Sunday, April 27, 2008

RE: Mother Israel: God’s Gift to Rodents

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Pro-Israel Group Clandestinely Targets Wikipedia

http://desertpeace. wordpress. com/2008/04/21/the-camera-eyes-in-on-israel-and-lies/

A pro-Israel pressure group is orchestrating a secret, long-term campaign to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.

A series of emails by members and associates of the pro-Israel group CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America ), provided to The Electronic Intifada (EI), indicate the group is engaged in what one activist termed a “war” on Wikipedia.

A 13 March action alert signed by Gilead Ini, a “Senior Research Analyst” at CAMERA, calls for “volunteers who can work as ‘editors’ to ensure” that Israel-related articles on Wikipedia are “free of bias and error, and include necessary facts and context.” However, subsequent communications indicate that the group not only wanted to keep the effort secret from the media, the public, and Wikipedia administrators, but that the material they intended to introduce included discredited claims that could smear Palestinians and Muslims and conceal Israel’s true history.

With over two million articles in English on every topic imaginable, Wikipedia has become a primary reference source for Internet users around the world and a model for collaboratively produced projects. Openness and good faith are among Wikipedia’s core principles. Any person in the world can write or edit articles, but Wikipedia has strict guidelines and procedures for accountability intended to ensure quality control and prevent vandalism, plagiarism or distortion. It is because of these safeguards that articles on key elements of the Palestine-Israel conflict have generally remained well-referenced, useful and objective. The CAMERA plan detailed in the e-mails obtained by EI appears intended to circumvent these controls.

In the past, CAMERA has gained notoriety for its tactic of accusing virtually anyone who does not toe a right-wing pro-Israel line of bias. The group has even accused editors and reporters of the Israeli daily Haaretz of being “extreme” and participating in “radical anti-Israel activity.” Jeffrey Dvorkin, the former ombudsman of National Public Radio (NPR), frequently criticized by CAMERA for an alleged pro-Palestinian bias, wrote on the web publication Salon in February 2008 that “as a consequence of its campaign against NPR, CAMERA acted as the enabler for some seriously disturbed people,” citing persistent telephone threats he received in the wake of CAMERA campaigns.

Need for stealth and secrecy


Download CAMERA’s emails [PDF - 2. 7 MB]

Throughout the documents EI obtained, CAMERA operatives stress the need for stealth and secrecy. In his initial action alert, Ini requests that recipients “not forward it to members of the news media.” In a 17 March follow-up email sent to volunteers, Ini explains that he wants to make the orchestrated effort appear to be the work of unaffiliated individuals. Thus he advises that “There is no need to advertise the fact that we have these group discussions.

Anticipating possible objections to CAMERA’s scheme, Ini conjectures that “Anti-Israel editors will seize on anything to try to discredit people who attempt to challenge their problematic assertions, and will be all too happy to pretend, and announce, that a ‘Zionist’ cabal (the same one that controls the banks and Hollywood?) is trying to hijack Wikipedia.

But stealth and misrepresentation are presented as the keys to success. Ini suggests that after volunteers sign up as editors for Wikipedia they should “avoid editing Israel-related articles for a short period of time.” This strategy is intended to “avoid the appearance of being one-topic editors,” thus attracting unwanted attention.

Ini counsels that volunteers “might also want to avoid, for obvious reasons, picking a user name that marks you as pro-Israel, or that lets people know your real name.” To further conceal the identity of CAMERA-organized editors, Ini warns, “don’t forget to always log in before making [edits]. If you make changes while not logged in, Wikipedia will record your computer’s IP address” — a number that allows identification of the location of a computer connected to the Internet.

A veteran Wikipedia editor, known as “Zeq,” who according to the emails is colluding with CAMERA, also provided advice to CAMERA volunteers on how they could disguise their agenda. In a 20 March email often in misspelled English, Zeq writes, “You don’t want to be precived [sic] as a ‘CAMERA’ defender’ on wikipedia [sic] that is for sure.” One strategy to avoid that is to “edit articles at random, make friends not enemies — we will need them later on. This is a marathon not a sprint.

Zeq also identifies, in a 25 March email, another Wikipedia editor, “Jayjg,” whom he views as an effective and independent pro-Israel advocate. Zeq instructs CAMERA operatives to work with and learn from Jayjg, but not to reveal the existence of their group even to him fearing “it would place him in a bind” since “[h]e is very loyal to the wikipedia [sic] system” and might object to CAMERA’s underhanded tactics.

