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Karen Special's avatar

I thought this was old news.

I lived on Long Island for over 23 years through the 80’s.

It was rumored even back then that the restricted Plum Island “research” done on animals produced Lyme disease. The locals whispered about the labs and the notorious experiments being performed there. This is just confirmation.

Gina's avatar

Born and raised on Long Island and, it appeared to be common knowledge of the origins of Lyme Disease. The mysterious Plum Island. My father, a construction worker, worked construction projects onsite. He did not really understand all the animals and experiements. The workers were required to go through decontamination type showers. There were also many government contracts awarded to the medical center at NYS Univeristy at Stony Brook to address Lyme Disease treatment. That is where I was treated.

Corrin Strong's avatar

I spent summers in Connecticut near Lyme in the 1960s. We used to fish off Plum Island. If you got too close to the island, alarms would go off and soldiers carrying rifles would show up.

The official story was that they were working on “hoof and mouth disease research“ but nobody believed that. It was pretty much common knowledge that they were working on Germ warfare.

Karen Special's avatar

Yes, I was born and raised there, too. Also went to SUNY Stony Brook for grad school. I guess I thought everyone knew what they were doing on Plum Island. How despicable.

Carl Eric Scott's avatar

It's not official confirmation, and that's the problem. An FDA head here speaks like an ordinary citizen, touting books he's read and such, rather than official documents which he should have in his hand, and, he does not indicate that the Trump administration intends to investigate and provide official confirmation.

Bad sign. 10 months into Trump being firmly in power, and we still don't have resolution of an ABC-level "conspiracy theory" about a past government action like this, nor have promises that this admin is dedicated to our learning the truth. Papers and witnesses must exist. Bad sign for unravelling the far more involved government actions we think happened. If Trump cannot or will not force agencies like DOD and DARPA to issue clear evidence-backed statements on this issue, he can or will do little.

pretty-red, old guy's avatar

You are correct Carl. I read the book Bitten just a month ago and concluded there is NO smoking gun. It was inconclusive and was not able to pin the tail on the damn donkey. Really a shame when you consider all the work Kim Newby did and that both she and her husband contracted Lyme disease and suffered for years.

Resolution of this bio weapon leak needs to be made and a world wide announcement admitting culpability. The book provides significant circumstantial evidence but FULL resolution requires documents and data from PLUM ISLAND research itself.

Karen Special's avatar

Exactly right, Carl. The repubs AND the dems are both complicit. 2 wings of the same bird.

Julie's avatar

Wow. I hadn’t heard it before.

Liberty Liz's avatar

It is old news, verified every which way to Sunday; yet, somehow, people are still clueless, steeped in the g0vt matrix of deception, despite what they witnessed for themselves in the c0vid psy0p and subsequent biotechnological weapon d€ath "injections" -- AND Remdesivir/ventilator premeditated murd€rs (carried out by white coats, and funded by g0vt edicts, bonus incentives for murd€r by "medicine"), and the systematic serial-killing of nursing home patients. It's always the same g0vt entities, using the same satanic globalist playbook, against their own people.

Pamela's avatar

It is old news but not to everyone so it's great that John is posting this! Biolabs, what evil to perpetrate on humanity.....ugh!!

Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

Just one revelation! Now Cuba should own up for the swine flu and China can own up for the bird flu! What needs to be done is all bio labs should be incinerated with all their deadly chemicals and biological before they destroy all life on earth accidentally!

Nnikk's avatar

Honest question: Are we sure CIA wasn't responsible for "Cuba's swine flu"? I don't know much on it, but seem to remember it was part of the wet dream fulfilllment of the Dulles-Helms era fun and games.

Utopian Fool's avatar

You forgot to blame the Russians and the North Koreans for something 🤣 God bless Americans and their limitless self-delusion.

MrBlaat's avatar

That's a load of bull, Cuba was never responsible for the swine flu & China never for the bird flu.

Both of those countries now know that they are under constant bioweapon attack from the US.

You must be a CIA bot for even mentioning this utter crap.

Elizabeth Baxter's avatar

The US government is doing quite well attacking its own citizens.

Liberty Liz's avatar

Well stated. And dead-on accurate.

Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

Twenty years ago a insider told me this. He was right about Lyme disease but lied to me about swine and bird? Are you a bot?

Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

You don't think they have bio labs?

NancyRae's avatar

"...destroy all life on Earth accidentally!"...Or, on purpose...

Hannah's avatar

A sick and dumbed nation is one which asks for a nanny state, one which doesn’t revolt.

