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I'm James Corbett of Corbett Report.com.

I'm James Uppinpilato frommediamonica.com.

Anthropogenic climate change does not exist in practice.

We've got that story plus social surveillance, but first,

score another one for the crazy conspiracists. You've heard of weaponized social media,

weaponized drones, but now the one that happened decades ago. James, I'm kind of surprised

about this one. House orders Pentagon to say if it weaponized ticks and released them.

This coming via roll call, the House quietly voted last week to require the Pentagon, Inspector General,

to tell Congress whether the department experimented with weaponizing disease-carrying insects and whether they were released into the public realm either accidentally or on purpose.

The unusual proposal took the form of an amendment that was adopted by voice vote July 11th during House debate on the fiscal 2020 defense authorization bill, which lawmakers passed the following day.

The amendment by New Jersey Republican Christopher H. Smith says the inspector general shall conduct a review of whether the

Department of Defense experimented with ticks and other insects regarding use as a biological

weapon between the years of 1950 and 1975. If the answer is yes, then the IG must provide

the House and Senate Armed Services Committee with a report on the experiment scope and whether

any ticks or

insects used in such experiments were released outside of any laboratory by accident or experiment

design. The amendment is an attempt to confirm or deny reports that Pentagon researchers at places

such as Fort Dietrich in Maryland or, more specifically perhaps Plum Island in New York.

Implanted diseases into insects to learn about the effects of biological weapons and also looked

into using such insects to disseminate biological agents. Tricky Dick banned U.S.

government research into biological weapons in 69, but research into protecting U.S. military personnel from some such

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