Hacktivist group Anonymous has released a video and accompanying evidence which claims that Apple's TouchID technology has strong links to the NSA and FBI, as well as a massive biometric database the US government is building.
The group alleges that it has discovered a "corrupt alliance of Department of Defense Contractors, NSA and CIA connected venture capital" which led to the development of the technology, and Apple's subsequent purchase of it.
The presented findings are based on investigations by jailed and gagged journalist Barrett Brown, the video says, and the group has provided links to accompanying evidence on Pastebin.
After the earlier report with statements of Amnesty International & Anonymous on the outrageous behavior of the Turkish police against peacefull & unarmed civilians -and both throwing 'lifelines' to Turkish people- now Human Rights Watch (HRW) joins in and condemned Turkish' police unlawfull & incorrect use of teargas against the population.
Journalists' offices have been raided by police, taking photograph archives, press cards, recorders, and even the kitchen equipment. Also dozens arrested in Turkey over protest tweets, accused of 'inciting hatred'. Erdogan's police force even attacking people in hospitals:
Turkish police fired teargas canisters at close range and directly at people during the Gezi Park protests causing serious injuries, says a report by the Human Rights Watch. Those hit by canisters lost eyes and received life threatening skull fractures.
The Turkish authorities “should immediately issue improved guidelines on when and how teargas may be used that included a prohibition on firing teargas canisters in confined areas or directly at people,” Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.
The report titled “Turkey: End Incorrect, Unlawful Use of Teargas,” which has been published on the group’s website, also calls to “strictly enforce” such policies, and hold non-compliant police officers accountable.
“Teargas canisters can inflict serious ‒ even life threatening ‒ wounds when fired directly at demonstrators, and that happened over and over again at Gezi Park,” said Emma Sinclair-Webb, senior Turkey researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The police and their commanders who used these canisters in such an irresponsible way should be held to account for inflicting unnecessary harm and endangering lives.”
At least 11 people lost an eye after being hit by a teargas canister or a plastic bullet in Turkey up to June 27, says the statement by the Medical Association quoted in the report. Dozens of others received serious head or upper body injuries.
Interviews of victims, witnesses, lawyers, and medical personnel cited in the report suggest that such injuries were caused by police firing tear gas from launchers directly at people, often at close range. The “scale and consistency” of such accounts point to “a clear pattern of misuse of teargas by Turkey’s police force,” HRW states.
Ten accounts of victims who were seriously injured in police tear gas attacks have been documented in the report. Those include a university lecturer who lost his eye as he was walking down the street in Istanbul’s rioting Besiktas district; a long time Taksim square protester who got an 8 centimeter skull fracture and a psychological trauma; a woman taking part in a peaceful sit-in protest who was shot unconscious, had her skull fractured, and was held in an induced coma for 24 days after; as well as a 14-year-old boy apparently caught in close-range police fire near his family home, who suffered from intracranial bleeding and has remained in critical condition for over four weeks.
Shooting directly at people ‘a systematic policy’
Burak Unveren, 31, who lost his eye in Besiktas on June 1 after being fired at by a police officer some 40 meters away, told HRW he was “almost sure that this act of violence was deliberate.” The police fired tear gas canisters horizontally, rather than trying to launch them at a 45 degree angle, he said. While in hospital, he also met several people “shot in their faces in the same way.”
“Shooting in this way directly at people is a systematic policy of the Turkish police,” Unveren believes.
Okan Gocer, 23, who was taking part in a peaceful June 1 protest several hundred meters from Taksim Square, said he was telling people to stay and not to be intimidated by a heavy police presence, when a tear gas attack was launched without warning.
“They just popped out. There were no warnings. They just attacked right away. There were many shots ‒ they just opened fire. One of them hit me in the head. I think the police might have targeted me because I encouraged people to stay,” Gocer said.
The teargas canister that struck the protester rendered him unconscious and caused a 7-8 centimeter fracture to his skull. Gocer had to undergo emergency surgery and was kept in an induced coma for more than two weeks. Nearly a month after the incident he said he still struggled with the pain, and that he was no longer a “cheerful” person “full of hope and optimism” that he used to be.
‘There was no place to hide’
Secil Sucu, 21, a female protester who witnessed an earthmover used against the police vehicle in Istanbul’s Besiktas district, was trying to leave the area of violent protests, but was blocked by the tear gas firing police in one of the side streets.
“We were blocked in. When I turned to see how far away the police were, one policeman rushed toward me, aiming at me with his teargas launcher. He was perhaps 10 meters away. There was no place for me to hide so the only thing I could do was to try to protect my head. I had started to turn away when the teargas canister hit my goggles, breaking them. My head was ringing and then all went quiet and white. I thought that this is how people die,” Sucu said.
Later in the hospital, Sucu was told she had a six-centimeter skull fracture and that it would take her months to recover. She now admits to having “panic attacks” and being afraid to stay at home alone.
