In a survival situation you will have three major priorities to act on immediately known as the rule of three.

1) Shelter: In cases of extreme weather you will need to build a shelter within a few hours. Even if the weather is good and you have time to make a good shelter, do this first.

2) Potable water: Without clean drinking water, you could die in as little as three days.

3) Food: You will need to eat and after three weeks, you probably won't make it without food.

What I want to address here is water and some of the common ways to purify it for safe drinking.


Note: As was pointed out in this thread in the old RN-3, you will need a source of water, something I thought will go without saying.

A desert or very dry region would present a problem with locating water, but dew will fall (or frost form) in most of those areas before dawn. Also, the water quality before you process it is important as some water can be too dirty to deal with. Water is something you'll need lots of and is really top of the list other than avoiding an immediately deadly climate with a shelter of some kind.

Quote:Can You Purify Water Just by Boiling It? What You Should Know

You can purify most water by boiling it. Boiling water will kill any biological contaminants like water-borne viruses or bacteria, but it will not remove other contaminants like heavy metals, salts, radiation, or chemicals.

Instructions for Boiling Water

. . . Instructions for Boiling Water
The EPA has instructions for purifying water by boiling. Simply place your water into a pot and put the pot over a heat source. Let it come to a rolling boil. You’ll see large bubbles breaking the surface at this point, not just steam and tiny bubbles. Boil the water at a rolling boil for at least a minute. If you’re high up in the mountains, altitude can affect the heat transfer, so boil it for three minutes.
Now remove the water from the heat source and let it cool to room temperature. Store it in clean containers. Boiled water can taste a little flat, so you can either pour it between clean containers a few times or add a pinch of salt to improve the water’s taste.

Other Methods for Purifying Water
You can’t always boil water. Perhaps your power is out, and your oven isn’t working, or you can’t find enough wood to build a decent cooking fire. You do have other options, including:

• Purifying with bleach
  
  
• Iodine
  
  
• Water disinfection tablets
  

Quote:Steps to Make Activated Charcoal at Home

Activated charcoal can be made at home by chemical activation procedure, provided you have the required materials and equipment. Though any organic material can be used as a precursor or raw material for producing activated charcoal, you should select a nontoxic carbon source with absorbent properties. Let’s discuss in brief how to make activated charcoal by using coconut shells as the raw material.

 . . .you need:

• Coconut shells (without meat)
  
  
• Burning sink, drum or an elongated iron container to burn the shells.
  
  
• Oven
  
  
• 25 percent concentrated solution of calcium chloride (CaCl2) or zinc chloride (ZnCl2) available in brewing supply shops or drug stores. To make this solution, dissolve 250 g CaCl2 in 1000 ml of water and increase the proportion in the same ratio as per your requirement.
  
  
• Sterilized water
  
  
• Plastic pail
  
  
• Draining tray
  
  
• Zipper bags
  
  
• Blender
  

Quote:GeauxHomeLittleD Wrote: [url=https://rogue-nation3.com/post-88924.html#pid88924][/url]Boil water, add 1/8 teaspoon bleach per gallon and let set appx. 24 hours, filter best you can (layered cotton cloth or coffee filters or layers of pebbles, sand and activated charcoal- whatever you have) for best drinking water. Life straws are a must have until you get a system in place. 

If you're not anywhere near a creek, river or spring you can collect rain water, collect dew and condensation, etc. Also remember hot water heaters, radiators and backs of toilets have water.

A secret society is a club or an organization whose activities, events, inner functioning, or membership are concealed from non-members. A Mystery School is a group of initiates who have dedicated themselves to preserving, protecting and perpetuating the mystery teachings. Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, and societies, in both the present and past, including past human species (Archaeology, Genetics, Linguistics, Culture).

Topics briefly covered: The Golden Dawn, Theosophy, Knights Templar, Anthroposophy, Blue Eyes, Aryans, Wotanism (exoteric doctrine), Vril, German flying saucers, and more. Really interesting presentation.

Quote:Spiraling Down Wonderland’s Psychedelic Corporate Rabbit Hole (Nov 15, 2022)



The psychedelic renaissance has entered its corporate trade show phase. For a satirist in need of plotlines, Wonderland is the gift that keeps on giving.

It’s as if the archetypal Florida Man character discovered DMT, and then decided to organize a massive convention around the potential commercial value of machine elves.

In fact I’m quite sure I saw him sandwiched between the numerous ketamine clinic booths, the bitcoin billionaire posse, and the global pharmaceutical company reps who are all confident that they’ll have something of value to offer the market by 2035. 

Location, Location, Location

The convention was held in a sprawling corporate events center, the Mana Wynwood, that would feel more at home housing a Bass Pro Shop megastore or an accounting industry convention than the “World’s Leading Psychedelic Event” as billed by the organizers at Microdose – 140,000 square feet of corporate conventionality, complete with hangover compounding fluorescent lighting and a giant soundstage where attendees could daydream lazily to keynotes by the likes of Hamilton Morris and Paul Stamets. 

Within 20 minutes of arriving on the first day of the conference, I witnessed psychedelic concierge Zappy Zapolin confidently proclaiming that the psychedelics industry is going to be a trillion dollar market and that we should be healing the world by introducing more celebrities to ketamine. Zappy’s invited guest Lamar Odom could be a conduit to this reality, as he testified to the transformative role that ketamine therapy has played in helping him overcome serious substance abuse issues.

