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Showing posts with label airports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label airports. Show all posts

Saturday, July 18, 2015

Blood Trackers: Shadowing Your Sacred Self

Originally posted on Activist Post, this new terror from Homeland Security should concern everyone.

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/02/blood-trackers-shadowing-your-sacred.html


Wake up and fight back!

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Airport Security To Begin Hand Swabbing





By Samantha Wilson, Washington Square News





Students flying home for spring break this year may face a different experience at airport security. In light of recent security disturbances, such as the attempted Christmas Day bombing, the Transportation Security Administration has once again increased security procedures at airports nationwide in hopes that such occurrences will not happen again.

In addition to the introduction of full body scanning, a relatively new security measure, TSA will implement hand swabbing, a technique that will determine if a passenger has leftover residue on their hands from explosives. Explosive Trace Detection will be conducted randomly, so not all passengers waiting in airport security will be tested.

Ann Davis, TSA's public affairs representative, said the new measure is nothing to be worried about. In fact, it is nothing new.

"[Hand-swabbing] is a form of technology that has always been done at checkpoints," Davis said. "It has been used for years to test the handles of luggage for traces of explosive residue. Now in airports it will be used to do the same for passengers."

In this process, individuals will be selected by officers in security checkpoint lines to complete the test. Their hands will be swabbed by the officer, and the samples run through a machine. In a matter of seconds, the presence of explosive residue will be detected.

TSA thinks ETD will not have a drastic effect on the already lengthy security process at most airports, if any. Because of the random nature of the selection, only a few individuals will be delayed.

Airports in the New York City area are ready to comply with TSA standards to ensure the safety of their customers, despite the potential buildup of passenger traffic it may cause.

"We'll have to see when it happens," an official from LaGuardia Airport said. "I think TSA will know better than [airports] will, but it's there to help."

There are still kinks to be worked out in the system, as several substances, including some heart medications and fertilizers, can cause false positives on the explosive detection machine.

"Of course false positives may occur, but they will be treated accordingly," Davis said. "Once someone tests positive for explosive residue, they will be taken away for further screening and we'll know then."

While the possibility of false positives and additional screening is inconvenient, it's viewed as necessary to help the security process.

College of Nursing sophomore Katelyn Hylbom is an avid traveler who does not see any problem with adjusting to further TSA security standards.

"People always complain about airport security, but it's there for our own safety," Hylbom said. "I wish there wasn't a need for it, but there is, and it's not that hard to deal with. It's 10 minutes of your life. I'd rather be inconvenienced than dead."

Hand swabbing at TSA checkpoints will start on a staggered schedule throughout the country. It is expected to be in place within the next few weeks at all airports.

Samantha Wilson is a staff writer.
http://nyunews.com/news/2010/02/23/24tsa/

How much more will we let them chip away at us before there's nothing left?

Blood Trackers: Shadowing Your Sacred Self

By Jean Bush

In an article written by Nicholas West, DNA Genetic “Patdown” Introduced To Airports By DHS, on Activist Post (www.activistpost.com), reveals the disturbing news that the Department of Homeland Security is rolling out a portable DNA scanning machine to be used at airports.

Netbio, Rapid DNA Analysis Solutions, says on its homepage:

The Leading Provider of Rapid DNA Analysis (RDA) Solutions
– Human Forensic Identification, Biothreat Detection, Clinical Diagnostics –

Network Biosystems, Inc. (NetBio) is the leading provider of the full set of technologies and products for the emerging field of Rapid DNA Analysis (RDA). RDA enables the identification (by fragment sizing or nucleic acid sequencing) of the most informative subset of a given human or pathogen genome, allowing end users to make decisions in real time. Major applications include criminal forensics, military human identification, biothreat detection, and clinical diagnostics. NetBio believes that widespread use of RDA, particularly in the field and at the point of care, will improve both the safety, and health of society.

