This article was written by Michael Snyder and originally published at his Economic Collapse Blog.
Editor’s Comment: Whether you consider a microchip implant to be a Mark of the Beast, or just a highly personal invasion of privacy, it should be utterly clear that those in power intend to have society under so much control that even thinking freely will someday become impossible.
Every purchase, every location you go to, everyone you associate with and everything you do will be tracked and monitored – and unauthorized activity can be shut down simply by denying the ability to buy or sell.
Complete slavery and serfdom. Why anyone would consent to this is beyond me – except that it makes perfect sense in light of adopting the latest cool and capable technology. Wisdom, decency and liberty are all being sacrificed for a Brave New World that will make people little more than a herd of animals.
A Shocking NBC News Report Says That Someday We Will Be Microchipping All Of Our Children
by Michael Snyder
Would you allow microchips to be surgically implanted in your children if that would keep them safer? This is already being done to pets on a widespread basis, and a shocking local NBC News report is promoting the idea that if it is good for our pets, then we should be doing it to our children as well. As you will see below, the report even puts a guilt trip on parents by asking them this question: “How far would you go to keep your children secure?” Of course most parents very much want to keep their children safe, and a microchip would enable authorities to track them down if they were lost or stolen. But is this really a good idea? And where is all of this technology eventually leading? If you have not seen this very disturbing local NBC News report yet, you can view it right here…
And near the end of the report, she insists that “we could see those microchips in everyone” eventually.
Wow.
I am speechless.
The report also quoted an electronics expert who claimed that testing of these microchips “is being done right now”…
The piece flips back to pushing the idea when it quotes electronics expert Stuart Lipoff, who asserts that microchipping children is safe and inevitable.
“People should be aware that testing is being done right now. The military is not only testing this out, but already utilizes its properties. It’s not a matter of if it will happen, but when,” states Lipoff.
Of course if widespread microchipping of the population does start happening, at first it will likely be purely voluntary. But once enough of the population starts adopting the idea, it will be really easy for the government to make it mandatory.
Just imagine a world where physical cash was a thing of the past and you could not buy, sell, get a job or open a bank account without your government-issued microchip identification.
Will you allow yourself and your family to be chipped when that day arrives?
If not, how will you eat?
How will you survive?
What will you do when your children come crying to you for food?
I am certainly not saying that you should allow yourself to be chipped. I know that nobody is ever chipping me. But what I am saying is that people are going to be faced with some absolutely heart-breaking choices.
Just recently, I wrote about a new form of digital currency that is intended to replace the physical dollars that we use now and also replace alternative currencies such as Bitcoin. It was unveiled in front of about 100 top Wall Street executives recently during a secret meeting in New York City. To give you an idea of just how rapidly the concept of a cashless society is advancing, I want to share with you a brief excerpt from an article that I recently wrote about this new technology…
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Last month, a “secret meeting” that involved more than 100 executives from some of the biggest financial institutions in the United States was held in New York City. During this “secret meeting“, a company known as “Chain” unveiled a technology that transforms U.S. dollars into “pure digital assets”. Reportedly, there were representatives from Nasdaq, Citigroup, Visa, Fidelity, Fiserv and Pfizer in the room, and Chain also claims to be partnering with Capital One, State Street, and First Data. This “revolutionary” technology is intended to completely change the way that we use money, and it would represent a major step toward a cashless society. But if this new digital cash system is going to be so good for society, why was it unveiled during a secret meeting for Wall Street bankers? Is there something more going on here than we are being told?
None of us probably would have ever heard about this secret meeting if it was not for a report in Bloomberg. The following comes from their article entitled “Inside the Secret Meeting Where Wall Street Tested Digital Cash“…
On a recent Monday in April, more than 100 executives from some of the world’s largest financial institutions gathered for a private meeting at the Times Square office of Nasdaq Inc. They weren’t there to just talk about blockchain, the new technology some predict will transform finance, but to build and experiment with the software.
By the end of the day, they had seen something revolutionary: U.S. dollars transformed into pure digital assets, able to be used to execute and settle a trade instantly. That’s the promise of a blockchain, where the cumbersome and error-prone system that takes days to move money across town or around the world is replaced with almost instant certainty.
