Recently, the University of Chicago— my alma matter— announced that their cancer center would be called the Abbvie cancer center after a 75 million dollar donation. Here is the press release.
They have the audacity to claim that this move will advance ‘equity’ and ‘culturally competent’ care. To a certain audience, these woke buzzwords justify anything. The truth is money like this will almost surely be spent on catering to the wealthy clients and the University of Chicago has very little interest in the tens of thousands of underserved black residents who are <5 miles from campus. Never has, never will.
Forget the buzzwords, let us focus on what has happened. A historical and venerable university has further prostituted itself to pharma. It is the Abbvie cancer center. What if you are a professor at the Abbvie cancer center and you think Venetoclax is overused (an Abbvie drug), are you free to write papers on that topic? Is there not inherently tacit discouragement?
The reason why many countries have declined is corruption. In some places, university positions can be obtained by bribes. Kickbacks can be given to ensure trials enroll on time. The US, and its institutions have historically risen above corruption, and that has led to greatness. Now it seems that corruption re-enters.
Should an academic university have buildings on campus named after Pharma? Should it have a cancer center, named for Pharma? Why not cut out the middle man? Can Pharma just directly acquire a university?
Already, many cancer centers work by taking tens of millions from Pharma to run trials. At the end of the trial, there is often extra cash. This money creates slush funds that keeps universities running. Universities prostitute themselves to get more trials. They invest in CRCs and IRBs and infrastructure to ensure they provide a good service to pharma. This is what leaders are incentivized to chase.
This is what universities have become. CME companies that work for Pharma. Professors have become Pharma-shills. Running bad trials, and being incapable of thinking critically about research, is de rigueur. Make no mistake, this is a form of corruption. This is the corporatization and prostitution of academia.
The administrators who decide it is OK to name the UofC cancer center the Abbvie cancer center are transient actors. They aren’t the brightest minds or most reflective thinkers. They want to maximize their career opportunities and don’t believe in the transcendent and eternal principles of the academy. I worry that their continued pursuit of corporate money will erode their institutions. I worry that they do not even understand what corruption is.
Finally, it does not escape me that the University of Chicago is not only a prostitute, but a cheap one at that: 75 million for a cancer center is not even that much in the grand scheme of university giving.
COVID-19 'Vaccines' Estimated to Have Killed More People Than 121 Hiroshima Nuclear Bombings
FDA criteria for Class I recall and market withdrawal far exceeded.
Since the global roll-out of the COVID-19 injections in late 2020, substantial data has surfaced linking them to a catastrophic number of deaths. Below is a working list of some of the strongest evidence to date:
Rancourt et al: estimated 17 millionCOVID-19 vaccine deaths worldwide by September 2023 .
Mostert et al: estimated 3.1 millionexcess deaths likely attributed to COVID-19 vaccination/lockdowns among 47 countries of the Western World from 2020 to 2022.
Skidmore: estimated 278,000 Americans may have died from the COVID-19 vaccine by December 2021.
Pantazatos and Seligmann: estimated 146,000 to 187,000 possiblevaccine-associated deaths in the United States by August 2021.
Hulscher et al (I): estimated 49,240 excess cardiac arrest deaths possibly due to COVID-19 vaccination in the U.S. from 2021-2023.
Hulscher et al (II): found a high likelihood of a causal linkbetween COVID-19 vaccines and death from analysis of 325 autopsies.
Aarstad and Kvitastein: found a higher COVID-19 vaccine uptake was associated with increased all-cause mortality.
Alessandria et al: found all-cause death risks to be higher for those vaccinated with one and two COVID-19 vaccine doses compared to unvaccinated individuals. The subjects vaccinated with 2 doses lost 37% of life expectancy compared to the unvaccinated population during follow-up.
Regardless of methodology used, far too many suspected deaths have occurred due to the experimental COVID-19 injections. For reference, approximately 140,000 peoplewere killed from the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. Therefore, the COVID-19 injection campaign may have killed the equivalent of at least 121 Hiroshima nuclear attacks.
COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ death acknowledgment by federal agencies may mirror the same path as finally declaring smoking harmful in 1964 after years of claiming cigarettes to be healthy.
