{"id":75376,"date":"2022-03-18T20:34:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T20:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=75376"},"modified":"2022-03-18T20:34:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T20:34:05","slug":"the-us-is-about-to-become-a-digital-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/the-us-is-about-to-become-a-digital-dictatorship\/","title":{"rendered":"The US is about to become a \u201cdigital dictatorship\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

A \u201cnew<\/em>\u201d proposal by the Biden administration to create a health-focused federal agency modeled after DARPA is not what it appears to be. Promoted as a way to \u201cend cancer<\/em>,\u201d this resuscitated \u201chealth DARPA<\/em>\u201d conceals a dangerous agenda.<\/p>\n

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In 2021, President Biden was widely praised in mainstream and health-care\u2013focused media for his call to create a \u201cnew biomedical research agency<\/em>\u201d modeled after the US military\u2019s \u201chigh-risk, high-reward<\/em>\u201d Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. As touted by the president, the agency would seek to develop \u201cinnovative<\/em>\u201d and \u201cbreakthrough<\/em>\u201d treatments for cancer, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, and diabetes, with a call to \u201cend cancer as we know it<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Far from \u201cending cancer<\/em>\u201d in the way most Americans might envision it, the proposed agency would merge \u201cnational security<\/em>\u201d with \u201chealth security<\/em>\u201d in such as way as to use both physical and psychic health \u201cwarning signs<\/em>\u201d to prevent outbreaks of disease or violence before they occur. Such a system is a recipe for a technocratic \u201cpre-crime<\/em>\u201d organization with the potential to criminalize both mental and physical illness as well as \u201cwrongthink<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Biden administration had asked Congress for $6.5 billion to fund the agency, which would be largely guided by Biden\u2019s top science adviser, Eric Lander. Lander, formerly the head of the Silicon Valley\u2013dominated Broad Institute, has been controversial for his ties to eugenicist and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his relatively recent praise for James Watson, an overtly racist eugenicist. Despite that, Lander is set to be confirmed by the Senate and Congress and is reportedly significantly enthusiastic about the proposed new \u201chealth DARPA<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

This new agency, set to be called ARPA-H or HARPA, would be housed within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and would raise the NIH budget to over $51 billion. Unlike other agencies at NIH, ARPA-H would differ in that the projects it funds would not be peer reviewed prior to approval; instead hand-picked program managers would make all funding decisions. Funding would also take the form of milestone-driven payments instead of the more traditional multiyear grants.<\/p>\n

ARPA-H will likely heavily fund and promote mRNA vaccines as one of the \u201cbreakthroughs<\/em>\u201d that will cure cancer. Some of the mRNA vaccine manufacturers that have produced some of the most widely used Covid-19 vaccines, such as the Pfizer\/BioNTech vaccine, stated just last month that \u201ccancer is the next problem to tackle with mRNA tech<\/em>\u201d post-Covid. BioNTech has been developing mRNA gene therapies for cancer for years and is collaborating with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create mRNA-based treatments for tuberculosis and HIV. Other \u201cinnovative<\/em>\u201d technologies that will be a focus of this agency are less well known to the public and arguably more concerning.<\/p>\n

The long road to ARPA-H<\/strong><\/p>\n

ARPA-H is not a new and exclusive Biden administration idea; there was a previous attempt to create a \u201chealth DARPA<\/em>\u201d during the Trump administration in late 2019. Biden began to promote the idea during his presidential campaign as early as June 2019, albeit using a very different justification for the agency than what had been pitched by its advocates to Trump. In 2019, the same foundation and persons currently backing Biden\u2019s ARPA-H had urged then president Trump to create \u201cHARPA<\/em>,\u201d not for the main purpose of researching treatments for cancer and Alzheimer\u2019s, but to stop mass shootings before they occur through the monitoring of Americans for \u201cneuropsychiatric<\/em>\u201d warning signs.<\/p>\n

For the last few years, one man has been the driving force behind HARPA \u2013 former vice chair of General Electric and former president of NBCUniversal, Robert Wright. Through the Suzanne Wright Foundation (named for his late wife), Wright has spent years lobbying for an agency that \u201cwould develop biomedical capabilities \u2013 detection tools, treatments, medical devices, cures, etc. \u2013 for the millions of Americans who are not benefitting from the current system.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