The ability to rapidly identify individuals by DNA fingerprinting and to rapidly identify pathogens by DNA sequence have become urgent national needs, and NetBio's game changing technology is addressing these needs. NetBio is dedicated to serve the military, forensic, homeland security, and intelligence communities of the United States and its allies. NetBio also teams with several established defense contractors to accelerate the broad application of RDA solutions. NetBio's vision is to make RDA available anywhere, to anyone, at any time, to benefit society.
(www.netbio.com)

The key words here are: homeland security and benefit to society. It is to our detriment, not benefit. It is only benefiting those who are controlling us.

The following is taken from the Dept. of Homeland Security’s website under Counterterrorism:

US-VISIT Biometric Identification Services

US-VISIT's use of biometrics is helping to make travel simple, easy and convenient for legitimate visitors, but virtually impossible for those who wish to do harm or violate U.S. laws.

• How Biometrics Assure Identity
• Benefits of Biometrics
How Biometrics Assure Identity
Biometrics collected by US-VISIT and linked to specific biographic information enable a person's identity to be established, then verified, by the U.S. government. With each encounter, from applying for a visa to seeking immigration benefits to entering the United States, US-VISIT:
• Checks a person’s biometrics against a watch list of known or suspected terrorists, criminals and immigration violators
• Checks against the entire database of all of the fingerprints the Department of Homeland Security has collected since US-VISIT began to determine if a person is using an alias and attempting to use fraudulent identification.
• Checks a person’s biometrics against those associated with the identification document presented to ensure that the document belongs to the person presenting it and not someone else.

US-VISIT provides the results of these checks to decision makers when and where they need it.

These services help prevent identity fraud and deprive criminals and immigration violators of the ability to cross our borders. Based on biometrics alone, US-VISIT has helped stop thousands of people who were ineligible to enter the United States.
Benefits of Biometrics
Biometrics are unique physical characteristics, such as fingerprints, that can be used for automated recognition. Biometrics form the foundation of US-VISIT's identification services because they are reliable, convenient and virtually impossible to forge.
Many agencies utilize US-VISIT services to accurately identify people and determine whether they pose a risk to the United States. Learn more about how U.S. government agencies are using US-VISIT services.
(www.dhs.gov)


With this new technology, a drop of blood, a smear of saliva or even a kiss, can provide instant information to track your every breath. Our government’s endless intrusion has now reached into the very heart of our creation: our DNA, the very essence of ourselves. Unless we rise up now to stop this, we and future generations will be forever bio-mapped, bio-tracked and bio-trapped, all in the name of “bio-terrorism.”

We have met the enemy and he is us.

PS:Gentlemen,

I wish to write an article on your amazing new bio technology. Rumor has it that it is to be used, first, at ournational airports. However, I have yet to be able to confirm this. May I please have some information on the DNA scanner and its potential uses? Any pictures or brochures would be appreciated. I will also be checking with the Dept. of Homeland Security on this matter.

Thank you so much for your time. I look forward to presenting the facts instead of rumors to my public.

Warmest,

Jean

"Thank you for your inquiry. The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is doing preliminary testing with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) who already use DNA testing in some cases to establish familial relationships in refugee processing. There are no plans to use the technology in airports."

Well, we'll just see now, won't we?

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Mission Accomplished

By Nila Sagadevan December 15, 2007

Having researched the 9/11 cover-up full-time for some six years and been a vigorous activist, I had finally decided to withdraw in utter frustration at my seeming inability to open as many eyes as I would have liked.

Well, following a rather long hiatus I find myself back in the saddle. I’ve come to realize that efforts to help uncover the truth behind 9/11 transcend personal considerations, even those of personal safety. Given the worsening state of our war-torn world, I truly believe it’s a vitally important, selfless, pursuit that embodies the highest form of public service.

It’s impossible to function “normally” in the ‘matrix’ once you’ve swallowed the red pill. There’s simply no going back to the world of illusions when Truth stares you in the face at every turn. I’m cursed with a constitution that will not allow me to trot along pretending all’s well when I know beyond a doubt we’ve been fooled en masse by a cadre of criminals in our midst.

I recently returned from a month-long tour of a few European cities. Having been holed up in my studio for months on end, this little diversion afforded a much welcome opportunity to experience the world “out there” first-hand, through the refreshing clarity of unfiltered lenses -- I.e., untainted by the diet of ceaseless spin fed us by our “in-bedded” media.

