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Encore for Philip Zelikow? (UPDATED ON 6/20/2021 and 6/21/2021)
In what may be shaping up to be a disturbing reprise of Philip Zelikow's role in the events surrounding the 9/11 attacks and the resulting invasion of Iraq, Zelikow is positioned to preside over a commission to "investigate" the Covid-19 pandemic, " . . . . an examination of the origins of the virus—including the contentious 'lab leak' theory. . . ." Backers of the project include the Rockefeller Foundation and a David Koch NGO (Ex-CIA chief and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is a Koch Brothers protege.) Zelikow's 9/11 Commission presided over significant oversights and omissions: " . . . . There is now evidence, much of it systematically suppressed by the 9/11 Commission, that before 9/11, CIA officers Richard Blee and Tom Wilshire inside the CIA’s Bin Laden Unit along with FBI agents such as Dina Corsi, were protecting from investigation and arrest two of the eventual alleged hijackers on 9/11, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi—much as the FBI had protected Ali Mohamed from arrest in 1993. . . ." PNAC (The Project for a New American Century) called for Rebuilding America's Defenses: " . . . . 'The process of transformation,' it reported, 'even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor.' Zelikow helped draft the 2002 document that concretized the PNAC strategic goals: " . . . . In 2002, the PNAC goals of unchallenged military dominance, plus the right to launch preemptive strikes anywhere, were embodied in the new National Security Strategy of September 2002 (known as 'NSS 2002'). (A key figure in drafting this document was Philip Zelikow, who later became the principal author of the 9/11 Commission Report.) . . . ." " . . . . In what is arguably the think tank’s most controversial document, titled 'Rebuilding America’s Defenses,' there are a few passages that openly discuss the utility of bioweapons, including the following sentences: '…combat likely will take place in new dimensions: in space, 'cyber-space,' and perhaps the world of microbes…advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.' . . ." There are indications that the anthrax attacks that occurred in the same time period as the 9/11 attacks may well have been a provocation aimed at justifying the invasion of Iraq and spurring the development off biological weapons, as advocated in the PNAC document. Ft. Detrick insider Steven Hatfill was a suspect in the attack, although he appears to have worn "operational Teflon." “. . . . Steven Hatfill was now looking to me like a suspect, or at least, as the F.B.I. would denote him eight months later, ‘a person of interest.’ When I lined up Hatfill's known movements with the postmark locations of reported biothreats, those hoax anthrax attacks appeared to trail him like a vapor cloud. But in February 2002, shortly after I advanced his candidacy to my contact at F.B.I. headquarters, I was told that Mr. Hatfill had a good alibi. . . . In December 2001, Dr. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, a noted bioweapons expert, delivered a paper contending that the perpetrator of the anthrax crimes was an American microbiologist whose training and possession of Ames-strain powder pointed to a government insider with experience in a U.S. military lab. . . .Hatfill at the time was building a mobile germ lab out of an old truck chassis, and after S.A.I.C. fired him he continued work on it using his own money. When the F.B.I. wanted to confiscate the mobile lab to test it for anthrax spores, the army resisted, moving the trailer to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where it was used to train Special Forces in preparation for the war on Iraq. The classes were taught by Steve Hatfill and Bill Patrick. . . .” Two key Democratic Senators were targeted by weapons-grade anthrax letters prior to changing their opposition to the Patriot Act: ". . . . We should not forget that the Patriot Act was only passed after lethal weapons-grade anthrax letters were mailed to two crucial Democratic Senators—Senators Daschle and Leahy—who had initially questioned the bill. After the anthrax letters, however, they withdrew their initial opposition. Someone—we still do not know who—must have planned those anthrax letters well in advance. We should not forget, either, that some government experts initially blamed those attacks on Iraq. . . ." The "Lab Leak Theory" has been promulgated by Michael R. Gordon, who was instrumental in advancing the Saddam Hussein WMD connection which helped lay the propaganda foundation for the Iraq War. Will Zelikow's investigation help prime the pump for war with China? Will this be done by pointing blame for the pandemic on what Mr. Emory has called "The Oswald Institute of Virology"? Read more »
