FREE BROWSING ON PHONE AND PC
I’ve got good news for you. For years, we’ve been subjected to the tyranny of insolent cybercafe operators in various cities across this country. They charged ridiculous rates per hour yet delivered snail speed browsing.
Worst of all, your sensitive data weren’t completely secure with some of them. I went to a cybercafe to browse one day and after about ten minutes, PHCN struck as usual. Not having reliable UPS, all the systems went off. After the generator was switched on, the systems had to go through a reboot.
But with the coming of the major GSM networks, MTN, ZAIN, GLO and others, the number of subscribers exploded to over 50 million. Currently, there is a surge in demand in mobile internet access which has been made possible by various packet data access technologies like GPRS, 3G, and HSPDA.
The most surprising thing at the moment is that the cost of access has also gone down dramatically. This means that in countries like Nigeria where about 8 years of democracy has led to the emergence of a new middle class, anybody with a pc or laptop with an appropriate mobile phone can now chat, browse websites, check email, trade stocks, and take online classes even in remote rural areas.
Basic Requirements For Connection
1. A GSM phone with GPRS/EDGE for normal speed Internet or a phone that supports 3G or HSDPA [high speed downlink packet access] for high speed Internet.
2. The phone’s USB cable and its drivers [these usually come with the phone but can be purchased separately] or alternatively, a bluetooth USB adapter for PCs and laptop without native Bluetooth.
Benefits of Having Your Own Fast But Free Internet Access.
1. Read your favorite newspapers online [both foreign and local].
2. Download ebooks, videos and softwares.
3. Visit your favorite forums and post as well read other people’s posts.
4. Browse the planet from the comfort of your room.
5. Check emails, fill forms, search for jobs, and chat on yahoo!, msn, skype, and aol.
6. Trade forex and monitor your stocks, news and the weather.
7. Take free online classes on various subjects that interest you.
8. Access the Internet even if you live in the remotest village in this country.
9. Make money helping students in your community register for WAEC, NECO, JAMB, POST UME and other examinations as well check the results.
10. Suitable for lawyers, doctors, bankers and other professionals who want to keep abreast of developments in their careers.
11. Can be used to access and print recharge card vouchers for MTN, GLO, ZAIN, STARCOMMS, RELTEL, etc fast and securely after you’ve registered with
the vendors .
12. Suitable for Internet marketers, website designers and other IT professionals.
My ebook makes setting up your own private Internet connection as easy as A,B,C…,Z. Within minutes, you will be browsing at less N12/hour guaranteed!
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BRIGHT ESIUKE
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Police Written Test 101
You’ve taken the first step. Your application is in the hands of a police recruiter. Now you’re ready to take the plunge with the written test. Like everything else in your quest for the badge, the key to success in the written test is: preparation.
First on your prep list is the test study guide. Before you leave the recruiter’s office, ask for one, or where you can get one. Many agencies have an online guide available on their website. These test guides tell you what types of questions to expect and how many there are per section, how much time you have on each section,and what skills and abilities are tested. If your agency does not have a test guide, ask the recruiter or your department contact, for information about the test.Find out where the test is taken, the time required to complete the test, what types of questions will be on the test (multiple choice, essay, etc.) and what areas of knowledge will be tested.
Ask also if the test is Civil Service. Civil service tests are usually only offered once or twice a year, and re-testing may also be limited. Check your guide for specifics, but in general, police written tests are timed,contain 100 to 200 questions in several sections, require 2-3 hours time for completion and are scored as pass/fail or require 70% correct to pass. Most tests are completed by hand (pencil-marked answer sheets), but many are taken on computers.
Study preparation for the written test is simple and straightforward. Read your test guide front to back and then read it again. Check out the library, internet and bookstore for more resources on police written tests, especially for sources with sample questions. Most libraries will have books in the reference section that contain explanations of the test sections most commonly used and sample questions for each. If
you find a test section that you feel is a weak area for you, spend extra time on it to tone down test day anxiety.
Nearly every police written test will include 5 areas of evaluation. These areas may be covered in separate sections of questions, or may be bundled within 2 or 3 sections. They include:
1. Accuracy of Observation/Memory
Your ability to retain and recall specific information. You will be given printed information, allowed to read and study it (no note-taking) for a certain amount of time (5 to 25 minutes), then the materials are returned and you are tested on the contents. Tests may be strictly memory recall, or may ask for conclusions to be drawn from the information given.
This test section evaluates your ability to perform police-related duties such as: remembering suspect descriptions, wanted posters/pictures, department policies and procedures, and safety and tactical procedures.
2. Written Skills
Your ability to communicate in writing. You will be given either a spelling or vocabulary test usually consisting of 25-50 words to be defined and spelled correctly. You will also be given, in some form, a scenario to read and take notes on. You will then write a report that relates to specific test-defined points of the scenario.
This test section evaluates your ability to perform police-related duties such as: report writing, witness statements and completing department forms.
3. Reading Comprehension
Your ability to understand what you read. You will be given materials to read and will then answer multiple choice questions on that information to show that you understand and can apply information you read.
This test section evaluates your ability to perform police-related duties such as: accurately reading and comprehending technical and legal information – court orders, department policy, state law, haz-mat warnings and training materials, for example.
Prepare for test sections 1 – 3 by cornering family and friends to give you verbal or written answer pop-quizzes on information you’ve read in newspapers and magazines. This is so close to a game that you shouldn’t have any trouble finding people to ‘play’.
4. Decision Making/Judgment Skills
Your ability to identify and comprehend critical elements of a situation and to choose an appropriate course of action. You will be given written, audio or video materials and then asked to pick the best response out of several responses, within an extremely limited time frame (10 seconds, for example).
This test section evaluates your ability to perform police-related duties such as: responding calmly to provocation, handling authority appropriately, using unbiased enforcement, professional ethics and social maturity.
Prepare for test section 4 by studying sample questions,reading newspaper accounts of crimes and proposing what your response would be, and observing officer response during a police ride along.
5. Navigational Skills/Directional Orientation
Your ability to read maps and recognize the direction you are traveling. You will be given materials that ask you to find locations on maps, show point to point routes for specific location responses and suspect vehicle and foot chases.
This test section evaluates your ability to perform police-related duties such as: routing to calls to decrease response time, knowledge of street closures and need for re-routing, radio transmissions of a suspect chase, and emergency response to officer down/needs assistance.
Prepare for test section 5 by observing the officer during a ride along, sticking a compass in your vehicle and learning to use landmarks as orientation guides and lastly, involve friends or family in imaginary suspect ‘chases’. Your ‘chase’ exercise would be something like this: Both drivers are in cell phone contact. Your vehicle is 2 blocks away from your partner’s vehicle. You will begin your imaginary ‘chase’ of a suspect (at legal speeds)while giving directions to your ‘backup’ over your cell phone. Set a time limit (5 minutes). When the suspect is
‘apprehended’, see if your backup finds you. Then switch roles and have your partner be the lead vehicle. Your job will be to follow, and also to anticipate routes that would allow you to block the suspects anticipated direction of travel. Again, this is a great game and you’ll have little trouble finding partners.
