disinfo - In what may be the first of it’s kind in the nation, a group of 9/11 Truth activists organized, designed and paid for a commercial billboard in which 1,200 Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth invite the public to “Examine the Evidence.”The 24’(w) x 12’(h) billboard was installed sometime Thurs. afternoon, Aug. 5, 2010 on South Higuera, just south of Elks Lane in San Luis Obispo (near the Sutcliffe Cemetery). [MAP: http://tinyurl.com/24jcasv] where it will remain for 8 next weeks.
The activists who brought this matter to the people of San Luis Obispo County realize that the evidence they are attempting to share is difficult to digest but want to encourage the public to rise above their fear, take the Red Pill and learn the truth.
For if we do not, then we are telling our government that it is ok to murder 3000 of us so they can take us to war in the Middle East and kill hundreds of thousands more.
In order to understand the facts regarding the unprecedented total collapse of 3 modern, steel high rise buildings one has to be able to free themselves from preconceived notions in the face of evidence backed by fact and the laws of physics
The volumes of evidence include a peer reviewed paper published by an international team of scientists in which they describe discovering red chips of unignited thermite in all 4 samples of the World Trade Center dust that they tested. There has been no coverage of this paper in any of the mainstream press, including the so-called “Left” media. NIST (The National Institute of Standards and Technology) was tasked with explaining these 3 high rise failures and produced the reports that make the government’s case. But they have not responded to this paper either and have remained silent on many issues that the 9/11 Truth community has raised.
For more details about this highly charged issue please visit: http://www.ae911truth.org
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NOTE: I've looked at the evidence and concede that there are many discrepancies...especially where it relates to the Pentagon crash. Having said that, these billboards may or may not start to get the dialogue rolling again...but it will no doubt cause some controversy. If there was a conspiracy enabled by an entity within this or any other government then it needs to be brought out in the open...Lon
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Ahmadinejad Bans Assassination Reports
timeslive - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday denounced international media for their coverage of an alleged assassination attempt against him, state television reported.
“Somebody fired one of those firecrackers which have a colourful smoke as a sign of joy and you witnessed what the foreign media made out of this simple event,” he said in a ceremony marking national reporters’ day.
During a trip to the western city of Hamedan in western Iran, a minor explosion led to reports by some Arab media that there had been an assassination attempt against the president. Some Western news agencies also followed the same news line.
Official news agency IRNA dismissed the reports and said a young resident of Hamedan wanted to show his support for the president and “out of excitement” fired a firecracker “like in football stadiums.”
IRNA said first the Arab and then Western media “misused” the harmless incident for their own political purposes.
“The Western media then started a news wave claiming that a hand grenade was exploded, dozens were injured, the president survived the assassination attempt and was taken away from the venue with no news about his whereabouts,” Ahmadinejad said.
“Nothing had happened, it was just a firecracker, nobody even moved from his place and the people continued to show their enthusiasm (towards the president),” he added.
NOTE: What happens when the shit storm finally hits the Iranian government? I have had conversations with several Iranians in and out of Iran and the mood for social unrest is increasing everyday. My fear is that Ahmadinejad and the mullahs lay blame for the internal turmoil on the US and it's allies...making an attempt to justify use of WMDs...Lon
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Building Kim Jong-Il’s Cyber Army
venturebeat - It wouldn’t be that hard for North Korea to build a cyber army to take on the U.S. in a war fought only in cyberspace. North Korea has an estimated cyber war budget of $56 million, and the cheap way it could attack the U.S. is by herding a bunch of compromised computers to do its bidding.
That’s the assessment by Charlie Miller, a veteran computer security tester whose accomplishments include hacking Apple’s operating system and the iPhone. He spoke at the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas last week.
Miller gave his talk the humorous name: “Kim Jong-Il and Me: How to build a cyber army to defeat the U.S.” It drew a big crowd of hackers and security researchers. He imagined what would happen if he were kidnapped by Kim Jong-Il’s secret agents and forced to make war on the U.S. While he made a lot of jokes, the topic is a serious one. Miller gave a serious talk on the subject before a group of NATO officials a few months ago, and he has done computer penetration work for the National Security Agency in the past.
The substance of his talk was corroborated in part by Gen. Michael Hayden, the former director of national security, who said in a talk on Thursday at the Black Hat security conference that, “You built cyberspace like the north German plain, and then you bitch when you get invaded.” He meant that the advantage in cyberspace goes to the attacker.
During a war, the internet would be degraded. It would therefore be important to control lots of computers to carry out attacks. That’s why botnets, or millions of compromised computers that can be remotely controlled by an attacker, are a big force multiplayer in a cyber army. Perhaps 100 million compromised computers would be needed.
“I think I could marshal a lot of botnets to do the job pretty easily, and make sure they are all over the world,” Miller said. “That way, you can’t snip off the communications that control them. Make it 100 times better than anything we have seen before.”
“It’s good to be North Korea because they can get around laws that prevent you from taking other computers,” he said. On top of that, North Korea doesn’t have that much to attack.
The big problem in a cyber war is attribution: who started it? You couldn’t tell if it were Russia or China. If you have millions of computers throughout the world, you can choose where the attack appears to emanate from. That would help a country like North Korea hide.
