Fascism Infects America-Part IV
2001-2020
You may also Read Part II-Part IV of this series which covers the globalists , scientists and elite futurists, transhumanists and behaviorists role in this Great Transition from Democracy to the Techno-Fascism of today and tomorrow
What follows is quite long and from a variety of sources listed .
You might just want to review what happened on 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks in more detail. Like Hitlers Reichstag Fires in 1933 and Putins Apartment Bombings in 1999, Authoritarian Fascism is enabled by such events.
I also cover the economic take down beginning in 2019 in detail in the link below
There are many interconnected links to many of these events/actions that some treat as separate and thus cant see the big picture. You will need to keep an open mind in order to see these connections. Question everything.
Sources w/o links
1)Tower of Basel by Adam Lebor
2)From Yahweh to Zion by Laurent Guyénot
3)Black Gold - Ordo ab Chao by David Livingstone
4)Red Scare - Ordo ab Chao by David Livingstone
5)Treasure Islands, Nicholas Shaxson
6)The Last Circle -by Cheri Seymour
7)Technocracy Rising The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation by Patrick M. Wood
8)Surveillance Valley :The Secret Military History of the Internet by Yasha Levine
9)Transhumanism by David Livingstone
10)Manifest Destiny, William Engdahl
11)Family of Secrets, Russ Baker
12)Gold Warrior,Stearling Seagrave
13)Collateral Damage, Heidner
14)The Big Bamboozle, Philip Marshal
15)The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency by Annie Jacobsen
16)Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction By David Enrich
17)Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army By Jeremy Scahill
18)A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order by F. William Engdahl
19)
https://unlimitedhangout.com
by Whitney Webb
20)historycommons.org (sadly no more)
21)Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America by Robert I. Friedman
Lets cover a few pre-2001 events that will become important in 2001 and beyond.
1998-Phil Gramm as head of the Senate Banking Committee achieved the passage of the Gramm-Leach-Blitey Act.
In terms of offshore bank trading programs, what it meant was that no longer did banks have to work with agents or intermediaries in concert with trading components; they could now work directly with one another, and also cut out the middle man.
Enron entities made bank trade profit monies offshore and brought them onshore by borrowing against these cash assets, or loans. Loans too are non-taxable events
Gramm was married to Wendy Gramm who was former head of the Commodity Futures Committee, which allowed Enron to do its energy dealings
When she resigned from the CFTC, she became a highly paid with perks, member of the Board of Directors with Enron.
1999-An online trading division, Enron Online, was launched during the dot-com boom, and by 2001 it was executing online trades worth about $2.5 billion a day. Enron also invested in building a broadband telecommunications networkto facilitate high-speed trading.
Some allege the off sheet "debts" of Enron, were in fact income, generated in large part through "Federal" Reserve bank trading programs, which 9/11 was orchestrated to try to cover-up and keep Enron from imploding by evil doers
2000 January : Former President George H. W. Bush meets with the bin Laden family on behalf of the Carlyle Group.
He had also met with them in November 1998 (see November 1998), but it is not known if he meets with them again after this. Bush denies this meeting took place until a thank you note is found confirming that it took place.
October 2000, Blackstone Real Estate Advisors, the real estate management arm of AIG connected Blackstone Group, purchased the mortgage secured by WTC-7.
In 1998, AIG had invested $1.35 billion in the Blackstone Group, a private New York merchant bank. According to the New York Times, the two companies had worked together for many years. Indeed, Maurice Greenberg had served on Blackstone’s advisory board since 1989.
2000-Enron, UNOCAL and other companies had completed most sectors of the gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Dabhol. As in the case of Enron, investment for these interlinking pipelines was obtained at the expense of gullible shareholders,
Even a Saudi prince (Badr M. Al-Aiban) was duped into investing into the project through the CentGas Consortium. The only gap was Afghanistan.
The United States government, which had earlier done its best to defend Enron’s unethical practices in India, tried to appease the Taliban by giving them $2 million and inviting their senior leaders to Texas for talks.
It should be noted that Enron was the single biggest contributor to President Bush’s first election campaign.
But the talks stalled. In his memoir, the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan during 9-11 and ex-Guantanamo detainee Abdul Salam Zaeef recalls American disappointment when the Taliban awarded the pipeline contract to an Argentinian company BRIDAS, instead of Enron cahoot UNOCAL.
2000, Reginald Howe introduced his GATA lawsuit, naming the Deutschebank as a key party to a gold price-fixing lawsuit, prompting an investigation by the FBI into Swiss and Deutschebank gold trading accounts. The FBI records for this investigation were located at WTC
2001-
2000-2001 US officials held several meetings with the Taliban from 2000 to summer 2001, in an effort to get the Taliban to agree to a joint federal government with their local enemies, the Northern Alliance, promising financial aid and international legitimacy if the deal was struck. By then, US policymakers had belatedly concluded that the Taliban would never bring the stability needed for the pipeline project.
According to Pakistani Foreign Minister Niaz Naik, who was present at the meetings, US officials threatened the Taliban with military action if they failed to comply with the federalization plan. Even the date of threatened military action, October 2001, was proposed. Needless to say, the Taliban rejected the plan.
So months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a war on Afghanistan was already on the table. Jean-Charles Brisard, a former French intelligence officer, thus speculates that 9/11 may have been a pre-emptive attack by al-Qaeda to head off the declared US military invasion of Afghanistan.
2001-Scarcely a month after Bush moves into the White House, Vice President Cheney has his first secret meeting with Ken Lay and other Enron executives on February 22. Other meetings
Other meetings follow on March 7 and April 17. It is the details of these meetings that the Bush Administration is seeking to keep private.
It's clear the Cheney had his own conflicts of interest with Enron. A chief benefactor in the trans-Caspian pipeline deal would have been Halliburton, the huge oil pipeline construction firm which was previously headed by Cheney.
Vice President's energy task force changed a draft energy proposal to include a provision to boost oil and natural gas production in India in February of last year. The amendment was so narrow that it apparently was targeted only to help Enron's Dabhol plant in India.
Later, Cheney stepped in to try to help Enron collect its $64 million debt during a June 27 meeting with India's opposition leader Sonia Gandhi.
2001-President George W. Bush backed China's entry into the World Trade Organisation despite the confrontation between the U.S. and China over a downed spy plane.
While Bush repeated his request that China allow full access to a damaged EP-3E Aries II spy plane and its 24 crewmembers -- stranded on China's Hainan Island since a collision with a Chinese fighter jet at the weekend -- he moved to separate the spat from China's WTO accession.
"I'm an advocate of China's entry into the WTO and I'm hopeful that the current situation ends quickly and our people come home,” Bush said.
The president said, "China is a strategic partner, I mean, strategic competitor but that doesn't mean we can't find areas in which we can partner and the economy is a place we can partner."
China later agreed to release the 24 detained US air crew after the US president, George Bush, said in a letter his government was "very sorry" for the loss of a Chinese fighter pilot who collided with their spy plane.
The 11-day-old deadlock ended after satisfying China's demand for a formal apology
July 3, 2001 -- The Chinese dismantled U.S. EP-3 spy plane held on China's Hainan Island and only released it over 2 months later
2001-On April 26 the Board of Commissioners for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey awarded Silverstein Properties and mall-owner Westfield America a 99-year-lease on the following assets: The Twin Towers, World Trade Center Buildings 4 and 5, two 9-story office buildings, and 400,000 square feet of retail space.
The partners' winning bid was $3.2 billion for holdings estimated to be worth more than $8 billion. JP Morgan Chase, a prestigious investment-bank that's the flagship firm of its kind for Rockefeller family interests, advised the Port Authority, another body long influenced by banker and builder David Rockefeller, his age then 85, in the negotiations.
The lead partner and spokesperson for the winning bidders, Larry Silverstein, age 70, already controlled more than 8 million square feet of New York City real estate. WTC 7 and the nearby Equitable Building were prime among these prior holdings. Larry Silverstein also owned Runway 69, a nightclub in Queens that was alleged 9 years ago to be laundering money made through sales of Laotian heroin.
It appeared that Silverstein had made a very bad deal, because the Twin Towers had to be decontaminated for asbestos. The decontamination process had been indefinitely postponed since the 1980s because of its cost, estimated at nearly $1 billion in 1989. In 2001, the New York Port Authority had been all too happy to shift responsibility to Silverstein.
Immediately after acquiring the Twin Towers, Silverstein renegotiated the insurance contracts to cover terrorist attacks, doubling the coverage to $3.5 billion, and made sure he would retain the right to rebuild after such an event.
After the attacks, he took his insurers to court in order to receive double compensation, claiming that the two planes were two separate attacks.
After a long legal battle, he pocketed $4.5 billion.
2001-May , Thomas E. White came from the top hierarchy of the Pentagon, then went to work for many years at Enron, in charge of their trading department where all the financial games were largely played, and then left Enron in May to become Army Secretary. Interesting timing.
(Isn't it most interesting that he headed the most corrupt component of Enron but was not charged with anything?)
One week after 9/11 letters were sent to dominant media entities about Anthrax. White then wore another hat as interim head of Homeland Security.
2001 February 16
United States airplanes attack Iraqi radar sites to enforce a “no-fly zone.” Bush calls the military action a “routine mission.”
2001 June 7
President Bush signs a $1.35 trillion tax cut into law. Although the amount falls short of the $1.60 trillion the administration has been seeking, the bill does slash income tax rates across the board and provides for the gradual elimination of the estate tax.
2001 al-Qaeda had assume control of Ariana Airlines, Afghanistan’s national airline in 1996, for use in its illegal trade network. Passenger flights become few and erratic, as planes are used to fly drugs, weapons, gold, and personnel, primarily between Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Pakistan.
About nine of the 9/11 hijackers work at the Kandahar airport in 2000, which is Ariana’s main hub
The Emirate of Sharjah, in the UAE, becomes a hub for al-Qaeda drug and arms smuggling. Typically, “large quantities of drugs” are flown from Kandahar, Afghanistan, to Sharjah, and large quantities of weapons are flown back to Afghanistan.
About three to four flights run the route each day. Many weapons come from Victor Bout, a notorious Russian arms dealer based in Sharjah.
Afghan taxes on opium production are paid in gold, and then the gold bullion is flown to Dubai, UAE, and laundered into cash.
Taliban officials regularly provide militants with false papers identifying them as Ariana Airlines employees so they can move freely around the world. For instance, one flight on a Ariana small plane in 2000 lists 33 crew members.
A former National Security Council official later claims the US is well aware at the time that al-Qaeda agents regularly fly on Ariana Airlines. (However, US intelligence will not learn of the widespread use of forged Ariana IDs until after 9/11.)
The CIA learns of Bout’s connection to Ariana and the Taliban in 1998, but takes no action .
Much of the money for the 9/11 hijackers flows though these Sharjah, UAE, channels. There also are reports suggesting that Ariana Airlines might have been used to train Islamic militants as pilots.
2001-For four of the years Atta lived in Hamburg, he was a “scholarship” student at an elite international exchange program, part of a “joint venture” between the US and German governments, run by an organization with ties to figures like David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger.
The US end of the program is run out of an address at the UN Plaza in New York, by CDS International, named after Carl Duisberg, who headed the Bayer Corporation, and founded I.G. Farben.
During WW I, Duisberg devised the slave labour system later perfected by I.G. Farben, which financed the infamous Joseph Mengele, who later developed the MK-Ultra and Monarch mind-control programs.
Henry Kissinger lauded the program at a dinner celebration of the CDS International in 1987, congratulating it for its 20 years of service in keeping close business ties, not only between Germany and the US, but more also through career development programs for participants from “other countries”.
During his visit to Germany, to commemorate the Berlin Airlift, Clinton noted the US “will be working hard to expand our support” for the CDS program, which “has already given more than 10,000 German and American students the chance to visit each other’s countries.”
2001- Sep 4, Senator Phil Gramm, announced his plans to leave the Senate exactly one week prior to 9/11, . This was a very surprising announcement, as it came out of the blue, after 24 years in Congress. The balance of power, most importantly, in the Senate that time was 50/49 Democrats v. Republicans and one Independent.
Senator Helms, a Republican, about one month prior in August, 2001, disclosed he was leaving the Senate, which means Gramm's announcement, in party power context, was all the more significant.
What is most significant about Gramm's announcement to leave the Senate was where he went to work afterwards. Phil Gramm became vice-Chairman of UBS (Switzerland).
Enron offset debts which led to its downfall were not really debts , but profits generated from bank trading programs, which are principally conducted offshore.
Gramm was married to Wendy Gramm. She was former head of the Commodity Futures Committee, which allowed Enron to do its energy dealings unregulated (by government authority).
2001-Maurice Greenberg happens to be the owner of Kroll Inc., the firm in charge of security for the entire World Trade Center complex on 9/11. He also was chairman and chief executive officer of American International Group.
The Greenbergs were also the insurers of the Twin Towers and, on July 24, 2001, they took the precaution of having the contract reinsured by competitors.
The Greenberg owned Kroll controlled security at the World Trade Center complex through 2001 and was responsible for hiring John O'Neill, the former chief of counterterrorism for the FBI, an expert on Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda who was stopped from pursuing the USS Cole investigation, and who died on 9-11, reportedly his first day on the new job.
One of Kroll’s directors, Jerome Hauer, also had managed New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s Office of Emergency Management, which he had located on the 23rd floor of WTC 7 in 2000.
September 4-11, 2001: ISI Director Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed visits Washington
Last time [his] predecessor was [in Washington], the Musharraf coup came right after on October 12, 1999
September 9, 2001: CIA Director Tenet Meets ISI Director about Bin Laden Issue
2001, September 9. In preparation for 9/11 and imminent invasion of Afghanistan Ahmad Shah Massoud, the charismatic "Lion of Panjsher" and leader of the rebel Northern Alliance, a stridently anti-Taliban and anti-Al Qaeda rebel group was killed
September 10, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged during a press conference that the Department of Defense could not account for $2.3 trillion of the massive Pentagon budget.
2001-9/11 At the time of the attacks, ISI Director Lt. Gen. Mahmood Ahmed is at a breakfast meeting at the Capitol with the chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, The meeting is said to last at least until the second plane hits the WTC.
9/11-2001 Former President George H. W. Bush, along with former First Lady Barbara Bush, leaves Washington, DC, by private jet, bound for a speaking engagement in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Bushes spent the previous night at the White House.
They had flown to Washington the previous day to attend several meetings and a dinner. One of the meetings attended by the former president was the annual investor conference of the Carlyle Group, which was also attended by Shafig bin Laden, one of Osama bin Laden’s brothers
The Carlyle Group is a large private-equity investment firm, closely associated with officials of the Bush and Reagan administrations, and has considerable ties to Saudi oil money, including ties to the bin Laden family.
This morning it is holding its annual investor conference at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Washington, DC. Among the guests of honor is investor Shafig bin Laden, brother of Osama bin Laden.
Former President George H. W. Bush, who makes speeches on behalf of the Carlyle Group and is also senior adviser to its Asian Partners fund attended the conference the previous day, but is not there on September 11, 2001
The Carlyle Group, based in Washington, DC, is one of the world’s largest private-equity investment firms. One of its brochures described it as investing “in niche opportunities created in industries heavily affected by changes in governmental policies.”
It is also the 11th-largest defense contractor in the US.
Since being established , it has signed up many former politicians and used their contacts and influence to promote itself.
Those on its payroll include former Secretary of State James Baker, former White House budget director Dick Darman, former British Prime Minister John Major, and former US President George H. W. Bush. Its chairman is former CIA Director Frank Carlucci.
Following 9/11, news reports revealed that Carlyle had a business relationship with Osama bin Laden’s family. According to a Carlyle executive, in 1995 the bin Ladens invested $2 million in the Carlyle Partners II fund, which includes various defense holdings.
This was a fairly small amount considering the entire fund is worth $1.3 billion. However, a foreign financier with ties to the bin Ladens claimed their overall investment with Carlyle was much larger.
Shafig bin Laden, one of Osama’s brothers, had actually been in Washington, DC, on the morning of 9/11, attending the Carlyle Group’s annual investor conference there on September 11, 2001
Former President George H. W. Bush, who is senior adviser to Carlyle Group’s Asian Partners fund, has twice met with the bin Laden family on behalf of the company . On this day though, the Carlyle Group ends its relationship with the bin Ladens, and gives them back their investment.
But the family is very well-connected, and their investment in Carlyle is hardly unusual for them.
The New Yorker will note, “Much of the family’s private banking is handled by Citigroup, which is chaired by former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. The family has equity investments with Merrill Lynch and Goldman, Sachs. Among the family’s business partners is General Electric. A spokesman for Jack Welch, the chairman of G.E., says that the family threw a party for him in the nineteen-nineties in Saudi Arabia, and that Welch ‘considers them good business partners.’
One American diplomat says, ‘You talk about your global investors, it’s them. They own part of Microsoft, Boeing, and who knows what else.’”
2001-Marvin Bush joined Securacom's Board of Directors in 1993, as part of new management hired when the company separated from engineering firm Burns and Roe.
The new team was capitalized by KuwAm, the D.C.-based Kuwaiti-American investment company.
Bush also served on the Board of Directors at KuwAm, along with Mishal Yousef Saud al-Sabah, Chairman of KuwAm and also a Director on Securacom's (Stratesec's) board.
The World Trade Center and the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority -- which operates Dulles -- were two of Securacom's three biggest clients in 1996 and 1997.
Stratesec (Securacom) differs from other security companies which separate the function of consultant from that of service provider.
When, following the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey began its multi-million-dollar, multiyear revamping of security in and around the Twin Towers and Buildings 4 and 5, Securacom was among numerous contractors hired in the upgrade.
Stratesec, was one of the companies that provided security at the World Trade Center up until the day of the attacks. Notably, Stratesec also provided security at Dulles International Airport, where AA 77 took off on 9/11, and also security for United Airlines, which owned two of the other three allegedly hijacked aircraft. Bush’s brother Marvin was also on the board.
HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc., a reinsurance corporation on whose board Marvin Bush sat as director until November 2002, similarly benefits from terrorism insurance protections. (Bush's first year on the board at HCC coincided with his last year on the board at Stratesec.)
HCC, formerly Houston Casualty Company, carried some of the insurance for the World Trade Center. It posted a loss for the quarter after the attacks of Sept. 11 and dropped participation in worker's compensation as a result. Bush remained an adviser to the chairman and the Board of Directors, as well as a member of the company's investment committee.
2001-Barrick Gold was an investment for nearly every gold bullion bank associated with the Marcos gold recovery. These banks would loan gold to Barrick, which would then sell the borrowed gold as derivatives, with the promise of replacing the borrowed gold with their gold mining operation.
The records of many of those transactions disappeared when Enron collapsed and the trading operation and all its records were taken over by UBS, another major recipient of Marcos gold.
The FBI was reportedly conducting an investigation into those transactions, and the investigation files were kept on the 23rd floor of the North Tower of the WTC.
A key player in the Marcos gold was Banker’s Trust, which was taken over by Alex Brown & Sons, after Banker’s Trust floundered financially on its Russian loans in the mid 1990s.
These Russian loans were facilitated by Enron, starting in August of 1993, and very possibly were part of the Project Hammer takeover of Soviet industry.
Alex Brown’s involvement would bring to the forefront the names of three names of individuals who would play multiple roles in this mystery: Buzz Krongard, Mayo Shattuck, and J Carter Beese.
Buzz Krongard is reported as the mentor of Beese and Shattuck from their years together at Alex Brown. Additionally, he managed the merger between Bankers Trust and Deutschebank Alex Brown.
Bankers Trust, Zurich was a key Marcos gold holder. Krongard would move on to become Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown, Vice Chairman of Banker’s Trust, and Executive Director of the CIA at the time of September 11.
Mayo Shattuck would be reported to be the personal banker for Adnan Khashoggi and Edgar Bronfmann during their partnership at Barrick Gold.
He would move on to become the CEO of Deutschebank and would resign for unexplained reasons the day after September 11, and would not be at the WTC office that day when the tower collapsed.
It was his bank that was identified as the source of the illegal stock options that indicated there was insider trading taking advantage of the September 11 tragedy.
The attacks … were intended to cover-up the clearing of $240 billion dollars in securities covertly created in September 1991 to fund a covert economic war against the Soviet Union, during which ‘unknown’ western investors bought up much of the Soviet industry, with a focus on oil and gas.
There were three major securities brokers in the World Trade Center: Cantor Fitzgerald, Eurobrokers and Garbon Inter Capital.
Cantor Fitzgerald was the largest securities dealer in the US and arguably the primary target. 41% of the fatalities in the Twin Towers came from Cantor Fitzgerald and Eurobrokers. 24% of the 125 fatalities in the Pentagon were from the Naval Command Centerthat housed the Office of Naval Intelligence. 29 of 30 Office of Naval Intelligence employees died.
The Naval Command Center had been moved into that newly opened section of the Pentagon only a month earlier. And in the vaults beneath the World Trade Center Towers, any certificates for bonds were destroyed.
On that fateful day, the Securities and Exchange Commission declared a national emergency, and for the first time in U.S. history, invoked its emergency powers under Securities Exchange Act Section 12(k) easing regulatory restrictions for clearing and settling security trades for the next 15 days.
These changes would allow an estimated $240 billion in covert government securities to be cleared upon maturity without the standard regulatory controls around identification of ownership.
The two firms in the U.S. most likely to be handling the securities would be Cantor Fitzgerald and Eurobrokers – the two largest government securities firms in the U.S. The federal agency mostly involved in investigating those transactions was the Office of Naval Intelligence.
On 9/11, those same three organizations: the two largest government securities brokers and the Office of Naval Intelligence in the US took direct hits.
As one of many coincidences on 9/11, the Federal Reserve Bank was operating its information system from its remote back-up site rather than it’s downtown headquarters. The SEC and Federal Reserve system remained unfazed by the attack. All of their systems continued to operate.
The two major security trading firms had their trade data backed up on remote systems. Nevertheless, the Commission for the first time invoked its emergency powers under Securities Exchange Act Section 12(k) and issued several orders to ease certain regulatory restrictions temporarily.
On the first day of the crisis, the SEC lifted “Rule 15c3-3: Customer Protection – Reserves and Custody of Securities.” Thus GSCC [Government Securities Clearing Corporation] was thus allowed to substitute other securities for the physical securities destroyed during the attack. “…collateral substitutions can and should be made with regard to immediately maturing collateral.”
At this point in time, the Federal Reserve and its GSCC had created a settlement environment totally void of controls and reporting – where it could substitute valid, new government securities for the mature, illegal securities, and not have to record where the original bad securities had come from, or where the new securities went – all because the paper for the primary brokers for US securities had been eliminated.
The reports published by the Federal Reserve argue that the Federal Reserve’s actions increasing the monetary supply by over $300 billion were justified to overcome operational difficulties in the financial sector.
The Deutschebank, which sat inside the WTC and was totally decimated, reported no such account balance increase, and JP Morgan, the other of only two clearing banks which uses the same traders and communications hub, reported no such increase in its account balance.
No one has publicly asked: why is it that these other two banks were not seriously disrupted, while the Bank of New York – which had no structural damage – seemed unable to operate?
Certain key unknown figures in the Federal Reserve may have ‘conspired’ with key unknown figures at the Bank of New York to create a situation where $240 billion in off balance sheet securities created in 1991 as part of an official covert operation to overthrow the Soviet Union, could be cleared without publicly acknowledging their existence.
These securities, originally managed by Cantor Fitzgerald, were cleared and settled in the aftermath of September 11th through the BoNY.
In summary
• The US dollar money supply was significantly increased in the aftermath of 9/11;
• The bank at the core of the illegal money laundering by ex-Soviet criminals was the source of the increased money supply (BoNY);
• The generally disseminated rationale for BoNY’s operational problems seems to have affected no other bank in a similar manner or magnitude and is inconsistent with reports on the BoNY operations in the aftermath;
• A key witness who might provide insight to these issues is a statistically aberrant death;
• The source of the BoNY’s $330 billion increase in assets is cloaked under the privilege of “private banking;”
• The only alleged “severe” disruption to the financial systems was the Federal Reserves account balance and the securities trading fails – both systems required to hide the laundering of $240 billion in covert securities.
This is not a ‘proof’ that $240 billion was laundered, but it provides probable cause for paying serious attention.
2001-Another likely target was the El Dorado Task force, an interagency money-laundering watchdog group led by the US Customs Service and the Internal Revenue Service. At the time of 9/11, the interagency task force was based in the US Customs Office in Building Six, and was responsible for coordinating federal and state money laundering investigations.
Its location in Building Six is noteworthy, because the destruction of WTC-6 remains one of the strangest mysteries from 9/11. Aerial photos of the WTC site taken after the attack show an enormous cavity in the middle of Building Six.
The pictures are extraordinary, and raise obvious questions. The hole has been compared to a crater.
What, other than a huge explosion, could have hollowed out the core of this eight-story building?
According to the official story, WTC-6 was wrecked by falling debris during the collapse of the adjacent North Tower. But subsequent inside photos of the huge cavity fail to show any of the tell-tale exterior columns or other identifiable debris from the North Tower. Indeed, judging from the available photos, the cavity was remarkably free of any type of debris.
WTC-7? Again, several offices in the building were specifically targeted. These include the Securities and Exchange Commission on floors 11, 12 and 13, the Secret Service offices on floors 9 and 10, and the Internal Revenue Service offices on floors 24 and 25. All three agencies suffered the total loss of files and records for ongoing investigations which had been stored in WTC-7.
Although SEC officials later refused to discuss how many ongoing cases had been impacted by the attacks, the agency claimed that it lost only two weeks’ worth of computer data which had not been backed up.
But New York securities lawyers who practice before the SEC told a different story. One of them, Bill Singer, stated that a case he had pending was settled quickly because so many of the pertinent documents had been destroyed. Said Singer: “Regardless of what the regulators say, they lost a ton of files. In my opinion it was a wholesale loss of documents.”
It is quite possible that other federal offices were also targeted in WTC-7. The largest CIA facility outside of CIA headquarters at Langley was housed on the building’s 25th floor, and the Department of Defense also had offices in WTC-7.
The destruction of Building Seven thus, would have been the capstone to a covert operation of sweeping extent, which involved the targeting of government offices that were investigating financial crimes, for the purpose of destroying the documentary evidence they had accumulated, in the process killing many of the staff involved. Admittedly, such a plan would have been fiendishly clever.
Elgindy was charged of being the leader of a criminal racketeering enterprise alleged to have been short-selling and illegally manipulating stock in companies that were under criminal investigation.
Among the other counts against Elgindy, he is accused of extorting shares from companies that were under criminal investigation.
Elgindy’s brother, Khaled, was linked to the Iran-Contra scandal, through his ties with Elliot Abrams, who had been Reagan’s Assistant Secretary of State.
Abram’s is also a Bush-pardoned Iran-Contra war criminal. Now, via his new role in the NSC, he was working on Arab-Israeli peace initiatives. Abram’s new official title is Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs.
Abrams chaired the US Commission on International Religious Freedom; sitting on the Washington DC Human Rights Committee chaired by him was Khaled Elgindy, serving as a policy analyst.
Anthony and Khaled’s father, Ibrahim Elgindy, was reported to have founded an umbrella group of Muslim organizations in Chicago, and led a 1998 protest on behalf of Muhammad Salah, a man the US government calls a designated global terrorist. Salah confessed to Israeli authorities that he was raising money for Hamas’ suicide bombings and training cells in the US to make explosives.
One of the companies Elgindy targeted and traded was GenesisIntermedia, or GENI.
Khashoggi had started another business, called GenesisIntermedia, a telemarketing company. This was during the .com boom.
The stock was the best performer in 2000 despite losses of more than $17 million on just $229,000 revenue....A well known financial commentator, Courtney Smith, helped push this stock on CNBC, Bloomberg, and elsewhere, for a tiny $1.1 million fee.
Having pushed the stock from $1 a share all the way up to $17, Khashoggi paid off some brokers to borrow his stock and lend it to Deutsche Bank Canada to the tune of $130 million. Despite having internet revenues of less than half a million.
Under this scheme, Deutsche borrows the stock and pays Khashoggi the value of the shares.
After the stock crashed, GenesisIntermedia went belly up and Khashoggi made out like a Saudi oil tycoon. Deutsche Bank and a few securities companies were left holding the baby. Khashoggi made the $130 million disappear
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil suit in 2003 against individuals in scams involving GenisisIntermedia, which included Iran-Contra arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, but also stock-fraud artist Rafi Khan, the Toronto branch of Deustche Bank Securities, the Vancouver Stock Exchange (VSE), and Thomas Brooks, a broker who can’t seem to account for shares loaned from Native Nations Securities.
Other than Adnan Khashoggi, ties between Iran-Contra conspirators and GENI included its director, Michael Roy Fugler, who was an integral part of Barry Seal’s organization. Apparently, it was Fugler’s job to set-up the front companies for Seal’s drug proceeds.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is claiming that the clearing firm of MJK was defrauded when millions of dollars outstanding on Native Nations Securities’ borrowed GENI shares could not be collected.
Native Nations Securities, a New Jersey firm, was run by Valerie Red-Horse, office manager for junk-bond king Michael Milken of Drexel, Burnham, Lambert, a junk-bond securities company with Mafia associates, and high-ranking political connections in New York State.
Drexel, Burnham, Lambert is connected to the Drexel Company, itself– according to FBI investigator Richard Taus – part of the K-Team which was involved in the Iran-Contra operation.
2001-The Enron Corporation was collapsing and this was formally announced in late 2001 amidst allegations of fraudulent accounting. They hired Kroll Zolfo Cooper to handle its chapter 11 proceedings. Many SEC and FBI records on Enron were likely lost in the WTC7 collapse
American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the 95th and 96th floors of the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. Both floors were occupied by Marsh & McLennan, one of the world’s largest insurance brokerages, with ties to the private intelligence firm Kroll Associates, which held the security contract at the World Trade Center.
Marsh & McLennan had recently installed software that enabled fraudulent trading in the hours before, and possibly during, the 9/11 attacks. It would be used to electronically connect Marsh to AIG and its major business partners via Internet portals, for the purpose of creating ‘paperless transactions’ and expediting revenue and renewal cycles.”
The CEO of Marsh & McLennan on 9/11 was Jeffrey Greenberg, son of Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, owner of AIG, the world’s largest insurance conglomerate (or second largest, depending on the source)
Greenberg’s other son, Evan, was CEO of Ace Limited, another large insurance company. Maurice Greenberg had been a director of the New York Federal Reserve Bank for many years, and in 1994-95 served as its chairman.
Greenberg was also vice-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, which sponsored his 1996 report, “Making Intelligence Smarter: The future of U.S. Intelligence.” As a result of that report, Senator Arlen Specter floated Greenberg’s name as a candidate for the directorship of the CIA.
Paul Bremers office was located in the South Tower above where the second plane (UAL175) hit. However, like other top Marsh & McLennan executives, Bremer failed to show up for work that morning. Instead, Bremer went on national television and was one of the first to point the finger at Osama bin Laden. Bremer called for “the most severe military responsse
In 2003, Bremer would be appointed administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq to level the Iraqi state to the ground and oversee the theft of almost a trillion dollars intended for its reconstruction.
In mid-October 2001, The Independent (UK) reported that, “To the embarrassment of investigators, it has….emerged that the a firm (Alex Brown) headed until 1998 by Alvin ‘Buzzy’ Krongard, now executive director of the CIA bought many of the ‘put’ options (where a trader, in effect, bets on a share price fall) on United Airlines stock
Alex Brown was acquired by Bankers Trust in 1997, which, in turn, was purchased by Deutsche Bank in 1999.
Krongard’s last job at Alex Brown -Bankers Trust was to oversee “private client relations.” This means that Krongard personally arranged confidential transactions and transfers for the bank’s unnamed wealthy clientele
After “Buzzy” Krongard’s departure to the CIA, his successor at Alex Brown -Bankers Trust was his former deputy Mayo Shattuck III, who had worked at the bank for many years. In 1997, Shattuck helped Krongard engineer the merger with Banker’s Trust, and he stayed on after Deutsche Bank acquired Bankers Trust – Alex Brown in 1999
According to the New York Times, Mayo Shattuck III “was made co-head of investment banking in January [2001], overseeing Deutsche Bank’s 400 brokers who cater to wealthy clients.” It is curious that Shattuck resigned immediately after the 9/11 attacks.
Deutsche Banks headquarters at the Bankers Trust Building was also destroyed on 9/11
Deutsche’s forty-floor Manhattan headquarters which had been the offices of BankersTrust—was right next to the World Trade Center. When the plane flew into the South Tower, some 1,500 windows were shattered in Deutsche’s building. When the towers fell,flying metal and concrete ripped a deep,fifteen story gash in the side of the building.What used to be its entrance was now a smoldering heap of wreckage, withshards of the World Trade Center’s grill-like facade embedded in the walls. Miraculously, only one Deutsche employee died.
The New York Stock Exchange reopened a week after 9/11, and on October 3, Deutsche’s shares debuted, trading under the ticker symbol DB.I
The building was beyond repair. But because it was filled with dangerous levels of mercury,asbestos, toxic mold, and other nasty stuff, there was no way to dismantle it without spreading more poison in Lower Manhattan.
So the shell of the doomed tower was draped in a veil of dark webbing, an enormous tombstone towering over the hallowed GroundZero.There it sat for years ,a ghostly,impenetrable reminder of 9/11
2001-There was sharp upsurge in purchases of put options on both United and American Airlines. A put option is a contract that allows the holder to sell a stock at a set price during a specified time period, which can reap huge profits should the stock plummet.
The uptick had occurred in the days prior to 9/11. Sources on Wall Street told CBS that they had never before seen that kind of trading imbalance. The only airlines affected were United and American, the two involved in the attack. American Airlines stock dropped 39% in a single day. United Airlines stock fell even more, a whopping 44%.
A story posted on October 1, 2001, the New York Times cited experts who attributed the spike in put options for United and American Airlines as most likely due to a slumping airline industry.
George Tenet writes in his memoirs that in February 1998 he recruited Buzzy Krongard to become his Councilor, in which capacity Krongard probably served as Tenet’s personal liaison to Wall Street. Krongard’s known ties to the CIA, however, go back at least as far as 1992.
In the mid-1990s Krongard had served as a consultant to CIA director James Woolsey. Then he returned to finance and was named chairman of America’s oldest investment banking firm, Alex Brown and Sons, Inc., which in 1997 merged with Bankers Trust. In 1999, BT Alex Brown was in turn acquired by Deutsche Bank, the firm that placed the UAL put options.
What about the pre-9/11 surge in call options for Raytheon, for instance, or the spike in put options for the behemoth Morgan Stanley, which had offices in the South Tower?
And what of the Greenbergs insurance firm, Marsh & McLennan (also on the list, along with AIG), whose offices in the North Tower took the full impact of American Airlines Flight 11, and which also saw the second highest spike in pre-9/11 put option activity, second only to United Airlines?
