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Guest Post: Low-Tech Solutions To High-Tech Tyranny
Submitted by Brandon Smith from Alt-Market
Low-Tech Solutions To High-Tech Tyranny
Disclaimer: The following is a series of fictional accounts of theoretical situations. However, the information contained within was taken from established scientific journals on covered technology and military studies of real life combat scenarios. Alt-Market does not condone the use of any of the tactics described within for “illegal” purposes. Obviously, the totalitarian subject matter portrayed here is “pure fantasy”, and would never be encountered in the U.S. where politicians and corporate bankers are forthright, honest, and honorable, wishing only the sweetest sugar coated chili-dog best for all of mankind…
Imagine, if you will, a fantastic near future in which the United States is facing an unmitigated economic implosion. Not just a mere market crash, or a stint of high unemployment, but a full spectrum collapse driven by unsustainable debt spending and hyperinflationary printing. The American people witness multiple credit downgrades of U.S. Treasury mechanisms, the dollar loses its reserve status, devaluation of the currency runs rampant, and the prices of commodities and imported goods immediately skyrocket.
In the background of this disaster, a group of financial elite with dreams of a new centralized economic and political system use the chaos to encourage a removal of long held civil liberties; displacing Constitutional protections they deem “outdated” and no longer “practical” in the midst of our modern day troubles. This group then institutes draconian policies through the executive orders of a puppet president, including indefinite detention, assassination, and even martial law against citizens. For now, let’s just refer to them as “The Swedes”….
The Swedes have an extraordinary array of technological tools at their disposal. The kind of equipment dictators like Stalin and Hitler would have killed for…literally. This technology is so pervasive and so unprecedented in the history of tyrannical governments that average people shiver at the very thought of resistance. The Swedes seem to be invincible.
Some Americans think about escaping to a foreign country before the zealots totally dominate, but ultimately, running is meaningless. The Swedes want a global control grid, not just an American one. Eventually, the expatriates will have to face the music as well.
Others believe that they can take their families and hide alone in far off mountains to wait out the storm, but they do not consider what will happen to their country and its principles while they curl up in a ball and pray that the catastrophe does not touch them. They forget that survival is hollow if one finds himself and his culture enslaved in the meantime.
And yet others, those who are aware of the consequences of unchecked oligarchy, decide to build communities of liberty minded individuals in preparation for the dangers ahead. They seek local and national solutions, social and political. However, always in the backs of their minds sits the understanding that these situations rarely if ever solve themselves, and rarely if ever end peacefully. Despots only respect one thing - Power. Those who refuse to fight back are, in their eyes, nothing but an easy meal, like a wounded animal in a forest of wolves. This third group of awake Americans comes to realize that one day the Swedes will move with severe aggression, and will have to be physically stopped. But how...?
With modern computer driven weaponry at their fingertips, any resistance appears futile. Some Americans, though, do their homework, and discover that most successful revolutions against better equipped opponents utilize low tech methods in highly intelligent ways. They study the inherent weaknesses of the enemy weapons platforms using readily available online manuals and scientific journals. They realize that these pieces of equipment costing millions of dollars each can be defeated using methods that cost little more than pocket change. A war of economic attrition ensues, whereby the Swedes find themselves completely dependent on systems that cannot be maintained without substantial financial sacrifice. With each new piece of hardware, comes an even more frustrating strategy of defiance. Here are just a few examples…
CCTV Surveillance Grid
Sam is a Liberty Movement sympathizer caught in the city during the establishment of a high-tech surveillance grid in his hometown. The dastardly Swedes relish the idea of being able to keep tabs on every person everywhere. They even establish a database in the heart of Colorado which collates information in real time, allowing them to build and organize files on millions of citizens. The success of this grid depends greatly on the capacity of their CCTV cameras placed in an ever expanding spider’s web across heavily populated regions. The cameras use biometric data collected and stored by airport body scanners which the “extremists” often refer to as “naked body scanners”. The data allows computers to quickly match specific body signs to identity.
The Swedes told the public that their data would not be saved for future reference, but of course, this was later found to be a lie. It did not take long before the scanners were moved from the airports, to train stations, to bus stations, to federal buildings, to street corners for random shakedowns. Sam knows that if his file is pulled up by one of the cameras, he is in serious trouble, and so makes plans to escape the city limits. With curfews being set earlier and earlier in the evening, he decides to make his move before it is too late.
