A geology insider explains why the global energy crisis is going to get much, much worse 02/03/2022 / By News Editors

It is becoming clear that we are in far more trouble than we are being told.  In recent months, all forms of traditional energy have become significantly more expensive, and this is fueling price increases all over the planet.  This new global energy crisis is directly responsible for the astounding rise in fertilizer prices, it has resulted in a tremendous amount of pain at the pump for millions of average Americans, and since virtually everything that we buy has to be transported it is a major contributing factor to the “inflation boom” that we are currently witnessing.  Unfortunately, this is just the beginning.

(Article by Michael Snyder republished from TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com)

I was recently contacted by a geologist that worked in the oil industry for more than a decade.

He patiently explained to me why things aren’t going to be getting any better.

I asked him if I could share some of what he sent to me with all of you, and he agreed.  After reading this, I think that you will agree that it is quite a sobering assessment of the current state of affairs…

I am a geologist who has worked in the oil industry for over ten years. I was just coming out of school in time for the shale revolution and worked in Denver on the Bakken play in North Dakota, and then I worked the Permian out of Midland. These were the two major shale plays, so I have firsthand knowledge. I now teach environmental science for high-schoolers in Amman, Jordan.

Anyway, back in 2015 I was starting to see reports coming out from analysts that the shale industry would run out of new places to drill shale oil wells in the Permian in 2021. These reports weren’t telling me anything new, just giving me a likely date. You see, shale drilling is drilling in poor rock quality. Prior to shale, we didn’t have to frac wells because the rock quality was great, but we drilled all that good rock up. So, it is really scraping the bottom of the barrel now and way back then, there was a recognition that it wouldn’t last forever. Oil is a limited resource. For a time, it was barely economic to drill shale wells because the margins of drilling in such poor rock was slightly better than what you could make on interest due to quantitative easing policy. Most of the shale companies however, were simply Ponzi schemes and the shale industry lost billions as a whole. But the result of this loss of capital was record production. Needless to say, Wall Street figured it out eventually that they were not making money and so the industry has been capital starved. That is one problem, the other is that there really aren’t many more drilling locations. All the good places have been drilled up which is why you don’t see a rush of shale companies returning to drilling even though oil prices are rising fast. This lack of investment will continue to push oil prices higher.

So much of America’s oil production now comes from shale wells. The problem with shale wells is that the oil production declines much faster than wells drilled in what we call “conventional” rock. Conventional oil production has been on the decline for a long time and shale as helped make up for production. The problem is, that now that drilling new wells slows, the rate of decline in oil production will be much steeper. Around the world, many countries that have not invested in shale (because it is sub-economic) have had their conventional resources continue to decline. Venezuela was a major oil exporter, so were Columbia and Mexico. Expect Saudi Arabia to not be far behind. They have been lying for years about just how much oil they really have left.

As you keep pointing out, add wars or natural disasters to this and we are in really big trouble. Oil is the number one resource upon which the entire global economy is built. High oil prices lead directly to bread riots and collapse of governments (think the Arab Spring). Politicians need cheap oil but we won’t be seeing it again. Some people in the industry keep thinking new technology will save us and help us develop new oil plays. They couldn’t be more wrong. The technology for frac’ing was first developed in the 60’s. I can tell you that there is no new technology being developed right now in the oil industry that will save us. Physics and geology are against us on this one, even if we could develop some technology. Wind & solar won’t save us either, it would require a larger investment of materials and energy than we have.

There is no way we are getting out of this.

What this means is that you are going to be paying much more to heat your homes.

And it means that you are also going to be paying much more to fill up your vehicle at the gas station.

Needless to say, you will be paying a lot more for food too.

In fact, food prices are already starting to go bananas.  Last week, Kraft Heinz announced that it will soon be raising prices on many of their most popular products by as much as 30 percent…

Kraft Heinz (KHC) said in a recent letter to its customers that it will raise prices in March on dozens of products, including Oscar Mayer cold cuts, hot dogs, sausages, bacon, Velveeta cheese, Maxwell House coffee, TGIF frozen chicken wings, Kool-Aid and Capri Sun drinks.