“Uninvolved administrators”

The emphasis on secrecy is apparently not only to aid the undetected editing of articles, but also to facilitate CAMERA’s takeover of key administrator positions in Wikipedia.

For Zeq a key goal is to have CAMERA operatives elected as administrators — senior editors who can override the decisions of others when controversies arise. When disputes arise about hotly contested topics, such as Israel and Palestine , often only an “uninvolved administrator” — one who is considered neutral because he or she has not edited or written articles on the topic — can arbitrate.

Hence, Zeq advises in a 21 March email that “One or more of you who want to take this route should stay away from any Israel realted [sic] articles for one month until they [sic] interact in a positive way with 100 wikipedia [sic] editors who would be used later to vote you as an administrator.

Once these CAMERA operatives have successfully infiltrated as “neutral” editors, they could then exercise their privileges to assert their own political agenda.

In addition, Zeq suggests making deliberately provocative edits to Palestine-related articles. He hopes that editors he assumes are Palestinian will delete these changes, and then CAMERA operatives could report them to administrators so they could be sanctioned and have their editing privileges suspended.

Passing propaganda as fact

Gilead Ini’s 17 March email provides specific advice on how to pass off pro-Israel propaganda or opinion as fact meeting Wikipedia’s strict guidelines:

“So, for example, imagine that you get rid of or modify a problematic sentence in an article alleging that ‘Palestinian [sic] become suicide bombers to respond to Israel ’s oppressive policies.’ You should, in parallel leave a comment on that article’s discussion page (either after or before making the change). Avoid defending the edit by arguing that ‘ Israel ’s policies aren’t ‘oppression,’ they are defensive. And anyway Palestinians obviously become suicide bombers for other reasons for example hate education!’ Instead, describe how this sentence violates Wikipedia’s policies and guidelines. One of the core principles is that assertions should adhere to a Neutral Point of View, usually abbreviated NPOV. (The opposite of NPOV is POV, or Point of View, which is basically another way of saying subjective statement, or opinion.) So it would be best to note on the discussion page that ‘This sentence violates Wikipedia’s NPOV policy, since the description of Israel ’s policies as ‘oppressive’ is an opinion.

In addition, it is often noted by Middle East experts that one of the reasons Palestinians decide to become suicide bombers is hate education and glorification of martyrdom in Palestinian society …’”

In fact, there have been numerous studies debunking claims about Palestinian “hate education,” or “glorification of martyrdom” causing suicide bombings (such as Dying to Win by University of Chicago political scientist Robert Pape) though this claim remains a favorite canard of pro-Israel activists seeking to distract attention from the effects of Israel’s occupation and other well-documented and systematic human rights abuses in fueling violence.

Zeq specifically names articles targeted for this kind of treatment including those on the 1948 Palestinian Exodus, Causes of the 1948 Palestinian exodus, Hamas, Hizballah, Arab citizens of Israel, anti-Zionism, al-Nakba, the Palestinian people, and the Palestinian right of return.

Interestingly the CAMERA editors also target the article on the early Islamic period concept of Dhimmi, a protected status for non-Muslims which historically allowed Jews to thrive in Muslim-ruled lands while other Jews were being persecuted in Christian Europe. Pro-Israel activists have often tried to portray the concept of Dhimmi as akin to the Nuremberg laws in order to denigrate Muslim culture and justify ahistorical Zionist claims that Jews could never live safely in majority Muslim countries.

Also among the emails is a discussion about how to alter the article on the massacre of Palestinian civilians in the village of Deir Yassin by Zionist militiamen on 9 April 1948 . Unable to debunk the facts of the massacre outright, the CAMERA activists hunt for quotes from “reputable historians” who can cast doubt on it. Their strategy is not dissimilar from those who attempt to present evolution, or global climate change as “controversial” regardless of the weight of the scientific evidence, simply because the facts do not accord with their belief system.

Zeq has already made extensive edits to the Wikipedia article on Rachel Corrie, the American peace activist murdered by an Israeli soldier in the occupied Gaza Strip on 16 March 2003 . As a result of these and other edits Zeq has himself been a controversial figure among Wikipedia editors, suggesting his own stealth tactics may not be working.

“We will go to war”

Zeq, however, counsels CAMERA operatives to be patient and lie low until they build up their strength. “We will go to war after we have build our army, equiped it trained [sic],” he wrote on 9 April. “So please if you want to win this war help us build ou[r] army. let’s not just rush in and achieve nothing, or abit more than nothing [sic].

