2/28/10
Clinton brings global citizenship message to Berkeley
Former President Bill Clinton brought his message of global citizenship to the Bay Area and asked the question: What exactly is 'global citizenship?'
Clinton told a packed audience at Zellerbach Auditorium that the most important question is one that rarely got asked in his White House.
'Most of the time I was in politics we debated three things: What are you going to do, who is going to do it, public or private sector, and how much money you going to spend on it,' Clinton said.
According to Clinton, the most important question of the 21st century is the fourth question -- 'How?'
'However much money you have whatever it is you proposed to do, how are you going to do it, so you turn your good intentions into positive changes,' he said.
Clinton said in the non-governmental area there are immense opportunities that never existed until now.
'Look at what happened after the Haiti earthquake occurred. First you had George Clooney and others putting together this amazing concert 'Hope for Haiti' in no time. They put it together in a week and they raised $66 million. A lot of it was in $10 pops because you could text Haiti in your phone and automatically $10 would be transferred here and $5 in Canada. Amazing,' he said.
And people wanted to give time.
'All of a sudden I had teams of doctors from New York who were calling me saying, 'I can only stay five days, but send me down there,' Clinton said.
Clinton said global communication has enhanced our abilities and global interdependence has made it a necessity to be involved.
Anaya Roy is chair of the Global Poverty and Practice Program at U.C. Berkeley.
'I think the most important thing he said today here at Berkeley was that it is possible to think about a new moment of communitarianism,' she said.
Will Smelko is student body president.
'It makes me realize that there is so much validity to what he is talking about, and it makes me inspired to make me go out and do something,' he said.
Clinton spoke at the invitation of Richard Blum, UC regent and husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
On Wednesday night, the former president and Blum are at an event in San Francisco at the Fairmont Hotel in support of the American Himalayan Foundation." ...source
Clinton told a packed audience at Zellerbach Auditorium that the most important question is one that rarely got asked in his White House.
'Most of the time I was in politics we debated three things: What are you going to do, who is going to do it, public or private sector, and how much money you going to spend on it,' Clinton said.
According to Clinton, the most important question of the 21st century is the fourth question -- 'How?'
'However much money you have whatever it is you proposed to do, how are you going to do it, so you turn your good intentions into positive changes,' he said.
Clinton said in the non-governmental area there are immense opportunities that never existed until now.
'Look at what happened after the Haiti earthquake occurred. First you had George Clooney and others putting together this amazing concert 'Hope for Haiti' in no time. They put it together in a week and they raised $66 million. A lot of it was in $10 pops because you could text Haiti in your phone and automatically $10 would be transferred here and $5 in Canada. Amazing,' he said.
And people wanted to give time.
'All of a sudden I had teams of doctors from New York who were calling me saying, 'I can only stay five days, but send me down there,' Clinton said.
Clinton said global communication has enhanced our abilities and global interdependence has made it a necessity to be involved.
Anaya Roy is chair of the Global Poverty and Practice Program at U.C. Berkeley.
'I think the most important thing he said today here at Berkeley was that it is possible to think about a new moment of communitarianism,' she said.
Will Smelko is student body president.
'It makes me realize that there is so much validity to what he is talking about, and it makes me inspired to make me go out and do something,' he said.
Clinton spoke at the invitation of Richard Blum, UC regent and husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
On Wednesday night, the former president and Blum are at an event in San Francisco at the Fairmont Hotel in support of the American Himalayan Foundation." ...source
2/13/10
2/10/10
Virginia delegates pass bill banning chip implants as ‘mark of the beast’ | Raw Story
"Concerns over privacy have aligned with apocalyptic Biblical prophecy in a proposed Virginia law that limits the use of microchip implants on humans because of a lawmaker's concern that the chips will prove to be the Antichrist's 'mark of the beast.'
On Wednesday, Virginia's House of Delegates passed a bill that forbids companies from forcing their employees to be implanted with tracking devices, a move likely to be applauded by civil libertarians.
But Virginia state Delegate Mark Cole's reasons for proposing the law have as much to do with the Book of Revelation as they do with concerns over privacy in the digital age.
Cole says he is concerned that the implants will turn out to be the 'mark of the beast' worn by Satan's minions.
