Break Free Update February 2023
"The spread of AI can be likened to the spread of a zombie fungus.'
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It’s 2023 and pandemics are still on our minds.
Yesterday the House passed a resolution to immediately end the COVID national emergency, “brushing aside the Biden administration’s announcement that the declaration would expire in May.” Incredibly, we’ve been in this state of emergency for three years now!
HBO’s The Last of Us
For those who just can’t get enough of pandemics (Bill Gates keeps on telling us another one is just around the corner, so don’t despair), we can watch HBO’s new hit series, The Last of Us, about a fungus infecting humans and causing a global pandemic.
You got that right—fungus. Because, you know, global warming causes everything from heart attacks to mutating fungi. And okay, even if it’s unlikely we’ll all be turned into rabid zombies (are you sure about that?), according to the Washington Post, fungal infections in people could increase and spread faster than treatments can be developed.
Uh oh, you know what that means—more drugs!
The type of Cordyceps in The Last of Us contaminates a body, takes over the mind, and persuades it to spread the infection to as many other hosts as possible.
What I especially like about the show is how all the mad dreams of men attaining power through technology are destroyed by nature. I can’t help but wonder how long it will be before we are thrown back into that world, having to relearn how to survive without technology.
The spread of AI can be likened to the spread of a zombie fungus.
AI takes root in our minds and doesn’t let go, feeding off of our intelligence until it can replace us. AI is invading every aspect of our lives and companies like BioNTech are making it happen.
BioNTech acquires Tunisian-born and UK-based AI startup InstaDeep for £562M
Per Financial Times, the German vaccine maker intends to use InstaDeep’s machine learning to “improve its drug discovery process, including developing personalized treatments tailored to a patient’s cancer.”
Hurray!
BioNTech’s goal is to “seamlessly integrate AI into all aspects of our work.”
The FDA is excited about Personalized Medicine.
Personalized medicine: A biological approach to patient treatment
…essentially, we're talking about using genetic or other biomarker information to make treatment decisions about patients. These could include decisions about who should get certain kinds of therapies or specific doses of a given therapy, or who should be monitored more carefully because they're predisposed to a particular safety issue.
Who will decide which of us needs to be “monitored more carefully”? We will ALL need to be monitored more carefully. This surveillance “under the skin” as Dr. Yuval Noah Harari promises us, will become the norm.
"As the pace of change increases, the very meaning of being human is likely to mutate and physical and cognitive structures will melt."
Here’s what Wired has to say on the matter:
For as the pace of change increases, not just the economy, but the very meaning of “being human” is likely to mutate. In 1848, the Communist Manifesto declared that “all that is solid melts into air”. Marx and Engels, however, were thinking mainly about social and economic structures. By 2048, physical and cognitive structures will also melt into air, or into a cloud of data bits.
Some of the ways humans will become irrelevant and eventually disappear:
migrating into cyberspace
fluid gender identities
new sensory experiences generated by computer implants.
jobs, even creative ones, taken over by AI.
Let’s say you are a fashion designer; this is how you might define yourself in the not-too-distant future (according to Wired):
At 25, you introduce yourself on a dating site as “a twenty-five-year-old heterosexual woman who lives in London and works in a fashion shop.”
At 35, you say you are “a gender-non-specific person undergoing age- adjustment, whose neocortical activity takes place mainly in the NewCosmos virtual world, and whose life mission is to go where no fashion designer has gone before”.
At 45, both dating and self-definitions are so passé. You just wait for an algorithm to find (or create) the perfect match for you. As for drawing meaning from the art of fashion design, you are so irrevocably outclassed by the algorithms, that looking at your crowning achievements from the previous decade fills you with embarrassment rather than pride.
And at 45, you still have many decades of radical change ahead of you.
Hey, Wired. Hey, Harari. Sorry, but, either all the humans will be zombified by then or the entire power structure of the elites will have collapsed under the weight of its own stupidity, and we will be back to life without technology.
