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Summary: Terrible Book
Review: After reading "The Puzzle Palace", this book was a huge disappointment. I bought it because I was looking for an update to the information contained in The Puzzle Palace, which was published in 1982. Instead of getting a factual presentation, the author only seems capable of supplying his unsupported (and wild) opinions, all based on conspiracy theories. I felt as though I was being given a sales job. I read, with amusement, the reviews in which some readers thought the book was good merely because the author was a Christian. What a useless reason to like a book! (the author is balding, so maybe balding men will like it too). Don't waste your money on this one.
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Summary: Incredibly Insightful! Very Scary, But Obviously True!
Review: All I can say about this book is WOW! A whole lot of work went into putting this thing together. It is overwhelmingly informative! How anyone can deny Mr. Cook's well documented assertions is beyond me. You need to read this book immediately! Get it quickly and share it with everyone you love. They need to know about these things!
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Summary: Excellent book! Great information!
Review: I have just finished reading this book and feel that it is very informative and thought provocating. In particular, I enjoyed it because the book does not contain a typical bibliographical section. Rather, Mr. Cook has placed all his research references directly into the text. This makes it much easier to read, verify, and digest. I can't understand how anyone with an open mind can be critical of this work! Every claim mentioned therein is easily verifiable. However, some people don't want to hear the truth no matter how it is told. I highly recommend this work to anyone seeking insight into where the world is taking us, and how every living person will soon be affected by very powerful, worldly forces.
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Summary: The best Christian book I've read on this subject!
Review: I just can't understand how anyone who has sincerely read this book can find fault with it! It is truly great! In fact, it is the only Christian book available that deals so expertly with the coming Antichrist's international, computerized, Mark-of-the-Beast tracking and identification system. Indeed, There is a wealth of vital information and incredible photographic/pictorial documentation that everyone needs to be aware of. Yes, a few books have been written previously about the notorious NSA, and one of the best in this respect is Bamford's Puzzle Palace. However, Big Brother NSA is the only book that approaches this subject from a Christian, Biblical, prophetical perspective. And it does so very powerfully to say the least! The amount of thought, planning, insight, research and writing that went into this book is absolutely phenomenal! I've never seen anything like it before. Mr. Cook's first book, The Mark of the New World Order, is also a great read! It is the best book I've ever read on the 666 Mark-of-the-Beast and biochip ID implants. Read both of Terry Cook's books. They will truly bless you. They sure were a powerful education for me and my family!
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Summary: Many Tools of Big Brother Are Up And Running!
Review: Many Tools of Big Brother Are Up and Running
By JOHN MARKOFF and JOHN SCHWARTZ In the Pentagon research effort to detect terrorism by electronically monitoring the civilian population, the most remarkable detail may be this: Most of the pieces of the system are already in place. Because of the inroads the Internet and other digital network technologies have made into everyday life over the last decade, it is increasingly possible to amass Big Brother-like surveillance powers through Little Brother means. The basic components include everyday digital technologies like e-mail, online shopping and travel booking, A.T.M. systems, cellphone networks, electronic toll-collection systems and credit-card payment terminals. In essence, the Pentagon's main job would be to spin strands of software technology that would weave these sources of data into a vast electronic dragnet. Technologists say the types of computerized data sifting and pattern matching that might flag suspicious activities to government agencies and coordinate their surveillance are not much different from programs already in use by private companies. Such programs spot unusual credit card activity, for example, or let people at multiple locations collaborate on a project. The civilian population, in other words, has willingly embraced the technical prerequisites for a national surveillance system that Pentagon planners are calling Total Information Awareness. The development has a certain historical resonance because it was the Pentagon's research agency that in the 1960's financed the technology that led directly to the modern Internet. Now the same agency - the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa - is relying on commercial technology that has evolved from the network it pioneered. The first generation of the Internet - called the Arpanet - consisted of electronic mail and file transfer software that connected people to people. The second generation connected people to databases and other information via the World Wide Web. Now a new generation of software connects computers directly to computers. And that is the key to the Total Information Awareness project, which is overseen by John M. Poindexter, the former national security adviser under President Ronald Reagan. Dr. Poindexter was convicted in 1990 of a felony for his role in the Iran-contra affair, but that conviction was overturned by a federal appeals court because he had been granted immunity for his testimony before Congress about the case. Although Dr. Poindexter's system