Among 462 medicinal products that were withdrawn from the market between 1953 and 2013, the median interval between the first reported adverse reaction and the year of first withdrawal was 6 years.Unfortunately, the time elapsed from the first reports of serious adverse events to withdrawal of products has not improved consistently over the last 60 years. Since 1950, 95 medicinal productswere withdrawn from markets due to causing death. 83% of withdrawals due to death utilized evidence drawn from case reports. Most withdrawals occur more than 1 or 2 years after the first reports of deaths begin to appear. Thus, COVID-19 vaccines are now long overdue for market withdrawal.
The continuation of advertising and recommending deadly medical products (COVID-19 injections) for all ages flagrantly violates The Precautionary Principle:
"When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause-and-effect relationships are not fully established scientifically."
“A situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.”
This indicates that the COVID-19 injectable products must undergo an immediate Class I recall by the FDA to protect public safety. This should be priority #1 of the next presidential administration, as COVID-19 injections remain an immediate threat to the entire U.S. population aged 6 months and older.
Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
Epidemiologist and Foundation Administrator, McCullough Foundation
www.mcculloughfnd.org
Monday 4 November 2024
Why workers fired for refusing Covid vaccines are starting to win in court
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Nov 1 (Reuters) - Liberal San Francisco is hardly a hotbed of anti-COVID vaxxers – more than 90% of the city’s population got the shot, according to government data.
That’s partly why I found a verdict by a San Francisco federal jury last week in favor of six public transit workers who were fired for refusing to comply with their employer’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious grounds so unexpected.
Jurors awarded the Bay Area Rapid Transit, or BART, ex-employees more than $1 million each for workplace civil rights violations, for a total of $7.8 million.
As similar cases make their way through courts around the country, plaintiffs lawyers tell me they see the verdict as a sign of more big payouts to come.
To misquote the Broadway tune, “If you can make it in San Francisco, you can make it anywhere,” said James Lawrence, a Raleigh-based Envisage Law partner representing three musicians allegedly fired by the North Carolina Symphony after refusing the COVID vaccination based on their religious beliefs.
The lawsuits I've reviewed, whether targeting a food conglomerate in Arkansas, an airline in Hawaii, hospitals in Oregon or a host of cities, revolve around similar claims that employers wrongly refused to accommodate devout workers who asked to be exempt from COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Alleging violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, plaintiffs who self-identify as Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and other faiths say they were discriminated against on the basis of religion, and that they could have masked, tested, worked remotely or taken other measures that would have allowed them to stay on the job.
The employers have typically countered that exempting the workers from the vaccine would have caused undue hardship to their businesses, and that their mandates were put in place to stem the spread of the coronavirus and keep their workforce safe.
In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court upped the standard for “undue hardship” to mean that granting an accommodation would impose a “substantial cost” on the business, Jeffrey Hirsch, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law who specializes in labor and employment law, told me. “That makes it easier (for plaintiffs) to bring these claims."
One of the first verdicts came in June, when a federal jury in Chattanooga awarded a Tennessee woman $687,000 – including $500,000 in punitive damages – against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee.
Tanja Benton, who identifies as a Christian, objected to the vaccine because she alleged cell lines from aborted fetuses were used in its research and development, which “she believed to be contrary to God’s law,” her lawyer Doug Hamill wrote.
(Multiple public health authorities confirm that the vaccines themselves do not contain fetal stem cells.)
Hamill did not respond to a request for comment, nor did Benton reply to a message sent via LinkedIn.
Benton, a data scientist who rarely interacted with clients, proposed that she continue to work remotely from home unvaccinated. Blue Cross allegedly refused and gave her 30 days to look for another job with the company that didn’t require vaccination. When she didn’t find a position, she said she was fired.
A Blue Cross spokesperson said the company "knows that vaccines save lives," and believes its "vaccine requirement was the best decision for our employees and members, and that our accommodation to the requirement complied with the law."
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2021 guidance said employers should “generally” proceed on the assumption that an employee's request for religious accommodation is based on sincerely held beliefs.
Blue Cross and its outside counsel from Holland & Knight, however, suggest in a pending motion to set the verdict aside that Benton’s objection to the vaccine was not part of a “comprehensive belief system.” Noting for example that she’d been had flu vaccinations in the past, the defense argued her objection was a “one-off belief against COVID-19 vaccination” that doesn't merit legal protection.
