Waking Up Orwell

Waking Up Orwell bounces back on podOmatic.com where we continue to show love to our friends and are covered from political online network problems. We will be featuring our podcasts here weekly at 9AM PST / 11AM CST. Our friends on the East Coast can catch us during lunch or just download our show to your iPod or MP3 player and listen to the facts on the ride home on the train or in the car or any way you choose digital America. Here's what I know - we've got great listeners on podOmatic. This week things got very TRANSPARENT - we learned things that you need to know about biometrics and why tasing pregnant women in America is suddenly above the law. We have the facts and we discuss what you can do about it without DeLay! Thanks for staying with us on Waking Up Orwell. Remember: Everyone has power; especially you!

Greg Nikkolettos is an investigative journalist and film producer for We The People Will Not Be Chipped and anti-Transhumanism advocate. In his film ONE MAINFRAME TO RULE THEM ALL he exposes the powers and dark history behind Verichip Corp., the first company to move forward with an internal RFID capable system. The film is based on exposing IBM's role as the key fiscal sustainer for Verichip Corp.

We spoke with Bob Dwyer, a district coordinator and citizen advocate for the Liberty Preservation Association of Massachussetts (Mass LPA) to update us on the status of S.2028. The bill is currently still in the Ways and Means committee. MASS LPA is composed of grassroots citizen advocates who are confronting their local lawmakers about the Constitutionality of S.2028. We asked him about his organization's recent actions and the effort to stop Massachussetts from becoming a precedent setting state for both pandemic tracking and mandatory administration of a flu vaccine. Dwyers group organized to confront State legislators on issues of Constitutionality. They interpret S.2028 to be a mandatory or coercive vaccination law for their state.

Radio Frequency ID chip technologies are "too vulnerable in too many ways," says Chris Paget, ethical hacker and partner for H4RDW4RE, a new company creating privacy and security solutions to existing RFID problems in the marketplace. The public has been made aware of RFID or Radio Frequency ID technologies commissioned for national identity documents: passports, Enhanced Drivers Licenses, TWIC cards, Speed Passes and even Tribal Identity Cards. Unfortunately, RFID as a government sanctioned technology earned a big brother reputation from its ability to track a persons current location, storing and conveying private information from 20 - 30 feet away. Chris Paget, a technology penetration consultant, found the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative compliant RFIDs especially troublesome. He began doing live demonstrations exposing identity security flaws RFIDs had on average cardholders. Then Chris Paget and his business partner Tim Mullen formed H4RDW4RE.com. They have made it their business to demonstrate exactly how insecure Western Hemisphere compliant RFID chips can be for people to possess in identity cards, smart-contactless cards and credit cards. In this interview they explain the benefits of technology penetration testing or "ethical hacking" for investors and adopters. One of Paget's demonstrations went viral via YouTube in February, blowing apart any faint notion of RFID's billing as a secure identity technology. Equipped with only a $250 signal reader and a conventional laptop which he cloned or copied private passport information from a parked car in San Francisco. H4RDW4RE recently featured high profile demonstrations at 2009 conventions like DefCon & Black Hat and continue to invent solutions for the security problems and risks ordinary people face from identity technologies present in U.S. passports and other public cards.

The ACLU's Chris Calabrese, veteran legal counsel assigned to the anti-Real ID effort in Washington updates listeners on a newly filed legislation. The new bill filed in the House of Representatives, would repeal Real ID entirely and replace it with the negotiated rulemaking process. The rule making process, part of a 9-11 Commissions reform bill, was itself repealed by the Real ID Act of 2005. We observe the modern marvel of when the ACLU can finally agree with the Secretary of DHS on something - that Real ID is dead. More is also included on the PASS Act.

With an upcoming hearing in Washington to evaluate the Real ID Act next week, Lee Tien articulates the standard for acceptable identity in America. Here's a hint: the Real ID Act is not part of the plan.

In light of recent events, the exposure of torture memos released and CIA exonerations; we spoke with David Swanson of AfterDowningStreet.org. He informed us of why NOW is the best time to impeach Bush and Cheney for their war crimes and how a prosecution would come about.

Jim Guest, Missouri Representative and herald for Legislators Against Real ID (L.A.R.I.) explains more about the databases, fusion centers and the overall plan for American Identity. He elaborates on a personal intervention with the now infamous MIAC or Missouri Information Analysis report.

FEATURED ON WAKING UP ORWELL : An interview with Campaign for Liberty's Steve Bierfelt, who was detained or arrested for simply possessing a large amount of cash in Missouri by the TSA. This happene AFTER the now notrious MIAC report was detracted. Listen to a first hand account and a recording of how he was handled by the TSA.

Scott Nicol conferred about how surveillance equipment manages to appear in areas in and around Texas without public input and little accountability.

This show is dedicated to the recession proof industry of filmmaking. In this season of hystrionic brazen financial powergrabbing in DC, we here at Waking Up Orwell have decided to provide am escape valve. We bring you effort from the recession proof industry of film. Not just any film either - our favorite kind : dystopian film which would rattle the bones of Orwell himself. From there we announce how you can get involved in local film ventures where "artivism" can make a difference. Here are few examples of dystopian films of note: Zeigeist Network V for Vendetta Loose Change Aaron Russo's From Freedom to Fascism We will be discussing the submissions processes and relevance of dystopian filmmaking in the activist community.

2-19-09 JUDITH MCGEARY OF NAIS NewStreamz San Marcos reports: "The emotionally charged matter of mandatory microchip registration for pet dogs and cats in San Marcos reached another boiling point Saturday afternoon at City Hall, where city staff gave its last of three information sessions about a new animal control ordinance. Outside City Hall, a group calling itself “Citizens for Ear Tatooing Identification” (CETI) protested before the meeting. Inside City Hall, CETI members and others pelted city staff with numerous complaints in the form of questions, touching on such worries as the new ordinance’s enforceability, over-reaching government, the risk of cancer from microchipping, religious objections, and the city’s dismissal of tatooing as an alternative." - Andy Sevilla, associate editor http://newstreamz.com/2009/02/07/ceti-vs-city-in-final-animal-ordinance-session Today we will be speaking with Judith McGeary from NAIS and the National Farm Ranch and Freedom Alliance. Judith McGeary is an attorney in Austin, Texas. She has a B.S. in Biology from Stanford University and a J.D. with high honors from The University of Texas at Austin. She began her legal career by clerking for the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Since then, her practice has focused on environmental law, commercial litigation, and appeals. She and her husband also run a small organic farm, with horses, cow, sheep, and poultry, based on the principles of holistic resource management.

Mike McHugh provides insight and comments on the protracted and now winning battle against Real ID in the state of Virgina.