(This is truly bone chilling....from a 9th grade class in Ohio, AW)
A book of historical fiction called "A stone in my hand" was assigned to the class as mandatory reading prior to the first day of school. It is written in the first person voice of a Muslim Arab child living in the Gaza during the intifada years of 1987 - 1993. I was more than stunned and appalled at this agenda for English and Social studies assigned to ninth graders this year. I have no problem with historically accurate studies, studies of other cultures and religions. But I do have a problem with a slanted presentation that is clearly anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and pro-Islam. Not only am I offended at the book, but today I had a chance to review the the worksheets sent home as homework for this 9 week course. The worksheet's title is "Islam Project - Growth of Islam". Islam is a very specific religion. So this, in my opinion, is religious indoctrination masked as Social Studies and English. This is not an elective class on world religions. How in the world did this happen?
Ohio: The Islam Project for ninth graders - Atlas Shrugs
Friday, September 7, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
British Muslim millionaire in divorce fight over 2nd wife
Here again we witness the same supremacist pattern: anywhere Islamic law and Western law conflict, it is Western law that has to give way. Why is sharia even a consideration here? This is Britain -- it is British law that trumps all, correct?
Muslim tycoon in divorce fight over affair 'allowed under Sharia Law' The Telegraph, Sept. 4, thanks to Atlas readers
An unfaithful millionaire Muslim does not believe his estranged wife deserves a divorce because polygamy is allowed under Islamic law, he told a court today.
British Muslim millionaire in divorce fight over 2nd wife 'allowed under Sharia Law' - Atlas Shrugs
Denmark: Integration minister pulls out of anti-radicalization conference
The minister for integration and social affairs, Karen Hækkerup (Socialdemokraterne), has pulled out of a conference on religious radicalism next week after she discovered that one of the speakers helped fashion Pakistan’s highly controversial anti-blasphemy laws.
Denmark: Integration minister pulls out of anti-radicalization conference, refuses to appear with radical Muslim scholar - Atlas Shrugs
Gaza's Hamas Hopes to Revive Egyptian Ties with Muslim Brotherhood
"We are looking for normalization," Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior Hamas leader, said in an interview in Gaza City, where intersections are adorned with billboards of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi smilingly shaking hands against a backdrop of Egyptian pyramids.
The Gaza Strip is home to 1.7 million Palestinians, all living in an area roughly twice the size of the District of Columbia. Currently, a limited number of people but no goods cross through Rafah, Gaza's only crossing not controlled by Israel, which severely restricts passage of products and people through two other entry points. Advocates say opening Rafah could end Gaza's electricity shortages, reduce its massive unemployment and bring the smuggling of goods and people, which now takes place in tunnels beneath Rafah, above ground.
http://www.northjersey.com/news/international/168294006_Gaza_s_Hamas_Hopes_to_Revive_Egyptian_Ties_with_Muslim_Brotherhood.html?c=y&page=1
The Gaza Strip is home to 1.7 million Palestinians, all living in an area roughly twice the size of the District of Columbia. Currently, a limited number of people but no goods cross through Rafah, Gaza's only crossing not controlled by Israel, which severely restricts passage of products and people through two other entry points. Advocates say opening Rafah could end Gaza's electricity shortages, reduce its massive unemployment and bring the smuggling of goods and people, which now takes place in tunnels beneath Rafah, above ground.
http://www.northjersey.com/news/international/168294006_Gaza_s_Hamas_Hopes_to_Revive_Egyptian_Ties_with_Muslim_Brotherhood.html?c=y&page=1
Cistern dated to First Temple period found in Jerusalem
Archaeologists have discovered a large public cistern from the time of the First Temple in Jerusalem’s Old City, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Thursday, offering new insight into the city’s water supply more than 2,500 years ago.
The cistern, which held 250 cubic meters of water, was discovered adjacent to the western side of the Temple Mount during an ongoing excavation at the site, the IAA said in a statement.
The discovery shows that the city’s water supply at the time did not rely solely on the Gihon Spring, Jerusalem’s only natural water source, but rather included large man-made reservoirs of the kind now uncovered, according to the IAA.
The unique size of the cistern — the largest of its time to be discovered in the city — and its location suggest the possibility that it played a part in the ritual activities at the Temple, according to archaeologist Tsvika Tsuk of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority.
Cistern dated to First Temple period found in Jerusalem | The Times of Israel
How China is boosting Egypt’s role in the Mideast
(Any time China is involved in the Middle East, there are prophetic implications: The Kings of the East is a title given to China and also the mention of a million man army marching on Israel so that is why I include this article - AW)
The Middle East with its vast energy resources and vital geopolitical position is of crucial importance for all the major powers, both east and west. It is also the site of strong anti-American sentiment and therefore might prove to be an excellent location for China to challenge America’s pre-eminent global role.
The same can be said of Central Asia, but that is rather more dependent on China’s and the USA’s willingness to invest heavily in that region.
How China is boosting Egypt’s role in the Mideast, amid fading U.S. influence | World Tribune
Obama's (Un)American Auto Bailout by Michelle Malkin
GM is once again flirting with bankruptcy despite massive government purchases propping up its sales figures. GM stock is rock-bottom. Losses continue to be revised in the wrong direction. According to The Detroit News, "The Treasury Department says in a new report the government expects to lose more than $25 billion on the $85 billion auto bailout. That's 15 percent higher than its previous forecast.
The claims that GM paid back its taxpayer-funded loans "in full" -- a story peddled in campaign ads narrated by Hollywood actor Tom Hanks -- were debunked by the Treasury Department's TARP watchdog this summer. GM still owes nearly $30 billion of the $50 billion it received, and its lending arm still owes nearly $15 billion of the more than $17 billion it received. Bailout watchdog Mark Modica of the National Legal and Policy Center adds: "In addition to U.S. taxpayers anteing up, Canada put in over $10 billion, and GM was relieved of about $28 billion of bondholder obligations as UAW claims were protected. That's an improvement of almost $90 billion to the balance sheet, and the company still lags the competition."
Family Security Matters
The claims that GM paid back its taxpayer-funded loans "in full" -- a story peddled in campaign ads narrated by Hollywood actor Tom Hanks -- were debunked by the Treasury Department's TARP watchdog this summer. GM still owes nearly $30 billion of the $50 billion it received, and its lending arm still owes nearly $15 billion of the more than $17 billion it received. Bailout watchdog Mark Modica of the National Legal and Policy Center adds: "In addition to U.S. taxpayers anteing up, Canada put in over $10 billion, and GM was relieved of about $28 billion of bondholder obligations as UAW claims were protected. That's an improvement of almost $90 billion to the balance sheet, and the company still lags the competition."
Family Security Matters
Homosexual Promiscuity: Breeding a national health problem
“Marriage Equality” is perhaps the most convoluted canard of our time. Underneath the hood of the homosexual revolution churns the most serious avoidable health problems of our time.
The majority of our most dangerous sexual diseases emanate from the homosexual revolution and are transmitted to wives, infants, children, and men by LBGTQ individuals who are most often bisexual.
