Mark of the Beast/Cashless Society:
Microchip Implants Coming To A Body Near You
No more house keys, car keys, office keys, or airport boarding passes. Now a microchip injected between your thumb and index finger is just about all you require to identify you positively and replace all of your secure access needs.
Microchipping of humans with implants designed to replace
modern access controls is now gaining traction and snowballing across
the world. Despite the fears and usual outcries against privacy
violations, medical risks and 'big brother' tracking and surveillance,
there seems to be no stopping this fad.
Maya
Shwayder for dw.com (DW) recently shed some light on these developments
and shared findings of a bio-implant specialist in Seattle: Amal
Graafstra, founder of 'Dangerous Things' - a start-up dedicated to
normalizing bio implants. Graafstra works with his German partner
Stephen Kramer.
"We are putting the power of
cryptography and privacy in your hands," Graafstra told DW in a
statement that applied both figuratively and very literally. Shwayder
further reported that Graafstra is convinced bio-implants and
bio-hacking are the unavoidable way of the very near future. He himself
has four chips: one is his right hand, two in his left, and one - the
latest prototype - in his left arm.
According
to Graafstra, it's all about the interplay of security, access, and
identity: "In a human context, identifying someone means giving them
access. Identity is about controlling access...whether that be access to
bank accounts, smartphones, or simply buildings", he said. Implants -
and by extension becoming a "cyborg" - are all about merging your
biological and digital identity.
One way he has
been doing this is by exploring radio frequency identification (RFID)
and near-field communication (NFC) technologies as an alternative to
carrying a set of keys in his pocket. It's the type of technology that
allows a door to open when you swipe your work ID against a scanner.
NFC
allows two devices that are NFC-enabled to share information with a
simple tap. Think of tappable credit cards or the iPhone 3GS, which
allow users to tap their phones together to trade contact information.
Graafstra
began raising funds and partnering with doctors and professional
piercers to develop implantable RFID chips as he worked towards his goal
of transferring access controls from external gadgets to internal
biochips.
Shwayder is one of two DW reporters
who underwent the procedure to become certified cyborgs. After taking
the plunge, she stated, "...this reporter can say that no one has taken
control of her brain, no one has hacked her bank account or chopped off
her hand because of her new cyborgian outfittings".
According
to Shwayder's report, the chip can instantly be programmed with your
business card information, or be used for two-factor sign-in
authentication with apps like Google Authenticator. Tap your phone to
your hand, and it will generate a one-time password that no one else can
access.
"If someone steals or hacks your
phone, they won't be able to get into your personal information and log
into any accounts as you," Graafstra said.
The
next chips will have apps, too. Graafstra scans another spot on his arm
where he recently inserted a more recent prototype. The scan brings up a
bevy of what he calls "microapps" on his phone, ranging from a bitcoin
wallet to an email PGP encryptor.
And the next
step beyond that might be, of course, brain implants. They already exist
to a certain extent and are mostly used to treat neurological diseases
like Parkinson's. But Graafstra envisions devices that would take us
beyond quotidian tasks like maintaining memories or manage disease
symptoms. "We're talking about human augmentation and cognitive
augmentation," he says. "Our brains are due for an upgrade."
There
are clear indications that Graafstra's ideas and practices are by no
means rare, isolated or new. Adam Justice for the ibtimes.co.uk reported
in February of 2015 on a newly-opened Epicenter office complex in
central Stockholm, where office workers have been opening doors and
operating the photocopier with a chip implanted in their hands. This
approach bypasses and eliminates the need of using identification cards
and pass codes.
The radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip is made
from Pyrex glass and contains an antenna and microchip, with no need for
batteries. "The chip is about 12mm in size and put in with a syringe,"
said Epicenter co-founder and CEO Patrick Mesterton. "It sends and RFID
code, so it's an identification tool that can communicate with objects
around you. So you can open doors using your chip, you can do secure
printing from our printers with the chip but you can also communicate
with your mobile phone, by sending your business card to individuals
that you meet."
Reception to the system at
Epicenter was warmly received despite a measure of nervousness. "It felt
pretty scary, but at the same time it felt very modern, very 2015,"
said Lin Kowalska, who works for the charity GiveSome in the building,
shortly after she was chipped.