The increases range from 6.6% on 12oz Velveeta Fresh Packs to 30% on a three-pack of Oscar Mayer turkey bacon. Most cold cuts and beef hot dogs will go up around 10% and coffee around 5%. Some Kool-Aid and Capri Sun drink packs will increase by about 20%.

Of course Kraft Heinz is definitely not alone.

As our colleagues over at Zero Hedge have aptly pointed out, other major food companies will soon be jacking up prices as well…

Kraft Heinz is just the latest consumer manufacturer to announce plans to boost prices early in the year. Last week, P&G said that it would raise prices on Tide and Gain laundry detergents, Downy fabric softener and Bounce dryer sheets by an average of about 8% in February. Conagra, which makes such brands as Slim Jim, Marie Callender’s and Birds Eye, has said it plans to raise prices later this year.

For a long time, I have been specifically warning that food prices would go completely nuts, and now it is starting to happen right in front of our eyes.

And according to a new Gallup survey that was just released, a whopping 79 percent of all Americans expect even more inflation in the months ahead…

Gallup highlighted that the 79% surveyed in their Jan. 3-16 poll, who said they expected inflation to rise, was the highest they’ve measured in the two decades they’ve been asking the question.

“In the past, Americans have always been more likely to say inflation will increase rather than decrease, but the current expectation is higher than usual — in fact, it is the highest Gallup has measured in its trend,” the polling organization wrote in its release.

The “experts” at the Federal Reserve thought that they could absolutely flood our financial system with money without any severe consequences.

Similarly, our politicians in Washington thought that they could borrow and spend trillions upon trillions of dollars without wrecking our currency.

They were both wrong, and now the American people are going to be absolutely shocked by the level of economic pain that we will soon be enduring.

Amid Dem push to turn country “green,” they have created an unreliable U.S. power grid now on verge of collapse Friday, February 25, 2022 by: JD Heyes

(Natural News) Joe Biden and Democrats did not run in 2020 on a platform of completely changing our mode of travel from cheap, reliable, plentiful fossil fuels to all-electric vehicles that are costly to purchase and maintain, not to mention potentially dangerous.

But while his party is pushing this disastrous energy transition, it comes at a time when the U.S. power grid has become far less dependable and even at risk of collapsing in parts of the country, and the “problem is likely to get worse before it gets better,” The Wall Street Journal reports.

Over the past two decades, widespread, sustained power outages have been occurring with alarming frequency  around the country, according to a WSJ analysis of federal information. For instance, in 2000, there were less than 24 major outages, but that figure increased to more than 180 in 2020.

“Utility customers, on average, experienced just over eight hours of power interruptions in 2020, more than double the amount in 2013, when the government began tracking outage lengths,” the outlet continued.

“The data doesn’t include 2021, but those numbers are certain to follow the trend after a freak freeze in Texas, a major hurricane in New Orleans, wildfires in California and a heat wave in the Pacific Northwest left millions in the dark for days,” the paper added.

And again, the U.S. power grid is approaching collapse at the precise moment when politically motivated energy policies — not those based on reality — are becoming the norm, leaving more Americans to rely on a system that is rapidly declining. In addition to powering homes, Americans are increasingly reliant on the grid to charge phones, cook, and of course, plug in a growing number of all-electric vehicles.

The WSJ adds:

At the same time, the grid is undergoing the largest transformation in its history. In many parts of the U.S., utilities are no longer the dominant producers of electricity following the creation of a patchwork of regional wholesale markets in which suppliers compete to build power plants and sell their output at the lowest price. Within the past decade, natural gas-fired plants began displacing pricier coal-fired and nuclear generators as fracking unlocked cheap gas supplies. Since then, wind and solar technologies have become increasingly cost-competitive and now rival coal, nuclear and, in some places, gas-fired plants.

But as we saw in Texas a year ago, an unseasonal winter storm — weather can be so unpredictable — caused hundreds of wind turbines not set up for such cold temperatures to freeze, thereby cutting power to tens of millions of customers. And in terms of solar panels, you need sunshine to make those work; days of cloudy weather make solar panels far less productive. So the more we are forced to depend on them, the less reliable our grid will become.

Higher demand combined with less reliable forms of energy and you’re looking at the perfect recipe for disaster.

