
Living in a Microchip Society Dana Gabriel \|\| March 13, 2006 It is not surprising that you would find a large multi-national corporation like Wal-Mart leading the push for RFID tagging and IBM at the very fo! refront when it comes to ID management. These same corporations along with government agencies like the Department of Defense and Homeland Security are conspiring with each other to track and monitor people with embedded RFID tags in products, clothing, and even implantable microchips under the skin. The future applications of RFID technology is seemingly endless with its primary use now being in supply management. Technology is a double aged sword that can be used for good, but it will always be used in ways that it was not intended or designed for. This does seem like the perfect way to spy on the population. There is already enough unwanted government intrusion in our lives and the ability to be tracked goes way beyond its boundaries. Most are not informed on the subject of microchips and are not part of the debate much less the decision making process. The possible abuses are mind-boggling with many in government promoting and sup! porting its agenda instead of trying to protect us from its dangers. The power and money hungry global elite want to track our every move in a one world order under complete surveillance. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags are smaller then a grain of sand. Each chip is linked to an ultra thin antenna which picks up electromagnetic energy beamed at them from a reader device. When the energy is picked up the chip sends a unique identification number back to a reader devise where the information is stored. It employs a numbering system called EPC (Electronic Product Code) which provides an! ID for any physical object. It is intended to replace the bar code used on products today. For the most part RFID technology has been used in the tracking of goods in supply management. Total production of RFID tags in 2005 reached more then 1.3 billion. The number produced worldwide is expected to increase more then 25 fold from 2006-2010, reaching 33 billion. Wal- Mart the world’s largest retailer spurred the growth by mandating that its top 300 suppliers begin employing RFID tags to its products. Other companies like Gillette and Procter & Gamble are also firmly behind the push. In fact at a Wal-Mart in Broken Arrow Oklahoma in March of 2003 Procter & Gamble conducted a secret RFID test. Customers who purchased P&G Lipfinity lipstick left the store with a live RFID tracking tag without their knowledge. The test also involved a video camera that taped the women as they picked their lipstick with the feed and information sent to the corporation for analyst. The nature of this test is important for several reasons the first being that Wal-Mart had previously always denied any consumer level RFID testing in the United States. Also it illustrates just how easy it would be to use it to spy on people. Gillette has also been caught secretly putting the devices in its Mach 3 razors. This would be a big step in bringing Big Brother into our homes to find out what we buy, do, and even believe. These big corporations envision a future when every single product in the world will be tracked with a spy chip. IBM is also behind the RFID movement and even has a patent pending # 20020165758. This would enable the identification and tracking of persons using RFID tagged items. It has also called for a global identity management solution. This brings to mind the call for a worldwide ID card possibly run by the United Nations. IBM has several RFID commercials and one involves a semi truck which has to stop because in the middle of the road a help desk pops up. A lady tells the 2 that they are lost and on the wrong road. The driver asks how she knew and she answers the boxes told me. They both appear confused and she explains how IBM is using RFID technology for tracking management purposes. I have to admit the first time I saw this commercial I was a little bit cre! eped out. We are now witnessing the giant propaganda machine praising its benefits while the infrastructure is being slowly implemented without us getting too freaked out about it. It is all part of an agenda so that when it does come down to getting a chip in your arm or hand it won’t seem so weird. Most are unaware that the true nature of loyalty cards is not for you to save money, but to collect data for purposes of increasing profits. It allows the store to target advertising dollars where they will get the most in return. The cards have grown much more sophisticated using scanners and computer datab! ases to collect personnel information and track customer spending. Retailers then benefit using this information to analyze shopping habits and to come up with new marketing schemes that helps in product selection and promotions. They create customer profiles which helps them improve service and encourages more spending. There was even a German grocery store Metro Future Store whose loyalty card contained a spy chip. There was such a backlash when customers found out that the cards were recalled, as they did not appreciate the idea of being tracked in the store. RFID information from retail systems could easily be merged with other identification systems to create huge databases which would then give a complete picture of every citizen’s habits. How long will it be before companies with such loyalty programs in place sell their information and customer lists to a third party? Although it is said that RFID will greatly cut down on fraud one must understand that someone will have acc! ess to all this product and personnel information. Data that exists can and will eventually be abused and manipulated and as is the case with new technology it also attracts the criminal element. This will eventually compromise our privacy and even our personal security. