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Postby Jeff » Fri Sep 05, 2008 4:29 pm

I recently wrote that the 2001 Steve Martin movie, 'Novocaine,' is meant to reinforce perceptions of John McCain's integrity by minimizing his potential info-liabilities.... This is how hundreds of CIA-Hollywood movies are designed and why.


Seriously: Jesus Christ, Hugh.

If you honestly think so, treat yourself to something joyful that isn't another dot that needs connecting. Because sincerely, I'm afraid for you when you talk like that.
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Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Sat Sep 06, 2008 1:00 am

FourthBase wrote:
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entertaining a blatantly ludicrous KH example like "Hamlet 2" or "Dan in Real Life" -- yes, for a even a split second, literally -- should ALSO SEEK PROFESSIONAL PSYCHIATRIC HELP.
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"Dan in Real Life"..."blatantly ludicrous" :shock:

Pictogram of a PANCAKE COLLAPSE
most characters are named BURNS
there are THREE JERSEY GIRLS
plus
lots of NEGATIVE FRAMING of "DAN"
just when Dan Rather's big lawsuit is publicly announced?

...and you think I'm nuts to say this is subliminal reinforcement of the 9/11 cover story and subliminal negative framing of Dan Rather?

So you think that when the BBC has become suspect for their pre-reporting of the 'collapse' of the Salomon Brothers bulding (WTC7) and they are prepping their WTC7 lie show...and a movie called 'The Brothers Solomon' comes out
*about artificial insemination (creation)*
before the BBC show about the Salomon Brothers building
*(WTC7 artificial destruction)*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Solomon

....this means...nothing? Just randomness?
You don't see keyword hijacking plus meme-reversal, the exact formual for counterpropaganda I've found in scores of movies and is defined by interference and inoculation theories?

Even though this crap movie was put out at a loss of $9 million just to sit on video rental store shelves?

Please stop posting about my mental health. There's a topic you REALLY are unqualified to address. Though I appreciate the rational empirical judgements made by brainpanhandler.

But now I think this topic, subliminal psyops, is just waaay over (or under) your head.
Sorry, don't mean to be mean, FB. It just is. And you are a very bright guy...with an awful temper.

To most people's brains this stuff remains subliminal and undetectable.
To some people who study this stuff, learn its language and really large database, it is obvious, like finding where bears shat in the woods.

Most of those people who have the linguistic-associative-strategic-type minds are in the arts, Hollywood, advertising, all getting rich...or in government pysops smugly girding their careers while getting to think they are writing history.

I'm just a citizen activist who discovered the master key, keyword linguistics, had enough of a database to test it on history, and found it was in lots of places.
Oh, and I researched the history and neuroscience and etc.

So subliminal framing is over or under most people's heads by design.

Just like the reason that both lead male actors cast in this crappy 'Solomon Brothers' film are named Will.

And this is why the topic of advertising was juxtaposed with witchcraft in the 1960s television series, 'Bewitched,' where the lead character was named "Samantha"...sounds like..."semantics." See "oronyms."

And have an Oreo. (That was a joke, sort of.) 8)

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Cindy and her drugs, exactly like 'Novocain.'

Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Sat Sep 06, 2008 1:07 am

Jeff wrote:
I recently wrote that the 2001 Steve Martin movie, 'Novocaine,' is meant to reinforce perceptions of John McCain's integrity by minimizing his potential info-liabilities.... This is how hundreds of CIA-Hollywood movies are designed and why.


Seriously: Jesus Christ, Hugh.

If you honestly think so, treat yourself to something joyful that isn't another dot that needs connecting. Because sincerely, I'm afraid for you when you talk like that.


I saw all the memes about McCain's virtue despite a tiny tiny problem that snowballed even BEFORE I just read in Carl Bernstein's article about Cindy McCain getting caught stealing drugs from the medical charity she worked for.

That's the McGuffin of 'Novocaine,' a woman stealing drugs from an ultra honest dentist (always fighting decay) and then both of them being exonerated in the end.

How frikkin' obvious is that?

Carl Bernstein published this in Vanity Fair, 12/99. Pretty damn visible, dontcha think?
And out comes 'Novocaine' in 2001. Timing.

http://carlbernstein.com/home.php
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In the December 1999 issue of Vanity Fair, Carl Bernstein wrote this ground-breaking profile of John McCain on the eve of his 2000 presidential race. The profile (below) has special resonance today, and remains an essential part of the reportorial record on the 2008 Republican nominee.
.....
He wasn't the only family member to crash and burn in those years. Cindy, by then the mother of four, was exposed in the Arizona press as a painkiller addict. She was also accused of stealing Percocet and Vicodin from the pharmacy of the American Voluntary Medical Team, a nonprofit Third World relief organization that she had set up with family funds. She escaped possible criminal prosecution by entering a treatment program as part of a deal with Arizona prosecutors. It had not been a good few years for the McCains.

During the Keating Five experience, McCain had found himself sealed inside a nightmare for the second time in his life, but once again—somewhat to his own surprise—he had survived.
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Postby FourthBase » Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:14 am

The really tragic thing, if Hugh is merely sick in the head and not dishonest, is that his incredible talent is being wasted. Along with our time, but that's trivial by comparison. Get well, Hugh.
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Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:45 pm

FB, it is not a "waste of time" to examine the cognitive and social sciences used in psyops to learn how to recognize them in media, especially in the products of CIA-Hollywood and CIA-Disney which program the minds of America's kidz more than schools do.

If I hadn't introduced them to RI, this board would not include:

1) principles, history, goals, and tactics of propaganda and counterpropaganda
2) neurolinguistics
3) role modeling
4) interference theory
5) inoculation theory
6) parasocial interaction
7) elaboration liklihood model
8) mutual exclusivity
9) social affirmation
10) operant conditioning
11) desensitization
12) moral disengagement
13) semantic differential
14) parafoveal priming

...etc.

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15) FUZZY LOGIC. Extremely important. This is exploited by creating decoys that are only partly like some other thing so that the brain will apply the association subliminally.

This also allows plausible deniability for the spooks by making it much harder for someone like me to say 'this is really that being subliminally framed.'
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Postby FourthBase » Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:51 pm

FB, it is not a "waste of time" to examine the cognitive and social sciences used in psyops to learn how to recognize them in media, especially in the products of CIA-Hollywood and CIA-Disney which program the minds of America's kidz more than schools do.


