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1) There are in fact only two parties seeking war with Iran: Israel and the USA. Israel usually lets the USA finance and execute the heavy lifting.



Scott Ritter wrote in 2005: "The US War with Iran has Already Begun"

http://thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3245



"The most visible of these is the CIA-backed actions recently undertaken by the Mujahadeen el-Khalq, or MEK, an Iranian opposition group, once run by Saddam Hussein's dreaded intelligence services, but now working exclusively for the CIA's Directorate of Operations. [...] But the CIA-backed campaign of MEK terror bombings in Iran are not the only action ongoing against Iran. [...] To the north, in neighbouring Azerbaijan, the US military is preparing a base of operations for a massive military presence that will foretell a major land-based campaign designed to capture Tehran."



"The ethnic links between the Azeri of northern Iran and Azerbaijan were long exploited by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and this vehicle for internal manipulation has been seized upon by CIA paramilitary operatives and US Special Operations units who are training with Azerbaijan forces to form special units capable of operating inside Iran for the purpose of intelligence gathering, direct action, and mobilising indigenous opposition to the Mullahs in Tehran."

Mir Hossein Mousavi, the losing contender, is an Azeri from Azerbaijan province. back to top



2) Private people running Tor exit nodes are at a high risk to get raided by police: The father of a family reports his traumatic experience from a raid suspecting him of child pornography here:

spyblog.org.uk/blog/2009/03/passion-and-dalliance-blog-why-you-need-balls-of-steel-to-operate-a-tor-exit-nod.html



Alexander Janssen, a German operator of a Tor exit server, was arrested by the German police who checked out his entire house and seized his equipment during an investigation of bomb threats considered to have passed through an Internet protocol address that was under his control.

http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.18/tor-germany



It looks like government spy agencies are heavily involved with Tor, which may explain why running a Tor exit node is only safe for secret service agents, as Dan Egerstad, a Swedish hacker, found out when he gained access to hundreds of computer network accounts around the world, belonging to various embassies, corporations and other organizations:

http://www.metafilter.com/67162/Amazing-discoveries-in-plaintext-Tor-exit-traffic back to article



3) Peer to peer (p2p) file sharing protocols have been developed to allow users to share files relatively anonymously amongst each other. P2P was often in the crosshairs of the music, film and software industry who called exchanging copies of files "piracy", alledging that this infringes on their exclusive copyright. File sharing through the internet however became so popular, that persecution and fining of individual users proved mostly futile and very damaging to the reputation and business of the industry.



The most populare file sharing protocol is bittorrent, accounting for a large part of overall internet traffic. It is typically used by using a search engine to find a ".torrent" file containing the details of how to share a specific film. Because those torrent files are usually found on torrent tracker sites like ThePiratebay, those centralised servers have often been shut down by law enforcement. ThePiratebay suffered this once, but was operating again within days, moving practically a whole datacenter from Sweden to different countries.



Because of the persecution of P2P, alternative serverless protocols have been developed, like Kademlia using Emule. Kademlia has some 3 million users sharing libraries of typically several hundred files each. These virtual libraries prove important in the distribution of censored and banned documents and documentaries exposing corruption and high level conspiracies. back to top