Nevertheless, the left continues driving our country in that direction though Americans were never asked for our opinion on the matter or, more importantly, our approval:

Regulators in many parts of the country are attempting to further speed the build-out of renewable energy in response to concerns about climate change. A number of states have enacted mandates to eliminate carbon emissions from the grid in the coming decades, and the Biden administration has set a goal to do so by 2035.

The pace of change, hastened by market forces and long-term efforts to reduce carbon emissions, has raised concerns that power plants will retire more quickly than they can be replaced, creating new strain on the grid at a time when other factors are converging to weaken it.

The biggest problem with the existing infrastructure is that it is old. A great deal of the transmission system carrying high-voltage power tens of thousands of miles was constructed in the wake of World War II; some lines were built years before the war.

“The distribution system, the network of smaller wires that takes electricity to homes and businesses, is also decades old, and accounts for the majority of outages,” the paper reported.

We are heading for a power grid disaster and once again, insanely bad policy by the left will be responsible for the catastrophe.

Sources include:

PowerGrid.news

WSJ.com

Bombshell study finds more than 200,000 ballots from 2020 election with “mismatched signatures” indicating widespread fraud Friday, February 25, 2022 by: JD Heyes

(Natural News) A newly published study reveals additional evidence that the 2020 presidential election in Arizona was stolen from President Donald Trump just like he and his campaign surrogates and attorneys have insisted now for more than a year.

The study, by Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai of MIT, found more than 200,000 ballots from the election contained “mismatched signatures” and they were all counted in Maricopa County without being “cured” — that is, reviewed for accuracy and summarily fixed or rejected, as the law requires.

Liz Harrington, who handles communications for the former president, tweeted the results of the study.

“HUGE! In Arizona there were AT LEAST 229,430 early ballots with CLEARLY mismatched signatures In an election decided by 10,457 votes,” she wrote in a tweet that contained a short video of Ayyadurai explaining his findings.

She followed that tweet up with screenshots of the examples Ayyadurai found.

“This analysis by Dr. Shiva is unimpeachable,” she continued with more examples, adding, “6 people — 3 forensic document examiners and 3 novices all agreed that 12 PERCENT of early mail-in ballots had mismatched signatures. Maricopa County only sent 1.3% for curing.

“As you can see, it’s called irreconcilable differences,”  Ayyadurai says in his presentation.

“Over 200,000, mail ballots, with mismatched signatures counted without being reviewed, which means cured, and you’re going to understand what that terminology means in Maricopa, and this is a first study, to the best of our knowledge, to calculate signature matching rates, to provide a quantitative framework for assessing signature verification of mail ballots, the whole area of mail-in ballots obviously has become a very controversial area, it’s split up the country, there’s a lot of division,” he continued.

“You’re going to learn about signature verification, we’re going to go over the results that took place in the 2020 election in Maricopa with, how they verified signatures, what results they had, then we’re going to share with you two important experiments that we did, where we got novices, to do the same exercise of having side by side signatures, and then telling us whether the signatures matched or not from the same person,” the researcher said, adding that the purpose of the study was to “educate” election officials both in Arizona and around the country.

He also said that the results were being provided to the Arizona Senate as well as GOP Attorney General Mark Brnovich.

Ayyadurai explained that ballot curing is done by election workers who don’t have a lot of training and do not spend more than a few seconds attempting to match signatures, which is a problem in a large area when millions of ballot signatures have to be matched.

In the case of Arizona, as Harrington pointed out, some 12 percent of early mail-in ballots contained mismatched signatures, but in Maricopa County, the state’s largest population center, just 1.3 percent of ballots were sent to be cured.

That resulted in hundreds of thousands fewer ballots being sent for further review than should have been, and as the research demonstrates, there were plenty of very obviously mismatched signatures — way more than enough to overturn Arizona’s ‘election of Joe Biden’ for president.

Trump is right, again: What happened in 2020 was flat-out election theft.

Sources include:

VAShiva.com

CitizenFreePress.com

The plandemic is imploding and the rats who committed crimes against humanity are panicking Friday, February 25, 2022 by: Ethan Huff

(Natural News) A lot is happening these days with the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) plandemic, which is rapidly unraveling amid escalating civil unrest and continued revelations about the crimes against humanity that have been perpetrated on the world.

