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4: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
The Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) trial rollout of biometric facial recognition technology at airport security checkpoints has raised questions about the risks it poses to travelers' privacy and the possibility of discrimination.
The TSA is testing the technology at 16 major airports, and the agency insists that the program is voluntary. However, in a March 14 interview with Kyle Arnold of The Dallas Morning News, TSA Administrator David Pekoske said that if the TSA gets its way, biometric screening technology will eventually not be optional.
Four West Virginia county school districts have installed or are in the process of installing new facial recognition technology.
Jonah Adkins, director of PK-12 Academic Support at the state Department of Education, said those counties include Marion, Taylor, Doddridge and Putnam.
“What this software does is it provides schools with an additional layer of security. They can enter the faces of all their staffs, their students and well-known visitors and then it sends administrators an alert if an unwanted person were to approach the door or anywhere on campus,” Adkins told members of the state Board of Education last week.
Adkins said there will be a database that will be able to detect criminals.
Ministers are calling for facial recognition technology to be “embedded” in everyday policing, including potentially linking it to the body-worn cameras officers use as they patrol streets.
Until now, police use of live facial recognition in England and Wales has been limited to special operations such as football matches or the coronation.
Prof Fraser Sampson, the biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner, said the potential expansion was “very significant” and that “the Orwellian concerns of people, the ability of the state to watch every move, is very real”.
Sampson said: “A camera on an officer walking down the street could check the faces against a watchlist of suspects. They could check hundreds if not thousands of people while on duty.
“The technology will be capable of doing many things, not all of which the public would want. In China the algorithm can pick up ethnicity.
“It will be able to estimate age; some manufacturers claim it can estimate someone’s mood or state of anxiety.”
Biometrics are coming to Berlin Brandenburg Airport with the introduction of the BER Traveller. Effective immediately, facial recognition will replace boarding passes for Lufthansa Group HON Circle Members and Senators.
CDC scientists deliberately DELETED the data showing the link between vaccines and autism in 2002. The 2004 DeStefano paper in Pediatrics should be retracted. Here is objective proof that both the CDC and Pediatrics are corrupt. The CDC refused to comment. Please watch this clip
Ripple and its native coin XRP, Stellar Lumens (XLM), and IOTA have all unlocked the ability to integrate with SWIFT, the global financial messaging network that facilitates international transactions for banks. This achievement puts these cryptocurrencies in a position within the industry with the potential to disrupt traditional banking systems and offers faster, cheaper, and more efficient alternative transaction methods.
Likewise, these digital currencies have formed partnerships with major players in the industry, including banks and financial institutions, which has helped to further boost their credibility and adoption. As a result, they are now well-positioned to compete against traditional banking systems and drive innovation in the financial industry.
Recall that in April it was announced that Ripple, IOTA, and Stellar Lumen are in line to work with SWIFT under the ISO 20022 regulation; a single standardization approach meant to be used by all financial standards initiatives.
Ripple has been part of the standard body since May 2020.
Earlier this month, Ripple and XRP announced a massive push into the billion-dollar Dubai and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) markets, signaling its determination to succeed as a foremost blockchain payments firm.
Stellar’s XLM takes a slightly different approach, positioning itself as a platform for decentralized financial services. It aims to provide banking services to the unbanked and underbanked population in developing countries, offering low-cost financial transactions through its network.
Stellar has already partnered with IBM to develop blockchain-based solutions for the global financial industry, further cementing its position as a potential disruptor.
Today, the Digital Currency Monetary Authority (DCMA) announced banks and fintech companies now have access to the guaranteed best FX rates for transacting cross-border payments through its money servicing platform, Universal Monetary Unit (UMU), Unicoin.
Banks can attach their customer bank accounts to a UMU wallet and transaction SWIFT-like cross-border payments over digital currency rails completely bypassing the correspondent banking system at guaranteed best-priced FX rates and with instantaneous real-time settlement.
