3 border states using biometric enrollment in Food Stamp programs

BTC - Citing "fraud reduction" USDA Food Stamp Programs in over 6 states are using or considering biometrics during enrollments.

c/o NewsCityBuzz

"Biometric identification systems are currently operational at some level in Arizona, California (under county initiative, first by Los Angeles County), Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Texas. Finger imaging is the principal form of technology used in all eight States, though alternative technologies have simultaneously undergone trials in Massachusetts (facial recognition) and Illinois (retinal scanning). By the end of 2000, new systems are expected to be in place in California (statewide unified system), Delaware, and North Carolina. Other States are currently in the initial planning stages, including Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. However, there is little information available at this point regarding the specific course and trajectory these States will follow in terms of system types, implementation schedules, and the benefit programs in which they will implement the new requirement." 

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As much of an uphill climb as it is for the working poor, biometric ID will marry a previous criminal record to the impoverished person and vice versa. Mix in a criminal background check and a clever automated system will erode potential employment opportunities.

It's really not that far off to a sheer drop cliff for people who are scrambling to meet administrative requirements at TANF and other welfare-to-work programs in our underemployed America.

The United States should not be the country that underemploys our poor so it will be easier to criminalize them and stock them as convenient cattle in our prison system. But biometrics, a reliable eugenics modality, will help us get there as it was always designed to.

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StopSmartGrids: 2 Naperville homeowners arrested for refusing SmartGrid tech

c/o StopSmartMeters

NAPERVILLE, IL- The deployment of the “smart grid” took a dark turn on Wednesday in Illinois, as residents in the City of Naperville (CON) woke up to the reality of ‘smart’ meters forced on their homes by police officers and municipal utility installers working together to intimidate- and in two cases arrest- residents who continue to refuse the meters and protect their homes. This follows CON’s FINAL NOTICE to residents days before.

These developments would be unbelievable in and of themselves as flagrant violations of constitutional property rights. The fact that the meters emit a Class 2B carcinogen, have caused at least hundreds of fires, and clearly violate privacy laws including the 4th Amendment, not to mention that these facts are all at issue in an ongoing federal lawsuit brought against the city by its own residents- makes these events all the more troubling.

New details are emerging about the CON’s installation “blitzkrieg” – backed up by armed police- that hit neighborhoods in this Illinois city of 150,000 people starting on Wednesday January 23rd. The forced installations have continued since then.

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Are you the droid you have been looking for?

BTC  -The legislation has been passed.  Healthcare providers are required to report status of internal devices to a US federal agency as a condition of the Affordable Healthcare Act.  If that internal network device is hardware attached to your brain then, yes, the government is going to get reports about it.

According to predictive programming author, Ramez Naam, a futurists sci-fi complex will be driven by brain implants combined with pharmacological injections.  He posits in a Seattle Times interview that we will become the droids we are looking for, exemplifying the ~250,000 people walking around with brain implants now.

The people who hate TWIC cards are people who use them

BTC - Here is the common model gripe on US TWIC cards you will hear about.

c/o The Longest Climb

"The TWIC program was managed until recently by a down-at-heels military contractor who is always coming in second place in designing airplanes and shit to blow up shit contests. The TWIC card was a gimme program that fed their coffers a little while they tried and failed to come up with yet another military aircraft that someone would want somewhere. 

My beef with the TWIC is that every mariner with a Merchant Mariner's Credential already passes a rigorous background check by the FBI and Coast Guard. Why should we be vetted twice on the same issue every 5 years just to cut a check to the Coast Guard AND the Ministry of Offense (Department of Homeland Security) for $150 each to be given a card that isn't even accepted when presented to the DHS security agents who issued the card in the first place? Sounds crazy? Yeah, try showing the card when you're in line at the rape-o-scan at the airport."

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REDUX: Connecticut will lock down infants with RFID

L'enfant on lockdown

BTC - Good 'ol Wisconsin.  Home to Real ID beneficiaries, Rep. James Sensenbrenner, and technology mavens hell bent on getting babies enrolled with RFID tags. Someone made a sale to a receptive Conneticut hospital.

c/o RFID News 

Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Conn. has implemented an RFID system for its child-related facilities in an effort to keep newborns safe and reduce the risk of abductions. 

The hospital has selected Wisconsin-based RF Technologies Safe Place Infant Security product for this effort. It’s implemented the system on three floors of the hospital, including the family birthing and pediatric units. 

Safe Place uses water-resistant, lightweight transmitters and the company’s Smart Sense technology in a band that attaches around an infant’s ankle. Staff can then monitor the infants using automated software. If a band is loose, tampered with or removed, the software alerts the staff. 

Likewise, if an infant wearing a transmitter is in range of a monitored exit, the system can lock the doors and send out a potential security threat alert. Danbury Hospital is part of the Western Connecticut Health Network. It delivers about 2,500 babies annually. #

@educationny its very taboo to say we have a subliminal currency exchange on data. Its not a level of trafficking we want to admit to.
— BeatTheChip (@BeatTheChip) January 26, 2013

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"Waiting For REAL ID? Take a Seat, It'll Be a While"

BTC - I don't often give to pro-Real ID interest coverage or perspective. However, if you're smart, like this writer, he included the facts and some avant garde whining sounds coming from the DMV tchotchke dealers due to the can kicking.  [NO SOUP FOR YOU!]


c/o Robert Charette at IEEE Spectrum

"The pleasure of watching the endless tug of war over federal (unfunded) mandates versus states’ rights exposed by the REAL ID act is compounded by the risible and ever-changing cost estimates to the states of implementing it. Sensenbrenner originally estimated (i.e., pulled out of the air if not another place) that the cost to change state department of motor vehicle computer systems would be about $2 million per state over 5 years, or $100 million overall. The Congressional Budget Office, sharing the same fantasy, generally concurred, estimating that it would be closer to $120 million over the 5 years total."

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We honor the great contribution of civil liberties advocate and analyst at the Hit Parader Institute to cover the nuances of State-to-Federal relations and Real ID.  Comes complete with hissing in stereo.  And I do mean stereo - not iPod.



Great thanks to our homies at the Tenth Amendment Center. Tell Boldin to bring his cowbell.

Senator wants to prohibit schools from tracking students with GPS

c/o KTBC

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