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12/05/2000 As I have been a Christian and a Prophecy student for a long time - I can without a doubt forsee a grim picture of this planet. The reason I say so is that I have been following quite a few endtime prophets and watchmen (such as Jonathan Hansen, David Wilkerson, Dr Bill Deagle, Texe Marrs, Dan Bohler, Nita Johnson, Ken Raggio, NZ evangelist Barry Smith etc) for a while and they all say through God given prophecies, dreams and visions say that the lifestyle as we know it to day is going to change dramatically come next few years. To sum up what they've been prophesying the econonomy as we know it today is going to disappear (not TEOTWAWKI !! as some doom and gloomist might say it). Y2K is and was definitely part of the beginnings of sorrows. It is the beginning of increasingly very difficult times. There will be a WORLDWIDE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE in the not too distant future. Even though secular Y2K experts like Ed Yourdon, Gary North, the Merrill Lynch Forum, Ed Yardeni, etc including me of course all said the same thing "a Y2K induced recession which would lead to a World Economic Crash " . The reality is that not much eventuated when the clock struck 12.00AM January 2000. Major and serious Y2K disruptions were quickly covered up by the controlled media. The major winners of the Y2K non-event aftermath were the Globalist Super Elite "the New World Order boys". What really happened was the controlled media over-hyped the serious repercussions of Y2K thus providing a good reason for the governments worldwide to pour billions of dollars into the fixing and upgrading of computers worldwide. The net result was that this scenario provided the NWO Elite to get all global nation states to be interconnected and internetworked via the internet. (Please read The Truth About Y2K) If you know your bible prophecy (Rev 13) - the only way in which the Beast Antichrist will control the whole world is via computers worldwide interconnected and the electricity staying up. Thus, as you can see; the stage is now set for the Beast Antichrist to come in and control the whole world. He will only come into the scene after the Satan-Illuminati multiple-crisis planned "Order Out Of Chaos" coming events : World Wide Economic Crash, Chemical-Biological-Nuclear-Weather Terrorism and World War III (Satan's counterfeit Battle of Armageddon which is basically the Arab coalition attack on Israel, the Chinese-Taiwanese war, the N/Korea and S/Korea nuclear confrontation and simulatenously the Russian nuclear attack on America. The bible verses which prove that this indeed will happen is found in Jeremiah 50,51; Ezekiel 37-39 (the Gog and Magog war) and Revelation 18. This has also been confirmed by dreams,visions and prophecies of end-time prophets/man of God such as David Wilkerson, Dumitru Duduman, Bill Deagle, Chuck Youngbrandt, Jonathan Hansen, etc. Note : All prophecies are essentially fulfilled twice - both at the time when the prophets were speaking in the Old Testament and also at the end of the age in which we are living just prior to the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ). From the ruin, chaos and destruction when the people will be calling out for "Peace and Safety" then and there will the "Peace and Safety" New World Order of the Beast-Antichrist come in and control the whole world. What does 1 Thesalonians 5:3 say "For when they shall say peace and safety then sudden destruction shall come upon them as travail a woman with child and they shall not escape." The Beast-Antichrist will be 10 times worse than Hitler - a powerful, eloquent, charismatic speaker who will be able to mesmarize and spellbind the crowd with his "Peace and Safety" New World Order speeches. Just as it says in 2 Thesalonians 2:10-12 all those who reject the Truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ will believe the lie of the Devil-Satan thru the man of the Antichrist. One of the things that he will do when he comes into power is that in order to convict the hearts of the people that the "Peace and Safety" of the New World Order is the way to go is that he will publicly reveal the cure for Aids, Cancer, and other diseases and other inventions like free energy which the NWO elite have suppressed but have been using for a long time in the public arena. And the people who do not know the warnings of Jesus Christ will fall for the lies of the Beast Antichrist and their souls will be dammed forever and ever in Hell when they take his mark - The Mark of the Beast. (Rev 14:9-11) The coming world shaking events will be as follows : God himself will judge America and will cause an Economic Holocaust to the American economy. Thus, setting off a World Wide Economic Crash. This would be immediately followed by an all out Nuclear Attack on America which will lead directly into World War III. Israel and some European Nations will also be attacked but not nearly as viciously. There will also be a nuclear confrontation between N/Korea and S/Korea, China on all out war against Taiwan and most probably a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan due to the Kashmir region. America has made too many enemies !!! Expect also chemical, biological and nuclear terrorist activities in America and other parts of the world. There will be an increase in natural disasters and volcanic activities worldwide at machine gun repetitivity. Turmoil and civil unrest (chaos, riots, looting, burning) will run rampant in portions of America as Marshall Law is set in motion. As Russia sees the confusion America is in and the other Arab Nations decide that this is their opportunity to take Jerusalem, World War III will begin. The conspiratorial elite are going to use the coming pre-planned times of multiple "Order Out Of Chaos" crisis as a pretext to bring in their long awaited New World Order One World Government. This is called "the Fourth Beast Kingdom in Daniel 7 and Rvelation 13" God is going to shake the nations - so that what cannot be shaken will be left. The book of Revelation has yet to be fulfilled. It is a book of Love. We are living in the last generation where Jesus Christ in all His power and glory will come at the end of the Great Tribulation. Through God's grace, mercy and love he will allow all these calamities to come on man before final judgement is served. Y2K and the coming multiple times of crisis will allow the conspiratorial elite to form their cherished, utopian New World Order One World Government. And thus, all the prophecies in the bible that have yet to be fulfilled will be fulfilled.
Police
Treaty a Global Invasion? 3:00 p.m. Oct. 17, 2000 PDT - Wired News WASHINGTON -- Civil liberties groups are vexed over a proposed treaty that would grant more surveillance powers to U.S. and European police agencies, and expand copyright crimes. Thirty groups -- from North America, Asia, Africa, Australia and Europe -- said this week that the treaty "improperly extends the police authority of national governments" and places the privacy of Internet users and the freedom of computer programmers at risk. In a long letter to Walter Schwimmer, the Council of Europe's secretary general, the groups advise the participating governments to delay action on the treaty and consult with technical and privacy experts instead. "It's a direct assault on legal protections and constitutional protections that have been established by national governments to protect their citizens," says Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "It's both an end run by police agencies and a bit of policy laundering by the U.S. Department of Justice to get more (surveillance) authority." Rotenberg said EPIC and other groups wanted to rally opposition to the measure before a summit of participating nations next week in Berlin. The U.S. has helped craft the Council of Europe's proposal, which is expected to be finalized within the next few months, making it the first computer crime treaty. The draft treaty is designed to aid police in investigations of online miscreants in cases where attacks or intrusions cross national borders. It would:
Restricting security-related software is not a wise choice, the groups say. The letter argues: "We believe that this concept lacks sufficient specificity to ensure that it will not become an all-purpose basis to investigate individuals engaged in computer-related activity that is completely lawful. As technical experts have made clear, this provision will also discourage the development of new security tools and give government an improper role in policing scientific innovation." Technical experts have said Article 6 of the measure, titled "Illegal Devices," could ban commonplace network security tools like crack and nmap, which is included with Linux as a standard utility. Groups participating in the letter include Russia's Human Rights Network,the U.K.'s Privacy International, the LINK Center in Africa, France's IRIS, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression. Representing the United States in the drafting process is the Justice Department's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property section, which chairs the G-8 subgroup on high-tech crime and also is involved with a cybercrime project at the Organization of American States. In December 1997 Reno convened the first meeting on computer crime of the G-8 nations. The Council of Europe is not affiliated with the European Union, and includes over 40 member nations, including Russia, which joined in 1996. After the Council of Europe's expert group finalizes the proposed treaty, the full committee of ministers must adopt the text. Then it will be sent to countries for their signatures and subsequent legislation to create the new civil and criminal offenses. Comments can be sent to daj@coe.int. Microsoft pushes smart cardsJune 29, 2000 - Web posted at: 8:30 a.m. EDT (1230 GMT)(IDG) -- Microsoft will release an update to Windows for Smart Cards later this week that will include support for the GSM (Global Systems for Mobile Communications) standard, according to a company official. At its Smart Card Forum, which begins Thursday, Microsoft officials will outline plans to spur Windows-based development in the smart-card arena. President and CEO Steve Ballmer will kick off the conference for press, partners, and developers on the company's Redmond, Wash., campus with the announcement that Windows for Smart Cards 1.1 is available. "This version supports GSM wireless technologies," said Mike Dusche, product manager for Windows for Smart Cards. "This is all part of the .Net strategy -- wireless as a platform." While GSM is popular in Europe and Asia, the most popular wireless networking standard in the United States is CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access). Motorola and Nokia are collaborating on another wireless standard, called 1Xtreme, which is geared toward handling high-speed transmission of Internet data. Microsoft released Windows for Smart Cards seven months ago and, according to Dusche, has sold 20 million units since. Nevertheless, smart cards have not taken off in the United States, particularly compared to Europe and Asia. Dusche said a major reason is that the technology is really just becoming useful. "Cards, until very recently, did not have the ability to be programmed," Dusche said. "They have to be very small, 5mm by 5mm for the chip, and that chip didn't allow for writing programs. Moore's Law has been very kind to smart cards lately." As proof, Dusche pointed to the smart cards issued to Microsoft employees for network and security access. They sport a 64KB memory and an 8-bit microprocessor -- roughly the same as the first generation of PCs, Dusche said. In January, Microsoft employees also will be issued healthcare smart cards, he added. Windows for Smart Cards enjoys a strategic place in Microsoft's .Net platform, which aims to fulfill a "software as a service" vision: namely, Windows-based cards powering mobile phones -- not considered a good fit for Windows CE -- and Pocket PCs that are connected to Exchange servers. "We want to connect these [smart card] clients to servers, both Windows NT and Exchange, and that will also connect them to services," Dusche said. Windows for Smart Cards 1.1 will be available for download on Microsoft's Web site on Thursday, Dusche said. The company's Smart Card Forum is scheduled to run through Friday. GPS to do wonders for wireless browsing(IDG) -- In early May, the U.S. military did people a favor: It stopped scrambling the signal from its global positioning system, allowing private citizens and companies for the first time to take advantage of the precise satellite technology. Previously, the GPS feed was comparatively imprecise and could be off by 100 yards or more. The unscrambled GPS signal can pinpoint whether a person wandering Times Square is about to enter the Disney Store or the Flashdancers down the block. The new feed has already got some industries buzzing. First among them is the auto industry, which, as one might expect, wants to sell GPS mapping as a bonus to drivers. Also interested are outdoor sporting companies, which will market GPS to campers and sailors. However, there's a less obvious industry eager to capitalize on the technology: advertising, which could use GPS to target consumers with a precision never before seen. "It's a bit of a marketer's wet dream," says Kyle Shannon, cofounder of Agency.com, an Internet marketing consulting firm. The idea, Shannon says, is that "someone who uses a [wireless] data network is going to respond to an ad that gives him a coupon to buy a Coke from a machine as he walks by it." Shannon's example is more pipe dream than reality; wireless content delivery is in its infancy in this country. But there's no question that it is poised to become the next big Internet platform. Wireless devices such as mobile phones, personal digital assistant gadgets and souped-up pagers like the Blackberry are taking off. And that means advertising will quickly adapt, geared to the different dynamics of a wireless world. All told, companies are expected to spend as much as $2.9 billion on wireless advertising in the U.S. by 2004, according to Ovum, a technology consulting firm. That's currently less than advertising on the Internet (in 1999, that was about $3.3 billion, according to Forrester Research). And it's just a slice of the $24 billion in Internet advertising projected by 2003. But if wireless advertising is barely off the ground in the U.S., it's taking flight in Asia and Europe, where countries are years ahead of the U.S. in wireless phone and Internet device use. In Japan, for instance, I-mode, a wireless Internet service from phone giant NTT, has more than 6 million subscribers, with 25,000 more joining each day. I-mode has drawn advertisers such as Tokyo department store Kei-Qyu, which advertises special discounts to elite customers via their cell phones. In Europe, likewise, a more highly developed wireless market is proving to be a testing ground for advertising, with U.S. agencies leading the way. New York-based 24/7 has run 15 limited wireless campaigns - trials intended to reach 10,000 or so consumers - for European clients, including KPN, a Dutch telecom; Football365, a London-based sports portal; and DressMart, a Swedish online clothing store. And Agency.com is working with London-based Carphone Warehouse, the largest European wholesaler of mobile phones, to create a customizable wireless portal that delivers weather forecasts, local news and e-commerce services to wireless subscribers. Examples of wireless advertising in the U.S., though, are harder to find. Intraware, an Orinda, Calif.-based company, is an early innovator; it uses AvantGo, a content distributor to wireless devices, to solicit 500,000 technology professionals on their PDAs. (The target group was selected based on information people gave when they registered for the AvantGo service.) When the target audience members fired up their Palm devices, they were greeted with a simple text-and-graphics message, which described Intraware's online software sales and services and asked them to submit their e-mail address for more information. Vindigo, another pioneer, already has plans for GPS-based advertising. The company distributes city guide information to handheld devices, providing tips on where to eat and the best places to be seen. Currently, Vindigo users download information from the company's Web site while their handheld device is attached to a PC. When the software program is used to locate a nearby restaurant or store, a small ad appears at the bottom of the screen for another establishment. In the wireless future, the download will be taken out of the process, and positioning satellites can direct a hungry diner to the nearest bistro as well as pitch them on another trattoria just around the corner. That high-precision targeting is central to the promise of wireless advertising. But it's also what makes it rather creepy from a consumer's perspective. "One end of the scenario is that as you're walking down the block, your phone goes off as you pass every store and tells you that there's a 50-percent-off sale," says Bruce Mello, vice president of wireless and emerging media at 24/7. "For me, by the end of that one block I might be breaking my phone." He's not the only skeptic. Mobile-phone service providers such as AT&T are wary of allowing advertisers onto their networks, for fear it would be intrusive to customers. That fear is more than imagined: About a month ago, AT&T detected a spam attack of text-messages sent to more than 5,000 of its mobile subscribers. The company quickly shut the messages down before they reached all of the intended recipients, says spokesman Ritch Blasi. AT&T has implemented safeguards to prevent more attacks. Then there are the limitations of the technology. For years, the U.S. market has lacked a standard technology for translating Internet data to information that can be displayed over wireless devices - holding back advertising along the way. The industry has now adapted the Wireless Application Protocol, or WAP, enabling companies to distribute Internet-ready information to wireless devices equipped to receive it. WAP-ready devices are now starting to debut in the U.S., but the industry still lacks a standard way to distribute advertisements across all devices in one fell swoop. For advertising to flourish in a wireless environment, finding those standards that will enable firms to reach massive audiences is perhaps more important than making use of intensely accurate targeting. Indeed, for all the potential of GPS pinpointing, if consumers are turned off by having advertisers track their every move - as they've recently demonstrated online - geographically targeted advertising may not be the most promising way to pump up the wireless market. But for all the questions, advertising firms are still eager to start testing the waters. "Is this an effective medium for advertising? As much as everyone's jumping on the wireless bandwagon, the opportunities are limited," says Lot21's Everett-Thorp. But then, she adds, "These are the same questions we were asking about the Internet five years ago." MasterCard Forms Group to Work on Digital ID's Tuesday August 22 2000 - 8:19 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Credit card network MasterCard International said on Tuesday it has formed a group to develop digital identification that will protect cardholders against fraud when making purchases over cell phones or on the Internet. ``It authenticates you as the card holder of your card,'' Gail Francolini, vice president of global chip relationship management at MasterCard International, said of the ID's, which would essentially be a string of numbers. MasterCard said its new group will give its member banks a selection of providers offering turnkey solutions to help them offer this technology to their cardholders. ``By issuing a multi-application smart card that includes a digital ID, as well as financial service applications, banks will be able to position themselves at the forefront of technological innovation,'' said Art Kranzley, senior vice president, electronic commerce and emerging technologies at MasterCard. Participants in MasterCard's new program include SecureNet Ltd, ACI Worldwide and Gemplus, it said, Other vendors are expected to join up in time, it added. Tiny human-borne monitoring device sparks privacy fears December 20, 1999 By Richard Stenger WASHINGTON (CNN) - A Palm Beach, Florida-based telecommunications company has developed a miniature digital monitoring device that can be implanted in people, intended to assist in locating missing children or for monitoring the heart rate of at-risk patients. But electronic freedom activists are concerned about exploitation of the technology, which would use global positioning system (GPS) technology to track implantees. "It sounds dreadful. That's about as bad as it gets," Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, said Monday. Applied Digital Solutions announced last week it had acquired patent rights to develop the unique transceiver, which would be powered by muscle movements of implantees. The company plans to complete a working prototype by the end of 2000. Planted inconspicuously just under the skin, the implantable transceiver sends and receives data and can be continuously tracked by GPS technology. The company expects applications in the fields of law enforcement, security and medicine. According to ADS, a company with an Internet and e-commerce focus, the devise could track lost hikers, abducted children and "military, diplomatic and other essential government personnel." It can also identify individuals for e-business security and check certain biological functions and alert a monitoring facility if it detects a medical emergency. "We believe its potential for improving individual and e-business security and enhancing the quality of life for millions of people is virtually limitless," said ADS Chairman and CEO Richard Sullivan in a statement. Fearing that "virtually limitless" potential, critics contend that monitoring systems wind up being used for other than the original purposes. "Over the years we moved from fingerprinting convicts to routinely footprinting infants in hospitals," Rotenberg said. He worries that this new surveillance technology could eventually restrict freedoms of the general public. "I think the use of implants for tracking is crossing into a new territory," Rotenberg said. "It gets us closer to an Orwellian '1984.'" Patent documents refer to the device as a "personal tracking and recovery system." But ADS said the device, named the Digital Angel, could also have non-human applications. For example, it could be secretly hidden on or in valuable personal belongings and works of art. ADS said the technology could "tap into a vast global market" that is expected to eventually exceed $100 billion.
