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Friday, May 21st, 2010
HOMELAND INSECURITY
Foreign ‘terrorists’ breach U.S. border
Illegals coming from Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria, Yemen
Posted: May 20, 2010
10:55 pm Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
Almost nine years after terrorists murdered 2,751 people on Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. is still facing a major threat as hundreds of illegal aliens from countries known to support and sponsor terrorism sneak across the U.S.-Mexico border.
U.S. Mexico border in New Mexico. Only a small strand of barbed wire separates the two countries. (photo: 2006 congressional report)
‘Special-interest countries’ and ‘sponsors of terror’
Thousands of illegal aliens apprehended along the 2,000 mile border stretching through California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas aren’t even from Mexico. The U.S. Border Patrol calls them "Other Than Mexicans," or OTMs, and many are citizens of countries that are sponsors of terrorism.
Is the American Southwest about to be lost? Read about the realities, in "Conquest of Aztlan"
A 2006 congressional report on border threats, titled "A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border" and prepared by the House Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Investigations, indicated that 1.2 million illegal aliens were apprehended in 2005 alone, and 165,000 of those were from countries other than Mexico. Approximately 650 were from "special interest countries," or nations the Border Patrol defines as "designated by the intelligence community as countries that could export individuals that could bring harm to our country in the way of terrorism."
Illegal aliens from Central America ride atop a freight train leaving Arriaga, Mexico, en route to the U.S. (photo: Hogar de la Misericordia, or Home of Mercy)
Atlanta’s WSB-TV2 aired a segment on U.S. border security after it obtained records from a federal detention center near Phoenix, Ariz., and found current listings for illegal aliens from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Sudan and Yemen.
"We have left the back door to the United States open," former Rep. J.D. Hayworth told the station. "We have to understand that there are definitely people who mean to do us harm who have crossed that border."
WSB-TV 2 published a population breakdown from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement staging facility in Florence, Ariz., dated April 15, 2010, which includes detainees from as far away as Afghanistan, Armenia, Bosnia, Egypt, Ghana, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kenya, Morocco, Pakistan, Sudan, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Botswana, Turkey and many other countries.
Based on U.S. Border Patrol statistics, there were 30,147 OTMs apprehended in fiscal year 2003; 44, 614 in fiscal year 2004; 165,178 in fiscal year 2005; and 108,025 in fiscal year 2006. Most were caught along the U.S. Southwest border.
According to the Department of Homeland Security’s 2008 Yearbook of Immigration Studies, from the Office of Immigration Statistics, federal law enforcement agencies detained 791,568 deportable aliens in fiscal year 2008 – and 5,506 of them were from 14 "special-interest countries."
The State Department lists the following as "special-interest countries": Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen.
The following "special-interest countries" are listed as sponsors of terror: Cuba, Sudan, Syria and Iran.
The aliens were apprehended "at the borders of the United States, in the interior of the country and at designated sites outside of the United States." The 2008 yearbook lists 791,568 deportable aliens by country (Page 97). Some include:
Afghanistan: 29
Algeria: 41
Cuba: 3,896
Iran: 98
Iraq: 118
Lebanon: 188
Libya: 11
Nigeria: 299
Pakistan: 494
Saudi Arabia: 71
Somalia: 66
Sudan: 46
Syria: 71
Yemen: 78
According to the Government Accountability Office, "The Border Patrol reported that in fiscal year 2008, checkpoints encountered 530 aliens from special-interest countries."
Foreign ‘terrorists’ breach U.S. border
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Canadian Forces Crowd Confrontation Operations Manual
[22 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
This manual is based on the precept that crowd confrontation situations could occur on any CF operation. The doctrine has been
designed to facilitate the use of CCO as a unique operation, which may be a subset of any other CF operation. Where peace support operations (PSO), domestic operations, or armed conflict examples are used, the concepts presented are intended to cover all operations. The manual stresses that the CCO hierarchy can be applied during any operation to assist in the decisions of what equipment to acquire or deploy and what training is to be based on.
Intelligence-Led Policing: The New Intelligence Architecture
[22 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
Intelligence operations have been reviewed, studied, and slowly but steadily transformed. Most efforts have focused on reorganizing intelligence infrastructures at the federal level; however, corresponding efforts have been made to enhance state and local law enforcement intelligence operations. Such enhancements make it possible for state and local law enforcement agencies to play a role in homeland security. Perhaps more important, improvements to intelligence operations help local law enforcement respond to “traditional” crimes more effectively.
DHS Biosecurity Infrastructure Protection Assessments and Activities Brief
[22 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
FOUO DHS Biosecurity Infrastructure Protection Assessments and Activities Brief, August 2009.
FEMA Composite Enterprise Architecture Overview
[21 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
FEMA Composite Enterprise Architecture Overview “The Direction of FEMA’s EA”, June 8, 2009.
FEMA Exercise Modeling & Simulation Briefing
[21 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
FEMA Exercise Modeling & Simulation Briefing from the National Exercise Simulation Center (NESC), March 4, 2010.
(U//FOUO) 2009 Presidential Inaugural NSSE Brief
[20 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
FEMA 2009 Presidential Inaugural NSSE Brief, January 14, 2010.
Colorado Multiyear Training and Exercise Plan 2010-2012
[19 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
The purpose of the Multiyear Training and Exercise Plan (TEP) is to provide a follow-on companion document to the Colorado Homeland Security Strategy and the priorities set by the State Improvement Planning Workshop. It is a living document that will be updated and refined annually. The Multiyear TEP provides a roadmap for Colorado to follow in accomplishing the priorities described in the Homeland Security Strategy through effective trainings and exercises.
