Researchers develop remarkable dust-sized microgrippers to collect tissue samples autonomously during a biopsy

When a doctor requires a tissue sample to help provide a more detailed medical diagnosis, they have to use traditional tools like forceps and a scalpel. This process is referred to as a biopsy in the medical field, of which there are several different types.

Thanks to developments in recent technology, it looks like doctors may be able to soon rely on “mu-grippers” or tiny electronic devices designed to collect tissue samples (mu stands for micro in Greek). The devices are so small that internal impact would be minimal, and a unique heat activated technology allows them to remain free of batteries, wires or tethers. They’re essentially metal discs, about 300 micrometers in size (making them a little too big to be dubbed as nanotechnology), and they serve one very specific purpose. Thanks to unique metal arms, coated in heat-sensitive polymer, the microgrippers are able to collect tiny bits of tissue which can then be used to provide a diagnosis quickly and more efficiently.
The microgrippers are made entirely of nickel, but the unique polymer coating permits them to contract and expand under various conditions, ultimately allowing the devices to close tightly on bits of tissue. Because of their metal composition they’re obviously magnetic which makes them a lot easier to extract once the job is finished.
Unfortunately, that’s one of the current problems with the microgrippers. After releasing a swarm of them into a source, they can be retrieved with a magnetic catheter but some of the units may actually end up being left behind. It can be compared to dropping sharp objects on a carpet or rug, even with the right tools cleanup can still be quite difficult.
Dr. Gracias from John Hopkins University developed the tiny microgrippers, and his team has also tested the remarkable devices several times. During one of the tests, his team used a pig’s colon as a model because of how similar it is to a human colon.
Another member of the research team, Florin M. Selaru talked about how the project still has further to go until the devices can be used on humans.

“The next step is improving how we deploy the grippers. The concept is sound, but we still need to address some of the details. The other thing we need to do is thorough safety studies.”

The team is currently seeking help from Biotechnology investors and as such they’ve applied for grants to help fund the continuation of the research project. It seems we’re still a few years away from seeing technology used like this in the wild, but it’s still remarkable, nonetheless.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, the microgrippers have been compared to “dust,” that should provide a more reasonable example of their size.

FLASHBACK - THE LIE OF THE CENTURY

As the US Government/Lamestream Media starts screaming about Syria's weapons of mass destruction, we all need to go back and recall the lies about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction........

There is nothing new in a government lying to their people to start a war. Indeed because most people prefer living in peace to bloody and horrific death in war, any government that desires to initiate a war usually lies to their people to create the illusion that support for the war is the only possible choice they can make.

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President McKinley told the American people that the USS Maine had been sunk in Havana Harbor by a Spanish mine. The American people, outraged by this apparent unprovoked attack, supported the Spanish American War. The Captain of the USS Maine had insisted the ship was sunk by a coal bin explosion, investigations after the war proved that such had indeed been the case. There had been no mine.

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Hitler used this principle of lying to his own people to initiate an invasion. He told the people of Germany that Poland had attacked first and staged fake attacks against German targets. The Germans, convinced they were being threatened, followed Hitler into Poland and into World War 2.

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FDR claimed Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack. It wasn't. The United States saw war with Japan as the means to get into war with Germany, which Americans opposed. So Roosevelt needed Japan to appear to strike first. Following an 8-step plan devised by the Office of Naval Intelligence, Roosevelt intentionally provoked Japan into the attack. Contrary to the official story, the fleet did not maintain radio silence, but sent messages intercepted and decoded by US intercept stations. Tricked by the lie of a surprise attack, Americans marched off to war.

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President Johnson lied about the Gulf of Tonkin to send Americans off to fight in Vietnam.There were no torpedoes in the water in the Gulf. LBJ took advantage of an inexperienced sonar man's report to goad Congress into escalating the Vietnam War.

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It is inescapable historical reality that leaders of nations will lie to their people to trick them into wars they otherwise would have refused. It is not "conspiracy theory" to suggest that leaders of nations lie to trick their people into wars. It is undeniable fact. This brings us to the present case. Did the government of the United States lie to the American people, more to the point, did President Bush and his Neocon associates lie to Congress, to initiate a war of conquest in Iraq? This question has been given currency by a memo leaked from inside the British Government which clearly indicates a decision to go to war followed by the "fixing" of information around that policy. This is, as they say, a smoking gun. But the fact is that long before this memo surfaced, it had become obvious that the US Government, aided by that of Great Britain, was lying to create the public support for a war in Iraq.

First off is Tony Blair's "Dodgy Dossier", a document released by the Prime Minister that made many of the claims used to support the push for war. The dossier soon collapsed when it was revealed that much of it had been plagiarized from a student thesis paper that was 12 years old!The contents of the dossier, however much they seemed to create a good case for invasion, were obsolete and outdated. This use of material that could not possibly be relevant at the time is clear proof of a deliberate attempt to deceive.

