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“We’re going to pretend that modern-day vampires don’t drink the blood of humans; they’re vegetarian vampires, which means they only drink the blood of humanely-farmed animals. You have a one-time-only chance to become a modern-day vampire. You think, “This is a pretty amazing opportunity, but do I want to gain immortality, amazing speed, strength, and power? Do I want to become undead, become an immortal monster and have to drink blood? It’s a tough call.” Then you go around asking people for their advice and you discover that all of your friends and family members have already become vampires. They tell you, “It is amazing. It is the best thing ever. It’s absolutely fabulous. It’s incredible. You get these new sensory capacities. You should definitely become a vampire.” Then you say, “ Can you tell me a little more about it?” And they say, “You have to become a vampire to know what it’s like. You can’t, as a mere human, understand what it’s like to become a vampire just by hearing me talk about it. Until you’re a vampire, you’re just not going to know what it’s going to be like.”Read Epstein's School of Shame - https://newspaste.com/2026/08/20/epsteins-school-of-shame-edges-headcon/

Musk & Epstein: The Third Culture Dossier - https://newspaste.com/2024/10/31/musk-epstein-the-third-culture-dossier/

Musk and Epstein: SpaceX Offenders - https://newspaste.com/2025/08/02/musk-and-epstein-spacex-offenders/

Extract from Johnny Vedmore's article Epstein's School of Shame: The Edge Foundation was not simply a forum for elite scientists to discuss what interested them most; a clear agenda was at play. The Masterclasses and Seminars tackled three main subjects: how to alter or affect human cells and genes; how to predict the future social order; and how to change people's decision-making and behaviour. If you were to question any of the Large Language Models about Edge’s major events, they’ll currently tell you that everything was innocent and professional. They are also very quick to belittle and dismiss the uncomfortable fact that much of Edge’s activities were funded by Jeffrey Epstein.Between 2001 and 2015, John Brockman's Edge Foundation, Inc, has acknowledged that the organisation received at least $638,000 from Jeffrey Epstein and Epstein-controlled foundations. During the period in question, from 2011 to 2015, Edge received $200,000 alone to fund the study of extremely controversial and questionable subject matter directly related to controlling human behaviour at scale. This period is also extremely notable because it is after Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of child abuse. In my first articles covering the Edge Foundation’s courses, I examined Elon Musk’s involvement in the Edge Masterclasses in 2008 on Behavioural Economics and, in 2009, the Edge Masterclass on Synthetic Genomics. These two courses focused on behavioural change and genome reprogramming, respectively. Some of these seminars had very questionable sections, including the section in 2008 entitled “The Psychology of Scarcity”, and 2009’s section on “Humans 2.0”, which has since been deleted from the records. Again, well-programmed AI models will present this information in a positive, optimistic manner, regardless of the connotations. The most infamous child-abusing intelligence asset in human history was funding the study of extremely controversial science.

“We’re going to pretend that modern-day vampires don’t drink the blood of humans; they’re vegetarian vampires, which means they only drink the blood of humanely-farmed animals. You have a one-time-only chance to become a modern-day vampire. You think, “This is a pretty amazing opportunity, but do I want to gain immortality, amazing speed, strength, and power? Do I want to become undead, become an immortal monster and have to drink blood? It’s a tough call.” Then you go around asking people for their advice and you discover that all of your friends and family members have already become vampires. They tell you, “It is amazing. It is the best thing ever. It’s absolutely fabulous. It’s incredible. You get these new sensory capacities. You should definitely become a vampire.” Then you say, “ Can you tell me a little more about it?” And they say, “You have to become a vampire to know what it’s like. You can’t, as a mere human, understand what it’s like to become a vampire just by hearing me talk about it. Until you’re a vampire, you’re just not going to know what it’s going to be like.”

The speakers at Edge’s HeadCon ‘14 get progressively more controversial. In the Edge Masterclass on Synthetic Genomics held at SpaceX—which was part funded by Elon Musk and part funded by Jeffrey Epstein—there was a section on “Humans 2.0”, which is one of the rare Edge talks which have been deleted from all the records. It discussed a science many of these scientists believe will emerge within the next few decades: the ability to reprogram your genome as though you were a computer.

(Listen to Laurie Ann Paul’s HeadCon ‘14 talk below. I encourage you to download the audio.)

