In this cross-section of the DNA Transistor, a single strand of DNA moves amidst (invisible) water molecules through the nanopore
Fox News | Imagine a world where medicine is guaranteed not to cause adverse reactions because it's designed for an individual's DNA.
Imagine a diet tailored to the precise speed of a person's metabolism. Using a little microelectronics, a little physics, and no small dose of biology, IBM has brought that futuristic world a little bit closer.
The DNA Transistor is a project from IBM Research that aims to advance personalized medicine, by making it simpler (and much cheaper) to read an individual's unique DNA sequence — the special combination of proteins that makes you unlike anyone else.
The technology isn't finished yet, but its potential is tantalizin enough that IBM wanted to share it with the world. And the company claims researchers are making progress.
Essentially a bar code reader for genes, the DNA Transistor is part technique and part device. It consists of a 3-nanometer wide hole, known as a nanopore, in a silicon microchip. A sensor in the pore can read DNA and determine its unique makeup.
The DNA Transistor schematic. By alternating the voltages to the metal contacts, the DNA is moved from the top to the bottom
The challenge scientists face is controlling the rate at which a strand moves through that nanopore: A DNA molecule needs to spend enough time in it for the sequencing to work. By cycling voltages to the transistor's poles, IBM aims to move the DNA through the nanopore at a consistent rate one nucleotide (molecule of DNA) at a time.
The company's researchers are currently investigating various housings for the pore as well, honing the multilayer (metal and dielectric) nano-structures to move samples through more evenly.
“The technologies that make reading DNA fast, cheap and widely available have the potential to revolutionize bio-medical research and herald an era of personalized medicine,” said IBM research scientist Gustavo Stolovitzky. “Ultimately, it could improve the quality of medical care by identifying patients who will gain the greatest benefit from a particular medicine and those who are most at risk of adverse reaction.”
Times Online | Even dogs cannot escape the surveillance state. Under plans to be put forward by both Labour and the Conservatives at the next election, all dogs will have to be fitted with a microchip with their owner’s name, address and phone number.
In addition, a national database will hold details of all dogs in the country, including their breed, age and health. Owners who fail to insert a microchip containing a unique barcode will face a fine and possibly the right to keep their dog.
Both Labour and the Tories believe the policy will curb the number of stray dogs and will deter owners from buying dogs they do not look after properly. The microchip, which is inserted under the skin, usually at the scruff of the neck, is also intended to help stop the trade in stolen dogs.
The effectiveness of microchips is well known and was illustrated by the experience of Debbie Matthews, daughter of Bruce Forsyth, the television presenter.
She had her yorkshire terriers snatched from the back of her BMW while she went shopping. The thieves sold them on to other people but vets were still able to establish their real identity as they both had microchips beneath their skin.
Andrew Rosindell MP, the Conservative animal welfare spokesman, said he thought microchipping would stop Britain’s pounds overflowing with strays and help identify irresponsible owners.
The Conservative council in Wandsworth, south London, has already made it compulsory for council tenants with dogs to microchip their animals and log details on a database.
Rosindell, MP for Romford, Essex, said microchips also helped to cut crime. “If a dog that has been involved in fighting or bad behaviour has been microchipped, it will help the police find who the owner is,” he said.
Ian Cawsey MP, a vice-chairman of the Labour party who has been asked by Gordon Brown to draw up animal welfare policies, also said microchipping was vital.
The policy will be at the heart of Labour’s animal welfare proposals to be unveiled at its conference this week. They include a ban on shock collars for badly behaved dogs. The collars, which have been condemned by animal welfare organisations as cruel, emit an electric shock to stop the dog misbehaving.
The proposals also include plans to ban wild animals from circuses and to outlaw the sale of reptiles that have not been bred in the UK.
Labour is planning a fresh assault on hunting and shooting with a ban on the intensive rearing of game birds, such as pheasants. It also wants to bring in fresh measures to protect wild animals, including phasing out the use of snares to catch foxes and rabbits.
Daily Mail | A ‘telepathy’ chip that allows people to control computers, televisions and light switches by the power of thought is being developed by British scientists.
The tiny sensor would sit on the surface of the brain, picking up the electrical activity of nerve cells and passing the signal wirelessly to a receiver on the skull.
