In the essay WHY I WRITE, published in 1947, Orwell says:
"...In a peaceful age I might have written ornate or merely descriptive books, and might have remained almost unaware of my political loyalties. As it is I have been forced into becoming a sort of pamphleteer. First I spent five years in an unsuitable profession (The Indian Imperial Police, in Burma), and then I underwent poverty and the sense of failure. This increased my natural hatred of authority and made me for the first time fully aware of the existence of the working classes, and the job in Burma had given me some understanding of the nature of imperialism: but these experiences were not enough to give me an accurate political orientation. Then came Hitler, the Spanish Civil War, etc. By the end of 1935 I had still failed to reach a firm decision. The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects. Everyone writes of them in one guise or another. It is simply a question of which side one takes and what approach one follows. And the more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity."
"...I write because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. ...Of late years I have tried to write less picturesquely and more exactly. ANIMAL FARM was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole. I hope to write another fairly soon. It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write. ..."
"...All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. ..." - Eric Blair (aka George Orwell)
This very philosophy is the reason I write about the subjects I do, so Orwell's prophetic words don't die with him in vain.
On June 20th of this year, the top 500 supercomputers list ( which is updated twice a year, next in November ) shows that NEC beat IBM. Now I know what you're thinking, that this is another scary article about the B.e.a.s.t. in Belgium. No it is not. The very prophetic statements in Revelation pale in comparison to what Orwell envisioned for us and what we are living right now! So for all of you "Beasties" out there, that computer is a 1984 L.E.D. display compared to the supercomputers we have now.
For 4 years in a row, IBM has held the first through the eighth positions on this list with their Bluegene/L supercomputer. NEC's, "Earth Simulator", with a 35 teraflop capacity, is not going to hold number one long with IBM's BlueGene/L boasting a peak speed of 360 teraflops.
One teraflop is a trillion floating point operations (calculations) per second. A trillion calculations per second. NOW THAT'S POWER!!!
The Earth Simulator is in Yokohama, Japan at the Earth Simulator Center. It is used to study the effects of global warming on climate change, acid rain and other types of air pollution, tectonic plate movement, and other earthwide phenomena. It has 5,120 CPUs and 10 terabytes of RAM. All this power is used to model a virtual earth down to a 1-km resolution. Researchers use it to forecast weather events earthwide up to 100 years from now. It accurately predicted the only hurricane in human history to hit in the tropics of South America!
This is awesome power used in a good way.
You guessed it, now for the bad way. There's always a bad way right?
Before I talk about BlueGene/L, let's see who is second on the list. It's IBM. Their ASCI White system is located in California at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Here are a few facts about this supercomputer from the IBM website:
In 1998 the U.S. Department of Energy, as part of its Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI), turned to IBM in its quest to eliminate live nuclear testing without compromising the nation's safety and security. Using funds previously spent on the construction of nuclear weapons, the DOE engaged IBM to build the world's fastest supercomputer. Its purpose: to enable the government to test its nuclear capability using three-dimensional modeling and simulations, not bombs.
ASCI White will possess more than 160 trillion bytes of IBM disk storage capacity, holding 16,000 times more data than the average desktop PC. At a peak computational performance of 12.28 teraflops, or trillions of calculations per second, it could simultaneously process web transactions for every man, woman, and child on the planet in one minute.
ASCI White is a 512-node RS/6000 SP, 1000 times more powerful than the "Deep Blue" supercomputer that defeated chess grand master Garry Kasparov in a celebrated 1997 match, and capable of solving in one second what a human being with a calculator would need 10 million years to figure out. The new RS/6000 SP requires more than a little space to house the 2,000 miles of copper wiring contained in the microprocessors needed for its demanding tasks—an area the size of two basketball courts, in fact.
