14 Years of Censored News Coverage

14 Years of Censored News Coverage Denies Americans Context to Understand ISIL Attacks

 
January 4, 2016

Fourteen years ago, after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the United States 'government' initiated its “war on terror,” with the invasions of Afghanistan in 2001, which expanded into Pakistan and of Iraq in 2003. The conventional methodology of American politics emphasizes American financial, strategic, and human costs..

Since then, the corporate media has occasionally acknowledged the 6,800 American soldiers and the 7,000 contractors who died in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, corporate media and the American 'government' have consistently ignored Iraqi and Afghani deaths, which exceed one million. Without acknowledging this modern “reign of terror,” the western public has no context to understand the current attacks lead by the Islamic State in Syria and Levant (ISIL).

Civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan are about ten times greater than the number the British-based Iraq Body Count (IBC) reports. IBC statistics are not reliable because they are chiefly collected from media reports written in English. Considering the majority of Iraqi media sources are written in Arabic, IBC coverage excludes a high percentage of civilian deaths. The US corporate media, including CNN and Fox News, relies on IBC numbers.

A study authored by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, along with the Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Physicians for Global Survival, “conservatively estimates that at least 1.3 million people have been killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan from direct and indirect consequences of the U.S. ‘war on terrorism’,” wrote Al Jazeera’s Lauren Carasik.

Moreover, over one million lives were lost in Iraq alone, about 5 percent of the country’s population. The report also describes the three million “internally displaced” Iraqis and approximately 2.5 million Afghan refugees living in Pakistan.

GENOCIDE committed by the U.S.A. criminal government

The under-reporting of the human toll of the US “war on terror” has led to an uninformed American public. A poll conducted in 2007 discovered that Americans estimate the Iraqi death toll at 10,000. A 2011 poll from researchers at the University of Maryland found that 38 percent of Americans still believe that the US received strong confirmation that Saddam Hussein was working closely with Al-Qaeda, which is blatantly false. This is relevant because taxpayers believe that the wars that the government used billions of their dollars for were successful. (YES - 'successful' in committing genocide and allowing the cabal to steal assets from the people they murdered and maimed in the nations invaded.)

Almost fourteen years after the initial invasion of Afghanistan, neither the US 'government' nor corporate media supply statistics on casualties and deaths among enemy combatants and civilians. At the end of 2014, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan reported that the year 2014 saw the highest rate of civilian deaths and injuries in the five years the organization has kept statistics. Furthermore, Iraq is facing a public health crisis due to chemical and incendiary weapons, depleted uranium, and burn pits. A correlation between the use of weapons and the rates of disease in Iraq indicates unmatched spikes in birth defects, infant mortality, and pediatric cancer.  (The U.S.A. cabal, operating with like buddies at the helm of many nations worldwide, should be arrested and executed for their crimes against humanity.  WHY is this NOT BEING DONE?) 

Dr. Chris Busby, a chemist from the University of Ulster, said the studies in Iraq revealed “the highest rate of genetic damage in any population ever studied.” Furthermore, a report by health experts from the US, Canada, and Iraq exposed that 500,000 Iraqi deaths were from indirect causes of war, such as failures of health, sanitation, transportation, communication and other systems which continue to impact the population today. 

The million or so casualties of war are crucial to understanding the rise of ISIL, which took root as American forces withdrew from an unstable Iraq in 2011. The US invasion of and subsequent partial retreat from Iraq has stimulated violent sectarian conflicts that have escalated within the past few months.

An expert on the Middle East, former CIA officer Graham Fuller stated that “the United States is one of the key creators of [ISIL]” even though the US did not plan its formation. The starting point of this organization was to protest the US invasion of Iraq. Back then it was supported by many non-Islamist Sunnis as well because of their opposition to Iraq’s occupation. Even today, ISIL is supported by many Sunnis who feel isolated by the Shiite government in Baghdad, a government that the United States put into power.

