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U.S. Military Wants Control of Telecom Spectrum

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Posted on Apr 4, 2006

A sobering report commissioned by Rumsfeld details how U.S. military planners want to take control of the Earth’s electromagnetic spectrum, allowing America to dominate telcommunications for propaganda and psy-ops purposes.

Sunday Herald:

Imagine a world where wars are fought over the internet; where TV broadcasts and newspaper reports are designed by the military to confuse the population; and where a foreign armed power can shut down your computer, phone, radio or TV at will.

In 2006, we are just about to enter such a world. This is the age of information warfare, and details of how this new military doctrine will affect everyone on the planet are contained in a report, entitled The Information Operations Roadmap, commissioned and approved by US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld and seen by the Sunday Herald.

The Pentagon has already signed off $383 million to force through the document’s recommendations by 2009. Military and intelligence sources in the US talk of “a revolution in the concept of warfare”. The report orders three new developments in America’s approach to warfare:

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By harald hardrada, April 4, 2006 at 2:45 pm #
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americans deserve no better—they continually elect politicians of both parties who take their marching orders from zionists even when those zionists are so dumb as to urge us to go into iraq & create a mess that harms zionism—iran’s next because the same politicians who bought the zionist bullshit about iraq are beating the drums of war again—don’t be so silly as to think hillary or obama or kerry or lieberman is willing to stop this insanity

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By relayer, April 4, 2006 at 12:58 pm #
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It’s good to remember netizens have been talking about this “war on the internet” since 1996, which is when this original IO roadmap was conceived. It’s also instructive to understand that the program has been active since at least 2003 (the date of the document).

links to the .pdf version of the Information Road Map may be found at my blog:
http://www.myspace.com/relayer1

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By felicity smith, April 4, 2006 at 10:17 am #
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Rumsfeld and Cheney, given the go-ahead by Reagan, spent a fortune in the ‘80’s devising a plan whereby the president (assuming he was still kicking) in the event of a nuclear attack on America would be sent air-borne and from 40,000 feet would run the country, or what was left of it which wouldn’t be much.  The plane would fly up and down the coasts and back and forth from sea to shining sea - endlessly. A very large ground crew (assuming one was still kicking) would be sent aloft, periodically refueling the plane and catering meals. Operational details were never forth-coming.

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By Adnan, April 4, 2006 at 10:15 am #
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Hitler and Goebels would be trilled.

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By Hilding Lindquist, April 4, 2006 at 10:03 am #
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A core doctrine of Strausian Neoconservatism is that if you are unwilling to use the power you have then you do not deserve to have that power.

Neocons have used this concept along with loyalty to the power-base (and the rewarding therof) to extend their political power--and now in its extension--their miltary power.

Those who would openly subvert the electoral process of our nation behind a facade of legality erected by stonewalling the truth, will not relinquish power voluntarily ... particularly when they would face prison if the truth comes out under our structure of the separation of governmental powers.

The leaders now in power will have to do something outside the electoral process to retain their power ... and they have proven themselves willing to do exactly that more than once.

Students of history understand this as the progressive process of an elitist cabal that decided--after Hitler came to power through a democratic process in Germany--that the masses could never again be fully trusted with the future of a powerful nation.

In this light, the military report on controlling the telecom spectrum commissioned by Rumsfled is more than sobering. It should be a wake-up call to we the people.

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