So it is not just Michael Snyder from The Economic Collapse Blog that is referring to this gathering as a “secret meeting”. This is actually how it was described by Bloomberg. And I think that there is a very good reason why this meeting was held in secret, because many in the general public would definitely be alarmed by this giant step toward a cashless society.
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Right now, more than 400 billion cashless transactions are conducted around the world each year, and that number is growing very quickly.
And when our system becomes entirely cashless, there will be no more stuffing your mattress with cash and we will all be forced to deal with the banks.
What that day arrives, all of a sudden the government will be able to serve as the gatekeeper for who is allowed to access the system and who is not.
It would be very easy to impose a tax, require some sort of loyalty oath, or mandate some form of microchip identification as a condition for participating in the cashless system.
When we get to that point, what will you do?
In the end, that is something that we all need to be considering very carefully…
*About the author: Michael Snyder is the founder and publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog. Michael’s controversial new book about Bible prophecy entitled “The Rapture Verdict” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.*
What will you do? You’ll do what, when, and how to do it. Otherwise, you’ll starve. That simple folks. Were already 90% of the way there. Amazing how prophetic the rock of Ages really is.!!!!!
J, that’s only if you’re one of the sheeple. And I doubt if they even let all of the sheeple do it. Population reduction is still one of the NWO’s goals.
Guess I should have read this article first, instead of the one about The American people being conquered. I don’t plan on having a chip in a card, much less in my body. But Guess a person should’nt never say never, unless it pertains to a chip or mark in the forehead or right hand. Trekker Out. Resist!!!
the ones who will take the chips are mostly the ones who receive govie bennies as IT WILL be mandatory to have the chip IF you want benefits, they WILL also try to pass some type of BOGUS law to make the rest of us get them as well! time will tell, we may be in civil war by them who knows????
I just had a hard time getting on this site. Firefox would not let me. It blocked the site and when i tried to clik to go on anyway it didn’t work. So i went on Google Chrome, it said the same thing, blocking cuz license was not up to date, but at least i was able to clik and get on here. I was really pissed and told firefox off. I just wanted people to know some people are being blocked from getting on here. Pisses me off and that’s exactly what i told Firefox.
Marie, i have no clue if it is available for windows, but, there is a free, open-source programme called Bleach-Bit. IT will delete all kinds of things that FireFox (IceWeasel in Linux/Unix) will not when you clear your history. (To the tune of about 280MB or more of wasted space that also slows your Fox down to a crawl. Ah, you are in luck as they DO make it for WIN …go to www dot bleachbit dot org and download it, then ‘run’ it. I suspect it will cure your woes …and, consider moving to Linux Ubuntu or Linux Gnome or KDE instead of Windows ANYTHING! (unless you prefer to be spied on “across the board.” You can also HELP yourself a bit more by getting an account, to hide your IP VERY well, via FoxyProxy (an addon that is affordable and actually works …even the NO PAY version does quite well, but CAN be ‘busted into’ by the right ‘jerk’. Good luck!
J, I disagree. You won’t starve. They WILL however create the ILLUSION or false belief that you will starve which might panic some to take the chip which IS the Mark of the Beast. Yes, things will get MIGHTY rough when cash is eliminated and digital chips are put forth to replace cash but there will be divine interventions taking place at that time. Do NOT allow yourself to be chipped. Do NOT take the Mark. Even if it means your physical death.
That RFID chip will disable your free will– it already has done that to pre-chipped shooters such as that September Naval Yard Shooter who said he heard commanding voices. As such, those who take it will hear commanding voices and they too will be powerless to resist those, and such people are automatically consigned to Hell because they are rejecting God’s supreme gift of Free Will.
Lastly, implanted within the Mark/RFID chip are diseases that could kill hundreds of millions of people.
Why?
Because the devil HATES mankind and will lie to anyone (including the so-called wealthy elitists who are behind the Mark = chipping) to get them to do his bidding.
So taking the chip/Mark will mean the end of your free will, the end of your health, the end of your physical life, and the end of your Eternal life with God in Heaven when your soul is sent to Hell for eternity. So make sure your allegiance is to God, not to the devil.
As Dr. Peck wrote, the devil can’t do a darn thing without a human body (person) it has lied to in order to get his evil done. The Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberger group, the Trilateral Commission– all take their orders from Satan.
