THE ANATOMY OF AN AMERICAN REVOLUTION
By Greg Evensen
November 21, 2009
NewsWithViews.com
The term revolution is defined as sudden change. Sometimes it is subtle and sometimes it is violent. It can manifest itself through unrelenting political tyranny, military and police oppression of the populace, or as a result of the government’s failure to govern as the people have expected and demanded. Although the reasons can be many and the results can vary, the result is usually the same. The people ar…
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Forget about 20/20. “Perfect” vision could be redefined by gadgets that give you the eyes of a cyborg.
The tech industry calls the digital enrichment of the physical world “augmented reality.” Such technology is already appearing in smartphones and toys, and enthusiasts dream of a pair of glasses we could don
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The number of stray dogs in the UK saw the largest year-on-year increase since records began, a study has revealed.
Dogs Trust, which released the figures, said that 107,228 strays were found in the twelve months to March 2009, an 11 per cent increase on the previous period. It blamed the rise on changes to dog control laws and the the possible impact of the recession.
“Previously we had seen a steady decline, but the latest statistics show a huge jump in the number of st
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Added by The Watchmen on September 10, 2009 at 6:27pm —
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Company developing under-the-skin devices to detect 'bio-threats'
A Florida-based company that boasts selling the world's first and only federally approved radio microchip for implanting in humans is now turning its development branch toward "emergency preparedness," hoping to produce an implant that can automatically detect in its host's bloodstream the presence of swine flu or other viruses deemed a "bio-threat."
VeriChip Corporation currently sells a small, unde
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In this era of enhanced foods, enhanced bioweapons and WMDs, enhanced vaccines, enhanced military strategies, and enhanced interrogations, come enhanced driving licenses.
Many of us have sincerely hoped that these technological advancements and alleged enhancements would eventually rub off on ethics in government and business. We also hoped that the Obama administration would create a new government div
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Added by The Watchmen on August 4, 2009 at 11:00am —
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By Lauren Boyer Inquirer Staff Writer
HARRISBURG - Invasion of privacy is an issue that really gets under State Rep. Babette Josephs' skin.
That's why the Philadelphia Democrat introduced a bill, passed unanimously last week by the House, that would ban the forced implantation of computer chips in humans.
Conjuring Orwellian images, Josephs worries the identification devices - the size of a grain of rice - could lead to a real-life Big Brother nightmare.
"I'm doing, I thi
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Added by The Watchmen on July 5, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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It works for Fido, so why not you?
The same RFID implants used to identify lost pets are now being adapted for use on you and me, and not how one might have originally expected. As with all pioneering technologies, it's leisure pursuits that are getting the first stab at the tech.
Specifically: One beach-oriented Barcelona nightclub, the Baja Beach Club, is using the implants to free customers of the burdens of having to carry their purses or wallets. Makes sense: When you
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Added by The Watchmen on June 29, 2009 at 10:30pm —
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Members of the public will be expected to have their fingerprints taken at the Post Office or in high street shops and pharmacies when they sign up for a controversial ID card or passport.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith will today announce she wants retailers to record an applicant's most sensitive biometric details, before passing them on to the Government.
She says it wi
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By invitation, I recently visited a remote facility in northern Virginia to see a demonstration of NOX – a new Intelligent Perimeter Defense system deployed by the FBI that uses covert Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to track people and assets without their knowledge.
That’s right, using RFID to track people without their kn
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Added by The Watchmen on January 19, 2009 at 8:00pm —
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The Bush administration on Thursday urged a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a group of Amish farmers in Michigan claiming RFID chips required on cattle "are a mark of the beast."
The Amish farmers claim (.pdf) Michigan regulations requiring them to use radio frequency identification devices on their cattle "constitutes
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Added by The Watchmen on November 14, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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If the world-wide trend continues, 'Web 3.0' will be tightly monitored, and will become an unprecedented tool for surveillance. The "Internet of Things", a digital representation of real world objects and people tagged with RFID chips, and increased censorship are two main themes for the fu
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Added by The Watchmen on November 2, 2008 at 10:48am —
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Reports from
The Daily Mail and The Guardian
Britain's first identity card in more than half a century was unveiled yesterday - and turned out to be covered in
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Added by The Watchmen on September 26, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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Method for verifying human identity during electronic sale transactions
A method is presented for facilitating sales transactions by electronic media. A bar code or a design is tattooed on an individual. Before the sales transaction can be consummated, the tattoo is scanned with a scanner. Characteristics about the scanned tattoo are compared to characteristics about other tattoos stored on a computer database in order to verify the identity of the buyer. Once verified, th
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Added by The Watchmen on September 24, 2008 at 8:00pm —
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If incorporating personal details into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip implanted into a passport or driver's license may sound like a "smart" alternative to endless lines at the airport and intrusive questioning by securocrats, think again.
Since the late 1990s, corporate grifters have touted the "benefits" of the devilish transmitters as a "convenient" and "cheap" way to tag individual commoditie
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Written By Bill Gertz for the
Washington Times, May 16, 2008
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Added by The Watchmen on May 17, 2008 at 1:30am —
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