The effusive positivity of this panel, titled “The Future of Psychedelic Medicine: Safe, Efficient Scalability,” set the tone for the general ethos of the event: Wonderland is a psychedelics industry event on steroids.

In fact, if no one’s currently working on a psychedelic steroids stack, then loop me in and let’s take this next gen research chemical to the bank. After attending Wonderland, I can confidently say that I have the connections across industry, government, and global oligarchs to take psychedelic steroids to market.

I can see it now: Dana White setting up title fights where the octagon participants have to fight each other under the influence of research chemicals that simultaneously amplify their aggression and their sense of compassion. 

Prognostications on the psychedelics industry of the future only got more surreal and further out after the kick-off panel. 

Welcome to the Tea Party

What got discussed? Sound frequency based psychedelic medicines, non-psychedelic DMT, mushroom genetics on the blockchain, portable-cryotherapy, Lion’s Mane music, and a plethora of technology-enabled psychedelic experiences teetering somewhere between The Matrix and Idiocracy. These are only a handful of the phenomena being marketed by full-on PT Barnum style carnival barkers across the sprawling, drab convention center.

Titans of industry and billionaires like ATAI Life Sciences founder Christian Angermayer, Godaddy.com founder Bob Parsons, and crypto king Brock Pierce took the stage to share their insights and experiences as psychedelic therapy advocates, which includes elevated set and setting on yachts and private jets.

Ketamine therapy provider Better U won my heart over with a swag bag that included an eye mask – aside ketamine, the perfect tool for dissociating from whatever the psychedelic scene is becoming. They even invited me over to their swinger pad to shoot some ketamine-positive content that demonstrates the latent potential for witty and poignant satire to be successfully co-opted by corporate agendas. 

Moksha Arts Collective generated buzz with their Virtual Reality art gallery installation that included Stella Strzyzowska’s dazzling painting of Donald Trump smoking DMT and leading a few of his favorite autocrats through the jungle. I spent the majority of the week with the Moksha Arts family, and even managed to bang out a headlining stand up comedy set before a sold out crowd in their beautiful gallery space at the invitation of the collective’s founder, Ray Orraca, a pioneer in the psychedelic community who once tripped with Terence McKenna and has produced thousands of live events over the last three decades. 



While navigating between the main stage and the showroom floor at Wonderland, you’re liable to bump into such luminaries as Paul Stamets, Rick Doblin, and a hundred other famous affluent white dudes who like to trip.

If you approach them and whisper the secret code “DeadheadBurner2022” into their ear, they may begrudgingly take a photo with you and raise your clout amid the psychedelic renaissance.

Enough Content for a Lifetime

I was able to collaborate on content with a number of different established brands and visible figures in the psychedelic scene throughout my five days in Miami, even if they don’t know that they’re collaborators yet. The Psychedelic Spotlight video team bombarded me with verbal Rorschach test style questions about what top-of-mind reactions I had to prompts like “sex or psychedelics” and “LSD,” with my knee-jerk reaction to most of the questions being “Diplo“.

If Kid Rock had showed up with a giant purple MDMA crystal and taken the stage for a raucous dose of empathogenic Americana, I wouldn’t have batted an eyelash. The collision of cultures, values, and profit margins at this event has single-handedly generated enough satirical plot lines for the rest of my career. I wouldn’t have been surprised if the organizers booked Andrew Tate to speak about his non-relationship to psychedelics.

If they hold Wonderland at a Topgolf facility next year, I think it would be a merger for the ages – I often felt naked without my golf clubs while walking around chatting with the suits and the lobbyists, not to mention the researchers, policy advocates, business leaders, and clout chasers.

Despite the accounts and descriptions offered thus far, the afterparties may be the real draw for this event. After spending the day getting blasted by artificial lighting and psychedelic product promo codes, a collection of curated psychedelic party experiences is exactly what every sleep-deprived conference attendee needs in their life. 

A plethora of nightlife experiences are available to Wonderland attendees, with various levels of exclusivity applied across the events. As a newly minted member of the psychedelic elite, I had unfettered access to these parties – which included a rather spectacular event produced by Microdosing Collective, where I managed to rub elbows with the Have A Good Trip team, as well as Into The Multiverse Co-Founder and CEO Alli Schaper. I even successfully fended off Mycopreneur fanboy and Third Wave founder Paul Austin at this party before bouncing to another handful of events to continue honing my self-promotional panache in true psychedelic aristocratic fashion. 

It is the moral duty of the psychedelic elite to spend every evening of Wonderland bouncing from garden party to yacht party in inseparable cliques, occasionally allowing interlopers to pitch their Psychonaught dating app ideas (It’s called PsychoNaughty, and I’m ready to take this unicorn to the bank with the right team around me) and share insights from the half-eighth of mushrooms they’re currently on. 

