The government is ramping up its efforts to improve the technology it uses to identify people by their tattoos. Earlier this week the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), which is a part of the US Department of Commerce, hosted a challenge to explore how recognition technology could be used to identify people based on their tattoos. Read Article
Blindspot: FBI Tattoo Recognition Technology-Mark of Beast?
Blindspot, the very popular American crime drama series on NBC television created by Martin Gero and produced by Warner Bros. Television & Berlanti Productions, is about a mysterious tattooed woman who has lost her memory and does not know her own identity. The FBI discovers that her marks or tattoos contain clues to upcoming crimes and through analysis of the … Read More
Terrorism Leading to Mark of the Beast?
Eating in a restaurant, then dead. Kids going to school, then dead. Out for some pleasant entertainment, then dead. Another terrorist event and more are dead. Those in leadership want control of people and information to stop it. Will their citizens accept something previously unthinkable for security? Is terrorism leading to an environment for fulfillment of the Mark of the … Read More
What ISIS Really Wants
The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. Yes, it has attracted psychopaths and adventure seekers, drawn largely from the disaffected populations of the Middle East and Europe. But the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam. The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is … Read More
Iranian supreme leader: We ousted ‘the Satan’ and Israel ‘will not see the coming 25 years’
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that his country would not enter into talks with the US outside the nuclear deal since world powers as Washington could use other negotiations to “penetrate” the Islamic Republic. Khamenei’s comments, published on his website, also said that America remained the “Great Satan.” “The Iranian nation ousted the Satan,” he said, adding, “We should … Read More
Franklin Graham Warns Christians to ‘Be Prepared’ for Persecution Following Supreme Court Marriage Ruling; ‘It’s Coming’ and So Is ‘God’s Judgement Upon America
Leading Evangelist Franklin Graham is warning Christians nationwide that they should be ready to face persecution if they wish to stand by the biblical definition of marriage following last Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which legalized same-sex marriage throughout the United States. Despite President Barack Obama claiming that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges is a “victory for a … Read More
Dying for Christianity: millions at risk amid rise in persecution across the globe
Christians are facing growing persecution around the world, fuelled mainly by Islamic extremism and repressive governments, leading the pope to warn of “a form of genocide” and for campaigners to speak of “religio-ethnic cleansing”. The scale of attacks on Christians in the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America has alarmed organisations that monitor religious persecution, with most reporting … Read More
Violence – A Sign of the Times
It’s spreading and becoming more virulent with vicious intensity – Its violence. Terrorists killing hundreds, again; another plane blown out of the sky; another violent earthquake; more children killed in city shootings; one country bombing another; just another one week news cycle. A defining characteristic of the signs of the times is violence. The Holy Scripture had prophesied of it… … Read More
Sierra Leone is free of Ebola, 18 months and 11,000 deaths after outbreak
NAIROBI — About a year and a half after it emerged, the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has officially ended. More than 11,000 Sierra Leoneans died of the disease, and at least 17,000 survived it. It came upon some slums and villages like a wave, infecting scores overnight and posing one of the most significant public health challenges in recent … Read More
Plague case confirmed in Michigan
A Michigan resident has contracted the life-threatening bubonic plague — the first documented case in Michigan’s public health history, state officials confirmed. The Marquette County adult is recovering after apparently contracting the rare flea-borne illness during a trip to Colorado. Officials are reassuring the public there is no cause for alarm, despite the disease’s connection to the microorganism that caused the Black Death plague in Europe in … Read More