Kirk Makin
The Globe And Mail
Governments were in disarray and at least one prostitution charge was withdrawn by the Crown Wednesday as the effects of a landmark ruling that decriminalized prostitution in Ontario began to be felt.
The ruling also left police confused and neighbourhoods fortifying to fend off a possible deluge of sex-trade workers.
When the dust settles around the prostitution decision, experts predict that municipalities across the country will pass bylaws and licensing systems based on their own local community standards and political realities.
“We could end up with a bizarre patchwork of regulation across the country,” said Simon Fraser University criminology professor John Lowman. “Nor, is there any guarantee that municipalities are going to do any better at this than the feds. It depends upon the attitude they take to a highly divisive issue in Canadian society.”
While they publicly warn the decision will end up victimizing prostitutes, the Harper Conservatives are also privately grumbling at what they consider judicial activism on the Ontario bench. One Tory MP said he believed that judges should not be making social policy. “That is exclusively the jurisdiction of Parliament,” the Ontario MP said.
Brendan Crawley, a spokesman for the ministry, said that the province intends to join the federal government in appealing the decision. In the meantime, he said, Ontario will ask for the ruling to be suspended until an appeal has been heard.
In the wake of the decision, chaos reigned for supporters and detractors of decriminalization. Sex-trade workers braced for an onslaught of bureaucratic red tape – including health inspectors, tax collectors and licensing officials.
“One of first things they will try to do is force us against our will to identify ourselves and provide information about who we are, where we reside and where we work,” said Amber, a 36-year-old Toronto sex worker. “There is absolutely no way I am prepared to be on any kind of public registry.
“They can get rid of laws, but the stigmatization of sex workers is going to be around for hundreds of years,” she said, adding that most sex workers feel as she does. “Sex workers know how to get around the law.” ”
Bruce Ryder, a York University law professor, said that sex workers are making a mistake if they think that they have been “liberated” by the ruling. “It may even turn out that status quo of legal enforcement could shift into a much more intrusive and detailed system of control,” he said.
“Licensing schemes could be highly restrictive and fees could be high,” he said. “Zoning bylaws could be used to restrict bawdy houses to particular parts of a city.”
Prof. Lowman predicted that a coming welter of bylaws, fees and regulations may drive many sex workers back into running illicit operations beyond the reach of the law.
In her 133-page ruling, Ontario Superior Court Judge Susan Himel struck down three key Criminal Code provisions: communicating for the purpose of prostitution, pimping and operating a common bawdy house.
Judge Himel found that laws set up to protect prostitutes actually endanger their safety, forcing them to furtively engage in hasty transactions conducted in shady locations.
Her decision will take effect in 30 days unless Crown lawyers return with arguments that are strong enough to persuade her to grant a further delay.
Confusion reigned Wednesday in Ontario’s law enforcement community. A Toronto Police Service spokesman said that the force is awaiting direction from the Ministry of the Attorney-General.
The Crown, meanwhile, withdrew at least one prostitute-related charge. Alan Young, a York University law professor who spearheaded Tuesday’s successful challenge, said that one of his law students witnessed a communications charge being withdrawn in a suburban Toronto courthouse on the basis of Judge Himel’s ruling. “It’s having an immediate impact,” he said.
In downtown Toronto, neighbourhood activists were steeling themselves for a battle to save their neighbourhoods.
“What planet does this judge live on?” asked Lisa Stephens Immen, former chairman of an umbrella group of resident associations known as The Neighbourhoods’ Forum. “I hope that all the naive fools who support this ruling will be gifted with the task of picking up the used condoms in their own nice neighbourhoods.”
Prof. Ryder said that police are going to find themselves under intense pressure to prevent a breakout of street prostitution. However, he was skeptical about the prospect of prostitutes taking to the streets to brazenly solicit customers.
Police still have numerous charges they can use to control street solicitation, he said – including nuisance charges, traffic regulations and prohibiting public annoyances.
Prof. Lowman said that defence lawyers outside Ontario will soon seek to persuade judges to follow Judge Himel’s lead.
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Iris Scanning Set To Secure City in Mexico, Then the World
Aaron Saenz
Singularity Hub
The million-plus citizens of Leon, Mexico are set to become the first example of a city secured through the power of biometric identification. Iris and face scanning technologies from Global Rainmakers, Inc. will allow people to use their eyes to prove their identify, withdraw money from an ATM, get help at a hospital, and even ride the bus. GRI’s eye scanning systems aren’t more secure than others on the market, but they are faster. Large archway detectors using infrared imaging can pick out 50 people per minute, even as they hustle by at speeds up to 1.5 meters per second (3.3 mph). The first phase of the Leon iris and face scanning project has already begun. It is estimated to cost around $5 million and focuses on law enforcement agencies’ security check points. Over the next three years commercial uses will be rolled out with banks leading the charge. Check out the videos below to see GRI’s wide range of iris scanning stations in action. Whether you’re jealous or intimidated by Leon’s adoption of widespread eye identification you should pay attention to the project – similar biometric checkpoints are coming to locations near you. Some are already in place.
When it comes to biometric identification, fingerprints are the most widespread and trusted technology. Yet they only contain a few dozen data points to link to your ID. Irises, in contrast, have around 2000 points of reference – enough to uniquely identify every person on Earth. Many companies have developed the means to take an iris scan and use these reference points to match them quickly to a database of scans. The problem has typically been that getting the image of the iris itself is slow and requires people to come very close to the scanning device. GRI has focused on improving the iris acquisition side of the technology, increasing the speed and range of their devices. Not only that, but they are bringing the costs down. A 30 person per minute device (the HBox Mini) costs around $48,000. Yet smaller devices, ones suitable for ATMs or desktop computers are falling below $2000. As they become faster and more affordable, the adoption of iris scanners is seemingly becoming more inevitable as well.
