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Security 101: The Impact of Cryptocurrency-Mining Malware
by Kevin Y. Huang (Threats Analyst)
The Australian government has just recognized digital currency as a legal payment method. Since July 1, purchases done using digital currencies such as bitcoin are exempt from the country's Goods and Services Tax to avoid double taxation. As such, traders and investors will not be levied taxes for buying and selling them through legal exchange platforms.
Japan, which legitimized bitcoin as a form of payment last April, already expects more than 20,000 merchants to accept bitcoin payments. Other countries are joining the bandwagon, albeit partially: businesses and some of the public organizations in Switzerland, Norway, and the Netherlands. In a recent study, unique, active users of cryptocurrency wallets are pegged between 2.9 and 5.8 million, most of which are in North America and Europe.
But what does the acceptance and adoption of digital currencies have to do with online threats? A lot, actually. As cryptocurrencies like bitcoin gain real-world traction, so will cybercriminal threats that abuse it. But how, exactly? What does this mean to businesses and everyday users?
What is cryptocurrency?
Cryptocurrency is an encrypted data string that denotes a unit of currency. It is monitored and organized by a peer-to-peer network also known as a blockchain, which also serves as a secure ledger of transactions, e.g., buying, selling, and transferring. Unlike physical money, cryptocurrencies are decentralized, which means they are not issued by governments or other financial institutions.
Cryptocurrencies are created (and secured) through cryptographic algorithms that are maintained and confirmed in a process called mining, where a network of computers or specialized hardware such as application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) process and validate the transactions. The process incentivizes the miners who run the network with the cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin isn't the be-all and end-all
There are actually over 700 cryptocurrencies, but only some are readily traded and even less have market capitalization above $100 million. Bitcoin, for instance, was created by Satoshi Nakamoto (pseudonym) and released in 2009 as open-source code. Blockchain technology made it all work, providing a system where data structures (blocks) are broadcasted, validated, and registered in a public, distributed database through a network of communication endpoints (nodes).
While bitcoin is the most famous cryptocurrency, there are other popular alternatives. Ethereum took "smart contracts" up a notch by making the programming languages needed to code them more accessible to developers. Agreements, or conditional/if-then transactions, are written as code and executed (as long as requirements are met) in Ethereum's blockchain.
Ethereum, however, earned notoriety after a hacker exploited a vulnerability in the Digital Autonomous Organization (DAO) running on Ethereum's software, siphoning US $50 million worth of ether (Ethereum's currency). This resulted in the development of Ethereum Classic, based the original blockchain, and Ethereum, its upgraded version (via a hard fork).
[READ: Ethereum Classic's Wallet falls victim to social engineering scam]
There are also other notable cryptocurrencies: Litecoin, Dogecoin, Monero. Litecoin is a purportedly technical improvement of Bitcoin that is capable of faster turnarounds via its Scrypt mining algorithm (Bitcoin uses SHA-256). The Litecoin Network is able to produce 84 million Litecoins—four times as many cryptocurrency units issued by Bitcoin. Monero is notable for its use of ring signatures (a type of digital signature) and CryptoNote application layer protocol to protect the privacy of its transactions—amount, origin, and destination. Dogecoin, which was initially developed for educational or entertainment purposes, was intended for a broader demographic. Capable of generating uncapped dogecoins, it also uses Scrypt to drive the currency along.
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Cryptocurrency mining also drew cybercriminal attention
Cryptocurrencies have no borders—anyone can send them anytime anywhere, without delays or additional/hidden charges from intermediaries. Given their nature, they are more secure from fraud and identity theft as cryptocurrencies cannot be counterfeited, and personal information is behind a cryptographic wall.
Unfortunately, the same apparent profitability, convenience, and pseudonymity of cryptocurrencies also made them ideal for cybercriminals, as ransomware operators showed. The increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies coincide with the incidences of malware that infect systems and devices, turning them into armies of cryptocurrency-mining machines.
Cryptocurrency mining is a computationally intensive task that requires significant resources from dedicated processors, graphics cards, and other hardware. While mining does generate money, there are many caveats. The profit is relative to a miner's investment on the hardware, not to mention the electricity costs to power them.
Cryptocurrencies are mined in blocks; in bitcoin, for instance, each time a certain number of hashes are solved, the number of bitcoins that can be awarded to the miner per block is halved. Since the bitcoin network is designed to generate the cryptocurrency every 10 minutes, the difficulty of solving another hash is adjusted. And as mining power increases, the resource requirement for mining a new block piles up. Payouts are relatively small and eventually decrease every four years—in 2016, the reward for mining a block was halved to 12.5 BTC (or $32,000 as of July 5, 2017). Consequently, many join forces into pools to make mining more efficient. Profit is divided between the group, depending on how much effort a miner exerted.
Cryptocurrency-mining malware use similar attack vectors
Bad guys turn to using malware to skirt around these challenges. There is, however a caveat for cybercriminal miners: internet-connected devices and machines, while fast enough to process network data, don't have extensive number-crunching capabilities. To offset this, cryptocurrency-mining malware are designed to zombify botnets of computers to perform these tasks. Others avoided subtlety altogether—in 2014, Harvard's supercomputer cluster Odyssey was used to illicitly mine dogecoins. During the same year, a similar incident happened to US agency National Science Foundation's own supercomputers. In early February 2017, one of the US Federal Reserve's servers was misused to mine for bitcoins.
Cryptocurrency-mining malware employ the same modus operandi as many other threats—from malware-toting spam emails and downloads from malicious URLs to junkware and potentially unwanted applications (PUAs). In January 2014, a vulnerability in Yahoo!'s Java-based advertisement network was compromised, exposing European end users to malvertisements that delivered a bitcoin-mining malware. A month before it, German law enforcement arrested hackers for purportedly using malware to mine over $954,000 worth of bitcoins.
[READ: How South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchange was hacked]
We've seen the emergence of hacking tools and backdoors related to cybercriminal bitcoin mining as early as 2011, and we've since seen a variety of cryptocurrency-mining threats that add more capabilities, such as distributed denial-of-service and URL spoofing. Another even tried to masquerade as a component for one of Trend Micro's products. In 2014, the threat crossed over to Android devices as Kagecoin, capable of mining bitcoin, litecoin, and dogecoin. A remote access Trojan (RAT) njrat/Njw0rm readily shared in the Middle Eastern underground was modified to add bitcoin-mining functionality. The same was done to an old Java RAT that can mine litecoin.
