Crisis Update - Malaria Scarier Than The Other Bug

Or how finance capital and colonial history entwine with Shakespeare’s swallows

• Five people catch malaria in Texas and Florida, first cases in more than 20 years

• Media blames climate change; Fakt Cheka cover for Bill Gates’ mosquito project

• Associated Press tries to deny Gates’ involvement — turns out to be lying

• Gates blocked a UN plan for moratorium on gene editing until it was proved safe

• Objective is not stopping malaria or flu, but vaccination and territorial control

• By public health they do not mean keeping you safe, but ‘social hygiene’

• From Physiocracy, Acclimatization, to Milner’s Round Table and Technocracy,

• control of land and resources dictates policy towards those who live on them.

• Top funder of gene-edited mosquitoes is not Gates but the Pentagon and DARPA

(3,300 words or about 16 minutes of your company).

Jul 5, 2023

A spotty history of malaria

Garlic, wormwood, and the bark of the cinchona tree, which contains quinine, were the traditional remedies.

Malaria, blamed on bad air, spread around the world, especially with trade in the 16^th century.

In popular culture malaria looms large in Joseph Conrad’s critique of colonialism, Heart Of Darkness, and the perils of penetrating the Congo. Western traders rapidly fell ill — except for the chief accountant, the source of rumours about the mysterious and brutal Kurtz, who both by luck of natural selection seem to have immunity.

The high-pitched drone, the persistence, and the seeming ecological pointlessness of the mosquito’s role, adds to its nefarious reputation.

The pest’s juxtaposition with some of the world’s most beautiful locations adds to the paradox. The coastal plains of southern Italy were affected, and parts of Sardinia were rendered uninhabitable until the Aga Khan drained the marshes of the Costa Smeralda (Emerald Coast) in the late 1950s.

U.S. home-spraying operations had begun the previous decade, in 1947, when there were 15,000 cases of malaria in the south east alone. Only four years later, the disease was had largely disappeared.

The routine of mosquito nets and window screens did not spare this author from two bouts of malaria as a child in Nigeria in the 1960s.

In a later home, we abandoned nets and screens altogether since the living room eves were open to the sky in the interests of air flow. We’d light a mosquito coil on a humid night.

What had happened is that, as the journal Nature retails, “with exposure, older children and adults develop essentially complete protection from severe illness and death, although sterile immunity is probably never achieved.” [1]

Humans travel more widely and their natural immunity means they do not suffer the likelihood of death upon arrival in West Africa that was once the grim fate of Europeans.

No-one seems to have thought what impact 15-minute cities, climate lockdown and the end of car and plane travel will mean for the future of natural immunity. As we shall see, this issue arises with respect to the mosquito experiments, too.

Malaria does not need to kill nowadays. Most deaths are due to dehydration as a result of vomiting and diarrhoea. Salts, electrolytes and rehydration are most important — speaking from experience.

So why the sudden interest by Gates and others to eradicate malaria by any means necessary, including playing with genetics, bacteria and DNA, and of course mRNA vaccines?

One explanation is already supplied in the story of the Emerald Coast. Many of the islands and coastal retreats that the wealthy favour happen to be in places plagued by mosquitos. So are the regions that contain some of the rich earth minerals they seek for their technocratic rule, such as Conrad’s Congo and the Sahel.

Paradoxically, another aim of mosquito research is to use them to clear territory of people. Actually it’s not a paradox but a long standing project of the Pentagon. Entomological warfare uses insects to transmit diseases and has been a field of research by the Pentagon in countries of the former Soviet Union, such as Ukraine and Georgia, as well as the Middle East, South East Asia and Africa.

Another motive may be the profit from a vaccine — of which more in a moment.

The current experiments, detailed below, are taking place in Florida, Texas and Brazil, among other locations.

One objective is to stop transmission by mosquito of Zika and West Nile Virus. The thing is, those diseases are not common to Houston. It has had no cases of those viruses.... until now.

On June 16, 2023, the local Fox affiliate reported a mosquito sample had tested positive for West Nile Virus in Harris County. [2]

The news cycle and the rumour mill are as thick with creepy crawlies as the tropics on a moon-lit night. So what are the mosquito experiments?