Here’s a demo of the larger devices from GRI. Notice that masks and sunglasses are generally not going to deter a scan:
The HBox V provides rapid access to restricted areas for those in cars at a rate around 12 people per minute.
Smaller devices like the EyeSwipe and EyeSwipe Mini could work for secured locations in an office. According to Fast Company, this scale of iris scanning tech is in place in Bank of America’s headquarters in Charlotte.
The HCam would provide a means of iris identification for computers and ATMs.
My apologies for showing so many different videos of GRI technology but I wanted to give you an idea of how completely the company has encompassed the application space for iris and face scanning. From large foot trafficked areas, to automobiles, to home use they’ve got it covered. They don’t have a handheld portable scanner that I’ve seen…but give them time and they’ll probably develop that as well.
This makes me believe GRI’s implementation in Leon is eventually going to exceed anything we’ve seen before. Every other means of access (license, credit card, keys, etc) has the potential of being augmented or replaced by iris and face scanning. Get on a bus, pass security on the way into work, pay for a meal, order packages online – all without using anything besides your eye. The Leon project could make this futuristic world appear in just 3 to 5 years. That’s incredible.
We have to put this in a larger context, too. India just launched its enormous effort to digitally identify more than a billion residents using fingerprints, face, and iris scans. Japan already uses finger scans during entry into the country. The EU is working on a variety of passive scanning technologies to help secure airports and other public spaces.
To some these emerging applications must seem like the sign of a privacy apocalypse. Government and commercial institutions will endeavor to create enormous shared databases of biometric data and scan huge numbers of private citizens everywhere they go. The first phase of the project in Leon is going to help track the movements of ‘watch-listed individuals’. Rapid scanning face and iris scanning technologies will redefine our sense of privacy in ways that make Big Brother seem like a little sissy.
Jeff Carter, chief business development officer of GRI, didn’t make any of this sound less threatening in his interview with Fast Company’s Austin Carr:
“…we’ve even worked with three-letter agencies on technology that can capture 30-plus feet away. In certain spaces, eventually, you’ll be able to have maybe one sensor the size of a dime, in the ceiling, and it would acquire all of our irises in motion, at a distance, hundreds–probably thousands as computer power continues to increase–at a time.”
“…If you’ve been convicted of a crime, in essence, this will act as a digital scarlet letter. If you’re a known shoplifter, for example, you won’t be able to go into a store without being flagged. For others, boarding a plane will be impossible.”
For commercial applications it’s just as incredible:
“Right now, we can determine how many eyeballs are on a Web page. And what you look at and click. For the first time, we can do that in a physical world. If you look at this or that advertisement, and then go purchase the product advertised, we can tie those two things together.”
“When you get masses of people opting-in, opting out does not help. Opting out actually puts more of a flag on you than just being part of the system. We believe everyone will opt-in.”
Does that vision sound ominous to you? It does to me, and I’m pretty biometric friendly. Yet I’m also fairly cynical. People already have a pretty good handle on my information. Google reads all my emails, albeit in an anonymous way. My bank knows most everything I buy, ditto for credit card companies. As Carter points out, I already deal with these commercial trackers every day. And I’ve opted into these systems. I could pay for everything with cash, but I find the convenience of plastic too great to ignore. While I’m worried about being verbally assaulted by billboards that try to identify me, they’re going to arrive whether I want them to or not.
Rather than fight the advent of biometrics, I’d rather focus on controlling how such data is used. We can pressure governments to insure that people are not unjustly placed on watch-lists. We can require businesses to divorce our identities from collected data to make advertisements anonymous even as they are personalized. We can limit who can use these technologies, and how, even as we accept that they will be widely adopted in the future. Now is the time, as the first cities test the feasibility of biometric ID systems, to ensure that they will be used to benefit rather than restrict the individual. The crucial moment to guide the path of this emergent technology has arrived. Blink and you could miss it.
[image credits: Austin Carr/Fast Company]
[video credits: Global Rainmakers Inc]
[source: GRI, Fast Company]
Read Original Article HERE
Singularity Hub
The million-plus citizens of Leon, Mexico are set to become the first example of a city secured through the power of biometric identification. Iris and face scanning technologies from Global Rainmakers, Inc. will allow people to use their eyes to prove their identify, withdraw money from an ATM, get help at a hospital, and even ride the bus. GRI’s eye scanning systems aren’t more secure than others on the market, but they are faster. Large archway detectors using infrared imaging can pick out 50 people per minute, even as they hustle by at speeds up to 1.5 meters per second (3.3 mph). The first phase of the Leon iris and face scanning project has already begun. It is estimated to cost around $5 million and focuses on law enforcement agencies’ security check points. Over the next three years commercial uses will be rolled out with banks leading the charge. Check out the videos below to see GRI’s wide range of iris scanning stations in action. Whether you’re jealous or intimidated by Leon’s adoption of widespread eye identification you should pay attention to the project – similar biometric checkpoints are coming to locations near you. Some are already in place.
When it comes to biometric identification, fingerprints are the most widespread and trusted technology. Yet they only contain a few dozen data points to link to your ID. Irises, in contrast, have around 2000 points of reference – enough to uniquely identify every person on Earth. Many companies have developed the means to take an iris scan and use these reference points to match them quickly to a database of scans. The problem has typically been that getting the image of the iris itself is slow and requires people to come very close to the scanning device. GRI has focused on improving the iris acquisition side of the technology, increasing the speed and range of their devices. Not only that, but they are bringing the costs down. A 30 person per minute device (the HBox Mini) costs around $48,000. Yet smaller devices, ones suitable for ATMs or desktop computers are falling below $2000. As they become faster and more affordable, the adoption of iris scanners is seemingly becoming more inevitable as well.
