Where Are We Now ...

2020
by John Palhof
3-26-2020
Does this sound strangely familiar…

"The greatest industry on Earth centered about Multivac . Multivac , the giant computer that had
grown in fifty years until its various ramifications had filled Washington, D.C. to the suburbs and
had reached out tendrils into every city and town on Earth.

An army of civil servants fed it data constantly and another army correlated and interpreted the
answers it gave. A corps of engineers
patrolled its interior while mines and
factories consumed themselves in keeping
its reserve stocks of replacement parts ever
complete, ever accurate, ever satisfactory
in every way.

Multivac directed Earth's economy

and helped Earth's science. Most important
of all, it was the central clearing house of all
known facts about each individual
Earthman. …

With its knowledge of all of you,

"All The Troubles Of The World" by Isaac Asimov, 1958
able to help you.
Multivac will be able to help Earth adjust
its economy and its laws for the good of all.
If you have a personal problem, you may
come to Multivac with it and with its
knowledge of all of you, Multivac will be

Now you will have many forms to fill out. Think carefully and answer all questions as accurately as
you can. Do not hold back through shame or caution. No one will ever know your answers except
Multivac unless it becomes necessary to learn the answers in order to protect you. And then only
authorized officials of the government will know.

It may occur to you to stretch the truth a bit here or there. Don't do this. We will find out if you do.
All your answers put together form a pattern. If some answers are false, they will not fit the pattern
and Multivac will discover them. If all your answers are false, there will be a distorted pattern of a
type that Multivac will recognize. So you must tell the truth." 1

Make sure you recalibrate your timeframe … this was written in the late 1950’s … the only computers were
large scale mainframes used by governments, universities, some big businesses and the military. Like
Asimov’s fictional “Multivac”, the room-sized apparatuses had names like ENIAC, UNIVAC and the FILE
COMPUTER, which were just transitioning from vacuum tubes to integrated circuits!

“"Every time you use a key, you just identified yourself to your house. Every time you throw down a
credit card, everywhere you log into a system, you're identifying yourself," says Recognition
Systems' Bill Spence.

But there's always the option to opt out by paying cash or using another anonymous method.
Hurley (Deborah Hurley of Harvard's Information Infrastructure Project) sees a dark future if we
become a society where the majority of our daily activities are uniquely identifiable and records can
be accessed by others. Personal privacy is necessary all through the day, she says: "It's an
important part of what it means to be human."" 2
 "The firm that is making the most tricorder-like gizmo is arguably Scanadu, based in Mountain
View, California, which was among the first companies to
enter the Tricorder X Prize competition. Its device, like Dr
McCoy’s, consists of a small hand-held sensor unit that
communicates wirelessly with a display unit (in this case, a
smartphone). The sensor unit, called Scout, is placed in
contact with the patient’s temple and detects a range of vital
signs, including heart and respiration rate, blood
oxygenation, pulse transit time and temperature. The current
prototype includes electrodes to measure the electrical
The Economist, December 1, 2012
signals of the heart and an infra-red temperature sensor,
among other things. A smartphone app displays and stores
the data." 3

Maybe my observation is inaccurate, but I think I saw a political diversion and

end-run with the Obama Care health reform. When particular Obama Care items
(on pages 1001 and 1004) related to mandatory national identification were
publicized and vigorously debated in the Senate and Congress, the FDA Unique
Device Identifier (UDI), was placed in the approval loop. I might be missing
something, but between joint replacements, heart stents/valve/pacemakers,
ingestible diagnostic sensors, external skin sensors, etc, etc … there is now
the potential for a mandatory ID registry framework (with associated
personal data) waiting for a future crisis to require it. The Federal Register
is reviewed 77 FR 69393, before it became law in late 2013. The FDA UDI pie
chart color-codes the implemented and proposed UDI features.
"MUMBAI: Very often, people do not seem to recognize the symptoms of a
heart attack. But what if a heart patient was fitted with a special pacemaker
that could inform his doctor as soon he starts feeling unwell? Such a thing is
indeed possible, says Gopal Motilal Agarwal, one of the first few Indians to
be fitted with a pacemaker that can directly send an email and an SMS to
his doctor in case of an emergency. Not just that, Agarwal can travel the
world and still consult his doctor in Mumbai for a routine check-up." 4

It’s interesting to note that India has several leading-edge implantable medical
technologies and the Unique Identification Authority of India has assigned
by Pratibha Masand, The biometrically-generated ID’s to more than 1.2 billion citizens.
Times of India, Boston
Scientific's Incepta
"In 1990, when the FBI began
implantable defibrillator
building its master DNA
allows remote monitoring.
database—the Combined DNA
Index System, or CODIS—investigators could generally
use DNA analysis only for cases in which they
possessed both crime-scene evidence and a specific
suspect. Not anymore.

