thelibertybeacon--2020-11-14--US – UK Intel Agencies Declare Cyber War on Independent Media Over Vaccines

A new cyber offensive was launched on Monday by the UK ’ s signal intelligence agency , Government Communications Headquarters ( GCHQ ) , which seeks to target websites that publish content deemed to be “ propaganda ” that raises concerns regarding state-sponsored Covid-19 vaccine development and the multi-national pharmaceutical corporations involved .
Similar efforts are underway in the United States , with the US military recently funding a CIA-backed firm—stuffed with former counterterrorism officials who were behind the occupation of Iraq and the rise of the so-called Islamic State—to develop an AI algorithm aimed specifically at new websites promoting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Covid-19 crisis and the US military–led Covid-19 vaccination effort known as Operation Warp Speed .
Both countries are preparing to silence independent journalists who raise legitimate concerns over pharmaceutical industry corruption or the extreme secrecy surrounding state-sponsored Covid-19 vaccination efforts , now that Pfizer ’ s vaccine candidate is slated to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) by month ’ s end .
Pfizer ’ s history of being fined billions for illegal marketing and for bribing government officials to help them cover up an illegal drug @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other crimes ) has gone unmentioned by most mass media outlets , which instead have celebrated the apparently imminent approval of the company ’ s Covid-19 vaccine without questioning the company ’ s history or that the mRNA technology used in the vaccine has sped through normal safety trial protocols and has never been approved for human use .
Also unmentioned is that the head of the FDA ’ s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research , Patrizia Cavazzoni , is the former Pfizer vice president for product safety who covered up the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ birth defects .
Essentially , the power of the state is being wielded like never before to police online speech and to deplatform news websites to protect the interests of powerful corporations like Pfizer and other scandal-ridden pharmaceutical giants as well as the interests of the US and UK national-security states , which themselves are intimately involved in the Covid-19 vaccination endeavor .
On Monday , the UK newspaper The Times reported that the UK ’ s GCHQ “ has begun an offensive cyber-operation to disrupt anti-vaccine propaganda being spread by hostile states @ @ @ @ @ @ @ developed to tackle disinformation and recruitment material peddled by Islamic State ” to do so .
In addition , the UK government has ordered the British military ’ s 77th Brigade , which specializes in “ information warfare , ” to launch an online campaign to counter “ deceptive narratives ” about Covid-19 vaccine candidates .
The newly announced GCHQ “ cyber war ” will not only take down “ anti-vaccine propaganda ” but will also seek to “ disrupt the operations of the cyber actors responsible for it , including encrypting their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and blocking their communications with each other.
” The effort will also involve GCHQ reaching out to other countries in the “ Five Eyes ” alliance ( US , Australia , New Zealand and Canada ) to alert their partner agencies in those countries to target such “ propaganda ” sites hosted within their borders .
The Times stated that “ the government regards tackling false information about inoculation as a rising priority as the prospect of a reliable vaccine against the coronavirus draws closer , ” suggesting that efforts will continue to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ closer to approval .
It seems that , from the perspective of the UK national-security state , those who question corruption in the pharmaceutical industry and its possible impact on the leading experimental Covid-19 vaccine candidates ( all of which use experimental vaccine technologies that have never before been approved for human use ) should be targeted with tools originally designed to combat terrorist propaganda .
While The Times asserted that the effort would target content “ that originated only from state adversaries ” and would not target the sites of “ ordinary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the effort would rely on the US government for determining whether or not a site is part of a “ foreign disinformation ” operation .
This is highly troubling given that the US recently seized the domains of many sites , including the American Herald Tribune , which it erroneously labeled as “ Iranian propaganda , ” despite its editor in chief , Anthony Hall , being based in Canada .
The US government made this claim about the American Herald Tribune after the cybersecurity firm FireEye , a US government contractor , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” that the site had been “ founded in Iran.
” In addition , the fact that GCHQ has alleged that most of the sites it plans to target are “ linked to Moscow ” gives further cause for concern given that the UK government was caught funding the Institute for Statecraft ’ s Integrity Initiative , which falsely labeled critics of the UK government ’ s actions as well as its narratives with respect to the Syria conflict as being related to “ Russian disinformation ” campaigns .
Given this precedent , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ take the word of either an allied government , a government contractor , or perhaps even an allied media organization such as Bellingcat or the Atlantic Council ’ s DFRLab that a given site is “ foreign propaganda ” in order to launch a cyber offensive against it .
Such concerns are only amplified when one of the main government sources for The Times article bluntly stated that “ GCHQ has been told to take out antivaxers [ sic ] online and on social media .
There are ways they have used to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which suggests that the targets of GCHQ ’ s new cyber war will , in fact , be determined by the content itself rather than their suspected “ foreign ” origin .
The “ foreign ” aspect instead appears to be a means of evading the prohibition in GCHQ ’ s operational mandate on targeting the speech or websites of ordinary citizens .
This larger pivot toward treating alleged “ anti-vaxxers ” as “ national security threats ” has been ongoing for much of this year , spearheaded in part by Imran Ahmed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Countering Digital Hate , a member of the UK government ’ s Steering Committee on Countering Extremism Pilot Task Force , which is part of the UK government ’ s Commission for Countering Extremism .
Ahmed told the UK newspaper The Independent in July that “ I would go beyond calling anti-vaxxers conspiracy theorists to say they are an extremist group that pose a national security risk.
” He then stated that “ once someone has been exposed to one type of conspiracy it ’ s easy to lead them down a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ views that can lead to violent extremism , ” thereby implying that “ anti-vaxxers ” might engage in acts of violent extremism .
Among the websites cited by Ahmed ’ s organization as promoting such “ extremism ” that poses a “ national security risk ” were Children ’ s Health Defense , the National Vaccine Information Center , Informed Consent Action Network , and Mercola.com , among others .
Similarly , a think tank tied to US intelligence—whose GCHQ equivalent , the National Security Agency , will take part in the newly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a research paper published just months before the onset of the Covid-19 crisis that “ the US ‘ anti-vaxxer ’ movement would pose a threat to national security in the event of a ‘ pandemic with a novel organism.
’ ” InfraGard , “ a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) and members of the private sector , ” warned in the paper published last June that “ the US anti-vaccine movement would also be connected with ‘ social media misinformation and propaganda campaigns ’ orchestrated by the Russian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Guardian .
The InfraGard paper further claimed that prominent “ anti-vaxxers ” are aligned “ with other conspiracy movements including the far right .
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and social media misinformation and propaganda campaigns by many foreign and domestic actors .
Included among these actors is the Internet Research Agency , the Russian government–aligned organization.
” An article published just last month by the Washington Post argued that “ vaccine hesitancy is mixing with coronavirus denial and merging with far-right American conspiracy theories , including Qanon , ” which the FBI named a potential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ article quoted Peter Hotez , dean of the School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston , as saying “ The US anti-vaccination movement is globalizing and it ’ s going toward more-extremist tendencies.
” It is worth pointing out that many so-called “ anti-vaxxers ” are actually critics of the pharmaceutical industry and are not necessarily opposed to vaccines in and of themselves , making the labels “ anti-vaxxer ” and “ anti-vaccine ” misleading .