has come under widespread criticism from Congress and civil liberties groups, a prototype is already in place and has been used in tests by military intelligence organizations. Total Information Awareness could link for the first time such different electronic sources as video feeds from airport surveillance cameras, credit card transactions, airline reservations and telephone calling records. The data would be filtered through software that would constantly look for suspicious patterns of behavior. The idea is for law enforcement or intelligence agencies to be alerted immediately to patterns in otherwise unremarkable sets of data that might indicate threats, allowing rapid reviews by human analysts. For example, a cluster of foreign visitors who all took flying lessons in separate parts of the country might not attract attention. Nor would it necessarily raise red flags if all those people reserved airline tickets for the same day. But a system that could detect both sets of actions might raise suspicions. Some computer scientists wonder whether the system can work. "This wouldn't have been possible without the modern Internet, and even now it's a daunting task," said Dorothy Denning, a professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. Part of the challenge, she said, is knowing what to look for. "Do we really know enough about the precursors to terrorist activity?" she said. "I don't think we're there yet." The early version of the Total Information Awareness system employs a commercial software collaboration program called Groove. It was developed in 2000 by Ray Ozzie, a well-known software designer who is the inventor of Lotus Notes. Groove makes it possible for analysts at many different government agencies to share intelligence data instantly, and it links specialized programs that are designed to look for patterns of suspicious behavior. Total Information Awareness also takes advantage of a simple and fundamental software technology called Extended Markup Language, or XML, that is at the heart of the third generation of Internet software. It was created by software designers at companies like Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and I.B.M., as well as independent Silicon Valley programmers.
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Summary: Wackos
Review: People that spout this nonsense scare me. The fact that others believe it scares me even more.
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Summary: Current Events Verify The Accuracy Of This Book!
Review: This book is incredibly prophetic in light of current events! Honestly, just take a look at current events such as President Bush's Homeland Security Department proposal and the Patriot Act and ask yourself if America is not indeed sliding down the "slippery-slope" of Big-Brotherism. Accordingly, in the very near future, all private, corporate and government computer databases will be combined into one "VIRTUAL SYSTEM" that can readily access and analyze all informational data on everyone from all sources! Such a thing is really scary even if you think you "have-nothing-to-hide." Who truly wants any government to have that kind of control over its citizenry? It is a fact that most of human history is replete with controlling authoritarian dictatorships. Therefore, who can deny that one day very soon America itself will NOT become a socialistic dictatorship? Combining all information on everyone into one huge government database system, such as the National Security Agency, really makes that probability viable. George Orwell's so-called novel, 1984 (about "Big-Brother" totalitarian government control, surveillance and enslavement), should no longer be considered "science-fiction" because it is now an ominous and imminent reality. Yes, folks, it is indeed happening at this very moment! Therefore, if you have not recently read Orwell's book, 1984, I urge you to order it from Amazon.Com as well. For it is truly happening as we breath! Mr. Cook's Big Brother NSA is very timely at this moment in America history. You won't like the reality of the information contained therein, but get it and read it anyway!! You need to understand these things! Also, if you can still find a used copy of his former book, The Mark of the New World Order, get that and read it as well. Then you'll truly be enlightened about the world in which we all live. Accordingly, I highly recommend Mr. Cook's work to anyone wanting to know the truth about current events and where they are obviously taking us!
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Summary: Very Poor Book
Review: This book was a big letdown. It is nowhere as good as "The Puzzle Palace" by Bamford. The author rambles on and on and presents "facts" that are really nothing more than wild conclusions based upon his conspiracy theories. The book reads like a sales job as he tries to convince you that the NSA is part of a larger conspiracy to enslave us to the devil. Don't waste your money on this one. I would like my money back!
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Summary: Very Poor Book
Review: This book was a big letdown. It is nowhere as good as "The Puzzle Palace" by Bamford. The author rambles on and on and presents "facts" that are really nothing more than wild conclusions based upon his conspiracy theories. The book reads like a sales job as he tries to convince you that the NSA is part of a larger conspiracy to enslave us to the devil. Don't waste your money on this one. I would like my money back!
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Summary: Great work!
Review: This is a well-documented book. I've read other books covering this topic, but I believe this one is the easiest to read and understand. There are photographs of various government facilities in this book that I have not seen elsewhere. It is really good! I recommend it highly to everyone!
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