Digital TV Switch Opens Electronic Door to Censors - and Spies?

The "internets" is not a joke on Bush or anyone else, but accurate by any sensible estimation.
Bush is just parroting the truth in this instance.

Anything that goes outside the "main-stream" believability that has been established by the "powers that be", will be ignored or labeled as "fringe" for the public consumption.

The aware will be suppressed, tortured and destroyed by "goon squads" indoctrinated with false "patriotism" and monetary rewards for "serving their country", a sad cometary for *human rights*, that are cast aside for the profits of the oppressors.

Our lives are being destroyed by "intelligence based policing", that can only be described as punishment and torture for "thought crimes".

Welcome to an Orwellian truth, the raping of the Constitution Of The United States.

So when can we expect "the good people on the inside" to come forward with confirmation of what we've been reporting in this space for six months? 

When will the true patriots on the inside save our nation's values and principles?  Our constitution... our way of life?

Maybe he was on one of the 14 they had at his office.... guess now obama will probably have a tidier desk.

I thought everyone was on cable here anyway? least then you can pay good money to get your channels removed, upgraded, monitored, etc. Remember when the UK went to the digibox, wasn't all that, sure there's a little upstream but think people were more worried about getting a better picture.

-I wish someone would monitor them!! - some of the crap that comes out of them! sheesh!

I forgot to comment on your post and say that I don't believe that anyone is spying on the population through cable TV, but with DTV they may be able to log what you watch for marketing purposes, like they already log the pay-per-view. The cable box would have to have the capability built in.

It is also easy to broadcast an analog radio or television signal, probably digital too, at an "area" that will over-ride normal signals using available equipment. With proper planning brocasts could be seamless. Just ask DARPA, but they won't tell you. :-)

I'm not saying that a device could not or has not been placed in any number of appliances to spy on certain people, cable boxes being a good choice, able to broadcast back through the existing cable.

Software for spying like this may be in the future somewhere, but the implications for national cable, full coverage spying, would be far more massive than the alledged (cough), wide scale interception of US phone communications.

I'm not saying that somebody hasn't already built a stealth device for a TV to spy. I have seen and have pictures of a small audio device, from many years ago, that was implanted in the circuit board of older radios of targets of spying.

And I went to that "hardtruth" website. I found some things there obviously not the hard truth. More like hard to call it the truth. ;-)

To Scrivener

Consider for one moment who else might have a motive for pervasive surveillance and life threatening attacks on intelligent individuals. The answer is, identity thieves. Another question: It appears that the government backs this? Who would have a motive to have you think that the government backs it? The answer, identity thieves from Eastblock countries. How else are they going to spy out "the enemy" but by identity theft of intelligent citizens of the country they want to spy out? So, what happens to the person whose identity was stolen? He or she is "kept out of it or removed". This explains the "censorship" and non-stop attempted murder. The agencies that you think back this are in fact being cheated by false incumbents!

An identity thief has to track its victim non-stop to get to know its lifestyle for imitation and to ensure it does not reach the places where the identity thief "earns" his/her money, having used the CV and qualifications of the victim for eMail or P2P applications. Fact is, the victims are always intelligent (or have a nice house!), surely this is no coincidence! Read up on MK Ultra requiring at least MA! The perpetrators are always less qualified or have no English, or have no ID or driver's licence (see data theft in Britain) or whatever else they require to be "employed" in the West, so they simply take it from others by East German methods. Don't forget that Markus Wolf was employed by DHS. 

I'm mentioning this to you in the hope that it may give you an alternative method of getting rid of your torturers. Identity theft is after all a known crime! Once the identity thieves have stolen your good identity for themselves, obviously they have to numb you as a witness against them. So they give you a false CV and slander falsely (usually sexual connotations, the Eastblock always uses sex for slander in the hope that the victims will be too shy to lay charges!). There are several manners in which a victim can be numbed so as not to be a creditable witness against criminal identity theft by would-be spies: Murder, driving to suicide, manchurian candidate (they call it "virtual Milgram" torture through walls) to get the victim arrested (!) or slander at employers about incompetence etc. Obviously the victim is kept busy by torture, so how can it be competent!