If the afterparties had you channeling the spirit of Psychedelic Spring Break, there was a mobile IV drip provider on site at Mana Wynwood to resuscitate you in real time. And if the drip doesn’t work, head across the showroom floor to get cryogenically frozen – it would be a great party trick if someone could freeze themself at one Wonderland and unfreeze themself at the next year’s event. If the futurist healing modality vibe doesn’t get you in the appropriate headspace for days two and three of this behemoth psychedelic convention, then there’s always the full bar that’s open and pumping at 9 a.m. every morning.



We Live in a Theater of the Absurd

Jokes aside, the approachability and conviviality of the many psychedelic luminaries present at Wonderland was genuinely surprising to me. The spontaneous encounters and direct conversations that are possible with C-level executives, prominent journalists, and notable opportunistic profiteers across the psychedelics ecosystem are the crowning achievement of this conference, in my opinion.

Much of the psychedelics industry is present in spades at Wonderland, bundled together into a surreal stack of molecules and Florida-tanned flesh all colliding against each other and triggering various chemical and financial reactions. For all of the jest provided in this punchy take, the networking opportunities at the event supersede the less savory elements of the conference.

Still, high profile events like this are likely to stir the pot and invite controversy. News that the Psymposia team and a handful of other writers and critics were banned from the conference has generated lots of ongoing chatter, as have the dismissive attacks that keynote speaker Hamilton Morris levied against two who made the blacklist.

We live in a theater of the absurd, so why not reflect that in the organization and execution of the world’s leading psychedelic event?

Wonderland’s claim to be “the world’s leading psychedelic event” is certainly bold and tough to qualify. But grandiosity and pomposity play well in our current era, so why not stake the claim and dare people to one up you? 

In one hour, you can meet more luminaries and tastemakers in the global psychedelic community than you could in a year elsewhere. I’ve been to eight of the premiere psychedelic conferences over the past two years, and have never seen so many globally renowned denizens of the psychedelic renaissance as were present at this event.



The theatrics behind executing a psychedelic event like Wonderland require people to suspend their disbelief, and after having attended a number of other similar industry events, I tip my cap to the Microdose team for stepping into the ring and claiming their title.

The reality of the “psychedelic renaissance” is more accurately and unabashedly expressed at Wonderland than anywhere else I’ve been. Integrating psychedelics into our 21st-century hypercommercial global society requires a compromise that many in the space have expressed sincere discomfort and outright disgust for: regulation and standardization of psychedelics by the powers that be. A deepened focus on social justice and reciprocity initiatives at next year’s Wonderland would go a long way to assuage lingering psychedelic community feelings of distaste for this overtly corporatized event. When people are openly maneuvering towards legitimizing, regulating, and profiting off of psychedelic molecules and therapies, it’s time to let a lot of people out of jail and start pouring money into reciprocity initiatives. 

[b]A Psychedelic Jester in Wonderland’s Court[/b]

The Wonderland Psychedelic Conference is a force of nature – or humankind – maybe even transhumanism – but it’s definitely a force of some kind.

And what better way to celebrate the advancement of psychedelic science and research than by bringing together a boatload of pharmaceutical company execs, bitcoin bros, serial entrepreneurs, and also Reggie Watts to collectively unpack the psychedelic renaissance and chart its future market potential together. 
From what I can tell, provocative satire is a necessary component of the psychedelics ecosystem – and it is in this spirit that I will continue to serve as the archetypal trickster and court jester. 

My clarion call to the psychedelic community at large: Thank you for allowing space for levity, because moving forward, we’re all going to need a very healthy sense of humor to survive.

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Quote:Elon Talks Psychedelics: Is he Helping or Hurting the Movement?

“Amphetamines negatively affect empathy, psychedelics do the opposite.” -Elon

"Psychedelics and MDMA can make a real difference to mental health, especially for extreme depression and PTSD. We should take this seriously."
    — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 10, 2022

"I’ve talked to many more people who were helped by psychedelics & ketamine than SSRIs & amphetamines."
    — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 30, 2022

Quote:LSD Microdosing Yields Positive Outcomes In Phase 1 Study, More Trials On Depression & Existential Distress

Holding company Blackhawk Growth Corp.BLRZF's subsidiary company MindBio Therapeutics Pty Ltd shared the positive data gathered from its Phase 1 clinical trials microdosing LSD formulation in 80 healthy participants.

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ICYMI| Because the mainstream media was not very interested in this story (for obvious reasons) it is likely that you did not see this when it broke.  For this reason we are posting it again.
The sh*t show the Democrats staged at the confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, was a disgusting group denigration of the high office Democrats have been entrusted with.
This was borne out again yesterday when Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley made a third criminal referral, this one against a second Kavanaugh accuser, Judy Munro-Leighton.
Here is Grassley’s letter of referral to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray:
Chuck Grassley – Munro-Leig… by on Scribd

I am writing to refer Ms. Judy Munro-Leighton for investigation of potential violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1001 (materially false statements) and 1505 (obstruction), for materially false statements she made to the Committee during the course of the Committee’s investigation.
By itself Munro-Leighton’s admission that she lied about Judge Kavanaugh is despicable but, when taken in context of the way the Democrats orchestrated their resistance to Judge Kavanaugh throughout the entire confirmation process, should be disqualifying for high office.
It has been admitted by at least one Democratic member of the Judiciary Committee that from the outset top Democratic senators had been coordinating with the protesters – many of them paid – to disrupt the hearings and to create a false sense of outrage, some in the most despicable manner imaginable.
Then there was what now appears to be the wholly fabricated accusations of Christine Blasey-Ford that involved so many Deep State/Democrat operatives that a scorecard is required to identify all of them.
There’s every reason to believe that radical leftist, Democrat Senator Kamala Harris had a hand in Munro-Leighton’s claims because she was the person who brought Munro-Leighton’s letter to the committee’s attention.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham became enraged at the Democrats’ unwarranted attempt to smear Judge Kavanaugh and make a mockery, using unsubstantiated and vile claims, of what should’ve been an austere, probative, examination of the nominee’s qualifications.


