thewakingtimes--2020-11-02--‘CommonPass’: New COVID-19 Security Measures Will Make Health A Prerequisite For Travel

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Imagine standing at a TSA security checkpoint on your way home for the holidays .
You ’ re getting ready to go through the awkward travel procedures instituted almost immediately after 9/11 when the Transportation and Security Administration ( TSA ) was created and air travel in the United States morphed into a search and seizure operation with the implied possibility of your detention and interrogation .
The initial outrage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ early on eventually gave way to begrudging acceptance .
But now , a new layer of “ security , ” that could restrict freedom of movement even further , is being rolled out at several ports of entry in partnership with health technology industry leaders , academic institutions , and government health entities in more than three dozen countries .
A new digital certificate called CommonPass , designed to serve as a clearance mechanism for passengers based on a health diagnosis underwent its first transatlantic test on October 21 under the watchful eye @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CDC ) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection ( CBP ) at Heathrow Airport in London .
There , a group of select participants embarked on United flight 15 to Newark , New Jersey after being screened and tested for COVID-19 at the point of departure in a largely ceremonial exercise that included initiative co-founders , Paul Meyer and Bradley Perkins .
The app ’ s first trial run took place with much less media fanfare last month on a Cathay Pacific Airways flight from Hong Kong to Singapore and marked the beginning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Commons Project non-profit organization in-tandem with the World Economic Forum .
Travel industry insiders claim that CommonPass will allow international travel to resume before a COVID-19 vaccine is made widely available by applying standard methods for certification of lab results and vaccination records of travelers through the CommonPass Framework , based on criteria set by the governments of each port of entry .
J.D .
O ’ Hara , CEO of one of the world ’ s largest travel services companies and one of the participants at Wednesday ’ s CommonPass trial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ability to “ verify health information in a secure , verified manner , ” while Roger Dow of the U.S. Travel Association released a statement praising it for paving a “ way forward ” for the global economy in the wake of the pandemic .
As the multi-sector , global response to the coronavirus tightens the noose around civil liberties , CommonPass stands out as one of the most appalling and dangerous attacks on basic human rights in the name of public health and is rife with a potential for abuse so great @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out more about the people and interests behind it .
In medieval times , the ‘ commons ’ denoted the de facto and collective ownership of land , which peasants used to plow , sow and harvest or raise sheep and cattle .
The rise of the land-owning classes in post-Magna Carta Europe , and England in particular , slowly eviscerated this form of communal privilege through the enclosure system , which redistributed the commons to the proto-capitalist class in partnership with the monarchies and create the system of oppressive labor exploitation known @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Enclosure Acts of England created legal property rights for land that had belonged to the farmers and shepherds , forming the basis of modern-day capitalism .
Today , that scene is being repeated as the Internet , an information ‘ commons ’ is being carved out by Big Tech and led by organizations like The Commons Project , which avails itself of a name that connotes the total opposite of its purpose .
Co-founders Paul Meyer and Bradley Perkins are the non-profit ’ s CEO and Chief Medical Officer , respectively .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ago at the Center for Disease Control and , for nearly a decade , worked at the RAND corporation ’ s health care policy division , RAND Health Advisory Board .
Meyer , for his part , is a Yale law school graduate , who was writing President Clinton ’ s speeches years before receiving his graduation diploma from the storied institution .
Both have extensive career histories in the fields of health and technology , though in very different areas and with strange bedfellows along the way .
In 2009 , Perkins @ @ @ @ @ @ @ publicly-traded cross-national operator of hospitals and clinics called Vanguard Health Systems .
Vanguard had been established with funding from Morgan Stanley and controlled by the Blackstone Group since 2004 , maintaining control all though the company ’ s IPO in 2011 .
Two years later , Vanguard was acquired by Tenet Healthcare , creating the third-largest investor-owned hospital company in the United States with a total of 65 hospitals nationwide and over 500 healthcare facilities .
Besides being one of the biggest healthcare companies in the United States , Tenet is also one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same year it bought Vanguard , it was slapped with a major whistleblower complaint that disclosed the company ’ s fraudulent practices .
That lawsuit resulted in a $ 514 million settlement .
A more recent case involving a conspiracy between Oklahoma orthopedic surgeons at one of its facilities was settled for $ 66 million in 2019 .
But , Tenet ’ s problems go back even further to the early 2000s when fraud and performing unneeded surgeries led to a multitude of lawsuits and even a Senate investigation .
The Vanguard deal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there , who chose to take a $ 1.9 million package instead of joining the newly merged conglomerate like its CEO and much of its staff did .
He would move on to create a company of his own called Sapiens Data Science ; a health tech platform that provides access to “ credible scientifically validated data algorithms ” and looks to create a “ new revolutionary health ecosystem.
” Meyer ’ s background is more complicated , and his arrival on the healthcare scene runs through different channels linked to American intelligence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s war in Kosovo and the former Yugoslavia during the early Clinton years .
It is his involvement with an infamous human-trafficking outfit known as the International Rescue Committee or IRC , that should be cause for concern given his role in The Commons Project and flagship CommonPass app .
Before he was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum or Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute , and even before becoming a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and receiving MIT ’ s 2003 Humanitarian of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in war-torn Kosovo installing a new Internet infrastructure system to replace the one destroyed in the war , only days after NATO bombs had stopped shelling the Serbian people .
Barely out of law school and having spent two years writing President Clinton ’ s speeches as the conflict in the former Yugoslavia was transpiring , Meyer was tapped by the IRC to lead a UN and private relief effort called the Internet Projekti Kosova ( IPKO ) or Kosovo Internet Project , with tech-savvy local Akan Ismaili to handle the complex technical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Project to “ uplink ” satellites in the region with the stated purpose of reuniting displaced Albanian families .
The system was set up atop a building used by the British KFOR Civil-Military Cooperation CIMIC and British Royal Engineers were also brought onto the project , among others .
Eventually , the IRC gave the project to a non-profit organization “ dedicated to providing wide access to the Internet in Kosovo.
” IPKO is today the largest telecom , internet , and cable TV company in Kosovo .
Meyer remains involved through the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ provide “ free technology education ” to Kosovar students .
By the 1950s , the IRC was known to be an “ integral link ” in the CIA ’ s covert network led by Tony Blair protégé and former British Foreign Minister , David Miliband since 2013 .
In 2018 , the IRC was embroiled in a child-sex trafficking scandal dubbed the “ sex-for-food scandal ” covered extensively by Whitney Webb in a recent article .
The organization ’ s cover-up of dozens of sex abuse , bribery and fraud allegations resulted in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the organizations .
However , no IRC employees were prosecuted over the 37 incidents detailed in the report .
Currently , the IRC is very involved in the implementation of a biometric ID system for refugees of the ongoing conflict in Myanmar , a project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation-backed ID2020 Alliance , which also funds The Commons Project .
IRC ’ s Mae La initiative , however , receives most of its funding through the notorious CIA-cutout USAID and intends to create a “ blockchain-based digital identification ” system using iris recognition @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s services in Thailand .
Long term goals include rolling health , work and financial data together into a single ID system , that will determine access to food , healthcare and mobility .
We want your DNA The difference between IRC ’ s Mae La project and The Commons Project is a question of class .
Class status , to be specific .
But , it is essentially the same idea and covers the same interests of the groups and individuals who form part of the Commons Project ’ s board @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been part of the digital tracking and healthcare technology space for years .
People like Linda Dillman , who ran Wal-Mart ’ s implementation of RFID employee tracking technology as the retail giant ’ s CIO or the former Chief Technology Officer for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services , Bryan Sivak , who is now a Managing Director at Managing Director at Kaiser Permanente , one of the largest healthcare insurance plan providers in the nation .
Other trustee affiliations stand out , as well , such as Will Fitzpatrick @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and George W. Bush ’ s Assistant Secretary of Defense , Health Affairs , Dr. William Winkenwerder , Jr. At the core of these efforts is the desire to create a DNA-based population screening agenda , which people like Perkins and Meyer are forcefully pushing forward .
Perkins worked as the CMO at a company called Human Longevity , Inc. , which “ combines state-of-the-art DNA sequencing and expert analysis with machine learning , to help change medicine to a more data-driven science.
” The reliability of the DNA-based , algorithmically-deduced health diagnoses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also be called into question given the history of the company furnishing the technology .
Prenetics , Ltd is the Hong Kong-based , Alibaba-funded company that also performed the COVID-19 testing for the UK ’ s Premier League ’ s Project Restart , which used a similar health status app called Covi-Pass , covered by this author in June .
Prenetics ’ COVID tests rely on DNA-based technology it acquired in 2018 , when it purchased DNAFit ; a company founded by South African businessman Avrom “ Avi ” Lasarow , who came @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ Chief Executive Officer for Europe , Middle East and Africa .
Lasarow , who also heads the Premier League ’ s coronavirus testing program , just settled a civil case against him in the U.S. last May for nearly $ 60,000 surrounding allegations of “ deceptive health claims ” .
Prenetics has been reportedly working on establishing a partnership with VSTE Enterprises , the same company that developed the V-Code technology that underpins Covi-Pass , since May .
Nevertheless , such red flags pale in comparison to the individuals and organizations that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have plans for a much vaster digital enclosure based on DNA population screening technologies through initiatives like the The Commons Project , which aims to fundamentally transform medicine and impose new limits on our freedom of movement as the CommonPass rollout is slated to quickly expand to other routes across Asia , Africa , the Americas , Europe and the Middle East .
