VeriChip Kept Quiet On Cancer Link... Yet Were Pretty Vocal On Fake FDA Approvals
from the well,-look-at-that dept
The Associated Press has a story that got plenty of attention this weekend, pointing out that a series of studies which found that VeriChip's RFID products induced malignant tumors in animals. This information was not made public as the company continued to hype the devices for implant into humans. The article notes that the devices were approved by the FDA... but leaves out a rather revealing bit of history. VeriChip and its parent company Applied Digital have done an amazing job generating publicity for the company, but often in very questionable ways. It might help to go through some of the history.Back in 2002, prior to getting FDA approval, there was the too good to be true story of an entire family that just couldn't wait to get themselves chipped. The whole thing sounded sketchy from the beginning, and many suspected that the entire thing was merely created by VeriChip to get publicity. Soon afterwards, VeriChip announced that the FDA had said that implantable RFID chips were not regulated medical devices, and therefore could be used for chipping humans. Note that the announcement came from VeriChip. That's because the FDA did not say what VeriChip claimed it said. VeriChip had asked the FDA to declare the chips unregulated devices, and the FDA simply requested more information. VeriChip, in turn, took that request for more info and claimed that the devices were unregulated, leading to a rather unhappy FDA.
A few months later, the FDA finally gave conditional support for the device, saying that VeriChip could be used, as long as it was not advertised as a "medical device." VeriChip, of course, once again put out a press barrage claiming that it had FDA approval. And, not surprisingly, it kept advertising the chips as medical devices, leading the FDA to warn the company to knock it off. Then, the company went south of the border, and started focusing on convincing people in Mexico to get chipped for the safety of the children. See? Down in Mexico, you don't have to worry about the pesky American FDA. Two years later, we were a bit surprised that the FDA finally did approve the device for medical purposes -- but would you really want a company like that sticking stuff in your body?
Oh yeah, if that wasn't enough, the company had borrowed a bunch of money from IBM, and when IBM tried to collect, Applied Digital sued. Yes, they sued the company who gave them money when they were unable to pay back the loan. This latest article on the cancer link plays up the fact that former FDA head Tommy Thompson later joined the board of VeriChip, but leaves out his own reluctance to have a VeriChip RFID installed in his own body. Anyone else feel safe having this company stick RFID chips under your skin?
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Huh?
Oh yeah, if that wasn't enough, the company had borrowed a bunch of money from IBM, and when IBM tried to collect, Applied Digital sued.
While this is not copyright/trademark/patent related this is true proof that the legal system needs help. How the hell do you sue your lender for taking the collateral that you put up for the loan you accepted from them? Does this mean that if I put my business (let's say a sports bar) up as collateral for a loan to setup second sports bar and I fail to pay I can sue my lenders for trying to take my first bar? Oh let me guess I'm not a big corporation which means I can't buy the laws I want so I can't right?
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Well, they WON, which can only mean IBM did SOMETHING WRONG.
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Tangent: Verichip and AdWords
An interesting spin on the whole AdWords/trademark thing...
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Basic Epidemiology
- If pets with chip implants live longer because their owners care more about them, then they will have elevated cancer rates.
But no, sites like this one will get carried away with "poisoning the children" rhetoric -- just like the urban legend about cell phones causing cancer, started when a former executive of Motorola happened to die of a brain tumor in the 1990s.
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Firstly, these types of studies are NOTORIOUSLY error-prone, and historically have a huge bias to find "statistical associations" Red M&M dye, silicon breast-implants, anyone?
It's gotten to the point where I will discount someone just for quoting one of these studies, unless it's one of the really, rigorous, been fairly well proved one, like the smoking studies. But both the sample sizes and the associations have to be very large for me to pay attention
Secondly, I can't think of a plausible cause. The RFID is surrounded in plastic. It doesn't emit a radio signal until actively scanned, and that's a much lower dose than the scanning radio signal or just ambient signals. Maybe they were scanning the tags 20 times a day? Even then, seems unlikely.
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But, It's just what I expect from a company like this.
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cancer link not really the point
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Yes, the company is shady. No, this does not further that accusation, at all.
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Bigget POS on Nasdaq
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corrupt
If the fact that the head of the FDA who chaired when they approved VeriChip then joined VeriChip's board doesn't raise red flags, back to school for you.
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This company is amazing...
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They still use silicone, they look better.
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RFID Chips don't emit RF on their own
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Is anyone thinking here
Also sillicone is great for lubing up machinery, probably not something you want to implant in a large volume in your chest, regardless of what a study says is safe. Asbestos is safe as long as you dont crunch it up and inhale it!
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Vegetable juice is also great for lubing up machinery, so does that mean it should not go into your body either?
