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Originally posted by woghd
The FBI already works with interpol and other international agencies. What the heck does ICE have to do with kiddieporn? ICE agents are FEMA camp guards.
And of course they use kiddieporn...
Who's going to argue against an entity that's fighting Kiddieporn!
Unreal, and everyone will fall for it too, and when Sgt. Thug Jackboot is throwing you
into a FEMA camp, you can feel good about the work they are doing fighting
international kiddieporn...edit on 8-4-2011 by woghd because: (no reason given)
Quote from : Wikipedia : Secret Trial
A secret trial is a trial that is not open to the public, nor reported in the news.
Generally no official record of the case or the judge's verdict is made available.
Often there is no indictment.
The accused is not able to obtain the counsel of an attorney or confront witnesses for the prosecution, and the proceedings are characterized by a perceived miscarriage of justice to the benefit of the ruling powers of the society.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
That's already the case.
Now how insidious has it been?
Originally posted by ArMaP
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
I'm glad I live in Portugal, don't have a car or a cell phone.
But I don't get what's the problem with this news, maybe I'm too tired to understand you first posts.
I only posted after doing just that, I'm not that lazy.
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
Then by all means please go back and re-read it and all of my subsequent posts as well.
How can you be so sure that something that, as far as I know, doesn't have a real presence in any country and works just as a connection between law enforcement agencies will shift focus and will, eventually, go after conspiracy theorists?
The problem with this is the fact that a Virtual Global Taskforce will eventually shift focus.
Meaning, expanding targets, not just online pedophiles but hackers and crackers (criminal hackers).
And eventually on to online communities like ATS and elsewhere in regards to conspiracy theorists.
But they are not a law enforcement agency. If they are, who is the organisation or country hierarchically above them?
Law Enforcement, no matter the country, eventually does this to maintain viability.
In order to expand their scope and area of influence and to gain additional funding.
As well as adapting with the new "target" of the day according to the White House or United Nations.
Originally posted by ArMaP
I only posted after doing just that, I'm not that lazy.
Originally posted by ArMaP
How can you be so sure that something that, as far as I know, doesn't have a real presence in any country and works just as a connection between law enforcement agencies will shift focus and will, eventually, go after conspiracy theorists?
Originally posted by ArMaP
Do you have any inside information about it or an example of that happening before with a different (but with the same role as a connection between other organisations) organisation?
Originally posted by ArMaP
But they are not a law enforcement agency. If they are, who is the organisation or country hierarchically above them?
Sorry, I don't understand how that answer relates to that part of my post.
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
Originally posted by ArMaP
How can you be so sure that something that, as far as I know, doesn't have a real presence in any country and works just as a connection between law enforcement agencies will shift focus and will, eventually, go after conspiracy theorists?
I am 100% certain there is within each and every Government.
In Portugal they are mostly seen as people that have too much time on their hands, but not as rebels or dissidents, probably because we had a revolution some years ago and we know what a revolutionary is.
And in most countries "conspiracy theorists" are seen as rebels, dissidents, and or a revolution.
Sorry, I also do not understand how those examples are related to the shifting of focus of those organisations.
Let me give you a few examples.
I meant that Virtual Global Taskforce is not a law enforcement agency, they only (apparently) direct law enforcement agencies to specific cases when people complain to them.
Which particular part of any of my prior posts are not linked to Law Enforcement?
No need for that, I know how those things work, the 48 years long dictatorship we had in Portugal was a perfect example of how that happens in a country, city or street level.
Nazi Germany was the very first example of many other historical alliances of evil people.
I can go back to the Bible, Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece, Egypt and other cultures as well.
Originally posted by ArMaP
How can you be so sure that something that, as far as I know, doesn't have a real presence in any country and works just as a connection between law enforcement agencies will shift focus and will, eventually, go after conspiracy theorists?
Sorry, I don't understand how that answer relates to that part of my post.
Originally posted by ArMaP
In Portugal they are mostly seen as people that have too much time on their hands, but not as rebels or dissidents, probably because we had a revolution some years ago and we know what a revolutionary is.