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com We are on the verge of a cashless society which will require everyone to live on the grid. There is definitely even more of a push from paper to other forms of electronic payments and this includes scanning your finger and a card in front of a reader. Many supermarkets, convenience stores, and gas stations in the United States are utilizing this new technology. When you pay by finger it is scanned and linked to your payment information and you enter your phone number and select bank or credit card. RFID tags are already on some Visas and MasterCard’s which allows its customers to make cashless payments at RFID enabled terminals. Applied Digital just recently launched Veripay where by a microchip implant would store all ones financial information rather then paying by cash or swiping a card, ones wrist or hand would be scanned. Stores will eventually have readers at the front doors where by a system would tally the purchases by reading the RFID tags on the products and your implantable microchip that would automatically debit the total from your account. Even if cash does exist at that point the European Central Bank is working on embedding RFID’s in the fibers of its Euro bank notes. This is to combat counterfeiting, bu! t would also allow the money to carry its very own history. The anonymity that cash affords in consumer transactions would thus be eliminated. A cashless world would give even more control and financial rewards to the global elite, bankers, and corporations. Many RFID initiatives have been announced by a number of government agencies including Social Security, NASA, the postal service, the Department of Defense, and Homeland Security. Programs in the UK are being put in place where by RFID! tags would be put on all license plates. This would be used for automated tolling and to monitor the flow of traffic. It would also give the police the ability to track persons by the movement of their vehicle. Similar initiatives are being discussed and even implemented in the United States. There was even a bill in Texas (HB 2893) that would have seen RFID tags placed on inspection stickers, but it was narrowly defeated. E-Passports which contain an RFID chip are now being tested at the San Francisco Airport. EZ-Pass and Fast Track are used at the borders and some toll roads and bridges where by an RFID embedded device is equipped to the vehicle that then automatically deb! its the account. RFID technology is also being used in electronic vehicle identification systems used for access to military bases, airports, hospitals, and gated communities. There are some in government who have foreseen the negative implications of RFID technology. States such as Massachusetts, Utah, Missouri and New Hampshire have attempted or are currently attempting to pass legislation to address concerns. In California the Identity Information Protection Act (SB 768) was introduced to protect and place safe guards on RFID technology. There has been some recent compromises and concessions made to the bill and I am afraid that if it does pass it will be severely watered down. Still many in government are p! romoting the use of RFID including the powerful Senate Republican High Tech Task Force. They are in bed with corporate America and want to protect RFID technology from any premature legislation and regulations. There vision is a much different one and they don’t want anything in place that might prevent the full potential of this new technology from being utilized. In essence we are creating a surveillance monster and there really no longer are any technical barriers to a total Big Brother society. Being tracked in your vehicle or by a product is horrifying in itself, but being tracked by an implantable chip is a nightmare. Applied Digital Solutions Inc is the maker of the implantable verichip. It is a little glass encapsulated RFID devise designed to be injected into humans for the purpose of identification and for use as payment system. The whole process of getting chipped does not take very long and with the use of a needle the chip is pushed through the skin. In October of 2004 the FDA (the Food and Drug Administration) approved the verichip for medical use in humans. The conditioning process began sometime ago and in 2002 a Florida couple and their son had chips implanted in their arms. They hoped that someday they would be able to automatically relay their medical information. Currently there is over 60 people who have been chipped in the U.S. and about 2000 world wide. A few examples include a banker from San Francisco for a living will, a journalist who was doing a story on microchips, including Scientists and even the Mexican Attorney General to enable him to be traced if he is ever abducted. Also Police Chief Jack Schmidig from Bergen County, New Jersey was implanted in April of 2004 and his reason was for access to his medical records. In a radio interview on the Alex Jones show he went on to say, “If I went into a grocery store and bought a loaf of bread and a quart of milk and walked out and it read my chip and debited my account, I don’t have a problem with that.” Technology junkies are also jumping on the bandwagon getting chipped to open doors without ke! ys and access to their computers without a password. To get into some VIP sections in some night clubs in Europe and Miami you need to be chipped and it is being used as a payment system. Deceased victims of hurricane Katrina were also chipped for identification purposes. There is even talk of the Pentagon chipping the military. With plans to chip