The Coming Resistance

[Os3y3ris]

A white girl disappeared. If you follow mainstream media, thats all they talk about. Nice distraction.

[Healthy Merking]

os3y3ris said:

A white girl disappeared. If you follow mainstream media, thats all they talk about. Nice distraction.

six and a half billion people on the planet

one of them 'disappears' and we all have to pay attention?

tragedy does suck ass

but the loss of reason is even more tragic

PEACE

[UniverseSeven]

Resistance Forming



American Heroine

Cindy Sheehan

On July 4, 2005 she gave an interview [4] in which she described the meeting as "one of the most disgusting experiences I ever had and it took me almost a year to even talk about it." She described President Bush as being "detached from humanity" and said that "his mouth kept moving, but there was nothing in his eyes or anything else about him that showed me he really cared or had any real compassion at all." She continued, "He didn’t even know our names," asking "Who we’all honorin’ here today?" when he first entered the room, and then referring to her as "Ma" or "Mom."

Sheehan is also one of the nine founding members of Gold Star Families for Peace, an organization founded in January 2005 that seeks to end the occupation of Iraq and provide support for families of fallen soldiers. As of August 2005, at least 63 other relatives of fallen soldiers are listed as members.

Although she had spoken publicly against the Iraq war and occupation since 2004, Sheehan gained national attention in early August 2005 when she traveled to President George W. Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch just outside Crawford, Texas, during his five-week summer vacation there. Demanding a second meeting with the President and an explanation of the "noble cause" for which her son died


More than you hear on CNN here...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Sheehan


BE HEARD!


Toronto Mayor: No Reason to Have Guns at Home
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Guerrillas and Partisans
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_war

[jonnygemini]

www.theconservativevoice.com/ap/article.html?mi=D8C4SJGG0&apc=9004

Iraq's oil exports were shut down Monday by a power cut that darkened parts of central and southern Iraq, including the country's only functioning oil export terminals, Iraqi and foreign oil officials said.

Exports through the country's other main route, the northern export pipeline to Turkey, have long been halted by incessant sabotage.

Iraqi officials said sabotage was also responsible for Monday's blackout, which prevented oil from being pumped into tankers waiting at berths.

A port official and an employee at the South Oil Co., which runs Iraq's southern oil fields, said workers stopped pumping stopped at 7 a.m. Monday. Both men spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to media. They gave no further details.

A tanker agent with a shipping company in Jordan confirmed that exports from southern Iraq had ceased due to the power cut.

"Oil terminals have completely stopped exports from Basra and Khor al-Amaya," said Mohammed Hadi, head of Iraq operations for Norton Lilly International. "Both terminals use the same power source."

Hadi said the shutdown, which costs Iraq some $4.25 million per hour, would probably push up the price of oil while curtailing the chief revenue source for Iraq's government.

Electricity was cut across Baghdad and many parts of Iraq early Monday after an attack on a major electricity feeder line between Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, and the capital.

Government spokesman Laith Kubba said Sunday the attack occurred two days ago, "and this will, of course, affect the power supply in Baghdad." He said repairs were underway.

The power failure in southern Iraq occurred after a shutdown of the Khor al-Zobayr power plant outside Basra, the chief supply for Basra and the oil terminals, Hadi said. The failure there triggered other power plant shutdowns, Hadi said.

There was no electricity Monday morning in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, or the port city of Umm Qasr, Hadi said.

By late morning, after power had been off for seven hours, Hadi estimated the loss of revenue from exporting an average of 65,000 barrels per hour at $29.5 million.

Iraq exports about 1.5 million barrels a day from the south.

Exports from the northern oil fields around Kirkuk have long been interrupted due to sabotage on the pipelines. Officials at the Northern Oil Co., which runs the northern fields, said that every three or four months there is some limited pumping of about 250,000 barrels to the Ceyhan port in Turkey.

But no shipments are currently being made to Ceyhan, the officials said.

