Anthrax
On the back of 911 - less than two weeks later in fact - the Anthrax terrorist attack happened. Letters laced with the deadly pathogen were addressed to prominent politicians and press representatives - they stated:
This created a helluvahelluvalota fuss not surprisingly - great stuff if yer the media - which was at fever pitch - breathlessly reporting on expertsscientists talking about the potential of Al Qaeda in crop dusters - powdering New York City with anthrax - killing hundreds of thousands.
The Vice-President’s advice: Never waste a crisis. Devise em if you have to. We’ve got the media feeding em Islamophobia multiplied by unprecedentedbio-terror. bio-terror - it’It’s a no-brainer. Launch a payback invasion of Iraq while the tide is full - give 'em the good ol' foil evil spiel - whatever - meanwhile liberating the oilfields.
And so it came to pass. An invasion to dismantle Saddam Hussein’s - non-existent - bio-weapons of mass destruction program - to keep us safe - but hey - Cheney and the gravy-trainers made a killing - God willing - let freedom reign.
Julian Assange tried uncovering it - earned ‘im a life of one-everythingOne-Everything security rammed up his arse - now behind bars. A rare hero in all this - i’m thinkin it’s in his upbringing - went to primary school in Coffee Camp next door to Nimbin
Meanwhile back at the ranch, smashing the axis of evil involved soldiers vaxxed-to-the max with the latest in experimental anthrax-jabs. Now known as Gulf War illness.
Which gets me to this:
Amidst the commotion there was another - lesser known - explosion:
a silent one
in science-funding - to fight bioterrorism.
A mushrooming of BSL labs at dual-purpose bio-weapons/defense facilities - or - universities - at your expense. On the edge of science and global security - secret projects meddling with deadly bugs to predict the next moves of our devious extremist enemies - the full might of one-science riding to our rescue - so exciting - then designing, delivering drugs, surveillance tech - to protect us.
ForOne example,small example: in 2004, Bush signed Project Bioshield into law. Made a speech to mark the occasion
Bush: Project Bioshield authorizes $5.6 billion ..on vaccines to fight anthrax .. and other potential agents of bioterror for the American population.
That’s seventh heaven for vaccine-scientists at least.
Since September the 11th, we've increased .. funding for biodefense research at NIH by a factor of 30.
Mate, you little beauty.
Bush: When I sign this bill, the Food and Drug Administration will be able to permit rapid distribution of promising new drugs in the most urgent circumstances.
CoolShit, -that's soominous. So the murky emergency-use approval enacted to fast-track Covid vacs was invented by George W after Anthrax?
Bush: I want to thank the Vice President for his hard work. He was the point man in the White House on this piece of legislation .
OkCongratulations Dick - i stand corrected - Going berserk on scio-bio-shielding was a Cheney sponsored venture - that makes me feel much better.
How boutcha science right-hand-man in all this cash-cowing?
Cometh the hour - cometh the man - take a bow Anthony S. Fauci
Right in the thick of it - pleading for BioShield before Congress - a leading advocate/recipient - Fauch the Pouch - siphoned billions from the fountain spouting public dollars in the name of bioterrorism - it was the making of his NIAID kingdom. As he said at the hearings:
The accelerated development of effective countermeasures against terrorism requires a new research paradigm.
Mate, I'm finding - between the lines - with old-fashioned paradigm researchthinking admittedly - your new paradigm of accelerated development was a ticking time-bomb -........ that detonated in 2019
The events of September 11, and the subsequent anthrax attacks have changed, forever, how the biomedical community responds to emerging threats.
You betcha! The questions ringing in my ears is: was that a good thing?
We are now on a wartime footing and are compelled to modify the way we do business.
Hell! Our brave bio-warrior general. Ready ta do whatever it takes. Btw, who are you doing business with again?
The Fouch: Biotech firms are our industrial partners - they are essential to countermeasure development.
Like Pfizer & Moderna and a firm called Emergent Biosolutions - by any chance? I wonder what level of Dante's inferno Big-Pharma would have been if he'd known they existed when he wrote it. There's still karma that shit can twist - but i guessforgot - scientists don't believe in that.
Side-fact: Of the three doctors who diagnosed the first Anthrax victim, journalist Bob Stevens in Florida, Wolf and Abrams were subsequently convicted, independently, of running oxycontin scams - the third, Larry Bush, popped up as head of AZ's US trial.
But they want some assurances if they are successful that there'll be a market for their product.
Guess they got it. Never mind that antibiotics work fine on Anthrax symptoms - it was pure scio-politics - in-fact-in-the - US at the time - there was a rush on Cipro - today’s Ivermectin?Ivermectin? Guessin the experts are gettin’gettin wiser - by restrictin’restrictin its availability - in our best interests.interests To- to lessen bio-state hesitancy. But i degrees.
Pop question … who executed the Anthrax terrorist attack that ignited this funding-feeding-frenzy?
Extra points: What was their reasoning?
I didn't know - hadDan to@ searchformosahut put me onto it. The FBI website states:
Justice Department’s Counterterrorism Section, expended - hundreds of thousands of investigator work hours on this case - and conducted more than 10,000 witness interviews on six different continents.