ASCI White's technology has beneficial uses far in excess of its original mandate—medicine, aerospace and automotive design, weather forecasting, and online banking are just some of the fields in which it plays a major role. ASCI White's backbone is a system already in use by more than 100,000 commercial and technical customers around the world: RS/6000 servers. RS/6000 servers have helped streamline the operations of such diverse businesses and government agencies as aircraft manufacturer Airbus Industrie, energy provider Union Gas, and the National Weather Service.-IBM
Their site also boasts it having 6.2 terabytes of RAM and 8,192 copper microprocessors.
So the DOE uses it to model the effects of nuclear explosions.Why?! If this government is on such a path of peace, why wonder the effects of nuclear warheads? I think Pete's[Prof. Emeritus Peter Bagnolo] prophecy of a new "false flag" could be in the "real time" testing phase since 2005 when this thing came on-line. I'm sure "government researchers" are right now asking this supercomputer something like......"what would be the effects of a 2 megaton "dirty bomb" on Chicago?" Hmmm. There's something to ponder and it's not even the premise of this article.
IBM's BlueGene/L is also located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, all property of the DOE who in return reports findings to the DOD. What a coincidence.
IBM's BlueGene/L boasts a peak speed of over 360 teraFLOPS, a total memory of 32 tebibytes, total power of 1.5 megawatts, and machine floor space of 2,500 square feet. The full system has 65,536 dual-processor compute nodes. Multiple communications networks enable extreme application scaling:
A global reduction tree supports fast global operations such as global max/sum in a few microseconds over 65,536 nodes.
1,024 gigabit-per-second links to a global parallel file system to support fast input/output to disk.
All this power to support the Stockpile Stewardship Program:
The Stockpile Stewardship Program was established in response to the Fiscal Year 1994 National Defense Authorization Act (Public Law 103-160), which requires, in the absence of nuclear testing, a program to:
Support a focused, multifaceted program to increase the understanding of the enduring stockpile;
Predict, detect, and evaluate potential problems of the aging of the stockpile;
Refurbish and re-manufacture weapons and components, as required; and
Maintain the science and engineering institutions needed to support the nation’s nuclear deterrent, now and in the future.
As the civilian steward of the nation’s nuclear weapons complex, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration is responsible for the safety and reliability of the nation’s nuclear arsenal. The U.S. Department of Defense partners with the DOE in setting requirements and establishing production goals against civilian and military surety and safety concerns.
So what happened to those nukes they claimed they "lost" for a while if they have a system more powerful than the human brain?
This leads me to my premise: Aside from the afforementioned "nuclear tests without bombs", they are using these computers to track your EVERY move! Under the guise of controling immigration and health care, they can catalog every human being on the planet, not just the U.S., in milli-seconds. They also use these to track the 2,000 or so "chipped" human beings. I will show facts and evidence to prove IBM is once again going to be responsible for the "categorization to extinction" of any force who opposes the bushites and the NWO. IBM, Applied Digital Solutions (VeriChip), the NCSA and others are part of the growing cyberinfrastructure that will ultimately be used to enslave us all in the "stroke of a key!"
First, a history lesson. The following is an excerpt from Edwin Black's book, IBM and the Holocaust,Crown Publishing 2001.
Only after Jews were identified -- a massive and complex task that Hitler wanted done immediately -- could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslaved labor, and, ultimately, annihilation. It was a cross-tabulation and organizational challenge so monumental, it called for a computer. Of course, in the 1930s no computer existed.
But IBM's Hollerith punch card technology did exist. Aided by the company's custom-designed and constantly updated Hollerith systems, Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews. Historians have always been amazed at the speed and accuracy with which the Nazis were able to identify and locate European Jewry. Until now, the pieces of this puzzle have never been fully assembled. The fact is, IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Germany and then Nazi Europe, from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing programs to the running of railroads and organizing of concentration camp slave labor.- Edwin Black author of IBM and the Holocaust,Crown Publishing 2001
Mankind barely noticed when the concept of massively organized information quietly emerged to become a means of social control, a weapon of war, and a roadmap for group destruction. The unique igniting event was the most fateful day of the last century, January 30, 1933, the day Adolf Hitler came to power. Hitler and his hatred of the Jews was the ironic driving force behind this intellectual turning point. But his quest was greatly enhanced and energized by the ingenuity and craving for profit of a single American company and its legendary, autocratic chairman. That company was International Business Machines, and its chairman was Thomas J. Watson.