Then there was the claim about the "Mobile biological weapons laboratories". Proffered in the absence of any real laboratories in the wake of the invasion, photos of these trailers were shown on all the US Mainstream Media, with the claim they while seeming to lack anything suggesting biological processing, these were part of a much larger assembly of multiple trailers that churned out biological weapons of mass destruction.

The chief proponent of this hoax was Colin Powell, who presented illustrations such as this one to the United Nations on February 5th, 2003.This claim fell apart when it was revealed that these trailers were nothing more than hydrogen gas generators used to inflate weather balloons. This fact was already known to both the US and UK, as a British company manufactured the units and sold them to Iraq.

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Colin Powell's speech to the UN was itself one misstatement after another. Powell claimed that Iraq had purchased special aluminum tubes whose only possible use was in uranium enrichment centrifuges. Both CIA and Powell's own State Department confirmed that the tubes were parts for missiles Saddam was legally allowed to have. Following the invasion, no centrifuges, aluminum or otherwise were found.

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Powell also claimed to the United Nations that the photo on the left showed "Decontamination Vehicles". But when United Nations inspectors visited the site after the invasion, they located the vehicles and discovered they were just firefighting equipment.Powell claimed the Iraqis had illegal rockets and launchers hidden in the palm trees of Western Iraq. None were ever found. Powell claimed that the Iraqis had 8,500 liters (2245 gallons) of Anthrax. None was ever found.

Powell claimed that Iraq had four tons of VX nerve gas. The UN had already confirmed that it was destroyed. The only VX ever found were samples the US had left as "standards" for testing. When the UN suspected that the US samples had been used to contaminate Iraqi warheads, the US moved quickly to destroy the samples before comparison tests could be carried out.Powell claimed that Iraq was building long-range remote drones specifically designed to carry biological weapons. The only drones found were short-range reconnaissance drones. Powell claimed that Iraq had an aggregate of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical and biological warfare agents. Powell gave no basis for that claim at all, and a DIA report issued the same time directly contradicted the claim. No biological or chemical weapons were found in Iraq following the invasion. Powell claimed that "unnamed sources" confirmed that Saddam had authorized his field commanders to use biological weapons. No such weapons were ever used by the Iraqis to defend against the invasion and, of course, none were ever found in Iraq. Powell claimed that 122mm warheads found by the UN inspectors were chemical weapons. The warheads were empty, and showed no signs of ever having contained chemical weapons. Powell claimed that Iraq had a secret force of illegal long-range Scud missiles. None were ever found. Powell claimed to have an audio tape proving that Saddam was supporting Osama Bin Laden. But independent translation of the tape revealed Osama's wish for Saddam's death.

Colin Powell's UN debacle also included spy photos taken from high flying aircraft and spacecraft. On the photos were circles and arrows and labels pointing to various fuzzy white blobs and identifying them as laboratories and storage areas for Saddam's massive weapons of mass destruction program. Nothing in the photos actually suggested what the blobby shapes were and during inspections which followed the invasion, all of them turned out to be rather benign.In at least one case, the satellite Powell claimed had taken one of the pictures had actually been out of operation at the time. And many questioned why Powell was showing black and white photos when the satellites in use at the time over Iraq took color images.

Another piece of evidence consists of documents which President Bush referenced as in his 2003 State of the Union Speech. According to Bush, these documents proved that Iraq was buying tons of uranium oxide, called "Yellow Cake" from Niger. Since Israel had bombed Iraq's nuclear power plant years before, it was claimed that the only reason Saddam would have for buying uranium oxide was to build bombs.

Osama bin Laden's "Mountain Fortress", shown to the US public by the corporate media, and like Saddam's nuclear weapons, never actually existed.

This hoax fell apart fast when it was pointed out that Iraq has a great deal of uranium ore inside their own borders and no need to import any from Niger or anywhere else. The I.A.E.A. then blew the cover off the fraud by announcing that the documents Bush had used were not only forgeries, but too obvious to believe that anyone in the Bush administration did not know they were forgeries! The forged documents were reported as being "discovered" in Italy by SISMI, the Italian Security Service. Shortly before the "discovery" the head of SISMI had been paid a visit by Michael Ledeen, Manucher Ghorbanifar, and two officials from OSP, one of whom was Larry Franklin, the Israeli spy operating inside the OSP.In July, 2005, the Italian Parliament concluded their own investigation and named four men as suspects in the creation of the forged documents. Michael Ledeen, Dewey Clarridge, Ahmed Chalabi and Francis Brookes. This report has been included in Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into the outing of Valerie Plame, and Paul McNulty, the prosecutor of the AIPAC spy case.
A recently declassified memo proves that the State Department reported the fact that the NIger documents were forgeries to the CIA 11 days before President Bush made the claim about the Niger uranium based on those documents.
In the end, the real proof that we were lied to about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction is that no weapons of mass destruction were ever found. That means that every single piece of paper that purported to prove that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was by default a fraud, a hoax, and a lie. There could be no evidence that supported the claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction because Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction. In a way, the existence of any faked documents about Iraq's WMDs is actually an admission of guilt. If one is taking the time to create fake documents, the implication is that the faker is already aware that there are no genuine documents.
What the US Government had, ALL that they had, were copied student papers, forged "Yellow Cake" documents, balloon inflators posing as bioweapons labs, and photos with misleading labels on them. And somewhere along the line, someone decided to put those misleading labels on those photos, to pretend that balloon inflators are portable bioweapons labs, and to pass off stolen student papers as contemporary analysis.

