Blob Makes Thought, Pritzker’s CCP Battery Maker, SBF’s DNC Dark Money Scheme, Poland Nixes Ukraine, America’s AI Drone Army

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Blob Makes Thought, Pritzker’s CCP Battery Maker, SBF’s DNC Dark Money Scheme, Poland Nixes Ukraine, America’s AI Drone Army

Paul Collier September 22, 2023

FREEDOMIST INTELLIGENCE ADVISOR Presents

FIA WEEKDAY

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

editor Paul Collier

A summary of news from the day before (or weekend for Monday reports),
with breaking news added at the time of publication (released weekdays 8am eastern time).

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(News recap from 3p September 20 to 3p September 21)

“(Love) does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. “ – 1 Corinthians 13:6

BLOB MAKES THOUGHT, PRITZKER’S CCP BATTERY MAKER, SBF’S DNC DARK MONEY SCHEME, POLAND NIXES UKRAINE, AMERICA’S AI DRONE ARMY

ED.NOTE: Non-Freedomist-shared links are NOT endorsements

ANTI-LIBERTY AGIT-PROP

ED.NOTE: Links in this category are either agitprop (be it intentionally or unwittingly) or exposing agitprop intended to undermine American liberty values.

We’re going to need a bigger NATO — but especially a better NATO – thehill.com

Adam Schiff Exposes Jim Jordan In Front Of The World – www.politicususa.com

Jim Jordan Goes Off The Rails With Merrick Garland At Hearing – crooksandliars.com

Rep Swalwell Skewers GOP Committee Chair Jim Jordan for Hypocritical Attack on Merrick Garland – www.dailykos.com

Myths and facts: Fox News spreads misinformation about Viktor Shokin and Joe Biden – www.mediamatters.org

The Christian right unveiled a terrifying wishlist for Trump – www.msnbc.com

An appeal to racists: Aggressive attacks by Trump follow a well-worn strategy against legal opponents – www.milwaukeeindependent.com

Trumpworld Lawyers Keep Getting Stiffed on Fees – Mother Jones – www.motherjones.com

Donald Trump Resurrects His Cruel Idea For Stopping Migrants At The Border – ca.style.yahoo.com

Humanity has ‘opened gates to hell’ by letting climate crisis worsen, UN secretary warns | United Nations – amp.theguardian.com

Millions of federal workers’ paychecks would be on hold in a shutdown – Oregon Capital Chronicle – oregoncapitalchronicle.com

‘Abortion tourism’: A tidy phrase for punching down at desperate people – www.washingtonpost.com

Pentagon Launches Outreach to LGBTQ Troops Removed Under ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ – www.outsmartmagazine.com

‘You want to think America is better’: can the supreme court be saved? | Documentary – amp.theguardian.com

How a conservative Supreme Court turned back decades of Civil Rights precedents in a single year – www.milwaukeeindependent.com

Elon Musk’s Antisemitic, Apartheid-Loving Grandfather – www.theatlantic.com

Twitter Continues to Show Ads on Russell Brand Posts After Musk Support – www.vice.com

Congressman attacks military racial, gender quotas – americanmilitarynews.com

Antisemitism is an ancient hatred, merely its expression changes – www.jpost.com

X scores the lowest among all social media in combating climate disinformation, study finds – www.theverge.com

Opinion: Hunter Biden is hardly the first ne’er-do-well presidential son – KAKE – www.kake.com

Why is Georgia prosecuting leftwing activists with the same law as Trump? | ‘Cop City’ – amp.theguardian.com

Oakland NAACP has been ‘hijacked’ for conservative causes, say some Black community leaders – oaklandside.org

FEMA Needs More Money to Keep Up with Disasters. Instead It Faces a Potential Government Shutdown – www.scientificamerican.com

Dem thrashes GOP candidate in local election some media treated like a close thing – boingboing.net

How Capitalism Is Helping Fuel Our Mental Health Crisis – www.madinamerica.com

Wayzata white supremacists draw attention to hate in Minnesota – minnesotareformer.com

GARLAND EVADES HOUSE GRILLING BY REPEATING “INTERNAL DELIBERATIONS” CLAUSE – Lawfare Assassin-in-Chief Merrick Garland, aka the Attorney General of the DOJ, went before a House Oversight committee and defended the integrity of the DOJ’s commitment to “Rule of Law” while evading every meaningful question using the phrase “Internal Deliberations,” which was used to avoid having to answer hard questions. To the charge that Weiss is “slow-walking” the Biden probe, Garland responded with “I’m not going to get into the internal deliberations.”

RUPERT MURDOCK ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT – Rupert Murdoch has announced plans to step down as Fox and News Corp Chairman. He plans on handing over the reins of his media empire to his son Lachlan Murdoch.

more:

Tropical Storm Warning Issued For Parts Of The East Coast – Weather Underground – www.wunderground.com

In House Hearing, Garland Defends Justice Department’s Hunter Biden Inquiry – www.nytimes.com

Another migrant surge as border agents are overwhelmed and under-staffed – fox28savannah.com

65% of Americans are ‘exhausted’ by politics – www.dailykos.com

Dec. 11 trial date set for America’s mayor in defamation lawsuit – www.atlantanewsfirst.com

Free COVID Tests to Return Across U.S. Starting Sept. 25 – hudsonvalleypost.com

State regulators could approve coal plant settlement, sending $115M back to New Mexicans, + More – www.kunm.org

Garland’s Memory Fails Him: What’s He Hiding in the Hunter Biden Saga? – loyalconservatives.com

Convicted murderer Billy Chemirmir killed in prison by his cellmate, officials say | Ap – www.thederrick.com

Top Chinese official has American child in US after affair: Report – americanmilitarynews.com

U.S. Military Barracks Are Depressing Hellholes, Watchdog Finds – www.vice.com

2nd Circ. Rejects Claim Bloomberg Campaign Shirked Pay – www.law360.com

Google sued after man died in bridge accident while following map directions – fortune.com

US Government Won’t Let Space Drugs Factory Come Back to Earth – futurism.com

Chief Pelletier to Maui Police Commission: ‘We saved lives’ : Maui Now – mauinow.com

The International Criminal Court In The Hague Says It Has Been Hacked – yro.slashdot.org

Officers praised for their courage as Maui Police Commission briefed for first time on devastating wildfires – www.hawaiinewsnow.com

Activists accuse state of exploiting wildfire crisis to weaken water protections – www.hawaiinewsnow.com

HS Band Director ‘Baffled’ After Police Tased Him In Front Of Kids – theshaderoom.com

Woman Dies After Crashing Into Brentwood Target | St. Louis Metro News | St. Louis – www.riverfronttimes.com

Watch: This news report covering the missing F-35 is the greatest reaction to anything ever – www.louderwithcrowder.com

Asteroid that passes nearby could hit Earth in the future, NASA says – abcnews.go.com

Opioid overdose reversal drugs are now available over-the-counter in Alaska – alaskapublic.org

Federal judge who refuses to retire at 96 suspended for ‘misconduct’ – www.washingtonpost.com

Fishmongers found a rare blue lobster. Instead of selling it, they found a place it could live a happy life – www.cbsnews.com

Stephen Fry rushed to hospital after falling off stage at The O2 – uk.sports.yahoo.com

A Scientist Helped to Launch Ancient Human Fossils Into Space, and His Colleagues Aren’t Happy – www.discovermagazine.com

WORLD (Mon-Fri)

ARMENIANS CALL FOR PM TO RESIGN AFTER CAPITULATION TO AZERBAIJAN – The Armenian capital, Yerevan, was filled with protestors after Armenia’s Prime Minister announced a cease-fire with Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Opposition politician Avetik Chalabyan spoke to the protestors, saying, “Russia washed its hands in Artsakh, our authorities have renounced Artsakh, The enemy is at our doorstep. We must change authorities to change national policy,”

Meanwhile the Kremlin has ordered all its media and lawmakers to put the blame on Armenia for the latest conflict, indicating Russia is no longer the protector of the Armenian people, and apparently the Armenian people noticed.

