THE HANDSTAND

march 2005

governance structure(and how exactly that would happen - if indeed the US government and ICANN didn't just tell them to bugger off anyway)or as Australia, the US and the other business groups (who all had American accents)advocated - just greater reform of the existing structures.

The Chinese delegation suggested that they had research that would assist in forming an ínternational governance mechanism'and a 'new ICT development order'.

The likely heat on the US is likely be come from the fact the vast majority of nation states represented here, as well as the civil society forum wanted complete reform.

The Working group on internet governance (WGIG) is taking all the comments on board, and there is an online forum as well, and will be amending their draft for some kind of agreement at the Tunis meeting of WSIS later this year.

SHUTTER CONTROL: GROUND ZERO

By Mathew Maavak

When I typed out “Internet origins, wikipedia” into Google on Feb 22 (1.25pm Malaysian time), this what I saw:

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Where's my Wikipedia?

That page should have added that “Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. Information denial is the future wave!”

I didnt need Wikipedia to know the origins of the Internet. To put a long story short, it started off as the defense project ARPANET which later included key US academia, some of whom may have stories to share, “if they prefer too.”

This was an excellent military tool, one that could allegedly withstand the devastations of a future nuclear attack. Then came the Internet and the world wide web, a liberating medium for anyone, anywhere with a PC, modem and phone line.

Nothing is given away for free, especially when it involves “liberty”. Those who designed this liberating medium knew that any machine, any vaccine, any electronically-contrived tool has a function creep.

If you need to effectuate global hegemony, what better and cheaper way than to string up peoples and nations electronically? People would benefit tremendously, and so would an age-old plan called Novus Ordo Seclorum - “A new order of the ages." The date of origin: 1782. I had to pull up a greenback to check up those Latin words as Wikipedia, that quick portal for double-checking facts, including spelling, was again showing the above message, for a different search.

The Internet was under attack. All the symbols I saw on that dollar bill, and its exegesis belong to the Masonic religion. I couldn’t find a single Christian symbol in this supposedly Christian, evangelistic country. And how does freemasonry paint Christianity, Judaism and Islam? Biblical figures like Yahweh was the Midianite God of “storms and wars,” who was “fearful” of Moses who in fact was a “death dealing fanatic” and Jesus was the product of a “magical mating” between “Yahweh and Mary.” [1] The quotes, and there are plenty, are taken from a work of speculative delusions at it deranged best, written in a dream world of hallucinatory scholarship. It was, in essence, an attack on all three monotheistic faiths, something carried out with brutal force in Iraq and to a lesser extent, in multiple realms everywhere. Novus Ordo Seclorum can be best accomplished when pseudo-Christianity is used to fight Judaism and Islam, and later incite a three-cornered fight between all three.

Does this have anything to do with the Internet? Look at the Eye on that Great Seal. It cannot be “All Seeing” unless all people can be seen and heard. And the Internet is the best choice, among a growing menu of electronic, panoptic tools.

From a liberating medium, it has gone on to be the perfect surveillance and control mechanism. Your emails and chats (personal) can be monitored, your online purchases (finances) logged, and your psychological profile noted. This hydra is going berserk.

Choking Democracy, dissent and filtration

Here is a recent example. The US government had ordered an American ISP, the Planet, to shut down an Iranian Student News Agency website (BBC, Jan 24) The irony? Iranian students are preponderantly against the established fanatical Ayatollahs.

But Uncle Sam - that ugly old gaffer Samael - is not interested in any democratic development anywhere, including its own. Before his first salvoes are fired, he needs to unite Iranian students, activists, and Ayatollahs under a common threat. The Eye will then relay images of unified, massive anti-American demonstrations, of torture, of nukes and so on through satellite TV and radio, newspapers and the Internet. The Iraqis will help along. The American public must be psyched up in advance.

Here is the double whammy. Iran intends to create its own satellite technology and boost whatever net infrastructure it has. It’s not going to be liberating; rather, it will be more tyrannical. The Panoptic World itself is hosted on a US-based server.

Why? Snooping is more common out here. A few years ago, four people were charged for relaying emails about an alleged riot planned by Indonesian migrants workers in the Chow Kit enclave of Kuala Lumpur. You still hear different versions. There was another incident where one Malaysian alternative site had its servers and PCs taken away by the Malaysian police. It was a crude warning. Big Brother here may not be as tall as Uncle Sam, and perhaps only measure up to his loins, but he is still powerful.