For Lobna Allamii, 34, the life changed forever after the brutal crackdown on peaceful sit-in protest in Taksim square on May 31. Following the sudden police attack the woman was found lying on the ground unconscious and having seizures.
Allamii was operated on twice after the doctors found a fracture in her skull, a severe injury on the left side of her head, and intracranial bleeding on the right side. The woman was kept in an induced coma for 24 days, had her right arm partially paralyzed, and her speech and eyesight damaged.
According to the HRW report, the circumstances and the nature of Allamii’s injuries “point to a teargas canister fired from close range as the cause.”
A 14-year-old boy, Berkin Elvan, who sustained serious head injuries and has remained in critical condition for more than four weeks, was not taking part in protests, but got caught in a police attack in Istanbul’s Okmeydani neighborhood on June 16.
According to accounts by family members and friends, the boy went out to buy bread from a nearby bakery when the police started firing rounds of tear gas at the protesters that had gathered in the area.
Berkin’s lawyer has quoted a witness saying the police hit the boy with a teargas canister from a distance of 10 to 15 meters. Doctors of the hospital where Berkin was taken for surgery also noted the boy smelled of gunpowder – another possible indication of a close-range fire.
The boy’s case went viral in Turkey, and several actions in his name have been organized, with a protest march for Berkin Elvan taking place on Wednesday. He is still in intensive care.
‘Police aim was to punish’
Having seen a large number of injuries resulting from teargas canisters hitting people in the head and upper body, Dr. Hüseyin Demirdiken of the Turkish Medical Association concluded that for the Turkish police “the aim was not only to disperse the crowds, but also to punish.”
Turkish journalist Ahmet Shik, who has been covering the Istanbul protests, is said to have been “deliberately” hit by a tear gas canister in the head, as noted by his friends on Twitter. He said that although some policemen fired tear gas canisters “in a correct way,” most others “fired them directly at the protesters, often from close range.”
Reports said that the Turkish police used 130,000 teargas canisters over three weeks in June. In total, Turkey imported 628 tons of tear gas and pepper spray between 2000 and 2012, Turkish newspaper Sozcu reported, quoting Customs and Trade Minister Hayati Yazici.
On July 16, 2013, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in the case of Abdullah Yaşa and Others v. Turkey that “improper firing of tear gas by Turkish police directly at protestors, injuring a 13 year old, had violated human rights,” and called for stronger safeguards to minimize the risk of death and injury resulting from its use.
This operation will focus on the Dutch Government. In the video there is also told that they are planning to activists from around the world to Netherlands.
The date will be Friday 20 September 17: 00 place: the Hague, Location still unknown.
SYSTEM FAILS!!!
Sign up, join the fight against the Government, this is NOT a demonstration, this goes on, we'll take an example in the occupation of Istanbul's Taksim Square.
We occupy a square in the Hague go, and there continue to be a party, camping, a party where the Government wake up by lies down.
Meanwhile, someone is offered to the music to take care of, there comes a kind of drive-in. All top!!
The purpose of this event is that there is going to be listened to us, we are engaged in to a list of points where the Government will have to do. Our spokesperson will the conversation to have to go with the Government.
I am convinced that if this is going to be on a massive scale that the Government should come up with something, as this can if not longer.
Ask anyone you know with it, we need everyone.
A number of important points of view of what we want is going to be adjusted:
1. tax reduction instead of increase, so the burden relieve for the citizens who suffer the crisis caused by bad policy of banks and politicians.
2. withdrawal from the European Parliament. The EU is a money devouring machine, in which the money disappears into the pockets of MEPs and bankers who have caused the crisis. The money is intended to help southern European countries from the crisis does not come in to the citizens of those countries, but finds herself at the corrupt bankers and politicians.
See here where your tax money goes: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v = iK8ue7-Shpc
3. all the cuts that are going to be announced yet for 2014 that the already heavily loaded to be cancelled again take citizens serve.
4. multinational companies in Netherlands tax dodging. Multinationals pay likewise hardly taxes in our country. By mailbox companies in Netherlands to settle pay them 1.9% tax on their profits made outside America, while they are in their native country have to pay 35% of tax.
See here the source from which this is taken off: episodes http://tegenlicht.vpro.nl//2012-2013/tax-free-tour. html
5. Minimum wage increase instead of decrease, decrease instead of increase top salaries.
6. bonuses for ' top ' directors should be abandoned. In recent years millions of bankers got home, while the staff was fired.
See here the video of always what bookmark: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v = zG_zXwoZNuQ
7. reduce the salary of the Prime Minister as he himself has said that he doesn't have to cut down, while he does have broken the country cuts down.
See here the video in which Rutte himself says that he doesn't have to cut back:http://www.youtube.com/watch? v = kCe7k17u4Ds
These are not the only 7 points where we are fighting for, know you have any good points of view? Please let us know.