SAUDIS, ISRAELIS HOPE TO HAVE FULLY NORMALIZED RELATIONS, WITH NUKES BEING THE ONE STICKING POINT – After the Saudis signaled that their ability to get their own nuclear weapons was a requirement for the House of Saud to establish fully normalized relations with Irael, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering conceding and supporting the Saudis getting access to the enriched uranium needed for them to build their own bomb.

more:

WHO welcomes historic commitment by world leaders for greater collaboration, governance and investment to prevent, prepare for and respond to future pandemics – World – reliefweb.int

Russia temporarily bans fuel exports to most countries in response to shortages – www.reuters.com

Russian War Report: Black Sea military operations approach NATO countries’ waters – www.atlanticcouncil.org

China, Russia vow deeper coordination ahead of Putin visit | Ap – www.thederrick.com

Biden’s UN speech barely mentioned Russia and China. That’s no coincidence | Foreign policy – amp.theguardian.com

‘Have credible information’: Canada PM Trudeau wants India to cooperate in probe of Sikh leader’s murder – www.businesstoday.in

Germany opposes Ukraine’s UN proposal — RT World News – www.rt.com

Net zero changes can win Tories next election, says Jacob Rees-Mogg – www.telegraph.co.uk

Myanmar Junta Continues Tightening the Screws on Its Economic Team – www.irrawaddy.com

Syrian President Arrives in China on First Visit since the Beginning of War in Syria – english.aawsat.com

Marshall Islands says US must address nuclear legacy for deal on future ties – finance.yahoo.com

Deposed Nigerien president petitions West African regional court to order his release, reinstatement – abcnews.go.com

Paraguayan lawmaker ready for war with Argentina — MercoPress – en.mercopress.com

Abbas accuses Israel of ‘entrenching apartheid,’ digging tunnels under Al-Aqsa Mosque – www.timesofisrael.com

Sudan Enters 6th Month of War: ‘The Situation There Is Very Dire’ – www.cbn.com

POLITICS (Mon-Fri)

TUBERVILLE WINS, AS MUCH AS HE CAN – Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has forced Senate Majority Leader Chuck Shumer to have to confirm each new military leader appointment through the full Senate after refusing to remove his blocks in committee over the military’s decision to support abortion in word and policy. While Shumer will get some appointments through going this route, he won’t be able to get to many appointees before the next term expires.

Senator Tuberville said of the move, “My hold is still in place. The hold will remain in place as long as the Pentagon’s illegal abortion policy remains in place. If the Pentagon lifts the policy, then I will lift my hold. It’s as easy as that.”

PA GOVERNOR DECLARES VOTER REGISTRATION IS AUTOMATIC – If you live in Pennsylvania, you are now automatically registered to vote, even if you don’t want to be, thanks to an edict by Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA).

more:

US House moves ahead with defense policy bill, ‘culture wars’ fight ahead – finance.yahoo.com

US Senate moves forward with military nominations despite abortion protest | Military News – www.aljazeera.com

Trump says if elected again he will send troops to US-Mexico border – finance.yahoo.com

Kari Lake reportedly to mount Senate bid – www.theblaze.com

Team Biden Bribes States with $400 Million to Adopt Senseless, “Climate-Crisis”-Inspired Building Codes – legalinsurrection.com

WATCH: NBC’s Guthrie Hammers Blinken on Giving Iran Billions, More Ukraine Funding – www.newsbusters.org

Polls show DeSantis losing ground with moderate Republicans – www.nbcnews.com

DeSantis falls to fifth in New Hampshire poll in latest campaign reverse | Ron DeSantis – amp.theguardian.com

McCarthy projects optimism on averting a government shutdown: ‘The game is not over’ | News – www.wxow.com

JD Vance Blames Biden for ‘Politicized’ Military, Supports Tuberville’s Stand – www.dailysignal.com

GOP senators issue letter to Schumer about dress code – www.theblaze.com

GOP senators flipped on Paxton impeachment because they were short on votes – www.texastribune.org

Ohio Redistricting Commission Selects GOP Working Map, Sets Public Hearings | Ohio News | Cleveland – www.clevescene.com

Voting rights advocates sound alarm on Alabama defying SCOTUS decision – www.the-independent.com

EDITOR’S CHOICE (Tues & Fri)

BIDEN ANNOUNCES PLANS TO BUILD 20K CLIMATE ACTIVIST ARMY ON YOUR DIME – The White House decided to illegally bypass congress and announce the creation of a 20K Climate Activist army called American Climate Corps to “tackle the climate crisis.”

From the White House website: The American Climate Corps will focus on equity and environmental justice – prioritizing communities traditionally left behind, including energy communities that powered our nation for generations, leveraging the talents of all members of our society, and prioritizing projects that help meet the Administration’s Justice40 goal

BIDEN CREATES GUN-CONFISCATION COORDINATION CENTER IN THE WHITE HOUSE – The Biden administration is going to create a “gun violence” office that will be manned by the usual far-left gun confiscation activists currently on the Soros-Bloomberg payrolls. The office is intended to help the anti-Americanists coordinate their agitprop and lawfare strategies to seek to destroy the 2^nd Amendment in their mad dash to destroy the republic itself.

more:

Mayorkas announces DHS “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group” and you won’t believe who is in it – HotAir – hotair.com

The FBI had so many people at the J6 riot they had to perform an “audit” – HotAir – hotair.com

Meet the Real Househusbands of the ‘Squad’ – freebeacon.com

Joe Biden Just Handed De Facto Amnesty to 472,000 Illegal Immigrants – RedState – redstate.com

Woke Hiring Isn’t Just Killing Competence, It Might Kill You – thefederalist.com

NYC to consider removing statues of George Washington, create reparations task force amid budget cuts – www.foxnews.com

Delaware Judge Greenlights Dominion’s Next Defamation Suit, This Time Against NewsMax – RedState – redstate.com

Economists: Suing energy companies for concealing climate change would correct market, help society – ohiocapitaljournal.com

America’s children are under attack at school – www.americanthinker.com

Signers of Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Land Government Jobs › American Greatness – amgreatness.com

Many Americans Feels the Justice Department Has Become the KGB – townhall.com

Biden Administration Policies Replace Equal Opportunity with Equity & Discrimination – americafirstpolicy.com

Illinois Becomes The First State To Abolish Cash Bail Completely – www.louderwithcrowder.com

Google Quietly Removes ‘Written By People’ From Suggestions for Website Owners – finance.yahoo.com

The United States Convenes Country Representatives and Other Stakeholders to Promote Inclusive and Rights-Respecting Digital Policy – www.state.gov