The corporate media continues to document the violent actions of ISIL, disregarding the innocent hundreds of thousands in Iraq and Syria who have died or continue to live in terror.  Corporate media continues to censor over a million civilian casualties because to do so would reveal the brutal policies of the United States and its allies in Iraq, Yemen, Syria, and Afghanistan.

http://www.projectcensored.org/14-years-of-censored-news-coverage-denies-americans-context-to-understand-isil-attacks/

U.S.A. corporate thugs in Wash DC and worldwide CONTINUE to get away with their criminal acts - and Americans continue to ALLOW THIS?  Watch the super bowl and sex act commercials while the thugs in DC laugh at their success in brain washing all America into a stupor and semiconsciousness. 

Nibiru Prepper Gives You Your Sign

Published on Jan 31, 2016

 

THE BIG GLOBAL WARMING 'GOVERNMENT' HOAX

NIBIRU-PLANET X-ELENIN...

 THE BIG GLOBAL WARMING 'GOVERNMENT' HOAX

NIBIRU-PLANET X-ELENIN...THE BIG GLOBAL WARMING GOVERNMENT HOAX by John Moore
http://thelibertyman.com/

"Again, its part of a four part plan to socially and mentally condition us to believe and accept the blame, whilst at the same time to line the globalist's already bursting pockets with carbon tax revenues, along with luring us into a false sense of security, in that we'll acquiesce to the "Everything's going to be OK" philosophy...."The chief's have got the rescue plan."

The TRUTH is... they can't give us the real reason because, if they did, mass panic would ensue and chaos would rule....and that, my friends, just isn't good for business is it?  Well certainly not if you're a globalist banker or Wall Street mover and shaker trying to create a New World Order....They need us to still get up in the morning and toddle along to work every day, the business owner to stay open, baseball to be played, and mainstream news to continue to do what they do best - to spew out the hours of insignificant, cascaded and heavily censored sheep food directly to a TV near you.

The presentation is given by a ex high level military intelligence agent who maintained contacts in all the right places.  His research extends to over 25 years and makes for compelling viewing in this disclosure."

Clinton's Server “Put Lives at Risk”

The FBI is Closing in on Hillary Clinton as News Breaks that Her Server  “Put Lives at Risk”!

Tuesday, February 9, 2016 6:48

(Before It's News)

by Onan Coca


Over the last few days the Clinton email scandal has grown uglier and more dangerous, not just for the Obama administration, but for the United States as well.

Last week, we learned that Clinton had left deeply secret information unprotected, perhaps even endangering the lives of American operatives. Now, we’ve discovered that at least 22 of Clinton’s emails were so secret that the State Department still can’t release them (even the redacted versions are still too classified for general consumption)!

However, the scandal may soon be spreading even further as the latest revelations implicate Secretary of State John Kerry in similar lawlessness and prove that  Obama has been lying to us for years!

Let’s start with Obama’s lie about Hillary’s private email server. Remember when he said this:   

REVEALED: OBAMA EMAILED HILLARY 18 TIMES! 

FLASHBACK: CLAIMED HE LEARNED FROM MEDIA 

So, he didn’t know huh?  That’s interesting because the latest data dump proves that the president and secretary Clinton had emailed each other on at least 18 separate occasions. The White House does not deny that the correspondence took place, but they are also arguing that Obama had no idea that the server being used was of private origin (despite the obviously non-governmental email address). The White House is also implying (though not guaranteeing) that these 18 instances are the only times that the two had any email contact.

“Of the 55,000 pages of traffic that was handed over by former Secretary Clinton to us for us to go through for release through FOIA, we have found these 18, and I do not expect that there will be more,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said late last week.

ObamaLiar2   At the same time that we were learning that the president may have lied (??) about when he learned that Clinton had been using a private server, we were also made aware of the latest blow to Hillary Clinton’s credibility. While the Clinton campaign still claims (contrary to the copious evidence that continues to build) that she never sent or received any classified material on her private server, the State Department now says that at least 22 emails from that server CANNOT be released to the public. Why? Because these 22 emails “contained highly classified information” that even when redacted were too sensitive to reveal to the world.

Mr. McCullough wrote that “several dozen emails” contained classified information, including some now determined to contain information at the “top secret/ S.A.P.” level. That designation refers to “special access programs,” which are among the 'government’s' most closely guarded secrets.

The Clinton campaign (and the State Department) argue that these emails did not contain classified “markings” when they travelled across the Clinton servers, but as MANY experts have already argued, the markings make NO DIFFERENCE.

