We read in Revelation about things that must happen in the Last Days:

Rev 13:15-18 And there was given to it to give a spirit to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might both speak, and might cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. (16) And it causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark on their right hand, or in their foreheads, (17) even that not any might buy or sell except those having the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of its name. (18) Here is the wisdom. Let him having reason count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. And its number is six hundred and sixty-six.


This Blog deals with the Mark of the Beast and to link current world events and Technology with end time prophecy to see where we stand in regarding to the return of Jesus Christ / Messiah Yeshua.

We will look at technology that supports this passage as well as the "changing" of humanity through Transhumanism and population reduction and how technology and food engineering help the elite to reach their goal of 500 Mil people on he Earth.

Friday, 21 October 2011

21/10/11 - Pilot Speaks Out About Chemtrails And HAARP


The intent of this information is to create a strong interest in Chemtrails and HAARP so that people will want to sit with their government representatives and encourage them to stop both.
First, a little about myself. After completing a year at technical school, I went into marine engineering. I joined Caterpillar to complete a four-year apprenticeship, and a further 2 years to complete my master journeyman status. As time progressed, I went into sales and management becoming the world's largest in the products we sold. During this time I became very interested in flying, earning my private and commercial licenses. During my flying, now over 44 years, I have flown many aircraft and have owned two. I love machinery whether it be a bulldozer, boat, plane, sawmill mach., pulp mill mach., building mach., paving mach., trucks, autos, buses, etc. If it is heavy and moves, I love it! This should give a person a good idea why I should have no trouble understanding how Chemtrails and HAARP function.



