(written 2004)

Back in ‘95 I wrote pieces about Biochip technology [The Future: Wha'chu Know 'bout It? and The Future, pt. II]. Well it seemz we may see the mark of the beast in this lifetyme afterall.

According to MSNBC.com, dated October 13, 2004, the Food AND Drug Administration (FDA) has approved computer chips for humanz! Of course YTz way of debutin’ it to the world is through some medical hoax. They claim its use will be to assist doctorz store medical info on their patients... for now. This chip, called the VeriChip, the size of a grain of rice, is inserted under the skin with a needle in a procedure that takes less than 20 minutes to complete.

The FDA claimz Applied Digital Solutions of Delray Beach, Fla., could market the VeriChip for medical purposes. With the pinch of a syringe, the microchip is inserted under the skin in a procedure that takes less than 20 minutes and leaves no

stitches. Silently and invisibly, the dormant chip stores a code that releases patient-specific information when a scanner passes over it. Dam! For all you biblical hedz, does this not sound like Revelations 13:16-18, "And he (the antichrist) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads, and that no man might buy or sell except he that had the mark....of the beast (antichrist)...and his number is 666."

The microchips have already been implanted in 1million pets. However, the chip's can also be used for tracking us! All this comes courtesy of Bush’s push for electronic health recordz within a decade. We also find that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced $139 million in grants ensure this happenz.

To kickstart the chip's use among humanz, Applied Digital will provide $650 scanners for FREE (this is how they do it!) at 200 of the nationz trauma centerz. The chip implantation cost will be $150 to $200. Already approximately 1,000 people across the globe have had the devices implanted, very few of them in the United States.

The company's chief executive officer, Scott R. Silverman, is one of a half dozen

executives who had chips implanted. Silverman said chips implanted for medical uses could also be used for security purposes, like tracking employee movement through nuclear power plants. Such security uses are rare in the United States... for now. Meanwhile, the chip has been used for pure whimsy: Club hopperz in Barcelona, Spain, now use the microchip to enter a VIP area and, through links to a different database, speed payment much like a smartcard.

So you can see while P. Diddy got you thinkin’ you got power with the ballot, the real hedz with the power fixin’ to implant some shit in us!

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