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Obama gives reacharound to Brzezinski for being a good ol' boy

RE: NWO Obama Endorses NWO Brzezinski

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RE: IF EVERYONE UNDERSTOOD WE'D HAVE A REVOLUTION BY MORNING

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RE: ebooks 4 u and me

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let's hear it for "I paper";)

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RE: Some eBooks - Thanks Watchmen Networks


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RE: U.S.A.F. Chemtrails

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From: Shane (Infoseekr)
Date: Apr 27, 2008 5:43 PM


stop using periods in bulletins, it IS the cause of the excessive space being added to bulletins

this guy might know more about it
http://www. ngu. edu/science/pp/Fac/Marks. html
theres even a phone number
he taught at the USAF
read his page

and its mentioned here
http://www. rinf. com/columnists/news/electromagnetic-warfare
with tons of info

Third Estate, Second Estate. No, United States


Exactly, Id like to see further proof where this came from

The USAF chemtrail course is real???????????????????????????
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The USAF chemtrail course is real

Can Anyone substantiate this one????
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Date: 27 Apr 2008, 15:57


Thanks, graditude and love to Ooppoddoo!

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Date: 27 Apr 2008, 09:30 AM


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Or at least this picture was on the cover of their syllabus in 1991
Sooooo...at the very least, a lot of people in the USAF have been bald-faced LYING about not knowing where on earth the term 'chemtrail' came from
If anyone can find out what else they were learning in their coursework at the USAF Academy, ooppoddoo would like to know ~ Janet

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RE: Divorcing Iraq

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From: Bill Maher
Date: Apr 18, 2008 10:52 AM


Conservatives, and especially the neo-cons, got this sentimental idea into their heads that all Iraq needed was a taste of American-style freedom and all would be well. They thought, "Sunnis, Shiites--forget all that. Once these people get a load of us and what we're offering, they'll come drifting out of their homes wiping away tears of gratitude and welcome a new post-Saddam era of democracy." It was a grand plan: creating a new, oil-rich, democratic ally in the Middle East. Too bad it was based more on naïve, fairytale wishes than on any semblance of practical reality.



It's like the new bride marrying into a violently conflicted, dysfunctional family thinking, "Once they're exposed to my values and a little of my TLC, they'll all see the light and get along." No, sorry, some problems run much deeper than feel-good, better-way solutions.



We're seeing it in Iraq's latest security problems. Shiites are fighting Sunnis, Sunnis are fighting al Qaeda, Shiites are fighting Shiites and we're operating on a broad policy based on some imagined, unified Iraqi military "standing up." As President Bush said in a news conference last June, "Our policy is stand up/stand down; as the Iraqis stand up, we'll stand down." Well, they are standing up, but not as one, cohesive, nationalistic, pro-democracy army. They're standing up as separate warring enclaves bent on destroying each other.



The Iraqi government just had to purge 1,300 soldiers and policemen from their security ranks, some of them senior officers like lieutenant colonels and brigadier generals, because they either refused to fight or switched sides during the recent conflict in Basra. It's lovely to imagine a unified Iraqi army "standing up," but when the lead starts flying, old tribal loyalties supersede allegiance to the new occupier-endorsed command.



Isn't it time to realize that this marriage isn't working out? As the new bride, we've tried to goad, to entice and to shame our new in-laws into behaving according to our ideals. But our presence isn't so much resolving conflict as it is postponing it. Sometimes divorce isn't a surrender or a defeat; it's a simple recognition that the whole idea was a mistake in the first place.

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RE: NYT Freedom Tower Blueprint Found In Trash

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Maybe some insider working for WTC owner Larry Silverstein found out that 9-11 was an inside job



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NYC Freedom Tower plans found in trash
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Associated Press
April 18, 2008

http://news. yahoo. com/s/ap/20080418/ap_on_re_us/attacks_redevelopment

NEW YORK - A homeless man has come forward with two sets of confidential ground zero blueprints that he says were dumped in a Lower Manhattan trash can

The man brought the Freedom Tower plans to the New York Post, which says the 150-page schematic is marked: "Secure Document — Confidential"

The documents are dated Oct. 5, 2007.



They contain plans for each floor, the thickness of the concrete-core wall, and the location of air ducts, elevators, electrical systems and support columns

The agency that owns the World Trade Center site, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, calls it a serious security lapse

Spokeswoman Candace McAdams says mishandling the blueprints would be "cause for serious disciplinary action"


Larry Silverstein - Owner of WTC and Chicago Sears Tower







Larry Silverstein on PBS - 'Pull the WTC 7' only few hours after the Twin Towers collapsed







We Are Change confronts Larry Silverstein

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Larry “Lucky Larry” Silverstein (ZIONIST SCUM)
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You’ve got to be lucky to make $4 Billion killing on a 6-month investment of $124 Million

Larry Silverstein is the New York property tycoon who purchased the entire WTC complex just 6 months prior to the 9/11 attacks.