While Molly Crockett was eager to talk about the use of the behavioural-altering drugs of the future, there is little to no debate about whether such interventions should be used; instead, their use is treated as a given. If a significantly advanced technology emerges, will it be used automatically, whether or not it benefits wider society in the short or long term? Is a paradigm-shifting technology’s use initially triggered by the academic scientific community’s want to experiment on the general public?

One of the key issues with modern science is that the professionals involved require human experimentation to prove what they assert. This often starts by presenting the public with a question which allows them to ponder the potential paradigm shift. They are encouraged to consider the potential benefits which will never truly be available to them. In fact, reality will still resemble the two-tier society in which John Brockman, Jeffrey Epstein, and the attendees of their Billionaire’s Dinners were beneficiaries.

Laurie Ann Paul’s talk at HeadCon ‘14 was entitled “The Transformative Experience”, and at the time of HeadCon, Paul was Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as being a Professorial Fellow in the Arché Research Centre at the University of St. Andrews. She studied at Antioch College and Princeton University and, at this time, was the author of Causation: A User’s Guide (with Ned Hall) and the Transformative Experience. She is now Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Yale University.

Like Molly Crockett and many other speakers at the Edge Foundation, Laurie Ann Paul is now involved in planning for AI. Paul’s CV shows that she is part of the “Yale Taskforce on Artificial Intelligence (YTAI), focused on determining the impact of AI on Yale’s research, scholarship and operations and defining a strategic vision for AI at Yale.” Crockett and Paul are among the key scientists tasked with giving Artificial Intelligence a human face, or synthetic soul, whichever you prefer.

Laurie Ann Paul’s Transformative Experience theory is difficult to explain in shorthand, and you should listen to her presentation. Yet, Paul herself described it as:

“Transformative experiences involve radical personal and epistemic change; an agent’s decision to undergo one “must either be authentic or irrational, but not both”; it walks through the concepts, the problems for rational decision-making, and key examples.”

Some of the critics of Paul’s theory say it deliberately conflicts with the orthodox model of rational choice and the common way of thinking about major life decisions. Paul’s theory challenges the ordinary, intuitive approach the vast majority of people will take to big personal life decisions such as having children or major medical interventions. However, Paul is correct that the standard model of her science is not fit for purpose. The technologies which are being developed today to predict the behaviour of seemingly irrational agents are based on falsification. Which brings us to Michael McCullough.

If you want to read the transcripts of Laurie Ann Paul’s HeadCon ‘14 seminar on “The Transformative Experience” follow the link included.

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“Imagine we could develop a precise drug that amplifies people’s aversion to harming others; on this drug you won’t hurt a fly, everyone taking it becomes like Buddhist monks. Who should take this drug? Only convicted criminals—people who have committed violent crimes? Should we put it in the water supply? These are normative questions. These are questions about what should be done. I feel grossly unprepared to answer these questions with the training that I have, but these are important conversations to have between disciplines. Psychologists and neuroscientists need to be talking to philosophers about this. These are conversations that we need to have because we don’t want to get to the point where we have the technology but haven’t had this conversation, because then terrible things could happen.”Read Epstein's School of Shame - https://newspaste.com/2026/08/20/epsteins-school-of-shame-edges-headcon/

Musk & Epstein: The Third Culture Dossier - https://newspaste.com/2024/10/31/musk-epstein-the-third-culture-dossier/

Musk and Epstein: SpaceX Offenders - https://newspaste.com/2025/08/02/musk-and-epstein-spacex-offenders/

Extract from Johnny Vedmore's article Epstein's School of Shame: The Edge Foundation was not simply a forum for elite scientists to discuss what interested them most; a clear agenda was at play. The Masterclasses and Seminars tackled three main subjects: how to alter or affect human cells and genes; how to predict the future social order; and how to change people's decision-making and behaviour. If you were to question any of the Large Language Models about Edge’s major events, they’ll currently tell you that everything was innocent and professional. They are also very quick to belittle and dismiss the uncomfortable fact that much of Edge’s activities were funded by Jeffrey Epstein.Between 2001 and 2015, John Brockman's Edge Foundation, Inc, has acknowledged that the organisation received at least $638,000 from Jeffrey Epstein and Epstein-controlled foundations. During the period in question, from 2011 to 2015, Edge received $200,000 alone to fund the study of extremely controversial and questionable subject matter directly related to controlling human behaviour at scale. This period is also extremely notable because it is after Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of child abuse. In my first articles covering the Edge Foundation’s courses, I examined Elon Musk’s involvement in the Edge Masterclasses in 2008 on Behavioural Economics and, in 2009, the Edge Masterclass on Synthetic Genomics. These two courses focused on behavioural change and genome reprogramming, respectively. Some of these seminars had very questionable sections, including the section in 2008 entitled “The Psychology of Scarcity”, and 2009’s section on “Humans 2.0”, which has since been deleted from the records. Again, well-programmed AI models will present this information in a positive, optimistic manner, regardless of the connotations. The most infamous child-abusing intelligence asset in human history was funding the study of extremely controversial science.

