In Episode Two of the Liberty360 Podcast from American Daily Herald, hosts Dennis and Denise discusses a range of topics the next concerning steps in transhumanism coming from China, along with an update on rising food prices, the cost of living and the impact of tariffs.

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Welcome to episode two of Liberty 360, the podcast from American Daily Herald. I'm Dennis, and I'm with Denise.

Hi Dennis, and hi everybody out there. And we've been following a number of interesting stories. Things are getting very heated up in certain technological areas.

What are some of the stories that you thought were most interesting?

Well, I noticed a really weird story out there. It's been floating around on social media. It's about a Chinese robotics entrepreneur. His name is Zhang Kuifeng, founder of Guangzhou based Kaiwa Technology. He is working on completing a pregnancy robot.

Well, a pregnancy robot sounds completely outlandish, like something out of a science fiction movie. And you just don't think that's going to work. But I read this article and well, it sounds like he's got some thoughts in mind with how this could help out with a future demographic crisis in China with regard to an aging population and people not able to really have children. And of course, that's an issue in China where China has been manipulating the population there for decades with their infamous and, you know, liberty destroying one child policy from the past. So how exactly does he say this would work?

Well, according to Zhang in a Newsweek article, he stated, "We want to integrate a gestation chamber into a humanoid robot and build an artificial womb so it can carry a full term pregnancy in the normal way." However, there are experts that weigh in on this and they disagree. Yi Fuxan, an obstetrician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison stated, "Pregnancy is an extremely complex process with each step being extremely delicate and critical." And also in the Newsweek article, he noted that the artificial gestation in sheep is not a reliable predictor, much longer-lived humans, and many health risks emerge at different ages, not to mention the mental health issues.

Well, I don't think the critics are going to really matter. Their opinion on whether or not this is achievable now is irrelevant because it's going to be achieved. You know, if you look back, you know, decades ago when, you know, some things were being experimented with for, say, heart disease and open heart surgery, those seemed fantastically impossible. Like, you could never accomplish what is now done routinely in operating rooms around the country to save people's lives from heart attacks and strokes and cardiovascular diseases. What's being done is, you know, from the point of view of, say, the 1950s and 60s, seems like science fiction. But now it's just every day. It happens every day at hospitals all around the country and with really good outcomes and people live good, long lives after having what otherwise would have been death sentence cardiac events. So the technology that seems impossible today is often achieved when there's enough incentive to do so. And there is enough incentive to do so, I think, with this technology, in particular because there is a dramatic push and a lot of funding going behind this push for transhumanism, which is to transcend, essentially, to transcend human biology. And of course, the political left wants to transcend all of nature.

They think nature should be left alone and not be touched by people and that includes the nature you see external as well as the nature you see internal to human biology. So leftists, if they can find a way to get people out of nature, whether it's personal nature and the biological function of having children or getting people out of the woods, say in Nova Scotia, as has been happening in Canada over the last few weeks, the leftists tend to want to do that and they're going to make this happen. So this is envisioned currently to cost about $14,000 according to Zhang in China. That seems like a lot of money probably to the average Chinese person, but $14,000 if that's brought to market in the US, that's going to be easily attainable for a lot of people. And I said it sounded like something out of science fiction, you know, and science fiction is often predicting exactly what's going to happen. And it just so happens that a couple of years ago in 2023, there was at the Sundance Film Festival, a science fiction satire movie called The Pod Generation that envisioned something very much just like this, that kids would be raised or hatched in artificial eggs. What do you think of that?

Well, you know, it kind of seems crazy, but you know, you mentioned the $14,000. I think that's pretty much a pretty good bargain if you think about how much adoption fees cost.

Yeah, you know, it's extremely expensive for people to adopt. And I think people are going to want to use technology like this. And so I fully expect, you know, maybe it's not going to be in 2026 or 2027, but, you know, 5, 10, 15 years from now, what seems crazy is probably going to become commonplace. And, you know, the transhumanist movement is going to be hard to deny. And it's going to revolutionize what it means to be alive in the world. And it's also going to revolutionize what it means to be, or what it means to have a population of people because the transhumanist movement is really predicated on eliminating as many people as possible as part of the leftist agenda to restrict people from nature. The leftists are always worried about how many people there are. And a technology like this would allow very close control of who is born and who is allowed to have children. And that seems like something that, you know, a leftist government, say China's government with its one child policy, they would have loved to have had this level of control that this technology would have enabled. And you can imagine a future Democrat party run by, you know, people who were the sort of types that ran the Biden administration, they'd be all over this, they'd want this. This would be the most fundamental form of tyranny ever conceived, if you want to use that word. And it's going to be coming unless we are aware of it and take steps to make sure it doesn't become very damaging to the future.