While he, like Biden, has cloaked the agency\u2019s actual purpose by claiming it will be mainly focused on treating cancer, Wright\u2019s 2019 proposal to his personal friend Donald Trump revealed its underlying ambitions.<\/p>\n

As first proposed by Wright in 2019, the flagship program of HARPA would be \u201cSAFE HOME<\/em>\u201d, short for \u201cStopping Aberrant Fatal Events by Helping Overcome Mental Extremes<\/em>\u201d. SAFE HOME would suck up masses of private data from \u201cApple Watches, Fitbits, Amazon Echo, and Google Home<\/em>\u201d and other consumer electronic devices, as well as information from health-care providers to determine if a person might be likely to commit a crime. The data would be analyzed by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms \u201cfor early diagnosis of neuropsychiatric violence<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Department of Justice\u2019s pre-crime approach known as DEEP was activated just months before Trump left office; it was also justified as a way to \u201cstop mass shootings before they occur<\/em>.\u201d Soon after Biden\u2019s inauguration, the new administration began using information from social media to make pre-crime arrests as part of its approach toward combatting \u201cdomestic terror<\/em>.\u201d Given the history of Silicon Valley companies collaborating with the government on matters of warrantless surveillance, it appears that aspects of SAFE HOME may already be covertly active under Biden, only waiting for the formalization of ARPA-H\/HARPA to be legitimized as public policy.<\/p>\n

The national-security applications of Robert Wright\u2019s HARPA are also illustrated by the man who was its lead scientific adviser \u2013 former head of DARPA\u2019s Biological Technologies Office Geoffrey Ling. Not only is Ling the main scientific adviser of HARPA, but the original proposal by Wright would have Ling both personally design HARPA and lead it once it was established. Ling\u2019s work at DARPA can be summarized by BTO\u2019s stated mission, which is to work toward merging \u201cbiology, engineering, and computer science to harness the power of natural systems for national security<\/em>.\u201d BTO-favored technologies are also poised to be the mainstays of HARPA, which plans to specifically use \u201cadvancements in biotechnology, supercomputing, big data, and artificial intelligence<\/em>\u201d to accomplish its goals.<\/p>\n

The direct DARPA connection to HARPA underscores that the agenda behind this coming agency dates back to the failed Bio-Surveillance project of DARPA\u2019s Total Information Awareness (TIA) program, which was launched after the events of September 11, 2001. TIA\u2019s Bio-Surveillance project sought to develop the \u201cnecessary information technologies and resulting prototype capable of detecting the covert release of a biological pathogen automatically, and significantly earlier than traditional approaches<\/em>,\u201d accomplishing this \u201cby monitoring non-traditional data sources<\/em>\u201d including \u201cpre-diagnostic medical data<\/em>\u201d and \u201cbehavioral indicators<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

While nominally focused on \u201cbioterrorist attacks,<\/em>\u201d TIA\u2019s Bio-Surveillance project also sought to acquire early detection capabilities for \u201cnormal<\/em>\u201d disease outbreaks. Bio-Surveillance and related DARPA projects at the time, such as LifeLog, sought to harvest data through the mass use of some sort of wearable or handheld technology. These DARPA programs were ultimately shut down due to the controversy over claims they would be used to profile domestic dissidents and eliminate privacy for all Americans in the US.<\/p>\n

That DARPA\u2019s past total surveillance dragnet is coming back to life under a supposedly separate health-focused agency, and one that emulates its organizational model no less, confirms that many TIA-related programs were merely distanced from the Department of Defense when officially shut down. By separating the military from the public image of such technologies and programs, it made them more palatable to the masses, despite the military remaining heavily involved behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

As Unlimited Hangout<\/em> has recently reported, major aspects of TIA were merely privatized, giving rise to companies such as Facebook and Palantir, which resulted in such DARPA projects being widely used and accepted. Now, under the guise of the proposed ARPA-H, DARPA\u2019s original TIA would essentially be making a comeback for all intents and purposes as its own spin-off.<\/p>\n

