Definitely an interesting name for their company. It does bring to mind the Nephilim/Progeny of the Fallen Angels. There seems to be no other etymology for the word that I can find. Sure they used that word to name a group of spiders, but that is not the root of the word itself.
Definition of Nephila
Nephila f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Nephilidae – the golden silk orb-weavers.
: a genus (family Nephilidae) of large, elongate, brightly marked, mainly tropical spiders including the golden silk spider (N. clavipes)
NOTE: The genus Nephila was formerly classified in the family Araneidae, comprising the orb weavers, but is now usually classified in a separate family (Nephilidae).
Nephilim
The only obvious meaning of this Hebrew term is “fallen ones” — perhaps, those who have come down from the realm of the gods
The corporate Elite who now control our climate and weather, had to develop insurance to protect their interest, while leaving the average person no protection from these disasters. They have a network in place for that very purpose. Don’t forget they run the banks, the insurance companies, the emergency response organizations, the legal system, the military and the government. They will always cover their investments.
NEPHILIA
We have a track record of creating innovative products and providing risk capital to help counterparties manage unique exposures.
As a long-time leader in the space, Nephilia has a history of creating new products to help counterparties in all sectors of the global economy transfer weather and climate risks. We offer short-term weather-linked and long-term climate-linked risk transfer products to counterparties globally. These products have been used to de-risk renewable energy projects, farming ventures, energy markets earnings, and cash flows for many other businesses. Such products have also been used to mitigate the impacts of extreme weather disasters around the world.
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Very interesting logo. MAN under the Firmament on a flat Earth!
MAN CLIMATE STRATEGY
Mandatory targets
MAN is aware of its responsibility. We emit CO2 through our products and services as well as in our plants. That is why the Executive Board of MAN SE approved the MAN Climate Strategy in 2011, which has made a significant contribution to our CO2 reduction. Our MAN Climate Strategy is a basic element of the MAN CSR Strategy and plays its part in enabling the Company to reach its targets.
Key points of the Climate Strategy
Key points of the Climate StrategyAbove all, we see the central starting point for reducing CO2 in our own product portfolio, our own production plants worldwide, and our supply chain.
For our production plants, we have set ourselves the climate target of reducing absolute CO2 emissions at our MAN production sites by 25% compared to 2008 levels by 2020. That is around 135,000 tons of CO2 less and roughly equivalent to emissions from a small German town of 15,000 inhabitants. In 2018, we reached this target ahead of schedule.
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I’m Now A Believer: Q Is A Real US Military Intelligence Operation Fighting Off A Globalist Coup
After watching this, I have become convinced that “Q” is an organized military intelligence operation, with direct ties to the Presidency, that is engaged in taking down a globalist coup against our nation that is far more extensive than even I had previously believed – and that’s coming from a guy who already believes the Bush family was entirely behind 9/11 with the total acquiescence of the CIA, FBI, NTSB and national media.
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Got popcorn? Enjoy this feature length presentation which compiles many of the “coincidences” which verify the connection between QAnon and President Trump. Please consider supporting this channel. Even just a $3 ’tip’ to buy me a coffee would make a huge difference:
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Everything makes sense after watching this video. Here’s just a few of the questions I had, prior to watching, that I suddenly came to understand the answers to.
- Why does Trump keep appointing horrible people to powerful posts?
- Why hasn’t he fired Christopher Wray?
- Why did he keep John Bolton around?
- Why the hell would he make Gina Haspel the director of the CIA?
- Why does the Durham investigation seem like a whitewash?
- Why didn’t they make Clinesmith sign a cooperation agreement to help take down others involved in spying against Trump?
- Why are there an unprecedented number of Congressmen and Senators not running for re-election this year, most of whom are Republican?
- Why hasn’t Trump pardoned Flynn?
- Why hasn’t Trump done anything about the State Dept, Justice Dept and FBI blocking records requests from Judicial Watch?
I will provide my take on the answers to those questions later in the article.
As for my background, I spent four years in the military and was deployed all over the globe doing everything from counter-narcotics to sanctions enforcement. From my time in the service, I knew there was some shady shit going on at the highest levels of military command, but I also knew that most of the high command was composed of good people. I have stories about generals helping very low rank sailors overcome corruption within their own commands.