Let's See
Some ID By Stephanie Izarek - Fox News NEW YORK — If your bank offered a secure service that let you take money from a cash machine just by looking into a camera, would you throw away your ATM card?
But are consumers ready to embrace this futuristic solution? Michael Thieme, a consultant with the International Biometric Group and the BiometricStore, says yes, once people understand how the technology works and how it protects, rather than abuses, personal information. "Biometrics still suffers from a sci-fi, Big Brother stigma. People don't like the idea that an image of their iris or a facial geometry scan is stored in some huge database," said Thieme. "But once they understand that the image is converted into a unique numerical code, which is no different than having a PIN correspond to their name, they feel more comfortable." Biometrics also offers an alternative to toting around the typical trail of cards, keys, passwords and PINs, which can all be quite easily stolen. In a report on consumer response from Bank United's IrisScan pilot test, 98 percent of the users described their first experiences as easy, exciting, fast, and convenient. Thirty-eight percent cited the new IrisScan ATM as a reason for moving their account to Bank United; and 98 percent want to see more iris recognition ATMs installed throughout Texas. In fact, IBG says the world market for biometrics access-control devices and systems is expected to reach $100 million by the end 1999, with the U.S. providing 76 percent of the total demand. By 2001, European demand for biometrics will exceed $133 million by the year 2001, with the highest concentration of devices in France and the U.K. The use of biometrics is expanding into other security and non-security related applications, due in part to the lower cost of technologies and the speed of completing a biometric transaction. Currently, 15 banks, including Citibank, are piloting Sensar's IriScan at ATMs and teller stations to authenticate users in nine different countries. People who depend on check-cashing services and live in the Southwest can soon look forward to new check-cashing machines that will use facial geometry scans for authentication, just as 600,000 senior citizens in South Africa have verified their identity using fingerprints to receive pension payments for several years. Even more interesting is MP3.com's recent announcement that it, too, will use an iris scan authentication system, using a Web cam and special software, to speed transactions and downloads of MP3 audio files. But as with any technology, there are imperfections and obstacles. Biometrics are not 100 percent accurate; in fact, 100 percent correct matches often indicate fraud. However, the different types of biometrics technology can offer significantly better results depending on the type of application, the environment, and the consumers. Is That Really You?
There are benefits and drawbacks to each biometric technology. After signature verification, which you find in many department stores, fingerprint readers are the most popular. "We will see them in the home market first," says Theime, "and they'll be used to gain access to a PC, the Internet, and for e-commerce transactions. Then we'll see it for things like ATM transactions and welfare registration." Increasingly, readers are being built directly into a mouse, as is the case with CompuLink's Biolink U-Match mouse. But for some people — the elderly, construction workers and Asians — fingerprints are difficult to read, which cuts down on effectiveness. Cut, bandaged or callused fingers are also difficult to identify using a biometric reader. The use of hand geometry readers, which use a digital camera and infrared light to measure the length, width and height of a person's hand in a 3-D image, offers a reasonable level of accuracy. But high false- acceptance rates can occur in the case of identical twins or other family members using the same reader, and the large size of these devices can be prohibitive for some situations. Iris scanning, the newest form of biometric technology, is gaining wide-spread acceptance. Each iris (the colored ring around the pupil) has 200 distinct features, even among identical twins, so it is an excellent unique identifier. Iris scanners detect rings, pits, striations, freckles, furrows, coronas, fibers and filaments. The image of an iris is captured by a standard black-and-white camera from about 10-12 inches away, digitized as a 512-byte template, and stored in a database. For verification, a user simply looks into a reader. Due to higher cost and difficult sample collections, retina scans are still relegated to government use and the highest security situations. A retina scan requires incandescent light to be shown into a person's eyes at close range. Once the eyes are illuminated, a scan captures up to 192 data points in the retina. Because retina scan systems have been traditionally used to identify criminals before they are released from prison, the concept has also suffered from invasion of privacy issues. Likewise, facial geometry systems which measure the distance between temples or chin and hair line using a computer and CCTV camera equipment, have come under attack by privacy groups. Combating false accepts and rejects has been a focal point in biometrics product development. "False rejects have actually been more of a problem, in that it rejects people who should be accepted," says Thieme. "That can be incredibly frustrating. It may happen because the user did not correctly use the device, placing only the tip of a finger on the reader, as opposed to the whole finger. The good news is that there has been a huge decline in false rejections across the board." Most often, concerns about biometrics relate to privacy issues. In response, the International Biometric Industry Association (IBIA) announced its Privacy Principles, which encourage biometrics manufacturers, integrators and end-users to adopt standards and procedures that will help ensure the protection of personal data. According to the IBIA, biometric data is distinct from personal information and provides an effective barrier against unauthorized access to personal information. "In the public sector, IBIA believes that clear legal standards should be developed to carefully define and limit the conditions under which agencies of national security and law enforcement may acquire, access, store, and use biometric data," says Kelly Gates, a spokesperson. What is the Irridium System ? IRIDIUM TECHNOLOGY :(purported claims taken from theIridium website) The Iridium phones and pagers work anywhere in the world by communicating with both terrestrial wireless networks and the Iridium network. Putting this technology in place represents a significant engineering achievement in satellite manufacture and deployment. Iridium LLC is developing and commercializing a global
wireless communications network that will combine the worldwide
reach of 66 low-earth-orbit satellites with land-based wireless
systems to enable subscribers to communicate using handheld
telephones and pagers virtually anywhere in the world. Iridium
World Communications, Ltd. (NASDAQ: IRIDF) is the public
investment vehicle of Iridium LLC. Michael Browning, reporting for Cox News service, writes: "Piercing the night with sudden shards of light, a new globe-girdling array of communications satellites, called Iridium, lofted by Motorola, is already racing across the heavens, emitting brilliant flares form their super-reflective antenna panels, bedazzling astronomers." The Iridium satellite system is described as "six necklaces of eleven satellites each" (note: six x eleven = 66!). The Iridium system is said to create a "bead-like electronic cage within which the world slowly turns." "Nowhere on Earth is unreachable anymore, thanks to this new network," Browning noted. And he had power to give life unto
the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both
speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of
the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and
great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their
right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or
sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the
number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath
understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number
of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
(Revelation 13:15 - 18) The Iridium System by Dr. Bill Deagle The Y2K nightmare is less than 500 days away. The new Iridium system will replace the current electronic financial system. The atomic number of Iridium is 77, and is a precious element for military and electronic devices. This title was selected by a think tank in the early 80's in Dallas, sponsored by M-t-r-l-. [Vowels removed.] The plan was to develop the next generation Internet. It uses sixty-six satellites in geocentric orbit. Like a "who's who", the list of corporations involved in this consortium includes: M-rt-n-L-ckh--d, MC-, H-wl-tt P-ck-rd D-g-t-l S-t-ll-t- D-v-s-on, S-mb-os L-g-c, R-ckw-ll, Atm-l Corporation, St-r-g- T-k, etc. Most of this system is centered in Denver and Colorado Springs with some main players in California and Texas, and numerous subcontractors across the country. Clinton-Gore signed the bill authorizing the Digital Superhighway two weeks after winning the first term elections. "Full steam ahead" has been the slogan of this powerfully backed organization of companies. This SuperInternet will be very fast. One hundred, hundred thousand megabytes per second data transfer-and immune to the Y2K bug. The IRS, the Justice Department, and Social Services have all had computer simulations of their mainframe systems, and all crashed miserably. One Senator recently was reported as stating that the Y2K is so serious that the drafting of new laws regarding identification and marshal law will be necessary, as all the government agencies and businesses are going to receive an "F grade" for preparedness in the face of Y2K. Within 60 days after the crash a public offering to government and businesses in America would be made to completely shift their current communications and financial systems to Iridium. By November 1998, businesses will be given an "offer they can't refuse", convert or face financial chaos! Each individual in the Western world will be given special identification to access this database and all the benefits. This system entails the assignment of three unique identifiers to each person. The first is the six digits of year/month/day of birth. The second identifier is based on the GPS or Global Positioning System, that the US military use for targeting artillery. It is called the Mesh Bar Code. Conceptually, the world is divided into 99 global sectors, with 99 subsectors inside each of these. Finally, within each of these subsectors, they are subdivided into 99 subsubsectors. This allows for long range targeting to an accuracy of less than 250 radial yards anywhere on the planet. An individual residence is targetable. How Iridium works relies on the position of the signal source and the identity of the source signal. Having the Mesh Bar Code of the source individual allows for more accurate and efficient signal routing. However, it has the unpleasant side effect of absolute control of the digital airwaves. The identity of the individual and locations of any signal whether phone, computer, radio, etc., will allow no one to access this SuperNet who is not authorized. Each allowed database zone will be protected by virtually impenetrable "firewalls" with security protections against unauthorized access. This database now exists but for the third identifier. "Genetic fingerprinting" was central to the legal cases of O.J. Simpson and more recently President Clinton. In the case of O.J. Simpson, they used the unique identification of the patterns on five bars of DNA. It took weeks. Newer systems will cut this to less than one hour with high speed polymerase chain reaction analyzers (PCR). The new reports of the last month have come out that the government has recommended the DNA fingerprinting of all US citizens. When this is available, it will be linked to all manner of biometric database information, such as fingerprints, laser retinal scans etc., depending on security clearance, and access past specific SuperNet "firewalls." Everyone will be issued a universal identifier number with access to military, medical, criminal, tax, and security/travel records. John spoke of it in Revelation. Although the devil might sit on this system for a century, being an overachiever, he will act quickly to force a Treaty on Israel. The coming financial collapse and the resurrection of the economic "Peace and Security" of the SuperNet, will catch off guard the lost and those brothers that do not see the gathering storm. Know that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the same yesterday, today and forever. Israel was saved through the Egyptian plagues. Watchmen hear the Voice of God and discern the times and seasons of His coming!
The most obvious is an alternative to the current cellular
phone and pager systems in use around the world. One of the
biggest problems with these systems is the loss of service when a
user leaves the range of the towers employed by his or her
respective provider. With Iridium, it is theoretically impossible
for the user to move outside of the serviceable area. The Iridium
handsets are similar in use and design to the current cellphones
produced by Motorola and use digital transmission technology. In
addition, the handsets have been incorporated with a dual-mode
capability which allows use with compatible cellular services
(when in range) as opposed to the satellite service. It has been
assumed that this will dramatically reduce the load on the
satellite network by eliminating unnecessary traffic.
The handsets also incorporate a standard RS-232 interface port
for use in data and fax transmission (though only at 2400 bps).
Motorola has estimated the battery life at 1 hour of constant use
and 24 hours of standby use. The Iridium pager is also similar to
conventional pagers in design and use, with the capability to
receive 66 character alphanumeric messages. Since the pager will
be used worldwide, an international character set display will be
made available. In addition to personal handheld units, aeronautical services
will also be provided to compliment the current systems in use by
most airlines. These, too, will provide data and fax as well as
voice transmissions. However, one of the most interesting
suggestions for the Iridium system is the stand-alone solar
powered telephone booth. These could, literally, be set up
anywhere in the world where sunlight (or an alternative power
source) is available. Also, mobile exchange units (MXU's) could
provide shared service to remote locations where conventional
telephone service simply is not available. The Iridium satellites, each weighing approximately 1500
pounds, are designed to orbit at an altitude of 420 nautical
miles. The first three Iridium satellites were scheduled to
launch in November of 1996, but the launch was delayed due to
technical problems. The upcoming launches are to be carried out
with McDonnell Douglas Delta II rockets, but this may change in
view of recent problems with the rockets. In fact, one of the
rockets exploded after launch on January 17 of this year. Though
this particular rocket was carrying a new GPS satellite with no
connection to the Iridium system, all other MD Delta II launches
have been suspended pending investigation results. Also, the
Delta II that was scheduled to carry an Iridium satellite on
January 9 was found to have to have problems with cork thermal
protection in the first stage of the rocket (though the launch
was actually delayed due to problems with microwave
communications with the rocket).
The Iridium constellation is a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) system at an altitude of about 420 nautical miles. The low altitude of the constellation allows for the use of handheld units, and dramatically cuts down the propagation delay of transmissions. The disadvantage of such a low orbit, however, is the larger number of satellites that are required for global coverage. A geostationary satellite system, orbiting at about 22,300 nautical miles above the earth, could require as little as four satellites for global coverage, with the sacrifice of signal strength at the receiving end. One of the most interesting aspects of the Iridium satellite design is the limited lifespan of the orbiter. According to Mike Bonvallet of Motorola, the satellites each have a life expectancy of about 5 years. The average lifespan of most satellites is about ten years, double that of the Iridium units. This short lifespan allows for frequent updating of the orbiter design, and less expensive components. To demonstrate the communication bands covered by the system,
assume a page is made from one of the handheld units to an
Iridium pager. The satellite currently serving the user placing
the page will communicate with the handheld unit in the L-Band,
which covers the range of 1616 - 1626.5 MHz (the pager will be
contacted using this band as well). The satellites will then (if
necessary) communicate between each other in the Ka-Band (between
23.18 and 23.38 GHz) to reach the satellite over the user with
the pager. If a call had been placed to a public switched
telephone network, the target satellite would communicate with an
Iridium "gateway", or land-based transceiver system.
