healthimpactnews--2020-09-08--New Book Exposes the CIA MKULTRA Mind-Control Program with Sidney Gottlieb and LSD

MKULTRA and the CIA ’ s War on the Human Mind [ Review of Stephen Kinzer , Poisoner in Chief : Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control ( New York : Henry Holt and Company , 2019 ) ] The Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) has a fearsome reputation .
The author and executor of countless coups and political assassinations , the CIA is notorious for waterboarding , “ extraordinary rendition , ” regime change , kidnapping , narcotics smuggling , financing of guerrilla wars , and many other unsavory activities around the world , including @ @ @ @ @ @ @ States .
But “ fearsome ” does not mean “ flawless.
” The CIA has failed at least as often as it has succeeded , and sometimes the failures are so flagrant—such as sending thousands of anticommunist guerrilla fighters behind enemy lines in Korea , Eastern Europe , China , and Southeast Asia during the Cold War , where nearly all of them died—that CIA insiders wryly refer to their organization as “ Clowns In Action.
” Which is it ?
Is the CIA a dastardly menace or a hotbed of horrible mistakes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ book , Poisoner in Chief , is any indication , the answer is both .
A veteran reporter on foreign conflicts such as those in Rwanda , Guatemala , Nicaragua , and Iran , Kinzer is a former New York Times correspondent and , most famously , the author of the 2006 bestseller Overthrow : America ’ s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq .
In his latest effort he brings his analytical skills to bear on perhaps the most disturbing CIA project of them all : MKULTRA , the top-secret @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for controlling the human mind .
At the end of 1942 , a University of Wisconsin bacteriologist named Ira Baldwin— “ America ’ s first bio-warrior ” and a part-time Quaker preacher—was loaned to Washington ( with the blessing of the University of Wisconsin president ) in order to set up and run a bioweapons program for the United States military ( p. 16 ) .
Based out of Camp Detrick in Maryland , the Baldwin lab cranked out bioweapons for possible use against Allied enemies .
In one of Baldwin ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anthrax spores , ordered by Winston Churchill for potential use against the Nazis , was approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and almost ready for delivery when the Germans surrendered on May 7 , 1945 ( p. 19 ) .
For many , even for Quaker preachers , World War II cleared away the last of the psychological hurdles against unleashing bioweapons against an enemy .
Kinzer ’ s book tells the tale of how the targeting of unsuspecting populations was later justified by the bigger war , the Cold War , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The ruined Third Reich provided much of the original brainpower for MKULTRA .
Immediately after World War II , the CIA—formed out of the Office of War Information in 1945—was faced with a choice .
The Germans and the Japanese had been conducting advanced experiments on germ warfare and other forms of biological weaponry .
Should the Allies prosecute as war criminals the scientists involved with such projects , or hire them as expert advisors ?
With the Cold War starting and the Soviets looming as an unpredictable enemy , the CIA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ few members of the United States Congress who were allowed to know even the existence of the Central Intelligence Agency , decided to make use of the bioweapon expertise of erstwhile foes in order to counter the new adversary in Moscow .
For example , Kurt Blome , the Nazis ’ director of biowarfare research and development whose work had been championed by Heinrich Himmler , was acquitted , by American political fiat , at the Doctors ’ Trial in Nuremberg in 1947 and sent to work—as part of Operation Paperclip designed mainly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US—at Camp Detrick ( pp .
20–24 ) .
It was at Camp Detrick that Blome encountered a rising star in the CIA , Sidney Gottlieb .
Gottlieb , a bacteriological specialist who had been a star student of Ira Baldwin ’ s at Wisconsin , is the main figure in Kinzer ’ s book .
His career is virtually synonymous with MKULTRA .
Under the direction of Gottlieb , the CIA ’ s laboratories at Camp Detrick transitioned from R & D on bioweapons—often using unwitting American subjects , such as in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ specially equipped with large aerosol hoses ” spent six days spraying the Serratia marcescens bacterium into the San Francisco fog , infecting some eight hundred thousand people ( pp .
37–38 ) —to drugs which could be used for mind control .
( MKNAOMI , MKULTRA ’ s sister CIA project , was also tasked with finding poisons and biotoxins which the CIA and the US government could use in various operations . )
Gottlieb provided the big ideas into which to fit Blome ’ s nefarious knowledge of mass murder by bacillus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the help of former Nazi doctors , America ’ s “ poisoner in chief.
” The CIA ’ s mind control program , which was assuming a bigger and bigger importance as fears of Soviet brainwashing grew in the US , was originally called Operation Bluebird and was personally overseen by CIA higher-up Allen Dulles .
( 47 ) At first , the Bluebird team experimented with “ hypnosis , electroshock , and sensory deprivation , ” along with drugs like sodium amytal , at CIA sites in “ secret prisons in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a way to extract information out of POWs and captured spies ( pp .
44 , 48–49 ) .
But Dulles was unsatisfied with the results and decided to give the young CIA recruit Sidney Gottlieb control of Bluebird ’ s updated iteration : Operation Artichoke ( pp .
51–52 ) .
The goal of Artichoke was to do whatever it took to get prisoners to divulge military and state secrets to the CIA .
The Cold War would brook nothing short of full-scale war against the human mind .
Dulles became deputy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ launching Artichoke in 1951 , and Gottlieb , invisible to the outside world , was given virtually unlimited rein to carry out any experiments thought necessary to achieve mind control ( p. 51 ) .
This drive to achieve total operational control over the human psyche eclipsed all reality and tactical limitation .
If the US didn ’ t win the race to the mind control method , many in the CIA thought , the entire American population lay vulnerable to mental enslavement by the Soviets .
Dulles , Kinzer writes , despite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attack on a Bulgarian political prisoner named Dmitri Dimitrov , Mind control was the pressing need , but nothing brought it within reach .
Technique after technique , drug after drug , was tried on prisoners , but to no avail .
In frustration , Artichoke agents under Gottlieb upped the ante , turning to marijuana , cocaine , and then heroin as possible catalysts of CIA-directed , anti-Soviet brainwashing .
As part of Artichoke , a University of Rochester psychology professor was given a grant by the US Navy to test heroin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the mind remained as elusive as ever , despite the massive dosing of the Rochester student population with opiates .
Nothing seemed to have the potential to crack open the mind for the CIA ( p. 59 ) .
Someone in Artichoke suggested using mescaline after the other narcotics failed , and this gave Sidney Gottlieb an idea .
He remembered hearing about a drug called LSD which Dr. Albert Hofmann had discovered during an experiment at Sandoz laboratories in Basel , Switzerland , in 1943 .
Lysergic acid diethylamide ( LSD ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and disturbing psychological effects , Dr. Hofmann found when he ingested some and recorded the drug ’ s effects .
Washington learned of Hofmann ’ s discovery in 1949 , and one of the chemical specialists in the US military complex told Gottlieb of the new substance ( pp .
34–35 ) In 1951 , Gottlieb asked Harold Abramson , who had been a physician in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War II , to administer LSD to him .
Gottlieb experienced the same psychedelic state as Dr. Hofmann had described .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , not all of them wittingly , and all seemed to exhibit similar reactions .
LSD most definitely altered the mind ( pp .
60–61 ) .
Gottlieb was convinced that he had found the magical drug which would allow the CIA to control the psyche , and therefore to beat the Soviets at ( what Allen Dulles , Gottlieb , and many others at CIA thought , at least , was ) the Soviets ’ own game .
The experiments on human subjects followed rapidly after Gottlieb ’ s conversion to belief @ @ @ @ @ @ @ experiments often ended in death , often by murder .
One study quoted by Kinzer reports that The CIA carried out similar experimentation and executions in Korea and Germany ( p. 64 ) .
Gottlieb was usually personally involved .
Throughout the 1950s the experimentation continued .
An American artist named Stanley Glickman was lured to a bar near his studio in Paris by CIA agents in 1951 and a chemical was slipped into his drink .
Glickman began to hallucinate wildly .
He fled in a state of panic and remained in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ months in paranoid hiding until his family came to take him home , and then he spent the rest of his life as a near invalid .
The chemical which the CIA had slipped into Glickman ’ s drink was almost certainly LSD , and Glickman , Kinzer suggests , had been chosen by the CIA because he had just recovered from hepatitis and the Artichoke team was conducting an experiment on the effects of hepatic infection on the efficacy of LSD ( pp .
66–67 ) Things got worse from there .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ denizen and former vice cop George Hunter White to run a human-subjects experiment site at 81 Bedford Street in Greenwich Village , New York ( pp .
74–75 ) .
White ’ s job was to bring to the CIA ’ s apartment “ expendables ” on whom Gottlieb and his team could test LSD .
White “ knew the whores , the pimps , the people who brought in the drugs , ” as one of Gottlieb ’ s MKULTRA colleagues later explained , and this made him invaluable for procuring the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and others who could be relied upon not to complain about what had happened to them ” when the CIA ’ s experiments were finished ( pp .
76–77 ) .
Many of these “ expendables ” suffered nervous breakdowns , and some died .
In order to keep the supply of LSD flowing , CIA agents went to Basel , where LSD had been discovered , and tried to buy all the LSD in stock .
Allen Dulles authorized a $ 240,000 outlay to pay for it ( p. 86 ) .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ s 1943 discovery , but Sandoz wanted nothing to do with the troublesome substance and so Gottlieb , freed of any need to scruple over IP infringement , tasked US pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly with making LSD in the States ( pp .
85–86 ) With their mind control serum in production , MKULTRA agents could focus on how to dose experimental subjects .