The police written test is designed to evaluate multiple abilities and skills. In addition to the five evaluation sections noted above, you will also find simple math and problem-solving math questions, and behavioral questions that indicate character, compliance with laws and personal accountability.
George Godoy
http://www.articlesbase.com/careers-articles/police-written-test-101-76178.html
Security Careers – a Primer
Private security work makes for a good, stable job with low overhead requirements. You can do this fresh out of high school, and many college students work their way through their higher education. But it’s not for everyone.
You should have some concept of or interest in law enforcement, some degree of a conservative personality, and not be so far gone that you’re going to think wearing a security guard uniform makes you a super-hero. If you like to work night shift (or have to because of school) and like an active job where you’re on your feet a lot, and especially if you have good people skills, you are cut out for security.
The range of private security jobs cover a variety of tastes. Some of the most common posts:
* Industrial security – the most common type. This can range from a night watchman position to manning a gate and checking IDs. If you are a rover, you drive around on patrol, respond to alarms, check access points, and monitor activity. Public contact ranges from little to none, except if you control an access point in the daytime and even then you will only deal with employees of the company and vendors coming and going.
* Retail security – a much more active position. You will almost certainly be in a position of loss prevention. Watching for and detaining shoplifters, possibly preventing vandalism or car theft, and other kinds of patrol will all be in a day’s work.
* Residential security – very low level, you’ll be working apartment complexes and gated communities. Most likely checking passes at a gate and making two rounds or so per night, maybe handing out parking tickets or standing post at the home owner’s meetings. One big part of this work is checking for and preventing residential burglaries.
* Hospitality security – This is really very different from retail security, though the two fit in the same category. A retail hospitality business will be a hotel, casino, amusement park, stadium, or other recreational facility. The most stringent degree of this kind of work, requiring qualifications very close to that of a municipal police officer. Also the most busy; you will have to deal with every scenario you can imagine, and will never have a dull day.
* Civilian security – This actually qualifies as “bodyguard” work. You are hired by a private individual, usually fairly wealthy, to protect that person and their interests specifically. Generally regarded as “cushy” work.
Security work comes in a spectrum ranging from unarmed to light arms to heavy arms. Most work is of the unarmed variety, and you might have just you and your wits to keep you safe. Other positions which allow light arms might include carrying mace, pepper spray, a baton, handcuffs, or possibly a battery-powered stun gun. The fully armed positions will be where you carry a real gun or real shotgun. Whatever the device, you will need to take classes in the safe handling of your armaments and stay certified. The various laws from state to state and the needs of that particular post will determine what you carry.
If you work an unarmed position at night, especially by yourself, it is frequently recommended that you carry a “Mag”-style flashlight. These are the durable heavy metal lights you see in the hands of law enforcement professionals everywhere, and while they aren’t officially a “weapon”, they are hefty enough to come in handy in certain situations.
“Observe and report” is the mantra of most security positions. Under the law, you do not have the same authority as a police officer and you should never forget it. Your job will mainly entail being a professional witness, and secondly to confront people engaged in suspicious activity and telling them to leave, or arresting them and turning them over to the police.
The greatest danger in this line of work is to those who are unsure of their reach of authority. When in doubt, pull back and call the police; you are not the police and you do not have the training nor the authority to be the police. In any situation, seek to de-escalate rather than escalate. Do not turn a conversation into a dispute; do not turn a dispute into a fight. Never take on more than you can handle.
Do by all means behave as a good citizen. The “bad guys” aren’t all you have to worry about; you might also be called on to perform assistance to visitors to the business or to employees of that business. It is important that you maintain a conservative appearance and demeanor; take your job seriously and have a highly professional appearance and you will have an easier time of it. Run around with a pierced nose, a ponytail dyed punker green, and pay more attention to your cell phone or headphones that to your job and you will have no respect and possibly no job.
Training can be anything from a short course supplied by the company to career-school training to occupational programs for training in weapons to police-supplied courses. No matter how small, if you carry any kind of armaments, you will need training in their safe handling and application. The low requirements for entry and the relatively low stress of the job make this an excellent temporary career, and even not that bad of a permanent career.
Josh Stone
http://www.articlesbase.com/careers-articles/security-careers-a-primer-141360.html
Damian Green and the Communist Coup in Britain
By UK Lockdown
‘The Arrest’
At 1.30pm on Thursday, 27th November, 2008, shadow immigration minister Damian Green a democratically elected member of parliament was arrested by three counter-terrorism officers in a car park in Kent, following on from this his constituency office and his office in the House of Commons were searched, nine counter-terrorism officers also searched his London home as part of the arrest. Green was kept for nine hours and then questioned on the alleged crimes, his computers, Mobile phone and even his a Television were confiscated by the police as part of the investigation, apparently his email account was also shut down in the search for incriminating evidence.
‘Alleged Crimes Committed’
Green was arrested for allegedly abetting an agreement to commit a criminal offence, the law in question is an obscure common law offence of aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office, it must be noted that the offence in question carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment which could see Damian Green given the same sentence as a murderer, rapist or terrorist. Under the same law Journalist Sally Murrer was arrested in 2007 over tips she had received from Police Sergeant Mark Kerney and published in the Milton Keynes Citizen, she was also subjugated to an ordeal of repeated interrogations, strip searches and threats of imprisonment before she was later released after the case against her and the police officer collapsed.
‘Analysis’
The arrest of this minister highlights a problem that needs to be addressed if our society is to avoid the fate of being turned into a socialist based totalitarian state similar to the soviet union, the sovietisation of our society has been well underway for a long time now, it’s almost impossible to have failed to notice the excessive political correctness, the removal of competition from our school system, the favourable media coverage given to socialist intellectuals, and many other general examples that exist across our society as a whole that openly demonstrate the true agenda of the people who govern or more accurately mis-govern our society. Consider the definition below
Martial law is sometimes imposed during wars or occupations in the absence of any other civil government. Examples of this form of military rule include Germany and Japan after World War II or the American South during the early stages of Reconstruction. In addition it is used by governments to enforce their rule, for example after a coup d’état (Thailand 2006), when threatened by popular protests (Tiananmen Square protests of 1989), or to crack down on the opposition (Poland 1981). Martial law can also be declared in cases of major natural disasters; however most countries use a different legal construct, such as a “state of emergency”. In many countries martial law imposes particular rules, one of which is curfew. Often, under this system, the administration of justice is left to a military tribunal, called a court-martial. The suspension of the writ of habeas corpus is likely to occur.
