Een
team van wetenschappers verbonden aan Science Policy Forum (in de VS)
luiden de noodklok over een ‘mysterieus’ overheidsprogramma om
virussen te verspreiden met insecten…….

Pentagons
Defense
Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)
voert het programma uit en is niets anders dan, zoals gezegd, de
ontwikkeling van nieuwe biowapens waarmee de VS de oogsten
van haar onwelgevallige landen zou kunnen vernietigen en daarmee een
verandering van regime (‘regime change’) zou kunnen afdwingen zonder
één schot te lossen……. Dat er door dergelijke terreur een enorm aantal mensen zal overlijden, schijnt niemand in het Pentagon te deren………. (zoals gewoonlijk….)

Blijkbaar
is honger tegenwoordig in de VS een geaccepteerd middel om oorlog te
voeren, iets dat uitdrukkelijk als ernstige oorlogsmisdaad is
opgenomen in het Verdrag van Genève…….. Vandaar ook dat de VS
meehelpt aan de genocide die de Saoedische terreurcoalitie uitvoert
op de sjiieten in Jemen, een genocide die niet alleen met
grootschalige bombardementen op o.a. huizenblokken, ziekenhuizen, scholen (en schoolbussen), energiecentrales en waterbedrijven, gepaard gaat, maar ook met blokkades van
de gebieden die de opstandelingen in handen hebben, zodat er maar
mondjesmaat voedsel, water, medicijnen en andere humanitaire
hulpgoederen de hongerende bevolking bereiken…… De VS helpt op zee mee aan de blokkade van door de Houthi’s beheerste gebieden…………….

Honger
die in Jemen wordt aangevuld met een cholera en difterie uitbraak, opgeteld
met de smerige terreur van Saoedi-Arabië heeft dit geleid tot de
genocide die nu wordt uitgevoerd in Jemen…. Ofwel de VS, GB,
Saoedi-Arabië, de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten, Egypte en Marokko
gebruiken naast enorme militaire terreur, honger en ziekte om een
volk uit te roeien………

Terug
naar de genetische manipulatie van insecten: deze insecten kunnen ook
gebruikt worden om virussen onder de bevolking van andere landen te
verspreiden in een tempo dat nooit eerder is gezien…….. Helaas
gaat Tyler Durden daar in zijn artikel dat eerder op Zero Hedge verscheen niet op in…. 

Scientists
Sound Alarm Over Mysterious Gov’t Plan to Spread Viruses Using Bugs

October
5, 2018 at 9:38 pm

Written
by Tyler
Durden

(ZHE Op-ed) — A
team of scientists sound the alarm in a new Science
Policy Forum report about a
mysterious US government program that is developing genetically
modified viruses that would be dispersed into the environment using
insects. The
virus-infected or ‘Frankenstein’ insects are being developed as
countermeasures against potential natural and engineered threats to
the US food supply. The program is operated by the Pentagon’s Defense
Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)
could be viewed as an attempt to develop an entirely new class of
bioweapons that would prompt other nations to seek similar weapons,
they cautioned.

The
researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
and the University of Freiburg both in Germany, and the University of
Montpellier in France suggest DARPA’s program could likely breach
the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament
treaty banning the development, production, and stockpiling of
biological and toxin weapons.

Dubbed
the “Insect Allies” program, DARPA
began modifying insects in 2017, with the plan to produce more
resilient crops to help farmers deal with climate change, drought,
frost, floods, salinity, and disease, said Gizmodo. The technology at
the center of the program is an entirely new method of genetically
modifying crops. Instead of modifying seeds in a lab, farmers would
send swarms of insects into their crops, where the genetically
modified bugs would infect plants with a virus that passes along the
new resilience genes, a process known as horizontal genetic
alteration. Hence the technology’s name—Horizontal Environmental
Genetic Alteration Agents (HEGAA).

For
HEGAA to work, Gizmodo explains
that DARPA labs develop a virus that is inserted into the chromosome
of a target organism. Scientists would use leafhoppers, whiteflies,
and aphids genetically altered in the lab using CRISPR, or a variant
of a gene-editing system, to carry the virus into crops. Each
plant would then be infected by the insect, triggering the intended
effects of protecting crops from natural and or human-made threats.       