In the BART case, defense counsel appeared to focus less on the sincerity of the plaintiffs’ beliefs and more on the undue burden that the subway system claimed accommodation would present.
According to the complaint filed in San Francisco federal court in 2022, 179 of BART’s 3,900 employees requested religious exemptions to its COVID vaccine mandate, which was put in place even though unvaccinated passengers could still freely ride the trains.
About 70 of the employee requests – which included fetal stem cell-related objections as well as concerns such as “alteration of a divinely-created immune system” – were granted, but in every instance, BART found it would be an undue hardship to provide an accommodation.
For workers with jobs such as station agent or police officer, I can understand how working from home wasn’t an option.
But one employee had a full hazmat suit and offered to wear it while working, plaintiffs counsel Kevin Snider of the non-profit Pacific Justice Institute told me. Another cleaned empty trains at the end of the line and unsuccessfully argued she could work alone while masked.
No accommodation “was ever good enough,” Snider said.
A BART spokesperson declined comment.
BART lawyers did manage to narrow the case when Senior U.S. District Judge William Alsup in pre-trial ruling nixed the plaintiffs’ claims that their First Amendment right to free exercise of religion had been violated, ruling the vaccine mandate served a legitimate public purpose in stemming the spread of COVID-19.
However, a similar “free exercise” claim survived against the North Carolina Symphony in a ruling by U.S. District Judge James Dever in Raleigh in late September.
Two French horn players, both Buddhists, objected to the taking the COVID vaccine because it was allegedly tested on animals and used fetal cell lines, while a Jewish violin player said he believes “his body is a temple” and cannot be altered or defiled by medicine.
In refusing to dismiss the complaint, Dever wrote that the plaintiffs plausibly alleged that the symphony’s president in denying their requests wanted to promote a “vaccination ‘culture.’”
A spokesperson told me via email that the symphony's “priority has been to protect the health and safety of our musicians and staff,” adding that the vaccine mandate was lifted last year.
Opinions expressed are those of the author. They do not reflect the views of Reuters News, which, under the Trust Principles, is committed to integrity, independence, and freedom from bias.
Jenna Greene writes about legal business and culture, taking a broad look at trends in the profession, faces behind the cases, and quirky courtroom dramas. A longtime chronicler of the legal industry and high-profile litigation, she lives in Northern California. Reach Greene at jenna.greene@thomsonreuters.com
Pneumonia top cause of death in Malaysia for 2023 - DOSM
PUTRAJAYA: Pneumonia emerged as the leading cause of death in Malaysia in 2023, with 18,181 recorded fatalities, said Chief Statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin.
He said the Statistics on Causes of Death, Malaysia 2024 report indicates that pneumonia accounted for 15.2% of the 119,952 medically certified deaths last year.
“Pneumonia supersedes ischaemic heart disease as the principal cause of death for the first time in two decades, except in 2021 when COVID-19 infection was the leading cause,” he said in a statement today.
He attributed the rise in pneumonia-related deaths to post-pandemic effects, as respiratory infections in the community may lead to pneumonia, especially in those with weakened immune systems and existing health conditions.
Ischaemic heart disease, Malaysia’s second-leading cause of death, is largely tied to unhealthy lifestyle practices and dietary habits, he added.
Mohd Uzir further said that in 2023, 12,648 male deaths, or 17.6%, were due to ischemic heart disease, while the leading cause of death for females was pneumonia, accounting for 7,815 deaths, or 16.4%.
He also said that pneumonia-related deaths were more frequently recorded among the Chinese and Other Bumiputera ethnic groups, with 4,887 deaths (16.4%) and 1,255 deaths (12.2%), respectively, in 2023.
On the other hand, ischemic heart disease was the primary cause of death among the Malays and Indians, at 16% and 20.6%, respectively.
“The principal cause of death for the population aged 60 years and over was pneumonia, which recorded 14,377 deaths or 19.3%, while the population aged 41-59 years recorded ischaemic heart diseases at 19.8% (5,673 deaths),” he said.
Mohd Uzir said that pneumonia was also the principal cause of death in six states, namely Pahang, Perlis, Penang, Sabah, Sarawak and the Federal Territory of Labuan, while 10 other states recorded ischemic heart disease as the top cause of death.
