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Don't Let Google Close the Book on Reader Privacy

2009-09-08T02:02:00.000-07:00

Below is a brilliant action alert update on the online civil liberties group EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) regarding monitoring, database building and general loopholes in online privacy laws with regards to downloading of digital books (ebooks). If you are one of the many people (just like me) who absolutely love ebooks and want your downloading history and privacy to be protected, please go to https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=433 and demand that the Google book search service should protect your privacy rights online.

Details given below from the EFF website:

Google is poised to radically expand its book service, monitoring the digital books you search, the pages you read, how long you spend on various pages, and even what you write down in the margins. Google could then combine your reading habits with other information it has about you from other Google services, creating a massive "digital dossier" about you, your interests, and your concerns. With numerous reports of government efforts to compel online and offline booksellers to turn over records about readers, the time is now for Google to pledge to protect reader privacy.

You shouldn't be forced to pay for digital books with your privacy. Tell Google it needs to develop a robust privacy policy that gives you at least as much privacy in books online as you have in your neighborhood library or bookstore. Google must:

Protect your reading records from government and third party fishing expeditions by responding only to properly-issued warrants and court orders, and by letting you know if someone has demanded access to information Google has collected about you.
Make sure that you can still browse and read anonymously by not forcing you to register or give personal information and by deleting any logging information for all services after a maximum of 30 days.
Separate data related to Google Book Search from any other information the company collects about you, unless you give it express permission.
Give you the ability to edit and delete any information collected about you, transfer books from one account to another without tracking, and hide your "bookshelves" or other reading lists from others with access to your computer.
Keep Google Book Search information private from third parties like credit card processors, book publishers, and advertisers.

Email Google CEO Eric Schmidt TODAY and demand that the new Google Book Search service protect your privacy rights. Tell him that you won't pay for digital books with your privacy and that Google Book Search must include these basic safeguards to protect readers!

Again, please sign the online petition at https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=433 and forward the same to Google CEO Eric Schmidt if you want Google to stop maintaining online user records permanently and using it for other purposes without our knowledge.

UPDATE: Apologies- it seems Google has already responded to the EFF report, here's the article:

Google Book Privacy Policy: Good Start, Much More Needed

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2009-09-02T00:17:00.000-07:00

It seems there's an html error when some click on 'Read Full Post' and the entire post appears not once, but twice.

I hope this hiccup will be dealt with asap- till then, please educate yourself and stay informed!

Wake Up India

2009-09-01T00:13:00.000-07:00

Why all Indians should say NO to the national biometric identification system proposed by the Government and Nandan Nilekani:

We are at a stage where our nation is witnessing a supposed ‘sweeping reformation movement’ insofar as the Government plan to introduce a mandatory biometric ID system to all 1.2 billion citizens is concerned.

This crucial moment must, in no way, go unnoticed and unquestioned for reasons other than national security; for it is this particular move by the current Government that could render us as the world’s largest and most populous surveillance society.

The biometric ID system plan, mooted by the ruling party and the former Chairman of Infosys Technologies Ltd. (now the Chairman of the new Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)) Nandan Nilekani, was approved on the following grounds:

India’s legions of local bureaucrats currently issue at least 20 proofs of identity, including birth certificates, driving licenses and ration cards. None is accepted universally and moving from one state to the next can easily render a citizen officially invisible- a disastrous predicament for the millions of poor who rely on state handouts to survive. (Quoted from the Times of India article ‘India to issue all 1.2 billion citizens with biometric ID cards’ dated July 15, 2009.)
That the proposed biometric identification scheme would fight corruption, Government inadequacy/ies and various bureaucratic black holes and obstacles.
That the proposed identification system would curb illegal immigration, terrorism and criminal practices such as black marketing, smuggling, tax evasion and the like.
That this system would keep tabs on all citizens residing within India, thereby making it easier for the Government to monitor the movement of its billion plus citizens, whether within the nation's territories or outside.

Each biometric ID card will have a computer chip containing proof of identity, such as a fingerprint and iris/retina scan. Also contained within this chip will be any data pertaining to criminal records and/ or credit history, medical records, etc.

Mr. Nilekani has gone on record to say that all issued cards will be accessible from anywhere on the planet, courtesy an omnipresent online database containing our vital information.

An excerpt from the above mentioned Times of India article reads:

The danger, experts say, is that as one of the world’s largest stores of personal information, it will prove an irresistible target for identity thieves. “The database will be one of the largest that ever gets built,” Guru Malladi, a partner at Ernst & Young who was involved in an earlier pilot scheme, said. “It will have to be impregnable.”

Mr Nilekani will also have to mastermind a way of collecting trustworthy data. Only about 75 million people — or less than 7 per cent of the population — are registered to pay income tax. The Electoral Commission’s voter lists are thought to be largely inaccurate, not least because of manipulation by corrupt politicians.
He will also have to persuade as many as 60 government departments to co-operate. The Government has said that the first cards will be issued within 18 months. Analysts feel that it will take at least four years for the project to reach “critical mass”.

Such is the scale of the project that analysts believe India will have to develop a new electronics manufacturing base to supply information-storing servers, computer chips and card readers.

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I. Now, to explore the cold, hard facts:

Biometric ID cards and systems are NOT foolproof. Given below are online articles which demonstrate just how easy it is to misuse or hack into a ubiquitous online database:

(i) Biometric passport chips can be cloned in an hour, researcher warns

New microchipped passports designed to protect against identity theft by terrorists and criminals can easily be faked, it was claimed today.

Tests showed that personal information could be cloned and manipulated within an hour before being inserted into new chips, the Times reported.

The paper said it had exposed “security flaws” in the passport system by asking a researcher to clone the chips on two British passports and implant digital images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber. The altered chips were then passed as genuine by reader software used by the UN agency that sets the standards for such e-passports.

The tests showed that bogus biometrics could be inserted in fake or blank passports, the Times alleged, saying the flaws also undermined assertions that 3,000 blank passports stolen last week could not be forged.

The identity and passport service at the Home Office remained confident, however, that the British biometric passport was “one of the most secure passports available”, saying no one had been able to demonstrate they could modify or change information contained in a chip, and that if they did, it would be obvious to the reader.

A spokesman added: “Continuing investment in biometric technology and enhanced security measures will help ensure that passport security is maintained now and in the future.”

The tests for the Times were conducted by Jeroen van Beek, a security researcher at Amsterdam university who can read, clone and alter microchips so they are accepted by the software recommended for use at airports by the International Civil Aviation Organisation.

Van Beek could not be contacted today, but the Times said he had used his own software, a publicly available programming code, a £40 card reader and two £10 radio frequency chips. Within an hour, he had cloned and altered chips so that they were ready to be planted in stolen or fake passports.

A baby boy’s passport chip was altered to contain an image of Bin Laden, and that of a 36-year-old woman was changed to hold a picture of Hiba Darghmeh, a Palestinian suicide bomber who killed three people in 2003. The identities had been chosen deliberately to demonstrate that neither van Beek nor the Times was trying to fake viable travel documents, the newspaper said.

Van Beek was quoted as saying: “We’re not claiming that terrorists will be able to do this to all passports today or that they will be able to do it tomorrow. But it does raise concerns over security that need to be addressed in a more public and open way.”

The Times said its tests also raised questions about the £4bn identity card scheme, which relied on similar technology. The plan could open more opportunities for criminals to match real information about clients , including fingerprints and pictures, with stolen identity details.

An international system exists under which faked chips could be spotted at border points because they would not match key codes when checked against an international database. However, only 10 of the 45 countries with e-passports have signed up to the system, and only five are using it.

The Home Office says it will use the code directory from the end of this year, but the Times claims fakes from countries that do not share key codes could go undetected.

by James Meikle
Wednesday August 06 2008 11:49 BST

(Source: http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2008/08/06/biometric-passport-chips-can-be-cloned-in-an-hour-researcher-warns/)

(ii) Researcher raises alarm about biometric hacking with "biologger" tool

While attempts to bypass biometric security measures are certainly nothing new, a researcher from London-based Information Risk Management is now raising an alarm about a new area of biometric hacking, and he's even gone so far as to release the source code for proof-of-concept tool to really drive the point home.

As PC World reports, IRM's Matthew Lewis has demonstrated what he describes as a "biologging" system, which actually intercepts and captures biometric data as it passes between the biometric scanner and the processing server, during which time it apparently isn't encrypted on many systems.

That, Lewis says, opens up the possibility of so-called "man-in-the-middle" attacks," although there is the slight problem that the biologger needs to actually be inserted into the network in order to do its thing. Even so, Lewis says that such dangers do exist, and he's hoping that the release of the tool will encourage manufacturers to beef up their security.

(Source: (http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/researcher-raises-alarm-about-biometric-hacking-with-biologger/)

(iii) Firms' biometrics records 'can be hacked'

…But will soon be as big as any national ID scheme.

By Computerworld UK
Published: 08:58 GMT, 19 March 08

The growing use of biometrics to identify individuals is "insecure and in need of immediate attention," according to an IT systems company.

Fujitsu Siemens said biometrics is increasingly being used in the business world to verify whether individuals really are who they say. By 2013, Fujitsu Siemens predicts biometric identity technology will be so widespread in the private sector that the number of people included would rival that of the proposed national ID schemes.

Within five years, 95 percent of the UK population will be identifiable through biometrics and other means.

But the tracking and monitoring of people could be a risk if security controls were not tightened up, the IT company said.

"From a security perspective, we have already seen that criminals can create a number of different personae for themselves and more methods of identification means more openings for them. Whether it's issued by a company or a government, once an individual can associate their biometric characteristics with an identity, they effectively own that identity," said David Pritchard, senior technology analyst.
"People are already carrying around several identifying documents or artifacts – car keys, passports, driving licences, bank cards," said Pritchard.

