TBR News May 20, 2018

The Voice of the White House  

Washington, D.C. May 20, 2018:” The Saudi 911 attack is a subject that will be with us for years and will certainly grow in the telling. The WTC buildings collapsed solely for a number of rational, provable reasons but the following the Saudi attack, all manner of “expert” opinions erupted into the public like some kind of a tropical skin disease and a great army of conspiracy idiots left the stale fictions surrounding the Kennedy assassination and gratefully rush to embrace the new religion, a religion that had the exciting suggestions of “plasmoid clouds.” “Ex-Soviet controlled rockets,” “’Nano thermeet’ explosives planted in  both buildings, and on and on.

Now we discover that brilliant, fearless reporters and daring bloggers have exposed and are exposing the Real Truth behind the 911 disaster. We are subjected to the Plasmoid Clouds, The Chinese/Bulgarian Guided Missiles, the ex-Soviet Scientists working with the CIA, and Mossad and the Illuminati.

Ah, and now we learn about the dread Nano Thermeet! Yes, more “experts” (as always, unidentified) found traces of this explosive all over the streets after the WTC building collapsed! Of course not a word was ever mentioned about this shocking fact for eight years but why let that bother the seekers after truth?

What about the self-sacrificing US Army Special Forces who actually went inside the buildings, acting on orders from Laura Bush the Freemasons and their controllers, the Illuminati (who were working with the Mossad at the time),  and blew the Twin Towers, and themselves, up? And the acres of foreign rocket engine parts strewed all over New York’s streets, or huge lakes of molten steel found by unidentified “rescue workers” in the cellars of the WTC? God, will these disillusions never end?

Here we have reassurance that all is not lost after all…. Next week, a stunning report will emerge on how Nicolas Tesla’s Z-Ray, controlled by former KGB officers stationed on Planet X,  actually brought down the two buildings,  as well as the Pentagon!

Two hijacked commercial airliners slammed into these buildings, setting fires that weakened the structure, causing the weight of the building above the point of impact to collapse down on itself.

There is absolutely no mystery at all about this.

Stories about rockets, explosives and other matters are entertaining and keep some people occupied but neither I nor most structural engineers I know believe any of these burgeoning urban legends for a nanosecond.

Next, I suppose, the killings at Coulmbine High School will be blamed on trained dwarves, members of the Mossad, killer robots, the Skull and Bones Society of Yale, the Teamsters, ABC News or the Mormon Church.

The public has lost confidence in their government and when that happens, all kind of rumor, theory and legends grow up like fungus in the woods after a long rain.

Those with a technical bent, endlessly postulate on the melting point of steel, the heat of burning jet fuel, the exact size of entrance holes in buildings and on and on. In the end, we have entertaining theory but no practice.”

 

Table of Contents

• ‘US not economic gendarme of planet’: France suggests EU may compensate firms hit by US sanctions
• Facing Trump, a historian appeals to America’s soul: ‘I think we’ll survive’
• Trump biography
• The Untold Story of Japan’s Secret Spy Agency
• 902nd Military Intelligence Group
• New Poll Shows Populist Sweden Democrats Tied for First Ahead of Election

 

‘US not economic gendarme of planet’: France suggests EU may compensate firms hit by US sanctions

May 20, 2018

RT

France’s economy minister has suggested that the EU may compensate European companies affected by US sanctions on Iran, stressing that the bloc should not accept Washington as “the economic gendarme of the planet.”

Bruno Le Maire referred to a series of countermeasures that the EU adopted in 1996 in response to US extraterritorial economic sanctions against Cuba. Back then, Brussels argued that those sanctions benefited Washington’s foreign policy interests at the expense of EU sovereignty. The regulation aimed “to protect the economic and/or financial interests of natural or legal persons against the effects of the extraterritorial application of legislation.”

The reinforcement of the 1996 regulation would allow us to bear the costs of sanctions paid by [EU] companies and which could be paid by the European Union. We have a European budget which can help to protect our businesses,” Le Maire said, speaking to Europe 1 radio station on Sunday.

The minister once again hit out at the US, which pulled out of a milestone 2015 deal earlier in May. The accord sought to curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for lifting decades-long sanctions and wider economic cooperation. The move was coupled with renewed restrictions targeting trade with Iran. “Are we going to allow the United States to be the economic policeman of the world? The answer is no,” Le Maire stated.

This is not the first tirade that the French economy minister has leveled against Washington after it ditched the much-discussed deal. He once urged Europe to stop acting like “US vassals” and branded Trump’s decision “an error” from an economic point of view, unrelated to international security.

Le Maire earlier revealed that he had called his US counterpart Steven Mnuchin and asked him “about either exemptions for a number of our companies, or longer deadlines [to comply with renewed sanctions].” Plane-maker Airbus, oil giant Total, as well as Renault and Peugeot car manufacturers could be among the French companies affected the most.

Donald Trump withdrew the US from the accord despite the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirming Tehran’s compliance with the deal on numerous occasions, and attempts by France, Germany and other EU nations to talk him out of the decision.

On Friday, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker stressed that the union would protect the interests of its companies that were investing in Iran as part of the EU’s continued commitment to the deal. “As long as the Iranians respect their commitments, the EU will of course stick to the agreement of which it was an architect – an agreement that was unanimously ratified by the United Nations Security Council and which is essential for preserving peace in the region and the world,” Juncker said.

 

Facing Trump, a historian appeals to America’s soul: ‘I think we’ll survive’

Pulitzer winner Jon Meacham says if Americans ‘get to work’, the country can pull through yet another crisis

May 20, 2018

by David Smith in Washington

The Guardian

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy had two giant words on the front, imparting un-improvable advice: “Don’t panic.” Jon Meacham’s new book, a sort of hitchhiker’s guide to the American soul, could easily bear the same cover legend for anyone in a state of perpetual alarm about Donald Trump.

The historian isn’t suggesting we can all let our guard down. But with the perspective of centuries rather than the frenzied 24-hour news cycle, he does make a persuasive case that the present crisis is not unique – or, to put it another way, that there were plenty of causes for panic in the past yet, so long as attention was paid and citizens stepped up, the republic endured.

“My fear with this book was that people were going to say, ‘Oh, he’s saying relax, everything’s going to be fine,’” Meacham told the Guardian. “It’s quite the opposite. It’s: ‘Get to work and everything might be.’”

The Pulitzer prize-winner’s book is called The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels. He expounds: “It’s natural to think that your own moment is ‘the most this’ or’ ‘the most that’. It’s the tyranny of hyperbole and the narcissism of the present – which is a phrase I didn’t put in the book but which I now love – and it’s understandable. I mean, nostalgia is a powerful drug.

“It doesn’t mean that the present isn’t vital but my view here is, before you decide to set your hair on fire after a given tweet, just take a moment and think: is this really worth a disproportionate view? Is panic a proportional response to Donald Trump? It may be, but I’d like people to read this book and then perhaps at least decide whether or not they want to hit the ‘panic’ button as opposed to the ‘concerned’ button.”

