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Cosmonaut Quits Because He Doesn’t Want to "Work for the Americans" – Futurism

Posted: May 7, 2022 at 7:18 pm

"Sorry, but there is no proper motivation for this."So Long

Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, whom Russian news outlet Moskovskii Komsomolets describes as the hero of Russia, gave the outlet a short interview explaining his departure from the space program earlier this week.

He says there wasnt enough to keep him busy on the International Space Station and,pushing him over the edge, Skvortsov doesnt want to collaborate with the American astronauts. Hes also turning 56 years old, and told MKits more or less just time to retire.

It would have been nothing if the program included interesting work on the Russian segment, but most of the time I would have to work for the Americans, that is, to help them carry out their experiments, Skvortsov told the Russian publication. Sorry, but there is no proper motivation for this. In a few days I will be 56 years old I do not want to celebrate my 60th anniversary in orbit. We must stop in time.

Social media users were quick to point out that there could be several different interpretations of Skvortsovs remarks. Space enthusiast Katya Pavlushchenko translated the interview in a Twitter thread,with replies divided on what the cosmonaut meant.

Is he saying he doesn[t]want to assist Americans? Why would he have to? There will be more Americans on station than Russians, one user replied.

Or is he saying that the Russian Segment lacks any meaningful scientific program of its own? another questioned.

Either is possible. Skvortsov said in the interview he respects Rogozin, the boorish head of Russias space program, and that he isnt leaving Roscosmos with any resentment. Still, life aboard the ISS has been pretty rocky lately, especially between the Russians and Americans.

Rogozin has even been rumored to want out as well.

Its tough to say whether Skvortsov just resents Americans, or isnt satisfied with Russias space program, but the result is the same either way. MK says another cosmonaut will take Skvortsovs place, so they wont be down an employee for long.

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We Are in Awe of This Absolutely Horrifying Elon Musk Tattoo – Futurism

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"I genuinely dont know if this is ironic or a fanboy."Elon Devil

A New York-based tattoo artist who goes by the moniker Mashkow has really outdone themselves with one of the most grotesquely fascinating Elon Musk tattoos weve ever seen.

An image circulating online shows the billionaire CEOs face imprinted in full color on the forearm of the artists client, throwing the Twitterverse into a fit of rage and confusion.

The depiction is truly a sight to behold. The tattoo shows Musk awkwardly smirking with red tinted eyes. The names of his companies, including Boring Companyand Tesla, alongside what appear to be X Space and Neural Link, are scrawled in messy letters across his cheeks and neck. Oh, and Free Speech is emblazoned on Musks forehead in graffiti-style font, next to the Twitter bird, in a reference to the CEOs obsession with turning the site into an arena for free speech. And just for good measure, something appears to be drizzling from the entrepreneurs lower lip.

Naysayers were quick to point out some issues with the ink.

Actually, its Neuralink, one Twitter user offered helpfully.

Its a tattoo so hideousthat it makes us question the true intention behind it. Is it meant to be a commentary on societys current obsession with the entrepreneur? Or was it simply a case of astronomically bad taste?

Given the artists previous and extensive work, which can be viewed on their Instagram account, its likely the former or, perhaps, a little bit of both.

I genuinely dont know if this is ironic or a fanboy, one Twitter user wrote in response to the image.

Its not a stretch to assume the artwork was meant to evoke this kind of visceral reaction. Besides, art is in the, well, bloodshot eyes of the beholder.

But given the fact that theres simply no way this tattoo will age gracefully, we wouldnt be shocked if the client will eventually have a moment of regret.

Cant wait to see this on a coverup episode of Inkmaster, quipped BuzzFeed News editor John Paczkowski.

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Bill Gates Says It Was a Bad Idea to Pal Around With Jeffrey Epstein – Futurism

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Although Gates regrets the friendship, this isnt the first time hes been the subject of scandal.

It emerged last year, for instance, that he had to be warned by Microsofts top council to stop hitting on employees at the software giant, and that comes on top of allegations that he mistreated employees while building a software monopoly.

To be fair, Gates has also sometimes been the target of conspiracy theories, ranging from nonsense accusations that hes trying to create a food shortage to mumbo jumbo about COVID vaccines.

Gates did fire back against the vaccine conspiracies in the BBC interview, saying that he had no reason to track people through his public health philanthropy.