Just as Bush ’ s Aviation and Transportation Security Act opened the doors for certain technology and security sectors to flourish in the wake of 9/11 , this novel health-focused @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bypassed all levers of democratic power to allow for the entrenchment of a far larger and more dangerous group of entities , within the health , technology and life sciences industries together with an increasingly more powerful clique of federal health agencies and officials , like Robert Kadlec , who are pushing for a full spectrum surveillance society .
Taking your shoes off at the airport and exposing your body to radiation has become routine now at every airport in the nation and most ‘ temporary ’ laws passed through emergency legislation remain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Precedent demands that we assume the same will occur with the majority of the new restrictions on our freedom of movement and quality of life currently being implemented throughout the country and the world .

‘CommonPass’: New COVID-19 Security Measures Will Make Health A Prerequisite For Travel
Raul Diego, Mint Press News
Waking Times
Imagine standing at a TSA security checkpoint on your way home for the holidays. You’re getting ready to go through the awkward travel procedures instituted almost immediately after 9/11 when the Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) was created and air travel in the United States morphed into a search and seizure operation with the implied possibility of your detention and interrogation.
The initial outrage such expressions of implicit state violence caused early on eventually gave way to begrudging acceptance. But now, a new layer of “security,” that could restrict freedom of movement even further, is being rolled out at several ports of entry in partnership with health technology industry leaders, academic institutions, and government health entities in more than three dozen countries.
A new digital certificate called CommonPass, designed to serve as a clearance mechanism for passengers based on a health diagnosis underwent its first transatlantic test on October 21 under the watchful eye of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at Heathrow Airport in London. There, a group of select participants embarked on United flight 15 to Newark, New Jersey after being screened and tested for COVID-19 at the point of departure in a largely ceremonial exercise that included initiative co-founders, Paul Meyer and Bradley Perkins.
The app’s first trial run took place with much less media fanfare last month on a Cathay Pacific Airways flight from Hong Kong to Singapore and marked the beginning of the CommonPass pilot project launched by The Commons Project non-profit organization in-tandem with the World Economic Forum.
Travel industry insiders claim that CommonPass will allow international travel to resume before a COVID-19 vaccine is made widely available by applying standard methods for certification of lab results and vaccination records of travelers through the CommonPass Framework, based on criteria set by the governments of each port of entry.
J.D. O’Hara, CEO of one of the world’s largest travel services companies and one of the participants at Wednesday’s CommonPass trial run, hailed the app’s ability to “verify health
information in a secure, verified manner,” while Roger Dow of the U.S. Travel Association released a statement praising it for paving a “way forward” for the global economy in the wake of the pandemic.
As the multi-sector, global response to the coronavirus tightens the noose around civil liberties, CommonPass stands out as one of the most appalling and dangerous attacks on basic human rights in the name of public health and is rife with a potential for abuse so great, that it behooves us to find out more about the people and interests behind it.
Feudal revivalists
In medieval times, the ‘commons’ denoted the de facto and collective ownership of land, which peasants used to plow, sow and harvest or raise sheep and cattle. The rise of the land-owning classes in post-Magna Carta Europe, and England in particular, slowly eviscerated this form of communal privilege through the enclosure system, which redistributed the commons to the proto-capitalist class in partnership with the monarchies and create the system of oppressive labor exploitation known as feudalism.
Starting in 1604, the Enclosure Acts of England created legal property rights for land that had belonged to the farmers and shepherds, forming the basis of modern-day capitalism. Today, that scene is being repeated as the Internet, an information ‘commons’ is being carved out by Big Tech and led by organizations like The Commons Project, which avails itself of a name that connotes the total opposite of its purpose.
Co-founders Paul Meyer and Bradley Perkins are the non-profit’s CEO and Chief Medical Officer, respectively. Perkins began his career over thirty years ago at the Center for Disease Control and, for nearly a decade, worked at the RAND corporation’s health care policy division, RAND Health Advisory Board. Meyer, for his part, is a Yale law school graduate, who was writing President Clinton’s speeches years before receiving his graduation diploma from the storied institution. Both have extensive career histories in the fields of health and technology, though in very different areas and with strange bedfellows along the way.
In 2009, Perkins became the Chief Technology Officer for a publicly-traded cross-national operator of hospitals and clinics called Vanguard Health Systems. Vanguard had been established with funding from Morgan Stanley and controlled by the Blackstone Group since 2004, maintaining control all though the company’s IPO in 2011. Two years later, Vanguard was acquired by Tenet Healthcare, creating the third-largest investor-owned hospital company in the United States with a total of 65 hospitals nationwide and over 500 healthcare facilities.
Besides being one of the biggest healthcare companies in the United States, Tenet is also one of the most notoriously corrupt. The same year it bought Vanguard, it was slapped with a major whistleblower complaint that disclosed the company’s fraudulent practices. That lawsuit resulted in a $514 million settlement. A more recent case involving a conspiracy between Oklahoma orthopedic surgeons at one of its facilities was settled for $66 million in 2019. But, Tenet’s problems go back even further to the early 2000s when fraud and performing unneeded surgeries led to a multitude of lawsuits and even a Senate investigation.
The Vanguard deal marked the end of Perkins’ tenure there, who chose to take a $1.9 million package instead of joining the newly merged conglomerate like its CEO and much of its staff did. He would move on to create a company of his own called Sapiens Data Science; a health tech platform that provides access to “credible scientifically validated data algorithms” and looks to create a “new revolutionary health ecosystem.”
Meyer’s background is more complicated, and his arrival on the healthcare scene runs through different channels linked to American intelligence cover operations dating back to NATO’s war in Kosovo and the former Yugoslavia during the early Clinton years. It is his involvement with an infamous human-trafficking outfit known as the International Rescue Committee or IRC, that should be cause for concern given his role in The Commons Project and flagship CommonPass app.
The Meyer of Kosovo
Before he was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum or Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, and even before becoming a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and receiving MIT’s 2003 Humanitarian of the Year award, Paul Meyer found himself in war-torn Kosovo installing a new Internet infrastructure system to replace the one destroyed in the war, only days after NATO bombs had stopped shelling the Serbian people.
Barely out of law school and having spent two years writing President Clinton’s speeches as the conflict in the former Yugoslavia was transpiring, Meyer was tapped by the IRC to lead a UN and private relief effort called the Internet Projekti Kosova (IPKO) or Kosovo Internet Project, with tech-savvy local Akan Ismaili to handle the complex technical issues and Teresa Crawford from the Advocacy Project to “uplink” satellites in the region with the stated purpose of reuniting displaced Albanian families. The system was set up atop a building used by the British KFOR Civil-Military Cooperation CIMIC and British Royal Engineers were also brought onto the project, among others.
Eventually, the IRC gave the project to a non-profit organization “dedicated to providing wide access to the Internet in Kosovo.” IPKO is today the largest telecom, internet, and cable TV company in Kosovo. Meyer remains involved through the IPKO Foundation, which he co-founded to provide “free technology education” to Kosovar students.
By the 1950s, the IRC was known to be an “integral link” in the CIA’s covert network led by Tony Blair protégé and former British Foreign Minister, David Miliband since 2013. In 2018, the IRC was embroiled in a child-sex trafficking scandal dubbed the “sex-for-food scandal” covered extensively by Whitney Webb in a recent article. The organization’s cover-up of dozens of sex abuse, bribery and fraud allegations resulted in the U.K. government withdrawing its funding from the organizations. However, no IRC employees were prosecuted over the 37 incidents detailed in the report.
Currently, the IRC is very involved in the implementation of a biometric ID system for refugees of the ongoing conflict in Myanmar, a project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation-backed ID2020 Alliance, which also funds The Commons Project. IRC’s Mae La initiative, however, receives most of its funding through the notorious CIA-cutout USAID and intends to create a “blockchain-based digital identification” system using iris recognition technology to give refugees access to IRC’s services in Thailand. Long term goals include rolling health, work and financial data together into a single ID system, that will determine access to food, healthcare and mobility.
We want your DNA
The difference between IRC’s Mae La project and The Commons Project is a question of class. Class status, to be specific. But, it is essentially the same idea and covers the same interests of the groups and individuals who form part of the Commons Project’s board of trustees; many of whom have been part of the digital tracking and healthcare technology space for years.
People like Linda Dillman, who ran Wal-Mart’s implementation of RFID employee tracking technology as the retail giant’s CIO or the former Chief Technology Officer for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bryan Sivak, who is now a Managing Director at Managing Director at Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest healthcare insurance plan providers in the nation. Other trustee affiliations stand out, as well, such as Will Fitzpatrick, General Counsel to the Omidyar Network and George W. Bush’s Assistant Secretary of Defense, Health Affairs, Dr. William Winkenwerder, Jr.
At the core of these efforts is the desire to create a DNA-based population screening agenda, which people like Perkins and Meyer are forcefully pushing forward. Perkins worked as the CMO at a company called Human Longevity, Inc., which “combines state-of-the-art DNA sequencing and expert analysis with machine learning, to help change medicine to a more data-driven science.”
Meyer developed a precursor to CommonPass in 2016, when he merged his mobile health services company, Voxiva, which implemented the “first nationwide digital disease surveillance systems in Peru and Rwanda” in partnership with the CDC, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with Sense Health to form a health messaging service called Wellpass Meyer described as “an integrated platform… [that] helps overcome the challenges of deploying fragmented engagement and population health solutions.”
Dubious technology
The reliability of the DNA-based, algorithmically-deduced health diagnoses used for the CommonPass trial run must also be called into question given the history of the company furnishing the technology. Prenetics, Ltd is the Hong Kong-based, Alibaba-funded company that also performed the COVID-19 testing for the UK’s Premier League’s Project Restart, which used a similar health status app called Covi-Pass, covered by this author in June.