Coolas's avatar

Flu is all electromagnetic radiation poisoning - since Volta in the 1800s and then the introduction of commercial radio 1920s/30s (Spanish Flu), SARS, Military Satellites, 5G epicentre in Wuhan, etc. There is nothing to spread, only inject!

Hannah's avatar

Or EMFs make people more susceptible to contagion.

Coolas's avatar

Germ theory is dis-proven, but certainly EMR wears down the immune system over time as does any continuous application of carcinogen, allowing illness to develop.

Cancer, being parasites, nothing more, present themselves in a toxic un-oxygenated environment, due to the immune system, lymphatic filters becoming overloaded.

The thymus gland, which deteriorates with age unless re-hydrated (with stimulation possible with through transdermal organic cold-pressed castor oil application 3x days per week) is primary.

Bill's avatar

No contagion

earl's avatar

Totally agree that this must end, but doubt it will because of the logic: 'We know the bad guys will do it, so we good guys have to!'

Sean's avatar

That's why there's really no ethical argument or any argument for doing gain of function research, except to release as a bio weapon. Someone in govt attempted to do an ethics study on GoF as an 'official paper', and it's extremely weak and not worth reading.

Suzy Cue's avatar

Accidentally…or intentionally.

Simon Tufnell's avatar

Yes, if you see the word debunked, you know you are over the target.

Utopian Fool's avatar

We now have at least four "tells": "debunked", "fact-checked", "experts say" and "trusted news source".

Eric Larsen's avatar

I'm almost through reading "1984". It seems it's been a type of manual for them!

Eric Larsen's avatar

Thanks for the tip!

Bill's avatar

Damn I love German Shepherds yours looks awesome 😎 👍

Eric Larsen's avatar

Ah thanks - he's a bit of a handful at times but definitely loyal and loving! Name is Ozzy, drawn from his craziness as a pup 😉

Bill's avatar

Gotta love Ozzy awesome brother

Bill's avatar

You're welcome it's a real fun read.

sandy's avatar

Also, see the 2011 film Contagion. It seems a blueprint for the covid pandemic and shot. I could list 20 or more similarities.

Eric Larsen's avatar

I've heard of this film - will check it out!

David Kukkee's avatar

You triggered a memory for me, John Leake, and I agree with you, once more, as usual. The following is an excerpt from Google AI Overview, regarding former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, also a former UDT/SEAL veteran, who, AS I RECALL, WAS THREATENED BY THE MILITARY, with SEVERE consequences, if he failed to shut his mouth about Lyme Disease being a military bioweapon. Here is what Google AI says about the recalled memory you provoked this morning:

"On a 2010 episode of his show Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, he investigated the Plum Island Animal Disease Center off the coast of New York.

Ventura's theory suggests that Lyme disease was the result of bio-warfare experiments gone wrong at the facility, which he dubbed the "government's real life island of horror".

He noted the proximity of Plum Island to Lyme, Connecticut, where the first cases of the disease were identified in ticks, as circumstantial evidence.

He also pointed out that the facility's creator, Erich Traub, was a former Nazi scientist whose expertise included infecting ticks and mosquitoes with biological germs."

I would be willing to assert that the FDA Commissioner is directly over the target. I would also note that I have been accused of being "a conspiracy theorist" multiple times, and have never been wrong about any of them. I have regrets, however, in that many of those who accused me no longer enjoy life on earth... unfortunately they did not believe me, and suffered the consequences of their own mocking disbelief. The ability to connect dots that others cannot fathom does not make one... A conspiracy theorist. Thanks again, John Leake, and Happy New Year.

Truthseeker's avatar

And…. That brings up the OBVIOUS question …

why is Bill Gates being allowed to engineer mosquitoes … at Oxitec… and release them into the wild!!!??

God only knows what that lunatic is releasing on humanity…. I traveled to Curacao … and was bit by a mosquito - in an area that Oxitec was allowed to release mosquitos …. I was bit on my finger … and my whole arm blew up in a severe allergic reaction…. My hand turned purple … and the whole event required a steroid to get it under control … my finger is STILL swollen 10 months later … AND… when I am sick… the BITE MARK on my finger resurfaces

And I have found one other woman

Having the exact same reaction after a bite on her hand in an area oxitec has released mosquitoes - in Florida

John, please look into oxitec engineered mosquitos! And Follow the money…. This is highly concerning

Not to mention the powers that be- want self-disseminating vaccines- via animals!

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10468088/

It’s all one big experiment on humanity!

Elaine Russky's avatar

There should be a class action against Bill Gates.