As a result of this arrest it is now clear that the agenda to transform Britain into a socialist state has taken a huge step forward, Green’s arrest means that the cabinet/ executive branch of government have now exercised their full powers under the anti-terror laws to spy on and arrest and remove an elected member of parliament who has done nothing wrong, any ministers in parliament who are even considering stepping out of line with the true agenda of the top level of government are now categorized as terrorists and are being treated accordingly, a clear message is being sent out to all ministers in parliament ‘step out of line and you are a terrorist’, in other words all who disagree with the socialist agenda in store for our society in the not to distant future have been warned, Britain is now in a state of Martial Law The repeated refusal of the British people to accept the reality of how bad things are in our society has led to the acceptance by the general population of new conditions that have seen the unofficial declaration of martial law in our country, the unjustified arrest of Green has now made that declaration official, six million cameras, anti-terror legislation, excessive fines, media scaremongering over crime and terrorism has led our country right into the hands of dictators, for those who have fallen for the government and media deception and who think dictatorial socialism in Britain is a good idea the following information must be reviewed.
Money Masters Film This film will explain in 3 hours what the mainstream media have been trying to cover up for the last three months about the so-called ‘credit crunch’.
911 Missing Links This film highlights previously unknown information relating to crimes committed on the world trade center on September, 11, 2001, which is the main justification used for the massive expansion of state power under anti-terror laws across America and around the world.
It’s no coincidence that we have seen the most rapid expansion of state power since the second world war over the last seven years during the fight in the so-called war on terror, and that an economic collapse of global proportions has been developing over the same period of time, states across the planet have been rapidly centralising power and so have the major corporations over the last few years, the recession has been used to allow the state and the corporations to gain even more power crushing their competition in the process, MP Damian Green is simply a victim of that agenda, this level of centralised power has corrupted our society and that is why we are losing our freedom, until the crime network that are behind the events that are causing this national and global centralisation of power are exposed for who they really are we will never have a decent society, enough is enough it’s time to take a stand against organised crime in our society, and root out the criminals that have taken over our government.
UK Lockdown
http://www.articlesbase.com/politics-articles/damian-green-and-the-communist-coup-in-britain-678346.html
Damian Green and the Communist Coup in Britain
By UK Lockdown
‘The Arrest’
At 1.30pm on Thursday, 27th November, 2008, shadow immigration minister Damian Green a democratically elected member of parliament was arrested by three counter-terrorism officers in a car park in Kent, following on from this his constituency office and his office in the House of Commons were searched, nine counter-terrorism officers also searched his London home as part of the arrest. Green was kept for nine hours and then questioned on the alleged crimes, his computers, Mobile phone and even his a Television were confiscated by the police as part of the investigation, apparently his email account was also shut down in the search for incriminating evidence.
‘Alleged Crimes Committed’
Green was arrested for allegedly abetting an agreement to commit a criminal offence, the law in question is an obscure common law offence of aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office, it must be noted that the offence in question carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment which could see Damian Green given the same sentence as a murderer, rapist or terrorist. Under the same law Journalist Sally Murrer was arrested in 2007 over tips she had received from Police Sergeant Mark Kerney and published in the Milton Keynes Citizen, she was also subjugated to an ordeal of repeated interrogations, strip searches and threats of imprisonment before she was later released after the case against her and the police officer collapsed.
‘Analysis’
The arrest of this minister highlights a problem that needs to be addressed if our society is to avoid the fate of being turned into a socialist based totalitarian state similar to the soviet union, the sovietisation of our society has been well underway for a long time now, it’s almost impossible to have failed to notice the excessive political correctness, the removal of competition from our school system, the favourable media coverage given to socialist intellectuals, and many other general examples that exist across our society as a whole that openly demonstrate the true agenda of the people who govern or more accurately mis-govern our society. Consider the definition below
Martial law is sometimes imposed during wars or occupations in the absence of any other civil government. Examples of this form of military rule include Germany and Japan after World War II or the American South during the early stages of Reconstruction. In addition it is used by governments to enforce their rule, for example after a coup d’état (Thailand 2006), when threatened by popular protests (Tiananmen Square protests of 1989), or to crack down on the opposition (Poland 1981). Martial law can also be declared in cases of major natural disasters; however most countries use a different legal construct, such as a “state of emergency”. In many countries martial law imposes particular rules, one of which is curfew. Often, under this system, the administration of justice is left to a military tribunal, called a court-martial. The suspension of the writ of habeas corpus is likely to occur.
As a result of this arrest it is now clear that the agenda to transform Britain into a socialist state has taken a huge step forward, Green’s arrest means that the cabinet/ executive branch of government have now exercised their full powers under the anti-terror laws to spy on and arrest and remove an elected member of parliament who has done nothing wrong, any ministers in parliament who are even considering stepping out of line with the true agenda of the top level of government are now categorized as terrorists and are being treated accordingly, a clear message is being sent out to all ministers in parliament ‘step out of line and you are a terrorist’, in other words all who disagree with the socialist agenda in store for our society in the not to distant future have been warned, Britain is now in a state of Martial Law The repeated refusal of the British people to accept the reality of how bad things are in our society has led to the acceptance by the general population of new conditions that have seen the unofficial declaration of martial law in our country, the unjustified arrest of Green has now made that declaration official, six million cameras, anti-terror legislation, excessive fines, media scaremongering over crime and terrorism has led our country right into the hands of dictators, for those who have fallen for the government and media deception and who think dictatorial socialism in Britain is a good idea the following information must be reviewed.
Money Masters Film This film will explain in 3 hours what the mainstream media have been trying to cover up for the last three months about the so-called ‘credit crunch’.
911 Missing Links This film highlights previously unknown information relating to crimes committed on the world trade center on September, 11, 2001, which is the main justification used for the massive expansion of state power under anti-terror laws across America and around the world.
It’s no coincidence that we have seen the most rapid expansion of state power since the second world war over the last seven years during the fight in the so-called war on terror, and that an economic collapse of global proportions has been developing over the same period of time, states across the planet have been rapidly centralising power and so have the major corporations over the last few years, the recession has been used to allow the state and the corporations to gain even more power crushing their competition in the process, MP Damian Green is simply a victim of that agenda, this level of centralised power has corrupted our society and that is why we are losing our freedom, until the crime network that are behind the events that are causing this national and global centralisation of power are exposed for who they really are we will never have a decent society, enough is enough it’s time to take a stand against organised crime in our society, and root out the criminals that have taken over our government.
UK Lockdown
http://www.articlesbase.com/politics-articles/damian-green-and-the-communist-coup-in-britain-678346.html
Nokia 6288 – Connecting The World With Pictures
This mobile phone is the best on the market when it comes to connecting to the internet and video sharing in real time. The Nokia 6288 allows for video ringtones and is designed to use its 3G technology to its fullest potential. This slider mobile phone comes with a 512 MB SD memory card in the box, and it is fully upgradeable to up to 2gigs, which makes this the perfect video phone with all of its built in video features. It sports a 320 x 240 megapixel resolution color display of 262,000 colors and is fitted with a 2 mega pixel camera on the back to take easy photos and videos. It also has a built-in or on-board camera on the front or face of the unit, which makes for easy video conferencing. The 100x46x21mm size makes the phone easy to handle one-handed while the 115g weight still allows it to be carried easily without too much heft.