Given that many pharmaceutical giants involved in making Covid-19 vaccines donate heavily to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ involved in numerous safety scandals , using state intelligence agencies to wage cyber war against sites that investigate such concerns is not only troubling for the future of journalism but it suggests that the UK is taking a dangerous leap toward becoming a country that uses its state powers to treat the enemies of corporations as enemies of the state .
In early October , the US Air Force and US Special Operations Command announced that they had awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to the US-based “ machine intelligence ” company Primer .
Per @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the company “ builds software machines that read and write in English , Russian , and Chinese to automatically unearth trends and patterns across large volumes of data , ” and their work “ supports the mission of the intelligence community and broader DOD by automating reading and research tasks to enhance the speed and quality of decision-making.
” In other words , Primer is developing an algorithm that would allow the national-security state to outsource many military and intelligence analyst positions to AI .
In fact , the company openly admits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ will automate the work typically done by dozens of analysts in a security operations center to ingest all of the data relevant to an event as it happens and funnel it into a unified user interface.
” Primer ’ s ultimate goal is to use their AI to entirely automate the shaping of public perceptions and become the arbiter of “ truth , ” as defined by the state .
Primer ’ s founder , Sean Gourley , who previously created AI programs for the military to track “ insurgency ” in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ blog post that “ computational warfare and disinformation campaigns will , in 2020 , become a more serious threat than physical war , and we will have to rethink the weapons we deploy to fight them.
” In that same post , Gourley argued for the creation of a “ Manhattan Project for truth ” that would create a publicly available Wikipedia-style database built off of “ knowledge bases [ that ] already exist inside many countries ’ intelligence agencies for national security purposes.
” Gourley then wrote that “ this effort would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ collective intelligence and establishing a baseline for what ’ s true or not ” as established by intelligence agencies .
He concludes his blog post by stating that “ in 2020 , we will begin to weaponize truth.
” Notably , on November 9 , the same day that GCHQ announced its plans to target “ anti-vaccine propaganda , ” the US website NextGov reported that Primer ’ s Pentagon-funded effort had turned its attention specifically to “ Covid-19 related disinformation.
” According to Primer ’ s director of science , John Bohannon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ detection , synthetic text detection and unstructured textual claims analysis capabilities into our existing artificial intelligence platform currently in use with DOD .
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This will create the first unified mission-ready platform to effectively counter Covid-19-related disinformation in near-real time.
” Bohannon , who previously worked as a mainstream journalist embedded with NATO forces in Afghanistan , also told NextGov that Primer ’ s new Covid-19–focused effort “ automatically classifies documents into one of 10 categories to enable the detection of the impact of COVID ” on areas such as “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the global economy , and elections.
” The final product is expected to be delivered to the Pentagon in the second quarter of next year .
Though a so-called private company , Primer is deeply linked to the national-security state it is designed to protect by “ weaponizing truth.
” Primer proudly promotes itself as having more than 15 percent of its staff hailing from the US intelligence community or military .
The director of the company ’ s National Security Group is Brian Raymond , a former CIA intelligence officer who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the US National Security Council after leaving the agency .
The company also recently added several prominent national-security officials to its board including : • Gen. Raymond Thomas ( ret . )
, who led the command of all US and NATO Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan and is the former commander of both US Special Operations Command and Joint Special Operations Command ( JSOC ) .
• Lt. Gen. VeraLinn Jamieson ( ret . )
, the former deputy chief of staff for Air Force Intelligence , Surveillance and Reconnaissance who led @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cyber forces .
She also personally developed “ strategic partnerships ” between the Air Force and Microsoft , Amazon , Google , and IBM in order “ to accelerate the Air Force ’ s digital transformation.
” • Brett McGurk , one of the “ chief architects ” of the Iraq War “ surge , ” alongside the notorious Kagan family , as NSC Director for Iraq , and then as special assistant to the president and senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush administration .
Under Obama and during part @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS at the State Department , helping to manage the “ dirty war ” waged by the US , the UK , and other allies against Syria .
In addition to those recent board hires , Primer brought on Sue Gordon , the former principal deputy director of National Intelligence , as a strategic adviser .
Gordon previously “ drove partnerships within the US Intelligence Community and provided advice to the National Security Council in her role as deputy director of national intelligence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the CIA .
The deep links are unsurprising , given that Primer is financially backed by the CIA ’ s venture-capital arm In-Q-Tel and the venture-capital arm of billionaire Mike Bloomberg , Bloomberg Beta .
The rapid increase in interest by the US and UK national-security states toward Covid-19 “ disinformation , ” particularly as it relates to upcoming Covid-19 vaccination campaigns , is intimately related to the media-engagement strategy of the US government ’ s Operation Warp Speed .
Officially a “ public-private partnership , ” Operation Warp Speed , which has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by next January , is dominated by the US military and also involves several US intelligence agencies , including the National Security Agency ( NSA ) and the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) , as well as intelligence-linked tech giants Google , Oracle , and Palantir .
Several reports published in The Last American Vagabond by this author and journalist Derrick Broze have revealed the extreme secrecy of the operation , its numerous conflicts of interest , and its deep ties to Silicon Valley and Orwellian technocratic initiatives .
Warp Speed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its phased plan for engaging the public and addressing issues of “ vaccine hesitancy.
” According to the Warp Speed document entitled “ From the Factory to the Frontlines , ” “ strategic communications and public messaging are critical to ensure maximum acceptance of vaccines , requiring a saturation of messaging across the national media.
” It also states that “ working with established partners—especially those that are trusted sources for target audiences—is critical to advancing public understanding of , access to , and acceptance of eventual vaccines ” and that “ identifying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , countering misinformation , and targeting outreach to vulnerable and at-risk populations will be necessary to achieve high coverage.
” The document also notes that Warp Speed will employ the CDC ’ s three-pronged strategic framework for its communications effort .
The third pillar of that strategy is entitled “ Stop Myths ” and has as a main focus “ establish [ ing ] partnerships to contain the spread of misinformation ” as well as “ work [ ing ] with local partners and trusted messengers to improve confidence in vaccines.
” Though @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on specifics , the CDC ’ s Covid-19 Vaccination Program Interim Playbook contains additional information .
It states that Operation Warp Speed will “ engage and use a wide range of partners , collaborations , and communication and news media channels to achieve communication goals , understanding that channel preferences and credible sources vary among audiences and people at higher risk for severe illness and critical populations , and channels vary in their capacity to achieve different communication objectives.
” It states that it will focus its efforts in this regard on “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ radio , and TV ) as well as “ digital media ” ( internet , social media , and text messaging ) .
The CDC document further reveals that the “ public messaging ” campaign to “ promote vaccine uptake ” and address “ vaccine hesitancy ” is divided into four phases and adds that the overall communication strategy of Warp Speed “ should be timely and applicable for the current phase of the Covid-19 Vaccination program.
” • Before a vaccine is available • The vaccine is available in limited supply for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccine is increasingly available for other critical populations and the general public • The vaccine is widely available Given that the Covid-19 vaccine candidate produced by Pfizer is expected to be approved by the end of November , it appears that the US national-security state , which is essentially running Operation Warp Speed , along with “ trusted messengers ” in mass media , is preparing to enter the second phase of its communications strategy , one in which news organizations and journalists who raise legitimate concerns about Warp Speed will be de-platformed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” saturation of pro-vaccine messaging across the English-speaking media landscape .