Due to the way military intelligence organizations are structured, it’s a very hard system of organizations to compromise. By military intelligence, I’m referring to the collective system of military run intel agencies like the Office of Naval Intelligence, the NSA, US Cyber Command, etc.. – these do not include civilian run intel organizations, such as the CIA, FBI or foreign agencies like MI6 or the Musad.
First, everyone who works for military intelligence had to be willing to go through a military boot camp or officer candidate training, which your typical commie has absolutely no interest in. Your typical liberal commie is an elitist with a liberal arts degree who thinks they know how to run your life better than you do. Someone with that mentality isn’t going to enlist in the first place, let alone make it into the highest levels of military command. A few might slip through, but it would very hard to compromise the entire organization.
Next, there’s no guarantee after enlisting or getting your commission that you’ll even be assigned to work in the field. Further, there are an enormous amount of checks and balances put in to monitor and control how classified information is managed in the military, as one service member in my command became very aware of when he tried to sell cryptography to a foreign government. He’s still in Leavenworth.
I believe the civilian intel agencies were compromised a long time ago. Let us not forget that Bush Sr. used to be the head of the CIA. Yet the people in power
I’m now convinced that US military intelligence begged Trump to run in 2016. If you think the US military intel agencies do not have extensive dossiers on every billionaire on the planet, you’re stupid. US military intel had to have known ahead of time that Trump was completely clean, with no involvement in the typical kinds of corruption we see at that level of power.
The US military intel chiefs knew that Trump was the only guy on the planet who had the charisma, the money and the connections, along with being completely clean, who could gain control of the Presidency. Think about it. If you were Trump, would you bother running? Trump is always complaining that he had a much better life before becoming President. He had absolutely no interest in political power or the associated headaches that come with it.
First published at 22:55 UTC on October 9th, 2020.
Article: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/after-the-qanon-ban-whos-next
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OFFGRID PREPARATION OPERATION DARK WINTER: WEAPONIZED SMALLPOX
OPERATION DARK WINTER: WEAPONIZED SMALLPOX
OUR PANEL OF EXPERTS DISCUSS A SIMULATED WEAPONIZED SMALLPOX ATTACK AND HOW TO DEFEND AGAINST A REAL-LIFE ATTACK TODAY
Written by MARK LINDERMAN on October 9, 2018
Designed and controlled by key members of Johns Hopkins University and a company known as Analytic Services, Operation: Dark Winter (ODW) focused on evaluating the nation’s capabilities to respond to a massive smallpox attack on a major American city, namely Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. From there, the simulation’s scenario only grows worse, looking to test America’s resiliency to stand up to a coordinated attack by international terrorists.
Investigations have confirmed that organizations such as Al-Qaeda have already begun working on manufacturing…
The results of ODW’s efforts revealed a stunning reality that many Americans aren’t aware of — we as a nation are drastically ill-prepared for such an attack. Problems range from a lack of sufficient training, insufficient amounts of vaccine or drugs, or the ability to stop the spread of a potential pandemic in communities. ODW revealed many gaps in the nation’s preparedness levels enveloping a bioterrorism attack.
With advances in healthcare and government-sponsored preparedness efforts, America should be able to stand against such an attack today, right? To best answer that question, we’ve assembled a guest-panel of experts. Colonel Randall Larsen, USAF (retired), one of the chief architects of ODW, will be joined by combat psychologist Neal H. Olshan, Ph.D., and Dave Jones, Army Chemical Officer (retired), who has a background in nuclear/chemical/biological warfare (NBC). Here we delve deeper into the current state of affairs with the nation’s healthcare system to determine if we’re better prepared now than we were when the study was originally conducted or if the healthcare infrastructure has continued to deteriorate.
PANEL DISCUSSION
RECOIL OFFGRID: What was the intention of Operation: Dark Winter (ODW), and how would that intention look different now if it were to be conducted again?
Randall Larsen: We wanted to look at the United States and how well they were prepared in case a terrorist organization, in this case Al-Qaeda, would launch a biological attack on several U.S. cities. In this particular event, we chose to use smallpox, which is very contagious and kills about one third of the people it infects.
We looked at a lot of different issues for Dark Winter. It made us ask, are we prepared, how would we respond, and if we only have a limited supply of vaccine, who gets the vaccine?
