Public Schools & Biometric Hand Scanning

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Baltimore Sun - Instead of paying for their lunches with crumpled dollar bills and loose change, students in Carroll County schools are having their palms scanned in a new check-out system — raising concerns from some parents that their children's privacy is being violated.

The county is one of the first localities in Maryland to use the PalmSecure system, in which children from kindergarten to 12th grade place their hands above an infrared scanner. It identifies unique palm and vein patterns, and converts the image into an encrypted numeric algorithm that records a sale.

Though the school system does not store those images, some parents have complained about the implications of having their children's hands scanned. About 20 percent of parents have declined to participate in the program, said supervisor of food services Karen Sarno.

"I didn't appreciate how they handled it," said Mike Richmond, who has two children at Westminster's Cranberry Elementary School. He said that the school scanned their hands before sending the opt-out form. "I'm concerned about it. I know it's the way of the future, but it's fingerprinting, it's palm-printing." (Continue reading)

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"And he [the Antichrist]causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." Rev. 13:16-17

'Mythbusters' Adam Savage on RFID Censorship

Adam Savage, host of Mythbusters, describes how attorneys from the major credit card companies strong-armed the Discovery Networks into not airing an episode that would reveal just how "trackable and hackable" the RFID chips found in many credit cards are.[1]

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"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." Rev. 13:16, 17

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Biometric ID Gathering: India

India has launched a nationwide program involving the allocation of a Unique Identification Number (UID) to every single one of its 1.2 billion residents. Each of the numbers will be tied to the biometric data of the recipient using three different forms of information – fingerprints, iris scans, and pictures of the face. All ten digits of the hand will be recorded, and both eyes will be scanned.[1]


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Note the fear tactics they used in order to get them to cooperate?

Orthodox fundamentalists protest planned ID cards; allege they contain 'number of the beast'

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Several thousand Orthodox Christian fundamentalists have marched through central Athens to protest a government plan to issue new electronic ID cards they say would include the number 666, or the "number of the beast," hidden in a design.

The protesters claim the state aims for tighter control over its citizens and many believe that the design of the cards includes the number described in the Book of Revelation. The cards will include biometric information.

The mostly elderly crowd includes hundreds of Orthodox priests, monks and nuns and a few dozen members of far-right groups. Most of the crowd dispersed upon reaching the Parliament at Athens' central Syntagma Square, heading off to dozens of waiting buses that have carried them from across the country.

Mexico has Started to Assemble a Biometric National ID

(WorldNetDaily) Below the radar of public opinion, Mexico has started to assemble the type of biometric national identity database that could be used to document names for a North American Trusted Traveler border pass card, a plan already being developed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for Mexican citizens.

It apparently would be similar to the program that has become commonplace in the European Union to allow free transit for EU citizens to move, live and work wherever they choose within the EU, disregarding nation-of-origin and national border restrictions.

On Jan. 19, 2011, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon signed an executive order requiring within the next five years all Mexicans 17 years old and younger have a biometric national identity card that would include a facial photograph, all 10 fingerprints, and an iris scan. (Read more)

NYStock Exchange parent to merge with Frankfurt, Germany, exchange

The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange announced Tuesday that it plans to merge with the owners of the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, a deal that would create the world's largest marketplace for stocks and derivatives if it wins approval on both sides of the Atlantic.

Under the all-stock deal, shareholders of Germany's Deutsche Boerse would own 60 percent of the new company while NYSE Euronext shareholders would own 40 percent. That values NYSE Euronext at about $10 billion, analysts said. The new entity, which has yet to be named, would have headquarters in both Frankfurt and New York.

While both firms said in a joint statement that they expect to close the deal by the end of the year, political and regulatory obstacles could derail the timing, experts who are tracking the deal said.

Already, Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) has raised concerns about whether New York's leadership role in the world of finance would be damaged if the NYSE name is not featured prominently in the new combined entity.  (Read more)


Texe Marrs explains the importance of this move


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I think the thing I find disturbing is the acceptance by the media. Even the part of the media who say they are Christian.


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