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Pictures from UK 9/11 Truth Weekend

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

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Secret Power of Water: John Blacker MSc IMI

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

25th. Sept. at Sands Arts Centre 7.30 p.m.

Talk and practical demo by John Blacker MSc IMI (Physical Systems)
re water power for your car and home.

Plus Dr. Masaru Emoto DVD and film illustrating work of Stanley Meyer and his fuel cell invention. His work was suppressed and he paid the ultimate price, but his family wish his efforts to be made public.

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Tell the Dems to keep AT&T on the hook for NSA wiretapping

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Having caved to the President’s outrageous demands for more spying powers in August, Congress is now considering extending this power grab and letting telco giants like AT&T off the hook for their role in the NSA’s illegal, warrantless surveillance of ordinary Americans. Legislation could be considered within the next 6 weeks! To help ensure that congressional leaders hear from the public, EFF has launched a new site, stopthespying.org.The site makes it easy to pick up the phone and make your voice heard, by contacting Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and your own representatives. Demand that they agree to the following pledge:

Stop warrantless surveillance of ordinary Americans. Congress must stop the NSA’s domestic spying, repeal the “Protect America Act,” and ensure that whenever a U.S. person is the intended or unintended subject of surveillance, the government must first get a warrant.

Don’t legislate in the dark. Congress should oppose any expansion of spying authority until a full, thorough, and public investigation is complete.

Don’t let the phone companies off the hook. Congress must allow the courts to rule on the president’s program by rejecting efforts to give private entities immunity for illegally assisting the government’s spying.

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/11/stopthespying-tell-t.html

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Guantanamo Brit To Sue Security Services

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

A man who was held in Guantanamo Bay is to launch legal action for damages against MI5 and MI6.

Detainee in Cuba prison

Tarek Dergoul, 29, claims the agencies knew he was being tortured while in US custody, it has been claimed.

Mr Dergoul also accuses British agents of benefiting from intelligence gathered from his alleged mistreatment and wants the court to ban them from using similar tactics in the future.

If the High Court rules in his favour, it could prevent both the security and special intelligence services from interrogating British nationals who are being held and tortured abroad.

Mr Dergoul, who is a British citizen, claims British agents repeatedly questioned him when he was held both at the Cuba camp and in Afghanistan and were therefore complicit in his treatment.

The Guardian says he will be represented in the case by Rabinder Singh QC.

A spokesman for the Foreign Office said: “The Government is aware of Mr Dergoul’s accusations.”

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1283683,00.html?f=rss

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National ID card plan faces flaw

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

By Clive Cookson

A “fundamental flaw” in the government’s proposed ID cards and photo surveillance systems is the difficulty both people and computers have in recognising faces from photographs, the BA Festival of Science in York heard yesterday.

“This routine task, performed hundreds of times every day by passport officers, security guards and police officers turns out to be highly error-prone,” said Rob Jenkins, a psychologist studying the problem at Glasgow University.

Dr Jenkins and colleagues have come up with a technical solution - combining a dozen images of one individual to produce an “average” face that is far easier to recognise than any single photo - that could help the authorities in specific cases. But implementing this on a mass scale would be extremely expensive and controversial.

The researchers worked on the principle that it is much easier to recognise familiar than unfamiliar faces in a photograph. “To model increased exposure, we collected several different images of each person and averaged them to make a single image for each face,” said Dr Jenkins.

Averaging photographs is relatively straightforward with up-to-date image-processing software. Only a dozen photos were required to stabilise the image, with any extra images after that making little difference. Dr Jenkins said: “The resulting images are quite uncanny, seeming to bring out the true essence of each face.” The Glasgow team then checked averaged faces against the individual faces from which they were made. Both humans and machines were far better at recognising the average picture.

“This is because the averaging process washes out aspects of the image that are unhelpful, such as lighting effects, while consolidating aspects of the image that are diagnostic of identity, such as the physical structure of the face,” said Dr Jenkins.

“This boost in face recognition accuracy has major implications for crime prevention and national security policies. It also demonstrates that with face recognition, as with so many other problems, we can improve machine performance by mimicking nature’s solution.”

With the national identity card scheme expected to start in 2009, the breakthrough in better-than-photo recognition accuracy raises the question of whether face databases and ID documents should contain identityaverages, rather than standard photographs. In practice, this would be difficult to achieve, Dr Jenkins conceded. “Is there a willingness among the population to do this? I doubt it,” he said. “Imagine having to submit a dozen pictures from your photo album with your passport application.”

As far as passports and ID cards are concerned, the authorities will just have to live with their limitations - and not rely too much on photos to identify people.

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CCTV surveillance market to grow 12.4%

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

The global CCTV market is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 12.4% for the period spanning from 2005 to 2008. However, the global demand for conventional CCTV systems is showing downward trend with the escalating demand for IP-based CCTV surveillance.

At country level, Japan remains the largest player in CCTV market and it is among the largest markets for biometric application in ATM.

The RFID industry is expected to represent a CAGR of over 19% for the period from 2007 to 2016. The driving factors include various initiatives that worldwide countries are assuming in order to get benefits from RFID technology.

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What if the government was behind 9/11?