The data shows that all of the 9/11-related put options were exercised, meaning that pay-outs occurred for each and every stock option. This was also confirmed by no less than Joseph Cella, the SEC official who headed up the SEC insider trading probe.
The trader was none other than Wirt Walker III, a distant cousin to then-President G.W. Bush. Several days before 9/11, Walker and his wife Sally purchased 56,000 shares of stock in Stratesec, one of the companies that provided security at the World Trade Center up until the day of the attacks.
Notably, Stratesec also provided security at Dulles International Airport, where AA 77 took off on 9/11, and also security for United Airlines, which owned two of the other three allegedly hijacked aircraft. At the time, Walker was a director of Stratesec.
Although in 2001 the US insurance industry as a whole suffered through one of its worst years on record, AIG’s immense profitability continued and hardly lost a beat.
Whereas the rest of the industry paid out some $40 billion in insurance settlements as a result of the 9/11 attacks, AIG reported a handsome $5.36 billion profit for the year; which was only a slight decline from the $5.64 billion profit AIG posted in 2000.
Even subtracting Marsh & McLennan’s $126 million in losses, the Greenberg family beat the trends in 2001.
2001 October 7
President George W. Bush announced that the United States had begun military action in Afghanistan. The military operation was code-named Enduring Freedom.
By mid-March 2002, the Taliban had been removed from power, and the Al Qaeda network in Afghanistan was severely damaged.
2001-Robert Stevens died from anthrax on October 4, 2001. Stevens was a photo editor for The Sun, a supermarket tabloid housed in the AMI office building in Florida. According to media reports, the Florida anthrax letters carried a postal paper trail showing it was sent to the National Enquirer at it's former address, but then got forwarded to the American Media, Inc., office in Boca Raton.
The AMI offices housed both the National Enquirer and The Sun.
National Enquirer had run photos of George Bush's daughter, Jenna, falling down drunk. Four to six months before 911, these tabloids were having a field day with publishing photos of Bush's daughters and their drunken escapades; papa Bush wasn't too happy.
Anthrax was sent to Democratic Senators Leahy and Senator Majority leader Tom Daschle, who were dragging their feet on the Patriot Act. Both Senators reversed their foot dragging after these mailings, and the Act passed. 9/11 and anthrax attacks killed many Americans.
2001-Also like the WMD, and Libby, Judith Miller was called upon to spread the word by her daily scaring articles, and she publishes a book titled "Germs..." on Oct. 2, 2001. This was about 10 days after the first mailings, which were one week after 9/11.
Army Secretary Thomas E. White, who left Enron in May 2001, gets appointed by the Pentagon Interim Department of Defense Executive Agent for Homeland Security, one day after her book is published,
2004-About a week prior to Thomas E. White leaving the position as Army Secretary, David Rustine buys the American Media building in Florida, the former headquarters of the National Enquirer also in Florida, which sustained an Anthrax attack.
"Rustine bought it for $40,000 in title under his firm, Crown Co. Crown which in turn was bought subsequently by another of his firms, Bio-ONE.
“Rustine planned to destroy 4.5 million pictures — including a photo of Elvis Presley in his coffin — along with 305,000 pounds of other materials that have all been kept in sealed storage since the attacks. Several photographers objected, and Rustine agreed to decontaminate the items
2004 Giuliani forms a company with the SAME (Bio-ONE.) name (though different company). Sabre Technical Services, which decontaminated two post offices and the Hart Senate Building after other anthrax attacks in 2001, joined Giuliani Partners to create Bio-ONE.”
Rudy announces that he wants to lease the facilities at the American Media building, but has to first decontaminate it, i.e., destroy the anthrax, or more apropos, in context, the evidence.
However, a party who owned a box of photographs which was thought to harbor Anthrax too, would not allow it to be decontaminated.
Of all the hundreds of thousands of buildings in America to lease, he picked out the only one sealed off because of anthrax, and then changed his mind about leasing it, when he could not access ALL of the anthrax.
———2007 After the American Media building in Boca Raton was given a green-light regarding anthrax in 2007, Rudy on Larry King, announced his Presidential ambitions.
Who completed the work on the American Media building? Marcor
Marcor was the first contractor to arrive for the 9/11 World Trade Center forensic recovery effort at Fresh Kill Landfill, and was the last to leave the scene. Marcor worked closely with the New York City police department..."
What are the odds that Marcor, out of hundreds of thousands of contractors, would be the first and last on the scene of 9/11, and ALSO be the firm that would destroy all of the anthrax evidence in the American Media building?
Public records show Rustine later sold the building for $9.29 million in May 2007″.And this unexplainably exorbitant profit was made not too long before the Florida market went bust…
2001 October 17
The Capital shuts down amidst an Anthrax scare. Persons in Florida and New York have already tested positive for the frequently fatal bacteria. Bush calls for $1.5 billion to fight bioterrorism.
2001-December 2
The Enron Corporation files for Chapter Eleven bankruptcy protection, the largest bankruptcy case in American history.
2001-DARPA was sponsoring a surveillance program to collect data on U.S. citizens without their knowledge or consent by using their medical records. The ostensible purpose of that program was to develop algorithms that could detect a bioweapons attack based on real-time data input.
The Bio-Event Advanced Leading Indicator Recognition Technology, or Bio-ALIRT, is at the heart of what Dark Winter co-author, Dr. Tara O’Toole, calls the “information supply chain.” O’Toole, who now works for the CIA’s venture capital arm In-Q-Tel, is known for her longstanding promotion of mass surveillance in the name of “public health”
DARPA’s partners in this Orwellian endeavor were, perhaps unsurprisingly, recurring actors in the arena of biological attack simulations, from Johns Hopkins to the University of Pittsburgh – the Biosecurity centers of which were both previously run by O’Toole – and defense industry giants, General Dynamics and IBM.
2001-June , the U.S. military was preparing for a “Dark Winter.” At Andrews Air Force Base in Camp Springs, Maryland, several Congressmen, a former CIA director, a former FBI director, government insiders and privileged members of the press met to conduct a biowarfare simulation that would precede both the September 11 attacks and the 2001 Anthrax attacks by a matter of months. It specifically simulated the deliberate introduction of smallpox to the American public by a hostile actor.
The simulation was a collaborative effort led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies (part of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security) in collaboration with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Analytic Services (ANSER) Institute for Homeland Security and the Oklahoma National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism.
The concept, design and script of the simulation were created by Tara O’Toole and Thomas Inglesby of the Johns Hopkins Center along with Randy Larsen and Mark DeMier of ANSER. The name for the exercise derives from a statement made by Robert Kadlec, who participated in the script created for the exercise, when he states that the lack of smallpox vaccines for the U.S. populace means that “it could be a very dark winter for America.”
Kadlec, a veteran of the George W. Bush administration and a former lobbyist for military intelligence/intelligence contractors, lead HHS’ Covid-19 response and led the Trump administration’s 2019 “Crimson Contagion” exercises, which simulated a crippling pandemic influenza outbreak in the U.S. that had first originated in China.
Kadlec’s professional history, shows he has a decades-old obsession with apocalyptic bioweapon attack scenarios
2001-January 3 – First Lady Hillary Clinton is sworn in as United States Senator from New York
2001- President George W. Bush’s signing of the Patriot Act, which would give the National Security Agency broad authority to extract and mine search-log data. President Bush said on October 26, 2001, the day he signed the act into law. “The American people need to know that we’re collecting a lot of information and we’re spending a great deal of time trying to gather as much intelligence as we possibly can, to chase down every lead, to run down every hint so that we can keep America safe. And it’s happening.”
2001- Shortly before introducing Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton to C. Boyden Gray one week after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and asking Gray “to become the John Adams of the INSLAW case” and represent INSLAW simply because it was the right thing to do, Murphy said something to Hamilton that Hamilton now suspects may have been an allusion to the use of the NSA bank surveillance version of PROMIS to launder drug profits.
In September 2001, Murphy, who had served as Chief of Staff to Vice President Bush during the first term of the Reagan Administration when the PROMIS misappropriations began, told Hamilton that it was his “hunch” that there was still another use of PROMIS that INSLAW had not yet discovered, that it “involves something so seriously wrong that money alone cannot cure the problem,” and that the government might never compensate INSLAW unless they discover that additional use of PROMIS.
Admiral Murphy passed away suddenly several days later on September 21, 2001.
Bill Hamilton later mentioned that the “other” use of PROMIS may have involved laundering money from drug profits. He said he believed that “the main role of the Cabazon/Wackenhut Joint Venture was connected to government-sanctioned drug trafficking and money laundering by organized crime groups like the Gambino Family and groups like the Contras, and that Michael Riconoscuito’s job was to help these groups access NSA’s bank surveillance version of PROMIS to launder the proceeds from the drug sales.
Certainly one possibility but the larger purpose might be financing the shadow governments control over the legal government through bribes and extortion over information obtained with PROMIS
2001- NSA engineers built Mainway supposedly after September 11, 2001. Vice President Dick Cheney’s office had drafted orders, signed by President George W. Bush. The assignment, forbidden by statute, was to track telephone calls made and received by Americans on American soil.
Mainway came to life alongside Stellarwind, the domestic surveillance program created by Cheney. Stellarwind defined the operation; Mainway was a tool to carry it out.
When NSA director Mike Hayden received the execution order on October 4, 2001 for “the vice president’s special program,” NSA engineers assembled a system from bare metal and borrowed code within a matter of days, a stupendous achievement under pressure.
They commandeered 50 state-of-the-art computer servers from Dell, which was about to ship them to another customer, and lashed them into a quick and dirty but powerful cluster. Hayden cleared out space in a specially restricted wing of OPS 2B, an inner sanctum of the gleaming, mirrored headquarters complex at Fort Meade, Maryland. When the cluster expanded, incorporating some 200 machines, Mainway spilled into an annex in the Tordella Supercomputer Facility nearby. Trusted lieutenants began calling in a small group of analysts, programmers, and mathematicians on October 6 and 7.
On Columbus Day, October 8, Hayden briefed them on their new jobs in a specially compartmented new operation. That day he called it Starburst. The Stellarwind cryptonym replaced it soon afterward. During the same holiday weekend, Hayden dispatched personnel from Special Source Operations to negotiate the secret purchase of telephone data in bulk from companies including AT&T and Verizon. The price would surpass $102 million in the coming five years.
Stellarwind was designated as ECI, “exceptionally controlled information,” the most closely held classification of all. From his West Wing office, Cheney ordered that Stellarwind be concealed from the judges of the FISA Court and from members of the intelligence committees in Congress.
Mainway soon became the NSA’s most important tool for mapping social networks—an anchor of what the agency called Large Access Exploitation. “Large” is not an adjective in casual use at Fort Meade. Mainway was built for operations at stupendous scale. Other systems parsed the contents of intercepted communications: voice, video, email and chat text, attachments, pager messages, and so on. Mainway was queen of metadata, foreign and domestic, designed to find patterns that content did not reveal.
Beyond that, Mainway was a prototype for still more ambitious plans. Next-generation systems, their planners wrote, could amplify the power of surveillance by moving “from the more traditional analysis of what is collected to the analysis of what to collect.” Patterns gleaned from call records would identify targets in email or location databases, and vice versa. Metadata was the key to the NSA’s plan to “identify, track, store, manipulate and update relationships” across all forms of intercepted content.
An integrated map, presented graphically, would eventually allow the NSA to display nearly anyone’s movements and communications on a global scale. In their first mission statement, planners gave the project the unironic name “the Big Awesome Graph.” Inevitably it acquired a breezy acronym, “the BAG.”
Mainway, or the Mainway Precomputed Contact Chaining Service, is an analytic tool for contact chaining. It’s helping analysts do target discovery by enabling them to quickly and easily navigate the increasing volumes of global communications metadata.
Former NSA deputy director John C. Inglis testified to Congress in 2013 that NSA analysts typically “go out two or three hops” when they chain through the call database. For context, data scientists estimated decades ago that it would take no more than six hops to trace a path between any two people on Earth. Their finding made its way into popular culture in Six Degrees of Separation, the play by John Guare
Only 22 top officials, according to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, had authority to order a contact chain to be built from data in Mainway’s FISA partitions.
Richard Nixon had ordered wiretaps of his political enemies. The FBI, judging Martin Luther King Jr. a “dangerous and effective Negro,” used secret surveillance to record his sexual liaisons. A top lieutenant of J. Edgar Hoover invited King to kill himself or face exposure.
Meaningful abuse of surveillance had come much more recently. The FBI illegally planted hundreds of GPS tracking devices without warrants. New York police spied systemically on mosques. Governments at all levels used the power of the state most heavy-handedly, sometimes illegally, to monitor communities disadvantaged by poverty, race, religion, ethnicity, and immigration status.
Regardless, the tools to develop Total Information Awareness were ready, for a government willing to use them regardless of law
2000’s Tor had come out of a joint US Navy–DARPA military project in the early 2000s and continued to rely on a series of federal contracts after it was spun off into a private nonprofit. This funding came from the Pentagon, the State Department, and at least one organization that derived from the CIA. These contracts added up to several million dollars a year and, most years, accounted for more than 90 percent of Tor’s operating budget. Tor was a federal military contractor. It even had its own federal contracting number.
2001-The hijackers had been in regular contact with two employees of a Saudi aviation firm that operated a fleet of Boeing airliners. The firm was Dallah Avco, a Saudi operator of multiple private Boeing airliners.
Congressional investigators had already linked Dallah Avco with the actual hijackers. Omar Bayoumi, a Dallah employee and operative within the Saudi Ministry of Aviation, had provided housing and basic support for three hijackers: Nawaf al-Hazmi, Khalid al-Mihdhar and the pilot/hijacker of American 77, Hani Hanjour. Dallah Avco is a Saudi defense firm with close ties to the Ministry of Defense and Aviation
Dallah Avco is at the heart of the 9/11 plot, through a Saudi intelligence operative named Omar al-Bayoumi. As widely reported by EIR, al-Bayoumi was an employee of the Saudi Ministry of Defense and Aviation in Saudi Arabia until 1994, when he moved to the San Diego, California area and was hired by Dallah Avco. Al-Bayoumi was a no-show employee at Dallah Avco, and his salary and expenses were reimbursed to Dallah by the Saudi Ministry of Defense and Aviation.
Al-Bayoumi, and another Saudi named Osama Basnan, were Saudi intelligence operatives. From Jan. 15, 2000, the day that two of the lead 9/11 hijackers arrived at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) from Malaysia, where they had attended an al-Qaeda planning session, al-Bayoumi and Basnan were the sponsors and handlers of the terrorist duo. Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdar were met near LAX by al-Bayoumi and Basnan, brought to San Diego, set up in an apartment co-signed by the two Saudi intelligence agents, enrolled in flight schools, and otherwise totally supported by them.
For a period of time, the two future hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77 lived in the same Parkwood Apartments complex in San Diego as Basnan and al-Bayoumi
Pinal had airworthy 757s and 767s parked in the spring and summer of 2001, just when the hijacker/pilots had all flown into Las Vegas and disappeared for three days at a time. Three different sources, all pilots under government contractors, immediately pointed to a famous spook airport used by the government contractor and mercenary outfit Blackwater**.
They relayed that there were frequent flight training missions being conducted in the middle of the night with military and civilian airplanes in top-secret fashion and that this particular airport had nearly one hundred airliners scattered around the field in storage.
The Pinal Airpark, owned by Evergreen International Airlines and storing Dallah Avco planes, had a curious history as a training airport for the Intelligence Community** dating back to Air America**, the alleged CIA** operation that was allegedly trafficking heroin in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, who wrote Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army had also discovered this airport and identified it as an Intelligence Community** facility.
Scahill wrote that a top Intelligence Community official** appointed by Bush in June 2001 as the Director of Operations of Central Intelligence (A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard ) was closely connected to this airport’s managers, to contracts from the Intelligence Community**, to the owner of Blackwater and to several no-bid aviation-related training contractors. Alarmingly, this same official** was the former head of the same investment firm that had enjoyed astronomical stock profits as a result of the attack.
Scahill reported that this investment firm had placed put options (a trade that predicts a stock price drop) on only two airlines in the week preceding the attack. Those airlines were United and American, the only two airlines used in the attack.
There were other rather large commodities trades on gold and oil by the firm. Obviously, if he was the contract official, and knew about the Saudi operation and tactical plan, he would know that American and United were the targeted airlines. This temptation may have been too difficult to overcome. Alone it might be a weird coincidence, but when we start adding this to a dozen similar coincidences, we begin to see a most troubling pattern.
The Congressional Inquiry and the 911 Commission both reported that each of the pilot/hijackers who were training in Florida made separate trips to the Arizona desert from May to August of 2001. Meanwhile, the San Diego hijackers suddenly moved to Arizona in December 2000, two days after George W. Bush was declared to be the President following the vote recount fiasco in Florida.
The tooth hanging on a chain around the neck of A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard came, according to legend, from a Great White shark that he had punched in the jaw. The shark’s picture was hung in the office of the number-three man at CIA, who was appointed executive director in March 2001, six months prior to 9/11.
Krongard was appointed after a career in which he was credited with building up one of America’s oldest and most successful investment banking firms, Alex. Brown. Imagine the possibilities for a man with complete access to secret government intelligence and endless connections in stock and commodities trading.
A Princeton alum, an ex-Marine and the legendary puncher of the Great White, Krongard was rumored to have been working with the CIA during his entire tenure with Alex. Brown. Scahill reported that the strange mix of high finance and CIA connections led Krongard to push for a new firm within the agency that would specialize in intelligence venture capitalism – in other words, a unit that could take real monetary bets on future trends and events, including, for example, the next big terrorist attack. And according to a former Blackwater executive, Buzzy Krongard and Blackwater CEO Erik Prince are “good buddies.”
In his book Blackwater, investigative author Jeremy Scahill reported that the first nobid contract was handed to Blackwater from CIA through Buzzy Krongard in April 2002, a $5.4 million no-bid deal to provide 20 security guards at the Kabul CIA station for six months. Krongard stated that he talked to Prince about the contract, but couldn’t remember who called whom and “was not sure which came first, the chicken or the egg.”
But wait: Blackwater and the CIA are major players at Arizona’s Pinal Airpark, where covert training is conducted and where Boeing 757s and Boeing 767s were parked during the spring and summer of 2001. The Blackwater CEO has his fleet of airplanes training at Pinal and now Buzzy Krongard is linked to a major worldwide investment firm. These connections come to the forefront when we consider a series of strange stock trades involving United and American airlines.
The roster of Saudi officials in the United States on September 11 raises more red flags. These included the Saudi Defense Minister, the Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Saudi Minister of Aviation and the head of Dallah Avco Group, the Saudi aviation firm that operated Boeing jetliners for the Saudi government. This was in addition to Saudi Prince Bandar the close friend of President Bush, who was sending checks to two hijackers’ bank accounts and who was the Saudi Ambassador to the United States on 9/11.
Also, the head of two of Saudi Arabia’s holiest mosques stayed at the same hotel as the all-Saudi hijackers of AA77 – at the Marriott Residence Inn in Herndon, Virginia – on the night of September 10. In the week after the attack, there were at least five chartered flights with high-ranking Saudi officials that left from Las Vegas, Newark, Boston and Washington, all cities, by the way, with direct links to the hijackings. By September 24, 2001, they had all returned home to The Kingdom.
2001-American scientists were developing a sensor system for the detection of anthrax and botulinum toxin called BASIS (Biological Aerosol Sentry and Information Systems). The results of the tests conducted on this new sensor system showed that it was highly prone to generating false positives and was, therefore, worthless beyond the ability to “induce the very panic and social disruption it is intended to thwart“, according to the Livermore Laboratory, which nevertheless marketed BASIS as a tool to “guard the air we breathe.”
BASIS had returned two positive results for the deadly neurotoxin at the White House. BASIS had lived up to its reputation as a great panic-inducing mechanism when the supposed botulinum toxin hits were determined to have been false positives. This led to George W. Bush’s subsequent deployment of the system in thirty cities throughout the country under the auspices of the newly-minted Department of Homeland Security as part of a program called Bio-Watch.
BASIS relies on the CDC’s Laboratory Response Network (LRN) to identify the biological agents trapped by its sensors. The Bio-Watch program is plagued by bureaucratic and logistical problems, which further undermine any potential public health benefits.
2002-Based on the concept of predictive policing, TIA aimed to digitally collect detailed information about individuals in order to anticipate and prevent crimes before they were committed. TIA was the aim of the Information Awareness Office (IAO) established by DARPA in 2002.
Shortly after 9/11, Brian Sharkey, chief technology officer at SAIC and deputy director of the Information Systems Office (ISO) at DARPA, teamed up with John Poindexter to propose the Total Information Awareness (TIA) surveillance program.
The IAO was headed by Admiral John Poindexter, former United States National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan. Poindexter was convicted in April 1990 of multiple felonies as a result of his actions in the Iran–Contra affair, but his convictions were reversed on appeal in 1991. According to David Teacher, besides the channels to Reagan via CIA director William Casey, Le Cercle and Brian Crozier’s 6I also liaised directly with Reagan’s successive National Security Advisors, Dick Allen, William P. Clark, Bud McFarlane and Poindexter
Following public criticism that this technology could potentially lead to a mass surveillance system, the IAO was defunded by Congress in 2003. However, several IAO projects continued to be funded and merely run under different names, as revealed by Edward Snowden during the course of the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures.
TIA was purportedly shut down in 2003 due to public opposition after the program was exposed in the media, but the following year Poindexter participated in the Pentagons Highlands Group. Although the TIA program was formally suspended, its data mining software was later adopted by other government agencies, with only superficial changes being made.
Companies that were contracted to work on TIA included the Science Applications International, Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin, Schafer Corporation, SRS Technologies, Adroit Systems, CACI Dynamic Systems, ASI Systems International, and Syntek Technologies
Facial recognition, location tracking, ambient social apps on GPS-enabled devices, Google Street View, digital footprints, and data mining are some key elements in information awareness.”
According to Newton Lee, author of Facebook Nation, platforms like Facebook, Google, Twitter and YouTube are leading the way towards Total Information Awareness (TIA), a mass detection program by the United States Information Awareness Office established by DARPA in 2002.
2002- Enron - an energy trading company - had created a gold bullion and gold derivatives trading operation. After Enron went bankrupt, Enron On-Line was bought by UBS. There is the possibility that this asset was being jettisoned because it contained trails of the transfer of assets abroad.
The former Chairman of Enron’s disgraced accounting firm Arthur Anderson became a board member of the Swiss UBS bank. Enron’s financial affiliates were also accused of manipulating the gold market by GATA. Enron had become a major distribution channel for gold derivatives such as those sold by Barrick Gold.
Questions were being asked about whether or not there were real gold mining operations to back the derivatives. The FBI led an investigation into gold price-fixing, and the records of this investigation were kept in the FBI office on the 23rd floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. 9/11 helped prevent these records from becoming public knowledge.
Note that this was the same FBI office where the FBI’s Bin Laden investigator John Patrick O’Neill met his death on 9/11.
The Securities and Exchange Commission held an office in World Trade Center 7, adjacent to the twin towers. Although other neighboring buildings suffered minimal damage from the collapse of the towers, this building was literally vapourized.
On September 17th 2001, we came to know that the Securities and Exchange Commission had lost many files in the collapse of World Trade Center 7.
Why wasn’t Enron bailed out? When Enron went belly-up, the losses were vast, perhaps as much as $60 billion, but the losses were widely distributed among a lot of different institutions.
The company's two largest creditors, Citi and JPMorgan/Chase, well aware of the dodgy state of the company, had packaged up their Enron debt as "credit derivatives" and sold them on to pension funds.
So Enron's crash was not going to bring down the big banks or even damage their profits (which have remained good).
Catherine Austin Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and a past Managing Director of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon Read noted that Enron's trading patterns, internet money movements and [other activities] were consistent with a large-scale money laundering operation.
“The fact that subpoenas were not issued months ago to obtain all Enron Online off shore and onshore digital and paper trading records and corresponding bank records defies logic, unless one presumes that Enron's generous donations have bought them time for a shredding party that protects all the beneficiaries of the real dollars that flowed through the Enron money pipeline. ......
I will bet every last dollar I have that Enron was the largest laundromat of stolen and tax evading dollars in American history and that the Department of Justice's primary goal is cover-up --- to make sure that the money trail disappears forever."
2002-The Houston office building that housed both Enron and Halliburton corporate headquarters was owned by Trizec Hahn. Trizec Hahn was a merger of Peter Munk's (Barrick Gold) and the Canadian Bronfman family:
Barrick was controlled by Peter Munk, who was set up as chairman, he claimed, by Adnan Khashoggi who owned the company stock.
CEO's of both companies (Kenneth Lay and Dick Cheney ) are close associates of the Bush family, whose relationship to the founder of Barrick– Adnan Khashoggi – are extensive and stretched over at least two decades.
Barrick is also directly linked to UBS and the German bank cartel, through use of it's subsidiary gold refinery: Argor-Heraeus S.A.
Owership of this refinery was transferred from UBS to Commerzbank, also part of the German bank cartel in 1999.
Barrick's gold is refined to market delivery standards by MKS Finance S.A. in Switzerland and Argor-Heraeus S.A. also in Switzerland
Also on the Barrick Board was former Canadian Deutschebank executive Tye W. Burt - the former Chairman of Deutsche Bank Canada and Deutsche Bank Alex Brown Securities Canada, and Managing Director and Head of Deutsche Bank's Global Metals and Mining Group.
Burt was involved when the Canadian Deutschebank backed Khashoggi in the 2001 MJK Securities fraud. Burt left the bank shortly after the fraud was discovered.
Note also, two of the initial big investors in Barrick – Khashoggi and Bronfman – used the same personal financial advisor: Mayo Shattuck of the Deutschebank Alex Brown. Mayo Shattuck was the chief assistant to Buzzy Krongard when he worked at Deutschebank Alex Brown.
Both, through their executive roles at Deutschebank Alex Brown were in a position to be familiar with the Khashoggi/Marcos gold deposits at that Bank.
Krongard managed the merger between Bankers Trust and Deutschebank Alex Brown, and that Banker's Trust is the bank that received significant amounts of the Marcos gold with the assistance of Khashoggi.
The Deutsche Bank was identified as a major gold trading partner with Barrick in both the Blanchard and Howe law suits.
Enron - an energy trading company - had created a gold bullion and gold derivatives trading operation. When Enron went bankrupt, Enron On-Line was bought by UBS.
2002-In June the National Science Foundation published a major 482-page report called, Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance.
It called for the integration of four branches of physical science for the sole purpose of enhancing the human condition. Specifically, the converging disciplines are Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science, and they have given rise to the acronym NBIC.
November 2002: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC) researcher Ralph Baric publishes a “breakthrough work” in gain-of-function research (studies that alter pathogens to make them more transmissible or deadly, see Notes above), describing the creation of a synthetic clone of a natural mouse coronavirus.
November 2002: China’s Guangdong province reports the first case of “atypical pneumonia” (later labeled as SARS).
2002, DARPA has acknowledged its efforts to create a “Brain-Machine Interface(BMI).” Though first aimed at creating “a wireless brain modem for a freely moving rat,” which would allow the animal’s movements to be remotely controlled, DARPA wasn’t shy about the eventual goal of applying such brain “enhancement” to humans.
Work began in 2011 on developing “brain implants” for use in humans, and such implants have been tested on human volunteers in DARPA-funded experiments since at least 2015.
2002, Trump described Epstein as a “terrific guy and said he had known Epstein “for 15 years,” which would date their friendship as beginning around 1987.
2002- Senator Wellstone killed in plane crash 11 days before election. A longtime nemesis of Poppy and W the liberal Democrat was a well-publicized opponent of the war resolution, the only Senator in a tight election race to vote against it.
May 16, 2002
Congress presses the Bush administration for further information about warnings of the September 11, 2001, attacks. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice holds a briefing, maintaining,
“I don’t think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon.”
She insists that there was no lapse in intelligence.
2002-The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States was established on November 27, by President George W. Bush and the United States Congress, with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger initially appointed to head the commission.
However, Kissinger resigned only weeks after being appointed, to avoid conflicts of interest.
Former U.S. Senator George Mitchell was originally appointed as the vice chairman, but he stepped down on December 10, 2002, not wanting to sever ties to his law firm.
On December 15, 2002, Bush appointed former New Jersey Governor Tom Kean to head the commission.
The members of The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
By the spring of 2003, the commission was off to a slow start, needing additional funding to help it meet its target day for the final report, of May 27, 2004.
In late March, the Bush administration agreed to provide an additional $9 million for the commission, though this was $2 million short of what the commission requested.The first hearings were held from March 31 to April 1, 2003, in New York City. The report was completed in 2004
The commission was criticized for alleged conflicts of interest on the part of commissioners and staff (e.g., Philip D. Zelikow, 9/11 Commission Executive Director/Chair in 1995 co-authored a book with Condoleezza Rice. Further, the commission's report has been the subject of criticism by both commissioners themselves and by others
John Farmer, Jr., senior counsel to the Commission stated that the Commission "discovered that...what government and military officials had told Congress, the Commission, the media, and the public about who knew what when — was almost entirely, and inexplicably, untrue."
Farmer continues: "At some level of the government, at some point in time … there was a decision not to tell the truth about what happened...The [NORAD] tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public."
Thomas Kean, the head of the 9/11 Commission, concurred: "We to this day don’t know why NORAD told us what they told us, it was just so far from the truth."
Director of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) George Tenet misled the Commission and was "obviously not forthcoming" in his testimony to the Commission, according to Commission Co-chair Thomas
2002-January 19, President Bush announced a $15 billion package to combat AIDS, including a $500 million program to purchase millions of doses of Nevirapine for distribution to African mothers and children.
Dr. Fauci told the President that Nevirapine would save millions of lives by preventing maternal transmission of HIV to unborn children.
President Bush would later repeat this promise in his 2003 State of the Union address. Dr. Fauci’s artful 1988 achievement of winning FDA approvals for AZT had launched the AIDS drug gold rush.
Nevirapine was German pharmaceutical giant Boehringer Ingelheim’s beachhead in the race. Boehringer had apparently lifted Nevirapine from the same toxic junk pile from which Burroughs Wellcome had retrieved AZT.
Canadian regulators rejected Nevirapine—in 1996 and 1998—due to its potent toxicity and dubious efficacy.
Dr. Fauci apparently neglected to tell President Bush that Nevirapine had never won FDA approval as a safe and effective drug. “Dr. Fauci had to know all about the safety problems, but he must have either omitted or whitewashed them when he sold the program to Bush,”
2002 March , Boehringer Ingelheim consequently pulled its supplemental FDA application for Nevirapine’s approval, and the Johns Hopkins/NIAID team closed the scandal-ridden Uganda study site.
Dr. Fauci had persuaded the president to make the abolishment of African AIDS his moonshot project, his career legacy, and Nevirapine was the foundation stone of that project.
The severe embarrassment to the president and to the NIH would also engulf Uganda’s Makerere University, Boehringer, the investigators and their employers (Johns Hopkins University), and Family Health International (FHI)—the organization responsible for monitoring the trial.
It would antagonize the South African government, whose drug regulatory agency, the Medicines Control Council (MCC), permitted the distribution of Nevirapine under duress based solely on the fraudulent results of the Uganda study published in Lancet in 1999.
But Nevirapine was Tony Fauci’s baby. He had staked his credibility with the president on the success of this trial. Like AZT, Nevirapine was therefore too big to fail. Such desperate circumstances summoned Teflon Tony to perform his greatest magic act: resurrect the dead.
September 4, 2002
Seeking support for action against Iraq, President Bush addresses Congress, identifying Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein as “a serious threat.” Bush mentions the concept of a regime change and announces the visit of British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the days to come. House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-TX) calls action in Iraq “inevitable.”
September 12, 2002
President Bush addresses the United Nations’ Security Council, making his case for military action to enforce UN resolutions in Iraq. Additionally, he warns that the United States will move alone if the Council does not act.
2003 (February) JASON group (scientific think tank) issues DARPA funded study report on Biotetection Architectures stating “It is essential to conduct realistic exercises of a biodetection architecture in order to assess technical capabilities and refine operational procedures .... useful exercise(s) should entail pre-defined tests of the system through a series of staged events.”
2003- In-Q-Tel funds Keyhole , the exact amount remains classified. The investment was finalized in early 2003, and it was made in partnership with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a major intelligence organization with 14,500 employees and a $5 billion budget whose job was to deliver satellite intelligence to the CIA and the Pentagon. Known by its alphabet-soup acronym “NGA,” the spy agency’s motto was: “Know the Earth… Show the Way… Understand the World.” The CIA and NGA were not just investors; they were also clients, and they involved themselves in customizing Keyhole’s virtual map product to meet their own needs.
Months after In-Q-Tel’s investment, Keyhole software was already integrated into operational service and deployed to support American troops during Operation Iraqi Freedom, the shock-and-awe campaign to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
2003, Google had begun customizing its search engine under special contract with the CIA for its Intelink Management Office, “overseeing top-secret, secret and sensitive but unclassified intranets for CIA and other IC agencies,” according to Homeland Security Today. That year, CIA funding was also being funneled through the NSF to projects that might help create “new capabilities to combat terrorism through advanced technology.”
2003-A year after Trump World Tower opened in 2002, Trump had agreed to let Miami father-and-son developers Gil and Michael Dezer use his name on the condominium towers, which attracted Russians moneny. “Russians love the Trump brand,” Dezer told Bloomberg.
Trump Tower in New York as well has received press attention for including among its many residents, tax-dodgers, bribers, arms dealers, convicted cocaine traffickers, and corrupt former FIFA officials. A typical example involves an illegal gambling operation that reportedly took up the entire 51st floor, run by the alleged Russian mobster Anatoly Golubchik, and Vadim Trincher, a dual citizen of the United States and Israel, as well as Trincher’s son Illya, and Hillel Nahmad, the son of a billionaire art dealer and heir of a descendant of a Jewish Lebanese art family, and another follower of Chabad-Lubavitch.
“This is the top of the top of the top in organized crime in Russia,” according to the prosecutor. The ring answered to Russian mob boss Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, whose organization the Interpol believes to be tied to Semion Mogilevich. Tokhtakhounov, who holds both Russian and Israeli citizenship, is one of the world’s most notorious Russian mafia bosses, known as “Little Taiwanese.” In 2008, Forbes named him the world’s third most wanted, after Osama bin Laden and el Chapo. He is accused of the bribing of judges in the 2002 Winter Olympics, in which a Canadian figure-skating team were denied their gold medal. Seven months after he was busted in 2013, he appeared near Trump in the VIP section of the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. Tokhtakhounov operated out of Trump Tower, just three floors down from Trump’s penthouse, what prosecutors called “an international gambling business that catered to oligarchs residing in the former Soviet Union and throughout the world.”
February 1, 2003
The seven-member crew of the shuttle Columbia dies in an explosion in space. Debris falls in Texas.