Taking videos and photos of family and friends is a breeze with the Nokia 6288 picture phone. It is capable of editing all videos and pictures on board with its built-in or pre-installed editing suite, which makes this phone a state of the art must-have. This way, time is saved from downloading and editing pictures and videos on a PC. In order to save more time, the Nokia 6288 manufacturer has also included MMS capabilities and pictures and videos can be sent via email with a pop3 client straight from the Nokia 6288 mobile phone. Even printing is a breeze with the Nokia 6280 picture mobile phone, as the on-board Bluetooth technology and the on-board infrared technology enables direct printing from the Nokia 6288 mobile phone to any Bluetooth enabled and infrared enabled printer on the market today.
Other features that are included in this cool Nokia 6288 picture mobile phone are the full message capabilities of the full easy to use QWERTY keyboard, a handy night mode feature built into the camera, and the built-in video recorder software that makes it easy to record. It also has a built-in loud speaker for easy, hands-free calling and call conferencing, easy voice dialing, voice recorder, voice commands and speeding dialing.
Offsetting the stylish design and the large display, the slider seems less than sturdy.However, with the capabilities that this Nokia model has, the 6288 is one of the best options available for people who want a mobile phone with internet connectivity, game play, photo/video recording and editing, as well as email capability.
Fallon Seabrook
http://www.articlesbase.com/computers-articles/nokia-6288-connecting-the-world-with-pictures-129096.html
Learn the Top Reasons Behind Poor Performance & Availability With Microsoft Exchange
As a professional, your clients know they can depend on you, and that you are there for them. But what happens when your technology is not there for you? Imagine you are on the phone with your client, telling him with great pride that at long last the document he has been waiting for is complete. While you chat, you attach the document to an email, send it off…and wait.
And wait. The email is no longer in your outbox and not in his inbox. You double-check the email address, and as the conversation becomes more and more awkward, you assure the client that the document really does exist and there really was an email sent. He is frustrated and you are at a complete loss. You decide you cannot wait any longer and switch to your personal Hotmail account to resend the document, which may or may not work immediately either. The result is wasted time, and if you switched email systems, you no longer have a cohesive record of the exchange.
Your system administrator will list a number of reasons why this incident happened, reasons that are beyond his control:
- Junk mail folders
- Anti-virus systems
- User errors
- Bottlenecks in the Internet that day
The real reasons may actually run much deeper, which means that this lost email will not be an isolated incident.
Lost Emails Mean Lost Opportunities
Consumers, accustomed to fast responses through websites, are quickly losing their tolerance for slow email responses. Evidence of this can be seen through a recent study by the WAV Group, who claims in the real estate industry, the first agent to respond to a customer email inquiry has a 73% chance of securing the business. The third to respond has virtually no chance.[1] Similarly, a study conducted by Vodafone released in December of 2008 estimates that lost opportunities due to failures to reply promptly to email messages cost businesses approximately $27,000 a year.[2]
What about email that goes missing entirely? This summer Apple Corp admitted to “losing” 10% of their MobileMe subscribers email between July 16th and July 18th.[3] A wave of blog posts have popped up as a result of this problem, with subscribers making claims of everything from lost job opportunities to lost business. We tend to view email as a low cost service, yet clearly when it fails, the costs can be startling. Apple would only remark that the problem was due to a “serious issue.” So what exactly does happen to these wayward email messages, delayed or lost?
The truth is there are dozens of potential reasons for email delivery delays and errors. With complex business-grade email systems, like Microsoft® Exchange and Lotus Notes, there are many ways to build and configure a system. Some conform to the highest standards, while others barely meet the minimum requirements. With very little effort, you can determine whether your system had been adequately configured to suit your needs.
High Availability
As the name implies, High Availability is a system or network that is operational, or available, with a high degree of certainty and frequency. Ceryx, a Hosted Exchange provider, has made high-availability one of their primary focuses. With data centers in New York and Toronto, they have developed various technologies to replicate all messaging data in real-time and can fail over to the secondary facility in the event of catastrophe, allowing them to provide a real 100% SLA. While most providers tend to choose between high availability and high performance, all of Ceryx’s Microsoft Exchange deployments have been built to meet the highest standard of availability uptime without sacrificing performance.
One benchmark for testing an application provider’s performance is to log in to the webmail application and switch from the email view to the calendar view. Pick a folder with lots of messages in it and try sorting by “sender” and then clicking through the various pages. If there is a noticeable delay between these actions then your application provider’s performance may not be adequate.
A system’s availability is determined by numerous factors, each of which is examined below.
Architecture
Delays are often a result of high server RPC latency. RPC, or Remote Procedure Call, is how the Outlook client or the Outlook Web Access client (OWA) communicates with the Exchanger servers. RPC latency refers to the delay between initiating a request and its completion. RPC latency, as seen from the client, is a combination of networking latency and server latency. For good performance, the Microsoft guideline is 50ms average latency on the mailbox servers.[4] If mailbox server RPC latency averages much higher than this, the desktop user can experience “pop-ups” and warnings about problems with the connection from Outlook to the Exchange server. In the background, inbound and outbound email is not being processed as the system tries to catch up with other requests. Excessive “pop-ups” can become more than just an irritant; they can slow down a PC to the point of being unusable while Outlook tries to establish a connection to the server.
Ceryx aims to maintain an RPC rate 20ms or less. To do this, they have avoided the tendency of many providers who built their systems with less expensive virtualized environments and network attached storage. Instead Ceryx has invested in server clusters and high-end SANs (Storage Area Networks) at each of their data centers. SANs provide disk access performance, as well as redundancy through RAID configurations and fibre channel connectivity to the mailbox servers.
Many providers, in an effort to reduce costs, combine the Client Access Server and the Hub Transport Server (servers used to facilitate email delivery) on a single physical machine. This dual role can introduce latency at times of peak usage and throttle the ability to handle large outbound mail queues. Ceryx has engineered the Hub Transport role to ensure message queues can be quickly cleared even during periods of heavy load. By combining multiple, dedicated physical Hub Transport servers with the built-in round-robin load balancing capabilities of Exchange 2007, messages are quickly distributed to their destination on the internet. For legitimate email, hardware load balancing is used to ensure optimal performance of the critical Hub Transport role, which processes every single message that passes through the system.
Monitoring
Most hardware load balancing configurations can achieve both high performance and high availability; however, to sustain high performance and high availability – with a dynamic system like a Hosted Exchange deployment, where usage and load can vary dramatically – you must have an advanced monitoring system and the processes in place to scale the system in response to constantly changing variables.