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

We must be on lookout for domestic US terrorists - What if the Government did 911 or helped the terrorists on 911?

By J A Blacker
RINF Alternative News

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance,” Thomas Jefferson once said.

The New York Police Department has now shown that, to protect against the rising threat of home-grown terrorism, Americans must exert a far more robust brand of vigilance than has been done to date. That should include all vigilance, surely?

What if the government did 911? That would explain why the air force scrambled no jets, why the rubble was removed from ground zero without due process and why the towers fell at freefall speed (explosives). In fact if the government did 911 it is consistent with most of the available evidence.

We should bolster our efforts to find the terrorist plots that are simmering in homegrown cells within those government departments.

That means that, as Americans, we should eschew the reflexive criticism to which we often subject our society and understand that, in the battle for hearts and minds, we can be our nation’s best ambassadors.

Most of all, what we learn is that, as Americans, we all have a role to play in protecting ourselves from homegrown terrorism. We cannot subcontract the task to law enforcement, as they may be corrupt.

We must open our eyes and ears a bit wider, and we must become a bit more willing to pass along what we see and hear. It’s our job to speak up when we see any evidence the government was involved in 911 such as for example Marvin Bush was in charge of security at both the WTC and the airport prior to 911.

Why did the CIA chief have millions in AA PUT options, and who did fund the terrorists – why has the government failed to tell us even these simple fact?

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Protesters take on NATO generals

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

High-level meetings inside Hotel Grand Pacific attract 200 for noon rally

Louise Dickson, with files from Richard Watts

Despite police fences surrounding the Hotel Grand Pacific, 200 noisy protesters managed to deliver a document to NATO officials yesterday accusing its generals of war crimes, crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity.

The notice of summons “charged” North Atlantic Treaty Organization military committee members meeting inside the hotel with 36 counts of International Criminal Court crimes.

Lt.-Col. Tony White, a NATO public information officer, said he had received and read the summons and will pass it to NATO’s legal team in Brussels when he returns in a few days.

“It will not be ignored,” said White. “I read it was alleging war crimes in Yugoslavia. It would take a legal expert to give an opinion on it.”

Protesters had earlier warned they would fight back if police tried to remove them from outside the hotel, but in the end, only one man was picked up by police — a protester riding his bike naked, towing two Scottish terriers in a yellow trailer.

Inside, where the high-level meetings were being held, chiefs of defence from NATO’s 26 member nations had “frank and open” discussions on the role of the military alliance and its upcoming missions, said Gen. Ray Henault.

“The demand is there. I can assure you NATO has a lot of work to do,” the Canadian general and chairman of NATO’s Military Committee said at a press briefing yesterday afternoon.

Henault said the discussions largely focused on the future, although the topic of the mission in Afghanistan inevitably arose. “This is a very new NATO,” he said. “It used to be a static NATO and one that was designed really to counter the Soviet threat that is no longer there.

“We are now in a NATO that knows it must have an expeditionary capability, and that expeditionary capability is very much embedded in the Afghanistan mission.”

Meanwhile, a coalition of local peace groups chanted “NATO killers” as they marched from the legislature to the Hotel Grand Pacific. Although a few military men looked on from their waterfront balconies, no one came down to address the crowd.

Jodi Wood joined the rally to protest Canada’s involvement in NATO. “We’re a democratic nation and I think we should have a right as a civilian society to make the decision to pull Canada out of what is basically world terrorism,” said Wood.

Marla Renn, an education student at Simon Fraser University, came to protest “atrocities” she said NATO is committing in Afghanistan. “There’s an untold amount of civilian deaths and brutality for women over there. We’re making things harder and worse over there.”

Camosun student Shawn Haley questioned NATO’s role in providing security. “Security against what?” asked Haley. “They are the most powerful entity in the world and they’re using illegal weapons and killing people.”

Many, like Haley, accused NATO of using prohibited weapons such as cluster bombs, white phosphorous and depleted uranium to kill and maim civilians. Raging Granny Fran Thoburn found pictures on the Internet of babies deformed by depleted uranium and had them laminated on posters.

“It’s the hardest things I’ve ever done for the peace movement,” said Thoburn. “We need to get our heads out of the sand and realize we are killing and maiming total populations, including our own.”

Members of the military committee were surprised by the protest’s focus on illegal weapons, said White. After consulting with senior officers, White told the press NATO does not use cluster munitions or depleted uranium in Afghanistan.

“Depleted uranium was an issue in Kosovo and Bosnia several years ago. Some nations were using it, but there was no proof it harmed people,” said White, adding Canadian Forces are unlikely to have used depleted uranium because they don’t have the airplanes to disperse it.

White argued that NATO is still relevant at 60, noting the United Nations, as representative of the international community, “is the one asking us to go to Afghanistan and Darfur.”

“We’re not imposing ourselves on other countries.”

In the past five years, demands on NATO have been increasing, said White, who says the international community sees NATO as a highly successful, responsible and professional force.

“You have to go to Afghanistan to see the progress. The GDP [gross domestic product] is up 14 per cent. Young girls are in school. Afghanistan is much better off than it was two years ago. If they listen to our soldiers, they’ll know we’re doing a lot more good than bad.”

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