Ebola
By Larry Romanoff, November 24, 2020
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Health care workers wearing
full body suits burn infected items at the ELWA Hospital in Monrovia on Aug.
30, 2014.
There was also the outbreak
of the Ebola virus simultaneously in several African countries in the middle of
2014 that at the time of writing had already killed around 1,000 people. It was
surprising to learn that the variety of Ebola that appeared was "an
especially powerful mutated strain that had no apparent natural origin and
immediately raised questions in many minds of having been engineered."
This caught my attention because the circumstances seemed so familiar - (a) a
sudden, inexplicable outbreak of a new, unusual, and deadly disease, (b) in
dispersed but focused locations, (c) with nobody searching for the origin, (d)
claims that the virus was primarily race-specific, affecting primarily
Africans, and (e) the WHO once again in full attendance.
- Ebola
Origin
In June of 2003, the Wall
Street Journal ran an interesting article (1) titled, "Scientists
Search For Human Hand Behind Jungle Virus", stating that "Some
scientists are turning their attention to a question asked all too infrequently
once deadly viral outbreaks have been contained: Where did that come
from?" The article provided a long list of mostly new diseases resulting
from (probably) manufactured retroviruses like Ebola, Hanta, HIV, HTLV-I,
HTLV-II, Lassa, Mad Cow Disease, Monkey Pox, Nipah, SARS, and West Nile Virus,
as well as other curiosities like Gulf War Illness and Lyme disease, asking,
"Where did the pathogens originate?"
Several physicians wrote an
article titled, "There is no natural disease called Ebola", in which
they noted that while the main focus was on treatment, an increasing number of
people were questioning the disease's true origin, a decreasing number of
investigators being convinced of the official story of Ebola evolving from
"infected fruit bats", and much skepticism about how Ebola traveled
6,000 kilometers across Africa - from the site of one US bio-weapons lab to
another - without causing infections in the intermediate areas. (2) (3) These physicians and
virologists insist there is no such natural disease, and believe it is a
weaponised virus created in a US military bio-lab. (4) (5) One media report, for
which I have not yet seen documentation, claims the US Department of Defense
was funding Ebola trials on humans in the weeks preceding the outbreaks in
Guinea and Sierra Leone. No word on precisely which organisation was physically
conducting the trials, but the DOD apparently had a $140 million contract with
the Canadian pharma company Tekmira to conduct Ebola research that included
infusing humans with the Ebola virus. (6) (7)
In an article in the UK
Guardian, the US Department of Defense was named as a collaborator in a
"First in Human Ebola clinical trial" immediately before the Ebola
epidemic appeared in West. The article also noted warnings that had been issued
by top scientists from both Harvard and Yale Universities that US government
funding of such "trials" risked "triggering a worldwide
pandemic". Dr. Broderick said "It is most disturbing that the U.S.
government has been operating a viral hemorrhagic fever bioterrorism research
laboratory in Sierra Leone. Are there others? Wherever they exist, it is time
to terminate them." And of course, Dr. Broderick is correct in his
conclusions. (8) And there are indeed many
other such bio-weapons labs around the world, prior US Congressional testimony
suggesting these number in the hundreds.
- The
WHO Vaccination Programs
I managed to locate some
records of the WHO's vaccination programs for the countries in Africa where
this Ebola virus erupted, and was not surprised to learn of the correlation
with WHO inoculations since there has been a perfect correlation with other
similar incidents to date. (9) (10) (11)Shimatsu noted what he
calls "the strange coincidence of the earliest breakout in Guinea with
major vaccine campaigns conducted by the WHO and UNICEF. [These involved] a
cholera oral vaccine effort by Medicins Sans Frontieres under the WHO, and
UNICEF-funded prevention programs against meningitis and polio.
The reason for suspecting a
vaccine campaign rather than an individual carrier is due to the fact that the
Ebola contagion did not start at a single geographic center and then spread
outward along the roads. Instead, simultaneous outbreaks of multiple cases
occurred in widely separated parts of rural Guinea ...". Shimatsu wrote,
"How one of the deadliest viral strains in human history could have jumped
a distance of 4,000 kilometers undetected from Central to West Africa defies
logic.", and I would certainly have to agree with his assessment.
