{"id":26997,"date":"2024-05-09T04:40:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T09:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26997"},"modified":"2024-05-09T04:40:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T09:40:08","slug":"after-positioning-military-biolabs-around-the-globe-us-officials-urge-biodefense-buildup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26997","title":{"rendered":"After Positioning Military Biolabs Around the Globe, US Officials Urge Biodefense Buildup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Russia\u2019s Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops have spent over two years studying and publicizing sensitive documents and analytical materials on the extent of Pentagon, CDC and US biotech firms\u2019 funding for unethical and potentially illegal military biological research in Ukraine and around the world.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

US biodefense planners are preparing to release a ‘bombshell’ report calling on all levels of the US government to radically improve national biodefense measures and create a national strategy to address global biological threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The document<\/a>, seen by Axios ahead of publication, was put together by the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense, a panel of former high-ranking US officials and lawmakers, including senior former Clinton, Bush and Obama administration staff. The Commission, created in 2014 to \u201cprovide for a comprehensive assessment of the state of US biodefense efforts,\u201d has called its new report the 2024 National Blueprint for Biodefense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u2018blueprint\u2019 highlights the growing risks stemming from the outbreak of infectious diseases, bioweapons research and lab leaks, predicting that the number of biothreat incidents will increase over time, and urging policymakers to make major new investments in biodefense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not putting enough emphasis on getting ahead of these biological threats,\u201d Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense executive director Asha George said. George urged Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to spearhead a national biodefense effort and set up a deputy advisor post to deal with the job\u2019s daily duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Committee is asking Washington to create a unified federal biodefense budget, and multiyear funding for programs as part of an agenda featuring 36 separate recommendations, from the creation of a congressional working group and biodefense reviews once every four years, to amendments to the 1944 Public Health Service Act to \u201cproduce a research and development plan for reducing pathogen transmission in built environments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curiously, the panel\u2019s recommendations also feature a section on \u201cemerging astrobiological threats,\u201d warning about \u201cthe intersection of space exploration and infectious disease,\u201d and of the possibility of space-based microorganisms being brought to Earth and posing a threat to the planet\u2019s \u201chuman, animal, plant, or ecosystem health.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional details on the contents of the report have yet to be publicized. However, based on the information made available by Axios, it will offer little if any data on the US government\u2019s own role in creating, manipulating and spreading biological threats globally, starting with the National Institutes of Health gain of function research<\/a> which may have sparked<\/a> the global Covid-19 pandemic, to the operation of dozens of military-grade biolabs around the world, including in Ukraine<\/a>, Africa, Asia and Latin America<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia\u2019s Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops warned in January that Washington\u2019s goals in the military-biological domain are multifold, ranging from the creation and manipulation of the causative agents of \u201cparticularly dangerous infections in regions of the world that are strategically important for the United States,\u201d to efforts to achieve global \u201csuperiority\u201d in biomanufacturing, biological monitoring, and the expansion of potentially unethical and illegal military biological research outside US jurisdictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RCBD Troops chief Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov\u00a0has indicated<\/a>\u00a0that the US military bioresearch program \u201cconsists of government agencies and private contractors,\u201d including representatives of big US pharmaceutical companies and that \u201cthrough the organs of the executive branch, a legislative framework is being created to finance military-biological research directly from the federal budget.\u201d In turn, Kirillov said, \u201cguarantees provided by the state attract funds from non-governmental organizations,\u201d including the Clinton, Soros and Rockefeller foundations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u20182024 National Blueprint for Biodefense\u2019 report comes less than a month after the NATO alliance published details<\/a> on an alarming new \u201cinternational strategy to govern the responsible development and use of biotechnologies and human enhancement technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the pretext of unsubstantiated claims that adversaries, including Russia, are planning to deploy chemical and biological weapons, the NATO strategy offers a Brave New World-style vision of the need to fast track the development of biotech and human enhancement (BHE) technologies, predicting that they will \u201ctransform our economies, societies, security and defense in unprecedented and unforeseeable ways.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATO cites the AI-assisted modification of biological processes, cells and cellular compounds as \u201copportunities\u201d to \u201cenhance our defense and security,\u201d including via \u201cbiotechnological and non-biotechnological interventions that enable individuals to operate beyond normal human limits or abilities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This scary new BHE push has been met with opposition from social conservatives worldwide, who have cited work in this direction as a means to establishing unprecedented levels control over humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Russia\u2019s Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops have spent over two years studying and publicizing sensitive documents and analytical materials on the extent of Pentagon, CDC and US biotech firms\u2019 funding for unethical and potentially illegal military biological research in Ukraine and around the world. US biodefense planners are preparing to release a ‘bombshell’ report […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[1169,28293,28294,1156,21056],"class_list":["post-26997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-biden","tag-biodefense","tag-biological-lab","tag-military","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26999,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26997\/revisions\/26999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}