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I've written a similar post as part of the Beginning Quilting Series. Since the Beginning Quilting series already exists (and I'll probably refer to it from time to time) I'd like this quilting Bee to function as "the next step up" - moving on to more intermediate quilting skills.
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Let's talk supplies. Here is my original post about Basic Quilting Supplies for your review. Rather than rehash the same topic, I'm going to refer you there. This post talks about the basics of getting started: rotary cutter, mat, seam ripper, pins, scissors. I don't have much more to add to those categories. I will expound and embellish on a few others below.
There are a TON of quilting tools, gadgets, and gizmos out there and many of them are really cool. Obviously people have been quilting for centuries without anything more than a pair of scissors and a needle and thread. That's all you need really. Don't get too overwhelmed by the number of tools available - especially if you're just getting started.
I've been picking up quilting supplies here and there over the past 14 years. I now have a nice collection - many of which are great helps - but starting with the basics will be just fine. As with everything, watch for sales, check thrift shops, use coupons at places like JoAnn's, etc. You can get really great deals on lots of your quilting notions by doing so.
I get asked about machines a lot, and I don't feel super helpful. I don't have a fancy machine. It's probably almost as old as I am. It's a Bernina Sport 801- all metal, heavy duty, and I love it! I don't do a lot of fancy stuff with my machine. I just need it to sew a straight line, and it's great for that. That said, I'm starting to look at upgrading and getting a new one. I'd like one with a bigger work surface and maybe a wider throat (more space between the knobs and the needle).
As with anything you don't always need the fanciest of the fancy, but quality does make a difference. I personally would not buy a machine from Costco or Target and expect to have a great experience with it. But you can still find a decent machine at a good price. My mom bought a great little Janome from Hancock's fabrics that is frequently on sale. There are some great tips and suggestions in the comments section of THIS POST.
Also, Melissa has written an excellent post about buying a machine here. I would echo everything she said. The main point being: find a good local dealer, if you're looking to invest in a good machine for the long haul. They'll be an invaluable resource.
I highly recommend good thread. Definitely 100% cotton for working with 100% cotton fabrics. I personally prefer 50 wt thread for piecing blocks. (Heavier weight like 40 -28 for quilting.) This thread is thin, but it helps your pieced seams lie flatter - especially when you're working with small pieces.
[Thread "weights" tell how fine or thick the thread is. The higher the number the thinner it is. This post by Aurifil shows the differences between the various weights of cotton threads.)
I know it seams silly, but there is a difference in thread quality and you get what you pay for. I personally love Aurifil 50 wt. It's not cheap, but I buy it by the cone so I get a lot for my money's worth. (I use this thread stand for the cones with my regular machine.)
I also like DMC 50 wt but it's been harder for me to find locally and I haven't found it in bulk. Both keep my machine from getting as full of lint. I also recommend Gutterman which you can get on sale at JoAnn's. It's a slightly thicker weight, but it will work.
If you have old, not-so-great quality thread, don't get rid of it. It's great for things like basting.
As mentioned in the Beginning Basics post, there are two rulers that I would invest in from the very beginning. A 6" x 24" long ruler so you can cut strips, etc. and a shorter 6" x 12" ruler for easy in cutting smaller pieces or squaring up blocks. I have gradually collected a few more that have become really useful to me: a 6 1/2" square, and 8 1/2" square a 12 1/2" square. The square rulers are handy for cutting and for squaring up blocks.
From there, there are all kinds of nifty flying geese, and angled and hex and wedge shaped rulers out there. They really can help on specific projects. If they're within your budget and you would use them frequently, I think they are totally worth the purchase.
I happen to prefer a really good iron. I got a Rowenta as a wedding present and it lasted for 10 years. I was so sad when it died but I didn't have as much money to invest in a new one, so I tried some cheaper brands. You can read my iron saga that ensued. After going through a few other decent irons in a short amount of time, I invested another Rowenta. It was worth it to me.
Keep your eyes peeled for irons on a good sale or with a discount coupon. A few months after I bought one new, I saw a nice, newer model Rowenta Professional at the thrift store for $4.99. (I still keep the price tag on because it makes me feel happy.) I figured it was worth the gamble to see if it worked and it has worked like a dream for 3 years. Now I keep one in my laundry room and one in my sewing room. So check thrift shops! Department stores like Macy's or Bed Bath & Beyond will carry fancy irons and sometimes have great coupons, so watch for those. Also places like Tuesday Morning or Big Lots will sometimes have random fancy irons at clearance prices.
I was recently given a fancy Oliso iron to play with by the Oliso company. It's super posh and I love it, but I know they're a bit pricey too.
I know some quilters who absolutely love vintage electric irons because they stay nice and hot (just remember to turn it off when you're done) and have a nice pointy tip and the end. Watch for them at thrift stores and yard sales, but make sure they're safe.
