Clearly, the government has become cancerous. It is no longer a part of the population, instead it is feeding on the population with a ravenous appetite that it can no longer keep hidden, just like a malignant tumor in it's advanced stages. They openly lie to us, rob us, and even kill us and then simply tell us a stupid story and more lies. We all know they're lying, and they know we know but we don't do anything about it. The plan was for a government for the people, by the people - politicians are not citizens, they are their own elitest society with their own rules, their own laws and retirement and health benefits- they don't care about SSI because they get their salary for life. They give themselves raises and benefits and make the population pay their bills. They don't care about a stupid health plan because they will have their own, that we will pay for. They send us into wars - not to win anything, and not to avoid losing anything, They send our children, I SERIOUSLY DOUBT any senators or members of congress have children risking their lives, but we're the 'population', expendable, so they send us to fight and die just so they can justify bigger budgets and more spending, just as a lame excuse to take more money from us to cover the high cost of war so we can continue to toss $1,000 bombs like throwing rice at a wedding, and the transfer of wealth continues - from the population to the politicians. And as if things aren't already out of control and blatantly wrong, they want to give Social Security and Medicaid to illegal aliens - but wait! that's not even their money - they don't put money into, and they sure aren't crossing their fingers, hoping it will pay their bills as they get old. It's money that belongs to the population - does anybody know a tax paying citizen who's worked their whole life putting money into the pot that thinks it's a good idea to give any of it to ILLEGAL aliens? Since it's OUR money, not the politicians, shouldn't WE get to have a say about how it's distributed? Isn't that something WE should get to vote on?
When billions of dollars were 'lost', who among the tax paying population felt bad for them and wanted to give them a whole bunch more money? When they said they 'lost' all the money why didn't anyone look for it? I'll bet it wouldn't be hard to find - I'd start by looking in their pockets and when I found it I'd take it and put it back where it belonged and put them in jail for seriously grand theft. The things the government does with OUR money is broad daylight, right in our faces WRONG and they keep getting away with it and every time they do it emboldens them to tell bigger lies, commit bigger crimes, take away more of our constitutional rights, draw more of the populations blood.
I thought, way back when, after Al Gore invented the Internet, (compulsive liar) that soon members of the population would be able to communicate almost effortlessly, and word could spread quickly and people would join voice and come together as a population and say 'STOP'!
I'm still waiting.

_.oO0Oo._

why not spend it on infrastructure improvement to create jobs for people that really need them instead of cushy government robotocists?

Hopefully the American empire will bankrupt itself soon and put an end to this madness.

Finally...I'll get my shot at being a Blade Runner.

Wow. Like a bad sci-fi novel.

Perhaps Ted Kaczynski had some valid points?

I wonder if we could succeed in destroying life, as we know it, on Earth.

I can see nothing bad resulting from this.

"Andromeda Strain nothing to worry about, Pentagon officials advise"

oh no! not another immortal organism for SCOTUS to give our rights to ...

Reading this piece, I'm reminded of a story Frenchie used to tell....

One tine,
When I was in the nuthouse...
This guy kept coming up to me every five minutes,
Saying, "hey buddy, you got a light?"
I told him, "no, I don't smoke."
But he kept coming back, asking,
"hey buddy, you got a light?"...
Then one day I went up to him, and asked
"hey buddy, you got a cigarette?"
He replied "I thought you didn't smoke."
I said "HUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH???!!!"
"I been smoking all my life!"

I drove the nuts, nuts!!

\ ----Michel Speck

They haven't seen Jurassic Park? "Life finds a way" Insanity.

inevitably, the Armed Forces genes will, at some point, act on their intrinsic capacity for wackiness, then we'll all know what 'horrible death' really means

Nothing new here guys. I had my share of those "Immortal" orgasms over the years.

How many of us remember Alien ..."the human crew is expendable"...we are that human "crew" ...the "kill switch" will only be in the hands of the select few... do you think you are "crew" or "select few" ?

This is a huge crime against humanity and must be dealt with in a peaceful and rational way.

Sound like people to me. May I be the first to solicit a campaign contribution from them?

Damn if Terminator ain't coming true. Artificial entities rule!

Nothing to worry about here, folks. The fine upstanding gentlemen over at the Pentagon, Godd bless their little hearts, have only your best interests in mind -- they're going to protect you from the terrrists.

Move along now.

In other words they want to create VIRUSES that don't die, that are synthetic so they can't be treated, and will record how many people they kill. DARPA = the enemy of life itself.

From the morons that couldn't even protect their headquarters on 911 in 2001 ...who trusts these fools with this type of technology...America's going to be the downfall of the whole world at this rate.The war on terror is a fraud but only a million have paid with their lives BUT this could kill us all.

The mark of the beast to all who accept man-made everlasting life here on this version of our planet... I pray to GOD they will not have the time to do this...

