| | | The DaVinci Code: Blasphemy introducing Persecution
While on tour for the Prophecy Club in February of 2005, The Lord directed Michael Hoggard to read a copy of Dan Browns best seller, the DaVinci Code. Though a novel, this worldwide bestseller claims to be based on historical facts that not only question, but directly attack the deity of Jesus Christ and the divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures. It offers precisely what the Apostle Paul prophesied, Another Jesus, another Gospel, and another Spirit. The false doctrines and heresies revealed in The DaVinci Code have already begun to take root in the world and especially in mainstream Christianity. This talk, in the Name of Jesus directly attacks the blasphemy of Dan Brown, his book and movie The DaVinci Code, starring Tom Hanks and produced by Ron Howard.
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|  | | New York city Police Surveillance Subjectof National Geographical Special According to a release from the National Geographic Channel, a program the evening of April 19th will examine high-tech surveillance, including helicopters in New York City equipped with infrared technology that look for illegal activity. Explorer: Science of Surveillance takes viewers inside these surveillance technologies at work, said the release -- from the failures of elaborate systems in preventing attacks, to current struggles over the intrusion of biometrics, to the promising technologies of the future, where the goal is to identify one person anywhere in the world. Viewers will learn about advancements made in facial and iris recognition; implanted electronic I.D. chips and backscatter technology, which can see through metal and show organic compounds, such as plastic explosives. Viewers will also witness the possibilities of 3-D imagery tied to global satellite tracking at a high-tech laboratory of the future. In one fictional scenario, facial recognition software tied to millions of webcams placed on streets and buildings around the world spot a suspect in New York City.
More > Consumer Reports Finds Personal Privacy Concerns in Planned Uses of Radio Frequency Identification Tags (RFIDs) Not many consumers know about Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), a wireless technology that allows objects and people to be tagged and tracked. RFID tags contain microchips and tiny radio antennas that are embedded in all kinds of products, credit cards, or stuck on labels. A three-month investigation in the June 2006 issue of Consumer Reports has found the RFID industry lacking in the necessary measures to strengthen tag security against identity thieves. RFID technology offers huge cost savings to business and it offers consumers conveniences such as speedier checkouts, and public benefits, including ways to manage toxic waste and encourage recycling. However, the tags are also a powerful new means of data collection about consumers, the things they buy, the books they read, and the places they travel. During the investigation, Consumer Reports found:
More > CIA Secret Prisons Exposed CIA officers soon learned one thing for sureprisoners sent to Bright Light and [other CIA secret prisons] . . . were probably never going to be released. "The word is that once you get sent to Bright Light, you never come back," said the CIA's Counterterrorism Center veteran. James Risen, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration May is the month that the United States has been summoned to Geneva by the United Nations Committee Against Torture to, as Reuters reported on April 18, "provide information about secret detention facilities and specifically whether the United States assumed responsibility for alleged acts of torture in them." The committee also wants a list of all these secret prisons. So do Ialong with every major human rights organization and some members of Congress on both sides of the aisle. However, Kansas Republican Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, rigidly keeps refusing to authorize an investigation into these "black sites," as they are called in CIA internal communications. (The United States is a faithless signatory to the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and is now being called to account.)
More > Osama's exploits south of border Britain's secret intelligence service, MI6, has established the first proof al-Qaida is playing a major role in the new Cold War between North and South America with Osama bin Laden's terror network seeing itself in league with Mexican subversives in infiltrating the U.S. border. The evidence emerged as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez swash-buckled into London after scoring a win in yet another venomous battle with Washington for influence and economic advantage across the Latin American continent. Chavez is in London to meet the capital's anti-Bush mayor, Ken Livingstone, and other prominent British opponents of the war in Iraq. His arrival coincides with the downward spiral politically of Prime Minister Tony Blair largely over his continued support for Bush. Downing Street will monitor the Chavez visit closely not least because he controls the western hemisphere's largest supply of oil reserves. As oil prices soar, Chavez has used the extra profits to reinforce his position with his electorate. He said last week he would seek "indefinite" re-election beyond the constitutional limit of 2014.