No shit. It's the opposite of a waste of time.

If it weren't for the bogus examples, most people here would exalt you.
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KH: Pettigrew = racism and elections

Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:15 am

"Bogus examples." Any chance you just don't see how I'm right and so I'm not evil or diseased? Just maybe?

Check out this next example. And who is responsible for it. And their track record.

I noticed recently that there is a movie from this year just made available for rental called-
'Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Pettigrew_Lives_for_a_Day

This movie, based on a 1938 book, has lots of negative framing of women, standard formula for male-dominance Warfare State psyops. Dime a dozen, this gender smear device in movies. Nothing unusual about it, unfortunately.

But why that name, Pettigrew?
I automatically thought, "There must be someone in real life named Pettigrew that we shouldn't know about because of current news cycle subjects."
Only because I've found scores of previous examples from the last fifty years, mind you.

I was right. Again.

Thomas F. Pettigrew is a social psychologist who has written extensively about white people's perceptions of black people running for office and other aspects of racism. Pettigrew is internationally renowned for his special focus on group relations and racism. He's been publishing since the late 1950s.
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Thomas%20F.%20Pettigrew&page=1

Thomas F. Pettigrew wrote a 1988 book about race and elections, specifically, about (African American) Tom Bradley's campaign for governor.
So THIS Pettigrew is really really an expert on the single biggest story in the US today, the presidential election. And how governments make things worse for people.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Tom-Bradleys-Campaign-for-Governor/Thomas-F-Pettigrew/e/9780941410632
Tom Bradley's Campaign for Governor: The Dilemma of Race and Political Strategies by Thomas F. Pettigrew, Denise A. Alston
Pub. Date: June 1988

Synopsis

Examines the various explanations that have been given for Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley's losses in the 1982 and 1986 California gubernatorial campaigns. The authors offer important advice for all black candidates running against whites for office today.

Author Biography:
Thomas F. Pettigrew is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Denise A. Alston is Policy Analyst at the National Governors Association's Center for Policy Research.


Question:
Now who produced and distributed this keyword hijacking movie timed to go with Barack Obama's campaign? What eeeeevil forces would do this?

Answer:
"Focus Features" which is owned by...GENERAL ELECTRIC, one of America's biggest weapons manufacturers.
Ahhh....of course. The usual suspects.

Let us now consider two other movies that Focus Features put out to see if they are the kind of organization that puts out 'art,' commerce, or...psyops.

They put out 'Traffic' in 2000. All about drugs. Bad guys all have Latin American names.
And this line should tell you whether this is psyops-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_(2000_film)
....Javier, who can no longer stomach working for Salazar, decides to cut a deal with the only non-corrupt organization he has access to — the Federal government of the United States and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


Focus also put out 'Brokeback Mountain, too, and I think perhaps it was election wedge issue agit-prop plus a keyword tie-in to a certain mega-church presided over by Rick Warren (another KH)... recently featured in Time Magazine (8/18/08)...where the presidential candidates recently met... called 'Saddleback Church' .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_Features
Focus Features

Focus Features (formerly USA Films, Universal Focus and Good Machine) is the art house films division of NBC Universal's Universal Pictures, and acts as both a producer and distributor for its own films and a distributor for foreign films.

Focus was formed from the 2002 divisional merger of USA Films, Universal Focus and Good Machine. USA Films was created by Barry Diller in 1999 by combining October Films, Gramercy Pictures, and USA Home Entertainment. Vivendi sold the studio, among other entertainment assets, to GE in 2004 to form NBC Universal.

Focus' most successful release to date is Brokeback Mountain (2005), which earned $83,043,761 at the North American box office. However, this is not counting the domestic total of Traffic (2000), which earned $124,107,477 under the USA Films banner.[1][2]

Type Subsidiary
Founded 1999 as USA Films, 2001 as Focus Features
Headquarters Universal City, California, United States
Industry Motion pictures
Owner General Electric (80%) and Vivendi (20%)
Parent NBC Universal
Website http://www.focusfeatures.com


http://www.ucsc.edu/currents/02-03/10-28/pettigrew.html
October 28, 2002

Tom Pettigrew receives top award in social psychology


By Jennifer McNulty

Thomas F. Pettigrew, a research professor of social psychology at UCSC, laments the fact that "hate is in," even though he's getting more invitations than ever to discuss intergroup relations and the hate, prejudice, and hostility between races that underlies many of the world's conflicts.

Pettigrew was recently honored for a lifetime of contributions to the field of social psychology when he received the prestigious Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology (SESP). The society, an elected group of top international social psychologists, presents one such award each year. Pettigrew received the award at SESP's annual meeting October 12 in Columbus, Ohio.

Pettigrew has been at the forefront of research on racial prejudice for nearly 40 years. An expert on black-white relations in the United States, Pettigrew has also studied intergroup relations in South Africa, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany.

Pettigrew, who studied with the legendary scholar Gordon Allport at Harvard, is widely credited with demonstrating that racism is largely a matter of conformity to social norms and as such can be changed.

Much of Pettigrew's work has bearing on today's most intractable conflicts. In a forthcoming paper, Pettigrew argues that both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict see the other as the aggressor, justifying their own actions as defensive. Americans, too, justify a unilateral attack against Iraq as a response to a perceived threat.

"In times of war, when people and nations feel threatened, the right-wing element always rises to the fore," said Pettigrew. "It's not just that authoritarians act out their natural tendencies, but that people who don't share those views are more willing to go along with the authoritarian agenda."

As an example, Pettigrew cited recent public-opinion polls that found that 60 percent of Israelis support abandoning Israeli settlements on the West Bank, yet the Israeli government refuses to budge from its hard-line support of the settlements.

"The effects of government leadership lead to more discrimination and prejudice," said Pettigrew.

Despite real and visible progress in race relations, Pettigrew bemoans the economic suffering of many blacks in this country. "Every time I see a black man or woman on television giving the news, I like that," said Pettigrew. "Fifty years ago, you'd never see that. The civil rights movement didn't fail. It was successful for the top third of blacks in this country."

By contrast, though, life hasn't changed much for blacks in the ghettoes of major cities, according to Pettigrew. Only after many years of economic prosperity under Bill Clinton did the labor market become tight enough that private industry found it worthwhile to train unskilled blacks, he said. "It was remarkable--crime started going down, teen pregnancies declined," said Pettigrew. "The economic boon of the '90s finally reached the depths of the ghetto, and it was beginning to pay off."