The CIA even hired a professional magician , John Mulholland , to teach Gottlieb and his agents how to deliver LSD into unsuspecting subjects ’ drinks and food without @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gottlieb recruited a Kentucky addiction specialist , Dr. Harry Isbell , to test LSD and new mind-altering drugs on prisoners and patients .
More lives were destroyed ( pp .
94–96 ) .
Among the victims of another of Gottlieb ’ s agent-doctors was none other than James “ Whitey ” Bulger , the mafioso who , along with “ nineteen other inmates ” at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary , beginning in 1957 “ was given LSD nearly every day for fifteen months , without being told what it was ” ( pp @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the rest of his life with nightmares , suicidal thoughts , and “ deep depression ” ( p. 98 ) .
Bulger , who had been told that he was taking part in experiments designed to find a cure for schizophrenia , did not learn the truth about what had happened until 1979 ( pp .
263–64 ) .
The human toll of Gottlieb ’ s MKULTRA experiments continued to mount .
One of Gottlieb ’ s closest associates in the project , Frank Olson—a bacteriologist trained at the University of Wisconsin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CIA by Gottlieb ’ s mentor Ira Baldwin—began to express doubts about what the MKULTRA team was doing .
He told his wife that he had made a “ terrible mistake ” in his work ( p. 114 ) .
He shared his misgivings with his CIA colleagues as well .
Olson ’ s conscience appeared to be getting the better of him , and he became a liability to the team .
In late 1953 , Gottlieb surreptitiously dosed Olson with LSD at a backwoods MKULTRA gathering , “ Deep Creek Rendezvous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 113 ) .
Olson spiraled into a frightening disorientation , and early in the morning on November 28 , 1953—a few days after Thanksgiving—Olson “ fell or jumped ” from a window of the Statler Hotel in Manhattan , dying few moments after hitting the concrete below .
Another MKULTRA agent , Gottlieb ’ s lieutenant Robert Lashbrook , was the only other person in the room when Olson “ fell or jumped ” ( pp .
120–21 ) .
Lashbrook told the New York City police that Olson had jumped out of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was originally designated a suicide , but the Olson family eventually grew suspicious and an investigation was carried out , including a new autopsy on Olson ’ s body .
The forensic pathologist , after a month ’ s examination of the corpse , declared : Wounds on Olson ’ s body were consistent with methods taught in CIA manuals for incapacitating people and then killing them in order to make their deaths look self-inflicted .
Gottlieb and MKULTRA were shaken by Olson ’ s demise , but they carried on with their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years looking for magic mushrooms in Mexico ( 157 ) ; arranging suicide capsules for American agents , including U-2 pilot Gary Powers ( who chose not to use his when he was shot down over the Soviet Union ) ( pp .
172–75 ) ; attempting , at the order of then attorney general Robert Kennedy , to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro ( after exploding cigars and exploding conch shells were ruled out , Gottlieb tried with a wetsuit laced with fungi and bacteria ) ( p. 184 ) ; and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ LSD ( pp .
188–90 ) .
Gottlieb personally delivered to the American embassy in Leopoldville in the Congo poisons that Gottlieb had developed to assassinate Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba , but the Belgians and the Africans beat the CIA to it ( pp .
176–80 ) .
Gottlieb ’ s career brought ruin and suffering to untold numbers of people , many of them innocent .
He retired from the CIA in 1973 after receiving the Distinguished Intelligence Medal ( p. 211 ) .
Lifelong devotees of folk dance , Gottlieb and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the countryside in rural Virginia and attempted to blend in with the small community there , volunteering , dancing , and experimenting with radical ecology .
However , “ investigative reporter Seymour Hersh , who had won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing the My Lai massacre in Vietnam , ” learned of the MH-CHAOS program targeting Americans , and the Congress was forced to act .
Gottlieb ’ s career , long a well-kept secret , was being brought into the open , and his retirement would therefore be far from peaceful .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to cover up what Gottlieb and the other MKULTRA agents had done .
In 1975 , after the outcry caused by the Hersh reporting , President Gerald Ford deputized Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to chair a commission on the CIA .
The new CIA director , William Colby , was remarkably frank .
Colby informed the Rockefeller Commission that “ the CIA had conducted LSD experiments that resulted in deaths .
Later he referred to assassination plots ” ( p. 216 ) .
Nelson Rockefeller , attempting to prevent the CIA director from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ Bill , do you really have to present all this material to us ?
” ( p. 216 ) .
In 1977 , in the wake of the Church Report on further American intelligence excesses , Senator Edward Kennedy , Robert ’ s brother , spurred on by some documents which had been discovered as the result of a FOIA request ( Gottlieb had ordered all MKULTRA files burned , but some undetected copies remained ) , called Admiral Stansfield Turner to testify before Congress on MKULTRA .
The walls were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forced to testify—albeit in a closed-room setting his lawyer had helped arrange—but Gottlieb essentially pleaded amnesia ( nearly all of his answers to questions about MKULTRA were some version of “ I do not recall ” ) and the matter seemed to end there .
Still , the skeletons in Gottlieb ’ s closet would not go away .
In 1984 Gottlieb agreed to meet with the family of Frank Olson , the former MKULTRA colleague who had “ fallen or jumped ” from his Manhattan hotel room in 1953 .
Eric Olson @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was unconvinced by Gottlieb ’ s explanation for the “ accident , ” and , after Frank Olson ’ s widow and Eric ’ s mother passed away , ordered Frank ’ s body exhumed in 1994 .
As information about MKULTRA built in the public ’ s awareness , other cases were reopened , including that of Stanley Glickman .
( 257 ) The courts were now involved and Gottlieb could not count on the CIA to get him out of his legal trouble .
Gottlieb pushed back the trial for Glickman @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could , and then , in early March , 1999 , Sidney Gottlieb died .
Like Frank Olson , it was not officially revealed whether or not the death had been a suicide ( p. 259 ) .
Stephen Kinzer ’ s Poisoner in Chief is a highly readable , thoroughly researched introduction to the life and work of one of America ’ s most unknown , and yet infamous , government agents .
Kinzer is to be thanked for his plainspoken , courageous book .
Even those who have studied the CIA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ the Agency ” has committed over the past seventy-five years will be surprised by some of the information Kinzer relates .
To see in one volume a rendering of just some of the lives ruined by just one CIA program , MKULTRA , is a sobering revelation .
Sidney Gottlieb , the person directly responsible for much , if not most , of the MKULTRA devastation over more than twenty years , remains as mysterious at the end of Kinzer ’ s volume as at the beginning , however .
By all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a stable family .
Kinzer speculates that perhaps Gottlieb ’ s having been rejected for military service in World War II—Gottlieb stuttered and had a clubfoot—left him unsatisfied and impatient to prove his patriotism , an urgent task for the son of immigrant Jews ( p. 50 ) .
Gottlieb was heavily involved in New Age mysticism and meditation and appears to have expended considerable energy psychologically compartmentalizing his “ work , ” so there are indications that he was aware that the experiments he and his MKULTRA team were carrying out were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ objectively speaking often outright crimes .
But Gottlieb was hardly alone in his endeavors , and the explanation that Gottlieb , Allen Dulles , and many others in the CIA gave—to themselves and to each other , and to the world around when pressed—makes the most sense .
They had a country to defend , they faced an enemy of unprecedented cruelty in the Soviet Union , and they were willing to do whatever it took , even sacrificing innocent people , to keep Americans as a whole from falling under the spell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ receiving our newsletters ?
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MKULTRA and the CIA’s War on the Human Mind
by Jason Morgan
Mises Institute
[Review of Stephen Kinzer, Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2019)]
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a fearsome reputation. The author and executor of countless coups and political assassinations, the CIA is notorious for waterboarding, “extraordinary rendition,” regime change, kidnapping, narcotics smuggling, financing of guerrilla wars, and many other unsavory activities around the world, including against Americans, even inside the United States.
But “fearsome” does not mean “flawless.” The CIA has failed at least as often as it has succeeded, and sometimes the failures are so flagrant—such as sending thousands of anticommunist guerrilla fighters behind enemy lines in Korea, Eastern Europe, China, and Southeast Asia during the Cold War, where nearly all of them died—that CIA insiders wryly refer to their organization as “Clowns In Action.”
Which is it? Is the CIA a dastardly menace or a hotbed of horrible mistakes? If Stephen Kinzer’s new book, Poisoner in Chief, is any indication, the answer is both.
A veteran reporter on foreign conflicts such as those in Rwanda, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Iran, Kinzer is a former New York Times correspondent and, most famously, the author of the 2006 bestseller Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.
In his latest effort he brings his analytical skills to bear on perhaps the most disturbing CIA project of them all: MKULTRA, the top-secret, long-running effort to find a method for controlling the human mind.
“History’s most systematic search for techniques of mind control,” Kinzer writes, was a by-product of World War II.
At the end of 1942, a University of Wisconsin bacteriologist named Ira Baldwin—“America’s first bio-warrior” and a part-time Quaker preacher—was loaned to Washington (with the blessing of the University of Wisconsin president) in order to set up and run a bioweapons program for the United States military (p. 16).
Based out of Camp Detrick in Maryland, the Baldwin lab cranked out bioweapons for possible use against Allied enemies. In one of Baldwin’s bigger projects, shipment of tons of anthrax spores, ordered by Winston Churchill for potential use against the Nazis, was approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and almost ready for delivery when the Germans surrendered on May 7, 1945 (p. 19).
For many, even for Quaker preachers, World War II cleared away the last of the psychological hurdles against unleashing bioweapons against an enemy. Kinzer’s book tells the tale of how the targeting of unsuspecting populations was later justified by the bigger war, the Cold War, which followed the demise of the Third Reich.
