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features20 What is the Markof the Beast?What do you think of when you hear ‘666’ or ‘mark of the beast?’ Occultism? A horror flick? What does the Bible actually say? By iRvin BaxteR

22 Will the National ID become a Global ID?It happens every day. Small systems merging into larger systems. Will national IDs (small systems) lead us directly into a global ID (large system)?By Ken Raggio

26 Spychips excerptTracking everything everywhere—the growing threat of RFID technology.

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666—2008?The Bible prophesies a time when individuals will not be able to buy or sell without the ‘mark of the beast.’ Between now and May 2008, Americans will receive national ID cards without which we cannot hold a job or open a bank account.By iRvin BaxteR

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What is endtime? In 1968, Irvin Baxter Jr. discovered the United States and other modern nations in the Bible. He also found the Berlin Wall in the Bible and that one day it was to be torn down, re-uniting Germany, and that event would be the catalyst to spark an international movement called the “New World Order.” These things have now come to pass. Irvin Baxter Jr., a Pentecostal minister, began Endtime Ministries in 1986 when he wrote A Message For The President, a book explaining the major prophecies of the Bible which he had been teaching since 1968. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, prophetic fulfillment accelerated rapidly. The decision was made to launch Endtime magazine. The purpose of the magazine is to explain the prophecies of the Bible and to show that they are now being fulfilled in intricate detail. Articles focus on the soon return of Jesus Christ, the truth of the Bible, and the need for salvation. Endtime does not deal with doctrinal controversies, as valid as they may be. This will be left to other publications.

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230 yeaRs Without a national idWe’ve gotten along for 230 years in this nation without a national ID card. Do we really have to, after all this time, suddenly give every American an ID? Do we want a national database with information on every citizen that can be pulled up at the click of a computer mouse?

I’m sure that’s not what most Americans want. Why must we have it then? How have we gotten along for 230 years without being numbered and controlled by a national database? And what has changed that we are now being told that we absolutely must have these instruments of control imposed upon us?

What has changed?For the last 230 years, the United States has relied on its borders to provide a safe and secure nation. However, in recent years ‘wiser’ voices have led us down the path of the global village, better known as world government and commonly referred to as globalization. The world planners have told us that all nations are now interdependent and that we must now think globally. Terms like ‘world community’ and ‘international community’ have easily slipped into the global lexicon.

In this day of interdependence and globalization, how do you control the populace of the world? How can governmental leaders provide security from terrorism for those they are entrusted to govern?

Back when borders were really borders, foreigners (remember that word?) were rare and those who did immigrate to America came to fit in. They learned our language, adopted our culture and converted to our religions. They became Americans.

With the onset of globalism and one-worldism, borders have become virtually meaningless. Cultures have intermingled, and nations have lost their identities—especially in America. To suggest that the U.S. is a ‘Christian’ nation evokes howls of outrage from certain elements of society. Our Judeo-Christian values have even been banished from government property by the courts.

So if we don’t govern a nation and preserve its values with borders, how can it be done? A recent novel idea has emerged around the world. The U.S. government has decided to give everyone a national ID with a number that can be entered into a national (soon to be global) database. Since all Americans already have Social Security numbers, the government has mandated that you must give your Social Security number in order to receive your new national ID.

Once we have a national ID card that requires a number, we can be controlled by the use of databases and computers. If our ID is unacceptable, we won’t board an airplane, open a bank account or hold a job. Amazing!

Borders are being replaced with ID cards. We used to travel freely within the borders of our nation. Now we must be tracked everywhere, and freedom has now been replaced by control. The price of globalization is constant surveillance.

it’s the BoRdeRs, stuPid!Do I dare say the obvious? We’ve gotten along without a national ID for 230 years because we’ve had enforceable and defensible borders. The globalists would like to tell us that this just isn’t possible, but it’s been possible for 230 years!

Our government can send a man to the moon but seemingly can’t figure out how to defend our borders—something we’ve been doing for 230 years. Amazing!Borders aren’t really that hard.

Our friend Israel knows how to maintain a border. It’s quite simple. In rural open areas, they build an eight or ten foot fence with a dirt road running alongside of it. Every two to four hours, the border patrol comes along in a jeep equipped with a road sweeper. As the border patrol drives along the road, they look for footprints — the telltale sign that someone has crossed the fence and entered the country. If footprints are spotted, the alarm is sounded and the search is on.

But we couldn’t possibly afford to build a fence along our entire 2,000-mile border, the argument goes.

Sure we could! If Israel, a nation of 6 million can build a 450-mile fence, surely a nation of 300 million can build a 2,000-mile fence…unless we don’t want to. Perhaps the powers-that-be fear the establishment of defensible borders would bring an end to their utopian dream of global society.

dRunK on the Wine of gloBalizationAre we so drunk on the wine of globalization that we can’t recognize it isn’t working? Will anyone dare stand up and state the obvious… “The emperor has no clothes on?”

It’s time to admit that world government doesn’t work and that the nation-state has worked nicely for 230 years. In the nation-state, you don’t need an ID card. You can go anywhere you want within the safe and secure borders of your nation. Now that is freedom!

Yes, there is an answer to international terrorism that doesn’t require the surrendering of hard-won freedoms. It’s just happens to be the answer that world leaders don’t want to hear. One-world government (globalization) simply doesn’t work. Globalization has wrecked the backbone of the American economy. It has brought high gas prices and reduced wages.

Bring back secure borders and pass a law against a national ID and against the establishment of a national database. Did I hear someone say, “Give me liberty, or give me death?”

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China Goes to War üIn revelatIon 9:15-16, the bIble prophesIes that an army of 200 mIllIon soldiers will launch a war which will kill “the third part of men.” Never in the history of the world until our present generation has there been a power on earth that could field 200 million soldiers. However, the late ruler of China Mao Tse Tung boasted in his diary that he could field an army of 200 million. The CIA World Factbook reported that in the year 2001 it was estimated that China had 200,866,946 men of military age and that this number is growing by 10 million per year.

Worldwide Numbering System Predicted üIn revelatIon 13, the bIble prophesIes that a world dIctator wIll soon rule over a world government. He will cause all people on the earth to receive a number without which they will be unable to buy or sell. We are seeing this prophecy fulfilled before our eyes in a most astonishing way. Nearly every human being in the world has now been assigned a number. In America, it is our Social Security number. In the past few years, we have seen this number extended to newborns. A child without a Social Security number cannot be declared as a dependent on an income tax return. We have seen the emergence of electronic money, shopping with credit cards, and many people actually urging the abolition of cash. All of these things could not possibly have been fulfilled until this present time. Only after the invention of the computer could such a worldwide numbering system be administered.

The Emergence of a New World order ürevelatIon 13:7 and danIel 7:23 prophesy the establIshment of a world government. The term “New World Order” has become a prevalent phrase in the world’s political culture. Mikhail Gorbachev made the term famous, and Pope John Paul II referred to it repeatedly. In the September 12, 1990 issue of the Chicago Tribune, our former president George Bush said, “Iraq is the first test for the New World Order.” He emphatically stated that the Iraq War was Saddam Hussein against the world. The United Nations’ troops are continually referred to as the multi-national forces. The decision has been made to establish an interdependent community of nations that will rule the world under United Nations authority. The Bible says that this will lead us into a great world government. The formation of this government is at hand.

