Wednesday, June 30, 2010

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Russian Spies In Australia ?

Are there Russian spies in Australia connected to the USA Spyring just busted in USA !

Have they infiltrated the Fed labour Govt and Labour party ? if here.

Kevin Rudd's New Financial Year Present To Taxpayers

Kevin Rudd's new financial year present to tax payers is REDUCED TAXATION

Yes -REDUCED TAXATION--its going up in many other countries

The EU is so bad off,it plans to STOP BUILDING HOUSES FOR INDIVIDUAL FAMILIES

Are we not lucky in Australia ! Thank you KEVIN PM

Terrorist Language

Save my country from----

I love my country----

I will act to change--stop--reverse-improve

Mineweb Mining Newsletter-Latest ed

Mineweb Newsletter re Mining Industry to teddybear

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  FEATURED PODCAST                                                      Rick Rule - Founder Global Resource InvestmentsA look at the macro economic environment facing gold, gold shares or physical metal and whether or not looking backwards offers any guidence TOP STORIES | Wednesday , 30 Jun 2010                                                      Massive capital allocation challenges cause headaches for mining, metalsErnst & Young says capital allocation risk has rocketed to the top of risks for global mining and metals companies.    Wednesday , 30 Jun 2010 Top gold ETF now holds more than $50 bn in physical goldThe SPDR Gold Trust gold holding has now surpassed $50 billion and 1,320 tonnes - over 260 tonnes more than China's official holdings.    Wednesday , 30 Jun 2010 Strong fundamentals positive for platinum group metals - CPMInvestors are expected to remain attracted to platinum in 2010 because of potential price appreciation based on the metal's tight supply, increasing fabrication use and investor demand.    Tuesday , 29 Jun 2010 U.S. Govt plays essential role in international critical minerals trade-CSM‘s Rod EggertIn a recent journal article, Colorado School of Mines Economics and Business Director Rod Eggert stresses the federal government can help ensure the U.S. has sufficient and reliable critical minerals supplies.    Wednesday , 30 Jun 2010 Opinion: Gold price manipulation - probably. Conspiracy - a matter of semantics!The argument about gold price manipulation goes on, but is gold that different from many other financial instruments in this respect?    Tuesday , 29 Jun 2010 Sudbury strike talks called off by mediatorThe talks, planned to end an almost year-long strike, have ended due to a dispute over fired workers    Wednesday , 30 Jun 2010 Ivanhoe to receive $292.1m for Oyu Tolgoi developmentRio Tinto exercised certain share warrants in the Canadian company four months ahead of expiry. The proceeds will be used for funding development of the mine   Wednesday , 30 Jun 2010 South Africa to launch new mining charter on WednesdayThe department of Mineral Resources said tuesday the new agreement will aim to increase black ownership in the sector after the previous one failed to do so.   Tuesday , 29 Jun 2010 Japan's largest bullion house feels no effect from ETFsTanaka Kikinzoku says its business has not been dented by the launch of precious metals etfs    Tuesday , 29 Jun 2010 RUSAL expects to supply metal to aluminium ETFThe first aluminium-backed ETF is expected in July and the Russian producer will likely supply the underlying asset    Tuesday , 29 Jun 2010 Yesterday's Top Story: Why the recent gold price surge is definitely not a bubbleIn another excerpt from the Erste Bank Special report on Gold, Ronald Stoeferle explains why gold is not another example of a price bubble ready to burst.    Tuesday , 29 Jun 2010 PODCASTS / RADIO                                                      Sundance, Gillard and rare earths - Tim Williams: Director, Global mining and metals, Ernst & YoungA look at the new Australian Prime Minister and her impact on the RSPT debacle, the implications of the Sundance crash and more on US rare earths policy Nine reasons gold will go past $1500 - Jeff Nichols: MD, Precious Metals AdvisorsAs history repeats itself the yellow metal is likely not only to hit $1,500 by the end of this year, but also to go subtantially higher in the next few years Gold, interest rates and Saudi Arabia - Jessica Cross: CEO, VM GroupA look at the role of interest rates on gold, the importance of the lack of selling by central banks and the revaluation of Saudi Arabia's gold holdings [Image]
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Mining companies hold The Power to Get rid Of Gillard govt

Mining companies can get rid of Gillard govt by not making an agreement till after the election when a coalition govt will be returned with greens holding ballance of power

What govt do mining companies want

everyone is watching

Mining companies may not be able to choose in the future

Any Connection To Australia with USA Russian Spies

If there are Russian Spies in USA you can bet there are some active here in Australia

Are any connected to the recent cue de tat against Kevin Rudd ?

