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2014/06/032014/06/02

SchwartzReport: NSA Collects Millions of Facial Images — and Images of Human Interactions — Each Day

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Corruption, Idiocy, Military

And the surveillance state just keeps oozing out across our lives like a toxic smog. It will soon be possible to track any person, almost anywhere. There is already no problem turning on your phone's camera, or microphone. Moving through any public space will result in multiple images, which are keyed to every electronic interaction you have.

Report: NSA Collects Millions of Facial Images Per Day
DANA FORD – CNN

The National Security Agency is reportedly capturing millions of images per day to feed facial recognition programs. Citing top-secret documents obtained by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the New York Times reported the agency ‘s reliance on such technology has grown in recent years.

New software allows the NSA to “exploit the flood of images included in emails, text messages, social media, videoconferences and other communications,” the newspaper said. “The agency intercepts ‘millions of images per day' – including about 55,000 ‘facial recognition quality images' – which translate into ‘tremendous untapped potential,'” the newspaper reported, citing documents from 2011.

2014/06/022014/06/02

Marcus Aurelius: Sgt Bergdahl a Deserter Aiding Taliban?

Ethics, Military

Invite your attention to message below. Then, invite your attention to what's at the link contained within the message:

1. Bergdahl father tweet, apparently now removed.

2. Below tweet, message from a Dan Witmer, who asserts to have been colleague Bowe Bergdahl and further asserts SGT Bowe departed camp with knife, compass, and water, found gaps in defenses, and defected to Taliban.

Still further and most disturbing, he additionally additionally asserts that (a) USG has long known of other assertions and that the units incurred deaths trying to find SGT Bowe. I don't know if all this is true or not, but I think it makes wonderful grist for counterintelligence and criminal investigators who should routinely debrief SGT Bowe during the standard “POW reintegration” process. I also think the assertions are sufficiently specific that a skilled polygrapher could construct a valid “specific issue” polygraph test (as opposed to the fishing expedition screening exams most frequently constructed).

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2014/05/252014/05/25

Marcus Aurelius: CSA General Shinseki End of Tour Memorandum

Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Military

GEN(R) Shinseki is catching flak, perhaps justified, perhaps not, for the deepening VA scandal. Invite your attention to attached as an indicator of what the man is capable of. Only issue I ever had with him was the black beret for everyone matter.

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I think it ¡s important to point out that the Vision statement begins and ends talking about people. People are central to everything we do ¡n The Army. Institutions don't transform; people do'. Platforms and organizations don't defend the nation; people do. And finally, units don't train; they don't stay ready; they don't grow and develop leadership; they don't s'acrifice and they don't take risks on behalf of the Nation; people do. Without people in the equation, readiness and transformation are little more than academic exercises.

PDF (12 Pasges): (U) GEN Shinseki 34th CSA End of Tour Memo to SECDEF 10Jun03

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2014/05/222014/05/22

Jim Dean: Asian Boomerang — China Calls for Security Alliance with Iran and Russia — Changes Dynamics for Afghanistan, Middle East, North Africa

02 China, 05 Iran, 06 Russia, 08 Wild Cards, Ethics, Government, Military, Peace Intelligence

China Calls for Security Alliance with Iran, Russia

Editor's Note: Well, it looks like Obama the Peacemaker image took another hit today. China, which has no overseas military bases and no carrier battle groups sailing the seas to defend its customers, considers itself a target and not a threat. Imagine that!

The US “divide and conquer” ploy with the Asia Pivot is turning into Obama's Asia Boomerang. The land of freedom and democracy has turned into the major stimulus on the planet for forming defensive military alliances.

It seems they don't want to buy one of our “Sanctions-R-US” franchises. The Founding Fathers are turning over in their graves.

Maybe it's all a trick. Maybe “they” want to divert China and Russia's capital investment away from peaceful business endeavors and whiz it out the window, following the example of the $2 trillion we blew on the military industrial complex over the last decade with no credible threats on the planet.

Good gosh, what group in America would want to do that when our bridges are falling down and the highway trust fund is almost empty… the list goes on and on. Take a look at the companies that the Bush (43) thugs are all involved with, before and after. They seem to have done well.

Don't be surprised to hear brain dead Congressional candidates screaming about how we must rearm American to protect ourselves from the yellow horde building unsinkable inner tubes to float millions of Chinese secret DNA commandos across the Pacific to invade America.

The think tanks are sharpening their pens and swords to scare Americans into putting what money they have left into their various coffers by going on their Asian Jihad. Americans need to form a security alliance of their own here at home to defend ourselves against “you know who”… Jim W. Dean ]

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for the creation of a new Asian organization for security cooperation with the participation of Iran and Russia.

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2014/05/202014/05/20

Berto Jongman: CSIS on Rebuilding Trust in Intelligence — Really….

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Military

CSIS Statement of Principles for Rebuilding Trust in Intelligence Activities

By Benjamin Wittes
Monday, May 19, 2014 at 5:55 PM

A group convened by the Center for Strategic and International Studies has issued a Statement of Principles for rebuilding trust in intelligence activities. It is signed by the following people:

Read list.

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2014/05/192014/05/19

Wayne Madsen: NSA Spies on US Allies — With Direct Witting Assistance of AT&T, EDS, Qwest, H-P, Motorola, Cisco, Qualcomm, Oracle, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, and Verizon

07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers Call

Washington Spies on NATO; Other Allies

Wayne MADSEN

Strategic Culture.org | 18.05.2014

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Implants are inserted by NSA into targeted computer systems and network devices through what the NSA calls «supply-chain interdiction». Equipment is intercepted between the manufacturer and the end-user. At a secret facility called a «load station», devices called «beacons» are inserted clandestinely into a device’s hardware. These pre-positioned access points permit later access by NSA into «hard target» networks around the world.

NSA names its strategic partners in its «collect-it-all», codenamed ASPHALT operations, around the world. These are AT&T, EDS, Qwest, H-P, Motorola, Cisco, Qualcomm, Oracle, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, and Verizon. In all, over 80 «major global corporations» support NSA’s worldwide collection efforts. With corporate cooperation, NSA captures Internet data from seven «international choke point» access sites in the continental United States. Their cover names are Breckenridge, Tahoe, and Sun Valley on the U.S. West Coast; Whistler in the South; and Killington, Coppermountain, and Maverick on the East Coast.

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2014/05/182014/05/18

Jon Rappoport: The Next US False Flag? – Bio-Terror Using Toxic Chemical That Kills and Then Dissipates?

02 Infectious Disease, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Security, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Law Enforcement, Military, Officers Call

How they would stage a bioterror event

There are future scenarios which, with enough exposure before they happen, can be stopped, or at least analyzed correctly when they occur.

A staged bioterror event is one of those.

The primary fact is: no matter what kind of germ you’re talking about or where it came from, releasing it intentionally does not guarantee predictable results.

For instance, people whose immune systems are at different levels of strength are going to react differently.

The perpetrators may find that less than 2% of people exposed get sick and die.

But there is another strategy that should be understood:

The use of a germ as a cover story for a chemical.

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