The night vision and thermal vision capabilities on the latest CCTV cameras makes disguise nearly impossible. Makeup and prosthetics help to hide bone structure, and a knee brace helps to change the gait of Sam’s walk, but Sam also knows that the thermal filters on the cameras are actually able to see the heat of blood flow through facial arteries, which act as a face fingerprint. There is no low-tech way to forge this face fingerprint:
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~cse891/Sect601/textbook/9.pdf
So instead, Sam decides to block the camera system’s ability to use thermal vision at all. He does this with a few dollars and a hat, gluing small Infrared LED lightbulbs into the cap along with a tiny battery source. The IR lights drown out the CCTV ability to make any clear distinctions in his face, thus preventing any positive ID. Sam is clever, and plants similar IR devices on other people without their knowledge, diluting the attention of Swedish law enforcement officials who are left wondering if their cameras are malfunctioning or if their city is swarming with “terrorists”:
http://hacknmod.com/hack/blind-cameras-with-an-infrared-led-hat/
Fingerprint Scanners
Angela is a worker in a Swedish detention facility. At first, she believed that all the people quartered in the facility were terrorists who represented a threat to innocent lives. But, over time, she came to realize that the true innocents were being housed in the prison, most of them detained for no more than criticizing Swedish policy or protesting a political injustice. Angela makes plans to steal confidential information on the camp from her boss’ office and hand it over to the resistance. Unfortunately, her boss uses a fingerprint scanner to unlock his door. Luckily, she had done research into fail-test methods for such scanners in scientific and security journals and learned how to make molds using latent fingerprints:
http://stdot.com/pub/ffs_article_asten_akaseva.pdf
RFID Chips
RFID chipping is all the rage with the Swedes, so of course they were more than keen to introduce the intrusive technology to the U.S. once the control grid was established. The tiny inexpensive chips allowed tracking of nearly everything, from retail habits, to civilian movements, to common monetary transactions. Evan, a computer hobbyist and quiet supporter of the Liberty Movement, found that without certain RFID designations, many goods could not be purchased, at least in bulk. Only Swedish officials had the ability to go anywhere and to buy what they needed.
Evan found a solution, not necessarily “low-tech”, but easy enough to make using common materials and a basic knowledge of electronics and programming. His idea? Build an RFID Emulator/Cloner:
http://cq.cx/proxmark3.pl
The cloner had the ability to read particular RFID chips, even from a distance, and to then copy their unique signal. Evan was able to clone any chip anywhere and then implant the code on an RFID card or any other item containing a chip, making life easier for him, and information easier to get for others.
GPS Tracking
Evelyn was a political activist and independent journalist before the crash. Her writing had become quite prominent in freedom minded circles, but the dollar had fallen, and with it, the Constitution had been scrapped. Her criticisms of the Swedish controlled government were well known, and she had heard stories of liberty writers “disappearing”. She decided to leave the confines of the city to stay with a friend before the noose was tightened completely.
As she entered her vehicle and made her way outside the city along backroads, away from the highway and possible checkpoints, she noticed that a nondescript car seemed to be shadowing her from a distance. She made a few unplanned turns, and did not see the car again for twenty minutes. Then, it appeared again, at the very edge of her mirror’s field of vision. She realized that she may have a GPS tracking device implanted somewhere in her car, and to find it quickly would be impossible. Thankfully, she had purchased a GPS jamming device months ago, which allowed her to block any GPS transmissions within a small to medium radius. The device was furiously labeled by the FCC as “dangerous” and “illegal to use”, however, they remained very easy to buy until the crash:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02/uk-research-measures-growing-gps-jamming-threat/
http://www.navigadget.com/index.php/2007/01/29/homemade-gps-jammer
Electronic Surveillance In General
Whether it be a CCTV camera, or a body scanner, sometimes the best option is not to evade or disguise, but to pull the plug entirely. At least, that was James’ point of view after the control grid went into overdrive and he couldn’t walk his dog without a blue-shirted Swedish agent fondling him on the sidewalk or forcing him to walk through a body scanner. Finally, he had had enough, and so, decided that if they wanted to track every move of every person, it was going to cost them.
Using commonly available parts, James built a personal EMP device. Its range was dependent on the size of the power supply he tied to it, but when used properly, it would zap anything with a circuit within several feet of him:
http://www.amazing1.com/emp.htm
The Body Scanners were useless. RFID tags went blank. CCTV cameras shorted. They would eventually be replaced, but the cost would be high, and as long as he didn’t get caught, James could experience, at least for a short time, the America of the past…
Sound Cannon / Silence Gun
Mary had seen her family in poverty, her country in ruins, and her government turn to outright treason. In her mind, the only recourse left was to take to the streets. However, this proved to be almost as useless as participating in the election process. New sound cannon vehicles were deployed in waves along with riot police to quell any and all protests, no matter how peaceful in nature.
Mary learned two things quickly. The first: always bring a gas mask to the party. The second: always think simple when faced with technological tyranny.
The sound cannon blast was terrible, making concentration difficult and causing panic amongst the protestors. Even worse though was the Silence Gun:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/weird-gun-future-attacks-words-not-people-193050045.html
Which actually recorded and then projected back a person’s voice only a split second after they began to talk, causing mental confusion and eventually, frustration and silence. The device was popular at political events where activists were likely to interrupt a candidate’s teleprompter speech to expose the public to a few truths. Mary was not a hacker, or a military specialist, or a technician of any kind. So, she wore ear plugs. Problem solved.
