Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Blaming Internet for Jihad, bombings & resistance

by Henk Ruyssenaars

FPF - July 12th -2005 - The US's - and globally similar main$tream media - proceed advocating 'regulation' of Internet more and more, which is a bad omen. In an article*- today in the formerly respected American neocon paper 'The Christian Science Monitor', it is even referred to as a fact that 'Iraq and Internet fuel the growth of the 'global jihad', as the resistance against the present wars of occupation is called. The regulation/censorship will be justified by menacingly asking: "Or do you want small children to see porno, or to support the terrorists?"

The media preparing the people for the idea that Internet must be closed soon, 'being a part of the global jihad' - against the US, Israel, and their collaborators in their 'War Of Terror'. And that's why, they'll explain: 'the Pentagon's Net' has to take over. Of course it will get a Newspeak name, euphamisms like 'The Inter Peace Net' or 'Liberators Forum'...

Step #1 in the government take over will be the 'international identification card' - which among many other things - also must be used to start any computer, identifying the user. The respective governments literally 'deal the cards' by 'chipping' and licensing all ID cards.

The danger of all information which is spread on millions of web sites by 'Bloggers' and other cyberwriters who are specialized in many amazing fields, is a growing danger to the lies and deceptions fabricated by 'The Lie Factory', which globally tries to further 'wash' the brains of good willing people. [http://tinyurl.com/2rg5o]

President Bush has signed an $82 billion military spending bill, that will, in part, create electronically readable, federally approved ID cards for all Americans. The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the package - which includes the Real ID Act - one can read on this site*, followed by the question: What does the new ID mean for me?

Quote: "Starting three years from now, if you live or work in the United States, you'll need a federally
approved ID card to travel on an airplane, open a bank account, collect Social Security payments, or take
advantage of nearly any government service. Practically speaking, your driver's license likely will have to
be re-issued to meet federal standards."

And, you know what? 'They' hold the key to your life and movements: from home to hospital and from bureau to bank. Because they can program the card the way they want; and what they think 'you should or should not do', and that should make a hell lot of people think. Think what you can use a chip-card like that for: it's a hundred times more than you do with a credit card now: and very easily blocked or not renewed by the issuers. Who may not be your friends.

DRIVER'S LICENSE FOR INTERNET

The ID card will also be the 'driving license' for Internet, and as some kind of proof/statement that Internet in it's uncontrolled present form is dangerous, this is presented: "The world is just starting to understand the real influence of the Internet as an open university of jihad,'' says Reuven Paz, the head of the Project for the Research of Islamic Movements in Israel. That's the same country - Israel - which has been tapping globally, not only in the US, all telephone and Internet connections for their own intelligence and business benefits.

Under the title "Dutch tapping room not Kosher" the Israeli's dark activities have been many times and well described: ''The discussion focusses on the tapping installations for telephony and internet delivered to the government in the last few years by the Israeli company Verint.'' Like in the US was done - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/aru8y

PENTAGON'S PRIVATE INTERNET

In November 19, 2004 an interesting story appeared on the US information spreader UPI, about the
Pentagon's Internet was published by Gene Koprowski under the caption: "Pentagon's Private Internet''
datelined Chicago Nov. 17th: (UPI) -- The Pentagon has begun a massive program -- whose budget
dwarfs the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb - to install its own encrypted, private
computer network designed to connect every HumVee, helicopter and human in the military.

Called the Global Information Grid, or GIG, the Pentagon is budgeting approximately $200 billion on the network-centric warfare project over the coming decade, which is intended to give soldiers and sailors bandwidth on the battlefield powerful enough to download three full-length motion pictures in a few seconds. "The old way of making war does not work anymore," said Wolfgang Gentzsch, managing director for grid computing at MCNC, a computer research firm in Research Triangle Park, N.C. [end quote] - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dac45

So now the blame also rests on the shoulders of all those intelligent Bloggers, Internet writers and surfers as the neocon christians in their Science Monitor see it: "America and its allies are now facing a multifront war: In Iraq, which is turning out a new generation of Arab jihadis; in Europe, where Muslim admirers of Al Qaeda are embracing the cause because of anger over the Iraq war; and on the Internet, which has become a megaphone for radical jihadi ideologies."

To silence the 'megaphone' as critical voices are called by the 'powers that be', they use repression: "Last 27th of June the police raided a residential property in Bristol and seized an Indymedia* server and other computer equipment. They also arrested one person for incitement to criminal damage under common law. That person has since been released on bail. We see this police action as an attack on the freedom of speech and journalistic
independence.

This is the second time that law enforcement authorities have attacked Indymedia servers in the UK in the run up to a major event. Last October, just prior to the European Social Forum, Indymedia servers in London were seized in an international law enforcement operation - prompting a wave of protests and solidarity statements from a wide range of organizations [report]. This time, events were unfolding one week before the G8." Or before the circus around the 'Blasts in London' started. That's why we must keep Internet as free as is possible, and have alternative 'servers' at the ready...

