Who’s Afraid of the Internet? Elites panic as information control flounders

Corbett • 05/20/2015 • https://www.corbettreport.com/whos-afraid-of-the-internet-elites-panic-as-information-control-flounders/

by James Corbett
TheInternationalForecaster.com
May 20, 2015
Do you want the good news first or the bad news?
Alright, here’s the bad news: Google is about to start ranking sites according to their conformity with mainstream opinion. Or at least that’s what the headlines would have you believe.
The usual sources in the controlled corporate media are telling you that this is a good thing and that only “Anti-science advocates are freaking out about Google truth rankings,” but if that seems like a remarkably blase attitude to take when facing the prospect of a 1984-like reality where the modern-age Ministry of Truth (Google) is going to determine the “truth” of controversial subjects and rank search results accordingly, then keep in mind that such articles are written by the likes of Joanna Rothkopf, daughter of mini-Kissinger and author of “Superclass,” David Rothkopf.
New Scientist–the website that broke the story with their article “Google wants to rank websites based on facts not links“–also framed the story, predictably enough, as “science” versus “anti-science,” starting their article by lamenting the fact that “Anti-vaccination websites make the front page of Google, and fact-free ‘news’ stories spread like wildfire.” The article rejoices in the fact that the good chaps at Google have come up with a bulletproof answer to this mess: “rank websites according to their truthfulness.”
The slightly good news is that, ironically enough, the New Scientist article seems to be a perfect example of a fact-free story spreading around the internet like wildfire. While the story does link to a research paper from a Google research team that outlines a “novel multi-layer probabilistic model” for assigning a “trustworthiness score” to web pages, it neglects to mention that the idea is still very much a theoretical work-in-progress at the moment and is nowhere near ready to be launched. If you have a fetish for multivariate equations, dynamically selected granularity, and line graphs comparing calibration curves for various data analysis methods, have at it! For the rest of us who are not fluent in boffin-speak, the gist of it is this:

Pictured: Some light bedtime reading from your friends at Google

First, a page is harvested for its “knowledge triples.” These are connected triplets of information consisting of a subject, predicate and object. The paper itself helpfully provides the example: Obama – Nationality – USA. A “false value” (again according to the paper itself) would be Obama – Nationality – Kenya. These knowledge triples are assessed for their (Google-determined) accuracy and the page is assigned a KBT (Knowledge-Based Trust) score, which Google could use in place of (or perhaps in some combination with) the traditional PageRank score to determine how high in the search results the web page should place.
The paper uses a list of 15 gossip websites to demonstrate that using this method, sites with disputed and often incorrect information (gossip sites) might rank high in traditional search results, which are weighted toward popularity, but low in the KBT results. But even the paper itself admits there’s a long way to go before this KBT method would be usable by Google to rank billions of web pages.
This is good news for those alt media websites (and their readers) who realize that they are the ones directly in the crosshairs of this technology. Given that Google is nothing other than an American intelligence adjunct (and has been since its inception), would we expect anything resembling a fair assessment of the “truthfulness” surrounding the most politically controversial subjects of our time?
The Federal Reserve is a private cartel created by the banksters for the express purpose of manipulating the money supply and controlling the economy? CONSPIRACY THEORY! No Google for you!
Governments always and throughout history use false flag terrorism in order to justify their wars of aggression? SLANDER! Do not pass go, do not collect $200, go directly to the bottom of the search results!
Google and every other major Silicon Valley firm is in bed with the DOD and/or the CIA and/or the NSA? BLASPHEMY! You have been excommunicated from the church of Google.
You get the idea.
But here’s the really good news: even if Google does launch such a system, it is doomed to failure. The internet is one of the last, best bastions of the free market in action that we have in our stultified, regulated, controlled, manipulated economy. Google’s popularity did not come about because government goons pointed a gun at everyone’s head and forced them to use it. They didn’t even create a licensing system for operating search engines, a favorite government trick for keeping genuine competition out of the market. It became popular because it was a million times more useful than AskJeeves or Yahoo! or any of the other outdated, clunky, dysfunctional search “portals” that dominated the web in the late 1990s. Granted, the power of Google’s PageRank may have come directly from the NSA’s own engineers, as some have speculated, but the fact remains: people use it because they can find what they want quickly and easily with minimal fuss.
At that point at which Google stops being useful for its intended purpose (helping people to look for information), people will start to look for alternatives. And alternatives do exist.
Ixquick.com is a privacy-protecting search engine that returns results drawn from a wide range of other search engines.
DuckDuckGo is another popular alternative search engine focusing on privacy protection that uses a number of innovative tools to make searching quicker and easier.
SigTruth is an “Alternative Media Search Engine for Liberty Minded People” that uses Google’s own custom search abilities against itself by returning only alt media website results on various topics.
And even the news that Google might at some point start using its “truthiness” score to downgrade the alt media has spurred others in the alt media (like Mike Adams) to announce the creation of their own search engines.
This is how the free market of ideas is meant to work, and if and when Google starts returning sanitized propaganda, those who are uninterested in sanitized propaganda will vote with their feet (fingertips?).
But here’s the best news of all: what this urge to categorize sites by “truthfulness” (and all of the back-slapping, high-fiving articles about this news from the dying establishment mouthpiece media) really shows is just how desperate the would-be gatekeepers are becoming in their fight to put the alt media genie back in the bottle. And even better yet, this is by no means the first sign that the gatekeepers are losing their war to keep the people in the dark on the topics that matter.
In 2008, arch-globalist Zbigniew Brzezinski started lamenting how, for the first time in human history “all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive.” This, as he stressed in speeches and articles at the time, means that it is no longer possible to dominate people in the same ways that they have been dominated for centuries.
In 2011, Hillary Clinton admitted that the US was losing the information war to alternative media outlets of all stripes.
In 2013, PopularScience.com had to turn off comments on all of their articles because, they said, a “decades-long war on expertise has eroded the popular consensus on a wide variety of scientifically validated topics” like catastrophic man-made climate change.
And poll after poll after poll in year after year after year continues to chart the decline of the dinosaur print/radio/tv media and the rise of the internet as a source of daily news and information for the majority of the public.
Yes, there are dark skies and reasons to be concerned about what’s coming in the inevitable digital clampdown. But there are bright spots as well, and these deserve to be noted, highlighted and celebrated. After all, the people have had a taste for real information and now more people than ever before see through the increasingly clumsy propaganda of the establishment. And that makes the propaganda increasingly useless for setting the political agenda.
The internet revolution toothpaste is out of the tube, and it’s going to be one heck of a job getting it back in. And that’s good news.

