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The Sickening Legacy of Biowarfare



By Iona Miller 8/2009





Biowarfare (BW) is part of the Holy Trinity: Gold, Oil, and Drugs

– the ‘GOD’ to whom we all pledge allegiance through our consumeristic
lifestyles. We are all complicit, that is, these are humanity’s
projects as a whole that may reap the whirlwind.





“The gods have become diseases…” –Carl Jung, Secret of the Golden
Flower



“[Evil is] the exercise of political power—that is, the imposition of
one’s will upon others by overt or covert coercion…” Or in other
words, it is the use “of political power to destroy others,” for the
purpose of defending or preserving the integrity of one’s sick self
(or group).” –Scott Peck, People of the Lie



"In vast laboratories in the Ministry of Peace, and in experimental
stations, teams of experts are indefatigably at work searching for new
and deadlier gases; or for soluble poisons capable of being produced
in such quantities as to destroy the vegetation of whole continents;
or for breeds of disease germs immunized against all possible
antibodies." --George Orwell. 1984




Spore Wars

The abominable Trinity is War, Terror and Disease which combine in
Biowarfare (BW). “Hot Stuff” is the trade term given to toxic,
radiological, infectious and lethal biological and chemical agents by
those in the Bioweapons Industrial Complex. The ABCs of mass
destruction and biowarfare are Atomics, Biologicals, and Chemicals.

As an icon of biohazard, the skull reminds us all that we must die.
Lost in denial, we prefer to ignore the Warning Signs – biohazards
ahead. Decontamination needs to begin inside our skulls, within the
psyche, for only there can we find peace. Before the era of science,
people used stories about gods and heroes to explain the world,
including the mysteries of disease and death. Now, instead of merely
understanding the disease process, we can manufacture old and new
pathogens. Eris (Discordia) makes us wonder what the world would be
like without monsters and calamity.

The Nemesis of our undoing may be microscopic – an invisible peril.
The metaphor of Pandora’s Box with all its uncontainable ills includes
both biological and fear factors. This cautionary tale might be the
guiding myth of our times, a variant of the malevolent genii in the
bottle. We may be going exactly where we are heading with our vampyric
research that sucks the very life from our society. The word
biowarfare evokes an image of terrorism.

"For ere this [the opening of Pandora's jar] the tribes of men lived
on earth remote and free from ills (kakoi) and hard toil (ponoi) and
heavy sickness (nosoi) which bring the Keres (Fates) upon men; for in
misery men grow old quickly. But the woman took off the great lid of
the jar (pithos) with her hands and scattered all these and her
thought caused sorrow and mischief to men. . . countless plagues
(lugra), wander amongst men; for earth is full of evils and the sea is
full. Of themselves diseases (nosoi) come upon men continually by day
and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus
took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of
Zeus." -Hesiod, Works and Days 90 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic
C8th or C7th B.C.) :
In Egypt, even the gods became ill and sought the healing help of
other divinities. Temples prepared prescriptions for divinities and
humans and the methods of curing were identical. In most Homeric
literature it is the arrows of the gods Apollo and Artemis which bring
plague. In Latin poetry various aspects of pestilence and disease were
personified, including Morbus (Disease), Pestis and Lues (Pestilence),
Macies (Wasting, Emaciation), and Tabes (Corruption).

In Oedipus, Teiresias complains of grim Erinys’s (Vengeance) shriekes,
and blind Furor [Lyssa, fury] and Horror [Phrike, horror], and “all
the forms which spawn and lurk midst the eternal shades [i.e. in the
underworld]: Luctus [Penthos, grief], tearing her hair; Morbus [Nosos,
disease], scarce holding up her wearied head.”

Other baleful horrors include Letum [Ker, ruin] and Lues [Ker or
Nosos, pestilence], Mors [Thanatos, death], Labor [Ponos, hardship],
Tabes [Phthisis, corruption] and Dolor [Algos, distress]. The blasting
Fatae [Keres, fates], quaking terror of Morbus [Nosos, disease],
Macies [Ischnasia, wasting], and black Pestis [Ker or Nosos,
pestilence], and mad Dolor [Algos, despair] can also be guides.

The Gods of Generation and Destruction constantly war with one
another. In Gore Vidal’s 1978 novel, Kalki, the hypocritical antihero
insanely plans to end the human race using a terminal virus, a
biological agent to cleanse the planet and repopulate it with his own
seed. The last great plague “solves” the problem of excessive
humanity. In the ambiguous film, ‘V for Vendetta’ it is difficult to
say if scientists, by injecting prisoners, are trying to develop a
cure for a virus or develop a biological weapon. ’12 Monkeys’ explored
a similar theme of a deliberately released lethal virus through the
added dimension of time travel hindsight.

Bioweaponeers include scientists, doctors, intelligence, politicos,
military and businessmen led by the horrible power of fanatics and
arrogant leaders. Each frames the landscape from a particular point of
view and agenda. Drug companies, lobbies and labs are the military-
industrial nexus point. ‘Hotspots’ are the targets. Systemic risk,
plague wars, is inherent. The alchemy of disease is fraught with
collateral damage.

The turning points of civilization are marked by war and technology.
BW, with its rainbow of insidious killers, is the deadliest form of
warfare. To understand war, we have to look at its myths. Crimes
against humanity are as old as war itself. When did alchemy become
biological warfare? Biowarfare, in particular, is a dark kind of
penetration of our minds and bodies. This Voodoo biology, the cruelest
weapon of all, trickles down to all members of society.