My friends, let’s not make the world even MORE freaked up by violating the Ten Commandments and doing evil! Keep your soul clean, refrain from doing evil. The devil will give you a thousand and one temptations/ reasons to get it dirty by trying to fool you into doing wrong, doing bad, and doing evil under the guise of doing good. So think before you act, before you speak.
When you resist the devil and even when you pray the devil hates that. Don’t take the Mark. Trust God. Be alert, be prayerful, be spiritual.
In addition to getting close to God every day, get as prepped as you can because between now and November 2nd, the world and our country are likely to experience either some form of natural evil (such as a tsunami, earthquake, etc.) or some form of human evil (false flags, martial law) or both.
No matter how wicked things get and no matter how much evil is unleashed, always remember that God the Father will NOT let Satan destroy or vanquish or exterminate his children and his world. The devil will pull out every trick including the deceptive and wicked Antichrist but ultimately, Almighty God will defeat all evil and we will enter the Era of Peace.
God bless you all.
– the Lone Ranger
I agree totally Lone Ranger. Well said ! I have always believed that the chip is the Mark of the Beast. Bible says IN the right hand or IN the forhead, does not say ON. The chip goes inside. I believe it’s the Mark of the Beast !
Microchipping kids will only happen when parents allow it. When people are that stupid, they deserve what they get…and the kids will suffer for it. Everything comes down to people being responsible citizens, and being willing to fight for their rights… Those that don’t, don’t deserve any rights….particular the left wingers that are all for the elimination of the average person’s rights deserve what they get…and, unfortunately, I don’t feel sorry for their kids either. Sounds terrible, but it is not… they are willing to put my loved ones at risk due to their stupidity.
It does not surprise me that this type of idea is being floated around by the banks.
I do not see politicians wanting the end of cash, though.
They don’t want any record of their transactions with pimps, dealers, etc.
As for micro chipping pets versus children??
Are child crates going to be suggested next?
They are secure, and keep micro chipped pets safe, too.
“and a microchip would enable authorities to track them down if they were lost or stolen.”
Your children = property. Government property…
I’d assume they’d destroy the financial system first and then install this as a one world currency. After allowing people to starve and die off for a time of course. That way by the time they introduce it it’ll likely be along with a promise of instant access to funds. The starving remainder will flock to locations to take the mark. Soon……
Ill bring an iddy biddy bowl of dip,,,
What? You said micro chips, thats small chips aint it?
So only need a small bowl o dip!
Kula, same here. I like Fritos. They go good in bean dip, French onion dip, ranch dip, salsa, cheese dip, etc. LOL
You may well scoff at such an important message… But I say, “You can tell a fool by the sound of his laughter” Quick, quick, brand me a TROLL! You’ll reap what you sow people… Wake up and live free… Avoid all governmental interventions at all cost. Life sucks, don’t let them stop you from sucking.
Braveheart1776
Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye,
I am the Frito Bandito.
I love Fritos Corn Chips I love them I do.
I get Fritos Corn Chips and EBT too.
Anon, LMAO! that’s a nice twist on the song from that old commercial. And it’s true.
Snuff dip….oh! Wrong dip! 😉
I’am sincerely Glad im as old as i’am. I maybe have 25 – 30 more trips around the sun; before I go off into Eternity. I seriously don’t think I want to be around when this Nightmare – In – HELL scenario unfolds. Ugly won’t be the word for it.
barter and skills
Got ’em?
God bless dear grandee. Thanks for all your prayers. My mom is dead now, 25,3,16. Good Friday ;¬) xXx
AGENT, May your dear mom rest in peace in the arms of her Savior. My prayer for you is to remember how much she loved you.
God bless you and keep you for His very own.
in Christ’s Love, grandee
No thank you.
Have your babies at home and keep them away from these bastards. They put poison into them as soon as they are born, calling it a vaccine. In time they’ll chip the kid at birth without parental approval. If they want to do it they will just pass an edict and claim that it is the law.
Let’s make America one hundred and ten. Before these maniacs destroy us completely. …
…..110
They already take children away from parents who refuse some treatments that they deem necessary. I can think of two. One is having the child’s brain cut in half because of seizures. The other is chemo(chemical)”therapy”. Meryl Streep stared in a movie about this. There are natural treatments, but the butchers can’t get their pound of flesh $$$. Who has the right to do this. Your ZioCommieGov uses CPS or other such agencies supposedly there to protect children. Disband all child protective services in America and return full authority to parents where it belongs. As a side note. In a book about the Bush family. They claim George H. Bush senior is a ped who procured children through the foster care system along with other rich and powerful. Norma Jean Baker (Marilyn Monroe) was raped at age six while in foster care. End this farce now. Don’t wait until the horse is out of the barn.