Virginia Fusion Center Educational Facilities Threat Assessment
[19 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
The purpose of this Threat Assessment is to convey potential threats to educational facilities and related assets in the Commonwealth of Virginia in order to prevent terrorist and insider attacks as well as to increase awareness regarding available threat information. It is anticipated that this assessment will assist homeland security personnel in understanding the potential vulnerabilities to public and private schools, colleges, and universities in order to further assist in responding effectively to an educational facility-related incident. This assessment describes insider threats as well as those posed by domestic extremist and international terrorist groups.
(U//FOUO) DHS/DOJ Fusion Process Analytic Skills & Knowledge Review
[18 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
To facilitate the development of a nationwide, integrated, inter-connected fusion center capability, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) National Preparedness Directorate (NPD) and the Office of Intelligence & Analysis (I&A) and the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) have partnered to develop and deploy the Fusion Process Technical Assistance Program. This program has been developed in coordination with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI); the Office of the Program Manager, Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE); the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and experts from the State and local community—including the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global), the Criminal
Intelligence Coordinating Council (CICC), and the Global Intelligence Working Group (GIWG).
U.S. DOJ-FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy 2011 Draft
[18 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
Law enforcement needs timely and secure access to services that provide data wherever and whenever for stopping and reducing crime. In response to these needs, the Advisory Policy Board (APB) recommended to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division authorize the expansion of the existing security management structure in 1998. Administered through a shared management philosophy, the CJIS Security Policy contains information security requirements, guidelines, and agreements reflecting the will of law enforcement and criminal justice agencies for protecting the sources, transmission, storage, and generation of Criminal Justice Information (CJI); and the Personally Identifiable Information derived from CJI.
TSA Swiss-Made Miniature Gun Warning
[17 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
The ATF has issued an officer safety advisory on what is called the world’s smallest gun after a CBS 2 inquiry. The Alert has been issued both in the New York and nationally to all Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives criminal investigators and will be passed on to other federal agencies. The ATF has confiscated thousands of disguised or miniature guns from flashlights that shoot a .25 caliber bullet to pen guns. The latest miniature gun that is alarming the ATF community is the Swiss MiniGun.
Florida HIDTA K2-”Spice” Drug Alert Report
[17 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
K2, or SPICE, is a new illicit drug product that has begun to appear in a limited number of drug markets in the United States. This product is a small package of herbal blends and appears to be treated with differing versions of synthetic Cannabinoids. Effects are reportedly analogous to marijuana but include additional dangers to users such as panic attacks, heart palpitations, hallucinations, delusions, vomiting, increased agitation, dilated pupils, and other symptoms.
Canadian Forces Land Operations Manual
[17 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
The doctrine within publication recognizes that in order to reach enduring operational and strategic end states, the root causes of a conflict must be addressed in light of the given environment and its influencing elements and systems. To this end, land forces do not simply undertake physical activities and effects against adversarial forces. Land forces apply their capabilities to complete a combination of physical activities and influence activities that create effects on the physical and psychological lanes. In doing so, a wide range of targets is engaged. This range will certainly include adversaries, but also other groups, systems, and
individuals within the battlespace and environment that play a role in reaching the operational and campaign objectives and end states.
7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Command Operations Brief
[17 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
FOUO 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Command Operations Brief, May 14, 2009.
SEC Goldman Sachs Securities Fraud Complaint
[16 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
The Commission brings this securities fraud action against Goldman, Sachs & Co. (“GS&Co”) and a GS&C6 employee, Fabrice Tourre (“Tourre”), for making materially misleading statements and omissions in connection with a synthetic collateralized debt obligation (“CDO”) GS&Co structured and marketed to investors. This synthetic CDO, ABACUS 2007ACI, was tied to the performance of subprime residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”) and was structured and marketed by GS&Co in early 2007 when the United States housing market and related securities were beginning to show signs of distress. Synthetic CDOs like ABACUS 2007-ACI contributed to the recent financial crisis by magnifying losses associated with the downturn in the United States housing market.
U.S. Army Combined Arms Center: Afghan Counterinsurgency Lessons Brief
[16 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
FOUO U.S. Army Combined Arms Center: Afghan Counterinsurgency Lessons Brief, February 17, 2010.
U.S. Army Combined Arms Center: Afghan Counterinsurgency Overview Brief
[16 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
FOUO U.S. Army Combined Arms Center: Afghan Counterinsurgency Overview Brief, February 17, 2010.
(U//FOUO) U.S. Forces – Iraq Armed Civilian Contractor Oversight Operations Order
[14 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
Eight FOUO documents comprising the U.S. Forces – Iraq Armed Civilian Contractor Oversight Operations Orders from January-March 2010.
U.S. Forces – Iraq Private Security Contractors (PSC) Registration Requirements
[14 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
1. (U) SITUATION: USF-I, DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND NUMEROUS OTHER ENTITIES IN IRAQ HAVE CONTRACTED SECURITY OPERATIONS FOR FORWARD OPERATING BASES (FOB) AND PERSONAL SECURITY DETAILS (PSD) TO PRIVATE SECURITY CONTRACTORS (PSC). GOVERNMENT OF IRAQ, MINISTRY OF INTERIOR (MOI) HAS IN RECENT MONTHS INDICATED THAT CONTRACTED SECURITY COMPANIES ARE NOT OPERATING WITH THE THE PURVIEW OF ESTABLISHED LAW.
FEMA Requests Removal of National Level Exercise 2010 (NLE 10) Document
[14 Apr 2010 | 8 Comments | ]
On April 13, 2010, we received a message from Danny Rains who is an investigator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the “Office of Security” requesting the removal of a document entitled “National Level Exercise 2010 (NLE 10) Exercise Overview”. The ten page document, which is described in FEMA’s request as “very sensitive”, consists of approximately 20 PowerPoint slides including the title page and was published nearly seven months ago on August 8, 2009. The document is labeled “For Official Use Only” and is marked as a draft copy. The contents of the brief are basically a calender of potential dates for the exercise and very brief descriptions of some preliminary plans for the exercise. The document has already been seen by a large number of people and has been discussed on a variety of websites and forums, including mirrors in some cases.
