The Conspiracy driving Private Contractors, Private Security, and Privatized CyberSecurity. Major Players trying to remain Name-less. Government influence on outsourcing, etc.

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Weekend News Roundup and Giving Thanks

Welcome to Decrypted Matrix on Revealing Talk Radio. This is Max Igan, August 13th, ladies and gentlemen. It’s a very happy Monday.

I want to say thanks to all of you. We’re so thankful. Last weekend on Friday we had Dr. Ron Arkin on disaster preparation, somewhat of a reality check with all the information and numerology around the ending of the Olympic Games, especially the date of August 11th. Thanks for motivating us, helping us to prepare for what’s a very likely eventuality sometime, hopefully not in the immediate future. But now we’re prepared, so I want to thank my family and friends for helping, preparing their own futures, and those of you who did your most as well.

We did have, ladies and gentlemen, an earthquake in Iran on August 11th. Over 300 dead now. These things do not happen by accident, especially in that way and in Iran, which has had a target on the map for some time.

Also the Perseid meteor shower started right after midnight on the 11th. Really amazing photography came through. Check that out.

In other unfortunate news, there was the Texas A&M shooting. Not really enough info yet, but check back. We’ll certainly see what’s going on there.

Financial Protections Eroding and DHS Ammunition Stockpile

FDIC bank protections are gone currently. Your investments at certain levels and certain types of investments are no longer covered by federal protections. Those protections are no longer there, so expect more shakeup in the financial sector.

The Department of Homeland Security ordered another 750 million rounds of ammunition. They’re stocking up so much it makes you wonder what they would need that much ammunition for. That’s the second batch that we know of — 750 million rounds of ammo.

There are memos apparently circulating about a potential collapse in October, some kind of financial collapse. Could be more fear-mongering. Every time there’s an election year there’s talk of an October surprise. It never comes to pass. However, on the flip side, this is what they want. They want you to keep hearing the same ideas, the same concepts, the same conspiracies, over and over, for years. They desensitize you. You can’t even keep track of it anymore, how many times they’ve threatened us. It’s the cry wolf concept. Eventually you won’t respond to it, and that’s the time they’ll surprise you. So stay vigilant, folks.

WikiLeaks, TrapWire, and the War on Journalism

Where does this fit? We have our WikiLeaks bombshell. Is this just more distraction, or is this the real deal? The new bombshell dropped by WikiLeaks could be a controlled release, could be a clever marketing ploy, could have been planned all along by the establishment. There’s a lot of conspiracy and intrigue around the most tantalizing information we’ve gotten from investigative researchers, barely covered in the mainstream media. Not many of the big news organizations picked up on this one because it’s touching on a huge violation of privacy rights.

TrapWire. Really quick: it’s an ex-CIA-designed system, a platform which links to all the security cameras and uses behavioral pattern analysis. They say this is to track down terrorists and uncover suspicious activity before it becomes an issue, so they can send first responders to solve a problem right away. But folks, this intelligence can track and monitor anyone in real time for any reason. It’s a lot more than just behavioral pattern analysis. This is putting everyone under 1984-level surveillance.

TrapWire is a mixture of facial recognition and artificial intelligence. It uses pattern mapping and brings data together in a way that the world has never seen before. A huge violation of our constitutional rights, especially the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable search and seizure. This is something to certainly investigate and discuss — how this connects to WikiLeaks.

The Bradley Manning Case and Julian Assange

WikiLeaks started a few years ago, popped up on the map, started dumping intel, very quickly put themselves on the map. The video that completely dominated the news and mainstream media was the Apache helicopter gunship shooting in which two journalists were killed. These journalists were in a group of people, and the crew opened fire. Twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen people killed, a couple of kids were killed. They blew up a van that had first responders coming to take away the wounded. Horrible. And this was kept secret.

Brad Manning apparently was the one who leaked that information. He certainly had access to it. WikiLeaks published it. Julian Assange has been accused of treason, but folks, he’s Australian. He’s not American and can’t commit treason against the United States. He wasn’t giving information to the enemy. He was spreading information that should be in the public domain.

The chat logs from Adrian Lamo were turned over to the feds. Bradley Manning states in the chat that he just feels these things are too horrible for the world not to know about — what atrocities are taking place. This was just the tip of the iceberg.

Why do we not have more outlets like WikiLeaks, and why is there this war on journalism? Obama, who claimed to be the most transparent president ever and said he’d protect whistleblowers — we’re not seeing it. He’s still pushing the NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act, which allows the detention of Americans indefinitely. That was struck down and labeled unconstitutional by a federal judge, and yet the Department of Justice is still pushing it.

Manning has been held for over a hundred days now, still on suicide watch. For anyone who doesn’t know, that means he’s kept naked. It’s completely humiliating and degrading. He gets one hour a day of exercise or movement. They want to break down his mental capacity so badly that he’ll do whatever they ask just to get out of the situation. They have no solid case. They have such little evidence it seems like they want to break down Bradley Manning’s mental state so they can force him into a confession.

