http://www.truthnews.com.au A hard hitting talk radio show which boldly ventures beyond the spin, deception and propaganda of mainstream news. en editor@truthnews.com.au Copyright 2012 2012-05-11T07:18:14+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/contrails_dissipate_quickly_whereas_chemtrails_linger http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/contrails_dissipate_quickly_whereas_chemtrails_linger#When:08:18:19Z Vapour trails left by British bombers on route to attack flying-bomb sites encircle the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. London, 1944. All those who passionately believe that "contrails dissipate quickly" whereas "chemtrails linger" and are deeply offended by the sceptical position that TNRA takes in regard to these claims, are free to "unlike" Truth News. If, on the other hand, you would like to engage in rational debate, you're most welcome to do so. However, please be advised that the information I have to impart may be shocking and difficult to grasp if you have been a "chemtrail alarmist" for a long time. The often cited claim that "normal contrails dissipate quickly" is total bunkum. There is not a shred of science to backup that claim.  Nothing, nada, zippo! Those who promote this idea are simply repeating something they read on a web page without checking sources.   CONTRAIL SCIENCE For a contrail to form, suitable conditions must occur immediately behind a jet engine in the expanding engine exhaust plume. A contrail will form if, as the exhaust gases cool and mix with surrounding air, the humidity becomes high enough (or, equivalently, the air temperature becomes low enough) for liquid water to condense on particles and form liquid droplets. If the local air is cold enough, these newly formed droplets then freeze and form ice particles that make up a contrail. Because the basic processes are very well understood, contrail formation for a given aircraft flight can be accurately predicted if atmospheric temperature and humidity conditions are known. After the initial formation of ice, a contrail evolves in one of two ways. If the humidity is low, the contrail will be short-lived. Newly formed ice particles will quickly evaporate. The resulting contrail will extend only a short distance behind the aircraft. If the humidity is high, the contrail will be persistent. Newly formed ice particles will continue to grow in size by taking water from the surrounding atmosphere. The resulting line-shaped contrail extends for large distances behind an aircraft. Persistent contrails can last for hours while growing to several kilometers in width and 200 to 400 meters in height. Contrails spread because of air turbulence created by the passage of aircraft, differences in wind speed along the flight track, and possibly through effects of solar heating. Thus, the surrounding atmosphere’s conditions determine to a large extent whether or not a contrail will form after an aircraft’s passage, and how it evolves. Other factors that influence contrail formation include engine fuel efficiency, which affects the amount of heat and water emitted in the exhaust plume. - source TNRA is informed by science and is not interested in propping up anyone's belief systems, and we don't apologise for that. But, please, don't take it from me, speak to any meteorologist or any pilot and they'll tell you straight, that there is HUGE variation in the length and persistence of contrails. Sometimes they don't form at all, other times they form, but disspate quickly, other times they persist and spread out. That's the facts folks, and it's been that way since planes first went up in the sky. If you believe otherwise, I'm afraid you've been conned. Forgive me if I seem rude or impatient on this topic, but every few months I come across a new wave of people who have been subjected to the same false propaganda about chemtrails, and I have to run the same arguments and cite the same articles over and over again. It does wear one's patience down. Before making some kind of angry reply, I urge you to read this article and associated links. It's fairly detailed, and deals with most of the usual claims made by chemtrail alarmists. Finally, let me qualify all this by saying that I do not doubt that geo-engineering programs exist, and that, indeed, some of the patented techniques discussed at international forums  include the creation of artificial cirrus cloud. Does this, however, entitle you to conclude that every spreading contrail you see is an example of such geo-engineering? Think about it. Related Links Contrail Facts Pre WWII Contrails WWII Contrails New Mexicans for Science and Reason Chemtrails, 2012-05-13T08:18:19+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/the_last_desperate_gambit http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/the_last_desperate_gambit#When:01:39:43Z Our Banana Republic is running a desperate gambit in order to defuse the Craig Thomson affair and cling to power. They are putting out the meme that there are "allegations" against Thomson, whereas in fact, Fair Work Australia, "the national workplace relations tribunal" delivered their findings after a 3 year investigation. Fair Work Australia handed it's findings to the DPP on 3 April 2012 and the entire report was tabled in parliament last week. Back in early April, the public was informed that the DPP was "pondering" criminal charges against him. At of the date of writing no criminal charges have been laid. It now appears that the Victorian and NSW police are pondering charges as well, but just can't make up their minds whether a crime has been committed. This state of affairs is, as David Penberthy put it, "farcical". In the meantime Thomson is "tried by media". His protestations of innocence on the Today Show with Laurie Oaks are worth watching for their sheer farcical chutzpah. Craig Thomson Interview Part 1 Craig Thomson Interview Part 2 Craig Thomson Interview Part 3 It would be fair to characterise Thomson's statements about being setup by former colleagues as "wild allegations", in contrast to the evidence tabled against him, which consists of phone records and credit card receipts. Despite this, the government and its cronies like Tony Windsor continue to give Thomson the benefit of the doubt. So what is really going on? My take is that the Gillard government is simply extracting the most value they can from Thomson as a depreciating asset, but until he is forced to vacate his seat, they know they can rely on his vote to keep the government afloat. Thomson too knows that, as long as he votes with the government, he is safe from that quarter, but in order to keep his parliamentary seat he is forced to invent a pathetic cover story about being framed by his enemies. Perhaps in the hands of Shakespeare this story could be made into a comedy. As it stands, it's just a farce.     Craig Thompson Scandal, 2012-05-13T01:39:43+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/invasion_of_the_body_scanners http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/invasion_of_the_body_scanners#When:07:18:14Z In today's show we look at a variety of news and issues of the day, with a special focus on a new safety report on airport body scanners which was released by the EU last week. This development now opens the door to the roll out of these carcinogenic machines across Europe and potentially into Australia, which has already authorised the use of the less toxic (and less effective) millimeter wave scanners in our international airports. We present some of the key health concerns over x-ray scanners raised by experts in the past few years and then take a look at the EU report to see if it addresses any of these concerns. Perhaps unsurprisingly for those who have followed this topic for a while, the major concerns highlighted in the past have been largely ignored. In the second hour I am joined by aircraft engineer John Bursill to reflect on the latest developments in Australian politics, the body scanner question, the Aghanistan war and more. I hope you enjoy the show, and please get back to us if you have any thoughts or questions! Related Links STAY-at-home parents will be forced to look for work soon after their youngest child goes to school Build the North West Rail Link yourself, says Treasurer Wayne Swan Airport scanners 'here to stay' Vaccine bombshell: Baby monkeys given standard doses of popular vaccines develop autism symptoms Scientists Cast Doubt on TSA Tests of Full-Body Scanners Radiation scientists agree TSA naked body scanners could cause breast cancer and sperm mutations U.S. Government Glossed Over Cancer Concerns As It Rolled Out Airport X-Ray Scanners The New Zealand government is planning to offer free long-term contraception to women on welfare payments Fair Work Australia finds Craig Thomson spent almost $6000 on escorts on an HSU credit card EC Report: Health effects of security scanners for passenger screening Malalai Joya - Wikipedia article Afghanistan, Craig Thompson Scandal, Full Body Scanners, 2012-05-11T07:18:14+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/invasion_of_the_body_scanners http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/invasion_of_the_body_scanners#When:07:18:14Z Part 2 of Invasion of the body scanners Afghanistan, Craig Thompson Scandal, Full Body Scanners, 2012-05-11T07:18:14+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/pure_psychopathic_evil_is_the_prerogative_of_the_state http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/pure_psychopathic_evil_is_the_prerogative_of_the_state#When:03:21:23Z WARNING: The following video graphically depicts psychopathic torture and murder which makes the crimes of infamous serial killers pale into insignificance by comparison. This atrocity was perpetrated by agents of a modern democratic state, with full authority and backup support. It all happened right out in the open near a bus terminal with lots of people watching. The only reason this event even came to light was the unlucky fact (for Officer Manual Ramos) that Kelly Thomas's dad was a retired police officer. Otherwise, Kelly Thomas was a perfect victim - a homeless man with a mental illness. People like him are normally not missed - thus the police were free to act out their darkest impulses. We have been taught, through endless pulp "true crime" books, TV series and Hollywood productions, to fear the aberrant individual, the lone nut, the Ted Bundy or the Ivan Milat - but the wickedness of these individuals cannot light a candle to the pure barbarity and satanic cruelty of the State through it's empowered minions who seem to provide a channel for an almost supernatural bloodlust. The video begins with the ominous scene of Kelly Thomas being questioned by Ramos, who is constantly twirling his baton. At a certain point Ramos dons latex gloves and says "I'm gonna f-- you up". Nobody came to rescue Kelly as he was beaten, tasered and suffocated by the cops, while he begged for his life and called out for his dad to save him. When paramedics finally arrived on the scene, they were directed, not to help the dying man in the gutter, but to attend to a few band-aid scratches sustained by the police. This is the complete and unedited surveillance footage with audio added from a secondary source - watch at your own risk. I myself have not had the stomach to watch it right through. Related Links Judge Orders Trial for Police Officers in Kelly Thomas Death Video of Thomas Beating Shown at Preliminary Hearing Police Torture Man To Death For Fun! Police Violence, Tasers, The Psychopathic Mind, 2012-05-11T03:21:23+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/homeland_security_concedes_airport_body_scanner_vulnerabilities http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/homeland_security_concedes_airport_body_scanner_vulnerabilities#When:00:48:37Z Federal investigators “identified vulnerabilities in the screening process” at domestic airports using so-called “full body scanners,” according to a classified internal Department of Homeland Security report. DHS has spent nearly $90 million replacing traditional magnetometers with controversial X-ray body scanning machines that are intended to detect items that could be missed by a metal detector. Exactly how bad the body scanners are is not being divulged publicly, but the Inspector General report made eight separate recommendations on how to improve screening. The news comes as authorities are examining an underwear bomb, allegedly seized by the CIA in Yemen as it allegedly thwarted an Al-Qaida plot to destroy a U.S.-bound airplane, according to The Associated Press. Authorities are now looking to determine if the bomb could have passed through airport screeners without being detected. Meanwhile, an unclassified version of the Inspector General report, unearthed Friday by the Electronic Information Privacy Center, may give credence to a recent YouTube video allegedly showing a 27-year-old Florida man sneaking a metallic object through two different Transportation Security Administration body scanners at American airports. The TSA agreed with all of the Inspector General’s recommendations. The Inspector General did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In March, meanwhile, a TSA spokeswoman said “These machines are safe” when asked to address a video by Jonathan Corbett, of Miami Beach, who allegedly had discovered a method tobeat the body scanners, which number 600 and are in about 140 U.S. airports. A brief YouTube video allegedly shows Corbett, who had sewn a pocket to the side of his shirt, getting past two body scanners with a metallic object in that pocket. It was not immediately known when the TSA published its unclassified summary, TSA Penetration Testing of Advanced Imaging Technology. It comes with a “November 2011″ date and can be found on the DHS Office of Inspector General website under the heading “OIG Reports: Fiscal Year 2012.” It’s not the first time the body scanners, produced by Rapiscan and L-3 Communications, have come under attack. In a three-part series last year, Wired reported that, indeed, there were suspected security flaws with them. Even the Government Accountability Office — Congress’ investigative arm — said the devices might be ineffective. And the Journal of Transportation Security suggested terrorists might fool the Rapiscan machines by taping explosive devices to their stomachs. The unclassified summary said the government has spent $87 million on the scanners, which includes $10 million for “installation and maintenance.” To quiet privacy concerns, the authorities are also spending $7 million to “remove the human factor from the image review process” and replace the passenger’s image with an avatar. The unclassified version said the “quantitative and qualitative results of our testing are classified.” Passengers who refuse to go through the machines are subject to intense physical patdowns. Many have complained the process includes being sexually groped. Amie Stepanovich, an EPIC attorney, said the group would file a Freedom of Information Act claim in a bid to get access to the full report. “This involves a program that is important to the public,” she said in a telephone interview. EPIC had sued the government, claiming the machines were an unconstitutional breach of Americans’ privacy. A federal appeals court sided with the authorities, although the court said the government did not adhere to the law when it began implementing the machines at airports as early as 2007. Full Body Scanners, 2012-05-08T00:48:37+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/naked_body_scanners_could_be_soon_be_in_all_uk_airports http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/naked_body_scanners_could_be_soon_be_in_all_uk_airports#When:01:57:05Z Trials had been halted over fears of harmful radiation New study reveals risk to passengers is 'close to zero' Controversial 'naked' body scanners could be introduced at all UK airports after top scientists declared them safe. Manchester Airport has been trialling the device - known as back scatter scanner - since 2009, but the European Commission halted new trials last year amid concerns there was a risk to passengers' health from high levels of radiation. But an EU study has decided that the risk from the scanners, which use X-rays to scan through clothing to produce images of passengers, is 'close to zero' and no greater than other factors. A report said the radiation from a single passenger scan is 'equivalent' to the natural background radiation received within an hour on the ground or during ten minutes on a flight. It added that the doses per scan were 'well below the public dose limit', although the long-terms effects, such as cancer risks, could not be dismissed entirely. The European Commission is now expected to approve the technology and the scanners could be rolled out to other UK and European airports. Extensive tests by the UK Health Protection Agency and US health authorities had already confirmed the scanners pose a negligible risk to human health. But report by Dr David Brenner, director of the Centre for Radiological Research at Columbia University Medical Centre in New York, claimed that radiation from the scanners may be causing an extra 100 cases of cancer in Americans each year. A Manchester Airport spokesman said: 'We've been waiting for this report which, in summary, says the scanners are safe. 'We knew the report would say this because the UK and U.S. government had already carried out studies and concluded the same thing. 'The EU took a bit longer about it.' Last November, the EU adopted new guidelines on body scanners after concerns about privacy. It meant security scanners could not store or copy any of the images and security staff analyzing the images had to be in separate room from where the actual screening was taking place. In addition, passengers were the given the right to choose an alternative method of screening. EU states have been mulling the use of security scanners ever since Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 24-year-old Nigerian, attempted in 2009 to blow up a plane flying from Amsterdam to Detroit with plastic explosives he had hidden in his underwear.   