Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Biological alarm in Washington is no top news?

"You've just got to trust us. We are honorable men." -- Richard Helms, former CIA Director

Washington sensors detect pathogens (and possible germ warfare). Astonishing material - apparently true - why isn't it top news in all the papers?!

DID TERRORISTS ATTACK WASHINGTON WITH A DEADLY PATHOGEN? -

FPF: AND IF SO: WHO ARE THE TERRORISTS?

Biological alarm in Washington

SALON - Oct. 18, 2005 | WASHINGTON - On Sept. 24, 2005, tens of thousands of protesters marched past the White House and flooded the National Mall near 17th Street and Constitution Avenue. They had arrived from all over the country for a day of speeches and concerts to protest the war in Iraq. It may have been the biggest antiwar rally since Vietnam. A light rain fell early in the day and most of the afternoon was cool and overcast.

Unknown to the crowd, biological-weapons sensors, scattered for miles across Washington by the Department of Homeland Security, were quietly doing their work. The machines are designed to detect killer pathogens. Sometime between 10 a.m. on Sept. 24 and 10 a.m. on Sept. 25, six of those machines sucked in trace amounts of deadly bacteria called Francisella tularensis. The government fears it is one of six biological weapons most likely to be used against the United States.

It was an alarming reading. The biological-weapons detection system in Washington had never set off any alarms before. There are more than 150 sensors spread across 30 of the most populated cities in America.

DETECTED A TOXIN

BUT THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT SIX SENSORS IN ANY ONE PLACE HAD DETECTED A TOXIN AT THE SAME TIME.

The sensors are also located miles from one another, suggesting that the pathogen was airborne and probably not limited to a local environmental source.

William Stanhope, associate director for special projects at the St. Louis University School of Public Health's Institute for Biosecurity, has been closely following scattered government and news reports about the incident. He's convinced it was a botched terrorist attack.

"I think we were lucky and the terrorists were not good," he says. "I am stunned that this has not been more of a story."

The DHS scrambled for three days to confirm just what may have been in the air that day. On Sept. 27, it turned for help to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC did its own tests, and on Sept. 30 -- six days after the deadly pathogens set off the sensors and well into the incubation period for Tularemia -- alerted public health officials across the country to be on the lookout for Tularemia, the deadly disease caused by F. tularensis.

OCT. 3 LETTER TO HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY MICHAEL CHERTOFF

"It is alarming that health officials ... were only notified six days after the bacteria was first detected," House Government Reform chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., wrote in an Oct. 3 letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. "Have DHS and CDC analysts been able to determine if the pathogen detected was naturally occurring or the result of a terrorist attack?"

[end quote / pls see the rest of the story and other related links below]

Currently, the investigation into what happened on Sept. 24 is ongoing. Government officials have apparently been taking soil samples around the Mall, attempting to pinpoint a natural source for F. tularensis. In the meantime, on Oct. 5, the National Institutes of Health announced it would award two contracts worth a total of $60 million to develop new Tularemia vaccine candidates. The announcement said nothing of the events 11 days earlier.

NOTE THAT ALL THE VICTIMS OF GERM WARFARE SO FAR HAVE BEEN BUSH ADMINISTRATION ENEMIES.  

WHAT A STRANGE COINCIDENCE!

There's much more of this interesting scaring story at - [Tom's Random] - from 'Salon' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ccp88

BUT, PLS REMEMBER: THERE ARE NO SECRETS OR COMPLOTS, IT'S ONLY INFORMATION WHICH WE DON'T HAVE YET!

* Concerning Man made Aids? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/94ysn - SIPRI - (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) : Book : CB Weapons Today -
Volume II - ISBN - 91-85114-16-2 - Excerpt from page 313 and 314. - http://www.sipri.se/

*SIPRI's US Reference {45} : Department of Defense appropriations for 1970. Part 6. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations.
US House of Representatives, 91st Congress, 1st Session. Washington, 1969 ; 104-44.

*FORT DETRICK's own information about some experiments - Url.: http://www.detrick.army.mil/detrick/cutting_edge/chapter9.cfm

US admits it tested nerve gas on its own sailors - Url.: http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,721936,00.html

Google: ''United States experiments on human beings'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8wk5w

GOVERNMENT GUINEA PIGS - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8v8yh

Project Paperclip: Nazi Scientists Who Performed Human Experimentation in the U. S. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7ff7l

Revealed: the new Frankensteins' little shop of horrors - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8k2el

Resources on Nonconsensual Human Experimentation - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8mj6a

FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/66dmo
The Netherlands
FPF@Chello.nl

MAIN$TREAM MEDIA MAKE MORONS!

* *The Dutch author this far has worked abroad for international media for more than 4 decades, as a fully independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism.