Just for clarity. We have enough people in the Organization to make this a great success, and we appreciate all the help we get offered but at this point we can only use for further help the promotion of this event. And what we still can use is a central/mobile kitchen, coffee facilities, Dixy's and Wi-Fi, large sleeping tents, voedselsponsers, water supply, that sort of thing. and maybe there are people who have a coach to people from certain points in Netherlands to pick up.
So if anyone can help with that we hear the likes.
CONTACT: Iptrap@hotmail.nl
We hebben inmiddels ook 4 soorten Flyers/Posters, via onderstaande links te downloaden.
Also: an eyewitnessreport of the beginning of the protests wich are spreading at the moment. And Anonymous' efforts to help the people there.
With tens of thousands of protestors crossing by foot across the bridge connecting the Asian and European sides of the city it is clear that the protests in Istanbul and elsewhere in Turkey are intensifying. News reports indicate that “police from as far afield as Antalya are being drafted in to help quell the violence.”
The Turkish government has clearly taken a hard line. Prime Minister Erdogan is quoted by the BBC as saying, “Police were there (Taksim Square) yesterday; they’ll be on duty today and also tomorrow because Taksim Square cannot be an area where extremists are running wild.”
In fact, it is the police who seem to be “running wild,” using force excessively and indiscriminately. Here is the latest from Amnesty:
"Friday night police used even greater levels of violence against demonstrators… There are unconfirmed reports of three deaths. Over 1000 people are thought to be injured, many of them seriously. More than 100 people have been detained in Istanbul. There are consistent reports of ill-treatment against those in detention.
Lawyers told Amnesty International that police beat protestors with truncheons when they apprehended them on the street, again at a police station close to Taksim. Similar violence against detainees was reported when protestors were transferred to the main security directorate in Istanbul.
According to reports, protestors on the street and in detention are being prevented access to appropriate medical care. Attempts by the Istanbul Medical Chamber to set up temporary medical facilities to treat injured demonstrators on the streets were prevented by continuous use of tear gas by police…
Medical professionals told Amnesty International that police security measures have also prevented many demonstrators from accessing the main public hospital in the Taksim area. Reports also indicate that the police fired tear gas close to the entrance to the hospital.
Reports also indicate that police apprehended injured demonstrators in need of hospital treatment and took them instead to police detention where they have not been able to access appropriate medical treatment."
Because Turkish authorities seem determined to continue on this course and have shown no inclination to “take the required steps to ensure the security of the demonstrators and members of the public in general,” Amnesty has updated its call to action.
Continue the actions outlined yesterday. These include:
A. Use of social media:
Please use social media including twitter and facebook to circulate the below suggested messages, tagging @aforgutu for AI Turkey:
In addition, Amnesty asks that you lobby your own government
Call or e-mail your representative in Congress or Parliament. Let them know that you expect your government to speak out for freedom of expression and against the police violence in Turkey.
Contact your country’s Foreign Affairs Ministry (the State Department in the United States) and ask them to reiterate Amnesty International’s call for:
• Turkey’s Prime Minister to intervene immediately to end the police violence against protestors;
• The authorities to allow the right to peaceful protest of the demonstrators;
• The end of ill-treatment during arrest and in places of detention;
• Unhindered access to health care for all those who need it including in detention;
• An immediate, independent and impartial investigation into allegations of excessive use of force and a clear statement of attrition.
We need your help and, more importantly, the brave protestors in Turkey need your help. The time to act is now.
Update 1:
New tweets have been issued in Turkish and English:
.@RT_Erdogan @Valimutlu Tavrınızı değiştirin! Şiddete son verin barışçıl gösterilere izin verin, ihlalleri soruşturup engelleyin #occupygezi
.@RT_Erdogan Turkish authorities must allow the right to peaceful protest of the demonstrators @aforgutu #direngeziparkı #occupygezi
Eyewitnessreport from the beginning of the events. What is Happenning in Istanbul?
To my friends who live outside of Turkey:
I am writing to let you know what is going on in Istanbul for the last five days. I personally have to write this because most of the media sources are shut down by the government and the word of mouth and the internet are the only ways left for us to explain ourselves and call for help and support.
Four days ago a group of people most of whom did not belong to any specific organization or ideology got together in Istanbul’s Gezi Park. Among them there were many of my friends and students. Their reason was simple: To prevent and protest the upcoming demolishing of the park for the sake of building yet another shopping mall at very center of the city. There are numerous shopping malls in Istanbul, at least one in every neighborhood! The tearing down of the trees was supposed to begin early Thursday morning. People went to the park with their blankets, books and children. They put their tents down and spent the night under the trees. Early in the morning when the bulldozers started to pull the hundred-year-old trees out of the ground, they stood up against them to stop the operation.
They did nothing other than standing in front of the machines.
No newspaper, no television channel was there to report the protest. It was a complete media black out.
But the police arrived with water cannon vehicles and pepper spray. They chased the crowds out of the park.
