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'Fortress America' focuses on future of siege mentality

By Stephen Lyons, Special for USA TODAY



Imagine a chip implanted in your body that carries all your pertinent information as well as your current body temperature and, of course, your exact location.

Brzezinski's question: How much disruption will the American people tolerate as its government tries to find "the balance between security and liberty"?

Sounds harmless when applied in commerce to track shipments or in the livestock industry to monitor animals.

But when the idea is broached of injecting the chip into political prisoners, as is rumored in China, or into convicted sex offenders, a proposal in this country, then the name of George Orwell quickly surfaces.


Fortress America

By Matthew Brzezinski

Bantam, 256 pp., $25

Matthew Brzezinski explores this high-tech surveillance technology and other new and often frightening frontiers in a post-9/11 USA in his riveting Fortress America.

A siege mentality — a maximum security state similar to Israel — is emerging in the USA, he says.

The manufacture of such sophisticated hardware as the RFID — radio frequency identification — is easy, but moving it into place and solving delicate legal issues before another terrorist attack is the tricky part.

"The technological and legal foundations for blanket surveillance had already been laid in 2003," Brzezinski writes. "All that was lacking was the political and social will to bring all this technological wizardry to bear in the war on terror. It wouldn't happen overnight or without another catastrophic incident, something that upped the ante and put America in the same survival mode on par with Israel: a nuclear detonation, a biological outbreak, a mass casualty event. But if the stakes were high enough, would we be more willing to accept life in a maximum security surveillance state?"

As for RFID, the future is here. Brzezinski writes, "Special Ops forces reportedly had tiny chips injected in their hips on sensitive missions where they could not wear dog tags."

The former foreign correspondent at The Wall Street Journal and the nephew of Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser under President Jimmy Carter, Brzezinski takes readers inside a mock drill with first responders in Denver, to a simulation of an emergency session of the National Security Council and to the inner sanctums of the Department of Homeland Security.

And as the 9/11 Commission reported, Brzezinski confirms that the USA is vulnerable to attacks on its under-protected chemical and natural gas depots.

Readers are asked to contemplate the unthinkable. One doctor tells Brzezinski, "If I were al Qaeda I'd send twenty terrorist martyrs infected with smallpox or pneumonic plague to crisscross the country on as many domestic flights as possible." Brzezinski writes that "75 million people could be infected" within a month's time from the suicide infectors.

At the heart of Brzezinski's solid reporting and evenhanded summaries is this question: How much disruption will the American people tolerate as its government tries to find "the balance between security and liberty"?

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2004-09-27-fortress-america_x.htm

:)))

OT neni to Kosmodisk? .)

Na internetu se spekuluje o tom, zda měl Bush při diskuzi sluchátko
(4.10.04)

Řada diváků, sledujících duel Bush versus Kerry (aneb zlo versus zlo,) si v televizním záběru všimla podivné vybouleniny na Bushově saku vzadu. Viz foto - klikněte si na odkaz.

Diváci rovněž upozorňují na zámlky v jeho projevu, i když to u Bushe není žádná novinka.

Byl-li Bush opravdu napojen na vnější mozek a dostával v průběhu debaty rozumy do sluchátka, se samozřejmě nikdy nedovíme.

Je mi toho Bushova týmu někdy skoro líto. Udržet loutku živou a vytvářet neustále dojem její inteligence dá zabrat.



http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=321

There is no such thing, at this date in the world’s history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it.

There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print.

I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street looking for another job.

If I allowed my honest opinion to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.

You know it and I know it.

And what folly is this - toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes.

We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance.

Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men.

We are intellectual prostitutes.”

John Swinton - New York Times - New York Press Club

Who is dumb enough to swallow this ?

http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_members&Number=292992249

Here is a classic

The mysterious child bomber

http://home.att.net/~professorboris/SPECTRE/7yrold.htm

Voľby v USA: výsledky vraj sfalšuje aj opica

O päť týždňov bude tretina zo 150 miliónov Američanov voliť svojho nového prezidenta nie označením papierového lístka, ale elektronicky, jedným dotykom obrazovky špeciálneho volebného zariadenia. O päť týždňov sa môže odohrať čokoľvek, no jeden scenár je zďaleka najmenej pravdepodobný - že voľby prebehnú bez problémov a nikto nespochybní ich výsledky.

http://www.sme.sk/clanok-1767422.html

Syria, at UN, Says Israel Behind U.S. War on Iraq

Mon Sep 27, 2004 12:17 PM ET

http://news.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6344049

By Irwin Arieff

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria on Monday accused Israel of inciting the United States to invade Iraq to distract attention from its own actions in the region, where it retains its grip on the Palestinian territories won in a 1967 war.

Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara used his country's annual address to the U.N. General Assembly opening debate to deliver a fierce critique of Israeli policy, as the Jewish state accused Damascus of "directing terrorism" and threatened preemptive strikes against militants on its territory.

