Couple's implant chips take love to a new level

Updated Wed. Feb. 15 2006 12:23 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

Grand gestures of love take many forms on Valentine's Day -- flowers, chocolate, romantic dinners -- but a tech-savvy couple has taken it to a new level.

Jennifer Tomblin and Amal Graafstra have made the most modern declaration of their affection for each other, with implanted electronic chips that allow them unfettered access to each other's lives.

It's called Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID. Both have had a small electronic chip embedded under their skin that grants access to each other's front doors and home computers.

The system works like a key-card. A simple swipe of the wrist across an electronic sensor, and they're in.

The couple sees the decision as a  modern declaration of love that also happens to be functional.

"It's convenient and all of that. But it's definitely neat to have access to each other's things. nobody else has that, definitely," Tomblin told CTV's Canada AM.

Tomblin, 23, lives in Vancouver, while Graafstra, 29, lives in Washington.

Graafstra got interested in RFID several years ago, and began researching the possibilities. He works in remote server management, so it was a natural step to order his first chip, have it implanted by a cosmetic surgeon, then begin writing software to go along with it.

"I got interested in RFID, essentially, as a way to replace my keys," Graafstra said.

He had a second chip put in later, and after witnessing his successful experiment, Tomblin followed suit and got her own chip about six weeks ago.

"He was writing a book and he was building all these really neat projects, and he'd get into his house and car and computer with it, and I decided if I could do something like that too.

it would be really neat," Tomblin said.

The chip itself is just two millimeters by 12 millimetres, and can be inserted under the skin with an injection needle.

Graafstra's interest has continued to grow, and he has now written several pieces of software to go along with the chip. That interest has developed into a book project called RFID Toys, which comes out later this month.

The book will include the RFID programs he has written, and will reveal his self-implanting method.

Graafstra's work has made him somewhat of a pioneer in the field. Though another researcher working on a different project had a chip put in his forearm, Graafsta was the first to implant a chip in his hand, and the first to plan to teach others how to follow suit.

The chip is embedded in a tiny glass tube, and once implanted it is invisible.

The chips are surprisingly inexpensive, not much more than a few U.S. dollars, and can easily be ordered online. The hardware ranges from $30 up, and software is still difficult to come by -- Graafstra wrote all his own programs.

Graafstra obtained his first RFID tag from www.phidgetusa.com. The site has a variety of inexpensive options for various uses, but the glass tube-style tags on the site come with a warning against doing what Graafstra and Tomblin did.

"We do not advise or encourage users to implant the RFID tags we sell into humans or animals in any way," reads the warning. "These tags are not sold as medical products and are NOT sanitized for medical use. Phidgets USA and Trossen Inc … strongly advise against any such use of the tags we sell."

However, the trend is likely to gain momentum as Canadians seek new ways to implement technology into their daily lives, and just maybe, to demonstrate their love for each other.

Like a tattoo, Tomblin said, it's a unique way of connecting with her significant other.

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"Aw you Liar, It ain't gonna happen in apostate Amaraka" !

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Detention Camp Jitters

by Maureen Farrell

"Recent pronouncements from the Bush Administration and national security initiatives put in place in the Reagan era could see internment camps and martial law in the United States."
-- The Sydney Morning Herald, July 27, 2002

In 1984, the Rex-84 readiness exercise program was conducted by 34 federal departments and agencies, reportedly as an exercise to handle an influx of illegal aliens crossing the Mexican/U.S. border. Brought to Americans' attention during the Iran-contra hearings, the exercise, which was conducted alongside another drill, "Night Train 84," also tested military readiness to round up and detain citizens in case of massive civil unrest.

None of that ever happened, of course, and in many respects, it seems silly to even mention it. After all, other Reagan-era initiatives, like the Armageddon exercises Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld participated in, are far more interesting. Then, too, despite a brief moment of sunlight in the 1970s (when Congress, according to former President and CIA director George H.W. Bush, "unleashed a bunch of untutored little jerks out there"), emergency detention plans had been in place since the 1950s, without incident. Americans have not been herded into camps since World War II, so why worry about it now?

For some, the answer comes in the form of yet another government contract awarded to Halliburton subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root to build "temporary detention facilities" in case of an "immigration emergency." Reminiscent of Rex 84, which was conducted on the premise of preparing for "an influx of immigrants," there is reason to believe that hoards of poor, tired immigrants are not the true concern. As Tom Hennessy of the Press-Telegram recently pointed out, "there already are thousands of beds in place at various U.S. locations for the purpose of housing illegal immigrants." So what else might these centers be used for?

