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Wars and Rumors of Wars, Famines, Pestilences


Nov. 10, 2005 - "Health Experts Agree on Plan to Combat Flu Pandemic" by Voice of America. More than 600 delegates from over 100 countries attending a global influenza meeting have agreed on a plan of action to combat a potential human  pandemic.  The animal and human health experts say it is urgent to prepare now for a pandemic that could kill millions of people.

Oct. 17, 2005 - "Earthquake Rocks Western Turkey" by Xinhuanet. Ankara. An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter Scale rocked part of western Turkey on Monday, said the semi-official Anatolian news agency.

Oct. 11, 2005 - "Fountain Hills Man Dies of West Nile Virus" KPHO Phoenix, AZ. Fountain Hills. A 74-year old man from Fountain Hills died Monday night from the West Nile Virus.  Health officials do not know how he contracted the virus.  Maricopa County Vector Control says its crews haven't found any mosquitoes with West Nile in Fountain Hills.

Sep. 28, 2005 - “Typhoon Damrey Toll Rises as Floods Sweep In” by Reuters. Hanoi. Flash floods spawned by Typhoon Damrey killed at least four people in Thailand on Wednesday and hard-hit Vietnam said it had found the bodies of four of the 23 swept away in similar torrents in its northern mountains. The deaths took the known toll to at least 45 in Damrey's rampage across the main Philippine island of Luzon, the southern Chinese island of Hainan -- where the economic damage was estimated at $1.2 billion (679,835 million pounds) -- Vietnam, Laos and northern Thailand.

Aug. 17, 2005 - “Food Crises Unaddressed Throughout Africa” by the Associated Press. To witness Africa's unrelenting hunger, look no further than into the fever-bright eyes of 17 severely malnourished infants languishing in a west African hospital.

Aug. 16, 2005 - “Russia Says Dangerous Bird Flu Outbreak Spreads” by Reuters. Russia said on Tuesday an outbreak of bird flu in Chelyabinsk was dangerous to humans, as teams of sanitary workers destroyed birds in Siberia in an attempt to prevent the westward spread of the deadly virus.

Aug. 16, 2005 - “Malaria Increasing as Disease Toll in Flood-Hit West India Rises to 224” by AFP. Mumbai. Malaria cases in flood-hit western India have risen sharply in the past few days but water-borne diseases are on the wane, health authorities said, putting the latest death toll at 224.

Aug. 19, 2005 - “Encephalitis Kills 79 Children in India” by the Associated Press. China Daily. An outbreak of mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis has killed at least 79 children in a north Indian state over the past week, with dozens of other children in serious condition, officials said Thursday, reported AP.

Sep. 9, 2005 - “Large quake strikes off coast of Papua New Guinea” by The Associated Press. A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck Friday off the northeast coast of Papua New Guinea, the US Geological Survey said.

Sep. 6, 2005 - “Powerful Typhoon Lashes Southern Japan” by USA Today. Typhoon Nabi lashed southern Japan and South Korea on Tuesday, killing five people, injuring dozens and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes.

Sep. 1, 2005 - “Typhoon hits China after killing two in Taiwan” by Muzi News. Beijing. Typhoon Talim swept into southern China on Thursday after killing two people in Taiwan and injuring 39 as the island shut businesses, schools and financial markets to ride out the storm.

[Note: Please let me add that the small town I live in experienced a small but noticable earthquake tremor around 1998-1999.]

Aug. 30, 2005 - “6.2-Magnitude Quake Jolts Northern Japan” by the Associated Press. Tokyo. An earthquake hit northern Japan early Wednesday morning, the Meteorological Agency said, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

Aug. 29-30, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina, a Category 4 hurricane and one of the most powerful to hit the U.S., devastated the Louisiana and Mississippi coast, landing just east of New Orleans with 140 mph winds. The high winds and massive flooding miles inland left thousands homeless, 2.3 million without electricity, roads and bridges destroyed, and communications inoperable.

