“No matter how you slice this particular pie, a Mercedes is not just going to explode into flames without a little assistance,” writes freelance journalist Jim Stone. “Car fires in new cars happen for three main reasons — running the engine out of oil, or running the engine out of coolant, or after an absolutely huge car mangling accident, having the hot side of the battery short out against the frame before it reaches the fuse panel. And for all 3 of those normal reasons, which account for virtually all car fires in modern cars, the fire would have started in the engine compartment, progressed slowly, and scorched the hell out of the paint before ever reaching the gas tank. That clean paint is the be all tell all, Michael Hastings was murdered, and the rest is detail.”
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Never-before-seen GIANT virus found that's so unusual it may have come from Mars
- The Pandoravirus is one micrometre big - ten times the size of other viruses
- It is found underwater but is not considered a threat to humans
- The virus has been spotted off the coast of Chile and in an Australian pond
- Only six per cent of its genes resemble those seen before on Earth
By Emma Innes
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Thanks to PatR...
A vast coronal hole has appeared in the sun’s northern hemisphere. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory took this picture of the UV-dark chasm on July 18th:
Coronal holes are places in the sun’s upper atmosphere where the magnetic field opens up and allows solar wind to escape. A broad stream of solar wind flowing from this particular coronal hole should reach Earth on July 19-20.
In addition, NOAA forecasters say a CME could hit Earth’s magnetic field late on July 18th. The combined impact of the CME and the incoming solar wind stream could cause some stormy space weather around Earth in the days ahead. NOAA forecasters estimate a 50% – 65% chance of polar geomagnetic storms on July 18-20.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/19/news/economy/sec-miami-fraud/index.html?iid=SF_E_Lead
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/07/17/5-reasons-why-americans-dont-protest-against-the-system/
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2013/07/chained-former-navy-seal-tells-of.html
“WHEN I WOKE UP, MY ARMS AND LEGS WERE IN CHAINS”
http://www.infowars.com/dzhokar-tsarnaevs-throat-wound-another-government-lie-bites-the-dust/
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Your Computer May Already be Hacked – NSA Inside?by steveblank |
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
George Orwell
In Russia, President Putin’s office just stopped using PC’s and switched to typewriters. What do they know what we don’t?
Perhaps it’s Intel NSA inside.
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For those of you who haven’t kept up, the National Security Agency (NSA’s) Prism program has been in the news. Prism provides the NSA with access to data on the servers of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, etc.
Prism is just a part of the NSA’s larger mass electronic surveillance program that covers every possible path someone might use to communicate; tapping raw data as it flows through fiber optic cables and Internet peering points, copying the addressees on all letters you physically mail, all credit card purchases, your phone calls and your location (courtesy your smart phone.)
All hell broke loose when Edward Snowden leaked all this to press.
Given my talks on the Secret History of Silicon Valley I was interviewed on NPR about the disclosure that the NSA said they had a new capability that tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism. Like most Americans I said, "I didn't remember getting the memo that the 4th amendment to our constitution had been cancelled."
But while the interviewer focused on the Skype revelation, I thought the most interesting part was the other claim, “that the National Security Agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.” Say what?? They can see the plaintext on my computer before I encrypt it? That defeats any/all encryption methods. How could they do that?
Bypass Encryption
While most outside observers think the NSA’s job is cracking encrypted messages, as the Prism disclosures have shown, the actual mission is simply to read all communications. Cracking codes is a last resort.
While most outside observers think the NSA’s job is cracking encrypted messages, as the Prism disclosures have shown, the actual mission is simply to read all communications. Cracking codes is a last resort.
The NSA has a history of figuring out how to get to messages before or after they are encrypted. Whether it was by putting keyloggers on keyboards and recording the keystrokes or detecting the images of the characters as they were being drawn on a CRT.
Today every desktop and laptop computer has another way for the NSA to get inside.
Intel Inside
It’s inevitable that complex microprocessors have bugs in them when they ship. When the first microprocessors shipped the only thing you could hope is that the bug didn't crash your computer. The only way the chip vendor could fix the problem was to physically revise the chip and put out a new version. But computer manufacturers and users were stuck if you had an old chip. After a particularly embarrassing math bug in 1994 that cost Intel $475 million, the company decided to fix the problem by allowing it’s microprocessors to load fixes automatically when your computer starts.