'My understanding -- I'm not a theologian -- but there's a prophecy in the Bible that says you'll have to receive a mark, or you can neither buy nor sell things in end times,' Cole said, as quoted at the Washington Post. 'Some people think these computer chips might be that mark.'" ...more
On Wednesday, Virginia's House of Delegates passed a bill that forbids companies from forcing their employees to be implanted with tracking devices, a move likely to be applauded by civil libertarians.
But Virginia state Delegate Mark Cole's reasons for proposing the law have as much to do with the Book of Revelation as they do with concerns over privacy in the digital age.
Cole says he is concerned that the implants will turn out to be the 'mark of the beast' worn by Satan's minions.
'My understanding -- I'm not a theologian -- but there's a prophecy in the Bible that says you'll have to receive a mark, or you can neither buy nor sell things in end times,' Cole said, as quoted at the Washington Post. 'Some people think these computer chips might be that mark.'" ...more
2/9/10
Revolutionary Behavior Recognition System Available for Airports
"At the airport, how can you tell the good guys from the bad guys? The sad truth, as recent terror incidents have shown, is that there seems to be no foolproof way. Now a new detection system designed by an Israeli start up could improve the chances - eliminating some of the problems inherent in the most popular detection systems, and increasing the odds of nabbing a potential terrorist.
According to CEO Ehud Givon, WeCu raises detection to a whole new level. The company's device - which was six years in the making - flashes stimuli, such as photos, a symbol, or a code word, relating to the information authorities are most interested in (whether it's terrorism, drug smuggling or other crimes), to passengers as they pass through terminal checkpoints.
Hidden biometric sensors then detect the subjects' physical reactions and subtle behavioral changes remotely or during random contact.
Based on their reactions, the authorities determine whether further investigation or questioning is warranted. The rationale is that when a person is exposed to stimuli relating to behaviors that he or she is engaged in or familiar with, the reactions to the images will be heightened." ...more
According to CEO Ehud Givon, WeCu raises detection to a whole new level. The company's device - which was six years in the making - flashes stimuli, such as photos, a symbol, or a code word, relating to the information authorities are most interested in (whether it's terrorism, drug smuggling or other crimes), to passengers as they pass through terminal checkpoints.
Hidden biometric sensors then detect the subjects' physical reactions and subtle behavioral changes remotely or during random contact.
Based on their reactions, the authorities determine whether further investigation or questioning is warranted. The rationale is that when a person is exposed to stimuli relating to behaviors that he or she is engaged in or familiar with, the reactions to the images will be heightened." ...more
2/4/10
Schoolkids on a radio leash | Deccan Chronicle
"Feb. 3: For the little ones, Big Brother is here. Students of a Belgaum school are now required to wear an RFID (radio frequency identification) card around their necks to help parents and school authorities keep track of them through the day, a
‘pioneering’ practice, perhaps, since more animals than people have been marked out for tracking until now.
Appropriately called Keeptrack, “it will have all the information from the time a child leaves for school to the time she goes back home. At regular intervals, parents will get SMS messages on their mobile phones about their children’s whereabouts,” says Dr Panchasheila Qadri, principal and administrator of Love Dale Central School.
At the school, Keeptrack serves as an identity card and helps keep a tab on the student’s attendance, academic performance and movements.
Dr Qadri said the system was affordable for all schools and a necessity for safety and security given the long distances children commute to school.
How it works: Students wear the RFID device around the neck. It is a card with a chip and a unique ID tag. A reader installed at the school records a student on arrival and passes on the data to a central computer from where messages are generated automatically and sent to parents!" ...source
‘pioneering’ practice, perhaps, since more animals than people have been marked out for tracking until now.
Appropriately called Keeptrack, “it will have all the information from the time a child leaves for school to the time she goes back home. At regular intervals, parents will get SMS messages on their mobile phones about their children’s whereabouts,” says Dr Panchasheila Qadri, principal and administrator of Love Dale Central School.
At the school, Keeptrack serves as an identity card and helps keep a tab on the student’s attendance, academic performance and movements.
Dr Qadri said the system was affordable for all schools and a necessity for safety and security given the long distances children commute to school.
