Is Collapse Of America Inevitable?

We are watching the Fall of the Great American Empire.

Historically, national decline and economic crisis is always accompanied by violence and war. The decline of European empires was marked by World War I and II, with the Great Depression in between.

In the face of global economic crisis (we are still in crisis), the probability of a world war is ever increasing. 

Russian Professor Igor Panarin, Senior Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe and countless economists and political analysts predict the imminent collapse of the United States! 

Panarin, doctor of political sciences and professor of the Russian Diplomatic Academy Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says that events are continuing to confirm his doomsday prediction first made over 10 years ago, that the United States will completely collapse like the Soviet Union.

Since 1998, Panarin has been forewarning of the crumbling of the United States and the crash of the dollar. According to Panarin, the recent election victory for Japan’s Democratic Party is yet another sign that the economic collapse of the U.S. is almost upon us.

“Obama is “the president of hope”, but in a year there won’t be any hope,” Panarin said. “He’s practically another Gorbachev – he likes to talk but hasn’t really managed to do anything. Gorbachev at least had been a secretary of a regional communist party administration, whereas Obama was just a social worker. His mentality is totally different. He’s a nice person and talks nicely – but he’s not a leader and will take America to a crash. When Americans understand that – it will be like a bomb explosion.”

Panarin believes that both Japan and China will dump their dollar reserves for other currencies, thus seriously damaging the dollar's value.

Panarin blames the demise of America on a “political elite that implements an absurd and aggressive policy that aims to create conflicts around the planet” and warns that increasing firearms sales in the U.S. are a sign that people are preparing for “chaos” in the aftermath of a total financial meltdown.

According to Panarin, America’s collapse was brought about by economic and political factors, but primarily by the fall of the US dollar and its bursting foreign debt. He states, “They have created in the United States a pyramid (of foreign debt) based on the dollar, and they see no other way to solve this crisis… In the 1980s, the US almost had no foreign debt, but in 1998, this reached $2 trillion. Now, they have [a debt of] $12 trillion and so it grew six times in just a decade… This reminds me of the situation in my country before the USSR fell because our foreign debt increased five times.”

Panarin goes on to say, “In my opinion, the probability of the US ceasing to exist by June, 2010 exceeds 50%. At this point, the mission of all major international powers is to prevent chaos in the US,” Panarin concluded.

My last two articles, Chinese Economic Takeover now Inevitable Many Experts Predict and The Chinese Takeover of America  were exactly about what they implied. China owns ever more of America and the U.S. is becoming ever less creditworthy. China is loosing their trust in America. And they are loosing their patience. How much longer will they keep letting us borrow? How long before they want to collect what we already owe them? And though it is our own fault that it has come to this, it all boils down to China being the greatest threat the United States has ever faced.

The United States will NOT Go Down Quietly

The United States has the largest and most powerful military force in the world. With America headed for collapse and the probability of a violent end of the American empire drastically increasing, it is likely that US perpetration of current wars is in part an agenda to strategically position and prepare American troops for an eventual last stand.

As far back as 2000, a think tank called the Project for the New American Century, or PNAC published a report called, Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces, and Resources for a New Century. In accordance with the Defense Policy Guidance document, they write that, “the United States must retain sufficient forces able to rapidly deploy and win multiple simultaneous large-scale wars.” Furthermore, there is “need to retain sufficient combat forces to fight and win, multiple, nearly simultaneous major theatre wars,” and that “the Pentagon needs to begin to calculate the force necessary to protect, independently, US interests in Europe, East Asia and the Gulf at all times.”

The plans for war were already well under development in the 1990s, as Americans developed detailed strategies for a "new world order.” For this, “the USA would need to use all means - diplomatic, economic and military, even wars of aggression - to have long term control of the resources of the planet and the ability to keep any possible rival weak.”

Many believe that PNAC plans for empire were drawn at Bodemian Grove by America's elite and Bilderberg members.

Political economist, Ellen Wood, put it this way, “Boundless domination of a global economy, and of the multiple states that administer it, requires military action without end, in purpose or time.” She went on to say, “Imperial dominance in a global capitalist economy requires a delicate and contradictory balance between suppressing competition and maintaining conditions in competing economies that generate markets and profit. This is one of the most fundamental contradictions of the new world order.”

Following 9/11, the “Bush doctrine” called for “a unilateral and exclusive right to preemptive attack, any time, anywhere, unfettered by any international agreements, to ensure that ‘our forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential adversaries from pursuing a military build-up in hope of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States’.”

US strategy following the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991 was focused on encircling Russia and China and preventing the rise of a new superpower.

Did the New World Order make a Mistake?

Unfortunately, unforeseen to those in charge with the best interests of  the New World Order, partially due to the decline in morals, values and work ethics of the American people, the world economy began to change with the shifting of industry and manufacturing to foreign companies and countries.

The average American has a mindset of wanting live well while doing as little work as possible. Why should an American have a job if they can sit at home and get paid for doing nothing? Let the Chinese produce goods for us to use for free.

American employers have long realized that outsourcing work to a country such as China is not only cheaper, but their workers do a better job! To clinch the deal, there are less liabilities when outsourcing work to China or India.

The endless parade of benefits and entitlements has made America lazy and uncompetitive.