Senator Graham’s immediate celebrity in the aftermath of his outburst reflect the fact that all Americans are, or should be, asking the question if Democrats would willingly attempt to destroy the life of a respected “connected” Judge what chance do they have against these Stalinists?
The good people of Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin – what once constituted the Democrats Blue Wall – came to realize this during the Obama administration when Democrats turned their back on our manufacturing sector and the towns that relied on it died.

YEah. Figured it wouldnt be long till he offed himself really. He was going throught alot of bad stuff. really sucks he couldnt pull back out of his depression.

21st century pandemic timeline. A year by year summary of outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics for the twenty-first century. I have only covered up to 2019 when the pandemic officially started. I've tried to limit the timeline to "just the facts" and leave the conspiracies up to the membership. Feel free to add anything I missed in this timeline or to add something relevant from 2020. This thread was originally posted on ATS and the old RN3 and is the most current version of those threads.

2002
The 2002–2004 SARS outbreak was an epidemic involving severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) caused by . . . coronavirus (SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-1). The outbreak was first identified in Foshan, Guangdong, China, on 16 November 2002. Over 8,000 people from 29 different countries and territories were infected, and at least 774 died worldwide. Source: Wikipedia

2003
SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) identified. SARS-CoV is thought to be an animal virus from an uncertain animal reservoir, perhaps bats, that spread to other animals (civet cats) and first infected humans in the Guangdong province of southern China in 2002. Prophylaxis - None. Experimental vaccines are under development. Source: World Health Organization

Chinese academy of Sciences approved the construction of China's first biosafety level 4 (BSL–4) laboratory at the WIV (Wuhan Institute of Virology). Source: Wikipedia

April . . . Canadian scientists sequenced the genetic code of the SARS virus.
University of Hong Kong microbiologist Malik Peiris, who first linked SARS to a novel coronavirus. "When we then looked to see if antibodies for it exist in human blood samples, there were none."

Peter Rottier of Utrecht University in the Netherlands . . . by taking a coronavirus that is lethal to cats and adding a single gene fragment from a mouse virus. The recombinant virus was lethal to both animals . . . scientists from Lyon to Winnipeg are spraying, injecting, and orally feeding the coronavirus to monkeys, dogs, cats, mice and rabbits. Goats and sheep are next. "We want to see how they react to high doses of the virus, how susceptible they are, which replicate the virus, which excrete it, which show antibodies," says Klaus Stohr, chief SARS scientist for the World Health Organization's Animal Influenza Network. Source: Popular Science

2004
SARS escaped Beijing lab twice.
April 25 - “We suspect two people, a 26-year-old female postgraduate student and a 31-year-old male postdoc, were both infected, apparently in two separate incidents,” Bob Dietz, WHO spokesman in Beijing . . . Source: The Scientist

2005
Shi Zhengli and colleagues found that bats are the natural reservoir of SARS-like coronaviruses. Source: Wikipedia

Note: Latest information indicates that the above occurrence should be in year 2007 of the timeline.

In 2005, two independent Chinese groups reported the first bat SARS-related CoV (SARSr-CoV) that was closely related to human SARS-CoV Source: National Institute of Health

President George W. Bush National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response. Source: Whitehouse Archives

Dr. Fauci’s NIH, “concentrations of 10 μM completely abolished SARS-CoV infection" . . . “chloroquine can effectively reduce the establishment of infection and spread of SARS-CoV.” February 25 . . . “it’s game over” for coronavirus. Source: One News Now and NIH Virology journal

Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread . . . We report, however, that chloroquine has strong antiviral effects on SARS-CoV infection of primate cells. These inhibitory effects are observed when the cells are treated with the drug either before or after exposure to the virus, suggesting both prophylactic and therapeutic advantage. Source: Virology Journal

2006
WH Homeland Security Council outlined the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Source: CDC

2007
A study published by researchers at Hong Kong University predicted a coronavirus outbreak from bats. Source: 2007 Clinical Microbiology Reviews Journal

2008
Shi Zhengli led a research team which studied binding of spike proteins of both natural and chimaeric SARS-like coronaviruses to ACE2 receptors in human, civet and horseshoe bat cells, to determine the mechanism by which SARS may have spilled over into humans. Source: Wikipedia

2009
The 2009 H1N1 Pandemic: A novel influenza A (H1N1) virus emerges.
It was detected first in the United States and spread quickly across the world. This virus contained a unique combination of influenza genes not previously identified in animals or people. The (H1N1)pdm09 virus was very different from H1N1 viruses . . . Few young people had any existing immunity . . . Source: CDC