Retards should know that more developed minds never keep their secrets on their PCs, not in their homes, not with anyone on their mailing list, and possibly not in their country. They keep decoys. The psy-warrior must laugh from his grave, when the chickens come home to roost, after seasonal trends necessitate an unnatural peregrination.

Delusions?

That’s one allegation employed by both the pseudo-right and the pseudo-left, a charge they apply more vehemently to silence third party neutrals rather than each other. I wonder what they have to say about Chinese cyber-dissident Huang Jinqiu, whose government tried “everything possible to break him physically and psychologically” to prepare him for “psychiatric institutionalization.” It doesn’t take state torture alone to achieve that. He “became well known for his uncompromising political articles carried by Boxun (website), under the pseudonym of Qing Shuijun” while he was a student in Malaysia, and was arrested a few days upon return. (Reporters without Borders, 18/2/2005). Who ratted on him? A Malaysian connection here?

There are Malaysian “Islamist intellectuals” who decry Western allegations of China’s human rights violations, and by default, obviously find the Xinjiang Muslims to be expendable. All for the good of the Confucian-Islam dialogue, even if a few Muslims are tortured and killed. They even filter out the best Muslim thinkers on home soil just as the elite of the American left filter out commonsensical views from its “free speech” spectrum.

If there is no liberty anywhere, it’s coz the US leftist elite lends a solid support to their fellow little brothers everywhere. Notice that they get to publish their works in print, or get interviewed while complaining about Big Media. The rest have to resort to the dream world of the Internet. As a writer from the Far East, I am telling you, I see this nexus as a greater threat than any US army division. It’s a symbiosis of pseudo-activist tyranny, consenting to the manufacturing of victims, and the weakening of societies which they blame on American hegemony alone. Those left out are forced into the realm of the Internet, making them very vulnerable to the cyber police.

It is not just China that is policing the cyber world tightly and its dozens of imprisoned “criminals” are replicated elsewhere, in varying magnitudes and forms.

The Mechanism - Samples

“Internet filtering is hardly new…Using technologies like router-based IP blocking and, more recently, DNS redirection, countries have found they can block the web content they dislike, while still obtaining what they consider the benefits of the Internet.” “Page error,” “host not found” and “connection timeout” are used to suggest crashed servers or a malfunctioning network. Mirror sites are created by governments to provide altered, watered down, censored or incorrect content for unsuspecting ordinary users. (Reporters without Borders)

Google too has its own tricks. Blocked in China in Sept 2002, it now functions flawlessly, until a Chinese surfer tries to access certain taboo sites. By surfing standards, it takes such pages forever to download, perhaps up to half an hour.

Was there a Google collusion? For a long time, when one typed out “French military victories”, you’d get a paternal geeky message directing you to “Did you mean French military defeats”? Try typing out my pen-name at Google and you’ll see a glimpse of how this works. A cheap demoralizing tactic? It wasn’t as bad as Google’s scrambled spell hint of a prolific Arab affairs writer for years. Only now is her name spelt correctly as such tricks don’t work. Google is slowly paying dearly as searchers are switching to Yahoo and MSN. The guy at the helm wouldn’t care if some employees need to be sacked in favor of Indians when business declines. I am all set with a business plan when that happens.

The ISP-based carnivore technology, starved of more human meat and speed, is now giving away Trojan horses for free, installing them directly onto targeted computers. This is called the Magic Lantern, and it blips every time you press a key. No encryption will work once it is installed, not even Pretty Good Privacy. From the business angle, it’s a cosmetic change from the ISP-based Carnivore to direct snooping through Magic Lantern. This would not allay the fears of any shrewd capitalist. He will know that his business and patent secrets are even more vulnerable than before. Businessmen beware! Halliburton-style contract riggings are just the beginning.

There are excuses to unlock more goodies. Child porn, mob violence, Sept 11, terrorist activity will make net censorship more palatable. The RIAA performed a stupendous feat nearly two years back when it effortlessly tracked down pirated music on home computers.