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T he bible prophesies a time when individuals will not be able to buy or sell unless they take the ‘mark of the

beast.’ Between now and May of 2008, Americans will receive national ID cards without which we will be unable to hold a job or open a bank account. If we cannot hold a job or have a bank account, how much buying or selling will we be able to do? The question has to be asked: “Will the National ID card—which will be implemented over the next two years—be the mark of the beast?”

a little histoRyFor many years, advocates of socialistic big government have promoted the establishment of a national ID card. The American public has steadfastly resisted this encroachment upon individual liberties, not wanting to become a number in the government’s computer.

When it created the Department of Homeland Security after 9/11, Congress made it clear in the enabling legislation that the agency could not create a national ID system. In September 2004, then-DHS Secretary Tom Ridge reiterated, “The legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security was very specific on the question of a national ID card. They said there will be no national ID card.”

However, when the Homeland Security Commission presented their recommendation for responding to 9/11, there it was… as big as Dallas. On page 407 of the 9/11 Report, it states, “Secure identification should begin in the United States. The federal gov-ernment should set standards for the issuance of birth certificates and sources of identification, such as drivers’ licenses.”

Those who have long salivated over imposing a controlled society upon America grabbed the 9/11 baton and ran with it! Knowing that Americans did not want a national ID card, the ‘Big Brother-ites’ decided to pass the National ID Act by stealth. First of all, they called it the Real ID Act, and then attached it to a huge appropriations bill for our troops in Iraq so that no member of Congress would dare vote against it.

On May 10, 2005, the bill creating a national ID passed by a vote in the Senate of 100-0. The next day, May 11, 2005, President

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George W. Bush signed the bill into law. Just like that—the handcuffs were snapped around the wrists of Americans. The ‘land of the free and the home of the brave’ became the land of the controlled and the home of the scared.

What Will the Real id act actually do?In layman’s language, the Real ID Act mandates that all states in the U.S. must standardize procedures for the granting of drivers’ licenses and ID cards. The state must require before issuing a driv-ers’ license or ID card the following documentation:

(A) A photo identity document, ex-cept that a non-photo identity docu-ment is acceptable if it includes both the person’s full legal name and date of birth.

(B) Documentation showing the per-son’s date of birth.

(C) Proof of the person’s Social Se-curity account number or verification that the person is not eligible for a So-cial Security account number.

(D) Documentation showing the person’s name and address of principal residence.

Please notice that one of the man-datory requirements to get your ID card is the presentation of your Social Security number. Your Social Security number is what makes you trackable. It enables the government to enter information —lots of information about you—into its database, and then retrieve it at the push of a button.

What if you do not get a national id?This comes straight from the text of the Real ID Act: “Beginning 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, a Federal agency may not accept, for any official purpose, a driver’s license or identification card issued by a State to any person unless the state is meeting the requirements of this section.”

Notice that this paragraph sets the deadline for the final implementation of the national ID. It specifically sets May 11, 2008—3 years after the enact-ment of the law on May 11, 2005.

It also states that a Federal agency may not accept ‘for any official pur-pose’ a driver’s license or ID card is-sued by a State unless the State is meet-ing the requirements of the Real ID Act. What does this mean?

It means that you must have this new

national ID to board an airplane, enter a federal building where ID is required, open a bank account or hold a job. Fur-thermore, if you refuse to get this new national ID, you will not be able to le-gally drive your car (since your driver’s license will now be your national ID).

How will a person function in a mod-ern society if he cannot drive, fly, hold a job or have a bank account? It is obvi-ously going to be nearly impossible!

the Big lieDefenders of the Real ID Act say that the Real ID is not a national ID. They deceptively argue that states do not have to comply with the federally set standards of the Real ID Act.

Technically, they do not have to com-ply, but if they do not, none of their citizens can board a plane, hold a job or open a bank account. Oh, yes - one more thing. Any state that does not link its database, containing records on all drivers and ID holders, to the database of the other 49 states loses its federal funding. But, of course, it is not man-datory! Sounds very much like the ‘vol-untary’ income tax to me!

Anyone who tells you that the Real ID is not a national ID is intentionally lying or is incredibly ignorant.

otheR nations have had national ids foR a long timeThe argument has been made that many nations have had a national ID for a long time, yet they have not tak-en the mark of the beast. Why should we believe that the National ID Act will usher in the mark of the beast in America?

It is true that other nations have had national IDs for some time. Howev-er, America has been regarded as the world’s last bastion of freedom. If the U.S. succumbs to the tyranny of total governmental control, the last light of freedom on earth will have been extin-guished.

Furthermore, it can be demonstrated that the prophesied time for the enact-ment of the mark of the beast has ar-rived. There are six prophecies that will come to pass in the three and one-half years immediately preceding the impos-ing of the mark of the beast. All of these prophecies are in the process of coming to pass right now. This enables us to know that the mark of the beast is just ahead. America simply cannot allow the implementation of the national ID!

Six prophecies will immediately precede the mark of the beast:

middle east Peace PlanThe Bible foretells a peace plan for the Middle East that will deal with the sta-tus of Jerusalem and the borders of the Holy Land. The plan will be sponsored and confirmed by the world commu-nity seven years before the Battle of Armageddon. It is at the Battle of Ar-mageddon that Jesus Christ returns to earth, human government ends, and the 1000-year reign of the kingdom of God begins.

Such a plan now exists. The Road-map for Peace was authored in 2002 by “The Quartet,” consisting of the Unit-ed States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations. It was accepted by Israel and the Palestinians in June of 2003, but has not yet been imple-mented. The Roadmap is a peace plan for the Middle East and calls for settling the status of Jerusalem and the borders between Israel and the Palestinians.

After Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in August of 2005, the world community believed this action by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon might put the Roadmap for Peace back on track. The Quartet met at the UN on September 20, 2005, to “reaffirm” the world’s support for the Roadmap.

We are not sure that the prophesied ‘covenant’ has yet been ‘confirmed,’ triggering the beginning of the final seven years. However, it does seem cer-tain that the Roadmap for Peace is the mechanism for the “confirmation of the covenan,” whenever it does occur.

WoRld WaR iiiAnother prophecy found in Revelation 9:13-20 states that a war will originate from the area of the Euphrates River and will ultimately result in the kill-ing of “one-third part of men.” The vast majority of the Euphrates River is in Iraq where the U.S. presently has around 150,000 troops. This war that will kill one-third of mankind (two bil-lion people) must be completed at least three and one-half years before the Battle of Armageddon. It appears that we are already in the beginning stages of that Euphrates River war.

gReat tRiBulation in West BanKIn Matthew 24:15-16, Jesus prophesied a time when the West Bank, the area which Israelis call Judea, will become

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a place of horrible persecution and slaughter for Jews that remain there. Is-rael is presently building a wall, which will separate Israel proper from the area of Judea. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has publicly announced his in-tention to withdraw from Judea, leaving the Jews who choose to stay there at the mercy of the Palestinians. He says this withdrawal will be completed within four years.

Jesus called the coming slaughter in Judea the great tribulation. He said, “Then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor shall ever be.” The three and one-half years of great tribulation is also the time when the mark of the beast will be enacted upon earth. The wall separating Judea from the protection of Israel is scheduled for completion by the end of 2007.

ReBuilding of the temPle on the temPle mountSeveral different places in scripture prophesy that the Jews will build their temple on the Temple Mount just be-fore the final three and one-half years of great tribulation. Two of these prophecies are found in 2 Thessalo-nians 2:3-4 and Revelation 11:1-2.