That was the first time in its 33-year history the complex had EVER changed ownership

Mr. Silverstein’s first order of business as the new owner was to change the company responsible for the security of the complex. The new security company he hired was Securacom (now Stratasec). George W. Bush's brother, Marvin Bush, was on its board of directors, and Marvin’s cousin, Wirt Walker III, was its CEO.



According to public records, not only did Securacom provide electronic security for the World Trade Center, it also covered Dulles International Airport and United Airlines — two key players in the 9/11 attacks

The company was backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corp., also linked for many years to the Bush family. KuwAm has been linked to the Bush family financially since the Gulf War.



One of its principals and a member of the Kuwaiti royal family, Mishal Yousef Saud al Sabah, served on the board of Stratesec

Now, consider: The members of a small cabal owned the WTC complex, controlled its electronic security, and also controlled the security not only for one of the airlines whose aircraft were hijacked on 9/11, but the airport from which they originated

Another little “coincidence” -- Mr. Silversten, who made a down-payment of $124 million on this $3.2 billion complex, promptly insured it for $7 Billion.



Not only that, he covered the complex against “terrorist attacks”

Following the attacks, Silverstein filed TWO insurance claims for the maximum amount of the policy ($7B), based on the two -- in Silverstein's view -- separate attacks. The insurance company, Swiss Re, paid Mr. Silverstein $4.



6 Billion — a princely return on a relatively paltry investment of $124 million

There’s more. You see, the World Trade Towers were not the real estate plum we are led to believe.



From an economic standpoint, the trade center -- subsidized since its inception by the NY Port Authority -- has never functioned, nor was it intended to function, unprotected in the rough-and-tumble real estate marketplace How could Silverstein Group have been ignorant of this?

The towers required some $200 million in renovations and improvements, most of which related to removal and replacement of building materials declared to be health hazards in the years since the towers were built. It was well-known by the city of New York that the WTC was an asbestos bombshell. For years, the Port Authority treated the building like an aging dinosaur, attempting on several occasions to get permits to demolish the building for liability reasons, but being turned down due the known asbestos problem.



Further, it was well-known the only reason the building was still standing until 9/11 was because it was too costly to disassemble the twin towers floor by floor since the Port Authority was prohibited legally from demolishing the buildings

The projected cost to disassemble the towers: $15 Billion.



Just the scaffolding for the operation was estimated at $24 Billion!

In other words, the Twin Towers were condemned structures.



How convenient that an unexpected “terrorist” attack demolished the buildings completely

WTC Building 7 was a part of the WTC complex, and covered under the same insurance policy.



This 47-storey steel-framed structure, which was NOT struck by an aircraft, mysteriously collapsed 8 hours later that same day into its own footprint at freefall speed — exactly in the manner of the Twin Towers

How could this have happened? Mr Silverstein gave the world the answer when he slipped up during a PBS television interview a year later, on 9/11/2002:

"I remember getting a call from the...er...fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.



' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse"

As anyone who knows anything about construction can tell you, “Pull” is common industry jargon for a controlled demolition

One thing is for sure, the decision to 'pull' WTC 7 would have delighted many people Especially because it has been reported that thousands of sensitive files relating to some of the biggest financial scams in history — including Enron and WorldCom -- were stored in the offices of some of the building’s tenants:


US Secret Service
NSA
CIA
IRS
BATF
SEC
NAIC Securities
Salomon Smith Barney
American Express Bank International
Standard Chartered Bank
Provident Financial Management
ITT Hartford Insurance Group
Federal Home Loan Bank


The Securities and Exchange Commission has not quantified the number of active cases in which substantial files were destroyed by the collapse of WTC 7. Reuters news service and the Los Angeles Times published reports estimating them at 3,000 to 4,000. They include the agency's major inquiry into the manner in which investment banks divvied up hot shares of initial public offerings during the high-tech boom. ..."Ongoing investigations at the New York SEC will be dramatically affected because so much of their work is paper-intensive," said Max Berger of New York's Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann.



"This is a disaster for these cases"

Citigroup says some information that the committee is seeking [about WorldCom] was destroyed in the Sept. 11 terror attack on the World Trade Center. Salomon had offices in 7 World Trade Center.



