The French Connection
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, the Wuhan Lab, and a curious gene patent
On February 21, 2022, Frontiers in Virology published a report titled MSH3 Homology and Potential Recombination Link to SARS-CoV-2 Furin Cleavage Site. The Furin Cleavage Site is the component of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that enables the virus to dock onto human lung epithelial cells, thereby initiating the viral replication process. It is the key feature of SARS-CoV-2 that made it infectious to humans. Examining the genetic code of this part of the spike protein, the authors noted that part of the sequence was a perfect match to a genetic sequence patented in 2016 by Bancel S. et al. in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein and MSH3
A peculiar feature of the nucleotide sequence encoding the PRRA furin cleavage site in the SARS-CoV-2 S protein is its two consecutive CGG codons. This arginine codon is rare in coronaviruses: relative synonymous codon usage (RSCU) of CGG in pangolin CoV is 0, in bat CoV 0.08, in SARS-CoV 0.19, in MERS-CoV 0.25, and in SARS-CoV-2 0.299 (8).
A BLAST search for the 12-nucleotide insertion led us to a 100% reverse match in a proprietary sequence (SEQ ID11652, nt 2751-2733) found in the US patent 9,587,003 filed on Feb. 4, 2016 (9)
On the question of whether this perfect match could be merely coincidental, the authors noted:
Conventional biostatistical analysis indicates that the probability of this sequence randomly being present in a 30,000-nucleotide viral genome is 3.21×10^-11.
The Daily Mail reported the Frontiers in Virology report, which prompted Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo to question Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel about his 2016 gene patent. His cool brushoff was suggestive of a man unconcerned about media queries. Why should he be? When it comes to the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex, the US mainstream media rarely asks tough questions, and never pursues serious inquiry.
Inquisitive viewers might have wondered: Who is Stéphane Bancel, and why is a French national heading a Cambridge, Massachusetts biotech that was originally funded by a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant?
Prior to become CEO of Moderna, Bancel was CEO of the French in vitro diagnostics company, bioMérieux, from 2007-2011. The large company, operating in over 160 countries, originated in the Institut Mérieux in Lyon, France, founded by biologist Marcel Mérieux (a colleague of Louis Pasteur).
Marcel’s grandson, Alain Mérieux, is the company’s chief proprietor and (according to Bloomberg) worth approximately$8.80 billion. A personal acquaintance of Jacques Chirac (French President from 1995-2007), in 2003 (following the outbreak of the first SARS) Mérieux was instrumental in forming a cooperative agreement between France and China to build a BSL-4 lab annex to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Bancel was CEO of bioMérieux during the planning and early construction of the lab and the training of its Chinese staff at bioMérieux’s lab in Lyon. In the year 2007, Bancel oversaw the company’s opening of a new division in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As noted in its annual report:
The opening in 2007 of a dedicated theranostics division in Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA), a city with an especially high concentration of biotechnology firms and research centers, puts bioMérieux in a hub for personalized medicine, in direct contact with the most influential players in the field.
Four years later, in 2011, Bancel left his plum position at bioMérieux to become CEO of the Cambridge startup Moderna. Back then it seemed like a Quixotic decision. After all, the new company had just one employee and was exclusively focused on developing mRNA therapeutics. As Bancel stated in a December 2020 interview,“When I resigned from my last company, bioMerieux, to start on this journey at Moderna, I told my wife there was only a 5% chance it would work out.”
Two years after its founding, Moderna—short for “Modified RNA”—drew interest from DARPA, which awarded it a $25 million grant to develop messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics. Sometime around 2015, Moderna began collaborating with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to develop mRNA vaccines against the SARS and MERS coronaviruses.
In the year 2016, Bancel et al. filed for their patent of the genetic sequence for part of the coronavirus spike protein furin cleavage site—the same genetic sequence that was, four years later, found in the furin cleavage site of SARS-CoV-2 that apparently leaked from the BSL-4 lab in Wuhan. This was the same lab whose construction Bancel oversaw and whose personnel his company trained. Just a coincidence?
