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THE PENNY DROPS AT LAST?
Hello all ...
We reached a significant milestone this week with a near-official acknowledgement that we are heading for mass human microchipping within a decade as we 'sleep walk' into the 'Surveillance Society'.
This suggested timescale is highly optimistic because unless we awaken from the trance very soon we are talking far less than ten years, but, most importantly, the prospect of the bar-coded human is being discussed in the mainstream.
It is a long way from the days a decade and more ago when my very suggestion that we were heading for microchipped people was guaranteed to trigger guffaws and belly laughs. But no more.
This week, Britain's Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, responded to a report into the use of surveillance technology that warns that people may be forced to be microchipped 'like pet dogs' to track their movements and store personal information which, of course, would no longer be personal to anyone with a chip reader. The chips could be used not only by the government, says the report, but also by companies to keep tabs on employees. We would, as I have been warning for so long, be like monkeys in an electronic cage, rats in an electronic maze.
http://www.davidicke.com/oi/extras/october/cat_scan.jpg
Cat-scan today ... humans tomorrow, say report authors
The report was edited by Dr David Murakami-Wood, managing editor of the journal Surveillance and Society and Dr Kirstie Ball, an Open University lecturer in Organisation Studies, and was produced by a group of academics called the Surveillance Studies Network. They say that by 2016 almost every movement, purchase and communication could be monitored by a complex network of interlinking surveillance technologies -unless we turn back from the brink pretty damn quick. 'The call for everyone to be implanted is now being seriously debated', the authors warn. Dr David Murakami-Wood said:
'We really do have a society which is premised both on state secrecy and the state not giving up its supposed right to keep information under control while, at the same time, wanting to know as much as it can about us.'
The report points out that Britain, which claims to spread 'freedom and democracy', is the planetary leader in surveillance technology and the British are the most spied-upon nation in what is so ironically called the 'free world'. And what is happening in Britain is planned, indeed is being introduced, in the rest of Europe, North America and elsewhere.
There are four million closed circuit television cameras in the UK for a population of just 60 million. The UK Home Office spent an astonishing 78 per cent of its crime prevention budget in the 1990s on installing the cameras. On average you are caught on camera in Britain 300 times a day -every 4.8 minutes -but in the cities it is even more extreme. The latest development, straight from the pages of Orwell's 1984, are cameras with speakers that allow operators to issue orders to people they are spying on
http://www.davidicke.com/oi/extras/october/crimcam.jpg
The image they want you to buy ... but it is really about control, not criminals
There are 6,000 speed cameras in the UK, 8,000 number plate recognition devices with technology on the way to photograph anyone using their mobile phone at the wheel or not wearing a seat belt. Last March the London Metropolitan Police took possession of 'eye in the sky' cameras that can read number plates from helicopters thousands of feet above the ground, and remotely-controlled 'drone' aircraft are to be used in Scotland to spy on the people. This very week members of Parliament called for even more speed cameras when even a government report found that 85% of road accidents are not connected to drivers breaking the speed limit.
We have technology to identify faces in crowds and 'suspicious behaviour patterns' with 'lie detectors' being planned for airports. The so-called Oyster card used on the London underground requires people to register their personal details so that their every journey can be logged down to the minute. There are plans to expand this around the country. As a result of Blair's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill, passed in 2000, internet providers have to record our surfing activity and provide this information to MI5. Phone calls, emails and faxes are being monitored by the Echelon spy network that searches for key words and voice recognition patterns.
http://www.davidicke.com/oi/extras/october/tubeposter.jpg
London Transport poster
All this detailed information is kept on a giant data base that connects all other data bases and allows a stream of 'public bodies' to access everything about you and your life. Even not registering your name and address on the electoral roll will be subject to a fine of 2,500 pounds.
The Children Act of 2004 creates a database to record detailed information about our children right down to their eating habits and this can be accessed by police, doctors, social workers and teachers. In July 2006, three 12-year-olds in the English West Midlands had their DNA taken after being arrested by police for ... breaking branches while building a den. DNA is now taken as a matter of course when anyone is arrested and this is kept on file even if they are subsequently not charged or found to be innocent.
The scale of what is happening is simply staggering.
But the key to global control is microchipped people -that's what they want more than anything. Even now, you don't have to take those Underground Oyster cards out of your pocket because they are read automatically by radiowaves and it's the same with the new microchipped passports. It is only one step to embed this technology permanently under the skin. In December 2005, the Giove A satellite was sent into orbit as part of the Galileo European navigation system. This will allow 'Galileo chips' to be embedded in devices of every kind, but the real target is humanity.
http://www.davidicke.com/oi/extras/october/satcart.jpg
The United States appears to lead the world in the use of human microchips thanks to the vociferous work of a deeply sinister company that I identified in my books many years ago. This is the VeriChip Corporation and it is part of an operation called Applied Digital. These 'VeriChips' are being marketed as a way of keeping us safe or, as the company says on its website --'Safeguarding what's important to you'. In the interests of accuracy it should add: 'So long as freedom is not important to you'. The VeriChip Corporation is now aggressively marketing human microchips to hospitals (the 'VeriMed Physician Network'), for Alzheimer's patients, and as security devices. In 2006, two employees of a company in Ohio were chipped to access a secure area.