Gillard Govt Takes Australia Into Recession-Investment Leaves Australia

Gillard Govt Takes Australia into recession as investment leaves Australia

Mining companies hold the best cards

Minining companies can put decisions on hold till after the election and do deal with the co-alition govt and the Greens who may hold ballance of power

Greens can hold up any govt decission if supporting opposition

Yet are not mentioned by media

Govt ministers are finding out libra takes a long time to make decissions-is at all-ministers will make decission and also any blame if things go wrong-thats how libra operates-have fun

World War 4 Report-Centre For Justice And Accountability-USA No Haven

IT'S OFFICIAL: THE U.S. IS NOT A SAFE HAVEN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSERS

by Pamela Merchant, Center for Justice and Accountability
This month, in one of the most significant human rights cases to be heard by the Supreme Court in years, the Court unanimously ruled that former foreign government officials who come to the US and avail themselves of the benefits of living here are not immune from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
The Court's ruling in Samantar v. Yousuf means that former foreign officials who have committed egregious human rights abuses, such as torture and extrajudicial killing, can be held accountable for their crimes and will not be able to find comfort and sanctuary in the US. In an era in which the Court has often moved to curtail plaintiffs' access to courts, the Court's unanimous ruling is truly noteworthy. The Court's decision assures that US courts will remain open to survivors of human rights abuses and that the US can continue to serve as a leader in the protection and promotion of human rights and individual dignity.
The Supreme Court's decision is the latest development in a case originally filed in 2004 by the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), a non-profit legal human rights organization based in San Francisco, California. CJA filed a lawsuit under the Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA) and the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) on behalf of five plaintiffs who were tortured or whose family members were killed under the command of former defense minister of Somalia, Mohamed Ali Samantar. It is undisputed that Mr. Samantar presided over a brutal campaign of violence in which at least 50,000 civilians were killed or tortured. Despite his past, Mr. Samantar has lived comfortably in a Fairfax, Virginia, suburb—just a stone's throw away from the steps of the highest court in the land—for over a decade.
Mr. Samantar's presence in the US landed him at the heart of a debate pitting accountability against impunity. In this case, Mr. Samantar had attempted to evade responsibility for his actions by claiming immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) of 1976. Mr. Samantar's claim of immunity relied on an inventive, but flawed, reading of the FSIA. Lawyers for Mr. Samantar argued that because he was acting on behalf of the government, he was entitled to the same immunity that the government of Somalia (if there were a recognized and functioning government) would enjoy. His argument ran counter to well-settled precedents dating back to the postwar Nuremburg trials and the guiding principle that individuals can and must be held liable for egregious human rights violations. His position would also have undermined decades of US jurisprudence on human rights law and recent US efforts to secure accountability for those crimes.
The plaintiffs, by contrast, joined by a diverse and broad group of supporters including former American diplomats, retired military professionals, Holocaust survivors, anti-genocide activists, and members of the US Senate and House of Representatives, argued that the FSIA could not be interpreted in a way that would afford immunity to individual human rights abusers. Various amici argued, for example, that human rights abuses are threats to both international security and our national interests, noting that the US commitment to internationally-recognized human rights is critical to our diplomatic and military strength. Moreover, plaintiffs asserted that when Congress passed the TVPA, it explicitly determined that the law was a necessary deterrent to human rights abusers seeking safe haven in the US.
The Court, faced with a choice between upholding accountability or permitting impunity—an impunity unsupported by either morality or law—concluded that US law provides for and demands accountability. Now, Mr. Samantar and other former officials who commit human rights abuses will not be able to hide behind a shield of FSIA immunity. Mr. Samantar will be forced to account for his past crimes. And the plaintiffs who have been pursuing him will finally have their day in Court—and an opportunity for justice.
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Pamela Merchant is executive director of the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA).
This story first appeared June 18 on Huffington Post.
See also:
SOMALIA CASE THREATENS WAR CRIMINALS WORLDWIDE
US Supreme Court to Rule on Sovereign Immunity
by Paul Wolf, World War 4 Report
World War 4 Report, January 2010
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Reprinted by World War 4 Report, July 1, 2010
Reprinting permissible with attribution

Israeli's Live In Right Wing Police State-see Gush Shalom

According to Gush Shalom Israeli's live in a right wing police state with military backup and control

