Why the Pentagon has not shut down the Internet Yet
By Mary Rizzo • Jun 20th, 2008 at 13:35 • Category: Internet and Communication, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Resistance, Zionism
WRITTEN BY Ibrahim Turner
I received a message asking me to send a message to Google to protest that URUKNET has been deleted from the News service of Google News, which means that no articles will show up when you search for them using the url: URUKNET
Not having heard of this site before I ˜Googled” it and up it came. There was an article dated from that day, (yesterday) so I was a bit puzzled. There were other entries and I looked at another and there was the letter from Google news stating the reason they had removed URUKNET from the site because it was largely an ˜aggregator” of other people’s new items, with little original stuff.
I wrote back to the person who sent me the email with this and they promised to get back to me, (she is a busy person running another site).
This got me thinking particularly about Google. We have perhaps heard of the compromise Google and Yahoo have reached with the ˜totalitarian” regime of China and others restricting what people may see in those countries, and also you may have heard of the soldiers in Iraq not able to use You Tube because the stuff on there might corrupt their delicate minds.
Another thought that led to the title of this piece was that what restrictions do we NOT know about for every one of us? I quite often find a link that when clicked on says it doesn’t exist or that the URL you requested might be spelled wrong or the ˜timed out” message is displayed. And further; the people who frequent the sites where you can comment are fully aware of the ˜trolls” who try to sow dissent and argumentation amongst the commentators and sometimes they are very clever, often accused of being paid by the GOP and the like.
So why haven’t the Pentagon, or whoever maintains the Internet, not shut it down? After all it is full of anti war, anti AIPAC, anti Israel, anti this and anti that people, and they are gathering momentum by sharing information that could lead to upsetting the applecart of the Military/Industrial/Complex, or do they feel secure with their monolithic self perpetuating gung-ho ideology and that we few will never have the power to unseat them?
Some would immediately jump to the conclusion that the Homeland Security Establishment, The FBI and the other 15 intelligence agencies, (count ‘em) with all their minions are busily monitoring all of us and putting our names on various ˜no-fly” lists, for when the Halliburton/KBR detention centers need a few thousand dissenters/radicals/inmates. That may be true to some degree, after all Bush’s illegal wire tapping, reading all those emails, poking about in our bank accounts for suspicious payments to Islamic charities/call girls have been going on for some time.
So it seems to me that shutting it down would deprive them of all that lovely data, for mining with their computer ˜wizz kids” programmes and keeps lots of ˜government bureaucrats” burning the midnight oil, (not from the Middle East) trying to put two and two together to make nine.
They are past masters at ˜national security”, state secrets, foreign policy think tanks and ˜gagging orders”. They already have the lame stream propaganda machine in their pockets and even if they look askance at the Internet and all that potential ˜subversion” they find it more useful to let it be, albeit with some control through ˜Google” and monitor the hell out of us all, for future reference and possible ˜actionable intelligence”, a la Obama with Pakistan.
See also: Desert Peace
Mary Rizzo is an art restorer, translator and writer living in Italy. Editor and co-founder of Palestine Think Tank, co-founder of Tlaxcala translations collective. Her personal blog is Peacepalestine.
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More on the mystery of google news alerts.
On June 19 and 20, 2008, OpedNews.com published three of my articles.
I received 2 alerts within an hour of publication for:
Google News Alert for: eileen fleming
16 Days in Israel Palestine
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
by Eileen Fleming Page 1 of 3 page(s) Three years ago at this time, I was in the midst of my first of five trips to Israel Palestine. …
http://www.opednews.com/articles/16-Days-in-Israel-Palestin-by-Eileen-Fleming-080617-198.html
“If it keeps on raining the levees are gonna break”
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
by Eileen Fleming
http://www.opednews.com/articles/-If-it-keeps-on-raining-th-by-Eileen-Fleming-080618-114.html
However, my latest interview with Mordechai Vanunu has yet to generate a goggle alert
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Vanunu nails Iran and democracy
“I am not at all supporting this Ayatollahs regime in Iran. This regime should be ended and replaced by freedom and democracy for all Iran people. The same goes for Israel too, which is only a democracy if you are a Jew.”-Vanunu
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Vanunu-nails-Iran-and-Demo-by-Eileen-Fleming-080616-964.html
Mary, here’s link to info. explaining why pentagon hasn’t ’shut down’ the internet. The state actually has declared and implemented a ‘war on the net’ in massive project underway to destroy the internet as we know it and create ’secure trusted’ architecture for ‘internet 2.