Originally posted by ArMaP
Sorry, I also do not understand how those examples are related to the shifting of focus of those organisations.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Patriot Act
The USA PATRIOT Act (commonly known as the "Patriot Act") is an Act of the U.S. Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001.
The title of the Act is a contrived three letter initialism (USA) preceding a seven letter acronym (PATRIOT), which in combination stand for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.
The Act dramatically reduced restrictions on law enforcement agencies' ability to search telephone, e-mail communications, medical, financial, and other records; eased restrictions on foreign intelligence gathering within the United States; expanded the Secretary of the Treasury’s authority to regulate financial transactions, particularly those involving foreign individuals and entities; and broadened the discretion of law enforcement and immigration authorities in detaining and deporting immigrants suspected of terrorism-related acts.
The act also expanded the definition of terrorism to include domestic terrorism, thus enlarging the number of activities to which the USA PATRIOT Act’s expanded law enforcement powers can be applied.
The act is currently set to expire May 29, 2011; after a 90 day extension from February 28 by congress.
Originally posted by ArMaP
I meant that Virtual Global Taskforce is not a law enforcement agency, they only (apparently) direct law enforcement agencies to specific cases when people complain to them.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Abwehr
The Abwehr was a German military intelligence (information gathering) organisation from 1921 to 1944.
The term Abwehr ([ˈapveːɐ̯], German for defence) was used as a concession to Allied demands that Germany's post-World War I intelligence activities be for "defensive" purposes only.
SKL's Amazon Review :
This book was recommended by someone I respect very much. It was definately an interesting look into the planting, hunting, and detention of the German spies before, during, and after World War II.
The Double-Cross system was also informative as well, and the games that spies on all sides played in order to make certain their side won were informative and interesting.
Some of the things that were done were quite simple and some were extremely difficult and diverse.
It was definately worth purchasing and I only wish I had heard of the book sooner than last year.
Quote from : Wikipedia : MI5
The Security Service commonly known as MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of the intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS).
All come under the direction of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC).
The service has a statutory basis in the Security Service Act 1989 and the Intelligence Services Act 1994.
Its remit includes the protection of British parliamentary democracy and economic interests, counter-terrorism and counter-espionage within the UK.
Although mainly concerned with internal security, it does have an overseas role in support of its mission.
Amazon Review : On June 10th, 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that the US had captured a known terrorist who was exploring a plan to explode a "dirty bomb" on American soil.
That alleged terrorist was José Padilla who was finally charged in 2005 with conspiracy to murder.
What Ashcroft didn't talk about was how information against him was obtained – by the relentless torture of one man-- Binyam Mohamed, in the name of the United States.
Arrested at Karachi Airport before Padilla’s arrest on April 10, 2002, Mohamed was put on a luxury executive jet and flown to an interrogation center in Morocco.
For over 18 months, he was subjected to one torture after another:
Beating followed beating and, then, his guards produced razor blades and began to split the skin all over his body, including on his genitals.
Since 1997, hundreds of people, many of whom have no ties to terrorist organizations, have been abducted from foreign airports or street corners on suspicions based at times on the flimsiest of evidence courtesy of the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
In Ghost Plane, Stephen Grey tells the true story of the CIA's torture program known by the euphemism "extraordinary rendition" and the airplanes that make the program run.
Begun during the Clinton administration, but taking a decidedly more voracious turn after 9/11, the rendition system has seen the transfer of more than 1000 prisoners into jails stretching from Guantanamo to Syria, from Kabul to Bangkok and beyond.
Grey had access to the thousands of CIA flight records and has interviewed dozens of sources from the most senior levels of the National Security Council to the CIA.
In Ghost Plane, he paints a disturbing picture of the War on Terror that reaches to the highest levels of power in Washington, D.C. and exposes the extreme ethical corruption at the heart of this US government program, a program finally acknowledged by President George Bush in September 2006, undertaken in the name of the citizens of the United States.
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Originally posted by ArMaP
No need for that, I know how those things work, the 48 years long dictatorship we had in Portugal was a perfect example of how that happens in a country, city or street level.
What do you mean by "this"?