Now police can compare genetic evidence gathered at

the crime scene with millions of known DNA samples,
finding matches, generating new suspects, linking
together seemingly unconnected crimes, and identifying by Rena Marie Pacella, Popular Science
people who had been missing for decades." 5
Couple the implantable biometric chip statement (September 12, 2005) that Delaware Senator, Joe Biden
made to Supreme Court Chief Justice candidate, John Roberts, with the fact that he heads the F.I.S.A. court.
Now you have a very strange situation with unaccountable power in only a few hands...

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 "Chief justice of the U.S. is a pretty big job. You lead the Supreme Court conferences where cases
are discussed and voted on. You preside over oral arguments. When in the majority, you decide
who writes the opinion. You get a cool robe that you can
decorate with gold stripes.
Oh, and one more thing: You have exclusive,
unaccountable, lifetime power to shape the surveillance
state.
To use its surveillance powers -- tapping phones or
reading e-mails -- the federal government must ask
permission of the court set up by the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act. A FISA judge can deny the request or
force the government to limit the scope of its investigation.
It’s the only plausible check in the system. Whether it
actually checks government surveillance power or acts as
AP, by Michael Conroy, 07-05-2013 a rubber stamp is up to whichever FISA judge presides
Chief Justice John Roberts that day.
The 11 FISA judges, chosen from throughout the federal bench for seven-year terms, are all
appointed by the chief justice. In fact, every FISA judge currently serving was appointed by Chief
Justice John Roberts, who will continue making such appointments until he retires or dies. FISA
judges don’t need confirmation -- by Congress or anyone else." 6

Is this uniquely a United States issue? Dr. Katina Michael and Dr. MG Michael from Australia, have issued
several studies on technology, identification and privacy.

"Whether noticeable or not by users, the change has already begun.

Technology is increasingly becoming an extension of the human body,
whether it is by carrying smart cards or electronic tags or even PDAs
and mobile phones. Furui predicts that "people will actually walk
through their day-to-day lives wearing several computers at a time".
Cochrane described this phenomenon as technology being an
omnipresent part of our existence. Not only will devices become small
and compact, they will also be embedded invisibly in our bodies….

Now, while auto-ID itself is supposed to ensure privacy, it is the ease

with which data can be collected that has some advocates concerned
about the ultimate use of personal information. While the devices are
secure, breaches in privacy can happen at any level--especially at the
database level where information is eventually stored. How this
information is used, how it is matched with other data, and who has
Dr, Katina Michael
access to it, has caused many citizens to be cautious about auto-ID.
Data mining also has altered how data is manipulated, filtered, and utilised all in the name of
customer relationship management. It is not difficult to obtain telemarketing lists, census
information aggregated to a granular level, and mapping tools to represent market segments
visually. Rothfeder states:

“Medical files, financial and personnel records, Social Security numbers, and telephone call
histories--as well as information about our lifestyle preferences, where we shop, and even what car
we drive--are available quickly and cheaply.”

Looking forward, the potential for privacy problems linked to chip implants is something that has
been considered but mostly granted attention by the media. Privacy advocates warn that such a
chip would be disastrous for civil liberties. Even Professor Warwick, who has temporarily been
implanted on several occasions, is aware that chip implants do not promote an air of assurance:" 7

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 ““The one thing we know with certainty about databases is that they grow,”
said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy
Information Center, which includes national ID cards on its list of threats.
The official urge to amass and use information, he told me, “takes on a life
of its own.”