This year's notable cryptocurrency-mining malware so far are Adylkuzz, CPUMiner/EternalMiner, and Linux.MulDrop.14. All exploit vulnerabilities. Adylkuzz leverages EternalBlue, the same security flaw that WannaCry ransomware used to destructive effect, while CPUMiner/EternalMiner used SambaCry, a vulnerability in interoperability software suite Samba. Linux.MulDrop.14, a Linux Trojan, targets Raspberry Pi devices. These threats infected devices and machines and turned them into monero-mining botnets.
[READ: What happens when your router gets compromised?]
Cryptocurrency-mining malware's impact makes them a credible threat
Cryptocurrency-mining malware steal the resources of infected machines, significantly affecting their performance and increasing their wear and tear. An infection also involves other costs, like increased power consumption.
But we've also found that their impact goes beyond performance issues. From January 1 to June 24, 2017, our sensors detected 4,894 bitcoin miners that triggered over 460,259 bitcoin-mining activities, and found that more than 20% of these miners also triggered web and network-based attacks. We even found intrusion attempts linked to a ransomware's attack vector. The most prevalent of these attacks we saw were:
- Cross-site scripting
- Exploiting a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS)
- Brute force and default password logins/attacks
- Command buffer overflow exploits
- Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) arbitrary code injection
- SQL injection
- BlackNurse denial of service attack
These malware can threaten the availability, integrity, and security of a network or system, which can potentially result in disruptions to an enterprise's mission-critical operations. Information theft and system hijacking are also daunting repercussions. These attacks can also be the conduit from which additional malware are delivered.
Internet of Things (IoT) devices are also in the crosshairs of cryptocurrency-mining malware—from digital video recorders (DVRs)/surveillance cameras, set-top boxes, network-attached storage (NAS) devices, and especially routers, given their ubiquity among home and corporate environments. In April 2017, a variant of Mirai surfaced with bitcoin-mining capabilities. Mirai's notoriety sprung from the havoc it wrought in IoT devices, particularly home routers, using them to knock high-profile sites offline last year. Over the first three quarters of 2016, we detected a bitcoin-mining zombie army made up of Windows systems, home routers, and IP cameras.
From January 1 to June 24, 2017, we also observed different kinds of devices that were mining bitcoin, although our telemetry cannot verify if these activities were authorized. We also saw bitcoin mining activities surge by 40% from 1,800 triggered events daily in February to 3,000 in March, 2017.
While bitcoin mining isn't inherently illegal (at least in many countries), it can entail a compromise if it doesn't have the owner's knowledge and consent. We found that machines running Windows had the most bitcoin mining activities, but also of note are:
- Systems on Macintosh OSes, including iOS (iPhone 4 to iPhone 7)
- Devices run on Ubuntu OS, a derivative of Debian Linux OS
- Home routers
- Environment-monitoring devices, used in data centers
- Android-run smart TVs and mobile devices
- IP cameras
- Print servers
- Gaming consoles
[READ: How to secure your router against Mirai and home network attacks]
Cryptocurrency-mining malware can make victims a part of the problem
Cryptocurrency-mining malware can impair system performance and risk end users and businesses to information theft, hijacking, and a plethora of other malware. And by turning these machines into zombies, cryptocurrency malware can even inadvertently make its victims part of the problem.
Indeed, their adverse impact to the devices they infect—and ultimately a business' asset or a user's data—makes them a credible threat. There is no silver bullet for these malware, but they can be mitigated by following these best practices:
- Regularly updating your device with the latest patches helps prevent attackers from using vulnerabilities as doorways into the systems
- Changing or strengthening the device's default credentials makes the device less prone to unauthorized access
- Enabling the device's firewall (for home routers), if available, or deploying intrusion detection and prevention systems to mitigate incursion attempts
- Taking caution against known attack vectors: socially engineered links, attachments or files from suspicious websites, dubious third-party software/applications, and unsolicited emails
IT/system administrators and information security professionals can also consider application whitelisting or similar security mechanisms that prevent suspicious executables from running or installing. Proactively monitoring network traffic helps better identify red flags that may indicate malware infection. Applying the principle of least privilege, developing countermeasures against web injections, securing the email gateway, implementing best practices for corporate mobile devices, and cultivating a cybersecurity-aware workforce are part of a defense-in-depth approach to reducing an enterprise's exposure to these threats. Ultimately, however, the security of internet-connected devices against cryptocurrency-mining malware isn't just a burden for their users. Original design and equipment manufacturers also play vital roles in securing the ecosystems they run in.
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Live Earth – Dead Africans?Policies that prevent energy development have lethal consequences for Africa
Promoters claim the Live Earth concerts drew 2 billion fans – a number equal to people worldwide who still don't have access to electricity. Others say the actual audience was a fraction of that – a few tens of millions, including via television and webcasts.
About 45,000 attended the actual concert in Australia, 100,000 in Brazil, a few hundred in Washington, DC. In Johannesburg, the first snow in 25 years was blamed for almost nobody showing up. (If this snow was due to climate change, what caused the snow 25 years ago?) Elsewhere the heat was blamed. And only 4.5 million watched the BBC television broadcast in Britain.
However, the concerts might be deemed successful if measured by cash the promoters raked in. By gasoline and aviation fuel burned to get to the events (the stars alone flew a combined 223,000 miles, says the New York Post). By wattage consumed and greenhouse gases emitted to power televisions and air-conditioners for stay-at-home fans. Or by the overheated and often hypocritical rhetoric of global warming catastrophe.
Al Gore demanded immediate action, but ignored his own profligate consumption: over a thousand flights (mostly first class or in private jets) to warn of a "climate crisis," a house that uses 20 times more electricity than the average US home, and more in a week than 26 million Ugandans together use in a year.
Prince Charles' three mansions produce 500 times the CO2 emissions of the average British home, and he and his entourages routinely burn thousands of gallons of fuel on globe-trotting flights.
Madonna wailed that people must "jump up and down" to prevent the alleged crisis and "save the planet" – then took a private jet back to one of her nine houses and fleets of gas-guzzling cars.