A new cyber offensive was launched on Monday by the UK’s signal intelligence agency, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), which seeks to target websites that publish content deemed to be “propaganda” that raises concerns regarding state-sponsored Covid-19 vaccine development and the multi-national pharmaceutical corporations involved.
Similar efforts are underway in the United States, with the US military recently funding a CIA-backed firm—stuffed with former counterterrorism officials who were behind the occupation of Iraq and the rise of the so-called Islamic State—to develop an AI algorithm aimed specifically at new websites promoting “suspected” disinformation related to the Covid-19 crisis and the US military–led Covid-19 vaccination effort known as Operation Warp Speed.
Both countries are preparing to silence independent journalists who raise legitimate concerns over pharmaceutical industry corruption or the extreme secrecy surrounding state-sponsored Covid-19 vaccination efforts, now that Pfizer’s vaccine candidate is slated to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by month’s end.
Pfizer’s history of being fined billions for illegal marketing and for bribing government officials to help them cover up an illegal drug trial that killed eleven children (among other crimes) has gone unmentioned by most mass media outlets, which instead have celebrated the apparently imminent approval of the company’s Covid-19 vaccine without questioning the company’s history or that the mRNA technology used in the vaccine has sped through normal safety trial protocols and has never been approved for human use. Also unmentioned is that the head of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Patrizia Cavazzoni, is the former Pfizer vice president for product safety who covered up the connection of one of its products to birth defects.
Pedestrians walk past Pfizer world headquarters in New York on Monday Nov. 9, 2020. Pfizer says an early peek at its vaccine data suggests the shots may be 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, but it doesn’t mean a vaccine is imminent. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Essentially, the power of the state is being wielded like never before to police online speech and to deplatform news websites to protect the interests of powerful corporations like Pfizer and other scandal-ridden pharmaceutical giants as well as the interests of the US and UK national-security states, which themselves are intimately involved in the Covid-19 vaccination endeavor.
UK Intelligence’s New Cyberwar Targeting “Anti-Vaccine Propaganda”
On Monday, the UK newspaper The Times reported that the UK’s GCHQ “has begun an offensive cyber-operation to disrupt anti-vaccine propaganda being spread by hostile states” and “is using a toolkit developed to tackle disinformation and recruitment material peddled by Islamic State” to do so. In addition, the UK government has ordered the British military’s 77th Brigade, which specializes in “information warfare,” to launch an online campaign to counter “deceptive narratives” about Covid-19 vaccine candidates.
The newly announced GCHQ “cyber war” will not only take down “anti-vaccine propaganda” but will also seek to “disrupt the operations of the cyber actors responsible for it, including encrypting their data so they cannot access it and blocking their communications with each other.” The effort will also involve GCHQ reaching out to other countries in the “Five Eyes” alliance (US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada) to alert their partner agencies in those countries to target such “propaganda” sites hosted within their borders.
The Times stated that “the government regards tackling false information about inoculation as a rising priority as the prospect of a reliable vaccine against the coronavirus draws closer,” suggesting that efforts will continue to ramp up as a vaccine candidate gets closer to approval.
It seems that, from the perspective of the UK national-security state, those who question corruption in the pharmaceutical industry and its possible impact on the leading experimental Covid-19 vaccine candidates (all of which use experimental vaccine technologies that have never before been approved for human use) should be targeted with tools originally designed to combat terrorist propaganda.
While The Times asserted that the effort would target content “that originated only from state adversaries” and would not target the sites of “ordinary citizens,” the newspaper suggested that the effort would rely on the US government for determining whether or not a site is part of a “foreign disinformation” operation.
This is highly troubling given that the US recently seized the domains of many sites, including the American Herald Tribune, which it erroneously labeled as “Iranian propaganda,” despite its editor in chief, Anthony Hall, being based in Canada. The US government made this claim about the American Herald Tribune after the cybersecurity firm FireEye, a US government contractor, stated that it had “moderate confidence” that the site had been “founded in Iran.”
In addition, the fact that GCHQ has alleged that most of the sites it plans to target are “linked to Moscow” gives further cause for concern given that the UK government was caught funding the Institute for Statecraft’s Integrity Initiative, which falsely labeled critics of the UK government’s actions as well as its narratives with respect to the Syria conflict as being related to “Russian disinformation” campaigns.
Given this precedent, it is certainly plausible that GCHQ could take the word of either an allied government, a government contractor, or perhaps even an allied media organization such as Bellingcat or the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab that a given site is “foreign propaganda” in order to launch a cyber offensive against it. Such concerns are only amplified when one of the main government sources for The Times article bluntly stated that “GCHQ has been told to take out antivaxers [sic] online and on social media. There are ways they have used to monitor and disrupt terrorist propaganda,” which suggests that the targets of GCHQ’s new cyber war will, in fact, be determined by the content itself rather than their suspected “foreign” origin. The “foreign” aspect instead appears to be a means of evading the prohibition in GCHQ’s operational mandate on targeting the speech or websites of ordinary citizens.
This larger pivot toward treating alleged “anti-vaxxers” as “national security threats” has been ongoing for much of this year, spearheaded in part by Imran Ahmed, the CEO of the UK-based Center for Countering Digital Hate, a member of the UK government’s Steering Committee on Countering Extremism Pilot Task Force, which is part of the UK government’s Commission for Countering Extremism.
Ahmed told the UK newspaper The Independent in July that “I would go beyond calling anti-vaxxers conspiracy theorists to say they are an extremist group that pose a national security risk.” He then stated that “once someone has been exposed to one type of conspiracy it’s easy to lead them down a path where they embrace more radical world views that can lead to violent extremism,” thereby implying that “anti-vaxxers” might engage in acts of violent extremism. Among the websites cited by Ahmed’s organization as promoting such “extremism” that poses a “national security risk” were Children’s Health Defense, the National Vaccine Information Center, Informed Consent Action Network, and Mercola.com, among others.
Similarly, a think tank tied to US intelligence—whose GCHQ equivalent, the National Security Agency, will take part in the newly announced “cyber war”—argued in a research paper published just months before the onset of the Covid-19 crisis that “the US ‘anti-vaxxer’ movement would pose a threat to national security in the event of a ‘pandemic with a novel organism.’”
InfraGard, “a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and members of the private sector,” warned in the paper published last June that “the US anti-vaccine movement would also be connected with ‘social media misinformation and propaganda campaigns’ orchestrated by the Russian government,” as cited by The Guardian. The InfraGard paper further claimed that prominent “anti-vaxxers” are aligned “with other conspiracy movements including the far right . . . and social media misinformation and propaganda campaigns by many foreign and domestic actors. Included among these actors is the Internet Research Agency, the Russian government–aligned organization.”
An article published just last month by the Washington Post argued that “vaccine hesitancy is mixing with coronavirus denial and merging with far-right American conspiracy theories, including Qanon,” which the FBI named a potential domestic terror threat last year. The article quoted Peter Hotez, dean of the School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, as saying “The US anti-vaccination movement is globalizing and it’s going toward more-extremist tendencies.”