Though the act of lowering government worker wages would go a long way in helping re-balance Americas unstable economy, this still would not help get lazy, "entitled" Americans of their couches to do a better job.

Without a fundamental change of America's principles, morals, values, ideals and, especially, work ethics, I am afraid all hope is lost.

Most economists and political analysts agree with me and do not believe the US will recover from the current economic crisis.

The US greenback could very well go on a free fall as early as this autumn, thus triggering the collapse of America as we know it, followed by World War III.

We can only hope that the New World Order, with its rich international bankers, weapons dealers and industrial tycoons can stop the approaching Armageddon.

But maybe the New World Order wants WWIII! They've been talking about population reduction for quite a while. Population reduction up to 90%! What better way to kill off a large percentage of the world's population then by war? 

After a global war, the NWO would be able to rebuild the world as they see fit. With out a doubt, with their almost unlimited resources they would survive any war. With  their almost unlimited resources they could build the world of their dreams!

Do you believe that the United States is headed for collapse? Do you believe we are headed for WWIII? Do you believe that the New World Order can, will and wants to stop it?

My Conspiracy Watch readers and I value your opinion, so please leave your comment bellow.

Written By: Tom Retterbush

Sources

Death of 'Soul of Capitalism' (marketwatch.com)

Is America's financial collapse inevitable?, Pat Buchanan (wnd.com)

The Inevitable Collapse of the Greenback (informationclearinghouse.info)

An Imperial Strategy for a New World Order: The Origins of World War III (globalresearch.ca)

The Chinese Takeover of America

The Chinese takeover is amost complete

One morning in September, 2010 few Americans out there awoke to the realization that the Chinese takeover is now complete.

At this point, the former sovereign nation known as the United States of America has been sold, and our new owners have begun putting their graphiti up everywhere, beginning in our center of government, Washington DC. Reports are widespread that all over the city, on Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenue there are Chinese flags adorning the street lamp posts.

This blatant display should come as no surprise, however, when in  September 2010, the official acknowledgment of the takeover was demonstrated in a very bizarre ceremony in which, to celebrate the birth of their Communist dictatorship, the Chinese came to Washington DC, and on a lawn near the White House, raised a Chinese flag 4 times to the resounding sound of their national anthem. This treacherous treason committed by the Obama administration was not even mentioned on the news.

The comedy of errors to follow started when the flag was first hung upside down. When it was realized that the flag was upside down, it was brought down immediately and put back up, but this time it was tangled in the rope, and had to be brought down again. When it was brought up again, it was stuck beneath the level of the United States flag. The fourth time it was raised, the anthem played again, and this time it stayed. The strange procession of events is too strange to ignore, but what it means, beyond the obvious display of new ownership, is speculation at best.



How it happened

For those Americans who are still blissfully unaware of our new government, let me do a bit of backstory on the subject to fill you in.

The process began slowly, when Bill Clinton assured us that the “American people had won a tremendous victory” with his granting of “most-favored-nation” status to China in 1993. Clinton sought to “unite” the American people and have them speak as “one voice”, about China, and would just have us all disregard the criticisms we all had of China following the 1989 Tienanmen Square massacre and subsequent human rights abuses committed by that country, including the status of the other protesters of Tienanmen Square, like that of Tank Man and others like him who bravely stood up against their government.

The beginning of the end of America began with, what I call the Wal-Martization of America, the influx of cheap (meaning produced by slave labor) plastic and electronic goods into America. Soon after, companies in America came to the realization that cheap labor could be had there and began moving their operations there to be “more competitive” in the new global economy.

The industrial and manufacturing base began trickling away from America, and jobs that fed an American family were being exported overseas by people who would gladly do the job for 18 hours a day without stop for less than a couple dollars a day.

This combined with the fact that the Chinese had already been conditioned to be compliant slaves, and the fact that most of the Chinese had never heard of rights, or realized they possessed some, they never asked for safe working conditions, or decent pay, they were just happy to be working, and not starving. When they weren’t collapsing from fatigue on the factory floor, or throwing themselves out of the highest factory windows, that is. 

The seriously repressed Chinese people represented the perfect group to exploit for massive productivity, and they were made into pawns by the corporate elite.  This, combined with the aforementioned insatiable American appetite for consumption, helped contribute to the destruction of the American way of life, whatever that was. Americans were duped into fueling their own economic destruction with their voracious desires for disposable products, throw-away garbage, trinkets, electronics, and other material possessions that broke or became obsolete before their time.

Cheap trinkets; sold down the river

The Chinese people churned out untold numbers of items that were then shipped to America for its citizens to become addicted to and like any drug, at first it was relatively cheap and available to get.

Of course, as with any serious addiction, the need for more becomes insatiable, and eventually huge quantities of the drug, (in this case, cheap credit and readily available cheap Chinese products) are consumed and before long, when the money runs out, the addict wakes up to a mountain of debt, and a lot of personal issues to sort out.

The true high cost of low prices

While many Americans became aware of Wal-Mart’s sinister side, most were sidetracked by seeing only one side of the coin, the side that comes to town to destroy local businesses. This was an important side of the story to point out, however, this was only one edge of the sword. While this edge destroyed local economic growth in the heartland, and ruined the rural communities and small towns of America: the main targets of Wal-Mart.. the other edge was sending billions of dollars that people in these areas spent at Wal-Mart right on back to China. As a result, and directly due to Americas uncontrollable appetite for these cheap products, we bought our own dictatorship.

