On July 28th, 2023, Weekend Australian Magazine published a bombshell report based on an exclusive interview with Dr. Robert (Bob) Kadlec, the HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) who served under Donald Trump. Basically, the subtext of the interview can be summarised as “it was all Tony’s fault, not mine”. To many readers this may seem like just more Washington DC kabuki theatre with a side order of limited hangout (much like the prior Vanity Fair article in which Kadlec provided a generous scoop of spin with a topping of CYA). Personally, I find this whole ‘inside the beltway’ rush to deflect blame for the gross ‘public health’ mismanagement and rampant lying during the Covid crisis slightly amusing, in a twisted sort of way, but definitely popcorn worthy.
Here is the breathless title:
Covid Cover-Up:
How the science was silenced. Anthony Fauci deliberately downplayed suspicions from scientists that COVID-19 came from a lab to protect his reputation and deflect from risky research his agency had funded, his boss says.
By Sharri Markson
Ms. Markson’s report on her exclusive can be found here (behind a paywall).
Now at one level, my initial reaction to this was “verry interresting” (a reference to an iconic Arte Johnson character in the weekly ‘60s TV comedy series Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, for those not old enough to remember). The typical tag line to the skit being “but stupid”.
Particularly intriguing (to me at least) was that this interview was provided to an Australian journalist and her Weekend Australian Magazine editors rather than the usual U.S. corporate media propaganda outlets.
Before we dive into the substance of the accusations thrown and assertions made by Dr. Kadlec regarding his longstanding close colleague Dr. Fauci, allow me a moment to introduce Dr. Kadlec, who is one particularly stereotypical example of the deep state intelligence community denizens who have haunted (and directed) the U.S. ‘biodefence’ enterprise for decades. Please see Head of the Hydra: The Rise of Robert Kadlec printed by The Last American Vagabond for more salacious details.
The only U.S. biodefence/biowarfare expert even more stereotypical that Dr. Kadlec who I have encountered during my brief career in that sector was (now deceased) Major General (Ret) Philip K. Russell, Founding Director of the Sabin Institute. Both notorious and legendary for his congressional testimony supporting up-funding the military/industrial biodefence enterprise by adapting the phrase “bridging the valley of death” as justification for funding public-private partnerships in this area, Phil knew where all the bodies were buried and what buttons to push to activate programmatic funding. WRAIR Commander and then Hopkins Professor. But I digress.
Major General (Ret) Philip K. Russell (deceased). His brief bio can be found here.
“Dr. Russell became Commandant of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, where he conducted laboratory and clinical research on viral and parasitic diseases; his work contributed to the development of vaccines for adenovirus, meningitis and hepatitis A and B. After retiring from the military, Dr. Russell became professor of international health at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.”
In my experience, ‘Bob’ Kadlec is relatively quiet and circumspect but quite willing to invoke the Lord God during public presentations, and I have always believed him (without direct evidence) to be a longstanding and high status member of the U.S. ‘intelligence community’. During the Trump administration, in his position as ASPR, Dr. Kadlec reported to the attorney, businessman, lobbyist and former pharmaceutical executive HHS Secretary Alex Azar, who in turn reported to Mr. Trump. The notorious (now retired) CIA agent (DARPAs’ Man in Wuhan) Dr. Michael Callahan reported directly to Dr. Kadlec throughout the Trump-era aspect of the Covid crisis, and I recall Michael frantically speaking of the need to protect Kadlec after the husband of BARDA Director Dr. Rick Bright went to the LA Times to complain of unfair treatment at the hands of Kadlec (who was his direct boss) and then Rick filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit on his way out the revolving door to a cushy job with the Rockefeller Institute. What a tangled web we weave. Like I said at the outset of this essay, lots of ‘inside the beltway’ kabuki theatre wrapped up around all of this.
