Pre-Pandemic Timeline
2000 – 2015
Chronological order of significant global, Australian and SA data points leading up to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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Y2K – the worldwide digital apocalypse (that didn’t happen)
Bill Gates steps down as Microsoft CEO, and launches the BMG Foundation
On January 13, 2000 Bill Gates announced he stepped down as Microsoft CEO, the company he cofounded in 1975, “to concentrate on software strategy”. Gates’ personal wealth at the time was estimated at nearly $85 billion.
In 1999, during Microsoft’s monopolistic anti-trust legal proceedings, Bill Gates began to reposition his brand from computer geek to “philanthropist” by forming the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) [ARCHIVE] as a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) that “gives back to global communities through increasing access to innovations in education, technology, and world health”, with a strong focus on reproductive health. [5, 6]
Biotechnology is still in it’s infancy
On January 20, 2000 President Bill Clinton officially declared National Biotechnology Month 2000 and in his speech he stated:
“Remarkable as its achievements have been, the biotechnology enterprise is still in its infancy. We will reap even greater benefits as long as we sustain the intellectual partnership and public confidence that have moved biotechnology forward thus far…
We must … provide Federal regulatory agencies with sufficient resources to maintain sound, science-based review and regulation of biotechnology products.”
He also stated:
“Today, a third of all new medicines in development are based on biotechnology. Designed to attack the underlying cause of an illness, not just its symptoms…”
The next day, January 21, 2000, President Clinton launched the new National Nanotechnology Initiative. [1]
Nanotechnology Revolution begins
On January 21, 2000 President Clinton launched the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), which will lead the “next industrial revolution”. [1] In his speech he stated “imagine, materials with 10 times the strength of steel and only a fraction of the weight; shrinking all the information at the Library of Congress into a device the size of a sugar cube; detecting cancerous tumors that are only a few cells in size. Some of these research goals will take 20 or more years to achieve.” [1]
One billionth of a metre is a nanometre.
Getting to this point began with the Interagency Working Group on Nanoscience‘s (IWGN) first report in December 1998 called Nanostructure Science and Technology – A Worldwide Study this provided a “basis for the Federal government to assess how to make strategic research and development (R&D) investments in this emerging field of nanotechnology”.
Then in September 1999 the IWGN Workshop Report, Nanotechnology Research Directions, was released with a “Vision for Nanotechnology Research and Development in the Next Decade”. Nanotechnology will fundamentally change the way materials and devices will be produced in the future.
At this point, in the year 2000, most people didn’t know much about nanotechnology, there was only a small core of scientists and engineers. In recent years new breeds of microscopes made it possible to control the movement of atoms. [2]
The previous day, on January 20, 2000 President Clinton acknowledged National Biotechnology month.
Exactly 20 years later, to the day, the US reported their first SARS-CoV-2 patient, and the day before, China confirms human-to-human transmission. The “coronavirus pandemic” allowed both bio-technology (mRNA) and nano-technology (lipid nanoparticles (LNP)) to converge into a new technology “vaccine” used for the first time and en-masse, on a large percentage of the worlds population.
GAVI is launched
The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) “movement” was officially launched January 31, 2000 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. GAVI headquarters are based in Geneva, Switzerland. The board of GAVI held their first meeting held on October 28, 1999 in New York. The World Health Organization is a founding partner of GAVI with its Director-General, Dr Brundtland chairing the GAVI Board for the first two years. [1, 5]
“Nearly three million children worldwide still die needlessly each year of vaccine-preventable illnesses,” … “For only US $17 per child, we can provide lifetime protection against the six historical scourges – polio, diphtheria, tuberculosis, pertussis, measles and tetanus. And for not much more, we can extend the protection to include hepatitis B, yellow fever and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), the leading cause of pneumonia and meningitis.”
said Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland , Director-General of the WHO and the chair of GAVI, and author of “Sustainable Development”
“The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization is a partnership dedicated to ensuring that all children, however poor, have equal access to these vaccines. The Alliance also works to spur the development of new vaccines against major killers that primarily affect the world’s poorest people [Start with poor, as always]. It is founded on the principle[belief] that immunization is a human right and a key step towards overcoming poverty [heart strings]. ” [vaccinealliance.org]
GAVI believed vaccines and immunization play a “crucial role… in world health and economic development”, with the objective of “working with government officials to make universal immunization an important national priority.” The actively asked for contribution$ to the Global Fund for Children’s Vaccines, and advocated for school curricula to include immunization education. Currently “the key barriers to universal childhood immunization are insufficient financing and inadequate vaccination infrastructure,” and awareness of the “value and cost-effectiveness of immunization with both new and old vaccines…” This way “under-used vaccines” [and all the new ones to come] will have a market! [Launch brochure 4]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation‘s initial five-year pledge of US$753 million in 1999 provided the seed money to launch (GAVI), now referred to as Gavi The Vaccine Alliance. It is a partnership with the global vaccine makers, Rockefeller Foundation, United Nations bodies all to help save lives through vaccination in the world’s poorest countries. [2, 3]
Gavi “not only pays for the vaccines, but also spurs their development and expanded production…the Vaccine Alliance’s business model influences the market for vaccines.”
Gavi is a public-private partnership with the Gates Foundation, WHO, UNICEF and the World Bank and others. Gavi is funded through an assortment of government pledges, the Gates Foundation and private sector donors. Their funding model draws heavily on the private sector, especially vaccine manufactures. Gavi is ran by a board of representatives.
Australia pledges yearly contributions to Gavi, in 2013 representing 2.3% of funds.
Gavi has changed it’s legal name and structure as it has evolved:
- 2000 > The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations
- 2006 > The GAVI Alliance
- 2014 > GAVI, The Vaccine Alliance
Since 23 June 2009, when Gavi restructured it’s focus and separated from UNICEF, it has had total immunity from investigation or audit, meaning it is not accountable for it’s global influence, actions and decisions. Also Gavi does not pay taxes. [@57min]
Earth Charter: the transition document to sustainable development
The idea of the Earth Charter originated in 1987 from the recommendations in “Our Common Future” document, when the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development called for a new charter to guide the transition to sustainable development. [1]
The drafting of the Earth Charter text was done during a six-year worldwide consultation process (1994-2000), overseen by the independent Earth Charter Commission, which was convened by Martin Strong and Mikhail Gorbachev with the purpose of developing a global consensus on values and principles for a sustainable future. It was approved at a meeting at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris in March 12-14, 2000, it contains a preamble, 16 main principles, sixty-one supporting principles, and a conclusion entitled “The Way Forward.” [5]
The document was justified as a “five year review of the implementation of Agenda 21 demonstrated, so far the world has failed to take the new course towards sustainable development.”
The Preamble affirms that “we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny,” and the Earth Charter encourages all people to recognize their shared responsibility, each according to his or her situation and capacity, for the well-being of the whole human family, the greater community of life, and future generations. [2, 3]
“The Earth Charter Commission member who presided over the unveiling just happened to be none other than Steven C. Rockefeller.” [4]
Hybrid organisms are now considered part of phylogenetic nomenclature
By April 8, 2000 the International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature committee published their “first draft” of the new “PhyloCode: A Phylogenetic Code of Biological Nomenclature” as they deemed the current Linnaean system unable to accomodated “clades“. The new PhyloCode included a provision for “Hybrids“. This lays out the rules which taxonomists use to classify organisms, which now includes gene manipulated, chimeric organisms. [1, 2]
By definition a “hybrid formula” is “An expression consisting of the names of two taxa separated by a multiplication sign, designating a single organism or set of organisms of hybrid origin.” [3, 4]
If part of a virus genome (via mRNA vaccine) incorporates (transfects) into the human genome, does that make that human a hybrid?
Simpsonwood secret meeting on how to hide the vaccine-autism link
On June 7-8, 2000 at the Simpsonwood Retreat Center in Norcross, Georgia, vaccine bureaucrats and vaccine makers came together for a secret meeting titled the “Scientific Review of Vaccine Safety Datalink Information”. [1, 2, 3]
The leaked transcript from the meeting, know as the Simpsonwood documents, was received by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and it exposed “the cozy relationship between government and industry and the lengths to which they’d go to hide data from the public about the vaccine-autism connection. The CDC knew about the dangers of thimerosal in childhood vaccines in July 1999.