CBS News: According To Intelligence Officials
It Doesn't Matter If Material Is Stamped Classified

However, it’s isn’t just Clinton and Obama who have been revealed as untrustworthy in the latest round of email disclosures. John Kerry has also been unmasked as a fellow lawbreaker.

Emails released by the State Department on Friday show that in 2011, then-Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry sent then-Sec. of State Hillary Clinton an email from his iPad that has been deemed to contain information classified as “Secret."  You can see the email exchange here thanks to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that is revealing the criminal activities of our political leaders.

According to the latest count from those keeping tabs, thus far 1583 of the emails that traversed the unsecure Clinton email server were classified in some measure, including the 22 that the State Department revealed on Friday to be of the highest level (“Top Secret”) of classification. That’s a lot of classified information.

As if all of these latest revelations were not damning enough, on Monday Fox News began reporting that sources within the intelligence community were also confirming that Clinton’s illegal server had “put lives at risk."

From Jeff Dunetz at Lidblog:  Fox News’ Catherine Herridge who has been at the forefront of exposing the severity of the security risks from Hillary Clinton’s use of a private non-secure server while secretary of state, has done it again.  Herridge is now reporting that those emails deemed to damaging to release even on a redacted basis, which she revealed on Friday, “contain ‘operational intelligence’ – and their presence on the unsecure, personal email system jeopardized “sources, methods and lives,” a U.S. government official who has reviewed the documents told Fox News."

The official could not discuss the specific contents of the emails but confirmed the description given to Herridge referred to the 22 top secret emails that the State Department announced Friday could not be released in any form, even with entire sections cut out.

The U.S. 'government' official’s description provides confirmation that the emails contained closely held government secrets. “Operational intelligence” can be real-time information about intelligence collection, sources and the movement of assets.
 
The official emphasized that the “TOP SECRET” documents were sent over an extended period of time — from shortly after the server’s 2009 installation until early 2013 when Clinton stepped down as secretary of state.

Other news outlets have now confirmed Fox News’ reporting but they’ve also added their own devastating twists to the findings. As John Schindler at the Observer writes (emphasis mine):

I can confirm that the FoxNews report, which lacks any specifics about exactly what was compromised, is accurate. And what was actually in those Top Secret emails found on Hillary’s “unclassified” personal bathroom server was colossally damaging to our national security and has put lives at risk.

Discussions with Intelligence Community officials have revealed that Ms. Clinton’s “unclassified” emails included Holy Grail items of American espionage such as the true names of Central Intelligence Agency intelligence officers serving overseas under cover. Worse, some of those exposed are serving under non-official cover. NOCs (see this for an explanation of their important role in espionage) are the pointy end of the CIA spear and they are always at risk of exposure – which is what Ms. Clinton’s emails have done.

Not only have these spies had their lives put in serious risk by this, it’s a clear violation of Federal law.  This is HUGE.

The entire scandal has been a monstrous example of the disgusting corruption within the Obama administration, but this latest story is the most disturbing revelation yet. People have gone to prison for FAR LESS, and it’s time that Hillary Clinton and her aides joined them there. 

The rumors are that the FBI desperately wants to prosecute Hillary Clinton and her closest aide, Huma Abedin. The question is, will it happen? Given the Obama administration’s bent towards lawlessness, I have my doubts.


http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2016/02/the-fbi-is-closing-in-on-hillary-clinton-as-news-breaks-that-her-server-put-lives-at-risk-3102192.html

Women Who Won’t Support Hillary

Feminists Shame Women Who  Won’t Support Hillary

02/07/2016  /  By shawn


As recently as the last Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton was still suggesting that her gender alone is a viable reason for voters to support her presidential ambitions. Snapping back against claims that she is the establishment candidate, Clinton said she could hardly imagine anything less establishment than being the first female president of the United States.  But if Clinton joined the race believing that American women would rally around this historic opportunity, she was sorely mistaken. Among Democratic and independent female voters under 34, she is losing to Bernie Sanders by 20 points.

That fact led to a couple of sour incidents this weekend when two famous feminists tried to shame millennial women for not getting on board. One salvo came from former secretary of state Madeline Albright, who introduced Clinton at a New Hampshire rally on Saturday. “We can tell our story of how we climbed the ladder, and a lot of you younger women think it’s done. It’s not done,” Albright said. “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other!” (Let's send this crowd there first class trip!) 