The ruined Third Reich provided much of the original brainpower for MKULTRA. Immediately after World War II, the CIA—formed out of the Office of War Information in 1945—was faced with a choice.
The Germans and the Japanese had been conducting advanced experiments on germ warfare and other forms of biological weaponry.
Should the Allies prosecute as war criminals the scientists involved with such projects, or hire them as expert advisors?
With the Cold War starting and the Soviets looming as an unpredictable enemy, the CIA, with the tacit approval of the few members of the United States Congress who were allowed to know even the existence of the Central Intelligence Agency, decided to make use of the bioweapon expertise of erstwhile foes in order to counter the new adversary in Moscow.
For example, Kurt Blome, the Nazis’ director of biowarfare research and development whose work had been championed by Heinrich Himmler, was acquitted, by American political fiat, at the Doctors’ Trial in Nuremberg in 1947 and sent to work—as part of Operation Paperclip designed mainly to bring German rocket scientists to the US—at Camp Detrick (pp. 20–24).
It was at Camp Detrick that Blome encountered a rising star in the CIA, Sidney Gottlieb.
Gottlieb, a bacteriological specialist who had been a star student of Ira Baldwin’s at Wisconsin, is the main figure in Kinzer’s book. His career is virtually synonymous with MKULTRA.
Under the direction of Gottlieb, the CIA’s laboratories at Camp Detrick transitioned from R&D on bioweapons—often using unwitting American subjects, such as in 1950 when a US Navy minesweeper “specially equipped with large aerosol hoses” spent six days spraying the Serratia marcescens bacterium into the San Francisco fog, infecting some eight hundred thousand people (pp. 37–38)—to drugs which could be used for mind control. (MKNAOMI, MKULTRA’s sister CIA project, was also tasked with finding poisons and biotoxins which the CIA and the US government could use in various operations.)
Gottlieb provided the big ideas into which to fit Blome’s nefarious knowledge of mass murder by bacillus. Gottlieb became, virtually overnight and with the help of former Nazi doctors, America’s “poisoner in chief.”
The CIA’s mind control program, which was assuming a bigger and bigger importance as fears of Soviet brainwashing grew in the US, was originally called Operation Bluebird and was personally overseen by CIA higher-up Allen Dulles. (47)
At first, the Bluebird team experimented with “hypnosis, electroshock, and sensory deprivation,” along with drugs like sodium amytal, at CIA sites in “secret prisons in Germany and Japan,” looking for a way to extract information out of POWs and captured spies (pp. 44, 48–49).
But Dulles was unsatisfied with the results and decided to give the young CIA recruit Sidney Gottlieb control of Bluebird’s updated iteration: Operation Artichoke (pp. 51–52). The goal of Artichoke was to do whatever it took to get prisoners to divulge military and state secrets to the CIA. The Cold War would brook nothing short of full-scale war against the human mind.
Dulles became deputy director of central intelligence three days after launching Artichoke in 1951, and Gottlieb, invisible to the outside world, was given virtually unlimited rein to carry out any experiments thought necessary to achieve mind control (p. 51).
This drive to achieve total operational control over the human psyche eclipsed all reality and tactical limitation.
If the US didn’t win the race to the mind control method, many in the CIA thought, the entire American population lay vulnerable to mental enslavement by the Soviets. Dulles, Kinzer writes, despite a disastrously unsuccessful three-year “Artichoke” attack on a Bulgarian political prisoner named Dmitri Dimitrov,
“had convinced himself not only that mind control techniques exist but that Communists had discovered them, and that this posed a mortal threat to the rest of the world” (pp. 52–53).
Mind control was the pressing need, but nothing brought it within reach. Technique after technique, drug after drug, was tried on prisoners, but to no avail.
In frustration, Artichoke agents under Gottlieb upped the ante, turning to marijuana, cocaine, and then heroin as possible catalysts of CIA-directed, anti-Soviet brainwashing.
As part of Artichoke, a University of Rochester psychology professor was given a grant by the US Navy to test heroin on his students. The control of the mind remained as elusive as ever, despite the massive dosing of the Rochester student population with opiates. Nothing seemed to have the potential to crack open the mind for the CIA (p. 59).
Someone in Artichoke suggested using mescaline after the other narcotics failed, and this gave Sidney Gottlieb an idea.
He remembered hearing about a drug called LSD which Dr. Albert Hofmann had discovered during an experiment at Sandoz laboratories in Basel, Switzerland, in 1943.
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), an ergot enzyme, produced extraordinary and disturbing psychological effects, Dr. Hofmann found when he ingested some and recorded the drug’s effects.
Washington learned of Hofmann’s discovery in 1949, and one of the chemical specialists in the US military complex told Gottlieb of the new substance (pp. 34–35)
In 1951, Gottlieb asked Harold Abramson, who had been a physician in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War II, to administer LSD to him.
Gottlieb experienced the same psychedelic state as Dr. Hofmann had described. Other subjects were tested, as well, not all of them wittingly, and all seemed to exhibit similar reactions.
LSD most definitely altered the mind (pp. 60–61). Gottlieb was convinced that he had found the magical drug which would allow the CIA to control the psyche, and therefore to beat the Soviets at (what Allen Dulles, Gottlieb, and many others at CIA thought, at least, was) the Soviets’ own game.
The experiments on human subjects followed rapidly after Gottlieb’s conversion to belief in the powers of LSD. These experiments often ended in death, often by murder. One study quoted by Kinzer reports that
“in 1951 a team of CIA scientists led by Dr. Gottlieb flew to Tokyo….Four Japanese suspected of working for the Russians were secretly brought to a location where the CIA doctors injected them with a variety of depressants and stimulants….Under relentless questioning, they confessed to working for the Russians. They were taken out into Tokyo Bay, shot and dumped overboard.” (p. 64)
The CIA carried out similar experimentation and executions in Korea and Germany (p. 64). Gottlieb was usually personally involved.
Throughout the 1950s the experimentation continued.
An American artist named Stanley Glickman was lured to a bar near his studio in Paris by CIA agents in 1951 and a chemical was slipped into his drink.
Glickman began to hallucinate wildly. He fled in a state of panic and remained in his Paris apartment for the next ten months in paranoid hiding until his family came to take him home, and then he spent the rest of his life as a near invalid.
The chemical which the CIA had slipped into Glickman’s drink was almost certainly LSD, and Glickman, Kinzer suggests, had been chosen by the CIA because he had just recovered from hepatitis and the Artichoke team was conducting an experiment on the effects of hepatic infection on the efficacy of LSD (pp. 66–67)
Things got worse from there.
In 1952, the CIA commissioned underworld denizen and former vice cop George Hunter White to run a human-subjects experiment site at 81 Bedford Street in Greenwich Village, New York (pp. 74–75).
White’s job was to bring to the CIA’s apartment “expendables” on whom Gottlieb and his team could test LSD.
White “knew the whores, the pimps, the people who brought in the drugs,” as one of Gottlieb’s MKULTRA colleagues later explained, and this made him invaluable for procuring the “drug users, petty criminals, and others who could be relied upon not to complain about what had happened to them” when the CIA’s experiments were finished (pp. 76–77).
Many of these “expendables” suffered nervous breakdowns, and some died.
In order to keep the supply of LSD flowing, CIA agents went to Basel, where LSD had been discovered, and tried to buy all the LSD in stock.
Allen Dulles authorized a $240,000 outlay to pay for it (p. 86). Sandoz held the patent for Hofmann’s 1943 discovery, but Sandoz wanted nothing to do with the troublesome substance and so Gottlieb, freed of any need to scruple over IP infringement, tasked US pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly with making LSD in the States (pp. 85–86)
With their mind control serum in production, MKULTRA agents could focus on how to dose experimental subjects. The CIA even hired a professional magician, John Mulholland, to teach Gottlieb and his agents how to deliver LSD into unsuspecting subjects’ drinks and food without being detected (pp. 89–94)
Gottlieb recruited a Kentucky addiction specialist, Dr. Harry Isbell, to test LSD and new mind-altering drugs on prisoners and patients. More lives were destroyed (pp. 94–96).
Among the victims of another of Gottlieb’s agent-doctors was none other than James “Whitey” Bulger, the mafioso who, along with “nineteen other inmates” at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, beginning in 1957 “was given LSD nearly every day for fifteen months, without being told what it was” (pp. 98–99).
Bulger was plagued for the rest of his life with nightmares, suicidal thoughts, and “deep depression” (p. 98). Bulger, who had been told that he was taking part in experiments designed to find a cure for schizophrenia, did not learn the truth about what had happened until 1979 (pp. 263–64).
The human toll of Gottlieb’s MKULTRA experiments continued to mount.
One of Gottlieb’s closest associates in the project, Frank Olson—a bacteriologist trained at the University of Wisconsin who had also been recruited for the CIA by Gottlieb’s mentor Ira Baldwin—began to express doubts about what the MKULTRA team was doing.
He told his wife that he had made a “terrible mistake” in his work (p. 114). He shared his misgivings with his CIA colleagues as well. Olson’s conscience appeared to be getting the better of him, and he became a liability to the team.
In late 1953, Gottlieb surreptitiously dosed Olson with LSD at a backwoods MKULTRA gathering, “Deep Creek Rendezvous,” outside Camp Detrick (p. 113).
Olson spiraled into a frightening disorientation, and early in the morning on November 28, 1953—a few days after Thanksgiving—Olson “fell or jumped” from a window of the Statler Hotel in Manhattan, dying few moments after hitting the concrete below.
