Under Mr. Patrick’s direction, scientists at Fort Detrick developed a tularemia agent that, if disseminated by airplane, could cause casualties & sickness over 1000s mi². In a 10,000 mi² range, it had 90% casualty rate & 50% fatality rate
1/x Fort Detrick History
Mr. Patrick, one of the chief scientists at the Army Biological Warfare Laboratories at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md., held five classified US patents for the process of weaponizing anthrax.
Under Mr. Patrick’s direction, scientists at Fort Detrick developed a tularemia agent that, if disseminated by airplane, could cause casualties & sickness over 1000s mi². In a 10,000 mi² range, it had 90% casualty rate & 50% fatality rate
https://t.co/sHqSaTSqtB
In 1949 the Army created a small team of chemists at "Camp Detrick" called Special Operations Division. Its assignment was to find military uses for toxic bacteria. The coercive use of toxins was a new field, which fascinated Allen Dulles, later head of the CIA
In 1951, Dulles hired a chemist to oversee a systematic search for key to mind control: Sidney Gottlieb, a 33-year-old Jew who limped & stuttered, meditated, lived in a remote cabin without running water & rose before dawn to milk his goats.
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7 prisoners in Lexington were given multiple doses of LSD for 77 days straight!
Captured North Koreans were given depressant drugs, then potent stimulants & exposed to intense heat & electroshock while they were in the weakened state of transition
One of the most well-known victims of Gottlieb's experiments was Frank Olson:
https://t.co/7zx4YoLsAx
https://t.co/qXEFgMBy59
In his freezers he kept biological agents that could cause diseases including smallpox, tuberculosis & anthrax as well as organic toxins, including snake venom & paralytic shellfish poison. He developed poisons intended to kill Fidel Castro & Congo's Patrice Lumumba
The US officially abandoned its biological weapons programme in 1969, but Fort Detrick has continued "defensive research" into deadly pathogens including Ebola virus, the plague & poisons like Ricin.
https://t.co/BqahYJ06RX
Bruce Ivins, was a senior biological weapons researcher at Fort Detrick. He killed himself in 2008, shortly before the FBI was planning to charge him with the 2001 anthrax attacks.
https://t.co/ALnY6GqWIc
It is ironic that the culprit was a top government anthrax expert: Since 2001, US built many labs, spent over $62 billion, & hired an army of researchers to prevent a 2nd bioterror attack. In effect, devoting 20 years to training & equipping hundreds of people like Ivins!
Long Read on Ivins & Anthrax here: https://t.co/jkh3QvdLVZ
Medical Aspects of Biowarfare: https://t.co/ckugrvRFwv
Fort Detrick
https://t.co/r5Z00rouUv
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Ken Alibek
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More from Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓
“The Origins of SARS-CoV-2: A Critical Review"
https://t.co/C9TyRyqHUr
have just been published here:
https://t.co/qCmzGCzRxn
by members of DRASTIC & others
@angoffinet @BahulikarRahul @MonaRahalkar @gdemaneuf
2. A refreshing contrast to the so-called "expert reactions" found here, including from one of the authors of the review (Prof David Robertson)!
"expert reaction to a preprint reviewing the evidence on the origins of SARS-CoV-2"
https://t.co/6kG6rstweP
3. Peter Gutierrez points out in his response that 4 of the authors of “The Origins of SARS-CoV-2: A Critical Review”, also wrote “Proximal Origin of SARS-COV-2”.
His critique focuses on:
1. RaTG13
2. Enhanced adaptation to the human host
https://t.co/eW8b2iK5xe
4. As to be expected, Sydney University and its iconic virologist, Eddie Holmes, who is "not available for interview", are crowing over this biased review
https://t.co/xrjpN1NxpO
This review contains elementary errors as exposed here:
1. https://t.co/YJ50huifly
one of the authors (Stuart Neil) then claimed
"Didn’t N501Y come up in ACE2 TG mice too?
https://t.co/HscNSEKdrZ
All your natural origin friends in one place ;)
— Billy Bostickson \U0001f3f4\U0001f441&\U0001f441 \U0001f193 (@BillyBostickson) July 7, 2021
Origins of SARS-CoV-2: A Critical Reviewhttps://t.co/j4A4rtmi8S
via @Topo_Ligio
Fallacy of the "straw mouse", denying evolution in wild type mice, when the claim is actually that it may have "evolved" in hACE2 mice, NOT wild mice. pic.twitter.com/7LCnSAhw6g
"finally, the time has slip and slid its slimy course through to us - and we're the vicious bastards of the new generation. we do not relent, and we should not be held to account for our ancestral faults"
https://t.co/mhJO6yOQRE
Here is how B.1.1.529 (#Omicron #B11529) compares to Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta variants.