Kathleen Taylor's avatar

Let's hope the lawsuit against him in the Netherlands succeeds.

Denise's avatar

I want to see Billy Goat Gates and Mousy Fauci hanging from a noose. Just sayin.

Bill Bradford's avatar

No, not "big experiment", but rather, "depopulation agenda".....

Truthseeker's avatar

Does seem that way… I don’t believe in coincidences anymore!

JOHN SILVERS's avatar

I believe Fauci and Francis Collins are eugenicists. Collins headed the Human Genome Project and was the head of NIAID. Fauci appears to be responsible for the GoF research that produced SARS-Cove-2.

Now that we have the tools to alter human DNA, it appears the union of the biological warfare scientists, DNA altering scientists and the population reduction advocates have merged to effect massive population reduction and establish a one world government.

It’s obvious to me that biological weapons are the chosen way to reduce the world’s population.

The connections between the mRNA platform and population reduction has not been established, though evidence that it has reduced population through the spike protein’s mechanisms of the Covid 19 jab appears to be solid.

I get the feeling that the Covid jab’s main intent is not to kill, but to compromise the human body to create a sick and highly profitable customer base for the medical industry.

The widespread death it is causing is a secondary and lesser intention.

In the effort to reduce population and establish authoritarian control of the world, I believe there will be more pandemics in the near future.

Pamela Cohen's avatar

I was busy enough and didn’t want to learn about one more thing, while raising my children as a single parent. It was easy enough to identify the bullseye rash several years later on my left thigh doing a quick Goofle search. (I will let the error speak for itself.) When I went to the ER, the trained Dr. prescribed Amoxicillin or some type of lightweight anti-biotic. That was the beginning of purposeful malpractice, learning how difficult it was to get a solid diagnosis in the web of crappy insurance coverage, 2 arguing fake “expert” Lyme organizations to cause drift, and the same AMA purposeful untrained behavior for treatment. Drs. were glad to waste your time, collect visit and basic lab fees and refer you to arthritis experts or others, avoiding telling the truth. One guy wrote my diagnosis as fatigue, even though I offered to show him the photo of my large erythema migrans on a blog post. He routinely gave his Lyme patients false hope by giving them 30 days of antibiotics. When I asked if he tested them afterwards, he replied they felt better. I said that was malpractice., as of course treating inflammation after the Borrelia ate on the person’s connective tissue on a traveling picnic mission, it would soothe the infection and lower the pain…for a brief time, without taking care of the problem.

It was personal research that lead me to a Dr. who knew how to

Treat the Lyme pathogen’s many forms. At least debulk the nasty things to about 98% less. I learned it was a stealth pathogen, hiding in organs, the bloodstream, low oxygen areas like behind the knees and even in bone marrow, if threatened by things like barometric pressure tanks?

Lately I learned the Military infected a few troops and then treated them. Always testing on humans, with no or little or false information.

Someone mentioned Gates, and he must have DOD contracts, as he is still running around. The mosquito swarms he released in Houston infected a woman I met who got Lyme from several bites. Lyme has over 100 different varieties in the US and many co-infections to travel with it. It points to DNA lab interference.

Everyone with Lyme should be given the cure, and paid for the time, suffering and pain that comes with it. No “teasers”, tax write-offs the financially harmed can’t use, or amnesia as to what the Govt. owes to tax supported programs meant to kill and harm its citizens. Deliberate harm.

Any Congress person with holdings in these Biolabs needs to be prosecuted and imprisoned, along with the secrecy grifters, no matter at what level.

MB's avatar

You can check out Mellow Kat on substack to read her research on this topic. I too find it outrageous that some unelected billionaire is permitted to pollute our air and infect wildlife without any transparency or public debate.

Allie's avatar

And Bill Gates is funding research to “infect” mosquitoes with “vaccines.”

Ionedery2's avatar

Some people filter and ignore the connected "dots" and rely on their biased views because they are overwhelmed with complexity. They need a simplified view to maintain their sanity and tend to side with their peers. The media abuses this for their own nefarious reasons and we all end up suffering in a crisis of ignorance.

So I don't care if they label us "conspiracy theorists". I'm proud to be one.

Debi Lutman's avatar

And many, because of the “complexity”, shut us down if we bring up anything. Sad in so many ways. For them. For us.

Bill Bradford's avatar

I only believe in conspiracy facts.....so I'm NOT a "conspiracy theorist"....

Bill Bradford's avatar

I don't believe in conspiracy theories, but I DO BELIEVE in conspiracy FACTS.....