Night Vision / Thermal Imaging / Predator Drone
A considerable threat to those who decided to fight back against the Swedes was the widespread usage of night vision and thermal imagers by troops sent to hunt down and capture dissenters (the Swedes called them “enemy combatants). The use of FLIR cameras on aircraft and the feared predator drones were especially terrifying to those who knew very little about how such technology actually functions.
David, an insurgent against Swede governance, was tired of hearing about how the Predator Drones would be the doom of all who defied the establishment. He felt that this outlandish perception came more from the fact that the drones had no human passenger, and so, no potential casualty risk. The concept of facing down a machine that feels no combat apprehension is certainly disturbing, but not insurmountable. At bottom, what the enemy cannot see, the enemy cannot kill. And so, instead of trying in vain to fight the drones and their thermal / night vision on the terms of the oppressive military presence, he decided to make their vision advantage irrelevant by studying IR evasion used in sniper training.
Regular night vision relies, in most cases, on the use of an IR light which bounces off targets within the field of view. This is often referred to as “Active IR”. Thermal Vision reads existing IR at a different wavelength, usually in heat producing or high IR producing bodies, called “Passive IR”.
For evading Active IR night vision, David found that regular camouflaging methods along with smoke worked well. For defeating night vision altogether, he found that bright IR flashlights and floodlights, and even regular bright lights like camera flashes, shined directly at the target wearer of the night vision device, would be blinded for a short period of time, leaving room for escape.
Thermal vision evasion was more difficult. David and his team first studied the IR Emissivity Tables of common everyday materials:
http://www.optotherm.com/emiss-table.htm
http://www.tnp-instruments.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/emissivity_how_to_check.pdf
All objects above the temperature of absolute zero release a certain level of electromagnetic radiation, which thermal imagers pick up and translate into a visual picture. Hiding one’s heat signature is difficult, but not impossible. The key, as David learned through military sniper training manuals and combat analysis, was to match his IR signature with that of his surrounding as much as possible.
He fashioned a hooded cloak using a material that would block much of his initial warmth, then lined the inside of it with emergency space blanket material, which reflects back around 90% body heat. The cloak design worked well because he could easily take down the hood and unwrap himself when not in immediate danger, allowing the material to cool as he walked.
Then David attached local vegetation to the material to help match its IR Emissivity to the surrounding foliage. This combination reduced his thermal signature drastically. Overhead drones could not identify him clearly as a human, if they were able to see him at all. Ground forces were a greater threat, but the element of surprise was still possible for the insurgents with cloaks.
In combat, the tandem dangers of drones overhead and ground forces in pursuit with thermal vision made life difficult. David carefully studied field guides to Predator Drone strengths and weaknesses:
http://info.publicintelligence.net/JFCOM-UAS-PocketGuide.pdf
David and his team then utilized a special strategy under these extreme circumstances called “False IR Signature”.
Operating in bad weather gave the freedom fighters an instant advantage. Heavy rain washed away thermal footprints and obscured body heat. Thick cloud cover made image integrity poor. Contrary to popular belief, the drones had many downfalls, and their eyes were limited in numerous ways.
When in the middle of combat, where drone surveillance was most dangerous to low-tech resistance, multiple fake IR signatures were created using whatever was available. David used a combination of IR Chemlights and hot burning road flares thrown all over the field to misdirect drone cameras. With IR hotspots everywhere, the thermal cameras had no idea where to focus, let alone which targets were real, and which were fake. IR strobe light flares flashed intermittently causing even more confusion, and masked to some extent muzzle flash from firearms.
Larger objects could also be faked using pieces of metal heated with fire, or even heated metallic balloons arranged in a sizable pattern to mimic a hot running car or tank. Drones would zero in on false targets and unleash missiles, only to waste the expensive ordinance on party favors and scrap. Through David’s knowledge and efforts, the game had become more level.
Technology Or Force Of Will?
Technological weaponry and surveillance should never be underestimated. Today’s advancements are terrifying, devastating, and were designed after decades of trial and error in peripheral wars and burgeoning dictatorships around the world. A technology cannot be defeated by someone who does not respect its capability. That said, in the end, wars are not won with fancy gadgets alone. All conflicts are decided by a primary driver; force of will.
Who has the strength of spirit to endure the longest? Who has the intelligence to outwit the technology? Who knows exactly what they are fighting for and why? These questions decide victory, not unmanned aircraft and computers.
In the introduction, I joke a little about the state of our Republic, but sadly, the fictional accounts above represent realities that Americans today must consider as practical and possible in the near future. “The Swedes” are not illusion, but a parable of the kind of totalitarianism that arises in the midst of any culture dominated by elitism and collectivism. Whether you believe this is realistic or not in our nation today I suppose is dependent on your level of awareness surrounding current events. My goal in covering the information above is not to convince you one way or the other of the dangers ahead. The point is to redistribute the knowledge so that one day, in the event that the stories portrayed turn out to be more true than you realize, you may have the ability to do something about those troubled times as an effective champion, rather than a helpless victim…
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They have drones flying over the border just South of Phoenix. At first they were saying unarmed, but recently changed to 'no comment ' when asked that question.