On the 911 Money Trail

 These foreign leaders were not alone in their conviction that insider trading had taken place... (O)ther academics as well as well-known options traders like Jon Najarian all expressed their belief that investors had traded on advance knowledge of the attacks.

September 5 2015, By James Corbett//http://theinternationalforecaster.com/International_Forecaster_Weekly/On_the_911_Money_Trail

Max Keiser & Guest Talk About 9/11 Insider Trading - 4/3/2014

On September 12, 2001, before the dust had even settled on Ground Zero, the Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation into a chilling proposition: that an unknown group of traders with advance knowledge of the 9/11 plot had made millions betting against the companies involved in the attacks.

    As Antonio Mora of ABC News explained on September 20, 2001:
    “What many Wall Street analysts believe is that the terrorists made bets that a number of stocks would see their prices fall. They did so by buying what they call 'puts.' If you bet right the rewards can be huge. The risks are also huge unless you know something bad is going to happen to the company you're betting against.

    “One example, United Airlines. The Thursday before the attack more than two thousand contracts betting that the stock would go down were purchased. Ninety times more in one day than in three weeks. When the markets reopened, United's stock dropped, the price of the contracts soared and someone may have made a lot of money, fast.”

    Although the put options on American and United Airlines are usually cited in reference to the 9/11 insider trading, these trades only represent a fraction of the suspicious trades leading up to the attack. Between August 20th and September 10th, abnormally large spikes in put option activity appeared in trades involving dozens of different companies whose stocks plunged after the attack including Boeing, Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Munich Re and the AXA Group.

    Traders weren’t just betting against the companies whose stocks dove after 9/11, however. There was also a six-fold increase in call options on the stock of defence contractor Raytheon on the day before 9/11. The options allowed the traders to buy Raytheon stock at $25. Within a week of the attack, as the American military began deploying the Raytheon-supplied Tomohawk missiles they would eventually use in the invasion of Afghanistan, the company’s share price had shot up 37% to over $34.

    The SEC weren't the only ones interested in this particular 9/11 money trail, either. Investigations into potential insider trading before the attacks were opened by authorities around the globe, from Belgium to France to Germany to Switzerland to Japan. It wasn't long before this global financial manhunt started yielding clues on the trail of the terror traders.

    On September 17th Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Martino, addressing Italian Consob's own investigation into potential 9/11 trading, said: "I think that there are terrorist states and organizations behind speculation on the international markets."

    By September 24th the Belgian Finance Minister, Didier Reynders, was confident enough to publicly announce Belgium's "strong suspicions that British markets may have been used for transactions."

    The president of Germany's central bank, Ernst Welteke, was the most adamant: "What we found makes us sure that people connected to the terrorists must have been trying to profit from this tragedy."

    These foreign leaders were not alone in their conviction that insider trading had taken place. University of Chicago finance professor George Constantinides, Columbia University law professor John Coffee, Duke University law professor James Cox and other academics as well as well-known options traders like Jon Najarian all expressed their belief that investors had traded on advance knowledge of the attacks.

    The scale of the SEC investigation was unprecedented. Examining over 9.5 million securities transactions, including stocks and options in 103 different companies trading in 7 markets, 32 exchange traded funds, and stock indices. The probe drew on the assistance of the legal and compliance staff of the 20 largest trading firms and the regulatory authorities in ten foreign governments. The Commission coordinated its investigation with the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the Department of the Treasury.