As war begs for meaning in the midst of chaos, to fathom it we have to
fathom our own depths, facing the looming specter of socially-
engineered autogenocide. In the silent war, invisibly conceived and
executed, we are weathered away by stress, shortages of jobs and
resources, and threats to our autonomy. The powerless are targeted for
elimination from society.

Political Plague

All war is pre-emptive population control if not outright genocide.
Historically, biowarfare destroys civilizations. Homelessness, hunger
and despair accompany disease. Silent siege and silent slaughter masks
the crime of indirectly killing people. Poverty and oppression are
indirect killers in class war – in the new eugenics, reduced to a
psychopathic formula of Behavior, Outcome and Benefit.

Even if disease were a punishment of the gods, in biowarfare it
becomes a coopted weapon of mankind. Where is the god of moral
disease? Does mankind seek to become god-like in this kind of
meddling? In the history of biowarfare, this is how man unleashes
monster and monster bites back. Where is god when humans experiment on
one another, selecting the means of death? Biological warfare has its
own magical properties.

Not just a spiritual fairytale, there are psychological realities
behind the masks of gods and goddesses. A universal constant of
cultures is that gods and goddesses have inspired fear and been
associated with disease and healing, demanding sacrifices and tribute.
Uniting the opposites, they paradoxically embody both cause and relief
from disease. This convolution makes them gateways of transformation.

What happens when these latent gods do make their presence known?
Smallpox, for example, has been associated with the Indian goddess
Shitala mata, and her Chinese counterpart T'ou-Shen Niang-Niang. Those
afflicted would visit and make donations and pray for healing at the
shrine. But the gods are not perfect. Maybe in biowarfare, we worship
the devouring goddess of terror Kali, or the shape-shifting god Set or
many-faced Shiva of chaos and destruction. All weapons collapse the
opposition between moral behavior and national security.

What are we willing to give up to continue pretending that we don’t
die? Is the worship of external gods and goddesses our method of
taking power out of our own hands and minds? Is disease the way they
get back inside? Aren’t charms and potions forms of biological
warfare? Therein lies the mystery. The battlefield is within – among
pathogens and poisons, intrigue, and fear of individual and global
dissolution.

Prescribing Pestilence

Even today, there is resistance to the WHO’s vaccination program,
based on attitudes about deity. Are the killers of humanity
ecologically necessary to cull the population? Have aggressive public
health campaigns against global scourges actually harmed the ecosystem
by attacking and undermining indigenous spirituality? We may need
ancient knowledge to get through coming changes.

Social action is also a response to pain and suffering. In attempting
to alleviate it we can cause even more. Even if we speak in the
psychological “as if” reality, the gods seem to inevitably require
human sacrifice, one way or the other. But the future of our planet
requires new myths and archetypes. Will it be of a cannibalistic
social system that consumes its own in a perversion of human sacrifice
as war, famine, crime and suicide?

With their own styles of fractal logic, the gods have prescribed
treatments and dictated certain activities from insight, to irrelevant
to counterproductive remedies. Some being more feared than loved, they
inspired reverent worship and apprehension. If some gods and goddesses
are willing to remain in the background, Nemesis, Goddess of Vengeance
and Retribution is not, working out her own agenda with a variety of
lethal means.

If gods are diseases, what does it mean when one makes you his abode,
his temple? Are the gods and goddesses desperate enough to encroach
and illegally occupy us? Can this be more than superstition? Or is a
trick of overweening priestcraft?

Diabolical Sacrifice

If electro-medicine devices can kill all known pathogenic bacteria,
viruses, and fungi with resonant frequencies then vaccines and
antibiotics become largely unnecessary. Biological warfare becomes
much less fearsome, but the gods and goddesses still live on in our
psyches, even if we have fantasies of defeating disease.

What price will we pay for worshipping false deities? Will a
biological Ragnarok decide the fate of humanity? Will the dreadful
goddess Fate (the Inescapable) or Ananke (Necessity) determine our
final outcome? The ancient Greeks knew enough to fear the wrath of
these deities we now call archetypes.

Humans are sacrificed so someone gains power in life. Athena is the
goddess of wisdom and warfare, but biowarfare seems to reveal her
sociopathic streak. We must seek meaning as zealously as the warrior
Mars seeks the aphrodisiac beauty of Victory.

What does war want from us? Do societies “need” wars and scapegoats?
Are we prepared to sacrifice ourselves? Is identification or
dissociation the first step to catastrophe? What disturbed thinking
has brought us to this treacherous threshold? What spiritual
brinksmanship might save us from a fate worse than death?

War challenges us to reinvigorate the body-politic. To declare war
‘normal’ or perpetual does not eliminate its pathologies. The state
does not guarantee self-preservation. If imagination is the driving
force, the idea of an enemy (conditioned by our collective shadow,
media, education and beliefs) can be as powerful as any real one.

When the enemy is named, war is declared. The real enemy is fear,
itself. The adversary embodies that. Enmity takes many shapes,
including self-loathing and projection or scapegoating onto others.
This war gets under our skin. With biowarfare, we have concocted new
diseases from the ghosts of the dead. These invaders want fresh blood.
But perhaps we are mortally wounded before the battle has begun.

Stealth Agents

Words as our primary psychological tools are a psiops weapon.
Buzzwords can narrow the range of our thoughts, even to the point of
phobia or obsession. The rhetoric of biowarfare has impact because it
carries body into the fray, stirring fantasy and nightmare. There is a
god or psychic element in every disease. When the cure becomes the
poison, we know we are in the realm of the Trickster.

Biowarfare is a predatory Trickster, an aspect of the collective
shadow, in a culture infected with conceit and cycles of revenge. Like
the magician, Trickster re-makes the world according to his own
vision, fashioning it to his will. Dirty trickster, dirty war.