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Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Richard Sawyer
Sott.net
Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:32 EDT
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Airport Security is a Racket!
We are a world at war. Not wars against nations as US Major General Smedley Darlington Butler was referring to when he wrote War is a Racket in 1935. Our war is a never-ending perpetual War Against Terror™, a phrase repeated ad nauseum by the Bush administration since 9/11, where you were either with the Neocons or "you were with the terrorists". Stasi-like draconian surveillance has merged with cutting edge technology to watch, catalog, record the movements, interactions, behavior, communications and interests of every citizen. In this world of precrime we are now treated as if we are potential terrorists. Whether it be a domestic extremist or a radicalized dissenter, there is a phantom enemy in our midst that is only revealed to the world when it enters the duty-free zone at airports. Where trenches marked the front-lines of in wars the past, the front-line in today’s perpetual war is the airport boarding gate.
A multi-billion dollar industry has spawned surveillance and security systems with a supporting army of guards, agents, supervisors and security personnel. They keep us in line and keep us safe from the omnipresent threat of an ubiquitous, all-pervasive mythical terror. Thrust at us by a compliant media are over-hyped and sensationalized reports, hysterical speeches and horrifying attacks that almost very nearly happen or, as we are told, WILL happen, sometime soon, and are all so big and so scary that you must place your water bottle in the bin and take your shoes off to survive. It’s all designed to paralyze our senses and reduce us to strip-searched carcasses as we sleepwalk along the travelators through naked scanners…
Airport security is a racket. It always has been.
It is one of the newest, most highly profitable and surely the most invasive and humiliating. And it is international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in clothing, privacy and dignity.
The Airport Security racket is best described, I believe, as the promise of safety from the illusory climate of fear that appears real to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group of politicians and corporations know that not to be true. It is conducted for the benefit of this elitist club, at the expense of everyone who dares to travel. A few people are making huge fortunes from the War on Terror™
1. Airport Security is a racket
Although it may not at first glance appear so, the racket is a simple one: Tech companies have products and services they want to sell. These products haven’t actually been proven effective in terms of providing ‘security’, but with government partnerships a need is created through fear-based marketing to convince the general populous that they are needed for their own safety.
A classic example of fear-based marketing is seen with multinational disinfectant manufacturers using terrifying adverts that show bacteria lurking on every surface to scare the public into believing they are not safe without obsessive hand-washing and surface disinfecting.
Rohit Bhargava writes:
Fear marketers paint the picture of what your life might be like if you don’t get their product. They play into already existing fears, or paint new ones that consumers may never have considered. The end result is the consumer perception that the advertised product or service is a necessity to keep their family safe, make their life less dangerous, or avoid a situation they dread. But should we do it? Doesn’t this type of marketing just add to the plague of society, fostering fear and making us a weaker people as a result? Probably – but the problem with fear marketing is that it often works.
In the above example, yes it does work. The net result is a modification of consumer habits, profits for the companies despite increasing concerns over whether the increased use of these products is in fact damaging to health.
Last year’s over-hyped swine flu fiasco is another very good example of collusion between Big Pharma, the World Health Organization and Governments to use scare tactics and an artificial sense of urgency to market vaccines and hygiene products to terrified consumers. As we saw later, the threat that manifested was nothing like the apocalyptic predictions being made by the very people and organizations who gained financially. In many cases the inoculations caused far more harm than the virus itself.
The Airport Security Industry behaves in similar ways to sell its products to Government agencies. The companies use various lobbying methods, sweeteners and backhanders to sell the need for their products to governments who in turn use fear-based marketing to sell the validity investments to their taxpayers.
This is where the spin-off impact of the War on Terror™ is being used to full effect, the roots of which are well documented and the subject of several must-see documentaries that shed light on the merger of geopolitics, psychological marketing techniques and corporations.
The film producer Adam Curtis provides us with two such compelling documentaries that are essential background viewing. The first, The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear is a three part documentary first broadcast in 2004 on the BBC. The films compare the rise of the Neo-Conservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamic movement, making comparisons on their origins and highlighting similarities between the two. With extensive supporting archive footage, it presents a strong case that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda™, is a myth perpetuated by politicians in many countries – but particularly by American Neo-Conservatives – in an attempt to unite and subvert their people against the perceived failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies.
The second recommend documentary: ‘The Century of the Self‘ analyzes the different conceptions of the self in the twentieth century, and how these conceptions were ultimately used by corporations to manipulate consumers into purchasing their products. Curtis is justifiably critical of corporate capitalism and the story he tells about the relationship between the differing conceptions of individualism and the capitalist, democratic institutions (corporations and governments) which organize themselves around these conceptions.
The documentaries together provide valuable historical insight into how the War of Terror™ meme was, and still is – albeit under a more subtle re-branded format – publicised ad infinitum. By creating a climate of fear, corporations in cahoots with governments firstly persuade us that the fear is real and secondly modify our behavior to accept decreases in civil liberties and submit to new security technology such as full body scanning that they claim will protect us from the unquantifiable, omnipresent danger of Islamic fundamentalism.
The effectiveness of how persuasion is used to modify behavior is well researched:
Persuasion is an important part of communication. It is basically the process of changing people’s minds. Whether it be a politician grasping for that final vote, or a major advertiser striving to increase sales of a certain product, or an environmentalist organization eager to convince people to recycle, it is a common occurrence. One may be persuaded and not even know about it. It isn’t necessarily a conscious action; persuasion can occur subconsciously as well.