My interest in Chemtrails and HAARP started in 2002 by accident.
My familiarity with jet aircraft brings me to the accident. I was headed back to my office when I noticed a jet had overtaken me. The location of a high jet was a bit strange and it looked as if it was losing a lot of fuel.  I immediately called the Department of Transport (DOT) to report what I thought was a severe fuel leak. The fellow I was put in touch with must have had about 79 questions pre-printed that I had to answer before he was going to contact the jet. I interrupted him to say, “Would you please make a call to the jet?”  The fellow paid me no heed going on with his questioning. I finally hung up on him after asking him a second time to call the jet. I was a bit stunned. Here I was trying to save a crew and jet while the DOT had no interest in making contact with the plane, or anyone for that matter! Their lack of interest was perhaps the strangest minutes of my life. In retrospect, I have to wonder if they knew the plane was laying Chemtrails . . . I do not think there is much doubt.
The view from where I live looks at the Alaska/San Francisco Flyway.  The events of that afternoon left that trail embedded in my mind; I found it hard to not look up.  I started seeing the dozens of the same white lines during each day. A long-time aviation family I knew introduced me to the word Chemtrails. Now I actually had something to look up and discuss with others, although most were not familiar with the term.
If you try to discuss Chemtrails with others, you may well find yourself very frustrated. Many do not want to be involved, which is a central problem of having Chemtrails stopped. I’m ever so pleased to say that many are finally beginning to ask what the white lines in the sky really are. As more people get involved in understanding the chemical make-up, we will eventually have them stopped.
Initially, in the late 1990s or perhaps earlier, the Aluminium Oxide portion of Chemtrails was being used to reflect sunlight and help cool our Earth in a project which has come to be known as geo-engineering.  Investigators then became curious and began conducting lab tests on air samples.
The following list of ingredients was born:
Aluminum Oxide
Barium Oxide (see recent study here)
Bacteria such as Anthrax and Pneumonia Nine chemicals, including Acetylcholine Chloride
Twenty six heavy metals including Arsenic, Gold, Lead, Mercury, Silver, Uranium and Zinc
Four molds and fungi
Seven viruses
Two cancers
Two vaccines
Two sedatives
E.coli Salmonella
Thorium
I know there are a lot of other banned ingredients reported as well.
I think, in all honesty, people must ask what most of these ingredients have to do with sun reflection? I personally feel these ingredients are on their way to making our Earth and oceans sterile.  Eating vegetables polluted by the above list very well could be shortening the lives of millions.  We know that some of the elite in the world want the population drastically reduced . . . is this all part of their efforts?
I’m sure most of you have heard we should not cook using Aluminium pots and pans. Aluminium is deadly to all living creatures and yet we allow ourselves to receive an Aluminium bath most days. Chemtrails are now dropped on us daily, worldwide!  I cannot go into all the details of Chemtrails in this short piece, but hopefully I will pique your interest to pursue Chemtrails via the links I have included below. I believe that after investigation and research most people will understand that the above ingredients have no place in what we breathe and eat.
If we accept that the spraying taking place is simply good-natured geo-engineering to save our planet from overheating, Aluminium would be the only one involved with reflection . . . so why the rest?  Following that train of thought, I began to wonder if and how the military might fit in all this?
I've come to believe that Chemtrails are extremely important to the operation of HAARP and other programs. The military is 35 to 45 years ahead of what is revealed to the population. Chemtrails are likely used to track armies, move viruses around . . . nanotechnology may use Chemtrails, etc. These topics are gone into more detail with a little digging in the links below.
How does HAARP play into all this?
The HAARP array is based just north of Fairbanks, Alaska. For me to go into HAARP would fill volumes, same as the mountain of evidence for the use of Chemtrails.  However, the more you read, see, and hear the facts, you will then be more able to decide for yourself what is right. From my research, I believe that HAARP uses the Aluminium in Chemtrails as an electrical wire.  If so, this may be why HAARP can travel the world.
Once trails are laid, the Aluminium could be up there for up to two years.  Keep laying the trails, and you keep advancing. We now know that HAARP can cause specific earthquakes and we suspect other ailments to Earth. I say “specific” because HAARP scientists have admitted that energy direction is possible.  This energy can be guided to where the operators want a quake. The US Navy that runs HAARP have stated that, they will own the weather by 2025. It would appear they are well on their way to accomplishing that goal! I wonder, with all the weird weather we are having, are the HAARP people running practice runs? I believe you will find that Chemtrails are more important to the military than merely sun reflection.
Then there are new diseases like Morgellons. 
Again, I will not go into great detail as I want you to get involved to read up on it. It is a huge subject, and a disease that should not have been inflicted on Mankind. The evidence for this horror is mounting, as the links below will demonstrate.  It is suspected to be in Chemtrails, and if seen on a person it appears as if worms have invaded just under the skin causing unbearable itching and burning. It is suspected that these worms are in the control of something outside the person, and are perhaps even nano-based.  So what are we to believe?  That this is another project the military has developed in their 35- to 45-year head start? It is very hard to understand someone developing such a weapon . . . if it is a weapon. But, if it is, it would not be the first time that the military produced a bioweapon.  Please read up on Morgellons, as the more informed we are, the easier it will be to eradicate it.  Cliff Carnicom's site, as well as Vaccine Liberation Army would be the key places to learn more about Morgellons.
One aspect of Chemtrails that is never discussed are the costs. We know that heavies (747, 767, L1011s DC10s) burn an average of one gallon of fuel per second, which includes climb, cruise and let down. Think of that for a moment . . . one barrel of fuel per minute. Your car may burn ¼ of a litre in a minute. A new 747 is a $300,000,000.00 expenditure! They must be maintained, which means a very large hangar. Many mechanics are involved especially if doing a “D” check. Each plane needs a crew, actually several crews.  There are landing fees. Also included are insurance fees, liability costs, away expenses, pension costs and depreciation costs. Chemtrail dumping is a hideously expensive operation. If you add up the environmental costs, a lot of countries would be bankrupt. Dr. Edward Teller cautioned the US about dumping in his remark that Chemtrails will actually increase the CO2 levels by 50%! You have the direct costs of fuel/equipment, plus the health and future environmental costs.
Let’s do a little breakdown just using the fuel costs. 
Let’s use $4 a gallon and a one gallon burn per second. That equates to be 60 gallons per minute or 3,600 gallons per hour. If a 747 is up for five hours, it has consumed 18,000 gallons at a cost of $72,000.00. To cover the world for a day, let’s assume 50 planes are used. On a per hour basis that is 180,000 gallons of fuel….if dumping all day and night as many have witnessed, 432,000 gallons.
In one month we have 129,600,000 gallons of fuel. If we use the $4 figure, the monthly bill is then $518,400,000.00. Half a billion dollars per month! It is not hard to see with these numbers why CO2 levels will increase.  In fact, it is easy to see the whole world wrapped in a cocoon of Chemtrail chemicals, jet exhaust pollution, CO2, etc., all leading to possible global warming. And also generating a hostile environment for anything to grow in a healthy way. We are spending billions down here on Earth to make our cars and trucks much cleaner, while allowing incredible crap to rain down on us, our Earth and oceans. This is why I say that we are producing sterile Earth and water.
Who pays for all this?
Taxpayers for sure, but which ones? Has Congress approved payments?  I doubt it, or we would have heard about Chemtrails sooner.  I suspect the US is paying for most of the dumping including the tons of chemicals. Have other nations agreed to shoulder some of the cost? I would say yes from my own experience where my MP and many others refuse to discuss anything remotely involving Chemtrails. I believe Chemtrails are but one item set up to cause a lot of mayhem and chaos for years to come.
We have to wonder who is in on the Chemtrail cover-up.  There are people in the know I’m sure, but say nothing. My Federal representative (MP) who I have sat with says nothing . . . absolutely nothing! For three years I have been asking her in front of dozens of her constituents to give us details of Chemtrails. I’ve e-mailed her colleagues . . . nothing! We must all keep asking these people until we have a group that will represent the people with an effort to stop the dumping.