At any rate, Bancel’s decision to leave bioMerieux to lead Moderna worked out well. On March 16, 2020—just five days after the WHO declared SARS-CoV-2 to be the causative agent of a worldwide pandemic, NIAID issued a press release stating it had commenced human trials of its mRNA-1273 vaccine.
mRNA-1273 was developed by NIAID scientists and their collaborators at the biotechnology company Moderna, Inc., based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) supported the manufacturing of the vaccine candidate for the Phase 1 clinical trial.
Less than a year later—with the United States government relentlessly pushing Moderna’s mRNA and Pfizer/BioNTech’s mRNA vaccines as the ONLY solution to the COVID-19 pandemic, Stephane Bancel became a billionaire.
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I had severe problems with the dash for vaccines for an alleged novel respiratory viral illness which, we’re told, is very much more likely to kill you if you’re of advanced age & chronically ill (& not if you’re younger & well).
By definition, not many QUALYs are lost when an 80 year old dies of or with flu (or rather, with influenza like illness (ILI). Flu is not the simple idea we’re told it is. Most people with ILI have no detectable influenza virus on board.
Here’s the smoking gun information which the drug companies & public health officials knew before 2020.
Intramuscular vaccination with flu vaccines (whatever they are) does NOT reduce severe illness, hospitalization or death from ILI. This I regret to tell you comes from a retrospective study of hundreds of thousands of subjects vaccinated or not in UK. The same disappointing results have also been reported out of the US as well.
I recall reading these meta analyses & feeling deeply disturbed. It meant not only rearranging big chunks of basic understanding, but also accepting that for many years, our public health advisors & NHS & drug companies & regulators were flat out lying to us.
Why might this have happened? Many subscribe to the notion that the elderly are vulnerable to respiratory illnesses because their immune systems are senescent. Old, tired & unresponsive to novel infections. Well, if that’s true, it won’t ever be possible to make effective vaccines against respiratory illnesses, assumed to be viral in origin, which preferentially kill the elderly. Because their immune systems respond poorly to novel threats, they will respond poorly to vaccines, too.
What would succeed is rational, early treatment with medicines which address the multiple stages of such illnesses.
So vaccination was KNOWN to be an ineffective strategy long before “covid19” occurred. So why did the authorities act as if the reality was different? Well, if they weren’t interested in saving your life but getting you to roll your sleeve up out of fear, and of making a ton of money, that would explain why they’d lie.
It cannot be money though that’s the main motive. I’ll show you how I know below.
Soon after this alleged virus was reported to be spreading, a ropey, untrustworthy & unsuitable test was rapidly adopted. Never properly calibrated & absent some crucial controls, diagnostic tests involving PCR were widely deployed. I’m of the opinion that no new virus was actually circulating, but normal ILls were being falsely diagnosed from flu (note that we were told that the disappearance of flu was absolutely fine & no, there was no chance we were picking up illnesss we were familiar with, but instead, a novel disease, “Covid-19”.
The mad dash for hopeless “vaccines”, which could never have worked, were associated with several very odd happenings.
First, the public health experts all but said the same things everywhere: a range of measures were imposed. I need to tell you they all knew that none of these measures were useful in slowing the spread of ILIs. Those measures though wrecked the economies of most advanced countries & were accompanied by appalling treatments which definitely killed very many people who might otherwise have survived. The misuse of mechanical ventilators, the misuse of midazolam & morphine, the use of toxic remdesivir & the withholding of useful antibiotics for secondary, bacterial pneumonia all occurred widely & led to the excess deaths that were wrongly attributed to “the virus”.
The “vaccines” could never have been useful. Yet they are toxic: causing our bodies to manufacture “spike proteins”, which are known to cause blood clots & other adverse effects. Given we knew that, how did all four leading vaccine manufacturers choose the same, basic design? (Two DNA, two mRNA products, which never previously been used in a public health context).
