Sorrounded Iran

If anyone had any doubts that the whole mess in the Middle East is not about Iran but some other country, please have a look on this map.

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It takes a lot of time to create such a net around Islamic Republic. That is why we can easily see that if it was attacked today it wouldn't be an accident. 

The prophecies of the Muslim patriarch

There are many prophecies telling us what will happen in the future. The vast mayority is connected with the year 2012 and what will happen in coming months. At the same time we know almost only these prophecies which are connected with our culture, especially with Christianity. Is it possible that similiar words can be heard from Muslims? 

Very interesting are especially prophecies of Mohamed Nazim El-Hakkani, a Sufi from Cyprus and the leader of the Naqshbandi Order, one of major sufi orders. He was born in 1922 and is a member of an old family descending from the 13th century poet and mistic Jalaluddina Rumi. Nazim predicted the political changes in the Middle East long before they started. 

He says that the great events will take place at the beginning of the month of Muharram, which in islamic tradition is the first month of the year. The month Muharram had begun on November 26th 2011 (the beginning of the next will be on November 15th 2012). 

We Await Muharram

All the countries now are covered with darkness, darkness (...) I am looking for the month of Muharram when, if something happens, this world will be like this.(upside down - Orwellsky) (...) The Prophet (s) informed us that there will be troubles and quarrelling among the Arabs. Now the Arabs are divided (...)But these troubles (among Arabs) must end in Muharram (...) We will see: if there is movement, everyone must stay where they are. They should not come and go or move around, no! The tenth day of Muharram, if what was supposed to happen happens, in Muharram and Safar al-khayr, millions will perish! (...)

What happened in Egypt is from His severe punishment and the same happened in Libya, Yemen, Tunisia, Algeria and in Syria! 

Take Precaution In The Month of Muharram 

The first of Muharram will be on Saturday (November 26). This month Dhul Hijjah is 29 days, meaning Saturday is more correct.

Allah (swt) knows what will take place and what will happen during the month of Muharram; therefore, if there is no urgency or absolute necessity, there is no need to travel, not to America, not to Europe. You have to take precaution and be careful and attentive. 

Maybe WWIII will start in the Middle East and the Russian army may reach to the plain of Amuq in Syria. The war will take place. Allah (swt) will make Islam victorious and support it and open the way to Turkey. Allah (swt) may open the way to Istanbul. From there, the sultan will come and enter Istanbul, and Imam Mahdi (a) is still present in the movement, but he is not appearing yet. 

Maybe this event will take place in the month of Rajab or after, when Imam Mahdi (a) will enter Istanbul. This means that the region of the Middle East is on fire. The army will come from Damascus against the Russian army and the hand of Imam Mahdi (a) is with the army, but he himself is not present or appearing. 

I am not afraid, but rather cautious of the occurence of Armageddon as the time is very near! Therefore, in the month of Muharram everyone must be careful and take precaution. They should not move like this, like that. Without absolute necessity, do not move! Everyone must remain in their areas and in their homes (stay where they are).  

It means do not go out of your homes unless absolutely necessary. Keep yourselves in your homes as the one who stays in his or her home is in safety and security, but he who goes out is in danger as something may hit him. 

Therefore, every person according to their situation and possibility, should keep stocks (of food) in their homes so they may not be needy. And you do not know, the grocery shops may be closed and you may not find anything. You may then find something in your house, and from what you stocked for you and your family for twenty days by divine permission and blessing may last forty days. If a person may buy extra, more than his family’s needs, and he asks to grant to the poor people who come and knock at his door, he may also reach them. By the divine generosity of Allah (swt) and by His favor and blessing, if you spend something on the poor servants of Allah (swt) He will increase the provision in your home without you knowing it. Do you understand?

Another interesting case is that for Shia Muslims Muharram is one of the major months of the year, while the 10th of Muharram is a day of sorrow. There is not much time to have Nazim's prophecy fullfilled.

German intelligence agency destroyed personal files of their former Nazi employees

Germany's major intelligence agency has claimed to destroy personal files of its former Nazi employees.

Some of former NSDAP, Gestapo, SS and SD officials were recruited after the World War II by West-German Federal Intelligence Agency (BND). According to data from the agency it is estimated that they were about ten per cent of the people employed there during the post-war period. 

BND seal

The scandal was revealed after former BND director, Ernst Uhrlau had invited an independent group of historians to study how much West-German intelligence agencies were depending on former Nazis. 