Full Body Scanners, 2012-05-06T01:57:05+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/professor_bob_carter_on_climate_change http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/professor_bob_carter_on_climate_change#When:09:44:40Z My guest today for the second hour is Prof. Bob Carter: Professor Bob Carter is an adjunct Research Fellow at James Cook University (Queensland). He is a palaeontologist, stratigrapher, marine geologist and environmental scientist with more than 40 years professional experience, and holds degrees from the University of Otago (New Zealand) and the University of Cambridge (England). He has held tenured academic staff positions at the University of Otago (Dunedin) and James Cook University (Townsville), where he was Professor and Head of School of Earth Sciences between 1981 and 1999. Prof. Carter is the author of Climate: the Counter Consensus, a book which has received accolades from scientists, politicians and the general public, and you can read some of the reviews here. In today's interview, Prof. Carter steps us through some of the key assumptions behind the mainstream science of climate change, and shows us why they are wrong. His expertise in paleoclimatology provides an insight into the deeper patterns of nature which shape the world - a perspective which is completely lacking in the relatively immature "climate science" field which informs both media coverage and government policy. Climate science relies heavily on computer models and projections, whereas geology and palaeontology is based on hard evidence which encompasses the entire history of the planet. This field of research does not lend itself to political agendas, and Prof. Carter's work stands in the tradition of scientific dissent best summed up in the words of Galileo Galilei: In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. In the first hour of today's show I am joined by Josh Jackson for a general discussion on news and events in Australia, during which we take our first call from a listener to the show. If you are interested in calling in while we are on air please don't hesitate to pick up the phone! We broadcast live every week: Thursdays 11:00AM-1:00PM AEST (Australia)  - 1300 153 372 Wednesdays 8:00-10PM CST (US) - 512 646-1984 I hope to hear from you next time! Related Links Biography of Robert (Bob) M. Carter Climate: the Counter Consensus Australia house prices fall for fifth quarter Brisbane Airport brings in body scans Dr David Evans: Global Warming is Manmade? Bob Carter, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, 2012-05-04T09:44:40+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/professor_bob_carter_on_climate_change http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/professor_bob_carter_on_climate_change#When:09:44:40Z Part 2 of Professor Bob Carter on climate change Bob Carter, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, 2012-05-04T09:44:40+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/join_our_mailing_list_and_get_our_latest_podcast_delivered_to_your_inbox http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/join_our_mailing_list_and_get_our_latest_podcast_delivered_to_your_inbox#When:13:15:53Z You are cordially invited to join the Truth News Australia mailing list. Podcast heaven is just one click away! CLICK HERE to sign up now! If you change your mind later you can easily unsubscribe, and it's FREE! 9/11 Truth Movement, Full Body Scanners, 2012-05-01T13:15:53+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/australian_government_on_the_brink http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/australian_government_on_the_brink#When:10:03:56Z Tonight we look at the crisis in the Australian government, more media disinformation on climate change and more disturbing information regarding the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Earlier today I wrote this: Thomson's resignation from the ALP is purely for show, and has no bearing on his tenure as member for Dobell, or on how he will vote in Parliament. It is a further insult to the very concept of democracy that a sitting MP can play with his role in such a manner. This is a fraud against the Australian people. If we believe in democracy at all, we must be prepared to take action to ensure restoration of the basic values of a free society, otherwise we will only slip deeper into tyranny. The government, according to current polls, enjoys a 29% popularity rating. They don't have a mandate to govern. Also in the show we bring you some snippets from the ABC Q&A propaganda piece "I Can Change Your Mind About Climate Change", and we attempt to debunk some of the misinformation in that program. Dr. David Evans, who was featured (and misrepresented) in the ABC program, has today released 2 videos which present his views in a very clear and engaging form. We present these below: In the final half hour of the show my guest is Rochelle Macredie, who reveals more facts about ACTA and urges us to take action. NOTE: Some of today's show was recorded on 29 April, but the first hour and the interview with Rochelle Macredie was recorded on 26 April. Related Links I Can Change Your Mind About Climate Change Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core Scientist who said climate change sceptics had been proved wrong accused of hiding truth by colleague Thomson quits, Slipper stands down CSIRO Boss’s Conflicts of Interest – emblematic of climate industry Jennifer Robinson Scandal: Was the Wikileaks Lawyer Detained For Political Reasons? Julian Assange - The World Tomorrow (RT) ACTA, Climate Change, Gillard Labor Government, 2012-04-29T10:03:56+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/australian_government_on_the_brink http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/australian_government_on_the_brink#When:10:03:56Z Part 2 of Australian government on the brink ACTA, Climate Change, Gillard Labor Government, 2012-04-29T10:03:56+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/thomson_quits_slipper_stands_down http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/thomson_quits_slipper_stands_down#When:02:25:58Z Breaking News Embattled Thomson quits Labor party PM moves on Thomson and Slipper, saying a 'line has been crossed' Whether or not you believe in our representative democracy, I hope you can see that we need an election now, and that, if this occurs (as it should from the numbers against the government and the scandals over MPs), Abbott must uphold his promise of fully repealing the carbon tax, on pain of creating an even greater popular backlash than we are seeing now. Thomson's resignation from the ALP is purely for show, and has no bearing on his tenure as member for Dobell, or on how he will vote in Parliament. It is a further insult to the very concept of democracy that a sitting MP can play with his role in such a manner. This is a fraud against the Australian people. If we believe in democracy at all, we must be prepared to take action to ensure restoration of the basic values of a free society, otherwise we will only slip deeper into tyranny. The government, according to current polls, enjoys a 29% popularity rating. They don't have a mandate to govern. Are you prepared to hit the streets to let them know how you feel? Carbon Tax, Gillard Labor Government, 2012-04-29T02:25:58+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/dna_breathing_dynamics_in_the_presence_of_a_terahertz_field http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/dna_breathing_dynamics_in_the_presence_of_a_terahertz_field#When:15:04:10Z A scientific study on the effects of terahertz radiation (used in some body scanner imaging systems). ABSTRACT We consider the influence of a terahertz field on the breathing dynamics of double-stranded DNA. We model the spontaneous formation of spatially localized openings of a damped and driven DNA chain, and find that linear instabilities lead to dynamic dimerization, while true local strand separations require a threshold amplitude mechanism. Based on our results we argue that a specific terahertz radiation exposure may significantly affect the natural dynamics of DNA, and thereby influence intricate molecular processes involved in gene expression and DNA replication. Subjects:  Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) Journal reference:  Physics Letters A, Volume 374, Issue 10, 2010 Download PDF | Other Formats Full Body Scanners, 2012-04-28T15:04:10+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/sweaty_armpits_could_trigger_airport_scanners http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/sweaty_armpits_could_trigger_airport_scanners#When:04:52:07Z FULL-BODY scanners being introduced at Australia's eight international airports could be triggered by sweaty armpits and a passenger's posture, a counter-terrorism unit has warned. In German trials of the body-scanning technology, false alarms were recorded and sweaty armpits were among the culprits, slowing down departure lanes, according to Tasmania's Department of Police and Emergency Management. "There are already long delays at airports, so this issue needs to be addressed," the unit says in a submission to a Senate committee inquiring into the millimetre-wave body scanners. Germany ditched the scanners after too many false alarms but they are in use in some parts of Europe and the US. The Australian Airline Pilots Association has raised similar concerns about the potential for false positives and has said it wants screening with the machines to be voluntary. A spokeswoman for Infrastructure and Transport Minister Anthony Albanese defended the technology. "The government has consciously selected the best available technology that provides greater security at our airports in a non-invasive way to identify non-metallic items which could cause catastrophic damage to an aircraft," the spokeswoman said. The scanners are expected to be rolled out by July at Australia's eight international airports. They were announced after the technology was tested in Sydney and Melbourne. Airport operators are pushing for greater funding for the scanners. While the government has promised $6.7 million to cover the full cost of buying the scanners, the Australian Airport Association says there could be other implementation costs. Full Body Scanners, 2012-04-24T04:52:07+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/are_airport_body_scanners_safe_radiation_expert_to_give_lecture http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/are_airport_body_scanners_safe_radiation_expert_to_give_lecture#When:04:42:54Z An expert in the health risks of human exposure to radiation will speak at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) about airport whole-body scanners on May 4. Hosted by the UWM Department of Physics, Dr. John Moulder of the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) will address the considerable public concern about possible health effects posed by the backscatter X-ray and millimeter-wave radar whole-body scanners that are used at many airports. The free event begins at 8 p.m. in the Physics building, 1900 E. Kenwood Blvd., room 137. As the summer travel season begins, Dr. Moulder will discuss the research showing that these scanners pose only negligible radiation risks if used as intended. However, he will also outline the difficulty in proving their safety using publicly accessible data that shields information on the machinery’s specifications and methods of measurement. He makes the argument that more openness is needed, as is independent review and regulation. Publicly accessible, and preferably peer-reviewed, evidence is needed that the units (not just the prototypes) meet widely accepted safety standards. Moulder is professor and director of radiation biology at MCW, and holds two advanced degrees from Yale University. There will be time for discussion and questions after the presentation. Full Body Scanners, 2012-04-24T04:42:54+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/target_offers_3d_body_scanner_to_measure_customers http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/target_offers_3d_body_scanner_to_measure_customers#When:03:00:55Z TARGET has a new employee - a 3D body scanner - charged with making sure clothes fit better. The national retailer is spending $1 million on the technology that will measure the dimensions of 20,000 men and women as part of a national survey to update their designs. Perth shoppers will be able step into the scanner from May 25 to 29 in the company's Whitfords store. Target managing director Dene Rogers said customers were frustrated and confused by inconsistent sizing. It was the main reason clothes were returned. "By taking 60 seconds to come and be scanned consumers will not only find out their exact measurements, they'll be helping Target find out what size Australians really are today so that we can make clothes that really fit," Mr Rogers said. Customers stand fully clothed in the AlvaScan booth while it collects data from 200,000 points to measure their size and shape, creating a 3D image of the body. Alvanon Group chief Janice Wang said the 20,000 scans would be analysed to determine the most common shapes and produce size charts. Target will use the information to make clothes. Those scanned will receive their measurements to take home, which can be used to buy clothes online. Consumer group Choice spokeswoman Ingrid Just commended Target for introducing standard sizing across its range. "Stores have different manufacturers for different garments . . . so you find even within the same store, there are different size (standards)," she said. The project highlighted the need for regulated sizing in Australia. Full Body Scanners, 2012-04-24T03:00:55+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/what_would_a_world_without_government_look_like_with_stefan_molyneux http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/what_would_a_world_without_government_look_like_with_stefan_molyneux#When:00:22:24Z Throughout the last century, it has been estimated that governments around the world have been responsible for approximately 250 million murders. On the contrary, it is estimated that only nine million non-governmental, or domestic cases of homicide, have been perpetrated within the same time frame. Why should we trust such potentially hazardous and harmful institutions? Today Josh Jackson discusses this with Stefan Molyneux from freedomainradio.com, who says that we shouldn’t trust such institutions. We also discuss how society functions without a government at all. How will we police the masses? How will our road networks and overall infrastructure be maintained? How will private law function? We discuss all of this and more. At the end of the show, Josh talks to Emily Chesher from thebeautyplan.com about inflamation and how to avoid and overcome it naturally through dietary and other techniques. Related Links Free Domain Radio The Beauty plan Anarcho-capitalism, Stefan Molyneux, 2012-04-23T00:22:24+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/two_interviews_and_some_australian_news http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/two_interviews_and_some_australian_news#When:05:15:08Z In the first hour of today's show we bring you some analysis of recent news in Australia on the subject of climate change and the impending carbon tax, as well as an excerpt from a mini documentary which explores some of the internal frictions which caused the occupy movement in Brisbane to splinter and lose momentum. In the second hour we bring you 2 original interviews conducted on Sydney's Skid Row Radio. The first interview documents harrassment, interference and criminal conduct of a major Australian Bank. The second interview documents harrassment and intimidation by a large supermarket chain towards children who are accused (but not charged) with attempted shop lifting (despite the complete absence of any evidence which would justify the accusation). I hope you enjoy today's broadcast! Related Links Carbon dioxide ended last Ice Age: study Final frontier of climate policy - remake humans Carbon tax bites Labor Banking, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, 2012-04-14T05:15:08+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/two_interviews_and_some_australian_news http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/two_interviews_and_some_australian_news#When:05:15:08Z Part 2 of Two interviews and some Australian News Banking, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, 2012-04-14T05:15:08+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/empowerment_begins_in_your_mind_or_is_it_just_a_meme http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/empowerment_begins_in_your_mind_or_is_it_just_a_meme#When:03:11:39Z On today's show we bring you analysis and commentary on a number of hot topics in Australian news at the moment. We look at the embattled MP Craig Thompson, who, despite manifest evidence of fraud and criminal conduct,  is being propped up by a Labor government desperate to hold on to the reigns of power. We look at new revelations in the Schapelle Corby case which provide yet more evidence that the Australian government knew that the marijuana found in Schapelle's luggage was part of a well established drug trafficking syndicate involving corrupt baggage handlers, customs officials and police. In the second hour I am joined by Josh Jackson as we look at ways in which we can become self-empowered. Josh steps us through some practical things we can do to free ourselves from the chains of inhibition and societal conditioning. We also look at the concept of "memes" as both inhibitors and motivators,  and how we may be able to create new psychological memes to help us move into a state of empowerment in our lives. A great show! Related Links DPP admits investigation into Labor MP Craig Thomson's spending derailed Supreme Court rules person is entitled to do runner if not under arrest Taser death of Roberto Laudisio triggers Brazilian protest New explosive revelations on the Corby case at Expendable.tv Memes - wikipedia article Craig Thompson Scandal, Memes, Police Violence, Schapelle Corby, Tasers, 2012-04-05T03:11:39+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/charles_darwin_debunked http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/charles_darwin_debunked#When:10:14:04Z Today's show contains 2 excellent interviews and audio clips from a recent anti-war protest held in Sydney. In the first half of today’s show we bring you an interview with Chris Emery and Holland Van den Nieuwenhof discussing their stunning film A Noble Lie, which exposes the cover-up and government complicity in the 1995 Oklahoma bombing. The second hour guest is Craig Isherwood, Secretary of the Citizens Electoral Council, a political party in Australia with links to Lyndon La Rouche. Craig presents an in depth critique of Darwinian evolution, and illustrates the connection between Darwin’s theory and the “oligarchical principle” which underlies the agendas of eugenics, the Nanny State and the environmental movement. Craig debunks claims that the planet faces a catastrophe as a result of Malthusian population growth and steps us through some alternative theories of macro evolution which posit a creative principle in the universe in contrast to the purely random “blind watch maker” idea which is prevalent in mainstream biology. Related Links Citizens Electoral Council of Australia A Noble Lie The Humbuggery of Charles Darwin Charles Darwin, Craig Isherwood, Oklahoma Bombing, Theory of Evolution, 2012-04-02T10:14:04+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/tnra_goes_live_on_logos_radio_network http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/tnra_goes_live_on_logos_radio_network#When:02:59:50Z Today we bring you our first live broadcast on Logos Radio Network. This will be a regular broadcast, and you can pick it up the live stream at Logos Radio every Thursday. The exact time of the 2 hour broadcast varies a little due to changing daylight saving time zones. Our next broadcast on 29 March will be at 12pm, but the following week this will shift to 11am. Some changes in this archive from previous podcasts:  there is a short INN news broadcast at the beginning of each hour - and there are ads - I hope that does not reduce your enjoyment of the show & we may be able to provide edited podcasts without ads later. Topics covered on today's show include the anti coal seam gas rally held in Sydney recently, a recent taser death in Sydney's CBD, an in-depth interview wiith Damon Crowe on the secret history of the illuminati, and a discussion with Josh Jackon on the merits of the alternative currency, bitcoin. A major feature in today's show is our exclusive interview with Matt Turner of the Queensland band Skinwalkers, who released an EP last year titled "Fall or Resist". Skinwalkers' music conveys a strong message of freedom and a belief in the human spirit. We include a couple tracks from their recent EP during the interview. Related Links Bitcoin - P2P digital currency Stop CSG Rally video report - Government fails people of NSW 'Why are they trying to make him a bad person?' Anger on the streets of Sao Paulo over Roberto's Taser death Taser death fires up weapons debate Cops order double Taser trial Taser? I'd have used my Glock, says top cop Skinwalkers - Facebook Page Skinwalkers - MySpace Bitcoin, Coal Seam Gas, Skinwalkers Band, 2012-03-25T02:59:50+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/how_full_body_scanners_work_and_fail http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/how_full_body_scanners_work_and_fail#When:11:42:51Z TSA has been introducing full-body scanners to perform a virtual strip search of air travelers. Although technically travelers have the right to opt out, the TSA discourages this behavior with aggressive and invasive pat-down searches. Initially, TSA denied punitive pat-down searches. Then they acknowledged testing a “more aggressive pat-down technique.” TSA began a more widespread implementation of this tactic at the beginning of November, and TSA agents have reportedly been quite open about that fact that the “enhanced” pat-down searches are specifically aimed to be so offensive as to coerce passengers into the scanners. In a blog post otherwise bluntly supportive of full-body scanning (the title, “Shut Up And Get In The Scanner,” gives a good idea of the tone of the writing), one former TSA screener writes: It is a terror tactic by TSA to get you to walk through the more thorough body scanner.  I can’t defend TSA on this one.  I have talked to the TSA officers and it is no more effective than the old pat down procedure.  They tested it out with trainers and each other.  