1930s Syphilis Project meets 2020s Corona Bleach Project

Perhaps Bryan and Trump will Sacrifice themselves for this Trial

The United States Public Health Service in 1932 through 1972 conducted a clinical study “to observe the natural history of untreated syphilis.” The lives they sacrificed were Negro men: in the Macon County case, reportedly “600” poor Negro “sharecroppers.”

In a 40-year experiment, investigators employed by the US Public Health Service (with the acquiescence and thus complicity of the Negro Tuskegee Institute), denying informed consent, told these men several lies:

• that they had “bad blood,”

• that the tests would last only six months;

• that “they were receiving free health care from the Federal government of the United States”; and

• that they would be treated for the condition.

Seven years into this egregious crime, penicillin became standard therapy for syphilis, and the US government had sponsored several public health programs to establish “rapid treatment centers” with the mission of eradicating syphilis. However, the study researchers using the people in Macon County, Alabama, prevented their victims from participating in the cure.

“Researchers knowingly failed to treat patients appropriately after the 1940s validation of penicillin was found as an effective cure for the disease that they were studying.”

By the end of this public health department disgrace, with consequences well after 1972: 28 men had died of syphilis and 100 from “related complications.” The wives of 40 of the sacrificed men had been infected. And the victimizing reached into future generations with 19 offspring of the men being born with “congenital syphilis.”

Forty years’ of active crimes against humanity, men’s sacrifice of other men (even in death mandated autopsies to pay funeral costs), a criminal conspiracy— with far-reaching consequences— to document syphilitic death.

Almost fifty years later, we are witnessing snake oil for COVID-19

Perhaps this time the peddlers will self-sacrifice for the common good. 

At the White House April 23, 2020: the President, his acting agency operative, and a duet on injecting disinfectant and bleach into human beings infected with the coronavirus  

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cting Under Secretary of Science and Technology Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security William N. Bryan

“We’re … testing disinfectants readily available.  We’ve tested bleach, we’ve tested isopropyl alcohol on the virus, specifically in saliva or in respiratory fluids.  And I can tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes; isopropyl alcohol will kill the virus in 30 seconds, and that’s with no manipulation, no rubbing — just spraying it on and letting it go.  You rub it and it goes away even faster.  We’re also looking at other disinfectants, specifically looking at the COVID-19 virus in saliva.”

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resident Donald Trump

“Right.  And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute.  One minute.  And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning.  Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs.  So it would be interesting to check that.  So, that, you’re going to have to use medical doctors with.  But it sounds — it sounds interesting to me.

Press follow-up Question: “But I — just, can I ask about — the President mentioned the idea of cleaners, like bleach and isopropyl alcohol you mentioned.  There’s no scenario that that could be injected into a person, is there?  I mean—”

Acting Under Secretary of Science and Technology Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security William N. Bryan

“No, I’m here to talk about the findings that we had in the study.  We won’t do that within that lab and our lab.  So—”

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resident Donald Trump

“It wouldn’t be through injection.  We’re talking about through almost a cleaning, sterilization of an area.  Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t work.  But it certainly has a big effect if it’s on a stationary object.”

Compromised or Criminal: the rap sheet of a snake oil salesman pushing worse-than-leeches bleach to cure an infectious disease

When the US Senate was considering President Trump’s nominee, William “Bill” N. Bryan, for the position for which he has been “acting” in for three years, a group of lawyers at the website “Whistleblower Aid” wrote that its client, Robert Ivy, had

“evidence of serious crimes implicating the president’s nominee for undersecretary of science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security.”

The notice to the Senate said “While Bryan and Ivy worked at the Department of Energy, Bryan led a multinational team tasked with creating heating and electricity plans for two consecutive Ukrainian winters. But Bryan aligned his team with Ukrainian coal and steel oligarch and billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, subverting US policy and national security.”

The nominee, the report said,

• capitalized on crisis

• used government resources to further enrich corrupt Ukrainians, and

• used official connections to get work for his private firm, ValueBridge Energy Group.

After Bryan’s stand-up routine with TV showman Donald Trump, KGET citing AP, updated its reports on William Bryan’s work record.

He has revolved in and out of government: from the Department of Energy, to Virginia-based consulting firm ValueBridge International’s Energy Group president; and since May 2017, to acting undersecretary for the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate.