Monsanto has developed GMO seeds. 
Could one of the reasons that the seeds will grow in much more hostile soil? We know that one strain of GMO seed is aluminum resistant.  With dumping going on for years and likely to continue, our soil becomes the crap filter. The soil holds the crap and we wonder why we cannot grow quality plants anymore. The poisoning of our soil has been going on for a very long time, it is up to us to get a group of representatives from government that understand this and will fight to have the destruction stopped.
I’ve been looking in on Chemtrails now for 9 years; many more are getting involved, and many more are starting to see a correlation between Chemtrails and population control using viruses in the chemical mix. Again, if Chemtrails were only for sun reflection, then lab reports would only show Aluminium . . . why do we see all the other elements in the mix? My MP won’t say a thing, won’t do a thing; it is up to all of us to find the MPs and members of Congress that will side with us to make a change.
Who does the actual physical work of dumping Chemtrails?
We are sure a large tonnage is dumped by the military. We also have reason to believe some commercial flights are used for dumping. We do not know if commercial jets perform dumping operations while carrying passengers. If dumping is included on passenger flights, has the FAA and DOT given their approvals? We also know private contractors are used for dumping operations. Whatever the total number of planes may be, the estimate for Aluminium tonnage dropped ranges up to many millions which eventually settles into our Earth.
On the morning of Sept 29, 2011, standing in one spot, I counted 11 Chemtrails at 10:00 AM. With the coverage being so dense here, I wonder how many were in the skies of the entire world? One thing is for sure, Chemtrails are a very large operation and very expensive. Do we have any experience as to how this will all play out?  No, and I doubt that such an operation has been done on such a scale in history. The one thing that is easy to see and predict, are the costs.  Why is someone not screaming about these costs?
I’m purposefully not going into any one aspect of Chemtrails or HAARP deeply. I’m trying to stay simple and easy to understand. It is best that you hear much of this from many people so as to form what you feel is the truth. The individuals that I have chosen in the links below form an excellent basis for discovering the truth as they have documented it. Some of these names are: Jeff Rense, Clifford Carnicom, Michael Murphy’s group, G. Edward Griffin, etc. There are many other names out there that have done extraordinary work.  If you go through these sites and beyond, you will have a good understanding of what is going on. My goal is to have more face-to-face discussions with politicians, just as I hope you do. If this would be your goal in combating Chemtrails, but you are a little nervous, then join a Toastmasters Club as quickly as possible. Being an active member of a Toastmasters Club will set you up for any of life’s curve balls!!
Earlier on, I had mentioned my counting 11 Chemtrails at 10:00 AM in the morning. Lately, we hear more and more of the world suffering from a lack of Vitamin “D”. I can explain some of the loss. The following has happened dozens of times witnessed by my own eyes and the eyes of others. At 10:00 AM we had at least 11 Chemtrails overhead. By 4:00 PM this afternoon we had a 90% cloud deck overhead. Past viewings tell me we will have rain by midnight tonight. We would have lost seven (7) hours of sun today alone.
I wonder if farmers have noticed the loss of sunlight?
Through Chemtrails, we lose Vitamin “D” enhancing sunlight; sunlight that our bodies must have for proper health and mood! In the Summer of 2010, I happened to be looking out of my balcony toward the setting sun. Many Chemtrails had already been laid, with one plane passing in front of the Sun.  Twenty minutes later, the Sun disappeared completely, not to return that day. After the 20 minutes, there was not a shred of evidence that our sun existed: it is lost that quick!
With Chemtrails being a worldwide operation, our loss of sunlight would be measured in the millions of hours. A lot of the time we now live with filtered Sunlight, as one radio station call it.  I asked the radio station to explain what they meant by “filtered Sunlight”. Their answer was that high overcast cloud was filtering the sun’s rays. That may well be what they were told to say, but the true answer is that the filtering was being done by a chemical filter, not a true cloud filter.
Someone high up has done a masterful job of convincing thousands of people to keep quiet about Chemtrails, HAARP, and many other subjects.  Having investigated Chemtrails for 9 years and HAARP for 3-4 years, I do not see anything positive about them. I only see negatives such as costs, severe negative health issues, no foresight into the outcome, and the possibility that we are slowly being killed, all part of a plan.
I won’t, at this time, say anymore on this, as you should form your own opinions. The more we learn and communicate, the better the chances of putting a stop to this insanity. If we do not put a stop to this, the New World Order may well get the start they need which, in my view, means Worldwide Mayhem and Chaos for dozens of years to come.
If anyone wants me to expand on any of the above, I can be contacted at barry_davis@telus.net
Resources for further investigation:
www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html 
www.truthmediaproductions.us/ 
www.coalitionagainstgeoengineering.org/
www.whatintheworldaretheyspraying.info/ 
www.carnicominstitute.org Great details on Morgellons here.
www.rense.com/ Look for the “Hepa Filter” giving particulate numbers.
www.proliberty.com/observer/20060704
htm www.davidicke.com/headlines/53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-domestic-terrorism-illegal-spraying-of-humans
www.realityzone.com/currentperiod.html
Look for the great music video!
www.aircrap.org/
mirrors.wordsforgood.org/educate-yourself.org/mnt/ctsuppressionhumanevolution29sep00.shtml
vaccineliberationarmy.com/nano-vaccines-sterilization-surveillance-genocide-2nd-edition-part-1-of-7-2/ information about nano vaccines and depopulation 