How ‘Special’ Counsel David Weiss Handed Hunter Biden a Second Amendment Defense – www.nationalreview.com

University Faces Civil Rights Complaint For Race-Based Scholarship Programs – dailycaller.com

SpaceX says US case alleging anti-immigrant bias is unconstitutional – www.reuters.com

Meta tells court AI software does not violate author copyrights – www.reuters.com

CU Boulder requires candidates for conservative professorship to submit DEI statement – www.thecollegefix.com

Mexican cartels are about fifth-largest employers in the country, study finds | Mexico – amp.theguardian.com

Eastern Michigan University invests in AI-enhanced campus security to prevent gun violence – www.wemu.org

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SCI-TECH (Tues & Fri)

DID PHYSICISTS SOLVE THE COLD PROBLEM IN QUANTUM COMPUTING? – Researchers from the University of Texas claim to have broken the temperature barrier in quantum computing with a new magnetic material that can produce the necessary conditions for quantum computing to take place without needing sub-zero temperatures to do so. Breaking the temperature barrier means reducing the space and capital needed to build commercially viable quantum computers.

NEW MANUFACTURED BACTERIAL CELLS COULD BE BIOMEDICAL VEHICLES – Magnetic Bacteria could become micro-vehicles in the body that deliver targeted medicines in precise ways. A research team from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, have created magnetic bacteria that are harmonious with human cells, making them effective delivery vehicles for micro-biomedical treatments.

Study author Dr. Marina Dziuba said, “According to the current state of research, they are well compatible with human cells. This opens up new perspectives for a variety of biomedical applications—for example, for microrobot-controlled transport of active pharmaceutical ingredients, for magnetic imaging techniques, or even for optimizations of hyperthermia cancer therapy.”

more:

Scientists discover strange ‘mathematical pattern’ in the human body – www.indy100.com

Growth Factor-Loaded Microparticles Enhance 3D Bioprinted Muscle – www.medgadget.com

Robot diplomacy: How AI could usher in a new era of world peace – thehill.com

DeepMind is using AI to pinpoint the causes of genetic disease – www.technologyreview.com

Microsoft AI Researchers Accidentally Exposed Terabytes of Internal Sensitive Data – yro.slashdot.org

Tiny bubbles could reveal immune cell secrets and improve treatments – phys.org

Why Root Crops Are the Future of Food Security in Africa – World – reliefweb.int

Scientists Say New AI Can Translate What Chickens Are Saying – futurism.com

Possible New Human Species Found through 300,000-Year-Old Jawbone Fossil – www.scientificamerican.com

John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and more authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement – www.cbsnews.com

Team develops laser-based ice-core sampling for studying climate change – phys.org

Researchers’ analysis of perching birds points to new answers in evolutionary diversification – phys.org

OpenAI Brings ChatGPT and Dall-E Together for Next-Gen Image Creation – www.cnet.com

RNA for the first time recovered from an extinct species – www.sciencedaily.com

Brain Circuit Discovered That Explains Why Infant Cries Prompt Milk Release – scitechdaily.com

US Navy MQ-4C Triton drone reaches initial operational capability – defence-blog.com

Cybertruck May Stall Before Rolling Out in Mass – gritdaily.com

Someone’s used A.I. to create fake Iron Maiden covers – www.loudersound.com

This parasite makes ‘zombie ants’ – www.popsci.com

Scientists Discover New Species of Ancient Alligator – scitechdaily.com

Volvo is phasing out diesel cars in favor of an all-electric future – electrek.co

How common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children – www.economist.com

Scientists unravel the chemical mechanism behind silica-coated nanodiamonds – phys.org

Introducing Magic: Analog Sky’s New 3D Printed Binoculars for Astronomy – www.universetoday.com

The rate at which large cosmic structures grow is slower than predicted – www.techexplorist.com

50 years ago, the quest for superheavy elements was just getting started – www.sciencenews.org

1400-year-old gold foil figures found in pagan temple – arkeonews.net

An Unexpected New Way To Recycle – Scientists Transform Plastic Waste Into Soap – scitechdaily.com

New findings suggest Moon may have less water than previously thought – www.sciencedaily.com

FIA FEATURE EXCERPT:

Building a Hope Exit: Enabling Technologies

By Paul Collier, Editor

INTRODUCTION

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” – Romans 12:2

Welcome to this special installment of the Hope Exit series as we pause to take a high-altitude overview of our reality of power by looking at some key emerging technologies that can equip small-scale free associations to build their own stewarded versions of sustainable flourishing.

We are going to look at a few key emerging technologies that cover a number of our basic needs, including communications, food, and self-defense. We have yet to look at healthcare (that’s coming up next), but we’ll dip our toe in that need as well in this high-altitude overview.

We will begin our installment by looking at a high-level need that touches all other needs, research and development (R&D). It is a core need that is currently almost exclusively in the hands of the Egyptians (sticking with our Exodus-themed series), the powers that be that seek to keep us dependent on the products and services that come from that R&D.

Next, we will focus on a crucial element of effective, secured R&D: digital communication.

In order to get to the development part of our research, we need to be able to manufacture our ideas, so we will look at the emerging tech in 3D printing. Finally, we will take a peek at vertical farming, which could provide our medical, food, and even manufacturing resources.

In these times, the mind is being constantly bombarded with agit prop, shock and awe conditioning designed to cripple your renewing imagination. The first step to becoming an emerging tech steward is to not walk in the fear they want you to be governed by. The world as it is need not continue to be as it is, and the future need not be defined by the elite few who currently believe that future is inevitable. It is not. Technology is on your side if you can possess it for yourself. And the powers that be know this, which is why they are moving so aggressively to cripple our imaginations and our free associations. READ FULL ARTICLE

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Building a Hope Exit: Enabling Technologies

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Building a Hope Exit: Enabling Technologies

Paul Collier September 22, 2023

By Paul Collier, Editor

INTRODUCTION

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” – Romans 12:2

Welcome to this special installment of the Hope Exit series as we pause to take a high-altitude overview of our reality of power by looking at some key emerging technologies that can equip small-scale free associations to build their own stewarded versions of sustainable flourishing.

We are going to look at a few key emerging technologies that cover a number of our basic needs, including communications, food, and self-defense. We have yet to look at healthcare (that’s coming up next), but we’ll dip our toe in that need as well in this high-altitude overview.

We will begin our installment by looking at a high-level need that touches all other needs, research and development (R&D). It is a core need that is currently almost exclusively in the hands of the Egyptians (sticking with our Exodus-themed series), the powers that be that seek to keep us dependent on the products and services that come from that R&D.

Next, we will focus on a crucial element of effective, secured R&D: digital communication.

In order to get to the development part of our research, we need to be able to manufacture our ideas, so we will look at the emerging tech in 3D printing. Finally, we will take a peek at vertical farming, which could provide our medical, food, and even manufacturing resources.

In these times, the mind is being constantly bombarded with agit prop, shock and awe conditioning designed to cripple your renewing imagination. The first step to becoming an emerging tech steward is to not walk in the fear they want you to be governed by. The world as it is need not continue to be as it is, and the future need not be defined by the elite few who currently believe that future is inevitable. It is not. Technology is on your side if you can possess it for yourself. And the powers that be know this, which is why they are moving so aggressively to cripple our imaginations and our free associations.

