Text Fwd: StratCom & Stuxnet

* Text fwd from Frank Cordaro on March 5, 2011

Nebraskans for Peace

StratCom & Stuxnet
By Loring Wirbel ,
Citizens for Peace in Space, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Lost amid the rash of media reports on the protests engulfing the
Middle East and North Africa was a little February news item noting
that the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran was at risk of a nuclear
meltdown. The predicted danger, it turns out, was not the result of
poor construction or the fault of an ill-trained crew. It was instead
an unintended ‘side effect’ of an attack launched by Israel with the
help of StratCom’s “Cyber Command” to cripple Iran’s nuclear
capabilities with a computer worm—a rogue program similar to a virus.
The so-called “Stuxnet” worm was specifically designed to interrupt
the operation of centrifuges at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant,
but now has been confirmed to have spread to other Iranian nuclear
facilities, including Bushehr.

Given that a major nuclear accident carries the potential to kill
dozens, if not hundreds, of Iranians, it is odd that some people
regard an offensive cyber attack using the Stuxnet worm as a
preferable alternative to an Israeli military air strike on Iranian
nuclear sites. But that’s the funny thing about the U.S.’s alleged
‘defensive’ military capabilities. Time and again—with chemical
weapons, missile defense and now with cyber-warfare, capabilities that
are considered defensive and somewhat benign wind up being used in
very offensive ways. And the end result may not be that much
different than a full-frontal military assault.

Stuxnet was one of the first worms in history designed to attack
computers used in factories, instead of desktop and laptop computers
used by consumers. In fact, Stuxnet’s malicious payload was specific
enough that it only caused harm when it encountered computers built by
Siemens for industrial-process control. Even when Siemens computers
are present, Stuxnet only disrupts operations of certain kinds of
pumps and motors that might be used in a uranium enrichment plant.
One analyst called this a “highly-targeted sniper type of computer
attack.”
So we shouldn’t expect much collateral damage, right?

Wrong.

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Peace,
Mark Vasina, President
Nebraskans for Peace
941 'O' Street, Suite 1026 | Lincoln, NE 68508
Website: www.nebraskansforpeace.org
Email: nfpstate@nebraskansforpeace.org

Video Fwd: Cyberwar: Is the US contributing to the militarisation of cyberspace?

* Informed at the site of Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space

Al Zazeera
Cyberwar
Is the US contributing to the militarisation of cyberspace?



Cyberwar. A conflict without footsoldiers, guns, or missiles.

Instead the attacks are launched by computer hackers. Digital spy rings. Information thieves. Cyberarmies of kids, criminals, terrorists - some backed by nation states.

In the US there Is a growing fear that they pose a massive threat to national security, and a conviction that the world's military superpower must prepare for the fight ahead.

At stake: Crucial national infrastructure, high value commercial secrets, tens of billions of dollars in defence contracts, as well as values like privacy and freedom of expression.

In this episode of Fault Lines, Josh Rushing enters the domain of "cyber" and speaks to a former US national security official turned cybersecurity consultant, a Silicon Valley CEO, a hacker, and those who warn of a growing arms race in cyberspace.

He asks: Is the US contributing to the militarisation of cyberspace? Are the reports of cyber threats being distorted by a burgeoning security industry? And are the battles being waged in cyberspace interfering with the Internet as we know it?

This episode of Fault Lines can be seen from Thursday, December 16, at the following times GMT: Thursday: 0630; Saturday: 0830, 1630; Sunday: 0130, 1230, 2330; Tuesday: 1930; Wednesday: 0030, 0730.

[국문 번역]Text Fwd: After NATO Summit, U.S. To Intensify Military Drive Into Asia 미국, 나토 정상 회담 이후 아시아에서의 군사화 추진 고조 할 것임

Rick Rozoff blog릭 로조프 블로그
Also in Stop NATO스탑 나토
and Global Research글로벌 리서치

After NATO Summit, U. S. To Intensify Military Drive Into Asia
나토 정상 회담 이후 미국, 아시아로 군사화 추진 고조할 것
November 17, 2010
2010년 11월 17일
Rick Rozoff
릭 로조프

* All the image sources and captions come from the link.
* 모든 이미지 소스들과 이미지 설명문들은 링크에서 옵니다.


Barack Obama, the latest rotating imperator of the first global empire, will arrive in Lisbon on November 19 to receive the plaudits of 27 North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies and secure their continued fealty on issues ranging from the war in Afghanistan to a continental interceptor missile system, extended deployment of American tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, participation in the Pentagon’s cyber warfare plans and expanded military missions in the planet’s south and east.

지구에서 첫번째 세계 제국의 가장 최근에 현존하는 황제 바락 오바마가 북대서양 조약 기구(나토)의 27 동맹국들의 환호를 받고 아프가니스탄 전쟁으로부터 대륙 요격 미사일 시스템, 유럽에서 미 전술 적 핵무기들의 확산 배치, 미 펜타곤(국방부) 사이버 전쟁 계획들 참여, 그리고 행성의 남과 동의 확산된 군사 임무들에 이르는 이슈들에 대한 그들의 계속되는 충성을 확보하기 위해 11월 19일 리스본에 도착할 것이다.

Perfunctory discussions of minor details notwithstanding, strictly pro forma to maintain the myth of NATO being a “military alliance of democratic states in Europe and North America,” the banners and pennants of 26 European nations, Canada and dozens of other countries contributing troops for the Afghan mission will be lowered in the presence of the leader of the world imperium.

“유럽과 북미주 민주주의 국가들의 군사 동맹” 인 나토의 신화를 유지하기 위한 엄격한 형식상의 사소한 세부들에 대한 열의없는 토론들에도 불구, 아프간 미션에 군대를 후원한 26 유럽 국가들, 캐나다, 그리고 12개의 다른 국가들의 깃발과 작은 기들이 세계 절대 지배권의 지도자의 출석에 그 지위들을 낮출것이다.

No fewer than 38 European nations have supplied NATO troops for the Afghanistan-Pakistan war as well as providing training grounds and transport centers to support the war effort. As envisioned for at least a century, through peaceful means or otherwise, Europe has been united, not so much by the European Union as under the NATO flag and on the killing fields of Afghanistan. It is now relegated to the role of pre-deployment training area and forward operating base for military campaigns downrange: The Middle East, Africa and Asia.

적어도 38개의 유럽 국가들이 훈련장들과 수송 센터들을 제공하는 것과 마찬가지로 전쟁 노력을 지지하기 위해 아프가니스탄-파키스탄 전쟁을 위한 나토 군대를 공급해 왔다. 적어도 1 세기 동안 평화적인 수단들이나 또른 다른 식으로 구상되어왔던 것처럼 유럽은 유럽 연합 보단 나토의 깃발 아래서, 그리고 아프가니스탄 살인 전장에서 연합되었다. 그것은 현재 사전 배치 훈련 지역이나 군사 캠페인들 사정 지역의 전방 작전 기지의 역활로 격하되었다: 중동, 아프리카, 그리고 아시아.

So uncritically and unquestioningly compliant has Europe been in the above regards that Obama and the governing elite in the imperial metropolis as a whole have already looked beyond the continent for additional military partners. With the exception of fellow members of the NATO Quint – Britain, Germany, France and Italy (Britain more and Italy less than the others) – Alliance partners are accorded the same status and assigned the same functions as American territories like Puerto Rico, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands: Geopolitically convenient locations for live-fire military training and for troop, warplane and warship deployments.

너무도 무비판적으로 그리고 질문 없이 유순했던 위의 유럽은 제국의 중심지 전체의 오바마와 통치 엘리트들이 추가 군사 협력자들을 위하여 대륙 너머를 바라보고 있었다 간주한다. 나토의 패를 쥔 5개 국-영국, 독일, 프랑스, 그리고 이탤리 (영국은 다른 곳들보다 더 우위를, 이탤리는 다른 곳들보다도 상대적으로 약함)- 동맹 협력국들은 푸에르 토리코, 괌, 그리고 북마리아나 군도들같은 미국의 영토들처럼 같은 지위와 기능들이 수여된다: 실전 군사 훈련과 군대, 전쟁, 비행기들, 그리고 전함들의 배치를 위해 지리 정치학적으로 편안한 위치들.

Two millennia ago the Pax Romana of Augustus brought roads and ports, aqueducts and irrigation, amphitheaters and libraries, and Greek writers from Aristotle to Aeschylus to occupied territories. Bellum Americanum burdens its vassals and tributaries with military bases, interceptor missile batteries, McDonald’s and Lady Gaga.

2 천년전에 아우구스투스 [시저]의 로마의 지배에 의한 세계 평화는 점령된 영토들에 길들, 항구들, 수도교들, 관개, 원형 극장들, 그리고 도서관들과 아리스토텔레스로부터 에스킬루스에 이르는 그리스 작가들을 가져왔다. 전쟁의 나라 미국은 가신들과 속국들을 군사 기지들, 요격 미사일 배터리들, 맥도날드, 그리고 레이디 가가로 부담지운다.