In the evening the number of protesters multiplied. So did the number of police forces around the park. Meanwhile local government of Istanbul shut down all the ways leading up to Taksim square where the Gezi Park is located. The metro was shut down, ferries were cancelled, roads were blocked.
Yet more and more people made their way up to the center of the city by walking.
They came from all around Istanbul. They came from all different backgrounds, different ideologies, different religions. They all gathered to prevent the demolition of something bigger than the park:
The right to live as honorable citizens of this country.
They gathered and marched. Police chased them with pepper spray and tear gas and drove their tanks over people who offered the police food in return. Two young people were run over by the panzers and were killed. Another young woman, a friend of mine, was hit in the head by one of the incoming tear gas canisters. The police were shooting them straight into the crowd. After a three hour operation she is still in Intensive Care Unit and in very critical condition. As I write this we don’t know if she is going to make it. This blog is dedicated to her.
These people are my friends. They are my students, my relatives. They have no «hidden agenda» as the state likes to say. Their agenda is out there. It is very clear. The whole country is being sold to corporations by the government, for the construction of malls, luxury condominiums, freeways, dams and nuclear plants. The government is looking for (and creating when necessary) any excuse to attack Syria against its people’s will.
On top of all that, the government control over its people’s personal lives has become unbearable as of late. The state, under its conservative agenda passed many laws and regulations concerning abortion, cesarean birth, sale and use of alcohol and even the color of lipstick worn by the airline stewardesses.
People who are marching to the center of Istanbul are demanding their right to live freely and receive justice, protection and respect from the State. They demand to be involved in the decision-making processes about the city they live in.
What they have received instead is excessive force and enormous amounts of tear gas shot straight into their faces. Three people lost their eyes.
Yet they still march. Hundred of thousands join them. Couple of more thousand passed the Bosporus Bridge on foot to support the people of Taksim.
No newspaper or TV channel was there to report the events. They were busy with broadcasting news about Miss Turkey and “the strangest cat of the world”.
Police kept chasing people and spraying them with pepper spray to an extent that stray dogs and cats were poisoned and died by it.
Schools, hospitals and even 5 star hotels around Taksim Square opened their doors to the injured. Doctors filled the classrooms and hotel rooms to provide first aid. Some police officers refused to spray innocent people with tear gas and quit their jobs. Around the square they placed jammers to prevent internet connection and 3g networks were blocked. Residents and businesses in the area provided free wireless network for the people on the streets. Restaurants offered food and water for free.
People in Ankara and İzmir gathered on the streets to support the resistance in Istanbul.
Mainstream media kept showing Miss Turkey and “the strangest cat of the world”.
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I am writing this letter so that you know what is going on in Istanbul. Mass media will not tell you any of this. Not in my country at least. Please post as many as articles as you see on the Internet and spread the word.
As I was posting articles that explained what is happening in Istanbul on my Facebook page last night someone asked me the following question:
«What are you hoping to gain by complaining about our country to foreigners?»
This blog is my answer to her.
By so called «complaining» about my country I am hoping to gain:
Freedom of expression and speech,
Respect for human rights,
Control over the decisions I make concerning my on my body,
The right to legally congregate in any part of the city without being considered a terrorist.
But most of all by spreading the word to you, my friends who live in other parts of the world, I am hoping to get your awareness, support and help!
Please spread the word and share this blog.
Thank you!
For futher info and things you can do for help please see Amnesty International’s Call for Urgent Help. [see previous text above [red]
Greetings citizens of the world. We are Anonymous.
The whole world is watching this battle and we have heard the cries of the oppressed in this country. Anonymous does not stand idly by as governments crush opposition to their dictatorial rule. Thus, we are calling for all active anons to assist in #OpTurkey.
#OpTurkey ~ Survival tips for civilians in areas of urban conflict. Below is a guide written by ex-military aimed at assisting those on the streets fighting for their freedom. While many of these points seem obvious to some, the stress and chaos of the rebellion can dampen and confuse even the bravest of people at times. Thus, we strongly advise that you please review ALL points in their entirety.
1. If you hear close weapons activity, DO NOT leave your building unless absolutely
essential
2. If you do have to, DON'T walk in a straight line and resist the temptation to run, stay low
- The human eye recognizes movement before light and colour, if someone wants a target
and you are moving quicky, you will be seen more easily
- Your body is saying RUN LIKE MAD and so is that adrenaline high you are experiencing,
anticipate shakes, high nausea levels and a strong volition to move quickly.
3. If you cannot leave or decide to stay, and start hearing explosions or feel a large impact to your building, stand in a doorway. If there is no convenient doorway nearby move any large object (table, large chair) you can near to a supporting wall and get under it.
- A supporting wall is a wall that others stem from, the 'spine' of a building, usually the most centrally-running and/or thickest wall in the building but NOT an external wall
4. Move to ground floor, moving as low as possible past any windows BUT if you hear loud/rushed conversation directly below you, DO NOT RUSH DOWN. not being on the ground floor is far from ideal, but neither is running into combat-stressed individuals with weapons who have holed up in your building
- Take your time at the point of descent (stairs), if in doubt, find the most secure spot and wait until you feel safer to move on.