China has been a signatory to the Biological Weapons Convention since 1984, and has repeatedly insisted it is abiding by the treaty that bans developing bio-weapons . . . U.S. State Department and other agencies stating publicly as recently as 2009 that they believe China has offensive biological agents. Source: National Post

In 2009, research at Fort Detrick was suspended because it was discovered it was storing pathogens which were not listed on its inventory. Source: The Independent

2010
Estimates of death rates from swine flu in 2009-10 . . . the real toll was 10 times higher Source: NPR

Rockefeller Foundation "Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development" May 2010 - “Lock Step” scenario. Source: Need to Know News

2011
"Contagion" an American film directed by Steven Soderbergh. The plot concerns the spread of a virus transmitted by respiratory droplets and fomites. Source: Wikipedia

2012
April - MERS Epidemic
Health officials first reported the disease in Saudi Arabia in September 2012. Through retrospective (backward-looking) investigations, they later identified that the first known cases of MERS occurred in Jordan in April 2012. So far, all cases of MERS have been linked through travel to, or residence in, countries in and near the Arabian Peninsula. Source: CDC

Chinese scientist Shi Zhengli found the closest match to COVID-19 in samples of bat faeces taken during research in 2012. It was found after six men were struck down with fever, coughs and pneumonia, half of them fatally, after working in the mineshaft. Source: Daily Express UK

In April 2012, six miners in the Mojiang mine in southwestern China’s Yunnan province fell ill after spending more than 14 days removing bat feces. Three eventually died . . . The doctor also sent sample tissues from the miners to the Wuhan lab, a focal point of coronavirus research in China. There, scientists found the source of infection was a SARS-like coronavirus from a Chinese rufous horseshoe bat, according to the thesis.

Latham and Wilson believe the virus — once inside the miners — “evolved” into SARS CoV-2, “an unusually pathogenic coronavirus highly adapted to humans,” and the samples somehow escaped from the lab last year, launching what has morphed into the coronavirus pandemic.

. . . In fact, Shi Zhengli, a virologist at the Wuhan lab who is known as “the batwoman” for her extensive research into bat-derived coronaviruses, told Scientific American in June that the miners had died from a fungal infection, “although it would have been only a matter of time before they caught the coronaviruses if the mine had not been promptly shut,” the magazine reported. Source: NY Post

In November 2012, the first case of SARS was recorded in Foshan city, Guangdong Province, China. Source: National Institute of Health

Notes: The quote above contradicts a W.H.O. report that the first case was ten years earlier in 2002.

Is this finally proof Covid DID leak from Wuhan lab?  By John Vidal For The Daily Mail. Published: 17:00 EDT, 28 May 2021 | Updated: 03:26 EDT, 29 May 2021

There can't be many jobs more hellish than that given to three Chinese miners in the mountainous province of Yunnan in April 2012.

Tasked with cleaning out an abandoned copper mine in the county of Moijang, they found themselves in caves knee-deep in piles of guano — a foul-smelling combination of bat faeces and urine. Source: Daily Mail UK

The documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday detail a major project called 'the discovery of animal-delivered pathogens carried by wild animals', which set out to find organisms that could infect humans and investigate their evolution.

It was launched in 2012 and funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The project was led by Xu Jianguo, who boasted at a conference in 2019 that 'a giant network of infectious disease prevention and control is taking shape'.

The professor also headed the first expert group investigating Covid's emergence in Wuhan. He denied human transmission initially, despite evidence from hospitals, then insisted in mid-January 'this epidemic is limited and will end if there are no new cases next week'.

One review of his virus-hunting project admitted 'a large number of new viruses have been discovered, causing great concern in the international virology community'. Source: Daily Mail UK

American Society for Microbiology, October 2012 , Dr. Antony Fauci acknowledged the risky research could lead to serious lab accidents but the chance is rare and the work is “important” because it helps the scientific community prepare for naturally occurring pandemics. Dr. Fauci, " . . . the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks” that a pandemic would occur naturally and “the need to stay ahead of such a threat is a primary reason for performing an experiment that might appear to be risky.”  Source:  The Australian (Linked in NY post)

2013
Chinese scientists secretly found a virus strain similar to COVID-19 in an abandoned mine in 2013 but kept the discovery secret . . . and was stored for years at a virology lab in Wuhan.
Dr Shi Zhengli - nicknamed “Bat Woman” by her colleagues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology – in February co-authored the most extensive academic paper on the novel coronavirus up to that point. Source: The Sunday Times UK

2014
In 2014, the WIV's National Bio-safety Laboratory was built at a cost of 300 million yuan (US$44 million), in collaboration and with assistance from the French government's CIRI lab. Source: Wikipedia

July Lab incidents lead to safety crackdown at CDC
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has closed two labs . . . in the wake of several recent incidents in which highly pathogenic microbes were mishandled by federal laboratories. Source: Science magazine

October - The administration of US President Barack Obama called for a “pause” on funding (and relevant research with existing US Government funding) of gain of function (GOF) experiments involving influenza, SARS, and MERS viruses in particular . . . warned of a future deadly airborne disease. Source: Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

2015
Ralph Baric (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) published efforts to engineer a virus with the surface protein of the SHC014 coronavirus, found in horseshoe bats in China, and the backbone of one that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice. They found that the hybrid virus could infect human airway cells and caused disease in mice. Source: Nexus News Feed