Whether those gains will hold during this economic downturn is unclear, noted Pettigrew.

As one of the nation's leading social psychologists, Pettigrew laments the lack of impact on policy he and his colleagues have had over the past 30 years.

Many of the underlying assumptions about human behavior embedded in government policy are "demonstrably wrong," he said, citing economists' mistaken assertion that humans act rationally and the stereotype that welfare recipients are lazy that fueled the 1994 federal welfare reform effort. "Almost nobody challenged those assumptions, that's what got me," he said.

Pettigrew earned his Ph.D. from Harvard and taught at the University of North Carolina and Harvard before coming to UCSC in 1979. He retired from teaching in 1994 yet remains an active researcher and was recently appointed a senior fellow at Stanford University's Research Institute for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.


....So.
Do you think this example, 'Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day' is "bogus?"

Or typical pre-emptive keyword hijacking to prime our brains to think of a fictional hapless woman instead of a real and dangerously informed man who could tell us lots about this country during (s)election 2008?

I think you'd have to be a hardcore fundamentalist orthodox coincidence theorist to not be very certain that this movie was made for the reasons I cited.
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Postby Penguin » Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:08 pm

Shit. Ill just post these in this thread as well. Since, you know, I dont think Hughs crazy at all most of the time. I have thought so maybe a couple times, but more than a couple times Id liked to strangle someone else than Hugh.

In my very humble opinion - as a non-american, non-tv owning, standard thickness tinfoil wearing person, I see all kinds of inoculation, interference, hypnotic techniques, desensitization to violence, keyword hijacking, sex stereotyping, recruitment propaganda...In every major mainstream american movie and tv series done today. I kid you not. Some of it is so subtle that if youd mention it to your mama, shed probably ask you to see a doctor as well.

Guess what. I dont fucking care. Propaganda is ubiquitous now. Its mirroring coming presidential elections years before. Its fudging events like 9/11 every day, today, tomorrow, still.

So, heres what Ive posted on the subject, from a couple threads.
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Postby Penguin » Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:08 pm

"David Palmer has a Juris Doctorate from the University of Maryland School of Law, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Economy from Georgetown University.[2] Prior to his presidency, he served as a Congressman and Senator from Maryland.[3]

[edit] Appearances

David Palmer was a United States Senator from Maryland who ran for President. He was elected after the assassination attempts against him on the day of the California primary election were foiled by CTU agent Jack Bauer. Although he initially sought a second term, he bowed out of the race after the opposing candidate learned that David had lied to the chief of police in order to protect his ex-wife, Sherry Palmer, who was under suspicion for involvement in a man's death.

Throughout the series, Palmer's role as President is often vital to the successful foiling of terrorist plots. Palmer is seen as a good leader who makes difficult decisions without much hesitation. On several occasions, his intervention as President and the execution of his Presidential powers helped the Counter Terrorist Unit.

[edit] 24: Season 1

David Palmer has had many difficulties due to his political life. In the first season, Palmer was the frontrunner in the race for nomination as Democratic candidate for President of the United States. His life was threatened during the course of Day 1. His political life was threatened on other fronts."


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"Barack Hussein Obama II (pronounced /bəˈrɑːk hʊˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the President-elect of the United States and the first African American to be elected President of the United States. Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from 2005 until he resigned on November 16, 2008, following his election to the Presidency.

He is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003, won a primary victory in March 2004, and was elected to the Senate in November 2004. Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for U.S. military personnel returning from combat assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan."


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Postby Penguin » Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:10 pm

Charles Logan was Vice President of the United States of America under President John Keeler and became President under the 25th Amendment after Air Force One crashed during Day 4. When it was exposed that he was involved in most of Day 5's horrific acts, including President David Palmer's assassination and the selling of Sentox VX nerve gas to terrorists, he was removed from office.
http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Charles_Logan


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Postby Penguin » Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:10 pm

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"The parallels continue! McCain is a military man who spent time in a Vietnam prison camp, the character of Col. Tigh is a military man who spent time in a Cylon prison camp. Sarah Palin comes from a family of school teachers, the character of Laura Roslin was school teacher before becoming Secretary of Education (and then later President)."


"The chatter is all about how Gov. Palin's inexperience will undermine the McCain campaign's ability to hammer on Sen. Obama for his inexperience. The comparison seems a little odd, though. If McCain is elected, she'll be picking up highly relevant experience very rapidly, in the low exposure role of VP. Obama won't have that luxury. [However, we must consider the] Battlestar Galactica scenario: McCain could also be killed when the Cylons return and wipe out most of humanity with a nuclear weapon. In Battlestar, the 42 officials in line ahead of Secretary of Education Laura Roslin fail to check in, and she assumes the presidency. She has no foreign policy experience, either."


"Two things spring to mind immediately. Firstly, that no-one seemed to want to draw the McCain/Roslin cancer parallels - too cruel? - and secondly, that it took less than five hours for the meme to go from funny to tired. Is that a new record, and if so, can we never hear the comparison again after the holiday weekend? So say we all."


http://io9.com/5043795/personally-i-pre ... -vp-choice

Manchurian candidate, eh?

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8bitagent, I hope you dont mind me threadjacking like this :) Your thread afterall..


Coming soon to movies:

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Postby Penguin » Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:11 pm

8bitagent: Since Im bored and I have a free day today, Im gonna take your silence of couple minutes as a tacit agreement to allow me to grab it and run with this theme :) So, here goes...

The alltime classic, MacGyver!

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGyver

"MacGyver is an American adventure television series, produced in the United States and Canada, about the laid-back, extremely resourceful secret agent MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson. The series was created by Lee David Zlotoff and executive produced by Henry Winkler and John Rich. Film locations included Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and Southern California, California, United States of America.

It ran for seven seasons from September 29, 1985 to May 21, 1992 and was a Monday night staple on the ABC network. 139 fifty-minute-long episodes were produced, including three with two parts. Additionally, two made-for-television movies were produced in 1994."

