We're watching: The camera that can recognise you from your Facebook picture every time you walk into a shop | Mail Online

 Facedeals - a new camera that can recognise shoppers from their Facebook pictures as they enter a shop, and then offer them discounts

A promotional video created to promote the concept shows drinkers entering a bar, and then being offerend cheap drinks as they are recognised.

'Facebook check-ins are a powerful mechanism for businesses to deliver discounts to loyal customers, yet few businesses—and fewer customers—have realized it,' said Nashville-based advertising agency Redpepper. 

They are already trialling the scheme in firms close to their office.

'A search for businesses with active deals in our area turned up a measly six offers.

'The odds we’ll ever be at one of those six spots are low (a strip club and photography studio among them), and the incentives for a check-in are not nearly enticing enough for us to take the time.

'So we set out to evolve the check-in and sweeten the deal, making both irresistible.

'We call it Facedeals.'

We're watching: The camera that can recognise you from your Facebook picture every time you walk into a shop | Mail Online

TrapWire investigation links transit systems and Anonymizer in global surveillance network — RT

 
 TrapWire investigation links transit systems and Anonymizer in global surveillance network


The facts behind TrapWire continue to surface in the days since WikiLeaks exposed the state-of-the-art surveillance system, but minute-by-minute more is being revealed about not just the scary intelligence infrastructure but its questionable ties.

Last week, WikiLeaks published their latest addition to trove of the so-called Global Intelligence Files — emails uncovered from Texas-based Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor) by Anonymous late last year — in turn revealing a widespread surveillance system blanketing much of the United States and abroad. The project, TrapWire, is the brainchild of Abraxas, a Northern Virginia corporation that has cut countless deals with the federal government and is staffed by former agents out of not just the Pentagon but practically every leading intelligence agency in the country. As those connections are examined under a magnifying glass by researchers and hacktivists alike, though, more and more is being brought to light about the correlations that exist between the biggest of brothers and an entire industry that profits from pulverizing what is left of privacy.

TrapWire investigation links transit systems and Anonymizer in global surveillance network — RT

Homeland Security finishing acquisition of millions of rounds of high-powered ammo — RT

The Department of Homeland Security is rushing to finish the acquisition of 750 million rounds of high-power ammunition that has already raised many eyebrows. In one week, the DHS should start expecting an arsenal that will make some armies jealous.
The DHS has updated a solicitation originally posted on the Federal Business

Opportunities website earlier this year, now answering questions from prospective contractors about an inquiry the agency published back in April. All responses to the DHS’ request for hundreds of millions of rounds of high-power ammunition must still be sent in by August 20, but now the federal agency designated to thwart terrorism on the home front has answered some questions about what exactly they are looking for in terms of being able to blow stuff up.

Homeland Security finishing acquisition of millions of rounds of high-powered ammo — RT

Want An RFID Chip Implanted Into Your Hand? Here's What The DIY Surgery Looks Like (Video) - Forbes

 
Amal Graafstra snaps on a pair of black rubber gloves. “Do you want to talk about pain management techniques?” he asks. The bearded systems administrator across the table, who requested I call him “Andrew,” has paid Grafstra $30 to have a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip injected into the space between his thumb and pointer finger, and as Graafstra describes Lamaze-type breathing methods, Andrew looks remarkably untroubled, in spite of the intimidatingly high-gauge syringe sitting on the table between them.

Graafstra finishes his pain talk, fishes a tiny cylindrical two-millimeter diameter EM4012 RFID chip out of a tin of isopropyl alcohol, and drops it into the syringe’s end, replacing the RFID tag intended for pets that came with the injection kit. He swabs Andrew’s hand with iodine, carefully pinches and pulls up a fold of skin on the top of his hand to create a tent of flesh, and with the other hand slides the syringe into the subcutaneous layer known as the fascia, just below the surface.


Want An RFID Chip Implanted Into Your Hand? Here's What The DIY Surgery Looks Like (Video) - Forbes

World powers weigh emergency meeting on food prices | Reuters

 (Reuters) - France, the United States and G20 president Mexico will hold a conference call at the end of August to discuss whether an emergency international meeting is required to tackle soaring grain prices caused by the worst U.S. drought in half a century.


World powers weigh emergency meeting on food prices | Reuters

Putin says Russia to get hundreds of military planes | Reuters

Russia's military will get 1,600 new warplanes and helicopters by 2020, President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday, as part of efforts to strengthen the country's armed forces.
Putin has worked hard to restore pride in the Cold War-era superpower's military since his first election in 2000.

The planned addition of 600 military planes and 1,000 helicopters is part of a 23 trillion rouble ($720 billion)program to re-equip a military still weakened by spending cuts prompted by the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.

"We are talking primarily about providing our forces with state-of-the-art modern technology," Putin said at an air show on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the country's air force.



Putin says Russia to get hundreds of military planes | Reuters

"Right to Pray" Amendment Wins Overwhelming Vote in Missouri

"Right to Pray" Amendment Wins Overwhelming Vote in Missouri

France: Lake Turns Blood Red In Camargue, ‘It Looks Like Something Extra-Terresterial’

France: Lake Turns Blood Red In Camargue, ‘It Looks Like Something Extra-Terresterial’ « MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

Analysis: China's sway over Cambodia tests Southeast Asian unity | Reuters

(Reuters) - Students in their twenties sit behind old wooden desks in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, scribbling away as a teacher barks out phrases in a foreign language above the roar of motorcycles outside.

Unlike in most other countries in the region, the students at this private language school and others nearby are not learning English -- it's Chinese.

Along the street, signs with golden Chinese letters on newly painted red-and-yellow buildings offer cheap crash courses in Mandarin.

"Before, people came to this area to study English but now it's Chinese," said Gua Fa, a teacher and manager of the Ming Fa Chinese School. "The students all want to be tour guides, Chinese translators, or work in banks and restaurants."

It's another sign of China's growing influence in Cambodia, something that is upsetting the unity of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).


Analysis: China's sway over Cambodia tests Southeast Asian unity | Reuters

Michigan School District Sold School to Jihad-Linked Group In Sweetheart Deal, After Telling Christian Pastor It Was Slated for Demolition - Atlas Shrugs

 Last Wednesday, there was a bombshell development during a community briefing that a group of concerned citizens in the Detroit area were holding to focus on a shady sweetheart deal that the Farmington Hills School District gave to a jihad-linked Muslim group in the sale of a school. As you can see in the video above, a Christian pastor revealed that he had called the public school district to inquire about buying the vacant elementary school for his church. District officials lied to him, telling him the building was not suitable and was slated for demolition. But in reality, all the while the district was  negotiating behind closed doors with the terror-linked Islamic Cultural Association, to which it sold the property while saying that no one else had asked about buying it.


