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Future Airport Scanners Will See Through Bodies
Total Recall: Schwarzenegger film from fantasy to reality
NoWorldSystem
January 7, 2010
In the future, BackScatter and Millimeter-Wave full-body scanners will be obsolete, they will eventually be replaced by radiography scanners that can provide a crisp image of a person’s insides.
There are 3 types of full-body scanners; the millimeter-wave (terahertz non-ionizing radiation), BackScatter (low-level ionizing x-ray) and transmission x-ray (digital radiographic) scanners.
The millimeter-wave scanners are perfect for detecting metal objects but are rather useless when it comes to detecting soft plastics, liquids and chemicals according to Tory MP Ben Wallace who worked on the machines. BackScatter scanners can detect both hard and soft materials but is just as limited in its scope as it can only see through clothing and not under folds of skin. The full-body scanner that has the potential to view all objects beyond folds of skin has to be the radiographic transmission x-ray, these machines are likely to dominate the prison-industrial-complex that is America’s transportation system.
 SecurPass Digital Radiography Scanner |
Radiography is very common in the medical practice, you might have used these machines if you ever had to deal with fractured bones or had a mammogram. Digital Radiography Scanners (DRS) have been used worldwide in airports, mining and correctional facilities, however this security technology is relatively new in the United States. The FDA has already approved this technology under the auspices of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) even though they have not yet been used in the U.S. for security reasons.
This technology can detect narcotics, metallic and non-metallic weapons, plastic and liquid explosive devices, chemical and biological materials and components of explosive devices inside and outside the human body. The DRS are marketed under several names such as SecureScan, ConPass and SecurPass.
Radiography and Tomography x-ray machines are very hazardous and potentially deadly as they emit deep penetrating ionizing x-rays, both BackScatter and Millimeter-Wave scanners are child’s play compared to these machines. Researchers find Computed Tomography (CT) scanners will cause 29,000 cancers and kill nearly 15,000 Americans from diagnostic tests done in 2007.
A report in the British medical journal Lancet noted that mammograms (radiography of the breast) were introduced in 1983, the incidence of ductal carcinoma (a form of breast cancer) increased by 328%, of which 200% was due to the use of mammography itself. A Lawrence Berkeley National Lab study demonstrated that breast tissue is extremely susceptible to radiation-induced cancer, ironically mammograms may initiate the very cancers that they may later identify.
Radiation damage is cumulative, each time radiation passes through our bodies, cells become damaged, when cells are unable to repair 100% of the damage then there becomes the problem of tumors and cancer. As Dr. Gofman’s research put it; There is absolutely no safe dose-level of radiation, when human cells and DNA become damaged and mutated by radiation, then there is very little that can be done.
I imagine that there is going to be a huge push for these machines, as the 2010 forecast is likely to be the year of terrorism according to Gerald Celente. The media and other tools are continuing the push for these invasive and potentially deadly machines after a report of a suicide bomber carrying explosives inside his rectum. Abdullah Asieri adopted the new tactic of “carrying explosives in his anal cavity” for the un-successful attack against Saudi prince Mohammed Bin Nayef in September 2009. Asieri was reportedly blown in half by the blast and left Nayef un-injured.
After this incident and the Flight 253 non-event, there will be even more propositions of scanners that can do virtual cavity searches, there’s already chatter on the mainstream media about the need for internal searches of travelers:
Ann Coulter: “Unless the bomb is inserted under the foreskin, and by the way, I don’t see a clear angle on the anus. That’s a pretty easy hiding place for this.”
Stephen Colbert: “Every time a young Muslim man arrives at the airport, the TSA should respectfully take him aside and give him an involuntary colonoscopy.”
Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney: “If you are an 18 to 28-year-old Muslim man then you should be strip-searched. And if we don’t do that there’s a very high probability we’re going to lose an airline.”
Franco Frattini: “if a terrorist has swallowed a capsule full of explosives and could become a human bomb,” “right to security is essential for all other freedoms.”
