A New Breed of Slaves?
It is a "brave new world," and it's scary as hell.
From Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World," this passage:
"My good boy!" The Director wheeled sharply round on him. "Can't you see? Can't you see?" He raised a hand; his expression was solemn. "Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!"...
Standard men and women; in uniform batches. The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of a single bokanovskified egg.
Scientists are attempting now to bokanovskify chimpanzees.
"Super-Chimp" Made With Human Genes
A chimpanzee capable of doing simple tasks such as repetitive factory work has been created in the laboratory by modifying the brain of a chimpanzee embryo with human DNA. The chimp has a measurable IQ of 68, well within the range necessary to accomplish simple tasks such as janitorial and some factory assembly work, and stoop labor, for example, on farms. Full Story from Unknown Country...
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Austrian Court to Decide Personhood of Chimpanzee
March 29, 2007 (posted in Related News)
A wild-caught chimpanzee, Hiasl was intercepted about 20 years ago during an illegal attempt to send him to a vivisection lab. He was sent to a sanctuary instead. Now that the sanctuary is facing financial bankruptcy, a British woman named Paula Stibbe is working to prevent his transfer to a zoo. Ms. Stibbe has applied to the court to be named Hiasl’s legal guardian, saying he deserves the same rights as a human. A judge in the Modling district court will decide the case. View the BBC video...
Stalin's half-man, half-ape super-warriors
CHRIS STEPHEN AND ALLAN HALL
THE Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents. Moscow archives show that in the mid-1920s Russia's top animal breeding scientist, Ilya Ivanov, was ordered to turn his skills from horse and animal work to the quest for a super-warrior. More from the Scotsman...
You can read the entire book "Brave New World" here: http://www.huxley.net/bnw/index.html
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Are you sure that isn't a kid in a chimp costume?
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April 1, 2007.