Uplinks from the gateway will take place in the frequency range
of 29.1 - 29.3 GHz, and downlinks will be in the range of 19.4 -
19.6 GHz. Both frequency division multiplexing and time division
multiplexing will be used for the connections, with a Seimens
EWSD-based D900 switch routing transmissions from the gateways to
the local communications networks. The master control facility for the Iridium constellation is
located outside of Washington, DC in northern Virginia. With the
aid of three TTAC's (Telemetry, Tracking, and Control centers)
located in Canada and Hawaii, this facility will regulate the
positioning of the satellites during the initial placement and
the ensuing orbit. Below is a diagram of the satellite footprint produced by Iridium, though the constellation is in constant motion and so hence is the coverage.
Low Earth Orbit S-PCN Constellation
Above is an illustration of the coverage areas of the satellites within the Iridium LEO S-PCN constellation. This system, which is being designed and manufactured by Motorola and associated companies, intends to provide global personal satellite based communications via handheld terminals by the year 1998. (their estimate not mine!) The system will use 66 satellites orbiting in six 750 km altitude polar planes and will cost in excess of $4bn. The number of subscribers to this system is expected to be in the region of 1 million. My Ph.D is involved with the allocation of frequency bands and channels to spotbeams within the coverage area of each satellite. Adjacent and overlapping satellites may not use the same frequencies/channels as they will interfere with each other and destroy communications links. The dynamic nature of the movement of these satellites with respect to the Earth's surface and each other means that interference and individual channel allocations must be monitored continually to avoid disruption. There are several other proposed systems which are competing with Iridium for frequency, sponsorship and subscribers, this include Globalstar[Loral Qualcomm], Odyssey[TRW], INMARSAT P, and Ellipso. Tony Sammut March 1995
A rendering of the final Iridium design, with 66 active satellites in 6 planes of 11. Please contact me for permission if you wish to reuse these images or if you require print-quality constellation renderings suitable for publication. Any reuse should credit SaVi. An interactive java animation of Iridium is also available.
Lloyd Wood (L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk)
See satellites in
broad daylight!! Only the very brightest flares can be seen in the daytime, and so they don't occur as frequently as nighttime flares. They are even more sensitive to your position, so it is extremely important to determine your position as accurately as possible. To avoid dissappointment, you should try to get your position to an accuracy of about 2 km, which corresponds to an accuracy in latitude/longitude of approximately 0.02° or 1 arc minute. For more information, please see the Iridium flare help page or visit the Visual Satellite Observer's Homepage Interpreting
the Predictions
We will now explain each of the table columns in turn.
Developed and maintained for DLR/GSOC by Chris Peat Please read the FAQ before sending e-mail. Tiny human-borne monitoring device sparks privacy fears December 20, 1999 By Richard Stenger WASHINGTON (CNN) - A Palm Beach, Florida-based telecommunications company has developed a miniature digital monitoring device that can be implanted in people, intended to assist in locating missing children or for monitoring the heart rate of at-risk patients. But electronic freedom activists are concerned about exploitation of the technology, which would use global positioning system (GPS) technology to track implantees. "It sounds dreadful. That's about as bad as it gets," Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, said Monday. Applied Digital Solutions announced last week it had acquired patent rights to develop the unique transceiver, which would be powered by muscle movements of implantees. The company plans to complete a working prototype by the end of 2000. Planted inconspicuously just under the skin, the implantable transceiver sends and receives data and can be continuously tracked by GPS technology. The company expects applications in the fields of law enforcement, security and medicine. According to ADS, a company with an Internet and e-commerce focus, the devise could track lost hikers, abducted children and "military, diplomatic and other essential government personnel." It can also identify individuals for e-business security and check certain biological functions and alert a monitoring facility if it detects a medical emergency. "We believe its potential for improving individual and e-business security and enhancing the quality of life for millions of people is virtually limitless," said ADS Chairman and CEO Richard Sullivan in a statement. Fearing that "virtually limitless" potential, critics contend that monitoring systems wind up being used for other than the original purposes. "Over the years we moved from fingerprinting convicts to routinely footprinting infants in hospitals," Rotenberg said. He worries that this new surveillance technology could eventually restrict freedoms of the general public. "I think the use of implants for tracking is crossing into a new territory," Rotenberg said. "It gets us closer to an Orwellian '1984.'" Patent documents refer to the device as a "personal tracking and recovery system." But ADS said the device, named the Digital Angel, could also have non-human applications. For example, it could be secretly hidden on or in valuable personal belongings and works of art. ADS said the technology could "tap into a vast global market" that is expected to eventually exceed $100 billion. Revelation about 'Digital Angels' David Kupelian "He causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six." -- Revelation 13: 16-18 I have always wondered about this passage in the biblical book of Revelation. How would people ever be made to accept such a "mark of the beast" or to accept the implantation of some sinister computer chip in their bodies? It sounded like science fiction. If and when such a terrifying future scenario would begin to unfold, I figured -- when the "antichrist" and his operatives would try to mandate the mass acceptance of this "mark" -- there would be massive rebellion. Everyone would just say, "Hey, dude, didn't you ever hear of a little thing called the Bible? The Book of Revelation? So get out of my face, 'cause I'm not interested in obtaining eternal damnation. Have a nice day." Ah, that was then. Little did I know the day would come when traditional Christianity would be under such severe assault, its basic precepts so maligned, its adherents so demonized that the nightmarish scenario predicted in Revelation could not only come about, but be welcomed with open arms. Little did I know that the once super-secret Echelon surveillance network would be capable of monitoring any e-mail and phone conversation anywhere on earth, and that soon people's location will be trackable through their cellular phones. And now, here comes the Digital Angel® -- the new, dime-sized implantable transceiver whose manufacturer, the NASDAQ-traded Applied Digital Solutions, intends its global use for the tracking and monitoring of humans. Emitting a homing beacon that can be tracked by global positioning system satellites, it is being marketed as the ultimate, tamper-proof means of personal identification. When implanted in your body, the device is powered electromechanically through the movement of muscles, and it can be activated either by the "wearer" or by a monitoring facility. "A few years ago there may have been resistance, but not anymore," Dr. Peter Zhou, chief scientist for development of the implant and president of ADS subsidiary DigitalAngel.net Inc. told WorldNetDaily.com. "People are getting used to having implants. New century, new trend." In a spine-tingling comment on mankind's future, Zhou added, "We will be a hybrid of electronic intelligence and our own soul." Now I am not claiming "Digital Angel®" is the tool of the antichrist. But I am saying emphatically that, if it is, the world is just about ready for it. - A few years ago, could you have predicted that in the year 2000 a major Republican presidential candidate would call two of the best-known evangelical Christian ministers in the country -- Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell -- "agents of intolerance"? - Back in the days when Pat Buchanan was spokesman for Ronald Reagan, would you have believed that just a few years later, today's White House press secretary, Joe Lockhart, would publicly equate Christians evangelizing people of other faiths with perpetuating "ancient religious hatred"? - Could you have guessed churches around the country would be denied the right to conduct weddings and funerals because they might be "disturbing the peace"? - Would you ever have thought that "new research" would show, in the biblical story of David and Goliath, that it wasn't David's faith in God that won the day. It was the fact, as Vladimir Berginer, professor of neurology at Israel's Ben-Gurion University argues, that Goliath was actually suffering from a disease of the pituitary gland called acromegaly, which caused a tumor to swell against Goliath's optic nerve. Poor Goliath, it turns out, was vision-impaired. If the unproven and fraud-ridden theory of evolution can be used so effectively to undermine the first book of the Bible; and if a university professor can claim without evidence of any sort that Goliath couldn't see -- and the international media report this as news; then the dark, foreboding and allegorical last book of the Bible should be child's play to discredit. - And whereas a generation ago Judeo-Christianity was the dominant culture in America, and the homosexual world a seamy subculture, could you have guessed that today the homosexual activists' political agenda would have become accepted and supported in almost every sector of society, while Christianity would be openly and freely demonized? But the blame for all this does not rest on homosexuals or those hostile to Christianity. Just as America has the noble tradition of liberty, but not nearly the substance it once had, so do many nominal Christians of today have the appearance and words of faith, but deep down are no different than the "heathen" they wish to evangelize. If you disagree, tell me how, with something like 80 million evangelical Christians in the United States, an immoral, lying sociopath like Bill Clinton could have been elected president -- twice. The Clinton presidency -- by all accounts the most corrupt in American history -- is proof positive that millions of "Christians" are capable of looking evil straight in the eye and thinking it is good. And good evil. After all, it was the religious people of the day, those who thought they were "approved of God," that hated Jesus and wanted him crucified, not the pagan Romans. If Christians can accept a Clinton presidency, the horrific results of which America will be dealing with for a generation, they certainly can accept a little chip designed to make life better, can't they? Many Christians have become so shallow, so worldly, so self-satisfied, and so corrupt that they have long ago lost the original innocence and brightness they had as children. They embrace the practice of abortion, viewing it as a necessary health procedure, a fundamental right, an equalizing factor between women and men, even an advancement in their quality of life. They don't see that it perfectly parallels the satanic ritual of sacrificing an innocent child on the altar of selfishness and lust. They've lost their spiritual discernment, and all they have left is the outward appearance of being religious. Their belief system, instead of upgrading their lives, justifies their sin. They see themselves as having a sort of spiritual "diplomatic immunity." They are saved, after all, and therefore can do what they want with impunity, with no fear of spiritual law enforcement authorities. They are saved, so to hell with everybody and everything else. They're waiting for the rapture, and enjoying God's piecemeal judgment of the world. They have almost completely lost the ability to recognize evil as evil, and to oppose it -- not with anger, but with love and strength, as Jesus did. Without real virtue, all that's left is hypocrisy, and Christianity in America today is full of it. The truth is, Christians have been powerless to stop the spread of evil throughout America, even within their own churches. I always thought good was supposed to be more powerful than evil. Maybe there's not too much good in today's Christians -- not enough, anyway. Yes, the truth is, if and when the terrible time foretold in Revelation comes, most of us probably won't even notice this manifestation of ultimate evil. After all, we've had a lot of practice. Source : WorldNetDaily.com YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE ... Big
Brother gets under your skin By Julie Foster New implant technology currently used to locate lost pets has been adapted for use in humans, allowing implant wearers to emit a homing beacon, have vital bodily functions monitored and confirm identity when making e-commerce transactions. Applied Digital Solutions, an e-business to business solutions provider, acquired the patent rights to the miniature digital transceiver it has named "Digital Angel®." The company plans to market the device for a number of uses, including as a "tamper-proof means of identification for enhanced e-business security." Digital Angel® sends and receives data and can be continuously tracked by global positioning satellite technology. When implanted within a body, the device is powered electromechanically through the movement of muscles and can be activated either by the "wearer" or by a monitoring facility. "We believe its potential for improving individual and e-business security and enhancing the quality of life for millions of people is virtually limitless," said ADS Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Sullivan. "Although we're in the early developmental phase, we expect to come forward with applications in many different areas, from medical monitoring to law enforcement. However, in keeping with our core strengths in the e-business to business arena, we plan to focus our initial development efforts on the growing field of e-commerce security and user ID verification." Dr. Peter Zhou, chief scientist for development of the implant and president of DigitalAngel.net, Inc, a subsidiary of ADS, told WorldNetDaily the device will send a signal from the person wearing Digital Angel® to either his computer or the e-merchant with whom he is doing business in order to verify his identity. In the future, said Zhou, computers may be programmed not to operate without such user identification. As previously reported in WND, user verification devices requiring a live fingerprint scan are already being sold by computer manufacturers. Digital Angel® takes such biometric technology a giant step further by physically joining human and machine. But e-commerce is only one field to which Digital Angel® applies. The device's patent describes it as a rescue beacon for kidnapped children and missing persons. According to Zhou, the implant will save money by reducing resources used in rescue operations for athletes, including mountain climbers and skiers. Law enforcement may employ the implant to keep track of criminals under house arrest, as well as reduce emergency response time by immediately locating individuals in distress. The device also has the ability to monitor the user's heart rate, blood pressure and other vital functions. "Your doctor will know the problem before you do," said Zhou, noting peace of mind is possible for at-risk patients who can rest in the knowledge that help will be on the way should anything go wrong. Indeed, peace of mind is Digital Angel®'s main selling point. "Ideally," the patent states, "the device will bring peace of mind and an increased quality of life for those who use it, and for their families, loved ones, and associates who depend on them critically." Referring to the threat of kidnapping, the patent goes on to say, "Adults who are at risk due to their economic or political status, as well as their children who may be at risk of being kidnapped, will reap new freedoms in their everyday lives by employing the device." Digital Angel®'s developer told WND demand for the implant has been tremendous since ADS announced its acquisition of the patent in December. "We have received requests daily from around the world for the product," Zhou said, mentioning South America, Mexico and Spain as examples. One inquirer was the U.S. Department of Defense, through a contractor, according to Zhou. American soldiers may be required to wear the implant so their whereabouts and health conditions can be accessed at all times, said the scientist. As of yet, there is no central DigitalAngel.net facility that would do the job of monitoring users -- the task will most likely fall to the entities marketing the device, said Zhou. For example, if a medical group decides to market Digital Angel® to its patients, that group would set up its own monitoring station to check on its device-users. Likewise, militaries employing the implant will want to maintain their own monitoring stations for security purposes. But for critics, military use of the implant is not at the top of their list of objections to the new technology. ADS has received complaints from Christians and others who believe the implant could be the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. The Book of Revelation states all people will be required to "receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark." (Rev. 13: 16-17) In an increasingly cashless society where identity verification is essential for financial transactions, some Christians view Digital Angel®'s ID and e-commerce applications as a form of the biblical "mark of the beast." But Zhou dismisses such objections to the implant. "I am a Christian, but I don't think [that argument] makes sense," he told WND. "The purpose of the device is to save your life and improve the quality of life. There's no connection to the Bible. There are different interpretations of the Bible. My interpretation is, anything to improve the quality of life is from God. The Bible says, 'I am the God of living people.' We not only live, we live well." Sullivan, responding to religious objections to his product, told WorldNetDaily no one will be forced to wear Digital Angel®. "We live in a voluntary society," he said. According to the CEO, individuals may choose not to take advantage of the technology. Zhou alluded to some Christians' objection to medicine per se, adding such opposition wanes when the life-saving, life-improving benefits of technology are realized. "A few years ago there may have been resistance, but not anymore," he continued. "People are getting used to having implants. New century, new trend." Zhou compared Digital Angel® to pacemakers, which regulate a user's heart rate. Pacemakers used to be seen as bizarre, said Zhou, but now they are part of everyday life. Digital Angel® will be received the same way, he added. Vaccines are another good comparison, said the scientist, who noted, "Both save your life. When vaccines came out, people were against them. But now we don't even think about it." Digital Angel®, Zhou believes, could become as prevalent as a vaccine. "Fifty years from now this will be very, very popular. Fifty years ago the thought of a cell phone, where you could walk around talking on the phone, was unimaginable. Now they are everywhere," Zhou explained. Just like the cell phone, Digital Angel® "will be a connection from yourself to the electronic world. It will be your guardian, protector. It will bring good things to you." "We will be a hybrid of electronic intelligence and our own soul," Zhou concluded. In the process of merging with Destron Fearing Corp., a manufacturer and marketer of electronic and visual identification devices for animals, DigitalAngel.net is scheduled to complete a prototype of the dime-sized implant by year's end. Company executives hope to make the device affordable for individuals, though no cost projections have been made. ADS, DigitalAngel.net's parent company, received a special "Technology Pioneers" award from the World Economic Forum for its contributions to "worldwide economic development and social progress through technology advancements." The World Economic Forum, incorporated in 1971 with headquarters in Geneva, is an independent, not-for-profit organization "committed to improving the state of the world." WEF is currently preparing for its "China Business Summit" in Beijing next month for the purpose of forging new economic alliances with the communist nation. Source : WorldNetDaily.com Britain's spy posts accused of listening in on business By Philip Sherwell in London and David Wastell in Washington BRITAIN and the US are facing unprecedented legal and political challenges from their European allies over a secret Anglophone spy network.
