Failed Utopia

Over twenty years ago, Dubai began constructing the world's largest artificial archipelago of islands, designed to be a lavish oasis for the super-rich. Today, the islands stand mostly empty and some are sinking back into the sea, but the developers and government of Dubai refuse to give up on the mind boggling mega-project. Let me tell you about this astonishing feat of engineering, how it did work--kind of, but also hasn’t panned out the way they hoped, and why they’ll probably never let this one go no matter how bad an idea it was. Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Nakheel PropertiesDubai Set To Open Heart Of Europe With 6 Outrageous Themed IslandsThe World is sinking: Dubai islands 'falling into the sea'Owner of Dubai's 'little Britain' jailed for non-payment of chequesSecond Irish property investor kills himself over financial problemsWritten and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Intro music by Elliot Middleton Merchandise: www.failedutopia.com/shop

Why most New Year’s resolutions fail, the Babylonians and Romans, putting our hands on a peacock, setting and getting goals, habit formation, motivation vs. discipline, believing you deserve to have what you want, and what procrastination really is (you’re not lazy). Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Links & Resources National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 988 Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741 741 Domestic Violence Helpline: 1-800-799-7233 VictimConnect, a referral helpline for victims of crime: 1-855-484-2846 For veterans, Make The Connection America's Top New Year's Resolutions for 2023Atomic HabitsHow Long Does it Actually Take to Form a New Habit? (Backed by Science) Written and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Intro music by Elliot Middleton Merchandise: www.failedutopia.com/shop

The Theranos saga continues. Updates on Elizabeth Holmes' sentencing and Sunny Balwani's trial and verdict. Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Links & Resources Theranos Full Explainer: https://failedutopia.com/theranos/ Holmes Trial & Verdict Updates: YouTube https://youtu.be/P9xR6jn84kU Audio only https://failedutopia.com/theranos-update/ Written and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Intro music by Elliot Middleton Merchandise: www.failedutopia.com/shop

Colonialism and utopianism, as Thomas More coined the term, have been linked since the early sixteenth century when European explorers began taking stock of newly accessible lands that would later become colonies. Colonists had the expectation of achieving a much better life by settling in "new" lands, while producing a dystopia for the original inhabitants. Optimistic colonists didn’t always find what they expected, but for centuries they continued to emigrate and settle, driven by utopian projections of what their new lives would be like. Today we talk about one of the first colonies in the New World and how it all went wrong. Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Links & Resources Roanoke ColonyThe Roanoke ColoniesThe Roanoke ColoniesHave We Found the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island?Archaeologists May Have Finally Solved the Mystery of the Disappearance of Roanoke’s Lost ColonyRoanoke’s ‘Lost Colony’ Was Never Lost, New Book Says Written and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Intro music by Elliot Middleton Merchandise: www.failedutopia.com/shop

Let’s talk about an environmental catastrophe that turned a tourism and wildlife paradise into a toxic wasteland. This is something that we’re starting to see happening all over the world and that’s only going to become more of a problem in the future thanks to climate change. Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Ghost towns and toxic fumes: How an idyllic California lake became a disasterHow California’s Salton Sea went from vacation destination to toxic nightmareAs the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces an ‘Environmental Nuclear Bomb’Lake Urmia, Iran’s Tarnished Gem Written and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Intro music by Elliot Middleton Merchandise: www.failedutopia.com/shop

The Church of Love: Chonda-Za, Love Angels, lonely hearts, and a whole lot of questionable love letters. Plus, self-delusion and seeing things for what they are. Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Links & Resources National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 988 Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741 741 Domestic Violence Helpline: 1-800-799-7233 VictimConnect, a referral helpline for victims of crime: 1-855-484-2846 For veterans, Make The Connection Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving BrainHidden Brain: Lonely HeartsChurch Of Love Drama: Sex, Money, Angels And Broken DreamsKnights of Chonda-ZaChurch of Love operators plead innocent to fraud‘Church of Love’ wasn’t quite angelicSuccessful love angel: ‘Pure and wholesome’ Written and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Intro music by Elliot Middleton Merchandise: www.failedutopia.com/shop

