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Friday, 2 May 2008
Spychip
RFID stands for Radio Frequency IDentification, a technology that uses tiny computer chips smaller than a grain of sand to track items at a distance. RFID "spy chips" have been hidden in the packaging of Gillette razor products and in other products you might buy at a local Wal-Mart, Target, or Tesco - and they are already being used to spy on people.
Each tiny chip is hooked up to an antenna that picks up electromagnetic energy beamed at it from a reader device. When it picks up the energy, the chip sends back its unique identification number to the reader device, allowing the item to be remotely identified. Spy chips can beam back information anywhere from a couple of inches to up to 20 or 30 feet away.
Some of the world's largest product manufacturers have been plotting behind closed doors since 1999 to develop and commercialize this technology. If they are not opposed, their plan is use these remote-readable spychips to replace the bar code.
RFID tags are NOT an "improved bar code" as the proponents of the technology would like you to believe. RFID technology differs from bar codes in three important ways: 1. With today's bar code technology, every can of Coke has the same UPC or bar code number as every other can (a can of Coke in Toronto has the same number as a can of Coke in Topeka). With RFID, each individual can of Coke would have a unique ID number which could be linked to the person buying it when they scan a credit card or a frequent shopper card (i.e., an "item registration system"). 2. Unlike a bar code, these chips can be read from a distance, right through your clothes, wallet, backpack or purse -- without your knowledge or consent -- by anybody with the right reader device. In a way, it gives strangers X-ray vision powers to spy on you, to identify both you and the things you're wearing and carrying. 3. Unlike the bar code, RFID could be bad for your health. RFID supporters envision a world where RFID reader devices are everywhere - in stores, in floors, in doorways, on airplanes -- even in the refrigerators and medicine cabinets of our own homes. In such a world, we and our children would be continually bombarded with electromagnetic energy. Researchers do not know the long-term health effects of chronic exposure to the energy emitted by these reader devices.
Many huge corporations, including Philip Morris, Procter and Gamble, and Wal-Mart, have begun experimenting with RFID spy chip technology. Gillette is leading the pack, and recently placed an order for up to 500 million RFID tags from a company called "Alien Technology" (we kid you not). These big companies envision a day when every single product on the face of the planet is catalogued and tracked with RFID spychips!
As consumers we have no way of knowing which packages contain these chips. While some chips are visible inside a package (see our pictures of Gillette spy chips), RFID chips can be well hidden. For example they can be sewn into the seams of clothes, sandwiched between layers of cardboard, moulded into plastic or rubber, and integrated into consumer package design.
This technology is rapidly evolving and becoming more sophisticated. RFID spychips can even be printed, meaning the dot on a printed letter "i" could be used to track you. In addition, the tell-tale copper antennas commonly seen attached to RFID chips can now be printed with conductive ink, making them nearly imperceptible. Companies are even experimenting with making the product packages themselves serve as antennas.
As you can see, it could soon be virtually impossible for a consumer to know whether a product or package contains an RFID spychip. For this reason, CASPIAN is proposing federal labelling legislation, the RFID Right to Know Act, which would require complete disclosures on any consumer products containing RFID devices.
We believe the public has an absolute right to know when they are interacting with technology that could affect their health and privacy.
Don't you?
Join us. Let's fight back before big corporations track our every move.
Each tiny chip is hooked up to an antenna that picks up electromagnetic energy beamed at it from a reader device. When it picks up the energy, the chip sends back its unique identification number to the reader device, allowing the item to be remotely identified. Spy chips can beam back information anywhere from a couple of inches to up to 20 or 30 feet away.
Some of the world's largest product manufacturers have been plotting behind closed doors since 1999 to develop and commercialize this technology. If they are not opposed, their plan is use these remote-readable spychips to replace the bar code.
RFID tags are NOT an "improved bar code" as the proponents of the technology would like you to believe. RFID technology differs from bar codes in three important ways: 1. With today's bar code technology, every can of Coke has the same UPC or bar code number as every other can (a can of Coke in Toronto has the same number as a can of Coke in Topeka). With RFID, each individual can of Coke would have a unique ID number which could be linked to the person buying it when they scan a credit card or a frequent shopper card (i.e., an "item registration system"). 2. Unlike a bar code, these chips can be read from a distance, right through your clothes, wallet, backpack or purse -- without your knowledge or consent -- by anybody with the right reader device. In a way, it gives strangers X-ray vision powers to spy on you, to identify both you and the things you're wearing and carrying. 3. Unlike the bar code, RFID could be bad for your health. RFID supporters envision a world where RFID reader devices are everywhere - in stores, in floors, in doorways, on airplanes -- even in the refrigerators and medicine cabinets of our own homes. In such a world, we and our children would be continually bombarded with electromagnetic energy. Researchers do not know the long-term health effects of chronic exposure to the energy emitted by these reader devices.
Many huge corporations, including Philip Morris, Procter and Gamble, and Wal-Mart, have begun experimenting with RFID spy chip technology. Gillette is leading the pack, and recently placed an order for up to 500 million RFID tags from a company called "Alien Technology" (we kid you not). These big companies envision a day when every single product on the face of the planet is catalogued and tracked with RFID spychips!