Molly Crockett’s section of Johnny Vedmore’s article Epstein’s School of Shame:

Molly Crockett – Shall We Put It In The Water Supply?

Many of the debates and discussions in which the Establishment faithful are actively engaged are controversial at best. However, when these discussions are being funded by an international money man of mystery who was financing such controversial programs on behalf of the CIA and its allies, the same conversations can suddenly be viewed as significantly more sinister.

Molly Crockett’s HeadCon ‘14 entry is a fine example of a conversation which has been a repeated theme of the ruling Establishment for decades. Crockett’s conversation at HeadCon was entitled “The Neuroscience of Moral Decision Making”. At the time, she was an Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford; before that, she was a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, studying human decision-making at the University of Zurich and University College London. Molly Crockett’s Doctoral Advisor at Oxford was Trevor Robbins, a highly notable figure in modern cognitive neuroscience research.

She has also received various awards, including the Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship, which is awarded by the Wellcome Trust; the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, established in 2000 by a $210 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and the APS Rising Stars award, which is awarded by the Association of Psychological Science.

Side Note: If you’d like to understand more about the Wellcome Trust, you can read my 2022 article: The Wellcome Five – The Proximal Origin of COVID Control.

“Imagine we could develop a precise drug that amplifies people’s aversion to harming others; on this drug you won’t hurt a fly, everyone taking it becomes like Buddhist monks. Who should take this drug? Only convicted criminals—people who have committed violent crimes? Should we put it in the water supply? These are normative questions. These are questions about what should be done. I feel grossly unprepared to answer these questions with the training that I have, but these are important conversations to have between disciplines. Psychologists and neuroscientists need to be talking to philosophers about this. These are conversations that we need to have because we don’t want to get to the point where we have the technology but haven’t had this conversation, because then terrible things could happen.”

It is true that such conversations should be happening. However, contextually speaking, the conversations should not be funded via the Central Intelligence Agency’s finest child trafficker. Crockett presents the subject matter as though no one has had these conversations before. Even though the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States Government have been asking “maybe we should put it in the water supply?” for many decades.

One of those occasions was via Herman Kahn of the Hudson Institute after being tasked by the State Department in 1967 with various projects. This included The Year 2000, which attempted to predict all the technology which was expected in the foreseeable future. In the video below, Herman Kahn discusses sedating an entire city’s population using such a method.

The normalisation of these conversations, and the potentially controversial solutions which are suggested as simple ways to tackle extremely complex issues, is a key tactic of those who want to coerce the early adoption of such technologies. As well as those who intend to dominate the market by co-opting key technological patents as they are being conceived of and invented.

Molly Crockett is heavily involved with Princeton’s University Center for Human Values, where she was promoted to a full professorship in 2025. At the UCHV, Crockett is the co-organiser of the Future Values Initiative, which promotes its purpose as:

“Leveraging Princeton’s strengths in the sciences and the humanities, the Future Values Initiative supports scholarship that expands traditional approaches to normative inquiry and applied ethics of science and technology, critically examining present injustices by imagining and co-creating radically different futures. We envision new modes of scholarship where scientists are given tools to understand how values shape the production of science and how its benefits and costs are socially distributed, and where humanists are partners in the innovation process rather than critics after the fact. Ultimately, we aim to evolve normative thinking and scientific practice to meet the challenges of the present age.”

Molly Crockett is also part of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, which is exploring how AI research shapes understandings of human cognition. She is also jointly affiliated with Princeton’s AI Lab, which is part of the Natural and Artificial Minds initiative. The latter is an initiative launched in 2024 to re-envision “theory-driven cognitive science research in the age of artificial intelligence”.Find more at http://NEWSPASTE.com

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Edge Master Class 2009: GEORGE CHURCH & J. CRAIG VENTER: A SHORT COURSE ON SYNTHETIC GENOMICS funded by Jeffrey Epstein and hosted by Elon Musk at SpaceX.