Most importantly, it gave me occasion to speak with a broad swath of people in a variety of interesting settings, including a UN conference in Prague. In my deeper conversations with a number of people during the course of my travels, I couldn’t help but notice a veiled yet persistent emotion that kept bubbling steadily to the surface.

Fear.

Well, perhaps not ‘fear’ in its strictest sense, but a certain subtle tension, a perceptible undertow of nervousness, a mildly twitchy sort of anxiety. It was more noticeable in hives of activity—bustling arcades, choked airport terminals, busy subway stations. In some strange, grotesque way it seems to have become part of our modern mise en scène.

Think I’m joking? Try finding a trash can anywhere inside the Oxford train station, in England. There isn’t one. Not one. In order to dispose of that paper cup, you’d need to actually step outside the building, walk across the passenger unloading terrace, and then trek to the far end of the taxi-stand to find the nearest bin. I asked the budding barista who served me my espresso why this was so. Why? They’re bomb hazards, silly. “Terrorists could plant bombs in them!”.

I’m dead serious.

Stewing in airport queues, watching endless, zigzagging lines of weary travelers, hordes of them—like sheep, timidly awaiting their turn, shoes in hand, their little liquid sundries stuffed into clear plastic bags—being funneled through batteries of metal detectors (those ubiquitous cultural icons of our times), past the menacing eyes of tough-guy security-types, gleefully flexing newfound authority, bullying the meek, terrorizing the terrified...

Yes, it’s clear to any dispassionate observer that the “The War On Terror” has indeed achieved its real ends.

Have no doubt: Fear has been drummed hard and hammered deep into the Sheeple. Precisely as planned, millions of ordinary human beings have been artfully molded into a submissive, tractable pulp, ready to believe virtually anything they’re told, eager to concede just about any freedom they cherish, willing to relinquish almost every right they hold precious — all so they can be “protected” from those turbaned, self-detonating camelback bogeymen lurking behind every bush.

This sweeping new disease, this plague of the new century, was clearly evident at the security-check area of a terminal at Heathrow, a cavernous warehouse-like “holding tank” of transient humanity. There I was, immersed in this thick throng of reasonably intelligent human beings, observing, as we all inched along, like lava, in one fascinatingly eclectic mass. As this seemingly endless journey to reach some distant, glass-caged omnipotent gatekeeper wore on, my fascination quietly turned to sympathy.

Here was a mass of decent, ordinary people, yet they appeared vacant, distant-eyed, lost in their own worlds, pitifully docile as they unthinkingly responded to every order blared at them, seemingly stripped of all self-esteem, bereft of all ability to protest, and utterly brainwashed into believing one thing above all else:

“Al Quaeda’s gonna getcha!”

As you repeatedly stare into the same faces at every serpentine turn of the crawling, roped-in queues, you occasionally see eyes beginning to flit about, stabbing fellow passengers with suspicious stares, wondering...could he be one of ‘em? [Given my obvious ethnicity, I suspect I was spared closer scrutiny as being a potential shoe-bomber solely by virtue of my graying avuncularity; heaven help the younger lot.]

It was almost suffocating, a scene lifted straight out of V For Vendetta. My emotions swung wildly between pathos and rage, resignation and revolt. I finally had to take stock and restrain myself from wanting to scream at this pathetic parade of automatons, “Wake up, you fools! Cant’ you see? The enemy isn’t ‘out there’ -- it’s inside the gates!"

Then I settled down and began to slowly ponder this bizarre psychodrama playing out around me.

You’ve got to hand it to the bastards behind all of this, I thought... the heartless, loathsome Novus Ordo Seclorum (New World Order), the Illuminati, or whatever other label you wish to stick on this globe-enveloping fascist octopus. Let’s face it: It takes some doing to make a grown man suffer the crushing indignity of standing obligingly, in full public view, spread-legged, in his bare socks, arms outstretched, clutching his shoes in one hand, liquid toiletries in the other, looking like a perfect bloody idiot, while some goon’s wagging a wand about his groin scanning for ordnance.