The signal would then be used to control a cursor on a computer screen, operate electronic gadgets or steer an electric wheelchair.
Think about it: Dr Jon Spratley's chip allows people to control computers, televisions and light switches by the power of thought
The chip is the brainchild of Dr Jon Spratley, 28, from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, who developed a prototype during his PhD at Birmingham University.
'We are just trying to help people with severe communication problems or motor neurone disease - like Dr Stephen Hawking or Christopher Reeve,' he said.
'What we have designed would allow them to control a computer with their thoughts. If they imagine their muscles moving, that could flick a light switch for example.
'It's an area that is being heavily researched in America but so far all the tests have involved wired sensors. This prototype uses wireless technology to remove the risk of infection and that's the real drive of our work.
'The eventual aim would be to see these systems fully working so they are available to help patients communicate. That's the future.'
Breakthrough: The 'telepathy' chip could help quadriplegics such as Dr Stephen Hawking - and could have given the late Christopher Reeve (right) muscle control
The 1.3mm 'multi-contact brain probe' has yet to be tested on a living person or animal. However, tests on brain slices in a laboratory have been promising.
Earlier this year, Japanese researchers unveiled a wheelchair powered by brainwaves. The user wears a cap fitted with electrodes that monitor brain activity.
Scientists have also developed a robotic arm controlled by thought. In tests, monkeys were able to feed themselves using the mechanical limb.
Dr Spratley's invention is a tiny sensor designed to be injected by needle into the brain. The chip has 50 'contact spikes' that connect to nerve cells in the brain.
As the needle is withdrawn, four coil antennae - each just 1mm across - are unfurled on the surface of the brain. These communicate wirelessly with a 'base station' - a 16mm diameter receiver that is permanently placed in the hole left by the needle.
The device picks up neural signals from the brain's motor cortex and transmits the impulses via the base station to a receiver connected to a computer.
Dr Spratley said just seven unique 'thought commands' are needed to provide mouse-like controls for a computer.
He believes implanting the chips will require minimal invasive surgery - yet could change the life of a quadriplegic or motor neurone disease sufferer.
'It began as an investigation into what signals paralysed people can generate,' he said.
'If they can imagine using a limb, even if they can't move it, you can tap into that signal.
'Then you just have to imagine moving the muscle and the leg will move, the brain will train itself.
'Stephen Hawking could just think about using his muscles to operate his machine, rather than have to move his cheek.
'And yes, it would have worked for Christopher Reeve. Muscle control comes back.
'My work was only ever going to be the tip of the iceberg and I hope eventually it will help people. I am glad they are taking it forward.'
Previous chips have relied on cables and wires to send brain signals from a sensor to a controller outside the body.
Dr Spratley, who now works for Cambridgeshire-based company 42 Technology, says the wireless chip is safer.
He is now looking for funding to start human trials.
Reuters | International Business Machines Corp is looking to the building blocks of our bodies -- DNA -- to be the structure of next-generation microchips.
As chipmakers compete to develop ever-smaller chips at cheaper prices, designers are struggling to cut costs.
Artificial DNA nanostructures, or "DNA origami" may provide a cheap framework on which to build tiny microchips, according to a paper published on Sunday in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
Microchips are used in computers, cell phones and other electronic devices.
"This is the first demonstration of using biological molecules to help with processing in the semiconductor industry," IBM research manager Spike Narayan said in an interview with Reuters.
"Basically, this is telling us that biological structures like DNA actually offer some very reproducible, repetitive kinds of patterns that we can actually leverage in semiconductor processes," he said.
The research was a joint undertaking by scientists at IBM's Almaden Research Center and the California Institute of Technology.
Right now, the tinier the chip, the more expensive the equipment. Narayan said that if the DNA origami process scales to production-level, manufacturers could trade hundreds of millions of dollars in complex tools for less than a million dollars of polymers, DNA solutions, and heating implements.
"The savings across many fronts could add up significantly," he said.
But the new processes are at least 10 years out. Narayan said that while the DNA origami could allow chipmakers to build frameworks that are far smaller than possible with conventional tools, the technique still needs years of experimentation and testing.
