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Biowarfare (BW) is part of the Holy Trinity: Gold, Oil, and Drugs - the ‘GOD’ to whom we all pledge allegiance through our consumeristic lifestyles. We are all complicit, that is, these are humanity’s projects as a whole which could reap the whirlwind. Shaping our future by braiding both systems thinking and fractal logic based on Spirituality, Heartfulness, Abilities, Process, and Experience might help us overcome our flawed thinking and cultural myopia.
"In vast laboratories in the Ministry of Peace, and in experimental stations, teams of experts are indefatigably at work searching for new and deadlier gases; or for soluble poisons capable of being produced in such quantities as to destroy the vegetation of whole continents; or for breeds of disease germs immunized against all possible antibodies." --George Orwell. 1984.
"The gods have become diseases…” –Carl Jung, Secret of the Golden Flower
“[Evil is] the exercise of political power—that is, the imposition of one’s will upon others by overt or covert coercion…” Or in other words, it is the use “of political power to destroy others,” for the purpose of defending or preserving the integrity of one’s sick self (or group).” –Scott Peck, People of the Lie.
Dark Biology Bioweaponeers include scientists, medical professionals, intelligence, politicos, lawyers, technicians, military, industrialists and businessmen led by the horrible power of fanatics and arrogant leaders. The bioterrorist is in a singular class, potentially creating a literal epidemic of crime.
Operational risk management is multi-tiered and multi-dimensional. Monitoring covert offensive biological weapons research domestically and from afar has always been a daunting task. Dual-use biotechnology is rapidly spreading the knowledge, equipment, and materials needed to produce crude and sophisticated biological weapons around the world.
Nearly every nation-state in the world today has some level of biodefense and biotechnology capability. We must shape a new counter-terrorism and conceptual framework and analytical approach sophisticated and rich enough to capture current complexities and dynamics, and to create new policy tools that, taken together, improve the international community's ability to drive biological risks to the lowest possible levels. (Armstrong et al, 2008)
At least four risk management agendas or theoretical paradigms are in play: the scientific paradigm, the business paradigm, the military paradigm and the security paradigm. Each frames the landscape from a particular point of view and agenda. Their first step is rationalizing the ethically repugnant.
Drug companies, lobbies and labs are the military-industrial nexus point. ‘Hotspots’ are the targets. Chemical weapons are categorized as Nerve, Blood, Blister, and Incapacitating agents. When you leave the area you leave the risk. Plague wars are an inherent systemic risk. What could be more diabolical than war for profit? The nefarious alchemy of designer disease is fraught with collateral damage. The diseased population, not the disease, becomes the enemy.
The turning points of civilization are marked by war and technology. BW, with its rainbow of insidious killers, is the deadliest form of warfare. To understand war, we have to look at its myths. Crimes against humanity are older than war itself.
When did alchemy become biological warfare? Biowarfare, in particular, is a dark kind of penetration of our minds and bodies. This Voodoo biology, the cruelest weapon of all, trickles down to all members of society. No one is immune.
War is our societal disease; permanent war is a malignancy that devours hearts and souls. As war begs for meaning in the midst of chaos, to fathom it we have to fathom our own depths, our collective shadow, facing the looming specter of socially-engineered autogenocide. In the silent war, invisibly conceived and executed, we are weathered away by stress, shortages of jobs and resources, and threats to our autonomy. The powerless are targeted for elimination from society.
Diabolical Sacrifice If electro-medicine devices can kill all known pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and fungi with resonant frequencies then vaccines and antibiotics become largely unnecessary. Biological warfare becomes much less fearsome, but the gods and goddesses still live on in our psyches, even if we have fantasies of defeating disease.
What price will we pay for worshipping false deities? Will a biological Ragnarok decide the fate of humanity? Will the dreadful goddess Fate (the Inescapable) or Ananke (Necessity) determine our final outcome? The ancient Greeks knew enough to fear the wrath of these gods.
Humans are sacrificed so someone gains power in life. Athena is the goddess of wisdom and warfare, but biowarfare seems to reveal her sociopathic streak. We must seek meaning as zealously as the warrior Mars seeks the aphrodisiac beauty of Victory.
What does war want from us? Do societies “need” wars and scapegoats? Are we prepared to sacrifice ourselves? Is identification or dissociation the first step to catastrophe? What disturbed thinking has brought us to this treacherous threshold? What spiritual brinksmanship might save us from a fate worse than death?
