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An announcement today regarding the exclusive license granted to controversial chip-implant maker VeriChip (CHIP) for H1N1 detection sent CHIP shares hurtling nearly out of orbit -- up 178%, or over $2 per share -- to around $3.20 by Monday afternoon. Other news reports have cited that this is the biggest intra-day gain since the company went public in February 2007.

VeriChip's development partner, RECEPTORS LLC, has granted exclusive rights to VeriChip to develop one of its patents based on the "virus triage detection system" used to treat H1N1 virus, commonly known as "swine flu." The H1N1 virus sent shockwaves of worry about a dangerous pandemic developing world-wide, and just last week came FDA approval of the first treatments of the virus from Sanofi-Aventis SA (SFY), CSL Ltd, MedImmune (now a subsidiary of AstraZeneca (AZN) and Novartis AG (NOV).

VeriChip is best known for its human-implantible RFID (radio frequency identification) chip, which has sparked controversy from civil rights groups and religious organizations alike. Some opponents of the technology have derided VeriChip products as "spy chips."

However, others see the chips' uses -- such as the VeriMed Health Link System, which can quickly identify emergency room patients who cannot communicate for themselves -- as part of the growing technological realm being developed to help counter both wide-scale viral outbreaks as well as the ability to ensure prompt treatment based on immediate access to medical records.

Earlier this month, VeriChip announced its acquisition of Steel Vault Corp. two weeks ago. The company's plan is to change the name to PositiveID and remain trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol PSID. This news item caused a moderate bump in CHIP's stock price, but nowhere near what today's buying frenzy has wrought.

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  • But the only way this would make any money is if its ever used,and how are you going to do that wisconsin already has a law preventing this to be implanted.
    2009 Sep 30 11:31 AM Reply
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  • VeriChip Corporation operates in two distinct businesses. Its VeriMed Health Link system rapidly and accurately identifies people who arrive in an emergency room and are unable to communicate. Its VeriGreen Energy subsidiary focuses on investment opportunities in the clean and alternative energy sector.

    When the goverment is paying for our healthcare they own us. They'll tax everything bad for us restrick what is deemed dangerous.Then their going to mandate all of us get this implant.

    And If you think China is going to pay for our healthcare your crazy, the postal service is broke ,medicare broke,social security broke everything the goverment touches goes broke


    do you know what charagma means?


    Baja Beach Club owner Conrad Chase wanted something unique to identify his VIP patrons. Other clubs had special jewelry or key chains, but he was looking for something special. After brainstorming, he came up with the idea to implant his VIP members with VeriChip's implantable microchip.

    Alex has spoken many times over the years about how the making the chip "fun" and how by giving it an elite status soon an entire of young teenagers will be arguing with their parents demanding that they let them be implanted so that they can be in the "in" crowd. The Baja Beach Club and Chase have proved that the trend has started.
    This so they can pay for stuff without money the chip is linked to their credit card.

    New Jersey mandates all children to recieve the flu vaccine and two counties there have bought verichips "why"?

    The Greek word for mark is charagma. Strong's Concordance defines charagma as "a scratch or etching", "a badge of servitude", "graven", and finally "mark" . Strong's also notes that charagma is directly related to the Greek word charax, which means "to sharpen to a point" and "a stake".

    The earliest use of the word Charagma outside of the Bible describes the piercing bite of a snake:
    "[Charagma] is an engraved, etched, branded or inscribed 'mark' or 'sign'. Closest to the original sense is the earliest example in Soph. Phil., 267, where [charagma] denotes the bite of a snake."
    Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (vol 9, page 416)


    "any mark engraved, imprinted, or branded, ch. echidnes the serpent's mark, i.e. its bite, sting"
    Charagma - Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

    Interestingly, spelling out 666 in words accurately preserves the original use of the Greek language. If we look at the Greek we see that 666 is presented with three words: Chi - Xi - Stigma.


    The chips are injected under the skin sounds pretty close to me how about you?
    2009 Oct 01 04:17 PM Reply
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  • When you are a 14th amendment citizen then you have no rights, if you are a non 14th amendment citizen then you live under the laws of the constitution then they can't do this type of thing to you.
    2009 Oct 16 08:08 PM Reply
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  • "All persons born or naturalized in the United States [federal areas], and SUBJECT TO the jurisdiction thereof [federal government], are citizens [franchisees] of the United States [federal government]." -- 14th Amendment .... SUBJECT TO. "Liable, subordinate, subservient, inferior, obedient to; governed or affected by; ..." -- Black's Law Dictionary 4th Ed. "A citizen of the United States is a citizen of the federal government ..." Kitchens v. Steele, 112 F.Supp 383 .... "The government of the United States is a FOREIGN CORPORATION with respect to a state." -- In re Merriam, 36 NE 505, 141 NY 479, affirmed 16 SCt 1073, 163 US 625 [see also 20 CJS ยง 1785].
    2009 Nov 23 01:22 PM Reply