All because of this paper: “Increased risk of developmental neurologic impairment after high exposure to thimerosal-containing vaccine in first month of life” by Verstraeten, Davies and DeStafano, who look at the automated data of over 400,000 infants between 1991-97 in the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) database. [3]
- CDC’s Frank DeStafano is no stranger to hiding data, as was revealed in the Vaxxed documentary.
FDA’s CBER begins to regulate Gene Therapy products
In September 2000 FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) began to regulate the emerging market of human gene therapy products, which fall under the legal definition of a “biologic”.
Gene therapy research was 10 years old by this date. The first clinical trial of a genetic therapy occurred on September 14, 1990, on a 4-year-old girl named Ashanthi DeSilva. She survived. But then in September 1999, 18 year old Jesse Gelsinger died from a reaction to his experimental gene therapy treatment, which spurred and investigation that revealed not all trial adverse events were being reported. [1, 2]
It was reported that that since 1989 to September 2000, the FDA had “received about 300 requests from medical researchers and manufacturers to study gene therapy and to develop gene therapy products”, looking to find cures for genetic diseases. [3, 4]
Brighton Collaboration is launched – their purpose to define vaccine Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI)
Around September 2000 (Fall) the Brighton Collaboration (BC) was officially launched, following a 1999 vaccine conference in Brighton, England, where US CDC’s Robert Chen and others called for “improving the quality of vaccine safety data”. [10]
Their initial stated mission “is an international voluntary collaboration to facilitate the development, evaluation, and dissemination of high quality information about the safety of human vaccines.” with a primary aim “[t]o develop globally accepted and implemented standardized case definitions of Adverse Events Following Immunization” (AEFI) i.e. vaccine injury.
“The Collaboration consists of researchers and other professionals from vaccine safety, public health, pharmaceutical and regulatory agencies to address the problems of the quality of information on vaccine safety. Its primary task is the harmonization and standardization of AEFI’s”. [3, 11]
The CDC and WHO got involved in the 2000 launch, and by 2001 the “Brighton Method for defining adverse events following immunization was established” and on May 22, 2002 they held their first International Symposium on the Evaluation of Safety of Human Vaccines. [1, 2]
In December 2003 the finalised formation of the Brighton Collaboration Foundation, was announced. It is a “independent, not-for-profit organization, under the direct supervision of the Swiss government. It can accept funding and responsibly create strategies that help donors and The Brighton Collaboration scientists achieve their common goals”. [5]
By 2004 the first scientific publications of the BC included the “first six case definitions of adverse events following immunisation”. Curiously in 2003 they had a working group looking at “Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia”. [Note in April 2021 Robert Chen, now the Scientific Director, and is defining Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS) [6]
In 2005 the United Nations recommends the “Brighton Collaboration case definitions and guidelines” and in 2007 they are recommended by the FDA then the EMA in 2008. [4]
In 2011 the BC partnered with the WHO to develop the Vaccine Safety Blueprint. In 2013 templates for documenting the safety of Viral Vector Vaccines were created, the same year the “Brighton Collaboration Online Journal Club formalised to promote open and transparent scientific debate of current issues in vaccine safety.”
On May 21, 2019 the Brighton Collaboration is dissolved as a partnership under Swiss law and reconstituted as a programme of the Task Force for Global Health, a not-for-profit NGO that began in 1984 [11, 12]. The Swiss Brighton Collaboration Foundation remains. BC now operate out of Atlanta, where they’ve always had an office, but it is claimed The move to the Task Force for Global Health is “to help increase efficiency and meet the increasing social demand for information about vaccine safety”. [7, 8, 9]
On May 28, 2019 CEPI in partner with the BC launched the Safety Platform for Emergency vACcines (SPEAC) Project to “help assess the safety of various CEPI-funded vaccine candidates undergoing clinical trials” – just in time for the COVID-19 vaccines.
