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Xbox Live among game services targeted by US and UK spy agencies

Xbox Live among game services targeted by US and UK spy agencies
To the National Security Agency analyst writing a briefing to his superiors, the situation was clear: their current surveillance efforts were lacking something. The agency's impressive arsenal of cable taps and sophisticated hacking attacks was not enough. What it really needed was a horde of undercover Orcs. That vision of spycraft sparked a concerted drive by the NSA and its UK sister agency GCHQ to infiltrate the massive communities playing online games, according to secret documents disclosed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The files were obtained by the Guardian and are being published on Monday in partnership with the New York Times and ProPublica. The agencies, the documents show, have built mass-collection capabilities against the Xbox Live console network, which has more than 48 million players. Games, the analyst wrote, "are an opportunity!". If properly exploited, games could produce vast amounts of intelligence, according to the NSA document. Related:  Covert

Special Ops Surge: America’s Secret War in 134 Countries (Before It's News) PressTV They operate in the green glow of night vision in Southwest Asia and stalk through the jungles of South America. They snatch men from their homes in the Maghreb and shoot it out with heavily armed militants in the Horn of Africa. Since September 11, 2001, U.S. In the waning days of the Bush presidency, Special Operations forces were reportedly deployed in about 60 countries around the world. In 2013, elite U.S. forces were deployed in 134 countries around the globe, according to Major Matthew Robert Bockholt of SOCOM Public Affairs. Growth Industry Formally established in 1987, Special Operations Command has grown steadily in the post-9/11 era. ZenGardner.com The post Special Ops Surge: America’s Secret War in 134 Countries appeared first on Just Wondering – Alternative News and Opinions.

Nanobiometrics Will Track You By Smell Nicholas WestActivist Post In a few short years, we already have become accustomed to drone surveillance and an array of biometric ID tracking technology that has formed a pervasive matrix of identification and personal data retention. As discussed in How Close Are We to a Nano-Based Surveillance State? back in February of 2011, the next phase of ID will be on the nano scale. DARPA and their contractors have been working for quite a while on making you, not just your personal data, the tracking mechanism. A new announcement from a Spanish engineering firm highlights the direction that is being taken in extracting the most innate personally identifying information possible. Nanotechnology for identification purposes already has been introduced in the following ways, just to name a few: Nano sensors for use in agriculture that measure crops and environmental conditions. It is the misappropriation of science and technology that poses one of the greatest threats to our freedom.

Technologies & History of Directed Energy Weapons - Organised Crime of Covert Electronic Assault, Stalking & Surveillance - New Zealand More on what these victims endure Read the short story below - About what victims endure Pages 1-7.Page 8 onward includes plenty of credible information with directions to the informative links page - to back/up the histories and usages of these tactics etc Re below... The True Story-The Bourne Identity(History Channel) A very informative documentary about the early days of experiments on controlling the human mind and creating assassination with no memory of their killing actions. The CIA and various government departments carried out these experiments on their own people as well as 1000's of unwitting/non consenting innocent citizens. Terrorism and Mental Health: The issue of psychological fragility(October 2009)Journal of Pakistan Medical AssociationByAmin Muhammad - Clinical professor of Psychiatry Of late, there are reports of a new and dreadful invention of weapons of violence that are called Bio-electromagnetic Weapons. See Amin Muhammad’s biography here Human V2.0CNN (BBC Broadcast)

UFO DIGEST COM: UFO and Paranormal News From Around The World By William C. Treurniet Summary. Luminous orbs seen moving across the sky sometimes behave as if they are under intelligent control. Introduction For many years, mysterious luminous spherical objects, or orbs, have been seen in the sky. The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) acknowledged in a summary report written in 2000, that unexplained luminous objects in the sky have occasionally been seen. It is not obvious how to create plasma balls remotely with the science and technology we have in the public domain. Some orbs are man-made plasma balls Recently, such evidence has come to light in several videos of the sky over Reading, England. A second video showed a spot of light in the sky dancing randomly around a mean position for about six minutes. Drawing with orbs A number of reports also mention luminous non-spherical shapes. Figure 1. This ability to arrange multiple orbs in close proximity was also seen in a third video of the sky over Reading. Figure 2. Figure 3. Figure 4. Figure 5.

Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media | Technology The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an "online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world. The project has been likened by web experts to China's attempts to control and restrict free speech on the internet. Critics are likely to complain that it will allow the US military to create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives. OEV is seen by senior US commanders as a vital counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation programme.

U.S. Mercenary Killers in Eastern Ukraine Stephen LendmanActivist Post Blackwater's rap sheet reveals a record too deplorable to conceal. It became Xe. It's now Academi. Putting lipstick on this pig doesn't help. A "shadowy mercenary company (employing) some of the most feared professional killers in the world accustomed to operating without worry of legal consequences (and) largely off the congressional radar." It's unaccountable. On May 11, Voice of Russia (VOR) headlined "400 US commandos help Kiev in its military offensive in east Ukraine - reports." They arrived to commit mayhem. They're involved "in a punitive operation mounted by (Kiev) against federalization supporters in Eastern Ukraine…" Bild am Sonntag is Germany's largest Sunday circulation broadsheet. It's uncertain who hired them, it said. (I)n the absence of support from the Ukrainian population, the Maidan government has only one option if it wants to remain in power - to mobilize any support possible from foreign sponsors, including foreign mercenaries.

Are There Any Terrorist Groups Who AREN’T Paid Foot Soldiers for the U.S. Military-Intelligence Agenda? Melissa MeltonActivist Post 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. — President Dwight D. Let me see if I have this right, because it’s getting really hard to keep things straight these days. So it is on record that the U.S. government/military-industrial complex has financially backed the ISIS rebels in Syria to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, and key members were trained by our CIA at a secret military base in Jordan back in 2012. Worse, as reports uncovered by Tony Cartalucci showed, “the U.S., Israel, and Saudi Arabia had planned as far back as 2007 to specifically use sectarian extremists to overrun and overthrow Syria.” The U.S. government, along with Israel, also helped create Hamas as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Blackwater: the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill (2008 with 2013 epilogue) is an in-depth examination of the systematic privatization of the US military. In 1988, as Secretary of Defense to Bush senior, Dick Cheney initiated the process of outsourcing military training and security and intelligence roles to private companies. Thanks to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the Rumsfeld Doctrine, this outsourcing would extend to combat roles during the 2003-2008 occupation of Iraq. Scahill’s book places special emphasis on the US failure to hold mercenary soldiers accountable for human rights violations. It also highlights the total absence of financial oversight, allowing Blackwater, Halliburton and other private military contractors to bilk taxpayers out of hundreds of billions of dollars. Cheney Downsizes the US Military The Rumsfeld Doctrine The Blackwater Lodge and Training Center Blackwater itself was first formed in 1996. The Ambush in Fallujah

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