Mad American Science: Russian Military Continues Exposure of US Military Biolabs in Ukraine And Globally
As forwarded by SOTT, augmented by Dilyana and others.
Two breaking items before we get down to it.
Breaking (1)
As most of you are now aware, unless you've been stuck on a cruise ship, the united States (but not all 50) were visited by a Chinese balloon. The Chinese and many outsiders presume the balloon was just a wayward weather balloon, but the US MSM know better.
“That's my air force right there, buddy!”
Someone managed to capture the moment the balloon was demolished.
Others, like Gonzalo Lira, laugh at the matter, and insist that what is instructive is how the MSM and the people of the US reacted - and that's something worth its weight in gold.
Breaking (2)
Andrei Raevsky, legendary Russo-Swiss founder of The Saker (it’s an anagram) and long-time resident of Florida, has decided to call it quits and shut down his site. There are several reasons for this, one being his health. But another reason is his nationality.
Andrei carries a Swiss passport, unlike his wife and children who carry US passports. Andrei says he still regards himself, some 26 years on, as a guest in the US.
But here's where it gets important. Andrei vowed, long ago, never to get in the middle of a conflict between Russia and the United States. 26 years ago is 1997 or thereabouts. Bill Clinton was president in the US and Boris Yeltsin was president in Russia. Russia was a mess. Clinton shepherded a war in Yugoslavia. Otherwise things were “peaceful”.
Not so today. For Andrei sincerely believes that the madmen in DC are on their way to World War Three with no way out.
In fact, he's so sure that he's shutting down his website after so many years. And Andrei's Saker has been host to some of the most respected and well-known authors out there. Consortium News, Michael Hudson, Scott Ritter, to name but a few.
The Saker will close its doors at the end of this month. It's incumbent on the rest of us to MAKE NOISE and STOP THE WARMONGERS.
It takes two years to effect a regime change in the US. Who knows what happens to the UK. How long before the EU can remove Ursula is also uncertain. So we need to make as much noise as we can AND NOT EVER LET UP.
No one wants a bloody war. And wars are always bloody.
Stop by Rage Against the War Machine and spread the word.
MAD AMERICAN SCIENCE
The following is provided courtesy SOTT, another stellar independent site. The formatting in their piece is all their own. The translation - what appears to somewhat be a machine translation - comes from TELEGRA.PH. We at Silent Parner made a copy of our own for your consumption (and digestion).
These are very stark words, but the message is stark. And the message involves the Pentagon, the CIA, USAID, Victoria Nuland, the NIH, the NIAID, EcoHealth, and Hunter Biden. The usual suspects.
It's a story that's been partially told before by, amongst others, Bulgaria's Dilyana who's run the Arms Watch website until Atlantic Council mercenaries tried hacking it.
The text was originally posted to Telegram. Its author is Russian Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov of the Russian Ministry of Defence and its date of publication is 30 January.
Don't be shocked if you don't find this anywhere in the MSM in the West. They'd most likely prefer you didn't know.
Are these materials believable? We don’t doubt their authenticity, but it's for you to decide yourself. We're looking at some pretty diabolical things here, nothing of which is entirely new, much of which is well known.
SOTT's comments on the text:
Russian military personnel have acquired over 20,000 documents detailing US biological programmes in the Ukraine. The documents confirm that the Pentagon aimed at creating elements of a biological weapon, and testing this on the population of Ukraine.
What follows is a translated transcript of the full recent public statement made by Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov (Chief of the Russian Army's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops) on 30 January 2023.
This marks at least the second time the matter has come to the public's attention. The reason it's surfacing again is that the US is trying to block further investigation.
The matter was first uncovered shortly after the start of Russia's special military operation (SMO) in the Ukraine. Russian intelligence became aware of the fact that the Ukrainian armed forces were planning an invasion of the Donbass (the areas known as Donetsk and Lugansk, in the basin of the Don river) for early March 2022, whereafter they could likely continue into Russian territory. The Ukraine and NATO forces hadn't been apprehensive of a counterattack by Russia and were therefore caught completely by surprise on 24 February 2022, and so didn't have time to destroy incriminating evidence in the biolabs. The Russian forces therefore came upon this evidence when arriving and they sent it to their superiors in Moscow. Russia had hoped to be able to take the matter up with the UNSC but were stymied all along the way.