* The Nuremberg principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/byurp

* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.:http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v

* The leaked 'Downing Street Memos' expose the criminal lies by war criminals like Bush, Blair, Berlusconi(It.) Balkenende(NL) - their collaborating media and other malignant ilk - Url.:http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/

* MSNBC - Poll: Ninety-four (94) percent believes that George Bush and the neocon media mislead the nation to go to war with Iraq - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8248969/

* ''The Lancet'' and the ''Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health'' report: ''Over 100.000 killed in the illegal Iraq war''-Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5gys7

* Bush interview. ABC: No WMD's but many killed: "It was worth it" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6bal9

* Former Secr. of State Madeleine Albright in her comment on half a million dead children in Iraq: "We think it's worth it" On CBS 60' Minutes - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2vmc8

* The must-see three-part BBC Documentary, "The Power of Nightmares," puts it bluntly: "Al-Qaeda is a (neocon) myth." - See Url.: http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1327904,00.html

* In Indonesia they steal millions, making and 'fighting' their own terror - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cq36f

* Wayne Madsen: ''What has Israel to do with 9/11?'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bj754 - 'American neocons' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b5vsb - The US Federal Reserve and the private banks owning it - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/d3ntq

* Are their Corporate News Media Incompetent, Criminally Negligent or Complicit? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cqpfe

* Brainwashed? - Take the free 'Gullibility Factor' test to find out if you're really a mind slave, or not - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cbgnc

* Colin Powell: 'It is not anti-Semitic to criticize the policies of the state of Israel' - Url.:http://tinyurl.com/22p6c

* Neoconservatism as a Jewish Movement - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5k7vx

* American car magnate Henry Ford investigated 85 years ago the global problem - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2xz35

* OUR FUTURE: APOCALYPSE NOW AND THE BRAVE NEW WORLD - THE MOST CHILLING STORY ON WHY ALL THIS HAPPENS AND WHO DOES IT - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ax5zt

* Help all the troops of whatever nationality to come back from abroad! We need them badly at home in many countries - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE PAID FOR BY TAXES - to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

* The World Can't Wait! - Drive out the neocons and their 'Bush Regime' - Mobilize for November 2, 2005! - Url.: http://www.worldcantwait.org/

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Is Your Printer Spying On You?

The FPF's 'computer wizzard' (JK) is always on the look-out for items like these: ''Imagine that every time you printed a document, it automatically included a secret code that could be used to identify the printer - and potentially, the person who used it. Sounds like something from an episode of "Alias," right?''

HR: And, of course anybody can blame you for 'being paranoic': characterized by a continuing and healthy suspiciousness, a good dose of mistrust of people, [especially those 'running' the world] and sometimes live-saving sensitivity:

BUT, AS SHOWN HERE AGAIN: THAT DOES NOT MEAN THEY ARE NOT AFTER YOU...


Is Your Printer Spying On You?

Learn to decode 'Xerox DocuColor' tracking dots using our guide - or use our decoding program to decode them.

Unfortunately, the scenario isn't fictional. In a purported effort to identify counterfeiters, the US government has succeeded in persuading some color laser printer manufacturers to encode each page with identifying information. That means that without your knowledge or consent, an act you assume is private could become public. A communication tool you're using in everyday life could become a tool for government surveillance. And what's worse, there are no laws to prevent abuse.

The ACLU recently issued a report revealing that the FBI has amassed more than 1,100 pages of documents on the organization since 2001, as well as documents concerning other non-violent groups, including Greenpeace and United for Peace and Justice. In the current political climate, it's not hard to imagine the government using the ability to determine who may have printed what document for purposes other than identifying counterfeiters.

NO LAWS TO STOP THE SECRET SERVICE?

Yet there are no laws to stop the Secret Service from using printer codes to secretly trace the origin of non-currency documents; only the privacy policy of your printer manufacturer currently protects you (if indeed such a policy exists). And no law regulates what sort of documents the Secret Service or any other domestic or foreign government agency is permitted to request for identification, not to mention how such a forensics tool could be developed and implemented in printers in the first place.

With no laws on the books, there's nothing to stop the privacy violations this technology enables. For this reason, EFF is gathering information about what printers are revealing and how - a necessary precursor to any legal challenge or new legislation to protect your privacy. And we could use your help.

In the preliminary research paper linked below, we explain what we've observed so far, briefly explore the privacy implications, and ask you to print and send us test sheets from your color laser printer and/or a color laser printer at your local print shop.

WATCH THE WATCHERS!

That way, we can watch the watchers and ensure that your privacy isn't compromised in ways that harm your fundamental consitutional rights.

In addition to documenting what printers are revealing, EFF has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, and we will keep you updated on what we discover. In the meantime, we urge you to participate and pass the word along about this research project.

Thank you for your support!

More information & 'working links' at Url.: http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/

* List of printers that do or do not print tracking dots - Url.: http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/list.php
* White paper: "Investigating Machine Identification Code Technology in Color Laser Printers"
* Directions for printing test sheets
* FOIA request
* DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide
* Andrew "bunnie" Huang's research on printer watermarking, including a modified scanner that scans only in blue

Articles: Government Uses Color Laser Printer Technology to Track Documents PCWorld, 2005
Dutch Track Counterfeits Via Printer Serial Numbers. PCWorld, 2004
FBI Is Keeping Documents on ACLU and Other Peaceful Groups ACLU, 2005

Mailing list - People who are interested in participating in our research are encouraged to join the printers list to discuss our progress with other volunteers.