Silicon Valley, the military and the wearable \u201crevolution\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

This most recent effort to create ARPA-H\/HARPA combines well with the coordinated push of Silicon Valley companies into the field of health care, specifically Silicon Valley companies that double as contractors to US intelligence and\/or the military (e.g., Microsoft, Google, and Amazon). During the Covid-19 crisis, this trend toward Silicon Valley dominance of the health-care sector has accelerated considerably due to a top-down push toward digitalization with telemedicine, remote monitoring, and the like.<\/p>\n

One interesting example is Amazon, which launched a wearable last year that purports to not only use biometrics to monitor people\u2019s physical health and fitness but to track their emotional state as well. The previous year, Amazon acquired the online pharmacy PillPack, and it is not hard to imagine a scenario in which data from Amazon\u2019s Halo wellness band is used to offer treatment recommendations that are then supplied by Amazon-owned PillPack.<\/p>\n

Companies such as Amazon, Palantir, and Google are set to be intimately involved in ARPA-H\u2019s activities. In particular, Google, which launched numerous health-tech initiatives in 2020, is set to have a major role in this new agency due to its long-standing ties to the Obama administration when Biden was vice president and to President Biden\u2019s top science adviser, Eric Lander.<\/p>\n

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Eric Lander<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As mentioned, Lander was poised to play a major role in ARPA-H\/HARPA if and when it materializes. Before becoming the top scientist in the country, Lander was president and founding director of the Broad Institute. While advertised as a partnership between MIT and Harvard, the Broad Institute is heavily influenced by Silicon Valley, with two former Google executives on its board, a partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Greylock Partners, and the former CEO of IBM, as well as some of its top endowments coming from prominent tech executives.<\/p>\n

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who was intimately involved with Obama\u2019s 2012 reelection campaign and who is close to the Democratic Party in general, chairs the Broad Institute as of this April. In March 2021, Schmidt gave the institute $150 million to \u201cconnect biology and machine learning for understanding programs of life<\/em>.\u201d During his time on the Broad Institute board, Schmidt also chaired the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, a group of mostly Silicon Valley, intelligence, and military operatives who have now charted the direction of the US government\u2019s policies on emerging tech and AI. Schmidt was also pitched as potential head of a tech-industry task force by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

In January 2021, the Broad Institute announced that its health-research platform, Terra, which was built with Google subsidiary Verily, would partner with Microsoft. As a result, Terra allowed Google and Microsoft to access a vast trove of genomic data that is poured into the platform by academics and research institutions from around the world.<\/p>\n

In addition, in September 2020, Google teamed up with the Department of Defense as part of a new AI-driven \u201cpredictive health<\/em>\u201d program that also has links to the US intelligence community. While initially focused on predicting cancer cases, this initiative clearly plans to expand to predicting the onset of other diseases before symptoms appear, including Covid-19. As noted by Unlimited Hangout<\/em> at the time, one of the ulterior motives for the program, from Google\u2019s perspective, was for Google to gain access to \u201cthe largest repository of disease- and cancer-related medical data in the world<\/em>,\u201d which is held by the Defense Health Agency. Having exclusive access to this data is a huge boon for Google in its effort to develop and expand its growing suite of AI health-care products.<\/p>\n

The military was being used to pilot Covid-19\u2013related biometric wearables for \u201creturning to work safely<\/em>.\u201d In December 2020, it was announced that Hill Air Force Base in Utah would make biometric wearables a mandatory part of the uniform for some squadrons. For example, the airmen of the Air Force\u2019s 649th Munitions Squadron need now to wear a smart watch made by Garmin and a smart ring made by Oura as part of their uniform.<\/p>\n

According to the Air Force, these devices detect biometric indicators that are then analyzed for 165 different biomarkers by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency\/Philips Healthcare AI algorithm that \u201cattempts to recognize an infection or virus around 48 hours before the onset of symptoms.<\/em>\u201d The development of that algorithm began well before the Covid-19 crisis and is a recent iteration of a series of military research projects that appear to have begun under the 2007 DARPA \u201cPredicting Health and Disease (PHD)<\/em>\u201d project.<\/p>\n

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yogaesoteric
\nMarch 18, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

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