Given predictions that another terror attack is all but certain, it seems far more likely that the centers would be used for post-911-type detentions of immigrants rather than a sudden deluge. "Almost certainly this is preparation for a roundup after the next 9/11 for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters," Daniel Ellsberg remarked. "They've already done this on a smaller scale, with the 'special registration' detentions of immigrant men from Muslim countries, and with Guantanamo." As it turns out, immigrants aren't the only concern. As a news brief in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution explains:

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth up to $385 million for building temporary immigration detention centers to Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root. KBR would build the centers for the Homeland Security Department in case of an unexpected influx of immigrants or to house people after a natural disaster or for new programs that require additional detention space, the company said.

Hurricane Katrina gave Americans a glimpse of how a natural disaster scenario might play out. John Brinkerhoff, one of the FEMA officials behind the Reagan-era martial law and internment directives who "planned for the detention of at least 21 million American Negroes in assembly centers or relocation camps" began defending the Pentagon's desire to deploy troops on American streets in 2002, and sure enough, after Hurricane Katrina, Blackwater mercenaries were brought in to police the streets of New Orleans -- as soldiers were instructed to "shoot to kill" looters. Brinkerhoff also told PBS that, "The United States itself is now for the first time since the War of 1812 a theater of war. That means that we should apply, in my view, the same kind of command structure in the United States that we apply in other theaters of war."

Which brings us to the KBR spokesman's final statement regarding "new programs that require additional detention space." What might these new programs be? Do they have anything to do with the post-9/11 suggestions for forced quarantines or internment camps? Will America's new "secret laws" come into play? Might these "new programs" have anything to do with the contingencies Oliver North prepared for? Inquiring minds want to know.

In 1987, the Miami Herald gave us a glimpse of what the lead counsel for the Senate Iran-contra committee called a "secret government-within-a-government" and alerted readers to standby legislation, which, as columnist Jack Anderson had previously warned, was meant to "suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights." Even so, when a memo from the Director of Resource Management for the Department of the Army emerged, discussing "civilian inmate labor camps" to be built on Army installations, only conspiracy buffs on the far fringes of the Internet paid it any mind.

In 1998, World Net Daily's Geoff Metcalf addressed such "classic right wing paranoia," trying not to sound paranoid himself. "For several years now I have been getting all sorts of wild reports about 'Government Internment Camps,' he wrote, before disclosing two reasons he began sensing substance behind the rumors: 1) The labor camp memo was authentic, he said and 2) A U.S. congressman substantiated such claims. "The truth is yes -- you do have these standby provisions, and the plans are here ... whereby you could, in the name of stopping terrorism ... evoke the military and arrest Americans and put them in detention camps," Rep. Henry Gonzalez said in an interview.

"Heck, we did it before (to Americans of Japanese descent), we could do it again," Metcalf mused.

In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, it seemed that yes, we could do it again. When the Boston Herald reported on the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act sent to each state, it sounded sensationally surreal. "Public health officials want to shut down roads and airports, herd people into sports stadiums and, if needed, quarantine entire cities in the event of a smallpox attack, according to a plan being forwarded to all 50 governors this week," the Herald reported in Nov. 2001. By the summer of 2002, Peter Kirsanow, a Bush appointee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, said that a second terror attack would lead to internment camps for Arab-Americans while the Sydney Morning Herald reported that we "could see internment camps and martial law in the United States."

The biggest bombshell, however, came from Attorney General John Ashcroft, whose proposal to send US citizens to detention camps, without the benefit of trial, jury or other Constitutional protections, was dissected by the Los Angeles Times. "The camp plan was forged at an optimistic time for Ashcroft's small inner circle, which has been carefully watching two test cases to see whether this vision could become a reality," the Times reported in August, 2002. "The cases of Jose Padilla and Yaser Esam Hamdi will determine whether U.S. citizens can be held without charges and subject to the arbitrary and unchecked authority of the government."

Padilla was held without charges for more than three years, and when charges were finally filed against him, the chilling "dirty bomb" allegations made by Ashcroft on national TV were not even mentioned. His attorneys have vowed to take the case to the Supreme Court -- which is expected to side with presidential decrees.

By the fall of 2005, news that the US could continue to "confine US citizens without charges," prompted conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan to dig up the following quote: "The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist" -- Winston Churchill, November 21, 1943, describing what is now legal and constitutional in the United States, under president Bush."

Churchill, one supposes, did not include President Franklin Roosevelt in his condemnation, but when Ashcroft's plans for detention camps came to light, legal analysts began comparing the Bush administration's scheme to internment of Japanese Americans. "The main distinction is that Ashcroft's camps are smaller in scale. The difference in magnitude should not make the internment of U.S. citizens any more just or palatable," columnist Anita Ramasastry explained.

And as Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe said on ABC's Nightline:

"It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up, not just in Afghanistan, but at O'Hare Airport or on the streets of any city in this country, and locked up without access to a lawyer or court just because the government says he's connected somehow with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. That's not the American way. It's not the constitutional way. . . ."

