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Subject: Part 4,  U.S. Government Practices Germ Warfare on U.S. Population
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       I made the following transcript from a tape recording
       of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station
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                       (continuation)
GARY NULL:
However, the idea that only scientists are competent to judge the
work and the acts of their peers also stems from a longstanding
campaign on the part of the scientific Establishment to pressure
others to allow them to preserve their absolute autonomy. That
frees them from the burdens of public accountability. Now this
campaign has been successful, and, for the most part, Science is
free to govern itself and to determine its own policies. This would
create few problems if Science was always objective, had only the
public well-being in mind, and was fully accountable for its
research and experimentation. But, given the organizational
structure of the scientific Establishment in this country today,
this is rarely the case.

The real seat of power in the scientific Establishment resides in
a sort of closely-knit "old boys" network which, far from being
objective, is most often self-serving and much more interested in
perpetuating itself than in lofty ideals of public welfare and
scientific ethics. Within this network, prominent scientists and
researchers, who have either tacitly or expressly agreed to play by
the rules of the game, move freely from one strategic position to
another within the scientific Establishment. It's not uncommon, for
instance, to see a key official in a Government agency, who has
promoted policies favorable to a particular industry, retire from
his position in Government and then go to work for that industry in
some important and very well-paid capacity. This network extends to
virtually every segment of the scientific community which plays a
role in scientific policy-making; whether it's universities,
Government agencies, industry, the Military, Medicine, peer review
boards and scientific journals. It's via these institutions that
the public side of Science is determined.

Now, this causes a capacity for them to dictate the way in which
Science shall be practiced. Who is qualified to practice, who shall
be published, how research grants shall be allocated, what policies
shall be followed, and what image Science shall portray to the
Public. And that's one of the reasons, by the way, why we have had
no success with arthritis, no success with cancer, except for a few
minor cancers; and the only success in heart disease has come about,
not because of Science, but because of preventive health measures.
This is all because they control it, and they control everything
that we learn. Well, combined with the almost unlimited resources
at its disposition, the scientific community has carte blanche to
conduct its affairs as it sees fit -- free from public scrutiny.

The secret release of genetically-engineered viruses in Argentina
was but one example of the dangers involved with a self-regulating
scientific community. Jeremy Rifkin of the Foundation on Economic
Trends, whom I quoted a moment ago, has been monitoring the testing
procedures of the scientific community for quite some time now.
But he is not given the same credibility as someone from those
industries.

Just think of this. The Department of Defense wanted to build a new,
state-of-the-art bio-technology warfare laboratory, Dunway Proving
Grounds in Utah, to develop a whole new generation  of "defensive"
materials dealing with genetically-engineered weaponry. Again, they
pulled a fast one on the American Public. When the Congress was out
of session in August of that year, the Department of Defense slipped
this facility into the Federal budget as a standard reprogamming
request. In other words, instead of having it debated at a major
new policy meeting so that the American Public could know what was
up, and whether or not the People of Utah really wanted it, they
simply made it look like it was just some more construction on-line.
In point-of-fact, we only found out about this when Senator Sasser
of Tennessee sued the Federal Government. He won that suit and the
Military had to be held up. They were not allowed to construct the
building.

There was another suit the next year against the Navy, Army and Air
Force. They were working on genetic-engineering in a hundred and
twenty-nine universities and corporate military laboratories across
the country. That's a HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE universities. They
are working with every SUPER PATHOGEN known to humanity, from those
associated with hemorrhagic fevers to Legionnaire's Disease. The
Military says that they are doing it for "DEFENSIVE" research
purposes. Well, regardless; the potential dangers of this kind of
experimentation are profound.

What's the point of all this?  We cannot expect the Government to
police itself. It just doesn't do it. And we're naive if we think
that the industries or the scientific Establishment and the
companies involved are going to police themselves. They haven't!
They won't!  We are starting to realize that we've been had.
And the people doing the hadding are the scientific and medical
communities, as they have been aligned with these special groups.

The Wistar Institute, using millions of dollars of the National
Institutes of Health's money (That's your money and mine. That's
American tax money.) was researching a new rabies virus vaccine.
This was a recombinant DNA: a genetically-engineered virus. They
went abroad to Argentina without letting the Argentine Government
know, nor did they let the United States Government know. They
innoculated cattle, placing these genetically-engineered viruses
into the environment. This was only the second release in the World
of a genetically-engineered microorganism, that we are aware of.
How many more were released which we didn't know about?  Who knows?

When the President of Argentina found out, he was outraged. He
halted the experiment and confiscated all of the equipment. The
National Institutes of Health were petitioned at the time to
immediately investigate because much of the monies came from our
own Federal Government. Our Government responded by saying:

 (quote)
  "We're not responsible because, even though we supplied all of
   the money for the experiment at the research stages, we didn't
   supply the money for the actual trip to Argentina."
 (unquote)

So they used a loophole to get out of it.
                      (to be continued)
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          John DiNardo