There has been no Jewish temple on earth since the Second Temple was de-stroyed in 70 AD. Over the past several years, the Temple Institute in Jerusalem has been building the furniture and rec-reating the utensils for temple worship in anticipation of the time when the temple will, in fact, be rebuilt. The con-struction of all the temple furniture is now completed and is on display at the

Temple Institute in Jerusalem.In June of 2005, the historic an-

nouncement was made by the recently reborn Sanhedrin in Israel: “…the deci-sion has been made to begin the actual rebuilding of Israel’s Third Temple.” The Sanhedrin announced they will build the temple offsite—prefabricat-ing it like King Solomon built the First Temple. Then, when the political situ-ation allows, they will move it to the Temple Mount for assembly.

temPle mount undeR a shaRing aRRangementRevelation 11:1-2 depicts the Temple Mount in Jerusalem under a sharing arrangement forty-two months before the Battle of Armageddon.

The Temple Mount is the most dis-puted 35 acres on earth. When negoti-ating the status of the Temple Mount at Camp David in July of 2000, Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak could not agree. Both contended that they just could not surrender con-trol of the Temple Mount. Finally, Pres-ident Clinton suggested that Jews and Muslims could simply share it, allowing all religions to freely worship there. It has now become generally accepted that a sharing arrangement, as described in scripture, is the only feasible solution to the Temple Mount problem.

temPle mount undeR inteRnational contRolWhen President Clinton suggested the sharing of the Temple Mount, Arafat said that it would not work. It would be impossible for Jews and Arabs to worship on the same 35 acres together, he said.

Barak contended that it could work. He suggested that the holy site could be placed under the international supervi-sion of UN peacekeepers.

Amazingly, a Temple Mount under international control in the times just ahead was prophesied 2,000 years ago. In 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, the Apostle Paul said that the son of perdition (the Antichrist) would stand in the temple of God claiming to be God. This passage depicts the leader of the endtime world government (the UN) standing in the rebuilt temple claiming to be the ulti-mate sovereign authority over the Tem-ple Mount—just as Barak suggested.

Remember, all of the above proph-ecies are scheduled to come to pass during the three and one-half years im-mediately preceding the final three and one-half years known as the great tribu-lation. Since all of these prophecies are in process of fulfillment right now, it is obvious that we are just around the cor-ner from the prophesied mark of the beast. Understanding this, it becomes absolutely imperative that the Real ID Act be repealed immediately!

Will the maRK of the Beast Be enacted in 2008?Unless it is stopped, the Real ID Act will be implemented by 2008. The ‘mark of the beast’ may not be enacted immedi-ately, but whenever it does come into force, it seems sure that the Real ID Act will be the mechanism used for its en-forcement—whether that time comes in 2009, 2010 or 2011. We must stop the Real ID Act now before it becomes the mark of the beast! This is our last chance to save America! ¨

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6th tRumPet| Defiant Iran Rejects UN DemandsSecretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Tehran that the “international community is united” in the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program. But a Tehran envoy defiantly rejected the warning. Rice hinted at escalating Security Council action should Iran disregard the council’s demand that it freeze enrichment. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said sanctions had not been discussed and were not supported by Moscow. China’s Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo echoed Lavrov’s remarks. The West refuses to rule out sanctions, and the U.S. says the threat of military action must also remain on the table.

6th tRumPet| Iran threatens U.s. with “harm and pain”Iran has threatened the United States with “harm and pain” for its role in hauling Tehran before the U.N. Security Council over its nuclear program. The United States and its European allies said that Iran’s nuclear intransigence left the world with no choice. The Security Council could impose economic and political sanctions on Iran. Iranian officials were not available to elaborate on what Iran meant by “harm and pain.”

6th tRumPet| “We’re on the eve of World War III”According to Meir Amit, a former director of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, global civilization is on the verge of World War III - a massive conflict in which the Islamic world will attempt to impose its ideology on Western nations. Amit is one of the most esteemed figures in the international defense establishment. He said the terrorists in the world hit Spain, England, France. “I call it World War III.”

6th tRumPet| China warns U.s. on issue of TaiwanChina has warned the United States against sending “false signals” to Taiwan by playing down a recent decision by the island to do away with the National Unification Council. Taiwan said that the council had “ceased to function” and that its set of guidelines for the eventual unification of Taiwan and China had “ceased to apply.” China regards Taiwan as a province and has vowed to prevent formal independence by force if necessary. The United States has pledged to help Taiwan defend itself.

6th tRumPet| North Korea army threatens pre-emptive attackAccording to North Korea’s official media, the communist state has the right to launch a pre-emptive attack against

U.S.-backed South Korean forces because the two Koreas are technically still at war. The comments came as North Korea shows its displeasure with annual joint South Korean-U.S. military exercises. A spokesman for the North’s Korea People’s Army (KPA) said distrust is high between the United States and North Korea. The 1950-1953 Korean War ended in a truce and not a peace treaty so the two Koreas are technically still at war.

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eu Watch| Czech foreign minister backs EU constitution revivalCzech foreign minister Cyril Svoboda suggested that a short declaration on EU goals linked to the constitution could be what is needed to revive the document. Svoboda believes that during the pre-referendum campaigns in France and the Netherlands, the EU constitution became “hostage” to several issues including competing ideas on what the union really stands for. He said what is needed is a declaration that would focus people’s attention on what they want the EU to be.

eu Watch| Economic nationalism bad for Europe, says BarrosoEuropean Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso has urged a “sense of political responsibility on the part of our

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statesmen” and warned against rising nationalist rhetoric. He was speaking about a new wave of protectionism rising in major EU states with the most recent case involving a row between Italy and France following the merger of two French energy firms in a bid to prevent a takeover of Suez by Italian Enel. Mr. Barroso said, “we can’t deal with globalization if we’ve got 25 mini energy markets.”

eu Watch| Applicants mustspeed reforms for 2007EU entryEU diplomats are saying that the atmosphere has changed since last year, when “No” votes in French and Dutch referendums on the proposed EU constitution seemed to jeopardize the entry of Bulgaria and Romania. They are now urging the countries to accelerate reforms to thwart any further delays. The issue will be decided at a June meeting, but privately, EU diplomats say they expect the 25 governments to agree to the two countries’ entry on January 1, 2007, as scheduled.

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maRK of the Beast| First biometric passports to be issuedThe first British biometric e-passports are being issued to applicants. The new passports have added security features including a chip holding the carrier’s facial details. Lord Strathclyde, Conservative leader in the Lords, said this effectively made ID cards compulsory for the vast majority.

maRK of the Beast| Chip implant is big advance for Big BrotherDoctors implanted a radio ID tag under Sean Darks’ skin that allows him to enter restricted areas of his security company in Ohio. Jack Schmidig, a police chief in New Jersey, has a similar chip that doctors can use to find his medical records in an emergency. Amal Graafstra of Washington state unlocks his home and car and logs on to his computer using a chip he bought online and had implanted near his thumb. All three of them say putting radio-frequency identification chips under the skin can improve lives. Nationwide, about 80 hospitals are developing or have begun programs to make the implants available to patients. But privacy advocates are warning that today’s voluntary

use is a giant step toward a time when the government can mandate implants.

maRK of the Beast| Identity cards a ‘present’ to terrorists and criminals, spy heroine saysA national identity card system will be a “present” to terrorists, criminal gangs and foreign spies, according to Daphne Park, one of Britain’s most respected former intelligence agents. Park said, “The very creation of such an enormous national identity register will be a present to terrorists; it will be a splendid thing for them to disrupt and blow up.” “It will also provide valuable information to organized crime and to the intelligence services of unfriendly countries,” she said.