Michigan School District Sold School to Jihad-Linked Group In Sweetheart Deal, After Telling Christian Pastor It Was Slated for Demolition - Atlas Shrugs

Egyptian President Cancel’s Military-Declared Amendments Giving Them Wide Powers, Dismisses Top Military Leaders « MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

AP – “CAIRO — Egypt’s Islamist president ordered his defense minister and chief of staff to retire on Sunday and canceled the military-declared constitutional amendments that gave top generals wide powers.

It was not immediately clear whether the decision had the military’s blessing. Morsi has been in a power struggle with the military since he came to power on June 30. Shortly before he was announced the winner of elections, the ruling military council that took power after Hosni Mubarak’s ouster stripped the presidency of many of its key powers.
Morsi also appointed a senior judge, Mahmoud Mekki, as vice president. All decisions are effective immediately.

Egyptian President Cancel’s Military-Declared Amendments Giving Them Wide Powers, Dismisses Top Military Leaders « MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

Egyptian Media Being Censored For Criticising Islamist President Morsi « MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

USA Today – “CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court ordered the Saturday editions of a newspaper confiscated over allegations it insulted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi and instigated sectarian discord, Egypt’s official news agency said.

Editions of Al-Dustour, a privately owned daily, were seized after several individuals filed lawsuits accusing it of ‘fueling sedition’ and ‘harming the president through phrases and wording punishable by law,’ MENA said.

It was not clear whether the paper was barred from publishing completely. Newspaper al-Masry al-Youm said authorities have removed al-Dustour from newsstands.
The paper, a tabloid owned by a Christian businessman, has been fiercely critical of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood while showing strong support for the military council, which took power after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in last year’s uprising. Both Morsi and the military council are in midst of power struggle.


Egyptian Media Being Censored For Criticising Islamist President Morsi « MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

Breaking free, Egypt's President Mursi removes generals | Reuters

Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Mursi dismissed Cairo's two top generals and quashed a military order that had curbed the new leader's powers, in a move that further stamped his authority on the country and its army.

There had been much debate over the fate of Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, 76, who until Mursi's election in June had ruled Egypt as head of a military council since Hosni Mubarak was toppled last year. The timing of Sunday's announcement to replace him as armed forces head was nevertheless a surprise.

However, an embarrassing debacle for the army on the border with Israel, where 16 Egyptian troops were killed by Islamist militants a week ago, may have given Mursi the opening he needed to step up the pace in rolling back the military's influence, pushing aside Tantawi and military chief of staff Sami Enan.


Breaking free, Egypt's President Mursi removes generals | Reuters

Why is the Commander-in-Chief Putting Up Roadblocks for Military Voters?

Why is President Obama - our nation's Commander-in-Chief - going after our U.S. military? Why is his re-election team putting up roadblocks for members of the armed forces when it comes to the upcoming election?
As you may know, the President's re-election team has gone to federal court challenging an Ohio law that clears the way for a lawful three-day extension so those men and women who defend our freedoms can cast their ballots.
The Obama team calls this law "arbitrary" and says there's "no legitimate justification" for granting military members particular consideration in this matter.

Why is the Commander-in-Chief Putting Up Roadblocks for Military Voters? | US Constitution, American Center for Law and Justice ACLJ

Caterpillar exporting China-made goods | Reuters

 

Caterpillar Inc (CAT.N) has begun exporting Chinese-made machinery to the Middle East and Africa, part of a plan to offset a dip in China's economic growth, a top official at the company said in an interview.

The move by the world's largest maker of construction equipment is only temporary and the company still expects China to remain its fastest growth market, Richard Lavin, who oversees Caterpillar's business in China, told Reuters.

Lavin declined to name specific countries in the Middle East and Africa where the Chinese-made goods are headed, or list the amount of product, but noted front-end loaders and excavators comprise the bulk of exports.

"The global economic situation, especially the situation in China, has presented us a short-term opportunity to serve very specific markets with some supplies over the last half of 2012," he said. "But that is not part of overall strategy for China."

Caterpillar exporting China-made goods | Reuters

Boyle: Treasury Dept. Kills 20,000 Non-Union Pensions, Media Silent

Boyle: Treasury Dept. Kills 20,000 Non-Union Pensions, Media Silent

JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson Wants To Eliminate Traditional Checkout - Business Insider

 JCPenney CEO and former Apple retail guru Ron Johnson is speaking at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, and he revealed a bit of what his strategy is for store checkout.

He wants to eliminate the employees who stand at cash registers and get rid of traditional checkout by the end of 2013.

Instead, he's pushing mobile checkout and self checkout. The stores will be 100 percent RFID (radio frequency identification) and wi-fi enabled

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/jcpenney-ceo-ron-johnson-wants-to-eliminate-traditional-checkout-2012-7#ixzz230z15Dqq

JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson Wants To Eliminate Traditional Checkout - Business Insider

Spain And Italy Are Toast Unless Germany Allows The ECB To Print Trillions Of Euros

 
 Spain And Italy Are Toast Unless Germany Allows The ECB To Print Trillions Of Euros

The financial chess game in Europe is still being played out, but in the end it is going to boil down to one very fundamental decision.  Is Germany going to allow the ECB to print up trillions of euros and use those euros to buy up the sovereign debt of troubled eurozone members such as Spain and Italy or not?  Nothing short of this is going to solve the problems in Europe.  You can forget the ESM and the EFSF.  Anyone that thinks they are going to solve the problems in Europe is someone that would also take a water pistol to fight a raging wildfire.  No, the only thing that is going to keep Spain and Italy from collapsing under the weight of a mountain of debt is a financial nuke.  The ECB needs to have the power to print up trillions of euros and use that money to buy up massive amounts of sovereign debt in order to guarantee that Spain and Italy will be able to borrow lots more money at very low interest rates.  In fact, this is probably what European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has in mind when he says that he is going to "do whatever it takes to preserve the euro".  However, there is one giant problem.  The ECB is not going to be able to do this unless Germany allows them to.  And after enduring the horror of hyperinflation under the Weimar Republic, Germany is not too keen on introducing trillions upon trillions of new euros into the European economy.  If Germany allows the ECB to go down this path, Germany will end up experiencing tremendous inflation and the only benefit for Germany will be that the eurozone was kept together.  That doesn't sound like a very good deal for Germany.

Spain And Italy Are Toast Unless Germany Allows The ECB To Print Trillions Of Euros

Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A “Vision” of the Future

 The U.S. Army’s Operating Concept 2016-2028 was issued in August 2010 with three goals.  First, it aims to portray how future Army forces will conduct operations as part of a joint force to deter conflict, prevail in war, and succeed in a range of contingencies, at home and abroad.  Second, the concept describes the employment of Army forces at the tactical and operational levels of war between 2016 and 2028.  Third, in broad terms the concept describes how Army headquarters, from theater army to division, organize and use their forces.  The concept goes on to describe the major categories of Army operations, identify the capabilities required of Army forces, and guide how force development should be prioritized. The goal of this concept is to establish a common frame of reference for thinking about how the US Army will conduct full spectrum operations in the coming two decades (US Army Training and Doctrine Command, The Army Operating Concept 2016 – 2028, TRADOC Pamphlet 525-3-1, dated 19 August 2010, p. iii.  Hereafter cited as TD Pam 525-3-1.  The Army defines full spectrum operations as the combination of offensive, defensive, and either stability operations overseas or civil support operations on U.S. soil).

Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A “Vision” of the Future | Small Wars Journal

Obama classmate blows lid off of scandalous secrets -

Two significant bodies of evidence have emerged within the last 24 hours that appear to corroborate, at least on the surface, some of the charges made by Obama opponents who question his qualifications for the presidential office.

Monday a former Obama classmate at Columbia University in the early 1980s wrote an expose at The Blaze which sheds significant light on the questions surrounding the president's years as a student at Columbia.

Wayne Allyn Root serves as the chairman of the Libertarian National Campaign Committee and is a former vice presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party. Root was a student at Columbia during the same time period that Obama attended the university.
Root does not allege that Obama was never a student at Columbia. In fact, he is quite certain that Obama was there. But Root says that in spite of the fact that Obama was a classmate attending Columbia during the same years, with the same major -- Pre-Law and Political Science -- and graduating the same year, 1983, he never heard of nor saw Obama, who at the time went under the name "Barry Soetoro."

In addition, none of his fellow Political Science majors had heard of him.

Obama classmate blows lid off of scandalous secrets - National Conservative | Examiner.com

Closed Circuit Television Surveillance Cameras Watching Everyone at Olympics in London

Closed Circuit Television Surveillance Cameras Watching Everyone at Olympics in London

China tightens rare earths controls in move that might inflame tensions with US, Europe - The Washington Post

BEIJING — China’s government has further tightened curbs on production of rare earths used in mobile phones and other high-tech products in a move that might inflame trade tensions with Washington and Europe.

Regulations issued this week say mines and smelting companies must meet minimum output levels to continue operating. The state newspaper China Daily said Wednesday that might result in 20 percent of the country’s production capacity to be shut down.


China tightens rare earths controls in move that might inflame tensions with US, Europe - The Washington Post

Filmmaker reveals ‘deeply disturbing’ Obama background

Ever wonder why presidents before Barack Obama didn’t feel the need to publicly berate the U.S. Supreme Court during a State of the Union address, even when they disagreed with a decision, as Obama did over the campaign finance ruling?

Did you think why earlier presidents did not demand ranks of unaccountable “czars” in the White House, to address everything from water use to executive pay?

And did you notice the reams of orders emanating from the Obama White House regarding immigration policy, social welfare programs and terrorism policy, issues that logically should be addressed by Congress?

There’s one man who’s noticed it all: Filmmaker Joel Gilbert, who has directed the new “Dreams from My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception,” about Obama and his past.

Filmmaker reveals ‘deeply disturbing’ Obama background

FDIC: Bank Failures in Brief to 8/3/12

FDIC: Bank Failures in Brief

What you don’t know about David Petraeus

 

The political world is abuzz with speculation about whether Mitt Romney plans to choose CIA Director David Petraeus to be his vice-presidential running mate on the GOP ticket – but Petraeus’ positions on a variety of issues could upset conservatives if he is indeed selected for the slot.

The retired Army four-star general, who has been lionized by many Republicans, led the charge to allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military – more than a year before the Obama administration repealed the armed forces’ “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

In March 2010, Petraeus declared “the time has come” for the military to reconsider the rule. In the same month, Petraeus told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria he served with homosexuals in the CIA and didn’t believe troops would have difficulty adjusting to working with openly homosexual service members.

He has expressed support for Obama’s calls for shutting down Guantanamo Bay prison and condemned American use of interrogation strategies such as waterboarding.  

Also, Petraeus testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee, saying the perception of U.S. favoritism toward Israel has fomented anti-Americanism. He told the committee, “enduring hostilities between Israel and some of its neighbors present distinct challenges to our ability to advance our interests in the area of responsibility.

What you don’t know about David Petraeus

Trump renews push to unseal Obama records

Donald Trump is calling on Obama to release his sealed records in exchange for Gov. Mitt Romney’s tax returns, declaring it would be “a wonderful trade.”
“I’ve said it a lot, that if Obama opened up his records, maybe Mitt should give his returns,” Trump told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.” “That would be a great trade. I guarantee it would be a really wonderful trade.”
Trump offered a list of sealed documents he believes Obama should present for the deal.
“I’d like to see his college records,” he said. “I’d like to see his college applications. I’d like to see something about his past, which many people know nothing about. I’d like to see his passport records, which are sealed.
“You know, Obama spent over $4 million in legal fees to keep these things quiet, and then he stands up and says ‘I want to see his tax returns.’ He’s given tax returns. And if they give more – and I understand what Mitt’s saying, they’re very, very complex and 100 percent straight, 100 percent legal – but they look at little nitpicking things, and then you have another month of debate. Now if Obama gives some of his sealed records where all of this money has been spent to keep them sealed, I would certainly make that trade. I think that’s a great trade. … I think you would find some things that are very, very interesting and very shocking.”

It is unclear where Trump learned of the $4 million figure he cites.

However, as WND reported, Robert Bauer is a former partner at Perkins Coie and former top lawyer for Obama, Obama’s presidential campaign, the Democratic National Committee and Obama’s Organizing for America. He is the same lawyer who defended President Obama in lawsuits challenging his eligibility to be president.

In 2009, WND reported Obama had paid Perkins Coie, a single law firm, $2.6 million between the time he announced his campaign for presidency and November 2009, the month Bauer left his position at Perkins Coie to become White House counsel. (By contrast, a cumulative total of all of Sen. John McCain’s legal consulting fees, from Jan. 1, 2007, to October 2009, amounted to only $1.6 million.)

Trump renews push to unseal Obama records

Government appeals ruling against military detention law | Reuters

Manhattan federal court Judge Katherine Forrest in May ruled in favor of activists and reporters who said they feared being detained under a section of the law, signed by President Barack Obama in December.
The government says indefinite military detention without trial is justified in some cases involving militants and their supporters.
The judge's preliminary injunction prevents the U.S. government from enforcing section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act's "Homeland Battlefield" provisions.


Government appeals ruling against military detention law | Reuters

Palm Beach County school district looking into using fingerprint tech to keep better track of kids

 

t’s a high tech idea whose time has — or may sometime soon — come.
Palm Beach County schools officials are considering a proposal that would have the more than 60,000 students who ride a big yellow bus to school each day giving their fingerprints on an electronic key pad to get on the bus.