Global Research | Miniature robots could be good spies, but researchers now are experimenting with insect cyborgs or "cybugs" that could work even better.
The military and spy world no doubt would love tiny, live camera-wielding versions of Predator drones that could fly undetected into places where no human could ever go to snoop on the enemy. Developing such robots has proven a challenge so far, with one major hurdle being inventing an energy source for the droids that is both low weight and high power. Still, evidence that such machines are possible is ample in nature in the form of insects, which convert biological energy into flight.
It makes sense to pattern robots after insects - after all, they must be doing something right, seeing as they are the most successful animals on the planet, comprising roughly 75 percent of all animal species known to humanity. Indeed, scientists have patterned robots after insects and other animals for decades - to mimic cockroach wall-crawling, for instance, or the grasshopper's leap.
Mechanical metamorphosis
Instead of attempting to create sophisticated robots that imitate the complexity in the insect form that required millions of years of evolution to achieve, scientists now essentially want to hijack bugs for use as robots.
Originally researchers sought to control insects by gluing machinery onto their backs, but such links were not always reliable. To overcome this hurdle, the Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (HI-MEMS) program is sponsoring research into surgically implanting microchips straight into insects as they grow, intertwining their nerves and muscles with circuitry that can then steer the critters. As expensive as these devices might be to manufacture and embed in the bugs, they could still prove cheaper than building miniature robots from scratch.
As these cyborgs heal from their surgery while they naturally metamorphose from one developmental stage to the next - for instance, from caterpillar to butterfly - the result would yield a more reliable connection between the devices and the insects, the thinking goes. The fact that insects are immobile during some of these stages - for instance, when they are metamorphosing in cocoons - means they can be manipulated far more easily than if they were actively wriggling, meaning that devices could be implanted with assembly-line routine, significantly lowering costs.
The HI-MEMS program at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has to date invested $12 million into research since it began in 2006. It currently supports these cybug projects:
* Roaches at Texas A&M.
* Horned beetles at University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley.
* Moths at an MIT-led team, and another moth project at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research.
Success with moths
So far researchers have successfully embedded MEMS into developing insects, and living adult insects have emerged with the embedded systems intact, a DARPA spokesperson told LiveScience. Researchers have also demonstrated that such devices can indeed control the flight of moths, albeit when they are tethered.
To power the devices, instead of relying on batteries, the hope is to convert the heat and mechanical energy the insect generates as it moves into electricity. The insects themselves could be optimized to generate electricity.
When the researchers can properly control the insects using the embedded devices, the cybugs might then enter the field, equipped with cameras, microphones and other sensors to help them spy on targets or sniff out explosives. Although insects do not always live very long in the wild, the cyborgs' lives could be prolonged by attaching devices that feed them.
The scientists are now working toward controlled, untethered flight, with the final goal being delivering the insect within 15 feet (5 m) of a specific target located 300 feet (100 meters) away, using electronic remote control by radio or GPS or both, standing still on arrival.
Although flying insects such as moths and dragonflies are of great interest, hopping and swimming insects could also be useful, too, DARPA noted. It's conceivable that eventually a swarm of cybugs could converge on targets by land, sea and air.
In one of his last interviews, the late Aaron Russo speaks to Alex Jones after learning from Nick Rockefeller that the private banking industry plans to implant everyone with microchips for the purpose of total population control. Russo also talks about hearing plans to invade Afghanistan and Iraq for oil 11 months before 911, and how the war on terror is perpetuated as a fraud.
JustGetThere | In a seemingly innocuous manner, Yahoo Techis promoting the human microchipping agenda of the elite, by rehashing an almost five year old story of a Barcelona nightclub offering RFID chipping for VIP access.
The writer makes it seem like a fun interesting new fad for the tech driven cyber-youth, who have been scientifically manipulated to voluntarily plug themselves into the tracking, tracing, cashless society matrix, erected for consolidated control over an unsuspecting population.
The article presents the idea of human chipping for a nightclub, as if it's the next logical step for tech consumers seeking the latest in ultimate convenience.
Below is an excerpt:
"the Baja Beach Club, is using the implants to free customers of the burdens of having to carry their purses or wallets. Makes sense: When you're spending the day in a bikini and flip-flops, where do you keep your ID? Instead, the bouncer just scans your arm with an RFID reader, and you're in. And since you can't carry a credit card or cash either, the implants do double duty."
