February 25 - Temple Mount Violence as Rabbis Demand Control of Holy Site
 Article: Israel And The Last Days

Muslim youth congregated atop Jerusalem's Temple Mount exploded in violence on Tuesday, just days after leading rabbis demanded that Israel officially extend its sovereignty over the ancient Jewish holy site.
 
Police officials believed the incident was linked to a Knesset debate regarding Israeli control of the Temple Mount that was scheduled for later in the day.  The Knesset debate was scheduled in response to an official complaint filed by MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) over "the loss of Israeli sovereignty on the Temple Mount."
 
Feiglin and other Israeli lawmakers have increasingly lamented the lack of religious freedom for Jews and Christians at the Temple Mount. Non-Muslim are forbidden to pray or carry Bibles when visiting the compound for fear of provoking Muslim unrest.

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 February 22 - The LED Lights at Newark Airport Are Watching You
 Article: Miscellaneous

The National Security Agency (NSA) spying on our every movement has been much in the news lately, and now I can report that LED light fixtures are emerging on the list of potentially snooping, networked things.
 
Specifically, the New York Times reports that the clean, bright light of newly installed LED fixtures illuminating Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport, in New Jersey, are part of a new wireless network that's watching visitors.
 
The 171 LED fixtures are apparently the backbone of a system that feeds data into software that can spot long lines, read license plates, identify suspicious activity and alert the appropriate staff.
 
Now, these amazing lights are also being used to track passengers at Newark Liberty International Airport.

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 February 28 - Michigan Township To Put Cameras 'In Every Neighborhood'
 Article: One World Government

Officials in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan are working with police to put surveillance cameras in every single neighborhood.
 
After placing multiple cameras throughout the city's West Willow neighborhood several years ago, township officials claim the program's vast success, which is reportedly centered around one single case, warrants an expansive rollout to every last neighborhood.

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 March 4 - Central Scotland MSP highlights fears over guardian plan
 Article: One World Government

Giving every child in Scotland a named guardian is tipping family balance towards the state, claimed a Tory MSP.
 
Margaret Mitchell hit out after the Scottish Government successfully progressed its Children and Young People Bill through Holyrood.
Conservatives put forward an amendment to only have a named person when there were concerns over a child's safety or wellbeing, but these were rejected.

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 March 5 - Pope Francis: Church could support civil unions
 Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days

Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's opposition to gay marriage on Wednesday, but suggested in a newspaper interview that it could support some types of civil unions.
 
The Pope reiterated the church's longstanding teaching that "marriage is between a man and a woman." However, he said, "We have to look at different cases and evaluate them in their variety."

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 February 28 - Tenn. State University Requires Students to Wear Trackable IDs
 Article: Miscellaneous

Beginning Saturday, March 1, students and staff at Tennessee State University will be required to present identification badges at any time that can also track their movements in and out of buildings, according to a local-news report.
 
After a spate of break-ins and vandalism, officials at the university instituted the new ID requirement as a way to ensure safety on campus, a TSU release said.

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 February 28 - Global riot epidemic due to demise of cheap fossil fuels
 Article: Signs Of The Last Times

Instead the post-2008 crash era, including 2013 and early 2014, has seen a persistence and proliferation of civil unrest on a scale that has never been seen before in human history. This month alone has seen riots kick-off in Venezuela, Bosnia, Ukraine, Iceland and Thailand.
 
This is not a coincidence. The riots are of course rooted in common, regressive economic forces playing out across every continent of the planet - but those forces themselves are symptomatic of a deeper, protracted process of global system failure as we transition from the old industrial era of dirty fossil fuels, towards something else.

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 March 3 - At Weekly Exorcisms, Egypt's Muslims and Christians Unite Against the Demons
 Article: Signs And Wonders

Cairo's best-known exorcist may be Christian, but his weekly exorcisms provide an unusual space for interfaith cooperation.