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Having studied Science Engineering for 5 years in college, I knew from the first day that it was quite impossible for the twin towers to collapse without a sophisticated explosive demolition.

Days later the airlines released the passenger lists of all 4 “hijacked” planes, printed in newspapers all around the world. Not only were none of the accused hijackers listed as passengers, but there was no one with an Arabic name either! No one ever explained how the government could know all the “hijacker names” within a couple days or that Osama bin Laden was responsible.

Actually, Ossama bin Laden immediately and repeatedly denied any responsibility and at no time did the FBI ever accuse him on their most wanted list as having been involved in 9/11.

The Bush administration did not want any investigation. Eventually, family members of 9/11 victims forced the Government to investigate the 9/11 attacks. 9/11: Press for Truth

When the 9/11 Commission Report was finally released, I found it to be a fairy tale rather than a serious investigation of what happened concerning the attacks. The 9/11 Commission ignored all the serious questions, doubts and known facts about what had really happened. I saw the report as a confession by my government! The 9/11 family members also accused the government’s 9/11 Commission of lying and cover-up! David Ray Griffin exposed the 9/11 Commission cover-up in his book The 9/11 Commission Report – Omissions and Distortions and his lectures

9/11 – a Massive Staged False Flag Operation that allowed our Government:

(1) Pass the AUMF and engage in the “War on Terror” and a series of vicious unilateral invasions of numerous small nations around the Middle East

(2) Create Homeland Security and Create a Society of Mass Surveillance

(3) Pass the “Patriot Act” and subvert our Constitutional Freedoms and Rights,

(4) Pass “ICE” and Terrorize our Immigrants

(5) Severely Censor the Truth, while calling Whistleblowers Unpatriotic and Crackpots.