The Freedom Convoy trucker convergence on Ottawa, for example, continues to grow, which prompted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to invoke the Emergencies Act, giving him new dictatorial powers.

Trudeau has already used these powers to terrorize the protesters by arresting some of them and even stripping them of their banking rights.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has also been forced to admit that the Operation Warp Speed “vaccines” create negative efficacy, meaning they damage the immune system and render it less able to ward off disease.

Figure 3 in this study by the CDC that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) corroborates a study out of Denmark, both of which show that covid jabs make a person more prone to infection, not less.

Pfizer whistleblower Brooke Jackson also revealed recently that the drug giant committed massive fraud with its covid jab clinical trials. This revelation dovetailed with an announcement by government authorities in Scotland that covid jab injury and death data will no longer be published because it shows undeniably that the injections are killing people.

They can try to flee, but the plandemic rats will eventually pay for their crimes against humanity

The corporate-controlled media, in a desperate attempt to deter people from protesting against covid jab mandates, is now harassing Freedom Convoy protesters by doxing their identities in fake news articles.

Since it is now obvious that the plandemic sham is falling apart as people wake up to the truth, the lying media has resorted to bullying people who engage in free speech against the government’s dictates.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), one of the leading congressional voices against the covid sham, has still not heard back from the Department of Defense (DoD) about a letter he sent to the agency about the massive spike in injuries and deaths being seen in the U.S. military due to its jab mandates.

The Pentagon’s highly accurate and credible Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) clearly shows that heart problems, neurological damage and other conditions are skyrocketing among fully vaccinated servicemen, and yet the DoD refuses to acknowledge this, let alone provide any explanation for it.

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is also overflowing with jab injury cases, but you will not hear a peep about it from the government or from the media because it rips to shreds the Biden regime’s continued false claim that the injections are “safe and effective.”

Excess deaths are also up at least 40 percent, according to the latest life insurance data. This revelation comes as Democrats are suddenly starting to backtrack on their beloved face mask mandates, and possibly soon the jab mandates as well.

A mass awakening is happening, and the perpetrators behind this global hoax are starting to bail. Those fleeing are hoping to exit stage left unnoticed, but it will not be that easy for them once the culmination of their lies catches up with them.

On the other hand, there are many who are now doubling down even as the ship sinks. History will be especially unkind to them, and rightfully so once they are forced to face the music for their crimes against humanity.

“There’s a mind boggling number of guilty people; but fear not, there are people who know what you’ve done and the world community will get the justice it deserves,” is how one of Steve Kirsch’s followers so beautifully put it.

More of the latest news about the collapsing plandemic can be found at Pandemic.news.

Sources for this article include:

SteveKirsch.substack.com

NaturalNews.com

JamaNetwork.com

NaturalNews.com

Germany halts Nord Stream 2 pipeline project with Russia over Ukraine incursion, putting citizens at risk of freezing Friday, February 25, 2022 by: JD Heyes

(Natural News) For years, Europe and especially Germany have become less reliant on fossil fuels for their energy and more dependent on expensive and unreliable “green” energy, which has come at a price.

As the green energy systems fail to produce enough to satisfy demand, the same countries have had to reinvest in fossil fuels in order to power their economies and heat homes in the winter. Shortages brought about by insane COVID pandemic lockdowns have led to dramatically higher energy prices, and now the situation has become even more critical following Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine.

To reverse a decade of dumb energy policy, Germany, during the Trump administration, agreed to take part in a massive pipeline project with Russia called Nord Stream 2, in order to allow the latter to provide natural gas.

But this never made much sense from a security standpoint, given a) Germany is a legacy NATO member; and b) NATO supposedly exists to counter Russia. As president, Trump brought up that point several times, much to the chagrin of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European leaders.

Turns out he was right, of course: With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Germany responded by suspending Nord Stream 2, but in doing so is likely cutting off the German people from an energy resource that cannot quickly be replaced long-term.

Just the News reports:

The $11 billion pipeline was completed late last year, but the certification was needed for it to become operational, according to CNBC.