Biowarfare has insinuated itself so deep that this harrowing situation
is part of the groundstate of our lives. Bio-meddling may save or
destroy us, utterly. In selfish hands, even the Elixir of Life turns
into a poison. Can we out-trick the Trickster, drinking his elixir yet
avoiding its toxic effects?

Bionoia

All diseases aren’t physical. Gods force themselves symptomatically
into awareness. We meet our rejected and repressed sacred potential at
the center of diseases, individually and collectively. If “the gods
have become diseases,” is it because we have not listened to the
world’s psyche? Jung speaks of the desacralization of life, of our
cultural world with the rage, madness and perversity that follows. Our
symptoms of psychological illness speak volumes. Can our afflictions
make us more sensitive?

Even with a vocabulary that is predominantly biological, what happens
if we substitute ‘fantasy’ for ‘disease’? Biowarfare is a fantasy we
have painted on the global landscape to project our evil, fear,
malaise and pathology – our disgust with the human race. In some sick
way, we identify with the parasites. In this sense, we are already
infected and may be contagious.

Speech and myth share an identity that collapses contradictions. It is
a linguistic disappearing act of consciousness and conscience. The
ethical question remains: how can biowarfare be justified in any
circumstances? And yet, historically, such has been the case. It is
always mandated by if not justified by the agenda.

Every war has its stories of overt and covert germ warfare from
infected animals and blankets, to mustard gas, to germ warfare in
Korea, to Agent Orange, to modern hypermutable and hybrid agents. The
poppy, a symbol of Demeter and Hekate, has been weaponized in the drug
war. Even computers are subject to viral attack and societies are
vulnerable to memes, informational viruses with variable scales of
‘truthiness,’ misinformation and disinformation. In some sense,
politics is like an infectious disease.

Leaving No Germ Unturned

Governments have made biowarfare a political, social, economic and
military priority. We have recruited, turned and made germs defect
from their own ends to our own nefarious whims, mocking the goddesses
Hygeia and Panacea, not to mention Gaea.

Biowarfare is also a theoretical tool and economic strategy. Biology
is an arena for intimidation and the exercise of power – systematic
generation of fear. Biowarfare is a virtual war on a different level
of reality. It is a real dynamic which gives rise to truth and lies.
Like nuclear bombs, biowarfare threatens a catastrophic endgame. What
can possibly lift the curse?

Pan is the archetype of what we are not able to accept in our
unconscious, phobias and obsessions with threat. Pandemic takes its
name from the god Pan, inducer of panic even in the logical absence of
threat. The real pandemic is fear. Pan embodies our nightmares of
penetrating phallic aggression, of alien invasion of the self and
collective. Like an ether, he could envelop us all.

Psychiatric casualties can be as real as any other. A hyperarousal of
anxiety, panic attacks actively demonstrate that we are out of
balance. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a chaotic state of hyper-
reactive being. Perpetual panic suppresses the immune system,
increasing vulnerability. With PTSD there is no prospect of personal
peace.

In Chaos Theory, attractors describe the characteristic behavior of a
dynamical system changing over time. Traumatic events, especially
chronic events, act as “strange attractors” in consciousness which
keep everything in their orbit, cycling wildly, unpredictably, but
within the parameters of the attractor, reiterating the same cues over
and over.

Biowarfare casts a spell. It induces its own form of shellshock,
dissociating us from our humanistic core. PTSD is at an unprecedented
high among military personnel and veterans, many of whom report
suicidal thoughts. In PTSD, the trauma is perceived as continuously
happen-ing, so one must remain hypervigilant. It’s a defensive
posture. Is biowarfare a symptom of national hypervigiliance?

Biopolitics

The Cold War was “imaginary,” taking place between nation-states
fighting with propaganda, nuclear deterrence, military spending, and
local wars. Asymmetrical conflicts may also be ideological and include
corporate interests, or transnational crimes.

The distinction between governments, intelligence agencies, organized
crime and private companies has become murkier. Bioterrorism is
particularly well-suited to smaller groups. Biotechnology is
sophisticated but not beyond the reach of non-state actors. Biowarfare
has a chilling way of leveling power in the biopolitical playing field
but the distinction between war and peace blurs.

If the Cold War was “imaginary,” the asymmetric war is “virtual,” that
is, until it crawls under your skin with real consequences without
borders. Paradoxically, the threat may come from home or abroad. The
individual may have to surrender control over his own body before
fighting begins. The prospect of accidental holocaust and genocidal
massacre rears its ugly head. In biopolitics the fundamental divide,
the border is between those who should live and those who “should”
die.

Black Death

Biowarfare, as a narrative waiting for a script, forces us to examine
our social and biological paradigms. If states are living bodies, all
politics is biopolitics, which implies more than metaphorical meaning
for toxic memes and ideologies as degenerative diseases or malignant
developments. Cultures and subcultures are social organisms. Social
elements perturb the body politic. Outbreaks of induced disease are
biological explosions.

