Reaping What We Have Sown: U.S. Offensive Biowarfare Industry That Will Someday ‘blowback’ Upon the American People
Report by reporter Sherwood Ross of Statements made by Francis Boyle who Drafted the US Implementing Law of the Biological Weapons Convention
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Report by reporter Sherwood Ross of Statements made by Francis Boyle who Drafted the US Implementing Law of the Biological Weapons Convention
U.S. Biowarfare Programs Have 13,000 Death Scientists Hard at Work
America’s $100-billion Germ Warfare
Industry a “Criminal Enterprise,”
Author of U.S. Biowarfare Act Says
By Sherwood Ross
The American legal authority who in 1989 drafted the law Congress enacted to comply with the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention says the U.S. today [October 11, 2015] is in flagrant violation of that Convention.
“Since Sept. 11, 2001, we have spent somewhere in the area of $100 billion” on offensive biological warfare, charges Professor Francis Boyle of the University of Illinois, Champaign.
Boyle said an estimated 13,000 “death scientists” in 400 laboratories in the U.S. and abroad, are employed making new strains of offensive killer germs that will be resistant to vaccines.
For example, Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka’s group at the University of Wisconsin has found a way to increase the toxicity of the flu virus by 200 times! Boyle says Kawaoka is “the same death scientist who resurrected the genocidal Spanish Flu virus for the Pentagon for offensive biowarfare purposes.”
As for fighting flu, the National Institutes of Health in 2006, a typical year, got only $120 million from Congress to fight flu, which kills an estimated 36,000 Americans annually. By contrast, Congress gave NIH $1.76 billion for “biodefense,” even though the anthrax outbreak in 2001 killed just five persons.
“These distorted budgetary allocations,” (spending 15 times as much for germ warfare as for fighting flu) demonstrate that the priority here is not the promotion of the public health of American citizens but rather to further develop the U.S. offensive biowarfare industry that will someday ‘blowback’ upon the American people with a catastrophic pandemic,” Boyle said.
He went on to say the Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) are “ready, willing, and able to launch biowarfare when it suits their interests…They have a super-weapons-grade anthrax that they already used against us in October, 2001.”
Boyle here was referring to the anthrax pathogens mailed to two U.S. Senators (Tom Daschle, of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy, of Vermont) and others after 9/11 that were traced back to the Government’s biowarfare lab at Fort Detrick, Md.
Boyle’s remarks came in response to written questions from Sherwood Ross, a Miami, Fla.-based columnist. Asked if the recent outbreaks of Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia could be from U.S. Government-backed facilities, Boyle replied:
“These Ebola vaccines were experimental U.S. biowarfare vaccines that were being tested out in West Africa. It was a result of testing out of the U.S. biowarfare vaccines at our lab in Kenema, Sierra Leone, that created the West African Ebola pandemic in the first place.”
Boyle warned that the Galveston National Laboratory in Texas, a high-containment research lab, has been seeking for potential biowarfare agents in the wild in other parts of the world “in order to turn them into biological weapons.”
He said, “They should shut down Galveston as an ongoing criminal enterprise along the lines of the S.S. and the Gestapo — except that Galveston is far more dangerous to humanity than Hitler’s death squads ever were.”
Boyle added, “American universities have a long history of willingly permitting their research agenda, researchers, institutes, and laboratories to be co-opted, corrupted, and perverted by the the Pentagon and the C.I.A. into death science. These include Wisconsin, North Carolina, Boston U., Harvard, M.I.T., Tulane, University of Chicago, and my own University of Illinois, as well as many others.”
(Sherwood Ross formerly reported for the Chicago Daily News and was a columnist for UPI (Magazines In Review) and Reuters (Workplace.)Share this page
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U.S. CAPITOL, CONGRESSIONAL OFFICES NOW ON LOCKDOWN AFTER SENATE STAFFER TESTS POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS
JD Heyes
3-15-20
The steady spread of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) turned much more serious for lawmakers and government officials working on Capitol Hill Thursday after a Senate staffer was diagnosed with the disease.
As anxiety levels rise around the country and uncertainty about the spread of the virus grips Wall Street, the discovery of a sick Hill staffer won’t help.
According to Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington, the positive came from a staffer in her office — the first known case of the virus in Congress, which prompted her to close her doors for at least the remainder of the week, Zero Hedge reported.
“The individual who tested positive for COVID-19 has had no known contact with the senator or other members of Congress,” a statement said. “The senator is requesting that testing be done on any other staffers who have been in contact with the individual and show symptoms.”
Another seven members of Congress have self-quarantined out of what they said was an “abundance of caution” after possible incidents of exposure. That includes six Republicans: Sens. Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham, Reps. Matt Gaetz, Doug Collins, Paul Gosar and Mark Meadows, the latter of whom is now President Trump’s chief of staff.
The caution comes from attending the annual Conservative Political Action Committee conference at National Harbor, Md., in recent days; an attendee of the conference has tested positive for the virus as well, and it’s possible that these lawmakers may have also been exposed.
Two Democrats, meanwhile, have also self-quarantined; they are Reps. Julia Brownley of California and Don Beyer of Virginia.
By mid-day Thursday, The Associated Press reported: “Congress is shutting down the US Capitol building to the public until April 1, along with all House and Senate offices over concerns of the coronavirus spreading.” (Related: Denmark locks down ENTIRE COUNTRY in response to coronavirus pandemic.)
Average age of lawmakers is 60
The news service added:
Both chambers will continue to conduct business, but without a public, in-person audience.
The Democratic-led House will vote Thursday on a novel coronavirus response package that would provide support to families affected by the pandemic, including paid sick leave, free testing and funding increases to food security programs.
There is at least some concern, however, that the effort may have been too little, too late. Before the lockdown, the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms announced the suspension of all tours of the Capitol in order to limit lawmakers’ exposure. But given that the average age of lawmakers is 60 — close to or within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines to avoid exposure — then it’s possible we could be looking at a sort of mini-pandemic in Congress.
As Zero Hedge notes, at the beginning of March some 10 percent of members of the Iranian parliament were confirmed to have been infected with the virus, and while the real power in that country is vested in the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader, the fact is that a nation’s top-level officials are obviously not immune from COVID-19.
For their part, President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are also beginning to take new precautions. After the White House said earlier this week that the president had no plans to cancel campaign events, Trump nevertheless did so on Thursday.
CNN reported that Trump canceled a number of public events following his nationally televised speech addressing the coronavirus outbreak. In a statement, White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said that the president canceled events in Colorado and Nevada at the end of this week, again “out of an abundance of caution.”
No doubt the decision was made in large part to avoid having the president of the United States — who may be healthy but is nevertheless 73 years old — stricken by a virus that could kill him.
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