John R. Houk, Blog Editor
Posted July 21, 2023
Here are a series of posts that might be challenging for the
low attention span generation, NEVERTHELESS – If you place any value on
Liberty, you might want some awareness of what potentially is coming
down the pike.
o Greg
Reese: Banking
Insider Warns CBDCs Will Be Implanted Chips (7/19/23)
o Political
Moonshine: DISMANTLED:
Part I – ODNI Report on COVID-19 Wuhan Origins Is an Exit Strategy
(7/19/23)
o Activist
Post: The
Military Dangers of AI Are Not Hallucinations (7/20/23)
o The
Cradle: US
military sought to experiment on Africans for big pharma: Kremlin
(7/19/23)
DO NOT swallow any of these posts hook-line-and-sinker!
Do some critical thinking and some double checking on your own. Particularly
the last post because much of the sourcing is Russia. I DO NOT TRUST Russia any
more than I do Putin’s (former Communist KGB Agent – OF INTEREST: HERE
& HERE)
newest ally the CCP-China. A biblical teacher of influence in my past offered
wise advice: Be as smart as an old cow – eat the hay and spit out the sticks.
JRH 7/21/23
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Banking Insider Warns CBDCs Will Be Implanted Chips [**I’m
reversing the order of the original Substack post. Here it will be text first
then video AND the video will be Bitchute rather than Reese’s original upload.]
Claims our only hope is to build our own banking
system
By GREG
REESE
July 19, 2023
https://twitter.com/SaiKate108/status/1681141978770341890?s=20
The Bank for International Settlements recently published a
report called, “Blueprint
for the future monetary system: improving the old, enabling the new.” This
report proposes that a Central Bank Digital Currency will serve as the new
reserve currency. And calls for the digital confiscation of all physical
property by assigning every real-world item its own unique digital token which
will contain rules on how each item can and cannot be used. So that each person
can be controlled
and conditioned directly by the central bank.
Bitchute VIDEO: BANKING INSIDER WARNS CBDCS
WILL BE IMPLANTED CHIPS
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First Published July 19th, 2023 12:44
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DISMANTLED: Part I – ODNI Report on COVID-19 Wuhan
Origins Is an Exit Strategy
Potential Links to Wuhan [Political Moonshine Photo]
July 19, 2023
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In June of this year, the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence issued its report ‘Potential Links Between the Wuhan
Institute of Virology and the Origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic.’ Analysis of
the report against the backdrop of a substantial catalog of evidence indicates
that the ODNI report is a covering exit strategy to control unavoidable
circumstances. Those circumstances include the devastating effects of the mRNA
“vaccines” and entangle the Biden family via Metabiota via Labyrinth Global
Health, Inc., via Black & Veatch via COVID-19 contracts with the US
Department of Defense.
The problematic aspects of ODNI’s report begin
with the word ‘potential’ in the title.
There’s no ‘potential’ when US federal dollars flowed from
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s NIAID through the conduit of Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth
Alliance to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
There’s no ‘potential’ when artificial HIV inserts are
discovered in SARS-CoV-2 as an indicator of ‘gain of function’ work, which
means the virus was weaponized.
There’s no ‘potential’ when the evidence indicates that
SARS-CoV-2, which according to US patent filings attached to it and whereby
federal law prohibits patenting anything that is naturally occurring, was
bioengineered at the WIV.
There’s no ‘potential’ when a whistleblower and former
doctor from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Li-Meng Yan, indicates that her
lab developed SARS-CoV-2 as a bioweapon while she worked there.
‘Potential’ is a key word for an exit.
Another troublesome aspect here is ODNI’s delinquent timing
relative to the 2024 election; as overlaid by the fact that to a certain depth,
much of the information cited in this report has been available in the public
domain for several years.
Of course, we have no idea about the classified annex
contents, though.
ODNI report’s Executive Summary states [emphasis added]:
(U) This report responds to the
COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023, which called for the U.S. Intelligence
Community (IC) to declassify information relating to
potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the origin of
the COVID-19 pandemic. This report outlines the IC’s
understanding of the WIV, its capabilities, and the actions of its personnel
leading up to and in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. This
report does not address the merits of the two most likely pandemic origins
hypotheses, nor does it explore other biological facilities in Wuhan other than
the WIV. A classified annex to this report includes information
that was necessary to exclude from the unclassified portion of this report in
order to protect sources and methods, but the information contained in
the annex is consistent with the unclassified assessments contained in this
report.