A. R&D DEVELOPMENT

“The same day, Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen, ‘You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves. But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, “Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.” Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.’” – Exodus 5:6-9

Before the Israelites exited Egypt, the Egyptians appeared to do everything they could to incentivize them to want to leave. First, they made them slaves; then they sought to put technological impediments up to ensure that they would have reason to further “punish” them when they failed to meet the quota.

While we here in America cannot exactly say that we are slaves, certainly not in the sense that the Israelites were, we are becoming increasingly limited in our ability to live lives of our own choosing, which is moving us more and more toward the type of slavery the Israelites experienced.

Not only that, but our ability to meet our needs is being artificially hampered by the leaders on top preventing us from fully maximizing the technologies that exist today. They do this by limiting access to their platforms if we don’t tow the party line, making the use of technologies illegal (like making home gun manufacturing illegal), and through Intellectual Property laws that conceal technologies behind IP firewalls.

ED NOTE: Not all IP laws are oppressive, especially ones that stop forms of identity theft (such as claiming a celebrity endorsed your product when they didn’t or using another company’s logo as your own). In a future issue of FIA, we will probably have a report on the complex issues surrounding IP that oppresses versus IP that protects.

1. MY NOVUSNOW CONCEPT – Back in the early Ots, I was the publisher and editor of an online weekly journal called Freedom Through Autonomous Living (FTAL). I wrote about emerging technologies that could equip people to be “autonomous,” a word I wouldn’t wish to use now. Back then, I was much more comfortable with the idea of becoming a self-contained, sustainable island. Years later, my assumptions have changed; I now believe that in order for me to build a hope exit, I will need to build it with others. I will need a community, not a castle (though it would be great to have a castle inside a community).

I should have figured that out even back then, because at that same time I had another idea I called Novusnow (New Now). I shared that idea in my publication and even built up a sizeable Yahoo group of the same name. The idea behind Novusnow was to form a Research and Development test community funded by an association of “intentional communities,” communities that are purpose-created for people wishing to live out their beliefs with others who wish to do the same. I call them free association communities today.

What I realized back then is that many of the most advanced technologies that could be used to build autonomy (what I call sustainable flourishing today) cannot be used to build our own stuff because their IP belongs to a corporation. Today, it’s even worse. Not only could you be sued for using technology that is similar to ones behind IP firewalls; IP trolls, or patent trolls, are also likely to sue you, people who file all the lawsuits they can, banking on a small few settling just to get them off their back.

A blurb I recently wrote for freedomist.news highlights how IP can be abused and why it is a favorite tool for tyrants to exploit:

Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) is raising a warning flag to the American people about the ongoing threat to our agricultural IP that the Chinese Communist Party represents. He is starting a hearing intended to expose the extent of the theft and ongoing threat.

He stated, “Our country is filled with invisible factories and invisible farms – those that would have been built or planted here if we’d chosen to protect American technology and resources. Both the Trump and Biden administrations have oriented U.S. strategy around ‘competing’ with the Chinese Communist Party. But we’re not ‘competing’ if we’re letting the CCP steal hundreds of billions of dollars from Americans – we’re throwing the game from the outset.”

Seed engineering is one of the most significant IPs the CCP is stealing from American farmers.

What we who wish to live free-associative and sustainably flourishing lives need are our own technologies, our own IPs, that can be freely used by anyone who is part of our research and development association, which I called Novusnow. This was to be the name of the organization that would build a test community to develop sustainably flourishing technologies and test them in the real world.

The community would offer training to members who could then take that knowledge to their own communities, to be duplicated and customized according to the particular needs of that community. So much of the ability of the powers that be to continue to control the many with the few depends on their control of IP. This is, in part, why Open-Source technologies have developed, in recognition of not wishing to be dependent on a few mega-corporations for our technological development.

There’s a lot more behind the Novusnow idea, but I think I have covered the core basics that should help you understand the overall concept: to develop a team of researchers, manufacturers, and testers that is funded by communities that are then able to use these technologies freely themselves, a research and development department for a confederation of sustainably flourishing communities.

2. OPEN-SOURCE AI – The Open-Source movement is largely populated with leftists, for the right has failed to understand that “democratizing technology” should be a conservative value. Leftists only democratize until they control, then they close the door behind them. This writer has little doubt that the open-source leftists of today will be the corporate gatekeepers of tomorrow if those corporations are fully reflective of their leftist values.

AI is being used to race through potential technological patterning so corporations can patent as many potential new technologies as possible, so if we don’t use it to develop our own non-corporatized IPs, there won’t be any left. Thankfully, the open-source market offers us an opportunity to build some of the tools that can get our research and development venture off the ground.

Whatever you feel about AI, I am here to tell you that it is a technology you should embrace, so long as that technology isn’t behind an IP firewall owned by the metaphorical Egyptians. Fortunately, there are already options available.

AI is short for Artificial Intelligence, but when you think of it as augmented intelligence, as this writer does, then perhaps it won’t seem as intimidating as it is to some probably reading this right now. AI as a sustainably flourishing tool is not going to be the governor of our governing algorithms, but it will accelerate our ability to develop and test emerging technologies that can equip us to begin our Hope Exit.

Here is one open-source IP software tool as described by GoodFirms:

TensorFlow is an open-source artificial intelligence software that helps you develop and train Machine learning models. It presents the library for high-performance numerical computation. Across a variety of platforms (CPUs, GPUs, TPUs), this free AI software allows easy deployment of computation due to its flexible architecture.

With this software, you can accomplish the power of data in your business by building advanced predictive modeling applications. This software makes use of data flow graphs to build models. In perception, understanding, prediction, creation, and classification, you can make use of this software.

These tools can be our source of augmenting our intelligence, accelerating the development process exponentially. A core group of researchers who can master the AI tools within the context of their particular research field will get our venture started. Thankfully, we will have plenty of open-source alternatives to experiment with.

B. DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS

In order for us to be able to coordinate our efforts with one another, we will need to be able to digitally communicate with one another effectively and securely. It might be the first step taken by our Novusnow group (or whatever something along that line might be called).

1. THE AFRICA EXAMPLE – The Council on Foreign Relations of all places has a report called “Technologies of Freedom Enabling Democracy in America.” It details how the rise of authoritarianism in Africa is not succeeding in shutting down its citizens’ desires to freely digitally communicate:

In response to internet censorship by governments across the continent, Africans have resorted to using technologies of freedom, tools such as virtual private networks (VPNs) that allow them to access social media platforms, messenger apps, news websites, popular blogs, and other blocked content online. Oftentimes, users download these tools directly from websites and app stores…

… people have come up with creative methods for sharing VPNs, which, in addition to allowing users to access blocked content, also allow them to circumvent bandwidth throttling. For instance, in Cameroon, people that I interviewed used Bluetooth, USBs, and Xender, a mobile app that allows users to share files without using the internet, to share VPNs that they had downloaded prior to government efforts to slow down internet speeds. The spread of these VPNs in turn enabled access to content that would otherwise be inaccessible.

… even when censors blocked Facebook and WhatsApp in Northwest and Southwest Cameroon, or created an extensive list of over fifty prohibited communication platforms in Uganda, they invariably neglected to block platforms that they weren’t aware of.