It is purely a terror tactic by TSA. Other bloggers (with sharper tongues and stronger stomachs than I) have exhaustively documented the steaming mass of epic fail that is the TSA’s new policy. The aim of this post is to explain how full-body scanners work – and fail. There are two kinds of full-body scanners: those based on backscatter X-ray technology and those based on millimeter wave technology. On the right is a millimeter wave scan. Unlike conventional transmission X-ray, which passes X-rays through an object to image its interior, backscatter X-ray scanners use low power X-rays to illuminate your body and catch the reflected energy to generate an image. The lower the atomic number (or “Z”), the stronger the reflection. Organic matter, like your body, is made of relatively low Z matter like carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen. This strongly reflects the X-rays yielding a brighter image. Lithium would also be a strong reflector. High Z materials, like most metals, will reflect poorly, showing up as dark splotches. Certain skin creams, like zinc oxide (used in sunscreen or baby diaper rash treatment), or titanium dioxide (also used in sunscreen) should reflect poorly. Iodine would also tend to be fairly absorptive. Lead should be particularly dark in an image. Here’s a really good technical discussion from one of the manufacturers’ web sites. The other full-body scan approach is millimeter-wave technology. As you might guess from the name, it employs very short wavelength radio signals – with wavelengths on the order of a few millimeters. This RF technology – originally developed by Jagadis Chandra Bose in the 1890s (and no, that date is not a typo) – reflects strongly from conductive objects. The body is a weak to moderate reflector while metallic objects reflect strongly. In looking at the host of millimeter wave images available online, I suspect some have been mislabeled. A millimeter wave image should show a relatively dark body with bright guns or knives. Images showing a bright body with a dark gun are probably backscatter X-ray or may have been digitally processed in some way. A large difference in dielectric constant will also tend to reflect strongly. Glycerin, titanium dioxide, or other high dielectric constant materials are likely to contrast strongly against the body, particularly if they are a substantial fraction of a wavelength thick. The effectiveness of full body scanners has been called into question. Liquid explosives and other organic contraband contrast poorly and are difficult to spot. And full-body scanners are completely useless for detecting contraband embedded inside the body. As security expert Bruce Schneier observed: “Full-body scanners: they’re not just a dumb idea, they don’t actually work.“ What to do? Vendors are already selling X-ray modesty garments of one form or another. And I wonder how long it will be before some enterprising vendor takes advantage of  contrasting X-ray and millimeter-wave reflectivity to offer T-shirts with anti-TSA messages designed to show up in the scans. While potentially cathartic, such tactics will probably backfire, however, only drawing increased scrutiny and harassment. Ultimately, the best solution is to pursue a remedy through the political arena, pressuring our lawmakers to rein in the TSA. A good place to start is by letting your senator know exactly how you feel in advance of tomorrow’s TSA oversight hearing. Full Body Scanners, 2012-03-24T11:42:51+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/total_body_scam_taking_your_money_and_freedom_and_coming_to_australia_too http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/total_body_scam_taking_your_money_and_freedom_and_coming_to_australia_too#When:09:43:19Z Was it just me? Was I the only one who noticed a tiny announcement in February that Airport Scanners were coming to Australia, the land where terrorists haven’t landed (yet), and … wait for it… there would be no (NO!) — opt — out– clause. Did I hear that correctly? And the crowd roared (about the cricket), nobody said a word about the scanners, and the ten libertarians left who can bear to watch the ABC were too busy trying to save the nation from nastier threats. Australia is getting millimeter wave scanners at International Airports, and if you don’t want to be scanned, you need to leave the country… by boat. (Either that or swim with the crocs across the Timor Sea.) With no opt out clause, what happens when the first person facing deportation refuses to be scanned? Well that’s all right then, we’ll just book them on a cruise to Kandahar? Civil Liberties Australia was one of the few to speak up. Maybe those scanners are safe? Maybe? But at least one man with a pacemaker says Australia is off his holiday list now. Can someone find the peer reviewed research showing there are no long term effects on the unborn? There’s also the catch that if any terrorist has a computer with an internet connection, they probably know how to get guns past the scanners. Then a nice man named Tony wrote to me asking if I liked his graphic (below), and I did. Do admire the powerful communication tool here (it’s worth a look). The only thing it lacked was to tell us non-US folk that the TSA stood for the Transportation Security Administration. Once upon a time it took months to get to Australia, the ships had no GPS, sometimes not even an engine, and the in-non-flight food gave you scurvy. People died, no one had travel insurance, and before WWII even a blister could kill you. Brace yourself, how things have changed. Travel in the satellite era is so dangerous now, it takes 62,000 employees to make it safe (just in the USA). Of those, nearly 4,000 are based in the Washington DC headquarters of the TSA. The average salary of those desk-based public servants in the regulating class is … $104,000. That’s average? Here in Australia our airport scanning scheme is supposed to cost $28 million. To be fair, the TSA do run an impressive blog pointing out that last week they stopped someone taking a 40mm high explosive grenade in a carry on bag, plus 2000 ecstasy tablets, a razor, a saw-blade and a garrote, and 16 loaded guns, plus knives and batons. (From personal experience I can tell you the Australian airport checks have stopped me threatening anyone with 3 pairs of nail scissors, 5 nail files, and a very deadly 80-year-old crochet hook.) The bottom line: I don’t like the sound of sitting in a flying box with so many weapons, oh no (wow, some people take that stuff in their hand-luggage?), but then, if it costs $6 million to find each gun, and most of them don’t belong to terrorists, it’s time to talk value-for-money. Should we reduce hospital waiting times, or spend money, and make travel slower, in order to reduce, but not eradicate, all the weapons on a plane? I’d rather sit in a fully armed flight, than in one where there is just one gun… (Do click to see this pictorial graphic – no – no nudes.) Full Body Scanners, 2012-03-24T09:43:19+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/pay_the_tsa_100_protection_money_to_avoid_scanning_and_pat_downs http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/pay_the_tsa_100_protection_money_to_avoid_scanning_and_pat_downs#When:09:33:37Z Hate the full-body scans, pat-downs and slow going at TSA airport security screening checkpoints? For $100, you can now bypass the hassle. The Transportation Security Administration is rolling out expedited screening at big airports called "Precheck." It has special lanes for background-checked travelers, who can keep their shoes, belt and jacket on, leave laptops and liquids in carry-on bags and walk through a metal detector rather than a full-body scan. The process, now at two airlines and nine airports, is much like how screenings worked before the Sept. 11 attacks. To qualify, frequent fliers must meet undisclosed TSA criteria and get invited in by the airlines. There is also a backdoor in. Approved travelers who are in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's "Global Entry" program can transfer into Precheck using their Global Entry number. "It's a completely different experience than what you're used to," said Matt Stegmeir, a platinum-level Delta Air Lines frequent flier who was invited into Precheck when it opened at his home airport, Minneapolis-St. Paul. Besides zipping through security screening quickly and easily, Mr. Stegmeir noticed another difference: TSA agents at the Precheck lane are usually smiling. "It's really a jarring contrast. It reminds you just how much of a hassle the security procedures in place really are," he said. Global Entry has been extremely popular with frequent international travelers. Approved travelers get to use a kiosk to enter the country rather than waiting in often-long lines to get their passports stamped and go through Customs inspection. Consider that in January at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, the average wait in line was 35 minutes between 4 and 5 p.m., and the longest wait was 137 minutes. The wait at Terminal 1 at New York's Kennedy International Airport averaged 44 minutes in January for people arriving between 10 and 11 a.m. Enrolling requires a $100 application fee for a background check, plus a brief interview with a Customs officer. For domestic travel, Global Entry pays off because it gets you into Precheck. Once TSA announced in the fall that enrollment in Global Entry and CBP's other "trusted travel" programs (Nexus for frequent travel across the Canadian border and Sentri for frequent travel across the Mexican border) would get you into Precheck, applications for Global Entry took off. In February, for example, 26,602 people applied, more than triple the number of applications in February 2011, according to CBP. And February applications were up 42% from January as more and more travelers catch on. "We want as many people as possible in the program," said John Wagner, CBP's executive director of admissibility and passenger programs. TSA says it also wants as many people as possible in Precheck, which is still in pilot-testing phase. Both agencies say the programs can enhance screening of people they know nothing about if they can move low-risk people who submit to background checks out of the main queues. "We can reduce the size of the haystack when we are looking for that one-in-a-billion terrorist," said TSA Administrator John Pistole. Mr. Pistole, an FBI veteran who took over TSA in 2010, said that by studying frequent-flier histories as well as conducting background checks, he's confident the U.S. now has the technology and the intelligence information to make less-rigorous, faster screening work. TSA has been trying to move to more "risk-based" security—something critics have suggested for many years. Once in Precheck, TSA still checks names against terrorism watch lists before every flight, just as it does for other travelers. If a passenger is cleared for Precheck screening, a code is embedded in a traveler's boarding pass. Precheck members usually get to use security lines set up for first-class and elite-level frequent fliers. But Precheck travelers actually don't know if they will get to use the easy screening until the TSA officer checking IDs actually scans the boarding pass. If the pass has the code, a Precheck passenger is steered to a separate screening lane for what amounts to old-style airport screening. TSA says Precheck members are selected randomly for regular screening to enhance security. But that unpredictability irks frequent travelers. The agency doesn't make travelers go to the end of the regular screening line, however, but instead slips them into the front of the regular queue. "I like Precheck, but it would be much more valuable to me if I were able to know before leaving for the airport whether or not I had Precheck approval for that day's flights," said Beth Allen, a University of Minnesota economist and frequent traveler. Gary Kaminsky, who travels 100,000 miles a year domestically, says he's gotten Precheck screening on about 80% of his trips so far out of Los Angeles International Airport, his home base, on AMR Corp.'s American Airlines. "When it does work, it's phenomenal," he said. "It cuts security screening down to about 30 seconds." For now, travelers say Precheck lanes are almost always empty—no waiting. In fact, Precheck may be making regular lines longer since equipment and officers are devoted to a little-used lane. Mr. Pistole said that will change as the program expands and the agency collects more data. Currently, TSA is working with only two airlines, American and Delta, because they were able to handle computing requirements set by TSA for the frequent-flier aspect. Even if you get into Precheck through Global Entry, it will currently only work for you on American and Delta domestic flights at airports with Precheck lanes. Also, Precheck lanes are in place only at nine airports. Currently, American passengers can use it in Dallas-Fort Worth, New York Kennedy, Los Angeles and Miami. Delta passengers have Precheck access in Atlanta, Detroit and Salt Lake City. Passengers on both airlines can use Precheck in Las Vegas and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Later this month, Precheck is set to expand to Washington's Reagan National Airport for Delta passengers and certain members of the U.S. military, and Chicago O'Hare with American. By the end of the year, Mr. Pistole said Precheck will be in place at 35 airports and six airlines, covering most major U.S. airports and airlines. Expansion will continue in 2013, but Precheck probably won't be available at all 450 commercial airports, since many have a small number of travelers each day. "The goal is to cover the broadest cross-section of travelers," he said. Full Body Scanners, 2012-03-21T09:33:37+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/we_will_not_be_scanned http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/we_will_not_be_scanned#When:22:00:39Z In today's show we bring you an interview from the Rule of Law radio show with Hereward Fenton, who discusses the health, privacy and civil liberties issues of body scanners with Deborah Stevens. Hereward talks about the introduction of body scanners in Australian airports which are due to go operational in July 2012 and introduces the the new website WeWillNotBeScanned.org - "Promoting Lawful Rebellion against Full Body Scanners". From We Will Not Be Scanned: "Naked body scanners are an affront to human dignity with the sole purpose of training human beings to supplicate before the supreme authority of the state. We pledge to resist this attack on democracy and human rights using all legal means available." We oppose the introduction of full body scanners on the following grounds: Invasion of privacy Violation of civil liberties Lack of research on health risks Manifest corruption and conflicts of interest within Government and private corporations who manufacture the scanners The use of staged "false flag" terrorist attacks to justify their use Related Links WeWillNotBeScanned.org How To Get Anything Through TSA Nude Body Scanners Airport body scanners lengthen queues as many trigger alarms L-3: the $15 billion defence contractor that will be scanning us Kurt Haskell: Witness to Government False Flag Global payment system to block Iranian banks Crossing Syrian border and Free Syrian Army plea to the world for help Keiser Report Episode 263 Citizen journalists escape from Syria America's "Lone Gunman" in Afghanistan: "I Did It"... Full Body Scanners, 2012-03-19T22:00:39+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/stop_csg_rally_video_report_government_fails_people_of_nsw http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/stop_csg_rally_video_report_government_fails_people_of_nsw#When:01:00:52Z Truth News covers the stop CSG Rally at Parliament House NSW, 15 March 2012. In the morning a motion was put to the NSW Upper House by Jeremy Buckingham of the Greens – to place a moratorium on all coal seam gas (CSG) projects in the state, other than the Camden production field. It was lost 16-19, with the Coalition, Shooters and Fishers and Christian Democrats against; and Labor and The Greens in favour. In the afternoon a petition with over 20,000 signatures was presented in Parliament. Protesters assembled outside Parliament at 4:00pm, then entered the building to continue their peaceful protest. After barely 10 minutes, the protesters were ejected from Parliament, allegedly because of the wording on their T-shirts. Report from Stop CSG Illawarra follows: Thursday March 15 2012 was a big day for the coal seam gas issue in our state parliament. In the morning a motion was put to the NSW Upper House by Jeremy Buckingham of the Greens – to place a moratorium on all coal seam gas (CSG) projects in the state, other than the Camden production field. It was lost 16-19, with the Coalition, Shooters and Fishers and Christian Democrats against; and Labor and The Greens in favour. In the afternoon it was the turn of our petition, YOUR petition, to be debated. Over 20,000 signed, calling on the Government to put in place an immediate moratorium on all CSG projects; a royal commission into the full impacts of CSG; and an immediate ban on fracking. Gareth Ward and Lee Evans spoke against, and Ryan Park and John Robertson spoke in favour. You can view the “debate” video (including its descent into chaos) in full online. In both Houses Coalition members showed absolute contempt for the people of NSW. The Coalition called a moratorium irresponsible, saying that the Government must wait for more facts. But it is completely irresponsible to develop an industry before getting the facts. Gareth Ward spoke against the petition – defending Coalition plans as adequate. Lee Evans spoke against the petition, then admitted to signing it. But he can’t have it both ways. He either stands with his community, and the 74% of people in NSW who support the call for a moratorium, or he tows the Coalition line and acts on behalf of the CSG industry. Yesterday, he chose the latter. Actions speak louder than words. The Liberals opposed the petition. The Coalition voted down a moratorium. Barry O’Farrell did not even show up. CSG wells are being drilled in our drinking water catchment and the Government is not stopping it. Yesterday, the vital role of community campaigns could not have been clearer. The Government is failing to act for the people of NSW; so we must. As the Coalition scrambles to defend the indefensible, we must launch a people’s moratorium and lock the industry out of our communities. See you at the CSG Community Conference on Sunday March 25.   