By Madison Ruppert: Regina Dugan, former director of the Defense Advanced Research Agency
(DARPA) and current head of Google-owned Motorola’s research division,
introduced a prototype “vitamin authentication” tablet which turns your
entire body into a walking authentication token.
“We got to do a lot of epic shit when I was at DARPA,” Dugan said. Indeed, DARPA has been involved in everything from weaponized hallucinations to tiny spy computers to military human enhancements to automated drone-borne targeting and tracking systems to linking rat brains over the internet and much more.
Forget traditional usernames and passwords, this technology unveiled at D11
uses a tiny stomach acid-powered tablet to produce an 18-bit signal
which can be detected by outside devices and used for authentication.
Dugan also showed off wearable electronic tattoos produced by a company called MC10, in partnership with Motorola, which serve a similar function.
The rationale behind these technologies, according to Dugan, is the annoyances caused by traditional authentication.
“Authentication is irritating,” Dugan said. “After 40 years of
advances in computation, we’re still authenticating basically the same
way we did years ago.” (WD: With the use of our brains. This must be for sheeple who've lost the ability.)
Submitted by Tyler Durden: The global Monsanto genetically modified wheat scandal is getting worse.
As a reminder, recently news broke out that a rogue genetically
modified strain of wheat developed by Monsanto, had been found in an
Oregon field late last month. But while modified food has long been a
US diet staple, this particular breed was the first discovery of an
unapproved strain, and what made things worse is the lack of any
information how the rogue grain had escape from a field trial a decade
ago. As Reuters reports,
"even after weeks of investigation, experts are baffled as to how the
seed survived for years after Monsanto had ceased all field tests of the
product. It was found in a field growing a different type of GM wheat than
Monsanto's strain, far from areas used for field tests, according to an
Oregon State University wheat researcher who tested the strain."
In this photo, firefighters burn a mock coffin bearing the words “RIP
Public Services”, during the protest against austerity measures.
The protestors had gathered in front of the Catalunya Parliament in
Barcelona to mark their feelings about the pressures on public services
in the country.
Dan Keenan: Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been spent on a Fermanagh facelift as the county prepares for the G8 summit in just under three weeks’ time, but locals complain the work paid for by the local council and the Stormont Executive is little more than skin deep.
More than 100 properties within range of the sumptuous Lough Erne resort which hosts the world’s wealthiest leaders, have been tidied up, painted or power-hosed.
However, locals say the makeover only serves to hide a deeper malaise which US president Barack Obama, German chancellor Angela Merkel, French president François Hollande and others will not get to see.
Two shops in Belcoo, right on the border with Blacklion, Co Cavan, have been painted over to appear as thriving businesses. The reality, as in other parts of the county, is rather more stark.
RT: Rallies are planned this weekend in dozens of cities across the globe
in support of Private first class Bradley Manning as the former Army
intelligence analyst prepares to stand trial for the largest
intelligence leak in United States history.
The military court-martial against the 25-year-old soldier begins
Monday in Ft. Meade, Maryland and is expected to continue
throughout the summer. Manning faces a life in prison if
convicted of the most serious of the counts against him — aiding
the enemy — but presiding judge Col. Denise Lind previously said
she’d credit the alleged leaker with 112 days due to the egregious conditions he
endured while held for roughly nine months in a US Marine brig.
AJ: Alex also talks with Ashley Jessica, an activist who led the Infowars
Opt Out & Film the TSA campaign last Thanksgiving. Jessica recounts
her experience at the hands of the TSA when an agent fondled her vagina.
By Richard Cottrell: With the family of the trooper butchered in South London wrapped in mourning and grief, who bursts upon the scene with complete indignity but Sheila Rimmington, the one and only female spook to head MI5.
Like some barmy headmistress she chooses this, of all moments, to
lecture the British public on the joys of a Stasi-style East German
street spy system while others promote more widespread snooping powers.
She ‘warned’ (have you ever noticed the frequency that special verb
is invoked by the spooks when they make public pronouncements) ‘MI5
could not be expected to spot every danger’ and that ‘further attacks
were likely’.
We are left with the very clear impression of manipulated terror, as
practiced and perfected by the secret services who worked both sides of
the Catholic-Protestant blanket during the long and dirty ethnic
conflict in Northern Ireland.
The victim is an off-duty soldier, like the victims of the pub
bombings in Guildford (1989) and Birmingham (1990). These attacks were
allegedly part of the IRA’s ‘mainland campaign’ although the alleged
perpetrators were later cleared after spending years in jail.
There is an unmistakably strong similarity between the ‘mainland
campaign’ of the Irish republicans and the motive which is alleged now,
retaliation for British attacks on the Muslim world.
Cheap credit is a great boon to the wealthy and a path to debt-serfdom for everyone else.
Charles Hugh Smith: The ever-widening chasm between the wealthy and the "rest of us" has generated any
number of explanations for this deeply troubling phenomenon. We can start with
capitalism, which is based on competition for innovations, processes, markets, labor
and capital. The more successful participants will naturally garner more profit and
premium, leaving less for those who don't control assets and skills that carry high
premiums in the marketplace.
But this fundamental source of inequality doesn't explain why wealth and income
inequality was considerably lower in previous eras of economic expansion.
Many observers rightly point to the capture of federal regulatory bodies by corporations
and the transition from an industrial economy with plentiful low-skill, high-wage jobs
to a post-industrial knowledge-based service economy as causes.
By Madison Ruppert: Regina Dugan, former director of the Defense Advanced Research Agency
(DARPA) and current head of Google-owned Motorola’s research division,
introduced a prototype “vitamin authentication” tablet which turns your
entire body into a walking authentication token.
