The mast campaign has nothing to hide. But it is a contravention of human rights to have regular phone taps, or even being followed or tailed. Just because you think masts might not be as safe as they're made out to be....

You might find this interesting (online half-hour programme on right hand side if you have time to listen!):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3055383.stm

And how do you complain? Ideas on a postcard? No. Emails are more readable!


From Mast Network

US: KGB and STASI reinforce Homeland Security. For whom?

If somebody would inform you, that the former Ex-head of the inhuman and despicable Soviet secret service 'KGB', General Yevgeni Primakov, as well as Markus Wolfe, the ex-boss of the ''STASI'', the equally feared former East German ''State Security Police'' - (Staats Sicherheitsdienst) - have been hired by the United States Gov't for the lawless and already feared secret service "HOMELAND Security", as experts to reinforce the control in the US of all it's citizens: would that make you sleep badly ? Im sorry to wreck your night's rest, but it seems that it just happened to you, or, better said: to all of us globally.

A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO [1997-06-09] WOLFE FROM THE STASI WAS REFUSED A VISA TO THE US BECAUSE HE WAS A TERRORIST.

Or do you still belong to this completely brainwashed group which - standing in the rain - assures everybody that it's dry and quite sunny still?

http://www.cmaq.net/fr/node.php?id=19323


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 18th, 2004

Last week another gigantic step was taken toward the Sovietization of America. The so-called "Intelligence Reform" bill was passed by the Republican-controlled Congress. I feel confident in saying that 95 percent of Congress didn't bother to read this 3,000 page tome except the portions that guarantee pork to their big donors. Beginning in 2005, the Department of Homeland Security, overriding the sovereignty of the states, will issue all driver's licenses and birth certificates that meet some "federalized standards" including biometric "security" provisions. Contrary to existing law, newborns will be automatically issued a Social Security number, which would force them into the federal taxing scheme called Social Security. All children will be denied enrollment in the government indoctrination centers (schools) without first supplying a Homeland Security registered birth certificate. If this doesn't chill you, it should. Since the Social Security taxing scheme came into being back in 1935, no one has ever been required to join. The government has never automatically issued numbers because it has always been voluntary. Should this toxic bill get signed into law by Bush (a given), for the first time, Americans will be forced into this program against their will.

One of the highest priorities in instilling the communist moral principles into a population is the joining of all human beings into a single collective (we) where the individual no longer thinks independently. The Soviets believe that the "new communist man" will become one with the state by persuading him or her to relinquish their individuality, their identity, their own self and merge into the collective (community).

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41987


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 18th, 2004

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index575.htm


http://www.express.co.uk/

To go with the new biometric ID cards carrying fingerprints and iris scans, and £1000 fine for not telling the government when you move house, now they are going to satellite track every car. They have also started taking fingerprints and DNA swabs from everyone who is arrested, even if they are not charged.

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Informant: billder

15.12.04

Der Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien (BITKOM) hat eine Studie zum Stand und zu den Perspektiven der Vorratsdatenspeicherung im internationalen Vergleich vorgelegt. Anlass ist der gemeinsame Entwurf eines EU-Rahmenbeschlusses der vorsieht, dass sämtliche Telekommunikationsverkehrsdaten in den Bereichen Festnetz, Mobilfunk und Internet für einen Zeitraum von mindestens einem Jahr gespeichert werden müssen. Damit sollen die Ermittlungsarbeiten der Strafverfolgungsbehörden insbesondere bei der Bekämpfung der organisierten Kriminalität und des Terrorismus verbessert werden.

Die BITKOM-Studie hat ergeben, dass der Bedarf für eine so umfangreiche Speicherung von TK-Verkehrsdaten zweifelhaft und die Effektivität der Vorratsdatenspeicherung zur Verbrechensbekämpfung fraglich ist. Auch zeigen Erfahrungen anderer EU-Mitgliedstaaten, dass sich Anfragen der Strafverfolgungsbehörden in der Regel auf einen Zeitraum erstrecken, der nicht länger als 3 Monate zurückliegt, obwohl deutlich mehr Daten zur Verfügung ständen. Außerdem seien Datenschutzaspekte sowie die zu erwartende Kostenbelastung für die Unternehmen bei der Diskussion bisher nicht ausreichend berücksichtigt worden. Denn die geplanten Maßnahmen würden im Ergebnis zu einer Speicherung auf Vorrat von personenbezogenen Daten unbescholtener Bürger führen.