He notes too that the
vaccines were produced by Sanofi Pasteur, a French pharmaceutical controlled by
the Rothschilds, and others with funding from the Gates Foundation. For the
Gates-funded meningitis vaccine, an earlier UNICEF program with this same
vaccine in Chad resulted in dozens of dead children. And in all of this, we
seem to have an inclusion of all the usual suspects, namely, the WHO, Doctors
without Borders (MSF), UNICEF, Tulane University, the Gates Foundation, USAID,
the US-based CDC, Chatham House, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Wellcome
Trust, UNAIDS, the US-based NIH, the US military's Medical Research Institute
of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) from Fort Detrick, and what Shimatsu calls
"the rest of the alphabet soup of the hypocritical oafs of
pharmaco-witchcraft". USAID has also been implicated in many of these
disease outbreaks. He claims that "the herd instinct for self-preservation
prevents any honest disclosure" of the facts, and I would have to agree.
It's also worth noting that
MSF itself is nowhere near as angelic as it pretends, being financed by what
Shimatsu called "a rogue's gallery of corporate predators" that
include Microsoft (Gates again), Goldman Sachs, AIG, Morgan Stanley, Bank of
America, BlackRock and Bloomberg. MSF's chief aim, if I want to be cynical,
appears to be that of facilitator under the auspices of the WHO and UNICEF to
promote (occasionally illegal and often useless) mass vaccination programs that
produce huge profits for the big pharma companies. And MSF has been under
clouds of suspicion before. (12)
More than one writer has
categorised the WHO's vaccination programs as a "mafia-style protection
racket" where poor nations are bullied into spending unaffordable sums of
money on often useless vaccines. One such example was Donald Rumsfeld's prior
pharma employer who marketed Tamiflu with enormous success in many countries,
to the extent of billions of dollars in cost, with panels of health experts
later declaring that Tamiflu had been "largely ineffective" and the
money wasted. The UK did the same, spending many hundreds of millions of pounds
on useless vaccines for non-existent epidemics. The same happened with the
Ukraine, spending half the country's foreign currency reserves on flu vaccines
that proved to be both useless and unnecessary. There are many such stories. (13)
(14)
(15)
(16)
(17)
(18)
- Ebola
as Bioweapon
The theory that Ebola is a
bioweapon received some media attention when Liberia’s top newspaper, The
Liberian Observer, published a report by plant physiologist Dr. Cyril
Broderick, who suggested the virus was a genetically modified organism. (19) (20) (21) He quoted Dr. Leonard
Horowitz’s book on emerging viruses, in which Horowitz "confirmed the
existence of an American military-medical industry that conducts biological
weapons tests under the guise of administering vaccinations to control diseases
and improve the health of 'black Africans overseas'. [The] WHO and several
other UN agencies have been implicated in selecting and enticing African
countries to participate in the testing events, promoting vaccinations, but
pursuing various testing programmes."
American law professor
Francis A. Boyle claimed the Ebola virus could have originated from American bio-warfare
labs in Africa, and revealed that the US had been using West Africa as an
offshore bio-weapons lab to circumvent the Convention on Biological Weapons. (22) (23) According to Dr. Paul
Craig Roberts, it was Dr. Boyle who drafted the Biological Weapons
Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the US implementing legislation for the 1972
Biological Weapons Convention. And, according to a map produced by the Center
of Disease Control, it does appear the virus victims were located in the same
places as the American bio-labs. (24) (25) It is worth noting here
that Dr. Boyle is not an easy person to dismiss as a flake or a conspiracy
theorist, being a prominent American law professor who was responsible for
drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act and other Biological Weapons
conventions. He is well-versed in the subject of bio-warfare and has written at
least one book on the US military's dramatic (and illegal) bio-weapons
programs.
One of the issues is that
the US bullies smaller nations into rejecting international bio-weapons
treaties for the purpose of using those same non-signatory nations as locations
for its secret bio-warfare labs. This "offshoring" is just a clever
way to violate the Biological Weapons Conventions that the US has signed while
at the same time being entirely outside the purview and supervision of Congress
(and the media). Often, even the host nations have no clear idea of what
transpires in these so-called "health facilities" the US military
establishes inside their own countries, this condition often being maintained
by large cash disbursements.
There was another disturbing
aspect to this entire Ebola enterprise, that being a report in the New York
Times that the Zaire Ebola strain was identified or created many years ago (26) (27), and that the WHO ordered
it shipped to the UK's bio-weapons facility at Porton Down, from where it was
sent to the US-based CDC who do similar work. (28) (29) Dr. Boyle speculated this
virus was then exported to the US military's bio-labs in West Africa where development
was continued. Yoichi Shimatsu noted correctly that "the simultaneous
eruptions [of this virus] in widely-separated zones" suggest it was
introduced as part of the US military-funded bio-weapons research program.