In the act of persuasion, attitude change is extremely important (Severin and Tankard). One can be persuaded of an argument, but that does not mean that one will practice what he/she has heard. In changing people’s attitudes, or predispositions toward things (Severin and Tankard), the politician/advertiser/environmentalist group will be in the process of changing people’s behaviors. And behavioral changes are the most important.
One way of influencing people through persuasive messages is through the use of fear appeals. They are used to threaten or arouse fear in an audience in order to stimulate attitude change (Severin and Tankard). An example of a fear appeal in the 90′s is the "Brain on Drugs" campaign, where a fried egg represented the damaging effects of drugs on teenagers’ brains.
With the increase of technology and power of the media come more and more instances in which fear appeals are used. Not only are fear appeals used to sell products, but they are used to promote health, hygiene, and other things.
The Neocon Bush administration really did go to town in its efforts to sell ‘other things’ – i.e. that the only way to stop attacks against civilians was to start a war against the extreme human emotion that results from the attacks! All the while no threat actually existed. Damming evidence recently came to light in Tom Ridge’s autobiography. The first head of the 9/11-inspired Department of Homeland Security, claimed that he "was pushed to raise the security alert on the eve of President Bush’s re-election, something he saw as politically motivated and worth resigning over."
Ridge is referring to the ridiculous terror threat level meters that are raised at crucial times to heighten the level of fear and play into the hands of a leader who many Americans believed would protect them from. After his resignation, Ridge was replaced by Michael Chertoff who, as we now see, is playing a pivotal role in the media’s promotion of the naked scanner campaign.
This year, like every year since 9/11, we have witnessed a multitude of blatant examples of media complicity in fear-based reporting. The strategy involves perpetuating the climate of fear while promoting the technologies to offer protection. It is the sheer frequency and regularity of these terror alerts that conditions the general public into accepting that it must be real. Even though many ‘terrorists’ are arrested, very few are convicted, most being quietly acquitted through lack of evidence.
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You have the right to form a queue
The so-called underwear bomber was really the launching point for the current artificially-induced panic to introduce the naked body scanners on a global scale. It also revealed very obvious examples of media support.
It was predictable that the underwear farce would produce yet more ridiculous "security measures" and outbreaks of hysteria. Clearly the most infuriating idea our beloved leaders have come up with is the full-body scanner (aka digital strip-searcher, aka pervscanner), as if airport security wasn’t already humiliating enough. We are told these contraptions were operational long ago but were shelved because of "privacy concerns." In any case, whatever concerns people may have, the pathocracy expects to silence them with the absurd story that "internet chatter" on Arab websites has revealed that Al Qaeda™ is planning to insert ‘surgical bombs’ inside its terrorists, to be detonated with a self-injected hypodermic syringe. The imaginary commanders of non-existent Al Qaeda™ are best advised not to bother with such sophistication: the body scanners can’t even detect powder explosives anyway.
Vague "security-related" incidents have resulted in hysterical reactions on planes and at airports in India, the UK and the US, where in one case Newark airport went into total chaos with outgoing planes grounded and hundreds of passengers forced to await re-screening as everybody was evacuated from the main terminal… all because a man accidentally went to the wrong terminal and tried to retrace his steps. Apparently it’s now considered ‘terroristic’ to walk the wrong way down a one-way corridor.
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Airport Security Ogling
In the UK an airport worker ‘abused’ the scanner by ogling at images of a female colleague. This naturally revived concerns about the ‘pervscanner’ in the public mind. So was it a coincidence that just the next day Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid newspaper The Sun pushed the terror propaganda to new fantastic heights by revealing that British spies have ‘learned’ of Al-Qaeda’s new plan to use explosives in breast and buttock implants? The idea is obviously to frighten people into accepting the scanners and more. Evidently the release of this story was stalled until the opportune moment to counter bad press because it was originally published on February 1 by World Net Daily.
As well as reporting hysteria, the media also lies by omitting important details on the sources of biased opinion polls that are used to over-inflate public support.
The mainstream media was quick to publicize the findings of a survey that showed widespread public support for the global drive to install ‘naked’ full-body scanners at airports.
Articles such as Sky News: UK Holidaymakers Back Use Of Full-Body Scanners and Agence France-Presse: Opinion poll: US anti-terror too lax, uncritically repeated the report’s findings without questioning the reliability of the survey or mentioning the conflict of interests held by those in the security industry who stand to profit from rolling out these dangerous machines.
There was, however, one glaring omission from these and the many media reports that published ‘news’ articles based on the Unisys press release. That is who Unisys is, their connections with government, military, Homeland security, the Transportation Services Authority (TSA) and how they profit from airport security technologies. The failure of the mainstream media to report the true source and motives behind this survey was a clear example of how they lie by omitting the most important facts. It also gives an indication of the underhand skulduggery that the media, companies and governments resort to in order to reap the rewards.
2. Who makes the profits?
The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Within days of the explosive underwear incident Roosevelt’s definition of the fascist ownership of the government by controlling private powers was clear to see: Reuters was reporting that the "greater U.S. government shift toward using the high-tech devices could create a boom for makers of security imaging products, and it has already created a speculative spike in share prices in some companies."
James Ridgway reported on the key government officials following the script presented to them by the tech corporations:
Within days or even hours of the bombing attempt, everyone was talking about so-called whole-body imaging as the magic bullet that could stop this type of attack. In announcing hearings by the Senate Homeland Security Commitee, Joe Lieberman approached the use of scanners as a foregone conclusion, saying one of the "big, urgent questions that we are holding this hearing to answer" was "Why isn’t whole-body-scanning technology that can detect explosives in wider use?" Former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff told the Washington Post, "You’ve got to find some way of detecting things in parts of the body that aren’t easy to get at. It’s either pat downs or imaging, or otherwise hoping that bad guys haven’t figured it out, and I guess bad guys have figured it out."