Because, any real cyber publicist or journalist willing to inform the people, of course remembers Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington. When his favorite courtesan Harriette Wilson threatened to publish her memoirs and his letters, he spoke the for every writer and journalist - on Internet or elsewhere - sacred words:

Publish and be damned!


Henk Ruyssenaars


[end item] - Story - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/d82to

What does the new ID mean for me? - Url.:http://tinyurl.com/7u8v4

Bristol Indymedia computers seized - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bk3fr

Problems with 'Indymedia Japan and 'Ronin' journalists' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7pbwy

Example of an Islamic web site - Url.: http://www.islamicawakening.com/

FPF + Horrible Newspeak agencies - Url.: http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=300

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*Colin Powell: ''It is not anti-Semitic to criticize the policies of the
state of Israel' - Said as 'US Secretary of State' in a speech at the
'Conference on Anti-Semitism of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe' German Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Berlin
- April 28th - 2004 - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/22p6c

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NEW John Pilger "George and Tony Get their al-Qaeda Fix"

Concerning the U$ Ministry of Propaganda - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/988nk

Another of those execellent articles by one of the best journalists alive:

From: palast@gregpalast.com
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:01:00 -0400
To: fpf@chello.nl

George and Tony Get their al-Qaeda Fix

By Greg Palast

The tooth fairy, Santa Clause, WorldCom profits, the Easter Bunny, al-Qaeda.

Monday, July 11, 2005 - The cruel, evil jerks who blew up the London subway last week, despite appropriating al-Qaeda's name for their website and T-shirts, have about as much to do with al-Qaeda as a Beatles tribute band has to do with the Fab Four.

For all the horror, hoopla and hair-pulling, this was no September 11. Timmy McVeigh slaughtered a heck of a lot more people in Oklahoma City with his cow-poop bomb.

I'm not belittling the heartbreaking hideousness of this crime, but let's get the facts straight. If al-Qaeda is the Panzer Division of terrorism, these London bombers were terrorism's Cub Scouts. We're talking a few pounds of nitro wired to a clock -- a design badly copied off the Internet.

A witness watched some Arabic-looking teenager nervously checking his bag on a bus which, London's un-hysterical police now believe, he accidentally triggered, blowing apart himself and a bunch of unlucky commuters.

Al-Qaeda this ain't. All the evidence is that this half-assed attack was the work of some poor young Muslim schmucks, possibly whipped into a frenzy by the mewling mullah of Finsbury Park, Omar Bakri Mohammed, a cleric who enjoyed the comfortable middle-class dullness of England during the week while on weekends preaching, "a 9/11, day after day after day" to punish his Western hosts.

It's not al-Qaeda, but for George and Tony, it's good enough. Blair's Foreign Secretary dramatically dashed out to tell us that the explosions had the "hallmarks of al-Qaeda." Our Commander in Chief, looking as commanding as possible (no reading of kiddie stories this time), could not have been more satisfied.

The "hallmarks of al-Qaeda"? That's not true and Blair knows it. And Bush knows it. And that's no little matter, my friends.

Because Blair and Bush are al-Qaeda junkies. They've sold us on everything from fingerprinting five-year olds to invading Baghdad to tolerating plummeting paychecks all on the slick line that we are under attack by a well-trained, well-armed, well-funded hidden army called al-Qaeda.

But our War President and War Prime Minister are having a little problem with their war on terror. The enemy's gone AWOL. Except when we go LOOKING for trouble -- as in invading a Mesopotamian country -- trouble pretty much stopped looking for us.

Even September 11. Forgive me for pointing this out, but no matter how horrific, it was in the end the deed of a couple dozen fundamentalist fruitcakes with box-cutters hankering for a hot time with virgins in the next life who got "lucky."

Yes, unlike the London attack, the "luck" of the September 11 hijackers required the sick genius of monied operatives and a Washington administration that operated with eyes wide shut toward Saudi gangsterism.

But now al-Qaeda's luck's run out, not because Bush has us taking off our shoes in airports, but because, overwhelmingly, Muslims in this world really have no attraction to killing kids or commuters.

For Bush and Blair, organized terror's diminishing powers was a political problem -- until last week, when the al-Queda addicts of the White House and Downing Street got a new terror fix. Even if it wasn't the real al-Qaeda, it was enough for them to mainline into the body politic a big, fat dose of fear.

Now, with world media all jumped up on its latest fear high, Bush and Blair can resume their sales pitch: more weaponry, less liberty.

FDR calmed a nation when he said, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."

But the Bush and Blair slogan is,

"WE HAVE NOTHING TO SELL BUT FEAR ITSELF."


John Pilger

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