maRK of the Beast| ID requirements sideline driverJames Scott, 81, encountered the state’s six-point ID verification program when he went to the Motor Vehicle Commission office in Wallington, NJ to renew his driver’s license. The federal government mandated that all states adopt a point-system by 2008 as part of the Real ID Act signed by President Bush in 2005. Scott brought his Social Security card and a photo-identification card, but didn’t meet the six-point requirements. He was told that he’d need a primary document worth four points like a valid or recently-expired passport and a birth certificate. Scott is one of hundreds of thousands of Americans from areas of the rural South born before hospital births were common and births were not registered with local health departments. “I served this country,” said Scott. “The president didn’t want my birth certificate when he sent his letter drafting me.”

maRK of the Beast| 200,000 HP staff exposed to ID fraud riskA laptop with information on almost 200,000 current and former HP employees was stolen, which puts them at risk of identity fraud. The data includes names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and other employment-related information. The stolen computer belongs to Fidelity Investments, which provides services to HP. In the last 13 months, more than 53 million personal records have been exposed in dozens of similar incidents. Consumers filed more than 255,000 identity theft reports to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2005.

maRK of the Beast| lords block compulsory cardsPeers in the House of Lords have again defeated government proposals to make it compulsory to register for an ID card when renewing or applying for passports. The Lords voted 227 to 166 in favor of retaining an amendment to the Identity Cards Bill that would make the registration voluntary. The government argued that the House of Lords should not oppose the bill again. Liberal Democrat peer Lord Phillips of Sudbury said that forcing people to register for an ID card when renewing or applying for a designated document such as a passport is “compulsion by stealth”.

maRK of the Beast| Pulled over in Kansas? Get ready to show your fingerprintsIf a policeman in Kansas stops you, the officer may pull out a little black box and take your fingerprints. The gadget will allow officers to identify people by fingerprints without hauling them to the police station. Over the next year, Kansas will test 60 of the devices with law enforcement agencies around the state. Similar tests are being planned for New York, Milwaukee and Hawaii.

maRK of the Beast| Individual consumer items to be taggedRFID specialist Impinj has devised a way to make it easier for manufacturers and stores to put RFID tags on individual consumer items. Current tags are designed to go on pallets and crates. The new tags sport smaller antennas and rely on the same processor but use magnetic coupling to communicate. As a result, the tags cost less and measure as little as nine millimeters. Each tag contains a unique number; the tags can essentially act as serial numbers. Many fear that corporations, law enforcement agencies or governments will eventually use the tags to track people’s movements or purchases. In-Stat predicts 33 billion RFID tags in use by 2010.

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middle east| Hamas Assumes Control of Palestinian AuthorityThe parliament of the Palestinian Authority has approved the new Hamas government. The new PA minister of information, Yusuf Rizka, said that the


new Hamas government “is a government of shahids,” [holy martyrs]. The new PA Prime Minister, Ismail Haniye of Hamas, presented the guidelines to the parliament and after the vote, one of the PA legislators waved a Koran and called out loud, “The Koran is our constitution, Mohammed is our prophet, jihad is our path and dying as martyrs for the sake of Allah is our biggest wish.” His call was answered by a standing ovation and calls of “Allahu Akbar” (Allah is Great).

middle east| Israel’s Election ResultsActing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s Kadima Party was the winner in the 2006 election, taking 28 seats in the 17th Knesset. As Olmert celebrated his party’s victory, he said to the Palestinians, “We are ready to compromise, to give up parts of the beloved land of Israel...” The election attracted only 63 percent of eligible voters, the lowest turnout in the history of Israeli elections. The Bush administration has signaled it would support Olmert’s plan which is to remove thousands of Jewish settlers from the West Bank, complete a barrier separating Israel from the Palestinian areas and set Israel’s final borders by 2010.

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WoRld goveRnment| World court opens landmark Bosnian genocide case against serbiaayA landmark genocide case brought by Bosnia against Serbia-Montenegro before the International Court of Justice (ICJ)

has opened. Bosnia, through its mainly Muslim wartime presidency, filed the case before the United Nations’ highest court 13 years ago. They are accusing Belgrade of committing genocide during the war against the Muslims and Croats of Bosnia. The Bosnian war lasted from 1992 to 1995, and claimed up to 200,000 lives and left millions of refugees homeless. The case is to wrap up on May 9 when the 16-judge panel will retreat to consider a verdict. All rulings by the ICJ are final and without appeal even though the court has no real means to enforce its decisions.

WoRld goveRnment| U.s. blocks military aid to MexicoThe United States has been blocking military aid to Mexico since last fall because of a dispute over whether U.S. citizens should be exempt from prosecution by the International Criminal Court. The sanctions were imposed in October after Mexico became a signatory to the Hague-based ICC. Mexico is the 12th country from the Latin America-Caribbean area to be sanctioned by the United States under a law that was approved by Congress four years ago. The 2002 U.S. law is known as the American Servicemembers Protection Act. None of the sanctions have had an official announcement.

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WoRld Religion| Rabbi calls for ‘UN of religions’The Chief Rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger,

is calling for the creation of a world body with representatives from major religious groups. He is calling for the formation of a United Nations of religious. Metzger was addressing the International Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace in Spain. The imams and rabbis at this conference say the world is in crisis, and that that now is the time for concrete initiatives.

WoRld Religion| Vatican accused of helping radicals by backing Islamic hour in schoolsThe Vatican is endorsing a proposal by radical Muslims for a weekly “Islamic hour” in schools with a strong Muslim presence. If a school has several Muslim children “I don’t see why their religion shouldn’t be taught,” said Cardinal Renato Martino, a minister in the Vatican’s government. Several commentators are calling for an equal degree of freedom for Christians in Muslim countries. ¨

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lesson 2—New World order is World GovernmentWhy are the words “Novus Ordo Seclorum” — Latin for “New World Order” — on the back of the US dollar bill? What does this really mean? During the Gulf War in 1991, President George Bush said, “The Iraq Crisis is the first test for the New World Order.” President Bush then proceeded in the last two years of his presidency to use the term New World Order over 200 times in his speeches. This prophetic lesson proves that New World Order is world government, and that it is the endtime world government over which the Antichrist himself will soon rule.

lesson 3—The Road to ArmageddonOne of the most important prophecies for our time states that a covenant concerning the status of Jerusalem will be signed and then confirmed. The confirming of this covenant will begin a final seven-year period ending with the fateful Battle of Armageddon. The present dispute over ownership of Jerusalem will soon trigger this final battle This lesson deals with these questions: When do the final seven years begin? What will the “confirming of the covenant” be? What is the “abomination of desolation?” Will the Jewish people build their Third Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem? If so, how soon?

lesson 4—The Four HorsemenThe identity of the four horsemen of the apocalypse has been shrouded in mystery for many years. However, God obviously intended for someone to understand these symbols since He included them in the Bible. This lesson clearly identifies the White Horse, the Red Horse, the Black Horse and the Pale Horse and proves that they are in the world right now! It also shows that these four invisible forces control the nations of the world and even affect your own life personally.

