Listening to Understand Crisis by Max Seigel

from Max Seigel : Know What Makes Them Tick

 

 

 

Mahathir, Phone Bugging and Fresh Water Tanks

http://www.malaysia-today.net/khairuls-brilliant-pre-emptive-strike-against-the-three-tan-sri/

http://www.malaysia-today.net/mahathirs-near-heart-attack-in-jakarta/

If you read between the lines,
and interpret very carefully the articles,

you would have realised that someone did bug the phone line of Tun M.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_listening_device


Examples of use

• Embassies and other diplomatic posts are often the targets of bugging operations.
  • The Soviet embassy in Ottawa was bugged by the Government of Canada and MI5 during its construction in 1956.^[15]
  • Extensive bugging of the West German embassy in Moscow by the KGB was discovered by German engineer Horst Schwirkmann, leading to an attack on Schwirkmann in 1964.^[16]
  • The Great Seal bug was hidden in a copy of the Great Seal of the United States, presented by the Soviet Union to the United States ambassador in Moscow in 1946 and only discovered in 1952. The bug was unusual in that it had no power source or transmitter, making it much harder to detect – it was a new type of device, called a passive resonant cavity bug. The cavity had a metallic diaphragm that moved in unison with sound waves from a conversation in the room. When illuminated by a radio beam from a remote location, the cavity would return a frequency modulated signal.
  • The United States Embassy in Moscow was bugged during its construction in the 1970s by Soviet agents posing as laborers. When discovered in the early 1980s, it was found that even the concrete columns were so riddled with bugs that the building eventually had to be torn down and replaced with a new one, built with U.S. materials and labor.^[17] For a time, until the new building was completed, embassy workers had to communicate in conference rooms in writing, using children's "Mystic Writing Tablets".^{[citation needed]}
  • In 1990, it was reported that the embassy of the People's Republic of China in Canberra, Australia, had been bugged by the Australian Secret Intelligence Service as part of the UKUSA Project Echelon.^[18]
• During World War II, the Nazis took over a Berlin brothel, Salon Kitty, and used concealed microphones to spy on patrons.
• Also during the war, the British used covert listening devices to monitor captured German fighter pilots being held at Trent Park.
• Colin Thatcher, a Canadian politician, was secretly recorded making statements which would later be used to convict him of his wife's murder. The recording device was concealed on a person who Thatcher had previously approached for help in the crime.^{[citation needed]}
• Electronic bugging devices were found in March 2003 at offices used by French and German delegations at the European Union headquarters in Brussels. Devices were also discovered at offices used by other delegations. The discovery of the telephone tapping systems was first reported by Le Figaro newspaper, which blamed the US.^{[citation needed]}
• The car of Thomas Hentschell, who was involved in the Melbourne gangland killings, was bugged by police.
• In 1999, the US expelled a Russian diplomat, accusing him of using a listening device in a top floor conference room used by diplomats in the United States Department of State headquarters.^[19]
• In 2001, the government of the People's Republic of China announced that it had discovered twenty-seven bugs in a Boeing 767 purchased as an official aircraft for President Jiang Zemin.^[20]
• In 2003, the Pakistani embassy building in London was found bugged; contractors hired by MI5 had planted bugs in the building in 2001.^[21]
• In 2003, Alastair Campbell (who was Director of Communications and Strategy from 1997-2003 for the UK PM) in his memoirs The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries alleged that two bugs were discovered in the hotel room meant for visiting British PM Tony Blair planted by Indian intelligence agencies. The alleged bug discovery was at a hotel during PM Tony Blair's official visit to New Delhi in 2001. Security services supposedly informed him that the bugs could not be removed without drilling the wall and therefore he changed to another room.^[22][23]
• In 2004, a bug was found in a meeting room at the United Nations offices in Geneva.^{[citation needed]}
• In 2008 it was reported that an electric samovar presented to Elizabeth II in about 1968 by a Soviet aerobatic team was removed from Balmoral Castle as a security precaution amid fears that its wiring could contain a listening device.^[24]
• On 6 December 1972, the Central Intelligence Agency placed a wire tap on a multiplex trunk line 24 kilometers southwest of Vinh to intercept Vietnamese communist messages concerning negotiating an end to the Vietnam War.^[25]
  
  

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• Someone should be clever and pretend, like what Sima Yi did, and deal with the bloody traitors that leaked the info.

http://www.standardmandarin.com/idiom/literally-to-fill-ones-eyes-with-glittering-jewels \

Someone should have checked the cybersecurity of infos going in and out.

And screen out personnels.

This RPK guy thinks he's very clever.
But then,
that's why becoming political tool (either pro government or pro opposition) will one day made you look stupid.

The blunder of RPK is that he talked too much.

Talking too much. And leaking out details.

I remembered one story regarding the World War 2, the battle of Midway.

The US at that time already broke the communication code of the Japanese Army.

And they were certain that the Japs are planning an offensive somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean (this happens some time after Pearl Harbor).

The US knew the target was an island which was given the code "AF" by the Japanese.

US then analysed the map, and suspected that AF was the island Midway.

But they could not be certain.