Liberty Liz's avatar

Perfectly stated, "The ability to connect dots that others cannot fathom does not make one... a conspiracy theorist". In fact, so perfectly stated that is worthy of being plagiarized! Kudos. (Though one could add a few other "trigger" words onto the end of that statement like, "black piller", or ... several others.) Well said!

David Kukkee's avatar

Thank you, Liberty Liz... I appreciate your kindness. God bless you.

Liberty Liz's avatar

You're very welcome. God bless you as well. You have a wonderful gift with words and an astute mind. Refreshing.

Neil Pryke's avatar

You can take the Nazi scientist out of Germany...But...

Robert Dyson's avatar

Conspiracy - the activity of secretly planning with other people to do something bad or illegal (OED).

If it did not happen there would be no word for it. For example, the attempt to blow up the British Parliament in 1605 was a conspiracy.

There is nothing wrong with having a theory about how an event came to pass. Therefore, conspiracy theories are legitimate ideas. Unless they can be explicitly shown to be wrong they remain legitimate theories. For example, in this case, if this strain of Lyme disease had been circulating for thousands of years in animals and humans, where are the samples or published studies prior to the Lab 257 work?

Not having direct evidence at this point in time of the conspiracy does not debunk it. As we see with the assassination of President Kennedy (yes, I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news) evidence can be revealed much later than at the time of the event where it may have been suppressed.

Elaine Russky's avatar

If conspiracies occur, they will never be discovered unless someone theorizes their existence. I think there has been a conspiracy to do away with acknowledgment of the existence of conspiracies.

Robert Dyson's avatar

Yes, I don't believe any conspiracy theory. If it is in my area of interest or competence I investigate it.

Richard's avatar

Humans conspire all the time. Shakespeare commented on it "Oh the webs we weave when first we practice to deceive" Humans deceive each other. Humans holding power conspire all the time. Only point is that the act of conspiracy is very common amongst humans, and part of it is the tendency to keep secrets from others.

Elaine Russky's avatar

Yes, we conspire when we make lunch plans with a friend.

Richard's avatar

Well the word conspiracy has a negative connotation, even denotation in legal circles, but you’re right, humans plan with others all the time, but only sometimes to deceive others or to commit crimes.

Elaine Russky's avatar

They're not all fodder for RICO charges.

Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Well said and perfect logic.

Nnikk's avatar
Jan 2Edited

I guess you have the same visceral disgust to see how the CIA's psyop around the term 'conspiracy theory' has succeeded beyond their wildest dreams--to the point that people that know the background story and don't accept official narratives on the whole for the most part--still go ahead and use the term to describe doubts about narratives...And worse even the shortened "Conspriracy" to describe sceptical and critical thinking and predilection for analysis of dubious official narratives. The complete and perverted butchering of language, and the ill effect upon thought that follows from same.

And yes, remember exactly where I was when I heard the news.

Robert Dyson's avatar

Yes, I can see how most people now translate 'conspiracy theory' as 'nonsense from nutcases' rather than 'a theory' that may be wrong but could be right where either you have no interest in it, or you need to investigate further. Clearly by the very nature of a conspiracy the conspirators have an interest in hiding and obfuscating evidence.

Michelle Dostie's avatar

I did read “Bitten” and recommend it. The author was given much information straight from Burgdoferi’s mouth. Its history and the use of ticks in warfare stretches back to the JFK years and our “warfare” with Cuba. Senator Chris Smith has passed a bill allowing funding for Lyme research in NJ and other NE states via HHS.

KP Stoller's avatar

Reparations?. We who have Lyme need to remain on maintenance meds for the rest of our lives becaue of persister cells. Now, I understand almost no one understands this and what they need to do, but I have been treating Lyme for over a quarter of a century and I have it myself.

So, my point is we should at least get our prescriptions paid for.

Allie's avatar

In the late 80s early 90s I used to provide home infusion therapy as an RN. There was, what appeared to be, a Lyme Disease epidemic. Doctors were putting their shingles out claiming to be Lyme Disease specialists. You could walk into any supermarket in the summer and see people with PICC lines in their arm. People were told that there was no cure and that they would need therapy for the rest of their lives. After awhile, insurance companies stopped paying for these treatments and, voila, no more Lyme Disease. It was a big money making racket. I’m not saying that Lyme Disease is not real and cannot be chronic, but a lot of patients were taken advantage of and there was much money to be made off of it.