Gates also went soft on rival Elon Musk, despite the Tesla and SpaceX CEO publicly insulting him on Twitter over Tesla stock. Gates also refused to bite back when asked for his thoughts on Musk buying the entirety of Twitter.

I have a wait and see attitude, Gates told the BBC.

In other words, it sounds like the aging Gates just wants the drama to end.

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Bad News! The Ewok Forest From "Star Wars" Got "Obliterated" In Real Life – Futurism

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May the Force be with Endor.Empire Falls

Hot on the heels of Star Wars Day, SFGate reports that the redwood forest in northern California where the Star Wars franchise filmed the famed Battle of Endor you know, the one with all the cute Ewoks? doesnt exist anymore because it was obliterated in real life. Bummer, right? Seems like not even scifi classics can escape environmental devastation.

The forest caught a movie scouts eyefor Return of the Jediback in 1982, according to SFGates reporting, so the team reached out to ask the local community development director if they could film on location. Ernie Perry didnt know who exactly was asking at the time, though.

They tried to pull the wool over our eyes saying the movie was called Blue Harvest,' he told SF Gate. But theres a restaurant called Jims, and when I saw Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher sitting next to each other, it was a dead giveaway that this is not a horror movie.

Unfortunately, though, its not a fun spot for fans to visit because a logging company came through and cut down all the redwoods long ago.

Sadly, those trees arent the only ones in danger.

Even while California works towards 100 percent renewable energy grids, the US government lists redwoods as endangered and declining. Of course, the Golden State isnt alone, either 15 billion trees were being cut down globally in 2015 each year, according to a much-referenced study in the journal Nature.

Its a shame that were robbing ourselves of historically and culturally important sites. Maybe Star Wars fans could use their infamous brand loyalty to find and secure the future of other filming locations?

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Scientists Discover Something That Looks Like a Road Deep Under the Ocean – Futurism

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"I feel like I'm looking at the road to Atlantis."Down Under

I feel like Im looking at the road to Atlantis, a crew member aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus murmurs partway into a clip of the teams undersea exploration. Are you kidding? This is crazy.

Perhaps the scientist, one of the Corps of Exploration team studying the Liliuokalani Ridge in the Pacific Ocean, could be so metaphorical because hed already partially identified what the structure really was. After describing the underwater feature as a dried lake bed, a post on the Nautilus site gives more context. What may look like a yellow brick road to the mythical city of Atlantis is really an example of ancient active volcanic geology.

The crew posted a video to the official Nautilus YouTube channel earlier this week, pictured below. There are also clips of the crew collecting rock samples and commenting on nearby sea life.

Last month, CNET reports the team found some beautiful, otherworldly species during their submarine excursions. The unidentified gelatinous creature gave the team a thrill, with one team member exclaiming Very charismatic. Yay! during a clip of the voyage.

Its pretty heartwarming to see marine scientists get excited over new discoveries, but its also sad to know there are so many things we dont know about the ocean given how fast were destroying it. Coral reefs are bleaching again, animals are living in plastic wastelands and scientists say a potential mass extinction is on the way.

The Nautilus team cant be everywhere all at once, nor can other oceanic researchers. What kinds of sea life will they leave uncatalogued because it died before they got a chance to study it?

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Elon Musk’s #2 Says Humanity Will Be on Mars Within the Decade – Futurism

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"People on the Moon sooner."Better, Faster

One of SpaceXs top employees said in a conference this week that SpaceX will likely make it to Mars before the NASA Artemis mission does.

SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell said during a video interview with CNBC that astronauts will have boots on Mars before the end of the 2020s and will use one of SpaceXs forthcoming reusable rockets called Starship. The rockets can carry people and payloads, and Shotwell said during her interview that payloads will get to the Red Planet in five years or so, followed shortly by humans.

I think it will be in this decade, yes. People onthe Moon, sooner, Shotwell said in the short interview clip posted online yesterday.

Although SpaceX hasnt made it to the Moon with humans just yet, they have been pulling off semi-successful tourist trips to the ISS, so progress certainly is possible.

Whats a little strange about Shotwells estimated date humans will arrive on Mars is that its far in advance of what NASA had in mind with its Artemis mission, which is taking a Moon-to-Mars approach. NASA estimates Artemis will send a crewed mission to Mars in 2040 or so, about ten years after Shotwell says SpaceX will.

Given that Artemis tests havent been going so well recently for the space agency, anything goes. SpaceX could beat NASA from behind, or fall into the same engineering traps NASA is spending so much money and time on.