However, the lead author of the report, Richard Guy Reeves from the Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, says DARPA’s Insect Allies program is disturbing and an example of dual-use research in which the US government, in addition to aiding farmers’ crops, is also developing a biological weapon.     

Insect Allies is reportedly backed by $27 million of funding. According to Gizmodo, there are four academic research teams currently working on the project, including researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute in New York, Pennsylvania State University, Ohio State University and the University of Texas at Austin. DARPA maintains that “all work is conducted inside closed laboratories, greenhouses, or other secured facilities,” and that the insects have built-in lifespans to limit their spread. By 2020 or 2021, DARPA is planning on testing the virus-infected insects on crops inside greenhouses at undisclosed locations.

Reeves
said the use of insects as a vehicle for genetic modification is a
horrible idea because they cannot be controlled and indicates that
traditional overhead sprays to deliver HEGAAs is the safest bet.
DARPA says insects are the only practical solution, as overhead
spraying of HEGAAs would require increased farming infrastructure —
something that is not available to all farmers.

The
report specifies how there is currently no global regulatory
framework to support this new way of transporting HEGAAs to crops,
which if not supervised correctly, could lead to potential mishaps.

The
scientists of the report interpret DARPA’s insect program as “an
intention to develop a means of delivery of HEGAAs for offensive
purposes,” such as conducting biological warfare.

These
genetically modified bugs could be implanted with a dangerous
plant-killing disease that the Trump adminstration could unleash over
farmland in Venezuela, Syria, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and or even
China, that would decimate the countries’ food supply.

The
introduction of this potentially dangerous technology, the scientists
argue, would usher in an entirely new class of biological,
insect-dispatched weapons that could be considered weapons of mass
destruction. Scientists warn that this technology would spur rival
nations to develop similar insect programs.

In
response to a Gizmodo question, a spokesperson for DARPA said it
welcomes academic dialogue about the Insect Allies program, but
criticizes the conclusion of the report, saying it is “misleading
and peppered with inaccuracies.”

Blake
Bextine, DARPA Program Manager for Insect Allies, rejects many of the
claims made by Reeves.

“DARPA
is not producing biological weapons, and we reject the hypothetical
scenario,” Bextine
told Gizmodo.

“We
accept and agree with concerns about potential dual use of
technology, an issue that comes up with virtually every new powerful
technology. Those concerns are precisely why we structured the Insect
Allies program the way we did, as a transparent, university-led,
fundamental research effort that benefits from the active
participation of regulators and ethicists and proactive communication
to policymakers,” said Bextine.

The
purpose of Insect Allies program, he states, is to prepare for a new
era of emerging threats to US agriculture. Brextine added that DARPA
is evaluating the potential environmental impacts of HEGAAs.

“DARPA
is extraordinarily sensitive to environmental risks and off-target
effects, and has structured the Insect Allies program to identify and
mitigate them,” he
said. “DARPA
has mandated multiple levels of biosafety and biosecurity at each
stage of the program.”

If
DARPA’s program succeeds, they will have developed gain-of-function
treatments that can be delivered to the “right plants” and the
“right tissue,” he said. In other words, DARPA wants precision
guided biological
weapon insects.

Jason
Delborne, an Associate Professor at North Carolina State University,
an expert in genetic engineering, says the concerns seem
“appropriate.”

“The
social, ethical, political, and ecological implications of producing
HEGAAs are significant and worthy of the same level of attention as
exploring the science underpinning the potential
technology,” Delborne
told Gizmodo.

“The
authors argue persuasively that specifying insects as the preferred
delivery mechanism for HEGAAs is poorly justified by visions of
agricultural applications. The
infrastructure and expertise required for spraying agricultural
fields—at least in the U.S. context—is well established, and
this delivery mechanism would offer greater control over the
potential spread of a HEGAA.”

DARPA
could be on the cusp of obtaining a new biological weapon that would
most certainly be used against Venezuela, Syria, Iran, North Korea,
Russia, and or even China, to cripple the countries’ food supply
and lead to a regime change without firing a signal shot — this the
future of warfare.

By Tyler
Durden /
Republished with permission / Zero
Hedge / Report
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