In a July 9 message on his department’s blog, School District Chief of Support Operations Joe Sanches told principals that based on their responses in a recent anonymous survey on the use of biometrics in schools “we will seek Board approval to pursue a pilot use on school buses.”

Simply put, biometrics is the use of a person’s unique biological characteristics — most typically their fingerprint — to identify them. For years now, school districts around the nation have used electronic fingerprint scanners to keep track of which child gets on which school bus and which child checks out which book from school media centers, and to allow children to access their lunch accounts in cafeterias.

Read more: http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_c_palm_beach_county/palm-beach-county-school-district-looking-into-using-fingerprint-tech-to-keep-better-track-of-kids#ixzz22ruRabLB

Palm Beach County school district looking into using fingerprint tech to keep better track of kids

Netanyahu: Khamenei 'Not a Rational Leader'

Netanyahu: Khamenei 'Not a Rational Leader' - Defense/Security - News - Israel National News

EUobserver.com / Enlargement / 'Everybody thinks Europe is a Christian continent'

EU institutions avoid God. But for some religious leaders in EU-aspirant countries, member states' Christian origins are still politicaly important.

The morning call to prayer at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul means different things to different people.

For Muslims, it is an invitation to muster spiritual energy for the working day. For some Western visitors it is a sign that they are on the edge of an exotic world.
With regular news about Islamic extremists - Spain this week charged two al-Qaeda suspects, Denmark in June charged four Muslims for plotting to murder a cartoonist who made fun of Mohammed - it is a world that many see as hostile to the West.

EUobserver.com / Enlargement / 'Everybody thinks Europe is a Christian continent'

Privacy and Health Concerns on “Smart Meters” Growing Globally

As the international effort to deploy so-called “smart meters” to monitor electricity usage marches on, resistance to the controversial devices is increasing around the world as well. Proponents argue that the scheme could save money and reduce energy use. Opponents from across the political spectrum, however, worry that the smart meters might not be just a stupid idea and a waste of money — they could actually be dangerous in more ways than one.

Privacy and Health Concerns on “Smart Meters” Growing Globally

Coalition of Black Pastors Launches Campaign to Oppose Obama Reelection

As the technology facilitating the expansion of the surveillance state becomes more advanced, the need for proximity to the target of the surveillance diminishes. For example, very soon drones will be equipped with lasers that can penetrate walls, map the interior of a home or other building, and scan a targeted individual’s genetic code from 50 yards with dizzying speed and accuracy. Additionally, the ability to keep drones perpetually airborne is being engineered thanks to multi-million dollar research and development grants offered by the Pentagon to companies on the edge of technological advancement.

One such grant was recently awarded by DARPA (the secretive research and development agency inside the Pentagon) to a company working on reducing the size and increasing the power of laser-based optics used by snipers. Earlier this week, DARPA awarded Cubic Corporation $6 million to develop a “laser-emitting targeting computer” for American military snipers. According to a story in Wired, the “goal is to reduce the number of calculations the sniper and his teammate — a spotter — have to do before they can make an accurate shot.”



Coalition of Black Pastors Launches Campaign to Oppose Obama Reelection

Self-Guided Bullets and Super Sniper Scopes Deliver Death From 2 Km

As the technology facilitating the expansion of the surveillance state becomes more advanced, the need for proximity to the target of the surveillance diminishes. For example, very soon drones will be equipped with lasers that can penetrate walls, map the interior of a home or other building, and scan a targeted individual’s genetic code from 50 yards with dizzying speed and accuracy. Additionally, the ability to keep drones perpetually airborne is being engineered thanks to multi-million dollar research and development grants offered by the Pentagon to companies on the edge of technological advancement.

One such grant was recently awarded by DARPA (the secretive research and development agency inside the Pentagon) to a company working on reducing the size and increasing the power of laser-based optics used by snipers. Earlier this week, DARPA awarded Cubic Corporation $6 million to develop a “laser-emitting targeting computer” for American military snipers. According to a story in Wired, the “goal is to reduce the number of calculations the sniper and his teammate — a spotter — have to do before they can make an accurate shot.”
Self-Guided Bullets and Super Sniper Scopes Deliver Death From 2 Km

Obama Extends Amnesty to Homosexuals

The Homeland Security Department will extend the president’s order to halt deportation of illegals to homosexuals if they have “family ties,” the agency announced last week. The move to protect what are now called “LGBT” (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) immigrants came after seven dozen Democrats went to bat for these illegals.
The move is yet another step toward total dissolution of American borders, and a continuation of the  Obama administration's legal and political war against those who wish to stop illegals from crossing the border. Just weeks ago, President Obama unilaterally offered an amnesty to “young” illegals who are, he claims, for all intents and purposes, “Americans.”




Obama Extends Amnesty to Homosexuals

US: Hundreds Of Thousands Of Fish Dying All Across The Midwest, ‘It’s Something I’ve Never Seen In My Career’ « MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

Thousands of fish are dying in the Midwest as the hot, dry summer dries up rivers and causes water temperatures to climb in some spots to nearly 100 degrees.

About 40,000 shovelnose sturgeon were killed in Iowa last week as water temperatures reached 97 degrees. Nebraska fishery officials said they’ve seen thousands of dead sturgeon, catfish, carp, and other species in the Lower Platte River, including the endangered pallid sturgeon. And biologists in Illinois said the hot weather has killed tens of thousands of large- and smallmouth bass and channel catfish and is threatening the population of the greater redhorse fish, a state-endangered species.

So many fish died in one Illinois lake that the carcasses clogged an intake screen near a power plant, lowering water levels to the point that the station had to shut down one of its generators.


US: Hundreds Of Thousands Of Fish Dying All Across The Midwest, ‘It’s Something I’ve Never Seen In My Career’ « MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

Ireland: Fisheries Officers Investigate Major Fish Kill

Ireland: Fisheries Officers Investigate Major Fish Kill Along 4 KM Stretch Of Dunleer River « MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

Govt May Now Collect, Catalog, and Store All Private Information

Imagine that the U.S. government had the power to scour the reams of public records and collect and collate every bit of personal information about every citizen of this country. Now imagine that any of the various intelligence and security agencies within the government could combine that data with any other information about a person that has been posted to a social media website or compiled by one of the many data aggregating companies that keep tabs on all of us. Finally, imagine that all this data could be passed among these agencies and that the ability of anyone inside or outside the government to challenge this surveillance was all but eliminated.

Sadly, this is not the description of some fictitious dystopian future; this is the factual description of present-day America and it’s about to get much worse.


Govt May Now Collect, Catalog, and Store All Private Information

U.N. meeting potential minefield for Obama

 NEW YORK – The 2012 U.N. General Assembly will convene in New York next month and for Barack Obama it could prove to be a minefield.

In what has become a ritual annual pilgrimage, the Iranian leader will arrive in the Big Apple on September 24 and remain till Friday Sept 28.