And THAT shows an intention to deceive.

Lawyers call this "Mens Rea", which means "Guilty Mind". TV lawyer shows call it "Malice aforethought". This means that not only did the Bush Administration lie to the people and to the US Congress, but knew they were doing something illegal at the time that they did it.
All the talk about "Intelligence failure" is just another lie. There was no failure. Indeed the Army agents who erroneously claimed that missile tubes were parts for a uranium centrifuge received bonuses, while the Pentagon smeared Hans Blix, and John Bolton orchestrated the firing of Jose Bustani, the director of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, because Bustani was trying to send chemical weapons inspectors to Baghdad.
The President of the United States and his Neocon associates lied to the people of the United States to send them off on a war of conquest.
Defenders of the government will point to the cases listed at the top of the page as proof that lying to the people is a normal part of the leader's job and we should all get used to it. And because "Everybody does it" that we should not single out the present administration. But this is madness. We do not catch all the murderers, yet when we catch a murderer, we deal with them as harshly as possible, in order to deter more murderers.
Right now, we have the criminals at hand. and, while other leaders in history have lied to start wars, for the first time in history, the lie stands exposed while the war started with the lies still rages on, to the death and detriment of our young men and women in uniform. We cannot in good moral conscience ignore this lie, this crime, lest we encourage future leaders to continue to lie to us to send our kids off to pointless wars. Lying to start a war is more than an impeachable offence; it the highest possible crime a government can commit against their own people. Lying to start a war is not only misappropriation of the nation's military and the nation's money under false pretenses, but it is outright murder committed on a massive scale. Lying to start a war is a betrayal of the trust each and every person who serves in the military places in their civilian leadership. By lying to start a war, the Bush administration has told the military fatalities and their families that they have no right to know why they were sent to their deaths. It's none of their business.
Our nation is founded on the principle of rule with the consent of the governed. Because We The People do not consent to be lied to, a government that lies rules without the consent of the governed, and ruling without the consent of the governed is slavery.
You should be more than angry. You should be in a rage. You should be in a rage no less than that of the families of those young men and women who have been killed and maimed in this war started with a lie.You need to be in a rage and you need to act on that rage because even as I type these words, the same government that lied about Iraq's nuclear weapons is telling the exact same lies about Iran's nuclear capabilities. The writing is on the wall; having gotten away with lying to start the war in Iraq, the US Government will lie to start a war in Iran, and after that another, and after that another, and another and another and another because as long as you remain silent, and as long as you remain inactive, the liars have no reason to stop.

As long as you remain inactive, the liars have no reason to stop.

None.

It is time to fire the liars.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is
for good men to do nothing" .
--Edmund Burke

Next For America is What They Call Austerity: Which is Planned Poverty

If a math textbook that never underwent an official academic review and was proven to contain basic factual inaccuracies were nonetheless used by an entire school to teach math, wouldn't it be fair to say that all of that school's graduates were incapable of doing math? Wouldn't it make more sense to just replace the math textbooks instead of inadequately preparing thousands of students for basic math in the real world?
As it turns out, the "fuzzy math" George W. Bush talked about in a debate with Al Gore is actually the math used by influential European Union leaders and EU governments like Greece and Spain in the midst of a crippling depression. Those leaders have cited the study "Growth in a Time of Debt" by Harvard Economics professors Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff as their justification for cutting billions from essential government programs and causing millions of layoffs all over Europe. The Reinhart-Rogoff study, which claims that GDP growth slows significantly when a nation's debt exceeds 90% of that country's GDP, was also cited by Representative Paul Ryan in his austerity budget that called for even more layoffs and more cushions for the rich. The only problem is that this influential study has recently been proven to be fundamentally and totally wrong.

When 28-year-old Thomas Herndon, a grad student in the UMass-Amherst Economics Department, was assigned to replicate the data from an economic study – essentially to perform a peer review – he chose the Reinhart-Rogoff paper. Turns out that study had never been peer-reviewed, and Herndon found that the study's Excel spreadsheet used to average GDP growth numbers from different countries was laden with errors. Along with several rows not being averaged in the spreadsheet's final tally of GDP growth, economic data from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand was excluded. Those are countries whose debt exceeded 90% of GDP but still experienced periods of economic growth, disproving Reinhart and Rogoff's initial hypothesis that high levels of debt hurt a nation's economy. Even Stephen Colbert made austerity a laughingstock in his recent interview with Herndon.

