by Anngwyn St. Just
September 30, 2014
"We are lived by forces we barely understand".
(W.H. Auden)
"Africa must not relegate the Continent to become the locality for disposal and deposition of hazardous chemicals, dangerous drugs or biological agents for emerging diseases".
(Dr. Cyril E. Broderick, September 2014)
"Genetic engineering can do far more damage than nuclear bombs".
(Michael Crichton M.D., novelist)
"Tell them the biggest lie, yes. But, they have to want the kind of lie you're telling. It has to give them equal parts of fear and fascination"
(Ellis Medavoy, retired propaganda operative).
Given that plagues have been known to alter the course of history, this recent Ebola epidemic deserves our studied attention.
Epidemics qualify as one of the "Greater Forces" that have the potential to alter our world as we know it and this has been true throughout human history. Plagues often serve as catalysts for major social, political and economic upheavals.
To date, the four deadliest epidemics include:
Black Death outbreaks from 1347-1351, during which bubonic plague and its airborne pneumonic offspring decimated some 3/5 of the European inhabitants.
We now know that this is a flea borne plague, which kills about 2/3 of its victims within four days, recognized at least as far back as the Roman Empire and the Plague of Justinian in 541 A.D.
This painful scourge, which reportedly left some 25 million dead, decimated nearly half the population of Constantinople, now modern Istanbul. An estimated 5,000 citizens died every day.
In modern times, bubonic/pneumonic plague was utilized by the Japanese as one of the several bio-weapons employed by their Imperial Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1941).
They introduced infected fleas into Chinese territory, ostensibly in the interest of conquest and colonization.
In 1918-1919 the Spanish Flu actually killed more people than World War I and infected nearly a third of the global population.
The causes of this outbreak remain highly controversial, especially among those who maintain that various influenza and other government-promoted vaccines may have actually served to weaken the immune systems of both the military and civilians; collectively stressed populations during and after World War I.
Beginning in the late 20th century, around 60 million unfortunates have been infected by HIV/Aids, since it was first reported in 1981; and another 30 million are living with this as a chronic condition. (Daniel Jennings, survivalbackpack.com, September, 2014).
During my Rolfing training in Berkeley, in the late seventies, I was sleep walking, as usual, until it was disclosed to me that Nick Rock, a young actor from New York and my genial gay roommate, was diagnosed as our country's first AIDs patient.
Within our local bodywork community, it had been believed that Nick had "cat scratch fever" and we were naturally concerned that after showing some serious symptoms, he was not showing any improvement. Inexplicably, this previously healthy and physically fit young man, rapidly declined and died.
Only many years later, after randomly selecting Randy Shilt's, And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the Aids Epidemic, (1987) in a San Francisco bookstore while waiting to meet my husband for a date night dinner, did I finally realize the truth about my friend and colleague's untimely demise.
And then there was smallpox, which raged through the Antonine Plague 165-180 A.D., killing 5 million people, including two emperors, (regime change) and may have greatly weakened the late Roman Empire; and promoted the spread of Christianity by diminishing faith in their pagan deities.
Smallpox, which also has a hemorrhagic variety, is thought to have emerged within the human population as early as 10,000 B.C. Scars from its characteristic pustular rash have been documented on the mummy of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses V; and this disease was known in China in 1122 B.C.
Smallpox killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans toward the end of the 18th century, and earlier, including five reigning monarchs, (more regime change), and blinded countless others.
The World Health Organization (WHO) claims that smallpox was responsible for 300-500 million fatalities during the 20th century.
Together with other European diseases, smallpox devastated many indigenous populations following the discovery of the New World. It is widely believed to have been employed as a major bio-weapon in genocidal attempts at population control, and to eradicate indigenous peoples throughout North, Central and South America as well.
It was probably employed in Australia and New Zealand also, since this is what colonizing white people seem to believe is their mission. (Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel, PBS.org).
While smallpox was eradicated in 1979, varicella continues to live on in laboratories, as do all of the above mentioned organisms; as sources for actual and potential bioweapons.
Here, one might bear in mind the fact that at the close of World War II, the Third Reich's top virologists and bioweapons specialists for racially and genetically targeted diseases for population control and eugenics, (so-called science-based genocide), were sent to U.S. and British laboratories under Project Paperclip.
The Pentagon has been interested in filoviruses with high mortality rates since the seventies and one wonders.
And now, in Africa, there is Ebola, again...
While there have been 19 known outbreaks of Ebola in relatively isolated rural villages, this one is different, having reached major urban centers in West Africa where it has not been previously known.
Moreover, there are concerns that the current version of this highly contagious, often lethal virus, may be airborne via respiratory routes, hitch a ride onto international flights, cross borders, and sail throughout the Mediterranean with the potential to become a global pandemic.
The strain causing this recent outbreak is of a lineage known as Ebola Zaire, so named as it emerged in 1976 in Zaire, somewhere near the Ebola River, in what is now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo. This Ebola virus belongs to the family Filoviridae, order Mononega virales. One of the first photos taken in October, 1976 reveal this filovirus as an elongated, tubular, wormlike particle with a characteristic "shepherd's crook".
Ebola virus attacks and disables the immune system of its host. Early symptoms resemble influenza, including headache, sore throat, cough, fever, muscle pain and weakness. As the disease progresses, patients suffer vomiting, diarrhea, and severe dehydration.