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
It is relevant on many levels.
As previously mentioned this is happening.
I am talking about the difference between learning about revolutions and the historical context and living in that historical context and seeing things happening, talking with people that organised things before and after the revolution, etc.
Sure, apparently Americans do not have any idea of what a revolutionary is, is that it?
Sorry, not buying that as an excuse, so excuse me for rolling my eyes.
Every person learns about revolutions and those doing them.
Whether they grasp the historical context or remember history is of course up for debate.
No, more like people that have enough money not to bothered with having to work.
"Too much time on someone's hands" can be because of economic manipulation of Government.
Like our current worldwide economy and the joblessness happening all over.
No, an intelligence-gathering operation without operatives.
Oh?
So, would you agree then, with it being more of an intelligence-gathering operation?
An intelligence agency in essence?
Like say MI5?
Are you talking about Europol or the Virtual Global Taskforce? I am only talking about the Virtual Global Taskforce.
The chart below is directly from Europol's website.
Due to trending, funding, and shifting agenda their stances on cybercrime will eventually change.
Specifically going after conspiracy theorists and any other type of online "crime".
Good for you, information is the best tool against those that have the power. The Lisbon Cardinal during most of the Portuguese dictatorship used to say that people only needed to know how to sign their name and little more. The law that governed the education ministry, in the part about eradicating illiteracy, was based on the idea that the people only needed to know how to read and write, so education would not go beyond the first four years of primary school.
Whether this means I have more time on my hands is of course up to you.
I prefer to see it as being an informed American citizen.
Originally posted by ArMaP
What do you mean by "this"?
I am talking about agencies like Virtual Global Taskforce, apparently with no agents, shifting their focus from "keep the Internet sage for children" to "persecuting conspiracy theorists". Are you talking about that? Because if you are I do not see the connections.
Originally posted by ArMaP
I am talking about the difference between learning about revolutions and the historical context and living in that historical context and seeing things happening, talking with people that organised things before and after the revolution, etc.
I am not talking about history, to me (and to millions of, in this case, Portuguese people) it was the present, we see things changing and happening around us.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Revolution
A revolution (from the Latin revolutio, "a turn around") is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time.
Its use to refer to political change dates from the scientific revolution occasioned by Copernicus' famous De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium.
Aristotle described two types of political revolution:
1.Complete change from one constitution to another.
2.Modification of an existing constitution.
Revolutions have occurred through human history and vary widely in terms of methods, duration, and motivating ideology.
Their results include major changes in culture, economy, and socio-political institutions.
Scholarly debates about what does and does not constitute a revolution center around several issues.
Early studies of revolutions primarily analyzed events in European history from a psychological perspective, but more modern examinations include global events and incorporate perspectives from several social sciences, including sociology and political science.
Several generations of scholarly thought on revolutions have generated many competing theories and contributed much to the current understanding of this complex phenomenon.
Originally posted by ArMaP
No, more like people that have enough money not to bothered with having to work.
Quote from : Universal National Service Act : 2010 Version
The Universal National Service Act of 2007 (H.R. 5741) is a bill introduced by Charles B. Rangel in the United States House of Representatives on July 15, 2010.
It again proposes the requirement that all residents - male and female - in the United States aged between 18 and 42 carry out national service for a period of two years, in the event of a war or national emergency, as declared by the president.
It allows no deferments after age 20.
Originally posted by ArMaP
No, an intelligence-gathering operation without operatives.
Originally posted by ArMaP
Are you talking about Europol or the Virtual Global Taskforce? I am only talking about the Virtual Global Taskforce.
Originally posted by ArMaP
Good for you, information is the best tool against those that have the power. The Lisbon Cardinal during most of the Portuguese dictatorship used to say that people only needed to know how to sign their name and little more. The law that governed the education ministry, in the part about eradicating illiteracy, was based on the idea that the people only needed to know how to read and write, so education would not go beyond the first four years of primary school.
OK, but in this case, one of those agencies does not really exist, it's just a site, and the way it works is by pointing the other agencies to cases in their areas.
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
Okay, let me be more detailed, and specify this more to your perception.