In Lisbon Obama will chastise his NATO and NATO partnership auxiliaries and foederati, as is the prerogative and wont of the global suzerain and as his predecessor George W. Bush has done recently, for being chary of expending more blood and treasure for the war in Afghanistan. However, he will also display the magnanimity befitting his preeminent stature by patting his European satraps on their bowed heads and intoning, “Well done, good and faithful servants. You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things.”

오바마는 리스본에서 특권을 지니고 세계 종주로서 익숙해 있는 만큼 그의 나토와 나토 협력 보조들과 연합국들이 아프가니스탄의 전쟁에 더 많은 피와 보물을 지출하는 것에 신중한 것에 대해 그의 전임자 조지 W. 부쉬가 최근에 한 것처럼 그들을 혼낼 것이다. 그러나 그는 또한 유럽 태수들의 고개 숙인 머리를 가볍게 치며 "잘했네, 선하고 충성스러운 하인들이여. 자네들은 몇 가지 일들을 충성스럽게 해주었네. 나는 자네들이 많은 일들을 맡도록 하겠네,” 라고 영창함으로서 그의 발군의 지위에 적합한 관대함을 전시할 것이다.

With the European continent placed securely under the multi-circled Achilles shield of NATO, U.S. nuclear weapons, an interceptor missile system and a cyber warfare command, Washington is moving to realms as yet not completely subjugated.

유럽 대륙이 나토, 미국의 핵 무기들, 요격 미사일 시스템, 그리고 사이버 전쟁 사령부란 다국적으로 둘러싸인 아킬레스 방패 아래 안전하게 자리잡음에 따라, 워싱턴은 아직 완전히 정복되지 않은 영역들로 움직이고 있다.


Africa has been assigned to the three-year-old U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and perhaps only five of the continent’s 54 nations – Eritrea, Libya, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Sudan and Zimbabwe – have avoided becoming ensnared in bilateral military ties with the Pentagon and concomitant U.S-led military exercises and deployments.

아프리카는 3년된 미국 아프리카 사령부로 할당되었고 대륙의54개국들 중 아마도 5개 국가-에리트리아, 리비아, 샤라위 아랍 민주주의 공화국, 수단과 짐바브웨-만이 미국방부와의 양자 군사 유대들의 함정에 빠지는 것을 피했으며 미국이 주도하는 군사 연습들과 배치들에 부수되는 것을 피해왔다.

The U.S. has also expanded its military presence in the Middle East: Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and Yemen.

미국은 중동에서 그 군사 현존을 또한 확장해 왔다: 이라크, 이스라엘, 요르단, 쿠웨이트, 바레인, 오만, 카타르, 그리고 예멘.

Two years ago Washington reactivated its Fourth Fleet for the Caribbean Sea and Central and South America and last year’s coup in Honduras and this September’s attempted coup in Ecuador are proof that the U.S. will not allow developments in Latin America to pursue their natural course unimpeded.

워싱턴은 2년전에 카리브 해 중남부 아메리카에 자신의 네번째 함대를 재활성화시켰고 작년 온두라스의 쿠테타와 올 해 9월 에쿠아도르에서 시도된 쿠테타들은 미국이 라틴 아메리카 국가들이 자신들의 자연스러운 과정을 방해받지 않은체 진전들을 추구하는 것을 허락하지 않을 것임을 증명한다.

The U.S. has intensified efforts to forge and expand military alliances and deployments in the Asia-Pacific region, but there is still a small handful of countries there not willing to accept a subordinate role in American geostrategic designs. They are, to varying degrees and in differing manners, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and Myanmar. Attempts to replicate the “color revolution” model used in former Soviet republics in Myanmar and Iran since 2007 have failed, “regime change” plans for North Korea are of another nature, and neither China nor Russia appears immediately susceptible to equivalents of the so-called Rose, Orange, Tulip and Twitter revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova, respectively. The preferred technique being applied to Russia at the moment is cooption, though its success is not guaranteed as the U.S. and NATO military build-up around Russia’s borders continues unabated.

미국은 아시아 태평양 지역에서 군사 동맹들과 배치들을 다듬고 확장시키는 노력들을 고조해 왔으나 아직도 미국의 지리 전략적 구상들의 종속적 역활을 받아들이길 기꺼이 하려 하지 않는 한줌의 국가들이 있다. 그들은 다양한 정도들과 다른 태도들을 지니지만 러시아, 중국, 이란, 북한, 그리고 미얀마이다. 구 소련 연방 국가들에 사용되었던 “색깔 혁명 color revolution” 모델을 2007년 이래 미얀마와 이란에 복제 하기 위한 시도들은 실패했고 북한을 위한 “정권 교체” 계획들은 또다른 성격이며 중국도 러시아도 조지아, 우크라인, 크리지스탄, 그리고 몰도바 각각의 장미, 오렌지, 튤립, 그리고 트위터 혁명들과 비견할 만한 동등물들에 즉각적으로 민감할 것으로 보이지 않는다. 지금 러시아에 적용되는 선호되는 기술은 러시아의 경계들을 둘러싼 미국과 나토의 군사 증강이 약해지지 않는 것이 계속됨에 따라 그 성공이 보증되지 않음에도 불구, 러시아를 신임 회원으로 선출하는 것이다.

What’s left is the military expedient. In the first half of November the quadrivirate in charge of U.S. foreign policy – President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen – all toured the Asia-Pacific area. Collectively they visited ten nations there: India, Indonesia, South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Tonga.

남은 것은 군사적인 편법이다. 11월의 상반기에 미국 외교 정책의 책임을 맡은 네 명의 조합-오바마 대통령, 미국무 장관, 힐러리 클린턴, 로버트 게이츠 국방 장관, 함참 해군 원수 마이클 멀렌- 이 모두가 아시아 태평양 지역을 여행했다. 그들은 모두 합쳐 10개국을 방문했다: 인도, 인도네시아, 남한, 베트남, 캄보디아, 말레이지아, 호주, 뉴질랜드, 파푸아 뉴기니아, 그리고 통가이다.

Clinton and Gates were in Malaysia at separate times and both joined Mullen on November 8 for the annual Australia-United States Ministerial (AUSMIN) meeting in Melbourne, where the U.S. military chief called the 21st century the “Pacific century.” [1]

클린턴과 게이츠는 다른 시간에 각각 말레이시아에 있었고 양자 모두 11월 8일 멜버른에서 있었던 연간 호주-미국 장관 회담에 멀렌과 같이 참여 했는데 그곳에서 그 군사 사령관은 21 세기를 “태평양 세기”라 불렀다. [1]

In India Obama secured what William Hartung, Director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, estimated to be the sixth largest arms deal in U.S. history. [2]

인도에서 오바마는 ‘새로운 미국 재단’의 ‘군사 및 안보 구상’ 감독인 윌리암 하르퉁이 미국 역사상 6번째로 큰 무기 거래 로 평가한 무기 거래를 확보했다. [2]

In Australia, Gates and Mullen won a backroom arrangement to move U.S. military forces into several Australian bases.

호주에서, 게이츠와 멀렌은 서너개의 호주 기지들로 미국 군사력을 옮기는 밀실 합의를 따냈다.

While in New Zealand, Clinton in effect renewed the Australia, New Zealand, United States (ANZUS) Security Treaty as a full tripartite mutual defense pact after a 24-year hiatus in regard to her host country.

뉴질랜드에 있을 동안, 클린턴은 그를 맞은 주인 국가로서는 24년의 공백만에 호주(Australia), 뉴질랜드(New Zealand), 미국(United States) 의 ANZUS 방위 조약을 완전한 3자 상호 방위 조약으로 효력상 갱신했다.

On November 13 Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan “thanked the United States…for supporting Tokyo in a series of recent disputes with Russia and China” [3], an allusion to a statement by Clinton on October 27 that the U.S. would honor its military assistance commitment to Tokyo over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands dispute with China and her spokesman Philip Crowley’s affront to Russia five days afterward over the Kuril Islands, which he identified as Japanese territory. [4]

11월 13일, 일본 수상, 나오토 칸은 “일본이 러시아와 중국의 최근의 논쟁들 시리즈에서 일본을 지지한 것을 감사하게 여겼는데 [3] 그것은 토쿄의 중국과의 센카쿠/디아오유 군도 논쟁에서 토쿄에 대한 군사적 보조 사명감을 지키겠다는 클린터의 10월 27일 성명서와 5일 후 그녀의 대변인 필립 크롤리가 쿠릴 열도를 일본 영토로 특정하며 러시아를 모욕한 것에 대한 언급이다. [4]

In a tete-a-tete ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Yokohama, the Japanese head of state “sought US President Barack Obama’s assurance on defence in the Asia-Pacific region,” as “Tokyo’s territorial disputes with China and Russia are becoming high priorities for Kan, who told Obama through a translator, ‘The US military presence is only becoming more important.’” [5]

“오바마에게 통역자를 통하여 ‘미국 군대의 현존은 중요해지고 있을 따름이다.’ 라고 말한 칸에게 토쿄의 중국과 러시아와의 영토 논쟁들이 최우선 의제가 됨에 따라, 요코하마에서 있었던 아시아 태평양 경제 협력 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 정상회담에서 일본 국가의 수상은 “미국 대통령 바락 오바마의 아시아 태평양 지역에서의 방어 보증을 구했다” [5]

Verbatim, Kan said:

축약해서 칸은 말했다.