Read Johnny Vedmore’s NEWSPASTE articles about Edge:

Musk and Epstein: The Third Culture Dossier - https://newspaste.com/2024/10/31/musk-epstein-the-third-culture-dossier/

Musk and Epstein: SpaceX Offenders - https://newspaste.com/2025/08/02/musk-and-epstein-spacex-offenders/

Find Everything Epstein on NEWSPASTE - https://newspaste.com/2026/06/14/everything-about-the-epstein-case

Find the archived version of the Edge website related to this course here - https://web.archive.org/web/20141209162337/https://www.edge.org/event/edge-master-class-2009-george-church-j-craig-venter-a-short-course-on-synthetic-genomics

Watch Part 1 & 2:

The Attendees:

Stewart Brand, Biologist, Long Now Foundation; Whole Earth Discipline

Larry Brilliant, M.D. Epidemiologist, Skoll Urgent Threats Fund?

John Brockman, Publisher & Editor, Edge?

Max Brockman, Literary Agent, Brockman, Inc.; What’s Next: Dispatches on the Future of Science

Jason Calacanis, Internet Entrepreneur, Mahalo?

George Dyson, Science Historian; Darwin Among the Machines?

Jesse Dylan, Filmmaker, Form.tv, FreeForm.tv?

Arie Emanuel, William Morris Endeavor Entertainment?

Sam Harris, Neuroscientist, UCLA; The End of Faith?

W. Daniel Hillis, Computer Scientist, Applied Minds; Pattern On The Stone?

Thomas Kalil, Deputy Director for Policy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Senior Advisor for Science, Technology and Innovation for the National Economic Council?

Salar Kamangar, Vice President, Product Management, Google?

Lawrence Krauss, Physicist, Origins Initiative, ASU; Hiding In The Mirror?

John Markoff, Journalist, The New York Times; What The Dormouse Said?

Katinka Matson, Cofounder, Edge; Artist, katinkamatson.com?

Elon Musk, Physicist, SpaceX, Tesla Motors?

Nathan Myhrvold, Physicist, CEO, Intellectual Ventures, LLC, The Road Ahead

Tim O’Reilly, Founder, O’Reilly Media, O’Reilly Radar

Larry Page, Co-founder, Google?

Lucy Page Southworth, Biomedical Informatics Researcher, Stanford

Sean Parker, The Founders Fund; Co-founder, Napster & Facebook

Ryan Phelan, Founder, DNA Direct

Nick Pritzker, Hyatt Development Corporation

Ed Regis, Writer; What Is Life?

Terrence Sejnowski, Computational Neurobiologist, Salk; The Computational Brain?

Maria Spiropulu, Physicist, CERN & Caltech?

Victoria Stodden, Computational Legal Scholar, Yale Law School

Richard Thaler, Behavioural Economist, U. Chicago; Nudge?

Craig Venter, Genomics Researcher; CEO, Synthetic Genomics, A Life Decoded?

Nathan Wolfe, Biologist, Global Virus Forecasting Initiative?

Alexandra Zukerman, Assistant Editor, Edge

Intro written by George Dyson: On July 24, 2009, a small group of scientists, entrepreneurs, cultural impresarios and journalists that included architects of some of the leading transformative companies of our time (Microsoft, Google, Facebook, PayPal), arrived at the Andaz Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, to be offered a glimpse, guided by George Church and Craig Venter, of a future far stranger than Mr. Huxley had been able to imagine in 1948.

In this future — whose underpinnings, as Drs. Church and Venter demonstrated, are here already — life as we know it is transformed not by the error catastrophe of radiation damage to our genetic processes, but by the far greater upheaval caused by discovering how to read genetic sequences directly into computers, where the code can be replicated exactly, manipulated freely, and translated back into living organisms by writing the other way. “We can program these cells as if they were an extension of the computer,” George Church announced, and proceeded to explain just how much progress has already been made.

