Thursday, May 31, 2012

A Milestone Here

Sometime tonight or tomorrow this little blog will have 20,000 hits. In the scheme of things that may not sound like much; but, it is interesting to me. To all who have come here, I hope you found something of value. When I started this blog four years ago, I never intended to see it last this long.

This whole experience has been interesting. I think back about some of the people who have left comments. A couple of days ago somebody that knew Pastor Daniels left me a very nice comment. I wasn't quite sure how to respond. For me, all posts (except for the really bad ones) are of equal value if they pass on information that people didn't know or ones that maybe get people to consider things in a new way. I never thought that my post on the late Pastor would get viewed by anyone that knew her and I don't know how I feel about it. I am glad that I can be of any service; it is more that I never expected people who didn't know me to read this blog. I am amazed at how many people in foreign countries have read this. I never expected that either.

The posts that were the most important to me were the one's about the Pastor and about pensions. The one's that I enjoy writing the most are the one's where I am attempting to explain something that maybe most people don't understand and I like the one's on quantum physics and the one's showing how technology will be effecting us in the future. There is another benefit to me in writing this blog, it gives me a reason to survey the news on a daily basis looking for things that others might have missed. I always get a kick out of posting stories before they hit Drudge, Alex Jones or others.

While I like reading alternative news sources, I think you have to be careful with them. While the mainstream media pretty much all runs the same stories (nationwide and worldwide), the alternative media tends to over-react to everything. As we watch Greece fall off the edge of the cliff and bank runs in Spain, I think we can all see that we continue to be lied to by our leaders and mass media. The same people who told us that the housing market wasn't going to bust, the same who said that the housing market would have a soft landing and the same one's that told us it would not effect the stock market. They lied and now they want to sell out our retirements and monitor our thoughts. I find it disgraceful that the same world leaders that want cameras in every city, don't televise their meetings at the CFR or Bilderberg meetings.

Just some thoughts.

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Who Will Regulate the Internet in the Future?

I am just relaxing today; but, saw this article from the Wall Street Journal and thought I would pass it on to my dear readers. The summary of it is that the United Nations wants to have control over the internet. The internet was "privatized" (the Department of Defense contracted with companies that it created) in 1995. This was really the event that allowed private citizens to use the internet outside of universities and the government. I was one of those people to immediately use it as a part of my job, I was asked to look into it because nobody knew what it would become. I was one of the first 15 million users.

I have watched how the web has changed and grown and it is pretty amazing. When I first began using it, there was no google and no Yahoo and no search engines, you had to know the address. At first it was mostly just a social thing, businesses had not yet invested in having web pages and then I saw that change. The businesses that were first to adopt the web successfully were frequently porn sites, then the non-porn businesses got involved. By the late 1990s the thing had taken off and you could order pizza on-line.

In the beginning the internet was primarily an American thing. Heck, we built it and we own it. Now the United Nations was to be the government body over it. Why should we allow this? If they don't like how it works, they don't need to use it. They also want to tax the use of the internet. Why should the United Nations be allowed to tax Americans for using the internet that our tax dollars created and paid for?

The organizations that maintain and manage IP addresses and domain names and all the rest are funded by the United States Department of Defense, the NSA and others. Rather than us paying for using it (because we already do pay through our taxes), maybe we should be charging the rest of the world for using it. Anyways, you have to understand what the internet is to understand why we don't need to allow international bodies to tax us and tell us what to do. Here is the article.

Wall Street Journal - The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

IPv6, Internet ID's and Lies

Wired - Threat Level - New York Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Online Speech.

I think I have written about this in the past. On the internet, no conversation and nothing you do is private and in the future, they will no who you are everytime you use a cell phone or the internet.

In the last couple of posts I already talked about how Europe wants to assign everyone an individual internet identification. Now I want to show how all of this was planned. It is called IPv6. Internet Protocol Version 6 is a change that will occur on June 26, 2012 and involves changing how many digits are used in your internet address. Put in simplest terms, currently the internet allows for 5 billion individual ip addresses. The new addresses will allow for every person on earth (7 billion) to use billions and billions more. This means that every device can have a new address that is assigned based on who owns the device. If it were not for the fact that the governments want an individual ip address for everyone then none of this would be necessary. The conversion was tested within the last year and I wrote a post about it at the time.

The change in the Internet Protocol is required if you are going to have electronic money and if you are going to give everyone and individual electronic identification; but, the don't mention those things when discussing the change. Having said that, it did come up from privacy groups such as EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center). EPIC has also been very vocal regarding the pending legislation that would require new Social Security Cards to include your biometric information. Hmmm, lets see, everyone gets a social security card and new ones will have your unique biometric information to identify you positively.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Electronic Identities for Europeans

This article from EurActiv.com is entitled "Brussels wants e-identities for EU citizens". What I particularly like about the article and website is that it includes links to the actual European Union papers. That being said, the European Union is promoting a individual electonic (internet) identification code for each and every person in the union. If you go to the end of the article and click on the link to the EU's paper, you will discover that they also propose that everyone have personal control over their verification (biometrics should be able to do the job).

I just had an odd thought. We are now performing face replacements. I wonder how that would work bio-metrically, I mean would you show up as the old you or as the person whose face you had transplanted? Just my mind wandering. The point is that you are going to have all electronic cash and in order to make that work, you have to have an electronic identification that can be proven to be yours. There are many who believe that we will be required someday to have an electronic chip implanted in us (and many who see that as the Mark of the Beast). Aaron Russo was a movie producer and ran for office, he made the claim that the globalists (including his friend Nick Rockefeller) wanted to put RFID chips in us. YouTube - Aaron Russo says Rockefeller told him of One World gov't and RFID chips. Mr. Russo continued to say the same things as he was dying of bladder cancer. While I would not accept a chip, I still do not believe it will be required or is necessary for identification purposes.

