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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Atlantic Ocean Floor Unexpectedly Pumping Iron





Previously, oceanographers thought the Atlantic Ocean seafloor didn’t spit out as much iron as other regions. However, a recently discovered plume of iron billowing from the depth of the Atlantic Ocean suggests the seafloor may be pumping iron like a young Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The oceanic iron cloud spreads for more than 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) across the Atlantic from west of Angola, Africa, to northeast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The iron-rich waters flow 1,500 to 3,500 meters (4,921 – 11,482 feet) beneath the surface of the ocean. The complete extent and shape of the iron plume remains to be discovered.

“We had never seen anything like it,” said Mak Saito, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute scientist and lead author of the study, in a press release. “We were sort of shocked—there’s this huge bull’s-eye right in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. We didn’t quite know what to do with it, because it went contrary to a lot of our expectations.”

Cracks in the Earth crust, or hydrothermal vents, on the ocean floor released the iron. However, the type of vent came as a surprise to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and University of Liverpool oceanographers who discovered it.

A long ridge splits the Atlantic Ocean as geological forces gradually force the ocean wider. The slow-spreading Atlantic ridge was thought to produce less iron and other chemicals than vents in regions with speedier splits, like the ridge in the eastern Pacific.

“This study and other studies like it are going to force the scientific community to reevaluate how much iron is really being contributed by hydrothermal vents and to increase those estimates, and that has implications for not only iron geochemistry but a number of other disciplines as well,” said Saito.

The Atlantic Ocean iron plume may provide a smorgasbord for oceanic phytoplankton, the tiny, plant-like organisms that form the base of many marine food webs.

Those phytoplankton provide food for fish and whales. The plankton also suck in large amounts of carbon dioxide. When the plankton die they can carry that carbon with them to bottom of the ocean.

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Pope electors told of 'Smoke of Satan' in Vatican





It’s a matter so dark and serious it has only been whispered about behind closed doors in Vatican circles by courageous priests such as the late John F. O’Connor, Alfred Kunz and the late Malachi Martin.

But now, thanks to the release by the Holy See of an official bulletin titled “Acta Apostolicae Sedis,” it has been confirmed that the papal conclave that elected Pope Francis March 13 heard a message, immediately before the voting, from a senior cardinal dealing directly with the threat of “The Smoke of Satan” descending on the Vatican itself.

The meditation about “that which Christ wants from his Church” was delivered by Maltese Prosper Grech, an 87-year-old Augustinian who could not participate in the vote. After his meditation, reports the Catholic online newsletter Chiesa, he left the Sistine Chapel.

He prefaced his remarks by saying: “I have no intention of making the identikit of the new pope, and much less of presenting a plan of action for the future pontiff. This very delicate task belongs to the Holy Spirit, who in recent decades has gifted us with a series of excellent holy pontiffs. My intention is that of drawing from Scripture some reflections to help us understand what Christ wants from his Church.”

Taking on what he characterized as an anti-Church media, Grech suggested when accusations are false, they should not be addressed, “even if they cause immense pain.”

However, he added: “It is another thing when what is said about us is the truth, as has happened in many of the accusations of pedophilia. Then we must humble ourselves before God and men, and seek to uproot the evil at all costs, as did, to his great regret, Benedict XVI. And only in this way can we regain credibility before the world and give an example of sincerity. Today many people do not arrive at believing in Christ because his face is obscured or hidden behind an institution that lacks transparency. But if recently we have wept over many unpleasant events that have befallen clergy and laity, even in the pontifical household, we must consider that these evils, as great as they may be, if compared with certain evils in the history of the Church are nothing but a cold. And just as these have been overcome with God’s help, so also the present crisis will be overcome. Even a cold needs to be taken care of well to keep it from turning into pneumonia.”

In a section of the meditation titled “Smoke of Satan in the Church,” Grech said: “The evil spirit of the world, the ‘mysterium iniquitatis’ (2 Thes 2:7), constantly strives to infiltrate the Church. Moreover, let us not forget the warning of the prophets of ancient Israel not to seek alliances with Babylon or with Egypt, but to follow a pure policy ‘ex fide’ trusting solely in God (cf. Is 30:1; 31:1-3; Hos 12:2) and in his covenant. Courage! Christ relieves our minds when he exclaims: ‘Have trust, I have overcome the world’ (Jn 16:33).”