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Associated Press correspondent Jim Krane contributed to this report from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

[jonnygemini]

www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=4f051508-af72-4284-8ff3-2dfe8a268d02&page=2

Dawn Rae Downton
National Post

Monday, August 22, 2005

Experts are warning that al-Qaeda has the desire -- and the knowledge -- to take out satellites. Dawn Rae Downton reports on the devastating impact such an attack would have on business, communications -- and the American military.

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In May, 1998, mortally wounded by contamination on a printed circuit board, Galaxy IV failed as it sat in geostationary orbit over the middle of the Western hemisphere. Ninety percent of the pagers in the U.S. and Canada -- 45 million of them -- fell silent instantly, including the pagers of volunteer firefighters and doctors on call. CBS, Reuters and UPI lost their news feeds; gas-pump credit card readers and ATMs stopped working from St. John's to San Diego. It was up to a week before most users were back on line.

This is what happens when a single "bird," one of several hundred up there, bites the dust. Imagine the chaos when they all fail at the same time.

Security experts say that al-Qaeda has imagined just that. It's not so hard to interfere with satellites, and especially to destroy them. Sooner or later, the experts think, al-Qaeda will have our birds in its sights.

While communications satellites alone generate $50-billion to American industry and $120-billion worldwide, money's not the object here. Catastrophe is the goal, since without satellites we'd be nowhere, literally, with our security compromised. Satellites allow us to use our cellphones -- and give the U.S. government access to every call. (Ottawa has similar access to each call made in this country, but is prohibited from using it without court permission.)

Geostationary satellites distribute our TV signals, tie together financial institutions, monitor weather. Commercial communications satellites do just about everything -- for instance, one was used until 2000 by Osama bin Laden himself (his phone number was 00873 6825 05331). Without commercial satellites, couriers can't deliver and grocery stores don't get stocked.

U.S. military commanders use Iridium satellite phones to call out from the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan (as well as the myriad of places the U.S. military says they're not). These 66 satellites zipping around the earth every 100 minutes in a relatively low orbit of 775 kilometres were originally a worldwide cellphone network owned by Motorola. Launched in 1998, Iridium promptly went bankrupt for lack of subscribers. The U.S. Department of Defence is now its heavily dependent prime user, and an Iridium failure would confound troops overseas. (Anyone can buy an Iridium phone, which can be used like a cellphone anywhere in the world, but at $1,000 a phone and $5 a minute, most people buy cellphones instead.)

American spy satellites watch around the world, and look down on us right here at home. Echelon, satellite-based and operated by the National Security Agency, gives the United States the capacity to monitor every cellphone conversation and e-mail exchange in the world. The last July 21 London bomber to be apprehended was traced by cellphone calls to Italy, where he was picked up.

Echelon is of particular interest to terrorists because of its relentless snooping into their cellphone and e-mail conversations. The U.S. National Security Agency is guaranteed access to Canadian domestic conversations -- yours, mine -- as well as access to conversations in other countries by a 1948 agreement called UKUSA (named after the original signatories, although Canada, Australia and New Zealand joined later. Non-signatories are monitored whether they like it or not). The text of UKUSA remains classified.

How does Echelon do it? National Security Agency installations like the one at Menwith Hill in Britain intercept fibre-optic cables, handle about 300,000 calls simultaneously and dump the traffic into a grid of super computers called Echelon Dictionary. ED looks for key words and names; additionally, it recognizes voices of "persons of interest." Every time one of these speaks on a cell, ED studies the conversation. (In 2003, bin Laden"s chief lieutenant, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was nabbed in Pakistan this way.)

In space, ED is assisted by several SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) satellites. Three of these, the Trumpets -- 6-tonne, billion-dollar monsters with 100-metre antennas -- were launched by the U.S. exclusively to monitor cellphones. Some SIGINTs fly low and others high, and when a Trumpet is in a low orbit you can actually see it coming up over the horizon. Wherever they are, their locations are known.