"Biometrics are being added to these items, making them uniquely identifiable and traceable to the individual."

The government recently commissioned a report in which former banker Sir James Crosby said that within five years people were likely to be carrying several biometric identifiers. In the report, Crosby called on the government to work with banks to create a universal ID assurance scheme, led by the private sector, which would result in a more secure system.

(Source: http://news.techworld.com/security/11748/firms-biometrics-records-can-be-hacked/)

This argument may well apply to any web based or computer system and not just biometrics, but does go to show that the biometric identification system can in no way be rendered foolproof.

If a central database is open to attacks from unknown sources, thus comprising personal security, why should the citizens of a nation agree to have themselves monitored via this system which cannot, again, guarantee complete safety of private records?

(iv) Researchers Hack Faces In Biometric Facial Authentication Systems

Feb 12, 2009 | 01:23 PM
By Kelly Jackson Higgins
DarkReading

A Vietnamese researcher will demonstrate at Black Hat DC next week how he and his colleagues were able to easily spoof and bypass biometric systems that authenticate users by scanning their faces.

The researchers cracked the biometric authentication embedded in Lenovo, Asus, and Toshiba laptops by spoofing the biometric systems with everything from a photo of the authorized user to brute-force hacking using fake facial images.

They successfully bypassed Lenovo's Veriface III, Asus' SmartLogon V1.0.0005, and Toshiba's Face Recognition 2.0.2.32 -- each set to its highest security level -- demonstrating vulnerabilities in the systems that let an attacker cheat them with phony photos of the legitimate user and gain access to the laptops.

These Windows XP and Vista laptops come with built-in webcams that work with the facial-recognition technology. This form of authentication is considered more convenient than fingerprint scans and more secure than traditional passwords. The software scans the user's face and stores the images and facial characteristics. Then the user can log in by scanning his or her face, which is then matched against the image data.

The researchers were able to bypass the authentication system not only by using a photo of the authorized user, but also by creating multiple phony facial images. "The mechanisms used by those three vendors haven't met the security requirements needed by an authentication system, and they cannot wholly protect their users from being tampered," the researchers wrote in their paper on the hack.

One of the researchers, Nguyen Minh Duc, manager of the application security department at the Bach Khoa Internetwork Security Center at Hanoi University of Technology, will demonstrate the hack at Black Hat, as well as the tool he and his colleagues developed.

"There is no way to fix this vulnerability," Duc says. "Asus, Lenovo, and Toshiba have to remove this function from all the models of their laptops ... [they] must give an advisory to users all over the world: Stop using this [biometric] function."

An attacker can edit and adjust the lighting and angle of a phony photo to ensure the system will accept it, according to the researchers. "Due to the fact that a hacker doesn't know exactly how the face learnt by the system looks like, he has to create a large number of images...let us call this method of attack 'Fake Face Bruteforce.' It is just easy to do that with a wide range of image editing programs at the moment," they wrote in their paper.

"One special point we found out when studying those algorithms is that all of them work with images that have already been digitalized and gone through image processing. Consequently, we think that this is the weakest security spot in face recognition systems, generally, and access control system of the three vendors, particularly."

II. Treat the cause, not the symptom:

One of the excuses put forth by the Government and by Nandan Nilekani to support the formation of a national biometric ID system is that it will serve as an adequate means to fight corruption.

This is NOT the solution to the problem.

To fight corruption, the Government should not permit any member with a criminal record to become a Member of Parliament (MP). All politicians that violate any law under the Indian Constitution should be dealt with in the right manner and be punished for his/her wrongdoing. Corruption cannot be stopped by way of enforcing a centralized, national ID system and comprising the privacy and security of over a billion Indians.

To tackle the corruption menace, we must solve the problem in the initial stages itself. Prevention is better than cure, and the culmination of a police state is not an apt cure at all.

There are several politicians in the Government today who have been charged with crimes ranging from bribery to murder; yet, only a few are given a sentence for their crimes- after which, most are released from prison after using their political might to conduct further gross injustice and misuse their freedom/s under law.

We do not believe a biometric state will curb Government corruption. Rather, this will only keep it under wraps and give citizens a false sense of security.

III. Violation of the Rights to Privacy, Freedom, and Liberty:

As the civil liberties and anti-biometric site NO2ID (http://www.no2id.net/index.php) puts it:

"The 'database state' is what we call the tendency to try to use computers to manage society by watching people. There are many interlocking government plans that do this. Together they mean officials poking into your private life more than ever before.

Biometric devices violate privacy. This is a plain and simple fact.

After all, biometric identifications are only as fair and objective as the political intentions behind them.

Constant surveillance is one aspect of this so called ‘unique identification system’ that cannot be ruled out, because we will not have access to this online database ourselves. A Government body will monitor this central system. The argument can be made that the government does not have the right to the information that our bodies reveal about us, and that their databases are permeable. Civil rights advocates, unions and groups worldwide have protested the formation of a global biometric network on these grounds.

Moreover, once in Government hands, the information can be used for a wide variety of purposes and even be used by the private sector. The ‘information gathering process’ would include individual checking and numbering of the population, marking many personal details as "registrable facts" which are to be disclosed and constantly updated- connecting it to a central database which would be ‘open’ for use across the private and public sectors.

In short, this amounts to data-sharing between organisations on an unprecedented scale.

The propagation of Worldwide Biometric Identification Systems and their blatant invasion on privacy and liberty have been vilified by civil liberties advocates as the next step towards the formation of a covert totalitarian society, a la George Orwell’s 1984."

In the West-

Despite recent developments in the area of biometric border crossing and travel document applications, there is almost no legislation in the United States specifically addressing requirements for privacy in biometric systems. In some cases, biometric data is treated as a type of personal or sensitive information, and thus is subject to existing privacy regulation. In such legislation, however, biometrics may not even be explicitly mentioned.

In the European Union, the EU Data Protection Directive, enacted in October 1995, states that individuals have the right to control the collection and use of their personal data. It also requires all EU member states to protect the privacy of its citizens by passing legislation that regulates the way organizations can collect, use and share personal data.

As an article on http://www.rfidgazette.org/2005/03/rfid_privacy_is.html states:

"As technology advances, the potential for privacy infringement does as well. A more recent development is a study which reveals that RFID (Radio Frequency Identification, which is already prevalent in some nations; RFID tags are small computer chips connected to miniature antennae that can be placed on physical objects. The chips have enough memory to hold unique identification codes for all manufactured items produced worldwide. Separate RFID readers allow retailers to quickly read the tags to streamline the shipping and inventory process) already has the capability to determine the distance of a tag from the reader location.

With such technology already available, it is not difficult to imagine a situation in which retailers could determine the location of individuals within their store, and thus target specific advertisements to that customer based upon past purchases. In effect, that store would be creating a personal log of your past purchases, your shopping patterns, and ultimately your behavioral patters.

While such information gathering would be considered intrusive enough by many consumer's standards, the danger that such information could be sold to other retailers, (similar to the way such profiles are currently sold regarding Internet commerce), could create potentially devastating information vulnerabilities.

While some RFID critics have pointed out that the technology could lead to some sort of corporate "Big Brother," there is a more widespread concern that allowing RFID to develop without legal restrictions will eliminate the possibility for consumers to refuse to give such information to retailers."

The Indian Government has no plans to install an RFID system as of new, but the possibility cannot be ruled out. We are already stepping in a surveillance society, what’s next?

The Government has NOT made a case.

There is no evidence the system will produce the stated benefits. Less liberty does not imply greater security.

Below are relevant points as put forth by the movement NO2ID which debate arguments favouring biometrics, and explain why a national biometric database would not serve the greater good of the people-

IV. Terrorism

ID does not establish intention. Competent criminals and terrorists will be able to subvert the identity system. Random outrages by individuals cannot be stopped. Some Ministers in the USA agree that ID cards will not prevent atrocities.

A blank assertion that the Government would find it helpful is not an argument that would be entertained for fundamental change in any other sphere of government but national security.

Where is the evidence?

Research suggests there is no link between the use of identity cards and the prevalence of terrorism, and in no instance has the presence of an identity card system been shown a significant deterrent to terrorist activity. Experts attest that ID unjustifiably presumed secure actually diminishes security.

V. Illegal Immigration

People will still enter India using foreign documents- genuine or forged- and ID cards are no deterrents to people smugglers than passports and visas. Employers already face substantial penalties for failing to obtain proof of entitlement to work, yet there are only a handful of prosecutions a year.

VI. Unchecked Executive Powers

The Government seeks wide discretion over the future shape of the scheme. There are several types of regulatory power for future Ministers that would change the functions and content of the system ad lib. The scope, application and possible extension are extra-parliamentary decisions, even if nominally subject to approval.

Data entered into the Central Database is arbitrarily presumed to be accurate. Meanwhile, the Government gets the power to enter information without informing the individual; however, there is no duty to ensure that such data is accurate, and no criterion of accuracy has been established yet.

Personal identity is implicitly made wholly subject to state control.

Even during the so-called "voluntary phase", the Government can add any person to the Register without their consent, and categories of individuals might be compelled selectively to register using powers under any future legislation. Anyone newly applying for a passport or other "designated document", or renewing an existing one, will automatically have to be interviewed and submit all required details. This is less a phased introduction than a clandestine one.

There is to be no choice.

As proposed, the National Identity Scheme Commissioner would have very limited powers and is excluded from considering a number of key issues. He would not even report directly to Parliament. The reliance on administrative penalties means severe punishments may be inflicted without a judicial process. The onus is on the individual to seek relief from the courts, at a civil standard of proof. Those who most require the protection of a fair trial are the least likely to be able to resort to legal action.