(6) Destroy Crime Scene Evidence without Forensic Investigation

(7) Steal Trillions and Fund the Military Industrial Complex

(8) Brainwash most of the American People

This is my “Bullet List”, Based on Known Facts Concerning 9/11

There were no Arab “terrorists” except those used as patsies to cover up the real terrorists.
Saudi Arabia supplied “terrorist” names (most of the 19).
At least 6 “hijackers” were still alive after 9/11. Six of the 19 suicide hijackers identified by the FBI shortly after the attack by name, photograph, and other personal details reported themselves alive.
On 9/12 alive were: Waleed al-Shehri – pilot for Royal Air Maroc, Ahmed al-Nami – administrator Saudi Arabian Airlines, Saeed al-Ghamdi – in Tunis training to fly Airbus, Salem al-Hazmi – petrochemical company in Yanbou, Abdulaziz al- Omari -Saudi Airlines pilot and Mohand al-Shehri alive in Saudi Arabia.
Several of the “terrorists” were discovered to be working out of U.S. Military bases in the U.S. U.S. military sources gave the FBI information that suggested five of the alleged hijackers (Saeed al Ghamdi, Ahmed Al Ghamdi, Ahmad al Nami and 2 others) of the planes that were used in Tuesday’s terror attacks received training at secure U.S. military installations in the 1990s. Possibly they were being groomed to be the 9/11 terrorist patsies. Most likely, they probably thought they were being trained to infiltrate Al Qaeda in the future.
The government’s Able Danger program that was investigating and tracking some of these suspect “terrorists” was closed, and all research destroyed before the 9/11 attack.
Various leads about some “hijacker” patsies were ignored by high up authorities. Zacarias Moussaoui (known as 20th hijacker) with ties to radical Islamists and possible plane crash into the towers was arrested in Minnesota in August 2001. A warrant to search his computer was denied by the FBI.
A few days after 9/11 events the airlines released the passenger lists of all 4 “hijacked” planes, printed in newspapers all around the world. Not only were none of the accused hijackers listed as passengers, but there was no one with an Arabic name either!
Then on September 14^th the FBI released a complete list of the 19 hijackers.
Despite all the security cameras at the airports the government never released any videos or photos of any of these “terrorists” boarding any of the 9/11 airliners.
The only photo released was of two of them, Atta & Omari, at the Portland, Maine airport boarding an airliner earlier that morning in a flight to Boston. This photo was used to mislead the public as to “imaginary” boardings of “hijacked” planes.
Why would Mohamed Atta who was considered the “19 terrorist” ringleader and pilot of Flight 11 risk the entire operation by being in Portland Maine on the morning of 9/11?
No one ever explained how the government could know all the “hijacker names” within a couple days or that Osama bin Laden was responsible.
Ossama bin Laden immediately and repeatedly denied any responsibility and at no time did the FBI ever accuse him on their most wanted list as having been involved in 9/11.
Of course, two of Atta’s bags “conveniently” did not get transferred to the Flight 11 baggage. These bags included flight simulation manuals for Boeing planes, copy of Koran, religious tape, note to other “terrorists”, his passport, international driver’s license and his will. Why would someone about to die bring such things?
The government claims these “terrorists” were all devote fanatical Muslims willing to die. Yet news reports and investigations found some were involved in gambling, alcohol, drugs, lap dancing and visits to Las Vegas.
Hani Hanjour was the supposed pilot of AA Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon. Rather than dive into the Pentagon section where many important people including Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld were in their offices, Hani chose to take a nearly impossible 180 degree circle flight path to hit a recently reinforced and under construction section which was closed to only a few people at the time.
In a contradictory Commission Report it is acknowledged that Hani was considered a terrible pilot (e.g. instructors refusing to fly with him) but choose to ignore all this by focusing on President Bush’s amazement at Hani’s sophisticated piloting skills.
In Boston: American 11 and United 175. None of the checkpoint supervisors recalled the hijackers or anything suspicious.
In Newark: United 93. The FAA interviewed the screeners, and none recalled anything unusual or suspicious.
In Washington Dulles: American 77. The FAA investigated and the screeners recalled nothing out of the ordinary.
So, none of 19 most likely nervous Arab ”hijackers” were even notice or remembered by any of the highly trained security screeners at 4 different airline boardings. Even though they would have been the only Arabs otherwise boarding.
Two hijackers, the Hazmi brothers, however, were easily noticed with suspicion at Dulles by the airline’s customer service representative at the check-in counter. Vaughn Allex blames himself for not doing more.
Two hijackers, the two named Ghamdis also were easily noticed at United 75 by customer service representative Gail Jawahir at the check-in counter.
However, there is no evidence the Hazmi brothers or either Ghamdis actually boarded American 77 or United 75. Wouldn’t highly trained security have at least noticed them.
Dulles had extensive closed circuit TV security as did the other airports, but again no photos or videos were ever publicly released.
So none of the accused hijackers were listed as passengers when the airlines first released their passenger lists to the public.
So there is no evidence that any of these hijackers ever boarded let alone hijacked any airliners on 9/11.
The 9/11 Commission was established 442 days after the 9/11 at the insistence of the bereaved. 9/11: Press for Truth
The 9/11 Commission Chair Thomas Kean and Co-chair Lee Hamilton stated their aim was “to provide the fullest account of the events surrounding 9/11”.
However, less than 25% of the report deals with the actual attacks and there is almost zero investigation of the actual attack crime scenes at the WTC complex, Pentagon and Shanksville site.
There is no explanation of how the twin towers collapsed and not even one mention of the 47 story WTC 7 building which collapsed in near freefall around 5pm. WTC 7 was not hit by a plane.
There is no explanation of the rapid destruction of the crime scenes at the WTC complex, Pentagon or Shankville without any forensic investigations.
The Commission had too small a budget of only $15 million. Kenneth Starr’s Whitewater & Monica Lewinsky investigations of President Bill Clinton in the 90s were given a budget of $110 million. The 9/11 terrorist attacks were many magnitudes of complexity than Clinton investigation.
The Commission was tightly controlled by executive director Philip Zalikow who was closely tied with the Bush Administration. Zalikow decided what was to be investigated (not much) and what would be in the final report.
The Commission totally ignored any eyewitness reports and important evidence that contradicted their preordained 9/11 story.
Later two Commission members, Senator Bob Kerrey and Representative Tim Roemer stated that the committee was set up to fail.
Since the 9/11 attacks the government attempts to explain the hours long lack of military plane intercepts of any of the 4 hijacked planes has undergone numerous changes.
None of these explanations are logical or consistent with the decades long government policy on planes that stop communication with air traffic control and go off established flight paths. There has always been prompt interception of such planes in past years.
By “coincidence” there were several military exercises conducted on the morning of 9/11/2001. NORAD was in a major command exercise. Operation Northern and Southern Watch sent fighter planes front East Coast to Middle East. Vigilant Guardian was closely mimicking the “actual” 9/11 events as to plane hijackings.
These “coincidence” exercises acted to provide confusion cover-up and an inability for effective response as to the real 9/11 events. As has been shown previously (with more facts coming) the airlines were not boarded by terrorists or hijacked. It is not contested that all 4 airlines departed with real passengers. These military exercises, however, allowed all of the 4 airliners to be replaced after take-off by large drones.
Airline “sized drones” hit the two towers WTC1 and WTC2. The government claims that the two planes crashing into the towers were both going over 500 miles an hour at sea level. According to professional pilots, this is impossible for an airliner without the pilot losing total control of plane and probably the plane disintegrating in flight. Yet we are told to believe extremely inexperienced pilots flying their first airliner were able to accomplish the impossible! But computer driven drones would have been able to pinpoint attack the towers!
Hundreds of people with respected professional credentials have demanded an honest independent investigation into the 9/11 attacks. Senior Military, Intelligence Service, Law Enforcement, and Government Officials, Engineers and Architects, Pilots and Aviation Professionals, Professors, Medical Professionals, Lawyers, U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency Veterans, Artists, Entertainers, and Media Professionals, and 9/11 Survivors and Family Members.
The towers WTC1, WTC2 and WTC 7 all collapsed from demolition. This has been proved beyond a shadow of doubt by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. Over 3500 architects and engineers have staked their professional reputations in calling for a new independent 9/11 investigation.
Never in the over 100 years of steel frame towers has one collapsed into its footprint from fire without a professional created demolition, except on 9/11 when 3 did!
All the characteristics of a demolition were present in the collapses of WTC 1,2, and 7.
Dozens of witnesses including many firemen reported explosions prior and during the building collapses including many visual squids during the building collapses.
About 300 firemen died in the tower collapses. NY firemen are the experts on high rise fires, and they clearly never considered it possible for the towers to collapse. In fact, they set up their base command center in the tower ground floor. Firemen near the crash floors reported that the tower fires were limited, manageable and they only needed some additional equipment to extinguish these small, isolated fires.
WTC 7 collapsed around 5pm on 9/11. There were numerous preliminary claims that this 47-story building was about to collapse despite a few isolated fires. Claims were made that the building was badly damaged and dangerous, so it needed to be pulled (demolition). Firefighters were told to leave the area around WTC7. BBC even reported that WTC7 had collapsed, while it was still standing behind the TV reporter!
WTC7 finally collapsed as if in a perfect demolition at near speed of gravity without any steel frame resistance. While the collapse of WTC7 was originally broadcast live it was never shown again on corporate TV.
Larry Silverstein in an interview stated that because of the loss of so much life and damage to WTC7 he told fire commander to just “pull” the WTC7 building. It fell shortly thereafter. It takes months to plan, place explosives properly and set exact timing sequence of those explosives. It doesn’t happen in an hour. Silverstein who had just leased the World Trader Complex months earlier made billions in insurance money because of 9/11 WTC destruction.
WTC 1 and 2 can clearly be seen being blown up as they collapse at near speed of gravity, blasting large steel girders hundreds of feet into other nearby buildings and the surrounding area outside its footprint. Gravity will help collapse a building, but it takes tremendous explosives to send massive ton girders in a direction opposite to gravity.
Many of the TV announcers during live broadcasts of the tower collapses remarked that the collapses reminded them of the demolitions we have all seen before! Corporate TV never broadcast those comments again!
The 9/11 Commission Report never explains how the towers could have collapsed, never mentions WTC 7’s collapse at all and ignores contradictory witnesses.
The official account of the destruction of these buildings is based on repeated violations of the laws of physics and of basic principles of scientific investigation and thought. In contrast, the hypothesis that the three buildings were brought down by planted explosives and other agents of destruction is robustly supported. Evidence against the official account and in favor of the demolition account has been researched by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth backed by 1000s of individual engineers and architects.
If these three buildings were brought down not by plane strikes but by controlled demolition, through preparations made well before the attacks, this means that the entire official narrative is false and the founding event in the War on Terror is a fraud.
Discovering that the official account is false is not actually difficult if one looks at the facts, so we must assume that the U.S. government agencies that promote the fraudulent event, including the FBI, are aware of the fraud and have been engaged in a major cover-up. They are, at the very least, accessories after the fact.
No plane hit the Pentagon. The drone came in on a northernly flight path and not the Southern flight path claimed by the government.
The flight data released describes a plane that ignored an easy crash into the roof of the Pentagon where many of the top brass have offices and instead made a virtually impossible loop (according to many professional pilots) around to the other side of the Pentagon to hit the newly renovated reinforced walls and mostly empty offices there.
The flight data released further has the plane going over 530 miles an hour at near sea level (impossible without plane disintegrating) pulling out of a dive to hit the ground floor without scratching the ground.
Pentagon damage was caused by demolition. The damaged area’s walls had just been reinforced to withstand a plane crash or bomb attack. First photos of damage prove that no plane hit Pentagon!
The first Pentagon photos indicate first floor was an internal blast with structure columns bent outward and to the side.
Then 20-minutes later there is a strange collapse of the damaged Pentagon that leaves a sheer wall to the viewers left. This also indicates a precision demolition. Computers, filing cabinets, open books on floors along the collapsed edge were both undisturbed and not charred by any fire. This is not a random explosion from a plane, but a precision demolition.
Many people claimed they saw a plane hit the Pentagon. Most of them were in their cars, saw briefly a fast moving plane and then an explosion. It was logical to them that they saw the crash as was repeatedly verified by the government and corporate media.
Pentagon and local private security camera videos which could prove if a plane hit the Pentagon were immediately confiscated and never released by the Government.
The 9/11 Commission Report provides NO investigation of the Pentagon crime scene or witnesses of the events. Such details are left to the corporate media to spin the “right” story! While attacked and ignored by media and government officials, independent investigators and whistleblowers have done the real investigations.
Airline planes keep most of their fuel in their wings, yet we are told that Fight 77 flown by a first-time amateur pilot under duress was able to hit 5 light poles by its wings without any fire explosions or loss of control of the plane. Again we are told to believe the impossible!
The only witness, a taxi driver, to the light pole damage was exposed as lying and involved in a staged event.
Over 10 witnesses on the ground place the Pentagon plane (drone) on a different Northern flight path that couldn’t have caused any of the known Pentagon damage. See National Security Alert. This is the plane other people saw!
Two witnesses working at fire station near the Pentagon heliport scrambled for their lives as this drone came right at them and was destroyed just before hitting Pentagon near heliport. The fireball at the Pentagon was either from the drone explosion or from the internal building explosions or both. See Barbara Honegger.
The Pentagon wall and lawn were charred near the heliport and all the famous “plane” debris on corporate media was here not where the Pentagon was massively damaged (by explosives).
The damaged Pentagon area included the accounting office where over 20 were killed along with all their office files and computers.
Just the night before 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld declared that over $3 trillion was unaccounted for at the Pentagon and being investigated by the accounting office.
All the phone calls were faked. There was no technology available to make those calls from fast and high flying airlines. This was acknowledged by the government in the trial of one of the Guantanamo prisoners. See International Center for 9/11 Justice.
There was no passenger struggle with hijackers. This fake heroism was used to instill a blind rapid patriotism that the public to call anyone criticizing the 9/11 story as crazy and unpatriotic!
No plane crashed into the Shanksville hole in the ground. A fake crash site with no bodies or plane parts.
United Airlines 93 (its drone replacement) was blown up in mid-air just before Shanksville where plane parts were found scattered over miles of ground.