Please remember the following: The main identity thief will have lived in your immediate neighbourhood at the start of your plight. You have to find out who it is! It will most certainly be a person who applied to the CIA or NSA under your name and is now trying to prove to them why they should take him and not you by fabricating a string of lies. So expect slander to come, it's part of the East German state system and always has been. It may be clever to write up your life story yourself in advance, so they can't falsify your CV too much. Good Luck and don't forget to tell other victims they should chase their identity thieves as well. Regards,.

Irmgard Kronsbein Bellchambers (MA Translation)

Victim of identity theft and community stalking in Germany.

Wouldn't locals who are protected by "aware" local officials who won't even investigate my complaints have an easier time of victimizing us this way?   As long as the locals stand by and let this happen, the ground muscle will think they are protected.

What they underestimate is the number of the good people on the inside of the FBI who are now watching THEM and their supposed "protectors."  Have a nice day, "Irmgard."

I am tempted to quote a 1950's novel that contained many references to the telescreen ... but it would be too easy to quote the book that, in retrospect, turned out to be non-fiction. 

The reference to site-blocking is all too familiar terrain.  I really believe that all of us (targeted dissidents/journalists/whistleblowers/regular-guys, etc) have had our names inserted into a database, along with other particulars (addresses for our various internet connections, etc) and that at a very base level, this database is consulted in order to prevent one person who is on the list from having conversation with another person on the list. 

Since most of the regular visitors to this Now Public site are likely to be targets, or suspect that they are, there is a substantial likelihood that the database-driven censorship system affects said visitors.

Stand alone sites are more vulnerable than sites hosted on such entities as Now Public, because the censoring of only one of "many pages" by "many people" requires more diligent filtering and processing capability.

While the whole idea is to put the target into a kind of "black hole",  the efforts are not one dimensional.  What I mean is that in addition to the database-driven over-all system, there are also explicit efforts directed towards specific individuals.  The "overall" system takes the "easy-pickings", and can be "navigated around",  to some extent, by intelligent people, and it is those people who may subsequently find themselves to be the target additional specific censorship efforts.

For my own anti-censorship efforts, I regularly use the services of "anonymonizing agents".  If you successfully cloak your real address via the use of some anonymity enabling network (TOR comes to mind), then the database oriented system won't work very well against your internet surfing activities)  I think that such agents may eventually play some very positive role for many of us ...

Thanks, will try it.  But Big Brother tormentors appear to have a direct line into my connection, so I would still be vulnerable to malicious tampering and inference (but I will call them on it each time my rights are infringed upon). 

However, your suggestion may allow me to post to sites from which my address is now rejected by their censoring filters.  In a certain sense, calling them out may have a curative effect over time, as the civilian leadership of agencies and cabinet departments realizes their rank and file is populated by many brazen lawbreakers who have no respect for the Constitution, or for lines of authority.

The ranks of the bureaucracy need to be purged of these authoritarians, who are eroding the rule of law.  That is another reason why "the good people on the inside" must act.  This cancer must be removed by those closest to the disease, those on the inside or at other federal agencies where respect for the rule of law is still a cherished value.

Call it "The Watergate Solution."  Or the climax to the movie "Enemy of the State," when the FBI saved the day and thwarted the sadistic authoritarians from another agency (or two) who murdered, vandalized, terrorized and spied upon innocents, just because they could (and because they thought their fellow feds would cover for them).

I'd bet on the "good people on the inside" to once again save democracy and the rule of law before I'd place all of my hopes on well-meaning but naive civil liberties orgs.

Just read the "TOR" website descriptions.  If this software allows surveillance operatives to view a site without detection, what would stop them from using this software to slow down and surveil without detection?

The part of the description that said using "TOR" might help a political activist avoid unfortunate "accidents" reads like really bad psy ops.  Can't those psy ops folks ever be subtle?

And then I read some user reviews that say once it's installed, you can't get it off your hard drive... and it slows down net surfing (like the fusion center sadists do whenever I write something they don't like).

By definition, if your suggestion arrived here, then someone seeking to further complicate my life allowed it to be posted here. 

So I will just continue to do everything in the open and expose violations of my first, fourth and 14th amendment rights each and every time the info-fascists infringe upon my rights.

Only respect for the rule of law can stop GOVERNMENT privacy invaders who have no respect for the Constitution.

But thanks for thinking of me (I think).