21/10/11 - Israel orders VeriChip for Israeli Defence Force


PositiveID, the company that manufactures the VeriChip RFID tag, has announced a deal to provide the Israeli Defence Force with the chip. The VeriChip, which is primarily marketed as a device for retrieving medical records using the VeriMed package, also has a number of other useful applications. PositiveID's VeriPay system, where the chip is used like a credit card to authorize financial transactions, is already employed by the Baja Beach Club in Spain. A few years ago, VeriChip Corporation revealed they were in talks with the US Administration to implant the 1.4 million service personnel with a VeriChip, replacing the metal 'dog tags' currently worn by the troops. The secular news article reported at the time that the "device is usually implanted above the triceps area of an individual’s right arm, but can also by implanted in the hand if scanned at the proper frequency". Other articles have confirmed that the VeriChip is indeed often implanted in the hand rather than behind the shoulder blade. Now it seems the IDF is interested in acquiring the technology.

Quote: "The Company's integration partner intends to provide the microchips to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the State of Israel's military force. Marc Poulshock, PositiveID's Vice President of Business Development, said, "We believe there are many important applications for the VeriChip and our associated intellectual property including next-generation identification and bio-sensing capabilities. Our partner is looking to help healthcare organizations, militaries including the IDF, and governments with their disaster preparedness and emergency response needs."

The IDF have not said what they will use the technology for, but with the recent release of Gilad Shalit, perhaps preventing further kidnappings of its soldiers by Palestinian terrorists might form part of their reasoning for that. While we are overjoyed that Gilad Shalit is returned safe and sound, there is no doubt the deal has strengthened the hand of Hamas considerably. One thousand and twenty seven Palestinian terrorists were freed in order to secure Gilad's release, many of them receiving multiple life-sentences for murder. Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh has stated he regards the release of these prisoners as justification for the capture of Gilad Shalit and the murder of his fellow soldiers, and has vowed to continue the struggle until all the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are freed.

Quote: "“This is a strategic turning point in our struggle against the Zionist enemy,” Haniyeh said at a celebration in Gaza on Tuesday evening, adding “it was thanks to our resistance that we were able to release the land and the people.”