Witnesses saw and heard a very low flying jet fly over the crash site as the site exploded.
All of the passengers & crew of the 4 missing airlines were clearly exterminated despite no hijackings and unmanned drones crashed rather than any airliners. We know this because none of the passengers or crew have ever shown up alive!
It is normal and required by law in all airliner crashes that all surviving plane parts are gathered and reassembled usually in a giant warehouse. This did not happen with any of the so-called airliners. Reason: they were all drones and not the airlines.
So what happened to all the airliners, passengers and crew of the four airliners. No one can be sure, but the following is a strong possibility!
One or two planes landed at Cleveland Airport during 9/11 after the airport was abandon due to “convenient” bomb threat. People at the airport apparently were required to leave the airport on foot without their cars. One plane apparently unloaded passengers at the NASA hanger. None of these passengers were seen leaving and accounted for (see Operation Terror). The other plane apparently released its passengers normally as the airport reopened.
Several military air exercises during 9/11 created serious confusion with air traffic control centers and military response to the “hijacked “planes. These military exercises allowed the drone swap to happen and helped prevent any air force intervention with the substitute drone planes for over an hour.
This is only my rational conjecture of something hard to ever learn or discover. The replacement drones flew near each airliner secretly positioned to take their place in mid-flight under air traffic control confusion.
In these plane swaps, the real airlines had to be peacefully landed. How could this be done, where the pilots, crew and passengers were not a part of this conspiracy.
Suppose each pilot was told of a possible bomb threat on their plane, but don’t panic the passengers. Tell passengers that there might be a minor problem but that it needs inspection. Fasten your seatbelts and turn off all electrical devices.
Pilots are directed to the same nearby military base (PA?). Once on the ground everyone was told of the bomb threats Everyone’s phones and electronic devices were collected as possible detonation devices. The passengers and crews are briefly questioned (eventually 200) and then moved to one plane as the original planes would need to be fully inspected.
The passengers are told their phones, electronic devices and baggage would be returned at their final destination.
With access to passenger phones and voice recordings, Voice Morphing Technology which existed then would have allowed voice recording simulations in making the fake cell phone calls.
The Cleveland landing was probably announced as the location to redistribute passengers to new planes that would take them to their original destinations.
During the 2006 trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the FBI acknowledged that cell phone calls could not be made from the airliners at the high altitudes they would have been made at. Only 2 out of 11 reported cell phone calls from flight 93, while still unlikely, couldn’t be ruled out because they were made at a below 5000 feet altitude. Technology to make cell phone calls at high altitudes first became available on commercial flights in 2008.
Barbara Olson’s two phone calls to husband Ted Olson from Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon were shown to have never happened. These calls are the primary calls establishing terrorist hijacking. The FBI at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui stated Barbara only made one call for zero seconds. Phone records establishing any phone calls have never been released.
As to Barbara Olson calls being made on the airline onboard phone. By January 28, 2001, the passenger phone system for the AA 757 fleet had been deactivated. So, Fight 77 didn’t have active phone system, See International Center for 9/11 Justice.
The Secret Service allowed President Bush to remain at Florida school for nearly an hour during 9/11. This was a publicly announced event and yet Secret Service made no attempt to remove the President to safety. The Secret Service seems to have known that the president was safe!
The Secret Service should never have allowed President Bush to even arrive at the Florida school. They would have known that at least two airline hijackings had occurred and the Flight 11 had craehed into the North Tower before Bush even got to the Florida school.
President Bush seems to have been deliberately sent to Florida and then kept out of a position of Presidential authority allowing VP Cheney to run things during the 9/11 attacks.
For years President Bush continued to tell the story of seeing the first plane that hit the North Tower on TV just before he entered the Florida school. However, the first plane crash video was made as part of a firefighter documentary and not shown on TV until 9/12. Was he watching another (government) video of the crash as it happened on 9/11.
Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks except as patsy. He was apparently being treated on a dialysis machine in Dubai being monitored by the CIA days before 9/11.
Osama bin laden was on the FBI wanted list for many years, but they never found any reason to believe that he was involved in the 9/11 attacks.
Osama quickly denied any involvement in the 9/11 attacks. The U.S. wanted the Taliban to hand over Osama. The Taliban agreed if the U.S. could provide any proof of Osama’s involvement.
The U.S. never provided any evidence but quickly attacked Afghanistan with the excuse to get Osama. Risking war, violence and death was preferable to diplomacy. Of course, the U.S. had no proof to provide and actually wanted to invade Afghanistan for entirely other reasons.
The 9/11 attacks were to be the U.S. excuse to attack anyone anywhere!
Osama bin Laden’s death in Pakistan raid on May 2, 2011, was faked.
Osama bin Laden was the prime suspect/witness/architect of 9/11 an information treasure house! Why wouldn’t the Navy Seals orders be to take Osama bin Laden alive at all costs.
Why with light resistance at the compound would an unarmed Osama standing next to his wife be killed.
Why was his body dumped into the ocean, with no photos or DNA?
Osama’s health problems and that he was a “conspiracy patsy” logically make one suspect that he was not alive long after the 9/11 attack.
Lots of suspect “Osama” videos. With his poor health it is hard to believe his ability to hide from all the massive U.S. surveillance searches. There was a very large reward for his capture.
A dead Osama who had served his “conspiracy purpose” would be harder to find. But the U.S. “War on Terror” still still needed a “live” Osama to justify its attacks on Afghanistan, Iraq and other places.
Finally, President Obama decided a “dead Osama” was more beneficial to his administration with an upcoming election.
President Obama, VP Biden and Secretary of State Clinton and many other government officials apparently watched this raid on live, but no video of what they saw was ever released to the public.
Was the helicopter crash “staged” at the “Osama” compound to guarantee public attention to an otherwise secret mission! The crash drew a large crowd around the compound to provide “public proof” that there was a raid that had found and killed Osama bin Laden.
Another helicopter crashed happened weeks later killing over a dozen Navy Seals. Was this a warning to other Seals to keep quiet?
It had been reported in Egyptian and Pakistani newspapers and even Fox news that Osama had died on December 15, 2001. See David Ray Griffin’s book “Osama Bin Laden Dead or Alive”
On December 27, 2001, Al-Jazeera released a video of a gaunt frail, quite unwell perhaps near-death Osama bin Laden with his left arm hung limply by his side.
Having seen the video, CNN’s medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta suggested Osama probably had a chronic illness. When told of the 2 dialysis machines Osama took into Afghanistan, Dr. Gupta said that means end stage renal failure.
Terrorist expert Peter Bergen when he saw an October 2001 video of Osama stated that Osama had aged enormously from his 1997 interview. Osama was clearly not well.
By mid-2002, the Pentagon admitted that Osama had gone missing since December 2001. The Time Magazine, the FBI’s top counterterrorism official Dale Watson; Paris based editor of the Politique International Amir Taheri in New York Times article; author & Iran-Contra figure Colonel Oliver North, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, Israeli Intelligence, Arabic News all suspected that Osama was most likely dead.
On September 11, 2004, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admitted Osama had not been seen since December 2001, if Osama was alive, he was spending a whale of a lot of time trying not to get caught.
Former CIA analysis Michael Scheuer in September 11.2006 article disclosed that the CIA had shut down its bin Laden unit. Article also noted America’s $25 million bounty had gone unclaimed.
All Saudi and bin Laden family flown out of U.S. without interrogation while U.S. airspace closed right after 9/11. Why special treatment prime suspect’s family?
Saudi Arabia supplied terrorist names (17) while several were still alive after 9/11 in Saudi Arabia.
There is currently legal action being taken by families of victims to expose and sue the Saudi Arabia government for its role on 9/11.
Families of 9/11 victims lobbied strongly for over one year to finally force Bush to create the 9/11 Commission.
9/11 Commission then ignored witnesses that contradicted government pre-established narrative. The 9/11 Commission did almost nothing to really investigate the 9/11 attacks. The 9/11 Commission Report was a100% cover-up to protect the real terrorists that run our government.
9/11 Commission ignored explaining how WTC towers could have collapsed and ignored WTC 7 totally. WTC 7 was a major headquarters for FBI, CIA IRS etc. including the NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s Emergency Response Office.
Fortunately, Rudy Giuliani was at another temporary site participating in another “convenient” special exercise drill on 9/11.
Mayor Rudy Giuliani over saw the rapid destruction of crime scene evidence concerning the World Trade Center. In over 100 years no steel frame building had ever collapsed because of fire, yet no investigation was allowed as to why 3 large steel frame buildings collapsed on the same day.
Thousands of first responders at Ground Zero have lost their lives or are very ill having worked tirelessly for months breathing the toxic air at Ground Zero.
These first responders were repeatedly told that Ground Zero air was safe by these officials: Mayor Rudy Giuliani, FEMA Director Joe Albaugh, EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, President George W. Bush, NY State Governor George Pataki and other officials from the EPA, CDC, OSHA, White House spokespeople.
9/11 Commission Director Philip Zelikow who was in the Bush administration with close ties to Condoleezza Rice, controlled the investigation & conclusion. Bush and VP Chaney testified together in secret, not under oath or with any record of their testimony.
Elements in the governments of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Israel were involved with 9/11 attacks.
During the Clinton administration an organization called the Project for the New American Century PNAC was created. Many of its members would hold important positions in the G.W. Bush administration. They wanted an all-powerful uninhibited American military might. They knew that this would not happen without a “New Pearl Harbor”. Many later called the 9/11 attacks a “New Pearl Harbor”!
In October 2001 there were the anthrax incidents. Senators Daschle and Leahy who were pushing for a congressional investigation into the 9/11 attacks both received letters with anthrax. Five people died from anthrax letters. Former CIA Director James Woolsey led a campaign to blame Iraq. The specialized anthrax was finally traced to a research unit at Fort Detrick, Maryland. A Doctor Steven Hatfill was blamed (fall guy), but by 2004 it was clear the FBI would never solve the anthrax case.
The anthrax attacks were successful as the Congress would never investigate the 9/11 attacks. This along with the cover-up 9/11Commissin Report means there never was any government investigation ofthe9/11 attacks. The fact less fairy tale that is the government/corporate 9/11 story lives on in the minds of many in the public.
So, who are some real suspects involved in the 9/11 attacks. Nineteen suspects are detailed in Kevin Ryan’s book “Another Nineteen”. Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Armitage, Frank Carlucci, Louis Freech (FBI), George Tenet (CIA), Richard Clarke, Lt. General Michael Canavan, Benedict Sliney (FAA), Ralph Eberhart (NORAD), Carl Truscott (Secret Service), John Deutch, Paul Wolfowitz, Peter Janson, Paul Bremer, Brian Jenkins, Wirt Walker, Barry McDaniel, Rudy Giuliani, Duane Andrews, Peter Goss.
Other suspects should include Condoleezza Rice, Philip Zelikow, Ted Olson, Larry Silverstein, Michael Chertoff, Dov Zakheim, Richard Perle, George W. Bush, (NIST), Editors of Popular Mechanic Magazine, Executives of all the corporate medias for the cover up.
Barack Obama, Hillory Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and other Congressional members involved in helping the cover-up! I am sure, I am sure that I am missing some other possible suspects!
9/11 has been the excuse to subvert our freedoms at home and our never-ending wars on others! See Lawyers Committee for 9/11 Inquiry Al Qaeda. The government’s Able Danger program that was investigating and tracking suspect “terrorists” was closed, and all research destroyed before 9/11 attack.
Various leads about some “hijacker” patsies were ignored by high up authorities. Zacarias Moussaoui (known as 20th hijacker) with ties to radical Islamists and possible plane crash into the towers was arrested in Minnesota in August 2001. A warrant to search his computer was denied by the FBI.
There were no hijackings of the airliners. Drones replaced the airlines in flight!
Since the 9/11 attacks the government attempts to explain the hours long lack of military plane intercepts of any of the 4 hijacked planes has undergone numerous changes none of which seemed to be logical or consistent with decades long government policy on planes that stop communication with air traffic control and go off established flight paths. In the past there are always prompt intercept action occurring many times every year.
Despite all the security cameras at the airports the government never released any videos or photos of any of these “terrorists” boarding any of the 9/11 airliners. The only photo released was of two of them at the Portland, Maine airport boarding an airliner earlier that morning in a flight to Boston.
A few days after 9/11, all the airlines released passenger lists of the 4 “hijacked” airlines, printed in newspapers all over the world. Not one of the “terrorists” are listed as passengers. In fact, there is no one with an Arab name listed as a passenger!
Airline “sized drones” hit the two towers WTC1 and WTC2. The government claims that the two planes crashing into the towers were both going over 500 miles an hour at sea level. According to professional pilots, this is impossible for an airliner without the pilot losing total control of plane and probably the plane disintegrating in flight. Yet we are told to believe extremely inexperienced pilots flying their first airliner were able to accomplish the impossible!
Hundreds of people with respected professional credentials have demanded an honest independent investigation into the 9/11 attacks. Senior Military, Intelligence Service, Law Enforcement, and Government Officials, Engineers and Architects, Pilots and Aviation Professionals, Professors, Medical Professionals, Lawyers, U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency Veterans, Artists, Entertainers, and Media Professionals, and 9/11 Survivors and Family Members.
The towers WTC1, WTC2 and WTC 7 all collapsed from demolition. This has been proved beyond a shadow of doubt by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. Over 3500 architects and engineers have staked their professional reputations in calling for a new independent 9/11 investigation.
Never in the over 100 years of steel frame towers has one collapsed into its footprint from fire without a professional created demolition, except on 9/11 when 3 did!
All the characteristics of a demolition were present in the collapses of WTC 1,2, and 7.
Dozens of witnesses including many firemen reported explosions prior and during the building collapses including many visual squids during the building collapses.
About 300 firemen died in the tower collapses. NY firemen are the experts on high rise fires, and they clearly never considered it possible for the towers to collapse. In fact, they set up their base command center in the tower ground floor. Firemen near the crash floors reported that the tower fires were limited, manageable and they only needed some additional equipment to extinguish these small, isolated fires.
WTC 7 collapsed around 5pm on 9/11. There were numerous preliminary claims that this 47-story building was about to collapse despite a few isolated fires. Claims were made that the building was badly damaged and dangerous, so it needed to be pulled (demolition). Firefighters were told to leave the area around WTC7. BBC even reported that WTC7 had collapsed, while it was still standing behind the TV reporter! WTC7 finally collapsed as if in a perfect demolition at near speed of gravity without any steel frame resistance.