But SpaceX provides tons of tech and equipment to NASA, so any decision SpaceX inevitably affects both, and vice versa. Whether or not CEO Elon Musk likes it, he and NASA may end up working together more closely on this Mars mission than hed planned.

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Now in Delhi you can experience an art exhibition through NFTs – Business Today

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Techn Disruptors, an art exhibition displaying art in the form of Non-Fungible Tokens or NFTs, is live in New Delhi at the India Habitat Centre till May 6, in conjunction with India Art Fair 2022.

The show is supported by the American Center and the Italian Embassy Cultural Center and features more than ten cutting edge, tech forward pioneers and digitally native artists from India and the Global South. The show is curated by cultural curator and producer Myna Mukherjee.

The show features work by world renowned artists like Raghava KK, Harshit Agrawal, Rochelle Nembhard, Gemma Shepherd, Seema Kohli, Adil B. Khan, Minne Atairu, Babak Haghi, Dr. Mandakini Devi, Nandita Kumar, Satadru Sovan and Shilo Shiv Suleman + The Fearless Collective.

The curator toldBusiness Today, Techn Disruptors features works imagined with the most future-forward technologies of our times, including Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, holographs, and a brand-new minted collection of Global South NFTs.

She further goes on to explain that the show has themes of urbanism, postcolonial art, futurism, etc. She said, This show has been conceived through the lens of urbanism in the Global South countries, Indian futurism and cultural perpetuity, post-colonial art, the Anthropocene as global discourse, indigenous technologies, and future forward aesthetics.

Mukerjee explained that the art displayed in the exhibition touches each aspect of our modern existence. She explained by saying, The works in Techn Disruptors question the past, the present, and the social spaces we navigate in our daily lives, the private, the public, the inner, the market, and the imaginary.

When asked what she thinks of the artwork that is displayed, Mukerjee said, They (the artwork) upends political narratives around gender, feminism, art as resistance, environmental rights, and freedom and access, as well as subverting notions of identity, contesting social norms, critiquing consumer culture, and imagining dystopian alternate realities. Collectively these works interrupt expectations and unsettle conventions, inviting visitors to gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which artists challenge norms and push boundaries through disruptive actions.

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Black Star Has Released The Best Rap Album Of 2022 So Far – Ambrosia For Heads

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Earlier this week (May 3), one of the most anticipated albums has released. Black StarsNo Fear Of Timearrived after nearly a quarter-century since the duos first and only other album,Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star. The two MCs havehinted towards a sophomore albumsporadically over the last four years,eventually revealing that Madlib produced it. Last month, a title, release date, and guests confirmed the event. Like Talib and Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def), Madlib is a product of the 1990s Underground Hip-Hop movement. WhereasMos and Talib helped galvanize Rawkus Records into a mainstream movement,Madlib and his Lootpack crew were staples of Stones Throw Records, which eventually became a creative home to J Dilla, MF DOOM, and others.

At present,No Fear Of Timeremains exclusive to Luminary, a podcast and audio platform that featuresKwelisThe Peoples PartyandYasiin, Kweli, and Dave ChappellesThe Midnight Miracle, where news surrounding the album was revealed last month. In 2022, all three artists are independent and using that freedom to combat the current digital streaming platform model. As the album trailer suggested, the two veteran MCs have reason to steer listeners away from the traditional DSPs. Yasiin has previously unveiled albums as art exhibits, while some of his back catalog is removed from platforms. UnlikeKanye WestsDonda 2move ordirect-to-consumer strategies from Roc Marciano(and others), fanscan legally accessNo Fear Of Timefor less than $5. However, time will tell if Black Stars distribution shifts and if that exclusivity alters the albums reach.

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No Fear Of Times merits are the subject of the latest episode oftheWhats The Headlinepodcast. TheAmbrosia For Headsteam goes track-by-track through the 33-minute album after setting the table for what Black Star means to Hip-Hop and the nearly quarter-century between releases. The conversation ultimately agrees that in a developing 2022, this is the best album to have been released so far. Over the last four months,AFHhas examined releases fromBenny The Butcher,Dreamville,Pusha-T,Snoop Dogg,Fly Anakin, and many others throughWhats The Headline. However, a tight concept, poetically wise lyricism, and ancient futurism in beats and rhymes makeNo Fear Of Timea compelling listen from three elite artists. Having no fear of time has led to a slow-cooked release that sounds like its process in a time of pressure and rushes. Notably, some ofthe announced guests(including Roc Marci) did not make the final nine songs, perhaps hinting at more Black Star music to come.