Some providers install generic monitoring packages that tend to monitor every single metric available, whether the metrics provide meaningful insight to system performance or not. With Ceryx, every aspect of the environment from key metrics around SAN queue length through to standard metrics like CPU utilization and memory usage are closely monitored, trended, and understood. This information is used to develop highly accurate forecasting and scheduled system scaling. Any provider who has not invested in such monitoring tools and resources will just react to spikes in usage and load. Ceryx plans for them.
Breathing Room
Another major reason for email delays and poor performance can again be attributed to basic economics. A “store” is the unique databases for storing messaging data. With Microsoft Exchange 2007 Enterprise, there is a limit of 50 stores per server, with a Microsoft recommended limit of 200 GB for each store. Some providers will try to maximize the number of customers they can support by pushing these limits. Ceryx does the opposite. Ceryx maintains a maximum of 50 GB per store – one quarter of the maximum – in order to deliver the best raw database performance and protect against data corruption, common with larger stores. With these hard restrictions in place, it’s difficult to imagine how some providers – who offer mailboxes up to 4GB – are able to run a sustainable business and maintain high performance and availability.
IOPS
Economics may also drive another cause of poor performance: IOPS, a measurement of the number of times data can be written and read to disk per second, can vary widely per system. With Microsoft Exchange, IOPS capacity is directly related to performance and a heavy user can use up to 1 IOPS under certain circumstances. Each disk has a maximum number of IOPS it can support, so a careful ratio of users per array of disks is essential to maintain decent performance.
Ceryx is careful to maintain a generous ratio of IOPS per user based on real-world metrics monitored from its large user base, taking into consideration peak activities times and not just daily averages.
Routing Issues
To be fair, email delays and errors may occur outside your environment. In the scenario where your colleague was eagerly sitting and waiting for an email to arrive, it may have got stuck somewhere “in the cloud” – somewhere in between both of your email environments.
On a pre-sales and support level, Ceryx has developed a number of troubleshooting tools to help identify potential routing issues. As with any application “hosted in the cloud,” bandwidth is an important consideration when trying to ensure a positive end-users experience. Microsoft Exchange, which consumes 3 KB of a client’s internet connection per active user, is no different. Ceryx has developed a tool that simulates a series of network connections to determine if the client has adequate bandwidth to support their user base. Through this exercise they have discovered that – with any client moving from an on-premise environment to a hosted environment – any increase in bandwidth required is partially offset by decommissioning and offloading SMTP traffic, external connections spam traffic and attacks.
Spam/Anti-Virus
Of course the most notorious place a message gets “stuck” or delayed is in a provider’s anti-virus and spam filtering system. Ceryx runs seven different anti-virus products in its environment to ensure system health and email hygiene. That level of protection could potentially cripple an ordinary system that wasn’t built for high performance; however, Ceryx has not only sized their solution with the performance hit associated with anti-virus scanning in mind, but also closely monitors its environment to ensure email delivery is never compromised by spam and anti-virus filtering.
Beware of any provider who either ignores this potential performance hit or, worse yet, removes backend anti-virus all together. Removing anti-virus may appear to be a good way to control costs, as high-end solutions can be very expensive, but removing them allows viruses in, and once in, are often hard to then find, never mind remove. Ceryx’s system scans incoming and outgoing messages as well as messages in the store on a scheduled basis. A regular scan of mailbox databases is just as important as gateway anti-virus to reduce the instance of catastrophic failure.
Mobility
The benefits and usability of the Ceryx architecture can be measured not only on the desktop level but for mobile users as well, who share the same highly optimized and redundant environment. Ceryx also maintains fully-replicated BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Servers) in both its environments to maintain maximum mobility uptime as well. Forum Oilfield Services, out of Houston Texas, currently has 600 employees using the Ceryx Hosted Exchange solution, with almost 100 mobile users.
Beware of “Bargains”
Unfortunately the market is crowded with Hosted Exchange providers who are not as concerned about delivering a dependable and resilient solution as they are about keeping their costs low and selling high volumes of mailboxes. Providers that offer 3 or 4 GB mailboxes are ignoring the commonly held understanding that mailboxes of this size do not perform well and are highly susceptible to data corruption. That corruption is not limited to just the user in question, but can impact all users on that store, potentially even the entire server.
These providers can only offer mailboxes of this size at a bargain price if they compromise on some other expense – dedicated servers, SANs, anti-virus solutions or a fully redundant architecture. Of course the much greater expense is the lost productivity and opportunity that results from using a solution that was designed with the primary goal of meeting the lowest possible price point to compete with free solutions in the market, and not delivering Enterprise performance and availability.
Ask all potential vendors for the following:
- Customer references
(Quiz the references about any down-time they may have experienced) - The SLA
Have a close look at the financial penalties if high availability is not maintained. Professional hosting providers, confident in their systems ability to maintain high availability, will include clearly worded conditions in their SLA around the exact fees that will be paid to a customer should they not maintain an acceptable level of up-time.
How Do You Measure Up?
A lost or delayed email could be viewed as a nuisance or as a warning. Purchasing decisions need to be fiscally responsible, but often, seemingly bargain solutions can have a devastating and costly effect in the long run.
So how does your system measure up? Using Ceryx as a control, measure the speed, versatility, and resilience of your system.
Ceryx
SLA: 100%
Latency: < 20 ms
GB / Store: 50 GB / Store
IOPS per User: High
Bandwidth Sizing Tools: Yes
Spam / Anti-Virus: Gateway + Mailbox Server, Integrated
Mobile Device Access: Redundant BlackBerry, ActiveSync
Ceryx customers share the belief that their data is their companies most valued asset. As the most used collaboration tool in business, an individual Microsoft Exchange account typically contains a blueprint of an employee’s tenure: their schedule, correspondence (and commitments), contacts, contracts and much more. Ceryx customers trust that this real-time journal is safe, available and always accessible.
Footnotes:
[1] The Wav Group: Gaining an Edge in Real Estate with Smartphones http://wavgroup.com
[2] The Open Press: http://www.theopenpress.com/index.php?a=press&id=42004
[3] Apple Support Forum: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1953
[4] Microsoft Exchange Team Blog: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2005/09/28/411674.aspx
[5] Microsoft TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738147.aspx
John Carthy
http://www.articlesbase.com/communication-articles/learn-the-top-reasons-behind-poor-performance-availability-with-microsoft-exchange-751535.html
Damian Green and the Communist Coup in Britain
By UK Lockdown
‘The Arrest’
At 1.30pm on Thursday, 27th November, 2008, shadow immigration minister Damian Green a democratically elected member of parliament was arrested by three counter-terrorism officers in a car park in Kent, following on from this his constituency office and his office in the House of Commons were searched, nine counter-terrorism officers also searched his London home as part of the arrest. Green was kept for nine hours and then questioned on the alleged crimes, his computers, Mobile phone and even his a Television were confiscated by the police as part of the investigation, apparently his email account was also shut down in the search for incriminating evidence.