This was a compelling reason for me to become a midwife, to help others keep their children clean from the junk. It’s also way less expensive(usually) to birth at home, and the clients can be in charge of their environment a lot easier.
B from CA: Indeed! 109 Previous nations cannot all have been wrong eh?…so inded Yes! Help make usa nation #110 and….NEVER Again!!!!
Das Big Boot Out!
I say MICROCHIP ALL MUSLIMS IN AMERICA!
Their alleged “religion” is a violent political conquest methodology, which masquerades as a religion. It’s all BS. Listen to Jay Smith here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd9lIuUjPs0
We are mandated to ship hazardous chemicals, smokeless powder, and flammable fluids with obvious visual signage “WARNING!,” but have in our country the sees of terrible carnage walk freely among us.
Nonsense!ID these potential risks. A simple risk vs. reward analysis.
Turn this argument back on its promoters. The Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Mormons or Amish aren’t blowing people up or slaughtering them. These groups are exempt.
Just tell the Musloids: “it ain’t gonna hurt–the size of a grain of rice–mention the universal moocher and grifters manna from heaven–IT’S FREE!” Tell them it’s a new “NWO Tattoo” and it’s mentioned in their Koran. They’ll buy in to it. Tell them it’s the latest rage for Jihadis–when they blow themselves up, the county coroner and sweep-up crew can notify their next of kin or 10 wives they went to meet their “Allah.”
Hellsfire! They can locate and isolate a sick bovine in Montana in seconds with their RFID ear tags microchip. We can keep a tab on potential terror and their wanderings in real time.
Plus–look at the savings in dollars–no more phone or computer taps, gumshoe FBI surveillance, ad other old-fashioned police work. Get with it!
Not if I can help it. It is for control among other things.
I can only hope my Kids and grandkids stand up and say HELL NO. I pray that they fight if it comes to that. What ever PAPA can do he will.
Don’t hurt my kids or Grandkids. It might get bloody!!!!!
Sgt.
Braveheart will never accept any chip. Nobody tells Braveheart what to think or say or any of that tyrannical BS. I’ll be in the mountains with the family putting up resistance. DEATH TO THE NWO!
Send the old guys into the breach first. Not that many years left but we can still do some damage. Guys so old they could fart dust and their group would be called the “Creepy Crawlers”.
Fuck those micro chips.
Beavis braveheart. You butt munch. Quit referring to yourself in the 3rd person.
Word on the street is that the NWO is (truthfully) losing a big ‘helping’ of their clout …due to rivals such as Putin and those who are a large part of The NWO are “infighting” as to who is going to be “the leader” and highest paid, and all that bs. So, history may well repeat itself and they’ll self-destruct or perhaps Putin will vaporize the sobs (since they are presently ignoring his warnings, which is a very, very STUPID path to embark upon. He sees a chance to overtake Europe …and he will “go for it” when all the pieces are in place …if possible.
Meanwhile, China’s news agencies are broadcasting that The people of The USA and that The Entire USA needs destruction for the “betterment” of all civilizations on earth (and like many others are gearing up for a war to end all wars) …such as their “new” islands that they are now stocking with combat drones (made with designs stolen from NASA 10 years ago and up to the present). *That is verified info, and classified Unclass-EFTO, for the moment.
I will NOT be commanded. I will NOT be controlled.
Stand now…. or kneel ….forever
Angry beaver
AMEN to that !!! once you bend it is over!!
Every run in I’ve ever had with the law has ended up with 2 cops trying to cuff me. Oh they always do but I make them work for it.
Now our boy genius wants Muslim women in our national police force (RCMP) he is also accommodating there hi jabs and berkas. That’s bad enough but for those who are not familiar with RCMP. These guys DO NOT fuck around. Each officer is the equviliant to an FBI CIA ATF etc. All wrapped up in a 6’4″ goon. They have access to any info they want or need. Our priminister is a self identified feminest. He wants to sign in to the un small arms treaty. He’s going to give this country away to the highest bidder. He’s crippled our whole economy overnight he’s only been in one year and his popularity is rising as a province we don’t have the rights a state would. He’s even kicking the queen off our money in that short time he’s done a lot of damage. Our country will fall before yours I’m afraid. He’s been making alot of noise about banning hand guns semi autos and most sporting rifles
I will make my line and will defend ………
Apache54, Anon, and Angry Beaver, Braveheart is with you all the way. DEATH TO THE NWO!