A Department of Energy Inspector General’s investigation is underway based on evidence submitted by the whistleblower that William Bryan abused his government position with energy consulting work in Ukraine. The Office of the Special Counsel reportedly has described the nominee’s earlier actions in government as involving [in torturous language] “a ‘substantial likelihood of wrongdoing.’”

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enturies of getting away with it

In the United States, as far back as the eighteenth century, sellers of one kind or another have peddled products injurious to health while claiming such substances aided health or cured disease. Sweet and sour substances have been masked addictive drugs such as cocaine, amphetamine, alcohol and opium-based concoctions or elixirs.

Snake oil salesmen to the masses in the nineteenth century included the businessman, herbalist, and “Snake Oil” salesman “William Rockefeller Sr. who peddled “rock oil” (a substance gathered off sea rocks) as a cure for cancer.

Until the early 1930s, the Rosenwald Fund of Chicago had aligned with US government officials and financed syphilis treatments and experiments on Negroes in the US South. Rosenwald pulled out when the stock market crashed.   

In the 1940s, some of the same caliber of “doctors” and public health officials that had infected Southern Negroes in the US infected Guatemalan soldiers, prostitutes, prisoners and mental patients with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases—also without the informed consent of the subjects. These researchers killed more than eighty people and continued their crimes into the 1950s.

In 1997, US public officials said sorry to descendants of dead and infected Negroes victimized by government experimenters.

In 2010, US public officials said sorry to the Guatemalans; and in 2019, a US District Judge ruled that “Johns Hopkins University, Bristol-Myers Squibb and the Rockefeller Foundation must face a $1 billion lawsuit” for their roles in infecting Guatemalans.

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ublic ignorance, unethical public officials, academics and medical professionals, warped justice systems saturated with unethical or incompetent personnel together with a distracted or “willing to believe” public let the criminals get away with crimes against institutions and the masses.

Syphilis is still infecting people and infections are growing. As late as five years ago, “45.4 million” people were reported to have syphilis.” Six million of the cases were new cases of the disease.  More than a hundred thousand died from the disease.

Snake oil salesmen get away with their crimes and never are they asked to ingest their elixirs. Perhaps now is the time to ask the coronavirus bleach peddlers to take have a swig or take a needle “like a man.”  

Better still, toddle off to jail for peddling lies, pain, and disease to others.   

Sources

“Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing” Healthcare James S. Brady Press Briefing Room Issued on April 23, 2020 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-31/

Sullum, Jacob. “It’s Not Fake News: Trump Did Actually Suggest That Injecting Bleach Could Be a Cure for COVID-19: The president added that the procedure is something ‘you’re going to have to use medical doctors with.’” Reason. April 24, 2020 https://reason.com/2020/04/24/its-not-fake-news-trump-did-actually-suggest-that-injecting-bleach-could-be-a-cure-for-covid-19/

Whistleblower Aid. “Reject corrupt Homeland Security nominee William N. Bryan. Target: US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs”

Stop corruption in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/reject-corrupt-homeland-security-nominee-william-n-bryan

Kget (Associated Press). “Senior official cited by Trump is subject of investigation” April 24, 2020 https://www.kget.com/news/politics/senior-official-cited-by-trump-is-subject-of-investigation/

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rockefeller_Sr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

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Veracity Checking Backtracking

Blaming comes easier than admitting wrong, taking responsibility, fixing flaws

April 15, 2020

White House statement by President Donald John Trump: “I will never hesitate to take any necessary steps to protect the lives, health, and safety of the American people. I will always put the well-being of America first.”

February 24, 2020

US president declares: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart.” [FactCheck]

February 28, 2020

US president at a political campaign rally declares the coronavirus “their [Democrats’] new hoax.” [France24]

President Trump boasts

“Thirty-five thousand people on average die each year from the flu. Did anyone know that?” Thirty-five thousand… That’s a lot of people. And so far, we have lost nobody to coronavirus in the United States.” [France24]

In a span of three months,” Politifact notes,

“Americans went from hearing about a new virus in central China to being told they ought to stay home and avoid groups larger than 10. 

“President Donald Trump went from telling people not to worry and everything was under control to leading daily press conferences on containing the outbreak in the United States.”

He also went from praising the World Health Organization to demonizing it.

