1 Thessalonians 4:17 then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Bible , About the Arabs
The Arabs are the descendants of Ishmael ( Abraham's 1st son )
Genesis 16. 8 And he ( God's Angel ) said, Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, whence camest thou? and whither goest thou? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai. 9 And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. 10 And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. 11 And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and thou shalt call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah hath heard thy affliction. 12 And he shall be as a wild ass among men; his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his brethren.
Genesis 16. 8 And he ( God's Angel ) said, Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, whence camest thou? and whither goest thou? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai. 9 And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. 10 And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. 11 And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and thou shalt call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah hath heard thy affliction. 12 And he shall be as a wild ass among men; his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his brethren.
Just A thought
It is truly amazing how many stupid people there are in the world. Israel is a friend, the palestinians, north koreans, iranians, mexicans, syrians, venezuelans are our enemies. Close the mexican border, round up the illegals, and give them the choice of deportation or prison. Arrest the leadership of the dnc and charge them with Treason. Shut down the aclu. Arrest people like ted turner, jane fonda, bill & hillary clinton, madeline albright, then give them all trials and if found guilty for sellig out are Country, Deport them ! Put the American flag back in the classroom and make students recite the pledge. Make the media report the news TRUTHFULLY, with no more left wing slant. Stop deporting jobs overseas and stop giving away taxpayer money to foreign countries and terror groups like the palestinians. tell Israel it is OK if they want to turn gazaz and west bank into parking lots ,if thats there wish Lend them the b-52s to do the job. Kick the UN out of New York and quit paying the bills for them. The U.S.A. pays one third of it's ( UN ) budget to be pushed around by countries like zimbabwe? I don’t think so. JUST A THOUGHT
The Jerusalem Post
Defense officials slammed Egypt on Wednesday after it allowed hundreds of stranded Gazan pilgrims returning from Mecca to cross into the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing.
Palestinian Authority and Hamas officials said Egypt's decision to open the crossing from Sinai was made at the behest of Saudi Arabian King Abdullah.
Officials told The Jerusalem Post that at least two dozen senior Hamas members were part of the group of pilgrims that crossed the border and were believed to be carrying tens of millions of dollars that they had collected in Saudi Arabia. In addition, some of the Hamas members were believed to have undergone advanced military training in Iran.
The pilgrims included former ministers in the Hamas government, as well as senior members of Hamas's military wing, Izzadin Kassam, the defense officials said.
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Israel: 'Egypt working against us for years'
"This is against all agreements," a senior defense official said, saying that Egypt's decision to open up the Rafah crossing against Israeli objections exactly one week after Defense Minister Ehud Barak visited Egypt for talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was "grounds for a diplomatic crisis."
The official said that while the decision to open Rafah harmed Israeli interests, it would cause far more damage to PA President Mahmoud Abbas, since the move was viewed as a victory for Hamas and undermined Abbas and his government in Ramallah.
Palestinian pilgrims have their bags pushed by a porter and an ambulance makes its way through the area as they arrive at Rafah.
Photo: AP
The decision to open the Rafah crossing ended a five-day standoff during which some 2,000 Palestinians were stranded in temporary camps in el-Arish in the Sinai. Two people, one carrying a large cloth bag, were the first to pass through the Rafah terminal; they were greeted by green-vested Hamas representatives. The two were followed by a flood of returning pilgrims.
Neither the Prime Minister's Office nor the Foreign Ministry had any official reaction to the Egyptian decision. But one diplomatic official said that if "people crossed unfettered from Sinai into Gaza, not following the right procedures, that would be a contradiction to the agreements previously reached."
Israeli officials denied that the Egyptian decision had anything to do with the heightened diplomatic tension between Israel and Egypt stemming from increased Israeli criticism of Egypt's failure to stop the smuggling of arms and terrorists from Sinai into Gaza.
Rather, the officials said, the decision was based on Egypt's assessment that it has more to lose domestically by angering Hamas and having the pilgrims go through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing, than by angering Israel and letting them in through Rafah.
Not only would angering Hamas be unpopular with Egyptian public opinion, which would see the Mubarak government as colluding with Israel, but it could also give Hamas added incentive to cause problems for Mubarak among Egypt's not insignificant fundamentalist Muslim population.
Last month, Egypt raised Israeli ire when it unilaterally opened the Rafah crossing and allowed the pilgrims to leave Gaza. Israel had asked Egypt to have the pilgrims return to Gaza through the Kerem Shalom, crossing where they would undergo security inspections by the IDF and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency).