Actor Ed Begley, Jr. uses alternative energy to supplement enormous amounts of non-alternative electricity that powers the community and movie studios that make his lifestyle and career possible. He believes Africans, by contrast, should have electricity only where they need it: little solar panels "on their huts."
These alarmists attempt to justify their extravagant lifestyles by grandstanding at Live Earth concerts – and purchasing energy-efficient light bulbs or "carbon offsets" (eg, having trees planted somewhere). With their next breath, they say other people's energy consumption could cause catastrophic global warming that could bring record cold and heat waves, terrible floods and droughts, disease epidemics and species extinctions.
The only "evidence" they have for any of this are worst-case scenarios produced by computer models that do not accurately reflect complex atmospheric processes and cannot predict temperature or rainfall even one year in the future – much less 40 or 90 years. That's like saying the movie "Jurassic Park" proves scientists can bring dinosaurs back to life.
But if the concerts cause more people to demand that Africa and other poor countries not develop the energy they so desperately need, these false global warming "solutions" could be disastrous for the world's most impoverished citizens.
Some 95% of Sub-Saharan Africans still do not have electricity, lights or refrigeration – or have them only a few hours a week. As a result, millions die every year from lung infections caused by pollution from wood and dung fires, and acute intestinal diseases caused by tainted water and spoiled food. Millions more die from diseases that would be largely eradicated by the improved living standards, healthcare systems and agriculture that come with prosperity, modern technology and abundant energy. The situation is likewise dire in many other areas.
But Al Gore, Live Earth rock stars and radical pressure groups like Rainforest Action and Greenpeace constantly battle energy projects in poor countries. They oppose coal and gas-fired power plants because of speculative global warming, hydroelectric projects because they dam up rivers, nuclear power because it generates radioactive wastes. They expect African and other poor nations to base their future on insufficient, expensive, unreliable wind and solar energy. That is a virtual guarantor of perpetual poverty.
Environmentalists also oppose biotechnology to improve agricultural output, insecticides to reduce malaria and other diseases, and even jetliners that bring tourists to Africa and African produce to Europe.
At bottom, environmentalists don't want the world's poor to rise up out of poverty and become middle class, because then they would become consumers, use more resources and demand more electricity. Green activists are happy to demand more aid and debt relief, but they do everything possible to prevent energy, mineral and economic development, modern agriculture and living standards, or meaningful opportunities for the world's poor to take their rightful places among the Earth's healthy and prosperous people.
Poor countries should worry not about climate change – but about whether they will have electricity for refrigerators, lights, and modern homes, hospitals, schools, shops, offices and factories. They should be concerned not about the supposed (and often far-fetched) risks of development and technology – but about the real, immediate, life-threatening dangers that development and technology would prevent.
Our climate has always been turbulent, unstable and unpredictable. While the scientific debate continues to rage over the mechanisms and consequences of climate change, growing numbers of scientists say there is little evidence that humans and carbon dioxide are the primary cause, or that human influences will bring catastrophic change. (A number of these scientists are featured in the new British television documentary, "The Great Global Warming Swindle" and Chris Horner's book, "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism.")
Ice core and other data indicate that, over the past 650,000 years, temperatures usually rose first and CO2 levels increased several centuries later. That's the inconvenient truth about Al Gore's alarmist theory.
Other studies point to the sun as the dominant cause of climate change. As its energy output increases, the Earth warms, stronger solar winds reduce the cosmic rays that help generate clouds, fewer clouds cause our planet to warm still more, and warmer oceans release more CO2 into the atmosphere. Less solar energy results in reduced solar wind, more cosmic rays and thus more clouds – further cooling the planet.
If solar scientists are correct, in another decade or so, the sun will begin its weakest cycle in two centuries, possibly leading to another period of global cooling.
The lesson for poor nations is simple. Their people need – and deserve – abundant, reliable, affordable energy to power modern, industrialized, healthy, prosperous nations. Governments and communities must help facilitate this process, and challenge anti-energy pressure groups whenever necessary.
Poor countries don't have to depend on the World Bank or foreign aid – any more than Britain and the United States had to rely on them to develop and prosper. If their institutions and policies are sound, poor countries and communities can get the investment money and technology they need from private domestic and foreign sources.
African, Asian, Latin American and Eastern European countries have abundant oil, gas, coal, nuclear and hydroelectric resources. And they have the ultimate resource – the brain power, creativity and proud work ethic of their people.
If they can harness these resources, and unleash the power of free enterprise – under sound legal, regulatory, economic and property rights systems – they will generate previously unimaginable opportunity, health and prosperity for their people.
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Understanding Alien Contact as a Sci-Fi Writer
Alien contact has long been a staple of science fiction writing and I thought it might be a good idea to chat a bit about it with the readers of this blog. Despite the fact that there are many, many movies, books, cartoons, comics and recordings about alien contact almost as soon as you start to discuss the subject seriously people start to get nervous and the easiest way to dismiss their fears is to switch off and call you a "nut" or something equally charming.
Photo by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.comFor a professional scientist to discuss the subject at all is usually a way to signal that you want your career to end. For this reason I want to make clear that despite my disagreeing with Stephen Hawking about his recent pronouncements on alien life and our best ways of surviving alien contact, I admire his courage as a professional scientist in commenting on the subject at all.
The whole topic of aliens and alien species is seldom discussed seriously. There is no reason to suspect that they will be "Greys" or otherwise. People prefer to discuss the X-files, or their latest government conspiracy theory – "Yes, of course I believe in aliens, but we can't discuss it as it is above top secret and the government will find out if we do…"
What? Are you serious?
Until very recently we had a government in the UK that couldn't hold onto secret documents already inside intelligence agencies, let alone act with enough efficiency to stop us noticing or talking about something as big as alien contact.
Maybe the new government will be more efficient, but the jury is still out on that one! 🙂
Space Travel Requires Advanced Technology
To be serious for a second here, Arthur C Clarke once said that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Let us take this a bit further. As we are currently still developing the ability to launch a successful mission to Mars, how much more advanced would that technology be if it allowed interstellar flight and not just limited space flight in the solar system?
To assist in thinking about this, the distance from Earth to Mars is between 55 million kilometres and 400 million kilometres or so. For aliens to arrive on Earth they would most likely need to have travelled from another solar system. If we assume that it would be relatively as difficult for aliens to get to Earth from another solar system as it is for us to get to Mars, then we have a comparative measure of our technological levels.