Another MKULTRA agent, Gottlieb’s lieutenant Robert Lashbrook, was the only other person in the room when Olson “fell or jumped” (pp. 120–21).
Lashbrook told the New York City police that Olson had jumped out of the window and Olson’s death was originally designated a suicide, but the Olson family eventually grew suspicious and an investigation was carried out, including a new autopsy on Olson’s body.
The forensic pathologist, after a month’s examination of the corpse, declared:
“I think Frank Olson was intentionally, deliberately, with malice aforethought, thrown out of that window” (p. 250).
Wounds on Olson’s body were consistent with methods taught in CIA manuals for incapacitating people and then killing them in order to make their deaths look self-inflicted.
Gottlieb and MKULTRA were shaken by Olson’s demise, but they carried on with their work.
They spent the next few years looking for magic mushrooms in Mexico (157); arranging suicide capsules for American agents, including U-2 pilot Gary Powers (who chose not to use his when he was shot down over the Soviet Union) (pp. 172–75); attempting, at the order of then attorney general Robert Kennedy, to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro (after exploding cigars and exploding conch shells were ruled out, Gottlieb tried with a wetsuit laced with fungi and bacteria) (p. 184); and hooking Allen Ginsberg and other radicals on LSD (pp. 188–90).
Gottlieb personally delivered to the American embassy in Leopoldville in the Congo poisons that Gottlieb had developed to assassinate Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, but the Belgians and the Africans beat the CIA to it (pp. 176–80).
Gottlieb’s career brought ruin and suffering to untold numbers of people, many of them innocent. He retired from the CIA in 1973 after receiving the Distinguished Intelligence Medal (p. 211).
Lifelong devotees of folk dance, Gottlieb and his wife, Margaret, moved to the countryside in rural Virginia and attempted to blend in with the small community there, volunteering, dancing, and experimenting with radical ecology.
However, “investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, who had won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing the My Lai massacre in Vietnam,” learned of the MH-CHAOS program targeting Americans, and the Congress was forced to act.
Gottlieb’s career, long a well-kept secret, was being brought into the open, and his retirement would therefore be far from peaceful.
But there were still many who tried to cover up what Gottlieb and the other MKULTRA agents had done.
In 1975, after the outcry caused by the Hersh reporting, President Gerald Ford deputized Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to chair a commission on the CIA.
The new CIA director, William Colby, was remarkably frank. Colby informed the Rockefeller Commission that “the CIA had conducted LSD experiments that resulted in deaths. Later he referred to assassination plots” (p. 216).
Nelson Rockefeller, attempting to prevent the CIA director from revealing too much, buttonholed Colby later: “Bill, do you really have to present all this material to us?” (p. 216).
In 1977, in the wake of the Church Report on further American intelligence excesses, Senator Edward Kennedy, Robert’s brother, spurred on by some documents which had been discovered as the result of a FOIA request (Gottlieb had ordered all MKULTRA files burned, but some undetected copies remained), called Admiral Stansfield Turner to testify before Congress on MKULTRA.
The walls were closing in. Gottlieb himself was eventually forced to testify—albeit in a closed-room setting his lawyer had helped arrange—but Gottlieb essentially pleaded amnesia (nearly all of his answers to questions about MKULTRA were some version of “I do not recall”) and the matter seemed to end there.
Still, the skeletons in Gottlieb’s closet would not go away.
In 1984 Gottlieb agreed to meet with the family of Frank Olson, the former MKULTRA colleague who had “fallen or jumped” from his Manhattan hotel room in 1953.
Eric Olson, Frank Olson’s son, was unconvinced by Gottlieb’s explanation for the “accident,” and, after Frank Olson’s widow and Eric’s mother passed away, ordered Frank’s body exhumed in 1994.
As information about MKULTRA built in the public’s awareness, other cases were reopened, including that of Stanley Glickman. (257)
The courts were now involved and Gottlieb could not count on the CIA to get him out of his legal trouble. Gottlieb pushed back the trial for Glickman’s murder as long as he could, and then, in early March, 1999, Sidney Gottlieb died.
Like Frank Olson, it was not officially revealed whether or not the death had been a suicide (p. 259).
Stephen Kinzer’s Poisoner in Chief is a highly readable, thoroughly researched introduction to the life and work of one of America’s most unknown, and yet infamous, government agents.
Kinzer is to be thanked for his plainspoken, courageous book. Even those who have studied the CIA and the various schemes and crimes which “the Agency” has committed over the past seventy-five years will be surprised by some of the information Kinzer relates.
To see in one volume a rendering of just some of the lives ruined by just one CIA program, MKULTRA, is a sobering revelation.
Sidney Gottlieb, the person directly responsible for much, if not most, of the MKULTRA devastation over more than twenty years, remains as mysterious at the end of Kinzer’s volume as at the beginning, however.
By all accounts Gottlieb was a good student from a stable family. Kinzer speculates that perhaps Gottlieb’s having been rejected for military service in World War II—Gottlieb stuttered and had a clubfoot—left him unsatisfied and impatient to prove his patriotism, an urgent task for the son of immigrant Jews (p. 50).
Gottlieb was heavily involved in New Age mysticism and meditation and appears to have expended considerable energy psychologically compartmentalizing his “work,” so there are indications that he was aware that the experiments he and his MKULTRA team were carrying out were, at best, unethical, and objectively speaking often outright crimes.
But Gottlieb was hardly alone in his endeavors, and the explanation that Gottlieb, Allen Dulles, and many others in the CIA gave—to themselves and to each other, and to the world around when pressed—makes the most sense.
They had a country to defend, they faced an enemy of unprecedented cruelty in the Soviet Union, and they were willing to do whatever it took, even sacrificing innocent people, to keep Americans as a whole from falling under the spell of communist mind control.
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healthimpactnews--2020-09-08--Total Global Dominance: Gates Foundation is Destabilizing Africa’s Food Economy

Gates Foundation is Also Destabilizing Africa ’ s Food Economy .
The Restructuring of Global Food Production The same Gates Foundation which is behind every aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic from financing much of the WHO budget , to investing in favored vaccine-makers like Moderna , is engaged in a major project in Africa which is destroying traditional small farmer production of essential food crops in favor of monoculture crops and introduction of expensive chemical fertilizers and GMO seeds that are bankrupting small farmers .
The project , the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa ( AGRA ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ behind the World Economic Forum ’ s Great Reset .
If we know the actual history of the Rockefeller Foundation and related tax-free undertakings of one of the world ’ s most influential families , it is clear that in key areas the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has inherited the Rockefeller agenda from the medical industrial complex to education to agriculture transformation .
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , working in tandem with the closely allied Rockefeller Foundation , is not only at the center of the orchestration of unheard-of severe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ illness .
The Gates foundation is also at the very center of the UN Agenda 30 push to transform world agriculture into what they call “ sustainable ” agriculture .
A keystone project for the past 14 years has been Gates ’ funding of something called the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa or AGRA .
When the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation founded AGRA in 2006 , joined by their close ally , the Rockefeller Foundation , they proclaimed their goal was to AGRA promised to double the agricultural yields and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ households by 2020.It is now 2020 and it has been a total failure in this regard .
Notably , AGRA deleted these goals in June 2020 from its website without explanation.Based on what they have done we can assume that was never the true goal of Gates and Rockefeller foundations .
In a 2009 speech in Iowa promoting his New Green Revolution for Africa , Bill Gates declared , “ The next Green Revolution must be guided by smallholder farmers , adapted to local circumstances , and sustainable for the economy and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the AGRA “ is an Africa-based and African-led effort to develop a thriving agricultural sector in sub-Saharan Africa.
” Sounds very nice .
Reality is quite different .
To further that “ Africa-led ” impression , Gates hired the former UN Secretary General , Ghana ’ s Kofi Annan .
Annan had just retired amid an Iraq oil-for-food corruption scandal at the UN involving his son .
Annan was to be the front face , the chairman of AGRA .
In reality the Gates Foundation ran things , with their guy , Rajiv @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of policies in African target countries .
When initial attempts to push Monsanto GMO seeds and pesticides on GMO-free African farmers met with great resistance , they shifted instead to sell conventional but Monsanto-owned seeds along with costly chemical fertilizers and pesticides .
Suspiciously , the Gates Foundation and AGRA have been anything but open and transparent about what they have accomplished in 14 years .
For good reason .
The model they have pushed in 13 African countries has significantly worsened the food self-sufficiency of small farmers and instead created debt traps @ @ @ @ @ @ @ take on heavy debt to buy expensive patented seeds , are forbidden to use own seeds or mixed crops , and forced to produce cash crops in a monoculture for export .
AGRA has received more than $ 1 billion dollars from mainly the Gates Foundation , with USAID and the UK and German governments adding smaller sums .
In a new detailed report evaluating results country-by-country , the reality of the Gates Africa agriculture project shows alarming , but not surprising , results .
The report is called False Promises : The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prepared by a group of African and European NGO ’ S in collaboration with Timothy A .
Wise , Senior Advisor at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy of Tufts University .
The report concluded , That is no minor failure .
In an approach that is little different from the 19th Century racist European colonial practices , the Gates Foundation and its AGRA have seriously harmed small-scale food producers by subjecting them to high levels of debt .
In Zambia and Tanzania , small-scale food producers were unable to repay the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the first harvest .
AGRA projects also restrict the freedom of choice for small-scale food producers to decide for themselves what they want to grow .
AGRA forces them to a one-sided cultivation of mainly maize for export markets , what global agribusiness wants .
Not surprising as Bunge and other international grain cartel companies are involved with AGRA .