What do you call such a pitifully ludicrous caricature of the human condition?

You call it “Mission Accomplished.”

If they could pull-off something this outlandish, I thought, nothing’s impossible going forward. Then again, I mentally countered, if we can willingly sink to this level of abject degradation, perhaps we deserve it.

So, what’s the source of this collective insanity, I wondered, that causes adults to behave like sheep about to be sheared? What feeds this eerie mass dysfunction, this almost surreal spectacle of fear-riddled frigidity? What terrifying trauma could possibly have spawned this zombie-like conformance to these kinds of draconian decrees? What paralyzing source of fear lay at the root of this pathetic, voiceless submission to Big Brother authority?

Why, 9/11, of course.

Just think... Without 9/11 the masses would surely be living lives of at least a semblance of normalcy...traveling about freely sans fear; enjoying their families sans the ever-looming threat of ‘Muslim’ bombs; heartily savoring life, instead of shuddering fearfully under this creeping false shadow of imminent extinction.

Yes, 9/11 changed everything.

We’re told by our overlords that on September 11, 2001, in one vicious, bludgeoning blow, Arab “evildoers” launched a war on Western civilization.

Why? Because they hate our “freedoms and lifestyles.”

And with that one savage swipe, these mythical ‘evildoers’ managed to shatter the equilibrium of this planet and polarize huge chunks of its inhabitants forever.

Of course, this demanded an immediate response from the ‘civilized’ world. And its furious battle cry was swift in coming:

“If you’re not with us, you’re against us!”

With that insane pronouncement from a moronic new messiah—himself a puppet unto unseen puppeteers—the terrified masses, brains wrapped in the myth of “patriotism”, began to yield en masse with naïve, almost childish obedience to the fiendish machinations of their shadowy masters.

[NB: Standby for the next great proclamation from the oracle, coming soon via a media outlet near you: “If you’re not with us, you’re an anti-Semite!”.]

Country after country, airport upon airport, I watched in angry silence the chilling efficacy of this fraudulent fear machine in full swing. There’s no doubt it’s working exactly as planned. And to think it’s all based on one monumental fraud:.

9/11.

Upon my return I felt that as a citizen of this planet I can no longer turn a deaf ear nor cast a blind eye to this criminal web of deceit. What self-respecting person can?

I admit my “retirement” from the 9/11 truth movement last year was fueled as much by a sense of frustration as it was by anger — frustration at not being able to open the eyes of everyone with whom I spoke; anger at the smug rebuttals of educated fools who ignore the rudiments of physics. (I’ll concede that intelligent people who’ve foolishly argued the laws of gravity or thermodynamics in their jousts with me have elicited swift and ungracious reprisals; bull-headed intransigence, alas, finds short refuge in my patience.)

But I’ve since come to realize this is neither wise nor healthy. I’ve slowly accepted the reality there will always be people who’ll never see the light, no matter how intelligent they are or how convincing the evidence placed before them.

They are a minority that I believe should be roundly ignored.

I wish to waste no time, resource nor effort trying to convince terminally mind-blocked individuals and career debunkers. I’ve done so in the past, but have now drawn the line. I consider it a perfect waste of time. Going forward, my focus shall be on the majority, the millions of people out there who are still amenable to reason, logic, and simple common sense. They are the ones who’ll eventually help turn the tide.

The emotion that pervades me now is one born of profound sadness, one that stirs deep compassion for those unable to see beyond their television screens... the millions ensnared by this macabre modern iteration of Caesar’s cunning recipe for control: “Give the people bread, blood, and games...”

As we can see, Big Brother’s mastered the recipe. What’s more, he has at his disposal tools of mass manipulation beyond Caesar’s most delirious dreams.I feel infused with a desire to contribute, in whatever little way I can, something meaningful that would help create the kind of positive change for which this planet begs.I feel that while I still possess a functioning, clear-thinking brain I have a duty—nay, a responsibility—to put it to use if only by helping open a few eyes, unclog a few ears, fire a few synapses.

I’d surely be shirking my responsibility as a citizen of this planet if I did any less.