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Essentially, the austerity math textbook used by all of the world's leaders who swear by the austerity method was debunked by a college student who gave the text its first peer review. As it turns out, firing lots of people doesn't help the economy grow, since more people with fewer jobs means fewer people buying stuff. Income tax revenues go down because people's incomes are down, sales tax revenues go down because people aren't buying stuff, and social safety net spending goes up because fewer people have jobs. It should already be obvious to anyone that austerity doesn't alleviate economic growth, but rather contributes to further economic malaise. We've seen the consequences of austerity both here and abroad. In Europe, the endless layoffs in the public sector have contributed to record levels of unemployment, levels not seen since the Great Depression, with no relief in sight. Here in America, the recent sequester budget cuts have triggered furloughs in the FAA, making airports a nightmare as thousands of flights are continuously delayed. You can view a map here showing how many jobs the sequester has eliminated so far on a state-by-state basis.
The joblessness that is a direct effect of austerity has led to desperate situations for many Americans. While the "recovery" that took place between 2009 and 2011 benefited Americans whose net worth exceeded $500,000, the other 93% of Americans saw their mean wealth drop by roughly $6,000, according to Census data examined by Pew Research. As the youth unemployment rate hovers near 20%, college students are going hungry and homeless across America. When a Laney Walker supermarket closed in Georgia, the store had arranged for a local church to pick up all of the store's food to give to the poor. But when the church never came by, the food was unloaded into the parking lot where hungry people gathered to take it back home to their families. However, the police were concerned about the potential for a riot, so they restrained the crowd of hungry people while all of the perfectly good food was thrown in a dumpster. It's like the Hunger Games, except it's non-fiction.
For most Americans, chronic unemployment is issue #1. Yet the 113th Congress and the Obama administration, hopelessly out of touch with the rest of us, continue to focus on cutting things that most of America depends upon. Obama is negotiating backroom deals with Republicans to find ways to gut Social Security and Medicare. And at a recent 90-minute Congressional hearing on the unemployment crisis, only one member of Congress initially bothered to show up. As the web site letsfreecongress.org plainly shows, Congress votes in favor of whoever gives them the most money. Unemployed people don't have enough money to hire lobbyists. Austerity hawks like the US Chamber of Commerce and Wall Street billionaires like Pete Peterson do.
On May 18th, unemployed people from all walks of life will be marching all the way from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Washington DC demanding green jobs that will address both the climate crisis and the jobs crisis. It's time for Congress to hear from those with the biggest need instead of those with the biggest wallets.

The More Illegal Immigrants That Go On Food Stamps The More Money JP Morgan Makes

Recently uncovered documents prove that the Obama administration has been working with the Mexican government to increase the number of illegal immigrants on food stamps, and when more illegal immigrants go on food stamps JP Morgan makes more money.  As you will read about below, JP Morgan has made at least 560 million dollars processing Electronic Benefits Transfer cards.  Each month, JP Morgan makes between $.31 and $2.30 for every single person on food stamps (and that does not even include things like ATM fees, etc).  So JP Morgan has a vested interest in seeing poverty grow and the number of people on food stamps increase.  Meanwhile, the Obama administration has been aggressively seeking to expand participation in the food stamp program.  Under Obama, the number of people on food stamps has grown from 32 million to more than 47 million.  And even though poverty in America is absolutely exploding, that apparently is not good enough for the Obama administration.  It has now come out that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has provided the Mexican government with literature that actively encourages illegal immigrants to enroll in food stamps.  One flyer contains the following statement in Spanish: "You need not divulge information regarding your immigration status in seeking this benefit for your children."  The bold and the underlining are in the original document in case you were wondering.  Overall, federal spending on food stamps increased from 18 billion dollars in 2000 to 85 billion dollars in 2012, and at this point one out of every five U.S. householdsin now enrolled in the food stamp program.  When people illegally or fraudulently enroll in the food stamp program, it makes it harder for those that desperately need the help to be able to get it.
It is certainly a good thing to help fellow Americans that are suffering.  It is a crying shame that more than a million public school students in America are homeless.  That should not be happening in the "wealthiest nation on earth".
But today we have a system that has turned poverty into big business.  According to an article posted on Breitbart.com, JP Morgan has made at least 560 million dollars (and probably much more) processing EBT cards...

A new report by the Government Accountability Institute finds that JP Morgan has made at least $560,492,596 since 2004 processing the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards of 18 of the 24 states it has under contract for the food stamp program.

A Daily Beast article provided some more specifics about the monster profits that JP Morgan is making...

