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What the FDA Won't Tell You about the VeriChip
CBN News | December 10, 2004
A little electronic capsule, smaller than a dime, could be one of the
biggest technological advances in how we share and store private medical records. It may also
be one of the most controversial.
Known as the VeriChip, it is a microchip that is implanted under a
person's skin, and then scanned with a special reader device to reveal important medical data
about that person.
Applied Digital, the Florida-based company that makes the VeriChip,
hopes the implant will revolutionize how doctors obtain medical information, particularly in
emergency situations. Theoretically, if a person can't speak, medics could scan that person
and quickly be linked to a database that would provide crucial information like the patient's
identity, blood type and drug allergies.
Dr. Csaba Magassi, a plastic surgeon in Northern Virginia, is among a
nationwide network of doctors who are ready and waiting to implant the VeriChip into willing
patients. His office receives calls daily from people inquiring about the
chip.
Dr. Magassi said, "If you are in an auto accident, [and] you are
unconscious, they could scan you, know exactly who you are; your medical history can easily
be printed out onto the hospital record."
Dr. Magassi added, "If a patient comes in requesting the VeriChip, I
usually tell them it takes between two and five minutes to place the device in place. A
needle which contains the VeriChip is inserted. The needle pushes the device through, and it
is implanted permanently. Put a bandaid on and you are done."
Dr. Magassi demonstrated the procedure for CBN News on an apple. Once
the microchip was inserted, the hand-held scanner read the number on the chip using radio
frequency waves. Think of it as a human barcode.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the VeriChip implant
for medical use in humans in October, a huge victory for Applied Digital.
In an effort to jumpstart interest, the company launched the "Get
Chipped" campaign. It is offering a discount to the first few hundred people who get the
implant, and also plans to donate hundreds of scanners to the nation's trauma units to
promote use of the VeriChip.
But in a letter obtained by CBN News from the FDA to the VeriChip
makers, the microchip is not completely safe. In fact, the letter lists a whole host of
health risks associated with the device, including "adverse tissue reaction," "electrical
hazards" and "MRI incompatibility."
Applied Digital and the Food and Drug Administration refused our
requests for an interview to discuss these risks.
Consumer privacy advocate Katherine Albrecht said, "There are
millions of people that have read the press reports about all the positives of this
technology, but really have no idea about its dangers."
Albrecht strongly opposes the VeriChip for the physical risks it
poses, as well as the privacy risks. She has been called "the Erin Brokovich of RFID
chips."
On her Web site, www.spychips.com, Albrecht reveals the potential
dangers of the VeriChip and other radio frequency identification methods.
Albrecht said, "There's a very serious concern that, already,
engineers and people who think along those lines are already thinking like hackers and
criminals -- they're already starting to say, how can this system be compromised, how can it
be abused? When you are dealing with a radio frequency device, by design, it is transmitting
info using invisible radio waves at a distance. In this case, that distance is only a couple
of inches or a couple of feet so it's not a huge distance, but it means that anyone who can
get within a couple of inches or a few feet of you, even with a reader device they have
hidden in a backpack or a purse, would be able to scan that number, obtain that info and
potentially duplicate it."
And it is not just private medical information at stake. The
microchip implant technology has been around for several years now, and has been used for a
variety of different applications.
Thousands of chips have been implanted in pets by veterinarians for
identification purposes. Livestock is now chipped to track things like mad-cow disease.
Manufacturers are putting chips in products like clothing and shoes for marketing
research.
In Mexico, the attorney general and his top aides were chipped for
security purposes. And, in Spain at the Baja Beach Club, patrons can get a microchip with
their financial information implanted, so they can pay for their cocktails with a swipe of
the arm. As these pictures seem to suggest, getting chipped is fun and
painless.
Applied Digital also launched a brand new application for the chip
last year called the "VeriPay." This implant would hold all of a person's financial
information. Rather than swipe a card or pay cash, consumers would scan their wrists for
purchases. And, if a swipe of the wrist becomes too troublesome, there are already prototypes
made of doorway portals that can simply scan a person and their purchases as they walk
through the door.
Allbrecht said, "I think there is a very real concern that, down the
road, such a chip would become mandatory. And not necessarily initially, but it would be
voluntary, in the same way let's say as credit cards or a drivers license is voluntary. No
one forces you to have a driver's license or to have a cell phone, but yet the vast majority
of people do, because it is very difficult to function in a normal society without
it."
For now, though, a microchip implant is voluntary. Only a few
thousand chips have been sold and only a fraction of those have been implanted in
humans.
For someone who wants an implant for medical purposes, Dr. Magassi
and others are standing by. Magassi says, "If they want it, God love ?em. I'll put it in.
It's as simple as that."
The VeriChip just recently made its debut in a Miami, Florida
nightclub, where patrons had the opportunity to "Get Chipped," much like the Baja Beach club
patrons in Spain.
Click here to see the 'Chip-mobile' (coming soon to a town near
you!)
666 In The Universal Product Code
Is The UPC Code The Forerunner Of The "Mark of the
Beast"?