Simone Warstat of Louisville, Colo., waves a placard during a rally against a legislative bill to make it more difficult for parents to opt out for non-medical reasons to immunize their children Sunday, June 7, 2020, in Denver.
It is worth pointing out that many so-called “anti-vaxxers” are actually critics of the pharmaceutical industry and are not necessarily opposed to vaccines in and of themselves, making the labels “anti-vaxxer” and “anti-vaccine” misleading. Given that many pharmaceutical giants involved in making Covid-19 vaccines donate heavily to politicians in both countries and have been involved in numerous safety scandals, using state intelligence agencies to wage cyber war against sites that investigate such concerns is not only troubling for the future of journalism but it suggests that the UK is taking a dangerous leap toward becoming a country that uses its state powers to treat the enemies of corporations as enemies of the state.
The CIA-Backed Firm “Weaponizing Truth” with AI
In early October, the US Air Force and US Special Operations Command announced that they had awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to the US-based “machine intelligence” company Primer. Per the press release,
“Primer will develop the first-ever machine learning platform to automatically identify and assess suspected disinformation [emphasis added]. Primer will also enhance its natural language processing platform to automatically analyze tactical events to provide commanders with unprecedented insight as events unfold in near real-time.”
According to Primer, the company “builds software machines that read and write in English, Russian, and Chinese to automatically unearth trends and patterns across large volumes of data,” and their work “supports the mission of the intelligence community and broader DOD by automating reading and research tasks to enhance the speed and quality of decision-making.” In other words, Primer is developing an algorithm that would allow the national-security state to outsource many military and intelligence analyst positions to AI. In fact, the company openly admits this, stating that their current effort “will automate the work typically done by dozens of analysts in a security operations center to ingest all of the data relevant to an event as it happens and funnel it into a unified user interface.”
Primer’s ultimate goal is to use their AI to entirely automate the shaping of public perceptions and become the arbiter of “truth,” as defined by the state. Primer’s founder, Sean Gourley, who previously created AI programs for the military to track “insurgency” in post-invasion Iraq, asserted in an April blog post that “computational warfare and disinformation campaigns will, in 2020, become a more serious threat than physical war, and we will have to rethink the weapons we deploy to fight them.”
In that same post, Gourley argued for the creation of a “Manhattan Project for truth” that would create a publicly available Wikipedia-style database built off of “knowledge bases [that] already exist inside many countries’ intelligence agencies for national security purposes.” Gourley then wrote that “this effort would be ultimately about building and enhancing our collective intelligence and establishing a baseline for what’s true or not” as established by intelligence agencies. He concludes his blog post by stating that “in 2020, we will begin to weaponize truth.”
Notably, on November 9, the same day that GCHQ announced its plans to target “anti-vaccine propaganda,” the US website NextGov reported that Primer’s Pentagon-funded effort had turned its attention specifically to “Covid-19 related disinformation.” According to Primer’s director of science, John Bohannon, “Primer will be integrating bot detection, synthetic text detection and unstructured textual claims analysis capabilities into our existing artificial intelligence platform currently in use with DOD. . . . This will create the first unified mission-ready platform to effectively counter Covid-19-related disinformation in near-real time.”
Bohannon, who previously worked as a mainstream journalist embedded with NATO forces in Afghanistan, also told NextGov that Primer’s new Covid-19–focused effort “automatically classifies documents into one of 10 categories to enable the detection of the impact of COVID” on areas such as “business, science and technology, employment, the global economy, and elections.” The final product is expected to be delivered to the Pentagon in the second quarter of next year.
Though a so-called private company, Primer is deeply linked to the national-security state it is designed to protect by “weaponizing truth.” Primer proudly promotes itself as having more than 15 percent of its staff hailing from the US intelligence community or military. The director of the company’s National Security Group is Brian Raymond, a former CIA intelligence officer who served as the Director for Iraq on the US National Security Council after leaving the agency.
The company also recently added several prominent national-security officials to its board including:
Gen. Raymond Thomas (ret.), who led the command of all US and NATO Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan and is the former commander of both US Special Operations Command and Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).
Lt. Gen. VeraLinn Jamieson (ret.), the former deputy chief of staff for Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance who led the Air Force’s intelligence and cyber forces. She also personally developed “strategic partnerships” between the Air Force and Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and IBM in order “to accelerate the Air Force’s digital transformation.”
Brett McGurk, one of the “chief architects” of the Iraq War “surge,” alongside the notorious Kagan family, as NSC Director for Iraq, and then as special assistant to the president and senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush administration. Under Obama and during part of the Trump administration, McGurk was the special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS at the State Department, helping to manage the “dirty war” waged by the US, the UK, and other allies against Syria.
In addition to those recent board hires, Primer brought on Sue Gordon, the former principal deputy director of National Intelligence, as a strategic adviser. Gordon previously “drove partnerships within the US Intelligence Community and provided advice to the National Security Council in her role as deputy director of national intelligence” and had a twenty-seven-year career at the CIA. The deep links are unsurprising, given that Primer is financially backed by the CIA’s venture-capital arm In-Q-Tel and the venture-capital arm of billionaire Mike Bloomberg, Bloomberg Beta.
Operation Warp Speed’s Disinformation Blitzkrieg
The rapid increase in interest by the US and UK national-security states toward Covid-19 “disinformation,” particularly as it relates to upcoming Covid-19 vaccination campaigns, is intimately related to the media-engagement strategy of the US government’s Operation Warp Speed.
Officially a “public-private partnership,” Operation Warp Speed, which has the goal of vaccinating 300 million Americans by next January, is dominated by the US military and also involves several US intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as well as intelligence-linked tech giants Google, Oracle, and Palantir. Several reports published in The Last American Vagabond by this author and journalist Derrick Broze have revealed the extreme secrecy of the operation, its numerous conflicts of interest, and its deep ties to Silicon Valley and Orwellian technocratic initiatives.
Warp Speed’s official guidance discusses at length its phased plan for engaging the public and addressing issues of “vaccine hesitancy.” According to the Warp Speed document entitled “From the Factory to the Frontlines,” “strategic communications and public messaging are critical to ensure maximum acceptance of vaccines, requiring a saturation of messaging across the national media.” It also states that “working with established partners—especially those that are trusted sources for target audiences—is critical to advancing public understanding of, access to, and acceptance of eventual vaccines” and that “identifying the right messages to promote vaccine confidence, countering misinformation, and targeting outreach to vulnerable and at-risk populations will be necessary to achieve high coverage.”
The document also notes that Warp Speed will employ the CDC’s three-pronged strategic framework for its communications effort. The third pillar of that strategy is entitled “Stop Myths” and has as a main focus “establish[ing] partnerships to contain the spread of misinformation” as well as “work[ing] with local partners and trusted messengers to improve confidence in vaccines.”
Though that particular Warp Speed document is short on specifics, the CDC’s Covid-19 Vaccination Program Interim Playbook contains additional information. It states that Operation Warp Speed will “engage and use a wide range of partners, collaborations, and communication and news media channels to achieve communication goals, understanding that channel preferences and credible sources vary among audiences and people at higher risk for severe illness and critical populations, and channels vary in their capacity to achieve different communication objectives.” It states that it will focus its efforts in this regard on “traditional media channels” (print, radio, and TV) as well as “digital media” (internet, social media, and text messaging).
