STORY AT-A-GLANCE<\/h3>\n\n\n- Irresponsible use of new and very advanced technologies by the military is life-threatening<\/span><\/li>\n
- Engineered viruses can be used to edit genes in a target species, including in a heritable manner<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201cInsect Allies\u201d is a DARPA program designed to genetically modify mature plants in a live environment by releasing insects infected with genetically modified viruses<\/span><\/li>\n
- Some scientists, although on board with genetic modification in principle, are questioning DARPA\u2019s motives and raising concerns<\/span><\/li>\n
- Researchers in Singapore, as well as DARPA in the U.S. have developed \u201cremote-controlled insects\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
BREAKING NEWS: The craziest crazies have somehow escaped the asylum and installed themselves in high positions of power. Insane, they are coming up with one bad idea after another and barking orders at us, mad shine in their eyes and saliva coming out of their mouths. They are crazy \u2014 and in charge of institutions, schools, newspapers and armies.<\/p>\n
They are running around with their high-tech pistols filled with high-tech poisons and their little sadistic CRISPR scissors. They are crazy \u2014 yes, they are crazy \u2014 and they are killing us slowly, and sometimes not so slowly. Welcome to the future where toxicity is health and the old crazy is the new normal. We are not crazy \u2014 they are crazy \u2014 and they have been from the beginning. And in 2020, they stopped pretending. What now?<\/p>\n
Project \u201cInsect Allies\u201d<\/h2>\n
You may think that you have seen it all but here is a great idea. Take some insects, infect them with a genetically modified virus designed to genetically edit mature plants in real time, and release them. Release them into wild and repeat, \u201cit\u2019s safe and effective.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sweet idea, right? Well, DARPA thought so, and so in 2016, they started a project called \u201cInsect Allies<\/a>\u201d that is designed to do that. (This is a different project from Oxitec\u2019s controversial\u00a0release of GM mosquitos<\/a>.) DARPA\u2019s official story is that in the name of national security, a good way to protect the American crops from potential threats is to genetically modify them using GM viruses as genetic modifiers and insects as flying syringes. And that they just need to test it!<\/p>\n![\"insects](\"https:\/\/media.mercola.com\/ImageServer\/public\/2022\/July\/insects-as-flying-syringes.jpg\")
Source:\u00a0www.darpa.mil\/news-events\/2016-10-19<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nIn a 2016\u00a0release<\/a>\u00a0titled, \u201cDARPA Enlists Insects to Protect Agricultural Food Supply,\u201d the agency stated:<\/p>\n\u201cA new DARPA program is poised to provide an alternative to traditional agricultural threat response, using targeted gene therapy to protect mature plants within a single growing season.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nDARPA proposes to leverage a natural and very efficient two-step delivery system to transfer modified genes to plants: insect vectors and the plant viruses they transmit. In the process, DARPA aims to transform certain insect pests into \u2018Insect Allies,\u2019 the name of the new effort.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u201c\u2018Insect Allies\u2019 three technical areas \u2014 trait design, insect vector optimization, and selective gene therapy in mature plants \u2014 layer together to support the goal of rapidly transforming mature plants to protect against natural or intentional agricultural disruption without the need for extensive infrastructure. The foundational knowledge and generalizable tools developed under the program could also support future agricultural innovation.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nSome suspicious peasants may foolishly wonder: What will happen in the short term and in the long term to the people who eat those plants, to the people and animals possibly bitten by those insects, to the wild insects who mate with the infected insects, and to all other life in the area and beyond that may get impacted? What ridiculous nonsense. Here is the answer, peasant: No one knows \u2014 and importantly, no one cares. Any more questions?<\/p>\n
The first Insect Allies funded\u00a0paper<\/a>, titled, \u201cMultiplexed heritable gene editing using RNA viruses and mobile single guide RNAs,\u201d was published in 2020. Please note the word \u201cheritable\u201d in the headline. The paper stated:<\/p>\n\u201cMutant progeny are recovered in the next generation at frequencies ranging from 65 to 100%; up to 30% of progeny derived from plants infected with a virus expressing three sgRNAs have mutations in all three targeted loci.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nDARPA never disclosed if they tested this program outside of greenhouses.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nObjections From the Scientific Community and Even the Pre-2020 Media<\/h2>\n
Actually, it turned out that a few scientists care \u2014 and at least during the pre-COVID era, they have objected.<\/p>\n
Here is a short 2019 educational animation made by the German Max Planck Society (formerly the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History). Their main objection is the potential weaponization of the technology, they don\u2019t mind the\u00a0gene editing<\/a>\u00a0in principle.<\/p>\nBut our standards for health and dignity are so low that this objection is better than no objection, and even this limited kind of objection and questioning DARPA takes some courage (even though it\u2019s unknown if they would have objected in 2020).<\/p>\n