Nevertheless, concerns over detention camps go hand-in-hand with jokes about black helicopters, and rightly so. The Internet is rife with rumors on everything from the more than "800 detention camps" already in existence to stories about Hurricane Katrina evacuees begin locked behind barbed wire in a concentration camp in Utah, which it turns out, was actually Camp Williams, an Army National Guard training center.

When Diane Carmen of the Denver Post reported on evacuees at the Community College of Aurora, she wrote, "If I didn't know better, I'd have thought I was peering through the fence at a concentration camp," which some cited as "proof" that Americans were going to be rounded up and locked away, though the rest of the article did not substantiate such claims. "Everybody treats you real nice," said one evacuee. "There's a lotta love up here."

The idea that dissidents could be sent to detention facilities is perhaps the most widely circulated theory, and it is as popular under President George W. Bush as it was under President Bill Clinton. And though Daniel Ellsberg has also suggested that dissidents could be targeted, most of the theories rest upon circumstantial evidence and long stretches of the imagination.

What we do know, however, thanks to the Sydney Morning Herald's investigation into Reagan-era initiatives, alongside documents leaked to the Miami Herald in 1987, is that when Col. Oliver North helped draft contingency plans in the early 80s, one of the reasons cited for possible martial law and internment was "national opposition to a U.S. military invasion abroad" -- a scenario which would become more likely with additional wars and in the event of the return of the draft.

Last year, the Project for a New American Century, the think tank that famously advocated preemptive strikes and wars on multiple fronts, called upon Congress to "take the steps necessary to increase substantially the size of the active duty Army and Marine Corps." Such steps should be relatively easy, given that since PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" was first published, states have been linking driver's license applications to selective service registration. According to the Selective Service System's Web site, "As of August 5, 2005, 35 states, 3 territories, and the District of Columbia have enacted driver's license laws supporting SSS registration."

With the military stretched to the breaking point, questions of conscription and subsequent draft-dodging are hardly far-fetched, but the very act of protesting, in and of itself, could become a federal offense. Though conservative columnist William Safire was one of the first to warn of Mr. Bush's "dictatorial powers," and editorials across the country have since voiced similar concerns, few are picking up on attempts to criminalize dissent -- an observation made by former White House counsel John Dean as early as Oct. 2001, who wrote that, thanks to the hastily passed Patriot Act, the "right to dissent" is in jeopardy, with protesters possibly considered "terrorists."

Dean considered this an "unintended consequence" of the new anti-terror legislation, but the Oakland Tribune later reported that California's anti-terrorism intelligence center was already "blurring the line between terrorism and political dissent" and National Lawyers Guild president Michael Avery said that the Bush administration was "trying to criminalize dissent, characterize protesters as terrorists and trying to intimidate and marginalize those opposed to its policies." After a New York state jury refused to convict four Catholic antiwar activists for protesting at a U.S. military recruiting office in 2005, the federal government stepped in, filing charges including "conspiracy to impede an officer of the United States," which could send each protester to prison for up six years.

Is this an isolated incident? It would seem not. Provisions in the new Patriot Act have also raised concerns. The first questionable provision could make "breaching security perimeters" at any "special event of national significance" a felony while the second calls for the creation of a new federalized "permanent police force" which would be given the authority to arrest citizens in violation of the Bill of Rights. "The obvious purpose of the act is to prevent demonstrations at Bush/Cheney events," former Reagan administration official Paul Craig Roberts recently wrote, adding that the law has "dire implications" for First Amendment guarantees. "We can take for granted that the new federal police will be used to suppress dissent and to break up opposition. The Brownshirts are now arming themselves with a Gestapo."

Even before Sept. 11, a document entitled "Domestic Operational Law Handbook for Judge Advocates," reflected a movement towards a more militarized society. The JAG document, which called for "providing military assistance for civil disturbances" cited the '60s era Operation Garden Plot, the United States Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2, which gave federal forces the power to "put down" "disruptive elements" and called for "deadly force to be used against any extremist or dissident perpetrating any and all forms of civil disorder." As Frank Morales stated in an update to his 2003 Project Censored award-winning story "The Pentagon Wages War on America":

Operation Garden Plot, originating in 1968 and continually updated, is according to the JAG handbook, tasked with the mission of conducting 'civil disturbance operations throughout the United States,' providing 'wide latitude to a commander to use federal forces to assist civil law enforcement in restoring law and order.' And it's exactly this type of 'wide latitude' that we've witnessed at recent protests in NYC and Oakland.