Britain's role has come under fierce fire as it is the only European member of the UK/USA alliance that operates the system. Canada, Australia and New Zealand subsequently joined the grouping that London formed with America in 1947 to pool security information. The sprawling Menwith Hill listening station in North Yorkshire is the most important international site for America's National Security Agency (NSA), the lead player in Echelon. A new report into Echelon's electronic surveillance commissioned by the European Parliament will fuel the row when MEPs debate its findings next week. The document lists high-profile cases in which American companies allegedly won contracts heading for European firms after NSA intercepted conversations. The Airbus consortium and Thomson CSF of France were among the reported losers. In Asia, the US used information gathered from its bases in Australia to win a half share of a significant Indonesian trade contract for AT&T that communication intercepts showed was initially going to NRC of Japan, according to a former NSA agent, Wayne Madsen, on Australian television last year. A lawsuit against the US and Britain is being launched in France, judicial and parliamentary investigations have begun in Italy, and German parliamentarians have demanded an inquiry. In the US, a Congressional investigation into the Echelon system starts this year amid concerns over possible privacy violations. A spokesman for the government reform committee said: "American people not only have the right to privacy, they have the right to know about it if their privacy is infringed." The committee will be able to issue subpoenas to federal officials and employees of NSA to compel them to give evidence. Although a 1996 book by a New Zealand whistleblower and an earlier 1997 report to the European Parliament disclosed the existence of Echelon, there had been no official confirmation in Britain or America until declassified US defence department papers were posted on the Internet last week. The first reference to the "highly controversial programme . . . codenamed Echelon" came in a 1991 document relating to military Sigint (signals intelligence) units at Sugar Grove in West Virginia. Despite the release, NSA continued to refuse to confirm or deny Echelon's existence. The Home Office did not respond to inquiries about Echelon last week. Senior British intelligence officials have, however, denied that there is a "word spotting" search system that allows calls of intelligence interest to be selected by the use of key words or names. The report, to be presented to the European Parliament's civil liberties committee on February 22, agrees that "word spotting" does not exist. Instead, the millions of satellite communications monitored each day are reportedly sifted by so-called "dictionary" computers that check messages against a database of targets such as names, topics, addresses and telephone numbers. If there is a match, the intercepts are relayed to security agents for analysis. The biggest data-collection centre is at NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, while Britain's largest centre is GCHQ in Cheltenham. The investigations will throw embarrassing light on the clandestine Anglophone listening operation. The biggest challenge seems likely in France, where strict privacy laws mean that it is necessary to prove only that an attempt to breach the privacy of an individual has been made, not that the intrusion was harmful. A leading Parisian law firm said said last week that it would file the French equivalent of a class action suit to sue the US and Britain, representing individuals and firms that claim they have lost contracts because of "theft of information". David Natas, a lawyer specialising in computer crime, said: "The French are extremely angry. They should tear down the listening stations in Cornwall." In Italy, parliament's secret services committee has opened an inquiry, as have magistrates in Rome. Carlo Sarzana, an assistant chief preliminary judge, said of NSA's intercepts: "The scope is not military." But there are plenty in Washington who believe that NSA is simply doing its duty, and say that European secret services pursue the same policy. One congressional insider said: "The French are like whining babies. They always seem to find a reason for any of their failures." Links : Echelon 'confirmation': Not [3 Nov '99] - Wired News Echelon: Surveying surveillance [16 Nov '99] - ZDNet Exposing the global surveillance system [Winter '97] - CovertAction Quarterly Echelon: America's secret global surveillance network - Patrick S Poole Politics and intelligence sites [extensive links] - Jane Affleck US spies 'meddle in EU business' Smart Cards and Implantable Chips [The author does not necessarily agree with all the religious contents of this article found at this website Smart Cards and Implantable Chips] The smart card and the implantable chip are not science fiction, they are already in use. In the mid 1980’s at a medical computer convention in Washington, D.C. the smart card was promoted as a means of recording all pertinent personal and medical data on a small card, the size of a credit card, which an HMO could give its enrollees to carry and use at all of the plan’s participating Doctor’s offices, clinics, and hospitals. It certainly appeared to be a very useful concept: this is the danger. The smart card and the implantable chip will first be promoted for an evidently good reason. The implantable chip, which is already being used in animals, would be promoted as the means to identify children so that if they were lost or kidnapped their location could be found by use of satellite scanning with an error of only about four feet. They will promote the implanatable chip as the way to go for credit since it cannot be lost or stolen like a credit card, debit card or smart card: an evidently good reason. In addition the use of a smart card allows the bank to have the use of your money earlier than it now does. At the present time, the Dulles toll road and Greeway extension, in Northern Virginia, use a card in which money equivalent is purchased and used along these roadways. As the card slowly drives through the tollgate the proper toll is automatically deducted from the smart card. This is promoted as a convenience for people who do not have to keep the proper amount of change on hand, or stop in a line to change money to pass through the toll booth. New Jersey plans to introduce the smart card as the driver’s license. A pilot program was introduced in the fall of 1996 and, if successful, was to be used for all New Jersey automobile licenses, about six million, beginning in 1997. These could and maybe would contain eventually, in addition to the standard information on a driver’s license, fingerprints, driving records, registration and insurance information, medical records, digital cash for bus and train fares, vehicle registration and use on state toll roads, history of past arrests, tax records, and other data in the government’s data base. These could also be used as debit cards for banking, and to pay for gasoline and groceries. The good offered by state officials is that this smart license will save people a lot of time, aggravation and money. Microchips Dr. Carl Sanders, Ph.D., is an electronics engineer, inventor, author and consultant to various government organizations as well as IBM, General Electric, Honeywell and Teledyne. He has won the Presidents and Governors Award for Design Excellence. Thirty-two years of his life were spent in design engineering and electronics designing microchips in the Bio-Med field. He served on landmark committees to develop many humane uses. Presently the microchip is so small it can pass through a hypodermic needle. A $1,500,000 study headed by Dr. Sanders involved 100 of the world’s best scientists. This study was to determine the most effective location of the microchip to experience maximum temperature changes. This was necessary because the microchip was to have its battery recharged through temperature changes while remaining under the skin of the body. The committee found the best location for the microchip was just below the hairline on the forehead and on the back of the right hand. The microchip, no larger than one quarter the size of a rice seed, is now capable of providing 250,000 components of recorded information. It will be most appealing to the unsuspecting as it will maintain health records, fingerprints, irrefutable identification for local, state and federal governments plus processing all financial transactions such as receiving paychecks and paying bills. In the process of using the chip they noticed it had a great effect upon behavior. They were able to determine that it could cause behavioral change. Birth control can be done through the use of the microchip which stops the output of the pituitary gland producing an instant menopause. This was tested in India and other areas of the world. The goal of the powers in control of the world is to reduce the global population by 90%: a size they believe is more easily controlled. The Washington Times, on October 11, 1993 published an article by Martin Anderson, "High-tech national tattoo" in which it was noted that there is an identification system made by Hughes Aircraft Company that one can’t lose: the syringe implantable transponder. A company in Austin, Texas, in 1993, developed a computer chip roughly 1/200th the size of a human hair. The implantable chip is currently used in tracking dogs, cats, horses, cattle, and other animals. Lately we have heard that in one area of our country the implantable microchip has been used to keep track of Alzheimer patients. Microchip pet identification, radio frequency identification (RFID) is available to pet owners nationwide. There are companies, which can be found by searching the internet, that manufacture the chips which are used in tracing pets, in keeping track of livestock and animals in zoos, and which are also used for industrial purposes. These chips can be scanned through wood and concrete, but not through certain metals. In the Iraq war we used this with military personnel where they were actually tracked using this particular type of device. Over 34 billion individual code numbers are now available. Once implanted the chip is virtually impossible to easily remove: fibrous tissue adheres to grooves in the glass surrounding the chip to prevent migration of the chip. Automobiles made after 1989 are said to have a chip in place which will allow them to be traced by a scanner. Everything is nearly in place to track and locate everyone. Motorola will, in the Iridium project, have 66 LEO (low earth orbiting) satellites in the sky with the capability of reading a postage stamp from 98 to 100 miles above the earth every few minutes. We have learned from searching the internet that these 66 LEOs are all scheduled to be operational by September 1998. Now the 98.6 F to 104 F body temperatures can positively identify the location of Christians and nonchristians alike. The satellites could be used to identify Christians by the lack of the mark of the beast. At the time of the persecution, when Christians and political opponents of the controlling governmental body can and will be traced, one method of tracing will be by scanning for the implantable chip in the hand. Another means of scanning for Christians or political dissidents besides the implantable chip in the hand, the right hand according to scripture, is the dot chip or microchip in the forehead, which we are led to understand, is a recent Japanese invention, which logic tells us can, and most probably will, be used to ensure that all children born in a hospital setting are marked, again with the evidently good excuse that there will no longer be confusion as to whose child it is. They will say that it will provide protection against the loss or abduction of the child. This means that, even if you don’t take the mark of the beast, you still can be traced through your child with the implanted chip or dot. In fact there are bills before Congress right now that will allow the injection of the microchip in your child at the time of birth for identification purposes. The President of the United States under the "Immigration Control Act of 1986", Section 100, has authority to deem whatever type of identification is necessary – whether it be an invisible tattoo or electronic media under the skin. 1998 – Pivotal Year When all the proposed satellites are in place in September of 1998, this will be possible. In an interview with Malachi Martin in early 1996, he stated: "Well, it is a known fact – not known by many people but it is known – that the Luciferian tradition, which is a very constant tradition, in the world, and above all, in Western civilization, the Luciferian tradition holds that the prince of this world, and by the way, it was Christ Himself who called him that, Lucifer, the prince of this world, has until 1998 to destroy the Church of Christ. Therefore, that is a pivotal year, both for the enemies of Christianity, and for Christianity itself, even from that merely Luciferian point of view." Father Gobbi gave us a message from Our Blessed Mother in September 18, 1988 that we had another 10 years before the mystery of iniquity will become manifest. In a later message about the meaning of the number 666, on June 17, 1989, Father Gobbi was again told by Our Blessed Mother that 666, taken thrice, 1998, is the year in which the door will be open for the appearance of the very person of the Antichrist. This is just between us (and the spies) The US National Security Agency has patented a new technology for monitoring millions of telephone calls, so watch out, it's now even easier for the spooks to eavesdrop on your conversations
- Independent News The US National Security Agency has designed and patented a new technology that could aid it in spying on international telephone calls. The NSA patent, granted on 10 August, is for a system of automatic topic spotting and labelling of data. The patent officially confirms for the first time that the NSA has been working on ways of automatically analysing human speech. The NSA's invention is intended automatically to sift through human speech transcripts in any language. The patent document specifically mentions "machine-transcribed speech" as a potential source. Bruce Schneier, author of Applied Cryptography, a textbook on the science of keeping information secret, believes the NSA currently has the ability to use computers to transcribe voice conversations. "One of the holy grails of the NSA is the ability automatically to search through voice traffic. They would have expended considerable effort on this capability, and this indicates it has been fruitful," he said. To date, it has been widely believed that while the NSA has the capability to conduct fully automated, mass electronic eavesdropping on e-mail, faxes and other written communications, it cannot do so on telephone calls. While cautioning that it was difficult to tell how well the ideas in the patent worked in practice, Schneier said the technology could have far-reaching effects on the privacy of international phone calls. "If it works well, the technology makes it possible for the NSA to harvest millions of telephone calls, looking for certain types of conversations," he said. "It's easy to eavesdrop on any single phone call, but sifting through millions of phone calls looking for a particular conversation is difficult," Schneier explained. "In terms of automatic surveillance, text is easier to search than speech. This patent brings the surveillance of speech closer to that of text." The NSA declined to comment on the patent. As a general policy, the agency never comments on its intelligence activities. Yaman Akdeniz, director of Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties UK, warned that with the new patent and a proposed AT&T and BT joint venture, which will allow US law enforcement agencies to tap the new communications network: "We might have a picture in which all British communications are monitored by the NSA." The revelation of the NSA's patent is likely to cause tensions with the European Parliament. Over the past two years, the Parliament has commissioned several reports which examined whether the NSA has been using its electronic ears for commercial espionage, particularly in areas where US corporations compete with European and other companies. The NSA relies on an international web of eavesdropping stations around the world, commonly known as Echelon, to listen into private international communications. The network emerged from a secret agreement signed after the Second World War between five nations including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Britain and the US. Two of the NSA's most important satellite listening stations are located in Europe, at Menwith Hill in Yorkshire and Bad Aibling in Germany. Julian Assange, a cryptographer who moderates the online Australian discussion forum AUCRYPTO, found the new patent while investigating NSA capabilities. "This patent should worry people. Everyone's overseas phone calls are or may soon be tapped, transcribed and archived in the bowels of an unaccountable foreign spy agency," he said. One of the major barriers to using computers automatically to sift through voice communications on a large scale has been the inability of machines to "think" like humans when analysing the often imperfect computer transcriptions of voice conversations. Commercial software that enables computers to transcribe spoken words into typed text is already on the market, but it usually requires the machine to spend time learning how to understand an individual voice in order to produce relatively error-free text. This makes such software impractical for a spy agency which might want automatically to transcribe and analyse telephone calls on a large scale. It is also difficult for computers to analyse voice conversations because human speech often covers topics that are never actually spoken by name. According to the NSA patent application, "much of the information conveyed in speech is never actually spoken and... utterances are frequently less coherent than written language". US Patent number 5,937,422 reveals that the NSA has designed technology to overcome these barriers in two key ways. First, the patent includes an optional pre-processing step which cleans up text, much of which the agency appears to expect to draw from human conversations. The NSA's "pre-processing" will remove what it calls "stutter phrases" associated with speech based on text. Second, the patent uses a method by which a computer automatically assigns a label, or topic description, to raw data. If the method works well, this system could be far more powerful than traditional keyword searching used on many Internet search engines because it could pull up documents based on their meaning, not just their keywords. Dr Brian Gladman, former MoD director of Strategic Electronic Communications, said that while he doubted the NSA had deployed the patented system yet, the new technology could become a "potent future threat" to privacy. "If the technology does what it says automatically finding and extracting the meaning in messages with reasonable accuracy then it is way ahead of what is being done now," he said. The best way for people to protect their private communications was to use encryption, he said. Encryption software programs scramble data to prevent eavesdropping. "I'm afraid widespread interception is a fact of life and this is what makes encryption so important," he said. "The problem in the UK is that our government