Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct04/Jensen-Draffan1009.htm

http://www.percyschmeiser.com/

// prevzato z root.cz

Zanedlouho nastane doba, kdy za pěstování libovolné rostliny bude muset každý platit nekontrolovatelně vysoké licenční poplatky, protože se do ní dostane kontaminací nějaký ten patentovaný gen. I v případě, že došlo bez vašeho vědomí a zavinění k neoprávněné kontaminaci vaší vlastní původní kultury (řepky), jak se stalo v případu Percyho Schmeisera.

Tag! You're recorded

Schools turn to high-tech tags for security

By Kenji Hall, The Associated Press
October 10, 2004

TOKYO Every time a fourth grader passes through Rikkyo Elementary School's front gate, a small, gray plastic tag tucked inside his backpack beams a message to a computer in a nearby office.

The students are oblivious, but the computer logs the time they enter and leave and a security guard watching the screen takes note. Moments later, their parents receive confirmation by e-mail.

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In Japan, high-tech tagging has made the jump from grocery stores to the school yard.

Rikkyo officials hope the Radio Frequency Identification technology will serve as an early warning system for children who go missing.

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http://www.thesunlink.com/bsun/bu_technology/article/0,2403,BSUN_19061_3244377,00.html

Kenyan Nobel peace laureate claims AIDS virus deliberately created

NAIROBI, Oct 9 (AFP) - Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, on Saturday reiterated her claim that the AIDS virus was a deliberately created biological agent.

"Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys (since) time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.

"Us black people are dying more than any other people in this planet," Maathai told a press conference in Nairobi a day after winning the prize for her work in human rights and reversing deforestation across Africa.

"It's true that there are some people who create agents to wipe out other people. If there were no such people, we could have not have invaded Iraq," she said.

"We invaded Iraq because we believed that Saddam Hussein had made, or was in the process of creating agents of biological warfare," said Maathai, also Kenyan deputy environment and natural resources minister, who has gained a reputation as a fearless speaker.

"In fact it (the HIV virus) is created by a scientist for biological warfare," she added.

"Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious," Maathai added.

Africa accounts for 25 million out of the estimated 38 million people across the world infected with HIV, and the vast majority of infected Africans are women, according to UNAIDS estimates.

The United States on Friday congratulated Maathai on winning the Nobel Peace Prize, but tempered its praise over her claims about AIDS.

"She said (HIV/AIDS) was invented as a bioweapon in some laboratory in the West," a senior State Department official said. "We don't agree with that."

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http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=30207

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Milosevic: 'no link to genocide found'

Chris Stephen
Sunday October 10, 2004
The Observer

Fresh controversy has hit the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic with a claim from a senior intelligence analyst that the Yugoslav leader is innocent of genocide.

Dr Cees Wiebes, a professor at Amsterdam University, now says there is no evidence linking Milosevic to the worst atrocity of the Bosnian war, the massacre of 7,000 Muslims at the town of Srebrenica.

Srebrenica, which was overrun by Serb forces in July 1995, forms the basis of the genocide charge against Milosevic, but Wiebes, a member of a Dutch government inquiry into the atrocity, said there is nothing to link Milosevic to the crime.

'In our report, which is about 7,000 pages long, we come to the conclusion that Milosevic had no foreknowledge of the subsequent massacres,' he says in a radio programme, The Real Slobodan Milosevic, to be broadcast by BBC Five Live tonight. 'What we did find, however, was evidence to the contrary. Milosevic was very upset when he learnt about the massacres.'

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1323864,00.html

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"What? The United States make up a bunch of lies about a leader so they can invade his country?!? The United State doesn't DO that sort of ... ummm... I mean .... ah ... Hey how about those Lakers!"

Everytime when Sharon is in deep doodoo a bomb explodes and all the 'uncomfortable' headlines of UN-declarations, Gaza-atrocities of IDF, bribery and child-killing are pulled to page 15

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=56995

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SEARCH FOR OSAMA

Iranian intel: Tehran harboring bin Laden

2 officials say they've seen terrorist under care of Revolutionary Guard

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40837

TV Station Posts 'Test Report' Saying Bush Wins Presidency




Paul Joseph Watson | October 8 2004

WBAY TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin ran an AP article reporting that Bush has won the election, weeks before the election is to take place. (Click here for enlargement."