Once one agency, national or international, invites another into operations together their scope changes.
What do you mean by "they"? ICE, Europol or the Virtual Global Taskforce? Sorry for keeping on asking these things, but I like to know exactly what I am talking about.
Once I.C.E. got Europol involved in the Virtual Global Taskforce they shifted the paradigm.
Why do you say that they now gather intelligence? They keep on doing the same work they did before, but, being part of the VGT makes the sharing of information easier.
Those two agencies, I.C.E. and Europol, respectively, have agents and now gather intelligence.
I don't think you understood what I meant, I meant that the perception, in Portugal, of what a conspiracy theorist is, is someone that, because of having enough money, can afford not to work (or have a work that consumes just part of the day) and spend the rest of the time with their "hobby".
No, more like people that have enough money not to bothered with having to work.
But the VGT is a virtual agency, as far as I understand it they do not have their own operatives or employees or whatever.
Call them operatives or employees they still have a task and agenda.
They may be involved but they work in different ways, I don't think you can see the Europol as the same thing as the ICE or the VGT or the Australian Federal Police. All those organisations already existed before the creation of the VGT, and the VGT apparently only acts as a communication facilitator between the victims and the law enforcement agencies.
Well, I wish I could just talk about one organization, but all are involved.
Yes, that's why most men that went to the war in Africa (where the colonies were trying to get their independence) didn't had a clue about the reasons of the war. My boss, even with some 9 years of specialised studies (I think it was in commerce) only knew why he was fighting when he started talking to the platoon doctor after the doctor refused to accept the orders not to treat the captured enemies.
That Cardinal sounds like the perfect prefect to manipulate the people into powerlessness.
First four years of primary school?
I cannot imagine a society as ignorant as that, no offense meant, but that is scary indeed.
Originally posted by ArMaP
OK, but in this case, one of those agencies does not really exist, it's just a site, and the way it works is by pointing the other agencies to cases in their areas.
Originally posted by ArMaP
What do you mean by "they"? ICE, Europol or the Virtual Global Taskforce? Sorry for keeping on asking these things, but I like to know exactly what I am talking about.
Originally posted by ArMaP
Why do you say that they now gather intelligence? They keep on doing the same work they did before, but, being part of the VGT makes the sharing of information easier.
Originally posted by ArMaP
I don't think you understood what I meant, I meant that the perception, in Portugal, of what a conspiracy theorist is, is someone that, because of having enough money, can afford not to work (or have a work that consumes just part of the day) and spend the rest of the time with their "hobby".
Originally posted by ArMaP
But the VGT is a virtual agency, as far as I understand it they do not have their own operatives or employees or whatever.
Originally posted by ArMaP
They may be involved but they work in different ways, I don't think you can see the Europol as the same thing as the ICE or the VGT or the Australian Federal Police. All those organisations already existed before the creation of the VGT, and the VGT apparently only acts as a communication facilitator between the victims and the law enforcement agencies.
Originally posted by ArMaP
Yes, that's why most men that went to the war in Africa (where the colonies were trying to get their independence) didn't had a clue about the reasons of the war. My boss, even with some 9 years of specialised studies (I think it was in commerce) only knew why he was fighting when he started talking to the platoon doctor after the doctor refused to accept the orders not to treat the captured enemies.
PS: did you saw that the VGT, besides having those law enforcement agencies as members, have some "partners", including MSN, Vodafone, AOL (UK), etc.?
I know what a web server is I manage two, and they can be as static as text file or as complicated as imaginable.
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
Just a site?
Websites all run through Internet servers.
Internet servers are basically like a search engine mixed with a computer database.
So, you mean that there was a paradigm shift in Europol, in ICE, in the Autralian police, etc.?
The "they" I am referencing specifically is all three organizations.
No, I mean to tell you that they are doing what they always did, the VGT only makes it easier (probably).
Do you mean to tell me you see nothing ominous about intelligence sharing?
It looks like you understood it.
No, I understood perfectly, and I said exactly what I meant.
To Portugal a "conspiracy theorist" is merely a hobbyist.
Probably.