Larry Silverstein in an interview stated that because of the loss of so much life and damage to WTC7 he told fire commander to just “pull” the WTC7 building. It fell shortly thereafter. It takes months to plan, place explosives properly and set exact timing sequence of those explosives. It doesn’t happen in an hour. Silverstein who had just leased the World Trader Complex months earlier made billions in insurance money because of 9/11 WTC destruction.
WTC 1 and 2 can clearly be seen being blown up as they collapse at near speed of gravity, blasting large steel girders hundreds of feet into other nearby buildings and the surrounding area outside its footprint. Gravity will help collapse a building, but it takes tremendous explosives to send massive ton girders in a direction opposite to gravity.
Many of the TV announcers during live broadcasts of the tower collapses remarked that they reminded them of the demolitions we have all seen before! Corporate TV never broadcast those comments again!
The 9/11 Commission Report never explains how the towers could have collapsed, never mentions WTC 7’s collapse at all and ignored contradictory witnesses .
The official account of the destruction of these buildings is based on repeated violations of the laws of physics and of basic principles of scientific investigation and thought. In contrast, the hypothesis that the three buildings were brought down by planted explosives and other agents of destruction is robustly supported. Evidence against the official account and in favor of the dissident account is copious, varied, and mutually corroborating. by Graeme MacQueen Author and 9/11 Investigator
If these three buildings were brought down not by plane strikes but by controlled demolition, through preparations made well before the attacks, this means that the entire official narrative is false and the founding event in the War on Terror is a fraud. Discovering that the official account is false is not actually difficult, we must assume that the U.S. government agencies that promote the fraudulent event, including the FBI, are aware of the fraud and have been engaged in a major cover-up. They are, at the very least, accessories after the fact. by Graeme MacQueen Author and 9/11 Investigator
No plane hit the Pentagon. The drone came in from the North and not the South.
The flight data released describes a plane that ignored an easy crash into the roof of the Pentagon where many of the top brass have offices and instead made a virtually impossible loop (according to many professional pilots) around to the other side of the Pentagon to hit the newly renovated reinforced walls and mostly empty offices there.
The flight data released further has the plane going over 530 miles an hour (impossible without plane disintegrating) pulling out of a dive to hit the ground floor without scratching the ground.
Pentagon damage was caused by demolition. The damaged area’s walls had just been reinforced to withstand a plane crash or bomb attack. First photos of damage prove that no plane hit Pentagon!
The first Pentagon photos indicate first floor was internal blast with structure columns bent outward and to the side.
20-minutes later the strange collapse of damaged Pentagon leaves a sheer wall to the viewers left that also indicates a precision demolition. Computers, filing cabinets, open books on floors along collapsed edge were both undisturbed and not charred by any fire.
Many people claimed they saw a plane hit the Pentagon. Most of them were in their cars, saw briefly a fast (500+ mph) plane and then an explosion. It was logical to them that they saw the crash as verified by the government and media story.
Pentagon and local private security camera videos which could prove if a plane hit the Pentagon were immediately confiscated and never released by the Government.
Airline planes keep most of their fuel in their wings, yet we are told that Fight 77 flown by a first time amateur pilot under duress was able to hit 5 light poles by its wings without any fire explosions or loss of control of the plane. We are told to believe the impossible.
The only witness, a taxi driver to the light pole damage was exposed as lying and involved in a staged event.
Over 10 witnesses on the ground place the Pentagon plane (drone) on a different Northern flight path that couldn’t have caused any of the known Pentagon damage. See National Security Alert.
Two witnesses working at fire station near the Pentagon heliport scrambled for their lives as this drone was destroyed just before hitting Pentagon near heliport. The fireball at the Pentagon was either from the drone explosion or from the internal building explosions or both. See Barbara Honegger
The Pentagon wall and lawn was charred near the heliport and all the famous “plane” debris was here not where the Pentagon was massively damaged (by explosives).
The damaged Pentagon area included the accounting office where over 20 were killed along with all the office files.
Just the night before 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld declared that over $3 trillion was unaccounted for at the Pentagon and being investigated by the accounting office.
All the phone calls were faked. There was no technology available to make those calls. This was acknowledged by the government in the trial of one of the Guantanamo prisoners. See International Center for 9/11 Justice
There was no passenger struggle with hijackers. This fake heroism was used to instill a blind rapid patriotism that made anyone criticizing the 9/11 story as crazy and unpatriotic!
No plane crashed into the Shanksville hole in the ground. A fake crash site with no bodies or plane parts. The airliner (drone) was blown up in mid-air just before Shanksville where plane parts were found scattered over miles of ground.
Witnesses saw and heard a very low flying jet fly over the crash site as the site exploded.
All the passengers & crew of the 4 missing airlines were clearly exterminated despite there was no hijackings and unmanned drones crashed rather than any airliners. None of the passengers or crew have ever shown up alive!
It is normal and required by law in all airliner crashes that all surviving plane parts are gathered and reassembled usually in a giant warehouse. This did not happen with any of the so-called airliners. Reason: they were all drones!
One or two planes landed at Cleveland Airport during 9/11 after airport was abandon due to bomb threat. People at the airport apparently were required to leave the airport on foot without their cars. One plane apparently unloaded passengers at the NASA hanger. None of these passengers were seen leaving and accounted for (see Operation Terror). The other plane apparently released its passengers normally as the airport reopened.
Several military air exercises during 9/11 created serious confusion with air traffic control centers and military response to the “hijacked “planes. These military exercises allowed the drone swap to happen and helped prevent any air force intervention with the substitute drone planes for over an hour.
This is only my rational conjecture of something hard to ever learn or discover. The replacement drones flew near each airliner secretly positioned to take their place in mid-flight under air traffic confusion. In the process, the real airlines had to be peacefully landed. How could this be done, where the pilots, crew and passengers were not a part of this conspiracy. Suppose each pilot was told of a possible bomb threat on their plane, but don’t panic the passengers. Tell passengers that there might be a minor problem but that it needs inspection. Fasten your seatbelts and turn off all electrical devices. Pilots are directed to the same nearby military base (PA?). Once on the ground everyone told of the bomb threat and all phones and electronic devices are collect as possible detonation devices. The passengers and crews are briefly questioned (eventually 200) and then moved to one plane as the original planes would need to be fully inspected. The passengers are told their phones, electronic devices and baggage would be returned at their final destination. With access to passenger phones Voice Morphing Technology existed then that would have allowed voice recording simulations in making fake cell phone calls. The future Cleveland landing was probably announced as the location to redistribute passengers to new planes that would take them to their original destinations.
During the 2006 trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the FBI acknowledged that cell phone calls could not be made from the airliners at the high altitudes they would have been made at. Only 2 out of 11 reported cell phone calls from flight 93 while unlikely couldn’t be ruled out because they were made at a low 5000 feet altitude. Technology to make cell phone calls at high altitudes first became available on commercial flights in 2008.
Barbara Olson’s two phone calls to husband Ted Olson from Flight 77 that crashed into the Pentagon were shown to have never happened. These calls are the primary calls establishing terrorist hijacking. The FBI at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui stated Barbara only made one call for zero seconds. Phone records establishing any phone calls have never been released.
As to Barbara Olson calls being made on the airline onboard phone. By January 28, 2001, the passenger phone system for the AA 757 fleet had been deactivated. So, Fight 77 didn’t have active phone system, See International Center for 9/11 Justice
Secret Service allowed President Bush to remain at Florida school for nearly an hour during 9/11. This was a publicly announced event and yet Secret Service made no attempt to remove the President to safety. The Secret Service seems to have known that the president was safe!
The Secret Service should never have allowed President Bush to even arrive at the Florida school. They would have known of at least two airline hijackings and the first plane crash Flight 11 into the North Tower before Bush got to the Florida school.
President Bush seems to have been deliberately sent to Florida and then kept out of a position of Presidential authority allowing VP Cheney to run things during the 9/11 attacks.
For years President Bush continued to tell the story of seeing the first plane hit the Tower on TV just before he entered the Florida school. However, the first plane crash video was made as part of a firefighter documentary and not shown on TV until 9/12. Was he watching another (government) video of the crash as it happened on 9/11.
Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks except as patsy. He was apparently being treated on a dialysis machine in Dubai being monitored by the CIA days before 9/11.
Osama bin laden was on the FBI wanted list for many years, but they never found any reason to believe that he was involved in the 9/11 attacks.
Osama quickly denied any involvement in the 9/11 attacks. The U.S. wanted the Taliban to hand over Osama. The Taliban agreed if the U.S. could provide any proof of Osama’s involvement. The U.S. never provided any evidence but quickly attacked Afghanistan with the excuse to get Osama. Risking war, violence and death was preferable to diplomacy. Of course, the U.S. had no proof to provide and actually wanted to invade Afghanistan for entirely other reasons. The 9/11 attacks were the U.S. excuse to attack anyone anywhere!
Osama bin Laden’s death in Pakistan raid on May 2, 2011, was faked.
Osama bin Laden was the prime suspect/witness/architect of 9/11 an information treasure house!
Why wouldn’t the Navy Seals orders be to take Osama bin Laden alive at all costs.
Why with light resistance at the compound would an unarmed Osama standing next to his wife be killed.
Why was his body dumped into the ocean, with no photos or DNA?
Osama’s health problems and that he was a “conspiracy patsy” logically make one suspect that he was not alive long after the 9/11 attack. Lots of suspect “Osama” videos and his hard to believe ability to hide from all massive U.S. surveillance searches. A dead Osama who had served his “conspiracy purpose” would be harder to find. But the U.S. “War on Terror” had long still needed a “live”\Osama. Finally, President Obama decided a “dead Osama” was more beneficial to his administration with an upcoming election.
Was the helicopter crash staged to guarantee public attention to an otherwise secret mission to “prove” there was a raid that found and killed Osama bin Laden. Another helicopter crashed happened weeks later killing over a dozen Navy Seals. Was this a warning to others to keep quiet?
President Obama, VP Biden and Secretary of State Clinton and many other government officials apparently watched this raid on live, but no video of what they saw was ever released to the public.
It was reported in Egyptian and Pakistani newspapers and even Fox news some 10 days later that Osama had died on December 15, 2001. See David Ray Griffin’s book “Osama Bin Laden Dead or Alive”
On December 27, 2001, Al-Jazeera released a video of a gaunt frail, quite unwell perhaps near-death Osama bin Laden with his left arm hung limply by his side.
Having seen the video, CNN’s medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta suggested Osama probably had a chronic illness. When told of the 2 dialysis machines Osama took into Afghanistan, Dr. Gupta said that means end stage renal failure.
Terrorist expert Peter Bergen when he saw an October 2001 video of Osama noted that Osama had aged enormously from his 1997 interview. Osama was clearly not well.
By mid 2002, the Pentagon admitted that Osama had gone missing since December 2001. The Time Magazine, the FBI’s top counterterrorism official Dale Watson, Paris based editor of the Politique International Amir Taheri in New York Times article, author & Iran-Contra figure Colonel Oliver North, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, Israeli Intelligence, Arabic News story all suspected that Osama was most likely dead.
On September 11, 2004, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admitted Osama had not been seen since December 2001, if Osama was alive, he was spending a whale of a lot of time trying not to get caught.
Former CIA analysis Michael Scheuer in September 11.2006 article disclosed that the CIA had shut down its bin Laden unit. Article also noted America’s $25 million bounty had gone unclaimed.
All Saudi and bin Laden family flown out of U.S. without interrogation while U.S. airspace closed right after 9/11. Why special treatment prime suspect’s family?
Saudi Arabia supplied terrorist names (17) while several were still alive after 9/11 in Saudi Arabia.
Families of 9/11 victims lobbied strongly for over one year to finally force Bush to create the 9/11 Commission.
9/11 Commission then ignored witnesses that contradicted government pre-established narrative.
9/11 Commission ignored explaining how WTC towers could have collapsed and ignored WTC 7 totally. WTC 7 was a headquarters for FBI, CIA IRS etc. including the NY Mayor Giuliano’s Emergency Response Office.
Fortunately, Mayor Giuliano was at another temporary site participating in a special exercise drill on 9/11.
9/11 Commission Director Philip Zelikow who was in the Bush administration with close ties to Condoleezza Rice, controlled the investigation & conclusion. Bush and VP Chaney testified together in secret, not under oath or with any record of their testimony.
Elements in the governments of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Israel were involved with 9/11 attacks.
During the Clinton administration an organization called the Project for the New American Century PNAC was created. Many of its members would hold important positions in the G.W. Bush administration. They wanted an all-powerful uninhibited American military might. They knew that this would not happen without a “New Pearl Harbor”. Many later called the 9/11 attacks a “New Pearl Harbor”!
In October 2001 there was the anthrax incidents. Senators Daschle and Leahy who were pushing for a congressional investigation into the 9/11 attacks both received letters with anthrax. Five people died from anthrax letters. Former CIA Director James Woolsey led a campaign to blame Iraq. The specialized anthrax was finally traced to a research unit at Fort Detrick, Maryland. A Doctor Steven Hatfill was blamed (fall guy), but by 2004 it was clear the FBI would never solve the anthrax case.
So, who are some real suspects involved in the 9/11 attacks. Nineteen suspects are detailed in Kevin Ryan’s book “Another Nineteen“. Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Armitage, Frank Carlucci, Louis Freech (FBI), George Tenet (CIA), Richard Clarke, Lt. General Michael Canavan, Benedict Sliney (FAA), Ralph Eberhart (NORAD), Carl Truscott (Secret Service), John Deutch, Paul Wolfowitz, Peter Janson, Paul Bremer, Brian Jenkins, Wirt Walker, Barry McDaniel, Rudy Giuliani, Duane Andrews, Peter Goss. Other suspects should include Condoleezza Rice, Philip Zelikow, Ted Olson, Larry Silverstein, Michael Chertoff, Dov Zakheim, Richard Perle, George W. Bush, (NIST), Editors of Popular Mechanic Magazine, Executives of all the corporate medias for the cover up. Barack Obama, Hillory Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and other Congressional members involved in helping the cover-up! I am sure, I am sure that I am missing some other possible suspects!
9/11 has been the excuse to subvert our freedoms at home and our never-ending wars on others! See Lawyers Committee for 9/11 Inquiry

