How Your DNA Is Being Used Against You

The CDC’s Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance Program isn’t about health & safety, it’s about feeding your DNA to the Vast Machine.

(Off-Guardian)—This morning I read about a horse escaping on a Boeing 747 mid-flight. The plane was already 30 minutes into its flight to Belgium when its unusual cargo broke free of its constraints and that was it—complete chaos at 30,000 feet.

“There’s no issue with flying,” the pilot could be heard saying, “but we need to go back to New York as we can’t resecure the horse.”

Apparently, animals escaping on planes isn’t all that unusual. Last month, an otter and a rat caused mayhem on a flight from Thailand to Taiwan. Earlier this month, a young bear managed to escape on a flight from Baghdad to Dubai.

Animals don’t belong on airplanes. They don’t feel at home high in the sky, it’s unnatural. They have to be heavily sedated to get them through the terrifying experience. I guess they didn’t give those animals enough drugs.

It made me think about what I’m writing today. The governments, corporations and scientists that invest our money (and pay themselves billions of our dollars in the process) to research and experiment on our bodies by altering the very language of life, our DNA, are sure they have everything under control. But what makes them think they can control life and mold it to their will when they don’t even know how it started or the mystery of that spark.

And perhaps one day we ordinary humans will regret giving ourselves over so naively to be analyzed and dissected by these greedy, short-sighted and power-hungry overlords. They promise that their experiments are for our own good, to make us safer, healthier and happier, when their real desire is to extract every bit of information from our DNA in order to create something new and improved—and synthetic.

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