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But yeah, I work behind a bar and ID helps. Also, if somebody loses a wallet the police/person who finds it will know who it belongs to.
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'Twas Lord Byron who said it first, I believe: "'Tis strange but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction."
In the 21st century, I'm certain we will find that truth is even stranger than science fiction.
You had better sit down for this one, privacy fans. A company called Applied Digital Solutions has what sounds to me like the final solution. The NASDAQ-traded high-tech company is excited about its acquisition of the patent rights to a miniature digital transceiver -- which it nicknamed "Digital Angel (R)." Personally, I think it should be rated X -- or worse.
The product is billed as a versatile transceiver that can send and receive data -- and which can be implanted in humans.
It can provide a tamper-proof means of identification for enhanced business security, the company boasts. It can locate lost or missing individuals, say the proud owners. It can track and locate valuable property, they claim. It can monitor the medical conditions of at-risk patients. And it can slice, dice and destroy the last vestiges of personal privacy in an increasingly impersonal world.
The implantable transceiver's signals can be tracked continuously by global positioning satellites. When implanted in the body, the device is powered electromagnetically through the movement of muscles, and it can be activated either by the wearer or by the monitoring facility.
"While a number of other tracking and monitoring technologies have been patented and marketed in the past, they are all unsuitable for the widespread tracking, recovery and identification of people due to a variety of limitations, including unwieldy size, maintenance requirements, insufficient or inconvenient power-supply and activation difficulties," explains a company prospectus. "For the first time in the history of location and monitoring technology, Digital Angel(R) overcomes these limitations."
Oh, goody.
The company projects a global market for this technology in excess of $100 billion.
But the applications it discusses just don't add up to that kind of number. The math doesn't work for me. You decide. Here's what the company is talking about: business security, locating individuals, monitoring medical conditions, tracking and locating essential military and diplomatic personnel, tracking personal property.
The only way that adds up to a hundred billion in my calculator is if every human being on earth gets one of these implants. And maybe that's the idea.
On Jan. 31, APS accepted the special "Technology Pioneers" award from the World Economic Forum for the company's contributions to worldwide economic development and social progress through technology advancements.
And what is the World Economic Forum? It bills itself as an independent organization committed to improving the state of the world. It does this by "creating the foremost global partnerships of business, political, intellectual and other leaders of society to define and discuss key issues on the global agenda."
Now, I want you to use your imagination here, for a moment. Why would an organization committed to breaking down nationalist barriers and moving the world toward global government give a technology award to a company that just acquired the patent to a sophisticated, implantable identification device? Hmmmmm? And guess what one of the foremost goals of WEF is? You got it -- vaccinating every human being on the planet. How convenient! What a coincidence.
President Clinton recently addressed the WEF in Davos, Switzerland. He boasted about asking the Congress to give pharmaceutical conglomerates tax credits to make vaccines more widely available at low cost. He appealed for a similar effort from the World Bank, other nations and the corporate world to deliver the vaccines to the people who need them -- meaning everyone.
How could ADS ever hope to make $100 billion with this new technology? By implanting it in every human being in the world. And how could that be done? At vaccination time, of course.
Let's see now. The application is buying and selling. The technology is implantable. The plans are global.
This sounds remarkably like something I read in 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."
Digital Angel? Sounds more like we could be entering the age of the Digital Devil.
is not about the distant, implausible world of fantasy, but the current research and development projects of the U.S. Defense Department, universities and private companies,"
by Thomas Horn
Many people believe that, before long, a man of superior intelligence, wit, charm, and diplomacy will emerge on the world scene as a savior. He will seemingly possess a transcendent wisdom that enables him to solve problems and offer solutions to many of today's most perplexing issues.
His popularity will be widespread. His fans will include young and old, religious and non-religious, male and female. Talk show hosts will interview his colleagues, news anchors will cover his movements, scholars will applaud his uncanny ability at resolving what has escaped the rest of us, and the poor will bow down at his table.
He will, in every human way, appeal to the best idea of society.