What is the meaning of this message?

Tom Horn, the bestselling author of “Petrus Romanus” and a featured interviewee in the new movie “The Last Pope?,” said Father O’Connor gave a homily titled “The Reign of the Antichrist,” in which he described how changes within society and in the institution were already at work before his death to provide for the coming of Antichrist.

“In this sermon and elsewhere, O’Connor outlined the catalyst for this scheme unfolding as a result of ‘Masonic Conspirators’ within the organization whose plan, called ‘Alta Vendetta,’ would essentially take control of the papacy and help the False Prophet deceive the world’s faithful (including Catholics) into worshipping Antichrist,” said Horn.

But the “Smoke of Satan” reference hearkens even more directly to what a close personal friend of Pope Paul VI observed in interviews and in two books he wrote about a Satanic “superforce” at work inside the Vatican.

“Suddenly it became unarguable that now… the Roman Catholic organization carried a permanent presence of clerics who worshipped Satan and liked it,” wrote Martin. “The facts that brought the Pope to a new level of suffering were mainly two: The systematic organizational links – the network, in other words, that had been established between certain clerical homosexual groups and Satanist covens. And the inordinate power and influence of that network.”

In his book, “The Keys of This Blood: The Struggle of World Dominion,” Martin wrote: “Most frighteningly for John Paul, he had come up against the irremovable presence of a malign strength in his own Vatican and in certain bishops’ chanceries. It was what knowledgeable churchmen called the ‘superforce.’ Rumors, always difficult to verify, tied its installation to the beginning of Pope Paul VI’s reign in 1963. Indeed Paul had alluded somberly to ‘the smoke of Satan which has entered the Sanctuary’ … an oblique reference to an enthronement ceremony by Satanists in the Vatican.”

Martin revealed even greater detail of a Luciferic “enthronement ceremony by Satanists in the Vatican” in his book, “Windswept House”: “The Enthronement of the Fallen Archangel Lucifer was effected within the Roman Catholic Citadel on June 29, 1963; a fitting date for the historic promise about to be fulfilled. As the principal agents of this ceremonial well knew, Satanist tradition had long predicted that the Time of the Prince would be ushered in at the moment when a Pope would take the name of the Apostle Paul [Pope Paul VI].”

In his meditation prior to the selection of Pope Francis at the conclave earlier this year, Grech went on to speak of forces inside the Church that are dividing it.

“No less easy for the future pontiff will be the task of keeping unity in the Catholic Church itself,” he said. “Between ultra-traditionalist extremists and ultra-progressive extremists, between priests who rebel against obedience and those who do not recognize the signs of the times, there will always be the danger of minor schisms that not only damage the Church but also go against the will of God: unity at all costs. But unity does not mean uniformity. It is evident that this does not close the doors to the intra-ecclesial discussion present in the whole history of the Church. All are free to express their thoughts on the task of the Church, but they should be proposals in line with that ‘depositum fidei’ which the pontiff together with all of the bishops has the task of guarding.”

He added: “In the West, at least in Europe, Christianity itself is in crisis. There reigns an ignorance and disregard not only of Catholic doctrine, but even of the ABCs of Christianity. The urgency is thus felt of a new evangelization that begins from pure kerygma and plain proclamation to nonbelievers, followed by a continual catechesis nourished by prayer. But the Lord is never defeated by human negligence, and it seems that, while they are closing the doors to him in Europe, he is opening them elsewhere, especially in Asia. And even in the West God will not fail to keep for himself a remnant of Israel that does not bend the knee before Baal, a remnant that we find mainly in the many lay movements endowed with different charisms that are making a strong contribution to the new evangelization. … Care must be taken, however, that particular movements should not believe that the Church is exhausted in them. In short, God cannot be defeated by our indifference. The Church is his, the gates of hell can wound its heel but can never suffocate it.”

In March 2010, Father Gabriele Amorth, the chief Vatican exorcist, told Italian newspaper La Repubblica: “The devil resides in the Vatican and you can see the consequences. He can remain hidden, or speak in different languages, or even appear to be sympathetic. At times he makes fun of me. But I’m a man who is happy in his work.”