“Japan and the United States, at this meeting of APEC, of pan-Pacific countries, we shall step up our cooperation. So we agreed on doing that. And in Japan’s relations with China and Russia, recently we’ve faced some problems, and the United States has supported Japan throughout, so I expressed my appreciation to him for that.

“우리 일본과 미국은 이 범 태평양 국가들의 아펙 회의에서의 회담에서 우리의 협력을 진전시킬 것이다. 그래서 우리는 그렇게 하기로 동의했다. 그리고 우리는 일본의 중국과 러시아의 관계들에서 최근에 몇 문제점들에 직면했으며 미국은 내내 일본을 지지하였고 나는 그것에 대한 나 [개인]의 감사를 표현했다.”

“For the peace and security of the countries in the region, the presence of the United States and the presence of the U.S. military I believe is becoming only increasingly important.” [6]

“내가 믿는 미국의 존재와 미국 군대의 존재는 지역 국가들의 평화와 안보를 위해 중요해지고 있을 따름이다.” [6]

In return, Obama “voiced support for Japan to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and reaffirmed the U.S.-Japan security alliance.”

그에 화답해 오바마는 “일본이 유엔 안전 보장 이사회의 영구 회원이 되는 것에 대한 지지의 목소리를 내었으며 미-일 안보 동맹을 재확인하였다.”

He also assured Kan that the U.S.-Japan alliance is “the cornerstone of American strategic engagement in the Asia Pacific” and “the commitment of the United States to the defense of Japan is unshakable.”

그는 또한 미-일 동맹은 “미국의 아태지역에서 전략적 참여의 초석”이 될 것이며 “일본 방위에 대한 미국의 사명감은 흔들리지 않을 거라” 확신시켰다.

According to a U.S. armed forces publication, “While Obama’s support for the continuing security alliance is no surprise, it comes amid tension in Japan over China’s…claims on territory in the East China and South China seas.” [7]

미국 군대 출판에 의하면, “오바마의 지속되는 안보 동맹에 대한 지지가 놀라움이 아닌 한편 그것은 동중국과 남중국 해의 영토에서 중국의 주장을 가지고 일본 내 긴장이 있는 와중에 왔다.” [7]

In less than five months the Pentagon has made its military presence felt throughout the Asia-Pacific area:

다섯달이 안돼 미 국방부는 아시아-태평양 지역을 통해 그 군사력을 느끼게 했다:

The U.S. Marine Corps and Navy participated in Exercise Crocodile 10 in East Timor (Timor-Leste) from June 19-26, which included “weapons firing skills, amphibious assault serials, jungle training, flying operations, and a helicopter raid on an abandoned prison” and provided “an opportunity for multi-national forces to work together in the planning and conduct of a complex military exercise.” [8]

미국 해병대와 해군은 6월 19일 부터 26일까지 이스트 티모르(티모르-레스떼) 에서 ‘악어10’ Crocodile 10) 연습에 참여했는데 그것은 “무기 발사 기술들, 수륙양용 공격 연속물들, 정글 훈련, 비행 작전들, 그리고 버려진 감옥위 헬리콥터 착륙”을 포함했고 “다국적 군사들이 복합적인 군사 연습의 계획과 행위에서 함께 작업하게 하는 기회를 제공했다.” [8]

In October of 2009 2,500 U.S. and Australian troops engaged in maneuvers in the country, which marked the first U.S.-East Timor joint military exercise.

2009년 10월, 2500 여명의 미국과 호주 군대들은 그 나라에서 기동 연습들에 참여했으며 그것은 첫번째 미국-이스트 티모르 합동 군사 연습을 기록했다.

This July the U.S. led the multinational Angkor Sentinel 2010 command post and field exercises in Cambodia with American forces and troops from the host nation, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia and the Philippines.

미국은 올해 7월 캄보디아에서 미군들과 주최국 [캄보디아], 영국, 프랑스, 독일, 이탤리, 호주, 인도, 인도네시아, 일본, 몽골리아, 필리핀 군대들이 참여한 다국적 앙코르 감시 2010 (Angkor Sentinel 2010) 명령 기지 및 야외 훈련을 이끌었다.

For 40 days in late June and throughout July the U.S. led the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2010 war games in the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii with 32 ships, five submarines, more than 170 planes and 20,000 troops from all four branches of the American armed forces and from Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Peru, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand.

6월 말부터 7월 내내 40일 간, 미국은 하와이 근해에서 미국 군대의 모든 네 부서, 호주, 캐나다, 칠레, 콜롬비아, 프랑스, 말레이시아, 네델란드, 페루, 남한, 싱가포르, 그리고 태국으로부터 32개의 군함들, 5개의 잠수함들, 170 여개 이상의 비행기들, 그리고 2만 군대를 지니고 환태평양 훈련 2010 (Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2010) 전쟁 게임들을 이끌었다.

Rim of the Pacific 2010 환태평양 훈련 2010

From July 25-28 the U.S. conducted joint war games with South Korea, codenamed Invincible Spirit, in the Sea of Japan/East Sea with the involvement of 20 warships including the nuclear-powered supercarrier USS George Washington, 200 warplanes including F-22 Raptor stealth fighters, and 8,000 troops.

미국은 일본해/동해에서 7월 25일부터 28일까지 핵항공 모함 조지 워싱턴을 포함한 20전함들, 200 전쟁 비행기들, F-22 랩터 스틸쓰 전투기들, 그리고 8000 군대들과 함께 코드 이름 ’불굴의 의지 (Invincible Spirit)’이라 불리는 합동 전쟁 게임을 시행했다.

Invincible Spirit 불굴의 의지

The next month U.S. Pacific Command and U.S. Army Pacific presided over the Khaan Quest 2010 military exercise in Mongolia. In the same month American and British troops ran the Steppe Eagle 2010 NATO Partnership for Peace exercise in Kazakhstan.

그 다음달 미국 태평양 사령부와 미국 태평양 군대는 몽골리아에서 칸 퀘스트 2010 (Khaan Quest 2010) 군사 훈련을 통솔했다. 같은달, 미국과 영국 군대들은 카자흐스탄에서 초원의 독수리 2010 (Steppe Eagle 2010) ‘평화를 위한 나토 협력’을 전개했다.

USS George Washington and the USS John S. McCain destroyer led the first-ever joint U.S.-Vietnam military exercise, consisting of naval maneuvers in the South China Sea, in early August.

8월 초 [핵항공 모함] 조지 워싱턴과 존 맥케인 구축함이 해군 기동 연습들을 구성 요소들로 하며 사상 처음 남중국해에서 미-베트남 군사 연습을 이끌었다.

Less than a week later the U.S. and South Korea began this year’s Ulchi Freedom Guardian military exercise in the latter country with 30,000 U.S. and 50,000 South Korean troops participating. [9]

그 후 일주일도 안돼 미국과 남한은 후자에서 3만 미군과 5만 남한 군대가 참여한 가운데 올해의 을지 프리덤 가디안 군사 연습을 시작했다. [9]

In early September Washington and Seoul held an anti-submarine warfare exercise in the Yellow Sea.

9월 초 워싱턴과 서울은 황해에서 대잠 전쟁 훈련을 벌였다.

At the end of the same month Indian troops joined U.S. marines and sailors in Exercise Habu Nag 2010, the fifth annual bilateral U.S.-India amphibious training exercise with that codename, in the East China Sea off the coast of Okinawa.

같은 달 말, 인도 군대들은 오키나와 연안 동중국해에서 열린 5번째 연간 미국-인도 양국 수륙 양용 연습 훈련, 하부 나그 2010 (Habu Nag 2010) 를 위해 미군 해병들과 선원들에 합류했다.