Practice up on your survival skills, folks.
This past month I wrote 12 essays/articles. My three most-read essays were:
Project Veritas & the Death of Reality
Watching Project Veritas’s latest BOMBSHELL video on Twitter, along with more than 23 million viewers, it felt as if the last bit of solid ground beneath our feet had fallen away, and we were now truly descending into madness where nothing is real anymore, it’s just a matter of believing what we see, no matter how crazy it may be.
The propaganda campaign has worked, and it will continue to work as people become more dependent on drugs. It isn’t a conspiracy theory to surmise that as people are given more and more of these ‘vaccines’, they will lose their natural immunity and become ever more dependent on drugs for their survival. That survival won’t be pleasant.
The United States didn’t get to be #1 in the world by being Mr. Nice Guy, despite media propaganda claims that it is saving the world from Putin and Covid. On the other hand, it sure knows how to reward those who do its dirty work for it.
Over the course of the past three years, I’ve been blessed to get to know some incredible people. Here are a few of them.
The first interview I ever gave was with Trish Wood and I was extremely nervous.
You can listen to our lastest conversation here.
In the beginning, I didn’t consider myself a big talker and didn’t know if I could sustain an hour—or even longer—conversation, on live radio, no less. But she was so interesting and easy to talk to, I discovered that I really enjoyed it and have been talking up a storm ever since!
Trish is “renowned for chasing organized crime bosses through Tokyo, exposing crooked religious cranks, dodging drunken teens with guns at checkpoints in war-torn Burundi, and setting free innocent men.”
My kind of woman!
Besides her TNT radio show and Trish Wood is Critical podcast, she now writes on Substack.
Interviews with Lee Stranahan and George Eliason
In January, I spoke with Lee Stranahan on The Backstory, the second time I’ve been on his show.
You can find the interview here.
Yes, it’s on Sputnik news, and no, I am not a Russian spy (does denial make me look even more suspicious?).
Stranahan is an investigative journalist known for his appearance and work on the Oliver Stone documentary, Revealing Ukraine. His health has been compromised by numerous strokes and he is vision impaired. He is a great interviewer with a compassionate nature. He mentioned how much he enjoyed listening to me read my essays on Break Free with Karen Hunt since he has difficulty reading. This was such great feedback, it makes the recording of my essays that much more enjoyable.
In January, I also spoke with George Eliason, who writes on Substack.
You can find that interview here.
Eliason lives and works in Donbass, Ukraine. In 2014, he broke many of the stories there starting with Maidan and continuing to the build-up toward civil war. I feel lucky to be able to speak with so many fascinating people around the world.
Interviews coming up in February (so far)
February 7th, I will be speaking with Rick Munn on his Locked & Loaded show.
Rick “serves up a diet of current affairs with a healthy dose of salt and light.” He’s in Ireland and I'll be in Los Angeles so for me it’s a middle-of-the night conversation. I’ve been on his show many times, we’ve become good friends, and it’s always fun and enlightening to speak with him.
February 10th, I will be on with Hrvoje Moric.
Hvorje is a Geneva School of Diplomacy graduate, former Professor of International Relations, proud Croatian American Mexican, and founder of The Geopolitics & Empire Podcast. Like Rick Munn, I am regularly on his show, and it’s always fun and enlightening.
Shout-Out to TruthTalk.UK!
Twitter isn’t so bad, you know (until it is). Before I got so unceremoniously banned, I made some fantastic friends. SikhForTruth is one of them.
SikhForTruth is a driving force behind TruthTalk.UK. They publish a brilliant group of writers on the most current topics, and I’m honored to be included. You can find the writers here.
Some other favorites:
End Times Headlines gives an overview of breaking news stories on a daily basis and is part of Exposing the Darkness. I read this regularly.