2. DNS ENCRYPTION – An emerging technology called DNS encryption promises to “restore your privacy by making it impossible for anything other than the DNS resolver to read and respond to your queries. You still have to trust the resolver you send your requests to, but the eavesdroppers are out in the cold.”

This technology could be used on a limited network that is only accessible by certified and confirmed members, such as could be needed by our Novusnow group.

3. PASSWORDLESS AUTHENTICATION – This technology replaces passwords that can be hacked with biometrics that cannot be hacked. I have passwordless authentication to access some of the apps I use. There are some caveats to using biometrics, and certainly where the state is in control, more caveats than benefits.

4. ONION NETWORKING – Some might already know that the version of the internet called Tor is short for “the onion router.” Onion routers are essentially routers that can create an anonymizing computer network. Tor has limited use today, but some believe the technology behind it could revolutionize “democratized” Internet

From Malwarebytes.com:

According to security evangelist Alec Muffett, we are overlooking a very important aspect of this technology, though. Muffett was previously a security engineer at Facebook, where he was responsible for putting the social network on Tor. Speaking to David Ruiz on a recent Malwarebytes Lock and Code podcast, he explained how he sees Tor as “a brand new networking stack for the Internet” that can “guarantee integrity, and privacy, and unblockability of communication.”

5. HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION – The principles behind this emerging technology are far beyond my technological acumen, but in layman’s terms, Homomorphic encryption allows you to view an encrypted message without having to ever actually decrypt it. This means that even if you receive an encrypted message, you won’t have access to how that message is encrypted, so you can’t use that information to decrypt more information than the user wanted you to see.

C. SELF-MANUFACTURING

Now that we have created our empire of Augmented Intelligence tools and developed our effective, secured digital network to communicate with one another, we need to turn our ideas into physical reality. We are only going to touch on a few examples of emerging 3D-Printing (or additive manufacturing), the primary technology that will enable us to be self-manufacturers.

1. 3D-PRINTED HOMES – I am a strong advocate for using compressed earth bricks to build homes, or even some form of rammed earth. With walls that are one-foot thick and made of compressed earth, extended family homes can have a high level of soundproofing that helps a larger number of people stay together in closed spaces. They also withstand natural disasters in general a lot better than traditional-built stick-frame homes. Finally, they eliminate or reduce the amount of energy needed to heat and cool the home.

But building these homes can be labor intensive. This is where 3D Printing comes in. Initially, 3D printed homes were limited in the materials that could be used, but already 3D printers that can build homes can use a wide variety of materials to do so, including earth. As a matter of fact, the trend is to develop 3D Home printers that are capable of exploiting the local resources, especially resources available right where you want to build your home. One such printer uses sawdust to build homes.

The Zebra lists some of the advantages of 3D home construction (as they call it):

Speed: Often, it doesn’t even take 24 hours to build a small 3D-printed home, although this build-out is typically done in waves rather than all at once.

Cost: 3D-printed homes are surprisingly cheap to create, running around $10,000 on average today. 3D-printed home leader ICON hopes these homes are even more affordable in the future, with a projected goal of reducing builds down to $4,000. Once plumbing, electrical, and other additional construction is added, the final housing cost is around $140,000 to $160,000 on average today.

Versatility: Rather than having to enlist the help of an architect, homebuyers can use 3D technology to customize their home shape and build in the blueprint phase without a hefty price tag.

Sustainability: 3D-home construction boasts a shorter supply chain and less waste due to over-engineering. This reduction in process and waste makes these homes more eco-friendly.

Let me add this one, for it relates to our imagined project, our Novusnow project. 3D home construction will enable us to build more test homes within rigid experimental parameters using fewer human hands.

2. SELF-DEFENSE – In our self-defense installment of the Hope Exit series, we covered 3D-printed guns. Here, we are looking at community-scale self-defense tools, with UAVs (unmanned autonomous vehicles) being at the top of that list; UAVs for land, sea, and air, for patrolling, and for defending.

If you’re following the war in Ukraine, you know how important drone warfare is becoming. It continues to be a rapidly developing element of the battlefield of the 21^st century. 3D printing is a key part of sustaining the manufacturing of UAVs, especially for small-scale groups defending themselves against large-scale attackers.

Drones will, in this writer’s opinion, get smaller and smaller. The U.S. Department of Defense is hoping to get a leg up on this emerging technology. They have created a swarm of 3D-printed micro-UAVs. These drones are micro-jet-fighters. The drones had to be effective and 3D printable. Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) created the first prototypes with a budget of $20 million. Called Perdix drones, they’re designed to be released from fighter jets.

The U.S. Army is working on creating 3D Printers that use as many local resources as possible to build drones on demand. Instead of shipping drones, you ship a few 3D printers that can use a lot of the indigenous resources to manufacture drones on-site, as needed.

From 3Dprint.com: … with the advent of some impressive and innovative unmanned aircraft systems, Army researchers are showing a new level of commitment in their exploration of 3D printing.

At the Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiments (AEWE) in Fort Benning, GA, from December 1-3, engineers from the Army Research Laboratory were invited by the US Army Training and Doctrine Command to launch their new 3D-printed unmanned aircraft.

“We’ve created a process for converting Soldier mission needs into a 3D printed On-Demand Small Unmanned Aircraft System, or ODSUAS, as we’ve been calling it,” said Eric Spero, team leader and project manager.

3. ELECTRONICS – 3D-Printing is becoming increasingly more complex, able to print more complete products, including and especially electronic ones. Part of the increasing effectiveness of 3D-Printing UAVs is the ability of 3D electronic printing to create whole complex electronic products or major components that are easy to assemble together.

From sculpteo.com: Electronic components production can now be thought of in terms of 3D design and not only 2D, with new ways of stacking the circuits. It opens new possibilities to design for electronics, that are new to explore! Customization is becoming a big asset while using additive manufacturing for the creation of your products: you can create parts perfectly adapted to a circuit board or any electronic device. 3D printing can be used to create personalized electronic enclosures, USB stick cases, and keyboards, for example.

4. MEDICAL – In the next installment of the Hope Exit series, we will be going into more detail about 3D printing medicines on-demand. The technology is emerging, but is already being used by some hospitals.

From ucl.ac.uk: Medicines can be printed in seven seconds in a new 3D-printing technique that could enable rapid on-site production of medicines, reports a UCL-led research team… scientists have developed a new vat polymerisation technique that prints the entire object all at once, reducing the printing speed from multiple minutes to just seven to 17 seconds (depending on the resin composition selected). This works by shining multiple images of the object viewed at different angles, onto the resin. The amount of light shone gradually accumulates, until it reaches a point at which polymerisation occurs. By adjusting the intensity of light at different angles and overlaps, all points of the 3D object in the resin can reach this threshold at the same time, causing the entire 3D object to solidify simultaneously.

D. VERTICAL FARMING

This technology is one that can tie a lot of our other emerging technologies together. Back in those early Ots, my publication, Freedom Through Autonomous Living, extensively covered the development of vertical farming. This is indoor farming, usually hydroponics-based, that happens in multi-story structures.

My dream at the time was the creation of what I then called Farm Towers (a term I still like) that could be used for food, creating raw materials for printing products, and even for creating medicines. I envisioned a day when our medical institutions will have farm towers that can create a majority of the raw materials needed to 3D print medicines on demand. I also envisioned farm towers that would be used by manufacturing centers that were building the types of products that could be made with plant-based materials. What was fantasy then is increasingly becoming real already.

