The (Very) Secret History of Area 51
Tuesday, 05 July 2011 12:26
‘No one on the ground or in Pakistan’s air defence spotted Area 51’s latest toy as it kept watch on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on the night of the US raid that killed the Taliban leader.
Rather than one of the UFOs that the wilder fringes of the internet believe the military has stashed away at America’s top-secret military site in Nevada, this “toy” was actually the latest Star Wars-type drone, or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), developed at the base whose existence Uncle Sam only barely admits.
Named the “Beast of Kandahar” after it was snapped at Kandahar air base in Afghanistan back in 2009, this stealthy grey batwing-shaped long-distance reconnaissance drone, officially known as the RQ-170 Sentinel, was a throwback to Area 51’s golden age before the advent of the spy satellite put the spy plane out of business.’
Greek Sovereignty to be ‘Massively Limited’ by EU/IMF Vultures
Tuesday, 05 July 2011 12:31
‘The cost of a decision last week to allow globalist vultures to metaphorically hog-tie Greece while the EU and IMF commences a good old fashioned economic pillaging of her state assets is a total evisceration of the country’s sovereignty, according to Eurogroup chief Jean-Claude Juncker.
“The sovereignty of Greece will be massively limited,” Juncker told Germany’s Focus magazine, adding that “experts” are now descending on the country to oversee a huge fire sale of state assets to private companies, likening the situation to post-collapse East Germany when 14,000 East German firms were sold off between 1990 and 1994.’
Read more: Greek Sovereignty to be ‘Massively Limited’ by EU/IMF Vultures
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Gaddafi Threatens West with Retaliation
Tuesday, 05 July 2011 06:46
‘”We have to fight for our country and you are going to be legitimate targets for us.” Saif al-Islam told the French TV channel TF1. On Friday, Gaddafi threatened to attack Europe if NATO refused to stop airstrikes on the country.
Seif al-Islam said Libyan authorities are prepared to make concessions to end the conflict there but will fight on for their homeland. “We will never surrender. We will fight. It’s our country.”‘
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$11 Billion Treasure Found Beneath Indian Temple
July 4th, 2011
The Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple is in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the southern Indian state of Kerala.
A court-ordered search of vaults beneath a temple in India has turned up a treasure worth at least $11 billion, according to reports from the Indian state of Kerala.
An inventory of what lies beneath the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, as reported on the website Business-Standard.com and others, reads like a prop list from an “Indiana Jones” movie:
* Rubies, sapphires, emeralds and pearls
* Replicas of coconut shells made of pure gold
* Hundreds of thousands of gold and silver coins, some dating to the 16th century
* Gold chains as long as 18 feet
* Solid-gold human figurines and idols
* Crowns and pendants
* Gold and silver bars
The wealth was amassed in at least six vaults, some of which had not been opened in 150 years, according to media reports. India’s Supreme Court ordered an inventory of the vaults after hearing a private complaint seeking “more transparency and trustworthiness in the temple administration,” according to a report on the news website daijiworld.com.
The former royal family of Travancore manages the temple. For an explanation about how the treasure might have been amassed, check out this report from CommodityOnline.com (http://www.commodityonline.com/news/…40475-3-1.html).
The Kerala government said Monday the treasure will remain property of the shrine, according to media reports.
“The wealth belonged to the temple and it will be preserved where it was found. There is religious and historical significance to the findings. The state will ensure its security,” Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told the Times of India.
As word of the find has spread, Kerala police are asking for help to safeguard the treasure, according to media reports.
“It is too big a challenge for the police. We have no trained personnel to manage such a huge treasure. We have sought the help of several agencies who can really help us,” Jacob Punnose, director general of the Kerala police, told India Today.
What might the treasure, which the Economic Times of India says is likely the biggest in the country, mean for Kerala, a south Indian state of 33 million people? The Economic Times has some ideas.