And then there are navigation satellites. GPS rescues hunters and sailors, and puts OnStar in your car. During Desert Storm, GPS allowed Cruise missiles to target specific buildings in Baghdad, and even to decide which bathrooms to hit. Lately there haven't been enough GPS units to go around to all the troops in Iraq, and families have bought them at Wal-Mart and sent them over.

GPS has infiltrated our lives, and not just for positioning everything that walks, drives, floats or flies. Telephones, cellphones and the Internet all use GPS for synchronizing their digital networks so that transmitters and receivers run at the same bit rate, or "clock rate." If we lose GPS, not only won't we know where we are, we won't be calling for help.

GPS is controlled worldwide by the U.S. Department of Defense. Small wonder that Europeans are preparing to launch their own version, called Galileo.

Dan Goure, a senior fellow at the Lexington Institute, a defence policy think-tank in Arlington, Va., has told Global Security Wire that "from a military point of view, [GPS] has to be a No. 1 or No. 2 target" of America's enemies. The system consists of 24 satellites the size of Buicks which orbit the planet every 12 hours from 20,000 kilometres above the Earth's surface. Because it plots positions by triangulation, each bird transmits its position over and over to every GPS receiver on the ground. Anyone with a receiver has no problem finding the satellites; and the three ground stations around the world that control them do so with frequencies that are public knowledge. The Department of Defence has been saying for years that there's barely a country left without the resources to damage its system.

Most important for jihad, if enough of America's satellites stop working, so does its military. Billions in the Pentagon budget have gone to examining what is called "Space System Negation Capabilities." There are a few GPS spares in orbit, but launching others, by rocket, would be complicated and take weeks. While a stealth satellite called Misty 3 is being contemplated, there's little else. To some analysts and politicians, Misty seems as likely as the Klingon cloaking device on Star Trek.

Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said publicly that the United States is looking at a "space Pearl Harbor."

The possible methods for that surprise attack on space range from the crude to the complex.

Lieutenant-Colonel Conrad Widman of the U.S. Space Warfare Centre noted in 2001 that to jam a satellite, "all you need is a spectrum analyzer, a signal generator, a satellite transmit-and-receive terminal, a computer with a couple of modems, and 200 lines of software."

You pay, he said, to get what you need. "A lot of commanders are surprised when we show them the excellent resolution of the satellite imagery now available to anyone with a credit card."

The other most likely satellite-damaging scenario involves firing something at the birds as they float by in space. The weapon could be as complex as a nuclear bomb or as simple as a payload of ball bearings launched into satellite orbits -- perhaps a dozen countries have the capability to dispose of low-flying Iridiums this way, and even the high-altitude geostationary birds and GPS. High-energy radio frequency (RF) signals can disrupt satellites temporarily, or cook them outright. The high-power magnetrons used in long-range search radars along with high-gain antennas are readily available; you just have to know -- or be told -- what you want. The search radars operate in the same general frequency band, the L-Band, as do the uplinks for GPS and Iridium.

For its potential to blackout the world, GPS is an attractive but complicated target. Control signals from its three ground stations are heavily encrypted. Though a single rogue signal launched on the uplink command frequency will disrupt operation, calamity requires the simultaneous disabling of many birds flying in many directions. While GPS could be destroyed bird by bird, with lasers or RF beams, the ground stations make better targets, with the same result -- 24 lumps of scrap metal orbiting a dark, cold, silent planet.

In Europe, France's anti-terrorism czar, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, last year predicted London as al-Qaeda's new priority after Madrid, and told The New Yorker that the organization has acquired a sophistication at jihad beyond anyone's expectations. (It was Mr. Bruguiere who warned the Canadian government in the late '90s about an Algerian asylum-seeker living in Montreal named Ahmed Ressam, the would-be millenium bomber of the Los Angeles airport.) He says that in the Caucasus, particularly the Pankisi Gorge of Georgia, and in nearby Chechnya, recruits are being trained in chemical and biological weapon-making as well as in military systems, and that some graduates "have the capacity for hijacking satellites." Chechnya, he says, is becoming an "aircraft carrier" from which continuing attacks will be launched in Europe.