Coal Seam Gas, 2012-03-17T01:00:52+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/how_facebook_is_exterminating_communities http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/how_facebook_is_exterminating_communities#When:00:55:22Z Ladies and gentlemen, I have been struggling (unsuccesfully) to get the new facebook timeline features to work in a reasonable way which suit the needs of this website, and I just want to let you all know that I've had enough! I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more! I've come to the conclusion that the Facebook ruling elite have decided to quietly exterminate their community pages, by forcing everyone (including fan pages and groups) over to the new publishing format which gives THEM more control and YOU less control. Of course, this is sugar coated as such draconian changes always are, with superficially "nice" features such as a wider tab and a few token settings which give you the illusion of control. But here is the bitter pill: as an admin of the TNRA page I can no longer control what users see - this is now managed by Facebook. THEY now decide is appropriate for each of us to see, based on our friends, our "likes" and our previous browsing choices. They call this "personalizing" our user experience. Don't be fooled! In reality they are CONTROLLING our user experience, under the cover of tailoring our view to a vacuous commercial construct of "personal preference". Hyper "personalization", which facebook is forcing on us, is anathema to the very essence of community, which is about shared experience. It is more in keeping with modern consumer marketing practices, which use all kinds of psychologically manipulative tactics to get people to become attached to a BRAND. Indeed, personalization is a great way of DESTROYING communities because it forces everyone into a scenario where all interactions are mediated by "Nanny Facebook", who "personalizes" what we see based on an involuntary algorithm which determines what is best for each of us. Folks, it is time to LEAVE Facebook! Crony Capitalism, Facebook, 2012-03-15T00:55:22+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/the_csg_exploration_permit_that_covers_sydney http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/the_csg_exploration_permit_that_covers_sydney#When:00:19:07Z In 2008, the NSW government under Labor granted Dart Energy a Petroleum Exploration Licence (PEL 463) to explore for CSG across 2400sqkm of the Sydney Basin - from Gosford on the Central Coast to Coalcliff south of Sydney. The first exploration well has been approved was for the inner city Sydney suburb of St Peters. On June 2, 2011 Stop CSG-Sydney provided Dart Energy with a list of questions related directly to their plans to drill in St Peters, based on the Review of Environmental Factors. Here's the list of questions and the responses (received 64 days later). Dart Energy agreed to meet St Peters residents at St Peters Town Hall, Tuesday 16th of August 6pm. For those that couldn't make it visit You Tube or watch the video. CSG mining is already destroying communities across NSW and QLD, so it is crucial we act now to stop csg drilling in St Peters. So far we have rallied together, lobbied our politicians, held community information events, hosted a community forum to hear the City of Sydney plans for trigeneration (view the City Of Sydney response to our questions), screened the US documentary Gasland, letterboxed hundreds of homes, submitted a formal submission to the NSW Government Coal and Gas Strategy and more. Over 200,000 people live, work and play within 2km of the gas exploration site in St Peters. ARE YOU ONE OF THEM? Coal Seam Gas, 2012-03-15T00:19:07+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/tsa_threatens_media_not_to_cover_story_exposing_body_scanner_blind_spots http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/tsa_threatens_media_not_to_cover_story_exposing_body_scanner_blind_spots#When:00:26:55Z The engineer who reported on serious flaws in body scanner technology now reports that journalists are being warned not to cover the story. I’ve been on the phone all day for the last 2 days with reporters and journalists of all kinds, including the big bad MSM, and one South Florida reporter told me that he had been “strongly cautioned” by the TSA not to cover my viral YouTube video showing TSA nude body scanners to be completely worthless. Absolutely unbelievable: Update: The name of the TSA spokeswoman who attempted to intimidate this journalist is Sari Koshetz. Update 2: Second journalist comes forward in comments on this post: SmarterTravel March 8, 2012 at 3:34 pm | #11 Reply | Quote | Edit We were also “strongly cautioned” not to cover the story. We did anyway at SmarterTravel: http://tinyurl.com/7te5wj8 The TSA is clearly no fan of the 4th Amendment, nor of 5th Amendment due process rights, and now this blatant attempt to manipulate the free press with “strong caution” hits at Amendment the First. Why strong caution? Are there repercussions for journalists that fail to heed this “advice?” Because, you know, if I were a member of the free press and the federal government asked me to censor myself, I’d happily comply . . . . . . . . . riiight. I have news for the federal government: Americans will not take censorship in any form. We thought we made this clear when you tried to force SOPA on us. So what should we do about this? If you’re a journalist who has received any kind of similar warning, please contact me. Everyone else, please take a moment to contact your local mainstream media outlets (Fox, ABC, NBC, CNN, etc.) to request that they cover the original story. The Internet has been absolutely amazing as have large alternative programs (Alex Jones, for example) and I do believe that we have successfully spread the word. But, if the TSA doesn’t want the MSM to cover it, there’s probably a reason, so let’s take the battle there! Full Body Scanners, 2012-03-11T00:26:55+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/tsa_responds_to_viral_video_about_body_scanners http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/tsa_responds_to_viral_video_about_body_scanners#When:00:46:50Z A video is making its way around the interwebs this morning from some guy claiming he figured out a way to beat our body scanners (imaging technology).   I watched the video and it is a crude attempt to allegedly show how to circumvent TSA screening procedures.   For obvious security reasons, we can’t discuss our technology's detection capability in detail, however TSA conducts extensive testing of all screening technologies in the laboratory and at airports prior to rolling them out to the entire field. Imaging technology has been extremely effective in the field and has found things artfully concealed on passengers as large as a gun or nonmetallic weapons, on down to a tiny pill or tiny baggies of drugs. It’s one of the best tools available to detect metallic and non-metallic items, such as… you know… things that go BOOM.   With all that said, it is one layer of our 20 layers of security (Behavior Detection, Explosives Detection Canines, Federal Air Marshals, , etc.) and is not a machine that has all the tools we need in one handy device. We’ve never claimed it’s the end all be all.   However, our nation's aviation system is much safer now with the deployment of 600 imaging technology units at 140 airports. It is completely safe and the vast majority use a generic image that completely addresses privacy concerns. Also, keep in mind that is optional. Anybody can opt out of the body scanner for a pat-down.    Blogger Bob Burns TSA Blog Team   Full Body Scanners, 2012-03-10T00:46:50+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/stop_acta_things_you_can_do_right_now http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/stop_acta_things_you_can_do_right_now#When:04:44:00Z This document and video presentation outlines steps you can take right now to help put a stop to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which poses a serious threat to our freedom and national sovereignty. For additional information and links on ACTA, please click here. We need a new approach, whereby we take back government from the elite’s stooges and appointees – grassroots campaigns whereby we go to visit our Local Members with a carefully prepared plan, limited to a maximum of ten point plan to tell them why we find something unacceptable.  What I mean is don’t go in with voluminous documents except as reference documents.  Let the politicians know that this reference material is not part of the presentation. The Most Effective Strategy is to actually visit your Local MP in person to make representations as to why we should not ratify ACTA. How to find your Local Federal MP If you are unsure in which electorate you reside, then, try visiting the Australian Electoral Commission Website at http://apps.aec.gov.au/esearch/. in order to ascertain this information.  What to Do About Getting an Appointment Ring your Local Federal MP’s office and make an appointment to see them.  Suppose that you are told that they are unable to see you, then, don’t be deterred, ask to see the appropriate member of their staff.  Prepare a Ten Point Plan Do not go into visit your Local MP with a voluminous document complaining about ACTA because it will not be read!  Instead prepare a careful ten point plan that sets out the problems with ACTA in summary but do make sure that you reference every point and do take in the reference material with you.  If your MP, or their staff member asks for a copy of this or access to this reference material, then, give them a copy.  Do be polite but let your Local Member know that you are very concerned about the impact that ACTA will have on our society and that you are only prepared to support a candidate who will vote against ACTA being implemented.  Politics is a numbers’ game! If every electorate in Australia receives ten visits, then, that will be sufficient to let our politicians know that we don’t want ACTA ratified.  Not many politicians have a death wish and visits of this magnitude will convince them that the policy is not only unpopular but that supporting it is political suicide.  Get your friends to do likewise.  Make this information go viral!  Urge everyone on your email contacts’ list to do the same. ACTA 10 Point Plan – Point Form Only Download the FULL 10 POINT PLAN: click here The Stated Aims of ACTA do not stand up to scrutiny There is no necessity for ACTA as there are already remedies available for breach of copyright and Trade Mark violations ACTA makes it possible to bypass the judicial system of this country If a warrant is issued against someone in your household then every computer in your place will be seized ACTA provides for a custodial sentence for the unauthorized copying of cinematographic films:  This is manifestly excessive! ACTA necessitates the Principle of Excessive Surveillance ACTA will make criminals out of an estimated 25% of Net users The Claims about Net Piracy Are Flawed We do not know how foreign law is to apply as regards extradition? ACTA was negotiated in secret with public consultation The Dirty Secret of the Copyright Lobby is that is that the very people who are trying to make criminals of those who upload or download copyright material are the very same people who have made a fortune out of file sharing software!  ACTA may well prevent you getting the vitamins, minerals and alternative medicine you want ACTA may well prevent you watching sport when you want to watch sport     ACTA, Copyright, 2012-03-09T04:44:00+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/tsa_tacitly_admits_1_billion_dollar_body_scanner_system_is_critically_flawe http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/tsa_tacitly_admits_1_billion_dollar_body_scanner_system_is_critically_flawe#When:23:14:43Z The Transportation Security Administration has tacitly admitted that the critical flaws brought to light in a viral You Tube video yesterday which exposed how airport body scanners could easily be beaten are accurate, rendering the entire $1 billion dollar program virtually worthless. Engineer Jon Corbett of the popular blog TSA Out of Our Pants! posted a video yesterday that demonstrates how the TSA’s radiation firing body scanners can easily be bypassed. The clip has already received over 700,000 views. The video shows Corbett carrying a metal case through the scanner, away from his body in his side pocket. Corbett explains that because metallic objects appear as black on the image the scanners produce, the machines do not pick up such objects if they are obscured by the background, which is also black. The video went viral and despite You Tube slapping an age-restricted censor on the clip, the story was picked up by dozens of major news outlets, forcing the TSA to respond. On the TSA’s official blog, the agency attempts to discredit Corbett by describing him as “some guy” who launched a “crude attempt to allegedly show how to circumvent TSA screening procedures.” However, nowhere in the response does the TSA actually address or attempt to disprove Corbett’s demonstration that the body scanner can be easily fooled. In labeling Corbett’s successful effort to evade the body scanner as “crude,” the TSA has inadvertently admitted that its $1 billion dollar body scanner system can be defeated by “crude” methods. Body scanners are “one layer of our 20 layers of security,” the blog states, before adding, “our nation’s aviation system is much safer now with the deployment of 600 imaging technology units at 140 airports.” Obviously, it is not safer if these 600 units can all be rendered useless merely by placing an object inside a pocket sown on to the side of a shirt. Illustrating how insufficient the TSA’s response is in disproving Corbett’s evidence, the comments in response to the blog post completely savage the federal agency. “Beautiful, so instead of posting anything to refute the video and/or support it. You give us the old soft shoe and call it good. Sorry, not good enough, if someone has figured out how to bypass the screening. Then this is a cause for concern,” writes one. “So, TSA detects an artfully concealed item, and it makes that detection a part of its weekly brag report, saying “look how wonderful AIT is, it caught this”. But then when ordinary people find a way to smuggle contraband past a checkpoint, TSA’s response is “oh, that’s not important, because we have other layers, too. Either AIT is important, or it’s not. Which is it, TSA?” asks another. “This was such a carefully worded blog post that one can safely conclude that the vulnerability described in the video is true,” adds another. Almost all of the 60 odd comments made in response to the TSA blog post are critical of the agency and express the belief that Corbett’s video has completely destroyed the justification behind body scanners. During a press conference yesterday, Janet Napolitano was asked about the viral video but stated she had no knowledge of it. Napolitano has probably heard of it by now given the fact that it could represent the final nail in the coffin for the TSA’s expensive, unpopular and completely useless body scanner program. Full Body Scanners, 2012-03-08T23:14:43+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/police_brutality_on_youtube http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/police_brutality_on_youtube#When:08:46:20Z The following videos were found during a casual youtube search which began with a story about a 20 year old girl in Florida who suffered severe brain damage as a result of being tasered in the back while handcuffed. These videos demonstrate over and over again the same pattern, with police officers carried away in an orgy of domination, torture and murderous rage inflicted on harmless, helpless and incapacitated victims. In each case the police claim that the victim was at fault, and that the use of force was appropriate. Tasering a 72 old woman for refusing to sign a traffic infringement, tasering a man lying prone on the ground with a broken back, tasering a blind woman, breaking the neck of an 84 year old war veteran - all these are deemed justifiable use of force. We don't need horror movies any more. The horror is right here, on youtube, and it's real.   Police Violence, Tasers, 2012-03-07T08:46:20+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/how_to_get_anything_through_tsa_nude_body_scanners http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/how_to_get_anything_through_tsa_nude_body_scanners#When:00:44:42Z This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA’s insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud, just like their claims that the program is safe (radiation what?) and non-invasive (nude pictures who?). The scanners are now effectively worthless, as anyone can beat them with virtually no effort. The TSA has been provided this video in advance of it being made public to give them an opportunity to turn off the scanners and revert to the metal detectors. I personally believe they now have no choice but to turn them off. Please share this video with your family, friends, and most importantly, elected officials in federal government. Make sure they understand that your vote is contingent on them fixing the abuse that 200,000 passengers face from the TSA on a daily basis. I’d like to thank: Travel Underground – http://www.travelunderground.org/ Freedom to Travel USA – http://fttusa.org/ Legislators who have stood up to the TSA – especially Dr. Ron Paul & Sen. Rand Paul …and all those who have both publicly and privately stood up to the TSA. My legal battle against the TSA’s nude body scanner and pat-down molestation program continues in court, soon with a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court. If you’d like to donate to this effort, send PayPal to: jon [at] fourtentech.com VIDEO TRANSCRIPT I’m publishing this video because I want the world to know how much danger the American Transportation Security Administration is putting all us all in with their haste to deploy the expensive, invasive nude body scanner program. When the machines came out, we were told that the invasion on our privacy, doses of radiation, and trashing of our Constitution were necessary because the old metal detectors weren’t good enough. That “non-metallic explosives” were a threat, even though no one has boarded a plane in the US with any type of explosive in nearly 40 years. But while America was testing these devices, Rafi Sela, who ran security for Ben Gurion airport in Israel, which is known for being one of the most secure airports in the world, was quoted saying he could “overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to take down a Boeing 747,” and Ben Gurion therefore refused to buy scanners. The US ignored this warning, and Mr. Sela never publicly explained his statement. But it stuck with me. As a scientist, engineer, and frequent traveler, as well as the first person to sue the TSA when they rolled out the scanners as primary in Nov. 2010, I studied and learned about both kinds of scanners currently in use by the TSA. Here are several images produced by TSA nude body scanners. You’ll see that the search victim is drawn with light colors and placed on a black background in both images. In these samples, the individuals are concealing metallic objects that you can see as a black shape on their light figure. Again that’s light figure, black background, and BLACK threat items. Yes that’s right, if you have a metallic object on your side, it will be the same color as the background and therefore completely invisible to both visual and automated inspection. It can’t possibly be that easy to beat the TSA’s billion dollar fleet of nude body scanners, right? The TSA can’t be that stupid, can they? Unfortunately, they can, and they are. To put it to the test, I bought a sewing kit from the dollar store, broke out my 8th grade home ec skills, and sewed a pocket directly on the side of a shirt. Then I took a random metallic object, in this case a heavy metal carrying case that would easily alarm any of the “old” metal detectors, and walked through a backscatter x-ray at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. On video, of course. While I’m not about to win any videography awards for my hidden camera footage, you can watch as I walk through the security line with the metal object in my new side pocket. My camera gets placed on the conveyer belt and goes through its own x-ray, and when it comes out, I’m through, and the object never left my pocket. Maybe a fluke? Ok, let’s try again at Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport through one of the TSA’s newest machines: a millimeter wave scanner with automated threat detection built-in. With the metallic object in my side pocket, I enter the security line, my device goes through its own x-ray, I pass through, and exit with the object without any complaints from the TSA. While I carried the metal case empty, by one with mal-intent, it could easily have been filled with razor blades, explosives, or one of Charlie Sheen’s infamous 7 gram rocks of cocaine. With a bigger pocket, perhaps sewn on the inside of the shirt, even a firearm could get through. It’s important to note that any metal object of any size can use this technique. …and I don’t urge you to try to bring contraband through security, as the nude body scanners often have false positives: so while the metal on your side might get through, a button on your shirt or a sweaty armpit might “look suspicious” and earn you a pat down anyway. Now, I’m sure the TSA will accuse me of aiding the terrorists by releasing this video, but it’s beyond belief that the terrorists haven’t already figured this out and are already plotting to use this against us. It’s also beyond belief that the TSA did not already know everything I just told you, and arrogantly decided to disregard our safety: anything to force Americans to give up our liberty to the federal government and our tax dollars to companies that are in bed with that government. The nude body scanner program is nothing but a giant fraud, which should come as no surprise after the Fast & Furious scandal that sent thousands of guns to Mexican drug cartels and cost a Customs and Border Patrol agent his life. THIS is a disgrace. So let’s fix this