He added the evil influence of Satan was evident in the highest ranks of the Catholic hierarchy, with “cardinals who do not believe in Jesus and bishops who are linked to the demon.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/pope-electors-told-of-smoke-of-satan-in-vatican/#kKhGUXaMQMooPkEu.99

Russia to create ‘cyber-troops’ – Ministry of Defense




The Russian Defense Ministry plans to create a separate branch of military forces this year, aimed at combating cyber-attacks.

The main tasks of these ‘troops’ include monitoring and processing external information, as well as fighting cyber threats, said Deputy Defense Minister Colonel General Oleg Ostapenko, as cited by RIA Novosti news agency.

According to the head of the Russian Fund of Perspective Research, Andrey Grigoriev - who earlier confirmed the ministry’s plans - said that he and his colleagues have been “cooperating with potential candidates with whom they plan to work with.” He added that the concept of ‘cyber-troops’ is still being formed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said last Friday that Russia needs to effectively combat cyber threats.

"We need to be prepared to effectively combat threats in cyberspace. To increase the level of protection in the appropriate infrastructure, particularly the information systems of strategic and critically important facilities,” Putin said during a Security Council meeting dedicated to the improvement of military organization in Russia.

Putin noted that the so-called "information attacks" are already being applied to solve problems of a military and political nature. He acknowledged that their "striking force" may be higher than those of conventional weapons.

On August 1, the Russian President signed a new cyber security doctrine that outlines cyber attacks as a major threat to international security. The doctrine also suggests that such threats be combated with a special international body.

The main threats mentioned in the doctrine were internet technology as an “informational weapon used for military-political, terrorist and criminal ends” as well as attempts of “intervention into other nations’ internal affairs,” the Kommersant daily reported.

The newspaper quoted unnamed sources as saying that the doctrine was prepared, at least partially, in response to the International Strategy for Cyberspace - approved by the United States in 2011. However, it is less harsh than the US policy, which equates cyber-attacks to conventional warfare.

Moscow’s approach includes cooperation with international bodies and the approval of the UN convention on international cyber security. The doctrine mentions developing “internationally accepted rules of behavior in cyber space” by imposing an international law that would “prevent the proliferation of the informational weapons.”

The worldwide web is currently managed mainly by the US-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). However, the doctrine proposes making control accessible to all nations.

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Why the Globalists Selected Obama to be President



What most Americans fail to realize is that the destruction of America has been planned for and is currently underway. The craziness coming out of Washington is not the result of incompetent politicians. Rather, the politicians are doing the bidding of Wall Street in order to accomplish a complete take down of this country. This is being accomplished in such a stealth manner, that the American people will no idea what is happening to them until it is too late.
A Rookie Leads America Down the Primrose Path
The fact that this country was ignorant enough and gullible enough to elect a man with such a questionable background with no accomplishments, to his name, which would represent anything of value, is reason enough to say that America made her own bed and now must lie in it.

Amazingly, Obama only served one term in the State Senate of Illinois and only a partial term in the U.S. Senate prior to being elected president. Don’t you wish you could virtually start at the top with almost no experience like Obama did? What was this country thinking when they elected a man that very few knew anything about and a man who had done virtually nothing except raise hell in Chicago as a “community organizer?” The fact of the matter was that Obama was fast-tracked to become president because he had an agenda (21).

This article discusses the fact that Obama was chosen to purposely destroy the American economy. In order to discuss this goal, Obama was to employ two strategies so that he could eventually achieve his prime directive which was to economically destroy the United States. Obama subsequently drew from his experiences derived from the days of his communist laden youth experiences which culminated in Obama following the strategy of Cloward and Piven and the Weatherman Underground which were both designed to collapse the U.S.

The Authors of the Obama Blueprint


Cloward and Piven present at the signing of NAFTA. This plot has been a long time coming.

Please allow me introduce you to the people whose writings inspired Obama to complete the task of collapsing of our economic system, Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven. Cloward and Piven authored the Cloward-Piven strategy which has been a long time coming and is fully in place in the United States.