And can do little about it

The western media dont report Gush Shalom or similar organiseations

Its good to hear many Israeli's dont agree with the present Israeli Govt Actions

Gush Shalom And Gaza Blockade News

 Gush Shalom in Action  
LET THE AID BOATS THROUGH TO GAZA! END THE SIEGE!
LET THE AID BOATS THROUGH TO GAZA! END THE SIEGE!
The State of Israel has no interest in flooding television screens all over the world with footage of its navy violently assaulting against peace activists at sea. It is time to remove the suffocating siege and allow residents of Gaza to have free contact with the outside world, freely operate sea and air ports of their own like any country in the world.
The Gush Shalom movement calls upon the government to allow the eight-boat aid flotilla from all over the world to reach the shores of Gaza, where they are scheduled to arrive next week, and unload the humanitarian cargo which is urgently needed by the residents of Gaza. In a letter to Defense Minister Barak, Gush Shalom calls upon him to cancel immediately the instructions given to Israeli Navy ships off the Gaza shore to intercept the aid flotilla.
"The whole world is looking. The State of Israel has no interest in flooding the international television screens with images of Israeli sailors and naval commandos violently assaulting hundreds of peace activists and humanitarian aid workers, many of them well-known in their countries. Whose interest will it serve when hours long dramatic live reports arrive from the Mediteranean, with the world's sympathy given to hundreds of non-violent activists, on board eight boats, assaulted by the strongest military power in the Middle East?" were the words of a letter to the Defense Minister.
No harm whatsoever will be caused to Israel from the aid flotilla reaching Gaza Port and unloading a cargo of medical supplies and medicines, school supplies and construction materials to rebuild the houses destroyed by the Israeli Air Force a year and half ago and not yet been restored. On the contrary, it would be in Israel's best interest to declare without delay that as a humanitarian gesture, the boats' way will not be blocked. And in general, it is time to end once and for all the suffocating siege imposed on the Gaza Strip and causing terrible suffering to its million and a half inhabitants.
The siege on Gaza utterly failed in all the goals set for it by the government of Israel. The siege was supposed to result in toppling the Hamas government – and on the contrary strengthened this government, which relied on the support of a significant part of the Palestinian People. The siege was supposed to help in gaining the release of captured soldier Gilad Shalit - but on the contrary, the siege just delays that release, which could have been achieved long ago had the government of Israel agreed to the prisoner exchange deal, on which most of the details have been decided long ago. It's time to end this cruel and pointless siege.
The residents of the Gaza Strip, like the citizens of Israel and of any other country in the world, have the right to maintain direct contacts with the outside world - to leave their country and return to it, to develop their economy, to import the products they need and export their own produce to anyone who wants to buy it, without asking or needing for permission from Israel, Egypt or any other country. Just as Israel needs no permit from any other country to operate daily the sea ports of Ashdod and Haifa and Eilat and the Ben Gurion International Airport, so are the Palestinians and their state to be entitled to run their own sea port and airport in the Gaza Strip. Let the flotilla of humanitarian aid from all over the world be given the honour of inaugurating the sovereign Palestinian Port of Gaza!.
Contact: Uri Avnery 0505-306440 Adam Keller 054-2340749



Gush Shalom-Israeli Peace Movement

 Who we are  
Aims of Gush Shalom

Aims of Gush Shalom 

The primary aim of Gush Shalom is to influence Israeli public opinion and lead it towards peace and conciliation with the Palestinian people, based on the following principles:
Putting an end to the occupation,
Accepting the right of the Palestinian people to establish an independent and sovereign State of Palestine in all the territories occupied by Israel in 1967,
Reinstating the pre-1967 "Green Line" as the border between the State of Israel and the State of Palestine (with possible minor exchanges of territories agreed between the parties); the border will be open for the free movement of people and goods, subject to mutual agreement.
Establishing Jerusalem as the capital of the two states, with East Jerusalem (including the Haram al-Sharif) serving as the capital of Palestine and West Jerusalem (including the Western Wall) serving as the capital of Israel. The city is to be united on the physical and municipal level, based on mutual agreement.
Recognizing in principle the Right of Return of the Palestinian refugees, allowing each refugee to choose freely between compensation and repatriation to Palestine and Israel, and fixing by mutual agreement the number of refugees who will be able to return to Israel in annual quotas, without undermining the foundations of Israel.
Safeguarding the security of both Israel and Palestine by mutual agreement and guarantees.
Striving for overall peace between Israel and all Arab countries and the creation of a regional union.



Financial Times NY Report On Russian Spies-Any Connection To Australia ?

Financial Times Report On Russian Spies-Any Connection To Australia ?