The desire for material possessions and the need for trinkets and junk as evidenced by the Black Friday madness for the past couple of years has made it clear to any passive observer that American society is clearly going into withdrawal as the costs are now steadily increasing, and we are entering “hyperinflation”.  Finding “the best deal” on the junk we have available to us has become the top priority, instead of wisely investing in solid stores of wealth, like gold and silver.

With this sort of madness happening here, the frenzy for cheaply produced junk and the addiction to low-prices, it didn’t take long for the Chinese Chinese central bank to accumulate massive stores of our currency, and become the largest US debt holder, approaching $1 trillion. Broken down into terms anyone can understand, this means that the average American family with two children collectively owes just over $12,000 dollars to China, and because of China’s ownership of long term U.S. Treasury Securities, the United States pays upwards of $100 million dollars a day to China in interest alone.

A country can do a lot with that sort of economic power. Including, buy up key infrastructure of another country, in an effort to assert ownership over it, much like the concept of a ‘hostile takeover’ in Wall Street parlance.

Let’s not forget that China has been buying key bits of American infrastructure for some time now. Let us also not forget that this country is not beyond the use of physical force, and has threatened to destroy hundreds of American cities if we made a big deal about Taiwan, and we backed down. This should be very indicative of the sort of power this country has over the United States.

The announcement of the takeover

And now, this week, Chinese head of state Hu Jintao made it abundantly clear that China was prepared to call it “game over” for the dollar, and the United States as the dominant world superpower, when he announced that the the dollar was a “product of the past” and indicating that its replacement was on the way, starting with a new global monetary system based on the Chinese yuan. To put this into perspective, the US Dollar has been the ONLY global currency in existence save for Gold and Silver. We are seeing a huge economic and power shift right now.

The 20 year long incremental process of the transfer of control of America is complete. The announcements have been made, their flag has flown in the former center of government in the United States, and now, today, China officially owns America.

What has happened here, and how could it have happened? Words of wisdom from ages ago may shed some light on the issue at hand. The addiction to cheap and cheaply produced goods, and the materialism that inspired, fueled our own downfall. Americans bought the government they wanted.

The American culture of gossip, glitter, glitz, and all the “sins of the flesh” from the American “bling bling” era were death (Romans 8:5-7) to the way of life that could only last for so long before the bill came due. If you are still here in America, you and your children, and your children’s great great great great grandchildren will be paying that bill while the elite skip out.

The best advice for Americans at this point could be to invest their worthless fiat dollars into Gold and Silver.  When, not if, the currency shift from dollar to yuan eventually comes, you’ll be able to trade Gold and Silver straight over for the new currency, and you will get FAR less from your devalued US dollars, likely next to nothing.

The indication to look for will be the crash of the Euro. If that happens, there will be only a matter of weeks to shed your dollars or you will be left holding paper to burn to keep warm.

Written By: Iconoclast

How could we have let this happen? Read yesterday's post, the Chinese Economic Takeover now Inevitable Many Experts Predict, on Conspiracy Watch to find out.

Source

China: How they took over America without firing a shot (altnews.info)

Chinese Economic Takeover now Inevitable Many Experts Predict

Can only the New World Order save America from the Chinese?

Economists Forecast China to overtake U.S. Economy Soon

Though the U.S. still has the world's leading economy, worth $14.6 trillion in 2010, that could soon be history!

China has 1.3 billion people! That's more than four times America’s population. China actually gives birth to more babies each year than Canada has people, and that’s after China’s  jìhuà shengyù zhèngcè policy, allowing the Chinese only one child per family.

A new television ad about the U.S. national debt produced by Citizens Against Government Waste has been deemed “too controversial” by major networks including ABC, A&E and The History Channel and will not be shown on those channels. The commercial is to honor the 1986 “The Deficit Trials” ad that was also banned by the major networks. 

Apparently telling the truth about the national debt is a little too “hot” for the major networks to handle.  But perhaps it is time to tell the American people the truth.  In 1986, the U.S. national debt was around 2 trillion dollars.  Today, it is rapidly approaching 14 trillion dollars. The American Dream is being ripped apart right in front of our eyes, but apparently some of the major networks don’t want the American people to really understand what is going on.

The ad does not even have anything offensive in it. The commercial is set in the year 2030, with the main character a Chinese professor lecturing his students on the fall of great empires. With images of the United States on a screen behind him, the Chinese professor tells his students, “they all make the same mistakes. Turning their backs on the principles that made them great. America tried to spend and tax itself out of a great recession. Enormous so-called “stimulus” spending, massive changes to health care, government takeover of private industries, and crushing debt.” 

Maybe it is the truth the Chinese Professor reveals next that is offending the big networks: “Of course, we owned most of their debt, so now they work for us”.

So is this television commercial offensive? Watch it below and decide for yourself….

1,814,473 views already, by 4/11/11 

Month after month, thousands of jobs and billions of dollars gets transferred permanently from the United States to China.

In 1985, the U.S. trade deficit with China was 6 million dollars for the entire year.  In the month of August alone, the U.S. trade deficit with China was over 28 billion dollars.

China has become an economic Superpower, growing its GDP by about 10% per year. Not long ago China passed Germany as the world's third largest econmy, this year, China passed Japan to become the world’s second largest economy, after the U.S.