The ‘bad guys’ have figured it out because they are the ones on center-stage manipulating policy and raiding the taxpayer kitty in true "Act now or we’ll crash the markets" Wall Street pillage-style.
Yet the rush toward full-body scans already seems unstoppable. They were mandated today as part of the "enhanced" screening for travelers from selected countries, and hundreds of the machines are already on order, at a cost of about $150,000 apiece.
The rapid pre-planned responses to staged events have raised big red flags throughout the past decade’s terror campaign. They’re reminiscent of those "here’s one I made earlier!" moments on daytime TV cookery shows where the presenter whips out a perfect cake, except of course that it’s not disclosed to us that the incidents were staged in order to roll out the technology.
Which brings us to the money shot. The body scanner is sure to get a go-ahead because of the illustrious personages hawking them. Chief among them is former DHS secretary Michael Chertoff, who now heads the Chertoff Group, which represents one of the leading manufacturers of whole-body-imaging machines, Rapiscan Systems. For days after the attack, Chertoff made the rounds on the media promoting the scanners, calling the bombing attempt "a very vivid lesson in the value of that machinery" – all without disclosing his relationship to Rapiscan. According to the Washington Post:
Chertoff’s advocacy for the technology dates back to his time in the Bush administration. In 2005, Homeland Security ordered the government’s first batch of the scanners – five from California-based Rapiscan Systems.
Today, 40 body scanners are in use at 19 U.S. airports. The number is expected to skyrocket at least in part because of the Christmas Day incident. The Transportation Security Administration this week said it will order 300 more machines.
In the summer, TSA purchased 150 machines from Rapiscan with $25 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds.
The Washington Examiner last week ran down an entire list of all the former Washington politicians and staff members who are now part of what it calls the "full-body scanner lobby":
One manufacturer, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is American Science & Engineering, Inc. AS&E has retained the K Street firm Wexler & Walker to lobby for "federal deployment of security technology by DHS and DOD." Individual lobbyists on this account include former TSA deputy administration Tom Blank, who also worked under House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Chad Wolf – former assistant administrator for policy at TSA, and a former aide to Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Tex., a top Senate appropriator and the ranking Republican on the transportation committee – is also lobbying on AS&E’s behalf.
Smiths Detection, another screening manufacturer, employs top transportation lobbying firm Van Scoyoc Associates, including Kevin Patrick Kelly, a former top staffer to Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., who sits on the Homeland Security Appropriations subcommittee. Smiths also retains former congresswoman Helen Delich Bentley, R-Md.
Former Sen. Al D’Amato, R-N.Y., represents L3 Systems, about which Bloomberg wrote today: "L-3 has ‘developed a more sophisticated system that could prevent smuggling of almost anything on the body,’ said Howard Rubel, an analyst at Jefferies & Co., who has a ‘hold’ rating on the stock."
The drive to develop innovative successors to the current generation of scanning technology is like a runaway train. The number of companies who have smelt the whiff of mountains of cash are conjuring up more and more innovative ways of building a large box-type thing for people to walk into and be zapped by whatever they can get away with firing.
Tom Burghardt illustrates the value of the contracts that are changing hands in the new X-ray rush:
While Republicans and Democrats squabble over who’s "tougher" when it comes to invading and pillaging other nations (in the interest of "spreading democracy" mind you), a planetary grift dubbed the "War on Terror," waiting in the wings are America’s new snake-oil salesmen.
Welcome to Scannergate!
With airport security all the rage, companies that manufacture whole body imaging technologies and body-scanners stand to make a bundle as a result of last December’s aborted attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253. [The underpants fiasco]
Like their kissin’ cousins at the Pentagon, poised to bag a $708 billion dollar windfall in the 2011 budget, securocrats over at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stand to vacuum-up some $56.3 billion next year, a $6 billion increase.
[...]
Reflecting Homeland Security’s "fiscal discipline and responsibility," at the top of the wish-list are what officials describe as increased spending for Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) by the Transportation Security Agency (TSA).
In 2011, the Department says it is requesting $217.7M to "install 500 advanced imaging technology machines at airport checkpoints to detect dangerous materials, including non-metallic materials."
"This request," coupled "with planned deployments for 2010, will provide AIT coverage at 75 percent of Category X airports and 60 percent of the total lanes at Category X through II airports."
Next up is a $218.9M demand for "Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) to Staff AITs." New funds are required for "additional TSOs, managers and associated support costs to operate AITs at airport checkpoints."
Along with the increased control that these new systems give to governments over their citizens, it is the profitability of these new security measures that ensure corrupt officials do whatever it takes to get the message across.
"You need these scanners, they’re for your protection and whether you like it or not, you’re gonna pay for them."
3. Who pays the bills?
It’s a no-brainer really… you are. The loyal law-abiding taxpayers are paying for it. Both financially and socially.
The taxes you pay to the IRS are being diverted away from constructive and crucial programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and instead, being redirected to Scanner-raid.
If you are an air traveler it is also possible that you are paying airport authorities directly to upgrade their security systems through airport taxes and landing fees.
The social costs are alarming: humiliation, inhumane treatment, brutality, loss of privacy and potential health risks.
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Statue of Control
To implement the deployment of unpopular new invasive technology the security services have chosen to add new security measures, such as child-attacking dogs and hand swabbing. There has been a marked increase in brutality, cruel investigative procedures and inhumane treatment of ordinary passengers combined with hysterical over-reactions to ensure the people are reminded that the fake war on terror is real.