With this logic, I guess all the patrons either live in walking distance of the club, or hitchhike since they can't carry keys.
The tech writer had previously covered the story of RFID implants in 2006, presenting the subject with a more balanced approach, pointing out health and privacy concerns. He also seemed to have no clue that human chipping had already took place years before his blog entry. With foreknowledge of the subject, it's curious that this old news item would be written about, instead of more recent accounts of the alarming negative capabilities of human microchipping.
This seems to be classic Edward Bernays' style marketing, used to introduce the idea of being chipped as the next social fad for the hipsters. Subtly implanting images of girls needing this device because they are half naked, and being a VIP at a nightclub, seems to be the preferred marketing script used to introduce the human microchipping agenda to the public.
Bernays' succinctly explains the molding of the publics mind in this quote:
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized."
- Edward Bernays
There is absolutely no reason to rehash this story, especially since he hasn't introduced anything we didn't know four plus years ago. With the subject being promoted during the summer, it introduces the idea in a contextual manner that relates to the reader. Readers can easily envision themselves at beaches, leisurely making purchases carrying nothing but a tan. Communicating the idea of human chipping through the use of positive imagery, is an effective method that allows the reader to imagine daily use of this technology.
The move towards a cashless society has been steadily advancing over the last decade with several milestones, like the first Internet only virtual banks. The European Visa chief stated in 2007 that "the cashless society will arrive by 2012", warning that, "retailers could soon start surcharging customers if they choose to buy products with cash, because of the greater cost of processing these payments."
The plan for a cashless society seems to be on schedule as a solution to the current global financial crisis, Japan has pitched the idea of abolishing cash to fight deflation. Japan's nominal rate of interest has been at zero interest for the last decade. The theory is that a -4 nominal rate of interest would be needed, and could only be achieved through the abolishment of cash. Richard Jerram, a senior banking economist states, “the proposal has become practical with the broad penetration of electronic money and credit cards in Japan”.
He also correctly points out the potential for absolute financial power, and unnatural numerical manipulation of interest markets by central bankers.
Without physical cash, a central bank can set rates exactly where it likes, runs the argument. Mr Jerram said: “At the heart of the problem of achieving negative nominal interest rates is the idea that physical currency is an anonymous bearer bond with a nominal interest rate of zero.” While a central bank can impose positive or negative rates on non-physical assets, transmitting those rates to physical currency is a huge challenge. By permanently removing cash from a system, he added, policymakers are robbed of the excuse that zero is the lowest that nominal rates can go as a deflation-fighting tool.
The elite banking cabal has been striving for the ultimate cashless system that can only be accessed by microchips in your body. This nightmarish, digital panopticon singularity, will allow for absolute control, unlimited profit, and oversight of all transactions, with ability to adjust your taxing rate on the fly, based on your actions or purchases. The all knowing, inescapable, tyrannical manifestation ruled by the elite banking oligarchy, will dictate world commerce through the power of invisible credits, created by digital ones and zeros.
Hollywood director and documentary filmmaker, Aaron Russo, who lost his battle with cancer in 2007, revealed knowledge of such a plan. He learned of this through personal conversations with Nick Rockefeller.
"I used to say to him what's the point of all this," states Russo, "you have all the money in the world you need, you have all the power you need, what's the point, what's the end goal?" Rockefeller replied (paraphrasing), "The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world."
Complete control of the economic and social systems is one thing, but recently an even more nefarious use arose, the ability to remotely cause death via a release of Cyanide. Recently, a Saudi Arabian inventor applied for a patent in Germany for the 'Killer Chip'. The technology also has the ability to relay the geographical location of the chipped high tech slave through encrypted radio waves transmitted to satellites. Although this patent was rejected in Germany, normally inventors apply in several countries so it could still become a reality.
The ability to kill you overtly with a patented cyanide pill may have been rejected, but patents exist that allow for the delivery of drugs through a preprogrammed microprocessor, remote control, or by biosensors. So in the foreseeable future, various functions of commerce, surveillance, identification, and medical uses could be consolidated into one implantable device, an iChip.