The speaker of the group Dr Klaus-Dietmar Henke has revealed recently in media, that in 2007 the agency had destroyed about 250 personal files of the BND employees who used to be connected with the Nazi movement. 

Der Spiegel which has published an interview with Henke described whole incident "the true historical scandal". It also notes that, for several decades after the end of WWII in BND existed a policy of recruiting new staff from among the family members. As a result many people working in BND are direct descendants of those former Nazi officials and were interested in hiding these facts. 

The agency has claimed that the documents were destroyed, but as they added, these files were only 2% of the total size of the agency’s archive available to historians. In their opinion the documents "were not deemed to be worth keeping". 

Reinhard Gehlen

West-German intelligence had employed hundreds of former Nazi officials in the period between 1956-1971. First BND director Reinhard Gehlen was general in Wehrmacht and since 1945 he worked as a CIA agent. According to the leaks published by Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung in 2009, he as well as his American employers were aware of the Nazi past of many West-German intelligence agents. 

This information reveals an interesting plot in the newest German History, it is worth to think about how much we Poles actually know about our Western neighbour.

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Russians are arming Syria

According to the anonymous military sources published by Interfax agency, Russia has delivered anti-cruise S-300 missiles to Syria.

Russian ships which have arrived to Syria had on their board missiles which, as the agency sources claim, "allow coverage of entire Syrian coastline". 

Russia didn't accept the UN, Arab League and Western Europe states calling for an arms embargo on Syria. During the UN Security Council summit in October Russia together with China didn't agree on Council's resolution to condemn Assad's government. According to Moscow officials resolution could open the door for Western intervention like it hapenned in Libya.

Sergei Lavrov
fot. Mikhail Ewstafiew

During the press conference on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has stated that a similar move against Libya had proved one-sided: ""We know how that worked in Libya when the arms embargo only applied to the Libyan army. The opposition received weapons, and countries like France and Qatar publicly spoke about it without shame."

"Israel National News" informed that Moscow is considering potential Western attack on Syria as a "red line" which will not be tolerated. 

Earlier that week the media informed about the visit of Russian aircraft-carrying missile cruiser "Admiral Kuznecov" which will soon arrive to the port in the city of Tartus.

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The eavesdropped world.

Are you sure that you’re not being bugged while reading this text? Maybe your favorite phone has been tapped to record every single word you say. Who’s done that? You don’t know, do you? You’d better wonder if you’re not in someone’s bad books. 

The conspiracy theory

Is it a joke? Or a conspiracy theory? Those who claim that we were, we are, and we will always be eavesdropped are considered to be insane, aren’t they? Or at least they’re said to be the conspiracy theorists. The possible grain of truth included in those theories stems from wrong interpretation of the facts or even more often from essentially unjustified presumptions. These believers will always find a place in a cabaret or a madhouse. So, how should we explain the statement of Zbigniew Brzeziński, ex-advisor of the president of the USA, who says: ‘The technocratic era will be based on increase in the social control. This kind of society will be dominated by the ruling èlite which has no regard for traditional values’? How good does the second sentence sound? Is the society, which shows complete disregard of the traditional values, so greedy that it treats the rest as slaves throwing their way around? So does this control apply to all or just the rebels? 

The formal government institutions would be, in conformity with the law, enabled to control and to eavesdrop the citizens, moreover secret spies would be devised. 

There are two kinds of espionage. The first one is presented in books or movies. The second one is the genuine one. The first one is connected with car crashes and beautiful women. The real spying consist of digging through the garbage, planting bugs in someone’s flat and many hours spent with headphones on. The taps are installed everywhere: in your shoes, phones, pens. They quietly wait for you under your bed or desk. 

The history of eavesdropping includes incidents with jealous wives and ‘thrifty’ politicians. The crucial moment was the famous Watergate scandal, when it has turned out that everybody can eavesdrop. The case came out into the open thanks to two Washington Post journalists: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. The authorities were those who eavesdropped and stayed beyond any suspicion. The incident has shocked the whole USA. It has turned out that several people connected with president Nixon used the ex-workers of the secret service to eavesdrop the campaign headquarters of the Democratic Party. Moreover the case of the burglary to the headquarters in Watergate complex, Washington has been exposed during the election campaign in 1972.

The Watergate scandal implied the end of Richard Nixon’s political career. He resigned from office under the threat of impeachment in August 1974. His successor, Gerald Ford approved a document a month later, which declared amnesty for Nixon concerning all offences he had or might have committed as the president. Due to the scandal 40 high ranking public officials were accused or arrested including John Mitchell the director of the Committee to Re-elect the President and Charles Colson. Richard Nixon resisted on his innocence till the end. 