Traditional climate-resistant and nutrient-rich crops have declined in alarming degrees in many cases .
The study found that for millet , an indigenous and vital cereal and fodder grain favored for 7,000 years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ season under dry , high-temperature conditions , AGRA has produced disaster .
The report notes , Rather than help local small farmers to improve their yield per acre , the AGRA merely repackages the 1960 ’ s Green Revolution in Mexico and India for Africa , home to some of the world ’ s richest farmland soils .
That Green Revolution of the 1960s , initiated by the Rockefeller Foundation , introduced industrial large-scale agriculture mechanization and introduction of chemical fertilizers and seeds from multinationals which went to the benefit of large farmers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ small producers .
That predictably bankrupted countless small producers .
The result was that while select wealthy producers thrived , millions of poorer farmers were forced to flee to the cities where they settled in urban slums .
But that in fact was a major aim of the first Green Revolution as it created a cheap workforce for the globalization drive of manufacture that was to follow .
The Gates and Rockefeller foundation-led AGRA in Africa is little different .
In 14 years , AGRA in Africa has influenced member governments to promote @ @ @ @ @ @ @ every year and expensive chemical fertilizers , by promising grand gains that do not materialize .
In the process traditional small farmers or farming communities are forbidden to use farm-saved or -bred seeds .
This is the same dependency model Monsanto and agribusiness has used with patented GMO seeds in the USA .
The Gates Foundation is a significant shareholder in Monsanto , now part of Bayer AG .
AGRA has done little or nothing to protect small farmers from being bankrupted by subsidized EU or USA imports .
Instead their traditional food @ @ @ @ @ @ @ production for international export , leaving African countries more than ever dependent on more imported foods .
The Gates AGRA is succeeding , but not in its cosmetic stated goals .
Rather it has made African food production more globalized and dependent than ever on the will of global multinationals whose aim is cheap inputs .
Under the ruse of giving farmers a “ wider choice ” of patented high-yield seeds ( most for maize ) , they in fact limit a farmer ’ s choice .
He must buy those seeds and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seeds .
If at harvest time farmers are unable to sell his AGRA-mandated maize to repay his debt for seeds and fertilizer , they often are forced to sell their precious cattle or to incur even more debt-a classic colonial debt slavery model .
The Gates Foundation has promoted AGRA as an “ African initiative ” and put itself as far as possible in the background .
The new chairman of AGFA since August 2019 is Hailemariam Desalegn , Former Prime Minister of Ethiopia .
Desalegn , former chairman of the Chair of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Front ( EPRDF ) , the dictatorial ruling party where WHO head Tedros was also a Politburo member , was forced to resign in 2018 following mass protests .
Less public board members of AGRA include two leading executives of the agribusiness giant , Unilever , and two senior officials of the Gates Foundation , as well as from the Rockefeller-founded CGIAR- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research .
Other board members include a member of the Rockefeller Foundation trustees and a former Africa partner for the French bank , Rothschild & Cie @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Rockefeller Foundation , the founding perpetrator of the AGRA agenda , Dr. Rajiv J. Shah , is on the AGRA board .
Shah left his earlier position with the Gates Foundation and was named USAID director under Obama .
USAID not surprisingly became a partner of AGRA.In 2017 Shah moved from USAID to be tapped as President of the Rockefeller Foundation .
Small world .
The same Rockefeller Foundation is deeply involved in the World Economic Forum Great Reset .
Shah just released a Rockefeller report , Reset the Table : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Food System .
It is a precursor to a major global “ reset ” of the food system being prepared by the circles around Gats and Rockefeller and the UN .
More on that another time .
Since 2014 the President of AGRA has been a controversial Rwandan former Agriculture Minister under the corrupt Kagame dictatorship .
Agnes Kalibata also is a member of the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum , the International Fertilizer Development Corporation ( IFDC ) , based in USA .
In December , 2019 , just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a “ novel coronavirus ” in Wuhan China , UN Secretary General , António Guterres , named Kalibata to head the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit .
In response some 176 organizations from 83 countries , wrote to Guterres to repeal her appointment .
Their letter stated , In her defense 12 voices wrote to Guterres urging him to stand firm .
Eleven of the 12 had links to the Gates Foundation .
During the global grain crisis of the mid-1970 ’ s then-US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger , another Rockefeller protégé @ @ @ @ @ @ @ world food production and creation of agribusiness , first guided by the Rockefeller Foundation and today with the Gates Foundation taking a more visible lead , is perhaps the most threatening factor to world health and mortality , far more than any coronavirus has shown .
Notably the same people promoting fear and lockdowns for that putative virus are busy reorganizing world food production in an unhealthy manner .
It seems to be no coincidence as Bill Gates is a known advocate of eugenics and population reduction .
F. William Engdahl is strategic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics , exclusively for the online magazine “ New Eastern Outlook ” where this article was originally published .
He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization .
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Gates Foundation is Also Destabilizing Africa’s Food Economy. The Restructuring of Global Food Production
by F. William Engdahl
Global Research
The same Gates Foundation which is behind every aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic from financing much of the WHO budget, to investing in favored vaccine-makers like Moderna, is engaged in a major project in Africa which is destroying traditional small farmer production of essential food crops in favor of monoculture crops and introduction of expensive chemical fertilizers and GMO seeds that are bankrupting small farmers. The project, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), is directly connected with key global institutions behind the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset.
If we know the actual history of the Rockefeller Foundation and related tax-free undertakings of one of the world’s most influential families, it is clear that in key areas the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has inherited the Rockefeller agenda from the medical industrial complex to education to agriculture transformation.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, working in tandem with the closely allied Rockefeller Foundation, is not only at the center of the orchestration of unheard-of severe economic lockdown measures for the much-disputed COVID-19 illness.
The Gates foundation is also at the very center of the UN Agenda 30 push to transform world agriculture into what they call “sustainable” agriculture.
A keystone project for the past 14 years has been Gates’ funding of something called the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa or AGRA.
AGRA Fraud on Africa
When the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation founded AGRA in 2006, joined by their close ally, the Rockefeller Foundation, they proclaimed their goal was to
“tackle hunger in Africa by working to achieve a food secure and prosperous Africa through the promotion of rapid, sustainable agricultural growth based on smallholder farmers.”
AGRA promised to double the agricultural yields and incomes of 30 million small-scale food producer households by 2020.It is now 2020 and it has been a total failure in this regard. Notably, AGRA deleted these goals in June 2020 from its website without explanation.Based on what they have done we can assume that was never the true goal of Gates and Rockefeller foundations.
In a 2009 speech in Iowa promoting his New Green Revolution for Africa, Bill Gates declared, “The next Green Revolution must be guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and the environment.”
The Gates Foundation proclaimed that the AGRA “is an Africa-based and African-led effort to develop a thriving agricultural sector in sub-Saharan Africa.” Sounds very nice. Reality is quite different.
To further that “Africa-led” impression, Gates hired the former UN Secretary General, Ghana’s Kofi Annan. Annan had just retired amid an Iraq oil-for-food corruption scandal at the UN involving his son. Annan was to be the front face, the chairman of AGRA.
In reality the Gates Foundation ran things, with their guy,Rajiv “Raj” Shah, directing implementation of policies in African target countries. When initial attempts to push Monsanto GMO seeds and pesticides on GMO-free African farmers met with great resistance, they shifted instead to sell conventional but Monsanto-owned seeds along with costly chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
Suspiciously, the Gates Foundation and AGRA have been anything but open and transparent about what they have accomplished in 14 years.
For good reason. The model they have pushed in 13 African countries has significantly worsened the food self-sufficiency of small farmers and instead created debt traps in which small producers are forced to take on heavy debt to buy expensive patented seeds, are forbidden to use own seeds or mixed crops, and forced to produce cash crops in a monoculture for export.
AGRA has received more than $1 billion dollars from mainly the Gates Foundation, with USAID and the UK and German governments adding smaller sums.
False Promises
In a new detailed report evaluating results country-by-country, the reality of the Gates Africa agriculture project shows alarming, but not surprising, results.
The report is called False Promises: The Green Revolution in Africa. It was prepared by a group of African and European NGO’S in collaboration with Timothy A. Wise, Senior Advisor at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy of Tufts University. The report concluded,
“yield increases for key staple crops in the years before AGRA were just as low as during AGRA. Instead of halving hunger, the situation in the 13 focus countries has worsened since AGRA was launched. The number of people going hungry has increased by 30 percent during the AGRA years… affecting 130 million people in the 13 AGRA focus countries.”
That is no minor failure.
In an approach that is little different from the 19th Century racist European colonial practices, the Gates Foundation and its AGRA have seriously harmed small-scale food producers by subjecting them to high levels of debt.
In Zambia and Tanzania, small-scale food producers were unable to repay the loans for fertilizer and hybrid seeds after the first harvest. AGRA projects also restrict the freedom of choice for small-scale food producers to decide for themselves what they want to grow. AGRA forces them to a one-sided cultivation of mainly maize for export markets, what global agribusiness wants.
Not surprising as Bunge and other international grain cartel companies are involved with AGRA. Traditional climate-resistant and nutrient-rich crops have declined in alarming degrees in many cases.
The study found that for millet, an indigenous and vital cereal and fodder grain favored for 7,000 years due to its productivity and short growing season under dry, high-temperature conditions, AGRA has produced disaster. The report notes,
“millet production fell by 24 percent in the 13 AGRA focus countries from 2006 to 2018. Moreover, AGRA lobbies governments on behalf of agricultural corporations to pass legislation that will benefit fertilizer producers and seed companies instead of strengthening small-scale food production.”