The former administration's "torture programs" are still in full power here, as well as in your area, from your accounts. I would not hazard a guess about if or when anyone would "step forward" to reveal these assaults.

Last night President Obama said they were looking to cut "wasteful spending" and had so far found over a trillion dollars worth.

I'm sure the spending for 24/7 surveillance, stupid games and chemical plus electronic torture assaults on innocent citizens, is one of those "wasteful" programs.

If the money is cut, it's over, unless the money is hidden in something that looks to be necessary. And the money could be in some type of contract weapons "testing" programs, under the auspices of so-called "defense" contractors.

Although my attacks started locally involving criminals, it has been said by others, it appears, that Homeland Security is at the core of this. They do have the authority to take over local law enforcement for their own use.

In my case, that would also explain a type of "hand off," where all the aspects of the assaults intensified with the addition of many new methods.

I said on another thread that I believed *we the victims* are "make-work" for these programs that were developed for so-called terrorists. *They* couldn't find real terrorists, so they accept "targets" from insiders, who's intentions are dubious at best.

There is not a reason, that that these torture assaults are acceptable or legal under constitutional law, regardless of any technical finagling.

Let's hope *transparency* brings these attacks into the light of "the people," where they can be seen for what they are, a violation of *the principals* that this country was founded upon.

Vic:

You're smart to point out the down-side(s) to the anonymous surfing software.   Many of these things, like TOR, are still experimental in nature, and so may have "issues".  Also, these networks attract criminals (of course, since they provide anonymity).  

I imagine that many of the nodes are maintained by "the other side", so to speak ... but because there are many hundreds of nodes, it is at least possible that I can get through when I otherwise would not.  Additionally, I find it handy to look at my sites and postings through a lens that reveals, purportedly (if it works) what everybody else would see.

The slowness comes from the fact that the traffic, in order to gain anonymity for it's sender, must travel in a circuitous fashion. My traffic may traverse a dozen or more nodes, randomly selected, of the many hundreds of nodes in the network, and pop out of one of them  (no one knows from where ... Taiwan, Portugal, Poland, Germany ... just wherever ...) and go to the selected site.

This "round and round" seems to mean that every country through which the traffic flows would have to "buy into" a plan to break the anonymity.   In reality, I guess, there have been some security "issues" revealed,   indicating that there may be other problems with the system, but it's the best thing we currently have at our disposal.

Just beware of any site that promises anonymity, but does not use a large network like TOR.  Such a site is just a little paperwork away from the forced revelation of all the traffic it harbored.

I would like to see more networks like TOR, because (being pretty much the only game in town) the TOR network itself is the target, of a lot of pressure: prying, probing, etc, even by some (probably) well meaning folks.

This is pretty scary!!!

Vic: I still think that their communications network is the tick that trips the dog over it's own tail.  It should give us (or a higher authority) all the proof that is needed:

As we move around town (in whichever town we call home) our  closest antagonist's little gps-located phones and dashboard mounted navigation units each light up with a dot called us. 

As their units are continually updated with information from the "crown of evil" database system, the communications that takes place is not one-way.   The communications is always two-way, even when using an automatic update system that requires no manual (by stalker) intervention.  The reason for this is that these systems always send a fairly short burst of information, and then wait for a response (an acknowledgment that it has been received intact). 

Any monitoring system (satellite, for instance) would of course notice the background of normal cell phone users, but the area around each one of us, as we moved around, would always light up like a scoreboard.

We need that "someone of higher authority" to take a closer look at it.

I am fairly certain that some "higher authorities" know all about it, have always known all about it, and are part of it.

What's needed now is for the HIGHEST AUTHORITIES to become aware of the lawlessness on the ground, all across America.

Vic:

Maybe it's a minority at the "highest level" who is more cognitive and receptive to understand the degradations of our plight.  Targeted individuals, on many levels, undergo what must have been undergone by blacks in the early part of the last century, and the last part of the one before.  

What makes our position potentially even worse than that of the blacks of the past century, is the application of the new torture technologies.   That's really what these technologies are, in a big sense, and for the most part nothing else.

The purveyors of this madness have found a way to demonize a portion of the population, and that portion is us.   They insert our names into a database that takes feed mostly from those with malicious intent to demonize us, and which subsequently provides this malicious content to "on the ground" devices such a gps-located navigation units and cell phones. 

