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February 18 - NSA - Setting The Foundation For A Global Police State?
Article: One World Government
"The NSA's domestic
spying program, known in official government documents as the "President's
Surveillance Program," ("The Program") was implemented by President George W.
Bush shortly after the attacks on September 11, 2001. The US
Government still considers the Program officially classified, but a tremendous
amount of information has been exposed by various whistleblowers, admitted to by
government officials during Congressional hearings and with public statements,
and reported on in investigations by major newspapers across the country
In the weeks after 9/11, President Bush
authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to conduct a range of surveillance activities
inside the United States, which had been barred by law and agency policy for
decades.
When the NSA's
spying program was first exposed by the New York Times in 2005, President Bush
admitted to a small aspect of the program what the
administration labeled the "Terrorist Surveillance Program" in
which the NSA monitored, without warrants, the communications of between
500-1000 people inside the US with suspected connections to
Al Qaeda."
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February 10 - Why I want a microchip implant
Article: Technology For A Global Monetary System
A few years ago, I perched on the edge of my bed
in a tiny flat, breathing in a cloud of acetone fumes, using a scalpel to pick
at the corner of an electronic travel card. More than 10 million Londoners use
these Oyster cards to ride the city's public transport network. I had decided to
dissect mine. After letting the card sit in pink nail polish remover for a week,
the plastic had softened enough that I could peel apart the layers.
Buried inside was a tiny microchip attached to a fine copper wire: the radio
frequency identification (RFID) chip.
My goal was to bury
the chip under my skin, so that the machine barriers at the entrance to the
Underground would fly open with a wave of my hand, as if I was some kind of
technological wizard. But although I had the chip and an
ex-Royal Marines medic willing to do the surgery, I failed to get my hands on
the high-grade silicone I'd need to coat the chip to prevent my body reacting
against it. Since then, people have used the
technique I helped popularize
to put liberated Oyster chips in bracelets, rings, magic wands, even fruit, but
the prize for first London transport cyborg is still up for grabs.
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February 17 - FIDO Standard Aims To Eliminate Passwords
Article: Technology For A Global Monetary System
An industry consortium that
aims to establish online standards for two-factor and
biometric authentication has released the first draft of its technical
specifications.
The Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance published a
draft of its technical document on 11 February to allow nonmember companies to
check out the specifications and develop products without actually joining the
alliance. The FIDO Alliance aims to establish a
common way for products and service providers to exchange authentication
information, allowing customers to use a smartphone, USB token or some other
device as security token.
If developers widely
adopt the specification, it could allow consumers and workers to reduce their
reliance on passwords, Phil
Dunkelberger, chief executive of Nok Nok Labs, an authentication provider and a
founding member of the FIDO Alliance, told eWEEK.
A biometric, such as a picture or a thumbprint, could be used instead of a
username-password combination,
or a device or code could be added to a username and password to make the
combination more secure.
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February 15 - Food prices soar as incomes stand still
Article: Signs Of The Last Times
Writer Jen Singer, the mother of two teenage
boys, wrestles with her grocery list every week to keep the household budget
from getting away from her.
"I'd like the
government to stop by my house, come food shopping with me and see where the
real costs are," she said. The adage "An apple a day keeps
the doctor away" is impossible thanks to apple prices, she said.
"We go through one
of these every few days," she said, holding a loaf of bread.
"It's a big part of my take home pay."
It's is not her imagination. While the government
says prices are up 6.4 percent since 2011,
chicken is up 18.4 percent, ground beef is up 16.8 percent and bacon has
skyrocketed up 22.8 percent, making it a holiday when it's on sale.
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We hope the Weekly News In Review has been a
blessing to you.
Sincerely,
Roger Oakland
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Scientists at the University of Texas Medical
Branch in Galveston have succeeded in growing
human lungs in the laboratory, using components from the lungs of deceased
children. 
The federal government
doesn't just want the ability to track down your car;
it wants to be able to track down your body as well.
The foundation of dialogue between Christians and Jews
is theological " and not simply an expression of our desire for reciprocal
respect and esteem" and common service for the poor and the helpless. This is
why they can work together for a "more just and fraternal world" and it is
important that both Catholic and Jewish formation centers pursue mutual
understanding.
One of the entries in Co.Exist's recent list of
World-Changing Ideas for 2014 is the concept of
ingestible sensors, which people will swallow to monitor and improve their
health. Biotech company Proteus Digital Health already
has an early prototype: a "smart pill" made up
of a sensor that is the size of a pinhead paired with a body patch that monitors
activity and vital signs. Today, that sensor only transmits information about
what pill a patient has taken and when they have taken it. But in the future,
Proteus could go far beyond that.
As various tax-funded international institutions
explicitly outline plans to plunder humanity's wealth to prop up governments
drowning in odious debts, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) last week officially
unveiled
new socialist-backed plot to create a global tax information-sharing regime to
ensure that nobody except the establishment escapes the upcoming fleecing. Under
the proposed scheme, admittedly inspired by "FATCA," the Obama administration's
latest addition to the sprawling U.S. tax regime, governments and dictatorships
worldwide will automatically share all private financial data on citizens with
each other to extract as much wealth as possible from the public.