I think you need to re-read everything again.
Third.
In English your first or second language?
Originally posted by SLAYER69
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/637272ee80ce.gif[/atsimg]
Again with the eye
They had to use an eye.
Why the eye?
They always use an eye.
Indalo
The Indalo is a prehistoric magical symbol found in the cave of "Los Letreros" ("The Signboards") in Sierra de María-Los Vélez Natural Park in Vélez Blanco, Spain. It has been customary to paint the Indalo symbol on the front of houses and businesses to protect them from evil (similar to Kokopelli of the south-western USA) and is considered to be a god totem. The indalo has a Levantine origin and dates back to 2500 BC. The pictograph was named in memory of Saint Indaletius, and means Indal eccius (Messenger of the Gods) in the Iberian language.
Legend has it that the Indalo was a ghost that could hold and carry a rainbow in his hands (thus the arch over the head of the man). The Indalo has been adopted as the official symbol in the province of Almería, Spain. The Indalo symbol is used as a lucky charm in the Almeria region also. To carry the charm is only beneficial if it has been presented as a gift to you.
Originally posted by ArMaP
I know what a web server is I manage two, and they can be as static as text file or as complicated as imaginable.
You can have a web server without a search engine or a database, but they are good at tracking people.
Amazon Review :
Was IBM, "The Solutions Company," partly responsible for the Final Solution?
That's the question raised by Edwin Black's IBM and the Holocaust, the most controversial book on the subject since Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners.
Black, a son of Holocaust survivors, is less tendentiously simplistic than Goldhagen, but his thesis is no less provocative: he argues that IBM founder Thomas Watson deserved the Merit Cross (Germany's second-highest honor) awarded him by Hitler, his second-biggest customer on earth.
"IBM, primarily through its German subsidiary, made Hitler's program of Jewish destruction a technologic mission the company pursued with chilling success," writes Black.
"IBM had almost single-handedly brought modern warfare into the information age [and] virtually put the 'blitz' in the krieg."
The crucial technology was a precursor to the computer, the IBM Hollerith punch card machine, which Black glimpsed on exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, inspiring his five-year, top-secret book project. The Hollerith was used to tabulate and alphabetize census data.
Black says the Hollerith and its punch card data ("hole 3 signified homosexual ... hole 8 designated a Jew") was indispensable in rounding up prisoners, keeping the trains fully packed and on time, tallying the deaths, and organizing the entire war effort.
Hitler's regime was fantastically, suicidally chaotic; could IBM have been the cause of its sole competence: mass-murdering civilians?
Better scholars than I must sift through and appraise Black's mountainous evidence, but clearly the assessment is overdue.
The moral argument turns on one question: How much did IBM New York know about IBM Germany's work, and when?
Black documents a scary game of brinksmanship orchestrated by IBM chief Watson, who walked a fine line between enraging U.S. officials and infuriating Hitler.
He shamefully delayed returning the Nazi medal until forced to--and when he did return it, the Nazis almost kicked IBM and its crucial machines out of Germany.
(Hitler was prone to self-defeating decisions, as demonstrated in How Hitler Could Have Won World War II.)
Quote from : Wikipedia : CASPIAN
Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) is a USA grass-roots consumer group dedicated to fighting supermarket "loyalty" or frequent shopper cards.
CASPIAN's efforts are directed at educating consumers, condemning marketing strategies that invade shoppers' privacy, and encouraging privacy-conscious shopping habits.
CASPIAN also spreads information and opinions that purport to warn the public about the privacy risks associated with universal adoption of RFID technology.
CASPIAN refers to RFID tags as "Spychips."
CASPIAN was founded in October 1999 by Katherine Albrecht.
Quote from : Destron Fearing Website
Destron Fearing is a global leader in innovative animal identification.
With presence in over 40 countries worldwide we seek to provide real world ID solutions to match the ever increasing complexity and opportunities related to animal identification.
Since 1945 we have provided innovative products addressing the needs of livestock producers, companion animal owners, horse owners, wildlife managers and government agencies.
Destron Fearing provides a full complement of radio frequency identification products and software solutions to automate the collection of critical livestock production and carcass information.