This is like conspiracy day at the Pimpernel's blog. No, these are real things; but, I don't think you can find total agreement in any of the groups promoting internationalism, electronic currency or electronic identification. What I do think you will find is sufficient consensus and the issue becomes one of how and in what manner these things are adopted. The goodie that will make people accept all of them is the elimination of current debt, nationally and personally.

You will be required to have an electronic profile as is being done in India (that I have already written about). Many people think these are great things and we should have an open discussion about where we are headed and why. Right now, in Africa, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (along with the assistance from others) is spearheading a move to vaccinate every child in Africa and as part of this program a cell phone is provided to take a picture of each child that is vaccinated and record their identity into an international database. I had previously written about that and provided links. Sorry, when I repeat myself I prefer just to mention my previous posts rather than track them down. If you are interested in the detail, you can search my blog.

Now lets get down to something you have never heard about. SC37. SC37 is the standardization of international biometrics. It is the effort to have every nation use the same standards for biometrics. According to the Chinese government in 2007, they are doing all they can to implement and meet the goals of the program. If you want a real kick, here is a link to a presentation given by the Chinese in London regarding their progress in the area and how it is to be used to access your computer, your money and to travel.

Whether you see biometrics as good or bad, whether you see it as securing your identity or one step closer to the end times. There is still an issue of our knowledge and acceptance of such things and the truth is, most people are not even aware of how close we are to achieving the ends proposed by the international organizations funding these things. Here is what is clear, we have cameras photographing us all the time and we don't even know it. These photos document most aspects of our lives and once taken can be bio-metrically identified. I question the need and question how it could be used to control us.

It has been said that 75% of England's laws are now written by the European Union. How will you feel and what will you think when a mere 25% of all the laws of the world are written by the United Nations? How will you feel and what will you think when you cannot go anywhere without having to live under these laws which will be written by unelected officials as is done in the EU?

One of my biggest problems with biometrics and an over reliance on electronic data is fundamental. What happens when it goes down? What is the backup plan? Traditionally, paper identification took care of that and without a backup, you would not be able to travel or purchase needed supplies. The internet provides convenience in obtaining information; but, it relies on a complex series of servers and computers to work. Once we have gone fully electronic, we are at risk of catastrophic failures.

Hope that gives you all something to think about.

The Club of Rome

I was recently asked about a group known as "The Club of Rome" and agreed to post some information about it. The organization was founded in 1968 as a think tank. It's membership is limited to 100 (though I also read that they would have another 200 who made the total membership 300, with only 100 active at any time) and you select your replacement. Members have included retired heads of state, scientists and businessmen. 1968 was an interesting year, the hippy movement was in full swing and Woodstock was setting the tone. It was a time when it looked like "the establishment" might just be replaced in the future.

The focus of the Club of Rome is on the environment and population control and world government globalization). The first book published by the Club of Rome was "Limits to Growth". While the book sold over 12 million copies, I think it is fair to say that most people are unaware of the organization. Membership has included Al Gore and Mikhail Gorbachev. While their primary site is being non-responsive, I will provide a link to their sister organization, The United States Club of Rome.

If you followed the link then I hope you also checked out some of their links, such as this one. World Federalist Manifesto. It basically calls for world government and the end of cash. Now, if you don't believe these people have any real influence I ask you to go back and look into it's membership. It was originally created by two men, Aurellio Peccei and Alexander King (a scientist). Here is a little history of the organization. The Club of Rome popularized (and created I believe) the phrase, "Think globally, act locally" and was a proponent of the United Nations Agenda 21.

I am including a link to the United Nations website which gives the text of Agenda 21. The short of it is that it is the United Nations calling for international control over the environment and taking actions to drive down the population.

The beliefs of the Club of Rome are very similar to the program laid out by the Rockefeller Commission in their report entitled "Population and the American Future - The Report of The Commission on Population Growth and the American Future." While I have included a link to the actual report, I will sum up some of it's conclusions. Basically it said that they anticipated that the United States would continue to increase it's population, having children should be regulated (some said no more than 2 and others wanted 0); but, their assumptions all proved wrong. The truth is that the western societies and Japan are not having children, our populations are going down. Fewer people are having children, fewer people are getting married and those who do are getting married later in life.

There are groups such as the John Birch Society that believe this is all the work of international communists. I don't quite see it that way. This is the logical extension of the belief that we are at odds with nature, that we are the enemy to the planet and they have said so. Ted Turner has called for reducing the world population to around 2 billion people (we are currently at 7 billion). Mr. Turner claims that if we do not, we will kill the planet. He is also said to have been a member (though it may have been honorary of) of the Club of Rome. It should also be pointed out that Mr. Turner in the Audubon Magazine had said, "A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."

While their website was down, I was able to find the Declaration of the Club of Rome online. DECLARATION of The Club of Rome
Brussels, April 25, 1996
. The Club of Rome also calls for organizing the world through ten regions. This caught my friends attention and is why he asked me to write about them. He was unaware of the organization and had heard that it viewed the world in 10 regions. He wondered how this might relate to the ten horns described in Revelations. As I was searching the net I found others had questioned this. Some seemed to focus on the fact that Prince Hassan bin Talal had been the head of the Club of Rome and even asked if he was the anti-Christ. The truth is he left his position in 2007 from what I can tell.