This isn’t some conspiracy theory being set forth as these two former Columbia professors wrote about collapsing the economy and how they planned to do it in the article they co-authored in the 1960′s called, “Mobilizing the Poor: How it Could Be Done.” Six months after the initial publication, it was published in The Nation, under the title “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty.”

Both publications were inspired by their belief in “social justice and fundamentally transformative change in America.” Interesting choice of words. Where have we heard these terms before? Didn’t Obama say something about fundamentally transforming America?

Inspired by the riots in LA in 1965, Cloward and Piven wrote and published their article which outlined the best way to bring the kind of extreme radical type of social change was to economically destroy America. In their estimation, the plan was designed to overwhelm the system and bring about the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with impossible demands and bring on an economic collapse mostly accomplished by the imposition of a massive welfare system made necessary by a contrived failing economy.

There are presently 97 million full-time working Americans as compared to 101 million Americans receiving some form of welfare. One would have to conclude that Cloward and Piven eventually achieved their goal of overwhelming the American economy through Obama’s presidency.
Cloward, Piven and the Weatherman Underground

Mix in a little homicidal terrorism, and the Weatherman Underground fully embraced Cloward and Piven’s strategies. TARP, representing the greatest wealth transfer in American history, is another example of collapsing the system and the plan had its roots in the partnership of philosophy between the Weathermen and Cloward and Piven. TARP was largely written by the Apollo Alliance, whose alumni include Obama appointee, Van Jones. In New York, the Apollo Alliance is headed by Weather Underground co-founder, Jeff Jones, who was a partner and close friend to Bill Ayers in the radical terrorist group and in whose living room Barack Obama launched his political career in Chicago.

George Soros is the source of funding for most of these radical groups and that Soros and Jeff Jones went into one of the poorest sections of New York and gave away hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of our stimulus money.

The ACORN connections are infamous. These “community organizers” are receiving untold billions in taxpayer money, despite massive voter registration fraud and corruption. Still, Congress won’t turn off the spicket. Does it sound like someone is trying to overload the system yet in the spirit of Cloward and Piven?
Obama Has Been Groomed for the Presidency For a Long Time
Comrade Obama’s ascension to the presidency has been a long time in the making. Interestingly, Barack Obama’s past associates especially the communist terrorists which funded his Harvard legal education and ultimately launched his political career as an Illinois state senator, namely, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, have been in lockstep with Obama his entire adult life. However, Dohrn and Ayers were not the first to indoctrinate Obama with the Marxist communist philosophy. For that information, we have to begin with Frank Marshall Davis.

Obama’s real father, Frank Marshall Davis, was a member of the Communist Party and a former Soviet Agent who was under FBI investigation for a total of 19 years. In 1948, Davis moved from Chicago to Hawaii leaving behind a colleague named Vernon Jarrett, father-in-law of Senior White House adviser, Valerie Jarrett. Yes, the Jarrett’s are communists as well. Both Jarrett and Davis wrote for a left-wing newspaper called the Chicago Defender in which they espoused a communist takeover of the United States Government which contained many of Cloward and Piven’s strategies. In 1971, Davis, according to Joel Gilbert, was reunited with his then nine-year-old son, Barack Obama, and schooled him in the ways of being a good communist for the next nine years.

 

Adding more fuel to this communist fire, it is interesting to note that both Senior White House Advisers, David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett were both “Red Diaper Babies, in which they were the sons and daughters of well-to-do parents who desired to live under communism and lived out their dreams through their children’s revolutionary activities. Other notable red-diaper babies also include such notables as Rahm Emanueland Eric Holder. The Obama administration is just one big happy “red” family aren’t they?

Valerie Jarrett’s situation is particularly interesting in that her family and the Ayers family have been multi-generational friends which also included a marriage between the two families. Much of the Obama administration is a nest of communists and this should serve to gravely concern every American citizen.


Bill Ayers, the father of Obama’s political career.