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oynter Institute’s Politifact Chronology

DECEMBER 2019

December 31: China confirms existence of a new virus.

JANUARY 2020

20

World Health Organization (WHO) reports cases in China, Thailand, Japan, and South Korea.

21

The first US case is announced in the State of Washington (and in Vietnam and Singapore). The WHO declares the virus risk is high globally.

22

President Trump responds to a reporter’s question about pandemic worries:

“No, not at all, and we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s — going to be just fine.”

24

President Trump tweets: “It will all work out well.”

29

The White House forms a coronavirus response task force, initially led by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.

30

The WHO declares a global health emergency.

 Also January 30: President Trump holds a campaign rally in Iowa, and blocks travel from China. He  declares

“We think we have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five. … [W]e think it’s going to have a very good ending for it.”

FEBRUARY 2020

2

President Trump tells broadcasting outlet “Fox News” host Sean Hannity: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”

4

Diamond Princess Cruise Ship [on board 2,600-plus guests, 1,000-plus crew] quarantined at Yokohama, Japan. Within two days, eight Americans among more than 40 people test positive for COVID-19.

11

The WHO names the new disease COVID-19.

14

President Trump discusses the ‘very small’ number of US coronavirus cases with Border Patrol Council members. He says:

“We have a very small number of people in the country, right now, with it. It’s like around 12. Many of them are getting better. Some are fully recovered already. So we’re in very good shape.”

20

The WHO reports nearly 77,000 cases worldwide in 27 countries.

24

Stock market plummets as Dow Jones Industrials falls more than 1,000 points; and President Trump asks for “$1.25 billion in emergency aid” and Congress members increase the amount to “$8.3 billion,” and the president tweets “that the virus ‘is very much under control’ and the stock market ‘starting to look very good to me!’

26

The first COVID-19 case is reported in California “with no clear source, suggesting community spread of the virus;” and the president mantras in a news conference that “the United States is ‘really prepared’” and US vice president Mike Pence is to take charge of “a White House task force” on the matter. 

28

Cases are reported in European countries including Italy, Germany, France, England, Switzerland, and Belarus.

29: FDA [Food and Drug Administration] eases guidelines to speed the broader use of testing.

MARCH 2020

4: US House of Representatives “passes $8.3 billion emergency bill, aimed mainly at the immediate health response to the virus.” And in a broadcasting interview and later White House exchanges with reporters the president blames the previous federal executive administration saying

 “[T]he Obama administration (including former vice president Joe Biden) ‘didn’t do anything about’ swine flu.” [Politifact rated the president’s claim False”]; and  “‘The Obama administration made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what we’re doing.’” [Politifact found the president’s claim false in that “the process dated back to 2006, before the Obama administration assumed office.”

6: Grand Princess Cruise Ship [2,000-plus passengers aboard] waits disembarking “off the California coast.” About the hold, President responds: “‘If Your Time is short.’”

Moreover, Trump said, after the disease hit the State of Washington and the World Health Organization reported a high global risk: “there were no worries of a pandemic.”

“The day the stock market plummeted, the president said the virus was very much under control in the United States, and the stock market was looking pretty good to him.”

Then a few days after the president declared a national emergency, he declared “he had ‘always known’ this was a pandemic.

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The same day the WHO declares COVID-19 a pandemic, President Trump takes to prime-time television from the Oval Office and announces a ban on travel for non-Americans from most of Europe. The president “misstates a freeze on cargo and falsely [says] the health insurance industry has ‘agreed to waive all co-payments for coronavirus treatments.’ In reality, getting tested would be free, but treatment would not be covered.”

13

The president declares a national emergency to access $50 billion for states and territories, and clear the way for fast-track waivers for hospitals and doctors as they respond to the virus.

14

President signs a bill four days after passage by the House of Representatives that allows “worker and business relief… with paid leave guarantees for certain workers, expanded food assistance and unemployment insurance benefits, and employer tax credits.

17

President Trump in a news conference says “for 14 days, ‘we’re asking everyone to work at home, if possible, postpone unnecessary travel, and limit social gatherings to no more than 10 people.’”

