Obama and Congress Approve Resolution that Supports UN Internet Takeover
From infowars.com.
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Susanne Posel
Occupy Corporatism
May 29, 2012
In late 2011, representative from China, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan submitted a proposal called the International Code of Conduct for Information Security (ICCIS) to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that called for international consensus of a global set of rules and regulations that standardize information flow on the internet.
The ICCIS sets forth specific “principles of maintaining information and network security which cover the political, military, economic, social, cultural, technical and other aspects.”
The ICCIS mandates that countries not be allowed to use information and telecommunications technologies “to conduct hostile behaviors and acts of aggression or to threaten international peace and security and stress that countries have the rights and obligations to protect their information and cyberspace as well as key information and network infrastructure from threats, interference and sabotage attacks.”
Read the full text here .
Army General Keith Alexander, commander of the US Cyber Command (USCC) and director of the National Security Agency (NSA), does not support the UN’s International Telecommunication Union; citing that the US needs to independently protect their “critical networks” such as electrical power, banking, transportation and other “key elements of society”.
Alexander would like for individual nations to control and regulate their internet. Keith suggests using cloud technology by remote computer servers to mitigate cyber threats and monitor the activity of web users. He said: “These are things that you must do to secure your networks for government survivability.”
Alexander mentioned that the Congress is currently debating whether or not to mandate US firms be required to admit their knowledge of information concerning cyber-attacks.
“Here’s what concerns me: What we’re seeing is destructive [digital] payloads coming out, payloads that can make a blue screen of death, that can stop your operating system, your router or peripheral devices,” Alexander said.
The increase of cell phone and internet use has elevated the threat level, according to Alexander. He sees this technology in the hands of the general public as a lack of security of the years and would like to see more stringent controls put in place.
Shawn Henry, FBI executive assistant director for cyber-issues and a conference speaker would like to see the ability of the US government to identify anonymous cyber-attackers and called for “assurance” of telecommunications to control the internet by remote security. Henry stated: “The Internet was developed with protocols allowing for anonymity and there are legitimate reasons for wanting it that way. But for those critical uses of the Internet where intrusion is entirely unacceptable and we must be able to identify the users, market-driven factors may prompt the private sector to explore solutions and alternate architectures to meet those needs.”
Senator Marco Rubio affirmed that the State Department will assign a speaker to send to international talks with the UN in December of this year.
Rubio, who denounced the FCC for internet neutrality and then suddenly withdrew his support of the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Then admonished Senate Majority leader Harry Reid to bring SOPA and PIPA back to the Senate floor for re-discussion.
When speaking about China’s internet censoring practices, Rubio said: “Any place that bans certain terms from search should not be a leader in international Internet regulatory framework.” Rubio is absolutely hypocritical, believing that his support of internet regulatory laws is somehow different than China’s outright internet controls.
Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, has promoted the use of cell phone technology to “amplify” the US government’s ability to survey American and international citizens.
The UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is an agency of the UN that oversees the international regulation of long-distance calls and satellite orbits. Russia, who originally co-founded the ITU, supports it as an international cooperation on cybersecurity and internet matters.
Robert McDowell, Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) commissioner said back in 2011 that the ITU was an attempt by authoritarian regimes to reshape the internet as we know it.
McDowell supposed that this multi-stakeholders progression would be governed through non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
McDowell said: “The commission plays, actually, a supporting role as a sort of technical advisor to the State Department. The State Department takes the lead role on that. I understand that through both private and public information that the State Department will be announcing a head of the U.S. delegation, a head negotiator, probably next month sometime.
“This comes at a crucial time as some very crucial meetings are going to take place internationally later in June leading towards a treaty negotiation in Dubai this December,” said McDowell. “So it’s really of utmost importance that the United States cultivates allies throughout the world and especially the developing world, which could be devastated by international regulation of Internet governance.”
Scott Cleland, a member of the United States Department of State Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy (USDSACICIP), holds that the creation of “ITUnet” would essentially be an international alternative to the current internet that is totally controlled by global governance through supposed voluntary compliance, yet rules and regulations would be enforced by international law.
Cleland said: “Everything about the Internet is voluntary, and in order for this to work, countries would have to leave the Internet and join an ‘ITUnet’. Only authoritarian regimes and their allies want an ‘ITUnet’. That would provide political cover for them to take control of their national Internet.”