United States Army Field Manual 19-15, entitled Civil Disturbances, issued in 1985, is designed to equip soldiers with the 'tactics, techniques and procedures' necessary to suppress dissent. The manual states that 'crowd control formations may be employed to disperse, contain, or block a crowd. When employed to disperse a crowd, they are particularly effective in urban areas because they enable the control force to split a crowd into smaller segments.'

It should be noted that the government has traditionally tried to curb dissent during wartime and much of what we're seeing today existed in the Vietnam era, too. In 1967, with the assistance of an Army task force, President Lyndon Johnson established the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, which called for the use of military force to squelch civil disturbances. A year after four unarmed Kent State University students were gunned down by members of the Ohio National Guard, Sen. Sam Ervin's Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights uncovered information regarding Operation Garden Plot and discovered a massive military surveillance program used against citizens. The FBI's domestic counterintelligence program, COINTELPRO also came to light when the Citizens Committee to Investigate the FBI lifted documents and leaked them to the press. And, as we later learned, from 1967 to 1971 the FBI also kept an "agitator index" or ADEX file, which was a list of individuals to be rounded up as subversives.

Operation Cable Splicer, a subplot of Operation Garden Plot which included plans to control civilian populations and take over state and local governments, also appeared to be in play during Hurricane Katrina, when President Bush announced that the Pentagon was developing plans to give the military a larger role in responding to catastrophic events and suggested that the federal government should override state and local authorities. "It is now clear that a challenge on this scale requires greater federal authority and a broader role for the armed forces," Bush said in a speech. (The president also announced that the U.S. military could enforce quarantines should there be a bird flu outbreak, which Irwin Redlener, associate Dean of Columbia University's School of Public Health for Disaster Preparedness, deemed an "extraordinarily draconian measure," which translates to "martial law in the United States.").

In 2002, a New York Times editorial stated that the FBI now has "nearly unbridled power to poke into the affairs of anyone in the United States, even when there is no evidence of illegal activity" and one year later, FBI Intelligence Bulletin no. 89 was sent to police departments, revealing that the federal government was advocating that local authorities spy on U.S. citizens. When the Atlanta Police Department acknowledged that it routinely places antiwar protesters under surveillance, Georgia Rep. Nan Orrock told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "This harkens back to some very dark times in our nation's history."
How dark? NSA wiretapping aside, it's now clear that the Pentagon has been monitoring dangerous militants such as the Quakers while the FBI has been spying on the Catholic Worker's Group, Greenpeace and PETA. As Silencing Political Dissent author Nancy Chang pointed out, "With the advent of electronic record-keeping, the FBI is likely to maintain far more dossiers on law-abiding individuals and to disseminate the dossiers far more widely than during the COINTELPRO era."

Where will all this data mining lead? Who knows? From Sedition Acts, to the suspension of habeas corpus to the internment of fellow Americans, we've been down rocky roads before. And in the aftermath of Sept. 11, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Conner spelled it out: "We're likely to experience more restrictions on our personal freedom than has ever been the case in our country," she said. Now that writing letters to the editor can be investigated as acts of "sedition" and US citizens can be held without charges for years on end, another terror attack could send us over the edge.

Even so, detention camp jitters could prove to be nothing more than Waitsian paranoia. After all, Kellogg Brown & Root held US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contracts from 2000 to 2005 without building a single camp. The truth is, we won't know the real purpose of these centers unless contingency plans are needed. And by then, it will be too late.

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Which list is your name on? Is it written in the Lambs Book of Life?

Let them have their satanic Talmudic shemborg opposer list, for they have made their covenant with Death and Hell in their lowestooms of the pit

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U.S. Terrorism Watch List Now Has 325,000 Names

Posted on Wednesday, February 15 2006 00:40:03 PST by Intellpuke Read 1657 times

The National Counterterrorism Center maintains a central repository of 325,000 names of alleged international terrorism suspects or people who aid them, a number that has more than quadrupled since the fall of 2003, according to counterterrorism officials.

The list kept by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) - created in 2004 to be the primary U.S. terrorism intelligence agency - contains a far greater number of international terrorist suspects and associated names in a single government database than has previously been disclosed. Because the same person may appear under different spellings or aliases, the true number of separate individuals is estimated to be more than 200,000, according to NCTC officials.

U.S. citizens make up "only a very, very small fraction" of that number, said an administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of his agency's policies. "The vast majority are non-U.S. persons and do not live in the U.S.," he added. An NCTC official refused to say how many on the list - put together from reports supplied by the CIA, the FBI, the National Security Agency (NSA) and other agencies - were U.S. citizens.

The NSA is a key provider of information for the NCTC database, although officials refused to say how many names on the list are linked to the agency's controversial domestic eavesdropping effort. Under the program, the NSA has conducted wiretaps on an unknown number of U.S. citizens without warrants.

