136 U.S. House of Representatives House Committee on Oversight and Reform and Select Oversight Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, “Examining Emergent BioSolutions’ Failure to Protect Public Health and Public Funds,” youtu.be/7fFAYqHQ5Xg
137 “Emergent BioSolutions Signs Five-Year Agreement for Large-Scale Drug Substance Manufacturing for Johnson & Johnson’s Lead COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate,” Emergent BioSolutions (Jul. 6, 2020), investors.emergentbiosolutions.com/news-releases/news-release-details/emergentbiosolutions-signs-five-year-agreement-large-scale-drug
138 Swaine, O’Harrow, and Davis
139 Atlantic Storm, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (2005), centerforhealthsecurity.org/ourwork/events-archive/2005_atlantic_storm/
140 Bradley T. Smith et al., “Navigating the storm: report and recommendations from the Atlantic Storm exercise,” Biosecurity and Bioterrorism (2005), pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16181048/
141 Global Mercury Post Exercise Report, Homeland Security Digital Library (2003), hsdl.org/?abstract&did=234582
142 Sharon Weinberger, “You Can’t Handle the Truth: Psy-ops propaganda goes mainstream,” Slate (Sept. 19, 2005), slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/09/psy-ops-propaganda-goes-mainstream.html
143 Ibid.
144 Ibid.
145 Ibid.
146 Josh Meyer, “Cambridge Analytica boss went from ‘aromatics’ to psyops to Trump’s campaign,” Politico (Mar. 22, 2018), politico.com/story/2018/03/22/cambridge-analytica-trump-campaign-479351
147 Isobel Asher Hamilton, “The founder of Cambridge Analytica’s parent company admits he lacked an ‘ethical radar,’” Yahoo Finance (Aug. 20, 2018), finance.yahoo.com/news/founder-cambridge-analytica-apos-parent-112639746.html
148 Weinberger
149 Louis Menand, “Fat Man: Herman Kahn and the Nuclear Age,” New Yorker (Jun. 27, 2005), newyorker.com/magazine/2005/06/27/fat-man
150 Joel Garreau, “Conspiracy of Heretics: The Global Business Network was founded in 1988 as a think tank to shape the future of the world. It’s working,” Wired (Nov. 1, 1994), wired.com/1994/11/gbn/
151 See, e.g., John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004) and Marks, Manchurian Candidate chapter 8, CIA Mind Control Experiments, ahrp.org/category/scientific-racism/cia-mind-control-experiments/
152 Saul McLeod, “The Milgram Shock Experiment,” Simply Psychology (2017), simplypsychology.org/milgram.html
153 Alfred W. McCoy, A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2006), 33
154 Ibid., 29
155 Ibid., 41
156 Ibid., 33
157 Amy Novotney, “The Risks of Social Isolation,” Monitor on Psychology 50:5 (May 2013): 32, apa.org/monitor/2019/05/ce-corner-isolation
158 Alliance for Human Research Protection, “Dr. Maitland Baldwin, a student of Harold Hebb explored sensory deprivation at NIH” (Jan 18, 2015), ahrp.org/dr-maitland-baldwin-a-student-of-harold-hebb-explored-sensory-deprivation-at-nih/
159 World Health Organization, “Biosecurity: An integrated approach to manage risk to human, animal and plant life and health” (Mar. 3, 2010), who.int/foodsafety/fs_management/No_01_Biosecurity_Mar10_en.pdf
160 The Rockefeller Foundation and Global Business Network, “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development” (May, 2010), nommeraadio.ee/meedia/pdf/RRS/Rockefeller%20Foundation.pdf
161 Ibid., 18.
162 RFK Jr. email from Ken McCarthy, June 2021
163 Michael Birnbaum QC, Nigeria—Fundamental Rights Denied Report Of The Trial Of Ken Saro-wiwa And Others, Article 19 & Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales and the Law Society of England and Wales (June 1995), article19.org/data/files/pdfs/publications/nigeria-fundamental-rights-denied.pdf
164 Carl Hartman, “U.S. Recalls Ambassador After Nigeria Executes Nine Activists,” AP (Nov. 10, 1995), apnews.com/article/7df4b1a7b045dbb9d73e8e75a4c18e6a
165 Yasha Levine, Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet (Public Affairs, 2018), 174
166 Sean Gallager, “50 Years Ago Today, the Internet was born. Sort of,” Ars Technica (Oct. 29, 2019), arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/50-years-ago-today-the-internet-was-born-sort-of/
167 USA Spending. Gov, 12.351—Scientific Research—Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (Oct 2, 2017), usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_HDTRA11710064_9761
168 Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen, “Was the U.S. Complicit in China’s Covid Research?,” Jewish Policy Center (May 27, 2021), jewishpolicycenter.org/2021/05/27/was-the-u-s-complicit-in-chinas-covid-research/
169 “DARPA Awards Moderna Therapeutics a Grant for up to $25 Million to Develop Messenger RNA Therapeutics?,” Moderna (Oct. 2, 2013), investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/darpa-awards-moderna-therapeutics-grant-25-million-develop
170 Renée DiResta, “How the Tech Giants Created What Darpa Couldn’t,” Wired (May 29, 2018), wired.com/story/darpa-total-informatio-awareness/
171 Miguel Helft, “Google’s ATAP Head Regina Dugan Joins Facebook To Start DARPA-Inspired Team,” Forbes (Apr. 13, 2016), forbes.com/sites/miguelhelft/2016/04/13/googles-atap-head-regina-dugan-joins-facebook-to-start-darpa-inspired-team/?sh=2f8293fa1996
172 Interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
173 Interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
174 SF Weekly Staff, “Mondo 1995 (Part II)” (Oct 11, 1995), sfweekly.com/news/mondo-1995-part-ii/
175 Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (French 1954; Vintage Books, 1964)
176 Fred Hapgood, “Transhumanism: Securing the Post-Human Future,” CSO (Jan. 1, 2005), csoonline.com/article/2118249/transhumanism--securing-the-post-human-future.html
177 Fred Hapgood, “Transhumanism: Securing the Post-Human Future,” CSO (Jan. 1, 2005), csoonline.com/article/2118249/transhumanism--securing-the-post-human-future.html
178 Michael Standaert, “Smile for the camera: the dark side of China’s emotion-recognition tech,” The Guardian (March 3, 2021), theguardian.com/global-development/2021/mar/03/china-positive-energy-emotion-surveillance-recognition-tech
179 Chris Taylor, “Forecasting: The Futurologist: Looking Ahead in a Dangerous World,” Time Magazine (Oct. 11, 2004), content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,995373,00.html
180 Peter Schwartz, “How Governments Get Ready for the Unthinkable,” World Government Summit (Feb. 8, 2016), worldgovernmentsummit.org/events/annual-gathering/2016/session-detail/how-governments-get-ready-for-the-unthinkable
181 2014 Sales Force Conference on “The Future of Global Governance,” sfdc.hubs.vidyard.com/watch/lemzpanyZA5yQfed0poDTQ
182 The Salesforce Conversations with Peter Schwartz and Klaus Schwab, Salsesforce (2014), sfdc.hubs.vidyard.com/watch/lemzpqnyZA5yQfedOpoDTQ
183 “Winter 2021 COVID-19 Scenarios to Inform Your Business Decisions,” Salesforce, salesforce.com/resources/videos/covid-scenarios/