Without reference to the courts or any appeals process, the Government may cancel or require surrender of an identity card, without a right of appeal, at any time. Given that the object of the scheme is that an ID card will be eventually required to exercise any ordinary civil function, this amounts to granting the Government the power of civic life and death.

The requirement that all those registered notify all changes in details risks creating the means of tracking and persecution through improper use of the database.

A variety of persons have good reason to conceal their identity and whereabouts- for example: those fleeing domestic abuse; victims of "honour" crimes; witnesses in criminal cases; those at risk of kidnapping; undercover investigators; refugees from oppressive regimes overseas; those pursued by the press; those who may be terrorist targets, and so forth.

The seizure of ID cards (like benefit-books and passports now) could become a means for extortion by corrupt officials, politicians, gangsters, and others who could misuse such information for their benefit.

VII. Specific, ‘new’ threats arising from the formation of a national, central computer database:

There have been vapid ‘assurances’ made to the citizens of India that, in fact, underlines the potential for threat.

The system offers a ready-made police-state tool for a future government less trustworthy than the current one. The individual in charge of this database could create classifications of individuals to be registered as he/she sees fit, introducing onerous duties backed by severe penalties for fractions of the population. Religious or ethnic affiliation, for example, could be added to the Register by regulation- or be inferred by cross-referencing other information using a National Identity Register Number or associated data.

ID cards in practice would provide a pretext for those in authority- public or private- to question individuals who stand out for reasons of personal appearance or demeanour. This is likely to exacerbate divisions in society.

Is there not a great risk that those who feel at the margins of society- the somewhat disaffected- will be driven into the arms of extremists?

By making ordinary life dependent on the reliability of a complex administrative system, the scheme makes myriad small errors potentially catastrophic. There's no hint from the government how it will deal with inevitably large numbers of misidentifications and errors, or deliberate attacks on or corruption of what would become a critical piece of national infrastructure.

A failure in any part of the system at a check might deny a person access to his or her rights or property or to public services, with no immediate solution or redress- "license to live" withdrawn.

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Please do not laugh this off as a ridiculous conspiracy theory. Let me assure of you one thing: the day you will either become nothing more than a biometric ID card is the day you will remain under the watchful eye of the Indian Government. 24/7; since microchipped IDs are very easily traceable, they will know where you are, what you are doing (very probable), how much money you spent, what you spent it on, what you are shopping for, and yes- whether you are protesting against the Government.

This is not something to brush off; and neither am I trying to scare anyone reading this. Please note that seemingly harmless measures taken by the Government more often than not lead to more stringent policies, and a slow but sure formation of a police state- which will eventually lead our freedoms and basic human rights being infringed upon and misused.

Do realise that in order to complete this mammoth project, the Government is wasting crores of taxpayer money- money that belongs to you and me, to monitor its citizens and seek a solution that is not infallible in the first place.

Solutions to the problems plaguing the Government can be dealt with on a smaller scale, by addressing said issues and ‘nipping the bud’, instead of allowing the problems to escalate and covertly breach the rights all of us are born with.

I request you to familiarize yourself with George Orwell's ‘1984’ if you haven’t already read it- simply because it is an eerie precursor to what is already happening in countries across the world, and it's astonishing as to how blind we have all become and have failed to realise that fiction is actually becoming fact.

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VIII. REFERENCES:

For the skeptics, cynics and naysayers, I have compiled a list of must-read links which explore the truth behind the biometric/microchipping agenda:

1. The following are resources on electronic privacy issues-

Advocacy Organizations:

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
http://www.epic.org/

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) : Privacy
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/

Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) : Guide to Online Privacy
http://www.cdt.org/privacy/guide/

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) : Privacy Technology
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/

Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
http://www.cauce.org/

Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering
http://www.nocards.org/

General Privacy and Security:

Federal Citizen Information Center : Privacy Resources
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/privacy_resources.htm

U.S. Public Interest Research Groups : Financial Privacy and Security
http://www.uspirg.org/financial-privacy-security

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) : Kidz Privacy
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/index.html

RFID:

Spychips : RFID Privacy Issues and News
http://www.spychips.com/

Radio-frequency identification (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID

Identity Theft:

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) : Identity Theft
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/

Consumer Sentinel : ID Theft Data Clearinghouse
http://www.consumer.gov/sentinel/idtchart.htm

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse : Identity Theft Resources
http://www.privacyrights.org/identity.htm

Real ID:

ACLU's Real Nightmare
http://www.realnightmare.org/

REAL ID Act (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAL_ID_Act

FAQ: How Real ID will affect you (CNET News.com)
http://news.com.com/2102-1028_3-5697111.html?tag=st.util.print

National ID and REAL ID Act (EPIC)
http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards/

2. The following are articles and videos gathered from the internet. These give us a better perspective on the global biometric and RFID microchip phenomenon-

Microchip Mind Control, Implants And Cybernetics: http://www.rense.com/general17/imp.htm

Why advocates and lawmakers are concerned about involuntary chipping: http://www.antichips.com/is-the-threat-real.htm

Microchip Cancer Report: http://www.rense.com/general79/micro.htm

Spychips & Biometrics: How Major Corps and Govt. Plan to track your every move: http://www.spychips.com/

The NWO Observer Blog: http://nwoobserver.wordpress.com/tag/microchips-in-humans/

NOT SO SAFE AFTER ALL- Biometric passport chips can be cloned in an hour, researcher warns: http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2008/08/06/biometric-passport-chips-can-be-cloned-in-an-hour-researcher-warns/

Biometrics Explained: http://www2.ministries-online.org/thenewworldorder/

Welcome to the Cashless Society Control Grid (and other must read articles): http://www.infowars.com/cashless_society.htm

List of microchip-Big Brother-biometrics related articles for you to read in detail: http://www.illuminati-news.com/microchip.htm

Katherine Albrecht- Online Radio Host who actually makes a difference: http://www.katherinealbrecht.com/

Biometric Scanners for Kiddies: http://infowars.net/articles/September2006/050906Scanners.htm

Media Propaganda about Verichip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-PIyL3ke24&mode=related&search=

The IBM - Third Reich and Verichip Connection with Suspense music Soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2udoNmQkR4

CNet News: http://news.com.com/Patients%2C+doctors+staying+away+from+implantable+RFID+chips/2100-11746_3-6158701.html?tag=nefd.top

SlashDot Blog Entries: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/02/1514252&tid=158
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/02/1514252&tid=158
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/02/1514252
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/06/1452259

Blog Entry (Spanish): http://www.eltiempo.com/participacion/blogs/default/un_articulo.php?id_blog=3263466&id_recurso=450003583

http://www.enter.com.co/ente_secc/ente_actu/noticias/ARTICULO-PRINTER_FRIENDLY-1002460-1779811.html

Colombian immigrants affair( Spanish): http://www.anncol.org/es/site/doc.php?id=2022

3. Facebook groups around the globe which protest biometric and/or RFID ID systems-

-UK Citizens against BioMetric Cards and RFID

-Say NO 2 National Biometric Database in Israel

-I'll go to prison before I agree to a biometric ID card

-Manchester says NO to ID cards...

-Say NO to ID cards.

-World United Against VERICHIP / NO AL VERICHIP

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Keeping tabs around the world-

• Compulsory national identity cards are used in about 100 countries including Germany, France, Belgium, Greece, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain

• ID cards are not used in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the Irish Republic or Nordic countries
• German police can detain people who are not carrying their ID card for up to 24 hours

• The Bush Administration resisted calls for an identity card in the US after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001

• In Australia street protests in the 1980s forced the Government to abandon its plans for a card

• Plastic cards are favoured over paper documents because they are harder to forge

• Most identity cards contain the name, sex, date of birth and a unique number for the holder

• South Korean, Brazilian, Italian and Malaysian ID cards contain fingerprints. Cards in some countries contain information on any distinguishing marks of the holder

• Objections to card schemes have focused on the cost and invasion of privacy

• In the European Union some cards can be used instead of a passport for European travel.

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WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN?

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Obsessive Twitterism

2009-08-27T22:28:00.000-07:00

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As part of my copy test given by Leo Burnett, I was asked to come up with a New Age religion or philosophy.

Since my brain dead self couldn't come up with anything serious, the remnants of my now passive creative mind conjured up a religion aptly named Obsessive Twitterism.

Loosely based on real life incidents, this religion is by far the most dangerous New Age movement taking over our hapless human brothers and sisters with the maximum number of converts.

By the time you've read this crap, Twitter would have had at least 3 new brainwashed recruits.

Beware, the wrath of the Blue Fucking Bird named Tweet- Tweet- Twitter.

(note: the people who were supposed to 'judge' this apparently loved it, so if you have a problem with this post shove something up your ass- now).

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I. Introduction to Obsessive Twitterism:

Obsessive Twitterism is a religion which has become increasingly popular since its inception in 2006 and is witnessing a massive fan following of devotees, worshippers and blind followers who succumb to mass brainwashing, conformism and the need for the development of a larger-than-life internet persona which compensates for an otherwise dull, purposeless and tasteless life.

Twitterism as a movement was founded by a Supreme God or Creator simply named Jack Dorsey, who in his earthly form masquerades as a software engineer and ‘entrepreneur’ and is otherwise symbolized in popular culture as a saccharine sweet, innocent looking blue bird who resides in the heavens and feeds off the energy emanated via the vast, tentacled global internet network of his minions.