He added that Perlis recorded the highest percentage of pneumonia-related deaths at 18.6%, followed by Penang (17.8%) and Sabah (14.2%).
Pneumonia was also the leading cause of death in 78 administrative districts, and the highest percentage was recorded in Kubang Pasu, Kedah, with 26.3%.
Meanwhile, Mohd Uzir said cerebrovascular diseases ranked as the third-highest cause of death in 2023 (7.2%), followed by transport accidents (3.5%).
Statistics also showed a significant rise in cancer-related deaths, which grew from 5,231 deaths in 2001 to 16,545 deaths in 2023.
The highest number of cancer-related deaths were linked to digestive organs (5,054 deaths), followed by respiratory and intrathoracic organs (2,530 deaths) and breast cancer (1,681 deaths), he said.
First-of-its-kind mRNA production lab in Asia paves way for pandemic preparedness
The facility paves the way for national pandemic preparedness and nucleic acid therapeutics manufacturing.PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO
SINGAPORE - A cutting-edge mRNA production laboratory that can quickly produce materials for pre-clinical or animal studies for vaccines to respond to future pandemics, or drugs to combat cancers and other diseases, was launched officially on Nov 4.
A*Star’s Nucleic Acid Therapeutics Initiative or NATi said this is a first-of-its-kind facility in Asia that is dedicated to mRNA production.
Called the NATi mRNA BioFoundry, the facility paves the way for national pandemic preparedness and nucleic acid therapeutics (NAT) manufacturing, it said.
NAT is an emerging field of medicine that uses nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA to treat a range of diseases, including cancer and viral infections. Covid-19 vaccines based on mRNA technology, which were produced within months of the pandemic, are an example of NAT.
“This marks an important first step towards realising RNA therapies that are not only discovered but also manufactured right here in Singapore, contributing to our ambition of becoming a leading hub for biomedical innovation,” said Second Minister for Trade and Industry Tan See Leng in a Nov 4 press release.
The mRNA facility was repurposed in April 2024, when two highly advanced machines – one to make the RNA and the other to encapsulate it – were brought in to replace the previous machines.
Those earlier machines could be used to make the same products in the traditional manner, but required more steps and more labour.
With the two new machines, the lab can produce up to 5g of purified RNA, which is enough to be made into an estimated 100,000 doses of vaccines a day, said Professor Andre Choo, deputy executive director of A*Star’s Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI), a national research institute where the mRNA facility is located.
Previously, the lab would need a month to 1½ months to make this amount, he said.
Prof Choo said the facility has started working on the pre-clinical RNA samples for the development of mRNA vaccines against influenza outbreaks, including the H5N1 bird flu strain.
Researchers can also use the technology platform to make high-quality pre-clinical materials that can be used to test mRNA drugs not just for cancer but also for eye infections, cardiovascular diseases and other illnesses.
The facility is part of the $97 million NATi programme announced by Dr Tan during the parliamentary debate on the Ministry of Trade and Industry’s 2024 budget. It was built in collaboration between NATi, A*Star and Wellcome Leap, a non-profit organisation founded by the UK-based Wellcome Trust to accelerate innovations that benefit global health.
Singapore is part of the global network of the Wellcome Leap R3 (RNA Readiness + Response) Programme, which aims to develop and deploy RNA technologies and innovations.
Covid is a military operation subordinate to NATO, Pentagon and NCTV!
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The new Minister of Health of the Netherlands, Marie Fleur Agema, who comes from Wilder’s PVV party, has openly declared that she cannot keep her electoral promises because the Ministry is subordinate to NATO, the NCTV (National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security) and the USA, therefore it must submit to their orders.
Netherlands, Minister of Health confesses:
“We must follow NATO, USA and NCTV, Covid is a military operation”
The PVV, that is, Gert Wilders’ party from which Agema comes, governs for the first time with a coalition.
The new Minister of Health has now made an unexpected confession on “health security”.
As a minister, she explained that she must follow NATO’s orders.
Orders that would have been followed even during Covid.
According to the Minister, the Covid policy also came from NATO and the “National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security” (NCTV).
It would be a military operation, perhaps an exercise and it would still be ongoing.There were also signs, for example, Austria had appointed a general who called the virus an “enemy”.
