- Reports continue that communications in and around New
Orleans are being purposely jammed (and severed) by the US government (see
Sep. 2 article below). The jamming is having an adverse impact on emergency,
disaster recovery, and news media communications. The jamming is even affecting
police radio frequencies in Jefferson Parish, according to an Australian
news report. The President of Jefferson Parish Aaron Broussard told Meet
the Press today that FEMA cut his parish's emergency communications lines
and he had to have his sheriff restore the severed lines and post armed
deputies to ensure that FEMA did not try to cut the communications lines
again. Broussard's statement: "Yesterday--yesterday--FEMA comes in
and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without
notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line.
He posts armed guards on our line and says, 'No one is getting near these
lines.'"
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- Jamming radio and other communications such as television
signals is part of a Pentagon tactic called "information blockade"
or "technology blockade." The tactic is one of a number of such
operations that are part of the doctrine of "information warfare"
and is one of the psychological operations (PSYOPS) methods used by the
US Special Operations Command. Jamming is currently being used by US forces
in Iraq and was used by the US Navy in the botched coup attempt against
President Hugo Chavez in April 2002. US Navy ships off the Venezuelan coast
jammed diplomatic, military, emergency services, police, and even taxi
cab frequencies in Caracas and other large cities.
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- From "The Manchurian Printer," Simson L. Garfinkel
[The Boston Sunday Globe, March 5, 1995, Focus Section, Page 83]:
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- "Not surprisingly, the unclassified version of the
Pentagon's report barely mentions the offensive possibilities of Information
Warfare---capabilities that the Pentagon currently has under development.
Nevertheless, these capabilities are alluded to in several of the diagrams,
which show a keen interest by the military in OOTW---Operations Other Than
War. "They have things like information influence, perception management,
and PSYOPS---psychological operations," says Wayne Madsen, a lead
scientist at the Computer Sciences Corporation in northern Virginia, who
has studied the summer study report. 'Basically, I think that what they
are talking about is having the capability to censor and put out propaganda
on the networks. That includes global news networks like CNN and BBC, your
information services, like CompuServe and Prodigy,' and communications
satellite networks. 'When they talk about 'technology blockade,' they want
to be able to block data going into or out of a certain region of the world
that they may be attacking."'
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- ALERT: WMR readers should be aware that web sites like
Democratic Underground are "locking" information on the radio
jamming in Louisiana and the corruption involved in FEMA hurricane disaster
preparedness (IEM Team contract). Readers should also be aware that the
Pentagon's technology blockade strategy extends to the Internet. Web sites
like Democratic Underground and Daily Kos have a lot of explaining to do
when they censor critical information during a national emergency. These
web sites, along with Fox News and the other news sources with overt and
covert political agendas, are not serving in the public interest and should
be avoided as sources for important information. For example, some Daily
Kos posters are questioning whether FEMA deliberately cut Jefferson Parish's
emergency telephone lines. That is because many of those involved with
Daily Kos and Democratic Underground are squishy Democrats with a pretty
obvious agenda. - WM
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- http://waynemadsenreport.com/
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