In 2020 the “World Health Organization (WHO) Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) recommended that “any review of the safety of new vaccines be based on the appropriate Brighton Collaboration standardized templates for benefit–risk assessment of vaccines (by technology platforms) when available and approved, which offer a structured approach to evaluating safety””,
UN Millennium Development Goals are declared
The United Nations Millennium Declaration was signed on September 8, 2000 by all 191 UN member states, agreeing to try to achieve Eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by the end of the year 2015. [1, 2]
The Eight Millennium Development Goals were to:
- eradicate extreme poverty and hunger;
- achieve universal primary education;
- promote gender equality and empower women;
- reduce child mortality;
- improve maternal health;
- combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases;
- ensure environmental sustainability; and
- develop a global partnership for development.
“The MDGs are inter-dependent; all the MDG influence health, and health influences all the MDGs”.
UN released an assessment report in 2012 which revealed “the poorest and those disadvantaged because of gender, age, disability or ethnicity are often bypassed.” The follow up UN agenda for 2030 focus not only on edadicating “extreme poverty” which it didn’t achive, but to eradicate ALL poverty.
NORAD terrorist simulation featuring Osama Bin Ladin
On June 1-2, 2001 NORAD sponsored a multi-agency, joint taskforce, counter-terrorist and field training exercise called Operation Amalgam Virgo which was a hypothetical scenario of a cruise missile or an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) being launched by a terrorist group. The advertising for this simulation had Osama Bin Ladin on the cover! [1, 2, 3]
Fast forward 102 days and New York experienced a terrorist attack where air craft crashed into the two Rockefeller built world trade center buildings which pan-caked on their footings and a third building, #7, mysteriously also pan-caked on it’s footings without being hit by any weapon. Osama Bin Ladin is accused of being the terrorist instigator, and the attack lasted 102 minutes.
On October 18, 2019 the Event 201 coronavirus pandemic simulation was held, then 104 days later a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) was declared by the WHO and 145 days later a pandemic was declared. (Were they 2 days late, and what’s the meaning of the “201” if not the reverse of 102? Just asking for a friend.)
Dark Winter – Smallpox Bioterrorism Exercise
The Dark Winter [7] bio-terroism exercise was held at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, DC, on June 22-23, 2001. The exercise portrayed a fictional scenario designed to simulate possible US reaction to the deliberate introduction of smallpox in three states during the winter of 2002. It was supported by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies together with the Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for Prevention Terrorism, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the ANSER Institute for Homeland Security. [1, 2, 3, 5]
Health and Human Services assistant secretary for preparedness and response, Robert Kadlec, participated in the script writing and came up with the name Dark Winter, a reference to the outcome with a lack of vaccines. [4]
In the scenario, the “participants in Dark Winter, representing the National Security Council, quickly deduce that smallpox has been deliberately introduced and that this is the result of a “bioterrorist attack on the United States.” The assumption is made that the attack is “related to decisions we may make to deploy troops to the Mid-East.” – remember this is prior to 9/11! [6]
As part of the scenario, “mainstream media outlets…were sent anonymous letters that threatened renewed attacks on the U.S., including anthrax attacks, if the U.S. did not withdraw its troops from the Middle East.”
“[T]he operation showed how quickly a public health disaster could lead to widespread chaos and social collapse.”
9/11 Twin Tower terrorist attack
Two hijacked commercial aircraft crashed into each of the World Trade Center twin towers in New York city, and another into the Pentagon building. On that day 3 building in New York, the twin towers and World Trade Center 7 all “pancaked” down onto their foundations, the latter was not hit by any aircraft! Chances?. [1]
This event triggered an enormous US effort to combat terrorism, a “threat” that from this point on, became real in the minds of the global community.
“The crises of 2001 led to a cultural shift in how public health, emergency management, and medical experts think about national security….Health departments became accepted as important partners by traditional emergency management.” [2]
Anthrax bioterrorism attack in the US
On September 18, 2001, just days after the September 11 terrorist attack, anonymous letters laced with bacterial spores of Bacillus anthracis aka Anthrax, were mailed to media companies and congressional offices. The “anthrax letters killed five people and sickened 17”. This type of bioterrorism attack was simulated just months before in June 2001, and game-played using letters – it was called Dark Winter.