I have to say something. As I read through the internet, I am constantly finding people pointing at this person or that person and asking if they are the anti-Christ. I have read how some people accuse Obama of being him. While I support people asking questions about everything, I think they should be careful in making accusations.

What we should be concerned about regarding groups like the Club of Rome, the Bilderbergs, the Tri-Lateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations is how they work outside of the public view. They do not appear to believe in transparency while promoting it for others. The other thing we should be concerned about is what they are promoting. I have provided links to their own websites so that the reader can see for themselves.

Each one of these organizations believes in population reduction, less sovereignty and more international law over traditionally national policies and decision making by unelected experts. This is a common complaint by Nigel Farage regarding the European Union. The term used to describe these people in Europe is Technocrats (we would call them Bureaucrats). My issue with these people is that they believe we are all idiots and need them to decide how the world will work. I do not question their motives, they really do believe they are better than us and know what is best for us.

History is full of people who thought that the world government should be centralized and many who tried to achieve that goal through wars. These people seem to be against war; but, are more than happy to use politics, economics and control over food to motivate countries to agree to greater international control over their lives. I believe like the founding fathers that the greater control should be local.

Not everyone is going to want to read this post, I wrote it for one person to give some background information as requested. As for the globalists, their own words speak for them. "We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the National autodetermination practiced in past centuries".-- David Rockefeller in an address to a Trilateral Commission meeting in June of 1991.

Monday, May 21, 2012

One Last Thing For the Night

A little rant if you will. I have a problem with people who complain about losing our constitutional rights in this country while they at the same time bother to care about homosexuals marrying. To be fair, I could care less if homosexuals have access to the same contracts as straight people (government sanctioned marriage is nothing more than a contractual arrangement). The point is, how can you complain about losing your rights while denying others the same right? The fact is that we are losing our Constitutional rights because people are too focused on garbage and non-issues.

The only secular reason for believing in governmental authority is the social contract, the idea that we all agree on certain basic rights and fundamentals. For those who claim that our government or any government is God blessed, guess again. The bible says that we are to obey our leaders and that Satan is the leader of the world working through princes and principalities.

I have issue with control and controlling others. I don't have a problem with leadership or being in a leadership position. I don't believe in manipulating people, I believe in seeing to it that if you do the wrong thing, you pay consequences and I believe this should be understood by others. The issue has always been how much should the government be involved in our private lives, how much we should regulate one another. As much as you believe you have the right to regulate others personal relationships determines how much your choices should be regulated by the government. If you regulate homosexuality, do you not also agree to have your actions (or religious practices) regulated.

Having said all of that, I would not conduct a gay marriage in a religious service. I should have that right, the right to making my choices. If you are gay and believe that you should have the right to get married, then you would believe that I should have the right to not be involved. The issue should be rights and not restrictions or regulation. The best government is the one that is there to prevent you from doing things that you should not and the worst government is the one that is there to force you to do what it believes you should, that is tyranny.

I don't react well to people imposing their will on me and therefore I don't try and impost my will on others. Maybe we should stop trying to regulate personal relations which are not controlling or abusive. Maybe we should stop trying to regulate everything parents do to teach their children. Lets face it, we are polarized over issues related to regulating each other rather than finding where we don't need to regulate each other.

More Technology - It is Early

It's still early here so I thought I would drop a couple of extra links and words. We will start with this from Science Daily - Totally RAD: Bioengineers Create Rewritable Digital Data Storage in DNA. The article is about how some scientist has been able to program binary code into living DNA cells or turn them on or off at will. The inventor of this process says in the article that he doesn't even care how this might be used.

I also came across this from MSNBC - Gadgetbox - That 'Minority Report' interface? It's now only $70 away. It is about a new visual motion detector that allows you to interact with things without actually touching them physically. The article includes a video that shows how it works. You won't even have to know how to spell to use the internet in the future. I want to talk about this for a minute, the importance of writing.

While I enjoy the spoken word and am a good public speaker, it is not the same as writing. When one writes out one's thoughts, you have time to consider what you are saying and go back and modify it before presenting your final word on the matter. We are more and more using videos to communicate and relying less and less on the written word. We have already given up on teaching cursive handwriting to kids and it is easier and quicker than block writing.

Some Tech Stuff

The first article is Gizmodo - There’s Not an App for That: When Will Our Smartphones Be Recognized as Valid Forms of ID? An interesting perspective from a young person. What do you think, should your phone be a valid form of identification? How would you verify that it was that particular person's phone? You could if biometrics were added to your phone and I have written about that recently.

The second article is from the Activist Post - Facial Recognition Goes Trendy with SceneTap's Biometric Barhopping App. I recommend you read the whole article; but, what is says is that facial recognition technology will be used at bars in San Francisco and it will allow you to know information (limited for the moment) regarding other people.

We also have this from WZZM - Facial Recognition Software Unveiled in Grand Rapids. Watch the video. It is about how restaurants and other businesses are using facial recognition software to help you make choices by tailoring them to you. Do you really want to live in a world where your choices are made for you, mistakes can help us to learn more than always getting what you want.

In the future, well actually now, you will be scanned, analyzed and presented with the options that a computer thinks you want and you won't even know it. Google does it for you already, it presumes what you would be the most interested in when you do a search using it. This type of information filtering will only lead to people learning less as they are not presented with information that they would dislike.