The 9/11 Attack Government Conspiracy (my ongoing research)

My 9/11 Reward website

Since 2005 I have offered $100K to the first person who can prove to my reasonable satisfaction that the United States Government (with Corporate Media as co-conspirators) didn’t manage and cover-up 9-11, then I will give you $100K using my home equity. I have had no takers! But the offer still stands! 911Reward.org or http://www.peacehost.net/911reward/

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RFK Jr. supports a Woman’s Right to choose based on the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court Decision.

Posted on August 20, 2023 by mekorganic

RFK Jr. supports a Woman’s Right to choose based on the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court Decision.

Kennedy Clarifies Position on Abortion

DES MOINES, IOWA—AUG. 13, 2023—Today, Mr. Kennedy misunderstood a question posed to him by an NBC reporter in a crowded, noisy exhibit hall at the Iowa State Fair.

Mr. Kennedy’s position on abortion is that it is always the woman’s right to choose. He does not support legislation banning abortion.

[MEK Note: I wish this statement was more exact as based on previous statements even the one that corporate media is using to distort and smear RFK Jr. he appears to support the Roe vs. Wade decision of 1973. RFK Jr. is from a strong Catholic Church background yet he has been courageous in supporting a woman’s right to abortion despite the Catholic Church dogma!]

https://www.kennedy24.com/kennedy_clarifies_position_abortion

Roe v. Wade

On Jan 22, 1973, the Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, struck down the Texas law banning abortion, effectively legalizing the procedure nationwide. In a majority opinion written by Justice Harry Blackmun, the court declared that a woman’s right to an abortion was implicit in the right to privacy protected by the 14th Amendment.

The court divided pregnancy into three trimesters, and declared that the choice to end a pregnancy in the first trimester was solely up to the woman. In the second trimester, the government could regulate abortion, although not ban it, in order to protect the mother’s health.

In the third trimester, the state could prohibit abortion to protect a fetus that could survive on its own outside the womb, except when a woman’s health was in danger.

https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/roe-v-wade

What RFK Jr. Actual Position

Speaking with Ali Vitali of NBC News, Kennedy originally insisted that the “decision to abort a child should be up to the women during the first three months of life.” Asked to clarify whether that constituted a 15-week abortion ban, Kennedy answered clearly: “Yes.”

“Once a child is viable, outside the womb, I think then the state has an interest in protecting that child,” RFK Jr. said. “I’m for medical freedom. Individuals ought to be able to make their own choices.”

RFK Jr.’s comments marked a significant shift [MEK Note: there was no Shift in his position, just deliberate media distortion of it] from his earlier pronouncements about abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade last year. “I’m not going be in a position, put myself in a position, where I am going to tell a woman to bring a child to term,” he told a crowd during a New Hampshire town hall discussion in June. https://www.nationalreview.com/news/rfk-jr-walks-back-support-for-15-week-abortion-ban-following-pro-life-org-endorsement/

Late Monday afternoon, Kennedy told The Post in a signed statement that “I am a firm supporter of the principles laid out 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade.

For Constitutional and moral reasons, I believe the decision on whether to continue a pregnancy should be up to the mother,” he added. “If the courts do not overturn Dobbs v. Jackson and restore abortion rights, I will support legislation to accomplish the same. Body sovereignty must be protected.” https://nypost.com/2023/08/14/rfk-jr-backpedals-on-support-for-abortion-ban-after-three-months/

RFK Jr.’s past and his Catholic faith show traces of pro-life sentiment, but his campaign has made clear that the medical freedom activist is in line with the party’s pro-abortion stance. https://americanprolifer.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-supports-abortion/

Ever since announcing his long-shot bid for the Democrat presidential nomination, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has received interest from pro-lifers due to his steadfast opposition to the COVID-19 vaccines and medical authoritarianism more broadly. But in remarks last week, he confirmed that he shares the pro-abortion stance of both his party and his famous family. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/rfk-jr-declares-he-would-keep-government-away-from-banning-abortion-as-president/

RFK Jr. says he is pro-choice, calls every abortion ‘a tragedy’ | Conversation with the Candidate https://news.yahoo.com/rfk-jr-says-pro-choice-233632074.html

“The only thing I can say to you on that issue is that I’m pro-choice,” Kennedy said when asked for a reason why pro-life voters should support him. “I don’t think there’s anybody in this country who’s worked harder for medical freedom, for bodily autonomy than me.” https://www.lifenews.com/2023/06/21/robert-kennedy-says-he-supports-abortion-calls-killing-babies-bodily-autonomy/

RFK Jr.’s Controversial Full Interview here:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/news/%E2%80%98we%E2%80%99re-living-in-a-weird-period-of-history%E2%80%99-full-rfk-jr-interview/vi-AA1fgR2s?t=1 [MEK Note: The reporter used the word Ban, but RFK Jr. explanation was it was a women’s choice the first trimester and his idea of “banning” was once the embryo was viable outside of the women. RFK Jr. was just confused for the moment on how many months before that occurred. His position even in the interview is the same as Roe vs. Wade. Also, when you listen to the full interview on many topics, you will know why I support RFK Jr. 150% in the 2024 Presidential election]

Corporate Media Smear Campaign.