In Detroit an Indian man cut through a passenger security checkpoint without a ticket, boarding pass and luggage. The result: He was tasered by an FBI agent, wrestled down and handcuffed. Panicked passengers fled the terminal after a full scale evacuation and flights were delayed for hours.
In Canada, which is also introducing full-body scanners in 44 major airports (at a cost of $11 million), an 85 year old Canadian woman was subjected to a humiliating search prior to boarding an internal flight. The woman was asked to remove her boots and then unzip her pants. A female inspection officer then poked at her abdomen.
In the UK, despite assertions that naked scanning would not be racially targeted, predictably, a Muslim woman became the first passenger to be barred from a flight after refusing to enter the £80,000 Rapiscan naked body scanner.
The real underlying issue here that few are talking about is that the scanners emit terahertz waves which, according to a study carried out at Los Alamos National Laboratory, could "…unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication." This is not just another bad joke to be endured with our usual stoicism: it is a direct attack on the health of the population, and further proof that our well being, whatever about their "privacy concerns" or our "security", has never been of any interest to the ruling elite. It’s one thing to be held in utter contempt as your dignity is trampled upon; it’s another thing altogether for your very DNA to be interfered with "for your protection." We can learn to strategically adapt to the former; but pretty soon there will be no getting around the latter if you want to fly anywhere.
Any discussion of the damaging effects of the DNA-zapping-machine, such as its link to causing miscarriages is obscured by a marginal concern for the radiation exposure its use presents, which appears to be minimal. The pretend debate is distracting people towards indignation over privacy concerns which, justifiable as they are, pale in comparison with having one’s DNA ripped apart.
Just like the disinfectant and vaccine producers, the tech companies have completely ignored valid health concerns with the new airport scanner technology, They have ignored the protests of civil liberties and privacy campaigners outraged at what amounts to a virtual strip search of dubious reliability.
4. How to smash this racket!
WELL, it’s a racket, all right.
A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it.
In January 1961 American president Dwight D. Eisenhower gave a famous speech warning of the dangers of the ‘Military-Industrial Complex’. His words are just as applicable to the new Airport Security Industrial Complex, where the lure of profits outweigh considerations of the effects on individuals. Eisenhower warned:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
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More Security for Your Mind
Eisenhower was right. We have to increase our awareness of the real motives behind the introduction of this technology so that as many people as possible can make an informed choice on whether to carry on blindly supporting the increasing restrictions that are placed upon us. We can refuse to accept naked scanners as being so vital for our safety that they are more important than healthcare. We can start realizing that our apathy is lining the pockets of the manufacturers and allied security service companies. If we don’t resist it won’t be long before we are zapped at railway stations, the metro, shopping malls, sporting events, schools and anywhere else we are told will keep us safe.
5. To hell with Naked Scanners!
On previous failed introductions of expensive security devises Ridgway writes:
In forecasting the fate of the full-body scanners, we can turn to recent history, which saw the rapid rise – and decline – of the previous "miracle" screening technology. In the years following 9/11, dozens of explosive trace portals (ETPs) were installed in airports across the country, at a cost of about $160,000 each. These "puffer" machines – so called because they blow air on passengers to dislodge explosive particles – were once celebrated as the "no-touch pat down." But in a Denver test by CBS in 2007, a network employee was sprayed with explosives and then walked through the airport’s three puffers without any trouble. The machines also set off false alarms, and they frequently broke down, leading to sky-high maintenance costs.
After spending more than $30 million on the puffer machines – most of them purchased from GE – the TSA announced earlier this year that it was suspending their use. Only about 25 percent of the machines were ever even deployed at US airports. A report last month from the Government Accountability Office found that the TSA had not adequately tested the puffers before buying them.
What will happen if the full-body scanner goes the way of the puffer? Well, there’s always the next generation of security equipment: the Body Orifice Security Scanner, or BOSS chair. This contraption, which has an uncomfortable resemblance to an electric chair, is used in prisons, mostly in the UK, for tracing cell phones, shivs, and other dangerous contraband that’s been swallowed or inserted into body cavities by inmates. So far, it only detects metal, but you never know.
We don’t know exactly what the next generation of invasive security technology will bring or the specific body-part-terror-weapon-concealment that will be invented and hyped-up to sell them. But we know because of the easy money to be made, they are in the pipeline.
The airport security implementation of naked body scanners is a racket.
If Smedley Butler were alive today, I am sure he would say;
To hell with Naked Scanners!
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/207047-Airport-Security-is-a-Racket-The-Naked-Scanner-Industrial-Complex
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Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Fraudonomics
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:30 EST
This is a slick little piece of propaganda. How does it work? First, show images of the world trade center collapsing and inform the audience that full body scanners will be installed at "Boston’s Logan Airport where two of the flights hijacked on 911 originated." Second, state that the scanners will better detect devices such as the one that was found in the underpants of the Christmas Day bomber. Next, ask whether the scanners are really necessary and then show footage of a high ranking TSA official testifying before Congress with the answer!
Good news! 150 machines are coming SOON to an airport near you! You will get to choose between a patdown/groping search or being irradiated in a full body scanner! And, it won’t take any extra time. AWESOME. By the end of the year, 500 new machines will be installed and operating. "Their deployment expanded and accelerated after the Christmas Day airline bombing attack." Your government cares about you and so does CNN!
Finally, show images of the plane that carried the Christmas Day underpantie stooge again.
An objective report may have disclosed that the full body scanners were not needed to prevent the underpants bomber from potentially harming anyone in the United States. Why? Simple. Because the government knew about him and could have prevented him from boarding the plane and entering the country. However, the government intentionally ALLOWED HIM ENTRY.