This technology right now is more promising than it is cost-effective, but it has already come a long way in a short period of time. Our Novusnow group can surely develop better versions of vertical farming that will make it the potential self-manufacturing game changer I long envisioned it could be.

The World Economic Forum is a strong advocate for vertical farming, but they want to patent their designs and limit our ability to create our own farm towers (they call them vertical farms; I’m sticking with farm towers).

One of the most cost-effective types of Farm Towers right now would be growing “pharmaceutical crops.” They are already being created.

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

There are two scenarios I see unfolding for our future. The first one is the one where we freedom-and-liberty-minded folks don’t find one another and start creating flourishing communities of our own. In that scenario, we own nothing, we rent everything, and everything we could possibly create or possess would be considered intellectual property.

Already, seeds are now patented, meaning the future of food production could be locked behind IP firewalls, limiting our ability (or ending it altogether) to grow our own food, something the powers that be do not wish us to do. IP is the removal of straw from our bricks to prevent us from meeting our quota so our slave masters can punish us all the more.

If the powers that be were ever freedom-and-liberty minded, they could have long ago empowered people across the globe to become locally sustainably flourishing. The technologies are already there to equip all of us to be able to design, develop, create, service, and repair our own products and services with little need to interact with the large-scale monoliths that currently dominate those need-fulfilments today.

If we can find one another and begin to build with one another, if we can develop the shared IP that we can freely use, there is little the powers that be can do to hold on to the monopolistic advantages they currently hold.

I am betting on the belief that at least 40 percent of humans fundamentally want to be self-stewarded individuals, and when the outside world continues to choke off our paths to self-stewardship, we will learn to hack the system and bypass it altogether. Myanmar was taken over by a military oligarchy, but without the will of the people to follow them, the oligarchy is failing to consolidate power in large part because the technology is on the side of the small-scale. Now more than ever before, authority cannot control lands by force that don’t want to be controlled.

The powers that be know this, and they have been working overtime to keep you in fear and confusion, afraid of the monsters they either invent or create. Renew your mind with the possibility that, as the opening of Six Million Dollar Man says, “we have the technology, we can rebuild (her),” with her being our American republic.

FURTHER RESEARCH

DNS Encryption Explained – Cloudflare

How to Access .onion Sites (Also Known as Tor Hidden Servies) – How-To-Geek

Liberation Technology – Larry Diamond

Vertical Farming – How To Start Vertical Farms At Home – diys.com

Scientists Discover the Most Primitive Form of “Thought-Making” Cells

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Scientists Discover the Most Primitive Form of “Thought-Making” Cells

Paul Collier September 22, 2023

A primitive animal called a placozoan may contain the secrets of the fundamental building blocks of thought-making cells. The animal is blob-like in appearance and is composed of only 50,000 cells, compared to 30 trillion cells humans are comprised of. But the blob placozoan has one similarity with humans, they have cells capable of sharing messages with one another, the fundamental building blocks of “thought producing” cells.

From elpias.com: The researchers care for thousands of placozoans in their laboratory in the Center for Genomic Regulation, in Barcelona. According to their calculations, multicellular animals emerged about 850 million years ago. Soon afterward, around 800 million years ago, the paths of the families that gave rise to placozoans and humans diverged. “People have a tendency to see living fossils in nature. We don’t know if our common ancestor looked like a placozoan, but some aspects of its biology were already there,” says Sebé Pedrós, a 37-year-old biologist from the Spanish town of Lleida. GO DEEPER

His team studied the four known species of placozoans cell by cell, including the first placozoan ever discovered, which was found in 1883 by the German zoologist Franz Eilhard Schulze in a seawater aquarium in Graz, Austria. Schulze baptized that mysterious creature Trichoplax adhaerens, from the Greek words thrix (hair) and plax (plate) and the Latin word adhaerens (adhering), which was given this name due to its tendency to stick to its substrate. In other words, its name could be roughly translated as “adhering hairy plate.” Placozoans are the simplest animals on the planet, barring Myxozoa, parasites with few cells that cannot live on their own.

In their research, Sebé Pedrós and his colleagues observed that placozoans are capable of coordinating their 50,000 cells thanks to the fact that some of them can send messages using molecules called neuropeptides, like the neurons in the human brain. “We have found a rudiment of certain aspects of our nervous system,” says the biologist. These secretory cells still lack the processes that transmit nerve impulses (axons) and the processes that receive them (dendrites) in human neurons.

This article starts off with this phrase, which led this writer to want to utilize this story, and another one related to it, to flush out the ramifications of pursuing understanding through the framework of the atheist materialist versus that of the biblically-centered Christian: Most religions across the world have a similar origin story, in which an almighty god creates mankind, out of nothing, with a fully functioning brain. But placozoans — a blob-like animal less than a millimeter in size that floats in seawater — suggest otherwise. They may go unnoticed, but they are extraordinary creatures.

From an atheist materialist perspective, you are seeing the evidence of the relationship that this blob creature, this placozoan, has with humans. We must have a common ancestor and at some time we split apart, with one branch leading to blobs and the other leading to humans. From a biblical perspective (the perspective this report seeks to emulate) we are seeing one of the ways in which God has created the fundamental building blocks of his biological creations.

Studying this organism can lead us to better understand human thought as a biological phenomenon, which can lead to more effective treatments for people who suffer a biological impediment to thought itself.

At the same time as this study was revealed, scitechdaily.com covered another study that theorized genes for thought (they use the phrase “learning and memory”) are 650 million years old. They theorize that the emergence of these types of genes led to the Cambrian Explosion, a period that saw an explosion of diverse organisms that still confounds evolutionary theory to this day (and which this new “theory” fails to adequately address).

From SciTech Daily: “This finding has profound implications on the evolutionary origin of complex behaviors such as those modulated by monoamines we observe in humans and other animals.”

The authors suggest that this new way to modulate neuronal circuits might have played a role in the Cambrian Explosion – known as the Big Bang – which gave rise to the largest diversification of life for most major animal groups alive today by providing flexibility of the neural circuits to facilitate the interaction with the environment.

Dr. Feuda added: “This discovery will open new important research avenues that will clarify the origin of complex behaviors and if the same neurons modulate reward, addiction, aggression, feeding, and sleep.”

In 1620, Francis Bacon published the work “The Great Instauration.” That book could be seen as the unintended starting point of the quest for man to make himself by deriving wisdom from below instead of from above. Bacon himself was no proponent of this materialist myth, the myth these researchers are mired in, rather, he recognized that the use of what is called “induction,” (deriving higher principles from lower ones, such as observing material and documenting your observations, which became the scientific method) can be a great tool for Christians to understand material being for the higher purpose of witnessing the glory of God to all creation by being a steward of material, by manipulating material for the glory of God. When it came to wisdom, Bacon was still using deduction, deriving particular truths, atomized truths if you will, from higher truths, the Word of God through which the nature and will of God is revealed through the Holy Spirit to all those who fear and love the Lord.

It was a Christian invention, the scientific method, derived to glorify God, but in the hands of these researchers, and others like them, it’s become a Satanic tool that seeks to glorify man by imagining he can derive his own wisdom (he can “know”, or define, Good and Evil for himself, he can define justice) from the stones, from the material alone.