mentally disabled patients, some prisoners and even children. There was a test in Sutter California where students at Brittan Elementary school had to wear a badge with their name, grade, and photo which contained a tiny RFID tag. The purpose was to apparently test a new High-Tech attendance system. Outraged parents said the school was trampling on the children’s privacy and civil libe! rties and maybe even their health. One student said she felt like an orange and that the students had all been turned into a grocery item on the shelf. Microchips are the wave of the future as science fiction has become reality with the merging of people with technology. Unfortunately there is always a downside and you need to ask yourself do you really want to live in a total surveillance society where every action and thought can be monitored and catalogued? Former Health and human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson is now on the board of Applied Digital. He was supposed to ge! t chipped which would have given a huge boast to the Verichip which has received a lot of negative press. This would legitimize microchips possibly readying the population for mass acceptance and consumption. Since July of last year he has apparently been to busy to get chipped. Could it be that he has rethought his position in light of the medical, privacy, and civil liberties issues? There are medical concerns regarding implantable microchips which include adverse tissue reaction, migration of the chip, (MRI) incompatibility, and electrical hazards. There are now claims that they can even be cloned and they could be read by a handheld scanner or the person walking through a reader without their knowledge. A reader could be installed anywhere like entry and exit doors of building and even your own residence. Combined with GPS (Global Positioning System) technology it would produce a control grid capable of locating anyone, anywhere, and anytime. It will be sold to the public for con! venience, entertainment and as a cool alternative image. It will be the new body art like a tattoo and piercing. You can now get chipped in some tattoo parlors and it will become a sort of new hip status symbol for social outlaws. It will also be sold for security to keep us all safe from terrorist who ever they might be at the time. I remember seeing a clip from 60 Minutes that aired almost 3 years ago. In his weekly commentary Andy Ronney said, “We need some system for permanently identifying safe people. Most of us are never going to blow anything up and there’s got to be something better then one of those ID’s… I wouldn’t mind having something planted permanently in my arm that would identify me.” He is advocating microchips and if you read the quote again what he is saying is without one you would be seen as a security risk, a terrorist, and enemy of the state. At first it will be marketed as voluntary then there could be a move on the part of the government to force it on its p! eople. Any real threats of terrorism can not be stopped by tracking your every move or by placing you in a data bank as it does not tell of ones intentions. At what point does technology with benefits in convenience and well meaning intentions become a nightmare? It always comes at a price and will be used to control and enslave us. “Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you gifts with one hand and stabs you in the back with the other.” (C.P. Snow New York Times 1971) Generations such as mine may at ! first reject the very notion of implantable microchips under the skin, but I am afraid that the younger ones will embrace it with open arms. It will be packaged with very slick marketing. To many it will be all about being cool and keeping up with the latest technology. Many others will then fall victim to the propaganda and mass conditioning. This technology should not be left up to those in power to best decide how and where to use it. Who will check and regulate it and at what point will it constitute abuse or improper instruction of privacy. Our lives are becoming more and more transparent while the government is becoming more secretive. Microchips will be used to monitor and track our every movement and even our behavior. Without a chip one will not be able to get a drivers license, travel, buy or sell. Without one it will be impossible to function in everyday society. 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Living in a Microchip Society

Dana Gabriel || March 13, 2006

It is not surprising that you would find a large multi-national corporation like Wal-Mart leading the push for RFID tagging and IBM at the very fo! refront when it comes to ID management. These same corporations along with government agencies like the Department of Defense and Homeland Security are conspiring with each other to track and monitor people with embedded RFID tags in products, clothing, and even implantable microchips under the skin. The future applications of RFID technology is seemingly endless with its primary use now being in supply management. Technology is a double aged sword that can be used for good, but it will always be used in ways that it was not intended or designed for. This does seem like the perfect way to spy on the population. There is already enough unwanted government intrusion in our lives and the ability to be tracked goes way beyond its boundaries. Most are not informed on the subject of microchips and are not part of the debate much less the decision making process. The possible abuses are mind-boggling with many in government promoting and sup! porting its agenda instead of trying to protect us from its dangers. The power and money hungry global elite want to track our every move in a one world order under complete surveillance.