“For many decades millions of animals and innumerable vials of
infectious material have been shipped around the world for commercial
and biological warfare purposes. This world trade in deadly agents,
coupled with the gene-splicing technology developed in the 1970s, has
increased the dangers of new disease outbreaks. In addition, many new
viruses have been passed around between various species of animals,
and some of these viruses have been adapted to human tissue. This has
resulted in the production of new laboratory diseases that have
potential biowarfare capabilities. The biowarfare implications of all
these scientific "advances" have led some conspiracy-minded people to
suspect that the hand of man might be responsible for the outbreak of
one or more of these newly emerging diseases.” (Cantwell)
www.paranoiamagazine.com/westnile.html

Grim Alchemy

All biological knowledge is dual – medical and lethal, defensive and
strategic – fault and default. All viruses have the capacity to warp
the social fabric and dissolve national boundaries. As of August 2009,
the WHO plans to vaccinate more than half the World's population
against the threat of swine flu pandemic. Or, is it a meme in the war
for your mind, a viral pretext for military escalation? Let’s hope it
isn’t a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The body politic is infected, but the diagnosis and prognosis remain
unsure. Biology has lost its innocence to a slow-motion plague that
never ends and to multiple assaults on good air, good water and good
earth. WWIII is the silent war for your mindbody. When war directly
inhabits your body you are forced to defend yourself.

Economic collapse, mind control, pandemic, famine and drought are its
weapons. Air, water and the food-chain are easily weaponized. With or
without cryptocratic coordination these forces are in play. Virtual
tactics drive control architectures. The virtualities of scenarios
collapse into contingent realities and actualities. The modeling of
civilian populations remains deterministic, if nonlinear.

Risk Mismanagement

Global control establishments are run on the principles of chaos
theory. Biowarfare is the strange attractor of global architectronics.
Instigating turbulence is a sinister means of social control,
paradoxically, where one becomes one’s own enemy. Regulating flow
translates to institutional disturbance and policing populations.

Biological knowledge is power in the micro- and macrocosm. Control of
free information flow is the first casualty as state violence becomes
more fluid and intensifies. Brian Massumi describes programmed
catastrophe as "virtualization of state violence, its becoming
immanent to every co-ordinate of the social field, as unbounded space
of fear.” Fear is the state-space.

Programmed catastrophe, the “accidental” architecture of control is
riddled with conceptual viruses. Chaos theory demonstrates that as
systemic processes cascade into dysfunctionality we are thrown into
chaos and catastrophe. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. Fasten your
seatbelts for social turbulence.

In complex dynamics, efforts to control the human security system
perturb it, feeding the disorder itself. The switch flips from welfare
to warfare. The war machine gradually infects all aspects of the
state. Control dissolves in the vortical dynamics of population
turbulence, cascading from micro to global scales. It has been said
that the poison is in the cure. Is it also post-postmodern truism that
the crime is in the solution?

Social Modulation

“Accident,” derived from the Latin accidens, signals the
unanticipated, unexpected – the surprise failure of a system or
product. Virilio recognized that the production of substance is
simultaneously the invention of that substance’s accident. Failure
seems programmed into the product from the moment of its production or
implementation . . . breakdown or failure is less the deregulation of
production than the production of a specific failure, or even a
partial or total destruction."(Virilio 1993 211)

"It is in order to function that a social machine must not function
well."(Deleuze & Guattari 1983 151) In this mutant neo-functionalism,
megamachines function by breaking down; "Far from being a pathological
consequence, the disequilibrium is functional and fundamental." But
radical surveillance becomes paramount. In the art of war, the only
way to track your enemy is to become it. Paradoxically, to defend
against microbial mayhem, we have created gigantic Frankenstein
monsters that can eat us alive. In magic, all potions are meant to
heal, poison or bewitch, like the elixir of persuasion.

Extreme events, expected or unexpected, can cascade into consequences
where a single occurrence avalanches into a series of dynamic system
failures, including economic and financial values. If we “follow the
money,” financial catastrophe is the consequence of a realignment of
the connection between economic and financial value, with economic
value often not being destroyed. After disaster there is gradual self-
organization of remaining elements.

Tempest in a Testube

Biowarfare (BW) exploits both naturally occurring and genetically
manipulated organisms. As for all wars, controversial toxic agents
were created for the drug war: paraquat for marijuana, Fusarium fungus
for cocaine and synthetic herbicides and the fungus Pleospora
papaveracea for opium poppies. A dangerous wheat stem rust threatened
wheat fields in Iran in 2008. Is it a covert attack or coincidence?

According to Dr. Mark Wheelis, “Anti-agricultural biowarfare and
bioterrorism differ significantly from the same activities directed
against humans; for instance, there exist a variety of possibilities
for economic gain for perpetrators, and the list of possible
perpetrators includes corporations, which may have state-of-the-art
technical expertise. Furthermore, attacks are substantially easier to
do: the agents aren’t necessarily hazardous to humans; delivery
systems are readily available and unsophisticated; maximum effect may
only require a few cases; delivery from outside the target country is
possible; and an effective attack can be constructed to appear
natural. This constellation of characteristics makes biological attack
on the agricultural sector of at least some countries a very real
threat, perhaps more so than attack on the civilian population.”
nwrage.org/modules.php

There is ample evidence that Cuba has been ground zero for covert
biowarfare: In 1961, Operation Mongoose targeted cane fields and
workers. Two outbreaks of swine flu, in 1971 and 1979, mandated the
slaughter of hundreds of thousands of pigs. In 1981 hemorrhagic dengue
fever crippled a quarter million people.

"Operation Marshall Plan" called for Havana to be blanketed with a
cocktail of Venezuelan equine encephalitis and Q fever. A relentless
barrage of attacks created outbreaks of exotic and previously unknown
diseases targeting sugar, tobacco, citrus, coffee, egg, and dairy
production. In 1990-91, bananas and honey were hit with debilitating
infections. In 1996 Cubans demanded an investigation of ‘salting’ with
Thrips palma, an insect parasite. (Bionoia) The US defends itself by
accusing Cuba of biowarfare. Do we protest too much?