But according to conservative news sites like Raiders News Update, his profound comprehension and irresistible presence will be the result of an invisible network of thousands of years of collective knowledge. He will, like the pharaohs of Egypt, represent the embodiment of a very old and super-intelligent spirit. Just as Jesus was the "seed of the woman" (Gen. 3:15), he will be the "seed of the serpent."
It's been assumed for centuries that a prerequisite for his appearing is an all-seeing world order, an umbrella under which national boundaries dissolve, and ethnic groups, ideologies, religions, and economics from around the world, exist beneath his hungry domination.
At the head of his utopian administration, his single personality will surface. He will appear to be a man of distinguished character, but will ultimately become "a king of fierce countenance" (Dan. 8:23).
With imperious decree he will facilitate a totalitarian world government. Those who refuse his New World Order will be branded as unpatriotic, and imprisoned (or destroyed) until finally 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 Thess. 2:4).
For many years the idea of his Orwellian society, where his all-seeing Antichrist-eye watches over the smallest details of our lives and qualifies our human liberties, was considered anathema. The concept that rugged individualism could somehow be sacrificed for his anesthetized universal harmony was repudiated by America's greatest minds.
But something happened in the 1970's. Following a call by Nelson Rockefeller for the creation of a "New World Order," presidential candidate Jimmy Carter campaigned, saying, "We must replace balance of power politics with world order politics."
Evidently he struck a chord with world leaders.
During the 1980's, then president George Bush repeated Carter's one-world dirge, announcing over national television that "a New World Order" had arrived. Following the initial broadcast, he addressed the Congress where he added: "What is at stake is more than one small country [Kuwait], it is a big idea - a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind: peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law. Such is a world worthy of our struggle, and worthy of our children's future!"
The current administration's response to Bush Senior's call for a new world order, in which peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law is aspired, has been to authorize increasingly severe surveillance of - and even elimination of - civil liberties.
The Total Information Awareness System, the controversial Pentagon research program that aims to gather and analyze a vast array of information on Americans, has hired at least eight private companies to work on the effort,[1] while without any official public notice, and without any congressional hearings,[2] the Bush administration continues to push the quick development of the commercial applications that will be overseen by The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a big-brother amalgam of government and private sector sources ala Orwell's 1984.
"It will extensively mine government and commercial data banks, enabling the FBI, the CIA, and other intelligence agencies to collect information that will allow the government—as noted on Nightline—to essentially reconstruct the movements of citizens. This will be done without warrants from courts, thereby making individual privacy as obsolete as the sauropods of the Mesozoic era."[2]
Meanwhile, biometrics - the incessantly hyped technology that relies on physical characteristics such as fingerprints, facial and iris patterns, to ID individuals - is emerging as the indisputable security standard of the new corporate realm. The next logical step of The Total Information Awareness System will be to monitor travel, banking, and security authorization using biometric chips implanted in the body according to some futurists.
As if that was not enough, the Coast Guard confirmed plans just this week to employ 70 Unmanned Drones to monitor people-movements along U.S. Coastlines. If the robotic eyes-in-the-sky are successful, additional robots for vast surveillance and information-analysis will look for suspicious patterns in everything from personal driving habits to the movies you watch, prescriptions you purchase, telephone calls you make, and arguments you have with your spouse or divorcee.
"It is as if a giant plan is unfolding," one time presidential candidate, Pat Robertson observes. "Everything perfectly on cue."
While I've disagreed with some of Pat's comments recently (Not while I was a guest on his 700 Club show), I can't help but feel this particular comment - "It is as if a giant plan is unfolding" - is inspired.
Is The Total Information Awareness System part of the Antichrist's plan? It, or something like it, will be.
An ancient scheme is unfolding. At the core of the conspiracy a leader of indescribable brutality is about to materialize. His all-seeing, all-controlling quest will make the combined depravities of Antiochus Epiphenes, Hitler, Stalin and Genghis Khan - all of whom were types of the antichrist - look like child's play
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(direct neural interfacing between the human brain and all the information in the world, via the Internet), is the final prize.