But on the subject of privacy, we are an ambivalent nation. Americans —

especially younger Americans, who swim in a sea of shared information —
are casual to the point of recklessness about what we put online." 8

In the aerospace industry, the use of surface mounted strain gages,

"Show Me Your Papers" thermocouples and other sensors is just part of the process when collecting data
by Bill Keller, The New for engineering purposes. Now a similar application is available in the biometric
York Times arena.

"According to the University of Illinois, “Skin-mounted electronics have many biomedical applications,
including EEG and EMG sensors to monitor nerve and muscle activity. One major advantage of skin-
like circuits is that they don’t require conductive
gel, tape, skin-penetrating pins or bulky wires,
which can be uncomfortable for the user and limit
coupling efficiency. They are much more
comfortable and less cumbersome than
traditional electrodes and give the wearers
complete freedom of movement.”
The report said the technology will allow a more
accurate understanding of how the human brain
functions." 9
"Nanotechnology, which is the motivation behind
many of these marvelous medical wonders, will
interconnect with the surveillance field and quite
literally make the notion of “privacy”- that is WND, by Bob Unruh
revealing ourselves selectively- an artifact. We Government-funded research produces stunning high-
must do whatever is in our lawful power to check, tech body monitors
mitigate, and to legislate against the unwarranted
and abusive use of uber-intrusive surveillance applications. We are talking about applications with
such incredible capabilities which will potentially have the power to de-humanize us and reach into
the secret layers of our humanity. These are not unruly exaggerations when we consider wireless
sensors and motes, body area networks (BANs) and brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are already
established technologies and that the era of mind control, particularly through pioneering
advancements in brain-scanning technology, is getting steadily closer." 10
Understand that the NSA’s activities have a marginal history concerning domestic surveillance. Under
subpoena, NSA Director Lieutenant General Lew Allen was questioned by the Senatorial Church Committee in
the mid 1970’s concerning domestic telecommunication monitoring. Also, the secret NSA operated totally off
everyone’s radar, from its formation in 1952 to1975. If your only source of information on the NSA surveillance
issue has been headlines and water cooler conversations, read Princeton educated Randy E. Barnett’s
observations.
“Due largely to unauthorized leaks, we now know that the National Security Agency has seized from
private companies voluminous data on the phone and Internet usage of all U.S. citizens. We've also
learned that the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has approved the
constitutionality of these seizures in secret proceedings in which only the government appears, and
in opinions kept secret even from the private companies from whom the data are seized.

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 If this weren't disturbing enough, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created by the 2010
Dodd-Frank financial reform, is compiling a massive database of citizens' personal information—
including monthly credit-card, mortgage, car
and other payments—ostensibly to protect
consumers from abuses by financial
institutions. …
By banning unreasonable "seizures" of a
person's "papers", the Fourth Amendment
clearly protects what we today call
"informational privacy." Rather than seizing the
private papers of individual citizens, the NSA
and CFPB programs instead seize the records
of the private communications companies with
which citizens do business under contractual
"terms of service." These contracts do not
Reuters authorize data-sharing with the government.
The new National Security Agency (NSA) Utah Data Center Indeed, these private companies have insisted
facility is seen under construction in Bluffdale, Utah. that they be compelled by statute and warrant
to produce their records so as not to be accused of breaching their contracts and willingly betraying
their customers' trust. …
The secrecy of these programs makes it impossible to hold elected officials and appointed
bureaucrats accountable. Relying solely on internal governmental checks violates the fundamental
constitutional principle that the sovereign people must be the ultimate external judge of their
servants' conduct in office. Yet such judgment and control is impossible without the information that
such secret programs conceal. Had it not been for recent leaks, the American public would have no
idea of the existence of these programs, and we still cannot be certain of their scope.” 11
You’ll feel more uneasy when you view the NSA website, under the title, “Why We Collect Your Data”, this is
their explanation:
“Under the authority of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 6, which defines the integration
and use of screening information to protect against terrorism, the NSA is authorized to collect and
disseminate information about suspected foreign and domestic terrorists. In the past, this meant
gathering information AFTER a target had been identified. This often led to missed intelligence and
lost opportunities.
But what if we could collect the information in advance, before the target was known? What if the
mere act of collecting information could result in the identification of new targets? What if we could
build a national data warehouse containing all available information about every person in the
United States? Under the authority of the classified Homeland Security Directive 15 (U.S. Strategy
and Policy in the War on Terror), we can.”
All of this is based on the NSA banner that is repeated several times:
“Your Data: If You Have Nothing to Hide, You Have Nothing to Fear”
The original schedule for the UDC (Utah Data Center) to be operational is September 2013
The previous NSA quotes are from: www.nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center (Accessed 5-21-2013)
So what … the UDC stores lots of data. Couple huge amounts of data with high-speed processing and,
according to WIRED writer Chris Andersen, the need to theorize is eliminated!
“This is a world where massive amounts of data and applied mathematics replace every other tool
that might be brought to bear. Out with every theory of human behavior, from linguistics to sociology.
Forget taxonomy, ontology, and psychology. Who knows why people do what they do? The point is
they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough data, the
numbers speak for themselves.” 12
Sounds like the oracle-like attribute of knowing everything … without time-contraints.