If the RIAA alone can achieve that, ask yourself why Al Qaeda can still post “video shows” on various sites, away from the shining spotlight of Magic Lantern? Indymedia takes higher priority. On Oct 7 2004, it servers were seized for some very odd reasons. Some left-wing sites faced simultaneous problems for a while. Many still do.

Tell you a secret. Note which ones were under pressure, which ones crashed, and which ones were not. You can sift the chaff from the wheat. Counterfeit crashes from this date will not do; you need a pedigree to trot alongside those snorting Trojan horses. You cannot compare the structural integrity of a “dissident” site, purportedly starved of cash, to a porn site or MSNBC. Lately, MSNBC and the Panoptic World kept crashing numerous times within an hour, and over a few days. My modem was showing unusual activity when nothing was being updated or downloaded. Certain MSNBC articles were easily accessible, other were not. Can Bill Gates’ news site crash on his own browser while porn sites, after a random check, could hold out on its own, on a different window, on the same computer? Those MSNBC stories were pretty good.

If satellite imageries are being bought up, ISPs need only an order. Most of them are small outfits. When these host servers are used to play tricks on your site, they lose business. Who would want to host anything on The Planet now? Either they go for solid business and profit or slowly bleed to bankruptcy, leaving their employees in the lurch…

In fact, smaller ISPs may be deliberately used for this; to kill themselves so that the industry can consolidate into one monolithic, streamlined surveillance superstructure. Our choices are getting limited.

All our systems upgrades are wired into the Panopticon. The faster, the better, from Internet-reliant phone conversations, net chats, online transactions to an online order for a computer, where a multinational bank can alert its equally multinational computer manufacturer to add the right ingredients. Uncle Samael still wins, and its little brothers can still hover around his loins, doing what they are good at best. Western Imperialism?

The Panopticon was prepared well. Here is a pre-9/11 FBI statement: “Electronic surveillance has been extremely effective in securing the conviction of more than 25,600 dangerous felons over the past 13 years. In many cases there is no substitute for electronic surveillance, as the evidence cannot be obtained through other traditional investigative techniques.” (07/24/2000).

I do no doubt that. The utility of criminals is nothing new. Sept 11 ushered in more draconian laws, and the White House can at least boast of a few successful decapitation strikes, although Osama Bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahiri and Mullah Mohammad Omar are still missing. Expendability follows expired shelf-lives. Government-employed hackers who strut about cockily may not know that when a foreign nation wreaks heavy havoc with key national infrastructures, someone’s head has to roll on the opposite end. No points for guessing whose.

In future the FBI will have to roll off some fat head to satisfy a Carnivore and a worried public. Now, lets see… the rogue agent was involved in child porn, snooped on a colleague or had stolen financial details for personal use…the “FBI doesn’t snoop, it only concentrates on terrorists and criminals.”

As soon as the Magic Lantern is lit, it goes beyond criminal activities, from the personal to the battlefield. Remember this is a highly intrusive software that can detect even inactivity; if the mouse isn’t being moved, you may be away, in the bathroom or having a phone chat. During that time, your modem icon may show “unusual activity.”

The details gathered can be used to destroy a person. If your family life, finances, job prospects or spouse’s health etc are detailed, those in power will know when to go in for the kill. Fake mails from an estranged spouse, trusted friends or colleagues can drive an embattled person to the brink.

Thankfully, they haven’t perfected the art, not yet.

Personally, some imbecile miscalculated badly in my case, as it was obvious I was about to leave political commentaries - after the ego-boosting confidence I had gained at the Online Journal - for short stories and fiction. When I was stopped at the Forth Worth/Dallas airport over a Justice Dept enquiry, I did suspect sources closer to home. But it was at Austin airport when I mulled over some very nasty countermeasures, for personal use.

For cogs will always be cogs, and they can be destroyed and replaced and that replacement should know how he or she is horribly hemmed in! For it is people like that who abide by a system that shows no mercy, and they should expect none themselves.

They are the ones responsible for this unfolding nightmare.