(U) This report was drafted by
the National Intelligence Officer for Weapons of Mass Destruction
and Proliferation and coordinated with the IC
ODNI’s summary findings are plagued in several fundamental
ways.
For one and according to the aggregate analysis
at Moonshine, the intelligence community having jurisdiction is
problematic for the reasons that follow.
The intelligence community is the spine to a long timeline of
geopolitical corruption, criminality, biowarfare, assassinations and treason
and this is the same intelligence community that is charged with declassifying
COVID-19 origins information.
The COVID-19 origins information attaches to US federal
dollars and is direct evidence of the biowarfare cited.
In one instance, funding from Anthony Fauci’s NIAID flowed
through the conduit of Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance to the WIV.
On its face, it’s ludicrous to believe that ODNI under Biden
is going to come forward with anything off-reservation or further damaging to
an already collapsed COVID-19 narrative.
Secondly, ODNI’s scope is extremely limited in
its failure to address the merits of the two floated COVID-19 origins
hypotheses, which remain cover stories themselves, and in its
failure to consider other biolabs in China or elsewhere [like the over
40 US Department of Defense biolabs in Ukraine].
Thirdly but not surprisingly, there is a
classified annex containing further information and therefore, our
only indicator is that the two information sets are said to be consistent with
one another according to ODNI’s word.
Fourthly, ODNI is wielding ‘sources and
methods’ for concealment purposes, which is a staple hiding spot for the
intelligence and law enforcement communities.
Between a classified annex and ‘sources and methods,’
there are plenty of hiding spots for ODNI to park the truth about the origins
of COVID-19 where none of us will ever see it.
What little has come-out is extremely late, curiously
timed to the 2024 election and represents cover stories in their own regard.
Lastly, the ODNI report was authored by the
National Intelligence Officer for Weapons of Mass Destruction and Proliferation.
The calibration of COVID-19 to biowarfare via its
categorization under WMD/proliferation is direct evidence of 1-positions
established in very early 2020 and 2-May 06 May 20 statement that President
Trump was a wartime president and that the US is embroiled in an asymmetrical,
irregular and undeclared war against China according to China’s stated and
preferred doctrinal warfare vector of biowarfare.
The WMD categorization falls back on analysis from my 06
May 20 article Making
the Case for Treason:
Moreover, there
were multiple incidents of Chinese nationals smuggling bio-weapons that
were interrupted and one relates to an FBI tactical intelligence report on
WMDDs (weapons of mass destruction) that gave the FBI notice of the China viral
outbreak circa October 2019; two months before the World Health
Organization (WHO) was made aware. More troublesome is that the attached
ancillary intelligence report was marked FISA. Even more troubling is
the FBI’s failure to meet its onus of reporting the outbreak – a
national security concern – to the DOD as they are compelled to do. Why was the
DOD kept in the dark? Was it that pesky intelligence report marked
FISA coupled with WMDD and tying back to folks interested in winning 2020? In
short, likely.
As Speaker of the House, Pelosi
is an ex officio member of Adam Schiff’s House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence and they would have been privy to the aforementioned intelligence
reports; especially given the national security implications.
If the FBI knew in October 2019,
so did Pelosi, presumably. What did Nancy do between October 2019 and 18 Dec
19? She apparently ignored the viral outbreak and instead drove a fraudulent
impeachment scheme. Does that reflect intent, motivation, means, access,
opportunity and dereliction of duty? What about other high crimes and
misdemeanors? Note that when we say Pelosi, it extends to her Chairmen and
complicit others.
Political Moonshine on 06 May 20
The analysis on the FISA marker is a simple one that adheres
to old ideas about constructs serving more than one purpose.
Obama, et al. were abusing FISA/FISC
as a mechanism of intelligence gathering on their political opponents.
With FISA/FISC already a compromised and effective mechanism
for intelligence gathering, the lane for the most success and the least
risk was applying FISA warrants to subjects executing their own
designed criminality.
