By John-Henry Westen
NEW YORK, September 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On Tuesday,  Secretary General Kofi Annan delivered his final address to the United Nations General Assembly before he retires at the end of the year.  During the speech, which comes on the heels of the media-generated controversy regarding Pope Benedict XVI’s quoting of a text on Islam, Annan said, “insensitivity towards other people’s beliefs or sacred symbols –- intentional or otherwise -- is seized upon by those who seem eager to foment a new war of religion on a global scale.”
“Moreover, this climate of fear and suspicion is constantly refuelled by the violence in the Middle East”, he said, adding: “We might like to think of the Arab-Israeli conflict as just one regional conflict amongst many.  But it is not.  No other conflict carries such a powerful symbolic and emotional charge among people far removed from the battlefield.”
Annan sees the United Nations as the only solution to the world’s woes.  “Yes, I remain convinced that the only answer to this divided world must be a truly United Nations”, he said.
Climate change, HIV/AIDS, fair trade, migration, human rights -– “all these issues, and many more, bring us back ...   more »

By Heather Sells
CBN News
CBNNews.com – Sergeant Bill Koretsky's implanted medical microchip may have saved his life.  His story begins in the middle of a high-speed police chase in Hackensack, New Jersey.
Koretsky said, “The brakes on the police car overheated.  The car wouldn't stop and I hit a telephone pole dead center at 40 miles per hour.  The air bag did not deploy and I did not have my seatbelt on.  I hit the steering wheel.”     
Paramedics rushed Koretsky to Hackensack University Medical Center.  Thanks to his implanted chip, doctors immediately discovered Koretsky's diabetes.
“I regained full consciousness within an hour,” Koretsky said. “But if I had not, I could have gone into a coma.”       
If the VeriChip Corporation has its way, Koretsky's story will become the norm. It's targeting hospitals in Washington, D.C. and other metro areas, providing free scanners for the chip and hoping that soon, many Americans will decide to be implanted
The simple procedure inserts a tiny chip under the arm, with no visible scar.
Dr. Bob Rothstein of Bethesda, Maryland’s Suburban Hospital said, “It's the patient who chooses to have the chip implanted, who chooses to have the information they want ...   more »

By Renee Boucher Ferguson
Updated: The maker of human-implantable RFID chips makes its first sale of its infant protection, wander prevention and staff duress system to a Canadian hospital and is discussing testing its implantable chips in two military branches 
VeriChip, the company that makes human-implantable RFID chips, is looking to span its equipment from newborns to the military's enlisted.
The company announced Aug. 24 that it has made the first sale of its infant protection, wander prevention and staff duress system to the Brampton Civic Hospital in Brampton, Ontario. Separately, the company confirmed a day earlier that it is in talks with the military to test its implantable chips in two branches of the military.
VeriChip said in a press release Aug. 24 that the Brampton hospital, under construction now, is spending $750,000 to have VeriChip's platform and applications installed at its newest facility.
VeriChip's infant protection system is really two separate above-the-skin solutions, one a band similar to a standard hospital bracelet that has an embedded RFID chip. The second option, called the Halo skin-sensing system, is similar to an electronic key fob for a car that can be attached to an infant's ankle or a patient's wrist. ...   more »

By Heather Sells
CBN News
CBNNews.com – Sergeant Bill Koretsky's implanted medical microchip may have saved his life.  His story begins in the middle of a high-speed police chase in Hackensack, New Jersey.
Koretsky said, “The brakes on the police car overheated.  The car wouldn't stop and I hit a telephone pole dead center at 40 miles per hour.  The air bag did not deploy and I did not have my seatbelt on.  I hit the steering wheel.”    
Paramedics rushed Koretsky to Hackensack University Medical Center.  Thanks to his implanted chip, doctors immediately discovered Koretsky's diabetes.“I regained full consciousness within an hour,” Koretsky said. “But if I had not, I could have gone into a coma.”      
If the VeriChip Corporation has its way, Koretsky's story will become the norm. It's targeting hospitals in Washington, D.C. and other metro areas, providing free scanners for the chip and hoping that soon, many Americans will decide to be implanted.
The simple procedure inserts a tiny chip under the arm, with no visible scar.
Dr. Bob Rothstein of Bethesda, Maryland’s Suburban Hospital said, “It's the patient who chooses to have the chip implanted, who chooses to have the information they want on ...   more »

Posted: September 12, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
The city of Cooper City, Fla., has given itself the power to seize residents' personal property in times of emergency.
Officials deemed this new law necessary because of what is expected to be a busy hurricane season.
But don't worry, they say. The law would never be enforced unless there were no other options – presumably meaning that the city could not persuade private citizens to permit the government to borrow, rent or buy their equipment
Think of it as eminent domain for generators, power tools, trucks and anything else local czars determine they need.
Not surprisingly, this plan has met with some resistance.
''These people, with their mindset, should be arrested and put in jail for even attempting to do something like this,'' said Tim Wilder, a mobile mechanic who owns emergency tools and equipment.
While Commissioner Elliot Kleiman acknowledged that such a law is subject to abuse, he explained, ''but it's not going to happen here.''
Wouldn't that make you feel better?
You see, tyrants and dictators always believe they will be benevolent – that they would do the right thing in all circumstances. Few people run for office or seek ...   more »