March 16, 2003
Taking military action in Iraq
After months of debate in the United Nations Security Council, President Bush announces the U.S. intention to move against Iraq with its coalition of allies. Bush issues an ultimatum for military action, giving Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his sons forty-eight hours to leave Iraq.
July 11, 2003
CIA Director George Tenet accepts full responsibility for the statement in Bush’s 2003 State of the Union Address regarding Iraq’s alleged effort to obtain uranium from Africa, saying its inclusion should not have been approved by the CIA because the intelligence was unsubstantiated and the claim had been discredited.
October 2, 2003
Chief U.S. Weapons Inspector David Kay reports that his 1,400 member team, the Iraq Survey Group, failed to find any biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons in Iraq. Kay acknowledged that they did find evidence that Iraq sought the capacity to create those weapons in the future. Bush used these findings as validation of his prewar claims that Iraq posed a significant security threat to the United States.
2003- Anthony Fauci personally owned patents to IL-2 and stood to make millions in royalties if the treatment won FDA approval.
Dr. Fishbein was shocked: “Dr. Fauci had a personal financial interest in the drug being tested! He was listed as a co-owner on the patent for Proleukin, and stood to earn royalties from it!”
According to little-known HHS rules at that time, NIH employees could collect unlimited royalty payments from drugs they worked on during their agency tenures.
Dr. Fishbein found it stunning that Dr. Fauci stood to personally gain significant revenues, providing HHS green-lighted Proleukin.
Contemporaneous records obtained by the AP found that some fifty-one NIH scientists were then involved in testing products for which they secretly receive royalties; Dr. Fauci and his trusty longtime sidekick, Dr. H. Clifford Lane, “have received tens of thousands of dollars in royalties for an experimental AIDS treatment they invented [interleukin-2].
At the same time, their office has spent millions in tax dollars to test the treatment on patients across the globe.”
2004-After 9/11 and the ensuing anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001, Dr. Fauci’s NIAID published, in February 2002, a 15-page document for the agency he oversaw at NIH. It was titled “NIAID Strategic Plan for Biodefense Research” and would kick start the NIAID efforts over the next 19 years to try and keep the country safe from bioterrorism.
On December 15, 2004, Dr. Fauci’s increased workload was recognized by a permanent pay adjustment (68% increase). To this day, Fauci’s portfolio still includes overseeing NIAID’s biodefense research, a portfolio that recently has grown by billions of dollars.
2004-George W. Bush’s administration offered his corporate friends a 5 percent tax rate instead of the normal 35 percent for companies repatriating cash.
Over $360 billion whooshed back to the country through this Bush loophole, under a claim that this would “provide jobs” as the capital returned home. Instead, however, much of it went into share buy-backs, boosting executive bonuses.
Corporations could continue to keep their money offshore, and it would mostly remain untaxed and outside of these controls unless they repatriated it. In the tax world, this is a concept known as deferral:
Every now and then they were allowed to bring this un-taxed offshore money back home through amnesties.
June 8, 2004
Attorney General John Ashcroft appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee to answer questions regarding two leaked government memoranda that contained legal arguments for circumventing U.S. and international bans on torture, specifically for the questioning of terrorist suspects.
2004-BUSH wins another election
How Bush-Cheney stole the 2000 election was a matter of obvious historical fact, confirmed by post-facto mainstream media reports of a Gore win, and detailed by numerous investigators such as Greg Palastin his book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
Voters complained about old machines and paper ballots.
Then came the “black box voting” machines.
In 2004 The American vote count was controlled by three major corporate players, Diebold, ESS, Sequoia, and a fourth, SAIC, Science Applications International. All four are hard-wired into the Bush power structure, the Bush crime family.
They were given millions of dollars by the Bush administration to complete a sweeping computerization of voting machines that were just used in the 2004 election.
The technology involved had a trial run during the 2002 mid-term elections. Georgia had Diebold machines in every precinct. As a result, a popular Democratic governor and senator were both unseated in what the media called an “amazing” 16 percent swing.
Diebold’s Walden O’Dell, a top Bush fundraiser, publicly committed himself to delivering his home state Ohio’s votes to Bush. At Diebold, the election division is run by Bob Urosevich. Bob’s brother, Todd, is a top executive at “rival” ES&S. The brothers were originally staked by Howard Ahmanson, a member of the Council For National Policy, a right-wing steering group stacked with Bush true believers.
The four companies are interconnected; they are not four “competitors”. Ahmanson has large stakes in ES&S, whose former CEO was Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska. When Hagel ran for office, his own company counted the votes, and his victory was considered “an amazing upset”.
Sequoia is the corporate parent of a private equity firm, Madison Dearborn, which is partner in the Carlyle Group. (Also see here.)
Meanwhile, SAIC is referred to a “shadowy defense contractor”.
They have gotten into the vote count game both directly and through spinoffs by its top brass, including Admiral Bill Owens, former military aide to Dick Cheney, and Carlyle Group honcho Frank Carlucci and ex-CIA chief Robert Gates.
SAIC’s history of fraud charges and security “lapses” haven’t prevented it from becoming one of the largest Pentagon and CIA contractors, and will doubtless encounter few obstacles in its entrance into the vote counting business.
The mad rush to install these unverifiable computers is driven by the Help America Vote Act, signed by Bush! The chief lobbying group pushing for the act (while we dumb asses sat out here and thought, ‘That sounds like a good idea!’) was a consortium of arms dealers including Northrup Grumman and Lockheed Martin.
2004- Thiel and his business partner Alex Karp met with John Poindexter in 2004, at the home of Richard Perle, another Andrew Marshall acolyte. “I told them I thought they had an interesting idea,” says Poindexter. After 9/11, co-founder Alex Karp had reconnected with Thiel, who had the idea that Silicon Valley should do something to improve national security and secure civil liberties.
Thiel and Karp then founded the CIA-backed Palantir Technologies, headquartered in Palo Alto, which specializes in big data analysis for the intelligence community, and which supposedly helped to locate Osama bin Laden. Thiel named the company after the crystal ball used by evil lord Sauron in The Lord of the Rings. Thiel saw Palantir as a “mission-oriented company” which could apply software similar to PayPal’s fraud recognition systems to “reduce terrorism while preserving civil liberties.”
Karp counts former CIA director George Tenet as a friend, as well as Tenet’s employer, Herb Allen, who runs Allen & Co, a Palantir investor. Thiel had also met with Gilman Louie of In-Q-Tel, securing the backing of the CIA. Poindexter also helped Palantir open doors, and to assemble “a legion of advocates from the most influential strata of government.”
Palantir’s clients included at least twelve groups within the U.S. government, including the CIA, DHS, NSA, FBI, CDC, the Marine Corps, the Air Force and Special Operations Command. Although the company denies the connection, the majority of security analysts are convinced that Palantir is the principal company behind the design of software used for the NSA’s PRISM program. PRISM’s existence was revealed when The Washington Post and The Guardian published leaked documents by Edward Snowden, which exposed the involvement of Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, Facebook, Paltalk, YouTube, AOL, Skype and Apple. A source told the Post that with PRISM, the NSA can “quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type.”
2004- Thiels’ Founders Fund was one of the earliest investors in Facebook. Facebook’s second round of funding came from venture capital firm Accel Partners. Accel’s manager James Breyer was formerly chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, and served on the board with Gilman Louie, CEO of In-Q-Tel. One of the Accel Partners’ key areas of expertise are in “data mining technologies.” Breyer and Louie also served on the board of R&D firm BBN Technologies, which was one of those companies responsible for the rise of the internet. In-Q-Tel’s board member Dr. Anita Jones also joined the firm.
2004- Tor Project had come out of Pentagon research and became a private nonprofit , but still relied almost entirely on federal and Pentagon contracts. Tor grudgingly conceded that they accepted government funding, but they remained adamant that they ran an independent organization that took orders from no one, especially not the dreaded federal government, which their anonymity tool was supposed to oppose. They repeatedly stressed that they would never put backdoors in the Tor network and told stories of how the US government had tried but failed to get Tor to tap its own network. They pointed to Tor’s open source code; if I was really worried about a backdoor, I was free to inspect the code for myself.
Tor, as well as the larger app-obsessed privacy movement that rallied around it after Snowden’s NSA leaks, does not thwart the power of the US government. It enhances it.
American spies and soldiers needed a way to use the Internet while hiding their tracks and cloaking their identity. It was a problem that researchers at the US Navy, which has historically been at the forefront of communications technology research and signals intelligence, were determined to solve.
They came up with a solution: called “the onion router” or Tor. It was a clever system: the navy set up a bunch of servers and linked them together in a parallel network that sat atop the normal Internet. All covert traffic was redirected through this parallel network; once inside it was bounced around and scrambled in such a way as to obfuscate where it was going and from where it came. It used the same principle as money laundering: shifting information packets from one shell Tor node to another until it is impossible to figure out where the data came from.
To truly hide spies and soldiers, Tor needed to distance itself from its Pentagon roots and include as many different users as possible. Activists, students, corporate researchers, soccer moms, journalists, drug dealers, hackers, child pornographers, agents of foreign intelligence services, terrorists.
Tor was like a public square—the bigger and more diverse the group assembled there, the better spies could hide in the crowd. In 2004, Dingledine struck out on his own, spinning the military onion routing project into a nonprofit corporation called the Tor Project and, while still funded by DARPA and the navy, began scratching around for private funding.
He got help from an unexpected ally: the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which gave Tor almost a quarter million dollars to keep it going while Dingledine looked for other private sponsors. The EFF even hosted Tor’s website. To download the app, users had to browse to tor.eff.org, where they’d see a reassuring message from the EFF: “Your traffic is safer when you use Tor.”
Despite Tor’s public insistence it would never put in any backdoors that gave the US government secret privileged access to Tor’s network, the correspondence shows that in at least one instance in 2007, Tor revealed a security vulnerability to its federal backer before alerting the public, potentially giving the government an opportunity to exploit the weakness to unmask Tor users before it was fixed.
The funding record tells the story even more precisely. Aside from Google paying a handful of college students to work at Tor via the company’s Summer of Code program, Tor was subsisting almost exclusively on government contracts. By 2008, that included contracts with DARPA, the navy, the BBG, and the State Department as well as Stanford Research Institute’s Cyber-Threat Analytics program. Run by the US Army, this initiative had come out of the NSA’s Advanced Research and Development Activity division—a “sort of national laboratory for eavesdropping and other spycraft” is how James Bamford describes it in The Shadow Factory.
Another red flag was its Silicon Valley support. Privacy groups funded by companies like Google and Facebook, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Fight for the Future, were some of Tor’s biggest and most dedicated backers. Google had directly bankrolled its development, paying out generous grants to college students who worked at Tor during their summer vacations.
Why would an Internet company whose entire business rested on tracking people online promote and help develop a powerful privacy tool? Something didn’t add up. As I dug into the technical details of how Tor worked, I quickly realized that the Tor Project offers no protection against the private tracking and profiling Internet companies carry out.
Tor works only if people are dedicated to maintaining a strict anonymous Internet routine: using only dummy email addresses and bogus accounts, carrying out all financial transactions in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and never mentioning their real name in emails or messages. For the vast majority of people on the Internet—those who use Gmail, interact with Facebook friends, and shop on Amazon—Tor does nothing. The moment you log into your personal account—whether on Google, Facebook, eBay, Apple, or Amazon—you reveal your identity. These companies know who you are. They know your name, your shipping address, your credit card information. They continue to scan your emails, map your social networks, and compile dossiers. Tor or not, once you enter your account name and password, Tor’s anonymity technology becomes useless.
Tor’s ineffectiveness against Silicon Valley surveillance made it an odd program for Snowden and other privacy activists to embrace. After all, Snowden’s leaked documents revealed that anything Internet companies had, the NSA had as well. I was puzzled, but at least I understood why Tor had backing from Silicon Valley: it offered a false sense of privacy, while not posing a threat to the industry’s underlying surveillance business model.
2004, the same year Google went public, Brin and Page bought the company Keyhole outright, CIA investors and all. They then absorbed the company into Google’s growing Internet applications platform. Keyhole was reborn as Google Earth.
When Google bought Keyhole, it also acquired an In-Q-Tel executive named Rob Painter, who came with deep connections to the world of intelligence and military contracting, including US Special Operations, the CIA, and major defense firms like Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin.
At Google, Painter was planted in a new dedicated sales and lobbying division called Google Federal, located in Reston, Virginia, a short drive from the CIA’s headquarters in Langley. His job at Google was to help the company grab a slice of the lucrative military-intelligence contracting market.
2004 Feb 4, The Pentagon canceled its so-called LifeLog project, an ambitious effort to build a database tracking a person's entire existence.
Run by Darpa, the Defense Department's research arm, LifeLogaimed to gather in a single place just about everything an individual says, sees or does: the phone calls made, the TV shows watched, the magazines read, the plane tickets bought, the e-mail sent and received. Out of this seemingly endless ocean of information, computer scientists would plot distinctive routes in the data, mapping relationships, memories, events and experiences.
LifeLog's backers said the all-encompassing diary could have turned into a near-perfect digital memory, giving its users computerized assistants with an almost flawless recall of what they had done in the past. But civil libertarians immediately pounced on the project when it debuted last spring, arguing that LifeLog could become the ultimate tool for profiling potential enemies of the state.
On same day Zuckerberg at Harvard set up Facebook. In June former Napster and Plaxo employee Sean Parker, who assumed himself as the “President” of Facebook was seeking investors for Facebook. He approached Reid Hoffma, CEO of LinkedIn who declined to invest in the social media platform “because of the potential for conflict of interest with his duties as LinkedIn CEO.”
He redirected Parker to Peter Thiel who he knew from the days of PayPal (both are considered as the members of PayPal Mafia). Parker and Mark really got along and Thiel agreed to back Facebook.
2004- Bush Junior signed another Executive Order that paved the way for more defined Intelligence Community authority. EO 13355 insures that all intelligence goes through one man, the Director of National Intelligence, before it gets to the President.
Today, as a result, the Intelligence Community is basically running the United States Government. This would be called a revolution away from our Constitution. The people who have made these changes are, by Constitutional definition, domestic enemies.
2004December 11, Gary Webb died from two gunshot wounds to the head, shots described in media reports as self-inflicted, an unprecedented feat.
In 1996, prize-winning investigative journalist Gary Webb wrote a series for the San Jose Mercury News that linked North’s project to the CIA and further to the distribution of crack cocaine in the 1980s into Los Angeles, the profits having been funneled to the Contras. Webb found that the influx of Nicaraguan-supplied cocaine had fueled the widespread crack epidemic that swept through urban areas.
In 1998, CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz confirmed much of what Webb had alleged, reporting that Contra-related entities involved in the drug trade had been protected from law enforcement by the Reagan-Bush administration.
2004- George Zoley makes no secret of what he wants from Bush: big-dollar contracts for his security firm, the GEO Group, to guard federal prisons. "We don't want to provide guards at the local shopping center," he says. "We are looking at a single government payer for our services." Zoley's company, formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections, is the world's largest operator of private prisons, earning more than $600 million a year incarcerating inmates.
2004-The Project Bioshield Act was an act passed by the United States Congressin 2004calling for $5 billion for purchasing vaccines that would be used in the event of a bioterroristattack. This was a ten-year program to acquire medical countermeasures to biological, chemical, radiological, and nuclear agentsfor civilian use. A key element of the Act was to allow stockpiling and distribution of vaccines which had not been tested for safety or efficacy in humans, due to ethical concerns
2005- Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005 (S. 1873) The bill createsa new federal agency, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency(BARDA), that would act "as the single point of authority" to promote advanced research and development of drugs and vaccines in response to bioterrorismand natural diseaseoutbreaks, while shielding the agency from public Freedom of Information Act(FOIA) requests. BARDA would be exempt from long-standing open records and meetings laws that apply to most government departments.
The Public Readiness and Emergency Pr eparedness Act (PREPA),signed into law by George W. Bushin December, 2005, is a tortliability shield intended to protect vaccinemanufacturers from financial risk in the event of a declared public healthemergency. PREPA provides $3.8 billion for pandemicinfluenzapreparedness to protect public healthin the case of a pandemicdiseaseoutbreak
2005-Bird Flu scare. U.S. government spends $1.5 billion on Rumsfelds Gilead Sciences Tamiflu and stockpiling it as part of the nation’s pandemic preparedness plan.
2005- The Central Intelligence Agency was a big and early fan of what it called “open source intelligence”—information that it could grab from the public Web: videos, personal blogs, photos, and posts on platforms like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Google+.9
In 2005, the agency partnered with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to launch the Open Source Center, dedicated to building open-source collection tools and sharing them with other federal intelligence agencies.
Through its In-Q-Tel venture capital fund, the CIA invested in all sorts of companies that mined the Internet for open-source intelligence. It invested in Dataminr, which bought access to Twitter data and analyzed people’s tweets to spot potential threats. It backed “a social media intelligence” company called PATHAR that monitored Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts for signs of Islamic radicalization. And it supported a popular product called Geofeedia, which allowed its clients to display social media posts from Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram from specific geographic locations, down to the size of a city block. Users could watch in real time or wind the clock back to earlier times.
All these CIA-backed companies paid Facebook, Google, and Twitter for special access to social media data—adding another lucrative revenue stream to Silicon Valley.
2005- Jacob Appelbaum and Julian Assange met in Berlin just as the mysterious Australian hacker was getting ready to set WikiLeaks in motion.
Assange’s idea for WikiLeaks was simple: government tyranny can only survive in an ecosystem of secrecy. Take away the ability of the powerful to keep secrets, and the whole facade will come crashing down around them.
With Julian Assange endorsing Tor, reporters assumed that the US government saw the anonymity nonprofit as a threat. But internal documents obtained through FOIA from the Broadcasting Board of Governors, as well as an analysis of Tor’s government contracts, paint a different picture. They reveal that Appelbaum and Dingledine worked with Assange on securing WikiLeaks with Tor since late 2008 and that they kept their handlers at the BBG informed about their relationship and even provided information about the inner workings of WikiLeaks’s secure submissions system.
Perhaps most telling was that support from the BBG continued even after WikiLeaks began publishing classified government information and Appelbaum became the target of a larger Department of Justice investigation into WikiLeaks.
The idea that social media could be weaponized against countries and governments deemed hostile to US interests wasn’t a surprise. For years the State Department, in partnership with the Broadcasting Board of Governors and companies like Facebook and Google, had worked to train activists from around the world on how to use Internet tools and social media to organize opposition political movements.
2005-In-Q-Tel’s director of technical assessment Rob Painter, who played a key role in In-Q-Tel’s Keyhole investment, moved to Google as of July A former US Army special operations intelligence officer, Painter’s job at In-Q-Tel involved identifying, researching and evaluating “new start-up technology firms that were believed to offer tremendous value to the CIA, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency.”The NGA had confirmed that its intelligence obtained via Keyhole was used by the NSA to support US operations in Iraq from 2003 onwards.
Under Painter, Google began using the CIA’s Keyhole software developed by In-Q-Tel in developing the advanced satellite mapping software behind Google Earth.
February 17, 2005
Bush names former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte Director of National Intelligence, a newly created position of “intelligence czar” created in the wake of Congressional investigations into intelligence failures leading up to September 11.
June 5, 2005
Iraqi government announces that a war crimes trial for Saddam Hussein is likely to begin within the next two months and prosecutors would seek the death penalty.
August 28, 2005
Hurricane Katrina strikes the Gulf coast of the United States with devastating effects. The storm breaches the levee system in New Orleans, causing massive flooding and destruction of property. The Bush administration is harshly criticized for an inadequate response by the federal government to the storm’s destruction.
2005- Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005 (S. 1873) The bill createsa new federal agency, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency(BARDA), that would act "as the single point of authority" to promote advanced research and development of drugs and vaccines in response to bioterrorism and natural disease outbreaks, while shielding the agency from public Freedom of Information Act(FOIA) requests.
BARDA would be exempt from long-standing open records and meetings laws that apply to most government departments.
2005/CRMPG II led by Mr. Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Goldman, Sachs & Co
On January 15, 2005, the organizational meeting of the Counterparty Risk Management Policy Group II (CRMPG II) was held in New York. CRMPG II is comprised of senior officials from major financial institutions and is chaired by E. Gerald Corrigan, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs.
The members of CRMPG II, including its Vice Chairmen (David Bushnell, Senior Risk Officer, Citigroup, and Don M. Wilson III, Chief Risk Officer, JPMorgan Chase)
The primary purpose of CRMPG II — building on the 1999 report of CRMPG I — is to examine what additional steps should be taken by the private sector to promote the efficiency, effectiveness and stability of the global financial system.
As practitioners, the members of CRMPG II recognize that periodic financial disruptions and shocks are inevitable.
However, the Policy Group also believes that it is possible to take steps that would be capable of reducing the frequency of such shocks and, especially, to reduce the risk that such shocks would take on the contagion features that can produce systemic damage to the financial system and the real economy.
In approaching its task, the Policy Group shared a broad consensus that the already low statistical probabilities of the occurrence of truly systemic financial shocks had further declined over time. The belief that the risk of systemic financial shocks had fallen was based on a number of considerations including: (1) the strength of the key financial institutions at the core of the financial system; (2) improved risk management techniques; (3) improved official supervision; (4) more effective disclosure and greater transparency; (5) strengthened financial infrastructure; and (6) more effective techniques to hedge and widely distribute financial risks.
Indeed, members took some collective comfort from the fact that following the first CRPMG in 1999 the financial markets had absorbed with remarkable resiliency the effects of multiple disturbances, including but not limited to: (1) the bursting of the technology bubble (Dot.com) ; (2) a mild recession; (3) September 11; (4) two wars; (5) an oil shock; and (6) a wave of corporate scandals (including a handful of major bankruptcies).
[it helps when you know whats coming]
2005-Israel is second only to China in stealing U.S. business secrets.
The 2005 FBI report states, for example, “Israel has an active program to gather proprietary information within the United States. These collection activities are primarily directed at obtaining information on military systems and advanced computing applications that can be used in Israel’s sizable armaments industry.” A key Israeli method, warns the FBI report, is computer intrusion.
2006-On May 30th George W. Bush nominated Henry Paulson to succeed John Snow as the 74th Secretary of the Treasury for the United States. The nomination alone was quite an honor for Paulson, but there were two catches: First, Paulson had to step down from his position as CEO of Goldman Sachs and be confirmed by the United States Senate.
Next, assuming he was confirmed, Paulson would be required by law to liquidate his entire portfolio of stocks prior to officially taking office.
For the average person, this second catch probably wouldn't be a huge deal. For Henry Paulson however, that meant he would be forced to sell off his entire 1% stake in Goldman Sachs in the middle of one of the hottest stock market rallies in recent history.
He also would have to be willing to take a paycut from $40 million per year to around $183 thousand. Why on earth would he agree to do all this?
While serving as CEO, Paulson's annual salary typically ranged from a low of $16 million to an all time high of $40 million. He was also given extremely generous stock option grants every year. As Treasury Secretary, Henry would be entitled to an annual salary of $183,500 and obviously the US government doesn't offer stock options.
In 1989 with Poppy as President, the government created a one-time loophole for a handful of high level positions that would help attract highly talented professionals away from the private sector.
This loophole gives the candidate the ability to liquidate his or her entire portfolio without paying a dime in capital gains taxes. For someone like Henry Paulson, whose entire $500 million portfolio would have otherwise been subject to full taxation, that represented a very attractive opportunity.
In July 2006, Henry Paulson liquidated 3.23 million shares of Goldman, roughly 1% of the entire company, in a one time public sale. Goldman's $152 share price left Paulson with a tax free gain of $491 million. Without this loophole, had Henry sold his shares at the exact same price and time, he would have been liable for more than $200 million worth of state and Federal capital gains taxes.
2006 - Washington Post: "FBI Shows Off Counterterrorism Database... The FBI has built a database with more than 659 million records... culled from more than 50 FBI and other government agency sources... It is one of the most powerful data analysis tools available to law enforcement and counterterrorism agents... The FBI's Investigative Data Warehouse was launched in 2004. The system [was] designed by Chiliad Inc. of Amherst, Mass."
Chiliad was founded by Robert Maxwells daughter and Ghislaine Maxwells sister
2006-IARPA is a program authorized by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) , and modeled after DARPA, but focused on national intelligence needs, rather than military needs.
IARPA was a consolidation of the NSA’s Disruptive Technology Office, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s National Technology Alliance, and the CIA’s Intelligence Technology Innovation Center. IARPA’s quantum computing research was named Science magazine's Breakthrough of the Year in 2010.
May 3, 2006
After several cases of avian influenza are reported in Central and Southeast Asia, the Bush administration proposes a plan to minimize losses in the case of a deadly pandemic. The plan includes coordination with the World Health Organization, reorganization of international travel, and the authorization of military assistance in the case of public unrest.
.October 26, 2006
President Bush signs a bill providing for the construction of a 700-mile fence along the United States-Mexico border, in an effort to increase border security and stem illegal immigration.
December 30, 2006
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is hanged in Baghdad, Iraq, after being convicted of crimes against humanity dating back to 1982.
2006-IARPA is a program authorized by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) , and modeled after DARPA, but focused on national intelligence needs, rather than military needs. IARPA was a consolidation of the NSA’s Disruptive Technology Office, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s National Technology Alliance, and the CIA’s Intelligence Technology Innovation Center. IARPA’s quantum computing research was named Science magazine's Breakthrough of the Year in 2010.
2006-The Trumps began spending more and more time in Russia. Donald Jr., executive vice president of development and acquisitions for the Trump Organization, made about half a dozen trips to Russia over the course of a year and a half. “In terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” he later told a Manhattan real estate conference. “. . . We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”
2006- Google Federal went online as, the Pentagon was spending the bulk of its budget on private contractors. That year, of the $60 billion US intelligence budget, 70 percent, or $42 billion, went to corporations. That means that, although the government pays the bill, the actual work is done by Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, Bechtel, Booz Allen Hamilton, and other powerful contractors. And this isn’t just in the defense sector. By 2017, the federal government was spending $90 billion a year on information technology.It’s a huge market—one in which Google seeks to maintain a strong presence. And its success has been all but guaranteed. Its products are the best in the business.
2006- U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta violated the law in granting Epstein a sweetheart plea deal without notifying Epstein's many underage victims. They numbered scores and perhaps in the vicinity of one hundred, with two claiming at one time in a withdrawn lawsuit that they had been raped by both Epstein and Trump. The two, "Katie" and "Maria," have alleged that Epstein and Trump raped them at ages 12 and 13. But the lawsuits have been withdrawn, purportedly after death threats.
Acosta, would become Trump's Labor Secretary in charge of federal efforts to fight sex trafficking nationwide, bagged the federal-state Epstein case when he was a Bush U.S. attorney in Miami, thereby benefiting the wealthy Epstein and his powerful friends, who have included Prince Andrew of the United Kingdom's royal family, Bill Clinton and Alan Dershowitz.
2006, DARPA announcedits Predicting Health and Disease (PHD) program, which sought to determine “whether an individual will develop an infectious disease prior to the onset of symptoms.” The PHD program planned to accomplish this by “identifying changes in the baseline state of human health through frequent surveillance” with a specific focus on “viral, upper respiratory pathogens.”
2006, DARPA commissioned a four-year study of memetics by Dr. Robert Finkelstein, founder of Robotic Technology Incorporated.
The term “meme” as later appropriated by cultural critics such as Douglas Rushkoff—a leading cyberpunk, friend of Timothy Leary and a teacher at Esalen—who claimed memes were a type of media virus. Activists count on the use of a meme to disrupt the unconscious thought process that takes place when most consumers view a popular advertising and bring about a détournement in the Situationist sense. The reactions that most cultural jammers are hoping to evoke are behavioral change and political action.
There are four emotions that activists often want viewers to feel. These emotions – shock, shame, fear, and anger – are believed to be the catalysts for social change
2006-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundationand the Rockefeller Foundationin New York City formed an alliance to foster a new "green revolution" in Africa that will dramatically increase the productivity of small farms, moving tens of millions of people out of poverty and significantly reducing hunger.
2006, WEF Global Risk Program released the first Global Risks Report . Three main threats were identified in the first report: Terrorism, Climate Change, and Pandemics. The consequences of a lethal flu could be severe and in the end reshape the world.
2006-Soon after the release of the Global Risk Report, reports about the Bird Flu (H5N1) started to make headlines and scare the public. U.S. government spends $1.5 billion on Rumsfelds Gilead Sciences Tamiflu and stockpiling it as part of the nation’s pandemic preparedness plan
2006-A white paper . ‘The Sentient World Simulation (S.W.S.)’ is a project involving Purdue University and the U.S. Military, and it set out to:
“Develop a set of intelligent agents and tools that will continually monitor the global flow of information in all forms and from all sources, evaluate it, and incorporate it within the running model to calibrate the model and predict entity actions within the model... .
S.W.S. is a continuously updated mirror of the real world that can extrapolate into the future. S.W.S. reacts to actual events that occur in the real world and incorporates data that is newly sensed in the real world. S.W.S. provides the ability to examine the likely progression of the status-quo as well as explore any ‘what if’ scenarios.” – Sentient World Simulation White Paper
2007-The AMC is a special financing mechanism set up in 2007 by GAVI and six donors (Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Russian Federation, Norway, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) to stimulate development of vaccines.
2007 implementation of the WHO International Health Regulations (IHR) . 196 countries across the globe agreed to implement the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR). This binding instrument of international law entered into force on 15 June
2007- a safer Future, WHO report on health safety. The World Health Report 2007 - A safer future: global public health security in the 21st centurymarks a turning point in the history of public health, and signals what could be one of the biggest advances in health security in half a century.
2007- Perhaps the most scandalous NSA program revealed by Snowden’s disclosures is called PRISM, which involves a sophisticated on-demand data tap housed within the datacenters of the biggest and most respected names in Silicon Valley: Google, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo!, and Microsoft.
These devices allow the NSA to siphon off whatever the agency requires, including emails, attachments, chats, address books, files, photographs, audio files, search activity, and mobile phone location history.
According to the Washington Post, these companies knew about PRISM and helped the NSA build the special access to their network systems that PRISM requires, all without raising public alarm or notifying their users. “The engineering problems are so immense, in systems of such complexity and frequent change, that the FBI and NSA would be hard pressed to build in back doors without active help from each company.”
The Washington Post revealed that PRISM is administered for the NSA by the FBI’s secretive Data Intercept Technology Unit, which also handles wiretaps on the Internet and telephone traffic flowing through major telecommunications companies like AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon. PRISM resembles traditional taps that the FBI maintained throughout the domestic telecommunications system.
It works like this: using a specialized interface, an NSA analyst creates a data request, called a “tasking,” for a specific user of a partnering company. “A tasking for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple and other providers is routed to equipment [“interception units”] installed at each company.
This equipment, maintained by the FBI, passes the NSA request to a private company’s system.”The tasking creates a digital wiretap that then forwards intelligence to the NSA in real time, all without any input from the company itself. Analysts could even opt-in for alerts for when a particular target logs in to an account. “Depending on the company, a tasking may return e-mails, attachments, address books, calendars, files stored in the cloud, text or audio or video chats and ‘metadata’ that identify the locations, devices used and other information about a target.”
The program, which began in 2007 under President George W. Bush and which was expanded under President Barack Obama, became a gold mine for American spies.
Microsoft was the first to join in 2007. Yahoo! came online a year later, and Facebook and Google plugged in to PRISM in 2009. Skype and AOL both joined in 2011. Apple, the laggard of the bunch, joined the surveillance system in 2012. Intelligence officials described PRISM as a key feeder system for foreign intelligence.
In 2013, PRISM was used to spy on over a hundred thousand people—“targets,” in the parlance of the NSA. James R. Clapper, director of National Intelligence, described the products of PRISM as “among the most important and valuable foreign intelligence information we collect.”
2007, Painter told the Washington Post that Google was “in the beginning stages” of selling advanced secret versions of its products to the US government. “Google has ramped up its sales force in the Washington area in the past year to adapt its technology products to the needs of the military, civilian agencies and the intelligence community,” the newspaper reported.
The Pentagon was already using a version of Google Earth developed in partnership with Lockheed Martin to “display information for the military on the ground in Iraq,” including “mapping out displays of key regions of the country” and outlining “Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad, as well as US and Iraqi military bases in the city. Neither Lockheed nor Google would say how the geospatial agency uses the data.”
Google aimed to sell the government new “enhanced versions of Google Earth” and “search engines that can be used internally by agencies.”
March 6, 2007
Scooter Libby, Vice President Cheney’s Chief of Staff, is convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in the case of CIA operative, Valerie Plame Wilson, whose covert identity was exposed. Bush later commutes Libby’s sentence.
2007-Two hedge funds run by the investment bank Bear Stearns had just collapsed in July, 2007-early tremors in what would become a global financial earthquake.
The talk was all about how to avoid the oncoming train,” a Deutsche executive would recount.
Symbolically Dark smoke billowed out of the abandoned Bankers Trust headquarters in downtown Manhattan.It was a Saturday afternoon in August 2007, and the dark tower, cloaked in black mesh ever since 9/11, had caught fire after a construction worker dropped a lit cigarette.
Hundreds of firefighters rushed to the scene, desperate to prevent the blaze from spreading and the poisons inside the structure from contaminating the surrounding area. The conflagration soon engulfed thirteen floors of the building. It took seven hours to extinguish.Two firemen perished.
A bad omen signaling what was in store for the economy
The rest is history
Curiously, some traders at Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs had bet against the sub-primes using CDO’s and made a killing
Deutsche Bank AG was accused of misleading investors about loans backing $1.4 billion in securities issued in 2007, leading to hundreds of millions of dollars in losses for investors and gains for Deutsche Bank.
Justin Kennedy the son of Supreme Court Justice Kennedy left the company in 2009. He was responsible for hundreds of millions in loans to Trump and was the global head of the real-estate capital markets division of Deutsche Bank.
A decade later his father would mysteriously resign from the Supreme Court under Trump as more Deutsche Bank investigations were underway
2008-The unit that blew up the insurance company American International Group (AIG), putting the U.S. taxpayer on the hook for $182.5 billion, was its four hundred–strong AIG Financial Products unit, based in London.
The court-appointed examiner looking into the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 found it had used a trick called Repo 105 to shift $50 billion in assets off its balance sheet, and that while no U.S. law firm would sign off on the transactions, a major law firm in London was delighted to oblige, without breaking the rules.
When the United States introduced the Sarbanes-Oxley regulations to protect Americans against the likes of Enron or Worldcom, the City of London did not follow, and more U.S. financial business flowed to London.
2008-World oil markets are also affected by the London loophole. In June , as world oil prices soared amid uproar about market manipulation, former regulator Michael Greenberger noted in testimony to a U.S. Senate Committee that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Committee (CFTC), the regulator for energy derivatives, had been pursuing a “continuous charade that a U.S. owned exchange (ICE) located in Atlanta and trading critically important U.S. delivered energy products should be regulated by the United Kingdom, whose regulation of these markets is self evidently lacking.”
