After Four Years and Thirty Million Deaths
some excerpts:
The Covid Epidemic and the Trump Neocons
>The origin of Covid had been my primary contribution to the public debate and now that four years have gone by and the dust has partially settled, I think it’s worth revisiting that question and reviewing some of my arguments.
>An extremely serious example of Trump’s inability to control his own underlings came in late 2018 during a crucial summit meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Huawei was one of China’s most important corporations, a global technology champion whose CFO Meng Wanzhou was the daughter of the company’s founder and chairman and was herself one of her country’s highest-profile executives. But just eight months after taking office, Bolton ordered her arrest as she was changing planes in Canada on charges that she had violated American sanctions on Iran, an action that severely damaged our relations with China.
>Thirteen months later, an even more shocking incident unfolded in the Middle East. For many years, Gen. Qasem Soleimani had been regarded as Iran’s most important military commander and given his very widespread popular appeal, he was considered a likely candidate in his country’s 2021 presidential election. But in early 2020 American officials lured him to Baghdad for Middle East peace negotiations with our representatives and then persuaded Trump to order his assassination when he arrived there on January 2nd. That heinous killing brought our two nations to the very brink of war as the outraged Iranians bombarded our Middle Eastern bases with a dozen or more ballistic missiles in retaliation. Although Iran provided sufficient advance warning that no American lives were lost, more than one hundred of our servicemen were injured.
>The public, peacetime assassination of so high-ranking a foreign leader was an almost unprecedented act during the last three centuries of world politics, while our disingenuous mainstream media carefully avoided suggesting the obvious Israeli dimension to the crime.
The Covid Outbreak as a Biowarfare Attack?
>Soon afterward, I discovered that many of the Covid theories promoted by these right-wing, anti-China activists apparently had their roots in American government propaganda efforts. As early as January 9th, before even a single Covid death had been officially reported, our CIA-associated Radio Free Asia outlet had begun running stories that Covid might be a Chinese bioweapon that had leaked from the Wuhan lab, and a couple of weeks later the right-wing Washington Times picked up on the same story, quoting unnamed U.S. government officials who seemed to lend it credence.
>America and China had spent the previous several years locked in bitter international confrontation and then a sudden, mysterious virus had appeared in the latter country, potentially wrecking its society and economy. That hardly constituted any sort of proof, but it certainly raised my reasonable suspicions:
>>The writer also noted that shortly before the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, that city had hosted 300 visiting American military officers, who came to participate in the 2019 Military World Games, an absolutely remarkable coincidence of timing.
>However, all that changed in early April as the disastrous failure of our own public health authorities to control the burgeoning epidemic prompted a series of angry leaks from within our intelligence service.
>>It therefore appears that elements of the Defense Intelligence Agency were aware of the deadly viral outbreak in Wuhan more than a month before any officials in the Chinese government itself. Unless our intelligence agencies have pioneered the technology of precognition, I think this may have happened for the same reason that arsonists have the earliest knowledge of future fires.
Covid Biowarfare Accusations by Iran and Russia
>My controversial analysis attracted enormous immediate interest, probably generating more traffic than anything I’d published in years. But within days, our website was banned by Facebook and all our pages deranked by Google, with the blows from those twin Internet gatekeepers severely reducing the distribution of our information. For nearly six years, we had published ultra-controversial content on a very wide range of extremely sensitive topics and encountered no problems whatsoever, but my carefully-reasoned discussion of Covid origins immediately provoked a harsh clampdown. Restricting the easy distribution of important information can severely skew an informed public debate.
>Many observers have agreed with me regarding the extremely suspicious nature of the very early Iranian outbreak and in a lengthy 2021 article I discussed those facts in far greater detail as well as some surprising discoveries I had recently made:
>>The circumstantial evidence suggesting that America (or its Israeli partner) had deployed Covid against Iran’s leadership class in Qom seemed so strong, I found it puzzling that the Iranians themselves had apparently not drawn those same conclusions and publicly denounced what had occurred. They might not have had any proof, but such a biowarfare attack would been an unprecedented violation of important international conventions, and surely such plausible allegations would have generated worldwide headlines and elicited a considerable amount of sympathy. But then a few months ago, I was very much surprised to discover that the Iranians had actually done exactly that.
>In 2022 Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defense forces, held a public briefing in which he suggested that the American government had been responsible for the global Covid epidemic. A couple of days later, Twitter suspended the official account of the Russian Foreign Ministry for distributing that information.
>For example, in that same long 2021 article I’d noted that in 2017 Trump brought in Robert Kadlec, who since the 1990s had been one of America’s leading biowarfare advocates. The following year a mysterious 2018 viral epidemic hit China’s poultry industry and another mysterious viral epidemic devastated China’s pork industry in 2019. Furthermore:
>>From the earliest days of the administration, leading Trump officials had regarded China as America’s most formidable geopolitical adversary, and orchestrated a policy of confrontation. Then from January to August 2019, Kadlec’s department ran the “Crimson Contagion” simulation exercise, involving the hypothetical outbreak of a dangerous respiratory viral disease in China, which eventually spreads into the United States, with the participants focusing on the necessary measures to control it in this country. As one of America’s foremost biowarfare experts, Kadlec had emphasized the unique effectiveness of bioweapons as far back as the late 1990s and we must commend him for his considerable prescience in having organized a major viral epidemic exercise in 2019 that was so remarkably similar to what actually began in the real world just a few months later.
