DARPA to Genetically Engineer Humans by Adding a 47th ChromosomeAaron Dykes and Melissa Melton In that 1997 film, society is structured around eugenics as people are bioengineered to be perfect specimens, and ones entire life and position in the world is based on their genetics. Those conceived naturally without genetic screening are proclaimed invalid and only allowed menial jobs, despite the innate talents and skills they may possess. Alternately, the 2011 movie In Time portrays a dystopic future where humans are genetically programmed to stop aging at 25 and could live forever so long as they earn enough time credits to afford to stay alive; the poor perish swiftly under an artificially skyrocketing cost of living that times out their clocks, while the rich who steer the technocracy are gaming the system and living indefinitely. Such nightmare scenarios place obvious restrictions on the natural right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Back in reality, alarmingly similar ends are being pursued. DARPA, the Department of Defenses research arm, has just put out a new solicitation for a project called, Advanced Tools for Mammalian Genome Engineering on the governments Federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) site. This project isnt just for engineering any mammals genome, however; its specifically for the bioengineering of humans. The proposal explains the projects details: The ability to deliver exogenous DNA to mammalian cell lines is a fundamental tool in the development of advanced therapeutics, vaccines, and cellular diagnostics, as well as for basic biological and biomedical research The successful development of technologies for rapid introduction of large DNA vectors into human cell lines will enable the ability to engineer much more complex functionalities into human cell lines than are currently possible. A human artificial chromosome (HAC) is a microchromosome that can act as a new chromosome in a population of human cells. That is, instead of 46 chromosomes, the cell could have 47 with the 47th being very small, roughly 6-10 megabases in size, and able to carry new genes introduced by human researchers. So DARPA and its team of associated scientists want to introduce an entirely new 47th chromosome into human genetics as a vector platform for inserting bio-alterations and wholesale genetic improvements into our DNA. The agency hopes that development of a new chromosome will allow a solution to the limitations of current state-of-the-art gene transfer technologies (including plasmids, adenovirus-, lentivirus-, and retrovirus-vectors, cDNA, and minigene constructs). The proposal explains that existing approaches must be improved due to known drawbacks in the scientists failure to control their results, causing a few minor major problems: These include random DNA insertion into the host genome, variation in stable integration sites between cell lines, variation in the copy number and expression level of DNA that is delivered, limitations on the number and size of DNA constructs that can be delivered, and immunological responses to foreign DNA. Yet these techniques are already in use? How reassuring. Ever hear the term playing God? Scientists who work in these fields not only refer to themselves as genome engineers, but biological designers in their journal articles. This January 2013 piece in the journal Molecular Systems Biology introduces the topic with a chilling description: The phrase genome-scale engineering invokes a future in which organisms are custom designed to serve humanity. Yet humans have sculpted the genomes of domesticated plants and animals for generations. Darwins contemporary William Youatt described selective breeding as that which enables the agriculturalist, not only to modify the character of his flock, but to change it altogether. It is the magicians wand, by means of which he may summon into life whatever form and mold he pleases (Youatt, 1837). Its impossible to even compile an accurate listing of all the potential slippery slopes at play here, yet it is clear that this entails a momentous grasp at controlling life, which not only empowers an already dictatorial technocratic elite, but emboldens a delusional and destructive cadre intent on overwriting the existing species now on Earth. Watch the 30-second promo video below where an investment firm (with their creepy all seeing eye logo) nonchalantly projects that within 50 years, science will displace natural life by a factor of 50-to-1 with artificial lab-created species including plants, animals, humans, bacteria and viruses. Through DARPA, our government funds a laundry list of projects to gain technocratic control of the future that reads more like a summary of the latest sci-fi horror film plots. Case in point: just today selfnews Post reported Secret DARPA Mind Control Project Revealed: Leaked Document. When looking at one DARPA project to perfect mind control techniques or a second DARPA project to study the human hormone oxytocin to improve our response to government propaganda or a third DARPA brain interface project that would literally turn soldiers into cyborgs, its creepy enough. However, when looking at all of these projects together as a combined effort it raises chilling questions as to what kind of dystopic, technocratic future they are forcing us into. These developments only include a small sampling of what we know is admittedly going on. Who knows what is actually taking place behind the scenes. Exactly how many far-reaching and potentially disastrous implications of our government literally playing God are there? Aaron and Melissa created TruthstreamMedia.com, where this article first appeared, as an outlet to examine the news, place it in a broader context, uncover the deceptions, pierce through the fabric of illusions, grasp the underlying factors, know the real enemy, unshackle from the system, and begin to imagine the path towards taking back our lives, one step at a time, so that one day we might truly be free 