So then you were saying then that this technology is not a good thing, right? Right.

I'm saying it's very dangerous.

And why is that?

Well, imagine if you will, a future where this technology is commonplace. And it's therefore easier, you know, carrying a child to term in the traditional way that everyone's been doing for millions and millions of years is physically demanding, although physically rewarding and spiritually rewarding. But nonetheless, a lot of people have issues with it, health issues, there's concerns, it's always been dangerous. This will eliminate all of those things, it'll make for a very controlled environment for development of a child. But imagine it being controlled, like your car is increasingly controlled. Your car has technology in it that allows in some cases it to be remotely operated and shut down. It has AI to be utilized potentially to keep you from driving if for instance, you might have been too often found to be drinking and driving. There's a lot of control capabilities that are coming on online to control technologies like this. In the future, and it's already happening in China, where there is a social credit policy. If you have behaviors and opinions that don't align very well with what the government likes, you can be shut out from having access to goods and services. In the UK, for instance, you're seeing all kinds of ways in which average people who may have otherwise fairly mild and non-controversial opinions are being arrested and controlled and censored for those opinions because they are not exactly what the British government wants right now. Those people are getting a mark on their record. In the US, you've had people, in fact, you just had Tulsi Gabbard under the Biden administration. She was determined to be, I forget exactly the terminology, but she was determined to be a security threat by the Biden administration and was subject to additional scrutiny at airports. This is a lady who was, at the time, a colonel in the, I believe she was in the National Guard, but nonetheless, she was a military colonel, a high-ranking military officer, and the Biden administration treated her that way. A future leftist government will not let these marks go without action on them. An integrated technology with the smart internet behind it like this would allow these kinds of people running things in the government once they take power again, because eventually they will. Trump won't be president forever. When they take power again, they'll be able to set up a regime that says, "Well, you have opinions and attitudes and actions that we don't like, and so you don't have access to this technology, and oh, gee, I guess it's just too bad you don't get to have a child." That's the way I think this is going to be abused if this becomes commonplace. I don't see that this being avoided long-term unless this Democrat Party fetish with ridiculous oppression that we have experienced over the past several Democrat generations from the Clintons down to the Obamas and the Biden administration. If the Democrats can't get that out of their system and they continue to move hard left, which it looks like they are going to continue to do, this is the type of thing that we can expect really thorough tyranny unless they're stopped. And this technology just falls right in their laps and is exactly what they'd like.

So this kind of reminds me of the time during COVID where we were worried that if we did not get the injection that things were going to be held back from us, food and services, etc.

And that's exactly what happened. There were a lot of people who lost their jobs. In healthcare, a lot of nurses and doctors were forced out of their careers because they didn't want to go along with the forced vaccination. I worked for a specialty chemicals company at the time and I got a note, an official note on company letterhead that I was an essential worker that I could take with me everywhere I went so that if I was stopped by the authorities, I could show them this note that I'm an essential worker and I could be allowed to go on my way. That's ludicrous. That's crazy. That should never happen in the United States, let alone anywhere else. But that was the reality of COVID, lest we forget. So the people who were so excited about implementing their thorough tyranny on us in 2020 and 2021 in the COVID era, just think what they would do with something like this if they had the opportunity.

Well, I saw another strange story that again was being posted on social media where there were Colorado rabbits that were growing tentacles and horns.

Yeah, I saw that story too and I suppose that got a lot of press for a little while because, well, it's unusual, it seems like. And I didn't necessarily see this, but I think most leftists would have looked at that and said, "Oh my God, what's happening to the rabbits? People are somehow at fault for this." And boy, we better go out and kill all the rabbits. Well, you'd think that wouldn't be what you'd expect, but sure enough, like, you know, bird flu, the leftists went and killed all the turkeys and chickens and they, you know, drove up egg prices because they were eliminating entire flocks. So yeah, you can imagine they would have wanted to do this. Fortunately, it didn't get to that.

Yeah, some kind of a virus that was causing these protrusions, but they were telling people, "Don't worry about it. It's not going to affect you or affect your animals."

Well, and that's the good news. It really is a papilloma virus that is, you know, the rabbits are susceptible to. It affects only rabbits. And, you know, a lot of times it, you know, it gets less in the wintertime, but it's been around for a long time. I believe this was first identified by a scientist, possibly as far back as the 1930s in the Midwest. So this is something that happens to rabbits. It's natural. They're not necessarily affected by it. It looks weird. We might have had a bit of a bigger outbreak maybe in Colorado where this was being seen this year than in previous years, but it's really no big deal. The rabbits aren't being harmed. It's fine.

