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Killer Chip Tracks Humans, Releases Poison


Posted: 17 May 2009 08:50 PM PDT



You can run, but you cannot hide … and if you try, one push of a button will cause

a lethal poison to immediately begin flowing through your body.


That’s the Orwellian future a Saudi inventor was seeking to bring to Germany

until that nation’s patent office announced last week it was rejecting his request

to patent what has been dubbed the “Killer Chip.”


The tiny semiconductor device is intended to be surgically implanted or

injected into the body, according to the patent application, for the purpose
of tracking visitors from other nations by global-positioning satellites and

preventing them from overstaying their visas.


A German Patent and Trademark Office spokeswoman told Deutsche Presse

Agentur the inventor’s application, titled “Implantation of electronic
chips in the human body for the purposes of determining its geographical

location,” was submitted in October 2007 and published 18 months later,

as required by law, in a patents database.


Under Germany’s patent law, inventions that are unethical or a danger to

the public are not recognized.

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Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker


Posted: 17 May 2009 08:38 PM PDT



Vice President Joe Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, may have finally

outdone himself, divulging potentially classified information meant to save the
life of a sitting vice president.


According to a report, while recently attending the Gridiron Club dinner in

Washington, an annual event where powerful politicians and media elite get a
chance to cozy up to one another, Biden told his dinnermates about the existence

of a secret bunker under the old U.S. Naval Observatory, which is now the home

of the vice president.


The bunker is believed to be the secure, undisclosed location former Vice

President Dick Cheney remained under protection in secret after the 9/11
attacks.


Eleanor Clift, Newsweek magazine’s Washington contributing editor, said

Biden revealed the location while filling in for President Obama at the dinner,
who, along with Grover Cleveland, is the only president to skip the gathering.


According to the report, Biden “said a young naval officer giving him a tour of

the residence showed him the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door
secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves

filled with communications equipment.”


Clift continued: “The officer explained that when Cheney was in lock down, this

was where his most trusted aides were stationed, an image that Biden conveyed

in a way that suggested we shouldn’t be surprised that the policies that
emerged were off the wall.”


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Pakistan to Attack Taliban in Bin Laden’s Lair


Posted: 17 May 2009 08:32 PM PDT



Pakistan is to extend its war on the Taliban beyond Swat into the fiercely

independent tribal areas bordering Afghanistan where Usama Bin Laden and
the Al Qaeda leadership are believed to be hiding.


“We’re going to go into Waziristan, all these regions, with army operations,”

President Asif Ali Zardari told The Sunday Times in an interview. “Swat is
just the start. It’s a larger war to fight.”


He said Pakistan would need billions of pounds in military assistance and aid

for up to 1.7m refugees, the biggest movement of people since the country’s
split from India in 1947.


To help take on the militants, the Pakistan army is for the first time to

accept counterinsurgency training from British and American troops on
its own soil.


“We need to develop our capability and we need much more support,” said

Zardari. “We need much, much more than the $1 billion [military aid]
we’ve been getting, which is nothing. We’ve got 150,000 troops in

[the tribal areas] — just the movement of that number would cost $1

billion.”


Pakistan’s army is geared towards conventional warfare against its old

enemy India.


There have long been concerns in Whitehall and Washington at its

ineffectiveness and lack of commitment against militants.


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India Thinks Pakistan Nuclear Sites Already In Radical Hands


Posted: 17 May 2009 08:27 PM PDT



India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has told President Obama
that nuclear sites in Pakistan’s restive frontier province are“already

partly” in the hands of Islamic extremists, an Israeli journal has said,

amid considerable anxiety among US pundits here over Washington’s
confidence in the security of the troubled nation’s nuclear arsenal.


Claims about the high-level exchange between New Delhi and Washington

were made in the Debka, a journal said to have close ties with Israeli

intelligence, under the headline “Singh warns Obama: Pakistan is lost.”

The brief story said the Indian prime minister had named Pakistani nuclear

sites in the areas which were Taliban-Qaida strongholds and said the sites

are already partly in the hands of “Muslim extremists.” A sub-head to

the story said “India gets ready for a Taliban-ruled nuclear neighbor.”


There was no official word from either Washington or New Delhi about

the exchanges, with India in the throes of an election and US winding

down for the weekend. But US experts have been greatly perturbed in

recent days about what they say is Washington’s misplaced confidence in,

and lackadaisical approach towards, Pakistan’snuclear assets. The disquiet

comes amid reports that Pakistan is ramping up its nuclear arsenal even as

the rest of the world is scaling it down.


“It is quite disturbing that the administration is allowing Pakistan to
quantitatively and qualitatively step up production of fissile material
without as much as a public reproach,” Robert Windrem, a visiting

scholar with the Center for Law and Security in New York University

and an expert on South Asia nuclear issues told ToI in an interview

on Thursday. “Iraq and Iran did not get a similar concessions… and

Pakistan has a much worse record of proliferation and security breaches

than any other country in the world.”


Windrem, a former producer with NBC whose book “Critical Mass” was

among the first to red flag Islamabad’s proliferation record going back to the
1980s, referred to recent
reports and satellite images showing Pakistan

building two large new plutonium production reactors in Khushab, which

experts say could lead to improvements in the quantity and quality of

the country’s nuclear arsenal. The reactors had nothing to do with power-

production’ they are weapons-specific, and are being built with resources

who diversion is enabled by the billions of dollars the US is giving to
Pakistan as aid, he said.


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The Third Jihad - Documentary Warns Against Cultural Jihad In US


Posted: 16 May 2009 11:16 PM PDT



Radical Islam is coming to America in subtle, sophisticated ways as part

of a cultural jihad set up to undermine democratic traditions from within

and to make way for a new theocratic state in the U.S.


This is the central message of “The Third Jihad: Radical Islam’s Vision for

America” a documentary that was screened at the National Press Club
Wednesday night. The film
suggests that the current struggle between the

west and international terrorist networks is actually the third in a series of

jihads that date back to 630 AD and 1453 AD.


Zuhdi Jasser, president and founder of the American Islamic Forum for
Democracy
(AIFD), serves as the narrator. He formed the organization in
the aftermath of the
9/11 terrorist attacks because he wanted moderate

Muslims to have a platform to speak against radical acts committed in the

name of their religion.


Although the threat of radical Islam is not as front and center in the U.S.

as it is in Europe ,it could gain a signficiant foothold over the next few
decades if certain
cultural and political trends go unchecked, Jasser and

other commentators warn.


The film focuses on the discovery of a Muslim Brotherhood memo called

“a Grand Jihad Manifesto” that calls for the destruction of the U.S. and
the establishment of
a radical Islamist Theocracy in its place. This same

document spells out the strategies and techniques that are folded into the

“cultural jihad” now at work in the U.S. and in other western societies.

Jasser and other speakers featured in the documentary call on American

Muslims to take a firm stand against radical elements and to resist the
imposition of parallel
societies where Sharia law holds sway over prevailing
customs.


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