- Again, your body is screaming RUN RUN RUN, many unfortunate casualties happen due to this behaviour
5. If you need to signal, DO NOT S.O.S in morse code, for 2 reasons;
- S.O.S can either not be noticed or to be misinterpreted
- Using morse may signify to someone observing that you may have some military training potentially, trust me, this can cause a lot of misunderstanding and attention your way
THE INTERNATIONAL SYMBOL FOR DISTRESS IS SIX SHORT WHISTLE BLASTS/MIRROR FLASHES, PAUSE FOR 30 SECS, REPEAT
6. Mirror Flashes - the correct way to get noticed is not to just move around a shiny surface;
- Make a 'peace' V with your fingers, aim the bright reflection towards one of the fingers
- Aim your V at the direction you wish to signal, and flash the bright reflective patch from your object past your two fingers back and forth - the reflection is thus precisely aimed to catch any attention you aim at.
7. One of the best things in a survival situation is actually your cellphone. If it (or a network) is dead, smash it open.
- There is usually a highly reflective plate located behind the screen
- The circuit boards can be sharpened to give a very nice and reliable cutting edge if a knife is needed but unavailable (sharpens on stone/concrete floor easily - sharpen ONE side only holding the board at a 30 degree angle from the floor)
8. Fire: is not ideal in any conflict area, can become uncontrolled and/or attract unwanted attention.
- If needed, cellphone comes in handy again. That battery may not be able to power the phone, but using any thin wiring, surround the wire with whatever you wish to start the flame with (dry fabric, paper shreds, dry plant) and connect one end to +ve and one end to -ve, it gets VERY hot VERY quickly (sometimes white hot if using wiring from the phone itself)
- Making a fire in a building is a BAD IDEA. Even if you control its size, a mild yet prolonged fire will, in a small airless space, produce things you don't want to breathe in, and suck out what you do want to breathe in. Sleepyness becomes unconsciousness becomes death.
9. Move out (of range/target area)
- Do not think it is a good idea to travel to places/buildings of authority looking for help unless specifically told to do so. Areas of importance to military or authority, and known large groups of people (eg. a hospital) will be the first major targets of any competent enemy force, remove the danger by removing yourself from such locations.
- Move to opposite edges of your geographical area to the conflict, or if surrounded by conflict to a degree, move centrally but NOT TO THE ABSOLUTE CENTRE - find shelter in a quiet place until it is safe to move to an even safer area.
10. Take notes - Try to find something to write with and on and ask EVERYONE YOU MEET if they have heard ANYTHING.
-A good questions checklist would be
a) Are there any new designated safe areas?
b) Any news on the levels of safety in local medical centres? (never know when one might be needed, good to know if any are no go areas.
c) Any new resource points? food, water, shelter?
d) Which direction have you come from? NO NOT trust your ears to suss out a dangerous direction to avoid, in urban environments, sound reflection can completely distort where the danger is.
e) Have you heard of any safe routes leading far away from the conflict?
- The first priority is the security of you and your group, ask questions relative to that first!
- Updates on political progress to end a conflict will trickle through and are not the immediate priority to an individual in a conflict zone, don't waste your time talking about it.
11. Emergency first aid: is very dangerous if done by a person with no experience. If, however your group is affected by explosion or similar and feel you have to, always check the people who are not moving or even awake but very quiet FIRST, the screamers are telling you 2 things, 1) they are still alive and 2) either little or no head trauma. While you may gravitate towards a distressed sounding person first, the ones in more need are the ones not making any sound.
- If unconscious, check pulse
- If pulse found, make sure their mouth is closed (opens airway)
- Firmly, but not shouting, say "can you hear me?" and holding both shoulders VERY LIGHTLY shake them as you speak.
- If no response, tilt your head horizontally, holding ear close to nose/mouth of patient looking down the body.
to feel air flow with your ear OR see chest rising and falling with breathing.
- If pulse but no breathing, start assisted breathing, two deep exhales into the mouth of the patient every 30 secs.
- Try to revive again with VERY LIGHT shaking with a hand no each shoulder, repeat "can you hear me?"
- If no pulse, begin compressions: 2 deep breaths into mouth of victim followed by 30 chest compressions (this is current advised standard).
- Chest compressions are dangerous, don't use whole body weight!!!
using your LEFT Hand, seat the palm of your hand (so the fingers point right) in the slight groove of the breast bone, place your right hand above your left.
- With straightened arms, press downwards (DO NOT RUSH/PRESS TOO HARD) in a CONTROLLED, CALM manner.
Be under no illusions, CPR is not successful in restarting a heart, it simply allows the chance for enough oxygen to reach vital areas of the body until such a time that a medical team can restart the heart correctly.