Prenetics’ COVID tests rely on DNA-based technology it acquired in 2018, when it purchased DNAFit; a company founded by South African businessman Avrom “Avi” Lasarow, who came on board after the merger as Prenetics’ Chief Executive Officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Lasarow, who also heads the Premier League’s coronavirus testing program, just settled a civil case against him in the U.S. last May for nearly $60,000 surrounding allegations of “deceptive health claims”.
“Lifestyle genetics pioneer” Lasarow has a long track record of settling out of court over such issues, including a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in 2015, which accused Lasarow Healthcare Technologies Ltd., aka L Health Ltd., and two other defendants of making false or unsubstantiated claims regarding a “melanoma detection” app. As part of that settlement, Lasarow was “prohibited from making any misleading or unsubstantiated claims about the health benefits or efficacy of any product or service.”
Prenetics has been reportedly working on establishing a partnership with VSTE Enterprises, the same company that developed the V-Code technology that underpins Covi-Pass, since May. Nevertheless, such red flags pale in comparison to the individuals and organizations that are behind CommonPass, itself, who have plans for a much vaster digital enclosure based on DNA population screening technologies through initiatives like the The Commons Project, which aims to fundamentally transform medicine and impose new limits on our freedom of movement as the CommonPass rollout is slated to quickly expand to other routes across Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East.
A common thread
Just as Bush’s Aviation and Transportation Security Act opened the doors for certain technology and security sectors to flourish in the wake of 9/11, this novel health-focused expansion of the national security state has bypassed all levers of democratic power to allow for the entrenchment of a far larger and more dangerous group of entities, within the health, technology and life sciences industries together with an increasingly more powerful clique of federal health agencies and officials, like Robert Kadlec, who are pushing for a full spectrum surveillance society.
Taking your shoes off at the airport and exposing your body to radiation has become routine now at every airport in the nation and most ‘temporary’ laws passed through emergency legislation remain on the books nearly two decades later. Precedent demands that we assume the same will occur with the majority of the new restrictions on our freedom of movement and quality of life currently being implemented throughout the country and the world.
Rolling back these draconian measures is not in any of their plans, as promised by the president of the U.S. Travel Association, Roger Dow, who confidently asserted after Wednesday’s successful CommonPass trail run, that the app will let us “navigate out of the crippling economic fallout of COVID-related travel restrictions and quarantine requirements,” adding that it will “pay further dividends for more seamless and convenient travel even once the pandemic has subsided.”
About the Author
Raul Diego is a MintPress News Staff Writer, independent photojournalist, researcher, writer and documentary filmmaker.


thewakingtimes--2020-11-02--Operation Warp Speed – A Technocratic Chess Piece?

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In this interview , investigative journalist Whitney Webb , who does both independent work and collaborations with The Last American Vagabond , discusses the little-known details of Operation Warp Speed , a joint operation between U.S. Health and Human Services ( HHS ) and the Department of Defense to produce a fast-tracked COVID-19 vaccine and other therapeutics .
As you may have noticed by now , Google , YouTube , Facebook , Twitter and a host of other platforms are censoring information relating to COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Many commentators who touch on these issues have been deplatformed altogether , so information on these crucial topics are getting harder to come by .
As noted by Webb , you ’ d expect Operation Warp Speed , being a government program , to be governed by some federal regulatory agency like the Food and Drug Administration or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , or even the HHS , but no .
It ’ s almost entirely funded and operated by the CIA and the U.S. military .
Webb explains @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the contract to come up with the vaccine allocation strategy and determine the critical populations each vaccine should be distributed to .
Palantir , founded by Peter Thiel , was initially funded by QTL , the CIA ’ s venture capital arm .
The CIA was its only client for the first three years of its existence .
At present , Palantir is a contractor to 17 U.S. intelligence agencies and also the U.S. military .
The company is also in charge of COVID-19 data under the auspices of the HHS .
Hospitals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Palantir or lose their Medicaid and Medicare funding .
Palantir is also involved in things like predictive policing .
According to Webb , the plan is to monitor vaccine recipients for 24 months after the first dose .
The question is , how do you monitor such a large population ?
One way would be to employ biosensors that collect and send biological metrics automatically .
Monsef Salafi , a long-time head of GlaxoSmithKline ’ s vaccine division , who is now part of Warp Speed , is a leading proponent of bioelectronic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ implantable technology for the purpose of treating nerve conditions .
The MIT Technology review has referred to it as hacking the nervous system .
But it also allows you to monitor the physiology of the human body from the inside .
The vaccine coordinator for Operation Warp Speed is Matt Hepburn , a former program manager for DARPA , where he oversaw the development of ProfusA,1 an implantable biosensor that allows a person ’ s physiology to be examined at a distance via smartphone connectivity .
ProfusA is also backed by Google , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ world .
Salafi is also invested in a company called Galvani Bioelectronics , which was cofounded by a Google subsidiary .
In short , rather than doing long-term safety studies on both animals and humans beforehand , what ’ s being put into place is a “ safety study ” after the fact , where vaccine recipients are monitored for side effects .
Unfortunately , Warp Speed , being shrouded in secrecy , has not released details about what biological parameters would actually be monitored and surveilled .
As noted by Webb : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ underway around the world , and the fact that even though the vaccines are being given to perfectly healthy , younger individuals , they ’ re reporting lots of side effects , including serious ones .
Most recently , a volunteer physician in the Brazilian arm of AstraZeneca ’ s trial died from receiving the placebo , which was not sterile saline but the meningitis vaccine.2 As detailed in “ How COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Are Rigged , ” none of the vaccines are designed to actually prevent infection .
The primary measure of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ results in fewer symptoms when you ’ re infected with SARS-CoV-2 .
While the AstraZeneca trial initially stated the vaccine was being tested against a saline placebo,3 as I mentioned earlier , it ’ s since been revealed that they ’ re using the meningitis vaccine as the “ placebo , ” which can help hide a variety of side effects .
The study was not halted following that death , but it ’ s already been paused twice due to unexpected serious illnesses .
Both instances were deemed unrelated to the vaccine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Transparency ?
Webb also points out that rather than being contracts between government and the vaccine companies , the vaccine contracts have been funneled via a third party .
Why ?
One potential reason is because this exempts them from Freedom of Information Act requests .
It also exempts vaccines made under those contracts from many federal regulations , including federal safety regulations .
Unfortunately , as mentioned earlier , it ’ s extremely difficult to get this information out .
YouTube , which is owned by Google , censors all of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Google ’ s involvement with Operation Warp Speed .
In short , they ’ re censoring to protect their own interests .
Aside from the fact that mRNA vaccines have never been used in humans before now , there ’ s also the issue of their perishability .
This is yet another factor that heightens the risk of these vaccines .
At best , they may become ineffective unless stored properly ; at worst , they may produce unexpected side effects .
Unlike conventional vaccines , which simply need to be refrigerated , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dry ice in order to maintain a temperature below zero .
This clearly complicates delivery and storage , which apparently is one reason why the military will be in charge of distribution .
As mentioned , 9/11 became the justification for a series of tyrannical control mechanisms in the form of the Patriot Act that stripped Americans of civil liberties and privacy .
Now , the COVID-19 pandemic , despite the fact that it hasn ’ t resulted in an excess number of deaths above the historical norm for any given year , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ excuse for the implementation of more tyrannical controls .
It appears that what they ’ re doing is laying down the infrastructure for a totalitarian control system set to be deployed later .
Webb agrees , saying : Indeed , it all appears to be part and parcel of a longstanding technocratic plan to govern society through technology , programmed by scientists and technicians and automated through the use of artificial intelligence , rather than through democratically elected politicians and government leaders .
Much of it is being developed and implemented in really @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the true , long-term purpose is never actually admitted .
For example , while smart cities have received public pushback , this plan to equip the sewage system with biosensors is essentially a way to build the system from below ground , up .
Since it ’ s underground , people will be far less likely to object to it or understand it as an intrusion of privacy .
Ultimately , topside technologies will be added in the form of smart homes , until people are living in smart cities whether they signed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also discusses the influence and role of Google in greater depth , including the current antitrust case filed against the company by the U.S. Department of Justice .
Antitrust Case Against Google May Actually Benefit Them As for the antitrust case against Google filed by the DOJ at the end of October 2020 , 4 Webb doubts it will hurt the company .
In fact , she suspects Google , just like the Rockefellers ’ Standard Oil , wants to be broken up in order to be able to expand into other markets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also points out that Google ’ s future is secured by its central and ever-growing role in data mining .
Google will be harvesting brand new biological data through the upcoming Warp Speed surveillance system , and in September 2020 , Google partnered with the Pentagon to develop predictive diagnostics for cancer using AI , which they intend to extend to other diseases as well , including COVID-19 .
Based on her research , Webb suspects there will be another phase to the COVID-19 pandemic , some sort of bioterror event , likely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that Event 201 , held by Gates , the World Economic Forum and Johns Hopkins in October 2019 , featured a novel coronavirus .
Was it really a coincidence that a novel coronavirus outbreak occurred 10 weeks later ?
‘ Dark Winter ’ — The Signal for an Anthrax-Related Event ?
An earlier tabletop pandemic exercise was done in June 2001 .
The simulation , called “ Dark Winter , ” predicted major aspects of the subsequent 2001 anthrax attacks .
During the last presidential debate , the Democratic nominee , Joe Biden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a “ dark winter ” — an unusual phrase that raised questions among some commentators .