“In light of the most recent developments we must reassess the situation in particular regarding Nord Stream 2,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said. 

Scholz made the decision the day after Putin said Russia would recognize the independence of two self-proclaimed and pro-Russian republics in eastern Ukraine, then said he would send Russian troops into the region on a “peacekeeping” mission.

The pipeline would have doubled the flow of natural gas from Russia, so you can see how critical it was for Germany — in addition to giving Moscow far too much control over Germany which, again, is supposed to be a participant in a security organization opposed to Russia.

But now this decision risks allowing Germans to freeze as cold temperatures continue to blanket the continent as winter wears on and reliable, affordable energy continues to be in short supply.

The New York Times notes:

The flow of gas could be interrupted now that the Kremlin has ordered Russian troops into separatist territories of Ukraine. Russia provides more than a third of Europe’s natural gas, which heats homes, generates electricity and powers factories. Even as politicians and leaders in capitals across Europe are freezing prices, slashing taxes on energy and issuing checks to households hardest hit by the price increases, concerns are growing about what the persistently high prices could mean for people’s jobs and their ability to pay their bills.

“People are very upset and very distressed,” said Stefanie Siegert, a counselor to consumers in the eastern German state of Saxony who are finding it difficult to pay their gas and electric bills.

“When you talk with people, you feel their anger,” she said. “It is very depressing.”

As Germans get behind in their heating and energy bills, many have turned to unreliable solar but also old-fashioned wood heat (which, of course, adds to the country’s harmful emissions and makes previous investments in ‘green energy’ pointless).

Some consumers are also turning to coal, which is even dirtier.

“I still have a reserve of coal briquettes and stacks of dried wood,” Henry Backhaus, 65, told the Times as he put another log into his stove. “But this is only temporary. It is not a long-term solution.”

Sources include:

NYTimes.com

JustTheNews.com

Did Justin Trudeau Just Destroy "Social Credit System" Logic? PRC-CCP and WEF strategy to weaponize banking has a big downside. Robert W Malone MD, MS Feb 25 Comment Share

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the state can shield the people from the political, economic, and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for The State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of The State.” 

Joseph Goebbels (Goebbels Principle, previously described by Plato as “The Noble Lie”)

Please take a moment to think this through with me.  And let me know your mind. <reference, “Uncle John’s Band”>

The tide of events during the Coronacrisis, the amazing 2019 foreshadowing of Event 201,  the illogical obsession of many WEF trainees with vaccinating the world using mRNA-based vaccines has combined to lead many to conclude that there is an ulterior motive at play here.  One which transcends mere public health concerns. This goes all the way back to the “Big Why” question raised by Dr. Bret Weinstein on the YouTube-banned Darkhorse Podcast “How to save the world, in three easy steps”.

A leading hypothesis to explain the “Universal vaccination nation” obsession is that vaccine passports are a strategic portal to achieving a key World Economic Forum objective.  That being development of a digital identity-based social credit scoring system which will enable management of human behavior by weaponizing banking and access to funds based on behavior and speech.  The core hypothesis here is that western democratic governments (which in normal times have personal privacy constraints) can leverage the emergency to mandate a digital identity and proof of vaccination with associated QR codes and cell phone-based contact tracing in the interests of “public health”.  This despite the proven fact that the mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccines not only do not stop viral infection, replication and transmission, but may even increase infection risk. The logic apparently is that the western democracies, which are increasingly acting like infiltrated client states of the World Economic Forum, can both economically and politically benefit by implementing a universal social credit system akin to that which has been pioneered and gradually implemented (think boiling frog) in the People’s Republic of China by the Central Communist Party.  For further on that topic, see here and here.

And now, thanks to Canada’s (or Cuba’s?) own WEF fanboy Justin Trudeau

and his WEF-trained finance director Chrystia Freeland, we have a peek under the covers, a foreshadowing of sorts, about the potential blowback issues with the whole “manipulate people to do what you want using social credit scores and weaponizing access to banking” strategy. Turns out that WEF darlings Justin and Chrystia were supposed to be the tip of the spear for piloting the WEF digital ID system.  So, faced with the threat of peaceful truckers occupying Ottawa and making like Canadian Geese with their horns, they decided to just go all the way and weaponize the banking system to meet the enormous threat to Canadian national security posed by the truckers. Well, that did not turn out quite as planned.  Apparently, when those holding both large and small bank accounts realized that TD Bank and other large Canadian banks were no longer a safe harbor, they decided to withdraw their funds.  Oops. 