The President had minimized the threat of a pandemic for many weeks but declared “I’ve always known this is a real, this is a pandemic. I’ve felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”

The president, in answer to a question, declared also that the WHO had not offered detection tests; and that the WHO coronavirus test ‘was a bad test.’” [Politifact found the statement to be “False”: the WHO said three independent labs had validated the test, and the White House coordinator for coronavirus response said she assumed the WHO test is effective.]

19

The US Senate unveils a $1 trillion-plus economic stimulus package. California orders lockdown for 40 million residents.

20-23

The governor of New York orders all non-essential businesses to keep their workers home. Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois and many other states issue similar restrictions.

24: Regarding the economic shutdown, the president tweets “‘we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself.’” Then on Fox News town hall, the president says “he would ‘love to have the country opened up, and just raring to go by Easter.’”

The president responds to a request for ventilators from New York’s governor

    “‘(He) [the New York governor] rejected buying recommended 16,000 ventilators in 2015 for the pandemic, for a pandemic, established death panels and lotteries instead. So, he had a chance to buy, in 2015, 16,000 ventilators at a very low price, and he turned it down.’”

[Politifact found the president’s statement false: “A state study said that many might be needed in a crisis, but it also said there were immediate pressing health needs, and there was no money to buy that many ventilators.”]

27

President Trump signs $2.2 trillion emergency spending bill.”

29

President Trump says

“The peak, the highest point of death rates — remember this — is likely to hit in two weeks…. Nothing would be worse than declaring victory before the victory is won. That would be the greatest loss of all.”

30

The president says on Fox News: “We inherited a broken test” for COVID-19.

Cases had topped 163,000 and the number of tests had crossed the one million mark.

[The CDC’s first shipment of tests to states contained tainted reagents. That and bureaucratic delays cost the U.S. several critical weeks in testing.]

31

The president declares “This is going to be a very painful — very, very painful two weeks…. When you look and see at night the kind of death that’s been caused by this invisible enemy, it’s — it’s incredible.”

The death toll reaches “about 3,700.”

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hen people hoping for a few morsels for themselves tribalize against one another and persist in believing or pretending to believe in leaders they feel are hurting them and they know are lying to them—these people deserve what they get. 

America deserves better.

With the United States being headquarters of major cyber technological industries, with the US’s expansive cyber spying networks all over the world these together with the United States’ expansive “black” operations, standard military and contracted mercenary entities presences, and a variety of sinister intrusions into governments and foreign societies—it is bald-faced, deliberate dissembling to claim (1) “we didn’t know” and (2) some other person or group “didn’t inform us.” 

With all the US global “intelligence” and intrusiveness from land, sea, air —whatever officials claim they didn’t know, they should have known. And if they didn’t know, it is only because they refused to know and placed themselves in a position of deniability (false on its face). 

What is shameful about US “leadership” is not only their reckless and interminable hostilities across the world, their failure to engage in language, discussion, dialogue, debate; but US officials’ failure in one after another congress and administration to come to terms with and take responsibility for their failures— failures often borne of deliberate neglect and self centeredness.

US officials (members of congress and executive administrations, and their partners) like being in high positions, having power and influence, having people pay for their high living and kowtow to them— but they don’t bother rolling up their sleeves, off camera and offline, and doing the hard work required by government positions among nations and in service to the United States of America and its people, bar none.

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he current executive in federal Washington (tolerated and acquiesced to by too many at home and abroad) is dangerously, even criminally ignorant, recklessly destructive, and casually contemptuous of fundamental, founding principles, processes, and potential of the United States of America. 

While tribes fight mindlessly among themselves, a television twitter TelePrompter'ing showman towered mentally and physically in his mansions from the New York Island to the Arabian Peninsula, all back dropped by red-hat and stars-and-stripes props —this man is foreclosing the birthright of Americans. 

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actCheck reports these responses by US President Donald Trump

FEBRUARY 2020

24

President tweets: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”

26 (three)

President states in White House briefing: “So we’re at the low level. As they get better, we take them off the list, so that we’re going to be pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So we’ve had very good luck.” —

President states in press conference: “And again, when you have 15 people and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”

President states in press conference when asked if US schools should be preparing for a coronavirus spreading: “I think every aspect of our society should be prepared. I don’t think it’s going to come to that, especially with the fact that we’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.”

27

President Trump at White House sermonizes with African American leaders: “It’s going to disappear one day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.”