Part of the reason that these technologies enhance our antagonist's torture efforts so well lies with the fact that they automate the torture.  The little beep from the cell phone that alerts a person who only moments before had no clue that a target was in the area, provides for so much damage with so little effort (very high efficiency).  It's this facet of the torture technologies that makes them such evil devices in the hands of a (staggering) proportion of the public.

Blacks currently constitute about fifteen percent of our population.  Targeted Individuals comprise only about one or two percent of the population.  Given those numbers, and that the blacks, in spite of their numbers, had such a turmultuous ordeal in their rise over the oppression, I would say that we are in for a long night.  Again, here I am holding out hope that one whose race was decimated in a similar manner feels enough commiseration to act.

It's their communications system that is greasing the wheels of their machine.  This communications system leaves a "paper trail" that is a mile long.   Eventually, when that "higher authority" presses the right buttons, it should be relatively easy to identify the various participants, and to make sure that they never again engage in such activities against their fellow man.

Precisely.  And my concern is that certain people who have Obama's ear may not convey the message that you so effectively have delivered here with compassion and concision...

...or may attempt to discredit the messengers, based on false and misleading "inside knowledge" that is the product of years of  "directed" disinformation.

If the locals here were interested, I could provide leads that would deliver up the "do-ers."  There is no interest.  None.  In fact, some of the leads I could deliver would demonstrate how this "torture matrix" appears to extend into officialdom.

The GPS "star of evil" network that creates a public safety hazard every time these local Nazis "swarm" a target would provide the name and electronic "fingerprint" of EVERY person in the "program." 

The FBI knows this; they may have saved my life by getting the food poisoners and the directed energy weapons assailants to throttle back (somewhat, but the attacks have resumed in force)...

.... but the FBI is demonstrating that it will not act unilaterally UNLESS DIRECTED TO DO SO.

I hope this blog, and my posts to major web sites (the ones that the censors have not blocked from my reach), contributes to that effort.

BUT THE INSIDERS COULD MAKE THIS HAPPEN IMMEDIATELY. 

Imagine if a group of ten or so conscientious FBI agents in the Philadelphia office used internal channels to make their views known to, say, Assistant Director John Miller -- if the local SAC hasn't done the right thing already.

Now, some of the people on lower floors might not be happy about such a prospect.  To them I say, "Okay.  Why don't YOU stand up for the Constitution instead of having to be embarrassed and forced into compliance with the rule of law?"

The fact is, in my opinion, some of these agencies are allowing their operatives to be insubordinate.  If the civilian leadership at some of these agencies (DHS in particular) really knew what was happening on the ground, many of these abuses would be curbed.

As for DoD, its intel and research arms, and the other intel and secretive security agencies, there things get much stickier. 

The cretin stalkers don't scare me as much as some of the black hats who may already have issued their death sentences, using Bush-Cheney doctrine as their excuse for genocide-politicide. 

I already may have suffered enough "slow-kill" to fulfill the mission of these cold-blooded killers masquerading as defenders of the nation.

Did I mention that the torture continues under the Obama administration?  Last night, I was hit with microwave radiation fire that was painful and palpable, followed by bursts of sonic waves that literally made me momentarily DEAF.  This sonic attack came as I attempting to write a new article for this blog site.

THIS IS TORTURE.  THE FEDS WON'T STOP IT.  THE LOCALS WON'T STOP IT.   HOW DO THEY THINK THEY WILL GET AWAY WITH THIS?

IS THERE A COUP D'ETAT UNDERWAY? 

IS THE STOCK MARKET BEING MANIPULATED BY "CIRCUMSPECT" ACTIONS...

...TO USE A TERM I READ IN A WHAT APPEARS TO BE AN OFFICIAL DOCUMENT ON "UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE."

I believe devices, perhaps "humint" in the form of "phrogs" (Google it) are secreted in my premises on a daily basis.  I sleep very soundly (under the circumstances, unusually soundly) and I apparently am "knocked out cold" when "resources" are "allocated."

Just this morning I heard Obama announce millions in new grants to local police, with a significant proportion of those monies going to the very sort of community policing programs that have been misused to create the backbone for the ongoing, unconstitutional "extrajudicial punishment network."

