@pathogenetics@Ayjchan@TheLancet@emilyakopp "in 1975 Charles Calisher, on a visit to Cuba took an interest in & obtained information on, the existence of antibodies to dengue in the Cuban population & the non-existence in the population, in at least 45 years, of antibodies for type 2 dengue virus" cuba.cu/gobierno/docum…
"As documented in Seymour Hersh’s “Chemical & Biological Warfare: America's Hidden Arsenal,” the U.S. has been experimenting with dengue lever since at least 1959, primarily at Fort Detrick & Walter Reed Army Institute"
@pathogenetics@Ayjchan@TheLancet@emilyakopp Well, of course the US Government would wish to deny any such allegations and would use academics to do so, but it must be said that the US like the Soviets, had "form":
Chemical and Biological Weapons: Possession and Programs Past and Present
@pathogenetics@Ayjchan@TheLancet@emilyakopp To continue, Ray Zilinskas (RIP) was one of the greatest experts in his field (biowarfare) and the full extent of his involvement with the US defence establishment can only be guessed at
@pathogenetics@Ayjchan@TheLancet@emilyakopp However, that analysis failed to take into account US Intelligence (FBI) anti-soviet disinformation campaigns on chemical weapons "Operation Shocker", revealed by Cassidy, and bioweapons disinformation via double-agent Dmitri Polyakov
@pathogenetics@Ayjchan@TheLancet@emilyakopp Polyakov was arrested by the KGB in 1986, six years after his retirement from the GRU. Later, it became clear that he was betrayed by both Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames. In 1988, Polyakov was sentenced to death for treason, and subsequently executed.
1. The US ran a 25 year disinformation campaign to convince the Soviets that it was developing chemical & biological weapons in contravention of the BWC Treaty.
More disturbingly in light of the above disinformation campaign, it is also clear that the US continued, and continues, to contravene the spirit of the BCW Treaty, by engaging in chemical and biological weapons research!
"Just a week before the September 11 terrorist attacks, American news media reported that the U.S. government had conducted clandestine research on biowarfare preparedness"
@pathogenetics@Ayjchan@TheLancet@emilyakopp Here we are doing activities that, if we found out they were being done in Iraq or Iran or North Korea, we would probably immediately bomb the hell out of them."
"It makes it look like we're trying to get away with something,
"The Bush administration wiped out years of work on the BWC protocol by being the only signatory nation to reject the draft, on the grounds that surprise inspections could threaten national security or reveal drug companies' commercial secrets"
@pathogenetics@Ayjchan@TheLancet@emilyakopp Of course, the US continues to claim its innocence, while running disinformation programs and secret projects. The US attempts to consign its deeply disturbing BW research to the autoclave of history.
Research programs at The National Biodefense Analysis & Countermeasures Center (NBACC) run by Battelle have generated controversy. Specifically, complaints that it possibly violateS tenets of the Biological & Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC)
"in 2005 the US CDC, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology & Mount Sinai School of Medicine synthesized the Spanish influenza virus responsible for the deaths of 50-100 million people"
Develop new pathogens, new ways of packaging & disseminating them, harden them to environmental degradation & be prepared to go offensive at the drop of a hat if we so desire"
"We can do whatever we want, but you can't. We want to see your biodefense program, but you can't see ours"
@pathogenetics@Ayjchan@TheLancet@emilyakopp If you are curious, take time to read this report by Milton Leitenberg, which details the many ways in which the US, especially the CIA, has violated the BWC over the past decades up to now:
Biological Weapons & “Bioterrorism” in the 21st Century
@pathogenetics@Ayjchan@TheLancet@emilyakopp Back to Ray Zilinskas who was concerned about the "Legacy of the Soviet Biological Warfare Program in Russia Today" and Putin's perceived ambitions.
1. We can't know whether new biological techniques developed since the Soviet BW program supposedly closed in 1993, have been applied by scientists working in the 3 top-secret MOD biological institutes to create new weaponized strains of bacteria & viruses
Although that more likely refers to hypersonic weapons, etc, it could also refer to genetic weapons (according to Zilinskas)
@pathogenetics@Ayjchan@TheLancet@emilyakopp 3. There is great cause for concern that well-resourced secret Russian institutes with access to modern microbiology techniques will provide the basis for the Putin administration to establish a third-generation BW program—for two specific reasons.
@pathogenetics@Ayjchan@TheLancet@emilyakopp 4. Second, recipes generated by the second-generation BW program that specify how to develop, test, and produce biological weapons are deposited in government archives & could be adapted to develop payloads consisting of third-generation weaponized pathogens.
"it is imperative that the US and other BWC state parties try to impress upon the Putin government the need to practice transparency by opening its closed bioweapons institutes to outside access"
"The Eye of the Baboon traverses the Land of The Nile through all its breadth, and when it discovers that any man uses the writing of his fingers to cheat, it takes all nourishment from him"
There is a type of baboon that understands Egyptian writing.
Horapollo, Hieroglyphica, I.14
3. The gift of writing
The Baboon was a manifestation of Thoth, not only the god of writing and eloquent speaking,but also
the chief interpreter of obscure textual passages and mythological tales, as so vividly recorded in the “Book of Thoth.”
You have to be either blind or stupid not to recognise the Machiavellian hand of the US in orchestrating events in Ukraine. Nonetheless ANY such suggestion remains taboo in all Western media reporting
I came across that book while researching the use of intramuscular injections of camphor oil to provoke seizures in the mentally ill which seemed to have been popular in the 1930s and 1940s & earlier
Camphor-Induced Epilepsy – Remedy for Manic Psychosis