Rather than help local small farmers to improve their yield per acre, the AGRA merely repackages the 1960’s Green Revolution in Mexico and India for Africa, home to some of the world’s richest farmland soils.
That Green Revolution of the 1960s, initiated by the Rockefeller Foundation, introduced industrial large-scale agriculture mechanization and introduction of chemical fertilizers and seeds from multinationals which went to the benefit of large farmers and destroyed much of the economy of small producers. That predictably bankrupted countless small producers.
The result was that while select wealthy producers thrived, millions of poorer farmers were forced to flee to the cities where they settled in urban slums. But that in fact was a major aim of the first Green Revolution as it created a cheap workforce for the globalization drive of manufacture that was to follow.
The Gates and Rockefeller foundation-led AGRA in Africa is little different. In 14 years, AGRA in Africa has influenced member governments to promote buying of multinational companies’commercial seeds every year and expensive chemical fertilizers, by promising grand gains that do not materialize. In the process traditional small farmers or farming communities are forbidden to use farm-saved or -bred seeds.
This is the same dependency model Monsanto and agribusiness has used with patented GMO seeds in the USA. The Gates Foundation is a significant shareholder in Monsanto, now part of Bayer AG. AGRA has done little or nothing to protect small farmers from being bankrupted by subsidized EU or USA imports.
Instead their traditional food crops are being displaced by monoculture maize production for international export, leaving African countries more than ever dependent on more imported foods.
The Gates AGRA is succeeding, but not in its cosmetic stated goals. Rather it has made African food production more globalized and dependent than ever on the will of global multinationals whose aim is cheap inputs. Under the ruse of giving farmers a “wider choice” of patented high-yield seeds (most for maize), they in fact limit a farmer’s choice.
He must buy those seeds and is forbidden to reuse his own indigenous seeds. If at harvest time farmers are unable to sell his AGRA-mandated maize to repay his debt for seeds and fertilizer, they often are forced to sell their precious cattle or to incur even more debt-a classic colonial debt slavery model.
Dubious Leadership
The Gates Foundation has promoted AGRA as an “African initiative” and put itself as far as possible in the background. The new chairman of AGFA since August 2019 is Hailemariam Desalegn, Former Prime Minister of Ethiopia.
Desalegn, former chairman of the Chair of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), the dictatorial ruling party where WHO head Tedros was also a Politburo member, was forced to resign in 2018 following mass protests.
Less public board members of AGRA include two leading executives of the agribusiness giant, Unilever, and two senior officials of the Gates Foundation, as well as from the Rockefeller-founded CGIAR- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Other board members include a member of the Rockefeller Foundation trustees and a former Africa partner for the French bank, Rothschild &Cie .
As well, the new President of the Rockefeller Foundation, the founding perpetrator of the AGRA agenda, Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, is on the AGRA board. Shah left his earlier position with the Gates Foundation and was named USAID director under Obama.
USAID not surprisingly became a partner of AGRA.In 2017 Shah moved from USAID to be tapped as President of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Small world. The same Rockefeller Foundation is deeply involved in the World Economic Forum Great Reset. Shah just released a Rockefeller report, Reset the Table: Meeting the Moment to Transform the US Food System. It is a precursor to a major global “reset” of the food system being prepared by the circles around Gats and Rockefeller and the UN. More on that another time.
Since 2014 the President of AGRA has been a controversial Rwandan former Agriculture Minister under the corrupt Kagame dictatorship.
Agnes Kalibata also is a member of the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum, the International Fertilizer Development Corporation (IFDC), based in USA.
In December, 2019, just before the public alarm over outbreak of a “novel coronavirus” in Wuhan China, UN Secretary General, António Guterres, named Kalibata to head the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit.
In response some 176 organizations from 83 countries, wrote to Guterres to repeal her appointment. Their letter stated,
“Founded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, AGRA’s efforts have centered on capturing and diverting public resources to benefit large corporate interests. Their finance-intensive and high input agricultural model is not sustainable beyond constant subsidy, which is drawn from increasingly scarce public resources. Since 2006, AGRA has worked to open up Africa—seen as an untapped market for corporate monopolies controlling commercial seeds, genetically modified crops, fossil fuel-heavy synthetic fertilizers and polluting pesticides.”
In her defense 12 voices wrote to Guterres urging him to stand firm. Eleven of the 12 had links to the Gates Foundation.
Their voice prevailed.
During the global grain crisis of the mid-1970’s then-US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, another Rockefeller protégé, allegedly declared,
“Who controls the food controls the people.”
The globalization of world food production and creation of agribusiness, first guided by the Rockefeller Foundation and today with the Gates Foundation taking a more visible lead, is perhaps the most threatening factor to world health and mortality, far more than any coronavirus has shown.
Notably the same people promoting fear and lockdowns for that putative virus are busy reorganizing world food production in an unhealthy manner.
It seems to be no coincidence as Bill Gates is a known advocate of eugenics and population reduction.
Read the full article at GlobalReserach.ca.
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook” where this article was originally published. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization.
The original source of this article is Global Research
Copyright © F. William Engdahl, Global Research, 2020
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healthimpactnews--2020-09-09--Lifeguard Arrested, Led Away in Handcuffs by Hazmat Cops for ‘Surfing with Coronavirus’

Remarkable footage has revealed the moment police officers — dressed head-to-toe in hazmat suits — frogmarched a young woman up a beach in handcuffs after she went surfing after being [ tested positive ] with coronavirus .
A professional lifeguard was reported to police by her own colleagues in San Sebastian , in the Bay of Biscay in Spain ’ s Basque country on Monday after she was spotted surfing while placed on medical leave by her employer following a positive coronavirus test .
Remarkable footage and images of the young woman refusing to stop surfing when demanded to by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the beach by police , went viral in Spain , reports national newspaper El Paìs .
The newspaper reports the woman was supposed to be in quarantine when she was on the ocean on her surfboard and was approached by other lifeguards on a boat who ordered her out of the water .
But the woman continued to surf for an hour and attempted to avoid being arrested when she did return to shore .
In one piece of footage , two officers in full protective clothing and masks are seen running along @ @ @ @ @ @ @ woman .
Eventually , she is cuffed and sat cross-legged on the sand before being taken away .
The woman was arrested for “ serious disobedience and crimes against public health ” .
Ironically , the arrest came just days after it was reported Spanish hospitals had started taking coronavirus patients to the beach for their health and wellbeing .
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Remarkable footage has revealed the moment police officers — dressed head-to-toe in hazmat suits — frogmarched a young woman up a beach in handcuffs after she went surfing after being [tested positive] with coronavirus.
A professional lifeguard was reported to police by her own colleagues in San Sebastian, in the Bay of Biscay in Spain’s Basque country on Monday after she was spotted surfing while placed on medical leave by her employer following a positive coronavirus test.
Remarkable footage and images of the young woman refusing to stop surfing when demanded to by officers, and finally being taken up the beach by police, went viral in Spain, reports national newspaper El Paìs.
Se la llevan detenida pic.twitter.com/8NVePb3mjm — JaviZone 🚀 Bolsazone (@JavierSanz) September 7, 2020
The newspaper reports the woman was supposed to be in quarantine when she was on the ocean on her surfboard and was approached by other lifeguards on a boat who ordered her out of the water. But the woman continued to surf for an hour and attempted to avoid being arrested when she did return to shore.
In one piece of footage, two officers in full protective clothing and masks are seen running along the beach to catch up with the woman. Eventually, she is cuffed and sat cross-legged on the sand before being taken away.
The woman was arrested for “serious disobedience and crimes against public health”.
Ironically, the arrest came just days after it was reported Spanish hospitals had started taking coronavirus patients to the beach for their health and wellbeing.
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healthimpactnews--2020-09-09--September DOJ Report Lists 200 Vaccine Injuries and 1 Vaccine Death Compensated During 6 Month Perio

September DOJ Report Lists 200 Vaccine Injuries and 1 Vaccine Death Compensated During 6 Month Period – And that’s Without a Fast-Tracked COVID Vaccine

The federal government Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines ( ACCV ) under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services met on September 4 , 2020 , and the Department of Justice reported that during a 6-month period from February 16th through August 15th this year , 200 vaccine injuries and one death were compensated through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program ( NVICP ) .
You can read the full report here .
The NVICP was started as a result of a law passed in 1986 that gave pharmaceutical companies legal immunity from being sued due to injuries and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anyone suffering from a vaccine injury or death must sue the U.S. Government and go up against their top attorneys .
So far in 2020 the NVICP has paid out $ 200 MILLION in damages due to vaccine injuries and deaths .
( Source . )
These damages were caused primarily by the annual flu vaccine , and other childhood vaccines that have gone through the FDA approval process .
What will these numbers look like after the COVID vaccines are fast-tracked ?
We will probably never even know , because The Public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Act ) , which was invoked because of the COVID “ Pandemic ” earlier this year , will absolve the U.S. Government from even having to try cases and award damages to any injuries or deaths related to a COVID vaccine .
See : PREP Act Invoked Nationwide for the First Time in U.S. History – Will Martial Law Follow ?
The mantra that the U.S. Government , and the Pharma-funded corporate media communicates to the public , that vaccines are “ safe and effective , ” is a total lie .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ listing vaccine injuries and deaths compensated by the U.S. Government , even though they are published publicly on the HRSA website , and as far as I know , Health Impact News is the only one that publishes them .
It was announced yesterday ( 9/8/20 ) that UK-based AstraZeneca , one of the leading companies fast-tracking a COVID vaccine , halted Phase 3 trials due to a negative adverse reaction among the test participants .