"The series revolved around Angus MacGyver (known to his friends as MacGyver or "Mac") who favors brain over brawn in order to solve desperate problems. MacGyver's main asset is his practical application of scientific knowledge and inventive use of common items—along with his ever-present Swiss Army knife. The clever solutions MacGyver implemented to seemingly intractable problems—often in life-or-death situations requiring him to improvise complex devices in a matter of minutes—were a major attraction of the show, which was praised for generating interest in the applied sciences, and particularly engineering,[1] as well as providing entertaining story lines. All of MacGyver's exploits on the show were ostensibly vetted to be based on real scientific principles (even though, the creators acknowledged, in real life one would have to be extraordinarily lucky for most of MacGyver's ideas to succeed). In the few cases where MacGyver used household chemicals to create poisons, explosives or other things deemed too dangerous to be accurately described for public consumption, details were intentionally altered or left vague.[citation needed]

The use of ordinary household items to jury rig devices shows an influence from The A-Team (though MacGyver eschewed firearms). The idea has entered United States popular culture; such constructions are referred to as "MacGyverisms" (a term first used in episode 3 of season 2, "Twice Stung"). The name has also become a verb, as in "The car broke down but he macgyvered a fix to get home".

The show always dealt with social issues, though perhaps more so in Seasons 4-7, versus Season 1-3, which were mostly about MacGyver's adventures working for the United States government, and then later the Phoenix Foundation."

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"In an August 2007 survey commissioned by the McCormick Tribune Foundation, Americans polled voted MacGyver as the favorite fictional hero they would want to have if they were ever caught in an emergency"
] Phoenix Foundation

A non-profit think tank and government contractor which employs Peter Thornton (as Director of Operations) and MacGyver (as field agent and "troubleshooter") in Seasons 2 through 7. It often cooperates with government agencies, particularly the police or intelligence community (since as MacGyver puts it, "we don't have to cut through as much red tape").[11] However it also does a great deal of work on its own; environmental surveys and clean-up operations, anti-drug initiatives, social programs, etc. The Phoenix Foundation is described as a "corporate white knight,"[12] an entity which is trusted and respected by the general public for its integrity. One of the organization's main aims during the 1980s and early 1990s was the expansion and furthering of new technologies within the United States, particularly Personal Computers, applied biosciences, and other socially responsible uses of technology.

The Phoenix Foundation was an early proponent of responsible genetic engineering, going so far as to shut down programs of a number of different scientists in their employ where research and development work had resulted or could potentially result in harm outside of the laboratory. The Foundation had equal scruples when dealing with other projects, always erring on the side of caution and wary of causing harm. In most cases field operatives were instrumental, and in the period of his employ, Angus MacGyver was perhaps the greatest.

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[edit] Homicide International Trust

Appropriately shorthanded to "HIT," they are an international fraternity of assassins, employing killers from around the world to carry out their contracts.
Murdoc was employed by them until he tried to retire; the organization reacted by putting a hit on him, forcing him to ask for Mac's help in order to save himself and his sister. He later tries to rejoin their ranks, and is rejected when he tries and fails to kill MacGyver (again).



In some episode it was also mentioned that he had been a member of the bomb squad in Vietnam.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Program

"The Phoenix Program (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Phượng Hoàng, a word related to fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix) was a military, intelligence, and internal security program designed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and coordinated and executed by Republic of Vietnam's (South Vietnam) security apparatus and US Special Operations Forces such as the Navy SEALs, United States Army Special Forces and MACV-SOG during the Vietnam War. It was in operation between 1967 and 1972, but similar efforts existed both before and after this. The program was designed to identify and "neutralize" (via infiltration, capture, or assassination) the civilian infrastructure supporting the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF or Viet Cong) insurgency."

In South Vietnam during the 1960s and early 1970s there was a secret network, which the U.S. intelligence services called the Viet Cong infrastructure (VCI). This network provided the political direction and control of the Front's (and North Vietnam's) war within the villages and hamlets of the south.

By 1967 this network numbered somewhere between 70,000 and 100,000 members throughout South Vietnam. Almost every village had a cell made up of a Communist Party secretary; a finance and supply unit; and information and culture, social welfare, and proselytizing sections to gain recruits from among the civilian population. The members reported up the chain of command, which, in turn, took orders from the Lao Dong Party Central Committee in North Vietnam. A preferred NLF tactic was to kill carefully selected government officials in order to drive the Saigon regime out of the region.[1]

The VCI laid down caches of food and equipment for regular force troops coming from border sanctuaries; it provided guides and intelligence for the People's Army of Vietnam; it conscripted personnel to serve in local force (militias) and main force mobile combat units of the NLF, and levied taxes to facilitate the administration of a rudimentary civil government.

In areas loyal to the Saigon government, protection against the North Vietnamese forces, or even NLF guerrillas, was often compromised because village chiefs were assassinated, terrorist bombings took place, or supporters of the government would be executed. During 1969, for example, over 6,000 South Vietnamese citizens were killed (over 1,200 in selective assassinations) and 15,000 wounded. Among the dead were some 90 village chiefs, 240 hamlet chiefs and officials.

[edit] History of the program

In 1967 all pacification efforts had come under the authority of the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support, or CORDS. CORDS had many different programs within it, including the creation of a peasant militia which by 1971 had a strength of about 500,000.[1]


As early as 1964 the CIA used counter terror teams to seek out and destroy NLF cadre hiding in the villages. In 1967, as part of CORDS, the Intelligence Coordination and Exploitation Program (ICEX) was created. The purpose of the organization centered on gathering information on the VCI. It was renamed Phoenix later in the same year. The South Vietnamese program was called Phụng Hoàng (or Phượng Hoàng), after a mythical bird that appeared as a sign of prosperity and luck.
The 1968 Tet offensive showed the importance of the Viet Cong infrastructure, and the Communist-led military setback made it easier for the new program to be implemented. By 1970 there were 704 U.S. Phoenix advisers throughout South Vietnam.[1]

Officially, Phoenix operations continued until December 1972, although certain aspects continued until the fall of South Vietnam in 1975.[2]



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Operation Phoenix is a very popular name for the army / intelligence. Type that into Google image search - exercises in the US, operations in Vietnam and Iraq, etc..


Resourceful intelligence asset, small planes, Vietnam, anti-drug and pro-social work...Responsible genetic modification and bioweapons research, nuclear disarmament, aid work in poor countries, spreading the ideals of freedom and democracy, peacefully.

Did I mention MacGyver keeps single, of course, nervous around women even thou they always fall for him. Cant join the Army Specials or CIA if youre bound down by baggage of a wife and kid.