The CDC document further reveals that the “public messaging” campaign to “promote vaccine uptake” and address “vaccine hesitancy” is divided into four phases and adds that the overall communication strategy of Warp Speed “should be timely and applicable for the current phase of the Covid-19 Vaccination program.”
Those phases are:
Before a vaccine is available
The vaccine is available in limited supply for certain populations of early focus
The vaccine is increasingly available for other critical populations and the general public
The vaccine is widely available
Given that the Covid-19 vaccine candidate produced by Pfizer is expected to be approved by the end of November, it appears that the US national-security state, which is essentially running Operation Warp Speed, along with “trusted messengers” in mass media, is preparing to enter the second phase of its communications strategy, one in which news organizations and journalists who raise legitimate concerns about Warp Speed will be de-platformed to make way for the “required” saturation of pro-vaccine messaging across the English-speaking media landscape.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-11-14--Democrat who supported Trump launching non-profit promoting ‘traditional American values’

Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones—a black Democrat who backed President Trump during the 2020 presidential election—said that he is not seeking reelection , but he is going to roll out a non-profit rooted in “ conservative values.
” “ Waking Up America is a new organization founded by Vernon Jones that promotes traditional American values including hard work , independence , and self-respect , ” the organization ’ s website explains .
“ Despite what you may have been told , we have to get the government out of our way so we can truly achieve the American Dream.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Reports podcast , Jones said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi allowed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others to control the agenda in the U.S. House of Representatives .
“ You know the minnow basically ate the fish over there , ” he said .
“ And it ’ s not good for the American people .
We ’ re not a socialist country .
Ask people from Venezuela that ’ s here and other countries , where socialism just does not work.
” Jones said that this Saturday he ’ ll be speaking in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ event where people will march from Freedom Plaza to the U.S. Supreme Court .
An RSVP page on the stopthesteal.us website states : “ This Saturday , thousands of patriots will be meeting at Freedom Plaza at noon and marching to the Supreme Court to show our support for the integrity of every American ’ s vote and our support for President Trump exhausting every legal recourse available to ensure that EVERY LEGAL VOTE counts and that NO LEGAL VOTE is diluted.
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Democrat who supported Trump launching non-profit promoting ‘traditional American values’
“Waking Up America is a new organization founded by Vernon Jones that promotes traditional American values including hard work, independence, and self-respect,” the organization’s website explains.
By Alex Nitzberg
Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones—a black Democrat who backed President Trump during the 2020 presidential election—said that he is not seeking reelection, but he is going to roll out a non-profit rooted in “conservative values.”
“Waking Up America is a new organization founded by Vernon Jones that promotes traditional American values including hard work, independence, and self-respect,” the organization’s website explains. “Despite what you may have been told, we have to get the government out of our way so we can truly achieve the American Dream.”
During an interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast, Jones said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi allowed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others to control the agenda in the U.S. House of Representatives.
“You know the minnow basically ate the fish over there,” he said. “And it’s not good for the American people. We’re not a socialist country. Ask people from Venezuela that’s here and other countries, where socialism just does not work.”
Jones said that this Saturday he’ll be speaking in the nation’s capital during an event where people will march from Freedom Plaza to the U.S. Supreme Court.
An RSVP page on the stopthesteal.us website states: “This Saturday, thousands of patriots will be meeting at Freedom Plaza at noon and marching to the Supreme Court to show our support for the integrity of every American’s vote and our support for President Trump exhausting every legal recourse available to ensure that EVERY LEGAL VOTE counts and that NO LEGAL VOTE is diluted.”
I’m looking forward to being apart of this historic event on Saturday! Together – alongside thousands of patriots – we will stop the steal! pic.twitter.com/l87qDP5zwh — Vernon Jones (@RepVernonJones) November 12, 2020
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thelibertybeacon--2020-11-14--Antidepressants – driving unhappy people crazy

Here is a timely warning in light of the fact that the government ’ s collusion with its pals in the pharmaceuticial industry is inflicting on the population inordinate stress that the pharmaceutical industry is very quick – via its psychiatric pushers posing as real doctors – to cash in on via the sale of antidepressants .
But antidepressants are yet another booby trap from an industry that specialises in laying booby traps for the unsuspecting public .
As partners in commerce , pharmaceutical companies and psychiatrists are like bees around a honey pot , looking for the next opportunity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drugs .
For this unholy alliance , business is business .
It ’ s an alliance that regularly feeds off of human misery but it ’ s now taken the venture to a new low by attempting to feed off of happy people too .
A study has attempted to encourage the use of antidepressants for people who are doing just fine , who are happy and functioning well .
The dangerous drugs are being perversely promoted as a means of ‘ preventing ’ depression .
It ’ s a commercial enterprise that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Over the decades , much has been written about the effects of antidepressant drugs and their association with death and destruction .
They have been linked to aggression and violence , to the horrors of school shootings and to suicidal thoughts and suicidal behaviour that occur in people taking the drugs .
One of the reasons the death and destruction continues is down to the fact that consumers just don ’ t know how risky it is to take the drugs .
Parents have lost children after they started taking antidepressants .
If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drugs , it ’ s unlikely they would consent to the ‘ treatment.
’ The most recent Government figures from 2018 show there were 518 death linked to antidepressants .
The number of deaths in the last ten years was over 4500 deaths .
In other words , someone died every day in that time period as a result of antidepressant prescribing .
These are appalling statistics but they are testimony to an impressive psychiatric machine that continues to pump out drug propaganda erroneously accepted as scientific or factual .
For those who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or for those who are suffering the effects from taking them in present time , it can feel like a kick in the teeth .
For them , any so-called benefits will never outweigh the long list of risks .
Also realise this – antidepressants are big business .
Since 2000 , the NHS has spent over £5 billion on antidepressants in England alone .
Selling dangerous psychiatric drugs for profit may be good business , but it ’ s bad medicine .
The dangers associated with psychiatric drugs are known .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ long time .
Suggesting therefore that healthy and happy people should take the drugs is a blatant disregard for human life and tantamount to criminal assault .
Be fully informed and don ’ t fall for the psychiatric spin .
Brian Daniels is the executive director of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights ( CCHR ) for the UK CCHR has been fighting since 1969 to expose and end abuses of the citizenry by psychiatrists on the pretence of “ mental health This article is from UK Reloaded The Liberty Beacon Project is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and for this we are grateful and excited !
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Here is a timely warning in light of the fact that the government’s collusion with its pals in the pharmaceuticial industry is inflicting on the population inordinate stress that the pharmaceutical industry is very quick – via its psychiatric pushers posing as real doctors – to cash in on via the sale of antidepressants.
But antidepressants are yet another booby trap from an industry that specialises in laying booby traps for the unsuspecting public.