Bisexuals are the majority in the LBGTQ movement. Approximately 1.8% to 4% of Americans are bisexual. This broad gateway infects unsuspecting heterosexual Americans with serious or fatal diseases. The impact to heterosexual women is serious. 70% of HIV infections in women are attributed to heterosexual contact.
David R. Usher and Cynthia L. Davis -- Homosexual Promiscuity: Breeding a national health problem
Obamacare bans new physician-owned hospitals
In 2010, Obamacare limited the expansion of physician-owned hospitals (POHs) and banned the establishment of new ones. By the end of 2010, Obamacare forced up to 84 new POHs in various stages of development to be abandoned.[1] These hospitals would have provided nearly 30,000 jobs.[2]
Prior to Obamacare, POHs had been increasing rapidly. Just between 2002 and 2004 the number of POHs nearly doubled, going from 46 in 2002 to 89 in 2004.[3] Then, by the spring of 2010 the number of POHs reached 265, nearly tripling in number from 2004.[4]
Physicians are restricted from referring Medicare patients to practices in which they have a financial interest. But there is an exception where the doctor owns part of a whole hospital.
Section 6001 of Obamacare changes this by banning new POHs from accepting Medicare payments. In addition, expansions of existing POHs must first seek approval from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) if they expect to accept Medicare. Even then, Obamacare restricts expansion to 200% of the capacity the hospital had in 2010.
NetRight Daily » Obamacare bans new physician-owned hospitals
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Rivlin: Obama doesn't understand ... JPost - Diplomacy & Politics
US President Barack Obama's administration does not understand the realities of the Middle East, Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said Wednesday, amid ongoing speculation of a rift in US-Israel relations.
Rivlin: Obama doesn't understand ... JPost - Diplomacy & Politics
Egypt confronts Israel with 6,000 Sinai Islamists as an approved militia
To keep the truce with the Islamist terrorist networks in Sinai in place, while avoiding a large-scale military operation to suppress them, Egypt is now releasing dozens of jailed Salafist gunmen in batches every few days, so feeding the Islamists a steady supply of reinforcements. Cairo is also in negotiation with Bedouin tribal elders to grant a body of 6,000 Al-Qaeda-linked Salafi gunmen the status of an approved, independent militia. Armed with up-to-date Egyptian weapons, this militia is to be charged with responsibility for maintaining security in the peninsula.
This may be a neat way out for Egypt and let the Morsi government off the hook of grappling with the violent Islamist networks infesting Sinai. But it leaves Israel squarely face to face with a whole new terrorist outfit which has the freedom to choose between operating in the service of Al Qaeda or Cairo – or playing both sides.
Israeli security circles on the southern front familiar with the Sinai security situation explain that the Egyptian army’s claim Monday, Sept. 3 that it pulled “another 20 tanks” out of the peninsula, marking the tail end of its putative counter-terror military offensive, was therefore the reverse of welcome news for Israel.
Egypt confronts Israel with 6,000 Sinai Islamists as an approved militia
Federal Reserve has already started QE3, says investor Jim Rogers
Veteran US investor Jim Rogers believes the Federal Reserve has already launched a third round of quantitative easing, despite chairman Ben Bernanke failing to mention stimulus measures in his Jackson Hole speech last week.
Federal Reserve has already started QE3, says investor Jim Rogers - Telegraph
New chip could lead to era of ultra-fast, powerful computing | CTVNews
A group of scientists have developed a quantum computer chip that could lead to ultra-fast computer processors, which would outperform those found in today’s standard electronics and smartphones.
New chip could lead to era of ultra-fast, powerful computing | CTVNews
New chip could lead to era of ultra-fast, powerful computing | CTVNews
U.S. nears deal for $1 billion in Egypt debt relief: source | Reuters
(There is nothing pro-democracy about Egypt these days, at least not according to our definition of democracy. Sharia law is being instituted there, Christians are being crucified, and the Muslim Brotherhood is taking control of the country...their goal, a caliphate - not a democracy. AW)
The Obama administration is close to a deal with Egypt's new government for $1 billion in debt relief, a senior U.S. official said on Monday, as Washington seeks to help Cairo shore up its ailing economy in the aftermath of its pro-democracy uprising.
U.S. nears deal for $1 billion in Egypt debt relief: source | Reuters
Hong Kong protest over school 'brainwashing' by China - Telegraph
Chanting "No to brainwashing education. Withdraw national education", some 8000 people denounced a Hong Kong government-funded booklet entitled "The China Model" they say glorifies China's single Communist party rule while glossing over more brutal aspects of its rule and political controversies.
Hong Kong protest over school 'brainwashing' by China - Telegraph
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Michael Moriarty -- The History of World War III, Part 2
To The Finland Station, Bill Clinton’s favorite tome in the highest heat of his collegiate idealism, and the most recent edition of which – as far as I know now of such editions – has a most revealing introduction by Professor Louis Menand of New York University. It is basically a “Before You Read Warning.”
New York University, near which I lived for many years, is hardly a bastion of conservative thought. Yet one of its esteemed professors is cautious enough to qualify the love affairs that young American Marxists fell into with that firebrand of Revolution, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
The not-so-young but metaphysically urbane Leninist, Edmund Wilson, records Vladimir Lenin’s now historic journey from Finland to Revolutionary Russia and its “Finland Station” in St. Petersburg, a city that was eventually to be called Leningrad.
The metaphysically urbane Leninist, Edmund Wilson
Michael Moriarty -- The History of World War III, Part 2
Dr. Dennis Cuddy -- The Power Elite and the Muslim Brotherhood, Part 16
(this is a continuing series, you can access previous posts through this article - AW)
At the beginning of Part 15 of this series, I mentioned that U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann and four other members of Congress had inquired about the possible influence of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) within our federal government. Rep. Keith Ellison asked Rep. Bachmann for more information about her concerns, and she replied that the federal government continues to be "advised by organizations and individuals that the U.S. government itself has identified in federal courts as fronts for the international Muslim Brotherhood."
As David Horowitz noted a few days ago (August 30): "In 2010, State Department officials began 'engaging' with Muslim Brotherhood representatives shortly before the 'Arab Spring.' In 2011, State Department officials trained Muslim Brotherhood operatives on how to win elections as part of a course in 'democracy theories' following the fall of Hosni Mubarak...."
In Part 15, I mentioned that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Deputy Chief-of-Staff Huma Abedin's father, mother and brother have connections to organizations with ties to the MB. In the 1990s at George Washington University, Huma herself was a member of the Muslim Students Association, which has ties to the MB. Not only is Huma's mother a member of the Muslim Sisterhood, but it is worth noting that the wife of the newly elected Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi is also a member of the Sisterhood.
Dr. Dennis Cuddy -- The Power Elite and the Muslim Brotherhood, Part 16
Monday, September 3, 2012
Morning Bell: Union Money in Elections
This election year, millions of Americans will donate to the political candidates and initiatives of their choice at the local, state, and federal levels. But for unionized workers, union dues come out of their paychecks and go to political causes—and they aren't consulted on where that money will go.