The government has been trying to streamline what counterterrorism officials say are more than 26 terrorism-related databases compiled by agencies throughout the intelligence and law enforcement communities. Names from the NCTC list are provided to the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center (TSC), which in turn provides names for watch lists maintained by the Transportation Security Administration and other agencies.

Civil liberties advocates and privacy experts said they were surprised by the size of the NCTC database, and they said it further heightens their concerns that such government terrorism lists include the names of large numbers of innocent people. Timothy Sparapani, legislative counsel for privacy rights at the American Civil Liberties Union, called the numbers "shocking but unfortunately not surprising."

"We have lists that are having baby lists at this point; they're spawning faster than rabbits," Sparapani said. "If we have over 300,000 known terrorists who want to do this country harm, we've got a much bigger problem than deciding which names go on which list. But I highly doubt that is the case."

Asked whether names in the repository were collected through the NSA's domestic intelligence intercept program, the NCTC official said, "Our database includes names of known and suspected international terrorists provided by all intelligence community organizations, including NSA."

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee last week that he could not discuss specifics but said: "Information is collected, information is retained and information disseminated in a way to protect the privacy interests of all Americans."

The NCTC name repository began under its predecessor agency in 2003 with 75,000 names, and it continues to grow. The center was created as part of a broad reorganization of U.S. intelligence agencies after failures to disrupt the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It is the main agency for analyzing and integrating terrorist intelligence and is under direction of Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte.

Its central database is the hub of an elaborate network of terrorism-related databases throughout the federal bureaucracy. Terrorism-related names and other data are sent to the NCTC under standards set by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 6, signed by President Bush in September 2003, according to a senior NCTC official. The directive calls upon agencies to supply data only about people who are "known or appropriately suspected to be ... engaged in conduct constituting, in preparation for, in aid of, or related to terrorism."

"We work on the basis that information reported to us has been collected in accordance with those guidelines," Vice Adm. John Scott Redd, the center's director, said in a statement.

Analysts at the NCTC review all incoming names and can reject them if they do not have an apparent link to international terrorists, officials said. "That is not common, but it does happen," an NCTC official said, citing as examples a domestic or foreign drug dealer or a member of a U.S.-based extremist group, when neither has any sign of international terrorist connections.

NCTC then sends a subset of the repository list to the FBI's screening center, and each entry includes a reference "to how the individual is associated with international terrorism," according to a June 2005 report by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine. This reference is assigned one of 25 codes such as "Member of a Foreign Terrorist Organization," "Hijacker" or "Has Engaged in Terrorism," according to the report. The report also notes the codes are split in two categories: "Individuals who are considered armed and dangerous and those who are not."

Fine's office criticized the TSC for including nearly 32,000 records of people in the "armed and dangerous" category but giving them the lowest handling code, which meant that no report needed to be sent back to the FBI if they were encountered in the United States by law enforcement officers.

The TSC consolidates NCTC data on individuals associated with foreign terrorism with the FBI's purely domestic terrorist data to create a unified, unclassified terrorist watch list. The TSC, in turn, provides, for official use only, a version giving name, country, date of birth, photos and other data to the Transportation Security Agency for its no-fly list, the State Department for its visa program, the Department of Homeland Security for border crossings, and the National Crime Information Center for distribution to police.

Shannon Moran, a spokeswoman for the FBI screening center, declined to answer detailed questions about the center's work, including how many names are on its list, how many U.S. citizens are included and whether the FBI database includes names linked to the NSA program. Fine's office reported last year that the FBI database included more than 270,000 names, including a large number of people associated with domestic terrorist movements such as radical environmentalists and neo-Nazi white supremacists.

"If being placed on a list means in practice that you will be denied a visa, barred entry, put on the no-fly list, targeted for pretextual prosecutions, etc., then the sweep of the list and the apparent absence of any way to clear oneself certainly raises problems," said David D. Cole, a Georgetown University law professor who has been sharply critical of the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policies.

The growth of terrorist-related data networks within the U.S. intelligence community has greatly accelerated since Sept. 11. Before the al-Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, there were databases containing terrorist identities at the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, FBI and State Department. In addition there were 13 independent watch lists, but none of the watch lists or databases were interoperable.

Currently, according to an NCTC official, there are 26 classified data networks carrying terrorism material. In a December 2005 interview on Federal News Radio, Redd said his agency "is really the only place in government and certainly in the intelligence community where all counterterrorism intelligence comes together." He also said that analyses of terrorism issues from all 15 intelligence agencies come into the NCTC, which then puts them on its Website.

"What that means," Redd said, "is about 5,000 analysts around the counterterrorist intelligence community can pull up that Website and see ... what every other agency has as well, assuming they have the clearances."

Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said the size of the NCTC list and other terrorism-related databases underscores the severity of the "false negative" problem, in which innocent people - including members of Congress - have been stopped for questioning or halted from flying because their names are wrongly included or are similar to suspects' names.

"One of the seemingly unsolvable problems is what do you do when someone is wrongly put on this watch list," Rotenberg said. "If there are that many people on the list, a lot of them probably shouldn't be there. But how are they are ever going to get off?"

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Jor-DAN of Dan Sanhedrin of Dan Bushitler

(IsraelNN.com) The Ha-shem-ite Kingdom of Jor-Dan has officially invited the current leaders of the Islamist Hamas terrorist group to the Jordanian capital, Amman. The visit will mark the first acknowledged presence of Hamas in Jor-dan since 1999, when the group's offices were shut down and its representatives expelled. The change in policy is seen as the result of Hamas's landslide victory in Palestinian Authority elections in January.

The Jor-danian prime minister said of the expected Hamas delegation, "We welcome the visit of our Palestinian brethren."

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The Revelation of Jesus who is Christ forever more 13

1: And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2: And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3: And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
4: And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
5: And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
6: And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
7: And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8: And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9: If any man have an ear, let him hear.

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New Israeli Stamp Honors Chabad and American-Jewish Children
15:41 Feb 15, '06 / 17 Shevat 5766
By Hillel Fendel

The Israeli Postal Authority announces the issuing of six interesting new stamps - including one honoring Chabad, one of former President Ezer Weizman, and four drawn by American Jewish children.

Slated to go on sale on Feb. 28, the Chabad-Lubavitch postage stamp marks the first time that the Israeli government accords an honor of this type to a religious movement on official legal tender. The stamp, valued at 2.50 shekels, depicts the movement's Brooklyn headquarters - the building known as "770" because of its location at 770 Eastern Parkway - as a source of waves of light.

The stamp can be viewed here.

The picture represents the Chabad emphasis on spreading light and good deeds throughout the world. 

Spreading their Talmudic Anti-Christ Noahide enslavement unto the Dragon they serve

 

The Hebrew words for wisdom, understanding and knowledge (Chochmah, Bina, Daat; their initials spell Chabad) are painted atop the stamp. The accompanying sheetlet features Sabbath candles and tefillin, as well as the Hebrew word U'faratzta, meaning "You shall spread out."

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U.S. lawmakers: Bush's Mideast policy led to rise of Hamas

By Reuters

WASHINGTON - Mistakes in U.S. Middle East policy have made America less safe and aided the militant group Hamas's victory in Palestinian elections, Democratic and Republican lawmakers told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday.

Hamas's win last month in the Palestinian territories and the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood's rise in Egypt have fueled criticisms over U.S. President George W. Bush's strategy of pushing for (Noahide) democracy in the Middle East.

"This administration seems to have a tin ear when it comes to the Middle East and that tin ear is making us less safe," Sen. Barbara Boxer, a Democrat, told Rice at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

Not safe for Aholibah is angry

The California Democrat suggested U.S. policies in the Middle East, as well as in Latin American nations Bolivia and Venezuela whose governments are hostile to Washington, were boosting the election chances of anti-American candidates.

Rice said it took time for (Noahide) democracy to take hold.

"Yes there are going to be some outcomes that are not perfect from the American point of view, (Treason and anti-Christ Blasphemy) but I don't think that our policy can be that you can only have elections if you plan to elect candidates that are friendly to America," she said.

"If the option is not to hold elections and not to give people their say then that is an untenable position for the United States," Rice added.

Rice said it was wrong to imply the Middle East had been stable before the Bush administration launched its democracy push, arguing that 60 years of U.S. foreign policy caused a "freedom deficit" that was difficult to fix in a couple of years.

"It is too much to expect ... those political parties to develop overnight," she said.

Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee  from Rhode Island took aim at Rice for not doing enough to support Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose Fatah Party was defeated by Hamas in the Jan. 25 Palestinian election.

"The whole year, 2005, nothing was done, opportunities missed and now we have a very, very disastrous situation of a terrorist organization winning an election," said Chafee.

Handled By Sanhedrin as well as the White House

"Why didn't we take advantage of these opportunities (to stop Hamas)?" asked Chafee.

Rice said she had worked as hard as she could on the Middle East peace process. Hamas's victory was not due to any failure of U.S. foreign policy but rather a backlash against Fatah which many Palestinians viewed as corrupt, she said.

Placed their By Bushitlers Sanhedrin of Dan, soon he will get his mandate to take the International Whore city, but she is not for him, but is reserved for the False Christ their Moshiach ben satan

"There are times when elections turn out in ways we wish they did not. Clearly the election of Hamas is a difficult moment in the prospects for peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis," Rice told the hearing.