Perhaps readers in the West remember when US Senator Marco Rubio soft-balled Victoria Nuland in the matter? Now it's coming back to haunt.
This vainglorious mess incriminates all the usual suspects and then some.
Fauci's NIAID, Francis Collins of the NIH, Victoria Nuland, the CIA, USAID, the Pentagon, EcoHealth, and - last but definitely not least - Hunter Biden.
The fact that the United States blocked the initiative to establish a monitoring mechanism of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) at the Ninth Review Conference once again confirms that Washington has something...
See here.
https://www.un.org/disarmament/biological-weapons/
And here.
https://front.un-arm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/BWC-text-English-1.pdf
https://meetings-archive.unoda.org/meeting/bwc-revcon-2022/
So that explains the timing.
From TASS.
Head of US delegation silent over Russia’s accusations of BTWC violations
https://tass.com/defense/1555455
“Head of the US delegation Kenneth Ward refused to respond to Russia's accusations concerning BTWC violations.”
“The US government has blocked the attempts to carry out mutual verification procedures under the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention after Russian experts visited a lab of the American Pfizer pharmaceutical giant.”
“In compliance with the accords, a group of Russian experts carried out inspections of companies within the Pfizer pharmaceutical giant, with inspection notices sent 48 hours in advance. These visits caused an extremely negative reaction from American pharmaceutical producers. Under the pretext that the inspections endangered the interests of business and intellectual property, all further attempts to implement verification procedures were blocked by the US government.”
“The ninth review conference has received extremely little coverage in Western news media, which ignored not only statements made by member states, but also the fact that the international forum took place. We regard it as an attempt by the US and its allies to keep silent about the subject of military biological research that’s uncomfortable for the West, leave room for maneuver and again block the initiatives to fortify the regime of non-proliferation of biological weapons.”
Dilyana's Arms Watch
Dilyana became interested when she found out that her country was sending arms to war-torn areas.
She visited Aleppo. She later discovered US officials at work at biolabs in her own country.
This is her personal plea to Vladimir Putin.
Here is part of her report from Kazakhstan (Pentagon Unit A1266).
Here's her documentary on Pentagon dealings in Tblisi.
So none of this is really new. The extent, however, as revealed by these twenty thousand documents, abandoned on 24 February, is.
Mad American Science: Russian Military Continues Exposure of US Military Biolabs in Ukraine And Globally (Briefing on analysis of US military and biological activity documents by Chief of NBC Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov)
The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation has repeatedly seen signs of the implementation of ‘dual-purpose programmes’ by the US and its allies outside their national territories, such as the operation of biolabs funded by the Pentagon or its contractors.
The fact that the United States blocked the initiative to establish a monitoring mechanism of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) at the Ninth Review Conference once again confirms that Washington has something to hide, whilst the transparency of the biological research contradicts the interests of the US.
We have previously informed about the works on enhancing the pathogenic characteristics of COVID-19 causative agent, carried out at Boston University with funds from the US federal budget, as well as the possible involvement of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in the emergence of the new coronavirus.
The key role in the implementation of the above-mentioned projects belongs to the intermediary organisation EcoHealth Alliance. The available documents of the US Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) confirm that, since 2015, professionals of the above-mentioned company have been studying the diversity in the population of bats, searching for new coronavirus strains and mechanisms for its transmission from animals to humans. Over 2,500 specimens have been researched.
The project for zoonotic virus research in South-East Asia contains the following recommendations for the employees of EcoHealth Alliance:
"If any of the experiments proposed for Aim 1 result in a virus with a phenotype of enhanced pathogenicity and/or transmissibility, enhanced growth by more than tenfold when compared to wild type strains, the recipient must immediately stop the work and notify the NIAID Program Officer, Grants Management Specialist, and appropriate institutional biosafety committee."
The high degree of readiness of the US mRNA vaccine manufacturers for a pandemic of the novel coronavirus raises concern. One gets the impression that pharmaceutical companies had produced their vaccines in advance, being unable to rapidly introduce them into the market due to specific characteristics of the virus that embodied in low efficiency of vaccination and numerous side effects.
It is to be remembered that, on 18 October 2019, two months before the first official reports about the emergence of the novel coronavirus in China, John Hopkins University, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, conducted the 'Event 201' exercise in New York.
This 'Event 201' exercise simulated the epidemic of a previously unknown coronavirus that, according to the scenario, was transmitted from bats to humans via pigs as the intermediate host.