Fearing capture by the Israelis, Hamas leaders among the pilgrims refused to go through the alternate crossing. The pilgrims rioted in temporary camps set up for them by Egypt and threatened a hunger strike before Egypt finally opened its border on Wednesday.
"Thank God we made it. Our patience led us to results," said Samiha Qeshta, 59, an exhausted-looking pilgrim from Rafah.
An Egyptian official said Wednesday that Israel had been "informed" of the Egyptian decision to let the pilgrims back.
Muhammad Madhoun, a senior Hamas official who greeted the pilgrims, said their return was a victory for Hamas. "This is a good sign of things to come. God willing, no American or Zionist pressure will affect our will and determination and the will of the Palestinian people and the Egyptian people who stood by us," he said.
Hamas leaders expressed deep satisfaction over the decision, hailing it as a "major victory" for the Islamist movement. PA officials, on the other hand, took credit for solving the plight of the pilgrims who had been stranded on Egyptian soil for the past week.
They announced that the pilgrims were allowed to return to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah terminal thanks to the intervention of Abbas, who met earlier in Cairo with Mubarak to discuss the crisis.
The PA and Egypt had previously opposed Hamas's request to allow the pilgrims to use the Rafah border crossing, insisting that they return through Israeli-controlled terminals.
Hoping to use the crisis to undermine Hamas's credibility, the PA was said to have urged the Egyptians not to allow the pilgrims to return home through the Rafah border crossing.
Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki said the decision on the pilgrims was not made in retaliation for criticism Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni made against Egypt last week. "It should not be seen in this context," he said, calling the matter a humanitarian issue.
A top PA official in Ramallah told the Post that although he was happy that the crisis had ended, he was worried that the Egyptian decision would boost Hamas's standing among the Palestinians. The official said the Egyptians succumbed to pressure from the Saudi monarch to reopen the Rafah terminal temporarily.
Hamas confirmed that Saudi Arabia had played a major role in resolving the crisis. Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh thanked the Saudi government "for ensuring the safe and dignified return of the pilgrims to their homes." He also thanked Mubarak for agreeing to reopen the Rafah border crossing.
Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders expressed hope that the move would mark the beginning of the end of the international sanctions against the Hamas government that include the closure of the Rafah crossing.
Haniyeh seized the opportunity to renew his call for solving the crisis between Hamas and Fatah. "We support a real dialogue to end the state of division in the Palestinian arena," he said shortly after welcoming the pilgrims back to the Gaza Strip. He urged both Fatah and Hamas to end their media attacks on each other and to release all prisoners belonging to the rival faction.
www.jpost.com
Palestinian Authority and Hamas officials said Egypt's decision to open the crossing from Sinai was made at the behest of Saudi Arabian King Abdullah.
Officials told The Jerusalem Post that at least two dozen senior Hamas members were part of the group of pilgrims that crossed the border and were believed to be carrying tens of millions of dollars that they had collected in Saudi Arabia. In addition, some of the Hamas members were believed to have undergone advanced military training in Iran.
The pilgrims included former ministers in the Hamas government, as well as senior members of Hamas's military wing, Izzadin Kassam, the defense officials said.
RELATED
Analysis: The unholy return of the Palestinian pilgrims
Israel: 'Egypt working against us for years'
"This is against all agreements," a senior defense official said, saying that Egypt's decision to open up the Rafah crossing against Israeli objections exactly one week after Defense Minister Ehud Barak visited Egypt for talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was "grounds for a diplomatic crisis."
The official said that while the decision to open Rafah harmed Israeli interests, it would cause far more damage to PA President Mahmoud Abbas, since the move was viewed as a victory for Hamas and undermined Abbas and his government in Ramallah.
Palestinian pilgrims have their bags pushed by a porter and an ambulance makes its way through the area as they arrive at Rafah.
Photo: AP
The decision to open the Rafah crossing ended a five-day standoff during which some 2,000 Palestinians were stranded in temporary camps in el-Arish in the Sinai. Two people, one carrying a large cloth bag, were the first to pass through the Rafah terminal; they were greeted by green-vested Hamas representatives. The two were followed by a flood of returning pilgrims.
Neither the Prime Minister's Office nor the Foreign Ministry had any official reaction to the Egyptian decision. But one diplomatic official said that if "people crossed unfettered from Sinai into Gaza, not following the right procedures, that would be a contradiction to the agreements previously reached."
Israeli officials denied that the Egyptian decision had anything to do with the heightened diplomatic tension between Israel and Egypt stemming from increased Israeli criticism of Egypt's failure to stop the smuggling of arms and terrorists from Sinai into Gaza.