Just how lucrative JP Morgan’s EBT state contracts are is hard to say, because total national data on EBT contracts are not reported. But thanks to a combination of public-records requests and contracts that are available online, here’s what we do know: 18 of the 24 states JP Morgan handles have been contracted to pay the bank up to $560,492,596.02 since 2004. Since 2007, Florida has been contracted to pay JP Morgan $90,351,202.22. Pennsylvania’s seven-year contract totaled $112,541,823.27. New York’s seven-year contract totaled $126,394,917.
These contracts are transactional contracts, meaning they are amendable based on changes in program participation. Each month, the three companies that administer EBT receive a small fee that can range from $.31 to $2.30 (or higher depending upon the number of welfare services on an EBT card and state contractual requirements) for each SNAP recipient.

So the more people that are out of work and that need to turn to the government for food, the bigger profits that JP Morgan makes.
What makes all of this even more insulting is that many of the jobs that JP Morgan could be providing to Americans to help alleviate this poverty are being shipped overseas instead.  As I noted in a previous article, many EBT card customer service calls are being routed to call centers in India by JP Morgan.
So why doesn't anyone do anything about this?
Well, it turns out that JP Morgan has the politicians that oversee the food stamp program in their back pocket.  The following is from a recent Money Morning article...

And the bank has taken steps to make sure the SNAP program remains a growing source of revenue. JPMorgan's political donations to the members of House and Senate agricultural committees, the ones with legislative responsibility for the program, soared from just over $82,000 in 2002 to nearly $333,000 as of 2010.

What a wonderful system we have, eh?
And surely JP Morgan just loves the fact that the Obama administration is actively encouraging illegal immigrants to apply for food stamps.
What you are about to read should absolutely shock you.  At a time when the U.S. government is absolutely drowning in debt, the Obama administration is making it abundantly clear to illegal immigrants that their immigration status will not be checked when they apply for food stamps.  The following is from a recent Judicial Watch press release...

Judicial Watch today released documents detailing how the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is working with the Mexican government to promote participation by illegal aliens in the U.S. food stamp program.
The promotion of the food stamp program, now known as “SNAP” (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), includes a Spanish-language flyer provided to the Mexican Embassy by the USDA with a statement advising Mexicans in the U.S. that they do not need to declare their immigration status in order to receive financial assistance.  Emphasized in bold and underlined, the statement reads, “You need not divulge information regarding your immigration status in seeking this benefit for your children.”
The documents came in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made to USDA on July 20, 2012.  The FOIA request sought: “Any and all records of communication relating to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to Mexican Americans, Mexican nationals, and migrant communities, including but not limited to, communications with the Mexican government.”
The documents obtained by Judicial Watch show that USDA officials are working closely with their counterparts at the Mexican Embassy to widely broaden the SNAP program in the Mexican immigrant community, with no effort to restrict aid to, identify, or apprehend illegal immigrants who may be on the food stamp rolls.

You can see a copy of the flyer right here.
So who pays for all of this?
You do of course.
The Obama administration is doing all that it can to promote illegal immigration, and big banks such as JP Morgan just make bigger profits the more illegal immigration that we see, but it is you and I that end up with the bill.  This was put beautifully in a recent article by Mike Adams of NaturalNews.com...

Nearly $75 billion of taxpayer money is spent each year on federal food stamps, and it turns out some of that is alarmingly being handed out to illegal immigrants -- people who contribute nothing to the federal tax base in America but who seem to be experts on collecting social welfare benefits of all kinds. If you are working for a living, you are buying food for illegals who are being actively recruited by Obama and the democratic party so that they will vote more democrats into office.

When we reward illegal immigration, what happens?
That's right - we are just going to get even more illegal immigration.
According to WND, we have already started seeing a huge increase in illegal immigrants coming across the border since Congress began debating the amnesty bill...

Illegal border crossings have doubled, and possibly even tripled, since the latest congressional push began toward comprehensive immigration reform.
In reporting first published by Townhall.com’s Katie Pavlich, border patrol agents in the Tucson/Nogales sector claim illegals are coming here in much higher numbers in just the past few months.
“We’ve seen the number of illegal aliens double, maybe even triple since amnesty talk started happening,” an unnamed border agent said to Townhall. The data from Customs and Border Protection cited in the report shows 504 illegals were detected crossing in that sector between Feb. 5 and March 1. Only 189 were caught on camera, and just 174 of the 504 were apprehended. Of those spotted on camera, 32 were carrying huge packs believed to contain drugs and several were heavily armed.

If that bill is passed, it is being projected that it will bring 33 million more people into this country...

The pending Senate immigration bill would bring a minimum of 33 million people into the country during its first decade of operation, according to an analysis by NumbersUSA, a group that wants to slow the current immigration rate.
By 2024, the inflow would include an estimated 9.2 million illegal immigrants, plus 2.5 million illegals who arrived as children — dubbed ‘Dreamers’ — plus roughly 3.4 million company-sponsored employees with university degrees, said the unreleased analysis.
The majority of the inflow, or roughly 17 million people, would consist of family members of illegals, recent immigrants and of company-sponsored workers, according to the NumbersUSA analysis provided to The Daily Caller.

