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A disc playback apparatus cooperates with a disc on which main digital data and subdigital data have been recorded. The apparatus selectively reproduces the main digital data, which it locates with the aid of the subdigital data. A predetermined amount of data is organized into FRAMEs, and the FRAMEs are assembled into BLOCKs. A header signal including a predetermined number of bytes each indicating the digital value "0" is at the beginning of each BLOCK. The length of the header signal corresponds to the relative variation of time base between the the reproduced main digital data and the reproduced subdigital data. An address signal follows the header signal and includes a start signal having bits of digital value of "1" and following address data consisting of a predetermined number of bytes indicating one address.
1. A disc having recorded thereon
a plurality of FRAMEs of main digital data and subdigital data, said subdigital data being used in playback of said disc to locate said main digital data,
a predetermined number of said FRAMEs consituting one BLOCK,
a header signal being included in the beginning of said BLOCK,
an address signal following said header signal, and
a time indication code contained in said subdigital data for locating a desired FRAME within said BLOCK.
2. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the length of said header signal corresponds to relative variation of the time base between the reproduced main digital data and the reproduced sub-digital data.
3. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said header signal includes a predetermined number of bytes each indicating the digital value "0".
4. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said address signal includes a start signal having bits of digital value of "1".
5. The disc playback apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said address data consists of a predetermined number of bytes indicating one address, said bytes being repeated at least once.
6. A method of using a disc for storing and playing back main digital data, comprising the steps of:
adding subdigital data to said main digital data for use during playback in identifying and locating said main digital data;
organizing said main digital data and said subdigital data into FRAMEs;
including in said subdigital data a time indication code indicating a continuously changing absolute time duration from a beginning of the disc to an end thereof;
organizing a predetermined number of said FRAMEs into one BLOCK;
arranging a header signal at the beginning of each BLOCK, said header signal being formed of an even number of FRAMEs of the same digital value and in which each BLOCK is formed of said predetermined number of FRAMEs;
arranging an address signal following each said header signal, said address signal including address data of a predetermined number of bytes that repeat themselves at least once; and
playing back said recorded data utilizing said time indication code to determine a location of a preselected BLOCK and utilizing a reproduced length of said header signal to indicate a relative time base fluctuation between said main digital data and said subdigital data.
7. Apparatus for reproducing a digital signal recorded in a track of a record disc, comprising:
a disc on which main digital data and subdigital data have been recorded, a predetermined amount of said main digital data and subdigital data being organized to form one FRAME, and a predetermined number of FRAMEs being assembled to form one BLOCK, a header signal being included in the beginning of said BLOCK, and an address signal following said header signal, said subdigital data including data sequentially changing along said track so as to locate a desired BLOCK, whereby said main digital data is selectively reproduced;
spindle means for rotating said disc;
signal reproducing means for obtaining reproduced main digital data and subdigital data from said disc;
drive means for producing relative motion between said disc and said signal reproducing means in a direction that is radial with respect to said disc;
separating means connected to said signal reproducing means for separating said reproduced main digital data from said reproduced subdigital data;
memory means connected to said separating means for eliminating a time-base variation in said reproduced main digital data and producing time-base corrected main digital data; and
control means connected to said spindle means, drive means and separating means and supplied with said reproduced subdigital data for controlling said spindle means and drive means, whereby a reproduced length of said header signal corresponds to a relative time base fluctuation between said time-base corrected main digital data and said reproduced subdigital data.
8. Apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said header signal includes a predetermined number of bytes, each indicating the digital value "0".
9. Apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said address signal includes a start signal having bits of digital value of "1" and address data.
10. Apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said address data consists of a predetermined number of bytes indicating one address, said bytes being repeated at least once.
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 635,606, filed July 30, 1984, now abandoned.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a disc playback apparatus which uses a digital disc on which two-channel digital audio signals are recorded, and which memorizes digital data other than these two-channel digital audio signals.
2. Description of the Prior Art
A system using an optical digital audio disc (referred to as a compact disc) is a disc system which can reproduce high quality stereophonic musical sounds. If digital data such as data representative of characters, display data, program data, etc. other than stereophonic musical sounds can be reproduced by this disc system without significantly modifying the arrangement of the player, it will be possible to realize a playback apparatus for reproducing visual information such as charts and statistics by graphics, pictorial illustration by still pictures, and a video game apparatus by adding a display unit, thereby providing a wide applicable range for a compact disc system. The data memory capacity of the current compact disc is about 500M bytes, and therefore, a compact disc has a very great advantage as compared with the memory capacity of a standard flexible disc.
On the other hand, compact discs are principally utilized for reproduction of audio signals, thus, the beginning of the data on the disc is searched on a relatively large unit basis such as music program unit or phrase unit. However, as a memory device, the data have to be read out on a smaller unit basis in the order of 128 bytes to 10K bytes. For searching of the beginning of the data, a sub-coding signal is recorded on the compact disc together with the digital audio data. The reproduced digital audio data is written in a RAM (Random Access Memory) synchronously with a reproduced bit clock signal, and read out from the RAM by a reference clock signal. It is necessary for error correction, error interpolation and elimination of variation of time base (hereafter called jitter) to write the reproduced digital audio data in the RAM. The sub-coding signal is different from the digital audio data in that a complicated error correction code therefor is not processed or written in the RAM. Therefore, the reproduced sub-coding signal includes a jitter component. Because of that, a time lag exists between the reproduced main channel digital audio data and the reproduced sub-coding signal, and this time lag is not constant and always fluctuates.
Because of the time lag, even if the main digital data recorded on a compact disc is accessed with the use of the sub-coding signal, there is the possibility that a desired data block will not be accurately read out.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a disc playback apparatus which can read out digital signals of programs, data or the like in place of digital audio signals by utilizing a disc playback apparatus for the standard digital audio as it is or by modifying only a part thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a disc playback apparatus which accesses data accurately, even if a relative time variation is contained between the main channel digital data and the sub-coding signal which is inserted to access the main data.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a disc playback apparatus which can play back a disc memory device having a much larger memory capacity than a conventional flexible disc, and can read out the digital signal on a unit basis that is amount suitable for handling.
It is a still further object of the present invention to provide a disc playback apparatus which can reproduce from a disc recorded digital data other than stereophonic musical signals while maintaining consistency with respect to the signal format and signal processing such as the error correcting method and recording data format, or the like, of a disc for playing back stereophonic musical signals such as an already commercially available compact disc,
It is a still further object of the present invention to provide a disc play back apparatus which can play back various picture information and audio information, thereby enabling enlargement of an application range of the disc, by adding a data processing section such as a micro-computer, color CRT, and speaker in order to adapt the standard disc player to these new applications.
According to the present invention, there is provided a disc playback apparatus for use with a disc on which main digital data have been recorded and on which sub-digital data to selectively reproduce this main digital data have also been recorded, wherein a predetermined number of the main digital data constitute one BLOCK, and a header signal is included in the beginning of each of the BLOCK with, an address signal following said header signal.