The use of antidepressants to “prevent” depression
As partners in commerce, pharmaceutical companies and psychiatrists are like bees around a honey pot, looking for the next opportunity to generate income through psychiatric labels and drugs. For this unholy alliance, business is business. It’s an alliance that regularly feeds off of human misery but it’s now taken the venture to a new low by attempting to feed off of happy people too. A study has attempted to encourage the use of antidepressants for people who are doing just fine, who are happy and functioning well. The dangerous drugs are being perversely promoted as a means of ‘preventing’ depression. It’s a commercial enterprise that represents nothing more than brazen profiteering. Over the decades, much has been written about the effects of antidepressant drugs and their association with death and destruction. They have been linked to aggression and violence, to the horrors of school shootings and to suicidal thoughts and suicidal behaviour that occur in people taking the drugs. One of the reasons the death and destruction continues is down to the fact that consumers just don’t know how risky it is to take the drugs. Parents have lost children after they started taking antidepressants. If they knew the potential dangers of the drugs, it’s unlikely they would consent to the ‘treatment.’ The most recent Government figures from 2018 show there were 518 death linked to antidepressants. The number of deaths in the last ten years was over 4500 deaths. In other words, someone died every day in that time period as a result of antidepressant prescribing. These are appalling statistics but they are testimony to an impressive psychiatric machine that continues to pump out drug propaganda erroneously accepted as scientific or factual. For those who have lost loved ones after taking antidepressants, or for those who are suffering the effects from taking them in present time, it can feel like a kick in the teeth. For them, any so-called benefits will never outweigh the long list of risks. Also realise this – antidepressants are big business. Since 2000, the NHS has spent over £5 billion on antidepressants in England alone. Selling dangerous psychiatric drugs for profit may be good business, but it’s bad medicine. The dangers associated with psychiatric drugs are known. They’ve been known for a long time. Suggesting therefore that healthy and happy people should take the drugs is a blatant disregard for human life and tantamount to criminal assault. Be fully informed and don’t fall for the psychiatric spin. Brian Daniels is the executive director of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) for the UK CCHR has been fighting since 1969 to expose and end abuses of the citizenry by psychiatrists on the pretence of “mental health Visit CCHR UK now
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thelibertybeacon--2020-11-14--Issues raised with Georgia ‘recount’ of contested presidential election [Video]

Georgia GOP Chairman David Shafer shared a video on Friday , showing one of the Republican observers standing behind police tape , alongside the media , unable to actually watch the recount .
Observer access was one of the five major issues Shafer and Trump campaign representative Doug Collins brought up in a letter to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Thursday .
The recount allowed only one monitor per 10 audit teams , they said , making it impossible to effectively observe the process .
The audit also “ does not include a review of signatures on absentee @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the validity of the statutory signature verification process by the counties , ” they wrote , pointing out that some counties may not have verified the ballots at all .
Signature review is “ fundamental ” to the audit , and it ’ s impossible to certify the elections without it , Collins and Shafer wrote .
They also objected to the directive that results must be certified by Friday , lack of timely instructions to poll workers about the audit , and only a “ single passing reference ” in the instructions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ custody involving the ballots .
Georgia was among several states where Trump was in the lead on election night , but his rival Joe Biden surged ahead due to mail-in ballots and delayed vote counts in urban Democrat strongholds .
The Trump campaign has filed lawsuits in Nevada , Pennsylvania , Michigan and Wisconsin seeking recounts and audits of the votes there .
Meanwhile , the mainstream media outlets “ called ” the election for Biden last Saturday , and he has already begun assembling a “ transition ” team .
In addition @ @ @ @ @ @ @ election , Georgia will hold two runoff votes for the US Senate in January , as none of the candidates officially managed to get fifty percent of the vote in the first round .
Incumbent Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are facing Democrat challengers Jon Osoff and Raphael Warnock , respectively .
If Democrats win both seats , they will control both the House and the Senate for the next two years .
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Georgia GOP Chairman David Shafer shared a video on Friday, showing one of the Republican observers standing behind police tape, alongside the media, unable to actually watch the recount.
One of our observers at the hand count of the ballots ordered by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Does this inspire confidence? pic.twitter.com/jRoFCvqWoZ — David Shafer (@DavidShafer) November 13, 2020
Observer access was one of the five major issues Shafer and Trump campaign representative Doug Collins brought up in a letter to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Thursday. The recount allowed only one monitor per 10 audit teams, they said, making it impossible to effectively observe the process.
The audit also “does not include a review of signatures on absentee ballot applications and ballot envelopes to confirm the validity of the statutory signature verification process by the counties,” they wrote, pointing out that some counties may not have verified the ballots at all.
Signature review is “fundamental” to the audit, and it’s impossible to certify the elections without it, Collins and Shafer wrote.
They also objected to the directive that results must be certified by Friday, lack of timely instructions to poll workers about the audit, and only a “single passing reference” in the instructions to security, transport and chain of custody involving the ballots.
Why have Georgia counties been told to certify results by 5pm tomorrow (before the recount is finished)? Why isn’t signature review part of the process? If the SOS’s stated goal is to “build public confidence,” these issues need to be addressed. https://t.co/FymosDWPFO — Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) November 13, 2020
Georgia was among several states where Trump was in the lead on election night, but his rival Joe Biden surged ahead due to mail-in ballots and delayed vote counts in urban Democrat strongholds.
The Trump campaign has filed lawsuits in Nevada, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin seeking recounts and audits of the votes there. Meanwhile, the mainstream media outlets “called” the election for Biden last Saturday, and he has already begun assembling a “transition” team.
In addition to recounting the votes in the presidential election, Georgia will hold two runoff votes for the US Senate in January, as none of the candidates officially managed to get fifty percent of the vote in the first round. Incumbent Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are facing Democrat challengers Jon Osoff and Raphael Warnock, respectively. If Democrats win both seats, they will control both the House and the Senate for the next two years.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-11-14--Sidney Powell vows to expose Dem collusion behind prominent voting machine firm [Video]

Republican attorney Sidney Powell has vowed to “ expose every one of ” the officials who helped allegedly steal the 2020 election for Democrat Joe Biden , claiming voting machine maker Dominion Voting Systems facilitated the theft .
Powell , who is representing former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn in his Russiagate-spawned legal battle , leveled her own allegations of foreign collusion and election meddling on Fox News ’ Lou Dobbs Tonight show on Friday .
Threatening those responsible with a “ new American revolution , ” she called for a sweeping probe into what she described as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dominion Voting Systems , one of the largest makers of voting machines for the US , “ was created to produce altered voting results in Venezuela for [ socialist leader ] Hugo Chavez , ” Powell argued that the system – which she said was funded by Cuba and China as well as Caracas – is little more than an election-fixing operation .
Dominion has “ been used all over the world to defy the will of people who wanted freedom , ” she declared .
“ Patriots are coming forward all day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that shows just hundreds of thousands of votes being put in and replicated ” to swing the vote to Biden , Powell said , suggesting Big Tech and the media establishment had finished the job by covering up for Dominion and its political cronies .
“ There needs to be a massive criminal investigation and it ’ s going to affect just millions of voters and elections , ” she told the Fox News host , urging viewers to “ come forward now and get on the right side of this issue and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dominion Voting Systems ” while she prepares to pull up the curtain on the entire operation .
Powell seemed unconcerned about the December deadline looming for states to certify their election results , arguing that “ for fraud this serious , I think… even if the states are stupid enough to go ahead and certify the votes where we know the machines were operating and producing altered election results… they will be set aside by the fraud also.
” Nor were members of law enforcement safe , she intimated – not only does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ election security team need to be fired “ yesterday , ” but FBI director Chris Wray is long overdue for firing , she said , slamming the intel chief for wasting taxpayer resources intimidating a postal service whistleblower into recanting his story .