The govt. & complicit media has managed to keep this project under the radar by atomizing it into a few parts pitched as essential for ‘national security’ against ‘terrorists’ working the web, child porn & spam — playing to public fear, ignorance and insatiable appetite for more faster.
People will be blindsided without info., so hope you will help spread it.
the digest is at http://www.burbankdigest.com/
subscribe/unsub: lizburbank@speakeasy.net
http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/69
“The internet needs to be dealt with as if it were an enemy ‘weapons system’…”
Information Operation Roadmap Part 3: “We Must Fight the Net” (below)
“We will wage information warfare, but we will fight with infantry”
1997 US Army War College: “WE HAVE ENTERED AN AGE OF CONSTANT CONFLICT…”
“The United States must cultivate a mental view toward world settlement after this war which will enable us to impose our own terms, amounting perhaps to a pax- americana.”
U.S. Department of State - Source: Minutes S-3 of the Security Subcommittee, Advisory Committee on Postwar Foreign Policy, 6 May, 1942, Notter File, Box 77, Record Group 59, Records of the Department of State, National Archives, DC.
“It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.”
Henry Kissinger
Digest note:
When the world’s #1 terrorist state, the u.s. and its proxy-partner Israel promise protection from “anti-american terrorists”, remember: those “terrorists” R us, all who expose and oppose the genocidal global domination agenda of U.S. imperialism, its proxies, allies, agents, and apologists.
The monstrous “GWOT” pretext, based on decades-long-planned ‘big lies’ and crimes against humanity, combines all forms of war, overt and covert, international and domestic, ‘conventional’ military supplemented by ’strategic non-violence’: Information warfare is pivotal to its entire futile, fascist goal of “full spectrum dominance”.
Secret Pentagon “Roadmap”
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 177
http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/index.htm
For more information contact:
Kristin Adair / Thomas Blanto 202 994 7000Washington, D.C., January 26, 2006 -
A secret Pentagon “roadmap” on war propaganda, personally approved by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in October 2003…The document calls on DoD to enhance its capabilities in five key Information Operations (IO) areas: electronic warfare (EW), PSYOP, Operations Security (OPSEC), military deception and computer network operations (CNO)….
DIGEST NOTE: IT’S THE SYSTEM STUPID, NOT JUST ADMIN. ‘EVIL’
President Clinton’s secret Presidential Decision Directive (PDD-68), issued on April 30, 1999, expanded public diplomacy and public affairs operations beyond USIA and the Department of State to include all agencies and set out the objective of IPI “to synchronize the informational objectives, themes and messages that will be projected overseas . . . to prevent and mitigate crises and to influence foreign audiences in ways favorable to the achievement of U.S. foreign policy objectives.”…
The “long war”: Pentagon to Release 20-Year Plan
the United States is engaged in a generational conflict akin to the Cold War, the kind of struggle that might last decades to root out terrorists across the globe and battle extremists who want to rule the world [editor: no pun intended]
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11774.htm
1997 US Army War College: “WE HAVE ENTERED AN AGE OF CONSTANT CONFLICT…”
“We, the winners, are a minority……We live in an age of multiple truths. He who warns of the “clash of civilizations” is incontestably right…..One of the defining bifurcations of the future will be the conflict between information masters and information victims…….
Information destroys traditional jobs and traditional cultures; it seduces, betrays, yet remains invulnerable. How can you counterattack the information others have turned upon you? There is no effective option other than competitive performance. For those individuals and cultures that cannot join or compete with our information empire, there is only inevitable failure (of note, the internet is to the techno-capable disaffected what the United Nations is to marginal states: it offers the illusion of empowerment and community) … The next century will indeed be American, but it will also be troubled. We will find ourselves in constant conflict, much of it violent. The United States Army is going to add a lot of battle streamers to its flag. We will wage information warfare, but we will fight with infantry. And we will always surprise those critics, domestic and foreign, who predict our decline…” [...]
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/97summer/peters.htm
U.S.-ISRAELI STATE TERRORISTS KNOW…
Israeli Professor Says Terrorist groups active on the Internet
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-4-2004_pg7_53
There are hundreds of sites on the Internet serving terrorist groups and their supporters, according to a study done by the * US Institute of Peace (USIP). The study undertaken by Gabriel Weimann, a professor at the Haifa University in Israel and currently a senior fellow at USIP, writes that today all active terrorist groups have established their presence on the Internet…..