FIGS. 1 and 2 are schematic diagrams which are used to describe the data arrangements of the recording data of a compact disc to which this invention is applied;
FIG. 3 consisting of A through D is a schematic diagram showing the arrangement of one BLOCK upon recording the digital data in one embodiment of this invention;
FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an overall arrangement of one embodiment of this invention;
FIG. 5 is a schematic digram showing a word format of the serial data in one embodiment of this invention; and
FIG. 6 is a flow chart showing the operation of one embodiment of this invention.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the present invention is applied to a compact disc.
The data arrangement of the signal to be recorded on a compact disc will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.
FIG. 1 shows the data stream recorded on a compact disc. One FRAME consists of 588 bits of record data, and each FRAME has at its head a frame sync pulse FS followed by 3-bit DC-restriction bits RB. Thereafter, the 0th to 32nd data portions DB each having 14 bits and the 3-bit DC-restriction portions RB are further recorded alternately. The 0th bits among these data portions DB are called a subcoding signals or user's bits, and used to control the playback of a disc and to display the relating information or the like. The 1st to 12th and 17th to 28th data portions DB are assigned for audio data in the main channel. The remaining 13th to 16th and 29th to 32nd data portions DB are assigned for parity data of the error correction code in the main channel. Each of the data portions DB consists of 14 bits into which the 8-bit data have been converted by the 8 to 14 conversion upon recording.
FIG. 2 shows the stage of one BLOCK (98 FRAMEs) in that 98 FRAMEs are arranged sequentially in parallel, wherein each of the data portions DB is represented by 8 bits and the DC-restriction bits are excluded. The sub-coding signals P to W in the 0th and 1st FRAMEs from the sync patterns which are predetermined bit patterns. For the Q channel, the CRC codes for error detection are inserted in the latter 16 FRAMEs of the 98 FRAMEs.
The P channel signal is a flag to indicate a music program and a pause, and has a lower level throughout the duration of a music program and a higher level throughout the duration of a pause, and has pulses of 2 Hz period in the lead-out section. It is possible to select and playback the specified music program by detecting and counting this signal in the P channel. The Q channel enables more complicated control of this type of digital audio disc apparatus. For example, when the Q channel information is stored in a micro-computer equipped in the disc playback apparatus, it is possible to shift quickly from one music program to another during the playback of a music program; thus, respective ones of the recorded music programs may be selected at random. The other R through W channels can be used to indicate or explain by audible voice an author, composer, explanation, text, or the like of the music programs recorded on the disc.
The 98 bits in the Q channel are arranged as follows: the first two bits are used for a sync pattern; the next four bits; the for control bits; further next four bits; the for address bits; following 72 bits for data bits; and at the last a CRC code for error detection is added. A track number code TNR and an index code X are included in the 72 bits that are used for the data bits. The track number code TNR can be varied from 00 to 99, and the index code X can be likewise changed from 00 to 99. The track number code TNR can be used to distinguish the lead-in track (TNR=00), the lead-out track (TNR=AA) and the various units of music on the disc. The index code X is employed to further separate the separating units of the track number code TNR, and is used to indicate, for example, the movement number in symphonic music. In this embodiment "00" indicates a pause and "01" to "99" indicate various index numbers. Furthermore, the data in the Q channel contains a time indication code representative of the time durations of music programs and pause, and a time indication code indicative of an absolute time duration that continuously changes from the beginning to the end on the most outer rim side in the program area of the compact disc. These time indication codes comprise the codes indicating minute, second and FRAME each consisting of two digits. One second is divided into 75 FRAMEs. In order to access the compact disc, containing digital data, on a shorter unit basis than a compact disc containing music, the time indication code in the Q channel providing the above mentioned absolute time duration is used.
As described above, a minimum unit of change of a sub-coding signal for a compact disc is 98 FRAMEs. In this embodiment, in case of recording digital signals other than the stereophonic musical signals, which digital signals are as shown in FIG. 3A, one BLOCK is constituted by the length of (98�5)=490 FRAMEs. The beginning of the one BLOCK includes a header signal and an ID signal. The remaining FRAMEs other than the header signal and ID signal have the data format as shown in FIG. 1, in which, instead of the audio digital data as shown in FIG. 1, digital data of byte unit such as data representative of characters, display data, is inserted.
One FRAME includes the digital data consisting of 24 bytes so that one BLOCK includes digital data of approximately 11K bytes. The track number codes TNR of P data and Q data of the sub-coding signal included in same BLOCK are same, and the index code X of the Q data varies 01 to 05 so that specific one BLOCK can be retrieved by the sub-coding signal. As shown in FIG. 3B, the beginning of one BLOCK is added with the header signal consisting of data bits all indicating "0" throughout the first 20 FRAMEs. The center position of the header comes to the beginning position of the BLOCK, when no jitter component is included in the reproduced sub-coding signal at all. As reservation for the jitter, a width of �10 FRAMEs is provided. The jitter component which is caused during the reproduction of the conventional compact disc is �4 FRAMEs so that it is not feared that the header signal of the above mentioned length can not be reproduced because of the jitter component.
Following the end of the header signal, the ID mark is provided. The ID mark consists of, as shown in FIG. 3C, an ID start signal of 8 bytes including data bits all indicating "1" and an ID signal of 8 bytes, on which, as shown in FIG. 3D, 4 bytes of A0, A1, A2 and A3 are written twice. The ID signal of 4 bytes is an address signal of every BLOCK.
The digital signals in the format shown in FIG. 3 can be recorded on a compact disc in the same manner as on an audio compact disc. That is, a digital signal to be recorded is supplied to a digital input terminal of a digital audio processor and this digital signal is converted into a video signal format, thereby recording it using a VTR of the rotary head system. In this case, TOC (table of contents) data to generate a sub-coding signal is preliminarily recorded in the audio track in the starting edge section on magnetic tape on which this digital signal will be recorded. Next, the TOC data reproduced from this magnetic tape is supplied to a sub-coding generator, the reproduced digital signal is supplied to an encoder, the sub-coding signal is further supplied to this encoder, and then a laser beam is modulated on the basis of an output of the encoder. A master disc is made by means of this modulated laser beam.
As another method of recording a digital signal, there is a method whereby, for example, a hard disc memory that can be accessed at a high speed is accessed by a mini-computer and a digital signal is supplied in real time to an encoder of a cutting system.
FIG. 4 shows an arrangement of one embodiment of this invention. In FIG. 4, a reference numeral 1 denotes a compact disc on which a digital signal of the above described format has been spirally recorded. The compact disc 1 is rotated by a spindle motor 2. In this case, the spindle motor 2 is controlled by a spindle servo circuit 3 so that the compact disc 1 rotates at a constant linear velocity.
A numeral 4 indicates an optical head, which has a laser source for generating a laser beam for pickup, beam splitter, optical system such as objective lens or the like, photoreceptive device for receiving the reflected laser beam from the compact disc 1, etc. The optical head 4 can be moved in the radial direction of the compact disc 1 by a thread feed motor 5. The thread feed motor 5 is driven by a thread drive circuit 6. The optical head 4 can be deflected both in the direction perpendicular to the signal surface of the compact disc 1 and in the direction parallel thereto, and it is controlled so that the focusing and tracking of the laser beam upon playback are always properly performed. For this purpose, a focusing and tracking servo circuit 7 is provided.