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags are smaller then a grain of sand. Each chip is linked to an ultra thin antenna which picks up electromagnetic energy beamed at them from a reader device. When the energy is picked up the chip sends a unique identification number back to a reader devise where the information is stored. It employs a numbering system called EPC (Electronic Product Code) which provides an! ID for any physical object. It is intended to replace the bar code used on products today. For the most part RFID technology has been used in the tracking of goods in supply management. Total production of RFID tags in 2005 reached more then 1.3 billion. The number produced worldwide is expected to increase more then 25 fold from 2006-2010, reaching 33 billion. Wal- Mart the world’s largest retailer spurred the growth by mandating that its top 300 suppliers begin employing RFID tags to its products. Other companies like Gillette and Procter & Gamble are also firmly behind the push. In fact at a Wal-Mart in Broken Arrow Oklahoma in March of 2003 Procter & Gamble conducted a secret RFID test. Customers who purchased P&G Lipfinity lipstick left the store with a live RFID tracking tag without their knowledge. The test also involved a video camera that taped the women as they picked their lipstick with the feed and information sent to the corporation for analyst. The nature of this test is important for several reasons the first being that Wal-Mart had previously always denied any consumer level RFID testing in the United States. Also it illustrates just how easy it would be to use it to spy on people. Gillette has also been caught secretly putting the devices in its Mach 3 razors. This would be a big step in bringing Big Brother into our homes to find out what we buy, do, and even believe. These big corporations envision a future when every single product in the world will be tracked with a spy chip. Chip People

IBM is also behind the RFID movement and even has a patent pending # 20020165758. This would enable the identification and tracking of persons using RFID tagged items. It has also called for a global identity management solution. This brings to mind the call for a worldwide ID card possibly run by the United Nations. IBM has several RFID commercials and one involves a semi truck which has to stop because in the middle of the road a help desk pops up. A lady tells the 2 that they are lost and on the wrong road. The driver asks how she knew and she answers the boxes told me. They both appear confused and she explains how IBM is using RFID technology for tracking management purposes. I have to admit the first time I saw this commercial I was a little bit cre! eped out. We are now witnessing the giant propaganda machine praising its benefits while the infrastructure is being slowly implemented without us getting too freaked out about it. It is all part of an agenda so that when it does come down to getting a chip in your arm or hand it won’t seem so weird.

