By: Pravda | Jan 14, 2010
The western media is currently full of articles on Google's
'threat to quit China' over internet censorship issues, and the
company's 'suspicion' that the Chinese government was behind
attempts to 'break-in' to several Google email accounts used by
'Chinese dissidents'.
However, the media has almost completely failed to report that
Google's surface concern over 'human rights' in China is belied
by its their deep involvement with some of the worst human
rights abuses on the planet:
Google is, in fact, is a key participant in U.S. military and
CIA intelligence operations involving torture; subversion of
foreign governments; illegal wars of aggression; and military
occupations of countries which have never attacked the U.S. and
which have cost hundreds of thousands of lives in Afghanistan,
Iraq, Pakistan, and elsewhere.
To begin with, Google is the supplier of the core search
technology for 'Intellipedia, a highly-secured online system
where 37,000 U.S. spies and related personnel share information
and collaborate on their devious errands.
Agencies such as the so-called 'National Security Agency' have
also purchased servers using Google-supplied search technology
which processes information gathered by U.S. spies operating all
over the planet.
In addition, Google is linked to the U.S. spy and military
systems through its Google Earth software venture. The
technology behind this software was originally developed by
Keyhole Inc., a company funded by Q-Tel http://www.iqt.org/ , a
venture capital firm which is in turn openly funded and operated
on behalf of the CIA.
Google acquired Keyhole Inc. in 2004. The same base technology
is currently employed by U.S. military and intelligence systems
in their quest, in their own words, for "full-spectrum
dominance" of the planet.
Moreover, Googles' connection with the CIA and its venture
capital firm extends to sharing at least one key member of
personnel. In 2004, the Director of Technology Assessment at
In-Q-Tel, Rob Painter, moved from his old job directly serving
the CIA to become 'Senior Federal Manager' at Google.
As Robert Steele, a former CIA case officer has put it: Google
is "in bed with" the CIA.
Googles Friends spy on millions of Internet Users
Given Google's supposed concern with 'break-in's to several of
its email accounts, it's worth noting that Google's friends at
In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA, are now investing in
Visible Technologies, a software firm specialized in 'monitoring
social media'.
The 'Visible' technology can automatically examine more than a
million discussions and posts on blogs, online forums, Flickr,
YouTube, Twitter, Amazon, and so forth each day. The technology
also 'scores' each online item, assigning it a positive,
negative or mixed or neutral status, based on parameters and
terms set by the technology operators. The information, thus
boiled down, can then be more effectively scanned and read by
human operators.
The CIA venture capitalists at In-Q-Tel say they will use the
technology to monitor social media operating in other countries
and give U.S. spies “early-warning detection on how issues are
playing internationally,” according to spokesperson Donald Tighe.
There is every possibility that the technology can also be used
by the U.S. intelligence operatives to spy on domestic social
movements and individuals inside the U.S.
Finally, there is a curious absence from the statements
emanating from Google - and from U.S. media reports - of any
substantive evidence linking the Chinese government with the
alleged break-in attempts to several Google email accounts.
Words like 'sophisticated' and 'suspicion' have appeared in the
media to suggest that the Chinese government is responsible for
the break-ins. That may be so. But it is striking that the media
has seemingly asked no questions as to what the evidence behind
the 'suspicions' might be
It should be noted that the U.S. government and its intelligence
agencies have a long history of rogue operations intended to
discredit governments or social movements with whom they happen
to disagree. To see how far this can go, one need only recall
the sordid history of disinformation, lies, and deceit
propagated by U.S. government and media to frighten people into
supporting the Iraq war.
Whether the attacks on Google email originated from the Chinese
government, or from elsewhere, one thing is clear: A company
that supplies the CIA with key intelligence technology; supplies
mapping software which can be used for barbarous wars of
aggression and drone attacks which kill huge numbers of innocent
civilians; and which in general is deeply intertwined with the
CIA and the U.S. military machines, which spy on millions, the
company cannot be motivated by real concern for the human rights
and lives of the people in China.
By Eric Sommer
Pravda.ru
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