The Whats The Headline conversation also covers reports ofKendrick Lamars May release, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, being a potential double album, andPusha-TsIts Almost Dry, earning him his first #1 in a 20-plus-year career.

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The time codes for episode #82 of the Whats The Headline podcast (with hyperlinks to skip around):

0:00 Intro0:33 Recapping the history of Black Star and Rawkus Records 8:42 Reviewing the solo careers of Mos Def and Talib Kweli 12:40 Revisiting the Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star album 18:48 Black Stars No Fear Of Time album has been at least four years in the making24:25 Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli released No Fear Of Time exclusively on Luminary 32:59 Black Stars No Fear Of Time does not have curses35:30 Talib Kweli explains the meaning of the album title 39:13 Reviewing Black Stars No Fear Of Time song by song 41:36 o.G. 51:31 So be it 56:40 Sweetheart. Sweethard. Sweetodd.59:19 My favorite band 1:04:52 The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing 1:07:25 Yonders 1:11:06 Supreme alchemy1:15:32 Freequency featuring Black Thought1:17:00 No fear of time 1:19:41 Where does No Fear Of Time stand among albums Madlib has produced? 1:22:10 Where the album fits alongside Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star?1:23:58 Where Black Stars No Fear Of Time stands among the best Hip-Hop albums of 20221:27:10 Kendrick Lamars Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers may be two different albums 1:32:42 Pusha-T has his first #1 album with Its Almost Dry

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AFH readers can catch regular discussions about the culture on our Whats The Headline. The podcast also has interviews with Joell Ortiz, AZ, Blu & Mickey Factz, Kurupt, Evidence, Skyzoo, Pharoahe Monch, Prince Paul & Don Newkirk, Statik Selektah, Lyric Jones, The LOX, MC Eiht, Havoc, Duckwrth, photographer T. Eric Monroe, and Lord Finesse. All episodes of the show are available to view or for listening wherever you stream your pods.

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Dismantling the Transhumanist Agenda – The Post & Email

Posted: May 6, 2022 at 12:59 am

by Dr. Joseph Mercola, public domain

(Apr. 15, 2022) The notion of transhumanism is being actively researched and explored, while on some level its already here. Many people regard transhumanism as turning human beings into robots, but it actually describes a social and philosophical movement that involves the development of human-enhancement technologies.1

In episode 26 of Childrens Health Defense (CHD) Tea Time, I spoke with Polly Tommey, director of programming for CHD-TV, and colleagues about the transhumanist agenda and how its ultimate goal is to control the human population. The process has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and over the last two years, the global cabal has succeeded in influencing behavior, primarily through fear and the creation of narratives.

Most people dont appreciate that theyre being surveilled 24/7, and most of the surveillance you are allowing into your life, as you give up your privacy and consent to surveillance in exchange for convenience. Google is a primary culprit and the most egregious offender, and they have major control and influence since, worldwide, 93% of the searches done online use Google.2 Its the biggest monopoly in the history of the world.

In the future, its possible that transhumanism will use technologies that are physically embedded in the human body or brain to offer superhuman cognition or forms of mind control. However, at this time transhumanism is already occurring, not from an implantable device but through mass formation psychosis and the manipulation of information.

A key example is the term mass formation psychosis, which Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA and DNA vaccine core platform technology,3 mentioned on an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience December 31, 2021. The episode was viewed by more than 50 million people.4

January 2, 2022, mass formation psychosis reached a value of 100 on Google Trends,5 which means it had reached peak popularity, after previously being practically unheard of.

The technocrats quickly took action, manipulating search results and populating Google with propaganda to discredit Malone and the mass formation psychosis theory even though Mattias Desmet, professor of clinical psychology at the University of Ghent in Belgium, who has 126 publications to his name,6 has been studying it for many years, and the phenomenon actually dates back over 100 years.

Those under the spell of mass formation psychosis obsessively focus on a failure of the normal world or a particular event or person in this case COVID-19 which becomes the focus of the attention and can effectively control the masses. The phenomenon leads to totalitarian thinking and, eventually, to totalitarian states and its clear that Google didnt want you to know about it.

Because of their monopoly, Google controls what you see by manipulating search results and censoring websites or labeling them misinformation. If you want to find out how to truly get healthy, for instance, the information exists on the internet its there but you wont be able to find it easily if you dont know where to look because of the way Google controls information.