We have made legal immigration a complete and total nightmare while leaving the back door completely wide open at the same time.
We greatly punish those who are trying to do things legally while at the same time we are greatly rewarding those that are cheating the system.
What kind of sense does that make?
Shouldn't we insist that everyone come in through the front door?
Those that are coming over our borders illegally know what the score is...

Linda Vickers, who owns a ranch in Brooks County, which is Ground Zero for the immigration debate, pins the blame directly on talk of 'amnesty' and a 'path to citizenship' for people who entered the U.S. illegally.
She recalls one man being arrested on her ranch not long ago.
"The Border Patrol agent was loading one man up, and he told the officer in Spanish, 'Obama's gonna let me go'."
Border Patrol agents report that immigrants are crossing the border, and in some cases surrendering while asking, “Where do I go for my amnesty?”

We are already becoming a poverty-stricken nation.  We simply can't afford to feed millions upon millions of illegal immigrants as well.
As I write this, the U.S. national debt is $16,758,107,082,298.63.
We now have a debt to GDP ratio of about 105 percent.
In the United States today, the amount of money that is deposited in our banks is about 9.3 trillion dollars.  If we took every penny of that and used it to pay off the national debt, we would still owe more than 7 trillion dollars.
We are stealing more than 100 million dollars from future generations of Americans every single hour of every single day to pay our bills, and yet everyone seems to think that this is "normal" somehow.
The truth is that what we are doing is absolutely criminal, and we should all be ashamed.
For much more on our exploding national debt, please see the following article: "55 Facts About The Debt And U.S. Government Finances That Every American Voter Should Know".
In the end, it should be apparent to everyone that our system is failing.  Our government is corrupt, our big banks are consumed with greed and most average Americans are so addicted to entertainment that they have absolutely no idea what is going on.
What would those that bled and died for this country think about what we have become today?

Was 9/11 landing gear found beside mosque lowered there?

Problem is....Boeing doesn't use rope in the landing gear of their passenger jets!

“Police State” Registry System Being Set Up to Track Your Vaccination Status

The Centers for Disease Control has been quietly rolling out a nationwide program called the Immunization Information Systems (IIS), registering your vaccine information into a database. [1] This effort has been run in parallel with state vaccine registry implementations.

What is the intention of such programs?

My colleague Leslie Manookian, writer and director of the movie The Greater Good, wrote in a recent article, the “CDC has openly stated that vaccine registries are a tool to identify areas of ‘undervaccination’ so that they can be ‘addressed’ and brought into ‘compliance.’” [2]

I would also add to Leslie’s statement that since the government purchases a large bulk of the vaccines (for example, the Vaccines for Children program), it is in their financial interest to make sure vaccines are consumed regularly.

If you exempt your child from being vaccinated, your refusal is also being tracked and put into the database. If you want to know why this is a big deal, read on.

But first, what does tracking every vaccine you or your children have ever been injected with look like?

Big Plans for You

I want to make this very real for you.

The government collects information on who vaccinates their children and who does not. They know how many children have had their vaccines. They also know how many children have opted out of being vaccinated. They have the data.

The government has big plans and the most outrageous part about this entire scheme is you don’t have a choice – your data is entered. In order to accomplish this task we have to answer 3 basic questions.

1. What data is being tracked?
2. Who has access to the tracked data?
3. What will be done with this data?

Let’s start with the first question of what is being tracked.

Question #1: What Data is Being Tracked?

You’ll be surprised at how much data is being tracked. Some of the data is required while other data sets are optional. Rest assured, what is optional today can become required in short order.

According to the Immunization Information System Functional Standards, 2013 – 2017, the following information will be in their databases: [3]

• REQUIRED: Patient name: first, middle, last
• Optional: Patient alias name: first, middle, last
• Optional: Patient address, phone number
• Optional: Birthing facility
• Optional: Patient Social Security number (SSN)
• REQUIRED: Patient birth date
• REQUIRED: Patient sex
• REQUIRED: Patient race
• REQUIRED: Patient ethnicity
• Optional: Patient Primary language
• REQUIRED: Patient birth order
• Optional: Patient birth registration number
• REQUIRED: Patient birth State/country
• Optional: Patient Medicaid number Optional
• REQUIRED: Mother’s name: First, middle, last, maiden
• Optional: Mother’s SSN
• Optional: Father’s name: first, middle, last
• Optional: Father’s SSN
• REQUIRED: Vaccine Type
• REQUIRED: Vaccine Manufacturer
• Optional: Vaccine dose number
• Optional: Vaccine expiration date
• Optional: Vaccine injection site
• REQUIRED: Vaccination date
• REQUIRED: Vaccine lot number
• Optional: Vaccine provider

Do you trust anyone with your personal information? This leads us to the next question …

Question #2: Who Has Access to the Tracked Data?

