China & Russia cyber-attack Lockheed Martin

From the Telegraph:

In what appeared to be one of the most audacious acts of cyber-warfare conducted so far, the breach came against a backdrop of repeated attempts by rivals of the US, chiefly China and Russia, to infiltrate information networks and glean details of major weapons systems.

The company said that no customer or employee data had been compromised during the attack last week, while the Pentagon said the impact on its operations had been "minimal".

Yesterday however Lockheed was still working to restore employee access to its networks, and the experts from the Department Homeland Security and the Pentagon were trying to determine the extent of the data breach.

Lockheed is the maker of the F-16, F-22 and F-35 fighter jets as well as warships and other multibillion-dollar arms systems sold worldwide.

Officials had no information on the origin on the attack, but one of the US diplomatic cables released by the WikiLeaks website suggested that China had jumped ahead of the US when it came to cyber-espionage.

A senior Pentagon official recently said that more than 100 foreign intelligence organisations were trying to break into US defence and government networks.

Considering this and the Stuxnet virus used against Iranian nuclear computer systems, are we witnessing the the beginning of the successor of the cold war - the cyber war?

New footage: alien UFO crash survivor at Roswell

The "leaked" footage (of an alien apparently from Zeta Reticula):



Analysis:

It is possible films like this one really exist or existed. 


But this one is fake because -


1) The soundtrack is bogus and unnecessary. If that is meant to be the sound of film moving through sprockets why is it slowed down and altered? 


2) The digital time code would never have been superimposed over an older film like that, the time frame for the film stock being used and the digital time code used are different, i.e. didn't coexist, if they had superimposed one at a later date it would not have flickered between light and darkness as the original film did but it's brightness would have remained constant - 


3) And the warnings at the beginning of the film are beyond stupid ("Filtrate" - what kind of word use is this?). 


4) The CGI is very good, but is also evidently CGI because of the floating movements of the head, the slow eyelids etc. 


5) Why are they always having to have it move around, to make it more convincing?


This is probably a preview of a Hollywood movie, a promotional film - designed to be put out there on the net and get people talking.

Who is NEJ?

A London court issued a super-injunction, a gagging order, to mask the identity of a movie star of international repute, reportedly at the personal cost to him of 50,000 pounds sterling.

In the British tabloids he has only been called NEJ, the letters he was referred to as in court documents. Twitter has run amok with tweets about the actor who has a family and apparently slept with prostitute Helen Wood.

The identity of NEJ was posted then deleted on the actor's Wikipedia page. The page was then locked from editing according to newspapers.

When the top five box-office accruing UK actors were checked on Wikipedia, only one, a Scottish actor's, was locked from editing. So it stands to reason, is NEJ an actor in Star Wars, as so many Tweeters say? Could it be anyone else? But, then again, a less well known actor's Wikipedia page has also been blocked, perhaps it is not the Scottish actor after all.. On Twitter @InjunctionSuper posted a list of celebrities protected by the super-injunctions, not all of it true. MPs are currently looking into whether the super-injunctions contradict freedom of speech laws.

So, does NEJ = Ewan McGregor or Hugh Bonneville or neither?

Osama bin Laden's dead henchmen pictures

Here are the photos of Osama's dead henchmen courtesy ISI (Pakistani intelligence):

It's only a matter of time before we see the photos of the man himself, (once Obama mans up or decides to have them leaked if he hasn't already or when someone else does the much needed job).

Osama bin Laden's legacy

From The Economist (what America's done as a response to the 9/11 attacks):

• We’ve sent terrorist suspects to “black sites” to be detained without trial and tortured.
• We’ve turned terrorist suspects over to other regimes, knowing that they’d be tortured.
• In those cases when our government later learned it got the wrong guy, federal officials not only refused to apologize or compensate him, they went to court to argue he should be barred from using our courts to seek justice, and that the details of his abduction, torture, and detainment should be kept secret.
• We’ve abducted and imprisoned dozens, perhaps hundreds of men in Guantanamo who turned out to have been innocent. Again, the government felt no obligation to do right by them.
• The government launched a multimillion dollar ad campaign implying that people who smoke marijuana are implicit in the murder of nearly 3,000 of their fellow citizens.
• The government illegally spied and eavesdropped on thousands of American citizens.
• Presidents from both of the two major political parties have claimed the power to detain suspected terrorists and hold them indefinitely without trial, based solely on the president’s designation of them as an “enemy combatant,” essentially making the president prosecutor, judge, and jury. (I’d also argue that the treatment of someone like Bradley Manning wouldn’t have been tolerated before September 11.)
• The current president has also claimed the power to execute U.S. citizens, off the battlefield, without a trial, and to prevent anyone from knowing about it after the fact.
• The Congress approved, the president signed, and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a broadly written law making it a crime to advocate for any organization the government deems sympathetic to terrorism. This includes challenging the “terrorist” designation in the first place.
• Flying in America now means enduring a humiliating and hassling ritual that does little if anything to actually make flying any safer. Every time the government fails to catch an attempt at terrorism, it punishes the public for its failure by adding to the ritual.
• American Muslims, a heartening story of success and assimilation, are now harassed and denigrated for merely trying to build houses of worship.
• Without a warrant, the government can search and seize indefinitely the laptops and other personal electronic devices of anyone entering the country.
• The Department of Homeland Security now gives terrorism-fighting grants for local police departments across the country to purchase military equipment, such as armored personnel carriers, which is then used against U.S. citizens, mostly to serve drug warrants.

Just to put it all in perspective. Unfortunately, none of this will go away with bin Laden's death.