Further details have emerged today as to why they halted testing .
According to STAT News : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because among the few vaccine injuries that ever get reported to the NVICP , transverse myelitis is COMMON !
In the quartely DOJ reports , compensations for transverse myelitis as a result of vaccines , is listed as TM , and almost always a result of the Flu Shot .
In the current report from last week , seven of the cases settled were for transverse myelitis .
In the report from March of this year , there were 5 cases of transverse myelitis settled .
You can go through past reports here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has several cases of transverse myelitis .
Will the Public Ever Know How Many People are Injured and Killed by Vaccines ?
Vaccines cause injuries and death – this is a public health fact in spite of the corporate media and Big Tech ’ s attempts to censor these facts .
In the few instances where these facts are even mentioned , they are brushed aside with the belief that they are rare , and that the risk is worth it because more people die from the diseases being vaccinated against .
So @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the “ greater good.
” Leaving aside the claim that vaccines are actually effective in preventing these diseases , which the scientific evidence actually suggests is a “ belief ” and not a fact based on science , the claim that vaccine injuries and deaths are “ rare ” really is not backed up by any verifiable data .
In November of 2014 , the Government Accounting Office ( GAO ) issued the first report on America ’ s “ Vaccine Court , ” known as the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years .
Congress gave the pharmaceutical companies immunity against lawsuits for injuries or deaths resulting in vaccines in 1986 .
Prior to this time , there were so many lawsuits pending against pharmaceutical companies for injuries and deaths due to vaccines , that the pharmaceutical industry basically blackmailed congress and told them that if they did not grant them legal immunity against the liabilities of vaccines , that they would quit making them .
These vaccine products can not survive in a free market , they are so bad .
The November 2014 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ making the public more aware that the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program exists , and that there are funds available for vaccine injuries .
Therefore , the settlements represented by vaccine injuries and deaths included in the DOJ report probably represent a small fraction of the actual vaccine injuries and deaths occurring in America today .
The U.S. government keeps a database of reports documenting vaccine injuries and deaths called The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System ( VAERS ) .
The problem is that very few medical officials ever report vaccine injuries or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trained to recognize them , or due to pressure within their profession to not report them .
To admit that vaccines do cause harm is professional suicide for most doctors and medical professionals .
Hence , the quarterly DOJ report on vaccine cases only represents a tiny fraction of the actual cases that exist .
And now with the PREP Act invoked injuries and deaths due to a new fast-tracked COVID vaccine will not even be allowed to file for compensation with the NVIC .
So if people start dying in mass , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID vaccine , Big Pharma , Big Tech , and the U.S. Government will undoubtedly blame the injuries and deaths on either the second wave of SARS-CoV-2 , or some new plandemic that will lead to far more tyrannical actions than anything we have seen so far .
Welcome to the New World Order , where a massive reduction of the world ’ s population is the goal , and where mass deaths are already expected this fall .
The CDC is Planning for Massive Deaths this Fall Dr. Judy Mikovits and Dr. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Could Kill 50 Million People in the U.S .
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The federal government Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV) under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services met on September 4, 2020, and the Department of Justice reported that during a 6-month period from February 16th through August 15th this year, 200 vaccine injuries and one death were compensated through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP).
You can read the full report here.
The NVICP was started as a result of a law passed in 1986 that gave pharmaceutical companies legal immunity from being sued due to injuries and deaths resulting from vaccines.
Today, anyone suffering from a vaccine injury or death must sue the U.S. Government and go up against their top attorneys.
So far in 2020 the NVICP has paid out $200 MILLION in damages due to vaccine injuries and deaths. (Source.)
These damages were caused primarily by the annual flu vaccine, and other childhood vaccines that have gone through the FDA approval process.
What will these numbers look like after the COVID vaccines are fast-tracked?
We will probably never even know, because The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act), which was invoked because of the COVID “Pandemic” earlier this year, will absolve the U.S. Government from even having to try cases and award damages to any injuries or deaths related to a COVID vaccine. See:
The mantra that the U.S. Government, and the Pharma-funded corporate media communicates to the public, that vaccines are “safe and effective,” is a total lie.
The public is largely unaware of these reports listing vaccine injuries and deaths compensated by the U.S. Government, even though they are published publicly on the HRSA website, and as far as I know, Health Impact News is the only one that publishes them.
See past reports here.
AstraZeneca Halts COVID Vaccine Trial Due to Transverse Myelitis, A Common Vaccine Injury
It was announced yesterday (9/8/20) that UK-based AstraZeneca, one of the leading companies fast-tracking a COVID vaccine, halted Phase 3 trials due to a negative adverse reaction among the test participants.
Further details have emerged today as to why they halted testing. According to STAT News:
The participant who triggered a global shutdown of AstraZeneca’s Phase 3 Covid-19 vaccine trials was a woman in the United Kingdom who experienced neurological symptoms consistent with a rare but serious spinal inflammatory disorder called transverse myelitis, the drug maker’s chief executive, Pascal Soriot, said during a private conference call with investors on Wednesday morning.
This is pure spin and propaganda, because among the few vaccine injuries that ever get reported to the NVICP, transverse myelitis is COMMON!
In the quartely DOJ reports, compensations for transverse myelitis as a result of vaccines, is listed as TM, and almost always a result of the Flu Shot.
In the current report from last week, seven of the cases settled were for transverse myelitis. In the report from March of this year, there were 5 cases of transverse myelitis settled.
You can go through past reports here, and see how each report always has several cases of transverse myelitis.
Will the Public Ever Know How Many People are Injured and Killed by Vaccines?
Vaccines cause injuries and death – this is a public health fact in spite of the corporate media and Big Tech’s attempts to censor these facts.
In the few instances where these facts are even mentioned, they are brushed aside with the belief that they are rare, and that the risk is worth it because more people die from the diseases being vaccinated against.
So the logic is that vaccines are necessary for the “greater good.”
Leaving aside the claim that vaccines are actually effective in preventing these diseases, which the scientific evidence actually suggests is a “belief” and not a fact based on science, the claim that vaccine injuries and deaths are “rare” really is not backed up by any verifiable data.
In November of 2014, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) issued the first report on America’s “Vaccine Court,” known as the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), in almost 15 years.
Congress gave the pharmaceutical companies immunity against lawsuits for injuries or deaths resulting in vaccines in 1986. Prior to this time, there were so many lawsuits pending against pharmaceutical companies for injuries and deaths due to vaccines, that the pharmaceutical industry basically blackmailed congress and told them that if they did not grant them legal immunity against the liabilities of vaccines, that they would quit making them.
These vaccine products cannot survive in a free market, they are so bad.
The November 2014 GAO report criticized the government for not making the public more aware that the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program exists, and that there are funds available for vaccine injuries. Therefore, the settlements represented by vaccine injuries and deaths included in the DOJ report probably represent a small fraction of the actual vaccine injuries and deaths occurring in America today.
The U.S. government keeps a database of reports documenting vaccine injuries and deaths called The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). The problem is that very few medical officials ever report vaccine injuries or deaths, either because they are not trained to recognize them, or due to pressure within their profession to not report them. To admit that vaccines do cause harm is professional suicide for most doctors and medical professionals.
Hence, the quarterly DOJ report on vaccine cases only represents a tiny fraction of the actual cases that exist.
And now with the PREP Act invoked injuries and deaths due to a new fast-tracked COVID vaccine will not even be allowed to file for compensation with the NVIC.
So if people start dying in mass, and if new injuries result from this COVID vaccine, Big Pharma, Big Tech, and the U.S. Government will undoubtedly blame the injuries and deaths on either the second wave of SARS-CoV-2, or some new plandemic that will lead to far more tyrannical actions than anything we have seen so far.
Welcome to the New World Order, where a massive reduction of the world’s population is the goal, and where mass deaths are already expected this fall.
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healthimpactnews--2020-09-11--Covid-19 or Covid-9-11? The Modern U.S. History of Tyranny

“ September 11th was the jumpstart for what is now an accelerated agenda by the ruthless elite : it was a staged war pretext no different from the sinking of the Lusitania , the provoking of Pearl Harbor and the Gulf of Tonkin lie .
In fact if 9/11 wasn ’ t a planned war pretext , it would be the exception to the rule .
It has been used to launch two unprovoked illegal wars – one against Iraq and one against Afghanistan .
However , 9/11 was a pretext for another war as well : the War against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Security , The Military Tribunals Act and other legislations are all completely and entirely designed to destroy your civil liberties and limit your ability to fight back against what is coming .
Currently in the United States unannounced to most brainwashed Americans your home can be searched without a warrant without you being home , you can in turn be arrested with no charges revealed to you , detained indefinitely with no access to a lawyer , and legally tortured all under the suspicion that you might be a terrorist … Let ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( United States & War on Terror & False Flag Ops & Civil Rights & Empire US & Foreign Relations US & 9/11 ) Zeitgeist On the eve of the 9-11 anniversary , it is imperative to look at government caused and staged events from the angle of extreme criticism .
This criticism need not be considered from the standpoint of speculation or ‘ conspiracy theory , ’ although any collusion at high levels for the purpose of attaining a particular outcome is certainly conspiratorial .
As is indicated in the quote above @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to fool the people into supporting a particular agenda sought by the ruling ‘ elites , ’ and in turn are designed to be a war against you as citizens of a corrupt state .
The most recent false flag has been this manufactured hoax called the coronavirus ‘ pandemic , ’ but this can only lead to false flag after false flag .
This domino effect is now fully in play , and the victims of this nefarious plot are the masses called the 99 % .
