*empower women
... lol 

Sounds like a Pakistan gimme cash scam
see also:  accusations of corruption and political favouritism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Income_Support_Programme


Dr. Susan K. Brems
rank of minister-counselor
incoming Mission Director USAID
Philippines, Pacific Islands & Mongolia
23 years in USAID

Dr. Susan K. Brems, USAID
previously, mission director Zambia & Angola
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/116983/new-usaid-mission-director-to-ph

Santos
Aust oil & gas producer
corporate Aust. horror show
lost $10 BILLION in market capitalisation in past 12 mths

more info Santos: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santos_Limited
/ 2013 oil spill QLD, 1 week to stem
/ high water usage: Indonesia, QLD, SA

bulk of 500-plus job losses
= come from its Adelaide HQ in the past 6 months
AUD$27 billion GLNG project - overcapitalised

http://www.afr.com/business/energy/oil/santos-bidding-war-could-be-undone-by-100m-partial-poison-pill-20150902-gjd54s


Australia's Ambassador to Italy, San Marino, Albania + Libya
= former SA premier, Mike Rann (ALP)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rann


CORPORATE PATRIOTISM

Jul / BHP Billiton slashes headcount by 37pc at Melb HQ
/ Treasury division relocating
http://www.afr.com/business/mining/iron-ore/bhp-billiton-slashes-headcount-by-37pc-at-melbourne-headquarters-20150728-gim7lk

Santos
500-plus job losses
= bulk from Adelaide HQ in past 6 mths
http://www.afr.com/business/energy/oil/santos-bidding-war-could-be-undone-by-100m-partial-poison-pill-20150902-gjd54s


UNSC draft resolution re Europe's migrant crisis
/ inspection of suspected migrant ships on high seas Med
http://www.thepublicopinion.com/news/associated_press/national/africa/russia-security-council-addressing-europe-s-migrant-crisis/article_f6638637-91ca-5b3d-99ad-4aaae4238e48.html



OUTRAGEOUS INTERFERENCE IN DOMESTIC POLITICAL AFFAIRS OF BRITIAN - OR A SET-UP BY THE TORY GOVERNMENT, WHO FULLY APPROVE OF THIS PUBLIC DISPLAY OF WHY BRITAIN 'MUST' REMAIN EU FAITHFUL?

#UKpolitics
German ambassador Dr Peter Ammon
deliberate sabotage of UK
/ interfering British politics
  • Britain is eyeing EU’s exit door
  • demanding fewer immigrants
  • now refusing to pay a £1.7 billion bill
  • sum demanded by the EU Commission is punishing the UK for recent economic growth

"Dr Ammon would not be drawn on how the UK should vote."
BUT ... "Germany would be happy if the UK stayed, he said."

Leverage / Public Scare Tool

"Berlin wants to trade with the UK more and increase existing investment that he said already supports 370,000 jobs."

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/political-interview-dr-peter-ammon-uk-stag-parties-london-is-the-best-9826049.html

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
the US puppet
trying for UN investigation chemical weapons #Syria
/ Russia refused to sign off
.. lol

Reports of ISIS mustard gas used  on Kurds
... WMD, anyone?

http://www.3news.co.nz/world/russia-holds-up-un-syria-chemicals-investigation-2015090311


#Crime #Fraud #internet LOVE SCAM

#Nigeria
Gabriel Oseremen Xavi
fake Facebook: Collins Page
http://newmail-ng.com/efcc-returns-10540-euros-to-polish-love-scam-victim-pictures/

Do not send $$$$$$   lol


#Jordan
KING meets CEO
Centre for Israel & Jewish Affairs (CIJA), Shimon Fogel
mtg incl. Canadian ambassador in Amman
http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleno=30007
** Jordan his high energy needs.  Israel has energy.  Canada has energy expertise.  I'm going to guess that this meeting is about energy supply to Jordan.  Some sort of Israeli-Canadian joint project.  :)
Hmmm ... hard to say.  Maybe not energy.  Maybe something else.  So much for my guesses.  lol
Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs 
*formerly the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy  
oversight + co-ordinating body for a number of Jewish Canadian orgs 
CIJA is the advocacy arm of the Jewish Federations of Canada-United Israel Appeal

CIJA's creation has been criticized as an attempt to "corporatize" the funding structure of Jewish community organizations and tie them to pro-Israel lobbying.
  • Opposition to boycotts of Israel
  • Opposition to the Iranian government
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Israel_and_Jewish_Affairs
Shimon Fogel

" ...registered consultant to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Canadian House of Commons, and has been a member of the Round-Table on Global Security under the Department of National Defence. He has also been a seasonal lecturer at Queen’s University ..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Fogel
... graduate of Clark University’s School of Government and International Relations in Massachusetts and pursued graduate and doctoral studies at McGill University. He also holds rabbinic ordination.

