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July 19 - 'Obama pledges big movement' on carving up Israel / Palestinians officials say they expect takeover of territory by end of year
Article: Israel And The Last Days
The Palestinian
Authority expects "big movement" toward taking
over most of the areas that would encompass a future Palestinian state
by the end of the year, senior PA officials told WND.
The PA officials said
the U.S. has been negotiating the borders of a future Palestinian state
that would see Israel eventually withdraw from most of the West Bank and
some areas of eastern Jerusalem with the exception of what are
known as the three main settlement blocks - Gush Etzion, Maale Adumim
and Ariel.
While the PA does not
believe it will see an actual Palestinian state by the end of the year,
it expects in that time it will take over many
more neighborhoods in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem that are
normally controlled on the ground by Israel.
The PA said the
expectation is based on pledges by the Obama
administration.
The PA officials say
the U.S. supports the concept of stationing of
international troops along the Palestinian side of a future border. The
officials said the discussions include the possibility of a contingent
of Jordanian troops as well as private Palestinian firms and
international soldiers participating in the patrol of the Palestinian
side of a future border, the officials said.
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July 18 - 2nd quake: Tsunami warning
Article: Signs Of The Last Times
Indonesian seismologists
issued a tsunami warning after a second 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck
Papua New Guinea late on Sunday.
The latest earthquake took place at about
13:35 GMT with its epicentre located 537km north-east of Port Moresby, the
capital of Papua New Guinea, Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics said. It
occurred in the deep of 26km.
About 30 minutes
earlier, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the area, but the agency
said it did not trigger a tsunami.
The first quake occurred at the deep of 77km.
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July 23 - N. Korea Threatens 'Physical Response' to U.S. Drills; Clinton Blasts 'Belligerent' Acts
Article: Wars And Rumors Of Wars
North Korea on Friday
threatened the United States and South Korea with a "physical response"
to planned weekend naval exercises as tensions with the communist nation
rose in the aftermath of the sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on the
North. In Vietnam for a Southeast Asian regional security forum, Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton and a North Korean official traded barbs over the
ship incident, the upcoming military drills and the imposition of new U.S.
sanctions against the North.
The exercises will be
"another expression of hostile policy against" North Korea. "There will be
physical response against the threat imposed by the United States
militarily," Ri told reporters in Hanoi.
Shortly before he spoke, Clinton had lashed out
against belligerent acts by the North, warning that it
must reverse a "campaign of provocative, dangerous behavior" if it wants
improved relations with its neighbors and the United States.
sanctions on the North to
stifle its nuclear ambitions and punish it for the sinking of the South
Korean ship. The penalties will target the country's elite by taking
aim at illicit activities, such as counterfeiting cigarettes and cash and
money laundering.
Numerous reports in past months have suggested
that Myanmar's military rulers are attempting to
develop nuclear weapons with North Korean help.
Her comments are likely to
anger China, which asserts sovereignty over the whole South China
Sea, but Clinton said the U.S. did not support any country's sovereignty
over the islands. She said the U.S. is willing to work with the all the
parties, including Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei, and the Philippines,
to help negotiate an end to the disputes.
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July 5 - Biometric ATM gives cash via 'finger vein' scan
Article: Technology For Global Monetary System
Poland's cooperative BPS bank says it's the
first in Europe to install a biometric ATM -- allowing
customers to withdraw cash simply with the touch of a fingertip.
The digit-scanning ATM, introduced in the
Polish capital of Warsaw, runs on the latest in "finger vein" technology --
an authentication system developed by Japanese tech giant Hitachi. The
company says that an infrared light is passed through
the finger to detect a unique pattern of micro-veins beneath the surface -
which is then matched with a pre-registered profile to verify an
individual's identity.
"This is a substantially more reliable
technique than using fingerprints," Peter Jones, Hitachi's head of security
and solutions in Europe, told CNN. "Our tests indicate there is a one in a
million false acceptance rate -- that's as good as iris scanning, which is
generally regarded as the most secure method."
Unlike fingerprints, which leave a trace and
can be potentially reproduced, finger veins are
impossible to replicate, according to Jones, because they are beneath the
surface of the skin.
The security and solutions expert believes
that Poland's early adoption of biometric ATMs
reflects the country's forward-thinking attitude to the role of information
technology in society. As Kenechi Okeleke, IT and telecom analyst for
Business Monitor International, told CNN: "Poland's IT sector has performed
really well in recent times. IT is a major focus for
the government at the moment and they have adopted an IT Infrastructure Plan
with money from the government and the European Union."
Jones says that there are now
over 80,000 biometric ATMs in Japan, currently used by
more than 15 million customers.
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July 23 - Wal-Mart Radio Tags to Track Clothing
Article: Technology For Global Monetary System
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to roll out
sophisticated electronic ID tags to track individual pairs
of jeans and underwear, the first step in a system that advocates say
better controls inventory but some critics say raises
privacy concerns.