In Part 2, hopefully we’re gonna have a little more fun talking not about techno-utopia, but actual physical utopian communes based around the love of crypto. Cryptoland, Cryptopia, Satoshi Island, Bitcoin Beach, Bitcoin City, and actually, the entire country of El Salvador. Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Links & Resources Tragic Cryptoland trailerCryptoland websiteWhen Your Island Paradise Goes Bankrupt...Thailand’s Crypto Utopia — ‘90% of a cult, without all the weird stuff’Satoshi Island websiteBitcoin paradise? Briton creates ‘crypto utopia’ in South PacificSix months in, El Salvador’s bitcoin gamble is crumbling Written and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Intro music by Elliot Middleton Merchandise: www.failedutopia.com/shop

Cryptocurrency is one of the most buzzy techno-utopian ideas out there. Is it really a disruptive technology of the future? Or a bunch of esoteric, elitist, crypto-bro BS? Even a scam? Let's talk about what crypto is and what it's good for... or not. Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Links & Resources Computer Scientists Say Crypto Industry Is Misleading the Public About Blockchain TechnologyWhy This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should “Die in a Fire”The Ramps Killing Bitcoin's Dissident ThesisLuxury cars seized from 23-year-old 'Crypto King' as investors try to recoup millionsTerra Co-Founder Do Kwon Faces Arrest Warrant in South KoreaNearly All NFTs Created With OpenSea’s Free Minting Tool Are Fake, Plagiarized, or SpamMan who threw away £150m in bitcoin hopes AI and robot dogs will get it backLost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin FortunesWritten and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Intro music by Elliot Middleton Merchandise: www.failedutopia.com/shop

The Farm was once the largest hippie commune in U.S. history, and it still exists today albeit in a somewhat different form. Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Links & Resources https://thefarmcommunity.comhttps://www.thefarm.orgWhat life is like when you’re born on a communeStephen Gaskin obituary“40 Years on the Farm” documentaryWritten and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Intro music by Elliot Middleton Merchandise: www.failedutopia.com/shop

A spiritual Indian utopia that’s over 50 years old, but still very much a work in progress. Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in AurovilleBulldozing a dream? Auroville’s importance as an experiment in alternative livingBulldozers, violence and politics crack an Indian dream of utopiaWritten and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Intro music by Elliot Middleton Merchandise: www.failedutopia.com/shop

On this episode, the fascinating story of Biosphere 2, the largest closed ecological system ever created… or, how eight people went nuts and almost starved in a vivarium for humans. Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Links & Resources https://biosphere2.orgBiosphere 2: What Really Happened?Spaceship Earth Written and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Intro music by Elliot Middleton Merchandise: www.failedutopia.com/shop

The Helicon Home Colony was the brainchild of the renowned author and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair. It lasted less than 6 months and went down in a literal blaze. "We stood in the snow and watched our beautiful utopia flame and roar, until it crashed in and died away to a dull glow." Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Links & Resources The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Autobiography of Upton SinclairUtopia, New Jersey: Travels in the Nearest EdenRadical Innocent: Upton Sinclair Written and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Intro music by Elliot Middleton Merchandise: www.failedutopia.com/shop

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/P9xR6jn84kU Updates on the verdict in the trial of former Theranos founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, including charges, sentencing, appeal, Ramesh Sunny Balwani's upcoming trial on the same charges, and more. Full Theranos explainer episode: https://failedutopia.com/theranos/ Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Links & Resources National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741 741 Domestic Violence Helpline: 1-800-799-7233 VictimConnect, a referral helpline for victims of crime: 1-855-484-2846 For veterans, Make The Connection Written and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Intro music by Elliot Middleton Merchandise: www.failedutopia.com/shop

In this replay from 2020, find out about the secretive alternative community that only gets talked about once a year. Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Links & Resources National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741 741 Domestic Violence Helpline: 1-800-799-7233 VictimConnect, a referral helpline for victims of crime: 1-855-484-2846 For veterans, Make The Connection Written and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Merchandise: www.failedutopia.com/shop

Picture a chain of tropical islands with white sand beaches, turquoise blue waters, breathtaking sunsets, palm trees swaying in a tropical breeze, and a culturally rich population of native people fishing the bountiful waters of their homeland as they have for generations. Sounds pretty ideal, right? Maybe even the closest we’ve ever gotten to an actual utopia. But there are a couple of problems. Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Links & Resources National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741 741 Domestic Violence Helpline: 1-800-799-7233 VictimConnect, a referral helpline for victims of crime: 1-855-484-2846 For veterans, Make The Connection Bikini atoll “evacuation” propaganda filmCastle Bravo detonation footageCTBTO’s Castle Bravo writeupA piece from ABC News AustraliaWritten and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Intro music by Elliot Middleton Merchandise: www.failedutopia.com/shop