lesson 5—The Holy Roman Empire RevivedThe Holy Roman Empire has risen and fallen several times over the last 1,000 years. There have always been two leaders over this Holy Roman Empire—a political leader and a religious leader. The Bible prophesies that the Holy Roman Empire will rise one more time in the immediate future. Once again, two leaders will head this revived Holy Roman Empire. According to Daniel and Revelation, the political leader will be the Antichrist, and the religious leader will be the False Prophet. Who will the False Prophet be? Find out in this lesson!

lesson 6—The Antichrist and False ProphetThe Antichrist and the False Prophet will soon rule the world, and they both are, almost positively, alive on this earth right now! There are over fifty specific prophecies concerning the Antichrist in the books of Daniel, II Thessalonians and Revelation alone. This lesson discusses the most prominent of these prophecies and provides a profile of the world’s future dictator—the Antichrist. It also describes the miracle-working power of the False Prophet and how he will use this power to lead the people of the world into the New World Order of the Antichrist.

lesson 7—The Mark of the BeastThe Bible prophesies a time when the entire world will be computerized and all financial transactions will be done electronically. A global government will use this cashless system to try to control every person on earth. Every one of us will be assigned a number without which we will be unable to buy or sell. In order to obtain the number, we will be forced to pledge allegiance to the New World Order and the global religious system. This number is called the “mark of the beast”, and if we take it we will be eternally damned. What is this mark? Find out in Lesson 7!

lesson 8—The Coming one-World ReligionThe global dreamers say that there are three root causes of war upon earth: political conflicts, economic conflicts, and religious conflicts. They contend that if we had one-world government, one-world economic system and one-world religion, we would enter into a new era of peace. The Bible prophesies that a world religion will work hand-in-hand with the world government of the Antichrist. Present ecumenical trends are leading us into that one-world religion right

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beast’,” I said.With a sheepish grin, she confessed, “I did.”“How much do you know about that?” I asked.“Not much,” she admitted.“I know quite a bit about it,” I said. The line

building up behind me did not allow for any more conversation, so I left my card and suggested she call me if she ever wanted to learn more.

What do you think of when you hear ‘666’ or ‘mark of the beast?’ Occultism? Scary movie? Sign of the Devil?

What does the BiBle actually say?

The term ‘mark of the beast’ comes from a prophecy in the Bible written about 2,000 years ago. The prophecy is found in Rev-elation, chapter 13.

The first eight verses of Revelation 13 foretell a World Government and a World Leader who will rule the world for forty-two months immediately before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

Verses 7 and 8 describe the reign of the world leader known as the Antichrist like this:

“… and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”

Verses 11-15 describe the global religious system that will work hand-in-hand with the one-world government. The leader over this world religious system is described as looking like a lamb, com-

monly used in scripture to symbolize Jesus Christ, but speaking like a dragon, which is used to symbol-ize the devil.

In another place in scripture, this leader, who looks like Jesus but speaks like the Devil, is called the False Prophet. The prophecy indicates that this famous but fake religious leader will use his spiritual influence to convince the people of the world to give their allegiance to the Antichrist.

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The one structure on earth today designed to be a world government is the United Nations. The number-one weapon the UN uses to enforce the compliance of

nations to its edicts is economic sanctions. Verses 16-17 describe the use of economic sanc-

tions by the endtime world government, not just against nations, but also against individuals.

“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: 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.”

This prophecy foretells a time when every indi-vidual on earth will be required to have a number without which he or she will not be able to buy or sell.

In order to get this number, each person will be required to pledge allegiance to the reigning system of world government or to the man who will be ruling the world at that time. This will be the ulti-mate implementation of economic sanctions. It will be used to force obedience to the one-world gov-ernment and the reigning world religious system.

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On the other hand, the prophecy states that any person who takes this pledge of allegiance will be sentenced to eternal damnation by God Himself (Revelation 14:9-11).

Since this prophecy was written in approximately 96 AD, its fulfillment has never been possible - until now! The ability to give every person on earth a number and to control that person’s ability to buy and sell has never before existed.

With the invention of the computer and the birth of the Internet, the fulfillment of this ancient prophecy has become all too possible!

How did the prophet know 2,000 years ago that someday all we would need to buy things would be a number? How did he know we would be able to travel around the world using just a number or a card to buy and sell?

Once again, we should remember: this 2,000-year-old prophecy could not possibly have come to pass until now.

6-6-6The last verse of Revelation 13 comments about the mark of the beast:

“Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understand-ing count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six.”

Scripture defines the mark of the beast as the mark of his name or the number of his name. Somehow, when the Antichrist appears, we will be able to calculate his name to equal 666. There has been endless speculation concerning names of leaders and names of governments that might be calculated to somehow equal 666. As of this time, we have not found a calculation that fulfills this scripture beyond doubt.

a chiP undeR the sKinThe original Greek words in Revelation 13:18 that were translated 666 are: chi xi stigma, pronounced khee xee stig’-ma. It is interesting that the last word ‘stigma’ comes from a primary word ‘stiz.’ It means:

to stick or prick: a mark incised or punched—for recognition of ownership. (Strong’s Greek Diction-ary)

Major problems exist with ID cards. One report said that twenty percent of all national ID cards are lost or stolen each year. ID card counterfeiting and identity theft continue to plague the attempt to es-tablish secure ID.

Applied Digital Solutions from Florida has pro-vided a high-tech solution. A person can now have a computer chip about the size of a grain of rice injected under the skin with a needle. This injected chip stays with the individual for life and is virtually counterfeit-free and impossible to steal.

For years, that technology has been used for ID in dogs, cats and other animals. In 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the injec-tion of chips under the skin of human beings for the maintenance of medical records. If a patient is unconscious, his records can still be accessed by scanning the chip embedded in his arm. Health conditions, present medications and allergic reac-tions are all available to health care providers.

In Barcelona, Spain, the Baha Beach Club offers vacationers a means to pay for services without the bother of wallets or purses. After a painless injec-tion, food and drinks are paid for with the wave of a hand. That’s right. A computer chip injected under the skin is being used for buying and selling right now.

Remember, the word ‘stigma’ means to stick or prick with a mark denoting ownership. Could this indicate that the mark of the beast will actually be given by the injection of a computer chip under the skin?

The mark of the beast will be required for a per-son to buy and sell. The national ID, which will be implemented in America between now and 2008, will be required to hold a job or open a bank ac-count. How much buying and selling will a person be able to do without a job or a bank account? Will the national ID soon become the mark of the beast? ¨

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FACT 1 - Almost ALL the nations of the world now have a single, comprehensive national identification system.A. There are a few instances where systems are not yet fully in place, but almost without exception, countries are moving at break-neck speeds to implement ID systems that are far more sophisticated than they have been historically.

