Something that I speculated about back in February was the possibility that using vaccination campaigns as cover for black ops, and other NGO-led manipulation of local public health authority, undermines trust and thus makes populations more susceptible to biowarfare.
Meanwhile, the largely petty-bourgeois "antivax" campaign in the US, which is directed by bourgeois capitalists, is creating a perfect environment to incubate infectious diseases. businessinsider.com/bernard-lisa-s…
This effectively weaponizes the vacation habits of the American petite-bourgeois for use against the global proletariat.
The US and UK have long held an interest in biological weapons, dating back to June of 1763 when they deliberately distributed smallpox-contaminated items from Fort Pitt, a strategy that was later enthusiastically recommended by British commanders. history.com/news/colonists… 
Following WWII, the US gave IJA's Unit 731, which carried out a litany of grotesque experiments on Chinese victims, a waiver from war crimes trials and hired them for its own biowarfare program. nytimes.com/1995/03/18/opi…
That NYT editorial makes Unit 731's recruitment sound like a postscript, though, as if the US hired them and didn't permit them to carry out new research. In reality, the US Army's JUPITR program in Korea carries on their legacy:
When Unit 731 was brought over, Fort Detrick was the hub for US biowarfare research. One of its senior researchers was William C. "Bill" Patrick III, profiled in this 1998 NYT piece by Pentagon propagandist Judith Miller: nytimes.com/1998/11/03/sci…
(this also brings up an interesting rabbit hole because Miller received a hoax anthrax letter in 2001, while the actual anthrax letters were suspected to have been sent by a Fort Detrick microbiologist, who 'committed suicide' and was never autopsied: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Ivi… )
Ft. Detrick was of course *the* hub for paperclipped Nazi biowarfare researchers like Erich Traub, who started his career at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research: doi.org/10.1084/jem.64…
And there are plenty of suspicious deaths of Ft. Detrick researchers like Frank Olson, who was part of the CIA's drug experiment program:
Patrick of course was not one of those deaths. He died in 2010 after a long career working for the Pentagon in the private sector to scare up demand for "research." nytimes.com/2010/10/11/sci…
How convenient that Nixon's "cancellation" of biowarfare research resulted in its immediate outsourcing to the private sector, which, coincidentally, was founded and directed by ex-military officers.
Nixon's statement had plenty of loopholes in it - but perhaps the biggest one is that the dividing line between 'defensive' and 'offensive' research is not very clear. web.archive.org/web/2009020505…
"Neither our association with the Convention nor the limiting of our program to research will leave us vulnerable to surprise by an enemy [...]. Our intelligence community will continue to watch carefully the nature and extent of the biological programs of others." -Nixon
News of US biowar tests is routinely dismissed as merely "defensive" even when they're conducted on civilian populations in Korea and China.
While the JUPITR testing was ongoing, new, highly-contagious tick-borne diseases appeared in China. Recently, tick populations have exploded in provinces near Camp Humphreys in RoK:
This parallels the way that Lyme disease (and many others!) suddenly appeared near the Plum Island Animal Disease Center: nytimes.com/2004/02/15/nyr…
(while searching, I also came across this interesting tweet with a dead link from a now-defunct Twitter account for Walter Reed Medical Center)
and of course there's a book out which covers most of this, but stops short of a solid conclusion, making it easy for the reviewer to simply dismiss its findings. outsideonline.com/2395909/bitten…
Going back to this for a second, I've got a bit of a tangent on medical research startups. Private funding is incredibly opaque, so naturally the CIA has one well-known fund (In-Q-Tel) and plenty of ties to less known funds.