In October at least 3,000 U.S. troops participated in the nine-day Amphibious Landing Exercise 2011 in the Philippines. “The bilateral training exercise, conducted with the Armed Forces of the Philippines, is designed to improve interoperability, increase readiness and continue to build professional relationships between the two countries.” [10]

10월, 적어도 3천 미국 군대가 필리핀에서 열린 9일간 수륙 양용 연습에 참여했다. “필리핀 군대와 시행한 양국 연습 훈련은 상호 운용을 개선하고 준비성을 증가시키고 양국간의 전문적 관계들을 계속 쌓기 위해 고안되었다.” [10]

At the beginning of the same month U.S. warships and troops joined 6,000 Australian soldiers and counterparts from New Zealand for Exercise Hamel in northeast Australia, described in the local press as “massive war games.” [11]

같은달 초기, 미국 전함들과 군함들은 6천 호주 군인들과 뉴질랜드 군인들과 함께 지역 신문에 “거대한 전쟁 게임들”이라 묘사된 호주 북동쪽에서 열린 하멜 연습에 참여 했다. [11]

Also in October, South Korea for the first time hosted a multinational military exercise with 14 members of the U.S.-created Proliferation Security Initiative, which included ships and military personnel from the U.S., Canada, France, Australia and Japan.

또한 10월에 남한은 사상 처음 미국이 만들어낸 안보 확산 구상의 14개 회원국들과 함께 다국적 군사 연습을 주최했는데 미국, 캐니다, 프랑스, 호주, 일본의 군함들과 개인들이 포함되었다.

U.S. marines “conducted urban training exercises” in Singapore on November 6. A Marine Corps lieutenant present “gave a short class on identifying danger areas in a combat environment” and “talked about isolating them by sight, or suppressive fire, and the importance of gaining footholds in enemy territories.” [12]

미 해병대들은 11월 6일 싱가포르에서 “도심 훈련 연습”을 시행했다. 한 해병대 대위의 강연은 “전투 환경에서 위험 지역들을 특정하는 짧은 수업을 보였고 “시각에 의해 그것들을 고립시키고 적들의 영토들에서 근거지들을 얻는 것의 중요성에 대해 말하였다.

On November 14 the U.S. and Indian armies completed the 14-day Yudh Abhyas 2010 military exercise in Alaska. Last year’s Yudh Abhyas featured the largest U.S.-India joint military maneuvers ever held.

Opening ceremony of Yudh Abhyas 2010 유드 압햐스 2010 의 개막식

11월 14일, 미국과 인도 군대들은 알래스카에서 14일 간 유드 압햐스 2010 군사 훈련을 마쳤다. 작년의 유드 압햐스는 사상 처음 가장 큰 미국-인도 군사 기동 연습이 특징이었다.

100,000 American and another 50,000 NATO troops are fighting in the tenth year of their collective war in Afghanistan. The U.S. is escalating deadly drone missile strikes and NATO is increasing helicopter gunship raids in Pakistan.

10만 미국 군대들과 5만 나토 군대들이 아프가니스탄에서의 그들의 10년째되는 합동 전쟁에서 싸우고 있다. 미국은 치명적인 무인 미사일 공격들을 급증시키고 나토는 파키스탄에서 치명적인 무장 헬리콥터 공격들을 증가시키고 있다.

The Pentagon has indeed marked this as its Asia-Pacific century.

미 국방부는 실제 이것을 미 국방부의 아시아-태평양 세기로 기록했다.
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1) U.S. Department of Defense, November 7, 2010
2) Business Insider, November 6, 2010
http://www.businessinsider.com/top-10-us-arms-deals-in-history-2010-11
….
Obama, Gates And Clinton In Asia: U.S. Expands Military Build-Up In The East
Stop NATO, November 7, 2010
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/obama-gates-and-clinton-in-asia-u-s-expands-military-build-up-in-the-east
3) Russian Information Agency Novosti, November 13, 2010
4) U.S. Supports Japan, Confronts China And Russia Over Island Disputes
Stop NATO, November 4, 2010
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/u-s-supports-japan-confronts-china-and-russia-over-island-disputes
5) Deutsche Presse-Agentur, November 13, 2010
6) The White House, November 13, 2010
Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Kan of Japan in
Statements to the Press in Yokohama, Japan
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/11/13/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-kan-japan-statements-press-yo
7) Stars and Stripes, November 14, 2010
8) Australian Government
Department of Defence
June 24, 2010
9) U.S.-China Crisis: Beyond Words To Confrontation
Stop NATO, August 17, 2010
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/part-ii-u-s-china-crisis-beyond-words-toward-confrontation
10) U.S. Marine Corps, October 22, 2010
11) Australian Broadcasting Company, October 4, 2010
12) U.S. Marine Corps, November 9, 2010

Photos Fwd:[SPARK] Reduce the scope of the Defense Security Command 기무사의 범위를 축소하라!

* All the image source: Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea, Nov. 16, 2010
평화와 통일을 여는 사람들, 2010년 11월 16일(클릭)

The Information Protection Troop Unit of the Defense Security Command, whose function is overlapped with the Cyber Command, should be abolished!

사이버사령부와 기능과 임무 중복되는 기무사 정보보호부대 폐지해야

Press Interview in front of the Defense Security Command, Gwachun
11am, Nov. 17 (Wednesday), 2010

2010년 11월 17일(수) 오전 11시/ 과천 기무사령부 정문앞

The banner reads:
Press interview urging the reduction of the scope of duty of the omnipotent Defense Security Command

Reduce the budget and human force
for the cyber warfare support troop under the Defense Security Command,
whose function and duty are overlapped with the Cyber Command!

Time: 11am, Nov. 17, 2010 Venue: In front gate of the Defense Security Command, ROK Miniltary Who: Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea!

The sign reads:

“ It is knowing everything about you”
Reduce the Defense Security Command,
the royal guards for regime security!

The sign reads:

We denounce the Defense Security Command
who illegally inspects the civilian!

Octopus-like Defense Security Command

Text Fwd: NATO Begins "Cyber Coalition 2010" Cyber Warfare Exercise 나토 사이버 전쟁 연습 "사이버 연합 2010" 시작

* Image source: Polish Radio

Stop NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
November 16, 2010
''Cyber Coalition 2010'' to exercise collaboration in cyber defence

Between 16-18 November, NATO will conduct Cyber Coalition 2010, a cyber defence
exercise that will test cyber incident response, inter-agency collaboration, and
the strategic decision making processes of NATO and its member states.

The scenario of the exercise includes multiple simultaneous cyber attacks
targeting NATO and NATO member states.

Cyber Coalition 2010 is a procedural cyber defence exercise that includes a
number of technical elements. National cyber defence decision-making
authorities, the NATO Cyber Defence Management Board and computer incident
response teams from NATO and NATO nations will participate in the exercise.

Cyber Coalition 2010 is the third NATO cyber defence exercise. The first edition
of the exercise in November 2008 was limited to NATO bodies. As of 2009, all
NATO nations have been invited to participate.

The exercise will be managed by the Cyber Coalition 2010 core planning team at
SHAPE near Mons, Belgium. All other participants will carry out the exercise
from the country and location where they regularly operate.

The NATO Headquarters International Military Staff and International Staff in
Brussels, the NATO Computer Incident Response Capability Technical Centre
(NCSA NCIRC TC) in Mons, Belgium, the NATO Consultation, Command and Control
Agency (NC3A) in Brussels and the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence
(CCD COE) in Tallinn, Estonia, are jointly responsible for the preparation and
execution of the exercise.
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Stop NATO
Polish Radio
Military Brass Call For Extension Of NATO's Article 5
November 16, 2010

Text Fwd: Pentagon's Cyber Command seeks authority to expand its battlefield 미 국방부 사이버 사령부, 전장을 확산하기 위해 권력 잡으려 함

* Informed at the CLG (Citizens for Legitimate Government) Breaking News on Nov. 8, 2010

Washington Post
Pentagon's Cyber Command seeks authority to expand its battlefield
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 6, 2010

The Pentagon's new Cyber Command is seeking authority to carry out computer network attacks around the globe to protect U.S. interests, drawing objections from administration lawyers uncertain about the legality of offensive operations.

Cyber Command's chief, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, who also heads the National Security Agency, wants sufficient maneuvering room for his new command to mount what he has called "the full spectrum" of operations in cyberspace.

Offensive actions could include shutting down part of an opponent's computer network to preempt a cyber-attack against a U.S. target or changing a line of code in an adversary's computer to render malicious software harmless. They are operations that destroy, disrupt or degrade targeted computers or networks.

But current and former officials say that senior policymakers and administration lawyers want to limit the military's offensive computer operations to war zones such as Afghanistan, in part because the CIA argues that covert operations outside the battle zone are its responsibility and the State Department is concerned about diplomatic backlash.

The administration debate is part of a larger effort to craft a coherent strategy to guide the government in defending the United States against attacks on computer and information systems that officials say could damage power grids, corrupt financial transactions or disable an Internet provider.

The effort is fraught because of the unpredictability of some cyber-operations. An action against a target in one country could unintentionally disrupt servers in another, as happened when a cyber-warfare unit under Alexander's command disabled a jihadist Web site in 2008. Policymakers are also struggling to delineate Cyber Command's role in defending critical domestic networks in a way that does not violate Americans' privacy.