A reproduction signal of the optical head 4 is supplied to an RF amplifier 8. The optical head 4 is provided with a focus error detecting section consisting of a combination of, for example, cylindrical lens and 4-dividing detector, and a tracking error detecting section using three laser spots. This servo error signal is supplied to a focusing and tracking servo circuit 7. An output signal of the RF amplifier 8 is supplied to a digital demodulator 9 and a bit clock reproduction circuit 10. The digital signal recorded on the compact disc 1 has been EFM modulated. The EFM modulation is a method of BLOCK converting 8-bit data into a preferable 14 bit pattern. (i.e. 14 bits such as to provide a long minimum transition time period of the modulated signal and reduce its low-frequency component) The digital demodulator 9 is constituted in such a manner as to carry out the demodulation of EFM. The bit clock fetched by a bit clock reproduction circuit 10 is supplied to the digital demodulator 9 and the spindle servo circuit 3.
The sub-coding signal is separated by the digital demodulator 9 and this separated sub-coding signal is supplied to a system controller 11. The system controller 11 is equipped with a CPU, and the rotating operation of the compact disc 1, thread feeding operation, reading operation of the optical head 4, or the like are controlled by the system controller 11. Control commands are supplied to the system controller 11 through an interface 17, that will be described later. Namely the reading operation of a desired digital signal from the compact disc 1 using the sub-coding signal is controlled by the system controller 11.
The main digital data output from the digital demodulator 9 is supplied through a RAM controller 12 to a RAM 13 and an error correction circuit 14. The processings with respect to the elimination of variation of the time base, error correction and error interpolation are carried out by the RAM controller 12, RAM 13 and error correction circuit 14, so that the main digital data is fetched from terminals 15L and 15R. Upon playback of a compact disc on which audio data has been recorded, D/A converters are connected to these terminals 15 and 15R, respectively. In case of FIG. 4, no D/A converter is provided to fetch the digital data as it is from the outputs, and the reproduced digital data is supplied to a data converter 16. The reproduced sub-coding signal is also supplied to this data converter 16, and the reproduced data is converted into the form of serial signal.
This serial signal is supplied to the interface 17, and the data for the system controller 11 is supplied from a micro-computer system 18 through the interface 17 to the controller 11. The interface 17 includes the micro-computer system 18 to detect the header signal and to read out the ID signal and so on. The micro-computer system 18 specifies a readout address with the ID signal and applies control signals such as start signals in addition to this readout address to the interface 17 and system controller 11. A list showing correspondence of the sub-coding signal and the ID signal to the address has been recorded in the lead-in track in the most inner rim section on the compact disc 1 using the sub-coding signal as addresses. This list is reproduced in the initial state to start the readout of the compact disc 1 and is read by the micro-computer system 18 in the interface 17.
FIG. 5 shows an example of the word format of the serial signal output from the data converter 16. For this serial signal, one WORD consists of 32 bits; the first four bits are for preamble; next four bits for auxiliary bits of the audio data; and next 20 bits for digital audio sample. In the case where the digital audio sample consists of 16 bits, 16 bits from the least significant bit (LSB) are inserted. Four bits are added after the digital audio sample. Among the four bits, the first bit indicated by V is a flat to show whether the digital audio sample of that word is effective or not; bit U is each bit of the sub-coding signal; bit C is a bit to identify the channel; and bit P is a parity bit. This bit U of the sub-coding signal is inserted into each word format one bit by one and these inserted bits are sequentially transmitted.
In one embodiment of the present invention, a read instruction to a predetermined address is first executed by the micro-computer system 18. This address and control signal are supplied to the micro-computer system 18 in the interface 17. The address is converted to the corresponding sub-coding signal in the interface 17 and the latter is supplied to the system controller 11. The system controller 11 controls the thread drive circuit 6 to move the optical head 4 to a location a few BLOCKs a way from desired readout location while supervising the sub-coding signal reproduced by the optical head 4.
It is also possible to detect the location where the reproduced sub-coding signal completely coincides with the set sub-coding signal. In this example, to prevent such mal-operation that the reproduced sub-coding signal includes an error and a set sub-coding signal is not reproduced so as to terminate the search mode, the playback is started from the location apart from the correct block by a few blocks. The designated BLOCK is determined by counting the reproduced sub-coding signal, the frame sync signal and the header.
At the designated BLOCK or nearby, the micro-computer 18 within the interface 17 operates according to the flow chart as shown in FIG. 6. First of all, one WORD of the reproduced main channel digital data is taken in so as to discriminate whether the one WORD is that of the header or not. When the header is not detected at the beginning of the BLOCK, it means the jitter component is outside of the tolerance range so that error correction is carried out. When the header is detected, a determination is made whether or not the one WORD is the ID start signal.
After detecting the ID start signal, the ID signal, A0, A1, A2 and A3 is taken in. In this case, an effective ID signal is taken in, while supervising a flag attached to each WORD. Among 4 bytes of the ID signal, two bytes of A0 and A1 correspond with successive two bytes of L channel, and two bytes of A2 and A3 with successive two bytes of R channel. Because of this repetition, the ID signal of 4 bytes, A0, A1, A2 and A3 is effectively obtained as data.
This ID signal of 4 bytes A0, A1, A2 and A3 is checked to determine whether or not an address is designated. If an address is designated, the data of the BLOCK designated is read in by the microcomputer 18. If no address is designated the next BLOCK is read and a similar operation is performed.
An arrangement may be possible wherein an operating keyboard for the D/A converter and system controller 11 is added to the arrangement of one embodiment described above, thereby enabling the playback of the compact disc on which stereophonic musical signals have been recorded.
It may be possible to insert the accessing code signals for which the coding processing of the error correcting code has been performed in other R through W channels in the sub-coding signals.
According to the present invention, it is possible to realize a disc memory device having a much larger memory capacity than a conventional flexible disc, and to read out the digital signal in units of a size suitable for handling.
Moreover, according to the present invention, with a disc for playing back stereophonic musical signals such as an already commercially available compact disc, it is possible to record digital data other than the stereophonic musical signals while maintaining the consistency with respect to the signal format and signal processing such as the error correcting method and recording data format, or the like. Therefore, by adding a data processing section such as micro-computer, color CRT, and speaker as accessories to the standard disc player, it is possible to playback various picture information and audio information, thereby enabling enlargement of an application range of the disc.
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12.08.2009 Banned by the Catholic Church
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If you go to this link and listen to it 3 times in a row…. you tell me why the church banned this ghost band?
Please leave your comments on the original page… and wait to see what happens….guess what the church was scared off???
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Banned by the Catholic Church
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Sound Clip: Shepard Tone by Roger Shepard
This is a classic sound oddity and illusion. Or is it? There are some corrections to this post with much discussion, see below and follow the trail of comments to clarify the inaccuracies.
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"It is rumored to be called the "devil's tone" by the Catholic church. The Shepard tone is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the base pitch of the tone moving upwards or downwards, it is referred to as the
Shepard Scale. This creates an auditory illusion that continually ascends or descends in pitch, yet which ultimately seems to get no higher or lower."
Corrections here and below in comments from Brent Williams:
"Hi Margaret.
"Baned by the Catholic Church", about a Shepard-Risset Glissando. This post contained links to certain webpages, but when the post went up (even before it was moderated) the links were missing. Just in case you want to put them up for your readers, here they are:
The original source page for this sound file is here . It is in French.
You can find the Wiki source page here . This contains a little more info on the sound. This is where I confirmed that the sound is a minor chord of synchronised Shepard-Risset glissandi.
Read about Diana Deutsch here . She is currently a Professor at UCSD.
All the best, and please continue with your excellent website.
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Disinformation Tactics: The Methods Used To Keep You In The Dark
February 10, 2010 by admin
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There was a time, not too long ago (relatively speaking), that governments and the groups of elites that controlled them did not find it necessary to conscript themselves into wars of disinformation. Propaganda was relatively straightforward. The lies were much simpler. The control of information flow was easily directed. In fact, during the early Middle-Ages in most European countries commoners were not even allowed to own a Bible, nor was the Bible allowed to be interpreted from Latin to another language, let alone any other tome that might breed "dangerous ideas". This was due in large part to the established feudal system and its hierarchy of royals and clergy. Rules were enforced with the threat of property confiscation and execution for anyone who strayed from the rigid socio-political structure. Those who had theological, metaphysical, or scientific information outside of the conventional and scripted collective world view were tortured and slaughtered. The elites kept the information to themselves, and removed its remnants from mainstream recognition, sometimes for centuries before it was rediscovered.
With the advent of anti-feudalism, and most importantly the success of the American Revolution, elites were no longer able to dominate information with the edge of a blade or the barrel of a gun. The establishment of Democracies (and Democratic Republics), with their philosophy of open government and rule by the people, compelled Aristocratic minorities to plot more subtle ways of obstructing the truth and thus maintaining their hold over the world without exposing themselves to retribution from the masses. Thus, the complex art of disinformation was born. The technique, the "magic" of the lie, was refined and perfected. The mechanics of the human mind and the human soul became an endless obsession for the elites.
The goal was malicious, but socially radical; instead of expending the impossible energy needed to dictate the very form and existence of the truth, they would allow it to drift, obscured in a fog of contrived data. They would wrap the truth in a "Gordian Knot" of misdirections and fabrications so elaborate that they felt certain the majority of people would surrender, giving up long before they ever finished unraveling the deceit. The goal was not to destroy the truth, but to hide it in plain sight.
In modern times, and with carefully engineered methods, this goal has for the most part been accomplished. However, these methods also have inherent weaknesses. Lies are fragile. They require constant attentiveness to keep them alive. The exposure of a single truth can rip through an ocean of lies, evaporating it instantly. In this article, we will examine the methods used to fertilize and promote the growth of disinformation, as well as how to identify the roots of disinformation and effectively cut them, starving out the entire system of fallacies once and for all.
Media Disinformation Methods
The mainstream media, once tasked with the job of investigating government corruption and keeping elitists in line, has now become nothing more than a PR firm for corrupt officials and their Globalist handlers. The days of the legitimate "investigative reporter" are long gone, and journalism itself has deteriorated into a rancid pool of so called "TV Editorialists" who treat their own baseless opinions as supported fact.
The elitist co-opting of news has been going on in one form or another since the invention of the printing press, however, the first methods of media disinformation truly came to fruition under the supervision of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, who believed the truth was "subjective" and open to his personal interpretation. Hearst's legacy of lies and sensationalism lives on in the Hearst published magazine 'Popular Mechanics', who accuse the growing 9/11 Truth Movement of outrageous "conspiracy theory" while at the same time consistently publishing articles about UFO sightings and secret government flying saucer programs.
As we will show, this strange juxtaposition of mixed signals and hypocritical accusations is characteristic of all purveyors of disinformation.
Some of the main tactics used by the mainstream media to mislead the masses are as follows:
Lie Big, Retract Quietly
Mainstream media sources (especially newspapers) are notorious for reporting flagrantly dishonest and unsupported news stories on the front page, then quietly retracting those stories on the very back page when they are caught. In this case, the point is to railroad the lie into the collective consciousness. Once the lie is finally exposed, it is already too late, and a large portion of the population will not notice or care when the truth comes out. A good example of this would be the collusion of the MSM with the Bush administration to convince the American public after 9/11 that Iraq had WMDs, even though no concrete evidence existed to prove it. George W. Bush's eventual admission that there had never been any WMDs in Iraq (except chemical weapons which the U.S. actually sold to Saddam under the Reagan / Bush administration) was lightly reported or glazed over by most mainstream news sources. The core reason behind a war that has now killed over a million people was proven to be completely fraudulent, yet I still run into people today who believe that Iraq had nukes…
Unconfirmed Or Controlled Sources As Fact
Cable news venues often cite information from "unnamed" sources, government sources that have an obvious bias or agenda, or "expert" sources without providing an alternative "expert" view. The information provided by these sources is usually backed by nothing more than blind faith. A recent example of this would be the Osama Bin Laden audio tapes which supposedly reveal that the Christmas "Underwear Bomber" was indeed Al-Qaeda:
The media treats the audio tape as undeniable fact in numerous stories, then at the same time prints a side story which shows that the White House cannot confirm that the tape is even real:
If the White House cannot confirm the authenticity of the tape, then why did the media report on its contents as if it had been confirmed?
Calculated Omission
Otherwise known as "cherry picking" data. One simple piece of information or root item of truth can derail an entire disinfo news story, so instead of trying to gloss over it, they simply pretend as if it doesn't exist. When the fact is omitted, the lie can appear entirely rational. This tactic is also used extensively when disinformation agents and crooked journalists engage in open debate.
Distraction, and the Manufacture of Relevance
Sometimes the truth wells up into the public awareness regardless of what the media does to bury it. When this occurs their only recourse is to attempt to change the public's focus and thereby distract them from the truth they were so close to grasping. The media accomplishes this by "over-reporting" on a subject that has nothing to do with the more important issues at hand. Ironically, the media can take an unimportant story, and by reporting on it ad nauseum, cause many Americans to assume that because the media won't shut-up about it, it must be important! An example of this would be the recent push for an audit of the Federal Reserve which was gaining major public support, as well as political support. Instead of reporting on this incredible and unprecedented movement for transparency in the Fed, the MSM spent two months or more reporting non-stop on the death of Michael Jackson, a pop idol who had not released a decent record since "Thriller," practically deifying the man who only months earlier was being lambasted by the same MSM for having "wandering hands" when children were about.
Dishonest Debate Tactics
Sometimes, men who actually are concerned with the average American's pursuit of honesty and legitimate fact-driven information break through and appear on T.V. However, rarely are they allowed to share their views or insights without having to fight through a wall of carefully crafted deceit and propaganda. Because the media knows they will lose credibility if they do not allow guests with opposing viewpoints every once in a while, they set up and choreograph specialized T.V. debates in highly restrictive environments which put the guest on the defensive, and make it difficult for them to clearly convey their ideas or facts.
TV pundits are often trained in what are commonly called "Alinsky Tactics." Saul Alinsky was a moral relativist, and champion of the lie as a tool for the "greater good;" essentially, a modern day Machiavelli. His "Rules for Radicals" were supposedly meant for grassroots activists who opposed the establishment, and emphasized the use of any means necessary to defeat one's political opposition. But is it truly possible to defeat an establishment built on lies, by use of even more elaborate lies, and by sacrificing one's ethics?