    The result of this investigation?
    "We have not developed any evidence suggesting that those who had advance knowledge of the September 11 attacks traded on the basis of that information."

    Although this sounds like the investigation did not find evidence of insider trading, a second look reveals the trick; they are not saying that there was no insider trading, only that there is no evidence that "those who had advance knowledge of the September 11 attacks" participated in such trading. But this begs the question: who had that advance knowledge, and how did the SEC determine this?

    The 9/11 Commission Report begs the question even more blatantly in their treatment of the anomalous put option activity on United Airlines stock on September 6: 95% of the puts were placed by "a single U.S.-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda." Again, it is taken as a foregone conclusion that a lack of ties to "al Qaeda" means there could not have been advance knowledge of the attack, even if evidence of insider trading took place.

    To be sure, insider trading almost certainly did take place in the weeks before 9/11. Although some have used the commission report to conclude that the story was debunked, the intervening years have seen the release of not one, not two, but three separate scientific papers concluding with high probability that the anomalous trading was the result of advance knowledge.

    In "Unusual Option Market Activity and the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001" University of Chicago professor Allen Poteshman concluded: "Examination of the option trading leading up to September 11 reveals that there was an unusually high level of put buying. This finding is consistent with informed investors having traded options in advance of the attacks."

    In "Detecting Abnormal Trading Activities in Option Markets" researchers at the University of Zurich used econometric methods to confirm unusual put option activity on the stocks of key airlines, banks and re-insurers in the weeks prior to 9/11.

    And in "Was There Abnormal Trading in the S&P 500 Index Options Prior to the September 11 Attacks?" a team of researchers concluded that abnormal activity in the S&P index options market around the time of the attack "is consistent with insiders anticipating the 9-11 attacks."

    The only question, then, is who was profiting from these trades and why was no one ever indicted for their participation in them?
    One lead is pursued by researcher and author Kevin Ryan. In "Evidence for Informed Trading on the Attacks of September 11" he examines an FBI briefing document from 2003 that was declassified in 2009. It describes the results of FBI investigations into two of the pre-9/11 trades that the Bureau had identified as suspicious, including the purchase of 56,000 shares of Stratesec in the days prior to 9/11. Stratesec provided security systems to airports (including, ironically, Dulles Airport, as well as the World Trade Center and United Airlines), and saw its share price almost double when the markets re-opened on September 17th, 2001.

    The trades traced back to a couple whose names are redacted from the memo, but are easily identifiable from the unredacted information: Mr. and Mrs. Wirt D. Walker III, a distant relative of the Bush family and business partner of Marvin Bush, the president's brother. The document notes that the pair were never even interviewed as part of the investigation because it had "revealed no ties to terrorism or other negative information."

    In addition to begging the question, this characterization is provably false. As Ryan notes:
    "Wirt Walker was connected to people who had connections to al Qaeda. For example, Stratesec director James Abrahamson was the business partner of Mansoor Ijaz, who claimed on several occasions to be able to contact Osama bin Laden. Additionally, Walker hired a number of Stratesec employees away from a subsidiary of The Carlyle Group called BDM International, which ran secret (black) projects for government agencies. The Carlyle Group was partly financed by members of the bin Laden family."

    More importantly, and not coincidentally, Walker has multiple connections to the Central Intelligence Agency.

    "Mr. Walker ran a number of suspicious companies that went bankrupt, including Stratesec, some of which were underwritten by a company run by a first cousin of former CIA director (and President) George H.W. Bush. Additionally, Walker was the child of a CIA employee and his first job was at an investment firm run by former US intelligence guru, James 'Russ' Forgan, where he worked with another former CIA director, William Casey."

    Was this why the FBI thought better of questioning him over his highly profitable purchase of Stratesec shares right before 9/11?
    The CIA figures prominently in another line of investigation. One suspicious United Airlines put option purchase that was investigated by the FBI involved a 2,500 contract order for puts in the days before 9/11. Instead of processing the purchase through United Airlines' home exchange, the Chicago Board of Options Exchange, the order was split into five 500 contract chunks and run through five different option exhchanges simultaneously. The unusual order was brokered by Deutsch Bank Alex. Brown, a firm that until 1998 was chaired by A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard, a former consultant to CIA director James Woolsey who at the time of 9/11 was himself the Executive Director of the CIA.

    According to researcher Michael Ruppert, Krongard's job at the brokerage "was to oversee 'private client relations.' In this capacity he had direct hands-on relations with some of the wealthiest people in the world in a kind of specialized banking operation that has been identified by the U.S. Senate and other investigators as being closely connected to the laundering of drug money."

    Perhaps the most frank admission of insider trading is notable for three things: it was recorded on video, it has never been investigated by any agency or law enforcement official, and it was made by former CIA agent and frequent foreign policy commentator Robert Baer, the real-life inspiration for the character portrayed by George Clooney in "Syriana." Talking to citizen journalists after a speaking event in Los Angeles in 2008, Baer was recorded on video making a startling assertion about 9/11 insider trading: "I know the guy who went into his broker in San Diego and said 'cash me out, it's going down tomorrow." Questioned about the story, he added: "His brother worked at the White House."