Trump’s anarchic, vulgar, fear-mongering and norm-busting style is lapped up by supporters but poses a dilemma for critics. The Women’s March on his first full day in the White House was a resounding clarion call and the liberal billionaire Tom Steyer is agitating for impeachment. But is it paralysing to remain in crisis mode for four years? Conversely, does an attempt to shrug off the madness and get on with everyday life risk normalising the abnormal? Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot includes the line: “The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops.” Can the same be said of anti-Trump outrage?

From immigration to climate change to the Iran nuclear deal, there is plenty to be outraged about, as MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show and the former Hillary Clinton aide turned tweeter Philippe Reines constantly remind us. Yet the president’s bark has proved worse than his bite on curtailing press freedom (at least so far) or firing the special counsel Robert Mueller (at least so far) and he has not fulfilled the worst prophecy of doom. Unlike George W Bush, he has not started a war (at least so far).

Are some of the most hysterical anti-Trumpers going too far?

Meacham is measured: “Sure, and some people aren’t going far enough. I think his reflexive opponents are endowing him with superpowers that he doesn’t possess. But his Fox News base believe him to be a messianic figure, a view for which there is virtually no evidence. So what I worry most about is this tribal divide that is reflexive as opposed to reflective and my goal here is: I don’t think we’re being true to the origins of the country if we dismiss reason and proportion on both sides.”

Meacham believes that partisan media, while not the cause of the trend, has exacerbated it. “I think from what I have seen of the opinion programming in the pro-Trump cable world, it’s pretty amazing. It’s just an alternative universe and it’s possible that the anti-Trump people will go too far that way. On a human level, it’s all understandable. If you’re prepared to be outraged every day, Donald Trump will outrage you. If you’re prepared every day to defend him, you’ll have that impulse, so it’s not particularly illuminating.”

Meacham’s elegantly written book makes clear that we have been here before, one way or another. Fear, strife, division and uneven progress have been the norm, not the exception, of American history. The lurch from Barack Obama, the country’s first black president, to Trump, endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan, should not come as a surprise considering the backlash against immigrants in the first world war, the resurgence of the Klan in the 1920s or Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist witch-hunts in the 1950s. For Meacham, the “better angels of our nature” prevail in presidents who unify, people who mobilise and institutions that weather the storm.

“In our system we have about five forces that are in the arena at any given time: the presidency, the Congress, the courts, the press and the people,” he says. “As long as two or three of those are in the right place or pushing in the right direction, I think we think we’re going to be OK. Right now, I think we have about half of that force pushing in the right direction.

“This is a stress test for citizenship, and that can sound sentimental, but it actually has the virtue of being true because the story of our country is that the more generously we’ve interpreted the Jeffersonian assertion of equality, the stronger we become.”

‘Demography is destiny’

The ascent of Trump could make even the most Pollyanna-ish American feel bleak about the state of race relations. He has assembled a cabinet dominated by middle-aged white men. He introduced a travel ban on some Muslim-majority countries, denigrated Native Americans and campaigned for Roy Moore, an Alabama Senate candidate who spoke positively about slavery. When white supremacists marched with flaming torches in Charlottesville, Virginia, and violence erupted, Trump said there was blame on “both sides”.

But again, Meacham, from Tennessee, offers reassuring perspective, though not complacency. “Fifty years ago in my native region, we had a functional apartheid, so as a relative matter, things are vastly better. But that’s a white man saying that, so take it for what it’s worth. It is a perennial issue. I think it always will be.

“Things are better today than they were yesterday but history does teach us that things can fall apart and slide backwards if we’re not incredibly attentive and devoted to that idea of fair play for everybody. My argument is the best way to guarantee fair play for yourself is to give it to others.”

Trump’s bleak and bilious inaugural address promised: “From this moment on, it’s going to be America first.” In March, he pushed ahead with tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, threatening a trade war with China and Europe. Diplomatically, critics say, the US is abandoning its leadership role when it is urgently needed.

Meacham reflects: “This is an incredibly important moment in the globalisation of the world and it would be great if we had a president like Ronald Reagan, like George HW Bush, like Bill Clinton, like George W Bush, who understood the importance of free trade, who understood that that we’re stronger the more open we are. This is an unfortunate period of reaction. My own view is that the ferocity of the reaction is really a validation of the broader trend.

“This is not a partisan point but I would bet a lot of money that in 2038 – the same amount of time that separates us from the last years of Clinton, which is [kind] of amazing – America is going to look a lot more like Barack Obama’s America than Donald Trump’s America. Demography is destiny here. We will have these backlashes – this is not the last one – but you can’t argue with broad historical forces, and the broad historical forces are pushing toward a more pluralistic, more open world.”

If there is consolation to be found in the past, the 1860s (civil war) and the 1960s (division over the Vietnam war) are most frequently trotted out as the readiest comparisons to today. Meacham resists the former – “it’s just such an outlier” – but does find resonance in the latter, although he notes: “Fifty years ago, if we had been talking on this date in 1968, an average of 46 Americans died in south-east Asia in combat. Forty-six a day! It’s incredible. Can you imagine that today?”

Another Washington parlour game is seeking analogues for Trump in past presidents: the demagoguery and racism of Andrew Jackson, the corruption and mendacity of Richard Nixon, the celebrity and media savvy of Ronald Reagan. Yet the 45th president is by definition sui generis in the sense that he is the first never to have served in government or the military. For once, the term unprecedented is justified.

“There are elements of Trump that have precursors but he is in fact unique in the compound that he offers,” reflects Meacham, biographer of Thomas Jefferson and the first Bush. “I think it’s hard to imagine – though we never rule this out – it recurring in exactly this way. But my broader point is we’ve survived presidents who were not commensurate with the task and I think we’ll survive this one.

“But [it takes] the paying of attention, the voting. The reason Hillary is not president is because the Obama turnout was not there for her in critical states. It was a perfect storm that elected [Trump] and again, hard to imagine those elements ever coalescing again. But I didn’t think Donald Trump was going to be president, so what the hell do I know?”

The author recently delivered a touching eulogy at the funeral of the former first lady Barbara Bush, which Trump did not attend. He saw George HW Bush again last week. Can Meacham foresee the post-Trump Republican party producing a leader in the Bush mould?

“I can, because I think what the Republicans have proven is that fundamentally they are a malleable bunch and the right apostle can teach them a new creed pretty quickly. To have gone from a free-trading, Burkean party to a populist rightwing party in a single cycle suggests that it’s a plane that can be hijacked pretty easily.”