[Os3y3ris]

Great thread.

[UniverseSeven]

VIDEO CLIP: POLICE TASER ANTI WAR PROTESTERS

media.indypgh.org/uploads/2005/08/taser1_edit.mov

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Bush's Obscene Tirades Rattle White House Aides
By DOUG THOMPSON

Aug 25, 2005, 06:19


While President George W. Bush travels around the country in a last-ditch effort to sell his Iraq war, White House aides scramble frantically behind the scenes to hide the dark mood of an increasingly angry leader who unleashes obscenity-filled outbursts at anyone who dares disagree with him.

“I’m not meeting again with that goddamned bitch,” Bush screamed at aides who suggested he meet again with Cindy Sheehan, the war-protesting mother whose son died in Iraq. “She can go to hell as far as I’m concerned!”



Bush flashes the bird, something aides say he does often and has been doing since his days as governor of Texas.


Bush, administration aides confide, frequently explodes into tirades over those who protest the war, calling them “motherfucking traitors.” He reportedly was so upset over Veterans of Foreign Wars members who wore “bullshit protectors” over their ears during his speech to their annual convention that he told aides to “tell those VFW assholes that I’ll never speak to them again is they can’t keep their members under control.”

White House insiders say Bush is growing increasingly bitter over mounting opposition to his war in Iraq. Polls show a vast majority of Americans now believe the war was a mistake and most doubt the President’s honesty.

“Who gives a flying fuck what the polls say,” he screamed at a recent strategy meeting. “I’m the President and I’ll do whatever I goddamned please. They don’t know shit.”

Bush, whiles setting up for a photo op for signing the recent CAFTA bill, flipped an extended middle finger to reporters. Aides say the President often “flips the bird” to show his displeasure and tells aides who disagree with him to “go to hell” or to “go fuck yourself.” His habit of giving people the finger goes back to his days as Texas governor, aides admit, and videos of him doing so before press conferences were widely circulated among TV stations during those days. A recent video showing him shooting the finger to reporters while walking also recently surfaced.

Bush’s behavior, according to prominent Washington psychiatrist, Dr. Justin Frank, author of “Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President,” is all too typical of an alcohol-abusing bully who is ruled by fear.

To see that fear emerges, Dr. Frank says, all one has to do is confront the President. “To actually directly confront him in a clear way, to bring him out, so you would really see the bully, and you would also see the fear,” he says.

Dr. Frank, in his book, speculates that Bush, an alcoholic who brags that he gave up booze without help from groups like Alcoholics Anonymous, may be drinking again.

“Two questions that the press seems particularly determined to ignore have hung silently in the air since before Bush took office,” Dr. Frank says. “Is he still drinking? And if not, is he impaired by all the years he did spend drinking? Both questions need to be addressed in any serious assessment of his psychological state.”

Last year, Capitol Hill Blue learned the White House physician prescribed anti-depressant drugs for the President to control what aides called “violent mood swings.” As Dr. Frank also notes: “In writing about Bush's halting appearance in a press conference just before the start of the Iraq War, Washington Post media critic Tom Shales speculated that ‘the president may have been ever so slightly medicated.’”

Dr. Frank explains Bush’s behavior as all-to-typical of an alcoholic who is still in denial:

“The pattern of blame and denial, which recovering alcoholics work so hard to break, seems to be ingrained in the alcoholic personality; it's rarely limited to his or her drinking,” he says. “The habit of placing blame and denying responsibility is so prevalent in George W. Bush's personal history that it is apparently triggered by even the mildest threat.”

www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7267.shtml

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