I bet Phoenix Foundation does pretty darn good PR work too!
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Postby Penguin » Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:11 pm

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073802/
"Inside, Joe looks for an answer to a letter he'd sent to the main CIA office at Langley. He has a theory about connections he's noticed between operations in Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, and other locations around the world, but so far there's no response. Noon approaches, and it's his turn to go out for lunch. Since it's still raining, he ducks out the basement door (which is against regulations) and cuts through several back alleys to the deli. Meanwhile, the sedan out front quietly pulls away after signaling to 3 men waiting in the street. They move in with quiet determination and knock on the front door.

At the deli around the block, Joe picks up lunch for the others and then runs back. Since the rain has stopped, he goes to the front door, and buzzes the security intercom to be let in, but gets no answer. Pushing on the door, he finds it is unlocked, which it never is. Inside he finds a scene of carnage. Everyone has been murdered, shot to death in the few minutes he has been gone. Fighting down his shock and horror, he grabs a pistol from the receptionist's desk and flees.

Suddenly, everyone on the street looks suspicious, and Joe realizes that whoever killed his coworkers is probably still looking for him. He finds a payphone and calls an emergency contact number at the CIA. "This is...uh...'Condor'" Joe says, fighting through the shock to remember his code name. "The section's been hit. Everyone's dead." Told not to panic, and to call back in two hours, a CIA response team quickly arrives and verifies Joe's story. Higgens (Cliff Robertson), the section chief in New York, wonders why in the world someone would take out a research office like this, and calls his supervisor at CIA headquarters."

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"With a new lease on life, Joe still has a few loose ends to tie up. Returning to New York, Joe waits for Higgins to walk past on the street, and they have a tense final confrontation. Higgins explains that the CIA does business this way because they need to. There is no other way. Turner disagrees, and as they stop in front of the offices of the New York Times, Turner tells Higgins that they've become too used to killing people as part of their job. He's told a reporter everything.

"Ah, you fool," sighs Higgins. "You've done more harm than you know." As Turner walks away, Higgins calls after him. "It didn't have to end this way Condor. You're about to become a very lonely man." Joe seems not to care. He's had his revenge on the CIA, and he fades away into the crowd. "


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
Operation Condor (Spanish: Operación Cóndor), was a campaign of political repressions involving assassination and intelligence operations officially implemented in 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America. The program aimed to eradicate left-wing and nationalist influence and ideas and to control active or potential opposition movements against the usually conservative governments. Due to its clandestine nature, the precise number of deaths directly attributable to Operation Condor will likely never be known, but it is reported to have caused thousands of victims, possibly even more.[1][2][3]

Condor's key members were the right-wing military dictatorships in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil, with Ecuador and Peru joining later in more peripheral roles.[4] These nations were ruled by dictators such as Jorge Rafael Videla, Augusto Pinochet, Ernesto Geisel, Hugo Banzer, and Alfredo Stroessner. The operation was jointly conducted by the intelligence and security services of these nations during the mid-1970s with support provided by the United States of America[5]."

A 1978 cable from the US ambassador to Paraguay, Robert White, to the Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, was published on March 6, 2001 by the New York Times. The document was released in November 2000 by the Clinton administration under the Chile Declassification Project. In the cable Ambassador White reported a conversation with General Alejandro Fretes Davalos, chief of staff of Paraguay's armed forces, who informed him that the South American intelligence chiefs involved in Condor "[kept] in touch with one another through a U.S. communications installation in the Panama Canal Zone which cover[ed] all of Latin America". According to Davalos, this installation was "employed to co-ordinate intelligence information among the southern cone countries". Robert White feared that the US connection to Condor might be publicly revealed at a time when the assassination in the U.S.A. of Chilean former minister Orlando Letelier and his American assistant Ronni Moffitt was being investigated. White cabled that "it would seem advisable to review this arrangement to insure that its continuation is in US interest."

The "information exchange" (via telex) included torture techniques (e.g. near-drowning, and playing recordings of victims who were being tortured to their families).[citation needed]

This demonstrates that the US facilitated communications for Operation Condor, and has been called by J. Patrice McSherry (Long Island Univ.) "another piece of increasingly weighty evidence suggesting that U.S. military and intelligence officials supported and collaborated with Condor as a secret partner or sponsor."[36]
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Postby Penguin » Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:12 pm

http://crx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/17/3/275

"Involuntary Attention and Physiological Arousal Evoked by Structural Features and Emotional Content in TV Commercials
ANNIE LANG

Structural features of television elicit involuntary physiological attentional responses in viewers. Mild emotional content in televised messages intensifies these responses, possibly through mediation of emotion-elicited arousal, which was also demonstrated. Heart rate data were collected and analyzed using novel techniques to show both short-term attentional responses and longer term arousal in subjects viewing commercial messages."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orienting_response

"Orienting response, also called orienting reflex, is the reflex that causes an organism to respond immediately to a change in its environment. The phenomenon was first described by Russian physiologist Sechenov in the 1850s in his book Reflexes of the Brain, and the term was coined by Ivan Pavlov, who also referred to it as the "What is it?" reflex. The orienting response is a reaction to novelty. Later, in the 1950s, the orienting response was studied systematically by the Russian scientist Eugene Sokolov who documented the phenomenon called "habituation", referring to a gradual "familiarity effect" and reduction of the orienting response with repeated stimulus presentations.

When people see a bright flash or light or hear a sudden loud noise, they orient their attention to it even before they identify what is is. This orienting reflex seems to be present from birth. It is adaptive in helping people react quickly to events that call for immediate action.

This reflex can be controlled by the cortex, but more typically it is controlled by subcortical brain regions."