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Database Boasts It Will Track Web Behaviour Of Everyone In UK
By Stephen Foley in New York
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
A British advertising company claims to have built the world’s largest database of individuals’ internet behaviour, which it says will track “almost 100 per cent” of the UK population.
The announcement plunges WPP straight into the middle of the privacy debate surrounding online marketing. The company said it was pooling data from many of the world’s major websites, networks of online advertisers and even sources following what people are buying in high street stores.
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FTSE 100-listed WPP, founded and run by the British businessman Sir Martin Sorrell, is one of the most powerful well-connected advertising companies in the world, and its clients include some of the most famous global brands. Many, though not yet named, are providing WPP with data about visitors to their websites as part of the company’s new database venture, called Xaxis.
“The internet is an advertising-supported medium, and much of the web is free because advertisers want to put messages in front of people,” said Brian Lesser, chief executive of Xaxis. “We are supporting the broader internet economy by improving the targeting of ads, while also playing by the strictest privacy rules.”
It has built individual profiles of 500 million internet users across the world, covering, it says, almost 100 per cent of the people online in the countries in which it operates, including the UK, US, Australia and eight others.
Privacy campaigners warned against the concentration of so much data about individuals, even though WPP insisted the information had been “anonymised”.
“Knowing the pattern of websites you go to makes it very easy to identify you,” said John Buckman, chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). “The greatest problem with data gathering is not from the people gathering it, but where it goes afterwards. When the cat is out the bag, you can’t put it back in. The safest protection for data is to never have it in the first place. The principle should be for the minimum amount of data to be captured wherever possible.”
The EFF and other groups have become more concerned with the collection of people’s web habits since the wave of hacker attacks on corporations, including Sony and Citibank in the past month. Privacy concerns are also dogging internet giants such as Google and Facebook, who store information on hundreds of millions of their users.
New market research and technology businesses have sprung up to marry old-fashioned data such as people’s addresses and demographic information with their online buying habits. WPP will buy web-tracking services from these businesses, as well as collecting its own online-only data.
The company is promising advertisers “an unprecedented level of precision” and “zero waste”, so that only people likely to be interested in their products will see adverts. But Mr Lesser added that WPP could be trusted not to try to unscramble the data and match it to individuals. “Who the person is is not really important to us,” he said. “We will never get to the point that we know so much that we know who the person is.”
The advertising industry is trying to hold off privacy legislation in Europe and the US, where the authorities are considering new laws either to ban secret tracking of web users or at least to ensure there are easy ways to opt out. The latest browsers have “do not track” modes, and the ad industry has its own voluntary code, including a blue icon for users to click to give them more control over data collected about them.
The companies that know who you are, where you live and what you like
The latest skirmish involving privacy on the world’s dominant social network is about its use of facial recognition software, which suggests your name to friends if they upload pictures which include you. Yes: Facebook knows what you look like, as well as where you live, who your friends are, and what you had for lunch yesterday – because you, or people you know, have freely shared the information.
Using this data, the site is already selling adverts targeted specifically at you, and is also making money selling access to you and your friends to other websites. Although it is possible for each user to adjust their personal privacy settings, many complain that this process is ludicrously complicated.
The original Big Brother of the internet and gatekeeper for two-thirds of the world’s search queries, Google keeps note of what you are tapping, and personalises some of its search results and the adjacent ads based on what it knows about you and your habits. If you are a Gmail customer or have signed up to other services, it knows even more and tailors its service still further.
When Google bought the large online advertising company DoubleClick, it hoped to link data from users’ search results in order to tailor adverts on websites all over the internet – but regulatory scrutiny led it to decide against the plan.
Acxiom
The US firm has one of the largest databases used by the junk mail industry to target individual households. As the internet era dawned it saw the value in linking this “offline” information with online data, which it buys from e-commerce firms, anonymises and sells to online advertisers. It boasts that “unlike traditional consumer segmentation systems, [it’s database] is built and applied at the consumer household level, not at a postcode or block group.”
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