The future is here and it doesn't believe in privacy. About a billion people on Facebook, one seventh of the world and supposedly we live in a world of six degrees of separation. This is why things can go "viral", a video made of a baby laughing can be seen by most of the world within minutes. A single thought can be communicated to the whole world in a moment. Those are game changers and we don't know exactly it will effect the future. For my money, if the anti-Christ were to show up, he would definitely use the internet to spread his message. Just imagine what the world would be like if Hitler had been on the internet.

Sunday, May 20, 2012

An Interesting Development

Apparently my ex-wife has found someone new and is going to move in with him. I cannot say that I had any reaction to the news, it has been five years. I guess I wish her well; but, I cannot say I really care. I guess I was surprised by my lack of response. If she moves in with him, I stop paying alimony; but, she still gets half of my pension. If they do marry she still gets half of my retirement. I find it odd that if she does marry him, I will be paying for him and her both. It is especially odd seeing as how she cheated on me and left me for another man (not this man).

Anyways, she is introducing this man to our children. I don't know how I feel about that. I mean, if she is going to live with him and possibly marry him then they should know him. They are adults and can decide for themselves what relationship they wish to have with him. My youngest said that she wanted to see us both happy and hoped that I would find someone too; but, I'm not looking and am happy with that for the moment. As I have said before, I don't know if I want to be with someone again.

The whole thing reminded me of a song by Don Henley. It sums up how I feel, I wish them the best and hope that they are right for each other and find happiness and fulfillment.

YouTube - The Eagles - Heart of the Matter

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

A Personal Life

Sorry for not posting. I do have a personal life and others around me and I had to set aside some time for others. Life takes up a lot of time sometimes. Have a great weekend if I don't post before then.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

I'm Sorry, I Forgot the Question.

Pimpernel has read the news and watched videos and I got nothing. It should be obvious that the Eurozone is losing it and that Greece is going to have to eventually leave the Euro or give up any idea of their votes being meaningful. I do hope my readers are following what is going on in Europe, it is much more important that whether or not the President supports gay marriage (he doesn't get a vote on the matter) or whether or not John Travolta is gay or bi or anything else. The collapse of the Euro has worldwide implications and that is what the media should be really discussing.

Monday morning will be interesting. The media has been reporting on the $2 billion dollar loss taken by JP Morgan. Couple that with what happened in Greece and you have the makings of a bad day for wall street. On a side note, I have written about the CIM Group on more than one occasion, do you think they google their own names and if they do, do you think they have read what I have to say? I never get any comments on my pension posts.

I guess what I am saying is that I just don't have anything to write about today; but, may in the next few days. I hope your week goes well.

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Happy Mother's Day

Tomorrow is Mother's Day. My mother passed on a number of years ago and my ex-Mother In Law is the last mother I have. I wish both my ex-wife and her mother a happy Mother's Day. While we may no longer be married, we will always be parents to our children, whether they like it or not.

I had a good mother, she was intelligent, giving and loving. She could also be very dictatorial on occasion. We get the parents we get and we are all a mixed bag of emotions and thoughts and actions. Nobody is perfect. Still, my mother was pretty much the 1950s style mother, she managed the house (incredibly well I might add, when my father retired, she had paid off the house and all of their debt), prepared us three meals a day (she was an excellent cook) and did everything she could to keep us out of trouble. She also strongly promoted seeing me graduate college and law school. They gave up a lot for me to get my education. I worked during college but only had to take out some loans for law school, my parents paid the majority for my education.

So in honor of all Mothers, may they have a great day of love and appreciation.

Penn and Teller and My Dad

When I was a kid I used to perform magic tricks. I loved Harry Houdini and knew a friend of Harry Blackstone Jr. I practiced close up magic, card tricks and slight of hand (my favorite slight of hand magician was Slydini - he inspired me). I bought books on Hoodini and learned the tricks including escape tricks. I have been to Las Vegas and been on the stage with Penn and Teller. In fact, I have seen most of the magicians including David Copperfield and the very nice Mr. Lance Burton (after each show he would sit outside until every kid got an autograph if they wanted it).

Magicians are just geeks. It is a very special type of geekiness. I was one of those. I have met Penn and Teller twice and enjoyed both experiences. The first time I was called on stage for a card trick. I will not explain the trick in case you see them; but, it is a card trick. Three of us were chosen and each given a deck of cards, we were told to count the cards and I had 51 whereas everyone else had 52. I counted them three times knowing that if there were 52 and I miscounted there would be a problem for the act. I didn't miscount, I had 51. To not give away anything, after Penn asked me to count again there were 52 and he told a joke which told me why the number of cards had changed. There are two ways to do the trick and one of them involves forcing a card in my hand (the other does not; but, I do not believe the other method was used). To force a card into someone's hand without them knowing it is a good trick; but, to force it into someone's hand that knows what you are going to do is even better and let me tell you, he is very good.

The second time that I met Penn and Teller was at a reception at the Rio for certain guests. I am not tall, I am average height. Penn is a very big man. I got to shake their hands and get a booklet of the show signed by them. Penn is a very loud and intense person on television or on the stage. In fact, I am a Christian and he would consider me a fool for that, so I don't agree with him on a lot of things. In person, he was one of the most gentle people I have ever met. He was amazingly considerate and calm. I have seen them a number of times and know their act and how it is done; but, I love the jokes and set up. I have enjoyed their act since the late 80s.