US arrests 10 alleged Russian spiesBy Daniel Dombey in WashingtonPublished: June 29 2010 00:19 | Last updated: June 29 2010 00:19A story of spies and Moscow’s supposed quest for US nuclear and diplomatic secrets was unveiled on Monday when the Department of Justice announced the arrest of 10 alleged Russian agents in the US.Eight of the people are allegedly “deep cover” agents, sent years ago to locations such as Hoboken, New Jersey; Yonkers, New York; and Boston to establish false identities and prise information from US officials and knowledgeable sources. Two other alleged agents used their real names; one alleged agent remains at large.[Image]Neighbours of 'Richard' and 'Cynthia Murphy' speak to the media outside their home in Montclair, New JerseyEDITOR’S CHOICEDepartment of Justice case in full - Jun-29Full list of complaints against defendants - Jun-29Obama gambles on Medvedev relationship - Jun-23Analysis: Russia: The third man - Jun-21Twitter stumbles as Medvedev visits - Jun-24Editorial: Caveat investor - Jun-25The cases, which come after a years-long probe, contain m any references to cold war practices such as cash drops, meetings with Russian officials attached to the country’s delegation in the United Nations and techniques such as invisible writing.President Barack Obama’s administrationhas hailed the US’s improved relationshipwith Moscow as one of its main foreign policy breakthroughs. Just last week, Mr Obama took Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to lunch at Ray’s Hellburger in Arlington, Virginia – where three of the defendants were arrested days later.The charges filed include conspiracy to act as unregistered agents of a foreign government, punishable by up to five years in prison, and, for all but two of the defendants, conspiracy to commit money laundering, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.The Russian embassy declined to comment.In one incident related to the criminal complaints, a woman who went by the name of Cynthia Murphy allegedly had several meetings by early 2009 with an unnamed New York-based financier whom Moscow had identified as an active political fundraiser and a personal friend of a current US Cabinet official.

Gillard Govt Affects Gold Price-Rumours Gold $1500

Gold usually reflect the stability of the economics of a nation The World

Gold is rumoured to go to $1500 soon,and to $6000 in several yrs time

So the world is going to be an insecure place

Wait for the new wars in Africa and Russian Republics over oil and minerals and gas

So where does the assassination of KevinPM come into the equation

Australia needs stable govt

It used to have such a reputation till recently

Thats why lots people want to live here-some maybe re thinking



Will Australians Vote For A Non Christian Living In Sin

Will Australians vote for a non christian living in sin according to Church Rules

Do people want such people to represent them and their country

My guese the majority will say NO

World Looks At GillardPM Govt With Suspicion And Distrust-Especially Fiji

The world is looking at the GillardPM govt with suspicion-whats going on-who is in charge-who are the faceless backers pulling the strings of puppet govt. Its not just a change of leadership

The real spin-spill will come after the next election

The world wonders how such a cue de tat can happen and get rid of a legally elected govt with an unelected one

The only positive thing about it was that it was bloodless-could it have been otherwise and was security protecting the PM ? ASIO etc !

Gillard Govt To Call August Election-Rumour-Govt In Trouble Already From Backlash

 Gillard govt to call August election Rumour

Gillard govt already in backlash from assassination of KevinPM

The longer the election date the more info will leak out about the faceless people supporting puppet Julia Gillard

Who must be wondering by now if it was worth it now her cover is gradualy being blown

it appears Kevin PM was kicked out 24 hrs before a breakthrough on the minining tax

Guese SOME ONE DIDNT WANT HIM TO GET THE CREDIT-AWU etc +

RSPCA APEAL FOR HELP AND DONATIONS-CAN YOU HELP ?

RSPCA Appeal For Help And Donations(contact RSPCA Queensland Direct)

RSPCA Qld's Puppy Factory Appeal is running out of time, please donate today!
The first six years of Sophie's life were spent living in squalor, producing litter after litter.


Dear teddybear


A matted coat, decayed teeth, severely infected eyes, and mammary tumours told the story of a life spent with no veterinary treatment, no human contact and no love.


Within months of her rescue, she underwent life-saving surgery to remove tumours, intricate surgery to remove both eyes and desexing. Despite her history, today Sophie is a sweet little lady. She still lives with the scars of the puppy factory, but thanks to RSPCA Qld, the days of squalor are behind her.


Sophie's story is shared by thousands of dogs in Australian puppy factories, who are kept in appalling living conditions their entire life to produce puppies for pet shops, the internet and markets abroad.


As Assistant Chief Inspector with RSPCA Qld, I will never forget that day in July 2008 - a day that had significant impact on RSPCA Qld, and still does almost two years later.


The residence was an insulated metal shed with two roller doors. Upon entry we were met with a moving sea of around 30 barking dogs. Most were too fearful of human contact to allow a pat. The stench of built-up urine and stale faeces was overwhelming.


After slipping on the damp concrete floor strewn with excrement and fur I shone my torch on to cages stacked up to four high. Each cage contained mothers with pups, so crammed they barely had enough space to stretch. Some cages had no water and bedding and those that did were contaminated with excrement and soiled.


