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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page November 29, 2007 ---------RFID and National ID as Electronic Stalking The RFID Chip is for that same purpose. Order. You can call it fighting crime, you can call it tracking and you can call it Order, but it's all the same: Control. And Control by knowing things about you is the foe of Liberty, because it subjects innocent everyday behavior to scrutiny, and this leads to mistake, abuse and retaliation ...................... Tracking Micro-Chip scheme 'treats kids like cars' The leader of a parent teacher group yesterday hit out at a school's scheme to track pupils using chips embroidered into uniform jumpers with smart threads. The chips, recording information including identity and behavior details, have been tested with 19 students at Hungerhill high school in Doncaster and Doncaster Education City, a 14-19 education partnership, will begin a trial of the chips next week with 36 autistic pupils. According to the Times Educational Supplement, the pupils will be scanned first at college and then again to see if they have arrived safely at a leisure center. The chips' makers, Darnbro, plan to make the system available across the country. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page November 1 6-18, 2007 ---------Chipping People: implanting advanced microchips in humans Technology has advanced to the point where it is technologically feasible to implant advanced microchips in humans PRO'S AND CONS... PRO'S... • Cheap implantable devices and quick, low-cost implantation have made chipping easy and affordable. It takes about 20 minutes, and doesn’t require stitches. • Chip tracking and scanning is reliable, thanks to wireless, GPS, and RFID scanning networks. • Parents are increasingly looking to technology to provide child safety solutions. In fact, 75% of parents in the UK say they would buy a child tracking device. CON'S... • The idea of implanting a chip with tracking functions in the body tends to evoke strong feelings—especially considering that RFID implants are considered highly vulnerable to hacking, and the long-term health effects are unknown. • Privacy advocates warn that human chipping would let “Big Brother” run rampant. • Consumer and legislative moves to restrict the use of human RFID implants are already in motion, and several states already have laws prohibiting implantation of chips. ***WATCHMAN... The most relevant "CON" is found in Holy scripture... REVELATION 13:16-18 "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." (666) The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page November 12, 2007 ---------Test Marketing the Mark of the Beast Applied Digital Solutions (ADS) received patent rights to Digital Angel technology on December 10, 1999. What set Digital Angel apart from the competition was the innovative design--a miniature digital transceiver specifically created for human implantation. Recent acts of terrorism have many calling for mandatory implementation of the implantable technology. ***WATCHMAN... Hmmmmmm maybe, just maybe, the is another sinister motive to terrorism - HUGH?!?!... According to information released last year the implantable transceiver "sends and receives data and can be continuously tracked by GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) technology. The transceiver's power supply and actuation system are unlike anything ever created. When implanted within a body, the device is powered electromechanically through the movement of muscles, and it can be activated either by the 'wearer' or by the monitoring facility." ***WATCHMAN... I said years ago that they were miniaturizing GPS to fit in the CHIP - NOW DO YOU BELIEVE ME? - IS IT THE MARK? It surely is one step closer!!!... "We've changed out thinking since September 11," a company Digital Angel spokesman said, "Now there's more of a need to monitor evil activities." Other manufacturers of sub-skin implants have quietly field-tested similar devices over the past few years. The London Times reported in October 1998, "Film stars and the children of millionaires are among 45 people, including several Britons, who have been fitted with the chips (called the Sky Eye) in secret tests." With domineering decree the Antichrist will facilitate the one-world government, universal religion, and globally monitored socialism. Those who refuse his New World Order will inevitably be imprisoned or destroyed, until at last he exalts himself "above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God" 2 THESSALONIANS 2:3-4 "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God." The Antichrist's widespread power will be derived at the expense of individual human liberties. He will force "all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six [666]" (Rev. 13:16-18). Makers of implantable microchips claim the procedure will be voluntary at first. But a report written by Elaine M. Ramish for the Franklin Pierce Law Center says: "A [mandatory] national identification system via microchip implants could be achieved in two stages: Upon introduction as a voluntary system, the microchip implantation will appear to be palatable. After there is a familiarity with the procedure and a knowledge of its benefits, implantation would be mandatory." ........................... U.K. Kids Get RFID Chips In School Uniforms Ten schoolchildren in the United Kingdom are being tracked by RFID chips in their school uniforms as part of a pilot program. If the program proves successful as a way to hasten registration, simplify data entry for the school's behavioral reporting system, and ensure attendance, Trevor Darnborough, whose company, Darnbro, filed for a patent on securing RFID tags to clothing, hopes other schools will be interested. The chipped children are enrolled at Hungerhill School in Edenthorpe, England, a secondary school for ages 11 to 16. David Clouter, a parent and founder of Leave Them Kids Alone, a children's advocacy group, condemned the plan. "With pupils being fingerprinted and now this it seems we are treating children in a way that we have traditionally treated criminals," he said. "The system is not intrusive to the pupil in the slightest," Hungerhill teacher Graham Wakeling said. He also said that all the patents of the children in the trial supported the tracking effort. Video surveillance is already commonplace in the United Kingdom, and a growing number of schoolchildren are fingerprinted for administrative and security reasons. Since 2001, nearly 6,000 pupils have been fingerprinted in the United Kingdom, the Daily Mail reported earlier this month, with 20 new schools embracing the practice every week. *****In a blog post about the report, security expert Bruce Schneier quipped, "So now it's easy to cut class; just ask someone to carry your shirt around the building while you're elsewhere." The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth! November 6, 2007 --------- Car sharing service Go Get prepares to implant member with microchip Patrick Franklin is sick of losing