Here’s a demo of the larger devices from GRI. Notice that masks and sunglasses are generally not going to deter a scan:
The HBox V provides rapid access to restricted areas for those in cars at a rate around 12 people per minute.
Smaller devices like the EyeSwipe and EyeSwipe Mini could work for secured locations in an office. According to Fast Company, this scale of iris scanning tech is in place in Bank of America’s headquarters in Charlotte.
The HCam would provide a means of iris identification for computers and ATMs.
My apologies for showing so many different videos of GRI technology but I wanted to give you an idea of how completely the company has encompassed the application space for iris and face scanning. From large foot trafficked areas, to automobiles, to home use they’ve got it covered. They don’t have a handheld portable scanner that I’ve seen…but give them time and they’ll probably develop that as well.
This makes me believe GRI’s implementation in Leon is eventually going to exceed anything we’ve seen before. Every other means of access (license, credit card, keys, etc) has the potential of being augmented or replaced by iris and face scanning. Get on a bus, pass security on the way into work, pay for a meal, order packages online – all without using anything besides your eye. The Leon project could make this futuristic world appear in just 3 to 5 years. That’s incredible.
We have to put this in a larger context, too. India just launched its enormous effort to digitally identify more than a billion residents using fingerprints, face, and iris scans. Japan already uses finger scans during entry into the country. The EU is working on a variety of passive scanning technologies to help secure airports and other public spaces.
To some these emerging applications must seem like the sign of a privacy apocalypse. Government and commercial institutions will endeavor to create enormous shared databases of biometric data and scan huge numbers of private citizens everywhere they go. The first phase of the project in Leon is going to help track the movements of ‘watch-listed individuals’. Rapid scanning face and iris scanning technologies will redefine our sense of privacy in ways that make Big Brother seem like a little sissy.
Jeff Carter, chief business development officer of GRI, didn’t make any of this sound less threatening in his interview with Fast Company’s Austin Carr:
“…we’ve even worked with three-letter agencies on technology that can capture 30-plus feet away. In certain spaces, eventually, you’ll be able to have maybe one sensor the size of a dime, in the ceiling, and it would acquire all of our irises in motion, at a distance, hundreds–probably thousands as computer power continues to increase–at a time.”
“…If you’ve been convicted of a crime, in essence, this will act as a digital scarlet letter. If you’re a known shoplifter, for example, you won’t be able to go into a store without being flagged. For others, boarding a plane will be impossible.”
For commercial applications it’s just as incredible:
“Right now, we can determine how many eyeballs are on a Web page. And what you look at and click. For the first time, we can do that in a physical world. If you look at this or that advertisement, and then go purchase the product advertised, we can tie those two things together.”
“When you get masses of people opting-in, opting out does not help. Opting out actually puts more of a flag on you than just being part of the system. We believe everyone will opt-in.”
Does that vision sound ominous to you? It does to me, and I’m pretty biometric friendly. Yet I’m also fairly cynical. People already have a pretty good handle on my information. Google reads all my emails, albeit in an anonymous way. My bank knows most everything I buy, ditto for credit card companies. As Carter points out, I already deal with these commercial trackers every day. And I’ve opted into these systems. I could pay for everything with cash, but I find the convenience of plastic too great to ignore. While I’m worried about being verbally assaulted by billboards that try to identify me, they’re going to arrive whether I want them to or not.
Rather than fight the advent of biometrics, I’d rather focus on controlling how such data is used. We can pressure governments to insure that people are not unjustly placed on watch-lists. We can require businesses to divorce our identities from collected data to make advertisements anonymous even as they are personalized. We can limit who can use these technologies, and how, even as we accept that they will be widely adopted in the future. Now is the time, as the first cities test the feasibility of biometric ID systems, to ensure that they will be used to benefit rather than restrict the individual. The crucial moment to guide the path of this emergent technology has arrived. Blink and you could miss it.
[image credits: Austin Carr/Fast Company]
[video credits: Global Rainmakers Inc]
[source: GRI, Fast Company]
Read Original Article HERE
Bakery Displays Morals, Now Faces Eviction
OneNewsNow.com
Charlie Butts and Jody Brown
An Indianapolis cookie shop could be evicted from its longtime location for refusing a special order from a college homosexual group.
The bakery "Just Cookies" has operated in a city-owned market for over 20 years. The president of the board that oversees the market told the Indianapolis Star that he would "hate to lose them" as a tenant -- but that could very well happen because owner David Stockton took a moral stand and did not want to endorse homosexual activity.
Controversy arose this week after the owners of the bakery cited moral objections to a special-order request for rainbow-decorated cookies for next week's "National Coming Out Day" observance at a nearby university campus. Stockton told the caller he did not feel comfortable in supporting homosexual values, especially because it would not set a good example for his two daughters.
Micah Clark of the American Family Association of Indiana says there are reports the city might evict Stockton, citing a local "anti-discrimination" statute.
"Indianapolis passed a sexual-orientation city ordinance five years ago," Clark explains. "...We warned [at that time] that this type of thing would happen if they passed an ordinance elevating a sexual behavior to the same moral equivalent of race or skin color."
Had the shop filled the special order, the owner felt he would be providing a microphone for homosexuals to celebrate their lifestyle. But there is another consideration, says Clark.
"If this were a Muslim-owned bakery, what would happen?" he wonders. "I don't think the city would pursue it the way they're pursuing it now. I think this is part of the liberal agenda where people must conform to the views that our culture wants in support of homosexuality."
In an interview with the Star, the AFA of Indiana spokesman argued for the rights of business owners. "It's one thing if someone walks into a store and buys a cookie off the shelf, but [the Stocktons] were being asked to become part of the [pro-homosexual] celebration. To make rainbow cookies for a special event with which the company has a disagreement -- I think that goes beyond the pale of what we should expect companies to do."
