Echelon Spy Network Revealed

The Echelon spy network revealed

By Dark Politricks

This article has been taken from the BBC Website and I am reproducing it here, as it was from my old site and the article was not copied across when I moved here. So I used the Wayback Machine to get a copy. I did this in case the original ever disappears so that there is record of an “official”  news establishment admitting that such an all invasive privacy destroying system exists and has done so for quite a while.

By Andrew Bomford of BBC Radio 4′s PM programme

Imagine a global spying network that can eavesdrop on every single phone call, fax or e-mail, anywhere on the planet.

It sounds like science fiction, but it’s true.

Two of the chief protagonists – Britain and America – officially deny its existence. But the BBC has confirmation from the Australian Government that such a network really does exist and politicians on both sides of the Atlantic are calling for an inquiry.

On the North Yorkshire moors above Harrogate they can be seen for miles, but still they are shrouded in secrecy. Around 30 giant golf balls, known as radomes, rise from the US military base at Menwith Hill.

Linked to the NSA

Inside is the world’s most sophisticated eavesdropping technology, capable of listening-in to satellites high above the earth.

The base is linked directly to the headquarters of the US National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Mead in Maryland, and it is also linked to a series of other listening posts scattered across the world, like Britain’s own GCHQ.

The power of the network, codenamed Echelon, is astounding.

Every international telephone call, fax, e-mail, or radio transmission can be listened to by powerful computers capable of voice recognition. They home in on a long list of key words, or patterns of messages. They are looking for evidence of international crime, like terrorism.

Open Oz

The network is so secret that the British and American Governments refuse to admit that Echelon even exists. But another ally, Australia, has decided not to be so coy.

The man who oversees Australia’s security services, Inspector General of Intelligence and Security Bill Blick, has confirmed to the BBC that their Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) does form part of the network.

“As you would expect there are a large amount of radio communications floating around in the atmosphere, and agencies such as DSD collect those communications in the interests of their national security”, he said.

Asked if they are then passed on to countries like Britain and America, he said: “They might be in certain circumstances.”

But the system is so widespread all sorts of private communications, often of a sensitive commercial nature, are hoovered up and analysed.

Journalist Duncan Campbell has spent much of his life investigating Echelon. In a report commissioned by the European Parliament he produced evidence that the NSA snooped on phone calls from a French firm bidding for a contract in Brazil. They passed the information on to an American competitor, which won the contract.

“There’s no safeguards, no remedies, ” he said, “There’s nowhere you can go to say that they’ve been snooping on your international communications. Its a totally lawless world.”

Breaking the silence

Both Britain and America deny allegations like this, though they refuse to comment further. But one former US army intelligence officer has broken the code of silence.

Colonel Dan Smith told the BBC that while this is feasible, it is not official policy: 

“Technically they can scoop all this information up, sort through it, and find what it is that might be asked for,” he said. “But there is no policy to do this specifically in response to a particular company’s interests.”

Legislators on both sides of the Atlantic are beginning to sit up and take notice. Republican Congressman Bob Barr has persuaded congress to open hearings into these and other allegations.

In December he is coming to Britain to raise awareness of the issue. In an interview with the BBC he accused the NSA of conducting a broad “dragnet” of communications, and “invading the privacy of American citizens.”

He is joined in his concerns by a small number of politicians In Britain. Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker has tabled a series of questions about Menwith Hill, but has been met with a wall of silence.

“There’s no doubt it’s being used as a listening centre,” he said, “There’s no doubt it’s being used for US interests, and I’m not convinced that Britain’s interests are being best served by this.”

The original article on the BBC news site has actually been removed but you can still find a copy on the Wayback Machine Archive. I wouldn't be surprised if that site is removed soon due to "Cancel Culture", when people want all their Internet History "Scrubbed" from the web this is one site that they ask to have archived content remove from.

Here is a direct link to it > news.bbc.co.uk.