These people have way too much time/money on/in their hands... a dangerous combination. I wonder how many Frankensteins they've created over the years. We do know of one... Dick Cheney.

Obama comes to mind

Design flaw in current organisms......soul, conscience, empathy, free will. Design to specification to eliminate unnecessary and ineffiecient sense of personhood. The $6 million man. We can rebuild him. We have the technology.

I remember when $100 dollar hammers and $1000 toilet seats were scandalous. Does that put this in perspective?

Sorry, I meant, "Do androids dream of electric sheep?"

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

Do electric sheep dream?

Man, does that sound like a waste of taxpayer's money.

These assholes are going to make the world crash and burn

""BioDesign eliminates the randomness of natural evolutionary advancement primarily by advanced genetic engineering and molecular biology technologies to produce the intended biological effect,"

The death of millions of third world people coming soon to a theater of war near you.

Have to wonder if the Pentagon had anything to do with the creation of "Immortal Cancer" cells:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/He...

The gift of cancer that keeps on giving.

this comes out the same time the history channel does a piece on immortality becoming reality

who has the history channel in their pocket for managing topics

it isn't rupert and that saudi prince, is it?

just like all the future movies the damn gov. is going to cause the end of man kind, it has already started thoses of you that have a brain can see this, think god i have my bunker, the presendent is stupid if he thinks he can get away with this. or any member of gov. are out of there damn minds.

We already have immortal 'synthetic organisms'. They're called corporations. They achieve immortality by becoming too big to fail. To achieve this state they devour all in their path, making them ideal for military use. And as persons they could be subjected to a draft, making in-vitro development unnecessary.

I can see why the Pentagon would want to have immortal killing agents, though. Their previous best effort, depleted uranium, has a half-life of 5.5 billion years or so. Clearly not good enough.

What jackasses. Shrink the Pentagon to make it small enough to fit in a bathtub and then drown it along with Grover Norquist.

ooo very good one!

WTF???

"Immoral, synthetic organisms"

Sounds like republicans to me.

Yeah, they've pretty much been recycling the same machiavellian rogue's gallery since the days of Mr. Nixon. People were still awake here, and there were still demonstrations and outrage, although the country was already getting weary of the sheer depth of corruption.
Now the corruption's built into the whole scheme of our country, and people are almost inured to the wrongs by which all of it is legitimized.
If we weren't addicted to war for our earmarked-to-death economy, we'd have a chance at a real economy. I mean, but for the bankers controlling the rest of the it.

LULs, and the don't die part. . . that may be true too.

Yet another step in the unending effort to eliminate chaos. They desire and need ORDER. Eliminate the unknown for it may eventually become a threat. A philosophy based on fear.

Chaos is a necessary element of, and for, life. For imagination, creativity, morality, wisdom, science, progress...In fact, if it doesn't exist, the process of life itself creates it. Looks like they even want to eliminate that as well, beyond the simple social homogeneity.

It ain't red v blue. It ain't rich v poor as much as order v chaos. Going beyond just "maintaining the established order".

Order = tyranny, Chaos (not anarchy) = freedom.
Order = security state, Chaos (not anarchy) = freedom and democracy, containing possible danger
Order = a controlled populace, Chaos (not anarchy) = a populace open to, and capable of change - including "the establishment"
Order = people as self-interested, greedy, "rational" machines, Chaos (not anarchy) = people interested in, and caring about others (as well as the self-interested, greedy, consuming machines), and willing and capable of making errors
Order = death Chaos = life

awe...some.

they already have their artificial life form. it's called a corporation. if they need something done by a bio life form they simply have their cia or xe or what ever to do it. this is probably a scare tactic or false lead.

I guess if they're looking for a name for these organisms they could just call them

DALEKS

"Daleks are organisms from the planet Skaro, integrated within a tank-like or robot-like mechanical casing. The resulting creatures are a powerful race bent on universal conquest and domination, utterly without pity, compassion or remorse. Various storylines portray them as having had every emotion removed except hate, leaving them with a desire to purge the Universe of all non-Dalek life." -- Dr Who
--WIKI

Can't be any worse than Beef Products Inc. (BPI), the company that pioneered the ammonia processing technique. We should be at least 1/2 synthesized.

What was that SF story about immortal military lifeforms? Not Blade Runner. Or, in the Philip K. Dick's aptly titled "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Was it "The HORARS of War?"

I smell unintended consequences. Really, really stinky unintended consequences.

Didn't Bush say something about Human-Animal Hybrids?

Maybe he was talking about his parents?

Unintelligent design anyone?

Oh I thought it said artificial orgasms, never mind.

IF only.....

New and improved Tang, anyone?

Gee...looks like a good place to start with for eliminating CRAP from the Federal budget.