Before that , the former head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority ( BARDA ) testified in front of Congress saying that this winter was going to be the “ darkest winter ” in modern U.S. history .
Somehow , many plans actually seem to be signaled beforehand , if you ’ re keen enough to pick up the cues .
Interestingly , with regard to the “ Dark Winter ” reference and its anthrax @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fearful If you listen to the interview in its entirety , you ’ ll have a good idea of why I ’ m so impressed with Webb ’ s investigative skills .
It ’ s important to become educated about what ’ s really happening so that you don ’ t capitulate to the fear they ’ re seeking to imbue in us .
It ’ s a fearful public that allows the technocratic elite to dictate the future and rip away our personal freedoms .
It ’ s fear that allows tyranny @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more of us than there are of them .
But enough of us must be willing to stand up and say no , we won ’ t accept this plan .
On another level , being aware of the plan allows you to plan for your own safety and security ahead of time , so you ’ re not running around in a panic when something does happen .
As the old saying goes , “ Being forewarned is being forearmed .
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Operation Warp Speed – A Technocratic Chess Piece?
Dr. Mercola, Guest
Waking Times
In this interview, investigative journalist Whitney Webb, who does both independent work and collaborations with The Last American Vagabond, discusses the little-known details of Operation Warp Speed, a joint operation between U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Defense to produce a fast-tracked COVID-19 vaccine and other therapeutics.
As you may have noticed by now, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and a host of other platforms are censoring information relating to COVID-19 in general and vaccine information in particular. Many commentators who touch on these issues have been deplatformed altogether, so information on these crucial topics are getting harder to come by.
“We’re at a point where the line between Silicon Valley and the national security state has become so blurred, you really can’t distinguish where one begins and where the other ends,” Webb says. This in large part helps explain how and why big tech is getting away with such blatant censorship as deplatforming of individuals who discuss issues the mainstream media refuse to touch. “You can definitely make the argument that it’s state censorship to a degree,” she says. “I think it’s quite telling that a lot of these companies, from the very beginning of their existence, had some sort of funding from U.S. intelligence.”
Operation Warp Speed
As noted by Webb, you’d expect Operation Warp Speed, being a government program, to be governed by some federal regulatory agency like the Food and Drug Administration or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or even the HHS, but no. It’s almost entirely funded and operated by the CIA and the U.S. military. Webb explains:
“When Operation Warp Speed was announced … it was essentially sold to the public as a joint operation between HHS and the Department of Defense. So, the military was involved from the beginning. But oddly enough, last month, a lot of information about Warp Speed started to come to light.
One was the organizational chart of its leadership, which showed that by and large, the entire operation is dominated by military. There were very few civilian health officials, and most of those civilian health officials are involved in the therapeutic side of Warp Speed, which as we know now is the most drastically underfunded part of this initiative.
It was initially given a $10 billion budget, and they’ve already spent $10 billion on the vaccine. Only $450 million have been given through Warp Speed to a therapeutics project, which of course we now know is Regeneron, which is allegedly what Trump received when he was at Walter Reed.
What I’m saying is that most, the vast majority, of the money and time and energy has gone to a vaccine specifically, not really therapeutics. And so, if you look at the organizational chart, the people that aren’t directly deployed by the DoD or military intelligence were essentially put in the therapeutics part, which was drastically underfunded. It’s focused largely on the vaccine.
What’s also interesting is we know that Operation Warp Speed currently has about six vaccine candidates. And we know now that they plan to use them all, and that they plan to allocate a specific vaccine to specific populations — what they identify in their official guidance as critical populations — which they announced just a few days ago.”
Palantir
A company called Palantir was given the contract to come up with the vaccine allocation strategy and determine the critical populations each vaccine should be distributed to. Palantir, founded by Peter Thiel, was initially funded by QTL, the CIA’s venture capital arm.
The CIA was its only client for the first three years of its existence. At present, Palantir is a contractor to 17 U.S. intelligence agencies and also the U.S. military. The company is also in charge of COVID-19 data under the auspices of the HHS. Hospitals must now report their COVID-19 data to Palantir or lose their Medicaid and Medicare funding. Palantir is also involved in things like predictive policing.
“There are a lot of things in Warp Speed that are concerning. One of the things I read about recently is that Google and Oracle, two large tech companies that have longstanding ties to the CIA, are going to be involved in what they describe as a pharmacovigilance surveillance system, or what was more recently referred to by the head of Warp Speed as an incredibly precise tracking system, whereby everyone who receives one of these vaccines will be tracked and surveilled, not just to make sure that they get a second dose …
but also to see what happens to people’s physiology, because they admit that every single one of these vaccine candidates … has never been brought to market or licensed by the government before,” Webb says.
Pharmacovigilance Surveillance
According to Webb, the plan is to monitor vaccine recipients for 24 months after the first dose. The question is, how do you monitor such a large population? One way would be to employ biosensors that collect and send biological metrics automatically.
Monsef Salafi, a long-time head of GlaxoSmithKline’s vaccine division, who is now part of Warp Speed, is a leading proponent of bioelectronic medicine, the use of injectable or implantable technology for the purpose of treating nerve conditions. The MIT Technology review has referred to it as hacking the nervous system. But it also allows you to monitor the physiology of the human body from the inside.
“A lot of the same initiatives proposed after 9/11 have essentially been resurrected, with updated technology, under the guise of combating COVID-19. ~ Whitney Webb”
The vaccine coordinator for Operation Warp Speed is Matt Hepburn, a former program manager for DARPA, where he oversaw the development of ProfusA,1 an implantable biosensor that allows a person’s physiology to be examined at a distance via smartphone connectivity. ProfusA is also backed by Google, the largest data mining company in the world. Salafi is also invested in a company called Galvani Bioelectronics, which was cofounded by a Google subsidiary.
“So, you have Google being contracted to monitor this pharmacovigilance surveillance system that aims to monitor the physiology and the human body for two years,” Webb says.
“And then you have the ties to the ProfusA project, which oddly enough is supposed to work inside the human body for 24 months — the exact window they’ve said will be used to monitor people after the first [vaccine] dose.”
Guinea Pigs ‘R Us
In short, rather than doing long-term safety studies on both animals and humans beforehand, what’s being put into place is a “safety study” after the fact, where vaccine recipients are monitored for side effects. Unfortunately, Warp Speed, being shrouded in secrecy, has not released details about what biological parameters would actually be monitored and surveilled. As noted by Webb:
“It really doesn’t make sense, if you think about it, for something that … is funded by American taxpayers to produce a medical countermeasure or a vaccine [during] peace time, is being run by the military under extreme secrecy with a lot of involvement of intelligence contractors, or intelligence agencies themselves.
We now know, for example, that the NSA and the Department of Homeland Security are directly involved in Operation Warp Speed, but they won’t really say exactly what parts they’re doing. But there are some indications as to what they could be involved with.
And the fact that Silicon Valley companies that have been known to collaborate with intelligence [agencies] for the purpose of spying on innocent Americans — Google and Oracle, for example — are going to be involved in this surveillance system … for everyone that gets the vaccine.
It’s certainly alarming, and it seems to point to the fulfillment of an agenda that was attempted to be pushed through or foisted on the American public after 9/11, called Total Information Awareness, which was managed, originally, by DARPA.
It was about using medical data and non-medical data — essentially all data about you — to prevent terror attacks before they could happen, and also to prevent bioterror attacks and even prevent naturally occurring disease outbreaks.
A lot of the same initiatives proposed under that original program after 9/11 have essentially been resurrected, with updated technology, under the guise of combating COVID-19.”
Human Trials Reveal Plenty of Risk
Webb also discusses the vaccine trials currently underway around the world, and the fact that even though the vaccines are being given to perfectly healthy, younger individuals, they’re reporting lots of side effects, including serious ones. Most recently, a volunteer physician in the Brazilian arm of AstraZeneca’s trial died from receiving the placebo, which was not sterile saline but the meningitis vaccine.2
As detailed in “How COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Are Rigged,” none of the vaccines are designed to actually prevent infection. The primary measure of success is whether or not the vaccine results in fewer symptoms when you’re infected with SARS-CoV-2.
While the AstraZeneca trial initially stated the vaccine was being tested against a saline placebo,3 as I mentioned earlier, it’s since been revealed that they’re using the meningitis vaccine as the “placebo,” which can help hide a variety of side effects. The study was not halted following that death, but it’s already been paused twice due to unexpected serious illnesses. Both instances were deemed unrelated to the vaccine, of course.
“These are really things that have the potential to be very drastic because you have to consider that the sample sizes are quite small. [If] you extrapolate to the size of the U.S. population, potentially hundreds of thousands of people [may] suffer very adverse health effects,” Webb says.
Why the Lack of Transparency?
Webb also points out that rather than being contracts between government and the vaccine companies, the vaccine contracts have been funneled via a third party. Why? One potential reason is because this exempts them from Freedom of Information Act requests. It also exempts vaccines made under those contracts from many federal regulations, including federal safety regulations.
“We also know, because of the changes HHS made per the Prep Act, that any person that produces a COVID-19 vaccine … associated with Operation Warp Speed will not be liable for any sort of damages it may cause.
And, it’s definitely concerning that these vaccine companies, a lot of which just have atrocious track records, are being given billions of dollars and being allowed to operate under the utmost secrecy, developing something for the American public that can very well be mandated, or, for some people, even if it’s not an official mandate, if they want to keep their jobs or they want to stay in school, they’ll have to receive it anyway. So, it’s definitely an issue that more people should be talking about.”
