In October 2020, Emergent became one of four companies collaborating on a clinical trial for a combination treatment regimen that included Dr. Fauci’s drug remdesivir as a “background therapy.” The company said in a statement: “Emergent is proud to continue our partnership with NIAID/NIH and . . . BARDA to advance potential therapeutic solutions for COVID-19 in hospitalized patients.”123
Bill Gates owned a large stake in remdesivir’s manufacturer, Gilead.124 WHO’s own studies showed clearly—as even WHO acknowledged—that remdesivir was useless against COVID.125 Worse, the drug’s extreme toxicity—remdesivir’s side effects mimic the late-stage symptoms of COVID126, 127—may actually aggravate the severity of the illness.128 To overcome these obstacles, Dr. Fauci financed and rigged a suite of flawed studies to suggest—deceptively—that remdesivir might slightly reduce the number of days a patient would stay in the hospital.129 The WHO’s much larger studies proved that there was no reduction in length of hospital stay. Nevertheless, using his blatantly orchestrated “research,” Dr. Fauci then forced remdesivir’s approval through FDA as “Standard of Care” for COVID. At the same time, Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates were financing and promoting studies to discredit chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine and sabotage ivermectin—two effective COVID remedies that posed an existential threat to remdesivir and the entire Fauci/Gates COVID vaccine enterprise.
Emergent’s CEO, Robert Kramer, boasted to Wall Street analysts in February, 2021, that the year had been “the strongest year in our 22-year history.”130 The New York Times reported that Emergent’s stock had reached such a zenith that Fuad El-Hibri “cashed in shares and options worth over $42 million, more than he had redeemed in the previous five years combined.”131
When in April 2021, Emergent BioSolutions ruined 15 million Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines due to quality-control mishaps at its poorly managed Baltimore production facility, Congress launched an investigation into whether Emergent used high-level connections to get billions of dollars in federal contracts despite a history of failing to deliver satisfactorily on its contracts.132 Congressional investigators also raised concerns about Emergent’s inadequate staff training, persistent quality-control issues, and the company stiffing the government with an “unjustified” 800 percent price increase for its anthrax vaccine. The Democratic chairs of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and Select Oversight Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis focused their inquiry on Kadlec’s role. In a letter, the committee chairs complained that Kadlec “appears to have pushed for” the $628 million award to Emergent to develop a Covid vaccine factory “despite indications that Emergent did not have the ability to reliably fulfill the contract.”133
As the top dog among the COVID-19 pandemic’s government managers, Kadlec had promoted Emergent as the United States’ primary vaccine manufacturing facility. In April 2021, the Times published another extensive exposé reporting that Emergent had not yet been able to produce a single acceptable dose of any COVID-19 vaccine.134 Following exposés in the New York Times and the Washington Post, J&J took over the production at that plant. The FDA stepped in after inspecting the facility and ordered Emergent to halt all production of materials for COVID-19 vaccines pending a review and remediation, and to quarantine all existing materials.135
HHS ordered Emergent to discard millions of contaminated doses. Instead, in March 2021, the company shipped millions of doses of its defective vaccines to Canada, Europe, South Africa, and Mexico. The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis held a hearing on May 19, 2021, and ordered Emergent to turn over all its federal contracts since 2015 and all communications with Robert Kadlec.136 Emergent’s political invincibility left the company unbowed by all those scandals. In July 2020, Emergent announced a five-year, $450 million deal to manufacture COVID drugs for Johnson & Johnson.137 In February 2021, HHS awarded Emergent another contract, this one worth up to $22 million to develop a COVID-19 therapy.138
Atlantic Storm 2003, 2005
In January of 2003 and again in 2005, a cabal of US and European military, intelligence, and medical officials germ-gamed another exercise they called Atlantic Storm. Thomas V. Inglesby and the spooks, Tara O’Toole and Col. Randall J. Larsen, were the simulation’s principal authors.139
Both the 1999 HHS smallpox simulation and the June 2001 Dark Winter smallpox simulation focused, ominously, not on public health, but on the quandary of how to impose control over US and global populations during public health emergencies, how to sweep away civil rights and impose mass obedience to military and medical technocrats. Atlantic Storm further probed these sinister disquisitions. High-level government figures, including Madeleine Albright playing the president of the United States and WHO Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland playing herself, hosted a summit of transatlantic military and intelligence agency planners coordinating responses after a radical terrorist band unleashes smallpox.
According to the After-Action Report, the key issues for summit principals were “coping with scarcity of critical medical resources such as vaccines” and assuring a uniform coordinated response among all governments in the world. The simulation stressed the inadequacy of current multilateral frameworks like NATO and the EU to cope with social, economic, and political disruption from an international epidemic, “be it natural or the result of a bioterrorist attack,” and emphasized the importance of developing systems to coordinate global lockstep security protocols that went beyond “just stockpiling vaccines or training more doctors.”140
Characteristically, the assembled eminences bypassed any discussion of bolstering people’s immune system response or testing and distributing off-label therapeutics and went directly to recommending militarized strategies including police state controls, mass propaganda and censorship, and the suspension of civil rights and due process rulemaking in favor of diktats by health authorities, all aimed at coercive vaccination of the population. These scenarios, which health officials and spooks conceived of and gamed back in 2005, became our collective reality in 2020 and 2021.
Global Mercury 2003
Between September 8 and 10 of that same year, the spooks at the US State Department Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism organized another scenario exercise dubbed Global Mercury with the CDC, the NIH, the FDA, the WHO, and the Department of State. Over a fifty-six-hour period, public health technocrats coordinated communications and lockstep response between “trusted agents” from the GHSAG nations (the United States, the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Mexico), during a simulated outbreak after self-inoculated terrorists spread smallpox to countries around the world.141
The SCL Simulation 2005