In 2015, French intelligence officials warned the U.S. State Department and their own foreign ministry that China was cutting back on agreed collaboration at the lab, former State official David Asher, now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute think tank, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Source: Epic TImes

In the face of a moratorium in the US, Dr Anthony Fauci – the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) . . . outsourced . . . the GOF research to China’s Wuhan lab and licensed the lab to continue receiving US government funding. Source: Asian Times

2016
Labour has called on ministers to publish the suppressed conclusions of a cross-government pandemic drill that took place in 2016, which accurately predicted that the NHS would be plunged into crisis by an infectious and deadly disease. Codenamed Exercise Cygnus, the wide-ranging exercise took place in October 2016, but its conclusions have never been made public, even though it highlighted shortages of intensive care beds, vital equipment and even mortuary space. Source: The Guardian

The Pandemic Playbook . . . 69-page National Security Council guidebook, originally unearthed in March by Politico . . . developed in 2016 with the goal of assisting leaders “in coordinating a complex U.S. Government response to a high-consequence emerging disease threat anywhere in the world.” Source: PBS

2017
Ebola outbreak
“USNORTHCOM Branch Plan 3560: Pandemic Influenza and Infectious Disease Response,” “The intelligence community . . . have warned about coronaviruses for at least five years,” (since 2012) Source: The Nation

January 9, 2017 - “Recommended Policy Guidance for Departmental Development of Review Mechanisms for Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight (P3CO).”  Adoption of these recommendations will satisfy the requirements for lifting the current moratorium on certain life sciences research that could enhance a pathogen’s virulence and/or transmissibility to produce a potential pandemic pathogen (an enhanced PPP). Source: Obama White house Archives

January 11 2017, Anthony Fauci lecture at Georgetown University “Pandemic Preparedness in the Next Administration.” “. . . if there’s one message that I want to leave with you today based on my experience …  is that there is no question that there will be a challenge to the coming administration in the arena of infectious diseases … both chronic infectious diseases in the sense of already ongoing disease … but also there will be a surprise outbreak. Source: Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News and Healio

By 2017, the French “were kicked out” of the lab and cooperation ceased, leading French officials to warn the State Department that they had grave concerns as to Chinese motivations, according to Asher. Source: The Epoch Times

National security officials did not want to share sensitive technology with China as they feared the lab could one day be transformed into a "biological arsenal", according to Le Figaro.

The US State Department has already claimed that the Wuhan institute had engaged in classified research on behalf of the Chinese military since 2017.

Asher said US federal funding to the lab should have been halted when the French warned the US State Department in 2015. Source: The Sun

The Obama administration walked the Trump administration through a hypothetical scenario in which a pandemic . . . shut down cities like Seoul and London in early 2017. Trump administration officials were told such a pandemic would likely lead to . . . shortages of ventilators and that a coordinated national response would be “paramount,”. Source: The Hill

Cell-Symposia:Emerging and Re-emerging Viruses, October 1–3, 2017 — Arlington, VA, USA
Dr. Anthony Fauci headlined a 2017 conference starring researchers central to COVID-19’s origins and subsequent coverup including EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak and top Wuhan’s lab researcher Shi Zhengli. Source: The National Pulse

2018
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) funded a study on Bat Coronavirus that included scientists at the Wuhan Institute Source: The National File

NIAID Advisory Council Meeting on January 29, 2018. Anthony Fauci announcing "NIH Lifts Funding Pause on Gain-Of-Function Research".

"A framework has been now established to guide funding decisions on proposed research that might be anticipated to create, transfer, or use enhanced potential pandemic pathogens. The program is called P3CO. Potential Pandemic Preparedness Care And Oversight." Source: NIH (video)

U.S. Embassy in Beijing sent two official warnings to Washington about inadequate safety at the Wuhan lab, including it was conducting risky studies on pathogens (coronavirus) in bats.
After the coronavirus outbreak began, officials at the lab destroyed samples of the virus, erased early reports, and suppressed academic papers Source: The Daily Mail UK

An update in 2018 said that the scientific teams – who published many of their findings in international journals – had found four new pathogens and ten new bacteria while 'more than 1,640 new viruses were discovered using metagenomics technology'. Such research is based on extraction of genetic material from samples such as those collected by Prof Shi from bat faeces and blood in the cave networks of southern China. Source: The Daily Mail UK

2019
H.R.748 - CARES Act116th Congress (2019-2020) Sponsor: Rep. Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2] (Introduced 01/24/2019) Public Law No: 116-136 (03/27/2020) Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or the CARES Act This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak and its impact on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses. Source: US Congress

January 10, 2019. Scientists discover new Ebola-like virus in China - " A new virus with eery similarities to Ebola has been discovered in China, according to new research."

The newly found Měnglà virus shares many of the same traits that have helped Ebola break into human cells, the study published in Nature Microbiology stressed.

The virus was discovered in fruit bats by Chinese and Singaporean scientists and has the potential to infect both humans and other animals.

Měnglà, Ebola and the lesser-known Marburg are all related as members of the filovirus family. There is no evidence yet that it has spread to humans. Source: New York Post

"The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) said it sent the 15 strains of viruses on a commercial flight to China "for the purpose of scientific research" in March, 2019.