... written and lectured extensively in Canada and internationally on matters of public policy and has been engaged by numerous groups.
The Hill Times recognized Fogel as one of the 100 most influential actors within the political sector, and Embassy Magazine ranked him among the 50 most important people influencing Canadian foreign policy.

http://www.cija.ca/team/shimon-fogel/
Sweden | Russia

Look out Russia, Sweden to stop pretending neutrality:
/ rethinking neutrality amid fear of 'Russian aggression'

despite   "200-year-old posture of military neutrality"
Oh, please.  Sweden was probably double-dealing the last 200 years.  It certainly has been the last 70 years or so.  Sweden's not neutral.  Sweden's virtually a member of the Anglo-American 'Five Eye' gang.

http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-sweden-russia-nato-neutrality-20150902-story.html


#CzechRepublic
#cybersecurity firm CyberGym seek to train companies in defence
/ Israeli-side supervision

#cybersecurity
CyberGym is Israeli
Israel Electric Corp.
/ planning US, LatAm & Asia ops

http://www.praguepost.com/technology/49587-cyber-attack-training-center-to-open-near-prague

UN under-secretary-general
Stephen O’Brien (British former MP, Conservative)
visit to Qatar’s embassy in Turkey
http://www.gulf-times.com/qatar/178/details/453539/un-official-praises-qatar%E2%80%99s-positive-stance

Stephen O’Brien
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_O'Brien


Sahel
Arabic for:  "shore, coast"
abt, top third (?) Africa
overpopulation & over-farming / soil degradation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahel

Flags UN
#Palestine proposed draft proposal for non-member states to raise flag
/ Ron Prosor Israel, rejects
http://www.dailysabah.com/mideast/2015/09/03/israel-asks-un-to-reject-palestinian-attempt-to-raise-flag

#LatAm #Peru
YANKEE GO HOME
Peru Activists Show Displeasure In Arrival of 3,200 US Troops
http://www.9and10news.com/story/29945309/peru-activists-show-displeasure-in-arrival-of-us-troops


#Israel
United Torah Judaism
first Agudat Yisrael minister in 63 years
Ya’acov Litzman takes oath

Minister Health
Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox
/ do not want ministers bearing collective responsibility
/ religion ethics issue?

http://www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Health-and-Science/Litzman-takes-oath-becomes-first-Agudat-Yisrael-minister-in-63-years-415031


1977 Moscow, US Embassy fire
great deal of info was lost or stolen
some classified
KGB suspected
US marines get revenge burning down KGB shed
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adst/the-us-embassy-moscow-fir_b_8078818.html

#India #Oil
USA keen to participate
expansion project of Numaligarh Refinery
/ US working on Defence & Energy deals
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/48778653.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

#Panama #Italy #LatAm
international scandal
President Juan Carlos Varela
http://plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4122031&Itemid=1


#Ukraine
Western journalists knew 
US govt operatives helped orchestrate coup
& ignored right-wing nationalists
http://www.globalresearch.ca/maidan-2-0-ukraine-rightists-kill-police-putin-blamed/5473431


USA presumes to lecture the world re 'human rights'

US Hypocrites move To EXPLOIT:

"Free 20 Women Political Prisoners" campaign

  • USA almost a quarter of the world's prisoners 

  • 2.3 million USA prisoners

  • 1.6 million CHINA prisoners @ x4 population of USA
SOURCE - US STATS
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/americas/23iht-23prison.12253738.html?pagewanted=all


SWITZERLAND

Ideologue of Swiss People's Party
Facebook blocked - AGAIN
CENSORSHIP

Previously blocked for captioning
migrant ship with:  here comes the labour force.

https://archive.is/qyaBh#selection-2227.15-2235.1


Swiss People's Party
Schweizerische Volkspartei, SVP
Democratic Union of the Centre
  • right-wing
  • Eurosceptic
  • nationalist
  • economic liberalism
Britain’s surveillance state 
‘worse than bad joke’
UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy 
Joseph Cannataci 

today there are many parts of the English countryside where there are more cameras than George Orwell could ever have imagined.