Almost every Russian firm listing overseas chooses London, not New York, partly because of Britain’s permissive governance standards. The list of London loopholes goes on.
2008- As the financial crisis reached full throttle in the fall , Donald Trump owed $334 million on Deutsche’s 2005 loan for his Chicago skyscraper.
The Trump loan had been diced into mortgage-backed bonds that Deutsche had sold to investors, while also keeping a portion for itself. The loan had been due in May 2008, but Deutsche, acting on behalf of itself and the bondholders, agreed to grant Trump a 6 -month extension.With the November due date approaching, Trump sought another extension.This time the bank said no.
Trump,however,had no intention of repaying the loan on time. He asked his lawyers to figure out a work-around. One of them dissected each of the loan documents and,on a conference call with his colleagues to brainstorm how their client could wriggle out of his obligations, mentioned the existence of a so- called force majeure—act of God—provision in the loan agreement. That meant that in the event of an unanticipatable catastrophe, like a natural disaster, the contract wasn’t enforceable.
A lawyer on the call piped up that Alan Greenspan had just called the financial crisis a “credit tsunami”—and what was a tsunami if not a natural disaster, an act of God? One lawyer, Steve Schlesinger,presented the idea to Trump.“It’s brilliant!” he declared, and Schlesinger and his colleagues basked in the warmth of Trump’s pleasure. He instructed his lawyers to execute the plan.
Three days before the loan was due, the lawyers wrote to Deutsche that Trump considered the financial crisis to represent a force majeure that allowed him to stop paying back his loan. Days later, Trump filed a lawsuit citing the provision and accusing Deutsche of engaging in “predatory lending practices”— toward him!—and of helping ignite the financial crisis.
“Deutsche Bank is one of the banks primarily responsible for the economic dysfunction we are currently facing,” Trump asserted. In an extraordinary act of chutzpah, he sought damages of $3 billion.
Deutsche filed its own suit, seeking the $40 million Trump had personally guaranteed back in 2005. The bank pointed out that the same day Trump had notified Deutsche that the financial crisis constituted a contract-voiding act of godly devastation, he was quoted in two newspapers boasting about how he was unscathed by that very crisis. One of his deputies was quoted bragging that Trump’s company had nearly $2 billion, ready to be deployed on a moment’s notice.
In trying to get Trump to pay back the money he owed, the bank made a persuasive argument for why it should never have loaned him that money in the first place. Deutsche’s lawsuit quoted from Trump’s book, Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life, in which the future president explained how he had handled banks during a real estate downturn in the 1990s. “I turned it back on the banks and let them accept some of the blame,”
Deutsche argued in the suit: “The fact that he is now resorting to the same tactics he has consistently employed throughout his career as a real estate magnate should surprise no one.” Indeed.
Shortly after the suit was filed, Trump bumped into Justin Kennedy who had approved the loan. “Nothing personal,” Trump said. Kennedy replied that there were no hard feelings: Business was business. But when senior Deutsche executives learned about Trump’s litigation, they were irate.“
Justin Kennedy, having made a killing off the financial crisis by betting against the market with CDO’s and now seeing an important client fall by the wayside, decided to leave the bank at the end of 2009.
2008-Delaware, where, “an office at 1209 North Orange Street, Wilmington, houses 217,000 companies.” After Travers said that, I had to see the world’s biggest building. This, as it happens, is the office for the Corporation Trust, a subsidiary of the Dutch firm Wolters Kluwer.
It is just at the edge of Wilmington’s small financial center: a forgettable yellowish brick low-rise with a modest maroon awning: the kind you’d find outside a pizza restaurant.
It sits between the scruffy little parking lot behind it and the unsightly six-story parking garage across Orange Street, and it is, legally speaking, the corporate home of Ford, General Motors, Coca-Cola, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Intel Corp., Google Inc., Hewlett Packard, Texas Instruments, and many more global corporate giants, including many of the specialized trusts and Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) that underlay the latest financial crisis. These corporations are not here for secrecy but for the corporate governance.
The Corporation Trust will, as part of the service, also help your company serve and receive notices, subpoenas, summons, and the like. Delaware’s government website lists 110 registered agents—these, by the way, are not regulated.
In 2008 Delaware hosted 882,000 active business entities: one for every man, woman, child, and baby in the state.
2008-London hosts more foreign banks than any other financial center. In 2008 the city accounted for half of all international trade in equities, nearly 45 percent of over-the-counter derivatives turnover, 70 percent of Eurobond turnover, 35 percent of global currency trading, and 55 percent of all international public offerings.
New York is bigger in areas like securitization, insurance, mergers and acquisitions, and asset management, but much of its business is domestic, making London easily the world’s biggest international—and offshore—financial hub.
The head of the Corporation of London is the Lord Mayor of London—not to be confused with the mayor of London, who runs the much larger greater London municipality that contains the City, geographically speaking, but has no jurisdiction over its nonmunicipal affairs. And this separation of powers matters.
The City’s nine thousand–odd human residents have one vote each in municipal elections here. But businesses in the City vote too, as if they were human, with thirty-two thousand corporate votes.
In effect, Goldman Sachs, the Bank of China, Moscow Narodny Bank, and KPMG can vote in a hugely important British election. The strangeness goes deeper and deeper. In fact the Corporation is so ancient and mystifying that barely any outsiders understand it.
January 18, 2008
President Bush proposes a $145 billion stimulus package in response to a housing crisis and rapidly increasing oil prices. The package gives individuals several hundred dollars to facilitate spending, as well as rebates for families with children and tax deductions for businesses in order to jump-start the slowing economy.
February 1, 2008
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the U.S. economy lost more than 15,000 jobs during the previous month. Such an elimination of jobs from the economy had not occurred for more than four years.
February 7, 2008
The Senate passes a $170-billion stimulus package to give many Americans tax rebates as large as $600 or more, and to implement tax breaks for certain businesses in an effort to head-off impending economic slowdown.
June 5, 2008
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence finds, after a five-year study, that President Bush and other officials greatly exaggerated the evidence showing that Saddam Hussein held weapons of mass destruction.
September 7, 2008
The U.S. government places federal mortgage lenders Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) under control of the U.S. Treasury to prevent the institutions from going under and endangering more than half of the country’s mortgages.
October 3, 2008
At the onset of financial crisis, President Bush signs a $700 billion bailout plan for failing bank assets, the largest in U.S. history.
November 25, 2008
The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve agree to provide another $800 billion in lending programs to buy debt insured by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and to provide more small loans to consumers.
December 16, 2008
Federal Reserve cuts interest rates to an all-time low of zero percent, down from 1 percent and 0.25 percent earlier in the year as part of a plan to stimulate the economy.
December 19, 2008
President Bush issues a $17.4-billion auto bailout to General Motors and Chrysler to keep the two American automotive giants from going bankrupt.
2008-the FBI released a raft of documents to buttress its case against Bruce Ivins, whom the government says bears “sole responsibility” for the 2001 anthrax attacks. The FBI says Ivins, the late military scientist, is the man who mailed anthrax-laced letters to news organizations and two Senate offices, killing five people and infecting 17 others.
Bruce E. Ivins, committed suicide in 2008 before he could be tried for the crimes. The FBI officially named Ivins the killer in 2010
The government claimed the anthrax came from a vial in Ivins’ lab, but as many as 100 people could have worked with that vial, the FBI has admitted.
What’s more, the government has offered no evidence to place Ivins in Princeton, N.J.—where the anthrax letters were postmarked—at the time of the mailing
Just after the 9/11 attacks—and weeks before the anthrax letters were found—the White House distributed the antibiotic Cipro to staffers, including those traveling with Vice President Dick Cheney.
This has drawn the attention of many on the conspiracy fringe. Why would the White House have handed out an antibiotic used to treat exposure to anthrax—unless, maybe, possibly, our government knew something that we didn’t?
Also interesting is that on October 12, 2001 - just one week after the attacks had claimed their first victim, the FBI called the University of Iowa and demanded that they destroy their entire database on the Ames strain of anthrax, the strain that would later be revealed to have been the very strain used in the attacks
When the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) did release its review of the FBI's scientific findings a year later in 2011, it found that the Bureau's "smoking gun" scientific evidence against Ivins was actually very inconclusive and they also identified several still, unresolved issues with the FBI's analyses for which the Bureau could not provide an explanation.
The NAS study was not the only independent report that challenged the FBI's case against Ivins after his apparent suicide. In 2014, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its own analysis of the FBI investigation and concluded that the FBI's approach lacked consistency, adequate standards and precision.
The GAO report ultimately supported the NAS' conclusion that the scientific evidence did not definitely prove Ivins to be the culprit.
2008-Twenty years after delivering his landmark testimony to the US Senate, Hansen appeared June 23 before Markey’s committee, where he pleaded for a rapid transition away from carbon-based fuels to avoid total climate catastrophe, and harshly denounced those in the fossil fuel industries responsible for deliberately and methodically spreading untruths, thus dangerously delaying effective actions to avert global climatic catastrophe. Markey said, “Dr. Hansen was right. Twenty years later, we recognize him as a climate prophet.”
2008- October 22, Achim Steiner—the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) founded by Maurice Strong—unveiled the Global Green New Deal initiative that aims to create jobs in “green” industries to boost the world economy while curbing climate change at the same time.
Popularization of this concept is usually attributed to the 1988 speech to Congress by James Hansen, the former head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, sometimes called the godfather of global warming science.
Hansen and Mikhail Gorbachev were speakers at the Club of Rome Global Assembly 2009, whose purpose was to write the Amsterdam Declaration, proposing key ingredients for a Global Green New Deal.
Although widely ridiculed, recent scientific reviews have been confirming the dire forecasts of The Limits to Growth. In 2009, American Scientistpublished a review by leading systems ecologists Prof. Charles Hall of State University of New York and Prof. John W Day of Louisiana State University, which concluded that while the limits-to-growth model’s “predictions of extreme pollution and population decline have not come true,” the model’s results are:
…almost exactly on course some 35 years later in 2008 (with a few appropriate assumptions)... it is important to recognise that its predictions have not been invalidated and in fact seem quite on target. We are not aware of any model made by economists that is as accurate over such a long time span.
2008, Google helped launch an NGA spy satellite, the GeoEye-1, into space which it shares photographs from with the US military and intelligence communities.
2008-DHS awarded a multi-year contract for its HSARPA (Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency ) initiated Bioagent Autonomous Networked Detector (BAND ) program development to MicroFluidic Systems, Inc., a company founded by Allen Northrup. Northup is also co-founder of Cepheid, a diagnostic testing company that received FDA approval for a 45-minute Covid-19 test in 2020
DHS was fully aware of the BASIS program’s limitations from the start and issued requests for proposals (RFPs) for the development of autonomous sensor technology that would eliminate the need for manual sample collection. The Bioagent Autonomous Networked Detector (BAND) program was then initiated by HSARPA (Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency) in September of 2003
2008, Cass Sunstein, Harvard law professor and adviser to Obama, wrote a controversial paper advocating the use of covert agents in order to infiltrate online communities. The Snowden files confirmed that intelligence agencies monitor sites including YouTube and Facebook, attempt to “control, infiltrate, manipulate and warp online discourse” and even carry out “false flag operations” in order to discredit targets.
2008- In 1999 future CEO of Google Schmidt joined the board of the New America Foundation and was appointed chairman of its board of directors in 2008. The foundation’s other board members, seven of whom also list themselves as members of the CFR, include neoconservative Francis Fukuyama; Rita Hauser, who served on the Intelligence Advisory Board under both Bush and Obama; Jonathan Soros, the son of George Soros; Walter Russell Mead, a US security strategist and editor of the American Interest; Helene Gayle, who sits on the boards of Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, the Rockefeller Foundation, the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Unit, the CFR and CSIS, the White House Fellows program and Bono’s ONE Campaign; and Daniel Yergin, oil geostrategist, former chair of the US Department of Energy’s Task Force.
The chief executive of the foundation, appointed in 2013, Anne-Marie Slaughter. Slaughter is member of the CFR and the bipartisan Development Council of CSIS. She was subsequently the first woman to serve as the Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department from January 2009 until February 2011 under U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Slaughter is also a member of the Atlantic Council, along with Henry Kissinger, Zalmay M. Khalilzad, Brent Scowcroft and Paul G. Kaminski, Founding Director of In-Q-Tel.
2008-One year after Thiel and Larry Summers became members of Bilderberg, Sheryl Sandberg was recruited to be COO of Facebook
After working for the World Bank, Sandberg worked as Chief of Staff of the Treasury for the Clinton administration, under then Treasure Secretary Larry Summers. Facebook’s Vice President is Harvard educated lawyer, Elliot Schrage, who was previously at Google as the Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs, and before that served in foreign policy at the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and as an advisor to several global corporations on issues of corporate social responsibility.
Around the same time, Google was becoming involved in a program known as the “Enduring Security Framework” (ESF), which involved the sharing of information between American tech companies and Pentagon-affiliated agencies “at network speed.” Schmidt and Brin corresponded about ESF with NSA chief General Keith Alexander, a key member of the Defense Industrial Base.
The Department of Homeland Security defines the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) as “the worldwide industrial complex that enables research and development, as well as design, production, delivery, and maintenance of military weapons systems, subsystems, and components or parts, to meet U.S. military requirements.” The DIB provides “products and services that are essential to mobilize, deploy, and sustain military operations.”
2008, Google launched a private spy satellite called GeoEye-1 in partnership with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
It bought Boston Dynamics, a DARPA-seeded robotics company that made experimental robotic pack mules for the military, only to sell it off after the Pentagon determined it would not be putting these robots into active use.
It has invested $100 million in CrowdStrike, a major military and intelligence cyber defense contractor that, among other things, led the investigation into the alleged 2016 Russian government hacks of the Democratic National Committee.
And it also runs JigSaw, a hybrid think tank–technology incubator aimed at leveraging Internet technology to solve thorny foreign policy problems, everything from terrorism to censorship and cyberwarfare.
2009- J.P. Morgan's executives were caught spying on employees through Palantir, "Aided by as many as 120 'forward-deployed engineers' from the data mining company Palantir Technologies Inc., which J.P. Morgan engaged in 2009, Cavicchia group vacuumed up emails and browser histories, GPS locations from company-issued smartphones, printer and download activity, and transcripts of digitally recorded phone conversations.
Palantir's software aggregated, searched, sorted, and analyzed these records, surfacing keywords and patterns of behavior that Cavicchia team had flagged for potential abuse of corporate assets. Palantir's algorithm, for example, alerted the insider threat team when an employee started badging into work later than usual, a sign of potential disgruntlement. That would trigger further scrutiny and possibly physical surveillance after hours by bank security personnel."
'Palantir cut its teeth working for the Pentagon and the CIA in Afghanistan and Iraq. The company's engineers and products don't do any spying themselves; they're more like a spy's brain, collecting and analyzing information that's fed in from the hands, eyes, nose, and ears. The software combs through disparate data sources-financial documents, airline reservations, cell-phone records, social media postings-and searches for connections that human analysts might miss. It then presents the linkages in colorful, easy-to-interpret graphics that look like spider webs.'
'It all ended when the bank's senior executives learned that they, too, were being watched, and what began as a promising marriage of masters of big data and global finance descended into a spying scandal.
The misadventure, which has never been reported, also marked an ominous turn for Palantir, one of the most richly valued startups in Silicon Valley. An intelligence platform designed for the global War on Terror was weaponized against ordinary Americans at home.'
Imagine an entire world running on this type of technology; a society run by artificial intelligence. The fourth industrial revolution and the introduction of the 'internet of things', "a network of physical devices, vehicles, home appliances, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and connectivity which enables these things to connect, collect, and exchange data."
One crucial aspect of the internet of things will be the planned 5G cellular network. The network is being designed in Israel at Intel's 5 R&D centers in Israel.
The Israel Daily News brags, "The Israeli team at Israel's Holy Land offices are reportedly leading the charge for the jump to 5G, that makes sense, given the number of Israel firms Intel has gobbled up over the years. As of now, Intel is probably the single largest employer of tech jobs in the country, with almost 1100 Israeli Employees to date. The company has sunk close to $35 billion dollars in Israel's economy." That's $35 billion dollars that should have been invested in the United States, where Intel was established and is headquartered.
2009 -The Smart Grid initiative started in by President Barack Obama who kick started the IoT for energy. By now, most Americans have seen WiFi-enabled Smart Meters installed on their homes and businesses. These meters are a gateway to collect data from energy-consuming appliances and also to transmit commands to regulate them.
Theoretically, every refrigerator washer, dryer, thermostat, motor, computer or TV can be monitored continuously and simultaneously by your local utility and anyone else they choose to send your data to.
As autonomous vehicles gain market influence, they will be connected to a central control point but also to each other as they move about on city streets. Immense amounts of data will be collected and analyzed in real time.
Smartphones are already connecting hundreds of millions of people with not only other people but also with their inanimate devices like health and fitness tracking and smart home devices, their cars, sound systems, etc.
Collectively, all of these devices are considered the IoT, which Mordor claims “instills the required intelligence into basic building blocks of the city, and helps make it smart.”
2010, DARPA-funded researchers at Duke University created the foundation for a tool, which would use the genetic analysis of blood samples to determine if someone is infected with a virus before they show symptoms. Reports at the time claimed that these “preemptive diagnoses” would be transmitted to “a national, web-based influenza map” available via smartphone.
2010, following a disastrous intrusion into its system by what the company believes was a group of Chinese government hackers, Google entered into a secretive agreement with the National Security Agency.“According to officials who were privy to the details of Google’s arrangements with the NSA, the company agreed to provide information about traffic on its networks in exchange for intelligence from the NSA about what it knew of foreign hackers,” wrote defense reporter Shane Harris in @War, a history of warfare. “It was a quid pro quo, information for information. And from the NSA’s perspective, information in exchange for protection.”
This mixing of military, police, government, public education, business, and consumer-facing systems—all funneled through Google—continues to raise alarms. Lawyers fret over whether Gmail violates attorney-client privilege.
Parents wonder what Google does with the information it collects on their kids at school. What does Google do with the data that flow through its system? Is all of it fed into Google’s big corporate surveillance pot? What are Google’s limits and restrictions? Are there any? In response to these questions, Google offers only vague and conflicting answers.
2010, Google signed a multi-billion-dollar sole-source contract with the NSA’s sister agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), to use Google Earth for visualization services. Michele Weslander Quaid, who had served in executive positions at NGA, as well as the National Reconnaissance Office and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, became Google’s CTO where she was developing programs to “best fit government agencies’ needs.”
Quaid, who is among the several Google executives closely connected with O’Neill, is an ex-CIA contractor and former senior Pentagon intelligence official.
2010, NGA awarded Google a $27 million contract for “geospatial visualization services.” In the same year, after the Chinese government was accused of hacking Google, the company entered into a “formal information-sharing” relationship with the NSA, which was said to allow NSA analysts to “evaluate vulnerabilities” in Google’s hardware and software.
2010- google creates Jigsaw. Cohen is the CEO of Jigsaw, previously Google Ideas, which describes itself as Google’s in-house “think/do tank.” Jigsaw is a technology incubator created by Google, and now operated as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. According to Schmidt, Jigsaw’s mission “is to use technology to tackle the toughest geopolitical challenges, from countering violent extremism to thwarting online censorship to mitigating the threats associated with digital attacks.”
Jigsaw developed the Redirect Method, an open source methodology that leverages Google’s AdWords platform and YouTube to target potential ISIS recruits and dissuade them from joining the group.
Cohen earned a master’s degree in International Relations from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and served as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and as an advisor to Condoleezza Rice and later Hillary Clinton.
According to The New York Times magazine, right before his departure Cohen was one of the participating architects of what was labeled in 2010 as “21st century statecraft” along with Richard Boly and several foreign service officers in the Department of State’s Office of eDiplomacy.
On his CFR adjunct staff page, Cohen listed his expertise as “terrorism; radicalization; impact of connection technologies on 21st century statecraft; Iran. It was Cohen who, while he was still at the Department of State, was said to have emailed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to delay scheduled maintenance in order to assist the aborted 2009 uprising in Iran.
Schmidt and Cohen co-wrote a policy piece for the CFR’ journal Foreign Affairs, praising the potential of digital technologies as an instrument of US foreign policy. Describing what they called “coalitions of the connected,” Schmidt and Cohen claimed that: “Democratic states that have built coalitions of their militaries have the capacity to do the same with their connection technologies… Faced with these opportunities, democratic governments have an obligation to join together while also respecting the power of the private and nonprofit sectors to bring about change.”
2010 May 25, that a psych-ops group** within the Special Activities Division** was caught producing fake bin Laden videos. They also traced the al-Qaeda “press releases” to a U.S. intelligence contractor** called SITE**, an interesting liaison between the White House** and Fox News**.
SITE, an acronym of Search for International Terrorist Entities, is actually a Pentagon sub-contractor that seems to be al Qaeda’s press department. When we hear that al Qaeda has released a statement, it’s actually coming through SITE.
Who knows where they get information? SITE has released 29 audio messages and three videos, supposedly of Osama bin Laden. The last video in 2007 was so ridiculously obvious, that they just stuck with audios until they could fake his death.
The Post article reported that our friends at special activities were making propaganda films, “using one of our ‘darker’ members to play [super-terrorist] Osama bin Laden.”The last tape released to the national media was of a man that SITE** claimed was Osama bin Laden. The tape was “frozen” for all but three minutes while an unknown interpreter** told us what he supposedly said.
Later, we learned that this SITE** group, led by Rita Katz, had sent this tape to several officials in the Executive Branch** before the tape was released by “al-Qaeda. “ Oops.
After a small amount of media speculation directed toward bin Laden’s physical bearing, which included a dyed black beard, a differently shaped face and smaller hands, all major American networks reported to millions of taxpayers that U.S. Intelligence officials** had confirmed that the tape was really Osama bin Laden.
2010 April , Germany’s data protection commissioner announced that Google vehicles had been illegally collecting Wi-Fi data. The scandal was referred to as the “Wi-Spy” case. In the process of photographing neighborhoods, Street View Cars were eavesdropping on traffic from unencrypted wireless network, picking up passwords, email messages, medical records, financial information, and audio and video files.
This happened after Keyhole’s founder John Hanke moved to Google where he led the Geo division, including Street View and Maps, as vice president for product management. Hanke was later responsible a company called Niantic which was responsible for creating the wildly popular Pokemon Go “augmented reality” game.
Hanke had begun Niantic inside Google in 2010 as an autonomous business unit, according to news reports. before the unit was spun off in 2015, when it received $20 million in funding from Google and Nintendo.
As privacy watchdog Electronic Privacy Information Center put it, in a letter of concern to federal regulators, Pokemon Go requires a “trove of sensitive user data.”
2010- DARPA and NIH funded review on Synthetic Viruses published.
“Rapid progress in DNA synthesis and sequencing is spearheading the deliberate, large-scale genetic alteration of organisms. .... the de novosynthesis of viral genomes in the absence of a natural template....large-scale changes will be introduced into numerous viruses, allowing the creation of redesigned particles....
2011-virologists in both Holland and Wisconsin successfully altered the DNA of the deadly H5N1 virus (commonly known as "bird flu") to make the naturally-occurring virus, which under normal conditions isn't easily spread from person to person, more transmissible. Their goal was to proactively study an extreme version of the virus, in case one emerged from nature organically in the future. At the time, microbial geneticist Paul Keim, then chair of the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, said, "I can't think of another pathogenic organism that is as scary as this one."
Since then, the development of a game-changing power tool for DNA editing called CRISPR makes it possible to carry out this kind of gene modification more easily, and far more cheaply, by hundreds of people, with less oversight than a well-regulated laboratory. "Radically powerful editing that the entire field of biology would have found impossible 10 years ago can now be done by a couple smart grad students" in a tiny room, Reid says.
And the technology is proliferating in a way that even nuclear weapons haven't, Reid adds—with more decentralization and far less oversight.
The nightmare scenario that Reid envisions goes something like this: In the next few years, an ambitious virologist uses widely-available gene-editing technology to create a supervirus—a pathogen 10 times as contagious as chicken pox and 10 times as deadly as the Ebola virus, but with an incubation period of, say, 10 months. Based on that programming, the entire world could be infected with the designer virus before the first person even shows symptoms.
2011 -December 30: Dr. Fauci promotes gain-of-function research on bird flu viruses, arguing that the research is worth the risk. The risks worry other “seasoned researchers.”
2011, DARPA announced its “Rapidly Adaptable Nanotherapeutics” program, which seeks to create a “platform capable of rapidly synthesizing therapeutic nanoparticles” aimed at combatting “evolving and even genetically engineered bioweapons.” DARPA’s plan for these nanoparticles, which media reports describedmerely as “tiny, autonomous drug delivery systems,” was to combine them with “small interfering RNA (siRNA),” which are snippets of RNA that can target and shut downspecific genes. As Wired wroteat the time: “siRNA could be reprogrammed ‘on-the-fly’ and applied to different pathogens,” allowing nanoparticles to “be loaded up with the right siRNA molecules and sent directly to cells responsible for the infection
2011- In mid-May Assange met with Eric Schmidt, his then girlfriend Lisa Shields, vice president of the CFR, and Jared Cohen, an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the CFR. Schmidt, who has attended Bilderberg meetings four years in a row, had just been appointed Google’s CEO.
Early in his career, Schmidt held a series of technical positions with IT companies including Byzromotti Design, Bell Labs, Zilog, and Xerox’s PARC. He worked at Sun Microsystems, and then became CEO of Novell.
2011-Obama signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law.
The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield.
Under the Bush administration, similar claims of worldwide detention authority were used to hold even a U.S. citizen detained on U.S. soil in military custody, and many in Congress now assert that the NDAA should be used in the same way again. NDAA’s detention authority violates international law because it is not limited to people captured in the context of an actual armed conflict as required by the laws of war.
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/president-obama-signs-indefinite-detention-bill-law
2011- May 2. Consider the raid that supposedly killed bin Laden. Americans have not been afforded one piece of evidence that confirmed that he was ever in the raided house or one piece of evidence that he was killed. There was no trial, no jury, no judge, just a claim that originated deep within the Intelligence Community** and reported in a month-long media blitz as fact.
The following day, the national news reported that al Qaeda released a statement vowing revenge for “bin Laden’s” death. The bamboozle is that al Qaeda doesn’t really have a press department. The residents of the town where the raid transpired never saw bin Laden. The head of the Taliban disputed the raid and said that bin Laden had died long ago and was buried in an unmarked grave in the Afghan mountains.
An obituary of bin Laden was published in a Pakistani newspaper in December of 2001. But still the Intelligence Community** has convinced nearly everyone that they actually killed him in 2011.
Although the Intelligence Community** claimed they had watched the raided house for months, they could not produce one iota of proof; not one surveillance photo, not one voice recording, not a body, nothing. Yet, as in all media reports concerning bin Laden, the claim was reported as fact in all major media stories.
It was a coordinated message trumpeted on headlines of every major American newspaper. Fox News was in a state of euphoria. President Obama said that he was 50/50 that the intelligence he had received from the Intelligence Community** was accurate.
What if the 50/50 evidence, the same chance as a coin toss, was actually tails instead of heads. How would we ever know? My calculation, after ten years of research is that the actual chances of the 9/11 “architect” (bin Laden’s final media title) being in that house was a solid 0/100. I don’t know who they killed, if anyone, but it wasn’t the architect of 9/11.
2011-Bill Gates also began a regular friendship with Epstein after he had been convicted of sex crimes. Employees of Gates’s foundation also paid multiple visits to Epstein’s mansion. Melanie Walker, who had known Epstein since 1992 and worked as his science adviser, joined the Gates Foundation as senior program officer in 2006.
Walker introduced Epstein to Boris Nikolic, an immunologist, biotech venture capitalist and former fellow at Harvard Medical School, who was the Gates Foundation’s science adviser, and the two men became friendly. Beginning in 2011,
Gates met with Epstein on numerous occasions, including at least three times at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse. “His lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would not work for me,” Gates emailed colleagues after his first get-together with Epstein, on January 31, 2011,.
Epstein spoke with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and JPMorgan Chase about creating the Global Health Investment Fund, a proposed multibillion-dollar charitable fund to provide “individual and institutional investors the opportunity to finance late-stage global health technologies that have the potential to save millions of lives in low-income countries.”
Also in that same year, attendees spotted Gates and Epstein engaged in private conversation at a TED conference in Long Beach, California.
As late as October 2014, Gates donated $2 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab. University officials described the gift in internal emails as having been “directed” by Mr. Epstein.
2012- Hanke had filed a patent held by Niantic on a “System and Method for Transporting Virtual Objects in a Parallel Reality Game.” The patent discusses how a game such as Pokemon Go could be used to collect real-world data from a player without them knowing it:
The game objective can be directly linked with a data collection activity. An exemplary game objective directly linked with data collection activity can include a task that involves acquiring information about the real world and providing this information as a condition for completion of the game objective.
The patent also cites an academic paper from the International Journal of Virtual Reality, “Playful Geospatial Data Acquisition by Location-Based Gaming Communities” by Sebastian Matyas, which includes as its introduction the following paragraph:
To our opinion, the real challenge lies in motivating the user to provide the data constantly, even after the exciting appeal of technological innovation at the beginning wears off. The data acquisition process should be entertaining for a possible contributor to engage him in the long run. We convince that entertainment and fun are an important design aspect of such data collecting services.
2012 March 29, the Obama administration announced more than $200 million in funding for ‘‘Big Data Research and Development Initiative’.’ Information Innovation Office, explains Lee, has replaced the Information Awareness Office.
The first wave of agency commitments includes National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Geological Survey, and Department of Defense (including DARPA).
2012- EMBERS (Early Model Based Event Recognition using Surrogates) was the product of a contest organized by Jason Matheny, an associate director of the government’s Office for Anticipating Surprise and a program manager at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA).
The independent contractor that measures the accuracy of EMBERS’s forecasts is a nonprofit research facility called MITRE, a collection of government-funded research centers.
MITRE, for its part, has deep connections to the nation’s defense, security and intelligence apparatus. According to MITRE, Terry Reed, the information systems engineer in MITRE’s Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute, represents the Department of Homeland Security’s information security chief on a committee within the National Security Systems Working Group focused on policy issues related to classified information systems.
EMBERS conducts what is called Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), collecting data for intelligence purposes from “overt” or publicly available sources, like social media, satellite imagery and more than 200,000 blogs. It mines up to 2,000 messages a second and purchases open-source data such as Twitter’s “firehose,” which streams hundreds of millions of real-time tweets a day. “Anytime you tweet or post on Facebook, you are becoming a part of the big data economy,” says Ramakrishnan.
According to Ramakrishnan, “A lot of analysts can give you forecasts for the coming year, but when we do forecasts, we’re talking about specific dates.”
Since EMBERS inception in April 2012, an average of 80 to 90 percent of its forecasts have turned out to be accurate. The project was first put to work examining open-source data streams in Latin America.
It accurately predicted the impeachment of Paraguay’s president in 2012, the World Cup protests in Brazil in 2013, and the 2014 violent student protests in Venezuela. The program monitors 20 countries in Latin America and is beginning to venture into the Middle East and North Africa, covering Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Libya.
2012 “National Strategy for Biosurveillance,” created to help facilitate a full-time institutionalized process for obtaining timely and accurate insight on current and emerging biological risks.
Providing this early detection of a threat is the mission of the NCMI. When it comes to diseases like H1N1 and the coronavirus, this task falls under the remit of the NCMI’s Infectious Disease Division, whose baseline requirement, according to a former commanding officer, Air Force Col. (Dr.) Anthony M. Rizzo, “is to understand the risk of every type of [endemic] infectious disease in every country.”
The NCMI’s job, is predictive in nature—not to explain what is happening, but rather “what we believe is going to happen.” To do this, NCMI has access to the resources of the totality of the intelligence community, including intercepted communications, satellite imagery, and sensitive human intelligence, including covert sample collection.
2012-2013 MERS-CoV released. First known case was in Jordan (retrospectively) but announced during outbreak in Saudi Arabia some months later in September
2012- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Summit on Family Planning in London, when it was announced the foundation will fund research, development and deployment of “injectable contraceptives,” aimed at the developing world.
2012-On June 13, 2012 a 60-year-old Saudi man was admitted to a private hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with a 7-day history of fever, cough, expectoration, and shortness of breath. He had no history of cardiopulmonary or renal disease, was receiving no long-term medications, and did not smoke.
Egyptian virologist Dr. Ali Mohamed Zaki isolated and identified a previously unknown coronavirus from his lungs.
After routine diagnostics failed to identify the causative agent, Zaki contacted Ron Fouchier, a leading virologist at the Erasmus Medical Center (EMC) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for advice.
Coronavirus arrived at Canada’s NML Winnipeg facility on May 4, 2013 from the Fouchier Dutch lab. The Canadian lab grew up stocks of the virus and used it to assess diagnostic tests being used in Canada. Winnipeg scientists worked to see which animal species can be infected with the new virus.
This Coronavirus sample was acquired by Scientific Director Dr. Frank Plummer (key to Coronavirus investigation Frank Plummer was recently assassinated in Africa in feb 2020) of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg directly from Fouchier, who received it from Zaki.
NML has a long historyof offering comprehensive testing services for coronaviruses. It isolated and provided the first genome sequence of the SARS coronavirusand identified another coronavirus NL63 in 2004. This Winnipeg based Canadian lab was targeted by Chinese agentsin what could be termed as Biological Espionage.
2012-Magnitsky Act formally known as the Russia and Moldova Jackson–Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012, is a bipartisanbill passed by the U.S. Congressand signed into law by President Barack Obamain December 2012, intending to punish Russian officials responsible for the death of Russian tax lawyerSergei Magnitskyin a Moscowprison in 2009 by prohibiting their entrance to the United States and their use of its banking system and also to grant permanent normal trade relations status to Russia.
2013-H.R. 4310 passed into law when it was signed by the President Obama on Jan 2, 2013.
the Bill essentially neutralized two previous acts—the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act in 1987—that had been passed to protect U.S. audiences from their own government’s misinformation campaigns.
It removed limitations on U.S.-funded and generated propaganda from being aired in the country.
2013- The actual creation of the 2030 Agenda is easily traced directly back to an earlier UN initiative called the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda that met in July 2012 and concluded on May 30, 2013. There were only 27 elite members of this group, each handpicked from around the world and summarily appointed by the UN Director-General Ban Ki-moon. The U.S. was represented by John Podesta, founder of the Center for American Progress and member of the elitist Trilateral Commission
2013, Obama signed legislation that changed the U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, also known as the Smith-Mundt Act. The amendment made it possible for some materials created by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the nation’s foreign broadcasting agency, to be disseminated in the U.S. much of the materials for foreign dissemination is propaganda, thus skirting the laws against propaganda being used against American citizens
2013 -President Obama in March signed a lawgiving $2.8 billion in funding to a decade-old biodefense effort called "Project Bioshield," extending it for another five years.