Clandestine use of biologicals is bioterrorism. Secrecy and
contamination are a deadly threat. Some call the prospect of mandatory
swine flu vaccination bioterrorism. BW is a multidimensional problem
crossing many legal and illegal domains – human and civil rights,
trade, disarmament, medicine, population control, etc. It is often
tied up with other covert operations, nuclear and chemical
interventions. Secret medical experiments are not new. They continue
on Q fever, Valley Fever, Tularemia (rabbit fever) and more.

Each pathogen requires its own vector or delivery system. Some can be
activated only in a field of specific electro-magnetic radiation. Many
BW drugs, such as LSD, STP and Ecstasy, escaped their military and
intelligence applications to become recreational, adding an “edge” to
the “hot stuff” nickname.

Counterculture was a meme fostered in the cultural cold war by
Tavistock Institute and the CIA through such groups as The Brotherhood
of Eternal Love (the LSD “Hippie Mafia”), trickster Tim Leary, and
Vito Paulekas & the Freaks, the dance troupe who created the 60’s LA
music scene style while CIA’s “Mighty Wurlitzer” propaganda machine
played America for all it was worth. Through psycho-management,
counterculture became a vector for cultural disruption. Even your
rebellions are programmed.

A dauntingly large number of infectious organisms and biological
toxins can be used to attack people, animals and plants. Biothreats
for humans encompass all branches of the microbial kingdom, including:
bacteria (anthrax, plague, brucellosis, tularaemia); rickettsia
(typhus, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Q Fever); viruses (smallpox,
influenza, dengue fever, various encephalitis viruses and the
haemorrhagic fever agents, Ebola, Marburg and Lassa); fungi
(coccidioidomycosis); and toxins (botulinum, Staphylococcal
enterotoxin b, shigella, ricin, aflatoxin).

In 2002, the NATO biowarfare defense handbook listed 31 human
pathogens of concern. The grim list of potential biological weapons
includes hepatitis A, B and C, influenza A, Lyme disease, dengue fever
and salmonella (contained in BioSafetyLevel-2 labs). Anthrax, West
Nile virus, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, Eastern equine
encephalitis, SARS, tuberculosis, typhus, Coxiella burnetii, Rift
Valley fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and yellow fever (BSL-3
labs). Bolivian and Argentine hemorrhagic fevers, Marburg virus, Ebola
virus, Lassa fever, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever are dealt with
in highest-containment BSL-4 labs.

Most research and development is still conducted at Fort Detrick, MD.,
Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore labs, Pine Bluff, AR. and Dugway
Proving Ground, UT. The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility
(BSL-4), which replaces Plum Island, is under construction in tornado-
prone Manhattan, Kansas. (FOIA Feasibility Study here:
www.thememoryhole.org/dhs/nba...tudy.pdf ) Hurricanes and earthquakes
and electrical loss threaten many facilities.

Double Think

Biowarfare is a tragic Medusa that paralyzes us in our tracks in the
dark snakepit of fear. To stare into her eyes is to stare into the
Abyss, or some might claim the ‘Evil Eye’ of the Illuminati. Athena
gave the revealing gift to Asclepius (the healer) of two drops of the
Gorgon's blood. One has the power to cure and even resurrect, while
the other is a deadly poison.

Medusa's blood is therefore the epitome of the 'pharmakon.' The
'pharmakos' is the scapegoat whose sacrifice establishes the dual
nature of the sacred and reinforces the separation of the monster and
the god, the deadly killer or the cure. Others say that Athena and
Asklepius divided the blood between them; he used it to save lives,
but she to destroy and instigate wars.

Such is the nature of our compartmentalized thinking about biowarfare
and vaccine preparedness. Defensive “preparedness” has only led to
spiraling cycles of mismanagement and abuse that perpetuate rather
than eliminate the lethal threat. Contaminants in vaccines include
animal diseases, microbes and heavy metals such as mercury. The scale
of the killing or incapacitation can reach global proportions. Mass
extermination might even be the endgame of some players if conspiracy
researchers are correct.

The real issue is the fact that we have competing agendas and multiple
players – bioweaponeers – and multiple agents in terms of bacteria,
viruses, fungi; multiple targets within humans, plants, and animals;
multiple environments in which that can occur. How do we mobilize
against an unexpected threat, whether it is natural or engineered?
Experts point out, we have no surge on demand manufacturing capability
even once a pathogen is identified. Multiple scenarios demand a wide
spectrum of defense postures.

Scenarios are endless: if you want to hire a group of biomercenaries
to put on an island somewhere, you can write our own scenario. Do you
want to disable or neutralize the enemy? Do you want to kill millions
or do you actually just want to sustain a pattern of psychological
operations against the adversary? Do you actually want to declare a
priori that you will strike a city every third Friday, not to kill
people, but merely show an ability to render society vulnerable and
erode confidence in government?
Sinister Research

Even without nefarious intent, epidemics on our overpopulated planet
are inevitable, a matter of not if, but when. Scientists have just
identified a genomic "signature" in circulating blood that reveals
exposure to common upper respiratory viruses, like the cold or flu,
even before symptoms appear. Genomic signature in blood identifies
underlying viral infection Access to critical care and profiling of
pathogens may determine who lives and who dies when vaccines pose
their own dangers. Diagnostic biotech sensors – so-called zebra chips
-- are being developed to fill this gap.

Faster identification saves lives when pathogens first appear imbedded
in the medical system. Similar symptomology compounds the diagnostic
problem. Identifying those infected but presymptomatic is valuable. In
terms of international public health surveillance, the ability of
natural infectious disease to spread globally becomes a national
security threat in its own right.