The bank says that back-up tapes of corporate emails from September 1998 through December 2000 were stored at the building and destroyed in the attack

Inside WTC 7 was the US Secret Service's largest field office with more than 200 employees.



"All the evidence that we stored at 7 World Trade, in all our cases, went down with the building," according to US Secret Service Special Agent David Curran

What a neat, complete, and fortuitous turn of events was 9/11

Incidentally, it’s worth noting that one of Lucky Larry’s closest friends — a person with whom it’s said he speaks almost daily by phone — is none other than former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

More on that cozy little relationship later

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RE: Grow Potatoes In A Stack Of Tires

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This is a great method for those with little space to work with.





http://www. humeseeds. com/potato. htm

There are two different methods of growing potatoes in tires. One way is to stack three or four tires, fill them with soil and plant two to three seed pieces about 1 or 2 inches deep in the top tire. The black of the tire absorbs and radiates heat, and there usually is a heavy yield..

Another method is to put a tire on the ground, fill it with soil and plant the potatoes within the tire. Plant two seed potatoes, whole or halved, about 2 inches deep. Once the potatoes have developed 3 or 4 inches of foliage growth, a second tire can be put on top of the first, Fill in with more soil, always leaving at least 2 inches of leaf growth above the soil level. Continue to fill as the plants grow. Once you've filled in the center of the second tire, continue the stack to a height of three or four tires. Keep in mind you must always leave about 2 inches of foliage showing..

Last year, we grew potatoes in eight stacks of tires, using eight: different potato varieties. Each tire stack averaged 11 pounds of potatoes: Some readers have reported yields of up to 38 pounds per stack. Others have reported poor results, averaging as few as one or two potatoes per stack. Over-watering or the use of too much high nitrogen fertilizer could be the reason for poor yields..

The reason you can grow potatoes successfully in this manner is that potatoes develop on stems above the roots. Of course, it's for this reason that mounding or mulching potatoes is recommended so highly..

Some of the potatoes that we grew in tire stacks were: not harvested until January of this year. So the tire stacks also provided an ideal place to store them throughout fall and winter..

WATERING - Black or hollow centers on potatoes is often caused by over-watering. Irregular watering causes irregular shaped or knobby potatoes. As a guideline, water potatoes (thoroughly) weekly during warmer summer weather..

HARVESTING - New young potatoes are harvested when peas are ripe or as the potato plants begin to flower. For storage of full sized potatoes harvest them when the vines turn yellow or have died-back..

STORAGE - Keep them in the dark, in a spot where temperatures are about 40 degrees..

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RE: Video: The 2012 Enigma by David Wilcock

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OH MY.

Everyone must see this:

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RE: DHS Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren’t ‘Personal Data’!

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RE: DHS Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren’t ‘Personal Data’!

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DHS Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren’t ‘Personal Data’!

Eddie
That is so full of crap - they are now fingerprinting children, Feds are taking DNA samples from all criminals, next they will RFID chip all of us when US dollar crashes, and those damn 'mark of the beast' will contain ALL OF THESE FREAKING DATAs, what do you think is going on here?

Things are speeding up and they plan to take total control of the entire population, massive food shortage is happening already, when US dollar collapses the only way to buy food water and gas you will have to get CHIPPED, everyone will also get STmicro RFID chip implants to 'prevent' a massive bird flu pandemic - Conspiracy? I THINK NOT

These drastic measures will all usher in the NEW WORLD ORDER

http://www. propagandamatrix. com/articles/april2008/170408Chertoff. htm







Schools to fingerprint US children so they can get their lunch







Roadside fingerprinting by UK cops







Anyone requiring a visa to enter the UK will have to have fingerprint scans and a digital photograph taken from 26 July.







In Rome, it will be necessary to lodge visa applications at the WorldBridge Visa Application Centre (VAC) at Via Antonio Pacinotti 63, where scans and photographs will also be taken







RFID Malaysia biometrics fingerprint

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Chertoff Says Fingerprints Aren’t ‘Personal Data’

Peter Swire / Think Progress | April 16, 2008

Our guest blogger, Peter Swire, is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and served as the Clinton Administration’s Chief Counselor for Privacy

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has badly stumbled in discussing the Bush administration’s push to create stricter identity systems. Chertoff was recently in Canada discussing, among other topics, the so-called “Server in the Sky” program to share fingerprint databases among the U.S., Canada, the U.K.







, and Australia

In a recent briefing with Canadian press (which has yet to be picked up in the U.







