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November 28, 2021 - February 18, 2022
“The biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq. A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction is a reason to remove Saddam Hussein.”48 In 2003, during the run-up to the war, CIA Director George Tenet assured President Bush that Saddam had a secret arsenal of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs): “Don’t worry, it’s a slam dunk.”
Following his pardon and subsequent prison release by President Donald Trump, Libby joined Robert Kadlec’s Blue Ribbon Panel for Biodefense (BRPB), which promotes: biosecurity as the fulcrum of US foreign policy, the twenty-first century as the age of US empire, and mass vaccination as a foreign policy tool. Libby’s fellow BRPB director, William Karesh, is the executive vice president of Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, the organization through which Dr. Fauci, Kadlec, and the Pentagon— through DARPA—were laundering gain-of-function payments to Chinese scientists in Wuhan. Libby also serves
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During the run-up to the Iraq war, President Bush aimed to inoculate the US population with smallpox vaccines. Skeptics charged that the reckless scheme was PNAC’s transparent gimmick for hyping fear of Saddam Hussein’s mythological bioweapons program.
The smallpox vaccine was known to be highly reactogenic. . . . When the vaccine was given to healthcare workers and first responders in 2003, episodes of heart failure, heart attacks, myocarditis, and death quickly mounted. Doctors and nurses learned that they could not sue for damages if injured, and at first there was no federal compensation either. They began refusing to be vaccinated.52
(The court observed that “Absent an informed consent or presidential waiver, the United States cannot demand that members of the armed forces also serve as guinea pigs for experimental drugs.”
Robert Kadlec was first among the large coterie of pharmaceutical companies and military contractors to benefit from the anthrax scare. Immediately after the anthrax letters arrived, Kadlec became a special adviser on biological warfare to then-secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld and his PNAC deputy, Paul Wolfowitz.
Kadlec did not succeed in finding bentonite in any of the anthrax samples that the FBI tested. But repeated media reports claiming otherwise allowed warmongers to drum up jingoistic hysteria against Saddam. By late October 2001, one nationwide poll found that 74 percent of respondents wanted the United States to take military action against Baghdad, despite a complete lack of evidence connecting Iraq to either 9/11 or the anthrax attacks.58
In 2008, following Ivins’s untimely “suicide,” Department of Justice civil attorneys in Florida, defending a claim by the widow of anthrax victim Robert Stevens, publicly challenged the FBI’s assertions that Ivins had been the culprit and instead pointedly “suggested that a private laboratory in Ohio” managed by Battelle and linked to the El-Hibris “could have been involved in the attacks.”61 DOJ headquarters quickly had its Florida attorneys rewrite their brief, omitting this claim.
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA),
With Kadlec’s guidance, BARDA would become a federal ATM machine for Big Pharma, biodefense contractors, and gain-of-function researchers. Along with Dr. Fauci’s NIAID and the Pentagon’s DARPA, BARDA would be the other big-league funder for experiments to create pandemic superbugs in Wuhan and elsewhere.
The Department of Defense had strict systems in place to ensure compliance with the Biological Weapons Convention. Those restrictions limited the Pentagon’s freedom to undertake new research programs, particularly those referred to as “the leading edge of biodefense.” Cheney’s response, recalls Professor Richard Ebright, “was to transfer this research from the Department of Defense to the National Institutes of Health, specifically to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). By about 2004, this transfer was complete, and NIAID had been transformed into an arm of the
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Dr. Fauci had created two new sub-agencies to capture his share of the cheese: the NIAID Strategic Plan for Biodefense Research and the NIAID Biodefense Research Agenda for CDC Category A agents, which were those microorganisms designated by CDC to be potential pandemic pathogens.
Taking the El-Hibris’ vaccine prophylactically, Dr. Fauci advised, might help.72, 73 Dr. Fauci’s signature fearmongering was, of course, his trademark science-free speculation.
The military’s medical corps, maneuvering for its share of the overflowing stream of bioterrorism funding, had proposed that each American soldier should receive seventy-five new vaccines upon enlistment, to cover every potential bioweapon.
Dr. Fauci’s pivot to conflate infectious disease with terrorism proved a milestone inflection point in the militarization of pandemic response and in overcoming the traditional revulsion among Western democracies—codified in the Nuremberg Charter—against coercive medical interventions.