Someone said that “The Mark of The Beast” will be in “the hand or forehead.” May I state that ALL Credit Cards, by some date in 2016 will be REQUIRED TO HAVE THE NEW CHIP in them or they just won’t work.
Need I say that one holds a credit/debit card which has that chip in it IN THEIR HAND?
Also, for an EYE OPENER to further the discussion, check out what has been available for two years now, but as of 2016 is gaining VERY fast in popularity? It is a Debit Card that is “loaded” each month with money from The US Treasury. No need for cash as the card can be used for virtually ALL payments (and yes, you can withdraw, at any bank, WalMart or ???, any amount of cash you’d like …as long as you don’t “over-spend”. Here’s two sites telling ALL ABOUT THEM. Interestingly, these cards render having a bank a thing of the past …so I wonder how that fits into the grand scheme ….anyone?
www dot USDirectExpress dot com or www dot godirect dot org
DO NOTICE that these are “US TREASURY APPROVED AND RECOMMENDED!!!!
*Many veterans that are 100% disabled and receiving both VA and SSD “benefits” are being pushed into getting these cards now, before “the crush” of everyone wanting one (for whatever the reason may be that causes them to become so ‘desired’ ….???? I can’t imagine, yet. Anyone?
If memory serves, a company called “Digital Angel” was actually chipping the elderly 5-10 years ago. It was mainly done for people with Alzheimers and dementia. The scary thing is that once the technology exists and is voluntary, eventually it will become mandatory. It will be sold as a way to: fight terrorism, keep children and the elderly safe, stop identity theft and make payments easier. As for me and my house, we will not submit to this. I refuse to submit to a technology that will be the ultimate way to track and quantify my life. Not to mention that, as a Christian, I see this as the possible fulfillment of prophesy and would find death a viable alternative to taking the mark.
I refuse to submit to a technology that will be the ultimate way to track and quantify my life
Got a cell phone? Smart TV? On Star in your car? A computer connected to the internet? (redundant I know, but you get my point) A laptop connected to the internet with a camera and microphone?
While maybe not the “ultimate” ways to track you, they are the next best thing and I’ll bet dollars to silver dimes that you’ve got at least 2 of the above.
Key word in my post is “ultimate”. I can always choose to leave my phone at home and drive a vehicle that has no connected technology in it. I can also limit what I do online and choose to do most financial transactions in cash. (There has never been a picture of me uploaded to a website and I do not use social networks so as not to leave too big a trail of digital breadcrumbs regarding my life.) Being chipped takes away that option.
As far as it goes though, no I do not have a car with OnStar or any similar system. I have also disconnected the cameras and microphones in both my tablet and laptop, and have also disassembled my smart phone to disconnect the selfie cam. I’m a little more tech savvy than most and use my knowledge to limit my digital footprint as much as is practical.
30 yrs ago they had Satalites with camara tech that could read the newspaper you hold while parked 22,000 UP into space…so todays tech is likly way more capable and weather or not ones car has internet or onstar etc matters zero.
EVERY persons activity or whereabouts or actions etc can and is being 24/7 monitered period.
it makes zero sense any longer to drive an old junker car just to avoid such high tech ability the fed govnt has and uses.
They even admit they have various hand held units that can SEE thru house walls and SEE occupants inside house.
It all boils down to either They want You or they do not.
if they do want You regardless what for?…Then You Are Toast period.
But most folks even if fed gov watches them 24/7 Via NSA spy tech and emails and websites visited etc…but most never realize it since zero cops or fbi or whatever ever comes for them or does harm to them.
yes its all wrong and bad and evil totally..But NOTHING anyone can now do will fully disable or halt such invasive propensities that are being used or done.
so it is useless to worry or allow it to screw up your life or lifestyle one bit.
And unless enough folks band as one unit to throw off such despots and hang and jail the offenders?…No real good changes are comming…it is just how it is is all it is.
