Houston Chronicle

09/06/04

For two months, Jacob Sevlie's insurance company tagged along whenever he slid behind the wheel of his Honda Accord. ... Although privacy advocates say the gadget smacks of Big Brother, Sevlie signed up and sent monthly data in hopes of saving money on his insurance bill. In return, he got a $25 stipend and the promise of a 15 percent rate cut when the program launches...

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2780113


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Gegen generelle Speicherung: Oberster Datenschützer kritisiert Ausländerzentralregister

06.09.04

Der Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz, Peter Schaar, hat heftige Kritik an der Behandlung von EU-Ausländern in Deutschland geübt. Die generelle Speicherung von Daten im Ausländerzentralregister sei problematisch, sagte Schaar dem Berliner "Tagesspiegel". Alle möglichen Stellen könnten online Daten von Ausländern abrufen - und zwar auch von Ausländern aus der Europäischen Union, die sich bei für eine längere Zeit in Deutschland aufhalten. Dafür gebe es in einem zusammenwachsenden Europa überhaupt keine Rechtfertigung, kritisierte der Datenschützer: "Ich fordere daher nachdrücklich, dass die generelle Speicherung von EU-Ausländern im Ausländerzentralregister unterbleibt."

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=9233

London (pte) - Ortungsdienste, die den Aufenthalt von Personen übermitteln, kommen allerorten in Mode. In Großbritannien ist in der abgelaufenen Woche ein GPS (Global Positioning System)-Überwachungsdienst für kriminelle Wiederholungstäter gestartet worden.

In den USA wird demnächst ein kombiniertes WLAN/GPS/RFID-System eingeführt, mit dem Schulkinder per Web-Interface auf ihren Fahrten mit dem Schulbus überwacht werden. In Deutschland schließlich gibt es den Ortungsdienst "Trackyourkid", mit dem Eltern ebenfalls über den Aufenthaltsort ihres Nachwuchses auf dem Laufenden gehalten werden.

Großbritannien sieht seine GPS-Überwachung in Anlehnung an das US-amerikanische Motto "Gefängnis ohne Gitter." Vorerst wird das System an Wiederholungstätern und Pädophilen erprobt. Sie erhalten GPS-Geräte ans Bein montiert, mit denen der Aufenthaltsort des Trägers "fast bis auf den Meter genau" festgestellt werden kann. 120 verurteilte Täter, die auf Bewährung freigelassen oder zu gemeinnütziger Arbeit verurteilt wurden, werden als erste mit dem Gerät ausgestattet. Sobald sie gegen die Auflagen verstoßen, wird automatisch die Polizeizentrale informiert, berichtet die Computerwelt. Bei wegen Pädophilie verurteilten Straftätern piepst das Gerät, sobald sich der Träger in der Nähe von Schulen, Spielplätzen oder Kindergärten aufhält. Bis zu 5.000 überführte Diebe, Räuber, Einbrecher und Sexualtäter sollen in der Endstufe den Apparat tragen müssen. "Sie sollen ständig daran erinnert werden, dass wir sie beobachten", sagte Paul Goggins, Staatssekretär im Innenministerium

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/inside/org/ministers/goggins.html.

Die "Hauptzielgruppe" für GPS-Überwachung sind aber meistens nicht Kriminelle, sondern Kinder. Der US-Anbieter Wherify http://www.wherifywireless.com etwa bietet seit zwei Jahren eine Kinderarmbanduhr (Bild) mit eingebautem GPS-Empfänger an. Das Armband lässt sich nur per Fernbedienung öffnen, die Kinder selbst können es wie bei einer Fessel nicht abstreifen. In der Uhr sitzt ein kleines Handy, welches ständig mit dem Mobilfunknetz Kontakt hält. Das Produkt soll künftig auch in Europa, vorerst in Großbritannien, für rund 148 Euro erhältlich sein. In Deutschland wiederum gibt es den Handy-Ortungsdienst "Track your kid"
http://www.trackyourkid.de/ .

Die Anbieterfirma Armex http://www.armex.de ortet mit Hilfe des zuständigen Mobilfunkproviders das Handy der Kinder und verständigt die Eltern per SMS über den Aufenthaltsort ihrer Sprösslinge.

In Japan schließlich startet im Oktober ein Pilotversuch mit Funketiketten (RFID). Eine Grundschule im japanischen Ort Wakayama will die Schulrucksäcke ihrer Schüler mit Funketiketten versehen, um deren Überwachung auf dem Schulweg zu ermöglichen. Die Schuleingänge sollen mit RFID-Lasern ausgestattet werden, die die Funketiketten jedes einzelnen Kindes identifizieren. Auf diese Weise wissen Eltern wann ihre Schützlinge in der Schule ankommen und bekommen eine Nachricht per SMS direkt auf ihr Mobiltelefon geschickt.

geschrieben von: Admin 04.09.2004, 11:15 Uhr

http://www.ph-studio.de/Article709.html


Nachricht von der BI Bad Dürkheim

"Could a media system, controlled by a few global corporations with the ability to overwhelm all competing voices, be able to turn lies into truth?..."