Most are unaware that the true nature of loyalty cards is not for you to save money, but to collect data for purposes of increasing profits. It allows the store to target advertising dollars where they will get the most in return. The cards have grown much more sophisticated using scanners and computer datab! ases to collect personnel information and track customer spending. Retailers then benefit using this information to analyze shopping habits and to come up with new marketing schemes that helps in product selection and promotions. They create customer profiles which helps them improve service and encourages more spending. There was even a German grocery store Metro Future Store whose loyalty card contained a spy chip. There was such a backlash when customers found out that the cards were recalled, as they did not appreciate the idea of being tracked in the store. RFID information from retail systems could easily be merged with other identification systems to create huge databases which would then give a complete picture of every citizen’s habits. How long will it be before companies with such loyalty programs in place sell their information and customer lists to a third party? Although it is said that RFID will greatly cut down on fraud one must understand that someone will have acc! ess to all this product and personnel information. Data that exists can and will eventually be abused and manipulated and as is the case with new technology it also attracts the criminal element. This will eventually compromise our privacy and even our personal security.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

We are on the verge of a cashless society which will require everyone to live on the grid. There is definitely even more of a push from paper to other forms of electronic payments and this includes scanning your finger and a card in front of a reader. Many supermarkets, convenience stores, and gas stations in the United States are utilizing this new technology. When you pay by finger it is scanned and linked to your payment information and you enter your phone number and select bank or credit card. RFID tags are already on some Visas and MasterCard’s which allows its customers to make cashless payments at RFID enabled terminals. Applied Digital just recently launched Veripay where by a microchip implant would store all ones financial information rather then paying by cash or swiping a card, ones wrist or hand would be scanned. Stores will eventually have readers at the front doors where by a system would tally the purchases by reading the RFID tags on the products and your implantable microchip that would automatically debit the total from your account. Even if cash does exist at that point the European Central Bank is working on embedding RFID’s in the fibers of its Euro bank notes. This is to combat counterfeiting, bu! t would also allow the money to carry its very own history. The anonymity that cash affords in consumer transactions would thus be eliminated. A cashless world would give even more control and financial rewards to the global elite, bankers, and corporations. Chip People

Many RFID initiatives have been announced by a number of government agencies including Social Security, NASA, the postal service, the Department of Defense, and Homeland Security. Programs in the UK are being put in place where by RFID! tags would be put on all license plates. This would be used for automated tolling and to monitor the flow of traffic. It would also give the police the ability to track persons by the movement of their vehicle. Similar initiatives are being discussed and even implemented in the United States. There was even a bill in Texas (HB 2893) that would have seen RFID tags placed on inspection stickers, but it was narrowly defeated. E-Passports which contain an RFID chip are now being tested at the San Francisco Airport. EZ-Pass and Fast Track are used at the borders and some toll roads and bridges where by an RFID embedded device is equipped to the vehicle that then automatically deb! its the account. RFID technology is also being used in electronic vehicle identification systems used for access to military bases, airports, hospitals, and gated communities. There are some in government who have foreseen the negative implications of RFID technology. States such as Massachusetts, Utah, Missouri and New Hampshire have attempted or are currently attempting to pass legislation to address concerns. In California the Identity Information Protection Act (SB 768) was introduced to protect and place safe guards on RFID technology. There has been some recent compromises and concessions made to the bill and I am afraid that if it does pass it will be severely watered down. Still many in government are p! romoting the use of RFID including the powerful Senate Republican High Tech Task Force. They are in bed with corporate America and want to protect RFID technology from any premature legislation and regulations. There vision is a much different one and they don’t want anything in place that might prevent the full potential of this new technology from being utilized. In essence we are creating a surveillance monster and there really no longer are any technical barriers to a total Big Brother society. Being tracked in your vehicle or by a product is horrifying in itself, but being tracked by an implantable chip is a nightmare.