Der Führer's obsession with Jewish destruction was hardly original. There had been czars and tyrants before him. But for the first time in history, an anti-Semite had automation on his side. Hitler didn't do it alone. He had help.
In the upside-down world of the Holocaust, dignified professionals were Hitler's advance troops. Police officials disregarded their duty in favor of protecting villains and persecuting victims. Lawyers perverted concepts of justice to create anti-Jewish laws. Doctors defiled the art of medicine to perpetrate ghastly experiments and even choose who was healthy enough to be worked to death--and who could be cost-effectively sent to the gas chamber. Scientists and engineers debased their higher calling to devise the instruments and rationales of destruction. And statisticians used their little known but powerful discipline to identify the victims, project and rationalize the benefits of their destruction, organize their persecution, and even audit the efficiency of genocide. Enter IBM and its overseas subsidiaries.
Solipsistic and dazzled by its own swirling universe of technical possibilities, IBM was self-gripped by a special amoral corporate mantra: if it can be done, it should be done. To the blind technocrat, the means were more important than the ends. The destruction of the Jewish people became even less important because the invigorating nature of IBM's technical achievement was only heightened by the fantastical profits to be made at a time when bread lines stretched across the world.
So how did it work?
When Hitler came to power, a central Nazi goal was to identify and destroy Germany's 600,000 Jews. To Nazis, Jews were not just those who practiced Judaism, but those of Jewish blood, regardless of their assimilation, intermarriage, religious activity, or even conversion to Christianity. Only after Jews were identified could they be targeted for asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, and ultimately extermination. To search generations of communal, church, and governmental records all across Germany--and later throughout Europe--was a cross-indexing task so monumental, it called for a computer. But in 1933, no computer existed.
When the Reich needed to mount a systematic campaign of Jewish economic disenfranchisement and later began the massive movement of European Jews out of their homes and into ghettos, once again, the task was so prodigious it called for a computer. But in 1933, no computer existed.
When the Final Solution sought to efficiently transport Jews out of European ghettos along railroad lines and into death camps, with timing so precise the victims were able to walk right out of the boxcar and into a waiting gas chamber, the coordination was so complex a task, this too called for a computer. But in 1933, no computer existed.
However, another invention did exist: the IBM punch card and card sorting system--a precursor to the computer. IBM, primarily through its German subsidiary, made Hitler's program of Jewish destruction a technologic mission the company pursued with chilling success. IBM Germany, using its own staff and equipment, designed, executed, and supplied the indispensable technologic assistance Hitler's Third Reich needed to accomplish what had never been done before--the automation of human destruction. More than 2,000 such multi-machine sets were dispatched throughout Germany, and thousands more throughout German-dominated Europe. Card sorting operations were established in every major concentration camp. People were moved from place to place, systematically worked to death, and their remains cataloged with icy automation.
IBM Germany, known in those days as Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft, or Dehomag, did not simply sell the Reich machines and then walk away. IBM's subsidiary, with the knowledge of its New York headquarters, enthusiastically custom-designed the complex devices and specialized applications as an official corporate undertaking. Dehomag's top management was comprised of openly rabid Nazis who were arrested after the war for their Party affiliation. IBM NY always understood--from the outset in 1933--that it was courting and doing business with the upper echelon of the Nazi Party. The company leveraged its Nazi Party connections to continuously enhance its business relationship with Hitler's Reich, in Germany and throughout Nazi-dominated Europe.