(triggered also by cuts and scene changes in TV/movies. Thats why its nearly impossible to not pay attention to even a silent TV screen in a bar, pub, public space etc.)


http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2840548

"Résumé / Abstract
Purpose: Seizures provoked by television viewing may be triggered by patterns in the television image or by flicker from the display itself. We examined the incidence of EEG abnormalities elicited by patterns displayed on television sets with two different frame rates to evaluate the likely contribution of photosensitive and pattern-sensitive mechanisms to television- and video-game epilepsy. Methods: Televisions with frame rates of 50 and 100 Hz were used to present 35 patients who were photosensitive or pattern-sensitive with grating patterns. These patterns comprised vertical square-wave and sine-wave gratings of 90% contrast, and the spatial frequency was varied between 0.25-7 cycles/degree. EEGs were analysed for laboratory sensitivity to patterned and unpatterned intermittent photic stimulation (IPS). Results: Significantly fewer EEG abnormalities were elicited by patterns displayed on the 100 Hz frame-rate television than on the 50-Hz frame-rate television. No abnormalities were observed in response to the blank screens of either television. Thirty-three patients showed abnormalities in response to patterned IPS but only 15 in response to diffuse flash. Two patients showed no laboratory evidence of photosensitivity. Patients who were sensitive to patterned IPS at 50 Hz were significantly more likely to demonstrate abnormalities to patterns displayed on the 100-Hz frame-rate television than were patients who were not sensitive to 50-Hz patterned IPS. Conclusions: We suggest that for many patients, the combination of high-contrast patterns and screen flicker may elicit the observed EEG abnormalities. For patients with sensitivity to screen flicker, the use of a high frame-rate television may be beneficial in reducing the risk of seizures."


http://www.msi.org/publications/publication.cfm?pub=240

Alwitt relates EEG responses to specific events within the commercials. The events are categorized as physical events (e.g., zooms, cuts), brand and message events (brand name mention, visual of brand in use), viewer reactions (seeing an emotional moment), and communication medium (voice over, speaker on screen).


http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~lcavedon/finalpdfs/porzel.pdf
"How Entrainment Increases Dialogical Effectiveness" Linguistic / Usability study with computers


http://koasas.kaist.ac.kr/bitstream/102 ... 20Hyun.pdf
"Predicting Memory for Components. of TV Commercials from EEG. MICHAEL L. ROTHSCHILD. YONGJ. HYUN*. Subjects watched television while EEG was being recorded ..."


http://pages.prodigy.net/unohu/brainwaves.htm
""Psychophysiologist Thomas Mulholland found that after just 30 seconds of watching television the brain begins to produce alpha waves, which indicates torpid (almost comatose) [slow] rates of activity. Alpha brain waves are associated with unfocused, overly receptive states of consciousness. A high frequency alpha waves [sic] does not occur normally when the eyes are open. In fact, Mulholland’s research implies that watching television is neurologically analogous to staring at a blank wall.

I should note that the goal of hypnotists is to induce slow brain wave states. Alpha waves are present during the 'light hypnotic' state used by hypno-therapists for suggestion therapy." "

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... -3,00.html
An increasing number of studies suggest that the main danger of television may not be the message, but the medium itself, just looking at TV. In Bedford, Mass., Psychophysiologist Thomas Mulholland and Peter Crown, a professor of television and psychology at Hampshire College, have attached electrodes to the heads of children and adults as they watched TV. Mulholland thought that kids watching exciting shows would show high attention. To his surprise, the reverse proved true. While viewing TV, the subjects' output of alpha waves increased, indicating they were in a passive state, as if they were "just sitting quietly in the dark." The implication: TV may be a training course in the art of inattention. "


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inoculation_theory

"Explanation of the theory

Inoculation theory states that to prevent persuasion it is necessary to strengthen preexisting attitudes, beliefs, or opinions. First, the receiver must be warned of an impending attack. This establishes threat (or a recognition of vulnerability) and initiates defenses to future attacks. Therefore, the idea is that when weak argument is presented in the inoculation message their process of refutation will prepare for stronger persuasion later. It is critical that the attack is strong enough to keep the receiver defensive, but weak enough to not actually change those preexisting ideas. This will hopefully make the receiver actively defensive and allow them to create arguments in favor of their preexisting thoughts. The more active the receiver becomes in his or her defense the more it will strengthen their own attitudes, beliefs, or opinions (McGuire, 1964).

[edit] Key components

There are two basic key components to successful inoculation. The first is threat, which provides motivation to protect one's attitudes or beliefs (Pfau, 1997a). Refutational preemption is the second component . Refutational preemption is the cognitive part of the process. It is the ability to activate one's own argument for future defense and strengthen their existing attitudes through counterarguing. (Pfau, 1997)

[edit] Refutational same & refutational different

While there are many studies that have been conducted comparing different treatments of inoculation, there is one specific comparison that is mentioned throughout various studies. This is the comparison between what is known as refutational same and refutational different messages. A refutational same message is an inoculation treatment that refutes specific potential counterarguments that will appear in the subsequent persuasion message, while refutational different treatments are refutations that are not the same as those present in the impending persuasive message (Pfau et al., 1990). Pfau and his colleagues (1990) developed a study during the 1988 United States presidential election. The Republicans were claiming that the Democratic candidate was known to be lenient when it came to the issue of crime. The researchers developed a refutational same message that stated that while the Democratic candidate was in favor of tough sentences, merely tough sentences could not reduce crime. The refutational different message expanded on the candidate's platform and his immediate goals if he were to be elected. The study showed comparable results between the two different treatments. Importantly, as McGuire and others had found previously, inoculation was able to confer resistance to arguments that were not specifically mentioned in the inoculation message."

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interference_theory

"Interference theory (also known as retrieval interference (Roediger & Karpicke, 2006)) refers to the idea that forgetting occurs because the recall of certain items interferes with the recall of other items. In nature, the interfering items are said to originate from an overstimulating environment.

In the late 1950s two groups of researchers published very similar methods that demonstrated the interference theory, a husband and wife team, Peterson and Peterson and another researcher, Brown.

In one study done by Peterson and Peterson participants were asked to recall trigrams (string of three letters) at different time intervals after the presentation of the last letter in the trigram. To make the trigrams impossible to pronounce the investigator used only consonants (e.g., BWV). The participants were asked to count backwards to allow no time for rehearsal and for the numbers to interfere with the recall of trigrams. Each of the participants were tested eight times at each of the six delay intervals which totaled to 48 trials. The percentage of recalls decays over time due to interference of the numbers they had to count backwards. From this study Peterson and Peterson concluded that short term memory exists for a few seconds if the participant does not make an active effort to retain the information."

This theory along with the decay theory have been proposed as reasons for why people forget. Evidence for this theory comes from paired associate learning, as well as from Jenkins and Dallenbach's 1924 experiment where they researched forgetting in two students over the period of eight hours."

