Saturday, September 7, 2013

Âu Mỹ lại Dùng Georgia Huấn Luyện Khủng Bố Hồi Giáo Chechens Để Trả Đũa NGA?




Curiously Timed and Sourced New Reports Establish Georgia as the Recruiter &Trainer of Chechen Terrorists
New reports based on evidence have emerged to identify the Georgian government as recruiter and trainer of Chechen terrorists to destabilize Russia. According to these credible new allegations, the Georgian government recruited and trained Chechens to take part in Islamist militant movements. The Western think-tank, NGOs and media sourced reports may in fact provide Obama and his Neocon entourage with a perfect bone to offer Russia on the intended aggression war on Syria.
Last year the Georgian military executed an operation against what it tagged as “armed subversives” infiltrating the country from Russia. The operation resulted in the deaths of 11 people. President Mikheil Saakashvili called the alleged incursion a provocation by Russia aimed at influencing the elections and internal politics in Georgia. Now, new evidence has emerged to cast serious doubt on Saakashvili’s claims, and suggesting that the operation was in fact the botched result of an attempt by the government of Georgia to train Chechen rebels to destabilize Russia.The damning April report by Georgian human rights ombudsman Ucha Nanuashvili concludes that [All Emphasis Mine]:
The Chechens had been recruited in Europe by Georgian Interior Ministry officials, brought to Tbilisi, and trained over a period of several months in the use of weaponry with the intention of enabling them to cross the border from Georgia into Chechnya to join the ranks of the Islamic insurgency.
In addition to the young Chechens living in exile in Europe, the organizers of the operation also recruited several Kists (Georgian Chechens) from the Chechen community that has lived for several centuries in Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge.
Additionally a comprehensive report  with new allegations suggests that it may have been the Georgian defense ministry that was behind the scheme, and that the Chechens may have been intended to attack Ivanishvili himself, or to create a terror attack in Georgia that the authorities could blame him for:
The ongoing official investigation into how, why, and by whom the Chechens were co-opted has apparently stalled, although Ivanishvili, who is now prime minister, said in late April that it would be completed “in the near future.”
Eurasia .Net reporter Joshua Kucera attempted to seek comments from the Georgian officials and all he got was this:
When I’ve asked Georgians about this, none of them say the claims are ludicrous, they tend to shrug their shoulders and say some version of “Who knows?” Why has this not been a bigger story?
Are these new allegations and reports factually-based and true? Yes-without a doubt. Could there be some political elements and motivations to the allegations?  Definitively yes. Is it possible that these political objectives and the new reports could be used in the long-going standoff between Russia and the United States’ imperial pursuits in Syria? Highly Likely. How so? To answer this we must delve deeper into the history, context, and the significance of the recent developments.
In November 2011 I wrote an article US-NATO-Chechen Militia Joint Operations Base and introduced UNC terror cooperation:
The US media may be many awful things, but no one could ever accuse them of not being consistent- at least when it comes to certain subject areas; US-NATO-Chechen joint terrorism operations being one. The censorship of this topic goes to such extremes where even modified-sanitized-pasteurized versions of related events and facts are nowhere to be found in the US media. Let me list a few globally known and reported facts, then add a few twos and twos and twos together, and see whether you can find any traces of that in the US mainstream media.
My article included reports and developments on US-NATO HQ and centers in Turkey to train and direct Chechens for terror plots and operations against Russia. Please read the entire article for comprehensive coverage. Here are some of the sample reports:
In that same article I also exposed the Chechen Terrorists’ lobbyists and friends in the United States:
In the US, the leading group which pleads the Chechen cause is the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC). The list of the self-styled “distinguished Americans” who are its members is a roll call of the most prominent neoconservatives who so enthusiastically support the “war on terror.”
They include Richard Perle, the notorious Pentagon adviser; Elliott Abrams of Iran-Contra fame; Kenneth Adelman, the former US ambassador to the UN who egged on the invasion of Iraq by predicting it would be “a cakewalk”; Midge Decter, biographer of Donald Rumsfeld and a director of the rightwing Heritage Foundation; Frank Gaffney of the militarist Centre for Security Policy; Bruce Jackson, former US military intelligence officer and one-time vice-president of Lockheed Martin, now president of the US Committee on NATO; Michael Ladeen of the American Enterprise Institute, a former admirer of Italian fascism and now a leading proponent of regime change in Iran; and R James Woolsey, the former CIA director who is one of the leading cheerleaders behind George Bush’s plans to re-model the Muslim world along pro-US lines.
In August, the ACPC welcomed the award of political asylum in the US, and a US-government funded grant, to Ilyas Akhmadov, foreign minister in the opposition Chechen government, and a man Moscow describes as a terrorist. Coming from both political parties, the ACPC members represent the backbone of the US foreign policy establishment, and their views are indeed those of the US administration.
In that same article I also included some of my own first-hand experience with the FBI’s investigations of US-NATO sponsored  terror operations via Turkey, the Turkish lobby and various Turkish businesses:
ENKA was in fact involved in funding Chechen terrorist groups and even more. However, the funding was channeled via ENKA; not sourced to it. ENKA was (and probably still is) one of many Turkish companies used by the US government, specifically the CIA and the State Department, catering to objectives set by American actors mentioned in this article.
How do I know this? Well, let’s say it is one of the main State Secrets that received a particular privilege with my case. No matter. I have enough public documents and information to make you privy to this State’s Secret. ENKA, one of the largest building-construction companies in Turkey (also internationally) is one of the top players, top operatives, and top members of a gigantic Turkish-American Lobby organization called the American Turkish Council (ATC).
Again, to understand the significance of these strategically timed reports on Georgia’s Chechen terror links, you must read this article in its entirety: Click Here
Now we have to ask ourselves: what is the significance of the timing of the new reports and articles on Georgia-Chechen Terrorism links and evidence?
First, take notice, the new reports and articles all implicate and target long-gone Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. In fact, the reports are painting the current Prime Minister Ivanishvili, at the time only a candidate, as a victim of the previous administration who carried out all those Chechen terror activities. As we all know, for the United States US-Installed Ex-Puppets are easily and cheaply dispensable. So, the strategically timed and prepared reports shield our current US puppet.
Then, remind yourself of the very important and thorny problem for Russia: Georgia’s NATO Membership Candidacy. Since 2008, Georgia’s NATO candidacy has been played as a bargaining chip between the Russian & Western powers. Now ask yourself, will the United States (for the time being forget the US butlers in Europe) further delay Georgia’s full membership, or even indefinitely postpone it, to get Russia on board with the coming war on Syria? Well, last month, when I read this article written by a Neocon advocate of US imperialism, I had my answer: The establishment will be willing to let go of Georgia as a NATO member-at least for a while:
Actually, the biggest burden of admitting Tbilisi to the alliance would fall on the United States. Washington should halt the process before it proceeds any further.
Washington should finally and firmly kill Georgia’s NATO ambitions. Of course, that would not stop the Europeans from acting independently, if they believed the benefits of defending Tbilisi to be worth the costs. But Washington should say no to the possibility of war in the Caucasus.
The above article is only one example of many written by the same group in the last few months. Just a couple of years ago a treasured potential candidate, Georgia has recently been poopooed for qualities previously admired. Let me repeat the implications: Georgia’s NATO membership can be used as a bargaining chip with Russia if needed. And obviously currently it is needed for the Obama administration’s next war of aggression- Syria.
Now, add to the above eye-openers the Boston Terror Attack: when we intentionally created a common enemy with Russia. I have written extensively on this topic, but it may be easier to watch and listen to my core analyses and predictions put on record immediately following the event:

Bất cứ ai có KHÁT VỌNG TỰ CHỦ TỰ DO đều trở thành kẻ tử thù của Nhà Nước và Thiên Chúa

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Hình Các "Chiến Sĩ Tự Do Giải Phóng Quân Syria", nhóm đối lập đang được Âu Mỹ ủng hộ và tài trợ, đang chuẩn bị tiễn các "chiến Sĩ Quốc Gia Syria" về gặp Allah. Toán trưởng của nhóm này đã đọc kinh cầu và ngâm vịnh lời Chúa Trời Allah trước khi nhả đạn vào đầu nạn nhân!
Những tên sát nhân cuồng điên này đều là những tín đồ thuần thành của tôn giáo và quyền lực nhà nước.
Tuy nhiên, khi lên án Chúng man rợ... nhung chỉ giết vài chục người! Chúng ta phải công chính nhìn rộng hơn và rõ hơn rằng: Chính những thằng TỔNG THỐNG, BỘ TRƯỞNG, TƯỚNG LÃNH, của Âu Mỹ ngồi họp trong những căn biệt thự tại Âu Mỹ mới ghê tởm hơn nữa!
Bọn đeo mặt nạ  "NHÂN QUYỀN TỰ DO" này không chỉ đã và đang chủ trì  ra lệnh, tài trợ cho những cuộc tàn sát hàng chục người như  hình trện, mà còn cả đến những cuộc tàn sát hàng trăm ngàn, hàng triệu thường dân vô tội, không những thế, chúng và đám CHỦ BÁO, KÝ GIẢ CHÍNH QUI còn trâng tráo rằng chúng tàn sát như thế là  NHÂN DANH BẢO VỆ NHÂN QUYỀN và SINH MẠNG CON NGƯỜI!
Sự thật, chúng chủ trương phá nát TIỀM LỰC của bất cứ khu vực nào có TÀI NGUYÊN THIÊN NHIÊN và TIỀM LỰC THÁCH ĐỐ CHÚNG NÓ.. Đặc biệt trong tiến trình này, mục tiêu trước mắt là GIỨP DO THÁI loại bót đối thủ để con đường cướp thêm lãnh thổ và  khống trị khu vực Trung Đông của Do Thái dễ dàng và nhanh chóng hơn.
Ai giết ai, giết ra sao và bằng vũ khí nào, tất cả không quan trọng. Lừa bịp được thì ;lấy làm lý cớ như Collin Powell và Iraq. Còn không lừa bịp được, thì NHÂN DANH QUYỀN LỢI QUỐC GIA.. Vì thế, Âu Mỹ ĐÃ CHUẨN BỊ XẾP ĐẶT CUỘC ĐỔ QUÂN TIẾN CHIẾM SYRIA trước khi cái gọi là "vũ khí hóa học xảy ra", và nó chỉ là cái cớ vó vẩn thuận tiện mà thôi (US and Allied Warships off the Syrian Coastline: Naval Deployment Was Decided “Before” the August 21 Chemical Weapons Attack)
Theo chỉ tiêu của chiến lược đã đề ra:  Syria phải bị phá nát như Iraq, Lybia. và chế độ Assad phải bị tiêu diệt như Sadam và Gadafi... Vấn đề chỉ là thời gian. Ngay cả nếu như Âu Mỹ không chính thức đồ quân được do sức ép quần chúng và thái độ cứng rắn của Putin, thì  LỰC LƯỢNG ĐỐI  LẬP  của các  "chiến sĩ Al Qeda yêu tự do dân chủ và  Allah"  thích ăn thịt uống máu người này sẽ được Âu Mỹ tài trợ thêm để làm "cách mạng".. Ván bài Osama Bin Laden chống phá Soviet tại Afganistan sẽ được tái dựng và chắc chắn sẽ thành công. Chắc chắn thành công, chẳng phải vì Âu Mỹ giỏi giang gỉ, chỉ vì các nhóm "dân tộc bản xứ này" "quá là văn minh và khôn ngoan",  mà thôi!  Ngay cả Nga và Trung Quốc, dù cũng đang bị chọc phá và lũng đoạn, cũng không HIỂU và CHƯA THẨM THẤU được những toan tính chiến lược của Âu Mỹ...Cho nên các nhóm "chủ nghĩa  quốc gia tí hon" chỉ được thêm hai ông dốt nát tôn sùng tổ cò dân tộc chống đỡ yếu ớt mà thôi. Bản thân Nga Hoa cũng đang bị kềm hãm và tiệm hủy... cho đến khi Trung Đông ổn thỏa thì Nga Hoa sẽ nếm đủ mùi cay đáng nếu chưa khôn ngoan phủ đầu trước bằng cách mở toang thông tin và di chuyển để xây dựng tiềm lực từ chính dân trí của quần chúng.
Họ phải hiểu ra bằng những diễn biến cụ thể trước mắt rằng: Không có thế lực "quốc gia dân tộc" "tôn giáo" nào có đủ khả năng chống lại nổi sức mạnh mở rộng của Âu Mỹ! Hãy nhìn Nhật Bản một "quốc gia" tài ba truyền thống nhất Á Châu... và nhìn thẳng vào hướng DI DÂN của NHÂN LOẠI..
 
