*Super-interesting to see so many network-based mashups of fringe political ideologies, these days. This one's got some RFID terror in it, which is why it showed up on my radar. But it's also peddling quack nostrums and attacking the FDA, psychiatry, and Big Pharma, in a wild collision of hippie communard dropout and working-class TeaBagger.
*Natural News reads a lot like a decorticated, ideologically-reversed version of Mondo 2000. If you replaced Mondo's obsessions with "smart pills" with a mind-numbing colonic cleanser, you'd have this Natural News scene pretty much perfectly.
*And while Mondo was always self-aware, avant-garde and wrily hilarious, this scene's chock-full of humorless, reactionary true believers. "Magnetic Pulser," anybody?
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"Big Brother snooping in on your diet
"One of the ultimate goals of this remote monitoring technology is to install a blood monitoring chip in your arm that would sample and run diagnostic tests on your blood every few minutes. While this could be used in a positive way to detect early signs of cancer or liver problems, for example, it could also be used to snoop on the dietary habits of everyday citizens.
"If you take too much vitamin C, for example – beyond what is allowed by CODEX – it could trigger a monitored alert that causes government-run medical operatives to force their way into your home and confiscate your "non-compliant" vitamins.
"If your vitamin D levels rise high enough to actually prevent cancer, they could have you arrested for "spending too much time in the sun" and thrown into a hospital with no windows to, as they claim, "Protect you from skin cancer."
"These are some of the very practical realities that could theoretically emerge in the dystopian medicalized society that seems to be getting closer with each passing day.
"We're monitoring you for your own good
"This isn't science fiction: It's modern medical fact. (((I agree that it isn't science fiction – though there does seem to be a faint anti-psychiatric reek of Scientology tucked in there somewhere.))) As CNSNews reports, "...Areas of interest include medicines that can tell a doctor if they have been taken on time [and] wireless monitoring of nutritional information..."
"Of course, as with all privacy-invading monitoring devices, government will argue that monitoring you is "for your own good." You can expect an RFID chip to be implanted in your arm, too, containing your entire medical history. So every time you pass near an RFID reader at a government-controlled facility (airports, schools, interstate toll booths, etc.), your entire medical history can be scanned and assessed for a variety of metrics.... "