Recursos e información de EFF en Español - Url.: http://www.eff.org/spanish/

Fwd. by:

FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/66dmo
The Netherlands
FPF@Chello.nl

MAIN$TREAM MEDIA MAKE MORONS!

* Are their Corporate News Media Incompetent, Criminally Negligent or Complicit? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cqpfe

* Brainwashed? - Take the free 'Gullibility Factor' test to find out if you're really a mind slave, or not - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cbgnc

* Help all the troops of whatever nationality to come back from abroad! We need them badly at home in many countries - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE PAID FOR BY TAXES - to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

* The World Can't Wait! - Drive out the neocons and their 'Bush Regime' - Mobilize for November 2, 2005! - Url.: http://www.worldcantwait.org/

FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.: http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html

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Is Your Printer Spying On You?

The FPF's 'computer wizzard' (JK) is always on the look-out for items like these: ''Imagine that every time you printed a document, it automatically included a secret code that could be used to identify the printer - and potentially, the person who used it. Sounds like something from an episode of "Alias," right?''

HR: And, of course anybody can blame you for 'being paranoic': characterized by a continuing and healthy suspiciousness, a good dose of mistrust of people, [especially those 'running' the world] and sometimes live-saving sensitivity:

BUT, AS SHOWN HERE AGAIN: THAT DOES NOT MEAN THEY ARE NOT AFTER YOU...


Is Your Printer Spying On You?

Learn to decode 'Xerox DocuColor' tracking dots using our guide - or use our decoding program to decode them.

Unfortunately, the scenario isn't fictional. In a purported effort to identify counterfeiters, the US government has succeeded in persuading some color laser printer manufacturers to encode each page with identifying information. That means that without your knowledge or consent, an act you assume is private could become public. A communication tool you're using in everyday life could become a tool for government surveillance. And what's worse, there are no laws to prevent abuse.

The ACLU recently issued a report revealing that the FBI has amassed more than 1,100 pages of documents on the organization since 2001, as well as documents concerning other non-violent groups, including Greenpeace and United for Peace and Justice. In the current political climate, it's not hard to imagine the government using the ability to determine who may have printed what document for purposes other than identifying counterfeiters.

NO LAWS TO STOP THE SECRET SERVICE?

Yet there are no laws to stop the Secret Service from using printer codes to secretly trace the origin of non-currency documents; only the privacy policy of your printer manufacturer currently protects you (if indeed such a policy exists). And no law regulates what sort of documents the Secret Service or any other domestic or foreign government agency is permitted to request for identification, not to mention how such a forensics tool could be developed and implemented in printers in the first place.

With no laws on the books, there's nothing to stop the privacy violations this technology enables. For this reason, EFF is gathering information about what printers are revealing and how - a necessary precursor to any legal challenge or new legislation to protect your privacy. And we could use your help.

In the preliminary research paper linked below, we explain what we've observed so far, briefly explore the privacy implications, and ask you to print and send us test sheets from your color laser printer and/or a color laser printer at your local print shop.

WATCH THE WATCHERS!

That way, we can watch the watchers and ensure that your privacy isn't compromised in ways that harm your fundamental consitutional rights.

In addition to documenting what printers are revealing, EFF has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, and we will keep you updated on what we discover. In the meantime, we urge you to participate and pass the word along about this research project.

Thank you for your support!

More information & 'working links' at Url.: http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/

* List of printers that do or do not print tracking dots - Url.: http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/list.php
* White paper: "Investigating Machine Identification Code Technology in Color Laser Printers"
* Directions for printing test sheets
* FOIA request
* DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide
* Andrew "bunnie" Huang's research on printer watermarking, including a modified scanner that scans only in blue

Articles: Government Uses Color Laser Printer Technology to Track Documents PCWorld, 2005
Dutch Track Counterfeits Via Printer Serial Numbers. PCWorld, 2004
FBI Is Keeping Documents on ACLU and Other Peaceful Groups ACLU, 2005

Mailing list - People who are interested in participating in our research are encouraged to join the printers list to discuss our progress with other volunteers.

Recursos e información de EFF en Español - Url.: http://www.eff.org/spanish/

Fwd. by:

FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/66dmo
The Netherlands
FPF@Chello.nl

MAIN$TREAM MEDIA MAKE MORONS!

* Are their Corporate News Media Incompetent, Criminally Negligent or Complicit? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cqpfe

* Brainwashed? - Take the free 'Gullibility Factor' test to find out if you're really a mind slave, or not - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cbgnc

* Help all the troops of whatever nationality to come back from abroad! We need them badly at home in many countries - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE PAID FOR BY TAXES - to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

* The World Can't Wait! - Drive out the neocons and their 'Bush Regime' - Mobilize for November 2, 2005! - Url.: http://www.worldcantwait.org/

FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.: http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html

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