It would be foolish to assume they couldn't be overhead in a few minutes if so directed.
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/05/23/groups-concerned-over-arming-o...
"Chief Deputy Randy McDaniel of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office in texas told The Daily that his department is considering using rubber bullets and tear gas on its drone."
Same stuff they used at Waco. Perfectly harmless.
Ruh roh Raggy! They're on to ZHr's! They're looking for our gold! ;)
Now remember kiddies predator drones operate on C and K band microwave satellite links. A well aimed microwave transmitter or magnetron blasting on those frequencies is sufficient to scramble it's signals.
Check List
So... what was your point??
Make the puppet president a Kenyan as a big "fuck you" to the entire population...check.
and muslim as a quick ass-f**king cherry on top
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3IjRgoGWUBo/SqfdqyM7alI/AAAAAAAAAZU/-EcMAaonQHw/s400/paranoid.jpeg
Why we lost in Vietnam as quoted by Ho Chi Minh:
"Obstacles make you clever" - Ho Chi Minh
When your opponent is clever give them Dancing With the Stars
They're only helping by doing that. Skimming the dross, so to speak.
This is what the Second Amendment is for, and this is why the Second Amendment is ALWAYS under attack, under EVERY administration. Millions of armed Americans are the only thing that stands between TPTB and a complete, global police state.
Dude, it wont be global, just for US Citizens.
It is global. All the same scams and BS they pull in America is everywhere.
Most but not all countries. Some countries are running a parallel system. One for the show to Americans or Globalists and another for their real lives.
Across the Khyber Pass. Life is tough but there is freedom. Guns, gardens and all.
millions of armed Americans to include active and retired Marines, Seals, Army, etc - with some very impressive arms - shooting the Elite fish in a barrel - absolutely no contest - next...
I doubt the globalist state will be centered in the US. Every other developed state has been disarmed and emasculated, they only need to neutralize the US. Bringing it into the fold would be a plus but not required.
Exactly.
economically isolate the con US after the dollar destruction, let things deteriorate for a while, reducing population and resolve. slowly introduce control from the NE territories. the hungry will come willingly.
Weapons and training is secondary, the Will to fight is the main thing.
What will they be fighting for and against whom?
If for freedom, then they should have been fighting already.
I love the Oathkeepers :-)
Our snipers are more feared than drones in the sandbox. They are one of our best hopes, if things go very bad here in these United States. The Second Amendment and this very effective residual force multiplier will hopefully make any would-be dictators think twice about taking the final steps to Tyranny. It would be one Hell of a fight. Liberty would not be extinguished easily.
millions of armed Americans to include active and retired Marines, Seals, Army, etc - with some very impressive arms - shooting the Elite fish in a barrel - absolutely no contest - next...
Timing is the problem. If people rise up together the government cant stop them, so the government uses provocateurs and informants to spur the hot heads to jump the gun and then make examples of them.
So the responsible forward looking leaders of a future rebellion will be doing everything they can TODAY to calm people down till the anger is so big NO ONE can stop an outraged population from setting things 'straight'.
Till that moment, Michael Collins has more to offer than OBL as far as methids are concerned.
The Marines & Seals (& Army, Navy, Nat Guard, etc) typically come from the "Non-Elite" families. When enough of their families are victimized then the "Elites in Charge" will simply be done away with quickly. Yes, the old military coup. You can take that to the bank. Next....
I agree but evey single soldier, officer, and general that swore an oath to defend America and the constitution, is in effect commiting treason every day that goes by without them going to washington and putting a bullet in the head of every politician there.
There isn't even a case to be made for the innocence of Barrack Obama. Any four star should enter the White House and take care of the problem. He would be protected under constitutional mandate.
Not a day goes by that I don't ask myself, almost to the point of verbalizing, how many years will the Constitution have to frantically dial 9-1-1 before those who have sworn to defend it answer and respond?
My husband is ex-military so I want to agree.
They are taking folks with profiles that are much more questionable these days:
Lower IQ
Crimanal records
Edgy Psychological profiles
These folks may be easier to manipulate into doing bad things.
Also, many folks will just buy into the nationalistic propoganda narrative without questioning its veracity because, you know, it is not patriotic to question your country.
Old service, fuck yeah. They will do the right thing. But it will be older men. Smarter, wiser, but with bad backs, and failing health...
Dunno...
They'll have the TSA do their bidding. Anyone that will grope innocent kids for money will do anything.
Those fat fucking 70 iQ wastes of air?
I can't wait until we square off Tacticool wanna bees and keg leg dykes vs. pissed off rednecks. Epic.
I always knew my contrarian streak would come in handy some day...
MSCREANT - has some semblance of normalcy returned to your life?
Things are a whole lot calmer. Got into the house in April, but still had a lot of stuff that needed to be handled. We now have most of that under control. The house is wonderful, the geothermal is great (the house is 50% bigger, yet our power bill so far is 1/3 of the old one) but we still have landscaping, drainage issues that are apparently difficult to resolve.