Rather, the officials said, the decision was based on Egypt's assessment that it has more to lose domestically by angering Hamas and having the pilgrims go through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing, than by angering Israel and letting them in through Rafah.
Not only would angering Hamas be unpopular with Egyptian public opinion, which would see the Mubarak government as colluding with Israel, but it could also give Hamas added incentive to cause problems for Mubarak among Egypt's not insignificant fundamentalist Muslim population.
Last month, Egypt raised Israeli ire when it unilaterally opened the Rafah crossing and allowed the pilgrims to leave Gaza. Israel had asked Egypt to have the pilgrims return to Gaza through the Kerem Shalom, crossing where they would undergo security inspections by the IDF and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency).
Fearing capture by the Israelis, Hamas leaders among the pilgrims refused to go through the alternate crossing. The pilgrims rioted in temporary camps set up for them by Egypt and threatened a hunger strike before Egypt finally opened its border on Wednesday.
"Thank God we made it. Our patience led us to results," said Samiha Qeshta, 59, an exhausted-looking pilgrim from Rafah.
An Egyptian official said Wednesday that Israel had been "informed" of the Egyptian decision to let the pilgrims back.
Muhammad Madhoun, a senior Hamas official who greeted the pilgrims, said their return was a victory for Hamas. "This is a good sign of things to come. God willing, no American or Zionist pressure will affect our will and determination and the will of the Palestinian people and the Egyptian people who stood by us," he said.
Hamas leaders expressed deep satisfaction over the decision, hailing it as a "major victory" for the Islamist movement. PA officials, on the other hand, took credit for solving the plight of the pilgrims who had been stranded on Egyptian soil for the past week.
They announced that the pilgrims were allowed to return to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah terminal thanks to the intervention of Abbas, who met earlier in Cairo with Mubarak to discuss the crisis.
The PA and Egypt had previously opposed Hamas's request to allow the pilgrims to use the Rafah border crossing, insisting that they return through Israeli-controlled terminals.
Hoping to use the crisis to undermine Hamas's credibility, the PA was said to have urged the Egyptians not to allow the pilgrims to return home through the Rafah border crossing.
Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki said the decision on the pilgrims was not made in retaliation for criticism Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni made against Egypt last week. "It should not be seen in this context," he said, calling the matter a humanitarian issue.
A top PA official in Ramallah told the Post that although he was happy that the crisis had ended, he was worried that the Egyptian decision would boost Hamas's standing among the Palestinians. The official said the Egyptians succumbed to pressure from the Saudi monarch to reopen the Rafah terminal temporarily.
Hamas confirmed that Saudi Arabia had played a major role in resolving the crisis. Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh thanked the Saudi government "for ensuring the safe and dignified return of the pilgrims to their homes." He also thanked Mubarak for agreeing to reopen the Rafah border crossing.
Haniyeh and other Hamas leaders expressed hope that the move would mark the beginning of the end of the international sanctions against the Hamas government that include the closure of the Rafah crossing.
Haniyeh seized the opportunity to renew his call for solving the crisis between Hamas and Fatah. "We support a real dialogue to end the state of division in the Palestinian arena," he said shortly after welcoming the pilgrims back to the Gaza Strip. He urged both Fatah and Hamas to end their media attacks on each other and to release all prisoners belonging to the rival faction.
www.jpost.com
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Interceptor
This is a link ,on how to make a cell phone interceptor......
http://www.householdhacker.com/?cat=3
http://www.householdhacker.com/?cat=3
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Thursday, November 8, 2007 - Page updated at 01:06 AM
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AT&T gave feds access to all Web, phone traffic, ex-tech says
By Ellen Nakashima
The Washington Post
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Mark Klein testifies on Capitol Hill today.
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About the law
The 1986 Stored Communications Act forbids telephone companies and computer-service providers from giving the government records showing who customers had dialed or e-mailed without a warrant or court order. Because the law allows consumers to recover a minimum of $1,000 for each violation, AT&T and a handful of other companies could be on the hook for billions of dollars in civil liability, some experts in telecommunications law have said.
Seattle Times archives
WASHINGTON — His first inkling that something was amiss came in summer 2002, when he opened the door to admit a visitor from the National Security Agency (NSA) to an AT&T office in San Francisco.
"What the heck is the NSA doing here?" Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician, said he asked himself.
A year or so later, he stumbled upon documents that, he said, show the agency gained access to massive amounts of e-mail, Web search and other Internet records of more than a dozen global and regional telecom providers. AT&T allowed the agency to hook into its network and, according to Klein, many of the other telecom companies probably knew nothing about it.