In any case, as far as I am concerned, Bob Kadlec criticising Tony Fauci for duplicity and mismanagement of the Covid crisis is likely to land somewhere between the pot calling the kettle black and a sophisticated, coordinated disinformation campaign intended to distract the public from the sins of the CIA, its surrogates and offshore Five Eyes intelligence allies. In other words yet another limited hangout designed to distract the gullible in Congress as well as the general public – here and abroad.
So, with that lengthy prelude and context demonstrating my clear bias and general “a plague on both your houses!” attitude (Mercutio to Romeo, Shakespeare, for heavens sake), please allow me to highlight some of the bombs which Dr. Kadlec is lobbing over in Dr. Fauci’s general direction (with thanks to Will Jones of the Brownstone authors group who originally found this gem of a story in the Aussie press).
Oh yeah, it turns out that the Weekend Australian Magazine has been running circles around U.S. corporate media for quite a while (I know… a low bar), and has previously documented (in 2021!) that the National Institutes of Health and other U.S. agencies funded 65 scientific projects at the Wuhan Institute of Virology over the past decade, many involving risky research on bat coronaviruses.
America’s top infectious diseases advisor, Anthony Fauci, deliberately decided to downplay suspicions from scientists that COVID-19 came from a laboratory to protect his reputation and deflect from the risky coronavirus research his agency had funded, according to his boss, one of the most senior U.S. health officials during the pandemic.
In an exclusive interview, Robert Kadlec – former Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health – told the Weekend Australian that he, Dr Fauci and National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins privately discussed how to “turn down the temperature” on accusations against China in the early days of the pandemic while they were trying to encourage Beijing to co-operate and share a sample of the virus.
“I think Tony Fauci was trying to protect his institution and his own reputation from the possibility that his agency was funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers who, beyond the scope of the grants received from the National Institutes of Health, may have been working with People’s Liberation Army researchers on defensive coronavirus vaccines,” Dr. Kadlec said.
“I think it’s evident from his later released emails (obtained via Freedom of Information requests) that he had more sense of what his institute had funded at that moment. This was a reputational risk to him and his institute and certainly he probably sided with the international scientists that believed that false or unsubstantiated accusations could have a chilling effect on scientific collaboration between the Western world and China.”
Dr. Kadlec, in his first ever media interview, added: “We think vaccine research resulted in the pandemic – that vaccine research was the proximate cause.” In an extraordinary admission, Dr. Kadlec said they decided to try to encourage a group of leading international scientists to calm down speculation on the origins of the virus.
The scientists held a phone call on February 1st, 2020, in which they discussed concerns that SARS-CoV-2 looked like it may have been genetically engineered.
“When we talked about this in advance of that call, he (Fauci) would just try and see if he could get the scientists to take the temperature down, turn the rhetoric down, to at least find, we’re going to look into this but we don’t know,” Dr. Kadlec said.
“We decided to engage our national experts to look at this, the National Academy of Sciences,” he said. “It would take time to figure out what was going on. We were trying to prevent people from saying this was a bioweapon when we didn’t really know. That was my intent. It was Dr. Fauci’s idea to see if he could get international scientists to examine the origins in a similar fashion. The object was to prevent speculation and turn the temperature down. There was something that could be said to turn the temperature of rhetoric down and avoid the wild speculation, of a bioweapon, that had already started at that point in time.
“Their paper did result in casting the die for what would then be the international scientific response going forward. I found it really odd that in light of the now revealed private musings of some of the scientists indicated the sequence looked unusual, that the authors decided to draft a letter as an opinion piece.
“Many people were confused or mistaken by what they wrote as more of a peer-reviewed paper. Their initial opinion was likely shaded by their personal professional equities or the belief that what was going on in the U.S. – statements by political leaders could be problematic for world relations for China but also their professional interests in science,” he said.
Gain-of-function research was banned by the Obama administration but lifted during the Trump era. Dr. Kadlec says this was at the behest of the NIH. “Francis Collins and Fauci both had a similar world view which was scientists know best and there should be few restrictions on research,” he said.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance drew up a proposal for grant funding for coronavirus research, which international scientists now believe could be the ‘blueprint’ of COVID-19. Dr Kadlec chaired a committee to authorise whether gain-of-function could proceed. The proposal from the Wuhan Institute was bouncing around U.S. Government agencies, in search of funding, but it never went through his committee. “It shows you the fallibility or vulnerability of the oversight system,” he said.