Morning Bell: Union Money in Elections
CIA leader's visit to show US support to Turkey over Syria and terror
(sometimes I wonder how this all came about that General Petraeus wound up in this position???? AW)
CIA leader's visit to show US support to Turkey over Syria and terror
Dutch embrace radical left as European dream sours/Geert Wilders info
Just over two months ago, the small Dutch community of Almelo woke up to a tragedy that turned out to have national repercussions. On a modest street in a rundown area, Aziz Kara, a 64-year-old Turk, became embroiled in a ferocious argument with his neighbours. When he was struck to the ground, the impact of the blow put him into a coma. Ten days later Kara died of a brain haemorrhage.
In normal circumstances, the death would have preoccupied only the local media. But as the Netherlands prepares for its second national election in two years, Kara's case was different. When relatives and the local community organised a silent march through the streets of Almelo, politicians and mourners came from The Hague and across the country. National newspaper columns were devoted to the incident, which quickly became a PR disaster for arguably the most influential far-right politician in the European Union, Geert Wilders.
Dutch embrace radical left as European dream sours | World news | The Observer
In normal circumstances, the death would have preoccupied only the local media. But as the Netherlands prepares for its second national election in two years, Kara's case was different. When relatives and the local community organised a silent march through the streets of Almelo, politicians and mourners came from The Hague and across the country. National newspaper columns were devoted to the incident, which quickly became a PR disaster for arguably the most influential far-right politician in the European Union, Geert Wilders.
Dutch embrace radical left as European dream sours | World news | The Observer
Real Time US National Debt Clock | USA Debt Clock.com
Amount of our country's debt that would be owed by each person were it divided up equally among every man, woman and child: $50,000.00
See for yourself:
Real Time US National Debt Clock | USA Debt Clock.com
See for yourself:
Real Time US National Debt Clock | USA Debt Clock.com
Valerie Jarrett Is the Other Power in the West Wing
(A google search on who VJ is would yield some pretty interesting results - AW)
Valerie Jarrett Is the Other Power in the West Wing - NYTimes.com
Walmart iPhone ‘Scan & Go’ being tested
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is testing a “Scan & Go” system that would allow shoppers to scan items using their iPhones and then quickly pay at a self-checkout counter.
If the test by the world’s largest retailer is successful, it has the potential to change the way people shop and pay, making the process more personal and potentially faster.
Walmart iPhone ‘Scan & Go’ being tested | Retail | News | Financial Post
The Digital Wallet Is Starting to Take Shape
Imagine if, in addition to all the things your smartphone does now, it could also act as your keys to the real world.
Instead of fumbling through a wallet for your credit cards, coupons, gift certificates, plane tickets, membership cards and receipts, you could simply tap your phone to a terminal. All the necessary information would load automatically, and then you’d simply confirm your identity with a thumbprint or PIN.
The Digital Wallet Is Starting to Take Shape | Techland | TIME.com
Fantastic New Video Shows Huge Eruption on the Sun
This video by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captures a dramatic filament eruption on Aug. 31. Shown in the video in extreme ultraviolet light, the filament collapsed and exploded in spectacular fashion. The segment shown in red covers nearly 3 hours.
The NOAA spaceweather prediction center estimates the resulting cloud of radiation will reach Earth on Sep. 3, but will only create a minor to moderate geomagnetic storm.
Fantastic New Video Shows Huge Eruption on the Sun | Wired Science | Wired.com
Carey blasts Cameron for going back on his promise as UK fights for a ban on crosses at work | Mail Online
A former Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday accused David Cameron of going back on his promise to support the rights of Christians to wear a cross in the workplace.
Just five months ago the Prime Minister insisted that Christians should be allowed to display a token of their faith, yet his Government lawyers are now preparing to tell European human rights judges the opposite
Carey blasts Cameron for going back on his promise as UK fights for a ban on crosses at work | Mail Online
Feds shut down criminal investigation of Arpaio
Federal prosecutors closed an exhaustive four-year FBI criminal investigation and grand-jury probe targeting Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, former County Attorney Andrew Thomas and their top deputies, saying there will be no indictments.
Feds shut down criminal investigation of Arpaio, Thomas; no charges to be filed
Feds shut down criminal investigation of Arpaio, Thomas; no charges to be filed
Official: Obama will make Bibi pay after elections - Israel News, Ynetnews
Other officials in Jerusalem said Washington is trying to send a message that Israel will not drag it into war, certainly not before the elections. The Americans were enraged by Israel's repeated threats to launch a solo military attack on Iran's nuclear sites, and top US General Martin Dempsey's recent statement that he does not "want to be complicit" if Israel chooses to attack was carefully worded.
Official: Obama will make Bibi pay after elections - Israel News, Ynetnews
We Are Staring At Economic Destruction & Soaring Inflation
Today Michael Pento writes exclusively for King World News to put readers ahead of the curve on what is happening with central planners. Pento warned, “The European Central Bank and Federal Reserve are both about to announce, this very month, an incredible assault on the Euro and the dollar.” Pento also cautioned, “... this is just the beginning of rising unemployment and soaring inflation.”
Pento also let investors know how to protect themselves in the coming chaos. Here is Pento’s piece: “Central banks will do something in September that causes fiat currencies to be flushed down the toilet. It will mark the beginning of the end for money that is not backed by precious metals. The events will be a desperate and final attempt to save faltering global GDP, but it will only lead to further economic destruction and intractable inflation.”
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Saturday, September 1, 2012
Barracuda Brigade: Taliban Beheads 6 & 12 Year Old Children. Wtf, Rabid Animals !!!
I am not posting the pics from this blog post....if you want to see them you can click on the link....I think of the scripture in Revelations speaking of those who were beheaded for their witness....who ever heard of such things even 5 years ago? Surely every Word of prophecy shall be fulfilled!
KABUL (Reuters) – An adolescent boy and a young girl have been beheaded in two separate incidents in Afghanistan, local officials and police said on Friday, in the latest brazen attacks that have raised fresh questions about a splintering Taliban.
Barracuda Brigade: Taliban Beheads 6 & 12 Year Old Children. Wtf, Rabid Animals !!!
KABUL (Reuters) – An adolescent boy and a young girl have been beheaded in two separate incidents in Afghanistan, local officials and police said on Friday, in the latest brazen attacks that have raised fresh questions about a splintering Taliban.
Barracuda Brigade: Taliban Beheads 6 & 12 Year Old Children. Wtf, Rabid Animals !!!
Syria: An agenda for action - JPost - Opinion - Op-Eds
The grisly reports of the latest Syrian mass atrocity in Darayya reflect the all too horrific Syrian depravity pattern: First, laying siege to the city – denying its inhabitants food, water, electricity, medical assistance and communications of any kind; second, launching a sustained, intensified and indiscriminate air, tank and artillery bombardment; third, maintaining the siege by surrounding and entering the city with tanks, troop carriers, heavy weapons, soldiers and militias – threatening to “cleanse” the city – while not allowing any of its inhabitants to leave; finally, shabiha – government killer militias – going house-to-house, engaging in wanton executions, killing whole families, even burning bodies so as to cover up the extent of the horror, only to exacerbate it.
