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wtf? anyone hear about this??
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In the greatest surveillance effort ever established, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has created a global spy system, codename ECHELON, which captures and analyzes virtually every phone call, fax, email and telex message sent anywhere in the world. ECHELON is controlled by the NSA and is operated in conjunction with the Government Communications Head Quarters (GCHQ) of England, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) of Canada, the Australian Defense Security Directorate (DSD), and the General Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) of New Zealand. These organizations are bound together under a secret 1948 agreement, UKUSA, whose terms and text remain under wraps even today.
The ECHELON system is fairly simple in design: position intercept stations all over the world to capture all satellite, microwave, cellular and fiber-optic communications traffic, and then process this information through the massive computer capabilities of the NSA, including advanced voice recognition and optical character recognition (OCR) programs, and look for code words or phrases (known as the ECHELON “Dictionary”) that will prompt the computers to flag the message for recording and transcribing for future analysis. Intelligence analysts at each of the respective “listening stations” maintain separate keyword lists for them to analyze any conversation or document flagged by the system, which is then forwarded to the respective intelligence agency headquarters that requested the intercept.
But apart from directing their ears towards terrorists and rogue states, ECHELON is also being used for purposes well outside its original mission. The regular discovery of domestic surveillance targeted at American civilians for reasons of “unpopular” political affiliation or for no probable cause at all in violation of the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution – are consistently impeded by very elaborate and complex legal arguments and privilege claims by the intelligence agencies and the US government. The guardians and caretakers of our liberties, our duly elected political representatives, give scarce attention to these activities, let alone the abuses that occur under their watch. Among the activities that the ECHELON targets are:
Political spying: Since the close of World War II, the US intelligence agencies have developed a consistent record of trampling the rights and liberties of the American people. Even after the investigations into the domestic and political surveillance activities of the agencies that followed in the wake of the Watergate fiasco, the NSA continues to target the political activity of “unpopular” political groups and our duly elected representatives. One whistleblower charged in a 1988 Cleveland Plain Dealer interview that, while she was stationed at the Menwith Hill facility in the 1980s, she heard real-time intercepts of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond. A former Maryland Congressman, Michael Barnes, claimed in a 1995 Baltimore Sun article that under the Reagan Administration his phone calls were regularly intercepted, which he discovered only after reporters had been passed transcripts of his conversations by the White House. One of the most shocking revelations came to light after several GCHQ officials became concerned about the targeting of peaceful political groups and told the London Observer in 1992 that the ECHELON dictionaries targeted Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and even Christian ministries.
Commercial espionage: Since the demise of Communism in Eastern Europe, the intelligence agencies have searched for a new justification for their surveillance capability in order to protect their prominence and their bloated budgets. Their solution was to redefine the notion of national security to include economic, commercial and corporate concerns. An office was created within the Department of Commerce, the Office of Intelligence Liaison, to forward intercepted materials to major US corporations. In many cases, the beneficiaries of this commercial espionage effort are the very companies that helped the NSA develop the systems that power the ECHELON network. This incestuous relationship is so strong that sometimes this intelligence information is used to push other American manufacturers out of deals in favor of these mammoth US defense and intelligence contractors, who frequently are the source of major cash contributions to both political parties.
While signals intelligence technology was helpful in containing and eventually defeating the Soviet Empire during the Cold War, what was once designed to target a select list of communist countries and terrorist states is now indiscriminately directed against virtually every citizen in the world. The European Parliament is now asking whether the ECHELON communications interceptions violate the sovereignty and privacy of citizens in other countries. In some cases, such as the NSA’s Menwith Hill station in England, surveillance is conducted against citizens on their own soil and with the full knowledge and cooperation of their government.
This report suggests that Congress pick up its long-neglected role as watchdog of the Constitutional rights and liberties of the American people, instead of its current role as lap dog to the US intelligence agencies. Congressional hearings ought to be held, similar to the Church and Rockefeller Committee hearings held in the mid-1970s, to find out to what extent the ECHELON system targets the personal, political, religious, and commercial communications of American citizens. The late Senator Frank Church warned that the technology and capability embodied in the ECHELON system represented a direct threat to the liberties of the American people. Left unchecked, ECHELON could be used by either the political elite or the intelligence agencies themselves as a tool to subvert the civil protections of Constitution and to destroy representative government in the United States.
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| Zenchowdah |
| heh.. ever play Deus Ex? |
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| Transporter |
| Nope sorry never heard of it ..:( :( |
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| Zenchowdah |
Deus Ex: The Conspiracy revolves entirely around this, Majestic 12 and the Illuminati.
Even if this stuff is true, your knowledge of it changes nothing. |
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| Zenchowdah |
| Oh, and im gonna be working for the NSA soon, so i can.. probably not tell you if any of this is true, but it will give me a nice giggle. :) |
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| AnotherWay83 |
| yeah, rumors of this have been going around for a very long time, and its prolly true...just do a google search for it |
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| Flyboy217 |
| Yeah, the EU issued a report on it. It's been going on for some time, and it certainly seems to be true. Spooky, ain't it? |
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| PVD & T[]C |
i heard about echelon a long time ago. yeah it is sorrounding all the conspiracies of the secret societies like the illuminati and the masons etc. havent you ever heard about the new world order... kind of nazilike. the UN is basically the start of it. SUPPOSEDLY its all a satan worshiping secret society made up of the biggest most powerful people on the face of the earth all working toward a one world government, such as the UN which will eventually take over the planet. If you have listened to alot of speaches by world leaders you have probably heard the mentioning of a new world order. I have heard it from both bushes, tony blair to name a few. Its been said that they will wipe out 2/3 of the earths population with a nuclear strike, WWIII or army against the people coalitions. Most of the people on their hitlist are christians etc to make it easier to take over and bring up an antichristian church and state. if thats true then damn i am glad im athiest. like look on the back of a US dollar bill. it says "novus ordo seclorum" which translates to new order of the ages or new world order. also look at the pyramid with the eye. that the eye of isis, or better known as the eye of lucifer. so basically the proof of a secret society planning on world domination is right there on the us currency.
also if you have ever heard of the bilderburg conference you would know about another rather secret thing going on. its a secret conference that goes on for, if my memory serves me right, three days. It has the most powerful businessmen and women and government officials that attend. its a top secret conference that i believe is held annually. Really high security... the works. basically all those that attend are sworn never to speak of what is said in the conference. i have heard a recording of a phone call to a hotel it was being held at and the woman from the hotel simply said that the hotel would be closed for the day for maitenence and wouldnt speak beyond that. There is a lot of other things that i cant remember but yeah, its all a conspiracy and echelon is another chapter.
do some research... its really interesting stuff. you can start here and here
warning: can be almost scary in some cases. You may be offended by some material. In either case, it is really interesting!!!
lastly... the last thing they want is for people to know about it, so learn and spread the word. its basically the only way to stop it... |
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| Mattsanity |
"In the greatest surveillance effort ever established, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has created a global spy system, codename ECHELON, which captures and analyzes virtually every phone call, fax, email and telex message sent anywhere in the world. "
WHO CARES. |
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| Zenchowdah |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mattsanity
"In the greatest surveillance effort ever established, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has created a global spy system, codename ECHELON, which captures and analyzes virtually every phone call, fax, email and telex message sent anywhere in the world. "
WHO CARES. |
our knowledge of it changes nothing :) |
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| Zenchowdah |
you want creepy?
check out www.illuminati.org
a few months ago, they had stuff so you could send em money n join.
no more, it seems.. |
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| PVD & T[]C |
| wow.. i went there and all it said was "we'll be seeing you soon".... creepy |
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