It is great to not be moving from place to place with our belongings in garbage bags, or to be in a place "waiting."
Thanks for asking.
That is good to hear!
I had to replace my HVAC entirely a while back myself (compressor & gas heat/air handler were both ~25 years old - inefficient is an understatement) and considered geothermal, but cost, time and some property logistics kept us with high-efficiency replacements.
That's Great to hear MS.C Nice to see you posting...
those damn draining issues. I assume no garden yet...?
We have had 3 sets of professionals out. No one will take it, yet. One guy has somegreat ideas but he keeps canceling appointments. ;-(
those damn draining professionals
Doesn't matter what kind of Marine, Army grunt, etc you have because they all have family, and when enough of them have their family fucked over by The Authorities, then they will be motivated & respond. It won't be a matter of "questioning your country" etc - will come down to the lowest common denominator of "you fuck with my family then I'll fuck with you".
THis is very true. I heard it reported that the military has a huge population of gang memebers in all levels and even high levels of the military. Somewhere over 20% are gang members.
Army Riflemen training is to MS13
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Afghan training camp is to Taliban
You are exactly 100% correct! The clearest lesson on the matter was provided by Chinese troop replacement, at Tienanmen square. Replacing those who will not shoot with those who will. All tyrants think alike and act alike. One doesn't have to look very much to be more than a little concerned, that is unless you are an ostrich or actually believe what you are being told, when simple efforts would provide you with a contrary and very disturbing view based upon facts and not "stories" constructed for your entertainment and distraction.
I can back this from the prosecutor / defense attorney perspective. We have noticed that while the Navy and Coast Guard have a pretty demanding criminal record policy, the Army's only concern is that you have closed out probation, no matter what it is for. Serious felonies? no problem. As soon as you do, you're in. I have seen counsel motioning and judges granting an early probation termination for this very purpose.
Add to that the lack of a draft and the multiple tours with frequency never before seen in american military history. That should wear down any sanity that is left
Always the very best to hear frontline, on the ground feedback. Thanks.
Take one of the bastards with you
"How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever was at hand? The organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt"
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, "Gulag Archipelego"
This thought encapsulates it all, because it has all already happened before. You can feel the wave cresting, the tide going out. How many of us take the time to really imagine the horrors that befell the 'Whites" in Soviet Russia? You think that only the resistance will utilize low tech means? The biggest weapon the fascist, totalitarianism regime will implement will be among the lowest of low techs: HUNGER. People will starve, first and foremost. Can anyone image what a gulag is like? HUNGER will shatter the spirit quicker than anything. Tens of millions have died in the last 100 years at the hands of fascists. Yet Liberty still burns from the coals of an eternal spirit yearning to be free. Such an odd paradox being a human being. People only need look behind them to see what lies ahead. As always, history guides.
Ja, those Swedes are just horrible.
Ja, det är ni!
Most Swedes worship the state and would eat their own children if told to do so.
Heading to Galt's gulch, who' with me?
Cam rahs, k illem where euw fin d em.
Could this scenario happen? Not likely in the near future, but some derivation is not beyond question over time.
We should be greatful for our rednecks and NRA members who serve as a check against the wishes of the "Swedes".
We should also be very leary of all attempts by the "Swedes" to institutionalize local police forces into their sphere of influence. I sense some of this is already happening under Brohannes Øbama.
It is extraordinary how many Homegrown hunters there are. DO you realize Wisconsin issued over 600,000 deer hunting permits last year? (If they were all soldiers it would be the 9th largest Army on the planet) Pennsylvania, New York, Texas each issued over 1million of 'em. We have the numbers...
http://library.fws.gov/pubs/nat_survey2001_deerhunting.pdf
...just need to wake folks up to whats going on!
They know who you (they) are... they will be first rounded up. None of my guns are registered nor do I buy ammo with credit. Liscense to hunt 2nd stupidest thing you can do after registering your guns.
that's an awful lot of rounding up. Just exactly who is going to do this thing? All at once. In every state.
Hope they don't miss someone, or get the timing wrong. Because "then the whole crew will act up", so to speak.
IMHO it is ludicrous to think that the American people can be de-armed. How would they do it? The only possible way would be "voluntary" - taking your firearms to some collection place, and how many people would do that?
A few would, and another few would take some of their least capable weapons, but nobody is going to take away even half of the guns, and I'd bet anything on that.
Yeah, do you think all the people buying guns as of late are going to give them up voluntarily when the government comes up with another false flag to make all gun owners feel guilty (Fast and Furious)? Fuck no.
I'm not so sure the plan is for a hard tyranny. I think it is also possible that the people in charge are simply grabbing all they can before everything falls apart. They aren't going to fight when the time comes. They'll take the gold and run.
You might want to scan some additional reading materials (current events) Other than the approved list of information providers. You are being lied to and it isn't being done by mistake.
The second amendment is a pretty low tech solution too.