is working with the US to prevent UK citizens defending themselves using encryption," he said, referring to the continuing use of export controls to hamper the widespread availability of encryption products. The NSA's current spy technology may be more advanced than methods described in the patent because the application is more than two years old. The US Patent Office approved the patent on 10 August this year, but the NSA originally lodged the application on 15 April 1997. The US Patent office keeps all applications secret until it issues a patent. Is the Government Watching Your Computer? By David Noack, Internet: APBnews.com, 10/29/99 NEW YORK—Be careful what you type on your computer—someone may be watching, and it just might be the government. The release of two documents from the National Security Agency (NSA) shows that the government has long had the ability, going back at least a decade if not more, to clandestinely eavesdrop on what people type on their computer. The findings were revealed when the NSA recently released sanitized versions of the documents to John Young, a New York City architect and cyber-activist, who filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request May 14, 1998. In all, Young asked for a total of 22 various publications and papers dealing with TEMPEST, a code name for electronic listening devices that can read and record the electromagnetic signals that come from computers. TEMPEST, which stands for Transient Electromagnetic Pulse Emanation Standard, is a technology that allows for this kind of electronic eavesdropping. Young received a 172-page document, in which about half was redacted, called “Compromising Emanations Laboratory Test Requirements Electromagnetic.” The other document, which was 12 pages long, is called “NSA/CSS Technical Security Program,” and only a few sections have been hidden from public view. The NSA released the documents Oct. 7. However, in a letter to Young from the NSA, the agency stated that the rest of the “publications, manuals and guidelines” related to TEMPEST were being denied for national security reasons. “The documents are classified because their disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause serious damage to the national security,” wrote Sally V. Seward, deputy director of policy at the NSA. Up until now, the public has been largely unaware of this technology. But Young hopes to spark a debate about its use. For the most part, the military and intelligence communities, along with a growing industry created to combat the prying spy technology, have been privy to the capabilities of the technology. With the right equipment, the electromagnetic radiation given off from computers can be intercepted from a remote location, and then redisplayed in the case of a monitor screen or recorded and replayed with a printer or keyboard. “I first learned about it a couple of years ago. TEMPEST is a terrific threat to privacy,” Young said. “With standoff technology there is no need for physical access to buildings or equipment, and no law forbids its use. The only limitation is the technological reach of the snooping equipment, which is one of the secrets closely guarded.” He said that while the intelligence community may be using this technology to spy on foreign governments, TEMPEST can also be used by companies to spy on the competition and by domestic law enforcement agencies to spy and gather information on citizens. FBI spokesman David Miller said the agency could not comment on Young’s allegations of domestic surveillance using TEMPEST technology. Computer security consultant Joel McNamara, who runs a Web site dedicated to public information about TEMPEST, said that both foreign governments and the United States are using this technology to electronically eavesdrop, and a large industry has been created to thwart the snooping devices. “Emanation interception is not something anyone can do. You’re talking about relatively expensive and sophisticated equipment as well as a fair amount of training. Someone engaging in an intercept is going to be well-funded and not able to get information from conventional surveillance techniques. The threat to the average person is very minimal,” said McNamara. He said personal privacy plays a small role in using this technology. The real goals, he said, are political and economic espionage issues. McNamara said that since computer monitors, hard drives and modems all give off electromagnetic radiation, the right equipment could reconstruct the data from these devices. McNamara said that displays on computer monitors have been spied on nearly a mile away. He said that spying from a satellite is impractical because there would be too much electromagnetic interference. Nowhere to Hide - The Mark of The Beast System (Possible Scenario)
Fed V.P. Wants Tracking Technology Embedded in U.S. Currency
October 28, 1999 by Y2K Newswire Y2K watchers knew this was coming: the attempt at making cash illegal. Now the Federal Reserve has taken the first step towards that Police State policy by suggesting that U.S. currency should include tracking information that would record how long someone has been holding a particular Federal Reserve Note (dollar bill). According to the suggestion by Marvin Goodfriend, a Senior Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, the longer someone holds currency, the less it will be worth. In other words, there would be a tax on holding currency. Y2K Newswire leaned of this through Declan McCullagh, author of the WIRED News story covering the same topic. McCullagh, a reporter who thrives on privacy issues, nailed the Fed on this story. In it, he quotes Goodfriend saying, "The magnetic strip could visibly record when a bill was last withdrawn from the banking system. A carry tax could be deducted from each bill upon deposit according to how long the bill was in circulation..." The idea behind the paranoid suggestion? This would deter hoarding of currency. CONSPIRACY THEORY? GUESS
AGAIN... See what happens when a nation abandons its power to coin money? With the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the U.S. government turned over the power to create currency to a private company, not even owned by Americans; also not owned by the federal government; one that doesn't pay taxes and answers to no one: the Federal Reserve. Perhaps this is the kind of thing President Woodrow Wilson was referring to when he said, after signing the Federal Reserve Act, "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." Or perhaps this was what Thomas Jefferson was talking about when he said, well before the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks...will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." Author Sheldon Emry, in a recommended-reading essay titled, "Billions for the Bankers, Debts for the People," explains both the historical and present-day context of the Federal Reserve system. WHO OPPOSES THE CURRENCY
TRACKING SCHEME? Certainly, many Americans will oppose the idea, too, but a far greater number will nod accordingly, and with glazed eyes and a zombie-like voice, they will say, "Yes, master. Yes, master. The currency tracking is a good idea, master." AN EVEN MORE PARANOID IDEA Read that carefully: "suspending the payment of currency for deposits" is Fed-speak for, "making cash withdrawals illegal." THE BIG PICTURE These people, of course, have lost all touch with any idea of personal freedom and individual rights. This is the scary part. Lacking these basic values, it's very easy for them to up the ante by suggesting cash be outlawed altogether. They'll say they are "fighting crime," of course, which will create public support for the measure. Americans, it seems, are willing to give up any measure of freedom when the phrase, "fighting crime," is invoked. They think they are giving up a little bit a freedom for a little bit of security when, in fact, as Jefferson once concluded, they will end up with neither. In a few short years, we could find ourselves in a cashless society, where all financial transactions are tracked, monitored and profiled. It's no longer a conspiracy theory. There are no black helicopters hovering over this editor. The plan is now evident; it's laid out right in front of us. Cash must go. Will most Americans care about this? No. Will they do anything to stop it? No. Will Y2K change the situation? Probably not. Are we stuck with this? Yep. That is, as long as we keep electing the same parties and the same families to positions of power. Until we have a reformist President who can educate the American people about freedom, nothing will change. And if you think voting Bush into office will change anything, you're kidding yourself. Next November, vote for reform. PC biometrics
proliferating IT managers will soon have more affordable options for biometric security for PCs. At Comdex in Chicago this week, several vendors are expected to unveil products that authenticate PC users and protect data using retinal scanning and voice, face and fingerprint technology. SAFlink Corp., of Tampa, Fla., will demonstrate a suite of software-based biometric products aimed at the Internet, networks and PCs. Two of the products that will be demonstrated at the show are SAFty Latch and SAFsite. SAFty Latch is a $60 software package bundled with a microphone that uses voice recognition technology to protect files. SAFsite, which bundles voice, face and fingerprint recognition technology, is built for Web developers and site administrators. The product provides two layers of protection: the SAFtyPIN password and a choice of remote facial, voice or fingerprint authentication over the Internet by using a digital camera, a microphone or a customized fingerprint reader. SAFsite starts at $995. The company is rolling out an update to SAFsite for enterprises, called SAF2000. The product will start at $200 per 10-user license. Dallas-based Citadel Technology Inc. is presenting a similar suite of security products, which includes WinShield, FolderBolt and NetOff. WinShield provides application-, device- and setting-specific lockouts for the PC using password protection. With it, users will be able to control everything from network access to DOS and CD-ROM access through the administrator interface. FolderBolt is a security application for the PC that uses the Triple Data Encryption Standard to provide security options such as password protection and secure file deletion. NetOff provides network security for unattended PCs. The software logs off inactive PCs and provides password protection for screen savers and the ability to customize log-off policies per client. All three products are available now in volume discounts. Also at Comdex, IrisScan Inc., of Marlton, N.J., will update its iris recognition technology, which stores an image of a PC user's eye for authentication. The personal imager, called PC Iris, includes a digital camera, which scans the user's iris while the software stores the data locally or for access over a network. PC Iris is being revamped with some software fixes that add, among other things, time stamping. The product will be priced at $500 when it becomes available this week. Meanwhile, vendors will use the show to give some older technologies a face lift. Microsoft Corp., for one, will launch its digital optical mouse, the IntelliMouse Explorer. While it may look like a sleeker version of the traditional mouse, the IntelliMouse Explorer has no internal moving parts. Instead, it contains an infrared lens that reads gradient changes in the textures it passes over. The mouse works via the Universal Serial Bus and, according to officials of the Redmond, Wash., company, will work on both a PC and a Macintosh. The $75 mouse can also be used with older PCs via a PS/2 plug converter, which will come with the product when it hits retail shelves late this summer. Biometrics on tap for Comdex
Bio-Identity Everybody is different. In addition to making for interesting times, this abundance of biodiversity is also helping businesses and individuals secure access to their sensitive files and precious network resources by Jon Halpin It would seem that we are living in times of great suspicion. With corporate IT managers setting up remote accounts and home users ordering sweaters from jcrew.com, everyone is voicing concerns about security. Consumers are worried about their "identity" being stolen or even sold through the use of passwords, codes, credit card fraud, or even agent technology. Corporations are concerned about unauthorized access to private company data stored on the network or notebooks being stolen from mobile employees. The demand for more effective security, however, has created a tremendous market for companies that can create more innovative solutions, particularly in the field of biometrics--verifying an individual's identity through unique physical characteristics, such as fingerprints, voice recognition, iris and retina scans, facial scans, handwriting verification, or hand geometry. "Biometric technology makes the task of stealing identity much harder," according to Clint Fuller, CEO of the biometric vendor SAFLink, "Passwords and codes can be guessed, replicated, or passed along, but due to the unique qualities of biometrics, it is a much better way of ensuring positive identity. You cannot easily copy a fingerprint or retinal scan, but you can crack passwords." Biometrics is not a new industry. It's been used for decades by the government and law-enforcement agencies, but has been too expensive to manufacture and sell commercially--until recently. At the 1998 International Security Conference, Barry Wendt, CEO of SAC Technologies, said, "The growing market is a direct result of today's advanced computer hardware. The faster, cheaper PCs on the market can handle the data-processing needed to verify an identify from a fingerprint, a voice, or a face--all in the time it would take to swipe a card or type in a password." Biometric verification systems are essentially data-acquisition devices and software that read data (fingerprints, voice, and so on) using sensor inputs. They convert analog data to digital data, then compare the data with reference data already stored in a software database to verify identity. System manufacturers, banks, and online merchants are all beginning to recognize the advantages of biometric technology and are implementing verification systems that are more secure. SAFLink's Fuller says, "One of the most promising areas for biometrics is the Internet--mainly for electronic transactions. There is a big issue in security over the Internet, and biometric technology can really shine there. The medical and health industry is another big area. Legislation dictates that health care must use more secure measures and regulate who is seeing what confidential information, for example." If COMDEX/Fall '98 is any indication, biometrics may be evolving faster than anticipated. Many companies announced plans to include some form of biometric security in their product lines in the coming year, and many others showcased new verification systems. Fingerprint authentication was the most popular and most evolved system, but there were also prototypes of smart cards with voice-recognition features and iris and facial scanners. Y2K as a Catalyst for the Leftist, Insider, New World Order Conspirators to Reign in Their Control. A Summary of NWO Intrigues The following essay/letter was written by a computer professional who has moved into the hills in Australia. The letter was to his wife who has left him, and the copy was sent to David Gould <coffee@infotech.net.mx> by a good friend of his. Source : Y2K as a Catalyst for Leftist to Reign in Control
The above essay/letter was written by a computer professional who has moved into the hills in Australia. The letter was to his wife who has left him, and the copy was sent to David Gould <coffee@infotech.net.mx> by a good friend of his. Iridium : Terrorism and Treason : Is Osama bin Laden a CIA
paid terrorist ? WorldNetDaily.com - Wednesday, September 2, 1998
Even for those of us who suspected the timing of these attacks had more to do with Clinton's personal scandals than real foreign policy objectives, we had few doubts that bad guys had actually been targeted. Remember what the president said? He claimed he stayed "up till 2:30 in the morning trying to make absolutely sure that at that chemical plant there was no night shift." Right out of Michael Douglas' script in "The American President," Clinton added, "I didn't want some person who was a nobody to me, but who may have a family to feed and a life to live, and probably had no earthly idea what else was going on there, to die needlessly." Touching. But like so many well-rehearsed, contrived statements that emanate from this president's mouth, it had little basis in truth or reality. Remember, this is the same administration which informed us immediately after the strike that the plant was a highly secretive, tightly secured military-industrial site that produced no commercial products. Whether or not it turns out the plant actually made nerve gas at all, many other initial reports have proven to be lies, including the charge that the plant was directly financed by Saudi millionaire terrorist Osama bin Laden. Now let's keep in mind that President Clinton personally chose the bombing site, a medicine factory with a United Nations contract, from among a larger set of targets presented to him by military planners. Sounds like he's got some more explaining to do. Can he blame Kenneth Starr for this, too? Then there's the matter of Osama. We're certainly getting a different picture of this terrorist than we got from the early reports by the Clinton administration. It turns out Osama bin Laden's family is one of the richest of the rich -- worth an estimated $5 billion. It's a pretty well-connected family, too. His brother is a director of the U.S. telecommunications giant Iridium, which is set to launch a revolutionary new global satellite communications system. And guess who has launched Iridium's satellites into space? You guessed it. Clinton's friends in China. And who are the family's partners on Iridium? Clinton's friends at the Loral Corp. and Hughes Electronics. The family also does millions of dollars of business with the U.S. government, having built an Air Force base for us in Saudi Arabia after Osama was blamed for blowing up the Khobar Towers in 1996. So let's get this straight. Osama blows up our facilities, and his family gets the contract for rebuilding them. Do you get the feeling there is more going on here than meets the eye? Then there are the questions concerning the other targets of our cruise missile attacks -- Osama's terrorist bases in Afghanistan. Of course, Osama survived the attacks, having, apparently, been tipped off in advance. Was he really the target? Or were these attacks one more example of what the Clinton administration has become famous for -- symbolism over substance. If the U.S. really wanted Osama, he could have been picked up any number of times in the past on his frequent visits to America, when he has stayed at the finest hotels in New York. It all sounds hauntingly like the catastrophic Waco raid also conducted by this administration. David Koresh could have been served with a warrant any time he ventured into town. The local sheriff would have been happy to serve him personally. Instead, the ATF chose to turn a minor affair into a massacre of men, women and children. There
are reports even from Afghanistan that more than terrorists were
hit. Normally, we could dismiss accounts that mosques were struck
as predictable political propaganda by anti-American extremists.