Today, Alinsky's rules are used more often by the establishment than by its opposition. These tactics have been adopted by governments and disinformation specialists across the world, but they are most visible in TV debate. While Alinsky sermonized about the need for confrontation in society, his debate tactics are actually designed to circumvent real and honest confrontation of opposing ideas with slippery tricks and diversions. Alinsky's tactics, and their modern usage, can be summarized as follows:
1) Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.
We see this tactic in many forms. For example, projecting your own movement as mainstream, and your opponent's as fringe. Convincing your opponent that his fight is a futile one. Your opposition may act differently, or even hesitate to act at all, based on their perception of your power.
2) Never go outside the experience of your people, and whenever possible, go outside of the experience of the enemy.
Don't get drawn into a debate about a subject you do not know as well as or better than your opposition. If possible, draw them into such a situation instead. Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty in your opposition. This is commonly used against unwitting interviewees on cable news shows whose positions are set up to be skewered. The target is blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address. In television and radio, this also serves to waste broadcast time to prevent the target from expressing his own positions.
3) Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
The objective is to target the opponent's credibility and reputation by accusations of hypocrisy. If the tactician can catch his opponent in even the smallest misstep, it creates an opening for further attacks.
4) Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
"Ron Paul is a crackpot." "Dennis Kucinich is short and weird." "9-11 twoofers wear tinfoil hats." Ridicule is almost impossible to counter. It's irrational. It infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage. It also works as a pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
5) A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
The popularization of the term "Teabaggers" is a classic example, it caught on by itself because people seem to think it's clever, and enjoy saying it. Keeping your talking points simple and fun keeps your side motivated, and helps your tactics spread autonomously, without instruction or encouragement.
6) A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
See rule number 6. Don't become old news. If you keep your tactics fresh, its easier to keep your people active. Not all disinformation agents are paid. The "useful idiots" have to be motivated by other means. Mainstream disinformation often changes gear from one method to the next and then back again.
7) Keep the pressure on with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. Never give the target a chance to rest, regroup, recover or re-strategize. Take advantage of current events and twist their implications to support your position. Never let a good crisis go to waste.
The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
This goes hand in hand with Rule #1. Perception is reality. Allow your opposition to expend all of its energy in expectation of an insurmountable scenario. The dire possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.
9) The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
The objective of this pressure is to force the opposition to react and make the mistakes that are necessary for the ultimate success of the campaign.
10) If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside.
As grassroots activism tools, Alinsky tactics have historically been used (for example, by labor movements) to force the opposition to react with violence against activists, which leads to popular sympathy for the activists' cause. Today, false (or co-opted) grassroots movements use this technique in debate as well as in planned street actions. The idea is to provoke (or stage) ruthless attacks against ones' self, so as to be perceived as the underdog, or the victim. Today, this technique is commonly used to create the illusion that a certain movement is "counterculture" or "anti-establishment."
11) The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
Never let the enemy score points because you're caught without a solution to the problem. Today, this is often used offensively against legitimate activists, such as the opponents of the Federal Reserve. Complain that your opponent is merely "pointing out the problems." Demand that they offer a solution.
12) Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. The targets supporters will expose themselves. Go after individual people, not organizations or institutions. People hurt faster than institutions.
The next time you view an MSM debate, watch the pundits carefully, you will likely see many if not all of the strategies above used on some unsuspecting individual attempting to tell the truth.
Internet Disinformation Methods
Because the MSM's bag of tricks has been so exhausted over such a long period of time, many bitter and enraged consumers of information are now turning to alternative news sources, most of which exist on the collective commons we call the internet. At first, it appears, the government and elitists ignored the web as a kind of novelty, or just another mechanism they could exploit in spreading disinformation. As we all now well know, they dropped the ball, and the internet has become the most powerful tool for truth history has ever seen.
That being said, they are now expending incredible resources in order to catch up to their mistake, utilizing every trick in their arsenal to beat web users back into submission. While the anonymity of the internet allows for a certain immunity against many of Saul Alinsky's manipulative tactics, it also allows governments to attack those trying to spread the truth covertly. In the world of web news, we call these people "disinfo trolls." Trolls are now being openly employed by governments in countries like the U.S. and Israel specifically to scour the internet for alternative news sites and disrupt their ability to share information.
Internet trolls, also known as "paid posters" or "paid bloggers," are increasingly being employed by private corporations as well, often for marketing purposes. In fact, it is a rapidly growing industry.
Trolls use a wide variety of strategies, some of which are unique to the internet, here are just a few:
1) Make outrageous comments designed to distract or frustrate: An Alinsky tactic used to make people emotional, although less effective because of the impersonal nature of the web.
2) Pose as a supporter of the truth, then make comments that discredit the movement: We have seen this even on our own forums — trolls pose as supporters of the Liberty Movement, then post long, incoherent diatribes so as to appear either racist or insane. Here is a live example of this tactic in use on Yahoo! Answers.
The key to this tactic is to make references to common Liberty Movement arguments while at the same time babbling nonsense, so as to make those otherwise valid arguments seem ludicrous by association.
In extreme cases, these "Trojan Horse Trolls" have been known to make posts which incite violence — a technique obviously intended to solidify the false assertions of the notorious MIAC report and other ADL/SPLC publications which purport that constitutionalists should be feared as potential domestic terrorists.
3) Dominate Discussions: Trolls often interject themselves into productive web discussions in order to throw them off course and frustrate the people involved.
4) Prewritten Responses: Many trolls are supplied with a list or database with pre-planned talking points designed as generalized and deceptive responses to honest arguments. 9/11 "debunker" trolls are notorious for this.
5) False Association: This works hand in hand with item #2, by invoking the stereotypes established by the "Trojan Horse Troll."
For example: calling those against the Federal Reserve "conspiracy theorists" or "lunatics". Deliberately associating anti-globalist movements with big foot or alien enthusiasts, because of the inherent negative connotations. Using false associations to provoke biases and dissuade people from examining the evidence objectively.
6) False Moderation: Pretending to be the "voice of reason" in an argument with obvious and defined sides in an attempt to move people away from what is clearly true into a "grey area" where the truth becomes "relative."
7) Straw Man Arguments: A very common technique. The troll will accuse his opposition of subscribing to a certain point of view, even if he does not, and then attacks that point of view. Or, the troll will put words in the mouth of his opposition, and then rebut those specific words. For example: "9/11 truthers say that no planes hit the WTC towers, and that it was all just computer animation. What are they, crazy?"
Sometimes, these strategies are used by average people with serious personality issues. However, if you see someone using these tactics often, or using many of them at the same time, you may be dealing with a paid internet troll.
Government Disinformation Methods
Governments, and the globalists who back them, have immense assets — an almost endless fiat money printing press — and control over most legal and academic institutions. With these advantages, disinformation can be executed on a massive scale. Here are just a handful of the most prominent tactics used by government agencies and private think tanks to guide public opinion, and establish the appearance of consensus:
1) Control The Experts: Most Americans are taught from kindergarten to ignore their instincts for the truth and defer to the "professional class" for all their answers. The problem is that much of the professional class is indoctrinated throughout their college years, many of them molded to support the status quo. Any experts that go against the grain are ostracized by their peers.