Will we be herded on conveyor-belts like luggage where we are x-rayed for the sake of security? Who is the real terrorist, bombarding our bodies with radiation that will likely lead to many early deaths? Unfortunately it is all to easy for the government to use terrorist attacks to crackdown on the American people, lets hope these radiography scanners never see the light of day in any airport in the United States.
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Outsourcing Torture To Continue Under Obama
Anthony Gregory
Campaign For Liberty
August 25, 2009
Flashback: Obama Orders Continuation Of Illegal CIA Renditions
About two years ago, candidate Obama, writing in Foreign Affairs, strongly criticized Bush’s practice of “extraordinary renditioning.” Under this policy, terror suspects were apprehended, transferred, sometimes through secret prisons and black cites, and handed over to foreign regimes like Egypt and Morocco. Sometimes this involved torture. Maher Arar, for example, was a Canadian citizen later determined to be innocent, captured in New York and sent to Syria where he was tortured in brutal ways. See this piece in the New Yorker chroniciling other such horror stories.
Obama’s criticism of renditioning, along with his general criticism of the Bush administration’s violations of habeas corpus, was one of his most serious indictments of the war on terrorism as managed by the Republicans.
Now the New York Times reports that “[t]he Obama administration will continue the Bush administration’s practice of sending terror suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation, but will monitor their treatment to insure they are not tortured.”
How will they monitor such treatment? The administration “would give the State Department a larger role in assuring that transferred detainees would not be abused.” This is the State Department headed by Hillary Clinton — the same politician whom Ann Coulter had said she’d vote for over John McCain because Clinton was more pro-torture!
The Times goes on to report:
“It is extremely disappointing that the Obama administration is continuing the Bush administration practice of relying on diplomatic assurances, which have been proven completely ineffective in preventing torture,” said Amrit Singh of the American Civil Liberties Union, who tracked rendition cases under President George W. Bush.
She cited the case of Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian sent in 2002 by the United States to Syria, which offered assurances against torture but beat Mr. Arar with electrical cable anyway.a new administrative interrogation unit, to be housed within the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which will oversee the interrogations of top terror suspects using largely non-coercive techniques approved by the administration earlier this year.”
Filed under: Alan Greenspan, Ann Coulter, Britain, China, ECB, economic depression, Economy, Euro, european union, Federal Reserve, Fox News, Globalism, Greenback, housing market, Inflation, Iran, Northern Rock, Russia, Sarkozy, Stock Market, Tony Blair
Greenspan Says China Will Determine World Economic Fate in 2030
Scott Lanman
Bloomberg
September 17, 2007
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said China will be the U.S.’s major competitor by 2030 and the world’s economic fate depends on how much more Chinese leaders embrace markets.
“Much of how the world will look in 2030 rests on this outcome,” Greenspan wrote in “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World,” his memoir released today. “If China continues to press ahead toward free-market capitalism, it will surely propel the world to new levels of prosperity.”
The prediction comes in the 531-page book’s final chapter, devoted to the author’s vision of the future after two decades running the world’s most powerful central bank. He also predicts faster U.S. inflation, slower productivity growth and interest rates of at least 10 percent that will lead politicians to challenge the Fed’s independence.
Praising the leadership of former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair and his successor Gordon Brown, Greenspan predicted that Britain “should do well.” Continental Europe must welcome immigrants and reduce welfare, Russia needs to “fully restore the rule of law” to develop further, and India has “great potential,” he added.
Japan’s $4.5 trillion-economy, now the largest after the U.S., may find it hard to counter the loss of its ranking, given that it has an “even less promising” demographic future than Europe’s, Greenspan said. The country will still remain a “formidable force.”
Primacy of Markets
The success of every nation — big or small — will depend on the extent to which it allows free trade and open markets, Greenspan declared.
“Even as nations as mighty as the United States and China vie for economic supremacy in that new world, they may find themselves partially bending to a force more powerful still: full-blown market globalization,” Greenspan wrote.
