A smart power grid--designed to save millions but it also sees everything you do all day long in your own home. What could possibly go wrong there? It's happening -- and your neighborhood could be next!
Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSXD), an advanced technology development company, today announced that Baja Beach Clubs International had employed the VeriPay System, developed by Applied Digital's
VeriChip Corporation, at a night club in Spain.
Launched at a global security conference in November, 2003, the VeriPay System is a new syringe-injectable microchip implant for humans, designed to be used as a fraud-proof payment method for cash and credit-card transactions. The chip implant is an advance over credit cards and smart cards, which, absent biometrics and appropriate safeguard technologies, are subject to theft, resulting in identity fraud.
"We are the only company today offering human implantable ID technology," said Scott R. Silverman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Digital Solutions. "We believe the market opportunity for this technology is substantial, and high-profile successes such as in Spain will serve as catalysts for broader adoption."
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When I read the headline to Jerome Corsi's story, "Economic meltdown excuse for 'new world'" at WorldNetDaily yesterday, my first thought was, "What took them so long?" That thought was immediately followed by the realization that the timing is just about perfect. Corsi zeroed in on comments by Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland – specifically, Schwab's comment that the global economic crisis was a "transformational crisis" useful in reshaping a "new world." One of the scarier quotes in his piece was from a professor Nouriel Roubini who said the global banking system was "effectively insolvent," which, to my untrained ears, sounds a lot like "bankrupt." The last time this happened was in 1933, forcing the federal government to ban private ownership of gold so it could be confiscated and used to satisfy the government's creditors. That was the national bankruptcy that predicated the Great Depression, which allowed Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration to ram through the socialist "New Deal" policies that economic historians say made the Depression both longer and deeper than it needed to be. During the Depression, FDR had more or less unhindered ability to push through whatever socialist legislation he deemed necessary. People were in pain and were willing to accept almost anything the government proposed if it would make it stop. It was this same economic pain that convinced the Germans to go along with Adolf Hitler's madness during the 1930s. After more than a decade of economic depression, as long as Hitler's policies were keeping factories busy and the economy humming along, he was free to do whatever else he pleased. One of the first things I expect to see introduced as a consequence of this "transformational crisis" is the elimination of cash as a medium of exchange. This is a step that governments and banks have been trying to take for almost two decades without success. There are good and logical reasons for the elimination of cash. It will essentially wipe out the cash dependent drug trade. It will remove the incentive behind most petty crimes. Paper money is dirty, spreads diseases and it is expensive to print ![]() Electronic money addresses all of these issues in a single stroke. The difficulty rests in overcoming public resistance to the idea. But desperate times call for desperate measures, as the saying goes, and when the times get desperate enough, public resistance will evaporate like summer rain. The Book of the Revelation foretells the events that will take place during the final seven years of human government before the Second Coming of Christ. It records the judgments of what popular culture has come to call the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. One of these judgments is symbolized by the rider on the black horse: "When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, 'Come!' I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, 'A quart of wheat for a day's wages and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!" (Revelation 6:5-6 NIV) The symbols of wheat and barley are representative of a day's food and a denari was a day's wage for an average worker. The oil and the wine are symbolic of a wealthy man's food. So in that day, it will cost all of a workingman's wages to buy a day's food. However, the wealthy will be relatively unaffected during this judgment. This is a textbook description of a modern economic depression. During Revelation's predicted Tribulation period, the global system will be presided over by a single political authority in the person of the antichrist. The Apostle John forewarns that his control over the economy will be absolute: "He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name." (Revelation 13:16-17 NIV) This is one of the most famous prophecies of Scripture, especially today. Even in 1969, when I wrote in my book "The Late Great Planet Earth" about the Mark of the Beast and the numerical value of his name – 666 – it was difficult to understand just how such control over every individual on earth could be accomplished. However, it is only in the light of the exponential leap in today's technology that this crucial end-time prophecy can be fully comprehended. The one necessary element for which I have been looking for more than 50 years that would make this prophecy possible is now becoming clear. It was the mystery of just how the economies of the world would be forced under the central control of one small group. So now let us return to the enormous relevance of Klaus Schwab's above-mentioned comment that "the global economic crisis" is a "transformational crisis" useful in reshaping "a new world." If the present economic crisis continues to spiral downward into a world depression, as experts reluctantly admit will happen, it can indeed be the "transformational crisis" that forces the world to accept a totally centralized control of a cashless society. All that remains, then, is for the anointed leader the Bible calls the antichrist to step forward and take over. The Apostle John, under the inspiration of God's Spirit, predicted these things 2,000 years ago on the small island of Patmos. Now what seemed impossible for nearly 20 centuries is developing right before our eyes. It is important to remember that all of these predictions were linked with a series of events that lead to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. He is coming very soon. It is time for everyone to receive the gift of pardon He died to purchase for us. As Jesus promised, "Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son." (John 3:18 NIV) |
WARNING:
666 IS COMING!
By Terry Watkins
JUST HOW NEAR IS REVELATION 13?