Is Osama bin Laden really dead? Why the world needs proof

Taliban leaders say bin Laden has not actually been killed, citing insufficient evidence; the White House backtracks on several of its previous accounts of the operation that killed bin Laden (first there was the wife used as a human shield then there was not, OBL was using an automatic weapon, then he didn't even have one); and Native Americans object to his being codenamed "Geronimo" saying they find it offensive.

The discord in Washington is clear: CIA Director Leon Panetta says photographs of the dead body will be released; the White House says the photos are "gruesome" and will not be shown because they are potentially inflammatory. Just what is going on?

The Pakistani ISI gives a hugely conflicting account of the operation to the one given by US officials, saying there were several more people in the household and the US planned to take them all away but for the fact that one of their helicopters malfunctioned and they could not.

With all these conflicting accounts, even from the White House itself, who are we to believe? Or are we to believe anyone on the story that Osama bin Laden is dead? It has not even been clarified on how he resisted. Obviously, the White House is putting a political spin on events, changing its mind on that spin and putting out a different, contradictory spin. How are we to believe anything they say?

According to an article in London's Telegraph, ("Osama bin Laden dead: the mysterious Khan family who were 'good neighbors'" Peter Osborne) the closest neighbor to the Abbottabad compound never saw OBL in the five years he was meant to be living there and "did not believe Osama bin Laden was there." Are we to believe that Osama bin Laden never left his compound in those five years? That he lived as a virtual prisoner and depended wholly on his "courier"? How likely is any of this? Does it hold up to the scrutiny of common sense?

If he did live there, so close to the "Sandhurst Military Academy of Pakistan," it is more than obvious that he was living there with the knowledge of the Pakistani ISI. If he did in fact live there with their knowledge of the fact, it stands to reason that he would be able to travel under their protection (in whatever form that might take). Also, if the US intelligence community was to some degree aware of OBL's presence in that compound for 9 months, what are their reasons for not acting sooner? What transformed this possibility into so-called "actionable intelligence" has yet to be explained.

The US government owes the American public and the world some real answers and if President Obama abides by his promise of "open government" he will deliver this information. It is in his best interest, in the world's best interest, and in the best interest of national security. The administration must also release the pictures to put to rest any ideas (that are currently gaining momentum around the world) that Osama bin Laden is still living. This would do us all a lot of good, instead of merely offering conflicting accounts of what may or may not have happened. Mr. Obama, man up - show us the proof.

CIA kills Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan

UPDATED: Pictures of bin Laden's mansion & (fake pictures) dead body at bottom of this post.

This just in: Obama said a "small team of US operatives" killed Osama bin Laden in a firefight in an Abbottabad compound in Pakistan.

Navy SEAL Team Six acted on intelligence gathered by the CIA, it has been revealed. Obama thanked the armed forces and "counter terrorist operatives." It was called a "targeted assault" based on "actionable intelligence." The entire operation apparently took 40 minutes to complete once the Navy SEALs were on the ground.

Helicopters surrounded the mansion in the Bilal district of Abbottabad. Apparently one helicopter malfunctioned, crashed, could not take off again and was promptly blown up by the Navy SEAL crew. There is contradictory information as to how many were killed. US forces are said to have recovered the body of Osama bin Laden. An unnamed US official has said that bin Laden's adult son was also killed during the raid along with two others. OBL was apparently given an Islamic burial at sea.

The CIA-dominated journal The Washington Post has called it a CIA operation.

Abbottabad is a beautiful, wealthy city directly north of Islamabad. Apparently, bin Laden and other major al Qaeda players had been living in Abbottabad mansions for some time. This operation is the result of months of intelligence work.

According to US officials, OBL's body was dumped in the Indian Ocean by the US Navy early Monday morning.

We can only speculate as to what this means for the remainder of the efforts against al Qaeda. Hopefully, it will be the beginning of a swift end to these conflicts and a reduction en masse of Western forces in the Middle East.

And images of the body were shown on Arabic television, it has since been illustrated that they are fake:

Two pictures from al-Jazeera network of mansion where Osama bin Laden lived and was killed:

Royal Wedding of Prince William of Wales & Kate Middleton

I saw some of the replay of the wedding of William of Wales and Kate Middleton.

“I see all these people happy about the royal wedding on TV Does anybody over there feel like the economy is sh*t, unemployment's rife, and here these royals are squandering hard earned tax payer money uselessly in their useless lives and in high spectacle before 2 billion people, who's a bigger sucker than the British commoner??”

I sent this message via Facebook to a British friend, a Londoner, this weekend after the spectacle of the Royal Wedding had past into the dustbin of history. I couldn’t help feeling these sentiments as I related my ideas to another British subject I was with who paid no mind to the Royal shenanigans. He felt more or less the same as I did. The shame and disgrace the royals bear on England wasn’t even worth mentioning to him.

The Royal family will never work, they merely enjoy their celebrity (or not, hard to say), their ten billion plus pound fortune (US$15 billion), yes some do a few years of military service, but really of what service is that in the useless wars we nowadays find ourselves embroiled in (do Afghanistan, Iraq, or Libya pose as direct threat to any Western countries?), and they sit on their arses and look pretty. (Yes, they do have some minor involvement in some charities, mainly just a device for saving face.)

We’ve seen and heard all this gushing about the British royal family over the weekend, but really, why do so few in the media look to the flipside—the reality, one might argue: the fact that they are a centuries old, antiquated, useless convention. A relic of a bygone era when they had political power and really meant something to the lives of their subjects. Or am I utterly and completely wrong, and by this I mean: do they secretly wield tremendous political power and influence that is unspoken in the mainstream media and massively hidden. After all the Queen does hold “State Secret," meaning she has access to all British Top Secret information.

What’s your opinion? Is the Queen a useless relic or is she the most powerful individual in the world, or somewhere in between?