Proactive interference

Underwood (1957) provided early evidence that things you've learned before encoding a target item can worsen recall of that target item. In a meta-analysis of multiple experiments, he showed that the more lists one had already learned, the more trouble one had in recalling the most recent one. This is proactive interference, where the prior existence of old memories makes it harder to recall newer memories.

"Proactive interference can be potently demonstrated with the Brown-Peterson paradigm (Brown, 1958; Peterson & Peterson, 1958). A single Brown-Peterson trial consists of a study list, a retention interval and then a recall period. The study list might consist of a handful of related items (such as a handful of animals or occupations), presented individually every few seconds. For the duration of a short retention interval, subjects are then asked to perform an engaging distractor task such as counting backwards in sevens (to minimize rehearsal). Finally, subjects are asked to recall the items from this study list.

Usually, subjects' back side recollection is nearly perfect for the first trial, but perform increasingly poorly on subsequent trials that use study lists drawn from the same category. This is the proactive interference effect described earlier. In other words, even though the lists from previous trials are now irrelevant, the fact that they were studied at all is somehow making it harder for subjects to recall the most recent list."



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Postby Penguin » Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:15 pm

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Company_(Heroes)
"The Company refers to a fictional covert international organization in the NBC drama Heroes. Its primary purpose is to identify, monitor and study those individuals with genetically-derived special abilities. The Company played a central role in the plot of Volume Two, during the second season of the series. It is a very notable organization in the series and is connected to several of the characters."

"It was revealed in season two that Adam Monroe and a group of twelve founders started the Company thirty years ago, (sometime before February 14, 1977), before the start of the series.[7] Monroe was the one who "brought them all together." Their initial goal was to help other evolved humans: to find and protect them, even if it meant eliminating the "dangerous ones." The original founders were "[b]like minded individuals" who wanted to save the world.[1] "Save the World"[/b] has been a central plot point since the beginning of the series."

Organization and operation

While the infrastructure of the Company is still mostly a mystery, some of their operations are not. The most evident operation is that of actual field work, sending teams of two (comprised of a normal person and one with enhanced abilities) into public to investigate those individuals who have been deemed "special" by the Company. Company agents are sometimes issued a Company gun or a Taser. The gun is a Strayer Voigt Infinity M1911.

"Upon identification, subjects are tranquilized and taken to a laboratory hidden within the walls of a front organization of some sort where they are further examined. Upon completion of examination, there are one of five possible outcomes:..."


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptech
"Ptech Inc. was a Quincy, Massachusetts-based provider of business process modelling software that was closed down in the wake of a December 5, 2002 raid by federal authorities under the auspices of Operation Green Quest."

Business domain

Describing itself as a "provider of enterprise architecture, business modeling, analysis and integration software solutions,"[1] the privately-held corporation was founded in 1994, and known for its technology, which was based on a unique implementation of neural net and semantic technologies. Ptech was recognized as one New England Technology's "Fast 50" by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in 2001.[2] For four years in row (from 2000 to 2003), Ptech was also recognized, for their velocity of innovation in the knowledge economy, as one of the hundred companies that matters in the world of IT and Business [3] with the major names in Technology companies such as Microsoft, IBM, HP and Oracle Corporation.[4][5].

The CEO of Ptech Oussama Ziade appeared on different television shows in the USA and has been featured on the cover of several magazines. [6]. The company was once part of UML Partners, the consortium that was convened to develop standards for UML, the Unified Modeling Language.

[edit] Federal investigation

Ptech was brought to the front of the spotlight following the visit of law enforcement officials to its Headquarters in the middle of the night of December 5th 2002, under the operation of Operation Green Quest, a U.S. Customs Services unit charged with the investigation of alleged terrorist funding networks. The December raid brought a rush of media sources to Ptech's Boston headquarters[7] amid allegations of Ptech's involvement in terrorist financing, which the White House and the Federal Attorney General of Massachusetts later rebuffed.[8] No one has been arrested of Ptech, and no indictment has been issued against Ptech or any of its officials. The U.S. Government continued to do business with Ptech. Former Ptech employees described Ptech as a company who who encouraged diversity in the workplace and the sharing of individual cultures and traditions, with a culture of socially responsibility and environment protection support and attributed the media frenzy to the charged atmosphere after 9/11 terrorist attack.[9]

[edit] Notable clientele

Ptech's roster of clients included several governmental agencies, including the United States Armed Forces, NATO, Congress, the Department of Energy, the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Customs, the FAA, the IRS, the Secret Service, and the White House. Despite the media allegation that the company's was connected to terrorism, an allegation that both the US government and the company's official denied, as of May 2004 they were still contracted by several federal agencies, including the White House.

Ptech had a security clearance to work on sensitive military projects dating to 1997."



http://www.historycommons.org/timeline. ... 1_timeline
""Yassin al-Qadi, a Saudi multimillionaire. His lawyers will later claim he has no terrorism ties and had only a passing involvement with BMI and liquidated his investment in it in 1996. However, another company operating from the same office as BMI is called Kadi International Inc. and lists its president as al-Qadi. Al-Qadi is also a major investor in the suspect computer company Ptech (see 1994; 1999-After October 12, 2001). Al-Qadi and BMI head Biheiri have financial dealings with Yaqub Mirza, a Pakistani who manages a group of Islamic charities in Virginia known as the SAAR network (see July 29, 1983). These charities will be raided in March 2002 on suspicions of terrorism ties (see March 20, 2002). Shortly after 9/11, the US will officially declare al-Qadi a terrorist financier (see October 12, 2001). [Wall Street Journal, 9/15/2003] "

Saudi multimillionaire Yassin al-Qadi will say in an interview shortly after 9/11, “I have also met with US Vice President and former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney in Jeddah [Saudi Arabia] when he came for a lecture organized by the Dallah Group. I spoke to him for a long time and we still have cordial relations.” The US had named al-Qadi a supporter of terrorism and frozen his assets two days before (see October 12, 2001). Oussama Ziade, CEO of Ptech, a US computer company that al-Qadi had invested in (see 1994) and that will be raided for suspected terrorism ties (see December 5, 2002), later will claim that al-Qadi “talked very highly of his relationship” with Cheney. Ziade will claim he only knew al-Qadi for a few years starting around 1994, so presumably the contact between al-Qadi and Cheney happens during the mid-1990s. A newspaper will report later that when a Cheney spokeswoman is asked about his possible ties to al-Qadi, she replies that “she had no reason to believe the vice president had met with al-Qadi”. Al-Qadi claims to be a respected businessman who met other important leaders such as ex-President Jimmy Carter. [Arab News, 10/14/2001; Associated Press, 1/3/2003; Computerworld, 1/17/2003] The US will declare al-Qadi a terrorism financier shortly after 9/11 (see October 12, 2001), and the Dallah Group will be accused of funding al-Qaeda (see November 22, 2002).