"Omni magazine, June 1991, (p.59) made this surprising statement, "Cash and credit cards will soon be obsolete." "Information Week, Oct. 11, 1993, boldly trumpeted on its cover, The cashless society, It's in the Cards. The article dogmatically stated, (p.4) "Bet your bottom dollar: The United States is becoming a cashless society…" The fastest growing movement in the financial world is "smart cards". Smart cards, which resemble ordinary credit cards, contain tiny computer chips, capable of storing data such as bank accounts, medical information, etc. Already widely used in Japan and Europe, according to Information Week (p.4) "By next year, cards will be used to pay for health care and insurance to receive government benefits and to buy items in vending machines . . .Newsweek magazine July 31, 1989 (p. 54) said smart cards, "may make the old science fiction notion of a cashless society real."A pilot program is already being tested at the Marine Corp's Parris Island training base in South Carolina According to Newsweek "On payday, recruits receive smart cards rather than cash. When a marine makes a purchase on base, he plugs the card into a small terminal and the sum is automatically deducted from his pay." Newsweek says, "The base is infact a cashless economy -- even the telephones take smart cards."
The Birmingham News of August 24, 1993 (p.1B) report on smart cards said, "Before long, you'll use this electronic check to pay for groceries, gasoline taxes, stamps, fast food -- virtually any business where you now use checks or cash. " Robert McKinley, president of RAM Research Corp. says, "You've heard about the cashless society…. it may finally be on its way." Infosecurity News, Sept Oct 93 (p.27) writes, "An extraordinary effort is now underway to build an infrastructure for the wide scale use of smart cards in electronic data interchange, national healthcare systems, financial transaction systems and interactive home services . . ." Pilot programs, utilizing smart cards, are already being tested in Minnesota, New Jersey, Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Dayton, Ohio. And according to Lawrence Rudmann, USDA Director of Public Affairs, "It's only a matter of time before all federal programs are brought into compliance.. " US news and World Report, told of a frightening reason for smart cards. "To keep closer watch on individuals, engineers have devised a forgery proof National identity card - the smart card… "
President Clinton has repeatedly, on national television, held up before the American people -- the National Health Care Card. And for the very first time in history, every man, woman, and child will be numbered and required to carry a card. No exceptions! No excuses! everybody! In the book, Putting People First by President Clinton, outlining the Clinton agenda page 22, reads: "All Americans will carry 'smart cards'…" An article in Investor's Business Daily, (Nov.16, 93, p.1), titled "The Dark Side of Health Reform", stated. "Privacy rights advocates are also concerned that the health ID would end up being used by the government for far more than just determination of health benefits." PC Week magazine (May 9, 1994 p.1) had an article titled, "Postal Service, IRS developing national identity cards; Clinton may give OK" The article stated, "The Clinton administration is working on creating an identification card that every American will need to interact with any federal government… Sources close to the administration said President Clinton is also considering signing a pair of executive orders that would facilitate the connection of individual's bank accounts and federal records to a government identification card the Postal Service is prepared to put more than 100 million of the cards in citizens' pockets within months of administration approval, which could come at any time... " The major concern of the smart card is security. Credit card fraud costs $1 billion dollars a year! And if you think we've got problems with credit card fraud -- what do you think will happen when your "financial -healthcare -identification-everything-smart-card" is stolen! A side-article in InformationWeek (p.36), asks the" 10 million Dollar question." "What if a thief Swipes Your Card?". Infosecurity (p.28) also asks, "The standard question is: 'What happens if a user forgets his or her smart card?"
It's going to have to be -
PERMANENTLY ATTACHED TO THE INDIVIDUAL!