Worse yet, feminist leader Gloria Steinem appeared on Bill Maher’s HBO talk show on Friday night and made a rather shocking statement about why young women were going to Sanders. “When you’re young,” she said, “you’re thinking, ‘Where are the boys?’ The boys are with Bernie.”  Maher was taken aback by the comment, telling Steinem that if he’d said something like that, she would have been the first one to criticize it. Steinem waved off the suggestion and stood by her statement.

Assuming these comments have any effect at all, they will almost certainly not draw millennial women over to the Clinton camp. These women already lashed out at DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who suggested two weeks ago that young females were getting “complacent” about abortion rights. If today’s feminists can’t even take that kind of weak criticism, they’re unlikely to sit by and be told that they are only supporting Bernie Sanders to fill out their date cards.

Truth is, it’s hard to think of anything less empowering for women than to suggest that they somehow owe it to the feminist movement to vote for Hillary Clinton. Do you think any of these feminists would have said anything of the kind about Carly Fiorina? Of course not.

You have to support a woman, but only a specific kind of woman with a specific set of political beliefs. Kind of like how black leaders have been utterly silent about Dr. Ben Carson.

If Clinton is to the point where she’s going to guilt-trip women into voting for her, she might be in more trouble than even the polls indicate.

http://totalconservative.com/feminists-shame-women-who-wont-support-hillary/ 

 

Immigration Laws Aren’t Being Enforced

Border Agent: Immigration Laws Aren’t Being Enforced

 

02/05/2016  By shawn 

 
The president of the National Border Patrol Council testified Thursday before the immigration subcommittee of the House Judiciary, claiming that the Obama administration’s approach to enforcing border security was in serious need of reform.

“Immigration laws today appear to be mere suggestions,” Agent Brandon Judd said at the hearing. “There are little or no consequences for breaking the laws and that fact is well known in other countries.  If government agencies like DHS or CBP are allowed to bypass Congress by legislating through policy, we might as well abolish our immigration laws altogether."

Judd told House representatives that under recent changes made by the Department of Homeland Security, illegal immigrants were no longer being deported in an efficient manner. In fact, he said, many of them weren’t even being tracked by federal authorities. As long as the immigrants meet two criteria: no felony convictions and a claim to have been in the U.S. since January of 2014, border agents were being instructed to release them back into the wild.

“The operative word in this policy is ‘claim,’” Judd said. “The policy does not require the person to prove they have been here which is the same burden placed on them during deportation proceedings. Instead, it simply requires them to claim to have been here since January of 2014."

In other words, Obama’s version of immigration enforcement comes down to theater and nothing more. He’s stretched prosecutorial discretion beyond the breaking point, he’s defied a federal judge’s orders to put a stop to his amnesty declaration, and he has presided over a systematic weakening of our border security.  

Despite being faced with a steady stream of unaccompanied minors for the last two years, Obama has actually cut away many of the resources Border Patrol agents need to secure the United States. When this president was sworn into office, he promised to faithfully execute the laws of the U.S. Not only has he failed to live up to that vow, he has used the majority of his presidency in an ongoing attempt to thwart the laws of the U.S. If we were talking about minor infractions of political procedure, that would be one thing, but we’re talking about the security of this nation. We’re talking about a demographic shift that could forever change the meaning of American culture. We’re talking about chipping away at our own sovereignty. The stakes couldn’t be higher, and here’s hoping that Americans won’t forget that as we move closer to picking our next president. 

http://totalconservative.com/border-agent-immigration-laws-arent-being-enforced/
 

OK AMERICA - WHAT IS OUR MESSAGE BACK ??

LaVoy Finicum: The FBI’s Drop Gun

FBI sends message to patriots and constitutionalists

Infowars.com - February 3, 2016

 

 

The spokesman for the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon was shot nine times by the FBI.

 

 Lavoy Finnicum Was Shot 9 Times by The FBI!!

 

Published on Feb 3, 2016

Lavoy Finnicum autopsy reveals he was shot 9 times by the FBI & they may have planted a stolen firearm on him according to the serial number on the gun.