Meanwhile, homosexual groups are circulating memos encouraging people to stop purchasing at Just Cookies. Clark's response to that is to ask residents to do business there in support of the owners and their wholesome beliefs.
The Star reports the organizers of the homosexual celebration found another bakery to fill their order -- "The Flying Cupcake."
Read Original Article HERE
Charlie Butts and Jody Brown
An Indianapolis cookie shop could be evicted from its longtime location for refusing a special order from a college homosexual group.
The bakery "Just Cookies" has operated in a city-owned market for over 20 years. The president of the board that oversees the market told the Indianapolis Star that he would "hate to lose them" as a tenant -- but that could very well happen because owner David Stockton took a moral stand and did not want to endorse homosexual activity.
Controversy arose this week after the owners of the bakery cited moral objections to a special-order request for rainbow-decorated cookies for next week's "National Coming Out Day" observance at a nearby university campus. Stockton told the caller he did not feel comfortable in supporting homosexual values, especially because it would not set a good example for his two daughters.
Micah Clark of the American Family Association of Indiana says there are reports the city might evict Stockton, citing a local "anti-discrimination" statute.
"Indianapolis passed a sexual-orientation city ordinance five years ago," Clark explains. "...We warned [at that time] that this type of thing would happen if they passed an ordinance elevating a sexual behavior to the same moral equivalent of race or skin color."
Had the shop filled the special order, the owner felt he would be providing a microphone for homosexuals to celebrate their lifestyle. But there is another consideration, says Clark.
"If this were a Muslim-owned bakery, what would happen?" he wonders. "I don't think the city would pursue it the way they're pursuing it now. I think this is part of the liberal agenda where people must conform to the views that our culture wants in support of homosexuality."
In an interview with the Star, the AFA of Indiana spokesman argued for the rights of business owners. "It's one thing if someone walks into a store and buys a cookie off the shelf, but [the Stocktons] were being asked to become part of the [pro-homosexual] celebration. To make rainbow cookies for a special event with which the company has a disagreement -- I think that goes beyond the pale of what we should expect companies to do."
Meanwhile, homosexual groups are circulating memos encouraging people to stop purchasing at Just Cookies. Clark's response to that is to ask residents to do business there in support of the owners and their wholesome beliefs.
The Star reports the organizers of the homosexual celebration found another bakery to fill their order -- "The Flying Cupcake."
Read Original Article HERE
THE SUPPRESION OF TRUTH
By Coach Dave Daubenmire
NewsWithViews.com
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them." -Romans 1:18-19
The Holy Scriptures tell us that truth is obvious. In fact, those who deny it are engaging in self-deception.
To suppress is to “resist consciously.” Suppression is not a disbelief of the truth but a denial of it. There is a world of difference between ignorance of the truth and a denial of it.
The existence of God and the laws of Nature do not have to be proven. Jefferson, in his writing of the Declaration paraphrased Romans by calling them “self-evident” Truths. Something that is self-evident, (obvious) needs no trial to determine the veracity.
Because the Creator has made the truth “obvious” to everyone, we will never be able to stand before Him and plead “I didn’t know.”
We, all of us, can see the Truth. In fact, Paul said that the Truth is so obvious that everyone can see it even though it is “invisible.” Sort of like the wind, I guess. I am reminded of what Jesus said about the wind (Spirit)…it is invisible but can be seen and felt…that is the way it is with Truth. It is obvious. Denial of Truth is deliberate.
The Godless are running America. That should be obvious to everyone.
But that is not the problem. One would expect the Godless to “suppress the truth.” The quandary lies with those of us who claim to “know the Truth.” Scriptures tell us that knowing (not merely hearing) the truth sets us free. We are in this mess because those of us who “see the invisible things” will not push back against the lies.
Push back. That is a weight-lifting term we use with our football players. Pushing back against resistance produces strength. Christianity is failing in America because “believers” have refused to push back. Christianity has become the proverbial ninety-seven pound weakling.
With each new denial in America the Truth gets buried. Failing to push back has created a weight that cannot be moved. Suppression leads to oppression. An unjust authority is ruling over the people. Jesus has set us free, while government wants to chain us down.
By allowing these lies to go unchallenged, Christians permit the truth of God to become a lie. America is upside down. Good is bad and bad is good. Right is wrong and wrong is right. Lies become true and truth becomes lies. Lies only win if they go unchallenged.
Lies rule the day in America. They rule in government, they rule in science, they rule in education, and the rule in the media. They rule the day because Truth has fallen in the streets. If we do not rebuild on a foundation of Truth we will never recover.
I am reminded of what Benjamin Franklin said over two centuries ago at the birth of this nation.
“God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel”
God governs in the affairs of men. He doesn’t just guide, and He doesn’t merely bless, He governs. For anyone to deny that obvious truth requires a purposeful, intentional suppression. Believing that America can recover without a return to Truth is nothing more than tower-building.
I watch with great interest the powerful rise of The Tea Party movement and the rapid pace at which American’s seem to be awakening. I pray that it is the grace and mercy of God that is being poured out once again on this stubborn and rebellious generation, who “set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.”
We have a Spiritual problem in America, not a political one. We are a rebellious people under the control of a rebellious system, controlled by rebellious leaders.
"For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king." -I Samuel 15:23.
I hear a lot of lips flapping in America about the need to “return” to the Constitution; “rebuild” the nation; “recover” economically, “reclaim” our government; and “restore” fiscal sanity.
I think the most import “re” America can engage in is the need to “REPENT.”
The plans of man are doomed to failure. “Professing themselves to be wise they have become fools.” Godless government is the apex of foolishness. “The fool has said in his heart there is no God. The are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.”