By manipulating information, they can shape and alter reality about any topic from COVID-19 to Ukraine in order to fit their agenda. Its not only Googles search engine thats tracking what you do but also your browser. Google Chrome browser tracks everything you do online, while Gmail captures every character you type and saves it on its servers indefinitely.

If you use smart speakers in your home, like Alexa and Google Home smart speakers or the Google Assistant smartphone app, theres a chance people are listening to your requests, and even may be listening when you wouldnt expect. Even smart thermostats can have microphones in them.

Have you ever had a phone conversation with someone and then in the next hour or day started getting ads related to something you spoke about? This is a powerful example of the amount of data theyre collecting about you and how theyre using it to control and manipulate your behavior. They dont need a futuristic transhumanist device to go in and manipulate your brain theyre already doing it without it.

The beginning of CHDs video features transhumanist Yuval Noah Harari, professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a top adviser to Klaus Schwab, owner and chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Its important to be aware that Schwab, WEF and Harari speak openly about transhumanism as part of The Great Reset, and Harari admits data might enable human elites to do more than just build digital dictatorships.

By hacking organisms, Harari said, elites may gain the power to reengineer the future of life itself because once you can hack something, you can usually also engineer it.7 Soon, he says, some corporations and governments will be able to systematically hack all the people. And, if they succeed in hacking life, he describes it as the greatest revolution in biology since the beginning of life 4 billion years ago. According to Harari:8

For 4 billion years, nothing fundamental changed. Science is replacing evolution by natural selection with evolution by intelligent design. Not the intelligent design of some god above the clouds, but our intelligent design, and the intelligent design of our clouds the IBM cloud, the Microsoft cloud these are the new driving forces of evolution.

Once human life is hacked, the hackers will maintain control over life itself a process that has been accelerated by the pandemic. After all, Harari said, Its often said that you should never let a good crisis go to waste.9

Surveillance is a key part of the plan for global totalitarian control, and Harari says that in 100 years, people will be able to look back and identify the COVID-19 pandemic as the moment when a new regime in surveillance took over especially surveillance under the skin.10

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Endowed by their Creator: exploring human rights in the age of transhumanism – The Sociable

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In giving themselves godlike abilities, the technocratic elites are moving towards a transhumanist future powered by their own intelligent design that could give them the divine authority to rewrite human rights as we know them.

Through gene editing, synthetic biology, and the merger of humans and technology, governments and corporations are fundamentally altering what it means to be human.

In a future where humans are no longer considered to be natural humans, what would that mean for human rights?

History began when humans invented gods, and will end when humans become gods Yuval Noah Harari

The American Declaration of Independence holds that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Rights are rights because they are considered to come from the creator they are God-given and therefore, every citizen is born with these natural rights.

Article 1 of the 1948 UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights also says that humans are born free: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Ourintelligent design is going to be the new driving force of the evolution of life Yuval Noah Harari

In the era of transhumanism; however, our technocratic elites are looking to replace God, the creator with their own intelligent design.

In doing so, technocrats become the creator the higher power that endows humanity with certain rights.

In making themselves godlike through their own devices, the cyborg priesthood wouldnt have to answer to anybody.

Rules do not apply to gods. Gods are meant to be worshipped. Gods can be vengeful.

Now, the peoples elected representatives face a fateful choice: restore citizen controls of technology or surrender to the cyborg theocracy James Poulos, 2021

Unless ordinary Americans regain a hands-on mastery of our most powerful digital tools, we will become compliant posthumans or ungovernable psychotics, sacrificing what is left of our civilization and nation to vengeful new gods James Poulos, 2021

In his written testimony to Congress in December, 2021, author James Poulos observed that our technoethical elite believe that we will fully merge with our technology and become as gods.'

He added that unless ordinary Americans regain a hands-on mastery of our most powerful digital tools, we will become compliant posthumans or ungovernable psychotics, sacrificing what is left of our civilization and nation to vengeful new gods.

Pouloss message to lawmakers was clear: restore citizen controls of technology or surrender to the cyborg theocracy.

Putting technocrats in the place of God could give them the unaccountable, divine authority to redefine human rights as they see fit from their position as the creator.

You dont have to be a religious person in order to appreciate the role that the concept of God plays in the construction of human rights.

Can humans be endowed with natural rights without a higher power to endow them?

Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled Hermetic Principle of Polarity, The Kybalion, 1908

The technocrats transhumanism agenda is lined with half-truths, where the promise of superhuman abilities will likely be reserved only for a select chosen class while the programmable plebs exist in a constant state of surveillance and control until they become irrelevant.

For the chosen ones, they could receive human performance enhancement that would give them the ability to never tire, think smarter, move faster, jump higher, see farther, hear better, hit harder, live longer, adapt stronger, and calculate quicker than any other human being on the planet.

For the rest of us programmable plebs, the fourth industrial revolution is already merging our physical, biological, and digital identities in order to monitor, manipulate, and reprogram our behavior.

If and when humans become fully integrated with machines on a large scale, where will the technology end and the human begin?

Eventually, they [our technoethical elite] believe, we will fully merge with our technology and become as gods' James Poulos, 2021

Its like what Obi-Wan Kenobi said about Darth Vader in Star Wars, Hes more machine now than man, twisted and evil.

Technology and bioengineering can blur the lines of who or what is responsible for a persons behavior the human, the technology, or the humans behind the technology.

This concept of who is ultimately calling the shots between humans and technology can be expanded to the notion of public-private partnerships.

For example, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which is a founding partner of the GAVI vaccine alliance has historically given more money to the World Health Organization (WHO) than every single nation state except the US.

When it comes to WHO policy recommendations that affect billions of people around the world, whos ultimately calling the shots governments elected by the people, or unelected and unaccountable globalists with ulterior motives?

Permittinghuman enhancement could aggravate existing social or economic inequalities World Health Organization, 2021

In July, 2021 the heavily-Gates-funded WHO published a series of reports on human genome editing recommendations and governance frameworks, which acknowledge the profound ethical implications surrounding human performance enhancement.

According to the WHOs Human genome editing: a framework for governance report:

Who will own the technology that resides within us or the genes that were altered synthetically?

Will human performance enhancement be reserved only for soldiers and the elite, or will it be made available to all?

What happens when technology embedded within the human body becomes obsolete?

Can a genetically-modified soldier ever return to a normal, civilian life?

Governments, corporations, and armies are likely to use technology to enhance human skills that they need like intelligence and discipline while neglecting other human skills like compassion, artistic sensitivity, and spirituality Yuval Noah Harari

Militaries around the world are already making some of the biggest strides towards transhumanism because of the advantages their super soldiers would have over their adversaries.

In April, 2022 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) issued a broad agency announcement looking for Human Performance Enhancement solutions for military use that include:

When humans fully integrate with machines, or are otherwise genetically altered through synthetic biology, will we still be able to call ourselves Homo sapiens?

Would our natural rights endowed at birth still apply to us after we are no longer considered natural humans?

The DARPA announcement follows a November, 2021 Pentagon-sponsored RAND report on human performance enhancement that revealed the US Department of Defense was looking into adding reptilian genes that provide the ability to see in infrared, and making humans stronger, more intelligent, or more adapted to extreme environments.

What sort of advantages would a person with godlike abilities have over a natural human being?

According to the RAND report, Technological Approaches to Human Performance Enhancement, modalities for human performance enhancement (HPE) can be grouped into three principal categories:

For the US Defense and Intelligence communities, human performance enhancement offers the potential to increase strength, speed, endurance, intelligence, and tolerance of extreme environments and to reduce sleep needs and reaction timescould aid in the development of better operators.

But what is to become of these super soldiers once their tour of duty has ended?

What happens when I leave the military? Does my implant get removed? Do I get to keep my implant? Does my implant get upgraded? Military Officers concerns about neural implants

According to the session, When Humans Become Cyborgs, at the 2020 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the majority of military officers were primarily concerned about ownership and bodily integrity when it came to neural implants.

These military officers wanted to know:

Hardware may be implanted and removed from the human body without affecting the course of human evolution as long as it isnt passed down to the next generation.

Genetically modifying human biology; however, can indeed forever alter the course of what it means to be human as the alterations can be passed from parents to their children.

The ability to edit biology can be applied to practically any cell type, enabling the creation of genetically modified plants or animals, as well as modifying the cells of adult organisms including humans Klaus Schwab, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, 2017

Humanity can also split into several different species depending on the types of genetic engineering taking place.

Just as human performance enhancement can create indefatigable superhumans with superior immune systems, improved cognitive abilities, and enhanced digestive systems, it can just as well create a weaker class of humans by removing their God-given abilities to defend themselves against viruses, to cognitively think for themselves, or to even break-down certain foods in their bodies.