https://www.rt.com/uk/314157-britain-surveillance-dangerous-un/


#Nevada #USpoli
#Surveillance
Undercover FBI infiltrates Burning Man festival, collects intelligence, documents show

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-infiltrates-burning-man-festival-collects-intelligence-documents-show/


FBI investigated this song 1964

The Kingsmen  |  Louie Louie 1963
https://youtu.be/7Vae_AkLb4Q


Best Version:
Motorhead |  Louie Louie 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDP7_h4wkgw

#Philippines #Surveillance #HumanRights

Supreme Court protection & release of dossiers sought
re govt harassment
/ unions & student union

/ threats + surveillance activities
/ military and police participation

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/718981/militant-leaders-seek-sc-help-vs-govt-harassment


US military deploys drones to #Latvia on training mission
/ NATO puppets help ground exercises & planning
http://www.pressexaminer.com/us-military-deploys-drones-to-latvia-on-training-mission/66820

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COMMENT

Just some of the news that caught my attention. Much of it just skimmed.  

A lot of this is trivia.

US is deploying drones on Russia's doorstep, but the papers aren't screaming 'US aggression'.

US ally, Philippines, appears to engage in harassment and repression of unions and those that are politically active.  That would probably be standard practice for close friends of the US.  lol

Britain has cameras in the countryside, while the FBI is infiltrating the likes of a hippy festival in Nevada.  Western values?  Freedom?  Oh, bullsh*t.  lol

Free speech regarding the consequences (mass immigration) of the pursuit of the neocon US aligned corporate/imperialist agenda abroad, is harshly censored in Europe.  While there's a funny side to that Swiss guy's Facebook being blocked, this social media censorship is suppression of political comment, debate, and dissent ... in what's supposed to be a democracy, one presumes.

Britain is pretending it doesn't want to be in the EU, for the sake of the rabble who don't.  But they've probably OK'd the German Ambassador's theatrical, 'Baby, Please Don't Go' performance.

The US hypocrites and that awful Power woman are forever exploiting humanitarian, minority and feminist causes for political gain.  Meanwhile ... back in the United States .... (check out incarceration stats in America, the 'land of the free').

Nation states operate as handmaidens of corporations and the interests of corporations are put above all else ... but corporations:  well, corporations put PROFITS above all else.  Stuff the rabble back home.  Let them eat cake.  We're downsizing.  lol
The Latin American and Italian scandal is a bit hard (for me) to follow in that article.  Don't have the patience with that one.  There'd be more articles regarding that, if anyone's into keeping track of dodgy Latin goings on.  lol




August 31, 2015

Intel, Surveillance & Cybersec- Random News Items



#Algeria - Gen Hassan
retired Algerian intel chief (counter-terrorism)
/ held in military prison

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika
reforming intel services relieving them of missions
>> control transfer to Military

July 2015
Algeria Pres. Bouteflika
replaced heads of
  • DSI counter-espionage unit
  • residential security +
  • Republican Guard
http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Algeria-detains-former-counter-terror-chief-report-20150830-4


#SouthAfrica
allegations of SA intel spying on journalists
Democratic Alliance asked intel Inspector General to investigate allegations SSA is spying on SABC journalists
http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/da-seeks-sabc-spying-probe-1.1907758

#SouthAfrica
Cops in 'super-spy' machine probe
The Grabber / dirtbox
/ cigarette smuggling
http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/cops-in-super-spy-machine-probe-1.1907719


MacDonald, Dettwiler & Associates Ltd.
= Canada-based communications & info co
commercial & govt customers, globally
MacDonald, Dettwiler & Associates Ltd.
2 segments:
  1. Communications + 
  2. Surveillance & Intelligence
MacDonald, Dettwiler & Associates Ltd.
Communications:
= TV, satellite, radio, broadband, mobile
Surveillance & Intel:
= Geospatial +
[think encountered MDA the other day]
http://www.lulegacy.com/2015/08/30/macdonald-dettwiler-associates-pt-lowered-to-c89-00-mda/594668/


#UK
MI6 agent Gareth Williams
hacked Clinton’s agenda
/ diplomatic nightmare - Sir John Sawers
/ mysterious death
http://nypost.com/2015/08/31/british-agent-hacked-bill-clintons-agenda-before-his-mysterious-death/

