US Ebola Experiment: An Advancement in Bio-Warfare

As doctors in West Africa skirmish to combat a disease which has claimed more lives than A.L.S. and plane crashes (per year) combined, people are beginning to question why the WHO and U.N. did not contain the Ebola outbreak earlier and why it is spreading at such an unprecedented rate. The demand for San Diego based company Mapp Biopharmaceutical's new wonder drug, ZMapp continues to rise across Western parts of the continent. Despite still being in its testing phases, the WHO has approved the experimental drug for human treatment in West Africa. The result? According to a report released by N.B.C. News two weeks ago, the drug has successfully cured American aid workers Dr Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol after being infected by the disease in Liberia. What people don't actually know is that, the C.D.C. patented hybrid strains of the Ebola virus on April 29 2010. This gives the C.D.C. and U.S. government exclusive profits and ownership of all Ebola viruses with 70% similarity to the invented Ebola Bundibugyo strain.

Behind the patent lies nine years of research lead by Dr Robert Garry (Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; researcher for BioFactura) and the Tulane University, along side Bio-Warfare researchers from the U.S. Department of Defense - specifically the U.S. Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) from Fort Detrick, Maryland. It is not exactly clear why research on Ebola (Lassa fever) and bio-warfare was conducted in the region years leading to the incident, however, on the 23rd of July 2014 Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health and Sanitation announced that the "Tulane University is to stop Ebola testing during the current outbreak."

The Liberian Daily Observer published an article last week Tuesday by former Professor of Plant Pathology, Dr Cyril E. Broderick claiming that "testing has been secretly taking place in Africa". Global Biodefence, a website aimed at informing the world about the latest health threats such as Lassa fever, confirmed that USAMRIID has been operating in the region since 2006. USAMRIID opened the doors for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to operate in the area with USAMRIID and the bright minded researchers of Tulane University. It's no secret that DTRA is a major researcher of bio-warfare and W.M.Ds on a global scale.

Recently, Monsanto has decided to fund Tekmira Pharmaceuticals $1.5million towards research on an anti-Ebola drug. This wouldn't be the first time Tekmira received 'generous' cash advances. In the past, Tekmira received $140million from the U.S. Department of Defense, long before the outbreak.

According to the Centre for Research Globalization, US Ebola researchers from Tulane University have been kicked out of Sierra Leone, along with bio-warfare researchers from USAMRIID. The Sierra Leone government ordered a U.S. bio-weapons lab in Kenema to be moved, following claims that the U.S. State Department may have something to do with the outbreak. In effect, the Sierra Leone government has requested the C.D.C.'s 'bio-war' lab results for analysis.

"Usually the process of getting a drug approved for use takes years," Clinical Research Associate, Stacey Treu on the ZMapp trial process. "First, they need to test it on healthy humans to check for major side effects. After that, testing begins on a population of diseased individuals, followed by a much larger population when there's progress. These trials can take months, even years. On the other hand, there maybe an expedited process for outbreaks, that I am unaware of although it's unlikely."

It seems that the U.S. State Department has a lot to answer for. For instance, why did the C.D.C. monopolize all profits relating to Ebola (Lassa fever) four years prior to the outbreak?

-Nick Ndaba

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-Louisiana Record
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The Wisdom Wire: A.L.S. Challenge Anyone?

So, I've noticed these ALS - Ice Bucket awareness missions & posts all over social media pages , I.e. Facebook , Twitter , Instagram etc, and have given it some real thought.