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Lord Twitter (Jack Dorsey) promotes ritual worship and blesses discontent, depressed and hapless souls by enabling them to communicate with like individuals and himself in 140 characters or less in his abode http://twitter.com/ . This is the most important feature of Twitterism, as Lord Twitter is a God that does not have the time, patience or empathy to read billions of heartfelt prayers, ramblings and musings which would otherwise flow on endlessly- paragraph after paragraph, page after page.

Keep it short and sweet, he insists.

Twitter as a service has opened its arms and its heart to worldwide SMS services, blogs, other social networking (read rival religion) sites and basically the whole internet, thereby subtly coercing and encouraging people to pour their deepest, darkest feelings, troubles, opinions and daily lessons in an easy-to-use, and even easier to access manner in case they are unable to place themselves at his feet in his virtual abode. Followers can take part in an outreach program and support one another (friends, family and even strangers) by posting both relevant and irrelevant ruminations, thus boosting their sense of false security and carefully moulding their self confidence and morale in the virtual world.

Lord Twitter encourages people to ‘look deep within themselves’ and tap their psyche by simply answering a profound, universal question:

What are you doing?

As devotees struggle to find answers in their quest for deliverance or Moksha, they find that this question has seemingly different answers with each passing second, minute, hour, day and week. However, if a devotee ceases to answer Lord Twitter’s question for over a week, he/ she is deemed blasphemous and detrimental to the Obsessive Twitterism movement, where enlightened, awakened souls are found to be those who devote every ounce of their energy and being into updating their Twitter space, even sacrificing basic human needs such as food, sex, sleep and shelter.

Contrary to what its name might imply, Obsessive Twitterism is not disadvantageous to the general well being and happiness of its huge devotee base; rather, the more you give yourself to Lord Twitter and your fellow human beings in the Twitter abode, the more you will be blessed and given a Demi God status by the great Supreme Being himself.

This Demi God status is achieved once Lord Twitter sends you his wishes and blesses you with the love, gratitude and unconditional love and respect of over 500 ‘followers’. These minions follow, observe and look up to every move you make and thrive on eagerly awaiting your next update, as you sermonize and preach to the world about your heartfelt feelings, thoughts and current state of being.

II. Features and/or Requirements:

1. To become an Obsessive Twatterer (the name given to those who follow the Twitter religion and worship Lord Twitter unconditionally, blindly and endlessly), you must first enroll yourself in the Twitter Temple or abode, which exists at the domain http://twitter.com/ . After you sign up to receive the blessings of the Supreme Being, you must vow never to exceed your daily prayer/post limit which has been finalized by the Lord himself at 140 characters only.

2. Twatterers must then update the Lord and let their fellow devotees know exactly what they are doing- whether they are shaving their beards with the newest Philips electric power razor, having a bad hair day, throwing up on their best friends couch, eating toxic waste, shopping for all things pink, or just secretly spying on their friends in the Twitter universe. Failure of posting constant updates will decrease your chances of becoming a Twitter Demi God, which will be a big blow to your online persona in the long term.

3. You must visit a celebrity (read Advanced Demi God) Twitter page at least once in your Twitter life and get addicted to their daily musings, giving in to the irresistible urge to ‘know’ these superior souls who you otherwise cannot have access to owing to your useless life in the real world.

4. Business people, entrepreneurs, media people and just anyone with basic common sense must use the Twitter religion to promote their business, product, show, service and offerings shamelessly, urging non believers to ‘Follow them NOW!’ on Twitter, thereby ensuring that the Lord God gets more clueless individuals to worship him and his blessed space while secretly fortifying their wannabe Demi God status.

This practice is metaphorically known as ‘killing two Twitter birds with one stone’.

That actually killing any Twitter bird will be met with immediate spiritual and emotional death is another matter altogether.

5. When you have absolutely nothing to say or add to the cosmos in real life, say it on Twitter! Lord Twitter is an accepting, benevolent God who sees not what you say or do- just as long as you put it out there.

Example: “OMG OMG OMG! I’m gonna crap now! RIGHT NOW! At 8:15 in the morning! That’s sooooo cool! I’m usually a night crapper and this hasn’t happened to me in AGESSSS! Will update you guys on the consistency of my poop in a sec!”

6. Obsessive Twitterism has no room for those who view it as just another fad that will pass in due course of time. Those who believe so are met with blank stares, societal disapproval and humongous truckloads of pity, which later translates into cold shouldered disregard for said individual.

7. Obsessive Twitterism constantly, tirelessly and admirably promotes the notion of conformism and the need for approval in the virtual sphere, uniting human beings and making them one in their quest for oneness with the one true God, Lord Twitter. This unity is becoming more prevalent as the Twitter tentacles reach out to hundreds of nations across this vast planet, silently endorsing the veneration of a one true God and diluting people’s belief in other religions and spiritual ways of life. Obsessive Twitterism is indeed, monotheistic in nature.

8. This new religion welcomes people of all kinds- whether vegetarian or non-vegetarian, Satanist or Muslim, Goth or Bubblegum inspired, winner or loser, rich or poor, employed or unemployed, silent or over the top- there is room for everyone here, provided you bow down to the ways of this movement and chant ‘Twitter, Twitter’ or ‘Follow me!’ at least a hundred times in your short life, whether in reality or on the internet.

9. If the Twitter Temple seems to have hit a brick wall and ‘crashes’ or experiences a ‘down time’ either due to Lord Twitter’s unbridled anger at some sinners, the ‘laziness’ of the internet or the inability of the domain to carry the burden of over a billion ‘tweets’ and Twatterers, disciples are to mourn the momentary slaughter of their support program even if it is for a brief moment, contemplating on what they must have done to cause this devastating loss to their beloved way of life and subjecting themselves to temporary depression, uncontrollable rage and a submission into the abyss of doom, gloom and hysterical tears.

Candlelight vigils are to be held in such a case, with human beings consoling one another and observing at least a minute’s silence.

Image courtesy http://blissfullydomestic.com

10. Once you have been welcomed into this virtual Garden of Eden, you must live, breathe, work, eat and sleep Twitter, allowing the blood of Obsessive Twitterism to run through your otherwise parched veins and jeopardize your social, professional, and family life- thereby giving your Higher Self to a greater purpose in life:

A life blessed with the goodness and wholesomeness of a religion that feeds your constant need for appreciation.

Official Unclassified US Government Documents

2009-08-17T20:11:00.000-07:00

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PDF Document here: http://www.wnd.com/images/dhs-rightwing-extremism.pdf

here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf

and here:

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/docs/v46i4a03p.htm

Excerpts:

(U//FOUO) Rightwing extremist paranoia of foreign regimes could escalate or be magnified in the event of an economic crisis or military confrontation, harkening back to the “New World Order” conspiracy theories of the 1990s.

The dissolution of Communist countries in Eastern Europe and the end of the Soviet Union in the 1990s led some right wing extremists to believe that a “New World Order” would bring about a world government that would usurp the sovereignty of the United States and its Constitution, thus infringing upon their liberty. The dynamics in 2009 are somewhat similar, as other countries, including China, India, and Russia, as well as some smaller, oil-producing states, are experiencing a rise in economic power and influence.

— (U//FOUO) Fear of Communist regimes and related conspiracy theories characterizing the U.S. Government’s role as either complicit in a foreign invasion or acquiescing as part of a “One World Government” plan inspired
extremist members of the militia movement to target government and military facilities in past years.

Why Are Internment Camps Being Built?

2009-08-11T23:13:00.000-07:00

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A must read article from the republicbroadcasting website:

Source: http://republicbroadcasting.org/?p=3781

By Chuck Baldwin
August 11, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

The Internet is abuzz with news about the construction of internment camps all across America. Of course, “mainstream” media outlets refuse to touch the subject; or if they do, they pooh-pooh the story; they do what Glenn Beck recently did: try to debunk the story as fallacious and impugn people who speak of it as “conspiracy nuts.”

The fact that the Becks, Hannitys, Limbaughs, and O’Reillys of the media circus refuse to deal with the construction of large numbers of internment camps does not make them disappear, however.

For starters, all anyone need do to begin a serious investigation of the subject of internment camps is Google the phrase “FEMA Camps.” There is more than enough evidence in that search engine alone to keep one busy with some in-depth private investigation of the subject for quite a while.

Another URL to check out is this one from the June 2009 Idaho Observer: http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20090609.htm

As people read my columns all across America, I have had numerous readers contact me, saying that they have personally witnessed the transportation of construction materials used for internment camps, have actually worked in and around them, or have personally seen such camps. These eyewitness testimonies have come from very credible people, including law enforcement and military personnel, as well as airline pilots and construction workers.

Just a few weeks ago, I was aboard a cross-country flight when the passenger I was sitting next to (a total stranger) asked me to take a look out the window. He asked, “Do those look like internment camps to you?”

I was astonished that the man-
(1) would even know to notice such a potentiality, and
(2) would be so bold as to ask such a question of a total stranger. I must say, I was extremely happy to make his acquaintance. And we had a very warm and invigorating discussion the rest of the trip.

We were flying over Colorado, over extreme wilderness terrain, and, yes, right in the middle of nowhere, the buildings and surrounding features that I saw sure looked like internment camps to me. Of course, flying at over 30,000 feet in the sky makes it difficult for any kind of detailed analysis to take place; that is for sure.

Then, a friend recently brought this URL to my attention: http://www.nationalguard.com/careers/mos/description.php?mos_code=31E

This is an advertisement by the National Guard promoting the Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) of “Internment/Resettlement Specialist.”

Question: why does the National Guard need to recruit Internment/Resettlement Specialists? What do they know that we should know?

Furthermore, I have had military personnel tell me that many of the US military bases that have been recently “closed” are also being prepared as large-scale “holding areas.”