The Polish Watergate

Wiretapping has been used in Europe as well. It’s worth noticing that this time the authorities were those who were wiretapped. The well-known scandal of the tapes of truth, where the then Prime Minister of Hungary Ferenc Gyurcsany unaware of being recorded admitted to lying to his electors, had a widespread impact. The consequences of the tap were so grave that the long protests of citizens became ferocious. 

There was a time when Rydzyk’s and Oleksy’s tapes were a popular topic in Poland. And the most renowned recordings brought the famous incident about which caused the fall of the Miller’s government and the beginning of SLD failure. The Michnik’s scandal took place when Adam Michnik recorded Lew Rywin who offered a bribe while visiting him and was later proven guilty. 

According to the official data from the June report Prosecutor General Andrzej Seremet, the police and other authorities applied for ordering operational supervision and inspection for 6723 citizens and the court complied with 6453 cases. It isn’t terrifying at all, is it? Are you sure? According to the report of the European Commission, Poles are the most surveillanced nation in the European Union. The authors of the report state that the police along with secret services have analyzed thoroughly citizens’ billings more than 1 300 000 times. Even if billings of the same people were looked through more than once it’s easy to see how many citizens were actually inspected. 

There are nine institutions which eavesdrop us. These are: the Military Police, the Border Guard, Government Protection Bureau, the Internal Security Agency, Foreign Intelligence Agency, the Counterespionage Services, military intelligence, General anti-corruption bureau, the Revenue Intelligence. What’s more, the amount of bugs has increased since last year. 

The situation in Europe is not getting any better. While the clerks are still using the phone billings, the potential terrorists have already switched to the modern technologies such as free Skype. 

Several years ago the Italian police took the initiative of push the possibility of recording the conversations held via this communicator. The case was send to the highest resorts of the European Union, but has so far ended in failure. 

The invisible microphone

According to the historians the bugs using the radio waves were available soon after World War II and the Polish secret services owned them in the fifties. Nowadays the GSM technology solutions are being broadly used. 

There are many ways of eavesdropping, even the person who is not an expert on electronics would be able to construct a tap. One should only find a suitable instruction film to build a simple device using the radio waves. But why should we bother? Dozens of companies offer all that’s necessary to record the crucial words. Sale of the devices is legal, isn’t it? Only eavesdropping is forbidden. Since the bugs are available it’s obvious that there are also various devices to drown them. The online shops offer the necessary equipment-everything, depending on what we need. Their good stock includes devices generating low tones which are inaudible, but despite that decoding the records from bugs is impossible. The other kinds of appliances drown the GSM signal and therefore the mobile phones and cameras can’t work properly within 50 meters in this frequency band. Unfortunately the privacy costs dear, most of the drowning appliances cost at least few hundred and the prices of the most expensive ones reach few thousand. 

Speaking of the GSM, it’s worth underlining that the mobile phone connections aren’t safe any longer. A short time ago the algorithms used to code them were really outdated, today they would be 23 years old. Two years after the effective breaking of the codes by a German computer scientist the coded were updated. But will this be enough? Human creativity knows no bounds. In 2010 during the Def Con Conference Chris Paget showed new method of intercepting phone conversations which only requires a laptop, appropriate program and some knowledge. The total cost of constructing this device reached only 1500$. It’s easy to see that it’s available to the general public. 

The legal question of accessing the information from mobile network operators are still unregulated, hence the services can easily find out when and who have we talked with. The text messages are even worse. It’s unofficially said that the operators are partially archiving the messages, thus they can also pass on the data to the third party-all that makes this way of communication rather fear arousing. The most careful ones can follow Julian Assange and change their phone number after every single call. 

The scandal

When the opportunities of eavesdropping are broadening we can no longer be sure of being more lucky than the British. The scandal with the News of the world has exposed new facts. It has turned out that the bugs are also planted by the journalists, who used to be adored for their honesty. Jacek Mojkowski from the Focus has noticed that the system in Great Britain was ‘a toxic agreement between the police, media and politics’ - even though the Scotland Yard knew about the bugs didn’t launch the investigation, as many of their employees had worked for the ‘NoTW’ before. So the last resort for the citizens longing for the truth has vanished. The journalist may have learnt the shocking actions from the Deutche Telekom, which received the ‘Big Brother Award’ in 2008 for disturbing the press freedom after catching their employees eavesdropping the journalists’ conversations. Anyway, passing over the offenders, we can’t be sure if the information about us will not be given to the third party. 