GEORGE CHURCH, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director, Center for Computational Genetics, and Science Advisor to 23 and Me, and J. CRAIG VENTER, Founder of Synthetic Genomics, Inc. and President of the J. Craig Venter Institute and the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation, taught the Edge Master Class 2009: “A Short Course In Synthetic Genomics” at The Andaz Hotel in West Hollywood, the weekend of July 24th-26th. On Saturday the 25th, the class travelled by bus to SpaceX near LAX, where Sessions 1-4 were taught by George Church. On Sunday, the Class was held at The Andaz in West Hollywood. Craig Venter taught Session 5, and George Church taught Session 6. The topics covered over the course of a rigorous 2-day program of six lectures included:

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Some of the Davos agenda can be best examined by looking at the tools they use on their own candidates. On the WEF Flickr page, a fine researcher named Darren Kenton found bubble charts that show how they spin their image of societal change to those they're brainwashing at Davos events. Come for an exploration into the dark mind of the Davosian Man.In this series, Johnny Vedmore helps to read between the lines and translate what some of this carefully worded rhetoric actually means. Recorded in Chile in October 2022.Support Johnny's multifaceted journalism:Find all Johnny's links - https://linktr.ee/johnnyvedmore Find more at http://NEWSPASTE.com Support him on Patreon - https://patreon.com/johnnyvedmore Buy Him A Coffee - https://buymeacoffee.com/johnnyvedmore

Many of my most avid audience members may be sick of me pointing out that Anthony Giddens’ brand of Third Way politics leads to predictable political cycles. However, it’s important to show how the system really works, especially to those who believe the current political paradigm is fair in any way.

You can read Blair and Clinton: The Third Way Dossier on NEWSPASTE to better understand how our current political system is rigged, and it is vital to do so.

Blair and Clinton: The Third Way Dossier - https://newspaste.com/2024/10/22/blair-and-clinton-the-third-way-dossier/

Also: Expect a new in-depth, long-form investigative article coming this week.

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Edge Master Class 2009: GEORGE CHURCH & J. CRAIG VENTER: A SHORT COURSE ON SYNTHETIC GENOMICS funded by Jeffrey Epstein and hosted by Elon Musk at SpaceX.

Read Johnny Vedmore’s NEWSPASTE articles about Edge:

Musk and Epstein: The Third Culture Dossier - https://newspaste.com/2024/10/31/musk-epstein-the-third-culture-dossier/

Musk and Epstein: SpaceX Offenders - https://newspaste.com/2025/08/02/musk-and-epstein-spacex-offenders/

Find Everything Epstein on NEWSPASTE - https://newspaste.com/2026/06/14/everything-about-the-epstein-case

Find the archived version of the Edge website related to this course here - https://web.archive.org/web/20141209162337/https://www.edge.org/event/edge-master-class-2009-george-church-j-craig-venter-a-short-course-on-synthetic-genomics

The Attendees:

Stewart Brand, Biologist, Long Now Foundation; Whole Earth Discipline

Larry Brilliant, M.D. Epidemiologist, Skoll Urgent Threats Fund?

John Brockman, Publisher & Editor, Edge?

Max Brockman, Literary Agent, Brockman, Inc.; What’s Next: Dispatches on the Future of Science

Jason Calacanis, Internet Entrepreneur, Mahalo?

George Dyson, Science Historian; Darwin Among the Machines?

Jesse Dylan, Filmmaker, Form.tv, FreeForm.tv?

Arie Emanuel, William Morris Endeavor Entertainment?

Sam Harris, Neuroscientist, UCLA; The End of Faith?

W. Daniel Hillis, Computer Scientist, Applied Minds; Pattern On The Stone?

Thomas Kalil, Deputy Director for Policy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Senior Advisor for Science, Technology and Innovation for the National Economic Council?

Salar Kamangar, Vice President, Product Management, Google?

Lawrence Krauss, Physicist, Origins Initiative, ASU; Hiding In The Mirror?

John Markoff, Journalist, The New York Times; What The Dormouse Said?

Katinka Matson, Cofounder, Edge; Artist, katinkamatson.com?

Elon Musk, Physicist, SpaceX, Tesla Motors?

Nathan Myhrvold, Physicist, CEO, Intellectual Ventures, LLC, The Road Ahead

Tim O’Reilly, Founder, O’Reilly Media, O’Reilly Radar

Larry Page, Co-founder, Google?

Lucy Page Southworth, Biomedical Informatics Researcher, Stanford

Sean Parker, The Founders Fund; Co-founder, Napster & Facebook

Ryan Phelan, Founder, DNA Direct

Nick Pritzker, Hyatt Development Corporation

Ed Regis, Writer; What Is Life?