Dr. Fauci has denied his agency funded gain-of-function research, but Dr. Kadlec said this wasn’t true. “It’s evident NIH supported research that has the potential for, and it at least one case resulted in gain of function,” he said.
Then Sharri Markson (she/her?) drops the big one, which is completely consistent with the emerging story line now cautiously creeping through an Overton Window. Said window having been well and truly jammed open regarding the central role of the CIA and Western intelligence community in its mismanagement of the Covid crisis.
The full extent of those suspicions is now laid bare in emails subpoenaed by U.S. Congress and published in recent weeks. In those emails, some scientists discussed the “shit show” that would eventuate if anyone serious accused China of, even accidentally, starting the pandemic. They also discussed the impact such an accusation would have on scientific research and international relations. But, publicly, they insisted the possibility of an inadvertent laboratory leak was a conspiracy and authored a paper published in Nature Medicine, that argued SARSCov-2 was almost certainly a natural virus. Dr. Kadlec acknowledges the power of that paper, titled the Proximal Origins of SARS-CoV-2, as becoming the official word that a laboratory leak was a conspiracy theory. “Their paper did result in casting the die for what would then be the international scientific response going forward,” he said. “I found it really odd that in light of the now revealed private musings of some of the scientists indicated the sequence looked unusual, that the authors decided to draft a letter as an opinion piece.” Many people were confused or mistaken by what they wrote as more of a peer-reviewed paper.
Basically, Tony Fauci lied, and people died; lives, families, children’s education, careers, businesses and whole economies were destroyed. The rich got richer, the poor poorer and the middle class was decimated. And Klaus Schwab, the WEF (and it’s ‘young leader’ minions), and totalitarianism flourished. Massive global ‘passive’ investment funds, central bankers and their Bank of International Settlements masters moved one step closer to weaponising banking to create one ring to rule them all – Central Bank Digital Currency coupled to Social Credit scores.
And Trump was yet again branded a racist.
Good thing that Tony and his cronies were able to protect the CCP through this shizastorm! <sarcasm>.
So what are you going to do about it?
Dr Robert W. Malone is an internationally recognised scientist and physician and the original inventor of mRNA and DNA vaccination as a technology, being the holder of numerous fundamental domestic and foreign patents. He has sat on or served as chairperson on U.S. health and defence committees and currently sits as a non-voting member on the NIH ACTIV committee, which is tasked with managing clinical research for a variety of drug and antibody treatments for COVID-19. This article was first published on his Substack page, which you can subscribe to here.
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Every member of the British empire was a British subject. Seems pretty inclusive to my eyes saying all those Africans and Asians were actually British. Given the empire was created largely on a contract of free trade/law rather than violence ordinary ppl in empire were likely amongst the greatest beneficiaries financially in % terms. Also the empire didn’t exist because “slavery” it came into existence because the British economy ran a giant trade surplus thanks to the spinning Jenning, flying shuttle, steam engine etc, the excess capital had to be invested somewhere.
A good comment, and it was Arthur Wellesley whilst in India in about 1795, insisted that the rules of governance and law extended to all with equal effect. A principle that was utilised throughout what is now referred to the British Empire.
Until HMG sent lefty academics to guid ethe decolonised governments on how to arrange their “democracy” and how to arrange a free market.
We have known for more than a century that prosperity follows a few simple requirements:
Private property rights
Access to fair justice
Open markets
All else will fillow.
The consequences are not conducive to dictatorship or socialism. They do result in uindividual liberty and prosperity.
Indeed, every citizen of the British Empire was a subject of the monarch, each one, pari passu. And nearly all of the countries which gained independence in the second half of the 20th Century wished to become members of the British Commonwealth. That says something, but the wokerati won’t listen, they’re deaf to reason and probably too ignorant to understand it anyway.