A Tea Party movement void of God will not hold the day. It may turn the tide in an election but it will not hold sway over a generation. A short term fix will not heal a chronic sickness.
We must speak the Truth, demand the Truth, expect the Truth, teach the Truth, and live the Truth.
“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” -John 8:44
View Original Article HERE
NewsWithViews.com
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them." -Romans 1:18-19
The Holy Scriptures tell us that truth is obvious. In fact, those who deny it are engaging in self-deception.
To suppress is to “resist consciously.” Suppression is not a disbelief of the truth but a denial of it. There is a world of difference between ignorance of the truth and a denial of it.
The existence of God and the laws of Nature do not have to be proven. Jefferson, in his writing of the Declaration paraphrased Romans by calling them “self-evident” Truths. Something that is self-evident, (obvious) needs no trial to determine the veracity.
Because the Creator has made the truth “obvious” to everyone, we will never be able to stand before Him and plead “I didn’t know.”
We, all of us, can see the Truth. In fact, Paul said that the Truth is so obvious that everyone can see it even though it is “invisible.” Sort of like the wind, I guess. I am reminded of what Jesus said about the wind (Spirit)…it is invisible but can be seen and felt…that is the way it is with Truth. It is obvious. Denial of Truth is deliberate.
The Godless are running America. That should be obvious to everyone.
But that is not the problem. One would expect the Godless to “suppress the truth.” The quandary lies with those of us who claim to “know the Truth.” Scriptures tell us that knowing (not merely hearing) the truth sets us free. We are in this mess because those of us who “see the invisible things” will not push back against the lies.
Push back. That is a weight-lifting term we use with our football players. Pushing back against resistance produces strength. Christianity is failing in America because “believers” have refused to push back. Christianity has become the proverbial ninety-seven pound weakling.
With each new denial in America the Truth gets buried. Failing to push back has created a weight that cannot be moved. Suppression leads to oppression. An unjust authority is ruling over the people. Jesus has set us free, while government wants to chain us down.
By allowing these lies to go unchallenged, Christians permit the truth of God to become a lie. America is upside down. Good is bad and bad is good. Right is wrong and wrong is right. Lies become true and truth becomes lies. Lies only win if they go unchallenged.
Lies rule the day in America. They rule in government, they rule in science, they rule in education, and the rule in the media. They rule the day because Truth has fallen in the streets. If we do not rebuild on a foundation of Truth we will never recover.
I am reminded of what Benjamin Franklin said over two centuries ago at the birth of this nation.
“God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel”
God governs in the affairs of men. He doesn’t just guide, and He doesn’t merely bless, He governs. For anyone to deny that obvious truth requires a purposeful, intentional suppression. Believing that America can recover without a return to Truth is nothing more than tower-building.
I watch with great interest the powerful rise of The Tea Party movement and the rapid pace at which American’s seem to be awakening. I pray that it is the grace and mercy of God that is being poured out once again on this stubborn and rebellious generation, who “set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.”
We have a Spiritual problem in America, not a political one. We are a rebellious people under the control of a rebellious system, controlled by rebellious leaders.
"For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king." -I Samuel 15:23.
I hear a lot of lips flapping in America about the need to “return” to the Constitution; “rebuild” the nation; “recover” economically, “reclaim” our government; and “restore” fiscal sanity.
I think the most import “re” America can engage in is the need to “REPENT.”
The plans of man are doomed to failure. “Professing themselves to be wise they have become fools.” Godless government is the apex of foolishness. “The fool has said in his heart there is no God. The are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.”
A Tea Party movement void of God will not hold the day. It may turn the tide in an election but it will not hold sway over a generation. A short term fix will not heal a chronic sickness.
We must speak the Truth, demand the Truth, expect the Truth, teach the Truth, and live the Truth.
“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” -John 8:44
View Original Article HERE
Feds Radiating Americans At Internal Checkpoints
PrisonPlanet.com
Paul Joseph Watson
While illegals and hardcore drugs flood into the country from across the border, authorities target truck drivers in Atlanta.
Federal authorities do not concern themselves about the flood of illegal immigrants and drugs crossing the border every day, they’re more worried about radiating American truck drivers at internal checkpoints with mobile scanners that shoot dangerous x-rays through both vehicles and passengers.
As we reported last month, the federal government has acquired hundreds of backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that they are now using to randomly scan vehicles, passengers and homes in complete violation of the 4th amendment and with wanton disregard for any health consequences.
An example of their expanding use was reported by WSBTV yesterday, after federal agents from several agencies, including Homeland Security, the Department of Transportation, and the TSA, set up an internal checkpoint on Interstate 20 just west of Atlanta and detained truck drivers for half an hour or more at a “state-owned inspection station” while they were scanned with a bomb detection device.
Officials admitted there was no specific threat that justified the checkpoint, and although it was labeled a “counter-terror operation,” the scans were also being conducted in the name of “safety”.
Watch Video HERE
Backscatter x-ray vision devices mounted on trucks are already being deployed inside the United States to scan passing individuals and vehicles in complete violation of the Fourth Amendment. Similar to naked airport body scanners, the devices fire x-rays outwards which are then absorbed by dense objects or the human body. Frequent exposure to low doses of radiation can cause cancer and birth defects, according to a report by the Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety.
American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold many of the devices to U.S. law enforcement agencies, who are already using them on the streets for “security” purposes.
“Without a warrant, the government doesn’t have a right to peer beneath your clothes without probable cause,” points out Marc Rotenberg, executive director of EPIC. “Even airport scans are typically used only as a secondary security measure. If the scans can only be used in exceptional cases in airports, the idea that they can be used routinely on city streets is a very hard argument to make.”