 

It should be no surprise the FBI would shoot an unarmed man nine times.This is often their modus operandi, especially with individuals the national police state agency considers political enemies—and the band of constitutionalists at Malheur, no matter how misdirected or naive, were certainly considered enemies of the state.

Now it comes out that the gun the FBI said they retrieved from Finicum’s body—a body so bullet-riddled it necessitated a closed coffin—was in fact stolen.

The Pacific Patriots Network did a search of the weapon’s serial number and discovered it was stolen, although this crucial fact is not being reported by an establishment media that has consistently portrayed Finicum and the other activists at the refuge as 'dangerous terrorists'.

The over the top murder of Finicum and a subsequent video released by the FBI are intended to send a message to the patriot movement and constitutionalists.

The message: if you go up against the 'federal government', if you question its dictatorial and unconstitutional policies and if you actively resist or engage in behavior to draw attention to its pathological criminality, you will be executed, particularly if you provide the FBI with an opportunity, as Finicum did when he traveled to a meeting UNARMED to resolve the standoff.

http://www.infowars.com/newsletter-content/

 

OK AMERICA - WHAT IS OUR MESSAGE BACK TO THESE CRIMINALS AND MURDERERS - MERCENARIES AND TRAITORS?

Warns of Martial Law, Cashless Society

Top Libertarian Warns of Martial Law, Cashless Society

What the media's not telling you

Kit Daniels | Infowars.com - February 8, 2016

 

 

In this interview with Infowars’ Kit Daniels, world-renowned libertarian Lew Rockwell breaks down how the Senate is granting President Obama “martial law” powers and how the megabanks are pushing for a cashless society that’s easier for them to tax and control.
 

 

Published on Feb 8, 2016

In this interview with Infowars' Kit Daniels, world-renowned libertarian Lew Rockwell breaks down how the Senate is granting President Obama "martial law" powers and how the megabanks are pushing for a cashless society that's easier for them to tax and control.

http://www.infowars.com/newsletter-content/

Americans Express Support When Told Russia Has Been NUKED

Zombie Americans Don’t Care - Express Support When Told Russia Has Been NUKED

Steve Watson | Infowars.com - February 8, 2016

 

 

Activist prankster Mark Dice received some astounding reactions when he hit the streets of San Diego to inform people that Obama had nuked Russia.

 

 

Dice fooled people into believing that a pre-emptive nuclear strike had been carried out as a way of “sending a message to Putin to stop causing problems with the international community."

“I’m not into politics but in my opinion I think he makes better decisions than I do, so it’s really his choice,” said one brain dead respondent, actually believing that Obama had vaporized thousands of innocent Russians in Moscow, and that it was a sound idea.

“It”s not only [Obama] making the decisions, it’s every one there with him, so if they thought it was a good idea, they had to have reasons,” the guy told Dice in a response completely devoid of any logic.

“I feel like they are able to do whatever they wish,” the guy added in a truly frightening response, saying “He’s technically the president."

The guy admitted he didn’t really care about nuclear war while stumbling across a final opinion of “I think nuclear in general is bad,” prompting Dice to dismiss him as a “zombie”.

“I don’t know enough about the subject to give an opinion,” another respondent admitted before suggesting “I’m sure it’s a difficult subject to weigh an opinion on without knowing."

Yes, because nuking one of the world’s only other superpowers just to send a message is certainly a difficult subject to make up your mind on these days.
Surely we’re all torn on this one.

“We’ve gotten ourselves involved in several conflicts and sometimes the end result isn’t something we’d wished for…” the woman added.

Dice dead panned “Yes, a nuclear war.”

http://www.infowars.com/video-zombie-americans-dont-care-express-support-when-told-russia-has-been-nuked/

  

The 'government' owns your clone!

Meet your Strawman!

The 'government' owns your clone!

Look at what our 'government' employees make!

Look at what our 

'government' employees make!

 

THE VACCINATION SCAM IN ALL ITS HORROR.

Nothing but the truth here.