Terrence Sejnowski, Computational Neurobiologist, Salk; The Computational Brain?

Maria Spiropulu, Physicist, CERN & Caltech?

Victoria Stodden, Computational Legal Scholar, Yale Law School

Richard Thaler, Behavioural Economist, U. Chicago; Nudge?

Craig Venter, Genomics Researcher; CEO, Synthetic Genomics, A Life Decoded?

Nathan Wolfe, Biologist, Global Virus Forecasting Initiative?

Alexandra Zukerman, Assistant Editor, Edge

Intro written by George Dyson: On July 24, 2009, a small group of scientists, entrepreneurs, cultural impresarios and journalists that included architects of some of the leading transformative companies of our time (Microsoft, Google, Facebook, PayPal), arrived at the Andaz Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, to be offered a glimpse, guided by George Church and Craig Venter, of a future far stranger than Mr. Huxley had been able to imagine in 1948.

In this future — whose underpinnings, as Drs. Church and Venter demonstrated, are here already — life as we know it is transformed not by the error catastrophe of radiation damage to our genetic processes, but by the far greater upheaval caused by discovering how to read genetic sequences directly into computers, where the code can be replicated exactly, manipulated freely, and translated back into living organisms by writing the other way. “We can program these cells as if they were an extension of the computer,” George Church announced, and proceeded to explain just how much progress has already been made.

GEORGE CHURCH, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director, Center for Computational Genetics, and Science Advisor to 23 and Me, and J. CRAIG VENTER, Founder of Synthetic Genomics, Inc. and President of the J. Craig Venter Institute and the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation, taught the Edge Master Class 2009: “A Short Course In Synthetic Genomics” at The Andaz Hotel in West Hollywood, the weekend of July 24th-26th. On Saturday the 25th, the class travelled by bus to SpaceX near LAX, where Sessions 1-4 were taught by George Church. On Sunday, the Class was held at The Andaz in West Hollywood. Craig Venter taught Session 5, and George Church taught Session 6. The topics covered over the course of a rigorous 2-day program of six lectures included:

What is life, origins of life, in vitro synthetic life, mirror-life, metabolic engineering for hydrocarbons & pharmaceuticals, computational tools, electronic-biological interfaces, nanotech-molecular-manufacturing, biosensors, accelerated lab evolution, engineered personal stem cells, multi-virus-resistant cells, humanised mice, bringing back extinct species, safety/security policy.

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Are there any publishers willing to release a book which is controversial or anti-Establishment? Is there any room for the truth in the era of disinformation? Johnny Vedmore discusses his experience so far as he finishes a book on Pottinger and another on Nicole Junkermann.

If you have any suggestions, then get in touch with Johnny. Or you can help support Johnny Vedmore in self-publishing, which is, of course, the preferable option.

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This is part of an effort to save the video and audio of the Edge Foundation’s many seminars and classes before the Edge website is shut down.

Read Johnny Vedmore's NEWSPASTE articles about Edge:Musk and Epstein: The Third Culture Dossier - https://newspaste.com/2024/10/31/musk-epstein-the-third-culture-dossier/

Musk and Epstein: SpaceX Offenders - https://newspaste.com/2025/08/02/musk-and-epstein-spacex-offenders/

Find Everything Epstein on NEWSPASTE - https://newspaste.com/2026/06/14/everything-about-the-epstein-caseFind the archived version of the Edge website related to this course here - https://web.archive.org/web/20141209162337/https://www.edge.org/event/edge-master-class-2009-george-church-j-craig-venter-a-short-course-on-synthetic-genomics

The Attendees:

Stewart Brand, Biologist, Long Now Foundation; Whole Earth Discipline

Larry Brilliant, M.D. Epidemiologist, Skoll Urgent Threats Fund?

John Brockman, Publisher & Editor, Edge?

Max Brockman, Literary Agent, Brockman, Inc.; What’s Next: Dispatches on the Future of Science

Jason Calacanis, Internet Entrepreneur, Mahalo?

George Dyson, Science Historian; Darwin Among the Machines?

Jesse Dylan, Filmmaker, Form.tv, FreeForm.tv?

Arie Emanuel, William Morris Endeavor Entertainment?

Sam Harris, Neuroscientist, UCLA; The End of Faith?

W. Daniel Hillis, Computer Scientist, Applied Minds; Pattern On The Stone?

Thomas Kalil, Deputy Director for Policy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Senior Advisor for Science, Technology and Innovation for the National Economic Council?