By Dark Politricks

© 2012 Dark Politricks

Russia could over run NATO forces in Europe within an hour

Russia could over run NATO forces in Europe within an hour

By Dark Politricks

Don't be scared but Russia could overrun the eastern European NATO forces within an hour and then be heading to Paris like Hitler on a tank within a day.

Even the US admit this.

So please let's not start a nuclear war with Russia over Syria?

Especially seeing on this occasion they are on the right side, fighting terrorists, stopping ISIL funding by destroying stolen oil being delivered to the corrupt Turkish regime and NATO ally, and giving the US a chance to pretend to have split the "moderate" anti-Assad forces (as if there are any), from the hardcore al-Nusra, Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, al-Qaeda, ISIL groups.

However after extensive studies they found they only had 4 or 5 moderate anti Assad rebels trained up to fight.

Really that shouldn't take a lot of sorting out then really.

However in this different video its gone up to 10. Still not that hard to separate from the nutters?

It looks like we have a lot of moderate rebels to use against Assad doesn't it. No wonder the Axis of War carries on supporting ISIL as they are the only game in town for them.

It's getting very crowded in the Med with a Russian fleet and US, UK, French and Israeli ships all firing missiles into Syria.

Surely this madness has to stop soon before WWIII breaks out.



You know the terrorists we told where to attack a load of Syrian and Russian troops the other year and killed over 60 of them.....ooops sorry, we said, as Russia shot missiles straight into our base of operations killing US, UK, Mossad and other ISIL collaborators with them,

Things are getting dangerous out there.


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By Dark Politricks


© 2016 Dark Politricks

Russia could over run NATO forces in Europe within an hour

Russia could over run NATO forces in Europe within an hour

By Dark Politricks

Hey everybody, don't be scared but Russia could overrun the eastern European NATO forces within an hour and then be heading to Paris like Hitler on a tank within a day.

Even the US admit this.

So please not start a nuclear war with Rusia over Syria?

Especially seeing on this occasion they are on the right side, fighting terrorists, stopping ISIL funding by destroying stolen oil being delivered to the corrupt Turkish regime and NATO ally, and giving the US a chance to pretend to have split the "moderate" anti-Assad forces (as if there are any), from the hardcore al-Nusra, Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, al-Qaeda, ISIL groups.

However after extensive studies they found they only had 4 or 5 moderate anti Assad rebels trained up to fight.

Really that shouldn't take a lot of sorting out then really.

However in this different video its gone up to 10. Still not that hard to separate from the nutters?

It looks like we have a lot of moderate rebels to use against Assad doesn't it. No wonder we carry on supporting ISIL as they are the only game in town.


You know the terrorists we told where to attack a load of Syrian and Russian troops last week and killed over 60 of them.....ooops sorry, we said, as Russia shot missiles straight into our base of operations killing US, UK, Mossad and other ISIL collaborators with them,

Things are getting murky.

 


View the original article on www.darkpolitricks.com.

By Dark Politricks


© 2016 Dark Politricks

The total hypocrisy when it comes to mouring over our own victims

The total hypocrisy when it comes to mouring over our own victims

By Dark Politricks

First off I would like to wish you all a Happy Christmas and I hope you have enjoyed reading this blog as much as I have enjoyed writing for it.

However not everyone today will be celebrating a happy Christmas. Not after the recent massacre in America, the terrible wars around the Middle East and the people dying at the hands of our military industrial complex.

After the Sandy Hook School Massacre America the rest of the western world, and probably much of the world we are not busy bombing and killing children in, cried for the victims if they heard about it in the news.

20 innocent children dead and 6 adults. What is not to be sad about there.

Now I am not looking at the causes of the massacre, the psychotic drugs, the availability of guns, the debate about  gun control or anything to do with the ease that someone can walk into a school and kill so many people - so quickly.

What I want to do is compare is the way we mourn and send out condolences and our best wishes to the victims of families in our own country to how we treat the child victims of our never ending war of terror i.e the US drone strikes that happen across the world on an almost daily basis.

From Pakistan to Yemen, from Somalia to Afghanistan the USA is killing 49 innocent people for every 1 "bad guy" with the use of their drones.