News & Supplemental
- Encore for Philip Zelikow? (UPDATED ON 6/20/2021 and 6/21/2021) Jun 18 In what may be shaping up to be a disturbing reprise of Philip Zelikow's role in the events surrounding the 9/11 attacks and the resulting invasion of Iraq, Zelikow is positioned to preside over a commission to "investigate" the Covid-19 pandemic, " . . . . an examination of the origins of the virus—including the contentious 'lab leak' theory. . . ." Backers of the project include the Rockefeller Foundation and a David Koch NGO (Ex-CIA chief and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is a Koch Brothers protege.) Zelikow's 9/11 Commission presided over significant oversights and omissions: " . . . . There is now evidence, much of it systematically suppressed by the 9/11 Commission, that before 9/11, CIA officers Richard Blee and Tom Wilshire inside the CIA’s Bin Laden Unit along with FBI agents such as Dina Corsi, were protecting from investigation and arrest two of the eventual alleged hijackers on 9/11, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi—much as the FBI had protected Ali Mohamed from arrest in 1993. . . ." PNAC (The Project for a New American Century) called for Rebuilding America's Defenses: " . . . . 'The process of transformation,' it reported, 'even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor.' Zelikow helped draft the 2002 document that concretized the PNAC strategic goals: " . . . . In 2002, the PNAC goals of unchallenged military dominance, plus the right to launch preemptive strikes anywhere, were embodied in the new National Security Strategy of September 2002 (known as 'NSS 2002'). (A key figure in drafting this document was Philip Zelikow, who later became the principal author of the 9/11 Commission Report.) . . . ." " . . . . In what is arguably the think tank’s most controversial document, titled 'Rebuilding America’s Defenses,' there are a few passages that openly discuss the utility of bioweapons, including the following sentences: '…combat likely will take place in new dimensions: in space, 'cyber-space,' and perhaps the world of microbes…advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.' . . ." There are indications that the anthrax attacks that occurred in the same time period as the 9/11 attacks may well have been a provocation aimed at justifying the invasion of Iraq and spurring the development off biological weapons, as advocated in the PNAC document. Ft. Detrick insider Steven Hatfill was a suspect in the attack, although he appears to have worn "operational Teflon." “. . . . Steven Hatfill was now looking to me like a suspect, or at least, as the F.B.I. would denote him eight months later, ‘a person of interest.’ When I lined up Hatfill's known movements with the postmark locations of reported biothreats, those hoax anthrax attacks appeared to trail him like a vapor cloud. But in February 2002, shortly after I advanced his candidacy to my contact at F.B.I. headquarters, I was told that Mr. Hatfill had a good alibi. . . . In December 2001, Dr. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, a noted bioweapons expert, delivered a paper contending that the perpetrator of the anthrax crimes was an American microbiologist whose training and possession of Ames-strain powder pointed to a government insider with experience in a U.S. military lab. . . .Hatfill at the time was building a mobile germ lab out of an old truck chassis, and after S.A.I.C. fired him he continued work on it using his own money. When the F.B.I. wanted to confiscate the mobile lab to test it for anthrax spores, the army resisted, moving the trailer to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where it was used to train Special Forces in preparation for the war on Iraq. The classes were taught by Steve Hatfill and Bill Patrick. . . .” Two key Democratic Senators were targeted by weapons-grade anthrax letters prior to changing their opposition to the Patriot Act: ". . . . We should not forget that the Patriot Act was only passed after lethal weapons-grade anthrax letters were mailed to two crucial Democratic Senators—Senators Daschle and Leahy—who had initially questioned the bill. After the anthrax letters, however, they withdrew their initial opposition. Someone—we still do not know who—must have planned those anthrax letters well in advance. We should not forget, either, that some government experts initially blamed those attacks on Iraq. . . ." The "Lab Leak Theory" has been promulgated by Michael R. Gordon, who was instrumental in advancing the Saddam Hussein WMD connection which helped lay the propaganda foundation for the Iraq War. Will Zelikow's investigation help prime the pump for war with China? Will this be done by pointing blame for the pandemic on what Mr. Emory has called "The Oswald Institute of Virology"? Read more »