Dehomag and other IBM subsidiaries custom-designed the applications. Its technicians sent mock-ups of punch cards back and forth to Reich offices until the data columns were acceptable, much as any software designer would today. Punch cards could only be designed, printed, and purchased from one source: IBM. The machines were not sold, they were leased, and regularly maintained and upgraded by only one source: IBM. IBM subsidiaries trained the Nazi officers and their surrogates throughout Europe, set up branch offices and local dealerships throughout Nazi Europe staffed by a revolving door of IBM employees, and scoured paper mills to produce as many as 1.5 billion punch cards a year in Germany alone. Moreover, the fragile machines were serviced on site about once per month, even when that site was in or near a concentration camp. IBM Germany's headquarters in Berlin maintained duplicates of many code books, much as any IBM service bureau today would maintain data backups for computers.-Edwin Black author of IBM and the Holocaust,Crown Publishing 2001
So if you didn't already know this you are now enlightened.
Here is one more fact about the participation of IBM in the holocaust.
IBM refused to answer charges to simultaneous disclosures by 40 countries on February 11, 2001. The disclosures state that IBM knowingly systemized the persecution and extermination of Europe's Jews, directly from New York by way of the Swiss office.
On June 22, a Swiss appellate Court judge ruled, "The precision, speed and reliability of IBM's machines, especially related to the censuses of the German population and racial biology by the Nazis, were praised in the publications of Dehomag itself, the branch of respondent IBM. It does not thus seem unreasonable to deduce that IBM's technical assistance facilitated the tasks of the Nazi's in the commission of their crimes against humanity, acts also involving accountancy and classification by IBM machines and utilized in the concentration camps themselves. In view of the preceding, IBM's complicitly with material an intellectual assistance in the criminal acts of the Nazis during the Second World War by means of its Geneva establishment does not appear to be ruled out, as there is a great deal of evidence indicating that the Geneva establishment was aware that it was aiding and supporting these acts."
IBM's answer.....it didn't know how its machines were being used. Go figure.
"We're a technology company, not historians," spokesman Carol Malkovich told media outlets in 2002.
According to Mr.Black, when IBM's director of worldwide media relations, John Bukovinsky, was asked about the disclosures in 2001 and 2002 of the company's involvement in facilitating the holocaust, he replied,"That was six years ago." When the reporter pointed out that the holocaust happened 60 years ago, Bukovinsky quipped, "So what. What is the point?"
To put this in perspective, IBM Hollerith machine stored any info, ethinicity, profession, religion, residential location, in the rows and columns strategically punched. The cards could then be counted and cross-tabulated at the rate of 24,000 cards per hour, yielding almost any permutation of data.
This is an abacus compared to the BlueGene/L or any other computer for that matter.
One more piece of history before I move on from Edwin Black's, IBM and the Holocaust:
But how did the Nazis get the lists? For decades, no one has known. Few have asked.
The answer: IBM Germany's census operations and similar advanced people counting and registration technologies. IBM was founded in 1898 by German inventor Herman Hollerith as a census tabulating company. Census was its business.-
So there you have it. Do you see the writing on the wall now? Surely a company with supercomputers such as these, in one building, can easily tabulate and grab your email, online banking info, purchases using your bank or credit cards. The permutations are endless. Meanwhile the bushites can claim it's all for your "security", or better still, say they have no knowledge of it! All of the polls you've done, simply giving your name and address.......
So now let's see just how deep the rabbit hole goes. Take the blue pill. Or will it be the red one. Both take you to fascist hell.
Editor's note: After WorldNetDaily first publicized the "Digital Angel" – a sophisticated miniaturized tracking device intended for subdermal implantation in large numbers of human beings – the manufacturer, Applied Digital Solutions, took cover. Under criticism by privacy advocates, as well as Christians concerned over the biblically prophesized "mark of the beast," the Nasdaq-traded company removed all references to human implantation from its website. Its CEO claimed publicly that there were "no plans" to make the technology implantable, but rather for the user to "wear" the device outside his body, say, on a wristwatch.Then came Sept. 11, and the resulting urgent national drive to increase America's homeland security. And in this new climate of fear, in which many Americans are susceptible to valuing safety over freedom, security over privacy, the company has found its golden opportunity to re-introduce the subdermal microchip implant it had previously deemed too hot for the American public to handle. -WorldNetDaily
In 2003, Applied Digital Solutions filed suit against IBM, alleging that Big Blue is trying to take control of the rights to a microchip that can be implanted under human skin.