Because of the lack of mainstream media coverage, and the constant propaganda that these drone strikes are "surgical" and any civilian deaths are justified "collateral damage", we don't get to see the same close up personal tragedy and family stories of the victims as we do when it's our own children being shot dead.

We don't see the dead bodies involved in the drone strikes, the families grieving, the tears and all the outrage that must be felt by the victims families who had done nothing wrong except be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I spoke about the indoctrination we are all being fed the other day. In my eyes there is no worse form of indoctrination than that which conditions the new generation of soldiers - the Predator drone fliers. Brought up on a diet of PlayStation games that make them see shooting dozens of people dead as "fun" and "playful".

These game playing kids then go and work for the US military and sit behind screens in Las Vegas before killing people halfway across the world using similar controllers to the PlayStation's that they are so used to.

Maybe there was some psychology doctor that helped design the controllers thinking that the sub-conscious link the flier had between the job and the games they were so used to would make it "easier" to kill real life pixels as opposed to fake ones. Maybe it helped them relate their job to the "fun" they had playing "shoot the bad guy" at home.

"We modeled the controller after the PlayStation because that’s what these eighteen-, nineteen-year-old Marines have been playing with pretty much all of their lives.” - Unnamed military robotics researcher (source: Wired for War)

When FOX News and all the rest of the war machine propaganda tells you that we "don't kill kids" or that our drone strikes are very surgical and that we avoid the deaths of innocent people whenever possible they ARE LYING TO YOU!

This is an excerpt from a report about drone strikes that was reported by the German paper Der Spiegel and is mentioned in the video. It tells the story of how drone fliers in Las Vegas killed a child and when they started to question their actions they were told the victim was not a child but a dog - a two legged one at that. A conscience must be a hard thing to have working with drones.

A drone flier described a drone strike in the following words

"Bryant and his coworkers sat in front of  14 computer monitors and four keyboards. When Byrant pressed a button in New Mexico, someone died on the other side of the world. He remembers once incident very clearly when a Predator drone was circling in a figure-eight pattern in the sky above Afghanistan .... with seven seconds left to  go, there was no-one to be seen on the ground. Bryant could still have diverted the missile at that point. Then it was down to three seconds. Bryant felt as if he had to count each individual pixel on the monitor. Suddenly a child walked around the corner, he says.

Second zero was the the moment in which Bryant's digital world collided with the real one in a village between Baghlan and Mazar-e-Sharif. Byrant saw a flash on the screen: the explosion. Parts of the building collapsed. The child had disappeared. Bryant had a sick feeling in his stomach.

"Did we just kill a kid?" he asked the man sitting next to him.

"Yeah I guess that was a kid", the pilot replied

"Was that a kid" they wrote in the chat window on the monitor,

Then someone they didn't know answered, someone sitting in a military command center somewhere in the world who had observed the attack. "No that was a dog" the person wrote.

They reviewed the scene on a video. A dog on two legs?" - Der Spiegel

However it doesn't really matter in the US Defense Department's eyes whether it was a kid or not as long as he was over 8 years old as they have classified any male over the age of 8 as an enemy combatant until proven otherwise.

That means they can kill 8 year old boys and say they were terrorists unless their family make it all the way to a US embassy or military headquarters to prove otherwise - not very likely is it. No wonder they say their strike rates are so accurate when kids are legitimate targets.

What also riles me about the drone strikes is the lack of real reporting on the ground. If there were actual real reporters doing their job rather than sucking off heads of departments then maybe the people at home might know what is being done in their name.

Instead all we hear is how great the drones are. We never get to see the bodies and the grieving families like we do after a US school massacre. However the kids ages are the same, the names may be different but they are still someone's child.

One Yemeni reporter who tried reporting on the actual real nature of the casualties after a drone strike was sent to prison afterwards for trying to tell the truth. When the new President came in there was hope he was going to be released as the public were outraged that he was imprisoned for telling the true story of how drone strikes ruin peoples lives.

What stopped him from being released?