Mesterton said
that unlike a mobile phone, the chip could not be tracked, and he did
not see any integrity issues. The chipping is entirely voluntary and,
according to the manufacturers, completely safe.
Little
wonder then that acceptance has become so widespread that even airports
are allowing the use of security access via biochips instead of
paperwork and the usual forms of physical identification. Stacy
Liberatore for Dailymail.com reported on the case of Andreas Sjöström,
who implanted a near-field communication chip (NFC) in his hand before
going to the airport to catch a flight.
Sjöström
took viewers on a journey as he waved his hand over a scanner, allowing
him to slide through airport security and right to his seat on the
plane. The chip held his Scandinavian Airlines EuroBonus member ID, and
since the airport has NFC readers all the way from security to the
gate, Sjöström didn't need the traditional boarding pass - just a flick
of his wrist to place the microchip on top of the scanner.
The
microchip used in this experiment was an xNT implant from Graafstra's
'Dangerous Things' practice, which also provides for a Do-it-yourself
(DIY) approach with full instructions for those who wish to order
directly through the Dangerous Things website.
A
kptv.com story filed late February this year by Fox12 staff in Oregon
gave yet another recent illustration that the chipping fad is still
alive and well. James Newman, a Canby man, says he can open his door -
even unlock his cell phone - with just the swipe of a hand. It's because
he has a microchip implanted in his hand - courtesy of Graafstra's
services.
Aside from benefits like keyless entry, Newman said there are some social perks to having a chip.
"I'm
the only one that I know that has one, it's kind of unique," he said.
"A lot of people say that's weird, no way. Then after they see me do it
once or twice they say OK that's kind of cool."
But
Newman knows not everyone is a fan of the technology. "When it comes to
the Mark of the Beast type of thing, that seems to me a literal
interpretation of Biblical text and if you really read it, it says it's
on the right hand or the forehead," he said. "Mine's on my left."
Newman
said for now he is taking his chances, and has no plans to remove his
chip. "I figured worst-case scenario I could take a scalpel to it and
cut it out," he said.
BROOKE SHIELDS: "I'D LIKE TO MICROCHIP MY KIDS!"
The Mark Of The Beast Is Here – The Death Of Cash Has Been Mandated
The elite's dream of a cashless society is rapidly becoming a reality
Report: Central Bankers Moving to Ban Cash
500-Euro note first to be discontinued
The European Central Bank will stop printing the 500-Euro note, which economists have indicated is a step towards banning cash altogether.
Claiming the banknote “could facilitate illicit activities,” the ECB said it would stop producing the bill at the end of 2018, but academics are pointing out there’s no evidence the bills were heavily used in crime.
“Organized crime isn’t stupid,” said Friedrich Schneider, an Austrian professor and expert on the black economy. “Most money is laundered without cash via bogus companies.”
And it’s been well documented that the central banks themselves are also laundering billions for organized crime, so the abolition of cash is the only plausible reason for the note’s discontinuation.
“In their desperate bid to double down on almost a decade of failed inflationist monetary policy, they would use the debate to stampede the public into accepting the elimination of cash as the price to be paid for fighting terrorists and organized criminals,” said Joseph T. Salerno with the Mises Institute. “A cashless economy would trap all holdings of monetary wealth within a government-controlled banking system.”
“Central bankers would then be free to open up another avenue for their own criminal plunder of the productive middle class by pushing nominal interest rates deeper into negative territory and to redistribute the stolen wealth to the political class and their bankster and corporate cronies.”
And this will enslave the poor into an electronic monetary system they don’t control, allowing central banks and the government unparalleled ability to confiscate money at will through taxes and “bail-ins.”
For example, after Cyprus’s largest bank went under from exposure to debt-crippled Greece, the Cypriot government looted people’s bank accounts in 2013 as part of a “bail-in” program with the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank.
“If you can do this once, you can do it again,” said financial analyst Lars Seier Christensen, adding that the “bail-in” was full-blown socialism. “If you can confiscate 10% of a bank customer’s money, you can confiscate 25, 50 or even 100%.”