‘Alleged Crimes Committed’
Green was arrested for allegedly abetting an agreement to commit a criminal offence, the law in question is an obscure common law offence of aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office, it must be noted that the offence in question carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment which could see Damian Green given the same sentence as a murderer, rapist or terrorist. Under the same law Journalist Sally Murrer was arrested in 2007 over tips she had received from Police Sergeant Mark Kerney and published in the Milton Keynes Citizen, she was also subjugated to an ordeal of repeated interrogations, strip searches and threats of imprisonment before she was later released after the case against her and the police officer collapsed.
‘Analysis’
The arrest of this minister highlights a problem that needs to be addressed if our society is to avoid the fate of being turned into a socialist based totalitarian state similar to the soviet union, the sovietisation of our society has been well underway for a long time now, it’s almost impossible to have failed to notice the excessive political correctness, the removal of competition from our school system, the favourable media coverage given to socialist intellectuals, and many other general examples that exist across our society as a whole that openly demonstrate the true agenda of the people who govern or more accurately mis-govern our society. Consider the definition below
Martial law is sometimes imposed during wars or occupations in the absence of any other civil government. Examples of this form of military rule include Germany and Japan after World War II or the American South during the early stages of Reconstruction. In addition it is used by governments to enforce their rule, for example after a coup d’état (Thailand 2006), when threatened by popular protests (Tiananmen Square protests of 1989), or to crack down on the opposition (Poland 1981). Martial law can also be declared in cases of major natural disasters; however most countries use a different legal construct, such as a “state of emergency”. In many countries martial law imposes particular rules, one of which is curfew. Often, under this system, the administration of justice is left to a military tribunal, called a court-martial. The suspension of the writ of habeas corpus is likely to occur.
As a result of this arrest it is now clear that the agenda to transform Britain into a socialist state has taken a huge step forward, Green’s arrest means that the cabinet/ executive branch of government have now exercised their full powers under the anti-terror laws to spy on and arrest and remove an elected member of parliament who has done nothing wrong, any ministers in parliament who are even considering stepping out of line with the true agenda of the top level of government are now categorized as terrorists and are being treated accordingly, a clear message is being sent out to all ministers in parliament ‘step out of line and you are a terrorist’, in other words all who disagree with the socialist agenda in store for our society in the not to distant future have been warned, Britain is now in a state of Martial Law The repeated refusal of the British people to accept the reality of how bad things are in our society has led to the acceptance by the general population of new conditions that have seen the unofficial declaration of martial law in our country, the unjustified arrest of Green has now made that declaration official, six million cameras, anti-terror legislation, excessive fines, media scaremongering over crime and terrorism has led our country right into the hands of dictators, for those who have fallen for the government and media deception and who think dictatorial socialism in Britain is a good idea the following information must be reviewed.
Money Masters Film This film will explain in 3 hours what the mainstream media have been trying to cover up for the last three months about the so-called ‘credit crunch’.
911 Missing Links This film highlights previously unknown information relating to crimes committed on the world trade center on September, 11, 2001, which is the main justification used for the massive expansion of state power under anti-terror laws across America and around the world.
It’s no coincidence that we have seen the most rapid expansion of state power since the second world war over the last seven years during the fight in the so-called war on terror, and that an economic collapse of global proportions has been developing over the same period of time, states across the planet have been rapidly centralising power and so have the major corporations over the last few years, the recession has been used to allow the state and the corporations to gain even more power crushing their competition in the process, MP Damian Green is simply a victim of that agenda, this level of centralised power has corrupted our society and that is why we are losing our freedom, until the crime network that are behind the events that are causing this national and global centralisation of power are exposed for who they really are we will never have a decent society, enough is enough it’s time to take a stand against organised crime in our society, and root out the criminals that have taken over our government.
UK Lockdown
http://www.articlesbase.com/politics-articles/damian-green-and-the-communist-coup-in-britain-678346.html
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Have you tried the great website Say no to 0870?
http://www.saynoto0870.com/
You can get proper phone numbers (e.g. 020….) for most 0870 and 0845 numbers, so you can call from mobiles etc.
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Infiltrations
The one thing Targeted Individuals have to understand is the concept of Infiltration. This means that agents, hired operatives, civillian informants, etc will try to infiltrate your organizations or your life.
I recently posted an article about Infiltration of online groups. This has been happening for some time now. Many people think if they are posting online that they will not be investigated, but there are infiltrators who try to engage posters in conversations, where they get them to say things against the government, or use talk of violence, something that might not happen without the provocateur. These individuals are on most of the popular forums, and often you won’t know who they are. You might get a sense of who they are based on their postings, but that is not always the case.
Here on some things to be aware of regarding Infiltrations.
[quote]http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/security/police-hire-private-spies-to-snoop-online/2008/11/26/1227491580370.html
Police hire private spies to snoop online
THE Internet communications and websites of anti-war campaigners, environmentalists, animal rights activists and other protest groups are being secretly monitored by state and federal agencies.
A Melbourne private intelligence firm specialising in “open-source intelligence” has been engaged by Victoria Police, the Australian Federal Police and the federal Attorney-General’s Department to monitor and report on the protest movements’ use of the internet.
The monitoring, which has been secretly conducted for at least five years, includes exploring websites, online chat rooms, social networking sites, email lists and bulletin boards to gather information on planned demonstrations and other activities. Many of those monitored have not broken any laws, but it is believed information about their participation in online activities is conveyed to government agencies that also deal with terrorism.[/quote]
These types of infiltrations are happening all over the Internet. Sometimes the poster will just be observing gathering information and monitoring. In other cases they will perform a similar fuction to their offline components, and they will engage posters in extreme conversations about violence, anti-government sentiments, etc.
When J.Edgar Hoover ran the FBI, the infiltration of the KKK was about 20% infiltration. The agents that had infiltrated the FBI were often responsible for encouraging acts of violence on others, or enacting those acts of violence themselves.
The FBI kept talking with Klan members. By 1965, some 20 percent of Klan members were on the
[quote]The FBI kept talking with Klan members. By 1965, some 20 percent of Klan members were on the FBI payroll, many occupying leadership positions in seven of the fourteen Klan groups across the country, states political scientist Robert Goldstein in “Political Repression in Modern America: 1870 to the Present,” [/quote]
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-20-2006-91543.asp
[quote]Glick lists four main methods used by the agents:
1) infiltration by agents and informers with the intention to discredit and disrupt;
2) psychological warfare from the outside, using “dirty tricks” to undermine progressive movements; 3) harassment through the legal system, making targets appear to be criminal; and
4) extralegal force and violence including break-ins, vandalism, assaults, and beatings to frighten dissidents and disrupt their movements. [/quote]
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It was COINTELPRO “that enabled the FBI and police to eliminate the leaders of mass movements in the 1960s without undermining the image of the United States as a democracy, complete with free speech and the rule of law.