Salar Kamangar, Vice President, Product Management, Google?

Lawrence Krauss, Physicist, Origins Initiative, ASU; Hiding In The Mirror?

John Markoff, Journalist, The New York Times; What The Dormouse Said?

Katinka Matson, Cofounder, Edge; Artist, katinkamatson.com?

Elon Musk, Physicist, SpaceX, Tesla Motors?

Nathan Myhrvold, Physicist, CEO, Intellectual Ventures, LLC, The Road Ahead

Tim O’Reilly, Founder, O’Reilly Media, O’Reilly Radar

Larry Page, Co-founder, Google?

Lucy Page Southworth, Biomedical Informatics Researcher, Stanford

Sean Parker, The Founders Fund; Co-founder, Napster & Facebook

Ryan Phelan, Founder, DNA Direct

Nick Pritzker, Hyatt Development Corporation

Ed Regis, Writer; What Is Life?

Terrence Sejnowski, Computational Neurobiologist, Salk; The Computational Brain?

Maria Spiropulu, Physicist, CERN & Caltech?

Victoria Stodden, Computational Legal Scholar, Yale Law School

Richard Thaler, Behavioural Economist, U. Chicago; Nudge?

Craig Venter, Genomics Researcher; CEO, Synthetic Genomics, A Life Decoded?

Nathan Wolfe, Biologist, Global Virus Forecasting Initiative?

Alexandra Zukerman, Assistant Editor, EdgeIntro written by George Dyson: On July 24, 2009, a small group of scientists, entrepreneurs, cultural impresarios and journalists that included architects of some of the leading transformative companies of our time (Microsoft, Google, Facebook, PayPal), arrived at the Andaz Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, to be offered a glimpse, guided by George Church and Craig Venter, of a future far stranger than Mr. Huxley had been able to imagine in 1948.In this future — whose underpinnings, as Drs. Church and Venter demonstrated, are here already — life as we know it is transformed not by the error catastrophe of radiation damage to our genetic processes, but by the far greater upheaval caused by discovering how to read genetic sequences directly into computers, where the code can be replicated exactly, manipulated freely, and translated back into living organisms by writing the other way. "We can program these cells as if they were an extension of the computer," George Church announced, and proceeded to explain just how much progress has already been made.GEORGE CHURCH, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director, Center for Computational Genetics, and Science Advisor to 23 and Me, and J. CRAIG VENTER, Founder of Synthetic Genomics, Inc. and President of the J. Craig Venter Institute and the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation, taught the Edge Master Class 2009: "A Short Course In Synthetic Genomics" at The Andaz Hotel in West Hollywood, the weekend of July 24th-26th. On Saturday the 25th, the class travelled by bus to SpaceX near LAX, where Sessions 1-4 were taught by George Church. On Sunday, the Class was held at The Andaz in West Hollywood. Craig Venter taught Session 5, and George Church taught Session 6. The topics covered over the course of a rigorous 2-day program of six lectures included:What is life, origins of life, in vitro synthetic life, mirror-life, metabolic engineering for hydrocarbons & pharmaceuticals, computational tools, electronic-biological interfaces, nanotech-molecular-manufacturing, biosensors, accelerated lab evolution, engineered personal stem cells, multi-virus-resistant cells, humanised mice, bringing back extinct species, safety/security policy.Find all Johnny's links - https://linktr.ee/johnnyvedmore Find more at http://NEWSPASTE.com Support him on Patreon - https://patreon.com/johnnyvedmore Buy Him A Coffee - https://buymeacoffee.com/johnnyvedmore

Some of the Davos agenda can be best examined by looking at the tools they use on their own candidates. On the WEF Flickr page, a fine researcher called Darren Kenton found some bubble charts which help us see how they spin their image of societal change to those they’re brainwashing at the Davos events. Come for an exploration into the dark mind of the Davosian Man.

In this series, Johnny Vedmore helps to read between the lines and translate what some of this carefully worded rhetoric actually means.

Recorded in Chile in October 2022.

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A young woman carrying Semtex and a timer who crosses the Northern Irish border is caught by the police and then granted bail. The case of Isobella Perrie Sullivan is not normal. Irish people are up in arms. There is much confusion and little clarity.

I would like my Irish audience to help point me in the right direction for useful information. We’ll also be discussing this on MOTH News live on Friday.

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