We seized 113 dogs, 488 rats, 73 mice, 11 birds and one cat. Months of veterinary treatments, surgeries, bathing to remove cakes of faecal matter and grooming to remove clumps of matted hair followed.


The operators were found guilty of 129 counts of animal neglect and ordered to pay around $50,000 compensation to RSPCA Qld, despite the real costs claim to court exceeding $260,000.


Almost two years since the raid, RSPCA Qld still suffers the real cost of the Townsville puppy factory. This cost, combined with $23.9 million in operational costs and the expectation of more raids to come, has placed RSPCA Qld in a precarious position as we try to manage our operational costs with the extraordinary costs of puppy factories.


By making a donation to RSPCA Qld's Puppy Factory Appeal TODAY you can support RSPCA Qld's work to close down these factories and to prosecute their operators.


Sadly, these 113 dogs were not our first mass raid and they will not be the last. So please, make your donation today, before Wednesday June 30, and rescue us, so that we can rescue them all.


Sincerely
Tracey Jackson
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Julia Gillard Bullshit

I must save my country-from what

I love my country-who dont

etc etc etc etc

What a lot of misleading bullshit cover up

You knew Kevin PM was 24 hrs away from making a settlement with the minining industry-Judus

You didnt want him to get the credit-why dont you resign and get out before your kicked out

Anyone who votes for you needs help

Are Communists In Control Of Australia Govt Now

Are communists in control of Australia and its government now? Via Julia Gillard and faceless backers !

What do you you think

What does ASIO know?

USA reports 10 Russian spies found in USA

Kevin Pm kicked Out 24HRs Before Settlement Of Mining Tax

Andrew Forrest is reported to have said that Kevin Rudd was kicked out 24hrs before the settlement of the Mining Tax super profit tax

Who were the desperate people in the know who wanted to stop Kevin Rudd and his success

Julia Gillard and who ?

The Truth will come out eventually

No wonder Julia Gillard PM wont move into the Lodge till after the election

I guess she knows she would have to get out again-very quick

I bet Gillard PM wish she never was the Judus-but its too late now

KevinPM Says Thank You Australia

KevinPM says thank you to people of Australia for being able to serve them in goverment

We would liketo think  he will be back to kick out Julia Gillard and the other Judus's

Happy holliday

Fiji Limits Foreign Ownership Of Media To Ten Per Cent-Tell Stephen Smith Get Lost

Fiji govt is reported(ABC Radio) to have limited foreign ownership of media newspapers to ten per cent

Foreign minister of Australia has protested-what a laugh

Who helped get rid of Kevin Rudd-the media

Where did Stephen Smith get his position from-a cue de tat ! backed by a hostile media