This “silent war” has raged on its own throughout human history,
taking advantage of our vulnerability to drugs, toxins, chemicals and
pathogens. Since ancient times, poisons, smallpox and plague were
weaponized. Sewage and rotting bodies used as ammunition in medieval
sieges were the ultimate biological weapons.

By WWII, Japan’s Unit 731 honed biological weapons (anthrax, cholera,
plague and typhoid) to an art of war. As victors, the US eagerly
grabbed their research. Nazi scientists brought BW research to the
U.S. under Project Paperclip. The U.S. and Soviet Union investigated
numerous pathogens and delivery systems, certainly spying and even
stealing from each other. Poor control in deployment makes BW of
little military use because pathogens can spread out of control. But
when nations claim to abandon biowarfare or other strategies it
usually means R&D has just gone “dark.”

Millennial “Bug”
Nearly everyone is vaccinated against polio and smallpox. The process
of doing so in the last century exposed many to carcinogenic monkey
virus, whose legacy we see today. Once again there was poison in the
cure.

“A monkey virus linked to human cancers may have contaminated the oral
polio vaccine for years after the U.S. government ordered
manufacturers to remove it. The Chronicle reported in 2001 that the
simian virus SV40 had contaminated early polio vaccine given to
millions of Americans. When health officials discovered in 1961 that
SV40 caused malignant tumors in lab animals, they ordered the virus
eliminated from all future vaccine. But internal memos from Lederle
Laboratories, the chief producer of polio vaccine in the United
States, indicate SV40 may not have been completely removed. According
to one memo, SV40 was found in three of 15 lots of the oral vaccine
seven months after the federal directive was issued in March 1961.
Lederle released the contaminated vaccine to the public anyway, the
memo shows. Scientists discovered SV40 in the Salk polio vaccine in
1960. By then as many as 30 million Americans had been given
injections of the SV40-tainted polio vaccine, which was first licensed
in 1955. In recent years more than 60 scientific studies have found
SV40 in rare human brain, bone and lung-related cancers, the same
kinds of tumors the virus caused in laboratory animals. Some
scientists believe SV40 may play a role in causing those cancers. The
Lederle documents, which were obtained by Philadelphia attorney
Stanley Kops in litigation not related to SV40, raise the possibility
the virus might have been transmitted by contaminated oral vaccine,
licensed for production in 1962.” www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi

Y2K wasn’t the real Millennial Bug of the 21st century. History may
show it comes from the singular act in 1997 of digging and retrieving
virus from Spanish Flu victims of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic frozen
in permafrost near an Eskimo village. This pandemic killed 50 million
people worldwide. Frozen cadaver tissue wad shipped to the Armed
Forces Institute of Pathology in Rockville, Maryland. The virus’s
genetic RNA material was identified and the 1918 Spanish flu was
successfully brought back to life. Scientists researching pandemic flu
strains have, since the recreation of the 1918 flu, been playing fast
and loose with flu samples.

There is ample evidence to suggest this virus was combined with
others. It escaped the lab, either deliberately or accidentally and
has created a situation that allegedly warrants global vaccination.
The genetic material has been re-engineered to synthetically create
what is now known as the A/H1N1 virus, or as the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) calls it, the “novel flu.”

The A/H1N1 influenza contains genetic material from two strains of
swine flu, two strains of human flu, and a single strain of avian flu.
Its genetic code is now in public databases, where other researchers
can download it to conduct experiments. Scientists from the University
of Wisconsin and the National Microbiology Laboratory in Canada have
already collaborated to reconstruct the virus from the publicly
available sequence. How easy would it be for a bioterrorist to exploit
the same information for malevolent ends?

Spanish flu victims were dug up and the pathogen was engineered into
bird and swine flu.
Though they can be contaminated with animal viruses or mercury used as
a preservative, in 2009, government officials say vaccine makers and
federal officials will be immune from lawsuits that result from any
new swine flu vaccine, under a document signed by Secretary of Health
and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius.


Dirty Secrets

Chemtrail protestors claim this ultimate poisonous aerosol is a
deliberate blanket attack on the populace. Immunosuppresant barium
salts, mycoplasma and pollutants are named culprits. It wouldn’t be
the first time that mass distribution was inflicted on the unwitting
public at large.

The BW problem is both domestic and transnational. Despite broad-
sweeping 1972 treaties, we have found new means to deliberately
weaponize natural and artificially engineered viruses and bacteria.
Many claim AIDS and SARS were genetically-engineered. Other abuses
range from mismanagement, to dirty vaccines, to secret use of
uninformed civilians as guinea pigs, to genetic targeting and more. In
most cases, government or military “spyentists” claim the public has
no “need to know.” It is just ‘psiops,’ as usual, full-spectrum
psychophysical control in action.

Even more horrifically, state-sponsored programs can escape or be
hijacked as bioterrorism threats. Despite treaty bans, a relentless
search for the “superbug” continues. In 1989, Vladimir Pasechnik
defected to Britain with tales of a genetically-manipulated
“superplague” and missile delivery systems. When the Soviet system
broke down, scientists put their expertise for sale in the black
market. Massive biodefense spending has not made us immune.

Weapons of Mass Infection

Classified secrets are tightly held until something escapes high-
containment labs. In the mid-70s lyme disease apparently escaped from
Plum Island, a Department of Agriculture facility near New York City
that doubles as an Army BW research facility. It is a truism that “the
poison is in the cure.” When the defense vaccines pose their own
dangers, the system itself is sick, presenting a double bind.

Who knows what demons lurk in clandestine freezers and what might yet
be created, despite the Biological Weapons Convention? Even cults have
used poisonous salmonella, ricin, and lethal sarin gas in their deadly
plots. There are accusations that emerging diseases, such as Swine and
Bird flu are genetically-engineered and that West Nile Virus was
weaponized.