“Charismatic orators and dynamic organizers were covertly attacked and ‘neutralized’ before their skills could be transferred to others and stable structures established to carry on their work.”
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This is why new movements have a hard time getting started. The legit movements are often infiltrated, with the provocateurs, or Informants moving to the forefront of the movement.
[quote]Dr. King was a target of an elaborate COINTELPRO plot to drive him to suicide and replace him “in his role of the leadership of the Negro people” with conservative Black lawyer Samuel Pierce (later named to President Ronald Reagan’s cabinet) according to revisionist historians including Glick and Zinn, who have come to view King’s assassination, as well as Malcolm X’s, as domestic covert operations.
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The scary part of these operations is that they will allow a movement to go forward as long as they can eventually be in control. This means that had they been successful in getting Martin Luther King Jr, to kill himself, they would have had their man already set in place to take the helm. They don’t have a problem with the movement as long as they can run the show, or have their people running the show, and their information getting out to the public.
The other thing to be aware of is that they often start groups themselves, with their own people, this way it seems like there is a movement happening, but again they are running the show.
[quote]But Glick and several other researchers argue that COINTELPRO-white appeared only to go after violent right-wing groups, and that the FBI actually gave covert aid to the Ku Klux Klan, Minutemen, Nazis, and other racist vigilantes, under the cover of being even-handed.
“These groups received substantial funds, information, and protection – and suffered only token FBI harassment – so long as they directed their violence against COINTELPRO targets,” Glick wrote.
“They were not subjected to serious disruption unless they breached this tacit understanding and attacked established business and political leaders.”
Specifically, COINTELPRO documents indicate that some infiltrators discreetly spied for years without calling attention to themselves (like the Soviet moles or sleepers) while others acted as instigators to disrupt meetings and conventions or social and other contacts.
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Sleepers that’s a scary concept, but even as far back as Cointelpro this idea was used. To always have one of theirs at the helm, ready to take over. It’s mind boggling how this system works.
[quote]Agents spread rumors, made accusations, inflamed disagreements, and caused splits. “They urged divisive proposals, sabotaged activities, overspent scarce resources, stole funds, seduced leaders, exacerbated rivalries, caused jealousy and public embarrassment to groups. They often led activists into unnecessary danger and set them up for prosecution.”
One common maneuver, known as placing a “snitch jacket” or “bad jacket” on an activist, damaged the victim’s effectiveness and generated “confusion, distrust, and paranoia.” The maneuver was used to divert time and energy and turn co-workers against one another, even provoking violence.
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The only thing that’s changed is that they have probably become better at their tactics, and the world at large has become less aware, or completely oblivious.
In Russia this method of dissident infiltration was also used.
http://www.aclu.org/images/asset_upload_file744_30623.pdf
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In the Stasi’s “War on Dissent,” dissenters were the most valuable informants, and the Stasi recruited heavily within the very world it was trying to destroy, employing the very people it was trying to eliminate. As a result, East German dissident-informants often paradoxically “helped the [anti-government] movement , partly simply by swelling its ranks, but also by actively working on opposition activities.”[/quote]
Governments do go after dissidents or those they are trying to eliminate. This way if they can’t eliminate the target, they will try to turn the target. So you could actively have members of a movement who are working for both sides. They are moving the movement forward with one hand, and putting it two steps back with the second hand. It’s very frustrating, because some of these people did start out as genuine activists, but at some point, they were destitute, set up, arrested, institutionalized, etc. They decided to turn informant and work for the state.
I have come across a few of these in doing this research. At first I would judge these people harshly, but now I feel sorry for some of them. Some are happy enough to sell out, but others just really don’t know what to do. They are poor, and without means and resources. This is something groups should be aware of. Someone who is a true target today, might become a turned Informant working for the state. It’s a very scary concept, but it’s again something to be aware of.
http://security.resist.ca/personal/informants.shtml
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Some types of infiltrators stay in the background and offer material support, other informants may have nothing to do with the group or action, but initially heard certain plans and tipped off the police. Among the more active types of infiltrators can be a gregarious person that quickly wins group trust. Some infiltrators will attempt to gain key forms of control, such as of communications/ secretarial, or finances. Other informants can use charm and sex to get intimate with activists, to better spy or potentially destabilize group dynamics.
Active infiltrators can also be provocateurs specializing in disruptive tactics such as sowing disorder and demoralizing meetings or demos, heightening conflicts whether they are interpersonal or about action or theory, or pushing things further with bravado and violent proposals. Infiltrators often need to build credibility; they may do this by claiming to have participated in past actions.
Also, infiltrators will try to exploit activist sensibilities regarding oppression and diversity. Intelligence organizations will send in someone who will pose as a person experiencing the common oppression of the particular activist group. For example, in the 1960′s, the Weather Underground (“Weathermen” – a white anti-imperialist armed struggle in the US) was infiltrated by an “ordinary Joe” informant with a working class image. Black war veterans were used to infiltrate the Black Panther Party. [/quote]
You will see this a lot if you visit some online or offline groups. They profile you in many cases before hand, so they think they know what triggers to use on you. The only thing you can do is profile yourself and know yourself better than they think they know you. They will try to play off of your vulnerabilities if they can find them.
The government also used Informants on the panthers, that’s how they knew where Fred Hampton would be, and the informant might have drugged Fred Hampton, just before the assassination.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/FBI/Fed_Bureau_Intimidation.html
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In 1976, the mothers of the victims filed a civil rights suit against the FBI. The COINTELPRO files released during the trial showed that the FBI had an informant named William O’Neal in the Chicago Panthers. O’Neal was a trusted friend of Hampton and chief of security in the Chicago chapter. Taylor described, “He was the classic provocateur under COINTELPRO, always suggesting far-out violent schemes. He turned out to be the Judas who helped set up Fred Hampton’s murder”
O’Neal fed information to FBI agent Roy Mitchell, who worked closely with the Chicago Police Department’s Gang Intelligence Unit, the squad that dealt specifically with Black organizations. Days before the raid, O’Neal gave Mitchell a detailed floor plan of Hampton’s apartment that indicated where Hampton and his fiancee Akna Ajeri (who was eight months pregnant with their child at the time of the raid) usually slept.
Taylor also believes that there is strong evidence that O’Neal drugged Hampton on the day of the raid. Hampton’s autopsy showed a large amount of secobarbital in his system, despite the fact that he was militantly against drugs.
Hampton was shot in the head in his bed. He never even woke up. In 1982, after many appeals, the courts finally awarded survivors of the raid $1.85 million in damages. But to this day, no police or FBI agents have ever been indicted for these ruthless murders.