Australia needs a foreign minister with a reputation for honesty

Fiji tell Stephen Smith to get lost-he is no different from his PM

Monday, June 28, 2010

Global research News re Internet Control

Global Research Newsletter Re Internet Control

Through the Wormhole: The Secret State's Mad Scheme to Control the Internet
By Tom Burghardt URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19934 Global Research, June 27, 2010 Antifascist Calling...
Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz once famously wrote that "war is the continuation of politics by other means." A century later, radical French philosopher Michel Foucault turned Clausewitz on his head and declared that "politics is the continuation of war by other means."In our topsy-turvy world where truth and lies coexist equally and sociopathic business elites reign supreme, it would hardly be a stretch to theorize that 
cyber war is the continuation of parapolitical crime by other means.Through the WormholeIn Speed and Politics, cultural theorist Paul Virilio argued that "history progresses at the speed of its weapons systems." With electronic communications now blanketing the globe, it was only a matter of time before our political masters, (temporarily) outflanked by the subversive uses to which new media lend themselves, would deploy what Virilio called the "integral accident" (9/11 being one of many examples) and gin-up entirely new categories of threats, "Cyber Pearl Harbor" comes to mind, from which of course, they would "save us."That the revolving door connecting the military and the corporations who service war making is a highly-profitable redoubt for those involved, has been analyzed here at great length. With new moves to tighten the screws on the immediate horizon, and as "Change" reveals itself for what it always was, an Orwellian exercise in public diplomacy, hitting the "kill switch" serves as an apt descriptor for the new, repressive growth sector that links technophilic fantasies of "net-centric" warfare to the burgeoning "homeland security" market.Back in March, Wired investigative journalist Ryan Singel wrote that the "biggest threat to the open internet" isn't "Chinese hackers" or "greedy ISPs" but corporatist warriors like former Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell.Having retreated to his old haunt as a senior vice president with the ultra-spooky firm Booz Allen Hamilton (a post he held for a decade before joining the Bush administration), McConnell stands to make millions as Booz Allen's parent company, the secretive private equity powerhouse, The Carlyle Group, plans to take the firm public and sell some $300 million worth of shares, The Wall Street Journal reported last week."With its deep ties to the defense establishment" the Journal notes, "Booz Allen has become embedded in a range of military operations such as planning war games and intelligence initiatives." That Carlyle Group investors have made out like proverbial bandits during the endless "War on Terror" goes without saying. With "relatively low debt levels for a leveraged buyout," the investment "has been a successful one for Carlyle, which has benefited from the U.S. government's increasing reliance on outsourcing in defense."And with 15,000 employees in the Washington area, most with coveted top secret and above security clearances, Booz Allen's clients include a panoply of secret state agencies such as the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, NSA and the U.S. Air Force. With tentacles enlacing virtually all facets of the secretive world of outsourced intelligence, the firm has emerged as one of the major players in the cybersecurity niche market.While McConnell and his minions may not know much about "SQL injection hacks," Singel points out that what makes this spook's spook dangerous (after all, he was NSA Director under Clinton) "is that he knows about social engineering. ... And now he says we need to re-engineer the internet."Accordingly, Washington Technology reported in April, that under McConnell's watchful eye, the firm landed a $14.4 million contract to build a new bunker for U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM). Chump change by Pentagon standards perhaps, but the spigot is open and salad days are surely ahead.Now that CYBERCOM has come on-line as a "subordinate unified command" of U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), it's dual-hatted Director, Air Force General Keith B. Alexander confirmed by the Senate and with a fourth, gleaming star firmly affixed on his epaulettes, the real fun can begin.A denizen of the shadows with a résumé to match, Alexander is also Director of the National Security Agency (hence the appellation "dual-hatted"), the Pentagon satrapy responsible for everything from battlefield signals- and electronic intelligence (SIGINT and ELINT), commercial and industrial espionage (ECHELON) to illegal driftnet spying programs targeting U.S. citizens.Spooky résumé aside, what should concern us here is what Alexander will actually do at the Pentagon's new cyberwar shop.A Fact Sheet posted by STRATCOM informs us that CYBERCOM "plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes, and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full-spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries."As Antifascist Calling previously reported, CYBERCOM's offensive nature is underlined by the role it will play as STRATCOM's operational cyber wing. The training of thousands of qualified airmen, asThe Register revealed last month, will form the nucleus of an "elite corps of cyberwarfare operatives," underscoring the command's signal importance to the secret state and the corporations they so lovingly serve.Cybersecurity: The New Corporatist "Sweet Spot"Fueling administration moves to "beef up," i.e. tighten state controls over the free flow of information is cash, lots of it. The Washington Post reported June 22 that "Cybersecurity, fast becoming Washington's growth industry of choice, appears to be in line for a multibillion-dollar injection of federal research dollars, according to a senior intelligence official.""Delivering the keynote address at a recent cybersecurity summit sponsored by Defense Daily," veteran Post reporter and CIA media asset, Walter Pincus, informs us that "Dawn Meyerriecks, deputy director of national intelligence for acquisition and technology, said that along with the White House Office of Science and Technology, her office is going to sponsor major research 'where the government's about to spend multiple billions of dollars'."Bingo!According to a Defense Daily profile, before her appointment by Obama's recently fired Director of National Intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, Meyerriecks was the chief technology officer with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), described on DISA's web site as a "combat support agency" that "engineers