About nine days after Sept. 11, we were asked to give a briefing to the White House to examine if Al-Qaeda, the people who just attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, would be capable of a biological attack? At the time, we didn’t know that Al-Qaeda had developed anthrax labs in Afghanistan and Malaysia, and the CIA clearly believed that they wanted an anthrax attack in the U.S. at the same time as the airplane attacks. They just didn’t get it finished in time. It was several years later, in unclassified sources, that Al-Qaeda’s anthrax laboratory in Malaysia was found to be much closer to success in being operational for that attack. So the possibility of delivering a bioterrorism attack is still very much alive today.
Dave Jones: We knew our butts were hanging out, and that’s why this tabletop exercise was conducted. As the memory of Sept. 11 fades in our collective consciousness, so does the perception of a threat. If there was an actual terrorist attack, they would not release it in one populated city. They would release it in as many as they can. We found out that once that happened, our stockpile would immediately be wiped out (after an attack). The actual number is classified, as is the location. Depending on where you read, we have between 12- and 20-million vaccines stockpiled, which is enough to inoculate for one outbreak.
There’s no good way to alert the public, even medical facilities, that an attack has happened. If you play the scenario out, some people will go to the hospital, many will not. The only way we’d know if something was wrong is in the case of a “hospital divert,” where a hospital cannot take anymore patients, and they notify their county health department, who then notifies the State and Federal governments. This isn’t necessarily a good alert system for the hospitals, because once the alert is activated, the incident has already happened. The hospital is contaminated and the people have already spread the infection.
Neal Olshan: One difference is the internet. You have to add the variable of people going to the internet for information, which may not be valid. If this were to happen there would be more people who could die from a “fear pandemic” than the bioterrorist attack itself. The attack is only the first stage, but the fear pandemic that would follow could kill more. One of the things that happens when your heart rate goes up is that it takes over the primitive part of your brain, which is the fight-or-flight survival instinct that we get in those situations. Once your heart begins beating
at 140 bpm, you begin to lose 33 percent your peripheral vision. When it goes up to 150 bpm, you lose your fine motor control. But when you get up to 160 bpm, you can’t use logic. It shifts you into the primitive part of the brain and it becomes very instinctual. Decision-making goes right out the door. This is what you see during mob mentality. When it comes to things like bioterrorism, I believe that this is one of the things that hasn’t been looked at.
If something like ODW would happen, people could very well resort to this frame of mind and lock themselves and their families in their home in isolation. All of this shifts us into a survival mode, even to the point of violence. If an attack would happen, there will be groups of people who believe that other social groups shouldn’t receive any vaccine or treatment after an attack, or that they themselves should get it first. I think that the potential of violence is very great, especially with groups who have a smoldering anger toward the situation, the government, or others. No one has ever talked about a “fear pandemic,” which is a natural offshoot of an attack or disease pandemic.
Did you see any potential flaws with the exercise?
RL: One of the criticisms that others have written about, and I don’t think has great credibility, is that we used what is called an “R-nought.” In epidemiology terms, it relates to how many people would an infected person make sick. We used an R-nought of three, which means that one infected person would infect three people. Some people said that was too high. I just don’t think that it was. It was also certainly irrelevant. Our whole purpose was to see if the U.S. was prepared to handle something like this, and if not, what could be done to improve that.
We didn’t want to sensationalize this. During the exercise, only a couple of thousand died during the simulation. But as we saw during the Ebola incident in 2015, with only five cases in the U.S., how crazy things got. You can imagine how crazy it would be if 2,000 would die in a smallpox attack. Even with two-thirds of the people who’d survive smallpox, there would be horrible disfigurement and a good percentage would be left blind. It would be a frightful thing.
And you figure that a thinking enemy, if they’re attacking us with a pathogen, they are probably going to be putting out a lot of disinformation through social media and make our response much more difficult. It’s a great concern in terms of how we deal with it.
DJ: The exercise was very good and thorough. They came out with a great list of findings and a great to-do list. The follow-up, however, was not ideal. Priorities change and funding gets diverted. There are a lot of ICUs in this country, but not many isolation units. Take the 2015 Ebola cases in the U.S. — nurses and doctors received training in it, but if they don’t work in it, the training goes by the wayside. It’s very hard to keep that level of proficiency up. Ebola was a very small microcosm of what would happen with smallpox. A normal outbreak is one thing, but a deliberate attack is a whole other level. With a normal outbreak, we’d be able to handle it “well.” If there were a deliberate attack, I don’t see how it can be handled well at all.