2) Control The Data: By controlling the source data of any investigation, be it legal or scientific, the government has the ability to engineer any truth they wish, that is, as long as the people do not care enough to ask for the source data. Two major examples of controlled and hidden source data include; the NIST investigation of the suspicious 9/11 WTC collapses, in which NIST engineers, hired by the government, have kept all source data from their computer models secret, while claiming that the computer models prove the collapses were "natural". Also, the recent exposure of the CRU Climate Labs and their manipulation of source data in order to fool the public into believing that Global Warming is real, and accepting a world-wide carbon tax. The CRU has refused to release the source data from its experiments for years, and now we know why.
3) Skew The Statistics: This tactic is extremely evident in the Labor Department's evaluations on unemployment, using such tricks as incorporating ambiguous birth / death ratios into their calculation in order to make it appear as though there are less unemployed people than there really are, or leaving out certain subsections of the population, like those who are unemployed and no longer seeking benefits.
3) Guilt By False Association: Governments faced with an effective opponent will always attempt to demonize that person or group in the eyes of the public. This is often done by associating them with a group or idea that the public already hates. Example: During the last election, they tried to associate Ron Paul supporters with racist groups (and more recently, certain Fox News anchors) in order to deter moderate Democrats from taking an honest look at Congressman Paul's policies.
4) Manufacture Good News: This falls in with the skewing of statistics, and it also relies heavily on Media cooperation. The economic "Green Shoots" concept is a good example of the combination of government and corporate media interests in order to create an atmosphere of false optimism based on dubious foundations.
5) Controlled Opposition: Men in positions of power have known for centuries the importance of controlled opposition. If a movement rises in opposition to one's authority, one must usurp that movement's leadership. If no such movement exists to infiltrate, the establishment will often create a toothless one, in order to fill that social need, and neutralize individuals who might have otherwise taken action themselves.
During the 1960's and 70's, the FBI began a secretive program called COINTELPRO. Along with illegal spying on American citizens who were against the Vietnam conflict or in support of the civil rights movement, they also used agents and media sources to pose as supporters of the movement, then purposely created conflict and division, or took control of the direction of the movement altogether. This same tactic has been attempted with the modern Liberty Movement on several levels, but has so far been ineffective in stopping our growth.
The NRA is another good example of controlled opposition, as many gun owners are satisfied that paying their annual NRA dues is tantamount to actively resisting anti-gun legislation; when in fact, the NRA is directly responsible for many of the compromises which result in lost ground on 2nd amendment issues. In this way, gun owners are not only rendered inactive, but actually manipulated into funding the demise of their own cause.
6) False Paradigms: Human beings have a tendency to categorize and label other people and ideas. It is, for better or worse, a fundamental part of how we understand the complexities of the world. This component of human nature, like most any other, can be abused as a powerful tool for social manipulation. By framing a polarized debate according to artificial boundaries, and establishing the two poles of that debate, social engineers can eliminate the perceived possibility of a third alternative. The mainstream media apparatus is the key weapon to this end. The endless creation of dichotomies, and the neat arrangement of ideologies along left/right lines, offers average people a very simple (though hopelessly inaccurate) way of thinking about politics. It forces them to choose a side, usually based solely on emotional or cultural reasons, and often lures them into supporting positions they would otherwise disagree with. It fosters an environment in which beating the other team is more important than ensuring the integrity of your own. Perhaps most importantly, it allows the social engineer to determine what is "fair game" for debate, and what is not.
Alinsky himself wrote: "One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other."
One merely needs to observe a heated debate between a Democrat and a Republican to see how deeply this belief has been ingrained on both sides, and how destructive it is to true intellectual discourse.
Stopping Disinformation
The best way to disarm disinformation agents is to know their methods inside and out. This gives us the ability to point out exactly what they are doing in detail the moment they try to do it. Immediately exposing a disinformation tactic as it is being used is highly destructive to the person utilizing it. It makes them look foolish, dishonest, and weak for even making the attempt. Internet trolls most especially do not know how to handle their methods being deconstructed right in front of their eyes, and usually fold and run from debate when it occurs.
The truth, is precious. It is sad that there are so many in our society that have lost respect for it; people who have traded in their conscience and their soul for temporary financial comfort while sacrificing the stability and balance of the rest of the country in the process. The human psyche breathes on the air of truth, without it, humanity cannot survive. Without it, the species will collapse in on itself, starving from lack of intellectual and emotional sustenance. Disinformation does not only threaten our insight into the workings of our world; it makes us vulnerable to fear, misunderstanding, and doubt, all things that lead to destruction. It can lead good people to commit terrible atrocities against others, or even against themselves. Without a concerted and organized effort to diffuse mass-produced lies, the future will look bleak indeed.
Bin Laden reportedly claims responsibility for Christmas bomb scare (If you believe this your an IDIOT)
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By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, January 24th, 2010 — 8:31 pm
Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the botched Christmas Day bombing of a US airliner and vowed further strikes on American targets, according an audio message broadcast on Sunday.
The brief statement carried by Al-Jazeera satellite television warned Washington that the attack was meant as a similar message to that of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US by 19 Al-Qaeda militants who hijacked airliners and crashed them into buildings.
Bin Laden praised as a "hero" Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who allegedly tried to detonate explosives on a Northwest Airlines plane approaching Detroit on December 25 but was foiled by passengers.
"The message that was conveyed through the (attacked) plane of the hero Umar Farouk is to stress earlier messages delivered to you by the heroes of the 11″ September attack, he said.
"That (message) is, that America should not dream of security until we enjoy it as a reality in Palestine," he added.
The authenticity of the statement could not immediately be verified, but Al-Jazeera said the voice was bin Laden's.
"Had we been able to deliver our messages to you in words, we would not have sent them by planes," the statement said.
"It is not fair that you (America) enjoy a good life while our brothers in Gaza endure the worst standard of living. Therefore, God willing, our attacks against you will continue as long as you maintain your support to Israel."
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) had claimed responsibility for the Christmas Day plane attack, and analysts said bin Laden through his latest statement is stressing that he is still in overall control of the network.
Intelligence officials, military analysts and other experts have long believed he is holed up along the remote mountainous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan and have hinted that groups such as AQAP could be operating autonomously.
Washington has accused AQAP of training Abdulmutallab, who spent some time in Yemen.
The US administration is putting pressure on Yemen to clamp down on Al-Qaeda militants in the impoverished country, and an international meeting to discuss militancy in Yemen will be held on January 27 in London.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said in London on Sunday that the foiled Christmas attack marks a "new phase" in Al-Qaeda's campaign against the West.
"The heart of the Al-Qaeda senior leadership remains on the Afghan/Pakistan border," Miliband said.
"But there is a real issue in Yemen — the fact that Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula should have tried to strike in Detroit marks a new phase in the campaign and that's why there's an important meeting on Yemen on Wednesday."
Yemen's government has intensified its campaign against Al-Qaeda, launching waves of air strikes on the extremists' hideouts, and insists it can battle the group on its own, without any foreign military intervention.
Sanaa stopped granting visas to foreigners at airports on Thursday in a bid to curb a feared inflow of militants, believed to be training with Al-Qaeda.