1- Tại sao người ta chỉ di dân kéo nhau đến sống ở  Âu Mỹ? Nếu chưa di dân thì Du Học tại Âu Mỹ?
2- Tại sao sách vở tư tưởng, giáo dục, văn học nghệ thuật phim ảnh giải trí  từ Âu Mỹ, KHÔNG CẦN DÍ SÚNG CƯỠNG ÉP mà nơi đâu cũng nồng nhiệt đón nhận và bắt chước? Ngay cả khi bị chính Nhà nước bản xứ ngăn chận, người dân cũng lén lút đón nhận "chui" bất chấp hiểm nguy, như Việt Nam, Trung Quốc khi chưa "mở cửa" và như tại các xã hội "hồi giáo" như Iran hôm nay?
 
Chỉ khi nào người ta trả lời thành thật, rốt ráo, và đúng đắn được hai câu hỏi thực tiễn nền tảng trên, người ta mói có thể có đuọc đối sách đúng đắn với sự lan tràn  khống trị của tập đoàn bóng tối  đi từ  Mỹ!
Mà thôi! của đáng tội, "âu cũng là ý muốn khát máu bạo ngược" của đấng Allah và Chúa Trời đã "quan phòng" như thế!
Xin cùng nhau bù khú đọc lại "thánh kinh" một chút cho vui và hiểu vấn đề thấu đáo hơn chút!
Ai đã từng đọc "thánh kinh" đều biết rõ thái độ và ý muốn của chúa Giê Ho Va. Lão không bắt được ý muốn tự do của Con Người theo ý Lão, nên lão Giê Hô Va đã hung hăng tối dạ làm ngập lụt toàn địa cầu để giết hết những ai Lão không thích!!! Quá man rợ: đây là tội diệt chủng Genocide!!!
Nhưng Lão Chúa Trời đần độn hung hăng này đã thất bại: Con Người vẫn thích tự do, tự chủ làm theo ý riêng. Lão điên tiết và giận hờn, giận lẫy  CĂM GHÉT TẤT CẢ CON NGƯỜI, để chỉ thừa nhận có mỗi đám dân cùng bản tínhbạo ngược  vói Lão là Do Thái. Và lão Chúa Trời này đã chọn Do Thái làm "Con Riêng". Nhưng đám Con Riêng này bị Lão hành hạ bắt khoan bắt nhặt , rồi bị trừng phãt bằng cách bắt Do Thái  lui cui làm nô lệ cho Ai Cập!!!
Bất ngờ Lão đổi ý muốn tha cho Do Thái và cúu "dân riêng Do Thái" của mình ra khỏi Ai Cập do chính Lão tạo ra để trừng phạt dân riêng này!!!,  Tên "chúa trời Giê Hô Va" đã giúp Môi Sen  đấu võ phép bùa vớii Ai Cập- và cái  chiêu võ cuối cùng nổi tiếng nhất của gã Chúa Trời vừa ngu vừa điên loạn này là : Ra Tay  giết hết những bé trai đầu lòng của người Ai Cập  (một cuộc tàn sát trẻ thơ vô tội) có thể là hàng trăm ngàn em bé chết trong đêm hôm đó!  Đấy tác phẩm để đời của Một thằng Chúa "Quyền Năng Tuyệt Đối, Lòng Lành Vô Cùng" như thế đấy!!!
Vài ngàn năm sau, Chúa Trời này chưa thỏa mãn khát vọng muốn con người sợ hãi thuần phục lão tuyệt đối. Lão vẫn giận dữ dai dẳng Con Người Tự Do và Tự Chủ, nhưng vì "khôn ngoan quyền năng và lòng lành quá" nên Lão bí cách... cuối cùng Lão lôi thằng con duy nhất của Lão ra bắt phải bị TRA TẤN CHO ĐẾN CHẾT đề làm lão nguôi ngoai may ra sẽ THA THỨ cho đám Con Người ngang bướng yêu thích tự do tự chủ kia.
Đấy cái Lão Thượng Đế Chúa Trời của Do Thái, Thiên Chúa và Hồi Giáo nó bất lực nhưng  bạo ngược điên cuồng , tối dạ không kém gì tên "Nhà Nước" của chúng ta.
Nhà nước, giống như gã "chúa trời Giê Hô Va- đang nhân danh đủ thứ để hành hạ bắt khoan, bắt nhặt Con Người - cho nên bất cú ai có KHÁT VỌNG TỰ CHỦ TỰ DO đều trở thành kẻ tử thù của Nhà Nước và Thiên Chúa là như vậy!
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Syria Video Turns the Debate on U.S. Intervention