Entity Tags: Yassin al-Qadi, Dallah Al-Baraka, Richard (“Dick”) Cheney"

"1996-1997: Ptech Begins to Get US Government Contracts

Ptech is a Boston computer company connected to a number of individuals suspected of ties to officially designated terrorist organizations (see 1994). These alleged ties will be of particular concern because of Ptech’s potential access to classified government secrets. Ptech specializes in what is called enterprise architecture. It is the design and layout for an organization’s computer networks. John Zachman, considered the father of enterprise architecture, later will say that Ptech could collect crucial information from the organizations and agencies with which it works. “You would know where the access points are, you’d know how to get in, you would know where the weaknesses are, you’d know how to destroy it.” Another computer expert will say, “The software they put on your system could be collecting every key stroke that you type while you are on the computer. It could be establishing a connection to the outside terrorist organization through all of your security measures.” [WBZ 4 (Boston), 12/9/2002] In late 1996, an article notes that Ptech is doing work for DARPA, a Defense Department agency responsible for developing new military technology. [Government Executive, 9/1/1996] In 1997, Ptech gains government approval to market its services to “all legislative, judicial, and executive branches of the federal government.” Beginning that year, Ptech will begin working for many government agencies, eventually including the White House, Congress, Army, Navy, Air Force, NATO, FAA, FBI, US Postal Service, Secret Service, the Naval Air Systems Command, IRS, and the nuclear-weapons program of the Department of Energy. For instance, Ptech will help build “the Military Information Architecture Framework, a software tool used by the Department of Defense to link data networks from various military computer systems and databases.” Ptech will be raided by US investigators in December 2002 (see December 5, 2002), but not shut down. [Wall Street Journal, 12/6/2002; CNN, 12/6/2002; Newsweek, 12/6/2002; Boston Globe, 12/7/2002] A former director of intelligence at the Department of Energy later will say he would not be surprised if an al-Qaeda front company managed to infiltrate the department’s nuclear programs. [Unlimited (Auckland), 12/9/2002] Ptech will continue to work with many of these agencies even after 9/11. After a Customs Department raid of Ptech’s offices in late 2002, their software will be declared safe of malicious code. But one article will note, “What no one knows at this point is how much sensitive government information Ptech gained access to while it worked in several government agencies.” [WBZ 4 (Boston), 12/9/2002]"


(My edit note: My claim is that one major function of the series Heroes, is to discredit "paranormal" phenomena that people are experiencing, and painting those kinds of experiences as potentially dangerous - both to oneself and to others. I know where Hugh stands on this, but based on my incontrovertible personal samadhi, I know abilities like these exist, and whats more important, no man is an island, but a subconsciously interconnected being. What this means is that they are afraid of people finding their intuition and self-integrating on transpersonal level.)

8bitagent wrote:Thank you.

I don't care what the crybabies at Ptech claim, and what Operation Greenquest didnt turn up. All the information points to Ptech being absolutely central to al Qaeda, al Kifah, Muslim Brotherhood, Saudi elites, and PROMIS like worm programs deep within the US government computer systems...a real life AI skynet switched on for 9/11.

So many terrorists in America get away by either being quietly let go or claiming "I was unfairly targeted after 9/11". Like all the people who helped the 9/11 hijackers. Everyone is free, and living the high life. Like that scumfuck Ali Mohamed, whose wife is even friends with FBI agents and John Ashcroft.

Yet John Walker Lindh, a nice kid from Marin county will rot for life for being caught in a CIA torture Afghan gulag. So many INNOCENT(no taliban/al Qaeda connections what soever) Afghan, Pakistani and Iraqi men will rot in jail for being falsely swooped up post 9/11 by eager beaver headhunters.

Look how Ptech's Logan Furniture subsidiary got away:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articl ... raud_case/

But...

After deliberating nearly 60 hours over nine days, jurors found that the three men concealed that Care International was an outgrowth of the Boston branch of the Al Kifah Refugee Center, which disbanded after members of the Al Kifah Refugee Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., were linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York.

Saylor forbade references to the 9/11 attacks or to Osama bin Laden during the trial.


CONCEALED? MAK turning into al Qaeda and al Kifah/CARE (and into Ptech) was KNOWN by the CIA for some time.

If anyone is reading what I am writing, you just read one of the biggest smoking guns of 9/11 and Islamic terrorism.
MAK-al Qaeda-al Kifah-CARE-PTech. This is the evolution.

All about how Ptech was instrumental in carrying out 9/11
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/w ... _pt2.shtml

http://ftrsummary.blogspot.com/search/label/Ptech

For those who need a primer:

Abdullah Azzam and Osama bin Laden had a Mujahadeen group in 1984 called Maktab al-Khidamat , AKA the MAK

The MAK turned into al Qaeda in 1988, and merged with the heads of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the Sadat assassination team. Hence why all the top al Qaeda are Egyptian

The MAK then opened up al Qaeda offices in America in the late 80's under the name of "al Kifah Refugee Center", mostly in Brooklyn and Boston. Instead of jihad against the Soviets, it was soon to be jihad against the Serbs in the Balkans. These were all CIA protected, with CIA funding al Qaeda in Bosnia

Al Kifah THEN morphed into Care International, a terror front organization

Care got absorbed into the Yassin al Qadi/Bin Mahfouz/Ptech/BMI/ect world.

Then PTECH got absorbed into the every orafice and crevace of the US government computer systems, including the DOD and in the basement of the FAA with Mitre.


MAK-al Qaeda-Al Kifah-CARE-Ptech....9/11.

Ptech is key. Ali Mohamed is key. Understanding WTC 1993 and Bojinka is key. Nawaf al Hamzi and Khalid al Midhar are key. Norman Oklahoma is key.

But sadly, the truthers and the debunkers just dont see it.

Thank you Penguin, Im glad to see folks who see past the smoke and mirrors.
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