The visit will come at a time when the U.N. is being pressured by the White House to increase the political/economic sanctions on Iran and its nuclear “research” program which Washington insists is a cover for a nuclear bomb project.

The failure to contain Iran has been a glaring problem for Obama, and Ahmadinejad’s New York visit is intended to grpahicaaly high-light it just weeks before election day.
Another problem for Obama is Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who intends to pursue his quest for statehood when he speaks on September 29.

Washington and Jerusalem are strongly against the Palestinian strategy insisting that only direct bi-lateral negotiations between Israel and P.A. is the way to eventual statehood.

While not U.N. a member, Abbas is nonetheless being treated as an “unofficial” head of a defacto state and has been given a speaking position along side established, recognized nations.

Just over a month before the U.S. elections, the U.N. gathering will draw friends and foes of the White House.


U.N. meeting potential minefield for Obama

Can America even protect itself from EMP?

by Steve ElwartEmail | Archive Steve Elwart, P.E. is the Senior Research Analyst with the Koinonia Institute and a Subject Matter Expert for the Department of Homeland Security. He can be contacted at steve.elwart@studycenter.com.
 
Can the United States actually protect itself from the effects of an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack, or is the nation merely a sitting duck just waiting for disaster?
 
The EMP Commission, a panel established by Congress, has written that “EMP is one of a small number of threats that can hold our society at risk of catastrophic consequences. … It has the capability to produce significant damage to critical infrastructures and thus to the very fabric of U.S. society … .”

The effects of an EMP have been known for 50 years, but it is virtually unknown by the general public. Sadly, many who do know about EMP either discount the threat or consider those who talk about it are “fear mongers.”

The fact is the scenario of a nation-state threatening to use an EMP device against the U.S. is a real threat. There have already been instances of an EMP threat being used against America.

Can America even protect itself from EMP?

Saudi invites Iran for extraordinary Muslim summit

 

Saudi King Abdullah invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for an extraordinary summit of Muslim leaders to be held this month in the holy city of Mecca, state news agency SPA reported Sunday.

The Saudi monarch "sent a written letter to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inviting him to attend the extraordinary Islamic solidarity meeting which will be held in Mecca" in mid-August, SPA reported.

Tensions have been running high between the Sunni-dominated kingdom and Shiite Iran as both regional powers had taken opposite stances on the uprisings in Bahrain and Syria.

Iran had voiced support to a Shiite-led uprising in Bahrain which Saudi Arabia had sent troops to crush last year.


Saudi invites Iran for extraordinary Muslim summit - Yahoo! News Canada

Seeing Through Walls With a Wireless Router | Popular Science

Wi-Spy Click here to see this amazing image even larger. Kevin Hand

In the 1930s, U.S. Navy researchers stumbled upon the concept of radar when they noticed that a plane flying past a radio tower reflected radio waves. Scientists have now applied that same principle to make the first device that tracks existing Wi-Fi signals to spy on people through walls.

Wi-Fi radio signals are found in 61 percent of homes in the U.S. and 25 percent worldwide, so Karl Woodbridge and Kevin Chetty, researchers at University College London, designed their detector to use these ubiquitous signals. When a radio wave reflects off a moving object, its frequency changes—a phenomenon called the Doppler effect. Their radar prototype identifies frequency changes to detect moving objects. It’s about the size of a suitcase and contains a radio receiver composed of two antennas ­and a signal-processing unit. In tests, they have used it to determine a person’s location, speed and direction—even through a one-foot-thick brick wall. Because the device itself doesn’t emit any radio waves, it can’t be detected.

Seeing Through Walls With a Wireless Router | Popular Science

Egypt: Islamic Terrorists Infiltrate Israel After Killing 15 Egyptian Soldiers At Sinai Military Base « MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

 By YAAKOV KATZ – “Global jihad terrorists infiltrated into Israel on Sunday night after breaking into an Egyptian military base and stealing two armored jeeps.
One of the vehicles exploded as it rammed through the Kerem Shalom Crossing into Israel and another crossed through, after which it was targeted by an Israel Air Force strike. Simultaneously, dozens of mortar shells rained down on nearby communities.
Al Arabiya reported that 15 Egyptian soldiers were killed in the attack on their base and several more were wounded.

The attack began at around 8 PM, likely in retaliation to an Israeli airstrike earlier in the day against a global jihad terror cell which the IDF said was in the final stages of launching an attack against Israel along the Egyptian border. One terrorist was killed in the strike and another was seriously injured.

The IDF ordered residents of communities in the Eshkol Region to remain inside their homes and shut down Road 232, which runs along the border.
Palestinians reported that the IDF was firing tank shells into southern Gaza, likely part of an effort to suppress the mortar fire. In addition, the Israel Air Force struck back at targets in southern Gaza.


Egypt: Islamic Terrorists Infiltrate Israel After Killing 15 Egyptian Soldiers At Sinai Military Base « MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

Food Stamp Rules Change Adds $460 Million to Cost in Fiscal 2010

Nearly 3 percent of the households that receive food stamps in United States would have been ineligible to receive them if the income eligibility rules had not been changed, the Government Accountability Office has reported.

According to the GAO, in fiscal year 2010 the government spent an extra $460 million on the food stamp program — $38 million per month, or about $1.26 million per day — because of relaxed limits on the amount of income a household may have and still receive the assistance. Those changes in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the fancy name for food stamps, fall under the rubric “broad-based categorical eligibility.”
About one in seven Americans are now on food stamps. GAO blames most of the increase in food stamp recipients on the bad economy, but the broadened eligibility standards explain a lot.

And putting more Americans on food stamps, which are administered by the Agriculture Department,  has been a key goal of the Obama administration.

Food Stamp Rules Change Adds $460 Million to Cost in Fiscal 2010

Covered, Confined, Cursed: The Place Of Women In Islam « MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

 In Egypt, where the men-to-women ratio is roughly equal, it looks like the new “Arab Spring” male-dominated Islamist rulers are taking the status of women very seriously. And that isn’t a good thing …



By Ali Sina, FaithFreedom.org - ”There are two men in Islam that are indisputably the greatest in the annals of this religion. They are Imam al Ghazzali and Jalaleddin Rumi, both Persians. Let us see what they thought of women.
Ghazzali is so highly revered amongst the majority of Muslim clerics that he is called Hojjatul Islam, ‘proof of Islam’. For many, his authority in religious matters is only second to the Prophet. In his The Revival of the Religious Sciences Ghazzali defines the position of women in Islam:

• She should stay at home and get on with her spinning
• She can go out only in emergencies.
• She must not be well-informed nor must she be communicative with her neighbors and only visit them when absolutely necessary.
• She should take care of her husband and respect him in his presence and his absence and seek to satisfy him in everything.
• She must not leave her house without his permission and if given his permission she must leave secretly.
• She should put on old clothes and take deserted streets and alleys, avoid markets, and make sure that a stranger does not hear her voice, her footsteps, smell her or recognize her.
• She must not speak to a friend of her husband even in need.
• Her sole worry should be her “al bud” (reproductive organs) her home as well as her prayers and her fast.
• If a friend of her husband calls when her husband is absent she must not open the door nor reply to him in order to safeguard her “al bud”.
• She should accept what her husband gives her as sufficient sexual needs at any moment.
• She should be clean and ready to satisfy her husband’s sexual needs at any moment.