    This truly remarkable statement bears further scrutiny. If Baer is to be believed, a former CIA agent has first-hand knowledge that a White House insider had foreknowledge of the attacks, and to this day not only has Baer never revealed the identity of this person, but no one has questioned him about his statement or even attempted to pursue this lead.

    So how is it possible that the SEC overlooked, ignored, or simply chose not to pursue such leads in their investigation? The only possible answer, of course, is that the investigation was deliberately steered away from such persons of interest and any connections that would lead back to foreknowledge by government agencies, federal agents, or their associates in the business world.

    Unfortunately we will likely never see documentary evidence of that from the Commission itself. One researcher requesting access under the Freedom of Information Act to the documentary evidence that the 9/11 Commission used to conclude there had been no insider trading received a response that stated "that the potentially responsive records have been destroyed."

    Instead, we are left with sources that refuse to be identified saying that CBOE records of pre-9/11 options trading have been destroyed and second-hand accounts of traders who had heard talk of an event in advance of 9/11.

    In a round-about way, perhaps the 9/11 Commission reveals more than it lets on when it tries to dismiss key insider trades with the pithy observation that the traders had no conceivable ties to Al Qaeda. If those with foreknowledge of the attacks weren't connected to Al Qaeda, what does that say about the identity of the real 9/11 perpetrators?

Stratesec’s Walker and His Top Secret Business Partners

Posted on May 17, 2015 by Kevin Ryan

Recently it was noticed that Wirt Walker, a 9/11-insider trading suspect who ran security for several of the impacted facilities, now works with men who were, prior to 9/11, key players in national defense and terrorism response. Given the role that Stratesec played and the relationships between suspects already revealed, this seems more than coincidental. Moreover, these men have top-secret clearances, which further suggests that Walker is a covert operative.
Walker, the son of a CIA and DIA agent, was managing director for the Kuwait-American Corporation (KuwAm). This led to his management of Stratesec as well as other KuwAm subsidiaries that have surprising connections to 9/11. Stratesec had contracts to provide security services not only for the World Trade Center (WTC), but also for United Airlines, which owned two of the planes hijacked on 9/11, and Dulles Airport, where American Airlines Flight 77 took off that day.
Walker’s employee Barry McDaniel, the Chief Operating Officer of Stratesec, went from providing security at the WTC to starting a business with one of Dick Cheney’s closest colleagues. The fact that McDaniel is now working with an old partner of Cheney, who as vice president on 9/11 oversaw the failure of the nation’s defenses, raises many interesting questions.
The same kinds of questions can be asked about Walker’s current coworkers. Today, Walker runs Ecohawk Tech Services, an “applied technology company.” The company shares the same address in Leesburg, Virginia as Walker’s other company, Vortex Asset Enhancement. And as with the many other firms registered by Walker, it’s not really clear what the company actually does.
The only other director of Ecohawk Tech is David W. Hearding, a former military officer. Like other associates of Walker and McDaniel, Hearding has a top secret/SCI security clearance, sometimes called “above top secret.” Why Walker and McDaniel, presumably simple businessmen, are associated with so many secretive individuals can only be guessed.
Until August 2001, Hearding served as the liaison between the commander of U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) and the Joint Staff Office of the Secretary of Defense. Just weeks after Hearding left for a job at SRS Technologies, his STRATCOM office was in the midst of coordinating coincidental military exercises, President Bush’s flight on 9/11, and dispatches of the “doomsday plane.” It appears that, due to the exercises, STRATCOM experienced communications problems and confusion that hindered the air defenses.
EcoHawk is a subsidiary of Walker’s company Eigerhawk. At Eigerhawk, Walker works with Peter H. B. Lejeune, who has been called an expert on terrorism. Lejeune lectures on terrorism and consequence management at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute.
In the years before and after 9/11, Lejeune contributed to several books on terrorism and was considered to be among the nation’s foremost experts. One of his books included a chapter from George Tenet, who was director of the CIA on 9/11. Another contributor to the same book, which had a photo of the smoking WTC towers on the cover, was Michael Sheehan, National Security Council advisor to George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Lejeune’s chapter in the book quoted 9/11 suspect Brian Michael Jenkins as saying, “Terrorists want a lot of witnesses, not a lot of dead.” Jenkins, who designed the WTC security system that Stratesec implemented, is also known to have a history with Miles Kara, who produced the ever-changing stories about the air defense failures on 9/11.
Another surprising thing about Walker’s new partner Lejeune is that he was the Director of Emergency Planning and Response for New York City. From 1978 to 1982, Lejeune ran the City’s emergency response office that later evolved into the Office of Emergency Management under 9/11 suspect Rudy Giuliani. Of course, Lejeune holds top-secret security clearances too so it’s unlikely that he can say much about it.
Lejeune has worked with many of the military contractors that benefited from 9/11. He has also worked directly with the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and U.S. intelligence communities. Additionally, he is a Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. Coincidentally, one of Lejeune’s fellow Fellows there, former SEAL Ken Hamilton, “served as the Air Defense Officer reporting to Commander, U.S. Second Fleet in response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11.”
Walker and Lejeune have other coworkers at Eigerhawk but it’s difficult to find out much about them. It’s almost as if they were trying to keep a low profile. For example, Aharon Zer, an Israeli financier, is said to have “managed the United States investment activities for an international private business, investment, and trading company.” That seems intentionally vague and therefore details about Zer and his past should draw the attention of 9/11 researchers.
The directors of WTC security companies were an interesting bunch, to be sure. People may remember that Terry McAuliffe, current governor of Virginia, was a director for a WTC security company. However, considering Stratesec’s role “up to the day the buildings fell down,” as McDaniel attested, its leaders and their colleagues are of most interest. Since Walker’s new business partners Hearding and Lejeune have strong links to organizations that were impacted on 9/11, as well as top-secret security clearances, investigators should seek more information about them. If another major terrorist attack occurs, it should not be surprising to find many of the same people in the vicinity of the crime.http://digwithin.net/2015/05/17/top-secret/