Not perfect a perfect measure I grant you, but bear with me.
Travelling to Another Solar System
So how near is our nearest neighbour, galactically speaking?
Photo by MarkusramProxima Centauri is quite near at a mere 4.2 light years, or maybe Rigil Kentaurus at 4.3 light years. No doubt those numbers don't mean a lot if you have no interest in astronomy so here is an explanation. (I will keep it brief, don't go to sleep just yet!)
A light year is the distance light travels in one year. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second or roughly 300,000 kilometres a second – whichever you prefer. From this you can see a light year is a very long way indeed – about 10 trillion kilometres or 6 trillion miles.
Assuming that the trip to Mars from Earth will be taken at the shorter end of the spectrum (less than 60 million kilometres) we can compare this figure with the ability to get to Earth from our nearer stellar neighbours – for round figures lets go for 4.5 light years and include more than one star system. This means that our alien visitors will have travelled 42,573,287,126,613.6km (4.5 light years).
This distance is 709,554 times further than the trip to Mars and is merely the distance to our nearest neighbours. Let us remember that star systems that scientists say could have Earth like planets are even further away.
If the distance travelled really is an indicator of the relative advancement in technology then you had better believe that any alien technology will look like magic to us! At the very least we can safely assume that they will be well in advance of present day science and military technology.
Collecting Proof of Alien Contact
Personally, the question about alien contact is not really about whether or not the government are keeping secrets, or even whether or not we have had alien visitors already. My question is really is, if aliens landed on Earth, would we even notice?
Photo by officer2975Humans have sufficiently advanced technology to watch animals without the animals being aware of our presence. In fact we have technology that can spy on the average human without them being able to notice. If an alien species arrived at Earth and wanted to survey the place; what reason is there to expect that we could even detect them? Their travel technology would be many, many times more advanced than ours and most likely so would other aspects of their society and technology.
Anyone expecting the arrival of flying saucers and news channels showing alien footage will most likely be seriously disappointed. The first alien sighting we know of might just be when one says "Hello Mr Obama" and shakes his hand on national television.


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The vagueness of the plan combined with its calls for monitoring, more policing of communities, and early intervention to stave off undefined "extremism," may undermine civil liberties and constitutional freedoms. Plus, the strategy's emphasis on violence inspired by ideology may do more to elevate fears of terrorism that are out of proportion with the actual threat. As Charles Kurzman reminds us this week, 15,000 people are murdered each year in the United States:
Islamic terrorism, including the Beltway sniper attacks, has accounted for almost three dozen deaths in America since 9/11—a small fraction of the violence that the country experiences every year. The toll would have been higher if the perpetrators had been more competent . . . Even so, the number of perpetrators has been relatively low. Fewer than 200 Muslim-Americans have engaged in terrorist plots over the past decade—that's out of a population of approximately two million. This constitutes a serious problem, but not nearly as grave as public concern would suggest.
But there is good news in this document. The Obama White House takes a decided stance against the fearmongering and scapegoating of Muslims that is on the rise in our political discourse, and even with domestic security and law enforcement circles.
White House Plan Cautions Against Demonizing Muslim Americans
While the White House prioritizes the threat from al-Qa'ida in this strategy, it calls on law enforcement and federal agencies to counter propaganda that the United States "is somehow at war with Islam." The plan reminds the public once again that
the United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam. Islam is part of America, a country that cherishes the active participation of all its citizens, regardless of background and belief. We live what al-Qa'ida violently rejects – religious freedom and pluralism.
The White House calls for a paradigm of engagement with Muslim communities based on mutual respect, warning that "our words and deeds can either fuel or counter violent ideologies."
Here, the White House rhetorically condemns any "actions and statements that cast suspicion toward entire communities, promote hatred and division, and send messages to certain Americans that they are somehow less American because of their faith or how they look." Such actions "reinforce violent extremist propaganda and feed the sense of disenchantment and disenfranchisement that may spur violent extremist radicalization." But so far, federal agencies have not taken decisive, official action to prevent such destructive and counter-productive messages from being promoted within the ranks of the intelligence community.
Is Law Enforcement Getting the Message?
The White House is relying on local, state, and federal law enforcement to interact with individuals and deter them from using violence. Yet groups like the International Counter Terrorism Officers Association (ICTOA) are sending divisive messages to those very same ranks. The ICTOA is a private association of law enforcement and security professionals founded by NYPD officers. The ICTOA was profiled in a recent report by Political Research Associates called Manufacturing the Muslim Menace because it belongs to a pattern of flawed and biased trainings for law enforcement.
As reported by blogger Richard Bartholomew, the upcoming Ninth Conference of the ICTOA will include Senior Intelligence Analyst William Gawthrop. Speakers like Gawthrop cast suspicion on Muslims in precisely the way the White House has condemned.
Senior Intelligence Analyst Cites "High Birthrates" as Islamic "Tool of Penetration"
A retired U.S. Army counterintelligence officer, Gawthrop once worked as program manager for the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the Defense Department's Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA). According to the ACLU, CIFA was responsible for amassing secret databases on peaceful protest until the program was shut down in August 2008. In October, Gawthrop will be speaking to police officers, sheriffs, and intelligence analysts from around the country whose travel to the event is made possible by public tax dollars. He will present on the "Influence of the Sharia on Law Enforcement Investigations." In a paper on the same topic, Gawthrop echoes GOP presidential candidates like Hermain Cain when he questions whether Muslim police or intelligence officers can effectively interview terrorism subjects, based on an assumed "divided loyalty." After detailing what he described as Islamic legal prescriptions on keeping secrets and lying, Gawthrop writes,
Conflicting ideological beliefs impose an encumbrance on the believer. If the believer is also an investigator or analyst shouldering the responsibilities of an intelligence or law enforcement investigation, and he is confronted with a divided loyalty situation, it is logical that the believer may adhere to the calling of the higher authority.
(Wm. Gawthrop, "The Influence of Islamic Law on Intelligence and Law Enforcement," The Vanguard: Journal f the Military Intelligence Corps Association, Vol. 16, No. 1 Jan 2011, p. 9-19).