When WEF founder Klaus Schwab talks about the fourth industrial revolution as not only changing what we are doing, but changes who we are fundamentally, hes not speaking in metaphors.

Schwab is telling us that technology is becoming part of our anatomy, both above and below our skin.

Klaus Schwab, 2015:

"And you see the difference of the #4IR is it doesn't change what you are doing, it changes you. If you take #genetic editing just as an example, it's you who are changed. And, of course, this has a big impact on your identity." #mRNA pic.twitter.com/SV7AmBBjGF

In his 2017 book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Schwab remarked that synthetic biology will provide us with the ability to customize organisms by writing DNA.

Whats more, The ability to edit biology can be applied to practically any cell type, enabling the creation of genetically modified plants or animals, as well as modifying the cells of adult organisms including humans.

Schwab also observed that The list of potential applications is virtually endlessranging from the ability to modify animals so that they can be raised on a diet that is more economical or better suited to local conditions, to creating food crops that are capable of withstanding extreme temperatures or drought.

The science is progressing so fast that the limitations are now less technical than they are legal, regulatory and ethical Klaus Schwab, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, 2017

Following the logic, this means that humans can also be modified to be raised on a diet that is more economical or better suited to local conditions.

When it comes to editing human biology, Schwab argues, the science is progressing so fast that the limitations are now less technical than they are legal, regulatory and ethical.

Seeing how the unelected globalists wish to drastically reduce meat consumption worldwide, the idea of modifying humans to be raised on a steady diet of bugs and lab-grown protein while potentially making people physically ill after consuming meat would definitely help achieve that goal.

In fact, NYU professor Matthew Liao has suggested on numerous occasions that engineering humans to be intolerant or allergic to meat would serve the climate change agenda because it would cut down on greenhouse gases and CO2 emissions.

Just as some people are naturally intolerant to milk or crayfish, like myself, we could artificially induce mild intolerance to meat by stimulating our immune system against common bovine proteins Matthew Liao, TED Talk, 2013

In his 2013 TED Talk, Liao remarked, Just as some people are naturally intolerant to milk or crayfish, like myself, we could artificially induce mild intolerance to meat by stimulating our immune system against common bovine proteins.

The professor has also suggested giving hormone treatments to children, so they dont grow to be so big and tall, because being smaller is environmentally friendly and more energy efficient.

If too much of the data becomes concentrated in too few hands, humanity will split, not into classes, it will split into different species Yuval Noah Harari

Software requires updates from time-to-time.

If there were ever an agenda to normalize software upgrades for a transhumanist future, then incentivizing or coercing the general population into routinely accepting updates to their bodies in the form of booster shots would definitely fit that bill.

In order for technology to give humans godlike abilities, it requires a complete surrender of all bodily autonomy to whomever controls the data.

That same data can also be used to enslave all of humanity.

Whether intentions are noble or nefarious, the ability to hack humans requires massive biological data collection in real-time.

Biological knowledge multiplied by Computing power multiplied by Data equals the Ability to Hack Humans Yuval Noah Harari

Once enough biometric data is collected, all that is needed is a lot of computing power to figure out how to hack human beings, which means governments and corporations know more about you than you know yourself.

On one end of the spectrum, the military and anyone else who is rich and powerful enough to get their hands on the technologies can give themselves superhuman abilities.

On the opposite end, people like you and I end up with human behavior modification instead of human performance enhancement.

How did we get to this point?

Organisms are algorithms Yuval Noah Harari

The road to transhumanism starts with digital identity, which lays the technological framework to monitor and record the personal details of every individual on the planet.

From there, the data stored in interoperable digital wallets can merge with the biometric data collected in real-time from devices connected to the human body via the Internet of Bodies.

Once technology gets in-and-under the skin to collect as much intimate data about you as possible, you are well on the way to transhumanism and the beginning of what could be the worst totalitarian surveillance regime in human history.

After all the genetic editing and the technological manipulation stemming from the fourth industrial revolution, will we still be able to call ourselves human?

How much of our humanity will be left after the synthetic overwrites the organic?

If we are to split into different species, can our rights be split as well?

When the time comes, will you bow down to your technocratic, cyborg priest class in service of their AI god?

Or will you risk being made irrelevant if it means theres even the slightest chance of winning the great battle for the preservation of humankind as we know it?

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