So US concoct a clever plan.

They knew the Japs was also listening to their radio communication.

And so the US transmitted an info, mentioning that that Fresh Water Tanks are to be ordered as Midway had no natural water supply.

The US listened after transmitting it.

2 days later, US listened to a Japanese radio communication saying "AF has no water"

Then the US was certain.

They prepared and they won the Battle of Midway, as 4 Japanese carriers  sunk after air attack by the US.

Battlefield : Battle of Midway

The above story is at 22 minutes 

life today - 26 July 2016

Photos : Cooling Tower Works

Photos : Cleaning works for FRP Water Tank Plinth

Megadeth - Sweating Bullets

new bread in Malaysia

It's called Roti Malaysian Official 1.

Roti without eggs.

http://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/1MDB-Filing-07-20-2016.pdf

https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/349275

Happy Hari Raya 2017 Happy Hoildays

That's my dear wife~

Happy Hari Raya and Happy holidays to Malaysians out there!~

The first Hari Raya (6 July 2016) was spent visiting folks from my family's side.

And today, my wife already starts working.

And I will start working tomorrow.

My project is in the critical stage now hence everybody is chasing for completion.

 Below photos of mock-up corridor area explains the construction stages for Mechanical and Electrical features for a corridor area of a Hotel Project.

Photo 1 : beginning
Photo 2 : middle (ceiling tee)
Photo 3 : completion of ceiling.

Photo 1 : beginning

 Photo 2 : middle (ceiling tee)

 Photo 3 : completion of ceiling, installation of sprinkler rosette, lighting fixtures, HVAC/ACMV grilles/diffusers, etc.

Converge - Dark Horse

Theme song for this week, the album Axe to Fall is great.

from Wikipedia : -

Axe to Fall is the seventh studio album released by American metalcore band Converge.

It was released on October 20, 2009, through Epitaph Records and was released later on in the year through Deathwish Inc. as a vinyl record. 

The meaning of “dark horse:-

https://www.google.com/search?q=whats+the+meaning+of+dark+horse&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-ab

1. a candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds."a dark-horse candidate"

in silence or rapture

Think again before debating or pleading your case with people in Social Media.

Think again before saying others is stupid.

Excerpts from " The Art Of Thinking Clearly", page 201-202 by Rolf Dobelli.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introspection_illusion

“When people mistake unreliable introspection for genuine self-knowledge, the result can be an illusion of superiority over other people, for example when each person thinks they are less biased and less conformist than the rest of the group. 

Even when experimental subjects are provided with reports of other subjects’ introspections, in as detailed a form as possible, they still rate those other introspections as unreliable while treating their own as reliable”

The phrase "introspection illusion" was coined by Emily Pronin. Pronin describes the illusion as having four components:

1. People give a strong weighting to introspective evidence when assessing themselves.
2. They do not give such a strong weight when assessing others.
3. People disregard their own behavior when assessing themselves (but not others).
4. Own introspections are more highly weighted than others. It is not just that people lack access to each other's introspections: they regard only their own as reliable." 

Excerpts in italic are from Wikipedia

what are you chasing for in life?

Popularity doesn't pay your bills.

Wanting sympathy from others can be likened to child-like need of appreciation.

Book bought this week after after finished reading "David and Goliath" by Malcolm Gladwell.;

1. "The Art Of Thinking Clearly" by Rolf Dobelli

2. "Think Like An Engineer " by Guru Madhavan

And today I learn a new word : theorycrafting

from this lowyat kopitiam entry :

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?s=1fc321ecc6f322f80fb4bf9f73c1a977&showtopic=3992451&hl=laila

Cognitive errors, there's lots of them., from cherrypicking to heuristic bias, and others; 

maybe these faults plus our desire to be famous and liked,

leads us to debate, write and argue,

or maybe, like writing in this blog,

ideas and words trying to reason something, but it is just faulty errors.

When I went to bookstores buying the books, I saw a lot of Islamic books of "Sentap Dakwah".

In English means, 

Sentap = provoke

Dakwah = preaching

The authors felt the need to provoke for preaching Islam.

I just sigh my head.

 Last 2012 when I resigned, and when I went unemployed until Sept 2013,

I did thought about going to be a serious writer.

Book-writing or article writing,

But then,

When I start back in the construction business,

I felt the effort is more honest.

It is just more direct.

You work your ass off, and you get paid. 

There's no need to be famous or trying to make people like you whatsoever.

And this blog,

Mostly people who come across just ignore,

Sometimes there are people who read it and gave good reviews and followed you,

And then chatted or emailed or became Facebook friends,

Thanks.

And so,

in the spirit of Hari Raya,

I ask all of you forgiveness.

And I keep repeating this to myself,

This blog is nothing, but just like grafitti writing on walls.

Just something that I do on free time.

Kirsty Hawkshaw ft. Tenishia - Outsiders

Take a look at yourself
as an outsider
do you like what you see you can't see what your thinking
you can't feel what your feeling
you could be anyone

i feel safe to fall
in silence or rapture

I knew this song when I bought this CD around 2006 when I first started working.

Armin van Buuren - A State of Trance Yearmix 2006