I am frequently asked about fabric quality. This post on fabric shopping advice has a lot more in depth information on where to buy fabric, the difference in quality, definition of a fat quarter, etc.
With the continued price increase for cotton, quality fabric costs are adding up! Here's what I think. And again, these are just my own thoughts and experiences, so take them for what they're worth and do what's best for you. Basically you get what you pay for. The reason that some fabrics are more expensive is because they are generally higher quality (higher thread count, better dyes, etc). Decide for yourself whether it's worth it to invest in quality that will last longer, or if it's just a practice project does longevity really matter? Every person will have different thoughts. Do what you think is best.
But definitely get fabric that inspires you to create. It's so much harder to feel creative when you don't like your medium.
Don't forget about watching for sales, coupons, etc. They can make a big difference. I usually only buy 1/2 yards to 1/4 yards or fat quarters because I like scrappy quilts with a lot of variety in them. I'll wait and buy bigger pieces for backs, etc. when they are on clearance.
We will talk more about fabric, specifically choosing colors, amounts, etc next week.
There are a myriad of quilting books available and most of them will have a section with basic quilting skills. One of my recent favorite quilting and sewing reference books is Nancy Zieman's The A to Z of Sewing. If you're looking for a good, clear reference to have on hand, or as a gift for someone getting started, I recommend this one.
Alright friends, there's some food for thought this week. If I've missed something you'd like covered or have question about quilting notions and supplies, please leave them in the comments. Also if you have tools or gadgets that you can't live without, share them in the comments as well!
I have to say, your feedback in this series has already been amazing! It's harder that I thought it would be to get to respond to all the comments individually, so please know that I'm so appreciative. And I'm going to start doing something that my husband has been trying to get me to do for years: I'm going to start responding and answering questions in the comments section as well, so watch for those.
One question that I've received a few times is fabric requirements and availability for this project. I'm working with a few online shops and will have all the information for you before our first block tutorial in March. Hang tight!
Thanks again for your feedback and contributions. I love being a part of this community. And feel free to take a button if you like!!


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POLL: Did The Final Chapter of "Trinity War" Leave You More Excited For "Forever Evil?"
Have the revelations from the final chapter of "Trinity War" in "Justice League" #23 left you more or less excited for DC Comics' "Forever Evil," the New 52's first line-wide event?
POLL: Which Recently Canceled Series Will You Miss the Most?
With the final issue of DC Comics' "Legion of Super-Heroes" in stores this week, and Marvel's "Venom" wrapping up in October, CBR wonders what recently ended or soon-to-end ongoing series will you'll miss the most?
POLL: Which Marvel Outer Space Epic Crossover is Your Favorite?
Marvel's latest crossover, "Infinity," continues Marvel Comics' strong legacy of outer space epic crossovers. Which of Marvel's past outer space epic crossovers was your favorite?
POLL: Which DC Hero Do You Want To See Follow Flash and Black Canary onto "Arrow"
With Black Canary and Flash debuting in Season Two, and the latter set to star in his own spinoff series, we wants to know which of DC Comics' other Justice Leaguers should make their presence felt on "Arrow."
POLL: Which of Grant Morrison's Batman Stories Was Your Favorite?
With Grant Morrison's run on Batman reaching its conclusion with this week's "Batman, Incorporated" #13, CBR wants to know: Which of his storylines was your favorite?
POLL: How Long Do You Think Spider-Man Will Remain "Superior" Now?
When we first asked, 72.6% of you believed "Superior Spider-Man" would be over by Issue #24! With word getting out that the series will run through at least #25, we wonder how long you think it will last, now!
POLL: Are You More Excited For Warner Bros.' "Superman/Batman" or Marvel's "Avengers: Age of Ultron"?
Warner Bros. and Marvel Studios brought out the big guns at Comic-Con International, with the former announcing "Superman/Batman" and the latter "Avengers: Age of Ultron." Which one has you most excited?
POLL: Which Superhero TV Series Deserves to Get the "Batman '66" Treatment?
With "Batman '66" finally on tablets everywhere and "Smallville: Season 11" going strong, CBR wonders, which superhero television show should be next to get the digital comics treatment?
POLL: What Was the Most Shocking Death at the Hands of a Superhero?
There was a time when heroes killing villains -- or sometimes other heroes -- was a genuinely shocking turn of events. CBR wonders, what do you feel is the most surprising example of a superhero taking a life?
POLL: Which Acclaimed Cable Series Would You Like to See Come to Comics?
With Marvel's "Dexter" finally in stores and "Sons of Anarchy" on its way, CBR wonders what other acclaimed cable series you would most like to see make the leap from television to comics.
POLL: What's Your Favorite Comic Book Bromance of All Time?