Aug. 28, 2005 - “India Monsoon Toll Nears 300, Encephalitis, Building Collapses in Nation's Most Populous State” by the Associated Press. Lucknow, India. At least 26 more people have died from house collapses, mosquito-borne encephalitis and other monsoon-related causes in India's most populous state, bringing the death toll to 292 this rainy season, officials said Saturday.

Aug. 24, 2005 - “Floods Cause Havoc Across Europe” by BBC News. Torrential rains have caused havoc across central and eastern Europe, killing up to 36 people.

Aug. 19, 2005 - “Wisconsin Hit With Up to 18 Tornadoes” by WEAU News Station, Wisconsin. The National Weather Service said today 18 possible tornadoes ripped through Wisconsin Thursday night, killing one person and leaving widespread destruction.

Aug. 16, 2005 - “Wacky Weather Has Folks Wondering” by CBS News. They're praying for rain in the Midwest, which is suffering through its worst drought in 17 years. But there's also been massive flooding in the Southwest, wildfires in the Northwest, extreme heat and humidity in the Northeast, and three powerful hurricanes. What's up?

Oct. 14, 2004 - “Moderate Earthquake Jolts Indonesia's Bali Island” by Channel News Asia International. Jakarta. A moderate earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale rocked the Indonesian resort island of Bali and the eastern tip of Java island, the meteorology office said on Thursday.

Jan. 4, 2004 - “Strong Quake in Ocean Off New Caledonia” The Wichita Eagle. A powerful earthquake struck off the east coast of the French island of New Caledonia on Sunday, the latest in a string of temblors to hit the area, the Hong Kong Observatory said.

Oct. 26, 2003 - “Four Dead in China Earthquakes” by BBC News. At least four people have been killed and 25 injured by two earthquakes in northwestern China. The two quakes, measuring 6.1 and 5.8, hit an area near Zhangye city in Gansu province on Saturday evening.

Oct. 9, 2003 - “Record Heat Wave in Europe Takes 35,000 Lives” by the Earth Policy Institute. A record heat wave scorched Europe in August 2003, claiming an estimated 35,000 lives. In France alone, 14,802 people died from the searing temperatures—more than 19 times the death toll from the SARS epidemic worldwide.

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Rise in False Leaders and Those Claiming to be Christ


Oct. 9, 2005 - “Man Accused of Killing 20-Month Old Daughter” Ohio News, Cincinnati, Ohio. A man was charged with murder Friday in the death of his 20-month old daughter, whose body was found in a park, police said. The child’s mother told police that Mr. Myrick, 32, had made threatening statements toward the child, referring to her as Satan’s child.

Oct. 2, 2005 - “U.S. Adults Lack Biblical Perspective” by the Washington Post. Although it’s the bedrock of some homes, the Bible is not the authority that most Americans consult when making moral decisions. In a recent national survey, only 16 percent of U.S. adults said they make moral choices based on the Bible.

Aug. 24, 2005 - “Goddess Called In to Scare Off Tsunami Ghosts” Reuters. Bangkik. With Asian tourists still shunning its southern beaches, Thailand is calling in a revered Chinese sea goddess to ward off the restive spirits of the thousands who died in last December's tsunami.

Aug. 15, 2005 - “More Than 100,000 Flock to Icon in Romania” by the Associated Press. Nikula. More than 100,000 people converged on an ancient monastery in the hills of northwest Romania on Monday to kiss an icon many believe has miraculous healing powers.

Jul. 26, 2005 - “'Moving Madonna' Draws Faithful” by BBC News. Catholic faithful from across Italy have been travelling to a small town near Naples to see a Madonna statue believers say has taken human form.

Jan. 5, 2004 - “Man Drives Car Into Church After Claiming to be Jesus” by the Associated Press. Sunset Hills. A man who disrupted weekend services at a church in this St. Louis suburb after claiming he was Jesus drove a car into the building’s lobby doors moments later, witnesses and police said. No one was injured.