Tonight I was watching some videos and ended up seeing some magic ones. One of the videos that popped up was of some show in England that they did called "Fool Us". I don't watch television anyways; but, I never even heard of this show so I believe it may have only played in Europe. As I went through the different videos there were three videos that really got my attention. Two of them were of kids doing magic. It brought memories back of doing a routine with my father. The last video was of two magicians who did fool Penn and Teller (they didn't know how the trick was done). My father and I did the same trick; but, we did it to a degree that had not been done before. It took months of training. It is why you don't see the trick being done properly. Nobody ever figured it out and to this day I have not told anyone. It was an old time Vegas trick and it worked best with a young boy and his father and my dad could sell. Even better, I did the trick blindfolded and I have never seen that done. I have only seen two duos perform the trick and the other was in the 1970s and I pulled it off better than the kid in that duo.

Penn and Teller should have know the trick; but, I have only seen two duos (other than me and my dad because I didn't see us - I was blindfolded) do it in 50 years. I wanted to teach the trick to one of my kids; but, none ever seem interested in learning them. They did enjoy watching me perform tricks growing up; but, not everyone wants to be a magician. My father was a very special man with some very unique experiences and knowledge and I was blessed that he taught me some of that. I have to mention something about the videos, one of them was of Penn and Teller performing a trick. It begins with a variation of an old Slydini trick where an audience member is on stage, doesn't know what is going on and the audience sees her get tricked.

We live in a world where many of us live illusions; but, that is self delusion. We confuse ourselves with out assumptions and biases. Then their is magic, if I give the trick away, the illusion is lost and the point of the game is to enjoy the mystery. It is not about misdirection, it is about direction. Forcing where someone looks. The best tricks are not hidden, they are done where you can see everything, except me, remember, I couldn't see because I was in a blindfold.

Well, I do believe I am rambling. No, the whole thing just got me thinking about magic and memories. I remember loving the first time I saw the movie about Hoodini's life. I remember seeing "The Sting" for the first time and watching "Switch" on television and learning tricks from my father. My father told my mother once that he never really understood me; but, the man taught me quite a lot of what I know. I performed a physical feet once that was worthy of Guiness Book of World Records honor (though it was not reported) and because he had taught me the trick I mentioned earlier, I was able to sustain the rigorous training that it took to perform the physical feet. In order to learn the magic trick, I had to learn extreme focus and composure under strain. It was a trough trick and there is a reason you don't see it anymore. In our version, you didn't use a deck, you used the universe, everything was game. Nobody had ever done that before, my dad was brilliant and I miss him and that is what I thought about while I watched these videos, way too late into the morning.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Technology and You, You Little Tranhumanist You

Just a short post with a few links that you might enjoy. We will begin with a new camera application. Here is the article from Technology Review - A Camera App that Gets to Know Your Friends. Now I want you to understand how this program works. If you take a picture with your phone, this application will scan your Facebook pages and pictures stored on your phone and identify the person for you. If it is wrong then you get to correct it. You are basically providing Facebook with your friends biometrics. Please don't take my picture, thank you very much. Wait, I forgot to mention, you don't have to take the picture, it recognizes the face before you do. Turn on your camera and it automatically starts identifying the people around you.

Next we have this tattoo artist who implanted magnets under his skin in order to hold his iPod Nano to his body. CNET - Man puts magnets under skin to hold iPod Nano. I remember a while back writing a post about how another tattoo person had a 3D barcode tattooed onto him so that if you held your smartphone to it, it would display a video or whatever you wanted it to.

Finally we come to another article from CNET - Ericsson could turn you into a human USB connection next year. This article is really important to read and understand. Ericsson has created a technology where if you have your cell phone on you and shake someone's hand, they can access your data on your cell phone. As we move towards electronic currency, would you be able to steal their money just by shaking their hands? Here is a quote from the article, "The company is looking at different applications. Bhikshesvaran said the company was exploring the notion that it could end up being a new biometric footprint, since bodies all possess a unique energy signature. The company hasn't quite figured that one out yet." This technology has the ability to take your biometric body information. Now, for any of you conspiracy theorists out there, I want you to remember that all doctors in the United States are required to keep medical records in electronic form. Just think of how well you could track and identify people by combining the information. Just shaking someone's hand could identify you.

On another note, the United States Court of Appeals in Washington has determined that the National Security Agency does not have to reveal any information regarding it's dealings with Google. Yahoo News - AFP - US spy agency can keep mum on Google ties: court. While the case was in regards to a specific teaming of Google and the NSA, the precedent could be applied to any relations between the two. I wrote long ago about the relationship of the two and what it means for your privacy, you have none.

I may or may not post again tonight; but, I wanted to at least make people aware of these changes. Have a great weekend.

UPDATE

As I was reading the news I found two more articles that I see as related.

MSNBC - Touch-sensitive liquids, tables and skin in latest research. The first article is interesting and has a video that goes with it. It involves the Disney company and it's Touche system. Basically, the system recognizes your touch and different touches as having different meanings. Now then, the article says that the system requires the objects to be wired; however, if we consider what Ericsson has done in the article linked above, the only thing that needs to be wired is you through your cell phone. Lets do a little brain storming. If one were to combine the new Ericsson technology with Disney's Touche, your door could refuse to open for anyone other than you or perhaps your circle of friends. There is no need to wire everything if you yourself are wired into the grid. Imagine a world where every door would recognize you and decide if you could or could not enter. I haven't even had time to consider all of the possibilities. What if every object you touched identified you through your cell phone and that if you didn't have one, you couldn't use the object. That is not quite how it will be used; but, it will be something along these lines.