The article reads, "At this hour, President Bush has won re-election as president by a 47 percent to 43 percent margin in the popular vote nationwide. Ralph Nader has 1 percent of the vote nationwide. That's with 51 percent of the precincts reporting."

WBAY withdrew the article after 35 minutes claiming it was a 'test story' which was mistakenly picked up by their automating software.

Why would the Associated Press be sending out articles of this nature three weeks before the election? On what basis do simple format news articles need to be tested?

The original article page now reads, "You have reached a page that is currently unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please use your browser's BACK button to return to the previous page."

WBAY then issued a seperate article which outlined why the article was posted in the first place. The text of that article is reprinted below.

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Correction: President Bush Did Not Win Election on October 7

With less than a month before the presidential election, an Associated Press test article declaring President Bush the winner was picked up by WBAY.com's automated system. The article was not recognized by our web host's system as a test message.

The mistake was picked up by a discussion group on Daily Kos, prompting a phone call that alerted us to the problem. Our web host, WorldNow, removed the story in less than five minutes. The article appeared on WBAY.com for 35 minutes.

WBAY apologizes for the error, and we took quick action to correct it.

The Associated Press tests election results about four times a week leading up to elections, especially one as crucial as a presidential election, to help TV stations and newspapers make sure they are receiving the numbers. The numbers are random with every test; if this error happened a day sooner or a day later, it could've been Senator Kerry or Ralph Nader who was declared the winner.

WBAY.com automatically receives news from the Associated Press on national, state, political, entertainment and other topics, allowing our web site to be updated throughout the day with more articles than we could publish on the web site by our staff alone.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2004/081004testreport.htm

Take them out, dude: pilots toast hit on Iraqi 'civilians'

By Andrew Buncombe in Washington

06 October 2004

The Pentagon said yesterday it was investigating cockpit video footage that shows American pilots attacking and killing a group of apparently unarmed Iraqi civilians.

The 30-second clip shows the pilot targeting the group of people in a street in the city of Fallujah and asking his mission controllers whether he should "take them out". He is told to do so and, shortly afterwards, the footage shows a huge explosion where the people were. A second voice can be heard on the clip saying: "Oh, dude."

The existence of the video, taken last April inside the cockpit of a US F-16 fighter has been known for some time, though last night's broadcast by Channel 4 News is believed to be the first time a mainstream broadcaster has shown the footage.

At no point during the exchange between the pilot and controllers does anyone ask whether the Iraqis are armed or posing a threat. Critics say it proves war crimes are being committed.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=569207

video: http://globalresearch.ca/images/Massacre%20of%20Civilians.wmv

nejvice psycho je tohle, i kdyz je to nejspis jen zasterka. ale z toho je videt, jak rychle uz je represe propojena

They claimed there was threats and personal information, but there was nothing of the sort. The undercover police that were photographed on the page were photographing protesters. Rackspace is a US company, but have colocation in the UK where these servers are (err, were) located. So this is about Swiss police, on a French site, on a server in England, taken away by American federal police... can I be the first to say WTF?!

FBI seizes Global Indymedia Servers. Reasons Unknown Current rating: 0
by Sascha Meinrath / NYC IMC
(No verified email address) 07 Oct 2004
(from UC-IMC / Global IMC / Wire Reports): The FBI took the hard drives of Global IMC servers in the USA and the UK. It appears that a court order was issued to Rackspace (Indymedia's service provider with offices in the US and in London) to physically remove the hard drives from Global Indymedia servers (backup servers are now in place). Rackspace was given no time to defend against the order before it was acted upon and turned over the hard drives, both in the US and the UK. The servers hosted numerous local IMCs, including UK Indymedia, Belgium, African imcs, Palestine, UK, Germany, Brasil, Italy, Uruguay, Poland, Belgrade, Portugal and others.

During the Republican Convention, the ISP of the NYC IMC was informed that it was the subject of a Secret Service / FBI investigation into an article submitted to its Open Newswire identifying delegates at the RNC. While the FBI has made it clear to members of the press that the investigation is ongoing, there is not necessarily a connection between events in NYC and the FBI's seizure of the Rackspace servers. Currently, much of the speculation about the reasons for the FBI's move centers around photographs posted to the IMC-Nantes website.