At 93, Bush himself remains a perennial optimist in the experiment of self-government. When it comes to navigating life, the universe and everything, “don’t panic” is good advice. But in Trump’s America, don’t relax, either

 

Trump biography

May 20, 2018

by Christian Jürs

Donald John Trump (June 14, 1946)

He is of German/Scottish origin. One of his German relatives was an Arnold Trumpf, b, 27 October 1892 in Gifhorn and died 7, January 1985 in Garmish-Partenkirchen. Trumpf was a member of the Nazi party number 389 920 from 1 December 1930. He was a member of the SS Race and Settlement Office as an SS-Oberfürer

Trump was born and grew up in New York City. He received a degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Trump took over running his family’s real estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded it to involve constructing and renovating skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. He also started various side ventures, including branding and licensing his name for real estate and luxury consumer products.

He managed the company until his 2017 inauguration as President of the United States.

Trump also gained prominence in the media and entertainment fields. He co-authored several books, and from 2003 to 2015 he was a producer and the host of The Apprentice, a reality television game show.

Trump owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015. According to the American financial Forbes magazine, he was the world’s 544th richest person as of May 2017, with an estimated net worth of $3.5 billion.

In 1977, Trump married his first wife, Czech model Ivana Zelníčková. They had three children: Donald Jr. (b. 1977), Ivanka (b. 1981), and Eric (b. 1984). Ivana became a naturalized United States citizen in 1988. The couple divorced in 1992, following Trump’s affair with actress Marla Maples.

In October 1993, Maples gave birth to Trump’s daughter, who was named Tiffany after the upper-class Tiffany & Company. Maples and Trump were married two months later in December 1993. They divorced in 1999, and Tiffany was raised by Marla in California.

In 2005, Trump married his third wife, Slovenian model Melania Knauss, at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Palm Beach, Florida. Her original name was Melanija Knavs, born on April 26, 1970 at Novo Mesto, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia

In 2006, Melania became a United States citizen and gave birth to a son, March 20, 2006, Barron William Trump. Melania and Barron moved to the White House on June 11, 2017,

Trump has never filed for personal bankruptcy, but his hotel and casino businesses were declared bankrupt six times between 1991 and 2009 in order to re-negotiate debt with banks and owners of stock and bonds. Because the businesses used Chapter 11 bankruptcy, they were allowed to operate while negotiations proceeded.

Mr. Trump was quoted by Newsweek magazine in 2011 saying, “I do play with the bankruptcy laws – they’re very good for me” as a tool for trimming debt.

The six bankruptcies were the result of over-leveraged hotel and casino businesses in Atlantic City and New York: Trump Taj Mahal (1991), Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino (1992), Plaza Hotel (1992), Trump Castle Hotel and Casino (1992), Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts (2004), and Trump Entertainment Resorts (2009).

As president, Trump has frequently made false statements in public speeches and remarks. Trump uttered “at least one false or misleading claim per day on 91 of his first 99 days” in office according to The New York Times, and 1,318 total in his first 263 days in office. The Washington Post, also wrote, “President Trump is the most fact-challenged politician that The Fact Checker has ever encountered… the pace and volume of the president’s misstatements means that we cannot possibly keep up.”

Mr. Trump has a history of making racially-charged statements and taking actions perceived as racially motivated.

In 1975, Mr. Trump settled a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice in 1973 alleging housing discrimination against black renters. In 1989, he was accused of racism for insisting that a group of black and Latino teenagers were guilty of raping a white woman in the Central Park jogger case even after they were exonerated by DNA evidence.

He continued to maintain this position as late as 2016.

Mr.Trump launched his 2016 presidential campaign with a speech in which he described Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists.

One of Mr.Trump’s campaign managers, Paul Manafort, had worked for several years to help pro-Russian politician Viktor Yanukovich win the Ukrainian presidency.

Other Trump associates, including former National Security Advisor Michael T. Flynn and political consultant Roger Stone, have been connected to Russian officials. Russian agents were overheard during the campaign saying they could use Manafort and Flynn to influence Trump.

Members of Mr.Trump’s campaign and later his White House staff, particularly Flynn, were in contact with Russian officials both before and after the November election In a December 29, 2016 conversation, Flynn and Kislyak discussed the recently imposed sanctions against Russia; Mr.Trump later fired Flynn for falsely claiming he had not discussed the sanctions.

Donald Trump has pursued business deals in Russia since 1987, and has sometimes traveled there to explore potential business opportunities. In 1996, Trump trademark applications were submitted for potential Russian real estate development deals. Mr.Trump’s partners and children have repeatedly visited Moscow, connecting with developers and government officials to explore joint venture opportunities. Mr.Trump was never able to successfully conclude any real estate deals in Russia. However, individual Russians have invested heavily in Trump properties, and following Mr.Trump’s bankruptcies in the 1990s he borrowed money from Russian sources. In 2008 his son Donald Trump Jr. said that Russia was an important source of money for the Trump businesses.

In 1996 Mr.Trump partnered with Liggett-Ducat, a small company, and planned to build an upscale residential development on a Liggett-Ducat property in Moscow. Trump commissioned New York architect Ted Liebman, who did the sketches.

In 1987 Mr.Trump visited Russia to investigate developing a hotel

In Russia, Mr.Trump promoted the proposal and acclaimed the Russian economic market. At a news conference reported by The Moscow Times, Mr.Trump said he hadn’t been “as impressed with the potential of a city as I have been with Moscow” in contrast to other cities had visited “all over the world.

By this time, Mr.Trump made known his desire to build in Moscow to government officials for almost ten years ranging from the Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev (they first met in Washington in 1987) to the military figure Alexander Lebed.

Moscow’s mayor, Yuri M. Luzhkov, showed Trump plans for a very large shopping mall to be located underground in the vicinity of the Kremlin. The mayor complimented Mr.Trump’s suggestion that this mall should have access to the Moscow Metro, and it was eventually connected to the Okhotny Ryad station. Although the 1996 residential development did not happen, Mr.Trump was by this time well known in Russia.

Between 2000–2010, Mr.Trump entered into a partnership with a development company headquartered in New York represented by a Russian immigrant, Felix Sater. During this period, they partnered for an assortment of deals that included building Trump towers internationally and Russia was included. For example, in 2005 Slater acted as an agent for building a Trump tower alongside Moscow River with letters of intent in hand and “square footage was being analyzed.”

In 2006, Mr.Trump’s children Donald Jr. and Ivanka stayed in the Hotel National, Moscow for several days, across from the Kremlin, to interview prospective partners, with the intention of formulating real estate development projects.

Sater had also traveled to Moscow with Mr. Trump, his wife Ivanka and son Donald Jr.

Mr. Trump was associated with Tevfik Arif, formerly a Soviet commerce official and founder of a development company called the Bayrock Group, of which Sater was also a partner.

Bayrock searched for deals in Russia while Trump Towers company were attempting to further expand in the United States. Mr. Sater said, “We looked at some very, very large properties in Russia,” on the scale of “…a large Vegas high-rise.”