Too bad not enough folks listened to guys like me when as far back as 45 yrs ago I first began warning everybody I came into contact with be they friends or family or total strangers…Most Every word You read in this article on chips=666 mark etc are the very identical words I spoke to folks 45 yrs ago and ever since then too.
Right down to words that say “they are going to at first allow folks to do it by Choice…Then promote it as end to crime and end to ID theft and end to dope dealings and end to stolen guns or car parts sold etc etc…They will start with Fed Govnt workers and soc sec and vetrans reciepients etc untill its made mandatory for all global citizenery to get the 666 mark-chip and a Cashless world IS the Main vehicle method they are going to use.
And 99.99% of everyone I spoke to, and I am talking at least a few Thousands individuals if not far greater numbers!….Almost all laughed and called me crazed!
Many still do today even! and forget mentioning anything related to zionists or israel or jewry!!…That causes most folks to get very angry and threaten phys harm asap quick due to lifetime of kneejerk reactionairy attitudes about those issues…Total Brainwashing and Irreversible.
And to date I have no more than aprox 1/2 Dozen persons that I know for certain Have listened and awakened to it all…in other words that entire lifetime of 45 yrs was basically a huge waste of my time doing it.
Today is no better either so zero re sets or fixes are going to happen unless that drastically cahnges.
And just by seeing on website forums like here and many others alike how many even wide awake type folks still refuse to admit that the entire global worlds nations main problems are created by one main major source and that source is the big Taboo to mention ziojew bunch.
proves for sure zero changes will happen that be good or a real fix….planet earth and usa nation cannot get fixed as long as vast majority folks within it cling to falsely taught beliefs and keep doing unquestionable defense of the very ones that cause the wreckings.
I do not have “at least 2 of the above.”
No cell phone, no smart tv, no laptop with camera and microphone.
I only have one computer connected to the internet, which I am using right now. And there are security measures in place to make it difficult to track me.
I can’t write a book here, but there are many security measures that anyone can take.
Use an old laptop. Use DOS or Linux on a thumb drive. Use other people’s computers. Use various wifi spots. A large dish can be used to reach wifi miles from your current location. Encrypt everything. Use TOR. Include incorrect identifying information, such as what kind of vehicle you drive or what your neighbors are doing. Think of what NSA algorithms might be checking for and do what you can to mess them up.
Examine your writing style and change it for website postings. There used to be a software that could do that for you. I think it was called “Corporate Voice.” It was used to make all letters sent out by a company sound like they were all written by the same person.
The next post I make may be on another computer and may be in another location. I may or may not really have blueberry bushes or a Ford truck.
Billy Hill. yeppers. Onstar in our Caddy CTS and two (or more) machines running Linux that are never off-line (save for repairs now and again). Even if you KILL your OnStar account, the dang things STILL “stay on” so that you can make a 911 call (and so that they can track your ass, except if you are under a metal roof or in a parking garage that a cellphone will not work in).
OnStar CAN BE DISABLED and “how to” is found on TOR. Do it wrong and your car won’t do much of anything like it is supposed to. Best way? Paint the rooftop antenna with car paint that is impregnated with ‘lead particles’ (that you make and mix in yourself just like ‘bottom paint’ for ships. ((Don’t frig with any of the wiring under the antenna or ‘bad things’ start happening with your vehicle, as OnStar is able to ‘dabble’ with most everything under your hood, to include killing the engine, shutting off the fuel, etc.
