 Boston Globe | Bush Urges World Leaders to Keep Markets Open Voice of America - Mr. Bush will host a world economic summit in Washington on November 15. He called on leaders attending the summit to recommit themselves to what he ... Amid global meltdown, Bush urges world markets to have patience Bush touts free market as solution to economy’s woes Bush urges patience in economic crisis |
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 Canada.com | Leaders urge world finance reform BBC News, UK - Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said Beijing would take an active role at a summit of world leaders to be held in Washington next month. ... IMF PUTS BILLIONS IN POT TO BAIL OUT WORLD Asia, Europe discuss economy, call for IMF help Asia, EU leaders united in lack of detail |
New world order for migrants needed: TU leader ABS CBN News, Philippines - She explained that expanding regular migration, protecting rights and ensuring equal treatment and the policy coherence that world leaders must take on are ... 'Crisis solution must ensure migration' GFMD head: Govts lack political will in solving migration problems 40M illegal migrants prop up economies |
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Asian and European leaders over the weekend urged a major overhaul of the international currency and financial systems at the Asia-Europe Meeting in Beijing ...
By Li Xiaokun (China Daily) Premier Wen Jiabao has called for new rules to guide the international financial system following Asian and European leaders' ...
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NWO ADVOCVATE SARKOZY NEEDLED OVER VOODOO DOLL
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By Heather Whipps A controversial voodoo doll is proving to be quite the pain in the side of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The doll, which features ...
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FC Abroad: Sarkozy tries to take over the world National Post, Canada - Back home, Sarkozy is battling publishing company K&B for issuing a voodoo doll in his image. “Do you hate Nicolas Sarkozy because he has too much power? ... |
Sarkozy sues makers of bestselling voodoo doll CNN International - PARIS, France (AP) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy isn't enchanted with a hot-selling voodoo doll of him and wants a Paris judge to order its cheeky ... |
 BBC News | Sarkozy needled by 'voodoo doll' BBC News, UK - French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to sue a publishing company if it does not withdraw from shops a "voodoo doll" in his image. ... |
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Turd Nine From Outer Space, Beer Standard Economics, Sarkozy ... Gather.com, MA - A voodoo doll that looks like French President Nicolas Sarkozy has gone on sale. The doll, which we expect to be the first in a range of similar products ... |
Only A Dummy Would Buy These Dolls.. Glasgow Daily Record, UK - Nicholas Sarkozy plans to sue a publishing company if they do not withdraw a voodoo doll in his image. He is furious about the prospect of folk sticking ... |
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In my last newsletter I wrote :
STOP PAYING TAXES !
Well I got a lot of feed back on that one, most of you agreed but, there are some rules you need to follow to protect yourself. The only way to stop paying taxes totally and not be harrassed is if thousands, no millions of people all did it at the same time. That is not going to happen, as we all know there are many that will agree with everything but when it comes to actually doing it they just don't. They won't put themselves in jeopardy or risk anything simply waiting for someone else to go first and break the trail. There are just too many people that are not going to risk anything for their freedom or ultimate survival. This is a sad state of affairs.
Tommy Cryer has a step by step plan which will get us all on the same page on this subject. I trust Tom to tell us the truth and offer a sensible method of acomplishing this feat. Click here for Tom's message; We support Tom and are a part of his Truth Attack. We won't be stopping what we are doing but will be working in conjunction with him and many other groups working for Unity in the Revolution.
Even Buddy our hairy family member is a bit of a revolutionary. I don't know what he has planned but from the look on his face he may need to be told about the Martial Law boys. He told me that he only needed 544 more of these and he could fix things in this country. I feel like any day now I will look out and see the uniforms in my yard but until then we will continue to go forth and try to inform you all of coming danger and how to protect yourself.