KP Stoller's avatar

It wasn't the patients it was the greedy docs taking advantage. Now, because of the persister cells there is no cure. One has to be on some type of protocol to keep those persister cells torpid. About 20% of the USA is infected but most will never be diagnosed nor receive the appropriate intervention if they are diagnosed.

I do have a Lyme webinar on www.KennethStollerMD.com if anyone wants to know the truth and how to treat this infection - another Gain of Function fiasco.

Liberty Liz's avatar

It seems, in this case, the opposite is true. The Lyme issue was very real (and truly does require lifelong vigilance and treatment), so it became ab ongoing financial burden the g0vt/ insurance companies didn't want to carry... especially since they became much more transparent that euthanasia and genocide agendas were so much more fun for them.

MB's avatar

I’m so sorry you’re suffering from this disease. A family member has it and the symptoms are so trying and dispiriting. And that’s setting aside the frustration of constant gaslighting by allopathic GPs (remarkable that so many believe Lyme Disease does not exist!). My family member has spent tens of thousands of dollars on treatment, all out of pocket. Yes reparations from the government would be appropriate. And an acknowledgment of wrongdoing. Sadly one can’t expect to see either anytime soon. Best wishes to you for health as you manage this challenging disease.

KP Stoller's avatar

I am in remission, so I have no symptoms, and I keep those pesky persister cells torpid by taking HCQ once a week.

MB's avatar
Jan 3Edited

Thank you for the tip. I forwarded along with your website. Your background and achievements are impressive. It’s a shame the medical community shuns intellectually curious and thoughtful practitioners. I am glad you can share your knowledge via your website as this will be a helpful resource for my family member. Best wishes for continued good health!

Suzy Cue's avatar

Sure, but…good luck with that.

KP Stoller's avatar

just throwing it out there

Formerly_Known_As_Someone's avatar

The book BITTEN is pretty convincing. Willie Bergdorfer was saying these things himself. His detractors say he said them when he was senile.

Laurie Lesko's avatar

Yea, senile enough not to remember the non disclosure he signed!

Truthseeker's avatar

Bingo.

And many who have ‘chronic Lyme’… which is a thing— despite MDs gaslighting patients now for over 2 decades—

those chronic Lyme people who then contracted covid… are struggling even more… because their immune system is already taxed with the chronic infection of lyme

They now have a double (bioengineered) whammy… and their inflammation is SKY HIGH… and totally out of control … like a five alarm fire!

Nnikk's avatar

A.W. Finnegan, "The Sleeper Agent"

Nnikk's avatar

lays it all out in great detail.

Michelle Levy's avatar

Why about the increasing tick-bite-induced meat allergies? Also lab leaked?

Kathleen Taylor's avatar

This is an interesting question.

Jack Bergeron's avatar

As a life-long, baby boomer resident of New England encounters with ticks while outside through the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s was unheard of. Today unless the outside temperatures are below freezing getting bitten by a tick is not uncommon and a major concern.

Montgomery Olmstead's avatar

I am in northern Michigan and we never had ticks here until the 1990’s. Now they are rampant. It’s almost axiomatic that they chemtrailed us with ticks. Lots of money to be made from desperate people.

MrBlaat's avatar

I have an older book on the same topic,

"Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory" by Michael Christopher Carroll

...which makes exactly the same point. The book is from 2004.

The mere fact that Lab 257 still exists is basically murder & high treason against the US population. No one in the US biomedical industry gives a rats ass about human beings.

Nancy R. McMahon's avatar

Lab 257 by Michael Christopher Carroll published in 2004 is the book to read for information on this subject.

Veronica Gardener's avatar

I read "Lab 257" about a decade ago and thought that the author made many convincing connections between the facility on Plum Island and the spread of tick-borne diseases. I remember having read in the latter half of the book where the author described a severe storm in the late 1960's--('68 or '69, maybe?) wreaking havoc there, which caused part of the building to become damaged. Some of the "GOF" ticks hence escaped. It was only a matter of time before the ticks started spreading across the island and biting whatever mammals they could, mainly the white-footed mice and white-tailed deer. And where those two species are in close proximity to people, the spirochetes from the nymphal ticks find their way into human hosts. The argument about the experiments going on there combined with the disruptions to the staff routines and building problems, as being the primary impetus affecting the initiation of the Lyme arthritis in children in the mid 1970's (and later the spreading emergence of severe tick-borne illness throughout parts of New England, etc.) seems valid to me.

Clive MacDonald's avatar

'The disease got its name after an outbreak occurred in 1975 in children from Lyme, Connecticut'. Is that a tell? Lyme is opposite Plum Island.