The great theologian then warns all men to be careful of women for their ‘guile is immense and their mischief is noxious; they are immoral and mean spirited’.
Ghazzali states ‘It is a fact that all the trials, misfortunes and woes which befall men come from women.


Covered, Confined, Cursed: The Place Of Women In Islam « MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

Biometric Voter Registration (BVR): Voting Goes Scientific - The Social Ballot

With a lot of discussion as of late on issues surrounding voter registration laws and voter suppression in the U.S., the discussion of alternatives to improving the voting process becomes a relevant topic. On the more intensive side of the spectrum, the idea of Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) can be considered. Although most likely not a viable option for the U.S., it is nevertheless an interesting subject that has growing prevalence in Africa.

Biometric Voter Registration is the process of requiring eligible voters to go through some kind of biometric analysis for recording, be it fingerprint or iris scanning technology. Doing so allows them to be a registered voter and prove their identity when they go to vote. The goal is to reduce and even eliminate unfair voting practices and promote free, fair, and transparent (FFT) voting.


Biometric Voter Registration (BVR): Voting Goes Scientific - The Social Ballot

Obama campaign sues Ohio over early voting law for military

In a move that puts new meaning to the term battleground, President Obama's re-election campaign and members of some military groups are on a collision course over voting rights in the critical state of Ohio.
The Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee have filed a lawsuit to block a new state law allowing men and women in uniform to vote up until the Monday right before an election, while the cutoff on early voting for the rest of the public is three days earlier.
Top Obama campaign officials told Fox News in interviews that the lawsuit in no way tries to restrict the voting rights of military members. All they are trying to do is even the playing field for all voters in Ohio by allowing early voting up until Monday for everyone, including members of the military, because they believe a two-tiered, early-voting process is unfair.

Read more:

Obama campaign sues Ohio over early voting law for military | Fox News

Robert Fisk: Syria's ancient treasures pulverised

The priceless treasures of Syria's history – of Crusader castles, ancient mosques and churches, Roman mosaics, the renowned "Dead Cities" of the north and museums stuffed with antiquities – have fallen prey to looters and destruction by armed rebels and government militias as fighting envelops the country. While the monuments and museums of the two great cities of Damascus and Aleppo have so far largely been spared, reports from across Syria tell of irreparable damage to heritage sites that have no equal in the Middle East. Even the magnificent castle of Krak des Chevaliers – described by Lawrence of Arabia as "perhaps the best preserved and most wholly admirable castle in the world" and which Saladin could not capture – has been shelled by the Syrian army, damaging the Crusader chapel inside.

Robert Fisk: Syria's ancient treasures pulverised - Robert Fisk - Commentators - The Independent

Egypt to impose 'full control' over Sinai, says president

Egypt will impose full control over the Sinai, its new president has pledged, as the Israeli government warned of a deteriorating security situation after gunmen killed around 15 Egyptian border guards and hijacked armoured vehicles to launch an attack across the border in Israel.
Mohamed Morsi said: "Those who carried out this crime will pay dearly." In a speech on Egyptian state television, he added: "Clear orders have been given to our armed forces and police to chase and arrest those who carried out this assault on our children. The forces will impose full control over these areas of Sinai."

The president convened an emergency meeting with military and security leaders in the aftermath of the assault, which he described as a "serious challenge to the Egyptian sovereignty".
Following the attack, which was launched just after sunset on Sunday, the Israeli defence minister, Ehud Barak, said it had "again raise[d] the need for determined Egyptian action to enforce security and prevent terror in the Sinai".

Israel has become increasingly concerned about a security vacuum in the Sinai in the 18 months since Hosni Mubarak, the former president and staunch ally of Israel, was deposed in the Egyptian revolution.

Israel says some militant groups in Gaza have joined forces with Islamists operating in the Sinai. It describes the Sinai militants as "global jihadists" or connected to al-Qaida.



Egypt to impose 'full control' over Sinai, says president | World news | guardian.co.uk

Government - Interest Expense on the Debt Outstanding

Government - Interest Expense on the Debt Outstanding

Obama Campaign Sues to Restrict Military Voting

The left is so self-righteous about voting rights for illegal aliens and the homeless ("just because we're homelesss deoesn't mean we don't have an opinion"), but our soldiers fighting and dying for this great nation? Drop dead! More of the 'Obama Administration's War on America.'

I have long blogged on the Obama campaign and adminstration attempts to restrict military voting. Our soldiers' voting rights are systematically destroyed under this administration. These men and women are putting their lives on the line every day and dying in record numbers under Obama's crippling rules of engagement. And how does Obama thank them? By making sure their vote doesn't count. This is no accident.

The sabotage of the military vote is a high crime. I previously reported on Lema Bashir, the Palestinian stealth jihadist at Obama's Department of Justice. Lema Bashir was at the center of Virginia's failing to mail military ballots in time in 2008. The same mistakes were made again in 2010, and United States military voters were heavily disenfranchised because of in-actions by Bashir and DOJ throughout that year.


Obama Campaign Sues to Restrict Military Voting - Atlas Shrugs

Pro-Life Group Announces It Will Defy Contraception Mandate

 Priests for Life, a Catholic organization that has been on the front lines of the pro-life cause for the past 20 years, announced August 1 that it will not comply with the Health and Human Services (HHS) contraception mandate which went into effect on that date. The mandate, which is already the target of over a score of lawsuits filed by nearly 60 faith-based organizations, requires that all non-church employers provide their employees with health insurance that includes free access to sterilization and contraception — including abortion-inducing drugs.


Pro-Life Group Announces It Will Defy Contraception Mandate

The Mega Mosques Boom, ‘A Center Of Subversion And Terrorism’

Daniel Greenfield: The Mega Mosques Boom, ‘A Center Of Subversion And Terrorism’ « MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

South Africa Facing White Genocide, Total Communist Takeover

 While most of the world refuses to acknowledge what is happening in largely communist-controlled South Africa, the non-profit group Genocide Watch declared last month that preparations for genocidal atrocities against white South African farmers were underway and that the early phases of genocide had possibly already begun. In the long run, Genocide Watch chief Dr. Gregory Stanton explained, powerful communist forces also hope to abolish private-property ownership and crush all potential resistance.

According to experts and official figures, at least 3,000 white farmers in South Africa, known as Boers, have been brutally massacred over the last decade. Many more, including children and even infants, have also been raped or tortured so savagely that mere words could not possibly convey the horror. And the problem is growing worse, international human rights monitors and South African exiles say. 