Shara accused Israel of refusing to comply with 40 Security Council resolutions and hundreds of General Assembly resolutions demanding that Israel withdraw from the Palestinian territories as a step toward a Middle East peace. Washington had used Baghdad's noncompliance with U.N. resolutions as one of its rationales for the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Instead, Shara said, Israel had built up a nuclear arsenal, expanded Jewish settlements on Palestinian lands, built a "racist segregation wall," which Israel says is intended to keep out suicide bombers, transformed its army into "armed gangs bent on systematic killings and war crimes" and shunned the peace process, "despite the hand extended in peace by the Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese."

Hours before Shara spoke, Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Zeev Boim called Syria "a central junction in regional terrorism" and accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of being involved in it "as a traffic officer."

Syria had earlier accused Israel of terrorism after a Palestinian Hamas militant died in a car bombing on Sunday in Damascus.

The United Nations had been of little help in resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict, which was as old as the world body itself, Shara said.

Despite the adoption of over 600 resolutions on the subject, Israel "did not implement a single one of them, and continues to find protection inside and outside the United Nations," he said.

"We are convinced that success in this endeavor will remain elusive unless these resolutions are implemented and peace is restored in accordance with the aspirations of the people of the region and the world," he said.

© Reuters 2004. All Rights Reserved.

Israel says it will consider everything to stop Iran from

http://www.fox23news.com/news/world/story.aspx?content_id=0A155CF8-5B65-42E2-8FD2-F86CE887B828

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's defense minister says his government will consider "every option" to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

He also tells an Israeli newspaper the country must be prepared to deal with what he called the Iranian "threat."

Iran announced last week that it has started converting raw uranium into the gas needed for enrichment, an important step in making a nuclear bomb. It did that in defiance of a demand by the U-N nuclear watchdog agency for Iran to freeze all uranium enrichment.

Israel considers Iran its most dangerous enemy and worries that Iran's nuclear weapons program is intended as a threat against it.

Prime Minister Sharon says Israel is "taking measure to defend itself."

/////////// So, Israel attacks Iran, Russia comes in on Iran's side and Israel relies on the United States to protect it.

WW3.

http://ihned.cz/index.php?p=000000_nd&neris[action]=detail&neris[id]=22591815
Izraelsko-palestinské střety v pásmu Gazy eskalují

GAZA 30. září (ČTK) - Izraelská armáda v noci rozšířila svou ofenzivu v pásmu Gazy, jejímž cílem je pronásledování palestinských radikálů a snaha zabránit palestinským ozbrojencům v odpalování raket na izraelské území. Prozatímní bilance čtvrtečních střetů už činí nejméně tři mrtvé na každé straně, oznámily světové agentury.

Dva Palestinci vyzbrojení samopaly a pancéřovkami zaútočili ráno na izraelské kontrolní stanoviště u uprchlického tábora Džabálija. Zabit byl jeden izraelský voják a další dva byli zraněni, než se útočníky podařilo zneškodnit, potvrdil izraelský armádní zdroj.

Kolona izraelských tanků pak poprvé za dobu konfliktu pronikla až do centra tábora, který je baštou stovek palestinských ozbrojenců. Desítky jich také vyběhly do ulic tábora a zaujaly pozice, když se tanky blížily k tržišti pod deštěm vrhaných kamenů.

Další incident se odehrál na silnici spojujícími dvě židovské osady na severu pásma Gazy. Palestinští ozbrojenci tam napadli ze zálohy dva Izraelce a zabili je. Usmrcen byl i jeden z útočníků.

Izraelská armáda rozšířila svou ofenzivu na severu pásma Gazy na příkaz premiéra Ariela Šarona. Ten dal armádě za úkol vybudovat v dané oblasti nárazníkové pásmo, které by Palestincům zabránilo v odpalování raket Kásam na izraelské území.

Jedna z raket zasáhla ve čtvrtek město Sderot, kde zabila dvě předškolní děti. Byl to už 30. raketový útok Palestinců na Izrael za tento měsíc a izraelská média v souvislosti s vojenskou kampaní zmiňují i možnost mobilizace rezervistů.

Muž který prozradil izraelské jaderné zbraně
Osmnáct let vězení za pravdu
http://blisty.cz/2004/9/30/art19947.html

Pavel Kohout: Globální bankovní socialismus
Antiglobalisté jsou hloupí, že demonstrují proti Světové bance a měnovému fondu. Kdyby antiglobalisté rozuměli ekonomii, demonstrovali by svoji podporu těmto institucím.
http://ihned.cz/1-10072840-14971380-000000_d-48

Vojákům v Iráku už nechutná erární káva

24.09.2004 18:47 - Američtí vojáci už mají dost erární kávy, kterou do Iráku dodává firma Halliburton. Od personálu tamních kaváren žádají kvalitní zboží pana Cycona. Drobný americký obchodník s kávou ze státu Massachusetts tak nyní nečekaně zaznamenal zvýšený počet objednávek.