Unicoin leverages artificial intelligence for global treasury management and to hedge against FX rates fluctuations enabling it to offer FOREX PLUS rates whereas most remitters offer FOREX MINUS rates.
For decades, the correspondent banking system has proven to be slow, costly, and inefficient. Because SWIFT has essentially enjoyed a global monopoly on banking cross-border payments, there has been little to no incentive to improve how the global correspondent banking system works.
Central bank digital currency (CBDC) systems operating on different types of networks can be used for cross-border and cross-currency payments, according to a new report published by researchers with the New York Federal Reserve and Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
New York Federal Reserve’s New York Innovation Center (NYIC) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Friday (May 19) published the results of Project Cedar Phase II x Ubin+, a joint project investigating whether distributed ledger technology (DLT) could be used to improve the efficiency of cross-border wholesale payments and settlements involving multiple currencies.
The study found that they could.
Our research collaboration with the MAS reveals key opportunities for central bank innovation to play an important role in easing wholesale payment flows globally and improving settlement outcome,” said Michelle Neal, head of the Markets Group at the New York Fed.
“Central banks can enable interoperability of wholesale CBDCs to facilitate more efficient cross-border payment flows including for less liquid currencies, without requiring a common infrastructure,” added Leong Sing Chiong, deputy managing director (markets and development), at MAS.
originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: crankyoldman
That's it. This still makes no friggen sense. Can anyone tell me how the 14A can be used to address the national debt?
From: constitutionus.com
4: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
This is the only piece that covers anything even remotely related to debt. I'm not sure how the 15A can be used unless there's going to be a hit at anyone that was involved the Jan 6th event. Even then it would mostly hurt the Democrats.
The repeated claim about using the 14A to solve the debt problem is basically pushing for a Civil War to solve the issue (since that's what the 14A is mainly about). So can anyone explain to me how this use of the 14A could work in solving the debt problem?
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 087672 No.5399134 📁
Feb 26 2019 16:04:55 (EST)
[INTERNAL CIVIL WAR]
All-out assault against the duly elected President of the United States.
We have never experienced anything like this in our history.
Treason & sedition at the highest levels of office throughout many departments [F + D].
Propaganda arm [FAKE NEWS MEDIA] of the D party in full attack mode (no facts, only statements).
Propaganda arm [FAKE NEWS MEDIA] of the D party prevent-limit 'sheep (you)' from learning the TRUTH.
Propaganda arm [FAKE NEWS MEDIA] of the D party retain-control of NARRATIVE (control over you).
House D's in full attack mode (no facts, only statements).
Senate D's in full attack mode (no facts, only statements).
THIS IS THEIR LAST STAND.
Fear of prosecution?
Fear of the public learning the TRUTH?
Fear of losing POWER?
Bribes, blackmail, threats, etc. all being deployed.
WE ARE AT WAR.
Q
16th Amendment of the Constitution
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Until people are willing to have reasonable conversations about how you can actually move forward and do the right thing, then we're not gonna sit here and talk to ourselves," Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., told reporters.
We decided to press pause because it's just not productive," he added. Graves said he did not know if talks would resume this weekend.
During a meeting with more than two dozen bank CEOs on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stressed the urgent need for Congress to address the debt ceiling, according to a readout of the meeting from the Treasury Department.
The meeting, which took place in Washington and included JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser, focused in part on the risks on the debt ceiling. Yellen also held a meeting Thursday with executives from mid-size banks, a person familiar with the matter told CNN, as the United States nears June 1, the date the nation could run out of cash to pay its bills unless lawmakers raise the debt ceiling.
Yellen described how a failure to raise or suspend the debt limit would be "catastrophic" for the financial system, families and businesses — a point echoed by Dimon and other executives themselves in public comments
“In either case that creates a debt crisis that is like the runs on the banks that we have been seeing, but with government bonds being what is sold and the run on the bank being a run on the central bank,” Dalio wrote.