the following is snipped from
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci560967,00.html

Echelon is an officially unacknowledged U.S.-led global spy network that
operates an automated system for the interception and relay of electronic
communications. Monitored transmissions are said to include up to 3 billion
communications daily, including all the telephone calls, e-mail messages, faxes,
satellite transmissions, and Internet downloads of both public and private
organizations and citizens worldwide. Led by the U.S. National Security Agency
(NSA), Echelon is operated collaboratively by the intelligence agencies of the
United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. The
organization's name originated as the code name for the system component
responsible for intercepting satellite communications.

Echelon collects information through an extensive system of radio antennae and
satellites that monitor satellite communications and sniffer devices that
collect Internet communications from data packets. Some sources claim that the
organization employs underwater devices to tap into transcontinental fiber optic
phone cables. According to the ACLU, Echelon gathers huge volumes of data
indiscriminately, and then filters out useful information through artificial
intelligence (AI) technology. The system is also said to involve voice
recognition, language translation, and keyword searching to select messages to
study in their entirety.

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the following is snipped from
http://www.victorthorn.com/babel/issue46/octopus.html

A covert sector of the government, specifically Edwin Meese's Justice
Department, crafted a nefarious plot to steal the PROMIS program and modify it
so that "back doors" could be opened to look into the databases of targeted
individuals. One of the companies involved in this scheme was Wackenhut, the
world's largest private security firm. These are also the same cowboys who
patrol the infamous Area 51, and were hired as security at the 2002 Winter
Olympics in Salt Lake City. Former FBI Agent George Wackenhut formed this
company in 1954. With connections to J. Edgar Hoover, Wackenhut had, by 1965,
files on over 2 1/2 million American citizens, which was less than one-out-of
every 50 people!

To continue this tale, one of INSLAW's founders, Bill Hamilton, said that the
ultimate purpose of stealing the PROMIS software was to forward information to
the National Security Agency (NSA) satellites so they could more easily access
it. "It will track anything once it's provided with the rules," he said.

~snip~

If it stopped here, things would be bad enough. But a computer program called
"Brainstorm" took the surveillance abilities of PROMIS to the next level by
tying it into artificial intelligence programs. After doing so, the Secret
Service or Military could predict any person's behavior just by knowing their
thought processes and personality traits.


~snip~

- The Octopus was a secret group begun by CIA operative James Jesus Angleton. It
wasn't the "government" per se, but it did influence every part of the
government. They weren't highly ordered, but loosely based, like the Mob. They
essentially worked as a spy network, bringing about Richard Nixon's downfall at
Watergate. They also ousted the Shah of Iran, ran drugs out of the Golden
Triangle, orchestrated the Bay of Pigs fiasco, dirtied their fingers in the BCCI
money scandal, brought about Ronald Reagan's October Surprise, ran drugs and
guns into Latin America, worked on the peripheral of JFK's assassination,
murdered Chile's Allende, and set events in motion to bring about America's war
in Iraq.

- In essence, many of the same names kept popping up at each of the following
events: Castro's failed assassination attempts, the Bay of Pigs, JFK's
assassination, Watergate, and gun-running in Central America. They were: Richard
Helms, Ray Cline, E. Howard Hunt, Edwin Wilson, Thomas Clines, Ted Schackley,
Frank Sturgis, and Felix Rodriguez.

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the following is copied from http://www.sfbg.com/nessie/36.html

Nessie: Since FRS software makes such effective use of bone structure, a ski
mask or bandanna probably won’t defeat it. If it can see through a beard and
sunglasses, how much good do you think a rag over your face is going to do? A
loose, rubber mask may spoof FRS, but don't bet your freedom, or even your life,
on it. No one who takes an active role in organizing public dissent is safe from
the withering gaze of techno-repression. Toss Echelon, Carnivore, Prosecutor’s
Management Information System (or PROMIS), and High-Definition TV into the mix,
and it’s a whole new world. Today, anyone who does more with his political
convictions than grumble into his beer is, of necessity, forced to consider his
or her personal life to be an open book. People’s opinions, appearance, and even
location, is a matter of record. These records can be cross matched, sometimes
with life-altering results.

Modern information technology, especially artificial intelligence, has redefined
forever the economics of surveillance. No longer is the tedious, expensive, and
intrinsically subjective work of the human mind required. The days of three
shifts a day, 24-7, trench coat-and-sunglasses-wearing teams working for scale
are over. Today, even as innocuous an expression of one’s objection to the
tyranny of our rulers as kvetching over the Internet, is not too expensive to
investigate. Artificial intelligence has made the cost of conducting
surveillance virtually negligible. It has made truly effective mass covert
surveillance a possibility for the first time in history. The powers that be not
only admit to using covert surveillance on innocent citizens, they brag about
it.

~snip~

Not only do our rulers now employ artificial intelligence to keep track of what
we are doing, they have apparently begun using it to predict what we will do in
the future. This is called behavioral-recognition software. If it’s not already
in use, it’s in the pipeline. They seem to be trying to break this to us gently.
Last April, we were permitted to learn that TASC, a subsidiary of defense giant
Litton Industries, was joining with Loronix Information Systems to co-develop a
state-of-the-art digital video technology that employs software to find
behavioral patterns in video images.

The proposed technology will allow retailers to catch shoplifters before they
ever take an object, capture the image of people performing a fake “slip and
fall” for an illegal lawsuit, and clean up a spill before an accident occurs.
Law enforcement could use such intelligent video technology to spot erratic
traffic patterns, such as cars moving at high speeds, irregular turning, or
other atypical traffic behavior. By using intelligence extracted from the video,
law enforcement officials could proactively manage problem spots by isolating
trends before problems got out of hand. Highway officials, Loronix points out,
could also monitor critical safety areas like railroad crossings more
effectively. Imagine getting a ticket for an infraction you haven’t even
committed yet.

see also Global Hawk, Artificial Intelligence, Boeing, DARPA, and September 11
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/12427

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