Following the nine years of mentoring and parenting by Frank Davis, Obama made some very important communist connections which ultimately led to him obtaining an impressive college education financed by some very familiar communist activists’, namely, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

The Prairie Fire book was co-authored by Dohrn and Ayers, and, quite unbelievably, it was dedicated to Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy’s assassin. While appearing on The Common Sense Show, former FBI informant, the late Larry Grathwohl, revealed that he testified in a court of law that Ayers and Dohrn had direct involvement in a terrorist plot which killed San Francisco police sergeant, Brian V. McDonnell, by a bomb made and planted by these Weathermen Underground terrorists.

Grathwohl also revealed that he asked Ayers, in a meeting of about 25 well-to do Weatherman, most with advanced degrees from Ivy League Universities, what the Weathermen planned to do when they achieved their goal of a communist take over the government. Grathwohl stated that Ayers paused for a moment and then said that it was likely that about 50 million Americans will have to be re-educated in concentration camps located in the American Southwest and that about 25 million would have to be eliminated, meaning that they would have to be murdered. Bill and Bernardine’s Weather Underground also had the support of Cuba, East German intelligence and the North Vietnamese. I believe that in Obama’s second term, and with the power granted to him by the NDAA, that he is very capable of fulfilling Ayers’ promise to Grathwohl to incarcerate 50 million innocent Americans.

During the Vietnam war era, Ayers championed black civil rights and he and Dohrn further chastised white society for their treatment of blacks. Grathwohl also revealed that Ayers wanted to support the beginning of a race war by killing whites, from supposed black villains, and then blaming whites in order to begin a race war. How eerily similar does this sound to the Charles Manson Family and their Helter Skelter plans to execute that very same objective? Perhaps we now know why Obama’s Justice Department were the ones that would not let go of the Trayvon Martin case. This is the same strategy of creating racial division, just applied in a different generation.

While Grathwohl was infiltrating the Weathermen, Ayers ordered FBI infiltrator, Grathwohl, to blow up a Detroit police substation to which Grathwohl said that a nearby restaurant , where many blacks ate would suffer many casualties. Ayers replied that some have to die for a revolution to proceed. This is the man who was the father of Obama’s political career.

Ayers and Dohrn raised a son, Chesa Boudin, who worked for Hugo Chavez , communist dictator formerly in charge of Venezuela. Chesa Boudin was the child of Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, members of a Weather Underground spin-off group who went to prison for an armored car robbery that resulted in the murders of two police officers and a security guard. Dohrn served seven in prison for her role in the robbery and this is the reason that she is ineligible to become bar certified as an attorney. Is anyone else uncomfortable with the fact that Ayers and Dohrn were the ones primarily responsible for educating Obama with the communist funds and then subsequently launched his political career from their living room? Well, it is true, please read on.
Who Paid for Obama’s College Education?
Allen Hulton, a 39 year veteran of the postal service, provided a sworn affidavit to Maricopa County, AZ. Sheriff investigators, led by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, in an effort toward determining whether or not the formerforeign college student, Barack Obama, was eligible to be placed on Arizona’s 2012 election ballot. After reviewing Hulton’s affidavit, it is apparent that Ayers and Dohrn were in fact the de facto adoptive parents to this foreign student destined to become the first illegitimate President of the United States. As a result, Obama was treated to the finest Ivy League education that communist backed money could buy as Hulton maintains that the Ayers told him that he was financing the education of a promising foreign student at Harvard. Hulton also testified that he met Obama while at the Ayer’s home and he asked Obama what he going to do with all his education, to which Obama politely answered, “I am going to become the President.” Readers should take note that this is an affidavit, and as such, is formally considered to be evidence, not conjecture or hearsay. There can be no other conclusion that the communist terrorist, Bill Ayers, began grooming Obama to become America’s first communist President during Obama’s college years. Their relationship continues into the present time as it is on record that Ayers visited the White House in August of 2009.

We also know that Obama’s communist affiliations continued well into his adulthood because of the good work of Joel Gilbert who discovered that Obama was active with a Weathermen Underground support group known as The May 19th Communist Organization, in New York. Perhaps, this is why Ayers was visiting the White House.