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Text Fwd: Pentagon Forges NATO Proxy Armies In Eastern Europe 미국방부, 동유럽에서 대리 군대 날조

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* Text sent by Rick Rozoff on Oct. 30, 2010

StopNATO blog
Pentagon Forges NATO Proxy Armies In Eastern Europe
Rick Rozoff
October 30, 2010


On November 19 and 20 the leaders of 28 North American and European nations, all the major Western military powers and their vassals, will gather in the capital of Portugal for this year’s summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Until recently held every other year, NATO summits are now annual events, with the last held in France and Germany in 2009 and the preceding one in Romania in 2008.

Prior to last year’s summit in Strasbourg and Kehl, the first held in two nations, four in a row had occurred in Eastern Europe: The Czech Republic in 2002, Turkey in 2004, Latvia in 2006 and Romania in 2008. None of those host countries, of course, are anywhere near the North Atlantic Ocean. Neither are any of the 12 nations incorporated into the Western military bloc in the past 11 years.

This year’s summit will endorse the Alliance’s first Strategic Concept for the 21st century, a draft of which was crafted by a so-called group of experts led by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and presented in a report entitled NATO 2020: Assured Security; Dynamic Engagement.

Despite NATO referring to itself as a “military alliance of democratic states in Europe and North America” and claiming that all its members’ opinions carry equal weight – as though Luxembourg and Iceland could block or override the U.S., the world’s sole military superpower as its current head of state proudly christened it last December – next month’s summit will be a rubber stamp affair.

Everything the Pentagon and White House demand will be granted, most notably:

The subordination of NATO’s theater interceptor missile initiative, the Active Layered Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence Programme launched in 2005, and the U.S.-German-Italian Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) to a U.S. missile shield structure throughout all of Europe and into the Middle East.

The retention of at least 200 U.S. nuclear bombs on air bases in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey.

A complementary cyber warfare “dome” over the European continent directed by the new U.S. Cyber Command. [1]

The qualitatively accelerated military integration of NATO and the European Union in the aftermath of the Lisbon Treaty entering into force last December 1. A Portuguese adviser to President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso recently affirmed “that the best solution for the enhancement of EU-U.S. relations would be that the European Union (EU) joins NATO.” [2]

The continuation of both components of what are frequently (and artificially) presented as being contradictory: NATO’s founding and core mission – the collective military defense of its member states – and its constantly expanding missions far outside the Euro-Atlantic region, with the war in Afghanistan the prototype and standard of the second.

The Lisbon summit will formalize and extend what has been underway in earnest since NATO’s first war in 1999: The projection of the U.S.-dominated military alliance into an international intervention and occupation force. One that is moving steadily to the east and south of the European continent, which has been unified under NATO and will soon be subsumed under American missile and cyber warfare systems.

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Text Fwd: TRYING TO SCARE THE PANTS OFF YOU 사람들을 겁주려하는 미국 사이버 사령부

* Bruce Gagnon blog
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
TRYING TO SCARE THE PANTS OFF YOU

* Image & caption source: New Yorker
'Some experts say that the real danger lies in confusing cyber espionage with cyber war.'

Seymour Hersch has another big Pentagon story in The New Yorker, this time called The Online Threat: Should we be worried about a cyber war?

The Pentagon is working overtime to ensure that cyber war becomes the next great fear in the minds of the American people - coming after the Red scare of the Cold War and the present "terrorism" freak-out with the Muslim world. In the story Hersch casts doubt on the fear-mongering with this passage:

American intelligence and security officials for the most part agree that the Chinese military, or, for that matter, an independent hacker, is theoretically capable of creating a degree of chaos inside America. But I was told by military, technical, and intelligence experts that these fears have been exaggerated, and are based on a fundamental confusion between cyber espionage and cyber war. Cyber espionage is the science of covertly capturing e-mail traffic, text messages, other electronic communications, and corporate data for the purpose of gathering national-security or commercial intelligence. Cyber war involves the penetration of foreign networks for the purpose of disrupting or dismantling those networks, and making them inoperable. (Some of those I spoke to made the point that China had demonstrated its mastery of cyber espionage in the EP-3E incident, but it did not make overt use of it to wage cyber war.) Blurring the distinction between cyber war and cyber espionage has been profitable for defense contractors—and dispiriting for privacy advocates.

Hersch recalls the story about the U.S. Navy EP-3E spy plane that bumped up along the coastal border of China soon after George W. Bush came into office. The Chinese brought the plane down onto Hainan Island and proceeded to take it apart piece by piece. They learned alot about the U.S. electronic surveillance program in that incident and the Pentagon used it as an opportunity to start crying wolf - the Chinese are coming and are ready to cyber attack us here at home - NOTHING IS SAFE!

One has to wonder if the incident over Hainan Island was a fix. The plane, a slow lumbering propeller driven spy aircraft, was destined to be intercepted during such a mission. With present satellite technology available to the Pentagon today you have to wonder what the plane could do that military satellites aren't already capable of delivering.

The military industrial complex loves these kinds of scare scenarios.....how can anyone refute them? How can an inquiring mind or a skeptical public stand up against "the best and the brightest" inside the Pentagon? What they say is gospel, right?

So today we see massive amounts of your tax dollars being poured into the cyber war rat hole to "protect and defend" us against Chinese computer attack when in fact the cyber command is developing U.S. "offensive" cyber attack programs with these new infusions of cash.

So be careful not to fall for these mental tricks being pulled on the public. I know it is almost Halloween and scary things are standard operating procedure this time of year.

Just close the door on this one.

Text Fwd: U.S. Pushes to Ease Technical Obstacles to Wiretapping 미국, 도청에 대한 기술적 장애들을 쉽게 하기 위해 밀어붙이다.

* Image & caption source: same as the link
Brendan Smialowski for The New York Times
'Valerie E. Caproni, the F.B.I.'s general counsel, has said the government is trying
to prevent its existing surveillance power from eroding.'

* CLG_News on Oct. 20, 2010

New York Times
October 18, 2010
Officials Push to Bolster Law on Wiretapping
By CHARLIE SAVAGE

WASHINGTON — Law enforcement and counterterrorism officials, citing lapses in compliance with surveillance orders, are pushing to overhaul a federal law that requires phone and broadband carriers to ensure that their networks can be wiretapped, federal officials say.

The officials say tougher legislation is needed because some telecommunications companies in recent years have begun new services and made system upgrades that caused technical problems for surveillance. They want to increase legal incentives and penalties aimed at pushing carriers like Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast to ensure that any network changes will not disrupt their ability to conduct wiretaps.

An Obama administration task force that includes officials from the Justice and Commerce Departments, the F.B.I. and other agencies recently began working on draft legislation to strengthen and expand the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act, a 1994 law that says telephone and broadband companies must design their services so that they can begin conducting surveillance of a target immediately after being presented with a court order.

There is not yet agreement over the details, according to officials familiar with the deliberations, but they said the administration intends to submit a package to Congress next year.

Albert Gidari Jr., a lawyer who represents telecommunications firms, said corporations were likely to object to increased government intervention in the design or launch of services. Such a change, he said, could have major repercussions for industry innovation, costs and competitiveness.

“The government’s answer is ‘don’t deploy the new services — wait until the government catches up,’ ” Mr. Gidari said. “But that’s not how it works. Too many services develop too quickly, and there are just too many players in this now.”

To bolster their case that telecom companies should face greater pressure to stay compliant, security agencies are citing two previously undisclosed episodes in which investigators were stymied from carrying out court-approved surveillance for weeks or even months because of technical problems with two major carriers.

The disclosure that the administration is seeking ways to increase the government’s leverage over carriers already subject to the 1994 law comes less than a month after The New York Times reported on a related part of the effort: a plan to bring Internet companies that enable communications — like Gmail, Facebook, Blackberry and Skype — under the law’s mandates for the first time, a demand that would require major changes to some services’ technical designs and business models.

The push to expand and the 1994 law is the latest example of a dilemma over how to balance Internet freedom with security needs in an era of rapidly evolving — and globalized — technology. The issue has added importance because the surveillance technologies developed by the United States to hunt for terrorists and drug traffickers can be also used by repressive regimes to hunt for political dissidents.

An F.B.I. spokesman said the bureau would not comment about the telecom proposal, citing the sensitivity of internal deliberations. But last month, in response to questions about the Internet communications services proposal, Valerie E. Caproni, the F.B.I.’s general counsel, emphasized that the government was seeking only to prevent its surveillance power from eroding.

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Text Fwd: NATO's 21st Century Priorities: Missile Shield, Cyber Warfare 나토의 21세기 우선권은 미사일 방패와 사이버 전쟁이 될 것임

StopNATO on Oct. 15, 2010

Radio Netherlands
October 14, 2010
NATO to lay out vision for cyber, missile defence


NATO defence and foreign ministers meet Thursday to reshape the alliance into a
modern force against cyber and missile threats, at a time of tough fighting in
Afghanistan and budget cuts at home.