This argument of international versus US governmental control over the internet seems moot to Evgenvy Morozov , member of the think-tank the New American Foundation.
Morozov stated: “While Hillary Clinton likes to give speeches in which she fashions herself the world’s greatest defender of “Internet freedom,” the harsh reality is that her own government is its greatest enemy. Given the never-ending flow of draconian copyright and cybersecurity laws coming from Washington, this fact is getting harder and harder to conceal from the global public, who starts to wonder why American diplomats keep criticizing Russia or China but don’t say anything about the impressive online spying operation that the National Security Agency is building in Utah.”
Now, in response to the debates over UTI, the US Congress has approved HR 628 claims to support “preserve, enhance, and increase access to an open, global Internet.”
Congress has taken the position of thinking of themselves as an “advocate for the free flow of information, Internet freedom, and multi-stakeholder governance internationally.”
Yet our Congress has shown conflicting points of view when contending that they are a multi-stakeholder supporting global governance which is in direct opposition with promoting the free flow of information and internet freedom.
The Obama administration created the International Strategy for Cyberspace (ISC) which makes an international governance policy priority.
Obama’s desire to facilitate the US government’s push toward global engagement, the ISC encompasses a new vision for cyberspace.
By using economic prosperity dependent on revamping cyberspace, Obama places the need for over-reaching cybersecurity over the internet.
By militarizing the control over the web, Obama claims the internet as a “strategic national asset” malleable by the US government. Obama contended that protecting the internet will be a national security priority and that: “We will ensure that these networks are secure, trustworthy and resilient.”
“This is just the beginning of a conversation within governments, between governments, the private sector and beyond,” said Howard Schmidt, the White House cybersecurity coordinator.
According to HR 628:
“Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that if a resolution calling for endorsement of the proposed international code of conduct for information security or a resolution inconsistent with the principles above comes up for a vote in the United Nations General Assembly or other international organization, the Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations or the United States representative to such other international organization should oppose such a resolution.”
The UTI and HR 628 are evidences of the end of free flowing information that is protected by and for the people.
As governments place more stringent controls on the web, and the soon-to-be ratification of the UTI in December of this year, we can be assured that we will very quickly only have access to information that is approved by the UN.
Kissinger vows to China: “Jeb Bush Will Be Next President”
Scary crap if true.
first of all this is some real conspiracy theory shit, but an interesting read none the less. unless it actually happens, i mean, the current GOP candidates are pretty much cannibalizing each other so …you never can tell in this time in space loll. it is deep linked pretty well.
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By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A shocking report prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Prime Minister Putin on the just completed meeting between China’s Vice Premier Li Keqiang and former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger states that the Chinese were told that former Florida Governor John Ellis “Jeb” Bush, brother to the former US President and son of another, will be elected as the next American leader despite his currently not even being on the ballot.
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping met with Jeb Bush [photo top left] yesterday at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing where both pledged to advance cooperation between their two countries and, this report says, agreed that once Bush had taken office a ‘new era’ would begin in US-China relations.
According to this report, Kissinger told Keqiang that the Republican Party election process to select their nominee to run against President Obama was “completely manipulated” to ensure that their 2012 Convention would be “deadlocked” thus allowing for Jeb Bush to be nominated as a “consensus candidate” and thus his parties leader.
The path to a deadlocked convention, this report says Kissinger told the Chinese, lies in neither current Republican frontrunners Governor Mitt Romney or Congressman Ron Paul having enough delegates to ensure their nomination on the first ballot after which their supporters will be free to nominate anyone they so choose.
In order to ensure a deadlocked convention, this report continues, Kissinger noted that Romney will obtain his delegates from what are called Primary States while Paul will receive his from those holding caucuses and “open” primaries, with neither of them receiving enough votes to secure their nominations.
Political analysis on the US election do, indeed, note that Paul’s path to the Republican nomination lies in the caucus and open primary States which shows what is called his“secret path to victory.”
To the most shocking aspects of this report are the comments attributed to Kissinger that claim the entire American electoral system is under the control of their National Security Agency (NSA) which controls the computers used in their elections and whose outcome is determined by their elites, not the citizens themselves.