By assigning FISA markers to their own kind and because FISC
is the most secretive known court in the country that supersedes other
jurisdictions to prevent any agency or department from further discussion or
action, Obama/Biden et al. were able to use FISA to vacuum-up evidence of their
own ongoing criminality to seal it away at the highest and most secretive
level.
FISC is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and
FISA is the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act; in particular section 702, which
provides the statutory authority.
702 FISA warrants permit the intelligence community to surveil
foreign subjects and subjects who are US citizens for the purpose of collecting
information.
The component of ‘intelligence hops’ bears
down very hard here.
For example, FISC may authorize agents and officers using
Section 702 warrants to extend out the scope of the warrant to include people
contacting the warrant subject in the context of the warrant by 2 or 3 levels
of contact.
When this occurs, the FISA warrant “hops” to the contacting
individual making him a subject of the warrant.
If, for example, the intelligence community dispatched a
foreign asset like Joseph Misfud to engage with someone who interacted with
President Trump, like former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopolous,
President Trump is only one or two “hops” away from being a FISA warrant
subject.
Then, if DOJ cared to pursue a prosecution of President
Trump, a Special Counsel could be appointed like Robert Mueller was in 2017.
President Trump was [is?] a FISA warrant subject, so you can
do the math there.
From FISA:
Section 702 of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act is a critical tool for
protecting our national security. It enables the U.S. Intelligence
Community to collect, analyze, and share foreign intelligence
information on individual terrorists, weapons proliferators, hackers, and other
foreign intelligence targets. Take a deeper look at how we use
FISA Section 702, how privacy and civil liberties safeguards are built into our
work, and how our use of these tools is overseen by all three branches of
government.
-FISA
The initial investigation into President Trump was begun
as a counterintelligence investigation and then later transitioned to
a criminal investigation.
Targeting Trump with a FISA warrant allowed Obama/Biden et
al. to avoid the higher evidentiary threshold required for a criminal warrant.
So then, once the counterintelligence investigation was off
the ground and running it was laundered into a criminal investigation by the
DOJ.
The DOJ inherited the FISA-based counterintelligence
investigation and laundered it into a criminal case appointing Robert Mueller,
who personally delivered yellow cake uranium samples to a Russian runway in the
Hillary Clinton Uranium One scandal, as Special Counsel to prosecute it.
In actuality, though, establishment pit bull and Leftist
stalwart Andrew Weissmann ran that operation and the entire DOJ since anything
that mattered fell under the Special Counsel’s scope and purview.
FISA permitted Obama/Biden et al. to circumvent three
things: 1-a higher evidentiary threshold required for a criminal
warrant on Trump, 2-Trump’s fundamental rights guaranteed by the US
Constitution and 3-the CIA’s own directive that prevents it from operating
domestically; much less on a sitting president.
COVID-19 was a “pandemic” of enterprise fraud in
service to a multifaceted coup d’etat that permitted the theft of the 2020
election as a mechanism to remove a sitting president; and the intelligence
community is the spine to all of it.
This is the same intelligence community that made
declassification decisions and then authored and issued this COVID-19 origins
report while hiding behind a classified annex from inside of a ‘sources and
methods’ bunker.
THE ANALYSIS holds that ODNI is in damage
control mode to steer the unavoidable circumstances of the back end of a
fraudulent “pandemic” and its failed narrative to the most advantageous and
acceptable landing spot.
At the same time, ODNI is serving up multiple origins cover
stories to choose from and with no commitment to either one nor to any effort
to further investigate for the truth.
It is clear that the ODNI report is an important component
to a broader COVID-19 exit strategy.
That exit strategy is required as a remedy for the
establishment’s failed COVID-19 narrative.
That exit strategy is required because the President and
Commander-in-Chief Joe Biden and the Department of Defense are central nodes
that are reinforced by a wide swath of similarly compromised politicians and unelected
federal bureaucrats.
That exit strategy is required because the intelligence
community that conscripted all of these players owns a failed narrative
associated with unprecedented death and destruction; and it needs an out now;
before 2024.
Be warned, though.