[MEK Note: Rather than article headlines meant to smear RFK Jr. among voters, how about a more accurate headline “RFK Jr. clarifies his long held support of Roe vs Wade 1973 Supreme Court Decision. RFK Jr. as President would sign any bill overturning the recent Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court Decision”]

National Review – RFK Jr. Walks Back Support for 15-Week Abortion Ban following Pro-Life Org Support https://www.nationalreview.com/news/rfk-jr-walks-back-support-for-15-week-abortion-ban-following-pro-life-org-endorsement/

NY Post – RFK Jr. backs, then backs off, support for three-month abortion ban https://nypost.com/2023/08/14/rfk-jr-backpedals-on-support-for-abortion-ban-after-three-months/

The Hill – RFK Jr.’s abortion remarks spark fresh Democratic outrage https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/rfk-jr-s-abortion-remarks-spark-fresh-democratic-outrage/ar-AA1fihkx

NBC News – RFK Jr. says he’d sign a federal abortion ban at 3 months of pregnancy, then reverses course https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rfk-jr-says-sign-federal-ban-abortions-three-months-pregnancy-rcna99689

NY Times – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Backtracks on Support for Federal Abortion Ban https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/us/politics/rfk-jr-abortion-ban.html

CNN – RFK Jr.’s campaign tries to walk back his support of three-month federal abortion ban https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/politics/rfk-jr-abortion-ban-iowa/index.html

Politico – RFK Jr. backs 15-week federal ban on abortion, then reverses himself https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/13/rfk-jr-backs-15-week-federal-ban-on-abortion-00111017

NY Magazine – RFK Jr. Executes Rare Double Flip-Flop on Abortion https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/08/rfk-jr-executes-rare-double-flip-flop-on-abortion.html

Rolling Stone – RFK Jr. Says He’d Sign a Federal Abortion Ban — Then Reverses Course https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/robert-f-kennedy-jr-federal-abortions-ban-after-three-months-pregnancy-1234806333/

Biden’s Actions that Contributed to the Supreme Court ability to overturn Roe vs. Wade

Clarence Thomas

The claims about whether Biden helped install Thomas to the Supreme Court appear to be referencing the current U.S. president’s handling of the Anita Hill sexual harassment Senate hearing more than 30 years ago.

Hill, now a professor of social policy, law, and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Brandeis University, appeared before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 1991, chaired by Biden, who was then-Democratic Senator for Delaware, to present allegations that Thomas had sexually harassed her.

Hill told the committee in grueling detail about her alleged experience, claiming that Thomas “spoke about acts that he had seen in pornographic films involving such matters as women having sex with animals and films showing group sex or rape scenes.”

As chair of the committee, Biden was criticized by some for supposedly losing control of the hearing, namely by refusing to call three other witnesses who reportedly had their own sexual harassment complaints about Thomas.

Despite Hill’s testimony, Thomas was confirmed shortly after a hearing by a narrow 52-48 margin. However, while Biden is still scrutinized for his role in Hill’s hearing (which, had it been handled differently, arguably could have damaged Thomas’ prospects) it is a matter of a public record that Biden voted against Thomas’ confirmation. https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-joe-biden-ensure-clarence-thomas-joined-supreme-court-1720275

The last Supreme Court nominee to come from a President whose party didn’t control the Senate was Clarence Thomas in 1991, who was nominated by President George H.W. Bush. The Democrats had 55 seats in the Senate, compared with the Republicans’ 45 seats, and it took 11 Democrats swinging their votes to Thomas for his successful nomination. https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/presidents-vs-opposing-senates-in-supreme-court-nominations

In 1991, Joe Biden Was Skeptical Clarence Thomas Would Be Extreme On Abortion. Abortion rights advocates warned senators that putting Thomas on the Supreme Court would be a disaster for women’s rights. Biden was less convinced.

“The record shows that if confirmed, Judge Thomas would indeed vote to take away this fundamental right [to abortion], to take this nation back to the days when women had no alternative but the back alleys for health care,” said Kate Michelman, the director of the National Abortion Rights Action League.

Michelman and other reproductive rights advocates faced skepticism, however, from someone who could have been a key ally: Joe Biden, who was then a Democratic senator from Delaware and was chairman of the committee.

“I did not find anywhere in the record on that issue where he evidenced extreme views ― where he said ― where he, on the face of what he said, as anything extreme or an explicit endorsement,” Biden said to the women who testified on Sept. 19, adding that they showed a “failure of logic” in coming to such a conclusion.

Biden also chastised another senator for saying that a clue into Thomas’ views on abortion was the fact that he attended a church in Virginia that was active in the anti-abortion movement. “I think that’s absolutely, totally completely irrelevant as a matter of principle, and I also think it’s irrelevant as a matter of fact,” Biden said. The Associated Press, in a Sept. 19 article about the hearings, said the comments “were the first indication that he did not agree with the argument of other Democrats that Thomas was disingenuous when he insisted that he had an open mind on the issue of abortion.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-clarence-thomas-abortion_n_5cfe9742e4b02ee3477b0c50

Biden expresses regret to Anita Hill, but She Says ‘I’m Sorry’ Is Not Enough https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/politics/joe-biden-anita-hill.html

Hyde Amendment

The Hyde Amendment, which Biden voted in support of as a senator in 1976, bars federal funds from going toward abortion procedures. Since launching his campaign, Biden had drawn criticism for his continued support of the measure. Until Thursday night, Biden was alone among his fellow 2020 front-runners, all of whom have spoken in favor of repealing Hyde.

“We’re glad that Joe Biden listened to the voices of millions of women and further clarified his position on the Hyde Amendment,” Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro Choice America, said Thursday in an emailed statement. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-hyde-amendment-abortion_n_5cf9abc6e4b0b08cf7eb6dc4

“Sen. Biden always has had complicated views on the issue,” Michelman recalled. “His recent remarks about the Hyde Amendment are evidence of this rather complicated view. So it’s clear that it wasn’t one of the issues the senator was particularly troubled by in relation to Thomas’ potential threat.”

Faye Wattleton was president of Planned Parenthood at the time, the first African American person to ever hold the position. She testified against Thomas that day and told HuffPost that she didn’t consider Biden an ally in the abortion fight.

“It was just a continuation of the uncertainty of dealing with him on this issue, well before the Anita Hill or Clarence Thomas hearings came along,” Wattleton said. She also called his behavior later, handling Hill’s allegations, “inexplicable and outrageous” and “almost circus-like in its comedy.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-clarence-thomas-abortion_n_5cfe9742e4b02ee3477b0c50

Hyde Amendment – Former vice president and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden reiterated his support Wednesday for the Hyde Amendment ― which bars federal funding from going toward abortion procedures, and which he voted for as a senator in 1976 ― after he told a constituent in South Carolina last month that “it can’t stay.”

[MEK Note: Biden claims gaff over long held negative position unlike RFK Jr gaff on long held positive position] The Democratic front-runner’s campaign told HuffPost that he “misheard” the constituent, and thought he was responding to a question about the so-called Mexico City policy, the “global gag rule” that bans organizations abroad from providing any information about abortion or offering abortion services if they are funded by the U.S. NBC noted on Wednesday that the campaign and the candidate appeared to be at odds on Hyde. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-hyde-amendment-abortion-medicaid_n_5cf7e72fe4b067df5ca1e396

Roe vs Wade Codify Inaction

When Barack Obama chose Biden as his running mate, both NARAL and Planned Parenthood put out press releases praising him for his “support for a woman’s right to choose” and calling him a “strong supporter of women’s rights and women’s health care.” And while in the White House, he helped elevate the issue of sexual assault against women to national prominence. [MEK Note: Yet Obama and Biden made no attempt to codify Roe Vs. Wade during their first two years in office when they had almost total control of the House and Senate] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-clarence-thomas-abortion_n_5cfe9742e4b02ee3477b0c50

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Republicans created an anti-climate “battle plan.”

Posted on August 11, 2023 by mekorganic

Environmental Warning by Steven Donziger

[MEK Note: Not only are Republicans the problem, but the Corporate Democratic Party leadership gives only lip service to the real civilization and life destroying emergency that the ongoing Climate Catastrophe is! Both of the two major political parties answer to the same super rich and their military-industrial-media complex. Why would the super-rich destroy the world they basically own already. They won’t! Scientist say our plant can support about a half a billion people in a decent lifestyle sustainably. Get the picture, they intend to eliminate 7 billion+ people almost overnight and soon. Thanks to AI that is now very easy to do! The Covid-19 “so called pandemic” was a practice exercise for the real thing.]

I just learned that leading Republicans have created a 1,000-page plan to kill every regulation and law that addresses the climate crisis within the first 180 days of a new Trump Administration.

This plan might be one of the most horrifying things I’ve read in years.

Worse, the writing of the plan was funded with a $22 million grant from fossil fuel interests. The lawyer heading the project (Paul Dans) was part of the same Chevron team of legal thugs that detained me after we won the Ecuador pollution case.

All these strands of deceit, corruption, and power are connected. They just don’t want us to see it. But I see it – and I want everyone to see it, which is why I continue to speak out about the injustices Chevron and the oil industry continue to visit upon Indigenous peoples in Ecuador and other vulnerable communities around the globe.

A shocking article from The New York Times outlines the details of this new power grab. The Republicans plan to dismantle literally every regulation and law our government uses to address the climate crisis. This means every regulation across every agency in the federal government – including all clean energy programs that are part of the transition out of planet-destroying fossil fuels.

This is not just a greedy plan for a bunch of profit-hungry oil companies.

It feels like a suicide pact for humanity.

And we must join together to stop it.

If Trump or any other Republican gets to the White House in 2024, make no mistake about it – this radical plan will be implemented and the battle to save the planet could be lost.

They are calling this extremist battle plan Project 2025. It would “place more power in the president’s hands” and “outlines changes for nearly every agency across the government.”

The plan was written by the Heritage Foundation. This is the same far-right organization that has poured millions of dollars of “dark money” into several states to pass extreme voter suppression laws following Trump’s loss in 2020.

Their strategy is to shrink democracy so citizen action simply cannot be effective. They believe it is the only way to save the fossil fuel industry.