Unfortunately, as mentioned earlier, it’s extremely difficult to get this information out. YouTube, which is owned by Google, censors all of it. This is beyond questionable considering Google’s involvement with Operation Warp Speed. In short, they’re censoring to protect their own interests.
Perishability Heightens Vaccine Failure Risks
Aside from the fact that mRNA vaccines have never been used in humans before now, there’s also the issue of their perishability. This is yet another factor that heightens the risk of these vaccines. At best, they may become ineffective unless stored properly; at worst, they may produce unexpected side effects.
Unlike conventional vaccines, which simply need to be refrigerated, mRNA vaccines need to be kept on dry ice in order to maintain a temperature below zero. This clearly complicates delivery and storage, which apparently is one reason why the military will be in charge of distribution.
“The person in the Pentagon who is overseeing [the distribution] aspect is a man named Paul Strauss. He’s one of the people who has been most adamant about the secrecy and insisting that they can’t release certain things. So, that doesn’t instill me, personally, with a lot of confidence as to what’s going on,” Webb says.
“But yes, there are a lot more logistical hurdles than there have been in past planned vaccination programs, which of course didn’t involve the military, this extreme secrecy, and didn’t involve DHS or the NSA. The HHS, like I said earlier, sold this as a joint, essentially 50/50 HHS and DoD initiative. But really, the number of HHS officials on this list is quite small.”
Laying Down Infrastructure for Totalitarian Control
As mentioned, 9/11 became the justification for a series of tyrannical control mechanisms in the form of the Patriot Act that stripped Americans of civil liberties and privacy.
Now, the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the fact that it hasn’t resulted in an excess number of deaths above the historical norm for any given year, appears to be used as yet another excuse for the implementation of more tyrannical controls. It appears that what they’re doing is laying down the infrastructure for a totalitarian control system set to be deployed later. Webb agrees, saying:
“I tend to agree with you in a big way, and I’ll give you an example of an initiative that’s being put out right now by HHS that they claim is about preventing coronavirus outbreaks before they happen, and how it plays into this longstanding effort to produce ‘smart cities.’
HHS, a few weeks ago, issued a solicitation, which was given to this MIT spinoff company called Biobot Analytics. Essentially, they say it’s to create a nationwide wastewater surveillance system where they will be robotically sampling sewage from various cities around the country.
They say that will be done to test for COVID-19 and use an AI algorithm to predictably determine if a COVID-19 outbreak will take place in the future, up to 11 days before symptoms would even allegedly begin to show in that particular population. They say that would be done to enable rapid containment of those communities before this alleged future outbreak could happen.
What you can see there, in my opinion, is what was previously trying to be sold to the public as predictive policing, but now it’s sort of the predictive policing approach to healthcare. We have to prevent infection or prevent outbreaks before it happens, which obviously is rife for abuse by a government that is fundamentally corrupt and out of control.
If they wanted to lock down a particular community, all they have to say is, ‘Our new surveillance system has identified, through this algorithm, that there will be an outbreak here in 11 days. So we have to shut everything down in this entire city.
What this wastewater surveillance system requires is sensors throughout a sewage system in a particular city, which is the underground infrastructure of what are often today called smart cities — cities filled with sensors that are united by the internet of things, 5G and Wi-Fi.
What’s very alarming is that the developers chosen for this wastewater surveillance system come from a lab at MIT called Sensible City Labs, and it’s not sensible. It’s sensible [in that it’s] able to be sensed. Essentially, MIT is a smart cities lab that was chosen by HHS to develop this under the guise of COVID-19.
And what is also alarming, in my opinion, is that this company has partnered with HHS before, not to predict coronavirus or to sample for coronavirus in wastewater, but to detect patterns of illicit drug use in certain populations, which dovetail with the war on drugs in the United States. Whether it has to do with opioids or marijuana use or any other illegal substance, it allows surveillance on what people are ingesting in a particular community.
They also talk about analyzing people’s diets, what they’re ingesting — if people are eating foods that the government has decided are associated with illnesses, they can see if too many people are eating the wrong foods and then accordingly ban those foods through a municipal or a statewide edict and things like that.
It’s really a recipe for the micromanaging of regular human habits where the government was not previously involved …
[After] 9/11, the invisible enemy [was] these faceless terrorists abroad. Now, under coronavirus, the invisible enemy is a microbe that can exist anywhere, including within your own body. Therefore, to fight and win the war against the microbe we have to know what’s going on inside of your body also.
And so, we’re seeing the potential for the use of something like ProfusA and Operation Warp Speed, or this effort to surveil sewage, to determine what people are putting in their bodies. It’s definitely a very slippery slope in what I would call the beginnings of a Biosurveillance state.”
The Technocratic Underground
Indeed, it all appears to be part and parcel of a longstanding technocratic plan to govern society through technology, programmed by scientists and technicians and automated through the use of artificial intelligence, rather than through democratically elected politicians and government leaders.
Much of it is being developed and implemented in really underhanded ways. For obvious reasons, the true, long-term purpose is never actually admitted. For example, while smart cities have received public pushback, this plan to equip the sewage system with biosensors is essentially a way to build the system from below ground, up.
Since it’s underground, people will be far less likely to object to it or understand it as an intrusion of privacy. Ultimately, topside technologies will be added in the form of smart homes, until people are living in smart cities whether they signed up for it or not.
Google’s Transhumanist Goals
Webb also discusses the influence and role of Google in greater depth, including the current antitrust case filed against the company by the U.S. Department of Justice.
“There are a lot of things that Eric Schmidt has done over the years that are deeply concerning. He, and a lot of other people involved with Google, including Google’s top futurist, as he describes himself, Ray Kurzweil, are very big proponents of what is often called transhumanism, this belief that it’s the destiny of the human race, it will be the pinnacle of human evolution, to combine with machines and defeat death.
Schmidt is a person that certainly feels that way and was close with Kurzweil. Now he’s in charge of the artificial intelligence modernization efforts of the government.
It’s very, very disconcerting, especially when you look at a lot of the military’s own modernization plans that are set to begin next year, with having an unprecedented role for artificial intelligence and targeting and flagging people that soldiers will then shoot with these augmented reality helmets the Pentagon has bought.
It’s a lot of the Orwellian surveillance structure that we’re seeing rolled out, whether through Warp Speed or by HHS under the guise of COVID-19 response, it definitely seems to dovetail significantly with plans that have been developed by people like Schmidt for the modernization of the U.S. government itself, particularly the national security state.
And I really don’t think that there’s much of a coincidence that those two things are happening in tandem.”
Antitrust Case Against Google May Actually Benefit Them
As for the antitrust case against Google filed by the DOJ at the end of October 2020, 4 Webb doubts it will hurt the company. In fact, she suspects Google, just like the Rockefellers’ Standard Oil, wants to be broken up in order to be able to expand into other markets.
“The government was able to look like they were actually doing something about Standard Oil, but actually Standard Oil wanted to be broken up. That allowed the Rockefeller family to extend their influence and reach … far beyond oil.
For example, they got involved with totally remaking Western medicine … and in shaping what we now know as Big Pharma … So, I think it’s interesting that this is happening with Google now, and that it’s only targeting Google’s search monopoly, which is what Google began with.
But since then, Google’s business has expanded far beyond search and they’re poised to have a big role in upcoming health care initiatives, for example. I think they’re ready to extend their tentacles, to use that metaphor, into a lot more different sectors, far beyond their search engine.
So maybe people would be assuaged publicly if they think, ‘Oh yeah, Google has been taken down and broken up by the government,’ when in reality they don’t care about their monopoly on search anymore, and they’re already too big to fail. I honestly think at the end of the day, a lot of this antitrust posturing towards Google, I don’t really know if it will go anywhere,” she says.
Data Is the New Oil
Webb also points out that Google’s future is secured by its central and ever-growing role in data mining. Google will be harvesting brand new biological data through the upcoming Warp Speed surveillance system, and in September 2020, Google partnered with the Pentagon to develop predictive diagnostics for cancer using AI, which they intend to extend to other diseases as well, including COVID-19.
“There’s this big push to create an all-powerful artificial intelligence algorithm in order to enable a lot of the functionality that they want to impose in smart cities and these other initiatives they’ve been putting forth.
In order to do that, they need access to data. That’s why we’ve heard over the past couple of years that data is the new oil. It feeds back into this race to develop the greatest AI algorithm. This is very concerning when you look at the National Security Commission on AIs objectives.
They say the only way to maintain U.S. global military hegemony, and also economic hegemony, is to harvest more data than any of their adversaries’ states from Americans in order to be able to develop a better AI algorithm before China can do the same.
That’s what these very powerful and influential organizations are saying. And if you actually look at their documents, they essentially say that there needs to be a total remaking of Americans way of life to facilitate that type of data extraction from a smaller population than the Chinese population.
For example, more data needs to be harvested per American citizen in order to facilitate that leapfrogging of China’s artificial intelligence. So, there is a lot to be concerned about, but I think a lot of people have declined to look at these commissions and institutions and what their thought process is …
And where they’re going is nowhere good. It’s essentially pointing to tyranny in a technocratic system that’s not even governed by humans. It’s governed by an algorithm created by man.
So obviously, it’s a can of worms they’re attempting to open, and the people that are behind this, whether the military and intelligence agencies, when they work in complete secrecy like they are in Warp Speed, they’re historically up to no good … Historically they ruthlessly pursue their own ambitions at the expense of American interests. It’s definitely worth considering all of these things.”
Bioterror Predictions
Based on her research, Webb suspects there will be another phase to the COVID-19 pandemic, some sort of bioterror event, likely before April 2021.
