________________________________________________________________________________ ================================================================================ >NEW YORK, May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Senior intelligence officials tell Newsweek >that last week President Clinton issued a "finding," a highly classified >document authorizing the CIA to begin secret efforts to train Kosovar rebels >in sabotage -- age-old tricks like cutting telephone lines and blowing up >buildings -- and to conduct a cyberwar against Slobodan Milosevic. (Photo: >http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990522/HSSA016 ) According to sources >who have read the finding, in addition to training the rebels, the CIA has >been instructed to conduct a cyberwar against Milosevic, using government >hackers to tap into foreign banks, and, in the words of one U.S. official, >"diddle with Milosevic's bank accounts," Washington Correspondent Gregory >Vistica reports in the May 31 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, May >24). The White House declined to comment on the finding, and Newsweek does >not have access to the entire document. But, Vistica reports, some >intelligence officials with knowledge of its contents worry that the finding >was put together too hastily, and that the potential consequences haven't >been fully thought out. "If they pull it off, it will be great," says one >government cyberwar expert. "If they screw it up, they are going to be in a >world of trouble." [...] http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199905/msg00247.html ================================================================================ BRUSSELS-Over the past two months, NATO fighter planes have taken off from aircraft carriers and air bases in Italy to drop precision-guided bombs on studios, antennas and relay stations of Serbia's official state television in an effort to cripple Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's "propaganda machine." But even as NATO jets tried to knock Serbian television off the air, a European satellite consortium largely controlled by NATO members has been beaming the state-owned television network throughout the Balkans. After nearly two months of heavy diplomatic pressure from NATO, Eutelsat's member states voted Thursday to pull the plug on Serbian television, probably next week. [...] http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199905/msg00255.html ================================================================================ Yeah, I agree with Markovic and others that Jamie Shea's a real laugh riot, as Slobodan says, a real Beavis, or is it a Butthead -- or is it maybe a Meiko and Ryu? (No, belay the last; I wouldn't want to insult our genuinely funny fartmeisters M&R, who put even stand-up comic Shea to shame). But still, Jamie Shea really is side-splittingly funny actually, even more so because (as Markovic so rightly points out), he's *real.* He really does exist; he's not an animated cartoon or something like that. It's enough to make one ask oneself (through tears -- of laughter) things like: My, how *does* the man do it? And: where does he get his material? As far as I can remember at this stage (it's hard to remember when you're laughing so hard) there was a suggestion that we all gleefully gather together his many and varied laugh-lines in preparation for a book. The book of course is supposed not only to convey the devastating humor inherent in the man's act, but also to not fail to give a good sense of the *hypocracy and subversive intent* hidden, like a coiled and uncompromising snake, deep within the many jests and one-liners. So here's my contribution to the proposed book on our beloved NATO spokesman; it starts only shortly after what Slobodan quoted, actually, from the May 26th briefing (brace yourselves -- in fact sit down; this is really funny): "It's not often remembered but over 50% of the refugees in Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are under 18 years of age. Children, or at least adolescents. 40% are under 14 years of age. 20,000 are under one year old and at least 100,000 babies have been born since this crisis in March in those refugee camps, without incubators, without electricity, without medical support, without water, without a roof over their heads, with absolutely nothing. I also could tell you that there are 60,000 children under the age of six in the camps in Albania alone being cared for at the moment by the International Relief organisations. This is not a few babies, no matter how precious, this is an entire lost generation. We are dealing with the Pied Piper of Hamlin here. In other words the government which has literally taken away from their homes a whole community of children, enormous numbers, depriving them of their health, causing great psychological harm, you have seen this in terms of the pictures that they have painted which have been exposed at Segrabe, depriving them of their schooling, depriving them of their families in terms of separation and I think that this again is what we should focus on." [...] http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199905/msg00293.html ================================================================================ Special (extra) ZNet Commentary March 24, 1999 NATO's Humanitarian Trigger By Diana Johnstone >From James Rubin to Christiane Amanpour, the broad range of government and media opinion is totally united in demanding that NATO bomb Serbia. This is necessary, we are told, in order to "avert a humanitarian catastrophe", and because, "the only language Milosevic understands is force"... which happens to be the language the U.S. wants to speak. Kosovo is presented as the problem, and NATO as the solution. In reality, NATO is the problem, and Kosovo is the solution. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO needed a new excuse for pumping resources into the military-industrial complex. Thanks to Kosovo, NATO can celebrate its 50th anniversary next month by consecration of its new global mission: to intervene anywhere in the world on humanitarian grounds. The recipe is easy: arm a group of radical secessionists to shoot policemen, describe the inevitable police retaliation as "ethnic cleansing", promise the rebels that NATO will bomb their enemy if the fighting goes on, and then interpret the resulting mayhem as a challenge to NATO's "resolve" which must be met by military action. [...] http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199905/msg00294.html ================================================================================ here's a list of about 470 german politicians' email addresses. (probably incomplete & some may be wrong) get it at http://king.dom.de/politicians/german-politicians.txt or write to majordomo@king.dom.de, who german-politicians in the msg body. use it as a target for your anxiety. write them. [...] http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199905/msg00296.html ================================================================================ BRUSSELS, May 26 - NATO military commanders won political approval today to attack some of Yugoslavia's most sensitive sites, including the country's civilian telephone and computer networks, in a bid to cut communications between Belgrade and armed forces in Kosovo, senior NATO sources said. "The plan is to cut off the main telephone system, drive their computer systems crazy and make sure the Serbs can only use cellular phones that are most vulnerable to eavesdropping by satellite," a senior alliance official said. "There is agreement [among NATO governments] that this is the moment to apply maximum pressure." 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