Although SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 is going away, the construct
into which it was plugged will never go away rather it will be the model for
global governance in the form of medical tyranny.
All that’s needed is a new virus to plug in and there’s no
shortage of those.
In part two, we will further dismantle the ODNI report in
greater detail including Q&A from one of America’s Frontline Doctors, Dr. Lynn
Fynn.
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The Military Dangers of AI Are Not Hallucinations
By Michael Klare and
Tom Engelhardt
July 20, 2023
I give myself credit for being significantly ahead of my
time. I first came across artificial intelligence (AI) in 1968 when I was just
24 years old and, from the beginning, I sensed its deep dangers. Imagine that.
Much as I’d like to brag about it, though, I was anything
but alone. I was, in fact, undoubtedly one of millions of people who saw the
movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick from a
script written with Arthur C. Clarke (inspired by
a short story, “The Sentinel,” that famed science-fiction writer Clarke had produced
in – yes! – 1948). AI then had an actual name, HAL 9,000 (but
call “him” Hal).
And no, the first imagined AI in my world did not act well,
which should have been (but didn’t prove to be) a lesson for us all. Embedded
in a spaceship heading for Jupiter, he killed four
of the five astronauts on it and did his best to do in the last of them before
being shut down.
It should, of course, have been a warning to us all about a
world we would indeed enter in this century. Unfortunately, as with so many
things that are worrying on planet Earth, it seems that we couldn’t help
ourselves. HAL was destined to become a reality – or rather endlessly
multiplying realities – in this world of ours. In that context, TomDispatch regular Michael
Klare, who has been warning
for years about a “human” future in which “robot generals”
could end up running armed forces globally, considers wars to come, what it
might mean for AI to replace human intelligence in major militaries globally,
and just where that might lead us. I’m not sure that either Stanley Kubrick or
Arthur C. Clarke would be surprised. ~ Tom Engelhardt
†††††
Human Extinction as Collateral Damage
By Michael Klare
A world in which machines governed by artificial
intelligence (AI) systematically replace human beings in most business,
industrial, and professional functions is horrifying to imagine. After all, as
prominent computer scientists have been warning us, AI-governed systems
are prone
to critical errors and inexplicable “hallucinations,”
resulting in potentially catastrophic outcomes. But there’s an even more
dangerous scenario imaginable from the proliferation of super-intelligent
machines: the possibility that those nonhuman entities could end up fighting
one another, obliterating all human life in the process.
The notion that super-intelligent computers might run amok
and slaughter humans has, of course, long been a staple of popular culture. In
the prophetic 1983
film WarGames, a supercomputer known as WOPR (for War
Operation Plan Response and, not surprisingly, pronounced “whopper”) nearly
provokes a catastrophic nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet
Union before being disabled by a teenage hacker (played by Matthew Broderick).
The Terminator movie
franchise, beginning with the original 1984 film, similarly envisioned a
self-aware supercomputer called “Skynet” that, like WOPR, was designed to
control U.S. nuclear weapons but chooses instead to wipe out humanity, viewing
us as a threat to its existence.
Though once confined to the realm of science fiction, the
concept of supercomputers killing humans has now become a distinct possibility
in the very real world of the near future. In addition to developing a wide
variety of “autonomous,”
or robotic combat devices, the major military powers are also rushing to create
automated battlefield decision-making systems, or what might be called “robot generals.” In
wars in the not-too-distant future, such AI-powered systems could be deployed
to deliver combat orders to American soldiers, dictating where, when, and how
they kill enemy troops or take fire from their opponents. In some scenarios,
robot decision-makers could even end up exercising control over America’s
atomic weapons, potentially allowing them to ignite a nuclear war resulting in
humanity’s demise.
Michael Klare Book: Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict
Now, take a breath for a moment. The installation of an
AI-powered command-and-control (C2) system like this may seem a distant
possibility. Nevertheless, the U.S. Department of Defense is working hard to
develop the required hardware and software in a systematic, increasingly rapid
fashion. In its budget submission for 2023, for example, the Air Force requested
$231 million to develop the Advanced
Battlefield Management System (ABMS), a complex network of
sensors and AI-enabled computers designed to collect and interpret data on
enemy operations and provide pilots and ground forces with a menu of optimal
attack options. As the technology advances, the system will
be capable of sending “fire” instructions directly to
“shooters,” largely bypassing human control.