But, with the track record of the Clinton administration insofar
as truth is concerned ... just whom are we to believe? Crypto and campaign money WorldNetDaily.com - August 11, 1998 One key feature of national security and campaign money that has surfaced again and again in the Clinton/China scandal is U.S. cryptography. The sale of U.S. technology for scrambling messages and satellite control with secret codes. For example, Mr. Clinton used his pen to help Loral, Motorola and Hughes to obtain export licenses for encrypted satellite telemetry chips that can withstand the intense radiation of space ... or an atomic war. The Motorola man inside the White House was Dr. Richard Barth. Dr. Barth worked at the White House National Security Council (NSC) under President Bush and President Clinton. Dr. Barth left the NSC in 1993 but came back to make encryption policy in the White House. In 1993 and 1994, ex-NSC member Barth, made U.S. export policy, as a contractor, while employed as Assistant Director for Trade Relations at Motorola Corp. On December 23, 1993, George Tenet wrote a National Security Council Secret memo to Daniel B. Poneman, tasking Richard Barth to help make policy. Tenet wrote to Poneman that he had "a lengthy meeting yesterday with Sue Eckerd, and Bill Clements ... finalizing our PRD (Presidential Review Directive) and discussion paper on exports for a restricted/modified principals meeting on encryption that I hope can be scheduled for mid-January." "Next week," continued Tenet in the December 1993 secret memo, "we should sit down and discuss all of this. I will give you as much background as you may need. Clements and Barth continue to work the issue for Commerce. Sue Eckerd and I have established a good relationship all of this as well." Yet, two months later ex-NSC turned contractor Barth would receive a request from U.S. Commerce trade assistant Melissa Moss for Motorola to contribute information for the 1994 Brown trade mission to Russia. Barth's reply included the bio of Motorola's CEO, Gary Tooker, and Motorola's desire to end all the cold war restrictions on high-tech trade with Russia. On March 11, 1994, Barth (the Motorola employee) wrote a reply to the Commerce Dept. with documents outlining Motorola's desired participation. "We look forward to a very positive outcome of the presidential level talks leading to abolishing of COCOM restrictions on communications products and the streamlining of procedures within the Russian Government." Thus, Barth not only knew what was on tap for the Russia trade trip -- he knew what the export policy would be, in advance, because he helped make it. Further documents show later in November 1994, Barth began pressuring the State Department, through Assistant Secretary Thomas McNamara, for the export of Motorola encryption technology to China. This letter was obtained from the White House National Security Council (NSC). "This is to request that your office initiate action to obtain a waiver from requirement for individual export license notifications to Congress for wireless mobile communications systems containing encryption for China," wrote Barth to McNamara. "Such a waiver was issued by the President in September of this year for civilian satellite systems and encrypted products for use by American firms operating in China." Clearly Richard Barth knew that President Clinton wrote an encryption equipped satellite export waiver in September 1994. Clinton's waiver was written one month after the August 1994 Brown trade trip to Beijing. Loral's CEO, Bernard Schwartz, met with Lt. General Shen Roujun of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) on that trip, a meeting arranged by Ron Brown and Bill Clinton. Another 1995 Motorola document details the close working relationship between Motorola and the White House. This document, obtained from the NSC, is a fax letter which was cc'd to various Clinton administration players such as George Tenet inside the White House. Barth and Motorola sought a Presidential waiver for encrypted radios for China. Barth blamed Britain and their NSA agency, called GCHQ (General Communications Head Quarters) for allowing European companies to sell encryption to China. Barth wrote "I urge you to get in writing to the State Department asap language that seeks a waiver for 'cellular, PCS and two way radio systems,' as recently agreed." Furthermore, Barth also opened the door for radiation hardened space-encryption systems. Barth wrote "while we now are not yet applying for licenses for encrypted systems for satellite system positioning, we may within months be applying for such licenses for our Iridium systems." One of the most recent documents obtained by using the Freedom of Information Act has the CEO of Motorola issuing his personal thanks to Ron Brown for helping obtain Clinton's signature. This document, written in July of 1995, is included in a series of Motorola memos exchanged between Motorola's CEO, the NSA, the White House National Security Council, Secretary of State Warren Christopher, and Ron Brown. In July, 1995, Tooker wrote to Brown "I am writing to thank you and some key members of the Commerce Department for your assistance in obtaining the Presidential waiver for encryption export sales to China." In short, the State Department objected where Motorola wanted to sell. Motorola told State to get out of the way because they had White House backing. Clearly, the path to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue went through the Brown Commerce Department. In the end, Motorola got the deal and sold the encrypted radios to the Chinese People's Armed Police (PAP). One year later, in 1996, the head of the Bureau of Export Administration, William Reinsch, wrote a secret memo on the failure of the Clinton encryption export controls. One reason Reinsch cited for the failure was the export of strong encryption devices to the "security forces" of other nations. Security forces such as the People's Armed Police (PAP). The red PAP is the execution branch of the Communist party and the guards of the "Lao Gai" concentration camps. I recently confirmed the PAP Motorola equipment with human rights activist Harry Wu. Wu is best known for his exposure of PAP units executing Chinese dissidents and then selling their human body organs for transplant. Mr. Wu confirmed that the PAP and Chinese Security services used Motorola encrypted radios when they arrested him. How many may have died for this technology? It is known that Loral is missing the encryption board from their failed Intelsat that fell on 200 Chinese civilians in 1996. The satellite in question was authorized by President Bush in 1992. Yet, the real problem with the Loral Intelsat crash is why were the crypto chips onboard the satellite in the first place? Radiation hardened encryption chips were listed as a separate item to be reviewed by the State and Defense Department under the U.S. Munitions List. There is no indication that President Bush made such a second or special designation in his waiver for Loral. In fact, President Clinton even denied the export of a satellite equipped with encryption to Australia in 1994. In 1998 Hughes admitted they exported two satellites with hardened crypto control chips without U.S. government permission. Loral, Hughes and even the Motorola Iridium satellites have all been exported with encryption. In June, 1998, the GAO testified "Waivers were also granted to permit the export of encryption equipment controlled on the Munitions List. One case involved a $4.3-million communications export to China's Air Force." The next orders for Red Chinese bombs to fall will be secured from interception thanks to President Bill Clinton. And where is Janet Reno, the CIA or FBI? Ms. Reno met with CIA Director Deutch, and FBI Director Freeh in her office in May 1996, to review encryption policy, including exports. At the same time -- a team of FBI agents were investigating the missing Loral encryption chips in China and their connection to Clinton. Within days of Ms. Reno's meeting, Loral requested that President Clinton delay processing their next satellite waiver request. Two months later, Loral asked Clinton to resume processing a modified satellite waiver. In July 1996, Bill Clinton signed a Presidential waiver for Loral to export Globalstar satellites to Russia for launch. Curiously, the waiver contained a second special feature -- the export of a fully operational satellite encrypted telemetry ground station to China. RELATED ITEMS: George Tenet Secret White House email 1993 & Richard Barth http://www.us.net/softwar/barth93.html Motorola 1994 correspondence on encryption exports. http://www.us.net/softwar/barth94.html Motorola 1995 correspondence on encryption exports. http://www.us.net/softwar/barth95.html Motorola CEO Gary Tooker to Ron Brown Feb. 1995 http://www.us.net/softwar/tooker2.html Motorola CEO Gary Tooker thanks to Ron Brown July 1995 for the Presidential waiver. http://www.us.net/softwar/tooker1.html June, 1998, GAO Testimony on Arming China - PLAAF encryption for $4.3 million http://www.us.net/softwar/gao176.html Reno, Freeh, Deutch May 1996 meeting - JPEG image - http://www.us.net/softwar/doccia.html Text - http://www.us.net/softwar/docciat.html Our pact with nuclear danger WorldNetDaily.com - May 4, 1999 In 1978, President Carter and Chinese Premier Deng Xioping made a secret U.S.-Sino pact "to setup, install, man, equip and service a series of SIGNIT (signals intelligence) sites along that country's border with the Soviet Union." According to a 1995 "Chinagate" document forced from the Clinton administration by Federal Court, CIA and Chinese Army intelligence agents jointly share two military radio signal intercept stations in China. The two sites are located deep inside the far-western province of Xinjiang at Qitai and Korla. The two stations were built and equipped with state of the art American electronics by the CIA's office of SIGNIT operations (OSO). Chinese Army personnel, who share the sites with U.S. NSA and CIA agents, are trained by the CIA inside the U.S. at a location just outside San Francisco, Calif. The People's Liberation Army SIGNIT agents are identified as coming from the Second Department of the Chinese Army General Staff division (GSD). The original intention of the joint U.S-Sino pact was to watch Soviet missile launches and nuclear tests during the cold war. The joint U.S.-Sino spy operation made sense in 1980 because one third of the Russian nuclear arsenal was then pointed at Beijing. In 1978, the cold war threatened to turn very hot along the Chinese border. In 1980, the SS-20, a new and frightening Soviet mobile missile was deployed against China and Europe. The SS-20 is a modern, solid rocket, tactical missile equipped with three, one megaton H-bombs. Hundreds of mobile Soviet SS-20 missiles ranged from the Urals to Siberia, threatening to pour thermonuclear warheads onto any target in Europe and Asia with little or no warning. Today, the Soviet Union is no more. There is nothing for the sites at Qitai and Korla to monitor. The Soviet missile launch sites are now rusting hulks on abandoned bases. Russia has destroyed all of the dangerous SS-20 missiles. Furthermore, Russian nuclear bomb tests are done inside U.S. built super-computers, peddled to Moscow weapons labs by President Clinton's Silicon Valley supporters. Yet, the 1995 document suggests that the joint PLA/CIA operation to gather signals from Russia may not have ended with the Cold War. Operations at these two sites appear to have expanded to include Asian military communication, radar and computer networks. Since his election in 1992, the joint U.S.-Sino tap on Asian communications appears to have been moved into a new and global phase under President Clinton. The "strategic" partnership between Bill Clinton and the Chinese Generals included a vast array of new equipment and training to the Chinese Army Signal Corps. Modern war dictates that signal intercepts must be done by satellite. The most modern element of Chinese Army Signals intelligence (SIGNIT, COMINT and ELINT) is the "Ferret" satellites operated by Beijing. Chinese Army satellite intelligence operations are led by the Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND). In 1995, COSTIND was run by the notorious spy-master General Ding Henggao. Ding and other PLA officers under his command met and worked directly with Commerce Dept. officials to transfer a wide array of technology to China. COSTIND and General Ding bought satellites, fiber-optic communications, super-computers, GPS systems, encrypted (secure) communication, and radiation hardened microchips. The contacts, detailed in over 1,000 pages of materials forced from the Clinton administration, shows that China Great Wall Industry is a company controlled by the PLA unit COSTIND. According to the documents, Great Wall is owned by "China Electronics Systems Engineering Company (CESEC), a subsidiary of the People's Liberation Army." The Commerce Department knew in 1993 that Great Wall, along with nine other PLA controlled companies, had sold nuclear tipped M-9 missiles to Pakistan. Less than a year later, in 1994, Great Wall was allowed to buy into the Iridium satellite project run by Motorola. The PLA share included launching Iridium satellites on Chinese rockets and a host of other advanced space technologies including satellite telemetry stations, and encrypted satellite control systems. According to Henry Sokolski, Executive Director at the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, the Iridium sale "helped China master the technology needed to develop its own multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles for the new solid rocket intercontinental ballistic missile it is trying to derive from SS-25 missile technology with the Russians." In short, China can now effectively double the number of H-bombs it can deliver on America thanks to Motorola. What is the difference between twenty thermonuclear bombs and forty? The difference works out to about 100 million dead. Great Wall now sells Iridium satellite phone service at great profit to Asian customers, including its parent/owners in the PLA. Iridium, however, has been plagued by delays and is not showing any profit. In 1999, the CEO of Iridium was forced to leave after Great Wall had to return two Iridium satellites to Motorola. The satellites could not be launched from China because they were "contaminated" by an unspecified exposure. Motorola officials stressed that there was no security breach. Yet, the U.S. Defense Department has also signed a multi-million dollar contract with Iridium to provide the Pentagon with satellite phone service. Thus, the U.S. Army and the Chinese Army (again) share a valuable communications service and can "jointly" share the benefits. Iridium is not the only venture that Great Wall shares with Motorola. Great Wall has joined with Chinese billionaire Li Ka-Shing and Motorola to provide CDMA mobile phone networks to China. American CDMA technology, according to several documents from the Commerce Department and the State Department is the preferred cell phone of the Chinese Army signals branch. "CDMA or Code Division Multiple Access, is an advanced technology that permits high-volume communications in a small area, with limited interference from other traffic. It was originally designed for military communications applications in rear areas. Motorola will deploy 30 of its SC2450 base stations and an EMX 2500 E large capacity switch for the CDMA network." In Feb. 1999, the Clinton Chinagate scandal shot-down $500 million worth of satellites for the Chinese Army. APMT, the reported buyer of the Hughes satellites, is half owned by COSTIND, the same Chinese Army led by General Ding in 1995. According to the Defense Department, the Hughes satellites were to be equipped with a sophisticated 40-foot antenna that could intercept U.S. military communications. The APMT satellite sales also included secure, encrypted, voice and data communications. Hughes, of course, does not like this. Hughes, and its former CEO, Michael Armstrong, donated millions of dollars to the DNC and Bill Clinton. Both have also openly complained that national security reviews are a threat to their profit margins. However, PLA profit margins are also threatened by the truth about Chinagate. The facts on the "strategic" partnership between Bill Clinton and Chinese Generals were written up by his administration. One big fact is that the imbalance in U.S-China trade is financing the Chinese Army. According to one cable sent to the CIA and the Director of the NSA, "Production of civilian and dual-use products raised the revenues of many companies and helped to fill military budget shortfalls left behind by the Central government." According to another Commerce document, PLA profits are split between the PLA local unit and the General Logistics Division (GLD) of the Chinese Central Command: "Some of the money is used for training, as well as to improve the living standards of the troops, including barracks construction and repair ... other funds are used for more corrupt purposes, such as paying for lavish meals, expensive foreign luxury automobiles, and Swiss bank accounts." Some of the money from the PLA also made it into the DNC and Clinton's campaign bank account. Clinton took their money. Clinton turned a blind eye while American nuclear weapon secrets were stolen. Clinton knows the trade imbalance is filling the pockets of corrupt red warlords and financing the Chinese Army. Clinton sold the Chinese Army a vast array of technology, the weapons of nuclear war that now target America. Fifty years after Mao took the hearts and minds of China, the two nations stand further apart than ever before. The U.S.