There's plenty of interesting stuff to be found in the bones of Silicon Valley's medically-focused attempts, like this $80 million startup that developed a bone-conductive not-an-implant device and got killed by a Medicaid ruling. web.archive.org/web/2015040803…
patents.google.com/patent/US97815…
patents.google.com/patent/US97815…
But that's peanuts next to the whopping $700 million raised by Theranos. The amount of State and DoD associated names that appeared in its investor list suggests there may have been clandestine interest in the company. marketwatch.com/story/the-inve…
The company didn't actually go through bankruptcy proceedings, which would have required court filings: instead it dissolved itself last September, selling most of its assets to SoftBank owned Fortress Investments. usatoday.com/story/money/bu…
Where this ties back in is that they supposedly made a "Zika-detecting" machine. techcrunch.com/2016/08/05/unp…
The Zika outbreak was interesting in the sense that it occurred in close proximity to a current target of US imperialism: Venezuela. theconversation.com/as-venezuelas-…
The WHO timeline on Zika also makes for interesting reading. The virus was mostly seen as a mild irritant in Africa and Asia, and wasn't considered a serious threat until several epidemics in the Pacific. who.int/bulletin/onlin…
The US, of course, has conducted all sorts of chemical and biological tests in the Pacific, so this wouldn't exactly be out of character.
nautilus.org/apsnet/us-chem…
nautilus.org/apsnet/us-chem…
Doubling back to Plum Island and the less than glowing reviews for Bitten:
Michael Collins wrote a book about Plum Island in 2004 called Lab 257.
There's a PDF available here: empirestatelymediseaseassociation.org/BOOKS/1FREE-bo…
On Borellia Burgdorferi, the bacterium behind Lyme disease, and the use of ticks as a weaponized disease vector (ignoring, ofc, the casual way Carroll tries to establish equivalence between the Soviets and the Nazis)
An aside: Burgdorfer, who studied under Rudolf Geigy, Swiss heir to the Geigy pharmaceutical fortune, came to the US in 1949, where he was given a job at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories. irp.nih.gov/blog/post/2015…
Geigy founded the Tropical Institute in Basel during a time when the Swiss were busily laundering stolen wealth for the Nazis. vitascope.ch/joomla/index.p…
Traub's supervisor, fellow Nazi Dr. Kurt Blome en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Blome
I have a sneaking suspicion US intelligence used the Russian famine of 1921 (which the US & Nazis also used photographs from to exaggerate the impact of the 1932 famine) as the basis for this 1957 study.
I may continue with some more excerpts from Lab 257 book as I read it. In the meantime, here's a coincidence I couldn't help but notice. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
faculty.uml.edu/xwang/16.541/2…
faculty.uml.edu/xwang/16.541/2…
Some of USAID's other 'greatest hits': the failed attempt at color revolution using a Twitter knockoff
I have reasons to be suspicious of Madsen, particularly due to his Naval Intelligence and NSA history as well as pushing the right-wing wag-the-dog zionist canard, but this timeline of CIA/USAID operations seems useful intrepidreport.com/archives/12659
I have no doubt that the destruction of the Soviet Union served as the perfect conditions for these ghouls to run covert tests of biological weapons, with the ability to use cities, regions or even entire rump states as test and control cases
You can see one instance of this in the way that Estonia has "reinvented" itself as a libertarian utopia. Imperial social experimentation run amok
btw Stanley Ann Dunham's ties to the Ford Foundation and USAID aren't exaggerations, the foundation named after her openly brags about it on their website web.archive.org/web/2019060403…
but of course Americans are conditioned to think from an early age that nonprofits and charitable foundations are Good Things. Thank you, Children's Television Workshop and DARPA.
How many of us associate the phrase "made possible by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting" with brightly colored puppets I wonder
as long as I'm this far off the thread's track:
Charity has served the bourgeoisie for hundreds of years. This was readily apparent in 19th c. England but is no less obvious today once you look past the press releases of the 'great' foundations.
marxists.org/archive/marx/w…
marxists.org/archive/marx/w…
Going back to biowarfare, eastern equine encephalitis is one of the viruses known to have been studied as part of the US biological weapons program. Are they doing field tests?