In 2007, Bayrock organized a potential deal in Moscow between Trump International Hotel and Russian investors

During 2006–2008 Mr.Trump’s company applied for a number of trademarks in Russia with the goal of real estate developments. These trademark applications include: Trump, Trump Tower, Trump International Hotel and Tower, and Trump Home.

In 2008, Mr. Trump spoke at a Manhattan real estate conference, stating that he he really prefered Moscow over all cities in the world and that within 18 months he had been in Russia a half-dozen times.

Mr.Trump had received large and undisclosed payments over 10 years from Russians for hotel rooms, rounds of golf, or Trump-licensed products such as wine, ties, or mattresses, which would not have been identified as coming from Russian sources in the tax returns

A secret KGB memo under date of February 1, 1984 concerned the necessity of making an expanded use of the facilities of cooperating foreign intelligence services—for example, Czechoslovakian or East German intelligence networks.

The most revealing section concerned kompromat.

The document specifically requested any compromising information about Donald Trump, including illegal acts in financial and commercial affairs, intrigues, speculation, bribes, graft … and exploitation of his position to enrich himself. Plus any other information that would compromise the subject (Trump) to his country’s authorities and the general public. Naturally the information could be used to cause him serious problems in his country if exposed.

Finally, the report mentioned that his attitude towards women was also of interest. The point of interest would be if he was the habit of having affairs with women.

Mr. Trumps’ first trip to Moscow came after he found himself seated next to the Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin in 1986. His original position was Soviet ambassador to the U.N. Dubinin’s mission as ambassador was to make contact with America’s business elite.

There was a luncheon held by Leonard Lauder, the son of Estée Lauder. Mr. Trump was invited to meet the Ambassador. Ambassador Dubinin spoke fluent English and during the course of the luncheon Trump spoke at length with the Ambassador who proposed that Trump build a large luxury hotel, directly across from the Kremlin, in association with the Soviet government.

Mr.Trump at once became interested in the project and expressed his willingness to cooperate on such a project.

By January 1987, Mr.Trump had become a “prominent person” status and therefore Ambassador Dubinin deemed Mr.Trump interesting enough to arrange his trip to Moscow. U.S.-based Soviet diplomat, Vitaly Churkin—the future U.N. ambassador—was of assistance in this project.

Mr. Trump first visited the Soviet Union on July 4, 1987.

Mr. Trump flew to Moscow for the first time, together with his wife Ivana and Lisa Calandra, Ivana’s Italian-American assistant. Ambassador Dubinin’s invitation to Trump to visit Moscow was a standard operation exercise by the KGB.

The Trump trip was orchestrated by the Intourist Agency which was under the control of the KGB. Its duty was to investigate and monitor all foreigners coming into the Soviet Union.

The Trumps were treated with great courtesy by Soviet officials and they were housed in Lenin’s suite at the National Hotel, at the bottom of Tverskaya Street, near Red Square.

The hotel was connected to the Intourist complex next door and was under KGB control.

The Lenin suite had been fixed for electronic surveillance.

In November of 2013, the Miss Universe pageant was held iin Moscow

It was there that  Mr. Trump — then the pageant’s owner — spent several days socializing with Russia’s business and political elite and becoming acquainted with a wealthy developer whose connections his son would later seek to capitalize on. The developer, Aras Agalarov, offered to pass on information about potential rival Mrs. Clinton from Russia’s top prosecutor to help a projected Trump presidential campaign.

The contest was held at Crocus City Hall, a venue owned by Agalarov. The event would be a family affair: Agalarov’s son, a pop singer named Emin, performed on stage and his wife was a judge.

Mr.Trump remained on good and productive terms with the Agalarov family, at one point, appearing in a music video with Emin and sending him a videotaped greeting on his 35th birthday.

During his trip to Moscow on November 9-11, 2013 for the Miss Universe pageant, Mr.Trump surrounded himself with business people and those necessary to sign a deal which would bring a Trump Tower project to Moscow. These were: Aras Agalarov, Emin Agalarov,Yulya (Yulia) Alferova,Herman Gref, Artem Klyushin, Vladimir Kozhin, Chuck LaBella, Rotem Rosen, Phil Ruffin, Alex Sapir, Keith Schiller, Roustam Tariko and Bob Van Ronkel.

At first, President Putin, who had planned on meeting Mr.Trump at the pageant, sent numerous individuals tied to the Russian construction sector to the event to discuss potential lucrative building plans and to ascertain Mr. Trump’s attitudes.

President Putin to establish a distance, stated he was unable to attend the pagent because of a last-minute visit from the King of the Netherlands.

Previous to this meeting, there had been no positive positions on the possibility that Mr. Trump, with Russian assistance and financing, might construct a luxury hotel in Moscow. Trump made several tweets thanking individuals in Moscow and bragging about his future plans. Then on November 12th, 2013 Trump posted a link to the Moscow Times, remarking that his organization was working on building a luxury hotel in Moscow “@AgalarovAras I had a great weekend with you and your family. You have done a FANTASTIC job. TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next. EMIN was WOW!”

This hotel deal was finalized during Trump’s weekend stay in Moscow for his Miss Universe pageant. At the Four Seasons Hotel at Ulitsa Okhotnyy Ryad, 2, a private meeting was held between Mr. Trump and President Putin. As the President is fluent in English, no other person was present. President Putin praised the business abilities of Mr. Trump and said that he would be a “refreshing person” as President of the United States. President Putin said that his people would be pleased to support Mr. Trump and that if this support was deemed material in achieving a victory, President Putin had one request to make of Mr. Trump. President Putin said his best wish was to establish “friendly and cooperative attitudes” by both parties, firmer business contacts and an abandonment of the policy of threats to the Russian Republic. President Putin stressed that certain very right-wing groups in America had been constantly agitating against him and against the Russian Republic and he hoped that Mr. Trump, if elected, could ignore these few people and work with, not against the Russian Republic. Mr. Trump repeatedly assured the President that he woud be most eager to do just that and he agreed to work with various people in the United States who were friendly towards, and had connections with, the Russian Republic.

This most important conversation was recorded as a form of kompromat. And it is certain that a direct quid pro quo took place in November of 2013 between President Putin and Mr. Trump.

On June 16, 2015, Mr. Trump announced his candidacy for President

The Untold Story of Japan’s Secret Spy Agency

May 19, 2018

by Ryan Gallagher

The Intrcept

Every week in Tokyo’s Ichigaya district, about two miles east of the bright neon lights and swarming crowds in the heart of Shibuya, a driver quietly parks a black sedan-style car outside a gray office building. Before setting off on a short 10-minute drive south, he picks up a passenger who is carrying an important package: top-secret intelligence reports, destined for the desks of the prime minister’s closest advisors.

Known only as “C1,” the office building is located inside a high-security compound that houses Japan’s Ministry of Defense. But it is not an ordinary military facility – it is a secret spy agency headquarters for the Directorate for Signals Intelligence, Japan’s version of the National Security Agency.