So their research is about justifying their own depravity, rejecting the creator in exchange for a lie, rather than what Christian researchers would do, use this understanding of the basic building blocks of thought to create aid and comfort to creation for the purpose of glorifying the only living God, the God of Isaac and Jacob, the I Am tnat is Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Illinois Governor Does Secret Deal with CCP, Setting Up Battery Company in State

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Illinois Governor Does Secret Deal with CCP, Setting Up Battery Company in State

Paul Collier September 22, 2023

The Chinese Communist Party-owned Gotion, a battery manufacturing company, did a secret deal with the Billionaire anti-American radical far left governor J.B. Pritzker that allowed them to set up a factory in a community that wants nothing to do with them. That community is Manteno, Illinois, and the residents are angry at the governor for allowing this sedition to take place on their lands.

Daily Caller talked to some of the residents after the done deal was announced by the treasonous governor on September 8. One resident, Darrel Bruck Jr, Told Daily Caller “There was absolutely no public participation or notification that this was going [on],” Darrel Bruck Jr., a longtime resident of Manteno who runs an informational group called “Outrage of Kankakee County. There were probably 200 people [at the announcement], but the public was not invited. It was strictly for local politicians, the mayor, some local people who owned land who will make a lot of money off strip malls and such.”

Daily Caller connects this CCP-owned company to another anti-American extreme far left seditionist governor, Gretchen Whitmer, who has allowed the company to build plants in that state as well. From the Daily Caller: The Chinese parent company of Gotion Inc., which intends to build two electric battery plants in Michigan, established a joint venture company with a “Communist Chinese Military Company (CCMC) Subsidiary” in 2016, according to the framework agreement.

In 2016, Gotion High-Tech became the majority shareholder of Energine Guoxuan (Tangshan) New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., after entering into a Strategic Cooperative Framework Agreement with China Energine International (Holdings) Limited, according to an announcement on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s issuer website and a 2016 interim report published by China Energine.

Republican State Representative John Moolenar (R) alerted the treasonous Governor to the company’s CCP ties, telling Daily Caller, “It is no surprise that Gotion High-Tech partnered with China Energine to develop products for China’s military. The finding that Gotion High-Tech has done business directly with China’s military is further proof that Gotion is not a good partner to build in Michigan.”

Like the Democrat Governor of Illinois, Whitmer sees no problem inviting the CCP onto American soil even as the CCP works to end our republic, testified even by our own military, which is busy retooling its whole military structure to meet the rising threat of an imperialist fascist regime.

Watching the DNC-CCP embrace the fascist CCP at home while larping at being anti-fascist on that same soil should tell you everything you need to know about the seditious nature of the leftism this Democratic Party has embraced and is now attempting to force on the American people, against their will, and in violation of our Rule of Law, our Constitution, and ESPECIALLY our Bill of Rights.

Lawsuit Against SBF’s Parents Exposes DNC Dark Money Machine Worth Billions

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Lawsuit Against SBF’s Parents Exposes DNC Dark Money Machine Worth Billions

Paul Collier September 21, 2023

The lawsuit against FTX founder and crypto scammer Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents, Allen Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried reveal a massive dark money network that saw FTX siphon billions of scammed dollars to DNC-CCP organizations and PACs, and his parents might have been the ones pushing it the whole time.

From Yahoo Finance: Sam Bankman-Fried’s mom encouraged him to donate millions to politicans — including to a PAC she chaired — via other FTX executives, according to a lawsuit seen by Insider.

Lawyers handling the crypto exchange’s bankruptcy case are suing Bankman-Fried’s parents, Joe Bankman and Barbara Fried, accusing them of siphoning millions of dollars from company funds.

That includes a $10 million gift which lawyers say has been used for Bankman-Fried’s legal defense, and a $16.4 million beachfront house in the Bahamas. FTX’s lawyers are hoping to recoup that money to help pay back customers.

The father, Allan Jospeh Bankman, allegedly had communications with his son that indicated he had access to Arabella funds, these are funds the family created that did not have to discplose their donors. Through these funds, the family sent billions to DNC-CCP interests, funding them, essentially with stolen money from the FTX crypto scam.

From the Free Beacon: The FTX lawsuit alleges that Allan Joseph Bankman and his wife, Barbara Fried—both Stanford Law professors and major Democratic donors—played a direct role in FTX’s downfall through breaches of fiduciary duties, fraudulent transfers, and unjust enrichment. The lawsuit cited Bankman’s discussions of his son’s partnership with Arabella as proof he had “unfettered access” to FTX’s finances.

“It’s alarming to learn the extent to which Sam Bankman-Fried and his family are clearly tangled in the Left’s dark money web,” Americans for Public Trust executive director Caitlin Sutherland said. “It should raise serious questions and scrutiny about SBF’s Washington pay-to-play scheme and how he tried to use the Arabella apparatus to further his ill-gotten influence.”

Both of SBF’s parents have deep ties to what might be called the Deep State well before SBF rose to power with FTX. It is looking more and more like the parents were the real masterminds behind the whole affair, using their son as the frontman in a dark money laundering scheme intended to deliver to the DNC-CCP billions of dollars that were used to win elections and shake down businesses that didn’t allow DNC-CCP organizations to inject monitors into their businesses to assure their compliance with the party line.

This is why, this writer theorizes, the DOJ, run by Lawfare Assassin-in-Chief Merrick Garland, mysteriously dropped all campaign finance charges against SBF, to keep this information out of the spotlight, to protect the DNC-CCP from the truth of the nature of much of its real power, dark money, whose sources are theft and foreign powers buying agents willing to sacrifice the republic for their personal, family gains.

More from the Free Beacon Arabella claims it only provides back-office administrative support to New Venture Fund and the other nonprofit funds in its network. But documents obtained by the Free Beacon show Arabella wields centralized control over the funds, which hauled in a combined $3.3 billion in 2020 and 2021 and used those resources to operate hundreds of Democratic projects across the country. Each of those projects is managed by a team of Arabella employees, including an account manager and a managing director.

Sam Bankman-Fried was a major force in Democratic circles prior to his downfall in November. He was the second-largest individual political donor in the 2022 election cycle and has donated more than $40 million to Democratic candidates and political committees. Bankman-Fried gave $5 million to President Joe Biden’s primary Super PAC, Future Forward, in 2020, and the disgraced financier also gave $300,000 to Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee, which oversaw his industry.

In return, Bankman-Fried was granted unfettered access to powerful Democrats. The disgraced crypto kingpin visited Biden’s top adviser, Steve Ricchetti, and other officials across four visits to the White House in 2022 as he waged an aggressive lobbying campaign in Washington, D.C., for cryptocurrency regulation. Prior to FTX’s collapse, Bankman-Fried’s competitors alleged he was trying to use his government connections to regulate his competition out of the market.

Artificial Womb is Ready for Human Testing

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Artificial Womb is Ready for Human Testing

Paul Collier September 21, 2023

Researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) are ready to test their artificial womb on humans. In 2017, the researchers used the artificial womb to help premature baby lambs grow to full gestation. Now, 6 years later, the researchers are ready to begin trials on humans.