The diplomatic and defence chiefs hold a rare joint meeting at NATO headquarters
in Brussels to deliberate on a draft of the "strategic concept" that will lay
out the alliance's vision for the next decade.

The mission statement will then be endorsed by NATO leaders meeting in Lisbon
next month, replacing a document written in 1999, two years before the September
11 attacks on the United States sparked the war in Afghanistan.

"My firm intent is that the Lisbon summit will put in place an alliance that is
more modern, more efficient and better able to work with our partners around the
globe," NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said this week.

The 11-page blueprint, drafted by Rasmussen, has not been made public but it is
expected to touch on 21st century threats including cyber attacks, missiles from
"rogue" states, global terrorism and piracy off the Somali coast.

The ministers will also discuss proposals to reform NATO's command structure and
cut the number of agencies, an idea pushed by Rasmussen to make the 28-nation
alliance "leaner and more efficient."

At the same time, Rasmussen and US officials have urged allies to resist cutting
too deeply into their own national defence budgets despite austerity drives
across debt-laden Europe.

"My worry is that the more our allies cut their capabilities, the more people
will look to the United States to cover whatever gaps that are created, at a
time when we're facing" fiscal pressures, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates told
reporters travelling with him to Brussels late Wednesday.

Rasmussen has emphasised that despite tough economic times, allies should invest
in a missile shield amid concerns about the intentions of Iran and North Korea.

The NATO chief also wants allies to invite Russia to cooperate in the
anti-missile shield in order to ease Russian concerns about the aims of the
system.

Gates said there was "broad agreement" on missile defence plans and that the
cost of linking NATO members into a common network was "relatively modest."

Diplomats, however, say France and other nations want more details about how
much the system would cost and how it would work.

© ANP/AFP
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Text Fwd: [Tom Burghardt] Invasive Cyber Technologies and Internet Privacy - Big Brother is only a "Ping" or Mouse Click Away

Global Research, October 11, 2010
Antifascist Calling, 2010-10-10
Invasive Cyber Technologies and Internet Privacy: Big Brother is only a "Ping" or Mouse Click Away
By Tom Burghardt

As they walked along the busy, yellow-lit tiers of offices, Anderton said: "You're acquainted with the theory of precrime, of course. I presume we can take that for granted."-- Philip K. Dick, The Minority Report

What do Google, the CIA and a host of so-called "predictive behavior" start-ups have in common?

They're interested in you, or more specifically, whether your online interests--from Facebook to Twitter posts, and from Flickr photos to YouTube and blog entries--can be exploited by powerful computer algorithms and subsequently transformed into "actionable intelligence."

And whether the knowledge gleaned from an IP address is geared towards selling useless junk or entering a name into a law enforcement database matters not a whit. It's all "just data" and "buzz" goes the mantra, along what little is left of our privacy and our rights.

Increasingly, secret state agencies ranging from the CIA to the National Security Agency are pouring millions of dollars into data-mining firms which claim they have a handle on who you are or what you might do in the future.

And to top it off, the latest trend in weeding-out dissenters and nonconformists from the social landscape will soon be invading a workplace near you; in fact, it already has.

Welcome to the sinister world of "Precrime" where capitalist grifters, drug- and torture-tainted spy shops are all laboring mightily to stamp out every last vestige of free thought here in the heimat.

The CIA Enters the Frame

In July, security journalist Noah Shachtman revealed in Wired that "the investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time--and says it uses that information to predict the future."

Shachtman reported that the CIA's semi-private investment company, In-Q-Tel, and Google Ventures, the search giant's business division had partnered-up with a dodgy outfit called Recorded Future pouring, according to some estimates, $20 million dollars into the fledgling firm.

A blurb on In-Q-Tel's web site informs us that "Recorded Future extracts time and event information from the web. The company offers users new ways to analyze the past, present, and the predicted future."

Who those ubiquitous though nameless "users" are or what they might do with that information once they "extract" it from the web is left unsaid. However, judging from the interest that a CIA-connected entity has expressed in funding the company, privacy will not figure prominently in the "new ways" such tools will be used.

Wired reported that the company, founded by former Swedish Army Ranger Christopher Ahlberg, "scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents--both present and still-to-come."

"The cool thing is" Ahlberg said, "you can actually predict the curve, in many cases."

And as for the search giant's interest in "predicting the future" for the secret state, it wouldn't be the first time that Google Ventures sold equipment and expertise to America's shadow warriors.

While the firm may pride itself on the corporate slogan, "don't be evil," data is a valuable commodity. And where's there value, there's money to be made. Whether it comes in the form of "increasing share value" through the sale of private information to marketeers or state intelligence agencies eager to increase "situational awareness" of the "battlespace" is a matter of complete indifference to corporate bean counters.

After all, as Google CEO Eric Schmidt told CNBC last year, "if you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

But that standard, "only bad people have something to hide," is infinitely mutable and can be stretched--or manipulated as has so often been the case in the United States--to encompass everything from "Papist" conspiracies, "illegal" migrants, homosexuality, communism, drug use, or America's latest bête noire: the "Muslim threat."

Schmidt went on to say that "the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And we're all subject, in the U.S., to the Patriot Act, and it is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities."

In February, The Washington Post reported that "the world's largest Internet search company and the world's most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity."

"The alliance" between Google and NSA "is being designed to allow the two organizations to share critical information without violating Google's policies or laws that protect the privacy of Americans' online communications," the Post alleged.

An anonymous source told the Post that "the deal does not mean the NSA will be viewing users' searches or e-mail accounts or that Google will be sharing proprietary data."

Really?

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Text Fwd: Pentagon Partners With NATO To Create Global Cyber Warfare System

* Rick Rozoff sent on Oct. 9, 2010

Rick Rozoff
Stop NATO
October 8, 2010
Pentagon Partners With NATO To Create Global Cyber Warfare System


U.S. Cyber Command is scheduled to be activated this month, in the words of a Reuters dispatch "ready to go to war in cyberspace" with full operational capability.

The launching of the world's first multi-service - with the involvement of all major branches of the U.S. armed forces: Air Force, Army, Marine Corps and Navy - military command is being coordinated with a complementary initiative by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Europe, the joint effort striving toward a worldwide cyber warfare system.

Last month the U.S. Defense Department's Joint Task Force Global Network Operations command was deactivated and absorbed into U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) after a decade-long existence.

In describing the transition, the Pentagon's press service recounted that the task force had worked on "the best ways to operate on the cyber battlefield" with "a dual mission to conduct offensive and defensive cyber operations." In 2003 it was assigned to U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), under whose sponsorship CYBERCOM is also being inaugurated. The next year Joint Task Force Global Network Operations was reconfigured "to assume the offensive role" of the above-mentioned shield-and-sword function.

Air Force General Kevin Chilton, the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, presided over the September 7 turnover ceremony. Army Lieutenant General Carroll Pollett, head of the Task Force Global Network Operations since 2008, is now reduced to remaining director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, at whose Arlington, Virginia site the ceremony was held, though the Pentagon's Defense Information Systems Agency is slated to follow CYBERCOM to Fort Meade, Maryland.

General Pollett's comments at the event included: "(Information) has become an operational imperative in our ability to deliver decisive capabilities to warfighters and our national leaders.

"Cyberspace has evolved into a new warfighter domain.

"Cyberspace has proven equal and just as important as air, sea, land and space as a domain. It's clear that it must be defended and operationalized." [1]

His characterization of cyber space as the fifth military domain is consistent with the standard use of that trope by Pentagon officials, a variant of which is fifth battlespace. [2] When the leaders of the mightiest military in the history of the world discuss adding a new dimension to the traditional ones of infantry, air force, navy, marine, and satellite and missile operations, they are planning not only for an extension of warfare preparations to a new realm but into one which is related to and in many ways dominates the others.

The first commander of CYBERCOM, General Keith Alexander, said two weeks after his appointment and CYBERCOM's launching on May 21 that the Pentagon "depends on its networks for command and control, communications, intelligence, operations and logistics" and that the mission of his command is to "deter, detect and defend against emerging threats against our nation in cyberspace."

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Text Fwd: Boeging Eyes India & Asia for Big Weapons Profits

* Text sent from Bruce Gagnon on June 8, 2010

Singapore Airfreight Directory
07 June 10
The Business Times
Boeing eyes Asia for its defence sales

(SINGAPORE) Faced with slumping demand and budget cuts in the United States, American aerospace giant Boeing's defence arm is looking to Asia to pick up the slack.

Dennis Muilenburg, president and chief executive of Boeing Defense, Space and Security (BDS), estimates that countries such as South Korea, Japan, India, Australia and South-east Asian partners such as Malaysia will be strong markets for its fighter jets, unmanned systems, helicopters, energy systems security and even cyber-warfare technology amid a slowdown in defence spending in its US home market.