Asian longhorned ticks were first spotted on a sheep in Hunterdon County, NJ in 2017, about 150 miles from the Plum Island Animal Disease Center. arstechnica.com/science/2019/0… nj.gov/agriculture/ne…
Despite the promises of the reliability of Oxitec's process, the wild mosquito populations in Brazil bounced back after 18 months and now seem to be *more* resilient... newatlas.com/science/geneti…
Responses to the previous paper studying the Oxitec mosquitos: the introduced genes didn't appear in the offspring, just genetic material from the Cuban and Mexican mosquito strains used in the crossbreeding. sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/s…
The mention of the Cuban strains is interesting in light of the way Cuba nearly eradicated Aedes aegypti following the 1981 dengue outbreak, as mentioned in this review of sterile-insect vector control methods: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Two papers in 86 and 87 by Cuban researchers Bravo, Guzmán and Kouri studied the effects of the outbreak. iris.paho.org/xmlui/bitstrea…
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Covert Action Information Bulletin no. 17 (1982) ran an article by Bill Schaap, "US Biological Warfare: The 1981 Cuban Dengue Epidemic." archive.org/stream/Issue27…
CAIB followed up on this in no. 22 (1984) with trial testimony from Eduardo Perez indicating that germ agents were smuggled into Cuba in 1980, just prior to the dengue outbreak. web.archive.org/web/2017012321…
Usual fare from BI that portrays Dugway as focused on "defensive" testing, mentions the alien woo, and of course the anthrax "oopsies" that were blamed on incompetent management...
SF Chronicle front page, 1977: "With at least the tacit backing of [CIA] officials, operatives linked to anti-Castro terrorists introduced African swine fever virus into Cuba in 1971." h/t TundeWilliamsDC
The recent media furor over "China stealing our genomic data" is clearly designed to obscure the way the US fascist state and its corporations are mining genomes, including feeding Ancestry DNA results into FBI databases.
But that one line - "they're developing bio weapons that only affect Caucasians" - that's typical fascist projection, because both the US and the Nazis put years of research toward developing such discriminatory weapons, starting with the weaponized use of smallpox in the US.
Genetic resistance to HIV-1, for instance, was publicly confirmed back in 1996, and subsequent haplotype analysis showed that the CCR5 mutation was not widely found outside of Europe. aidsinfo.nih.gov/news/310/scien… ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
The Soviets asserted in 1987 that AIDS was a bioweapon developed at Fort Detrick. In response, the US State Dept pressured Gorbachev to force them to retract the claim.
Source tweet, to skip a few levels of quote tweets:
US intelligence certainly loves its organized crime... wouldn't rule them out just yet. scmp.com/news/china/soc…
DARPA's PREEMPT ("PREventing EMerging Pathogenic Threats") program "seeks to identify opportunities for intervention that exploit the evolutionary bottlenecks and transmission factors that enable pathogen species jump" web.archive.org/web/2020010702… h/t 🔒
But if you can "exploit the evolutionary bottlenecks and transmission factors that enable pathogen species jump" to prevent disease, you can almost certainly exploit them to amplify disease. This is the sleight-of-hand that lets the US continue to study bioweapons.
Some of the companies with PREEMPT contracts: Autonomous Theraputics, Center for Comparative Medicine/One Health Institute at UC Davis, Institut Pasteur, Montana State University, and the Pirbright Institute. web.archive.org/web/2019050717…
The same Pirbright Institute holds a European patent on an attenuated, modified strain of the coronavirus for use in vaccines, and coincidentally modeled the effects of a large scale epidemic shortly before the Wuhan outbreak. patents.google.com/patent/EP31723…
This means that as China develops a vaccine to halt the spread of the coronavirus, European imperialists will likely be lining up behind Pirbright to get their cut of the royalties.
TheScientist also reported on the "moratorium on gain-of-function research funding" in 2014, which purportedly banned such studies of hybridized viruses. the-scientist.com/the-nutshell/m…
However, if you read the statement, TheScientist failed to mention this footnote: "An exception […] may be obtained if the […] research is urgently necessary to protect the public health or national security." Standard DoD exception. phe.gov/s3/dualuse/Doc…
Then, as far as suspicious timing goes, on October 19, two weeks before the first known case appeared in Wuhan, a team of US military athletes stopped by for the Military World Games. xinhuanet.com/english/2019-1…
Meanwhile, DNA analysis suggests the first common ancestor of 2019-nCoV appeared as early as October 1. sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/w…
The more I've paid attention to the US government, the more I've come to the conclusion that the presence of a "smoking gun" is suspicious in and of itself. Despite evidence to the contrary, the US media narrative remains fixated on the seafood market:
