Days after progressive ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s called on the U.S. to return “stolen Indigenous land,” a Native American chief said the company’s headquarters, located in South Burlington, Vermont, is sitting on Western Abenaki land.

Chief Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation, told the New York Post in an interview, “If you look at the [Abenaki] traditional way of being, we are place-based people. Before recognized tribes in the state, we were the ones who were in this place.”

The chief said that he “looks forward to any kind of correspondence with the brand to see how they can better benefit Indigenous people.” Stevens added that if the company is “sincere” about advocating for Native Americans, the tribe should be hearing from them about the land.

Ben & Jerry’s caught backlash over an Independence Day post that read, “The United States was founded on stolen Indigenous land. This Fourth of July, let’s commit to returning it.”

A link attached to the post leads to a site that says the U.S. needs to give back Mount Rushmore, which is in South Dakota.

“What is the meaning of Independence Day for those whose land this country stole, those who were murdered and forced with brutal violence onto reservations, those who were pushed from their holy places and denied their freedom?” the site reads. “The faces on Mount Rushmore are the faces of men who actively worked to destroy Indigenous cultures and ways of life, to deny Indigenous people their basic rights.”

The faces on Mount Rushmore include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.

This 4th of July, it's high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it. Learn more and take action now: https://t.co/45smaBmORH pic.twitter.com/a6qp7LXUAE

— Ben & Jerry's (@benandjerrys) July 4, 2023

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R) responded to the post by criticizing the company’s progressive activist founders for not knowing their “history.”

“I’m not going to listen to a bunch of liberal Vermont businessmen who think they know everything about this country and haven’t studied our history,” Noem said on Thursday. “Right now, Mount Rushmore is the greatest symbol of our freedom and history of the United States of America.”

“We can learn from the men on that mountain,” the governor continued. “We can do better. But, boy, they led us through some challenging times. And I think Americans in this country need some inspiration, and we can gain it from a monument like that.”

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China has established itself as a world leader in the creation of “NeuroStrike weapons” that target brain function, according to a new report.

The 12-page report, from three intelligence analysts, was first obtained by the Washington Times and says that the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army have been developing weapons that could use microwaves or other directed energy to control brain function. 

“Unknown to many, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have established themselves as world leaders in the development of NeuroStrike weapons,” the report says. “These platforms directly attack, or even control, mammalian brains (including humans) with microwave/directed energy weapons via standalone platforms (i.e., handheld gun) or the broader electromagnetic spectrum.”

The report, “Enumerating, Targeting and Collapsing the Chinese Communist Party’s Neurostrike Program” was written by scholar Ryan Clarke, former Army microbiologist Xiaoxu Sean Lin, and former Air Force intelligence officer L.J. Eads. 

“The CCP views NeuroStrike and psychological warfare as a core component of its asymmetric warfare strategy against the United States and its Allies in the Indo-Pacific,” the report says. “Their new landscape of NeuroStrike development includes using massively distributed human-computer interfaces to control entire populations as well as a range of weapons designed to cause cognitive damage.”

The U.S. Commerce Department took action in December 2021 against Chinese entities they said were working with the CCP to develop “biotechnology processes to support Chinese military end uses and end users, to include purported brain-control weaponry.”

At the time, a senior U.S. official told The Financial Times that China was seeking to use emerging biotechnologies to try to develop future military applications that included “gene editing, human performance enhancement [and] brain-machine interfaces.”

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The new report says that China may seek to use the technology against Taiwan, which it has continued to take aggressive postures toward. 

“Any breakthrough in this research would provide unprecedented tools for the CCP to forcibly establish a new world order, which has been Xi Jinping’s lifelong goal,” the analysts said. 

In response to the developments, the report said that Americans should work to spread awareness of the “NeuroStrike” weapons, sabotage supply lines and development of the technology, and enact more sanctions against Chinese companies that partner with the military to develop the technology.