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Prove I'm a Liar: by Keith Richard Radford Jr
In 1992 I was implanted with a microchip by the California Department of Corrections. Prove I'm a liar!
Just like the Angel of Death* HaloScan, IBM, Avid, Veri Chip and other company's use subcutaneous human tracking device, audio servalence systems and other venues against American people for fun and profit. Prove I'm a liar!
Since the Nuremberg trials the Nuremberg code of universal medical ethics have moved into California's Silicon Valley which is being protected by our own governments representatives. Prove I'm a liar
The national fraud squad has opened an investigation into the affair. The four are suspected of abuse, aggravated assault, causing death through negligence, fraud, forgery, breach of statutory duty, and disruption of legal proceedings. Prove I'm a liar!
*Dr. Josef Mengele was a German SS officer and a physician in the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. He gained notoriety chiefly for being one of the SS physicians who supervised the selection of arriving transports of prisoners, determining who was to be killed and who was to become a forced labourer, and for performing human experiments on camp inmates, amongst whom Mengele was known as the Angel of Death.
Since 1987, Nancy Pelosi has represented California's Eighth District in the House of Representatives wile being on the board of Veri Chip.
As California's senior Senator, Dianne Feinstein has built her reputation on condoning torture, working with both Democrats and Republicans to find solutions to the problems facing California and the Nation court who have chosen to ignore human and civil right.
You Worthless Tech Trollops have been instrumental in working toward a North American Union. When will America wake up to the fact that our government knows human nature. Using sex offenders to justify their actions when what they are doing is universally wrong, is underhanded at least and fundamentally treasonous by using devices that are unsafe. Hiding the finding of company's product and placing humans at risk seems to be of no consequence to those that take them to court on habeas corpus writs.
I was told by my attorney that my case was demurer which means the state says so what.
So what if you are diabetic and need to enroll in Adult Swim at your YMCA because of injuries for exercise.
So what if you are disabled and we made you move.
So what if you live a good honest life.
So what if when we made you move you were going to school to learn a trade and we disrupted your life during your finals and you could not finish your training.
So what if you and your wife who by the way has never done anything to anyone is waking in the middle of the night crying because you stand to be homeless for fear that no one will rent to you.
We lived in an apartment in Burbank CA when someone decided to place flyer's at our home about my 23 year old sex offense and get us kicked out of our home. So what.
Reminds me of the Quote by Pastor Martin Niemöller:
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
We have one week to come up with a bunch of money to fight for rights for all Americans who are losing because they are better than sex offenders till their family member loses their trunks when diving into the community pool.
Sorry America we have no money. We are poor. Week to week surviving on what we have which is less each day.
When these laws get done with us, they will not be satisfied.
Prove I'm a liar!
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Verichip for criminal destroys me
When the verichip is implanted , they use the skill of making him sleep and get unconscious.
After he loses his consciousness, they implant. so he never knows he is verichipped.
The stalker use this skill from 2006, I have slept for 20 hours everyday since then.
I do not know what have happened while I sleep, so I am always afraid of sleeping.
I have 3 web cams installed to watch what have happened while I sleep.
Now I only sleep 10 ~ 4 hours, but the stalker made me doze all day, , and I feel my body pressed, cannot control, can not do anything.
I used to sleep 4 hours, woke up without alarm, but now I have the alarm ring every 10 minutes but never listen even once.
I have never dreamed since 2006 because I lose my cociousness while I sleep .
I never dream, never listen to the alarm ring every 10 minutes, which ruins my body.
Whenever I sleep, I fall into a fit of convulsions.
Carm 1. http://aassdd.viewnetcam.com:5000/CgiStart?page=Single&Language=14
Carm 2. http://aassdd.viewnetcam.com:7889/login.html
ID= password= eeeeeeee
or
ID= password= dddddddd
ID= password= cccccccc
ID= password= bbbbbbbb
ID= password= aaaaaaaa
Carm 3. http://afreeca.com/asdsfs
Watch me while I sleep, you will see the alarm flash every 10 minutes, but I never listen or react to the alarm.
Verichip for criminal
Verichip is implanted to criminals or spies, enemies.
Verichip was first invented for military use. It got a patent in 70's.
Verichip for criminals is different from that for popular use sold for $150.
Verichip for criminals is implanted after the people are made to sleep and get unconscious.
So those implaned do not know that they are verichipped.
How the police implant the verichip
1. Verichip is implanted when you move to a new house.
you can not easily notice when you are implanted when move, you notice the difference but regard it as the work you hadle the heavy stuff when move.
2. Verichip is implanted after the person is made to sleep and get unconscious.
so the implanted person do not know that he is implanted.
3. Verichip is implanted at a cartilage bone 3cm off the anklebone as you see the picture.
Verichip for criminals is implanted inside bone to avoid to be disclosed to x-ray or mri.