Our Elite Rulers Spread Zika. Rockefellers are Culprits

Thanks, Margaret. Everyone who cares about themselves and about others 

needs to expose this flagrant creation and release of the Zika virus by our 

diabolical elite rulers. When enough people find out this appalling truth, 

then they will refuse the forced vaccinations that have been widely reported 

as having been designed to kill populations. If too few of us awaken others, 

do you realize that it will spell our own demise, because then the dumbed 

down cops and military will obey their orders to kick in our doors, disable us, 

and force vaccinate us unto death. This is not hyperbole. This is the law that 

is being imposed now. As these ruling elite have us misled and divided by 

fearing the fake threat of Muslims and Sharia law, the deceived population 

is slitting their own throats by unwittingly allowing the real enemy to 

exterminate us by way of deception instilled in the populace.        John

----- Original Message -----

From: James Geiss 

Date: Monday, February 8, 2016 8:16 am

Subject: 8 Feb 16, zika on sale for $516

To: John Dinardo , "charlesgh

(NaturalNews.com) Over the last several days, the alternative media has 

revealed astonishing details about the true history of the Zika virus.

With many outstanding articles already published, such as this one by 

GlobalResearch.ca, Natural News set out to investigate Zika virus origins 

and availability more deeply.

We've now been able to confirm three astonishing facts about Zika virus 

(h/t to others in alt. media who initiated this line of investigation):

1) YES, Zika virus traces its origins back to the Rockefeller Foundation. 

2) YES, Zika virus can be purchased online. We were able to find two 

suppliers who offer three different strains of the virus to qualified level-2 

biohazard laboratories.

3) It appears to be conceivable that a bioterrorist organization could set 

up a level-2 biohazard lab and use it to acquire Zika virus in a deliberate 

attempt to use it as a weapon against humanity. There do not appear to 

be adequate safeguards in the industry to prevent this from happening.

Zika virus origins: Rockefeller Foundation and Dr. Jordi Casals

Some of the alt. media have misreported the Zika virus as being "patented" 

by the Rockefeller Foundation. We have not been able to find any patent 

on the virus, but we have found numerous references to the virus being 

"isolated" by Dr. Jordi Casals who worked for the Rockefeller Foundation.

-------------------------------------------------

  JD: I interject this report from Mark, a former "Special Operations" 

  soldier during the Persian Gulf War [sent to me on facebook]: 

  "

     ‎Marcellius E Xavier‎ to John DiNardo

     February 4 at 12:00pm · 

     John it's Mark in Georgia, this Zika Virus is epidemic in South Florida now 

     four counties... John, this ZIKA VIRUS is a WEAPONIZED DENGUE FEVER 

     VIRUS... A C.D.C. Service Officer, refuses to give me the GENOMIC 

     CHARACTERIZATION of the ORGANISM... Like, ECOLI 357 as example? 

     And this proves its Man-Made to make Babies come out with Microcephaly 

     or Complacent Brain Damaged Babies... To handicap the next Generation 

     so they can not Resist the New World Disorder... Call C.D.C. To get 

     Genomic Characteristics and watch them refuse you... And they will, 

     since I asked them to come out with something that makes no sense? 

     I have a molecular biologist friend here who will figure this out as soon 

    as I get my demand answered... What is the Genomic Characterization 

    of ZIKA VIRUS, and it's really DENGUE FEVER, Weaponized to damage 

    babies Brains...

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According to this NYT article, Dr. Casals died in 2004 at the age of 92. He was also the discoverer of the Lassa Virus and was nearly killed by it in 1969.

As the NYT reports:

Jordi Casals-Ariet was born in Viladrau, Girona, in Spain on May 15, 1911. He served with the Spanish Army before earning his medical degree from the University of Barcelona in 1934. After interning there, Dr. Casals moved to Manhattan and worked at Cornell University Medical College from 1936 to 1938, when he joined the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research in Manhattan.

The Rockefeller Foundation, of course, is the same globalist institution that helped destroy alternative medicine while establishing a market monopoly for pharmaceutical-based medications and vaccines.

Purchasing Zika virus online

Natural News confirmed that live Zika virus specimens can be purchased online from at least two science research cell line providers.

ATCC, found at this link, offers a Zika Virus VR-84 strain for $516.

BEI Resources, found at this link, offers three different strains of Zika Virus: Zika virus MR 766, Zika virus IbH 30656 and Zika virus DAK AR 41542.