A phone call from President Obama.

He told the Yemeni President, or more likely blackmailed him with increased aid budget dollars fresh of the printing presses, to keep him in prison as he was a "terrorist". He didn't want real reports of the deaths and mayhem caused by the US's war of terror being told to people. No he preferred the propaganda and spin that everything was rosy and bright and the drone strikes shot sunbeams and flowers on the innocent whilst only killing those evil CIA linked al-Qaeda terrorists.

Yes that is your President America - someone who would rather a reporter who tries to tell the truth about your drone strike war rots in prison than have any real reporting of the casualties get out and be read by the American public.

And if you are sitting there thinking I don't really care OR they are all Muslims and terrorists - it doesn't matter if children and women get killed in the process. Then I ask you this:

Do you call yourself a Christian?

Are you celebrating Christmas today?

And if the answer is yes then ask yourself would Jesus discriminate between the deaths of children in Pakistan or Yemen and those in America?

Are not all innocent deaths equally sad and tragic?

Would Jesus only be crying over the deaths in a US school or would he see all child murders the same?

Is God as hypocritical and biased as some in the US Government are?

And if you are not a Christian then just be aware that these amazing drones are coming home to you. In fact they are already patrolling your skies.

How long will it be until police forces that are already planning to fly drones in the skies above your houses like those in Seattle or the Montgomery County Police Department who has just purchased a $300,000 Vanguard Shadowhawk drone with a grant provided by the Department of Homeland Security start to use deadly weapons on them instead of just cameras?

This Vanguard Shadowhawk drone has the capability to shoot tear gas and rubber bullets, as well as "taser projectiles."  How long before it is fitted with automatic machine guns and other deadly weapons.

As the ACLU Website says:

U.S. law enforcement is greatly expanding its use of domestic drones for surveillance. Routine aerial surveillance would profoundly change the character of public life in America. Rules must be put in place to ensure that we can enjoy the benefits of this new technology without bringing us closer to a “surveillance society” in which our every move is monitored, tracked, recorded, and scrutinized by the government. Drone manufacturers are also considering offering police the option of arming these remote-controlled aircraft with (nonlethal for now) weapons like rubber bullets, Tasers, and tear gas.

And a recent article entitled the coming drone attack on America explains how the US Government has recently allowed for the expansion of drones after a massive lobbying effort by the military industrial complex to use the technology at home.  I wonder how many Congressmen they really do have in their pockets?

"In February of this year, Congress passed the FAA Reauthorization Act, with its provision to deploy fleets of drones domestically. Jennifer Lynch, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, notes that this followed a major lobbying effort, "a huge push by […] the defense sector" to promote the use of drones in American skies: 30,000 of them are expected to be in use by 2020, some as small as hummingbirds – meaning that you won't necessarily see them, tracking your meeting with your fellow-activists, with your accountant or your congressman, or filming your cruising the bars or your assignation with your lover, as its video-gathering whirs." - The coming drone attack on America

Therefore if you are dismissive of foreign drone attacks killing innocent people then what will you think when the LAPD or NYPD start killing, tasering or firing rubber bullets into crowds of protesters or kill the wrong person due to bad decision making.

With all the corporations and banks considering buying their own drones, who will know for sure that a drone that fired a lethal shot at an Occupy protester was owned by a police force or a bank just trying to rid it's path protesters?

And if you don't worry about the government spying on you as you are in the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear brigade" then just think how easy it is for a terrorist living down your street to build a drone out of a remote control helicopter or plane and add a basic payload system to it.

Don't believe me - watch this video and be afraid, be very afraid!

Then ask yourself why you don't care as much about all the innocent deaths across the world caused by the US military killing 8 year old "enemy combatants" as you do with school children killed by your brilliant health system and your 2nd amendment gun rights.

Is it because you are hypocritical or is it because you just don't care about the drones coming back home to spy and attack US citizens.




View the original article "Happy Christmas – And the hypocrisy of only caring about “our” own victims" at my main site www.darkpolitricks.com.