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Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
Reuters ^ | 6/14/24 | CHRIS BING and JOEL SCHECTMAN

Posted on 06/20/2024 4:27:40 AM PDT by JonPreston

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially hard by the deadly virus.

The clandestine operation has not been previously reported. It aimed to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines and other life-saving aid that was being supplied by China, a Reuters investigation found. Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate Filipinos, the military’s propaganda efforts morphed into an anti-vax campaign. Social media posts decried the quality of face masks, test kits and the first vaccine that would become available in the Philippines – China’s Sinovac inoculation.

Reuters identified at least 300 accounts on X, formerly Twitter, that matched descriptions shared by former U.S. military officials familiar with the Philippines operation. Almost all were created in the summer of 2020 and centered on the slogan #Chinaangvirus – Tagalog for China is the virus.

COVID came from China and the VACCINE also came from China, don’t trust China!” one typical tweet from July 2020 read in Tagalog. The words were next to a photo of a syringe beside a Chinese flag and a soaring chart of infections. Another post read: “From China – PPE, Face Mask, Vaccine: FAKE. But the Coronavirus is real.”

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: China; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alreuters; antivaxchina; ccp; china; chrisbing; joelschectman; pentagon
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To: BitWielder1
So Pentagon had a clandestine program to tell the truth to the Philippines while lying to our own troops?

Either that or some high ranking members of the Pentagon are working for Phaser and wanted to eliminate their competition.

21 posted on 06/20/2024 5:48:08 AM PDT by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: JonPreston

Keir Giles gives three examples in his book “Russia’s War on Everybody”. Had to transcribe by hand from footnotes in small print. Hope I got them right.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/ukraine-must-show-goodwill-if-it-wantsrussian-gas-transit-putin-says-2021-06-04

https://www.twitter.com/patrikoksanen/status/1386999917017763841

https://reuters.com/article//us-ukraine-crisis-kremlin-citizens-idUSKBN2BV1S3

By implication there are many more.


22 posted on 06/20/2024 5:48:36 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: LadyDoc
So we first got the AZ and Sputnik vaccines in the summer for elders and the Chinese vaccine was given to low risk groups.

How effective were these non MRNA vaccines in your estimate?

23 posted on 06/20/2024 5:52:01 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: LadyDoc

“So the article is propaganda.”

All “news” has the purpose to convince rather than simply to inform.

That said, the Pentagon engaging in this sort of absurdity is in fact a significant news story.

The Pentagon could not have known at the time what the health effects on an allied population were of it’s propaganda. And did obviously did not care.

The article points out that the Pentagon is barred from propagandizing Americans yet that distinction is meaningless given the borderless internet.

Another great irony is the Pentagon blaming the virus on the Chinese (rightfully) without mentioning that the USA was funding Coronavirus gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab from which the virus escaped.


24 posted on 06/20/2024 5:56:02 AM PDT by Stingray51 ( )
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To: JonPreston
We need war crimes trials.

Do we need to lose a world war to get justice?

25 posted on 06/20/2024 6:21:54 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: JonPreston

What? That kant be! There were like a brazillion deathsdue to covid- the cdc said so /s


26 posted on 06/20/2024 6:27:38 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

B S


27 posted on 06/20/2024 6:42:02 AM PDT by weeweed (Proud Costco University graduate)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Sorry Chad, Keir Giles collects a check from the Chatham House, a leftist/globalist British think tank based in London, England. Nothing he says should be taken seriously by patriotic Americans.


28 posted on 06/20/2024 7:14:06 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

Regime change in Washington... The writing is on the wall. Joe has brought America to brink of total destruction with his never-ending wars.


29 posted on 06/20/2024 7:22:08 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: Jumper

Our government has become a corrupt enterprise led by insane criminals. No crime is above them from common theft to war crimes. Buckle up and pray that November changes things.


30 posted on 06/20/2024 7:30:46 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

The only possible sources of truth are in Moscow, eh?


31 posted on 06/20/2024 7:34:26 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

You seem very reliant on accepting a globalist worldview. I suppose that’s comforting given the collapsing Ukraine Project coupled with a resurgent Russia. Remember, it’s Biden’s policies that got us here with the help of ppl like you.


32 posted on 06/20/2024 7:44:17 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: LadyDoc

Total propaganda from Beijing.

Chicoms are attacking Philippine boats. The other day a Filipino got his thumb cut of in this attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-yJiJQpYrc


33 posted on 06/20/2024 8:53:37 AM PDT by ifinnegan (MDemocrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Thanks. Interesting.


34 posted on 06/20/2024 8:56:21 AM PDT by ifinnegan (MDemocrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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