ADS has borrowed $77million from IBM, and alleged International Business Machine was abusing its position as a lender to take control of a subsidiary that holds the intellectual rights to VeriChip, which can be implanted under the skin and be read by remote sensor. VeriChip being the collateral in the loan, of course.
The afforementioned supercomputers main devotions are.....REMOTE SENSING.
"Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it."-Charles Elachi in "Introduction to the Physics and Techniques of Remote Sensing"
In 2002 , ADS announced the production of GPS chips. Along with the VeriChip and GPS they also market the Bio-Thermo chip implant, which can read and transmit a person's temperature and has numerous health-care applications. There are also other chips that can carry technology that identifies blood pressure, disease and hormonal levels.
WorldNetDaily stated:
The company invited Angela Swafford, a Miami-based journalist, to get "chipped" while she was working on a VeriChip story for a major media outlet.
She added, "When offered the opportunity to be chipped, it occurred to me that I could tell this story in a unique way. I think the technology is tremendously exciting, with applications that defy our wildest dreams. This chip is quietly heralding a time when humans will literally have technology under the skin."
Applied Digital Solutions, maker of the VeriChip and Digital Angel, has missed a final date to make a required payment of $46.2 million to IBM Credit Corporation.
Failure to make the payment could force IBM to liquidate a trust that holds more than 19 million shares of Digital Angel Corp., to recoup some of its money.
Since December of 1999, Applied Digital has issued press releases suggesting that it would pursue government contracts for its implantable chips, and that such contracts could be lucrative. However, no such contracts have been publicly revealed. Those press releases suggested government uses for the company's GPS-tracked chips as well as for the short-range, RFID VeriChip – described often as an alternative ID that could be used for security and banking purposes. -WNDMineta gives keynote speech
Applied Digital announced that Norman Mineta, then-secretary of commerce, would attend the unveiling. Attendees were surprised to see Mineta not only in attendance, but giving the keynote speech of the evening – a speech whose transcript was never archived at the Department of Commerce website, but was videotaped by a production company and French cable company Canal Plus. Prior to Mineta's speech, CEO Richard J. Sullivan announced "an exciting new partnership with you [Secretary Mineta] and the federal government in the important area of Digital Inclusion."There was little media there, and those who did attend accepted Sullivan's comments that any suggestion Applied Digital was considering implantation was just "hypothetical speculation."
Thus, the event was largely underreported.
In contrast to the CEO's public seeming denial of implantation plans, the company's chief scientist, Dr. Peter Zhou, had previously told WND: "Before there may have been resistance, but not anymore. People are getting used to implants. New century, new trend."
The full extent of the enigmatic "partnership" with the government, company spokesman Matthew Cossolotto said, would not be announced until after the 2000 presidential election. But a preliminary announcement was scheduled (then abruptly canceled) in Palm Beach, Fla., the day before the election. Mineta was scheduled to appear at the Palm Beach PR event with Sullivan. That announcement was said to include a federal subsidizing of Digital Angel for "the elderly, minorities and the disadvantaged," and would include the showing of an edited five-minute video of the New York City prototype unveiling.After the references to implantation were removed from the Web, Cossolotto would angrily deny, in e-mails to WND editorial staff, that the GPS-trackable Digital Angel chip was ever designed to be implanted: "How would you implant a wristwatch and a pager anyway?" he wrote. Despite protestations from Applied Digital Solutions and DigitalAngel.net Inc., WorldNetDaily has consistently reported that, although
Digital Angel in its "current form" is being marketed as a wristwatch/pager combination, the chip was intended and developed for human implantation. Following the 9-11 tragedy, the company returned to openly discussing a "cashless society" and other controversial topics, like implanting all visiting foreigners with a chip and requiring federal employees at airports and nuclear facilities to be implanted. -WNDStated in 2000:"We believe its potential for improving individual and e-business security and enhancing the quality of life for millions of people is virtually limitless," said ADS Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Sullivan. "Although we're in the early developmental phase, we expect to come forward with applications in many different areas, from medical monitoring to law enforcement. However, in keeping with our core strengths in the e-business to business arena, we plan to focus our initial development efforts on the growing field of e-commerce security and user ID verification."