"Washington – The State Department didn’t revoke the visa of foiled terrorism suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab because federal counterterrorism officials had begged off revocation, a top State Department official revealed Wednesday.
Patrick F. Kennedy, an undersecretary for management at the State Department, said Abdulmutallab’s visa wasn’t taken away because intelligence officials asked his agency not to deny a visa to the suspected terrorist over concerns that a denial would’ve foiled a larger investigation into al-Qaida threats against the United States.
"Revocation action would’ve disclosed what they were doing," Kennedy said in testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security. Allowing Adbulmutallab to keep the visa increased chances federal investigators would be able to get closer to apprehending the terror network he is accused of working with, "rather than simply knocking out one solider in that effort."
"Washington – An official briefed on the attack on a Detroit airliner said Saturday the U.S. has known for at least two years that the suspect in the attack could have terrorist ties.
The official told The Associated Press that the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, has been on a list that includes people with known or suspected contact or ties to a terrorist or terrorist organization. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing."
In summary, the REAL STORY is that the government knowingly allowed Mr. underpants to enter the "homeland." Because of their INCOMPETENCE, every citizen of the country will be inconvenienced FOREVER when travelling by airplane. Also, the taxpayer will get to pay for all of these unnecessary machines, as well as the associated manpower and maintenance to operate them, FOREVER. On the bright side, at least Michael Chertoff, former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, will profit handsomely from this little fiasco because he represents the company that manufactures the full body scanners. Good for you Michael Chertoff and good for your friends! Nicely played.
"Washington - Since the attempted bombing of a US airliner on Christmas Day, former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff has given dozens of media interviews touting the need for the federal government to buy more full-body scanners for airports.
What he has made little mention of is that the Chertoff Group, his security consulting agency, includes a client that manufactures the machines. Chertoff disclosed the relationship on a CNN program Wednesday, in response to a question.
An airport passengers’ rights group on Thursday criticized Chertoff’s use of his former government credentials to advocate for a product that benefits his clients."
WAKE UP FOLKS. Nobody in the government gives a damn about your safety. It’s all about the money.
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
U.S. Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons
[9 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
During the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union both deployed thousands of “nonstrategic” nuclear weapons that were intended to be used in support of troops in the field during a conflict. These included nuclear mines; artillery; short, medium, and long-range ballistic missiles; cruise missiles; and gravity bombs. In contrast with the longer-range “strategic” nuclear weapons, these weapons had a lower profile in policy debates and arms control negotiations. At the end of the 1980s, before the demise of the Soviet Union, each nation still had thousands of these weapons deployed with their troops in the field, aboard naval vessels, and on aircraft. In 1991, both the United States and Soviet Union announced that they would withdraw most and eliminate many of their nonstrategic nuclear weapons.
Climate Change and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS): Looking to 2020
[9 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
The European Union’s (EU) Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is a cornerstone of the EU’s efforts to meet its obligation under the Kyoto Protocol. It covers more than 10,000 energy intensive facilities across the 27 EU Member countries; covered entities emit about 45% of the EU’s carbon dioxide emissions. A “Phase 1” trading period began January 1, 2005. A second, Phase 2, trading period began in 2008, covering the period of the Kyoto Protocol. A Phase 3 will begin in 2013 designed to reduce emissions by 21% from 2005 levels.
World Trade Center Insurance Property Risk Report
[9 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
The World Trade Center is one of the most prominent commercial real estate c0mplexes in the world and a hallmark of the Manhattan skyline. This document discusses many of the physical characteristics of the complex. various protection and risk control aspects and some of the potentially catastrophic incidents that might occur.
Underwriters Laboratories Fire Endurance Testing of World Trade Center Floor Truss Assemblies
[9 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Underwriters Laboratory Fire Endurance Testing of World Trade Center Floor Truss Assemblies, September 21, 2005.
World Trade Center North Tower Blueprints
[8 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
World Trade Center North Tower (Tower A) complete blueprints, dates ranging from July 1967 – February 1984.
U.S. Army Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Awareness Guide Iraq and Afghanistan
[8 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
The purpose of this guide is to give Commanders, Leaders and Soldiers a training tool representing some of the Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) used in both the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of operation. The intent of this guide is to support readiness, unit training, operational planning, and awareness as well as provide information in relation to Reacting to a Possible Improvised Explosive Device (IED) common task 093-401 -5050. Both training and awareness are a proven and effective force protection tool as well as a combat multiplier.
ELF/VLF Wave-injection and Magnetospheric Probing with HAARP
[8 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
A three year research program is proposed to establish an array of wideband ELF/VLF receivers and to conduct continuous measurements of the magnetospheric response to the injection of ELF/VLF waves using the HAARP HF heater. The primary objective of the proposed program is to detect the so-called ‘one-hop’ direct and the ‘two-hop’ whistler-mode echo of a HAARP-injected ELF/VLF signal, and to study the characteristics of these signals to determine the degree to which injected ELF/VLF signals are amplified by the magnetospheric plasma, leading to the triggering of new emissions and enhanced precipitation of energetic electrons from the radiation belts. The scientific opportunities, background and justification for ELF/VLF wave-injection and magnetospheric probing experiments with HAARP are provided in Attachment A, which is a copy of a detailed report prepared earlier (April 2001) by Stanford for preliminary ELF/VLF wave-injection campaigns conducted under the auspices of the Polar Aeronomy and Radio Science (PARS) program.
U.S. Secret Service: Best Practices For Seizing Electronic Evidence
[7 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
U.S. Secret Service manual on best practices For seizing electronic evidence, October 9, 2006.
Fusion Centers Warn of White Powder Letter Incidents 2008-2010
[7 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
FOUO/LES Fusion Center intelligence briefs from the New Jersey Regional Operations Intelligence Center, Boston Regional Intelligence Center, Washington Regional Threat and Analysis Center, and Washington D.C. FireWatch warning of white powder letter incidents from 2008-2010.