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- Irresponsible use of new and very advanced technologies by the military is life-threatening<\/span><\/li>\n
- Engineered viruses can be used to edit genes in a target species, including in a heritable manner<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u201cInsect Allies\u201d is a DARPA program designed to genetically modify mature plants in a live environment by releasing insects infected with genetically modified viruses<\/span><\/li>\n
- Some scientists, although on board with genetic modification in principle, are questioning DARPA\u2019s motives and raising concerns<\/span><\/li>\n
- Researchers in Singapore, as well as DARPA in the U.S. have developed \u201cremote-controlled insects\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nBREAKING NEWS: The craziest crazies have somehow escaped the asylum and installed themselves in high positions of power. Insane, they are coming up with one bad idea after another and barking orders at us, mad shine in their eyes and saliva coming out of their mouths. They are crazy \u2014 and in charge of institutions, schools, newspapers and armies.<\/p>\n
They are running around with their high-tech pistols filled with high-tech poisons and their little sadistic CRISPR scissors. They are crazy \u2014 yes, they are crazy \u2014 and they are killing us slowly, and sometimes not so slowly. Welcome to the future where toxicity is health and the old crazy is the new normal. We are not crazy \u2014 they are crazy \u2014 and they have been from the beginning. And in 2020, they stopped pretending. What now?<\/p>\n
Project \u201cInsect Allies\u201d<\/h2>\n
You may think that you have seen it all but here is a great idea. Take some insects, infect them with a genetically modified virus designed to genetically edit mature plants in real time, and release them. Release them into wild and repeat, \u201cit\u2019s safe and effective.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sweet idea, right? Well, DARPA thought so, and so in 2016, they started a project called \u201cInsect Allies<\/a>\u201d that is designed to do that. (This is a different project from Oxitec\u2019s controversial\u00a0release of GM mosquitos<\/a>.) DARPA\u2019s official story is that in the name of national security, a good way to protect the American crops from potential threats is to genetically modify them using GM viruses as genetic modifiers and insects as flying syringes. And that they just need to test it!<\/p>\n
Source:\u00a0www.darpa.mil\/news-events\/2016-10-19<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\nIn a 2016\u00a0release<\/a>\u00a0titled, \u201cDARPA Enlists Insects to Protect Agricultural Food Supply,\u201d the agency stated:<\/p>\n
\u201cA new DARPA program is poised to provide an alternative to traditional agricultural threat response, using targeted gene therapy to protect mature plants within a single growing season.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
DARPA proposes to leverage a natural and very efficient two-step delivery system to transfer modified genes to plants: insect vectors and the plant viruses they transmit. In the process, DARPA aims to transform certain insect pests into \u2018Insect Allies,\u2019 the name of the new effort.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201c\u2018Insect Allies\u2019 three technical areas \u2014 trait design, insect vector optimization, and selective gene therapy in mature plants \u2014 layer together to support the goal of rapidly transforming mature plants to protect against natural or intentional agricultural disruption without the need for extensive infrastructure. The foundational knowledge and generalizable tools developed under the program could also support future agricultural innovation.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Some suspicious peasants may foolishly wonder: What will happen in the short term and in the long term to the people who eat those plants, to the people and animals possibly bitten by those insects, to the wild insects who mate with the infected insects, and to all other life in the area and beyond that may get impacted? What ridiculous nonsense. Here is the answer, peasant: No one knows \u2014 and importantly, no one cares. Any more questions?<\/p>\n
The first Insect Allies funded\u00a0paper<\/a>, titled, \u201cMultiplexed heritable gene editing using RNA viruses and mobile single guide RNAs,\u201d was published in 2020. Please note the word \u201cheritable\u201d in the headline. The paper stated:<\/p>\n
\u201cMutant progeny are recovered in the next generation at frequencies ranging from 65 to 100%; up to 30% of progeny derived from plants infected with a virus expressing three sgRNAs have mutations in all three targeted loci.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
DARPA never disclosed if they tested this program outside of greenhouses.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\nObjections From the Scientific Community and Even the Pre-2020 Media<\/h2>\n
Actually, it turned out that a few scientists care \u2014 and at least during the pre-COVID era, they have objected.<\/p>\n
Here is a short 2019 educational animation made by the German Max Planck Society (formerly the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History). Their main objection is the potential weaponization of the technology, they don\u2019t mind the\u00a0gene editing<\/a>\u00a0in principle.<\/p>\n
But our standards for health and dignity are so low that this objection is better than no objection, and even this limited kind of objection and questioning DARPA takes some courage (even though it\u2019s unknown if they would have objected in 2020).<\/p>\n
\n - Engineered viruses can be used to edit genes in a target species, including in a heritable manner<\/span><\/li>\n