In a dire move bolstering Kissinger’s claim of a rigged US election was yesterdays news that the giant global election firm SCYTL, which describes itself as the worldwide leader in secure electronic voting and electoral modernization, had purchased the United States most dominant election results reporting company thus insuring these people would never have true or total access as to who would actually win any of their elections.
Even worse, this report continues, the purchase by SCYTL of the private corporate site controlled by SOE software, which operates under the name ClarityElections.Comand controls the election results in over 525 US jurisdictions, was its being financed by the global investment giant Carlyle Group that was founded by the Bush and Bin Laden families nearly 25 years ago.
When queried by Chinese officials as to why Obama was allowed to be elected instead of Jeb Bush in the last US election, this report continues, Kissinger replied that the American public was not prepared for a continuation of the Bush-Clinton Dynasties that have, in fact, ruled the United States since the 1981 coup d’état staged against President Ronald Regan after he was nearly assassinated by the son of the then Vice President George H.W. Bush’s main business partner.
Kissinger further stated to the Chinese, this report says, that Obama was a “safe choice” to be an “interim leader” as besides his being a member of the Bush family (Obama is former President George W. Bush’s cousin by blood) his mother, Ann Dunham/Soetoro, was a “prized” CIA asset who was dispatched from Hawaii to Indonesia in 1967, along with seven year-old Barack Obama, to infiltrate villages in Java to carry out a CIA survey of political leanings among the Javanese population and whose “handler” was George H.W. Bush who a few years later became Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Kissinger added, this report says, that by putting Obama in office they were, also, able to secure the passing of draconian new laws in the United States that otherwise wouldn’t have been allowed to pass due to the overwhelming objections of American liberals and progressives, but who now are all but silent as the last vestiges of the US Constitution are being swept away.
Being ignored by these American liberals and progressives, however, are that the laws being passed by the Obama regime are intended to be used against them and include the power of the US President to designate anyone he so chooses as a “terrorist,” kill them without charges or trial, hold American citizens in prison, also without charges or trial, and, under a new law being pushed through the US Congress, would give the US government the power to strip Americans of their citizenship without being convicted of being “hostile” against the United States.
Though the claims made by Kissinger to China detailing how the election process in the United States has now been completely destroyed are beyond appalling, it does not, on the other hand, come as surprising from a “war criminal” who once boasted “It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.”
To the American people themselves it remains to be seen if they will ever awaken to what is true…one can only hope they will, before all is lost…forever.
The House cooks up another turkey of a bill, guts whistleblower protections
The House cooks up another turkey of a bill, guts whistleblower protections
Whistleblower rights are on the verge of suffering yet another setback. Today, the House introduced a bill H.R. 3289 to amend the ineffective Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA). Instead of improving an already deeply flawed Senate bill that was introduced earlier this year, the house slashed even more whistleblower protections. Provisions of this bill would:
- Deprive federal employees of the right to jury trial;
- Empower the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) to summarily dismiss whistleblower cases without a hearing, based on affidavits filed by federal managers;
- Block whistleblowers from access to more “liberal” U.S. Courts of Appeal (such as the 9th Circuit);
- Force whistleblower cases into a special court.
UK Government Pushing For 'Trusted Computing'
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The US goverment will not be far behind. After all the goverment knows how to use a computer and tech better the the users right? *Sarcasm* This is just a glorified form of DRM you see on game systems. A way the big goverment and the large media companies can control what you can and can not do on your own hardware.
To a closed system. Were you the user are the outsider and have no say. Like the game systems. You the user have no rights. Even tho you buy the hardware. Buy the software. Maintain the hardware. Use it day to day. This is a property rights issue. Do you own your hardware? OR does the goverment, or the big media companies? If they own it. Why am I spending so much on something I don’t own?
Motor writes “As has long been expected — we are now beginning to see governments pushing for the use of so-called ‘trusted computing’ — chips installed in all computers that effectively remove control of the PC from its owner. While there may be security advantages to some of the ideas, few can doubt that it represents a fundamental shift in the IT world. A radical move away from an open technology landscape and towards a system that denies all access unless you have the right credentials. Governments will demand the right credentials to access their services — meaning approved software stacks (i.e Windows) with the right digital signatures. Vernor Vinge had it right .”