Now this is just an update on something I had written about before. I had discussed Google glasses and linked to their video. In that post I had pointed out that the commercial showed a store with internal mapping. Some may have thought that was just an idea in the video; but, this next link will show you that Google is in the process of doing it now. They intend to map out the inside of stores and other buildings. FoxNews.com - Google Maps update offers indoor walking directions. Again this is not maybe in the future stuff, this is here now and available for your Android.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Digital Wallets Mean Electronic Money

You will be hearing more and more about "digital wallets". The type of wallet varies; but, in essence it is the idea that when you exchange "money" or "cash" the transaction takes place electronically rather than physically. The transaction can be debt based, such as an electronic credit card identified on your cell phone or computer; or, the transactions can be debit based with the transaction being an electronic transfer from your bank.

Yahoo News - Associated Press Story - Digital 'wallets' proliferate at cellphone show

I have talked about these things before because I really think it is important for people to know what is coming and how soon it is coming. I also think it is important for Americans to understand that this technology is much further ahead in Europe and Asia. Recently the FBI leaked a report discussing Bitcoins and what needed to be done to protect transactions using them. Gizmodo - Leaked FBI Report Details How Best to Get Away With Bitcoin Crime. While the report also discusses how "criminals" might want to make electronic transactions using them, the FBI seems more concerned over protecting such transactions.

If you read the first item from Yahoo News on digital wallets you will discover that the information available to the government regarding your purchases will be all encompassing. Every transaction will be traceable once we go to all electronic currency; but, what if we continue down the current road and we only require all transactions over, lets say $1,000 be electronic. Now, your credit card and debit card transactions are already identified by your bank so really, what additional information will they have?

It doesn't take a genius to understand that in order to use your electronic wallet, your biometrics will need to be matched up at the point of sale. It will be the only way to avoid identity theft. As I have previously noted, the technology is already there, just consider google glasses and the Galaxy S III. With google glasses, you would be able to automatically upload a picture of anyone attempting to rob you and shut down your accounts at the same time. With google wallet and google glasses, this is not conjecture, this is current technology.

Anyone who uses the internet must have noticed that most e-mail and service providers now ask for your mobile phone number. Most banks now want your cell phone number and e-mail address. The question I have is how will all of this information regarding our purchases be used. Now for my guesses.

The first part of the world to go all electronic (or just about) will be Europe. The Euro will fail, Greece is ready to go as are Ireland, Spain and Italy. Once they opt out of the Euro, they will not be able to just print their own currencies again in a day. It takes time to put that infrastructure back in place and the collapse will be quick. I believe the solution will be an electronic currency and for that to be accepted by other countries, it will need to be based on a quantifiable something. That quantifiable something will be the natural resources, production infrastructure, standard of living and workforce's capabilities. In other words for anyone to accept your electronic promise, they will need to know that is backed up by something.

We are watching the end of cash in our lifetime. We are also watching our ability to be monitored to the smallest part of our lives via cameras everywhere and cell phone and purchases tracking. On a side note, we are also seeing man create new creatures that are not natural. We are entering some brave new territories without understanding all of the possible consequences. There has been some talk about what it will look like on the other side.

On another side note, you may have heard that drones and super blimps are being used in the United States by the military. What you may not know is that both of these are capable of reading RFID chips. The original plan was to put a chip in every soldier, that plan is being discussed again. Here is an article from Mobiledia - "Super-Soldiers" Fight Disease With Bionic Implants. I have know about this for sometime because I dated someone who worked on a non-secret project involving the blimps.

Monday, May 7, 2012

Baby Pills from China

A rather disturbing story has come out of South Korea. Apparently, they have confiscated 17,000 pills made from dead babies in China. I don't know why anyone would want these pills and the article doesn't say; but, more importantly, what kind of person would be involved in making them?

From Yahoo via the Atlantic Wire - Horrifyingly, Ground Baby Pills Are a Real Thing

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Reality Check

I gave my talk at church tonight and it went well; but, prior to starting I spoke to the head Pastor as we had both arrived early. He mentioned how he had told a close friend of his about the genetic modification of rice being combined with human genetic material. The person told him that he didn't believe these things were actually being done.

I provide links and I know my regular readers would not be regular readers if I just made this stuff up. We are bombarded with conflicting information and alarmist reports. I attempt not to be alarmist; but, the things I write about are being done and they are being done now, not just some vague concept in the future.

There are some things that I talk about before they go into production and I identify them as such. There are others things that I will discuss as being researched and then there are things that I talk about that are already here (in the world if not the United States). The article about the rice that has been modified with human genetic material is in the per-production stage and could go into commercial production within a year. As for gene therapy being used to cure Autism, here is a news article for you to watch.

YouTube - Autism Cure

The video is only 3 minutes long, go ahead are watch it and then I want you to read the comments left by people who claim to be autistic. The responses tend to come in three types, people who are autistic and are sick and tired of being told they are a disease, people who have to take care of low functioning autistic relatives and people who claim to be autistic and want to be cured. I have never met an autistic person who wanted to be "cured". The ones who are low functioning don't ask to be "cured", they are the ones who don't communicate. Will parents be given a choice at birth to give us gene therapy to make sure that we don't grow up to be autistic? Force us to take stem cells from aborted babies so that we do not become ourselves?

There are very serious moral and privacy issues with regard to stem cell therapy and even more so with forced stem cell therapy. There are certain religious groups that do not believe in blood transfusions. On occasion courts have forced people to give their children these transfusions against their will, think that won't happen with stem cell therapies? Of course it will, there is court precedent.