See IMC Press Release
Slashdot Discussion
The FBI's latest anti-free-press actions began at the beginning of October when they visited Indymedia's ISP demanding the removal of identifying information from photographs of undercover police officers that was posted on the Nantes Indymedia website. When asked what the US government was doing requesting the removal of information from a French-run website that contained information about Swiss police actions, the FBI stated that this was a "courtesy" to the Swiss government. The FBI agents stated that no laws had been broken, and no crimes had been committed. However, because no identifying information was posted on the website in question, it was unclear what actions the FBI was requesting.

The article in question is/was posted here:

http://nantes.indymedia.org/article.php3?id_article=3910

On Tuesday October 5th, Indymedia received the following message from Rackspace:

"I apologize for the delay in responding. I have been trying to get a hold of the FBI agent I spoke with before, but haven't been able to at this time. As the request originated with the Swiss police, I can only speculate on what they saw or what they were concerned about. However, at this time, I have received no further communications from either the FBI or the Swiss authorities, so I feel like we can close this this issue."

Today the FBI seized Global Indymedia servers; however it is unclear if this is related to the Nantes issue or is a second FBI concern within the past week.

(14:20) Rackspace has issued a "no comment" response concerning the FBI's actions.
See also:
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/111987.shtml
http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/126052/index.php

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http://nyc.indymedia.org/feature/display/126066/index.php

Russians Accept Limitations on Rights

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By STEVE GUTTERMAN
Associated Press Writer

October 6, 2004, 3:28 PM EDT

MOSCOW -- With fear running high after a series of deadly terror attacks, many Russians would agree to significant limitations on their rights and freedoms to ensure security, pollsters and analysts said Wednesday.

Opinion polls in the wake of the stunning attacks that killed more than 430 people in August and September suggest that despite skepticism about President Vladimir Putin's reform, he will have little trouble tightening Kremlin control over the country in the name of unity against terrorism.



"More than half the populace is prepared, under the pretext of the fight against terror, to agree to limitations of rights and freedoms," said Leonid Sedov, senior analyst at the respected Levada Center polling agency.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-russia-freedom-limitations,0,2635719.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER

Feds plan to track every car

Obscure agency working on technology to monitor all vehicles

Posted: October 7, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

A little-known federal agency is planning a new monitoring program by which the government would track every car on the road by using onboard transceivers.

The agency, the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office, is part of the Department of Transportation. According to an extensive report in the Charlotte, N.C., Creative Loafing, the agency doesn't respond to public inquiries about its activity.

According to the report, cutting-edge tracking technology will be used by government transportation management centers to monitor every aspect of transportation. Under the plan, not only will movement be monitored but it also will be archived in massive databases for future use.

The paper reports a group of car manufacturers, technology companies and government interests have worked toward implementing the project for 13 years.

States the Creative Loafing report:

"The only way for people to evade the national transportation tracking system they're creating will be to travel on foot. Drive your car, and your every movement could be recorded and archived. The federal government will know the exact route you drove to work, how many times you braked along the way, the precise moment you arrived – and that every other Tuesday you opt to ride the bus.

"They'll know you're due for a transmission repair and that you've neglected to fix the ever-widening crack that resulted from a pebble dinging your windshield."

The agency's website says its purpose is to "use advanced technology to improve the efficiency and safety of our nation's surface transportation system."

Critics believe the program will be used to line the pockets of business interests that stand to gain from the sale of needed technology and that the government will use the data collected to tax drivers on their driving habits.

Though the program has ominous privacy implications, Creative Loafing reports none of the privacy-rights organizations it contacted were aware of the government's plans.

The report states that more than $4 billion in federal tax dollars has already been spent to lay the foundation for the system, which will use GPS technology and other methods to monitor Americans' movements.

The plan includes transceivers, or "onboard units," that will transmit data from each car to the system, the first models of which are expected to be unveiled next spring. By 2010, the paper reported, automakers hope to start installing them in cars. The goal is to equip 57 million vehicles by 2015.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40795

Bio-chip implant arrives for cashless transactions

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35766

Miami journalist gets 'chipped'

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32286

Al-Zarqawi may not be behind Iraq attacks

Intelligence says group too small to do what he claims or is blamed for

By Mohamad BazziNEWSDAY

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Whenever a car bombing, beheading or other spectacular act of violence takes place in Iraq these days, U.S. officials are quick to blame Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. If he hasn't already taken responsibility himself.