It is a depravity that has been repeated many times since the “peace and dignity” march in Deraa in March 2011 – the largest single-day massacre with 400 murdered in one day in Darayya alone – while the killing continues in Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Idlib and other Syrian cities, with the magnitude of Syrian mass atrocities as yet unknown.
Syria: An agenda for action - JPost - Opinion - Op-Eds
Thursday, August 30, 2012
DNA Stores Data More Efficiently than Anything We've Created - Evolution News & Views
A fasincating story at ExtremeTech.com, "Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram," reports that Harvard scientists have broken the record for the data storage density in DNA. According to the story, they "successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data -- around 700 terabytes -- in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times." To give an idea of how much information that is, Wikipedia reports that Google processes about 25 petabits of information each day. So this method, apparently, could store all of Google's daily information in less than 5 grams of DNA. The ExtremeTech.com article puts it this way:
DNA Stores Data More Efficiently than Anything We've Created - Evolution News & Views
Lee Duigon -- How ‘Wellness’ Will Make You Sick
Starting very soon, city employees will either have to sign up for the Chicago Lives Healthy “wellness program” or else—there’s always an “or else” in Chicago—pay an extra $50 a month for their health care plan (see “Chicago Pushing ‘Wellness Program on Its Employees” by Susan Jones, CNSNews.com, Aug. 24 ). “Our program will change lives,” gloated Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who expressed delight that some 22,000 have signed up so far—rather than toss an extra $50 a month into the garbage disposal. This is what Democrats usually mean by “choice.”
Lee Duigon -- How ‘Wellness’ Will Make You Sick
Lee Duigon -- How ‘Wellness’ Will Make You Sick
Analysis: Brotherhood taking total control... JPost - Middle East
While the world persists in looking for signs of pragmatism in the Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsy is quietly taking over all the power bases in the country.
Having gotten rid of the army old guard, he replaced them with his own men – officers belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood or known sympathizers. Then he turned his attention to the media, replacing 50 editors working for the government’s extensive and influential press empire – including Al- Ahram, Al-Akhbar, Al-Gomhuria. He is now busy appointing new governors to the 27 regions of the country.
Analysis: Brotherhood taking total control... JPost - Middle East
Rebellion erupts over school’s student-chipping plan
A rebellion is developing in Texas against a plan by a school district in San Antonio that would monitor the exact location and activities of all students at all times through RFID chips they are being ordered to wear.
Katie Deolloz, a member of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering, told WND today that parents and students from San Antonio’s Northside Independent School District confronted the school board last night, stating their concerns about privacy and other issues “clearly and passionately.”
Rebellion erupts over school’s student-chipping plan
Savage: Republican ‘eunuchs’ avoiding big issues
After a parade of speakers over two nights, talk radio host Michael Savage is asking why the Republican National Convention’s podium appears to be devoid of true conservatives.
“Not one carefully selected eunuch-speaker has dared to tackle the big problems destroying America,” Savage said.
“All of this has been unmentioned by the eunuchs from K Street,” Savage said.
He noted “not a whisper has been permitted from a true American hero, Congressman Allen West.”
Savage: Republican ‘eunuchs’ avoiding big issues
Researchers Hack Brainwaves to Reveal PINs, Other Personal Data | Threat Level | Wired.com
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Don’t you dare even think about your banking account password when you slap on those fancy new brainwave headsets.
Or at least that seems to be the lesson of a new study which found that sensitive personal information, such as PIN numbers and credit card data, can be gleaned from the brainwave data of users wearing popular consumer-grade EEG headsets.
A team of security researchers from Oxford, UC Berkeley, and the University of Geneva say that they were able to deduce digits of PIN numbers, birth months, areas of residence and other personal information by presenting 30 headset-wearing subjects with images of ATM machines, debit cards, maps, people, and random numbers in a series of experiments. The paper, titled “On the Feasibility of Side-Channel Attacks with Brain Computer Interfaces,” represents the first major attempt to uncover potential security risks in the use of the headsets.
“The correct answer was found by the first guess in 20% of the cases for the experiment with the PIN, the debit cards, people, and the ATM machine,” write the researchers. “The location was exactly guessed for 30% of users, month of birth for almost 60% and the bank based on the ATM machines for almost 30%.”
Researchers Hack Brainwaves to Reveal PINs, Other Personal Data | Threat Level | Wired.com
Court bars parents from smacking child | News.com.au
WARRING parents have been banned from threatening to smack their daughter who has been diagnosed with the latest anti-authoritarian behaviour disorder.
The parents, who have been fighting for custody of the eight-year-old, have been ordered by the Federal Magistrates Court not to use or even "threaten" to use a wooden spoon or slipper or any "other instrument to punish" the girl.
She has been diagnosed with ADHD and Oppositional Defiant Disorder, which is characterised by persistent anti-authoritarian behaviour.
The bans follow allegations in a recently published judgment that the mother smacked her daughter with a wooden spoon after the girl went out without telling her where she was going.
Court bars parents from smacking child | News.com.au
The parents, who have been fighting for custody of the eight-year-old, have been ordered by the Federal Magistrates Court not to use or even "threaten" to use a wooden spoon or slipper or any "other instrument to punish" the girl.
She has been diagnosed with ADHD and Oppositional Defiant Disorder, which is characterised by persistent anti-authoritarian behaviour.
The bans follow allegations in a recently published judgment that the mother smacked her daughter with a wooden spoon after the girl went out without telling her where she was going.
Court bars parents from smacking child | News.com.au
California bans use of controversial therapy aimed at 'curing’ homosexuality - Telegraph
California’s assembly has approved a bill prohibiting the use of therapy designed to “cure” homosexuality in teenagers, bringing the state closer to becoming the first to ban the practise in the US.
California bans use of controversial therapy aimed at 'curing’ homosexuality - Telegraph
California bans use of controversial therapy aimed at 'curing’ homosexuality - Telegraph
Eerie Bible coincidence for Hurricane Isaac?
The arrival of Hurricane Isaac exactly seven years after Hurricane Katrina blasted New Orleans has some people wondering if there’s more to it than random chance, and suggesting the popular homosexual festival Southern Decadence may be part of a judgment from God.
“A hurricane hitting a celebration of decadence … twice in seven years. What are the odds?” asks Robin Cox, a lifelong Gulf Coast resident.
“Does it seem God has it in for New Orleans?” adds Mary Starkey. “Just contemplating why this has happened twice in seven years at exact same time of year.”
Eerie Bible coincidence for Hurricane Isaac?
“A hurricane hitting a celebration of decadence … twice in seven years. What are the odds?” asks Robin Cox, a lifelong Gulf Coast resident.