In other contexts, Gawthrop's observations on Islam are far more inflammatory. In a working draft paper on "Islam's Tools of Penetration," Gawthrop cites Muslim immigration and "high birthrates" as methods for Islam's supposed conquest of the world. He writes:
Westerners are not able to maintain their present numbers
Only Poland, Ireland, Malta, and Israel have naturally growing populations.
Muslims have some of the most robust birth rates in the world.
John R. Weeks study: Countries with large numbers of Muslims have a crude birth rate of 42 per thousand.
Developed countries have a crude birth rate of just 13 per thousand
6 children per Muslim woman, 1.7 per woman in the developed countries
(Wm. Gawthrop, "Islam's Tools of Penetration," Working Draft, p. 39). This birth rate motif emerges from folks who worry about the "Islamicization of Europe" and the "Demographic Winter." The message is both fundamentally racist and white supremacist, with close ties to the neoconservative and Christian right xenophobia toward Muslims. "Demographic Winter" is a code phrase for fears among white people that they are being outbred by people of color, and is pushed by the World Congress of Families, says PRA Senior Analyst Chip Berlet.
Gawthrop also casts mosques and the services they perform for communities "as the guarantor and essence of lines of communication penetrating and consolidating Islamic footholds in unconquered tterritories." (p. 86) Citing former Muslim turned Christian evangelist Mark Gabriel, Gawthrop characterizes mosques as "a place of worship, weapons depot, [and] military planning headquarters." ("Tools," p. 85)
Biased FBI Training Manual on Arab Culture and Islam
No separation between church and state.
Hard for Westerners to understand.
Transforms country's culture into 7th century Arabian ways.
Regulates most aspects of life.
On a slide entitled "Language," one bullet point reads: "It is the characteristic of the Arabic mind to be swayed more by words than ideas and more by ideas than facts." Wired's Danger Room blog reported on the presentation and received this statement from representatives at the FBI: "The FBI new agent population at Quantico is exposed to a diverse curriculum in many specific areas, including Islam and Muslim culture. The presentation in question was a rudimentary version used for a limited time that has since been replaced." While the training document is no longer in use, the latest revision date listed on its first page is January 15, 2009, notes Al Jazeera coverage.
I was happy to read in the August 4, 2011 New York Times that "the administration promised to identify accurate educational materials about Islam for law enforcement officers, providing an alternative to biased and ill-informed literature in use in recent years, including by the FBI." Clearly, there is much work to be done in rooting out hateful or divisive stereotypes about Muslims which cast suspicion on entire communities. Kevin Gosztola of Firedoglake offered this poignant critical reflection:
The strategy presents a decent foundation for addressing whatever extremism the nation should address. However, it is an utterly meaningless strategy if some of the poorest communities in America continue to be used by the FBI as a laboratory for launching entrapment schemes to catch so-called terrorists. It is purely prose if law enforcement continues to train agents or police to investigate and monitor not just crime but the religious practice and social behavior of entire communities. And, it is merely something officials in law enforcement can use to cover their ass and argue they are not targeting Muslims if Muslim Americans continue to have reason to believe their government is conducting surveillance on the mosques they pray in because of their religion.


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Mr. Kwesi Nyantakyi's wife, Christine-Marie Nyantakyi, has reiterated the claim that her husband indeed doled out an amount of $100,000 in a desperate attempt to stop the public screening of Anas' number 12 exposé on football corruption, that has effectively damaged the former Ghana Football Association (GFA) President's career and dignity.
Mr. Nyantakyi has been banned from all football activities for the rest of his life, and has been fined 500,000 Swiss Francs (equivalent of Ghc2,414,276.46 and $497,490.00 respectively), for various breaches of FIFA's code of ethics after he was exposed by investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
It would be recalled that before the screening of the investigative piece in June 2018, news emerged from Mr. Nyantakyi's camp that Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye PI team, had attempted to blackmail him by demanding $100,000 from him to stop the screening of the video.
The Anas camp however denied being a party to such blackmail, suggesting that someone might be seeking to serve as an intermediary for that purpose without their knowledge or approval.
But speaking for the first time on the grace to grass story of her husband on Metro TV's Good Evening Ghana on Tuesday, Mrs. Christine-Marie Nyantakyi, who's also the Director of Oasis Montessori School at Teshie Greda Estates, stated emphatically that; in their desperation at the time after seeing pieces of the video, they were approached by some persons who said they could stop the screening for an amount of $150,000.
She said her husband only gave out $100,000 because that was all he could pay. She however did not state categorically if the men had links to Anas or Tiger Eye PI.
According to her, the amount was paid back to them in tranches after the screening of the video.
"Well, there's information, and there's truth in that information. Apparently, we became so desperate when we realized that all that they presented to us were false, so we tried to make some interventions, and they proposed that he pays some money. They proposed $150,000; my husband couldn't afford it, so he gave out $100,000 dollars, and they came back to him and said the person says you need to add $50,000, and he said well, I don't have it; that's all that I have."
Asked what happened to the $100,000, she said it was later returned to them when the video was shown.
"They brought $40,000 first; and then later on, they brought $60,000 dollars. I have not gathered the courage to watch the full video, because the small that I watched, I knew that the way he is talking; that is not my husband; something might have gone wrong."
She however did not provide any documentary proof or mention the names of the individuals who were involved in this arrangement.
I don't know what they did to my husband
Asked what she believed might have gone wrong with him, she said; "I don't know what they did to him. My husband is a very skeptical person; I don't know what they did to him to follow them like that. You don't just get him to follow you like that."
When the host, Paul Adom-Otchere asked if he could have been under a spell or some incantations, she responded in the affirmative.
According to her, the husband informed her that he had received $40,000 on his second Dubai trip, and that the amount was to cover for the cost of his trip.
"He told me this long before the video came out. He said it was for reimbursement of his ticket, because that was the agreement they had. So he accepted the money with the belief that it was a refund for his trip as agreed."
'My husband is pained'
Mrs. Nyantakyi said her husband is pained, as he kept wondering what the motive could have been for this.
"His worry and the bother is what the motive was; so he tried to find out from people why did they do that? The motive for somebody planning, plotting, strategizing and executing this just to make sure he's disgraced. So that has been his pain and worry; he doesn't mind at all whatever has happened; he has taken that in good faith, but each day he keeps asking what have I done wrong? If they wanted me out they could have found another way; but that scheming to that extent".