The whole ALS - Ice Bucket awareness program, was set up and put into action to raise awareness and to educate those people who were not aware of the ALS disease that gets passed down through generations, its severity and how dangerous it is. Majority of the people worldwide were not aware of such a disease, or of it existence and/or the severity of it due to previous awareness programs/campaigns and previous steps of actions taken to try educate the people about it, has failed to educate the world and make us aware of such a disease or its existence. It did not go global and spread at a rapid pace until the recent "Ice Bucket Nomination & Donation Challenge" awareness program/campaign was set-up and the video was up loaded onto the web . It only became a powerful awareness program due to the fact that people/you get challenged to either do the "Ice Bucket Challenge" and share it to raise awareness of ALS or "Donate a some of funds" to the donation link provided at the end of the video; to help raise enough funds to possibly create a pharmaceutical creation/vaccine/treatment to either cure, treat or slow the process of the disease down because of the fact that ALS is not a well known disease and not too many people world wide can contract it - it only runs down the generations of those who already have it. Its not contagious, doesn't spread like wild fire and cannot be picked up through means of touch, water or air. It is irreversible and cannot be cured  treated or have the process slowed down as of yet and by that, hence making it no major threat to the human race. Too few currently have it and suffer from it to be a global risk such as Ebola , Malaria or Aids etc... Hence giving government and major pharmaceutical companies no real objective or desire to seek/create a treatment for it, as the amount of money that would be spent to acquire vaccines, means of treatment and/or cures is of high demand unlike common, well known illnesses and diseases. The money required for pharmaceutical companies for research and tests is way too high/too much for government's payroll these days apparently and hence do not want to fund it when they have the means to [Because government is just fucked up like that and they just thrive of destruction and not peace, money control and power control] They declare it not a deadly enough disease to effect the human race on a major scale because of the number of people worldwide who currently suffer and die from it , which is apparently not on a high enough scale to try develop vaccines , treatments and/or a cure ..
[Fucked up yes , but that's the high ego and extensive greed our worlds governments have today]
All Governments have the worlds amount of money for military purposes to "Conquer and Control" , to harm and cause unnecessary destruction and to destroy the fellow human brethren due to our different Religious, Cultural, Political, Colour and Sexual views that cannot be accepted by one another, that they won't fund/aid to help one another when in need and to try bring life back to fellow brothers and sisters and not take from them the limited time on our planet Earth we call home. Enough on that part, now for part 2.

Some facts that we all take for granted everyday and every way:

• More than 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes. Nearly all deaths, 99 percent, occur in the developing world.

• Lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills children at a rate equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every four hours.

• Of the 60 million people added to the world's towns and cities every year, most move to informal settlements (i.e. slums) with no sanitation facilities.

• 780 million people lack access to an improved water source; approximately one in nine people.2

• "[The water and sanitation] crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns."

• An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than the average person in a developing country slum uses for an entire day.

• Over 2.5x more people lack water than live in the United States.

• More people have a mobile phone than a toilet.

Now you knowing that, here's my issue on this awareness program/campaign and the moral of this story of mine: What difference does it make when millions of people worldwide are deprived and die, each day at a rate that cannot be controlled, stopped or slowed down, which is more than all diseases and illnesses known to man. I repeat , people are deprived and die from the most basic necessity of life: water. We have at least 4 taps or more sources of fresh flowing water in our homes and surroundings, unlike millions who walk miles or more from their homesteads to find and retrieve water for their families and communities - which is not always clean and healthy, but they still need it to survive and most likely end up suffering with deformities, malnutrition sicknesses, diseases , illnesses and underdeveloped growth and last but not least: a sad painful cold death ignored by the world. They died from something that they were deprived from, something basic and simple. The essence of life that we take for granted everyday in every way. Millions of people are throwing buckets of ice cold, fresh clean water, retrieved from meters away [not miles away, but meters] from a tap nearby, that we take for granted and thrown over our ignorant, ego-filled and greedy heads to raise awareness of ALS. Why not use sand/soil or something else? There is no life in sand/soil and has no potential to SAVE MILLIONS OF LIVES, it makes us dirty and that's about it! Raising awareness for something should not disrespect the need/necessity of life in many suffering people's lives worldwide in underdeveloped countries. People smile and laugh during the challenge and then challenge another to do the same to raise awareness for something they honestly really do not care about, or that is so minute compared to the bigger picture of humanity. Well smile for all the lives you have chosen not to help, taken for granted and most probably have now died in the time span taken to read this message because that water, the most basic necessity needed for growth and life in every organism/species alive, is now wasted and taken for granted and disrespected due to poor awareness/campaign steps taken and shared globally.

-Nayt Smith and The Wisdom Wire

(images courtesy of: World Resource Institute, AFK Insider and rappler.com)

Today's Cold War and The Media

Entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, mastermind behind the Virgin Group, published a statement on the company's website signed by " [16] Russian, Ukrainian and international business leaders, calling for an end to the on-going conflict in Ukraine." On the statement, he mentions the fall of the Berlin Wall as: "One of the greatest moments in our lives. Nobody wants to see a return of those dark days."

Indeed, the events of Kiev earlier this year and the on-going Ukrainian Crisis has certainly put a stir to East and West politics. Despite the current 'cold-shoulder' foreign policy being played by Washington (the West's Sphere of Influence) and the 'so be it' demeanour played by Moscow, perhaps the most interesting display of aggression is the Media Warfare between the two superpowers.