Eric Jewell (sum14hizwrd@tcworks.net)
2-11-2
- This particular passage has intrigued
man since the day it was prophesied. For centuries man has tried to understand this
passage, but I believe that until this latter day, we weren't able to understand it.
Even today, many have tried to use different numerological methods to calculate and
manipulate numbers in a way as to designate this number to particular men, whose
names somehow add up to 666. I don't believe that the truth will ever be found in
such a manner. We do however have the technology today that can eventually fulfill
every part of this prophecy.
In this day of terror, we have many calling for national, or even world identification
numbers. We also have a great number of people calling for a more sure method of
identification. Certain methods being considered can fulfill these requirements and
possibly have many other seeming benefits as well, such as greatly reducing black market
trade such as drugs, prostitution, as well as muggings, robberies, etc. One of these
methods, surprisingly or not, will also fulfill every part of the prophecy concerning the
"mark of the beast".
1. it will be a man's number
2. no one will be able to buy anything without it
3. no one will be able to sell without it
4. those refusing it will be seen "enemies of mankind"
5. it can be implanted in the right hand or the forehead
- Many are familiar with the concept that
this is possibly a computer chip identification code. Many have heard for instance of
the "digital angel". With all my heart I believe this scenario to be true, and this
is intended to show how and why.
So how is it that a computer chip identification implant will fulfill these things? Is the
"666" the number of a single man?... or will it be the number of "mankind"? Is it
literal?... figurative? We hope to show that it is indeed very literal. We are all familiar
with computer chips, but are we all aware that these chips can actually be bar-coded? We
are all familiar with the UPC code. We see the bar-code on nearly every product we buy, but
many are not aware that the bar-code operates on a "666" system. Yes, perhaps not
surprisingly, the products we buy contain a "666" on their
bar-code.
- One good way to verify that the
following is true is to go to the kitchen cupboard and pull out several items and
look at the bar-codes. Pick several which have recurring numbers. The code is divided
into 2 halves so look for repeating numbers in the first half, then choose a few with
repeating numbers in the 2nd half. You will be able to see a very important pattern
in the end. Its very simple, I just pray I don't complicate the
explanation.
- First let's look at the construction of the barcode. There are 2 types, both
containing 3 sixes, but we will only concentrate on one type. We will call it the
long type. Notice in the figure below that the barcode is "bracketed". The 3 sets of
long double lines we will call the brackets. One set of thin double lines at the very
beginning, one set in the exact center, and one set at the end. The brackets actually
separate the code into 2 halves, the right half and the left half. The set of double
lines in the center separate the 2 halves of the code. These brackets are also
numbers and serve specific functions when scanned.

- Notice also the numbers at the bottom of the bars. Each of these numbers
will be represented by 2 bars and the spaced distance between the 2 bars. The width
of the 2 bars and the distance between them determine which number they represent.
Most bar-codes will have a number outside and to the left of of the first bracket.
This number will be represented inside the code by the first 2 bars just to the right
of the first bracket. From this point, the next 2 bars will represent the 1st number
inside the code, just above the number, but not necessarily centered over it. Then
the next 2 bars will represent the next number and so on until you get to the center
bracket... Do not go past the center bracket though. Below is the code for the first
half of the barcode, from the first to the center bracket. The reason it seems
difficult to decode the barcode is that the bars and space between them, which
represent the numbers below them, change for the second half of the
code.

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- Rev.13
[16] And he causeth all, both
small and great, rich and poor, free and
bond, to receive a mark in their right
hand, or in their foreheads: [17]
And that no man might buy or
sell, save he that had the mark, or the
name of the beast
, or the number of his
name . [18] Here is wisdom. Let him
that hath understanding count the number
of the beast: for it is the number of a
man; and his number is Six hundred
threescore and six.
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ACTUAL BAR CODE
SCAN (We have dimmed the internal numbers to emphasize
the 'bracketing' system)
A
- Next we have below the
decoding for the 2nd half of the code. The 2nd half begins with the
first 2 bars just to the right of the center bracket. The first 2
bars to the right of the center bracket represents the first number
to the immediate right of the bracket in the 2nd half. Again 2 bars
and the space between represent the number below them. To the right
and outside of the barcode there is usually another number, which
is represented by the last 2 bars just to the left of the last
bracket.
- Now... look for a product
whose barcode contains at least 1 "6" in the second half. Examine
the bars and the space between. Now look at the chart of the 2nd
half of the code.... Wow! Bingo! What we can see from this is that
the 2nd code representation for the "6" matches the bars which make
up the 3 brackets. This means that each barcode contains a "6, 6,
6"!!!
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- The above illustration depicts the "0"
outside the barcode represented by the first two lines inside the first bracket (see
'Bar Code Brackets' above). Also depicted is how the "6" outside the barcode and to
the right is represented by the last two lines before the last bracket. As
you can see, each number corresponds to its exampled line based equivalent, depending
on if it is on the left or right side of the center bracket (see Left and Right
numerical/line examples above, A and
B).