NO: If you look at the major participants of the ODW program, I did not see any doctors or psychologists. I think that it is an inherent flaw that you don’t have frontline people in the first-tier of decision makers, especially in the role of mental health.
If someone wanted to destroy the U.S., all they would have to do is release a couple of infestations of disease, and the fear pandemic would take over and do the rest. I think that the worst fear is fear of the unknown. If you fear an invasion of another country, in your mind, you can deal with it because you can picture it. The same can be true of even a nuclear attack. But with a bioterrorism attack, the fear pandemic from an unseen disease will be much, much worse. Mental health professionals would play an enormous role in our response to an attack.
Do you think that the healthcare system has improved since the initial study?
RL: When I was the executive director of the WMD Commission, we did a report card that examined how the U.S., in January 2010, is prepared to handle a mushroom cloud over an American city, or respond to a bioterrorism attack. The grade that was given from that commission on our preparedness to respond to a pandemic was an “F.” There is now a bipartisan panel called the Blue-Ribbon Panel on Biodefense, and is co-chaired by Tom Ridge (former secretary of Homeland Security) and Senator Joe Lieberman. Their recent report concluded that preparedness efforts have improved very little, if any at all.
One of the reasons that we haven’t seen a lot of improvement, according to Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, who is Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is that about only five members of the 535 members of the U.S. Congress really understand the biological threat. And this is one of the problems. If the members of Congress really understood how serious this threat was, there would be a lot more done. But they don’t. And there’s no real lobbying effort for it being done. Unfortunately, there is no public health industrial complex that pushes Congress to spend a lot of money on this to get us prepared.
NO: I do not see it as doing any better. I actually think that it has the potential of being much worse. I also think that disaster information is often ignored because we haven’t found a good solution to dispensing it. The solution, in my opinion, is that we have to take a look at the basic structure of how we alert people that an outbreak has occurred.
When you’re dealing with a basic mistrust of government agencies, and you add in the internet, you fuel a perfect storm of misinformation and distrust. The internet may actually be the demon in all of this, and you may have internet-based organizations that may have certain agendas. That’s why I believe that in a few days after the attack, the government may have to shut the internet down or limit internet information that comes directly from them to help mitigate the spread of misinformation. When you read about the Black Death Plague, the fear that was generated (due to the combination of bad information and an atmosphere of fear) actually caused people to murder others and burn down homes with people in them. They thought those families might be infected with the plague, and they may not have actually had it. We haven’t grown much since then. It adds a whole new component to the fear pandemic that hasn’t really been thoroughly studied.
If you could implement a series of changes to improve the healthcare system to prepare for a pandemic, what would they be?
RL: What we need in this country to be better prepared to respond to a pandemic, whether natural or manmade are three things:
Rapid diagnostic capability: This is critically important! As with any disease, the sooner it’s diagnosed, the better the prognosis. Whether you’re talking about lung cancer or bioterrorism, if we can’t figure out what the disease is and quickly, a lot of people will get sick and possibly die.
Better medical countermeasures (vaccines and therapeutics): This needs to be one of the highest priorities of the country, much like the scale of the Manhattan Project. We need that level of attention. The government needs to work with industry to come up with medical countermeasures and therapeutics much faster and much more affordably than we do right now for a bioterrorism attack or pandemic.
Better surge capacity in our hospitals: If you went to any hospital during this year’s flu season, you could see how overwhelmed they were. This year’s flu season was worse than normal, and we saw flu tents in the parking lots of California hospitals, but it was nowhere near catastrophic levels. Imagine how we’d be today if it was the winter of 1918 where we saw thousands of Americans die from the Spanish Flu pandemic. More soldiers died from that influenza than did in WWI. We need to do better in hospital surge capacity, because they are just not at the level to handle that capacity of patients.
These are good investments in public health, national security, the safety of our citizens, and so there are great dual benefits, whether you are talking about bioterrorism or a naturally occurring pandemic.
Aside from public health problems the pandemic itself would create, when you combine that with misinformation, public…
JD: Each hospital and healthcare facility needs to have a surge-capacity force with a plan to handle a large-scale incident and exercise the plan to ensure they are ready for the surge of people. They also need a three-day supply of equipment and a realistic refill plan, and think outside the box to secure the needed equipment wherever they can.