The CIA officially made its open debut in the biosecurity racket in 2004, with its launch of Argus, a project that monitors biological, terrorist, and pandemic threats in 178 nations.
Dr. Michael Callahan is one of the biggest names in bioweapons research. Dr. Callahan ran a biosecurity program for the former CIA surrogate USAID before serving as Director of DARPA’s bioweapons research program. At DARPA, he competed to outdo NIH in laundering money through Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance to perform bioweapons research, including at the Wuhan lab.
USAID’s PREDICT program boasts that it has identified almost a thousand new viruses, including a new strain of Ebola, and trained some 5,000 people.
He concluded the hearing with a chilling warning about the nation’s new commitment to Janus-faced gain-of-function science that Drs. Fauci, Robert Kadlec, Callahan himself, and many others would proceed to blithely ignore:
the dark science of biological weapon design and manufacture parallels that of the health sciences and the cross mixed disciplines of modern technology. Potential advances in biological weapon lethality will in part be the byproduct of peaceful scientific progress. So, until the time when there are no more terrorists, the US Government and the American people will depend on the scientific leaders of their field to identify any potential dark side aspect to every achievement.89
After 2001, Rumsfeld’s Pentagon agreed to hike BioPort’s compensation by 30 percent—from $3.35 in its 1998 contract to $4.70 per dose—and to purchase anthrax shots for 2.4 million members of the armed forces, each of whom the military would require to receive six doses over an eighteen-month period.94 That was $60 million worth of poorly performing and unapproved vaccines for a threat that never again surfaced. The anthrax threat was always phantasmagoric; since anthrax does not spread through human-to-human transmission, terrorists plotting an anthrax epidemic would need to somehow
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By 2011, the El-Hibris’ connections had put Emergent in the driver’s seat. Despite its vaccine’s glaring and dangerous deficiencies, Emergent received $107 million in 2010 from Kadlec’s baby, BARDA,99 and up to $29 million from Fauci’s NIAID to develop NuThrax (its old anthrax vaccine with a new adjuvant) for large-scale manufacture in 2014.100
Despite NuThrax’s failure to win FDA approval, almost half of the Strategic National Stockpile’s half-billion-dollar annual budget prior to 2020 went to Emergent’s two anthrax vaccines—a cost that, according to the New York Times, “left the government with less money to buy supplies needed in a pandemic.”
The stockpile was already overflowing with smallpox vaccines in 2018. The CDC reported on its website in June 2019—and continues to say—that the stockpile already had sufficient smallpox vaccine for every American.
After the FDA authorized Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in February 2021, Kadlec pressured the pharmaceutical giant to sign a $480 million contract with the El-Hibris to perform the manufacturing of J&J’s COVID-19 jabs. Forbes headlined: “Little-Known Publicly Traded Company Given Massive Deal to Manufacture One-Shot Covid-19 Vaccine.”
In turn, Kadlec supported Dr. Fauci’s pet project, Moderna, the mRNA jab caper that Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates considered their Holy Grail. In mid-April 2020, Kadlec arranged for BARDA to provide Moderna up to $483 million to accelerate the Fauci/Gates vaccine’s development and manufacturing.
Kadlec was also generous to Bill Gates, arranging a $1.6 billion grant—the largest to date—from Operation Warp Speed to Gates’s biotech selection, Novavax.
In October 2020, Emergent became one of four companies collaborating on a clinical trial for a combination treatment regimen that included Dr. Fauci’s drug remdesivir as a “background therapy.”
Bill Gates owned a large stake in remdesivir’s manufacturer, Gilead.124 WHO’s own studies showed clearly—as even WHO acknowledged—that remdesivir was useless against COVID.
Worse, the drug’s extreme toxicity—remdesivir’s side effects mimic the late-stage symptoms of COVID126, 127—may actually aggravate the severity of the illness.
At the same time, Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates were financing and promoting studies to discredit chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine and sabotage ivermectin—two effective COVID remedies that posed an existential threat to remdesivir and the entire Fauci/Gates COVID vaccine enterprise.
As the top dog among the COVID-19 pandemic’s government managers, Kadlec had promoted Emergent as the United States’ primary vaccine manufacturing facility. In April 2021, the Times published another extensive exposé reporting that Emergent had not yet been able to produce a single acceptable dose of any COVID-19 vaccine.