The United States is one of the last countries to get a compul-sory national ID, mostly because it has been the land of the free and the home of the brave. But that has changed. Our vanishing borders have been penetrated by millions of illegal aliens from countries all over the world. We do not even know how many, but a low-side estimate exceeds 10 MILLION illegals. Neverthe-less, the government has no plans to tighten the borders. In-stead, they will use the REAL ID to locate all the aliens. “We cannot get control over our borders, or regulate the flow of legal workers, until the federal government has an electronic verifica-

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tion system that works,” says Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who helped intro-duce the REAL ID ACT, passed into law on May 11, 2005. b. Over 100 countries have long-standing compulsory national ID pro-grams. Most countries ruled by social-ism or totalitarian governments have not enjoyed much privacy or civil lib-erties. These countries have historically had the most stringent national ID systems in place – i.e., Russia, Germa-ny, and China. Privacy and civil liber-ties belong primarily to countries that have common law (typically British- or American-influenced legal systems). But fears of terrorism and identity theft have persuaded free people to give up their privacy and liberty to the false premise that a compulsory national ID will protect them. C. Citizens in most countries with non-compulsory national IDs neverthe-less experience great disadvantages and difficulties if they do not fully partici-pate in the system. De facto standards often rule the day. Private companies, banks, even government agencies often impose hardships and inconveniences on people who fail to produce “non-compulsory” identification. Many people who would otherwise refuse to enroll in a non-compulsory ID system eventually capitulate simply because it becomes so inconvenient NOT to join. It is called “function creep.” For instance, the original function of the Social Security Card number was lim-ited to health benefits, but it has now crept into nearly all identification appli-cations, and is even at the heart of the REAL ID ACT. D. Many countries that were lagging behind are now moving into cutting-edge positions with high-tech national ID programs. Information technology companies commonly lobby extensive-ly to win identification contracts with prospective governments. Third-world countries take quantum leaps from primitive paper ID cards to smart cards with microchips, largely because some-body stood to make millions of dollars from the deal.

FACT 2 - There is compelling evidence that the nations are presently collabo-rating to structure a global ID system where all national ID systems are in-teroperable. Belgium, Italy, and Estonia are leading the way in e-ID (electronic ID). A European e-Card Conference

took place in Brussels in April, 2006, where issues of interoperability, priva-cy and security were discussed. Major countries such as France, Germany and Spain are moving forward, and several nations that have been reluctant to en-ter the e-ID frontier are now engaged; i.e., Greece, Portugal, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Indonesia. A. The global economy plays a ma-jor role in the development of universal standards for database registries. Inter-national trade demands universal stan-dards for identification of products and merchandise. Wal-Mart played a key role in the implementation of the Universal Product Code (UPC) over a decade ago when it required suppliers to track inventory using those barcodes. Now, Wal-Mart and the U.S. Department of Defense have mandated their vendors to utilize RFID (Radio Frequency ID). Wal-Mart, whose corporate database is twice as large as the entire Internet, issues corporate policies that eventu-ally become de facto international law. With the help of the Department of Defense, RFID becomes the de facto standard for product identification world-wide. The exact same logic ap-plies to the identification of human be-ings. If Wal-Mart begins to require any particular personal ID format, the rest of the world is soon to follow.b. Governments and global in-dustry demand accelerated efforts for universal identification processes. In corporate and government offices, fin-gerprinting, iris-scanning, facial recog-nition, and other biometric measuring devices are common-place. Ultimately, however, about 1% of the populace has unreadable fingerprints. On a global scale, that amounts to 60 mil-lion people that would require some-thing beside a fingerprint ID. Similar problems accompany other biometrics. Eventually, microchips and RFID will rule the day, using digitized biometric data as a verification back-up.

FACT 3 - The world will soon have a global identification system. A. Take for example the ISO 7810 card standard. Never heard of it? Well, get this: Did you ever notice that all your credit cards are the same size? That standard is not set by your state, or even the federal government. It is an INTERNATIONAL standard. Similar international standards already define smartcards, RFID chips, readers and

more. As time passes, the marketplace will separate the winning manufactur-ers from the losers, and one triumphant global ID system will rise to indisput-able domination.

We cannot escape the realities that have been thrust upon us by interna-tional travel and Internet commerce. With over one billion passengers on in-ternational flights yearly, and over one billion international consumers regu-larly using the Internet, the pressure is already on for both a global ID and a global currency. It’s coming. Count on it.b. International travel demands that passports be interoperable. The International Civil Aviation Organi-zation already requires that all its 188 member nations issue machine-read-able passports, on their standard, by 2010. However, most nations already comply due to the United States Visa requirements already in place. World-wide, security agencies are demanding more and more speed, efficiency, secu-rity, and biometric verification. C. The link between passports and national IDs is significant. Passport technology is likely to become the de facto standard for all National IDs. A National ID card is an internal pass-port. It means you can live and move within that country. Why would gov-ernments want to create a National ID that is not interoperable with its own passport system?

Malaysia and Brunei presently have the most advanced national ID card in the world. It is a multi-function 64K smart card. It is both a national identi-fication card AND a passport, but that is not all. It is also their driving license, ATM cash card, ‘Touch-n-Go’ travel card, medical records card, e-commerce authentication, iris-scans, digitized fin-gerprints, etc. The card is compulsory from age 12, but infants already receive them at birth as a replacement for birth certificates. De facto law sometimes


varies very little from compulsory law.D. The United States is imposing its standard on the world for identification. The U.S. Government has mandated that all international passports entering the U.S. must contain readable biomet-ric identification. Singapore unveiled its first biometric microchip passport in April 2006 – as a direct response to U.S. Visa requirements. And they are only one of many countries who are doing the same, for the same, singular reason – the U.S. requires it.E. Members of the international community will ultimately comply with a global ID protocol. In April, 2005, France announced it would mandate compulsory biometric national ID cards by 2007 – including digitized photographs and fingerprints. In March 2006, Spain awarded their ID project to a company that will produce 40 million smart cards to its citizens. China recent-ly purchased 350 million smart cards for its people. As each country sequentially joins the biometric league, non-partici-pating nations come under increasing pressure to conform or be cut off from the world community.

FACT 4 - The biblical mark of the beast can be entirely implemented within a short time. The mark of the beast re-quires an identifying mark “in the right hand or in the forehead” according to Revelation 13:16. Is this technologically likely, or even feasible? Absolutely.A. The Bible prophecies call it a ‘mark’ eight separate times. Each time, the Greek source word is “charagma,” which means “a stamp, and imprinted mark, a thing carved or graven.” The “charagma” comes from the Greek root word “charax,” which means “sharpen to a point; a pale; a pointed stick.” b. The standard of choice for a personal global ID system has already

been identified as the VERICHIP—a tiny microchip embedded in a glass case about the size of a grain of rice. That chip will contain all the ID system any-one needs WITHOUT having to carry a card. It is IMPLANTED by sticking it under a person’s skin. The way it is in-serted into the human body is by being “carved” with a syringe that has been “sharpened to a point”: it is a pointed stick that inserts (‘carves’ or ‘graves’) the chip into the hand or head of the person.

Is this a perfect ancient and divine description of Applied Digital Solu-tions’ VERICHIP implant—punctured with a sharp syringe? Was this gadget prophesied 2,000 years ago?C. This device is now being pro-duced by a publicly traded American corporation that has already contracted with 80 hospital systems nationwide for use in medical identification applica-tions. Over 232 doctors are now offer-ing the chip to their patients. Accord-ing to an article in the Washington Post on March 15, 2006, Washington D.C. has been “heavily targeted for Verichip marketing.” Emergency rooms are be-ing given free scanners so they will im-mediately begin chipping all patients. The company expects to be in over 200 hospitals by the end of 2006.D. As shown, the biometric-ready microchip is already available, and is in operation in many places around the world. The sophisticated Malaysian smartcard is only the beginning. An RFID chip implant could serve all those purposes and more: ID, passport, cash card, health card, etc. People would be able to pay all their bills simply by wav-ing their implanted chip past an RFID reader. E. The global protocol, whatever it turns out to be, will be forced on all non-compliant nations and citizens.