Nov. 15, 2003 - “Judge: Witches Can Pray at County Meeting” by World Net Daily. Witches, or practitioners of the Wicca religion, can pray at a county's board meeting, a federal judge ruled.

Nov. 14, 2003 - “Ten Commandments Monument Moved” by CNN. Montgomery, Alabama. Only one in five Americans approve of the federal court order under which workers removed the Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of Alabama's state judicial building Wednesday, according to a new poll.

Nov. 13, 2003 - “Baby Sitter Arrested, Accused Of Witchcraft, Satanism” The Iowa Channel. Des Moines, Iowa. Des Moines police filed a criminal charge in a bizarre case which they say involves a baby sitter, two 8-year-old girls, witchcraft and alcohol.

Aug. 11, 2003 - “Druid Focuses Earth's Energy on Road Toll” The Telegraph, London, England. Druids have been brought in to reduce the number of accidents on Austria's worst stretch of autobahn.

Aug. 27, 2001 - “Astrology School Becomes Nationally Accredited” Richmond Astronomical Society. Scottsdale, Arizona. The stars were favorably aligned this month for the Astrological Institute, says founder Joyce Jensen, whose students learn to write horoscopes and give advice about the future...The institute received accreditation from the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology after demonstrating that its teachers are qualified and that its graduates can be placed in jobs, said Elise Scanlon, head of the Arlington, Va.-based commission.

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Apostasy


Nov. 9, 2005 - "'Intelligent-Design' School Board Ousted in Penn" by Reuters. Dover, Pennsylvania. Voters on Tuesday ousted a Pennsylvania local school board that promoted an "intelligent-design" alternative to teaching evolution, and elected a new slate of candidates who promised to remove the concept from science classes.

Oct. 12, 2005 - "Professor Slams Intelligent Design in Penn. Schools" by Reuters. Harrisburg. A professor on Wednesday slammed the teaching of intelligent design as a blow to science education as he testified in a lawsuit over whether the theory should be introduced in schools as an alternative to evolution.

Sep. 16, 2005 - “America's Identity Crisis” by The Conservative Voice. On September 14, 2005, San Francisco based U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton declared the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag and all it stands for, to be “unconstitutional.” He did so at the demand of a single atheist, Michael Newdow , who has made his personal anti-religion agenda a life-consuming crusade. Judge Karlton ruled on the basis that the words “Under God” constitute a clear violation of a supposed separation of church and state clause, that exists nowhere in our founding documents.

Aug. 30, 2005 - “'Hindu Radicals' Ransack Christian Church” by World Net Daily. A mob of 50 “Hindu radicals” today ransacked an Assembly of God church building in India desecrating the Bible, sources on the ground report.

Aug. 29, 2005 - “Gunman Slays 4 at Texas Church, Then Kills Self” by MS-NBC News. Honey Grove, Texas. A gunman killed four people at a rural church in a small north Texas town, then held off police in an nine-hour standoff before apparently killing himself, officials said Monday.

Aug. 26, 2005 - “Burglars 'Bake Family Dog in Oven” WTOC News. Two people are in jail after being found with goods stolen from a Southside Savannah woman's home. Police say the crime committed inside the home was unimaginable.

Aug. 28, 2005 - “More Abortions Than Births in Russia — Health Official” MosNews. Russians, whose lives are shorter and poorer than they were under communism, have more abortions than births to avoid the costs of raising children, Bloomberg.com reported Tuesday quoting the country’s highest-ranking obstetrician.

Aug. 21, 2005 - “Islamic Radicals Demand Guilty Verdict for Christians” by World Net Daily. Islamic radicals are in no way concealing their agenda as they campaign for a guilty verdict in a court case involving three Christian women accused of “Christianizing” Muslim children in Indonesia.