World Bank's chief economist, Justin Lin said China has the potential to overtake the U.S. and become the world's largest economy in about 20 years time. There are many others (including myself) who believe this will happen much sooner.

The Chinese government has accumulated hundreds of billions of excess dollars, and U.S. government officials now regularly make trips over there to beg them to keep lending more money to our government so that we can continue to go on living far beyond our means.

But the borrower always ends up as the servant of the lender, and we are rapidly becoming the servants of the Chinese.

China is accomplishing this by openly manipulating currency rates, by allowing their population to be paid slave labor wages and by putting up unfair barriers to U.S. goods.

And our politicians are letting them get away with it. In fact, one prominent economist is now projecting that the Chinese economy will be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2040.

But it did not have to be this way. We did not have to merge the U.S. economy into a globalized one-world economy where U.S. workers are put in direct competition for jobs with millions of Chinese workers that make less than a dollar per hour.

Factories, wealth and jobs are leaving the United States at a blinding pace.  Since 2001, approximately 42,400 American factories have closed their doors.

America is being deindustrialized, and the sad thing is that most Americans do not even realize that it is a major problem. As of the end of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in manufacturing.  The last time that less than 12 million Americans were employed in manufacturing was in 1941.

Today, the United States spends about $3.90 on Chinese goods for every $1 that China spends on goods from the United States.

Meanwhile, formerly great American manufacturing cities such as Detroit now look like post-apocalyptic war zones.

But this is just the beginning of the end for America. China is also on track to outstrip the U.S. in scientific research activity over the next two years, according to a Royal Society report.

A Market Watch report picks out China as leading the 'Bric' pack of emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, India and others) in catching up with and, in the case of China, superseding traditional scientific leaders the U.S., Western Europe and Japan on various running tracks of the scientific landscape.

China will overtake the global share of published research articles in 2013, according to the report, Knowledge, Networks and Nations, published recently.

China will also become a global cultural leader, already for the first time in the auction world, China topped the United States and the United Kingdom as the biggest seller of art last year. Chinese public auctions in 2010 accounted for 33% of worldwide global fine art sales, while American houses sold 30% and UK 19 %. AllGov

China is winning and we are losing 

It almost looks as if The New World Order may be the only thing that could save Americam, Europe and the rest of Western Civilization from the Chinese threat. I'm sure the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Warburgs and the other major international bankers, as well as western societies most esteemed scientists, researchers and cultural leaders are scrambling to prevent this from happening. In case you haven't noticed, the NWO does not include any Chinese, Japanese, Korean or any other Asian members.

So which would be worse? Being controlled by the Chinese or the NWO? Maybe the NWO is counting on our fear of the Chinese to get our approval and support?

So what do you think?  Please leave your opinion via a comment down bellow.

Edited By: Tom Retterbush

Tomorrow on Conspiracy Watch, The Chinese Takeover of America, comming Thursday, April 13, 2011.

Sources

Bankergate and the NWO (defendfreedomsite.org)

The Television Commercial About The National Debt That Is Being Banned By Major Networks (Prison Planet)

10 Best New World Order Videos

The New World Order has gone from being an obscure Conspiracy Theory to being in daily Mainstream Media

The New World Order has become everyday news media with over 110 million Google generic search results and 384 thousand YouTube videos.


When I did an Internet search for the "New World Order", Google gave me 110,000,000 (110 million!) results. When I did a search for "New World Order" videos, YouTube named 384,000 (384 thousand!) videos. So either there are a lot of people being fooled about this New Order, or there is something to it.

I seriously doubt that you have the time, much less the interest, in watching this many videos, reading this many articles or visiting this many websites devoted to the New World Order, so I narrowed it down for you.

Bellow you will find the best 10 videos about the NWO, voted on by Conspiracy Watch readers. They were selected according to the amount of views they received, as well as production quality and information accuracy. Most of the videos are around 10 minutes long, with the exception of the last one, "Invisible Empire A New World Order Defined," which is a full length documentary movie of 2 hours and 14 minutes.
























I hope you have enjoyed the above videos, or at least learned something, so that you may decide for yourself as to if the NWO is real, is a real threat, or is mankind's salvation.

Please leave your opinions, feedback, or concerns in the form of a comment bellow.

Sources

YouTube, disclose.tv, vimeo.com

How Our Government is Tracking and Databasing Your Every Move

Big Brother is Watching

The war on terror and cybersecurity are excuses that have spurred huge investments into the surveillance industry, which has become a war on “liberty and privacy.”


The Obama administration has moved forward with a Bush regime program to screen state computer traffic on private-sector networks, including those connecting people to the Internet, The Washington Post revealed July 3.

That project, code-name "Einstein," is related to the much-larger, ongoing and highly illegal National Security Agency (NSA) communications intercept program known as "Stellar Wind," disclorure way back in 2005 by The New York Times. Einstein will be tied directly into giant NSA data bases fed by information streamed to the agency by the nation's telecommunications providers.

Stellar Wind includes several components, one of which is a massive data-mining project run by the agency.  The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth.

AT&T, in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the NSA will spearhead the aggressive new initiative by continuing to monitor the electronic communications of Americans, to detect malicious attacks launched against government web sites. Likely in part as a response to the Wikileaks fiasco which so embarrassed the US government.