One of comics most enduring partnerships was reborn with the release of Greg Pak and Jae Lee's "Batman/Superman" #1 earlier this week, leading CBR to wonder: What's your favorite comic book bromance of all time?
POLL: Which Character from the Future Do You Want To See in the Current Marvel U?
With "Age of Ultron" causing all kinds of disruptions to the spacetime continuum, CBR wonders: which major character from the future would you most like to see show up in the present day Marvel U?
POLL: How Would You Grade Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel?"
With an opening weekend gross of over $125M in North America alone, it's a safe bet that many of you have seen "Man of Steel." Now, CBR wants to know how you'd grade the latest big screen take on Superman!
POLL: Which Pre-"Man of Steel" Actor Embodies Your Ideal Superman?
Henry Cavill may be on the cusp of becoming the Superman for a generation, but for now, CBR want to know which previous actor to take on the live action role embodies your ideal Man of Steel.
POLL: Which Lesser-Known Character Do You Most Want to See In "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?"
With speculation running wild about who might show up in Joss Whedon's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," CBR wants to know which lesser-known Marvel character you most want to see in the ABC series.
POLL: Which '90s Cover Gimmick Do You Want To See Come Back Next?
DC Comics' Villains Month brings with it the return of the lenticular 3D cover, the latest cover gimmick to resurface in recent years. CBR asks, which '90s cover enhancement do you want to see resurface next?
POLL: Are You Excited for DC Comics' Villains Month?
Now that it's official and DC Comics has begun to release details about its Villains Month even in September, CBR wonders, are you looking forward to the first line-wide crossover of the New 52?
POLL: Who is Your Favorite Member of Brian Wood and Olivier Coipel's "X-Men?"
We know there's a lot to choose from and some tough decisions to be made, but we still want to know: Who is your favorite member of Brian Wood and Olivier Coipel's new X-Men team?
POLL: What did you think of Brian Wood and Olivier Coipel's "X-Men" #1?
After months of anticipation, the first issue of Brian Wood and Olivier Coipel's "X-Men" series has hit stores, and CBR wants to know what you thought of the series' debut!
POLL: Who Is Your Favorite Character Introduced During Geoff Johns' Epic "Green Lantern" Run?
In honor of Geoff Johns' epic run on "Green Lantern," CBR asks, what was your favorite new character introduced to the GL mythos in the last nine years?
POLL: Which TV or Movie Sci Fi/Fantasy Franchise Has Made the Best Transition to Comics?
With "Star Trek: Into Darkness" hitting theaters this week after being built up in the prequel comics, CBR wants to know which TV/Movie Sci-Fi/Fantasy franchise has best moved into the world of comic books?
POLL: Which Character Has Marvel's "Iron Man" Movies Adapted Best?
Of all the characters to appear in Marvel Studios' "Iron Man" films to date, which has made the most successful leap from the page to the silver screen?
POLL: Is Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark Replaceable in Future Iron Man Films?
In light of the current talk about contracts and Robert Downey Jr. hinting that he may not return for more Iron Man films, CBR asks if you feel the actor is replaceable as Tony Stark.
POLL: What Did You Think of "Iron Man 3?"
With "Iron Man 3" debuting to the second largest opening weekend ever behind Marvel's "The Avengers," CBR asks what you think of Robert Downey Jr.'s latest turn as Tony Stark!
Who Is THE Definitive Iron Man Writer?
Of all of those who have guided the life of Tony Stark over the decades, which is your choice for the definitive Iron Man writer?
POLL: Which of Dark Horse's C2E2 Announcements Are You Most Excited About?
Dark Horse Comics made a number of big announcements during last weekend's C2E2, and CBR wants to know: which one are you most excited about?
POLL: Which of Marvel's C2E2 Announcements Are You Most Excited About?
Of all of the announcements made by Marvel Comics during last weekend's C2E2, CBR wants to know which one you're most excited about?
POLL: Who Is THE Definitive Superman Artist?
CBR shines the spotlight on a list of artists who have left their marks in a big way on the Man of Steel over the last 75 years, asking which is the definitive Superman artist
POLL: Who Is THE Definitive Superman Writer?
It's difficult to pick the best author to ever pen the comic book adventures of Superman, but CBR has narrowed the list down to sixteen high-profile Man of Steel scribes. Now, who is your definitive Superman writer?
Check Out CBR's New Polls!
We've overhauled our entire polls interface and design, giving you an even better experience when voicing to your inner nerd's opinions on "Man of Steel," renumbering "Detective Comics" and other topics!
POLL: What Do You Think Of Zack Snyder's Superman Mythos Changes In "Man of Steel"?
Director Zack Snyder has stated he's making some major changes to the Superman mythos in "Man of Steel." CBR wants to know what you think!
POLL: What Do You Think Of Carrie Kelly Joining The New 52 DCU?