It’s inevitable that complex microprocessors have bugs in them when they ship. When the first microprocessors shipped the only thing you could hope is that the bug didn't crash your computer. The only way the chip vendor could fix the problem was to physically revise the chip and put out a new version. But computer manufacturers and users were stuck if you had an old chip. After a particularly embarrassing math bug in 1994 that cost Intel $475 million, the company decided to fix the problem by allowing it’s microprocessors to load fixes automatically when your computer starts.
Starting in 1996 with the Intel P6 (Pentium Pro) to today’s P7 chips (Core i7) these processors contain instructions that are reprogrammable in what is called microcode. Intel can fix bugs on the chips by reprogramming a microprocessors microcode with a patch. This patch, called a microcode update, can be loaded into a processor by using special CPU instructions reserved for this purpose. These updates are not permanent, which means each time you turn the computer on, its microprocessor is reset to its built-in microcode, and the update needs to be applied again (through a computer's BIOS.).
Since 2000, Intel has put out 29 microcode updates to their processors. The microcode is distributed by 1) Intel or by 2) Microsoft integrated into a BIOS or 3) as part of a Windows update. Unfortunately, the microcode update format is undocumented and the code is encrypted. This allows Intel to make sure that 3rd parties can’t make unauthorized add-ons to their chips. But it also means that no one can look inside to understand the microcode, which makes it is impossible to know whether anyone is loading a backdoor into your computer.
The Dog That Never Barked
The NSA has been incredibly thorough in nailing down every possible way to tap into communications. Yet the one company’s name that hasn't come up as part of the surveillance network is Intel. Perhaps they are the only good guys in the entire Orwellian mess.
The NSA has been incredibly thorough in nailing down every possible way to tap into communications. Yet the one company’s name that hasn't come up as part of the surveillance network is Intel. Perhaps they are the only good guys in the entire Orwellian mess.
Or perhaps the NSA, working with Intel and/or Microsoft, have wittingly have put backdoors in the microcode updates. A backdoor is is a way of gaining illegal remote access to a computer by getting around the normal security built-in to the computer. Typically someone trying to sneak malicious software on to a computer would try to install a rootkit (software that tries to conceal the malicious code.) A rootkit tries to hide itself and its code, but security conscious sites can discover rootkits by tools that check kernel code and data for changes.
But what if you could use the configuration and state of microprocessor hardware in order to hide? You'd be invisible to all rootkit detection techniques that checks the operating system. Or what if you can make the microprocessor random number generator (the basis of encryption) not so random for a particular machine? (The NSA's biggest coup was inserting backdoors in crypto equipment the Swiss sold to other countries.)
Rather than risk getting caught messing with everyone’s updates, my bet is that the NSA has compromised the microcode update signing keys giving the NSA the ability to selectively target specific computers. (Your operating system ensures security of updates by checking downloaded update packages against the signing key.) The NSA then can send out backdoors disguised as a Windows update for “security." (Ironic but possible.)
That means you don't need backdoors baked in the hardware, don't need Intel's buy-in, don't have discoverable rootkits, and you can target specific systems without impacting the public at large.
Two Can Play the Game
A few months ago these kind of discussions would have been theory at best, if not paranoia.
The Prism disclosures prove otherwise - the the National Security Agency has decided it needs the ability to capture all communications in all forms. Getting inside of a target computer and weakening its encryption or having access to the plaintext of encrypted communication seems likely. Given the technical sophistication of the other parts of their surveillance net, the surprise would be if they haven't implemented a microcode backdoor.
A few months ago these kind of discussions would have been theory at best, if not paranoia.
The Prism disclosures prove otherwise - the the National Security Agency has decided it needs the ability to capture all communications in all forms. Getting inside of a target computer and weakening its encryption or having access to the plaintext of encrypted communication seems likely. Given the technical sophistication of the other parts of their surveillance net, the surprise would be if they haven't implemented a microcode backdoor.The downside is that 1) backdoors can be hijacked by others with even worse intent. So if NSA has a microcode backdoor - who else is using it? and 2) What other pieces of our infrastructure, (routers, smartphones, military computers, satellites, etc) use processors with uploadable microcode?
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And that may be why the Russian president is now using a typewriter rather than a personal computer.
In a stunning development, Deputy Director of the NSA, John Inglis, along with Assistant Attorney General, James Cole, have fled the United States after their participation in a contentious congressional meeting on Capitol Hill.
