A little over a year ago President Biden proposed a plan to set in place a new health agency that would drive the U.S. down a futuristic road that would lead to cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and other diseases.
At the time, blogger-journalist Whitney Webb warned that the new biomedical research agency — modeled after the nation’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — actually is a plan to merge national security with health “security” in a way that would “use both physical and mental health ‘warning signs’ to prevent outbreaks of disease or violence before they occur.”
It's “a recipe for a technocratic ‘pre-crime’ organization with the potential to criminalize both mental and physical illness as well as ‘wrongthink,’” Webb predicted.
Now, the agency — coined the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) — is well on its way to being and up and running, with $1 billion from Congress to start. Government officials only need to iron out details such as what programs and activities it will engage in and (of course) what “appropriate” current and future funding will be needed to run it.
In other news a task force is recommending that all U.S. adults age 65 and under should be screened for mental health issues — is this a forerunner for Webb’s prediction of how the government will detect “pre-crimes”?
SOURCES:
Unlimited Hangout/Whitney Web May 5, 2021
Congressional Research Service August 12, 2022
KOAM News September 21, 2022