Seems they've been playing to much DUKE NUKEM over at the Pentagon. They should quit the video games strange fantasy solutions to non existent problems and get back to real solutions for real world problems.

The military has given us depleted uranium with a half life of 4.5 billion years and spread it around the planet to cause birth defects for perpetuity. Now they want to give us Frankenstein bacteria that never dies. The military is not about of giving hope to the future.

This is like extraterrestrial technology which I have read about but was of the opinion that it wasn't credible. I am not so sure now.

No way... these turkeys don't even have an 'operational definition of Life' yet. Biology is 'not' a unified science 'not publically anyways'... heh heh. It's like trying to have an Industrial-revolution without Newton or Maxwell.

This cycle is about to run out... so long MIC

I warned you.... "The nastiest stuff isn't the physics package down in a missile silo, the real evil is in test tubes, petri dishes and fermentation tanks." - seen2much.

You don't want to know what these new "organisms" will inflict upon us and our children. We've gotten to the point where even a demon in hell would blush at our antics.

Robots that burn human flesh for fuel, super-bugs that cause you to go insane and kill everybody around you, to provide fuel for the killer robots... If you pay your taxes you are an asshole.

Baa! BAAA! Little sheeple, have you any meat to pay the wolves?

Oh, that's right... The army robots came and ripped your baby apart for fuel.

Geez you must be a regular barrel of monkeys at a party.

What a frigging arrogant waste of money. And you can bet that if they're asking for money from the overt military budget, this technology is well advanced or already operational. Bladerunner, here we come.

Another mind-boggling waste of taxpayer money in the nation fast going broke.

A couple of these DARPA idiots go see Avatar, and then we see several billion of our tax dollars going towards acting out their childish little war fantasies.

The Pentagram needs a major restructuring and consequent budget slashing. MAJOR.

There's no way this is going to start the zombie apocalypse. Not even a chance.

What's that? The cells require a fresh supply of brain matter in order to regenerate? Oh, crap...

First it was military robots that got their fuel from “found organic material” (ie: dead bodies), and now this.
The Pentagon is out of control and clearly fucking INSANE!!.
They have way too much money to play with.
And add to that the 2.3 trillion dollars Rumsfeld announced was missing from the Pentagon budget on September 10th, 2001. Those missing funds were never investigated because I think something big happened the next day.
With a pile of dough like that, they just may be able to pull this off.
I just hope the engineered creatures can sing….American Idol is running out of talent.

We'll be the ones singing if anything like this ever gets built. Sort of a dirge, if you get my drift.

zonkerzzzz,

That missing Pentagon money went to Israel IMO. Dov Zakheim, a dual Israeli/US citizen, was comptroller at the time. I understand that the accounting records were destroyed when a missle hit the Pentagon on 9/11... the area destroyed was where the accounting Dept. was located.

Our government is incapable of any real governance...
Look at the folly that was supposed to be defense on 9/11...
Look at how Hurricane Katrina brought our government to its knees...
Look at the infrastructure (like the W35) that we rely on for our commerce that is collapsing...
Look at how the Z!on!$t$ still promote smaller government (fewer services and privatization) driven by lower taxes with a runaway defense budget.
Hell... Ben Bernanke, in his reconfirmation hearings, said that entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare are a major drag on our government...
Where is the mainstream media on this...
Where is the outrage?

Our government is supposed to be OUR asset that provides US with a gentrified society.
It seems that the Nazis had taken over or something.

1913. You cannot be free, if you are forced to use a corrupt monetary system enshrined in a symbiotically criminal banking system.
We've hit the debt curve, and the owners of the money are just waiting to be finished with our military, before they pull the last pin. We have no economy, and what is left is shit and sand. At some point in my remaining years here, there will be lines, Lots of them, and that's a best case scenario.

this gives me flashes of the Matrix, A.I., Terminator, I- Robot etc.

Do you actually think these illuminati scumbags care about morals or ethics? hell they believe they are gods!

What sort of other twisted projects are these freaks dreaming up, and getting funding for?

The piddly six million bucks spent on this is creepy, but possibly more so is the idea that the actual budget for classified shit is huge.

A total operating budget of $708 Billion.
Of that $56 Billion is on secret classified shit, wow.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/pentago...

The $56 billion on secret classified war toys and programs seems like an even bigger story than this six million dollar freak show.

All good horror movies start out with this premise.

Did I fall asleep and wake up in a fucking Resident Evil game?

Spore!

LOL!

""synthetic organisms" whose DNA can be altered to make them live forever, or die on command"

First synthetic organism project: A Goat.

Didn't I see a movie about this same thing a few years ago where an ex body builder told the cop behind the glass that he would be back?

They're going to incorporate?

Shoe$ for crooks!
I will gladly donate to the offensive shoe program.
All in our defense, of course.