The crime was investigated by the FBI et al for 7 years and on February 19, 2010 concluded that Dr. Bruce E. Ivins who worked at the at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), worked alone and sent the letters. In July 2008, Ivins was reported to have committed suicide. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Following this threat, the Clinton administration’s military were mandated to receive anthrax vaccines, to “protect troops against the use of anthrax as a biological weapon”, a practice which just months before in June 2001 the Department of Defense had halted! [5]
In 2003 Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ordered the 6-shot non-FDA approved, mandated anthrax vaccines to stop. Many soldiers were injured by the vaccines, 85% of troops had reported some adverse reaction to the vaccine, this vaccination practice could explain the 1990’s Gulf War syndrome which had an alleged unknown cause! [10] The CDC started recommending the shots in 1991, the vaccine was only FDA approved in 2005, some military refused to take it. [6, 7, 8, 9]
Global Health Security Initiative established
The Global Health Security Initiative (GHSI) originated at the international symposium of the Commonwealth Fund in Washington, D.C. on October 10, 2001, under the leadership of former U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy G. Thompson.
The mailing of anthrax-laced letters just 1 month after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, in the United States (FBI), highlighted several inadequacies in U.S. and international preparedness and response to biological threats. It was now deemed necessary to establish a regular, formal opportunity for the Health Ministers of the major industrialized nations and the WHO to meet and exchange ideas on health security and bioterrorism, whether the biological threats is naturally occurring, accidental, or intentionally-released. [1, 2]
The first meeting was held on November 7, 2001 in Ottawa, Canada.
The Patriot Act becomes law
Just 45 days following the 9/11 terrorist attack, the Bush administration’s USA Patriot Act draft legislation was signed into law on October 26, 2001, “a law that significantly expanded the search and surveillance powers of federal law-enforcement and intelligence agencies.” [1, 2]
The 300 page document was ready to go so fast because Senator Joe Biden had written it in 1994 as the “Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995” following the Oklahoma bombing, but it had been rejected up til then. [3, 4]
China joins the World Trade Organisation
China “a developing country” became the 143rd World Trade Organisation (WTO) member December 11, 2001. It ” began to work towards joining the WTO from July 10, 1986, from which time it entered into negotiations with General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) on the “resumption of its status as a contracting party to GATT”. [1, 2, 3]
In 1986 the Chinese Government expected to “receive treatment equivalent to that accorded to other developing contracting parties”. President Bill Clinton, is said to have been “a major proponent of China’s bid”.
Gain of Function Patent submitted for Coronavirus – mRNA vaccine model
On April 19, 2022 a patent application was filed by Ralph Baric et al, of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill called “Methods for Producing Recombinant Coronavirus” which stated a method for producing an “infectious, replication defective coronavirus” called a nidovirus. This engineered modification to the “common cold” coronavirus made it more pathogenic to humans, and thus is a gain of function manipulation potentially weaponising a virus. This work was funded by NIAID head by Dr Anthony Fauci.
This patent forms the basis for the mRNA vaccine model. “For vaccine purposes, these data indicate that robust gene order rearranged Coronaviruses can be assembled and used as safe heterologous vaccines in swine and other vertebrate”
A few months later the SARS virus “emerged” in China, creating a brand new disease!
The Bioterrorism Act becomes law
In the wake of 9/11 and the anthrax attacks, the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response bill was introduced to parliament on December 11, 2001 and became law on June 12, 2002 and became known as the Bioterrorism Act.
As stated the act is to “improve the ability of the United States to prevent, prepare for, and respond to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies.”
Amongst other things the Bioterrorism Act “addressed the accelerated approval of priority Medical Counter Measures (MCM) and the development of a final rule on using animal models [1] for when human efficacy studies are not feasible or ethical.” The Act established the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) of vaccines and other MCM.
Declaration of Taipei
The Declaration of Taipei was first adopted a 53rd WMA General Assembly, Washington, DC, USA, October 2002.
Research has been evolving since the Declaration of Helsinki was adopted in 1964. Large collections of data and human specimens allow for the development of new research strategies, modelling and predictive analysis in the age of technology.