People have been successfully revived after correct CPR after having no pulse for a much longer time than the usual point of brain damage and death from hypoxia.
UNSKILLED ATTEMPTS AT FIRST AID ARE STILL VERY DANGEROUS, SERIOUSLY CONSIDER THIS BEFORE COMMENCING ANY AID
12. Bug-out bag: prepare a bag full of emergency essentials if you need to exit in a hurry, good items are:
- Knife (contrary to the idea of a 'good' knife, folding knives with a reliable locking mechanism is best in case you fall on your bag)
- Water (2 Litre is ideal (2 day supply for one) but whatever you can fit)
- As much of the least perishable food items as you can fit in, freeze dried meals are optimum but understandably not widely available in many conflict regions). If really stretched, take a balg of flour and more water to make a quick hard dough once relatively safe and cook it over a fire, can be sustaining for a short period as your only meal
- As many different ways of fire starting as you have, lighters, matches etc
- Our seemingly useless dead cellphone, or far more usefully a spare working cellphone, stick it in the bag
- A small pot or big cup for cooking in
- Spare items of clothing to suit for 2 complete sets of fresh gear for 2 days
- Waterproof warm jacket if available (even in hot dry climates, you never know (and i know the desert is f****** cold at night))
- First aid kit if available
Naturally, this list can suit for many different environments but takes up a lot of space, if no large bag is available, you may have to cut out the clothing and maybe other items, but if you are lucky enough to be able to prepare a bug-out bag, DO NOT leave out the food water and knife. Place your bug out bag in a very visible location near what you use as your main exit of your premises.
13. Some hard facts
A) If a member/members of your group die and you are in close proximity to combat, your main priority is the remaining survivors in your group. The honourable approach of 'never leave a man behind' is usually a code that is adopted by trained combat professionals who are more capable of achieving this should they wish. You will probably not have military training and MUST make the horrible decision to leave the deceased and concentrate on the survival of the rest of your group (very highly trained operatives know that whatever moral code is in place, transporting the dead is simply not feasible in areas of intense combat (or areas with no friendly forces within close (20 miles) radius), Hollywood does not know what it is talking about).
B) If you are not used to it, very large natural doses of adrenaline will mess with you in a big way. A trick if you are feeling overwhelmed and panicked is to look and concentrate on immediate objects and mentally say them eg door, table, light etc, to bring you back into a more stable way of thinking. One of the worst effects of adrenaline is sudden memory loss (you just freeze and go blank) linking with inbuilt natural defence mechanisms. Prepare for this as best you can, go over and over action plans mentally BEFORE any danger occurs.
example, think about if a bomb explodes/shooting begins:
What are my exit routes from the area?
Who is around me that I must aid?
What is my first choice of safe haven after getting away?
Is my bug-out bag ready? Where is it?
C) Grief is almost as disabling as an adrenaline rush, you have to try your best to SHUT IT OUT until you are in a position far safer. To link to point a), it is extrelemy hard to leave a very close family member or a child if dead and your body will not want you to do it. A decision in these moments could potentially save or end your life.
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“We will attack every Internet and communications asset of the Turkish government,” Anonymous threatened in a YouTube video posted Sunday. “You have censored social media and other communications of your people in order to suppress the knowledge of your crimes against them. Now Anonymous will shut you down, and your own people will remove you from power.”
Anonymous used distributed denial of service, or DDoS, hacks to overload servers and knock target websites offline. In addition to websites belonging to the Turkish government, political parties and police department, Anonymous hacked websites belonging to media outlets that support Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. One example was the private news broadcaster NTV, which was criticized for not reporting on the police brutality.
We are coming Turkey. Be strong, We will not let you down. Stay in the streets, We will take your government offline. #OpTurkey
— Anonymous(@AnonOpsMob) June 2, 2013
TANGODOWN:tccb.gov.tristanbul.gov.triem.gov.trAkparti.org.tr Via @wikicrew #YA
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) June 2, 2013
Other Turkish websites were hacked and defaced to include images supporting the protesters in Turkey. Several Tunisian hackers got involved with #OpTurkey and claim to have hacked more than 145 Turkish websites.
North Korean hackers and the Boston bombings might not appear to have much in common.
But not according to some American lawmakers, who are using both to justify passing a controversial cybersecurity bill that civil liberties advocates claim “undermines the privacy of millions of Internet users.”
Yesterday, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, was approved by the House of Representatives by a vote of 288 to 127. The law was first introduced in 2011 and approved last year by the House, though it died in the Senate after an outpouring of opposition from privacy and civil liberties groups. But it has been resurrected and is heading to the Senate for the second time. Predictably, the storm of criticism has also reappeared. Rights groups have consistently raised concerns over how CISPA would allow corporations to pass unanonymized user data to federal government agencies for vaguely defined “cybersecurity” purposes—and be covered by full legal indemnity when doing so.
