FReSH (initials standing for Food Reform for Sustainability and Health) is a benevolent initiative of the “World Business Council” to restructure the world’s food system; and to make companies adapt to it… It was created in 2017 – and its members confer regularly… There are many things that interest the bosses of food, drugs, communications… Keep the name of one of them: proteins. (If you remember that the “lifesaving” genetic engineering therapies that have become fashionable these days involve the production of proteins, it must be a simple coincidence…) Do you understand that? Every radical capitalist restructuring requires a good …
Eternal youth (superficial first)…
A South Korean cosmetics company called Amorepacific, in collaboration with a team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), is preparing to support and commercialize the latter’s finding to inhibit skin cell aging. KAIST biotechnologists claim that with a combination of chemical and genetic intervention in the cells, they have found a way to “block” a molecule that enables their aging. They are excited. “…our research opens the door for a new generation that perceives aging as a reversible biological phenomenon…” stated Professor Cho. Indeed, “eternal childhood” (even infancy…) has commercially proven to be a very dynamic …
Genetic extermination
Between 2008 and 2014, the US government funded nearly $ 1 billion in synthetic biology research. From 2012 onwards, most of the relevant funds came from the infamous DARPA and other military budgets. Why does the US army love synthetic biology so much (too)? It has good purposes… It wants, for example, to eradicate malaria by eradicating mosquitoes. It targets also other insects that are seen as dangerous… How will it eliminate them? By placing “mosquito coils” everywhere? No. By developing (it declares…) genetic extermination techniques. So to speak: it will make them sterile so that they do not reproduce. …
Close contacts of the known type.
They have their reasons to hide them; or, at least, not to advertise them. The hard core of the (American) state is a very good customer, and it has its requirements. But a former Google search executive, Jack Poulson (retired in 2018), had the perseverance and patience to look for a stack of 30 million US government contracts, signed from 2015 onwards. There he discovered that microsoft has signed more than 5,000 contracts with the US Department of Defense and various federal public order mechanisms since 2016; amazon over 350, google over 250. He also discovered that signing contracts by …
Open sesame!
Some people thought that by wearing surgical masks they become unrecognizable. Maybe even invisible. To their friends maybe. But not to biometric technologies! The well-known Japanese NEC group developed and implemented facial recognition software even if the person is wearing a sanitary face mask. One of the group executives, Shinya Takashima, explained the beneficence of the invention: “Needs grew even more due to the coronavirus situation … and so we’ve now introduced this technology to the market to help revival of economic activities under the New Normal…” It is possible that in the distant and high-tech Japanese capitalism, facial recognition …