HHS ordered Emergent to discard millions of contaminated doses. Instead, in March 2021, the company shipped millions of doses of its defective vaccines to Canada, Europe, South Africa, and Mexico.
Both the 1999 HHS smallpox simulation and the June 2001 Dark Winter smallpox simulation focused, ominously, not on public health, but on the quandary of how to impose control over US and global populations during public health emergencies, how to sweep away civil rights and impose mass obedience to military and medical technocrats.
Characteristically, the assembled eminences bypassed any discussion of bolstering people’s immune system response or testing and distributing off-label therapeutics and went directly to recommending militarized strategies including police state controls, mass propaganda and censorship, and the suspension of civil rights and due process rulemaking in favor of diktats by health authorities, all aimed at coercive vaccination of the population. These scenarios, which health officials and spooks conceived of and gamed back in 2005, became our collective reality in 2020 and 2021.
Each of these Kafkaesque exercises became uncanny predictors of a dystopian age that pandemic planners dubbed the “New Normal.”
Each rehearsal ends with the same grim punchline: the global pandemic is an excuse to justify the imposition of tyranny and coerced vaccination.
After 9/11, the rising biosecurity cartel adopted simulations as signaling mechanisms for choreographing lockstep response among corporate, political, and military technocrats charged with managing global exigencies.
In those 1960s exercises, Yale social psychology professor Dr. Stanley Milgram was able to show that researchers could formulaically manipulate “ordinary citizens” from all walks of life to violate their own conscience and commit atrocities, so long as an authority figure (a doctor in a white lab coat) ordered them to do so.
Milgram describes his experiments as proof that “obedience to authority” trumps morality and conscience:
Stark authority was pitted against the subjects’ strongest moral imperatives against hurting others, and, with the subjects’ ears ringing with the screams of the victims, authority won more often than not. The extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any lengths on the command of an authority constitutes the chief finding of the study.152
In an equally important revelation, the CIA mind-control experiments identified social isolation as the primary protocol for controlling societal and individual behavior: “In 1960, one of the agency’s most active contractors, Lawrence Hinkle of Cornell, confirmed the significance of [social isolation] . . . for the CIA mind-control effort . . . in light of the neurological literature, the most promising of all known techniques.”155
The CIA’s research found that “the effect of isolation on the brain function [on an individual] is much like that which occurs if he is beaten, starved, or deprived of sleep.”156
Meta-analysis co-authored by Julianne Holt-Lunstad, PhD, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brigham Young University, [found that] lack of social connection heightens health risks as much as smoking 15 cigarettes a day or having alcohol use disorder. [Holt-Lunstad] also found that social isolation is twice as harmful to physical and mental health as obesity. . . . “There is robust evidence that social isolation significantly increases risk for premature mortality, and the magnitude of the risk exceeds that of many leading health indicators.”157
That conduct included the forced isolation and quarantine of entire populations, including the healthy; censoring free speech; violating privacy with track and trace surveillance systems; trampling property rights and religious freedoms; and obliterating traditional economies via nationwide business lockdowns, enforced masking, coercive medical interventions, and other assaults on human rights, civil rights, constitutions, and democracies.
Scenario planning, in other words, is a potent brainwashing technique for creating and fortifying anti-democratic orthodoxies among key political leaders, the press, and the technocracy, and preparing the nation to tolerate a coup d’état against its Constitution without resistance.
Just as the Cold War, and later on, the “War on Terror,” had rationalized US military presence across the world as a bulwark against brushfire nationalist rebellions purportedly orchestrated by a communist monolith, vaccination programs could justify interventions in developing countries with high disease burdens as a tool for social and political control.
Peter Schwartz authored a scenario report funded by the Rockefeller Foundation titled “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development.”
Schwartz’s chilling document goes on to predict that citizens terrified by germs and orchestrated propaganda willingly relinquish their civil and constitutional rights. The population, Schwartz predicts, will not start rebelling against the new tyranny and authoritarian clampdowns for more than ten years.
Schwartz began probing McCarthy’s interest in being recruited for a contract with an unnamed West African country that involved “weakening tribal and family structures on behalf of a federal government.”