To balance the very powerful tool for increasing knowledge with the dangers of abuse and misuse of such data from commercial, administrative or political areas the Declaration of Taipei was born in 2002 and updated in 2016.
Ralph Baric et al create a synthetic coronavirus in a US lab
On November 1, 2002 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC) researcher Ralph Baric et al publishes a peer reviewed paper considered a “breakthrough work” in gain-of-function research which describes “the creation of a synthetic clone of a natural mouse coronavirus.” [1] The paper was received for review in January 31, 2002.
“In essence, the authors have “translated” the RNA virus into the language of DNA (using reverse transcriptase), which enabled them to manipulate its genome with the help of existing genetic engineering tools.” [2]
Then the first SARS coronavirus disease broke out in China a few weeks later.
Coronaviruses become a “global concern”
Coronaviruses have received global public health concern since 2003,
- after an outbreak caused by SARS-CoV (SARS) emerged in China.
- Later 2012, the Middle-East respiratory syndrome (MERS) spread in Saudi Arabia, caused by MERS-CoV – WHO’s first IHR emergency committee meeting was held July 9, 2013
- In 2020 the COVID-19 outbreak starts in Wuhan, China caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus resulting in the WHO declaring a pandemic.
All of these human coronaviruses belongs to the genus betacoronaviruses (β-CoVs) which are said to have the “ability to genetically evolve inside the host body and then in the intermediate putative host, which is, in turn, the suitable media to jump towards humans.”
“Since 1960, 30% of respiratory illnesses were caused by the pneumotropic coronaviruses…and were deemed to be nonfatal, until [Nov] 2002” when SARS “appeared in Guangdong province, China.”
Coronaviruses are the most recombinogenic and mutative known viruses [1, 2, 3]. It is known that RNA “produce large numbers of progeny” which is likely “the key to their evolutionary survival”…buffering them from “deleterious mutations” and allowing “advantageous mutations” to continue on. [4]
A comment by an Irish laboratory expert in June 2020, warned that now a “pattern” of 3 viruses of this kind have “emerged” expect “these viruses…to cross species boundaries again” in the future. A precedent for the push for a “pan coronavirus vaccine” which Peter Dazak “prophesied” in 2016.
WHO: Vaccine Safety Net Project established
The Vaccine Safety Net Project is a WHO initiative established in 2003 for helping to control vaccine safety information on websites, giving approval to those who “adhere to good information practices”. [1]
The Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) assesses submitted web content before an organisation can become a VSN member.
According to the WHO “vaccine safety issues are the responsibility of those who provide the vaccines as well as those who develop or manufacture the products.” This is where the Global Vaccine Safety Initiative (GVSI) closely recognises the close collaboration “between regulators and industry” to monitor vaccine safety data.
Bill Gates Launches FNIH Grand Challenges initiative
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 26, 2003, Bill Gates announced a $200 million grant to establish the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, an effort in partnership with the non-profit Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc. (FNIH). “The initiative will identify critical scientific challenges in global health and increase research on diseases that cause millions of deaths in the developing world.” [1, 2, 3, 6]
“The initiative will identify critical scientific challenges in global health and increase research on diseases that cause millions of deaths in the developing world.” The initiative is managed by the “global health experts at the FNIH, the BMGF, the CIHR, and the Wellcome Trust”
On the Scientific Board is Dr Anthony Fauci and a BMGF representative, who are “charged with identifying specific scientific or technological innovations that are likely to:
- Have a global impact
- Show high potential for feasibility
- Potentially remove a critical barrier to solving health problems”
In 2007, the Gates Foundation launched Grand Challenges Explorations, a small scale funding initiative to “engage more of the world’s innovators more quickly.” [4]
The initiative was relaunched on October 7, 2014 as the Global Grand Challenges, to expand to “a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems” [5]
Project BioShield to incentivise private industry
On March 11, 2003 Project BioShield bill was introduced to US congress, Dr Fauci testified on April 4, 2003 and the legislation became public law July 21, 2004. [Curiously 2020 pandemic was declared exactly 17 years later on March 11!]