The Department of Homeland Security uses intelligence reports to decide which diseases and biological threats are considered "material," or realistic threats to US security. It then refers these findings to Health and Human Services (HHS), which determines whether it's necessary for the government to order new drugs from pharmaceutical companies to combat the threats.
A funding agency within HHS called the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) hands out lucrative contracts, parts of which can be paid up front.
The parent agency (HHS) in charge of funding drugs for the national stockpile, is also the one that is separately funding research into new diseases that could result in a bioterror or accidental infection, which would in turn demand a response from the national stockpile. Sounds like a racket
2013-Obama unveils The BRAIN Initiative which will accelerate the development and application of new technologies that will enable researchers to produce dynamic pictures of the brain that show how individual brain cells and complex neural circuits interact at the speed of thought. These technologies will open new doors to explore how the brain records, processes, uses, stores, and retrieves vast quantities of information, and shed light on the complex links between brain function and behavior. The BRAIN Initiative was immediately kick started with a one hundred million dollar Federal grant with the promise of billions more in future years as the project unfolds. The National Institutes of Health is leading the project, and the high-level working group in charge will be co-chaired by Dr. Cornelia Bargmann, a professor of neuroscience at Rockefeller University in New York City which was originally founded by John D. Rockefeller, Sr. in 1901 as the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
2013- On September 6, the US government approved Shuanghui International Holding's purchase of Smithfield Food, Inc. The deal was valued at approximately $7.1 billion, which included debt. It was the largest stock acquisition by a Chinese company of an American company.
Hmmm....
2013- Amazon runs cloud computing and storage services for the CIA. The initial contract, signed in 2013, was worth $600 million and was later expanded to include the NSA and a dozen other US intelligence agencies. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos used his wealth to launch Blue Origin, a missile company that partners with Lockheed Martin and Boeing. Blue Origin is a direct competitor of SpaceX, a space company started by another Internet mogul: PayPal cofounder Elon Musk. Meanwhile, another PayPal founder, Peter Thiel, spun off PayPal’s sophisticated fraud-detection algorithm into Palantir Technologies, a major military contractor that provides sophisticated data-mining services for the NSA and CIA.
2013- In Berlin, Appelbaum caught another lucky break for the Tor Project. In 2013, his good friend and sometimes-lover Laura Poitras, an American documentary filmmaker who also lived in the German capital in self-imposed exile, was contacted by a mysterious source who told her he had access to the crown jewels of the National Security Agency: documents that would blow America’s surveillance apparatus wide open.107 Poitras tapped Appelbaum’s knowledge of Internet systems to come up with a list of questions to vet the possible leaker and to make sure he really was the NSA technician he claimed to be. This source turned out to be Edward Snowden. From the start, the Tor Project stood at the center of Snowden’s story. The leaker’s endorsement and promotion introduced the project to a global audience, boosting Tor’s worldwide user base from one million to six million almost overnight and injecting it into the heart of a burgeoning privacy movement.
In Russia, where the BBG and Dingledine had tried but failed to recruit activists for their Tor deployment plan, use of the software increased from twenty thousand daily connections to somewhere around two hundred thousand.
The Tor Project remained the best-known privacy app funded by the Open Technology Fund, but it was quickly joined by another: Signal, an encrypted mobile phone messaging app for the iPhone and Android.
Signal was developed by Open Whisper Systems, a for-profit corporation run by Moxie Marlinspike, a tall, lanky cryptographer with a head full of dreadlocks. Marlinspike was an old friend of Jacob Appelbaum, and he played a similar radical game. He remained cryptic about his real name and identity, told stories of being targeted by the FBI, and spent his free time sailing and surfing in Hawaii. He had made a good chunk of money selling his encryption start-up to Twitter and had worked with the State Department on Internet Freedom projects since 2011, but he posed as a feisty anarchist fighting the system. His personal website was called thoughtcrime.org—a reference to George Orwell’s 1984, which seemed a bit tongue-in-cheek given that he was taking big money—nearly $3 million—from Big Brother to develop his privacy app.127
Signal was a huge success. Journalists, privacy activists, and cryptographers hailed Signal as an indispensable Internet privacy tool. It was a complement to Tor in the age of mobile phones. While Tor anonymized browsing, Signal encrypted voice calls and text, making it impossible for governments to monitor communication.
Edward Snowden was the combo’s biggest and most famous booster and repeatedly took to Twitter to tell his three million followers that he used Signal and Tor every day, and that they should do the same to protect themselves from government surveillance. “Use Tor. Use Signal,” he tweeted out.
Silicon Valley cashed in on OTF’s Internet Freedom spending as well. Facebook incorporated Signal’s underlying encryption protocol into WhatsApp, the most popular messaging app in the world. Google followed suit, building Signal encryption into its Allo and Duo text and video messaging apps.
Internet Freedom privacy movement looked absurd. Cold War–era organizations spun off from the CIA now funding the global movement against government surveillance? Google and Facebook, companies that ran private surveillance networks and worked hand in hand with the NSA, deploying government-funded privacy tech to protect their users from government surveillance? Privacy activists working with Silicon Valley and the US government to fight government surveillance—and with the support of Edward Snowden himself?
After Edward Snowden, OTF was triumphant. It didn’t mention the leaker by name in its promotional materials, but it profited from the crypto culture he promoted and benefited from his direct endorsement of the crypto tools it financed. It boasted that its partnership with both Silicon Valley and respected privacy activists meant that hundreds of millions of people could use the privacy tools the US government had brought to market.
Ross Ulbricht, otherwise known as Dread Pirate Roberts, the architect of Silk Road. After its founding in 2012, Silk Road grew rapidly and appeared to be a place where organized criminals could hide in plain sight—until it wasn’t.
In October 2013, four months after Edward Snowden came out of hiding and endorsed Tor, a twenty-nine-year-old native Texan by the name of Ross Ulbricht was arrested in a public library in San Francisco. He was accused of being Dread Pirate Roberts and was charged with multiple counts of money laundering, narcotics trafficking, hacking, and, on top of it all, murder.
When his case went to trial a year later, the story of the Tor Project took on a different shade, demonstrating the power of marketing and ideology over reality. The internal communications and diaries recovered by investigators from Ulbricht’s encrypted laptop showed that he believed he was fully protected by Tor. He believed in Tor’s claims that were backed up by Edward Snowden and promoted by Jacob Appelbaum. He believed that everything he did in the murkiness of the dark web would have no bearing on him in the real world—he believed it so much that he not only built a massively illegal drug business on top of it but also ordered hits on anyone who threatened his business.
Starting in March 2013, Silk Road was hit with multiple attacks that crashed the Tor hidden server software that enabled it to be on the dark web. Over and over the site’s real IP address leaked to the public, a mission-critical failure that could have made it trivial for law enforcement to track down the real identity of Dread Pirate Roberts.
During his trial, it came out that the FBI and DHS had infiltrated Silk Road almost from the very beginning. A DHS agent had even taken over a senior Silk Road administrator account, which gave federal agents access to the back end of Silk Road’s system, a job for which Ulbricht paid the DHS agent $1,000 a week in Bitcoins.Meaning, one of Ulbricht’s top lieutenants was a fed, and he had no idea.
But it was Silk Road’s leaked IP address that ultimately led DHS agents to track Ulbricht’s connection to a cafe in San Francisco, and ultimately to him.
I2014, the FBI along with the DHS and European law enforcement agencies went on the hunt for Silk Road copycat stores, taking down fifty marketplaces hawking everything from drugs to weapons to credit cards to child abuse pornography in an international sweep codenamed Operation Omynous.
Tor’s Roger Dingledine was convinced that at least some of these stings were using an exploit developed by a group at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania. Working under a Pentagon contract, researchers had figured out a cheap and easy way to crack Tor’s super-secure network with just $3,000 worth of computer equipment. Dingledine accused the researchers of selling this method to the FBI.
Edward Snowden’s NSA documents provided the beginnings of an answer. They showed that multiple NSA programs could punch through Tor’s defenses and possibly even uncloak the network’s traffic on a “wide scale.” They also showed that the spy agency saw Tor as a useful tool that concentrated potential “targets” in one convenient location. In a word, the NSA saw Tor as a honeypot.
The bigger lesson of Snowden’s NSA cache was that almost nothing happened on the Internet without passing through some kind of US government bug. Naturally, popular tools used by the public that promised to obfuscate and hide people’s communications were targets regardless of who funded them. As for the other crypto tools financed by the US government? They suffered similar security and honeypot pitfalls.
Take Signal, the encrypted app Edward Snowden said he used every day. Marketed as a secure communication tool for political activists, the app had strange features built in from the very beginning. It required that users link their active mobile phone number and upload their entire address book into Signal’s servers—both questionable features of a tool designed to protect political activists from law enforcement in authoritarian countries.
Then there was the fact that Signal ran on Amazon’s servers, which meant that all its data were available to a partner in the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program. Equally problematic, Signal needed Apple and Google to install and run the app on people’s mobile phones. Both companies were, and as far as we know still are, partners in PRISM as well.
Signal’s encryption didn’t really matter, not when the CIA and NSA owned the underlying operating system and could grab whatever they wanted before encryption or obfuscation algorithms were applied. This flaw went beyond Signal and applied to every type of encryption technology on every type of consumer computer system.
2012- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Summit on Family Planning in London, when it was announced the foundation will fund research, development and deployment of “injectable contraceptives,” aimed at the developing world.
2014, Bostrom’s book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies helped spark public discussion about AI’s long-run social impact, receiving endorsements from Bill Gates and Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX.
Thiels’ Founders Fund was the first institutional investor in SpaceX. Thiel and Musk are the leading member of what has been termed the “PayPal Mafia,” a group of former PayPal employees and founders who have since founded and developed additional technology companies such as Tesla, Inc., LinkedIn, Palantir Technologies, SpaceX, YouTube, Yelp, and Yammer. Most of the members attended Stanford University or University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign at some point in their studies.
Musk’s goals include reducing the “risk of human extinction” by “making life multiplanetary” by setting up a human colony on Mars. Musk stated that he believes the chance that we are not living in a computer simulation is “one in billions.”” Many people in Silicon Valley have become obsessed with the simulation hypothesis, the argument that what we experience as reality is in fact fabricated in a computer,” writes Tad Friend of The New Yorker. “Two tech billionaires have gone so far as to secretly engage scientists to work on breaking us out of the simulation.”If we aren’t actually living through a simulation, Musk added, then all human life is probably about to come to an end and so we should hope that we are living in one. “Otherwise, if civilization stops advancing, then that may be due to some calamitous event that stops civilization,” he said at the Recode conference.
Sam Altman, who runs Y Combinator which helps develop tech companies, and who also co-founded a nonprofit called OpenAI with Musk, seemed to echo that sentiment and told the New Yorker that he was concerned that the devices that surround us might lead to the extinction of all consciousness in the universe. According to Altman, the best scenario for dealing with that is a “merge,” when our brains and computers become one, perhaps by having our brains uploaded into the cloud.
2014, PredPol was one of many companies competing for a fledgling but rapidly expanding market in predictive policing technologies. Big, established companies like IBM, LexisNexis, and Palantir all offered predictive crime products. PredPol, though small, has raked in contracts with police departments across the country: Los Angeles; Orange County in central Florida; Reading, Pennsylvania; Tacoma, Washington. Local newspapers and television stations loved PredPol’s story: the high-tech miracle cure cash-strapped police departments had been waiting for. It enabled law enforcement officers to reduce crime at low cost. With a price tag of $25,000 to $250,000 a year, depending on a city’s population, PredPol seemed like a bargain.
PredPol had supporters and backers in Silicon Valley. Its board of directors and advisory board included serious heavy hitters: executives from Google, Facebook, Amazon, and eBay, as well as a former managing director of In-Q-Tel, the CIA venture capital outfit operating in Silicon Valley.
Back in his office, Brantingham offers little about the company’s ties to these Internet giants. Another PredPol executive informed me that, behind the scenes, Google was one of PredPol’s biggest boosters and collaborators. “Google actually came to us,” Donnie Fowler, PredPol’s director of business development, told me by phone. “This is not the case of a little, tiny company going to a big behemoth like Google and saying that the only way we’ll survive is if we piggyback on you. It is a very mutually beneficial relationship.” He bragged that, unlike other companies, PredPol did more than simply license Google’s technology to render the mapping system embedded in its product, but also worked with Google to develop customized functionality, including “building additional bells and whistles and even additional tools for law enforcement.”
He was straightforward about why Google was so proactive about working with his company. “Their last frontier is to sell their technology to governments. They’ve done consumers. They’ve done business.” And PredPol was a perfect sales prop—a powerful example of police departments leveraging Google technology to keep people safe. “One of those Google guys told me: ‘You complete us,’” Fowler said with an air of satisfaction
2014: Dr. Deborah Birxtakes the helm of PEPFAR (the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), which Dr. Fauci helped launch (in 2003) and which benefits from generous Gates Foundation support.
Birx and Fauci are long-time allies, having worked together during the early years of AIDS and sharing overlapping career paths.
2014-October 7: National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Francis Collins announces a “new phase of cooperation” between NIH and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, including partnering for vaccine development.
2014, “In Vivo Nanoplatforms (IVN)” program created. The diagnostics branch of that program, abbreviated as IVN:Dx, “investigates technologies that incorporate implantable nanoplatforms composed of bio-compatible, nontoxic materials; in vivosensing of small and large molecules of biological interest; multiplexed detection of analytes at clinically relevant concentrations; and external interrogation of the nanoplatforms without using implanted electronics for communication.” Past reportson the program describe it as developing “classes of nanoparticles to sense and treat illness, disease, and infection on the inside. The tech involves implantable nanoparticles which sense specific molecules of biological interest.”
DARPA’s IVN program has since helped to finance and produce“soft, flexible hydrogels that are injected just beneath the skin to perform [health] monitoring and that sync to a smartphone app to give the use immediate health insights,” a product currently marketed and created by the DARPA-funded and National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded company Profusa. Profusa, which has received millionsupon millions from DARPA in recent years, asserts that the information generated by their injectable biosensor would be “securely shared” and accessible to “individuals, physicians and public health practitioners.” However, the current push for a national “contact tracing” system based on citizens’ private health data is likely to expand that data sharing, conveniently fitting with DARPA’s years-old goal of creating a national, web-based database of preemptive diagnoses.
Profusa is also backed by Google, which is intimately involved in these new mass surveillance “contact tracing” initiatives, and counts former Senate majority leader William Frist among its board members. They are also partnered with the National Institutes of Health (NIH)The company also has considerable overlap with the diagnostic company Cepheid, which recently won FDA approval for its rapid coronavirus test and was previously awarded lucrative government contracts to detect anthrax in the U.S. postal system.
2014-October 17: Under President Obama, the NIH halts federal funding for gain-of-function (GOF) research (see Notes) and asks federally funded GOF researchers to “agree to a voluntary moratorium.” The funding hiatus applies to 21 studies “reasonably anticipated to confer attributes to influenza, MERS, or SARS viruses such that the virus would have enhanced pathogenicity and/or transmissibility in mammals via the respiratory route.” NIH later allows 10 of the studies to resume.
2014 - The federal government temporarily stopped funding any new studies that could make three high-risk infectious diseases even more dangerous. The concern is that so-called gain-of-function studies would alter viruses in the lab in ways that could make them more pathogenic or contagious should they be released.
2014- ID2020 was founded in New York by John Edge, an expert on how Public-Private Partnerships can solve the sustainability goals with the help from blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies. Their stated mission was to give a digital identity to everyone through “leveraging start-up models” and in the end create a system that would span the globe, including the 1 billion people that currently have no proper identification. Their first meeting, coinciding with the adoption of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, was connected to Global Goal 16 with its sub target 9 to “by 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration”.
2014- Early start-ups like Swedish Biohax International do RFID-implants in humans and Danish firm Bichip developed achip that can be connected to the Internet and has a unique ID for general identification. It can also be used as a Payment System “integrateable with cryptocurrency wallets”.
BiChip is the First and the Only Distance readable Human Microchip with Internet Connectivity. Bichip has a unique ID for general identification, and can store your Medical data, Driver license and Passport. It can also be used as an alternative Payment System integratable with cryptocurrency wallets.
2014- Gates announced that Microchips Biotech, Inc., a company in Lexington, Massachusetts, had developed a new form of birth control: ‘a wireless implant that can be turned on and off with a remote control and that is designed to last up to 16 years.’
According to MIT Technology Review, the idea originated when Bill Gates visited Robert Langer’s MIT lab in 2012 and asked him if it would be possible to create an implantable birth control device that could be turned on or off remotely.
Langer referred Gates to the controlled release microchip technology he had invented and licensed to MicroCHIPS Biotechnology, and the Gates Foundation granted $20 million to the firm to develop the implants.
Reducing population growth has, by Gates’ own admission, been a core mission of the Gates Foundation since its inception. But in order to really understand what Gates means by ‘population control,’ we have to look beyond the concept of controlling population size. At its most fundamental level, the ‘population control’ that Gates speaks of is not birth control, but control of the population itself.”
2015 the UN issued a document, “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” The Obama Administration never submitted it to the Senate for ratification knowing it would fail. Yet it is being advanced globally. It includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals, extending an earlier Agenda21.
The 17 include “to end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions… to protect the planet from degradation, including through sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing its natural resources and taking urgent action on climate change…“
It calls for sustainable economic growth, sustainable agriculture (GMO), sustainable and modern energy (wind, solar), sustainable cities, sustainable industrialization… The word sustainable is the key word. If we dig deeper it is clear it is code-word for a reorganization of world wealth via means such as punitive carbon taxes that will dramatically reduce air and vehicle travel.
The less-developed world will not rise to the developed, rather the other way, the advanced civilizations must go down in their living standards to become “sustainable.”
The decision to demonize CO2, one of the most essential compounds to sustain all life, human and plant, is not random. As Prof. Richard Lindzen an MIT atmospheric physicist puts it, “CO2 for different people has different attractions. After all, what is it? – it’s not a pollutant, it’s a product of every living creature’s breathing, it’s the product of all plant respiration, it is essential for plant life and photosynthesis, it’s a product of all industrial burning, it’s a product of driving – I mean, if you ever wanted a leverage point to control everything from exhalation to driving, this would be a dream. So it has a kind of fundamental attractiveness to bureaucratic mentality.”
2015-NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn on Wednesday lambasted BlackRock Inc (BLK.N), the world's largest asset manager, as an "extremely dangerous company" because of the prevalence of its exchange-traded fund products, which Icahn deems illiquid.
"They sell liquidity," Icahn said in reference to BlackRock's ETF business. "There is no liquidity. That’s my point. And that’s what’s going to blow this up."
Icahn was speaking at the CNBC Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha Conference in New York, sharing the stage with Larry Fink, chief executive of BlackRock. Icahn said he was concerned about the amount of money invested in high-yield ETFs, which he called "overpriced."
Icahn said that when the Federal Reserve hikes interest rates, investors would likely sell their high-yield ETFs, and that he feared the consequences of such a sell-off since he said there would be nobody to buy them. Icahn has previously said he believes the high-yield bond market was in a bubble.
Fink countered that Icahn's characterizations of ETFs were "dead wrong" and that the index funds were just "a tool for buying exposure." Fink also said that ETFs "create more price transparency than anything in the bond market today," especially in high-yield.
The U.S. ETF market has roughly $2.1 trillion in assets, according to ETF.com.
Fink also said higher interest rates would result in more money flowing into the bond market. He reiterated that the Fed would likely raise rates in September and that normalization of the Fed's funds rates would be good for the economy.
2015-The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) is a forum for fact-checkers worldwide hosted by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.It launched in September 2015, in recognition of the fact that a booming crop of fact-checking initiatives could benefit from an organization that promotes best practices and exchanges in this field.
These organizations fact-check statements by public figures, major institutions and other widely circulated claims of interest to society.
Among other things, the IFCN:
Monitors trends and formats in fact-checking worldwide, publishing regular articles on the dedicated Poynter.org channel.
Provides training resources for fact-checkers.
Supports collaborative efforts in international fact-checking, including fellowships.
Convenes a yearly conference (Global Fact).
Is the home of the fact-checkers’ code of principles
The IFCN is led by Alexios Mantzarlis, who joined Poynter after co-founding and editing Pagella Politica, an
Italian political fact-checking website.
Poynter’s IFCN has received funding from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, the Duke Reporters’ Lab, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Omidyar Network, the Open Society Foundations and the Park Foundation.
2015, IARPA was named to lead foundational research and development in the National Strategic Computing Initiative. IARPA is also a part of other White House science and technology efforts, including the US BRAIN Initiative, and the Nanotechnology-Inspired Grand Challenge for Future Computing. In 2013, New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks called IARPA “one of the government’s most creative agencies.”
2015- September 25 - the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit .
2015-The 2014 ebola outbreak had, triggered the World Economic Forum, to issue a report called Managing the Risk and Impact of Future Epidemics: Options for Public-Private Cooperation (written with Boston Consulting Group in 2015). Work was initiated with the ambition of building up a response to how future outbreaks could be managed through the use of Public-Private Partnerships:
There is also momentum now behind an agenda for change regarding how the global community will respond to outbreaks and epidemics in the future. The challenge is to translate this passion and commitment into public-private collaboration models that are better prepared to engage collectively in the next crisis.
2015: NIAID, under Fauci, awards a five-year, $3.7 million grant to EcoHealth Alliance (whose director gets credit on subsequent publications for “funding acquisition” rather than scientific work) to conduct gain-of-function studies on the “risk of bat coronavirus emergence.” Ten percent of the award goes to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which does “the bulk of the on-the-ground sample collection and analysis.”
2015, December 4 President Obama signed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) act on December 4, 2015. FAST authorized $305 billion over fiscal years 2016 through 2020 for highway construction, public transportation and railroad improvements, among other related things.
According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHA), the FAST Act authorizes each state to receive a lump sum of money representing the sum of its projects, except the state does not actually receive the money. The FHA rules specifically state, “funding is set aside for the State’s Metropolitan Planning program…” The MPO/COG is then free to dangle the funds over their cities and counties to force them to comply with their UN-driven Sustainable Development and 2030 Agenda programs.
Carrying into the current Administration, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao stated during her confirmation hearing, “The government does not have the resources to address all the infrastructure needs within our country.” She noted that there is a “significant difference between traditional program funding and other innovative financing tools, such as public-private partnerships.”
2015, the Department of Transportation unveiled the Build America Transportation Investment Center (BATIC) with the main purpose to cultivate PPPs, helping them to gain access to federal credit and to navigate federal permitting and procedural requirements..
2015- Davos Board member Carney, as former chairman of the Bank for International Settlements’ Financial Stability Board (FSB) and current head if Bank of England created the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), to advise “investors, lenders and insurance about climate related risks.
2015-September 25. Public-Private Partnerships are considered essential by the United Nations to implement its seventeen Sustainable Development Goals that are part of the 2030 Agenda adopted by the UN on September 25, 2015. The connection between P3s and SDGs has been stated and restated by many UN agencies, but it has also been parotted in American media as well: Public Private Partnerships, (PPPs), which are a controversial source of funding for government projects, are back at the current World Bank IMF meetings in Washington, under a new name — Blended Finance. Proponents say that blended finance is a way to fund the $2.5 trillion a year needed to “support progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set forth by the United Nations.”137
2015 December 12, UN Climate Change Conference held in Paris produced the Paris Agreement On Climate Change.
2015-And finally there was Donald Trump, emerging from a decade of litigation, multiple bankruptcies, and $ 4 billion in debt, to rise from the near-dead with the help of Bayrock and its alleged ties to Russian intelligence and the Russian Mafia. “They saved his bacon,” said Kenneth McCallion, a former federal prosecutor who filed suit against Mogilevich, Paul Manafort, Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash, and others on behalf of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
2016, the Rockefeller Family Fund announced that it would divest holdings from fossil fuel companies. They would do so over time except in the case of ExxonMobil which was singled out “for immediate divestment because of its morally reprehensible conduct.”
Current members of the family have funded research on ExxonMobil using independent journalists, which claims to have found that the company knew about climate change for a long time but chose not to act upon it.
David Kaiser, a fifth-generation descendant of John D. Rockefeller, published an article outlining some findings of their investigation, showing extensive lobbying efforts by ExxonMobil against the Kyoto Protocol treaty.
And according to Stephen Schneider, a Stanford University scientist and co-author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with former Vice President Al Gore:
…we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination.... So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.
2016: The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity statesthat “very few government-funded gain-of-function experiments [pose] a significant threat to public health.”
2016-November, Prop or not goes online. Promoted by National Media. A weapon subsequently used by social media for censorship
2016-The Insect Allies program was announced by DARPA in 2016. Some claim DARPA is potentially developing insects as a means of delivering a "new class of biological weapon."
2016-To ensure early deployment of 5G infrastructure in Europe, the Commission adopted in 2016 a 5G Action Plan for Europe with the objective to start launching 5G services in all EU Member States by end 2020 at the latest, followed by a rapid build-up to ensure uninterrupted 5G coverage in urban areas .
2016-The NSC creates a directorate for global health and security and bio-defense
2016- TCFD along with the City of London Corporation and the UK Government created the Green Finance Initiative, aiming to channel trillions of dollars to “green” investments. The central bankers of the FSB nominated 31 people to form the TCFD. Chaired by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, it includes in addition to BlackRock, JP MorganChase; Barclays Bank; HSBC; Swiss Re, the world’s second largest reinsurance; China’s ICBC bank; Tata Steel, ENI oil, Dow Chemical, mining giant BHP and David Blood of Al Gore’s Generation Investment LLC. Note the crucial role of the central banks here.
2016-December, regulations revised and reissued by Obama just before Trump entered office, allow the government to stop and seize any plane, train or automobile to stymie the spread of contagious disease. Some even interpret the statute as meaning a president could deploy the military to cordon off a city or state.
2016- Klaus Schwab, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Economic Forum predicted Smart technology devices will, during the coming decade, be integrated with our bodies for behaviour monitoring, location data, health functions and real-time identification . Smart tattoos and other unique chips could help with identification and location. Digital tattoos not only look cool but can perform useful tasks, like unlocking a car, entering mobile phone codes with a finger point or tracking body-processes.
2016-September 3 despite an outpouring of protests from Americans and elected representatives, President Obama took unilateral action by meeting in China with Premier Xi and a UN Delegation that included the Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon. During that meeting, Obama signed the Paris Agreement, creating a legally-binding obligation for the American people.
2016-October 20 Habitat III held in Quito, Ecuador and produced the New Urban Agenda.
2016 the TCFD along with the City of London Corporation and the UK Government created the Green Finance Initiative, aiming to channel trillions of dollars to “green” investments. The central bankers of the FSB nominated 31 people to form the TCFD. Chaired by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, it includes in addition to BlackRock, JP MorganChase; Barclays Bank; HSBC; Swiss Re, the world’s second largest reinsurance; China’s ICBC bank; Tata Steel, ENI oil, Dow Chemical, mining giant BHP and David Blood of Al Gore’s Generation Investment LLC. Note the crucial role of the central banks here.
2016- December 23, obama signs Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act. (CFPDA)In both the House and Senate the bill was included in the National Defense Authorization Actfor fiscal year 2017. It passed the House in this fashion in a conference report vote on 2 December 2016. The Senate then passed the measure in a conference report on December 8 by a tally of 92–7. the United States Secretary of State to collaborate with the United States Secretary of Defense and other relevant Federal agencies to create a "Global Engagement Center" (GEC) to fight against propaganda from foreign governments, and publicize the nature of ongoing foreign propaganda and disinformation operations against the United States and other countries.
The bill said this inter-agency effort should: "counter foreign propaganda and disinformation directed against United States national security interests and proactively advance fact-based narratives that support United States allies and interests
2016-The right-wing propaganda against political correctness increased with the neoconservatives. However, the paleoconservatives introduced a conspiratorial interpretation, exploiting anti-communist paranoia, by drawing attention to the Marxist origins of the Frankfurt School, and characterizing their program not only as an attack on Christian values, but on “white” civilization.
The term used in their agenda, “political correctness,” was the predecessor of the more highly charged concept of “Cultural Marxism”—a conspiracy theory which sees the Frankfurt School’s supposed agenda aimed at attacking Western society, using political correctness to enforce the acceptance of feminism, multiculturalism, radical environmentalism and homosexuality.
The key funders of the propagandists against “political correctness” were the networks of conservative donors, particularly the Koch, Olin and Scaife families. The Koch Brothers, Charles and David, are the principle owners of Koch Industries, inherited from their father Fred Koch, which is listed by Forbes as of 2015 as the second-largest privately held company in the United States.
The brothers followed their father in joining the John Birch Society in Wichita, Kansas.
Koch Brothers, Charles and David.
The Koch brothers have carried forward the tradition of the Old Right, by repurposing bigotry and fear of communism in the form of an attack on the so-called “Liberal media” and “political correctness.” Effectively, the Koch brothers have used their millions to cultivate a conspiratorial view of politics to exploit fears of “Big Government,” culminating in the Tea Party, to advance a neoliberal agenda for the reduction of taxes and the dismantling of social programs.
Koch brothers’ libertarian thinking “entails restrictions on the freedom of the great majority in order to protect property rights and the prerogatives of the most well off.” As Frank Rich remarked in the New York Times, “The Koch brothers must be laughing all the way to the bank knowing that working Americans are aiding and abetting their selfish interests.”
2016- In May Jigsaw announced it had partnered with Vice News on a five-part documentary series called Blackout to examine free expression around the world.
Jigsaw also hosted a number of conferences, the most recent of which was the Conflict in a Connected World Roundtable Series, in partnership with the CFR’s Center of Preventative Action. It has come under scrutiny for its links with the US State Department and its regime change activities.
Schmidt and a number of top Google execs informed the intelligence agency Stratfor about Google’s activities and internal communication regarding “regime change” in the Middle East, according to Stratfor emails released by WikiLeaks and obtained by Al-Akhbar.
In an email addressed to the deputy Secretary of State under Hillary Clinton dated on July 25, 2012, Cohen’s revealed that Jigsaw was working on a project, together with Al Jazeera, to track defectors of the Syrian Army with the explicit goal of “encouraging more to defect and giving confidence to the opposition.”
2016- Obama signs The Global Magnitsky Act effectively globalizing the authorities of the 2012 law by authorizing the President to deny entry into the United States, revoke any already-issued visa, and block property under U.S. jurisdiction of, and prohibit U.S. persons from entering into transactions with, any foreign person (individual or entity) that the President determines
is “responsible for extrajudicial killings, torture, or other gross violations of internationally recognized human rights,” as defined at 22 U.S.C. §2304(d(1), against those working (1) to expose illegal activities of government officials or (2) to obtain, exercise, defend, or promote human rights and freedoms, including rights to a fair trial and democratic elections; or
is a foreign government official responsible for acts of significant corruption, a senior associate of such an official, or a facilitator of such acts, which include the expropriation of private or public assets for personal gain, corruption in government contracts or natural resource extraction, bribery, or the offshore sheltering of ill-gotten gains.
The act received widespread bipartisan support. Senator Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, introduced a version of the bill, and five Republican senators and five Democratic senators signed on as co-sponsors. President Barack Obama signed the law on December 23, 2016.
The Act sunsets 6 years after enactment, which would be December 23, 2022. No new sanctions can be imposed after this date if the Act is not reauthorized, but existing sanctions would remain in effect unless terminated.
2017- December 20, President Trump issued Executive Order (E.O.) 13818, finding that “the prevalence and severity of human rights abuse and corruption ... have reached such scope and gravity that they threaten the stability of international political and economic systems” and “constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States,” invoking the Global Magnitsky Act and emergency authorities stated in the National Emergencies Act (NEA; P.L. 94-412; 50 U.S.C. §§1601 et seq.) and International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA; P.L. 95-223; 50 U.S.C. §§1701 et seq.).
Although the E.O. is ostensibly meant to implement the Global Magnitsky Act, it is broader than the legislation in a number of important respects:
The executive order reformulated the grounds on which individuals or entities can be sanctioned. GloMag covers the commission of “gross violations of internationally recognized human rights” whereas the E.O. speaks of “serious human rights abuse.” While “violations” and “abuses” are often considered synonymous, to an international lawyer the former is generally employed to denote acts by States or State actors who are breaching human rights obligations owed by States (under treaties the relevant State has ratified or under customary international law); by contrast, the concept of “abuses” is broader in that it can cover the conduct of non-State actors who are not acting on behalf of, or with the acquiescence of, a State.
In GloMag, the sanctionable conduct is defined by a sister statute to include torture, disappearances, and other flagrant human rights violations. Specifically, the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961defines “gross violations of internationally recognized human rights” to include torture; cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment; prolonged detention without charges or trial; causing the disappearance of persons; and “other flagrant denial of the right to life, liberty, or the security of person.” In contrast, the E.O.’s reference to “serious human rights abuse” is potentially more capacious and would more readily cover acts of sexual violence or non-violent human rights abuses, such as persecution on the basis of race or religion. The use of the singular “abuse” also suggests that it is not necessary to show a pattern or practice of harm to justify the imposition of sanctions, meaning that a single assassination, for example, could trigger a designation.
Whereas GloMag is devoted to protecting human rights advocates and whistleblowers, the E.O. allows for sanctions to be imposed regardless of the nature or status of the victim class. As such, harm to ordinary civilians falls within its reach so long as the person to be sanctioned directly or indirectly engaged in, is responsible for, or is complicit in the harm.
GloMag can be used to sanction individuals and their agents who are deemed “responsible” for gross human rights violations. By contrast, the E.O. also can be invoked against the leader or official of an entity that has engaged in serious human rights abuse or corruption; any person who has materially assisted, sponsored, or provided other forms of support to human rights abuse; or anyone who has participated in a conspiracy to violate the E.O. The E.O. thus more easily reaches enablers, such as lawyers, real estate agents, and accountants (including from Western countries) whose assistance is critical to effectuate the complex financial crimes that often accompany human rights abuses or through which corruption operates.
The E.O. is actionable against any act of “corruption” rather than only “significant acts of corruption.”
The two sanctions authorities now apply concurrently. However, as a practical matter, given the limitations in GloMag, designations often proceed under the E.O.
https://www.justsecurity.org/75659/reauthorizing-and-strengthening-the-global-magnitsky-act/
2017-Jared and Ivanka were known to double-date with Murdoch and his ex-wife Wendi Deng. Murdoch and Deng attended the Kushner-Trump wedding in 2009. Ivanka converted to Judaism to marry Kushner, who has strong ties to Chabad-Lubavitch.
Until December 2017, Ivanka was a trustee for a $300 million fortune set aside for Murdoch’s daughters with Deng. Even after Murdoch’s split with Deng, the two women and the two men remained close. Deng is also a friend of Karlie Kloss, the longtime girlfriend of Kushner’s brother, Josh.