Need more?
In September, Applied Digital Solutions implanted its first human chip when a New Jersey surgeon, Richard Seelig, injected two of the chips into himself. He placed one chip in his left forearm and the other near the artificial hip in his right leg.
"He was motivated after he saw firefighters at the World Trade Center in September writing their Social Security numbers on their forearms with Magic Markers," Bolton said. "He thought that there had to be a more sophisticated way of doing an identification."
VeriChip injected numbered microchips into 200 Alzheimer's patients in may 2007.
In the beginning of 2007, Verichip created Xmark, its corporate identity for healthcare products. Xmark incorporates the Hugs and the Halo system of infant protection; the RoamAlert system of wandering protection; the MyCall emergency response system; and the Assetrac asset tracking system.More from WND:
Proponents of national identification systems have suggested these systems as a panacea for a variety of political and social problems, everything from preventing terrorism to keeping bad drivers off the road, stopping teenagers from drinking, foiling drug traffickers, thwarting cheats from cashing bad checks, running background checks on gun purchasers, prohibiting criminals or sex offenders from employment, controlling the spread of disease, and halting illegal immigration. Some also point out the convenience factor—one could potentially use the same card at the bank, as a driver's license, or to be whisked through long lines at airport security checkpoints and customs controls.
The vagueness of most proposals makes it clear that they lack what security experts call a "threat model" identified so that a national identification system would actually serve some purpose other than the theoretical.
Some proponents of a national identification system in the United States include: Representative Richard Gephardt, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), retired Senator Simpson, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, and Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy.-WND
So they[Nazis] got the information on the Jewish population from the Census Bureau......
The confidentiality of Census Bureau information was violated in World War II to help move Japanese-Americans to internment camps. The FBI criminal history records system, which was designed for law enforcement purposes, is now used predominantly by non-law enforcement agencies and private employers. The State of Ohio recently sold its drivers' license and car registration lists to TRW, Inc. for $375,000. In a recent editorial, Business Week asked: "Who gave government agencies the right to cash in on information that people are forced to give them in the first place?" In early 1995 more than 500 Internal Revenue Service agents were caught illegally snooping into the tax records of thousands of Americans -- often friends and celebrities. Only five of these employees were fired for this invasion of privacy. The IRS claimed that its new privacy protection measures would protect against this from happening again. But it did happen again in early 1997 with hundreds of IRS agents information of friends, foes, and celebrities.-the Cato Institute,1997
Soooo......Then: IBM+"paper hole punch"= Jewish extermination made easy
Now: IBM+supercomputer with teraFLOP capability+ VeriChip or some protein form of it,etc.+ "private security forces"= OCEANIA
Any questions? How about NWOBM?!
So it seems 9/11 has kicked off a "war", "private security forces" and "tamper proof" I.D. Well instead of blaming everything on 9/11, let's see if there is some other reason for this technology.
Here is a little something to chew on:
A National ID System:
Big Brother's Solution to Illegal Immigration
by John J. Miller and Stephen Moore
Republicans in the House and Senate are moving quickly forward with Orwellian legislation that would create a national computerized registration system for all American workers. The new federal computer worker registry, which is intended to reduce illegal immigration, is the crucial first step toward the implementation of a national identification card system for all 120 million American workers. For the first time ever, employers would have to receive the government's permission to hire a new worker. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has even urged that the ID cards contain individuals' photographs, fingerprints, and even retina scans.