In the article mentioned
above, Broderick claimed the epidemic was the result of work done by the US
Department of Defense, among others. Apparently a great many readers praised
his article, expressing their own sympathetic concerns for the large number of
unexplained 'coincidences' of disease outbreak overlaid with US military
experimentation on biological pathogens and the seemingly ever-present WHO and
its vaccination programs. The US mainstream media attempted to dismiss his
comments as relying on information from so-called 'conspiracy websites', but he
appears to have had many legitimate references on which to base his comments
and accusations, published reports he stated were 'unambiguous'. Dr.
Broderick's main concern was that diseases such as Ebola and others were
designed "for culling the world's black population", a claim that
would be much easier to refute or dismiss out of hand if not for the US
military's proven experiments in designing precisely such race-specific
pathogens. To dismiss this without careful thought would seem to be reckless
indeed.
The statements of US
bio-weapons labs dotting Africa are not imagination. In the midst of the Ebola
outbreak in Sierra Leone was privately-owned Tulane University from New Orleans
(30) (31) (32), an institution known
for conducting bio-weapons research for the US military at USAMRIID. Tulane executives
had been boasting of having conducted "the largest and most detailed case
[studies] of Ebola patients", most of whom unfortunately died, and was
accused of providing local hospitals with Ebola diagnosis kits that were either
useless or fraudulent. (33) (34) In any case, Tulane, the
US military, and Doctors without Borders apparently jointly established a
hospital at Kenema that provoked local outrage and sent all hospital staff on
strike and forcing a government investigation of the nearly 100% death rate. A
representative for the group, Dr. Tim Jagatic of Doctors Without Borders, said
it was "understandable" that locals believed they would all die if
placed in the American hospital: "We created a hospital, and a lot of
people [died]. It’s very difficult for them to make a connection that we are
here to help". No kidding. When all the patients die, what is the
difference between hospital and no hospital? (35) (36)
But it wasn't only the
hospital that outraged the locals and caused panic; it was also the fact that
the US military was operating a bio-weapons research lab at the same location,
with all evidence apparently suggesting a strong connection between that
military research lab at Kenema, the Kenema hospital, Tulane's Ebola research,
the Ebola outbreak, and the high death rate. In addition to the closing of the
hospital and the ejection of Tulane University, the US military was also forced
to shut down its bio-weapons lab in Sierra Leone. The government also ordered
the US-based CDC - another bio-weapons-related contractor - to submit all the
data from its own labs in Kenema, apparently for a government investigation
into this tightly-knit foreign collaboration. Of course the Western media like
the Washington Post ignored all of this in their haste to trash anyone who
dared contradict the official "Fruit bat - Act of God" theory of
origin, dismissing inconvenient truths as "churning out Ebola conspiracy
after conspiracy".
- Suspicions
Many nations in Africa, as
in South America and Asia, have become increasingly suspicious of US and UN
so-called "health" activities within their borders, not forgetting
Kissinger's NSSM paper that said, "The United States economy will require
large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less
developed countries.", and that called for a huge increase in funding for
"creating conditions conducive to fertility decline". They are also
aware of the Rumsfeld-Cheney PNAC paper that stated, "Advanced forms of
biological warfare that can target specific genotypes, may transform biological
warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool." (37) (38) (39)
To accentuate these, in the
aftermath of the Ebola outbreaks, US President Obama announced he would send
3,000 troops to Africa, while Cuba, China and other nations were sending doctors,
virologists and medications. The US government and military have been rather
cagey about the precise qualifications of the troops being sent to Africa,
providing only a nonsensically-vague statement of what appears to be cautionary
behavior to protect themselves from infection, the troops receiving
vaccinations and "training on medical readiness requirements". But in
fact, the US soldiers being sent to Africa "to fight Ebola" were an
elite division of combat troops who have no medical or other training that
would be of use to anyone, and Dr. Boyle (as well as many Africans) is
convinced they have been sent to establish permanent US military bases on the
continent. Africans are naturally asking, "What does Africa need today,
troops or doctors?", with many considering the US effort a
"sham" that is simply a prelude to military colonisation of Africa
under the pretense of medical security.
It has not escaped their
notice that, while military personnel are being "shared" generously,
the serum cures and vaccinations are being withheld from Africa and utilised
for whites only. And of course, the US has a long and irrefutable history of
intentionally infecting countless thousands of people in the US itself and in
many other nations, including the famous Guatemala and Tuskegee syphilis
experiments that continued for 40 years, the mass sterilisations of US citizens
including indigenous natives and much of the population of Puerto Rico. West
Africans are terrified of international aid programs for fear of another
genocide campaign, and no one can blame them for their suspicions. The distrust
of foreigners, and of Americans especially, has become so intense in some
African locations that foreign clinics and hospitals have been attacked and
burned, and some foreign aid workers and medical staff assaulted. It isn't
difficult to understand why. Dr. Broderick went so far as to claim there is
sufficient evidence and clearly "the need to pursue criminal and civil
redress for damages", against the US government, Tulane University, the
WHO, and at least one pharma company.
