During her visit to the Netherlands, Dr. Albrecht visited the BAJA BEACH CLUB bar with a documentary camera crew. The nightclub, along with it's affiliate club in Spain, offered patrons the opportunity to be implanted with RFID chips a few years ago. In 2004, The Baja Beach Club in Barcelona Spain got a great deal of media attention and praise when it partnered with Applied Digital Solutions to offer RFID microchip implants to their customers. At the time, management of the club boasted about the program's popularlity and demand:
"The VeriPay chipping event was a huge success," said Conrad K. Chase, Director of the Baja Beach Clubs International. "Everyone embraced the electronic payment application. My customers like the fact that they do not have to carry a credit card or ID card with them. With the VeriPay system, they no longer have to worry about their credit cards getting lost or stolen. ["'Applications Continue to Grow for Applied Digital Solutions' VeriPay;' [BUSINESS WIRE, April 5, 2004]
Listen to an insightful and shocking update on the purportedly 'popular' RFID program, from Dr. Albrecht's visit to the infamous seedy bar in October 2007. [Audio of the 10/22/07 program can be found here: Hour 1 MP3,
Hour 2 MP3, Ram format, or m3U.]
During her broadcast, Dr. Albrecht reveals that the Barcelona club has since gone out of business, and the Amsterdam bar stopped chipping customers some time ago and rarely uses the system at all, according to the chipped spokesman Albrecht interviewed. The RFID card reader at the club didn't have batteries, was covered in dirty scotch tape and the 'exclusive lounge area' for RFID chipped patrons consisted of an empty area in a corner upstairs with 2 tables surrounded by a rope.
About 70 people had been chipped at the club, after being offered a couple hundred dollars in free drinks. The spokesman said that the heavy drinkers are the ones that tended to go for the offer. Albrecht and her team are working on a documentary covering RFID in the Netherlands, which will be released this year.
Katherine also covers the effects of RFID chip implantation into human flesh, including 'chip migration' and the difficulties of removing it. CNN reporter Robyn Curnow got" an RFID chip implanted in her arm at the Baja Beach Club in Barcelona Spain, but later felt uncomfortable with it. Surgeons had a difficult time removing it and she now regrets doing it.
On the 2 hour radio program from October 22, 2007, Katherine also discusses her visit with researcher Melanie Rieback, developer of RFID Guardian, which is described as 'a small wearable appliance which is able to intercept, alter, or block communication between RFID-readers and RFID-tags (e.g., your passport, tags in your clothing, or tags you didn't even know you had)'. Rieback, who stressed to Katherine that she is neutral on the topic of RFID and not an opponant of it, wrote 'Is Your Cat Infected with a Computer Virus?', which covers the link between RFID chips and computer viruses.
In hour 2, Albrecht also talks about Rafi Haladjian (whom she describes as 'one of the scariest people she has ever seen') and his 'NabazTag' product, a 'cute' RFID reader device disguised as a rabbit, marketed to appeal to 3 year olds and whose purpose is to track every single item in the world.
She then goes over some of the photos of the conference on FLICKR, which listeners can watch as she describes them.
Here is the RFID Cancer Info Archive page from Katherine's site, AntiChips.com
[See also 'Chip Implants Linked to Animal Tumors [Washington Post].
Scottish bar SOBA joined in microchipping patrons in 2005; I'm not certain if it was as dismal a failure as the Baja Beach Club fiasco. It appears obvious that both the nightclub chipping program and the fawning media coverage that accompanied it were nothing more than baseless propaganda intended to garner public support and desensitise the public towards this obscene, immoral idea of microchipping human beings.
UNCOVERING THE TRUTH with Katherine Albrecht is a very enjoyable, insightful and informative radio program which I highly recommend. WTPRN Also runs many other great programs, including Michael Badnarik's show. He's an author, constitutional expert and was the Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate in 2004. Badnarik was arrested outside the presidential debates in 2004 along with the Green Party candidate for daring to attempt to participate in the government funded debate. WTPRN has a convenient listen line which you can call in and listen when you don't have internet access. The listen line number is 512-485-9010. The call in line to talk to the host is 512-646-1984.
Since I'm giving out phone numbers, another one you might want to jot down is the RON PAUL WEEKLY phone message, at 888-322-1414, where Congressman Paul reads his weekly TEXAS STRAIGHT TALK column. A new message appears every Monday.