Large Strange Microwave Energy Pulse Hits Planet Earth -- Destroys storm near NZ | Dutchsinse ~ hehe the "play~in " 'round wit shit ( think CERN & ??? ) got's nut~in ta do wit shit Humm ...naww nut~in 2 "C" here folks ..move a~long http://sitsshow.blogspot.ca/2015/09/large-strange-microwave-energy-pulse.html

Large Strange Microwave Energy Pulse Hits Planet Earth -- Destroys storm near NZ | Dutchsinse   ~  hehe the "play~in " 'round wit shit ( think CERN & ??? ) got's nut~in ta do wit shit Humm  ...naww nut~in 2  "C" here folks ..move a~long     http://sitsshow.blogspot.ca/2015/09/large-strange-microwave-energy-pulse.html

Dutch was able to find evidence of a very strange microwave energy pulse hitting the earth. 

It has already been demonstrated that prior to some earthquakes, there are higher levels of microwave activity. Could this be evidence of artificial earthquake producing technology? It could be.

In the following related article by David Wilcock, he reviews several pieces of evidence suggesting that there have been disasters produced using energetic technology. 

Related David Wilcock - Terrifying Global Events: Triggers for Mass Awakening?

- Justin

https://youtu.be/8nzBvi-J3L4

Published on Sep 3, 2015
A very large, oddly shaped, and long duration pulse of energy appeared on the Morphed Microwave Background Imagery (MIMIC TPW).

http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time...

http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time...

The large energy pulse was detected and decoded by the computer as actual "precipitation" or lack thereof... showing up along the same frequency bandwidths that the moisture returns reflect. The energy causes a false return to show up temporarily in the shape of the incoming waveform.

The odd nature of the energy pulse is matched by the odd locations of the start/finish of the pulse.

Appearing to begin to form over the Pacific ocean, the pulse travels down to a fine spiral point off the coast of New Zealand, going directly into the CENTER OF THE STORM there. After being hit by the spiral shaped pulse , the storm vaporized off the coast of New Zealand.

The pulse appeared to resonate like a radio frequency signal, and travel across Asia (North Indian ocean along the equator) towards the central Mid-Atlantic ocean.

The pulse then takes a new shape over the Canary Islands, and resonates out over the Atlantic like a sine-wave.

The ripples of the energy pulse really do appear like long waveforms seen on an oscilloscope ( a device used to observe electrical frequency and radio frequency waveforms).

Could this be something coming in at Earth from outer space? Yes. Could it be man made? Yes. Could it just be some kind of strange data error? In my opinion, no... not an error in light of the other times we've seen energy pulses having a direct storm effect.

See the previous energy pulses here, and my smearing on the international news over in Asia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogpNc...

http://dutchsinse.com/weather-modific...
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New Zealand is a known magnetic conjugate point for the HAARP IRI in Gakona Alaska!

http://nova.stanford.edu/~vlf/buoy/lo...

CHINA AND RUSSIA BUILDING DATABASE OF POTENTIAL US INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVES?

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Joseph P. Farrell • http://gizadeathstar.com/2015/09/china-and-russia-building-database-of-potential-us-intelligence-operatives/

Given yesterday's blog about the most recent explosion of a chemical plant in China and the inevitable speculations about covert activities that it raises, I thought, in that context, that the following article, shared by Mr. S.D., was highly significant, and deserved some commentary:
Russia and China could be 'making it impossible for the US to hide' its intelligence activities
Let's look at a few crucial paragraphs:

The intelligence community fears that sort of a database could be used to identify, profile, track, and potentially blackmail or recruit US intelligence operatives around the world.
Digital analysis of the data can reveal "who is an intelligence officer, who travels where, when, who's got financial difficulties, who's got medical issues, [to] put together a common picture," William Evanina, the top counterintelligence official for the US intelligence community, told the Times.
In recent months, hackers linked to the Chinese government have stolen data on millions of Americans via the US Office of Personnel Management, which holds US security clearance background checks; the health-insurance giant Anthem; and two major airlines, United and American.