Anak Svengork Karpit of Brave New World translates all my essays (along with a lot of other writers’ work) into Slovak. It’s a labor of love for an audience that wouldn’t otherwise have access to these works. So far, he has published 83 of my essays, read by 12,594 Slovaks. THANK YOU!
ZeroHedge is always a great resource. If you missed it, my essay, The Age of Drones, was published there in mid-December.
I highly recommend The Download from MIT Technology Review. For my research, it’s a must.
Let’s talk about journalism!
My last essay in January was about the end of objective journalism: The Sudden Deaths of Two Young Athletes (and a lot of other people)
Tyler Durden wrote about this in a ZeroHedge article:
"Objectivity Has Got To Go": News Leaders Call For End Of Objective Journalism
“Advocacy Journalism” is the new way to spread the news.
Columbia Journalism Dean and New Yorker writer Steve Coll decried how the First Amendment right to freedom of speech was being “weaponized” to protect disinformation. In an interview with The Stanford Daily, Stanford journalism professor, Ted Glasser, insisted that journalism needed to “free itself from this notion of objectivity to develop a sense of social justice.”
In a series The Press vs the President, Columbia Journalism Review explores how attacking Donald Trump was more important than objective journalism and the ways it changed reporting.
Before the 2016 election, most Americans trusted the traditional media and the trend was positive, according to the Edelman Trust Barometer.
Today, the US media has the lowest credibility—26 percent—among forty-six nations….
There are so many interesting stories, here’s a quick look at a few more:
Immune Exhaustion Emerges After 3rd Vaccine Dose
Lo and behold, according to the Epoch Times, a study published in Science Immunology in January 2023 shows that “incremental doses of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine boosters may [weaken immune systems]”. This happens when the “immune system gains a false sense of security from dealing with the booster version of the vaccine, which is supposed to teach the immune system how to deal with the virus. Unfortunately, …the immune system has learned that it doesn’t need to mount a strong counterattack. Worse, the vaccine boosters might not even induce any effect in people at high risk of severe infection.
Ugh, just basic common sense. It drives me crazy that experts will conduct tests on volunteer subjects that cost millions of dollars, only to reach obvious conclusions—or rather, wait, no they don’t! How often do they reach the opposite of the obvious conclusions because the pharmaceutical companies paying for the tests want it to be that way.
Watch out! Bank of America is telling us 'Digital Currencies Appear Inevitable'
“Our view is CBDCs that leverage distributed ledger technology have the potential to revolutionize global financial systems and may be the most significant technological advancement in the history of money,” BOA described.
The report explains that there are currently 114 central banks exploring CBDCs, representing 58% of countries globally and over 95% of global GDP.
Will Microsoft take over the World as OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, casts spell on the giant tech firm?
The hottest startup in Silicon Valley right now is OpenAI. Microsoft… has integrated Dall-E 2 into several of its applications and now, according to a report in Bloomberg, the tech giant wants to graft ChatGPT to its Bing search engine to take on Google.
Read my essay AI ChatGPT obliterates Google. Just wait until AI is not only picking the news for you but interpreting it as well—and scolding you if you don’t agree with it.
Soon needles will be a thing of the past. Edible vaccines are on the way.
Nature magazine tells us to "Eat Up Our Vaccines"
Hey Africa, are you paying attention?
"Logistically, if we want to vaccinate 90% of the population in Africa, an oral vaccine is much more sensible," says virologist Steve Wesselingh.
Do you think Africans will have a say in the matter? Will you?
Remember what I said about BioNTech earlier—if you made it this far, congratulations!
Big Pharma wants to make decisions about who should get certain kinds of therapies or specific doses of a given therapy, or who should be monitored more carefully.
It’s all for our health & safety.
Who would have thought such an innocuous phrase would end up sounding so annoying. Yes, I could have said “terrifying,” but I refuse to end on such a negative note!
Besides, it’s time to watch the next episode of The Last of Us!
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Thank you Karen for your fight. Together we will expose and destroy the evil on our planet