his car keys. The solution? Implant a car-unlocking microchip under his skin. "If they get the technology going, I'm there," the landscape architect said yesterday. The car sharing service Go Get has ordered a microchip to implant into Mr. Franklin, making him a lifetime member of the group. Mr. Franklin says his enthusiasm to become Australia's first micro chipped human is fuelled by a commitment to a life without owning a car. Under their old system, Go Get members would book a car online, pick up a key from a box attached to a telegraph pole and walk to where the nearest Go Get car was parked. After Mr. Franklin is micro chipped, he will simply swipe a finger or an arm over the car to unlock it and drive off. "Personally, the idea of getting a chip in my arm makes me squeamish; I squirm when I see piercing," said Go Get's founder, Bruce Jeffreys. "But when we started talking about it, surprisingly there are a lot of members that want to take it up." Mr. Jeffreys has contacted a US company, VeriChip, which manufactures implantable radio frequency identification data chips, similar those embedded in many workplace entry swipe cards. "We're trialling with Patrick and then we want to make it available to all Go Get members. The whole idea is about making cars a lot more convenient and in doing that discouraging car ownership, which is clogging up our cities," Mr. Jeffreys said. Microchips Australia, which manufactures chips for animals, says it's safe to embed chips in humans but wonders if it's ethically sound. "To me, it's crossing the privacy boundaries," said Dr Rick Walduck, the company's general manager. ......................... Disturbing Poll: One in Ten OK with Net Access Brain Implant Here is a disturbing thought, 11 percent of Americans say they would be willing to safely implant a device that enabled them to use their mind to access the Internet, according to poll released yesterday by Zogby International and 463 Communications. If that creeps you out, the poll results get weirder. The study also reveals 1 in 4 Americans say that the Internet can serve as a substitute for a significant other for some period of time. The Zogby/463 poll of 9743 Americans examined people's attitudes about the Internet. The results just make me want to cut back on how much I sit in front of this computer. Other troubling poll results reveal 1 in 5 respondents said they would be willing to have a chip implanted in a child 13 or younger so they can track them. Ten percent said the Internet made them closer to God. On the other hand, 6 percent said it made them more distant from God. More than one in four Americans has a social networking profile on sites such as MySpace or Facebook. Seventy-eight percent of 18-24 year-olds report having a social networking profile. Over half of Americans think that Internet content such as video should be controlled in some way by the government. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page October ??, 2007 ---------This is an email from one of our website visitors...BroJ ------ I've been reading your site and appreciate all that you are doing for God's Kingdom. The warnings are much needed. However, you've only scratched the surface of the link between microchips and the Mark of the Beast. Here's why... These microchips can be removed. The Bible clearly teaches that people who take the Mark can never reverse it. It also says that people will not be able to die. They will run to the mountains and cry "fall on us" because they want to die, but they won't be able to. Microchips do not produce these effects. But there is a soon-to-be-released technology that does. And, as you may guess, the technology of the microchips, the internet, bar codes, social security cards, and all other databases are linked to it because these things have been used to create a familiarity with technology that will make people comfortable with it. What is it? It is nanotechnology. Nanotechnology uses tiny robots to manipulate genetic codes from inside the body via programming that occurs outside the body. Doing this will allow scientists to make old people turn young again by manipulating aging genes or perhaps destroying them and replacing them with young genes. It will allow scientists to cure diseases by manipulating genes that cause disease. Most importantly, because scientists will be able to manipulate genes so effectively, humans can look forward to a kind of immortality where they can live many times longer, perhaps indefinitely, by having this technology in them. I call this "Satan's counterfeit immortality". The problem with this technology is that once these robots, this nanotechnology, is in your body, it can never be removed or reversed as is taught about the Mark of the Beast in Revelations. Scientists will literally have control of your body. Governments control scientists. They will be able to control not only people's bodies, but their minds. This technology could be used to create an economic class of slaves who never will have opportunity to rebel or to receive salvation. Release from this will be only for damnation in the Lake of Fire. Yet, the lure of perfect health without any signs of aging along with the promise of never dying will plunge many souls to their eternal death. Just thought you ought to know. These microchips are a ruse being used to make people think that putting technology and foreign objects in their bodies does no harm. K. Rogers ------ Dear K. Rogers, Thank you for your appreciation of the many hours involved in SIGNS MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL. If I have given the impression that the RFID CHIP is definitely the MARK OF THE BEAST it was not meant that way. I have said many times that "it could be" as also the nano technology "could be." I have posted some nano reports by not on the GETTING CHIPPED page. Is there a scripture verse that specifically says that the MARK 666 will be irremovable? Scripture does specifically state the two exact positions on the body that the TRUE MARK will be placed. I am not personally sure that nano fits this placement but the RFID Chip does! Again let me emphasize that though it "looks like a possibility" the real MARK may be yet to come! I agree the RFID chip could be a "ruse" however if they add GPS capabilities... Hmmmmmmm... Blessings... Brother Johnson The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page October 17, 2007 ---------Implanting Citizens With Verichips – The Taking of Free Will In October, 2004, the FDA approved an implantable microchip for use in humans. A tiny subcutaneous RFID tag, now made by several American companies like Applied Digital Solutions, VeriChip, and Digital Angel are mass-producing RFID chips and stocking chip warehouses and implantation centers. Upper level governmental officials are getting “chipped” to demonstrate public acceptance of the technology, and they are very quick to highlight the humanitarian uses of tracking devices in humans. Children and pets should be chipped in case they get lost. Chipping children will help to locate kidnapped kids. Chipping