How it works: Students wear the RFID device around the neck. It is a card with a chip and a unique ID tag. A reader installed at the school records a student on arrival and passes on the data to a central computer from where messages are generated automatically and sent to parents!" ...source
Senate bans forced microchip implants | ajc.com
"The Senate voted Thursday to protect Georgians from evildoers, covert corporations and rogue doctors, seen and unseen, with the passage of a bill that would make it illegal to implant a microchip into someone without their permission.
The bill, ironically sponsored by Sen. Chip Pearson (R-Dawsonville) and Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers, would make it a misdemeanor to implant someone against their will with a microchip, sensor, transmitter or other tracking device. The Senate passed the bill 47-2.
“We are sending the message that Georgia is committed to upholding its citizens’ constitutional rights and protection of their person,” Pearson said. “Advances in technology are moving fast, and while most of these are for the good, we must be careful that it doesn’t come at the harm of citizens.” ...more
2/3/10
Full body scanners introduced at Heathrow and Manchester airports as Lord Adonis seeks to allay the SHEEPLE'S privacy fears
- Travelers chosen for scan must cooperate - or face flight ban
- Airport bosses: Race, religion or ethnicity not a consideration
- 60 passengers scanned at Manchester 'without incident'
The introduction of full body scanners at Heathrow and Manchester airports has today caused outrage among civil liberty campaigners who say that they are an invasion of privacy.
Campaigners claim the scanners, which act like a mini radar device 'seeing' beneath ordinary clothing, breach privacy rules under the Human Rights Act.
The exemption of under 18s from being scanned, which was in place during the trial of the machines in Manchester amid fears the scanners could breach child protection laws, has also been removed.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) also warned that using profiling techniques to single out Muslims, Asians and black people for scanning at airports could breach race and religious discrimination laws introduced by the government."
It was also revealed yesterday that air passengers who refuse to submit to a full body scan at Heathrow and Manchester airports will be barred from taking their flights.
The scanners have been introduced in the wake of a failed attempt by 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up a transatlantic jet on Christmas Day.
Airport bosses at Manchester and Heathrow said those selected for scanning are not being chosen on the basis of race, religion or ethnicity.
They will instead scan passengers if they raise the suspicion of security officers following a hand search or unsolved metal detection alarm.
They will also go through if explosive or vapour trace detection equipment causes an alarm to sound or if they request a private search prior to or after passing through the walk-through metal detection equipment.
The first passengers at Manchester Airport who used the scanner backed the controversial measure.
In the first hour after the machine was made compulsory around 60 people were scanned at Manchester.
Andrew Mark, 46, from Wolverhampton, was among the first to be selected.
Mr Mark said: 'We have nothing to hide so it's not a problem. It didn't seem to hold us up either as it only takes a few seconds.'...more
2/2/10
Verichip is now called PositiveID! Roll up your sleeve for the implantable human microchip, it's now Positive?
"As sure as the sun rises, so Verichip keeps spawning and shape shifting to gain market acceptance as people from across the globe unite and reject the IBM seed-funded, Raytheon-manufactured Human Implantable microchip company.
To 'mark' a new year, Verichip is now called PositiveID!. If you have followed this company's progress as we have and cited the damning evidence showcasing a casual link between microchipping and cancer⁴, Verichip is certainly not positive. But in this world of semantics and double speak, no doubt a CEO meeting along with other top execs decided that throwing the word 'Positive' in the title would make Alzheimer patients who get microchipped without their consent less hesitant as their sleeve was rolled up in the name of 'wander protection'. 'Was that a needle?' asks the patient? 'No! it was a mosquito bite, you have Alzheimer's, remember?'
What has changed in 2010?
Well, Verichip/PositiveID has a new marketing and media relations company! Just as all actors in Hollywood require an agent to handle their image as they enter the market, so Verichip/PositiveID has decided to do the same.
The company taking over Verichips/PositiveID media relations and corporate communications is Gibraltar⁵. A company who has close ties with the Clinton administration, expertise in biotech, energy and of course as a company who has excellent inroads into government, Gibraltar even has the mandatory Washington office!⁷
Why this recent appointment?