As you can see, there is little sense of justice in the world today. Men who have committed crimes, many of them who have committed murder and are completely unrepentant, are allowed to walk free, and all for the sake of finding 'peace'. Man's peace only seems to come at the expense of truth. You give me what I want and I will give you what you want, and truth and justice are quickly brushed under the carpet. God's peace is not like this. God's peace is based on His absolute truth and perfect justice.

Psalm 85:10-11
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

Wednesday, 19 October 2011

18/10/11 - Drug-resistant staph infections in Europe could mark beginning of a new epidemic



October 18, 2011 – FLAGSTAFF, Arizona — A relatively new type of drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus could represent the world’s next bacterial epidemic, an environmental health expert said here today at a conference for science writers. The superbug, called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain 398, or MRSA ST398, was first identified in an infant in the Netherlands in 1994 and traced back to her family’s pigs. Now, researchers are starting to see more serious infections and some of the cases reveal no direct link to livestock, said Lance B. Price, director of the Center for Microbiomics and Human Health at The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), in Flagstaff. “The rate of human [ST398] infections is going up in Denmark and the Netherlands,” Price said. “We are just looking at the beginning of an epidemic.” Price made his comments during a presentation at the 49th annual New Horizons in Science meeting, organized by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. The mechanism for transmission in these newer ST398 cases currently is unknown. Researchers are considering various explanations including human-to-human exposure, contaminated meat or changes in the organism that make it spread more easily, Price said.
 Already, ST398 was recently found in about half of the pigs and farmers tested in Iowa. ST398 probably started out as a human-associated strain that was treatable with methicillin, a recent analysis by Price and his colleagues has revealed. Animal husbandry practices subsequently allowed the strain to spread into livestock. Meat production worldwide involves the use of life-saving human-class antibiotics as a preventive measure or production tool to keep animals healthy. However, the bacterial die-off then exercises a selection pressure on the remaining smaller population of bacteria, giving rise to antibiotic-resistant strains. With ST398, that probably led to drug-resistant strains of the bug, which were then passed back to humans via contact with livestock. “It’s a pretty sad cycle really,” Price said. Staph aureus infections can cause skin and soft tissue infections, respiratory tract infections like pneumonia, bacteremia (the presence of bacteria in the blood) and endocarditis (inflammation of the inner heart). Until the use of antibiotics in the developed world became widespread in the 1940s, these infections were often fatal. A rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the past two decades means the door is open to a return to a dire medical scenario that prevailed nearly a century ago. In fact, even now, methicillin-resistant Staph aureus kills more people in the U.S. than HIV, Price said. Industrial-scale livestock farming practices are often the culprit in the proliferation of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. There are 9 billion livestock animals in the U.S. (mostly broiler chickens) and 29 million pounds of active antibiotics are administered to food animals in this country each year. The animals are raised in crowded and perhaps filthy settings. The result is a profitable meat industry that makes this food affordable for much of the nation’s population (at a significant, long-term environmental cost when scaled up to current levels) but also one of the most effective systems for the evolution and transmission of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria that an engineer could devise, Price said. These strains persist on animal carcasses and then are passed on to humans via the meat we purchase and eat. –Scientific American

Saturday, 15 October 2011

15/10/11 - 32 people infected in H1N1 outbreak in Nicaragua



NICARAGUA – At least 32 people have been infected in a flare-up of the H1N1 swine flu virus in Nicaragua over the last week, according to the health ministry. All of those diagnosed with the disease are in stable condition in public hospitals or have been discharged, public health spokesman Carlos Saez told local media Thursday. The outbreak has been concentrated in the capital Managua and the adjacent Leon department. “People should not be alarmed, because the health ministry has taken appropriate measures” to control the virus, Saez said. Swine flu — so named because it was first identified in pigs — has killed some 18,500 people since emerging in an April 2009 pandemic, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Nicaragua reported 11 deaths in 2009, out of some 2,300 people infected. –Terra Daily

Thursday, 6 October 2011

6/10/11 - Thousands petition Obama to reveal 'government secrets' about UFOs and extraterrestrials