The frightening blueprint indicates a new Republican Administration in 2025 will:

Repeal Biden’s premier climate bill (the Inflation Reduction Act) which designates $370 billion to fund the transition to clean energy.
Close down the Department of Energy Office responsible for promoting green technologies.
Remove climate change as an issue “worthy of discussion” on the National Security Council.
Allow drilling inside the Arctic wilderness.
Declare that the federal government has an “obligation to develop vast oil and gas and coal resources” on America’s public lands.

Protecting the climate isn’t of course just a political issue. It’s also a human rights issue. It is terrifying to me that a large faction of Republicans and the fossil fuel industry are willing to dismantle even the modest efforts made by the Biden Administration to protect our environment.

My unprecedented private prosecution by Chevron was just a precursor to this wacky but frightening proposal. When the very government charged with protecting us turns its back on Earth Defenders and life itself, it allows extremist organizations like the Heritage Foundation and Chevron to push the boundaries past their breaking point.

This new Republican plan would put the lives of future generations at grave risk. It threatens the survival of thousands of species. Please work with us to help stop it by donating today.

As always, thank you so much for your support.

Together,

Steven Donziger

Steven Donziger is a U.S. human rights attorney who helped communities in Ecuador’s Amazon win a historic multibillion-dollar pollution judgment against Chevron for the dumping of billions of gallons of cancer-causing oil waste onto Indigenous ancestral lands. Since the judgment issued in 2013, Chevron has used dozens of law firms and 2000 lawyers to carry out a demonization campaign targeting Steven to send a message of intimidation to all environmental advocates. Steven served 993 days of detention at home and in prison after being prosecuted directly by a Chevron law firm in the nation’s first corporate prosecution; he still faces the threat of additional jail time after he appealed an order to turn over confidential information held by his Indigenous clients.

Donate NOW to help support Steven as he and the Ecuadorian communities continue their fight for corporate accountability, environmental justice, Indigenous rights, and Free Speech.

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2023-08-08 MEK Educated Opinion on Covid-19

Posted on August 8, 2023 by mekorganic

The 201 Event occurred a month before the first cases of Covid-19. The 201 Event was described as: For the scenario, we modeled a fictional coronavirus pandemic, but we explicitly stated that it was not a prediction. Instead, the exercise served to highlight preparedness and response challenges that would likely arise in a very severe pandemic. Just a coincidence? Prevailing knowledge highly suggests that Covid-19 was engineered and came from a lab, most likely the Wuhan Lab despite Fauci and CDC earlier denials. Was Covid-19 deliberately released on the world and then exaggerated as to its actual danger to all but the most ill?

Although Covid -19 was more serious than the usual respiratory illnesses, Covid-19 was never a pandemic. The world’s death rate during the Covid years 2020-21 was lower than 64 of the previous 70 years. Further the Covid year’s death rate was only slightly greater than the other 6 lower years. The CDC Director in 2022 stated that 75% of “covid” associated deaths occurred among those with 4 or more comorbidities? So how many died with 3 comorbidities? How many died with 2? How many with 1? Covid-19 was only a real threat to only those most seriously ill persons. In fact, there was almost zero chance that children under 18 would become seriously ill from Covid, let alone die! The average age of “covid” associated deaths was around 80 or the about the same average death age as in normal years.

Fauci and the CDC make significant income from vaccines. They lied to support the vaccine mandates falsely claiming that the vaccines protected you from getting Covid or spreading Covid. These experimental vaccines never completed their full trials. A slightly altered vaccine was eventually approved by the FDA. However, the vaccines mandated to participate in society continued to be the experimental ones and not the approved ones. Why? Because the government had given Pharma and others associated with the experimental vaccine 100% liability immunity! But there is NO liability immunity for the approved vaccines! Is Pharma afraid to be liable for its covid vaccines. Fauci and the CDC also lied that having had covid didn’t provide good personal immunity when in fact, this immunity was greater than from covid vaccines and the immunity lasted much longer. The vaccines were so poor that the CDC demanded you have more and more additional booster covid vaccines.

In 2021, the unvaccinated were fired from their jobs, denied access to social events and socially ostracized and isolated. Yet, Covid kept spreading. Hint: it was the vaccinated, who were told they were “safe” to socialize that were causing this increase! Further, after the massive, mandated vaccine policy, the average age of “covid” associated deaths dropped 15 years from about 80 to around 65. There has also been a large increase in serious non-covid related illnesses, especially among many children and young people. Heart problems such as myocarditis have increased significantly. The CDC VAERS system that tracks possible Covid vaccine injuries has increased 1000 % over all vaccines in all past years.

The CDC, Pharma and Corporate media are calling all these increased health problems among the population “Long Covid”. I can’t say positively yet, but I haven’t found a study that differentiates between the vaccinated and the non-vaccinated. My preliminary thoughts are that we could be dealing with “Long Covid Vaccine” and not “Long Covid”.

Regardless the massive censorship against credible alternative opinions has been deliberate to make the public believe the CDC, government and media lies and misinformation that continues even today. The “covid-19 pandemic” was a vast transfer of wealth from the middleclass to the superrich where billionaires increased their own wealth 40%. Think of all the seriously ill who were denied family and friends contact during their last days because of all these blatant lies! Think of all those who lost their jobs, homes, businesses, and friends because of lies! Think of all the people, especially children who are likely having their immune systems compromised by faulty totally unnecessary covid vaccines.

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2019-10-18 High-level Pandemic Exercise in NY, NY

Posted on August 8, 2023 by mekorganic

2019-10-18 Event 201 Tabletop Exercise

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences.

[MEK Note: Must read important concerns about this Event 201 and Covid-19] https://wordpress.com/post/progressiveissuesblog.com/22086

Statement about nCoV and our pandemic exercise January 24, 2020 – In October 2019, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security hosted a pandemic tabletop exercise called Event 201 with partners, the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Recently, the Center for Health Security has received questions about whether that pandemic exercise predicted the current novel coronavirus outbreak in China. To be clear, the Center for Health Security and partners did not make a prediction during our tabletop exercise. For the scenario, we modeled a fictional coronavirus pandemic, but we explicitly stated that it was not a prediction. Instead, the exercise served to highlight preparedness and response challenges that would likely arise in a very severe pandemic. We are not now predicting that the nCoV-2019 outbreak will kill 65 million people. Although our tabletop exercise included a mock novel coronavirus, the inputs we used for modeling the potential impact of that fictional virus are not similar to nCoV-2019.

In recent years, the world has seen a growing number of epidemic events, amounting to approximately 200 events annually. These events are increasing, and they are disruptive to health, economies, and society. Managing these events already strains global capacity, even absent a pandemic threat. Experts agree that it is only a matter of time before one of these epidemics becomes global—a pandemic with potentially catastrophic consequences. A severe pandemic, which becomes “Event 201,” would require reliable cooperation among several industries, national governments, and key international institutions.

About the Event 201 exercise

Event 201 was a 3.5-hour pandemic tabletop exercise that simulated a series of dramatic, scenario-based facilitated discussions, confronting difficult, true-to-life dilemmas associated with response to a hypothetical, but scientifically plausible, pandemic. 15 global business, government, and public health leaders were players in the simulation exercise that highlighted unresolved real-world policy and economic issues that could be solved with sufficient political will, financial investment, and attention now and in the future.

The exercise consisted of pre-recorded news broadcasts, live “staff” briefings, and moderated discussions on specific topics. These issues were carefully designed in a compelling narrative that educated the participants and the audience.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation jointly propose these recommendations.

Purpose

Recent economic studies show that pandemics will be the cause of an average annual economic loss of 0.7% of global GDP—or $570 billion. The players’ responses to the scenario illuminated the need for cooperation among industry, national governments, key international institutions, and civil society, to avoid the catastrophic consequences that could arise from a large-scale pandemic.

Similar to the Center’s 3 previous exercises—Clade X, Dark Winter, and Atlantic Storm—Event 201 aimed to educate senior leaders at the highest level of US and international governments and leaders in global industries.

It is also a tool to inform members of the policy and preparedness communities and the general public. This is distinct from many other forms of simulation exercises that test protocols or technical policies of a specific organization. Exercises similar to Event 201 are a particularly effective way to help policymakers gain a fuller understanding of the urgent challenges they could face in a dynamic, real-world crisis.

Scenario

Details about the scenario are available here.

Recommendations

The next severe pandemic will not only cause great illness and loss of life but could also trigger major cascading economic and societal consequences that could contribute greatly to global impact and suffering. The Event 201 pandemic exercise, conducted on October 18, 2019, vividly demonstrated a number of these important gaps in pandemic preparedness as well as some of the elements of the solutions between the public and private sectors that will be needed to fill them. The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation jointly propose these recommendations.

When/where

Friday, October 18, 2019
8:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
The Pierre hotel
New York, NY

Audience

An invitation-only audience of nearly 130 people attended the exercises, and a livestream of the event was available to everyone. Video coverage is available here.

Exercise team

Eric Toner, MD, is the exercise team lead from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Crystal Watson, DrPH, MPH and Tara Kirk Sell, PhD, MA are co-leads from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Ryan Morhard, JD, is the exercise lead from the World Economic Forum, and Jeffrey French is the exercise lead for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Exercise team members are Tom Inglesby, MD; Anita Cicero, JD; Randy Larsen, USAF (retired); Caitlin Rivers, PhD, MPH; Diane Meyer, RN, MPH; Matthew Shearer, MPH; Matthew Watson; Richard Bruns, PhD; Jackie Fox; Andrea Lapp; Margaret Miller; Carol Miller; and Julia Cizek.

Event 201 was supported by funding from the Open Philanthropy Project.

Players

The following prominent individuals from global business, government, and public health were exercise players tasked with leading the policy response to a fictional outbreak scenario in the Event 201 pandemic tabletop exercise:

Latoya D. Abbott

Sofia Borges

Brad Connett

Chris Elias

Timothy Grant Evans

George Fu Gao

Avril Haines

Jane Halton

Matthew J. Harrington

Martin Knuchel

Eduardo Martinez

Stephen C. Redd

Hasti Taghi

Lavan Thiru

Adrian Thomas

Recommendations

Public-private cooperation for pandemic preparedness and response

Download the recommendations (PDF)

A call to action

The next severe pandemic will not only cause great illness and loss of life but could also trigger major cascading economic and societal consequences that could contribute greatly to global impact and suffering. Efforts to prevent such consequences or respond to them as they unfold will require unprecedented levels of collaboration between governments, international organizations, and the private sector. There have been important efforts to engage the private sector in epidemic and outbreak preparedness at the national or regional level.^1,2 However, there are major unmet global vulnerabilities and international system challenges posed by pandemics that will require new robust forms of public-private cooperation to address.