She suggested that what happened to her husband, could befall anyone, if people were to shine the light on what others have discussed or done in their closet about people.
"Paul, I mean we are all human beings…the conversations that we have every day amongst us as friends, as associates and business partners, if those conversations are taken out, all of us will be in trouble. The sociologists will tell you that human beings are complex beings; as soon as a light is thrown on you; your behaviour, your demeanour, your gestures change; so you talk to somebody knowing that there's no one else watching you, there are no cameras; and then all of a sudden; everything is in the open. If he had known, I am sure that things that he said or did; he wouldn't have done them. So that's the pain that he has…That you come to me; deceive me and then I follow you; for you to do this to me. He's okay with it; he has learnt a lot of lessons even though very bitterly" she said.
Although the incident has taken a huge toll on them especially their two daughters, aged 13 and 9; she said they're coping by the help of God.
"Yes; it's been tough for us, but we've been able to hold on by the grace of God.
My husband won't run away; be patient with him – Nyantakyi's wife begs
She pleaded with Ghanaians to be patient with her husband; saying he's not running away from the country.
Mr. Nyantakyi himself has described the punishment as "harsh and unfair", and has served notice he will be appealing the decision; a position his wife strongly agrees with.
"Fifa is an association and it's governed by a code of ethics; so if you break the code of ethics; you're sanctioned; so whatever has happened; it's a sanction; it's not a criminal finding. People are saying Fifa has banned him so what's Ghana doing. We're talking about two different things here. To prove that somebody has committed a crime, you need to go through some processes. And the law says that a person is presumed to be innocent until proven otherwise" she noted.
Mr. Nyantakyi was first handed a 90-day provisional ban in June 2018, after the showing of a video and audio evidence of allegations of corruption leveled against him by investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, in his piece titled, Number 12.
The suspension was further extended by another ninety days in September 2018, before the announcement of the lifetime ban on Tuesday.
Anas and Tigereye PI petition to Fifa
On Wednesday, June 6, the Adjudicatory Chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee received a complaint and request from journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas through Cromwell Gray LLP, to commence investigations into the conduct of Kwesi Nyantakyi based on the content of the journalists' latest investigative film titled 'Number12'.
The piece captured Kwesi Nyantakyi in a compromised position. He was filmed supposedly taking $65,000 (£48,000) from an undercover reporter pretending to be a businessman.
The video among other things captured top officials of the football association including its President, Nyantakyi taking bribes to influence the invitation of players to the national team, influencing the duration of playing time offered to some players and influencing the selection of unfit players and referees to participate in games.
Also, more than 100 referees were caught on tape taking bribes to manipulate the outcome of games in a team's favour.
Following the first screening of the video, many called for a complete dissolution of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) and immediate resignation of its embattled president, Kwesi Nyantakyi.
Kwesi Nyantakyi, who was also the first Vice President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) eventually resigned from all football-related positions few days after the video was aired.
Then the suspension from Fifa followed.
At a point, he was investigated by the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service after President Akufo-Addo filed a complaint when he watched excerpts of Anas' video, in which the former FA President was using his name to lure foreign investors.
Ghana gets FIFA-appointed Normalization Committee
Following the eventual halt of football activities in Ghana after the corruption exposé, the government of Ghana attempted to dissolve the FA using the courts, but faced stiff opposition from members of the FA.
Eventually, government and the FA came to an agreement to allow Fifa, to mediate in the matter. Fifa in the end, set up a Normalization Committee for the country in September 2018, which has been given a period of six months to sort out the issues and restore Ghana football to normalcy.
What becomes of Nyantakyi's suits against Anas?
In the latter part of September 2018, Mr. Kwesi Nyantakyi sued undercover investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas. That suit was the second time Mr. Nyantakyi was suing Anas and his Tigereye PI firm. The earlier suit also at a High Court was specifically about defamation.
Nyantakyi wants the High Court to declare that Anas' secret recording of their conversations as well as publishing same, violates his [Nyantakyi's] "fundamental human rights to privacy and confidentiality in my dealings with others."
He wants the court to also declare that the recordings violated his "right to dignity" because he wasn't consulted before the piece was premiered, and thus prayed the High Court to award damages against Anas and his Tigereye PI firm for the said violations.
It is now unclear what becomes of Mr. Nyantakyi's suits, considering the turn of events.
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Harvard University has been excoriated for allowing a student-organized conference, the "One State Conference: Israel/Palestine and the one-State solution," to take place on its campus (March 2 & 3, 2012), financed in part by university resources (Harvard's Provost and the Weatherhead Institute), located at the prestigious Kennedy School Forum, posted on the Harvard Kennedy School of Government website, and advertised as a Harvard Kennedy School Student Conference. The Kennedy School website includes a disclaimer: "The One-State Conference is run solely by the student organizers, and students alone are responsible for all aspects of the program, including content and speakers, as with all student-run events. It does not represent the views of the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, or any Harvard school or center." But it still had all the trappings of a Harvard event.
The organizers promised a conference that would explore "the possible contours of a one-state solution and the challenges that stand in the way of its realization." But a variety of critics defined the conference as an anti-Israel hate-fest on the basis of its presenters, its sponsors (including notoriously anti-Israel groups such as the Palestine Solidarity Committee, Justice for Palestine, the Palestine Caucus, the Arab Caucus, the Progressive Caucus, and the Alliance for Justice in the Middle East), and its content.
Not surprisingly, controversy erupted well in advance of the conference itself. Alan Dershowitz, a tenured professor at Harvard Law School, condemned the conference as a genuine hate-fest because "virtually all of the speakers oppose Israel's existence." He described the call for a single-state solution as "a euphemism for ending the existence of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people…. The "one-state" solution is not 'the alternative for Israel. It is the alternative to Israel.'"
Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) called on Harvard to cancel the forum: "I want to condemn in the strongest possible terms Harvard's sponsorship of a conference exploring a 'one-state solution' to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. This is dangerous thinking that gives comfort to Israel's enemies who view the 'one-state solution' as a euphemism for eliminating Israel as a Jewish state. Harvard may have a right to do this, but that doesn't make it right to do it. The University should cancel this conference."