As consumers we have no way of knowing which packages contain these chips. While some chips are visible inside a package (see our pictures of Gillette spy chips), RFID chips can be well hidden. For example they can be sewn into the seams of clothes, sandwiched between layers of cardboard, moulded into plastic or rubber, and integrated into consumer package design.
This technology is rapidly evolving and becoming more sophisticated. RFID spychips can even be printed, meaning the dot on a printed letter "i" could be used to track you. In addition, the tell-tale copper antennas commonly seen attached to RFID chips can now be printed with conductive ink, making them nearly imperceptible. Companies are even experimenting with making the product packages themselves serve as antennas.
As you can see, it could soon be virtually impossible for a consumer to know whether a product or package contains an RFID spychip. For this reason, CASPIAN is proposing federal labelling legislation, the RFID Right to Know Act, which would require complete disclosures on any consumer products containing RFID devices.
We believe the public has an absolute right to know when they are interacting with technology that could affect their health and privacy.
Don't you?
Join us. Let's fight back before big corporations track our every move.
The Big Brother State
Short great animated film exposing big brother surveillance systems.
Big Brother State is an educational film about what politicians claim to be protection of our freedom, but what we refer to as repressive legislation.
Since terrorism has become a global threat, Governments all over the world have started enforcing draconian laws which they claim should increase national security.
However, the states gain more and more control of their citizens at the cost of our privacy and security.
Big Brother State is an educational film about what politicians claim to be protection of our freedom, but what we refer to as repressive legislation.
Since terrorism has become a global threat, Governments all over the world have started enforcing draconian laws which they claim should increase national security.
However, the states gain more and more control of their citizens at the cost of our privacy and security.
Bohemian Grove - Alex Jones expose video
Alex Jones infiltrates Bohemian Grove, and witnesses world leaders engaged in mock ritual sacrifice.
Anyone else find this deeply disturbing?
Anyone else find this deeply disturbing?
Aspartame - Mass poisoning in progress...
Let's start with Aspartame. Without thought most of us consume this stuff daily, poisoning ourselves. This info, and these two videos will illustrate just why we should be worried, and why we should try to avoid the stuff as much as possible.
Aspartame (E951) controversy on Wikipedia
Sourced from www.earthways.co.uk:
Many patients diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) may in fact be suffering from some of the 92 already documented neurological symptoms now being attributed to methanol toxicity or “Aspartame Disease”, including fibromyalia, headaches, vertigo, tinnitus, numbness in the legs, blurred vision, slurred speech, depression and memory loss. In addition, an analysis of the incidence of brain tumours, carried out my Professor John Olney, Washington University, St Louis, USA, has demonstrated that there was an abrupt 10% increase in cases following the introduction of Aspartame in dry goods in 1981 and soft drinks in 1983.
Methanol, the toxin present in Aspartame, belongs to the same class of poisons as Cyanide and Arsenic. It is readily converted into formaldehyde and then into Formic Acid (the poison contained in the sting of Fire Ants) when subjected to prolonged storage of temperatures of 86 Degrees F or over in the body, this can result in metabolic acidosis and methanol toxicity affecting the brain, retina and nerves.
It is interesting to note that Aspartame is manufactured by the NutraSweet Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto, who, it is believed, are fully aware of the dangers of their product. However, as Monsanto also funds the American Diabetics Association, the American Dietetic Association, Congress and the Conference of the American College of Physicians, there appears to be a conspiracy of silence with regard to the dangers of this artificial sweetener which is contained in over 5,000 sugar-free products sold under the brand names of NutraSweet, Canderel, Equal and Spoonful. (Also listed as E Number E951)
The general advice is to read the labels and avoid!
Aspartame (E951) controversy on Wikipedia
Sourced from www.earthways.co.uk:
Many patients diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) may in fact be suffering from some of the 92 already documented neurological symptoms now being attributed to methanol toxicity or “Aspartame Disease”, including fibromyalia, headaches, vertigo, tinnitus, numbness in the legs, blurred vision, slurred speech, depression and memory loss. In addition, an analysis of the incidence of brain tumours, carried out my Professor John Olney, Washington University, St Louis, USA, has demonstrated that there was an abrupt 10% increase in cases following the introduction of Aspartame in dry goods in 1981 and soft drinks in 1983.
Methanol, the toxin present in Aspartame, belongs to the same class of poisons as Cyanide and Arsenic. It is readily converted into formaldehyde and then into Formic Acid (the poison contained in the sting of Fire Ants) when subjected to prolonged storage of temperatures of 86 Degrees F or over in the body, this can result in metabolic acidosis and methanol toxicity affecting the brain, retina and nerves.
It is interesting to note that Aspartame is manufactured by the NutraSweet Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto, who, it is believed, are fully aware of the dangers of their product. However, as Monsanto also funds the American Diabetics Association, the American Dietetic Association, Congress and the Conference of the American College of Physicians, there appears to be a conspiracy of silence with regard to the dangers of this artificial sweetener which is contained in over 5,000 sugar-free products sold under the brand names of NutraSweet, Canderel, Equal and Spoonful. (Also listed as E Number E951)
The general advice is to read the labels and avoid!
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