The cyber army would include botnet collectors, penetration testers who comb the networks for vulnerabilities, spies, developers of malware, technical consultants who sell their knowledge to the highest bidder, and others. The total estimated budget to do the job with about 600 people would be more like $45 million, well within North Korea’s current budget. It might take two years to assemble such a force.
With all that, you get all the tools you need to wage war. Of course, many of these people are in the U.S. and would be hard to commandeer by North Korea.
The logical way to get the botnets to be useful is to exploit a Zero Day bug (or one for which there is no known solution). On average, each Zero Day bug remains unpatched for 348 days. These serious bugs, which can be used to take over computers, are plentiful and stick around for a while.
Other means: logic bombs to take down the internet, pay criminals to hijack computers for you, use insiders to create back doors into security systems. Miller doesn’t think those ideas would work very well, since you probably couldn’t rely on them. A distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack would flood certain sites with too much traffic.
To protect against these attacks, Miller says, you would have to have redundancy of critical networks. During a war, the U.S. could briefly try to segregate its networks from the rest of the world, by putting filters on the web so that nothing bad gets through. Of course, that effectively accomplishes the isolation that would be the object of an attacker. It would be hard to filter out all of the botnets that would be using different attack methods.
There are hardened targets like the National Security Agency that ordinary botnets would have trouble penetrating. To breach them, Miller would do penetration testing, get in somewhere, and then take control. That would take considerable time.
Miller would target places such as electric power grids, the air traffic control system, and military networks. The latter could be penetrated if someone plugged a compromised universal serial bus (USB) device into a computer on the network.
“In these cases, you have to get people inside these networks,” he said. “You pay them off, get them into the network and then allow me to remotely attack it. With enough money, patience and time, it’s really hard to stop a skilled attacker.”
The lesson, Miller said, is that you have to detect the buildup of botnets and other tools of cyber war early and deal with them before they are used. If you wait too long, there will be nothing you can do about it.
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Peabody, Massachusetts UFO Sighting
Posted on August 7, 2010 at 9:39 PM
Case Number: 24990
Log Number: US-08072010-0011
Submitted Date: 2010-08-07 11:12 GMT
Event Date: 2010-08-06 14:40 GMT
Status: Submitted
City: Peabody
Region: Massachusetts
Country: US
Longitude: -70.9286609
Latitude: 42.5278731
Shape: Disc
Distance: 100 feet or less
Entity Type: None
Vallee Index: CE1
I was on a lounge chair in my backyard on the north side of the swimming pool. I was facing east and was in the shade cast by the tall bamboo behind me. Although there was no change in the light, I had a random thought that dark thunderclouds might be coming in from the west and looked up at the sky. A few seconds later I saw a silver disk travelling from west to east, in a straight line over my pool. At first glance I thought it was some kid's silver balloon that got loose but quickly realized it was no floppy, tinfoil balloon, but some kind of firm-surfaced metal. I focused in on it so I could remember as much detail as possible. It was shaped like a disk but also had a squashed egg type shape.
The top and bottom were rounded and the sides were slightly rounded, like the shape of a Mento candy. There were no hard edges or seams, no puckers or variations of color or texture in the surface. It was totally smooth and reflective, the bottom of it turning darker as it passed over the green trees at the eastern end of the yard. I'm estimating that it was about 30 feet above the fully mature maple trees, so maybe 60 feet above ground. I got the impression that it might be 3 to 4 feet in diameter. Although it was breezy at the treetops, the disk moved in a straight line, with no side to side wavering or drifting from the wind, and no change in altitude. There was absolutely no sound emitting from it. After the disk had been in my sight for about 5 seconds I had the presence of mind to call out, "Look up!" to my husband, who was doing some yardwork about 20 feet behind me and to the right.
Since he was to the right of the edge of the bamboo stand he had a clear view of the disk and looked up in time to see it just as it was going over the trees. His description of the disk corroborated mine. From the time I saw the disk to the time it travelled out of sight was about 8 to 10 seconds and I estimate that the distance it travelled in that time was about 50 to 60 feet. Using these estimates, the disk was travelling at about 3 to 5 miles per hour. Unfortunately there was no time to take a picture, even with my cell phone. Immediately following this sighting I felt glad to have finally seen something concrete and real because it left no doubt that these objects do exist. Then I started wondering whether the fact that they do exist was a good thing or not. Knowing that there is technology far advanced than that held by us here on Earth is a bit unsettling.
From our own history we know what usually happens when a technologically advanced civilization meets a less advanced society. I can only hope that whoever is controlling these objects has a less aggressive nature than us humans. We told friends about the sighting but, of course, most of them just laughed it off and asked how much we had been drinking at the time (which, by the way, was not at all). We humans do laugh when we are nervous about something, and we don't want to hear about something that makes us uncomfortable. And the quickest way to shut someone up is to ridicule them. So our friends reactions are normal, but we know what we saw. I don't think our government could keep such technology a secret. Even if they could, if we had it, we wouldn't be fighting wars to get oil because we would have a better propulsion system already. So what we saw was an Object, that was Flying and is Unidentified...a UFO.
Peabody, Massachusetts UFO Sighting
Fortean / Oddball News - 8/8/2010