“A machine-to-machine data exchange tool that provides
options for deterrence, or for on-ramp [a military show-of-force] or early
engagement,” was how Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for
acquisition, technology, and logistics, described the
ABMS system in a 2020 interview. Suggesting that “we do need to change the
name” as the system evolves, Roper added, “I think Skynet is out, as much as I
would love doing that as a sci-fi thing. I just don’t think we can go there.”
And while he can’t go there, that’s just where the rest of
us may, indeed, be going.
Mind you, that’s only the start. In fact, the Air Force’s
ABMS is intended to constitute the nucleus of a larger constellation of sensors
and computers that will connect all U.S. combat forces, the
Joint All-Domain Command-and-Control System (JADC2, pronounced “Jad-C-two”).
“JADC2 intends to enable commanders to make better decisions by collecting data
from numerous sensors, processing the data using artificial intelligence algorithms
to identify targets, then recommending the optimal weapon… to engage the
target,” the Congressional Research Service reported in
2022.
AI and the Nuclear Trigger
Initially, JADC2 will be designed to coordinate combat
operations among “conventional” or non-nuclear American forces. Eventually,
however, it is expected to link
up with the Pentagon’s nuclear
command-control-and-communications systems (NC3), potentially giving computers
significant control over the use of the American nuclear arsenal. “JADC2 and
NC3 are intertwined,” General John E. Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, indicated in
a 2020 interview. As a result, he added in typical Pentagonese, “NC3 has to
inform JADC2 and JADC2 has to inform NC3.”
It doesn’t require great imagination to picture a time in
the not-too-distant future when a crisis of some sort – say a U.S.-China
military clash in the South China Sea or near Taiwan – prompts ever more
intense fighting between opposing air and naval forces. Imagine then the JADC2
ordering the intense bombardment of enemy bases and command systems in China
itself, triggering reciprocal attacks on U.S. facilities and a lightning
decision by JADC2 to retaliate with tactical nuclear weapons, igniting a
long-feared nuclear holocaust.
The possibility that nightmare scenarios of this
sort could result in the accidental or unintended onset of nuclear war has
long troubled analysts in the arms
control community. But the growing automation of military C2 systems
has generated anxiety not just among them but among senior national security
officials as well.
As early as 2019, when I questioned Lieutenant General Jack
Shanahan, then director of the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center,
about such a risky possibility, he responded,
“You will find no stronger proponent of integration of AI capabilities writ
large into the Department of Defense, but there is one area where I pause, and
it has to do with nuclear command and control.” This “is the ultimate human
decision that needs to be made” and so “we have to be very careful.” Given the
technology’s “immaturity,” he added, we need “a lot of time to test and
evaluate [before applying AI to NC3].”
In the years since, despite such warnings, the Pentagon has
been racing ahead with the development of automated C2 systems. In its budget
submission for 2024, the Department of Defense requested $1.4
billion for the JADC2 in order “to transform warfighting capability by
delivering information advantage at the speed of relevance across all domains
and partners.” Uh-oh! And then, it requested another $1.8 billion for other
kinds of military-related AI research.
Pentagon officials acknowledge that it will be some time
before robot generals will be commanding vast numbers of U.S. troops (and
autonomous weapons) in battle, but they have already launched several projects
intended to test and perfect just such linkages. One example is the
Army’s Project
Convergence, involving a series of field exercises designed to
validate ABMS and JADC2 component systems. In a test held in August 2020 at the
Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, for example, the Army used a variety of air-
and ground-based sensors to track simulated enemy forces and then process that
data using AI-enabled computers at Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington
state. Those computers, in turn, issued fire instructions to ground-based
artillery at Yuma. “This entire sequence was supposedly accomplished within 20
seconds,” the Congressional Research Service later reported.
Less is known about the Navy’s AI equivalent, “Project
Overmatch,” as many aspects of its programming have been kept secret. According
to Admiral Michael Gilday, chief of naval operations, Overmatch is intended “to
enable a Navy that swarms the sea, delivering synchronized lethal and nonlethal
effects from near-and-far, every axis, and every domain.” Little else has been
revealed about the project.