From scientificamerican.com:

In a natural womb, a fetus receives oxygen, nutrients, antibodies and hormonal signals and gets rid of waste through the placenta, a transient organ in which fetal blood interacts with maternal blood. Of these various roles, artificial-womb technology is most focused on providing oxygen and removing carbon dioxide, replacing the mechanical ventilators that are often used for neonates. These can damage fragile developing lungs that would otherwise still be filled with amniotic fluid.

The artificial womb “would bridge a baby born extremely premature through those days and weeks when they’re most at risk for lung and brain damage,” Werner says. The CHOP group has signalled that it would wean babies off its system after a few weeks, when their organs are more fully developed and their likelihood of healthy survival is higher.

The group’s system would work by placing extremely premature babies into what it calls a Biobag, filled with an electrolyte-laden fluid designed to mimic amniotic fluid. Surgeons would connect the blood vessels in the umbilical cord to a system that oxygenates blood outside the body. The fetal heart would still pump blood as it does in the natural womb.

The researchers have named their artificial womb, EXTEND, which stands for Extra-Uterine Environment for Newborn Development. The womb is NOT supposed to be a replacement for a human womb unless and until a newborn is less than 70 percent of the way to to full term. As a matter of fact, the womb wouldn’t, couldn’t fully gestate a human child from conception to birth.

A fetal surgeon at CHOP, Dr. Alan Flake, said of the experiment, “If it’s as successful as we think it can be, ultimately, the majority of pregnancies that are predicted at-risk for extreme prematurity would be delivered early onto our system rather than being delivered premature onto a ventilator.”

It appears that the team intentionally developed a womb that can never be used to gestate a human for a full pregnancy term, and thus they seem to wish to hope to avoid the ethical questions that might otherwise rise from such an experiment.

Still, the very creation of an artificial womb opens up many scientific ethical questions, such as “is it moral to “grow” humans in laboratories? It is only a matter of time, after all, until some research team decides to take what’s learned through EXTEND and seek to build an artificial womb that COULD allow scientists to “grow” humans in laboratories.

We have no idea just how important to the development of a human being it is to be gestated in the womb of another living human being. Beyond the basic biological needs and protections a womb provides, there may be other elements of gestation science might not ever be able to grasp (such as the “emotional” needs a mother might provide to the unborn child that a fake womb would never be able to duplicate).

The development of this technology COULD lead to more dangerous artificial wombs that COULD one day lead to humans being grown in labs, but it could also save the lives of thousands of premature babies per year in America alone.

It is probably only a matter of time before some state will allow experiments that lead to growing humans in labs, but, despite that, this particular development could be a game-changer for so many parents that might otherwise have lost their child, but now might have options to save their child’s life.

Do You Want a Brain Implant Linking You to the Internet?

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Do You Want a Brain Implant Linking You to the Internet?

Paul Collier September 21, 2023

Elon Musk’s company Neuralink is ready to begin testing its product on humans after alleged burning through 1,500 test animals that all died as a result of the implants (which the Department of Agriculture investigated, then later gave the company an exemption to continue the experiments). Musk claims the test animals, monkeys, were all terminally ill, which is why they were chosen.

The product is ostensibly designed to help people overcome neurological disorders, including to help paralyzed people one day eventually walk again (by controlling machines with their thoughts that would then move their limbs). The company is looking for humans that are either quadriplegic or are suffering from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).

The company’s blog said of the product, “The PRIME Study (short for Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface) – a groundbreaking investigational medical device trial for our fully-implantable, wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) – aims to evaluate the safety of our implant (N1) and surgical robot (R1) and assess the initial functionality of our BCI for enabling people with paralysis to control external devices with their thoughts.”

This product is designed to help people who have, for a variety of reasons, lost control of their muscles. The product will help them use thoughts to control computers which could control machines that could do anything from communicating with others to moving limbs. The study would last for 6 years.

More from the blog about the study intended to use humans, “During the study, the R1 Robot will be used to surgically place the N1 Implant’s ultra-fine and flexible threads in a region of the brain that controls movement intention. Once in place, the N1 Implant is cosmetically invisible and is intended to record and transmit brain signals wirelessly to an app that decodes movement intention. The initial goal of our BCI is to grant people the ability to control a computer cursor or keyboard using their thoughts alone.”

The device does connect to an external device, an app, so at the very least it connects to an intranet and could just as easily then be connected to an internet as well. It could also be used to let the user control computers with just a thought, so the mute might one day “speak”, or you might one day be able to play video games by “thinking,” giving you an advantage against the online normie gaming competitors that might be using their hands to play against you (which would be SOOOO 2023, amirite?).

Like our story on the artificial womb, we have a product that in and of itself could be a life-saving game changer for thousands of people, but it could also lead to devices that go far beyond aiding the paralyzed and neurologically damaged people to still be able to function as close to normal as possible, leading to all kinds of ethical and moral issues for society to wrestle over.

This writer is not in favor of the so-called singularity, where man and machine merge, but I am not opposed to using machines to augment human flourishing. Implanting your brain with a device that can be potentially hacked from the outside, however, seems to be loaded with risks this writer might be loathe to take. But if I were paralyzed, the risk might be outweighed by the potential increase in quality of life.

Would you, for instance, take the implant if it meant augmenting your intelligence and your drive so you can function like a driven genius, especially if everyone else around you was doing it? That might not be such an easy question to answer, but it’s one that might be worth asking now before we go too far down this brain implant path.

The dystopian nightmares that could flow from such devices might be great sci-fi movies, but they also might just be nightmares for a world living out the consequences on humanity such devices might create.

Corporatocracy Builds War Chest to Push Global “Woke” Cult

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Corporatocracy Builds War Chest to Push Global “Woke” Cult

Paul Collier September 20, 2023

Two major announcements happened this week that point to an overall shift among mega-corporations, especially of the international variety, as they announce incentives, well-funded incentives, to align with the U.N’s global “woke” agenda that hides behind innocuous words like equity, diversity, social justice, democracy, and racial justice. One is from Bank of America, who is going all in on “sustainable investments,” and another is from Citizens Financial Group, who plans on committing $50 billion to “ESG Financing.”

Bank of America has announced a $1.5 trillion push towards “sustainable investments.” BOA managing director Karen Fang said “We think we can achieve $1.5 trillion in sustainable investments in 10 years in a responsible and disciplined manner consistent with our responsible growth strategy,”

Citizens Financial Group is looking to commit $50 billion to “sustainable financing” by 2030, hoping to achieve “carbon neutrality” by 2035. They also plan on having bankers lecture to businesses about being more aligned with U.N Climate Change goals, meaning they plan on aggressively shaking down their clients to comply or face financial consequences.

More and more major financial organizations are adopting this model of “sustainable financing,” which is a dog whistle for what this writer calls corporate Woketarianism, a version of the woke virus that ultimately preserves the power of the elites while marketing to the “disenfranchised,” promising Utopia on the other side of the mess that must be made now to purge the land of the old things that stood in the way of human excellence, or words to that effect.

Sustainable financing means punishing the businesses that don’t bend to the ideology, not just when it comes to the climate, but when it comes to all aspects of human being, including race, gender, religion, and politics. It’s not enough for these oil companies to drill responsibly, they must do so with an HR department manned by politically approved woketarian activists who can assure compliance is met from within, like a trade unionist leader assigned by the corporate state (which some might say sounds a lot like fascism, because, well, it is).