S), Chertoff made the startling statement that fingerprints are “not particularly private”:

QUESTION: Some are raising that the privacy aspects of this thing, you know, sharing of that kind of data, very personal data, among four countries is quite a scary thing

SECRETARY CHERTOFF: Well, first of all, a fingerprint is hardly personal data because you leave it on glasses and silverware and articles all over the world, they’re like footprints.







They’re not particularly private

Many of us should rightfully be surprised that our fingerprints aren’t considered “personal data” by the head of DHS. Even more importantly, DHS itself disagrees. In its definition of “personally identifiable information” — the information that triggers a Privacy Impact Assessment when used by government — the Department specifically lists: “biometric identifiers (e.g.







, fingerprints)”

Chertoff’s comments have drawn sharp criticism from Jennifer Stoddart, the Canadian official in charge of privacy issues.







“Fingerprints constitute extremely personal information for which there is clearly a high expectation of privacy,” Stoddart said




There are compelling reasons to treat fingerprints as “extremely personal information.” The strongest reason is that fingerprints, if not used carefully, will become the biggest source of identity theft.







Fingerprints shared in databases all over the world won’t stay secret for long, and identity thieves will take advantage

A quick web search on “fake fingerprints” turns up cheap and easy methods for do-it-at-home fake fingerprints. As discussed by noted security expert Bruce Schneier, one technique is available for under $10. It was tried “against eleven commercially available fingerprint biometric systems, and was able to reliably fool all of them.” Secretary Chertof either doesn’t know about these clear results or chooses to ignore them.







He said in Canada: “It’s very difficult to fake a fingerprint”

Chertoff’s argument about leaving fingerprints lying around on “glasses and silverware” is also beside the point. Today, we leave our Social Security numbers lying around with every employer and numerous others.







Yet the fact that SSNs (or fingerprints) are widely known exposes us to risk

There have been numerous questions raised about how this Administration is treating our personal information.







Secretary Chertoff’s comments show a new reason to worry — they don’t think it’s “personal” at all

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RE: FYI~Shitload Of Documentaries Right Here

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AIPAC Influence on US Foreign policy
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Jordan Maxwell-The Queen of England Exposed
Orwell Rolls In His Grave
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
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One Nation Under Siege
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Why We Fight
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In Lies We Trust
The U. S. vs. John Lennon
Sir! No Sir!-The Gi Revolt
The War On Democracy
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Gitmo: The New Rules of War
COINTELPRO:The FBI's War on Black America
The Yes Men
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Who Killed The Electric Car
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Dick Cheney:The Unauthorized Biography
How Arnold Won the West
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Gladiator Days
The Energy Non-Crisis Alaskan oil reserves
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Riddles In Stone - Secret Architechture of Washington D. C.
The Iron Triangle - The Carlyle Group Exposed
The Bilderberg Group - Secret Rulers Of The World
Guy Fawkes & The Gunpowder Plot
The History Of Hacking
Walmart-High Cost of Low Prices
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Theft By Deception - Deciphering The Income Tax
Uncounted:Election Fraud Documentary
The Pentagon Flyover - How They Pulled It Off
The Ground Truth: The Human Cost of War
The Oil Factor:Behind the War on Terror
EndGame:Blueprint for Global Enslavement
TerrorStorm
Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State
American Dictators
The Decline & Fall Of America
Prisoners Of Katrina
The 911 Conspiracies- Fact or Fiction
Arundhati Roy "WE"

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American Drug War-The Last White Hope
Aerosol Crimes
A Killer Bargain
Coca-Cola Exposed
Owning the Weather
The Slow Poisoning of India
Beyond Treason-Gulf War Illness
Marijuana:It’s Time for a Conversation
Magic Weed-History Of Marijuana
Marijuana-Threat or Menace
Hemp For Victory (1942)
In Pot We Trust
Reefer Madness
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Global Warming Doomsday Called Off
Green House Conspiracy
The Ghost In Your Genes
Angels Dont Play This HAARP
The Medicated Child
The Fluoride Deception
SANTA'S WORKSHOP-China's Toy Factories
Nutricide-The Codex Alimentarius threat
Dangers of Genetically Modified Food
The Future of Food
The World According to Monsanto
Mad Cow Cover-up:"Mad Cow" wasn't a Downer
Vaccination - The Hidden Truth
Sweet Misery - A Poisoned World
The Drugging of our Children
Chemtrails- Mystery Lines in The Sky
A World Without Cancer-VitaminB17
AIDS CURE: U. S. Patent #5676977
Spin
Jesse Ventura speaks out
Why People Believe Weird Things
The Hour of Our Time
WACO: The Rules of Engagement Part 1
WACO: The Rules of Engagement Part 2
Pirates of Silicon Valley
Stratcom:The Gun That's Still Loaded
Anti-War March in Hollywood,CA 3-15-08
The Clinton Chronicles
Hillary! The Movie
BUMFIGHTS: A VIDEO Gone TOO FAR
"Spying on the Home Front" at pbs. org/frontline
ENRON: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision:Hunter S. Thompson
Life After People - History Channel
Alex Grey - Art Mind
Super Size Me
Sicko
Jesus Camp
Lakota Nation Cecedes Due to New World Order
Holes In Heaven-HAARP&Advances In Tesla Technology
Nikola Tesla:The Genius Who Lit The World
The Race to Zero Point - Free Energy
The Secret
What the Bleep pt 1
What the Bleep pt 2
Magical Egypt - The Invisible Science
Eye on the Reef
Secrets of the Great Barrier Reef

