Soon, Big Brother will be watching you in your home

Associated Press | Jun 20, 2007

Just a reminder: the mainstream media prostitutes are actively attempting to condition you to accept Big Brother in a big way. Each little compromise you make with this Orwellian system allows them to take yet another step of invasion into your life, and another, and another. There is really no end to it. The ulimate aim of the diabolical globalist elite is absolute and total high-tech enslavement of humanity to the point that all of your bodily functions, behavior, speech and even brain activity will be monitored 24/7 within a generation. But they sell it to you as something “voluntary”, something you voluntarily submit yourself to. Keep this in mind as you read this.

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BY JUSTIN POPE

This fall, Troy University in Alabama will roll out the latest in education’s fight against cheating — Web cams to proctor exams.

The number of college students taking courses online is surging, creating a tough dilemma for educators who want to prevent cheating.

Do you trust students to take an exam on their own computer from home or work, even though it may be easy to sneak a peek at the textbook? Or do you force them to trek to a proctored test center, detracting from the convenience that drew them to online classes in the first place?

The dilemma is one reason many online programs do little testing at all. But some new technology that places a camera inside students’ homes may be the way of the future — as long as students don’t find it too creepy.

This fall, Troy University in Alabama will begin rolling out the new camera technology for many of its approximately 11,000 online students, about a third of whom are at U.S. military installations around the world.

The device, made by Cambridge, Mass.-based Software Secure, is similar in many respects to other test-taking software. It locks down a computer while the test is being taken, preventing students from searching files or the Internet. The latest version also includes fingerprint authentication, to help ensure the person taking the test isn’t a ringer.

But the new development is a small Web cam and microphone that is set up where a student takes the exam. The camera points into a reflective ball, which allows it to capture a full 360-degree image. (The first prototype was made with a Christmas ornament.)

When the exam begins, the device records audio and video. Software detects significant noises and motions and flags them in the recording. An instructor can go back and watch only the portions flagged by the software to see if anything untoward is going on — a student making a phone call, leaving the room — and if there is a sudden surge in performance afterward.

The inventors admit it’s far from a perfect defense against a determined cheater. But a human test proctor isn’t necessarily better. And the camera at least ”ensures that those people that are taking classes at a distance are on a level playing field,” said Douglas Winneg, Software Secure’s president and CEO.

Troy graduate students will start using the device this fall, and undergraduates a year later. Software Secure says it has talked to other distance learning providers, too. A potential future market is the standardized testing industry, which has struggled to find enough secure testing sites to accommodate growing worldwide demand for tests like the SAT college entrance exam and the GMAT for graduate school.

An estimated 3.2 million students were taking online classes in the fall of 2005, according to the most recent figures from the Sloan Consortium, a group of online learning providers that studies trends in the field, and that figure is almost certainly substantially higher today.

Richard Garrett, a senior research analyst at Eduventures who follows online learning, said he finds the technology promising, particularly for large companies trying to streamline a now-messy part of their operation.

‘The great unknown is, `Will it be seen as too invasive?’ ” he said.

Crossing guard charged in 1000 sex assaults over 9 years

MSNBC | Jun 20, 2007

1,000 counts in Penn. town cover allegations over nine years

BERWICK, Pa. – A school crossing guard accused of molesting seven children has been charged with more than 1,000 counts of sexual assault.

Dale Hutchings was arrested Tuesday and charged with 305 counts of raping a child, 356 counts of aggravated indecent assault against a child under 13, and 356 counts of indecent assault against a child under 13.

The assaults took place between 1998 and 2007, and all of the victims were under 13 when the attacks began, police said.

Hutchings, of Berwick, worked as a crossing guard near Orange Street Elementary School. He also worked for the Berwick Area Ambulance Association and was a high school band booster.

He was sent to Columbia County Prison on $300,000 bail.

Police began investigating Hutchings on Monday when an 11-year-old girl accused him of putting his hand down her pants as she made breakfast at his house toward the end of the school year, according to court documents. Police were led to other victims who also said they were molested.

One teenager, now 18, told police Hutchings molested her more than 300 times between the ages of 12 and 15, according to court documents.

Police said they found homemade videos when they searched his house late Tuesday.