In Germany, too, a NATO general was in command via the RKI.
Suddenly, healthcare was militarized, as the Minister of Health recalls.
Agema openly said that Covid and the current “pandemic preparation” were a military operation that had nothing to do with healthcare in the traditional sense.
“Covid policy is the child of NCTV and NATO”.
Doctor Van Veen:
“That’s why critical doctors are being censored”
After hearing the words of the Minister of Health, Dutch doctor Els van Veen wanted to express his opinion on the matter.
He initially agreed with the Covid management, but then became one of the many critics
.Now “I really understand everything”, he wrote.“Hence the censorship of critics and especially critical doctors. Hence the police visit to my home in Dalfsen in 2021, allegedly because of a tweet about injections the night before. Hence letters and an investigation by the regulator based on anonymous and unfounded reports that I was spreading misinformation.
NCTV rules this country, but prefers to do so blindly.
Why shouldn’t we want democracy and transparency if the government and NCTV portray unsuspecting citizens as a threat to the state.
For unsuspecting family doctors like me, this was a bizarre experience and obviously not exactly trustworthy.
But I would rather know than not know, and now I understand from which angle I have been attacked in recent years.”
“You can no longer really talk about democracy when a minister openly admits to serving the unelected NCTV and NATO and not feeling accountable to the House of Commons,” he added, “let alone the Dutch citizens.
I feel extremely insecure that a group of people from NCTV, paid with taxpayers’ money, can give the order to act against GPs like me and ensure that we can lose our livelihoods.
What has happened in recent years does not correspond to my image of a constitutional state. But, as I wrote, I would rather know how things are than be left in the dark and not understand why people and ministers behave in a certain way.
Now there is clarity: the Minister of Health received instructions from NCTV when she took office as minister and must respect them.”
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It tells the story of an infected Swedish terrorist who infects the passengers of a train crossing Europe, forcing the WHO, led by a general from the United States, to transport the entire train with a thousand people aboard, destined to die, to an abandoned arch bridge, destined to collapse.
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Pentagon issued a contract for ‘COVID-19 Research’ in Ukraine 3 months before COVID-19 officially existed
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The world first started to hear about a novel coronavirus in early January 2020, with reports of an alleged new pneumonia-like illness spreading across Wuhan, China. However, the world did not actually know of Covid-19 until February 2020, because it was not until the 11th of that month that the World Health Organisation officially named the novel coronavirus disease Covid-19.
So with this being the official truth, why does United States Government data show that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) awarded a contract on the 12th November 2019 to Labyrinth Global Health INC. for ‘COVID-19 Research’, at least one month before the alleged emergence of the novel coronavirus, and three months before it was officially dubbed Covid-19?
The shocking findings, however, do not end there. The contract awarded in November 2019for ‘COVID-19 Research’ was not only instructed to take place in Ukraine, it was in fact part of a much larger contract for a ‘Biological threat reduction program in Ukraine’.
Perhaps explaining why Labyrinth Global Health has been collaborating with Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, and Ernest Wolfe’s Metabiota since its formation in 2017.
The Government of the United States has a website called ‘USA Spending‘, an official open data source of federal spending information. According to the site as of 12th April 2021, the US Government has spent a mind-blowing $3.63 trillion “in response to COVID-19”. But that’s not the only information on Covid that can be found on the site.
Hidden within the ‘Award Search’ are details on a contract awarded by the Department of Defense to a company named ‘Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp’, which is allegedly “a global engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company specialising in infrastructure development”.
The contract was awarded on September 20th, 2012 and is described as “Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services”. Obviously, this is very vague and most likely of little interest to anyone who happens to stumble across it. But there is something contained deep within the details that should be of interest to anyone and everyone.
The ‘Award History’ for the contract contains a tab for ‘Sub-Awards’ detailing the recipients, action date, amount, and a very brief description for 115 Sub-Award transactions. Most of the Sub-Awards are extremely mundane for things such as “laboratory equipment for Kyiv”, or “office furniture for Kyiv”.
Hidden within the ‘Award Search’ are details on a contract awarded by the Department of Defense to a company named ‘‘Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp’‘, which is allegedly “a global engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company specialising in infrastructure development”.