American voters in 28 states cast their ballots using Dominion technology , including the areas where vote counting has come under scrutiny in Georgia , Michigan , Arizona , and Nevada .
The company has “ categorically denied ” any issues with its voting machines affected last week ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Really ?
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See Story below , Dr. Eric Coomer , VP of Dominion Voting Systems .
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Rudy Giuliani : ‘ I have never seen an election case with half this evidence of fraud ’ Dr. Eric Coomer , VP of Dominion Voting Systems : “ Officials Have Access to Manipulate the Vote ”

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Republican attorney Sidney Powell has vowed to “expose every one of” the officials who helped allegedly steal the 2020 election for Democrat Joe Biden, claiming voting machine maker Dominion Voting Systems facilitated the theft.
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Powell, who is representing former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn in his Russiagate-spawned legal battle, leveled her own allegations of foreign collusion and election meddling on Fox News’ Lou Dobbs Tonight show on Friday. Threatening those responsible with a “new American revolution,” she called for a sweeping probe into what she described as a longstanding pattern of election interference.
Release the Kraken: @SidneyPowell1 vows to expose the Silicon Valley and left-wing corporations that are using their power to help Democrats steal the election from @realDonaldTrump. #MAGA #AmericaFirst #Dobbs pic.twitter.com/EPJSfUZqM2 — Lou Dobbs (@LouDobbs) November 13, 2020
Claiming Dominion Voting Systems, one of the largest makers of voting machines for the US, “was created to produce altered voting results in Venezuela for [socialist leader] Hugo Chavez,” Powell argued that the system – which she said was funded by Cuba and China as well as Caracas – is little more than an election-fixing operation.
Dominion has “been used all over the world to defy the will of people who wanted freedom,” she declared.
President Trump won this election in a landslide. It’s going to be irrefutable.
“Patriots are coming forward all day every day” with “statistical evidence that shows just hundreds of thousands of votes being put in and replicated” to swing the vote to Biden, Powell said, suggesting Big Tech and the media establishment had finished the job by covering up for Dominion and its political cronies.
“There needs to be a massive criminal investigation and it’s going to affect just millions of voters and elections,” she told the Fox News host, urging viewers to “come forward now and get on the right side of this issue and report the fraud they know existed in Dominion Voting Systems” while she prepares to pull up the curtain on the entire operation.
I’m going to release the Kraken.
Powell seemed unconcerned about the December deadline looming for states to certify their election results, arguing that “for fraud this serious, I think… even if the states are stupid enough to go ahead and certify the votes where we know the machines were operating and producing altered election results… they will be set aside by the fraud also.”
Nor were members of law enforcement safe, she intimated – not only does the Department of Homeland Security’s election security team need to be fired “yesterday,” but FBI director Chris Wray is long overdue for firing, she said, slamming the intel chief for wasting taxpayer resources intimidating a postal service whistleblower into recanting his story.
American voters in 28 states cast their ballots using Dominion technology, including the areas where vote counting has come under scrutiny in Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada. The company has “categorically denied” any issues with its voting machines affected last week’s election.
(TLB) ed: Really??? See Story below, Dr. Eric Coomer, VP of Dominion Voting Systems.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-11-14--Study Reveals … Even a Military-Enforced Quarantine Can’t Stop the Virus

The New England Journal of Medicine has published a study that goes to the heart of the issue of lockdowns .
The question has always been whether and to what extent a lockdown , however extreme , is capable of suppressing the virus .
If so , you can make an argument that at least lockdowns , despite their astronomical social and economic costs , achieve something .
If not , nations of the world have embarked on a catastrophic experiment that has destroyed billions of lives , and all expectation of human rights and liberties , with no payoff @ @ @ @ @ @ @ studies that show no gain in virus management from lockdowns .
Even as early as April , a major data scientist said that this virus becomes endemic in 70 days after the first round of infection , regardless of policies .
The largest global study of lockdowns compared with deaths as published in The Lancet found no association between coercive stringencies and deaths per million .
To test further might seem superfluous but , for whatever reason , governments all over the world , including in the US , still are under the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through a range of “ nonpharmaceutical interventions ” ( NPIs ) like mandatory masks , forced human separation , stay-at-home orders , bans of gatherings , business and school closures , and extreme travel restrictions .
Nothing like this has been tried on this scale in the whole of human history , so one might suppose that policy makers have some basis for their confidence that these measures accomplish something .
A study conducted by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in cooperation with the Naval Medical Research Center sought to test @ @ @ @ @ @ @ May , 3,143 new recruits to the Marines were given the option to participate in a study of extreme quarantine ( along with extreme antivirus measures ) or not .
The study was called CHARM , which stands for COVID-19 Health Action Response for Marines .
Of the recruits asked , a total of 1,848 young people agreed to be guinea pigs in this experiment .
The remaining ones went about their normal basic training in regular ways .
What did the CHARM recruits have to do ?
The study explains , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ faced an even more strict regime that has existed in civilian life in most places .
All recruits wore double-layered cloth masks at all times indoors and outdoors , except when sleeping or eating ; practiced social distancing of at least 6 feet ; were not allowed to leave campus ; did not have access to personal electronics and other items that might contribute to surface transmission ; and routinely washed their hands .
They slept in double-occupancy rooms with sinks , ate in shared dining facilities , and used shared bathrooms .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ sanitized bathrooms after each use with bleach wipes , and ate preplated meals in a dining hall that was cleaned with bleach after each platoon had eaten .
Most instruction and exercises were conducted outdoors .
All movement of recruits was supervised , and unidirectional flow was implemented , with designated building entry and exit points to minimize contact among persons .
All recruits , regardless of participation in the study , underwent daily temperature and symptom screening .
Six instructors who were assigned to each platoon worked in 8-hour shifts and enforced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any signs or symptoms consistent with Covid-19 , they reported to sick call , underwent rapid qPCR testing for SARS-CoV-2 , and were placed in isolation pending the results of testing .
Instructors were also restricted to campus , were required to wear masks , were provided with preplated meals , and underwent daily temperature checks and symptom screening .
Instructors who were assigned to a platoon in which a positive case was diagnosed underwent rapid qPCR testing for SARS-CoV-2 , and , if the result was positive , the instructor was removed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prohibited from interacting with campus support staff , such as janitorial and food-service personnel .
After each class completed quarantine , a deep bleach cleaning of surfaces was performed in the bathrooms , showers , bedrooms , and hallways in the dormitories , and the dormitory remained unoccupied for at least 72 hours before reoccupancy .
The reputation of Marine basic training is that it is tough going but this really does take it to another level .
All respect for those who volunteered for this !
Also , this is an environment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ around .
There was surely close to 100 % compliance , as compared with , for example , a typical college campus .
What were the results ?
Incredibly , 2 % of the CHARM recruits still contracted the virus , even if all but one remained asymptomatic .
“ Our study showed that in a group of predominantly young male military recruits , approximately 2 % became positive for SARS-CoV-2 , as determined by qPCR assay , during a 2-week , strictly enforced quarantine.
” And how does this compare to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the strict regime ?
Have a look at this chart from the study : Which is to say that the nonparticipants actually contracted the virus at a slightly lower rate than those who were under an extreme regime .
