RFID. That's what they're called. These are tiny microchips that can track what you buy, where you buy it, where you are, etc...etc...
I recently watched a popular net video called "Zeitgeist: The Movie." You can google it for yourself. The movie is fairly anti-Bush, going so far as to point out that Prescott Bush, the grandfather of our preseident and the father of our ex-president was a financier of the Nazi party. Ok, it's Michael Moorish - admitted.
The movie was in three parts - the first part dealt with how religious institutions are full of some strange facts (duh), the second part was a suggestion that maybe the 9/11 thing was an inside job (and some good questions were actually raised in it), and the third part was about the man behind the curtain. It basically said that there are a small group of men running the world and that the wars we have had were incited by them because they were "good for business." And well, that part is true. War IS good for business.
Anyway, the movie concludes with several predictions. Some are that we will invade Venezuela, that soon in the future there will be an Amero - a monitary denomination much like the Euro, and lastly, and most "alarming" is the thought that we will soon all carry ID cards and/or will be implanted with RFID chips. The movie points out that this will not be forced on us - we'll ask for it.
Not. I'll stick a blade in the gut of anyone that tries to forcefully put a tracking chip in me.
So I looked into these RFID chips and the technology associated. At this point in time, they're made so small as to be considered "powder." That means they can just put them in food, and supposedly you're trackable.
Well, not really. The technology required for that kind of tracking is a ways off. What would be required at that point would be RFID readers that have any kind of significant range. but consider. You buy a sweater at the GAP. It's implanted with an RFID which you just walk out of the store with - when you walk out, you're RFID account is charged. The chip in the sweater is not turned off at that point. It's just considered irrelevant because you are no longer in range of the GAP's RFID reader. Problem is, any number of different RFID readers can pick you up. When you walk through a door to another store, for example.
Today, new passports are already being implanted with this thing. And if this kind of thing bothers you, let ole Ock hip you to some simple physics. The subject: The Faraday Cage.
Michael Faraday once discovered that radio frequencies cannot penetrate a mesh of metal. Like the material your window screens are made of. This is why you lose radio signal when you go through a tunnel or under a big bridge. So in the future, the "tinfoil hat" will no longer be in vogue, but perhaps the clothing made of screen will be.
If nothing else, Zeitgeist: The Movie reaffirmed for me that we must think for ourselves. There ARE people in the world that just want to own it all. Should we go ahead and form an underground now?