While the tags can be removed from clothing and
packages, they can't be turned off, and they are trackable.
Some privacy advocates hypothesize that unscrupulous
marketers or criminals will be able to drive by consumers' homes and scan their
garbage to discover what they have recently bought.
They also worry that
retailers will be able to scan customers who carry new types of personal ID
cards as they walk through a store, without their knowledge. Several
states, including Washington and New York, have begun issuing
enhanced driver's licenses that contain radio- frequency
tags with unique ID numbers, to make border crossings easier for frequent
travelers. Some privacy advocates contend that retailers
could theoretically scan people with such licenses as they
make purchases, combine the info with their credit card data, and then know the
person's identity the next time they stepped into the store.
"There are two
things you really don't want to tag, clothing and identity documents, and
ironically that's where we are seeing adoption," said
Katherine Albrecht, founder of a group called Consumers Against Supermarket
Privacy Invasion and Numbering and author of a book called "Spychips" that
argues against RFID technology. "The inventory guys may be in the dark about
this, but there are a lot of corporate
marketers who are interested in tracking people as they walk sales floors."
Wal-Mart is demanding that suppliers
add the tags to removable labels or packaging instead of embedding them in
clothes, to minimize fears that they could be used to track people's movements.
It also is posting signs informing customers about the tags.
Proponents, meanwhile,
have high hopes for expanded use in the future. Beyond
more-efficient recalls and loss prevention, RFID tags could get rid
of checkout lines. "We are
going to see contactless checkouts with mobile phones or kiosks, and we will see
new ways to interact, such as being able to find out whether
other sizes and colors are available while trying something on in a dressing
room," said Bill Hardgrave, head of the RFID Research Center at the University
of Arkansas, which is funded in part by Wal-Mart.
"That is where the magic is going to happen. But that's
all years away."
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July 25 - Gay Lutheran Pastors to Join Church Roster
Article: Perilous Times
Seven pastors who work in the San Francisco Bay
area and were barred from serving in America's largest Lutheran group
because of a policy that required gay clergy to be celibate
are being welcomed into the denomination.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
will add six of the pastors to its clergy roster at a
service at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in San Francisco on Sunday.
Another pastor who was expelled from the church, but was later reinstated,
will participate in the service.
The group is among the
first gay, bisexual or transgender Lutheran pastors to be reinstated or
added to the rolls of the ELCA since the organization voted last year to
lift the policy requiring celibacy.Churches
can now hire noncelibate gay clergy who are in committed relationships.
"It's going to
be an extremely glorious and festive ceremony because it's the
culmination of decades of work to welcome LGBT people into the ELCA,"
said Amalia Vagts, executive director of the Extraordinary Lutheran
Ministries, a nonprofit that credentials openly gay, lesbian, bisexual, and
transgender people for ministry.
Rohrer said she is hopeful Sunday's service will
be a "symbol" to young people that the Lutheran church
is working toward becoming more welcoming of people of all different
backgrounds.
Johnson said the goal, in part, is to show
people the church has space for many
different opinions."There's room for them," he said.
"It's a tolerant church."
Two more rite of reception
services are scheduled for September in the St. Paul-Minneapolis area and
another will follow in Chicago, Cooper said.
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July 20 - Obama adviser: U.S. 'ideal place for renewal of Islam' / Religion aide closely linked to imam seeking to build Ground Zero mosque
Article: Misc.
A relgion adviser to President Obama has close
ties to the imam who wants to build a 13-story Islamic cultural center
near Ground Zero. The two have been documented together discussing
America as "the ideal place for a renewal of Islam,"
WND has learned.
In February, Obama
named a Chicago Muslim, Eboo Patel, to his Advisory Council on
Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Patel is the founder and
executive director of Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core,
which says it promotes pluralism by teaming people
of different faiths on service projects.
Imam Feisal Abdul
Rauf, the controversial Muslim leader behind the plan to build the
Islamic center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero, wrote the
afterword to Patel's 2006 book, "Building the
Interfaith Youth Movement: Beyond Dialogue to Action."
Patel is listed as
one of 15 "Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow" on the
website for the
American Society for Muslim Advancement,
which is led by Rauf.
Continued Patel: "I
arrived at dusk, prayed the maghrib prayer with Daisy and Imam Feisal
and then talked with them about how America, with its unique combination
of religious devotion and religious diversity,
was the ideal place for a renewal of Islam."
"In the twentieth
century, Catholicism and Judaism underwent profound transformations in
America," Rauf observed. "I think, this
century, in America, Islam will do the same."
Patel boasts of a
"critical mass" of Muslims in the U.S. "Islam is a religion that has
always been revitalized by its migration," he wrote. "America is a
nation that has been constantly rejuvenated by immigrants.
There is now a critical mass of Muslims in America."
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