senior citizens gives hospitals immediate access to their medical records. Many millionaires and their children are chipping themselves for security reasons. Large herds of cattle and sheep are implanted to assist ranchers and farmers with efficient tracking. Security, medical and emergency applications seem to be call of the corporations and their government backers when it comes to the new branding technologies, but for American citizens it is, first and foremost, an outrage, unthinkable, immoral, and for many it is demonic. RFID technology is everywhere. It’s in the cars that we drive, in the products sold at Wal-Mart, in our cell phones, and in many other applications, but the Digital Angel Chip takes implementation technology to a whole new level of abuse. Digital Angel combined advanced biosensor technology and Web-enabled wireless telecommunications that are linked to Global Positioning Systems. The chip, utilizing advanced biosensor capabilities, can monitor body functions and transmit that data anywhere in the world while giving out accurate location information to a ground station or monitoring facility. If that is not the death of privacy, what is? If corporations can monitor our body functions and our locations, twenty-four hours a day and year after year, then what is privacy? Now let’s add to the Verichips the other biometric technologies which identify humans by unique biological or physical characteristics, such as fingerprints, voiceprints, retina characteristics, and face recognition points - all this multi-billion dollar technology to safeguard millionaires, to track lost children and pets, to track child molesters, and to help seniors? If you believe that, then I’ve got some wetland to sell you in a Biosphere Reserve… Always remember this – RFID technology was created and tested prior to 9-11, and 9-11 has been the primary excuse for human tracking. And laughingly, so has illegal immigration, which clearly is not illegal as our borders are to remain open. It is time for all American citizens to stop with the naivety. It is time to recognize a government that is deviously linked to and in bed with corporations who intend to rule over all human beings. And please remember that social security cards were never meant to be mandatory. Nor were driver’s licenses or bankcards, but try getting by one day without them. Banking is slated to become a totally RFID operation with chips implanted into the hands of those with bank accounts. Try getting by without a bank account when you send your bill payments to account centers across the country. And also keep in mind that the U.S. postal service is also in the process of RFID Smart-Mail tracking. The writing is on the wall – again – and the writing clearly states that our government does not serve the well being of its citizens, but rather the intentions of corporations, databases, and law enforcement. Equally, our schools have partnered with RFID corporations as many school children now wear mandatory RFID tags in schools. Remember that schools are government institutions, so requiring students to wear tracking devices is a governmental mandate. Will this technology be mandated for right our right to drive? For our right to buy and sell? For our right to receive medical treatment? For our right to travel? For our Right to buy gasoline? Take a wild guess. And gun owners – heads up! On April 13, 2004, Applied Digital Solutions announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, VeriChip Corporation, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with FN Manufacturing, a leading gun manufacturer, to develop a first in the world of firearms. Their objective is an integrated” User Authorization System” for firearms using VeriChip RFID technology. You shall be chipped in order to keep and bear. You had to know that was coming considering the 30-year, non-stop efforts to deny you of your 2nd Amendment rights. (A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.) Little known is also the global aspect of RFID chipping technology and efforts. Mexico is on a mission to chip all children due to a high rate of kidnappings. Subdermal personal verification technology is being used in Russia, Switzerland, China, Ecuador, Italy, Spain, Argentine, Canada, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Germany, England, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Africa, South Korea, on and on and on. RFID and chipping industries include banks, gas stations, hospitals, social security numbers and drivers’ licenses, passports, schools, military including our soldiers and our enemies, automobiles, telephones and cell phones, televisions, computer systems, prisons, schools, pre-schools, government, all work places and corporations, bars, restaurants, country clubs and other private clubs – or, in other words, it’s everywhere, but like all the other global infrastructures that were slid beneath us by our government and its corporations, RFID technology and human chipping is mostly blacked-out via media so that we do not know their truth and the horrible extent of that truth. I beg of you, my dear American people, do not spend one more day ignoring what you know to be true. America is being conquered from within, as so many have said would, in fact, occur. Can you not see that there is a mad rush to implement the final structures necessary to recreate America, our beliefs and values, our Constitutional Rights, and to take every ounce of our privacy? Connect all the dots you see in America – all the changes and daily dismissal of our voting rights under Memorandums of Understanding, NGOs, stake holding groups, councils, and other consensus operations. Besides our lives, perhaps the most important gift from our Maker is the gift of free will, for without it we are unable to pass life’s tests. Without free will, we are nothing more than robotic creatures that must respond as mandated by enslavers and their technologies. If we become implanted people, we are enslaved people – mind, body, and soul. You cannot take free will from people and call it progress, science, or protection. You can only call it anti-God, which is, of course, the ultimate goal. ..................... Big Brother and The Mark Of The Beast VeriChip Corporation Adds More Than 200 Hospitals to Its VeriMed Patient Identification and Tracking System at the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Conference, Far Surpassing Last Year's Enrollment* Over 900 Hospitals Are Now Registered in the VeriMed System and More Than 200 Hospitals Are Protocol-Adopted, Already Exceeding 2007 Full-Year Stated Guidance -VeriChip Corporation (the "Company") (NASDAQ: CHIP - News), a provider of RFID systems for healthcare and patient-related needs, announced today that more than 200 new healthcare facilities registered in the VeriMed(TM) Patient Identification System at the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) 38th Annual Scientific Assembly. This brings the total number of hospitals that are registered in the VeriMed system to over 900. Additionally, the Company now has more than 200 protocol-adopted hospitals in its network, thereby surpassing its full-year stated goal of 800 hospital registrations and 200 protocol adoptions. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page October 15, 2007 ---------Aeris's extensive ***North American*** footprint Aeris Communications And GPSPursuit Enable Unique People Tracking Solutions Aeris and GPSPursuit together announce that the companies provide innovative tracking and monitoring solutions for enterprises, packages, people, vehicles and other valuable assets. Aeris's network enables GPSPursuit's GPS Tracking Units to deliver tracking and monitoring services to commercial fleets, providing fleet managers with on-the-fly dispatching and the ability to monitor vehicles to increase efficiency and decrease operation costs. The GPS Tracking Units are also used as personal tracking devices for Alzheimer's patients, children and valuables. "Aeris's extensive ***North American*** footprint, proven reliability and ability to address niche markets makes them a great real-time connectivity partner," said Don Weaver, president and chief officer of GPSPursuit. "Using Aeris's network, we are able to create new applications for the remote monitoring industry." Unlike many other monitoring and tracking systems that are bolted or connected to the main power source, the GPS Tracking Unit is a rechargeable, portable box that can easily fit in a child's backpack or in a package. "We are excited to announce the expansion of our four year old partnership with GPSPursuit," said Mark Cratsenburg, senior vice president of sales of Aeris. "Our expertise in M2M communications and network operations complement GPSPursuit's unique and innovative applications and tracking products. This partnership exemplifies how people and enterprises are incorporating personal tracking into their everyday lives." The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page October 9, 2007 --------- GPS Monitoring For The Workforce - Not All Police Are Happy Every Chicago police officer could have their movements electronically tracked by global positioning systems if a program being tested in the Chicago Lawn District wins approval. The program, which requires officers to wear department-issued GPS cell phones on their belts while on duty, is intended as an officer-safety measure, bosses say, but also could be used to discipline officers. Many officers are unhappy at what they see as an excessive intrusion upon their freedom to do their job. They say they already carry too much equipment, and they worry overzealous supervisors will use evidence from the phones to hound them. An initial group of 50 patrol, gang and tactical officers based in Chicago Lawn will test the technology, which allows supervisors to plot their locations on a computer screen in real time. Although many officers carry private phones - and since 2005 all cell phones can be used to track their owners - the program is the first organized attempt to keep precise, constant tabs on the whereabouts of officers. Cell phone towers locate the positions of cell phone users to within a few yards by measuring the time it takes transmissions to reach the phone and then triangulating the results. But some officers fear the technology now could be used in petty disputes with bosses. Minor infractions of department policy such as picking up dry cleaning while on patrol or stopping to eat outside the district likely will no longer be tolerated, they believe. Most officers accept that some form of tracking is "inevitable," he added, although he was not aware of any similarly sized police departments that use the cell-phone technology. ....................... High-tech Micro-chip tags seen as blessing, potential Big Brother curse As if shopping for new clothes wasn’t stressful enough, soon there will be talking mirrors in the dressing rooms. Well, they might not talk, but they will be able to communicate. These mirrors (some are called Magic Mirrors) receive signals from a tag affixed to the hanger or whatever you might have in your hand and help you find matching accessories or outfits. The Last Days SIGNS - The End Times - ARE - Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page October 6, 2007 --------- The federal government is using RFID Micro-chips in ways that will impact your life Oct. 1, 2007—The U.S. government has been trying to tighten port and border security without creating undue delays that hurt free trade and damage the economy. RFID is a growing part of monitoring the flow of cargo and people, including port employees and truck drivers. Regardless of how you may be using RFID in your supply chain, if you move products or people through U.S. ports or borders, you need to understand how the federal government's use of the technology will impact your business. First, let's look at cargo. The U.S. Congress wants more containers inspected at ports to help prevent terrorists from sneaking weapons of mass destruction into the country as cargo, and it is allocating millions on port security grants. It is considering mandating the use of RFID e-seals on cargo containers, which could prevent tampering and allow customs agents to track their location. Several U.S. ports—including Charleston, Norfolk, Oakland and Savannah—are deploying RFID systems to increase the speed of moving containers from ship to truck, a collaborative effort of industry with local, state and federal governments. The federal government could mandate that a specific RFID technology be used at ports, so there are several issues you need to consider: Will it conflict with your current supply-chain solution? Who will pay for the RFID technology? Does your RFID vendor have SAFETY Act certification, and will it protect you from legal risk (see Is Your Company At Risk)? The United States and the European Union recently signed an agreement to collaborate on policies governing the use of RFID, including the development of interoperability standards at ports, airports and borders. Will these RFID solutions streamline your transatlantic business operations—or cripple your current global competitiveness? Your employees will also be affected by new government RFID mandates, because they will have to carry RFID ID cards—and these cards could require mandatory background checks, a process some truck drivers and port workers are wary of. All citizens of the United States, Canada and Mexico will need a passport or Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) card to enter or leave the United States. The WHTI card will have an RFID Gen 2 tag; to address privacy concerns, it will come in a protective sleeve, and the RFID chip will contain and transmit only a unique ID number that links to a database with information about the cardholder. Port employees will carry a different RFID ID card, under the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program. How personal information will be used in the TWIC program has not been finalized. While the government tries to balance the need for speed and security with the interests of protecting privacy, is it