The next story I saw is Prevention Magazine, which talked about a vitamin that could possibly lure blood sugar and prevent diabetes. You know, it's vitamin D. And, you know, vitamin D is really good. It does a lot of different things.

It helps reduce inflammation. It helps with your immune function and blood sugar metabolism. We have vitamin D is really important. And, you know, unlike a lot of, or maybe at least some other podcasters, we don't have a specific brand of vitamins that we're pitching to you out there. But nonetheless, just in general, you know, if you're not getting enough vitamin D, you might be having a problem that you don't know about yet that might creep up on you. And, you know, we in the northern hemisphere are particularly prone to vitamin D problems because, you know, your body makes vitamin D when you are exposed to sunlight. So of course, go outside and get some sunlight. Don't just sit in your office or your house and never get exposed to sunlight. Go outside. That's the best thing you can do. But as winter's coming on, which it is right now, and it's still summertime, but boy, it's not far off where we're going to be expecting to see some cold weather and the amount of light that you get during the day is getting less. And as this moves into December, November or December, you're going to have a lot less exposure to sunlight just naturally in the northern hemisphere. And that can lead to some serious problems with vitamin D in your system. So you should definitely make sure you're getting enough vitamin D. And Denise, you probably could talk a little bit about how you have been vitamin D deficient in the past.

So in the upper part of the states, we do not get as much sunlight. So I did test low for vitamin D. Felt much better after I started taking vitamin D, but so it was interesting that I did see this information about that it could also help with blood sugar. Of course, the studies are still early yet on this. It'll be interesting to find out more as the story develops.

Well, and hopefully the story does develop because vitamin D is readily available and cheap. And we all know that to the big healthcare industry doesn't like things that are readily available and cheap because there's no profit in that. So hopefully, you know, more will come out on this topic as research hopefully is done. But take, you know, take care of yourself with your own health. Don't rely necessarily on, you know, big, big healthcare to save your life. Make sure you do the simple things that really make a big difference. And this was true back when COVID was going on. They told people who had COVID just lay there in bed, put yourself, you know, be put on a ventilator, don't take hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin and heaven forbid don't go outside. They were chasing people off out of parks and off of beaches. Well, that was the worst thing you could do. You needed to get up and move around and you needed to get outside and more exposure to the sun would have helped people fight off the COVID infection and more vitamin D would have been the the mechanism that that would have been the causal mechanism for that. So get outside, get outside and enjoy the sun while you still have it before winter is here. So any other stories, Denise, that you think we should tell people about today?

Well, how about those rising prices in the store?

Holy crap, the price of mayonnaise. I can't even believe it.

Yes, you came out of the store the other day and you weren't too happy.

Well, we needed a, we needed mayonnaise because we ran out of mayonnaise. I mean, a pretty simple thing, you know, and I'm used to going in and, you know, there's your jar of mayonnaise for $2.99 or maybe $3.99 if you want like the fancy Hellman's kind. No, $9. $9! That's nuts. So I ended up buying a completely like super cheap generic brand that was still $6. Wow, that's outrageous.

Yeah, and it's crazy. And you wonder why these prices are so high and, you know, you're looking online at articles and you see ones like one from Rolling Stone and the headline is rising food prices are likely to continue thanks to Trump trade wars. Now Trump's getting blamed for this. What do you think?

Well, I don't think Trump really has anything to do with it. First of all, the whole inflation business started out really got rolling under the Biden administration and the Biden administration's policies to make food prices more expensive. That was a deliberate choice the Biden administration made. And, you know, one of the contributing factors to that was the Biden administration's actual successful attempt to cull flocks, giant commercial flocks of laying hens and that drove up the price of eggs to astronomical levels, making eggs basically almost unobtainable for people on a budget. And eggs are a key, are the key component of mayonnaise. So the egg supply has improved under Trump quite a bit, but clearly, you know, some of the input prices are still, you know, too high and they're driving those prices high. Then it comes to Rolling Stone. First of all, I mean, I don't generally think of Rolling Stone as the place to get solid economic analysis. The other thing is you can always count on Rolling Stone as a, you know, hardcore leftist magazine to have severe Trump derangement syndrome or TDS, which they're never going to say anything good about Donald Trump.

Yep, there are several publications like that.