TRULY, for the Road map has since its inception, led to HELL

Hamas's victory came as a surprise to the United States and Chafee said Washington should be prepared for a rise in popularity of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

It came as no surprise for Amaraka by Bushitler's Hassidic Treason and Blasphemy planned it

In elections last year, the Muslim Brotherhood emerged as the biggest opposition group. This week, the Egyptian government postponed local elections for two years in a move Islamists said was aimed at maintaining the ruling party's grip on power.

See Bushitlers Hassidic Patriot AKT 15 of Der Homelandt "SAY" Kurity of the Chabad Talmudic Jew Chert-off, who will enforce their HJR 104, PL 102-14 Noahide Law upon all whose names are not written in the Lambs Book of life slain from the foundation of the WORLD

Republican Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota jumped to Rice's defense over her department's democracy agenda.

Of course the Talmudic Jew did

"Democracy is a messy thing," said Coleman. "These are messy times now," he said.

Messy indeed, where ya gonna hide NOHIDES, in the Lowestroom?

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and here you have it, in a NUT-shell

Next month, Hamas will choose ours.

Like it or not, it all comes down to terrorism. The Islamic Resistance Movement's day job may be clean government, but terrorism remains its middle name. It's Hamas' call. Whichever way Hamas swings, bloodshed or calm, so swings the election.

And that, saints of the LIVING God is what Sanhedrin thinks to do, ORDO ab Chao, BUT God the LIFEGIVER is in Charge, and HE alone has put it in their hearts to do his will

No one knows this better than Benjamin Netanyahu. This month marks 10 years since Hamas embarked on a wave of suicide terror that would bring Netanyahu, a greenhorn politician and, until then, a hopeless underdog, and upset triumph in elections against then-prime minister and runaway favorite Shimon Peres.

This year, Netanyahu trails not one but two candidates. Polls show that the politician whom Netanyahu truly despises, Ehud Olmert, has held onto the strong lead originally accorded Prime Minister Ariel Sharon before his devastating stroke. Recent polls suggest that if elections were held today, Olmert and Kadima would gain some 40 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, Amir Peretz and Labor about 20, and Netanyahu's Likud 15.

Not surprisingly, Netanyahu's first move has been to place Hamas at the center of his campaign. You have only to look at the billboards. Once again, Hamas is Bibi's running mate.

Paraphrasing the television slogan of a popular over-the-counter pain-killer - a medication, incidentally, long banned in the West for its fatal side-effects - the outdoor ads read "Strong against Hamas." The picture, no less than the message, is vintage 1996 as well. Not coincidentally, the word Hamas is much larger than the word Likud.

Of the countless variables in the current campaign - among them the make-up of the new Palestinian government, the course of Ariel Sharon's condition, the message Vladimir Putin has for his Hamas guests, the actions and words of the Bush administration, public sentiment over a future West Bank disengagement - only one question really matters: Do Israelis feel safe?

There is only one true sheriff in the territories at this point, and he no longer wears a six-pointed star. Hamas is the law, now. It's up to Hamas to decide whether being boss means riding herd on the gangbangers, gun runners, drug dealers, macho men and fame seekers who have banded together under the Al-Aqsa Martyrs marquee.

Noahide enforcement

Hamas has yet to show its hand. More accurately, it shows a number of contradictory hands at once. This week, even as its military wing, Iz al-Din al-Qassam registered and collected firearms used by Hamas activists in northern Gaza, the movement's leader Mahmoud Zahar issued a fiery rejection of concessions to Israel.

"Recognizing the state of the Israeli enemy is not on the table," he said. "Our program is to liberate Palestine, all of Palestine," he declared.

"The Qassam Brigades will continue to increase in numbers, supplies and weapons... until the liberation is completed."

But even as Zahar was speaking, Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Meshal, interviewed by a Russian paper, discussed for the first time the possibility that Hamas might disarm

"If Israel recognizes our rights and pledges to withdraw from all occupied lands, Hamas, and the Palestinian people together with it, will decide to halt armed resistance," Meshal told the Nezavisimaya Gazeta.

In practical political terms, how does the terror card play out?

For Amir Peretz and his social welfare agenda, an extended period of calm would be a godsend.

Only quiet on the security front could create the psychic conditions, both for Israelis at home and investors abroad, for a sweeping reordering of priorities to take into account the needs of the jobless, the homeless, single mothers, the handicapped, the elderly, schoolchildren, and yes, the Gaza evacuees.

For Ehud Olmert, as well, calm is clearly best, not least because it constitutes a test of the signal policy move of the Sharon-Olmert administration, the disengagement.

Should clandestine Hamas rocket factories develop Qassams with extended ranges, if gunners can operate freely to launch them into Israel from the ruins of demolished settlements, if Al Aqsa Martyrs can resume deive-by killings with impunity, hen much of the Israeli public will judge Olmert to have been a failure and unsuited for high office.