The Event 201 pandemic exercise, conducted on October 18, 2019, vividly demonstrated a number of these important gaps in pandemic preparedness as well as some of the elements of the solutions between the public and private sectors that will be needed to fill them. The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation jointly propose the following:

Governments, international organizations, and businesses should plan now for how essential corporate capabilities will be utilized during a large-scale pandemic. During a severe pandemic, public sector efforts to control the outbreak are likely to become overwhelmed. But industry assets, if swiftly and appropriately deployed, could help to save lives and reduce economic losses. For instance, companies with operations focused on logistics, social media, or distribution systems will be needed to enable governments’ emergency response, risk communications, and medical countermeasure distribution efforts during a pandemic. This includes working together to ensure that strategic commodities are available and accessible for public health response. Contingency planning for a potential operational partnership between government and business will be complex, with many legal and organizational details to be addressed. Governments should work now to identify the most critical areas of need and reach out to industry players with the goal of finalizing agreements in advance of the next large pandemic. The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board would be well positioned to help monitor and contribute to the efforts that governments, international organizations and businesses should take for pandemic preparedness and response.
Industry, national governments, and international organizations should work together to enhance internationally held stockpiles of medical countermeasures (MCMs) to enable rapid and equitable distribution during a severe pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) currently has an influenza vaccine virtual stockpile, with contracts in place with pharmaceutical companies that have agreed to supply vaccines should WHO request them. As one possible approach, this virtual stockpile model could be expanded to augment WHO’s ability to distribute vaccines and therapeutics to countries in the greatest need during a severe pandemic. This should also include any available experimental vaccine stockpiles for any WHO R&D Blueprint pathogens to deploy in a clinical trial during outbreaks in collaboration with CEPI, GAVI, and WHO. Other approaches could involve regional stockpiles or bi- or multinational agreements. During a catastrophic outbreak, countries may be reluctant to part with scarce medical resources. A robust international stockpile could therefore help to ensure that low and middle resource settings receive needed supplies regardless of whether they produce such supplies domestically. Countries with national supplies or domestic manufacturing capabilities should commit to donating some supply/product to this virtual stockpile. Countries should support this effort through the provision of additional funding.
Countries, international organizations, and global transportation companies should work together to maintain travel and trade during severe pandemics. Travel and trade are essential to the global economy as well as to national and even local economies, and they should be maintained even in the face of a pandemic. Improved decision-making, coordination, and communications between the public and private sectors, relating to risk, travel advisories, import/export restrictions, and border measures will be needed. The fear and uncertainty experienced during past outbreaks, even those limited to a national or regional level, have sometimes led to unjustified border measures, the closure of customer-facing businesses, import bans, and the cancellation of airline flights and international shipping. A particularly fast-moving and lethal pandemic could therefore result in political decisions to slow or stop movement of people and goods, potentially harming economies already vulnerable in the face of an outbreak. Ministries of Health and other government agencies should work together now with international airlines and global shipping companies to develop realistic response scenarios and start a contingency planning process with the goal of mitigating economic damage by maintaining key travel and trade routes during a large-scale pandemic. Supporting continued trade and travel in such an extreme circumstance may require the provision of enhanced disease control measures and personal protective equipment for transportation workers, government subsidies to support critical trade routes, and potentially liability protection in certain cases. International organizations including WHO, the International Air Transport Association, and the International Civil Aviation Organization should be partners in these preparedness and response efforts.
Governments should provide more resources and support for the development and surge manufacturing of vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics that will be needed during a severe pandemic. In the event of a severe pandemic, countries may need population-level supplies of safe and effective medical countermeasures, including vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics. Therefore, the ability to rapidly develop, manufacture, distribute, and dispense large quantities of MCMs will be needed to contain and control a global outbreak. Countries with enough resources should greatly increase this capability. In coordination with WHO, CEPI, GAVI, and other relevant multilateral and domestic mechanisms, investments should be made in new technologies and industrial approaches, that will allow concomitant distributed manufacturing. This will require addressing legal and regulatory barriers among other issues.
Global business should recognize the economic burden of pandemics and fight for stronger preparedness. In addition to investing more in preparing their own companies and industries, business leaders and their shareholders should actively engage with governments and advocate for increased resources for pandemic preparedness. Globally, there has been a lack of attention and investment in preparing for high-impact pandemics, and business is largely not involved in existing efforts. To a significant extent this is due to a lack of awareness of the business risks posed by a pandemic. Tools should be built that help large private sector companies visualize business risks posed by infectious disease and pathways to mitigate risk through public-private cooperation to strengthen preparedness. A severe pandemic would greatly interfere with workforce health, business operations, and the movement of goods and services.³ A catastrophic-level outbreak can also have profound and long-lasting effects on entire industries, the economy, and societies in which business operates. While governments and public health authorities serve as the first line of defense against fast-moving outbreaks, their efforts are chronically under-funded and lack sustained support. Global business leaders should play a far more dynamic role as advocates with a stake in stronger pandemic preparedness.
International organizations should prioritize reducing economic impacts of epidemics and pandemics. Much of the economic harm resulting from a pandemic is likely to be due to counterproductive behavior of individuals, companies, and countries. For example, actions that lead to disruption of travel and trade or that change consumer behavior can greatly damage economies. In addition to other response activities, an increase in and reassessment of pandemic financial support will certainly be needed in a severe pandemic as many sectors of society may need financial support during or after a severe pandemic, including healthcare institutions, essential businesses, and national governments Furthermore, the ways in which these existing funds can now be used are limited. The International Health Regulations prioritize both minimizing public health risks and avoiding unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade. But there will also be a need to identify critical nodes of the banking system and global and national economies that are too essential to fail – there are some that are likely to need emergency international financial support as well. The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, regional development banks, national governments, foundations, and others should explore ways to increase the amount and availability of funds in a pandemic and ensure that they can be flexibly used where needed.
Governments and the private sector should assign a greater priority to developing methods to combat mis- and disinformation prior to the next pandemic response. Governments will need to partner with traditional and social media companies to research and develop nimble approaches to countering misinformation. This will require developing the ability to flood media with fast, accurate, and consistent information. Public health authorities should work with private employers and trusted community leaders such as faith leaders, to promulgate factual information to employees and citizens. Trusted, influential private-sector employers should create the capacity to readily and reliably augment public messaging, manage rumors and misinformation, and amplify credible information to support emergency public communications. National public health agencies should work in close collaboration with WHO to create the capability to rapidly develop and release consistent health messages. For their part, media companies should commit to ensuring that authoritative messages are prioritized and that false messages are suppressed including though the use of technology.

Accomplishing the above goals will require collaboration among governments, international organizations and global business. If these recommendations are robustly pursued, major progress can be made to diminish the potential impact and consequences of pandemics. We call on leaders in global business, international organizations, and national governments to launch an ambitious effort to work together to build a world better prepared for a severe pandemic.

¹ Global Health Security: Epidemics Readiness Accelerator. World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/projects/managing-the-risk-and-impact-of-future-epidemics. Accessed 11/19/19

² Private Sector Roundtable. Global health Security Agenda. https://ghsagenda.org/home/joining-the-ghsa/psrt/. Accessed 11/19/19

³ Peter Sands. Outbreak readiness and business impact: protecting lives and livelihoods across the global economy. World Economic Forum 2019. https://www.weforum.org/whitepapers/outbreak-readiness-and-business-impact-protecting-lives-and-livelihoods-across-the-global-economy. Accessed 12/5/19

Resources

Fact Sheets

The Center’s scholars researched these topics to inform the scenario.

CAPS: The Pathogen and Clinical Syndrome (PDF)
Communication in a pandemic (PDF)
Event 201 Model (PDF)
Finance in a pandemic (PDF)
Medical countermeasures (PDF)

The Event 201 scenario

Event 201 simulates an outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats to pigs to people that eventually becomes efficiently transmissible from person to person, leading to a severe pandemic. The pathogen and the disease it causes are modeled largely on SARS, but it is more transmissible in the community setting by people with mild symptoms.

The disease starts in pig farms in Brazil, quietly and slowly at first, but then it starts to spread more rapidly in healthcare settings. When it starts to spread efficiently from person to person in the low-income, densely packed neighborhoods of some of the megacities in South America, the epidemic explodes. It is first exported by air travel to Portugal, the United States, and China and then to many other countries. Although at first some countries are able to control it, it continues to spread and be reintroduced, and eventually no country can maintain control.

There is no possibility of a vaccine being available in the first year. There is a fictional antiviral drug that can help the sick but not significantly limit spread of the disease.

Since the whole human population is susceptible, during the initial months of the pandemic, the cumulative number of cases increases exponentially, doubling every week. And as the cases and deaths accumulate, the economic and societal consequences become increasingly severe.

The scenario ends at the 18-month point, with 65 million deaths. The pandemic is beginning to slow due to the decreasing number of susceptible people. The pandemic will continue at some rate until there is an effective vaccine or until 80-90 % of the global population has been exposed. From that point on, it is likely to be an endemic childhood disease.

Videos

Highlights Reel

Selected moments from the October 18th Event 201 Exercise (Length: ~12 minutes)

Videos of Event 201

These five segments include discussions among high-level leaders of global businesses, governments, policy and public health. (Length ~3 hours)

Segment 1 – Intro and Medical Countermeasures (MCM) Discussion

Segment 2 – Trade & Travel Discussion

Segment 3 – Finance Discussion

Segment 4 – Communications Discussion and Epilogue Video

Segment 5 – Hotwash and Conclusion

Photos

View photos from the Event 201 pandemic tabletop exercise held on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY.

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Posted on August 4, 2023 by mekorganic

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