This contradicts the President's Pledge, in which Obama said that the government will not continue Bush-era surveillance practices or include "monitoring private sector networks or Internet traffic." 

Named the "flagship of the system" in our surveillance state's cyber defense arsenal, The Wall Street Journal reports that Einstein is "designed to protect the U.S. government's computer networks from cyberspies." According to the Journal, Einstein is being developed in three stages:

Einstein 1: Monitors Internet traffic flowing in and out of federal civilian networks. Detects abnormalities that might be cyber attacks. Is unable to block attacks.

Einstein 2: In addition to looking for abnormalities, detects viruses and other indicators of attacks based on signatures of known incidents, and alerts analysts immediately. Also can't block attacks.

Einstein 3: Still under development, Einstein 3 is based on technology developed for a National Security Agency program called Tutelage. It is supposed to detect and deflect security breaches. Its filtering technology can read the content of your email and other communications.

As readers of Antifascist Calling have already known for some time, telecom grifters like AT&T are private-sector partners of the National Security Agency and continue to be a key players in the agency's driftnet spying on Americans' electronic communications. As long ago as 2006, the AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein revealed that AT&T's Internet traffic that runs through fiber-optic cables was routinely provided to the NSA, including a complete copy of the Internet traffic that AT&T receives such as email, web browsing sessions and other communications sent by AT&T customers.

New Technology makes Wiretapping Obsolete

Given all of the new monitoring technology being implemented, the uproar over warrantless wiretaps now seems pointless. The technology now available for tracking, tracing, and databasing makes wiretapping almost obsolete.

Governments, aided by private companies, are gathering a mountain of information on average citizens who so far seem willing to trade liberty for supposed security. Here are just some of the ways the data is being collected:

GPS

Global positioning chips are now appearing in everything from U.S. passports, cell phones, to cars. More common uses include tracking employees, and for all forms of private investigation. Apple recently announced they are collecting the precise location of iPhone users via GPS for public viewing in addition to spying on users in other ways.

Internet

Internet browsers are recording your every move forming detailed cookies on your activities. The NSA has been exposed as having cookies on their site that don’t expire until 2035. Major search engines know where you surfed last summer, and online purchases are databased, supposedly for advertising and customer service uses. IP addresses are collected and even made public. Controversial websites can be flagged internally by government sites, as well as re-routing all traffic to block sites the government wants to censor. It has now been fully admitted that social networks provide NO privacy to users, while technologies for real-time social network monitoring are already being used. The Cybersecurity Act attempts to legalize the collection and exploitation of your personal information. Apple’s iPhone also has browsing data recorded and stored. All of this despite the overwhelming opposition to cybersurveillance by citizens.

RFID

RFID — Forget your credit cards which are meticulously tracked, or the membership cards for things so insignificant as movie rentals which require your SSN. Everyone has Costco, CVS, grocery-chain cards, and a wallet or purse full of many more. RFID “proximity cards” take tracking to a new level in uses ranging from loyalty cards, student ID, physical access, and computer network access. Latest developments include an RFID powder developed by Hitachi, for which the multitude of uses are endless — perhaps including tracking hard currency so we can’t even keep cash undetected. (Also see microchips below).

Traffic Cameras

License plate recognition has been used to remotely automate duties of the traffic police in the United States, but have been proven to have dual use in England such as to mark activists under the Terrorism Act. Perhaps the most common use will be to raise money and shore up budget deficits via traffic violations, but uses may descend to such “Big Brother” tactics as monitors telling pedestrians not to litter as talking cameras already do in the UK.

Computer Cameras and Microphones

The fact that laptops, contributed by taxpayers, spied on public school children (at home) is outrageous. Years ago Google began officially to use computer “audio fingerprinting” for advertising uses. They have admitted to working with the NSA, the premier surveillance network in the world. Private communications companies already have been exposed routing communications to the NSA. Now, keyword tools — typed and spoken — link to the global security matrix.

Public Sound Surveillance

This technology has come a long way from only being able to detect gunshots in public areas, to now listening in to whispers for dangerous “keywords.” This technology has been launched in Europe to “monitor conversations” to detect “verbal aggression” in public places. Sound Intelligence is the manufacturer of technology to analyze speech, and their website touts how it can easily be integrated into other systems.

Biometrics

The most popular biometric authentication scheme employed for the last few years has been Iris Recognition. The main applications are entry control, ATMs and Government programs. Recently, network companies and governments have utilized biometric authentication including fingerprint analysis, iris recognition, voice recognition, or combinations of these for use in National Identification Cards.

DNA

The DNA in the blood from babies has been taken for all people under the age of 38. In England, DNA was sent to secret databases from routine heel prick tests. Several reports have revealed covert Pentagon databases of DNA for “terrorists” and now DNA from all American citizens is databased. Digital DNA is now being used as well to combat hackers.

Microchips

Microsoft’s HealthVault and VeriMed partnership is to create RFID implantable microchips. Microchips for tracking our precious pets is becoming commonplace and serves to condition us to accept putting them in our children in the future. The FDA has already approved this technology for humans and is marketing it as a medical miracle, again for our safety.

Facial Recognition

Anonymity in public is over. Admittedly used at Obama’s campaign events, sporting events, and most recently at the G8/G20 protests in Canada. This technology is also harvesting data from Facebook images and surely will be tied into the street “traffic” cameras.