More > Proposed rule changes would tangle the Web Congress wants to change the Internet. This is news to most people because the major news media have not actively pursued the story. Yet both the House and Senate commerce committees are promoting new rules governing the manner by which most Americans receive the Web. Congressional passage of new rules is widely anticipated, as is President Bush's signature. Once this happens, the Internet will change before your eyes. The proposed House legislation, the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act (COPE), offers no protections for "network neutrality." Currently, your Internet provider does not voluntarily censor the Web as it enters your home. This levels the playing field between the tiniest blog and the most popular Web site.
More > Attack in Canada 'now probable': CSIS report It is "now probable" that an Islamic extremist group will try to launch an attack on Canadian soil, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service warns in a report just made public. "During the past year, Canada and Canadian interests abroad continued to be under threat from al-Qaeda and its affiliated groups,'' Jim Judd said in his 2004-05 report to the public safety minister. The Canadian Press obtained a copy of the report on Tuesday through an access to information request. "While the threat remains concentrated overseas, an attack on Canadian soil is now probable," Judd wrote. The annual report was top secret when it was hand-delivered in November to Anne McLellan, the Liberal MP who held the public safety portfolio at the time.
More > Al-Qaida offshoot threatens PA leaders. Palestinian Authority officials here expressed deep concern over the weekend about reports that al-Qaida was planning to assassinate top PA leaders. The threats have prompted PA security forces to take strict measures to guarantee the safety of the leaders, including PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, whose villa in Ramallah has been completely cordoned off. The latest measures were taken after a hitherto unknown group calling itself al-Tawhid and Jihad [Unification and Holy War] distributed leaflets in the Gaza Strip threatening to kill a number of senior officials belonging to Abbas's Fatah party. This is the first time that the group, which is believed to be headed by Jordanian arch-terrorist Abu Musab Zarqawi, has issued a leaflet in Gaza, indicating that al-Qaida elements had begun operating in the area. Radical Palestinian groups have generally avoided issuing direct death threats against PA leaders, but PA leaders say that with the recent disclosure that al-Qaida has managed to establish cells in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, they feared that its members would target Abbas and other Fatah leaders.
More > Cashing in on 6-6-06 Anyone living and driving in L.A. the past few weeks has seen them. Looming over the city, black and ominous, the billboards and posters announce "You Have Been Warned" and "The Signs Are All Around You." Each is anchored with the date "6/6/06." Drop the "0," and you get 666. That's "the number of the beast," according to the New Testament's Book of Revelation, just one of many interpretations though all of them are dark and frightening. For some Armageddon believers, it represents the date upon which the Antichrist will spread universal evil over the Earth. For marketers, 666 has also become an ideal date to launch movies, records, books and other products or events, particularly those with religious undertones. In the case of 20th Century Fox, which is responsible for the omnipresent apocalyptic ad campaign, it's a once-in-a-century opportunity to unleash the remake of "The Omen," about a couple and their devil incarnate spawn. For Crown Forum publishers, it's a perfect time to fan the flames of ideological controversy with the release of provocative author Ann Coulter's new book, "Godless." For certain musical groups, it is the date to release records and, in the case of heavy-metal legends Slayer, their Unholy Alliance Tour Preaching to the Perverted. "People have different reactions when they hear 666," said Jeffrey Godsick, executive vice president of marketing for 20th Century Fox. "It's partly superstition, partly fear, partly reality, maybe it's a little cultural. These numbers seem to have a significant impact."
More > Is coming national ID 'mark of the beast'? Is the national ID card the next step toward the imposition of the biblical "mark of the beast" Christians believe will be required to buy and sell during the Last Days? That's the contention of a growing group of believers who are working to turn back the approval of the Real ID Act by Congress last year. Public Law 109-13 requires the national ID portion of the plan go into effect by May 2008. "There is a prophecy in the Bible that foretells a time when every person will be required to have a mark or a number, without which he or she will not be able to participate in the economy," states the Christian website NoNationalID.com. "The prophecy is 2,000 years old, but it has been impossible for it to come to pass until now. With the invention of the computer and the Internet, this prophecy of buying and selling, using a number, can now be implemented at any time. Has the time for the fulfillment of this prophecy arrived?" The site asks visitors to sign an online petition vowing not to vote for any candidate who does not commit to repealing the Real ID Act. The goal, states the site, which is sponsored by Endtime Ministries, is to get 100,000 signatures on the petition. On the site is a link to purchase a DVD entitled "666 How Close? Will the National ID Become the Mark of the Beast?" Americans choosing not to carry a national ID, the site warns, will be prohibited from driving a car, boarding a plane, train or bus, entering any federal building, opening a bank account, or possibly from holding a job.