I guess that Canadian Finance Director Chrystia Freeland, although proudly listed by the WEF as an exemplar young leaders program graduate, was not trained as an economist, but rather her background is in Russian history and literature.  She seems to be yet another example of the Peter Principle as mind numbingly and repeatedly practiced by the WEF.

Back on point, it seems that both working class as well as high net worth people really do not like the threat of having their money stolen or frozen by government bureaucrats on a political crusade.  Who would have guessed?  So, what to do when what you previously thought was a safe harbor turns out to be plagued by arbitrary and capricious currents?  Get out of there, pronto. So, there we are. When the geniuses at the WEF meet to game out the “lessons learned” from Justin and Chrystia’s short sharp shock, what are they going to conclude?  Will they conclude that “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves"? Highly doubtful. My guess is that they will decide that the fault lies in having moved too fast, and that the Overlords should told their apparatchiks to stick to the incrementalist “boiling frog” strategy.

Now, was there any foreshadowing that could have alerted them to this little problem?  Well, to be blunt, yes. Have you noticed how bicoastal real estate (and farmland) prices seem really inflated?  What’s going on there? A case can be made that what is happening is that foreign investors – particularly private money with origins in the People’s Republic of China (much of which has been parked in Canada), is looking for shelter in real estate markets. See, if you are a Chinese billionaire (and there are lots of those), you have a problem.  At any moment the PRC can decide that your social credit score (or that of your company) is in default, and the Central Communist Party can seize your funds.  What’s a rich heiress to do?  Seek shelter offshore.  Even if you take a 50% haircut due to an “adjustment” in valuation of inflated offshore real estate, you are still ahead of having all of your money stolen by some arbitrary bureaucrat on a mission to impress his (yes, I intended to use that gender) superiors.  And when your portfolio manager discovers that Canada is going full PRC by weaponizing their banking system for political purposes?  Well, what would you do?  I think that “Get the H___ out of Dodge” is pretty much the universal answer.  Resulting in a cascade of economic badness that threatened to completely crash the new Totalitarian Canada. That one did not even require a Harvard exchange program degree in Russian history and a background in journalism to figure out.

So, there we have it.  The silver lining in this whole shizashow is that the WEF young leaders program seems more interested in turning out compliant bureaucrat functionaries than razor sharp, highly trained intellects. And as God is my witness, Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland certainly fit the mold. Let’s give thanks that they have alerted us to where Klaus and his minions want to quietly take us.  Now, if you care about your freedom and the autonomy of your nation, it is time to act.  Or forever hold your peace. There is no medical crisis. Time to shut down the illegal suspension of Constitutional rights using a fraudulent justification.  And let those of us who actually do an honest day’s work for a living (like Physicians, Farmers and Truckers) get back to work.

Are US-run biological labs in Ukraine one of the reasons behind Russia invasion? Read how Russian govt had raised ‘bioweapons’ alarm

As Russia has started attacking military installations in Ukraine, there are speculations that the United State’s Biolabs that have been established in Ukraine in the name of research and defence are also among the targets. The US has several such labs in Ukraine under its “Biological Threat Reduction Program”.

Social media has been abuzz with discussions on how the Russian government, in addition to objecting to NATO’s expansion in the region, has been highlighting their concerns, accusing the USA of running bioweapon labs near their border. A Twitter handle named @WarClandenstine claimed that it may be a possibility that Russia is targeting the Biolabs. Nothing has been confirmed yet.

1) HOLY SHIT! I think I may be onto something about #Ukraine.

Zelensky said the Russians are firing at “military installations”. How broad is that term?

I am seeing speculation that could include US installed biolabs.

At first I was like no way.

Then I started digging. pic.twitter.com/tm72HFAXNK

— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) February 24, 2022

There is a lot of discussion on social media regarding the alleged bioweapons labs run and funded by the US government on Ukrainian soil.