With the first New 52 appearance of Carrie Kelly in this week's "Batman and Red Robin," CBR asks, do you think it's a good move to make her part of Batman's regular supporting cast?
POLL: Should DC Have Renumbered This Week's "Detective Comics" To #900?
Do you think DC Comics should have renumbered "Detective Comics" to #900 with this week's milestone issue?
POLL: Which Requiem Issue Was The Best Tribute To Damian Wayne?
Which of DC Comics' Requiem issues do you think offered the best tribute to the recently fallen Robin, Damian Wayne?
POLL: What Did You Think Of The Trailers For "The Wolverine?"
After watching Fox's two trailers for its highly anticipated X-Men sequel "The Wolverine," CBR asks for your reaction to the new footage of Hugh Jackman's latest turn as Logan.
POLL: Which Avengers Title Is Your Favorite?
With seven ongoing series featuring Marvel's line-up of Earth's Mightiest Heroes currently being published, CBR wonders: Which Avengers title is your favorite? UPDATED: We added Young Avengers and restarted our poll!
POLL: What's Your Reaction to Neil Gaiman Returning to the Marvel U?
CBR wants to know your reaction to today's big news of Neil Gaiman returning to the Marvel Universe to co-write the finale of "Age of Ultron" and "Guardians of the Galaxy!"
POLL: Who Do You Think Will Be The Next Robin?
Batman is never long without a sidekick, so CBR asks you: Who do you think will be the next character to take up the mantle of Robin and fight alongside DC Comics' Dark Knight?
POLL: What Is Your Favorite Marvel Comics Event of the Past Ten Years?
With Brian Michael Bendis and Bryan Hitch's "Age of Ultron" #1 landing in readers' hands this week, CBR wonders, what is your Marvel favorite event from the last ten years?
POLL: What Did You Think of The New "Iron Man 3" Trailer?
With the release of the third full-length trailer for Shane Black's "Iron Man 3," CBR wants to know your opinion on the two-minute teaser for the upcoming sequel kicking off Marvel's Phase Two films.
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Santiago Cork Flooring is a direct print cork. It features a new technology that has the look of tile and wood but it's actually cork! Features a clear finish. Unlike laminate, there is no paper. Quick Highlights: DURABILITY - 25 year warranty same as traditional hardwood. Lisbon Cork Co. Ltd. Fine Cork Flooring combines the beauty of a natural material with the comfort of a cushioned surface. It is durable, acoustical, and a great insulator. The bark of the cork tree is peeled without destroying the tree and it grows back within nine years, ready to be harvested again. Warm to the touch and resilient, cork floors are a joy to live with. Cork is considered a green product because the same tree can be harvested numerous times. Use of Underlayments: Order now through our web site, visit your local store, or Call 1-800-HARDWOOD Lumber Liquidators... More Floor, Less $$
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WHILE MANY OF THE MACHINES IN THIS ROUNDUP ARE ROOTED IN THE REPRAP MOVEMENT, SeeMeCNC is still very much part of it. Their H1.1 printer kit ($189–$594) is a RepRap Huxley with a literal twist: the vertical bars have a slight bend at their ends to alter the geometry; also, SeeMeCNC uses injection-molded connectors rather than printed ones, a nice upgrade.
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Increased head circumference is when the measured distance around the widest part of the skull is larger than expected for the child's age and background.
A newborn's head is usually about 2 centimeters larger than the chest size. Between 6 months and 2 years, both measurements are about equal. After 2 years, the chest size becomes larger than the head.
Measurements over time that show an increased rate of head growth often provide more valuable information than a single measurement that is larger than expected.
Increased pressure inside the head (increased intracranial pressure ) often occurs with increased head circumference. Symptoms of this condition include:
The health care provider usually finds macrocephaly during a routine well-baby exam.
The health care provider will take a medical history and will perform a physical examination .
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A careful physical exam will be done. Other milestones for growth and development will be checked.
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Diagnostic tests that may be ordered include:
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...one ID number is the key to access all services and also all databases... When numerous databases are linked together by means of a common interface, in this case ID numbers, they effectively function as a single "meta-database".
Already, over 2.2 billion people, or 33 per cent of the world's population, have been issued
with "smart" ID cards. Of those cards, over 900 million have biometric facial and fingerprint systems.
On present plans, over 85 per cent of the world's population will have smart ID cards by 2012. Most of the remaining population won't have escaped: largely, they are already enrolled
in earlier-generation ID systems, often in repressive states such as Myanmar
Understandably, campaigns against the introduction of ID cards have tended to play up the problems with ID systems, presenting them as being unworkable and creating unmanageable problems with privacy invasion, fraud, unauthorised database access, organised crime, unreliability of biometric recognition, etc. As a result, a substantial number of people believe mandatory ID cards "just won't happen".