As we have warned from the very beginning, everything you see being rolled out in the airports is eventually designed to hit the streets as Americans become prisoners in their own communities, constantly harassed, scanned and surveilled by an oppressive state.
Mobile scanners for crowds that would be used at football matches and other public events have already been announced, as have proposals to fit lamp posts with CCTV cameras that would X-ray scan passers-by and “undress them” in order to “trap terror suspects”.
Body and vehicle scanners are just one tool authorities plan to implement on a widespread basis as part of our deepening decline into a hi-tech militarized police state.
Homeland Security is already implementing technology to be enforced at “security events” which purportedly reads “malintent” on behalf of an individual who passes through a checkpoint. The video below explains how “Future Attribute Screening Technology” (FAST) checkpoints will conduct “physiological” and “behavioral” tests in order to weed out suspected terrorists and criminals.
The clip shows individuals who attend “security events” being led into trailers before they are interrogated as to whether they are terrorists while lie detector-style computer programs analyze their physiological responses. The subjects are asked about their whereabouts, and if they are attempting to smuggle bombs or recording devices into the “expo,” proving that the technology is intended to be used at public events and not just airports. Individuals who do not satisfy the first lie detector-style test are then asked “additional questions”.
The implementation of ‘Checkpoint USA’, where citizens are routinely stopped, searched and radiated by federal VIPER teams is further evidence of how America is crumbling into a Soviet-style police state where the presumption of innocent until proven guilty is abolished and the 4th amendment eviscerated.
Privacy organizations and civil rights lawyers need to activate immediately to bring lawsuits against the federal government for unleashing this tyranny upon the American people as part of the bid to create a chilling atmosphere that ends all dissent and makes the people fearful of their government as they are made to prove they are not criminals or terrorists on a day to day basis while a high-tech slave pen is constructed around their entire existence.
Read Full Article With Links HERE
Paul Joseph Watson
While illegals and hardcore drugs flood into the country from across the border, authorities target truck drivers in Atlanta.
Federal authorities do not concern themselves about the flood of illegal immigrants and drugs crossing the border every day, they’re more worried about radiating American truck drivers at internal checkpoints with mobile scanners that shoot dangerous x-rays through both vehicles and passengers.
As we reported last month, the federal government has acquired hundreds of backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that they are now using to randomly scan vehicles, passengers and homes in complete violation of the 4th amendment and with wanton disregard for any health consequences.
An example of their expanding use was reported by WSBTV yesterday, after federal agents from several agencies, including Homeland Security, the Department of Transportation, and the TSA, set up an internal checkpoint on Interstate 20 just west of Atlanta and detained truck drivers for half an hour or more at a “state-owned inspection station” while they were scanned with a bomb detection device.
Officials admitted there was no specific threat that justified the checkpoint, and although it was labeled a “counter-terror operation,” the scans were also being conducted in the name of “safety”.
Watch Video HERE
Backscatter x-ray vision devices mounted on trucks are already being deployed inside the United States to scan passing individuals and vehicles in complete violation of the Fourth Amendment. Similar to naked airport body scanners, the devices fire x-rays outwards which are then absorbed by dense objects or the human body. Frequent exposure to low doses of radiation can cause cancer and birth defects, according to a report by the Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety.
American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold many of the devices to U.S. law enforcement agencies, who are already using them on the streets for “security” purposes.
“Without a warrant, the government doesn’t have a right to peer beneath your clothes without probable cause,” points out Marc Rotenberg, executive director of EPIC. “Even airport scans are typically used only as a secondary security measure. If the scans can only be used in exceptional cases in airports, the idea that they can be used routinely on city streets is a very hard argument to make.”
As we have warned from the very beginning, everything you see being rolled out in the airports is eventually designed to hit the streets as Americans become prisoners in their own communities, constantly harassed, scanned and surveilled by an oppressive state.
Mobile scanners for crowds that would be used at football matches and other public events have already been announced, as have proposals to fit lamp posts with CCTV cameras that would X-ray scan passers-by and “undress them” in order to “trap terror suspects”.
Body and vehicle scanners are just one tool authorities plan to implement on a widespread basis as part of our deepening decline into a hi-tech militarized police state.
Homeland Security is already implementing technology to be enforced at “security events” which purportedly reads “malintent” on behalf of an individual who passes through a checkpoint. The video below explains how “Future Attribute Screening Technology” (FAST) checkpoints will conduct “physiological” and “behavioral” tests in order to weed out suspected terrorists and criminals.
The clip shows individuals who attend “security events” being led into trailers before they are interrogated as to whether they are terrorists while lie detector-style computer programs analyze their physiological responses. The subjects are asked about their whereabouts, and if they are attempting to smuggle bombs or recording devices into the “expo,” proving that the technology is intended to be used at public events and not just airports. Individuals who do not satisfy the first lie detector-style test are then asked “additional questions”.
The implementation of ‘Checkpoint USA’, where citizens are routinely stopped, searched and radiated by federal VIPER teams is further evidence of how America is crumbling into a Soviet-style police state where the presumption of innocent until proven guilty is abolished and the 4th amendment eviscerated.
Privacy organizations and civil rights lawyers need to activate immediately to bring lawsuits against the federal government for unleashing this tyranny upon the American people as part of the bid to create a chilling atmosphere that ends all dissent and makes the people fearful of their government as they are made to prove they are not criminals or terrorists on a day to day basis while a high-tech slave pen is constructed around their entire existence.
Read Full Article With Links HERE
Censored Gulf news: Voice from inside Ochsner Hospital
Examiner.com
Deborah Dupré
More of the Gulf Coast humanitarian leaders have been hospitalized, the latest casualties resulting in canceling Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana (CHSL) radio program. Joannie Hughes, Kindra Arnesen and Vicky Perrin of CHSL are ill with symptoms of poisoning. Hughes explained on air from her hospital bed
News via the brief radio show message in the Youtube audio below about these leaders who have been dedicating their lives to try to save others in the Gulf Coast region comes within days of similar tragic news of several of the others on the short list of human rights defenders working in the same capacity along the coast.