It hurts a lot when implanted into bone but it does not hurt when it is done into cartilage bone.
4. Verichip is implanted to criminals or spies, enemies who need to be watched.
Verichip 's shocking functions
1. It is fitted with a concealed microphone, which means they hear whatever you hear.
2. They steal a glance, which means they see what you see.
3. It is also a personal locating device.
I have never been a criminal, but have been being stalked for 13 years by a corrupted Korean policeman P. who tries to take my life after my money .
For more about it, http://blog.naver.com/qewwer/80061575421
Help!! please spread this.
Contact me if you know any specialist on Verichip for criminal.
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Verichip for criminal is implanted at a cartilage bone 3cm off the anklebone
Verichip for criminal destroys me
When the verichip is implanted , they use the skill of making him sleep and get unconscious.
After he loses his consciousness, they implant. so he never knows he is verichipped.
The stalker use this skill from 2006, I have slept for 20 hours everyday since then.
I do not know what have happened while I sleep, so I am always afraid of sleeping.
I have 3 web cams installed to watch what have happened while I sleep.
Now I only sleep 10 ~ 4 hours, but the stalker makes me doze all day, , and I feel my body pressed, cannot control, can not do anything.
I used to sleep 4 hours, woke up without alarm, but now I have the alarm ring every 10 minutes but never listen even once.
I have never dreamed since 2006 because I lose my cociousness while I sleep .
I never dream, never listen to the alarm ring every 10 minutes, which ruins my body.
Whenever I sleep, I fall into a fit of convulsions.
Carm 1. http://aassdd.viewnetcam.com:5000/CgiStart?page=Single&Language=14
Carm 2. http://aassdd.viewnetcam.com:7889/login.html
ID= password= eeeeeeee
or
ID= password= dddddddd
ID= password= cccccccc
ID= password= bbbbbbbb
ID= password= aaaaaaaa
Carm 3. http://afreeca.com/asdsfs
Watch me while I sleep, you will see the alarm flash every 10 minutes, but I never listen or react to the alarm.
Verichip is implanted to criminals or spies, enemies.
Verichip was first invented for military use. It got a patent in 70's.
Verichip for criminals is different from that for popular use sold for $150.
Verichip for criminals is implanted after the people are made to sleep and get unconscious.
So those implaned do not know that they are verichipped.
How the police implant the verichip
1. Verichip is implanted when you move to a new house.
you can not easily notice when you are implanted when move, you notice the difference but regard it as the work you handle the heavy stuff when move.
2. Verichip is implanted after the person is made to sleep and get unconscious.
so the implanted person do not know that he is implanted.
3. Verichip is implanted at a cartilage bone 3cm off the anklebone as you see the picture.
Verichip for criminals is implanted inside bone to avoid to be revealed to x-ray or mri.
It hurts a lot when implanted into bone but it does not hurt when it is done into cartilage bone.
4. Verichip is implanted to criminals or spies, enemies who need to be watched.
Verichip 's shocking functions
1. It is fitted with a concealed microphone, which means they hear whatever you hear.
2. They steal a glance, which means they see what you see.
3. It is also a personal locating device.
I have never been a criminal, but have been being stalked for 13 years by a corrupted Korean policeman P. who tries to take my life after my money .
For more about it, http://blog.naver.com/qewwer/80061575421
Help!! please spread this.
Contact me if you know any specialists on Verichip for criminal.
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The number's are increasing and the nation is flowndering
The Supreme Court just ruled on sex offender laws where some factions of our government think by some inert reasoning that sex offender should be quarantined like some virus steaming from draconian/Islamic law sex offenders should be executed. I have seen for myself, video taken in another country where a sex offender is placed on a pole much like the Catholics use to use a pyramid shaped object and have them sit on it and spin, the pole travels through the body looking for the throat but if not found its ok cause the sharpened end of the pole will come out somewhere. The heritage of the act is in its self a throwback to troglodyte’s who are so obsessed with sex they can find that the way to deal with the issue is as revolutionary, as war, and two wrongs don’t make a right but has in fact called up deep rooted issues of people who have had to put up with this kind of "hierarchy" of historic hysteria far to long. A word taken from hysterectomy, hysteria is tied to castration used to make animals less threatening right? Good old Monty Hall. Well no wonder it’s wrong, right?
Anyway we are supposed to be the most advanced nation and we still have a death penalty when the rest of the world except for nations we are still warring with, {think!} While other nations went home our weapons dealers and torture lovers delighting in support for the death of people they don’t know or want to simply because they don’t know how to get money with out taking it from someone by force, is that supposed to includes mutilations? In my humble opinion that alone are terrorist activities as much as severed hands, ears, heads, or making a case with nothing more than an obsession justified by lies.
