Full body scanners at US airports..who wins?
Since the attempted bombing of a US airliner on Christmas Day, former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff has given dozens of media interviews touting the need for the federal government to buy more full-body scanners for airports.
What he has made little mention of is that the Chertoff Group, his security consulting agency, includes a client that manufactures the machines. Chertoff disclosed the relationship on a CNN program Wednesday, in response to a question.
An airport passengers’ rights group on Thursday criticized Chertoff’s use of his former government credentials to advocate for a product that benefits his clients.
“Mr. Chertoff should not be allowed to abuse the trust the public has placed in him as a former public servant to privately gain from the sale of full-body scanners under the pretense that the scanners would have detected this particular type of explosive,’’ said Kate Hanni, founder of FlyersRights.org, which opposes the use of the scanners.
Chertoff’s advocacy for the technology dates to his time in the Bush administration. In 2005, Homeland Security ordered the government’s first batch of the scanners – five from California-based Rapiscan Systems. Rapiscan is one of only two companies that make full-body scanners in accordance with current contract specifications required by the federal government.
Currently 40 body scanners are in use among 19 US airports. The number is expected to skyrocket, at least in part because of the Christmas Day incident. The Transportation Security Administration has said it will order 300 more machines.
In the summer, TSA purchased 150 more machines from Rapiscan with $25 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds. Rapiscan was the only company that qualified for the contract because it had developed technology that performs the screening using a less-graphic body imaging system, which is also less controversial. (Since then, another company, L-3 Communications, has qualified for future contracts, but no new contracts have been awarded.)
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L-3 Board of Directors:
http://www.l-3com.com/about-l3/board.aspx
Muckety links for L-3:
http://www.muckety.com/L-3-Communications-Holdings-Inc/5028372.muckety
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Rapiscan parent company OSI systems board of directors:
http://investors.osi-systems.com/management.cfm
Home page for Rapiscan:
http://www.rapiscansystems.com/index.html
Since 1993, Rapiscan Systems has installed over 70,000 products in more than 100 countries. From baggage and parcel inspection systems and metal detectors, to automated explosive detection systems, air cargo screening solutions and container inspection systems, our expansive product portfolio and professional, knowledgeable consultants will help find the perfect security solution for your needs. Our systems are in use at airports, government and corporate buildings, correctional and prison facilities, postal facilities, military zones, sea ports and border crossings. The technologies utilized in the systems range from X-ray and Gamma-ray imaging to advanced threat identification techniques such as neutron and diffraction analysis.
http://www.ecilrapiscan.com/static/aboutus.htm
OSI Systems Inc. (www.osi-systems.com) entered into a collaboration with Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) and set up a Joint Venture “ECIL-RAPISCAN LIMITED”. We manufacture the same equipment as that of RAPISCAN, U.K and U.S.A with the same state of art Technology. Requisite Technology is supplied by RAPISCAN and the final product is manufactured at ECIL facility.
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thanks to nikki for the leg work here..well done..
heres the winners from the detroit incident..the makers of the full body scanners..if your bored you have a list of names to research..i bet you find links to many well known players..
how would you like some snotty nosed kid from TSA checking out your wife/husband/girlfriend/mother/father and kids in the nude?
get used to it..its here
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Chertoff has business affialiations to nudescanner producing companies? interesting!
This nudescanner debate is international. Last year the attempt to introduce them failed, because they were labeled as nudescanners and the protest against them was large.
Now, in a real orwell newspeak twist, they are labeled as bodyscanners and another try to introduce them can be observed.
But the protest against starts to be digital organized and the german branch of the international pirate party movement held several flEshmob protests today at the airports of frankfurt, berlin and dusseldorf (reproduction recommended!). Take a look:
http://img294.yfrog.com/i/dsc0027jq.jpg/
http://www.bz-berlin.de/multimedia/archive/00165/piraten_protest_teg_165199i.jpg
http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/images/e/eb/Fleshmob.jpg
nice links mate
absolutely…. shocking!! and it is coming to this!THIS IS OF HUGE CONCERN..!!!
and another possible angle of all this
Study Looks Into How Full Body Scanners May Do Serious Damage To DNA
Published on 01-09-2010
As new government directives are now mandating full body (terahertz) scanning (or pat down searches) of our private parts on all US inbound flights, a recent research article in arXiv points to potential negative health effects from the new technology. Terahertz waves penetrate non-conducting material like clothing, but then they deposit energy in the skin. Now researchers at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory have shown that terahertz radiation may be able to do some serious damage to the DNA it encounters when bouncing off your body
Physics arXiv Blog explains:
Alexandrov [Boian Alexandrov at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico --ed.] 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.