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An Informant was also able to get close to Malcolm X and became one of his bodyguards.
http://www.etext.org/Politics/Buzzkill/buzzkill.7
[quote]Malcolm X as early as 1953, when the young minister for the Nation of Islam was placed on a Security Index of people top be rounded up and detained in times of “danger to national security.” and there was at least one under cover informant present at his assassination:
Malcolm’s bodyguard Gene Roberts, who was actually an undercover cop with the New York Police Depart-ment’s Bureau of Special Services (BOSS).
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These people in organizations have a way of rising to the top, getting into trusted positions. That is a part of the consistent M.O. that we see with Infiltrators. In researching I have not found any one surefire way of dealing with them.
The paid Infiltrators are often profiled, these are individuals that they would like to use as Informants.
http://november.org/stayinfo/breaking08/MolesWanted.html
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Carroll, who requested that his real name not be used, showed up early and waited anxiously for Swanson’s arrival. Ten minutes later, he says, a casually dressed Swanson showed up, flanked by a woman whom he introduced as FBI Special Agent Maureen E. Mazzola. For the next 20 minutes, Mazzola would do most of the talking.
“She told me that I had the perfect ‘look,’” recalls Carroll. “And that I had the perfect personality — they kept saying I was friendly and personable — for what they were looking for.”
What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant — someone to show up at “vegan potlucks” throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders with RNC protestors, schmoozing his way into their inner circles, [b]then reporting back to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership between multiple federal agencies and state and local law enforcement.[/b] The effort’s primary mission, according to the Minneapolis division’s website, is to “investigate terrorist acts carried out by groups or organizations which fall within the definition of terrorist groups as set forth in the current United States Attorney General Guidelines.”
Carroll would be compensated for his efforts, but only if his involvement yielded an arrest. No exact dollar figure was offered.
“I’ll pass,” said Carroll.
For 10 more minutes, Mazzola and Swanson tried to sway him. He remained obstinate.
“Well, if you change your mind, call this number,” said Mazzola, handing him her card with her cell phone number scribbled on the back.
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This young man was originally arrested for spray painting. (There is no way to know if he was encouraged by an Informant to perform the action.)
After he served his time for the activity, he was contacted to become an Informant, which he declined. Yet they still kept pressuring him.
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=550324
A similar scenario happened to a young man over at the Storm Front Forum. He called to find out more information about the local laws regarding Firearms in the state. A few days later he was paid a visit by the FBI. After discussing his phone call, which is what initiated the visit. He was asked to become a paid Informant to infiltrate white nationalist organizations. He was also asked to name anyone he knew who was involved in any illegal activities.
He advised that he was not aware of anyone involved in illegal activities, and that he did not wish to become an informant. Since then he has been a target of Gang Stalking, and they occasionally call him to see if he will change his mind and become an Informant, which he constantly declines.
(The best thing to do in this scenario is to get a lawyer, and give them the phone number or the card of your lawyer the next time they come calling. )
This information is from the security culture brochure. If you do get a lawyer expect even more retaliation, but it’s apparently the best method for dealing with this kind of pressure.
http://www.gangstalkingworld.com/Handbook/TheHiddenEvil.pdf
On his former website, and PDF Mark M. Rich had also mentioned that these support groups might have been infiltrated.
[quote]If you join a support group, you may also receive harassment via threads posted on message boards. Like other mediums of harassment, the topics of these threads may be about events that are unfolding in your personal life, as well as threats or insults covertly directed at you. This will probably happen repeatedly by the same person or people.
They may also employ some Gaslighting, or Jacketing tactics. Jacketing was often used during Cointelpro to make genuine activists look like informants.(10) Some internet groups which help stalking victims are heavily populated with perpetrators posing as victims.(7) Some of these perpetrators seem to be very vocal & popular members of these support groups. It seems that this a damage-control mechanism put in place to corral people, manage them to some
degree, & impede the groups’ progress. These people may also help with misdirecting events, or generally keeping groups disorganized & ineffective, under the illusion that progress is being been made.
These informants/perpetrators will give you correct information, & you may not find out until later that they’re trying to traumatize you as well. You may not be able to make other group members aware of it, as these informants may be well-respected members. It seems like a contradiction. Why would a perpetrator give you valuable information?
While I don’t know the exact answer to this question, here are some possibilities:
1.They know you would have eventually found the information anyway, so this trade-off is worth appearing genuine & gaining your trust, which may be exploited at a later date.
2.Create fear & uncertainty within you, causing you to doubt your own judgment.
3.This
may further traumatize a person with feelings of hopelessness when they learn that a very well respected group member is harassing him/her.
If you think that the people who oversee these neutralization programs have not infiltrated these groups, or even deliberately created some as a catch-net in order to disrupt & minimize progress, you are probably mistaken. The people who designed this system were not incompetent & some of these support groups seem to be just another phase of the campaign. If you find yourself on the receiving end of repeated covert or overt criticism by one or more of these prominent victims, you can give yourself a great big pat on the back. This one of many layers in this system of control that you’ll encounter.
Also, some people who may have been genuinely trying to raise awareness, may have been bribed, blackmailed or simply tortured (Directed Energy Weapons) into becoming informants, & therefore, have been compromised. Some of the most outspoken victims & leaders in these groups appear to be deliberately operating within boundaries designed to slow progress. And, as in most social systems, there is envy, fear & jealously. If you choose to participate in one of these support groups, you may want to limit your exposure to certain people. However, although these groups are fraught with perpetrators, not all of them are. So you may still want to attend meetings & events as it will be a good opportunity to connect with other people. You will find many people who are very decent & you may even make some
new friends. Trust your own judgment.
I have been in contact with perpetrators posing as victims on the phone & via email that have hinted that I must not be genuine. It is likely that these fake victims have probably spread lies to targeted individuals indicating that I’m not really targeted since I don’t appear to be suffering or helpless. If you are raising awareness, then discrediting attempts such as these will be standard practice. It appears to be critical that they attempt to isolate you from group members who you may have a positive influence on. Once again, organizations were heavily infiltrated during Cointelpro & jacketing was used extensively.(10)
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In his research in the PDF Mark had formerly covered the concept of Infiltrations as well. I am not sure if this is covered on the new site.
Infiltrations and organizations seem to go hand in hand. Even if you start out with a good crop of individuals, you still have the possibility of Informants infiltrating the group. They are prone to achieving high levels of trust in organizations, they can also be used for disruption and disinformation. They can even be used as sleeper cells for down the line.
With Infiltration the idea is sometimes to destroy the organization, at other times it is to ensure the state is in control of the organization, this is true offline and online. This is also true for personal infiltrations. Getting someone into your life so they are in a position of trust, which can be used later.
The idea is to not become too paranoid, because then you will not be able to function, however it’s wise to be cognizant of these Infiltrations on a personal and professional level.
http://milwaukee.indymedia.org/en/2005/08/203959.shtml
gangstalking
http://www.articlesbase.com/news-and-society-articles/infiltrations-704029.html