Posted on 01/13/2022 1:42:29 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Kazakhstan: new “Pandora’s box” for RF
US-Kazakh partnership
The US-Kazakh partnership in this field dates back to 2003. Kazakhstan has been an interesting “hotspot” for infectious disease occurrence and surveillance in part because of its history, geography and its diversity of host species. Kazakhstan has maintained infrastructure and a tiered network for infectious disease surveillance since the time of the czars.
The US-funded research projects centered on studies involving select agents including zoonoses: anthrax, plague, tularemia, highly pathogenic avian influenza, brucellosis, etc. These projects funded researchers in Kazakhstan, while project collaborators in the US and UK mentored and guided these researchers to develop and test their hypotheses.
The unassumingly named Central Reference Laboratory (CRL) in Almaty figuring in the Tass report was originally planned in 2013, with the US investing US$102 million in a biosecurity lab to study some of the most deadly pathogens that could potentially be used in bioterrorism attacks.
Rather than locating the new facility in some obscure tract of land in Nevada, the Pentagon deliberately chose a site near Almaty to store securely and study the highest-risk diseases such as plague, anthrax and cholera.
The rationale was that the lab would provide gainful employment to talented Kazakh researchers and get them off the streets, so to speak – that is, discourage them from selling their scientific expertise and services to terrorist groups who may have use for biological weapons.
But the CRL, now operational, is anchored on institutional cooperation between the Kazakh government and the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency under the Pentagon, which is tasked with protecting “US national security interests in a rapidly evolving, globalized threat environment to enable a greater understanding of our adversaries and provide solutions to WMD [weapons of mass destruction] threats in an era of great-power competition.”
Many nations have prepared for chemical warfare for decades.
Why Kazakhstan?
By the way, Germany also has a similar arrangement under the rubric German-Kazakh Network for Biosafety and Biosecurity, which is co-managed by the Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology (a military research facility of the German armed forces for medical biological defense).
Why is Kazakhstan a sought-after partner? Simply put, the country provides unique access to ethnic Russian and Chinese groups as “specimens” for conducting field research involving highly pathogenic potential biological-warfare agents. Kazakhstan has 13,364 kilometers of borders with its neighboring countries Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
Is China indifferent to all this? Far from it. Beijing Review featured a report sourced from BBC Monitoring in 2020 conveying China’s concerns in the matter. As recently as in November last year, a Russian commentator in Astute News wrote that these bio-labs are virtual Pentagon bases and demanded an international inquiry.
He highlighted that the Kazakh Ministry of Education and Science “now works mainly on Pentagon research programs.”
How could Kazakhstan, a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), have gotten away with such conduct? This needs some explaining.
Paradoxically, these biological labs are living examples of something sinister that has been going on that everyone knew and no one wanted to talk about – namely, the extensive penetration of the decadent Kazakh ruling elites by US intelligence.
This penetration has been going on for years, but significantly deepened as the 81-year-old former president Nursultan Nazarbayev’s “hands-on” leadership began to loosen and his family members and cronies increasingly began moonlighting (under the patriarch’s benevolent gaze, of course) – something akin to the Boris Yeltsin years in Russia.
Sadly, it is a familiar story. The Kazakh elites are notoriously corrupt even by Central Asian standards and have preferred to keep their loot in safe havens in the Western world. Unsurprisingly, they are hopelessly compromised to US intelligence. It’s as simple as that.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev walk along a Caspian Sea embankment while participating in the Fifth Caspian Summit in Aktau, Kazakhstan. Photo: Sputnik/Aleksey Nikolskyi
Russian President Vladimir Putin and then-Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev walk along a Caspian Sea embankment while participating in the Fifth Caspian Summit in Aktau, Kazakhstan. Photo: Sputnik / Aleksey Nikolskyi
Moscow watching closely
Most certainly, Moscow sensed that popular disaffection was building up and the ground beneath the feet of Nazarbayev, a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was shifting.
But it did not – or more likely, would not – interfere, since the US was operating through powerful comprador elements who happened to be the aging patriarch’s family members and associates.
Given the clan affiliations in that part of the world, Moscow probably felt it prudent to keep its counsel to itself. An added factor would have been the fear that the US might manipulate the ultra-nationalist forces (as happened in Ukraine) to inflict harm on the vulnerable 3.5 million strong ethnic-Russian minority (18% of the population).
Above all, the fact of the matter is that Nazarbayev cronies held the levers of state power, especially over its security apparatus, which gave Washington a decisive edge.
But things have dramatically changed this past week. Nazarbayev may still have some residual influence, but not good enough to rescue the elite who subserved US interests. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, a low-profile career diplomat by profession, is finally coming into his own.
Two of Tokayev’s decisive moves have been the replacement of Nazarbayev as the head of the National Security Council and the dismissal of the country’s powerful intelligence chief Karim Masimov (who has since been arrested along with other unidentified suspects as part of a probe into “high treason.”)
Indeed, Washington has much to worry about because, at the end of the day, Kazakhstan remains unfinished business unless and until a color revolution can bring about regime change and install a pro-West ruler, as in Ukraine. The current turbulence signified an abortive attempt at color revolution, which boomeranged.
Unlike in Afghanistan, the US Central Intelligence Agency and Pentagon are not in a position to “evacuate” their collaborators. And the torrential flow of events has shocked the Washington establishment.