More > Report: Colombian President Would Consider Immigrant Tracking With Microchips Comments attributed to Colombia's president that microchip implants could be used to track Colombians working temporarily in the U.S. drew attention and criticism Thursday. The alleged statement by President Alfaro Uribe dismayed some Colombians after it appeared in Colombian newspapers. "It would be a blatant violation of human rights," said Jorge Pinilla, 50, a lawyer in Bogota. Details of Uribe's conversation last month with U.S. lawmakers were revealed by Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania in a report he read into the congressional record last week. Specter and Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama met with Uribe, the United States' staunchest ally in Latin America, during their visit to Colombia on April 7-9. During the informal meeting, Specter expressed concerns about seasonal workers who immigrate to the United States to work temporarily on farms and then don't return to their country once their visa has elapsed.
More > 'Iran wants to change world order' "Wiping Israel off the map is just one step in Iran's attempt to create a new world order," said Brig.-Gen Yosef Kuperwasser, head of the IDF Military Intelligence's research division. "Iran is interested not only in turning into a superpower, but also in changing the world order," Kuperwasser said at a conference on power projection at the Fisher Institute of Strategic Studies in Herzliya. "Iran is at the forefront of global terrorism, and aids Hizbullah in Lebanon, al Qaida, and Palestinian terror organizations, and is behind attacks on US armed forces in Iraq," the general asserted. Obtaining nuclear power, Kuperwasser said, would not only establish Iran as a superpower on a global level, but would also assist the country in establishing its domestic regime. "Nuclear capabilities would ensure that regime returns to its former glory and revives the Islamic revolution there," he explained, adding that there were elements in Iran who believe that the race to achieve a nuclear bomb, plus the government's support of terror, was having an adverse effect on reviving the revolution.
More > Russia May Continue Providing Aid to Palestine Foreign Ministry Russia may continue to provide financial aid to the Palestinian National Authority, the Foreign Ministrys special envoy said on Monday. Sergei Yakovlev, the ministrys envoy to the Middle East, said the Middle East Quartet that comprises Russia, the European Union, the United States and the United Nations, would discuss possible means of providing aid to Palestinians at its upcoming meeting. When asked by journalists whether Russia would continue to provide aid, he said: The possibility is not ruled out, RIA-Novosti news agency reported. The Russian government provided $10 million in urgent financial aid to the Palestinian National Authority on May 4. The ministry said, in view of the aggravating socioeconomic and humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories, the Russian government has decided to offer urgent financial aid to the Palestinian National Authority, totaling $10 million. The funds, intended to be used for social and humanitarian needs, were transferred to an account of PNA President Mahmoud Abbass office, the ministry said, adding that the transaction had been coordinated with the Middle East Quartet, comprising Russia, the EU, the United States and the United Nations.
More > Cell-Phone Tracking: Laws Needed The cell-phone industry and privacy advocates are calling on Congress to clarify the widespread police practice of using mobile phones to track suspects without probable cause. The industry wants clear, standardized rules governing cell-phone tracking, said Michael Sussmann, a lawyer who represents several cell-phone providers. "Some orders we see are daisy chains, where we get a subpoena for information on one person and then they want all the information on the persons calling or called by them," Sussman said. "We don't think these orders should include the pizza guy." Cell providers are happy to help police in emergencies, such as finding a teen driver who's driven into a deep ditch, said Sussmann during a panel discussion at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference. Real-time tracking of cell phones is possible because mobile phones are constantly sending data to cell towers, which allows incoming calls to be routed correctly. The towers record the strength of the signal along with the side of the tower the signal is coming from. This allows the phone's position to be easily triangulated to within a few hundred yards. But the legal grounds for obtaining a tracking order is murky -- not surprising since technology often outpaces legislation. The panel agreed that Congress should write rules governing what level of suspicion cops need to have before tracking people through their cell phones The Justice Department has argued that a combination of wiretap laws governing stored communications like voicemail, plus a law that lets them learn the phone numbers people dial, allows them to track people without having probable cause. Investigators commonly bundle a request to track cell phones with orders to capture the dialing information of incoming and outgoing calls from landline or cell phones. Those orders only require investigators to certify that the information is likely relevant to an ongoing investigation. Since most of the orders are filed under seal to prevent targets from learning they will soon be tracked, little was known of the scope of, and legal justifications for, cell tracking orders.