It's long past time to stop burying our heads in the sand. There are no obstacles to the worldwide introduction of mandatory electronic ID cards.
All those problems with ID systems may be real, but they are not enough to stop implementation, primarily because these are problems that will affect people as individuals, not their governments—our problem, not theirs.
There has been hardly any meaningful debate about one of the biggest issues of our time.
It's also time to look at what ID systems are really intended to do, not at the public justification for them. Since governments probably always knew that ID cards wouldn't stop terrorism, organised crime, ID theft, fraud, etc., there has to be some other reason for their introduction—and it appears to be a reason that governments don't want to own up to in public.
A Coordinated International ID Agenda?
Perhaps we can learn more if we look at what is going on around the world.
Interestingly, nobody seems to have published a comprehensive or reliable
survey of worldwide ID schemes, so a survey had to be compiled for this
article, What stands out from this survey, incomplete as it may be, is that advanced
electronic ID card systems are coming to some of the poorest nations in the
world, some in chaos, civil war and starvation, both small and large countries.
They are coming to nations with vastly divergent cultures, to nations that are
almost completely pre-industrialised and underdeveloped, and coming first
to almost all Islamic nations.
The few that will not have advanced electronic population registration will be in a tiny minority. This is all to happen by the end of 2012.
For example, on 25 June 2009, India announced it is pressing
ahead with the introduction of universal biometric ID cards, to be completed
by 2011—to register nearly 1.2 billion people within just 18 months.
However, there are grey areas. For example, in some states, such as Mozambique and Zambia, there are biometric ID cards for voter registration which aren't officially national ID cards but nonetheless have registered the population.
"Election cards" tend to become national ID cards immediately after an election, as in Haiti. (How did
introducing ID cards get linked to "bringing in democracy"?) The USA would probably be in the grey
area due to the uncertainty (deliberately not clarified) about the Real ID Act, Canada due to proposals for biometric "enhanced drivers licenses", and Australia due to the uncertain status of the Access Card. Any uncertainty gets put into perspective by the "big picture": ID cards are coming, almost everywhere.
The simultaneous introduction of very similar ID card systems in so many nations seems more than a
coincidence. If it were purely a matter of nations taking their own initiative to upgrade systems, this would happen over a longer timetable as nations periodically updated systems once every couple of
decades. Does this timetable indicate unseen international
pressure applied to nations to adopt ID cards?
In the process of researching the list, something interesting came out. The plans to introduce a national ID card system in Uganda were announced in a memorandum of understanding, dated 20 June 2008, sent to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The impression is that the IMF was involved in the decision long before the people of Uganda were
consulted about their national ID card scheme.
Has the IMF required nations to adopt biometric ID cards, on the pretext of instigating financial regulation and preventing fraud and money laundering? Again and again, in the public description of the alleged benefits of biometric ID systems, the reasons given include the benefit to the banking system, in preventing fraud, and allowing the poor to have access
to the banking system.
Several nations (e.g., India) have mentioned the need to confirm that aid gets to the intended recipients and is not lost in fraud—again, something which a body such as the IMF might see as a justifiable reason to promote or require biometric ID, but other people would see as a mere pretext for "policy laundering".
In a different example of western promotion, the European Union (EU) has financially sponsored the
introduction of biometric ID cards in the Democratic Republic of Congo, allegedly to help promote peace by tracking down ex-soldiers and ex-fighters.
A similar logic has been applied to a biometric scheme in Somalia.
Grotesquely, biometric ID cards are coming to Rwanda. ID cards were a major tool in the Rwandan
genocide. Imagine how much more effective the genocide could have been with a computerised
population register and an ID system with biometrics to prevent fraud or evasion. Rwanda's experience is an horrific illustration of how lethal ID cards can be in a nation in civil war, and raises uncomfortable questions about western involvement, as does the situation in Congo.
Policy Harmonisation in the EU, UK and USA The worldwide introduction of ID cards is merely the
visible witness of an invisible process. Policies that profoundly affect our lives and take away our freedoms are worked out in secret international deals.
In July 2005, during its sixmonth rotation in the Presidency of the EU, the United Kingdom introduced a proposal for biometric ID cards for Europe despite the fact that it had no power to do so under the EU treaties at that time.
Legalities being no obstacle, this subsequently evolved into binding EU policy in the Hague Programme on justice and security. However, policies introducing ID cards, evolved in secret, go far beyond identification and security, as described by Tony Bunyan of Statewatch in an article in the Guardian ("The surveillance society is an EU-wide issue", 28 May 2009; includes quotations from Bunyan's
Statewatch report, "The Shape of Things to Come").
ID cards are only one tool, enabling a much larger scheme to track and record the life of every individual; Bunyan calls this the "digital tsunami".
