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Reflections on “Epidemic Prevention” and “Vaccine Development”

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ July 29, 2020 ⋅ Post a comment

In past programs, we have briefly noted that military and [ostensibly] civilian programs officially involved with “epidemic prevention” might conceal clandestine biological warfare applications designed to create epidemics. The official distinction between “offensive” and “defensive” biological warfare research is academic. Noteworthy in that general context is the observation by Jonathan King (professor of molecular biology at MIT), that Pentagon research into the application of genetic engineering to biological warfare could be masked as vaccine research, which sounds “defensive.” In FTR #1130, we noted the role of four-star general Gustave Perna in Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed,” instituted by General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Whether the program serves as cover for military research seems a reasonable question to ask, under the circumstances. One should note that the official title of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese biological warfare unit was “the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army.”

Historical Amnesia

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ July 15, 2020 ⋅ 2 comments

In a previous post, we noted the “pro-Democracy” elements in Hong Kong having adapted the salute of the Ukrainian fascist OUN/B (and their UPA combatant wing) “Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the Heroes!” to their political lexicon. This followed the decampment of elements of the Ukrainian Nazi Azov Battalion and Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) to Hong Kong. Their Eastern sojourn was underwritten by an EU NGO. Azov’s Hong Kong compatriots have adopted the OUN/B slogan, now the official salute of the Ukrainian police and military. ” . . . . The interest has been mutual, with Hong Kong’s ‘democrats’ drawing inspiration from Ukraine’s pro-Western Euromaidan ‘revolution’ that has empowered far-right, fascistic forces. Hong Kong protesters have embraced the slogan ‘Glory to Hong Kong’, adapted from ‘Slava Ukrayini’ or ‘Glory to Ukraine’, a slogan invented by Ukrainian fascists and used by Nazi collaborators during WWII that was re-popularized by the Euromaidan movement. . . . ” The Hong Kong iteration of the OUN/UPA salute has become an anthem. In its coverage of the banning of that song by the Chinese authorities, “The New York Times” [predictably] fails to discuss the heritage of the slogan/song, nor the nature of the Ukrainian Nazi “troubadours” who brought it to Hong Kong.

Failure in Afghanistan

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ July 5, 2020 ⋅ One comment

A relatively rare piece of quality, incisive analysis from the Mainstream Media, Craig Whitlock’s “At War With The Truth” presents an honest, albeit attenuated, analysis of the failure of the war in Afghanistan. In addition, this paper presents the background to, and foundation of, the latest iteration of the Russia-gate psy-op: “Bountygate.” A thoughtful piece by Scott Ritter in “Consortium News” parses the deep politics of “Bountygate” and the reality of Russian policy vis a vis the Taliban and Central Asia.

Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare, Part 4: Physicians [Financially] Healing Themselves

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ June 25, 2020 ⋅ Post a comment

“Bitten, The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons” chronicles the career of Willy Burgdorfer, a Swiss-born expert on tick and flea-borne diseases who spent most of his career researching those areas as a U.S. biological warfare scientist. Author Kris
Newby presents substantive evidence that the disease stems from BW research done by Burgdorfer and associates. Listeners and readers are emphatically encouraged to purchase and read her book. In this post, we present discussion of Ms. Newby’s expose of the institutionally and financially incestuous relationship between bureaucratic and corporate entities that both regulate, and profit from, Lyme Disease. Key “experts” involved with diagnosing and treating the affliction run interference for the status quo. The “experts” and their agenda were neatly, and alarmingly, summed up by Ms. Newby: ” . . . . The emails revealed a disturbing picture of a nonofficial group of government employees and guidelines authors that had been setting the national Lyme disease research agenda without public oversight or transparency. . . . Part of the group’s stated mission, culled from these FOIA emails, was to run a covert ‘disinformation war’ and a ‘sociopolitical offensive’ to discredit Lyme patients, physicians, and journalists who questioned the group’s research and motives. In the FOIA-obtained emails, Lyme patients and their treating physicians were called ‘loonies’ and ‘quacks’ by Lyme guidelines authors and NIH employees. . . .”

Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare, Part 3: The “Swiss Agent”

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ June 24, 2020 ⋅ Post a comment

“Bitten, The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons” chronicles the career of Willy Burgdorfer, a Swiss-born expert on tick and flea-borne diseases who spent most of his career researching those areas as a U.S. biological warfare scientist. Author Kris
Newby presents substantive evidence that the disease stems from BW research done by Burgdorfer and associates. Listeners and readers are emphatically encouraged to purchase and read her book. In this post, we highlight information about what Willy termed “the Swiss Agent”–a rickettsia that was present in the vast majority of Lyme sufferers tested early in research into the disease. The disappearance of the Swiss Agent USA from the literature on Lyme Disease corresponded with an important conversation that Willy had: ” . . . . It was in the beginning of 1980—two years before the first Lyme spirochetes were found—that the Swiss Agent USA disappeared. This about-face coincided with a series of discussions Willy had with old bioweapons developers on the Rickettsial Commission of the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, as recorded in his personal phone log. These scientists were most certainly familiar with the secret history of incapacitating rickettsial and viral agent testing, and they may have discussed with Willy the possibility of there having been an undisclosed field test in the Long Island region. . . .”

Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare, Part 2

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ June 23, 2020 ⋅ Post a comment

“Bitten, The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons” chronicles the career of Willy Burgdorfer, a Swiss-born expert on tick and flea-borne diseases who spent most of his career researching those areas as a U.S. biological warfare scientist. Author Kris
Newby presents substantive evidence that the disease stems from BW research done by Burgdorfer and associates. Listeners and readers are emphatically encouraged to purchase and read her book. A key foundational element for the discussion of “Bitten” is the Pentagon’s decades-long research into the genetic manipulation of microbial pathogens. Nobel Prize winner Joshua Lederberg warned of the consequences for humanity of this work: ” . . . .‘The large-scale deployment of infectious agents is a potential threat against the whole species: mutant forms of viruses could well develop that would spread over the earth’s population for a new Black Death,’ said Lederberg in a Washington Post editorial on September 24, 1966. . . .” Dr. Lederberg’s warning went unheeded: ” . . . . Fort Detrick’s director of biological research, Dr. J.R. Goodlow, on February 16, 1962 . . . added, ‘Studies of bacterial genetics are also in progress with the aim of transferring genetic determinants from one type of organism to another.‘The goal of these experiments was to make biological agents more virulent and resistant to antibiotics. . . .” Lyme Disease “discoverer” Willy Burgdorfer focused on genetic manipulation: ” . . . . He was also simultaneously mixing bacteria and viruses inside ticks, leveraging the virus’s innate ability to manipulate bacterial genes in order to reproduce, and thus accelerating the rate of mutations and desirable new bacterial traits. In 1966, Fort Detrick’s Biological Subcommittee Munitions Advisory Group put this emerging research area at the top of its priorities, describing it as ‘Research in microbial genetics concerned with aspects of transformation, transduction, and recombination.’ . .”

Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ June 18, 2020 ⋅ Post a comment

“Bitten, The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons” chronicles the career of Willy Burgdorfer, a Swiss-born expert on tick and flea-borne diseases who spent most of his career researching those areas as a U.S. biological warfare scientist. Author Kris
Newby presents substantive evidence that the disease stems from BW research done by Burgdorfer and associates. Listeners and readers are emphatically encouraged to purchase and read her book. Interviewed by an indie filmmaker named Tim Grey, Willy Burgdorfer discussed the development of Lyme Disease as a biological warfare weapon. It was Burgdorfer who “discovered” the spirochete that caused Lyme Disease in 1982. As we will see later, it appears that more than one organism is involved with Lyme Disease. ” . . . . Finally, after three hours and fourteen minutes, Grey asked him the one question, the only question, he really cared about: ‘was the pathogen that you found in the tick that Allen Steere [the Lyme outbreak investigator] gave you the same pathogen or similar, or a generational mutation, of the one you published in the paper . . . the paper from 1952?’ In response, Willy crossed his arms defensively, took a deep breath, and stared into the camera for forty-three seconds—an eternity. Then he looked away, down and to the right; he appeared to be working through an internal debate. The left side of his mouth briefly curled up, as if he is thinking, ‘Oh, well.’ Then anger flashes across his face. ‘Yah,’ he said, more in German than English. . . . It was a stunning admission from one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lyme disease. . . . He seemed to be saying that Lyme wasn’t a naturally occurring germ. . . .”