Or, if you have some old “lead flashing for chimneys”, “shape” one to fit the antennae perfectly then glue it on ….THAT will take you off the radar and you can plead ignorance. (as it isn’t against any laws …yet). We use the lead-flashing and have not experienced any probs since putting it on (other than questions from OnStar as to why we don’t have it repaired). 🙂
BREAKING: Obama Administration Cuts Benefits to U.S. Military Veterans to Pay for Visas for Muslim Immigrants
In last year’s National Defense Authorization Act, Congress cut benefits to veterans by increasing co-pays for prescriptions. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the increased co-pays saved the federal government approximately $1.5 billion. (See CBO Estimate FY2016 NDAA) However, it now appears that $336 million generated from the veterans’ cuts was used to pay for 3,000 additional Afghan interpreters to be resettled in the United States. (The Daily Caller News Foundation, May 16, 2016)
Known as the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV), this program was created by Congress in 2009 for Afghan employees and contractors who were employed by the U.S. government in Afghanistan any time after October 6, 2001, and who experienced an ongoing serious threat as a result of that employment. (See P.L. 111-8; 8 U.S.C. § 1101 note 26) Initially, the annual cap on SIVs issued was 1,500 but it was increased to 4,000 in the Fiscal Year 2015 NDAA before being increased again in the Fiscal Year 2016 NDAA to 7,000. (See FAIR Legislative Update, Dec. 9, 2014; Department of State SIV Guidelines)
While Afghan translators serve an important function in the ongoing war on terror, it is poor public policy to cut benefits to American citizen veterans to pay for these visas. “Military families shouldn’t be paying for the SIV program. The program should be funded outright because of the service our interpreters rendered,” said former Army combat veteran Alex Plitsas. (The Daily Caller News Foundation, May 16, 2016) There’s no reason to put veterans’ benefits on the chopping block, especially since there is overlap in jurisdiction with the State Department’s control of visa programs. (Id.)
Outrageously, it appears that several Senators want to cut veterans’ benefits again in the Fiscal Year 2017 NDAA to pay for even more SIV. An unnamed GOP Senate aide told the Daily Caller, “I’ve been told by multiple sources that they’re trying to use the co-pay hike to pay for the visa increase again this year.” (Id.) “With so much wasteful government spending that should be cut, it is befuddling how some in Congress are so eager to put military and veteran benefits on the chopping block.” (Id.)
The Senate is working on the Fiscal Year 2017 NDAA this week. Both Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) have expressed a desire to increase the SIV cap but neither has explained how it would be paid for.
h–ps://shariaunveiled.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/breaking-obama-administration-cuts-benefits-to-u-s-military-veterans-to-pay-for-visas-for-muslim-immigrants/
Infidel
misleading title
Obama administration needs to be changed to Republican controlled House and Senate.
Infidel-2, that’s only one more reason for the vets to just stop going to the VA for anything. The vets in my family started having trouble with the VA back in the 80s and 90s and haven’t been back since. Why try to use your medical benefits considering the VA’s attitude toward you and what they put you through? It’s just not worth the hassle.
Maybe your Vets should move. My co-pay is unchanged at $9 per month per prescribed medicine regardless of how expensive the drugs are.
I pay $15 per visit to see a doctor. My lab stuff is all free, blood, xrays, and what ever. Prosthetics are free. Braces are free. I have a custom fit carbon fiber knee brace, it cost $15 to visit the doctor that prescribed it and physical therapy. Physical therapy $15 a visit for 6 or so visits, Brace? , no charge to me, but $1600 to VA.
Specialists are $50 per visit( eye exams for example).
I’m not sure what the trick is, but here in Hawaii VA is pretty responsive. It could be that there is no VA medical center within 2,500 miles and most needs are serviced by local medical people.
Admittedly I’m pretty healthy all things considered, so I don’t know, but at our Community Based Outpatient Clinc, most the patients seem to be happy, I’ve seen some really torn up guys, with lots of missing pieces, they aren’t angry, and they are very positive. The only thing I notice is the isolation of the administrative types, they seem to be assholes. Lots of security.
They also keep the Obama picture close to the security guy so you can’t spit on it.
think the loss of manufacturing jobs in the US is bad now ?
you ain’t seen nothing yet
Foxconn replaces ‘60,000 factory workers with robots’
ht tp://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36376966
there will be a HUGE percemtage of the population that will basically be unemployable
From what I know of their living conditions and factory working conditions, the Robots are doing them a favor. Most the population of the world is un-employable, because they are idiots.
Try giving a McDonalds employee $50.27 for a $5.27 purchase.
a lot of talk here but no action. What is the event that brings people out into the streets ? I don’t know.
Mark of the beast anyone?
Of course, in this biblically illiterate nation, over half the population has no idea what this refers to.
Of course, they will find out… too late… to their utterly extreme detriment.
Christian evangelist Ravi Zacharias has noted that he doesn’t really care what the politicians do so much as what is coming out of our pulpits. (Zacharias’ website is at http://rzim.org for those of you interested). And what is coming out of the pulpits? Liberalism. Humanism. Heresy.
It is these very things that have set the intellectual “table” for all the evil we now see.
