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YOU ARE all fools! you think the ECHELON is scary?! its not. that is just one you shouldnt even care about it we shouldnt even know about it you fools. you people have know idea where technology is and where it is going. .and by the way its going there fast ….
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ECHELON is a highly secretive world-wide signals intelligence and analysis network run by the UKUSA Community (otherwise described as the “Anglo-Saxon alliance”) [1].
Think Progress » Specter’s Sham Legislation Touted By The Media As A White House ‘Concession’ 2006
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Supporters stress that ECHELON is simply a method of sorting captured signals and is just one of the many arrows in the intelligence community’s quiver, along with increasingly sophisticated bugging and communications interception techniques, satellite tracking, through-clothing scanning, automated biometric recognition systems that can recognize faces, fingerprints & retina patterns.
Think Progress » Specter’s Sham Legislation Touted By The Media As A White House ‘Concession’ 2006
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Reportedly created to monitor the military and diplomatic communications of the Soviet Union and its East Bloc allies during the Cold War in the early sixties, ECHELON is today believed to also search for hints of terrorist plots, drug-dealers’ plans, and political and diplomatic intelligence.
Think Progress » Specter’s Sham Legislation Touted By The Media As A White House ‘Concession’ 2006
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Among the best sources of intelligence was a global spy system, codename ECHELON, which was created by the National Security Agency, or NSA.
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In the greatest surveillance effort ever established, the US National Security Agency NSA has created a global spy system, codename ECHELON, which captures and analyzes virtually every phone call, fax, email and telex message sent anywhere in the world.
Think Progress » BREAKING: Federal District Court Rules NSA Wiretapping Program Unconstitutional 2006
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There, a computer system called ECHELON was programmed to listen in on every conversation that crossed the ether, and to lock in on certain codewords.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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The ECHELON system is fairly simple in design: position intercept stations all over the world to capture all satellite, microwave, cellular and fiber-optic communications traffic, and then process this information through the massive computer capabilities of the NSA, including advanced voice recognition and optical character recognition (OCR) programs, and look for code words or phrases (known as the ECHELON “Dictionaryâ€) that will prompt the computers to flag the message for recording and transcribing for future analysis.
Think Progress » BREAKING: Federal District Court Rules NSA Wiretapping Program Unconstitutional 2006
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For example, Guardian Comicsâ AIRBURN⢠was a heroic paratrooper who gained fire-based powers after drifting through a glowing cloud on D-Day; in the Silver Age, Bulwark Comicsâ AIRBURN (with similar powers) was the primary aide-de-camp of BRIGADIER BLACK⢠in the ECHELON OF EVILâ¢.
The Codex Continual. Official Website of Steven E. Schend 2010
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The ECHELON contained seven misanthropic ex-soldiers exposed to and altered by experimental weaponry, and they were a primary foe of the revamped G. U.A.R.D.â¢
The Codex Continual. Official Website of Steven E. Schend 2009
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