problem — now — before the terrorists take this opportunity to hurt us: the TSA must immediately end the nude body scanner program, and return to the tried-and-true metal detectors that actually work, and work without invading our privacy, as well as implement better solutions for non-metallic explosives, such as bomb-sniffing dogs and trace detection machines. The TSA is worse than ineffective: they are an epic fail placing us all in danger. Beyond the scanners, Demand of your legislators and presidential candidates that they get rid of this $8B a year waste known as the TSA and privatize airport security. Ask for their commitment to our rights in exchange for your vote. And no matter which party is in the White House or holds on to Capital Hill, the issue of ending TSA abuse is of interest to all Americans; it’s NOT a partisan issue. We must all stand together and demand an end to the organization that molests our families while placing us in danger by directly ignoring blatant security flaws. Thank you. Full Body Scanners, 2012-03-07T00:44:42+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/airport_scanners_your_freedom_has_flown http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/airport_scanners_your_freedom_has_flown#When:02:57:23Z Plans to introduce see-through scanners at airports don't allow you any choice, like frisking or pat-down as alternatives. The scanners are bad in principle, will cause delays and produce false positives, and they create a head-on assault on Australians' civil liberties. They are also a waste of taxpayers' money, hundreds of millions of dollars of it – you can email/SMS/Tweet the Minister with your thoughts (details are on screen in the video). If you like, you can join CLA or donate so we can continue this campaign and others to help protect Australians' rights and freedoms - click here. The ‘Freedom Has Flown: How Airport Scanners Take Away Your Civil Liberties” video was produced with help from Koozzoo as a service to the civil liberties of the people of Australia. Civil Liberties Australia thanks Koozzoo for their community spirit: http://www.koozzoo.com. Full Body Scanners, 2012-03-06T02:57:23+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/mom_with_breast_pump_humiliated_by_tsa http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/mom_with_breast_pump_humiliated_by_tsa#When:05:56:12Z A mother in Hawaii was "humiliated" when she felt she needed to pump breast milk in the open area of an airport bathroom in order for a TSA agent to permit her to get through security with her breast pumping equipment. "I'm in a dress, in heels and I find myself in front of a sink and mirrors with travelers coming in and out of the bathroom," Amy Strand told ABCNews.com. "I'm standing at the sink with my breast hanging out, pumping. I wanted to cry. I was humiliated." Strand, 38, is a mother of four and principal at a public school in Maui. She frequently travels between islands for business and had never had a problem with the equipment before. On Wednesday, as she was making her way through airport security at Lihue Airport in Kauai, she was stopped in security and an agent asked if he could look at the equipment. She obliged, and the agent opened her kit to find her pump, a cooler pack and empty milk bottles. Strand said she had done "what no nursing mother wants to do" 20 minutes earlier and dumped out the milk in the bottles in order to avoid any hassle going through security. She never imagined that empty bottles would be the problem. The agent told her the ice pack would not be allowed through security without milk in the bottles. Strand said the ice pack is specially made for the milk's cooler and would not be easy to replace. "It really confuses me as to how an empty breast pump and cooler pack are a threat to national security and 20 minutes later, with milk, they no longer pose a threat to national security," Strand said incredulously. She asked if there was a private place she could pump and was told there was not. The agent suggested she go to the public bathroom. Her electric pump required an outlet and there were no outlets in the stalls, so she had to use one in the bathroom's public area. "There was no misunderstanding," Strand said. "I really only had two options: leave part of it behind or pump. And I'm not going to leave part of it behind because [the agent] doesn't know the police and procedures." On the verge of tears, Strand said she returned to the line and was allowed to go through. In a statement, the TSA acknowledged that the agent was mistaken in telling Strand that she could only bring the ice pack with her on the plane if it was medically necessary. A TSA official also said that the agent did not mandate that Strand go pump milk in the bathroom. "The passenger has contacted us with her concerns and we accept responsibility for the apparent misunderstanding and any inconvenience or embarrassment this incident may have caused her," the statement said. "The officer in question is receiving remedial training." "I think this agent exercised poor judgment and because of his poor judgment, I ended up humiliated," Strand said. "I did speak personally with the head of the state of Hawaii TSA branch. He formally apologized to me and seemed very sincere and was very upset about what took place," she said. "If this can save another mom that same humiliation, it's worth talking about."   Full Body Scanners, 2012-03-05T05:56:12+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/airport_body_scanners_lengthen_queues_as_many_trigger_alarms_read_more_http http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/airport_body_scanners_lengthen_queues_as_many_trigger_alarms_read_more_http#When:00:31:22Z Debra Jopson March 5, 2012 Two in five passengers who took part in a trial of airport body scanners, which are set to become compulsory in four months, had to submit to further searches after they triggered alarms. During seven weeks of trials at Sydney and Melbourne's international airports, just 57 per cent of the 23,500 volunteers undergoing body scans were cleared immediately to proceed to their flights, according to a Department of Infrastructure and Transport submission to a federal parliamentary inquiry. Cash, boots with buckles, hairclips, watches, jewellery, studs and zips were the most common causes of the alarm going off in the scanners, which the department has admitted proved slightly slower than the metal detectors now in use. Advertisement: Story continues below Civil liberties groups say using the scanners will make departure security lanes much slower. The department said public reaction to the trial was positive, but admitted it showed screening officers needed training so they could ''exhibit empathy and be able to put themselves in the shoes of passengers who may believe that they are being unduly inconvenienced or mistreated''. The legislation allowing the use of body scanners has been referred to the House of Representatives infrastructure and communications committee, but the government has already announced that the machines will be phased in from July, with a tough ''opt-out-no-fly'' policy at Australia's eight international airports. ''In effect, people are being asked to undergo the equivalent of a strip-search with a bag over their head,'' the president of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties, Michael Cope, said in a submission to the inquiry. ''The fundamental question is whether the risk of being killed in a terrorist attack, which is considerably less than dying crossing a road or falling off a ladder, justifies strip-searching every person who gets off the plane,'' he said. ''As one privacy expert put it, if you are trying to stop bombers at the airport, it's probably too late.'' Mr Cope said the government's decision to ensure that the scanned image would be a stick figure rather than a person's naked body shape was a ''significant advance''. But it was still denying passengers the choice of a body frisk search, which some might prefer, he said. The chairman of the Australian Privacy Foundation, Roger Clarke, said the bill before Parliament went beyond allowing the introduction of one specific type of body scanner. ''If they want to zap everybody with different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, this bill allows them to do it,'' he said. Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/airport-body-scanners-lengthen-queues-as-many-trigger-alarms-20120304-1uban.html#ixzz1oCLXM2AQ Full Body Scanners, 2012-03-05T00:31:22+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/australian_academics_advocate_killing_unwanted_babies http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/australian_academics_advocate_killing_unwanted_babies#When:22:56:01Z The first half of today's show features an interview with engineer and 9/11 truth advocate John Bursill, who has launched a new campaign to oppose a military strike on Iran. John has recently written an article on this subject which is posted at truthnews.com.au. John has organised a protest against the impending Iran war: 24 March 2012 Sydney Town Hall 483 George, Sydney, NSW 2000 I hope to see you there! In the second half of the show we look at a scandal which has erupted over the publication of an article in the the prestigious British Medial Journal which seeks to legitimise the killing of "unwanted" newborn babies. The BMJ has published an article written by two Australian academics titled "After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?". The substance of this article found its way to the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald, one of the top news publishers in the country. The intellectual underpinning of the article appears to be along the lines of the bio-ethics of Princeton University professor Peter Singer. We can illustrate this by comparing quotes from Singer and the authors of the article noted above. Singer (Biomedical Ethics for Engineers): "Human babies are not born self-aware or capable of grasping their lives over time. They are not persons. Hence their lives would seem to be no more worthy of protection that the life of a fetus" Giubilini et al: "The moral status of an infant is equivalent to that of a fetus in the sense that both lack those properties that justify the attribution of a right to life to an individual." "Both a fetus and a newborn certainly are human beings and potential persons, but neither is a ‘person’ in the sense of ‘subject of a moral right to life’." In Singer's utilitarian philosophy "person-hood" is only granted via a complex equation that includes vaguely defined notions of "social utility" and the  "greater good". For Singer, a disabled child is not necessarily a "person", and should be killed "if that was in the best interests of the baby and of the family as a whole". How exactly killing a baby could be in the best interests of the baby is a mystery for us all to consider! In the second half of today's show we canvas some opinions on the subject from several TNRA listeners. We look forward to hearing your comments on this shocking story! Related Links Deflating the HYPE - Can the Seemingly Imminent War with Iran be Stopped? After-birth abortion: why should the baby live? Philosophers' claim over moral right to kill newborns sparks outrage   Abortion, Eugenics, Iran, Medical Ethics, 2012-03-04T22:56:01+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/australian_academics_advocate_killing_unwanted_babies http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/australian_academics_advocate_killing_unwanted_babies#When:22:56:01Z Part 2 of Australian academics advocate killing unwanted babies Abortion, Eugenics, Iran, Medical Ethics, 2012-03-04T22:56:01+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/deflating_the_hype_can_the_seemingly_imminent_war_with_iran_be_stopped http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/deflating_the_hype_can_the_seemingly_imminent_war_with_iran_be_stopped#When:13:00:57Z Article by John Bursill Unfortunately it now appears that a war between the US and it’s allies with Iran is imminent. By any military analysts assessment this has a real chance of changing the current multi-theatre war against terrorism and so called rogue/terrorist states into a real World War III scenario! Following the Main Stream Media (MSM) in the west over the last few months, you would be sensing that many things have happened to support the war with Iran rationale; hearing that Iran wants a Nuclear bomb and would be prepared to use it against Israel and the US. Other alarming stories include Iran trading in weapons with “rogue states”, Iran killing innocent people abroad, Iran’s President is insane and wants to “wipe Israel off the map”, Iran has been involved in terrorist plots/bombings and may attack inside the US and Iran is trading drugs. The list of baseless accusation goes on and on. Interesting to remember that after 9/11 the MSM did little to question the actual events and who benefited but devoted massive media speculation to Iraq being involved while no evidence existed; managing to convince the vast majority of the American public that Saddam was involved with the 9/11 attacks leading to growing public support for the 2003 invasion. Many times over the last decade it was obvious by the rhetoric out of Washington and from their many think tanks like PNAC (The Project for the New American Century) and leaked memos from the Pentagon that the Caspian Basin would be central to their future plans of an expanding Empire. The only obstacle was then generating the public and political support to do so. Prophetically the Neo-Con document “Rebuilding America's Defences (year 2000)” had said a “New Pearl Harbour” type event was required for this purpose and then very conveniently, it happened on September 11 2001. This facilitated the new American Empire they wanted by enraging the US population to a war mentality and allowing massive budget increases. It was soon obvious which countries were marked for “regime change” or worse in the Middle East including Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Iran. The most probable reasons for the desire to control these countries was to complete it’s dominance of the Caspian Basin oil reserves, protect its allies Israel and Saudi Arabia and to ultimately usurp any possible arrangements between Iran, China, India and Russia that could threaten the trading of oil in US Dollars. In my opinion the US deep state believe if oil rich countries get the idea they can trade direct with sovereign nations without using the US dollar, the US Empire will certainly be finished, well economically at least. If this means the death of millions in the Middle East and of tens of thousands of their own troops by these wars then that’s fine with them as long as they keep control of the oil trade. This increasing projection of US force is even more likely as the US Empire begins to crumble for it will wish to deny the rising economic giants a secure supply of energy. To quote Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham in their recent article “War Plan Iran” “From the Western powers’ point of view, Iran is both an elusive prize and a frustrating obstacle. Bringing Iran back into the orbit of Western capitalist control has the added significance of depriving energy and other geopolitical advantages to rival powers, in particular Russia and China.” This situation is not going to be allowed to eventuate without pushing diplomatic relationships with China and Russia and many others to breaking point. Will they act economically or militarily is the only question in my view. Either way the world will be in for more economic stress, debt and expanding military budgets but most worryingly, a possible nuclear exchange. So lets look at the picture being painted at present, i.e. the hype and propaganda v’s the actual situation and why this confrontation is now apparently imminent. The situation; - Iran has no Nuclear Weapons Program says all US and western intelligence agencies - Iran is ideologically opposed to Nuclear Weapons - Iran has continued to threaten the US Dollar dominance trading through it’s own oil bourse dropping US dollar trade completely on March 20 this year - China and Russia is increasingly upset by US Policy in the gulf and an Iran/Syria intervention may be the last straw - Massive build up of US military force in Persian Gulf - Positioning of large troop contingents in Israel and Kuwait  - War Games have recently escalated in the strait of Hormuz - US has recently announced the biggest ever arms sale to Saudi Arabia(60 Billion USD) - Israel is “ready” for war with Iran and could strike at any time - US Sanctions on Iran, while diplomacy ends, historically means the next step is a military intervention - Russia prepared to use military force to protect interests in Gulf region say Russian Military Experts - Main Stream Media Critics of US Middle East Policy barely exist and continue to be shut down or sacked   The propaganda and hype; - Mainstream Media (MSM) support the Neo-Con agenda that Iranians are “determined to become a nuclear power” are “crazy” and will use it - The current US policy of sanctions is required to persuade Iran to stop it’s Nuclear Weapons Program  - Many allegations have been made by the US and its allies that implicates Iran in terrorist/criminal activities without any hard evidence - MSM are beating the drums of war again with baseless stories. A quick search of YouTube shows many spun stories making it seem like Iran is determined to get a nuclear weapon - Iranian Elected President Mamoud Ahmadinejad is continually misquoted to give a sense that he will “wipe Israel of the map” and believes the Jewish Holocaust never happened - The current line up of Republican Candidates ( except Ron Paul ) continue to call for war with Iran - Israel pushing hard for war and blaming Iran for attacks against their country without hard evidence  - Attacks against Iran and the murder of its scientists, supported by media and political talking heads as required and acceptable - Iran being set up for the next 9/11 “false flag” to give reason for US attack So there’s the background, now to the question: ‘can the war with Iran be stopped’ by rational actors calling for truth and sanity in the face of such propaganda produced by strong Neo-Con/Israeli control of the media, the US Congress and even within the UN itself? Can we deflate the hype? Well I would say it’s unlikely with the current state of the paralysed Peace Movement and completely controlled MSM world wide. But I do believe with a raising of awareness in the general public, of exactly how dangerous this war could be for us all, both physically and economically it is possible to put a stop to the Neo-Con/Israeli plan once again. Also the broad awareness that 9/11 and other pretexts to war are not what we are told, has weakened the popular support of governments pushing for war without proper investigation of the events that lead to them. I have found that the argument against a war with Iran leading to a possible WWIII is very easy to make, even if you propose it to those who support the US Empires’ control of the Caspian Basin or it’s support of Israel. Because turning the Middle East into one big war theatre by a likely confrontation between the US and China/Russia is obvious madness. This only makes sense to a few warmongering power elite who care little for life; the progress towards peace or the stability of the region. As hard as it is to conceive, their are people controlling America who have always been prepared to risk nuclear war, seriously thinking they can win and rule the world. I personally recently decided to start a process to address this situation in Sydney Australia by organising a truth awareness rally see: Say NO to a WAR with Iran! Deflate the WAR HYPE with Truth Awareness   Iran, 2012-03-02T13:00:57+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/l_3_the_15_billion_defence_contractor_that_will_be_scanning_us http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/l_3_the_15_billion_defence_contractor_that_will_be_scanning_us#When:04:13:10Z Part two of a report by Crikey political correspondent Bernard Keane on the awarding of an airport body scanner contract by the Australian Government without conducting a risk analysis So who is the real beneficiary of the government’s decision to impose body-scanning technology on international passengers? Step forward L-3 Communications, a key member of