The truth about the sex offender registry will come out soon enough. When it does, People will see how the use of the registry was created, and by exactly who and why and the devastation it has created and the worthlessness of the use of it. It’s origin in the Crow laws that brought disgrace to our nation allowing thieves and murderous societal bigots who have trashed any shot at making good of a program in its design to make money destroying our nation and its people. We can not play god and we can not survive using this behavior model because we are compounding the problem.
It's a ruse designed by people who are getting rich off the castration/hysterectomy/health care/physic care of people through sex laws that have gone wild. What about the people who are being used by the Medicare programs that requires these mutilations for both men and woman after they take their means of support? Can't you see? You have created the model and it is worthless! Why don't you just indiscriminately kill people you don't know that’s statically the next sex offender because over 90% of all new offences are people not on the sex offender registry and the numbers are increasing not decreasing so as a behavior model the chumps put together is really screwed up and they were told before they tried it. So what is the use of such laws as the sex offender registry other than to terrorize people? With the murder of so many sex offenders and the continued disregard for life by the use of the registry it’s just a mater of time before the federal government will be held liable for the deaths through federal court.
In a nation where a statement may have a double or triple meaning and our entire linage can be traced through mud, guts, and beer it’s nice once in a while to get the picture of what is meant instead of what some thinks someone may have implied. So it is from the trenches to the hill. Remember the game where someone says something in someone’s ear then passes it the same way to the next; the person advocating such destructive laws are the ones who need to be section 8 by simple brake down of the issue not sex offenders. Best regards
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Sex Laws are a waste of life 12/2010
The General that I signed papers with told me he spent years in prison before he was exonerated by the courts. I had a major player in this tell me that I would quit likely die and would have to be replaced during the effort which would lock the door to the process. Well I am still here. I got the process by the short hairs and I will never let go. It’s not in my nature to give in. I know what they did and it’s not ok with me or anybody else. Most people never have too think about this stuff and largely goes unnoticed by most, but if people have someone that is a chip on the table and allot of money too make on the play, the guns come out. I am calling you a cheat and a lie. I am the twice chipped guy.
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I got so much more on these guys
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the selling of a child by his mother
As a child I fell from a tree in Washington State during a visit to grand ma and pa and out of my shoulder came a device, that looked much like today's rfid glass chip.
The military and prisons have always been used to make men according to themselves because that is what they are taught to believe. Well they made Saddam Hussein and killed him, in their way so what does
anyone have to look forward too when the supposed outcome has nothing to offer after time heals unsound conflict misdirected at ourselves serving no one but harming us all for no better reason than sex.
The making of villains and hero's are as fabricated by this process as much as Hollywood would have us all believe that when looking for information on Noriega IE:Manuel Antonio we would find a rapper. IE:wrapper used to cover up the involvement of this complex deception.
They also have twisted the idea that religion is the good guys and non religious people are the bad guys when fact is the use of leaders in any nation is based on their ability to control by what ever means not how much they love the unseen but how effective they are in controlling the seen, people by what ever means be it the gun or the nun without clear guide or depth of law designed without test?
Set up a marriage force a person to except the will of others through outside manipulation of events sounds like a chapter from Matchmaker but it is as true as the people doing it and if they cant get their way they just keep it up till they get what they want and that spells death, money, power, control, over life itself taking free will?
There is no justification in a process when we are used by murderous people lead to believe that justice has validity when its not just at
all.
Michelle Obama was not always Obama.
She gave bible studies to my sister who would come in throw her legs up and say do it or I will tell running the house with the enabling of the fact my mother had to have something to do with this and every other minor detail of our lives.
Even the administration tried to get the right to set people up and lost that in court but that is still done daily at our neighborhood WalMart ambush center full of those with little to do. This was part of an ongoing scam put into place quite likely before we were even born to make a sex offender registry when Fox news and their new star Oprah came to the school with the cast of the new media and drugged me with the help of my sisters drugs used by school officials in an effort to start their campaign of building a sex offender registry. Little did they care in the frenzy to find fault did they take time to look beyond the water works or listen any more to what could have helped them then to better understand the wrongs they were planning.
I was under age at the time so they needed the fall guy to make legal the most wasteful and worthless way of money laundering on the planet, taking and wasting lives over sex and selling their livelihood for personal gain.
People were there like Mrs. Norton who I told then I would have to play this thing out to know. Michelle Obama/Greenage/Robinson in a discussion on the couch in her apartment told me that she asks that her mother at least be able to sleep in the Whitehouse before I said anything. She also tole me I better answer her call or she would kill me herself, well shes not the 1st or the last telling me they are going to kill me. I have gotten death threats all my life, having been setup to find answers with nothing but the shirt on my back. I try to make these short but it's allot and to continue would be to ignore my life when the setup was before I was born, now who is sick?
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online lies
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