The Project BioShield Act of 2003 was established “to help incentivize private industry to develop vitally needed medical countermeasures by providing multi-year funding to support advanced research, clinical development, manufacture and procurement” othewise to “speed production of vaccines and other countermeasures in case of biological or other terrorist attacks.”
The federal bioterrorism budget went from [about] $305 million in 2001 to $3.8 billion for 2004, down from $5.9 billion in 2003. HHS staff assigned to bioterrorism increased from 212 in 2001, to 1,700 in 2004. [1]
The SARS epidemic declared in China
“Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus, called SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) [10]. According to the CDC, SARS began in February 2003, it wasn’t until March that the WHO backdated it til the “end of February 2003. According to WHO February 2003 Weekly Epidemiological Reports (WERs) [12] they mention reports of atypical pheumonia in China but Chinese officials designated the cause as chlamydia pneumoniae, which was found in 2 patients who died. [11]
WHO records from November 2002 to February 2003 reveal people in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong started to become ill from atypical pneumonia, China played down the illness. [1, 2, 3, 4]
On March 16, 2003 the WHO had released their website with the Case Definition as reported, the first recognized case was from Hanoi, Vietnam dated mid-February – not China. At a March 25, 2003 WHO press conference it was claimed they were 10 days into an outbreak, making the official start of the SARS outbreak on March 15, 2003.
A novel coronavirus was discovered through complete viral genome sequence and was characterised as SARS-CoV and published by May 30, 2003.
The illness spread to more than two dozen countries in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia before the SARS global outbreak of 2003 was contained
Contact with a doctor from China is said to have “seeded” the SARS pandemic with a 10% mortality rate. The virus origin is unknown. [9]
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a total of 8,098 people worldwide became sick with SARS during the 2003 outbreak. Of these, 774 died. The US had 8 confirmed infections. [5, 6, 7, 8] Since 2004, there has been no known SARS transmission anywhere in the world.
Dr David Martin, stated that the WHO declared SARS eradicated in 2008, but I was unable to find a reference, though interestingly in October 2019 the question about SARS eradication was asked.
Coronaviruses were mostly known for causing common colds. “The SARS outbreak was a game changer,” says Linfa Wang, formally of CSIRO Australia, it caused coronaviruses to now receive global “public health” attention and research funding.
SARS timeline >>>
Iraq War begins because of “Weapons of Mass Destruction” – which was fake news
On May 20, 2003 the United States (Bush) led a coalition that launched a fully-fledged invasion of Iraq, closely supported by the United Kingdom (Blair), the reason was “built on three basic premises: that the regime of Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (WMD); that it was developing more of them to the potential advantage of “terrorist” groups; and that creating a “friendly and democratic” Iraq would set an example for the region.” [1]
They multinational force were “ultimately unable to find substantial evidence that Hussein had an active weapons development programme”. The chemical and biological, and potential nuclear WMD idea was pushed by “trusted media” and was manufactured fake news. “[J]ournalists had betrayed the public by not doing their job and by accepting and amplifying and echoing the lies of Bush and his gang [official sources], instead of challenging them and exposing them.” Had the “media exposed the lies, up to a million people might be alive today.”
A consequence “biosecuity” and “bioterrorism” policies were passed into law following this purported “threat”.
Did the Trusted News Initiative deceive the public again in the 2020 pandemic response? Compared to some public funded media.
Human Genome Project concludes – thus begins the Genomic Age
On April 14, 2003, UC Santa Cruz, as leaders of the Human Genome Project announced the project’s successful completion at a press conference and made the completed reference sequence of the human genome chromosomes publicly available on their Genome Browser to be used daily by thousands of biomedical researchers throughout the world to help usher in the Genomic Age.
- US Dept Energy: “The Human Genome Project ends in 2003 with the completion of the human genetic sequence. A working draft of the entire human genome sequence was announced in June 2000, with analyses published in February 2001.” [16]
The “finished” reference sequence covers about 99 percent of the gene-containing regions in the genome, and has been sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99 percent. “The missing portions can’t be reliably sequenced using current technology”, and are regions for continued exploration.