The mind reels over potential technological revolutions in nano- and
genetic agents for evil or good. In May 2009, a nanosuit infused with
Reactive Surface Treatment (RST) that repels and kills anthrax spores
was announced. Designed to protect troops from BW agents, other
applications of self-cleaning fabric include antibacterial
sportswear.

Military fabrics can also be oil-resistant, self-extinguishing, or
chemical agent-reactive. www.federallabs.org/pdf/Apri...sLink.pdf
Biotech meets nanotech in smart-systems biowarfare detection devices
-- photonic and nanotronic biosensor arrays that can immediately
detect pathogens and insure public safety.

Leading biotech and biowarfare expert, George Poste is also a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations. www.physorg.com/news6242.html In
2005, the CFR hosted a conference on the global threat of pandemic
influenza, a Who’s Who of infectious diseases and global health,
including a session on what the world would look like after a
pandemic. docs.google.com/gview

Hoyle and Wickramasinghe at the University of Wales at Cardiff suggest
that flu epidemics and perhaps other illness can rain down on us from
space. They present data correlating high sunspot activity with flu
pandemics (large-scale epidemics), driven by a roughly 11-year cycle
of solar activity. [ ] Who knows what else space might have in store
for humanity but can it be any worse than the heinous measures we
inflict on ourselves? Widescale experimentation with mycoplasmas and
other agents may already have made us all ticking timebombs. [ ]

“Wet Operations”

Furthermore, being a microbiologist can be hazardous to your health.
Between Nov 12, 2001 and Mar 25, 2002, 13 renowned microbiologists
mysteriously died in less than five months. The list of those who have
died under mysterious circumstances keeps growing from LSD-patsy Frank
Olson (d. 1953) to the “suicide” of accused anthrax murderer, the
August 2008 “suicide” of Bruce E. Ivins, (Amerithrax pathogen) and the
“suicide” of British whistleblower Dr. David Kelley in July 2003.

A transnational deadly pattern emerges. By 2005, 40 world-class micro-
biologists expired in less than 4 years, all under suspicious
circumstances. All worked for a government, or government contractors,
on projects related to bio-terrorism, flu pandemics, or anthrax. Then
it was discovered that our government was involved in strange
experiments that involve exhuming bodies of people that were killed by
the 1918 Spanish flu, and genetically engineered flu viruses.

Kelly was head of biological defense at the British secretive military
research establishment of Porton Down, Wiltshire, and the brain behind
much of the West's germ warfare programs. According to Burghardt
(2009), Kelly may have been a target of Dick Cheney's “Executive
Assassination Ring.” It’s hard to say what was more damning, his
accusations that Saddam Hussein had no WMDs or his direct knowledge of
genetically-targeted bioweapons and nefarious experiments.

Kelly was linked to the Britain's intelligence services MI5 and MI6,
GCHQ, the Ministry of Defense (MoD), the Foreign Office and foreign
spy agencies - including Israel's notorious Mossad (since 1995). A
documentary, “Anthrax Wars,” is set for release in 2009. (Reid)
Kelly helped orchestrate the defection of Vladimir Pasechnik in 1989
so he had knowledge of horrifying Soviet research, as well. As chief
director of the Institute for Ultra-Pure Biological preparations in St
Petersburg, Pasechnik had developed killer germs. 'I want the West to
know of this. There must be a way to stop this madness,' he told Dr
Kelly in a safe house. (Reid)

Microbiologist Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik headed the Soviet bioweapons
program at the Biopreparat facility. He was found dead in Wiltshire,
England, near his home. In good health, he died suddenly in 2001 from
a stroke some believe was induced by a nerve agent that mimics a
stroke and leaves no traces. This began a string of mysterious deaths
and obvious murders of world-class microbiologists, including Dr.
Kelly. www.stevequayle.com/News.ale...ists.html
www.rense.com/general43/helly2.htm

On the Warpath

Biolgocial research conducted on Indian reservations is not subject to
scrutiny by the federal government because they are sovereign nations.
In the 70s, Wackenhut Corporation attempted to sell "biological
warfare viruses" and vaccine kits to the U.S. government to be used
against “small countries bordering Albania or large countries
bordering the Soviet Union.”

William C. Patrick, III developed the process by which anthrax spores
could be concentrated at the level of one trillion spores per gram.
Patrick worked with Kanatjan Alibekov, known as "Ken Alibek" since he
defected to the US in 1992. Remember, Alibek served as manager for a
CIA biological warfare program in 1998. In Russia, Alibek was the No.
2 expert in the FSU's biowarfare program, under Vladimir Pasechnik.

Ken Alibek became President of Hadron Advanced Biosystems, a
subsidiary of Alexandria, Virginia-based Hadron, Inc., specializing in
“the development of technical solutions for the intelligence
community.” It received millions in funding for medical biodefense
research in the field of non-specific immunity from the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency, the US Army Medical Research and
Materiel Command, and the NIH.

Whistleblower Dr. David Kelly’s highly-questionable ‘suicide’ happened
while exposing WMD fraud as well as a potentially bigger scandal --
his own secret dealings in germ warfare with the apartheid regime in
South Africa. He claimed there is a covert anthrax war, a global black
market in anthrax involved in mystery “suicides” of five government
germ warfare scientists from around the world. Kelly described “many
dark actors playing games” of bioterrorism.
This Germ’s for You

The trigger has already been pulled on the smoking gun of biowarfare
and we were all in the crosshairs. In the 1950s-70s, pathogenic
mycoplasma were covertly released in top-secret “mock” attacks in the
US and Canada. Dr Maurice Hilleman, chief virologist for the
pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme, stated that this disease
agent is now carried by everybody in North America and possibly most
people throughout the world. (Scott, 2001) Is this what they mean by
“better living through chemistry?”