'Every object the individual uses, every transaction they make and almost everywhere they go will create a detailed digital record. This will generate a wealth of information for public security organisations', leading to behaviour being predicted and assessed by 'machines' (their term)
which will issue orders to officers on the spot. The proposal presages the mass gathering of personal data on travel, bank details, mobile phone locations, health records, internet usage, criminal records however minor, fingerprints and digital pictures that can be data-mined
and applied to different scenario[s]—boarding a plane, behaviour on the Tube or taking part in a protest.
But this isn't just coming to Europe, as Bunyan explains, because the USA and Europe will share similar policies and practices in an agenda of policy harmonisation:
It is proposed that by 2014 the EU needs to create a 'Euro- Atlantic area of cooperation with the USA in the field of freedom, security and justice'. This would go far beyond current co-operation and mean that policies affecting the liberties and rights of everyone in Europe would not be determined in London or Brussels but in secret EU–US meetings.
Was this a response to 9/11? No, emphatically not. We can say this because some of these schemes have a published history and timeline dating from much earlier, e.g., Taiwan, 1997, and India, 1999. We can trace a continuing pursuit of ID-based databases back to the Australia Card, which was defeated in 1987. We can also say with certainty that EU–US cooperation on security pre-dates 9/11, as does EU development of security databases which have been applied to political protestors.
What Do ID Cards Do?
The new cards are like a high-tech "glue", an interface, joining together all the different state databases and linking their information together. This is the significance of the "multifunctional"
identity function of the new cards: one ID number is the key to access all services and also all databases. One card, one number, tracks a person across multiple activities, across their whole life and everything they do—employment, tax, health, everything. When numerous databases are linked together by means of a common interface, in this case ID numbers, they effectively function as a single "meta-database".
In the Guardian (30 September 2003), home affairs editor Alan Travis wrote that the "citizen information register" in Britain will "bring together all the existing information held by the government" on its 58 million residents:
It will include their name, address, date of birth, sex, and a unique personal number to form a 'more accurate and transparent' database than existing national insurance, tax, medical, passport, voter and driving licence records... The decision to give the go-ahead to the national population register without any apparent need for new legislation or any public debate is in sharp contrast to the intense cabinet debate now taking place over the...identity
card scheme...
...The scheme is a joint project between the Office of National Statistics and the Treasury... The idea was developed by the Treasury's public services productivity panel—a group of senior business people and public services managers...
[The Home Office] admitted a national identity card scheme will have to be 'underpinned by a database of all UK residents' and asked for views on whether the citizens information register should be used for this purpose...
The Indian ID scheme is another major example. According to an article in the Hindu (26 June 2009):
...the UID [Unique IDentification] numbers and the database will be linked to agencies such as the Election Commission of India and the Income Tax Department, which...issue...voters photo identity
cards... In addition, it will be used for providing services under government
schemes such as the public distribution system, and the National Rural Employment Guarantee
Scheme for families living below the poverty line...and for delivering financial and other assistance to the needy.
This is the new model for egovernment around the world.
Historically, this isn't the first time we have seen systems like this. It is very similar in concept to the Nazi ID system, as it finally evolved, with a Reich Personnel Number to link all other
databases. The system of compiling the initial population register from records in existing, earlier
databases is, again, very similar to Nazi practice.
Why should this be significant? Why should there be any big deal about the government collecting together data that it already has?
As reported by Henry Porter in his Guardian blog (25 February 2009):
'Once an individual has been assigned a unique index number, it is possible to accurately retrieve data across numerous databases and build a picture of that individual's life that was not authorised in the original consent for data collection,' says Sir David Omand in a report for the Institute for Public Policy Research... In 2006 Sir David Varney, the head of Transformational Government, predicted that the state would know 'a deep truth about the citizen based on their behaviour, experience, beliefs, needs or desires'.
Loyalty Cards and Data-Gathering
Let's not talk about a police state, let's talk about supermarket loyalty cards. There isn't much difference between them in terms of technology, and modern ID cards seem to be close descendants of loyalty cards, intended for a similar purpose: gathering information about people. To be able to track someone, first you need to identify them.
Corporations want to know as much as they can about their customers, for marketing purposes, and have made an incredible investment in infrastructure for gathering and analysing data about them. By 2004, Wal-Mart had gathered 460 terabytes of information about customers,
or more than twice the total information on the Internet.1 The majority of this data came from
loyalty cards.
Governments have adopted electronic ID cards because stores have shown what powerful and
effective technology they are—not merely effective, but cost-effective.
Stores have demonstrated that they can track and profile their customers to find their spending habits, their weaknesses and their suggestibility, what advertising works on them.
The technology they use not only had to prove it could work, but also had to prove it could pay for
itself. If supermarket corporations invest as much as they do, the technology has to be
very effective.
