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September 22, 2022 Author Derrick Broze

The Biden Administration’s recent Executive Order has made headlines lately, but this is only the latest step In the direction of the Technocratic Age. To understand where we are headed we need to know what is meant by “advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing”.

On September 12, the White House issued an executive order titled, Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy, which quickly made the rounds of the independent media. Patrick Wood at Technocracy.news interpreted the EO as an attempt to “institutionalize Eugenics and Transhumanism“, while Jason Bermas (quoting The Gateway Pundit) said the EO would release “transumanist hell on America”.

While this EO is an important component of the shift towards the Technocratic era (or Technetronic, as Zbigniew Brzezinski called it) it is not the only recent action taken by the Biden Administration. The same week the White House announced the EO on biotechnology and biomanufacturing, they also held a summit on the topics, while committing billions of U.S. dollars to this particular area of research. Finally, the Biden White House appointed the first director of the newly created ARPA-H. This director has extensive ties to the biomanufacturing industry and DARPA.

To better understand this push towards an industry that most of the public is painfully unaware of, let’s start by digging into the Executive Order to find out what exactly it does. Once we fully grasp the technology and industry, we will examine some of the players involved.
Understanding the Bioeconomy and Biomanufacturing

The White House Executive Order states:

“It is the policy of my Administration to coordinate a whole-of-government approach to advance biotechnology and biomanufacturing towards innovative solutions in health, climate change, energy, food security, agriculture, supply chain resilience, and national and economic security. Central to this policy and its outcomes are principles of equity, ethics, safety, and security that enable access to technologies, processes, and products in a manner that benefits all Americans and the global community and that maintains United States technological leadership and economic competitiveness.”

So far the statement hasn’t told us much. We know that the Biden administration wants a “whole-of-government approach” to promote biotechnology and biomanufacturing in the interest of public health, fighting climate change, securing supply chains, etc. The statement also claims that whatever technology, processes, or products are used must benefit “all Americans and the global community”.

The Biden admin describes biotechnology as harnessing “the power of biology to create new services and products” which ostensibly improve quality of life for the people and the environment. “The economic activity derived from biotechnology and biomanufacturing is referred to as ‘the bioeconomy'”, the White House writes. The EO also claims the COVID-19 crisis “demonstrated the vital role of biotechnology and biomanufacturing in developing and producing life-saving diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines that protect Americans and the world”.

The EO states that the United States needs to invest in “foundational scientific capabilities” if biotechnology and biomanufacturing are to play a vital role in achieving “societal goals”. The White House specifically mentions the “need to develop genetic engineering technologies and techniques to be able to write circuitry for cells and predictably program biology in the same way in which we write software and program computers”. They claim this will help “unlock the power of biological data” — although there is no mention of who will benefit from the unlocking of this data.

One paragraph of the EO pays lip service to reducing “biological risks associated with advances in biotechnology“. It calls for investments in and promotion of biosafety and biosecurity to prevent the development of biotechnology which does not align with the U.S. “principles and values and international best practices” and to reduce the “accidental or deliberate harm to people, animals, or the environment”.

Specific action items listed in the EO include the following:

– bolster and coordinate Federal investment in key research and development (R&D) areas of biotechnology and biomanufacturing in order to further societal goals;

– foster a biological data ecosystem that advances biotechnology and biomanufacturing innovation, while adhering to principles of security, privacy, and responsible conduct of research;

– improve and expand domestic biomanufacturing production capacity and processes, while also increasing piloting and prototyping efforts in biotechnology and biomanufacturing to accelerate the translation of basic research results into practice;

– boost sustainable biomass production and create climate-smart incentives for American agricultural producers and forest landowners