Conversely , extreme enforcement of NPIs was associated with a greater degree of infection .
I ’ m grateful to Don Wolt for drawing my attention to this study , which , so far as I know , has received very little attention from any media source at all , despite having been published @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on November 11 .
Here are four actual media headlines about the study that miss the point entirely : • US Navy : “ Navy/Marine Corps COVID-19 Study Findings Published in New England Journal of Medicine ” No national news story that I have found highlighted the most important finding of all : extreme quarantine among military recruits did nothing to stop the virus , compared with a non-quarantine group .
The study is important because of the social structure of control here .
It ’ s one thing to observe no effects @ @ @ @ @ @ @ variables here that could be invoked as cautionary notes : demographics , population density , preexisting immunities , degree of compliance , and so on .
But with this Marine study , you have a near homogeneous group based on age , health , and densities of living .
And even here , you see confirmed what so many other studies have shown : lockdowns are pointlessly destructive .
They do not manage the disease .
They crush human liberty and produce astonishing costs , such as 5.53 million years of lost life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The lockdowners keep telling us to pay attention to the science .
That ’ s what we are doing .
When the results contradict their pro-compulsion narrative , they pretend that the studies do not exist and barrel ahead with their scary plans to disable all social functioning in the presence of a virus .
Lockdowns are not science .
They never have been .
They are an experiment in social/political top-down management that is without precedent in cost to life and liberty .
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Even a Military-Enforced Quarantine Can’t Stop the Virus, Study Reveals
By: Jeffrey A. Tucker
The New England Journal of Medicine has published a study that goes to the heart of the issue of lockdowns. The question has always been whether and to what extent a lockdown, however extreme, is capable of suppressing the virus. If so, you can make an argument that at least lockdowns, despite their astronomical social and economic costs, achieve something. If not, nations of the world have embarked on a catastrophic experiment that has destroyed billions of lives, and all expectation of human rights and liberties, with no payoff at all.
AIER has long highlighted studies that show no gain in virus management from lockdowns. Even as early as April, a major data scientist said that this virus becomes endemic in 70 days after the first round of infection, regardless of policies. The largest global study of lockdowns compared with deaths as published in The Lancet found no association between coercive stringencies and deaths per million.
To test further might seem superfluous but, for whatever reason, governments all over the world, including in the US, still are under the impression that they can affect viral transmissions through a range of “nonpharmaceutical interventions” (NPIs) like mandatory masks, forced human separation, stay-at-home orders, bans of gatherings, business and school closures, and extreme travel restrictions. Nothing like this has been tried on this scale in the whole of human history, so one might suppose that policy makers have some basis for their confidence that these measures accomplish something.
A study conducted by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in cooperation with the Naval Medical Research Center sought to test the whole idea of lockdowns. In May, 3,143 new recruits to the Marines were given the option to participate in a study of extreme quarantine (along with extreme antivirus measures) or not. The study was called CHARM, which stands for COVID-19 Health Action Response for Marines. Of the recruits asked, a total of 1,848 young people agreed to be guinea pigs in this experiment. The remaining ones went about their normal basic training in regular ways.
What did the CHARM recruits have to do? The study explains, and, as you will see, they faced an even more strict regime that has existed in civilian life in most places.
All recruits wore double-layered cloth masks at all times indoors and outdoors, except when sleeping or eating; practiced social distancing of at least 6 feet; were not allowed to leave campus; did not have access to personal electronics and other items that might contribute to surface transmission; and routinely washed their hands. They slept in double-occupancy rooms with sinks, ate in shared dining facilities, and used shared bathrooms. All recruits cleaned their rooms daily, sanitized bathrooms after each use with bleach wipes, and ate preplated meals in a dining hall that was cleaned with bleach after each platoon had eaten. Most instruction and exercises were conducted outdoors. All movement of recruits was supervised, and unidirectional flow was implemented, with designated building entry and exit points to minimize contact among persons. All recruits, regardless of participation in the study, underwent daily temperature and symptom screening. Six instructors who were assigned to each platoon worked in 8-hour shifts and enforced the quarantine measures. If recruits reported any signs or symptoms consistent with Covid-19, they reported to sick call, underwent rapid qPCR testing for SARS-CoV-2, and were placed in isolation pending the results of testing. Instructors were also restricted to campus, were required to wear masks, were provided with preplated meals, and underwent daily temperature checks and symptom screening. Instructors who were assigned to a platoon in which a positive case was diagnosed underwent rapid qPCR testing for SARS-CoV-2, and, if the result was positive, the instructor was removed from duty. Recruits and instructors were prohibited from interacting with campus support staff, such as janitorial and food-service personnel. After each class completed quarantine, a deep bleach cleaning of surfaces was performed in the bathrooms, showers, bedrooms, and hallways in the dormitories, and the dormitory remained unoccupied for at least 72 hours before reoccupancy.
The reputation of Marine basic training is that it is tough going but this really does take it to another level. All respect for those who volunteered for this! Also, this is an environment where those in charge do not mess around. There was surely close to 100% compliance, as compared with, for example, a typical college campus.
What were the results? Incredibly, 2% of the CHARM recruits still contracted the virus, even if all but one remained asymptomatic. “Our study showed that in a group of predominantly young male military recruits, approximately 2% became positive for SARS-CoV-2, as determined by qPCR assay, during a 2-week, strictly enforced quarantine.”
And how does this compare to the control group that was not subjected to the strict regime?
Have a look at this chart from the study:
Which is to say that the nonparticipants actually contracted the virus at a slightly lower rate than those who were under an extreme regime. Conversely, extreme enforcement of NPIs was associated with a greater degree of infection.
I’m grateful to Don Wolt for drawing my attention to this study, which, so far as I know, has received very little attention from any media source at all, despite having been published in the New England Journal of Medicine on November 11.
Here are four actual media headlines about the study that miss the point entirely:
CNN: “Many military Covid-19 cases are asymptomatic, studies show”
SciTech Daily: “Asymptomatic COVID-19 Transmission Revealed Through Study of 2,000 Marine Recruits”
ABC: “Broad study of Marine recruits shows limits of COVID-19 symptom screening”
US Navy: “Navy/Marine Corps COVID-19 Study Findings Published in New England Journal of Medicine”
No national news story that I have found highlighted the most important finding of all: extreme quarantine among military recruits did nothing to stop the virus, compared with a non-quarantine group.
The study is important because of the social structure of control here. It’s one thing to observe no effects from national lockdowns. There are countless variables here that could be invoked as cautionary notes: demographics, population density, preexisting immunities, degree of compliance, and so on. But with this Marine study, you have a near homogeneous group based on age, health, and densities of living. And even here, you see confirmed what so many other studies have shown: lockdowns are pointlessly destructive. They do not manage the disease. They crush human liberty and produce astonishing costs, such as 5.53 million years of lost life from the closing of schools alone.
The lockdowners keep telling us to pay attention to the science. That’s what we are doing. When the results contradict their pro-compulsion narrative, they pretend that the studies do not exist and barrel ahead with their scary plans to disable all social functioning in the presence of a virus. Lockdowns are not science. They never have been. They are an experiment in social/political top-down management that is without precedent in cost to life and liberty.
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