This is where the language should have you a little concerned because it is extremely vague.

According to the Immunization Information System documentation, data can be provided to “healthcare providers, public health, and other authorized stakeholders.”

It goes on to say schools, child care, and child camps may also have access to the records.

One of the major areas the lawmakers neglected to mention was the power granted to your employer. Consider the fact this past year nurses were actually being fired for not having their flu shot, as reported by Natural News. [4] Imagine if the proper pressure were applied to businesses to meet a government mandate. They would be given access to these records. It’s something for you to chew on.

That brings us to our last question…

A snapshot from the Centers for Disease Control Immunization Information Systems data flow

Question #3: What Will Be Done with This Data?

The Centers for Disease Control’s goal is to get 95% or greater vaccine compliance. How is this accomplished?

In the short term, if your child is not vaccinated or is behind schedule, expect phone calls, emails, and personal visits from local health authorities. One function of the CDC’s Immunization Information System is to “forecast” vaccines due, past due, or coming due.

When these tactics don’t work or are ignored, expect more a more confrontational strategy. Keep in mind what happened on Christmas Eve 2009.

The U.S. Senate passed H.R. 3590. The bill eventually became Public Law No. 111-148, which gives the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) authorization to create “vaccination squads” in local communities and seek out unvaccinated children. The “vaccine squads” are called the Community Preventive Services Task Force. [5]

Not only will the Task Force be working with the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, but on page 1202 of that law, the most relevant responsibilities are listed as:

(D) carrying out immunization-promoting strategies for participants or clients of public programs, including assessments of immunization status, referrals to health care providers, education, provision [provide] of on-site immunizations, or incentives for immunization;
(E) providing for home visits that promote immunization through education, assessments of need, referrals, provision of immunizations, or other services;
(F) providing reminders or recalls for immunization providers;
(G) conducting assessments of, and providing feedback to, immunization providers;
(H) any combination of one or more interventions described in this paragraph; or
(I) immunization information systems to allow all States to have electronic databases for immunization records.

Conclusion

The Public Law exclusively states exactly where the data will come from – the Immunization Information Systems. Can you imagine police or sheriffs escorting the vaccine squad(s) for “non-compliant” parents?

At this point, I really can’t put it past them.

Consequently, once this system is completely operational, the sky is the limit. Big Brother has the capability to track more than just vaccines. You can anticipate finding just about any pharmaceutical drug mandated by the government in this same system.

The question then becomes, who influences the government agencies mandating vaccines?

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. – Lord Acton

References:

1. http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/iis/about.html
2. http://www.greatergoodmovie.org/news-views/vaccine-registries-whats-all-the-fuss/
3. http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/iis/func-stds.pdf
4. http://www.naturalnews.com/037544_healthcare_workers_flu_shots_colorado.html
5. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-111publ148/pdf/PLAW-111publ148.pdf

This article first appeared at VacTruth

Angry Farmer gets revenge on cops for arresting him for marijuana possession

A man driving a farm tractor ran over eight vehicles in the parking lot of a Vermont police station in an apparent revenge scheme, according to local reports.

Police said Roger Pion, 34, of Newport, Vt., flattened seven marked police cruisers and one unmarked personal vehicle at the Orleans County Sheriff’s Department in Derby, Vt., around 12:40 p.m. Thursday.

“We came out and sure enough there was someone who had run over our cruisers with a tractor,” Chief Dep. Philip Brooks of the Orleans County Sheriff’s Dept. told WCAX.

Not only were their roofs and hoods caved in, but “the radios are ruined, the radar detectors, the cages in the cars … We’re going to have to get the jaws of life up here to pry the trunks open and see about the rifles and shotguns,” Sheriff Kirk Martin told the Associated Press.

With the vehicles crushed, police had no way to pursue Pion after he drove off in the tractor.

“It felt like I was in a Monster Jam rally or something,” witness Rene Morris told WCAX. “I just couldn’t believe it. He’s backing up, going over it, turns around, makes his way to the other vehicles smashes those up, did his business and headed right down Route 5.”


Police eventually caught up with Pion a mile and a half from the police station and arrested him. The motive is still under investigation, but witnesses believe Pion was angry about his recent arrest for marijuana possession and resisting arrest.

The damage is estimated to be about $250,000, according to police.
No one was injured. At least two deputies had gone inside a few moments before after washing their vehicles, officers said.

Brooks said the destroyed vehicles constituted more than half of the fleet of sheriff’s cruisers in the rural county on the Canadian border. The others were out on patrol. Since the incident, neighboring counties have offered their help.

“We have other county sheriff’s departments who are offering cruisers to us,” Brooks said. “We’ve already had one county that’s dropped one off to us and we’ve got two others that are on the way.”
It’s not known where Pion got the tractor but police said he comes from a farm family.