Wow - that’s a lot isn’t it?! A seven year Robert Mueller led junket. Bet that involved shit-loads of the people’public's spondula - so - Robert - i’m curious - who’s dunnit?
- drumroll …
Yeah i’d never heard of him either.
A US biodefense scientist from Lebanon, Ohio
Working at: Fort Detrick. WIV is the modern day equivalent. It gets better - Ivins was an expert advisor to the FBI in their investigation. A very good one apparently
LA Times: At a Pentagon ceremony in 2003 (two years in), Ivins and two colleagues from USAMRIID (who i wonder?) were presented with the Decoration of Exceptional Civilian Service.
That’s hilarious. I’m sure they deserved it - the highest honour Defense can give ya. Of all the people on earth to in the war on bio-terror you’ve gone the very-one who didmailed the deed.letters. WhatEither doesyou're thatthe tellgreatest yaidiots abouton yourearth complicitness?- or - you're complicit - which is it? I'm scratching my head - can't think of third option. In
Ivins: Awards are nice - but the real satisfaction is knowing the vaccine is back on line.
The real dissatisfaction is knowing it was a known known within weeks it was a lab-leak from Fort Detrick. Each strain of Anthrax has its own unique kinda signature. The one in the American attack was made out to Fort Detrick bio-weapons lab, Frederick County, Maryland.
Yeah … now might not be the right time to talk about thatwild conspiracy theories - right when we’re about to wage wars to fight bio-terrorism. How’s it gonna look if we caused it?
Motive: Ivins was a co-inventor on two patents for quote a genetically engineered anthrax vaccine. Two more patents for additives.additives - which turned out the most lucrative
LA Times: In 2002, the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency doled out $12 million (to) Coley PharmaceuticalsPharmaceuticals for developing the additive. The company was acquired last fall by Pfizer Corp.
Bruce’s big picture? BoostShark public funding for bio-defense research via paradigm disruption - createby creating some urgency - a market - the future.future - it will make it's own weather as it spreads. His rationalization? It’s the only way to reversedivert the planet’s trajectory as it hurtles towards self-destruction. IWe, as a science community, have the ability to insert myselfourselves into that equation - to take the reins - to change the world - as one would - for the common good - it’s myour solemn duty as a scientific expert.experts.
Apart from the planet bit - which - as luck would have it - got more fucked-up and perverted - the rest actually worked out perfectly. Bio-science funded to preeminence - on everything - in global security
BruceBruce, unfortunatelypersonally, unfortunately, had sacrificial lamb written all over him - (Dazza look away) - took his own life in 2008 - an overdose of prescription medication - his wife found him lying on his bed in his clothes at home - The FBI said it was set to execute an arrest warrant but hehe'd beatbeaten em to it. TherebyConvenitently avoiding a messy public trial. He was assessed to beas a loner acting alone. Case closed.
His colleague said: They seemed to harp on he was a loner. He was not a loner. …. He had a lot of friends ..
IvinsIndeed, 20 to 30 colleague/friends showed up at his 1st & 2nd death anniversaries. lvins was around the bend though - make no mistake - but when ya enmeshed in the closed-society of the science community - hiding in plain sight.sight Had- you get away with it - no oversight. He had a not-so-secret fetish - known around the office - for secret initiations of Ivy-League sororities - that included stalking - breaking-and-entering.
He also had direct access to the exact same anthrax strain. Would it have stood up in court - it’d be line-ball i’d’ve thought.
But why was there no oversight of Mueller’s bungling investigation?call.
Bruce Ivins didn’t drop out of the sky - he was the result of a culture.
In this instance the science community - a close-knit society - unaccountable - monied-up - playing secret power shenanigans with security organizations - functioning with impunityimpunity.
I don’t know much about nothingnothin - but i know that’s a recipe for corruption.
Further up the food chain at Fort Detrick is ex-Commander David Franz - the man in charge of science culture in the lead up to the Anthrax scam. His next job was a USBush-appointed bio-weapons inspector in Iraq. With Franz's science reputation enshrined as a walking fuck-up, he then landed a leadership role at Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance. So that’s a handy CV. His vibe on Anthrax is worth a look:
I think a lot of good has come from it. From a biological or a medical aspect, we've now five people who have died, but we've put about $6 billion in our budget into defending against bioterrorism.
But where is the evidence of the good that's come from it? I’d’ve innocently thought a deliberate release from a BSL-4 lab by a popular-scientist might be a red-flag flag - for a Mad-scientist culture gone maddist - not a green-light for an unprecedented funding empowerment.
For fuck’s sake, it’s time to de-escalate, regulate risky bio-defense experiments, before you cause a catastrophic pandemic! Brackets - there were lots of scientists warning exactly that - no that's right - they were few and far between in fact - Richard Ebright, Wain-HobsonHobson, & Yves Moreau - but they got drowned out.out by the One-Health brigade - that's a shame.
WithCoz with money came the addictive rush of influence - the power - to entrench it - to censor/crush your opponent. But where has that left us?
Let’s at least - press pause - to discuss what you’re forcing uponfating us withwith. thisI get it that you think you're very clever, but instating a genetically engineered future that negates all our freedoms - thata wassurveillance-system invented initially - let's not forget - to counter the very bio-terrorism that you artificially caused.created.