EU Chile Earthquake Preliminary Damage Assessment Maps
[6 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
EU G-MOSAIC Chile Earthquake Preliminary Damage Assessment Maps, March 3, 2010.
New Hampshire 2004 State Homeland Security Strategy
[6 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
This document will serve as the first State Homeland Security Strategy (SHSS) for New Hampshire. The purpose of this strategy is to identify a strategic direction for enhancing statewide capability and capacity to prevent and reduce the vulnerability of New Hampshire from weapons of mass destruction (WMD)/terrorism incidents. This is an exceedingly complex mission that requires coordination, cooperation and focused effort from the entire state-citizens, local, state, and federal government, as well as the private and non-profit sectors.
Missouri 2008 Homeland Security Strategy
[6 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
This State Homeland Security Strategy (Strategy) was developed to provide overarching guidance to the State’s Homeland Security programs and initiatives, to include guidance in support of the homeland security governance provided through the Governor’s Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) and nine Regional Homeland Security Oversight Committees (RHSOC). This Strategy will help prepare our State for the work ahead in several ways. It provides direction to state government agencies, departments, and offices on activities Missouri plans to undertake in order to sustain existing capabilities in four U.S. Department of Homeland Security mission areas (prevention, protection, response, and recovery) and enhance the emergency preparedness posture statewide between 2009 and 2011. Missouri’s Department of Public Safety (DPS), specifically the Office of Homeland Security (OHS) and State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), will use the Strategy as a mechanism to track progress in implementing and completing security-related projects.
Nebraska 2006 State Homeland Security Strategy
[6 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
The purpose of the Nebraska State Homeland Security Strategy (NSHSS) is to identify a strategic direction for enhancing the State of Nebraska?s capability and capacity to detect, prevent against, protect against, respond to, and recover from threats or incidents of terrorism, natural disasters, major emergencies, and incidents of national significance. This is an exceedingly complex mission that requires coordination, cooperation and focused effort from the entire State’s citizens, local, tribal, state, and federal government, as well as the private and non-profit sectors.
eBay/PayPal Law Enforcement Guide
[5 Mar 2010 | 3 Comments | ]
eBay, Inc., has established a Fraud Investigations Team (FIT) to promote safe use of our platforms and encourage prosecution of those responsible for misconduct on them. Law enforcement agencies in North America seeking assistance and records for investigations that relate to either the eBay or PayPal should use the Frequently Asked Questions below as guidance in how FIT can assist in these investigations.
MySpace Law Enforcement Information Handout
[5 Mar 2010 | One Comment | ]
MySpace Law Enforcement Information Handout from September 2, 2005.
High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) and High Power Microwave (HPM) Devices: Threat Assessments
[5 Mar 2010 | One Comment | ]
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) is an instantaneous, intense energy field that can overload or disrupt at a distance numerous electrical systems and high technology microcircuits, which are especially sensitive to power surges. A large scale EMP effect can be produced by a single nuclear explosion detonated high in the atmosphere. This method is referred to as High-Altitude EMP (HEMP). A similar, smaller-scale EMP effect can be created using non-nuclear devices with powerful batteries or reactive chemicals. This method is called High Power Microwave (HPM). Several nations, including reported sponsors of terrorism, may currently have a capability to use EMP as a weapon for cyber warfare or cyber terrorism to disrupt communications and other parts of the U.S. critical infrastructure. Also, some equipment and weapons used by the U.S. military may be vulnerable to the effects of EMP.
Ionospheric modification and ELF/VLF wave generation by HAARP
[4 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Stanford University brief on Ionospheric modification and ELF/VLF wave generation by HAARP, January 7, 2006.
Louisiana 2006 State Homeland Security Strategy
[4 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
The purpose of this strategy is to identify a strategic direction for enhancing our State, Region and Parish response capabilities and capacity to prevent and reduce the State’s vulnerability to all-hazard disaster events, to include Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear or Explosive (CBRNE) incidents. This is an exceedingly complex mission that requires coordination, cooperation, and focused effort from the entire State (citizens, local, state, and federal partners) as well as private industry and non-profit voluntary agencies. To that end, each of the sixty four (64) parishes will update or will develop Memorandums of
Understanding (MOU) over the next year agreeing to assist each other in event of major CBRNE incidents.
Nevada State Homeland Security Strategy (2007)
[3 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
The purpose of the Nevada State Homeland Security Strategy (SHSS) is to identify and address statewide priorities to achieve and sustain a strengthened ability to prevent, detect, deter, mitigate against, prepare for, respond to and recover from any natural, manmade and/or technological emergency or disaster up to and including any act of terrorism. The State, through implementation of this strategy, is seeking outcomes that will ensure a safe and secure Nevada through enhanced capabilities in intelligence, surveillance, rapid first response and recovery, the protection of critical infrastructure, and to promote public education and awareness.
SPAWAR/USCYBERCOM Cyber Warfare, Exploitation & Information Dominance (CWEID) Lab Overview
[3 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Opening Statements
▼Never before has it been possible for one person to potentially affect an entire Nation‟s security.
▼In 1999 (10 years ago), two Chinese Colonels published a book called “Unrestricted Warfare” that advocated “not fighting” the U.S. directly, but “understanding and employing the principle of asymmetry correctly to allow us [the Chinese] always to find and exploit an enemy’s soft spots.”
▼The idea that a less-capable foe can take on a militarily superior opponent also aligns with the views of the ancient Chinese general, Sun Tzu. In his book “The Art of War,” the strategist advocates stealth, deceptionand indirect attackto overcome a stronger opponent in battle.
Public Intelligence
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