29

President Trump in a Washington, DC, Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) speech: “I’ve gotten to know these professionals. They’re incredible. And everything is under control. I mean, they’re very, very cool. They’ve done it, and they’ve done it well. Everything is really under control.”

MARCH 2020

4 (two)

President Trump in White House meeting with airline CEOs: “[W]e have a very small number of people in this country [infected]. We have a big country. The biggest impact we had was when we took the 40-plus people [from a cruise ship]. …We brought them back. We immediately quarantined them. But you add that to the numbers. But if you don’t add that to the numbers, we’re talking about very small numbers in the United States.”

President Trump in Fox News broadcasting interview referring to percentage of worldwide fatalities diagnosed COVID-19 patients as reported by the WHO: “Well, I think the 3.4% is really a false number.”

7

President Trump responds to reporters’ questions as to whether he is concerned about the arrival of the coronavirus in the Washington, DC, area: “I’m not concerned at all. No, we’ve done a great job with it.”

9

President Trump tweets: “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!”

10

President Trump declares after meeting with Republican senators: “[W]e’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.”

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hite House behavior and blame: US Shame

April 15, the US president declares

The WHO has shown it was not prepared to prevent, detect, and respond to a severe infectious disease crisis like this.

The WHO lacks the structure to ensure accurate information and transparent data sharing from members, which makes it vulnerable to misinformation and political influence.

The WHO praised the Chinese government’s response throughout January and claimed there was no human-to-human transmission, despite the fact that doctors in Wuhan were warning there was.

The WHO decided on January 22 that the coronavirus did not pose a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, all while praising China’s response.

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he director general of the World Health Organization taking the high ground responds to the latest White House eruption by advising “the most powerful [to] lead the way, and, please, quarantine COVID politics.”

“Like other human beings, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “We make mistakes.” He offered the assurance that, after the emergency, the WHO would conduct its usual assessment of its performance … and draw lessons about its strengths and weaknesses.” In the meantime, he urged unity and the ending of “politicization” of the global health crisis.

Ghebreyesus called on the People’s Republic of China and the United States of America to show “honest leadership” following the example set in 1967 by former Soviet Union and United States leaders “in the 10-year global campaign that eradicated smallpox, a disease then killing 2 million people annually.”

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t the end of March, as US officials continued to demonize China and others, a wise writer, also looking to past and present health crises, pointed to the futility of casting blame.

“Some countries’ politicians have been playing the blame game over the pandemic and, in the process, distorting facts,” wrote Liu Yang, assistant professor at the School of Law, and a fellow at the Institute for National Development and Strategy, Renmin University of China.

“Many in the United States still have a vivid memory of the H1N1 swine flu outbreak in 2009—the first influenza outbreak to be declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. …”

California was where the first cases of this flu were reported and some people “tended to pin the blame for the outbreak on the United States.”

Fast forward March 25, 2020, the Associated Press reported that at the meeting of foreign ministers representing the Group of 7 leading industrialized democracies, European officials referenced US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo’s insistence on “identifying the COVID-19 virus as the ‘Wuhan virus’ even though the World Health Organization and others [had] cautioned against giving it a geographic name because of its global nature.”

Associating a virus “with a specific place or a particular ethnic group is offensive,” Professor Liu Yang wrote “And, given the experience of the H1N1 flu, the American people should know that better than anyone else.”

People who “…ride on manipulated hatred suffer a deep sense of loss,” Yang concluded. “They tend to believe they are losing a power competition,” their reaction symbolizing an admission of decline.

Differences of opinion, notwithstanding,he said,

“…the novel coronavirus has brought humans to a Kantian cosmopolitan moment: You don’t necessarily like others, but you have to live with them. So you’d better work together to protect all; or, by creating divisions, bring about universal misery.”

Sources

White House statement issues April 15, 2020. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-demanding-accountability-world-health-organization/

France24. “From ‘hoax’ to pandemic: Trump’s shifting rhetoric on coronavirus.” March 20, 2020 https://www.france24.com/en/20200320-from-hoax-to-pandemic-trump-s-shifting-rhetoric-on-coronavirus

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Philosopher Immanuel Kant’s cosmopolitan right stems from an understanding of all human beings as equal members of a universal community. Cosmopolitan right thus works in tandem with international political rights, and the shared, universal right of humanity (Wikipedia).

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