The Wall Street Journal reported that US counterintelligence officials in early 2017 warned Jared that Deng could be using her close friendship with him and Ivanka to further the interests of the Chinese government.
Jared and Ivanka are also close friends with Deng’s business partner, the wife of Roman Abramovich, Dasha Zhukova. Deng was rumored to be dating Putin, which she has since denied. All of them were guests in August 2016 on Laurel Canyon media mogul David Geffen’s $200 million yacht off the coast of Croatia, and a few weeks later at the US Open.Zhukova reportedly attended Trump’s inauguration as Ivanka’s guest.
Jared and Abramnovich have met three to four times in social settings, and their wives have been friends for a decade. Jared and Ivanka attended a charity event with Roman Abramovich in early 2014, just a few months after the Miss Universe Moscow pageant and the Sochi Olympics that included representatives from Russia’s Alfa Bank, and numerous Russian oligarchs.
Both Viktor Vekselberg and Len Blavatnik were at the gala attended by Jared and Ivanka, as were Alexey Reznikovich, the head of LetterOne Technology, which is controlled by Alfa Group’s Mikhail Fridman. Also included were Ekaterina Vinokurova, the daughter of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, with her husband Alexander Vinokurov, who sits on the board of Alfa Group.
2017- Sunrise Movement was launched in April by six principal co-founders—veterans of the Occupy Movement—who had developed a friendship with Michael Dorsey of the Rockefeller-funded globalist institution, the Club Of Rome; Dorsey was also a former Sierra Club board member, whom President Barack Obama had appointed to the EPA’s National Advisory Board in 2010 and 2012.
According to reporting by Inside Philanthropy, institutional funders made up about 55 percent of Sunrise Movement’s 2018 budget, which includes donors like the Rockefeller Family Fund, Wallace Global Fund, and the Winslow Foundation.
The Wallace Global Fund was originally founded by former US Vice-President Henry A. Wallace. Winslow is run by Wren Winslow Wirth, who is married to former politician Tim Wirth.
2017, Bill Gates committed $80 million to create a smart city called Belmont in the Arizona desert west of Phoenix. Forty square miles of sand and desert flora will be transformed into a high-tech metropolis of 160,000 inhabitants.
2017- January , Trump appointment as Secretary of Transportation, Elaine Chao has consistently championed the Trump Administration’s $1 trillion infrastructure rebuilding initiative but has provided a twist: the federal spending shortfall will be made up by the creation of public-private partnerships (P3), commingling private funds with public tax dollars.
Chao’s father, Dr. James Chao, founded a privately-held global shipping company called Foremost Maritime Corporation in 1964 that now owns at least 27 giant cargo ships. The majority of these are large bulk carriers known as “capesize” vessels dedicated to dry-weight cargo such as coal, iron ore or other commodity raw materials. In 1958, the elder Chao immigrated from Taiwan to the United States and in 1961 brought his wife and young children, including their firstborn, eight year-old Elaine.
While building Foremost over the years, the Chao family has developed and maintained strong ties to the Chinese government. Its most recent ship purchases in 2017, for instance, were made from the state-owned China State Shipping Corporation (CSSC).
Elaine’s sister Angela Chao, currently Deputy-Chairman of Foremost and in charge of day-to-day operations, was appointed in January 2017 to the board of directors of the state-owned Bank of China. The Bank of China is the fourth largest bank in the world, easily eclipsing JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo & Co. It has branches throughout the world and is a major presence in the United States with Bank of China USA.
Bank of China is fully involved with China’s massive infrastructure project called “One Belt One Road” (BRI) which seeks to connect Asia with Europe along the lines of the ancient Silk Road and will include roads, pipelines, seaports and ocean shipping routes. The estimated cost of BRI is well into the trillions,133 and not surprisingly, Beijing is expecting to couple private investments through the liberal use of Public-Private Partnerships.
Secretary Chao has a major conflict of interest: will she build America’s infrastructure to serve the American citizen, or will she build it according to the desires of the global Technocracy?
China is not only a Technocracy, but it is currently the global leader in exporting Technocracy to all parts of the world. Although it still has the trappings of a Communist dictatorship, it has long since departed from Communism in favor of Technocracy.
China was originally brought onto the global economic stage by prominent members of the Trilateral Commission during the Carter presidency from 1976-1980. With an assist from Trilateral Henry Kissinger, it was primarily Trilateral Zbigniew Brzeziński who received the bulk of credit; but, we must remember that both Jimmy Carter and his Vice-President Walter Mondale, were also Commission members, as was Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.
After China’s introduction to the West, it was smothered with Western capital, infrastructure projects, factories and most importantly, knowhow and instruction on Technocracy. Deng Xiaoping’s reforms discussed above were the result of those original Trilateral discussions.
Today, China is a fully-engineered and technocrat-run society that continues to expand its infrastructure in order to achieve economic and trade domination. This is what One Belt One Road is all about: perfecting the supply chain of goods and services between China and Europe. To sell the effort, China has become the top supporter of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
2017-At the annual summit in the United Nations ECOSOC Chamber, ID2020 adopted “the platform of change” and started the ID2020 Alliance, with funding from major donor Rockefeller Foundation and the digital technology consultant firm Accenture.
Other founding partners were GAVI – The Vaccine Alliance, Microsoft and IDEO.org (a design and consultant firm with partners like The Rockefeller Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and The Bezos Family Foundation). Participants included Intel, IBM, Verizon, Samsung, NEC, and SAP. The Alliance featured a very tight connection between big tech companies, foundations, and vaccine and health interests.
2017-Dr Fauci said there will be a surprise outbreak during the Trump administration. He said this in a speech in January 2017 -given at Georgetown University on Pandemic Preparedness
2017-December. The National Institutes of Health announced that it is lifting a funding pause dating back to October 2014 on gain-of-function (GOF) experiments involving influenza, SARS, and MERS viruses.
2017- Documents released under FOIA show DARPA has become the world’s largest funder of “gene drive” research. It is investing $100m in genetic extinction technologies that could wipe out malarial mosquitoes, invasive rodents or OTHER SPECIES,
It involves the use of genetic modification to wipe out entire populations, explaining why it it often referred to as a “genetic extinction” technology. Its BioDesign program, is examining the creation of synthetic organisms that are created to be immortal and programmed with a “kill switch” allowing a synthetic, yet organic organism to be “turned off” at any time. However, these genetic “kill switches” could also be inserted into actual humans through artificial chromosomes, which – just as they have the potential to extend life – also have the potential to cut it short.
2017-Robert Kadlec appointed by Trump as Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), A Dark Winter figure involved in the Amerithrax case. He had been an adviser on biological warfare to the Rumsfeld-led Pentagon in the days after 9/11. Kadlec’s official biography states that he “contributed to the FBI investigation of the anthrax letter attacks,” though it’s unclear exactly what those contributions were, beyond having met at least once with scientists at Fort Detrick in November 2001. Whatever his contributions were, Kadlec has long been an emphatic supporter of the official narrative regarding Bruce Ivins, who he has referred to as a “deranged scientist” and the sole culprit behind the attacks. Kadlec has also used the official narrative about Ivins to assert that bioweapons have been “democratized,” which he argues means that weaponized pathogens can be wielded by essentially anyone with “a few thousand dollars” and enough time on their hands
2017-Deutsche Bank has an estimated $320 million in loans on 3 properties: data from Trump's June 2017 financial disclosure form and estimate based on full loan amounts reported in the news .
After Trumps bankruptcies few banks would do business with Trump by Deutsche Bank came to the rescue time and time against despite defaults on loans with Deutsche Bank
Besides Deutsche Bank , a company named Ladder Capital Finance issued $282 million in loans to Trump on 4 properties. In Feb 2017 the Related Companies bought $80 million in Ladder stock. Stephen Ross, chairman & founder of Related Companies, has been a client of Rosemary Vrablic a senior banker at Deutsche Bank, who counts Trump and Jared Kushner as customers
Deutsche's Rosemary Vrablic arranged loans for Trump & prior to election, Deutsche funded $285 million for Jared Kushner to refinance loan on part of former NYT building bought from Putins fav oligarch Lev Leviev whose company AFI was involved in Prevezon $ laundering case
Rosemary Vrablic started in banking in the mid 80’s with Israeli Bank Leumi where the Kushners were customers. Her boss at Deutsche Bank handled Epsteins account which he had brought over from JP morgan after they stopped doing business with Epstein.
Deutsche Bank is being sued by investors over their questionable loans to wealthy and suspect clients. The Judge hearing the case had her husband and son shot by a former member of Kroll Associates who was based in Moscow in the late 90’s.
Many don’t recall but Deutsche Bank handled the Puts that were placed shortly before 9/11 with a former Kroll Associate working for the CIA, and Kroll in charge of WTC security
Deutsche Bank has allegedly been a huge money launderer for Russian and FSU oligarchs. The recent FinCEN leaks involve more than $2 trillion USD worth of flagged transactions from 1999 to 2017.
Much of that laundered money was ploughed into luxury real estate
The majority of the transactions come from Deutsche Bank which had more than half the $2 Trillion-dollar sum of the FinCEN Files. The main focus is on Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs.
2017- The entrance of BMIs into the civilian sphere isn’t very far away, as DARPA executives and researchers who have worked on the N3 and other DARPA-backed BMI programs have since been “scooped up” by Verily (a Google-GlaxoSmithKline partnership), Elon Musk’s Neuralink and Facebook’s Building 8 – all of which have been working to bring “neuro-modulation” devices and BMIs to market.
2018-Microsoft has won a $480M with the US military to provide its HoloLens technology as part of an augmented reality technology package that the Army intends to use for training as well as in combat missions. The contract calls for Microsoft to provide “Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) prototypes.”
Microsoft’s HoloLens has always been a bit of an odd duck.
First released in 2016, it’s an augmented reality headset Microsoft still sells for a cool $3,000.
“Augmented reality technology will provide troops with more and better information to make decisions,” a Microsoft spokesman toldBloomberg in an emailed statement.
“This new work extends our longstanding, trusted relationship with the Department of Defense to this new area,”
2018, Intel made public its plan to invest $5 billion in one of its Israeli factories and had invested an additional $15 billion in Israeli-created autonomous driving technology a year prior, creating thousands of Intel jobs in Israel.
Notably, over that same time frame, Intel has cut nearly 12,000 jobs in the United States. While this great transfer of investment and jobs was undermining the U.S. economy and hurting American workers, particularly in the tech sector, Intel received over $25 million dollars in subsidies from the U.S. federal government.
A similar phenomenon has been occurring at another U.S.-based tech giant, Microsoft. Beginning in 2014 and continuing into 2018, Microsoft laid off well over 20,000 employees, most of them Americans, in several different rounds of staff cuts.
Over that same time period, Microsoft has been on a hiring spree in Israel, building new campuses and investing billions of dollars annually in its Israel-based research and development center and in other Israeli start-up companies, creating thousands of jobs abroad.
In addition, Microsoft has been pumping millions of dollars into technology programs at Israeli universities and institutes, such as the Technion Institute. Over this same time frame, Microsoft has received nearly $197 million in subsidies from the state governments of Washington, Iowa and Virginia.
2018-January 24, President Trump arrives in Davos, Switzerland to attend the 2018 Davos World Economic Forum. He is the first U.S. President to personally attend the annual Davos conference since President Bill Clintonin 2000. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is head of the U.S. delegation, which is the largest ever to attend the forum.
2018-with 21 Trillion in spending unaccounted for an announcement by a little-known government body called the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board — FASAB as made— that essentially legalized secret national security spending.
The new guidance, “SFFAS 56 – CLASSIFIED ACTIVITIES” permits government agencies to “modify” public financial statements and move expenditures from one line item to another. It also expressly allows federal agencies to refrain from telling taxpayers if and when public financial statements have been altered.
To Michigan State professor Mark Skidmore, who’s been studying discrepancies in defense expenditures for years, the new ruling — and the lack of public response to it — was a shock.
“From this point forward,” he says, “the federal government will keep two sets of books, one modified book for the public and one true book that is hidden
2018 February 1, the Washington Post reported that 'CDC to cut by 80 percent efforts to prevent global disease outbreak' “The global health section of the CDC was so drastically cut in 2018 that much of its staff was laid off and the number of countries it was working in was reduced from 49 to merely 10. Meanwhile, throughout 2018, the U.S. Agency for International Development and its director, Mark Green, came repeatedly under fire from both the White House and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. And though Congress has so far managed to block Trump administration plans to cut the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps by 40 percent the disease-fighting cadres have steadily eroded as retiring officers go unreplaced.'
Countries where the CDC is planning to scale back include some of the world’s hot spots for emerging infectious disease, such as China, Pakistan, Haiti, Rwanda and Congo. Last year, when Congo experienced a potentially deadly Ebola outbreakin a remote, forested area, CDC-trained disease detectives and rapid responders helped contain it quickly.
2018- November, newly reestablished Sanhedrin invited Nikki Haley, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, to be the honorary president of the Organization of 70 Nations established on the 70th anniversary of the nation of Israel
https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/118979/sanhedrin-nikki-haley-president/
“God established the borders of the world based on the 70 children of Israel who went down to Egypt and the 70 nationsthat came out from Noah.
The 70 nations are actually all 200+ nations outside of Israel
“Each nation shall be solely responsible for maintaining a fitting and proper justice system as per the Seven Noahide Lawsincumbent upon all of mankind.”
2018-Gates foundation gives Oxitec grant in June 2018 to develop genetically modified mosquitos
to transfer a self-limiting genetic platform into the malaria vector for future application in Meso-America and the Caribbean to reduce or eliminate this mosquito where it transmits malaria .
Amount: $7,039,836
2018-HHS Secretary Alex Azar , appointed by Trump in 2017 was involved in the FBI botched Anthrax investigation. In addition, Azar stated at a White House press briefing in 2018 that he had been “personally involved in much of managing the response [to the anthrax attacks]” as then-General counsel to HHS.
2018, President Trump withholds some classified documents as NARA releases 19,045 more documents on the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy. They are to be released in 2021 (but were not)
2018 Clade X simulation hosted by John Hopkins . In the simulation a bipartisan group of current and former government officials participated and reacted to a disease outbreak where millions died globally, the stock market crashed and health care system collapsed
This event examined the response to a pandemic resulting from the release of a fictional virus known as Clade X. In the simulation, the virus was released by a terror group called A Brighter Dawn.
The participants asked what would be needed if the President issued a federal quarantine, noting that authorities would need to “Determine (the) level of force authorized to maintain quarantine.” The Clade X exercise also resulted in the federal government nationalizing the healthcare system
2018 CLOUD ACT signed giving US law enforcement access to any data controlled by a service provider regardless of where the data is located or who created it
2018- Trump appointed Kavanaugh casts deciding vote as Justices rule First Amendment does not apply to Private Companies like Twitter that are operating in the Public Square
2018, November 16, The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is created. Microsoft executive Chris Krebs appointed to head it.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is a new federal agency, created to protect the nation's critical infrastructure.
It was created through the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018, which was signed into law on November 16, 2018.
That legislation “rebranded” the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and transferred resources and responsibilities of NPPD to the newly created agency.
Prior to the passage of the bill, NPPD managed almost all of DHS’s cybersecurity-related matters.
CISA is responsible for protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure from physical and cyber threats. Its mission is to “build the national capacity to defend against cyber attacks” and to work “with the federal government to provide cybersecurity tools, incident response services and assessment capabilities to safeguard the .gov networks that support the essential operations of partner departments and agencies.”
2018- DARPA’s Preventing Emerging pathogenic diseases program(PREEMPT) was announced in April . PREEMPT focuses specifically on animal reservoirs for disease, specifically bats.
Duke is a key partner of DARPA’s Pandemic Prevention Platform (P3) program. The first step of the Duke/DARPA program involves the discovery of potentially threatening virusesand “develop[ing] methods to support viral propagation, so that virus can be used for downstream studies.”
Duke University is jointly partneredwith China’s Wuhan University, which resulted in the opening of the China-based Duke Kunshan University (DKU) in 2018. Notably, China’s Wuhan University includes a multi-lab Institute of Medical Virology that has worked closely with the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases since the 1980s. Probably thats what gave Dean Koontz his idea for a novel centered around the Wuhan-400 virus.
2018-April 6, n a job request posted last weekto the Federal Business Opportunities website, the main contracting website used by the federal government, DHS wrote that it is seeking a contractor that is able to monitor up to 290,000 global news sources.
The successful contracting company will have “24/7 access to a password protected, media influencer database, including journalists, editors, correspondents, social media influencers, bloggers etc.” in order to “identify any and all media coverage related to the Department of Homeland Security or a particular event.”
“Any and all media coverage,” as you might imagine, is quite broad and includes “online and social media.”
The chosen contractor should “present contact details and any other information that could be relevant, including publications this influencer writes for, and an overview of the previous coverage published by the media influencer.”
One aspect of the media coverage to be gathered is its “sentiment.”
DHS says the “NPPD/OUS [National Protection and Programs Directorate/Office of the Under Secretary] has a critical need to incorporate these functions into their programs in order to better reach Federal, state, local, tribal and private partners.”
Earlier this week, the State Department placed two notices in the Federal Register seeking comments on its proposal to require that all visa applicants to the U.S. turn over their social media informationfor the previous five years.
2018 May 10, The government-linked intelligence agency Deagel.com has released an updated forecast for the year 2025which shows some rather shocking projections of what the grim future may look like here in America within just 7-years time.
What’s most shocking about the report is the fact that Deagel.com predicts the U.S. population to be down about two-thirds by the year 2025, where only 100 million people would inhabit the once great nation.
Right now the population in American is about 327 million people, so if Deagel’s forecast is accurate, and it usually is, that would mean that 2 out of three Americans will not exist in 2025
2018 DARPA spent $10 million on one project “to unravel the complex causes of bat-borne viruses that have recently made the jump to humans.
2018/Trump signed an Executive Order eliminating funding to Universities who permit criticism of Israel which he deems antisemitism
2018- Thiel invested (with Jeffrey Epstein) in the Israeli company Carbyne . Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm Founders Fund has joined a $15 million Series B funding round in an emergency response startup Carbyne, backed by former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. The company announced the round led Elsted Capital Partners Tuesday.
Listed as Reporty Homeland Security Ltd., Carbyne develops a technology designed to enhance first response services, reducing the time it takes first responders to assess, prioritize, and act in crisis situations. Carbyne’s digitized 911 system helps first responders better process incoming emergency calls using information sources including live video streaming, voice over IP, and location detection. The company reports a 65% reduction in time to dispatch.
2018-May 11-The NSC directorate for global health and security and bio-defense disbanded by Trump
2018- “The Platform for Good Digital Identity” started in order to “advance good, user-centric digital identities”. Partners include ID2020, Accenture, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Cisco, The World Bank, European Commission, United Nations and newly founded advocacy groups like One World Identity, World Identity Network and Security Identity Alliance. It is a big push that besides refugee identification and disease control is packaged as a solution to concerning issues like human trafficking and child marriages.
2018, more than 200 scientists and doctors cited the large body of scientific evidence of harm when they submitted the 5G Appealto the United Nations, calling for a moratorium on 5G. In the Appeal, these experts wrote that radiofrequency electromagnetic fields have not only been “proven to be harmful for humans and the environment” but that “[d]amage goes well beyond the human race,” with “growing evidence of harmful effects to both plants and animals.” In discussing the “serious hazard to public health” that 5G infrastructure on- and off-planet represents, the Appeal’s authors argued that “Inaction is a cost to society and is not an option anymore.”
2018-National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI). It was created bythe 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and its official purpose is “to consider the methods and means necessary to advance the development of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and associated technologies to comprehensively address the national security and defense needs of the United States.”
The NSCAI is a key part of the government’s response to what is often referred to as the coming “fourth industrial revolution,” which has been described as “a revolution characterized by discontinuous technological development in areas like artificial intelligence (AI), big data, fifth-generation telecommunications networking (5G), nanotechnology and biotechnology, robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), and quantum computing.”
However, their main focusis ensuring that “the United States … maintain a technological advantage in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other associated technologies related to national security and defense.” The vice-chair of NSCAI, Robert Work– former Deputy Secretary of Defense and senior fellow at the hawkish Center for a New American Security (CNAS), described the commission’s purposeas determining “how the U.S. national security apparatus should approach artificial intelligence, including a focus on how the government can work with industry to compete with China’s ‘civil-military fusion’ concept.”
2018- DARPA’s Preventing Emerging pathogenic diseases program(PREEMPT) was announced in April . PREEMPT focuses specifically on animal reservoirs for disease, specifically bats.
2018- the State Department placed two notices in the Federal Register seeking comments on its proposal to require that all visa applicants to the U.S. turn over their social media informationfor the previous five years. Surely they know other countries will do the same to Americans
2018-On May 17th, Facebook announced it would be working with the Atlantic Council.
Often described by critics as the unofficial lobby group of NATO, the council is made up of senior military leaders, and ex-spies. Former heads of the CIA on its board include Michael Hayden, R. James Woolsey, Leon Panetta and Michael Morell, who was in line to be Hillary Clinton’s CIA chief.
The council is backed financially by weapons-makers like Raytheon, energy titans like Exxon-Mobil and banks like JPMorgan Chase. It also accepts funds from multiple foreign countries, some of them with less-than-sterling reputations for human rights and — notably — press freedoms.
2018-The Atlantic Council in September put out a paper insisting media producers had a “duty of care” to not “carry the virus” of misinformation. Noting bitterly “the democratization of technology has given individuals capabilities on par with corporations,” the council warned that even domestic content that lacked “context” or “undermines beliefs” could threaten “sovereignty.”
2018 Aug 23-FireEye, a cybersecurity company that has been involved in a number of prominent investigations, including the 2016 attack on the Democratic National Committee, alerted Facebook in July that it had a problem.
FireEye’s tip eventually led Facebook to remove 652 fake accountsand pages. And Liberty Front Press, the common thread among much of that sham activity, was linked to state media in Iran, Facebook said on Tuesday.
2018-Facebook’s October 11th sweep, which quickly became known as “the Purge” in alternative-media circles. After more minor sweeps of ostensibly fake foreign accounts over the summer, the October 11th deletions represented something new: the removal of demonstrably real American media figures with significant followings. Many of these sites would also be removed from other platforms like Twitter virtually simultaneously.
The sites were all over the map politically. Some, like the Trump-supporting Nation in Distress, had claimed Obama would declare martial law if Trump won in 2016. Others, like Reverb and Blue State Daily, were straight-up, Democrat-talking-point sites that ripped Trump and cheered the blues.
Many others, like the L.A.-based Free Thought Project and Anti-Media, were anti-war, focused on police brutality or drug laws, and dismissive of establishment politics in general. Targeting the latter sites to prevent election meddling seemed odd, since they were openly disinterested in elections.
2018-Azar was instrumental in defining the National Biodefense Strategy in 2018, working closely with John Bolton,
2018-The most troubling example of private-public cooperation is probably the relationship between Google and China. The company whose motto was once “Don’t Be Evil” is reportedly going ahead with plans for a censor-friendly “Dragonfly” search engine.
Had an American company on the scale of Google helped the Soviets develop a censorship tool, the story would have dominated the press, but it has barely made headlines in the States.
In July 2019, Google announced that work on Dragonfly had been terminated
2019, Poynter used various "fake news" databases (including those curated by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, Merrimack College, PolitiFact, and Snopes) to compile a list of over 515 news websites that it labeled "unreliable." Poynter called on advertisers to "blacklist" the sites on the list. The list included conservative news websites such as the Washington Examiner, The Washington Free Beacon, and The Daily Signal. After backlash, Poynter retracted the list, citing "weaknesses in the methodology." Poynter issued a statement, saying: "We regret that we failed to ensure that the data was rigorous before publication, and apologize for the confusion and agitation caused by its publication."
2019- In early January the Sunrise Movement was among more than 600 environmental groups that published a letter presenting an environmental agenda for the new Congress, much along the lines of the Green New Deal. They demanded an all-renewable power grid, an end to fossil-fuel exports, and a ban on gas-powered cars by 2040.
Other established organizations—including Friends of the Earth, 350.org, and the Center for Biological Diversity—also signed. However, as pointed out by Robinson Meyer in The Atlantic, on closer inspection, the letter tipped into more controversial demands.
For example, they promised to “vigorously oppose” any legislation that promoted nuclear power, hydroelectric power, and carbon capture and storage, a still-experimental technology that could remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere. They also demanded that Congress not use any “market-based mechanism” to administer climate policy.
2019-Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey, who was Chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming from 2007 to 2011, released a fourteen-page resolution for their Green New Deal on February 7, 2019. Markey is the Co-Chairman of the GLOBE International Commission on Climate & Energy Security, which has close links with the Club of Rome, whose Co-President, Ashok Khosla, is a member of Globe International and President of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
According to GLOBE’s website:
Without the burden of formal governmental negotiating positions, legislators have the freedom to push the boundaries of what can be politically achieved. GLOBE’s vision is to create a critical mass of legislators within each of the parliaments of the major economies that can agree common legislative responses to the major global environmental challenges and demonstrate to leaders that there is cross-party support for more ambitious action. All major government policy decisions should be consistent with climate change goals.
Markey co-chaired the 2009 GLOBE Copenhagen Legislators Forum, which convened more than 100 cross-party legislators from the major economies in advance of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Nancy Pelosi addressed the forum via a video link:
On behalf of the U.S. Congress, I bring greetings to my fellow lawmakers at the GLOBE Legislators' Forum in Copenhagen. Your gathering reflects a fundamental truth: the climate crisis knows no borders. It touches every family and community, every neighborhood and nation. This is not an issue that will be resolved overnight, nor can a single country fix the problem alone. It demands "action, and action now.[98]
2019-Pelosi’s opening address to the 116th session of Congress Thursday, January 3, 2019 stated that she would be reinstituting the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, and announcing:
We must also face the existential threat of our time: the climate crisis, a crisis manifested in natural disasters of epic proportions. The American people understand the urgency. The people are ahead of the Congress. The Congress must join them… The entire congress must work to put an end to the inaction and denial of science that threaten the planet and the future. This is a public health decision about clean air, clean water for our children’s health. It’s a decision for America’s global preeminence in the green technologies. It is a decision, a security decision to keep us all safe, and a moral decision to be good steward’s of God’s creation.
The Green New Deal introduced by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an example of an environmental program combined with a social program. Another example of the social democratic version was published by the Green Party US and remains part of their platform. It includes “a WPA-style public jobs program,” a single-payer medical system, tuition-free college, forgiveness of all existing student debt, repeal of the Patriot Act, and voting reform. They adopt Stanford University scientist Mark Jacobson’s estimate of $13.4 trillion as the total cost of conversion to renewable energy. It is to be paid for by a 50% cut in military spending, a very high carbon tax and higher taxes on “the wealthiest Americans.”
Green New Deal proposals fall into two categories: proposals which focus on improvement of the environment, especially reducing the risks of climate change, and proposals which combine the former with broad societal and governmental changes, such as income redistribution and reduction of the US military. In addition to having the US become carbon neutral, it envisions a “national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II and the New Deal era” and providing all people of the United States with high-quality health care, affordable, safe, and adequate housing, and economic security
2019-Trilateral Commission . Back in the summer of 2019, they published a brochure called ‘Democracies Under Stress: Recreating the Trilateral Commission to Revitalize Our Democracies to Uphold the Rules-Based International Order‘. Within the brochure they spoke about ‘rediscovering their roots‘, ‘sharpening‘ their mission, and the need for ‘rejuvenating‘ their membership. All of this was predicated on a goal of upholding the ‘rules based global order‘ and meeting the ‘challenges‘ of the 21st century.
It was around this time that the Trilateral Commission held its 2019 Plenary Meeting in Paris in the middle of June. During this event the North American Chairman of the Commission, Meghan O’Sullivan (who is also on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations), spent a few minutes talking about the institution and the role it intends to play from here on in.
Here is a direct quote from O’Sullivan’s monologue, which can be viewed on the Trilateral Commission’s Youtube channel:
We’re an organisation of people who have close ties to national governments, and often the ideas we debate in private inform our own perspectives and inform our discussions and deliberations and conversations with people in positions of power. That will still be true, but today we need to think about having an impact on the broader debate. We no longer live in a world where governments are the only ones that can influence the future. In fact, increasingly, we have to think about other entities as being the real engines of change, and be that corporations or universities or even individuals. We need to think about how to shape the conversation, how to bring those groups in, to have investment in and commitment to solutions.
O’Sullivan concluded by saying:
And we need to move ahead, whether or not we’re able to get our governments to agree with our prescriptions and recommendations.
This is in concurrence with what the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said at the World Economic Forum in January 2020.
When talking about his belief that global problems must be met with global solutions, Guterres commented:
Sometimes we manage, sometimes we fail, but one thing you can be absolutely sure – we will not sit quietly expecting a consensus of the international community to solve the problems we have been discussing.
The implication of O’Sullivan’s and Guterres’s words primarily suggest one thing, and that is that the organisations they represent are not going to wait forever for national legislatures to implement solutions for global crises. What they appear to be saying is that if governments cannot be galvanised into action by ratifying into law initiatives like the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (also known as ‘The Green New Deal‘), then the only other option is to set about doing it ourselves.
O’Sullivan muses that governments are no longer the only bodies that can ‘influence the future‘, and now is the moment where consideration must be given to ‘other entities as being the real engines of change‘. According to her this could be a mix of corporations, universities and individuals.
From analysing the Commission’s communications, my concern is that the language has now shifted from an emphasis on national administrations to implement reforms to the global institutions seeking to do it themselves. This is global governance in all but name.
With the onset of Covid-19, the rhetoric has intensified substantially on the necessity for governments to rally behind initiatives like the Sustainable Development Goals and enforce them into national law. And if they don’t? Well, we will seek to do it without you is the message. As Meghan O’Sullivan admits, ‘we need to move ahead, whether or not we’re able to get our governments to agree with our prescriptions and recommendations.‘
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2019-NSAIC headed by Googles Eric Schmidt recommended” structural” changes for the American economy and society so as to follow China’s lead and surpass them in AI-driven technologies, particularly mass surveillance, self driving cars, fleet ownership of cars replacing personal ownership, cashless society, herding people into high urban density areas, eliminating in-store shopping, etc. They call for a civilian DNA databases a “logical next step and AI based health care to replace doctors
Trump then signed an EO making AI development a national security priority. Trump justifies his plans to defeat the fake enemy in China in the AI race by making us like China structurally. Although the US is the leader in developing AI technology we fail in the adoption phase due to structural factors and privacy rights which must be changed or removed. Recently (may 2020 ) the Republican Senate struck down an amendment to strengthen privacy rights. Privacy is a thing of the past.
2019-At the Bilderbergs meeting under the motto A Stabile Strategic Order and with an agenda obviously connected to AI and monitoring technologies, there were several prominent participants closely connected to Donald Trump: his son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner (business-partner with another participant of the particular meeting – Peter Thiel), the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (former head of the CIA) and Trump’s close friend, Henry Kissinger, one of the world’s most influential globalists.
Thiel is a recurring attendee at the Bilderberg meetings, was present in 2019 and is a member of the Steering Committee together with Marcus Wallenberg, NSAIC ‘s Eric Schmidt from Google, and Thiel’s colleague from Palantir, Alex Karp.
The Chairman of the Bilderberg Steering Committee, Marie-Joseé Kravis, is a part of the Rockefeller-circle and has been a president of MoMA (Museum of Modern Art, New York), member of the board of directors of Sloan-Kettering Institute, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Her husband, the businessman Henry Kravis, donated one million dollar to the inauguration of Trump as U.S. President and was Trump’s first choice as Secretary of the Treasury.
Henry, who was a member of CFR:s board of directors 2006-2012, didn’t accept the offer. Kravis, the mastermind of the corporation Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), is notorious as one of filthiest capitalist of the U.S. and one of the role models for Golden Gekko in the 1987 film Wall Street.
Despite this fact, Trump has continued to express his admiration for Kravis and invited him and other powerful entrepreneurs to his first State Dinner. Trump appointed Steven Mnuchin as a Minister of Finance. Now Goldman Sachs was back in the White House
2019-The US Department of Agriculture recently made a ruling that CRISPR and other new gene-editing of food products need no special regulatory oversight or independent testing.
USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue announced in 2018 reaffirmation of an Obama-era ruling exempting gene-edited crops from special testing. In a press release, Purdue stated that the USDA won’t regulate plant breeders who use gene-editing techniques without introducing genes from another species, or “plants that could otherwise have been developed through traditional breeding techniques.” The statement added that, “USDA seeks to allow innovation when there is no risk present.” The problem is that there has been no exhaustive scientific testing by any us government agency or others to prove no risk in gene-edited plants.
Fortunately, in a ruling that takes the health and safety of the population more seriously, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) — the highest court in the European Union — ruled last year that gene-edited products should be treated like genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which are subject to substantial regulation in the EU.
2019, Poynter used various "fake news" databases (including those curated by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, Merrimack College, PolitiFact, and Snopes) to compile a list of over 515 news websites that it labeled "unreliable."
Poynter called on advertisers to "blacklist" the sites on the list. After a backlash, Poynter retracted the list, citing "weaknesses in the methodology." Poynter issued a statement, saying: "We regret that we failed to ensure that the data was rigorous before publication, and apologize for the confusion and agitation caused by its publication."
2018-The launch of the HUman Capital Index (HCI) by the World Bank in 2018 drew global attention to the links between human capital and productivity. The HCI measures losses of income that the 157 countries covered will suffer because of gaps in health and education achievements.
2019- World Bank’s Human Capital Project. The World Bank has developed “smart” social impact bonds on blockchain, call bond-i. Many of these technologies, including retinal scan paymentsand digital currency have been developed using refugee communities through development aid channels.
2019, the Embankment Project for Inclusive Capitalism (EPIC) reported its findings in a white paper. It was a pioneering effort to "develop a framework and identify meaningful metrics to report on long-term and inclusive value creation activities that heretofore have not been captured on traditional financial statements".
2019-Announced at the Global Inclusive Growth Summitthe Imperative 21 RESET campaign was launched . A front campaign of The Business Roundtable, the six founding coalition partners are The B Team, JUST Capital, B Lab, Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose(CECP), Inclusive Capitalismand Conscious Capitalism.
Its purpose is to maximize the shared well-being of all stakeholders—not just shareholders—on a healthy planet.
Thus lessing accountability of companies management to shareholders
2019- The Commons Project, a partnership of the Rockefeller Foundation and the World Economic Forum (WEF)set up. It intends to control the masses using real-time health data that will dictate rights to access work, education and travel. Digital vaccination records will, in effect, become slave passes. Their first line of business seems to be the Commons Pass. Convenient that COVID popped up when it did
2019 Sep 12-Surprise, surprise, the European Commission (EC) “Roadmap on Vaccination” months before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. The Roadmap will lead to a “commission proposal for a common vaccination card / passport for EU citizens by 2022”.