“Does it seem God has it in for New Orleans?” adds Mary Starkey. “Just contemplating why this has happened twice in seven years at exact same time of year.”
Eerie Bible coincidence for Hurricane Isaac?
Russia is disengaging from Syria: Arms shipments stopped, warships exit Tartus
Russian naval vessels have unexpectedly departed the Syrian Mediterranean port of Tartus and Russian arms shipments to Syria have been suddenly discontinued. debkafile’s military sources reveal that those and other steps indicate that the Russians are rapidly drawing away from the Syrian arena to avoid getting caught up in the escalating hostilities expected to arise from military intervention by the US, Europe and a number of Arab states. Russian intelligence appears to have decided that this outside intervention is imminent and Moscow looks anxious to keep its distance for now.
According to our military and Russian sources, these drastic steps must have been personally ordered by President Vladimir Putin. He is believed to have acted over the objections of some of his army and naval chiefs. This would explain the mixed statements issuing from Moscow in recent days about the disposition of Russian personnel at the naval base in Tartus and Russian military personnel in Syria.
Russia is disengaging from Syria: Arms shipments stopped, warships exit Tartus
Obama Bypasses Congress, Gives $1.5 Billion to Muslim Brotherhood
Congress has restricted and, in fact, halted military aid to Egypt until and “unless the State Department certifies that Egypt is making progress on basic freedoms and human rights.” After all, Christians and other practitioners of non-Islamic religions have had a tough go of it there. And of course, many Egyptian officials harbor such hatred toward the U.S. that one of the candidates for the Egyptian presidency has openly referred to America as the “infidel country” in media interviews.
Nevertheless, the news breaking now is that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will soon announce that President Obama will “resume funding for Egypt’s military, despite Congressional restrictions and objections from human rights and democracy advocates.”
Obama Bypasses Congress, Gives $1.5 Billion to Muslim Brotherhood
Monday, August 27, 2012
'American Taliban' sues for Islamic group prayer in Indiana prison - Atlas Shrugs
Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi, nee John Phillip Walker Lindh, is a United States citizen and Muslim convert who was captured as an enemy combatant during the United States' 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. He is serving a 20-year prison sentence for war crimes in the service of the Afghanistan's Taliban. He was captured during the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi, a violent Taliban prison uprising during which Central Intelligence Agency officer and great American hero Johnny "Mike" Spann was killed.
Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi, nee John Phillip Walker Lindh, should have faced a firing squad for his treason. He joined the jihad and actively engaged in the killing of US soldiers. He attended a lecture by Osama Bin Laden. Instead of rotting in a well-earned grave, al-Irlandi (and other jihadists) are expected to testify tomorrow in a trial over high-risk Muslim terrorists congregating together for "group prayer."
'American Taliban' sues for Islamic group prayer in Indiana prison - Atlas Shrugs
Saturday, August 25, 2012
10 Body Hacks That Will Be Available By 2025 | AMOG
In the year 2000, conceiving of a device that worked simultaneously as a handheld computer, portable MP3 player, satellite radio, GPS, and phone seemed like science fiction against the then-current backdrop of shiny new, brick-like flip phones. As witnessed with today’s success of the iPhone, technology advances quickly and without much advance notice if driven by market demand and commercial backing.
The next wave of the future could go beyond the technology we’re holding in our hands and extend to what’s embedded inside our hands. There is experimentation with bio-technological hacks going on today both in the lab and in an unsanctioned underground of fanatics that could result in body implant “upgrades” being as ubiquitous in 2025 as smartphones are now.
10 Body Hacks That Will Be Available By 2025 | AMOG
Friday, August 24, 2012
August 24-25 Uprising against Muslim Brotherhood: Will this be the start Civil War?
Egyptian revolutionaries of the youth uprising of January 2011 who succeeded in ousting Hosni Mubarak are once again organizing through social media and traditional media outlets (where allowed) to protest against the Morsi presidency and the Muslim Brotherhood.
August 24-25 Uprising against Muslim Brotherhood: Will this be the start Civil War?
August 24-25 Uprising against Muslim Brotherhood: Will this be the start Civil War?
The History of the “Money Changers”
By Andrew Hitchcock, 26 Feb 2006. He also wrote the Rothschild timeline.
Here is an illustrated version of this timeline.
Here is an illustrated version of this timeline.
Economists continually try and sell the public the idea that recessions or depressions are a natural part of what they call the “business cycle”.
This timeline below will prove that is simply not the case. Recessions and depressions only occur because the Central Bankers manipulate the money supply, to ensure more and more is in their hands and less and less is in the hands of the people.
Central Bankers developed out of money changers and it is with these people we pick the story up in 48 B.C. below.
The History of the “Money Changers”
Psychiatry as a weapon to silence religious and political opposition
Since reporting on the account of Jason Egroff, a 28-year-old Scranton, Pennsylvania web designer and Blog Talk Radio host of the weekly Revelation News Christian broadcast, I have received documentation of numerous cases where outspoken critics specific to the anti-Christian agenda of Barack Hussein Obama experienced similar encounters with “mental health professionals.”
In the event you are unfamiliar with the full account of Mr. Egroff, it is documented here.
In short, Mr. Egroff was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility for evaluation due to his pro-Christian yet non-threatening religious views opposing those of the Obama regime. Of course, that’s not the official psychiatric diagnosis given to him, but after an extensive investigation into the events leading up to and following his evaluation, it might as well be. What was uncovered in subsequent investigations involving other “patients,” I am convinced that the common element in all similar cases is one’s Christian beliefs when combined with a vocal opposition to the Obama agenda.
Psychiatry as a weapon to silence religious and political opposition
In short, Mr. Egroff was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility for evaluation due to his pro-Christian yet non-threatening religious views opposing those of the Obama regime. Of course, that’s not the official psychiatric diagnosis given to him, but after an extensive investigation into the events leading up to and following his evaluation, it might as well be. What was uncovered in subsequent investigations involving other “patients,” I am convinced that the common element in all similar cases is one’s Christian beliefs when combined with a vocal opposition to the Obama agenda.
Psychiatry as a weapon to silence religious and political opposition
Thursday, August 23, 2012
August 24-25 Uprising against Muslim Brotherhood: Will this be the start Civil War?
After more than a year and a half of living with degraded conditions and chaos under SCAF (Mubarak’s military) leadership actively scheming behind the scenes with the Muslim Brotherhood to wrest power, Egyptians now have even much more reason to distrust the new government headed by President Morsi. Just 50 days into the new presidency, President Morsi not only appears hopeless to deliver on any of his promises to improve the lives of Egyptians but is making matters worse.
August 24-25 Uprising against Muslim Brotherhood: Will this be the start Civil War?
August 24-25 Uprising against Muslim Brotherhood: Will this be the start Civil War?