South Africa Facing White Genocide, Total Communist Takeover

Spain: Muslim Mob Attacks Man In Tarrasa Park For Walking Dog, Then Attack Police Who Come To Stop Them « MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

This coordinated attack by Islamists was planned because dogs are considered an ‘impure animal.’ Judging from the actions of this mob, however, the only impure animals present were the ones doing all the attacking …
 

Spain: Muslim Mob Attacks Man In Tarrasa Park For Walking Dog, Then Attack Police Who Come To Stop Them « MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

Tens of thousands evacuated as high winds threaten music fest

The Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago was suspended and tens of thousands of fans were evacuated to shelters on Saturday as the city braced for dangerous storms with high winds, organizers said.

Tens of thousands evacuated as high winds threaten music fest | Reuters

Oklahoma crews battle expanding wildfires in torrid conditions

Oklahoma crews battle expanding wildfires in torrid conditions | Reuters

Is This The Start Of Radical Islam’s Takeover Of Ethiopia?

Given the fact that ancient Ethiopia is now modern day northern Sudan, I hope the writer of the article below is wrong in his assessment. But in light of what has transpired in the Islamic world over the past two years, including within the Ethiopian Muslim community, it wouldn’t surprise me if the growing tension between the Ethiopian government and the Islamist push for a Sharia-based state is set to explode …

Is This The Start Of Radical Islam’s Takeover Of Ethiopia? « MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

Gulf Arab countries to discuss unity in September: paper

RIYADH | Sun Aug 5, 2012 4:33am EDT

(Reuters) - The foreign ministers of six Gulf Arab countries will meet in September to discuss a plan for closer integration of the mostly Sunni Muslim monarchies, Saudi Arabia's English-language Arab News reported on Sunday.
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah proposed last December that the Gulf Cooperation Council, which also includes Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, should move "to the stage of unity in a single entity" in response to uprisings in the Arab world and the perceived threat from Iran.



Gulf Arab countries to discuss unity in September: paper | Reuters

U.S. Confidence in Organized Religion at Low Point

July 12, 2012

Catholics' confidence remains significantly lower than Protestants'

by Lydia Saad

PRINCETON, NJ -- Forty-four percent of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in "the church or organized religion" today, just below the low points Gallup has found in recent years, including 45% in 2002 and 46% in 2007. This follows a long-term decline in Americans' confidence in religion since the 1970s.



U.S. Confidence in Organized Religion at Low Point

Chinese Communist Party 'Members' Increasingly Attend Church

CNSNews.com) – More Communist Party members in the Peoples Republic of China are attending church, according to the U.S. State Department’s latest report on International Religious Freedom.

“Although CCP members are required to be atheists and generally are discouraged from participating in religious activities, their attendance at official church services in Guangdong Province was reportedly growing, as authorities increasingly chose to turn a blind eye to their attendance,” the report stated.

Representative Frank Wolf (R-Va.), who authored the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, backed up claims that more Chinese Communists as well as members of the media are becoming Christians, despite continuing religious repression in China.

http://cnsnews.com/image/chinese-communist-party

"Microsoft is building your robot boss...."

REDMOND, Wash. (CNNMoney) -- This is part 3 of CNNMoney's series looking inside Microsoft's research lab.
When your boss is taking a holiday on some tropical island, it's usually cause for celebration. Soon, though, your supervisor could be in the office and on vacation at the same time.



http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/01/technology/microsoft-robot-boss/

Biometric id cards to ensure corporation staff attendance

KOCHI: Employees of Kochi Corporation will now be forced to think twice before they shirk work and stay away from office.
With the introduction of biometric attendance system from Wednesday, officers and staff will have to report for duty on time. The corporation had decided to introduce the system following public complaints regarding the absence of staff in the local body offices across the city.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-08-02/kochi/33000515_1_attendance-system-biometric-system-local-body

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Southern Oregon coast is in danger of a major earthquake in the next 50 years, scientists at Oregon State University said in a study released Wednesday.
The study, written by researchers at OSU and published by the U.S. Geological Survey, concludes there is a 40 percent chance of an earthquake in the Coos Bay, Ore. region that could be nearly as devastating as the earthquake in Japan in March of 2011.
The Cascadia Subduction Zone, off the Pacific Northwest Coast, has had many earthquakes over the past 10,000 years, according to Chris Goldfinger, who authored the study. He says the Southern Oregon coast may be the most vulnerable based on the history of recurring quakes in the region.
http://www.kpic.com/news/local/Study-Coos-Bay-region-in-danger-of-megaquake-164645456.html

A Russian-Saudi-Turkish-Chinese alliance to contain the Muslim Brotherhood and Obama?

I suggested during our conference call yesterday that the only friend the Muslim Brotherhood has in high places is Barack Obama. I didn't mean that facetiously.

Turkey's application to join the SIno-Russian Shanghai Cooperation Organization following Prime Minister Erdogan's July 19 pilgrimage to Russia is a diplomatic humiliation for the United States, and of the first order. Just when Washington is demanding that Russia withdraw support for the Assad regime in Syria, and when Turkey is the linch-pin for American logistics in support of the Syrian opposition, Erdogan has proposed in effect to joint the Russian-Chinese club (without being compelled to hand in his NATO credentials). As AL Monitor wrote July 19:

Read on here:
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3232/a-russian-saudi-turkish-chinese-alliance-to

The pro-Islamist West versus anti-Islamist Russia, China?

Photo: REUTERS

In the present regional upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa, how could one characterize the responses of Western countries on the one hand, and those of Russia and China on the other? Are there any ideological stances we can discern in their policies? One answer came from Daniel Pipes, who in a blog post for National Review Online, argued: “Whereas the European Union and the US government are increasingly sympathetic to Islamism, in part as a way to tame their own Muslim populations, Moscow and Beijing have a history of open conflict with their Muslim populations and therefore adopt policies more hostile to Islamism in the Middle East.”

Pipes raises an important topic for discussion, but how valid is the thesis? One particularly important case to note here is that of France and Tunisia.

France has the largest Muslim population in Western Europe, most of whom are of North African descent. Yet the French government was eager to see Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali – the pro-Western president who was subsequently toppled in the protests against his rule that sparked off the Arab Spring – keep hold of power, approving the sale of tear gas grenades to Tunisia just two days before Ben Ali was ousted.

 

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?ID=279741&R=R1

Nanotechnology In Medicine: Huge Potential, But What Are The Risks?

Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the atomic and molecular scale to create materials with remarkably varied and new properties, is a rapidly expanding area of research with huge potential in many sectors, ranging from healthcare to construction and electronics. In medicine, it promises to revolutionize drug delivery, gene therapy, diagnostics, and many areas of research, development and clinical application.