The ACLU has described CISPA as an “extreme proposal” that “forges new ground.” The Electronic Frontier Foundation says it “would provide a gaping exception to bedrock privacy law.” And even the White House has criticized the bill, earlier this week threatening to veto it unless it is amended to include better privacy and civil liberties safeguards.
But yesterday, when the House was debating the contentious bill, CISPA advocates didn’t seem to be paying attention to any of those issues. Rep. Mike McCaul, R-Texas, cited the Boston bombings while arguing for CISPA to be adopted. “In the case of Boston, they were real bombs,” McCaul said, adding that we also need to arm ourselves against “digital bombs. These bombs are on their way.” Similarly apocalyptic statements were made by Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich., who made no mention of Boston, though argued that CISPA was needed to stop hackers in countries like Iran and North Korea from crippling American infrastructure and causing the destruction of American jobs. Rep. Dan Maffei, D-N.Y., even used the debate to take aim at WikiLeaks, bizarrely claiming CISPA was needed to stop the whistleblowing website from pursuing efforts to “hack into our nation’s power grid.”
In the aftermath of tragic events or amid heightened global tensions, it’s hardly unusual for lawmakers to make emotive appeals in pursuit of new national security powers. Public opinion in the aftermath of a distressing terror attack in particular can sway citizens in favor of handing the authorities more intrusive surveillance powers, as occurred in most Western democracies in the aftermath of 9/11 (the Patriot Act being just one example).
In the case of CISPA, however, it is tenuous in the extreme to draw sweeping links between cyberattacks and pressure-cooker bombs tearing through a Boston street, or cyberattacks and WikiLeaks, or cyberattacks and whatever else is agitating U.S. lawmakers on a given day. Exploiting every perceived threat to counter a push for greater CISPA privacy protections is brazenly cynical—and, I’d argue, ultimately doomed to fail.
Dear citizens of the world, Operation: Awake the Masses has begun.
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First, let's make one thing clear. For the ones still not believing our words as being the truth, we are not a conspiracy created in China or Russia, determined to overthrow the United States of America. As far as we can see, almost all of the governments of the world are poisoned by greed and enslaved by the monopoly cartel. We have been created by the very acts of violence, terror, and greed, which has been used by your Government and its shadow masters ruling it, to conquer the entire World.
Anonymous is everyone; everyone can take action in his own way against their own governments if they believe that the people working there, does not serve the citizens' best interest, but instead they serve the corporate monopoly.
Action must be taken nonetheless.
We are not blind and we see the problems facing Asia and the Middle-East. But first we will concentrate our efforts in the direction of the United States of America. Here is where the most unequal distribution of wealth exists. 400 people now own more wealth than most of its population. To be precise, more than 150 million people. 400 versus 150 million people. This will only stop if we start to awake the people that see life very different than the rest of us. The people we are talking about spend most of their time watching foolish TV shows about celebrities and still believe that their leaders only want the best for them. Also, watching whatever sick programs created for the human mind to be enslaved and redirected from the real problems facing humanity.
We have seen many brothers and sisters showing their interest in wanting to help humanity pass on the right track. Well, now is your chance. Here is what you can do to help to break the chains which have enslaved our planet. Upload on any social network or video-sharing sites like Facebook and Youtube, all the videos that you believe that represents the truth of the danger that threats our very existence. But, rename their title in a way so that people that are still asleep to be interested in. You have to make it look interesting in title, but the content to be straight to the matter. Of course, most of them will ignore the videos, report them, have them deleted, so be careful to use accounts that you can dispose of, so that your own accounts can be safe. This will also trigger a much securer protocol of those social networks and video-sharing sites, but by the time they will implement them, we will have already gained another couple of millions of awakened people on our side.
Just think what chain reaction we could create.
We remind the rest of Anonymous collectives to never underestimate the power of brainwashed people in large numbers. We are still a minority compared to the rest of the Earth population. And the only way we would ever have a chance into saving humanity once and for all from the monopoly banking system is by telling people the truth, even if they don't want to hear it.
So this is our primary mission from now on.
Replacing their brainwashing weapons with the truth is the most peaceful action we will ever be able to take. And the most important fact is that it can be done by anyone, because anyone can be Anonymous. Let's remind them that we're not helpless no matter what threats or acts of violence they take.
We are not here to play foolish games - we are here with a mission. We are not getting paid for it, we are not becoming famous for it. Anonymous is everyone. Remember that. And never forget that we stand for true justice, equality, and liberty.
We are Anonymous.
We are everywhere.
We are everyone.
We will direct humanity into the right path.
We will save humanity - because we can.
Greedy banksters and corporate cartels, you cannot stop us.
You cannot stop the future.
Expect us.
Anonymous - In a attempt to open the eyes of the people of the world.
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Anyone can be Anonymous, you are Anonymous join us
You can't stop us, you can't stop the future.
We will no longer tolerate the sleep of the masses.