Pion was held at the Northern State Correctional Center in Newport in lieu of $15,000 bail.

He is expected to appear in Orleans County Criminal Court Friday to answer to seven counts of felony unlawful mischief, one count of misdemeanor unlawful mischief, one count of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, one count of gross negligent operation, and one count of leaving the scene of an accident.

THE PHONY PHOTOS OF THE BOSTON NON-BOMBING OR WAG THE BOSTON!

THE PHONY PHOTOS OF THE BOSTON NON-BOMBING

This 'victim's' clothes were shredded by shrapnel, and yet there is not one scratch on him! Flying 'ball bearings' would have punched tiny holes through the clothes and embedded in the flesh. For this phony photo, vertical linear incisions were made so that his clothes could be ripped apart for dramatic effect.

Left: The man on his back is Jeff Bauman (brown hair/green shirt sleeves). BOTH of Bauman's legs were allegedly blown clean off. Pay attention to the Black lady on top of him (and her CLEAN white shirt), and the shady looking man with the the hood and sunglasses above her.

Bauman 'bleeds' out badly - by the gallon! (actually looks more like red paint / fake blood). Why is no one even paying attention to him? Notice that the Black woman with the clean white shirt, and the hooded man with sunglasses, are no longer in the picture. They were the ones on top of Bauman, covering him up while removing his prosthetic legs! Where did Bauman's missing legs end up anyway???

And notice how clean the Black lady's white shirt is.

The 'bomb' was placed on the sidewalk. So why are the store windows blown outward, instead of inward? Three people allegedly died, 17 were allegedly in critical condition, and more than 200 people in total were allegedly injured. This photo shows the 'ground zero' of the 'bombing'. Where do you see 200 people? Where do you see 17 critically wounded. Where are the 3 that supposedly died? Focus on the blonde woman sitting up, the man holding a cowboy hat, the black lady with the white shirt which now has bright red 'blood' on it! And our shady friend who's just 'hangin out' now. Where did legless Jeff Bauman run away to?

"Both my legs just got blown off. Oh well, It is what it is."

Even seasoned football players will cry out in agony with tendon injuries.

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For someone who just had BOTH of his legs 'blown off', and who has bled out several gallons of 'blood' , Jeff Bauman sure looks calm and composed as he is later being led away in a wheelchair, with the help of 'The Cowboy' (where did he suddenly come from?) Why is Jeff not in shock? Why is he not drenched in blood? Why does he look so calm and alert? Why would he be physically picked up, manhandled, and placed in a wheelchair instead of a stretcher? Does this photo seem strange to you? On the right, notice how an NFL player AGONIZES over a knee injury - a bit less traumatic than an instant double amutation with several gallon blood loss, don't ya think?

Healthy looking Jeff is all smiles and 'thumbs up' , just days after his legs were 'blown off' and gallons of his 'blood' were lost. The 'hero' Cowboy is on the left.

You're busted Jeff...or is it 'Nick"! Same long lean body type, Same color hair with same part on the side. Same facial structure. Same double amputee injury.

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Nicole Gross was featured on the cover of the NY Daily News. She was allegedly hit by the impact of the bomb, suffering a broken leg and ankle in the process. She also suffered torn skin and her Achilles' tendon was severed. Does this look like the face of a woman who just had her leg broken, her ankle broken, and her Achilles tendon severed (ouch!)?  Notice the lack of blood on her arms in the spots where her shirt was torn. She has only a few cosmetic, 'cuts' and some theatric dust on her legs.

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(Left) Notice how figure skater Nancy Kerrigan reacted to a relatively mild shin fracture (caused by a hitman wielding a bat). Though no doubt a painful blow, Kerrigan's injury was far less painful than the multiple injuries which Nicole Gross allegedly endured. See the difference in their reaction?

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Above is our lady friend again, who we earlier saw laying on top of Bauman. Now her clean white shirt, and her face, are suddenly drenched in 'blood' as she puts on her best 'in shock' face for the camera. Notice how she is placed on a stretcher wheras double-amputee Bauman was hoisted on a wheelchair.

The bomb detonated by the flags. So why are no less than THREE cops in this photo (1 in foreground, others in background) running AWAY from the injured people?...And why did this particular runner fall down after the blast when all the other runners did not? This 'iconic' photo is a staged phony!

The day after the non-bombing, the unusualy bright red color of the spilled 'blood' has still not changed! Spilled blood quickly begins to turn brownish-red as it dries. Try spilling a few drops of your own blood on the sidewalk, and see what color it turns! THIS IS CLEARLY RED PAINT!

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(Nice little propaganda touch with the U.S. flag.....  "USA!...USA!.... USA!'...Let's bomb them Muslims!")

The Boston Non-Bombing: Directed by Hollywood?

Could this 'first responder' actually be Steven Spielberg?

Legendary Director Steven Spielberg

Click on image to enlarge.

A Spielberg cameo appearance?

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