Verichip/PositiveID has been pummeled on the NASDAQ , having been delisted in March 2009, but staging a comeback to have their stock regain NASDAQ Compliance⁸ in October 2009. Verichip/PositiveID stock has been crushed from a high of just over $10 down to a humiliating low of $0.24 cents.9
Why this backlash? It's a human implantable microchip and that does not sit well with the Ma and Pa investor. Who in their right mind invests in a company whose product causes tumors? Who in their right mind invests in a company that microchips Alzheimer patients without their consent? As Verichip/PositiveID's stock price today indicates, not many individuals and certainly not investment companies who are minimizing risk in the current economy.
Regardless of what happens on the stock market, the fact is Verichip is not going away. Why? Because their seed funding originates from the information giant IBM who has over 407,000 employees worldwide. Nothing like having a Big Blue Sugar Daddy watching over you in this financial climate, especially one that writes off a $60 million dollar loan to ensure the human microchipping agenda is in place for 'future' generations. $60 million is chickenfeed to a company who turns over 100 billion US dollars a year. Yes sir, the IBM Hollerith Machine Punch Card system was very profitable in WWII, cleverly 'leased' to the Nazi regime to create enabling technologies to identify and catalog non-compliant peoples." ...more
To 'mark' a new year, Verichip is now called PositiveID!. If you have followed this company's progress as we have and cited the damning evidence showcasing a casual link between microchipping and cancer⁴, Verichip is certainly not positive. But in this world of semantics and double speak, no doubt a CEO meeting along with other top execs decided that throwing the word 'Positive' in the title would make Alzheimer patients who get microchipped without their consent less hesitant as their sleeve was rolled up in the name of 'wander protection'. 'Was that a needle?' asks the patient? 'No! it was a mosquito bite, you have Alzheimer's, remember?'
What has changed in 2010?
Well, Verichip/PositiveID has a new marketing and media relations company! Just as all actors in Hollywood require an agent to handle their image as they enter the market, so Verichip/PositiveID has decided to do the same.
The company taking over Verichips/PositiveID media relations and corporate communications is Gibraltar⁵. A company who has close ties with the Clinton administration, expertise in biotech, energy and of course as a company who has excellent inroads into government, Gibraltar even has the mandatory Washington office!⁷
Why this recent appointment?
Verichip/PositiveID has been pummeled on the NASDAQ , having been delisted in March 2009, but staging a comeback to have their stock regain NASDAQ Compliance⁸ in October 2009. Verichip/PositiveID stock has been crushed from a high of just over $10 down to a humiliating low of $0.24 cents.9
Why this backlash? It's a human implantable microchip and that does not sit well with the Ma and Pa investor. Who in their right mind invests in a company whose product causes tumors? Who in their right mind invests in a company that microchips Alzheimer patients without their consent? As Verichip/PositiveID's stock price today indicates, not many individuals and certainly not investment companies who are minimizing risk in the current economy.
Regardless of what happens on the stock market, the fact is Verichip is not going away. Why? Because their seed funding originates from the information giant IBM who has over 407,000 employees worldwide. Nothing like having a Big Blue Sugar Daddy watching over you in this financial climate, especially one that writes off a $60 million dollar loan to ensure the human microchipping agenda is in place for 'future' generations. $60 million is chickenfeed to a company who turns over 100 billion US dollars a year. Yes sir, the IBM Hollerith Machine Punch Card system was very profitable in WWII, cleverly 'leased' to the Nazi regime to create enabling technologies to identify and catalog non-compliant peoples." ...more
Indonesia: Muslim Mob Burns Pastor’s Home, 2 Churches
Washington, D.C. (February 2, 2010) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that a Muslim mob set fire to a pastor’s house and two Christian churches in North Sumatra, Indonesia, last Friday.
The arson followed a disagreement between Muslims and Christians over the location of buildings Christians would meet in for worship. The buildings were in the center of a predominantly Muslim community and were not registered as churches. When worship continued unabated, a mob took matters into its own hands.
According to The Jakarta Post, on Friday, January 29, a crowd of about 1000 Muslims surrounded the HKBP and GPdI church buildings and lit them on fire, also torching the pastor’s house nearby.