Azov International

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ June 12, 2020 ⋅ 6 comments

In numerous programs, we have noted international networking between the Ukrainian Nazi Azov Battalion and elements around the world: Azov is part of the “Intermarium Revival” that is seen as using Nazification of the Ukraine “pivot point” as a springboard for a global Nazi takeover. American Nazis and white supremacists are among the elements networking with Azov and then “bringing it all back home” to their native lands. Azov Battalion and Pravy Sektor (“Right Sector”) elements have decamped to Hong Kong, networking with the so-called “Pro-Democracy” forces and working on behalf of EU NGOs. The Ukrainian Nazi influence has taken hold in Hong Kong: ” . . . . The interest has been mutual, with Hong Kong’s ‘democrats’ drawing inspiration from Ukraine’s pro-Western Euromaidan ‘revolution’ that has empowered far-right, fascistic forces. Hong Kong protesters have embraced the slogan ‘Glory to Hong Kong’, adapted from ‘Slava Ukrayini’ or ‘Glory to Ukraine’, a slogan invented by Ukrainian fascists and used by Nazi collaborators during WWII that was re-popularized by the Euromaidan movement. . . . ” Azov appears to have influence in Brazil, as well, allegedly having recruited fighters from that country: ” . . . . The country’s simmering neo-Nazi movement, with its secret world of swastikas, hate propaganda and street violence, was being recruited by rightwing extremists in Ukraine to fight against pro-Russian rebels in the European country’s civil war. Ukraine’s Misanthropic Division, an extreme right group aligned with the Azov Battalion, an ultranationalist paramilitary group aligned with Kiev, was behind the recruitment drive, Mr Jardim, Brazil’s foremost neo-Nazi hunter, alleged. . . .”

The Deep Politics of Lyme Disease

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ June 11, 2020 ⋅ One comment

“Bitten, The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons” chronicles the career of Willy Burgdorfer, a Swiss-born expert on tick and flea-borne diseases who spent most of his career researching those areas as a U.S. biological warfare scientist. Author Kris
Newby presents substantive evidence that the disease stems from BW research done by Burgdorfer and associates. (Burgdorfer was the scientist who “discovered” the organism that causes Lyme Disease.) Burgdorfer’s entree into the American biological warfare program resulted from his professional relationship with long time mentor and patron Rudolf Geigy. Geigy belonged to a family whose business, J.R. Geigy AG, was a Swiss chemical firm marketing dyes and insecticides. ” . . . . During the war, it [Geigy] produced insecticides and, most notably, the iconic ‘polar red’ dye that colored the background of Nazi swastika flags. . . .” The possibility that Geigy was an operative of the far-flung I.G. Farben espionage apparatus is one to be seriously contemplated. His role in placing young scientists in organizations that were part of the U.S. BW program also suggests a possible role as an agent of Paperclip. ” . . . . ‘The Swiss are above suspicion,’ said Geigy, who later in his life wrote a thinly fictionalized novella, ‘Siri, Top Secret’, that describes the spy activities he observed during his travels. It’s not known if Geigy participated in these activities, but he did help place young researchers in institutions that supported the U.S. bioweapons programs. . . .” In 2001, a Swiss commission found deep complicity on the part of Geigy and its cartel partners: ” . . . .The ICE [Independent Commission of Experts] concluded that the chemical firms’ bosses in Switzerland ‘possessed a high level of detailed knowledge about the political and economic situation in Nazi Germany... [and] incorporated their knowledge... into their economic planning and used it as a basis for decision-making’ . . . ‘Geigy maintained particularly good relations with Claus Ungewitter, the Reich commissioner for chemicals.’ . . .“All three Swiss firms [Geigy, Sandoz and Ciba] were indicted in the United States in 1942 because of their collaboration with I.G. Farben and the Third Reich. ” . . . . Those indicted included . . . . Farben affiliates the American Ciba, Sandoz and Geigy. . . A long list of other co-conspirators included the Swiss Ciba, Sandoz and Geigy companies with Cincinnati Chemical works, their jointly owned American concern . . . .”

The Corporatist Virus

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ June 9, 2020 ⋅ Post a comment

The Covid-19 pandemic is driving what might be termed a right-wing ideological wet dream in a number of different respects. In this post, we note that the damage done by the virus is seen as furthering a corporatist agenda, masquerading under the common rhetorical camouflage of “libertarian” philosophy. An important piece in “The Guardian” details how plutocrats terming themselves “anarcho-capitalists” see the pandemic as forcing regions–from nations to municipalities–to conform to the demands of dominant, mobile blocks of capital by eliminating the essentials of the progressive social agenda. ” . . . .Their analysis divided the US map into ‘laggard anti-growth’ states and ‘momentum pro-growth’ states. The former have minimum wages, pro-union laws and state income tax; the latter are free of such regulations. In the established mode of disaster capitalism, Laffer and Moore’s analysis appears to see the pandemic as a way to compel ‘anti-growth’ states to adopt ever lower tax rates in order to attract mobile capital and labour. It suggests those who resist will not be bailed out by redistribution from the central government, but left to languish in a deserved economic depression. The effect is reminiscent of social Darwinism, applied as a philosophy of government. . . .”

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