Then we were further lied to when we were told nothing important had been missed out in the development of thd “vaccines” but instead, it had all been done in parallel. That was an outrageous lie. They simply missed out almost all of the necessary steps. They committed clinical trials fraud by illegally breaking the blinding & deleting vaccinated subjects who became unwell. They committed regulatory fraud by filing dossiers with huge gaps in them, where required studies should have been. In the case of Moderna, they literally duplicated some parts of their dossier to make it look fuller. There was manufacturing fraud as they failed to conduct the necessary manufacturing R&D needed to make consistent product. Recall that some batches were much more toxic than others?
Then our governments coerced the population to receive these unnecessary, ineffective & toxic substances. They’re still doing it. This isn’t a mistake or accidental.
The media acted as bullying cheerleaders. The doctors mostly didn’t question anything. Scientists & others arguing we were on a dangerous path were smeared & censored. Few in the public followed their instincts that this smelled fishy, but, via peer pressure, coerced each other. The tech companies were particularly awful in lying & censoring.
All the while, the all causes mortality turned upwards as over 5,000,000,000 people on the planet received at least one injection.
A huge wave of clothing and bleeding disorders arose right after mass vaccination began. Immunological & neurological illnesses abounded. Reproductive toxicity spiked, including a big increase in stillbirths. Undertakers spoke out, but very few doctors & nurses. Parliamentarians were briefed by several of us, both separately & together. Not one of them was prepared to use parliamentary privilege to make necessary protected disclosures (one MP stood out for compensation for the injured, for which thanks, but it’s too little, too late). By that time, everyone who was susceptible to coercion had been injected & everyone who would rather die than receive these diabolical creations had stood their ground.
How can I be sure it’s not about money? Because while a small number of drug companies made a fortune, almost every other sector lost money & lots of it.
This criminal enterprise must have had the approval to do it from those who control the money and the assets in the world. Lockdown & other measures were certain to cause the collapse of the real economies of scores of countries. They are now all on life support & I expect all the leading currencies of the world will formally collapse in the next few months to a few years. Not about money, but about control.
I can envisage several viable paths to imposition of mandatory digital ID & cashless CBDCs. Every proposed transaction would then be subject to central Authorisation (or not). The end of freedom & of politics / democracy.
Still the politicians parroted fear of the alleged virus, pushed the obviously broken alleged vaccines, the dead & dying mounting up.
And they’re moving on from covid19, Act I in a multi Act drama, taking us to 2030, sustainable development goals, where we will own nothing yet be happy (enjoy your bugs).
These people are pure evil, Satan-worshipping psychopaths.
They’re not going to go away or give up. Only massive & persistent protests have the slightest chance of altering the outcome.
We don’t have long, in my opinion. War, food & fuel shortages, economic collapse & currency crises could & I think will be used progressively to deprive each of us of all that makes life eithef enjoyable or at least tolerable.
While absolutely nailing the evil crooks behind these unprecedented crimes against humanity, I urge, plead that we no longer remain focussed solely on the “vaccines”. The recovery of the injured will take its own path. Some who’ve been injured may yet perish. But if en masse we don’t anticipate food shortages (for which there’s been at least a years warning); if we don’t get some MPs & police on side; if we don’t pay in cash absolutely every chance to can & hold a moderately substantial wad of money at home; if we don’t massively protest against any suggestion of introduction of mandatory digital ID of CBDCs or the withdrawal of cash, we will witness our permanent loss of sovereignty, we will fall under the totalitarian tyranny of the self proclaimed elite class.
There is little more to say & I anticipate only a few new interviews.
Good luck everybody.
Mike
The string of coincidences in the tale have close to 0% probability of happening by chance.
In fact, beginning human trials for a “vaccine” for a biological agent that had been identified only 5 days prior (really?) stretches credulity to the breaking point. I think the story that causes my brain to cramp is the fact that at the time, the same impossible chain of circumstances brought nothing but wonderment and accolades in the public discourse. Are we really this gullible?