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   SpyChips: Are We Marked To Be Marketed To Or Become "Beasts" Of   
   Purchasing or Government Controls, or Worse?  Used Against Your Family,   
   Your Children?   
      
   "My goal as a Christian is to sound the alarm", to all those who love   
   God and respect His guidance and revelations, says Katherine Albrecht.   
      
   http://SpyChips-MarkOfBeast.researcher.at   
   http://SpyChipsWatchingYouRFID.reads.it   
   Radio frequency identification (RFID) can now be used almost anywhere:   
   they're embedded inside products, pets and people.  New book exposes   
   how marketers and governments alike are drooling lasciviously at a   
   not-too-distant Orwellian future where everything is monitored,   
   metered, tallied and tracked.   "Revelations confirmed?"  That future   
   is here NOW!   
      
   With RFID tags inside every item in your life, it would be possible to   
   know just about everything about you. Already your every move locally,   
   across town and around the world can be monitored if you are carrying a   
   cell phone, battery engaged.   Where you walk or drive, what you do,   
   where you shop, what you buy, how long you keep it, etc.  Marketers are   
   just drooling over this possibility, as are nefarious government   
   agencies and the bureaucrats running them who insist that your life,   
   private and intimate, is their domain.   
      
   Remember those nifty scenes in that otherwise terrible film, "Minority   
   Report," where the advertising messages are broadcast directly at   
   passersby based on the codes that are implanted inside people and/or   
   their clothing?  Not science fiction.  It's fact.  We can do it right   
   now.  All it requires is the will, the funding, and the lack of laws to   
   prevent it.   
      
   There is also the possibility of hackers obtaining, manipulating and   
   illegally using the data.  A recent article in Consumer Reports   
   magazine gives some details of research into RFID hacking conducted by   
   members of Johns Hopkins University and the Weizmann Institute of   
   Science.  Their view: the data is at risk.   
      
   Among the most vocal opponents of RFID technology are Katherine   
   Albrecht and Liz McIntyre, authors of an influential book  "Spychips:   
   How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move   
   with RFID", a compelling compendium of evidence that corporations and   
   government are determined, planning and have in place the capabilities   
   to monitor you in every realm of your life, even when, and how long you   
   sleep.  Albrecht founded CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy   
   Invasion and Numbering) and they also run www.spychips.com to present   
   news about their cause.   
      
   http://SpyChips-MarkOfBeast.researcher.at   
   http://SpyChipsWatchingYouRFID.reads.it   
      
   Press Release in brief:   
      
   CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- Katherine Albrecht is on a mission from   
   God.   
      
   The influential consumer advocate has written a new book warning her   
   fellow Christians that radio frequency identification may evolve to   
   become the " mark of the beast" -- meaning the technology is a sign   
   that the end-times are drawing near.   
      
   "My goal as a Christian is to sound the alarm," said Albrecht, in a   
   conversation over tea at a high-end grocery store.   
      
   Albrecht has been a leading opponent of RFID, which is fast becoming a   
   part of passports and payment cards, [is already an essential part of   
   most grocery and department stores' "customer cards" monitoring and   
   demographing your life through your purchases and every move you make   
   within the store integrating both invisible electronics and video], and   
   is widely expected to replace bar-code labels on consumer goods.  RFID   
   chips contain unique identification codes, and can be read at varying   
   distances with special reader devices.   
                   http://SpyChips-MarkOfBeast.researcher.at   
   Albrecht hopes her new book, The Spychips Threat: Why Christians Should   
   Resist RFID and Electronic Surveillance, will be embraced by the   
   millions of Americans (59 percent of them, according to a 2002 Time/CNN   
   poll) who share her belief that the Book of Revelation in the Bible   
   forecasts events that are yet to come.   
      
   The Spychips Threat is in fact a Christianized version of its secular   
   predecessor, Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to   
   Track Your Every Move with RFID, which came out last fall.   
               http://SpyChipsWatchingYouRFID.reads.it   
   Both books are published by the Christian publishing powerhouse Thomas   
   Nelson.  Both lay out the same totalitarian scenarios, based on   
   documented plans by Philips, Procter and Gamble, Wal-Mart and other   
   companies, along with the federal government, to track consumer goods   
   and people individually [throughout their daily personal lives].   
   Albrecht and co-author Liz McIntyre have written an introduction that   
   says that RFID chips, particularly the VeriChip subcutaneous implant   
   designed for humans, bear an uncanny resemblance to "the mark"   
   described in the Bible's Book of Revelation.   
      
   If the VeriChip becomes a common payment device similar to the   
   "contactless" payment system in the Exxon Mobil Speedpass, all who wish   
   to buy and sell goods will be compelled "to receive a mark on their   
   right hand or on their foreheads," as it says in Revelation, the   
   Spychips Threat authors contend.   
      
   Another passage in Revelation describes a vision in which "a foul and   
   loathsome sore came upon the [people] who had the mark of the beast and   
   those who worshiped [its] image."  Albrecht and McIntyre write,   
   "Interestingly, an implanted RFID device like the VeriChip could   
   potentially cause such a tormenting sore if it is subjected to a strong   
   source of electromagnetic radiation," such as a directed energy weapon.   
      
   Albrecht does not believe those who said bar code labels and Social   
   Security numbers were "the mark of the beast" were completely wrong.   
   Rather, those technologies were precursors to RFID, and steps toward   
   totalitarianism, she said.  "All of these technologies are of concern,"   
   said Albrecht.  "I'd like to think I'd be speaking out against them,   
   too, if I was around at the time they were introduced."   
      
   Albrecht's entry into the Christian book marketplace has not   
   marginalized her voice in the media or with the RFID industry. Albrecht   
   and her Spychips co-author, Liz McIntyre, have made appearances on   
   ABC-TV, The Osgood Files on the CBS Radio Network, and on the late   
   night radio program, Coast to Coast AM.  McIntyre was also quoted in a   
   Financial Times article.   
      
      
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