Individual and herd information can then be easily transferred between all parties involved in the production and retail of meat products.
Information sharing allows the food industry to meet the discriminating demands of the market place.
Originally posted by ArMaP
So, you mean that there was a paradigm shift in Europol, in ICE, in the Autralian police, etc.?
Originally posted by ArMaP
No, I mean to tell you that they are doing what they always did, the VGT only makes it easier (probably).
Originally posted by ArMaP
It looks like you understood it.
Originally posted by ArMaP
Third.
I learned it by watching TV and movies and I learned how to write by reading books and magazines.
One of the original reasons for me to join ATS was to practice my written English, it was something I haven't done before joining ATS.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is the illegal trade in human beings for the purposes of reproductive slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, or a modern-day form of slavery.
The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (also referred to as the Trafficking Protocol) was adopted by the United Nations in Palermo, Italy in 2000, and is an international legal agreement attached to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.
The Trafficking Protocol is one of three Protocols adopted to supplement the Convention.
The Protocol is the first global, legally binding instrument on trafficking in over half a century and the only one that sets out an agreed definition of trafficking in persons.
The purpose of the Protocol is to facilitate convergence in national cooperation in investigating and prosecuting trafficking in persons.
An additional objective of the Protocol is to protect and assist the victims of trafficking in persons with full respect for their human rights.
The Trafficking Protocol defines human trafficking as:
The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.
Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.
The consent of a victim of trafficking in persons to the intended exploitation set forth [above] shall be irrelevant where any of the means set forth [above] have been used.
The Trafficking Protocol entered into force on 25 December 2003.
By June 2010, the Trafficking Protocol had been ratified by 117 countries and 137 parties.
Quote from : Wikipedia : El Chupacabra
The chupacabras (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃupaˈkaβɾas], from chupar "to suck" and cabra "goat", literally "goat sucker") is a legendary cryptid rumored to inhabit parts of the Americas.
It is associated more recently with sightings of an allegedly unknown animal in Puerto Rico (where these sightings were first reported), Mexico, and the United States, especially in the latter's Latin American communities.
The name comes from the animal's reported habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock, especially goats.
Physical descriptions of the creature vary. Eyewitness sightings have been claimed as early as 1995 in Puerto Rico, and have since been reported as far north as Maine, and as far south as Chile.
It is supposedly a heavy creature, the size of a small bear, with a row of spines reaching from the neck to the base of the tail.
Biologists and wildlife management officials view the chupacabras as a contemporary legend.
In July 2010, an animal was killed and reported to be a chupacabra, but found to be a coyote with a severe parasite infection.
In October of that year, University of Michigan scientists theorised that parasite-riddled coyotoes (specifically the parasites responsible for scabies and mange) were likely the basis for the chupacabra legend.
Originally posted by neo96
someone clear this up for me please
why are they meeting in the middle east? is there that much child explotation there?
correct me if i am wrong here but doesnt most of the child exploitation come from asia?
But they don't need the VGT to do that, and it's not the VGT with their sites that are going to get information that other agencies do not already have.
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
But which is the more likely when Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies are involved?
I'm thinking databases, collecting, sifting, and sorting names, and tracking their every online move.
No, the system is older, it was used by the American census program in 1890, 40 years before the Nazis getting to power in Germany.
We cannot speak of databases without speaking of the birth of them under I.B.M. and Hitler.
I.B.M. created them.
Hitler and the American Census program began using them around the same time during WWII.
No problem, it's always good to have a civilised discussion with someone, even if it takes me some time to understand what is said.
And thank you for your patience while I expand upon my answers and widen the scope of the thread.
So, what changed in Europol, for example?
Yes, that's exactly what I meant, a paradigm shift over the broad spectrum of all involved.
No problems, I always think that the first things we should do when speaking with other people is to know exactly what we are talking about and if both are understanding what the other person says.
I hope you understand I only asked because I wanted to clarify why we were having difficulty.
It will be easier if you ask something, I never know where to start, that's why I made so few threads in all these years.
I would love to hear about your server experience within your replies if possible.