addressing your needs? There is still time to comment on these RFID initiatives and, perhaps, offer alternative technology solutions. The Last Days SIGNS - The End Times - ARE - Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page September 2 8, 2007 ---------Some of these reports will be ARCHIVED on the Getting Chipped page] Getting Chipped Lawmakers fight implanting of microchip tags in humans Some states don't want it required The VeriChip implantable radio-frequency identification tag, made up of a microchip and an antenna encased in glass, is about the size of a grain of rice. It would be an interesting feature of an employee's first day: Sign a contract, fill out a W2 and roll up your sleeve for your microchip injection. Sounds like sci-fi, but it has happened, and now a handful of states are making sure their citizens never will be forced to have a microchip implanted under their skin. If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signs a bill passed this month, California would join Wisconsin and North Dakota in banning human implanting of the tags without consent. Lawmakers are calling the legislation preemptive; the industry that produces the technology calls the states' action fear mongering. In Michigan, a bill introduced in the state House early this year would prohibit implanting a microchip in another person without consent; no action has been taken on the bill. Radio-frequency identification, or RFID tags are in passports, in Wal-Mart factory shipments and in subway passes in cities from New York to Taiwan. RFID tags are scanned at close range -- usually from a few feet to a few inches. ***WATCHMAN... "USUALLY" is hiding the fact they can be read at much longer distances up to "YARDS" away or more... The tags are tracked by scanners installed at checkpoints, such as office doors or warehouse loading docks. In humans, the tags have been used to store medical information, to track movement and to gain access to locked rooms. To date, 2,000 RFID chips have been sold for human implantation, according to VeriChip Corp., the only manufacturer with a Food and Drug Administration-approved implantable chip. The company is focusing its technology on medical patient identification, and about 400 patients, including those with Alzheimer's disease, have RFIDs. Other VeriChip human implants have been used by a Spanish nightclub to allow VIPs with implanted chips to bypass entrance lines and by the Mexico attorney general's staff to safeguard identity information at a time when the kidnapping of government officials there is not uncommon. Ohio security firm CityWatcher.com raised eyebrows in 2006 when it requested that some of its employees be implanted with tags for access to certain rooms. CityWatcher.com has since shut down. ***WATCHMAN... Hmmmmmm but you can bet they are still pushing CHIPPING! - Is it the MARK -666 - You decide... But forced chipping has been rare, leading some industry spokespeople to decry regulation as scare tactics. Legislators say the few laws being enacted are preemptive. Wisconsin state Rep. Marlin Schneider said he had never heard of CityWatcher.com when he drafted the first implant ban. "I had heard about this device from CNN or some place, and I went into the office and said, 'Get a bill drafted that prohibits this,' " he said. State Sen. Joe Simitian, who authored the California bill, said he looked into RFID legislation after grade schools in Sutter County, Calif., required students to wear IDs containing the chips to help monitor attendance. The move prompted privacy complaints from parents, and the schools eventually stopped using the technology. Simitian introduced four other RFID bills, dealing with criminal punishment for identity theft, security standards and use of the tags in driver's licenses and school IDs. A May 2006 article in Wired magazine featured Jonathan Westhues, a 24-year-old engineer who showed how he could (and did) covertly scan a company's RFID employee badge and break into the office -- all with a cheap, homemade reader. He since has posted instructions on how to make the reader on his Web site. ***WATCHMAN... OH -- BUT --- there is NO FEAR of personal information being exposed to CRIMINALS --- OR IS THERE???... Determined to show the security flaws to skeptics in the Legislature, Simitian asked a tech-savvy grad student from his office to build one. The student then wandered the state Capitol one day with the reader in his briefcase. In the process, he stole the security numbers of nine representatives. The reader could send out any of those numbers, getting him past any locked door a state senator could access. And he would appear as the senator in the electronic records. ***WATCHMAN... OH guess I'll let the BIBLE COMMENT...REVELATION 13:16-18 "And he causeth all, both small, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." (666) The Last Days SIGNS - The End Times - ARE - Upon The Earth!
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The next step in the silicon industry's steadfast pursuit of ever smaller and faster chips has been unveiled. Intel has shown off what it says are the world's first working chips which contain transistors with features just 32 billionths of a meter wide. Transistors are the tiny electronic switches that form the basis of computer chips. The more there are and the faster they can switch, the more calculations chips can do. The next generation of Intel chips, which contain transistors with features just 45 billionths of a metre wide (nanometres) pack 410 million transistors into an area the size of a postage stamp.
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page September 20, 2007 ---------Satellite and Micro-Chips keeps track of UK children The Buddi - or "Brat Nav" as it is known - is no bigger than a matchbox. It uses GPS technology, a satellite-based navigation system, which enables parents to trace their children to within three meters anywhere in Britain. The gadget, which can be attached to a belt, placed in a bag or worn around the neck, also allows parents to contact a call center, which will give them their location. The person given the device - a child or an elderly relative - can also use the gadget to alert friends or relatives in an emergency by pressing the panic button. This sends an alert to the emergency call center, which informs parents, carers or friends, as well as local authorities and the police if necessary. Since it was launched a month ago - at a cost of £299 plus a £20 monthly subscription fee - more than 2,000 have been sold. The Last Days SIGNS - The End Times - ARE - Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page September 1 9, 2007 ---------NOTE: Though this is NOT a chip it COULD BE CONNECTED TO THE MARK!!!... BroJ Agencies Work on DNA 'Barcodes' Database To help shoppers avoid mislabeled toxic pufferfish and pilots steer clear of birds, federal agencies are starting to tap into an ambitious project that is gathering DNA "barcodes" for the Earth's 1.8 million known species. A consortium of scientists from almost 50 nations is overseeing the building