HeartDoc Andrew wrote:
> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>>
>>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1ednx5t/us_told_philippines_it_made_missteps_in_secret/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> U.S. told Philippines it made ‘missteps’ in secret anti-vax propaganda
>>>> effort
>>>> By Christopher Bing and Karen Lema
>>>> July 26, 20248:31 AM PDTUpdated 2 days ago
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Philippines' military starts vaccination using China-donated Sinovac doses
>>>> A health worker shows a vial of Sinovac Biotech’s Coronavac during the
>>>> vaccination of Philippine military at the national headquarters of the
>>>> Philippine Army in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, Metro Manila,
>>>> Philippines, March 2, 2021. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez/File Photo Purchase
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>>>> WASHINGTON, July 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department admitted
>>>> that it spread propaganda in the Philippines aimed at disparaging
>>>> China’s Sinovac vaccine during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a
>>>> June 25 document cited by a former top government official earlier this
>>>> month.
>>>> The U.S. response to the Philippines was recounted in a podcast by Harry
>>>> Roque, who served as spokesman for former Philippine President Rodrigo
>>>> Duterte. Reuters subsequently reviewed the document, which hasn’t been
>>>> publicly released by either government. The news agency was able to
>>>> verify its contents with a source familiar with the U.S. response.
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>>>> “It is true that the (Department of Defense) did message Philippines
>>>> audiences questioning the safety and efficacy of Sinovac,” according to
>>>> the document, which references information sent from the U.S. Defense
>>>> Department to the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs and
>>>> Department of National Defense. According to the document, the Pentagon
>>>> also conceded it had “made some missteps in our COVID related messaging”
>>>> but assured the Philippines that the military “has vastly improved
>>>> oversight and accountability of information operations” since 2022.
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>>>> The U.S. admission followed a June 14 Reuters investigation that
>>>> revealed how the Pentagon launched a secret psychological operation to
>>>> discredit Chinese vaccines and other COVID aid in 2020 and 2021, at the
>>>> height of the pandemic. As a result of the Reuters investigation, the
>>>> Philippine Senate Foreign Relations Committee launched a hearing into
>>>> the matter and sought a response from the U.S.
>>>> According to the June 25 document, Pentagon officials concluded its
>>>> anti-vax campaign was “misaligned with our priorities.” It says the U.S.
>>>> military told Filipino officials that operatives “ceased COVID-related
>>>> messaging related to COVID-19 origins and COVID-19 vaccines in August 2021.”
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>>>> The Philippines’ defense and foreign affairs departments did not respond
>>>> to requests for comment about the U.S. military’s admission that it ran
>>>> the propaganda program. A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department
>>>> referred Reuters to the Defense Department for comment. Pentagon
>>>> spokesman Pete Nguyen declined to confirm the U.S. response cited in the
>>>> document. But he acknowledged the Pentagon did distribute “social media
>>>> content about the safety and efficacy of Sinovac.”
>>>>
>>>> At the time the Pentagon launched its campaign, national security
>>>> officials in Washington worried that China was exploiting the pandemic
>>>> to negotiate important geopolitical deals and undermine U.S. alliances
>>>> internationally by sending aid to the Philippines and other nations.
>>>> The clandestine psychological operation uncovered by Reuters wasn’t
>>>> limited to the Philippines. It also targeted developing countries across
>>>> Central Asia, the Middle East and Southeast Asia in 2020 and 2021. The
>>>> Philippines and those other nations were, at the time, heavily reliant
>>>> on China’s Sinvoac to inoculate their populations against the deadly virus.
>>>> Among Southeast Asian countries, the Philippines was among those hit
>>>> hardest by the coronavirus. By 2024, COVID had killed almost 67,000
>>>> Filipinos, and the number of infections there had reached more than 4
>>>> million, according to World Health Organization data.
>>>> Working with a group of defense contractors and other non-military
>>>> partners, the U.S. used networks of online bots and other phony social
>>>> media accounts to influence foreign audiences, Reuters found. The news
>>>> agency identified a network of hundreds of fake accounts on X, formerly
>>>> Twitter, that closely matched descriptions shared by former U.S.
>>>> military officials familiar with the Philippines operation. When Reuters
>>>> asked X about the accounts, the social media company removed the
>>>> profiles after independently determining they were part of a coordinated
>>>> bot campaign. The Reuters article showcased a handful of these posts as
>>>> examples of the messaging.
>>>> Pentagon spokesman Nguyen said an initial review by the Defense
>>>> Department last month “found that the U.S. military was not responsible
>>>> for the troubling social media content related to the Philippines” cited
>>>> in the Reuters report. Asked whether the social media accounts with
>>>> those particular posts were handled by contractors or other non-military
>>>> partners working on behalf of the U.S. government, Nguyen declined to
>>>> say. He also declined to answer questions about U.S. military anti-vax
>>>> propaganda efforts across Central Asia and the Middle East.
>>>> In exposing the Pentagon’s anti-vax propaganda campaign, Reuters
>>>> interviewed more than two dozen current and former U.S officials,
>>>> military contractors, social media analysts, academic researchers and
>>>> public health experts. The health experts called the propaganda campaign
>>>> indefensible, saying it put innocent lives at risk.
>>>> In a statement to Chinese media after the Reuters investigation in June,
>>>> a Sinovac spokeswoman blasted the U.S. military. “Stigmatizing
>>>> vaccination will lead to a series of consequences, such as a lower
>>>> inoculation rate, the outbreak and spread of disease, social panic and
>>>> insecurity, as well as crises of confidence in science and public
>>>> health,” said Sinovac spokeswoman Yuan Youwei.
>>>> The Reuters investigation has spurred a Senate investigation in the
>>>> Philippines led by Senator Imee Marcos, head of the Foreign Relations
>>>> committee. At a hearing on June 25, Marcos described the U.S. military
>>>> campaign as “evil, wicked, dangerous, unethical.” She questioned whether
>>>> it violated international law and wondered whether the Philippines had
>>>> any legal recourse.
>>>
>>> In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
>>> GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
>>> secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
>>> us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
>>> pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
>>> 100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
>>> appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
>>> COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
>>> rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
>>> moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
>>> contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
>>> "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
>>> self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
>>> Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
>>> scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
>>> Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
>>> combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
>>> that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
>>> longer effective.
>>>
>>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
>>> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
>>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>>
>>> So how are you ?
>>
>> I am wonderfully hungry!
>
> While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
> 8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
> 17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
> COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
> Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
> Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
> always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
> including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
> all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
> the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
>
> Laus DEO !
>
Thank you for noting that I have no COVID.

Michael