Shutter Control - Ground Zero: Imagine a battleground with satellite imageries bought up and targeted websites actively cut off? Add in news censorships and blackouts? You expect an unprecedented international outcry without sufficient access to information? Societies implode through rumors during an information blackout. The “guardians” of dissent will be there to air their views first, and make the first cleaving impressions. Here is where the little brothers -- from national leaders to editors and pseudo-dissidents -- would be huffing and blowing overtime to titillate an Uncle Samael gone berserk. Sure, the guardians would wave the perfunctory red flags while they subtly help eliminate vestiges of resistance, before being eliminated themselves.

For the first time in history, this is possible. It’s now a electronically wired world, and that All Seeing Eye in the Great Seal of the United States of America is slowly coming alive. It is not a Christian symbol, which, those Middle Eastern terrorists and their intellectual apologists dogs very well know, and conveniently overlook. They are the little brothers, who will blow and fire alongside high profile US “dissidents” and evangelists. They are playing their part to perfection, some of them consciously.

For that eye has been waiting for this day for too long. Conspiracy theory? Look at that bloody greenback! It is right before your eyes but not before the guardians of the intellectual left, not before the right-wingers and not before the Islamist intelligentsia, the latter constituting the perfect oxymoron, for if they had made their societies stronger and more self-reliant, that war in Iraq would have never taken place. Their only job is to muscle out better Muslim and non-Muslim thinkers from the public domain and be the points of reference to usher in more murders. Other major civilizations have surged ahead. Even Vietnam has taken off pretty well.

But in their delusional world none want to see it. They don’t want to see that the Eye was not an accidental symbol. It has a function, a role to play and a scheme to fulfill.

When that day comes, the Eye will know where you are, where you run, and where you hide. Your GPRS signals, your credit card purchases, your ATM withdrawals en route to escape, your car number plates captured by a store security camera, those voyeurs orbiting above, tracker dogs following your scent, a phone call to a store near a road junction enquiring about a “criminal” on the lam (at that moment, you will actually look like one) will crush you and others in a final pincer movement in this dehumanizing panoptic zoo.

After that, the rest can wear dogs tags for life (see the un-conspiracy links below)

Am I worried? Not really. Cowards cum mockers can wear those dog tags, and there are far too many of them. If my Mumbai pal can describe certain “ratiocinations” of mine as “sheer divination”, let’s give it a try, shall I? It doesn’t matter if he could have burnt up breathalyzers when he sometimes said that.

I didn’t choose this path but closed doors do have that effect.

For I will not let the likes of Gary Webb die in vain. I will want to tell the world another story behind Giuliana Sgrena’s limited mercy at the hands of the very people she was helping. This was not the first time and not the last. Uncle Samael cannot function without his little brothers.

“My Name Is Giuliana Sgrena: I Write for a Newspaper Which Opposed the Sanctions and the War Against Iraq”

So did I, for many journals and all I got was crap from the very “civilization” I was helping, as expected. This lady was caught in a web of traps right before she stepped into Iraq, something only a non-white, neutral observer can understand. For we know, what it’s like to hear one side of the story in public, and another in private. She shouldn’t have been there, to be held captive by an Iraqi, and make a political statement decked in green. Only a coward would hold such a woman hostage.

The casualties keep mounting. More US soldiers are dying.

Christians of the United States beware! There are murderous hijacking your faith, in your faith’s name, to take your kids away and die in a place they shouldn’t have, at the hands of murderers who get their anti-American ideological support from Americans who deliberately, and insensately instill hate in your faith. You can start off by boldly asking your evangelists what the Great Seal means. That’s the first step in sifting the chaff from the wheat! The burning comes later.

Perhaps I am delusional. After all, I am listening to the Pet Shop Boy’s Flamboyant while writing this draft. We will see in the next few weeks.

Mathew Maavak

Kuala Lumpur, Feb 22,

References:

1) The Hiram Key by Robert Lomas, endorsed by David Sinclair Bouschor, Past Grandmaster of Freemasonry, Grand Lodge of Minnesota, USA

SHUTTER CONTROL : GROUND ZEROBy MATHEW MAAVAK (Feb 22, 2005). The liberating possibilities of the Internet are dwindling; its full functions creep is inexorably leading us to a new social order Mathew Maavak is a Malaysian journalist and founder of the Panoptic World website, which, can be accessed at www.maavak.net He was trained in psychologcal warfare, conflict management and military issues in the United Kingdom.

Founder, Panoptic World
www.maavak.net

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