and provides command and control capabilities and enterprise infrastructure to continuously operate and assure a global net-centric enterprise in direct support to joint warfighters, National level leaders, and other mission and coalition partners across the full spectrum of operations."During Defense Daily's June 11 confab at the Marriott Hotel in Washington (generously sponsored by Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, General Dynamics and The Analysis Group), Meyerriecks emphasized although "tons of products" have been commercially developed promising enhanced security, "there's not an answer Band-Aid that is going to come with this."All the more reason then, to shower billions of taxpayer dollars on impoverished defense and security corps, while preaching "fiscal austerity" to "greedy" workers and homeowners facing a new wave of foreclosures at the hands of cash strapped banks."We're starting to question whether or not the fundamental precepts are right," Meyerriecks said, "and that's really what, at least initially, this [new research] will be aimed at."Presumably, the billions about to feed the "new security paradigm," all in the interest of "keeping us safe" of course, means "we need to be really innovative, because I think we're going to run out of runway on our current approach," she said.Washington Technology reported Meyerriecks as saying "We don't have any fixed ideas about what the answers are." Therefore, "we're looking for traditional and nontraditional partnering in sourcing."Amongst the "innovative research" fields which the ODNI, the Department of Homeland Security and one can assume, NSA/CYBERCOM, will soon be exploring are what Washington Technologydescribe as: "Multiple security levels for government and non-government organizations. Security systems that change constantly to create 'moving targets' for hackers," and more ominously for privacy rights, coercive "methods to motivate individuals to improve their cybersecurity practices."The Secret State's Internet Control BillSince major policy moves by administration flacks always come in waves, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy June 18, that in order to fight "homegrown terrorism" the monitoring of internet communications "is a civil liberties trade-off the U.S. government must make to beef up national security," the Associated Pressreported.While the Obama regime has stepped-up attacks on policy critics who have disclosed vital information concealed from the American people, prosecuting whistleblowers such as Thomas Drake, who spilled the beans on corrupt NSA shenanigans with grifting defense and security corps, and wages a low-level war against WikiLeaksCryptomePublic Intelligence and other secret spilling web sites, it continues to shield those who oversaw high crimes and misdemeanors during the previous and current regimes.In this light, Napolitano's statement that "we can significantly advance security without having a deleterious impact on individual rights in most instances," is a rank mendacity.With enough airspace to fly a drone through, the Home Sec boss told the gathering "at the same time, there are situations where trade-offs are inevitable." What those "situations" are or what "trade-offs" were being contemplated by the administration was not specified by Napolitano; arch neocon Joe Lieberman however, graciously obliged.As "Cyber War" joins the (failed) "War on Drugs" and the equally murderous "War on Terror" as America's latest bête noire and panic all rolled into one reeking mass of disinformation, Senators Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Tom Carper (D-DE) introduced the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 in the Senate.The bill empowers the Director of a new National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications (NCCC), to be housed in the Department of Homeland Security, to develop a "process" whereby owners and operators of "critical infrastructure" will develop "response plans" for what the legislation calls "a national cybersecurity emergency."This particularly pernicious piece of legislative flotsam would hand the President the power to declare a "national cyber-emergency" at his discretion and would force private companies, internet service providers and search engines to "comply with the new risk-based security requirements." Accordingly, "in coordination with the private sector ... the President [can] authorize emergency measures to protect the nation's most critical infrastructure if a cyber vulnerability is being exploited or is about to be exploited."Under terms of the bill, such "emergency measures" can force ISPs to "take action" if so directed by the President, to limit, or even to sever their connections to the internet for up to 30 days.While the administration, so far, has not explicitly endorsed Lieberman's bill, DHS Deputy Undersecretary Philip Reitinger told reporters that he "agreed" with the thrust of the legislation and that the Executive Branch "may need to take extraordinary measures" in the event of a "crisis."Under the 1934 Communications Act, the World Socialist Web Site points out, "the president may, under 'threat of war,' seize control of any 'facilities or stations for wire communications'.""Though dated," socialist critic Mike Ingram avers, "that definition would clearly apply to broadband providers or Web sites. Anyone disobeying a presidential order can be imprisoned for one year. In addition to making explicit the inclusion of Internet providers, a central component of the Lieberman bill is a promise of immunity from financial claims for any private company which carries through an order from the federal government."Under terms of the legislation, the president requires no advance notification to Congress in order to hit the internet "kill switch," and his authority to reign supreme over the free speech rights of Americans can be extended for up to six months after the "state of war" has expired.While the bill's supporters, which include the secret state lobby shop, the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) claim the Lieberman-Collins-Carper legislation is intended to create a "shield" to defend the U.S. and its largest corporate benefactors from the "looming threat" of a "Cyber 9/11," one cannot discount the billions of dollars in plum government contracts that will fall into the laps of the largest defense and security corps, the primary beneficiaries of this legislation; thus the bill's immunity provisions.Indeed, current INSA Chairwoman, Frances Fragos Townsend, the former Bushist Homeland Security Adviser, was appointed in 2007 as National Continuity Coordinator under the auspices of National Security Presidential Directive 51 (NSPD-51) and was assigned responsibility for coordinating the development and implementation of Federal continuity of government (COG) policies. As readers ofAntifascist Calling are aware, plans