The contract was awarded on September 20th, 2012 and is described as “Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services”. Obviously, this is very vague and most likely of little interest to anyone who happens to stumble across it. But there is something contained deep within the details that should be of interest to anyone and everyone.
The ‘Award History’ for the contract contains a tab for ‘Sub-Awards’ detailing the recipients, action date, amount, and a very brief description for 115 Sub-Award transactions. Most of the Sub-Awards are extremely mundane for things such as “laboratory equipment for Kyiv”, or “office furniture for Kyiv”.
But there is one Sub-Award that stands out among the rest, and it was awarded to Labyrinth Global Health INC for “SME Manuscript Documentation and COVID-19 Research”.
An award for Covid-19 research isn’t exactly shocking when the world is allegedly in the grip of a Covid-19 pandemic, but considering the fact the sub-contract was awarded 12th November 2019, at least one month before the alleged emergence of the novel coronavirus, and three months before it was officially dubbed Covid-19, the award for Covid-19 research should come as a shock to everyone.
But the shock doesn’t end there, because the place the contact for Covid-19 research was instructed to take place was Ukraine, as was the entire contract awarded by the DOD to ‘Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp’.
The contract details found on the ‘USA Spending’ site actually reveal that the specific DOD department that awarded the contract was the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). The contract was awarded 20th September 2012, and concluded on 13th October 2020.Whilst the details are vague, the US Government site also reveals that $21.7 million of the $116.6 million contract was spent on a ‘Biological threat reduction program in Ukraine’.
Why did the Department of Defense pay a company that is allegedly “a global engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company specialising in infrastructure development”, to help implement a “Biological threat reduction program in Ukraine’?
And why did both the DOD and said company then pay Labyrinth Global Health INC to carry out COVID-19 research in Ukraine at least one month before the alleged emergence of the novel coronavirus, and three months before it was officially dubbed Covid-19?
Founded in 2017, Labyrinth Global Health is allegedly a “women-owned small business with deep expertise and a proven track record supporting initiatives for scientific and medical advancement.”
They describe themselves as “a multicultural and international organization with offices in four countries and a team of experts with diverse backgrounds and competencies, including microbiology, virology, global health, emerging infectious disease nursing, medical anthropology, field epidemiology, clinical research, and health information systems.”
One of those offices just happens to be located in Kyiv, Ukraine, which the company dubs “a gateway to Eastern Europe”.
Karen Saylors, PhD, who co-founded Labyrinth Global Health, has allegedly worked in the international public health field for over a decade and has spent many years living in Africa establishing global surveillance networks, “working with partners to improve Global Health policy on infectious disease detection, response, and control”.
At Labyrinth, Dr Saylors specialises in studies that aim to understand and mitigate the biological and behavioural risks of disease transmission. Dr Saylors worked with Oxford University Clinical Trials Network in Vietnam on zoonotic disease surveillance research and continues to coordinate with regional partners on emerging outbreaks in animal and human populations.
But who are the partners that Dr Karen Saylors and Labyrinth Global Health choose to work with? They are none other than the ‘Eco-Health Alliance’ and ‘Metabiota’.
Dr Karen Saylors, Eco-Health Alliance and Metabiota worked together on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) ‘PREDICT’ program from 2009, while Labyrinth Global Health worked alongside EHA and Metabiota on the PREDICT program from 2017.
Launched in 2009 and funded by USAID, PREDICT was an early warning system for new and emerging diseases in 21 countries. It was led by the University of California’s (“UC”) Davis One Health Institute and core partners included EcoHealth Alliance (”EHA”), Metabiota, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Smithsonian Institution, and as we’ve just revealed; Labyrinth Global Health. PREDICT was a forerunner of the more ambitious Global Virome Project.
The USAID describes PREDICT as having made “significant contributions to strengthening global surveillance and laboratory diagnostic capabilities for both known and newly discovered viruses within several important virus groups, such as filoviruses (including ebolaviruses), influenza viruses, paramyxoviruses, and coronaviruses“.
Here’s one of the many studies published by Eco Health Alliance, Metabiota and Labyrinth Global Health proving the connection –
PREDICT partnered with the non-profit Eco Health Alliance (EHA) to carry out its 9-year effort to catalogue hundreds of thousands of biological samples, ‘including over 10.000 bats’. A PREDICT-funded 2015 study on “diversity of coronavirus in bats” also included Peter Daszak, president of EHA, among its participants.