Risky research

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) web site says the EPA approved in May 2020 Oxitec’s “carefully developed field tests” over a two-year period in Monroe County, Florida (home to the Keys) beginning in summer 2020, and in Harris County, Texas (where Houston is located) beginning in 2021. [3]

In April 2021, after local protests, Oxitec, a firm based in Abingdon UK, and funded by Bill Gates, finally released 144,000 genetically-modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys, the area of Houston, Texas, and Brazil, claiming that after 13 weeks, the technology suppressed 95 percent of aedes aegypti, a ferocious blood-sucker mostly responsible for malaria. The aim is to render females capable of producing only male offspring, which apparently don't bite.

“There’s no such thing as 100 percent effective in science,” Dana Perls, the food and technology program manager with Friends of the Earth, told The Guardian in 2022. “Yet the public is being asked to trust that Oxitec’s experiment will work and no [genetically-engineered] female mosquitoes will survive. But how do we know that?”

The Guardian said opponents were concerned about the mosquitoes coming in contact with the agricultural antibiotic Tetracycline, enabling female mosquitoes to survive and become perhaps more difficult to control. [4]

In a separate experiment, aedes aegypti mosquitoes are infected by the Wolbachia bacteria which competes with viruses like dengue, zika, chikungunya and yellow fever. This makes it harder for those viruses to multiply in the Wolbachia-infected mosquito, and thus, blocks the transmission of those viruses.

The World Health Organisation in 2021 recommenced the RTS,S malaria vaccine. On its website it says the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provided catalytic funding for late-stage development of RTS,S between 2001 and 2015.

Oxford University — which gave us the since-restricted Astrazeneca coof shot — has developed a malaria vaccine, called R21. University of Maryland has also produced a three-dose malaria shot.

BioNTech began human trials last year for the first vaccine for malaria based on mRNA technology. George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health is also working on an mRNA malaria shot. [5]

Unintended consequences

There have been numerous examples in which attempts to control “pests” on the grounds of science, commerce or environmental protection have gone wrong.

There is the question of unintended consequences, directly from the mutation of mosquitos and the unknowable result of disturbing the balance of Nature.

There was the attempt to reduce the wild rabbit population by infecting them with myxomatosis after rabbits had been purposefully introduced by the Romans in Britain and the British in Australia.

Species have been introduced as predators to control a local population, only to see the “invaders” take over and create their own problem. Possum are a notorious issue in the Americas and Australasia, having been introduced for the fur trade.

Finally hybridization can lead to extinction when species that are considered to be genetically distinct, and unable to interbreed, are moved to a new region where they find species with which they can breed and produce fertile young.

This was the case with the cypress Leylandii, a hybrid whose rapid growth makes it the source of endless disputes between British neighbours. Other species introduced as ornamental have gone wild, such as lantana camara destroying grasslands around the world and the common starling in North America.

Nay,
I’ll have a starling shall be taught to speak
Nothing but ‘Mortimer,’ and give it him
To keep his anger still in motion.

— Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 1

The socialite Eugene Schieffelin decided to populate Central Park, in New York City, with all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare’s works. Most of them died out, but the starlings flourished, becoming invasive and destructive across the continent.

While a true story, Schieffelin was not the only one to blame. [6]

The Acclimatization Movement

As with the eugenics movement, the powers that be are rather shy about their social engineering projects.

We know about the transportation of children from Britain, especially those born out of wedlock, to Canada and Australia. The author’s own uncle by marriage was a Barnardo Boy in Ontario. You can read about them here.

While governments periodically apologise for the treatment of these children from the 19^th century to as recently as the late 20th — some of whom worked in slave conditions on farms — what gets less attention is that this was no isolated policy to empty unaccompanied children from overcrowded orphanages.

It was part of the Acclimatization movement, which began in France and was adopted in Britain, Acclimatization being the “paradigmatic colonial science with applications as diverse as agriculture, settlement schemes, field sports, and human health.”