2022–Commission proposal for a common vaccination card/passport for EU citizens... that is compatible with electronic immunisation information systems” – Roadmap For The Implementation Of Actions By The European Commision Last Update Q3 2019
2019-feb 8, In 2011, Fouchier and Kawaoka alarmed the world by revealing they had separately modified the deadly avian H5N1 influenza virus so that it spread between ferrets leading to a GOF funding pause in 2014
In December 2017, NIH lifted the funding pause on GOF and invited new GOF proposals that would be reviewed by a committee with wide-ranging expertise drawn from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Washington, D.C., and other federal agencies.
Now, the HHS committee has approved the same type of work in the Kawaoka and Fouchier labs that set off the furor 8 years ago.
2019-June -Bank for International Settlements introduced a new concept called the ‘BIS Innovation Hub‘, also known as ‘Innovation BIS 2025‘.
When digging down into the BIS Innovation Hub, it becomes clear that at the core of the project is the creation of central bank digital currency (CBDC). In practice, this would mean the abolition of tangible assets such as banknotes and coins and see the creation of a new form of digital money issued by central banks.
Global payment systems are in the process of being reformed to accommodate the use of blockchain and distributed ledger technology, and central banks are now beginning to disseminate technological detail for how a CBDC could be issued.
2019- a number of states trying to pass laws eliminating all vaccine exemptions and mandate every vaccine the pharmaceutical industry produces and the CDC recommends.
This follows highly publicized cases of measles that were reported in California’s Disneyland in 2015 and in New York in 2019. During the past five years, California, Vermont, New York, Maine and Hawaii have lost vaccine exemptions, even though tens of thousands of Americans rose up in protest.
In 2019, the people managed to hold on to exemptions in states like Oregon, Arizona and New Jersey but going into 2020, bills to force vaccine use are already threatening parental, civil and human rights in Virginia, Massachusetts, Florida, Washington, Pennsylvania and more.
Social media and Amazon began censoring information from those calling for increased vaccine safety and promoting informed consent
2019, May 30- FBI stated Conspiracy Theories were motivating Domestic Terrorism Threats and linked conspiracy theorists to mental illnesses
2019-Trump signed legislation ordering a “medical surge capacity” evaluation, which occurred just before the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) mysteriously appeared on the world stage.
The 2019 amendment, found at 133 STAT. 931-933, ordered a review of the National Disaster Medical System no later than 180 days after June 24, 2019. Tasked with the review was the secretary of Homeland Security, the secretary of Defense, and the secretary of Veterans Affairs.
The review included an “evaluation of medical surge capacity,” as well as an assessment of the available workforce, its capacity to “respond to all hazards,” including “public health emergencies” and the “capacity to respond to a nationwide public health emergency.”
“The periodic evaluation of Federal, State, local and tribal preparedness and response capabilities through drills and exercises, including drills and exercises to ensure medical surge capacity for events without notice,” reads federal law 42 U.S. Code § 300hh–1(b)(1)(A).
COVID plandemic was “lawfully authorized” by Congress as a planned “exercise”
The legal terminology used in the 2019 amendment is curious in that it laid the groundwork for a future “exercise,” the suggestion being that whatever was soon to come would be fake.
Taken as a whole, the 2019 amendment is similar to a U.S. federal law describing one agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that has a duty to: “Carry out drills and operational exercises, in consultation with the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and other applicable Federal departments and agencies, as necessary and appropriate, to identify, inform and address gaps in and policies related to all-hazards medical and public health preparedness and response.”
2019, July 9 Two Senior residents at an ALF in Fairfax County Virginia die and 18 others suffer from symptoms ranging from coughing to pneumonia
2019, July 9, CDC withdraws only American epidemiologist embedded with Beijings CDC
2019, July 12-Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta resigns amid controversy surrounding the non-prosecution agreement he made with Jeffrey Epsteinas the United States attorney for the Southern District of Florida
2019, July 18, CDC shuts down Fort Detrick Lab over safety issues
2019-, July 23, Barr at International Conference on Cybersecurity calls for the need to have a backdoor for consumer devices encrypted communications for public safety. Predicts a major incident may occur to gain support. Several mass shootings follow.
2019- Days before Epstein hanged himself in a Manhattan jail cell on August 10 , he amended his will and named Nikolic as a fallback executor. After leaving the Gates Foundation in 2014, Nikolic funded more than a dozen firms in gene editing and other health technologies.
Epstein established the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard which studies the evolution of microbiology and diseases through the use of mathematics. He was actively involved in the Theoretical Biology Initiative at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, and also sits on the Mind, Brain & Behavior Advisory Committee at Harvard.
The IAS is best known as the academic home of Albert Einstein and cybernetics founder John von Neumann. Established during the rise of European fascism, the IAS played a key role in the transfer of intellectual capital from Europe to America, and soon acquired a reputation of being at the pinnacle of academic and scientific life, a reputation it has retained.
Epstein also expressed an interest in eugenics. Epstein often talked about perfecting the human genome, and conveyed his fascination with how certain traits were passed on, and how that could result in superior humans. Epstein told scientists and businessmen about his ambitions to seed the human race with his DNA by inseminating 20 chosen women with his sperm and would give birth to his babies, using his Sante Fe, New Mexico ranch as the “Ground Zero” for his community.
According to the NASA scientist Jaron Lanier, a prolific author who is a founder of virtual reality, Epstein based his idea for a baby ranch on accounts of the Repository for Germinal Choice, which was to be stocked with the sperm of Nobel laureates who wanted to strengthen the human gene pool. Epstein also expressed an interest in cryogenics. Epstein told an acquaintance that he wanted his head and penis to be frozen
2019, August 15 -BlackRock’s strategic importance and political weight were evident when four BlackRock executives, led by former Swiss National Bank head Philipp Hildebrand, presented a proposalat the annual meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for an economic reset that was actually put into effect in March 2020 after what appears to be a simulation or false flag in the Repo Market in September
“An unprecedented response is needed when monetary policy is exhausted and fiscal space is limited. That response will likely involve “going direct”: Going direct means the central bank finding ways to get central bank money directly in the hands of public and private sector spenders.” –
2019, Aug 4, A mass shooting occurs in the Oregon District of Dayton, Ohio, at 1:00 a.m.—less than 24 hours after the El Paso shootings—leaving nine dead and at least 27 injured. The gunman, Connor Stephen Betts, is killed at the scene attempting to enter the Ned Peppers Bar.
2019, Aug 28 President Trump establishes the U.S. Space Command. This was one of the last remaining “to do’ of PNACS Rebuilding Americas Defenses that indicated a new Pearl Harbor would be needed to gain support
2019, August 29, The Trump administration and the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) announce a reduction of restrictions on the production of Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
2019, August 31-A mass shooting occurs in the cities of Midland and Odessa, Texas, leaving seven dead and 22 injured. The perpetrator, Seth Ator, is shot by police and dies at the scene
2019, Sep 11. Chinas virus database suddenly taken off line by Wuhan Bat Lady Shi Zheng Li. Still down in 2021 Shi claims its due to cybersecurity concerns
2019- September Trump had proposed ito establish a new agency called the Health Advanced Research Projects Agency or HARPA, which would sit inside the Health and Human Services Department. Its director would be appointed by the president, and the agency would have a separate budget, according to three people with knowledge of conversations around the plan.
One of the leading proponents of this agency’s main program, called “Safe Home” (Stopping Aberrant Fatal Events by Helping Overcome Mental Extremes), aims to develop an artificial intelligence-based system that would analyze data harvested from consumer electronic devices as well as information provided by health-care providers to identify those who mightthreaten others.
The program would cost an estimated $60 million over four years and would use data from “Apple Watches, Fitbits, Amazon Echo and Google Home” and other consumer electronic devices, as well as information provided by health-care providers to identify who may be a threat.
The Washington Post reported that President Trump has reacted “very positively” to the proposal and that he was “sold on the concept.”
The Post also noted that Wright sees the president’s daughter, Ivanka, as “the most effective champion of the proposal and has previously briefed her on HARPA himself.” Ivanka has previously been cited as a driving force behind some of her father’s policy decisions, including his decision to bomb Syria after an alleged chemical weapons attack in 2017.
Liz Fed — president of the Susan Wright Foundation, which is led by Robert Wright and created the proposal for HARPA and “Safe Home” — told The Post that the proposal emulated DARPA because “DARPA is a brilliant model that works.
They have developed the most transformational capabilities in the world for national security…We’re not leveraging the tools and technologies available to us to improve and save lives.” Fed further asserted that DARPA’s technological approach had yet to be applied to the field of healthcare.
Given that HARPA’s lead scientific adviser is Dr. Geoffrey Ling, former director and founder of DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office (BTO), which “merges biology, engineering, and computer science to harness the power of natural systems for national security,” it seems likely that DARPA’s neurological-focused research programs, like SUBNETS and N3, would be folded into HARPA’s portfolio, making the proposed agency’s approach to mental health very questionable indeed.
Aside from the dystopian nature of both DARPA and potentially HARPA’s approach to mental health, there is grave cause for concern regarding the Trump administration’s moves to address U.S. mass shooting events by implementing pre-crime technology based on artificial intelligence, data-mining and mass surveillance, technologies already laying in wait thanks to companies like Palantir and numerous Israeli tech start-ups led by former Unit 8200 officers.
Though HARPA ultimately failed to gain traction, a similarly mass surveillance system is now being promoted in its place , with coronavirus now replacing mass shootings as the official justification.
In July of 2019-the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense hosted a panel calling for "A Manhattan Project for Biodefense": a "public-private [R&D] undertaking to defend the Nation against biological threats, incl. biological warfare, bioterrorism and infectious disease pandemics."
Co-chaired by Joe Lieberman and ex-DHS sec'y Tom Ridge, the Commission includes anthrax attack target Tom Daschle, ex-FDA comm'r Margaret Hamburg, ex-HHS sec'y Donna Shalala, Biotechnology Industry Organization head Jim Greenwood, Rep. Susan Brooks and Mueller's COS Ken Wainstein
Much like the Project for A New Anerican Century in 2000 lamented that to get support for Rebuilding Americas Defense it would take another Pearl Harbor, the Manhattan Project has a similar tone
Ex Officios are even more interesting: Cheney COS "Germ Boy" Scooter Libby, EcoHealth's William Karesh, ex-Ft Detrick Cdr. Gerald Parker, Terrorism Studies guru Yonah Alexander, bioindustry doctor George Poste, WH scientist Rachel Levinson, Hudson Institute's Tevi Troy
The focus of the "Manhattan Project" panel was flu vaccines.
Spooky ASPR Robert Kadlec, formerly of anthrax vaccine manufacturer BioPort, stresses the need for newer, faster vaccine development, particularly using mRNA technology.
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Near the end of Robert Kadlec's session (~3:49), Ken Wainstein commends Kadlec's earlier analogy to Hieronymous Bosch and says, "You were Doctor Death back in the day, and that reminds me why."
2019-September, The White House Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) finds that in a pandemic year, depending on the transmission efficiency and virulence of the particular pandemic virus, the economic damage would range from $413 billion to $3.79 trillion. Fatalities in the most serious scenario would exceed half a million people in the United States
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Mitigating-the-Impact-of-Pandemic-Influenza-through-Vaccine-Innovation.pdf
Good thing Larry Fink came up with his Going Direct Plan to pump trillions into the economy should their be a Pandemic or other Disaster
2019- September, Repo Market shut down requiring Fed bailout and highlighting the need for an Economic Reset as called for by Black Rock (False Flag?) Going Direct proposal in August
2019- September, WHO’s Global Preparedness Monitoring Board issues its first report on global preparedness for health emergencies. One of the required actions scheduled before September
2020 , under authority of the legally binding International health regulations (IHR 2005) , called for 2 systemwide training and simulation exercises, one of which covered release of a lethal respiratory pathogen.
Members on the GPM board include the head of NIAID Tony Fauci and George Gao of Chinas CDC Director
2019-2020 National Vaccine Plan approved. They combined the 2010 NVP goals and the NAIP goals into a set of 5 new goals.
For example, the subcommittee recognized a need to foster innovation in both vaccine development and related technologies that support vaccination across the lifespan. The subcommittee incorporated this need for innovation into Goal 1 .
Similarly, for Goal 4, the group combined NVP and NAIP goals to “optimize access to and utilization of all routinely recommended vaccines across the lifespan.”
For Goal 3, the subcommittee recognized the need to address misinformation and “enhance knowledge of and confidence in routine vaccines and the immunization system.”
After refining the goals, the subcommittee then identified the top 3 priorities for each updated goal along with rationales for inclusion of the 5 recommended goals
This work and this report were presented and approved at the September 17, 2019, NVAC meeting.
2019, Sep 29, Trump signs Executive Order on Modernizing Influenza Vaccines and creating a Flu Vaccine Task Force to promote National Security
2019, October 1. Strategic National Stockpile handed over to BARDA from CDC. BARDA is protected from FOIA requests
2019, October 3, Barr and UK Home Secretary sign agreement that allows both countries to demand electronic data from telecom companies based in the other country as part of the CLOUD ACT passed in 2018
October 16 , 2019 -Attorney General William Barr develops a “pre-crime” program. Officially known as the “National Disruption and Early Engagement Program” (DEEP), it aims to “identify, assess and engage” potentially violent individuals “before they strike.”
Barr first announced this in an official memorandum and therein stated that the program was to be implemented sometime over the course of 2020 and would involve “an efficient, effective and programmatic strategy to disrupt individuals who are deemed to be mobilizing towards violence, by all lawful means.”
In his memorandum, Barr further notes that the program’s “early engagement tactics” were “born of the posture we adopted with respect to terrorist threats” following the September 11 attacks, essentially stating that this pre-crime program will utilize methods from the “War on Terror” domestically and on a massive scale.
In the part of the document where Barr outlines what actions will be taken once an individual is deemed potentially violent or threatening, he writes that those individuals will be subject to detention, court-ordered mental health treatment and electronic monitoring, among other measures.
2019 October 18: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security convene an invitation-only “tabletop exercise” called Event 201to map out the response to a hypothetical global coronavirus pandemic.Attended by IS CDC and George Gao of China CDC
October 2019- draft of
Crimson Contagion 2019 exercise conducted from January-August in 2019- Functional Exercise scenario was based on a novel influenza A(H7N9) virus that originates in China and is antigenically distinct (not matched ) from stockpiled vaccines.
2019 - Nato/Russia War simulation of Russia invasion of Ukraine showing up to 1 billion deaths could occur (around the same time as Event 201)
https://www.eutimes.net/2022/03/nato-nuclear-war-simulation-says-1-billion-would-die-total-irradiation-of-the-planet-forever/
2019-October 29 Vaccine conference at Milliken Institute where Public Health gurus like Fauci discussed how to streamline vaccine development
Some interesting quotes
Michael Specter: Why don’t we blow the system up? I mean obviously, we can’t just turn off the spigot on the system. We have and then say, hey everyone in the world should get this new vaccine that we haven’t given to anyone yet. But there must be some way that we grow vaccines mostly in eggs the way we did in 1947.
Fauci: In order to make the transition from getting out of the tried-and-true egg growing which we know gives us results that can be beneficial, I mean we’ve done well with that. There must be something that has to be much better. You have to prove that this works and then you’ve got to go through all of the clinical trials: phase 1, phase 2, phase 3, and then show that this particular product is going to be good over a period of years. That alone, if it works perfectly, it’s going to take a decade.
Rick Bright (BARDA): There might be a need or even an urgent call for an entity of excitement out there that’s completely disruptive, that’s not beholden to bureaucratic strings and processes.
Fauci: So we really do have a problem of how the world perceives influenza and it’s going to be very difficult to change that unless you do it from within and save.. I don’t care what your perception is, we’re going to address the problem in a disruptive and in an iterative way because she does need both.
Bright: But it is not too crazy to think that an outbreak of novel avian virus could occur in China somewhere. We could get the RNA sequence from that.. to a number of regional centers if not local, if not even in your home at some point, and print those vaccines on a patch of self-administer.
Joining Fauci, Rick Bright, and Michael Specter at this event were: Margaret Hamburg, Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Medicine, Bruce Gellin, President, Global Immunization, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Casey Wright, CEO, FluLab.
In short, this panel discussion suggested they needed some kind of global event where many people were dying to be able to roll out a new mRNA vaccine to be tested on the public. Not unlike the Project for the New American Century a year before 9/11 lamenting it would take a New Pearl Harbor to get the support they needed to Rebuild Americas Defenses
2019-November -The Federal Reserve held a conference titled, Economics of Climate Change. Lael Brainard, Chair of the Fed’s Committee on Financial Stability, says Climate Change Matters for Monetary Policy and Financial Stability.
2019- November 15, before the coronavirus emerged, the CDC posted a job offer for an advisor for a US Quarantine Program and staff to fill positions in 20 locations. Seems a lot of positions opened up or is that normal?
2019 -December 4, the FCC closed Docket 13-84 and released FCC 19-126. There were 2 relevant actions: a “Resolution of Notice of Inquiry” in ET Docket No. 13-84 regarding “Reassessment of Federal Communications Commission Radiofrequency Exposure Limits.”
The FCC decided there is no evidence of harm from wireless technology and therefore, no need to review the RF safety guidelines. Most appalling was the FCC’s refusal to reconsider the impact on children or take into account that many users still place their cell phones right on their ear, and thereby receive more radiation exposure than the rules contemplate.
CHD’s case (Petition for Review) against the FCC, claim the decision is arbitrary, capricious, not evidence based and an abuse of discretion. The FCC also released a “Second Report and Order” and Memorandum Opinion and Order” in ET Docket No. 03-137. This part amended the existing exposure guidelines to allow industry to even more prodigiously inflict harm on an unsuspecting and vulnerable public.
2019 December 18: Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) report the development of a “novel way to record a patient’s vaccination history,” using smartphone-readable nanocrystals called “quantum dots” embedded in the skin using microneedles—this work is fundedby the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
One of the coauthors of the report is Robert Langer who is also cofounder of Moderna
2020, January-US assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. US Warned Iran might respond with a cyberattack
2020, Jan 15 . President Trump and Chinese vice premier Liu He sign phase one of a trade deal, pausing two years of dispute between China and the United States
January 13, 2020, Agnes Buzyn, still France’s Health Minister, classifies chloroquine as a “poisonous substance,” from now on only available by prescription. An astonishing move, considering that it has been sold off the shelf in France for half a century.
In March the French Health Ministry officially prohibited the utilization of treatment based on chloroquine recommended by Raoult. In fact the treatment is only allowed for terminal Covid-19 patients, with no other possibility of healing.
January 13,2020 Former CDC director Julie L. Gerberding sold 102,000 shares of Mercks stock (she is EVP) which represented half her holdings. The stock was sold for a total transaction of $9,119,000
January 14, 2020 -just days before the Davos meeting featuring climate change, BlackRock founder and CEO Larry Fink published a newsletter jumping aboard the climate investing train big time.
He wrote in a closely read letter that guides numerous corporations seeking investment from some of BlackRock’s $7 trillions, “Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects.”
Citing recent climate protests, Fink states, “awareness is rapidly changing, and I believe we are on the edge of a fundamental reshaping of finance. The evidence on climate risk is compelling investors to reassess core assumptions about modern finance.”
Declaring that, “climate risk is investment risk,” Fink then asks an impossibly difficult question of how climate risks will impact entire economies. He has the answer, we learn. Referring to what he calls “a profound reassessment of risk and asset values” Fink tells us, “because capital markets pull future risk forward, we will see changes in capital allocation more quickly than we see changes to the climate itself.
In the near future – and sooner than most anticipate – there will be a significant reallocation of capital.” And a handful of the world’s largest money groups will steer that reallocation of capital we learn. This alone should give pause for reflection. Is there another agenda here?
2020, the Council for Inclusive Capitalism, a partnership of the Coalition with the Vatican, was created
January 17, 2020 -A week before Gates funded World Economic Forum’s 2020 Davos meeting was held, the report Unlocking Technology for the Global Goals was released by WEF’s Global Future Council Working Group on 4IR for Global Public Goods.
The report presents a technocratic society where the whole world is to be controlled and governed with the help of AI, satellites, robotics, drones, the Internet of Things, and with artificial food on the menu. A global digital panopticon where all human activities are to be recorded, analysed, and corrected with the help of Social Credits – yes, even here in the West!
January -2020 , World Economic Forum’s release of the White Paper Reimagining Digital Identity: A Strategic Imperative. A paper written with financial support from the ID2020 partner Accenture with the message that the world is in need for a more secure digital identification because of “fraud, identity theft and misuse or abuse of personal data” in the current fragmented systems.
2020 -Swiss Davos World Economic Forum, has made its main theme this year, “Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World,” with major focus on such notions as “How to Save the Planet.”
WEF Trustees include former IMF head, now European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde whose first words as ECB chief were that central banks had to make climate change a priority.
Another Davos trustee is outgoing Bank of England head Mark Carney, who was just named Boris Johnson’s climate change advisor and who warns that pension funds that ignore climate change risk bankruptcy (sic).
And perhaps the most interesting in terms of pushing the new green agenda is Larry Fink, founder and CEO of the investment group with some $7 trillion under management invested in over 100 countries.
January 2020- report on simulations called Operation Blackout s for the U.S. 2020 election that were held in November and organized by the company Cybereason, a firm led by former members of Israel’s military intelligence Unit 8200 and advised by former top and current officials in both Israeli military intelligence and the CIA, and partnered with Lockheed Martin.
Those simulations were attended by federal officials from the FBI, DHS and the U.S. Secret Service, and ended with the elections ultimately canceled and martial law declared due to the chaos created by a group of hackers.
The hackers targeted devices and appliances connected to the internet, often referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT) and which includes everything from smartphones to power grid infrastructure to city traffic lights.
2020- President Trump arrives in Switzerland to attend the 2020 DavosWorld Economic Forum. Only the 2nd US President to pay homage, the other being Bill Clinton, he is the first to attend twice
2020 -Swiss Davos World Economic Forum, has made its main theme this year, “Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World,” with major focus on such notions as “How to Save the Planet.”
Of course, featured speaker was the young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. What few realize is how carefully all this is being orchestrated to prepare a massive shift in global capital flows where a handful of financial giants stand to gain .
A meeting of some 3,000 of the world’s corporate giants, is that a major global campaign is being orchestrated and it includes the world’s largest capital investment fund heads and the world’s major central bankers.
Davos WEF has a board of appointed trustees. Among them is the early backer of Greta Thunberg, climate multi-millionaire, Al Gore, chairman of the Climate Reality Project. WEF Trustees also include former IMF head, now European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde whose first words as ECB chief were that central banks had to make climate change a priority.
Another Davos trustee is outgoing Bank of England head Mark Carney, who was just named Boris Johnson’s climate change advisor and who warns that pension funds that ignore climate change risk bankruptcy (sic).
The board also includes the influential founder of Carlyle Group, David M. Rubenstein. It includes Feike Sybesma of the agribusiness giant, Unilever, who is also Chair of the High Level Leadership Forum on Competitiveness and Carbon Pricing of the World Bank Group. And perhaps the most interesting in terms of pushing the new green agenda is Larry Fink, founder and CEO of the investment group BlackRock.
2020, Jan. - National Security Council classifies Coronavirus Response Meetings with HHS which are held at the Sensitive Compartmentalized information Facility (SCIF) limiting which experts which could participate. NSC was reported to be managing the governments response in close coordination with the intelligence community
2020, Jan 21 Fauci says COVID is not a major threat to the people of the US.
2020 January 24, Netflix releases Pandemic docu-series, an eerily timed documentary about pandemics, and obviously production began well before the Wuhan pandemic. As theaters and Cinemas plan to close , and sports entertainment is ended, Netflix should experience a boon in business as people hide in their caves and turn to streaming on Smart TV’s.
2020, Jan 29. Trump announced it established a Coronavirus Task Force. Fauci appointed to head it
2020, Jan 29. President Trump signs the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement(USMCA) that replaces NAFTA
2020, Jan 31. Travel ban on China origin flights
2020 February 3, -President Trump’s Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Kelvin K. Droegemeier, wrote to the National Academy of Sciences President, Dr. Marcia McNutt, on February 3, 2020, to probe the origin of the 2019 coronavirus. Dir. Droegemeier requested the National Academy of Science (NAS) scientists provide a “Rapid Response Assessment . . . that would help determine the origins of 2019 2019-nCoV, specifically from an evolutionary/structural biology standpoint.
2020, Feb 4, HHS issues Notice of Declaration under PREP ACT for medical countermeasures against COVID-19 and provide liability immunity for all involved
2020-February 6 NAS responds to White House after consulting with experts. They were Kristian G. Andersen (Scripps Research Institute), Ralph Baric (UNC School of Public Health), Trevor Bedford (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute), Aravinda Chakravarti (New York University School of Medicine), Peter Daszak (EcoHealth Alliance), Gigi K. Gronvall (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Tom Inglesby (Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security), and Stanley Perlman (University of Iowa).
By citing a scientific articlefrom the Wuhan Institute of Virology stating the disease outbreak “started from a local seafood market,” the National Academy of Science’s letter to OSTP unequivocally supported the contention made by China’s Communist Party government that the COVID-19 pandemic was a naturally-occurring transmission from animals to humans.
Most of the scientists consulted for the National Academy of Science response had long histories of collaboration with China and/or were later associated with a robust support of China and the theory that COVID-19 originated as a naturally-occurring event.
In some important respects, the final National Academy of Sciences response dated February 6, 2020, bears little resemblance to the original draft, dated February 4, 2020.
According to the email exchanges between the National Academy of Science and the consultant scientists, there appeared to be a clear effort by the scientists to support the naturally-occurring theory and to eliminate or downplay any mention that the COVID-19 virus was engineered, had unique human binding characteristics, might mutate towards higher infectivity and possessed a furin polybasic cleavage site not found in any related coronavirus.
2020-Feb 14, Pandemic Prevention Platform - or P3 set up 2 years ago and funded by the Defense Advanced Research Agency - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, announced plans to respond rapidly to COVID-19 until a vaccine is developed.
The first part of the plan is to identify antibodies and get antibodies from people who've been infected with COVID-19 and recovered.
The second part is to develop a drug that can be used based on these antibodies. They plan to try and just take the genetic material that codes for these antibodies and put that into people and alter their DNA so as to let the people's own cells make the antibody. It's only been tested in tens of patients, so its experimental.
They may have something ready in as soon as 90 days.
Feb 19, 2020- The Lancetpublished an unprecedented “correspondence” from twenty-seven co-authors who condemned “conspiracy theories” related to the outbreak. The main author was Peter Daszak who heads Eco Health Alliance and funded research at Wuhan Laboratory
2020- March, Profusa won DARPA funding to determine if their injectable biosensors can predict future pandemics, including the now widely predicted“second wave” of Covid-19, and detect those infected up to three weeks before they would otherwise show symptoms.
The company expects to have its biosensors FDA licensed for this purpose by early next year, about the same time a coronavirus vaccine is expected to be available to the general public.
2020, Feb 29, Fauci says no need to change anything you are doing on a day to day basis
2020, Feb 29 The first patient death in the United States from COVID-19is reported by Washington state health officials
2020, March 5 President Trump signs COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act into law.
Included is an $8.3 billion emergency coronavirus spending package, much of which “directly benefit[s] the drug industry.”
2020, March 8, Fauci says evidence is that wearing masks won’t be helpful
2020, March 11, WHO declares Pandemic
2020, March 11 , President Trump addresses the nation on prime-time television concerning the COVID-19 pandemic as the total number of confirmed cases passes a thousand. During the address, Trump announces that he will suspend all travel to and from Europe for thirty days, starting midnight Friday. The United Kingdom is exempt from this restriction.
2020, March 12 the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) drops ten percent—its worst day since 1987.
2020, March 13, TRUMP declared National Emergency
The declaration opens access to $50 billion in emergency funding, lifts restrictions on doctors and hospitals, and waives student loan interest
2020, March 15-Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates to zero and releases $700 billion in quantitative easing
2020, March 16-the World Health Organisation who stated both that SC2 did not appear to spread as quickly as influenza and was less virulent.
The WHO found up to a 20% infection rate, where people were exposed to SC2 in crowded settings for prolonged periods, and a 1-5% infection rate in the community. This was nothing like the spread of the 1918 H1N1 influenza pandemic.
2020, March 16, In a press conference at the White House, President Trump urges Americans to avoid gatherings of more than ten people, warning that the COVID-19 pandemic could last into the summer.
2020, March 16, Fauci tells Americans to Hunker Down significantly to slow the spread
2020, March 17, DHS contracted with MITRE to work on a pandemic response plan to engage, inform and guide Mayors, Governors and emergency response leaders dealing with a pandemic. MITRE would advise on non pharmaceutical interventions (eg closing schools, stores, masks, social distancing)
2020-March 17, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) enlisted Palantir (Peter Theils company, one of Trumps largest supporters) , a data scraping and modeling behemoth that works with law enforcement and other government security agencies, to model outbreak data.
Palantir and Clearview AI, the facial recognition startup that acquired billions of facial images through public web scraping, have been in contact with state governments about tracking people who came in contact with infected individuals.
2018 March 18, President Trump signs the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, a bill providing sick leave, unemployment benefits, free COVID-19 testing, and food and medical aid to people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, into law.
President Trump and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau close the border between the United States and Canada, allowing only essential traffic through
2020, March 18 - israeli backed ESD Announces Call for Applications for Smart Cities Partnership with Israel Innovation Authority. They will declare the five “winning” New York municipalities, in July. The municipalities will be required “to designate physical or virtual sites to be used in new pilot technologies” sometime over the course of 2020, with those “smart city” technologies being implemented in early 2021.
The selection of the projects will be overseen by Eric Gertler, President and CEO of the Empire State Development (ESD). Gertler is also currently chairman of the America-Israel Friendship League(AIFL) and is on the Board of Governors for Tel Aviv University and Israel’s Technion.
2020-March 21, PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND downgraded COVID from a High Consequence Disease to an Inconsequential Disease due to low mortality rates
2020 March 21 - Trumps DOJ requests new “emergency powers” in light of the coronavirus crisis, as it specifically asks that those new powers apply to “any statutes or rules of procedure otherwise affecting pre-arrest, post-arrest, pre-trial, trial, and post-trial procedures in criminal and juvenile proceedings and all civil process and proceedings.”
The inclusion of the term “pre-arrest” likely means that “you could be arrested and never brought before a judge until they decide that the emergency or the civil disobedience is over. “
2020-March 22, GILEAD Science granted Orphan Drug Status for Remdesivir allowing them to monopolize pricing despite receiving over 70 million in Federal Funding for drug development
2020-March 24, CDC revised death certificate reporting guidelines that had been in effect since 2003 . The effect was to have anyone with a positive COVID-19 test counted as a COVID death even if they died from other reasons.
As Deborah Birx said those dying from and those dying with COVID would both be counted. On April 14 CDC expanded that to include those presumed to have COVID (w/o a positive test). Financial incentives would be given to those who diagnosed more COVID cases/deaths under the CARE ACT.
2020, March 25, Fed Reserve handed BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, to manage billions of dollars in bond and mortgage-backed security purchases as the US central bank works to cushion the economic and financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The plan is eerily similar to Black Rocks “Going Direct” Proposal from last August
BlackRock’s Financial Markets Advisory unit, the company’s consulting arm, will act as the investment manager for three new facilities: two Fed-backed vehicles that will buy corporate bonds, and a programme that will buy mortgage-backed securities issued by US government agencies.
Larry Fink now has more leverage to push his Green Agenda not to mention bailing out his ETF’s
BlackRock was awarded a no-bid contract under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) to deploy a $454 billion slush fund established by the Treasury in partnership with the Federal Reserve. This fund in turn could be leveraged to provide over $4 trillion in Federal Reserve credit.
Based on its expertise with the Maiden Lane facilities and its sophisticated Aladdin risk-monitoring software, BlackRock got the job of dispensing Federal Reserve funds through eleven “special purpose vehicles” authorized under the CARES Act.
Like the Maiden Lane facilities, these vehicles were designed to allow the Fed, which is legally limited to purchasing safe federally-guaranteed assets, to finance the purchase of riskier assets in the market.
March 24, 2020
Bill Gates announced his financial support for a $1 billion plan to blanket Earth in video surveillance satellites. The company, EarthNow, will launch 500 satellites to live-stream monitor almost every “corner” of the Earth, providing instantaneous video feedback with only a one-second delay. According to Wikipedia, the company expects its customers to include “governments and large enterprises.” 5G Antennas deploying a vast array of ground-based 5G spy antennas.
Through his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates owns 5.3 million Crown Castle sharescurrently worth a billion dollars. The Foundation’s second-largest tech holding after Microsoft, Crown Castle owns 5G infrastructure in every major U.S. market. It operates and leases more than 40,000 cell towers, 65,000 small cell nodes which are the central infrastructure for 5G and 75,000 route miles of fiber to every major U.S. market that, instead of going to your home, providing you safe, fast, wired internet, has been confiscated to connect 5G cell towers.
Another funder of this project is Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank, which owns Fortress Investment Group, the private equity firm that manages America’s largest news network, Gannett, which has more than 260 dailies under its umbrella.
Mar 24, 2020-Bill Gates interview “Eventually what we’ll have to have is certificates of who’s a recovered person, who’s a vaccinated person...
...Because you don’t want people moving around the world where you’ll have some countries that won’t have it under control, sadly.
You don’t want to completely block off the ability for people to go there and come back and move around.
So eventually there will be this digital immunity proof that will help facilitate the global reopening up.”
[Some time on the afternoon of March 31 the last sentence of this quote was edited out of the official TED video of the interview. Fortunately, recordings of the complete interview are archived elsewhere.]
2020, March 25, The number of deaths in the United States from COVID-19 disease is 826. Two hundred eighty-six are in New York state, one hundred twenty-six in Washington state, fifty-eight in California, forty-six in Louisiana and thirty-eight in Georgia.
March 26: Dr. Fauci publishes an editorialin the New England Journal of Medicine, stating that “the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza,” with a case fatality rate of perhaps 0.1%.
“If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza
(which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968)…”
March 26, 2020, the World Economic Forumpublished specificationsand launched a new websitefor a project it has christened “Known Traveller Digital Identity” (KTDI): KTDI would use a blockchain-based distributed ledger to bind together, through an app on a traveler’s mobile device, all of the following data:
Biometrics (initially facial images, possibly also fingerprints, etc.)
Government-issued ID credentials (passport number, etc.)
Travel history including logs of border crossings, hotel stays, and possibly also car rentals and/or other events
Purchase logs and possibly bank account information and/or other financial and transaction records
Pre-crime predictive “risk assessment” and profiling scores generated at each “intervention” point before and during each trip or transaction
Partners in the KTDI projectinclude government agencies (DHS, ICAO, INTERPOL, etc.) and the airline and airline IT industries (IATA, Amadeus, etc.).