Yes , there is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but it is nonetheless tyranny at every turn .
In fact , each false flag event leads to and enhances the next false flag event .
This should be evident to any paying attention , but sadly , few in this country have the impetus or intellectual capability to follow the trail of deceit practiced by the ruling class and their political pawns in their game of attaining total control over what has become a modern proletariat .
After 9-11 , privacy was mostly eliminated , arrests of citizens without cause or warrant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to due process and being suveilled at every turn became the ‘ new normal.
’ With those powers now in place , and the populace conditioned to accept this assault against liberty , the current false threat has taken a similar turn with a slightly different approach .
Instead of a false terror threat by monsters from afar , the false threat today is said to be a killer ‘ virus.
’ Instead of the Patriot Act , we now are under emergency orders that have been used by the federal government as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Instead of arrests for being a terror suspect , arrests now take place due to being labeled a threat against society due to flu symptoms , or simply due to a positive test result , even without symptoms .
Instead of being held in jail or physically tortured , people are forced into home confinement by orders from lowly politicians or local or state ‘ health ’ departments .
Instead of being detained indefinitely , one may be detained for as long as the state deems a person to be a health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Instead of being water boarded , the public at large is required to wear oxygen-stealing masks , and avoid all social contact .
So the new normal , which is completely absurd , has taken much of the horrendous legislation that was passed after 9-11 , and given it political steroids to do the same things in a different manner .
Much of the legislation passed was said to be temporary in order to fool the public into accepting the emergency dictates .
Of course , they are never temporary , and remain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lockdowns , or self-imprisonment , the quarantines , the isolation , business shutdowns , tracking and tracing , mask wearing , and distancing are all said to be temporary .
The same will be claimed about the coming deadly vaccine .
Most all liberty stealing legislation and executive orders enacted after every government false flag event have remained in place , all with the hope that the people are too ignorant to see what is happening right before their eyes .
This seems to have worked well in the past , so what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all these temporary draconian measures simply go away as promised after the so-called ‘ virus ’ threat subsides , or will the ‘ new normal ’ instituted by the evil liars and cheats in the political class retain these measures for future use ?
There is only one answer to this question , and in this case , history will definitely repeat itself .
So what difference is there between the 9-11 false flag exercise and the current Covid-19 false flag ?
As mentioned , the differences are only at the margin , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the state is meant to force compliance by the herd , to gain their conformity due to fear , and to prosecute a war against all of us at each and every level required in order to gain more power for the state and total control over the masses .
This is the real agenda , and has always been the main agenda .
Power and control are the underlying aspects and core convictions of all government action .
The government , even though the more powerful ruling class of banking , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it , is the enforcement arm of the real power .
Government therefore , is the closest to the people , and by tearing down government power , the top tier of the ruling class become exposed and vulnerable , and more unprotected .
So mass resistance against government can lead to tearing down the system of power and control , and help to lead us back to more freedom and less oppression .
Most think that the result of false flag events is to create war for money , power , geopolitical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that is not far wrong , but war is also desired in order to gain more control over the citizenry , because the powerful have to gain control at home in order to gain control globally .
This new false flag called Covid-19 was long ago designed in order to effect global dominance by the few over the rest of us .
Will this be a successful coup ?
Will the people of this country acquiesce to the will of tyrants ?
Will the people allow for the continued murder of their families @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the people continue to hide from themselves and the truth ?
Will the people never fight back ?
Will the people allow themselves to become the serfs in a society ruled by kings ?
That is what is coming , and there is only one thing standing in the way of the oppressors , and that is mass resistance by the majority .
Without the courage to fight against the ruling class , we will soon be left with nothing , and will have allowed our own servitude .
Gary D. Barnett is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Lewistown , Montana .
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Covid-19 or Covid-9-11?
“September 11th was the jumpstart for what is now an accelerated agenda by the ruthless elite: it was a staged war pretext no different from the sinking of the Lusitania, the provoking of Pearl Harbor and the Gulf of Tonkin lie. In fact if 9/11 wasn’t a planned war pretext, it would be the exception to the rule. It has been used to launch two unprovoked illegal wars – one against Iraq and one against Afghanistan. However, 9/11 was a pretext for another war as well: the War against You. The Patriot Act, Homeland Security, The Military Tribunals Act and other legislations are all completely and entirely designed to destroy your civil liberties and limit your ability to fight back against what is coming. Currently in the United States unannounced to most brainwashed Americans your home can be searched without a warrant without you being home, you can in turn be arrested with no charges revealed to you, detained indefinitely with no access to a lawyer, and legally tortured all under the suspicion that you might be a terrorist … Let’s recognize how history repeats itself.” (United States & War on Terror & False Flag Ops & Civil Rights & Empire US & Foreign Relations US & 9/11) Zeitgeist
On the eve of the 9-11 anniversary, it is imperative to look at government caused and staged events from the angle of extreme criticism.
This criticism need not be considered from the standpoint of speculation or ‘conspiracy theory,’ although any collusion at high levels for the purpose of attaining a particular outcome is certainly conspiratorial.
As is indicated in the quote above, false flag events are always meant to fool the people into supporting a particular agenda sought by the ruling ‘elites,’ and in turn are designed to be a war against you as citizens of a corrupt state.
The most recent false flag has been this manufactured hoax called the coronavirus ‘pandemic,’ but this can only lead to false flag after false flag. This domino effect is now fully in play, and the victims of this nefarious plot are the masses called the 99%.
Yes, there is a difference in the manner of tyranny, but it is nonetheless tyranny at every turn.
In fact, each false flag event leads to and enhances the next false flag event.
This should be evident to any paying attention, but sadly, few in this country have the impetus or intellectual capability to follow the trail of deceit practiced by the ruling class and their political pawns in their game of attaining total control over what has become a modern proletariat.
Privacy mostly eliminated
After 9-11, privacy was mostly eliminated, arrests of citizens without cause or warrant was legalized, being detained without access to due process and being suveilled at every turn became the ‘new normal.’
With those powers now in place, and the populace conditioned to accept this assault against liberty, the current false threat has taken a similar turn with a slightly different approach. Instead of a false terror threat by monsters from afar, the false threat today is said to be a killer ‘virus.’
Instead of the Patriot Act, we now are under emergency orders that have been used by the federal government as well as all state and local governments.
Instead of arrests for being a terror suspect, arrests now take place due to being labeled a threat against society due to flu symptoms, or simply due to a positive test result, even without symptoms.
Instead of being held in jail or physically tortured, people are forced into home confinement by orders from lowly politicians or local or state ‘health’ departments.
Instead of being detained indefinitely, one may be detained for as long as the state deems a person to be a health threat by ‘self’ imprisonment. Instead of being water boarded, the public at large is required to wear oxygen-stealing masks, and avoid all social contact.
The “New Normal”
So the new normal, which is completely absurd, has taken much of the horrendous legislation that was passed after 9-11, and given it political steroids to do the same things in a different manner.
Much of the legislation passed was said to be temporary in order to fool the public into accepting the emergency dictates.
Of course, they are never temporary, and remain in place forever.
Now, the lockdowns, or self-imprisonment, the quarantines, the isolation, business shutdowns, tracking and tracing, mask wearing, and distancing are all said to be temporary. The same will be claimed about the coming deadly vaccine.
Most all liberty stealing legislation and executive orders enacted after every government false flag event have remained in place, all with the hope that the people are too ignorant to see what is happening right before their eyes.
This seems to have worked well in the past, so what will happen this time around? Will all these temporary draconian measures simply go away as promised after the so-called ‘virus’ threat subsides, or will the ‘new normal’ instituted by the evil liars and cheats in the political class retain these measures for future use?
There is only one answer to this question, and in this case, history will definitely repeat itself.
The Real Main Agenda
So what difference is there between the 9-11 false flag exercise and the current Covid-19 false flag?
As mentioned, the differences are only at the margin, as everything that is initiated and implemented by the state is meant to force compliance by the herd, to gain their conformity due to fear, and to prosecute a war against all of us at each and every level required in order to gain more power for the state and total control over the masses.
This is the real agenda, and has always been the main agenda.
Power and control are the underlying aspects and core convictions of all government action. The government, even though the more powerful ruling class of banking, corporate, and wealthy claimed elites control it, is the enforcement arm of the real power.
Government therefore, is the closest to the people, and by tearing down government power, the top tier of the ruling class become exposed and vulnerable, and more unprotected. So mass resistance against government can lead to tearing down the system of power and control, and help to lead us back to more freedom and less oppression.
Most think that the result of false flag events is to create war for money, power, geopolitical control, and for conquest, and that is not far wrong, but war is also desired in order to gain more control over the citizenry, because the powerful have to gain control at home in order to gain control globally.
This new false flag called Covid-19 was long ago designed in order to effect global dominance by the few over the rest of us.
Will this be a successful coup? Will the people of this country acquiesce to the will of tyrants? Will the people allow for the continued murder of their families and neighbors by the state? Will the people continue to hide from themselves and the truth? Will the people never fight back? Will the people allow themselves to become the serfs in a society ruled by kings?
That is what is coming, and there is only one thing standing in the way of the oppressors, and that is mass resistance by the majority.
Without the courage to fight against the ruling class, we will soon be left with nothing, and will have allowed our own servitude.
The False Flag Operation takes the concept of black propaganda to a murderous extreme. Secret agents carry out an act of terrorism or other outrage which is then blamed on the enemy of choice. (CIA & Intelligence Agencies & Secrecy & Black Ops & False Flag Operations) Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations s1e3: The Strategy of Tension, 2013
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