- Encore for Michael R. Gordon Jun 12 The journalistic generation of the lab-leak theory comes, in part, from Michael R. Gordon, who has a history of generating dubious journalism to support the plans of the national security establishment. Gordon: A) . . . . was the same man who, along with Judith Miller, wrote the September 8, 2002 article falsely asserting that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was seeking to build a nuclear weapon. . . The claim was a lie, funneled to the [N.Y.] Times by the office of US Vice President Dick Cheney. . . On May 26, 2004, the 'Times' published a letter from its editors entitled 'FROM THE EDITORS; The Times and Iraq,' 'acknowledging that the Times repeatedly 'fell for misinformation.' . . . The letter notes: 'But we have found a number of instances of coverage that was not as rigorous as it should have been... On Sept. 8, 2002, the lead article of the paper was headlined 'U.S. Says Hussein Intensified Quest for A-Bomb Parts.' That report concerned the aluminum tubes that the administration advertised insistently as components for the manufacture of nuclear weapons fuel. … it should have been presented more cautiously . . . ." B) " . . . . On April 20, 2014 . . . co-authored an article entitled 'Photos Link Masked Men in East Ukraine to Russia,' which claimed to identify masked men operating in eastern Ukraine in opposition to the US-backed coup regime as active-duty Russian soldiers. . . .Four days later, the 'Times'' Public Editor was again compelled to retract the claims in Gordon’s reporting, calling them 'discredited.' . . ." Read more »
- Supplement to the Oswald Institute of Virology Series ” . . . . ‘A Can of Worms’ . . . . ‘Pandora’s Box’ . . .” Jun 8 We note three points in connection with our ongoing series about "The Oswald Institute of Virology": Anthony Fauci himself set forth the "lab leak" scenario in his 2012 endorsement of a moratorium on gain-of-function manipulations, setting the intellectual stage for the "gaming" of just such a scenario. USAID's PREDICT project trained many of the scientists at the WIV. From the standpoint of covert operations, this would afford the opportunity to place one or more operatives inside that apparently targeted institution: [USAID is a State Department subsidiary that is one of the largest funders of the EcoHealth Alliance and a frequent cover for CIA activity.] Pompeo State Department officials pursuing the lab-leak hypothesis were told to cover it up lest it shed light on U.S. government funding of research at the "Oswald Institute of Virology!": " . . . . In one State Department meeting, officials seeking to demand transparency from the Chinese government say they were explicitly told by colleagues not to explore the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s gain-of-function research, because it would bring unwelcome attention to U.S. government funding of it. . . . .In an internal memo obtained by 'Vanity Fair', Thomas DiNanno, former acting assistant secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance, wrote that. . . staff from two bureaus . . . 'warned' leaders within his bureau 'not to pursue an investigation into the origin of COVID-19' because it would ‘open a can of worms’ if it continued.' . . . . As the group probed the lab-leak scenario, among other possibilities, its members were repeatedly advised not to open a 'Pandora’s box,' said four former State Department officials interviewed by 'Vanity Fair'. . . ." Read more »
- “FascisBook” Update May 20 In FTR#718, we noted the intelligence and fascist underpinnings of the genesis of Facebook, including the central role of Peter Thiel in the firm's beginning. In numerous programs since, we have chronicled the anti-democratic and fascist manifestations of Facebook, including the company's decisive role in the Cambridge Analytica gambit, in which elements of Peter Thiel's Palantir--the Alpha predator of the electronic surveillance landscape--helped to "game" the 2016 election in favor of Trump. Updating that coverage, we note that an enormous Facebook bot farm, deceptively noted as "Russian," was assembled to swing the 2020 election to Donald Trump. " . . . . According to Paul Bischoff of Comparitech, a British cybersecurity company, the network includes 13,775 unique Facebook accounts that each posted roughly 15 times per month, for an output of more than 50,000 posts a week. The accounts appear to have been used for 'political manipulation,' Bischoff says, with roughly half the posts being related to political topics and another 17 percent related to COVID-19. . . ." Facebook has also implemented a low-profile, high-dollar financial support program for major news outlets that have suffered because of Facebook's incursion into the information business. " . . . . Less well known, and potentially far more dangerous, is a secretive, multimillion-dollar-a-year payout scheme aimed at the most influential news outlets in America. Under the cover of launching a feature called Facebook News, Facebook has been funneling money to The "New York Times", "The Washington Post", "The Wall Street Journal', 'ABC News', 'Bloomberg', and other select paid partners since late 2019. . ." Read more »