Incrementally, society is being primmed for the for an inescapable cashless control grid, that can track your location, administer drugs and potentially exterminate you remotely. The technology capabilities are here, the managing infrastructure is being built and the deceptive PR push for public acceptance, is what we face now. Constant articles about the RFID implants for VIP clubbing, further introduces the idea of human chipping as convenient, safe, and the next hot tech trend. Without mentioning of any of the concerns listed above, or the various documented cases of chips causing malignant tumors and cancer in laboratory rodents and dogs. The Yahoo article even starts out by saying, "It works for Fido, so why not you?" Well, it may have worked for Fido, but it didn't work for Charlie Brown, a purebred Chihuahua. Recently, a dog bled to death in the arms of his distraught owners, after a legislated mandatory microchip procedure in Los Angeles.
The deceptive PR campaign of calmly introducing human RFID chipping through the mainstream press as a convenient tool for the tech savvy social elite, is a false reality that we must reject wholeheartedly as sovereign members of a free society.
This is part 2 of the presentation, skipping the introductory material.
May 2006, before a gripped audience of over 2000 people at London's famous Brixton Academy, David Icke pulled together over fifteen years of painstaking research and determined investigation into The Global Elite, The Shadow Government, The Global Conspiracy and the monumentous "sting" perpetrated on a cosmically and spiritually asleep human race. He reveals who, how and more importantly why we are controlled, manipulated and trapped in the five sense illusion of "reality" that we manifest as our everyday experience.
Discover:
* Who controls us and their history
* How they do it without being seen
* Why they do it and what they take from us
* How much worse they intend to make it
* How to break free from their control
For the first time David Icke's amazing research is combined and presented in a coherent, logical and factual way. Hundreds of illustrations show the hidden story behind seemingly unconnected world events. Events that cause a manufactured and predictable "reaction" that allow a fascist world-wide dictatorship to impose even more control on an unaware dumbed-down population.
Mail Online | Microchips in pills could soon allow doctors to find out whether a patient has taken their medication.
The digestible sensors, just 1mm wide, would mean GPs and surgeons could monitor patients outside the hospital or surgery.
Developers say the technology could be particularly useful for psychiatric or elderly patients who rely on a complicated regime of drugs – and are at risk if they miss a dose or take it at the wrong time.
It could also be used for the chronically ill, such as people with heart disease, to establish whether costly drugs are working or whether they are causing potentially dangerous side effects.
The sensors could even remind women to take the Pill if they forget.
The ‘intelligent’ medicine works by activating a harmless electric charge when drugs are digested by the stomach.
This charge is picked up by a sensing patch on the patients’ stomach or back, which records the time and date that the pill is digested. It also measures heart rate, motion and breathing patterns.
The information is transmitted to a patient’s mobile phone and then to the internet using wireless technology, to give a complete picture of their health and the impact of their drugs.
Doctors and carers can view this information on secure web pages or have the information sent to their mobile phones.
The silicon microchips are invisible to patients and can be added to any standard drug during the manufacturing process.
Two major drugs companies are investigating the technology, developed by US-based Proteus Biomedical. Trials are to begin in the UK within 12 months.
Professor Nick Peters, a cardiologist at Imperial College London, who is co-ordinating
trials, said the technology was ‘transformative’.
‘This is all about empowering patients and their families because it measures wellness, and people can actually be tracked getting better,’ he said.
‘Psychologically speaking, that’s hugely helpful for patients and enormously reassuring for carers.
‘Normally patients would have to be in hospital to get this level of feedback, so the hope is that it frees up beds and saves the NHS money.’
Determined to find the law that requires American citizens to pay income tax, producer Aaron Russo ("The Rose," "Trading Places") set out on a journey to find the evidence. This film which is neither left, nor right-wing is a startling examination of government. It exposes the systematic erosion of civil liberties in America since 1913 when the Federal Reserve system was fraudulently created.
London Telegraph | The chip works by sending tiny shocks from implanted electrodes in the brain.
The technology has been used in the United States to treat Parkinson's disease.
But in recent months scientists have been focusing on the area of the brain just behind the eyes known as the orbitofrontal cortex - this is associated with feelings of pleasure derived from eating and sex.