And towards the end of the article, this:

Still, "the combination of information [the hackers] obtained from OPM with the travel information they now have from United [Airlines] is hugely powerful" for the Chinese, Aitel told Business Insider last month, "and it will make the kind of work the CIA does much more difficult."

Aitel noted that the hackers' breach of United Airlines was especially significant, as it's the main airline in and out of Washington, D.C.'s Dulles International — the nearest international airport to the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

"Every CIA employee and visitor coming from abroad flies in and out of Dulles, and chances are they're flying United," Aitel told Business Insider.
"Cross-referencing names contained in the OPM, IRS, and other caches would expose identities of US personnel working abroad under commercial or diplomatic cover," Robert Caruso, a former US Navy special security officer who has worked in security at the US State and Defense departments, told Business Insider via email.(emphasis added)

And finally, this:

"We need to assume China has hacked every database" at this point, Aitel said. "Anything China competes with, they hack first. Economic sanctions is the obvious response, and it's long overdue."(emphasis added)

Adding all this up, and one has a definite cyber-warfare scenario that is taking place: American meddling in the Ukraine, countered by Russian hacking; Chinese devaluations of the yuan, possible American covert responses in blowing up Chinese industrial plants, Chinese response in hacking a variety of databases that could, upon analysis, identify likely American covert operatives, followed by American calls for economic sanctions on China.

Stop and ponder that last one, for a moment, and the huge implications it might have. For one thing, you can forget - at least momentarily - all those cheap (and cheaply made) Chinese goods at Walmart-Wally World. Wally World might, indeed, be forced back on the philosophy of its founder, Sam Walton, who wanted (for a time at least) to carry nothing but American manufactured goods. At the minimum, it would mean a huge loss of income for China, and, if carried out over a prolonged time, could lead to a re-industrialization of the West as manufacturing returned home, or, alternatively, pulled out of China and went elsewhere, like Africa. It would also, inevitably, lead to Chinese retaliation of some sort, perhaps an even more massive sell-off of US sovereign securities than we have seen thus far, or perhaps another devaluation of the yuan. It would certainly lead to stepped up Chinese cyber-espionage. Additionally, such actions would place the ball firmaly in Europe's court, and a choice would have to be made, one with long term implications: choose the devil you know (the USA), or the devil you don't (China and the east). The short term prospects would favor the one you know; the longer term prospects, the one you don't.

But it's the cyber-warfare aspects of this that most intrigue me. Clearly, China and Russia have built up their cyber-espionage capabilities, and are choosing the vulnerable "soft targets" such as the Office of Personnel Management, the Pentagon email system, airline manifests. But this suggests inevitably that the real capabilities against hard and "secure" targets, like the NSA's system, the NAtional Reconnaissance Office's system, and so on, might be better than imagine, but that these capabilities will not be revealed until the game goes "warm" if not "hot." So why would either Russia or China risk even the minimum revelations of their capabilties that we've already seen?

The answer reveals itself as soon as the question is asked: it's because, from their point of view, the war has already gone "warm" (the Ukraine) if not "hot"(the chemicals plants explosions), and the identification of those covert operatives' networks is now, for them, a matter of life and death and therefore of their national security. Additionally, and more importantly, it allows the identification of counterespionage capabilities, capabilities that would have to be known in detail, if one were contemplating covert operations of one's one.

After all, and as I've said many times, two can play the covert operations, color revolution game, and if this high octane reading of the tea leaves is correct, then China and Russia might be getting ready to play it. And in a digital world, the safest thing remains analogue. Perhaps this is why they're not going "cashless" and buying so much gold?

MK ULTRA HIPSTERS 2.0

• Posted on September 2, 2015
• by Ron Patton
• in Articles

MK ULTRA HIPSTERS 2.0

There have been throughout contemporary history scores of skeptics and debunkers who have tried to silence the conspiracy theorists. Many of the so-called skeptics claim to have open minds about some of conspiracy theories but somehow manage to have on the surface a disdain for what they feel is absurdity and irrationality on the part of those who believe in such things.
Now, it has to be said that there have been many conspiracy theories which remain mysteries with all kinds of dots connecting and lines intersecting that make for compelling discussions.
However, there are at times many observers that will absolutely not allow any talk of conspiracies where the government of the United States plotted and carried out clandestine operations and experiments on its own people.
Well, for those that doubt conspiracy theories, I want to reacquaint you with one theory that has now been revealed to be true.
For 20 years from 1953 to 1973, the American Central Intelligence Agency funded and conducted tests on human subjects, both with and without their knowledge, in an effort to control minds and personalities for the purpose of espionage.
In order to trace the roots of this organized conspiracy, we have to take on a Godwin argument that most certainly has legs. The history of these experiments can be traced all the way back to the Nazi’s that used hallucinogenic drugs to conduct repugnant mind control experiments during World War II.