Solsynitsyn once remarked, when someone asked why all these horrible things happened in the USSR, that it was “because we have forgotten God.”
Make no mistake. I am not advocating a theocracy. Far from it. But this country was founded on Judeo-Christian values, and the erosion of this base *will* (not “might”) spell the end.
There is one hope and one hope only: A revival. It *has* happened before.
used to listen to Ravi Zacharias. he always made a lot of sense.
Take heed:
Jesus warned us about the mark of damnation and what society will be like when the mark is implemented.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
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.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (Revelation 13:15-18)
The American people will whore their children out to the Globalist fascist psychopaths without even thinking twice. All the coward parents in collapsing Police State hell on earth America are suffering from Munchausen Syndrome-they enjoy and even actively work to make sure their children suffer as much as possible, which is why they could care less about their health or future in a psychopath controlled Police State hell on earth. They are sick and disgusting parents and their children will curse their names for the hell they are leaving them.
The chip is in your smartphone and onstar in your car. They know where you go what you do. There are cameras all throughout public places that overlap coverage. If you don’t have a smart phone you will when your dies and you need to replace it. They will not make regular cell phones anymore. Cars are all built will smartphone link technology. I don’t think there is any new make or model without it anymore. People love technology and tptb know it and they push it on everyone whether you want it or not. They call it progress. I call it tyranny. Look at it how you want. Now adt sells home security systems that can unlock your door from your phone. Hacker the ifs will figure that out. Don’t believe it. They came out with security tech that your reads your eye. A week later some German kid hacked it. It might of been your fingerprint I read the story a while back so it’s not fresh in my mind. Point is whether we fight of not we are helping our oppressors enslave us. There is no stopping it. The ball is rolling and cannot be stopped nor do tptb want to stop it. All designed to steal your labor and your$. They already chip pets folks. When they are lost the animal catcher and vets have scanners to read the chip under the dogs skin found on the back of the dogs neck usually. This is old news if your surprised your living under a rock.
Very true: they did a big beta test in London in 2011 of the technology. All the dipshits were rioting using their BlackBerrys. And then they switched on the tracking backdoor and were able to scoop up all the dipshits and ram them through the court system. The days of blacks running wild and rioting and getting away with it are over. There is just too much surveillance out there.
Satori that’s why they are pushing socialism. There will be no jobs. People suck as workers nowadays. I’d rather hire a robot. They don’t come to work hungover of miss days they can be abused and won haul you into court. Simple maintenence can keep producing at Consistent speed.
The big issue with automation is that it will take away jobs so quickly that it reaches a critical mass. Because the pool of consumers will dry up with no one working, so will the business models of the companies investing in automation. This will bankrupt them and destroy the global economy through cost cutting. I expect to see this in the next ten years and this is why I am trying to work towards being self sufficient. I see myself as unemployable within ten years and at that point if I cannot sustain myself I might as well give up and die. To me, A.I. is the single greatest threat facing humanity both for the violent evil it could bring in weapons systems and for the benign evil it can bring via disrupting human employment for people without certain specialized skills. With so many people out of work, it is unlikely that job training will be of much benefit. If it benefits anyone, it will benefit those people young enough to still be able to learn new skills easily because they are the better investment. Those who are displaced will form a new permanent underclass, with all of the social chaos that this sort of discontent brings. I want to be well clear of it by the time it hits so that I can live out my days in relative peace. Will that happen? I have no idea. I feel I may have already ran out of time.
We need to get the world’s population down to a sustainable level and we need to invest much, much more in the individual humans that are left. We have a universe to populate and explore but we can’t do that with the dipshits that are polluting the planet today. I think down to 1 billion very excellent humans is the goal and then we can take it up again from there but only off-world. The idea the 10 billion or more people on this planet are all going to get to live in a monster home and drive a car… give me a break.
So what happens if I take the klystron out of a microwave over and build a micro pulse power supply for it, and walk down a city street frying chips right and left, pop pop pop.
Fry everyone’s chips, police politicians lawyers insiders. Suddenly the system starts failing…. Oops.
Plan Twice
Gotta love action items
To breed without responsibility in the 21st century is to need to be chipped and tracked with impunity. That is the reality. The state has a final responsibility to protect the human and the planet. If people will not curb their behavior and stop over-breeding and over-consuming, then they will need those decisions done for them. I am totally for it.