the US defence establishment and one with links to some of the worst scandals of the past decade. The company will reap $28 million dollars from the government’s obsession with security theatre that has no demonstrated security benefits, through its provision of body scanners. L-3 began as an orphan company after a Lockheed merger saw several business units sold off to two former Loral executives funded by Lehman Brothers, which still has a big stake in the company and a board seat. Since then, L-3 has grown into one of the top 10 US defence contractors. The company earned nearly a billion dollars in profit in 2010, from revenues of more than $15 billion. Along the way, it has been involved in some of the US’ biggest defence and procurement scandals. In the late 1990s, the company’s lobbyist Linda Daschle helped the company get a Federal Aviation Authority contract to supply airport baggage scanners courtesy of legislation passed by her husband, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. The scanners were later revealed to be faulty, but the FAA was obliged by Daschle’s legislation to continue to purchase them. The company later acquired defence contractor Titan, which has been implicated in several procurement scandals. Titan provided “interpreters” at the US Army’s Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and the company was sued by a victims of US torture and abuse there, until the US Supreme Court finally dismissed the case in 2011. In 2010, a division of the company was suspended from providing any services to the US government after it was found using US government networks to spy on competitors. There have also been several lesser procurement scandals typical of the US defence industry. But even as the US looks to cut back defence spending, with flow-on effects for big suppliers such as L-3, the fertile field of security theatre has opened up as a revenue source — there’s little or no political will to cut war-on-terror funding. By 2010, the company had provided nearly $US40 million worth of body scanners following the “underwear bomber”, having massively ramped up its lobbying effort. Not unhelpful is the fact that several US congressional representatives have big L-3 shareholdings, including former 2004 Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry. Here, the company (with headquarters in Canberra) is represented by two lobbyist outfits. Its specialised night vision and targeting division is represented by defence specialist lobbyists Owen International while its maritime defence equipment arm L-3 Nautronix is represented by CMAX, headed by Tara and Christian Taubenschlag; the latter was Joel Fitzgibbon’s press adviser. Typical of such companies, L-3’s board has extensive links with the US defence establishment, including a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Here, former Air Vice-Marshal Alan Titheridge is vice-president. In 2011, L-3 and its various divisions scored more than $31 million dollars from Australian taxpayers, nearly all of it via direct tenders where there’s no competition. Its operations extend across military and communications hardware, from aircraft to detection and communications equipment to business services. Defence spending may be getting tighter, but security theatre is boom industry here and overseas.   Full Body Scanners, 2012-02-27T04:13:10+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/silencing_the_critics http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/silencing_the_critics#When:11:04:44Z In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of peace activists in several states and seized personal possessions in what the FBI--the lead orchestrator of fake “terrorist plots”--called an investigation of “activities concerning the material support of terrorism.” Subpoenas were issued to compel antiwar protestors to testify before grand juries as prosecutors set about building their case that opposing Washington’s wars of aggression constitutes giving aid and comfort to terrorists.  The purpose of the raids and grand jury subpoenas was to chill the anti-war movement into inaction. Last week in one fell swoop the last two remaining critics of Washington/Tel Aviv imperialism were removed from the mainstream media. Judge Napolitano’s popular program, Freedom Watch, was cancelled by Fox TV, and Pat Buchanan was fired by MSNBC.  Both pundits had wide followings and were appreciated for speaking frankly.  Many suspect that the Israel Lobby used its clout with TV advertisers to silence critics of the Israeli government’s efforts to lead Washington to war with Iran.  Regardless, the point before us is that the voice of the mainstream media is now uniform. Americans hear one voice, one message, and the message is propaganda.  Dissent is tolerated only on such issues as to whether employer-paid health benefits should pay for contraceptive devices. Constitutional rights have been replaced with rights to free condoms. The western media demonizes those at whom Washington points a finger. The lies pour forth to justify Washington’s naked aggression:  the Taliban are conflated with al Qaeda, Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction, Gaddafi is a terrorist and, even worse, fortified his troops with Viagra in order to commit mass rape against Libyan women. President Obama and members of Congress along with Tel Aviv continue to assert that Iran is making a nuclear weapon despite public contradiction by the US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and the CIA’s National Intelligence Estimate.  According to news reports, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta told members of the House of Representatives on February 16 that “Tehran has not made a decision to proceed with developing a nuclear weapon.” http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_19978801?source=rss   However, in Washington facts don’t count.  Only the material interests of powerful interest groups matter. At the moment the American Ministry of Truth is splitting its time between lying about Iran and lying about Syria. Recently, there were some explosions in far away Thailand, and the explosions were blamed on Iran.  Last October the FBI announced that the bureau had uncovered an Iranian plot to pay a used car salesman to hire a Mexican drug gang to kill the Saudi Ambassador to the US. The White House idiot professed to believe the unbelievable plot and declared that he had “strong evidence,” but no evidence was ever released. The purpose for announcing the non-existent plot was to justify Obama’s sanctions, which amount to an embargo--an act of war--against Iran for developing nuclear energy.  As a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, Iran has the right to develop nuclear energy. IAEA inspectors are permanently in Iran and report no diversion of nuclear material to a weapons program. In other words, according to the reports of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the US National Intelligence Estimate, and the current Secretary of Defense, there is no evidence that Iran has nukes or is making nukes.  Yet, Obama has placed illegal sanctions on Iran and continues to threaten Iran with military attack on the basis of an accusation that is contradicted by all known evidence. How can such a thing happen? It can happen because there is no Helen Thomas, who also was eliminated by the Israel Lobby, to question, as a member of the White House press, President Obama why he placed war-like sanctions on Iran when his own CIA and his own Secretary of Defense, along with the IAEA, report that there is no basis for the sanctions.   The idea that the US is a democracy when it most definitely does not have a free watchdog press is laughable.  But the media is not laughing.  It is lying.  Just like the government, every time the US mainstream media opens its mouth or writes one word, it is lying. Indeed, its corporate masters pay its employees to tell lies. That is their job. Tell the truth, and you are history like Buchanan and Napolitano and Helen Thomas. What the Ministry of Truth calls “peaceful protesters brutalized by Assad’s military” are in fact rebels armed and financed by Washington.  Washington has fomented a civil war. Washington claims its intention is to rescue the oppressed and abused Syrian people from Assad, just as Washington rescued the oppressed and abused Libyan people from Gaddafi. Today “liberated” Libya is a shell of its former self terrorized by clashing militias. Thanks to Obama, another country has been destroyed. Reports of atrocities committed against Syrian civilians by the military could be true, but the reports come from the rebels who desire Western intervention to put them into power. Moreover, how would these civilian casualties differ from the ones inflicted on Bahraini civilians by the US supported Bahraini government, the military of which was fortified by Saudi Arabian troops? There is no outcry in the western press about Washington’s blind eye to civilian atrocities committed by its puppet states. How do the Syrian atrocities, if they are real, differ from Washington’s atrocities in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo prison, and secret CIA prison sites?  Why is the american Ministry of Truth silent about these massive, unprecedented, violations of human rights? Remember also the reports of Serbian atrocities in Kosovo that Washington and Germany used to justify NATO and US bombing of Serbian civilians, including the Chinese consulate, dismissed as another collateral damage.  Now 13 years later, a prominent German TV program has revealed that the photographs that ignited the atrocity campaign were grossly misrepresented and were not photographs of atrocities  committed by Serbs, but of Albanian separatists killed in a firefight between armed Albanians and Serbians. Serbian casualties were not shown.  http://www.freenations.freeuk.com/news-2012-02-19.html  The problem that truth faces is that the western media continually lies. On the rare instances when the lies are corrected, it is always long after the event and, therefore, the crimes enabled by the media have been accomplished. Washington set its puppet Arab League upon Syria in order to establish Syria’s isolation among its own kind, the better to attack Syria. Assad forestalled Washington’s set-up of Syria for destruction  by calling a nationwide referendum on February 26 to establish a new constitution that would extend the prospect of rule beyond the Ba’athists (Assad’s party). One might think that, if Washington and its Ministry of Truth really wanted democracy in Syria, Washington would get behind this gesture of good will by the ruling party and endorse the referendum.  But Washington does not want a democratic Syrian government.  Washington wants a puppet state.  Washington’s response is that the dastardly Assad has outwitted Washington by taking steps toward Syrian democracy before Washington can obliterate Syria and install a puppet. Here is Obama’s response to Assad’s move toward democracy: “It’s actually quite laughable--it makes a mockery of the Syrian revolution,” White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One. Obama, the neoconservatives, and Tel Aviv are really pissed. If Washington and Tel Aviv can figure out how to get around Russia and China and overthrow Assad, Washington and Tel Aviv will put Assad on trial as a war criminal for proposing a democratic referendum. Assad was an eye doctor in England until his father died, and he was called back to head the troubled government. Washington and Tel Aviv have demonized Assad for refusing to be their puppet.  Another sore point is the Russian naval base at Tartus. Washington is desperate to evict the Russians from their only Mediterranean base in order to make the Mediterranean an american lake. Washington, inculcated with neocon visions of world empire, wants its own mare nostrum. If the Soviet Union were still extant, Washington’s designs on Tartus would be suicidal.  However, Russia is politically and militarily weaker than the Soviet Union. Washington has infiltrated Russia with NGOs that work against Russia’s interests and will disrupt the upcoming elections. Moreover, Washington-funded “color revolutions” have turned former constituent parts of the Soviet Union into Washington’s puppet states. Shorn of communist ideology, Washington does not expect Russia to push the nuclear button. Thus, Russia is there for the taking.  China is a more difficult problem.  Washington’s plan is to cut China off from independent sources of energy.  China’s oil investment in eastern Libya is the reason Gaddafi was overthrown, and oil is one of the main reasons that Washington has targeted Iran. China has large oil investments in Iran and gets 20% of its oil from Iran. Closing down Iran, or converting it into Washington’s puppet state, closes down 20% of the Chinese economy. Russia and China are slow learners. However, when Washington and its NATO puppets abused the “no-fly” UN resolution concerning Libya and violated the UN resolution by turning it into armed military aggression against Libya’s armed forces, which had every right to put down a CIA sponsored rebellion, Russia and China finally got the message that Washington could not be trusted.  This time Russia and China did not fall into Washington’s trap. They vetoed the UN Security Council’s set-up of Syria for military attack.  Now Washington and Tel Aviv (it is not always clear which is the puppet and which is the puppet master) have to decide whether to proceed in the face of Russian and Chinese opposition.  The risks for Washington have multiplied. If Washington proceeds, the information that is conveyed to Russia and China is that they are next in line after Iran. Therefore, Russia and China, both being well-armed with nuclear weapons, are likely to put their foot down more firmly at the line drawn over Iran. If the crazed warmongers in Washington and Tel Aviv, with veins running strong with hubris and arrogance, again override Russian and Chinese opposition, the risk of a dangerous confrontation rises. Why isn’t the american media raising questions about these risks?  Is it worth blowing up the world in order to stop Iran from having a nuclear energy program or even a nuclear weapon?  Does Washington think China is unaware that Washington is taking aim at its energy supply? Does Washington think Russia is unaware that it is being encircled by hostile military bases? Whose interests are being served by Washington’s endless and multi-trillion dollar wars?  Certainly not the interests of the 50 million americans with no access to health care, nor by the 1,500,000 american children who are homeless, living in cars, rundown motel rooms, tent cities, and the storm sewers under Las Vegas, while huge amounts of public funds are used to bail out banks and squandered in wars of hegemony. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suJCvkazrTc  The US has no independent print and TV media. It has presstitutes who are paid for the lies that they tell. The US government in its pursuit of its immoral aims has attained the status of the most corrupt government in human history. Yet Obama speaks as if Washington is the font of human morality. The US government does not represent americans. It represents a few special interests and a foreign power.  US citizens simply don’t count, and certainly Afghans, Iraqis, Libyans, Somalians, Yemenis, and Pakistanis don’t count.   Washington regards truth, justice, and mercy as laughable values.  Money, power, hegemony are all that count for Washington, the city upon the hill, the light unto nations, the example for the world. Iran, Israel, Media Lies, 2012-02-26T11:04:44+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/kurt_haskell_witness_to_government_false_flag http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/kurt_haskell_witness_to_government_false_flag#When:10:30:51Z Personal Statement from Kurt Haskell, Delta 253 Passenger Kurt Haskell. I wish to thank the Court for allowing me these 5 minutes to make my statement. My references to the government in this statement refer to the Federal Government excluding this Court and the prosecution. On Christmas Day 2009, my wife and I were returning from an African safari and had a connecting flight through Amsterdam. As we waited for our flight, we sat on the floor next to the boarding gate. What I witnessed while sitting there and subsequent events have changed my life forever. While I sat there, I witnessed Umar dressed in jeans and a white t-shirt, being escorted around security by a man in a tan suit who spoke perfect American English and who aided Umar in boarding without a passport. The airline gate worker initially refused Umar boarding until the man in the tan suit intervened. The event meant nothing to me at the time. Little did I know that Umar would try to kill me a few hours later as our flight approached Detroit. The final 10 minutes of our flight after the attack were the worst minutes of my life. During those 10 minutes I sat paralyzed in fear. Unfortunately, what happened next has had an even greater impact on my life and has saddened me further. When we landed, I was shocked that our plane taxied up to the gate. I was further shocked that we were forced to sit on the plane for 20 minutes with powder from the so called bomb all over the cabin. The officers that boarded the plane did nothing to ensure our safety and did not check for accomplices or other explosive devices. Several passengers trampled through parts of the bomb as they exited the plane. We were then taken into the terminal with our unchecked carry on bags. Again, there was no concern for our safety even though Umar told the officers that there was another bomb on board as he exited the plane. I wondered why nobody was concerned about our safety, accomplices or other bombs and the lack of concern worried me greatly. I immediately told the FBI my story in order to help catch the accomplice I had seen in Amsterdam. It soon became obvious that the FBI wasn’t interested in what I had to say, which upset me further. For one month the government refused to admit the existence of the man in the tan suit before changing course and admitting his existence in an ABC News article on January 22, 2010. That was the last time the government talked about this man. The video that would prove the truth of my account has never been released. I continue to be emotionally upset that the video has not been released. The Dutch police, meanwhile, in this article (show article), also confirmed that Umar did not show his passport in Amsterdam which also meant that he didn’t go through security as both are in the same line in Amsterdam. It upsets me that the government refuses to admit this fact. I became further saddened from this case, when Patrick Kennedy of the State Department during Congressional hearings, admitted that Umar was a known terrorist, was being followed, and the U.S. allowed him into the U.S. so that it could catch Umar’s accomplices. I was once again shocked and saddened when Michael Leiter of the National Counter terrorism Center admitted during these same hearings that intentionally letting terrorists into the U.S. was a frequent practice of the U.S. Government. I cannot fully explain my sadness, disappointment and fear when I realized that my government allowed an attack on me intentionally. During this time, I questioned if my country intentionally put a known terrorist onto my flight with a live bomb. I had many sleepless nights over this issue. My answer came shortly thereafter. In late 2010, the FBI admitted to giving out intentionally defective bombs to the Portland Christmas Tree Bomber,the Wrigley Field Bomber and several others. Further, Mr. Chambers was quoted in the Free Press on January 11, 2011 when he indicated that the government’s own explosives experts had indicated that Umar’s bomb was impossibly defective. I wondered how that could be. Certainly, I thought, Al Qaeda wouldn’t go through all of the trouble to plan such an attack only to provide the terrorist with an impossibly defective bomb. I attended nearly all of the pretrial hearings. At the hearing on January 28, 2011, I was greatly disappointed by the prosecution’s request to block evidence from Mr. Chambers “as it could then be able to be obtained by third parties, who could use it in a civil suit against the government”. It really bothered me that the government apparently was admitting to wrongdoing of some kind as it admitted that it was concerned it would be sued. It further upset me to know that the government was putting its own interests ahead of those of the passengers. When I attended the jury selection hearings, I questioned why versions of the same two questions kept coming up, those being: 1. Do you think you’ll be able to tell whether something is actually a bomb? and