“I don’t have a lot of reasons to be optimistic about the plans there. If you look at the people that predicted the coronavirus crisis before it happened, they were also immediately positioned to benefit from that crisis as it emerged. Bill Gates, for example, in April said that the coronavirus crisis is Pandemic 1, and it will be followed by Pandemic 2, which … would be a bioterror event.
And the way to respond to this Pandemic 2 would be to do the same types of preparations you would do for bioterrorism. That’s straight from Bill Gates … Gates [also] frequently … talked about the need to merge international security, i.e., U.S. foreign policy with health security, as he calls it, and essentially merge the war on terror with a war on bioterror.”
She points out that Event 201, held by Gates, the World Economic Forum and Johns Hopkins in October 2019, featured a novel coronavirus. Was it really a coincidence that a novel coronavirus outbreak occurred 10 weeks later?
‘Dark Winter’ — The Signal for an Anthrax-Related Event?
An earlier tabletop pandemic exercise was done in June 2001. The simulation, called “Dark Winter,” predicted major aspects of the subsequent 2001 anthrax attacks. During the last presidential debate, the Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, stated the U.S. is headed for a “dark winter” — an unusual phrase that raised questions among some commentators.
Before that, the former head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) testified in front of Congress saying that this winter was going to be the “darkest winter” in modern U.S. history. Somehow, many plans actually seem to be signaled beforehand, if you’re keen enough to pick up the cues. Interestingly, with regard to the “Dark Winter” reference and its anthrax connection:
“The Johns Hopkins center for health security has a sister organization at UPMC (University of Pennsylvania Medical Center) called the UPMC Center for Biosecurity, in Pennsylvania. They’re currently, under the guise of coronavirus vaccine research, attempting to fuse anthrax with the coronavirus spike protein. They are also attempting to do the same for measles.
Those are essentially gain of function studies. The person that runs their center for vaccine research at UPMC is a major proponent of these gain of function studies. And when there was a gain of function moratorium, he was its most vocal opponent and was giving all these talks to government officials about how it needed to be lifted.
What’s very odd about what’s going on at UPMC is that in the beginning of the year they were set to produce what could have easily been the first coronavirus vaccine, a COVID-19 vaccine candidate, but it used traditional and tested vaccination methods that are already on the market …
Oddly enough after that had made some headlines … UPMC received a lot of money from CEPI [the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations], which of course is backed by Gates, and as soon as that money was received, that vaccine candidate was quietly dropped, and in its place were these experiments to merge measles with the coronavirus spike protein, and then merge anthrax with that same spike protein.
‘Dark Winter’ may not mean much to the mainstream American public, but it certainly means something to the national security community when they hear that term being thrown around on TV. And then you have Bill Gates saying that after the coronavirus pandemic there’s going to be a bioterror attack.
You also have the Council of Europe, a very influential and elitist think tank in Europe, saying that coronavirus will be followed by bioterror. High-ranking former CIA officials [are also saying it]. A lot of the people involved in Dark Winter in the biodefense industrial complex, which was created after the 2001 anthrax attacks, are all saying the same thing.
We really need to start listening to these people. Of course, they in advance have a narrative they create, not unlike the Dark Winter 2001 exercise itself, which initially claimed that the anthrax attacks were committed by Iraq working with Al-Qaeda. And then lo and behold it’s traced to the U.S. military (at Ft. Detrick) so obviously it did not come from Iraq or from Al-Qaeda.
What you have now are attempts to seed the similar narrative about who will be blamed for events upcoming in the future. They set it up on purpose, I would argue, so that when the event takes place, people are more receptive to those predetermined narratives about this particular crisis and don’t immediately start questioning what could have happened.
They essentially want these events to take place. They want to ramp up the fear, and then they want to conveniently tack blame to something very quickly before an actual thorough investigation can take place. That’s what we saw in the aftermath of September 11 and also in the aftermath of the 2001 anthrax attacks.”
Be Ready, but Not Fearful
If you listen to the interview in its entirety, you’ll have a good idea of why I’m so impressed with Webb’s investigative skills. It’s important to become educated about what’s really happening so that you don’t capitulate to the fear they’re seeking to imbue in us.
It’s a fearful public that allows the technocratic elite to dictate the future and rip away our personal freedoms. It’s fear that allows tyranny to flourish. Remember, there are more of us than there are of them. But enough of us must be willing to stand up and say no, we won’t accept this plan.
On another level, being aware of the plan allows you to plan for your own safety and security ahead of time, so you’re not running around in a panic when something does happen. As the old saying goes, “Being forewarned is being forearmed.”


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Bakersfield , CA — As TFTP reported in 2017 , in a massive blow to justice and a nail in the coffin that is police accountability , two former cops who pleaded guilty to arresting people for drugs , stealing those drugs , and selling them for themselves , avoided jail despite their guilty pleas .
As the Free Thought Project reported , former sheriff ’ s deputies Logan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a massive conspiracy in which they would arrest people for selling drugs only to turn around and use those drugs to enrich themselves .
These two bad cops received probation only , for their crimes .
After getting off with a wrist slap , last year August was charged — again — with with 15 felony counts , including conspiracy and burglary , in connection with stealing over 400 pounds of drugs from a sheriff ’ s storage locker and putting them back on the street .
This recent investigation began last year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Penny pleading no contest to the charges .
Now , this cop is actually going to prison for betraying the community .
As KGET reports , on Thursday , August was sentenced to four years in prison after making an “ open plea ” of no contest to the 15 felonies filed against him .
The plea meant there was no deal with prosecutors in place and he , in effect , was throwing himself at the mercy of the court .
The prison term was met with tears from his many family @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s young daughter cried , “ I want my daddy , ” as family left the courtroom and August was led away in handcuffs .
Before being led away , August addressed the courtroom , noting that he was a changed man and said his tears were tears of joy , not sadness .
After he pleaded guilty in 2017 , investigators later learned that August worked with other law enforcement agencies transporting seized marijuana from crimes scenes to the department — where he was accused of stealing it .
According to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ plea of no contest to two felony counts of falsifying a police report .
He served 90 days in custody and was placed on probation for his involvement in the case .
As we reported at the time , shortly after his arrest , August released a video blaming satan for his actions .
In the video , titled “ I ’ m sorry ” August said , “ I want to first of all just express how sorry I am to the residents of Kern County and Bakersfield and especially to all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kern County Sheriff ’ s department and all the partners in the Bakersfield city Police Department .
And anybody I ever worked with , anybody that wears the badge that I disgraced.
” August explained that he pleaded guilty to his crimes and accepted responsibility for his actions , despite blaming them on satan .
Apparently , this cop was fostering a long-standing relationship with ‘ satan ’ as he ’ d been running this racket for some time .
August has a history of using the power of the state to oppress @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the court document , he routinely participated in “ marijuana eradication operations , ” only to turn around and sell the stolen plants for hefty sums .
August ’ s daughter crying as her dad is led away by police in the courtroom is certainly heartbreaking and no person should ever be caged for selling a plant .
But this officer hypocritically kidnapped and caged others for selling a plant and then turned around and sold the very plants he confiscated from them .
This corruption and betrayal should not go unpunished @ @ @ @ @ @ @ way that the police state and the war on drugs serve only to degrade society and create crime where none should exist .
Growing and selling a medicinal plant that has been used by humans for thousands of years is not the problem .
Government ’ s prohibition of cannabis – borne of racism and the stifling of dissent – is the problem .
While hundreds of thousands of people are locked in cages every year for possessing a beneficial plant , the enforcers of prohibition – “ just doing their job ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this war on people .
The aforementioned deputies are among the rare few that actually get caught .

Cop Gets 4 Years For Arresting People For Weed, Stealing Their Weed And Reselling It
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project
Waking Times
Bakersfield, CA — As TFTP reported in 2017, in a massive blow to justice and a nail in the coffin that is police accountability, two former cops who pleaded guilty to arresting people for drugs, stealing those drugs, and selling them for themselves, avoided jail despite their guilty pleas. As the Free Thought Project reported, former sheriff’s deputies Logan August and Derrick Penney pleaded guilty to a massive conspiracy in which they would arrest people for selling drugs only to turn around and use those drugs to enrich themselves.
These two bad cops received probation only, for their crimes.
After getting off with a wrist slap, last year August was charged — again — with with 15 felony counts, including conspiracy and burglary, in connection with stealing over 400 pounds of drugs from a sheriff’s storage locker and putting them back on the street.
This recent investigation began last year and ended in August with August and Penny pleading no contest to the charges. Now, this cop is actually going to prison for betraying the community.
As KGET reports, on Thursday, August was sentenced to four years in prison after making an “open plea” of no contest to the 15 felonies filed against him. The plea meant there was no deal with prosecutors in place and he, in effect, was throwing himself at the mercy of the court.
The prison term was met with tears from his many family members and friends in attendance. August’s young daughter cried, “I want my daddy,” as family left the courtroom and August was led away in handcuffs.
Before being led away, August addressed the courtroom, noting that he was a changed man and said his tears were tears of joy, not sadness.
“I shouldn’t be deserving of having my wife sitting in the front row right now, but God has restored my marriage,” August said, saying his faith and volunteer work helped him to become a person of integrity.
After he pleaded guilty in 2017, investigators later learned that August worked with other law enforcement agencies transporting seized marijuana from crimes scenes to the department — where he was accused of stealing it.
According to ABC 23, Penny also entered a plea of no contest to two felony counts of falsifying a police report. He served 90 days in custody and was placed on probation for his involvement in the case.
