As we pray for the peace of
Jerusalem
Prophetic News and Commentary
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Jeremiah 6:17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet….
Isaiah 62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O
Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make
mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
V:7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise
in the earth.
Psalms
122:6 Pray for the peace of
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Rick Allinson
Prisoners 'to be chipped like dogs'
Source: Independent
17 January 2008 – Ministers are planning to implant "machine-readable" microchips under the skin of thousands of offenders as part of an expansion of the electronic tagging scheme that would create more space in British jails.
Amid concerns about the security of existing tagging systems and prison overcrowding, the Ministry of Justice is investigating the use of satellite and radio-wave technology to monitor criminals.
But, instead of being contained in bracelets worn around the ankle, the tiny chips would be surgically inserted under the skin of offenders in the community, to help enforce home curfews. The radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, as long as two grains of rice, are able to carry scanable personal information about individuals, including their identities, address and offending record.
The tags, labelled "spychips" by privacy campaigners, are already used around the world to keep track of dogs, cats, cattle and airport luggage, but there is no record of the technology being used to monitor offenders in the community. The chips are also being considered as a method of helping to keep order within prisons.
A senior Ministry of Justice official last night confirmed that the department hoped to go even further, by extending the geographical range of the internal chips through a link-up with satellite-tracking similar to the system used to trace stolen vehicles. "All the options are on the table, and this is one we would like to pursue," the source added.
The move is in line with a proposal from Ken Jones, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), that electronic chips should be surgically implanted into convicted paedophiles and sex offenders in order to track them more easily. Global Positioning System (GPS) technology is seen as the favoured method of monitoring such offenders to prevent them going near "forbidden" zones such as primary schools.
"We have wanted to take advantage of this technology for several years, because it seems a sensible solution to the problems we are facing in this area," a senior minister said last night. "We have looked at it and gone back to it and worried about the practicalities and the ethics, but when you look at the challenges facing the criminal justice system, it's time has come."
State, DHS grant RFID contracts to speed border crossings
Source: GE
17 January 2008 – The State and Homeland Security departments this week awarded more than $160 million in contracts for electronic identifying systems using radio frequencies that are designed to speed up border crossings.
The State Department awarded General Dynamics Information Technology a five-year $99.3 million contract for a radio frequency identification passport card that travelers can use at U.S. land border crossings and sea ports of entry. State officials said it expects to start issuing the new cards this spring.
General Dynamics will integrate the cards into the traditional process State uses to issue passports and also will provide the department with electronic chips, card stocks, printers and software.
In addition, DHS' Customs and Border Protection unit awarded Unisys a $62 million contract to provide the RFID equipment needed to read the new passport cards and to install technologies that can capture images of automobile license plates as travelers drive through Customs. The equipment will be installed at the busiest 39 land border ports. Unisys will begin work on the project this week.
Intermec will supply RFID readers for the border project and Perceptics will provide the license plate reader technology, said Tip Underwood, a partner with Customs and Maritime Security for Unisys Federal Systems.
The Perceptics license plate reader uses cameras and imaging software to automatically capture, identify and record the alphanumeric code, state or province of origin, and country of origin of a license plate.
The information gathered from the plates can be linked to law enforcement databases for background checks and assist in generating accurate statistics and updating existing records.
Starting Jan. 31, Anyone entering the United States from Canada,
Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean region must present a U.S.
passport or valid travel documents, such as the passport card or a
driver's license, and proof of citizenship, such as a birth
certificate, under requirements mandated by Congress in the
Western Hemisphere
Travel Initiative.
Comments: RFID is really moving ahead now. Implants and electronic identifying systems are starting to be a common way of doing business these days and pretty soon the public will be desensitized by all this new technology. Implanting inmates and criminals will be the first step towards implanting the rest of the population. The bible tells us that in the future, no person will be able to buy or sell without the mark of the beast and it only makes sense that RFID will probably that system. 20 years ago Christians were gasping at the thought of this technology coming into the electronic age the world is now in. We will be hearing much more of this in the news over the next couple of years and once this system is proven to work, many businesses, Governments and institutions will employ this system. It is here just as the bible predicted and it would seem like a sensible solution but that is not the case. We need to keep an eye on this system because like the article says above, it's time has come.
Re 13:17 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.
Re 14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 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:
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