Earlier this week, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee released a report warning that AQAP might be training as many as three dozen Americans who converted to Islam in prison.
Intelligence reports have pointed for some time at Yemen as the new hub for Al-Qaeda fighters as pressure increases on them in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Michael Leiter, director of the US National Counterterrorism Center, told lawmakers in September that Yemen could become a base for Al-Qaeda to train and plot anti-US attacks.
Analysts believe that the problems facing Yemen, including a Shiite rebellion in the north, secession bid in the south, and poverty, create a perfect environment for Al-Qaeda to thrive.
US intelligence chiefs last Wednesday admitted that they missed a slew of warning signs that should have prevented the attempted airliner attack.
A US grand jury has indicted 23-year-old Abdulmutallab on six counts arising from the attempt to blow up the jet packed with 279 passengers and 11 crew on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit.
Bin Laden, who has a 50-million-dollar bounty on his head, last made a public statement four months ago when he was quoted on September 25 by SITE Intelligence Group monitoring service as urging European countries to withdraw their forces from Afghanistan.Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite
ACLU slams Senators: The Constitution is not 'optional'
January 25, 2010 by admin
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By Stephen C. Webster
Sunday, January 24th, 2010 — 10:29 pm
Four U.S. Senators are pursuing legislation they believe would fix the "mistake" President Obama made with the man who allegedly failed to blow up a Christmas Day flight into Detroit.
That "mistake" was treating him like a serious criminal, tossing him in jail and planning a trial.
Nevertheless, Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Susan Collins (R-ME), Robert Bennett (R-UT) and John Ensign (R-NV) are pushing legislation that would require civilian authorities to consult with intelligence leaders when taking an accused terrorist into custody.
"[This] legislation would not deprive the President of any investigative tool," Sen. Lieberman's Web site claims. "It would not preclude a decision to charge a foreign terrorist in our military tribunal system or in our civilian criminal justice system."
In a response, Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, fired back: "It is extremely disturbing that members of the U.S. Congress are essentially calling for Obama administration officials to discard the Constitution when a terrorist suspect is apprehended – as if the Constitution should be applied on a case by case basis."
In the Lieberman press release, Sen. Ensign explained that he believes informing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab of his Miranda rights before condemning him to possible life in prison is "as perplexing as it is dangerous."
"This more clearly illustrates that this Administration is more concerned with gently prosecuting terrorists than it is with extracting important intelligence from them that would help prevent future attacks and protect the citizens of this country," he claimed.
"Terrorism is a crime, and to treat terrorism that takes place far from any battlefield as an act of war is to propose that the entire world is a battlefield, to give criminals the elevated status of warriors and to invest whoever the current president may be with the authority to imprison a broad category of people potentially forever, without ever being afforded an opportunity to defend themselves," noted ACLU's Romero.
To abandon due process in terrorism cases turns the rule of law on its head and flies in the face of the values that we are fighting to protect in the first place. Our criminal justice system is fully capable of accommodating the government's legitimate security interests while at the same time providing fundamental rights to defendants."
This video was broadcast by ABC News on Jan. 3, 2010, as snipped by Talking Points Memo.
5 Americans from Washington D.C. in Pakistan to face terror charges
January 1, 2010 by admin
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D.C.-area men are set to appear before anti-terror court on Monday
The Associated Press
updated 11:21 a.m. ET, Thurs., Dec . 31, 2009
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani police said Thursday they plan to ask a court to charge five Americans arrested in early December with terrorism, and will seek life sentences against them.
The young Muslim men, who are from the Washington D.C. area, were captured in the eastern Pakistan city of Sargodha in a case that has spurred fears that Westerners are traveling to Pakistan to join militant groups.
Tahir Gujar, a senior police investigator in Sargodha, said police had almost concluded their investigation and that the men would appear in an anti-terrorist court in the city on Jan. 4.
"We are certain that these five Americans wanted to carry out attacks in Pakistan, and we will seek life imprisonment for them," he said.
Under Pakistan's complicated judicial system, the police will recommend the charges during the court appearance on Monday. However, the court might not charge the men immediately, and the five will likely be given time to prepare their defense after they have seen the charges.
Gujar didn't say what police believe the men intended to target.
Map reportedly found on men
Authorities have said that the five had a map of Chashma Barrage, a complex that includes a water reservoir and other structures in the populous province of Punjab. It is located near nuclear power facilities about 125 miles southwest of the capital, Islamabad.
Pakistan has a nuclear weapons arsenal, but it also has nuclear power plants for civilian purposes.
Any nuclear activity in Pakistan tends to come under scrutiny because of growing Islamic militancy and the South Asian nation's past history of leaking sensitive nuclear technology due to the actions of the main architect of its atomic weapons program, Abdul Qadeer Khan. But as militancy has spread in Pakistan, officials have repeatedly insisted the nuclear weapons program is safe.
Pakistani police and government officials have made a series of escalating and, at times, seemingly contradictory allegations about the five men's intentions, while U.S. officials have been far more cautious, though they, too, are looking at charging the men.
Officials in both countries have said they expected the men would eventually be deported back to the United States, but charging the men in Pakistan could delay that process. Pakistan's legal system can be slow and opaque.
Taliban contact alleged
In an interview with The Associated Press last week, Punjab province Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said the men had established contact with Taliban commanders. He said they had planned to meet Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud and his deputy Qari Hussain in Pakistan's tribal regions before going on to attack sites inside Pakistan.
The nuclear power plant "might have been" one of the targets, Sanaullah alleged.
The U.S. Embassy declined to comment on the potential charges and would not say what efforts Washington was making to bring the men back.
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Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport
By Sheena Harrison | MLive.com
December 26, 2009, 2:22PM
A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport.
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About an hour after landing, Haskell said he saw another man being taken into custody. But a spokeswoman from the FBI in Detroit said Mutallab was the only person taken into custody.
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Man Videotaped Entire Christmas Terror Attempt On Flight 253
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December 28, 2009
For ABC News and the corporate media, it is a foregone conclusion. The Christmas underwear bomber is al-Qaeda.
|"He sat up and videotaped the entire thing, very calmly. We do know that the FBI is looking for him intensely. Since then, we've heard nothing about it."
"American officials have cause to worry there may be more al Qaeda-trained young men in Yemen planning to bring down American jets," report Brian Ross and Richard Esposito. "Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, charged with the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Airlines flight 253, told FBI agents there were more just like him in Yemen who would strike soon."
And then there is the supposed tape released four days before the attempted underwear bombing. It shows what ABC describes as "the leader of al Qaeda in Yemen" who says he will kill Americans. "We are carrying a bomb to hit the enemies of God."
"Yemen has become a principal al Qaeda training ground and the accused suicide bomber told the FBI he was trained for more than a month in Yemen, given 80 grams of a high explosive cleverly sewn into his underpants, undetected by standard security screening."
On Sunday, the neocon Joe Lieberman said the U.S. needs to bomb Yemen and pronto. "Iraq was yesterday's war, Afghanistan is today's war. If we don't act preemptively, Yemen will be tomorrow's war," the "hawkish" (neocon) senator from Connecticut told Fox News.