The search for intelligent life beyond the stars has landed on President Obama's desk. More than 7,500 people have signed a petition asking the White House to 'formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race and immediately release into the public domain all files from all agencies and military services relevant to this phenomenon.'
It's a move that UFO conspiracy theorists and true believers hope will lend some legitimacy to their cause.
If the petition gets 17,000 more signatures by Oct. 22, the White House has promised to respond.
An Obama Administration initiative called 'We the People' will enlist White House staffers to research and consider taking action on any issue that receives at least 25,000 online signatures.
The threshold was originally just 5,000 signatures, a number that the UFO petition reached in four days, but the White House increased that number Monday. Read More

6/10/11 - Listeria deaths rise to 18, outbreak spreads to 20 states



DENVER - The outbreak of listeriosis linked to whole Rocky Ford-brand cantaloupes from Colorado’s Jensen Farms is now more than six times larger than it was when the first public warnings about contaminated melons were issued just three weeks ago. In its eighth update on the rapidly expanding outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta said 100 people from 20 states have been confirmed infected with one or more of the four outbreak associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes. Two more deaths in Colorado and one in Kansas were the additional fatalities since CDC’s last update on Sept. 29, when 15 deaths were reported. Arkansas reported its first case linked to the outbreak. The listeriosis outbreak is responsible for five deaths each in Colorado and New Mexico and two each in Kansas and Texas. States with one death each are Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. More Listeria-connected deaths are likely and may well have already occurred. CDC’s update is good through 11 a.m. Oct. 3. Media reports say there have been other deaths that are not yet included in the CDC totals. For example,  Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals is investigating the death of an 87-year-old Baton Rouge woman whose death was caused by a Listeria infection to see if it is connected to the outbreak strains. A similar death is under investigation in Wyoming. While the outbreak may not have yet reached its zenith, CDC’s profiling of the victims is telling a story. Listeria poises the greatest threat to the elderly, pregnant women and those with compromised immune systems. CDC’s data shows that illnesses began on or after July 31 and involved people from 35 to 96 years old, with a median age of 79.  Most are over age 60. For the 93 people that CDC has information on, 98 percent have required hospitalization. Forty-nine percent of the victims are women, including two who are pregnant.  Listeria can cause miscarriage or stillbirths in pregnant women. CDC says “the outcome of each pregnancy is being monitored.” –Food and Safety News

Tuesday, 4 October 2011

4/10/11 - UFO: Too Good To Be True? In HD

Less than three months away from 2012 officially being here and things continue to get more and more crazy. With this most recent sighting, I'd guess that disclosure is mere months away, if that far.

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UFO Sightings Unidentified Flying Object Captured in HD 2011 This is an Incredible clear HD Video of an Amazing Flying Saucer! If this isn't 100% Proof What is?

Monday, 3 October 2011

3/10/11 - Secret bases mark step-up in terror wars



Recent disclosures that the CIA is setting up a ring of secret bases for its unmanned aerial vehicles in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa signal a sharp escalation in the U.S. wars against terror.

But they also underline how the United States is increasingly focusing on advanced technology to wage their array of conflicts -- six at the last count -- at a distance, and how the leading U.S. spy agency has become militarized and, in the words of one veteran agent, "one hell of a killing machine."

For many in these regions, U.S. reliance on clandestine operations and robot weapons underlines how the United States is expanding its global chain of military bases -- more than 850 of all sizes in 40 countries at the last count -- even as its power is on the wane.

The intensity of the drone war, particularly in Pakistan, has escalated sharply under U.S. President Barack Obama and been extended to Yemen and Somalia.

With retired U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, hero of Iraq and Afghanistan and author of the U.S. military's counterinsurgency manual, now running the CIA, it's likely the operational tempo in the drone campaign is going to be stepped up further. more

Saturday, 1 October 2011

1/10/11 - 'Mark of the beast' causing legal stir



Oklahoma driver's licenceThe Rutherford Institute has filed suit to challenge Oklahoma's biometric photo requirement for drivers' licenses.

When Kaye Beach applied for renewal of her driver's license in March, she refused the required biometric photograph and wanted instead to be allowed to use a low-resolution photograph for her license, based on religious grounds. So a lawsuit has been filed against the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety (DPS) for not accommodating Beach's religious beliefs and for violating the Oklahoma Religious Freedom Act.

"The biometric photographs digitalize your face and then put all your information ... into a central computer which goes worldwide, which means it's like a facial scan, which means wherever you go, that becomes sort of your ID card," explains John Whitehead, founder of The Rutherford Institute. "Beach believes that's the mark of the beast in the Book of Revelation.