#Surveillance 
advertising co's profile user,
based on internet usage history

“super-cookies
aka pass ID
= unique token injected into every HTTP request
/ user helpless: no choice
/ persists after clearing cookies

Culprits:
  • Verizon
  • AT&T
  • Bell Canada
  • Bharti Airtel
  • Cricket
  • Telefonica de España
  • Viettel Peru S.A.C.
  • Vodafone NL
  • Vodafone Spain
Solution:
1) limit web browsing to sites that offer SSL or TLS
2) switch to provider that does not use super-cookies.
http://www.techworm.net/2015/08/supercookies-are-back-in-force-giving-rise-to-privacy-threats.html

PricewaterhouseCoopers
Insurance Banana Skins 2015
#cybersecurity = one of biggest fears of insurers in world
Report http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/insurance/banana-skins/2015-survey-report.jhtml


#cybersecurity
Ashley Madison hack
UK intel checked files for security breaches & info
/ counterparts doing same
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/ashley-madison-hack-british-intelligence-checked-leaked-files-for-security-breaches-and-information-10479238.html

Ashley Madison hack
Noel Biderman steps down as CEO of parent co

Canadian Internet entrepreneur
Self-proclaimed "King of Infidelity"
former CEO of Avid Life Media  [wikipedia]

#cybersecurity
Indian financial outfits
facing numerous cyber attacks from Pakistan
/ no mandatory reporting of hacks
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/48737054.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
#cybersecurity
3 broad hacker type:
1. financial motive cyber criminal
2. hacktivists or politically motivated
3. nation state attackers
most serious type, said to be (3) nation state hackers
>> steal business strategy + intellectual property

/indiatimes

#cybersecurity #OPM
US federal agencies to pay at least $132 million
re OPM hack
Carter said his desire to increase the military’s computer defenses is one reason he was heading to Silicon Valley on Friday to recruit outside help.

Federal agencies will pay at least $132 million to begin cleaning up the mess caused by the computer hack of at least 22 million current and former federal employees and military personnel. About 40 percent of the total, or nearly $53 million, will be paid by the Army. A little more than a quarter will be paid by the Air Force and 17 percent, or about $23 million, will come from the Navy, according to National Journal.

Last month, OPM notified agencies it would charge them for their share of the protection services being offered to at least 22 million hack victims, proportional to the number of affected former and current employees, contractors, and applicants connected to each agency. The OPM has notified each agency what they owe for fiscal 2015, agencies must shift funds around to make the required payments.

The Defense Department submitted its reprogramming request to Congress, where it has already received approval from at least the Senate Appropriations Committee’s panel on Defense spending. The plan set aside $132 million to pay for hack victims’ credit and identity monitoring, identity restoration and protection services for dependent children.

https://thetelegraph.com/news/70496/report-says-va-way-short-of-psychiatrists
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Just news items that caught my eye.

That US$130 million eventually goes to cybersecurity companies?

They must be ecstatic whenever there's a big hack.  lol

Algeria sounds interesting.  Something big's going on.

South Africa sounds corrupt.
CEO stepping down is a pointless, symbolic act.



August 26, 2015

Intel & Surveillance News



US vows to help #Philippines in intel gathering
/ oldest US ally in Asia
no specifics re support

see Territorial dispute
South China Sea #China claim
Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei + Taiwan have overlapping claims
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2015/08/26/1492532/us-vows-help-philippines-intel-gathering


MacDonald, Dettwiler & Associates Lttd /MDA
CA$3.9 million contract with National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
http://softwaredev.itbusinessnet.com/article/MDA-to-provide-operational-enhancements-for-information-solution-to-support-flight-operations-at-airports-4038599
other
MacDonald, Dettwiler & Associates Lttd /MDA 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacDonald,_Dettwiler_and_Associates

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
combat support agency, under USA DOD
& intelligence agency US intel comm
GEOINT
NGA credited by WH military officials
for providing info re Op Neptune's Spear 2011 / bin Laden
#Serbia
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
cause of #NATO Bombing of Chinese embassy in Belgrade
/ CIA argues otherwise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geospatial-Intelligence_Agency

USA military - DRONES
Spent last decade amassing over 7,000 surveillance drones
/ some size of birds / others as big as as jetliners

Drone technology
= USA spy planes will be phased out starting in 2018

Without US ground troops in Iraq and Syria,
#USA commanders rely on airborne #surveillance more than ever before
Iraq war
- USA had plenty fighter pilots
- low on aerial surveillance re what happening ground
/ long distance pilots on amphetamine paste

Over decades, U-2 spy plane
claimed lives of 30 pilots
/ many have nearly crashed after suffering decompression sickness

Russia
U-2 spy plane
shot down over Soviet Union in 1960
/ capture of pilot Francis Gary Powers
/ traded for Soviet spy 1962

It is after satellites could be relied upon for remote control that drones could be used for surveillance.