The tape made ‘New York Times’ editors sick. Lloyd Grove on the footage of a rebel slaughter that’s upended talk of an authorized U.S. intervention.

 

Friday, September 6, 2013

Dân Chủ hay Độc Tài: Nhà Nước Quân Đội An Ninh vẫn là Một!

Brazil Police Torture and Disappear Slum Residents With Impunity:  

Brazil's police have tortured and disappeared more people under democratic leadership (1985-present) then during its military dictatorship (1964 - 1985) -   September 4, 13


Nhà nước "dăn chủ" Ba Tây (Brazil) từ năm 1985 đến nay đã đàn áp bắt bớ và thủ tiêu những người dân nghèo đối kháng nhiều hơn là chế độ độc tài trước đó! Như vậy VẤN NẠN CHÍNH nằm ở đâu? Chú ý, trong phim , "cảnh sát" thường đa số là "da trắng"!

Vấn đề KHÔNG CHỈ LÀ Ở BA TÂY-  Đây là vấn đề của ĐỊNH CHẾ CHÍNH TRỊ và  QUYỀN LỰC

Dân Chủ hay Độc Tài : Khi bản chất bạo ngược quyền lực Nhà nước và bản chất côn đồ tay sai của Quân Đội và An ninh còn đó, còn "được tin tưởng trao quyền", thì tất cả vấn nạn vẫn còn đó!

Kiểm chứng tính xác thật của nhận định "cực đoan" trên: Xét  thực tiễn từ quốc gia "dân chủ đầu tiên và hùng mạnh"... Mỹ với mức độ tàn bạo của cảnh sát (Police Brutality) và được "luật pháp chính đáng hóa" cao nhất trong các quốc gia "dân chủ". Con số tù nhân chính trị tại Mỹ càng ngày càng tăng dưới nhiều "tội danh" lạ lùng hơn. Cứ nhìn trường họp của Bradley Manning và trại tù Watanamo làm căn bản sẽ rõ!

America's Political Prisoners | Global Research

Political Prisoners in the U.S. Are No Better Off Than Anywhere Else

Jeremy Hammond, American Political Prisoner - Huffington Post

 Political Prisoners in the United States? - Philadelphia Jewish Voice

Riêng những "phương pháp đàn áp" đàn áp người biểu tình của những toán CẢnh Sát đã quân đội hóa (Sawt) thì ngay cả Trung Quốc cũng không thể sánh với Mỹ được. Bên cạnh Mỹ là Canada cũng thế. Phương pháp đàn áp và tội danh chính trị được khéo léo sửa đổi cho dể nghe như "có ý tưởng ủng hộ khủng bố" , "hành vi náo lạn xã hội" bất tuân dân sụ" v.v  đặc biệt  cách đối xử tàn tệ với các sắc dân thiểu số càng ngày càng trắng trợn hơn (Political Prisoners in the North American Homeland | Global Research)



Tại Úc Thòi Lòi, trong những thập niên qua,  ít bị "mang tiếng" hơn... Nhưng mức độ tàn bạo của Cảnh Sát càng ngày càng tăng dần cùng với những bộ luật bênh vực trao thêm quyền cho Cảnh Sát An Ninh. Một sự kiện có tính chung, bản chất của vấn nạn gia tăng quyền lực này là   "tính kỳ thị chủng tộc" cũng tăng theo quyền lực chính trị!  Cảnh sát Úc hành hung chặn bắt vô cớ những công dân có gốc Á , Phi, và Trung Đông nhiều hơn. Sự kiện này củng đang diễn ra ở khắp Âu Châu và các nước Nam Mỹ có quan hệ "tốt" với Âu Mỹ!

PressTV - Police brutality on rise in Australia: New figures

Socialist Alternative - Police brutality in a racist country

Police investigate Mardi Gras brutality claims - ABC News

Shocking video of police brutality at Mardi Gras | Indymedia Australia

Mỗi chúng ta cần SUY NGHĨ, PHÂN TÍCH  để có những qui kết riêng!

 

Cái Gọi Là Khủng Hoảng Kinh Tề Toàn Cầu đã được xếp đặt ?

Cái Gọi Là Khủng Hoảng Kinh Tề Toàn Cầu đã được xếp đặt từ ngay đầu thế kỷ 21?

