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Implantable RFID chips capable of remotely killing

Posted by John Wong on Saturday, October 29, 2011 04:30 pm

New World Order: Implantable RFID chips capable of remotely killing non-compliant 'slaves' are here

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

(NaturalNews) Positioned as the solution to eliminating identify theft, lost wallets and purses, and a host of other information breaches, the all-inclusive implantable RFID tracking chip is gaining momentum for widespread implementation. Recent news reports indicate that an RFID tracking chip capable of killing humans (that presumably do not comply with rogue government demands) has already been invented.

There is simply no denying the fact that "the powers that be" are working towards microchipping all of humanity. Countless news reports, including those compiled in the following YouTube clip, openly speak of microchips designed for implant into human skin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl2L...

But what many people do not realize is that this technology exists now, and has already been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in humans. Not only do these chips "silently and invisibly" store and transmit personal data, but they can also be encoded to perform a variety of other functions (http://arstechnica.com/old/content/...).

Beginning at 00:42, the YouTube clip contains a segment on a "killer" RFID microchip that, upon being remotely triggered, can send a lethal dose of cyanide into a person's skin. The FOX News reporter that introduces the segment can be heard saying that the chip "will kill you if you get out of line" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl2L...).

Later in the YouTube compilation around 04:45, Chairman and CEO of Applied Digital Solutions Scott Silverman, who happens to have a "VeriChip" in his own arm, promotes the technology as useful and beneficial during a CNBC segment. Several of the hosts can be heard questioning Silverman about the "slippery slope" of the technology, and how it could be used to control the world's populations.

The PositiveID Corporation, which produces the VeriChip, has also announced that the Israeli Military recently ordered implantable microchips for its soldiers. The stated reason for this is that the chips will supposedly aid in "disaster preparedness and emergency management" (http://www.rfidnews.org/2011/10/11/...).

Assuming that they will only be used for the benign-sounding purposes that their proponents claim (which is highly unlikely), human microchips are a privacy nightmare that is much worse than credit cards and cash. Because human microchips transmit information via RFID and GPS signals, criminals can easily hijack personal information by intercepting transmission signals.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl2L...

http://www.rfidnews.org/2011/10/11/...

How Gadhafi’s capture unfolded during siege of Sir

Posted by John Wong on Thursday, October 20, 2011 03:38 pm

How Gadhafi’s capture unfolded during siege of Sirte

The world only learned gradually this morning of the death of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi. But now multiple news outlets are piecing together the dramatic account of Gadhafi's final moments.

Jalal al-Galal, a spokesman for the rebels' provisional governing alliance, the National Transitional Council told Reuters, that Gadhafi "was killed in an attack by the fighters. There is footage of that." Gadhafi is now officially the first leader killed as a result of the Arab Spring uprisings, as the Associated Press notes in its obituary of the leader.

According to reports from several sources, Gadhafi was fleeing a NATO-led rebel attack on the former leader's hometown of Sirte, which had been a last remaining stronghold for Gadhafi forces. According to the Reuters report, the rebels found the former Libyan strongman hiding in a hole in the ground; the rebel fighter who found Gadhafi said that the Libyan leader repeated "Don't shoot, don't shoot" upon his capture. The BBC reported that the same rebel fighter was "brandishing" a golden pistol which he said belonged to the Libyan strongman.

India, Vietnam Set to Go Ahead with South China Se

Posted by John Wong on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 04:20 pm

Spain arrests 'Anonymous computer hackers'

Posted by John Wong on Friday, June 10, 2011 07:08 pm

Anonymous attacked Turkish government websites to protest against internet censorship in the country [Reuters]

Spanish police have arrested three suspected members of the so-called Anonymous group on charges of cyber attacks against targets including Sony Corp's PlayStation Network, governments, businesses and banks.

Police on Friday alleged the three arrested 'hacktivists' had been involved in recent attacks on the Japanese electronics manufacturer, Spanish banks BBVA and Bankia and Italian energy group Enel SpA.

The arrests are the first in Spain against members of Anonymous following similar legal proceedings in the US and Britain.

Police said all three men were Spanish and in their 30s. One worked in the merchant navy.

The suspected Anonymous members, who were arrested in Almeria, Barcelona and Alicante, were guilty of co-ordinated computer hacking attacks from a server set up in a house in Gijon in the north of Spain, the Spanish police said.

Sony Playstation hacked

Sony shocked gamers in late April by revealing that hackers had stolen personal information from the accounts of 77 million users of its online video-games network.

A week later, it said hackers had stolen data from another 25 million users of its computer games system.

Sony's PlayStation Network was crippled for a month as the company tried to find and fix the problem.

Anonymous, a loose grouping of activists which has carried out cyber attacks on organisations including Sony in the past, said at the time it was not responsible for those attacks and had no interest in stealing credit-card details.