Greenspan, 81, served as Fed chairman from 1987 until his retirement in January 2006. Before that, he was a private economist in New York, advising many of the biggest U.S. companies, and worked for about two years as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Gerald Ford.
Greenspan helped guide the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, lasting from 1991 to 2001. Growth averaged a 3 percent annualized rate during the former Fed chief’s tenure. The $13.8 trillion-U.S. economy will probably slow to a pace of less than 2.5 percent on average from now until 2030, Greenspan forecast in the book.
The former chairman isn’t as specific in his predictions for other countries. He doesn’t mention any besides China, the U.K., France, Germany, Japan, Russia and India, spending about five pages in his final chapter on the outlook beyond America.
`Political Freedom’
In China, Greenspan sees economic growth in the context of capitalism and democracy potentially replacing Communist rule. Already, the country’s “embrace of free-market competition” has it “on the path to greater political freedom.”
China’s economy grew 11.9 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier. The world’s most populous country surpassed the U.K. in 2005 as the fourth-largest economy. The value of China’s gross domestic product is $2.6 trillion.
“No matter what official rhetoric may be, the tangible lessening of power from one generation of leaders to the next gives hope that a more democratic China will displace the authoritarian Communist Party,” he wrote.
Greenspan devotes the most space to the U.K., which he praises for a “remarkable renaissance” since former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher took office in 1979. London, he said, is “arguably the world’s leader in cross-border finance,” though New York remains the financial capital of the world.
British Leaders Praised
He also commends Blair and Brown for tempering the Labour Party’s “historical Fabian socialist ethos,” allowing foreign investment and acquisitions of major British companies. The Fabian Society was founded in the late 19th century to advocate for gradual socialist change.
“If Britain continues its new openness (a highly reasonable expectation), it should do well in the world of 2030,” Greenspan concluded. Greenspan is an adviser to Brown.
For Continental Europe, either output per hour needs to speed up to a rate that may be “out of reach,” or attitudes toward immigration must change. The outlook for the region “will remain unclear until it concludes it cannot maintain a pay-as-you-go welfare state that requires a growing population to finance it,” Greenspan opined.
Merkel, Sarkozy
Still, new leaders including French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have views that make a “resurgence appear more likely,” Greenspan wrote.
He is less bullish on prospects for Japan, Russia and India. Japan is “strongly resisting immigration” and will have difficulty raising productivity growth, Greenspan wrote.
Russia is benefiting from its energy resources, yet with a falling population and President Vladimir Putin’s “selective enforcement” of laws, the country “has a long way to go before it joins the club of developed nations,” Greenspan said.
India is fettered by bureaucracy and still has three-fifths of its workforce in agriculture. That may keep the country from becoming as prominent as China, though the “glitter” of India’s services industries “is just too evident to dismiss,” he said.
Greenspan Says Euro Could Replace U.S. Dollar as Reserve Currency of Choice
Report: Former Fed Boss Says Euro Could Replace U.S. Dollar As Favored Reserve Currency
International Herald Tribune
September 17, 2007
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said it is possible that the euro could replace the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency of choice.
According to an advance copy of an interview to be published in Thursday’s edition of the German magazine Stern, Greenspan said that the dollar is still slightly ahead in its use as a reserve currency, but added that “it doesn’t have all that much of an advantage” anymore.
The euro has been soaring against the U.S. currency in recent weeks, hitting all-time high of $1.3927 last week as the dollar has fallen on turbulent market conditions stemming from the ongoing U.S. subprime crisis. The Fed meets this week and is expected to lower its benchmark interest rate from the current 5.25 percent.
Greenspan said that at the end of 2006, some 25 percent of all currency reserves held by central banks were held in euros, compared to 66 percent for the U.S. dollar.
In terms of being used as a payment for cross-border transactions, the euro is trailing the dollar only slightly with 39 percent to 43 percent.
Greenspan said the European Central Bank has become “a serious factor in the global economy.”
He said the increased usage of the euro as a reserve currency has led to a lowering of interest rates in the euro zone, which has “without any doubt contributed to the current economic growth.”
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