The package included a sample of the deadly zoonotic Nipah virus - which causes severe swelling of the brain, difficulty breathing and seizures.

It also included several strains of the Ebola virus, which causes fevers, vomiting, diarrhoea as well as internal and external bleeding. The disease has claimed more than 11,300 lives in West Africa.

But soon after the shipment, Dr Xiangguo Qiu and her biologist husband Keding Cheng were marched out of the Winnipeg-based lab and stripped of their security clearance, CBC News reports.

July: Fort Detrick, Maryland, America’s main biological warfare lab, ordered to stop all research into the deadliest pathogens over fears contaminated waste could leak out of the facility. Source: The Independent UK

It later emerged she changed its name from another virus identified in a previous paper, thus obscuring its link to three miners who died from a strange respiratory disease they caught clearing bat droppings.

Prof Shi also admitted that eight more unidentified SARS viruses had been collected in the mine. The institute took its database of virus samples offline in September 2019, just a few weeks before Covid cases exploded in Wuhan. Source: Daily Mail UK

Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, her husband Keding Cheng and an unknown number of her students from China were removed from Canada's only level-4 lab on July 5 . . . Security access for the couple and the Chinese students was revoked . . . Sources say this comes several months after IT specialists for the NML entered Qiu's office after-hours and replaced her computer. Her regular trips to China also started being denied . . . one of the scientists escorted from the lab after an investigation in July last year was responsible for exporting the pathogens to China four months earlier. Dr Xiangguo Qiu was removed from Canada’s only level-4 lab over what is described as a possible “policy breach”. Source: CBC News CA

“We have a researcher who was removed by the RCMP from the highest security laboratory that Canada has for reasons that government is unwilling to disclose. The intelligence remains secret. But what we know is that before she was removed, she sent one of the deadliest viruses on Earth, and multiple varieties of it to maximise the genetic diversity and maximise what experimenters in China could do with it, to a laboratory in China that does dangerous gain of function experiments . . . And that has links to the Chinese military." Source: Express UK

The couple and their graduate students from China were escorted from the lab in July, 2019 and officially fired in January, 2020.

Several computers were seized, a lab log book was missing and Qiu's regular trips to Wuhan were suspended, sources told CBC News." Source: The Sun News

"Inevitably, Qiu’s work included a variety of Ebola wild strains—among them the most virulent, which has an 80% lethality rate—and relied heavily on experimental infection of monkeys, including via the airways. She made remarkable strides, and was granted the Governor General’s Innovation Award in 2018."  Source: The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

300 US soldiers arrived in Wuhan, China, for the World Military Games that lasted from October 18th to October 27th, 2019 . . . Five "foreign" athletes were hospitalized for an undetermined infection. Many foreign athletes from France, Belgium, Germany Italy, Sweden, Luxembourg have revealed that they fell ill at the World Military Games, and thought, retrospectively, that what they had was COVID-19.

The first real COVID-19 case among Wuhan locals appeared on November 2, only six days after the end of the military games. Coincidentally or not, 42 employees of the Oriental Hotel (where the US delegation stayed) were diagnosed in November with COVID-19, becoming the first cluster in Wuhan. Source: Signs of the Times

Event 201 - The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. Source: The Center for Health Security

Notes: Interesting that the Event 201 pandemic exercise began on October 18th, 2019, exactly the same day when the World Military Games in Wuhan began (October 18th to October 27th, 2019)

Coronavirus may have spread to humans as early as October 2019 - study - "Phylogenetic estimates support that the COVID-2 pandemic started sometime around Oct. 6, 2019 to Dec. 11, 2019, which corresponds to the time of the host jump into humans." Source: The Jerusalem Post

Illnesses inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV): The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses. This raises questions about the credibility of WIV senior researcher Shi Zhengli’s public claim that there was “zero infection” among the WIV’s staff and students of SARS-CoV-2 or SARS-related viruses. Source: US Department of State.

Notes: An article from Gateway Pundit claims it escaped the lab in Sept 2019 and spread with the military games in Oct.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans Conclude Covid-19 Came From Wuhan Lab
   An investigation by the House Foreign Affairs Committee into the origin of the Covid-19 outbreak has concluded that the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology sometime just before September 12, 2019.
. . . “Its release was due to poor lab safety standards and practices, exacerbated by dangerous gain-of-function research being conducted at inadequate biosafety levels, including BSL-2. The virus was then spread throughout central Wuhan, likely via the Wuhan Metro, in the weeks prior to the Military World Games. Those games became an international vector, spreading the virus to multiple continents around the world.” Source: The Gateway Pundit

The report, in the South China Morning Post, said Chinese authorities had identified at least 266 people who contracted the virus last year and who came under medical surveillance, and the earliest case was 17 November – weeks before authorities announced the emergence of the new virus. Source: The Guardian

World Health Organization (WHO) report stated that the first individuals were infected between December 12 to December 29 while working at an unsanitary seafood market in Wuhan which was later shut down. Source: Inside Over

In 2019, the project (COVID GOF study) was renewed for another five years, but it was canceled in April 2020 — three months after the first case of the coronavirus was confirmed in the U.S. EcoHealth ultimately received $3.7 million over six years from the NIH and distributed nearly $600,000 of that total to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, a collaborator on the project, pre-approved by NIH. Source: Daily Wire

2020
The World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern regarding COVID-19 on 30 January 2020, and later declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Source: Wikipedia

Notes: In the following quotes, a Chinese vaccine patent was submitted 2 months after SARS-CoV-2 was discovered, right after the WHO declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern and about a month before the pandemic was declared, an impossibility unless a vaccine was in the works for years before the virus was even identified.