The directorate has a history that dates back to the 1950s; its role is to eavesdrop on communications. But its operations remain so highly classified that the Japanese government has disclosed little about its work – even the location of its headquarters. Most Japanese officials, except for a select few of the prime minister’s inner circle, are kept in the dark about the directorate’s activities, which are regulated by a limited legal framework and not subject to any independent oversight.

Now, a new investigation by the Japanese broadcaster NHK — produced in collaboration with The Intercept — reveals for the first time details about the inner workings of Japan’s opaque spy community. Based on classified documents and interviews with current and former officials familiar with the agency’s intelligence work, the investigation shines light on a previously undisclosed internet surveillance program and a spy hub in the south of Japan that is used to monitor phone calls and emails passing across communications satellites.

According to the current and former officials, the Directorate for Signals Intelligence, or DFS, employs about 1,700 people and has at least six surveillance facilities that eavesdrop around the clock on phone calls, emails, and other communications. (NSA, in comparison, has said it has a workforce of more than 30,000 and Britain’s signals intelligence agency claims more than 6,000 staff.) The communications collected at the spy facilities are sent back to analysts who work inside the C1 building, which has four underground floors and eight above ground.

“Very few people know what the DFS is doing and can enter the building,” according to an active duty official with knowledge of the directorate’s operations, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. The official agreed to share details about the directorate after The Intercept and NHK last year revealed that the spy agency had obtained a mass surveillance system called XKEYSCORE, which is used to sift through copies of people’s emails, online chats, internet browsing histories, and information about social media activity. The official said that they believed the directorate’s use of XKEYSCORE was “not permissible” under the Japanese Constitution, which protects people’s right to privacy.

The directorate – known in Japanese as the “Denpa-Bu,” meaning “electromagnetic wave section” – currently has 11 different departments, each focused on a different subject, such as information analysis, public safety and security, and cryptography. However, the departments are kept separate from each other and there is limited communication between them, the active duty official said. Each department in the C1 building has a different lock installed on the rooms it uses, and these can only be accessed by a select group of people who have the appropriate security clearance, access codes, and identification. The directorate operates as the largest arm of Japan’s Defense Intelligence Agency, which has other divisions focused on, for example, analyzing satellite imagery, sources said.

Atsushi Miyata, who between 1987 and 2005 worked with the directorate and the Ministry of Defense, said that his work for the spy agency had involved monitoring neighboring countries, such as North Korea, and their military activities. But the agency’s culture of intense secrecy meant that it was reluctant to share information it collected with other elements of the Japanese government. “They did not share the data inside of [the] Defense Ministry properly,” said Miyata. “Even inside of the Defense Ministry the report was not put on the table. So the people did not understand what we were doing.”

The directorate is accomplished at conducting surveillance, but has a tendency to be excessively secretive about its work, according to classified documents The Intercept disclosed last year. A 2008 NSA memo described its Japanese counterparts as being “still caught in a Cold War way of doing business” and “rather stove-piped.” The U.S. continues to work closely with Japan’s intelligence community, however, and collaborates with the country to monitor the communications of countries across Asia.

About 700 miles southwest of Tokyo, there are two small towns called Tachiarai and Chikuzen, which have a combined population of about 44,000 people. Japan’s military, known as the Self-Defense Forces, has a base situated on a patch of grassy farmland inbetween the towns. But the base is not used to train soldiers. It is one of the country’s most important spy hubs.

For years, the large antennae inside the secure compound, which are concealed underneath what look like giant golf balls, attracted concerns from local residents who were worried that the powerful radio waves they emitted might damage their health or interfere with their televisions. The Japanese government sent senior officials to reassure the locals that there would be no problems, and the government began paying the Chikuzen council an annual fee of about $100,000 as compensation for the disturbance caused by the base. But the function of the antennae was never revealed.

A top-secret document from the directorate offers an unprecedented insight into some of the Tachiarai base’s activities. The document – an English-language PowerPoint presentation – appears to have been shared with the NSA during a meeting in February 2013, at which the Japanese spy agency’s then-deputy director was scheduled to discuss intelligence-gathering issues with his American counterparts. The presentation was contained in the archive of classified files provided to The Intercept by Edward Snowden. No internal documents from Japan’s surveillance agency have ever been publicly disclosed before.

According to the presentation, Japan has used Tachiarai for a covert internet surveillance program code-named MALLARD. As of mid-2012, the base was using its antennae to monitor communications passing across satellites. Each week it collected records about some 200,000 internet sessions, which were then being stored and analyzed for a period of two months. Between December 2012 and January 2013, Tachiarai began using the surveillance technology to collect information about potential cyber attacks. As a result, its data collection rapidly increased, and it began sweeping up information about 500,000 internet sessions every hour – 12 million every day. Despite this, the directorate indicated that it was only able to detect a single email that was linked to an apparent cyber attack. It struggled to cope with the amount of data it was harvesting and asked the NSA for help. “We would like to see processing procedure which the U.S. side employs in order not to affect traditional SIGINT collection,” the directorate told NSA, “and would appreciate your technical assistance.”

Chris Augustine, a spokesperson for the NSA, declined to answer questions about the agency’s cooperation with Japan, saying in a statement that he would “neither confirm nor deny information concerning potential relationships with foreign intelligence services.” He added: “Any cooperation among intelligence services is conducted lawfully, in a manner that mutually strengthens national security.”

The directorate’s work at Tachiarai appears to focus on monitoring the activities of foreign countries in the region. It is unclear whether it collects Japanese citizens’ communications, either deliberately or incidentally, through dragnet programs like MALLARD. The law in Japan prohibits wiretapping landlines without a court order, but monitoring communications as they are being transmitted wirelessly across satellites is a gray area, Japanese legal experts say, because there are no legal precedents in the country that place limitations upon that kind of surveillance, though there is a general right to privacy outlined in the constitution.

According to Richard Tanter, a professor at the University of Melbourne who specializes in researching government surveillance capabilities, more than 200 satellites are “visible” from Tachiarai, meaning the base can intercept communications and data passing between them using its surveillance systems. Of the 200+ satellites, said Tanter, at least 30 are Chinese and are potential targets for ongoing surveillance. Moreover, he added, “satellites owned or operated by Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, and even the United States or European states may be targeted” by the Tachiarai facility.

Snowden, who worked at a U.S. military base in Japan as an NSA contractor between 2009 and 2012, told The Intercept that Japanese spies appeared have targeted “entire internet service providers, not just any one customer.” Referencing the MALLARD program, he said that there were not “500,000 terrorist communications happening in one year, much less one hour. … Is this authorized in law in a way that’s well understood, that’s well regulated, to make sure they are only targeting bad guys and not simply everything that they see?”

