Timeline merchants of death - Revision history

Lilith2 at 20:20, 10 June 2015

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Lilith2 at 06:03, 9 June 2015

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Lilith2: /* The CIA’s new black bag is digital */

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‎The CIA’s new black bag is digital

Lilith2: /* ATT: A historic and momentous failure */

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‎ATT: A historic and momentous failure

Lilith2 at 18:36, 5 June 2015

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Lilith2 at 17:52, 5 June 2015

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Lilith2 at 17:32, 5 June 2015

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Lilith2: /* It's not just the oil, stupid! */

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‎It's not just the oil, stupid!

Lilith2 at 09:26, 4 June 2015

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 Over the past decade specially-trained CIA clandestine operators have mounted over one hundred extremely sensitive black bag jobs designed to penetrate foreign government and military communications and computer systems, as well as the computer systems of some of the world’s largest foreign multinational corporations. Spyware software has been secretly planted in computer servers; secure telephone lines have been bugged; fiber optic cables, data switching centers and telephone exchanges have been tapped; and computer backup tapes and disks have been stolen or surreptitiously copied in these operations. In other words, the CIA has become instrumental in setting up the shadowy surveillance dragnet that has now been thrown into public view. Sources within the U.S. intelligence community confirm that since 9/11, CIA clandestine operations have given the NSA access to a number of new and critically important targets around the world, especially in China and elsewhere in East Asia, as well as the Middle East, the Near East, and South Asia. (I’m not aware of any such operations here on U.S. soil.) <ref>Foreign policy: The CIA’s New Black Bag Is Digital http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/17/the-cias-new-black-bag-is-digital/
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 This page contains links gathered and shared by anonymii over four years (crowdsourced as it were) on "things": told and leaked stories and whistle spit.  People and communities use stories to understand the world and our place in it. These stories are embedded with power - the power to explain and justify the status quo as well as the power to make change imaginable and urgent. A narrative analysis of power encourages us to ask: Which stories define cultural norms? Where did these stories come from? Whose stories were ignored or erased to create these norms? And, most urgently, what new stories can we tell to help create the world we desire?
-This timeline serves awareness of the power of storytelling, retrospective exercises (''connecting dots''), further research and investigation, propaganda exercises (''detecting and shredding fallacious arguments''), threat modeling (''"quick and dirty" requires foundation''), finding moves aiding survival of the greatest scope of life to a greater degree than any associated destruction, and other weird stuff like that, so if you add a story, we love it![[File:Andy-flowchart.jpg|476px|thumb|right|http://www.andysinger.com/]]
+This timeline serves awareness of the power of storytelling, retrospective exercises (''connecting dots''), further research and investigation, propaganda exercises (''detecting and shredding fallacious arguments''), threat modeling (''"quick and dirty" requires foundation''), finding moves aiding survival of the greatest scope of life to a greater degree than any associated destruction, and other weird stuff like that, so if you add a story, we love it!
 == Merchants of Death ==

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 === Behind a mining monopoly ===
 Beneath Canada’s mines in Latin America lies an unregulated industry: Canadian companies control a majority of Latin American mining. Activists say those companies are polluting and violating indigenous rights. <ref>AlJazeera: Behind a mining monopoly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaVarMR1v2M</ref>
 === Tar sands refineries put communities at risk ===
-Communities living next to tar sands refineries suffer from more intense sulfur dioxide pollution because of the extremely high sulfur content of tar sands refinery feed stocks, according to a new report by ForestEthics, an environmental organization. Sulfur dioxide pollution is associated with a wide variety of human health problems, including asthma and heart disease.
+September 17, 2012: Communities living next to tar sands refineries suffer from more intense sulfur dioxide pollution because of the extremely high sulfur content of tar sands refinery feed stocks, according to a new report by ForestEthics, an environmental organization. Sulfur dioxide pollution is associated with a wide variety of human health problems, including asthma and heart disease.
 ''"The growing use of Canada’s tar sands by U.S. refineries adds another health risk to those already being faced by some of the most disadvantaged communities in the United States"'', said Aaron Sanger, U.S. Campaigns Director at ForestEthics and author of the report.  <ref>Health of U.S. Refinery Communities At Risk from Tar Sands http://www.forestethics.org/news/refineries-report-press-release</ref>