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Obviously, the question that begs to be asked is, “Who is the US government planning to intern and resettle?” And another question is, “How many people are they planning to intern that would require the massive number of camps that are apparently being constructed?”

Some suggest that these facilities are being prepared for large numbers of illegal immigrants. This seems extremely doubtful, however, considering the propensity of the federal government to-
(1) do next to nothing to seriously curtail the flood of illegal aliens into America,
(2) do virtually nothing to apprehend illegals known to be in the US, and
(3) do everything it can to facilitate the release of those illegals incarcerated by State and local authorities.

To think that the federal government intends to place thousands of illegal aliens in internment camps borders on lunacy. If anything, the federal government (with either Democrats or Republicans in charge) has done everything it can to-
(1) entice illegals to come to America, and
(2) provide every incentive for them to stay illegally in this country after having entered.

I feel safe in saying that we can eliminate the possibility that these camps are being prepared for illegal aliens.

Others suggest that these internment camps are being constructed to accommodate “enemy combatants” from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Yet, the total number of these types of detainees is miniscule compared to the detention space being constructed. Can one really imagine the need to build facilities that could accommodate prisoners numbering in the tens of thousands to house a few hundred foreign troops?

I don’t think so.

Then, of course, there are those who continue to deny that these internment camps exist at all. But then, were there not thousands of Germans who denied the existence of concentration camps during World War II? These types of people would refuse to believe the sun came up in the east if the government spinmeisters told them it didn’t.

That our federal government is building large numbers of “holding areas” or internment camps seems to be an established fact.

The only questions that remain are “Why?” and “For whom?”

At this point, the imagination can take us anywhere, but it is not a little disconcerting when the same federal government that is building these internment camps begins categorizing Christians, conservatives, people who support the Second Amendment, people who oppose abortion and homosexual marriage, people who oppose the North American Union and the New World Order, people who oppose the United Nations and illegal immigration, and people who voted for Ron Paul or Chuck Baldwin as “extremists,” or “potential dangerous militia members.”

Anyone knows that before a government can begin persecuting and imprisoning large groups of people, they must first marginalize them. As someone said, “Just because you are paranoid does not mean they really aren’t trying to get you.”

In fact, an argument could be made that by today’s politically correct definition, America’s Founding Fathers would be categorized as “paranoid,” “extremists,” or “potential dangerous militia members.” I would even go so far as to question the patriotism of anyone today that is not a little paranoid. This federal government has certainly earned whatever paranoia citizens feel.

Feelings of paranoia notwithstanding, why is the federal government constructing large numbers of internment camps, and who does the government plan on incarcerating in those camps? Those questions still need to be answered.

P.S. If you live within driving distance of Oklahoma City, or Tulsa, Oklahoma, I will be appearing at several events in this area this Thursday and Friday, August 13 and 14. I would love to meet any of my readers who could attend these meetings. For details, go here: http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/cbappearances.php

Break up India: Chinese think-tank

2009-08-11T05:44:00.000-07:00

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Source: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/index.php?option=com_magazine&opt=section&sectionid=86&ptype=video&videoid=56111&secid=42

Headlines Today
New Delhi, August 11, 2009

China has been advised by one of its official think-tanks to tackle India by breaking up the republic into 26 parts.

To accomplish the mission, the think-tank has advised Beijing to use India's hostile neighbours. It has suggested that China join hands with the restive elements among the Assamese, Kashmiris and Tamils and encourage them to fight hard for independent statehood.

According to Chinese strategic affairs specialist Zhan Lue, the author of the 'policy', Beijing should encourage Bangladesh to invite ethnic Indian Bengalis to abandon Indian nationality and work towards a united Bengali state.

Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta said India does not have the power to match China's resources in terms of military.

“China is likely to be more assertive on its claims, especially on its immediate neighbours. The traditional approach of matching division for division should be changed to technological advancement on the Indian military side. We should reduce the Chinese footprint in the Indian Ocean,” Mehta said.

Reacting to the reports former officer of RAW (Research & Analysis Wing) R.S.N. Singh said:

"In a totalitarian state like China, this kind of a report never comes without state approval. But India is fully prepared and has gone strides ahead since the 1962 war. If the Chinese think of any misadventure, they will be in for a shock."

Less than a month ago, Headlines Today had highlighted a disturbing prophesy by noted Indian analyst Bharat Verma that China would mount a blistering attack on India before 2012.

(-from the Headlines Today website.)

NOTE: the information is on the chinese website www.chinaiiss.org and cannot be viewed by servers located outside china.

Indus Valley Secrets To Be Unlocked

2009-08-06T11:21:00.000-07:00

http://www.timesnow.tv/articleshow/4324242.cms

6 Aug 2009, 20:04 hrs IST

One of history's greatest mysteries is on the verge of being explained.

Scientists are close to decoding the script of the Indus Valley civilisation. Almost 4,000 years after it was written, the Indus valley script is on the verge of being deciphered. Scientists claim they will unlock the secrets of one of the most urban and ancient civilisation by studying a whopping 650 signs.

Not much remains of the Indus Valley civilisation which flourished 4000 years ago. This region lies between what is modern day India and Pakistan an area extending more than half a million square miles.

'Scientists' Steve Farmer and Michael Witzel had once claimed that the Indus Valley had no sophisticated script, dismissing as gibberish the signs we have been seeing for decades in our history books.

But now, it's these very same symbols that's once again attracted these researchers. In a stunning U-turn, claim they've achieved the impossible and that they are on the verge of cracking the code that could reveal the meaning of over 650 symbols.

It's a bit like the early 20th century when stumped archaeologists decoded Egyptian symbols or Hieroglyphics.

And now, after dozens of attempts at making sense of the script, one of the most advanced civilisations on earth is about to give up its precious secrets to humankind.

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Background:

On April 23 earlier this year, the US-based Science journal published a paper by an Indian and Indian-American team of scientists and researchers that claimed patterns of symbols found on Indus objects had the definitive linguistic pattern found in written languages. Such a pattern is different from non-linguistic signs.

The paper, titled "Entropic Evidence for Linguistic Structure in the Indus Script”, featured the findings of Indian-born researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai [1].

It claims computer analysis revealed comparative "entropic evidence" that Indus signs have a linguistic order similar to some of the world's oldest languages, such as Sumerian from Mesopotamia, classical Tamil and Sanskrit from the Indian sub-continent.

The 130-year-old excavations in the Indus Valley, covering areas in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, have revealed evidence of an urban civilization. Ruins of excavated Indus Valley cities such as Mohenjadaro and Harappa have revealed elaborate urban infrastructure such as well-planned streets, brick houses, sophisticated drainage and water-storage systems, trading, use of weights, jewelry, knowledge of metallurgy and tool-making.

Archaeologists say many more Indus Valley cities are yet to be excavated.

"Indus Valley texts are cryptic to extremes, and the script shows few signs of evolutionary change," Farmer and Witzel wrote in October 2000. "Most [Indus] inscriptions are no more than four or five characters long; many contain only two or three characters. Moreover, character shapes in mature Harappa appear to be strangely 'frozen', unlike anything seen in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia or China.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KD30Df01.html

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2009-08-06T10:08:00.000-07:00

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Diseased African Monkeys Used to Make Swine Flu Vaccines; Private Military Contractor Holds Key Patents

2009-08-05T23:41:00.000-07:00

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article from http://www.naturalnews.com/026779_swine_flu_patents_vaccines.html :

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To most people, vaccines sound medically harmless. "They're good for you!" say the doctors and drug companies, but they never really talk about what's in those vaccines. There's a good reason for that: If people knew what was really in those vaccines, they would never allow themselves to be injected with them.

Aside from the dangerous ingredients many people already know about (like squalene or thimerosal), one of the key ingredients used in flu vaccines (including the vaccines being prepared for the swine flu pandemic) is the diseased flesh of African Green Monkeys. This is revealed in U.S. patent No. 5911998 - Method of producing a virus vaccine from an African green monkey kidney cell line. (http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5...)

As this patent readily explains, ingredients used in the vaccine are derived from the kidneys of African Green Monkeys who are first infected with the virus, then allowed to fester the disease, and then are killed so that their diseased organs can be used make vaccine ingredients. This is done in a cruel, inhumane "flesh factory" environment where the monkeys are subjected to a process that includes "incubating said inoculated cell line to permit proliferation of said virus." Then: "harvesting the virus resulting from step (c); and... (ii) preparing a vaccine from the harvested virus."

Aside from the outrageous cruelty taking place with all this ("incubating" the virus in the kidneys of living monkeys, for example), there's another disturbing fact that has surfaced in all this: The patent for this process is held not just by the National Institutes of Health, but by another private corporation known as DynCorp.

This, of course, brings up the obvious question: Who is Dyncorp? And why do they hold a patent on live attenuated vaccine production using African Green Monkeys?

What you probably didn't want to know about Dyncorp-

DynCorp, it turns out, is a one of the top private military contractors working for the U.S. government. In addition to allegedly trafficking in under-age sex slaves in Bosnia (http://www.corpwatch.org/article.ph...) and poisoning rural farmers in Ecuador with its aerial spraying of Colombian coca crops (http://www.corpwatch.org/article.ph...), Dyncorp just happens to be paid big dollars by the U.S. government to patrol the U.S. / Mexico border, near where the H1N1 first swine flu virus was originally detected.

DynCorp also happens to be in a position to receive tremendous financial rewards from its patents covering attenuated live viral vaccine harvesting methods, as described in four key patents jointly held by DynCorp and the National Institutes of Health:

(6025182) Method for producing a virus from an African green monkey kidney cell line

(6117667) Method for producing an adapted virus population from an African green monkey kidney cell line (http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6...)

