On 16 November, the Children’s Health Defense, founded and chaired by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., published an article on its website stating that both the U.K. and the U.S. “are preparing to silence independent journalists who raise legitimate concerns over pharmaceutical industry corruption or the extreme secrecy surrounding state-sponsored COVID-19 vaccination efforts.”
The article is titled, “Cyber War Declared in U.S. and U.K. to Quash Vaccine Hesitancy as Nations Prepare for Mass Inoculations.” It cites action initiated on 16 November by the U.K.’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to seek out and label as “propaganda” any website that questions the country’s vaccine program or criticizes the multinational pharmaceutical corporations whose vaccines are being approved.
Also cited is the secret U.S. military program in the U.S., led by officials who were involved with the occupation of Iraq, who are planning to identify websites suspected of spreading anti-vaccination opinions and those revealing the secrecy behind the vaccination effort and pharmaceutical industry corruption.
The article cites how the mainstream media while cheerleading the vaccination effort, has been virtually silent about the known prior corruption of Pfizer whose vaccine is set to be approved by the FDA.
On 2 September 2009, Pfizer was forced to pay $2.3 billion due to the U.S. Department of Justice finding of criminal and civil violations around the company’s illegal promotion of four of its drugs. It was the largest health care fraud settlement in history. USA Today reported at the time that a former Pfizer sales rep, a West Point graduate, filed a whistle-blower lawsuit after he was told by the drug company to offer misleading samples to physicians.
Government Seeks to Silence Critics
The Children Defense Fund article points to a report published by the U.K. newspaper The Times on 9 November that revealed: “the government regards tackling false information about inoculation as a rising priority as the prospect of a reliable vaccine against the coronavirus draws closer.”
While stating the military cyber-attack program is only intended for anti-vaccination websites created by foreign adversaries and would not be targeting its own citizens, “the effort would rely on the U.S. government for determining whether or not a site is part of a ‘foreign disinformation’ operation.”
The Children’s Defense Fund notes, “This is highly troubling given that the U.S. recently seized the domains of many sites, including the American Herald Tribune, which it erroneously labeled as ‘Iranian propaganda,’ despite its editor in chief, Anthony Hall, being based in Canada.”
The article adds, “It is worth pointing out that many so-called ‘anti-vaxxers’ are actually critics of the pharmaceutical industry and are not necessarily opposed to vaccines in and of themselves, making the labels ‘anti-vaxxer’ and ‘anti-vaccine’ misleading. Given that many pharmaceutical giants involved in making COVID-19 vaccines donate heavily to politicians in both countries and have been involved in numerous safety scandals, using state intelligence agencies to wage cyber war against sites that investigate such concerns is not only troubling for the future of journalism but it suggests that the U.K. is taking a dangerous leap toward becoming a country that uses its state powers to treat the enemies of corporations as enemies of the state.”
In the U.S., the Children’s Defense Fund article reveals the announcement on 1 October that the U.S. Air Force had awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to Primer, a U.S.-based AI company: “Primer will develop the first-ever machine learning platform to automatically identify and assess suspected disinformation.” (Note the use of the word “suspected.”)
Primer’s founder is Sean Gourley whose previous role was creating AI programs for the U.S. military to track insurgencies in Iraq. He wrote last April that the effort to create cyber warfare to counter suspected disinformation will allow the military to “begin to weaponize the truth.”
Now, in November, Primer has made it clear that the goal to “weaponize the truth” will be directed at those who challenge the COVID-19 vaccination program. At the 9 November press conference, the company’s director of science, John Bohannon, stated,
“Primer will be integrating bot detection, synthetic text detection and unstructured textual claims analysis capabilities into our existing artificial intelligence platform currently in use with DOD (Department of Defense)… This will create the first unified mission-ready platform to effectively counter COVID-19-related disinformation in near-real time.”
Among high-level military figures who are Primer’s Executives and on its Board of Directors:
- Brian Raymond, former CIA intelligence officer who served as Director for Iraq on the U.S. National Security Council
- Retired General Raymond Thomas, who led a command of all U.S. and NATO Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan
- Retired Lt. General VerLinn Jamieson, former deputy chief of staff for Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
- Bret McGurk, former senior director for Iraq & Afghanistan during the Bush Administration
Mainstream Media Will Continue to Cheerlead the Military Operation
Operation Warp Speed, initiated by the U.S. government last April to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacture, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, named four-star General Gustave F. Perna as COO.
General Perna recently served as the head of the Army Material Command, and he previously led the Joint Munitions and Lethality Lifecycle Management Command, responsible for overseeing $40 billion of conventional ammunition.
On 28 September, Stat News reported, “Roughly 60 military officials – including at least four generals – are involved in the leadership of Operation Warp Speed, many of whom have never worked in health care or vaccine development. Just 29 of the roughly 90 leaders on the chart aren’t employed by the Department of Defense.”
As for the government’s plans to use the media to promote the vaccine, CDC reported on 29 October that Operation Warp Speed will “engage and use a wide range of partners, collaborations, and communication and news media channels to achieve communication goals” and will “focus its efforts on ‘traditional media channels’ (print, radio, and TV) as well as ‘digital media’ (internet, social media, and text messaging).”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tweeted on 16 November: “Those who raise legitimate concerns about Operation Warp Speed will be de-platformed to make for the required saturation of pro-vaccine messaging across the English-speaking media.”
TRENDPOST: “Deplatforming,” according to Wikipedia is “a form of political activism or prior restraint by an individual, group, or organization with the goal of shutting down controversial speakers or speech, or denying them access to a venue in which to express their opinion.”
As we have noted in this Trends Journal, tens of millions of dollars are being pumped into the Ad Council to sell the public into getting a COVID vaccination. (See our article in this issue, “AD COUNCIL APPROVES VACCINE PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN.”)