Powerful and effective software, such as ChoicePoint and LexisNexis, has been developed for analysing stores' loyalty card data. Now we find some of those systems in use at the FBI to shortlist suspects.
2. Governments have realised that this same profiling technology works and can also be applied to finding terrorists, "extremists", political dissidents or any other category of interest to the state. Some of those companies also help in data-gathering.
When the US government obtained personal data about voters in 11 different Latin American states, for unspecified purposes, that data was obtained by private corporations including ChoicePoint.
It has been reported that the majority of US intelligence data-gathering is outsourced and that
about 70 per cent of the budget goes to private corporations.
Although the majority of this spending goes to military-defence corporations such as SAIC and Booz
Allen Hamilton, consumer corporations also take their place. So, do we see an evolving symbiosis between government and private corporations, where they share technology and tools and cooperate in data-gathering?
RFID: A Powerful Tracking Technology
One of the tools that has migrated from loyalty cards to ID cards is RFID (radio-frequency ID). It's in the new Chinese ID card and it's going into all the new "smart" ID cards.
RFID is a tracking system, originally developed to track stock in the supply chain and in warehouses. Tiny chips allow a serial number and potential other data to be read from a distance of up to several feet. When an RFID-tagged item passes a reader, its number is recorded.
When RFID readers are connected to a network, it is possible to compile a record of the movements of an object (or person) by listing the times and places when and where the RFID
number was recorded.
RFID in loyalty cards allows the cardholder's name and all the personal information on the card to be read from a distance of several feet, without the cardholder's knowledge.
Using RFID, stores can read your identity from your loyalty card as soon as you walk in, without your
realising. Now we are being issued with government "loyalty
cards" which will identify us by RFID.
The stores realised that, by placing readers at various locations, they could use RFID to track customers' movements—to see, for example, the products they looked at but did not buy, in addition to those they did.
RFID has an obvious application: the identities of everyone in a crowd could be collected by one mingling plain-clothes policeman with an RFID reader.
Very quickly, the stores also realised that RFID in products such as clothing items could be used to track the movements of the people who bought them. Unlike bar codes, RFID identifies each item with a unique serial number, differentiating identical items.
The chain stores' huge databases allowed them to keep a tally of which objects had been bought by which customers—putting names to RFID serial numbers.
This extra information was very powerful in "profiling" customers; for example, they started to get data about who was standing next to them, and they could guess whether customers shopped alone, with their husbands or wives, or with someone else.
Soon the stores will be able to read the RFID serial number in your national ID card in much the same way, and governments are going to sell ID confirmation to cross-reference the serial number on your ID card with your name and address. Stores spend a lot of money acquiring data, so knowing customers' names and addresses with certainty has really got to be worth something. Customers will no longer be able to hide their identities or give false names on loyalty cards.
When Employers Use Profiling Some corporations already apply psychometric profiling to their staff and potential employees to get a workforce with the "right" profile, the "right" attitudes. Imagine how RFID tracking and profiling could facilitate this, profiling individuals' whole lives. By enabling ubiquitous tracking and profiling, could ID systems herald a corporate culture of conformity, with enforced redundancy for those who don't fit the right profile?
There have been widespread examples of employers discriminating against individuals on the grounds of political or union affiliations.
The UK Information Commissioner's Office found that many very large and respectable companies had
engaged in illegal practices to do this.
What would happen if employers used data gleaned from ID systems and social networks analysis to profile staff, to find their friends and associates and any affiliations? What would it mean to society and political culture if corporate employers could identify and discriminate against political and union activists, making it hard for them to get a job? Would that be compatible with democracy?
Emeritus Professor Sheldon S. Wolin, a political philosopher at Princeton University, USA, has warned of the danger of "inverted totalitarianism", as he calls it, which "lies in wielding total power without appearing to, without establishing concentration camps, or enforcing ideological uniformity, or forcibly suppressing dissident elements so long as they remain ineffectual". Such power, as in the USA, shows "how democracy can be managed without appearing to be suppressed". (Chellis Glendinning, "Every Move You Make", CounterPunch.com, 19 June 2008)
Imagine if the power of the surveillance state were applied to controlling political dissent, especially in an environment of merger between state and corporate power. Imagine dissidents being driven from their jobs or, perhaps more subtly, just denied promotion. Imagine how detailed files on the psychological weaknesses and vulnerabilities of all individuals, generated by profiling, and records of any past
indiscretions could be used to apply pressure upon opponents to government policy. Population Surveillance and Social Control China has become a laboratory for both capitalism and the development of new technologies for surveillance and "homeland security".
Naomi Klein has written extensively about this in her book The Shock Doctrine (Picador, 2008) and in articles such as "China's All- Seeing Eye" and "The Olympics: Unveiling Police State 2.0" (http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2008?page=1).