Klein will be on Capitol Hill today to share his story in the hope it will persuade Congress not to grant legal immunity to telecommunications firms that helped the government in its warrantless anti-terrorism efforts.
Klein, 62, said he may be the only person in a position to discuss firsthand knowledge of an important aspect of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance. He is retired, so he isn't worried about losing his job. He carried no security clearance, and the documents in his possession were not classified, he said. He has no qualms about "turning in," as he put it, the company where he worked for 22 years until he retired in 2004.
"If they've done something massively illegal and unconstitutional — well, they should suffer the consequences," Klein said.
In an interview this week, he alleged that the NSA set up a system that vacuumed up Internet and phone-call data from ordinary Americans with the help of AT&T and without obtaining a court order. Contrary to the government's depiction of its surveillance program as aimed at overseas terrorists, Klein said, much of the data sent through AT&T to the NSA was purely domestic. Klein said he thinks the NSA was analyzing the records for usage patterns and for content.
He said the NSA built a special room in San Francisco to receive data streamed through an AT&T Internet room containing "peering links," or major connections to other telecom providers. Other so-called secret rooms reportedly were constructed at AT&T sites in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Jose, Calif.
Klein's documents and his account form the basis of one of the first lawsuits filed against the telecom companies after the government's warrantless-surveillance program was disclosed by The New York Times in December 2005.
Claudia Jones, an AT&T spokeswoman, said she had no comment on Klein's allegations. "AT&T is fully committed to protecting our customers' privacy. We do not comment on matters of national security," she said.
The NSA and the White House also declined to comment.
Klein is urging Congress not to block Hepting v. AT&T, a class-action suit pending in federal court in San Francisco, and 37 other lawsuits charging carriers with illegally collaborating with the NSA program. He and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which filed Hepting v. AT&T in 2006, are urging key lawmakers to oppose a pending White House-endorsed immunity provision that effectively would wipe out the lawsuits. The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to take up the measure today.
In summer 2002, Klein was working in an office responsible for Internet equipment when an NSA representative arrived to interview a management-level technician for a special, secret job.
The job entailed building a "secret room" in another AT&T office 10 blocks away, he said. By coincidence, in October 2003, Klein was transferred to that office. He asked a technician about the secret room on the sixth floor, and the technician told him it was connected to the Internet room a floor above. The technician handed him wiring diagrams.
"That was my 'aha' moment," Klein said. "They're sending the entire Internet to the secret room."
The diagram showed splitters glass prisms that split signals from each network into two identical copies. One copy fed into the secret room. The other proceeded to its destination, he said.
"This splitter was sweeping up everything, vacuum-cleaner-style," he said. "The NSA is getting everything. These are major pipes that carry not just AT&T's customers but everybody's."
One of Klein's documents listed links to 16 entities, including Global Crossing, a large provider of voice and data services in the United States and abroad; UUNet, a large Internet provider now owned by Verizon; Level 3 Communications, which provides local, long-distance and data transmission in the United States and overseas; and more familiar names, such as Sprint and Qwest. It also included data exchanges MAE-West and PAIX, or Palo Alto Internet Exchange, facilities where telecom carriers hand off Internet traffic to each other.
"I flipped out," he said. "They're copying the whole Internet. There's no selection going on here. Maybe they select out later, but at the point of handoff to the government, they get everything."
Qwest has not been sued because of media reports last year that said the company declined to participate in an NSA program to build a database of domestic phone-call records out of concern that it may have been illegal. What the documents show, Klein said, is that the NSA apparently was collecting several carriers' communications, probably without their consent.
Another document showed that the NSA installed in the room a Narus semantic traffic analyzer, which Klein said indicated the NSA was doing content analysis.
Steve Bannerman, Narus' marketing vice president, said the NarusInsight system can track a communication's origin and destination, as well as its content. He declined to comment on AT&T's use of the system.
Klein said he went public after President Bush defended the NSA's surveillance program as limited to collecting phone calls between suspected terrorists overseas and people in the United States. Klein said the documents show that the scope was much broader.
E-mail article Print view Share: Digg Newsvine
AT&T gave feds access to all Web, phone traffic, ex-tech says
By Ellen Nakashima
The Washington Post
PREV 1 of 2 NEXT
Enlarge this photo
JOSEPH
Mark Klein testifies on Capitol Hill today.
Enlarge this photo
About the law
The 1986 Stored Communications Act forbids telephone companies and computer-service providers from giving the government records showing who customers had dialed or e-mailed without a warrant or court order. Because the law allows consumers to recover a minimum of $1,000 for each violation, AT&T and a handful of other companies could be on the hook for billions of dollars in civil liability, some experts in telecommunications law have said.