Ký giả điều tra nổi tiếng Greg Palast của BBC đã có bằng chứng của cái gọi là "Cuộc Khủng Hoảng Kinh Tế" khởi đi từ Mỹ có thể đã được chủ tâm phát động như một điều kiện để tiến hành kế hoạch chính trị chiến lược toàn cầu. Kẻ được trao nhiệm vụ điều hành tiến trình này không ai khác hơn là Larry Summers, người Mỹ gốc Do Thái, tổng trưởng kinh tế thời Clinton và Giám Đốc Hội Đồng Kinh Tế của Obama 1- Trưởng ban Chuyên gia Kinh Tế của Ngân Hàng Thế Giới. Ký giả Greg Palast  đã nắm được bản chú dẫn của cuộc họp kín do Summers chủ trì bàn thảo kế hoạch tạo môt cuộc khủng hoảng kinh tế được châm ngòi từ việc "tháo gỡ các luật lệ ràng buộc định chế tài chính" từ cuối thập niên 1990s và đầu năm 2000, vào thời điểm khai mở thế kỷ 21!
Nói một cách khác, người dân phải bị nhần cho nhừ tử với miếng cơm manh áo để  Nhà nước rảnh tay thực hiện những kế hoạch chính trị mà không bị người dân chú ý và phản đối. Bọn cầm quyền cần  một cuộc khủng hoảng kinh tế có tác dụng triệt tiêu lâu dài thời gian và năng lực đối kháng của quần chúng đặc biệt là sau khi đã bị mất tinh thần với vụ 911.
Cũng nên biết rằng chính ký giả Greg Palast là người đã tường trình sư thật về cuộc đảo chính tổng thống Venezuella Hugo Chavez do Mỹ cầm đầu khi ông có mặt ngay tại cuộc chính biến này. (http://www.gregpalast.com/did-chavez-pick-steal-the-election-in-venezuela/) Did Chavez' Pick Steal the Election in Venezuela?
Greg Palast cũng là người đã phanh phui được vụ gian lận phiếu và ăn cắp 2 kết quả bầu cử tổng thống của nhà G.W.Bush năm 2000 và 2004. .. trong sự ngầm thỏa hiệp của Gore và j.Kerry!!! (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x3294) How George W. Bush Stole The 2000 Election greg Palast
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JAISAL NOOR, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Jaisal Noor in Baltimore.
Investigative journalist Greg Palast has obtained a secret memo authored by then deputy Treasury secretary Larry Summers and his protégé Timothy Geithner detailing their plans to roll back financial regulation. In the piece, titled "The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis" for Vice, Palast writes:
"The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak's fantasy: that in the late 1990s, the top U.S. Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal of banker big-shots to rip apart financial regulation across the planet. When you see 26.3 percent unemployment in Spain, desperation and hunger in Greece, riots in Indonesia and Detroit in bankruptcy, go back to this End Game memo, the genesis of the blood and tears."
Now joining us to discuss this article is Greg Palast. He's a BBC investigative reporter and author ofVultures' Picnic. Palast turned his skills to journalism after two decades as a top investigator of corporate fraud. Palast directed the U.S. government's largest racketeering case in history, winning a $4.3 billion jury award. He also conducted the investigation of fraud charges in the Exxon Valdez grounding.
Thank you so much for joining us, Greg.
GREG PALAST, BBC INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER: Glad to be with you, as always.
Noor: So, Greg, can you describe this memo you obtained and the context in which it was circulated, as well as its contents and its significance today?
Palast: It's really significant today, because the memo is written to Larry Summers, who was at the time the deputy Treasury secretary, and he was about to become Treasury secretary under Robert Rubin. It came to him from Timmy Geithner. Timmy would become Obama's secretary of the Treasury.
This is really important right now because Larry Summers is President Obama's top choice to become head of a Federal Reserve Board. This would make him the most powerful economic decision-maker in America, more powerful than the president even, and it'll last for years. He would take Ben Bernanke's place. It's quite shocking to have Summers' name come up as head of the Fed, and especially--and therefore especially now that I have this memo in hand.
And what this memo is--they call it the "end game memo". Geithner calls it the "end game". And what's the game being played? The memo asks Summers to get back to the five biggest, most powerful bankers in the United States to act on and determine what our policy should be for world governance of the banking system. Basically, there were secret calls going between Larry Summers and the head of Bank of America, the head of Goldman Sachs, the head of Citibank and Merrill, the five big boys, to find out what should happen to the world financial policing order. And the answer was: smash it. Summers was holding secret meetings with the big bankers to come up with a scheme to eliminate financial regulation across the planet.
It's quite an extraordinary process. This is one memo within the whole framework of this strange and what seems to be illegal gatherings. I can tell you that it's not against the law for the secretary of the Treasury to meet with big bankers. What you can't do is do it in secret and run secret negotiating positions past those bankers, who have a direct financial interest in the outcome. Their financial interest was to eliminate all policing of their activities, which they did.
The memo in particular, what Summers was engineering--remember, Summers, Rubin, Geithner were the key players in eliminating financial regulation of the banking industry. They eliminated the distinction between gambling houses in the investment banks and our piggy bank banks, the commercial banks. And as you know, that led to financial implosion in the United States and worldwide.
How did it end up bringing down the world financial system just 'cause we had a problem with the United States? The answer goes back to this memo. It was an idea in which they said, look, we can't deregulate into the United States alone; we have to deregulate across the planet. Otherwise, money will shift out of the United States into safer money harbors. So the way to change end that would be to eliminate banking regulations in every nation of the world, 156 nations in one shot.
And it was quite brilliant, the scheme, which was--and it succeeded, that is, in an awful way. We have a world financial collapse, but their plan to succeeded, the end game succeeded, which is to require any nation that wants to do trade with the United States in goods to accept our bads. If you want to sell us--if Ecuador wants to sell America bananas--and this is a real example--if Ecuador wants to sell us bananas, they have to accept in return derivatives, subprime mortgages. They have to accept synthetic collateralized debt obligations. So they're being paid for their real assets with toxic assets.