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 The Unique IDentity Authority of India (UIDAI) has been issuing ID numbers to the Indian population at an
average rate of 14 million per month. In seven years, they completed more than 1.2 billion people UIDAI
assignments. Logistically impressive, when you consider that two-thirds of the population doesn’t have power!
(Data source: www.uidai.gov.in.)
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that will be
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The Nigerian
document
35 titled,
“Nigeria
30 National
Financial
Inclusion
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Strategy“,
describes a
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launch,
similar to
15
UIDAI. The
NIMC
10 (Nigerian
National
5 Identity
Management
Commission)
0 was
established
by the NIMC Act No. 23 of 2007, the NIMC established, owns, operates, maintains and manages the National
Identity Database in Nigeria. Registered Nigerians are assigned Unique National Identification Numbers (NIN)
and receive General Multi-Purpose Cards (GMPC). The goal … to harmonize and integrate existing
identification databases in Nigeria. Initial NIN’s assignments
started April 2013 for Nigeria’s 190 million citizens. (Source :
www.nimc.gov.ng)
"Mr Aliyu Aziz, Director-General of the National Identity
Management Commission (NIMC), says 33 million
Nigerians have enrolled for the National Identification
Number (NIN)." (Source:www.vanguardngr.com/2018/11/33m-nigerians-
enroll-for-national-id-card/)
"The Global Findex database has become a mainstay of
global efforts to promote financial inclusion. In addition to
being widely cited by scholars and development Nigeria’s National Identification Number (NIN) card.
practitioners, Global Findex data are used to track
progress toward the World Bank goal of Universal Financial Access by 2020 and the United
Nations Sustainable Development Goals" 13
When I started this research in the mid-1970’s, most people wrote it off as an extremely remote possibility at
best. When Dr.Willard Cantelon stated :
"My first public utterance on the subject was in the summer of 1939 … my message on 'Current
Events in the Light of Bible Prophecy' was somewhat different from what the congregation had been
accustomed to hearing under Dr. Robinson." 14

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I’m VERY sure Dr. Cantelon’s sanity was questioned! Now you see national healthcare plans, FDA
implementations, child safety legislation, engineering development and the list continues on … all addressing
something incredibley close to a prediction made by an old Jewish fisherman imprisoned off the Greek coast!
“It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on
their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the
mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom. Let
the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.
That number is 666.”
Revelation 13:16-18 NIV

“A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and its
image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand, they, too, will drink the wine
of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be
tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.”
Revelation 14:9-10 NIV

