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Dr. Patrick Redmond observed of its deployment trend that: “… by 2011 you should be able
to go on Google and find out where someone is at any time from chips on clothing, in
cars, cell phones, and inside many people themselves.”
Dr. Patrick Redmond, 31 years with IBM before he retired, further noted the recent staggering
growth of the RFID industry: “From 1955 to 2005, cumulative sales of radio tags totaled
2.4 billion; in 2007 alone, 2.24 billion tags were sold worldwide and analysts project that
by 2017 cumulative sales will top 1 trillion–generating more than $25 billion in annual
revenues for the industry.”
The ten page article-transcript of Dr. Redmond’s talk is an absolute must-read. He not only
surveyed how RFIDs are being used today for commodity tracking, but also how they might be
used in the near future for psychotropic induction of mind control, ominously concluding: “If
chips can disseminate medicine then they can disseminate other things too; anything
put inside a microchip can be activated by a signal. And finally, with this technology,
subliminal mind control becomes possible.”
Evidently, the Technetronic Era has willingly brought the world full circle from Aldous Huxley’s
1931 mood-altering drug “SOMA” in his fable A Brave New World, to his 1962 predictions at
his talk at the University of California Berkeley of the advancements in social engineering
through direct behavior control whereby people will actually be made to love their own
servitude creating the “ultimate in malevolent revolution”, to its real enablement within 50
years, in our own lifetime. Is this mere happenstance, an inevitable side-effect of technology,
or societal control wielded by Machiavelli and worked towards by the many architects of
hegemony in every generation? According to Zbigniew Brzezinski, the author of The Grand
Chessboard, the co-founder of the Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller and its first
executive director, and America's National Security Advisor under president Jimmy Carter
(1976-80): “Another threat, less overt but no less basic, confronts liberal democracy. More
directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more
controlled and directed society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite whose claim to
political power would rest on allegedly superior scientific know-how. Unhindered by the
restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its
political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior
and keeping society under close surveillance and control.” (Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski,
Between Two Ages, 1970, pg. 97)
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