Its members describe themselves as internet freedom fighters and have previously brought down the websites of the Church of Scientology, Amazon, Mastercard and others they saw as hostile to WikiLeaks.

'Operation Turkey'

The group's current targets include the Turkish government, in a protest against internet censorship.

A string of Turkish government websites have been compromised by members of Anonymous, Turkish authorities said.

Access to Turkey's telecoms authority website, identified as a main target in the group's 'Operation Turkey' campaign against a planned new online filtering system, was blocked as planned at 1500GMT on Thursday.

In a posting on its official website, Anonymous issued a statement pledging to fight what it said was internet censorship there.

The new filtering system, due to be implemented on August 22, mandates that all online users must sign up for one of four filters - domestic, family, children or standard.

The 'hactivist' group said the filtering system would make it possible to keep records of people's internet activity.

Independent cells

Mark Rasch, former head of the US justice department's cyber crimes division, said he would not be surprised if Anonymous turned out to be linked to the Sony data breach given that they had publicly criticised the company over its intellectual property rights.

"It was a logical place to look," he said.

The Spanish police said members of Anonymous, known for wearing Guy Fawkes masks made popular by the graphic novel "V for Vendetta", had also hacked government sites in Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Iran, Chile, Colombia and New Zealand.

"They are structured in independent cells and make thousands of simultaneous attacks using infected 'zombie' computers worldwide. This is why NATO considers them a threat to the military alliance," the police said in a statement.

"They are even capable of collapsing a country's administrative structure." The police did not rule out further arrests.

US police draw gunfire from Mexico

Posted by John Wong on Thursday, June 9, 2011 04:08 pm

American law enforcement officers were fired on from Mexico early Thursday as a Texas Rangers-led operation tried to capture a load of smuggled narcotics on the Rio Grande, officials said.

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The McAllen Monitor newspaper reported the incident took place in Mission, Texas.

The Texas Department of Public Safety said in a statement obtained by NBC News that at least three suspected drug runners were wounded in the exchange of gunfire.

Officials said a suspicious vehicle on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande was observed along with two cartel drug recovery boats. Three law-enforcement patrol boats arrived on the scene and received heavy gunfire from the Mexico side while attempting to interdict the drug-laden boats, they said.

Several U.S. agencies were involved.

Mexican authorities were notified of the abandoned cartel drug-laden boats and were on the scene, authorities said.

Spain seeks compensation for E. coli blame

Posted by John Wong on Thursday, June 2, 2011 10:46 pm

Anger is growing in Spain over being blamed as the source of the E. coli outbreak that has killed 18 people and left hundreds more seriously ill.

Spanish PM Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Spain would demand reparations for the economic losses suffered.

The outbreak, centred on Germany, has been caused by a new form of the E. coli bacterium, health experts say.

Seven people in the UK have the infection. They are all thought to have contracted it in Germany.

Spanish fruit and vegetable exporters estimate they are losing 200m euros ($290m; £177m) a week in sales after Germany said earlier in the outbreak that it probably originated with Spanish cucumbers.

No evidence of this has been found and researchers are scrambling to find the source.

Romney announces US presidential candidacy

Posted by John Wong on Thursday, June 2, 2011 10:41 pm

Mitt Romney, the multimillionaire businessman and former governor of the northeastern state of Massachusetts, has announced his second bid for the US presidential elections as a Republican candidate.

Romney offered a scathing critique of president Barack Obama as he made his intention to run for the White House official on Thursday.

"Obama has failed America" and "the country we live in is in peril", Romney said in a speech delivered during a farm visit in the state of New Hampshire.

Romney's first priority will be improving the ailing US economy by making America the world's top job creator, he said, pitching himself as the best alternative to Obama, who has "made the recession worse".

Romney began his bid with Thursday's speech in a state crucial to his campaign. He came in second place there during his 2008 bid and has since invested heavily in it.

Possible hurdles

But Romney has a number of obstacles to overcome before winning the party nomination, Al Jazeera's John Terrett said.

"Chief among them, is that he has done this once before ... and didn't get too far," Terrett reported from Stratham, New Hampshire.

A second hurdle is the health care reforms he passed during his tenure as Massachusetts governor, our correspondent said.

"[Romney] passed health care reforms that many even in the Republican party think is suspiciously like the Obama health care reform that was pushed [recently]," he said.

"He and the party are trying to overturn the Obama health care reforms and get a lot of people to say that what Obama did was to base it all on what Mitt Romney did, when he was governor of Massachusetts."

Other challenges include his religion - Mormonism, which poses serious social problems for the party and the fact that Romney is not the only candidate bidding for the nomination, our correspondent said.

Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the US House of Representatives, is set to join the presidential race, as well as congressman Ron Paul, who is popular with the ultraconservative tea party movement.

Tim Pawlenty, former governor of Minnesota, is also running and Sarah Palin - though she has not officially declared her candidacy - is another player.