US Airforce trained:
  • x18 U-2 pilots trained 2014
  • x57 ground-based pilots for Global Hawk (drone)
[ looks like drones are the go ]
DRONES
= cost about half what the U-2 spy planes cost per flying hour to operate
Global Hawk
= drone

http://www.latimes.com/nation/great-reads/la-na-c1-spy-plane-pilot-20150826-story.html

Potomac Advocates (PRASAM)
PRASAM, intel community's 'official' lobbyist
grabbed lion’s share of USG lobbying 4 intel community
/subsription
http://www.intelligenceonline.com/government-intelligence/due-diligence/2015/08/26/prasam-intelligence-community-s--official--lobbyist,108088706-ART

More

Potomac Advocates

http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000036775

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc
provides war fighter solutions and security related services
engineering, Information Technology services and war fighter solutions primarily for US National Security priorities

services include command, control, communications, computing, combat systems, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (c5ISR), weapon systems lifecycle support, military weapon range and technical services, network engineering services, advanced information technology services, security and surveillance systems, and critical infrastructure design and integration services.
http://www.americantradejournal.com/kratos-defense-security-solutions-inc-short-interest-update-2/657949/


#Canada Surveillance
Police surveillance camera goes up in East Vancouver neighbourhood
/ gang violence issue
http://www.news1130.com/2015/08/25/police-surveillance-camera-goes-up-in-vancouver-neighbourhood/


#Surveillance
Windows 10 heralds a future in which the cloud rules and computers snitch on us by default

default / automatic sharing of data the new normal — from your voice & typing patterns to unique machine ID s/ track & target

#surveillance
By default, users of Mac OSX & Ubuntu Linux
transmit local search terms to respective companies + third parties
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/8/when-surveillance-is-a-feature-not-a-bug.html

#AmericanAggression
masked as deterrence to 'Russian aggression'
USA send F-22 Raptors to Europe
European Reassurance Initiative
$985 million in overseas contingency operations USA funding - 2015 current fiscal year.
http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2015-08-25/us-will-send-f-22s-europe-bolster-allies-deter-russia


Understanding Indications & Warning Efforts Of US Ballistic Missile Defence – Analysis
http://www.eurasiareview.com/26082015-understanding-indications-and-warning-efforts-of-us-ballistic-missile-defense-analysis/

Surveillance / Militarised Police
#Baltimore police
Coming Storm 'Stingray' Surveillance by Police
http://www.citylab.com/crime/2015/08/youre-going-to-hear-a-lot-more-about-police-use-of-stingray/402283/

USA
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act | CISA
concerns re proposed Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act
ie - nature and volume of private data about users being funneled to the government (and intelligence agencies) by companies who opt to participate in the information sharing scheme contemplated by the law
https://www.justsecurity.org/25475/cisa-surveillance-law-xss-attack/

USA - Surveillance Act (FISA)
electronic surveillance under Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
fed appeals court upheld sentence
http://www.startribune.com/federal-appeals-court-upholds-women-s-prison-sentences-in-terror-case/322843851/


Military Drones Market to Reach $11 Billion by 2021 From $3 Billion in 2014
http://www.aviationpros.com/news/12106991/military-drones-market-to-reach-11-billion-by-2021-from-3-billion-in-2014

Ghostery privacy extension / Ghostrank
Ghostery privacy extension
http://www.extremetech.com/internet/212476-is-it-safe-to-use-the-ghostery-privacy-extension

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Random surveillance articles.  Bit of a mixed bag that's thrown up some military stuff.  Mostly just skimmed.

The ballistic missiles article could be interesting, as it's a bit hard to apply lessons of history to present day strategy, without knowing anything about today's military capabilities. 

That might be a reading list article.  Not sure I'll get there.  Swamped with all the earmarked stuff I think might be a good read.  Not enough time in the day for all this stuff.  lol

The US proposal for companies to share info with government and spy agencies is about as totalitarian as it gets.