Today, Elizabeth Holmes testifies in her own defense in a trial for criminal charges stemming from the collapse of the company she infamously founded, Theranos. The startup claiming to revolutionize the medical industry, and at one point valued at $9 billion, went down in a blaze of allegations of fraud as one of the worst disasters in Silicon Valley history. What went wrong? Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Links & Resources National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741 741 Domestic Violence Helpline: 1-800-799-7233 VictimConnect, a referral helpline for victims of crime: 1-855-484-2846 For veterans, Make The Connection U.S. v. Elizabeth Holmes, et al.Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charged With Massive FraudWritten and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Intro music by Elliot Middleton

VIDEO VERSION on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZYtpBV2EfUU This is my results update on my etheric surgery with Mother God in the 5th dimension and the 5D full disclosure team, also known as psychic surgery from a cult leader who’s been deceased for several months. Previous Love Has Won & 5D Full Disclosure episodes: https://failedutopia.com/love-has-won/ https://failedutopia.com/love-has-won-updates-5d-full-disclosure/ Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Links & Resources National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741 741 Domestic Violence Helpline: 1-800-799-7233 VictimConnect, a referral helpline for victims of crime: 1-855-484-2846 For veterans, Make The Connection Rising Above Love Has Won Written and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Intro music by Elliot Middleton

This is an update about Love Has Won, now known as 5D Full Disclosure. I have a bunch of new information for you guys, and there have been some developments in this case. Today I’ll be updating you on the criminal cases related to the discovery of Amy Carlson’s body, some things that aired recently in a special on Dateline NBC, what the group is up to now, and my personal experience getting etheric surgery by Mother God from the fifth dimension. Yes, I got psychic surgery from a deceased cult leader. If you haven’t listened to my first episode about Love Has Won, you’re going to want to go and listen to that first because you need the background information. That was episode 18 of Failed Utopia, which aired on May 25th. Link: Failed Utopia Episode 18: Love Has Won. Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Links & Resources National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741 741 Domestic Violence Helpline: 1-800-799-7233 VictimConnect, a referral helpline for victims of crime: 1-855-484-2846 For veterans, Make The Connection Failed Utopia Episode 18: Love Has WonMissing woman: Jenifer DriverRising Above Love Has Won support websiteWritten and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Intro music by Elliot Middleton

Vampire lore has fascinated humans for centuries, starting as far back as the Greeks. From Nosferatu and Dracula to Interview with the Vampire and Twilight, everybody loves a good vampire story. But way before team Edward and team Jacob, a much less attractive teen was taking the vampire thing way too far. Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Links & Resources National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741 741 Domestic Violence Helpline: 1-800-799-7233 VictimConnect, a referral helpline for victims of crime: 1-855-484-2846 For veterans, Make The Connection ‘Vampire Killer’ keeps his life sentenceSondra Gibson Isn't Welcome2006 Interview With Heather WendorfWritten and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Intro music by Elliot Middleton

This is the continuation of the previous Earth: Climate Crisis episode. Renewable energy, pros and cons of nuclear, geoengineering, why carbon emissions will rise for the foreseeable future, climate vs. economics, and more. Connect on Facebook or at the Failed Utopia website. Links & Resources National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741 741 Domestic Violence Helpline: 1-800-799-7233 VictimConnect, a referral helpline for victims of crime: 1-855-484-2846 For veterans, Make The Connection These carbon-capturing robotic seaweed farms are like planting forests in the oceanScientists created the world's whitest paint. It could eliminate the need for air conditioning.Germany opens world's first plant for clean jet fuelBreaking Down the Climate Provisions in the “Hard” and “Soft” Infrastructure BillsFossil Fuels Kill Nearly 9 Million Annually, More Than Twice Previous Estimate, Study FindsIndian Point Is Shutting Down. That Means More Fossil Fuel.Why Carbon Capture Hasn’t Saved Us From Climate Change YetThe Rate of Global Warming During Next 25 Years Could Be Double What it Was in the Previous 50Written and produced by Anna Roberts Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez Intro music by Elliot Middleton