- Cartels Uber Alles May 13 One of the concepts central to the analysis presented by Mr. Emory on his programs and on this website over the decades is the preeminence of cartels in international power politics--the manifestations of fascism in particular. Foster Dulles--Secretary of State under Eisenhower at the same time as his brother and fellow Sullivan & Cromwell attorney Allen Dulles was the head of the CIA--delineated his world view and those of his fellow "cartel enablers" in a letter to a contemporary: “The word ‘cartel’ has here assumed the stigma of a bogeyman which the politicians are constantly attacking. The fact of the matter is that most of these politicians are highly insular and nationalistic and because the political organization of the world has under such influence been so backward, business people who have had to cope with international problems have had to find ways for getting through and around stupid political barriers.” Read more »
- Narco-Bipartisanship May 8 In FTR#1175, we highlighted the career of William "Wild Bill" Donovan, the powerful Wall Street lawyer described in that program as "America's First 'Man in Black.'" Insight into how what Peter Dale Scott calls "The American Deep State" operates can be gleaned from one of the political derivatives of CIA-supported drug traffic in Southeast Asia. U.S. Ambassador to Thailand William "Wild Bill" Donovan worked with OSS and CIA operative Paul Helliwell to distribute the laundered profits of Agency-backed drug operations to members of Congress, with Donovan gifting Republicans and Helliwell supporting Democrats. Read more »
- Lunch with Bill May 7 In FTR#1175, we highlighted the career of William "Wild Bill" Donovan, the powerful Wall Street lawyer described in that program as "America's First 'Man in Black.'" Perspective on the fundamentals of American power structure can be gleaned by one of Donovan's escapades in the immediate aftermath of World War I, discussed in FTR#1009. A "sympathetic" Donovan met with Adolf Hitler in 1923. This must have been earlier than November 9th of 1923, the date of the Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler would have been in Landsberg Prison after that. Read more »
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“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”–Edward R. Murrow
In numerous programs and lectures, we have discussed the important, devastatingly successively mind control programs engaged in by the military and CIA. Those programs were developed in reaction to downed American airmen who–after captivity–gave testimony that they had been involved in biological warfare attacks against China and North Korea during the war.
A superb book about Unit 731–the Japanese biological warfare unit during World War II–had a chapter in the British edition that was omitted in the American edition.
(Sadly, the books are out of print, although both the British and American editions are available through used-book services. Mr. Emory heartily encourages listeners to obtain the book. Even the American edition–missing this key chapter–is worthwhile. Hopefully, a publisher will obtain the rights to the book and re-issue it. If so, we will enthusiastically promote the work.)
The chapter in the UK edition chronicles the investigation into the allegations of American BW use during the Korean War, including circumstantial evidence that Unit 731 veterans and methodology may well have been used in the alleged campaign.
That chapter is altogether objective, avoiding ideological bias toward either side in the conflict.
Because of that, we found the omission of this chapter from the U.S. edition to be significant. As the brilliant Peter Dale Scott noted: “The cover-up obviates the conspiracy.”
It is a matter of public record that Unit 731’s files were incorporated into the U.S. biological warfare program, and veterans of the Unit bequeathed their expertise to the Americans in exchange from immunity from prosecution for war crimes.
Key Points of Discussion and Analysis
- The program begins with discussion of a Telepress dispatch from Burma alleging that key veterans of Unit 731–including former commanding officer general Shiro Ishii–were dispatched to Korea with ship-borne equipment to wage biological warfare.
- Next, the program details the considerable interest on the part of the U.S. command structure in biological warfare–an interest that grew considerably as the war progressed.