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Mr. Brooks
Waking Life
Crank
Breaking & Entering
Easy Rider
1984
Brave New World
A Clockwork Orange
They Live
The Grapes of Wrath
Network
Soylent Green
Where The Buffalo Roam
Howard The Duck
Robin Hood Men In Tights
The Shining
Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams
Born in East L. A.
Half Baked
How High
Cocaine Cowboys
American Gangster
Scarface
American History X
Animatrix - Final flight of the Osiris
Animatrix - The Second Renaissance
Animatrix - Kids Story
Animatrix - Program
Animatrix - World Record

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Best Of Will Ferrell
Stephen Colbert Roasts Bush
Bill Hicks - Revelations (1993)
Mitch Hedberg - Comedy Central
Zach Galifianakis - Live @ The Purple Onion
Dave Chappelle - Killing Them Softly
Dave Chappelle - For What Its Worth
Dave Chappelle - Inside The Actors Studio
Dane Cook - Harmful if Swallowed
Dane Cook - Vicious Circle
Eddie Murphy - Delirious
Richard Pryor-Is It Something I Said?(1975)
George Carlin - It's Bad for Ya (2008)
George Carlin - Life is Worth Losing
George Carlin - Back in Town
George Carlin - On Location
George Carlin - You Are All Diseased
George Carlin - Jammin' in New York
George Carlin - Complaints and Grievances
George Carlin - Doin' It Again
Steve O - Dont try this at home
Steve O - Volume 3
CKY
CKY2K
CKY3
CKY4
Haggard

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Dj Q-Bert QFO Tour live in Paris
Dj Q-Bert QFO Tour live in Bologna,Italy
Dj Shadow & Cut Chemist - Product Placement
Dj Shadow - In Tune & On Time
Scratch - All The Way Live
Scratch The Movie

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Zeitgeist
Esoteric Agenda
America:Freedom to Fascism
911 Mysteries
Loose Change Final Cut
War Made Easy:Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
The U. N. Deception
Secrets Of The C. I. A.
The Trials Of Henry Kissinger
AIPAC Influence on US Foreign policy
The Road To Guantanamo
Bush Family Fortunes
Jordan Maxwell-The Queen of England Exposed
Orwell Rolls In His Grave
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
Ghosts Of Abu Ghraib
Ruby Ridge Documentary
Conspiracy Of Silence
One Nation Under Siege
The Corporation
The Fog of War
Why We Fight
Occupation 101
Suspect Nation
In Lies We Trust
The U. S. vs. John Lennon
Sir! No Sir!-The Gi Revolt
The War On Democracy
Rent-A-Rasta
Gitmo: The New Rules of War
COINTELPRO:The FBI's War on Black America
The Yes Men
John Pilger-The New Rulers of The World
Who Killed The Electric Car
FIAT EMPIRE
Hacking Democracy
OUTFOXED:Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Dick Cheney:The Unauthorized Biography
How Arnold Won the West
The Weather Underground
Power of Nightmares 1
Power of Nightmares 2
Power of Nightmares 3
The Hour of Our Time
Gladiator Days
The Energy Non-Crisis Alaskan oil reserves
UnConstitutional - The War On Our Civil Liberties
Riddles In Stone - Secret Architechture of Washington D. C.
The Iron Triangle - The Carlyle Group Exposed
The Bilderberg Group - Secret Rulers Of The World
Guy Fawkes & The Gunpowder Plot
The History Of Hacking
Walmart-High Cost of Low Prices
The Money Masters
Theft By Deception - Deciphering The Income Tax
Uncounted:Election Fraud Documentary
The Pentagon Flyover - How They Pulled It Off
The Ground Truth: The Human Cost of War
The Oil Factor:Behind the War on Terror
EndGame:Blueprint for Global Enslavement
TerrorStorm
Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State
American Dictators
The Decline & Fall Of America
Prisoners Of Katrina
The 911 Conspiracies- Fact or Fiction
Arundhati Roy "WE"