I only became aware of all peoples of the Empire being British Subjects when I watched a fascinating interview from the 1960, with Dick Cavett and Enoch Powell. (Search for them. Its half an hour of a Masters.) Dick was looking for the ‘racism soundbite’ I think, and Enoch made the history very clear.
In any case, the countries that were of the Empire seem to have done well against the fortunes of those of the French, Belgian and German Empires. Perhaps a note of thanks to the British is in order..?
I’ve watched that it’s an excellent interview.
“Despite Britain’s pre-eminence, at least during the first half of the 19th century, as ‘the workshop of the world’, the available statistics show Britain generally running a visible trade deficit only partially offset by a surplus in services.
The reason why Britain had a major overall current account surplus during the 19th century was that the country enjoyed the benefit of a huge accumulation of net assets abroad, which generated a massive net income.”
The beginnings of the British Empire – actually English – were with the East India Company during the reign of Elizabeth the first. That trading empire grew as gold was traded for commodities such as spices, tea, coffee, silks, chinaware.
Britain was a huge importer.
The empire only grew spectacularly once the trade surplus became so enormous courtesy of the industrial revolution. Please don’t say you think empire would have grown so large without the industrial revolution, the east India company initially was simply overseas adventuring for privateers and toffs. Once vast accumulated wealth from things like the mill trade was injected into such things spectacular growth followed.
‘The British Empire contained both goods and evils, which are of such disparate kinds that they cannot be weighed against each other rationally to reach a utilitarian conclusion that one exceeds the other’
Nigel Biggar, Colonialism, A Moral Reckoning
My Uncle Willie was torpedoed twice by U Boats in the Atlantic and rescued twice from the sea. With the freedom that he and others fought for during the war he went on to live in Mt Isa Australia in the Mineral Mines and had 5 kids. He died aged 90 a few years ago. ——-Why did he even bother? Little did he realise at the time that today’s ideological idiots would be chucking all of that freedom away.
My preferred solution:
Deport every person working for The Key to Rawanda. Might as well put the facility to some use after all we’ve paid at least £290 million for it.
People advising others about education and imparting knowledge who are themselves devoid of both.
The stupid/talentless teaching the ignorant.
Whenever the conversation moves onto politics I now say that I’m “far-right”. That I believe that children shouldn’t be mutilated, that women don’t have a penis, that a child needs a mother and a father, locking people in their homes is tyrannical, and that importing millions of people with a different set of moral and cultural values might, just might, lead to problems. Yes, I’m a bloody extremist.
I think there are a lot of us on the extremities. The words of Marcus Aurelius come to mind, “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Off-T
It looks like Kneel and Reeves are coming for pensioners.
https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1920670/Labour-plot-means-test-state-pension-Starmer-tax-raid-Rachel-Reeves
They also came for the pensioners in 2020. Pathways. NG163. State sanctioned democide .
Indeed.
This is probably good news. ——-It means labour will be obliterated at the next election assuming the phony Tories can at least return to being 20% Tory.
Reform will mop-up so many votes!
If it quacks like a cultural revolution, then maybe it is.
“… teach colonialism as ‘invading and exploiting’…”
I agree.
Nowadays it’s called ‘immigration’ or ‘asylum seeking’.
Yes I think that’s a fair assessment. This comment from a local resident makes the exact same point, and the link to the Daily Mail gives more context, but it’s from 2016 so God knows what Dewsbury’s like now. I don’t know how many towns or cities that is now that have been successfully colonised in England, where white indigenous folk are now a minority, but I wouldn’t choose to stick around. I’d sell up and get the hell out of Dodge. Maybe commenters on here might be familiar with this particular area or others that they know have been ‘claimed’;
”In Dewsbury pro-Palestinian supporters hold collections, aggressively soliciting from members of public. It also contains Savile Town a virtually entirely a Muslim community. One of my followers tells us what happens there.
