Ingestible Identification Microchip Not a Scientific Pipe DreamBy Bauer Marshall With that in mind, a new form of enslavement may be gradually under way, but its in a small device that can be implanted in an assortment of products and entities, and is just one of many of the Big Brother technologies we are subjected to. In the 2006 tome, Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Purchase and Watch Your Every Move privacy rights activists Dr. Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre illustrate what radio frequency identification technology (RFID) may be used for. There are two main elements of an RFID tag. The first is a small silicon computer chip that includes a unique ID number. The second part of the RFID tag contains a flat antenna, which is hooked up to the miniature chip. This is how the tags and readers work: When an RFID tag gets within range of a reader, the tags antenna picks up the readers energy, amplifies it, and directs it to the chip. The energy stimulates the chip to beam back its unique number, say 345678, along with what other information it was programmed to relay. The reader device captures this information and processes it. What was just described is a passive RFID and that is just dependent on the reader for a power source. However, active tags can contain an internal power supply. An example of uses would be toll collection systems such as FasTrack and EZ-Pass. While understanding the functions of RFID is essential, knowing how the chips will be used amongst the populace is also critical to evaluate. Here are some patents regarding Corporate and Government Patents Albrecht and McIntyre reveal other startling details regarding the possible usage of these spychips. Patent Application #20020165758 (Identification and Tracking of Persons Using RFID-Tagged Item) Assigned to IBM, filed Nov. 2, 2002. This application will allow IBM to determine the identity of any person and used to monitor ones movements through the stores. IBM explains, Previous purchase records for reach person who stops at a retail store are collected by [cash register] terminals and stored in a transaction database. When a person carrying or wearing items having RFID tags enters the store or other designated area, a RFID tag scanner located therein scans the RFID tags on that person and reads the RFID tag information. The RFID tag information collected from the person is correlated with transaction records stored in the transaction database according to known correlation algorithms. Based on the results of this correlation, the exact identity of the person or certain characteristics about the person can be determined. This information is used to monitor the movement of the person though the store and or other areasInstead of determining the exact identity of the person, some characteristics such as demographics (e.g., age, race, sex etc.) about the person may be determined based on certain predetermined statistical information. For example, if items that are carried on the persons are highly expensive name brands, e.g., Rolex watch, then the person maybe classified in the upper-middle class income bracket. In another example, if the items that are carried on the person are female items typically associated with women e.g., a purse scarf, pantyhose, then the gender of the person can be determined as a female. Patent Application #6,659,344 (Automated Monitoring of Activity of Shoppers in a Market) Filed by Jerome A. Otto and Dennis J. Seitz of National Cash Register Company on December 6, 2000 and granted December 9, 2003. The invention monitors the items. The invention determines whether each item is located in one of three positions, namely, (1) in the basket, (2) on shelves, or (3) neither the basket nor on the shelves. For example, an item may take the form of Brand X canned corn. If the shopper removes a can of Brand X corn from a shelf, and holds the can in the hand, the invention will detect that a can of Brand X corn has been removed from the shelf, and also that the can is not in the basket. The inference may be raised that the can is held in the hand of the shopper at that time The data just obtained is recorded. [A] detailed record of the successive occupations of positions [baskets, shelf, or neither]can be recorded, together with the time-of-day for each position. Patent Application # 20040174258 (Method And Apparatus For Locating And Tracking Persons) Filed August 29, 2003, by Peter Seth Edelstein and Benjamin Theodore Nordell II, of Persephone Inc. This application will allow for the surgical implantation in the head, the torso, the deep muscle limbs, and the lumen of organs like the gastrointestinal tract and the uterus. Removal of the implanted device by a runaway juvenile would be impossible. Even if possible, such removal would likely place the runaway at the significant medical risk, which is counter to the runaways goal of safe escape and survival from parents or guardians. Other excerpts of the patent include: Patent Application #20040129781 (System and Method for Utilizing RF Tags to Collect Data Concerning Post-Consumer Resources) Assigned to BellSouths Intellectual Property Corporation, filed on July 8, 2003. The title of the patent in laymens terms, will allow BellSouth to sell data on your