Digital Television

Did you know that with digital TV, the technology exists for them to watch you through that same TV? Yes, they could be watching your very living room! They could even watch your bedroom, should you be amongst the majority of Americans who also have a TV in front of their bed. I'm not saying that they are doing this. I'm just making you aware that the technology is already there for them to do so if they wanted to. Who is to say that someday in the future they won't? Or that some rogue agent or sick pervert somewhere in the middle of this info chain isn't already doing so?

All of this is leading to Predictive Behavior Technology — It is not enough to have logged and charted where we have been; the surveillance state wants to know where we are going through psychological profiling. It’s been marketed for such uses as blocking hackers. Things seem to have advanced to a point where a truly scientific Orwellian world is at hand. It is estimated that computers know to a 93% accuracy where you will be, before you make your first move. Nanotech is slated to play a big role in going even further as scientists are using nanoparticles to directly influence behavior and decision making.

What Happens Next?

But what happens next, after the data is processed and catalogued by the agency is little understood. Programs such as Einstein will provide NSA with the ability to read and decipher the content of email messages, any and all messages in real-time.

While DHS claims that "the new program will scrutinize only data going to or from government systems," the Post reports that a debate has been sparked within the agency over "uncertainty about whether private data can be shielded from unauthorized scrutiny, how much of a role NSA should play and whether the agency's involvement in warrantless wiretapping during George W. Bush's presidency would draw controversy."

A "Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) for EINSTEIN 2" issued by DHS in May 2008, claims the system is interested in "malicious activity" and not personally identifiable information flowing into federal networks.

While DHS claims that "the risk associated with the use of this computer network security intrusion detection system is actually lower than the risk generated by using a commercially available intrusion detection system," this assertion is undercut when the agency states, "Internet users have no expectation of privacy in the to/from address of their messages or the IP addresses of the sites they visit."

When Einstein 3 is eventually rolled-out, Internet users similarly will "have no expectation of privacy" when it comes to the content of their communications.

While the total cost of rolling-out the Einstein 3 system is classified, The Wall Street Journal reports that "the price tag was expected to exceed $2 billion." And it is the American people who are footing the bill for the destruction of our democratic rights during the middle of a budget crisis, even while programs for the welfare of veterans, college students, pregnant mothers and the poor are being cut.

Do you believe we need this type of surveillance and data collection by our government? Do you believe it is more important we fund these types of surveillance programs versus social programs essential for the welfare of our most deserving as well as our most unfortunate citizens?

This is just the beginning. Big Brother has just realized the potential and possibilities open to their surveillance. Governments like those of the US, UK and other modern western societies will not let happen to them what happened to Gaddafi in Libya. They have the technology to spot and stop troublemakers, instigators and revolutionaries before it gets out of their control.

Written By: Tom Retterbush
Updated: 5-9-12
Email: tomretterbush@gmail.com

Sources

Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts (nytimes.com)

Cybersecurity Plan to Involve NSA, Telecoms (washingtonpost.com)

Big Brother is Watching You: Pervasive Surveillance Under Obama (globalresearch.ca)

New World Order calls for Global Electronic Identity Card System

The next step in the New World Order Agenda: INTERPOL chief calls for global electronic e-ID identity card system

Electronic ID cards have made alarming progress towards becoming universal, globally around the world.

Already, over 2.2 billion people, or 33% of the world’s population, have been issued with ‘smart’ ID cards. Of those, over 900 million have biometric facial and fingerprint systems. 

On present plans, over 85% of the world’s population will have smart ID cards by 2012. Most of the remaining population won’t have escaped - largely, they are already enrolled in earlier generation ID systems, often in repressive states, such as Burma.

According to a new technical market research report, the global market for smart ID cards was valued at $4.7 billion in 2011, and is projected to reach nearly $5.1 billion in 2012 and nearly $7.3 billion in 2017, which amounts to a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.4%.

The market for smart cards can be broken down into three categories by type: contact, contactless, and dual interface.

Contact cards are projected to account for 4.5 billion units, contactless cards are estimated to account for nearly 1.4 billion units and dual-interface cards should account for 922 million units in 2012.

The smart cards market continues to grow as an increasing number of corporate and government agencies adopt smart cards to improve security and flexibility. Smart cards have become an integral part of the economy, serving various sectors and industries around the world. A majority of the world population may not be aware of what a smart card is, but is using multiple smart cards several times a day.

Growing mobile demand, an increase in initiatives for automated healthcare systems, government initiatives for national ID cards, and an increased effort in Europay, MasterCard, Visa (EMV) compliance are fueling the demand for smart cards worldwide.

Understandably, campaigns against the introduction of ID cards have tended to play up the problems with ID systems, presenting them as being unworkable and creating unmanageable problems with privacy invasion, fraud, unauthorized database access, organized crime, reliability of biometric recognition, etc.. As a result, a substantial number of people believe mandatory ID cards ‘just won’t happen’.

However, now the head of INTERPOL (the "International FBI") has emphasized the need for a globally verifiable electronic identity card (e-ID) system for migrant workers at an international forum on citizen ID projects, e-passports, and border control management which falls in step with the agenda of the New World Order, which has been promoting a global ID to fit in with their plans for a global economy and one world government.