See screen shots here:

Both ATCC and BEI are currently sold out of Zika virus inventory. "Due to the recent high demand, the strain is currently on backorder pending production of a new lot," says ATCC.

BEI states, "This item is currently in production. Please allow ample time for distribution lots to be made available. Quantity limit per order for this item is 1. This item can be ordered twice a year. Orders over this limit will be sent to NIAID for approval before shipment."

Are restrictions on sale of Zika virus adequate?

Both ATCC and BEI limit their sales to level-2 biohazard labs, but beyond that, there seem to be no limitations on who can purchase Zika virus samples. Because I run a forensic food science lab, I'm very much aware that laboratories are able to purchase some astonishingly dangerous substances over the internet. For example, I can readily purchase something like hexavalent chromium in liquid form, which is an extremely dangerous substance in terms of its chemical toxicity. (My own lab, however, doesn't mess around with infectious  biohazard viruses. That's insanely dangerous and not our area of focus... mostly, we just purchase external standards for heavy metals testing and pesticide analysis...)

As ATCC explains:

Zika virus is classified as a biological safety level (BSL) 2 pathogen. In order to request Zika virus from ATCC, requestors and their institutions must demonstrate they have appropriate facilities and safety programs (in accordance with Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL) guidelines) in place for the level of the material requested. Only qualified researchers and laboratories are eligible to order and receive Zika virus from ATCC.

Aiding in vaccine research? Or inadvertently supporting bioterrorism?

ATCC says that it is providing the Zika virus for the purpose of aiding researchers in the search for a vaccine or other treatments against Zika. This seems like a reasonable explanation to me. Obviously, various labs around the world need to acquire the Zika virus in some way in order to be able to test possible treatments against it. (But they still won't dare test any plant-based medicines for fear that they might work better than vaccines and pharmaceuticals.)

As ATCC says in this press release, "ATCC, the premier global biological materials resource and standards organization, is poised to assist the medical and life science researchers that are working to address the evolving concerns around Zika Virus infection."

In order to achieve this, ATCC is apparently producing a much larger quantity of Zika virus than usual, which is also completely understandable given the current circumstances. "ATCC is now working to respond to the greatly increased demand for the Zika virus in an effort to support a better understanding of its biology and to foster development of accurate and dependable diagnostic tests."

The real question in all this, however, is whether ATCC might inadvertently ship Zika virus to some organization intent on using it to commit bioterrorism. This is actually a much larger question than just Zika. All the dangerous viral pathogens that are available through research supply companies -- Ebola, Lassa, bird flu, etc. -- might conceivably fall into the wrong hands at some point and be used in acts of bioterrorism.

Many in the scientific community, including myself, are very concerned about the ease of availability of these specimens through viral cell line supply houses. What furthers this concern is the new explosion in low-tech, low cost genetic engineering techniques such as CRISPR which theoretically might allow a lone bioterrorist to modify pandemic bacterial strains (or possibly even viral strains at some future date) in order to deliberately release them  into the public space. See New GMO "gene drive" technology could be used to unleash the world's most devastating biological weapon. (See search results for CRISPR on GoodGopher.com.)

While it's crucial to support scientific research, I believe we need a much more serious national discussion about the ease at which some of these viral strains can be acquired.

In fact, it is my contention that we've already witnessed an act of corporate sponsored bioterrorism carried out by the biotech industry against Chipotle, where E.coli was deliberately sprayed onto Chipotle food using a simple handheld nebulizer.

If evil, profit-driven corporations can pull off acts of corporate sabotage using microbes like E.coli, imagine the havoc they could unleash if they wanted to unleash Zika virus in a place like Miami. It's worth noting that we've already seen shocking statements from many scientists about their desire to use genetically engineered viral strains to accomplish global depopulation goals.

We must be cautious as a society. Thanks to rapid advances in science and genetic engineering, the tools of bioterrorism are increasingly readily available to more nefarious corporations (biotech) and terrorist organizations such as ISIS. With something like a weaponized Zika virus, all it takes is one oversight on the part of lab supply companies to place this virus in the hands of some organization that intends to use it to cause widespread death and destruction.

Remember, building a level-2 biohazard lab might cost $10 million or so, but once that's done, acquiring Zika virus from ATCC is only $516.

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