Professor Richard Cravatts, president of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), summed it up best:
A conference whose goal is to demonize and delegitimize Israel is not an academic enterprise. It is propaganda parading as scholarship, and violates not only one of the basic precepts of scholarship but also the spirit of the Kennedy School, which was conceived as a place where students could debate, with academic integrity, reason, and insight, the important issues facing decision makers.
The one-state solution, far from a rational plan for Palestinian statehood, actually proposes to do with votes and demography the same thing that Arab armies have themselves failed to do for the past 64 years.
It is thus no surprise that the participants at this conference were the usual suspects of the hate-Israel crowd.
Ilan Pappé, a notorious anti-Israel Israeli faux-historian, was one of the keynote speakers; despite the fact that he has been exposed as inventing history and distorting facts to fit his personal anti-Zionist ideology. As he himself has said, "I care less about veracity because I have an agenda to advance."
The other keynote speaker, Ali Abunimah, co-founder of Electronic Intifada and author of the 2006 book "One Country, a Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse," has made a career of Israel bashing.
Another participant for whom facts are irrelevant is Eve Spangler, who routinely accuses Israel of "genocide, apartheid, and sociocide." Elsewhere she has declared that "there is no 'real' history, only competing narratives." So much for objective scholarship.
Another, Diana Buttu, a former legal adviser to the PLO, simply makes stuff up to demonize Israel and minimize the heinousness of terrorism. She has repeatedly claimed, in stark contradiction to the oft video-taped explosions and destruction caused by qassams, that none of the almost 12,000 rockets and mortars that Hamas has rained down on Israeli towns "actually [had] an explosive head on them." According to her, Hamas is just pretending to kill Israelis.
Among Harvard faculty and affiliate staff presenting at the conference were:
- Stephen Walt: author of the ferociously anti-Israel and factually shoddy The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, which many consider an anti-Semitic tract. Ironically, he was the only speaker at the conference to acknowledge the possibility of a two-state solution.
- Duncan Kennedy: Harvard professor of law who has leveled extreme, factually inaccurate charges against Israel and calls for boycott and divestment.
- Timothy McCarthy: lecturer at the Carr Center at the Kennedy School and a member of the board of advisors of Freedom Forward, a pro-Palestinian, activist group.
- Naor Ben-Yahoyada: a visiting lecturer at Harvard. In 2007 he was part of a campaign that distributed wanted posters for Israel's chief of staff, Dan Halutz, calling him a war criminal, and in 2009 he spoke at an Israel Apartheid Week event in Rhode Island.
In response to the criticism, the Weatherhead Center and the Carr Center for Human Right removed their sponsorships; but the Kennedy School logo remained. This should come as no surprise. The Kennedy School of Government, with its sharply skewed Middle East Initiative program; the university's virulently anti-Israel Center for Middle Eastern Studies and affiliated Outreach Center[1]; the various anti-Israel programs and personalities at the Weatherhead Center, at the Carr Center for Human Rights and in other departments — all have in recent years promoted bigoted attacks against the Jewish state.
The hypocrisy of the event was epitomized as speakers condemned the very existence of a "Jewish" State, but urged the creation of a Palestinian Muslim state which envisions Islam as the official religion, Arabic as the official language, and the principles of Islamic Sharia law, with its gender inequities and religious apartheid, as the main source of legislation.
By presenting a one-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and discussing the ways to achieve it, the conference advocated the demographic destruction of the Jewish State, thereby denying the right of the Jewish people to exercise their own sovereignty. By funding and hosting this conference, Harvard University lent its prestige to, and provided a supportive forum for, one of the most ancient forms of bigotry and hatred.
The conference, in the opinion of some, turned out to be "rather tame and uneventful," "much ado about nothing," and with "few surprises." Even Professor Dershowitz, one of the conference's harshest critics, concluded that "we are winning" in the campus PR war against Israel.
In the opinion of the present writer, these benign post-mortems miss the real problem. Any hate-fest such as this, which proudly sports the imprimatur of any Western university, poses a real and present danger to Israel; and it plants the seeds of a future existential peril to the Jewish people and to Western civilization.
After almost 20 years of events and rallies and conferences at churches and universities around the country, the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement has achieved almost nothing, and interest among audiences other than its true believers has diminished. The same seems to be true of the "Israel Apartheid Awareness" programs that annually blossom on campuses across the country. Attendance is down and audiences are mostly hard-core anti-Israel ideologues.
So to remedy flagging interest, the forces that brought us BDS, "Israel Apartheid Week" and lawfare have invented a new front in the campus wars over Israel.
And this is where the great peril lies. Back in the '70s an anti-war movement that originated at one prestigious campus (Berkeley) soon spread to other campuses, and from there to the street and to mainstream media; and it eventually toppled a president and brought home American troops in retreat, defeat and shame, from Viet Nam. Without regard to the merits of the anti-war movement, it serves today as an example of the power of campus activism.
As Senator Brown asserted, "Academic elites need to understand that their ideas have real world consequences well beyond the comforts of the ivory tower, and the last thing Israel needs is Harvard legitimizing a terribly misguided idea."
In the decades before the Holocaust, academia and other elites in the West gave legitimization to the racist doctrine of eugenics, and this doctrine gave the German intellectuals the philosophical underpinning for their age-old Jew-hatred, gentrified with a newly minted pseudo-scientific term, "anti-Semitism." This is the precise what is happening today, on campuses throughout the country. Today's intellectually feeble, psychotically challenged, or morally bankrupt academics and other intellectuals who seek Israel's demise proffer scholarly venues for Muslim Jew haters who there create a mendacious veneer of intellectual inquiry and a faux mantle of historical legitimacy in order to justify the murder Jews on a scale brutally reminiscent of Nazi Germany.
It is shameful and irresponsible that the leaders of America's most prestigious university remain indifferent to, or collude with, what is in essence a new front in the Arab terrorist campaign. However tame or uneventful it may have been, Harvard's event was far from "much ado about nothing." It was the first salvo in a new Arab PR war against Israel and Jews; and in this its organizers' goal was achieved.


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Bad Dreams
By David K Scholes
I couldn't recall ever having so many bad dreams.
I would wake up and find myself vividly remembering at least three nightmares each night. Even though I tried desperately to forget them. They had begun to haunt my days.