As per the details made available by the US government, the US Department of Defense’s Biological Threat Reduction Program has been working with partner countries to “to counter the threat of outbreaks (deliberate, accidental, or natural) of the world’s most dangerous infectious diseases.”

Screenshot from US Embassy in Ukraine’s website

In Ukraine, the program’s aim is to consolidate and secure pathogens and toxins of security concerns and provide support to the nation in detecting and reporting outbreaks caused by dangerous pathogens before they “pose any stability or security risks.”

In 2019, BTRP established two laboratories for the Consumer Protection Service of Ukraine with Biosafety Level 2 in Kyiv and Odesa. Both regions are under Russia’s attack. The US not only provides support for laboratory establishment but has also been funding research projects in Ukraine where the Ukrainian and American scientists work together.

Russia has accused the US of developing bio-weapons at its borders, at Ukraine and Georgia

On several occasions, Russia has accused the US and Ukraine of developing bio-weapons close to its borders. In 2021, while talking about the inability of the World Health Organisation to establish the origin of the Covid-19 virus, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev told Kommersant reporter that Russia believed the US was developing bio-weapons near its borders.

He said, “you pay attention to the fact that in the world, more and more new biological laboratories under the control of the United States are growing by leaps and bounds. Moreover, by a strange coincidence – mainly at the Russian and Chinese borders.” He added that the US claims they work with local scientists to develop ways to fight dangerous pathogens but what happens inside those walls was unknown.

He added, “We are told that peaceful sanitation stations operate near our borders, but for some reason, they are more reminiscent of Fort Detrick in Maryland, where Americans have been working in the field of military biology for decades. By the way, we should pay attention to the fact that outbreaks of diseases that are not typical for these regions are recorded in the surrounding areas.”

When asked if he meant Americans were developing biological weapons at those Biolabs, he said, “We have good reason to believe that this is the case.” He further said, “Not a day goes by at the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague that the Americans and their allies do not come forward with another chapter of the anti-Russian chemical dossier.”

Speaking about the allegations against Russia over the development of chemical weapons, he said there were no evidence and only conjectures. The Russian government has made similar allegations multiple times.

Russia has raised concerns multiple times that the USA is running bioweapons labs in Ukraine and elsewhere

Russia had alleged that US is running bioweapons lab in Georgia

US-funded gain of function reasearch to ‘enhance’ viruses at Wuhan laboratory in China

It has been now been established by now that scientists from the USA, with NIH funding, had been running gain of function research into a number of SARS-like viruses in the Wuhan laboratory in China, which is widely believed to be the origin of Covid-19 infection. In September 2021, it was revealed in a book that the US had funded research on deadly viruses in Wuhan under the supervision of Anthony Fauci.

US scientist Peter Daszak, who had received an NIH grant, through his organisation EcoHealth Alliance had been engaged in ‘gain of function’ research for years in the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. Daszak has himself admitted on numerous occasions that they are running breakthrough research into coronaviruses.

Earlier this year, an investigation by Project Veritas had revealed that coronavirus research deemed ‘too dangerous’ by DARPA, was approved by Anthony Fauci’s NIAID and was conducted by Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance at Wuhan.

In October 2021, it was revealed via leaked emails that Anthony Fauci’s NIAID funded institute trained researchers at Wuhan lab housed fatal aerosol-borne viruses.

Russia invades Ukraine

On 24 February, after weeks of speculations, Russia finally invaded Ukraine, triggering a massive outrage all over the world. It is notable here that NATO, USA and Russia have been at loggerheads for years over NATO’s alleged plans to expand eastward, threatening Russia’s security. As Russian troops gathered on Ukraine’s borders over the last few weeks, NATO and USA have dropped billions of dollars worth of weapons in Ukraine, proclaiming support for Ukraine’s sovereignty.

Addressing the people, Putin had announced that it is launching a military operation directed towards the ‘demilitarization’ and ‘denazification’ of Ukraine. The alleged biological weapons program is one of the many concerns Russia had raised regarding Ukraine.

NATO countries including the USA have promised to impose severe sanctions on Russia as a retaliatory measure against the invasion.