of a global database made from tiny pieces of genetic material. Called DNA barcoding, the process takes a scientist only a few hours in a lab and about $2 to identify a species from a tissue sample or other piece of genetic material. David Schindel, a Smithsonian Institution paleontologist and executive secretary of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life, said the purpose is to create a global reference library - "a kind of telephone directory for all species." "If I know that gene sequence, I can submit it as a query to a database and get back the telephone number," he said. "I can get back the species name." ***WATCHMAN... Something tells me they are really only interested in ONE SPECIES -- "MAN"... ..................... PC Magazine Calls For All, Both Small And Great To Receive Microchip Implant RFID chips are a good idea. RFID chips that can help locate people and objects are a better idea. RFID chips implanted in pets and people are the best idea of all. ***WATCHMAN... I did NOT say that! The ID-10-T that wrote this said that... MATTHEW 15:14 "they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." ..................... Micro-Chips Keep Track of Aging Seniors Researchers have built two new systems that use radio frequency identification tags to monitor the elderly in their own homes RFID technology can also improve health care for the elderly, said researchers at Intel Research Seattle and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Caregivers receiving data via the Internet from RFID readers can monitor seniors' daily activities by recording which tagged items they have picked up, and when. By comparing real-time data with a record of an individual's normal daily routine, caregivers can easily spot any significant changes. The new systems, Intel's Caregiver's Assistant and Georgia Tech's Memory Mirror, will also ensure that forgetful seniors take their medication on time and stick to their prescribed diets, their developers say. MATTHEW 24:33 "So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it (THE END TIME) is near, even at the doors" The Last Days SIGNS - The End Times - ARE - Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page September 17, 2007 ----------- Microchip implants in humans under scrutiny after cancer study The safety of implantable tracking chips in human beings is suddenly in focus with the revelation the devices could cause cancer, and that studies showing links to the disease were kept under wraps. Despite the chips' approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, neither their maker nor federal regulators publicly mentioned a series of studies dating to the mid-1990s that found chip implants had "induced" malignant tumors in some lab mice and rats. "The transponders were the cause of the tumors," Keith Johnson, a retired toxicological pathologist, as he explained the findings of a 1996 study he led at the Dow Chemical Co. in Midland, Mich. The wire service says leading cancer specialists reviewed the research, and "while cautioning that animal test results do not necessarily apply to humans, said the findings troubled them. Some said they would not allow family members to receive implants, and all urged further research before the glass-encased transponders are widely implanted in people." The chips are made by VeriChip Corp., a division of Applied Digital Solutions, of Delray Beach, Fla. The company says some 2,000 have been implanted in humans worldwide, and VeriChip sees a target market of 45 million Americans looking to be medically monitored. .................................... Gentag to Commercialize Super RFID Technology Gentag's RR tags can be read from a distance of up to 12 miles, using highly sensitive interrogators. Because of the long read range, Peeters notes, only a few fixed-position RR interrogators (also known as base stations) would need to be deployed. At a hospital, for instance, only three fixed readers would typically be needed, he says—one on the roof, and two in the parking area or on the campus perimeter. "Therefore, the triangulation can be created and people can know exactly where doctors are [and] who is going out of the hospital when they are not supposed to. The Last Days SIGNS - The End Times - ARE - Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page September 13, 2007 ----------- VeriMed System for Patient Identification Selected by 640 Hospitals "VeriMed is the first and only FDA-approved patient identification system that uses an implantable microchip. While that may sound like science fiction, it's really down-to-earth, common sense when it comes to your life. About the size of a grain of rice and inserted just under your skin, each VeriMed microchip contains a unique identification number that emergency personnel may scan to immediately identify you and access your personal health information - facilitating appropriate treatment with less delay. VeriMed is there when you need it. verimedinfo.com 9/11/7 REVELATION 13:16-18 "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." (666) .......................................... VeriMed System for Patient Identification Selected by 640 Hospitals "VeriMed is the first and only FDA-approved patient identification system that uses an implantable microchip. While that may sound like science fiction, it's really down-to-earth, common sense when it comes to your life. About the size of a grain of rice and inserted just under your skin, each VeriMed microchip contains a unique identification number that emergency personnel may scan to immediately identify you and access your personal health information - facilitating appropriate treatment with less delay. VeriMed is there when you need it. verimedinfo.com 9/11/7 REVELATION 13:16-18 "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." (666) .......................... New chip promises to track kids from miles away A technology originally developed to help the military track operatives in the field may in the next few years be used by parents to find kids in an amusement park. Gentag will try to commercialize what it calls a Radar Response Tag, which effectively acts as an accurate homing beacon. In field tests, the tag can track someone more than 12 miles away and pinpoint their location within 3 feet, said Gentag founder John Peeters in an interview. Twelve miles far exceeds the capabilities of conventional radio frequency ID (RFID) chips. The signal range of those chips is measured in feet. The longer-range global positioning system reaches farther, but the radar response system can track people through walls and other environmental obstacles. "GPS is extremely accurate, but it doesn't work inside buildings," Peeters said. "You can think of this (radar response) as sort of super RFID." Gentag will market the system as a way to keep track of kids or elderly relatives. It will also be pitched at hikers and campers. The system can piggyback on existing wireless infrastructures, Peeters added. The technology is the outgrowth of a military project kicked off in 1990. The military wanted a better way to