“I live locally & every time it was local elections they would knock on my door & demand to know why it wasn’t a Pakistani family living there.
“I wish I had kept the CCTV footage but they went to every single house.
“I think it’s a problem that people are slowly realising but it’s too late to do anything about it
“The local Catholic school has had to install a prayer room for the Muslims, my daughter’s infant/junior school had 2 Muslims & they had to serve Halal food so as not to upset them.”
In 2016 only 48 of 4,033 residents were white. A Daily Mail reporter went to investigate & asked directions to a mosque.
“His response was to spit at me & shout: “Go away, you shouldn’t be here. Don’t come back.”
A white resident was asked when she was gong to sell up to a Muslim.
They are colonisers, who have no-go areas.”
Someone in the comments agreeing;
”I was born and raised in Dewsbury, the town was a great place when I was a kid, people would come from all over the country on bus trips to the famous market. Absolute hell hole now, we left in 1999, I sometimes go back to visit family and the place is unrecognisable now.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1811804116072407431
Parasite Politicians created this hell on earth. I despise these squirming hand wringing SCUM
Idiots.
Time to bring back public flogging. Fact and reason don’t work any more.
Probably coming in the new crime bill as a penalty for misgendering.
Don’t worry, the colonisers are likely to do that. It’s in their law!
I suspect none of the “experts” who wrote this rubbish has lived in a British colonial country. I wonder do they believe that the citizens of Hong Kong are better off under China? likewise ordinary Sri Lankans have nothing but praise for the legacy left by the British, their education system still uses our Alevel system, you know the ones where the pupil had to have a good depth of knowledge about the academic subject, likewise the railways and administration, corruption in the country has been rife since we handed over the colony. The British left its colonies in a good state, infrastructure, administrative systems, infrastructure, education. But obviously that is not a story to appease the anti white, anti british racists in The Key organisation.
100% correct!
This has not happened in the past 2 weeks. It has developed with the permission of the “Conservative Party”.
Good riddance
I am only part of the way through the book, “The Making of India” by Kartar Lalvani but it really is an excellent read. Quoting from the book:
This story began in the seventeenth century, when a small sea-faring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, dispatched fragile sailing ships laden with iron, tools and workers over a distance of 12,000 miles on a six-month voyage via the Cape of Good Hope, in search of new opportunities. Over the next three centuries, the girders for every bridge, the track for every mile of railway, the locomotives and the vast array of machinery required at the outset to build every piece of infrastructure in India were all made in Britain and loaded on to countless craft and transported on a hazardous journey to the subcontinent, where they were assembled according to plans laid by the finest engineers of the time, who arrived by the same route. In the end they helped build a new nation, from dozens of kingdoms and languages, that became the world’s largest democracy.
The sheer audacity, courage and enterprise of such an endeavour have no parallel in world history. The sins of colonial rule are well documented, but now 70 years after independence, are we not obliged to look back dispassionately and to give credit where credit is due? It is worth pausing to consider what India would be like today if the British had chosen to stay at home.
The author praises three vital legacies left by the British: the all-important Indian Civil Service, the English legal system with its impeccable nationwide judicial network and the formation of the well-drilled, highly disciplined, unified and loyal Indian Army.
Some time ago I read another book written by the last governor of Bechuanaland (now Botswana). It was fascinating to read the effort made by the Colonial Service to improve living conditions, investigating the suitability of growing various crops there, and all the while trying to fairly solve tribal conflicts.
Those were fascinating times when ordinary British men and women could serve in many countries around the world. Of course mistakes were made, of course some were disastrous, but in general there was a will to achieve good in the name of the British Empire. And it was the same reason why the empire was gradually disbanded: the British sense of fairness and equality meant that an empire was actually untenable.
Was there exploitation? Presumably but the British also gave a lot, as is proven by the current economic situation of UK: definitely not the richest of countries!
Thanks for posting.
Excellent comment!