After dosing the inmates at Dachau with Mescaline and other psychedelics, the Nazis could force their subjects to reveal their most intimate secrets. At war’s end, U.S. Military Intelligence uncovered evidence of the Nazi mind control experiments and rather than calling the deplorable and sadistic, decided to apply them for their own intelligence operations.
By 1953, the CIA’s own massive and notorious mind control experiments were in full swing. Hypnosis and drugs produced the “best” results and the CIA was satisfied that the drug of choice was LSD-25 or Lysergic Acid Diethylamide.
The project was called MK Ultra. The letters MK in the project name referred to the Technical Services Division that oversaw the project and ULTRA was a security classification applied to top-secret intelligence.
In the early days of MK Ultra, while using “plausible deniability of the uses, the CIA hid behind the “science” explanation as to why they were giving their own agents the drug.
However, LSD was only part of what they were doing to agents and to citizens of the United States.
In addition to drugs, the program included 149 sub-projects that involved radiological implants, hypnosis and subliminal persuasion, electroshock therapy and isolation techniques. More than 30 universities and institutions participated in CIA-funded research, though not all were aware the spy agency was their benefactor, because funding was sometimes laundered through “front” organizations.
Dr. Frank Olson worked for the US Army’s Chemical Corps Special Operations Division. His job was to do all kinds of suspicious experiments for the CIA. Many of these experiments dealt with the disruption of brain function in order to create a sleeper-zombie assassin or what is now called a Manchurian Candidate.

The scope of the experimentation was outlined in a memorandum dated January 1952 that asked: “Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature such as self preservation?”
Olson worked on methods of spreading anthrax and other toxins by aerosol; which was sprayed on unsuspecting Americans by airplane.
Some of his colleagues were involved in mind control drugs and torture techniques. At the time, the CIA was testing “truth serums” and other torture drugs on people they felt were expendable.
On November 28, 1953, an early morning smash of glass was heard and Armand Pastore, who was the night manager at the Statler Hotel at the time, rushed out the front door.
There sprawled out on the sidewalk of Seventh Avenue was Olson in his undershirt and shorts. His broken body was bent at a terrible angle and his legs were crushed. Olson had fallen from the 10th floor after crashing through a closed window.
He was still alive and in great pain. Olson tried to mumble something and Pastore couldn’t make out what he was saying. By the time an ambulance could arrive, Olson was dead.
Pastore ran up to Olson’s room on the 10th floor.
In the room was a man named Robert Lashbrook. He was in the bathroom, sitting on the toilet with his head in his hands. For many years the death of Olson was to remain classified. His death was determined to be a suicide.
After 22 years of a cover-up, investigations and an exhumation of Olson’s remains showed that he was murdered. Olson suffered a blow to the head and was pushed out of the 10th floor window. In the investigation it has to be noted that two familiar names showed up on memo’s from President Gerald Ford’s offices.
The memos were from none other than Dick Cheney, who was a White House assistant at the time, and to Donald Rumsfeld, the chief of staff. The memo detailed that any lawsuit served by the Olson family for damages might make it necessary to disclose highly-classified national security information.
While many people question the motives of government officials and speculate on their agendas, it needs to be pointed out that both Rumsfeld and Cheney have this uncanny ability to cover up murders carried out by secret intelligence cabals.
These groups are carrying out intelligence programs whose objectives are murdering those deemed collateral damage. We should pay attention to the stories of the past and notice the methods of the experimentation on human guinea pigs.
The experimentation included the use of drugs, and aerosol spraying of biological weapons. These experiments also dealt with the effects of electromagnetic fields on the human brain.
Now how do we know about these cases and who was involved?
The MK Ultra program was first revealed in 1975 during the Church Committee hearings led by Senator Frank Church. The committee is now called the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

The Church hearings investigated previously unknown and illegal activities of the NSA, the CIA and the FBI, all brought forward by whistleblowers. It is unfortunate that now some people see whistleblowers as traitors and pawns for political agendas.
It is now argued that nothing has changed since 1975 and even though the program was shut down in 1973, it is believed that rogue operatives are still conducting mind control operations and creating sleeper assassins in order to carry out mass shootings and bombings in order to keep The United States in a fit of trauma and terror.
In this state of mind, Americans can be open for suggestion, and coercion by the government or any other entity with an agenda of taking away human rights for the idea of “safety.”
MK Ultra may or may not be in operation, however, there are several operations being overseen by several alphabet agencies and DARPA that are looking into the creation of the super soldier or “trained military assets.” These new operations are now absconding from LSD usage and are now conducting experiments in sleep research, neuro-pharmaceutical performance enhancement, and using “brain-computer interfaces.”
There are now new drugs that promote “brain plasticity” rewiring the mind, essentially, by helping to “permanently establishing new neural pathways, and thus new cognitive capabilities. Brain plasticity creates changes in behavior, perceived environment, neural processes, thinking, and emotions – as well as changes resulting from bodily injury.
In a bit of what can be seen as a modern piece of predictive programming and what is being called a “comedy,” a new film called “American Ultra” where an unassuming convenience store clerk, and hipster-stoner realizes that he has become a target for the CIA.