Again, the Bible prophecy states, “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: 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,” (Revelation 13:16-17). F. All global citizens will ultimately be forced into a global ID system. “The right to privacy is one of our most cher-ished freedoms. As society has grown more complex and people have become more interconnected in every way, we have had to work even harder to respect privacy, the dignity, and the autonomy of each individual... We must develop new protections for privacy in the face of new technological reality.” (Bill Clinton, 1997). Notice what Clinton did NOT say. He did not say “abandon invasive technology.” He said we must face the “new technological reality.” Like it or not, everybody will be required to par-ticipate in the global ID system. Even you! Oh! You say you won’t? Good for you. There is a Bible prophecy for the abstainers, too. You will not be able to buy or sell.

The worst news, prophetically, is that everyone who takes the mark will face the wrath of God. “If any man wor-ship the beast and his image, and re-ceive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name,” (Revelation 14:9-11). ¨


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imagine a WoRld of no moRe PRivacy...

Where your every purchase Is monItored and recorded in a database, and your every belonging is numbered. Where someone many states away or perhaps in another country has a record of everything you

have ever bought, of everything you have ever owned, of every item of clothing in your closet—every pair of shoes. What’s more, these items can even be tracked remotely.

Once your every possession is recorded in a database and can be tracked, you can also be tracked and monitored re-motely through the things you wear, carry and interact with every day.

We may be standing on the brink of that terrifying world if global corporations and government agencies have their way. It’s the world that Wal-Mart, Target, Gillette, Procter & Gamble, Kraft, IBM, and even the United States Postal Ser-vice want to usher in within the next ten years.

it’s the WoRld of Radio fRequency identification.

RadIo frequency IdentIfIcatIon, rfId for short, is a technology that uses tiny computer chips—some smaller than a grain of sand—to track items at distance. If the master planners have their way, every object—from shoes to

cars—will carry one of these tiny computer chips that can be used to spy on you without your knowledge or consent. We’ve nicknamed these tiny devices “spychips” because of their surveillance potential.

If you’ve been staying in touch with the news about RFID, you may already know who we are and something of the pub-lic battles we have fought to try to keep this technology off of consumer products and out of our homes. In case you don’t know who we are and why we can make such claims with conviction, an introduction is in order.

We are Katherine Albrecht, founder and director of CAS-PIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion

chaPter one: trackIng eVerythIng, eVerywhere—the rfID threat

“Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand,

and it stabs you in the back with the other.” —C.P. Snow, New York Times, 1971²

excerPt: SPychIPSBy Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre

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cteD “ChIPPInG inanimate

objects is just the start. The endpoint is a form of RFID that can be injected into flesh.”


and Numbering), and Liz McIntyre, the organization’s communications director. CASPIAN is a grass-roots organization that has been tackling consumer privacy is-sues since 1999.³ In the pages that follow, we’ll give you a ringside seat to some of the battles we’ve fought with companies like Benetton, Gillette, and retail giant Tesco. You’ll see why Advertising Age says our presence has been felt from Berlin to Bentonville (corporate home of Wal-Mart), and you’ll also learn how we uncovered plans by companies to track consumers around stores, use RFID to spam consumers with personalized advertising, and even monitor what people do in their own homes.

We’re also suburban moms who’ve taken on some of the largest corporations in the world because we care about the future our children will inherit if this dangerous technology is unopposed. We believe consumers should know what’s in store so we can work together to protect our privacy and civil liberties before it’s too late.

We know that a Big Brother vision of the future sounds farfetched. We didn’t believe it ourselves until we saw with our own eyes and heard with our own ears com-panies detailing their mind-boggling plans. We assure you that this seemingly impossible future is on the drawing board, and we promise that by the time you finish this book, you will be convinced, too.

For nearly three years, we have devoted ourselves full-time to combing every article, reading every white paper, pursuing every insider tip, and scanning through thou-sands of patent documents to piece together a picture of this planned RFID future. We’ve attended trade shows, sat in on top level meetings, and had long talks with the people implementing these plans.

What We leaRned Will shocK you.

If anythIng you read In the followIng pages strikes you as improbable, please refer to the endnotes at the back of the book. We’ve included plenty of references to original source materials that should satisfy even the most skeptical

reader.In a future world laced with RFID spychips, cards in

your wallet could “squeal” on you as you enter malls, retail outlets, and grocery stores, announcing your pres-ence and value to businesses. Reader devices hidden in the doors, walls, displays, and floors could frisk the RFID chips in your clothes and other items on your person to determine your age, sex, and preferences. Since spychip information travels through clothing, they could even get a peek at the color and size of your underwear.

We’re not joking. A major worldwide clothing manufac-turer named Benetton has already tried to embed RFID chips into women’s undergarments. And they would have gotten away with it, too, had it not been for an inter-national outcry when we exposed their plan. Details of the “I’d Rather Go Naked” campaign come later in the book.

While consumers might be able to avoid spychipped clothing brands for now, they could be forced to wear RFID-enabled work clothes to earn a living. Already uni-form companies like AmeriPride and Cintas are embed-

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“RFID will have a pervasive impact on every aspect of

civilization, much the same way the printing press, the industrial

revolution and the Internet and personal computers have transformed society.... RFID

is a big deal. Its impact will be pervasive, personal and profound.

It will be the biggest deal since Edison gave us the light bulb.”—Rick Duris, Frontline Solutions Magazine, December 2003¹

ding RFID tracking tags into their clothes that can withstand high temperature commercial washings.

Don’t have to wear a chipped uniform to work? Your RFID-enabled em-ployee badge could do the spying instead. One day, these devices could tell management who you’re chatting with at the water cooler and how long you’ve spent in the restroom—even whether or not you’ve washed your hands. There’s already a product called iHygiene that can monitor the hand-washing habits of RFID-tagged employees during bathroom visits.

Our next generation of workers could be conditioned to obediently accept this degrading surveillance through forced early exposure. Some schools are already requiring students to wear spychipped identification badges around their necks to keep closer tabs on their daily activities. If Johnny is one-minute late for math class, the system knows. It’s always watching.

Retailers are thrilled at the idea of being able to price prod-ucts according to your purchase history and value to the store. RFID will allow them to assess your worth as you pick up products and flash you a corresponding customer-specific price. Prime customers might pay three dollars for a staple like peanut butter while “bargain shoppers” or the economi-cally challenged could be charged twice as much. The goal is to encourage the loyalty of shoppers who contribute to the profit margins while discouraging those who don’t. After all, stores justify, why have unprofitable customers cluttering the store and breathing their air?

RFID chips embedded in passbooks and ATM cards will identify and profile customers as they enter bank lobbies, beaming bank balances to employees who will snicker at the customer with a mere thirty-seven dollars in the bank while offering white-glove treatment to the high-rollers.

RFID could also be used to infringe upon civil liberties. The technology could give government officials the ability to electronically frisk citizens without their knowledge and set up invisible checkpoints on roads and in pedestrian zones to monitor their movements.

While RFID proponents claim they would never use RFID to track people, we will prove they are not only considering it, they’ve done it. The United States government has already controlled people with RFID-laced bracelets—and not just criminals. And now they’re planning to embed spychips in U.S. passports so citizens can be tracked as they move about airport terminals and cross international borders.

Hitting the open road will no longer be the “get away from it all” experience many of us crave. You may already be un-der surveillance, courtesy of your RFID-enabled highway toll transponder. Some highways, like those in the Houston area, have set up readers that probe the tag’s information every few miles. But that’s child’s play compared to what they’ve got planned. The Federal Highway Administration is joining with states and vehicle manufacturers to promote “intelligent

vehicles” that can be moni-tored and tracked through built-in RFID devices (Mi-nority Report-style).