Aug. 21, 2005 - “San Diego Gay' Activists Call for 'Suppression,' 'Elimination' of Christians” by World Net Daily. A homosexual activist website in San Diego has published a threatening message directed specifically at a prominent ex-homosexual and more generally against other Christians activists.

Aug. 17, 2005 - “Religious Belief 'Falling Faster Than Church Attendance'” by the Telegraph, London, England. Organised religion is in near-terminal decline in Britain because parents have only a 50-50 chance of passing on belief to their offspring, a study claimed yesterday.

Aug. 12, 2005 - “I Now Pronounce You Husband and Husband” by Christianity Today. In July, Canada legally defined marriage as being between “two persons” with passage of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. The push to legitimize marriage between homosexuals originated in the past four years from court decisions in three Canadian provinces: Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia.

Aug. 10, 2005 - “Religion Takes a Back Seat in Western Europe” by USA Today. Dublin, Ireland. “I don't go to church, and I don't know one person who does,” says Brian Kenny, 39, who is studying psychotherapy and counseling at Dublin Business School. “Fifteen years ago, I didn't know one person who didn't.”

Nov. 18, 2003 - “Mother Kills Raped Daughter to Restore 'Honor'” by World Net Daily. A Palestinian girl who was raped and impregnated by her two brothers was later murdered by her own mother – even though her daughter was the crime's innocent victim – in another of the disturbingly common, if vastly underreported, instances of “honor killings.“

Oct. 27, 2003 - “US parents 'Starved Sons'” by BBC News. A New Jersey couple, Vanessa and Raymond Jackson, have been charged with aggravated assault and child endangerment after their four adopted sons, aged nine to 19, were found severely malnourished.

Oct. 21, 2003 - “Mom Says Spider was 'Sign' to Drown Kids” by The Free Patriot. Lamar, Colorado. A woman accused of drowning her infant son and 4-year-old daughter in a bathtub told police she had received a “sign” that she should kill the children: a spider crawling across her hand, according to an arrest affidavit released Monday.

Oct. 19, 2003 - “Jerusalem Chosen as Site of International Gay Fest” by the Jerusalem Post. A major international gay and lesbian organization has selected Jerusalem as the site for it's next major world parade, in an event that could draw hundreds of thousands of homosexual revelers to the Holy Land.

Oct. 17, 2003 - “Grandma Kills Baby With Salt To Punish Son” by the Associated Press. Reading, Pennsylvania. A Pennsylvania woman allegedly wanted to get back at her son and his girlfriend -- so she put what turned out to be a deadly dose of salt in their baby's formula.

Sept. 5, 2003 - “Police: Teen Killed in Ambush by Father” by CNN News. San Diego, California. A 14-year-old boy jogging with his high school cross-country team was shot and killed in an ambush by his father, who later killed himself after a standoff with police, authorities said.

Aug. 20, 2003 - “Church Worker Beaten for Anti-Gay Sermon?” by World Net Daily. A pastor who preached against homosexuality believes his sermon was the motive for three men who assaulted his church's part-time janitor.

Aug. 1, 2001 - “Germany Legalizes Gay Marriages” by BBC News. The first gay couples in Germany have tied the knot after a new law came into power allowing a form of gay marriage.

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Knowledge Shall be Increased


Aug. 25, 2005 - “Earth's Core Spinning Faster than Crust” by the Associated Press. Washington. The giant iron ball at the center of the Earth appears to be spinning a bit faster than the rest of the planet.

Aug. 22, 2005 - “Scientists Send Skin Cell Back to Embryo Stage” by ABC News Online. US researchers say they have created a new human embryonic stem cell by fusing an embryonic stem cell to an ordinary skin cell. They hope their method could provide a way to create tailor-made medical treatments without having to start from scratch using cloning technology.

Aug. 19, 2005 - “Researchers Creating Life From Scratch” by the Associated Press. Berkeley, California. They're called “synthetic biologists” and they boldly claim the ability to make never-before-seen living things, one genetic molecule at a time.

