21/10/11 - Israel orders VeriChip for Israeli Defence Force

PositiveID, the company that manufactures the VeriChip RFID tag, has announced a deal to provide the Israeli Defence Force with the chip. The VeriChip, which is primarily marketed as a device for retrieving medical records using the VeriMed package, also has a number of other useful applications. PositiveID's VeriPay system, where the chip is used like a credit card to authorize financial transactions, is already employed by the Baja Beach Club in Spain. A few years ago, VeriChip Corporation revealed they were in talks with the US Administration to implant the 1.4 million service personnel with a VeriChip, replacing the metal 'dog tags' currently worn by the troops. The secular news article reported at the time that the "device is usually implanted above the triceps area of an individual’s right arm, but can also by implanted in the hand if scanned at the proper frequency". Other articles have confirmed that the VeriChip is indeed often implanted in the hand rather than behind the shoulder blade. Now it seems the IDF is interested in acquiring the technology.

Quote: "The Company's integration partner intends to provide the microchips to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the State of Israel's military force. Marc Poulshock, PositiveID's Vice President of Business Development, said, "We believe there are many important applications for the VeriChip and our associated intellectual property including next-generation identification and bio-sensing capabilities. Our partner is looking to help healthcare organizations, militaries including the IDF, and governments with their disaster preparedness and emergency response needs."

The IDF have not said what they will use the technology for, but with the recent release of Gilad Shalit, perhaps preventing further kidnappings of its soldiers by Palestinian terrorists might form part of their reasoning for that. While we are overjoyed that Gilad Shalit is returned safe and sound, there is no doubt the deal has strengthened the hand of Hamas considerably. One thousand and twenty seven Palestinian terrorists were freed in order to secure Gilad's release, many of them receiving multiple life-sentences for murder. Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh has stated he regards the release of these prisoners as justification for the capture of Gilad Shalit and the murder of his fellow soldiers, and has vowed to continue the struggle until all the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are freed.

Quote: "“This is a strategic turning point in our struggle against the Zionist enemy,” Haniyeh said at a celebration in Gaza on Tuesday evening, adding “it was thanks to our resistance that we were able to release the land and the people.”

As you can see, there is little sense of justice in the world today. Men who have committed crimes, many of them who have committed murder and are completely unrepentant, are allowed to walk free, and all for the sake of finding 'peace'. Man's peace only seems to come at the expense of truth. You give me what I want and I will give you what you want, and truth and justice are quickly brushed under the carpet. God's peace is not like this. God's peace is based on His absolute truth and perfect justice.

Psalm 85:10-11
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

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27/8/11 - RFID Healthcare bill

18/5/11 - Australia’s e-Health bill paves the way for PositiveID human implantable RFID microchips

by News on February 13th, 2011 at 2:27 am

Posted In: News, PositiveID

From July 1^st every single Australian will be branded with a unique, ^1.16 digit identification number courtesy of Medicare Australia in accordance with Kevin Rudd’s new e-health revolution. The stated purpose of this act ^2.“is to provide a way of ensuring that an entity that provides, or an individual who receives, healthcare is correctly matched to health information that is created when healthcare is provided.” Understandably it is a simple transition from localized medical records to an online system, that would allow your medical records to be accessed by medical facilities all across Australia.

For many this would seem to be the perfect solution to holiday accidents and prevent any unnecessary delays when facing treatment from an uncommon doctor who would require any past medical records. If a doctor in a different state previously treated you, they would need to determine if any further treatments/medications could cause adverse reactions to a prescription you or your family might currently be on. Having access to your usual doctors detailed medical reports, anywhere in the country, might just be a life saver. But is there more to it than meets the eye? There is indeed a surreptitious plan to set up the ground work for this system to progress seamlessly to implantable RFID microchips. All that would be required is a simple distribution of the PositiveID microchip and the necessary RFID scanners into the medical infrastructure – the software side would already be functioning at full steam.

^3.“The Australian healthcare sector is a complex of public and private interests, hospital and community facilities, GP’s, laboratories, health funds, professional associations, special interest groups and individual consumers”. The introduction of this system would aim to revolutionize the way medical records are accessed and updated, ensuring every time it is accessed by a medical professional, the information is up to date and accurate. ^4.Privacy advocates have lambasted the proposed bill quoting medical record privacy breaches, in 2007-2008 there were 234 serious accounts of this occurring yet 160 of these resulted in an emailed warning or counseling. If the Unique patient identification number was to go ahead, Australian Privacy Foundation chair Roger Clarke said “The situation will be many hundreds of times worse, as the HI database will ultimately be accessed by more than 600,000 medical providers and organizations”.