This article does not attempt to cover the whole field, but offers, by means of some examples, a few insights into how nanotechnology has the potential to change medicine, both in the research lab and clinically, while touching on some of the challenges and concerns that it raises.

What is Nanotechnology?

The prefix "nano" stems from the ancient Greek for "dwarf". In science it means one billionth (10 to the minus 9) of something, thus a nanometer (nm) is is one billionth of a meter, or 0.000000001 meters. A nanometer is about three to five atoms wide, or some 40,000 times smaller than the thickness of human hair. A virus is typically 100 nm in size.

The ability to manipulate structures and properties at the nanoscale in medicine is like having a sub-microscopic lab bench on which you can handle cell components, viruses or pieces of DNA, using a range of tiny tools, robots and tubes.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/244972.php

FDA Approves Ingestible Sensor That Tracks Health From The Inside

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved an ingestible digital sensor that can be swallowed in a pill to track health data from inside the body. The idea is that the data can be used not only by patients themselves, but also by caregivers and doctors to individualize their care.

The ingestible sensor, formerly known as the Ingestion Event Marker or IEM, is already approved for use in Europe.

It is the first "digital pill" to receive FDA approval, in a move that its maker Proteus Digital Health, whose headquarters are in Redwood City, California, sees as the start of a era where digital medicine "shifts the care paradigm".
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/248557.php

Wireless devices incite 'Medical Spring'

An army of novel implantable, ingestible wireless medical devices is mobilizing to march medicine into the future. These technologies show potential to improve patient care, reduce medical errors and lower costs.

One example: Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, are providing a better endoscopy camera capsule. This one is steerable, a big improvement on current capsule endoscopy technologies, which merely tumble uncontrollably through the digestive tract. The BWH design allows radiologists to guide the device during MRI scans and aim the onboard camera to obtain real-time images of specific areas of interest. Ultimately, that may mean less invasive and less costly examinations of digestive tract disorders, particularly in the hard-to-reach small intestine.
The BWH device has a unique propulsion system. "We use both static and radio frequency magnetic fields available in MRIs to generate capsule propulsion," says Nobuhiko Hata, an associate professor in the BWH radiology department.

Another example: A new device wirelessly transmits data from sites of recent orthopedic surgeries. This one, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., promises cost-effective and less invasive post-surgery monitoring.

http://www.hhnmag.com/hhnmag_app/jsp/articledisplay.jsp?dcrpath=HHNMAG/Article/data/06JUN2012/0612HHN_FEA_Wireless&domain=HHNMAG

"Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade"

Some 5,000 people gathered in Jerusalem to take part in the capital’s 10th annual Gay Pride Parade on Thursday.

Participants assembled in Independence Park downtownwere addressed by Adam Russo, a member of the gay community, who was stabbed during the pride march in 2005. In an interview with Channel 10 news, Russo said that while it took him several years to overcome his distress over the attack, he has long since moved on. He also acknowledged that today the gay community does not feel the same hatred from the general population.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/gay-pride-parade-kicks-off-in-jerusalem/

"Humanistic Psychology in the Schools"

The cultural upheavals of the 1960s saw the rise of a so-called Third Force in American education. The leading figures of the Third Force were humanist psychologists Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow. Maslow had worked on sexological research under the auspices of Edward L. Thorndike from 1935 to 1937. Thorndike had developed the purely behaviorist teaching method of SR, or stimulus-response, which reduced education to a form of animal training. But eventually Maslow rebelled against such pure behaviorism. As for his sexological research, feminist Betty Friedan believed that Maslow’s findings helped advance the feminist approach to psychology. Maslow, trained in behavioral psychology, began to moderate it with his own theory of self-actualization.

http://thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/12299-humanistic-psychology-in-the-schools#.UBrzOObJ0lg.twitter

"DOJ to CA: illigal immigrant not to practice law in CA"

The Department of Justice told California's high court on Thursday that it should not allow an illegal immigrant to practice law in the state even though he passed the bar exam and has the backing of state officials.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/02/us-usa-immigration-lawyers-idUSBRE8711WN20120802

"The Daniel 11 Prophecy & The Anti-Christ"

By Joel Richardson – “Among the many prominent end-time passages of the Bible, one of the clearest passages that proves the Antichrist and his coming armies will arise from the Middle East, is Daniel 11. In this chapter, a prophecy is given that begins with the historical Medo-Persian empire and concludes with the death of the Antichrist.

A large portion of Daniel’s prophecy (vv. 20-34) is focused upon the historical conflict between the infamous Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the king of the Seleucid Kingdom, who is called ‘the King of the North’ and King Ptolemy VI, the king of the Ptolemaic Kingdom who is called ‘the King of the South.’

The Seleucid Kingdom in the north included the region of modern-day Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran and even Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Ptolemaic Kingdom in the south ruled Egypt and portions of modern-day Libya and Sudan.
Click link to finish article:

http://midnightwatcher.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/the-daniel-11-prophecy-and-the-antichrist/

The Rise of the Intolerance Brigade - Michael Brown - Page 1

In recent days, the extreme intolerance, bigotry, and exclusivity of some gay activists and their straight allies has been on prominent display in their attacks against Chick-fil-A. What makes this all the more ironic, not to mention Orwellian, is that their campaign is being carried out in the name of tolerance, inclusion, and diversity. As expressed by jurist Marvin Frankel (in his book Faith and Freedom: Religious Liberty in America), “The powerless call out for tolerance. Achieving power, they may soon forget.”
Today, words like “diversity” and “inclusion,” which have been on the lips of gay activists for years, have taken on an ominous tone that would make Orwell proud.

To continue reading:


The Rise of the Intolerance Brigade - Michael Brown - Page 1

Egypt's president wrote to Peres: I hope for peace and stability in Middle East - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

 AW:  "We'll see.....Muslims lie to their advantage, by his fruits we shall know him."



 

Egypt's president wrote to Peres: I hope for peace and stability in Middle East - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

Men can now wear skirts at Oxford

Oxford forced to change dress code for exams so as not to offender transgender students:


Men can now wear skirts at Oxford

Is Israel the CIA's top counterintelligence threat in the Near East?

 

The CIA considers Israel its No. 1 counterintelligence threat in the agency’s Near East Division, the group that oversees spying across the Middle East, according to current and former officials. Counterintelligence is the art of protecting national secrets from spies. This means the CIA believes that US national secrets are safer from other Middle Eastern governments than from Israel.

Israel employs highly sophisticated, professional spy services that rival American agencies in technical capability and recruiting human sources. Unlike Iran or Syria, for example, Israel as a steadfast US ally enjoys access to the highest levels of the US government in military and intelligence circles.

Is Israel the CIA's top counterintelligence threat in the Near East? | The Times of Israel

Modern-Day Noah Opens Doors Of Ark Creation

 

Modern-Day Noah Opens Doors Of Ark Creation