How could imprisoned and isolated John of Zebedee, know … 2,000 years before it happened?
So back to the idea of something biometric that would be our identification/financial life-line. Is that improbable
or pending? Haley Weiss’s article, “Why You’re Probably Getting a Microchip Implant Someday”, peers
into that scenario;
“But sooner or later, the laws will change, and the frightening will become familiar. After
all, all it took in Sweden for RFID implants to become widespread and normalized was the
simple appeal of never having to deal with a lost key. Whenever it happens, like waves
of new tech before it, implantable RFID will bring us the next iteration of the yin-and-
yang symptoms of technology we’ve seen time and time again. We will likely be
healthier, safer, more informed, and more connected, and we will continue to
disagree over whether it matters if our privacy and autonomy were the
corresponding costs.” 15
Is the technology and planning available now, or is this something that is a
“somewhere-over-the-rainbow” future?
“Fast-forward to 2025. At this point, if Rogers’s and MC10’s dreams come true, a baby in a
developed country will be tagged with several Biostamps at birth.” 16
Maybe this MIT development will be implemented during a crisis?
“Now, a team led by MIT scientists has come forward with a bold
proposition that could write a legible vaccination history back into the
body’s repertoire. Solving medicine’s record-keeping riddle, they argue,
might just involve injecting patterns of invisible nanoparticles under
the skin. Like QR codes, these designs could be scanned and
interpreted by smartphones, and someday allow health providers to
archive and access patients’ past vaccinations without the muss and fuss
of external records.” 17
Somewhere in the design phase of the Spiky Patch Vaccine, the multi-point
delivery platform was in the form of a small white hockey puck with anti-skid spikes.
What does all this mean? You can have the “peace that passes understanding”, despite all of the surveillance
uncertainty, you can have the assurance of eternity in Heaven. How does this happen?
The law demands a death payment for imperfection.
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 6:23 NIV
Everyone is imperfect. Allowing imperfection into Heaven would ruin it.
“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Romans 3:23 NIV

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We can make the required death payment for an eternity in Hell or we can allow the perfect Sacrifice d Lamb of
God to be our substitute. Paul describes how:
“Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness (perfection) for everyone who
believes.”
Romans 10:4 NIV
Eternity is paid for, it’s a gift why not accept it now!
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this is not from yourselves, it is
the gift of God--not by works, so that no one can boast.”
Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV

Why wait to get your eternity settled … do it now. All you have to do is receive the Gift of Everlasting Life. Just
the best you know how, talk to God and tell him that you know you are imperfect and that the price for a home
in Heaven is death. Tell Him you are accepting his offer of Eternal Life by faith (trust) in Him, because He
made the death payment in your place.

“I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God (Jesus = the God who
keeps, saves & defends) so that you may KNOW that you HAVE eternal life.”
1 John 5:13 NIV

John Palhof
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ENDNOTES
1
"All The Troubles Of The World”, "Nine Tomorrows" short stories by Isaac Asimov, pages 137, 141-142 1958 Headline Publications, Inc.
2
“Body May Be Key To A Foolproof ID”, USA Today, April 8, 1998 page 4D.
3
"The Dream of the Medical Tricorder", The Economist, December 1, 2012
4
"A Pacemaker that can SMS the Doctor if you miss a beat", by Pratibha Masand, TNN, The Times of India, May 12, 2013
5
"Combined DNA Index System", by Rena Marie Pacella, Popular Science, November 2011
6
"Chief Justice Roberts Is Awesome Power Behind FISA Court", by Ezra Klein, Bloomberg.com, 07-02-2013
7
"Microchipping people: The Rise of the Electrophorus", by Katina Michael and MG Michael., Quadrant, Vol. 49, No. 3, March 2005
8
"Show Me Your Papers", by Bill Keller, The New York Times, July 1, 2012, page A15
9
"Embedded Chips for Cyber Connectivity", by Bob Unruh, WND, 09/25/2011
10
"Uberveillance: Microchipping People & the Assault On Privacy", by M. G. Michael & Katina Michael, Quadrant, 53 (3), 2009, pages 85-89.
11
"The NSA's Surveillance Is Unconstitutional", by Randy E. Barnett, The Wall Street Journal, July 11, 2013
12
“The End Of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes The Scientific Method Obsolete”, by Chris Andersen, Wired Magazine, 06.23.2008
13
The Global Findex Database 2017, by Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer, Saniya Ansar & Jake Hess, page xv.
14
"The Day the Dollar Dies", by Willard Cantelon, Bridge-Logos, 1973, page 15
15
“Why You’re Probably Getting a Microchip Implant Someday”, by Haley Weiss, The Atlantic, September 21, 2018
16
“A Temporary Tattoo That Senses Through Your Skin“, by Tekla S. Perry, IEEE Spectrum Magazine, May 29, 2015.
17
“This Spiky Patch Could Invisibly Record Vaccination History Under Skin”, by Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 12-18-2019

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