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
TruNews - For 8.22.12
Josef Stalin would be proud....Federal agents take U.S. Marine to psychiatric hospital after posting criticism of government on FaceBook
A 26 year old former Marine has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after being detained for alleged threats he made on Facebook. Brandon Raub, who lives in Chesterfield, Virginia, was detained last Thursday after being questioned by law enforcement about his postings. “Sharpen up my axe; I’m here to sever heads.” Raub posted to Facebook on August 13, 2012. The post appears to be a lyric from the band Swollen Members and its song “Bring Me Down.” The case has pitted First Amendment freedoms against potential security concerns. Raub, who served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, was questioned by the FBI, U.S. Secret Service and Chesterfield County Police last Thursday and was then taken into custody by the Chesterfield County Police Department. At a court hearing on Monday Raub was...For more news items:
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ThirdFactor | Government national ID card industry trends outlined by HID Global
HID Global has detailed some key trends that are sure to impact government identity programs in the coming years.
With counterfeiting and tampering proving to be an ever-present threat to security, privacy and authentication efficiency, HID Global believes that the next five years will be crucial.
In a report released by Acuity Market Intelligence, it was found that by the 2015, 85% of all issued IDs will be eIDs and the number of countries issuing eIDs will outnumber those issuing conventional IDs by four to one. The jump to eIDs is a major trend in the global market and one that, according to HID Global, is already reflected in customer demands.
HID has seen an increase in demand for multi-layered, highly secure credential solutions with multi-function capabilities. While increased security is a constant demand, the need for multiple functions – access control, proof of identity, health care and tax ID and government fee payments – is quickly becoming the norm.
ThirdFactor | Government national ID card industry trends outlined by HID Global
The $6 quadrillion cost of the climate scam
ERICE, Sicily – The capture of the once-pure environmental movement by the hard left is far from cheap for the rest of us. I have just told the annual planetary-emergencies conference of the World Federation of Scientists that on the basis of the lunatic anti-CO2 policies now fashionable among scientifically illiterate governments, it would cost $6 quadrillion to prevent the 6 degrees Fahrenheit of predicted “global warming” that will not happen anyway.
The $6 quadrillion cost of the climate scam
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Government Will Take Almost Half Your Paycheck in 2013
How high is the marginal tax rate on each additional dollar the average American earns? In other words, if you got a raise of one dollar, how much of that dollar would be taxed away? These rates are already high, and they’re getting higher next year.
A middle-class taxpayer’s income is subject to a 25 percent federal income tax. Then there is the federal Social Security and Medicare payroll tax of 13.3 percent in 2012—5.65 percent of that is removed from the employee’s paycheck, and the remaining 7.65 percent is paid by the employer. (In reality, the employee pays the entire 13.3 percent, because the employer’s portion of the tax does not affect the cost of labor: The employer would pay the employee 7.65 percent more if there were no employer’s portion of the payroll tax.)
So the 25 percent federal income tax plus 13.3 Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes equals 38.3 percent going to federal taxes in 2012.
Government Will Take Almost Half Your Paycheck in 2013
A middle-class taxpayer’s income is subject to a 25 percent federal income tax. Then there is the federal Social Security and Medicare payroll tax of 13.3 percent in 2012—5.65 percent of that is removed from the employee’s paycheck, and the remaining 7.65 percent is paid by the employer. (In reality, the employee pays the entire 13.3 percent, because the employer’s portion of the tax does not affect the cost of labor: The employer would pay the employee 7.65 percent more if there were no employer’s portion of the payroll tax.)
So the 25 percent federal income tax plus 13.3 Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes equals 38.3 percent going to federal taxes in 2012.
Government Will Take Almost Half Your Paycheck in 2013
'Brotherhood' starts crucifixions
Arab Spring run amok: 'Brotherhood' starts crucifixions Opponents of Egypt's Muslim president executed 'naked on trees' Michael Carl, WND, August 17, 2012
The Arab Spring takeover of Egypt by the Muslim Brotherhood has run amok, with reports from several different media agencies that the radical Muslims have begun crucifying opponents of newly installed President Mohammed Morsi.Middle East media confirm that during a recent rampage, Muslim Brotherhood operatives, “crucified those opposing Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi naked on trees in front of the presidential palace while abusing others.”
Raymond Ibrahim, a fellow with the Middle East Forum and the Investigative Project on Terrorism, said the crucifixions are the product of who the Middle Eastern media call “partisans.”
“Arabic media call them ‘supporters,’ ‘followers,’ and ‘partisans’ of the Muslim Brotherhood,” Ibraham said.
Ibrahim also says the victims can be anyone, including Egyptians and Christians.
“It’s anyone who is resisting the new government,” Ibrahim said. “In this particular case, the people attacked and crucified were secular protesters upset because of Morsi’s hostile campaign against the media, especially of Tawfik Okasha, who was constantly exposing him on his station, until Morsi shut him down.”
Ibrahim said extra brutality is reserved for Christians, but the crucifixions are because of Islamic doctrine, and are required by the Quran. The time and other details about the crucifixions were not readily available.
'Brotherhood' starts crucifixions Opponents of Egypt's Muslim president executed 'naked on trees' - Atlas Shrugs
Movie Review: “2016: Obama’s America”
D’Souza starts out by proving his status not as an ideologue but as a patriot with roots in India who loves the opportunities this country has given him that would scarcely be possible back home. He persuades his audience that he seeks only to understand how a man such as Obama, with so many similarities to himself (born in the same year, married in the same year, attended Ivy League schools at the same time) could come out with such a different, even radical, point of view about America.Movie Review: “2016: Obama’s America”
Sharia in action: 11-year-old Christian girl with Down's syndrome arrested for "blasphemy" - Atlas Shrugs
ISLAMABAD: An 11-eleven-year old Christian girl was accused of blasphemy and arrested for allegedly burning pages of a Noorani Qaida, a booklet used to learn the basics of the Holy Quran.
Officials of the Ramna Police Station told The Express Tribune that the girl, named Rifta Masih, had burned a Noorani Qaida on August 16 and threw it in garbage after putting it in a plastic bag. Masih belonged to the rural area of Mehrabadi, which is next to the G-11 sector in Islamabad.
Soon after the incident, residents of the area had gathered to lodge their protest. The protesters also allegedly beat up the girl and her mother, while the rest of the girl’s family managed to escape.
The Kashmir Highway was also blocked by the protesters, but they dispersed after the police lodged an FIR of the case and took Rifta into custody.
The girl has been sent to a juvenile jail on judicial remand.
Sharia in action: 11-year-old Christian girl with Down's syndrome arrested for "blasphemy" - Atlas Shrugs
Earhart expedition team says video possibly shows plane debris
A team of researchers trying to solve the mystery of aviator Amelia Earhart's 1937 disappearance said on Friday that underwater video from a Pacific island has revealed a field of man-made debris that could be remnants of her plane.
The footage was collected in July by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) during a $2.2 million expedition to Nikumaroro in the Republic of Kiribati.