Word... especially if you dig up all those Mosin-Nagants and pass them out.
Life's a conspiracy because it ends in death.
Very nice allegorical article.
I spoke with someone that was 70 years old about the "Swedes" yesterday. She laughed and said we all gotta go sometime.
"Everyone reaches an age at which the death penalty ceases to be much of a deterrent." - paraphrasing my father.
DIY EMP
The proposed solution to GPS tracking is incorrect. The smallest and cheapest GPS trackers use the cell phone system for tracking. GPS locates the vehicle and sends that info via a cell connection. If the GPS is jammed, the cell phone system can still be used to locate the vehicle, just not as accurately. So, BOTH the GPS and ALL cell phone frequencies must be jammed to make sure one can't be tracked. And, catcha' twenty-two, these are both illegal acts for commoners.
It's still not illegal to take the fucking battery out.
Query - is there a list of makes/models of cell phone without GPS in it?
It is still possible to set up an anonymous Net 10 phone. Pay cash and activate online while bypassing the optional name/address fields. Always pay cash for refills.
GPS is handy for smartphones, just keep in mind that your phone does not emit a "GPS signal". The orbiting satellites simply send down the radio waves that let GPS-enabled receivers triangulate to an exact, 3-dimensional location on Earth (or in the atmosphere for aircraft). Removing the batteries from your phone should stop it from emitting any signal that could be used to track you, barring an essentially self-powered RFID chip inside the phone. Typically, RFID signals are pretty short-ranged.
Under the guise of the E911 bill passed about 1998, when our phones are powered on, they can be located using triangulation in relation to the nearby cell tower(s), with more towers allowing more accuracy in locating you. This was done so a person could call 911 on their cell phone and have emergency personnel find them, even if the person had no idea of their current address or grid coordinates. Police routinely track cell phones using this E911 feature with many judges approving the warrants en masse.
This article from 2003 anticipated the law enforcement privacy invasions:
http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/July-August-2003/feature_koerner_jula...
This article from 2007 confirms the earlier fears:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/22/AR200711...
Note that the WashPost article incorrectly states that cell phones send signals to GPS satellites.
All electronic devices emit a minor amount of radiation that can potentially be interecepted and used to read what is going on. For example, each press of your keyboard generates a small, electric pulse, as do the elements that make up your display screen as they send beams of colored light to the screen. Agents have been using equipment that pick up and decipher this electromagnetic radiation for decades. If you are concerned about having your electronic devices accessed in this fashion by someone nearby, say an agent in a nearby parking lot, check into the TEMPEST standards for electronic shielding. Buildings that will be housing electronics that need to be shielded from remote eavesdropping are built to TEMPEST standards. I worked in such a building at one time and we had to get special communication devices because the standard commercial ones could not penetrate the building's shielding. It was the most significant building among many this worldwide organization had in its inventory and they weren't screwing around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEMPEST
Fermented dog shit potato gun.
Hard to be a bad ass Swede when you're covered with fermented dog shit.
Good stuff.
THX1138 is looking more prophetic every year.
1-Be debt free. The chosen 1000's & their muppet governmentsare dependent upon velocity of debt.
2-Grow your own food. One can grow lot's of protein for consumption & barter.
3- Barter & exchange without fed notes
4-Be prepared to live without the internet. It tracks your every move & desire.
5. Heat your water, cook your food, generate power w the sun.
6. Spend more time w partner in mutual massage.
And how exactly do we evade/combat their demons who can traverse time and dimensions and read our thoughts?
Just curious.
Yes, protection and the power is given to some, but not all (as far as I know).
John Mosby has much to offer in terms of theoretical insurgencies.
http://mountainguerrilla.blogspot.com/
awesome! so many good ideas on here for those new to the game of personal counter-state-intel
If they have it, they will use it.
A good start for foiling surveillance is a tool like the Tor Project Web Browser http://www.torproject.org which helps you be a lot less traceable on the Internet. http://www.startpage.com does not record your IP address when you are searching for things on the Internet, while leveraging Google's search engine.
Keep in mind that Google has been caught red-handed collecting the emails, web surfing, and anything else people were doing not protected by SSL encryption while its' Streetview cars were trolling through neighborhoods "mapping" the home wifi networks. Keep in mind that the engineer/scapegoat named by Google developed NetStumbler, a tool ideal for stealing data transmitted wirelessly, so it very well may have also cracked WEP-encrypted data packets as well. From this article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/01/slurp_engineer_doe_named/
"An investigation by the Federal Communications Commission demolished this theory, however. The FCC found Google guilty of obstructing its investigation but concluded that collecting personal data from unsecured wireless networks did not breach the US Wiretap Act.
Privacy group EPIC says the FCC report "undercuts the company's prior statements that a rogue engineer was responsible for the payload data collection".
"Instead," the organisation added, "it indicates that Google intentionally intercepted payload data for business purposes and that many supervisors and engineers within the company reviewed the code and the design documents associated with the project."