track soldiers without getting interference from leaves or buildings, so it commissioned Sandia National Laboratories to develop a solution. Seven years later, Sandia came up with the radar response system. The system works at the 430 megahertz frequency, Peeters added. "The military uses it for friendly-fire avoidance," he said. Employing chips to track the locations of individuals has generated controversy in recent years. Many have objected to the plans of some companies to implant RFID chips into individuals. On the other hand, one of the hot consumer items in Japan is a portable GPS device with an emergency button. Push it, and private security firms track down the recipient. Parents buy it for their kids. .......................... Industry groups are skeptical about the U.S. government plan to add long-range RFID technology to driver's licenses to improve border security. A U.S. government plan to use long-range RFID technology as part of a border-crossing security initiative is coming under intensified fire by an industry group. Beginning Jan. 31, 2008, a valid driver's license won't be enough for travelers to pass between the United States and Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda, under new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rules. A standard government passport will be required, or a birth certificate with driver's license. But as an alternative, DHS is moving forward with a pilot program that has states adding long-range RFID technology to driver's licenses. The idea is to have U.S. border guards with RFID readers quickly read a traveler's RFID-enhanced driver's license remotely and make a face check and watch for any posted security red flags pulled up by a database. "So far, there is no security method in place to prevent anyone from re-programming their cards," says Vanderhoof of long-range RFID in enhanced driver's licenses. "There's no encryption or security. It's designed to be used by anyone with access to an RFID reader at a distance of 20 feet. Anyone could track these RFID cards and get the number of the card." In addition, the industry points out that since the U.S. government has adopted smart-card chip technology for new passports, the enhanced driver's license based on RFID would fail to leverage the infrastructure now being put in place by DHS and the State Department to support the new ePassport. DHS expects Arizona to partner in the development of a "technologically enhanced driver's license" that will be issued to residents that voluntarily apply and qualify for one. This enhanced Arizona driver's license is expected to be accepted at U.S. land and sea ports to satisfy WHTI requirements. The enhanced driver's license is also expected to play a role in the "work-eligibility process," DHS noted. Vermont and Washington are also getting ready for WHTI enhanced driver's license pilots. "I am pleased we will be able to provide this more reasonable option for Vermonters who travel frequently to Canada, with a document that is acceptable for use at U.S. land and sea ports," said Vermont Governor Jim Douglas in a statement August 20. An agreement between Chertoff and Washington Governor Christine Gregoire indicates the state will strive to develop an enhanced driver's license in a voluntary pilot program that could help in cross-border travel in the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in 2010. The states expect the "enhanced driver's licenses" to cost a bit more than standard ones, but no details on that have yet been released. ............................... Canadian artist has implanted microchips in her hands A Canadian artist has implanted microchips in her hands in a quest to explore the relationship between identity and technology in an era when life is increasingly regulated by gadgets and machines. The creation of a biochip that can be implanted into people to transmit their personal information has been fantasy fodder for technophiles as well as being an Orwellian omen for others. These are some of the issues Nancy Nisbet hopes to explore. "I am expecting the merger between human and machines to proceed whether we want it to or not," said Nisbet. "If I adopt it and make it my own, I will have a better understanding of this type of technology and the potential threats and benefits it represents." Nisbet, 34, purchased the chips from a veterinary clinic -- they are commonly used to identify livestock and pets. And after several rejections, she finally found a doctor willing to implant them in her body. (Microchips haven't been approved for human use in either the United States or Canada.) Her chips, which emit a read-only 134-kilohertz frequency that is read by a scanner, contain a 12-digit alphanumeric ID. They were injected into the back of her hands, in the fleshy area between the thumb and index finger; the first was implanted in October 2001, the second in February. She plans to modify her computer mouse to incorporate a scanner to pick up the chips' signals and monitor her Internet use. She'll use one hand to surf when she's working, the other for recreation, then compare her two "identities." And while the chips track her online movements, a webcam and GPS unit will track her physical movements. "It's a way of connecting physical and virtual space and tracking my relationship with my computer, as well as my identities as I use it," said Nisbet, who teaches fine arts at the University of British Colombia and has degrees in both fine arts and genetics. She had the chips placed in her hands for a symbolic reason: People use their hands to interact with technology and to identify themselves (think fingerprints or palm prints). The location Nisbet chose for one of the chips -- the back of the right hand -- is also the precise spot where, according to Biblical lore, the "Mark of the Beast" will be placed during the apocalyptic end of the world detailed in the Book of Revelation. Indeed, some Christians already believe that the Mark of the Beast is a microchip. When Applied Digital Solutions announced the creation of an implantable microchip for medical and security purposes, fervent believers decried the product as the sign of Satan. But for Nisbet, the only demonic use of the microchips would be their mandatory implantation. "The objective of this project is to further question issues of identity and control. By consciously appropriating this technology, I will be able to gain an understanding of its limits and failure while retaining control of what information is being gathered and how it is being used," she said. Nisbet isn't the first artist to be chipped in an effort to break down the boundaries between biological and digital realms. In 1997, Eduardo Kac inserted a chip into his ankle during a live performance in Sao Paulo, then registered himself in an online pet database as both owner and animal. After he implanted the device, a collaborator in Chicago read the chip information with a robotic arm controlled over the Internet, in effect making Kac's body a node in the Internet network. The exercise was "emblematic of the dangers