Overhearing the ordinary Mr Brown regardless of his mother country is becoming easier. The increasing control doesn’t cause neither anxiety nor protests. Considering the recent events in Norway we may expect ideas for even stronger control. But is that right?

US Senate discussing bill seriously attacking American civil liberties

The U.S. Senate has discussed new military funding bill. Document was completed by a controversial part diversifying laws of the army on the US territory. 

New bill called The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) will authorise $662 billion for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, military personel and national security. The amount of money will be $43 billion less than what Congress provided to the Pentagon in 2011. 

But it is not about the money. The document contains the proposal which will allow the army to arrest civilians suspected of being terrorists. There are no clear guarantees about the trial of arrested person. 

One of the senators, Rand Paul from Kentucky protested: "Under the provisions, wouldn't it be possible, then, that an American citizen could be declared an enemy combatant and sent to Guantanamo Bay and detained indefinitely?"

Former presidental candidate, who helped write out the relevant provision in the bill, respondend: "I think that as long as that individual, no matter who they are, if they pose a threat to the security of the United States of America, should not be allowed to continue that threat."

The document would be probably voted on Thursday, in case it would be accepted by the Senate, NDAA will still need to be signed by president Obama. 

If the bill would be accepted, it will be another document after 2001's Patriot Act which seriously attacks civil liberties. Until now, US citizens have been defended by law which didn`t let anyone to be detained without the trial, even those suspected of being terrorists. It is interesting that the idea of passing such document has shown up during the economic crisis which seems to be the greatest since 1920's.

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The shocking world

Our world – what’s it like? Is it like heaven in the Bible? Or maybe like Hell? One thing is for sure: the fact of Adam and Eva’s exile from paradise is a innocent deed in comparison to what people did to each other for the next thousands of years. What God is preparing for them now?

“Gazeta Wyborcza” alarms that our government, among other new rights, wants to provide police and other services with the information about our bank and brokerage accounts without any approval from the court. The project is quickly and silently accepted by the parliament. The Ministry of Interior and Administration admits that there were some new rights added to the regulations treating EU decisions on cooperation in fighting crime. Adam Rapacki – the vice-minister of Interior claimed that if the project is controversial, they are willing to resign from those rights which are not necessary to execute EU decisions.

Since there’s a possibility to see how much money I have and where do I get them from – then maybe one will know what I’m thinking about? What else do we need do control our emotions?

The Immersive Labs company is working on new technology which enables reading essential data about a person watching a commercial. The Singularity Hub service says that a special scanner put into the billboard’s screen will be able to read basic demographic characteristics of the watcher (age, sex, race) and adjust the content to his/her profile in a split second.

Intelligent billboards have already appeared in the science-fiction film: “Minority Report”. However, the authors of this device claim that it won’t read the exact identity of the passer-by; it will only recognize his age or sex. This innovative appliance is created in order to make commercials more accessible to customers.

Since we have mastered the influence on emotions, let’s create something that enables to control our behavior.

As presented in the New York Times, the American intelligent services are working on system which will be able to collect all the data coming from social networks available on the Internet.

Huge amounts of data will be used by scientists in order to create a big “store” where all the information will be processed. Thus, for the firs time in history, we will be able to make precise maps of human behavior. This kind of maps can be used to predict social and economical breakdowns, political crises and revolutions.

Going further, let’s present the information from “Dziennik Internautów” (Net surfers’ Journal) about another documents created to control the Internet.

Recently, eight countries along with USA have signed a controversial agreement “ACTA” concerning fake products and piracy in the web. This international rapport allows all countries in ACTA to introduce strict regulations on intellectual property protection. The controversial thing is e.g. the fact that the democratic procedures like the consent of American Senate were omitted.

At the same time, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is being elaborated. As presented in some leaked information, TPP wants to introduce compensations for the owners of copyrights. The compensation will take into account the retail price of products and the responsibility of Internet Service Providers (ISP) which largely exceeds American standards. According to www.di.com.pl webpage, some legal encouragements for ISP will be introduced: they are to prevent the non-authorized storage and transmission of materials protected by the copyright law.

As we can see, it is never enough to have plenty of methods of security protecting a citizen from another citizen. After all, we should feel safe being just one step from heaven.

As the Daily Beast service claims, the armament companies treating military contracts for American army are looking for some new markets because their budget has been cut.

Companies producing drones, radars and sensors want to sell their technology (reserved only for the army till now) to border guard and police.