Applied Digital Solutions Inc is the maker of the implantable verichip. It is a little glass encapsulated RFID devise designed to be injected into humans for the purpose of identification and for use as payment system. The whole process of getting chipped does not take very long and with the use of a needle the chip is pushed through the skin. In October of 2004 the FDA (the Food and Drug Administration) approved the verichip for medical use in humans. The conditioning process began sometime ago and in 2002 a Florida couple and their son had chips implanted in their arms. They hoped that someday they would be able to automatically relay their medical information. Currently there is over 60 people who have been chipped in the U.S. and about 2000 world wide. A few examples include a banker from San Francisco for a living will, a journalist who was doing a story on microchips, including Scientists and even the Mexican Attorney General to enable him to be traced if he is ever abducted. Also Police Chief Jack Schmidig from Bergen County, New Jersey was implanted in April of 2004 and his reason was for access to his medical records. In a radio interview on the Alex Jones show he went on to say, “If I went into a grocery store and bought a loaf of bread and a quart of milk and walked out and it read my chip and debited my account, I don’t have a problem with that.” Technology junkies are also jumping on the bandwagon getting chipped to open doors without ke! ys and access to their computers without a password. To get into some VIP sections in some night clubs in Europe and Miami you need to be chipped and it is being used as a payment system. Deceased victims of hurricane Katrina were also chipped for identification purposes. There is even talk of the Pentagon chipping the military. With plans to chip mentally disabled patients, some prisoners and even children. There was a test in Sutter California where students at Brittan Elementary school had to wear a badge with their name, grade, and photo which contained a tiny RFID tag. The purpose was to apparently test a new High-Tech attendance system. Outraged parents said the school was trampling on the children’s privacy and civil libe! rties and maybe even their health. One student said she felt like an orange and that the students had all been turned into a grocery item on the shelf. Microchips are the wave of the future as science fiction has become reality with the merging of people with technology. Unfortunately there is always a downside and you need to ask yourself do you really want to live in a total surveillance society where every action and thought can be monitored and catalogued?

Former Health and human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson is now on the board of Applied Digital. He was supposed to ge! t chipped which would have given a huge boast to the Verichip which has received a lot of negative press. This would legitimize microchips possibly readying the population for mass acceptance and consumption. Since July of last year he has apparently been to busy to get chipped. Could it be that he has rethought his position in light of the medical, privacy, and civil liberties issues? There are medical concerns regarding implantable microchips which include adverse tissue reaction, migration of the chip, (MRI) incompatibility, and electrical hazards. There are now claims that they can even be cloned and they could be read by a handheld scanner or the person walking through a reader without their knowledge. A reader could be installed anywhere like entry and exit doors of building and even your own residence. Combined with GPS (Global Positioning System) technology it would produce a control grid capable of locating anyone, anywhere, and anytime. It will be sold to the public for con! venience, entertainment and as a cool alternative image. It will be the new body art like a tattoo and piercing. You can now get chipped in some tattoo parlors and it will become a sort of new hip status symbol for social outlaws. It will also be sold for security to keep us all safe from terrorist who ever they might be at the time. I remember seeing a clip from 60 Minutes that aired almost 3 years ago. In his weekly commentary Andy Ronney said, “We need some system for permanently identifying safe people. Most of us are never going to blow anything up and there’s got to be something better then one of those ID’s… I wouldn’t mind having something planted permanently in my arm that would identify me.” He is advocating microchips and if you read the quote again what he is saying is without one you would be seen as a security risk, a terrorist, and enemy of the state. At first it will be marketed as voluntary then there could be a move on the part of the government to force it on its p! eople. Any real threats of terrorism can not be stopped by tracking your every move or by placing you in a data bank as it does not tell of ones intentions.

At what point does technology with benefits in convenience and well meaning intentions become a nightmare? It always comes at a price and will be used to control and enslave us. “Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you gifts with one hand and stabs you in the back with the other.” (C.P. Snow New York Times 1971) Generations such as mine may at ! first reject the very notion of implantable microchips under the skin, but I am afraid that the younger ones will embrace it with open arms. It will be packaged with very slick marketing. To many it will be all about being cool and keeping up with the latest technology. Many others will then fall victim to the propaganda and mass conditioning. This technology should not be left up to those in power to best decide how and where to use it. Who will check and regulate it and at what point will it constitute abuse or improper instruction of privacy. Our lives are becoming more and more transparent while the government is becoming more secretive. Microchips will be used to monitor and track our every movement and even our behavior. Without a chip one will not be able to get a drivers license, travel, buy or sell. Without one it will be impossible to function in everyday society. I for one will never be implanted with a microchip and I might very well find my self in the minority. It g! oes against my moral principles and there will be a time where standing up for your beliefs will land one in a camp or prison with even death as the result.