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 July 17, 2013: The CIA’s clandestine service is now conducting these sorts of black bag operations on behalf of the NSA, but at a tempo not seen since the height of the Cold War. Moreover, these missions, as well as a series of parallel signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection operations conducted by the CIA’s Office of Technical Collection, have proven to be instrumental in facilitating and improving the NSA’s SIGINT collection efforts in the years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
-Over the past decade specially-trained CIA clandestine operators have mounted over one hundred extremely sensitive black bag jobs designed to penetrate foreign government and military communications and computer systems, as well as the computer systems of some of the world’s largest foreign multinational corporations. Spyware software has been secretly planted in computer servers; secure telephone lines have been bugged; fiber optic cables, data switching centers and telephone exchanges have been tapped; and computer backup tapes and disks have been stolen or surreptitiously copied in these operations. <nowiki> </nowiki>In other words, the CIA has become instrumental in setting up the shadowy surveillance dragnet that has now been thrown into public view. Sources within the U.S. intelligence community confirm that since 9/11, CIA clandestine operations have given the NSA access to a number of new and critically important targets around the world, especially in China and elsewhere in East Asia, as well as the Middle East, the Near East, and South Asia. (I’m not aware of any such operations here on U.S. soil.) <ref>Foreign policy: The CIA’s New Black Bag Is Digital http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/17/the-cias-new-black-bag-is-digital/
+Over the past decade specially-trained CIA clandestine operators have mounted over one hundred extremely sensitive black bag jobs designed to penetrate foreign government and military communications and computer systems, as well as the computer systems of some of the world’s largest foreign multinational corporations. Spyware software has been secretly planted in computer servers; secure telephone lines have been bugged; fiber optic cables, data switching centers and telephone exchanges have been tapped; and computer backup tapes and disks have been stolen or surreptitiously copied in these operations. In other words, the CIA has become instrumental in setting up the shadowy surveillance dragnet that has now been thrown into public view. Sources within the U.S. intelligence community confirm that since 9/11, CIA clandestine operations have given the NSA access to a number of new and critically important targets around the world, especially in China and elsewhere in East Asia, as well as the Middle East, the Near East, and South Asia. (I’m not aware of any such operations here on U.S. soil.) <ref>Foreign policy: The CIA’s New Black Bag Is Digital http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/17/the-cias-new-black-bag-is-digital/
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	April 2013: ''Earlier this month, the UN’s adoption of an Arms Trade Treaty was celebrated as a historic success by Amnesty and Oxfam. Yet many campaigners now believe it could do more harm than good. Kirk Jackson reveals how a treaty that never seriously threatened the arms trade was critically weakened at the UN, and how it could actually benefit the arms industry and powerful arms-selling states. [...] Notwithstanding its rhetoric about saving lives and reducing human suffering, the UK government is motivated by concerns different to those of Amnesty and Oxfam. In particular, the government has the commercial interests of arms companies at heart, and believes that the ATT will actually be “good for business, both manufacturing and export sales.” ''<ref>The Arms Trade Treaty: A historic and momentous failure https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/failure-arms-trade-treaty/</ref>		April 2013: ''Earlier this month, the UN’s adoption of an Arms Trade Treaty was celebrated as a historic success by Amnesty and Oxfam. Yet many campaigners now believe it could do more harm than good. Kirk Jackson reveals how a treaty that never seriously threatened the arms trade was critically weakened at the UN, and how it could actually benefit the arms industry and powerful arms-selling states. [...] Notwithstanding its rhetoric about saving lives and reducing human suffering, the UK government is motivated by concerns different to those of Amnesty and Oxfam. In particular, the government has the commercial interests of arms companies at heart, and believes that the ATT will actually be “good for business, both manufacturing and export sales.” ''<ref>The Arms Trade Treaty: A historic and momentous failure https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/failure-arms-trade-treaty/</ref>
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		+	== The CIA’s new black bag is digital ==
		+	July 17, 2013: The CIA’s clandestine service is now conducting these sorts of black bag operations on behalf of the NSA, but at a tempo not seen since the height of the Cold War. Moreover, these missions, as well as a series of parallel signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection operations conducted by the CIA’s Office of Technical Collection, have proven to be instrumental in facilitating and improving the NSA’s SIGINT collection efforts in the years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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		+	Over the past decade specially-trained CIA clandestine operators have mounted over one hundred extremely sensitive black bag jobs designed to penetrate foreign government and military communications and computer systems, as well as the computer systems of some of the world’s largest foreign multinational corporations. Spyware software has been secretly planted in computer servers; secure telephone lines have been bugged; fiber optic cables, data switching centers and telephone exchanges have been tapped; and computer backup tapes and disks have been stolen or surreptitiously copied in these operations. <nowiki> </nowiki>In other words, the CIA has become instrumental in setting up the shadowy surveillance dragnet that has now been thrown into public view. Sources within the U.S. intelligence community confirm that since 9/11, CIA clandestine operations have given the NSA access to a number of new and critically important targets around the world, especially in China and elsewhere in East Asia, as well as the Middle East, the Near East, and South Asia. (I’m not aware of any such operations here on U.S. soil.) <ref>Foreign policy: The CIA’s New Black Bag Is Digital http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/17/the-cias-new-black-bag-is-digital/
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	== Meanwhile in greece ==		== Meanwhile in greece ==

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 ''It provides cover for the argument that "we"–invariably some mix of Western nations, perhaps with UN cover–must intervene to stop this irrational ethnic murder. This argument is a repackaged version of the same racist excuses given for European powers’ conquest and colonization of Africa in the late 19th century–that is, to "civilize" the continent. Any prospect of resolving the Congo war requires a much different framework–one that doesn’t look to the architects of the crisis to solve it.'' <ref>What’s Behind the Killing in Central Africa? Ignoring the World's Bloodiest War What's Behind the Killing in Central Africa? http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/06/17/what-s-behind-the-killing-in-central-africa/</ref>
 === US military's growing role in africa ===
-''The United States is stepping up its military activity in Africa in an effort to combat terrorism and protect vital oil reserves off Africa's west coast. ''
+October 2004, ''The United States is stepping up its military activity in Africa in an effort to combat terrorism and protect vital oil reserves off Africa's west coast. ''
 ''The U.S. military has been leery of the continent ever since the debacle a decade ago in Somalia, when 18 American peacekeepers were killed in Mogadishu. Officials say they are now trying to train African armies to keep the peace and promote stability on the continent so U.S. troops won't have to. ''<ref>The U.S. Military's Growing Role in Africa http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4079474

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	This page contains links gathered and shared by anonymii over four years (crowdsourced as it were) on "things", told and leaked stories and whistle spit, for further investigation into and analysis of "things" to find (counter) moves healthy for self, life, and others, '''moves aiding survival of the greatest scope of life to a greater degree than any associated destruction'''.		This page contains links gathered and shared by anonymii over four years (crowdsourced as it were) on "things", told and leaked stories and whistle spit, for further investigation into and analysis of "things" to find (counter) moves healthy for self, life, and others, '''moves aiding survival of the greatest scope of life to a greater degree than any associated destruction'''.
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	== Merchants of Death ==		== Merchants of Death ==