Knowing of the obvious security flaws that are inherent with a system of this scale, why does the Rudd government choose to bulldoze it into legislation? Could this in fact be the Hegelian dialectic at work? It could very well be a future road map that would lead to the more ‘secure’ method of accessing medical records via RFID implants as scores of complaints flood the media regarding security breaches and invasions of ‘privacy’. Scott R. Silverman, chairman and CEO of PositiveID claims ^5.“In addition to helping consumers protect themselves from identity theft as it pertains to credit fraud, we are also focused on combating the growing problem of medical identity theft, which affects 7 percent of identity theft victims”. How noble of Scott.
Lets move to the hardware side of things, as we already have established that Medicare is providing the 16 digit number. Why 16-digits? Introducing the PositiveID implantable RFID microchip. The microchip itself ^6.contains only a 16-digit number that when scanned with a hand held reader, connects to a secure online database. The database houses the patient’s identification information and personal health record data. The Council of Australian Governments even state themselves that ^7.“The identifiers are an important building block for the future introduction of a patient-controlled Individual Electronic Health Record“. Scott R. Silverman states, on behalf of PositiveID, ^8.“we put consumers in charge of their own health information through a robust, patient-controlled interface.” Interesting indeed.

^9.It has been established already that IBM has seed funded PositiveID since inception, would it come as any surprise to you that ^10.Medicare relies on IBM for its technology infrastructure and has just paid $189 million for a one-year extension on a services contract? Of course not. This is the most disturbing element, the very people designing and maintaining the system currently in use in Australia, are also the ones behind the PositiveID RFID microchip for humans.

Currently Microsoft and Google both have an e-health record management service. Microsoft’s product is ‘MS HealthVault’, Google’s is simply ‘Google Health’. ^11.Both of these services are fully interoperable with PositiveID’s RFID microchip. ^12.Microsoft has already made a submission to the national health and hospitals reform commission (NHHRC) and proposed an electronic health record system for the improvement of Australia’s healthcare. ^13.Google isn’t far behind in the race either, with CEO Eric Schmidt stating that he “hopes to deliver Google Health to Australia by the end of the year”.

Staying true to the science of gradualism, we are having an information cage slowly erected around us and we won’t know until it is too late to do anything about it. Maybe the implantable RFID microchips are coming sooner rather than later, we do know that they will be introduced for the purpose of cost efficiency and ‘reliability’ of patient identification, perhaps a failed e-health system could provide the perfect chaos to accommodate an implantable RFID solution. What we wont be told is that it will simply be a ‘plug in’ upgrade to our existing infrastructure, meaning a rapid deployment nation wide. To some money minded bureaucratic sell outs, this is an extremely easy system to sell to an uneducated public.

Australians have already researched the ‘benefits’ of implantable microchips in a published article titled ^14.“Lend me your arms: the use and implications of humancentric RFID”. The article suggests that social and ethical concerns “plague the technology” yet goes on to imply that “Initial adoption of the invasive technology has met with some success but any real assessment of the industry is prejudiced by the commercial monopoly of the VeriChip Corporation [now known as PositiveID]”. “Security and convenience are generic wants” and “Care-related humancentric RFID devices provide unparalleled portability for medical records.” To all the disbelievers that think the human microchipping agenda is light years away, think again, this article was published in 2006.

I’m going to be keeping my eye on the Rudd governments new health plan, in particular the ^15.$436 million dollars that has been proposed to deal with the rising number of diabetics – just how much of this money is going to be used for a feasibility analysis of PositiveID’s iGlucose system? ^16.“The iGlucose system is a standalone, self-contained unit that will automatically query a diabetic’s data-capable glucometer for blood glucose data and send that data via encrypted SMS text messaging to an online database.“ The machine is well oiled and vigilance is needed, we are dealing with a company that has no qualms when it comes to ^17.micro chipping Alzheimer patients with ^18.cancer causing RFID microchips. There is going to be a huge, vulnerable market in the form of diabetic patients and with the ^19.US government and now the ^20.Australian government both trying to tackle the expanding financial burden that this disease places on both respective economies. You don’t have to look too far for an ‘easy’ and ‘cost effective’ solution, especially with PositiveID ready to jump at any opportunity it can to ‘help’.

NOTE: Legislation has been presented to Senators within Australia to prevent the mandatory implantation of humans, and it is sitting on their desks currently awaiting further action. Please contact your representatives and encourage them to introduce this into the senate and have it passed into law. For more information on the legislation itself there is a website found at http://www.wethepeoplewillnotbechipped.com/action/ that explains the process you will need to follow including a letter template and fact sheet.
References:

1. Patients have no choice – a health number ID for us all
   http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/patients-have-no-choice-a-health-number-id-for-us-all/story-e6freuy9-1225831125547
2. Healthcare identifiers and privacy: Discussion paper on proposals for legislative support
   http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/pacd-ehealth-consultation/$File/Typeset%20discussion%20paper%20-%20public%20release%20version%20070709.pdf
3. Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010
   http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bills/r4299_first/toc_pdf/10027b01.pdf;fileType%3Dapplication%2Fpdf
4. Medicare data breaches increase privacy fears http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/medicare-data-breaches-increase-privacy-fears/story-e6frgakx-1225841101367
5. PositiveID’s Latest Human Chip-Implant Scare Story: “Medical Identity Theft”http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/10007567/positiveids-latest-human-chip-implant-scare-story-medical-identity-theft/
6. PositiveID: HealthIDhttp://www.positiveidcorp.com/health-id.html
7. Council of Australian Governments’ Meeting
   http://www.coag.gov.au/coag_meeting_outcomes/2009-12-07/index.cfm?CFID=616596&CFTOKEN=68544706#ehealth
8. PositiveID Corporation’s Identity Security Business Achieves Record Growth to 20,000 Active Subscribers
   http://www.marketwatch.com/story/positiveid-corporations-identity-security-business-achieves-record-growth-to-20000-active-subscribers-2010-04-01?reflink=MW_news_stmp
9. Verichip is now called PositiveID! Roll up your sleeve for the implantable human microchip, it’s now Positive? http://www.wethepeoplewillnotbechipped.com/main/articles.php?article_id=33
10. Medicare extends its long-standing contract with IBM for another year http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/medicare-extends-its-long-standing-contract-with-ibm-for-another-year/story-e6frgakx-1225850070857
11. PositiveID Corporation’s Identity Security Business Achieves Record Growth to 20,000 Active Subscribers
    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/positiveid-corporations-identity-security-business-achieves-record-growth-to-20000-active-subscribers-2010-04-01?reflink=MW_news_stmp
12. SUBMISSION TO THE NATIONAL HEALTH AND HOSPITALS REFORM COMMISSION (NHHRC)http://www.health.gov.au/internet/nhhrc/publishing.nsf/Content/111-mhv/$FILE/Submissions%20111%20-%20Microsoft%20Healthvault%20Submission.pdf
13. Google CEO coughs up Australia Health plans
    http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Google-CEO-coughs-up-Australia-Health-plans/0,339028227,339287342,00.htm
14. Lend me your arms: the use and implications of humancentric RFIDhttp://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1390&context=infopapers
15. Rudd plan a ‘stimulus’ to diabetes care
    http://news.ninemsn.com.au/health/1035321/rudd-plan-a-stimulus-to-diabetes-care
16. PositiveID Corporation Launches iGlucose Second-Stage Product Development
    http://investors.positiveidcorp.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=454613
17. The Controversy Magnet: PositiveID “Chips” Alzheimer’s Patients, Quite Possibly Without Permission
    http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/10007254/positiveids-ethics-lapse-in-study-of-alzheimers-patients-with-microchip-implants-will-fuel-critics-ire/
18. Microchip Cancer Report
    http://www.rense.com/general79/micro.htm
19. PositiveID Corporation Launches iGlucose Second-Stage Product Development
    http://investors.positiveidcorp.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=454613
20. Rudd injects $430m into diabetic care
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/31/2861131.htm?section=justin

18/5/11 - Tommy Thompson Wanted To Implant Data Chips In Humans

First Posted: 05/17/11 04:18 PM ET Updated: 05/17/11 04:55 PM ET

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  2012 ,   2012 Election ,   Elections 2012 , RFID Chips , RFID Tags , Tommy Thompson , Human Implants , Privacy , Rfid , Verichip , Wisconsin , Politics News

WASHINGTON -- "Tracking" in politics usually refers to poll numbers. But for prospective Wisconsin Senate candidate Tommy Thompson, it had another, more literal meaning when he sat on the board of a company that implants digital chips in people.

The company, VeriChip, makes something called radio frequency identification chips that are implanted in an arm, and can help doctors track a person's medical history, or can be used in high-tech security systems. They could also be used to track pets or people with advances in GPS technology.

Privacy advocates fear that the technology's potential for keeping tabs on workers, patients or even immigrants will be so enticing to businesses and governments that someday everyone could be forced to get "chipped."
Thompson, who joined the board of VeriChip in 2005 before it changed its name to PositiveID, made TV appearances for the company in which he expressed no reservations about the devices.
"You put it in your right arm and it is very small and it doesn't bother you at all, but it certainly is going to allow you to identify who you are, protect your child if you have a new child that's born in a nursery, you can protect that child from having somebody walk off with it," Thompson said in a CNBC interview.
He insisted he would have no qualms about getting one himself.
"I certainly would and I think it is a coming thing," Thompson.

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Thompson, a four-time governor of Wisconsin and one-time secretary of Health and Human Services in the Bush Administration, quit the firm to run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. It's not clear that Thompson ever got the chip. Reports from his departure suggested he did not.

Thompson also flirted with running for Senate in 2010. He bowed out at a Tea Party rally, where it seems unlikely the limited-government advocates would have endorsed human chip implantation.