Kazakhstan is a large country (two-thirds the size of India) and sparsely populated (18 million), and the CSTO forces who moved in are well equipped and led by a tough seasoned general who crushed the insurgency in Chechnya.
The Russian forces have taken with them an advanced Leer-3 electronic warfare system, which includes specially configured Orlan-10 drones, jamming devices and so forth. Borders have been sealed.
The mandate for the Russian forces is to protect “strategic assets.” Presumably, such assets include the Pentagon-funded labs in Kazakhstan.
https://informnapalm.org/cz/kazachstan-nova-pandorina-skrinka-pro-rf/?fbclid=IwAR3LoufYmufPNpwAIy4_tY2h2ZJ1dNIvhLp4M8L3jQaH7IdfEnWr7pk4c1Y
Kazakhstan becomes toxic graveyard for US diplomacy
As political winds shift, a US-funded biosecurity lab in Almaty could become a major embarrassment for Washington
https://asiatimes.com/2022/01/kazakhstan-becomes-toxic-graveyard-for-us-diplomacy/?fbclid=IwAR07Tg5yAo1Wj_0GFAB3J7OMafdIWTYoRCC2JpXw3XbhYekGxt8PUB_KSJQ
MK Bhadrakumar - former Indian diplomat.January 12, 2022
The Kazakh Ministry of Health has issued an innocuous disclaimer, denying social media reports about the seizure of a “military biological lab near Almaty by unidentified people.”
According to Russia’s Tass news agency, social media had speculated that specialists in chemical protection suits were working near the lab as “a leak of dangerous pathogens” occurred.
The carefully worded press release by the Kazakh ministry clarifies: “This is not true. The facility is being protected.” Period.
The intriguing report highlights the tip of an iceberg that has implications for public health and holds serious geopolitical ramifications.
Since the late 1990s, when it came to be known that the US was steadily establishing and building up partnerships in biological research with several ex-Soviet republics, Moscow has repeatedly alleged that such cooperation posed a threat to Russia.
These biological research facilities were originally envisaged as part of the so-called Nunn-Lugar Biological Threat Reduction Program to prevent the proliferation of expertise, materials, equipment and technologies that could contribute to the development of biological weapons.
But Moscow suspected that the exact opposite was happening – that in reality, the Pentagon has been sponsoring, lavishly financing and providing technical assistance to these laboratories where “under the guise of peaceful research, the US is building up its military biological potential.”
In a sensational statement in October 2018, Major-General Igor Kirillov, the commander of Russia’s Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops, went to the extent of disclosing a discernible pattern of the network of Pentagon labs being located near the borders of Russia and China. [EXCERPT]
ALSO, labs around the world including Almaty,Kazakhstan where Putin’s army just visited
Before President Trump was elected, he was given a stern warning that wrist slapping perfidious bureaucrats is not enough, nor can ever be enough. So many of these people have committed so many criminal acts without any threat of consequences that they are now willing to run amok based on their perverse whims.
Seriously, assuming President Trump is reelected, he needs a special prosecutor with a huge staff to send hundreds, or a thousand or more, of these people to federal prisons with all due haste. Not limited to just one Department or Agency, these crimes have been going on for decades with impunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte was the first national leader to establish a court solely for misbehaving bureaucrats, in which any citizen could lay charges. While that is too broad for the United States today, there should be much greater standing to indict corrupt officials by organizations who seek to protect our constitution and laws.
Hundreds or thousands of corrupt current and former federal employees in prison.
Means about as much as senate hearings.
I can understand. Yes, it’s hard to believe how evil they have become. They are under the influence of pure evil. They are in a trance.
That's why we see officials from the DOJ, FBI and others being heatedly questioned by various oversight committees and not feeling in the least any compunction to provide answers to those questions. . .essentially only saying, "Senator, thank you for that question. . now go F yourself."
The scary thought is where, then, do they surmise is the source of this new unchecked power? The answer is, probably, their bigger guns and more ammo. . .and certainly not the authority granted to them by THE PEOPLE.
Hmm. No democrats. Huh?
AGREE
Peter Dazak is buddies with Fauci.
If Dazak sent his “Bat Cave from Hell” proposal to DARPA, you know he sent the same proposal to Fauci.
Where is the NIAID rejection letter to Peter Dazak, Fauci?
Saving the blistering for closer to the election.
That’ll do it...the dreaded, scathing letter.
they are protected and will release nothing. We all know what happened and that’s why they need to silence or get rid of us in any way they can
They also need to end the Biden injection mandates, all of them.
Propaganda...the reason Kazachstan was ideal is NOT because it offers “Chinese and Russian test subjects.” That is absolute crap. The reason it was chosen is because the Russians already got caught in that area violating the bioweapons treaty when they had an accidental release. The diseases being studied are precisely those pathogens Russian defector Ken Alibek revealed were being studied for weaponization by Russia in its republics before the USSR collapsed, and when it collapsed material was unaccounted for due to smuggling, etc.. The reason former Soviet scientists needed something useful to do was to provide them with an alternative to selling to smugglers or working for Qadaffi like Iraqi nuclear scientist Obeidi did, or working for Norms or Iran.
Norks
Hey moderators I have a question.
Vanity Fair has a new and good article out on the origins of COVID. However when I tried to post it said V.F. Does not allow its material to be used here.
Can you explain why? Can I just copy and paste the entire article without giving a link?
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