I should also point out that I do not believe the stem cell treatment did a thing to the young girl in the video. It is not uncommon for autistic kids to not say anything and then just begin talking is whole sentences, that has long been recognized. That is not the issue that I am addressing, I am addressing the issue of attempting to control our minds, our souls if you will. God created us and we all face challenges; but, we are unique, each and everyone of us. We can meet our personal challenges and be fully developed us's. It just takes work, the work is what defines our character.

But, I digress, let us return to the original point. These things are being done now, this is not science fiction and most people do not understand how far along we are down the road. The facial recognition software is already in use by facebook and others, this is admitted. Biometrics for everyone on earth, go back and read the article about India, they are openly and actively doing this to 1.2 billion people. As for exclusively electronic finances, Sweden has said they will be there in two years, not twenty and not a hundred, Now.

I would love to know how many of my readers have tried to tell people about some of these things and found that people told you that they don't believe it is real yet; but, it is. Google glasses, you can go to their own website. Google+ Project Glass. So why do so many find it so hard to believe that this is all real and we are living it? Heck, the vast majority of voters are still voting for Democrats and Republicans as if it mattered. These are the same criminals that destroyed our economy and our country so that they could prosper.

There is a lot going on and I understand that, I also understand it is more information then people can take in and make sense of. It is hard to see the truth when all you hear is lies; but, it is critical to have discernment, to investigate and know what we can know and we can know quite a lot. Do not look for outside verification, you have to come to your understanding of reality by yourself; but, not on your own. Evaluate the information you are given rather than hide from it. Dismiss information based on your investigation and not on your biases.

The thing is, there are tremendous changes going on in the world and that creates fear and confusion. The world will not end in 2012, the world will see more changes. They are not going to throw everyone into death camps either. Having said that, the worlds economies will come crashing and there will be a solution. Whether you believe we have been here for millions of years or thousands of years, we will still be here. We have seen every kind of economic, military and social change that we could imagine already, this is just one more.

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Some Respite

Sorry, nothing worthy of saying tonight. I went out for dinner with loved friends and relaxed. I am currently listening to this:

YouTube - Donald Fagen - New Frontier (Video)

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Samsung Galaxy 3 - Update

I was reading the news and found this article on the phone I wrote about in the last post. This article includes a 1 hour video from some big gathering to announce the phone. I highly recommend that you watch minutes 30 to 40 or even the whole video. It shows and discusses what the phone can do. The video is at the bottom of the linked page.

Yahoo News = Tech it Up - New Galaxy S III phone is bigger and smarter

The phone never stops looking at or listening to you. It knows you better than your own family, it is your family. Isn't it great? I truly pray that my readers understand what we are becoming and where this technology will lead to.

A very long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, my High School was offered money by the federal government to conduct tests on me. I had taken the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Test (ASVAB) and right after I got the results, I found out I was moving. Somehow I had screwed the machine up, I had become an anomaly to what they expected. I have no problem admitting that I am a freak. I had two weeks notice that I was moving 3,000 miles away. On my last day in school, the Vice Principal stopped me, he said that the government had offered the school money to convince me to take more tests. Isn't that funny, twisted little Pimpernel confused them and they wanted to know more. LOL.

I guess I can never really understand what a freak I am. I guess I cannot understand why the federal government offered to pay my high school just so they could give me tests to try and understand me. My life is a circus or at least a freak show. I never forgot that they offered my school money to test me, I never forgot it as I watched these technologies emerge. It is a giant test, it is Rorschach test, it is a Briggs Myeres test, it is the use of technology to predefine who you are and what you will become. It is thought crime and pre-crime and a crime. If 99.999% of the people who think a certain way become rapists, should we be allowed to arrest and confine all people who think a certain way even the .001% who will never commit a rape? The outliers get to go to jail because of the odds, the innocent are willingly sacrificed to protect the innocent.

We are building a technology that will allow others to know everything about us, a technology that defines us for now and predicts with a level of uncertainty who we will become. The true purpose is to make people comfortable with arresting those who cannot predict, at such a small percentage, nobody will care. Nobody cares about freaks and outliers. They are freaks. You might tolerate grandma not using the internet, would you tolerate a 20 year old who refuses to own a cell phone?

I am going to bed; but, I do hope that I am still relevant in my posts.

Samsung Galaxy S III

I thought we might talk techie. Samsung is about to or has just released a new phone, the Galaxy S III. Now I am not suggesting anyone should buy one. Actually, what I want to do is talk a little bit about what the phone does, it can predict if you are going to call someone. The phone is loaded with biometric information, it even knows if you are you. There are two cameras in the phone, one that aims out and one that aims in.

Remember a little bit back when I wrote about the new google glasses. I had said that eventually they would be able to identify people out of your social network and others. Here is a quote from the article:

"And there’s more still: Facial recognition technology built into the S III identifies people in photos, and links to your friends’ pages on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, making it easy to e-mail or text a photo to the identified people." I find that very creepy. Take a picture of someone and your phone will find their social media pages. This is a whole new world for stalkers.

In the very near future, if you take someone's picture with your phone, facial recognition software will identify them for you. But, wait, here is the fun part. The courts have determined that anything that travels over the internet or cell towers then it is not private. That means the government can use your pictures to spy on people without your knowledge. You are going to love it though because the first big news of catching a child molester or a terrorist or a kidnapped kid will make us all love the technology that monitors all of us 24/7.