(5911998) Method of producing a virus vaccine from an African green monkey kidney cell line

(5646033) African green monkey kidney cell lines useful for maintaining viruses and for preparation of viral vaccines

Government collusion?

One of the key inventors in these patents now held by DynCorp was Dr. Robert H. Purcell.

Who is Dr. Robert Purcell? He's one of the co-chiefs of the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases operating under the National Institutes of Health of the U.S. government. (http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/labs/abou...)

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Not panicking is the key. Be calm, and don't fret if you catch a cold. Everything's OK really- and you will feel better if you just use some home remedies instead of rushing for the Tamiflu shot. Swine flu is not a natural pandemic; it was man made. Read the following links on Natural News and other sites to understand the situation better:

Journalist Files Charges against WHO and UN for Bioterrorism and Intent to Commit Mass Murder http://www.naturalnews.com/026503_pandemic_swine_flu_bioterrorism.html

Startling New Evidence That The 'Swine Flu' Pandemic Is Man-Made: Novartis Patent Detailed And Mass Murder Charged http://www.rense.com/general86/manmd.htm

Swine Flu Smoking Gun? CDC was Combining Flu Viruses in 2004 http://www.naturalnews.com/026159_viruses_CDC_flu_virus.html

Tamiflu Developer: Swine Flu Could Have Come From Bio-Experiment Lab http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/SwineFlu/story?id=7584420&page=1

Thirty-Six Thousand People Do Not Die Each Year from "Regular Flu" (Confirmed) http://www.naturalnews.com/026169_swine_flu_CDC_influenza.html

Children and Pregnant Women Targeted in U.S. Swine Flu Mass Vaccination Program http://www.naturalnews.com/026590_swine_flu_vaccines_viruses.html

Be Informed: Information about the Swine Flu and the Flu Vaccine http://www.naturalnews.com/026271_the_flu_flu_shot_swine_flu.html

Yet Another Big Brother Breakout: How Long Before People Wake up?

2009-08-04T02:06:00.000-07:00

(Note: This is NOT a post to create a fear psychosis- it is merely to inform)

(Image courtesy David Dees Illustration)

US Almost Seizes All Of Its Citizens Computers

...Says They Now Belong To Federal System

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

In a move that can only be described as shocking, the United States has today moved to take control over every single computer system in their country without their own citizens even being aware of what is happening.

Russian legal experts state that the insidious actions of the United States against their own people is “worthy of even the most devout Communist” as the American government has employed a method of seizing their citizens computers that is so Orwellian, even the most hardened of persons should be chilled to their very bones.

To the exact method being employed to capture their citizens computer systems, the United States this past week introduced what they are calling a “Cash for Clunkers” automobile programme that allows Americans to trade in their out-of-date cars for new ones subsidized by their government in an amount up to $4,500.

In order for the American people to ascertain if they are eligible for this “Cash for Clunker” programme they must first go to the US government website http://www.cars.gov/, and where in the “small print” they are informed:

This application provides access to the DoT CARS system. When logged on to the CARS system, your computer is considered a Federal Computer system and is the property of the US Government.

Any or all uses of this system and all files on this system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected, and disclosed to authorized CARS, DoT, and law enforcement personnel, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign.

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Russian legal experts further point out that even though the language being employed by the US government in seizing their citizens computers appears to limit its “ownership” to only that time period when the Federal application is being used, nothing could be further from the truth as under what is known as the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), once the United States Government becomes the owner of anything it retains that ownership forever.

(Note: The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC or the Code), first published in 1952, is one of a number of uniform acts that have been promulgated in conjunction with efforts to harmonize the law of sales and other commercial transactions in all 50 states within the United States of America.)

Russian legal experts also point out that in seizing their citizens computers, all information on these computers become the property of the United States government too.

And, if this isn’t shocking enough, the United States government openly states that the information they are seizing from their citizens computers will be freely given to foreign Nations in a move unprecedented in violating the human and privacy rights of the American people.

Most disturbing about this shocking new development in the United States is that its propaganda news media is failing to warn the American people about this gross injustice to their freedoms, leading one to openly wonder how entrenched they are in the conspiracy to take away all of the freedoms and rights these once great peoples took for granted.

Don't believe this? The only video out there on this issue is surprisingly (and ironically, considering I posted that image in the beginning of my post) on Fox News. Check it out:

But, even without their propaganda news media telling them the truth, the American people can never say they weren’t warned about the police state their Nation is becoming, as in his famous book “1984”, George Orwell did exactly that by stating:

“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.”

Upon the outbreak of hostilities against Britain by the American Revolutionaries, the Great Patriot, who became the first US President, George Washington said, “The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.”

Today, as the United States sinks into the abyss of totalitarian rule that will see its citizens enslaved forever, one can rightfully envision tears flowing down the face of George Washington should he have seen how far these American people have fallen.

Source: http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1260.htm

Update: The 'warning' has now been removed, according to the Obama administration. However, the same terms apply- the only difference is that now there is no warning in black and white or small print.

Bye Bye Privacy. Hello, Big Brother

2009-08-03T21:20:00.000-07:00

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UK Government To Install Surveillance Cameras In Private Homes

State to spy on parents, make sure kids go to bed on time, attend school

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, August 3, 2009

The UK government is about to spend $700 million dollars installing surveillance cameras inside the private homes of citizens to ensure that children go to bed on time, attend school and eat proper meals.

No you aren’t reading a passage from George Orwell’s 1984 or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, this is Britain in 2009, a country which already has more surveillance cameras watching its population than the whole of Europe put together.

Now the government is embarking on a scheme called “Family Intervention Projects” which will literally create a nanny state on steroids, with social services goons and private security guards given the authority to make regular “home checks” to ensure parents are raising their children correctly.

Telescreens will also be installed so government spies can keep an eye on whether parents are mistreating kids and whether the kids are fulfilling their obligations under a pre-signed contract.

Around 2,000 families have been targeted by this program so far and the government wants to snare 20,000 more within the next two years. The tab will be picked up by the taxpayer, with the “interventions” being funded through local council authorities.

Another key aspect of the program will see parents deemed “responsible” by the government handed the power to denounce and report bad parents who allow their children to engage in bad behavior. Such families will then be targeted for “interventions”.

Both parents and children will also be forced to sign a “behavior contract” with the government known as Home School Agreements before the start of every year, in which the state will dictate obligations that it expects to be met.

The opposition Conservative Party, who are clear favorites to win the next British election, commented that the program does not go far enough and is “too little, too late.”

Respondents to a Daily Express article about the new program expressed their shock at the totalitarian implications of what is unfolding in the United Kingdom under the guise of social services initiatives.

“Sorry, but what the hell? Why are people not up in arms about this?,” writes one, “This is a complete invasion of privacy, and it totally ignores the fact that the state does NOT own kids. It’s not up to them how parents choose to raise their children, as long as the parents do not actively harm them.

Why on earth aren’t the public rioting? It’s completely anathema to basic British freedoms.”

“Excuse me!?! What an incredible intrusion into the privacy of a family! George Orwell must be spinning in his grave right now,” writes another.

“I have one comment to make: it completely violates Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (Human Rights Act 1998). Has this minister and his lackies even done any basic homework on basic human rights and civil liberties? Or rather they’ve just decided to completely ignore them,” adds another.

The move to install surveillance cameras inside private homes is also on the agenda across the pond. In February 2006, Houston Chief of Police Harold Hurtt said cameras should be placed inside apartments and homes in order to “fight crime” due to there being a shortage of police officers.

“I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?” Chief Hurtt told reporters.

Andy Teas with the Houston Apartment Association supported the proposal, saying privacy concerns would take a back seat to many people who would, “appreciate the thought of extra eyes looking out for them.”

If such programs come to fruition and are implemented on a mass scale then the full scope of George Orwell’s depiction of a totalitarian society is his classic novel 1984 will have been realized.

The following passage is from Orwell’s 1984:

The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live — did live, from habit that became instinct — in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

The Daily Express article which first broke the news: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/115736/Sin-bins-for-worst-families

If you think the culmination of Big Brother states are but a figment of the imagination and rantings of conspiracy theorists, think again.

You'll be sorry, if you do not protest NOW.

It's about time Indians saw this too and did their research.

The truth about Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden

2009-08-03T04:01:00.000-07:00

Enter the elusive caveman. The world's most wanted man (on the surface, that is), who loves churning out videos on jihad every few months with his cronies and threaten the entire world about his Holy War, yap on about upcoming attacks as if they were a programme schedule- well, that's what the US and other Govts. would have us believe, with the puppet channel Al Jazeera mysteriously having prime, and only access to the Al Qaeda supremo.

Oh really?

By the time you read everything here (and hopefully watch the documentary Loose Change as well), you will realize the lengths and the extent to which all Indians, along with the rest of the world, have been brainwashed into thinking Pakistan is supporting Osama Bin Laden /Al Qaeda.

That may be the case- but if it's true, then Pakistan is definitely not alone. The subject is very lengthy, but to put it short- the people who claim to be fighting terror are the very people funding and propagating it.

Remember the moniker 'Divide and Rule'? Sadly, it didn't die with the British occupation of India; it goes on to this very day.

There are many people who are aware of the fact that 9/11 was an inside job. I want more Indians to know that; if you think that's baloney, check out my 'recommended links' section and click on the 'Loose Change 9/11....' link.

Watch the documentary. Download it. Do whatever you can to get it- but don't let go of it, because you won't find it in a video rental store in India. Feel free to contact me if you need a copy (through comments).