More at Physics arXiv Blog…
Full article in arXiv Biological Physics: DNA Breathing Dynamics in the Presence of a Terahertz Field
Selabach is going to get more Orwellian if people don’t start to wake up in ubber numbers
coz here the sheeps want this falsehood of security so now there are talking to have body scanners on the police force ,buildings….also “they” want to put it as an app for the phone
also there are talking to get scanners for your brain to see if you are having bad thoughts
what a World we living and is going to get worst remember the film Brazil hope we wake up before remember Soilent Green
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/
thought police!!..its like 1984 isnt it
I completly agree with your position and see the same possibility of a global 1984-like totalitarian police state. I also think there are as many “sheeples” in europe like there are in australia or the US. but the simple branding of nudescanner instead of bodyscanner changed the debate in germany significantly so that the project was buried 2008 (until this christmas):
http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/germany-labels-nude-scanner-plans-nonsense-20081113-5y7x.html
So there is a (last?) chance for protest, opposition and change (not the kind obama stands for) if people become better connected and organized, at best globally:
-Two years ago I had no clue about nwo and this thing although I was a critic of an authoritarian state. But especially the whole 9/11 truth movement grew so strong because of the internet that it can be heard all over the world and it is globally expanding.
-The idea of a dozen people from sweden to build a internet affialiated and surveillance critical party three years ago has become an global movement within months.
-The occupation of an university in vienna last october expanded within weeks to an nearly europewide protest against education reforms including a live internet broadcasted protest at the US embassy in austria against UC Berkeley police violence organized within a day.
-The iranelection tweets, youtube videos and facebook updates had a encouraging effect for chinese protest movements against their authoritarian regime (#cn4iran)
-the photos I posted earlier aren’t 12 hours old and are available in a colombian newspapers already: http://www.elespectador.com/imagen-protesta-escaneres
All these events happened within a 20 months or so and most notably through the connection and organization of ordinary and surprisingly creative webcitizens like you and me. The web 2.0 is therefore a severe challenge for the global fascists in contrast to the old internet.
I have the feeling that something big is brewing: there is without doubts a global nefarious agenda, but there is for the first time the chance of global resistance. if you have enough twitter followers or blog visitors you can arrange a fleshmob at your local airports too! I mean seeker alone had over 300k readers within a year! We are participants of a global movement we may not fully be aware of….
And “they” know it. that’s the reason why they try to censor the internet. I hope it is to late for them…….
excellent post mate and well said..web 2.0 is US right here right now..the internet force they didnt expect to happen..they will try to stop the net with filters but beside that they have no choice but to make rules and laws..or crash the entire system worldwide..and that wont happen!..i think
amazing how quick pics can get around the world now isnt it!
P.S.
I saw Brazil just a few weeks ago and enjoyed it, but never heard of soilent green. It sounds interesting…..!
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Soilent Green is imho the last stage of evil i don’t want it give up but maybe YOU guys hear the expression “we going to became soilent green” also is a \metal/ sludge band from Lousiana i know there music i see them couple times live good grind vocals and good art work like art nuveau style.
check now to find at link and i got kind of surprise when i read in wikipedia about the murder suicide here goes again ….and death of 2 members http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soilent_Green
Thx for those great encourage words and thx Seek to have me here
to enjoy this comunity
I don’t acept much almost no one in my twitter even i have use a lot when the Bombay bombs and at the start of the swine flu fin Mexico but i don’t want to became like my myspace that i use it to send to more than 900 people post it but probably a little amount read it hey 10% is the only we need to like Selabach say to change not a la obama
I ecomended to watch this documentary about the anonymous guy that stop the tanks in Tiananmen square and he inspire the East Europeans after the fall of the Berlin wall
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0872938/
imagine just one guy !!
I refuse to allow three-dimensional electromagnetic images of me to be used for the sexual gratification of pervert airport security staff. If these filthy swines want to sit around all day leering at pornographic images of fat holidaymakers then they can do it at home, on their own time, like the rest of us. Join my campaign to ban these government-sanctioned wank-tanks.
http://absolute-sense.blogspot.com/
thankyou BC..fight the good fight mate
sorry to put this here but i think is important to know there are suspended twitter acct and the guy that take the acct off only talk about COP15 and all that and monsanto problems with the food supply
nothing rad at all .
i am making a forum for you and others to put things like that isabel..wont be long now
thx Seek maybe is nothing but i was kind of surprise to see that
on twitter this guy was only worry about food and maybe chemtrails
maybe he do something stupid i don’t know i check the Doctor were he gets a lot of his tweets and he still on.
ok i guess false alarm the guy is back in twitter today no explanation only his dates on his tweets care all mess up
sorry Seek to post it here again
s’ok..glad hes alive still
Yep. I’d be mad too if those pictures were not fake. Take 30 seconds and you will find out that they are readily available stock images of a nude model. they were inverted and had some weapons added in Photoshop.
I don’t like how intrusive the scanners are but disinformation is disinformation.
yes we know that..i even know the guy who did it..its an example of what can be done..no disinformation..this is how they can look
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FAKE PHOTOSHOPPED BULLSHIT .. GET A LIFE LOOSERS
learn to spell moron..whats a “looser” LOL
go and stand in front of a scanner..you will be nude..enjoy
The image used in this story is a fake. It is not a full body scan image. It is a picture of a naked woman that has been inverted using photoshop. When you invert it back you can see the original picture. Real images from full body scanners do not look like that when inverted. This picture was created and used to falsely portray the machine as a porn creating device.
yes i am aware of what it is..but many many more pictures of scanners show basically full nudes..i dont agree with scanners..thats just me..
The world’s largest association of pilots has announced a boycott of full body scanners at airports, citing health risks.
The stance is taken following the suspension of an American pilot for refusing to be scanned, and the emergence of news that scanners may deliver 20 times more radiation than was announced by the authorities who introduced them.