Some powerful people appear to have decided that capitalism works best in conditions of inequality and injustice. A by-product of this is instability: bitterness and resentment due to the appropriation of land and resources and forcing peasants off the land to become sweatshop workers living in unbearable slums. This is about the rich getting richer by robbing ordinary people, co-opting the
power of the state to do so. This is the reason for the high incidence of riots, "disturbances" and social tension in contemporary China.
None of this troubles the West. What the West has tried to do, however, is guarantee China's stability and help keep a lid on any trouble by providing China with access to the latest surveillance and security technology, to make it a more effective dictatorship. New technologies that are found to work in the social laboratory of China can be adopted and applied elsewhere.
A good example of this would be facial recognition technology, supplied to China by the US, illegally but with a nod and a wink, to make it easier for the Chinese authorities to identify troublemakers in a crowd or simply follow the movements of people of interest and perhaps identify any people whom they meet and talk with. Recognition systems now can match one face in a million, good enough to find one face in a city.
How neatly this dovetails with the database of digital images provided by China's ID system.
RFID also has applications in the state security apparatus. China is issuing hand-held RFID readers to
its policemen so they can take people's identities from their ID cards. It has the highest incidence of riots of any country in the world, due to the severe social conditions and inequality.
China has adopted the practice of containing disturbances rather than wading in to break them up; instead of arresting rioters on the spot, the police merely identify them—to arrest one by one at their
CCTV and surveillance technologies are used for this identification. RFID has an obvious application: the identities of everyone in a crowd could be collected by one mingling plain-clothes policeman with an RFID reader.
The RFID facility can also be useful to states with mobile populations. India is anticipating the migration of large numbers of the rural population to the cities. It plans to use a combination of RFID and GPS-based Geographical Information Systems (GIF) to automatically record the voter migration or shifting of residence and to automatically update databases such as the electoral register.
One can also see how useful this would be to the Chinese authorities, with large numbers of rural peasants migrating to cities, illegally, to work as an untraceable, unstable underclass. So, is this the model to be applied elsewhere: increasing inequality, increasing slum populations and unrest controlled through security? Such displacement is a global phenomenon. And yes, the World
Bank has an explicit role in promoting this, saying that urbanisation and migration are good and necessary things.
As described in Professor Mike Davis's book Planet of Slums (Verso, 2007), a huge part of the
world's population lives in slums—a symptom of growing inequality and increasing
exploitation. It's a trend that' ramping up.
In the USA, cities are dying, with whole neighbourhoods and in some cases whole districts being bulldozed, their inhabitants dispossessed. The plight of Detroit residents is reminiscent of post-Katrina New Orleans, with private military contractors assuming government powers in Urban Management Zones designated for wholesale clearance. This is the western manifestation of a global pattern. In 2009, the US Census Bureau plans to find even the people who have lost their homes, by employing 140,000 temporary workers to look for hidden and improvised housing units and obtain GPS coordinates for every "front door". A current legal case may make that data available to private sector corporations.
The worldwide implementation of systems for population surveillance and monitoring has to be significant. It doesn't sound like it is part of making the world a kinder, nicer place.
It's incredible how much people have willingly cooperated in handing over their
personal information, cooperating in the surveillance of their lives.
What Can We Do?
We shouldn't close on such a bleak note because it simply isn't true that there is nothing we can do,
although we have left it pretty late. We have a good chance if we recognise what's going wrong. We need to:
1. Organise internationally.
One campaign group is slightly ahead in this area: CASPIAN (Consumers
Against Surveillance, Privacy-Invasion And Numbering). It has an international membership, works closely with other groups in different nations and addresses the bigger picture, including corporate
data-gathering and RFID.
The author suggests CASPIAN as a good initial hub for contact.
2. Raise awareness,
Engage the public. It's time to raise this issue at every opportunity to get people
thinking about the direction of public policy, to draw their attention to what's
going on.
3. Expose the mindset of people implementing this scheme.
The aim of ID cards is to create a detailed digital record of everywhere you go, everything you do. The aim of the RFID industry is Total Mobility— continuously tracking the movement of all significant objects and people. What kind of mind and personality would want such a thing?
4. Don't use cards, use cash.
It's incredible how much people have willingly cooperated in handing over their personal
information, cooperating in the surveillance of their lives. Try not to leave a digital record. Don't let
your card identify you.
1. Albrecht, Katherine and Liz McIntyre, Spychips: How
major corporations and government plan to track your every
purchase and watch your every move with RFID, Nelson
Current, 2005, p. 64, "There's a target on your back"
2. Gellman, Barton, "The FBI's Secret Scrutiny: In Hunt
for Terrorists, Bureau Examines Records of Ordinary
Americans", Washington Post, 11/06/05
This version of Nathan Allonby's article "ID
Cards – A World View", posted on the Global Research
website on 31 August 2009.


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