Speaking at the fourth Annual EMEA ID WORLD summit, INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble, a known supporter and possible member of the New World Order, said that regulating migration levels and managing borders presented security challenges for countries and for the world that INTERPOL was ideally-placed to help address.

"At a time when global migration is reaching record levels, there is a need for governments to put in place systems at the national level that would permit the identity of migrants and their documents to be verified internationally via INTERPOL," said Secretary General Noble.

"The vast majority of migrants are law-abiding citizens who would like to have their identities verified in more than one country using the same identity document. If countries were to issue work and residence permits in an e-ID format that satisfied common standards internationally, then both the migrant workers and the countries themselves would benefit because efficiencies would improve, security at the national and global level would improve and corruption would be reduced."

"INTERPOL currently helps member countries screen travel documents of international air travelers approximately one-half a billion times a year. It would be a natural extension of this service to assist member countries in determining whether bearers of a globally verified identity card were in possession of a valid identity document or are wanted internationally for arrest via INTERPOL at the time that they applied for a work or residence permit,” added the INTERPOL Chief.

What Secretary Noble failed to mention, was that he was pitching INTERPOL to become the new "Global F.B.I.", as a worldwide police force and investigative bureau.

Not only is Secretary Noble campaigning for the global electronic ID, Neelie Kroes, the EU’s Digital Agenda Commissioner, recently presented a new legislative proposal which aims “to facilitate cross-border electronic transactions” through the adoption of harmonized e-signatures, e-identities and electronic authentication services (eIAS) across EU member states, according to an internal document seen by EurActiv.

“A clear regulatory environment for eIAS would boost user convenience, trust and confidence in the digital world,” reads the paper. “This will increase the availability of cross-border and cross-sector eIAS and stimulate the take up of cross-border electronic transactions in all sectors.”

Brussels has long been trying to facilitate the emergence of a parallel system of electronic identification, on top of real-world documents. This has been linked more to the struggle for establishing a truly functioning single market, rather than security.

The ID WORLD forum heard that such a card required developing a mechanism whereby the biometric identity features of migrants, such as fingerprints and DNA, would be checked systematically against global databases. Once an individual has been assigned a unique index number, it is possible to accurately retrieve data across numerous databases and build a picture of that individual's life that was not authorized in the original consent for data collection.

The aim of ID cards is to create a detailed digital record of everywhere you go, everything you do. Their goal is to continuously track the movements of every person, place and thing of relevance.

It’s time to look at what ID systems are really intended to do, not the public justification. Since governments probably always knew that ID cards wouldn’t stop terrorism, organized crime, ID theft, fraud, etc., there has to be some other reason for their introduction - and it appears to be a reason that governments don‘t want to own up to, in public.

There has been hardly any meaningful debate about one of the biggest issues of our time. Most ordinary people don’t like the idea, but project goes ahead anyway.

What stands out from this survey, unreliable as it may be, is that advanced electronic ID card systems are coming to some of the poorest nations in the world, some in chaos, civil war, starvation, the smallest and the largest.

They are coming to nations with vastly divergent cultures, to nations that are almost completely pre-industrialised and underdeveloped, and coming first to almost all Islamic nations. The few nations that will not have advanced electronic population registration will be in a tiny minority. This is all to happen by the end of 2012.

For example, on 25 June 2009, India announced that it was pressing ahead with universal biometric ID cards, to be completed by 2011 - to register nearly 1.2 billion people within just 18 months.

One of the few places that definitely isn't introducing smart ID cards is Myanmar (Burma), because they are getting along fine with their present ID card - apparently it is efficient enough for the repression they have in hand. The UN tried to convince them to upgrade their cards, but they wouldn't do it.

There are grey areas, for example, in some states there are biometric ID cards for voter registration, which aren't officially national ID cards, but nonetheless have registered the population, e.g. in Mozambique and Zambia. ‘Election cards’ tend to become national ID cards, immediately after the election, as in Haiti. (How did introducing ID cards get linked to ‘bringing in democracy‘?)

USA would probably come in the grey area, due to the uncertainty (deliberately not clarified) about the REAL ID Act, Canada, due to proposals for biometric ‘enhanced drivers licenses’, Australia, due to the uncertain status of the ‘Access Card’.

Any uncertainty gets put into perspective by the ‘big picture’, that ID cards are coming, almost everywhere.

The simultaneous introduction of very similar ID card systems in so many nations seems like more than a coincidence. If this was purely a matter of nations taking their own initiative to upgrade systems, it would happen over a longer timetable, as nations periodically updated systems, once every couple of decades. Does this timetable indicate unseen international pressure applied to nations, to adopt ID cards?

In the process of researching the list, something interesting came out - the plans to introduce a national ID card system in Uganda were announced in a memorandum of understanding sent to the IMF ('Letter of Intent, Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies, and Technical Memorandum of Understanding'). The impression is, the IMF were involved in the decision long before the people of Uganda were consulted about their national ID card scheme.

Has the IMF required nations to adopt biometric ID cards, on the pretext of financial regulation, preventing fraud and money laundering? It would be interesting to know.

Again and again, in the public description of the alleged benefits of biometric ID systems, the reasons given include the benefit to the banking system, in preventing fraud, and allowing the poor to have access to the banking system. Several nations (e.g. India) have mentioned the need to confirm that aid gets to intended recipients, and not lost in fraud - again, something which a body such as the IMF might see as a justifiable reason to promote or require biometric ID. Other people would see this as a mere pretext for ‘policy laundering’.