A spokesperson for Japan’s Ministry of Defense refused to discuss MALLARD, but said that the country’s “information gathering activities” are necessary for national security and “done in compliance with laws and regulations.” The spokesperson acknowledged that Japan has “offices throughout the country” that are intercepting communications; however, he insisted that the surveillance is focused on military activities and “cyber threats” and is “not collecting the general public’s information.” When pressed to explain how the country’s spy systems distinguish ordinary people’s communications from those related to threats, the spokesperson would not provide details on the grounds that doing so “may be a hindrance to effective future information activities.”

In October 2013, the Directorate for Signals Intelligence was planning to launch an operation aimed at what it described as the “Anonymous internet,” according to the 2013 presentation. This suggests the directorate wanted to collect data about people’s usage of privacy tools such as Tor, which allow people to mask their computer’s IP address while they browse the internet. Tor is often used by journalists and dissidents to evade government surveillance; however, it is also used by child abusers and other criminals to plan or carry out illegal acts. In April 2013, it was reported that Japanese police were urging internet service providers to find ways to block people who were using Tor to commit crimes. In 2012, the country’s police investigators were repeatedly thwarted by a hacker known as the “Demon Killer,” who posted a series of death threats online. The hacker used Tor to successfully evade detection for seven months, which was a major source of embarrassment for Japanese police — and likely fueled demand for new surveillance capabilities.

The directorate’s activities at Tachiarai and elsewhere are aided by an organization called J6, which is a specialist technical unit connected to Japan’s Ministry of Defense, according to sources familiar with its operations. However, the cooperation between the directorate and J6 has been inhibited by the extreme secrecy that is pervasive within the Japanese government, with each agency apparently reluctant to open up to the other about its respective capabilities. In the 2013 presentation, Japanese officials from the directorate described J6’s role to the NSA, but admitted they had relied on “assumptions” to do so, because “J6 function is not disclosed to us.”

According to the presentation, the directorate’s role is to carry out surveillance and analyze intelligence. The role of J6 includes analyzing malware and developing countermeasures – such as firewalls – to prevent hacks of Japanese computer systems. A third organization, called the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Organization, or CIRO, is the ultimate beneficiary of intelligence that is collected. Headed by a powerful figure named Shigeru Kitamura, it oversees the work of both the directorate and J6 and is connected to the prime minister’s office, based out of a building known as “H20,” a short walk from the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo’s Chiyoda district.

Between 2000 and 2005, prior to development of the MALLARD internet surveillance program, expansion work took place at the Tachiarai facility. At that time, the then-town council chairman, Hitoshi Miyahara, was shown a map of the construction plans, which revealed that a tunnel was being built below the base. Miyahara was allowed to visit the construction site, he said, but was prevented from entering the underground area. The current town council chairman, Tsutomu Yano, had a similar experience. He visited the facility about four years ago and was shown around a gymnasium, a cafeteria, and a conference room. He was prevented from accessing the underground tunnel and a space he was told was used for “communications.” Yano said he repeatedly questioned the Self-Defense Forces about the Tachiarai facility’s function. But he never received any answers.

Ed Noguchi contributed reporting and translation.

 

902nd Military Intelligence Group

May 20, 2018

by Christian Jürs

This group Infiltrates any domestic American group deemed to be “potentially hostile” to U.S. “geo-political aims and goals.”

Structure

902nd Military Intelligence Group

308th Military Intelligence Battalion

Alpha Company

Fort Monroe Resident Office

Bldg 217, 146 Bernard Road

Ft Monroe, Virginia

The 902nd MI Group protects our nation’s forces, critical information and technology by detecting, neutralizing, exploiting, and defeating Foreign Intelligence Services.

What the 902nd MI Group does

* Support to Force Protection                             * Analysis

Tailored CI Team Packages                             Regional Threat Information

Full Suite of CI Capabilities

Foreign Intelligence Services

Split-Based Analytical Operations

Technology Protection

CI Support to SOF & Special Mission Units

Counterterrorism

* Counterintelligence Education                       * Counterintellignce Investigations

Technical CI School                                       Espionage

 

Advanced CI Skills Training

Computer Espionage

SAEDA Training

Deliberate Security Compromise

Non-Traditional Threat Briefings

* Counterintelligence Operations

* Technical Skills

 

CI Surveys

Computer Forensics

 

Vulnerability Assessments

Surveillance & Countermeasures

CI Special Operations

Technical Surveillance

Countermeasures

 

Polygraph

The Agency will report the following activity which could be an indicator of terrorist or espionage activity:

– Surveillance — Someone recording or monitoring military activities, including the use of cameras, note taking, drawing diagrams, writing maps, or using binoculars or other vision enhancing devices.

– Elicitation — Anyone or any organization attempting to gain information by mail, fax, telephone, or in person, about military operations, facilities, technology or personnel.

– Tests of Security — Any attempts to measure reaction times to security breaches or to penetrate physical security barriers or procedures.

– Acquiring Supplies — Purchasing or stealing explosives, weapons, ammunition, uniforms, base decals, military manuals, passes or badges (or the equipment to manufacture them), or other military controlled items.

– Suspicious Persons Out of Place — People who don’t seem to belong in the workplace, neighborhood, business establishment, or anywhere else. This also includes suspicious border crossings, stowaways aboard vessels or people jumping ship in port.

– Dry Runs — Putting people into position and moving them around without actually committing a terrorist act such as a kidnapping or bombing. An element of this activity could also include mapping out routes and determining the timing of traffic lights and flow.

– Deploying Assets — People and supplies getting into position to commit an act of terrorism. This is the last opportunity to alert authorities before an act of terrorism occurs.

Pentagon “force protection,” CIFA and 902nd analysts (and their contractor proxies) are mostly engaged in culling through intelligence and law enforcement reports and databases looking for “dots”. As part of this work, they surf the web looking for upcoming protests, they follow threads of conversations on newsgroups, join listservs to receive announcements, even join organizations under false pretenses to attend meetings and receive materials.

The objective is to look for patterns or tip-offs that might be the next big one. And if not the next big one, maybe just an anti-war protest at the gate of the local National Guard armory.

The Pentagon’s own force protection documents associated with the suspicious activity database reveal that CIFA and 902nd MI Group analysts are looking at whether the same license plates show up at different protests or meetings or whether the same individuals appear at different venues.

US ARMY INTELLIGENCE and SECURITY COMMAND – INSCOM – Huachuca ( Arizona ) Distance Learning Office, Military (Army) Intelligence – A unit of The Continuous Learning Directorate, U.S. Army Intelligence Center & Fort Huachuca

Mission: The 902nd Military Intelligence Group conducts counterintelligence activities to protect the U.S. Army, selected Department of Defense forces and agencies, classified information and technologies by detecting, identifying, neutralizing and exploiting foreign intelligence services and transnational terrorist threats.

The 02nd MI Group headquarters and subordinate battalion activity headquarters

are located at Fort George G. Meade, Md. The 02nd MI Group has company headquarters detachments and resident or field offices in more than 50 locations inside and outside the continental U.S.