Aug. 9, 2003 - “Making a Video Screen Out of Thin Air” by Reuters. San Francisco, California. In a museum in Tampere, Finland, Ismo Rakkolainen's fog machine conjures up the Mona Lisa on an invisible sheet of water particles. Thousands of miles away in Hermosa Beach, California, a graduate student passes his hand through an image of a DNA strand produced — apparently out of thin air — by a modified video projector.

Aug. 3, 2005 - “South Korean Scientists Clone First Dog” by the Associated Press. South Korea's pioneering stem cell scientist has cloned a dog, smashing another biological barrier and reigniting a fierce ethical debate while producing a perky, lovable puppy.

Oct. 3, 2001 - “Scientists Unlock Mysteries of Speech” by BBC News. UK scientists have identified the first gene involved in the development of speech and language. The discovery could unlock the mystery of speech, a uniquely human characteristic.

Aug. 26, 2001 - “Teeth That Can Heal Themselves” by BBC News. American scientists claim to have found the answer to frequent fillings - a material that heals cavities.

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One World Leader, One World Government


Sep. 16, 2005 - “Clinton One-World Government Conference to Address 'Threat' of Religion” by LifeSiteNews.com. New York. Former US President Bill Clinton has long dreamed of power in international affairs. He has long been rumoured to be the next to be tapped for UN Secretary General, and is a key player in the international movement that seeks to “unite” the world’s nations under a single, all-encompassing state governed by the UN’s favoured class of leftist elites.

Jul. 24, 2005 - “Healing the World - Working Together, Religion in Global Society” by the World Council of Churches. The International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ) has chosen a stately, if challenging, title for the overall theme of this conference in Chicago. Healing the world and working together is the role of religion in global society. Who could oppose such a grand call to mission?

Sep. 23, 2001 - “Pope Urges Harmony Between Faiths” by BBC News. Pope John Paul II has used the opportunity of a visit to the multi-ethnic and multi-religious former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan to call for harmony between Christians and Muslims.

Sep. 1, 2001 - “Global taxation Moves Closer” by World Net Daily. “It will never happen,” was the almost universal response to our first reports of global taxation nearly a decade ago. The folks at the United Nations, however, believe that it will happen – and soon.

Dec. 7, 2000 - “Fears of a European Superstate” by BBC News. Behind the fuel protests that raged across Europe in recent months was a fear - for some Europeans - of a European superstate. Many of the protesters felt frustrated that key decisions about their lives are no longer taken at national level, by leaders they have elected.

Jul. 5, 1999 - “Creating Hate: The World Church” by BBC News. The World Church of the Creator is a race hate group enjoying a revival - and a growing presence on the Internet. Web sites connected with the group are emerging across the United States and in parts of Europe.

Dec. 1997 - "Frontline" Former U.S. Congressman Peter Hoagland said: “Fundamental, Bible-believing people do not have the right to indoctrinate their children in their religious beliefs because we, the State, are preparing them for the year 2000, when America will be part of a one-world order global society and their children will not fit in.”

July/August 1995 - "Foreign Affairs," Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. said: “We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.”

April 19 1994 - World Affairs Council Press Conference, Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Henry Kissinger: “[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United  States to change it's perceptions.”

Mar. 11, 1993 - Bill Clinton in USA Today said: “We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans”

Jun. 1991 -In an address to a Trilateral Commission meeting,  David Rockefeller: “We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the National autodetermination practiced in past centuries.”

Dec. 1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev, in an address at the United Nations, stated: “Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.”

1970 - Felix Frankfurter, justice of the U.S. Supreme Court:  “The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.” (Col. Curtis B. Dall, “Franklin Delano Roosevelt: My Exploited Father-in-Law” [Washington, DC, Action Associates, 1970], pg .67).