'We are seeing some pressure in our core business in the US, such as missile defence, but growth will come from other markets, particularly in Asia,' he said.

About 16 per cent of BDS's US$34 billion business comes from international sales. Mr Muilenburg, who was in Singapore last week for the Asia Security Summit, sees international business share rising to 25 per cent in five years.

Asian markets account for about half the international sales. And this could grow sharply in the next three years.

The company is awaiting a Japanese tender for some 40 next-generation fighters to replace its ageing F4 Phantoms.

In Korea, where it has delivered 61 F15-K Eagle fighters, it is looking at an opportunity to clinch another deal for 60 more of the planes.

In Australia, where it has delivered the first five of 25 F18 Superhornets and five C17 transport planes, it sees interest for the P8 anti-submarine planes.

In Malaysia, it is currently in talks to sell its F18 Hornets to replace the air force's ageing Russian MiG fighters, while in Singapore, it is in the process of supplying the 24 F15 Eagles on order.

But it is India which Mr Muilenburg sees as the 'Jewel in the Crown'.

The signing of the nuclear agreement by former president US George W Bush two years ago, and the subsequent thawing of relations between the US and India, have finally opened up the country's US$30 billion defence market to Boeing.

'In the past, Boeing's relationship with India was purely on the commercial airplanes side,' he said. 'Now, relations encompass the defence side.'

India has already inked a deal to buy eight P8i anti-submarine aircraft and has expressed an interest in purchasing 10 C17 military transport aircraft. If that US$4 billion C17 deal comes through, it will be Boeing's single biggest for this aircraft type.

But the biggest competition now going on is India's request for the supply of 126 multi-role combat fighter planes. Besides Boeing, others in the battle for this US$10 billion deal include Eurofighter Typhoon, Sweden's Griffin, France's Rafale and Lockheed Martin of the US.

Besides fighters, the Indian army is also looking to buy Apache attack helicopters and the Chinook heavy-lift helicopters.

Photo Fw: Protesting police interference

Hankyoreh, March 30, 2010

Protesting police interference

'University students stage a protest to voice public opposition to the fact that police officers requested that some universities submit personal information of certain students who had used specific IP addresses.

Photo by Kim Tae-hyung/The Hankyoreh'

Text Fwd: Spy Chief Says Cyber Attacks Work of N. Korea

Image Source/ caption: Same as below
'Won Se-hoon, chief of National Intelligence Service'

Korea Times
10-30-2009 19:19
Spy Chief Says Cyber Attacks Work of N. Korea:
By Kim Sue-young, Staff Reporter

The nation's spy chief has named North Korea's telecommunications ministry as the source of cyber attacks on Web sites in South Korea and the United States last July, lawmakers said Friday.

This is the first government confirmation of North Korea launching a series of cyber attacks using DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) which targeted major Web sites in the two countries.

``After tracking down the routes of the DDoS attacks, we found a line coming from China,'' Won Se-hoon, chief of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), was quoted as saying.

It turned out to be an IP that North Korea's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications is renting, Won said during a closed-door National Assembly inspection of the agency Thursday.

But Won refused to elaborate, saying, ``Revealing further details could expose national strategies.''

A DDoS attack is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users.

The flood of incoming messages to a target system forces it to shut down and leads to denial of service to legitimate users.

After Web sites here and in the United States were severely attacked using this method, rumors arose that North Korea might have been behind the cyber attack.

The government, however, had remained silent.

ksy@koreatimes.co.kr

[국문 번역]Text Fwd: From Space, No One Can Watch You Die 우주로부터는 아무도 당신이 죽는 것을 볼 수 없다.

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* Informed by Bruce Gagnon on Sept. 28, 2009. The original site can be seen HERE.
2009년 9월 28일 브루스 개그논에 의해 정보 제공됨. 원문은 여기서 볼 수 있음.

* Translated on Aug. 23, 2010. Recommended article for reading upon the Keep Space for Peace Week, 2010.
2010년 8월 23일 번역됨. 2010년 우주 평화주 기간 일독이 추천된 글임.
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28 September 2009
2009년 9월 28일

From Space, No One Can Watch You Die

우주로부터는 아무도 당신이 죽는 것을 볼 수 없다.

By Loring Wirbel and Bill Sulzman,
Citizens for Peace in Space, Colorado Springs
/Global Network board members

로링 워벨과 빌 설즈맨,
우주의 평화를 위한 시민 모임/[미국 콜로라도 주] 콜로라도 스프링스
/ 글로벌 넷워크 보드 멤버들

Peace groups internationally are putting the pressure on President Obama this fall, as he ponders the request from Gen. McChrystal for a “surge” troop escalation in Afghanistan. Thankfully, leading Democrats and even former President Clinton are urging caution, though few are taking the wiser step of recommending a pullout. But there is an additional decision Obama must make, one which the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space sees as a fundamental issue in the upcoming Keep Space for Peace Week.

평화 단체들은 올(2009년) 가을에 오바마 대통령이 맥크리스탈 장군 으로부터의 아프가니스탄 군대 증가 “쇄도” 요청을 심사숙고함에 따라 오바마 대통령에게 국제적으로 압력을 넣고 있다. 고맙게도 민주당 지도자들과 클린턴 전 대통령 조차도 주의를 청하고 있는데 그 중 철수라는 보다 현명한 발걸음을 추천하는 이는 별로 없지만 말이다. 그러나 오바마가 해야 하는 추가적 결정이 있는데 이는 우주의 무기와 핵을 반대하는 글로벌 넷워크가 다가오는 우주 평화 지키기 주간의 근본적 이슈로 보는 것이다.

As soon as CIA Director Leon Panetta was appointed in an acting role to his post, he asked Obama for a significant escalation in armed “drone” flights, utilizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), over both Afghanistan and Pakistan. These robot planes are flown by ground-based pilots, either in-country or even in the United States, using space as the navigational medium. The UAVs can accurately send bombs to pinpoint locations, though this does not mean there is no “collateral damage” in terms of civilian human casualties.

CIA 감독 레온 파네타가 집행 역활로 그 지위에 임명되자마자 그는 오바마에게 아프가니스탄과 파키스탄 위를 날으는 무인 비행기들 (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs))로 무장된 “드로운” 비행들의 중요한 점증을 요청했다. 이 로봇 비행기들은 해당 나라의 또는 심지어 미국내 지상에 기반한 조종사들에 의해 우주를 항공 매개로 날아진다. 무인 비행기들은 정확한 위치에 폭탄을 보낼 수 있는데 그것이 시민 사상과 관련, “부수적 상해”가 없음을 의미하는 것은 아니다.

The Global Network wants to remind people that standoff war using robotic technology is neither surgical, nor antiseptic, nor moral. It can be appealing to the White House and to the American public, because it is allows nearly infinite kill ratios – thousands of so-called adversaries can be killed with very little chance of U.S. casualties. With no American soldiers coming home in body bags, few U.S. citizens care about anything else.

글로벌 넷워크는 로봇 기술을 이용한 원격 전쟁이 외과 수술적이지도, 무균 상태도, 도덕적이지도 않다는 것을 사람들에게 상기시키고자 한다. [로봇 기술을 이용한 원격 전쟁은] 백악관이나 미국 대중에게 호소적일 수 있는데 왜냐하면 그것은 거의 무한 살인 비율을 허락하는 것으로 수천의 이른바 적들은 매우 적은 미국인 사상 사고들을 내며 살해될 수 있기 때문이다. 어떠한 미국 군인들도 시체 주머니에 싸여 돌아 오지 않게 되면 그 밖의 것을 염려하는 미국 시민들은 거의 없다.

Yet turning the Afghanistan-Pakistan war into a UAV turkey-shoot is little different from the assassination squads approved by former Vice President Dick Cheney. In fact, it is no accident that, on two successive days, the New York Times reported on Blackwater (now Xe) being assigned to Cheney’s death-squad team, and the same Blackwater group being used for outsourcing of armed UAV flights. One method of killing is being used to replace the other.

그러나 아프가니스탄-파키스탄 전쟁을 무인 비행기로 간단히 해치우는 일은 전 부통령 딕 체니에 의해 승인된 살인 분대와 거의 다르지 않다. 사실, 뉴욕 타임즈가 연속적인 이틀동안 체니의 살인 분대팀 임무를맡은 블랙워터 (Blackwater,현재 Xe로 불림)에 대해 기사화한 것은 우연이 아니며 같은 블랙워터 그룹이 무장된 무인 비행기들을 외부조달하기 위한 [도구로] 쓰여졌다는 것은 우연이 아니다. 하나의 살해 방법은 다른 것을 대치하기 위한 것으로 쓰인다.