The 02nd MI Group consists of the Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 0 th MI Battalion, 0th MI Battalion and the U.S. Army Foreign Counterintelligence Activity.

The HHD provides personnel administration, training, and logistical support to the 02nd MI Group’s headquarters, as well as to subordinate units located at Fort George G. Meade.

In addition, the HHD Special Security Office serves not only the 02nd MI Group, but the entire installation. Without deviating from its core mission, the detachment prepares its Soldiers and civilians to execute their duties in an ever-changing military intelligence environment.

The 0 th MI Battalion conducts counterintelligence operations throughout the

continental United States to detect, identify, neutralize and defeat the foreign intelligence services and international terrorism threats to U.S. Army and selected Defense Department forces, technologies, information and infrastructure.

The 0th MI Battalion conducts worldwide counterespionage and counter-intelligence investigations, counterintelligence operations and multidiscipline counterintelligence technical operations in support of the Army and defense agencies in peace and war.

FCA is a multi-function, strategic counterintelligence activity that supports U. S.

Army and national counterintelligence and counterterrorist objectives by detecting, identifying and providing a unique operational “window” into foreign intelligence organizations worldwide.

There are three main ways to intercept communications:

Material Branching:

This is a way of intercepting communications in which there is material connection by the means of communication such as wires or optometric cables or telephone transformers. This is why it is considered a technologically weak way when compared with the abilities of modern communications technology. It is carried out either by secret branching or branch lines provided by the telephone companies. With the passage of time, the Echelon spies depended on the branch lines provided by the telephone companies. An official in the British court, for example, said the officials of British Telecom (BT) have supplied the spies at Menwith Hill Station in England with links connected to high capacity optometric cables with a capacity of 100,000 telephone calls conducted at the same time.

Intercepting Space Satellite Signals:

In the world of modern communications, telephone calls go from city to city through space satellites. The communication signal is sent to a communications space satellite, which sends the signal to the nearest ground station to the intended recipient so that it can be directed to the recipient. It is possible to receive the signals returning to earth across vast areas of (thousands of kilometers), so any ground aerial directed toward the communications satellite can pick up the signal of the call. Depending on this fact, the Echelon system has ground stations directed toward any communications space satellite in any orbit around the earth.

Intercepting Microwaves:

Most regional communications occur from and to towers that have aerials for transmission and reception, which we see while traveling within a distance of (usually 25 miles) between one tower and another. Although the signal is transferred directly from one aerial to another, that does not mean that 100% of the signal is transferred to the receiving aerial. Less than 1% is received by the receiving aerial, while the remainder continues in a straight line. A space satellite can receive the remaining waves if it intercepts it, instead of its loss in space. If commercial satellites have the ability to intercept the waves, even when it detects at an 8-degree angle, the highly sensitive espionage satellites can observe hundreds of microwave towers at the same time and pick up the incoming and outgoing signals from these towers.

Translation:

As soon as a signal is picked up, computers will break it down according to its type (sound, fax, etc.) and it will be directed to its relevant system. The digital statements like those of the Internet are directly sent to the analysis stage, while faxes and sounds need a translation process and to be transferred into digital signals first.

Fax Statements:

Fax messages, after being separated from other signals, pass through computers, which are high-speed scanners with “OCR” Optical Character Recognition able to analyze lines in all languages and in all fonts. Then it is transferred into digital signals. Although there are no programs for analyzing handwriting, handwritten fax messages, this does not mean that they are neglected or that there are no programs that can – even partially – analyze handwriting.

Sound:

Voice calls pass through high-speed computers that can identify voices by using a program called “Oratory,” in which sound communications are digitalized and sent to the analyzing computers. Some leaked news indicates that the voice identifying computer has a partial ability to analyze, and it is sensitive to some spoken words according to each language or dialect in the world.

Analysis:

After transferring all picked up messages into digital statements, they are sent to the analyzing computers, which look for the presence of some words by using Echelon’s special dictionary. Naturally, sensitivity is high for some words that represent the nerves of that dictionary regarding espionage concerns. That is in addition to some emerging or temporary words that concern certain topics. We repeat that the analyzing computers are able to identify any word in any language or dialect on earth. With the advance of technologies, the analyzing process has become a process of “Objective Analysis.” Some of these computers were able to identify – after spying on a competitor for some inventions and finding the subject of the invention – from a summary – a sentence on “a project to put a descriptive title for a document that contains some words that do not appear in the text.”

When cellular telephones spread after 1990, it was commonly believed that they could not be subjected to observation or eavesdropping because they were using the “GSM” system. Faced with this difficulty, the CIA asked for small chips to be inserted inside the phones so that the CIA could observe the conversations conducted. While that was being discussed and its legality questioned, a German company called “Rohde & Schwarz” developed a system called the “IMSI catcher,” which is an abbreviation for “International Mobile Subscriber Identity.” The system overcame that difficulty by collecting all the signals issued by those telephones and transferring them into words that can be heard.

In addition to infiltrating the calls made by mobile telephones, the German Intelligence Service could know where the callers were, and they have developed an electronic device by which they can use the mike inside the mobile phone to transmit all the voices and conversations surrounding it. This electronic system was quickly used by the NSA and the CIA. And that marvelous technological progress was a reason behind the assassination of a number of Mujahideen leaders like Yahya Ayyash and the Chechen President Dudayev. Ocalan made the same deadly mistake when he made a telephone call to the conference of Kurdish Parliamentarians in Europe, and the place where he made the call from was identified.

After that, Pangolos, who is the former Greek Foreign Minister, angrily said, “How many times did we tell that fool not to use his mobile phone.” Indeed, the reason why all American Intelligence Services failed to find the Somali General Idid is because he never used any electronic devices during the crisis. (And this is one of the shortcomings of the technological progress).

Because incoming calls are in the millions, they cannot all be monitored. It is possible to identify selected words so that the surveillance devices can sort them out whether they are in writing or in voice by selecting words like (Jihad, Operation, Martyrdom, or names like: Usama bin Laden, Mulla Umar, the Sheikh, etc.) or the surveillance may be for a certain language like Arabic in non-Arab countries.

On the other hand, the surveillance may be for a certain number or for detecting a certain voice fingerprint for a wanted person. When a person’s number is detected the recorded calls can be retrieved whether it was incoming or outgoing on that number; for those who are afraid of surveillance, if they use a mobile phone, it is better to use the chips that are sold without documents or with fake documents and to periodically change them. When using a second chip, it should not be used on his old device, which he must sell somewhere or to a person whom he does not know.