And every nation but one signed on. A hundred and fifty-five nations agreed to a kind of form of blackmail, which is that you want to sell cars to the U.S., you want to sell, you know, orange juice to the U.S., you're going to have to go along with deregulating your banking system, accepting our derivatives junk, our junk bonds and our junk derivatives, and opening up your sectors to Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, so that Morgan, Citibank, and others are allowed to operate internationally. The effects, of course, have been disastrous.
And what's important about this document, again, is not just that it tells you how the world fell to its knees and the inside process and the kind of icky revelation that, you know, as a lot of people suspected, that the bankers and the Treasury Department actually secretly put this whole business together. What's particularly relevant this week is that Larry Summers, the center of this scheme of this end game, is Obama's prime choice to be head of the Federal Reserve Board. So I thought that this was the time to get the document out.
Noor: And so you can confirmed the authenticity of the memo with Pascal Lamy, the secretary-general of the World Trade Organization. What was his reaction? Can you share his reaction to the memo? And did he disclose anything to you that wasn't previously known or published?
Palast: Well, I actually spoke to--I traveled all over the world to confirm this. I went to Geneva, Switzerland, and I--you know, 'cause of my position as--I'm pretty well known internationally as a reporter, so I was able to speak with the director-general of the World Trade Organization himself, Pascal Lamy. He's French. He said, oh, the WTO--'cause all this was done through the auspices of trade--the WTO is not some cabal of evil bankers meeting in a room secretly filled with cigar smoke, etc. And then I showed him the memos. So that was--yes, there was no cigar smoke, but there were secret meetings of bankers.
And his reaction was, listen, if the United States--in his wonderful French accent--if the United States doesn't have a real democracy, then you're going to have to file a complaint with the human rights court down the street in Geneva. That's none of his business. It's not his job to make America a democracy if we're being run by bankers, which is pretty awful way of putting it.
I then went and I also spoke with a member of the cabinet at the time. Remember, these are cabinet members, Rubin and Geithner and Summers. Another member of Clinton's cabinet when this was occurring was Joe Stiglitz, who later won the Nobel Prize in economics. He was head of the Council of economic advisers. And Stiglitz has never given me, by the way, inside documents, but he does tend to confirm the documents I show him, just to make sure I know what I'm talking about. And he said something shocking to me. He said that when he was in cabinet meetings, Summers would turn to Rubin and say--and they're in the White House in front of the president. The president would ask them some for policy recommendations, and Summers would say to Rubin, well, what would Goldman think of this? In other words, what would Goldman Sachs think? And he did it several times, until Stiglitz finally said, don't you think it's inappropriate to be asking what Goldman Sachs would think of our policies? Isn't it--it's what happens to the American people, not what happens to Goldman Sachs. And they looked at him like he was a complete naive schmuck. You know? And so he was eventually disinvited from Clinton's cabinet, and Summers was promoted to full secretary of the Treasury.
Now, one of the problems here: it's more than bad that there are secret discussions between our policy chiefs and the banks determining what the policy should be. It had a terrible effect on the world economy. It decriminalized behavior by these banks. It used to be a crime for these bags to be shifting money across borders. It used to be a crime for them to sell products that weren't products, like financial derivatives. The problem is that once these activities were decriminalized--we call it deregulating. It's really decriminalizing previously criminal activity. Once we decriminalized the banking system, we ended up with situations, for example, where Goldman Sachs cut a secret deal for currency default swaps with the government of Greece. When that was uncovered, the Greek economy imploded. So these things have serious consequences.
By the way, even when we look at the destruction of Detroit, China signed the agreement, agreed, okay, we'll open up our banking sector to derivatives and your toxic junk, but we want your auto parts industry in return. So we basically handed over the auto-parts industry to China. That was their deal. Two million manufacturing jobs shifted to China from the U.S., and auto-parts was a big part of it, which led to the--. One of the reasons why the city of Detroit went bankrupt despite the auto bailout is that auto parts did leave for China. So, you see, there's direct repercussions of this type of secret connivance between our officials and banks. It's a very dangerous business. And for Summers to have been in the middle of organizing this and coordinating this and not revealing this--they're allowed to have these meetings, but they can't do it in secret--it raises questions about whether this guy should be the central banker of the United States.
Noor: And Greg Palast, we'll certainly follow this story and see if it does have an impact on whether Summers gets that position or not.
Palast: Well, yeah, I think it will, because I do know that they're very nervous about his confirmation hearings, and I think that there are some--I do know that there are going to be some senators who are going to be more than happy to stick this memo to his forehead, and especially after they read parts two and three coming up at GregPalast.com. There's going to be--I'm not done with Mr. Summers. I've been keeping files on this guy for about a decade and a half, because wherever there's an economic fire, he always seems to be the guy holding the matchbook.
Noor: Well, Greg Palast, thank you so much for joining us, and we look forward to having you on again to discuss your future reporting.
Palast: Thank you.
Noor: Thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.