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e-mailem

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reklama

"Všiml jsem si, že mi přichází stále víc objednávek z Iráku, ale netušil jsem proč. Až jednou mne zaměstnankyně firmy Halliburton prostřednictvím elektronické pošty rovnou požádala, zda bych jí nemohl darovat několik balíků kávy," vzpomíná jednapadesátiletý bývalý advokát Dean Cycon.

Zmíněná dáma v irácké Fallúdži provozuje podnik, do něhož si chodí po službě oddechnout američtí vojáci. Mohou si zde zahrát stolní hry, ochladit se v klimatizovaném prostředí a objednat, co mají rádi.

"Ta dáma mi řekla na rovinu, že tamní káva je odporná a že hoši dávají přednost té mé. Musím se smát, když si uvědomím, že Halliburton dostává miliardy dolarů na to, aby zajistil zásobování jednotek v Iráku, a že jim musí trn z paty vytrhnout drobný obchodníček, jako jsem já. Morálka vojska je mi ale nade vše," meditoval jednapadesátiletý Cycon.

Mluvčí Halliburtonu tato polemika nad šálkem kávy udivila.

"Vaříme kávu podle doporučeného receptu armády. Za to, jak je káva silná nebo slabá, neneseme odpovědnost," bránila firmu.

Texaskou firmu Halliburton vedl v letech 1995-2000 nynější viceprezident Richard Cheney. Opoziční demokraté ji kritizovali, že získala v Iráku velké zakázky za kontroverzních okolností.

http://zpravy.idnes.cz/zpravy_irak.asp?r=zpravy_irak&c=A040924_184721_zpravy_irak_ton

MEDIA NEWS VS. INTERNET NEWS, NO WONDER PEOPLE ARE CONFUSED

By: Jim Moore

What is happening in the world is not as important as how we perceive what is happening.

-- Author unknown.

Being given two opposite viewpoints of anything is bound to induce head-scratching of epidemic proportions. Particularly if reasonably intelligent people, seeking to know the truth, are pelted day after day by two totally different versions of it.

Take the war in Iraq. We consistently get two "truthful" interpretations of it, one from the mass media---newspapers, radio, TV---the other from the internet, each giving us its own version about what is "really" going on over there.

Can both observations of the war in Iraq be true, at the same time? Not likely. Unless you live in Orwell.

vice:

http://www.etherzone.com/2004/moor092704.shtml

Patriot Act II

Final Piece of Police State Puzzle Ready

...

Many Democrats and civil libertarians charge the new PA II authorizes heavy-handed infringements on civil liberties. House Democratic leaders and civil liberties advocates said on Sept. 22 that the Republican bill ostensibly responding to the findings of the 9-11 commission would go well beyond the panel’s recommendations. It would call for broad new powers for law enforcement agencies, they said, and would include new authority to conduct electronic surveillance in terrorism investigations.

Among the provisions, said AP, are measures on the deportation of aliens who are suspected of being linked to foreign revolutionary groups which have been labeled as terrorists, mandatory pretrial detention for terrorism suspects, warrants against non-citizens even when a target can’t be tied to a foreign power and enhanced penalties for threats or attempts to use chemical or nuclear weapons.

....

But critics warn that the proposed law is aimed against the entire U.S. population, not a minority of Arab immigrants.

The proposal, they say, would grant the government the power to strip citizenship of native-born Americans and deport them without any evidence of wrongdoing, even though this would be contrary to the Constitution.

It would also allow for secret arrests, secret trials and secret torturing of “suspects.” Habeas corpus, Americans’ most sacred right, would be eliminated.

The law would also remove all restrictions on police spying on citizens.

...

This legislation would give the government the same power that Stalin and Julius Caesar gave themselves, said one detractor.

...

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/patriot_act.html

The police officer told Aaron, who is five months pregnant, to lower her voice. She told the officer he had no right to tell her how to speak into her cell phone.

Their verbal dispute quickly escalated, and Saoutis grabbed Aaron by the arm and pushed her to the ground. He handcuffed the 23-year-old woman, called for backup and took her to a cell where she was held for three hours before being released to her aunt. She was charged with two misdemeanors: "disorderly manner that disturbed the public peace" and resisting arrest. ,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A55325-2004Sep27?language=printer

USA Today is carrying an AP story that claims three years' worth of domestic satellite surveillance courtesy of a DoD agecy called the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Their work includes getting cooperation from entities pointing cameras onto private property such as hotels (all you HOPE and Defcon attendees, please wave for the camera). The agency seems to be taking the aw-shucks line on what they know and to what extent they evaluate the data they get, but it's clear that their mandate is seriously overpowering the oversight structures that would normally be watching it.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/27/1659236

++ U.S. Makes Spy Images Inside U.S.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65091,00.html