The Manila Times

A bio weapons lab true to form

- MAURO GIA SAMONTE

My

column yesterday merited this instant comment from a reader who identifies himself as K2tq:

“checkout lugar research center georgiaK there are even pinoy staff who died thereK

“uKsK have been deeply engaged in such activity, even before they took up the work of the japs in that fieldK and build many more labs around the world, aside from the massive stockpile of germ-warfare-matlsK

“why cuba have to develop it[s] ability in medical tech is because it has been subject to such attackedK

“but the ncov incident, appears to be an accidental premature release, before the pl(sicFandemi­c, which was why big pharma and MA-bel-gets timing were a bit offK

“a miscalcula­tion - pc virus is a lot simpler to develop than playing an omni- beingK

“mA forgot that at best pc tech is super-super-primitive compared to natureK since mA and big uKs corp such as boe(iFng with its falling planes are used to making billions from a lousy product they thought this is good trillion A money making projectK but the pandora’s box is what usa opened insteadK

“so now the best defense is attackK and the use of nuke is not beyond the psycho’s optionsK

“humanity may have to overcome not just one, but more threats and complicati­onsK at least somebody has to try to tell the world, about such threats and possibilit­iesK”

In a manner of speaking, the reader, with the above comment, has beaten me to the drawK qhat is, in terms of identifyin­g the US bio weapons lab in GeorgiaK Named after the former Republican Senator Richard GK Lugar, the laboratory is called Richard GK Lugar Center for Public Health Research in qbilisi, GeorgiaK

What the center is, let’s hear fro let’s hear from General Kirillov in “Russia claims US running secret bioweapons lab in Georgia” By Vladimir Isachenkov OctK 5, 2018, as carried by APnewsKcom:

“qhe documents released by former Georgian State Security minister Igor Giorgadze showed the facility was funded entirely by the UKS and the Georgian ownership it has on paper was a coverK

“qhe documents published by Giorgadze signaled more sinister activities were happening under the cover of civilian researchK

“Giorgadze’s materials cited the deaths of 73 volunteers who took part in tests of a new drug at the lab in 2015-2016K

“qhe deaths showed the Lugar Center used the volunteers as guinea pigs in tests of a new deadly toxinK

“qhe near simultaneo­us deaths of a large number of volunteers give reason to believe that the Lugar Center was researchin­g a highly toxic and highly lethal chemical or biological agentK”

Among those linked by the Russian general to the activities of the Lugar Center were the spread of the African swine fever (ASFF from Georgia since 2007 that caused massive losses for the Russian farm sector, and ticks carrying the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagi­c fever, a deadly viral diseaseK

According to Kirillov, “It’s highly likely that the US is building up its military biological potential under the cover of studying protective means and conducting other peaceful research, flouting internatio­nal agreements­K”

He added that among the documents released by Giorgadze was a US patent for a drone intended to disseminat­e infected insects; other patents covered projectile­s for delivering chemical and biological agentsK

“Such research doesn’t conform to Washington’s internatio­nal obligation­s regarding the ban on biological and toxin weapons,” Kirillov saidK “A legitimate question is why such documents are being stored in the Lugar Center for

Public Health Research. We hope to receive a precise answer from Georgia and the United States.”

As to who Richard G. Lugar is, hear My Say. Sen. Richard G. Lugar was the Republican senator from Indiana who headed the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1986. It was the year when President Ferdinand Marcos had grown quite assertive of Philippine sovereignt­y, and on the matter of the US military bases in the Philippine­s (Clark Airfield in Angeles, Pampanga; Subic Naval Base in Zambales; Camp John Hay in Baguio; etc.), he was determined to deal America one more upping in rentals. Uncle Sam wouldn’t take it anymore, and so he bamboozled Marcos into agreeing to a snap presidenti­al election meant as a ploy to oust him from office through “democratic processes”. The US could not have missed on the sure winnabilit­y of Marcos in those elections, and so it thought of a good ole sleight of hand. The Reagan administra­tion organized a 20-man observer team from the US composed of legislator­s, government officials and private individual­s to execute the rigmarole of depicting Marcos as an electoral cheat and set the stage for his ouster and the enthroneme­nt of the new Amboy, Corazon Aquino.

Remember how it came about. Some 24 lady election canvassers executed that grand historic charade of walking out from the Namfrel canvassing proceeding­s to dramatize to the world that results of the presidenti­al snap election were being manipulate­d to make Marcos win.

The walkout did all the trick. Marcos was pictured as a cheat, and then rumbled into motion the chain of processes that culminated into what was called the EDSA People Power Revolt, which catapulted the once coffee-serving Ninoy’s wife to the Presidency of the Philippine­s.

Who made the signal fire for that chain of processes to get going. He was the head of the US Observer Team to the Philippine snap elections, the Chairman of the US Senate Committee on Foreign relations, then Sen. Richard G. Lugar. When President Ronald Reagan asked Lugar who won and Lugar answered Cory did, that’s when Reagan gave President Marcos the ultimate dictum: “Cut and cut clean.”

So here we are again, in this one more crisis of the US intervenin­g in the peace and prosperity of the Eastern Horizon. How marvelous that a center for bio weaponry by which to accomplish that interventi­on is appropriat­ely named “Richard G. Lugar Center.”

Readers are cautioned about making conclusion­s on what many of the encrypted-sounding phrases in the comment could mean. From what I could make out from some of these encryption­s, the release of the coronaviru­s by the culprits (“big pharma and bel gets” — hey, have I not written about this in my column on April 11, 2020 in which I pointed out that the Bill Gates Foundation have joined up with giant pharmaceut­icals moguls Rockefelle­r and Rotschild in forming the Good Club together with CNN’s Ted Turner for control of the infectious diseases sector) has been accidental­ly premature, hence the confusion that attends the current Covid-19 pandemic: did it really begin in Wuhan, China, as US President Donald Trump and his Republican ilk would ram it down the world’s throat, or had it not actually begun with the leakages of coronaviru­s from the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases inside Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA? The entry of the US bio weapons lab in Georgia on the fringes of Russia sort of adds to the internatio­nal intrigue brought about by the disease. For if the Georgia US bio weapons lab, as Russian Gen. Igor Kirillov has avered, is meant for attacking Russia and China, among others, why did it need for the coronaviru­s to leak from Fort Detrick on the one hand or leap from Chinese bats on the other?

At any rate, that’s a whole lot of sleuthing to do before the world can rid itself of the puzzle of how the coronaviru­s came into being, and why, too. Already, the World Health Organizati­on had made a declaratio­n that there might not be a cure to the pathogen ever, that the world will have to learn to live by it for the rest of its life.

But there is something the reader says in his comment from which I find myself taking great comfort. The ending lines state: “Humanity may have to overcome not just one, but more threats and complicati­ons. At least somebody has to try to tell the world about such threats and possibilit­ies.”

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