War challenges us to reinvigorate the body-politic. To declare war ‘normal’ or perpetual does not eliminate its pathologies. The state does not guarantee self-preservation. If imagination is the driving force, the idea of an enemy (conditioned by our collective shadow, media, education and beliefs) can be as powerful as any real one.
When the enemy is named, war is declared. The real enemy is fear, itself. The adversary embodies that. Enmity takes many shapes, including self-loathing and projection or scapegoating onto others. This war gets under our skin. With biowarfare, we have concocted new diseases from the ghosts of the dead. These invaders want fresh blood. But perhaps we are mortally wounded before the battle has begun.
Stealth Agents Words as our primary psychological tools are a psiops weapon. Buzzwords can narrow the range of our thoughts, even to the point of phobia or obsession. The rhetoric of biowarfare has impact because it carries body into the fray, stirring fantasy and nightmare. There is a god or psychic element in every disease. When the cure becomes the poison, we know we are in the realm of the Trickster.
Biowarfare is a predatory Trickster, an aspect of the collective shadow, in a culture infected with conceit and cycles of revenge. Like the magician, Trickster re-makes the world according to his own vision, fashioning it to his will. Dirty trickster, dirty war.
Biowarfare has insinuated itself so deep that this harrowing situation is part of the groundstate of our lives. Bio-meddling may save or destroy us, utterly. In selfish hands, even the Elixir of Life turns into a poison. Can we out-trick the Trickster, drinking his elixir yet avoiding its toxic effects?
Risk Mismanagement Global control establishments are run on the principles of chaos theory. Biowarfare is the strange attractor of global architectronics. Instigating turbulence is a sinister means of social control, paradoxically, where one becomes one’s own enemy. Regulating flow translates to institutional disturbance and policing populations.
Biological knowledge is power in the micro- and macrocosm. Control of free information flow is the first casualty as state violence becomes more fluid and intensifies. Brian Massumi describes programmed catastrophe as "virtualization of state violence, its becoming immanent to every co-ordinate of the social field, as unbounded space of fear.” Fear is the state-space.
Programmed catastrophe, the “accidental” architecture of control is riddled with conceptual viruses. Chaos theory demonstrates that as systemic processes cascade into dysfunctionality we are thrown into chaos and catastrophe. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. Fasten your seatbelts for social turbulence.
In complex dynamics, efforts to control the human security system perturb it, feeding the disorder itself. The switch flips from welfare to warfare. The war machine gradually infects all aspects of the state. Control dissolves in the vortical dynamics of population turbulence, cascading from micro to global scales. It has been said that the poison is in the cure. Is it also post-postmodern truism that the crime is in the solution?
Social Modulation “Accident,” derived from the Latin accidens, signals the unanticipated, unexpected – the surprise failure of a system or product. Virilio recognized that the production of substance is simultaneously the invention of that substance’s accident. Failure seems programmed into the product from the moment of its production or implementation . . . breakdown or failure is less the deregulation of production than the production of a specific failure, or even a partial or total destruction."(Virilio 1993 211)
"It is in order to function that a social machine must not function well."(Deleuze & Guattari 1983 151) In this mutant neo-functionalism, megamachines function by breaking down; "Far from being a pathological consequence, the disequilibrium is functional and fundamental." But radical surveillance becomes paramount. In the art of war, the only way to track your enemy is to become it. Paradoxically, to defend against microbial mayhem, we have created gigantic Frankenstein monsters that can eat us alive. In magic, all potions are meant to heal, poison or bewitch, like the elixir of persuasion.
Extreme events, expected or unexpected, can cascade into consequences where a single occurrence avalanches into a series of dynamic system failures, including economic and financial values. If we “follow the money,” financial catastrophe is the consequence of a realignment of the connection between economic and financial value, with economic value often not being destroyed. After disaster there is gradual self-organization of remaining elements.
Dirty Secrets Chemtrail protestors claim this ultimate poisonous aerosol is a deliberate blanket attack on the populace. Immunosuppresant barium salts, mycoplasma and pollutants are named culprits. It wouldn’t be the first time that mass distribution was inflicted on the unwitting public at large.
The BW problem is both domestic and transnational. Despite broad-sweeping 1972 treaties, we have found new means to deliberately weaponize natural and artificially engineered viruses and bacteria. Many claim AIDS and SARS were genetically-engineered [ ]. Other abuses range from mismanagement, to dirty vaccines, to secret use of uninformed civilians as guinea pigs, to genetic targeting and more. In most cases, government or military “spyentists” claim the public has no “need to know.” It is just ‘psiops,’ as usual, full-spectrum psychophysical control in action.