“Flash Wars” and Human Extinction
Despite all the secrecy surrounding these projects, you can
think of ABMS, JADC2, Convergence, and Overmatch as building blocks for a
future Skynet-like mega-network of super-computers designed to command all U.S.
forces, including its nuclear ones, in armed combat. The more the Pentagon
moves in that direction, the closer we’ll come to a time when AI possesses
life-or-death power over all American soldiers along with opposing forces and
any civilians caught in the crossfire.
Such a prospect should be ample cause for concern. To start
with, consider the risk of errors and miscalculations by the algorithms at the
heart of such systems. As top computer scientists have warned us, those
algorithms are capable
of remarkably inexplicable mistakes and, to use the AI term of
the moment, “hallucinations” – that is, seemingly reasonable results that are
entirely illusionary. Under the circumstances, it’s not hard to imagine such
computers “hallucinating” an imminent enemy attack and launching a war that
might otherwise have been avoided.
And that’s not the worst of the dangers to consider. After
all, there’s the obvious likelihood that America’s adversaries will similarly
equip their forces with robot generals. In other words, future wars are likely
to be fought by one set of AI systems against another, both linked to nuclear
weaponry, with entirely unpredictable – but potentially catastrophic – results.
Not much is known (from public sources at least) about
Russian and Chinese efforts to automate their military command-and-control
systems, but both countries are thought to be developing networks comparable to
the Pentagon’s JADC2. As early as 2014, in fact, Russia inaugurated a National
Defense Control Center (NDCC) in Moscow, a centralized command post for
assessing global threats and initiating whatever military action is deemed
necessary, whether of a non-nuclear or nuclear nature. Like JADC2, the NDCC
is designed to
collect information on enemy moves from multiple sources and provide senior
officers with guidance on possible responses.
Michael Klare Book: All
Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change
China is said to be pursuing an even more elaborate, if
similar, enterprise under the rubric of “Multi-Domain Precision Warfare”
(MDPW). According to the Pentagon’s 2022 report on Chinese military
developments, its military, the People’s Liberation Army, is being
trained and equipped to use AI-enabled sensors and computer
networks to “rapidly identify key vulnerabilities in the U.S. operational
system and then combine joint forces across domains to launch precision strikes
against those vulnerabilities.”
Picture, then, a future war between the U.S. and Russia or
China (or both) in which the JADC2 commands all U.S. forces, while Russia’s
NDCC and China’s MDPW command those countries’ forces. Consider, as well, that
all three systems are likely to experience errors and hallucinations. How safe
will humans be when robot generals decide that it’s time to “win” the war by
nuking their enemies?
If this strikes you as an outlandish scenario, think again,
at least according to the leadership of the National Security Commission on
Artificial Intelligence, a congressionally mandated enterprise that was chaired
by Eric Schmidt, former head of Google, and Robert Work, former deputy
secretary of defense. “While the Commission believes that properly designed,
tested, and utilized AI-enabled and autonomous weapon systems will bring
substantial military and even humanitarian benefit, the unchecked global use of
such systems potentially risks unintended conflict escalation and crisis
instability,” it affirmed in
its Final Report. Such dangers could arise, it stated, “because of challenging
and untested complexities of interaction between AI-enabled and autonomous
weapon systems on the battlefield” – when, that is, AI fights AI.
Though this may seem an extreme scenario, it’s entirely
possible that opposing AI systems could trigger a catastrophic “flash war” –
the military equivalent of a “flash crash” on Wall Street, when huge
transactions by super-sophisticated trading algorithms spark panic selling
before human operators can restore order. In the infamous “Flash Crash” of May
6, 2010, computer-driven trading precipitated a 10% fall in the stock market’s
value. According
to Paul Scharre of the Center for a New American Security, who
first studied the phenomenon, “the military equivalent of such crises” on Wall
Street would arise when the automated command systems of opposing forces
“become trapped in a cascade of escalating engagements.” In such a situation,
he noted, “autonomous weapons could lead to accidental death and destruction at
catastrophic scales in an instant.”