They were all duly recorded on my dream recorder. I had bought the contraption a while back because it was a new fad. To tap into a dream that you might have liked but couldn't quite recall and enjoy it in full later. Either as a dream or a full fledged 3D video. Now though it was clearly redundant. There was nothing on it that wasn't already seared into my mind. I left it turned on though. Just in case the dream recordings could help with any expert analysis of my problem.
The dreams were getting so bad that I had started to delay going to bed or going back to sleep if I woke up.
Desperate I started consulting dream therapists and dreamologists though the breakthrough came when I called in a dream recorder technician.
"Some of your more vivid dreams have been downloaded to the internet," he said "it's a common enough problem that we call, unsurprisingly, dream theft."
"Ohh!" I responded. I'd heard of dream theft but was not exactly sure how that helped me.
"That's not the real problem here though," the technician continued "dream theft is pretty crude but what has also happened here is much more unusual. Much more sophisticated. Someone has been inputting dreams remotely to your recorder and then via the recorder you've been experiencing those dreams. In fact all of the very worst nightmares on this dream recorder have been input remotely. The weird alien landscapes, the otherwise unimaginable alternate realities, the hand to hand fighting in fantastic oversize alien urban landscapes. To mention a few."
"What can I do about it," I asked.
"Simple," the technician replied. "Stop using the dream recorder. Disconnect it. Better still get rid of it completely."
I did turn the dream recorder off but something in me couldn't quite throw it out. At least not yet.
The solution worked. At least for a while.
Then the dreams or I should say nightmares started again. At least I was remembering them vividly on awakening. I didn't recall turning the dream recorder on but I saw that it was on and assumed it must have been me that did it accidentally. After all – I lived alone – who else could have done that?
The first night the dreams returned was not so bad and out of curiosity I left the dream recorder on for a few days. It got worse each day from there. Strangely the nightmares started to focus almost exclusively on combat scenarios. A lot of different mostly alien scenarios. Different worlds maybe even different dimensions and realities. They were weird enough to be that.
I was waking up fully remembering four or five nightmares each night. Then when I checked the dream recorder there were some other nightmares that I had not remembered. Was this remote input to my dream recorder that hadn't reached my brain? I wondered or had I also dreamt these nightmares as well and not remembered them?
For hours on end during the day I found myself helplessly re-playing the nightmares that I could not remember. This second time around was worse than the first.
Though none of the nightmares broke me. I always managed came out on top by the end of the nightmare.
In the end I summoned the will to physically smash the dream recorder to smithereens before throwing it away in the trash.
That, I was sure, would be the end of that. Though there was a small part of me disappointed that I hadn't gotten to the bottom of the matter.
It was quite some weeks later, just when I was starting to sleep a bit better, that I received the communication. It had come via a quaint medium that I had thought no longer existed. On a piece of paper inside another piece of paper physically delivered to my home. I believe they once used to be called letters.
It was both congratulations at my having passed rigorous testing and also an invitation to discuss possible future employment. From an organisation with the somewhat vague name of: Off World Defence Recruiting.
I had heard of the organisation in my final days as an Earth special forces soldier while on secondment to the Drorne military. Training their then new incubated soldier units.
My first thoughts were to rip the "letter" up and throw it away but I didn't do that.
I was just curious enough to go and talk to these people. Maybe even give them a piece of my mind about the nightmares they imposed on me.
It occurred to me that maybe this was how they got people like myself back into combat again. Highly experienced operatives not that long retired. By piquing their curiosity while testing to see if they still had the nerve for off world combat.
Any way what could I lose from just going to talk to them?
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The author has written six collections of sci-fi short stories and two sci-fi novellas (all on Amazon). He has been a regular contributor to both the Antipodean SF and the Beam Me Up Pod Cast sci-fi sites and has also been published on a variety of other sci-fi sites. He is currently working on a new anthology of short sci-fi stories and also a "Human Hunter" series for the Beam Me Up Pod Cast site.


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. Lest you should find yourself in my position, a quick
gconftool --set --type list --list-type=string
/apps/osso/image-viewer/recent_tags '[]'
will expunged your undesired utterances from the cloud. Bug report time. Next stop: finding a tool that lets the user remove typos from the autocompletion database …
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Convention and nomination
World Heritage Convention
The overarching goal of the 1972 World Heritage Convention is the protection of cultural and natural properties of 'Outstanding Universal Value' (OUV) for mankind and to preserve it for future generation. It aims at the identification, protection, conservation, presentation and transmission to future generations of cultural and natural heritage of Outstanding Universal Value (OGL §7).
The Convention defines the kind of natural or cultural sites which can be considered for inscription on the World Heritage List. It sets out the duties of States Parties in identifying potential sites and their role in protecting and preserving them. By signing the Convention, each country pledges to conserve not only the World Heritage sites situated on its territory, but also to protect its national heritage.
Nomination of the Wadden Sea
In 2008, Germany and the Netherlands submitted the nomination dossier of the Dutch-German Wadden Sea as World Heritage site to the World Heritage Centre of UNESCO in Paris. At its 33th session in Seville in June 2009, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee inscribed the nominated area on the World Heritage List under the natural criteria (viii), (ix) and (x).
In 2011, the Committee approved adding the property of National Park Wadden Sea Hamburg to the designated area.
In 2013, the Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation submitted a nomination dossier to extent the existing designation with the Danish part of the Wadden Sea and an additional German offshore part. In June 2014, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee approved the extension. With this decision, the Wadden Sea as a whole became a World Heritage site.
With the inscription of the Wadden Sea on the World Heritage List, the World Heritage Committee forwarded the following to the Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation (TWSC)
- Prepare and implement a sustainable tourism strategy;
- Strengthen cooperation on management and research activities on the African Eurasian Flyways;
- the State Party of Denmark, in cooperation with the State Parties of the Netherlands and Germany, to prepare an implementation plan to enhance the conservation and management of the attributes of Outstanding Universal Value within the Danish National Park;
- Develop a single integrated management plan for the entire transboundary property (ongoing);
- submit, by 1 December 2016, a joint report on the state of conservation of the property.
- Implement a monitoring programme on invasive species associated with ballast water and aquaculture;
- Extend further the monitoring of impacts of fisheries activities within the existing and extended property (ongoing).


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