and potentials of what might lay ahead," Kac said. "Just the idea that someone can retrieve information from inside you without you knowing is frightening." The Last Days SIGNS - The End Times - ARE - Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page September 6, 2007 ----------- Test Marketing the Mark of the Beast A prototype of an implantable biometric chip capable of marking an individual's precise location and of monitoring him or her for life is gaining support. It was named Best in Show of 170 International Science Exhibitors last year, and released in its "First Phase" wristwatch format called Guardian Angel soon after. Most recently millions of Today Show viewers watched an American family get "chipped" with ADS's VeriChip™ live from a doctor's office in Boca Raton. Recent acts of terrorism have many calling for mandatory implementation of the implantable technology. What set Digital Angel apart from the competition was the innovative design--a miniature digital **transceiver** specifically created for human implantation. ***WATCHMAN... I told you this GPS device was coming! A "TRANSCEIVER" is a device that both RECEIVES and TRANSMITS!!!... According to information released last year the implantable transceiver "sends and receives data and can be continuously tracked by GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) technology. The transceiver's power supply and actuation system are unlike anything ever created. When implanted within a body, the device is powered electromechanically through the movement of muscles, **and it can be activated** either by the 'wearer' or by the monitoring facility." ............................................. Are ID chips too invasive? It appears that the effort to implant microchips into humans is not only alive and well but moving ever closer to getting under everyone's skin. Delray Beach firm VeriChip, the nation's only FDA-approved company allowed to produce microchips for injection into people, got a boost recently from the American Medical Association. The AMA said such devices "may help to identify patients, thereby improving the safety and efficiency of patient care." But the council warned that the devices' safety and security are unclear. That was enough to create a stir in the technology and medical worlds as well as among privacy and religious folks. And enough to put a smile on VeriChip's face. Scott Silverman, chief executive officer of VeriChip, says the primary aim is to help high-risk medical patients such as those with diabetes, Alzheimer's, cancer and heart conditions. The chip, implanted in the upper right arm, allows medical personnel to access a patient's medical history in the event the person is unconscious or otherwise unresponsive. The person's data is stored in VeriChip's database. Sounds a little spooky, and makes George Orwell seem more like a prophet than a novelist. Silverman says it could save lives, "it's fairly safe and there have been no side effects." VeriChip's sister corporation, Digital Angel Corp., has been implanting chips in pets for 15 years. "It should be first and foremost voluntary," Silverman says. "No one should ever be forced to get an implantable microchip." But Katherine Albrecht, a co-author of the book Spychips, whom I'm sure drives Silverman crazy, argues that VeriChip is taking us down a treacherous road. "You can feel the writing on the wall that this is the direction our society is moving," said Albrecht, who received her doctorate in education from Harvard, specializing in adult development and consumer education. And the religious have concerns of biblical proportions: tagging people with such devices reads like a precursor to the "mark of the beast." Silverman says his company's focus is on medical patients. And the chip they use is "passive" or, simply stated, it does not emit a strong signal. To read the chip, medical personnel must use a scanner and be within 12 inches. And he says the data is stored in a facility as secure as any of the best. He does admit once you have a chip, it could be used for other "applications." You can tie financial accounts to them and other data. He points out a year ago one company injected two employees with chips for security reasons. In addition, nightclubs in Barcelona, Spain, Rotterdam, Holland, and Edinburgh, Scotland, use them so patrons can access VIP lounges and make purchases. ........................ Should You Micro-Chip Your Children? I'm surprised by both the debate over RFID (radio frequency identification) and the technology's growing capabilities. RFID has been a boon to corporations with large retail outlets, inventory rooms, warehouses, and more. It's even beginning to bleed into public spaces such as county beaches. Yet it seems all I hear is moaning about the privacy and First Amendment implications. This is growing tiresome, and it's time to set people straight. RFID chips are a good idea. RFID chips that can help locate people and objects are a better idea. RFID chips implanted in pets and people are the best idea of all. ***WATCHMAN... NO NO NO they are a BAD IDEA... ......................... Baltimore-based nonprofit partners in bringing Implanted microchips mainstream Implanting human beings with microchips that contain their identification and medical records is a controversial subject. But by the end of the year, as many as 500 kidney dialysis patients in Maryland will be equipped with microchips from Florida firm VeriChip Corp., and local hospitals will be carrying the technology to read the chips. The project is a partnership between VeriChip and the Independent Dialysis Foundation Inc., a Baltimore-based nonprofit that operates eight dialysis centers in the state. VeriChip has offered to implant its VeriMed microchip, the size of a grain of rice, at no cost in all the foundation's roughly 500 patients. The company also hopes to provide the readers at no cost to about 25 hospital emergency departments in the state. In return, VeriChip — traded on the Nasdaq as CHIP — will collect effectiveness data on its product to present to insurers and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to try to convince them to cover the cost of the device. VeriMed received Food and Drug Administration approval in 2004, but no third-party payers cover it, said VeriChip President William Caragol. Generally, the product is offered free with a $9.95 monthly subscription rate to follow. "What is of high interest to insurance companies is the ability to provide better care at better costs," Caragol said. "That entails less tests, less unnecessary drugs or procedures. You start out, as opposed to a blank slate, [with information including] who this is, what's been wrong with them." The chips, injected into the triceps, do not contain any information except a 16-digit number corresponding with records stored on the VeriMed registry, a Web-based database. Patients enter their own information — similar to the medical history questionnaires patients fill out before seeing a new physician — and update it. |
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