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We are Anonymous
We never forget
We never forgive
Expect Us/Expect Justice
Anonymous has released 14 gigabytes of information allegedly implicating Bank of America and others in a massive spying operation.
Hacktivists claim the data dump reveals that Bank of America (BofA) hired at least one web intelligence firm to spy on hackers, social activists and many other private citizens.
A statement issued Feb. 27 claims the release of data, code and software “shows that Bank of America and others are contracting other companies to spy and collect information on private citizens.” The statement goes on to report that “the overall quality of the research is poor and potentially false.”
The statement indicates the data dump contains detailed information about “thousands of executives and employees from various corporations around the world, including salary information.”
Included in the data dump is “320 mb of internal reports and emails assembled for Bank of America by a sub-contractor named TEKSystems. These reports and emails assembled ‘intelligence’ from sources like public channels on Anonymous and other IRC networks like Anonops, Voxanon and Cryto, as well as other social media,” according to par-anoia.net (aka Anonymous Intelligence Agency).
Hacktivists claim the release was not a hack “because it (14 gigabytes of data and code) was stored on a misconfigured server and basically open for grabs;” and, “the collected data was stored insecurely and could have been retrieved by anyone.”
President Obama's recent signing of cyber security executive order seems to be a response to Anonymous , not China.
Last Tuesday, President Obama signed a new executive order seeking to give the executive branch more power over curbing cyber-security threats, calling it a move to protect against "America's enemies."
Although many news outlets are running with stories claiming the new plan was a response to hacking from China, it would appear, at least, that it was also a response to recent hacks to government websites by hacktivist group Anonymous.
At the time of this publication, two government sites, ussc.gov and miep.uscourts.gov, are met with "502 Bad Gateway" errors and cannot be accessed.
The hacks are part of "Operation Last Resort" , a response to the death of "Internet freedom" activist Aaron Swartz and a demand for judicial reform. Swartz's family and friends believe his suicide came as a result of legal pressure that did not fit his crime of downloading academic articles he had legal access to. Legal pressure drove Aaron Swartz to suicide, say friends, family.
It appears Anonymous has not been fazed by Pres. Obama's new cyber-security executive order.
Shortly after signing, Anonymous successfully hacked Goldman Sachs, leaking sensitive information such as names, addresses and bank account information.
Then, again, last week, the State Department's website was successfully taken offline. In a Tweet, Anonymous asserted the attack was part of the ongoing Operation Last Resort.
The president is urging Congress to take legislative steps to put restrictions on the Internet, something Aaron Swartz was a champion at preventing.
His organization Demand Progress significantly aided in stopping last year's SOPA, PIPA and CISPA bills many felt would spell the end to online privacy and Internet freedom. It seems that Anonymous is continuing the fight through the operation dedicated to him.
Hacked data could reveal government secrets, including the identities of informants and targets of surveillance.
We are Anonymous, We are Legion, We never forget, We never forgive... Expect Us!
The hacker collective ‘Anonymous’ took down a government website for the U.S. Sentencing Commission, USSC.gov, late Friday night, citing that a ‘line was crossed’ with the death of Reddit founder and prominent SOPA opponent Aaron Swartz.
ZD Net covers the details of the site attack:
By 3am PST ussc.gov was down (it has since been dropped from the DNS), yet as of this writing the IP address (66.153.19.162) still returns the defaced site’s contents.
It appears that via the U.S. government website, Anonymous had distributed encrypted government files and left a statement on the website that de-encryption keys would be publicly released (thus releasing the as-yet unkonwn information held on the stolen files) if the U.S. government did not comply with Anonymous’ ultimatum demands for legal reform.
Dubbed “Operation Last Resort,” Anonymous targeted the sentencing entity to draw attention to the harsh “justice” dealt to Swartz by the feds for systematically downloading academic papers. Friends and family blame prosecutors for ‘bullying’ Swartz and driving him to suicide, while others question whether the activist was silenced.
A message posted on the hacked website read, in part, “We have seen the erosion of due process, the dilution of constitutional rights, the usurpation of the rightful authority of courts by the “discretion” or prosecutors… We have seen how the law is wielded less and less to uphold justice, and more and more to exercise control, authority and power in the interests of oppression or personal gain.”
The hacked files taken from the site may yield significant data. CBS News reports, “The hackers say they’ve infiltrated several government computer systems and copied secret information that they now threaten to make public.” The files are reportedly available for download and being circulated, with an encryption key, to fellow hackers.
Warhead – U S – D O J – L E A – 2013 . A E E 256 is primed and armed. It has been quietly distributed to numerous mirrors over the last few days and is available for download from this website now. We encourage all Anonymous to syndicate this file as widely as possible.
The group hinted at releasing relevant documents from the huge cache to the media, which they say contain ‘secrets’ and which, by its nature, may well contain information such as identities of government informants and provocateurs or targets of surveillance and monitoring.
This is potentially a big deal!
We are Anonymous, We are Legion, We never forget, We never forgive... Expect Us!
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