On the other hand, even if violence precedes the election, Olmert could conceivably turn his present office to advantage, if his military and diplomatic response if judged effective, tough, and appropriate, especially by Israelis who may feel uneasy about changing horses in the middle of a cavalry charge.

And then there's Bibi.

For Netanyahu, terror is the only hope.

see Bushitlers Hassidic Sanhedrin Government of the dragon via HJR 104, PL 102-14

The economic policies he defends as having saved the country, have so alienated his blue-collar voter base, that only Hamas, the Jihad and the Martyr's can pull him out now.

In this regard, however, supporters of Netanyahu can take heart. Hamas did it for him once. Hamas can certainly do it again.

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State Department

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Rice talks tough on Iran
in special Jewish meeting

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (JTA) — Condoleezza Rice used a meeting with Jewish leaders this week to make one of her toughest statements to date on the use of force to contain Iran’s nuclear program.

“No options are off the table, no one is ready for a nuclear Iran, the Iranians must understand that,” the U.S. secretary of state said Wednesday, according to notes from three people attending the meeting at the State Department. “Accomplishing that goal is not in their interests. The United States and this president do not have a credibility issue when it comes to the use of force.”

  The reference, made at a private forum with eight Jewish organizational leaders, appeared to be to the U.S. decision in 2003 to lead an invasion of Iraq, despite international opposition.

Your State Department in a Private FORUM of Dual agents of Satan, that Old dragon

Comparing the Iraq war and what might happen to Iran is rare for administration officials, who usually go out of their way to say the cases are vastly different because Iran poses far more serious military challenges than Saddam Hussein’s Iraq did.

Purim Iraq.....Purim Iran....no difference, murder is murder of the murderer from the beginning and the Talmudic Jews and their Noahide Proselytes do the lust of the murderer their father

On Tuesday, Iran began enriching uranium, a necessary step in the making of a nuclear bomb, although Iran insists its program is for peaceful purposes. Iran is accelerating its nuclear program and cutting off nuclear inspectors in the wake of a decision this month by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions.

Rice made it clear that any decision to use force was a long way off, and went out of her way to say the United States is considering its actions with due deliberation.

According to participants, she said she opposed sanctions that would harm the Iranian people, such as an oil embargo, or dropping Iran’s soccer team from this year’s World Cup. Instead, she suggested, one step might be to starve Iran of foreign currency, limiting its ability to withstand the economic blow Western sanctions would bring.

The meeting brought together leaders of Jewish organizations that have been most outspoken about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Western experts say Iran might be at least 10 years away from a bomb, but some Israelis believe the Islamic republic could have a bomb by the end of next year.

Representatives at the meeting included two leaders of the American Jewish Committee; two leaders of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobby; and leaders of the Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs, the United Jewish Communities, the Republican Jewish Coalition and B’nai B’rith International. The American Jewish Congress was also invited, but was unable to send a representative.

Many Jewish organizational leaders were in Israel this week on a mission of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

The meeting between Rice and the Jewish leaders had been in the works since January because of concerns ahead of that month’s Palestinian legislative elections, according to administration sources. The invitations were sent out last week, after the terrorist group Hamas won a surprise landslide majority in the elections.

Rice took time out of a busy day testifying before the U.S. Congress about her department’s budget requests. The Bush administration wants $85 million to assist opponents to the Islamists now ruling Iran.

In her testimony to the Senate, she referred to Iran’s decision to enrich uranium, but maintained the administration’s standard line — softer, more ambiguous and stressing diplomacy without mentioning force.

“The more Iran does the kinds of things that it did today in starting enrichment and reprocessing and therefore defying the international community, the more, I think, you will see people come together around a set of consequences for Iran’s behavior,” she told senators. “We are in very intense discussions with our colleagues about what that menu might look like, about how that menu might play out over time. I don’t want to get ahead of the diplomacy but we are in those discussions.”

Speaking with the Jewish leaders, Rice reiterated that the U.S. government would not deal with a Hamas government until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel’s right to exist. 

Become obedient shabbos Goyim Noahides, they may as well and will for their god is the same god of the jews who has no ONLY Begotten Son, but is no LIVING GOD

She said U.S. assistance would continue through Feb. 18, when Hamas is slated to officially assume its majority in parliament but “the clock would start ticking” once Hamas establishes a government. That could take weeks.

Rice also said U.S.-Palestinian security cooperation posed a conundrum: on the one hand, the Bush administration wanted no ties at all with a Hamas-led government; on the other, pulling out from a program that provides training and non-lethal equipment to Palestinian security forces now would undermine the security gains achieved so far.

Israeli officials have said security improvements under the previous Fatah-led government have helped stem terrorist attacks.

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