The final stages are marked by visceral liquidation; the vascular system dissolves resulting in internal hemorrhages and bleeding from every orifice, evoking passages from Edgar Allen Poe's Gothic fiction classic...
"No pestilence had ever been so fatal or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal… the redness and the horror".
(The Masque of the Red Death, 1842)
The pandemic possibilities of this current epidemic first came to my attention in the sci-fi medical disaster film "Outbreak" released in March 1995. As the story unfolds, a fictional devastating, Ebola-like virus called Motaba appears in Zaire (Congo) and then in Smalltown USA.
Film critic, the late Roger Ebert, called it
"One of the great scare stories of our time… the notion that deep within uncharted rain forests, deadly diseases are lurking and if they ever escape their jungle homes and enter the human bloodstream, there will be a new plague the likes of which we have never seen."
(Chicago Sun Times, 1995)
Other critics dismissed this film's warning premise as "an absolute hoot". (Rita Kempley, Washington Post, March 10, 1995).
Still dozing within the pervasive fog of our mainstream media matrix, I failed to notice or pay attention to the salient fact that the pathogen named in the film was Motaba.
As this blog plot thickens, we now know that reversed, this spells Abatom, the name of a small, privately owned, pandemic research "think tank" in Jericho, Ibadan, Nigeria; located directly in the middle and between places where past Ebola outbreaks have occurred and where this new contagion is now taking place. (J.C. Collins, August 2, 2014) - (www.abatom.com).
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Despite diamonds, gold and a wealth of mineral resources the population lives in abject poverty. Civil wars, coups and corruption have devastated the country's infrastructure.
The Kenema Government Hospital, located in the nation's third largest city, was recently attacked by a hostile mob convinced that this installation was spreading disease and that patients are killed in hospitals. This dual purpose facility contained a level 2, U.S. bio-security and bioweapons research lab with links to eugenics and population control advocates Bill and Melinda Gates and the Soros Foundation.
American biodefense scientists have been working on viral fevers at this location since 2011.
There was also a consortium there consisting of collaboration with,
...and various other partners in West Africa. (http://vhfc.org/consortium).
Following the mob attack, the government expelled the WHO, closed down this bioweapons research lab; and foreign personnel were asked to leave the country. (Birdflu666.wordpress.com) (drrimatruthreports.com).
Doctors Without Borders, the only cadre with experience treating Ebola in West Africa, who have been on site since the onset of this 2014 outbreak, acknowledged that public fears that hospitals were spreading disease were "understandable" and nosocomial transmission is real.
This term refers to any spread of a disease within a health care setting such as a clinic or a hospital, and it occurs frequently during Ebola outbreaks.
Exposure to the virus has occurred when health care workers treated individuals with Ebola without wearing sufficiently protective clothing. In addition, when needles and syringes are used for vaccines or other purposes, they may not be of a disposable variety or may not have been properly sterilized and so infection spreads.
Health care workers may, in fact, be themselves, although unknowingly, infected and also be tending early stage Ebola patients who have not yet been accurately diagnosed. (CDC, Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever: fact sheet, April 9, 2010).
As this often lethal hemorrhagic virus continues to spread, much of Sierra Leone is under quarantine; residents are advised to refrain from touching, and movements within the country are heavily restricted.
This containment strategy can be likened to digging barrier trenches in order to halt the spread of wildfires. Schools are closed, crops are not being harvested or brought to market, food prices are soaring and supplies limited for a population already suffering under a grinding poverty. Government officials plan to maintain the lockdown until the chains of viral transmission are broken.
Meanwhile, Ebola has also taken a firm hold in neighboring Liberia.
Liberia is bordered by Sierra Leone to its west, Guinea to the north and Ivory Coast on the east. The official language is English and this country has been called "America's forgotten step-child" since it is widely believed to have been founded by freed slaves after the Civil War ( 1861-1865).
However, this version, like many other patriotic stories surrounding the events of slavery and the Civil War, is not really true. Liberia, named for Liberty, was actually founded in 1820 by nearly 100 free black settlers, and a few former slaves.
Much later, these pioneers were followed by thousands of other free blacks who had managed to survive the often perilous ocean crossings over from North America. This migration was sponsored by the openly racist American Colonization Society, with funds from Congress, whose pious mission was to export our country's free blacks to West Africa in what may be viewed in modern times as an ethnic cleansing.
Upon arrival, these newcomers, dressed as they always had been in America, soon discovered that they were unwelcome as "black white people". Local conditions were harsh, including a lack of clean water, sanitation, adequate nutrition, health care, education, widespread poverty and a plethora of endemic contagious and deadly diseases.
Nevertheless, their struggling country managed to declare independence in 1847. (James Ciment, Slate.com, 09/2014).
The outbreak of Ebola in Liberia's capital city of Monrovia, named for James Monroe, fifth president of the United States, revealed a darker side to disease containment and plague generated social engineering.
Under the government run by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former World Bank and Citibank staffer, and alleged Soros protégé, it was declared that police and military are working together to "cooperate with medical teams".
What this actually means is that there is medical Martial Law with soldiers at the borders instructed to kill anyone trying to flee, and essentially turning the country into one big concentration camp.
In August of 2014, 70,000 citizens in Monrovia were put into quarantine without warning or opportunity to stock up on food or water. Their situation quickly became one where they were shot if they tried to leave and starve if they remain. A natural reaction to such brutally enforced suppression was for those with any strength left to riot, which was then met with tear gas and guns.
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