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Anthrax Rap
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:
All all-caps. This created a helluva fuss not surprisingly - great stuff if yer the media - which was at fever pitch - breathlessly reporting on scientists talking up 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 bio-terror. 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 - whilst insisting it was all to keep us safe - but hey - Cheney and the gravy-trainers made a killing - God willing - let freedom reign.
Julian Assange’s tried uncovering it - earned ‘im a life of One-Everything security up his arse - now behind bars. A rare hero in this - i’m thinkin - it’s in his upbringing - at Gool-man-gar Primary - 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. # Bioshield
One small example: in 2004, Bush signed Project Bioshield into law - making 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 copulation - for vaccine-scientists at least.
Bush: Since September 11, we’ve increased .. funding for biodefense research at NIH by a factor of 30.
Mate, you little beauty. How bout the annoying safety regulations? It’s still a bug in the system that kills innovation…
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.
Like Covid for instance? Man that’s ominous. The murky emergency-use approval first 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.
Congratulations Dick - i stand corrected. Going berserk on scio-bio-spending was a Cheney sponsored venture - that makes me feel much better# Who dunnit?
Recap: Pop question … who executed the Anthrax terrorist attack?
I didn’t know - dan @ formosahut 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 investigation - the biggest since the Kennedy assassination. Guessing that involved a whole-lotta of public spondula - so - Robert Mueller - 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) - a 30 year veteran. It gets better:
Ivins was an expert advisor to the FBI in their investigation.
An amazing 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. I kid you not. Of all the experts bravely defending us in the war on bio-terror you’ve gone the very-one who mailed the letters.
Either you’re the greatest idiots on earth - or - you’re complicit - which is it? I can’t think of a third explanation.
Ivins: Awards are nice - but the real satisfaction is knowing the vaccine is back on line.
For mine, 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 spores in the American attack were signed: Fort Detrick bio-weapons lab - Frederick County - Maryland.
Yeah … now might not be a very good time to talk about that - right when we are 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 for additives - which turned out the most lucrative
LA Times:* In 2002, the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency doled out $12 million (to) *Coley *Pharma*ceuticals for developing the additive. The company was acquired last fall by - Pfizer Corp. (2007)
Way to size-up a situation. Ironically, Ivins later blamed his chronic blood disorder on having self-trialed too much of his own magic elixir.
Bruce’s big picture? Boost funding fa bio-defense research via paradigm disruption - inject a dose of urgency into the mix - an existential security threat - a market for that - a self-selling culture - fuck it - let’s create the future.
The rationalization? It’s the only way to divert the earth’s trajectory as it hurtles towards self-destruction due to bad human behaviour. We have the capacity to insert ourselves into that equation - to save the world - as one would - for the common good - it’s our solemn duty as scientific experts to whip this planet into shape.
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 through the roof - aloof scientific experts mobilized as total-authorities - on everything - overseeing global security on a centralized data base. To keep us safe, saying, we’re all in this together - forever - we needya to comply, to unify, or you’re all gonna die!
This is a crisis - all intelligent citizens, who haven’t yet fallen victim to the virus of misinformation, will be in agreement:
the new-normal price of Freedom - is Freedom.
# Culture
Anthrax took-off as a media-frenzy story when tabloid photographer Bob Stevens from Florida was the first confirmed person murdered by it.
Three physicians diagnosed him, miraculously actually, within 24 hours - first Anthrax case in 30 years - but they locked into it almost immediately. Of them, Wolf and Abrams were subsequently convicted, separately, of running Oxycontin drug-pushing dispensaries - while the third, Larry Bush, aka Doctor Bug, rode his Celebrity Scientist license to bullshit all the way to Covid. In 2020, he headed the AZ trial.
To quarantine the fall-out, Bruce, personally, unfortunately, had sacrificial lamb written all over him (look away Pete Daszak).
By 2008, he was fucked - in deep depression - it had all gone pear-shaped. Due to bloggers pressing for an investigation into a Fort Detrick lab-exit event, Mueller belatedly tightened the noose, on the wrong neck. Another scientist, Steven Hatfill. The FBI outed him as their person of interest - he had a reputation as a cowboy scientist - but innocent of the Anthrax attack. Finally paid-out 5.8 million for wrongful persecution.
But then Bruce Ivins did become chief suspect, quietly, this time, outside the public’s eye, the FBI focused on the man who was their lead adviser. Under a heap of pressure from the Feds, Ivins sadly took his own life in July 2008 - an overdose of Tylenol - his wife found him dead at home - lying on his bed - a note said Let me sleep.
