When you think about it…there are two reasons to be concerned about this story.

One short-term. One, potentially, long-term.

Last week, a wireless communications company announced its new president. News like that is buried everyday on the back page of the Wall Street Journal.

What makes this company different is who owns it. A British finance website, The Register, reports the California-based company La Graviton was built with money from a venture capital group known as In-Q-Tel, which in turn is owned by the CIA. Our staff has discovered that In-Q-Tel is incorporated in Nevada as a non-profit corporation and has an office within blocks of the White House.

We’d all have to be pretty naïve to believe the CIA has no owned and operated private subsidiaries. Air America pops into my head, immediately. But what makes La Graviton different is its stated clientele, everyday humans just like you and me…and its service, providing wireless health data for patients by way of remote monitoring devices.

So, what we have is your favorite spook agency and mine having instant access to the health data of a large segment of the US population. That’s scary enough.

The Register had another eye-opening report at its website on the same day the CIA-wireless story broke. Out of left field, a new firm of unknown backers came up with the cash necessary to bail out the cash strapped Iridium satellite system and prevent Motorola’s 66 geo-synchronous satellites from being dumped one by one into the Pacific Ocean.

Motorola claims to have lost millions on the Iridium venture, which the Register claims has been repaid by the US government, just to keep the satellites flying. Even more curious, the new owners are expected to pass up marketing the already dated communications technology to private business and citizens, instead, choosing to sell their services to…the US government.

What makes the story all the more interesting…and potentially menacing…is the third piece of the puzzle that in the end may or may not actually fit. Last Februray, a major player in the computer world, Applied Digital Solutions announced its plans to develop and market a chip that could be implanted under human skin. The so-called Digital Angel would be used to track individuals by means of GPS satellites. It could be used to monitor the health of those implanted. (Sounds a lot like the La Graviton/CIA system, doesn’t it.) And it could be used for e-commerce solutions.

When the chip was finally ready to be unveiled to the world, the e-commerce function had been deleted and the chip was modified to be worn like a wristwatch, close to the body. The Digital Angel had supposedly failed to receive approval for human implantation from the Food and Drug Administration because not enough tests had been completed on its safety. That sounded like a temporary setback to me, even though the company now claims the Digital Angel will never be implanted. Of course, company plans can change at the drop of a hat, particularly if powerful interests behind the scenes dictate when that hat should be dropped.

The importance of implantation and the e-commerce function of digital angel, its use of a global tracking satellite system like Iridium and data monitoring by an entity with a government connection, like La Graviton cannot be overstated. If they are indeed interlocked, the system could seamlessly provide all manner of financial data to the federal government.

Worse still, it sounds exactly like the end-times population control system described by the apostle John in the Book of Revelation as "the mark of the beast." When humanity is sold on its many benefits, including doing away with virtually all theft, ending tax evasion, finding lost children, locating missing murder victims and the like, the system is likely to win immediate, widespread acceptance, especially from those with little or no exposure to the teachings of the bible.

What they may not know…or believe…is what happens to those who accept such a mark on their right hand or forehead and worship the Anti-Christ. They end up burning in hell, forever.

In the end, we can all choose either Satan or God. For me and my household, we will serve the Lord.

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