Yeah, maybe all of them that aren't named American Daily Herald.

Yeah, that might be the case.

So, you know, the trade wars, when they reference the trade wars, they're really talking about Trump's tariff policy. And a lot of people get confused about tariffs because the, you know, the dogma on tariffs is that it's always bad to have tariffs because they're in an impairment to trade. And heaven forbid, we should never have a trade impairment. That's mercantilist and it's anti-liberty and it just shouldn't be allowed. But I think really that's just not quite true. And so here's my take on that. I think what really is the worst tax that really destroys liberty is the income tax on wages. And the second worst tax that destroys liberty is the one no one sees, which is the manipulation of the value of the dollar by the Federal Reserve. Those two things are what really is destroying your ability to own property and not have the value of it be destroyed. By comparison, a tariff could free us from that. It might be possible that a tariff would allow us to fund the government to a more constitutional degree and as a result get rid of the income tax entirely. And if we got rid of the federal income tax, you get rid of not just the direct cost that is extracted from every employee's wages. You also get rid of the ridiculous overhead it takes to comply with the IRS code. So you're getting rid of the entire industry of tax preparation. You're getting rid of all of the time that it takes to do it. You're getting rid of just an immense expense over and above the cost of paying the taxes themselves. It would free us up as a country to be a lot more profitable, a lot more prosperous, and be able to be a lot more innovative because just think of all of the time, money and effort that goes into preparing these taxes every year before April 15th. It's four months of nightmare and it's more than four months of nightmare if you think about the people who can't quite get to that deadline because it's too complicated. Then it's five, six, eight months of nightmare or people who never can get it done in a year and now they face all sorts of repercussions. It's just a tyrannical system and I just cannot see any way in which tariffs are more tyrannical than what we currently have now. I think it'd be a step to a freer country.

So then do you think the prices will be coming down soon?

I think there's potential for that, yeah. I think that the more we get government out of the way, the more farmers are going to have the incentive to produce more food because current prices make that more profitable. Just go back to basic classic economics. By being incentivized to produce more, the supply will increase and you'll find a new equilibrium with demand and that will settle prices down to a new more affordable price point. I think that's inevitable if the government doesn't mess with the market, which is a big if.

So now on to some tragic news about those three Americans that were killed in a crash by that illegal alien from India, 28-year-old Harjinder Singh. He took a U-turn while driving a semi-truck on the turnpike on the Florida turnpike. The trailer jack-knifed and killed three people. So this reminds me of another story that I read about where this woman was fired from her job at the DMV in Kentucky because she exposed a scheme where her co-workers were selling driver's license to illegal immigrants.

Well, this has been a discouraging trend of late. Again, going back to the previous administration, they were letting people just come in across the border with very little to no verification, turning them loose on our streets. There were murderers, there were drug dealers, there was trafficking. Those were the worst obvious crimes that were taking place because of the Biden administration's policies. But some of those policies led to what is only now becoming clear and that is a number of people who can't speak English. It's not their native language or they can't speak it at all. They're not citizens. They're, like Denise said, illegal immigrants and they're somehow obtaining commercial driver's licenses and being turned loose on the nation's highways driving 18-wheeler trucks and causing, in some cases, such as the case with this driver in Florida, killing Americans who are just innocently going about their way. The Florida situation is probably the most tragic example, but by no means the only one. My understanding is that Singh, the driver who has now been charged with three counts of vehicular homicide as a result of his actions, my understanding is that he tried for the first time to get his commercial driver's license given to him during Trump's first administration and he failed. But he succeeded in California under Gavin Newsom and the Biden administration in getting that commercial driver's license and now people are now dead because of it. And this is just outrageous, but even more outrageous is that second story you mentioned where in Kentucky they were allegedly selling licenses for, I guess, it was $200 apiece. That's not the only state where I've heard that type of thing happening. And, you know, first of all, to get a commercial driver's license, you are really getting a license that should say, I know how to operate this commercial vehicle and I've been trained and passed a test to demonstrate that I know how to operate this commercial vehicle safely. And that's what this license proves. But if they're just being sold willy nilly for $200 apiece to illegal immigrants, that proves nothing. And it just makes it a danger on the roads. It's just one more, it's just one more outrage that leftists are committing on our country and on our citizens.

Yeah, and it's kind of sad because this woman from the DMV, she tried to do the right thing and she ended up getting fired for it. So it's kind of a sad situation.

It's the Democrat way. Get rid of the person who exposes your crimes.

Yeah, I guess so. Thank you for listening to Liberty 360. This is Denise signing off.

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