Top Chinese Military Scientist Filed Coronavirus Vaccine Patent In February 2020, Died Mysteriously . . . The Five Eyes intelligence alliance is reportedly investigating the death of a top Chinese military scientist who died in spring 2020 only several weeks after filing the first coronavirus vaccine patent.

The People’s Liberation Army scientist, Zhou Yusen, reportedly had connections to the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s “Bat Woman,” Shi Zhengli. The Australian reported that national security experts told the publication that this was proof that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was engaged in  “secret military activity”. Source: Daily Wire & The Australian

February 13, 2020. Shi Zhengli, has revealed one of the strains found in that cave — the exact location of which is a closely guarded secret — is almost identical to the 2019-nCoV coronavirus. Source: The News AU


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An interesting story of George's life and death at 58 years of age.

No, not that kind of park. Imagine your brain is so reminiscent of moth-eaten cheese cloth that your sociopolitical position can be swayed by a free mini-game on your cell phone called "Cat Park".

Leaked State Dept memo obtained by America First Legal reveals US gov't is producing VIDEO GAMES with taxpayer dollars for “psychological vaccination against fake news.” How dare they!

Their plan is to stop populism on social media. 

Quote:Summary

The US gov't produced a cat-themed “disinformation” video game to “inoculate” young people against populist news content.

The game aspires to create a “psychological vaccination against fake news” in those surfing social media.

The US and UK gov'ts plan to embed the game in local schools and educational curricula around the world, especially “ahead of elections.”

“With the Internet, only two things are certain: the global appeal of cat videos and the pervasiveness of disinformation.”

So begins a government memorandum recently circulated by the US State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC) titled: “Cat Park – A New Online Game to Inoculate Youth Against Disinformation,” recently obtained by America First Legal and reviewed by Foundation for Freedom Online.

The memo, dated Oct. 31, 2022, details a government plan to roll out a new taxpayer-funded online game called Cat Park. The game is billed as a product that “inoculates players against real world disinformation by showing how sensational headlines, memes, and manipulated media can be used to advance conspiracy theories and incite real-world violence.”

However, there is more going on here than a simple cat-themed video game.

As this report will explain, the GEC appears to be using taxpayer dollars to fund “behavioral modification” propaganda games intended to make young people around the world view populist content online as being de facto “disinformation.”

To understand the full story, we will explore the Cat Park game itself, break down the GEC memo, and then reveal the bigger picture of where this all came from and what's behind it.

Cat Park: 'Vaccinating' Young People Against Distrust In The Government

Aimed at young people aged 15 years and up, Cat Park purports to be a “noir adventure” where a player takes on “the role of a disinformation agent recruited into a shadowy social media pressure campaign.”

In the game's plot, the player assumes the role of a social media user who makes memes and news headlines to energize local citizens to stop the construction of a local park for cats (hence, Cat Park). Then, the player, realizing they have been spreading disinformation, must repent for their memes that resulted in the park getting canceled.

The major crux of plot tension in the game is the concern that the cat park being built by the city's mayor ostensibly only serves the city's upper-income residents. Thus, populist resentment lurks within the lower-income strata at the city who believe their own needs are being neglected by government officials.

Thus, as a “disinformation” purveyor, the player represents the “anti-park” movement, and begins the game by generating grievances against the park's construction.

See screen-record videos below for an illustration:
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Quote:Today, the US military treats the GEC as a key civilian arm of its psychological warfare operations:

The new Global Engagement Center (GEC), established by presidential executive order and located at the DoS, focuses on third-party validators or influencers from the bottom up, whereas MISO [Military Information Support Operations, formerly known as “psyops”] within DoD remains more focused on government top-down communications. [RAND Corporation]

The GEC was first founded and overseen in 2016 by then-State Department Under Secretary for Public Affairs Richard Stengel. Stengel described his job at GEC as being the US government's “chief propagandist.”

Quote:"Core Mission: To direct, lead, synchronize, integrate, and coordinate efforts of the Federal Government to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States, its allies, and partner nations.

"Vision: A data-driven Mission Center leading U.S. inter-agency efforts to proactively address foreign adversaries’ attempts to use disinformation and propaganda to undermine U.S. interests."

Quote:"The Technology Engagement Team’s Mission: To defend against foreign disinformation and propaganda by transitioning technologies from concept to application at scale and in support of smart policies and operations. TET leads U.S. Government innovation efforts by convening technology experts and programmatic authorities from the public and private sectors, and pushes innovation against this key problem. TET has developed a dedicated effort for the U.S. Government to identify, assess, test and implement technologies against the problems of foreign propaganda and disinformation, in cooperation with foreign partners, private industry and academia."

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