A research survey conducted by Morten Kringelbach, senior fellow at Oxford University's department of psychiatry, found the orbitofrontal cortex could be a "new stimulation target" to help people suffering from anhedonia, an inability to experience pleasure from such activities. His findings are reported in the Nature Reviews Neuroscience journal.
Neurosurgery professor Tipu Aziz, said: "There is evidence that this chip will work. A few years ago a scientist implanted such a device into the brain of a woman with a low sex drive and turned her into a very sexually active woman. She didn't like the sudden change, so the wiring in her head was removed."
He added however that the current technology, which requires surgery to connect a wire from a heart pacemaker into the brain, can cause bleeding and is "intrusive and crude".
He continued: "When the technology is improved, we can use deep brain stimulation in many new areas. It will be more subtle, with more control over the power so you may be able to turn the chip on and off when needed.
"In 10 years' time the range of therapies available will be amazing – we don't know half the possibilities yet."
An electronic machine, named the Orgasmatron, taken from the 1973 Woody Allen film Sleeper, is already under development by a North Carolina doctor, who is modifying a spinal cord stimulator to produce pleasure in women.
In Medicine, you have artificial heart devices, or people that have some sort of chips in their bodies, to be able to keep track of vital signs. So, it doesn't have to be a scary thing, but you could put a sensor here (points to his arm). You know, a bit like in The Matrix.
SEGA developer Yu Suzuki
Kotaku | Venerated SEGA developer Yu Suzuki (Hang-On, Virtua Cop) changed the way people played. His titles have been revolutionary regarding how players interact with arcade games and arcade game cabinets. But Suzuki thinks there's more than can be done. Like?
Like arcade game players getting chipped — as in getting some sort of motion controlled implant. While interviewing Suzuki for Arcade Mania, he told us about his interest in new ways of interacting with games:
In Medicine, you have artificial heart devices, or people that have some sort of chips in their bodies, to be able to keep track of vital signs. So, it doesn't have to be a scary thing, but you could put a sensor here (points to his arm). You know, a bit like in The Matrix.
It's not really something only in the future, some people already have them, chips in their bodies. If for some that would be a bit too scary, then you could also do something more simple, like using wristbands or a pendant. So using devices like these for sensing would be good I think. I think that for arcades games I want something that's a bit futuristic.
In Arcade Mania, he also talks about things like the possibility of using cell phones to control arcade games and what "realism" means in arcade cabinet design. In an industry where so many of the pioneering game creators have moved on or have become complacent, Suzuki still seems fresh with innovative ideas for Japanese arcades.
Associated Press | Lawmakers in Indonesia's remote province of Papua have thrown their support behind a controversial bill requiring some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with microchips -- part of extreme efforts to monitor the disease.
Local health workers and AIDS activists called the plan ''abhorrent.''
''People with AIDS aren't animals; we have to respect their rights,'' said Tahi Ganyang Butarbutar, a prominent Papuan activist.
But legislator John Manangsang said by implanting small computer chips beneath the skin of ''sexually aggressive'' patients, authorities would be in a better position to identify, track and ultimately punish those who deliberately infect others with up to six months in jail or a $5,000 fine.
The technical and practical details still need to be hammered out, but if the proposed legislation gets a majority vote as expected, it will be enacted next month, he and others said.
Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous country and has one of Asia's fastest growing HIV rates, with up to 290,000 infections out of 235 million people, fueled mainly by intravenous drug users and prostitution.
But Papua, the country's easternmost and poorest province with a population of about 2 million, has been hardest hit. Its case rate of almost 61 per 100,000 is 15 times the national average, according to internationally funded research, which blames lack of knowledge about sexually transmitted diseases.
''The health situation is extraordinary, so we have to take extraordinary action,'' said another lawmaker, Weynand Watari, who envisions radio frequency identification tags like those used to track everything from cattle to luggage.
A committee would be created to decide who should be fitted with chips and to monitor patients' behavior, but it remains unclear who would be on it and how they would carry out their work, lawmakers said Monday.
Since the plan was initially proposed, the government has narrowed its scope, saying the chips would only be implanted in those who are ''sexually aggressive,'' but it has not said how it would determine who fits that group. It also was not clear how many people it might include.