Testing open air dispersal on the domestic front contaminated
virtually everyone and set time bombs ticking in many. The
neurodegenerative and systemic-degenerative diseases are contagious
but only manifest as active diseases if the recipient is genetically
pre-disposed, has a compromised immune system, or a triggering
trauma.

A Washington DC Microbiologist links Gulf War Syndrome (GWS) to the
anthrax story, which led to the suspicious death of “mad scientist,”
hypno-patsy Dr. Bruce Ivins. Mycoplasma contaminated anthrax vaccines
were used in the Gulf Wars, giving rise to GWS. Mycoplasmas are
normally benign but have been bioengineered into “new” diseases that
are reaching epidemic proportions.

Similar to bacteria, mycoplasma are a group of small microorganisms
without cell walls, between cells and viruses. They can invade and
burrow very deep into the cell causing chromic infections. Normal
mycoplasma infections produce relatively benign diseases limited to
particular tissue sites or organs, but GWS strains are very
pathogenic, colonize a variety of organs and tissues, and are very
difficult to treat.

Mass Exposure

According to Dr. Shyh-Ching Lo, senior researcher at The Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology and one of America’s top mycoplasma
researchers, infectious mycoplasmas are implicated in AIDS, cancer,
chronic fatigue syndrome, GWS, Crohn’s colitis, Type I diabetes,
multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Wegener’s disease and
collagen-vascular diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and
Alzheimer’s. (Scott) Lyme Disease and West Nile Virus were also
weaponized when the military explored mosquitoes as a delivery vector.
Ironically, our biodefense program has created the very threat to US
citizens it was meant to thwart.

Anthrax vaccine production continues. In February 1998, State Health
Director James Haveman said the (Lansing-based) state- owned Michigan
Biologic Products Institute would continue making the vaccine being
given to U.S. active and reserve military personnel under a recent
Pentagon directive. The mycoplasma story is associated with Michigan
State in Lansing, Michigan. Tavistock is associated with Michigan
University in Ann Arbor.

There are 400 bioweapon labs across the U.S. 113 of them refuse to
publicly disclose their research. When it comes to Germ Warfare, we
have met the enemy and unfortunately, it is us. Medical warfare also
includes non-military methods exploiting existing civilian
infrastructure to control and/or reduce target populations. As the
adage goes, “It is never the same after a war.”

Bio-Terror has Already Affected Us All

"Scientists at The Institute for Molecular Medicine have found that
slightly under one-half of the very sick Gulf War Illness patients in
a pilot study with the signs and symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
or Fibromyalgia have chronic invasive infections involving certain
uncommon mycoplasmas, such as Mycoplasma fermentans (incognitus
strain)." --Dr. Garth Nicolson

A Washington-based microbiologist, who wishes to remain cautiously
anonymous for obvious reasons, claims there are many unresolved issues
surrounding anthrax and anthrax vaccines. He links covert military
experiments to creation of toxic mycoplasmas and Gulf War Syndrome
spread through contaminated anthrax vaccine. But who would knowingly
do such a thing and why? They’ve done it before and they’ll do it
again.

Could the same forces be behind the August 2008 “apparent suicide” of
hypno-patsy, Army research scientist Dr. Bruce E. Ivins? The Fort
Detrick microbiologist worked on a biodefense vaccine for anthrax but
wound up accused as the “mad scientist” behind the Anthrax Mailings of
2001 that proved fatal for five victims. Now dead, his innocence until
proven guilty is forever moot. Is he another “suicide solution”?

Thanatopolitics: Social Power, Accelerated Social Change / Culled
Population

We can follow the backtrail to governmentally sponsored anthrax to
Gulf War Syndrome by following the “usual suspects.” When it comes to
social or biological engineering, especially eugenics, the prime
suspect is the perennial chimera of the globalist agenda, Tavistock
Institute in Britain and one of its primary U.S. outposts, Michigan
University, Ann Arbor.

Touchless Torture

Tavistock thinktank was created for healing shell shock but soon
turned into the pioneering mass brainwashing institute with a
globalist agenda. The precursor to the infamous CIA MK-ULTRA mind
control program, Tavistock’s agenda is used to topple governments and
engineer cultures. Tavistock’s spycologists are the founding fathers
of mind control.

Tavistock’s goal is to control entire populations with the use of
drugs, electronics and sophisticated mind control techniques,
including group dynamics and lockdown propaganda. Research into the
use of microwave weapons and their use for mind control began there in
the 1950s. Tavistock was behind the creation and direction of the
Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI).

The Cryptocracy, through economics and mass mind control is involved
in the transformation or "alchemical processing" of mass consciousness
by psychological mind manipulation. With the help of these foundations
and secret societies, experiments in world shaping continue multimedia
and military campaigns. The goal is to seed and control megatrends so
the masses live as controlled puppets – wage slaves -- of the ruling
elite from cradle to grave.

Their “endgame,” Thanatopolitics (autogenocide), includes radical
population reduction employing a variety of pathogens and other means.
Thus, Tavistock wrote the blueprint for germ biowarfare (BW) as well
as drug and chemical assaults (CBW). A thinktank for the global shadow
government, Tavistock plays a pivotal role in shaping political,
social, educational, and economic 'opinions', especially in the United
States. It manufactures trends, nations and wars.


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