The computer registry and national ID card, which would confer on the federal government vast new police-state powers, is highly incompatible with the Republican theme of expanding freedom and reducing government. There are other problems with the concept: 1) the identification system could be easily expanded to include other purposes beyond deterring illegal immigration, such as implementation of a Clinton- style health security card, conducting background checks on individuals, and enforcing affirmative action laws and other government regulations; 2) the system would cost the federal government between $3 billion and $6 billion per year to administer; and 3) error rates that are commonplace for government databases would lead to hundreds of thousands of Americans being denied legal access to the workforce.
A computer registry would impose large costs on American citizens in terms of both dollars and lost liberties. Yet, as this study shows, the impact on illegal immigration would be minimal.
In sum, the computer registry will impose large costs on American citizens--in terms of both dollars and lost liberties. American workers will pay a high price for a system that will have at best a negligible effect on deterring unlawful entries into the United States. In the teria over illegal immigration, some policymakers in Washington have forgotten that America is a free and open society. Some level of illegal immigration is the price we pay for our freedoms and liberties. Congress may want to trade off Americans' basic rights in order to combat illegal immigration, but the public should not.
Sound familiar? The above was written in 1995!!!
Some more?
From Miller and Moore.....Ironically, many of the same Republicans who belittled the Clinton administration for proposing a national health security card now want an even more insidious technology to control illegal immigration. Indeed, some advocates of the ID card idea have suggested that the card could and should be used for both purposes.
In the age of the microchip, centralized computers have the capability of holding and processing huge amounts of information about all 260 million American citizens. An optically readable ID card recently patented by Drexler Technology Corporation in California can hold a picture ID and 1,600 pages of text. The government could mass produce those cards at a cost of less than $5.00 per person. Even more sophisticated identification systems might remove the need for carrying a card at all. The Hoover Institution's Martin Anderson has written of one of the most recent technological innovations,
There is an identification system made by the Hughes Aircraft Company that you can't lose. It's the syringe implantable transponder. According to promotional literature, it is an "ingenious, safe, inexpensive, foolproof, and permanent method of identification . . . using radio waves." A tiny microchip, the size of a grain of rice, is simply placed under the skin. It is so designed as to be injected simultaneously with a vaccination or alone.
The chip contains a ten-character "alphanumeric identification code that is never duplicated." When a scanner is passed over the chip, the scanner emits a beep, and your number flashes in the scanner's digital display.
The point here is that depending on how far Congress wants to go in suppressing the rights of the individual in order to deter illegal immigration, the technology exists for an effective if Orwellian identification system. As Anderson put it, "Once you denigrate the idea of privacy, all kinds of innovative government controls are possible."Therein lies the central objection to a computer registry and worker ID card. -J.Miller and S.Moore, 1995
Sure, Hellary gets my vote.
How about a "watchdog group" to propose a bill? Here's one....with holes in it.
Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering
CASPIAN is currently working towards introducing a bill in state congress' called the "Bodily Integrity Act."
This bill aims to establish laws making mandatory chip implants illegal, and tracking of an individual illegal without expressed consent of that individual. The chip itself is about the size of a grain of rice and can be injected easily without any anesthesia. Each chip has its own unique number, and can never be altered. In animals the chip sends out its unique signal, which can be used to help locate lost animals.
Only a small number of people have been implanted with RFID chips, about 2,000 worldwide. These chips, when scanned, send their unique number to the scanner, which retrieves the carrier's medical history.