But Obama has seen a soar in his approval ratings, hitting its highest point in two years - 60 per cent - after the May killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Mladic due to make first court appearance

Posted by John Wong on Thursday, June 2, 2011 10:37 pm

Ratko Mladic will face judges at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Friday to answer charges of genocide in the Bosnia war.

The former Bosnian Serb army commander, once a burly and intimidating figure on the battlefield, is now in frail health, looking much older than his 69 years.

Mladic faces the special court's gravest charge, that of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslim males and for the 43-month siege of Sarajevo from 1992 to 1995 in which some 12,000 were killed.

He was arrested last week in a Serbian village and extradited by Serbia on Tuesday, to become the tribunal's biggest case.

His capture came nearly 16 years after The Hague court issued its indictment against him.

A career soldier, Mladic was branded "the butcher of the Balkans" in the late 1990s for a ruthless campaign to seize and "ethnically cleanse" territory for Serbs following the breakup of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav federation of six republics.

Many Serb nationalists believe Mladic defended the nation and did no worse than Croat or Bosnian Muslim army commanders, as the federation was torn apart in five years of conflict that claimed some 130,000 lives, destroying towns and villages.

Serge Brammertz, the Hague chief prosecutor, said Mladic had used his power to commit brutal atrocities and must answer for it.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), set up in 1993, expects to wind up its work by 2014. It has issued 161 indictments and has now accounted for all but one fugitive.

Serbs say the fact that two-thirds of them were Serbian is proof of the court's bias. Hague prosecutors say it is a reflection of which side carried out the biggest war crimes.

Hospital bed

Mladic was spending the night in a prison hospital bed under medical supervision, his lawyer in The Hague said.

"He has not had proper health care for years and his condition is not good," said Aleksandar Aleksic, a prominent Belgrade lawyer appointed by the tribunal on Thursday to represent Mladic.

The tribunal said medical supervision for a newly arrived detainee was normal routine and in no way implied that Mladic might not make his scheduled appearance in court.

As reported in Serbian media following his capture, Mladic has partially lost the use of one hand due to a stroke suffered years ago.

But Aleksic confirmed the description given by tribunal officials and diplomats who met the general on his arrival, of a man who appears frail but mentally capable and responsive, and was co-operative and talkative.

He has a room to himself with a small outdoor yard where he can walk and has been making phone calls to his family, he said.

"I am going to ask tomorrow that he be given additional medical tests," Aleksic told Reuters news agency.

Mladic will have an opportunity at his initial hearing to talk in public about his health and about conditions in detention, the lawyer said.

Serbian media reports say Mladic is unlikely to enter a plea on Friday. Under the rules of the war crimes tribunal, he can defer that step for 30 days, a court spokeswoman confirmed.

Loyal supporters

For most of his years at large, Mladic managed to live discreetly but safely in Belgrade, relying on loyal supporters who consider him a war hero, not a war criminal.

But as pressure mounted on Serbia to arrest and extradite him, or watch its bid for European Union membership wither, Mladic's network of support apparently dwindled and he was forced to go every deeper underground to avoid capture.

A Belgrade-based lawyer who failed to prevent the general's extradition on grounds of ill health said on Thursday that Mladic was treated for cancer in 2009.

Both Snezana Malovic, the Serb justice minister, and Bruno Vekaric, the Serbian deputy war crimes prosecutor, dismissed the claim.

A tribunal spokeswoman said the court does not comment on the health of defendants, unless they expressly raise the issue.

Tornadoes Kill 4 in Western Massachusetts

Posted by John Wong on Thursday, June 2, 2011 10:34 pm

Rescue workers in Springfield, Mass., are searching for survivors after a series of tornadoes hit western Massachusetts, with reports of damage in 19 towns and and 40 people injured. At least four people within the vicinity of Springfield, the hardest hit portion of the state.

Gov. Deval Patrick has declared a state of emergency and the National Guard has been activated to help with the cleanup and recovery. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., expressed words of condolence Wednesday night and said he expected federal aid to flow to the affected areas.

The tornadoes were part of a larger storm system in the northeast, headed toward the cost.

China Denies Google Claim that Hacking Originated

Posted by John Wong on Thursday, June 2, 2011 10:31 pm

Google acknowledged that the personal Gmail accounts of U.S. officials, including a cabinet member, as well as journalists and others were hacked, providing access to emails and other sensitive information.

According to Google’s official blog, “we recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing. This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan, China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users including, among others, senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military personnel and journalists.”

Google said the hackers obtained passwords or introduced a virus through a phishing scheme, but emphasized that “these account hijackings were not the result of a security problem with Gmail itself.”

On Thursday, China’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said it would cooperate fully with efforts to combat hacking but called the claim that the attack originated in Jinan “groundless.”

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have been in contact with the investigation, but officials say government accounts were not affected.

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