Mike Ritland
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Feb 2025
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Then it went through to EcoHealth Alliance, which is this famous – EcoHealth Alliance was famous for its, I believe, NIH and HHS grants. This was the famous case of it being barred after the revelations of the past few years. I believe EcoHealth Alliance is now barred from being able to get future grants anymore. But they got his pass-through money, and then they then passed the money.
Then that money flowed to the Wuhan Institute. And so through this nonprofit sphere, you can create ever more layers of plausible liability that the U.S. government was behind this, that the U.S. government wanted to do this for whatever reason. You can make the argument that gain-of-function,
is not actually to be, you know, deployed as a biological warfare weapon, or it's not actually to be sort of leaked to destabilize, you know, a popular government like the Trump administration, but actually it's, we do this gain of research function in order to build vaccines in order to, if somebody else builds something like this, we have a way to counter somebody else's biological warfare.
This is the same argument. You can think of the Mockingbird media apparatus, the USA Truman Show in the media space. You can make the same argument that, listen, we fund this Truman Show. We find 90% of countries, you know, media complex while sort of either lying about it or trying to hide people from knowing about it, like protesting these foreign agent registration act type things.
Because if we don't do it, somebody else, Russia could do it, China could do it, and so we need to be in the game. This thing's dual use. We're not necessarily just doing this to blare propaganda, but it's to counter foreign countries' propaganda. Same thing with why we, the justification for gain-of-function and building freak mutant viruses and jumping them from animals to human.
We create these viruses that never existed in a lab. in order to create vaccines against hypothetical future viruses, and to build the knowledge base of academic researchers and medical researchers in the field, so even if we aren't able to have the vaccines, we're able to quickly close the gap in the future to do that.
We're learning more about the sciences by expanding beyond the current set of virus suites that we've seen. That's a policy debate that I'm not even entering into, but... But the fact is, is this is what we do. We do this at every major university. And universities, in turn, often function as arms of the state. For example, when the U.S. State Department and...
The CIA and USAID, USAID created the Office of Transition Initiatives, OTI, in 1993. That was when we were privatizing Russia. Well, who functioned in many respects as the long arm of the State Department during that time, often representing State Departments in diplomatic, effectively a diplomatic interlocutor, was the Harvard University. Harvard Endowment was working hand in glove.
In fact, everyone can read about this published in mainstream media. The Harvard boys do Russia or read Casino Moscow or any number of write-ups. This is all openly acknowledged that Harvard was effectively a... a shadow diplomacy arm, and it was able to, you know, it put a massive favor in the favor bank to the U.S. because they led the shock therapy.
They led the privatization of a trillion dollars in state-owned assets of the Soviet empire to be bought up at fire sale prices by Wall Street and London stakeholders. They loved what they were doing. Now, I should note, this is the same relationship that happens at the NGOs. Take, for example, the Tide Center, okay? We talked about this before.
The Tide Center is known by many conservatives as a sort of notorious left-wing Soros network because I believe Soros gave at least like $14 million or something to the Tide Center. dark money network hub that is a 501c3 but you can't see what money flows to any of its projects that are not 501c3s but that get their 501c3 through the Tide Center. And so Black Lives Matter Foundation
gets his 501c3 through the Tide Center. USAID gave them $27 million. FJP, Fair and Just Prosecutions, which is the effective puppeteer of, at least according to the Media Research Center report and the Daily Wire reports on this, which broke all these insider internal documents,
They give their marching orders to Letitia James and Alvin Bragg and the people prosecuting our presidents while effectively pressuring them to do so, while representing the donor network that makes up their re-election campaigns. This is a massive conflict of interest. And where do they get their 501c3 from? The $27 million USAID grantee recipient. But what do those grants look like?
Well, the Tide Center has – I think one of these is about a $25 million grant from USAID to the Tide Center. For the Tide Center to quote – and everyone can look this up. I believe I'm stating this accurately – To secure concrete commitments from foreign countries for certain foreign policy goals that are hinted at in the grant. Of course, this is another issue because of the secrecy around USAID.
These grant descriptions are very, very nominal. You know, instead of the, you know, 10 paragraphs or instead, you know, it's just oftentimes it's 50 word descriptions for USAID. hundreds of millions of dollars worth of grants.
And in this case, the Tide Center is being formally deputized to negotiate with secure foreign commitments from secure commitments for the United States government from foreign governments They're being deputized, and this may be the Tides Foundation rather than the Tides Center, which is its sister entity, but this is the Tides Network.
But that's what Harvard did, and that's what all these universities who get USAID funding do when they are involved in these activities. in that gooey line between domestic university researchers or domestic centers, but they have cultural exchange events with the people in Pakistan and the energy engineers there, like Arizona State University, for example, or Harvard, or Stanford, or MIT.
These have international touch points, and every one of those touch points can double as an instrument of statecraft. What's a big, fat, juicy incentive to go out and do that statecraft to achieve U.S. State Department ends? Big, fat grant funding from the U.S. State Department, USAID, and frequently DARPA and the U.S. Defense Department.
USAID, together with the U.S. State Department's Bureau for Refugee Population and Migration, Last year alone, according to, I believe, the Center for Immigration Studies, gave $1.6 billion to the migrant groups
who formed the illegal migrant trail from South America and Latin America up into the southern border, paying for their food, their transport, their shelter, giving them often cash debit cards. So this is... A billion and a half dollars that USAID, in conjunction, because again, USAID always x-ray through. USAID is the mask. State Department is mask off.
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