As we reported at the time, shortly after his arrest, August released a video blaming satan for his actions.
In the video, titled “I’m sorry” August said, “I want to first of all just express how sorry I am to the residents of Kern County and Bakersfield and especially to all the partners that I have with the Kern County Sheriff’s department and all the partners in the Bakersfield city Police Department. And anybody I ever worked with, anybody that wears the badge that I disgraced.”
August went on to say that “I made that decision based on Satan playing games with me, and making me feel like I was prideful and unable to go to family members for help.”
August explained that he pleaded guilty to his crimes and accepted responsibility for his actions, despite blaming them on satan.
Apparently, this cop was fostering a long-standing relationship with ‘satan’ as he’d been running this racket for some time.
August has a history of using the power of the state to oppress others and profit from it. According to the court document, he routinely participated in “marijuana eradication operations,” only to turn around and sell the stolen plants for hefty sums.
“On 10 separate occasions between March 2014 and December 2014, August wrongfully took marijuana from a law enforcement eradication operation for personal gain. August distributed to his former confidential informant the equivalent of 25 pounds of usable marijuana wrongfully taken from these law enforcement eradication operations. August received $15,000 from the sale of this marijuana.”
August’s daughter crying as her dad is led away by police in the courtroom is certainly heartbreaking and no person should ever be caged for selling a plant. But this officer hypocritically kidnapped and caged others for selling a plant and then turned around and sold the very plants he confiscated from them. This corruption and betrayal should not go unpunished.
All of this underscores yet another way that the police state and the war on drugs serve only to degrade society and create crime where none should exist. Growing and selling a medicinal plant that has been used by humans for thousands of years is not the problem. Government’s prohibition of cannabis – borne of racism and the stifling of dissent – is the problem.
While hundreds of thousands of people are locked in cages every year for possessing a beneficial plant, the enforcers of prohibition – “just doing their job” – benefit both legally and illegally from this war on people. The aforementioned deputies are among the rare few that actually get caught.


thewakingtimes--2020-11-04--As Oregon Decriminalizes ALL Illegal Substances, Drugs Are The Real Winner Of 2020 Election

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We don ’ t yet know which crazy old man will continue to fan the flames of the US Empire from the White House for the next four years , but there was some actual good news to come out of the polls yesterday .
In a near-landslide , Oregon became the first state in history to decriminalize all drugs , including hard drugs like heroin , cocaine , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ citizens , the vote passed with 59 % of voters in favor .
The other 41 % still lives in the dark ages where they think kidnapping and caging people is a way to treat substance abuse problems .
The “ Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act ” will now transition Oregon ’ s drug policy from a punitive , criminal approach to “ a humane , cost-effective , health approach.
” Instead of using the barrel of a gun to help those with substance abuse issues , Oregon is doing something amazing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of marijuana to offer addiction services .
Currently , cannabis tax revenue in the state is over $ 100 million .
The catch is that only small amounts of drugs are decriminalized , such as less than 1 gram of heroin or MDMA ; 2 grams of cocaine or methamphetamine ; 12 grams of psilocybin mushrooms ; and 40 doses of LSD , oxycodone or methadone .
So , cops will still be kicking in doors , shaking down minorities and poor people , and violating their rights in a search for larger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ criminal penalties for possession of these amounts are replaced with a fine of up to $ 100 , which can be waived if the user is evaluated at Addiction Recovery Centers .
Highlighting the support for the legislation is the number of organizations who signed on to the bill .
Over 100 professional organizations endorsed the measure including the Oregon Chapter of the American College of Physicians , Oregon Nurses Association , Oregon School Psychologists ’ Association , Oregon Academy of Family Physicians , the ACLU and others .
Naturally , those who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ substances deemed illegal by the state aren ’ t too happy with the passage of the bill .
However , they are either lying or haven ’ t paid attention to other countries who have passed similar measures and have watched drug use and crime decline .
One of the most famous success stories in from Portugal who decriminalized all drugs in 2001 .
This never lead to an increase in drug use , but did result in a dramatic reduction of pathologies associated with drug use , such as sexually transmitted diseases @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2009 Cato Institue study .
A 2015 European Drug Report also found that Portugal ’ s drug overdose death rate is five times lower than the European Union average .
The reality of America ’ s war on drugs is that it is not based on scientific evidence .
Instead , it is based on a dark history of oppression , racism , and political corruption .
In spite of some form of cannabis being legal in some fashion in well over half the country , the government still violently and with extreme @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dare possess it .
If the CDC calculated the number of deaths inflicted by police while enforcing marijuana laws , that number would certainly be shocking and could even be deemed a risk to public health .
Marijuana is , indeed , dangerous , but only because of what can happen to you if the police catch you with it .
Nothing highlights the hypocrisy , immorality , and sheer idiocy of the drug war quite like marijuana prohibition .
Here we have a medicine that kills cancer cells , saves the lives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bones , relieves pain , treats PTSD , is not dangerous , and exhibits a variety of other incredible benefits – yet the state will kill you over it .
So why do these tyrants keep it illegal ?
If you want to know who profits from ruining lives and throwing marijuana users in cages , we need only look at who bribes ( also known as lobbies ) the politicians to keep the war on drugs alive .
Below is a list of the top five industries who need you locked in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ order to ensure their job security .
• Police Unions : Coming in as the number one contributor to politicians for their votes to lock you in a cage for a plant are the police themselves .
They risk taking massive pay cuts and losing all their expensive militarized toys without the war on drugs .
• Private Prison Corporations : No surprise here .
The corporatist prison lobby is constantly pushing for stricter laws to keep their stream of tax dollars flowing .
• Alcohol and Beer Companies : These giant corporations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ millions to keep a cheaper and far safer alcohol alternative off the market ?
• Pharmaceutical Corporations : The hypocrisy of marijuana remaining a Schedule 1 drug , “ No Medical Use Whatsoever , ” seems criminal when considering that pharmaceutical companies reproduce a chemical version of THC and can market and sell it as such .
Ever hear of Marinol ?
Big pharma simply uses the force of the state to legislate out their competition ; that happens to be nature .
• Prison Guard Unions : The prison guard unions are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their jobs , that they would rather see thousands of non-violent and morally innocent people thrown into cages than look for another job .
What does it say about a society who ’ s resolute in enacting violence against their fellow human so they can have a job to go to in the morning ?
The person who wants to ingest a substance for medical or recreational reasons is not the criminal .
However , the person that would kidnap , cage , or kill someone because they have a different lifestyle , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Luckily , with bills passing like the one in Oregon , the wall of tyranny that is the war on drugs is starting to come crumbling down .
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA .
This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state .
Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world .
Agorist is also the Editor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Follow @ MattAgorist on Twitter , Steemit , and now on Minds .
**This article ( As Oregon Decriminalizes ALL Illegal Substances , Drugs Are The Real Winner Of 2020 Election ) was originally published at The Free Thought Project and is re-posted here with permission .
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As Oregon Decriminalizes ALL Illegal Substances, Drugs Are The Real Winner Of 2020 Election
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project
Waking Times
We don’t yet know which crazy old man will continue to fan the flames of the US Empire from the White House for the next four years, but there was some actual good news to come out of the polls yesterday. In a near-landslide, Oregon became the first state in history to decriminalize all drugs, including hard drugs like heroin, cocaine, and meth.
Showing the will of the citizens, the vote passed with 59% of voters in favor. The other 41% still lives in the dark ages where they think kidnapping and caging people is a way to treat substance abuse problems.
The “Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act” will now transition Oregon’s drug policy from a punitive, criminal approach to “a humane, cost-effective, health approach.”
“People suffering from addiction are more effectively treated with health care services than with criminal punishments,” the bill reads. “A health care approach includes a health assessment to figure out the needs of people who are suffering from addiction, and it includes connecting them to the services they need.”
Instead of using the barrel of a gun to help those with substance abuse issues, Oregon is doing something amazing and using tax revenue from the sale of marijuana to offer addiction services. Currently, cannabis tax revenue in the state is over $100 million.
The catch is that only small amounts of drugs are decriminalized, such as less than 1 gram of heroin or MDMA; 2 grams of cocaine or methamphetamine; 12 grams of psilocybin mushrooms; and 40 doses of LSD, oxycodone or methadone. So, cops will still be kicking in doors, shaking down minorities and poor people, and violating their rights in a search for larger amounts of these substances.
However, criminal penalties for possession of these amounts are replaced with a fine of up to $100, which can be waived if the user is evaluated at Addiction Recovery Centers.
Highlighting the support for the legislation is the number of organizations who signed on to the bill. Over 100 professional organizations endorsed the measure including the Oregon Chapter of the American College of Physicians, Oregon Nurses Association, Oregon School Psychologists’ Association, Oregon Academy of Family Physicians, the ACLU and others.
Naturally, those who profit from prosecuting those caught with arbitrary substances deemed illegal by the state aren’t too happy with the passage of the bill.
Dozens of district attorneys stood against it, claiming that the measure “recklessly decriminalizes possession of the most dangerous types of drugs (and) will lead to an increase in acceptability of dangerous drugs.”
However, they are either lying or haven’t paid attention to other countries who have passed similar measures and have watched drug use and crime decline.
One of the most famous success stories in from Portugal who decriminalized all drugs in 2001. This never lead to an increase in drug use, but did result in a dramatic reduction of pathologies associated with drug use, such as sexually transmitted diseases and overdose deaths, according to a 2009 Cato Institue study.
A 2015 European Drug Report also found that Portugal’s drug overdose death rate is five times lower than the European Union average.
Imagine that.