A news article on the Raw Story website dated July 31 caught my attention:

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/31/whistleblower-bin-laden-was-us-proxy-until-911/

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Whistleblower: Bin Laden was US proxy until 9/11

In an interview last month with blogger Brad Friedman, whistleblower Sibel Edmonds dropped a bombshell when a caller asked a question about 9/11.

The former FBI translator carefully replied, “I have information about things that our government has lied to us about. I know. For example, to say that since the fall of the Soviet Union we ceased all of our intimate relationship with Bin Laden and the Taliban - those things can be proven as lies, very easily, based on the information they classified in my case, because we did carry very intimate relationship with these people, and it involves Central Asia, all the way up to September 11.”

Australian blogger Luke Ryland has now filled in more details of the Central Asian operations to which Edmonds was referring, quoting Edmonds as saying on other occasions that Al Qaeda and the Taliban were used by the US as proxies in “a decade-long illegal, covert operation in Central Asia by a small group in the US intent on furthering the oil industry and the Military Industrial Complex.”

Turkey acted as the primary intermediary in this operation, with assistance from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. The intention was, on one hand, to avoid creating a direct confrontation with China and Russia and, on the other, to prevent popular resistance to US influence by appealing to Central Asian aspirations for an Islamic and Turkic resurgence.

Ryland also points out that Uighurs from the western Chinese province of Xinjiang were receiving training from Al Qaeda in Afghanistan before 2001, with the expectation that they might serve as guerrilla forces in the event of US conflict with China. Edmonds has recently stated that “our fingerprint is all over” the recent Uighur unrest within China.

There are certain factors, touched on lightly by Ryland in this article, which provide further support for Edmonds’ shocking allegations. One is what is sometimes known as the “Bernard Lewis Project,” an effort first espoused thirty years ago by Middle East scholar and Neocon guru Bernard Lewis to pursue “the fragmentation and Balkanization of Iran along regional, ethnic and linguistic lines.”

Although this plan involves several different ethnic groups within Iran, including Arabs, Kurds, and Baluchis, its most ambitious component involves the use of pan-Turkic (or pan-Turanian) nationalism to shift power in the Middle East away from both Iran and the Arab states and towards Turkey, a US ally which is linguistically and ethnically close to the oil-rich states of Central Asia. Pan-Turanism often has fascist affinities, which makes its encouragement particularly problematic.

Another anomaly of US policy in the region has to do with its support for terrorist groups, many of them engaged in the heroin trade, that are also strongly suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda. This was the case in the 1990’s with groups in Chechnya, Bosnia, and Kosovo, and there is some evidence that it continued to be the case in Central Asia even after 9/11.

For example, a profile of the Kosovo Liberation Army at historycommons.org includes numerous mainstream citations from 1998-99 indicating that the KLA, working together with the Albanian Mafia, had taken control of Balkan heroin trafficking routes and was funneling the profits into its political activities. The United States continued supporting the KLA during this period and even removed it from the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations, despite statements from US officials that it was a terrorist group with strong evidence of links to Al Qaeda.

The extent to which Al Qaeda may itself have played a role in the Afghan heroin trade is a matter of dispute, but there is no question that Al Qaeda provided training and financial support to some of the same terrorist groups that were being supported by the US — a situation in sharp contrast with the usual assumption that the United States and Al Qaeda were deadly enemies even prior to 9/11.

Edmonds’ latest remarks appear intended to draw fresh attention to these anomalies, as well as the role played by Enron and other Western oil companies and weapons suppliers in Central Asia in the 1990s.

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If you think the notion of Bin Laden, Al Qaeda and the Taliban being secretly funded by the USA is too far fetched, please watch Charlie Wilson's War starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts; I was actually surprised they showed the truth (partly) there, regarding the slow but steady rise of the Taliban and Al Qaeda during the Cold War.

Tom Hanks plays the role of Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson, who gets the Govt. to pump funds into Afghanistan and train, equip and support the locals in their fight against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

This group of gunmen and 'freedom fighters' goes on to become the Taliban (Islamic militia).

What's not been mentioned in the movie, however, is that the USA and Zionist allies secretly fund the same forces they seem to be fighting against even today. Anyone who believes Bin Laden is the real culprit needs to look at this http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1245.htm to get a brief background.

LINKS:

Bush's Former Oil Company Linked To bin Laden Family http://www.rense.com/general14/bushsformer.htm

Allegations of CIA assistance to Osama bin Laden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_assistance_to_Osama_bin_Laden

9/11 pre warnings: http://www.infowars.net/articles/december2006/071206Haas.htm

http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/070207_wolfowitz.html

Ground Zero workers told WTC 7 is "coming down"
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/090207broughtdown.htm

14 min video eyewitnesses explosions
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/100107_b_explosives.htm

Giuliani told buildings were "going to collapse"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6357586375896950217

MK Ultra Project/ Paper Clip video
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/december2006/141206Control.htm

List of military/government experts who question 9/11
http://PatriotsQuestion911.com/

Why isn't Bin Laden wanted by the FBI for the 9/11 murders?
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/fugitives.htm (front page fbi Most Wanted)

FBI's 10 Most Wanted: Osama's on there-but not for 9/11
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm

Seven "hijackers" still alive!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1559151.stm

A reminder: Please watch Loose Change NOW! No, I'm not promoting their site or the documentary- I'm just pushing you to find the truth, because it's there; the mainstream media and our Govt. (along with the other Govts.) will always keep it under wraps every chance they get.

If You Think Your Food Is Safe, Read This

2009-07-27T02:43:00.000-07:00

(Image: Daily Mail UK)

Here you are, sitting and reading this; well, by the end of this post- I sincerely hope you will think twice before buying something along the lines of 'genetically modified tomato-onion-potato hybrid veggies' and shit like that, if they will ever be introduced into the Indian market. By the looks of it, this isn't very far fetched.

Introducing Monsanto. Who or what is that you may ask? Well, to put it plainly- as per Wikipedia, this is what Monsanto does:

The Monsanto Company is a United States-based multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation. It is the world's leading producer of the herbicide glyphosate, marketed as "Roundup". Monsanto is also the leading producer of genetically engineered (GE) seed, holding 70%–100% market share for various crops.

Agracetus, owned by Monsanto, exclusively produces Roundup Ready soybean seed for the commercial market. In 2005, it finalized purchase of Seminis Inc, making it the world's largest conventional seed company.

Monsanto's development and marketing of genetically engineered seed and bovine growth hormone, as well as its aggressive litigation and political lobbying practices, have made the company controversial around the world and a primary target of the anti-globalization movement and environmental activists.

You can find more on the Wiki page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Company

Since the topic of GM (genetically modified) crops and foods and Monsanto's role in the same is a very lengthy subject to say the least, it would be best for me to just point out an excerpt from a site giving a detailed, well written explanation on the horror that is Monsanto (given below).

Please use your discretion and yes- common sense- to ascertain what's right and what isn't. What the media says or doesn't say is for another topic altogether. There is so much being hidden from you, me and all of us- it's overwhelming, but not possible to let the truth win. Ok, rant over- here goes:

Excerpt from http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article522.html: (A big thank you to Mr. Bharat Dogra for putting together such a well written synopsis on the GM threat)

"...Particularly in the context of agriculture and animal husbandry, this technology has far-reaching implications as it allows the introduction into plants and animals of entirely new characteristics, including genes originally found in unrelated plants, animals or micro-organisms. This is very different from traditional breeding practices, and we need time to consider all its possible impacts. However, the technology is spreading so fast that very adverse consequences can result even before we have the time to understand the implications. At a very early stage of its development this technology has got heavily concentrated in the hands of a few giant corporations which are interested in its quick commercial exploitation to recover their investments and reap profits. In the process, critics fear, very serious and irreversible damage can be caused to our environment, to our food system and to the health of millions of people.

A lot of discussion on this issue has concentrated too narrowly on whether the GM crops helped to increase per acre productivity. In this context the experience generally has been that the high expectations created by big companies promoting GM crops were not justified. In some cases the yields for a short initial period were indeed high, creating a rush for the new seeds, but after some time such expectations could not be maintained.

On the other hand, there are many examples of farmers who invested their meagre resources and borrowed heavily to buy expensive GM seeds and other supporting inputs (for example, herbicides linked to these seeds) but later felt betrayed as the low yield left them indebted and saddled with debts. There were even reports of suicides by these farmers. There have been allegations of GM crops like BT cotton being introduced in rainfed areas like those of Vidarbha (India) for which these were not suited.

Cotton plant infested with the mealy bug
(Image: http://www.i-sis.org.uk)

WHILE a careful study of these experiences is necessary, we also need to look beyond the narrow questions of short-term productivity changes to examine the question of long-term, even permanent, threats to environment and natural farming systems. Several of these threats were examined at an international conference of scientists involved in studying the implication and impacts of genetic engineering. This conference on ‘Redefining the Life Sciences’ was organised at Penang, Malaysia, by the Third World Network. These scientists and experts issue a statement called the Penang Statement (PS).

This statement listed a wide range of potential adverse effects of genetic engineering. Of particular concern is the difficulty or impossibility of recalling GEOs which have been released into the environment, or which have escaped from containment and later found to have adverse effects.

The potential ecological risks of applying genetic engineering to agriculture include the possibility that some transgenic crops could become noxious weeds, and others could become a conduit through which new genes may move to wild plants which themselves could then become weeds. The new weeds could adversely affect farm crops as well as wild ecosystems. Similarly, genetically engineered fish, shellfish and insects could become pests under certain conditions.