More > RFID security raises privacy issues Awareness of consumer privacy issues and tight security must go hand in hand if RFID technology is to flourish, according to industry experts. A set of RFID guidelines designed to help protect consumers' privacy have been released last week by a working group led by privacy body the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). The best practice guidance outlines how consumers should be notified about RFID data collection, what choices consumers have and how that information should be treated by the companies which collect it. The working group also included Eli Lilly and Company, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, the National Consumers League, Procter & Gamble, and Visa USA. The CDT said that while many applications of RFID may raise no real privacy concerns, "when the data collected from RFID tags is linked to personally identifiable information, privacy issues can arise". But in a research note, Gartner VP John Pescatore said that while the guidelines should help public acceptance of RFID, the industry must also work to ensure security of the technology. Gartner said the guidelines "provide a solid privacy-protection framework for RFID industry stakeholders". And it said industry support for the best practices should help to prevent "a consumer, regulatory and legislative backlash against RFID".
More > The RFID Hacking Underground James Van Bokkelen is about to be robbed. A wealthy software entrepreneur, Van Bokkelen will be the latest victim of some punk with a laptop. But this won't be an email scam or bank account hack. A skinny 23-year-old named Jonathan Westhues plans to use a cheap, homemade USB device to swipe the office key out of Van Bokkelen's back pocket. "I just need to bump into James and get my hand within a few inches of him," Westhues says. We're shivering in the early spring air outside the offices of Sandstorm, the Internet security company Van Bokkelen runs north of Boston. As Van Bokkelen approaches from the parking lot, Westhues brushes past him. A coil of copper wire flashes briefly in Westhues' palm, then disappears. Van Bokkelen enters the building, and Westhues returns to me. "Let's see if I've got his keys," he says, meaning the signal from Van Bokkelen's smartcard badge. The card contains an RFID sensor chip, which emits a short burst of radio waves when activated by the reader next to Sandstorm's door. If the signal translates into an authorized ID number, the door unlocks. The coil in Westhues' hand is the antenna for the wallet-sized device he calls a cloner, which is currently shoved up his sleeve. The cloner can elicit, record, and mimic signals from smartcard RFID chips. Westhues takes out the device and, using a USB cable, connects it to his laptop and downloads the data from Van Bokkelen's card for processing. Then, satisfied that he has retrieved the code, Westhues switches the cloner from Record mode to Emit. We head to the locked door.
More > Making phony ID documents for illegal workers is a big business Forgers are making tens of millions, and possibly billions, of dollars selling counterfeit Social Security cards, driver's licenses, immigrant registration cards and other papers to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants. The dominant forgery-and-distribution network in the United States allegedly is controlled by the Castorena family, say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. Its members emigrated from Mexico in the late 1980s and have used their printing skills and business acumen to capture a big piece of the booming industry. Only trained experts can distinguish its fake identity documents from real ones, and the Castorena Family Organization, or CFO, as ICE officials call it, has spread to at least 50 cities in 33 states. At a sentencing hearing for one family member in December, U.S. District Judge Lewis T. Babcock of Denver said that the CFO's criminal reach is "simply breathtaking" and strikes "at the heart of the sovereignty of the United States of America." The threat of terrorism has made document forgers even more menacing since the 9/11 attacks. Two of the 9/11 hijackers used fraudulent notarized forms to obtain valid Virginia ID cards, which enabled them to board the two airliners that crashed into the World Trade Center.
More > Chip to end lost luggage Technology used to monitor cars in cities is being adapted to track airline luggage. About 200,000 bags are lost or stolen every year, while an estimated 30 million are mislaid, but then recovered, costing the industry £1.4 billion. The aviation industry is turning to Radio Frequency Identification to cut the number of losses. This uses a pinhead-sized chip embedded in the baggage label. The label can be read by hundreds of sensors dotted around an airport, tracking the suitcase from check-in to the plane and back to the luggage carousel on arrival. An alarm sounds if a baggage handler tries to load it on to the wrong plane. Known as tag and beacon technology, the system is being employed in Singapore and Stockholm for car congestion charging schemes. It has also been successfully tested at a number of airports.
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