Electronic Eavesdropping Devices:

1- Laser Microphone:

One of the devices revealed in an Internet site is the “Laser Microphone,” which is used in eavesdropping on conversations taking place in closed rooms. Laser rays are directed at a window in the room and when they bounce back, they carry with them the frequencies occurring on the glass of that window resulting from the conversations currently taking place. The frequencies are recorded and easily transferred into a clear voice representing the voices of the speakers in that room. The laser microphone, in addition to recording the voices, can also pick up any signal from any electronic device in the room.

2- A Device Called “TX”:

Once this device had been invented, there was no need for planting a small transmitter inside the telephone that is going to be eavesdropped on. It became possible by using this device to remotely access the telephone line without anyone being aware of it. This device can also transfer the telephone in the room into a transmitter that can transmit all calls and conversations made inside the room; even when the telephone is off, the device can magnify the weak frequencies sent by the telephone in its normal state “when not in use.” And the device records all the conversations carried out in the room. For this device to have access to any telephone line, all that is needed is to dial the telephone number and when the receiver is picked up to apologize that it is a wrong number, then everything will happen.

3- A Docket recorder that operates as soon as the pen is drawn from it:

If you sit with a lawyer and find that he is drawing a pen from his pocket and putting it back, then drawing it out again, etc… then be watchful because he may be armed with this strange device, which records every word you say. It is a small, sensitive recording device put inside a shirt or a jacket pocket. Inside the device is an ordinary pen; when the pen is drawn from the device, it starts recording without emanating any sound. If you put the pen back, the recording stops. The device is sensitive and can pick up every word. It contains two speeds that you can control.

4- Small Video Camera the Size of a Lentil that Can Be Hidden Anvwhere:

This small video camera can be hidden anywhere. The camera is the black dot on this page, its size is no bigger than a single lentil, and it is connected to two wires that can be connected to a recorder and a television. The power and clarity of the camera is equal to an ordinary video camera and it can be put inside a clock or fan or any piece of furniture because it does not look like a camera, and it is very difficult to discover. It can be planted in houses, offices, or stores. And according to the manufacturers, the person who looks directly at this camera will not know that it is a video camera with all its accessories. The price of this device, including shipping to any city in the world, is only 500 dollars.

5- Watch. Listen and Record the Farawav by Using Electronic Binoculars:

This is the newest eavesdropping device on the market. It is binoculars that bring faraway scenes close to you. Then they give you the ability to record the picture and the sound in any recorder. This device conveys to you in picture and sound events that occur far away.

6- A Small Video Camera in a Wristwatch:

This is the epitome of camera technology in the world, a camera in a watch. It is used by lawyers, investigators, secret agents and private investigators. It is an ordinary watch, which you put on your hand. The person who is talking to you or sitting with you will not know that your watch is a camera. Its memory stores a hundred photos and it can be connected to a computer for transferring and printing the photos and emailing them. The watch is powered by a battery and it is an ordinary watch with five alarms. It is used by journalists to take photos in places where cameras are not permitted or when there is a business meeting that your partner wants to be secret, without knowing that you have a camera that is taking his picture. You can print the date, name and time on the photo. “Arab Times” presents the new watch camera and transmits them in color to your personal computer.

7- Digital Camera the Size of a Pen:

This camera is the size of a pen, and it is a regular camera and a video camera that can be connected to a computer for transferring the pictures. This is used by reporters, lawyers and investigators to take digital color pictures that can immediately be sent via the Internet. It can also record video and sound, despite its small size.

The camera uses a small battery that is available in all markets and lasts for many years. It comes with a small connection cable for the computer in order to transfer photos. The size of its memory is 16 megabytes, and it can store 80 photos. It is supplied with software for use with the computer and a clip to be put in a shirt pocket, like a pen.

8- Magnetic Resonance (Device for Lie Detection):

It is a infra-red device that reads thoughts and a magnetic resonant that detects changes in the brain.

The United States Defense Department has used the traditional lie detector in more than 11 thousand tests, and three quarters of these tests were used to check spies and Mujahideen.

Britton Chance, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, used rays close to the infrared rays to learn about the lies that are “lurking” in the brains of his volunteer students. He hoped his research would lead to the development of a device to replace the current polygraph, which is not accurate, and which has been for decades the device preferred by the American authorities to use for spies and saboteurs.

Professor Chance is one of dozens of researchers in the United States who are exploring new ways to detect lies in order to observe “saboteurs,” especially after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The scientists are working on using devices to check the activity of the brain, and other devices to learn about the reasons for mental retardation in learning, and this is instead of using the traditional lie detector, which detects signs of worry. Even the strongest supporters of the traditional lie detector have started to doubt the abilities of this old device, which was invented in 1915. It uses wires to measure changes in breathing, sweating and heartbeat, but the problem is that such changes may happen as a result of tension and not because of lying. Evidence obtained by using the lie detector is not accepted in any courts except the courts of the State of New Mexico.

The Lie Detecting Institute of the United States Defense Department at Fort Jackson is North Carolina is financing at least 20 projects to produce a better lie detector. The Defense Research Agency of the Defense Department is conducting research to use the magnetic resonance, which precisely scans the human body, including the brain, and other devices also for the purpose of lie detecting.

While researchers are waiting for results, the traditional lie detector continues to be in use. The Defense Department and other government agencies used it in 11,566 tests in 2002, according to a report issued by the Institute. Three quarters of the tests were aimed at detecting spies and Mujahideen, and only 20 individuals passed the test among those who were tested.

These statistics do not include the number of tests conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency, because such information is kept secret.

New Poll Shows Populist Sweden Democrats Tied for First Ahead of Election

May 18, 2018

by Chris Tomlinson

Breitbart

A poll has shown a surge in support for the anti-mass migration Sweden Democrats which are now tied with the ruling Social Democrat party ahead of this year’s national election.

The poll, conducted by polling firm YouGov and released this week,  puts the populist anti-mass migration party at 23 per cent, tied with the Social Democrats for first place, Metro reports.

The surge in support comes after a leaders’ debate in which the Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson dominated on the subjects of law and order as well as mass migration, winning the debate overall.

Sören Holmberg, professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg, commented that despite the Social Democrats’ attempts to put out a tougher migration policy ahead of the election, the Sweden Democrats (SD) were still remaining strong with voters concerned with migration.

“It seems to be hard to win back voters from the SD,” Holmberg said.

Immigration has become the most important issue for Swedish voters according to a survey conducted earlier in the year and as a result, many parties have tried to emulate the tougher policies of the SD.

Despite this, Holmberg said the populist SD “are perceived as the party that has a matter of ownership on the refugee issue. The more immigration discussed, the more positive it will be for the Swedish Democrats.”

Holmberg added that the lack of popularity of current Prime Minister Stefan Lovfen, leader of the Social Democrats, may also harm the party’s support at the polls. “It’s not good for a government. The Prime Minister may not need to be number one, but he needs to be in the top half,” he said.

This poll comes after another revealed that the SD was the most popular party with young voters aged 18 to 34, echoing trends across Europe in which young voters increasingly support anti-establishment parties on both the right and the left.