Lieberman, who helms the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Yemen is the new home of al-Qaeda. A script on Yemen and al-Qaeda is now being uniformly followed by the corporate media.
Meanwhile, more suspicious information about the underwear bombing has surfaced. An eye witness told the news talk radio station 620 WTMJ in Milwaukee that a man had videotaped the entire flight.
Patricia "Scotty" Keepman and her daughter witnessed the alleged botched bombing. Keepman's "daughter said that ahead of them was a man who videotaped the entire flight, including the attempted detonation."
"He sat up and videotaped the entire thing, very calmly," said Patricia. "We do know that the FBI is looking for him intensely. Since then, we've heard nothing about it."
On Saturday it was reported that a "sharp-dressed man" had escorted Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab when he boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in Amsterdam. Mutallab was allowed on the plane without a passport. It was later reported that Mutallab seemed to be in a trance.
The alleged videotaping of the underwear bomber and his fudged attack is another oddity that the corporate media should zoom in on. Unfortunately, we no longer have a functioning investigative media in this country.
Instead we will hear endless pabulum about a resurgent al-Qaeda and murderous idiocy from neocons like Joe Lieberman who are screaming for another small and defenseless country to be bombed and more innocents slaughtered as the U.S. chases a phantom terror group created by the CIA.Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite
Al-CIA-Duh Claims Responsibility for Fudged Underwear Bombing
December 28, 2009
Three days after the underwear bomber managed to detonate a blasting cap and burn himself in the air above Detroit, the CIA and bogus global jihadist network have claimed responsibility for the boneheaded "attack."
From the AFP this afternoon:
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula claimed the failed December 25 bombing of a US-bound aircraft in a statement posted on an Islamist website on Monday, US monitoring organization SITE Intelligence said.
SITE is a known Israeli intelligence asset that makes a lot of money fleecing the American taxpayers and promulgating the scary and mythical al-Qaeda and jihadist threat. It is the ideological twin of MEMRI.
More on SITE from Prison Planet:
SITE, described as "a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, that provides information related to terrorist networks to the government, news media, and general public," has a rather suspicious history. "The listed staff consists of two individuals, and the website seems to be an aggregator of publicly-available data on the internet, mostly consisting of current news items," notes the SourceWatch wiki. SITE's "Terrorism Library, on cursory investigation, looks to be a straight data scrape from the U.S. Department of State's Patterns of Global Terrorism – 2003, Appendix B."
Not surprisingly, SITE is connected to Israeli intelligence. "Rita Katz is Director and co-founder of the SITE Institute. Born in Iraq, her father was tried and executed as an Israeli spy, whereupon her family moved to Israel [the move has been described as both an escape and immigration in different sources]. She received a degree from the Middle Eastern Studies program at Tel Aviv University, and is fluent in Hebrew and Arabic. She emigrated to the US in 1997." Katz's partner, Josh Devon, is less colorful. "Devon is Senior Analyst and co-founder of the SITE Institute. He has a BA from University of Pennsylvania (English) and a BS from Wharton College (Economics). Devon is currently attending the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University with the intentions of receiving an International Studies Degree with a focus on the Middle East," that is to say a globalist perspective on the Middle East. According to this article, SAIS is a CFR cover. "CFR member Zbigniew Brzezinski is SAIS Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy…. CFR member Paul Wolfowitz, Ph.D. is SAIS Chairman and Dean." As well, SAIS appears to be connected to the American Enterprise Institute, where the neocons get their criminal minds.
Obama Seeks to Assure U.S. as "Qaeda Group" Stakes Claim to Christmas Terror Plot
HONOLULU — President Obama emerged from Hawaiian seclusion on Monday to try to quell gathering criticism of his administration's handling of the thwarted Christmas Day bombing of an American airliner as a branch of Al Qaeda claimed responsibility.
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"We will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable," Mr. Obama told reporters during a break in his 10-day holiday vacation. "This was a serious reminder of the dangers that we face and the nature of those who threaten our homeland."
He added that he had ordered reviews of the air navigation screening system and the terrorist watch list system. "The American people should be assured that we are doing everything in our power to keep you and your family safe and secure during this busy holiday season," he said.
The president spoke after the branch of Al Qaeda in Yemen and Saudi Arabia claimed responsibility for the attempted attack and said it was in retaliation for recent American-backed attacks on its members in Yemen, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks militant Islamist Web sites.
In a statement issued on jihadist forums, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula boasted the success of the "Nigerian brother" in breaking through security barriers and of its own explosives technology, SITE reported. Federal authorities say Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, tried to set off explosives aboard a trans-Atlantic Northwest Airlines flight approaching Detroit on Friday.
The Qaeda branch blamed a technical fault for the low-power detonation, according to SITE. The group has mounted attacks within Yemen and Saudi Arabia, and in 2004 it captured and beheaded a 49-year-old American engineer working in Riyadh, Paul M. Johnson Jr.
Government terror experts said the Qaeda claim was apparently legitimate.
"The statement is certainly credible," one government official said, "and it reflects this group's growing desire to strike beyond the Arabian peninsula."
Mr. Abdulmutallab has told federal authorities that he received training and materials from a bomb expert in Yemen associated with Al Qaeda.
The government of Yemen said in a statement on Monday that Mr. Abdulmutallab had been in Yemen this year from early August to early December "after obtaining a visa to study Arabic at a language institute."
The statement, issued by the Yemeni embassy in Washington, said Mr. Abdulmutallab had a valid United States visa and other foreign visas. "There was nothing suspicious about his intentions to visit Yemen, especially considering he had also visited the U.S. in the past," the statement said.
Questions about how Mr. Abdulmutallab slipped through the aviation security system have been compounded by the Obama administration's assertion over the weekend that "the system worked," a judgment it reversed Monday.
Just hours before the president's appearance — his first public remarks since arriving in Hawaii on Thursday — Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano recalibrated the assessment she and another top official had offered on Sunday. Speaking on NBC's "Today" show, Ms. Napolitano said her remark had been taken out of context and that the thwarted bombing in fact represented a failure of the nation's aviation security system.
"Our system did not work in this instance," she said. "No one is happy or satisfied with that. An extensive review is under way."
Until now, Mr. Obama had tried to strike a balance between signaling that he is on top of the situation and not drawing more attention to it than it already was generating. Each day since Friday, his staff accompanying him here in his home state put out statements indicating that the president was holding conference calls and requesting action of government agencies. But he declined for three days to address it in public himself, cognizant perhaps of warnings by some terrorism experts against elevating such incidents and by extension their authors.
Yet the visual contrasts have been jarring. Pictures of passengers enduring tougher security screening at the airport were juxtaposed against images of the president soaking in the sun and surf of this tropical getaway. Appearing at a Marine base near the Kailua beachfront house he has rented, Mr. Obama on Monday praised the "quick and heroic actions of passengers and crew" but made no attempt to defend the security system that allowed the suspect onto the plane with explosives in the first place.
Beyond the reviews, he pledged unspecified action against any groups that were involved. "We will continue to use every element of our national power to disrupt, to dismantle and defeat the violent extremists who threaten us, whether they are from Afghanistan or Pakistan, Yemen or Somalia, or anywhere they are plotting attacks against the U.S. homeland," Mr. Obama said.
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