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Wealthy Mexicans Getting Chipped in Case of Abduction
Because the number of abductions in Mexico has jumped almost 40% in the past 3 years, the wealthy are getting subcutaneous transmitters so they can be tracked when kidnapped. Xega, the Mexican security firm which makes the chips, has seen a sales jump of 13% this year. The company injects the crystal-encased chip, the size and shape of a grain of rice, into clients' bodies with a syringe. The chip then sends radio signals to a larger device carried by the client with a global positioning system in it. A satellite can then be used to find the location of the missing person. Things must be a lot worse in Mexico than I thought.
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It would be so much harder to manipulate elections. Then people would be able to think about actual issues instead of electing the Repub^W guy who promises to magically get rid of all the bad people.
Anyway, Americans only need to turn off the TV, and shun Hollywood: That's where crime and violence 24 hours a day (whether news or fiction) is designed to keep you all in a continuous state of fear. And it's working beautifully. In America (and its satellite states), strangers are terrified of each other. That's not true of many other countries and cultures, and we can blame Rupert Murdoch for the global infantilisation and tabloid-isation of media that could be used for intelligent and progressive purposes.
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Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish. These fucking amateurs...