Reporter Gregg Hall has tested positive for 6 of 8 poisons in the VOC blood test. This week, the entire Project Gulf Impact film crew were hospitalized with life-threatening poisoning symptoms.
Florida Oil Spill provides a partial transcript from Tuesday's CHSL radio show broadcast that was done inside Ochsner Medical Center, known to locals as Ochsner Hospital, in the Greater New Orleans city of Kenner:
JOANNIE HUGHES:
I am presently calling the show coming live from Ochsner Hospital on Jefferson Highway in New Orleans, where I am a patient since yesterday [Monday, September 28] and at least until Friday. …
Neurologist worried about neurotoxins I was exposed to… and things like that. …
We are not doing the show this week…
Kindra “very ill with staph infection” …
The radio show was to discuss health issues… that’s ironic enough because we’re all sick. (Listen to the program report here.)
On August 18, the Examiner reported:
Kindra Arnesen, the courageous young mother from Venice, Louisiana who became a celebrity by speaking out on behalf of Gulf coast fishermen at the first Emergency Gulf Summit where she exposed the media black-out, has appealed to the nation to understand the nightmare that poisoned people are living and to reach out with help now.
Although American media has censored Gulf news, a recent French special report on the Gulf of Mexico crime against humanity featured Arnesen and her determination to independently research and expose the poisoning of Americans. (See: French report on Gulf 'Beyond Pollution' with Kindra Arnesen (video), Examiner, Sept 18, 2010)
Arnesen has been interviewed for numerous radio programs, keeping the public up to date on the ongoing nightmare in the Gulf region. (See: La emergency summit fisher wife slams media black-out (video) and Gulf news: 'How do we get people to leave?' Kindra Arnesen on Intel Hub.)
Dr. Riki Ott recently wrote in Huffington Post, "A mysterious persistent skin rash has occurred across the Gulf, coincident with BP's release of oil and chemical dispersants. Mobile, Alabama, resident Sheri Allen was one of the first to report its occurrence in early May."
Now Arenesen is among the thousands of children and adults suffering blistering lesions, a symptom of radiation sickness, Corexit poisoning but typically diagnosed by medicos offering no blood tests as "staph infections" and "scabies." (See: Radiation Test Results On Gulf Crude Oil (video) - Page 5?, Jun 19, 2010, Radiation Test Results On Gulf Crude Oil (video) - Page 3?, Jun 18, 2010, Radiation Test Results On Gulf Crude Oil (video) - Page 2?, Jun 18, 2010, RADIATION SICKNESS - Know the symptoms - Protect yourself, Godlike Productions.)
Project Gulf Impact reported:
"Corexit is an agent that has been proven to break down lipid membranes that cover and protect human skin.
Human skin is composed of a thin layer of lipids and Corexit, by nature, breaks down these organized barriers into smaller individual molecules allowing the barrier to become permeable to pathogens. The skin irritation could be caused by prolonged exposure to these chemicals and could break down the ability of the body to fight off infection."
Ott explains that residents and visitors to the Gulf Coast continue to report long-lasting rashes or other skin problems like peeling palms "diagnosed as scabies and staph infections, including MRSA, the potentially lethal Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria.
"Most cases lingered for months, as the rash did not respond well to antibiotics, steroid creams, or steroid shots."
People are reporting to Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctors that using the Toxic Survival Detox Kits is effective in easing the rashes and swelling.
Doctors in fear not following precautionary principle
Along the Gulf of Mexico coast and beyond, Americans’ survival is threatened by an unprecedented amount of violence, neglect and the ongoing catastrophe.
Consistently, poisoned victims report lacking access to three things:
1) Blood test for poisoning
2) Accurate diagnosis
3) Proper treatment for poisoning
Medical doctors are not providing these three basic survival needs due to fear after harassed and intimidated according to an Examiner source. Daily, sick people with symptoms of being poisoned report that they are simply mocked when they ask medical staff for a blood test.
The one doctor who was performing VOC tests out of Pensacola, Florida quit after receiving numerous threatening and intimidating phone calls from “government-like people.” He chose to head their warnings.
Ochsner Medical Center is holding a blood donation drive, giving Saints football tickets for home games.
Deborah Dupré, with post-graduate science and education degrees from U.S. and Australian universities, has been a human and environmental rights advocate for over 25 years in the U.S., S.Pa. Islands and Australia. Support her work by subscribing to her articles and forwarding the link of this article to friends and colleagues or reposting only the title and first paragraph linked to this Examiner page. Dupré welcomes emails: info@DeborahDupre.com Please send Gulf illness news tips to her with your name or anonymously. See her Vaccine Liberty or Death book plus Compassion Film Project DVDs.
Gulf Aid
Obtain a Toxic Survival Kit or to have one delivered to a Gulf Coast resident in need by visiting Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctors online or email info@gcbarefootdocs.org.
Learn to become a Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctor here.
If you are a Gulf Coaster wanting to evacuate but need help, please ask! If you can assist a Gulf Coaster in evacuating, please advise! See Kimberly Dawley's crisis aid forum: --http://pub47.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=3957401277&frmid=0
Make Gulf incident reports and view them at oilspill.labucketbrigade.org. Text or call in reports to (504) 27 27 OIL. Email them to bpspillmap@gmail.com. Twitter them with hashtag #BPspillmap. If in danger or see an emergency, contact your local emergency response agency immediately.