Not so long ago, UAV pilots used joysticks to control UAVs, emulating a video game. Now they use Google Earth on touch screens to point to a location they want a robot plane to bomb. Within a year, those Google Earth applications will be available for special iPhones and Blackberries made for U.S. troops. And all those means of delivering death use space. Many of the war-fighter tools that are employed from space also take advantage of the Pentagon’s new cyber-warrior tools, which have culminated in the establishment of a dedicated Cyber Command to control computer networks here and abroad.

그리 오래지 않은 이전에 무인 비행기 조종사들은 비디오 게임을 흉내내며 무인 비행기를 통제하기 위한 조이스틱들을 사용했다. 현재 그들은 로봇 비행기 한대가 폭탄을 가하기 원하는 위치를 점찍기 위해 터치 스크린 위 구글 어쓸를 사용한다. 1년내 그 구글 어쓰 응용들은 미국 군대를 위해 만들어진 특수 아이포운즈 (iPhones)와 블랙 베리들(Blackberries)을 위해 활용될 것이다. 그리고 이 모든 죽음에 이르는 우주 이용을 의미한다. 우주로부터 고용되는 전쟁-전투 도구들은 또한 미 국방부의 새로운 사이버-전사 도구들로부터 잇점을 얻는데 이곳(미국)과 해외에서 컴퓨터 넷워크를 통제하기 위한 헌신적 사이버 사령부 설치로 완결되었다.

Moral review of space policy is ruled out because the critic can never have access to the “secret information” needed for evaluation. Hiding the truth from the enemy means hiding it from the public. Real public discourse cannot happen, either, because the body politic cannot be trusted with all the facts.

우주 정책의 도덕적 검토는 배제되는데 왜냐하면 비평가들은 평가를 위해 필요한 “비밀 정보”에 결코 접근할 수 없기 때문이다. 적으로부터 진실을 숨기는 일은 대중으로부터 진실을 숨기는 것을 의미한다. 진정한 대중 담론 또한 일어날 수 없는데 왜냐하면 통치체들은 모든 사실들이 있음에 따라 신뢰될 수 없기 때문이다.

The Global Network has had reason to see optimism in recent months: No true weapon in space has yet been fielded by any nation. Obama has canceled planned missile-defense ground-based components in Poland and the Czech Republic. The world’s leaders are pledging to work harder to banish nuclear weapons. And Obama has called for a review of the October 2006 National Space Policy that calls for virtual U.S. “ownership” of orbital space.

글로벌 넷워크는 최근 수개월간 낙천적으로 볼 이유를 가졌다: 우주의 진짜 무기는 어떠한 나라에 의해서도 아직 배치되지 않았다. 오바마는 계획된 폴란드와 체코 공화국 내 지대 요소들인 미사일 방어망을 취소했다. 세계의 지도자들은 핵 무기를 없애기 위해 더욱 열심히 일할 것을 맹세하고 있다. 그리고 오바마는 미국의 실질상 궤도 우주 “소유권”을 외치는 2006년 10월 국가 우주 정책을 검토할 것을 주장했다.

But like so many national-security realms where Obama has taken tentative half-steps, the struggle for peace in space is far from over. The U.S. military remains by far the largest user of orbital space. Its satellites for intelligence, communications, and navigation remain the key enabling components that allow the U.S. and its allies to conduct war. And Obama’s new sea-based missile-defense plans allow a more provocative stance in challenging the nations like Iran and North Korea that are trying to foil global management plans.

그러나 오바마가 잠정적인 반걸음을 취한 너무도 많은 국가-안보 영역들에서처럼, 우주의 평화를 위한 투쟁은 끝나기에 아직도 멀었다. 미국 군대는 궤도 우주의 가장 큰 이용자로 남아 있다. [미국의] 첩보, 통신, 항해/항공 을 위한 위성들은 미국과 그 동맹국들이 전쟁을 수행하기 위한 핵심 가능 요소들로 남아 있다. 그리고 오바마의 해양 기반 미사일 방어 계획들은 [미국의] 지구 지배 계획들을 물리치려 애쓰는 이란이나 북한과 같은 국가들에 도전하는데 있어 더욱 자극적인 태도를 하게 한다.

For Keep Space for Peace Week, we urge activists throughout the world to examine closely the claims for “sanitizing” warfare. We urge citizens to not be swayed into thinking that a war allowing more invisible means of killing others is somehow one that can be accepted better than bloody battles on the ground. Space is the ultimate commons, and no one has the right to dominate the planet through unilateral control.

우주 평화주를 맞아 우리는 세계 전역의 활동가들에게 “살균 위생하는” 전쟁을 부르짓는 주장들을 면밀히 규명할 것을 역설한다. 우리는 시민들에게 한층 더 보이지 않는 수단으로 다른 이들을 죽이는 것을 가능하게 하는 전쟁이 지상의 피흐르는 전투들보다 낫다는 생각으로 기울이지 말 것을 역설한다. 우주는 궁극의 공공 식당이며 아무도 일방적인 통제를 통해 지구를 지배할 권리를 갖고 있지 않다.

Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
우주의 무기와 핵을 반대하는 글로벌 넷워크
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
http://www.space4peace.org
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http://space4peace.blogspot.com (Blog)

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Other reference materials 그 외 참고 자료


http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2009/09/text-fwd-predator-execs-eye-global.html
Monday, September 21, 2009
[국문 번역] Text Fwd: Drones and Missile Defense to be Linked
"무인비행기와 미사일 방어의 연관성"

http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2009/09/text-fwd-missile-defense-other-story.html
Friday, September 18, 2009
[국문 번역]Text Fwd: MISSILE DEFENSE: THE OTHER STORY
미사일 방어: 또 다른 이야기(브루스 개그논 씀)

http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2009/09/text-fwd-attack-of-drones.html
Monday, September 14, 2009
[국문 번역] Text Fwd: Attack of the drones
무인 비행기의 공격

http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2009/09/text-fwd-militarising-space-fallujah.html
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
[국문 번역]Text Fwd: Militarising space: The Fallujah fallacy
우주 공간의 군사화: 팔루쟈 궤변

http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2009/12/protest-call-drone-protest-at-cia-hq.html
[국문 번역: Protest Call] Update added:Drone Protest at CIA HQ - Jan 16
미 중앙 정보부앞 무인 비행기 반대 시위 2010년 1월 16일

Obama’s Change comes not from Policy, but from Economic Collapse
오바마 행정부의 변화는 정책이 아닌 경제 붕괴 통해 일어날 것
by Loring Wirbel 로링 워벨의 글: Original 원문 Korean 국문
(* The Korean translation is by the Peace Network. It is the speech during the International Conference against the Asia Pacific Missile Defense and for the End of Arms Race, co-sponsored by the Korea Organizing Committee, Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space and Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, April 16 to 18, 2009
이 글은 2009년 4월 16일 부터 18일 에 있었던 한국조직위원회, 우주의 무기와 핵을 반대하는 글로벌 네트워크, 동북아 무력 갈등 예방 위원회 공동 주최 [아시아·태평양 MD 반대와 군비경쟁 종식을 위한 국제대회] 발표 글입니다. 국문 번역은 평화 넷트 워크에 의해)

Video 비디오

http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2009/09/video-fwd-killer-bee-uavs.html
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
[국문 번역]Video Fwd: KILLER BEE UAV'S
살인벌 무인 비행기

http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2009/09/slife-fwd-drones-remote-control-war.html
Sunday, September 6, 2009
[국문 번역] Slide Fwd: DRONES: Remote Control War
무인비행기: 원격 조정 전쟁

UAV Video Collections of the Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
http://www.space4peace.org/videos.htm#UAV
우주의 무기와 핵을 반대하는 글로벌 넷워크 무인 비행기 비디오 모음

Text Fwd: Email communications interception on the rise in South Korea

* Image Source: same as below

'Kwak Dong-ki, a unification movement activist, holds a press conference at the office of Korea Confederation of Trade Union to criticize the National Intelligence Service’s illegal phone taps, Aug. 31.'

Hankyoreh
Email communications interception on the rise in South Korea:
NSS responsible for 706 interceptions of telephone and email communications
Posted on : Sep.26,2009 15:24 KST

South Korea has seen in increase in the interception of communications. According to “The present condition of cooperation in communication interception during the first half of 2009” report submitted by the Korea Communication Commission to the National Assembly, communication interception during the first half of this year increased to 799 cases (one case contain several phone numbers) or by 34.4 percent compared to last year. The total number of all phone or email communications interceptions came to 6402.

When examined in detail, the National Security Service was responsible for ordering 706 communications interceptions or the majority of cases that took place during the first half of this year, compared to 562 cases during same period last year. In comparison, the Defense Security Command (DSC) was responsible for 23 cases from 8 cases last year, the police were responsible for 61 cases from 32 cases, and the Public Prosecutor’s Office was responsible for 9 cases from 6 cases.

In addition, the interception of email communications increased sharply to 489 cases from 356 cases last year, and the interception of wireless phone communications also increased to 310 cases from 252 cases.

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