If India was a seething bed of resentment against the British, how did they manage to control a vast population with a tiny expat army and civil service? And what happened when they left? Degeneration into bloodshed. Same in Nigeria. Slavery? Who sold Africans to the British? Other Africans (or Arabs). Business is business.Of course the propagators of this anti-colonialist nonsense forget the Tibetans, Uighurs, Hong Kong residents and the Pacific Rim countries that China has or is is trying to colonise. And Ukraine. Much of the rubbish is based on the simple fact that it is unwise to judge the past by the standards of today or, as with the Church of England’s setting aside huge sums to compensate for its investment in the South Sea Company, a failure to read the evidence..
I recommend “Last Man In” by John Hare, which describes his work in the British Colonial Administration in Northern Nigeria keeping warring tribes at peace. He suggests that while none of the factions would listen to each other, they would listen to him.
Do those teachers also talk about the Islamic Ottoman Empire?
Do they tell the children that European male children aged 7 to 20 were snatched and relocated to Turkey where they were forcibly converted, circumcised, assimilated and trained to serve into the fanatical Janissary corps or trained for palace guards?
Or, do they mention that special squads would kidnap beautiful European girls for the Turkish harems, specifically to whiten the race?
(or, that both were practices also favoured by wealthy Arabs.)
Or, the mass conversion using bribery in places like Bosnia and Albania, the two officially Muslim countries in Europe?
in contrast, the long-lasting effect of the British Empire’s influence has brought nothing but benefits, financial, social and scientific to the dominions.
It was so evil that every member nation of the Empire chose to join The Commonwealth.
And some nations which weren’t even part of the Empire chose to join as well.
How do the anti-British propagandists explain that?
In other words, “it worked against the Germans” (or so deluded people believe) and hence, it’ll certainly also work “against the English”, this being driven by the usual ahistoric perspective of your “friends and allies” (democrat faction) from accross the big pond, to whom the history of mankind started in 1492, at least mythically, and to whom nothing outside the anglosphere save “lost kingdoms of noble savages” really exists.
One should also note that this infantile moralizing of human history – the good and the bad, give me a f***ing break, life is not a hollywood action movie and humans invariably believe that whatever they’re doing is “good” and that what their enemies do is “evil” – comes straight from the Marxist playbook: History is the struggle of the one-dimensionally “good” oppressed against equally one-dimensionally “evil” oppressors. And as the “oppressed” proletarians unfortunately preferred working in their jobs in order to pay off their mortgages over world revolution, no matter how much students ranted and fumed about that, they’re now obviously the evil oppressors and their supposed victims interestingly coloured people living in delightfully exotic countries.
These ”Key” people need to do some empirical research. I lived in a Commonwealth country for 24 years and could see no evidence of the negative impact of Empire. I found very little evidence of resentment towards the British and most wanted Brits to teach their kids. In fact an Indonesian chap working there commented that the country was lucky to have had the British, his country got the Dutch! I’m not saying it was all rosy in every country, but overall, we brought good governance, the rule of law, fairness and stability and abolished inhuman practises, to every country we occupied and were one of the first colonisers to grant independence. Most opted to join the Commonwealth (even countries that were not part of our Empire have joined) and have continued to prosper and even overtake us. The ”Key” policy advisers need to visit Singapore, a country which has left the UK behind!
These people don’t do empirical research because they’re idealists, ie, believe that knowledge is gained through idea/ theories alone and that observable reality doesn’t matter that much. They have an essentially Marxist theory about the world and to them, the world is what this theory says it should really be, see comment about the oppressor/ oppressed dichotomy above.
Irish famine, Indian famine, Opium Wars to name but a few– really the advisory committee is being too generous.
As I already wrote above: Life is not a Hollywood action movie where “good guys” fight “bad guys”. That’s a puerile perspective for people TPTB want to keep dumb (and thus, more easily controlled).
Thw communist pigs are in charge. Save your children. Teach them the truth and teach them to disobey and push back. It will build their character and be useful in the coming communist sh1t hole we will inhabit.
God, I pray for the civil war to start.