include contingencies for a declaration of martial law in the event of a "catastrophic emergency." Whether or not a "national cybersecurity emergency" would fall under the penumbral cone of silence envisaged by NSPD-51 to "maintain order" is anyone's guess.However, in a June 23 letter to Lieberman-Collins-Carper, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and 23 other privacy and civil liberties groups, insisted that "changes are needed to ensure that cybersecurity measures do not unnecessarily infringe on free speech, privacy, and other civil liberties interests."CDT states that while "the bill makes it clear that it does not authorize electronic surveillance beyond that authorized in current law, we are concerned that the emergency actions that could be compelled could include shutting down or limiting Internet communications that might be carried over covered critical infrastructure systems."Additionally, CDT avers that the bill "requires CCI owners to share cybersecurity 'incident' information with DHS, which will share some of that information with law enforcement and intelligence personnel." While Lieberman-Collins-Carper claim that "incident reporting" doesn't authorize "any federal entity" to compel disclosure "or conduct surveillance," the bill does not indicate what might be included in an 'incident report' and we are concerned that personally-identifiable information will be included." Count on it!In a press release, INSA's chairwoman declared that the legislation is important in "establishing a public-private partnership to promote national cyber security priorities, strengthen and clarify authorities regarding the protection of federal civilian systems, and improve national cyber security defenses."Amongst the heavy-hitters who will profit financially from developing a "public-private partnership to promote national cyber security priorities," include INSA "Founding Members" BAE Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton, CSC, General Dynamics, HP, Lockheed Martin, ManTech International, Microsoft, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).Talk about one hand washing the other! A casual glance at Washington Technology's 2010 list of theTop 100 Federal Government Contractors provides a telling definition of the term "stakeholder"!Blanket Surveillance Made Easy: Einstein 3's Roll-OutDuring a recent Cyberspace Symposium staged by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), an industry lobby group chock-a-block with defense and security corps, a series of video presentations set the tone, and the agenda, for CYBERCOM and the secret state's new push for heimat cybersecurity.During a question and answer session "with a small group of reporters" in sync with the alarmist twaddle peddled by AFCEA and STRATCOM, Defense Systems' Amber Corrin informed us that "one possibility" floated by Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynne III to "keep us safe," is the deployment of the privacy-killing Einstein 2 and Einstein 3 intrusion detection and prevention systems on civilian networks."To support such a move" Defense Systems reported, "a task force comprising industry and government information technology and defense interests ... has been forged to examine issues surrounding critical infrastructure network security."As Antifascist Calling reported last July, Einstein 3 is based on technology developed by NSA under its Tutelage program, a subordinate project of NSA's larger and more pervasive privacy-killing Stellar Wind surveillance operation.Einstein 3's deep-packet inspection technology can read the content of email messages and other private electronic communications. Those deemed "threats" to national security networks can then be forwarded to analysts and "attack signatures" (or suspect political messages) are then stored in a massive NSA-controlled database for future reference.Federal Computer Week disclosed in March that the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) "plans to partner with a commercial Internet Service Provider and another government agency to pilot technology developed by the National Security Agency to automate the process of detecting cyber intrusions into civilian agencies' systems.""The exercise," according to reporter Ben Bain "aims to demonstrate the ability of an ISP to select and redirect Internet traffic from a participating government agency using the new technology. The exercise would also be used demonstrate the ability for U.S. CERT to apply intrusion detection and prevention to that traffic and to generate automated alerts about selected cyber threats."That testing is currently underway and has been undertaken under authority of National Security Presidential Directive 54, signed by President George W. Bush in 2008 in the waning days of his administration. While the vast majority of NSPD-54 is classified top secret, hints of its privacy-killing capabilities were revealed in the sanitized version of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) released by the Obama White House in March.The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has filed suit against the government in federal court after their Freedom of Information Act request to the National Security Agency was rejected by securocrats. The agency refused to release NSPD-54, since incorporated into Obama's CNCI, stating that they "have been withheld in their entirety" because they are "exempt from release" on grounds of "national security."In a follow-up piece earlier this month, Federal Computer Week disclosed that the exercise "will also allow the Homeland Security Department, which runs the Einstein program, to share monitored information with the National Security Agency, though that data is not supposed to include message content.""The recent combination of those three elements--reading e-mail messages, asking companies to participate in the monitoring program, and getting the NSA in the loop--has set off alarm bells about future uses of Einstein 3," FCW's John Zyskowski disclosed.Those bells have been ringing for decades, tolling the death of our democratic republic. As military-style command and control systems proliferate, supporting everything from "zero-tolerance" policing and urban surveillance, the deployment of packet-sniffing technologies will soon join CCTV cameras, license plate readers and "watchlists," thus setting the stage for the next phase of the secret state's securitization of daily life.Tom Burghardt is a researcher and activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to publishing in Covert Action Quarterly and Global Research, his articles can be read on Dissident VoiceThe Intelligence DailyPacific Free PressUncommon Thought Journal, and the whistleblowing website Wikileaks. He is the editor of Police State America: U.S. Military "Civil Disturbance" Planning, distributed by AK Press.

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