The genome sequencing endeavour was conceived in June 1985 at UCSC and was launched in 1990, through funding from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of Energy (DOE) and concluded April 2003. [7, 8, 14] “The DOE had become interested in studying the human genome as a way of aiding the detection of mutations that nuclear radiation might cause.” [15]
The Human Genome Project (HGP) was a collaborative effort of the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium who set out in a research program with a goal to completely map all the genes in the human genome by sequencing the 3 billion DNA “letters” and identify all protein coding genes.
“DNA is the genetic code that we all carry in our cells. The code is made up of the four chemical letters A, T, C and G. These letters are called bases and form the genetic code in all living things from plant to animal, bacteria to human. However, variation in the order of the bases is crucial to the differences both between and within species” [9]
The “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” was released in 2001, which estimated there to be “about 30,000–40,000 protein-coding genes in the human genome—only about twice as many as in worm or fly.”
In February 2001 a “draft sequence of the human genome” was released, where they stated “there appears to be about 30,000–40,000 protein-coding genes in the human genome—only about twice as many as in worm or fly”, far fewer than the ~100,000 previously estimated. By 2004 that number reduced to 20,000-25,000, around the same as a round worm, though this may be as low as 19,000 genes. [11, 12, 13]
Of the human genes only 3% code for proteins and 97% has been termed “junk DNA” by scientist’s over the years. In 2002 it was determined that 99% of mouse genes have “direct counter parts to humans.” [3, 4, 5]
The field of Systems Biology came out of the Genome Project, realising that complexity of a species does not come from the number of it’s parts (genes), it’s more complex, with interacting sub-systems and feedback loops. A normal functioning human body expresses (up-regulates) genes when required, triggered by many factors; thus emerged the field of study is known as epigenetics. [2, 6, 10]
Out of the Genome Project, scientists then “went to work to find the specific genes that cause certain illnesses and traits, so that gene-based therapies could be created.” [1]
The model of the immune system that vaccination is based upon, is out of date. The new model of the immune system is more complex than the 1950’s Innate-Adaptive model. It’s show that pathogens turn-on epigenetic of which there are natural feedback systems in our bodies that modulate immune responses. The protection granted to us by our immune system is more that the production of antibodies, that vaccine focus on measuring.
CDC lodges a patent for SARS-CoV genome – you can’t patent nature!
On April 25, 2003 the (U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/465,927 ) US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) filed a patent for the SARS Coronavirus isolated from humans, that had reportedly transferred to humans during the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak in Asia. “35 U.S.C. §101 prohibits patenting nature. This legality did not deter CDC in their efforts. Their application, updated in 2007, ultimately issued as U.S. Patent 7,220,852 (the patent on the RNA sequence) and 7,776,521 (the patent on the testing methodology. These patents give the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services the ability to control the commercial exploitation of SARS
coronavirus.” [1, 2]
According to Dr David Martin, when the CDC “filed their patent application on April 25, 2003 their first claim (and the only one that survived to ultimate issuance over the objection of the patent examiner in 2006 and 2007) was the genome for SARS CoV“. The CDC “continued to pay maintenance fees on the patent after the 2013 Supreme Court decision confirm[ing] that it was illegal.”
Dr. Fauci knew, and failed to disclose evidence that the CDC patent was illegal, based on work he had funded in the years leading up to the SARS outbreak.
IN 2003 Dr. Anthony Fauci WAS appointed to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Grand Challenges Scientific Advisory Board, where he served through 2010. [3]
- On April 28, 2003 Sequoia Pharmaceuticals, founded in 2002, files patent US 7,151,163 titled “Antiviral agents for the treatment, control and prevention of infections by coronaviruses”… just three days after the CDC filed its patent for the SARS coronavirus gene sequence![1, 2, 4] “Sequoia was later rolled into proprietary holdings of Pfizer, Crucell/Johnson & Johnson.” [3]
- On July 21, 2003 Ralph Baric’s team at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (using AI23946 and GM63228) file U.S. Patent 7,618,802 titled Compositions of coronaviruses with a recombination-resistant genome, which was issued on November 17, 2009
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