Somehow, (can you say billion$ and pro-government?) nobody from Google is rotting in jail yet. So much for "do not evil".
Google is an obvious tool of the CIA as seen in this CBS News Story: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20012264-501465.html
"this may be the first time that the CIA and Google have funded the same startup simultaneously, a happenstance that has the potential to cause some public relations grief for a company that so publicly tries to portray itself as aligned with the good guys."
How long are you going to keep your head in the sand?
Slightly OT, but thought this crowd would find this interesting:
Last week, my wife got a call from a survey company. Paid shill reading from a pixillated screen, not the proprietors. Anyway, they started asking questions along the lines of whether we have food stores, fuel stores, emergency medical stores, back up generation, etc., etc., etc. Fortunately, we have rehearsed for such inquiries, and she did a marvelous job of playing dumb and even saying things like "what kind of crazies do that stuff?" (These survey lines are often recorded.) Anyway, she completed the call (about 7 minutes) rather than hanging up immediately upon getting the first probing question.
Curious if anyone else has experienced the same, but also just relaying as a "heads up." If you're prepping, someone is interested. If it's purely commercial, then I can live with giving 'em a bad data point.
WOW, that call would have probably sent me straight out for more ammo and seeds!!!!
Sugar coated chili dog ............ hmmm. Sign me up.
Folks, I am not worried, and there is nothing to be worried about. As King Leonidas said to the fucking persians - MOLON LABE! Those who would do harm to the Consitution should do so with this one thing in mind, there are a WHOLE generation of new combat veterans that will not tolerate the bullshit the government may plan to do. They have had over ten years of combat time. I would feel very sorry for some stupid police group going to mess with these soldiers/vets!!! Just saying.
Those who would do harm to the Consitution
Most of those who would do harm to the Constitution already did so and are dead and buried. Their legacy lives on in the residue that is effectuating the final tattering. What your talking about will be like shooting Kevin Spacey's character in Seven.
The Guest Posts on Zero Hedge are always so extreme, they're just troll bait. Stick to the real news, charts and the technicals and leave the Op Ed for the weekends.
Red Shield. Is that polite for "Used Panty Shield?"
A "New Norm" vernacular? http://shutupnsing.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/the-new-investment-terminology-of-obamaville/
A "New Norm" vernacular? http://shutupnsing.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/the-new-investment-terminology-of-obamaville/
wut, no tinfoil hats?
you don't even need low-tek to defeat The Parasite Club
just pull the plug on the suckers... Stop Paying Your Taxes
Game Over Fuckers
"paranoia strikes deep, into your life it will creep..."
but, yeah, a few interesting points, a lotta paranoia
A-symetrical warfare, Bitchez!
Dead drops.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwohadcUv4A
A currency collapse leaves the goons w/o funding...besides which the people have nothing better to do than start hanging those responsible for the collapse.
"Popcorn, peanuts, ice cold long-necks!"
I think they ultimate plan is to wait until there's a really big story on ZH about a flash crash or something, when there's thousands of us on here giving it the "bitchez" and all that and they have this secret weapon that works through out screens and burns our brains out. Wipe out all the ZH readers and you take out a lot of dissenting troublemakers in one hit.
What's that you say? Most ZH readers already had their brains burnt out with drugs and booze anyhow? Oh dear. Bitchez!
High tech will have its part too. One or two disaffected geeks stationed at the heart of one of the informational nodes for control could do incalculable damage.
If it is strongly perceived that there is a widespread, strong aversion to any such tyrannical outcome, it is less likely that the trigger will be pulled. And the known culprits will continue with their attempts at "soft tyranny" rather than "hard tyranny".
Our founding fathers were paranoid for a reason in regards to maintaining Liberty. Their minds were keen, and their understanding of human nature and history was deep and far-reaching.
A police state this intrusive would create millions of jobs building, installing, and operating all that high-tech surveillance equipment. That alone would end the Depression once and for all. Just one question: With the dollar worthless and gold illegal, in what currency will these employees be paid? Special super ultra mega dollars?
you misssed those lil remote helicopters they make in Switzerland for the US military, the ones that can detect and locate any any electronic device of any current size-including batteries.
great article and very timely.
I can't help myself, I have to bring up those who sit behind the curtain and are responsible for the increasing totalitarianism. Obama, Bush, Pelosi, barney-frank, etc are just the administrators, who will always believe they will be kept secure and safe by their masters, but which they will be first to be handed over to the masses in the event of systemic Globalist failure.
The Royal families and other "Distinct" families (A.K.A....Globalists of all stripes) really do have some "funny business" going on in their "bloodlines".
I just discovered that the Psychopathic family of Rome, The Borgia's of the late 1400's and early 1500's, live on in the Royal families (even Princess Di) and "Other Distinct Families" in the West...through bloodline of course.