-China relationship that began after Mao, in 1978, was intended to prevent nuclear war. It had a purpose called "world peace" and may have saved millions of lives. The new Clinton-PLA "strategic" relationship does not serve that purpose. Related items: Red star over America WorldNetDaily.com -October 13, 1998 In 1989 China faced a military crisis. China was about to become an ex-superpower. In 1989, Major General Yang Huan, Chinese deputy commander of the second artillery (Strategic Rocket Forces), wrote a paper in the National Defense Review. Yang admitted that China had to improve rapidly the red nuclear missile force or face third-rank global status. General Yang outlined three areas absolutely necessary for China to "improve" its aging "first generation" of nuclear missiles. General Yang's three goals were to improve "the survivability ... the striking ability ... [And] the penetration technology of strategic weapons." According to Yang, "accuracy and power are chief factors used to judge weapon striking power." Yang wrote in 1989 that China's strategic missiles were cumbersome, inaccurate and unreliable. Yang predicted that in the near future American anti-missile defenses would halt any Chinese missile attack. According to Yang, "strategic weapons can be used in actual fighting only when they can penetrate enemy defenses and reach and strike the target a necessary condition to protect itself and destroy a target." Yang's fear was that America would deploy a "Star Wars" system large enough to neutralize China's nuclear missile force but small enough to not threaten Russia. The U.S./Iraq Gulf war that followed Yang's article was filled with nightly battles between Patriot and SCUD. The results from the Iraq war accelerated the military view that anti-missile systems could neutralize Chinese rocket forces. In 1994, General Ding Henggao served as chairman of the Commission on Science, Technology and National Defense Industry (COSTIND). General Ding solved China's nuclear strategic problems. In 1994, General Ding wrote a small article titled "Reforming Defense Science, Technology and Industry" that appeared in China Military Science. Ding wrote "in a future anti-aggression war, our country will uphold the concept of active defense. It means that active defense is not just defensive, it is offensive as well. Our air-defense weapons system and even the whole weapons system should have two capabilities. It could greatly help overall quality and effectiveness if we possess one or two effective weapons that can assume the offensive." In 1994 COSTIND took the offensive -- target USA. COSTIND Vice Minister, Lt. General Shen met and consummated a series of satellite deals with Bernard Schwartz, the CEO of Loral. The technology obtained from the COSTIND/Loral deals saved China billions in missile R&D and turned the Second Corps into a deadly force of thermonuclear war. The Loral operation led by General Shen revealed the many flaws in Chinese missile guidance and control systems. Improvements in rocket electronics design and guidance system assembly obtained directly from Loral were quickly applied to the Second Artillery's force of CSS strategic missiles. Loral engineers eagerly improved Chinese nuclear missile accuracy and reliability to near state-of-the-art. Previous flight test results indicated that almost half of the CSS class missile force would fail due to bad guidance. Today, China operates with the verified results from Long March test flights funded by U.S. satellite launches. The Chinese missile force will perform flawlessly, dropping nuclear payloads within yards of any target on Earth. The second artillery has a reliable global reach with powerful accuracy thanks to the successful COSTIND operation with Loral. General Shen also led the successful penetration of Hughes in the purchase of ASIASAT satellites. Again, through a series of meetings with Brown and U.S. Commerce officials, Shen or his operatives in front companies secured whole satellites from Hughes. The Hughes satellites provide the Chinese army with secure communications that are invulnerable to earth combat and highly accurate all weather navigation for strike bombers and missiles. In addition, the Hughes satellites provide direct TV and cable TV broadcasts to most of Asia. Thus, cable and pay-per-view services help pay for the Chinese army satellites. The brilliant planning and logistics mean that Chinese military communications pay for themselves. Another Hughes deal -- the HS GEM satellite with a unique 40-foot antenna will provide COSTIND owned Asia-Pacific mobile telecom with 16,000 secure voice channels, using man portable phones and radios. The APMT satellite can be used not only to provide secure military communications but the spacecraft also has "Passive ELINT interception capacity" -- or the ability to listen in on a wide variety of earth signals, including military communications. The COSTIND penetration of Hughes was so successful that General Shen managed to get his son, Shen Jun, a job at Hughes as the lead software engineer for all Chinese satellites. According to Hughes, Shen Jun had access to "proprietary" satellite source code. Shen's access made sure that no secret back doors or special computer virus traps were included inside the Hughes spacecraft by American intelligence services such as the NSA. COSTIND General Ding also spearheaded penetrations of American military technology, using his relatives. Ding's wife, Madam Nie Li, formed a "commercial" company called Galaxy New Technology. Madam Nie, using contacts with Commerce Secretary Brown and Defense Secretary Perry, purchased secure, real-time, fiber optic communications systems from American companies. The Galaxy New Technology secure fiber optic network is invulnerable to interference from nuclear attack and currently serves as the communications backbone for the General Logistics Division of the Chinese Army. Madam Nie did have some technical assistance from other COSTIND officials. Colonel Deng Changru, director of PLA communications, and Colonel Xie Zhichao, director of PLA electronics, are also members of Galaxy New Technology. Other COSTIND units working with the Ministry of Posts, China Great Wall Industries and China Aerospace, penetrated Motorola using satellite orbit contracts as paying bait for Iridium spacecraft. Motorola scientists eagerly modified, tested and verified a Long March satellite orbit bus that is capable of deploying two Iridium satellites. In September 1998, the CIA testified before the Senate National Security Committee that the Motorola technology is being modified by China to double the number of nuclear warheads on the CSS strategic missile. The Motorola transfer also allowed China to upgrade their DF-15 (DONG FENG - Maoist slogan "East Wind") missile with maneuvering warheads that can avoid American anti-missile defenses such as Patriot and Standard. Motorola transfers significantly upgraded the nuclear firepower and accuracy of Chinese weapons. Motorola technology transfers mean that Chinese warheads can now "penetrate enemy defenses." President Clinton wrote the waivers for Hughes, Loral and Motorola. President Clinton took money directly from COSTIND operations in the form of donations from the same American companies, and in some cases, donations directly from COSTIND related front companies. President Clinton paraded many of the projects as part of his golden era of economic expansion. President Clinton personally arranged for Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz to meet COSTIND Vice Minister General Shen. The spectacular success of this single Chinese army unit turned China into a regional power that dominates Asia and a world power capable of flexing military force anywhere on earth. It is no surprise that General Ding and COSTIND recently won the honors of the Chinese communist party. In early October 1998, Vice Premiere Zhu Rongji selected COSTIND over the Chinese Army Central Military Command (CMC) to run all space programs, including manned space flight. COSTIND won out over the older regular Army staff officers in the CMC for an obvious reason. General Ding is the most successful Chinese military commander since Mao. Mao took Mainland China in 1949 after fighting a 20-year war against both the warlords and the Imperial Japanese Army. General Ding turned the Second Artillery Corps -- the Chinese strategic missile force -- into a feared world power and defeated America without firing a shot in the short span of six years. General Ding and COSTIND will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Mao's revolution with a PLA space rocket. In July 1999, China will orbit a manned spacecraft. That craft will be under the command of COSTIND and a tribute to Ding. The new space powers granted to COSTIND are a reward to Vice Minister General Shen Rou-jun and Minister General Ding Ganghao for their brilliant and successful penetration of the Clinton White House. SOURCE DOCUMENT INDEX: General Ding and COSTIND Source Document The Commerce sex scandals WorldNetDaily.com - November 17, 1998 Ron Brown had a wide variety of lovers during his term as the Secretary of Commerce. The U.S. taxpayers funded many of Brown's sexual escapades directly with pay-offs, contracts and trade trips. Brown's lovers ranged from employees under him at the Commerce Department to outsiders wishing to cash in on the relationship. One such outside benefactor was Yla (pronounced "y-lah") Eason, president of OLMEC Toys. Eason eagerly cashed in on her alleged sexual relationship with Brown to make millions in the U.S. toy market. In 1994, Brown helped Eason cut an exclusive deal with the Chinese army to produce plastic dolls for sale in the U.S. Today, Yla Eason is a hunted woman on the run. Yla Eason is a young single mother with striking features, who traveled frequently with Brown. In fact, she was a highly favored escort of Ron Brown. Eason traveled to China, Hong Kong and on the Commerce trade mission to South Africa with Ron Brown. Each mission was fully funded by the American taxpayer. The Commerce Department picked Eason to serve as a speaking panelist at the 1995 BEM (Big Emerging Market) Conference in Washington. Some of her companions at these Brown sponsored events include other Democratic donors such as Bernard Schwartz, Sanford Robertson, Charlie Trie, John Huang and Nora Lum. In 1994, Eason took a Hong Kong cruise on board the luxury liner Pacific Princess -- the "Love Boat" -- with Brown. Eason and Brown sailed the midnight South Pacific waters while attending a very posh and private party thrown by their Asian hosts. Invitees to the "Love Boat" party included the president of the China CITIC bank. CITIC is part of the Chinese Communist government and a firm linked to international arms traffic. Wang Jun, chairman of CITIC, is also president of Poly Technologies, a Chinese weapon maker and exporter. In 1996, Wang Jun met with Ron Brown and Democratic National Committee fundraiser Charlie Yah-Lin Trie prior to meeting Bill Clinton and making a large contribution at a White House coffee/fundraiser. In 1994, Brown took Eason to China. Eason met in Beijing with officials of the China National Toy Association (CNTA) at the personal arrangement of Ron Brown. The CNTA is actually a front for the People's Armed Police (PAP) and the Chinese army (PLA). CNTA products are manufactured in Gulag-like prison factories called "laogai." Eason and Brown cut a deal with U.S. toy maker Hasbro to produce a line of "ethnically-correct" dolls in a Chinese army prison factory. Hasbro, of course, is a donor to the Democratic National Committee. Eason obtained the rights from Hasbro to the GI Joe plastic molds. Eason created the "Bronze Bombers" -- a line of African-American super-heroes, simply by painting the GI Joe doll faces black and charging $10 more. The "Bronze Bombers" were imported for sale in TOYS R US, KAYBEE Toys and Wal-Mart. According to Chinese dissident Harry Wu, the Chinese police and Chinese army run prison factories that produce a wide variety of goods, including Eason's "Bronze Bomber" line of dolls. Prisoners work from 12 to 16 hours a day, seven days a week, making highly volatile plastic products with no masks, no training and little ventilation. Statements provided by former prison camp guards to Mr. Wu show that torture and starvation is standard policy at Chinese prison factories. Following the Bronze Bomber success, Eason set up her company headquarters in Richmond, Virginia, locating it inside a federal tax-free zone. Eason also secured $1.4 million in private backing from minority lenders to finance a second ethnically correct "hero" doll. Earlier this year, WorldNetDaily ran an exclusive article on Yla Eason and her profitable affair with Brown. In response, Eason fled Virginia and has since disappeared. There are several people who would like to find Yla Eason and get their money back. The minority creditors have filed in Court against Eason and have seized the remaining Olmec inventory, including Eason's latest creation of ethnic genius -- 10,000 Malcolm X dolls. These dolls are the ethnically correct and politically incorrect toy story of the Clinton administration. The cover story is a successful businesswoman whose creations stirred pride in the African-American community. The ugly facts are that she cheated African-American parents with an Al Jolson-like paint scheme. She sold toys made in a slave labor camp. Eason shafted her minority financial backers and is now on the run. Yet, even the Malcolm X doll story has a perverted twist. Hasbro has recently announced a new "ethnically correct" General Colin Powell GI Joe doll released just in time for Christmas. The Colin Powell GI Joe is also made in China. Children and minority lenders are not the only ones to suffer from scandal in Ron Brown's bed. In fact, the world is one step closer to the brink of nuclear Armageddon because of Brown and Clinton. Brown had other intimate relationships outside Yla Eason. One confessed lover of Ron Brown is Nolanda Hill. Brown helped Ms. Hill establish TV and radio businesses, using minority set-asides provided by the Clinton administration. Brown obtained financial backing for Hill who then purchased TV and radio stations under the pretense of minority access. Hill would later re-sell the stations for great profit, generally to the same financial backers locked out by the minority-based project. Brown and Hill are accused of splitting the profits. Ms. Hill has testified under oath that Brown had some disturbing pillow talk after their passionate sex sessions. Brown confessed to her that the transfer of advanced U.S. military technology to China was treason. Hill testified that Brown was scared and ordered by the White House to destroy documents. Brown informed her that Clinton advisers John Podesta and Leon Panetta ordered him to cover-up the high tech China exports by destroying evidence. Brown made these startling accusations just prior to his death in 1996. Even today, the legacy of Ron Brown's sex-for-trade policy haunts the Clinton administration. Ron Brown was not the only Commerce employee with a lover on the side. John Huang allegedly stayed at his girlfriend's home in southern Maryland to avoid U.S. marshals. The marshals were attempting to serve Huang a subpoena to testify before Congress. In 1997, Commerce legal counsel Hoyt Zia testified about his role in hiding John Huang from federal authorities. Zia is a former Motorola employee who took a highly sensitive position under Ron Brown. Zia is currently in charge of super computer and other advanced exports at the Commerce Department. During Zia's last mission to Beijing in 1998, communist officials who denied access to inspect super computers previously sold to China rebuffed him. During his deposition, Zia admitted that he called Huang several times at an unspecified location in Maryland. Zia refused to release his personal phone records despite the fact he agreed to do so under oath. The phone data reportedly shows the exact location of Huang's hideout and the name of his lover. Zia openly admitted that he knew Huang was being sought by federal law enforcement. Zia, himself a sworn officer of the Commerce Department, purposely withheld the location of Huang from federal officials. Zia admitted that Commerce officials had given him Huang's deposition before his own testimony. Zia confessed that he and Huang would frequently leave the Commerce Department and work at DNC headquarters raising money from the Asian-American community. Zia, however, refused to comment on what he and Huang did after these late night sessions of dialing for DNC dollars. During his deposition, Zia denied that he had dated a former Commerce employee, who had taken a lobbying position with Iridium Corporation. Iridium is a joint satellite venture part owned by the Chinese army and part owned by Motorola. Zia smiled warmly during his deposition while denying that he and the Iridium lobbyist had sex. When the questioning grew detailed, Zia began to contradict himself and he confessed to keeping Huang's location secret. Zia abruptly ended his deposition by walking out. Zia was clearly shaken by the questioning. Zia has since refused to submit any further testimony despite court orders that he return. Motorola officials refused an offer to comment on Zia or Iridium efforts to lobby him. Motorola refused to confirm or deny the alleged sexual affair between Zia and their Iridium lobbyist. The use of sex in exchange for special trade deals is a disgusting and dirty tale. It is a Clinton legacy left for future historians to ponder but avoided by the Congress and the mainstream press. It involves money, toys and even national security. All the elements of a good spy novel or front-page expose. Sex, sex and more sex. The mainstream media is fascinated with Bill Clinton's sordid little love affair with his child like employee, Monica Lewinsky. Yet, the evidence suggests that sex for favors was not only a common activity in the Clinton administration -- sex for favors was a matter of national policy. RELATED ITEMS: Documents on Yla Eason and Ron Brown Iridium asks court to let satellites burn By Corey Grice update The world's first satellite-based phone system firm notified a federal bankruptcy court it failed to find a qualified prospective buyer by today's deadline and will shut down after less than two years in service. Iridium, which offers worldwide mobile voice service using a $5 billion constellation of satellites, will liquidate some of its assets to help pay for billions of dollars of debt. The company also is set to scrap its 66-satellite system by bumping the costly equipment out of orbit, which will cause them to burn in the atmosphere before plunging toward a watery grave. "Motorola is extremely disappointed that Iridium has not succeeded in its effort to emerge from voluntary bankruptcy," Motorola said in a statement. "Motorola and other Iridium investors have worked very hard to support Iridium's efforts to reorganize and continue operating the business. Unfortunately, that has not happened." Iridium's spectacular failure, despite more than a decade of planning, is largely the result of poor marketing and a service that was far too costly, particularly as cellular phone coverage and costs improved worldwide, analysts have said. Iridium has been a closely watched company because of its grandiose plans, elegant technology, significant financial backing from wireless industry heavyweight Motorola and a general fascination with space that dates to the days of Sputnik. The company launched service in November 1998, but not long after began missing revenue and subscriber targets. A string of executive resignations and generous time extensions from its investors and bondholders failed to alleviate the company's woes and the company filed for bankruptcy protections. Iridium's fate was effectively sealed when billionaire investor Craig McCaw two weeks ago opted against buying the company in a fire sale. Motorola said it will maintain the Iridium satellite system for a limited period of time, while finalizing a plan to "deorbit" the satellites. Iridium had hoped for an eleventh-hour rescue. Billionaire investor Craig McCaw considered buying Iridium, and appeared to represent the company's best bet, but backed away from the plan two weeks ago, sending Iridium scrambling for new suitors. Meanwhile, in a message yesterday to Iridium's 55,000 subscribers, chief investor Motorola wrote: "If you have not already done so, we suggest you consider making alternative arrangements for your communications needs in the event that Iridium service is no longer available." Already, competitor Globalstar Telecommunications is attempting to capitalize on Iridium's misfortune. Globalstar yesterday announced some of its distributors would offer rebates of up to $495 toward a new Globalstar phone for former Iridium users who trade in their handsets. Globalstar launched its full commercial service last month. Globalstar