— nference (@_nference) November 27, 2021
Omicron has highest novel Spike mutations including striking cluster on the "crown" suggesting significant selection pressure & antigenic distinction from prior strains
(Credits: nference) pic.twitter.com/4oZQbjhbG8
2. The Letter Chosen by the WHO
"It's amazing that the Xi variant seems to have somehow managed to evade detection..."
via @readomain
Why 'Omicron', Not 'Nu' or 'Xi'?
WHO Says Two Letters in Greek Alphabet Jumped to 'Avoid Stigma'
https://t.co/xnGR9XK2tF
3. The Omicron variant has been found in nearly every province of South Africa, as well as Botswana, Belgium, Israel, UK and Hong Kong.
This month, Israel held an exercise, The “Omega Exercise”, meant to prepare for a hypothetical, new COVID-19
4. Omicron Infographic
(appeared in Germany and Italy now)
https://t.co/oNFYBH1F1o
5. Overview of Omicron (B.1.1.529) from @nicd_sa
https://t.co/HN9csJqK0z
Prof @Tuliodna is giving an insightful overview of the #NewVariant #B11529 pic.twitter.com/VnFBrj2pOT
— NICD (@nicd_sa) November 25, 2021
U.S. Bet Big on Covid Vaccine Manufacturer Even as Problems Mounted https://t.co/o2lbFoXF5U
“Viral cross-contamination confirmed in the control cells for JANSSEN GMP Lot #8.”
an examination by The @nytimes of manufacturing practices at the Baltimore facility found serious problems, including a corporate culture that often ignored or deflected missteps and a government sponsor, BARDA, that acted more as a partner than a policeman."
https://t.co/3TszTYVhry
2. Worth Reading her investigations and those of @hijodelcuervo as well:
— Billy Bostickson \U0001f3f4\U0001f441&\U0001f441 \U0001f193 (@BillyBostickson) March 16, 2021
Robert Kadlec: https://t.co/OEo8WxT50S
Engineering Contagion:https://t.co/xE5P2F2cn7
Dark Winter:https://t.co/p8eUubd9bU
Bioport/Emergent Biosolutions, Hauer. Kramerhttps://t.co/JFGIZsUrCV
https://t.co/ng1oV1xrKI
4. Some recent investigation of Emergent Biosolutions, kept afloat with generous help of Kadlec and Azar, and now currently minting it with vaccine production..
— Billy Bostickson \U0001f3f4\U0001f441&\U0001f441 \U0001f193 (@BillyBostickson) March 16, 2021
A billion doses no less!https://t.co/VtZx0HprvN
Exposed in NYT https://t.co/EcI8n43nEj
https://t.co/TNQMo8LZ83
How One Firm Put an \u2018Extraordinary Burden\u2019 on the U.S.
— Billy Bostickson \U0001f3f4\U0001f441&\U0001f441 \U0001f193 (@BillyBostickson) March 9, 2021
Emergent Biosolutions
HHS- Kramer - Kadlec- Karesh - EcoHealthhttps://t.co/WCcDZJ106G
Finally picked up by mainstream media after the excellent research by @_whitneywebb & @hijodelcuervo & just a little by @BillyBostickson https://t.co/9Wmb8SQ1qH pic.twitter.com/1Rf5VhtJfh
Biotech or biohazard?
A proposed federal lab in Butner would study the world's deadliest diseases
https://t.co/krnmueAd80
is it being built there or elsewhere, at Kansas University?
2/10 Shades of Plum Island?
New Proposal: https://t.co/Lv3FgBgyas
GAO reports on security and safety lapses at Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center
Plum Island 1: https://t.co/pXSHgg1KKN
Plum Island 2:
https://t.co/O9oS0WXYOz
3/10 National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility
By memo dated December 4, 2008, the Department of Homeland Security named the Kansas site as the preferred location for the NBAF. On January 16, 2009, the record of decision was published in the Federal
4/10 Lucky ole Kansas!
The $1.25 billion facility is a biosafety level-4 laboratory and will replace the aging Plum Island Animal Disease Center.
NBAF is expected to be operational by 2022-2023.
Manhattan, Kansas, was selected as the location for NBAF.
https://t.co/kiokkFsT6v
5/10 The facility continues forward - Apr 19, 2020
https://t.co/JlstInKIRS
https://t.co/DtbLD9Tvxb
The 500,000 square foot building will have a $3.5 billion impact on the Kansas economy and many lab