Did the U.S. Government Engineer Lyme Disease?
As with many disturbing things these days, I don't know how to proceed. Once again, it is being creditably suggested that our government engaged in reckless or intentional wrongdoing. This latest concern about Lyme disease is being reported on X by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (professor of medicine, economics, and health research policy at Stanford University), based on Bitten: The Secret history of Lyme disease and Biological Weapons, a 2020 book by Kris Newby.
This latest concern merely deepens my already deep suspicions about the conduct and intentions of the U.S. government, especially given the fact that the U.S. government, in coordination with the corporate media, has been caught red-handed engaging in pervasive dishonest narrative control regarding many topics, including public health. For a deep dive on the evidence that the United States has been illegally and pervasively censoring its own citizens through illegal "jawboning," see this 2023 opinion in the case of Missouri v Biden, by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Excerpt from Bhattacharya's Tweet:
I just finished @krisnewby's Bitten, which tells the history of the US government's secret program in the 1950s and 1960s to weaponize ticks to deliver deadly bacteria to incapacitate unsuspecting populations.
Newby, a talented journalist and science writer, structures her history around a biography of WIlly Burgdorfer, the Swiss-American scientist who discovered borellia burgdorferi, a spirochete bacteria often found in Lyme disease patients.
It's an incredible, infuriating, well-written book worth your time.
A few lessons:
1. The mid-20th century US biomedical research establishment was psychopathic, whole-heartedly embracing reckless, deadly investigations in the name of developing vaccines and bioweapons.
2. It is possible (& perhaps likely, though not proven) that the emergence and spread of Lyme disease may have been caused by this research program, which included large open-air testing of intentionally infected ticks on US soil.
3. The bioweapons program used combinations of viruses and bacteria infecting the same tick to hide the body's immune response to infection from detection by standard medical tests. . . .
Adam Smith and Endless War
In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the exploits of their own fleets and armies. To them this amusement compensates the small difference between the taxes which they pay on account of the war, and those which they had been accustomed to pay in time of peace. They are commonly dissatisfied with the return of peace, which puts an end to their amusement, and to a thousand visionary hopes of conquest and national glory, from a longer continuance of the war.
— Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book 5, Chapter 3
Vivek Ramaswamy Pulls Back the Curtain to Expose Nikki Haley’s Warmongering and Corruption
Vivek Ramaswamy harpooned Neocon Nikki Haley who, along with fellow neocon Joe Biden, now wants to spill American blood in the Ukraine, where we blew up an early peace settlement, leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians. I could not hold either of them in lower respect as a result of their warmongering and war-machine corruption.
Forget About the Last War – It’s Time to Get Excited about the Next War
Many of the people who read this cheer-led the Ukraine war, decorating their timelines, homes and cars with gold and blue flags. Do they feel betrayed by the corporate media yet? Do they understand how you've been played by Iraq neocons (including Joe Biden, Anthony Blinken and Victoria Nuland)? We're off to the next war, once again, leaving devastated families (Russian and Ukrainian) and cities in our wake. Not giving a shit and none the wiser. In the meantime, the corporate news doubles down on bomb holing.
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