Thursday, September 5, 2013

US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet

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US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet

• NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records
• $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products
• Security experts say programs 'undermine the fabric of the internet'
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Through covert partnerships with tech companies, the spy agencies have inserted secret vulnerabilities into encryption software. Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters
US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and emails, according to top-secret documents revealed by former contractor Edward Snowden.
This story has been reported in partnership between the New York Times, the Guardian and ProPublica based on documents obtained by the Guardian.

For the Guardian: James Ball, Julian Borger, Glenn Greenwald
  1. For the New York Times: Nicole Perlroth, Scott Shane

    For ProPublica: Jeff Larson
    Read the New York Times story here
The files show that the National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have broadly compromised the guarantees that internet companies have given consumers to reassure them that their communications, online banking and medical records would be indecipherable to criminals or governments.
The agencies, the documents reveal, have adopted a battery of methods in their systematic and ongoing assault on what they see as one of the biggest threats to their ability to access huge swathes of internet traffic – "the use of ubiquitous encryption across the internet".
Those methods include covert measures to ensure NSA control over setting of international encryption standards, the use of supercomputers to break encryption with "brute force", and – the most closely guarded secret of all – collaboration with technology companies and internet service providers themselves.
Through these covert partnerships, the agencies have inserted secret vulnerabilities – known as backdoors or trapdoors – into commercial encryption software.
The files, from both the NSA and GCHQ, were obtained by the Guardian, and the details are being published today in partnership with the New York Times and ProPublica. They reveal:
• A 10-year NSA program against encryption technologies made a breakthrough in 2010 which made "vast amounts" of data collected through internet cable taps newly "exploitable".
• The NSA spends $250m a year on a program which, among other goals, works with technology companies to "covertly influence" their product designs.
• The secrecy of their capabilities against encryption is closely guarded, with analysts warned: "Do not ask about or speculate on sources or methods."
• The NSA describes strong decryption programs as the "price of admission for the US to maintain unrestricted access to and use of cyberspace".
• A GCHQ team has been working to develop ways into encrypted traffic on the "big four" service providers, named as Hotmail, Google, Yahoo and Facebook.
NSA diagram This network diagram, from a GCHQ pilot program, shows how the agency proposed a system to identify encrypted traffic from its internet cable-tapping programs and decrypt what it could in near-real time. Photograph: Guardian The agencies insist that the ability to defeat encryption is vital to their core missions of counter-terrorism and foreign intelligence gathering.
But security experts accused them of attacking the internet itself and the privacy of all users. "Cryptography forms the basis for trust online," said Bruce Schneier, an encryption specialist and fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. "By deliberately undermining online security in a short-sighted effort to eavesdrop, the NSA is undermining the very fabric of the internet." Classified briefings between the agencies celebrate their success at "defeating network security and privacy".
"For the past decade, NSA has lead [sic] an aggressive, multi-pronged effort to break widely used internet encryption technologies," stated a 2010 GCHQ document. "Vast amounts of encrypted internet data which have up till now been discarded are now exploitable."
An internal agency memo noted that among British analysts shown a presentation on the NSA's progress: "Those not already briefed were gobsmacked!"
The breakthrough, which was not described in detail in the documents, meant the intelligence agencies were able to monitor "large amounts" of data flowing through the world's fibre-optic cables and break its encryption, despite assurances from internet company executives that this data was beyond the reach of government.
The key component of the NSA's battle against encryption, its collaboration with technology companies, is detailed in the US intelligence community's top-secret 2013 budget request under the heading "Sigint [signals intelligence] enabling".
NSA Bullrun 1 Classified briefings between the NSA and GCHQ celebrate their success at 'defeating network security and privacy'. Photograph: Guardian Funding for the program – $254.9m for this year – dwarfs that of the Prism program, which operates at a cost of $20m a year, according to previous NSA documents. Since 2011, the total spending on Sigint enabling has topped $800m. The program "actively engages US and foreign IT industries to covertly influence and/or overtly leverage their commercial products' designs", the document states. None of the companies involved in such partnerships are named; these details are guarded by still higher levels of classification.
Among other things, the program is designed to "insert vulnerabilities into commercial encryption systems". These would be known to the NSA, but to no one else, including ordinary customers, who are tellingly referred to in the document as "adversaries".
"These design changes make the systems in question exploitable through Sigint collection … with foreknowledge of the modification. To the consumer and other adversaries, however, the systems' security remains intact."

The document sets out in clear terms the program's broad aims, including making commercial encryption software "more tractable" to NSA attacks by "shaping" the worldwide marketplace and continuing efforts to break into the encryption used by the next generation of 4G phones.

Among the specific accomplishments for 2013, the NSA expects the program to obtain access to "data flowing through a hub for a major communications provider" and to a "major internet peer-to-peer voice and text communications system".
Technology companies maintain that they work with the intelligence agencies only when legally compelled to do so. The Guardian has previously reported that Microsoft co-operated with the NSA to circumvent encryption on the Outlook.com email and chat services. The company insisted that it was obliged to comply with "existing or future lawful demands" when designing its products.

The documents show that the agency has already achieved another of the goals laid out in the budget request: to influence the international standards upon which encryption systems rely.

