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-====== Dark Winter Exercise ======
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-The **Dark Winter exercise**, alternatively known as **Operation Dark Winter**, was a bioterrorism exercise that took place on June 22-23, 2001 at [[Andrews Air Force Base]] in [[united_states:maryland:Camp Springs]], [[united_states:Maryland]].
+The **Dark Winter exercise**, alternatively known as **Operation Dark Winter** or simply **Dark Winter**, was a bioterrorism exercise that took place on June 22-23, 2001 at [[Andrews Air Force Base]] in [[united_states:maryland:Camp Springs]], [[united_states:Maryland]].
 The exercise simulated a covert [[smallpox]] attack on citizens of the [[United States]].((//Dark Winter.// Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Retrieved May 28, 2022, from https://archive.ph/wzTpc))
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   * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dark_Winter|Wikipedia]]
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 Lt. Col. [[:Philip Zack]] in 2001, was working for the U.S. biotechnology company [[:Gilead Sciences]]. Though he first began working for Gilead in 1999, he was “handpicked” in 2001 to lead the establishment of “a new Project Management Department in conjunction with a complete restructure of R&D Research and Development.” [[:Donald Rumsfeld]], another member of [[PNAC]], became the chairman of Gilead Sciences in 1997 and he served as chairman of that company up until he became [[:George W. Bush]]’s [[:Secretary of Defense]] in early 2001. ((https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/all-roads-lead-dark-winter/))
-== Engineering Contagion- UPMC, Corona-thrax and “the Darkest Winter”==
+===== External links =====
-The Last American Vagabond  by Whitney Webb - September 25, 2020
-Researchers at a [:[BSL-3 lab]] tied to the organizers of the 2001 [[:Dark Winter]] simulation, [[DARPA]], and the post-9/11 [[:biodefense]] industrial complex are **genetically modifying [[:anthrax]] to express Covid-19 components**, according to FOIA documents.
-Soon after having been fired from his post as secretary of the treasury in December 2002, after a policy clash with the president, [[:Paul O’Neill]] became a trustee of the [[:University of Pittsburgh Medical Center]]. Despite having just worked under and clashed with George W. Bush and [[:Dick Cheney]], it wasn’t until O’Neill began answering to UPMC CEO [[:Jeffrey Romoff]] as a member of the Center’s board that he chose to publicly denounce a superior as “evil.”
-“He wants to destroy competition. He wants to be the only game in town,” O’Neill would later state of Romoff, adding that “after 18 months I quit [the UPMC board] in disgust” due to Romoff’s “absolute control” over the board’s actions. O’Neill subsequently noted that UPMC “board members who have wealth of hundreds of millions of dollars are not willing to take this guy on.” When pressed by a local reporter, O’Neill further elaborated that he had been told by other board members that they were “afraid” of Romoff because Romoff might “harm them in some way.”
-Romoff took over stating at one 1995 UPMC meeting that his “vision” for the future of American health care was “the conversion of health care from social good to a commodity.” Motivated by profit above all else, **Romoff aggressively expanded UPMC, gobbling up community hospitals, surgery centers, and private practices to create a “health-care network”** that has expanded throughout much of Pennsylvania and even abroad to other countries, including [[China]].
-Under Romoff, UPMC has also expanded into the health-insurance business, with 40 percent of the medical claims it pays out going straight back into places of care that are owned by UPMC—meaning UPMC is essentially paying itself.
-In addition, since [[:UPMC]] is officially a “charitable [[:nonprofit corporation]],” it is exempt from property taxes and has special access to the tax-exempt municipal bond market. UPMC can also solicit tax-deductible grants from private individuals and organizations, as well as governments. These grants totaled over $1 billion dollars between 2005 and 2017.
-before the state of Pennsylvania had a single case of Covid-19, UPMC formed a “coronavirus task force,” which was initially focused on lobbying the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [[:CDC]] to obtain samples of live SARS-CoV-2 for research purposes. That research was to be conducted at the Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) [[:Regional Biocontainment Laboratory]] (RBL) housed within UPMC’s Center for Vaccine Research.
-The Corona-thrax experiment is being conducted at the Center for Vaccine Research’s Regional Biocontainment Laboratory (RBL), where the center’s work with pathogenic agents, such as anthrax and SARS-CoV-2, is conducted.
-The creation of UPMC’s RBL was first announced in 2003, when the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIAID, then and currently led by [[:Anthony Fauci]] stated it would fund the laboratory’s construction with an $18 million grant. It was originally planned to be mainly “dedicated to research on agents that cause naturally occurring and emerging infections, as well as potential agents of [[:bioterrorism]].” The plan to create the lab was part of the US government decision to dramatically ramp up “[[:biodefense]]” research in the wake of the 2001 anthrax attacks.
-The lab was also intended to work on “developing a vaccine program focusing on basic and translational research” related to viruses of pandemic potential that are at risk of being “weaponized,” including SARS. After the creation of the lab was initially announced, the project expanded, eventually becoming UPMC’s Center for Vaccine Research, which was launched in 2007. The Center for Vaccine Research was the second such institution to be officially added to the [[:NIAID]]’s “biodefense” RBL network.
-The opening of both this lab and UPMC’s [[:Center for Vaccine Research]] was made reality thanks to the efforts of the main authors of the June 2001 Dark Winter bioterror simulation, a controversial exercise that eerily predicted the 2001 anthrax attacks as well as the initial, yet bogus, narrative that Iraq and Islamic extremist terror groups were responsible for those attacks. However, the [[:anthrax]] used in the attacks was later revealed to be of US military origin.((https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/engineering-contagion-upmc-corona-thrax-darkest-winter/))
+  * [[https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/operation-dark-winter/|White Rose Wiki]]