Plants are presently being engineered to contain parts of a virus in order to become virus-resistant. Some scientists have raised the possibility that widespread use of transgenic virus-resistant plants in agriculture may lead to new strains of viruses or allow a virus to infect a new host. There are concerns that the creation of new viral strains and the broadening of the virus’s host may increase the risks of new viral diseases that adversely affect crops and other plants. Mechanisms have been described whereby genetically engineered plants could plausibly give rise to new plant diseases.

(Image: Frozen Photon's Flickr Stream)

In addition, this statement warns that the rapid spread of transgenic crops poses a threat to traditional crop varieties and wild plants that are the major sources of crop genetic diversity.

Some traits of organisms may take decades or even longer to manifest themselves. An organism declared ‘safe’ in the short term could eventually prove to be dangerous..."

You can find hundreds of sources which go into detailed lengths stressing on the 'Monsanto curse', which unknown to many- is the REAL cause for the deaths of thousands of farmers in our country- and god know how many others. The fact that the Indian Govt, over the years, have permitted these shady bastards to even control our own agricultural economy is not just shameful- but is proof to the fact that India is but a puppet of the NWO; or at least we are heading that way.

I request you all to please read up on the threat of GM crops, why people need to revolt against Monsanto, and why this is so important to our well being. The day our food becomes trashy genetic material devoid of wholesome nutrients and warmth, is the day we will really cease to become healthy, intelligent human beings. Food feeds our brain, and its imperative that we get the best, and it's most important that our farmers stop being bulldozed into taking loans for seeds that are not only destroying their lives, but that of the country's.

Monsanto has a long history wherein they have tried (and still do, to this day) to deem farmers throughout the world bankrupt if they do not purchase these terrible GM seeds. Sadly, this is taking place right now in impoverished nations like ours, in Africa, South America and other parts of Asia. The USA has not been spared either.

Links you must read- NOW:

Navdanya: A woman's fight to save India's farmers and crops- http://www.navdanya.org/

GM crop firms are driving farmers to suicide, says Prince Charles http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1069392/GM-crop-firms-driving-farmers-suicide-says-Prince-Charles.html

Millions against Monsanto: Join OCA's Campaign to Mobilize One Million Consumers to End Monsanto's Global Corporate Terrorism- http://www.organicconsumers.org/monlink.cfm

Monsanto Moves To Control Water Resources & Fish Farming: http://www.rense.com/general20/re.htm

'Monsanto Laws' Would Take Away Right To Ban GMOs: http://www.rense.com/general65/righto.htm

Links on GM crops, Monsanto and sustainable food: http://food.change.org/actions/view/educate_yourself_to_protect_and_defend_the_world_our_supply

1,500 Indian Farmers Commit Suicide: Are GM Crops To Blame? http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2009/04/20/1500-indian-farmers-commit-suicide-are-gm-crops-to-blame/

Boycott Kelloggs! http://www.organicconsumers.org/kelloggs.cfm

Remember- GO ORGANIC! If you see a GM/Monsanto label on any product in India, please boycott it; because when you do, you protect not only yourself and humanity against the advent of the NWO- but millions of farmers worldwide in their fight for survival.

MICROCHIPPING / BIOMETRIC VIDEOS

2009-07-25T08:26:00.000-07:00

NANDAN NILEKANI- GO AWAY

2009-07-24T20:46:00.000-07:00

(Image: Wikimedia Commons)

I. PROLOGUE: Before anyone here criticises me or thinks i'm whacked out, let me tell you one thing: the fact that the Govt-Nilekani team are highly ambitious are far as issuing biometric IDs to all indians is concerned is very, very disturbing, and should be a grave concern for all those reading this too. Why you ask? Here goes: This is the article as reported on the timesonlineuk site here http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6710764.ece.

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"INDIA TO ISSUE ALL 1.2 BILLION CITIZENS WITH BIOMETRIC ID CARDS:

It is surely the biggest Big Brother project yet conceived. India is to issue each of its 1.2 billion citizens, millions of whom live in remote villages and possess no documentary proof of existence, with cyber-age biometric identity cards. The Government in Delhi recently created the Unique Identification Authority, a new state department charged with the task of assigning every living Indian an exclusive number.

It will also be responsible for gathering and electronically storing their personal details, at a predicted cost of at least £3 billion. The task will be led by Nandan Nilekani, the outsourcing sage who coined the phrase “the world is flat”, which became a mantra for supporters of globalization. “It is a humongous, mind-boggling challenge,” he told The Times. “But we have the opportunity to give every Indian citizen, for the first time, a unique identity. We can transform the country.”

If the cards were piled on top of each other they would be 150 times as high as Mount Everest — 1,200 kilometres. India’s legions of local bureaucrats currently issue at least 20 proofs of identity, including birth certificates, driving licences and ration cards.

None is accepted universally and moving from one state to the next can easily render a citizen officially invisible — a disastrous predicament for the millions of poor who rely on state handouts to survive. It is hoped that the ID scheme will close such bureaucratic black holes while also fighting corruption. It may also be put to more controversial ends, such as the identification of illegal immigrants and tackling terrorism.

A computer chip in each card will contain personal data and proof of identity, such as fingerprint or iris scans. Criminal records and credit histories may also be included. Mr Nilekani, who left Infosys, the outsourcing giant that he co-founded, to take up his new job, wants the cards to be linked to a “ubiquitous online database” accessible from anywhere.

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The danger, experts say, is that as one of the world’s largest stores of personal information, it will prove an irresistible target for identity thieves. “The database will be one of the largest that ever gets built,” Guru Malladi, a partner at Ernst & Young who was involved in an earlier pilot scheme, said. “It will have to be impregnable.”

Mr Nilekani will also have to mastermind a way of collecting trustworthy data. Only about 75 million people — or less than 7 per cent of the population — are registered to pay income tax. The Electoral Commission’s voter lists are thought to be largely inaccurate, not least because of manipulation by corrupt politicians.

He will also have to persuade as many as 60 government departments to co-operate. The Government has said that the first cards will be issued within 18 months. Analysts feel that it will take at least four years for the project to reach “critical mass”. Such is the scale of the project that analysts believe India will have to develop a new electronics manufacturing base to supply information-storing servers, computer chips and card readers. For the time being Mr Nilekani has more mundane matters on his mind.

“I’ve only just left my previous job,” he said. “First I have to find a new office.”

KEEPING TABS AROUND THE WORLD:

• Compulsory national identity cards are used in about 100 countries including Germany, France, Belgium, Greece, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain
• ID cards are not used in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the Irish Republic or Nordic countries • German police can detain people who are not carrying their ID card for up to 24 hours
• The Bush Administration resisted calls for an identity card in the US after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001
• In Australia street protests in the 1980s forced the Government to abandon its plans for a card
• Plastic cards are favoured over paper documents because they are harder to forge
• Most identity cards contain the name, sex, date of birth and a unique number for the holder
• South Korean, Brazilian, Italian and Malaysian ID cards contain fingerprints. Cards in some countries contain information on any distinguishing marks of the holder
• Objections to card schemes have focused on the cost and invasion of privacy
• Supporters say that they prevent illegal immigration and fraud
• In the European Union some cards can be used instead of a passport for European travel."

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II. WAKE UP, STUPID:

(Image: Jeff Aerosol- Wake Up)

Don't laugh this off as a ridiculous conspiracy theory. Let me assure of you one thing: the day you will either become nothing more than a biometric ID card, or even microchipped, is the day you will remain under the watchful eye of the Indian govt. 24/7; since microchip IDs are very easily trackable, they (I see now that India seems to have become the latest chamcha of the Big Brother behemoths back in the West) will know where you are, what you are doing (very probable), how much money you spent, what you spent it on, what you are shopping for, and yes- whether you are protesting against the Government.

This is not something to brush off; and neither am I trying to scare anyone reading this. Please note, that seemingly harmless measures taken by the Government more often than not lead to more stringent policies, and a slow but sure formation of a police state- which will eventually lead our freedoms and basic human rights being infringed upon and misused.

I request you to familiarize yourself with George Orwell's work- not because he seems to everpresent in this blog- but simply because it's astonishing as to how blind we have all become and have failed to realise that fiction is actually becoming fact.

III. REFERENCES: For the skeptics, cynics and nay sayers, i have compiled a list of must-read links for you which explores the truth behind the microchipping agenda and talks about the ill-health effects, and the ultimate goal of Big Brother Governments.

1. Microchip Mind Control, Implants And Cybernetics: http://www.rense.com/general17/imp.htm

2. Why advocates and lawmakers are concerned about involuntary chipping: http://www.antichips.com/is-the-threat-real.htm

3. Microchip Cancer Report: http://www.rense.com/general79/micro.htm

4. Spychips & Biometrics: How Major Corps and Govt. Plan to track your every move: http://www.spychips.com/

5. The NWO Observer Blog: http://nwoobserver.wordpress.com/tag/microchips-in-humans/

6. NOT SO SAFE AFTER ALL- Biometric passport chips can be cloned in an hour, researcher warns: http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2008/08/06/biometric-passport-chips-can-be-cloned-in-an-hour-researcher-warns/

7. Biometrics Explained: http://www2.ministries-online.org/thenewworldorder/

8. Welcome to the Cashless Society Control Grid (and other must read articles): http://www.infowars.com/cashless_society.htm

9. List of microchip-Big Brother-biometrics related articles for you to read in detail: http://www.illuminati-news.com/microchip.htm

10. Katherine Albrecht- Online Radio Host who actually makes a difference: http://www.katherinealbrecht.com/

I will also be posting some handy Youtube videos- please educate yourself and pass this around to others; it's about time INDIA WOKE UP!

Recommendations: Books by David Icke (not available in any bookstore my friends- you'll have to buy it from his site www.davidicke.com), Stuart Wilde, Robert Anton Wilson and Ian R. Crane.