Berwick is a town of about 11,000 in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Confronting Michael Moore and Amy Goodman with 9/11 truth

“Well, I’ve had a number of firefighters tell me over the years since 9/11 that they heard these explosions. Uh, that they believe that there’s much more to this story than we’ve been told. I don’t think the official investigations have told us the complete truth. They haven’t even told us half the truth. And, so, I support, and I hope, you know, if there’s a new administration or somebody could open up a new investigation into this before we get too far away from it to find out the whole truth….”

“Let me just give you one thing that has, I’ve asked for for a long time. I’ve filmed before down at the Pentagon before 9/11. There’s got to be at least a hundred video cameras ringing that building, in the trees, everywhere. They’ve got that plane coming in with a hundred angles. How come we haven’t seen the straight – I’m not talking about stop action photos, or. I’m talking about the video. I want to see the video. I want to see a hundred videos that exist of this. Why don’t they want us to see that plane coming into the building? Because, you know, if you know anything about flying a plane, if you’re going 500 MPH, if you’re off by that much, you’re in the river. To hit a building that’s only five stories high that expertly, uh, I believe that there will be answers in that videotape, and we should demand that that tape is…You see, I’m not very good at the physics and all that. But I, but I, believe me, the questions need to be answered, and I intend in my own way to find some answers. So, thank you for whatever you’re doing….”

Move over Sopranos, here are ‘The Clintons’

ASSOCIATED PRESS | Jun 20, 2007

WASHINGTON – The scene: A diner and a jukebox. A nostalgic song. A cut to black. It worked as a finale for “The Sopranos.” It now marks a new beginning for “The Clintons.”

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign yesterday unveiled its new campaign song with a Web video that spoofs the final scene of the popular HBO mobster series.

The video and the announcement of Celine Dion’s “You and I” as the official Clinton tune cap an Internet campaign that drew more than a million viewers to the campaign Web site and to YouTube. In the new Clinton clip, she, like Tony Soprano, spins through the music on a diner jukebox. Meanwhile, her husband quizzes her about the campaign and the song contest.

The music playing is Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” the song Tony Soprano picks from the jukebox. Actor Vince Curatola, who played Johnny “Sack” Sacramoni in the series, walks by the Clintons’ table.

Tony Soprano ordered onion rings. Hillary orders carrots for Bill Clinton. “No onion rings?” the former president asks.

“Where’s Chelsea?” Sen. Clinton asks. Outside a car tire hits the curb.

“Parallel parking,” he replies. Meadow Soprano did the same.

“How’s the campaign going?” he asks.

“Well, like you always say, focus on the good times.”

“So what’s the winning song?” he presses.

“You’ll see.”

“My money is on Smash Mouth,” he says. “Everybody in America wants to know how it’s going to end.”

“Ready?” Hillary asks.

The scene cuts to black.

Giuliani’s South Carolina Campaign Chairman Indicted for Dealing Cocaine

tothecenter.com | Jun 19, 2007

by Mike Leonard

CHARLESTON, S.C., June 19—Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s statewide campaign chairman for South Carolina was indicted today on federal cocaine charges according to The Associated Press. State treasurer Thomas Ravenel has been charged with distribution of under 500 grams of cocaine and faces up to 20 years in federal prison.

The charges allege that Mr. Ravenel, 44, a real estate millionaire, bought the drugs in late 2005 to share with other people. The New York Daily News reports that the investigation began before he was elected state treasurer in November, but law enforcement officials only recently acquired sufficient evidence to indict.

The Giuliani camp moved quickly to distance itself from its top official in this early-primary state, calling Ravenel’s position one of “volunteer responsibilities.” “Our campaign has no information about the accusations pending against Mr. Ravenel. Mr. Ravenel has stepped down,” said campaign spokesman Mark Campbell.

The campaign has already replaced the suddenly embattled Mr. Ravenel with former South Carolina G.O.P. chairman Barry Wynn according to the A.P.

This is not the first time an aide or political ally of Mr. Giuliani has landed in legal hot water. When President Bush nominated Bernard Kerik, police commissioner under Mayor Giuliani, to head the Department of Homeland Security in 2004, confirmation hearings revealed possible ties to organized crime. In 2006, he pled guilty to to accepting a gift from a New Jersey construction firm rumored to be connected to the mob.