In that meeting, both Inglis and Cole revealed that the depth of NSA spying far surpassed anything that whistleblower Edward Snowden has made public to date. The unauthorized leaks to Congress by Inglis and Cole, which exposed more about NSA spying than anything Snowden has revealed, shook congressional leaders to their core.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHWOw9xly2c There is more information about the other HAARP locations in other countries, what we have been hearing about HAARP technology all along is true. The HAARP interview starts at 8 minutes and goes to 38 minutes.
WHO’s Iraq Birth Defect Study Omits Causation
A long-awaited study on congenital birth defects by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Iraq is expected to be very extensive in nature.
According to WHO, 10,800 households were selected as a sample size for the study, which was scheduled to be released early this year but has not yet been made public.
Many scientists and experts have started questioning the time delay in publishing the study, but there is another aspect that is a cause for concern among some health experts.
The report will not examine the link between the prevalence of birth defects and use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions used during the war and occupation in Iraq, according to WHO.
WHY DO THE BLOODY STUDY, IF YOU DON’T LINK AND IDENTIFY THE CAUSE?!?
This is completely insane, and a clumsy attempt to exonerate the US government and military from their responsibility for these deadly, horrific birth defects we have seen in areas of Iraq like Fallujah.
Like the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam, the US government will equivocate, deny, and attempt to shoot the messengers on this issue of the horrific suffering the use of these chemicals has caused.
To the eyes and conscience of the world, however, the use of DU in Iraq will not simply go away here.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... onths.html
Norwegian woman who reported being raped in Dubai is jailed for 16 months
Norwegian woman, 25, was in Dubai on a business trip
She was raped and reported the incident to the police
At the station, police took her passport and jailed her
She will now serve 16 months for illicit sex outside marriage
A young Norwegian woman has been sentenced to 16 months in jail after she reported a rape in Dubai.
Marte Deborah Dalelv has been detained in Dubai since the assault in March. She has now been found guilty of sex outside marriage, drinking alcohol without a license and perjury and was jailed for 16 months
Dubai police did not believe her, and instead took her passport and jailed her on suspicion of having had sex outside marriage.
The Norwegian woman reported the sexual assault in March this year, after which she had to spend days in a cell before she was allowed to use a telephone.
With the help of family members, the Norwegian consulate was able to negotiate a release and she has been living under the protection of the Norwegian Sailor’s Church until her sentencing this week.
‘I received the harshest sentence for sex outside marriage, harshest sentence for drinking alcohol and on top of that I was found guilty of perjury,’ the woman told Verdens Gang.
‘It is a terrible situation she is in,’ said Gisle Meling, the priest at the Norwegian Sailor’s Church.
‘We are very surprised and had hoped it would go another way, but we live in a country which has a justice system which draws its conclusions with the help of Sharia law.’
She was sentenced to one year and four months in jail but as Norway has no extradition treaty with Dubai, her future is uncertain.
The young Norwegian woman’s story is not unique.
Earlier this year Australian Alicia Gali, 27, spoke of how she was thrown in a Dubai jail for eight months after she reported a rape.
Miss Gali was working at hotel chain Starwood when her drink was spiked in the staff bar.
She awoke to find that three colleagues had raped her, but when she went to a hospital for help, they turned her over to the police and she was charged with illicit sex outside marriage.
Under UAE law, rapists can only be convicted if either the perpetrator confesses or if four adult Muslim males witness the crime.
Under the Sharia-influenced laws, sex before marriage is completely forbidden and an unmarried couple holding hands in public can be jailed.
Foreigners jailed in Dubai are deported immediately after completing their sentences
http://news.yahoo.com/video/raw-derailed-train-nyc-disrupts-110738163.html
http://omg.yahoo.com/news/belgium-gets-king-philippe-takes-over-121125496.html
Another European monarch retires.
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/artscience/2013/07/the-end-of-the-world-might-just-look-like-this/
David Dees move over... here's some new E.O.W. scenes.
http://www.sott.net/article/263909-Massive-fireball-with-long-tail-blazes-over-New-Zealand
If I'm interpreting this correctly, this seems to indicate we may be heading for a period of war!
However, this link indicates there may be some sort of astrological protection for Earth from a "Grand Sextile" alignment:
Interesting times ahead!
Please read "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars" and go the the mind control link at www.StopTheCrime.net
The Holy Grail for the elites is mind control . . .we are being kept distracted with matters of no great importance while the all people's minds are being manipulated and controlled. . .this is horrific . . this is what NSA is all about mass data collection to create a global brain using AI (Artificial Intelligence). Refer to the NASA WAR Plan on the above site, too.
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Yes, I think it matters alot. Why should children be going hungry so some fat cat banker can make bank?