BITKOM fordert deshalb die Bundesregierung auf, bei ihrer zurückhaltenden Haltung zu bleiben und den EU-Rahmenbeschluss durch ein Veto zu verhindern. Insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund der zahlreichen Möglichkeiten, die Überwachung zu umgehen, scheint eine Vorratsdatenspeicherung nicht geeignet, um Terrorismus und organisierte Kriminalität besser bekämpfen zu können. Statt der aufwändigen Pläne sollten nach BITKOM-Ansicht erst einmal alternative Lösungsansätze, wie z.B. die in den USA als ausreichend befundene so genannte „Data-Preservation“ bzw. „Data-Freeze“ geprüft werden. (jb)

http://www.tariftip.de/news/16949/archiv/Speicherung-von-Telefon-und-Internetdaten-zweifelhaft.htm


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

When technology gets personal
This paves the way for brain implants

It's all part of what's known as a "pervasive ambient world", where "chips are everywhere".

In 2020, whipping out your mobile phone to make a call will be quaintly passé. By then phones will be printed directly on to wrists, or other parts of the body, says Ian Pearson, BT's resident futurologist. It's all part of what's known as a "pervasive ambient world", where "chips are everywhere". Inanimate objects will start to interact with us: we will be surrounded - on streets, in homes, in appliances, on our bodies and possibly in our heads - by things that "think". However, this future of highly personal devices, where technology is worn, or even fuses with the body itself, raises ethical questions.

Mr Pearson does not have a crystal ball. His job is to formulate ideas based on what science and technology are doing now, to guide industries into the future.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4059011.stm



'BrainGate' Brain-Machine-Interface takes shape

An implantable, brain-computer interface the size of an aspirin has been clinically tested on humans by American company Cyberkinetics. The 'BrainGate' device can provide paralysed or motor-impaired patients a mode of communication through the translation of thought into direct computer control. The technology driving this breakthrough in the Brain-Machine-Interface field has a myriad of potential applications, including the development of human augmentation for military and commercial purposes. "The goal of the BrainGate program is to develop a fast, reliable and unobtrusive connection between the brain of a severely disabled person and a personal computer" stated Tim Surgenor, President and CEO of Cyberkinetics. "We [hope] to provide paralysed individuals with a gateway through which they can access the broad capabilities of computers, control devices in the surrounding environment, and even move their own limbs." Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have already demonstrated that a monkey can feed itself with a robotic arm simply by using signals from its brain, an advance that could enhance prosthetics for people, especially those with spinal cord injuries. Now, using the BrainGate system in the current human trials, a 25 year old quadriplegic has successfully been able to switch on lights, adjust the volume on a TV, change channels and read e-mail using only his brain.

Crucially, the patient was able to do these tasks while carrying on a conversation and moving his head at the same time.

http://www.gizmo.com.au/go/3503/



Paralyzed Could Use Brain Waves To Move Objects

The newest study suggests that brain interface devices using old-fashioned electroencephalogram (EEG) readings may be just as useful as implants. EEG readings don't require implants, instead relying on electrodes placed on the scalp.A device that reads brain waves may give paralyzed patients a way to control prosthetic limbs without needing brain implants, medical investigators say. The brain-computer interface experiment, released yesterday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, comes amid rising interest in such devices. Paralyzed patients may someday lead more normal lives if scientists can translate brain activity into words and motion. Last year, for example, Duke University researchers showed that monkeys with brain implants could learn to control robotic arms.

Cyberkinetics Inc. of Foxborough, Mass., implanted an experimental brain interface into a quadriplegic patient this year.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/news/38780.html



Brain scanner is a lie detector
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4051211.stm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 13th, 2004

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/12/09/3862646


Informant: Be Kind Whenever Possible

A NEW group has been launched in Cambridge to fight Government plans for a national identity card.

Home Secretary David Blunkett announced the Identity Cards Bill, amid claims the cards could tackle terrorism, make national borders more secure and prevent abuse of benefits and public services. However, opponents NO2ID say cardholders will have to pay for the scheme and their "most intimate details will be controlled by the Government forever". Matt Freestone, a 33-year-old software developer, of Perne Road, Cambridge, is involved in setting up the Cambridge group. He said: "We oppose the Government's plans to introduce identity cards and a national identity register because they will significantly diminish personal privacy and threaten civil liberties.

"There's no evidence that ID cards prevent terrorism - unfortunately we have two recent examples in the 9/11 attacks where the terrorists were largely using their own IDs, and Madrid, where Spain's ID card scheme did nothing to deter the bombers.

http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/story.asp?StoryID=66088


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 11th, 2004