View Article With Links HERE
Deborah Dupré
More of the Gulf Coast humanitarian leaders have been hospitalized, the latest casualties resulting in canceling Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana (CHSL) radio program. Joannie Hughes, Kindra Arnesen and Vicky Perrin of CHSL are ill with symptoms of poisoning. Hughes explained on air from her hospital bed
News via the brief radio show message in the Youtube audio below about these leaders who have been dedicating their lives to try to save others in the Gulf Coast region comes within days of similar tragic news of several of the others on the short list of human rights defenders working in the same capacity along the coast.
Reporter Gregg Hall has tested positive for 6 of 8 poisons in the VOC blood test. This week, the entire Project Gulf Impact film crew were hospitalized with life-threatening poisoning symptoms.
Florida Oil Spill provides a partial transcript from Tuesday's CHSL radio show broadcast that was done inside Ochsner Medical Center, known to locals as Ochsner Hospital, in the Greater New Orleans city of Kenner:
JOANNIE HUGHES:
I am presently calling the show coming live from Ochsner Hospital on Jefferson Highway in New Orleans, where I am a patient since yesterday [Monday, September 28] and at least until Friday. …
Neurologist worried about neurotoxins I was exposed to… and things like that. …
We are not doing the show this week…
Kindra “very ill with staph infection” …
The radio show was to discuss health issues… that’s ironic enough because we’re all sick. (Listen to the program report here.)
On August 18, the Examiner reported:
Kindra Arnesen, the courageous young mother from Venice, Louisiana who became a celebrity by speaking out on behalf of Gulf coast fishermen at the first Emergency Gulf Summit where she exposed the media black-out, has appealed to the nation to understand the nightmare that poisoned people are living and to reach out with help now.
Although American media has censored Gulf news, a recent French special report on the Gulf of Mexico crime against humanity featured Arnesen and her determination to independently research and expose the poisoning of Americans. (See: French report on Gulf 'Beyond Pollution' with Kindra Arnesen (video), Examiner, Sept 18, 2010)
Arnesen has been interviewed for numerous radio programs, keeping the public up to date on the ongoing nightmare in the Gulf region. (See: La emergency summit fisher wife slams media black-out (video) and Gulf news: 'How do we get people to leave?' Kindra Arnesen on Intel Hub.)
Dr. Riki Ott recently wrote in Huffington Post, "A mysterious persistent skin rash has occurred across the Gulf, coincident with BP's release of oil and chemical dispersants. Mobile, Alabama, resident Sheri Allen was one of the first to report its occurrence in early May."
Now Arenesen is among the thousands of children and adults suffering blistering lesions, a symptom of radiation sickness, Corexit poisoning but typically diagnosed by medicos offering no blood tests as "staph infections" and "scabies." (See: Radiation Test Results On Gulf Crude Oil (video) - Page 5?, Jun 19, 2010, Radiation Test Results On Gulf Crude Oil (video) - Page 3?, Jun 18, 2010, Radiation Test Results On Gulf Crude Oil (video) - Page 2?, Jun 18, 2010, RADIATION SICKNESS - Know the symptoms - Protect yourself, Godlike Productions.)
Project Gulf Impact reported:
"Corexit is an agent that has been proven to break down lipid membranes that cover and protect human skin.
Human skin is composed of a thin layer of lipids and Corexit, by nature, breaks down these organized barriers into smaller individual molecules allowing the barrier to become permeable to pathogens. The skin irritation could be caused by prolonged exposure to these chemicals and could break down the ability of the body to fight off infection."
Ott explains that residents and visitors to the Gulf Coast continue to report long-lasting rashes or other skin problems like peeling palms "diagnosed as scabies and staph infections, including MRSA, the potentially lethal Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria.
"Most cases lingered for months, as the rash did not respond well to antibiotics, steroid creams, or steroid shots."
People are reporting to Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctors that using the Toxic Survival Detox Kits is effective in easing the rashes and swelling.
Doctors in fear not following precautionary principle
Along the Gulf of Mexico coast and beyond, Americans’ survival is threatened by an unprecedented amount of violence, neglect and the ongoing catastrophe.
Consistently, poisoned victims report lacking access to three things:
1) Blood test for poisoning
2) Accurate diagnosis
3) Proper treatment for poisoning
Medical doctors are not providing these three basic survival needs due to fear after harassed and intimidated according to an Examiner source. Daily, sick people with symptoms of being poisoned report that they are simply mocked when they ask medical staff for a blood test.
The one doctor who was performing VOC tests out of Pensacola, Florida quit after receiving numerous threatening and intimidating phone calls from “government-like people.” He chose to head their warnings.
Ochsner Medical Center is holding a blood donation drive, giving Saints football tickets for home games.
Deborah Dupré, with post-graduate science and education degrees from U.S. and Australian universities, has been a human and environmental rights advocate for over 25 years in the U.S., S.Pa. Islands and Australia. Support her work by subscribing to her articles and forwarding the link of this article to friends and colleagues or reposting only the title and first paragraph linked to this Examiner page. Dupré welcomes emails: info@DeborahDupre.com Please send Gulf illness news tips to her with your name or anonymously. See her Vaccine Liberty or Death book plus Compassion Film Project DVDs.
Gulf Aid
Obtain a Toxic Survival Kit or to have one delivered to a Gulf Coast resident in need by visiting Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctors online or email info@gcbarefootdocs.org.
Learn to become a Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctor here.
If you are a Gulf Coaster wanting to evacuate but need help, please ask! If you can assist a Gulf Coaster in evacuating, please advise! See Kimberly Dawley's crisis aid forum: --http://pub47.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=3957401277&frmid=0
Make Gulf incident reports and view them at oilspill.labucketbrigade.org. Text or call in reports to (504) 27 27 OIL. Email them to bpspillmap@gmail.com. Twitter them with hashtag #BPspillmap. If in danger or see an emergency, contact your local emergency response agency immediately.
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