Both countries continue to accuse one another of misinformation. The American mainstream media, channels like C.N.N., often demonized Russian President Vladimir Putin for his rightful stance against NATO Expansion and the Ukrainian Army's war crimes in East Ukraine. The Western media goes as far as to blame the current crisis in the East, as well as the deaths of innocent civilians on Russian-backed Separatists. However, sources in the shelled city of Donetsk state that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are to blame for the murders of civilians in the area. Despite the evidence, American mainstream media refuses to cover both sides of the story. Take, for instance, the events of 17 July 2014 when Malaysian flight M.H.17 was shot-down by a Russian anti-aircraft missile. Western politicians were quick to direct blame towards Putin and were willing to wage immediate war with Russia. This is before a formal investigation had even been initiated. Like adding fuel to the smallest flame, the Western media pushed headlines such as: "Putin's Missile" - The Sun (U.K.); "Putin's War" - The Daily News (U.S.). The outcome of the investigation was declared 'classified' by U.S. allies heading the investigation and the media simply stopped covering it.

On the other side of the world, Russian media has been generating a lot of attention, because they follow up on the stories rejected by American mainstream media and this has got a lot of people thinking about the motives of the U.S. On Russia Today, when asked about a statistic made by the United Nations earlier this year, claiming that over 110 000 refugees had fled to Russia, U.S. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said: "The statistics does not match the intelligence from our sources on the ground.” Russian media has taken the approach of asking the questions which people are apprehensive to answer. Over 14 Russian media journalists have been killed and abducted in Eastern Ukraine since the start of the coup in Kiev in December 2013 – the most controversial being, the abduction of Russian photojournalist Andrey Stenin on August 5th. Rallies across the world are demanding that the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) release the abducted journalist with a #FreeAndrew hashtag. RIA Novosti news agency's sources from the war torn city of Donetsk report that he was abducted by "Right-Sector militants" and taken to the headquarters of the Ukrainian Security Service in Zaporozhye. An SBU representative, however, claimed that they had not detained any Russian journalists.

What concerns most people analysing the situation in the Ukraine, is the United States' unnecessary "support" of President Poroshenko, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and the Yatsenyuk Government. This American backing was made public in a leaked phone call between Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Victoria Nuland (who met with the Coalition Party prior to their establishment in office) and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, when they could clearly be heard discussing who to place as Prime Minister in Kiev. This, in effect, has triggered Moscow's concerns and has led the world to question America's foreign policy. Concerns have also been raised about the United States' goal to expand NATO closer and closer to the Russian border. This is after an agreement between the two superpowers during the reunification of Germany on the 12 September 1990 (Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany), when U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Jack Matlock said that the West gave a "clear commitment" not to expand. According to the Soviets, NATO membership was off the table for countries such as Czechoslovakia, Hungary, or Poland. Come twenty four years later, the U.S. is not only in major violation of the Treaty, but is also in talks to make the Ukraine an active NATO member. This has been utterly neglected by Western mainstream media.

Amidst the media wars, comes the economic and political battle between Russia and the European Union (encouraged by the United States). The U.S. and E.U. imposed sanctions on Russia, targeting state-owned banks, imposing an arms embargo, restricting sales of [sensitive] technology and the export of equipment for the oil industry in the country. Russia saw it fit to add sanctions of their own against the West, the most recent (yesterday) were visa sanctions on Japanese citizens after the Japanese cabinet approved sanctions targeting 40 Russian individuals and 2 Russian companies. These sanctions are quickly leading the European Union to total economic collapse and it will affect the entire planet. Russia, is expected to break-away from the U.S. economy, after it signed an agreement (another treaty similar to the Warsaw Pact if you were to think about it) with Brazil, India, South Africa and economic superpower, China. This was known as the: BRICS. The BRICS is designed to form a "fresh" economy amongst its members and move away from the Dollar-dominated world economy.

Some criticize whether President Vladimir Putin is attempting to "reinvent" the Soviet Union, but some argue that the only reason for Putin to rebuild the Soviet Union would be to defend himself against President Obama's newly formed policy of Containment.

People around the world are referring back to the days when the Iron Curtain hung between East and West Germany, fearing that history may be repeating itself. Despite the Unites States and the European Union assuring its citizens that the world is not at the brink of yet, another Cold War, many believe that the Cold War never ended in the eyes of the United States.

Stay lifted

- Nick Ndaba