trash. BellSouth elaborates: Information concerning a post-consumption item [i.e., a piece of trash] may be linked (by serial number, for example), with information concerning the pre-consumed [i.e., a brand new] item collected by other data collection systems By combining captured pre-consumer information with post-consumption information, the entire life cycle of an item may be tracked. This information may be useful to any number of entities, including retailers, manufacturers, distributors and the like The collected and processed data may be helpful to track consumer purchases versus use patterns. A pet owner who lives in Atlanta but has a cabin in the mountains may choose to purchase pet food in the mountains because pet food is less expensive there A recycling facility may find it useful to know where the items dropped off at the recycling center were originally purchased. Grocery stores, pharmacies and retailers may find it useful to know how long it takes a particular item to go from being stocked on the shelf to being placed in a waste or recycling receptacle The information collected may bevaluable to particular industries. Patent Application # 20020149468 (System and Method for Controlling Remote Devices) Funded by the U.S. government. As stated in the patent application, weapons lost on a battlefield can be easily tracked and enabled or disable automatically or at will. With all these patents being granted or filed by major corporations as well as government, one has to wonder if a city could be completely designed on RFID technology. The Auto-ID Center has a clear vision-to create a world where every object from jumbo jets to sewing needles is linked to the internet. Compelling as this vision is, it is only achievable if the centers system is adopted by everyone everywhere. Success will be nothing less than global adoption, said Helen Duce, former Auto-ID Center associate director, who is now a Senior Partner at Effective Brands, which a global marketing consultancy company. Auto-ID has now become EPCglobal. Now lets move ahead to other developments in the RFID technology realm. Regina Dugan, former DARPA Director and currently Goggle executive who is helping create as well as promote the idea of an ingestible identification microchip will be attending this years Bilderberg Group Conference. Dugan told an audience about this technology at the 2013 All Things D11 Conference. This pill has a small chip inside of it with a switch, said Dugan. It also has what amounts to an inside out potato battery. When you swallow it, the acids in your stomach serve as the electrolyte and that powers it up. And the switch goes on and off and creates an 18 bit ECG wide signal in your body and essentially your entire body becomes your authentication token. For the full story, go to this link and also watch the video. What in the world does Google have planned that its hiring military leadership? asked The Wires Adam Clark Estes, noting that her appointment illustrated Googles tight connections with military leadership. As one can see, there should be some cause of concern and hopefully, a complete surveillance civilization controlled by self-serving authoritarian technocrats as well as politicians does not occur. Could a technology like RFID enslave us? asks McIntyre. Theoretically, yes. Is the RFID implant the prophesied method of controlling humans and forcing beast worship? I dont think so. Could I be wrong? Yes. I dont believe anyone here on earth knows definitively what the future holds and exactly how events will unfold. She adds, There are many smart peoplepeople much smarter than myselfChristians and non-Christianswho hold very strong contradictory beliefs on most matters of religion. I take this as a clue that I should remain humble and reverent when it comes to the mysteries of the universe. Its one thing to explore possibilities and keep a watchful eye. Its quite another to claim a hotline to God and infer that others have an inferior connection to the Almighty. Side Bar: 63rd Bilderberg conference to take place from 11 14 June 2015 in Telfs-Buchen, Austria. The key topics for discussion this year include: Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg conference is an annual meeting designed to foster dialogue between Europe and North America. Every year, between 120-150 political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and the media are invited to take part in the conference. About two thirds of the participants come from Europe and the rest from North America; approximately one third from politics and government and the rest from other fields. The conference is a forum for informal discussions about major issues facing the world. The meetings are held under the Chatham House Rule, which states that participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s) nor of any other participant may be revealed. Thanks to the private nature of the conference, the participants are not bound by the conventions of their office or by pre-agreed positions. As such, they can take time to listen, reflect and gather insights. There is no desired outcome, no minutes are taken and no report is written. Furthermore, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are issued. [ENDS] Editors Note, not for publication 