Below from ADS website:
Today Applied Digital offers a wide range of RFID security solutions, including:
Infant protection - offering hospital a means to prevent infant abductions and accidental mother-baby switching
Patient protection - providing rapid, secure patient identification in emergency situations, especially important for patients with chronic illnesses
Wander prevention - installed in over 3,000 long-term facilities and helping provide residents with mobility in specified areas while preventing them from wandering off
Instant medical records:
The implantable VeriChip can seamlessly retrieve stored medical records data-based information within milliseconds. By waving the proprietary VeriChip scanner within close proximity of the chip, the individual's medical history can be retrieved to communicate accurate information when necessary - particularly for diabetic, emergency care, cardiac care or memory-impaired individuals.
A more effective alternative to other technologies:
As a personal identification and security technology, the VeriChip system can complement or replace more expensive biometric technologies that identify individuals by their unique biological or physical characteristics - such as fingerprints, voiceprints, retina characteristics or face recognition points.
VeriChip, by contrast, relies on implanted, tamperproof, microchip technology that provides access to a database containing pertinent information about the person. This information can save lives in medical emergencies and can facilitate security measures that would be difficult or impossible to implement using alternative security systems.
About VeriChip Corporation:
VeriChip Corporation, headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida, develops, markets and sells radio frequency identification, or RFID, systems used to identify, locate and protect people and assets. VeriChip's goal is to become the leading provider of RFID systems for people in the healthcare industry. VeriChip sells passive RFID systems for identification purposes and active RFID systems for local-area location and identification purposes. VeriChip recently began to market its VeriMed(TM) Patient Identification System for rapidly and accurately identifying people who arrive in an emergency room and are unable to communicate. This system uses the first human-implantable passive RFID microchip, the implantable VeriChip(TM), cleared for medical use in October 2004 by the United States Food and Drug Administration.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.- September 20, 2007
BUSINESS WIRE -- VeriChip Corporation (Nasdaq: CHIP - News) a provider of RFID systems for healthcare and patient-related needs, announced today that it has generated the initial revenue from Implantable Operations since its initial public offering, primarily from the largest sale of its VeriTrace System. The Company also will report revenue from the 29 patients that have enrolled in the new "PATIENT FIRST" program, which was officially launched on September 4. More than 75 paying subscribers have already enrolled in the Company's VeriMed(TM) Patient Identification System. The Company expects to report revenue from these sales during the 2007 third quarter, earlier than its previous expectation.
The Company's sale of its VeriTrace emergency management solution to a medical examiner's office in New York, the largest such sale in its history, consisted of over 2,000 microchips, three customized cameras and three VeriTrace handheld readers. Designed for medical examiners, forensic scientists, criminalists and the like, the VeriTrace solution accurately manages, tracks, and inventories evidentiary items associated with crime scenes or disaster areas.
So do you think I may be reading into it to much? I wish I was. This and all the other administrations before, have numbed this country into selling your "freedom" of mind, body and soul for "security." They now have the arsenal complete with collars for each and every one of us, reducing us physically into data. "Profit Marginal People", you are now the bottom line in every essence of the phrase.
Not to mention running nuclear tests in cyberspace. Can't you just picture Darth Vader and his knuckleheads "playing war games" with one of the simulations. "Huh, Huh hey guys," Cheney says, "Which coast should we blow up today, huh, huh?"
Face it folks, wire taps and the like don't hold anything compared to the information already taken and stored without you even making a cut of the profits when they sold your life to IBM and their "death machines."
So now when you hear the disadministration discuss immigration and health care, remember Orwell and his fine words.
I leave you to choose again for yourself. Red, Blue, Blue, Red. No matter which party or pill, you still end up in the same place.
I leave you with this from orwelltoday.com:
But in among all this terrible poverty, there were just a few great big beautiful houses that were lived in by rich men who had as many as thirty servants to look after them. These rich men were called capitalists. They were fat, ugly men with wicked faces. You can see that he is dressed in a long black coat which was called a frock coat, and a queer, shiny hat shaped like a stovepipe, which was called a top hat. This was the uniform of the capitalists, and no one else was allowed to wear it. The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them they could throw them into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death. When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his cap and address him as "Sir". The chief of all the capitalists was called the King, and --