At present, there are virtually no measures in place to
prevent a future catastrophe of this sort or even talks among the major powers
to devise such measures. Yet, as the National Security Commission on Artificial
Intelligence noted, such crisis-control measures are urgently needed to
integrate “automated escalation tripwires” into such systems “that would
prevent the automated escalation of conflict.” Otherwise, some catastrophic
version of World War III seems all too possible. Given the dangerous immaturity
of such technology and the reluctance of Beijing, Moscow, and Washington to
impose any restraints on the weaponization of AI, the day when machines could
choose to annihilate us might arrive far sooner than we imagine and the
extinction of humanity could be the collateral damage of such a future war.
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Body Has a Story, and Tom Engelhardt’s A
Nation Unmade by War, as well as Alfred McCoy’s In
the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power,
John Dower’s The
Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II, and
Ann Jones’s They
Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America’s Wars: The Untold Story.
Michael T. Klare,
a TomDispatch regular,
is the five-college professor emeritus of peace and world security studies at
Hampshire College and a senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association.
He is the author of 15 books, the latest of which is All
Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change.
He is a founder of the Committee
for a Sane U.S.-China Policy.
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to US President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter
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By [The Cradle] News Desk
July 19, 2023
The Pentagon planned to use its biolaboratories in Africa to
test unregistered medicines on local populations for the sake of “big
pharma,” Tass reported on
19 July, based on documents found in Ukraine.
According to the Chief of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and
Biological Protection Troops, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, documents found
by the Russian military at a US biolaboratory in Ukraine indicate that the
Pentagon planned to use the US army to test unregistered medical drugs on the
local population in African countries. The testing would involve biolaboratories
and facilitating agencies, such as Metabiota, which has links to Hunter Biden,
son of US President Joe Biden. The results would then be provided to US
regulatory agencies "in the interests of the so-called big pharma."
"We have repeatedly pointed to the company’s ties with
the son of the US incumbent president, Hunter Biden, and government
organizations. Notably, Metabiota’s representatives admit that, as a matter of
fact, they are establishing ties to ensure the Pentagon and other American
agencies’ work abroad," Kirillov added.
He also said that Ukraine’s Science and Technology Center
and other Pentagon contractors were taking an active part in these activities.
Since the early 2000s, NGOs funded by the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation and others have been distributing experimental
vaccines and drugs to vulnerable populations in Africa and India, resulting in
numerous deaths and injuries, with accounts of forced vaccinations and
uninformed consent. Since then, carrying out large-scale clinical trials of
untested or unapproved drugs in poor countries, where administering drugs is
less regulated and cheaper, has become common.
The issue of US biolabs in Ukraine became controversial
following US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland’s
acknowledgment of such US labs in Ukraine following Russia’s February 2022
invasion.
The acknowledgment also came amid evidence that the SARS-CoV-2
virus, which caused the Covid-19 pandemic, was developed in a US
military-funded biolab in Wuhan, China. Some have speculated that
the virus was developed as part of a US bioweapons program.
"Take note of Metabiota’s commercial offer marked
‘confidential,’ which was found among documents at one of the biolaboratories
in Ukraine. The offer is addressed to the United States Army Medical Research
Institute of Infectious Diseases and concerns training of specialists in
infectious diseases in Kenya and Uganda,” General Kirillov noted.
“The document demonstrates that the Defense Threat Reduction
Agency’s (DTRA) and the Department of Homeland Security were involved in the
study of pathogens in African countries, while the US Agency for International
Development and a number of European Union structures were engaged in making
these activities look like ‘humanitarian cooperation,’” he said at a briefing
on the analysis of documents concerning US military biological activities.
According to Kirillov, Russia found evidence showing that
Metabiota, in which Hunter Biden is a key investor, had been involved in the
study of the H7N9 bird flu virus and that it had played a leading role in the
implementation of Predict, a
USAID-funded project which claimed to study coronavirus types in bats and other
animals to predict a possible future pandemic.
According to journalist Sam Husseini, such work is typically
portrayed as preventative or defensive, but is actually “dual use” by nature. He notes that,
“’Biodefense’ is often just as easily biowarfare since biodefense and the
products of biowarfare are identical. It’s simply a matter of what the stated
goals are.”
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