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American Drug War-The Last White Hope
Aerosol Crimes
A Killer Bargain
Coca-Cola Exposed
Owning the Weather
The Slow Poisoning of India
Beyond Treason-Gulf War Illness
Marijuana:It’s Time for a Conversation
Magic Weed-History Of Marijuana
Marijuana-Threat or Menace
Hemp For Victory (1942)
In Pot We Trust
Reefer Madness
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Global Warming Doomsday Called Off
Green House Conspiracy
The Ghost In Your Genes
Angels Dont Play This HAARP
The Medicated Child
The Fluoride Deception
SANTA'S WORKSHOP-China's Toy Factories
Nutricide-The Codex Alimentarius threat
Dangers of Genetically Modified Food
The Future of Food
The World According to Monsanto
Mad Cow Cover-up:"Mad Cow" wasn't a Downer
Vaccination - The Hidden Truth
Sweet Misery - A Poisoned World
The Drugging of our Children
Chemtrails- Mystery Lines in The Sky
A World Without Cancer-VitaminB17
AIDS CURE: U. S. Patent #5676977
Spin
Jesse Ventura speaks out
Why People Believe Weird Things
The Hour of Our Time
WACO: The Rules of Engagement Part 1
WACO: The Rules of Engagement Part 2
Pirates of Silicon Valley
Stratcom:The Gun That's Still Loaded
Anti-War March in Hollywood,CA 3-15-08
The Clinton Chronicles
Hillary! The Movie
BUMFIGHTS: A VIDEO Gone TOO FAR
"Spying on the Home Front" at pbs. org/frontline
ENRON: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision:Hunter S. Thompson
Life After People - History Channel
Alex Grey - Art Mind
Super Size Me
Sicko
Jesus Camp
Lakota Nation Cecedes Due to New World Order
Holes In Heaven-HAARP&Advances In Tesla Technology
Nikola Tesla:The Genius Who Lit The World
The Race to Zero Point - Free Energy
The Secret
What the Bleep pt 1
What the Bleep pt 2
Magical Egypt - The Invisible Science
Eye on the Reef
Secrets of the Great Barrier Reef

Photobucket

Mr. Brooks
Waking Life
Crank
Breaking & Entering
Easy Rider
1984
Brave New World
A Clockwork Orange
They Live
The Grapes of Wrath
Network
Soylent Green
Where The Buffalo Roam
Howard The Duck
Robin Hood Men In Tights
The Shining
Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams
Born in East L. A.
Half Baked
How High
Cocaine Cowboys
American Gangster
Scarface
American History X
Animatrix - Final flight of the Osiris
Animatrix - The Second Renaissance
Animatrix - Kids Story
Animatrix - Program
Animatrix - World Record

Photobucket

Best Of Will Ferrell
Stephen Colbert Roasts Bush
Bill Hicks - Revelations (1993)
Mitch Hedberg - Comedy Central
Zach Galifianakis - Live @ The Purple Onion
Dave Chappelle - Killing Them Softly
Dave Chappelle - For What Its Worth
Dave Chappelle - Inside The Actors Studio
Dane Cook - Harmful if Swallowed
Dane Cook - Vicious Circle
Eddie Murphy - Delirious
Richard Pryor-Is It Something I Said?(1975)
George Carlin - It's Bad for Ya (2008)
George Carlin - Life is Worth Losing
George Carlin - Back in Town
George Carlin - On Location
George Carlin - You Are All Diseased
George Carlin - Jammin' in New York
George Carlin - Complaints and Grievances
George Carlin - Doin' It Again
Steve O - Dont try this at home
Steve O - Volume 3
CKY
CKY2K
CKY3
CKY4
Haggard

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Dj Q-Bert QFO Tour live in Paris
Dj Q-Bert QFO Tour live in Bologna,Italy
Dj Shadow & Cut Chemist - Product Placement
Dj Shadow - In Tune & On Time
Scratch - All The Way Live
Scratch The Movie

Bob Marley-Time Will Tell
DEAD PREZ LIVE

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