Director Robert Kane Pappas’ "Orwell Rolls In His Grave" is the consummate critical examination of the Fourth Estate, once the bastion of American democracy. Asking whether America has entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for the truth, Pappas explores what the media doesn’t like to talk about: itself.

This is a must see documentary. Click here to watch it now! Real Video.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8560.htm

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“Orwell Rolls in His Grave”: Great Concept, Flawed Film

“Orwell Rolls in His Grave” is an interesting but uneven new semi-documentary film by Robert Kane Pappas that examines the relationship between the 5 or so big media companies that manufacture our info-tainment “news” and the political operatives in Washington DC. The film is in limited release. Mr. Pappas gets high marks for reminding the audience of “forgotten” stories from the 24/7 news cycle and how the media often manufactures series of unimportant stories on trivial matters, while missing or simply failing to report stories that editors and news directors deem “too difficult” or “too complex” for the general public. The tools and techniques of propaganda are examined alongside the relationships between the politicians who regulate the media, and who, at the same time, are beholden to the media in order to get their faces and sound bites before their constituents. Pappas makes stunning use of timelines and quotes, as well as historical and literary references to reveal just how superficial, manipulative and down-right wrong “news” reporting is on a regular basis.

While thought provoking and worth the price of admission, the film is flawed by Mr. Pappas’s limited interviews and sources. A legitimate, thorough, documentary on such a complex topic as the Orwellian manipulation of our news and political discourse cannot rest solely on the interview of just one congressman (among other journalists and academics) – particularly when that congressman is Bernie Sanders, the "Independent” (Socialist) from Vermont. Does Mr. Pappas wish us to believe that no other congressman were willing to go on camera and talk about this subject? Doesn’t Mr. Pappas have an obligation to interview (or even attempt to interview -- a la’ Michael Moore) a broader cast of congressional characters?

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/opoint/archives/000454.html



ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE

Sag Harbor-Basement Pictures

Director Robert Kane Pappas’ ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE is the consummate critical examination of the Fourth Estate, once the bastion of American democracy. Asking whether America has entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for the truth, Pappas explores what the media doesn’t like to talk about: itself. Meticulously tracing the process by which media has distorted and often dismissed actual news events, Pappas presents a riveting and eloquent mix of media professionals and leading intellectual voices on the media.

Among the cast of characters in ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE are Charles Lewis, director of the Center for Public Integrity, Vincent Bugliosi, former L.A. prosecutor and legal scholar, film director and author Michael Moore, Rep. Bernie Sanders, Danny Schecter, author and former producer for ABC and CNN, and Tony Benn, former member of the British Parliament.

http://www.orwellrollsinhisgrave.com/home.htm


Source:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - September 4th, 2004

David Blunkett was accused yesterday of planning to use satellite technology to track criminals as a cheap alternative to jail. The Home Secretary gave the go-ahead for a pilot scheme involving around 120 offenders in three areas who will be fitted with tags and monitored through the Global Positioning System network.

He called the initiative - which could be extended to cover thousands of offenders - a "prison without bars". It will be used as an alternative to custody and to enforce licence conditions imposed on people, including sex offenders, released from jail. The idea was first floated several years ago by the Conservatives but Dominic Grieve, a Tory legal spokesman, questioned the Government's motives for bringing in the scheme yesterday.

"While we support the tagging of certain prisoners, David Blunkett should not tag prisoners and let them out of jail earlier simply as a way of freeing up space in our already overcrowded prisons," he said...

http://makeashorterlink.com/?M27814639


Welcome to the prison without bars

Satellite trackers mean police can watch offenders' every step "Every step you take, I'll be watching you," sang the pop trio, The Police, in 1983. Now the real law enforcement agency is using satellite technology to do just that. Officers will keep tabs on paedophiles, domestic abusers and other prolific criminals 24 hours a day, thanks to an innovative tracking scheme launched in three pilot areas in England yesterday.

A total of 120 offenders, 40 each in Greater Manchester, Hampshire, and the West Midlands, will be fitted with devices that can pinpoint their position to within two metres...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1296246,00.html


How tracking of offenders works

The satellite tracking of offenders being piloted by the government from Thursday allows their location to be pinpointed to within two metres. Offenders wear an electronic ankle tag with a wireless connection to a belt-worn device that transmits co-ordinates to the tracking system. An alarm is triggered if this device is separated from the anklet. Home Secretary David Blunkett has said satellite tracking technology could create a "prison without bars" where "first-time low-level non-violent offenders would actually be tracked rather than sent to short-term prison sentences". Several US states use satellite technology to monitor offenders' movements. Florida introduced the technology in 1998 and is the largest user, tracking around 3,000 criminals.