Your post is so well crafted that I would ask that you craft a preamble for those who are not familiar with these issues, and send it to op-eds and letters sections of major newspapers and web sites.  Since you are a facile writer, this shouldn't be too much of a task.

And congratulations: Yours appears to be among only a handful of posts here that pass the "disinfo-free" sniff test.  Thank you so much for that.

I have a comment that might be just a tad off the thread-theme, except that it does deal with spying.

My comment concerns the question: why the big rush to CFL (Compact fluorescent lights)?

My question stems from the following discussion:

100GHz   10THz    100THz    171THz    300THz    333THz    435THz

3mm        30um      3um        1.75um    1um         900nm      690nm   


 Flo                                                                                                  ____

 Hal                                                                             _________________

 Inc                                                         ______________________________


Where cm=centimeters, mm=millimeters, um=micrometers, nm=nanometers, GHz= gigahertz, THz=terrahertz

Additionally, Flo = Fluorescent light, Hal = Halogen light,
Inc = Incandescent light

Favored wavelengths for current surveillance technologies are trending towards the frequencies that are bounded on the high end by the 375THz (800nm) mark.  There is a physics-based reasoning for this choice.

Before we delve into the reasons for the Terrahertz and NIR affinities shown by the surveillance industry we should define what we mean by those terms:

        Millimeter-wave: 30GHz to 300GHz

        Far Infrared:    1THZ  to 15THz

        Mid Infrared:    15THz to 80THz

        Near Infrared:   80THz to 375THz

The properties related to these classifications are as follows:

Millimeter-wave:   Transparent relative to most materials, opaque to water and metal, at lower resolution

Far and Mid Infrared :   Transparent relative to most materials, opaque to water and metal, at higher resolution

Near Infrared:   Less transparent relative to most materials, more transparent (than Far/Mid) relative to water, opaque to metal

It is the fact that the shorter wavelengths (near infrared light) are less impeded by water vapor that likely makes them attractive for satellite based surveillance operations, because the reflection from the subject(s) must traverse the atmosphere.  Coupled with this is the fact that sensitive, cryogenically cooled NIR detectors in satellites are optimized for operation in the NIR range of 800nm to 1um.

The big attraction of the longer wavelengths in the "Far" and "Mid" infrared regions is that most materials (other than metal and water) are transparent at those wavelengths.  The longer wavelengths can penetrate wood materials (building materials, for instance), but reflect back images from water based materials (humans, for instance). These longer wavelengths are severely impeded by water vapor, limiting passive detection to only a few hundred meters.

It is likely that an optimally selected wavelength between the two just described regions exhibits some of the characteristics of each ... specifically, the ability to traverse a longer path through the atmosphere while retaining some of the ability to transparently penetrate most earthly building materials, simultaneously reflecting back to the detector an image of the water and metal based materials behind the penetrated ones.

Does any of this relate, in any way, to the selection of light bulbs one should prefer as a means of illuminating ones home?  Damned if I know, but, I have always been suspicious of the "forced" move to CFL (fluorescent) bulbs.

Yes, there is an energy savings, but when have we ever (really) worried about energy savings?  The reader should at this point go outside and count the number of 16 MPG SUVs on the block.

I read several of your articles and am greatful others are speaking out. It has been hell here in Vancouver Wa. as the police nor the Clark co. sherriff will do any thing to help me or my family.  It is so all consuming that it almost broke up my marriage but what you are doing is the correct thing. Keep bringing it(stalking and torture) into the light.  When will RESPONSIBLE officials stand up and begin to put a stop to this nazi-like behaniour?  A Lutheran Pastor during WW2 wrote: "I said and did nothing when they (gestapo) came for the jews and retarded people."  I said and did nothing when they came for the Catholics and other Christians.  And when they came for ME, there was no one left to say or do anything for me!" His name was Dietrich Boenhoeffer and died in Aushwitz concentration camp in 1944.  Peace!

Thanks. 

Dude, if you're not joking you should really see a doctor...

Sorry, forgot to mention that I'm an electrical engineer and what you're talking about really doesn't make any sense at all... and I'm really not saying this to be malicious

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm an electrical engineer and that I'm pretty sure what you're talking about is impractical if not impossible.  I'm not saying this to be mailicious, but look into how electronics work a little bit.