- Conclusions
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- Is the barcode the mark of the
beast? Of course not... but... it is my honest belief that a
bar-coded, implantable computer chip will be. The evidence is overwhelming,
and technologically speaking it is the only thing that will completely
fulfill everything we are told about it. Technologically it is the only thing
we have that even comes close. Biblically its an exact hit. As far as current
events, and the direction we as a world are heading, it is inevitable in
time.
- Further Clarifications
Is the number 666 "hidden" in the UPC
barcode?
- from http://www.av1611.org/666/barcode.html
- One of the most popular and shocking accusations
concerning the number "666" is that the number "666" is quietly "hidden" in
every UPC barcode. Mary Stewart Relfe's book, "The New Money System 666",
published in 1982, is the "pioneer" of the "666 in the UPC barcode" teaching.
Relfe's book contains over 50 pages of excellant doumentation on the UPC
barcodes. Relfe's discovery is repeated in many publications touching the
mark of the beast, within the last fifteen years. Including tracts published
by this author.
- Here's a few samples:
- Terry Cook, The Mark of the New World Order,
1996:
- ". . . the entire system [UPC barcode] is very
deceptively designed around the infamous numerical configuration, Biblically
known as 666, the mark of the Antichrist or devil (Revelation 13:16-18). . ."
(Terry Cook, The Mark of the New World Order, 1996, p.
376)
- Bob Fraley, The Last Days in America,
1984:
- "The interpretation of the Universal Product Code
marks is most revealing in that the three numbers '666' are the key working
numbers for every designed Universal Product Code. Every group of Universal
Product Code marks has in it three unidentified numbers. All three of these
numbers are 6, making the use of the numbers '666' the key to using this
identifying marking system. . .
- There is no deviation. Every Universal Product Code
has three unidentified marks whose number equivalent '6' encoding it with the
code number '666'. " (Bob Fraley, The Last Days in America, 1984, p. 225,
228)
Here's how to "discover" the "hidden 666 in
the UPC barcode"
- Notice the three "guard bars" (colored RED) at the
beginning, middle and end. Now, notice the same bar pattern ("bar-space-bar"
or "101") for the number 6 (colored BLUE).
- By "looking" at the above barcode, the number "666"
clearly, appears to be there. . .
- But is it?
- Is the number 666 TRUTHFULLY "hidden" in the UPC
barcode?
- Technically, no it is not.
- Here's the "technical" truth. .
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- The number 6 and the three guard bars are NOT the
same. They do "appear" to be identical, but they are
different.
- Notice. The beginning and ending guard bars are
"bar-space-bar" or "101" (the B in the above table). The middle guard bar is
"space-bar-space-bar-space" or "01010" (the M in the above table). The number
six is "1010000" (the 6 in the above table). Remember, technically a barcode
number consists of seven units. The beginning and ending guard bars are only
three units, and middle guard bar is only five
units.
- So, technically, from a computer's perspective the
number "666" is NOT in the UPC barcode.
- But. .
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- Look again. . . All three guard bars contain the
pattern "bar-space-bar" or "101". There is only ONE number, in TWENTY numbers
(remember right and left numbers have different patterns) that contains the
"101" pattern and that number is the right code SIX. Not the number one, or
two, or three, etc. - but ONLY the right code SIX. I do seem to remember
something about a mark on the RIGHT hand (Rev.
13:16).
- Technically, from a computer's perspective the
number "666" is NOT in the UPC barcode. . . but from a human's perspective -
YES, the "appearance" of 666 is there!
- What does the inventor of the UPC barcode say about
the number "666" in the UPC barcode?
- The inventor of the UPC barcode is George J. Laurer.
In 1971, while Mr. Laurer was an employee with IBM, he was assigned the task
"to design the best code and symbol suitable for the grocery industry". In
1973, Mr. Laurer's UPC barcode entered the world, and the rest is
history.
- On Mr. Laurer's web site, he has a "Questions" page,
where he answers various questions about the UPC barcode. On the "Questions"
page, Mr. Laurer answers the "666" question, as
follows:
- Question #8 - Rumor has it that the lines (left,
middle, and right) that protrude below the U.P.C. code are the numbers
6,6,6... and that this is the international money code. I typed a code with
all sixes and this seems to be true. At least they all resemble sixes. What's
up with that?
- Answer- Yes, they do RESEMBLE the code for a six. An
even parity 6 is:
- 1 module wide black bar 1 module wide
white space 1 module wide black bar 4 module wide white
space
- There is nothing sinister about this nor does it
have anything to do with the Bible's "mark of the beast" (The New Testament,
The Revelation, Chapter 13, paragraph 18). It is simply a coincidence like the fact that my first,
middle, and last name all have 6 letters. There is no connection with an
international money code either. (From Mr. Laurer's web
site)
- By the way, guess who controlled IBM in 1971 (and
probably still do) during the time the barcode was created by Mr. Laurer.
None other than the infamous, evil Rothschild family. To read more about this
evil, satanic family, click here.
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