Well, we've automated everything else in the world including murdering people by remote control to create more terrists to keep the WOT(TF) rolling happily along, brainwashing the gullible into thinking only preapproved acceptable thoughts, believing in manufactured utter fantasies and lies, and cowering in fear, electing hot presidential spokesmodels for the MIC, bailing out suffering bankers around the world, so now it's time apparently to turn YOU into an automated buying machine and automate vacuuming your money out of your bank account.

Ready to ditch your wallet, cash and credit cards? A mobile payment app lets users make purchases with their smartphone without taking the device out of their pocket or purse.

Developed by electronic payment startup Square, the app called Card Case allows customers to pay for products and services at local merchants automatically by simply providing their name to complete the transaction.

"You walk in, say your name, and walk out. It's a seamless payment experience," said Megan Quinn, director of products for Square.

The app automatically opens a tab when it detects that a customer is within 100 meters (328 feet) of a business, as long as they've enabled the functionality in the app and approved the business.

The user's arrival, along with their name and photo, is announced on the merchant's app giving them the ability to charge products and services to the customer's credit card.
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"We've removed the mechanics of the transaction and brought it back to the relationship and conversation between the merchant and their customer," Quinn explained, adding customers tend to return to places where they feel comfortable.

Over 20,000 merchants have signed up for the app across the United States in eight weeks, including coffee shops, bakers, barbers and even farmers market stalls.

-- Reuters via RawStory

Customers tend to return to places where they feel comfortable?

I don't think I'll be going anywhere near anyplace that sells or uses these things. Call me a Luddite, but I'm just not buying.

Get ready for a flurry of fuzzy satellite "intelligence" of generic warehouses all across Iran frantically described as segments of a nuclear bomb assembly line (Remember a famous "secret nuclear facility" in Syria not long ago? It was a textile factory.)

Get ready for a flurry of crude diagrams depicting suspect devices, or the containers that hide them, all capable of reaching Europe in 45 minutes.

Get ready for a flurry of "experts" on Fox, CNN and the BBC endlessly dissecting all this extended black ops dressed up as "evidence". For instance, former UN weapons inspector David Albright, now at the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), has already pulled his return of the living dead stunt, displaying his "bomb Iran" credentials complete with diagrams and satellite intel.

Forget Iraq - it's sooo 2003. Hit the new groove; hyping overdrive for the war on Iran.
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How to accomplish it? So simple - as the warmongers see it. Convince Obama that instead of being whacked around, conservatives will kiss his brogues and he'll be canonized as the re-energizer of the US economy if he just went to fight another war.

"Why in the world would we abdicate presence and stability in the [region] to a malign Iran?" Army Maj. Gen. Karl R. Horst, chief of staff at U.S. Central Command, asked in an interview. "I'm just not sure those are good outcomes, from the U.S. perspective."