RFID spychips in your shoes and car tires will make it possible for strangers to track you as you walk and drive through public and private spaces, betraying your habits and the deep-est secrets even your own mother has no right know-ing. Pair RFID devices with global positioning (GPS) technology, and you could

literally be pinpointed on the globe in real time, creating a borderless tracking system that already has law enforcement, governments, stalkers, and voyeurs salivating.

There will be no more secret love letters in the RFID world, either—not if the U.S. Postal Service has its way. They would like to embed every postage stamp with an RFID chip that would enable point-to-point tracking. Even more disturb-ingly, RFID could remove the anonymity of cash. Already, the European Union has discussed chipping Euro banknotes, and the Bank of Japan is contemplating a similar program for high-value currency. Your every purchase could be under the microscope.

So could your trash. In the RFID world, garbage will be-come a snoop’s and criminal’s best friend. Today, it’s a dirty job sifting through diapers and table scraps to get at tell-tale signs of a household’s market value, habits, and purchases. In the RFID world, scanning trash could be a simple as driving down the street with a car-mounted reader on trash day.

How about the “smart” house? Researchers have developed prototype “homes of the future” to showcase RFID-enabled household gadgets like refrigerators that know what’s in them (and can tattletale to marketers), medicine cabinets that talk (to your doctor, government, and HMO), and floors that keep track of where you are at each moment. The potential is staggering. Your insurance company could remotely moni-tor your food consumption and set rates accordingly, health officials could track the prescription drugs you’re taking, and attorneys could subpoena your home activity records for use against you in court.

Home RFID networks will allow family members to re-motely track you during your “golden years,” or times of in-competence, real or otherwise. Doors can remain bolted to keep you from wandering, toilets can monitor your bowel habits and transmit data to distant physicians, and databases can sense your state of mind. It’s all under development and headed your way.

But chipping inanimate objects is just the start. The end-point is a form of RFID that can be injected into flesh. Pets and livestock are already being chipped, and there are those who believe humans should be next. Incredibly, bars have be-gun implanting their patrons with glass-encapsulated RFID tags that can be used to pay for drinks. This application star-tles many Christians who have likened payment applications of RFID to biblical predictions about the Mark of the Beast, a number the book of Revelation says will be needed to buy or sell in the “end times.”


“Some schools are already requiring students to wear spychipped

identification badges around their necks to keep closer tabs on their daily activities. If Johnny is one minute late for math class, the

system knows. It’s always watching.”

While some of these applications are slated for our future, others are already here, right now—and they’re spreading. Wal-Mart has mandated that its top one hundred suppliers af-fix RFID tags to crates and pallets being shipped to selected warehouses. Analysts estimate this one initiative alone has al-ready driven close to $250 million worth of investment in the technology.4 Other retailers such as Albertsons, Target, and Best Buy have followed suit with mandates of their own. Ac-cording to one industry analyst, there are now sixty thousand companies operating under RFID mandates and scrambling to get with the spychip program as quickly as possible.5

Adding fuel to the fire, the Department of Defense is also requiring suppliers to use RFID. In fact, government cheer-leaders can’t fall over themselves fast enough to support the technology. The Department of Homeland Security is testing the use of RFID in visas, and the Social Security Administra-tion is using spychips to track citizen files. Not to be out-done, the Food and Drug Administration wants RFID on all prescription drugs, and the makers of Oxycontin and Viagra have already begun to comply. The FDA has also approved the use of subcutaneous RFID implants for managing pa-tient medical records—the same implants being used to track bar patrons.

You may have already brought a spychip home with you. If you own a toll transponder or a Mobil Speedpass, you’re in-teracting with RFID every time you use it. And if you bought Procter & Gamble’s Lipfinity lipstick at a Wal-Mart in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, between March and June of 2003, you could have brought home a live RFID chip in the product packaging—and unknowingly starred in a video, too!

P&G is not the only company that’s tested spychips on un-witting consumers. Gillette was also caught tagging packages of Mach3 razor blades with some of the 500 million (that’s half a billion!) RFID chips it put on order in early 2003. There’s also evidence to suggest that other everyday products like Pantene Shampoo, Purina Dog Chow, and Huggies baby wipes may have been tagged with RFID chips and sold to unsuspecting consumers.

Why would anyone want to keep such close track on every-day objects? The answer is simple. Businesses want the tech-nology to give them complete visibility of their products at all times. Having this real-time knowledge would allow them to keep products on store shelves and know precisely what’s in their warehouses. They also believe it could help them fight theft and counterfeiting. Theoretically, it could even eliminate the checkstand, since doorways could scan your purchases automatically when you leave the store and charge them to an RFID-based account.

While some of these goals may sound appealing, the prob-lem is what happens when spychipped products leave the store with us—and find their way into other areas of our lives.

We’ve read every pro-RFID argument the industry can make, and we’ll be the first to admit the technology could make things more convenient. RFID-enabled refrigerators really could keep track of containers of food, warn about expired milk, and generate weekly shopping lists. High-tech washing machines really could automatically choose appro-priate water temperatures based on instructions encoded in RFID-enabled clothing labels. RFID really could help fami-lies recover lost pets—and stolen possessions, too.

But when we look at that future, we don’t see a twenty-first

century Mayberry minus a few entry-level cashiering jobs. The seamy details we’ve discovered make the spychipped future look more like the ending scene of a gut-wrenching “Outer Limits” episode. The RFID vision that technology companies are selling looks too good to be true—and it is.

Buckle up, readers. We’re going to take you on a high-speed, high-tech tour of the past, present, and future of RFID, with plenty of stops along the way at the dirty little secrets they don’t want you to know. ¨

FooTnoTES:

¹ Rick Duris, “Just How Big Is RFID?” Frontline Solu-tions, December 2003, available at www.frontlinetoday.com/frontline/article/articleDetail.jsp?id77382, accessed 15 April 2005.

² C.P. Snow, New York Times quote available at www.bar-tleby.com/63/36/3236.html, accessed 10 June 2005.

³ With nearly ten thousand members in all 50 U.S. states and over 30 countries worldwide, CASPIAN seeks to edu-cate consumers about marketing strategies that invade their privacy and encourages privacy-conscious shopping habits across the retail spectrum.

4 Kevin Reilly, “AMR Research Finds Wal-Mart Suppli-ers Spent Only Minimum Required to Comply with RFID Mandate,” AMR Research press release, 20 December 2004, available at www.amrresearch.com/Content/View.asp?pmillid=17856&docid=12139, accessed 13 June 2005.

5 Greg Dixon of ScanSource, as quoted by Mark Riehl in “Partners Needed for RFID Success, Says ScanSource,” eChannelLine Daily News, 9 August 2004, available at www.integratedmar.com/ecl-usa/story.cfm?item=18578, accessed 11 June 2005.

Reprinted with permission from the publisher of “Spychips” by Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre, Nelson Current, a di-vision of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee, © 2005.


the authorSKAThERInE ALBREChT is a harvard doctoral candidate and the founder of CASPIAn (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and numbering), a national consumer organization created in 1999 to educate consumer-citizens about shopper surveillance. She is a leading consumer privacy advocate and anti-RFID spokesperson.

LIz MCInTyRE is a consumer privacy expert and co-author. She serves as the Communications Director for CASPIAn. McIntyre regularly researches, writes and speaks about the financial, privacy, and civil liberties impact that technologies like RFID will have on consumers. —Source: Wikipedia

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