The technology will be used following an offender's release from prison or to ensure compliance with an exclusion order stopping an offender going to certain places.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3620834.stm



Source:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - September 4th, 2004

Die Hansestadt soll die sicherste Großstadt Europas werden...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/co/18235/1.html

by Paul Street

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you really want to see how the dominant corporate-state media manufactures mass consent to American racist, capitalist, militarist empire and inequality, you've got to look at sports, entertainment, and (for the lack of a better phrase right now) personal improvement media as well as the news media. Beyond its functions of mass diversion, distraction, and infantilization, the non-news media is loaded with authoritarian ideology, presented in ways that are every bit as significant (maybe more significant) as what goes on with the more officially propagandistic and openly Orwellian news and commentary wing. Take, for example, the ongoing US Olympics coverage, brought to us by NBC, a subsidiary of leading world “defense” contractor General Electric....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug04/Street0829.htm

"Suspect Zero" with Ben Kingsley
http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/suspectzero.html

Before you go and see this just released movie which deals, in part, about a 20 year old - top secret / black government intelligence project known as "REMOTE VIEWING":

"...A series of chilling clues leads them to Benjamin O'Ryan (Ben Kingsley), trained in a government sponsored "Remote Viewing" program..."

Learn about the real aspects of our military's REMOTE VIEWING program found in the audio clip excerpts and links at the end of this post.

IT WILL BE ONE OF THE MOST STUNNING DISCLOSURES FEW OF US HAVE EVER HEARD!!!

Jack Topel

"When you are in a state of non-acceptance, it is difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift and a clenched psyche - grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted - cannot, easily, receive a lesson". Roger John

Lovely short flash video on War and Peace
http://www.bigpicturesmallworld.com/winningpeace.html


TECHNICAL "REMOTE VIEWING"

In the early 90's, the ABC News NIGHTLINE program with Ted Koppel had a segment which revealed the existence of a 20 year old - top secret - military program called The "STARGATE" REMOTE VIEWING PROGRAM. To the best of our knowledge, this topic has not been brought up again by any main stream news media.

In 1995, President Clinton, in response to numerous freedoms of information requests, signed an executive order
http://www.irva.org/papers/CIA_RV_SRI.shtml releasing some of the information which acknowledged the existence of this secret program.

SUPPORT TESTIMONY

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=51415&f=CRSEDP&ps=13&p=1 (10 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=51418&f=SNREJK&ps=13&p=1 (10 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=51419&f=BLTLZG&ps=13&p=1 (10 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=51421&f=YWMLWL&ps=13&p=1 (10 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=51424&f=BVCGTR&ps=13&p=1 ( 4 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=51430&f=QYLNBA&ps=13&p=1 (10 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=51434&f=VRVYTG&ps=13&p=1 (10 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=51438&f=LDDEGR&ps=13&p=1 (10 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=51439&f=JRYMUK&ps=13&p=1 (10 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=51440&f=IITYTN&ps=13&p=1 (10 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=51443&f=TIGMQR&ps=13&p=1 (10 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=51448&f=OEQQEQ&ps=13&p=1 (10 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=51451&f=DNAFVI&ps=13&p=1 (10 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=51454&f=JHOANL&ps=13&p=1 ( 04 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=51456&f=KXUECR&ps=13&p=1 (10 min)

http://PlayAudio-123.com/play.asp?m=51457&f=BLNBID&ps=13&p=1 ( 2 min)


Support reference links

http://www.irva.org/papers/CIA_RV_SRI.shtml
http://www.remoteviewing2004.com/pages/1/index.htm
http://www.matrixintelligenceagency.com/pages/558182/index.htm
http://www.arealiensreal.com/
http://www.crviewer.com/crviewer/index.html
http://satwater.www9.50megs.com/skipatwater.htm
http://www.remote-viewing-conference.com/
http://www.gotpsi.com/bi/gotpsi.htm
http://www.mindazzletraining.com/htm/mindazzle.htm

There's not a lot of middle ground on the subject of implanting electronic identification chips in humans. Advocates of technologies like radio frequency identification tags say their potentially life-saving benefits far outweigh any Orwellian concerns about privacy. RFID tags sewn into clothing or even embedded under people's skin could curb identity theft, help identify disaster victims and improve medical care, they say. Critics, however, say such technologies would make it easier for government agencies to track a person's every movement and allow widespread invasion of privacy. Abuse could take countless other forms, including corporations surreptitiously identifying shoppers for relentless sales pitches.

Critics also speculate about a day when people's possessions will be tagged--allowing nosy subway riders with the right technology to examine the contents of nearby purses and backpacks.

http://news.com.com/Human+chips+more+than+skin-deep/2009-7337_3-5318076.html


Source:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - August 26th, 2004