The Hidden History of American Biowarfare
>Moreover, contrary to everything I’d always been led to believe, there seemed overwhelming evidence that America had illegally deployed our biological weapons during the Korean War against both the Chinese and North Korean forces, just as the latter had loudly accused us of doing at the time. Other biological weapons aimed at damaging food supplies had been used against East Germany, Cuba, and possibly other countries during the long Cold War era, while we had also developed similar weapons aimed at the Soviet Union. Our own country had apparently sometimes suffered damaging blowback from the development or use of those bioweapons, incidents that were concealed by our government and its subservient media. Given these revelations, the deployment of the Covid virus against China and Iran was hardly as novel or extraordinary an action as I had initially assumed.
>>Based upon declassified government documents and other fully mainstream sources, there was actually overwhelming evidence that the Chinese had been telling the truth during the Korean War while our own denials had been false. America had indeed used illegal biological warfare during that conflict…
>None of those authors were willing to even consider the possibility that Covid might have been an American virus and they were hardly alone. Since the beginning of the outbreak I have been surprised by the total reluctance of almost any other writers or publications, whether mainstream or alternative, to merely consider or discuss such a possibility, while never mentioning the very telling facts that I had amassed in support of my controversial hypothesis. This brought to mind what George Orwell had called “Crimestop” in his classic dystopian novel 1984, and I used that term in the title of my article.
Lab-Leak or Biowarfare Attack, and a Possible Scenario
>A later December 2022 article of mine emphasized that because of the total exclusion of that third possibility, the lab-leak scenario had become conflated with the notion of a bioengineered Covid virus, leading to fruitless exchanges in the Covid origins debate.
>Meanwhile, I had closed that same earlier article by summarizing the key pieces of evidence favoring my own biowarfare hypothesis over the competing lab-leak scenario, and then outlining my own reconstruction of events:
>>(1) For three years, China had been locked in growing conflict with America over trade and geopolitics, and for three years in a row, China had been hit very hard by mysterious viruses.
>>(2) The Covid-19 outbreak appeared at absolutely the worst time and place for China, the major transit hub of Wuhan, timed almost perfectly to reach high local levels of infection just as the travelers for the Lunar New Year holiday spread the disease to all other parts of the country
>>(3) 300 American military servicemen had just visited Wuhan as part of the World Military Games
>>(4) The characteristics of Covid-19, including high communicability and low lethality, are absolutely ideal in an anti-economy bioweapon.
>>(5) From almost the very moment that the outbreak began, anti-China bloggers in America and the US-funded Radio Free Asia network had launched a powerful international propaganda offensive against China
>>(6) By “the second week of November” our Defense Intelligence Agency had already begun preparing a secret report warning of a “cataclysmic” disease outbreak in Wuhan although according to the standard timeline at that point probably only a couple of dozen people had started experiencing any symptoms of illness in a city of 11 million.
>>(7) Almost immediately afterwards, the ruling political elites in Iran became severely infected, with many of them dying.
>>(1) Rogue elements within our large national security apparatus probably affiliated with the Deep State Neocons decided to inflict severe damage upon the huge Chinese economy using biowarfare.
>>(2) The biological agent they released was designed primarily as an anti-economy rather than an anti-personnel weapon
>>(3) As a secondary operation, they decided to target Iran’s political elites, possibly deploying a somewhat more deadly variant of the virus.
>>(4) The deadly SARS and MERS outbreaks in East Asia and the Near East had never significantly spread back to America (or Europe), so the plotters wrongly assumed that the same would be the case with Covid-19.
The Possible Role of “Cognitive Infiltration”
>Yet aside from a tiny handful of notable exceptions, virtually no one else in the world during the past four years has discussed this possibility or the powerful collection of factual evidence that supports it. And as far as I can tell, this silence has even extended across nearly the entire conspiratorial fringe of the Internet, although that sector is filled with individuals normally so eager to jump on any controversial or “exciting” theories possessing even just a shred of supporting evidence.
>Although I still remain puzzled by this bizarre situation, my long 2021 article suggested that at least some of it may be due to a successful effort by pro-government operatives to divert “conspiracy theorists” into dead-ends, just as Cass Sunstein had once notoriously suggested:
>>Many, perhaps most individuals are quite reluctant to embrace any theory not blessed by their personal figures of authority, whether these be the editors of the New York Times or the pundits of FoxNews. Only a small minority of the population is willing to cross such ideological boundaries and risk the stinging epithet of being labeled “a conspiracy theorist.”
>>Not having devoted much time to these matters, I can only say that a great deal of the agitated commentary on this subject appears outlandish and implausible. Many activists seem to assume a unified worldwide conspiracy involving China, America, Russia, Israel, Iran, and virtually every other nation, all secretly working together to pretend that Covid is dangerous and that the vaccines against it are not, even though the truth is exactly the reverse. But the notion of all these mutually-hostile countries collaborating in such a bizarre scheme seems extremely unlikely
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