Unsolved questions about Earhart's fate have long heightened her legendary status as a pioneering aviator, and TIGHAR's voyage to seek clues in her disappearance gained interest far beyond the shores of the remote island where the team searched.e
Earhart expedition team says video possibly shows plane debris | Reuters
IRS Official Warns Pastors to Keep Silent During Elections |
The IRS warned pastors attending a faith leader’s summit in Washington D.C. recently not to speak from their pulpits about candidates or elections. As reported by OneNewsNow, IRS official Peter Lorenzetti attended the summit and told pastors that prohibited activities include anything that supports or opposes a candidate for public office. Mr. Lorenzetti’s statements are not surprising or even noteworthy given the fact that IRS officials have been interpreting the Johnson Amendment in this way since its addition to the tax code in 1954. So why should we be concerned about these statements? Well, for starters, Mr. Lorenzetti’s statements follow a long pattern by the IRS of intimidating pastors and churches into silence on the issues surrounding candidates and elections. The Johnson Amendment operates as a direct restriction on the speech of pastors and churches. There is no denying this fact. And there is no denying the fact that the Johnson Amendment is unconstitutional.
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IRS Official Warns Pastors to Keep Silent During Elections |
Friday, August 17, 2012
States Rev Up for Real ID
States Rev Up for Real ID
by IMMIGRATION NEWS UPDATE February 16, 2012
Real ID:
Congressional Quarterly: States Rev Up for Real ID (Requires a CQ.com subscription, article is pasted below) When Congress passed the Real ID bill in the spring of 2005, requiring a uniform national standard for driver’s licenses, nearly half of state governments balked at complying.
State and Local Update:
The Columbian: Cities Use E-Verify While State Considers Banning It More than two years ago, Clark County became the first in the state to mandate that its contractors use the federal E-Verify program, in an attempt to ensure taxpayer dollars employed legal workers on public works projects. Since then, three counties and 11 cities, including five in this county, have followed Clark County’s lead.
OaNow.com (Alabama): Homeland Security Director Urges E-Verify Compliance Alabama Department of Homeland Security Director Spencer Collier has reiterated his support to the business community regarding the E-Verify program and the department’s commitment to facilitate compliance to Alabama’s immigration law. The E-Verify requirement is not retroactive and only pertains to new hires.
The Milford Daily News: Legislative Group tackles Illegal Immigration Law A legislative committee this month is expected to discuss a bill filed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers hoping to address issues related to illegal immigration.
Miscellaneous:
My San Antonio: Texas on the Potomac Immigration is the hottest of hot-button issues, if a panel today at the Conservative Political Action Conference is any indication.
Hearings and Events:
Judiciary Committee
Wednesday February 15th
Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement
"Safeguarding the Integrity of the Immigration Benefits Adjudication Process"
2141 RHOB 2 p.m.
States Rev Up For Real ID
By Shawn Zeller, CQ Staff
When Congress passed the Real ID bill in the spring of 2005, requiring a uniform national standard for driver’s licenses, nearly half of state governments balked at complying.
Drafted at the recommendation of the Sept. 11 commission, the legislation was intended to keep driver’s licenses out of the hands of illegal immigrants and to make it more difficult for foreign terrorists to travel in the country. Reluctant states argued that the law was a massive unfunded mandate because it required them to make rigorous residency and identity checks for those seeking licenses. They thought the three-year deadline for compliance was too short, and some conservatives said a uniform license amounted to a national ID card with a subsequent loss of privacy.
But seven years later, after several extensions of the implementation deadlines, the states are coming around. Even some of those dozen or so that continue to have laws on the books refusing to comply are, in fact, moving to comply. And House and Senate bills to repeal the Real ID law that the states lobbied for in 2009 and 2010 never reached the floor, nor have they been reintroduced in this Congress.
The National Conference of State Legislatures says it’s not trying to get repeal legislation reintroduced and instead is focusing its efforts on changing the Homeland Security Department’s implementing regulations in order to allow states to save face by complying with the law without admitting they’re doing so. The conference of state legislatures also would like to secure more flexibility in how and when the new licenses are issued.
“If legislation isn’t an option, the only other alternative is that the department open back up the regulations to make some additional changes that make it easier for all states to come into compliance,” says Molly Ramsdell, a senior policy director at the conference of state legislatures.
Ramsdell says the new secure licenses are going to cost states $3.9 billion and that the federal government has provided no more than $200 million in assistance. She says the state legislatures support further extensions to the current Jan. 15, 2013, compliance deadline as well as more flexibility in how states use federal funds so they can cover more of the Real ID costs with existing federal grants. Last March, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who strongly opposed Real ID in her previous job as governor of Arizona, extended the states’ compliance deadline and she could do so again.
The penalties would be unpleasant for residents of states that didn’t comply with the law by adopting more-secure licenses: They could not use their state licenses as federal identification, such as when boarding an airline flight.
On the other side of the table from the states, supporters of the Real ID law are trying to ensure that the most recent extension for compliance was the last.
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing in October 2011, Republican F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. of Wisconsin, the driving force behind the Real ID law, told Napolitano that the repeal legislation was dead and asked her if she would stick to the 2013 deadline. Napolitano demurred, but said she would work with the states to get them into compliance.
Study in mice raises hopes for birth control pill for men | Reuters
In lab experiments, male mice given the pill were rendered completely infertile during treatment as they produced fewer and less mobile sperm. The drug, originally tested as part of a broader cancer research project, does not affect the hormone system or sex drive, the team said on Thursday.
"There is no effect on the mouse's mojo. The animals exhibit the normal sexual behaviors and frequency of copulation," said Dr. James Bradner of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, whose study appears in the journal Cell.
What's more, the effect is completely reversible. Once doctors stopped giving the drug to mice, they were able to sire healthy litters, with no apparent side effects, Bradner said.
Study in mice raises hopes for birth control pill for men | Reuters
Colorado: First Anthrax Outbreak In 31 Years Kills Dozens Of Cows On Logan County Ranch « MidnightWatcher's Blogspot
Business Week – “LAKEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Two more cows have died from anthrax exposure in northeast Colorado, expanding the first outbreak of the disease in the state in 31 years to three ranches.
Last week, 60 cows died on a Logan County ranch, where anthrax was positively identified in one animal. Officials say it’s likely they all died of the disease.
The Colorado Department of Agriculture said Wednesday the additional cows were on two separate adjacent ranches. Both died from the disease.
State Veterinarian Keith Roehr said all three ranches involved share fences and the new cases likely are the result of cows grazing in an area with soil containing anthrax spores.
Neighboring herds have been vaccinated. No cows left the affected ranches so none entered the food supply and no human infection has been reported, Roehr said.
Anthrax kills livestock within hours of infection and can decimate herds if animals are not quickly treated, he said.
Colorado: First Anthrax Outbreak In 31 Years Kills Dozens Of Cows On Logan County Ranch « MidnightWatcher's Blogspot
Thursday, August 16, 2012
West Virginia Carrying Out Real ID Driver's License Law
West Virginia continues to issue new driver’s licenses that meet national standards adopted after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, amid a refusal by a number of other states to carry out the federal Real ID law, Deputy Division of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Steven Dale told lawmakers this week.