Nancy Fee, the UNAIDS country coordinator, said the global body was not aware of any laws or initiatives elsewhere involving HIV/AIDS patients and microchips.
Though she has yet to see a copy of the bill, she said she had ''grave concerns'' about the effect it would have on human rights and public health.
''No one should be subject to unlawful or unnecessary interference of privacy,'' Fee said, adding that while other countries have been known to be oppressive in trying to tackle AIDS, such policies don't work.
They make people afraid and push the problem further underground, she said.
Tahi Ganyang, the Papuan activist, said the best way to tackle the epidemic was through increased spending on sexual education and condom use.
State Rep. Babette Josephs, D-Phila., has introduced legislation that would make it illegal to implant any identification device on or under a person’s skin that would contain and transmit personal information.
By Harold Gray
RFID chart sourced from CNET
Just Get There | The thought of any government or corporation forcing humans to take implantable RFID chips, sounds like an Orwellian sci-fi movie. In reality, it is in fact happening in this post 9/11, brave new world of trading liberty for security.
Verichip Corp. states on their website, "the need of implantable chips arose from the events of September 11th, when New York firemen were writing their badge ID numbers on their chests in case they were found injured or unconscious." The day after 9/11 is used as an excuse for dismantling many of our Constitutional liberties through legislation, and social engineering the public to accept it through the use of media propaganda.
The news of voluntary implantable RFID chips has been reported in several positive media campaigns, specifically directed to calm the public, and incrementally sell them on the idea of safety, especially in cases of kidnapping or mental ills such as Alzheimer's disease. Other campaigns focused on the chips being a new "fashion trend", by using them for VIP access in hot night clubs. In contrast, the mainstream media has historically glossed over the forced implementation of implantable chips by corporations, government entities or military personnel.
Overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, the FDA approved human RFID implants in January of 2005. During the time of VeriChip's approval, DHHS was headed by Tommy Thompson. Just two weeks after the device's approval, Thompson left the DHHS, and within five months, became a board member of VeriChip Corp. and Applied Digital Solutions, receiving compensation with cash and stock options. He proceeded to go on a national media campaign, suggesting every American should be implanted with VeriMed chips for access to personal medical data, even saying he would have it implanted himself.
In 2006, the first example of using implantable RFID chips to identify a person, occurred in a US company in Ohio called City-Watcher. Three workers, including the CEO and founder, Sean Darks, had the chips embedded under the skin of their forearms, which they swipe across a reader in order to gain access to the company's data center. The company provides surveillance cameras and Internet monitoring for police departments in high-crime areas for a number of cities. Darks goal was to control employee access to areas in which data, and images are stored for use by city police departments.
Privacy advocate Katherine Albrecht, who co-authored the book "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID.", responded to the news by saying "the fear is that the government or your employer might someday say, 'Take a chip or starve."' The same sentiment was echoed by several other civil libertarians, Christian conservatives and members of the ACLU.
The Pentagon has expressed interest in microchipping soldiers in order to access medical data for battlefield injuries and casualties. A $1.6 million dollar contract was awarded to Clemson University's, Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips; the University of Alabama at Birmingham; and Telesensors Inc., of Knoxville, Tenn. Researchers from Clemson state they are now 4 years away from human trials which would include a new gel specially created to minimize rejection from the human body.
The idea of privacy is just one cause of concern for RFID implants, dating back to the mid 90's, research studies showed the implants induced cancer malignant tumors in some lab mice and rats. Keith Johnson, retired toxicology pathologist from Dow Chemical, stated in an interview with the AP that his findings proved "The transponders were the cause of the tumors."
The negative news swirling around cancer links with their implantable chips, led to a steep dive in their stock price in 2008. This resulted in Scott R. Silverman stepping down as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in July of 2008. For thirteen years he held top positions at the parent company Applied Digital Solutions, and it's various subsidiaries. In conjunction with his departure, VeriChip sold it's Canadian subsidiary, Xmark, to Stanley Canada Company for $47.9 million. Xmark is comprised of RFID-based products designed to help track infants in hospitals, as well as other patients and physical assets within the medical community.