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He is not exactly sure why he has ended up in their crosshairs, until he starts questioning is life -who he really is and why he is being harassed and why agents want to take his life.
Well with a title like American Ultra you can figure out what this movie is trying to reveal.
That perhaps there is a new “mind control” program that’s latest subproject involves the recruiting of convicts, psychotics and felons into a rehabilitation method where their memories are erased, new “programming” installed and new identities created. They are then uprooted and placed in new towns unaware they can be reactivated by handlers trained by the CIA or some other alphabet agency.
It is also seemingly a blatant message that Hollywood is sending, especially after speculations about programmed assassins responsible for Columbine, Sandy Hook, The Virginia Tech Massacre, and the James Holmes Aurora Dark Knight Theater shooting.
It is important to note that the main character in the movie American Ultra, does not really remember his past and that most of the agents in film call him a 400 million dollar “puppy” – which is a euphemism for a super soldier assassin.
James Holmes, the suspected killer in the Aurora ‘Dark Knight’ shootings, was found to be part of a U.S. government research project headed by the Salk Institute that included neurologically enhancing soldiers’ abilities on the battlefield.

The project was also over seen by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the central research and development organization for the United States Department of Defense.
As Wayne Madsen wrote back in the summer of 2012:
“Holmes was one of six recipients of a National Institutes of Health Neuroscience Training Grant at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Denver. Holmes is a graduate of the University of California at Riverside with a Bachelor of Science degree in neuroscience. Although Holmes dropped out of the PhD neuroscience program at Anschutz in June, police evacuated two buildings at the Anschutz center after the massacre at the Aurora movie theater. Holmes reportedly gave a presentation at the Anschutz campus in May on Micro DNA Biomarkers in a class titled “Biological Basis of Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders.”
In 2006, at the age of 18, Holmes served as a research intern at the Salk Institute at the University of California at San Diego in La Jolla. It is noteworthy that for the previous two years before Holmes worked at the Salk Institute, the research center was partnered with the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Columbia University, University of California at San Francisco, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wake Forest University, and the Mars Company (the manufacturers of Milky Way and Snickers bars) to prevent fatigue in combat troops through the enhanced use of epicatechina, a blood flow-increasing and blood vessel-dilating anti-oxidant flavanol found in cocoa and, particularly, in dark chocolate.
The research was part of a larger DARPA program known as the “Peak Soldier Performance Program,” which involved creating brain-machine interfaces for battlefield use, including human-robotic bionics for legs, arms, and eyes. DARPA works closely with the Defense Science Office on projects that include the medical research community. Fitzsimons Army Medical Center was at the forefront of DARPA research on the use of brain-connected “neuroprosthetic” limbs for soldiers whose limbs were amputated or paralyzed in combat.”
It is also interesting to note that Vester Lee Flannigan the shooter who killed a news reporter and her camera man on live television said that he admired the shooters who massacred students at Columbine High School and at Virginia Tech, However, according to a manifesto allegedly written by Flannigan, it was the murders in Charleston, South Carolina that triggered his anger and that is when he purchased a firearm.
Some believe that the Virginia tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho, who shot his victims some 25 miles away from Roanoke, was also a victim of a mind control super soldier program.
Cho’s sister worked for a State Department contractor with toes to the Department of Defense called McNeil Technologies. They are linked to military training, classified military operations defense intelligence, and Human Intel Ops. They also provide front line security at sensitive classified facilities.
Virginia Tech hosts “The Farm,” where mind control experimentation is conducted under the aegis of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. When the massacre occurred in April of 2007, Virginia Tech was involved in an earlier stage of Operation Noble Resolve.
Cho killed 32 people and then turned the gun on himself. When his body was removed from the scene he had on his arm the words ISMAIL AX.
Some believe that Cho was triggered by reading Daniel Quinn’s book, Ishmael. The book paints a grim commentary about planet earth and how humans are destroying it. In the book, a gorilla seeks out and recruits humans to save the planet. It depicts humans as the enemy to the world and that the world does not belong to them.
When Cho sent a manifesto to NBC news before his rampage, he signed it, “A. Ishmael.”
All of these incidents all ignited the “gun control” debate and also fueled accusation of “false flag” or “hoax stories” when there could be an element of the newest breed of misfit hipster sleeper assassins that are merely collateral damage in the quest for a super soldier with brain plasticity.
National intelligence agencies are now the authority in this country and it seems that they are the ones who approve what is truth. What falls through the cracks is the ooze and paranoid conspiracy theory that we are told to avoid because it is just not American to be a paranoid collector of the muck that is left behind from the deceit that we have been given.
Now it is being shown on the big screen that perhaps your stoner hipster or EMO misunderstood artist is now a soldier that has been brainwashed and ready to do battle in battlefield America.