 2. Do you realize that sometimes the media doesn’t always tell the truth? I continued to be greatly saddened at this point as I felt the truth continued to be hidden. When Umar listed me as his only witness, I was happy to testify, not on his behalf, but on behalf of the truth. I never expected to testify, as my eyewitness account would have been too damaging to the myth that the government and media are putting forward. A mere 5 days after I was announced as a witness, there was an inexplicable guilty plea which exasperated me as I no longer would be testifying. In closing I will just say that regardless of how the media and government try to shape the public perception of this case, I am convinced that Umar was given an intentionally defective bomb by a U.S. Government agent and placed on our flight without showing a passport or going through security, to stage a false terrorist attack to be used to implement various government policies. The effect this matter has had on my life has been astounding and due to this case, I will never trust the government in any matter, ever. In regards to sentencing, nothing I’ve said excuses the fact that Umar tried to kill me. He has waived his valid claim to the entrapment defense. Umar, you are not a great Muslim martyr, you are merely a “Patsy”. I ask the court to impose the mandatory sentence. Full Body Scanners, Kurt Haskell, 2012-02-24T10:30:51+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/james_corbett_tsa_tyrants_sucker_america http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/james_corbett_tsa_tyrants_sucker_america#When:10:06:00Z Video here: http://www.corbettreport.com/tsa-tyrants-sucker-america/ by James Corbett BoilingFrogsPost.com February 21, 2012 Welcome. This is James Corbett of The Corbett Report with your Eyeopener report for BoilingFrogsPost.com. Of all of the myriad agencies, bureaucracies, laws and legislation that have sprung up to oppress the American citizenry in this age of the unending war against an abstract noun, perhaps none have garnered as much ire and opprobrium as the innocuously named Transportation Security Administration. Created in the wake of 9/11 under the pretext of “fixing” the system that had “somehow” allowed 19 men with box cutters to supposedly commit the most egregious violation of American airspace in history (aided in no small part by the simultaneous “failure” of the entire American intelligence establishment and the most sophisticated air defense in the world), the TSA was originally placed under the Department of Transportation and tasked with securing the nation’s transportation system from future attacks. It was just a matter of months, however, before the TSA was transitioned into the newly-created Department of Fatherland Security and began turning the relatively benign process of clearing airport security into an ordeal that traumatizes and humiliates virtually everyone who has to endure it. Taking advantage of the general public’s ignorance of their rights in the legally ambiguous airport screening areas and the 21st century American citizenry’s newfound penchant for prostrating themselves before anyone with a badge and a uniform, the TSA quickly began positioning itself as the most totalitarian agency in the entire complex of the American security establishment. And that is no small feat. [see this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this] Supposedly set up to “fix” the holes in airport security, the TSA has in fact failed miserably in their task. Not only that, but the agency has consistently lied about its aims, intentions and operations. Reports of TSA failures to find knives, massive shipments of narcotics, loaded guns, and even the very types of box cutters used on 9/11have been so numerous over the years that it would be impossible to enumerate them all. Sadly, even the government’s own testing of the TSA procedures has confirmed time and again that the agency fails in providing even the most basic level of security for airline passengers. In 2006, government investigators found that they were able to slip 75 percent of their fake bombs through checkpoints at LAX, one of the busiest airports in America, and 60% through Chicago O’Hare, one of the busiest airports in the world. The TSA attempted to defend itself by pointing out that the tests in question had been conducted in 2004 and 2005, citing changes in regulations that they assured the public meant that they were better prepared to protect the public. But that didn’t stop TSA testers in 2008 from successfully smuggling a mock bomb past yet more TSA agents. And a 2008 report from the Government Accountability Office blasted the agency for failing to follow up on why its agents had failed to spot the guns, knives and bombs identified in previous tests. In February 2011 it was revealed that the invasive naked body scanners that had been installed to ostensibly ensure that guns and other weapons could not be snuck through security had failed repeatedly to detect handguns during testing. In April 2011 the GAO blasted the TSA yet again, this time pointing out 23 occasions since 9/11 when the agency had failed to detect terror suspects who boarded planes in the US. In November of that year Congressional investigators issued their own blistering report on the agency, calling it an “enormous, inflexible and distracted bureaucracy” and pointing out that Americans “are no safer today than they were before 9/11″ despite the 60 billion dollars that had been wasted on the TSA. Even John Mica, the Congressman who authored the legislation establishing the agency itself, came out in September of last year to call the agency “a complete fiasco” and calling on it to be dismantled. And then there are the lies. They lied in November of 2010, when they responded to public fury over pat-downs of children at airports by saying that they would stop subjecting children under 12 to such treatment, only to be found consistently breaking their word, patting down young children and even one 8-month-old infant. They lied in December 2010 when TSA spokesman Nico Melendez told AOL News that the naked body scanners were not equipped to record images of travelers naked bodies. A FOIA document obtained by The Electronic Privacy Information Center showed that the TSA specifically required that the machines have the ability to record, retain and export images. In 2011, it lied about the US constitution itself, stating in an official blog post that the Texas House of Representatives couldn’t ban the TSA pat-down procedure because the constitution’s “Supremacy Clause” “prevents states from relating the federal government.” Constitutional scholars were quick to call the TSA out on its blatant misrepresentation. Given this track record of abysmal and utter failure, it is flabbergasting that the public has not demanded the immediate dismantling of this governmental monstrosity. In fact, the public did plan one overwhelming, undeniable protest that would surely have caused changes to the system, but the TSA artfully dodged the public’s ire with a simple sleight of hand. Outraged by the invasive new full-body pat-downs the TSA was delivering to those who decided to “opt out” of the agency’s naked body scanner screening, Americans appointed November 24, 2011 as National Opt-Out Day. Despite (or perhaps because of) pleas by the likes of TSA chief John Pistole to urge Americans not to opt out of the naked body scanners and thus cause delays during the nation’s busiest air travel day, the Thanksgiving holiday, millions of Americans mobilized online and prepared for their stand-off with TSA security. Rather than face a humiliating PR defeat, however, the agency merely turned off the naked scanners at airports across the country for the day, thus depriving the people of their chance to make a dramatic and visible protest. Now, remarkably, the TSA is preparing to go even further in its intrusion into the lives of every American, regardless of whether they fly on an airplane at all. (see this and this and this and this) Given the gross abuses of human dignity that the agency engages in every day, the reprehensible nature of its history of lies to the American people, and its utter failure to perform any of the tasks that it has been assigned, it is no wonder that the TSA is one of the most universally derided agencies amongst a government that is increasingly aiming the apparatus of its oppressive power at its own citizenry. In numerous ways, people have been continuing to mount protest against this agency and to draw attention to the flagrant violation of basic constitutional rights that it represents. (see this and this and this and this and this and this) Still, for all of the protest and backlash that the TSA has garnered through its atrocious and reprehensible conduct, it still enjoys the tacit support of a significant percentage of the public, who — sickened as they may be by the entire security theatre ordeal they are forced to endure at airports, train and bus stations, and even on the highways — have mentally resigned themselves to the process. In effect, they have allowed the system to win by failing to exert their rights, hoping that the system will allow them to get by with “just” a naked body scan or “just” an invasive full body pat down. After all, they have places to get to, and how can just one person make a difference? It is only by combating this mentality, by standing up for our rights and refusing to allow any government-appointed goon with a badge to tell us that he has the right to take them away, can we ever hope to effect a change in the police state that America and so many other countries have lamentably become. The alternative is to continue allowing the TSA to grab ever more power after every staged, concocted, manipulated or provocateured “failure” in that security that they have so signally failed to provide. Because it must be remembered that the security that Americans and others need most be concerned with is not the security from terrorists, or from random insane people who are bent on killing themselves and others. No amount of scanners or goons with badges will ever provide security from that. The security that we need is the security from government abuse of authority, an abuse which has long since become the norm, not the exception. If the founding fathers of the United States knew that the greatest threat to liberty comes from government, the question must be where did that knowledge disappear to, and how can the public regain it? Full Body Scanners, 2012-02-22T10:06:00+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/how_terahertz_waves_tear_apart_dna http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/how_terahertz_waves_tear_apart_dna#When:11:57:05Z A new model of the way the THz waves interact with DNA explains how the damage is done and why evidence has been so hard to gather Great things are expected of terahertz waves, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and the infrared. Terahertz waves pass through non-conducting materials such as clothes , paper, wood and brick and so cameras sensitive to them can peer inside envelopes, into living rooms and "frisk" people at distance. The way terahertz waves are absorbed and emitted can also be used to determine the chemical composition of a material. And even though they don't travel far inside the body, there is great hope that the waves can be used to spot tumours near the surface of the skin. With all that potential, it's no wonder that research on terahertz waves has exploded in the last ten years or so. But what of the health effects of terahertz waves? At first glance, it's easy to dismiss any notion that they can be damaging. Terahertz photons are not energetic enough to break chemical bonds or ionise atoms or molecules, the chief reasons why higher energy photons such as x-rays and UV rays are so bad for us. But could there be another mechanism at work? The evidence that terahertz radiation damages biological systems is mixed. "Some studies reported significant genetic damage while others, although similar, showed none," say Boian Alexandrov at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and a few buddies. Now these guys think they know why. Alexandrov and co have created a model to investigate how THz fields interact with double-stranded DNA and what they've found is remarkable. They say that although the forces generated are tiny, resonant effects allow THz waves to unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication. That's a jaw dropping conclusion. And it also explains why the evidence has been so hard to garner. Ordinary resonant effects are not powerful enough to do do this kind of damage but nonlinear resonances can. These nonlinear instabilities are much less likely to form which explains why the character of THz genotoxic effects are probabilistic rather than deterministic, say the team. This should set the cat among the pigeons. Of course, terahertz waves are a natural part of environment, just like visible and infrared light. But a new generation of cameras are set to appear that not only record terahertz waves but also bombard us with them. And if our exposure is set to increase, the question that urgently needs answering is what level of terahertz exposure is safe. Full Body Scanners, 2012-02-21T11:57:05+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/crony_capitalism_iran_and_the_impending_oil_war http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/crony_capitalism_iran_and_the_impending_oil_war#When:22:06:13Z On tonight's show I am joined by Josh Jackson, to discuss the escalating middle east crisis in the wake of news that the Iranian oil bourse will start trading oil in currencies other than the dollar from March 20. This development is discussed in the context of the crony capitalist system, which uses currency manipulation as the base tool for global domination. We reflect on the possibility that the Iranian "nuclear threat" was concocted in order to provide a justifiable cover for obliterating Iran, whose real threat to the west is in its economic power, derived from the fact that Iran holds the third largest oil reserves in the world. The ruthlessness of the plan of the globalist powers to destroy Iran is highlighted in the attempt to overthrow the Syrian government - one of Iran's strongest allies in the region. We look at the way in which news coverage of events in Syria is in effect war propaganda designed to provide cover for the brutal intentions of the US and its allies, all driven by the fear of Iran's economic power. We put forward the proposition that it is time for all honest citizens of western counries to stand up and demand that their governments desist from this criminal agenda.. Related Links Iran presses ahead with dollar attack Energy in Iran Keiser Report Episode 250 Fox News Alert: US Senetors demand military action against Iran We Will Not Be Scanned - Global Resistance Network Against Full Body Scanners Iran, Syria, 2012-02-20T22:06:13+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/the_28m_pantomime_of_airport_body_scanners http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/the_28m_pantomime_of_airport_body_scanners#When:11:43:16Z No cost-benefit analysis was conducted before the government’s decision to impose body scanning on international passengers departing the country, the government has revealed. On Sunday Transport Minister Anthony Albanese announced that a $28 million program to install scanners at international airports would proceed after “a successful trial” at Sydney and Melbourne airports. Passengers selected for scanning who refused would not be permitted to fly, the same policy as applies in Britain (in the US, passengers who refuse have the option of a highly invasive pat-down search). However, when asked what evaluation of the trial had taken place or whether a cost-benefit analysis was conducted by the Office of Transport Security within the Department of Infrastructure, a spokeswoman for the minister advised that “the decision was made based on accuracy and minimising inconvenience to the travelling public”. The decision to roll out scanners at the nations airports had its origins in the knee-jerk response to the “underwear bomber” Umar Abdulmutallab during Christmas 2009, when his plan to blow up an airliner using a small quantity of liquid high-explosive failed. A later experiment suggested the aircraft would not have crashed even if the terrorist had succeeded in detonating the explosive he had secreted in his underwear. However, governments across the world immediately rushed to roll out airport scanning technologies claimed to detect liquids, including the Rudd government, which announced it was introducing scanners and allocated money in the 2010 budget. X-ray-based scanners are now banned in Europe after serious health risks were identified. The scanners used in Australia are millimetre wave scanners that have no known safety issues. The scanners can also be set to not display anatomical features of the scanned individual and not record scans. There have been several instances overseas of scanner operators keeping images of, ogling or commenting on the anatomy of passengers and co-workers. But the scanners cannot detect liquids secreted within body cavities, are prone to generating false positives, particularly from perspiration, and suffer the same problems of operator error as other forms of scanning equipment: a US Transportation Security Agency official carrying a firearm was able to pass through a scanner at a US airport. They are also supposed to be coupled with a form of profiling to ensure suspicious passengers are more likely to be scanned than the rest of us; anyone who has travelled within the US will know that in fact they’re used by officials if they don’t like your attitude or simply take a dislike to you. While the government may not have conducted a cost-benefit analysis, two academics, Mark Stewart of the University of Newcastle, and John Mueller of Ohio State, have done so for scanners used in the US. Readers will recall Stewart and Mueller wrote an extensive analysis of counter-terrorism spending in the US, showing it was wildly in excess of any conceivable cost-benefit analysis. A year ago they looked in-depth at airport scanners, using similar methods to their analysis of war-on-terror spending. They concluded that the scanners would have to stop 1-3 successful attacks a year that would otherwise not have been thwarted by any other security measure. The assessment was based on assuming a catastrophic disaster resulting from a successful attack — assumptions unlikely to be realistic given the limited capacity of even the most powerful liquid explosives and the poor history of previous efforts. In short, scanners add little to existing security measures and the attacks they are designed to thwart are unlikely to cause major loss of life (such as downing an airliner), thereby significantly reducing their benefit. There’s a term for this: security theatre, measures that have no security benefit, or the benefits of which are so specific as to be easily avoided by terrorists, but that give people the illusion of safety. In fact there may well be some specific form of psychological impact from scanning equipment that looks high-tech but achieves nothing — recall that hilarious moment during the swine flu beat-up when Nicola Roxon ordered thermal scanners into airports? But the illusion comes at a cost — a cost to taxpayers, and a cost in delays to airline passengers (recall that far more people died as a result of increased traffic on US roads after 9/11 than died in terrorist acts). The $28 million being wasted by the government on scanners could be redeployed elsewhere within the transport security budget to greater effect, let alone elsewhere in government. Even a relatively small sum would probably save more lives being redirected to health or road safety than it will ever save from terrorists. So who is the real beneficiary of the government’s decision to impose body-scanning technology on airport users? Tomorrow we’ll look at the giant American