The Pentagon's Bio-Labs in Africa
The Pentagon blesses the rains down in Africa in preparation for their next pandemic.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has been creating biosecurity and biosafety labs (BS&S ) in various parts of Africa as they develop various biological ‘threat reduction’ programs. As always, I think it’s important to follow the money when investigating these sorts of activities. Financial support for genetic research and modification on pathogens has come from the CDC, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft, Illumina, and Oxford Nanopore Technologies, and the Pentagon’s DTRA - to name a few.
The Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative for example is partially funded by the MasterCard Foundation through the African CDC in order to “enable vaccine delivery and administration, and develop a workforce to support continental vaccine manufacturing.” The EU also provides a modest 10 million dollars with the goal of “facilitating harmonized surveillance and disease intelligence.” I find it almost offensively unsurprising that these goals have absolutely nothing to due with public health or human safety but rather industry, surveillance, and control.
Africa is facing increasing surveillance from the Pentagon’s DTRA, especially concerning “biological defense projects.” On a side note, using the provided budget outline, the DTRA also maintains a program in Central Asia focused on the developement of hypersonic technology and artificial intelligence.
It’s also clear the activity in Africa has been planned for some time. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the African Union purchased hundreds of millions of vaccines (Moderna, J&J, Pfizer) through the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) which is, unsurprisingly, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, the Wyss Foundation, both the African and European Unions, and the United States. Fortunately for people living in Africa who were charitably gifted with the vaccine by these organizations, there exists the AVAT No Fault Compensation Scheme which monetary compensation for citizens of Participating Member States who have suffered from “Serious Adverse Events” as a result of their vaccinations. Considering how Completely Safe and Effective™ the COVID vaccines have been, the existence of such a platform is quite puzzling.
Why is the government so keen on having an effective surveillance and monitoring mechanism in Africa. Could it be to simply ensure public health? In light of the COVID pandemic, which wreaked havoc on the globe at every level of a society and stripped millions of people from the right to breathe the air, it seems clear - that is not the case.
It is clear that the immense resources being poured into these programs in Africa have another purpose; something that casts a darker shadow over the intentions, activities, and potential impacts of these biosecurity and biosafety labs. The implications of permanently establishing powerful surveillance and monitoring mechanism in Africa is one that cannot be ignored; it is not just a mere effort to protect citizens from pathogens they themselves are creating, but is rather a quest to gain control both over the individual regimes on the continent and the global ecological system.
The efforts of the DoD, CDC, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft, Illumina, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, and the Pentagon’s DTRA to develop biosecurity and biosafety labs in Africa if viewed with curiosity present personal risks to all of us. What agenda is the US pursuing by having such powerful parties use Africa as a testing ground for biosecurity and biosafety with weapons-grade and pathogen-specific research and modifications? Why use Africa as a testing ground? Now that Ukraine is in ruins and the Russian Federation has exposed the US governments activities there, it appears they’re simply reverting to their tried and true work on the African continent.
-The Shultz Report by M. Shultz