1964 - In his 1964 book, “No Apologies," U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater said:  “The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate  the four centers of power--Political, Monetary, Intellectual, and Ecclesiastical.”

1922 - John F. Hylan, mayor of New York (1918-1925)  “The real menace of our republic is the invisible government which, like a giant octopus, sprawls its slimy length over our city, state and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses generally referred to as `international bankers.' This little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run our government for their own selfish ends.” (Don Bell, “Who Are Our Rulers?,” “American Mercury,” Sept. 1960, pg. 136).

42 B.C., Roman Statesman, orator, and author Cicero stated: “A nation can survive its' fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor--He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation--he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city--he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.”

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The Mark of the Beast


Sep. 19, 2005 - “Banker Gets ID Chip Implant” by Red Herring. VeriChip ‘chips’ an investment bank CEO who wants authorities to have access to his living will in an emergency. To help publicize a company that makes microchips that can be implanted in humans for identification purposes, a prominent San Francisco banker got “chipped” Monday so that his living will is just a scan away if he ever becomes seriously ill.

Aug. 20, 2005 - “Techno-Generation Cash, Card or Microchip” by Reuters. At a bar in Barcelona, select clientele can pay for drinks and access the VIP lounge at the scan of a tiny implanted digital tag. Julius Purcell goes where the chip crowd go. On a warm summer night in Barcelona, the dance floor of the Baja Beach Club is a writhing mass of locals and tourists. The normal punters here still have to go through the tiresome rituals of queuing for entry, waiting at the bar, fumbling for change, and fretting about the safety of their wallets. But for the lucky members of the Baja's VIP lounge, a magic chip implanted in their arm does it all for them. The cybernetic disco has arrived.

Aug. 2, 2005 - “RFID Chips Promise To Revamp Medicine” by SpaceDaily. No longer a science-fiction fantasy, radio frequency identification chips are on the market and available for implantation in the human body.

Aug. 1, 2005 - “Wireless Wallets Come Closer to Reality” by Reuters. Imagine being able to pay for a song on the jukebox, buy a bag of groceries or gain admission to a sports arena by simply waving your phone by a machine.

Jul. 12, 2004 - “Japan School Kids to be Tagged with RFID Chips” by CNET News.com. Japanese authorities decide tracking is best way to protect kids. The rights and wrongs of using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on humans have been debated since the tracking tags reached the technological mainstream. Now, school authorities in the Japanese city of Osaka have decided the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and will now be chipping children in one primary school.

Nov. 15, 2003 - “Wal-Mart Used Microchip to Track Customers” by World Net Daily. Wal-Mart customers who picked up lipstick off the shelf at a Broken-Arrow, Okla., store were part of a little-mentioned experiment earlier this year that tracked consumer habits using Radio Frequency Identification technology, or RFID.

Oct. 17, 2003 - “Feds Want All-Seeing Eye in Sky” New Orleans. Spooks, suits, generals and geeks gathered here this week to discuss a common goal: an all-seeing, omnipresent set of eyes in the sky to keep an unblinking view of the entire world at once.

Jul. 20, 2003 - “Could Your Fingernails Be Used as Credit Cards?” by BBC News. Could your fingernails be used as credit cards? Researchers in Japan are pioneering a new technique of carving miniscule numbers and pictures into fingernails, by burning microscopic dots into the nail with a laser.

Oct. 4, 2001 - “National ID Cards Could Go High Tech” by NewsMax.com. In the scramble to beef up security in America and catch would-be terrorists, there have been rumblings about developing some sort of national identification system in addition to passports and driver's licenses.

Oct. 2, 2001 - “Will That Be Cash, Check or Finger?” by Wired News. Fingerprints, long stigmatized by their association with crime scenes and police stations, may get an image boost when people start using them to pay for everything from Big Macs to groceries. That's the philosophy behind Indivos, an Oakland, California, firm that has invented software that uses fingerprint scanners to process electronic payments.