A secret IBISS (Integrated Building Interior Surveillance System) will be also accessible: this technology enables people to see through the walls. Its producer – the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) was not allowed to say anything about his product. Yet, IBISS has appeared in their offer as a device which improves police’s and firemen’s operations.

None of the methods of protecting the citizen’s security can be denied. Can’t they? According to The Telegraph, the Brazilian police will be soon equipped with special glasses able to recognize faces.

While preparing the football World Cup 2014 in Brazil, the Ministry of Interior wants to provide Brazilian police with glasses having special cameras. These cameras will be able to scan almost 400 faces in a second and then send them to a special computer archive with a 13 million photos capacity. Thanks to a special system of biometrical data analysis, the computer will analyze 46 000 of points on the face and will immediately inform about the resemblance with a wanted person.

Leandro Pavani Agostini, person responsible for the police in São Paulo claims that “this method is much more discreet because you don’t have to interrogate or ask for the documents. The computer does it.”

Still, we cannot complain: the technical development should be helpful. Is that so?

The scientists from USA, China and Singapore have elaborated new, unusual technology which combines biology and engineering. It can help in transferring the medical information and computer signal or even be used in spy technology. The service breitbart.com informs us about the so called Epidermal Electronic System (EES). This crucial device is a ultrathin chip resembling a tattoo and is placed on the skin.

The device looking like an adhesive plaster can help in heart disease, brain and muscle tissues monitoring and placed in the patient’s throat it can be helpful in problems with voice. According to the researchers, apart from the normal treatment, the device will be very helpful in treating patients with larynx problems.

This device is thinner than a hair, ultra light and uses a minimal amount of solar energy. Its advantage is that we don’t need some special glue or substance to attach it to our skin.

Data coming from this phenomenal invention will undoubtedly stay in our doctor’s drawer. Seeing that everything about us is known, maybe we should approve the Darpa’s initiative. This agency, subordinate to the Ministry of Defense, wants to invite people from outside to work on new genetic projects. According to the “Wired” magazine, the newly employed engineers, computer scientists and designers are to create the “democratization” of operations on biologic components.

Darpa (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) plans to create a project leading to a great explosion of biologic innovations. There are also some projects to build a factory producing necessary biological organs. Human inventiveness is the only limit.

Since our representatives who rule the world are foreseeing and they emanate a social reliability, how surprised we are about the fact that, according to The-Dispatch.com service, the Japanese citizens, discouraged by the government’s attitude, decided to investigate the radiation level on their own. It turned out that only in Tokyo they came across nearly 20 places where the radiation exceeds the normal level.

One of the citizen researchers - Takeo Hayashida has discovered that near a sports field, where his son is playing baseball, the level of radiation is equally high to the one in the Chernobyl power station. The Japanese government belittles this problem claiming that the majority of radiated products were moved to another place and are not dangerous.

Is this true that a simple measurer is enough to keep the security? Maybe someday, we’ll get to know that all this is complicated by someone else.

Doctor Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person on the Moon during the Apollo program, has recently appeared in a British radio show. He stated that aliens exist and people in NASA know about it since many years. Nick Margerrison, the DJ from Kerrang!Radio couldn’t believe what he heard when Mitchell openly talked about the case in his talk-show on 22nd July 2008.

The prelate Corrado Balducci, a member of Vatican theological curia and pope’s informer had the same opinion – he appeared five times in national Italian television claiming that the extraterrestrial contact is an authentic phenomenon.

Balducci has delivered an alien analysis and said that the image of aliens is consistent with the Catholic Church’s theology. The prelate stressed that “aliens are NOT demonic, they are NOT here to psychically hurt us, but still the fact that we met an alien needs to be studied carefully.” Since the prelate Balducci is an expert of demonology and the Vatican’s counselor, and since the Church has historically demonized many phenomena which weren’t understood well, his statements about aliens and the Church are extraordinary in our history.

Will we know the truth? Actually there’s a small chance for us: according to Paul Krugman’s opinion expressed in CNN, one of the method for taking the economy out from the crisis is a mass plan of armaments caused by the UFO invasion.

The economical Nobel prize-winner (year 2008) claims that the NASA’s information about a possible contact with aliens is not coincidental. In his opinion, just as the II World War has ended the Big Crisis, the UFO invasion will force the humankind to a mass mobilization which will increase national expenses and improve the world’s economy.

If so, we don’t need to be afraid of anything behind the heaven’s door. Surrounded by care and monitored by doctors, we will improve our life standards preparing for a galactic war.