VeriChip did not benefit financially from the sale of Xmark or it's HealthLink direct-to-consumer marketed chips. Thus, shares plunged from it's 52 week high of $4.19 to as low as 30 cents a share, now currently hovering around 40 cents a share. These massive financial losses have crippled the once feared harbinger of the "Mark of the Beast".
Taking advantage of the current financial position of VeriChip, a watchdog group of privacy advocates, are working towards forcing VeriChip into bankruptcy by exposing the privacy and health concerns surrounding the implants. Mark Dice, spokesperson for The Resistance, a privacy watchdog group based in San Diego stated “These chips were first used for identifying pets and livestock, and now they’re being pushed onto the public as a safety device in this age of terrorism and fear.” “We are human beings, not animals or pieces of inventory, and we urge everyone to resist such technology.”
During the Senate confirmation of Supreme Court Justice John Roberts, Vice-Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, brings up the issue of tracking humans with forced implantable chips.
Even more disturbing, is the evidence some researchers have uncovered, revealing a master plan by elite bankers, to forcibly microchip the population in order to gain ultimate control of society. The chip would be used as a monetary device for all transactions, and could be easily tracked, traced and regulated. Hollywood director and documentary filmmaker, Aaron Russo, who lost his battle with cancer in 2007, revealed knowledge of such a plan. He learned of this through personal conversations with Nick Rockefeller.
In one conversation Russo said, "I used to say to him what's the point of all this," states Russo, "you have all the money in the world you need, you have all the power you need, what's the point, what's the end goal?" Rockefeller replied (paraphrasing), "The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world."
The video below is an excerpt from an interview with Russo by Alex Jones.
Many states have taken action to prevent the possibility of force chip implants with legislation. On Jan 1, 2008, California joined Wisconsin and Nebraska with laws preventing chipping without consent. The latest state bill banning forced chipping was introduced in Pennsylvania by D-Rep. Babette Josephs.
In her press release Josephs states:
"Maintaining our personal and our family’s privacy is becoming increasingly difficult," Josephs said. 'Any positive impact that an implanted device could have would be eclipsed by the potential damage that could be done if the information was accessed by an outside party not intended to have the information. Moreover some of this information should not be collected by government either. "Government organizations, independent researchers, members of the technology industry and civil liberties watchdog groups have all expressed concern about the personal security threat posed by such an action."
In the past, such talk of humans being microchipped voluntarily or forcibly, was ridiculed by many as "tin foil hat" conspiracy. It is now a reality, incrementally being directed at security sensitive jobs, or accessing patient information in the medical field. The introduction of legislation by states, and increased public awareness of the wide range of concerns surrounding human implants, should curtail the push for such devices that can do significant harm under the pretense of doing good.
HARRISBURG, Sept. 22 – State Rep. Babette Josephs, D-Phila., has introduced legislation that would make it illegal to implant any identification device on or under a person’s skin that would contain and transmit personal information. The bill (H.B. 2374) also specifies penalties for violations of the measure.
Josephs said the risks to privacy that could occur as a result of such a device on any human, regardless of age or condition, would outweigh any possible benefit that could be derived. She also added that some medical experts believe such devices may contribute to causes of cancer.
"Maintaining our personal and our family’s privacy is becoming increasingly difficult," Josephs said. 'Any positive impact that an implanted device could have would be eclipsed by the potential damage that could be done if the information was accessed by an outside party not intended to have the information. Moreover some of this information should not be collected by government either.
"Government organizations, independent researchers, members of the technology industry and civil liberties watchdog groups have all expressed concern about the personal security threat posed by such an action."
Josephs said that implanting identification devices is part of a larger issue with the increasing number of technologies that can identify a person's personal information or location, including GPS, cell-site location and public surveillance.
In the legislation, personal information would include name; address; contact information, including phone number and e-mail; date of birth; driver’s license; Social Security or state identification number; religion; ethnicity; fingerprint or any other unique identifier.
A person found in violation would be subject to a civil penalty of up to $10,000, dependent on how long it takes the offense to be corrected. The person who had the implantation would also be able to bring a civil action against the guilty person for actual damages.
The bill was voted out of the House State Government Committee unanimously on Monday without amendment and now moves to the full House for consideration.
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