Last week was not a good one, I woke up in the middle of the night with my heart racing, skipping beats and not able to breathe. Being a person that hates doctors and hospitals I chose to just wait and see what would happen, it only got worse until that afternoon my husband came home and forced me to go to the hospital. At the emergency room I was in worse shape, nothing there but Aliens, no one spoke English, and there I sat stewing for 3 hours until Tim finally threw a fit about the long wait when they shut him up by putting me in a room where I sat for another hour waiting for a doctor. By the time a Doctor arrived I was totally out of it, I lost it when he started writing prescriptions for anti depresants, high blood pressure, muscle relaxants, gheesh.. I lost it.. There was a total of $545.00 ( I just noticed this amount, strange it coincides with the numbers of the Senate and Congress )worth of medication I just had to take.? Yeah Right. We went to check out and got a bill for $897.00 for Emergency Room Service.. My first question was : Am I paying by the hour? I went into one of my Granny tyrades and cussed them all out, told them about my views on their service etc.. Also told them to take me to court to collect that bill. And walked out without paying. ( don't get me wrong, I agree there should be a fee, and would not mind paying a reasonable one but to sit for all that time, not have any tests, only blood pressure, and to be charged that much?) Anyway on the way out I realized that I felt great, my heart had returned to it's normal rate and I could breathe without gasping. It seems that the only medication I needed was a good screaming hissy fit.
I still don't know what caused the attack, but a friend asked about chem trails? In my area I had never seen any until the day before the attack. A friend from SD was here and we had just gone to lunch when he told me to look at the sky. My God there they were, 4 planes laying down rows and rows of these trails. Honestly I have never seen any of this over Asheville before. I took photos and just couldn't keep from watching those trails spread out until the sky was just a dull gray. I realize many of you live with this every day but luckily I had not been subjected up until now. Thinking back was this chemical cloud the reason for my panic attack? It is strange as I am not a person to get upset to that extent about anything. Now I am more aware of what is going on, could these strange trails be causing a lot of the behavior people are showing now? Indolence, Panic, Fear, Putting ones head in the sand? I guess it probably affects everyone differently. We are lucky as we live outside the Asheville area and by the time we got back to our mountain the sky was blue but you could see in a distance the gray over the city. It just hung there not seeming to move.? Strange as the wind should disperse this stuff in the air or at least move it around.
My question now is. with all the different cities and states reporting constant chem trail activity why has not one single pilot, airport, etc blown the whistle on these activities? Common sense tells you that there has to be thousands of these planes all with pilots and crews in service. Why has not one single one of them said a word about what they are doing or why?
My best advice to everyone is to get ready for some really hard times. Buy everything you can that will sustain your family like food, household supplies ( I have lists in our book that will help you) plant gardens, A small greenhouse attached to your home can supply food even in the winter and is easy to construct, if it is built around a window and that window left open the heat from the house will keep the plants from freezing and will also give you some very good air to breathe. Remember plants absorb carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. A small enclosure of even 10 feet can be very productive, I am making some drawings and diagrams of how to plant and build such a structure which will be done within a day or two. It will be added to the book. ( those of you that have already purchased our book please write and ask for the supplement no charge, send a self addressed stamped envelope, and I will send it out to you. )
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Alan Stang raises the question about the role communism plays in our lives. Once again, I urge you to read carefully the attached file which contains a document that was placed in the Congressional Record in 1963. It is the goals of the Communist Party of the US . Read each goal and reflect upon what progress you believe has been made since 1963 towards realizing that goal. It is stunning how close we are to reaching each and everyone of the Communist goals. Then read Mr. Stang's article. Do not take it lightly!
Don Stacey
http://www.newswithviews.com/Stang/alan169.htm
Found in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - Appendix - January 10, 1963
Extension of Remarks
Honorable A. S. Herlong, Jr. Of Florida In the House of Representatives
MR. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land , Fl., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America .
At Mrs. Norman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist", by Cleon Skousen:
1958 CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament (by) the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow . Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo .)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States .
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs of organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the grounds that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures that interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand (or treat).
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal .
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
Sent to you by David Costello
On September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on "This Week" with George Stephanapoulos. Obama on talking about his religion said, "My Muslim faith". When questioned, "he make a mistake". Some mistake
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If you live in Delaware County Indiana and use Comcast cable TV you can watch "The Patriot Hour" on channel 60 at 8PM on Thursday evenings. By the way my 10 year + model camera bit the dust and Canon says parts nor repair on that old of a unit is no longer available. So I will be doing reruns until I am able to raise enough dough [money] to purchase a new one this time.
Kipling Poem - Wrath of the Awakened Saxon
IT'S TIME ! ! ! SS
Wrath of the Awakened Saxon:
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddenly bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
~ Rudyard Kipling, 1917 <<...>> <<...>>
"If you learn only one thing from me, learn this:
“In the next century [2000], nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all." Strobe Talbot, Clinton 's Deputy Secretary of State, as quoted in Time, July 20th, 1992.