- A British veteran of the Korean War discussed suspicious activity by an American military unit as Chinese troops were advancing on UN forces, following that country’s entry into the war. The soldier recounted: How the U.S. personnel were placing feathers in buildings, while wearing face masks; how he had a suspicious booster shot shortly after encountering the American troops; seeing hundreds of dead Chinese troops in a village, who did not appear to have been shot or wounded in any way.
- The authors note that Unit 731 often used BW to attack supply routes and that the introduction of Soviet-built MIGs into the war–forcing U.S. B‑29s to operate at night–may have been a motivation for the alleged BW attacks.
- The program concludes with presentation of the scientific credentials of the International Scientific Commission investigating the allegations of biological warfare. ” . . . . Dr. Andrea Andreen, director of the Central Laboratory of the Hospitals Board of the City of Stockholm; Jean Malterre, Ingenieur-Agricole, director of the Central Laboratory of Animal Physiology, National College of Agriculture, Grignon, France; Dr. Oliviero Olivo, professor of Human Anatomy in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bologna, Italy; Dr. Samuel Pessoa, professor of Parasitology at the University of Sao Paolo and formerly director of public Health for the State of Sao Paolo; Dr. Nicolai Zhukov-Verezhnikov, professor of Bacteriology at, and Vice-President of, the Soviet Academy of Medicine and formerly chief medical expert at the Khabarovsk trial, and finally, Dr. Joseph Needham, FRS, Sir William Dunn Reader in Biochemistry, Cambridge University, formerly scientific counsellor, Her Britannic Majesty’s Embassy, Chungking and later director of the Department of Natural Sciences, UNESCO, (He became in 1966, the Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and is currently writing a history of science and civilization in China.) . . . .”
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Jun 17 This program continues our series analyzing the Wuhan Institute of Virology as having been set up to take the fall for the Covid-19 pandemic, which--in... Read more »
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FTR#1188 The Oswald Institute of Virology, Part 7: Covid-19 and The American Deep State
Jun 16 This program continues our series analyzing the Wuhan Institute of Virology as having been set up to take the fall for the Covid-19 pandemic, which--in... Read more »
Jun 16 This program continues our series analyzing the Wuhan Institute of Virology as having been set up to take the fall for the Covid-19 pandemic, which--in... Read more »
FTR#1187 The Oswald Institute of Virology, Part 6: Context, Part 2
Jun 2 In this program, we present more discussion of the background and context to Pentagon and USAID funding for research into bat-borne coronaviruses through EcoHealth Alliance,... Read more »
Jun 2 In this program, we present more discussion of the background and context to Pentagon and USAID funding for research into bat-borne coronaviruses through EcoHealth Alliance,... Read more »
FTR#1186 The Oswald Institute of Virology, Part 5: Context
May 18 Continuing discussion and analysis from FTR#1185, we present discussion of the background and context to Pentagon and USAID funding for research into bat-borne coronaviruses through... Read more »
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Pterrafractyl's Nest
Heads We Win, Tails You Lose: The Fascist Philosophy Behind Private Equity’s Leveraged Buyout of Everything It's been the same headline for months now:
* April of 2020: American billionaires have gotten $280 billion richer since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic
* May of 2020: American billionaires got $434 richer during the pandemic
* August of 2020: American billionaires got $637 richer during the pandemic
* September of 2020: U.S. billionaires got $845 billion richer since the start of the pandemic/Wealth of US billionaires rises by nearly a third during pandemic
* October of 2020: US billionaires saw their net worth rise by almost $1 trillion between March and October - Jeff Bezos remains the richest, a study says.
From nearly the start of the COVID-19 pandemic it's been clear that the public health disaster wasn't a disaster for everyone, with the wealthiest individuals being not only largely insulated from the economic lockdown but in many cases well positioned to profit from it. The pandemic was turning into a giant upward transfer of wealth. And as we're going to see, giant upward transfers of wealth are essentially what the private equity industry is all about. The rise of 'supply-side' economics in the 1980s coincided with the rise of private equity and that's no coincidence. The philosophy behind the private equity movement is the philosophy of supply-side economics. An anti-New Deal philosophy, where ruthlessness is a virtue, that fueled a 40 year giant fascist leveraged buyout of society. Read more »NEWS & SUPPLEMENTAL
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