Other KTDI project partnersinclude Google (Google acquired a computerized reservation system provider in 2010, but it’s unclear in what capacity Google is participating in the KTDI project), the Marriott and Hilton (US-based) and Accor (France-based) hotel chains, and the Visa credit-card and payment processing company.
The pilot project was was plannedto begin in “early 2020”.
2020, March 26, Microsoft filed patent W02020060606 – CRYPTO CURRENCY SYSTEM USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA. The patent details ways of using bodily activity such as brain waves to mine crypto currencies.
This idea could also form part of a Social Crediting system where specific actions determine how much currency (energy) they can earn.
patent W02020060606 – CRYPTO CURRENCY SYSTEM USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA.
Bill Gates leaves Microsoft Chairman in March 13, 2020 Bill Gates still owns 330 million Microsoft shares (1.3%)
Title
(EN) CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEM USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA
(FR) SYSTÈME DE CRYPTOMONNAIE UTILISANT DES DONNÉES D'ACTIVITÉ CORPORELLE
Abstract
(EN)
Human body activity associated with a task provided to a user may be used in a mining process of a cryptocurrency system. A server may provide a task to a device of a user which is communicatively coupled to the server. A sensor communicatively coupled to or comprised in the device of the user may sense body activity of the user. Body activity data may be generated based on the sensed body activity of the user. The cryptocurrency system communicatively coupled to the device of the user may verify if the body activity data satisfies one or more conditions set by the cryptocurrency system, and award cryptocurrency to the user whose body activity data is verified.
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2020 March 26, -Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the face of the White House coronavirus response team, is now saying life probably will not go back to normal until we have the ability to vaccinate the entire global population against COVID-19.
2020, March 27, Trump signs the 2 trillion dollar CARE Act
2020, March 29, Trump extends the nationwide social distancingguidelines until April 30
President Trump reveals that his decision to extend the social distancing guidelines to April 30 was motivated by models which predicted that if the restrictions were removed as many as 2.2 million people would die and about half the country would be infected.
President Trump also warned that between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans could become infected in the coming days, despite strict isolation and distancing guidelines.
2020, March 30 FDA authorizes use of HCQ
2020, March 31, Fauci and Birx predict 100-240K deaths even with social distancing and lockdowns
April President Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed,” a planned pharmaceutical-government-military collaboration to shrink the development time for a coronavirus vaccine.
2020, April, Secret data platform Launched by HHS called HHS Protect built largely from software obtained from Palantir. The predictive aspect of HHS Protect is a component called HHS Vision that began in July.
Chief Information Officer Arrieta is a staunch advocate of AI, blockchain and other emergency technologies and wants to use HHS as a test bed in collaboration with the Pentagon
HHS awarded two contracts, worth a total of nearly $25 million, to Palantir Technologies, Inc., ("Palantir") for a massive COVID-19 data platform. The platform, "pulls data from across the federal government, state and local governments, healthcare facilities, and colleges, to help administration officials determine how to 'mitigate and prevent spread' of the coronavirus."
HHS Protect reportedly houses 187 different datasets, including COVID-19 case counts, hospital capacity, and supply chain, census, testing, and emergency department data.
HHS reportedly plans to gather the public's sensitive health information, as part of HHS Protect.
"The inclusion of [Protected Health Information] (PHI) in this database raises serious privacy concerns," the lawmakers wrote. "Neither HHS nor Palantir has publicly detailed what it plans to do with this PHI, or what privacy safeguards have been put in place, if any. We are concerned that, without any safeguards, data in HHS Protect could be used by other federal agencies in unexpected, unregulated, and potentially harmful ways, such as in the law and immigration enforcement context
April 2 2020-The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it will not impose penalties for violations of certain provisions of the HIPAA Privacy Rule against health care providers and their business associates for good faith uses and disclosures of patient information intended to assist the government in its efforts to combat COVID-19.
HHS has already released other pronouncements during this pandemic regarding telehealth remote communications, HIPAA requirements related to telemedicineand expanding benefits for Medicare beneficiaries.
2020 April 6: Dr. Fauci describes a COVID-19 vaccine as a “showstopper” and states, “I hope we don’t have so many people infected that we actually have . . . herd immunity.”
2020, April 15- President Donald Trump promised to open FBI files to help families of the 9/11 victims in a civil lawsuit against the Saudi government, yet his Justice Department claims that the information is a state secret.
In a series of filings just before a midnight court deadline , the attorney general, William Barr; the acting director of national intelligence, Richard Grenell; and other senior officials insisted to a federal judge in the civil case that further disclosures about Saudi connections to the 9/11 plot would imperil national security.
They insisted that even its justification for that secrecy needed to remain secret. Four statements to the court by FBI and Justice Department officials were filed under seal so they could not be seen by the public. An additional five, including one from the CIA, were shared only with the judge and cannot be read even by the plaintiffs’ lawyers.
Barr insisted to the court that public discussion of the issue “would reveal information that could cause the very harms my assertion of the state secrets privilege is intended to prevent.”
2020 April 15, President Trump announces that the US will stop funding the World Health Organization (WHO), after Trump criticized the WHO for being too lenient on China.
2020, April 16, President Trump announces that the states can begin lifting restrictions for COVID-19 by May 1 while acknowledging that the decision to reopen is best left to the states.
April 16: Moderna announces up to $483 million in funding from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to speed up the mRNA-1273 vaccine’s development.
April 18: Professor Luc Montagnier, recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of HIV, appears on French television and states that SARS-CoV-2 has been “manipulated” to include “added sequences” from HIV.
Professor Montagnier asserts that this “meticulous” insertion could only have been carried out in a laboratory. Others raise similar questions about the origins of SARS-CoV-2.
April 18: News outlets report that the country’s first coronavirus tests are ineffective due to CDC lab contamination and the CDC’s violation of its manufacturing standards.
April 22, 2020
The Rockefeller Foundation has proposed the "National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan" based on a militarized social model. At the top is the "Pandemic Testing Board (PTB). The Pandemic Testing Board would “consist of leaders from business, government and academia” They would have the power to decide on productions and services and issue contracts to acquire them. The plan calls for 30 million tests per week. Estimated cost for the test itself 100 dollars a test or 30 billion per year.
According to the Plan, a Covid Community Healthcare Corps (CCHC) should be launched at state public health departments, an effort that will involve massive investments in manpower and equipment. A staff of 100 to 300 thousand will be required.
They must be supported by computer systems networked with regional and national viral data-sets and as many electronic health records from local hospital systems as can be provided. The CCHC should designate staff to distribute, administer and oversee testing and contact tracing
Digital apps and privacy-protected tracking software should be widely adopted to enable more complete contact tracing.
They would be recruited among Peace Corps and Americorps volunteers and National Guard military personnel among others
The "pandemic response body" would have the task of controlling the population through digital tracking and identification systems,
Information on individuals relating to their state of health and their activities would all be centralized in a digital platform co-managed by the Federal State and private companies. According to data provided by the "Pandemic Control Council", it would be decided from time to time which area should be subject to lockdown and for how long.
2020-April 22- A briefing on the preliminary results of an unpublished research by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), obtained by Yahoo News, discovered that sunlight coupled with high relative humidity, of over 40%, can potentially prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The study found that the risk of “transmission from surfaces outdoors is lower during daylight” and under higher temperature and humidity conditions. “Sunlight destroys the virus quickly,” reads the briefing.
The DHS has a science and technology directorate which carried out a scientific experiment at the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) lab.
2020 April 24 -President Trump signs the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act to provide hospitals with $484 billion in funding to increase COVID-19 testing.
2020, May 1, Remdesivir wins EUA based on NIH trial data showing faster recovery but no improvement in mortality. WHO later conducted its own study and found no benefit
2020, May 1, President Trump dismisses Acting Health and Human Servicesinspector general Christi Grimm, who had issued an April report describing severe shortages of COVID-19 testing materials and personal protective equipment.
May 1, 2020- President Trump issued an executive order declaring a national emergency over threats to the U.S. power system, taking steps to defend the grid against cyberattacks and foreign interference.
May 1, 2020, the company Oxitec received an experimental use permit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to release millions of GM mosquitoes (labeled by Oxitec as OX5034) every week over the next two years in Florida and Texas. Females of this mosquito species, Aedes aegypti, transmit dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika viruses. When these lab-bred GM males are released and mate with wild females, their female offspring die. Continual, large-scale releases of these OX5034 GM males should eventually cause the temporary collapse of a wild population. Oxitec received 7 million in funding from the Gates Foundation in 2018
May 1, 2020-Recognizing the particular impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on hospitals in certain parts of the nation, and that inpatient admissions are a primary driver of costs to hospitals related to COVID-19, HHS is distributing $12 billion to 395 hospitals who provided inpatient care for 100 or more COVID-19 patients through April 10, 2020, $2 billion of which will be distributed to these hospitals based on their Medicare and Medicaid disproportionate share and uncompensated care payments.
These 395 hospitals accounted for 71 percent of COVID-19 inpatient admissions reported to HHS from nearly 6,000 hospitals around the country.
Rural hospitals, many of whom were operating on thin margins prior to COVID-19, have also been particularly devastated by this pandemic. As healthy patients delay care and cancel elective services, rural hospitals are struggling to keep their doors open.
Recipients of the $10 billion rural distribution will include, rural acute care general hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), and Community Health Centers located in rural areas.
Hospitals and RHCs will each receive a minimum base payment plus a percent of their annual expenses. This expense-based method accounts for operating cost and lost revenue incurred by rural hospitals for both inpatient and outpatient services. The base payment will account for RHCs with no reported Medicare claims, such as pediatric RHCs, and CHCs lacking expense data, by ensuring that all clinical, non-hospital sites receive a minimum level of support no less than $100,000, with additional payment based on operating expenses.
Rural acute care general hospitals and CAHs will receive a minimum level of support of no less than $1,000,000, with additional payment based on operating expenses.
2020-National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act authorizes 4.8 billion in investments in AI
May 6: New York governor Andrew Cuomo announces that the state will partnerwith “visionary” Bill Gates to restructure education by placing “technology at the forefront.” Cuomo appoints former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to lead a blue-ribbon committee for this purpose. Critics push back, describing past Gates-Foundation-funded educational fiascos that amassed “detailed personal information about millions of students” in the cloud.
May 6, 2020, a “new nonprofit charity” called The Mojaloop Foundation will “promote digital payments for people outside the financial system, with support from Google and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.”Other founding sponsors of The Mojaloop Foundation include “the Rockefeller Foundation, the philanthropy and investing group Omidyar Network, and the financial technology startups Coil and ModusBox.”So, right there we have Google, the Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, all in one little nonprofit with a heart set on giving poor people access to affordable digital banking using their cellphones.
May 11: UK chief medical officer Dr. Chris Whitty (an insider who has received millions in malaria research funding from the Gates Foundation and who endorses stigmaas a useful public health intervention) states that COVID-19 is “harmless to [the] vast majority.”
May 13: Australian researchers report that “SARS-CoV-2 is uniquely adapted to infect humans, raising important questions as to whether it arose in nature by a rare chance event or whether its origins might lie elsewhere.”
2020, May 15 Britain’s Office of National Statistics reports 40% of COVID deaths in retirement facilities
May 15-Trump hired Dr. Slaoui to head Operation Warp Speed. Slaoui has worked in the pharmaceutical industry on vaccine development for decades. Several companies he has worked with or sits on the Board of Directors are funded in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
One of these companies, Moderna Therapeutics, is conducting research on RNA vaccines in partnership with the U.S. government’s organization, DARPA.
In 2016, Slaoui was appointed to the Board of Directors of Moderna Therapeutics, the apparent front runner for the Covid vaccine although multiple vaccines are likely to be approved to handle 8 billion shots or more annually. Dr Slaoui holds 10 million in Moderna at time of appointment
2020, May 18 President Trump reveals that he is taking Hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug untested for its effectiveness against COVID-19
May 20: Microsoft announces its new supercomputer intended to create “human-like” artificial intelligence.
2020, May 21, Forbes reported that the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has given $1 billion to Astra Zeneca in partnership with Oxfordfor a rushed rollout of the vaccine in September. Thats a UK company
May 22, 2020-For the first time, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has given a realistic estimate of the overall death rate for COVID-19, which in its most likely scenario is 0.26 %
2020 May 22, -Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is announcing it has begun distributing billions in additional relief funds to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to help them combat the devastating effects of this pandemic.
Nursing homes play a pivotal role in providing skilled care to our nation’s vulnerable seniors. During this pandemic, nursing homes have faced unique challenges as their population of high risk seniors are more vulnerable to respiratory pathogens like COVID-19. This funding, which supplements previously announced provider relief funds, will be used to support nursing homes suffering from significant expenses or lost revenue attributable to COVID-19.
“This funding secured by President Trump will help nursing homes keep the seniors they care for safe during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said HHS Secretary Alex Azar.
“The Trump Administration is providing every resource we can, from funding and direct PPE shipments to regulatory flexibility and infection control consultations, to protect seniors in nursing homes and those who care for them.”
President Trump is providing support to healthcare providers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic through the bipartisan CARES Act and the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act that provide $175 billion in relief funds to hospitals and other healthcare providers on the front lines of the coronavirus response. In allocating these funds, the Administration is working, among other things, to address the economic impact of COVID-19 on providers and doing so as quickly and transparently as possible.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the viability of SNFs in a variety of ways.
Since the beginning of 2020, SNFs have experienced up to a 6 percent decline in their patient population (120,000) as current and potential residents choose other care settings, or as current residents pass away.
In addition to nursing home residents, many SNF employees have also been diagnosed with COVID-19. These additional funds may help nursing homes address critical needs such as labor, scaling up their testing capacity, acquiring personal protective equipment and a range of other expenses directly linked to this pandemic.
HHS will make relief fund distributions to SNFs based on both a fixed basis and variable basis. Each SNF will receive a fixed distribution of $50,000, plus a distribution of $2,500 per bed. All certified SNFs with six or more certified beds are eligible for this targeted distribution.
2020 May 22,- For the first time, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has given a realistic estimate of the overall death rate for COVID-19, which in its most likely scenario is 0.26 %
2020, May, claim is made that Iran attempted to hack Gilead, presumably looking for information on Remdesivir
2020 , May 27, -An incredible 43 percent of coronavirus deaths occurred in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities (ALF), reports Forbes.
The 2.1 million Americans who live in nursing homes and ALFs represent just 0.62 percent of the population, but a staggering 43 percent of America’s coronavirus deaths.
May 29, 2020-. More than two-thirds of the patients in Northwell Health facilities hooked to ventilators diedin March and early April and the fatality rate was similar at other hospitals.
At the beginning of the pandemic, health officials were worried whether there would be a shortage of ventilators to intubate COVID patients with serious breathing and lung problems. But then discussion in the medical community turned to whether the machines were being overused and possibly contributing to a higher death rate.
Northwell — which runs Lenox Hill, Long Island Jewish and Staten Island University hospitals, as well as other regional hospitals — is examining a cohort of 12,000 coronavirus patients it treated in March and early April, including about 2,000 who were placed on ventilators.
McGinn said Northwell medics did experiment with alternative or non-invasive ventilation, such as delivering oxygen to patients through a tight-fitting face or nasal clip, rather than a mechanical ventilator with invasive tube inserted down the throat.
But there are no easy answers. The alternative mechanism provides more of a risk of spreading the virus to hospital staffers if a patient’s breath spews the virus into the air, he said.
“It puts the nurses and respiratory therapists at risk
One study found that nearly all ofthe Northwell COVID patients treated in March and early April had at least one underlying condition in addition to the virus. The average age was 63.
Researchers also found that 37 percent of the more than 5,449 patients treated at Northwell hospitals from March 1 to April 5 developed acute kidney injury or kidney failure. Of those with kidney problems, 35 percent died.
The goal, McGinn said, is to learn from the findings and try to improve medical practice and techniques for treating COVID patients going forward.
June 1 , 2020-As part of the Trump Administration’s Operation Warp Speed, on Monday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a task order with Emergent BioSolutions to advance manufacturing capabilities and capacity for a potential COVID-19 vaccine as well as therapeutics.
The task order is worth approximately $628 million and falls under an existing contract with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of HHS’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response.
Under the task order, Emergent will commit contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) drug substance and drug product manufacturing capacity valued at approximately $542.75 million for production of COVID-19 vaccine candidates through 2021, in addition to an investment of approximately $85.5 million for the rapid expansion of Emergent’s viral and non-viral CDMO fill / finish capacity for vaccine and therapeutic manufacturing.
Before this task order announcement, Emergent had begun collaborating on development and manufacturing with Johnson & Johnson, Novavax, and Vaxart on their COVID-19 vaccine candidates. Johnson & Johnson’s candidate has received BARDA support.
BARDA has invested since 2012 to expand domestic manufacturing capabilities in the United States, including creating three Centers for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing; one of the centers is managed by Emergent and becomes the first to be deployed for the Operation Warp Speed effort.
2020, June 4 Lancet retracts 2 bogus studies on HCQ
2020, June, DOJ calls for lawmakers to update Section 230
2020, June , Trumps administration gives the Gates founded GAVI a donation of 1.16 billion dollars. GAVI is one of WHO’s biggest funders (along with the US and Gates).
2020, June CDC gives MITRE 16.3 million dollar contract to help build an enduring capability to contain COVID
2020, June FDA retracts HCQ EUA at request of BARDA despite studies showing a clear benefit when used with zinc in patients with early mild disease
Like BARDA’s earlier request to FDA to issue the EUA, BARDA’s request to revoke the EUA is part of a collaborative, USG- interagency effort to rapidly respond to this continuously evolving public health emergency.
Today’s request to revoke is based on new information, including clinical trial data results (including 2 retracted studies), that have led BARDA to conclude that this drug may not be effective to treat COVID-19 [Coronavirus Disease 2019] and that the drug’s potential benefits for such use do not outweigh its known and potential risks.
The authorization of a product for emergency use under section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) (21 U.S.C. 360bbb-3) may, pursuant to section 564(g)(2) of the Act, be revised or revoked when the criteria under section 564(b)(1) of the Act no longer exist, the criteria under section 564(c) of the Act for issuance of such authorization are no longer met, or other circumstances make such revision or revocation appropriate to protect the public health or safety.
FDA has determined that the criteria under section 564(c) of the Act for issuance of the EUA referenced above are no longer met.
2020, June 20, NIH halts study on HCQ showing no harm but no benefit. They did not use zinc and also did not evaluate benefits of using it on non hospitalized patients
2020-June 27, Global Citizen hosted the “Global Goal: Unite for Our Future – The Concert” which was supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, and Corporate Partners Citi, Procter & Gamble, SAP, Verizon and Vodafone. Once again, the funds raised at the event went to the Gates-founded GAVI.
During this event, Kelly Craft, United States Ambassador to the United Nations announced the US commitment of $545 million for GAVI towards COVID-19 relief efforts. “Together, we must work in an open, transparent, and supportive manner to build a safer, more resilient world. We must be the true multilateralist in the best sense of the word, working toward the common good,”Craft said.
2020, June 29 Gilead sets price for Remdesivir at 3200 dollars
2020, July 7 Trump announces intentions to leave WHO (1 yr notice required)
2020, July 9 WHO announced COVID-19 can be airborne (in which case masks would be useless)
2020, July 13 The Trump administration orders hospitals to forego sending all COVID-19 patient information to the CDC and instead submit it to a central database maintained by the Department of Health and Human Services.[all COVID Data to be sent to HHS Protect instead of CDC national Healthcare Safety Network]
2020, August. CISA conducts Cyberstorm 2020 Exercises. A 3 day real world simulation with 2000 participants including state, local government, law enforcement, defense and industry. No details released
2020-In August the PCAF published
a draft standard outlining a proposed approach for global carbon accounting. This means the bankers are creating their own accounting rules for how to rate or value a company’s carbon footprint or green profile.
2020, August. Klaus Schwab of WEF warned of a cyberpandemic that could be worse than the COVID pandemic
2020, August 10. China rolls out its international web site with Google and AWS listed as cloud service providers
2020, Sep 3, Studies report steroids are most effective treatment for serious COVID but early COVID TREATMENT protocols did not include steroids despite being commonly used for many other lung infections
2020, Sep 21, CDC goes against WHO and pulls guidance saying COVID transmission can be airborne
2020, Sep 25, President Trump is diagnosed with COVID-19, but keeps this a secret from the public of this diagnosis becomes public in November 2021).
President Trump nominatesAmy Coney Barrettas an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on September 18.
2020, October 2. President Trump tweets that both he and First Lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19 and would immediately quarantine.Later that day, President Trump boarded a helicopter to Bethesda Naval Hospital for treatment.
2020-October, Palantir-developed software tool known as “Tiberius” will guide OWS vaccine distribution efforts. Tiberius will identify high-priority populations at highest risk of infection.” The software will “decide” which “population subgroups” are given what vaccine.
Not only will Tiberius use Palantir’s Gotham software and its artificial intelligence components to “help identify high-priority populations,” it will produce delivery timetables and map out the locationsfor vaccine distribution based on the masses of data it has collected through various contracts with HHSand data-sharing alliances with In-Q-Tel, Amazon, Google and Microsoft, among others.
These data include extremely sensitive information about American citizens and the lack of privacy safeguards governing Palantir’s growing access to American healthcare data
2020, Oct 22, FDA approved Remdesivir for COVID , thus ignoring the WHO trial showing no benefit
2020, November, Krebs gets fired as head of CISA which was responsible for protecting the 2020 election due to refuting Trumps allegations about the election
2020, December 13, Multiple government agencies were breached in a cyberattack exploiting backdoor in SolarWinds software. Funny how exercises to prevent stuff lead to that stuff happening in short order. Almost like the purpose of the exercises is to find out weaknesses that can be exploited
2020, Dec 22, President Trump grants 20 high-profile pardons. Among them are 4 Blackwater guards convicted of 17 murders in 2007
William Barr resigns as 85th United States Attorney General.
2020, Dec 27, Despite previously calling the $900 billion COVID-19 relief package "a disgrace", President Trump signs the bill, averting a government shutdown.[
2020, Dec 31, 2.8 million first doses given (cumulative)
2021- Trump fails to pardon Assange
2021, Jan 6 As a result of the Capitol Hill breach, President Trump was suspended from Facebook and Instagram until after Joe Biden's inauguration for allegedly inciting the riot.
He was also suspended from Twitter for 24 hours, with the suspension only being lifted if he deleted three Tweets that Twitter say violated their terms of service because they used the platform “for the purpose of manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes".
2021 Jan 12, Alex Azar announces that HHS would make changes to their vaccine distributions in an effort to speed up the rollout by encouraging states to open vaccination sites to all persons older than 65,
2021, Jan 18-President Trump signs an executive order that lifts travel restrictions on Brazil, the United Kingdom, China, and Europeafter January 26. However, Jen Psaki, Biden's Press Secretary, says that the restrictions are expected to remain in place.[
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Feb 19, 2020- The Lancetpublished an unprecedented “correspondence” from twenty-seven co-authors who condemned “conspiracy theories” related to the outbreak. The main author was Peter Daszak who heads Eco Health Alliance and funded research at Wuhan Laboratory
2020, March 16-the World Health Organisation who stated both that SC2 did not appear to spread as quickly as influenza and was less virulent.
The WHO found up to a 20% infection rate, where people were exposed to SC2 in crowded settings for prolonged periods, and a 1-5% infection rate in the community. This was nothing like the spread of the 1918 H1N1 influenza pandemic.
March 21-Public Health England (PHE) downgraded COVID 19 from a High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID), due to relatively low mortality rates
March 24, 2020
Bill Gates announced his financial support for a $1 billion plan to blanket Earth in video surveillance satellites. The company, EarthNow, will launch 500 satellites to live-stream monitor almost every “corner” of the Earth, providing instantaneous video feedback with only a one-second delay. According to Wikipedia, the company expects its customers to include “governments and large enterprises.” 5G Antennas deploying a vast array of ground-based 5G spy antennas.
Through his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates owns 5.3 million Crown Castle sharescurrently worth a billion dollars. The Foundation’s second-largest tech holding after Microsoft, Crown Castle owns 5G infrastructure in every major U.S. market. It operates and leases more than 40,000 cell towers, 65,000 small cell nodes which are the central infrastructure for 5G and 75,000 route miles of fiber to every major U.S. market that, instead of going to your home, providing you safe, fast, wired internet, has been confiscated to connect 5G cell towers.
Another funder of this project is Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank, which owns Fortress Investment Group, the private equity firm that manages America’s largest news network, Gannett, which has more than 260 dailies under its umbrella.
Mar 24, 2020-Bill Gates interview “Eventually what we’ll have to have is certificates of who’s a recovered person, who’s a vaccinated person...
...Because you don’t want people moving around the world where you’ll have some countries that won’t have it under control, sadly.
You don’t want to completely block off the ability for people to go there and come back and move around.
So eventually there will be this digital immunity proof that will help facilitate the global reopening up.”
[Some time on the afternoon of March 31 the last sentence of this quote was edited out of the official TED video of the interview. Fortunately, recordings of the complete interview are archived elsewhere.]
March 25, 2020-The US Federal Reserve on Tuesday tapped a division of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, to manage billions of dollars in bond and mortgage-backed security purchases as the US central bank works to cushion the economic and financial fallout from the coronaviruspandemic.
BlackRock was awarded a no-bid contract under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) to deploy a $454 billion slush fund established by the Treasury in partnership with the Federal Reserve. This fund in turn could be leveraged to provide over $4 trillion in Federal Reserve credit.
Based on its expertise with the Maiden Lane facilities and its sophisticated Aladdin risk-monitoring software, BlackRock got the job of dispensing Federal Reserve funds through eleven “special purpose vehicles” authorized under the CARES Act.
Like the Maiden Lane facilities, these vehicles were designed to allow the Fed, which is legally limited to purchasing safe federally-guaranteed assets, to finance the purchase of riskier assets in the market.
March 26: Dr. Fauci publishes an editorialin the New England Journal of Medicine, stating that “the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza,” with a case fatality rate of perhaps 0.1%.
“If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza
(which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968)…”
March 26, 2020, the World Economic Forumpublished specificationsand launched a new websitefor a project it has christened “Known Traveller Digital Identity” (KTDI): KTDI would use a blockchain-based distributed ledger to bind together, through an app on a traveler’s mobile device, all of the following data:
Biometrics (initially facial images, possibly also fingerprints, etc.)
Government-issued ID credentials (passport number, etc.)
Travel history including logs of border crossings, hotel stays, and possibly also car rentals and/or other events
Purchase logs and possibly bank account information and/or other financial and transaction records
Pre-crime predictive “risk assessment” and profiling scores generated at each “intervention” point before and during each trip or transaction
Partners in the KTDI projectinclude government agencies (DHS, ICAO, INTERPOL, etc.) and the airline and airline IT industries (IATA, Amadeus, etc.).
Other KTDI project partnersinclude Google (Google acquired a computerized reservation system provider in 2010, but it’s unclear in what capacity Google is participating in the KTDI project), the Marriott and Hilton (US-based) and Accor (France-based) hotel chains, and the Visa credit-card and payment processing company.
The pilot project was was plannedto begin in “early 2020”.
2020, March 26, Microsoft filed patent W02020060606 – CRYPTO CURRENCY SYSTEM USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA. The patent details ways of using bodily activity such as brain waves to mine crypto currencies.
This idea could also form part of a Social Crediting system where specific actions determine how much currency (energy) they can earn.
patent W02020060606 – CRYPTO CURRENCY SYSTEM USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA.
Bill Gates leaves Microsoft Chairman in March 13, 2020 Bill Gates still owns 330 million Microsoft shares (1.3%)
Title
(EN) CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEM USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA
(FR) SYSTÈME DE CRYPTOMONNAIE UTILISANT DES DONNÉES D'ACTIVITÉ CORPORELLE
Abstract
(EN)
Human body activity associated with a task provided to a user may be used in a mining process of a cryptocurrency system. A server may provide a task to a device of a user which is communicatively coupled to the server. A sensor communicatively coupled to or comprised in the device of the user may sense body activity of the user. Body activity data may be generated based on the sensed body activity of the user. The cryptocurrency system communicatively coupled to the device of the user may verify if the body activity data satisfies one or more conditions set by the cryptocurrency system, and award cryptocurrency to the user whose body activity data is verified.
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April 22, 2020
The Rockefeller Foundation has proposed the "National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan" based on a militarized social model. At the top is the "Pandemic Testing Board (PTB). The Pandemic Testing Board would “consist of leaders from business, government and academia” They would have the power to decide on productions and services and issue contracts to acquire them. The plan calls for 30 million tests per week. Estimated cost for the test itself 100 dollars a test or 30 billion per year.
According to the Plan, a Covid Community Healthcare Corps (CCHC) should be launched at state public health departments, an effort that will involve massive investments in manpower and equipment. A staff of 100 to 300 thousand will be required.
They must be supported by computer systems networked with regional and national viral data-sets and as many electronic health records from local hospital systems as can be provided. The CCHC should designate staff to distribute, administer and oversee testing and contact tracing
Digital apps and privacy-protected tracking software should be widely adopted to enable more complete contact tracing.
They would be recruited among Peace Corps and Americorps volunteers and National Guard military personnel among others
The "pandemic response body" would have the task of controlling the population through digital tracking and identification systems,
Information on individuals relating to their state of health and their activities would all be centralized in a digital platform co-managed by the Federal State and private companies. According to data provided by the "Pandemic Control Council", it would be decided from time to time which area should be subject to lockdown and for how long.
2020-April 22- A briefing on the preliminary results of an unpublished research by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), obtained by Yahoo News, discovered that sunlight coupled with high relative humidity, of over 40%, can potentially prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The study found that the risk of “transmission from surfaces outdoors is lower during daylight” and under higher temperature and humidity conditions. “Sunlight destroys the virus quickly,” reads the briefing.
The DHS has a science and technology directorate which carried out a scientific experiment at the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) lab.
May 1, 2020- President Trump issued an executive order declaring a national emergency over threats to the U.S. power system, taking steps to defend the grid against cyberattacks and foreign interference.
May 6: New York governor Andrew Cuomo announces that the state will partnerwith “visionary” Bill Gates to restructure education by placing “technology at the forefront.” Cuomo appoints former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to lead a blue-ribbon committee for this purpose. Critics push back, describing past Gates-Foundation-funded educational fiascos that amassed “detailed personal information about millions of students” in the cloud.
May 6, 2020, a “new nonprofit charity” called The Mojaloop Foundation will “promote digital payments for people outside the financial system, with support from Google and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.”Other founding sponsors of The Mojaloop Foundation include “the Rockefeller Foundation, the philanthropy and investing group Omidyar Network, and the financial technology startups Coil and ModusBox.”So, right there we have Google, the Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, all in one little nonprofit with a heart set on giving poor people access to affordable digital banking using their cellphones.
May 11: UK chief medical officer Dr. Chris Whitty (an insider who has received millions in malaria research funding from the Gates Foundation and who endorses stigmaas a useful public health intervention) states that COVID-19 is “harmless to [the] vast majority.”
May 13: Australian researchers report that “SARS-CoV-2 is uniquely adapted to infect humans, raising important questions as to whether it arose in nature by a rare chance event or whether its origins might lie elsewhere.”
May 20: Microsoft announces its new supercomputer intended to create “human-like” artificial intelligence.
May 22, 2020-For the first time, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has given a realistic estimate of the overall death rate for COVID-19, which in its most likely scenario is 0.26 %
May 27, 2020-An incredible 43 percent of coronavirus deaths occurred in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities (ALF), reportsForbes.
The 2.1 million Americans who live in nursing homes and ALFs represent just 0.62 percent of the population, but a staggering 43 percent of America’s coronavirus deaths.
May 29, 2020-. More than two-thirds of the patients in Northwell Health facilities hooked to ventilators diedin March and early April and the fatality rate was similar at other hospitals.
At the beginning of the pandemic, health officials were worried whether there would be a shortage of ventilators to intubate COVID patients with serious breathing and lung problems. But then discussion in the medical community turned to whether the machines were being overused and possibly contributing to a higher death rate.
Northwell — which runs Lenox Hill, Long Island Jewish and Staten Island University hospitals, as well as other regional hospitals — is examining a cohort of 12,000 coronavirus patients it treated in March and early April, including about 2,000 who were placed on ventilators.
McGinn said Northwell medics did experiment with alternative or non-invasive ventilation, such as delivering oxygen to patients through a tight-fitting face or nasal clip, rather than a mechanical ventilator with invasive tube inserted down the throat.
But there are no easy answers. The alternative mechanism provides more of a risk of spreading the virus to hospital staffers if a patient’s breath spews the virus into the air, he said.
“It puts the nurses and respiratory therapists at risk
One study found that nearly all ofthe Northwell COVID patients treated in March and early April had at least one underlying condition in addition to the virus. The average age was 63.
Researchers also found that 37 percent of the more than 5,449 patients treated at Northwell hospitals from March 1 to April 5 developed acute kidney injury or kidney failure. Of those with kidney problems, 35 percent died.
The goal, McGinn said, is to learn from the findings and try to improve medical practice and techniques for treating COVID patients going forward.
2020-June 27, Global Citizen hosted the “Global Goal: Unite for Our Future – The Concert” which was supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, and Corporate Partners Citi, Procter & Gamble, SAP, Verizon and Vodafone. Once again, the funds raised at the event went to the Gates-founded GAVI.
During this event, Kelly Craft, United States Ambassador to the United Nations announced the US commitment of $545 million for GAVI towards COVID-19 relief efforts. “Together, we must work in an open, transparent, and supportive manner to build a safer, more resilient world. We must be the true multilateralist in the best sense of the word, working toward the common good,”Craft said.
2020-In August the PCAF published a draft standard outlining a proposed approach for global carbon accounting. This means the bankers are creating their own accounting rules for how to rate or value a company’s carbon footprint or green profile.
I”ll end here. The next 2 years are pretty much all COVID , Russia-Ukraine War and the Controlled Demolition of the Economy all engineered for the Great Reset and Global Technocratic Fascism. There is more coming which will serve the Depopulation and Sustainability Agenda. People will wearily sacrifice their Freedom and Property for the chaos to end
For more on this
Covid planning
Economy
Ukraine War
1)Tower of Basel by Adam Lebor
2)From Yahweh to Zion by Laurent Guyénot
3)Black Gold - Ordo ab Chao by David Livingstone
4)Red Scare - Ordo ab Chao by David Livingstone
5)Treasure Islands, Nicholas Shaxson
6)The Last Circle - by Carol Marshall
7)Technocracy Rising The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation by Patrick M. Wood
8)Surveillance Valley :The Secret Military History of the Internet by Yasha Levine
9)Transhumanism by David Livingstone
10)Manifest Destiny, William Engdahl
Unlimited Hangout, Whitney Webb
Dark Tower
Family jewels
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