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Here is why all this unconstitutional activity is taking place...
In Public Law 313 dated 4-14-1952, the Federal government admitted that its support of the United Nations is unconstitutional and contingent uponthe United States Government continuing to operate under "emergency powers." It said: "Whereas the existing state of war…and the termination thereof…would render certain statutory provisions inoperative….and Whereas some of these statutory provisions are needed to insure the…capacity of the United States to support the United Nations…it is desirable to extend these statutory provisions." Incidentally, the enemy in this "war" is the American people but that’s another story.
Mutant Seeds for Mesopotamia
by Andrew Bosworth, Ph.D.
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| October 15, 2008  One would think that Iraqi farmers, now prospering under "freedom" and "democracy," would be able to plant the seeds of their choosing, but that choice, under little-known Order 81, would be illegal.  But first, it is important to set the context. Most people have never heard of the infamous "100 Orders," but they help explain why the majority of Iraqis remain opposed to foreign occupation. The 100 Orders allow multinational corporations to basically privatize an entire nation, and this degree of foreign and private control has not been witnessed since the days of the British East India Company and its extraterritoriality treaties.  A few examples of the 100 Orders are illuminating:
 Back to one of the most blatant orders of all: Order 81. Under this mandate, Iraq's commercial farmers must now buy "registered seeds." These are normally imported by Monsanto, Cargill and the World Wide Wheat Company. Unfortunately, these registered seeds are "terminator" seeds, meaning "sterile." Imagine if all human men were infertile, and in order to reproduce women needed to buy sperm cells at a sperm bank. In agricultural terms, terminator seeds represent the same kind of sterility. Terminator seeds have no agricultural value other than creating corporate monopolies. The Sierra Club, more of a mainstream "conservation" organization than a radical "environmentalist" one, makes the exact same case:
What makes this Order 81 even more outrageous is that Iraqi farmers have been saving wheat and barley seeds since at least 4000 BC, when irrigated agriculture first emerged, and probably even to about 8000 BC, when wheat was first domesticated. Mesopotamia' s farmers have now been trumped by white-smocked, corporate bio-engineers from Florida who strive to replace hundreds of natural varieties with a handful of genetically scrambled hybrids.  Where does such hubris come from? It comes from the entire mission surrounding the invasion of Iraq, which, upon closer inspection, had been planned years in advance by a faction of "neo-cons" who adopted Leon Trotsky's glorification of the state, his theory "permanent revolution," and his goal of exporting revolution worldwide. The neo-con revolution aims to alter the economic, political and cultural foundations of nations on the other side of the planet (rejecting old-fashioned notions of self-determination, popular sovereignty and even the nation-state system). This mission includes the transformation of agriculture and the establishment of "food control" over local populations. Order 81 fits into this revolutionary program, and it is quite diabolical upon closer inspection. First, it forces Iraq's commercial farmers to use registered terminator seeds (the "protected variety"). Then it defines natural seeds as illegal (the "infringing variety"), in a classic Orwellian turn of language. This is so incredible that it must be re-stated: the exotic genetically scrambled seeds are the "protected variety" and the indigenous seeds are the "infringing variety."  As Jeffrey Smith explains, author of Order 81: Re-Engineering Iraqi Agriculture:
 Order 81 comes with the Orwellian title of "Plant Variety Protection." Any self-respecting scientist knows, however, that imposing biological standardization accomplishes the exact opposite: It reduces biodiversity and threatens species. So Order 81 comes with an Orwellian title and consists of Orwellian provisions.  Jeffrey Smith peels away the layers of mischief behind Order 81, finding it nonsensical that six varieties of wheat have been developed for Iraq:
Just in case Iraqi farmer can't read, Order 81 enforces the new monopoly on seeds with the jackboot. Order 81 makes this clear in its own text, buried at the bottom of the document, as is most screw-you fine print:
Order 81 is about power and profit, but it disguises itself as humanitarian legislation. Topping it all off, the entire document puts on rather magisterial airs. It was signed by L. Paul Bremer himself, with his own hand, and presumably with his own pen:
Like the Roman Proconsuls, Paul Bremer also spent a year in the provinces, governing the so-called barbarians… -The above is an excerpt from Andrew Bosworth’s new book: Biotech Empire: The Untold Future of Food, Pills, and Sex, available at Amazon. -Andrew Bosworth, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of Government at the University of Texas at Brownsville.  Click Notes 1. Uruknet Report, "Have You Ever Heard of Bremer's 100 Orders?" 11 April 2008. 2. Institutional Report, Genetic Engineering at a Historic Crossroads," The Sierra Club Genetic Engineering Committee Report, March 2001. 3. Jeffrey Smith. "ORDER 81: Re-Engineering Iraqi Agriculture - The Ultimate War Crime: Breaking the Agricultural Cycle." Global Research and The Ecologist, 27 August 2005, Vol 35, No. 1. 4. Jeffrey Smith. "ORDER 81: Re-Engineering Iraqi Agriculture - The Ultimate War Crime: Breaking the Agricultural Cycle." Global Research and The Ecologist, 27 August 2005, Vol 35, No. 1. 5 CPA/ORD/26 April 2004/81, p. 27. |
:: Article nr. 47991 sent on 16-oct-2008 04:02 ECT
:: The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Uruknet .