Seattle Times archives
WASHINGTON — His first inkling that something was amiss came in summer 2002, when he opened the door to admit a visitor from the National Security Agency (NSA) to an AT&T office in San Francisco.
"What the heck is the NSA doing here?" Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician, said he asked himself.
A year or so later, he stumbled upon documents that, he said, show the agency gained access to massive amounts of e-mail, Web search and other Internet records of more than a dozen global and regional telecom providers. AT&T allowed the agency to hook into its network and, according to Klein, many of the other telecom companies probably knew nothing about it.
Klein will be on Capitol Hill today to share his story in the hope it will persuade Congress not to grant legal immunity to telecommunications firms that helped the government in its warrantless anti-terrorism efforts.
Klein, 62, said he may be the only person in a position to discuss firsthand knowledge of an important aspect of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance. He is retired, so he isn't worried about losing his job. He carried no security clearance, and the documents in his possession were not classified, he said. He has no qualms about "turning in," as he put it, the company where he worked for 22 years until he retired in 2004.
"If they've done something massively illegal and unconstitutional — well, they should suffer the consequences," Klein said.
In an interview this week, he alleged that the NSA set up a system that vacuumed up Internet and phone-call data from ordinary Americans with the help of AT&T and without obtaining a court order. Contrary to the government's depiction of its surveillance program as aimed at overseas terrorists, Klein said, much of the data sent through AT&T to the NSA was purely domestic. Klein said he thinks the NSA was analyzing the records for usage patterns and for content.
He said the NSA built a special room in San Francisco to receive data streamed through an AT&T Internet room containing "peering links," or major connections to other telecom providers. Other so-called secret rooms reportedly were constructed at AT&T sites in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Jose, Calif.
Klein's documents and his account form the basis of one of the first lawsuits filed against the telecom companies after the government's warrantless-surveillance program was disclosed by The New York Times in December 2005.
Claudia Jones, an AT&T spokeswoman, said she had no comment on Klein's allegations. "AT&T is fully committed to protecting our customers' privacy. We do not comment on matters of national security," she said.
The NSA and the White House also declined to comment.
Klein is urging Congress not to block Hepting v. AT&T, a class-action suit pending in federal court in San Francisco, and 37 other lawsuits charging carriers with illegally collaborating with the NSA program. He and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which filed Hepting v. AT&T in 2006, are urging key lawmakers to oppose a pending White House-endorsed immunity provision that effectively would wipe out the lawsuits. The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to take up the measure today.
In summer 2002, Klein was working in an office responsible for Internet equipment when an NSA representative arrived to interview a management-level technician for a special, secret job.
The job entailed building a "secret room" in another AT&T office 10 blocks away, he said. By coincidence, in October 2003, Klein was transferred to that office. He asked a technician about the secret room on the sixth floor, and the technician told him it was connected to the Internet room a floor above. The technician handed him wiring diagrams.
"That was my 'aha' moment," Klein said. "They're sending the entire Internet to the secret room."
The diagram showed splitters glass prisms that split signals from each network into two identical copies. One copy fed into the secret room. The other proceeded to its destination, he said.
"This splitter was sweeping up everything, vacuum-cleaner-style," he said. "The NSA is getting everything. These are major pipes that carry not just AT&T's customers but everybody's."
One of Klein's documents listed links to 16 entities, including Global Crossing, a large provider of voice and data services in the United States and abroad; UUNet, a large Internet provider now owned by Verizon; Level 3 Communications, which provides local, long-distance and data transmission in the United States and overseas; and more familiar names, such as Sprint and Qwest. It also included data exchanges MAE-West and PAIX, or Palo Alto Internet Exchange, facilities where telecom carriers hand off Internet traffic to each other.
"I flipped out," he said. "They're copying the whole Internet. There's no selection going on here. Maybe they select out later, but at the point of handoff to the government, they get everything."
Qwest has not been sued because of media reports last year that said the company declined to participate in an NSA program to build a database of domestic phone-call records out of concern that it may have been illegal. What the documents show, Klein said, is that the NSA apparently was collecting several carriers' communications, probably without their consent.
Another document showed that the NSA installed in the room a Narus semantic traffic analyzer, which Klein said indicated the NSA was doing content analysis.
Steve Bannerman, Narus' marketing vice president, said the NarusInsight system can track a communication's origin and destination, as well as its content. He declined to comment on AT&T's use of the system.
Klein said he went public after President Bush defended the NSA's surveillance program as limited to collecting phone calls between suspected terrorists overseas and people in the United States. Klein said the documents show that the scope was much broader.
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