But according to an Arab intelligence assessment, al-Zarqawi is not capable of carrying out the level of attacks in Iraq that he has claimed and that American officials have blamed on him.

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http://www.theargusonline.com/Stories/0,1413,83%257E1968%257E2448947,00.html

Intelligence says group too small to do what he claims or is blamed for
Especially since Zarqawi himself has been reported dead.

Iraq militants claim al-Zarqawi is dead

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4446084/

JAY - A man responsible for the closing of a state highway in Delaware County for three hours is familiar to the FBI, Undersheriff Dale Eberle said Monday.

A two-mile stretch of State Highway 20, east of Jay, was closed Saturday while an Oklahoma Highway Patrol bomb squad searched the man's car. Authorities had received a report of "possible terrorist activities."

The FBI office in Tulsa was notified, and agents were called to interview the man. He was released after being held for seven hours. The driver, who identified himself as Israeli, was unable to show a passport or visa.

Eberle declined to identify the man since no arrest was made. The FBI received "some hits on his name and said they had dealt with him before," he said.

The man, approximately 40 years old, is married to a U.S. citizen, Eberle said. He did show an Arizona driver's license with a Gentry, Ark., address.

Saturday, the Delaware County sheriff's office received a report that a man stopped at a convenience store near Jay and was asking directions to Oklahoma. He was driving a car with what appeared to be pipe bomb attached to the roof.

Eberle said the "pipe bomb" was a video camera inside tubes taking pictures of the area's surroundings. The highway patrol determined the pipes did not contain explosives, he said.

"Our concern was for the Pensacola Dam and the two watersheds that feed Tulsa," Eberle said.

Eberle said authorities reviewed the videotape, which showed the surroundings from different angles. The video showed nothing specific, he said.

An inventory of the car showed recording devices and tools, Eberle said.

Eberle said the man was in Jay last week asking questions about the community's industry. He also ate at a local diner, but he refused to use a metal fork or a glass because he didn't want to leave his fingerprints, he said.

http://www.newsok.com/article/1331741/

Chart: Bush Ratings vs. Terror Alerts

I have put together a chart comparing Bush approval numbers to the timeline of terror alerts. (Thanks to Stuart Eugene Thiel for the amazing daily graphics that he prepares, comparing the approval ratings from different polls and media sources.) You can see it by clicking in the graphic below:



There are few things that are quite evident from the chart:

- Whenever his ratings dip, there's a new terror alert.

- Every terror alert is followed by a slight uptick of Bush approval ratings.

- Whenever there are many unfavorable headlines, there's another alert or announcement (distraction effect).

- As we approach the 2004 elections, the number and frequency of terror alerts keeps growing, to the point that they collapse in the graphic. At the same time, Bush ratings are lower than ever.

Update: for the record, we are not claiming that all these alerts are politically motivated. We are sure a considerable amount of these alerts were legit and caused by real and immediate information of potential threats. What is important to note is that many of these "immediate" terror alerts were later on discredited (in some cases they used old data, in other cases the announcements were less immediate and less urgent that we were lead to believe, as the press reported.) Those are the cases that could be interpreted as politically motivated, especially when they seemed to coincide with political news and events unfavorable to the administration.


http://juliusblog.blogspot.com/2004_08_01_juliusblog_archive.html

Moscow schoolchildren will soon receive ID cards bearing a logo of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party.

Every pupil and teacher will receive a plastic card with his or her photo and important personal data. United Russia’s symbol — a walking bear against the backdrop of the Russian flag — and the address of the party headquarters in Moscow will be printed on the reverse side of the card.

The youth wing of the Rodina (Motherland) bloc, too, strongly disapproved of United Russia’s project. “All that will end with total control,” Oleg Bondarenko of Rodina’s youth organization told Ekho.

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/10/05/onemoretry.shtml

THE REAL "FREE PRESS"

http://www.wealth4freedom.com/freepress.htm

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