The idea that Bradley Manning would be able to pull this off without anybody at the NSA knowing about it is really unlikely. We have Adrian Lamo, former hacker, who turned him in. Manning was fairly well connected, knew his way around computer systems. He had access, and the powers that be had every chance to make sure he could access what he did. Could it be that they allowed him access with the intention of using the leaks to advance their own agenda?

Adrian Lamo would know full well that their dialogue and admissions would be recorded. It is highly possible that this former hacker was warning Bradley that their conversations were being monitored. He told him specifically that he was neither a priest nor a lawyer. Manning pressed him, and Lamo said something like he was legally bound not to tell. Very, very interesting.

Assange’s accuser in Sweden — it looks like she has connections to the CIA. The official complaint was described by the media, and she was connected with anti-Castro organizations and publishing. These groups are connected with the Union of Liberal Cubans, led by Carlos Alberto Montaner, whose CIA ties were exposed. He popped up on right-wing Colombian TV hours after the right-wing coup in Honduras. She also vocally supported the violent coup in Honduras. Strange pair of women accusing Assange — these two just happen to have ties to the CIA.

Project PM and the Intelligence Contracting Industry

Let’s talk about the actual technology that’s coming to light. Project PM was started by Barrett Brown. He was considered a cross-section of Anonymous at one time, spoke for them, represented their ideals. He’s since branched into his own research and disclosure group. The purpose of Project PM is to provide a centralized, actionable dataset regarding the intelligence contracting industry — the private industries interfacing with totalitarian regimes and the mushrooming information security and surveillance industry — and the constitutional threats to human rights, civic transparency, individual privacy, and democratic institutions.

We also have the Spy Files project by WikiLeaks, which documents vendors and manufacturers of surveillance equipment used by dictatorships and democracies to monitor the internet. Companies in our own backyard — companies like Lockheed Martin, SAIC, Northrop Grumman, ASIS Solutions, Data Systems, Stratfor, CloudShield, and the list goes on and on. The longest list I’ve seen yet has been put together by this project.

During the Arab Spring, all you needed was a VPN and a proxy so that activists could get their message out. But the security industry spawned all these new companies writing software to allow governments and dictatorships to spy on their citizens. These dictatorships don’t just surveil citizens — they target them, pull them out of their beds, torture and kill them. These are weapons of war being sold on the open market. They’re allowing dictatorships like those in Libya, Egypt, and Bahrain to crush any protest or resistance.

Romas/COIN, HBGary, and Mass Surveillance Programs

Through Project PM we found out about the Romas/COIN program. Over the last two years the U.S. has been conducting a secret, sophisticated campaign of mass surveillance and data mining against the Arab world. This allows intelligence agencies to monitor conversations and activity of millions of individuals, with upgrades scheduled for later that year.

About a dozen companies were brought together around this, and it all connects back to the disgraced CEO of HBGary Federal, who resigned from his own firm after it was discovered that he had planned a full-scale information war against political activists on behalf of corporate clients. How does Bank of America go after activists who were trying to spread information about banking fraud scandals? These American companies were selling their technologies to dictatorships so that those dictatorships could hunt down their activists who were documenting atrocities on YouTube.

Booz Allen Hamilton got hacked as well. Archimedes Global is another contractor. The contract previously held by Northrop Grumman was taken over. Their main headquarters are near an Air Force base. They describe themselves as a diversified technology company in training, energy, and information solutions for government use.

In “Top Secret America,” the Washington Post mainstream investigation, they found a massive amount of information about private intelligence workers and how they have specialized linguistic, strategy, and planning capabilities, working with governments they shouldn’t be involved with. That’s the big problem — American organizations and companies are allowed to sell their software to oppressive regimes.

In-Q-Tel, CIA Venture Capital, and the Revolving Door

In-Q-Tel is the CIA-linked venture capital firm that funds companies viewed as having the potential to develop capabilities useful to the intelligence community. Some former CIA employees have been vocal about concerns regarding the dangers that may arise from the intelligence contracting industry. These technology firms are Virginia-registered corporations, technically legally independent from the CIA and thus exempt from regulations which govern intelligence organizations. They can operate in a legal gray area.

In-Q-Tel was funded with around $300 million to invest in about 90 companies. One partially funded by In-Q-Tel was Keyhole, which was acquired by Google in 2004. Today Google shares satellite imagery with law enforcement contractors and its software is the standard for geospatial intelligence. It provides search software to federal agencies. That’s just one tiny example.

Former NSA and CIA directors — Mike McConnell, James Woolsey, John Deutch, and George Tenet — have been on the boards of intelligence contractors. Those are just the top guys. If you reach down the bureaucracy, the list gets much longer. The War on Terror increased federal spending on national security programs, making such close cooperation seem necessary.

Staying Vigilant and Protecting Yourself

These are guns for hire, folks. Spies for hire. It’s out of control and it just continues. Stay tuned for more revelations from WikiLeaks and Anonymous. Stay vigilant. Use VPN technology, hide your IP address, bounce around providers frequently. Store your information in multiple places, encrypted in the cloud. Change passwords all the time and make sure they’re at least 15 characters with special characters and numbers.