Eco Health Alliance is listed as a partner of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (“WIV”) on archived pages of its website and was mentioned as one of the institute’s “strategic partners” by the WIV’s Deputy Director-General in 2018.
Notably, the relationship between the WIV and the American Biodefense establishment was advanced by EHA policy advisor, David R. Franz, former commander at the US bioweapons lab at Fort Detrick.
WIV’s Dr. Shi Zhengli, a.k.a. “Batwoman,” had also worked with EHA’s Daszak on bat-related studies. As far back as 2005, Daszak and Zhengli were conducting research on SARS-like coronaviruses in bats. Several PREDICT-funded studies on SARS-like coronaviruses and Swine Flu count with both Zhengli’s and Daszak’s contributions. Perhaps the most noteworthy of these is a 2015 PREDICT and NIH-funded study she co-authored entitled: ‘A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence’.
Meanwhile, Nathan Wolfe is the founder of Metabiota and the non-profit Global Viral. He spent over eight years conducting biomedical research in both sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Unsurprisingly, Wolfe is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. More notably, since 2008 he had been a member of DARPA’s DSRC, Defence Science Research Council, until it was disbanded.
All of these people and organisations have been working for at least the last decade studying coronaviruses and helping to set up Biolabs in Ukraine. All using US Department of Defense funds to do so.
Putting the Biolabs in Ukraine to one side, for now, let’s return to the subject of Covid-19. If the US Government was funding Covid-19 research before Covid-19 was publicly known to exist then this suggests they either knew Covid-19 existed naturally, or they were involved in constructing this virus in a lab.
But if the contract evidence isn’t enough for you to come to this conclusion (it should be), then perhaps coupling it with evidence that the US National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and Moderna had a coronavirus candidate in December 2019 will be.
A confidentiality agreement which can be viewed here, states that providers ‘Moderna’ alongside the ‘National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) agreed to transfer ‘mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates’ developed and jointly-owned by NIAID and Moderna to recipients ‘The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’ on the 12th December 2019.
The material transfer agreement was signed the December 12th 2019 by Ralph Baric, PhD, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and then signed by Jacqueline Quay, Director of Licensing and Innovation Support at the University of North Carolina on December 16th 2019.
The agreement was also signed by two representatives of the NIAID, one of whom was Amy F. Petrik PhD, a technology transfer specialist who signed the agreement on December 12th 2019 at 8:05 am. The other signatory was Barney Graham MD PhD, an investigator for the NIAID, however, this signature was not dated.
All of these signatures were made prior to any knowledge of the alleged emergence of the novel coronavirus. It wasn’t until December 31st 2019 that the World Health Organisation (WHO) became aware of an alleged cluster of viral pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China. But even at this point, they had not determined that an alleged new coronavirus was to blame, instead stating the pneumonia was of “unknown cause”.
All of this requires much further research to fit all of the pieces of the puzzle together, but here’s what we definitely know so far –
A novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan in December 2019.
The world did not get to hear about this novel coronavirus until early January 2020.
The world did not know this novel coronavirus was called Covid-19 until February 2020, when the World Health Organization officially named it so.
The US Department of Defense awarded a contract for Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services to ‘Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp’, which is allegedly “a global engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company specialising in infrastructure development”.
That contract involved a Biological threat reduction program in Ukraine.
As part of this larger contract, another contract was awarded to Labyrinth Global Health for ‘COVID-19 Research’ on 12th November 2019.
This was awarded at least one month before the alleged emergence of the novel coronavirus, and three months before it was officially dubbed Covid-19.
Labyrinth Global Health works alongside the ‘Eco Health Alliance’, and ‘Metabiota’, and participated in the USAID PREDICT program. All of these people and organisations have been working for at least the past decade studying coronaviruses and helping to set up Biolabs in Ukraine. All using US Department of Defense funds to do so.
Information found here points to Eco Health Alliance having a hand in creating the Covid-19 virus.
‘Moderna’, alongside the ‘National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) agreed to tranfer ‘mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates’ developed and jointly-owned by NIAID and Moderna, to recipients ‘The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’ on the 12th December 2019.
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