On Sunday, a police spokesman said that there were no fatalities, and added that hundreds of Christians have left the community as a result. He said that the local government would assist Christians in the rebuilding of the churches. To date, none of the attackers involved have been arrested.
Pastor Marolop Sinaga told The Jakarta Post that over 270 of his congregation have fled out of fear of further attacks.
The area has historically been known for peaceful religious coexistence between Christians and Muslims. This marks the first attack of its kind in the history of North Sumatra.
"Pope Pius XII" acknowledged his cowardness
"VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Pius XII wanted to speak out against Nazi atrocities, but was advised not to for fear of worsening the wartime situation, said the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.
'If the pope was silent, it was not out of fright or self-interest, but concern for worsening the situation of those oppressed' by the Nazi regime, it said.
With continuing criticism of Pope Pius' wartime activities, especially given the advancement of his sainthood cause, the newspaper Feb. 2 republished an article that had first appeared in a special June 28, 1964, edition of the Vatican's weekly periodical, L'Osservatore della Domenica.
The article, written by the late Jesuit Cardinal Paolo Dezza, gave a firsthand account of the cardinal's conversations with Pope Pius during the war. Cardinal Dezza, who was rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome at the time, conducted spiritual exercises for Popes Pius XII and John Paul I.
During a lengthy audience with Pope Pius in December 1942, the cardinal said the pontiff was pained by the Nazi atrocities unfolding in Germany and was distressed by criticisms that he was not speaking out publicly against them."...more
'If the pope was silent, it was not out of fright or self-interest, but concern for worsening the situation of those oppressed' by the Nazi regime, it said.
With continuing criticism of Pope Pius' wartime activities, especially given the advancement of his sainthood cause, the newspaper Feb. 2 republished an article that had first appeared in a special June 28, 1964, edition of the Vatican's weekly periodical, L'Osservatore della Domenica.
The article, written by the late Jesuit Cardinal Paolo Dezza, gave a firsthand account of the cardinal's conversations with Pope Pius during the war. Cardinal Dezza, who was rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome at the time, conducted spiritual exercises for Popes Pius XII and John Paul I.
During a lengthy audience with Pope Pius in December 1942, the cardinal said the pontiff was pained by the Nazi atrocities unfolding in Germany and was distressed by criticisms that he was not speaking out publicly against them."...more
2/1/10
Asian schools track attendance with biometrics and smart cards
"Roll-call has now become an automated process at schools in Hong Kong, Japan, India and Singapore, with the use of biometrics and smart cards, according to FutureGov.
The days of manually taking attendance are over, leaving teachers with more time spent teaching. No more calling parents to inform them about kids missing school. These systems can also automatically alert parents via text message or email, informing them if their kids make it to school late, or do not show up at all.
Students of Fung Kai Innovative School are greeted every day with face scanners, which scan an image of the student’s face - relaying it back to the school’s database for confirmation. At the beginning of the day, teachers can access this information in real-time via their laptops.
To accommodate mass student population, schools in Singapore have taken a different approach, installing fingerprint readers linked to an electronic attendance system - one school quoted to have 1,500 students attending.
Instead of biometrics, almost half of the urban schools in India are using smart cards. Students scan their student ID card using readers installed at school gates, which is transmitted in real-time to the school’s intranet, allowing faculty and even parents to visit. Using a unique user ID and password, parents can access their kid’s attendance records."...Source
The days of manually taking attendance are over, leaving teachers with more time spent teaching. No more calling parents to inform them about kids missing school. These systems can also automatically alert parents via text message or email, informing them if their kids make it to school late, or do not show up at all.
Students of Fung Kai Innovative School are greeted every day with face scanners, which scan an image of the student’s face - relaying it back to the school’s database for confirmation. At the beginning of the day, teachers can access this information in real-time via their laptops.
To accommodate mass student population, schools in Singapore have taken a different approach, installing fingerprint readers linked to an electronic attendance system - one school quoted to have 1,500 students attending.
Instead of biometrics, almost half of the urban schools in India are using smart cards. Students scan their student ID card using readers installed at school gates, which is transmitted in real-time to the school’s intranet, allowing faculty and even parents to visit. Using a unique user ID and password, parents can access their kid’s attendance records."...Source
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