Even more horrifically, state-sponsored programs can escape or be hijacked as bioterrorism threats. Despite treaty bans, a relentless search for the “superbug” continues. In 1989, Vladimir Pasechnik defected to Britain with tales of a genetically-manipulated “superplague” and missile delivery systems. When the Soviet system broke down, scientists put their expertise for sale in the black market. Massive biodefense spending has not made us immune.
Weapons of Mass Infection Classified secrets are tightly held until something escapes high-containment labs. In the mid-70s lyme disease apparently escaped from Plum Island, a Department of Agriculture facility near New York City that doubles as an Army BW research facility. It is a truism that “the poison is in the cure.” When the defense vaccines pose their own dangers, the system itself is sick, presenting a double bind.
Who knows what demons lurk in clandestine freezers and what might yet be created, despite the Biological Weapons Convention? Even cults have used poisonous salmonella, ricin, and lethal sarin gas in their deadly plots. [ ] There are accusations that emerging diseases, such as Swine and Bird flu are genetically-engineered and that West Nile Virus was weaponized.
The mind reels over potential technological revolutions in nano- and genetic agents for evil or good. In May 2009, a nanosuit infused with Reactive Surface Treatment (RST) that repels and kills anthrax spores was announced. Designed to protect troops from BW agents, other applications of self-cleaning fabric include antibacterial sportswear.
Military fabrics can also be oil-resistant, self-extinguishing, or chemical agent-reactive.
www.federallabs.org/pdf/Apri...sLink.pdf Biotech meets nanotech in smart-systems biowarfare detection devices -- photonic and nanotronic biosensor arrays that can immediately detect pathogens and insure public safety.
Leading biotech and biowarfare expert, George Poste is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
www.physorg.com/news6242.html In 2005, the CFR hosted a conference on the global threat of pandemic influenza, a Who’s Who of infectious diseases and global health, including a session on what the world would look like after a pandemic. docs.google.com/gview
Hoyle and Wickramasinghe at the University of Wales at Cardiff suggest that flu epidemics and perhaps other illness can rain down on us from space. They present data correlating high sunspot activity with flu pandemics (large-scale epidemics), driven by a roughly 11-year cycle of solar activity. [ ] Who knows what else space might have in store for humanity but can it be any worse than the heinous measures we inflict on ourselves? Widescale experimentation with mycoplasmas and other agents may already have made us all ticking timebombs.
Great ILLusion Lab space for such work has increased 10-fold since 2001. The Bush administration built a new 160,000 foot lockdown facility at Ft. Detrick. Critics say the laboratory's work will violate international law by producing and stockpiling the world's most lethal bacteria and viruses"- forbidden by the 1972 BWC and 1989 US Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act.
Even after Nixon allegedly ended the nation's biowarfare programs, they never stopped. The CIA remained active through a loophole in the law. The Reagan administration reactivated what Nixon seemingly slowed down. Bush 42 would have been well-familiar with such dark ops from CIA. Linton staunchly advocated dual-use biological defense and weaponry. George W. reveled in unbridled power of all sorts.
Thousands of scientists are now working with bioweapons agents, many for the first time. More than 14,000 scientists have been approved to work with so-called select agents like anthrax that usually pose little threat to public health unless they are used as bioweapons.
Genetically engineered constructs are escaping into the environment, speeding up recombination and jumping species barriers. This is the major route to creating new diseases. With this routine release, we don't need terrorists to create new epidemics. Bioweapon and GM control must come together. By default or design it is still bioterrorism.
Quo Vadis? Biowarfare’s goal is simply the transmission of disease and disorder. It is arguably as old as mankind. The first recorded example is the Hittites use of plague infected rams, 3300 years ago. "Hittite plague" raged through the Middle East in the 14th century B.C.
Contamination of water was another common tactic. The ancient Assyrians (whose civilization began around 2400 B.C. in modern Turkey, Iran, Syria and Iraq) poisoned enemy wells with ergot, an LSD-like fungus that grows on wheat, rye and other grains.
Historically, smallpox and anthrax have been used against adversaries. Anthrax infection was known to the Israelites in Egypt who used figs as a remedy for skin lesions. In the medieval period diseased corpses were catapulted into besieged fortresses. The Mongols did the same with bubonic plague victims.
Where are we going with today’s black ops germ warfare? Hope only offers only delusion for consolation. Our only protection is good food, water and healthy immune systems. The Germ warfare is GOD’s timebomb – Gold, Oil, & Drugs.
No good can come of it. Our only protection is good food, water and healthy immune systems. The pretzel twist is that those are prime targets in the war that never ends. You are in the bullseye.