Dale said the DMV began the effort with licenses up for renewal or applied for this year. West Virginia’s 1.3 million drivers must renew their licenses every five years.
“This gives all of our citizens the opportunity of going through the process without requiring them to come in and make a special trip,” Dale said. “If we had delayed implementing Real ID as of this year, not only would that have caused further inconvenience for our citizens, it also would have doubled up our workload.”
Once drivers get the new licenses, they won’t have to bring in the various identification documents required by Real ID for their next renewal because the agency is scanning and storing them electronically, Dale told a pair of House-Senate oversight committees.
West Virginia Carrying Out Real ID Driver's License Law
Restaurant Owner Fights Atheists Over Dinner Discount for Church Bulletins
It has been a Sunday tradition for many years at restaurants all over America: Bring in a church bulletin and get a discount on Sunday dinner. But a restaurant in Columbia, Pennsylvania, is now under investigation by the Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission after a self-identified atheist filed a charge of discrimination against it over its church discount.
Pennsylvania's Lancaster Journal reported that John Wolff, a retired electrical engineer as well as a member of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), filed the charge against Columbia's Lost Cajun Kitchen (pictured), which offers a 10-percent discount to patrons who bring in a Sunday church bulletin. “I did this not out of spite, but out of a feeling against the prevailing self-righteousness that stems from religion, particularly in Lancaster County,” Wolff was quoted by the paper as saying.
Restaurant Owner Fights Atheists Over Dinner Discount for Church Bulletins
Facedeals: Facial recognition marketing stirs privacy discussion along with excitement - NY Daily News
Facedeals, from marketing firm Red Planet, uses your Facebook photos to identify you in stores so you can get personalized offers and discounts. "The idea is not to invade privacy, which is a big issue right now," says Samantha Anderson, business director at Red Pepper. "Your face wouldn't be in any sort of database unless you opt into it."
Facedeals is maintaining a bit of privacy, itself. The name is just a working name. The app will come to market with a different one.
Facedeals: Facial recognition marketing stirs privacy discussion along with excitement - NY Daily News
LA to use new fingerprint and palm print scanners | BiometricUpdate.com
Biometrics4ALL’s “LiveScan” booking solution includes 30 fingerprint and palm print scanners that will be used for various criminal-booking applications and for data submission to the Los Angeles County Fingerprint Identification System or LAFIS, along with data transfers to the California Department of Justice (Cal-DOJ), and the FBI.
The contract was awarded to Biometrics4ALL after it presented an extensive demonstration to the LASD evaluation team and after going through a rigorous weeklong analysis with Los Angeles County. The evaluation found that Biometric4ALL’s software had one of the smoothest booking workflows, which would benefit the County’s regional identification system upon implementation.
The software also has several other features such as an intuitive user interface, “face find” mug shot capture and rapid data capture capabilities. The software is backed up by equally impressive hardware such as the portable casing for the unit, fingerprint and palm print scanner, a photo camera, an electronic signature pad, a magnetic stripe reader, a driver license 2-D bar code reader and military-class batteries which have an eight hour life span.
LA to use new fingerprint and palm print scanners | BiometricUpdate.com
Advances in Data Storage Have Implications for Civil Liberties - NYTimes.com
"Trapwire" information:
Pic info: In 1956, the original IBM 350 disk storage unit, left, could store about 4.4 megabytes. Earlier this year, Victorinox released a 1 terabyte USB flash drive, right, that fits inside a Swiss Army Knife.
A wave of worry about a software program called TrapWire, designed to detect terrorists casing possible targets, appears to be unjustified, as I wrote in Tuesday’s Times.
Based on stolen corporate e-mails posted by WikiLeaks, some reports hugely exaggerated the program’s sweep and capabilities; the New York Police Department, for instance, says that contrary to claims on the Web, it has never used TrapWire.
But the bogus flap over one particular surveillance product should not eclipse the very real issues lurking behind it. Government at every level is experimenting with sophisticated surveillance equipment whose capabilities are improving as rapidly as every other kind of electronic technology.
Advances in Data Storage Have Implications for Civil Liberties - NYTimes.com
Pic info: In 1956, the original IBM 350 disk storage unit, left, could store about 4.4 megabytes. Earlier this year, Victorinox released a 1 terabyte USB flash drive, right, that fits inside a Swiss Army Knife.
A wave of worry about a software program called TrapWire, designed to detect terrorists casing possible targets, appears to be unjustified, as I wrote in Tuesday’s Times.
Based on stolen corporate e-mails posted by WikiLeaks, some reports hugely exaggerated the program’s sweep and capabilities; the New York Police Department, for instance, says that contrary to claims on the Web, it has never used TrapWire.
But the bogus flap over one particular surveillance product should not eclipse the very real issues lurking behind it. Government at every level is experimenting with sophisticated surveillance equipment whose capabilities are improving as rapidly as every other kind of electronic technology.
Advances in Data Storage Have Implications for Civil Liberties - NYTimes.com
'Black box' standards coming for cars - The Hill's Floor Action
New federal standards for "black boxes" that record information leading up to auto accidents will will take effect Sept. 1, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) ruled on Tuesday.
The decision means the new standards for the devices will not be delayed by one year, as automakers had requested.
'Black box' standards coming for cars - The Hill's Floor Action
» Trapwire: Big Brother Now Monitors Your Every Move
I realize a lot of people take Alex Jones for some kind of extremist, but this information is locatable at other sites also through a Google search.
» Trapwire: Big Brother Now Monitors Your Every Move Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
» Trapwire: Big Brother Now Monitors Your Every Move Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
Welcome to NISD's Student Locator Program | NISD Student Locator Program
Northside ISD is harnessing the power of radio frequency identification technology (RFID) to make schools safer, know where our students are while at school, increase revenues, and provide a general purpose “smart” ID card.
Parents entrust us with their children and expect that we always know where their children are; this technology will help us do that.
Jay and Jones have a combined enrollment of 4,200 students (out of a projected 100,000 students in NISD). The pilot is small relative to the size of the school district. The "smart" ID cards only work within the school.
Parents entrust us with their children and expect that we always know where their children are; this technology will help us do that.
THE PILOT
The Student Locator Project is currently being piloted at two schools. They are Jay High School and Jones Middle School, two of 112 schools in Northside ISD. The pilot will last one year after which time the data will be evaluated and decisions made about further implementation in future years.Jay and Jones have a combined enrollment of 4,200 students (out of a projected 100,000 students in NISD). The pilot is small relative to the size of the school district. The "smart" ID cards only work within the school.
THREE GOALS
- Increase student safety and security. Our students' parents expect that we always know where their children are in our schools.
- Increase attendance. Through more efficient attendance management, schools can generate additional revenues by identifying students who are not in their seats during roll call but who are in the school and locate them. (Increased attendance = increased state revenues)
- Provide multi-purpose "Smart" Student ID card. The Student ID will provide access to the library and cafeteria, serve as a photo ID, and allow for the purchase of tickets to schools' extracurricular activities. Other uses will be rolled out during the pilot program.
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