There's a series on Netflix called "Borgia". I couldn't watch it all but I did check it out and it does follow the facts on this psycho family pretty good, except for Lucretia, who they portray as more innocent than she was. She participated along side her Father, Pope Alexander, and her brother Cesare in orgies, as well as killed people herself. The enitre family was so gross I finally had to quit watching the series (not because it was poorly directed, but because they are some of the grossest people I've ever heard of in history). Read about it at Wikipedia, it has some of the details. They were hanging enemies upside down and sawing the guys alive starting at their balls. I think that's when I quit watching it.
Borgia's came from Spain, and were Miranos (Jews that had been forced to convert to Christianity). But their aggressive bloodline carried down into modern day Globalists.
Now these people are being challenged and we see the increasing orwellian tactics, and at some point they will be using torture openly if not stopped. They've been trying to get their administrators to talk the masses into thinking Torture is a "good" thing.
It's like, Truth is lies and Lies are Truth to these people.
Some things to keep in mind, whenever you are trying to "hide your identity".... it really applies to almost anything, reallife or on the net: You are not just either identified or invisible.... instead, you usually are one of the following:
1. Identified
Selfexplanatory. One thing to keep in mind however, is that just because you're identifyable, it doesn't mean that it is "cheap" to "find you". For example, in a large mass of identifyable people, the actions of a single identified individual may still be hard to notice in the crowd. This is a benefit which typically tends to decrease the more you try to hide yourself.
2. Pseudonymous
This does not neccessarily mean that you are literarily using a pseudonym. What this state means instead, is that you are visible, but your "signature" cannot be connected to an identity. Your signature however IS UNIQUE, and thus you can be re-recognized, just not be tracked to your identity. Notice that to any paranoid adversary, this is a red flag.
3. Disguised as someone else
In this case, you are pretending to be another identity, than you really are. This almost guaranteed involves identity-theft, unless what you are masquerading for as, is not an individual, but a category of beings - like another "team", or even an animal (in the later case, it transitions smoothly into what people call "invisible", without it actually being invisibility - more on this later).
4. Scrambled / Encrypted
In this case, your signature is noticable, but it metaphorically is so distorted and full of random noise, that neither can it be identified, nor can it be re-recognized.... your signature is basically "broken" to adversaries. Notice that this too, is a red flag to any suspicious adversary: He KNOWS that you're tricking him, but unless he can get hold of you, he doesn't know whom you are, nor can he re-recognize you. For example, if you hold a giant flashlight into a cam, and someone is currently checking it, he will know that right now there is "someone" scrambling detection - he just doesn't know who.
5. Invisible / Camouflaged
Actual real invisibility to signature receptors only happens rarely... what most of the time happens instead, is that you camouflage as a non-signal - the environment. As mentioned earlier, this is a seamless continuation of "masquerading as something else".... the difference here is just, that you basically masquerade as that which is considered "irrelevant" (i.e. environment).
The reason why i'm writing all this, is to make people realize, that the only ways to RIGHT NOW not alert anyone of your presence, is to either drown IDENTIFYABLE in the masses, be IDENTIFIED as someone else, or succeeding at actual full camouflage/invisibility. The other options - while avoiding identification - still let others be alerted to your presence.... which is relevant, if there are adversaries nearby.
In asymetric warfare, don't forget the utility of hand held, improvised UV lasers. Recall that 5,000 French resistance fighters tied up 1 million German soldiers during WWII. All they had were pistols and improvised explosives. Knowledge trumps might. Finally, a nasty virus properly applied turns billions of dollars worth of systems into scrap. If resistance fighters took out the infrastructure their opponents would be doing well to simply survive. Asymetry can be a real bitch when used by motivated, dedicated and knowledgable opponents. The loser is the one who is less dedicated. Equipment means nothing.
Why create complexity (especially in the form of technology)?
In order to hide something (especially in our highly computerized financial systems and soon to be voting systems)... as I always like to say.
I for one actually look forward to a "technological dark ages" once our easy and cheap energy (in the form of oil) is used up (in the sense that demand outpaces natural re-supply in a decline on the other side of the peak "cheap" oil bell curve).
Contrary to the belief that without current technology we would go back to the awful times of cavemen, I believe there is much good in simplifying life and learning to live within one's means. And I very much look forward to the day when especially governments are powerless to deploy technology against us. That is also why failed states are more attractive to me than powerful and far reaching countries like the US. The US can and would hunt its citizens down while failed/weak states may want to but just are powerless to do so.
How much economic damage and damage to American liberty was inflicted by a mere 17 Saudis on September 11? (I believe there were 17 Saudis and 2 other Arab nationality hijackers). What have oil prices been like since then? Whose economic star shines relatively brighter now than it did on September 10, 2001?
To really see what asymmetrical warfare is about, see what happened in the 2002 Millennium Challenge wargames when Marine Corps LTG Paul Van Riper was allowed to exploit all the advantages of the outgunned and outnumbered "Red Team".
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/washington/12navy.html?_r=1
What would Mario Savio think/say/do!!!!
The operation of das "Machina"
has bit us in the ass...and biten hard.
Time throw the bodies of the Elite Globalists,
upon the wheels and gears!