Frank Chapman, a communist activist and a member of the communist front group known as the World Peace Council. Chapman clearly used the term “mole” to describe Obama. He said Obama’s political climb and subsequent success in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries was “a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle.” Chapman further stated that, “Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary ‘mole,’ not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through. The Communist Party USA backs Obama to the hilt.” It is clear that Obama is their man!
Crisis Creation

Cloward and Piven instructed activists, such as the one’s in the Weathermen Underground, that if a crisis did not exist, promote or manufacture one by exaggerating some threatening predicament. Global warming and healthcare would certainly fit the description, wouldn’t it?

Obamacare is turning America into a nation of part time workers to avoid the regulations and taxes associated with the program and this will undoubtedly bankrupt most small businesses.

The primary agenda of bringing on of an economic collapse was achieved through the development of contrived economic crises designed to weaken the economy. Does this make anyone else think of the free trade agreements, NAFTA and CAFTA, in which we have seen millions of jobs leaving for overseas labor market after Wall Street got Congress to do away with American jobs by eliminating tariffs’. Say goodbye to the poster child for this plan, Detroit. However, Detroit is not alone, St. Louis and Cleveland will be the next major cities to declare bankruptcy. The Cloward and Piven designed collapse is occurring right here, right now.

And then of course, we come full circle to the explosion of the American welfare state in which half of the work eligible population are on some form of welfare. Please tell me what business could survive with half of its employees still getting paid while producing nothing? The same principle applies to a country as well.

Conclusion

Cloward and Piven as well as the Weatherman Underground have conspired through the ages to bring down America. This President is your mortal enemy. He represents forces which have declared war on America. This is beyond treason and we have to ask ourselves what we are going to do about this?

It is five minutes to midnight and Obama has not yet been able to employ their final, back-breaking strategy designed to bring down America. More on that in Part three and what can be done about this betrayal of America.

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Government Advances Iris Scans As a Form of Biometric Identification



A new report by biometric researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) uses data from thousands of frequent travelers enrolled in an iris recognition program to determine that no consistent change occurs in the distinguishing texture of their irises for at least a decade. These findings inform identity program administrators on how often iris images need to be recaptured to maintain accuracy.

For decades, researchers seeking biometric identifiers other than fingerprints believed that irises were a strong biometric because their one-of-a-kind texture meets the stability and uniqueness requirements for biometrics. However, recent research has questioned that belief. A study of 217 subjects over a three-year period found that the recognition of the subjects' irises became increasingly difficult, consistent with an aging effect.

To learn more, NIST biometric researchers used several methods to evaluate iris stability.

Researchers first examined anonymous data from millions of transactions from NEXUS, a joint Canadian and American program used by frequent travelers to move quickly across the Canadian border. As part of NEXUS, members' irises are enrolled into the system with an iris camera and their irises are scanned and matched to system files when they travel across the border. NIST researchers also examined a larger, but less well-controlled set of anonymous statistics collected over a six-year period.

In both large-population studies, NIST researchers found no evidence of a widespread aging effect, said Biometric Testing Project Leader Patrick Grother. A NIST computer model estimates that iris recognition of average people will typically be usable for decades after the initial enrollment.

"In our iris aging study we used a mixed effects regression model, for its ability to capture population-wide aging and individual-specific aging, and to estimate the aging rate over decades," said Grother. "We hope these methods will be applicable to other biometric aging studies such as face aging because of their ability to represent variation across individuals who appear in a biometric system irregularly."

NIST researchers then reanalyzed the images from the earlier studies of 217 subjects that evaluated the population-wide aspect. Those studies reported an increase in false rejection rates over time—that is, the original, enrolled images taken in the first year of the study did not match those taken later. While the rejection numbers were high, the results did not necessarily demonstrate that the iris texture itself was changing. In fact, a study by another research team identified pupil dilation as the primary cause behind the false rejection rates.*** This prompted the NIST team to consider the issue.

NIST researchers showed that dilation in the original pool of subjects increased in the second year of the test and decreased the next, but was not able to determine why. When they accounted for the dilation effect, researchers did not observe a change in the texture or aging effect. Some iris cameras normalize dilation by using shielding or by varying the illumination.

NIST established the Iris Exchange (IREX) program in 2008 to give quantitative support to iris recognition standardization, development and deployment. Sponsors for this research include the Criminal Justice Information Systems Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Office of Biometric Identity Management in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the DHS Science and Technology Directorate.


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