UN announces green ‘New Deal’ plan to rescue world economies
October 25, 2008 · No Comments
Denouncing the morally corrupt menace of the NWO martial law command economy and order out of chaos illumiNazi final solution!
License Plate Recognition
Grand Theft Auto Meets Robocop
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License plate readers help recover stolen cars East Valley Tribune, AZ - Since May 1, police have recovered 26 stolen vehicles by using its four automated license-plate recognition systems, which were installed at a cost of about ... |
Tracking on a fast track Chicago Tribune, United States - Suspects who get into cars could also be followed and pinpointed by roadside surveillance cameras that record license plate numbers. |
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The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR -
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BY KIRSTEN DOYLE , ITWEB PORTALS EDITOR Forces within the US military are looking to develop a remorseless robotic pack capable of hunting down "a ...
Robots To Hunt In Packs Techtree.com, India - Of course--they could be 100-kilo robots with weapons. Last year, iRobot and Taser International agreed to stick stun guns on military robots. ... |
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Robots to Target Non-cooperative Humans Robots.net, TX - NewScientist noticed in the latest batch of DARPA SBIR proposals Army project A08-204 to develop packs of 3 to 5 robots that will hunt down "non-cooperative ... |
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Gizmodo Australia, Australia -
The military is worried that controlling robots will take time away from defence officials so creating a pack-hunting AI that will do it automatically will ...
Boston Globe, United States -
The order is for delivery of 17 PackBot system robots and repair parts to NAVSEA by Jan. 31. The PackBot robots will be customized for NAVSEA and equipped ...
IRobot lands $3.7M customized robot order
iRobot Receives $3.7 Million Order from NAVSEA
iRobot granted $3.7 mln order by NAVSEA under an existing IDIQ ...
IRBTDARPA building search engine for video surveillance footage
October 21, 2008
The government agency that birthed the Internet is developing a sophisticated search engine for video, and when complete will allow intelligence analysts to sift through live footage from spy drones, as well as thousands of hours worth of archived recordings, in order to spot a variety of selected events or behaviors. In the past month, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced nearly $20 million in total contracts for private firms to begin developing the system, which is slated to take until at least 2011 to complete.
According to a prospectus written in March but released only this month, the Video and Image Retrieval and Analysis Tool (VIRAT) will enable intel analysts to "rapidly find video content of interest from archives and provide alerts to the analyst of events of interest during live operations," taking both conventional video and footage from infrared scanners as input. The VIRAT project is an effort to cope with a growing data glut that has taxed intelligence resources because of the need to have trained human personnel perform time- and labor-intensive review of recorded video.
The DARPA overview emphasizes that VIRAT will not be designed with "face recognition, gait recognition, human identification, or any form of biometrics" in mind. Rather, the system will search for classes of activities or events. A suggested partial list in the prospectus includes digging, loitering, exploding, shooting, smoking, following, shaking hand, excahnging objects, crawling under a car, breaking a window, and evading a checkpoint. As new sample clips are fed into the system, it will need to recognize the signature features of new classes of search terms.