Wired - Samsung Galaxy S III Tracks Your Eyes, Knows When You’re Ready to Call

Hey, if I take a picture of myself the phone will both identify me and my location over the internet. Gosh, if we required all phones to have facial recognition and verify the user then we could prohibit terrorizers from using phones or the internet. We could prevent child molesters from talking to minors. The ability to limit speech is unlimited. Not really, after catching the first few the rest will find a work around; but, we will continue to be monitored.

I tell you that these things are coming and then as they arrive I show you that they are here. As you understand where we are heading you will be able to see how these things fit together if you understand the end game. The end game is all electronic currencies which can only be accessed by you through verifying your biometrics. That is where this is going and when the world's currencies crash and we go to all electronic currencies remember that I told you this was planned. Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to determine why anyone would want to create such a system.

I like to listen to music while I write, so I pull up youtube. If I login to this blog, youtube automatically logs into my account without being asked to. So, youtube knows which music I listen to even if I did not personally login. It didn't always work that way. Here is a question, what is the purpose of Store Reward Cards, you know the little card you swipe at the supermarket that lowers your prices? The purpose is to track your food purchasing habits individually. You should check out the following link:

Vons Just for You

I have to say that I came across this because I happen to shop at Vons on a daily basis. This was a new promotion that they began running a few weeks back. The store has had people stopping everyone who came in to see if they wanted to get personalized coupons by signing up for this program. They even gave a free carton of eggs. I didn't sign up; but, I do have a Vons card that I use. The point is that they didn't go to all this trouble just to give me discounts. Imagine combining this technology with google glasses, you could walk in the store and know which items you buy are on sale and where in the store they are. We will all be shopping 24/7 in are google heaven.

Here is a question. In the google glasses commercial. There is the part where the guy walks in the store and he asks where certain types of books were and it mapped it out for him. How did the glasses know what store he was in and where in the store he was down to inches? Think about this, none of this would be possible if people had not bought camera phones, can you even get one that doesn't have a camera in it now?

Just some fun news for you all. Have a great weekend.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

A Day in Hiding

I needed some personal time so I took the day off and hid from the world. Sometimes little old autistic Pimpernel needs to be away from people, I think it is best for all parties concerned. My big achievement for the day was to drop off some money to buy food for the homeless from a foodbank.

While hiding I came across an article that I thought I should post here. It is about how rice that has been modified with human gene stuff is about to go commercial. The Washington Post - USDA Backs Production of Rice With Human Genes. Frankenstein would be proud. We are now going into open production of human-animal and human-vegetable hybrids. Does this bother anyone other than me? How is this different than cannibalism? There was a movie called "Soylent Green" It takes place in a time when food supplies are running out and they begin making food from people; but, nobody knows it. Personally I don't want to eat anything that has any human genes in it.

On another note, I received a very nice call from a former boss who wondered why I had not applied for a promotion. I gave my answer to him and he stated that he thought I was the only one that could do the job. I really appreciated that as we had not always seen eye to eye. It is nice to know that some people appreciate the efforts that I have put in.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

The Sun and it's Magnetic Shift

The sun is changing, it is flipping it's magnetic pole. It happens every 11 years. This time it is doing it in a new and unusual manner. The south and north poles are beginning the process at different rates and times. The scientists don't have any idea why or what it may mean. The scientists are not very smart.

The climate scientists had predicted that global warming was occurring because of man made carbon emissions. The problem was that all the planets in the solar system were getting hotter at the same time; but, the scientists knew that solar flares were increasing and would continue to, then they decreased and this had not been anticipated. Obviously they should have then suspected that the sun was acting differently than their models had predicted and they should have asked why.

They were so busy trying to justify global warming as being man made in order to get all of the lovely grant money that they forgot to do their real job and figure out what the sun was doing. Well, now we know, it is acting erratically in ways that we don't understand. Some scientists think that this abnormal magnetic pole shift might result in even larger solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections. In other words it could result in an even worse effect on electronics than the flares that we thought were coming might have.

How many of you understand that this could be one of the biggest events in history and now consider how little attention this has received in the newspapers and on television? The media seems incapable of giving any true news analysis and even less inclined to make any effort at it. Lets look at this another way. What would have a bigger impact this year, a solar imbalanced magnetic pole shift or global warming? Well, even if you believe in global warming being man made, if a massive solar flare took out all of our electronics, that problem would be solved. No man made global warming if all the electronics in the world went down.

If you have that part down, lets try this. The cost of protecting the electronics from a probable solar flair event is less than reducing carbon emissions. Why is it then that we are doing nothing about protecting ourselves from a known historical event that appears likely to repeat itself? The type of flares would take out all the solar energy farms. Going all solar would mean going without any power. If we are going all electric, shouldn't we at least make them capable of withstanding such flares when we know that the sun goes through 11 transitions? Why is this not in the national debate, why isn't this reported on enough?

TPM Idea Lab - Scientists Stumped By Sun’s Asymmetrically Reversing Magnetic Field

I should make something clear. I am not alarmed by these things and they don't even bother me. The world will be around for awhile longer. A meteor could hit us any time and that has always been true. Solar flares could have decimated us or the sun cooled and the world could have ended. The thing I find the most interesting is how the media doesn't tell us about these things in a meaningful way. I write this blog because I want people to see what is meaningful and understand that you are being bombarded with the meaningless. Don't believe the story that anyone tells you no matter how comfortable you are with their answers, do your own research and require people to show their sources. After that find the people who disagree the most with your sources and determine if you find them credible.