NO: I think that it’s going to have to come from the top, and it’s going to take certain people in the government to not feel that they have to have their name on something, and go through committee meeting after committee meetings. Someone would need to say, “This needs to be done.”
As far as the average citizen is concerned, what do you think we can do to bolster our preparation for an event that could overwhelm our healthcare infrastructure?
RL: The preparation that we do beforehand is key to surviving a pandemic, especially when it comes to having a supply of important medications. The most important thing to be prepared for any type of natural disaster or manmade disaster is to have enough prescription medications. Make sure that you have an adequate supply of it to last you several days or weeks.
I also think that it’s good to have a transportation plan. How do you plan to get out of your community if several roads are closed? If your kids are in school, and your wife works on the north side of town and you work on the south side, how do you plan to meet and evacuate your town?
Do you have a good communications plan? One of the things that we noticed on Sept. 11 is that all of the cell phones stopped working because everyone was trying to use them. How would you get in touch with your family if your cell phone service was down? It’s a good idea to sit down with your family to discuss how you would get a hold of one another during a disaster.
DJ: In this type of a scenario, isolation is going to be the answer for the average person. If they can pull off 2 to 12 weeks of isolation, it would do them well. You could start with three to four days and build from there. Do you want to have just enough to hold you over, or do you want to survive? If you’re depending on the government during a massive pandemic, your plan might be lacking. Hope is not a strategy. You may be on your own.
NO: I think that one of the things that’s imperative is that people have a plan, and one that involves their family, and wherever they’re at. No matter if it’s a natural disaster or a bioterrorism attack, one of the first things that people can do is address their basic survival concerns: food, water, and shelter. And as part of that, if you’re including a family, you’ve got to have a family plan. I think that anything that you can do, in terms of gaining knowledge and preparing needed survival supplies, will greatly reduce anxiety when an event like a bioterrorism attack or pandemic happens.
Part of the psychological aspects of off-grid preparedness is that you feel you haven’t given up control. You are trying to prepare, and that has a significant psychological impact.
ABOUT OPERATION: DARK WINTER
Smallpox is one of the deadliest diseases known to man. Although considered eradicated, it’s still possible for pockets to display themselves in the world. Smallpox symptoms include fever and a distinctive, progressive skin rash. Most people with smallpox recovered, but about three out of every 10 people with the disease died. Many smallpox survivors have permanent scars over large areas of their body, especially their faces. Some are left blind. Picture courtesy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Interested in reading the Operation: Dark Winter study in its entirety? You can check it out here: http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events/2001_dark-winter/Dark%20Winter%20Script.pdf
More info here: www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events/2001_dark-winter/about.html
Visit this link to learn more about smallpox: www.cdc.gov/smallpox
CONCLUSION
The goal of terrorism is to exploit areas of vulnerability. Operation: Dark Winter serves as a stark reminder that our nation will always be under attack, be it with bioterrorism agents, explosives, or mass shootings. It also serves as a wakeup call to those who are charged with protecting the homeland and its citizens.
The question is, in the absence of an improved healthcare infrastructure, how can you better prepare yourself for an incident of this nature? Check out our piece “Outbreaking News” in Issue 12 to learn more about the government’s framework for outbreaks as well as how to vet reliable information and prevent spreading the disease.
MEET OUR PANEL
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Colonel Randall Larsen
Colonel Randall Larsen, USAF (retired) is the CEO of Randall Larsen Presents. He also serves as the National Security Advisor at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (a position he has held since 2004), and the CEO of Homeland Security Associates, LLC (www.hlsassociates.com). He’s a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Speakers Association. www.randalllarsenpresents.com |
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Dr. Neal H. Olshan
Dr. Neal H. Olshan is the developer of Evolution of Mindset and is a consulting psychologist for corporations and the sports industry for athletic improvement through the use of his Mindset program. He’s also a pilot, an award-winning photographer, an author of both fiction and nonfiction books, and the chief combat psychologist for LMS Defense. doctorolshan.com |
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Dave Jones A 24-year veteran of the U.S. Army and retired Army Chemical Officer, Dave taught nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare defense to military personnel all over the world. Being recognized as a weapon of mass destruction expert, David was recalled to active duty six months after 9/11 occurred. He spent the next 22 months in the Middle East traveling to 16 different countries conducting vulnerability assessments on US interests in the area. His most amazing accomplishment to date was that he became a father for the first time at age 50. Learn more about him at wmdprotection.com. |
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