The disease was surprisingly
hyped in the media. Though Ebola can certainly be lethal, the death rate (kill
rate) was nowhere near the publicised ratios and, while 1,000 or more people
did die from it in the first year, in the same year there were more than 200
million cases of malaria worldwide, with nearly 500,000 deaths, 90% of these in
Africa, and mostly children. Yet this rated no attention whatever in the
Western media. If 500,000 deaths aren't sufficient for even a mention, much
less a declaration of apocalypse, why would 1,000 deaths qualify? Is it
possible that part of this reason is that malaria is treated with simple
low-cost medications like quinine, with no opportunity to sell billions of
doses of yet another hugely profitable vaccine? The same has been true with
many other "epidemic" infections including ZIKA, where very few died,
a relative handful suffered birth defects of questionable origin, but where the
human toll was insignificant compared to malaria, and yet the world media were
flooding the ether with hype and dire prognostications.
If the real concern of the
WHO or MSF were saving human lives, where is the malaria effort? If Obama
really wanted to save the world when he vowed that "We will not stop, we
will not relent until we halt this epidemic once and for all", why
wouldn't he send thousands of troops to Africa to save 500,000 lives from
malaria instead of 1,000 from Ebola? It hardly qualifies as a conspiracy theory
when observers suggest the US military's commitment is more about population
control and military dominance to ensure access to natural resources than about
saving lives. In this context, the US military "commitment" to
eradicating Ebola qualifies more as a deprecating insult and bad joke than a
humanitarian gesture. Ignore the claims and the media hype, and examine the
results. Ignoring malaria makes a significant contribution to population
reduction, no doubt warming the cockles of hearts of our well-known
Malthusians, while providing a convenient platform for the US militarisation of
Africa. Whether or not these are the intentions, they are the result and, in
foreign affairs, it is usually an error of simplistic naïveté to assume that
obtained results were not those intended.
*
Larry Romanoff is a retired management
consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in
international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export
business. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University,
presenting case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr.
Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books
generally related to China and the West. His writing has been translated
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Notes:
(1) https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10559743167269800
(2) http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/National_News_2/article_101807.shtml
(5) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4389695/
(7) https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2017/08/05/usa-epidemic-spreading-africa/
(9) https://rense.com/general96/ebobreakout.html
(10) https://eclinik.net/ebola-made-in-the-usa-by-big-pharma-dept-of-defense/
(11) https://www.21cir.com/specialists/yoichi-shimatsu/page/3/
(12) https://geopolitics.co/2013/08/26/doctors-without-borders-aiding-terrorists/
(13) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-roche-hldg-novartis-search-idUSBREA390EJ20140410
(14) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/10/tamiflu-britain-drug-shortens-not-cure-bouts
(15) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/10/uk-wasted-560m-stockpiling-flu-drugs
(16) https://www.foxnews.com/health/millions-of-dollars-wasted-on-flu-drug-tamiflu-review-finds
(17) https://www.channel4.com/news/tamiflu-roche-bird-swine-flu-pandemic-gsk-stockpile
(18) https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/apr/10/tamiflu-saga-drug-trials-big-pharma
(19) https://tvaraj.com/2014/10/08/cyril-broderick-ebola-virus/
(23) http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2014/10/us-bio-warfare-laboratories-in-west.html
(24) https://www.nigeriandateline.com/article.php/ebola-developed-in-us-bio-warfare-labs/189/1
(26) https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/health/there-before-ebola-had-a-name.html
(27) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/world/africa/ebola-congo-outbreak.html
(28) https://www.businessinsider.com/ebola-virus-timeline-possible-cure-2019-8
(29) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2827505/Belfast-patient-tested-Ebola.html
(30) https://outbreak.tulane.edu/diseases/ebola/
(31) https://news.tulane.edu/news/genetic-study-finds-perfect-storm-behind-deadliest-ebola-outbreak
(33) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-company-metabiota-problems-during-ebola-outbreak/
(34) https://www.thesierraleonetelegraph.com/president-ernest-bai-koromas-new-legal-headache/
(35) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-company-metabiota-problems-during-ebola-outbreak/
(36) https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-ebola-virus-pandemic-a-weapon-of-mass-destruction/5394976
(37) https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
(38) https://www.transcend.org/tms/2016/11/project-for-the-new-american-century/
(39) http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?t=33346
Larry Romanoff is one of the
contributing authors to Cynthia McKinney’s new COVID-19 anthology ”When China Sneezes”.
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