defence contractor that will be the only beneficiary of the scanner scam. Full Body Scanners, 2012-02-20T11:43:16+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/debunking_the_real_9_11_myths http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/debunking_the_real_9_11_myths#When:10:30:28Z Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of an extensive report by researcher Adam Taylor that exposes the fallacies and flaws in the arguments made by Popular Mechanics in the latest edition of Debunking 9/11 Myths. We encourage you to submit your own reviews of the book at Amazon.com and other places where it is sold. Introduction The revised version of Popular Mechanics’ book Debunking 9/11 Myths continues to defend myths that are scientifically impossible A decade has passed since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and many people feel that we have still not had a real investigation into what really happened that day. Many believe that the investigations into the destruction of the three WTC skyscrapers by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) were either fraudulent or incomplete, and have joined the 1600+ architects and engineers at AE911Truth in calling for a real, independent investigation into the attacks. However, Popular Mechanics (PM) has been the primary cheerleader in the mainstream media in defense of the NIST reports ever since its book, Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can’t Stand Up To the Facts, was published in 2006. For the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, PM put out a second version of its book, which was updated in an attempt to dismiss new findings that corroborate the controlled demolition hypothesis. The main sections of the book that were revised are on the collapse of the Twin Towers and World Trade Center 7. This report demonstrates that PM has still not adequately explained the numerous anomalies surrounding the collapse of these three buildings that prove they were destroyed with explosives. (Quotes from Popular Mechanics’ book are shown in red and with page numbers.) World Trade Center Towers 1 & 2 The introduction to PM’s chapter on the collapse of the Twin Towers briefly discusses the main theory put forward by members of the 9/11 Truth movement regarding the Towers’ destruction: “The buildings were brought down intentionally—not by hijacked airplanes, but by government-planted bombs or a controlled demolition” (pg. 28). PM then goes on to give a few examples of people promoting this theory. One of the people they cite is a Danish writer named Henrik Melvang, who, according to PM, “markets his book and video claiming the Apollo moon landings were a hoax” (pg. 28). This is obviously an attempt on PM’s part to portray those who question the collapse of the Towers as conspiracy theorists who have irrational beliefs. PM also cites Morgan Reynolds, the former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor during President George Bush’s first term, as someone who believes that the Towers were destroyed through controlled demolition. We must ask ourselves why PM would choose to cite these people as examples of those who question the collapse of the Towers. Why didn’t they cite anyone with experience in the fields of engineering and building construction? According to PM, it’s because the 9/11 Truth movement doesn’t have any technical credentials. In their 2011 book, they state that: Though Reynolds and a handful of other skeptics cite academic credentials to lend credence to their views, not one of the leading conspiracy theorists has a background in engineering, construction, or related fields. (pg. 28-29) This statement is by far one of the most remarkable passages in PM’s book. One need only look at what most consider the lead organization in the 9/11truth community, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, to see that there are currently over 1600 professional architects and engineers with backgrounds in engineering, architecture and building construction who question the destruction of the three WTC high-rise buildings. How can PM possibly have omitted over a thousand experts who agree that the Twin Towers and WTC7 were brought down with explosives? In PM’s entire 216 page book, there is not a single mention made of AE911Truth or its founder, architect Richard Gage, AIA. Popular Mechanics did a poor job of updating their book, leaving in claims from their 2006 version (excerpt shown above) that no leaders of the 9/11 Truth movement have backgrounds in engineering. They completely ignore the hundreds of engineers at AE911Truth who have examined the WTC evidence and are demanding a real investigation When one looks back at their 2006 book, we can see that this exact same statement appears on the exact same pages. This fact shows how PM has decided to structure their new book: i.e., update it only where it benefits them. As we will see, this tactic is used more than once in PM’s grossly flawed book. The debate over the airplane crash at the Empire State Building is irrelevant because the design of the Twin Towers was far more robust than that of older high-rises 1.1 The Empire State Building Accident PM discusses the incident in 1945 where a B-25 bomber lost in the fog crashed into the side of the Empire state building. They claim that “some conspiracy theorists point to [this incident] as proof that commercial planes hitting the World Trade Center could not bring down the towers” (pg. 29). To counter this assertion, PM discusses the construction of the Towers compared to the construction of the Empire State Building and how the Towers’ structures “were in some ways more fragile” (pg. 30). They also quote structural engineer Jon Magnusson as saying that “These structures look massive, but they’re mostly air. They are air, punctuated with thin layers of concrete and steel” (pg. 30). While it is true that the Towers were mostly empty space by volume, this is true of any large skyscraper. The idea that the Towers were in some way less structurally sound than the Empire State Building is contradicted by a variety of technical sources, including this telegram written by Richard Roth, partner at Emery Roth & Sons, which was the architectural firm that designed the Twin Towers: THE STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS CARRIED OUT BY THE FIRM OF WORTHINGTON, SKILLING, HELLE & JACKSON IS THE MOST COMPLETE AND DETAILED OF ANY EVER MADE FOR ANY BUILDING STRUCTURE. THE PRELIMINARY CALCULATIONS ALONE COVER 1,200 PAGES AND INVOLVE OVER 100 DETAILED DRAWINGS. ... 4. BECAUSE OF ITS CONFIGURATION, WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY THAT OF A STEEL BEAM 209' DEEP, THE TOWERS ARE ACTUALLY FAR LESS DARING STRUCTURALLY THAN A CONVENTIONAL BUILDING SUCH AS THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING WHERE THE SPINE OR BRACED AREA OF THE BUILDING IS FAR SMALLER IN RELATION TO ITS HEIGHT. ... 5. THE BUILDING AS DESIGNED IS SIXTEEN TIMES STIFFER THAN A CONVENTIONAL STRUCTURE. THE DESIGN CONCEPT IS SO SOUND THAT THE STRUCTURAL ENGINEER HAS BEEN ABLE TO BE ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE IN HIS DESIGN WITHOUT ADVERSELY AFFECTING THE ECONOMICS OF THE STRUCTURE.i It is quite apparent that the Towers were extremely well built, and may have been even more structurally sound than the Empire State Building. Even those supporting the official conspiracy theory praise the buildings’ structural integrity as designed, such as Thomas Eager: “The towers withstood the initial impact of the aircraft… the buildings had more than 1,000 times the mass of the aircraft… This ability to withstand the initial impact is hardly surprising.” - Eagar and Musso, JOM, 53 (12) (2001), pp. 8-11 PM next quotes WTC assistant structural engineer Leslie Robertson as stating that the Towers were only designed to take the impact of a Boeing 707, but did not take into consideration the fires that would be produced by the jet fuel. After 9/11, Robertson stated, “I don’t know if we considered the fire damage that would cause” (pg. 31). However, someone evidently did consider that problem, and that someone was John Skilling, the original WTC lead engineer. When interviewed in 1993, Skilling told the Seattle Times that: "We looked at every possible thing we could think of that could happen to the buildings, even to the extent of an airplane hitting the side… Our analysis indicated the biggest problem would be the fact that all the fuel (from the airplane) would dump into the building. There would be a horrendous fire. A lot of people would be killed. [But] the building structure would still be there."ii Although PM mentions John Skilling briefly in their book, they make no mention of this statement. Apparently, PM felt no need to quote the lead WTC engineer on his views about the structural stability of the Towers. Although the B-25 bomber is not a very good comparison to the planes that hit the Towers, the evidence strongly indicates that the Towers should not have collapsed due to the plane impacts and the ensuing fires. PM quotes a few sources who stated after 9/11 that the Towers were doomed once the planes impacted the buildings, but virtually every engineering source that was quoted before 9/11 says the opposite.iii 1.2 Widespread Damage The next section of PM’s book deals mainly with the damage to the lobby floors of the Towers and how many in the 9/11 Truth movement have asserted that this is evidence of explosives being planted in the buildings. The argument PM puts forward is that the jet fuel from the planes traveled down through the elevator shafts and caused explosions that damaged the lobby. The walls and trees in the lobby of one of the Twin Towers show no evidence of being burned by a jet fuel fireball, which Popular Mechanics claims was the cause of an earlier explosion Although viewpoints differ in the 9/11 Truth movementiv regarding the cause of these explosions, some features of the lobby damage indicate that they were not due to a fireball explosion from the jet fuel. For example, the white marble walls show no signs of being exposed to fire, and the plants next to the blown out windows show no signs of burning either. And at least one explosives expert has stated that he does not believe the damage was caused by the jet fuel traveling down the elevator shafts, based on the appearance of the lobby.v Whether or not the lobby damage is indicative of explosives, however, is essentially irrelevant to the discussion of the Towers’ demolitions, as the collapse sequence started above the plane impact zone, not at the lower levels. The lobby damage is not necessary to prove the Twin Towers were destroyed by controlled demolition, as there are far more obvious indicators of demolition that will be discussed later in this report. The fact that PM claims that the jet fuel travelled down the elevator shafts is actually more damaging to their case, as it shows that not all of the fuel from the planes contributed to the fires that allegedly brought the Towers down.vi This section of PM’s book also discusses the testimony of firefighter Louie Cacchioli, one of over one hundred first responders who said that there were bombs in the WTC. PM counters this by asserting that members of the 9/11 Truth movement have taken his quotes out of context. Though Caccholi himself does not believe explosives were placed in the buildings, the numerous quotes from firefighters and first responders strongly indicate that explosives were placed in the buildings.vii In Part 2 of this monthly series, Taylor will refute the false explanations that Popular Mechanics has provided for the molten metal that was discovered at Ground Zero. Look for Part 2 in the March edition of the Blueprint newsletter. i Quoted from: City in the Sky: The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center by James Glanz and Eric Lipton, pg. 134-136 ii Quoted from: Twin Towers Engineered To Withstand Jet Collision, The Seattle Times http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930227&slug=1687698 iii For more information on the pre-9/11 claims about the Towers’ strength, see: http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/design.html iv The following links provide arguments against the lobby damage being caused by explosives: http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/theories/basementbomb.html http://911review.com/errors/wtc/preimpact.html http://911review.com/errors/wtc/basementbombs.html http://911research.wtc7.net/reviews/loose_change/wtc.html#rodriguez http://911research.wtc7.net/reviews/911mysteries/index.html#precollapse_sub_basement_explosions v The following link provides arguments against the lobby damage being caused by a jet fuel fireball: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtEw4GA_hOg#t=11m24s vi This paper provides detailed measurements for how much fuel actually remained on the impact floors, and shows that the amount in either Tower was actually quite small in relation to each Tower, much less a single floor: http://www.journalof911studies.com/letters/e/VisualizationAidsWTCTowers.pdf vi iSee: http://www.journalof911studies.com/articles/Article_5_118Witnesses_WorldTradeCenter.pdf 9/11 Truth Movement, 2012-02-17T10:30:28+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/tsa_forces_woman_through_body_scanner_3_times_because_of_cute_figure http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/tsa_forces_woman_through_body_scanner_3_times_because_of_cute_figure#When:04:25:33Z Female passengers say they are being targeted by TSA screeners for sexual harassment, with one Texas woman being forced to pass through a naked body scanner three times so chuckling male TSA workers in a back room could get a good look at her “cute” figure. The incident occurred at DFW International Airport earlier this month. Wife and mother Ellen Terrell was asked by a female TSA screener “Do you play tennis?” When Terrell asked why, the screener responded, “You just have such a cute figure.” Terrell was then told to go through the naked body scanner not once but a second time. She then heard the TSA screener talking into her microphone saying, “Come on guys, alright, alright, one more time.” After Terrell was forced to undergo a third blast of radiation from the body scanner, the male TSA agents in the back room who were obviously enjoying the show tried to send her through yet again to see more images of her naked body. “Guys, it is not blurry, I’m letting her go. Come on out,” the female TSA screener said, finally ending the ordeal. “I feel like I was totally exposed,” Terrell told CBS 11. “They wanted a nice good look.” An investigation by CBS 11 News has prompted New York Senator Charles Schumer to introduce legislation that will mandate the TSA provide “passenger advocates” who will be on duty at all times to respond to complaints at every airport in the country. The investigation found that female travelers are victims of a “peep show” by TSA workers who are using naked body scanners to target attractive women. “CBS 11 News dug through more than 500 records of TSA complaints and found a pattern of women who believe that there was nothing random about the way they were selected for extra screening,” states the report, which lists numerous examples of men forcing women to pass through the scanners in a clear pattern of sexual harassment. “Going through security at our nations airports should not be a humiliating or degrading experience,” remarked Schumer after hearing about the investigation. “Because the TSA has refused to put passenger advocates at our nation’s airports, today I’m introducing legislation that would force them to do so.” However, critics argue that the position would just be filled by another TSA worker, and that such a program will only be worthwhile if the advocate is independent. A far better solution would be for airports to take advantage of a newly passed law that enables airports to apply to have TSA screeners evicted altogether. As we have exhaustively documented, TSA workers tasked with operating naked body scanners have found themselves embroiled in an epidemic of criminality, abuses of power, and sexual perversion, with new cases appearing on an almost daily basis. These people are the least suitable candidates to be providing security at America’s airports, which makes threats by Democrats and people like Joe Lieberman that a “new 9/11″ will occur if the TSA is marginalized all the more asinine. Full Body Scanners, 2012-02-16T04:25:33+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/we_will_not_be_scanned_requests_your_feedback_and_suggestions http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/we_will_not_be_scanned_requests_your_feedback_and_suggestions#When:02:30:12Z Announcing the launch of WeWillNotBeScanned.org! Naked body scanners are an affront to human dignity with the sole purpose of training human beings to supplicate before the supreme authority of the state. We pledge to resist this attack on democracy and human rights using all legal means available. Please leave your feedback and suggestions in the comments section at the end of this article. Thanks! Full Body Scanners, 2012-02-16T02:30:12+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/advanced_screening_technology_for_major_airports http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/advanced_screening_technology_for_major_airports#When:11:30:38Z Body scanners will be introduced at all of Australia's international airports providing the travelling public with the most advanced passenger screening technology available in the world. The Gillard Labor Government will introduce legislation this week following a successful trial of the technology in Sydney and Melbourne, with the new technology to be rolled out across airports from July this year. The machines only produce a generic outline (attached) to display the location of metal and non-metal items under clothing. To protect people's privacy, the image will appear as a stick figure so all men will have the same outline and all women will have the same outline with no defining features. As an additional measure, the images will not be able to be copied and will not be stored. The ‘millimetre-wave’ body scanners are perfectly safe and one body scan is comparable to passive exposure to a mobile phone used several metres away. Once introduced, passengers departing Australia may be required to pass through a body scanner as part of standard screening processes. While the legislation allows exemptions for serious medical conditions, any passenger directed by an officer must undergo screening and refusal to screen will mean refusal to fly. The Gillard Government announced a package of measures in 2010 to strengthen aviation security as a result of global events. The $28 million package provides for new screening measures, including body scanners, at Australia's eight international gateway airports. Health, privacy and safety were assessed following the trial including extensive consultation with industry and privacy groups. Australia has a safe aviation record with over 13 million people flying out of our international airports each year. This will provide an additional layer of security at our airports and is part of the Government's $200 million Strengthening Aviation Security Initiative. Full Body Scanners, 2012-02-15T11:30:38+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/skid_row_breakfast_with_jack_karla_and_hereward_2012_02_09 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/skid_row_breakfast_with_jack_karla_and_hereward_2012_02_09#When:11:49:47Z Today we bring you another broadcast from Radio Skid Row 88.9 FM Sydney, recorded on 9 February 2012. On today's show we are joined once again by Karla Cryer. Today's show contains a full 2 hours of discussion and music - unedited.           Skid Row Radio 88.9FM Sydney, 2012-02-14T11:49:47+00:00 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/2rsr_breakfast_mayhem_with_jack_and_hereward_2012_02_02 http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/2rsr_breakfast_mayhem_with_jack_and_hereward_2012_02_02#When:11:22:37Z Today we bring you an hour of unedited mayhem with Jack Frost and Hereward Fenton on Radio Skid Row 88.9 FM Sydney, recorded on 2 February 2012. The show includes a long interview with Craig Isherwoord - Secretary of the Citizens Electoral Council, as well as banter, phone calls and robust debate. Please enjoy!       Anti terror Laws, Skid Row Radio 88.9FM Sydney, 2012-02-06T11:22:37+00:00