Prof. Weimann points out that by its very nature, the Internet is an ideal arena for activity by terrorist organisations since it offers easy access, little or no regulation, censorship or government control, potentially huge audiences around the world, anonymity of communication, fast flow of information, inexpensive development and maintenance of web presence, a multimedia environment and the ability to shape coverage in the traditional mass media which increasingly uses the Internet as a source for news stories.A survey undertaken for the study showed that the Internet is used by groups of all description and persuasions, from Marxist to Islamist to racist to anarchist. [...]
Army’s information technology strategic plan
Army CIO/G-6 Campaign Plan, 2008-2015
Published October 2007
Normally released as 500-day plans, this version of the Army’s information technology strategic plan discusses future goals for 2008-2015.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/14780/army_ciog6_campaign_plan_20082015.html
The document’s introduction stated, “Our Army faces an ever-changing and evolving enemy and we must be able to respond rapidly to defeat emerging threats. The current operating environment and projections of persistent conflict dictate the need to rapidly develop capabilities for both the current and future forces. Further, the rapid pace of Information Technology (IT) change will create opportunities necessitating transformation of our development and procurement process to exploit these opportunities and effectively integrate them into the force. This transformation must include the ways and means to identify and mitigate risks associated with procurement and acquisition in the global IT market space.
The Global Information Grid (GIG) is the Department of Defense’s approach to information and decision superiority- a key to the National Military Strategy for continued information dominance. This decision superiority is based on shared information across the Army and with Joint, Interagency, and Multi-National coalitions and allies. LandWarNet is the Army’s portion of the GIG and; therefore, key to Army’s decision superiority. LandWarNet has been described as the Army’s Battle Command and GIG-derived, orders-based, capabilities focused system of systems, train as you fight, and enhanced orders process. LandWarNet enables information-based Joint, Interagency, multi-national, civil defense, Warfighting and support operations, regardless of Joint Operational Phase, operational urgency, or the battlespace circumstances of its authorized users.”
“The Cornerstones of Information Warfare”
According to [this] U.S. Air Force document, by Ronald Fogleman (General, USAF), then Chief of Staff, and Sheila E. Widnall, Secretary of the Air Force: “Information Warfare: any action to deny, exploit, corrupt, or destroy the enemy’s information and its functions; protecting ourselves against those actions; and exploiting our own military information function. “This definition is the basis for the following assertions:
“Information warfare is any attack against an information function, regardless of the means. Bombing a telephone switching facility is information warfare. So is destroying the switching facility’s software.
“Information warfare is any action to protect our information functions, regardless of the means. Hardening and defending the switching facility against air attack is information warfare. So is using an anti-virus program to protect the facility’s software.
“Information warfare is a means, not an end, in precisely the same manner that air warfare is a means, not an end. We may use information warfare as a means to conduct strategic attack and interdiction, for example, just as we may use air warfare to conduct strategic attack and interdiction.”
What Comprises Information Warfare?
“Recalling the definition, information warfare consists of activities that deny, exploit, corrupt, destroy, or protect information. Traditional means of conducting information warfare include psychological operations, electronic warfare, military deception, physical attack, and various security measures.
Psychological Operations use information to affect the enemy’s reasoning.
Electronic Warfare denies accurate information to the enemy.
Military Deception misleads the enemy about our capabilities or intentions.
Physical Destruction can do information warfare by affecting information system elements through the conversion of stored energy to destructive power. The means of physical attack range from conventional bombs to electromagnetic pulse weapons.
Security Measures seek to keep the adversary from learning about our military capabilities and intentions.”
“The Pentagon’s long-range thinker, Andrew Marshall, made a rare public appearance Thursday to discuss the future of warfare….”
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Information_warfare
Example of how this fascistic project is being pimped incrementally:
6/24/8
Technology Leaders Favor Online ID Card Over Passwords
The Information Card Foundation is an effort to create a single industrywide approach to managing identity online…. to bring the concept of an identity card, like a driver’s license, to the online world. Michael B. Jones, Microsoft’s director of identity partnerships, said the information card system would depend on the support of Web site owners in the same way that early Web browsers like Netscape waited for the support of Web server developers. The technology will first be used on desktop systems but will eventually find its way to mobile phones and other hand-held devices, he said. Microsoft has been working on the concept of an identity card for some time. The new organization will ensure various approaches adhere to the same standard…. The foundation, which also includes Equifax, Novell, Oracle and nine industry analysts and technology leaders, will try to set open standards for the technology industry. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/technology/24card.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print
Wow, thanks liz burbank for all your research and information.
Now I’ll have to go and read it all.
I had heard of small isolated things in comments about the Pentagon’s plans for
Internet 2 and the like, with no credible sources,
You have done your homework, now we must all do ours
thanks again Liz