The reality of America’s war on drugs is that it is not based on scientific evidence. Instead, it is based on a dark history of oppression, racism, and political corruption.
In spite of some form of cannabis being legal in some fashion in well over half the country, the government still violently and with extreme prejudice continues to seek out those who dare possess it.
If the CDC calculated the number of deaths inflicted by police while enforcing marijuana laws, that number would certainly be shocking and could even be deemed a risk to public health. Marijuana is, indeed, dangerous, but only because of what can happen to you if the police catch you with it.
Nothing highlights the hypocrisy, immorality, and sheer idiocy of the drug war quite like marijuana prohibition. Here we have a medicine that kills cancer cells, saves the lives of countless epileptic children, heals broken bones, relieves pain, treats PTSD, is not dangerous, and exhibits a variety of other incredible benefits – yet the state will kill you over it.
So why do these tyrants keep it illegal?
If you want to know who profits from ruining lives and throwing marijuana users in cages, we need only look at who bribes (also known as lobbies) the politicians to keep the war on drugs alive.
Below is a list of the top five industries who need you locked in a cage for possessing a plant in order to ensure their job security.
Police Unions: Coming in as the number one contributor to politicians for their votes to lock you in a cage for a plant are the police themselves. They risk taking massive pay cuts and losing all their expensive militarized toys without the war on drugs. Private Prison Corporations: No surprise here. The corporatist prison lobby is constantly pushing for stricter laws to keep their stream of tax dollars flowing. Alcohol and Beer Companies: These giant corporations hate competition, so why not pay millions to keep a cheaper and far safer alcohol alternative off the market? Pharmaceutical Corporations: The hypocrisy of marijuana remaining a Schedule 1 drug, “No Medical Use Whatsoever,” seems criminal when considering that pharmaceutical companies reproduce a chemical version of THC and can market and sell it as such. Ever hear of Marinol? Big pharma simply uses the force of the state to legislate out their competition; that happens to be nature. Prison Guard Unions: The prison guard unions are another group, so scared of losing their jobs, that they would rather see thousands of non-violent and morally innocent people thrown into cages than look for another job.
What does it say about a society who’s resolute in enacting violence against their fellow human so they can have a job to go to in the morning?
The person who wants to ingest a substance for medical or recreational reasons is not the criminal. However, the person that would kidnap, cage, or kill someone because they have a different lifestyle, is a villain on many fronts.
Luckily, with bills passing like the one in Oregon, the wall of tyranny that is the war on drugs is starting to come crumbling down.
About the Author
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter, Steemit, and now on Minds.
**This article (As Oregon Decriminalizes ALL Illegal Substances, Drugs Are The Real Winner Of 2020 Election) was originally published at The Free Thought Project and is re-posted here with permission.**


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While the 2020 election continues to deliver shocks , voters in the state of Oregon have delivered a historic verdict by approving a much-needed overhaul of drug laws , decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of “ hard ” drugs like heroin , cocaine , and methamphetamines , while also approving the all-out legalization of psilocybin mushrooms .
Oregon ’ s groundbreaking Measure 110 – the Drug Decriminalization and Addiction Treatment Initiative – reclassifies the low-level possession of illegal substances including heroin , cocaine , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and oxycodone from a misdemeanor to a non-criminal violation , punishable by either a $ 100 fine or a health assessment .
Come Feb. 1 , the state will halt jailing people for petty possession .
The measure passed by a near-landslide 59 percent of voters versus 41 percent , and is the first such law in the entire United States , marking a spectacular victory for criminal justice reform advocates across the nation who backed the law .
By effectively decriminalizing the small-scale possession of drugs , the new law effectively halts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which the “ War on Drugs ” has adversely impacted communities of color and poor communities that have suffered disproportionate over-policing and mass incarceration .
Drug trafficking remains a felony offense , while substantial possession of drugs would be reduced to a felony .
Roughly $ 100 million in cannabis-derived tax revenue will be used to expand rehabilitation services while 24-hour Addiction Recovery Centers will also be opened .
Federal authorities will also be able to aggressively enforce drug laws in the state .
However , advocates are hailing the passage of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ break out of the cycle of arrest , incarceration , and addiction .
“ It ’ s going to be huge , ” Haven Wheelock , a drug counselor for Portland nonprofit Outside In , told VICE .
“ It ’ s going to allow people to get the services they need without fear of arrest .
It ’ s going to change how people who don ’ t use drugs think about drug use .
It ’ s going to allow us to move into a health-based system and hopefully be a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an opportunity to show the rest of the country this is how it should be.
” Voters also made history by legalizing psilocybin or “ magic ” mushrooms by approving Measure 109 – the Psilocybin Mushroom Services Program Initiative – by 55.88 percent .
Under the measure , the state will become the first in the country legalize the use of the psychedelic fungus in controlled doses within the framework of a regulated system overseen by licensed clinicians and therapists .
While multiple cities have decriminalized the substance , Oregon will be the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that allows for supervised statewide use .
The measure gives the Oregon Health Authority the mandate “ to set up all licensing , training , certification , and ongoing education requirements for psilocybin service centers and facilitators during a mandated two-year development process.
” The measure ’ s approval is a huge victory for chief petitioner couple Sheri and Thomas Eckerton , two counselors who have spent years pushing for the legalization of the psychedelic substance .
In a statement , campaigners thanked over 164,000 residents across 300 Oregon states who signed petitions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that psilocybin has shown great promise in a range of psychotherapeutic settings , shattering the old stereotype of psilocybin as some intoxicating and hallucination-inducing party drug that drives its users insane – a reputation that largely grew out of the hippie counterculture of the 1960s when they were widely known as “ psychedelic ” or “ magic ” mushrooms .

Oregon Decriminalizes Heroin, Cocaine, Meths, MDMA, LSD And Totally Legalizes Shrooms
Elias Marat, The Mind Unleashed
Waking Times
While the 2020 election continues to deliver shocks, voters in the state of Oregon have delivered a historic verdict by approving a much-needed overhaul of drug laws, decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of “hard” drugs like heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamines, while also approving the all-out legalization of psilocybin mushrooms.
Oregon’s groundbreaking Measure 110 – the Drug Decriminalization and Addiction Treatment Initiative – reclassifies the low-level possession of illegal substances including heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, ecstasy, LSD, methadone and oxycodone from a misdemeanor to a non-criminal violation, punishable by either a $100 fine or a health assessment. Come Feb. 1, the state will halt jailing people for petty possession.
The measure passed by a near-landslide 59 percent of voters versus 41 percent, and is the first such law in the entire United States, marking a spectacular victory for criminal justice reform advocates across the nation who backed the law.
By effectively decriminalizing the small-scale possession of drugs, the new law effectively halts one of the most pernicious means by which the “War on Drugs” has adversely impacted communities of color and poor communities that have suffered disproportionate over-policing and mass incarceration.
Drug trafficking remains a felony offense, while substantial possession of drugs would be reduced to a felony. Roughly $100 million in cannabis-derived tax revenue will be used to expand rehabilitation services while 24-hour Addiction Recovery Centers will also be opened. Federal authorities will also be able to aggressively enforce drug laws in the state.
However, advocates are hailing the passage of the law as crucial in helping struggling residents break out of the cycle of arrest, incarceration, and addiction.
“It’s going to be huge,” Haven Wheelock, a drug counselor for Portland nonprofit Outside In, told VICE. “It’s going to allow people to get the services they need without fear of arrest. It’s going to change how people who don’t use drugs think about drug use. It’s going to allow us to move into a health-based system and hopefully be a model for other places. We have an opportunity to show the rest of the country this is how it should be.”
Voters also made history by legalizing psilocybin or “magic” mushrooms by approving Measure 109 – the Psilocybin Mushroom Services Program Initiative – by 55.88 percent.
WE DID IT! We are incredibly grateful for the support of each and every voter who helped us make history by creating the first legal psilocybin therapy program in the country. There are so many people to thank, read our full recap of this historic victory. https://t.co/uINSGXknHC pic.twitter.com/TFxDpaNBZp — Healing Advocacy Fund (@voteyeson109) November 4, 2020
Under the measure, the state will become the first in the country legalize the use of the psychedelic fungus in controlled doses within the framework of a regulated system overseen by licensed clinicians and therapists.
While multiple cities have decriminalized the substance, Oregon will be the only one to establish a regulatory framework that allows for supervised statewide use.
The measure gives the Oregon Health Authority the mandate “to set up all licensing, training, certification, and ongoing education requirements for psilocybin service centers and facilitators during a mandated two-year development process.”
Only those holding licenses would be allowed to “provide psilocybin therapy, cultivate psilocybin, or own a psilocybin service center.”
The measure’s approval is a huge victory for chief petitioner couple Sheri and Thomas Eckerton, two counselors who have spent years pushing for the legalization of the psychedelic substance. In a statement, campaigners thanked over 164,000 residents across 300 Oregon states who signed petitions to approve psilocybin therapy.
“We are incredibly grateful for the support of each and every voter who helped us make history by creating the first legal psilocybin therapy program in the country,” the Yes on 109 campaign announced on Twitter. “Healthcare professionals, veterans, mothers, people struggling with depression, anxiety, addiction and end of life distress, community organizations, and so many others answered to call for a new option to help so many who are suffering,” the group added in its statement.
Advocates note that psilocybin has shown great promise in a range of psychotherapeutic settings, shattering the old stereotype of psilocybin as some intoxicating and hallucination-inducing party drug that drives its users insane – a reputation that largely grew out of the hippie counterculture of the 1960s when they were widely known as “psychedelic” or “magic” mushrooms.