The FBI said it was set to execute an arrest but he’d beaten em to it. Conveniently so - disappearing a messy public show trial - Ivins had maintained his innocence - so there’d have been a contest. Mueller ruled he was as a loner acting alone. Case closed.
His colleague remarked: They seemed to harp on he was a loner. He was not a loner. …. He had a lot of friends ..
Indeed, 20 to 30 colleagues showed up at his 1st & 2nd death anniversaries - he was something of a hero.
lvins was a weirdo though - make no mistake - had a not-so-secret fetish - known around the office - for secret initiations of Ivy-League sororities - that included stalking - breaking-and-entering. But when ya enmeshed in the fenced-off-society of the well-off science community - you’ll get away with that shit - you can hide it in plain sight - it’s called: eccentricity.
He also had access to the exact same anthrax strain and a money motive. Would it’ve stood up in court? - id’ve thought line-ball call. So it’s left open ended. Meanwhile the real crime was: pretending Bruce Ivins dropped out of the sky
- it wasn’t like that -
Ivins was the inevitable 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 impunity.
I don’t know much about nothin - but i know that’s a recipe for corruption.# Upstream
Further up the food chain at Fort Detrick is ex-Commander David Franz - the man who’d nurtured the science culture in the lead up to the Anthrax scam - a US Colonel no less. Doubled as a bio-weapons inspector in Iraq - and celebrity scientist on mass media pumping bio-terror - obsessed with it - writing textbooks on the subject - the world’s leading expert.
Man - that’s a fancy-arsed CV David Franz - so let’s listen to the experts - what was your take on Anthrax debacle? You should know…
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.
Yeah, but where’s the evidence of the good that’s come from that? I’d’ve thought a deliberate release from a BSL-4 lab by a popular-scientist might’ve been a red-flag moment - for a Mad-scientist culture gone maddist - not a champagne cork popping for the new era of all-you-can-eat funding trough for GoF addict scientists.
Anthrax was the fork in the road that led straight to Covid
The sliding doors moment where the adults say, what the hell is going on here? it’s time to de-escalate, regulate risky bio-defense experiments, before you cause a catastrophic pandemic! Oh, too late. Brackets - there were lots of scientists warning exactly that - no that’s not right - few and far between in fact - Richard Ebright, Wain-Hobson, Yves Moreau - but they got drowned out by the One-Health show - that’s a shame.
Coz with money came the addictive rush of influence - the power - to entrench it - censor/crush your opponent. But where has that left us?
Let’s at least - press pause - to discuss what you’re fating us with. I get it that you think you’re very clever, but your instating a genetically engineered future that bans individuality - a surveillance-system invented initially - let’s not forget - to counter the very bio-terrorism - that you artificially created.
With Franz’s reputation sealed as a walking disaster area/disrupter, he follows up by becoming a policy advisor for Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance. Fanning fear of Bio-terror had been a funding sensation - but was waning - Davey’s drafted in to instill a fear of nature instead.
Now here we go with Covid - making the same mistake again - as Georg Hegel once said - the greatest lesson history teaches us is:
we never learn the lesson# Bioshield: Who scio-vouched it?
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 that very same fountain spouting public dollars in the name of fighting bioterrorism - it was the making of his NIAID kingdom.
As he said at the hearings in April 2003:
The accelerated development of effective countermeasures against terrorism requires a new research paradigm.
Really? I’m findin - with old-fashioned paradigm thinking - admittedly - reading between the lines - your new paradigm scheme of accelerated development was a ticking time-bomb …….. that detonated - in 2019
Anthony: The events of September 11, and the subsequent anthrax attacks have changed, forever, how the biomedical community responds to emerging threats.
You betcha! That’s a radical shift in thinking though - forever - as you said. Gotta ask the question - is that a good thing?
The Fouch: We are now on a wartime footing and are compelled to modify the way we do business.
Hell! Our brave bio-warrior general from NIH - ready ta do: whatever it takes.
Btw, who’s the drug-pumping-muscle in this bio-war-on-terror?
The Fouch: Biotech firms are our industrial partners - they are essential to countermeasure development.
So - a surge of money into the likes of - Pfizer, Merk, Emergent Biosolutions - a big-pharma arms-race - run by Fauci to counter a non-existent enemy
The Fouch: 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? Guessin the experts are gettin wiser - restrictin its availability - thinking of our best interests - 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?