Independent security experts have long suspected that the NSA has been introducing weaknesses into security standards, a fact confirmed for the first time by another secret document. It shows the agency worked covertly to get its own version of a draft security standard issued by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology approved for worldwide use in 2006.
"Eventually, NSA became the sole editor," the document states.
The NSA's codeword for its decryption program, Bullrun, is taken from a major battle of the American civil war. Its British counterpart, Edgehill, is named after the first major engagement of the English civil war, more than 200 years earlier.
A classification guide for NSA employees and contractors on Bullrun outlines in broad terms its goals.
"Project Bullrun deals with NSA's abilities to defeat the encryption used in specific network communication technologies. Bullrun involves multiple sources, all of which are extremely sensitive." The document reveals that the agency has capabilities against widely used online protocols, such as HTTPS, voice-over-IP and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), used to protect online shopping and banking.

The document also shows that the NSA's Commercial Solutions Center, ostensibly the body through which technology companies can have their security products assessed and presented to prospective government buyers, has another, more clandestine role.
It is used by the NSA to "to leverage sensitive, co-operative relationships with specific industry partners" to insert vulnerabilities into security products. Operatives were warned that this information must be kept top secret "at a minimum".
A more general NSA classification guide reveals more detail on the agency's deep partnerships with industry, and its ability to modify products. It cautions analysts that two facts must remain top secret: that NSA makes modifications to commercial encryption software and devices "to make them exploitable", and that NSA "obtains cryptographic details of commercial cryptographic information security systems through industry relationships".

The agencies have not yet cracked all encryption technologies, however, the documents suggest. Snowden appeared to confirm this during a live Q&A with Guardian readers in June. "Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on," he said before warning that NSA can frequently find ways around it as a result of weak security on the computers at either end of the communication.
The documents are scattered with warnings over the importance of maintaining absolute secrecy around decryption capabilities.
NSA Bullrun 2 A slide showing that the secrecy of the agencies' capabilities against encryption is closely guarded. Photograph: Guardian Strict guidelines were laid down at the GCHQ complex in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on how to discuss projects relating to decryption. Analysts were instructed: "Do not ask about or speculate on sources or methods underpinning Bullrun." This informaton was so closely guarded, according to one document, that even those with access to aspects of the program were warned: "There will be no 'need to know'."
The agencies were supposed to be "selective in which contractors are given exposure to this information", but it was ultimately seen by Snowden, one of 850,000 people in the US with top-secret clearance.A 2009 GCHQ document spells out the significant potential consequences of any leaks, including "damage to industry relationships".

"Loss of confidence in our ability to adhere to confidentiality agreements would lead to loss of access to proprietary information that can save time when developing new capability," intelligence workers were told. Somewhat less important to GCHQ was the public's trust which was marked as a moderate risk, the document stated.
"Some exploitable products are used by the general public; some exploitable weaknesses are well known eg possibility of recovering poorly chosen passwords," it said. "Knowledge that GCHQ exploits these products and the scale of our capability would raise public awareness generating unwelcome publicity for us and our political masters."
The decryption effort is particularly important to GCHQ. Its strategic advantage from its Tempora program – direct taps on transatlantic fibre-optic cables of major telecommunications corporations – was in danger of eroding as more and more big internet companies encrypted their traffic, responding to customer demands for guaranteed privacy.
Without attention, the 2010 GCHQ document warned, the UK's "Sigint utility will degrade as information flows changes, new applications are developed (and deployed) at pace and widespread encryption becomes more commonplace." Documents show that Edgehill's initial aim was to decode the encrypted traffic certified by three major (unnamed) internet companies and 30 types of Virtual Private Network (VPN) – used by businesses to provide secure remote access to their systems. By 2015, GCHQ hoped to have cracked the codes used by 15 major internet companies, and 300 VPNs.

Another program, codenamed Cheesy Name, was aimed at singling out encryption keys, known as 'certificates', that might be vulnerable to being cracked by GCHQ supercomputers.
Analysts on the Edgehill project were working on ways into the networks of major webmail providers as part of the decryption project. A quarterly update from 2012 notes the project's team "continue to work on understanding" the big four communication providers, named in the document as Hotmail, Google, Yahoo and Facebook, adding "work has predominantly been focused this quarter on Google due to new access opportunities being developed".
To help secure an insider advantage, GCHQ also established a Humint Operations Team (HOT). Humint, short for "human intelligence" refers to information gleaned directly from sources or undercover agents.
This GCHQ team was, according to an internal document, "responsible for identifying, recruiting and running covert agents in the global telecommunications industry."
"This enables GCHQ to tackle some of its most challenging targets," the report said. The efforts made by the NSA and GCHQ against encryption technologies may have negative consequences for all internet users, experts warn.
"Backdoors are fundamentally in conflict with good security," said Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist and senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union. "Backdoors expose all users of a backdoored system, not just intelligence agency targets, to heightened risk of data compromise." This is because the insertion of backdoors in a software product, particularly those that can be used to obtain unencrypted user communications or data, significantly increases the difficulty of designing a secure product."
This was a view echoed in a recent paper by Stephanie Pell, a former prosecutor at the US Department of Justice and non-resident fellow at the Center for Internet and Security at Stanford Law School.
"[An] encrypted communications system with a lawful interception back door is far more likely to result in the catastrophic loss of communications confidentiality than a system that never has access to the unencrypted communications of its users," she states.
Intelligence officials asked the Guardian, New York Times and ProPublica not to publish this article, saying that it might prompt foreign targets to switch to new forms of encryption or communications that would be harder to collect or read.
The three organisations removed some specific facts but decided to publish the story because of the value of a public debate about government actions that weaken the most powerful tools for protecting the privacy of internet users in the US and worldwide.