Automatic I.D. News, March 1992 (p.E40), says, "Automatic Identification plays an important role in the emerging cashless society. " Automatic I.D. News, Sept. 1990 (p.37), says, "The fastest-growing segment in the access control market, . . . is biometric sensors. These devices identify people by fingerprints, retina patterns and other body based methods ... " Already in Spain dogs and cats, are required by law, to have microchip implants injected into their skin. The system is also used in the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Great Britain, Belgium, Ireland, New York City and California. And, to stop baby swapping, kidnapping-- it is being considered for use in identifying children! In 1991, while America's attention was absorbed in the Gulf War Crisis, the House "silently" passed a little known bill, called The Federal Telecommunication System 2000 (FTS 2000). At a cost of $25 billion, it is the single largest money appropriation in U.S. history. FTS 2000 requires by law, all computer and phone lines, connected via high-tech computer network. According to a published study of FTS 2000, by Craig Hulet, of KC & Associates, "The system is quite real:there is no question that once it is in place, one will 'neither buy nor sell' without being very much a part of the system. " Revelation 13:17! What do you think President Clinton was referring to in his State of the Union address, on January 25, 1994, when he said. ". . . we must also work with the private sector to connect every classroom every clinic, every library, every hospital in America into a national information superhighway by the year 2000." How serious are they? In the book, Creating a Government that Works Better & Costs Less by Vice President Al Gore. Vice President Gore. (p.114), calls for ". . . the rapid development of a nation wide system to deliver government benefits Electronically. . . develop an implementation plan for electronic benefits transfer by March 1994." According to Gore, the process is well under way (p.114), "There are test sites in Iowa, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wyoming." In 1974 a strange, new mark began appearing on products. Until today, virtually every product is now marked with that familiar UPC barcode. And there are three embedded numbers on every UPC bar-code.
What are the three hidden numbers?
All of the marks, of bars are associated with numbers at the bottom, except the marks at the first, middle, and end. Notice the marks for the number "6" are "||". And these marks are the same marks at the first, in the middle and at the end!
Here's the other numbers removed.
The number "666" is hidden in every UPC bar code!
Something else mysterious has appeared. In the last few years, some UPC codes have appeared with additional boxes underneath the bar code. Beside the boxes are 2 letters - the letter F and the letter H!
Bar codes, such as these, have already appeared in some Midwestern stores. According to researchers: the F - is for FOREHEAD, and the H - is for HAND! And according to researchers, the purchaser must have a mark in their right hand or forehead before purchasing! One party moving rapidly in bar-code identification is the Federal Government. Automatic I.D. News, April 1991. says, (p.46) "Everything that is being used in the military system has been - or will be-marked with a bar code… even down to individual soldiers - everyone gets a bar-code." At least 15 high schools in New York City are participating in a pilot program using bar-coded identification and scanners to "keep careful tabs on the students"
Esquire magazine of March 1990, (p.89) asked the obvious question, ". . .will we all be tagged in the end?" In 1935, the Social Security program was enacted as a simple retirement system to be funded by payroll contributions. But in 1974, the Senate Finance Committee voted to issue a Social Security card to every child entering the first grade. Time magazine of March 13, 1972, commenting on the action said, (p.16) "Such a system would further enable the Government to amass information on citizens amid store it in a central computer under a single identification number." Then in 1989, a law was passed that every child, over two years of age, must have a Social Security number to qualify as a dependent on tax returns. Now a program has been implemented, that when the baby is born, the hospital will automatically apply for the social security number! The name of the program -- enumeration at birth! To Enumerate means to "assign a number!"
The American government is establishing a universal identification number!
An amazing fulfilment of prophecy is presently taking place - the merger of the European Community. According to Bible students, this incredible political-economic development, is nothing less than the revival of the once great Roman Empire, prophesied in Daniel. The Bible teaches the Anti-Christ will head up this 10-nation, Revised Roman Empire. And on January 1 1993, the Revised Roman Empire officially began, called the United States of Europe. The Wichita Eagle described its uncanny birth, "… Since the fall of the Roman Empire, there has been the dream of a unified Europe. We are seeing a brand new Roman Empire reconstructed." Standardization News, February, 1991, told of some unbelievable developments. "The European Community has decided to utilize an identification mark." Page 30 of the report reads. "... one cannot market or sell a product unless it has the EC mark." Revelation 13:17 reads almost identical. 'And that no might buy or sell, save he had that mark…"
2,000 years ago, the Bible foretold of these events, and they're being fulfilled to the smallest detail!
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