VIRAT will be rolled out in three phases, each assigned to a different contractor in order to prevent conflicts of interest. The first phase, design of an initial prototype, will be handled by New York–based Kitware, Inc., which The Washington Post reports is heading a consortium of 9 companies and universities that will work on the $6.7 million project. (Correction: The Post initially misidentified the consortium as comprising 19 members..) Later phases will refine and optimize the search algorithm, then demonstrate its capabilities on real-world data. Massachussets- based BAE Systems National Security Solutions and Lockheed Martin were also awarded VIRAT contracts, presumably for these later phases, totalling $7.2 million and $5.5 million respectively.
By the end of the final phase of development, according to DARPA's plan, VIRAT will process at least 58 megapixels per second, with an accuracy rate of 95 percent.
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DARPA spies on analyst brains; hopes to offload image analysis to computers
By John Timmer
November 12, 2007
As things currently stand, computers have some pretty severe limitations when it comes to image analysis, as they frequently misidentify the basic components of an image. That leaves humans the undisputed champs at recognizing significant features of photographs. From a military and intelligence perspective, this is a big problem: it's easy to obtain images, meaning trained image analysts are the big bottlenecks when it comes to intelligence. To avoid this problem, DARPA is working on developing a human/machine hybrid process to speed the screening of image data.
The work takes advantage of the fact that the brain does a lot of work in filtering visual information before making the conscious mind aware of what has been seen. This can take the form of weeding out distractions, generating associations, and identifying features that may be worthy of further attention. All of these process happen even if images are only visible for fractions of a second.
The DARPA program funds Honeywell to work with academic researchers to listen in on the brain's internal conversation to help filter out those images that aren't worth detailed analysis. Trained analysts are fitted with electrodes that monitored their brain activity, and then shown stacks of 50 images in rapid succession.
Each image was visible for only 50-100 milliseconds, meaning the analysts could view many thousand images in the span of an hour (details of the work are available on pages 26-36 of this PDF). The researchers found that distinct patterns of electrical activity were apparent starting 250 milliseconds after a target image was visible. Images that trigger this signal can be tagged as meriting more careful analysis.
According to the Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Honeywell is now ready to demonstrate the system, and is already on looking to expand its scope to medical imaging. One thing that's not been mentioned in this material, however, is how the analysts feel after enduring a 20-minute-long image bombardment.
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Darpa Wants to See Inside Your House
By Noah Shachtman October 22, 2008
The Pentagon wants to be able to peer inside your apartment building -- picking out where all the major rooms, stairways, and dens of evil-doers are.
The U.S. military is getting better and better at spotting its enemies, when they're roaming around the streets. But once those foes duck into houses, they become a whole lot harder to spot. That's why Darpa, the Defense Department's way-out research arm, is looking to develop a suite of tools for "external sensing deep inside buildings." The ultimate goal of this Harnessing Infrastructure for Building Reconnaissance (HIBR) project: "reverse the adversaries' advantage of urban familiarity and sanctuary and provide U.S. Forces with complete above- and below-ground awareness."
By the end of the project, Darpa wants a set of technologies that can see into a 10-story building with a two-level basement in a "high-density urban block" -- and produce a kind of digital blueprint of the place. Using sensors mounted on backpacks, vehicles, or aircraft, the HIBR gear would, hopefully, be able to pick out every room, wall, stairway, and basement in the building -- as well as all of the "electrical, plumbing, and installation systems."
Darpa doesn't come out and say it openly. But it appears that the agency wants these HIBR gadgets to be able to track the people inside these buildings, as well. Why else would these sensors be required to "provide real-time updates" once U.S. troops enter the building? Perhaps there's more about the people-spotting tech, in the "classified appendix" to HIBR's request for proposals.
There are already a number of efforts underway, both military and civilian, to try to see inside buildings. The Army has a couple of hand-held gadgets that can spot people just on the other side of a wall. Some scientists claim that can even catch human breathing and heartbeats beyond a barrier.
Darpa's Visibuilding program uses a kind of radar to scan structures. The problem isn't sending the radio frequency (RF) energy in. It's "making sense of the data produced from all the reflected signals" that come back, Henry Kenyon wrote in a recent Signal magazine article. Besides processing data from the inside a structure, the system also must filter a large amount of RF propagation in the form of randomly reflected signals. Although radar technologies exist that can track people in adjacent rooms, it is much more difficult to map an entire building. “Going through one wall is not that bad, but a building is basically an RF hall of mirrors. You’ve got signals bouncing all over the place,” Darpa program manager Dr. Edward J. Baranoski says. Field trials are supposed to get underway this fall.
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