looks to profit Even as Iridium prepares to pull its satellites from space, Globalstar Telecommunications has begun marketing a similar phone service and is convinced it will have success where others have not. The brief history of the satellite-based mobile phone market, which enables users to place telephone calls from almost anywhere on Earth via a revolving network of orbiting satellites, doesn't bode well for Globalstar's chances. The world's first satellite phone service, Iridium, filed for bankruptcy protection less than a year after becoming commercially available in November 1998. It finally shuttered its service last week. And only a takeover by billionaire investor Craig McCaw saved ICO Global Communications, which also sought bankruptcy protections, from a similar fate. "There is a market. But are the revenues available sufficient to cover the operating costs of the service? The answer is basically no," said Herschel Shosteck, president of Herschel Shosteck Associates, a wireless industry research firm. Stock in Globalstar has fallen steadily since January, highlighting investors' concerns about satellite phone systems. Still, Globalstar executives are confident that marketing blunders and a technologically costly network led to Iridium's demise, and that a market exists for satellite phone services. "It's frustrating for me to try and describe the (satellite phone) market because it's like trying to describe gravity: Even though you can't see it, it exists. You can feel it," said Globalstar chief executive Bernard Schwartz. "The fact is there are millions of people in the world without electronic communications." Globalstar executives say they are targeting select demographics, including industrial users such as maritime, military, mining and oil exploration businesses as well as developing nations where traditional communications infrastructure is sparse. "This is not meant for New York City or London, nor is it for people working in the soybean fields for 80 cents a day," Schwartz said. "It's meant for the people who are living in the villages around the world that all have the need to communicate. "It's a niche, there's no question about it," he admitted. "I really believe Iridium's demise was irrelevant to us because we're looking for a different customer. We wish they had been successful. We have to prove the model now." Different technology, new approach Some industry experts say Globalstar could have success because of its different technology and marketing approach. "The satellite industry is a healthy industry," said Ahmad Ghais, president of the Mobile Satellite Users Association, an industry trade group. "I still think Globalstar has a better chance. They don't do any switching in the sky so it's cheaper to build, and it's cheaper to buy the service." Globalstar, which recently made its service available commercially for the first time in the United States, believes it has a better business model and technology than that of Iridium. The company switches its calls on ground-based networks rather than switching calls over satellites in space as Iridium did. And Globalstar phones offer dual cellular and satellite modes, only using the space-based network when cellular coverage is spotty or nonexistent. Iridium's network is almost universally revered as a technological marvel. But its elegant system, which switched many calls in space, led to costlier service for consumers, experts said. "Iridium is an engineering masterpiece. As an engineer myself I tip my hat," Ghais said. "But it's not about building a better mousetrap. It's more important to understand the market and then figure out how best to build a system that addresses it." Globalstar believes it has done just that. However, analysts continue to express disappointment with the two separate phone numbers currently required when using Globalstar's dual-mode phones, as well as the cumbersome nature of the bulky and expensive handsets. "Their technology may be simpler and their marketing is different, but at the end of the day there are not enough people willing to pay to support the operating costs of the service," Shosteck said. "The writing's been (on the wall) since day one." Other analysts agree. "The bottom line is satellite telephony is a niche market," said Mark Zohar, a satellite industry analyst at Forrester Research. Analysts' concern Some financial analysts are concerned about subscriber demand for Globalstar's costly satellite-based mobile phone service, the potential for limited availability of the handsets, and lower-than-expected usage time. At least two investment banks recently have downgraded their ratings on Globalstar stock. Accordingly, the company's shares have fallen steadily since January. Shares have traded as high as $53.75 and as low as $12.63 in the past year. Stock in Globalstar's largest shareholder, Loral Space & Communications, also has been downgraded by Wall Street firms, and Loral shares have dipped since January. But through it all Globalstar executives remain positive, pointing instead to the differences between their company's system and Iridium's. "They (built) a system that served only the global roamer," Globalstar's Schwartz said. "It's not a mystery to us that they failed. It's only a mystery that they didn't try to change directions before it was too late." The global growth of cellular systems severely hurt Iridium, which is why Globalstar has targeted other niche markets. "(Iridium was) courting the international business traveler," Ghais said. "The reality is cellular has overtaken everyone's expectations and businessmen now have very convenient facilities almost anywhere they go." Iridium's aftermath Regardless of its failure, a handful of companies continue to hold out hope of acquiring Iridium's assets at rock-bottom prices. According to various media reports, companies such as Merit Studios and content distribution firm HotJump, among others, continue to submit purchase or takeover plans. Currently, a bankruptcy court order calls for Iridium to dismantle the service and destroy its 66 satellites. Ultimately, it may take a clear success or failure by Globalstar to put to rest questions about whether Iridium's operational death was more the result of poor leadership and marketing, or simply no market demand. Forrester's Zohar said: "Iridium kidded itself, somewhat arrogantly so, into thinking it could create a mass market." The onus now falls on Globalstar. M A R C H 2 8, 2 0 0 0 THEY'RE GOING to pull the Iridium satellites out of the sky and dump them into the ocean. Last Friday Iridium shut down all remaining accounts, and the bankrupt satellite phone service will be "de-orbiting" its space-borne assets over the next two years. The ritual sacrifice of sixty-six flaming satellites should be a major public event -- a Moon landing in reverse gear. Or, at least, the death of poor Iridium should rank with one of those final, kinda boring Moon landings, when people realized that the Moon is much less interesting than NASA said it was. If we miss the vital lesson in the squalid techno-carnage of Iridium, we have nobody to blame but ourselves. After this vast, smoking debacle, we should all grow up, make our peace with the loss of a chrome-plated illusion, and come to terms with the painful fact that big, shiny space rockets aren't the coolest things in the universe. There are precisely two ways in which space rockets are incredibly cool: One, if you're personally strapped inside one. Then, yeah, they're really amazing, but that's never gonna happen to you. Or two, if you're a Soviet in 1957. There's no press freedom, there's no toilet paper and the roof leaks, but man, the Soviet Union has space rockets!! Rejoice, comrade! We are storming the cosmos, we are shattering the surly bonds of Earth! We have seized the starry high ground, and this makes any earthly sacrifice worthwhile! Those times are quite dead now and deserve a formal burial. Nowadays, most people don't blindly believe swaggering space propaganda, where the glamour of technical accomplishment is fiercely valued over any hint of earthly practicality. (In a word, most people aren't Motorola engineers.) Iridium sacrificed five billion of other people's money, including, not surprisingly, rather a lot of money from gullible, poverty-stricken Russians. Iridium is the single greatest debacle in communications history. We really shouldn't paper over a mess of that size. We should watch with care and take note. My heart particularly goes out to that cult of trainspotter geeks who watch Iridium "satellite flares. " There are space-fan Web sites about this; it's a hobby thing. You bundle up nice and warm, consult your calculator for Naval Observatory time and azimuth coordinates, and tramp out into the predawn chill to witness an accidental gleam of sunlight off the remote orbital majesty of that multi-million-dollar passing bird. Great, huh? It brings the whole effort home, somehow; it's almost as if space rockets had something to do with you personally. But now the real fun starts -- if anyone's willing to look. Watching 'em gleam is nothing compared to watching 'em burn. Just think about it: fantastically advanced orbiting switching stations, chock-full of state-of-the-art circuitry, falling into our outer atmosphere like abandoned Cadillacs. They're still up there, sixty-six of them, spinning in the pure empyrean to the vivid strains of a Stanley Kubrick Strauss waltz. But wait -- that space-waltz was just a Hollywood effect, because in a real-life vacuum, there can be no Strauss soundtracks. In reality, there was only the near-silent radio crackle of Iridium phone calls -- and, in even harsher reality, there were never very many of those. Unlike NASA and the Soviet Union, Iridium had to work in a market economy, where nobody wants to pay big moolah for fantastic rocket prestige, as opposed to actual phone service. So they shut down the Iridium phones last week. Those gleaming birds fly in perfect, tomblike silence now, 485 miles due up -- until they're forced down flaming, one by one, to a cold, blind, final rendezvous with the bottom of the sea. http://www.feedmag.com/daily/dy032800_master.html Bruce Sterling writes science-fiction novels. He owns three computers, yet he has never been in a spacecraft. Iridium Gets Temporary Reprieve By BRUCE MEYERSON, AP Business Writer Monday July 31 5:21 PM ET Motorola told a bankruptcy court that it would keep the satellites running through Aug. 9 so Iridium can pursue a potential bailout by parties affiliated with Castle Harlan Inc., the New York investment bank that on Friday withdraw a $50 million plan to buy Iridium's assets. However, if those talks fail to produce a viable plan to save the bankrupt company, Motorola will have court clearance to proceed with plans to pull the satellites from orbit so they burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. Motorola has quietly kept the satellites running - providing limited phone service at a cost of millions of dollars per month - in hopes that new investors might rescue Iridium from the apparent death sentence handed down in March, when the bankruptcy court granted permission for the network to be destroyed. Washington-based Iridium launched its ``anywhere-on-Earth'' mobile phone service in the fall of 1998, but filed for bankruptcy protection by last August with debts of $4.4 billion. From the outset, customers complained about Iridium's inconsistent service and astronomical prices, including calling charges as high as $9 a minute and handsets costing $3,500. Prices were slashed last summer for both calls and the handsets, but Iridium's subscriber count only reached about 55,000 by the time commercial service was halted earlier this year. Castle Harlan first announced its interest in the satellite company back in June, prompting the bankruptcy court to approve a 45-day period for the investment firm to examine Iridium's books more closely. But just like Craig McCaw, the wireless magnate who briefly planned to bail out Iridium earlier this year, Castle Harlan clearly wasn't pleased with what it discovered. Latest Suitor Abandons Iridium LLC Friday July 28 6:30 PM ET NEW YORK (AP) - Another would-be savior is abandoning Iridium LLC in bankruptcy court, raising the possibility again that a $5 billion satellite system for mobile phones will be reduced to ashes in the Earth's atmosphere. Castle Harlan Inc., the New York investment bank that planned to buy Iridium's assets for just $50 million, said Friday it has decided that the business is too weak to save even at such a bargain-basement price. ``Although Iridium provides a magnificent international point-to-point telephone service, our due diligence and marketing studies were unable to confirm that Iridium would generate even low levels of revenue with a high degree of certainty,'' Castle Harlan said in statement. ``The result is that we must conclude that it would be economically inadvisable to move forward with the acquisition of the company's assets.'' Officials at Iridium did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment on the latest developments. Iridium's lead investor, Motorola, said it now plans to seek clearance at a court hearing scheduled for Monday in New York to proceed with plans to pull the satellites from orbit so they burn up in the atmosphere. ``For the past several months, we've held discussions with numerous parties that have expressed interest in operating the system and none has panned out,'' said Scott Wyman, a Motorola spokesman. ``Unless there's an acceptable proposal to operate the satellite constellation, we intend to finalize plans to decommission the system.'' Motorola has quietly kept Iridium's satellites running - providing limited phone service at a cost of millions of dollars per month - in hopes of ducking the apparent death sentence that was handed down in March, when a U.S. bankruptcy judge granted permission for the network to be destroyed. Washington-based Iridium, which drew only 55,000 subscribers after launching its ``anywhere'' wireless service in the fall of 1998, filed for bankruptcy protection about a year ago with debts of about $4.4 billion. Customers were put off at first by calling charges as high as $9 a minute and handsets costing $3,500, as well as inconsistent service. Prices were later slashed, but business never picked up enough to turn the company around. Castle Harlan first announced its interest in the satellite company back in June, prompting the bankruptcy court to approve a 45-day period for the investment firm to examine Iridium's books more closely. But just like Craig McCaw, the wireless magnate who briefly planned to bail out Iridium earlier this year, Castle Harlan clearly wasn't pleased with what it discovered. In allowing Castle Harlan's to consider a bid, the bankruptcy court had also invited competing offers from other parties. It wasn't immediately clear whether any had been submitted in time for this week's deadline. Pentagon Moves to Keep Iridium Satellites Aloft
By Jim Wolf s WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Defense Department said on Wednesday it was stepping in to prevent $5 billion worth of Iridium communications satellites from falling to Earth and triggering possible ``widespread anxiety.'' Staving off a fiery end to the 66-satellite necklace and its spares, the Pentagon (news - web sites) awarded a projected two-year, $72 million communications contract to seal a new ownership deal worked out in a New York bankruptcy court. The new owners, led by Dan Colussy, president of Pan American World Airways from 1978 to 1980, have contracted with Boeing Co. (NYSE:BA - news) to take over operation of the system from electronics giant Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT - news), Pentagon officials said. For months, Motorola had been preparing a 14-month controlled ``de-orbiting'' and destruction of the network in the absence of a qualified buyer for the bankrupt satellite telephone company it bankrolled. Colussy's venture capital start-up, Iridium Satellite LLC, won conditional court approval Nov. 22 to buy the operating assets of the bankrupt company -- a victim of weak sales, high operating costs and technical glitches. The Pentagon contract was a ``precondition'' for final approval of the asset transfer at the bargain-basement price of $25 million, a representative of the new owners said. ``We expect the closing of the sale to take place within a matter of days,'' said Ginger Washburn, chief marketing officer of the new Arnold, Maryland-based company. The new owners will market their services to commercial users as well as to the U.S. military and other government users. The State Department already owns 2,000 Iridium handsets for use in remote spots on humanitarian missions. Rescue Prompted By Growing Need The Pentagon said it was rescuing Iridium because of a growing need for the encrypted services that will be made possible through a special ``sleeve'' outfitted for secure handsets. The Pentagon already owns about 1,600 Iridium satellite phones. It will get unlimited air time for up to 20,000 government users for $3 million a month under the deal. The initial award was for a ``base period'' of three months for accounting purposes. But the deal is expected to last at least two years, said Dave Oliver, a principal deputy under secretary of defense for acquisitions. ``This will be ideal'' for easing the current crush of the U.S. military's ultra-high frequency mesh for networking and point-to-point communications, Oliver told reporters. Currently, the department's communications satellites provide less than half such services required by U.S. forces, crowding lower-priority users off the airways, Oliver said. But the U.S. government was also concerned about fears, however misguided, that the ``mass de-orbit'' of cast-off satellites could be dangerous. Although most hardware would burn up on reentry into the atmosphere, items as big as 2-by-3-foot titanium fuel tanks might make it to Earth. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration had estimated that the odds of someone being killed by falling debris were one in 279, Oliver said. Fear Of Public Outcry Cited Despite the relatively small risk, an interagency group led by the Justice Department (news - web sites) was ``extremely unhappy at the prospect of a 14-month mass de-orbit,'' a background paper handed out at the Pentagon said. ``The group worried that this might create widespread anxiety and lead to a public outcry for ill-considered government action,'' the document said. Motorola had planned to begin de-orbiting the 1,460-pound satellites as early as Dec. 1, said Rusty Brashear, a spokesman in Schaumburg, Ill. The satellites are steered from Earth by hydrazine-powered thrusters. They would have been nudged into a glide path to burn up over the ocean. Bringing them back is necessary lest they become part of the thousands of bits of orbiting junk that could get in the way of working satellites. Motorola postponed the deadline while the Pentagon worked out details of a deal to indemnify it against all risks, including product liability, in excess of its three existing insurance policies for the craft. ``We did not want to see the technology destroyed,'' Brashear said. Seattle-based Boeing, which already runs other military and commercial satellite systems, said a four-month transition phase for the Iridium takeover was starting immediately. The operational headquarters for the network is in Leesburg, Va. Iridium's rescue will not do much to change the mobile satellite services industry's headaches, said Greg Lucas, managing partner of Regulatory Access LLC, a McLean, Va. satellite consultancy that operates (http://www.FCCFilings.com). ``All surviving players in the market must still overcome the huge obstacles of usage fees, handset size, call quality and customer support that were so damaging to Iridium's business,'' he said. The only other operational competitor, San Jose, Calif.-based Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. (NasdaqNM:GSTRF - news), will have to redouble efforts to capture subscribers and keep them happy, Lucas added.
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