In a different example of Western promotion, the EU has financially sponsored the introduction of biometric ID cards in the D.R. of Congo, allegedly to help promote peace, by tracking down ex-soldiers and ex-fighters. A similar logic has been applied to a biometric scheme in Somalia.

Grotesquely, biometric ID cards are coming to Rwanda. ID cards were a major tool in the genocide in Rwanda. Imagine how much more effective the genocide could have been with a computerised population register, and an ID system with biometrics, to prevent fraud or evasion. Rwanda is an horrific illustration of how lethal ID cards can be, in a nation in civil war, and raises uncomfortable questions about Western involvement, as does Congo.

United States, Britain and the EU

The worldwide introduction of ID cards is merely the visible witness of an invisible process. Policies that profoundly affect our lives and take away our freedoms are worked out in secret international deals.

In July 2005, during its six month rotation as Presidency of the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom introduced a proposal for biometric ID cards for the EU, despite there being no power to do so under the treaties of the EU at that time. Legalities being no obstacle, this subsequently evolved into binding EU policy, in the Hague Programme on Justice and Security.

However, policies introducing ID cards, evolved in secret, go far beyond identification and security, as described by Tony Bunyan of Statewatch, in an article in The Guardian. ID cards are only one tool, enabling a much larger scheme, to track and record the lives of every individual; Bunyan calls this the digital tsunami: "Every object the individual uses, every transaction they make and almost everywhere they go will create a detailed digital record. This will generate a wealth of information for public security organizations", leading to behavior being predicted and assessed by "machines" (their term) which will issue orders to officers on the spot. The proposal presages the mass gathering of personal data on travel, bank details, mobile phone locations, health records, internet usage, criminal records however minor, fingerprints and digital pictures that can be data-mined and applied to different scenario – boarding a plane, behavior on the Tube or taking part in a protest.

But this isn’t just coming to Europe, as Bunyan explains, because USA and Europe will share similar policies and practices, in an agenda of policy harmonization… it is proposed that by 2014 the EU needs to create a "Euro-Atlantic area of cooperation with the USA in the field of freedom, security and justice". This would go far beyond current co-operation and mean that policies affecting the liberties and rights of everyone in Europe would not be determined in London or Brussels but in secret EU-US meetings.

Soon, they will be able to read the serial number in your national ID card and governments are going to sell ID confirmation, to cross-reference the serial number on your ID card with your name and address. Stores spend a lot of money acquiring data, so knowing customers’ names and addresses, with certainty, has really got to be worth something. Customers will no longer be able to hide their identities, or give false names on loyalty cards.

By enabling widespread tracking and profiling, could ID systems herald a corporate culture of conformity, enforced by redundancy for those who don’t fit the right profile?

Does this really sound like freedom, liberty or democracy, as we used to know it? Or is it beginning to sound more like what you would expect from the New World Order, globalization and control?

Political philosopher and emeritus professor of Princeton University, Sheldon S. Wolin, has warned of the danger of “Inverted totalitarianism,” as he calls it , which “lies in wielding total power without appearing to, without establishing concentration camps, or enforcing ideological uniformity,  or forcibly suppressing dissident elements so long as they remain ineffectual.” “...democracy can be managed without appearing to be suppressed.”

What reason have they to be so paranoid about us? Why do all have to be watched? What are they looking for? What’s wrong with their heads, that they need to place us all under suspicion and treat us all like criminals? Why are they so misanthropic? Why are ordinary people so dangerous and threatening?

What kind of mind and personality would want such a thing? Wouldn’t you have to be disturbed to want this? The worldwide ID database and surveillance project has only progressed this far because of lack of public awareness.



Exposing the mind-set of the people implementing this scheme.

Though I am talking about the globally verifiable electronic identity card (e-ID) system, we must begin by fighting the New World Order as a whole. The NWO is an enemy of democracy, freedom, the middle class and the poor.

It‘s time to raise this issue, at every opportunity, to get people thinking about the direction of public policy. Public awareness is vital. We have to draw attention to what’s going on.

I believe that once the public recognizes this, they won't like it - it’s just they don’t know or they don't know what to do, because no-one is offering any alternative.

Some groups have been looking for more effective alternatives. For example, CASPIAN has been fighting corporate data-gathering via consumer protests and boycotts. It’s a strategy that has been successful - international corporate giants fear consumers and hate bad publicity. Legislators are more inclined to listen to someone successfully hurting their corporate sponsors. In capitalism, sometimes we have more power as consumers than as voters.

Don’t use cards, use cash. Try not to leave a digital record. Tell your family, friends and everyone you know about this.

Its time to take a stand!

How do you feel about a globally verifiable electronic identity card (e-ID) system? Do you believe they are going to use it for the good of society or as a means of control?

Conspiracy Watch readers would love to read all about your point of view, so please leave a comment down bellow.

Written By:  Tom Retterbush
Email: tomretterbush@gmail.com
Updated: 7-27-2012

Sources

ID Cards - a World View (globalresearch.ca)
Journal of E-Government Studies and Best Practices (ibimapublishing.com)

Interpol chief calls for global electronic identity card system (net-security.org)