THE PENNY DROPS AT LAST?
Hello all ...
We reached a significant milestone this week with a near-official acknowledgement that we are heading for mass human microchipping within a decade as we 'sleep walk' into the 'Surveillance Society'.
This suggested timescale is highly optimistic because unless we awaken from the trance very soon we are talking far less than ten years, but, most importantly, the prospect of the bar-coded human is being discussed in the mainstream.
It is a long way from the days a decade and more ago when my very suggestion that we were heading for microchipped people was guaranteed to trigger guffaws and belly laughs. But no more.
This week, Britain's Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, responded to a report into the use of surveillance technology that warns that people may be forced to be microchipped 'like pet dogs' to track their movements and store personal information which, of course, would no longer be personal to anyone with a chip reader. The chips could be used not only by the government, says the report, but also by companies to keep tabs on employees. We would, as I have been warning for so long, be like monkeys in an electronic cage, rats in an electronic maze.
http://www.davidicke.com/oi/extras/october/cat_scan.jpg
Cat-scan today ... humans tomorrow, say report authors
The report was edited by Dr David Murakami-Wood, managing editor of the journal Surveillance and Society and Dr Kirstie Ball, an Open University lecturer in Organisation Studies, and was produced by a group of academics called the Surveillance Studies Network. They say that by 2016 almost every movement, purchase and communication could be monitored by a complex network of interlinking surveillance technologies -unless we turn back from the brink pretty damn quick. 'The call for everyone to be implanted is now being seriously debated', the authors warn. Dr David Murakami-Wood said:
'We really do have a society which is premised both on state secrecy and the state not giving up its supposed right to keep information under control while, at the same time, wanting to know as much as it can about us.'
The report points out that Britain, which claims to spread 'freedom and democracy', is the planetary leader in surveillance technology and the British are the most spied-upon nation in what is so ironically called the 'free world'. And what is happening in Britain is planned, indeed is being introduced, in the rest of Europe, North America and elsewhere.
There are four million closed circuit television cameras in the UK for a population of just 60 million. The UK Home Office spent an astonishing 78 per cent of its crime prevention budget in the 1990s on installing the cameras. On average you are caught on camera in Britain 300 times a day -every 4.8 minutes -but in the cities it is even more extreme. The latest development, straight from the pages of Orwell's 1984, are cameras with speakers that allow operators to issue orders to people they are spying on
http://www.davidicke.com/oi/extras/october/crimcam.jpg
The image they want you to buy ... but it is really about control, not criminals
There are 6,000 speed cameras in the UK, 8,000 number plate recognition devices with technology on the way to photograph anyone using their mobile phone at the wheel or not wearing a seat belt. Last March the London Metropolitan Police took possession of 'eye in the sky' cameras that can read number plates from helicopters thousands of feet above the ground, and remotely-controlled 'drone' aircraft are to be used in Scotland to spy on the people. This very week members of Parliament called for even more speed cameras when even a government report found that 85% of road accidents are not connected to drivers breaking the speed limit.
We have technology to identify faces in crowds and 'suspicious behaviour patterns' with 'lie detectors' being planned for airports. The so-called Oyster card used on the London underground requires people to register their personal details so that their every journey can be logged down to the minute. There are plans to expand this around the country. As a result of Blair's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill, passed in 2000, internet providers have to record our surfing activity and provide this information to MI5. Phone calls, emails and faxes are being monitored by the Echelon spy network that searches for key words and voice recognition patterns.
http://www.davidicke.com/oi/extras/october/tubeposter.jpg
London Transport poster
All this detailed information is kept on a giant data base that connects all other data bases and allows a stream of 'public bodies' to access everything about you and your life. Even not registering your name and address on the electoral roll will be subject to a fine of 2,500 pounds.
The Children Act of 2004 creates a database to record detailed information about our children right down to their eating habits and this can be accessed by police, doctors, social workers and teachers. In July 2006, three 12-year-olds in the English West Midlands had their DNA taken after being arrested by police for ... breaking branches while building a den. DNA is now taken as a matter of course when anyone is arrested and this is kept on file even if they are subsequently not charged or found to be innocent.
The scale of what is happening is simply staggering.
But the key to global control is microchipped people -that's what they want more than anything. Even now, you don't have to take those Underground Oyster cards out of your pocket because they are read automatically by radiowaves and it's the same with the new microchipped passports. It is only one step to embed this technology permanently under the skin. In December 2005, the Giove A satellite was sent into orbit as part of the Galileo European navigation system. This will allow 'Galileo chips' to be embedded in devices of every kind, but the real target is humanity.
http://www.davidicke.com/oi/extras/october/satcart.jpg
The United States appears to lead the world in the use of human microchips thanks to the vociferous work of a deeply sinister company that I identified in my books many years ago. This is the VeriChip Corporation and it is part of an operation called Applied Digital. These 'VeriChips' are being marketed as a way of keeping us safe or, as the company says on its website --'Safeguarding what's important to you'. In the interests of accuracy it should add: 'So long as freedom is not important to you'. The VeriChip Corporation is now aggressively marketing human microchips to hospitals (the 'VeriMed Physician Network'), for Alzheimer's patients, and as security devices. In 2006, two employees of a company in Ohio were chipped to access a secure area.