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic precisely according to this scenario raises questions about its premeditated nature, involvement of the US in this incident, as well as real objectives of US biological programmes aimed at enhancing the characteristics of dangerous pathogens.
We have repeatedly noted that the US conducts the studies that are the most controversial in terms of the international law outside the national territory.
The examples are the experiments related to HIV infection that have been carried out by US specialists in Ukraine since 2019. It should be emphasised that the target groups include not only ‘high-risk infection patients’ (convicted or drug addicts) but also representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The premises of Pharmbiotest Medical Centre in Rubezhnoye were explored during the special military operation (SMO) in the liberated territory of the Lugansk People's Republic. That was a venue for clinical trials to test the medicinal products that caused serious side effects: they include medications for treating leukaemia, mental disorders, neurological diseases, epilepsy, and other dangerous illnesses.
In early 2023, residents of Lisichansk found a large landfill of biomaterial residues that belong to Pharmbiotest. The clinical samples and patients' clinical records with their personal data were buried instead of being cremated or eliminated in an appropriate manner. This means that evidence was being destroyed in extreme haste.
The Russian Defence Ministry has received data on numerous facts of Ukrainian military personnel taking psychostimulants and narcotics (tramadol, methadone, amphetamines). The facts about smuggling morphine into war zones have been revealed. It is to be remembered that, in accordance with Ukrainian law, illegal circulation and transportation of the above-mentioned products is to be punished by deprivation of liberty from 8 to 12 years.
Russia considers the actions committed by the officials who carried out this research on Ukrainian personnel, whose blood contained high concentrations of antibiotics, narcotics, antibodies to the causative agents of infectious diseases, require appropriate legal assessment.
During the special military operation, Russian personnel acquired over 20,000 documents, reference and analytical materials, as well as surveyed witnesses and participants of the US biological programmes. The above-mentioned materials confirm the fact that the Pentagon aimed at creating elements of a biological weapon, and at testing it on the population of Ukraine and other countries along the perimeter of the Russian borders.
The Russian Defence Ministry has already mentioned the names of the participants of the military and biological programmes, including representatives of the US Democratic Party, employees of the US military, and Pentagon subcontractors.
The US Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) reports have led us to further information about key individuals involved in the so-called Ukrainian projects who have been staying in the shadows until now.
These individuals include:
Karen Saylors. CEO at Labyrinth Global Health and ex-director of Metabiota's programmes in Central Africa. Since 2016, Saylors has worked in the Ukraine as leading adviser for the UP-10 project, dedicated to studying ways of spreading of African swine fever.
Colleen B Jonsson. An employee of the University of Tennessee, Director of the Institute for the Study of Host-Pathogen Systems. Jonsson monitored the UP-8 project, dedicated to studying the capabilities of the Crimean-Congo Fever's causative agent in the Ukraine. Jonsson managed the selection of biological samples from Ukrainian personnel, provided cooperation between the contract specifiers in the US and the Centre for Public Health of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.
Lewis Von Thaer. President and CEO of Battelle, a major contractor of the Pentagon and the US Department of Energy. Since 2003, Battelle has been responsible for organising research projects in the Ukraine related to zoonotic infections.
Other individuals involved in the Ukrainian projects are presented on the slide. The acquired materials will be submitted to the Investigative Committee for Remedies to bring the guilty parties to justice.
The active participation of the Russian Defence Ministry has resulted in halting the military biological programmes in the Ukraine. In this regard, the Pentagon is actively relocating the research, that has not been completed within the Ukraine, to Central Asia and Eastern European countries. At the same time, cooperation with African and Asia-Pacific countries – Kenya, Singapore, Thailand – is being actively enhanced.
Under pressure from the international community, Washington changes its approaches to organising its military biological activity, transferring the functions of the customer to purely civilian departments: the Department of Health, Department of Energy, and the Agency for International Development. This will allow US authorities to avoid criticism at international venues, and deflect a blow from the Department of Defense and DTRA.
Within curtailing the military biological activities in Ukraine, the United States actively uses the material base of chemical and pharmacological enterprises of Poland and the Baltic countries where the equipment from the Ukrainian territory was sent.
The funding, imposed by the collective West, makes the post-Soviet countries conceal the true nature of these works. The European Union is actively promoting the initiative to deploy a network of centres of 'excellence' in the field of nuclear, biological, and chemical protection, that provides for placing EU-funded biolabs in the territories of the former Soviet Union. The prospective partners are highly advised 'not to advertise this initiative due to its extreme sensitivity for the Russian Federation'.
At the same time, it is stressed that the Central Asian countries 'are already reaping benefit from their technical cooperation with the European Union'.
In 2022, the US, Canada, and EU countries initiated programmes to employ and relocate the Ukrainian professionals, who had been involved in military biological works before, to Western countries. It is primarily due to the concerns that the Russian law enforcement can receive additional testimony on the illegal activities carried out in violation of international obligations.
It is to be emphasised that the strategy of 'military and biological expansion' is not fundamentally new, and it was founded by the US back in the period of the Korean conflict.
Since the 1950s, biological laboratories have been established in Africa, Central and South America, as well as South-East Asia, with the priority role of the US Navy. Their main objective has been to sample causative agents of highly dangerous infections and determine the level of morbidity with the local populations.
Areas where these laboratories were located witnessed a deterioration in the epidemic situation regarding highly dangerous infections, as well as now. New diseases, uncharacteristic for these regions, emerged. One of the examples is the outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in 1977 in Cairo, where the US Naval Medical Research Unit Three was located.
This disease had previously been recorded only south of the Sahara, but then it suddenly emerged in Egypt, simultaneously infecting 18,000 people. Further analysis of the samples taken from the population showed that the total number of infected people was around 2,000,000.
A whole array of evidence reveal the artificial nature of this outbreak and the involvement of the US laboratory.
First, several months before the epidemic started, its staff had been vaccinated against Rift Valley Fever, although there had been no records of an outbreak of this infection in that region, whilst in the endemic regions of Africa, it proceeded as a light influenza-like illness that caused no human deaths.
Second, the causative agent suddenly acquired high pathogenicity for humans during the epidemic in Egypt. The disease caused haemorrhage, and severe eye and nervous system lesion. The virus became highly pathogenic, almost comparable with smallpox, Marburg, and Lassa fevers in this regard. It is extremely difficult to define the sudden change in pathogenicity of the virus by its natural evolution.
The analysis of initial focus shape is of particular interest. The form of this epidemiological focus recalls an aerosol cloud trace that can emerge in case of intentional dispersion of a biomaterial or its accidental release into the environment.
Despite the available evidential base about the artificial nature of the outbreak, the US leadership has done everything to conceal the involvement of the laboratory in this incident. Only in 2019, it was decided to relocate it to the US Naval Air Station in Sigonella, Italy, to continue the research on highly dangerous pathogens, including coronaviruses.
In conclusion, I would like to note that the disclosure of the content of the Pentagon's military biological programmes in the Ukraine by the Russian Federation has gained a wide public response. Mass demonstrations against the activities of the US-funded labs were held in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Non-governmental organisations of the Eurasian Economic Union adopted a resolution against the Pentagon-funded biolabs.
Various investigations were initiated in the United States itself. US law enforcement has paid attention to the topics related to bribing employees of social networks and mass media while broadcasting the cause of the new coronavirus infection, as well as manipulating public opinion about the COVID-19 vaccines commissioned by biotechnological and pharmaceutical corporations.
It is to be remembered that lobbying the interests of large pharmaceutical companies by the US government is a common practice. Back in 2010, the operation of a US Navy Medical Biological Centre in Jakarta was ceased due to a 'conflict of interests' and various violations.
The Americans performed their works outside the agreed research programme, carried out unauthorised sampling, and refused to inform the Indonesian government of the purposes of their work and the results they achieved. These biomaterials turned out to be used to benefit the company Gilead Sciences, affiliated with the Pentagon, that tested their preparations in, inter alia, the Ukraine and Georgia.
The Indonesian example was followed by Malaysia: the government of that country decided to establish special control over the activities of the US-funded biolabs.
Therefore, the concerns of the international community, relating to the activities of the Pentagon-funded biolabs, is gradually increasing. The issues, raised by the Russian Federation at the international venues – the Ninth Review Conference of BTWC Member States and the UN Security Council – have revealed the reluctance of the US to conduct a substantive dialogue. Russia considers it extremely important that the disclosure of the facts that reveal the illegal military and biological activities have caused several countries to consider possible consequences of their biosafety cooperation with the US, and take a fresh look at the necessity and rationale of this kind of cooperation.
The Russian Defence Ministry will continue its work in this direction and report on it.