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TFTC - Truth for the Commoner

Bitcoin Brief

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Sup, freaks.

Declassified government documents are linking U.S. bioweapons programs directly to the Lyme disease epidemic. The same government that told you it was a naturally occurring tick-borne illness was running secret programs releasing hundreds of thousands of radioactive ticks across Virginia and deploying infected insects against Cuban civilians. The origins trace back to Plum Island, just 13 miles from Lyme, Connecticut. And the lone star tick, now spreading a meat allergy called alpha-gal syndrome across the country, emanated from the same area. We need to start asking hard questions about whether this government is legitimate.

LEAD STORY

### Declassified Documents Link U.S. Bioweapons Programs to the Lyme Disease Epidemic

Our government is actively attacking us. That is the inescapable conclusion from [a new investigation published by Dr. Robert Malone](https://www.malone.news/p/declassified-documents-link-us-bioweapons?ref=tftc.io) based on declassified government documents and suppressed scientific research. The evidence shows that U.S. biological weapons programs contributed directly to the emergence of Lyme disease, which now affects hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. Between 1966 and 1969, the U.S. military released 282,800 lone star ticks made radioactive with Carbon-14 across Virginia, tracking their spread with Geiger counters. Before these experiments, lone star ticks did not exist above the Mason-Dixon Line. Within years, they had established populations on Long Island for the first time.

It gets worse. Declassified documents and testimony from a CIA operative describe the 1962 deployment of infected ticks against Cuban sugarcane workers as part of Operation Mongoose. The operative told researchers that the "strangest thing he ever did was drop infected ticks on Cuban sugarcane workers" using C-123 transport aircraft flying nighttime missions skimming the Caribbean. When he returned, his four-month-old son developed a life-threatening fever. His CIA commander told him to "burn all the clothes you took to Cuba. Burn everything." Defense Secretary Robert McNamara authorized Project 112 in 1962, creating a bioweapons program "almost as large and secretive as the Manhattan Project" with production facilities capable of breeding 100 million infected mosquitoes monthly. The program's existence was denied by the military for 50 years until a CBS News investigation forced acknowledgment in 2000.

Plum Island Animal Disease Center sits just 13 miles from Lyme, Connecticut, where the disease was first identified. From 1952 to 1969, the facility was managed by the Army Chemical Corps for biological warfare research. The facility "frequently conducted its experiments out of doors" with acknowledged containment failures where test animals mingled with wild deer and test birds mixed with wild birds. Wildlife regularly moved between Plum Island and the mainland. Deer from Lyme regularly swam to Plum Island, creating direct pathways for laboratory pathogens to reach wild populations. As [we have covered before](https://tftc.io/kraken-fed-master-account-bitcoin-war-banking-crisis/?ref=tftc.io), the pattern of government concealment and institutional self-protection over public health is the same playbook, whether it is banking, surveillance, or biological research.

Now we have the lone star tick running rampant throughout the country, making people allergic to meat through alpha-gal syndrome. And it came from the same area, emanated from the same lab where Lyme disease was created. Willy Burgdorfer, the scientist who discovered the Lyme disease bacterium in 1982, spent most of his career developing tick-borne biological weapons. In 2013 video testimony, he confirmed participation in bioweapons research and hinted at an accidental release. He also discovered a second pathogen called "Swiss Agent" in Lyme patient blood samples that was completely omitted from his landmark 1982 study. This suppression of critical research for over 40 years may have contributed to treatment failures in chronic Lyme patients.

Our tax dollars are being used to poison us. The wars, the civil liberties stripped away, the diseases and viruses created in bioweapons labs, whether it is Lyme disease, the lone star tick, or COVID itself. At some point we really need to begin to question whether or not this government is legitimate. The 2019 House amendment requiring the Pentagon to investigate whether the military "experimented with ticks and other insects regarding use as a biological weapon between 1950 and 1975" was a start, but the institutional resistance to transparency tells you everything you need to know. Bitcoin is the only monetary system that doesn't require trust in institutions that have proven, repeatedly, that they do not deserve it.

SIGNAL

### Keonne Rodriguez Writes From Prison: "The Skinwalker"

Why it matters: A man serving five years for building privacy software is chronicling life inside federal custody.

[Keonne Rodriguez, the Samourai Wallet developer sentenced to five years](https://www.therage.co/keonne-rodriguez-letter-skinwalker/?ref=tftc.io) for building a Bitcoin privacy tool the government deemed illegal, has published his latest letter from FPC Morgantown. This one is titled "The Skinwalker," a darkly comic character study of a fellow inmate whose bizarre habits, turning every shower on full blast at midnight to create a steam room, leaving them running for hours, refusing basic human courtesy, capture the quiet indignities of incarceration. Keonne's writing is sharp, funny, and deeply human. He notes that he cannot say anything to the Skinwalker because even a polite request could escalate to a physical altercation, costing him good time credit or getting him moved to higher security. This is what happens when the government decides that writing code is a crime. Read the full letter.

### The Northeast Has Abundant Gas but Anti-Fossil-Fuel Policies Block the Pipelines

Why it matters: Ideological permitting blockades keep energy prices artificially high in the most populated region of the country.

[Alex Epstein points out](https://x.com/AlexEpstein/status/2029269154403107119?ref=tftc.io) that the Northeast built almost no new natural gas pipeline capacity last year because anti-fossil-fuel policies make pipelines nearly impossible to permit. Pennsylvania is sitting on abundant natural gas that could dramatically lower the region's high energy prices, but there are not enough pipelines to transport it to demand centers. The result is that people in the most energy-rich part of the country are paying some of the highest energy prices. This is policy-induced scarcity, not a resource problem. Another example of government making life harder and more expensive for ordinary people.

### Gradually, Then Suddenly Is Now an Audiobook

Why it matters: The best framework for understanding Bitcoin as money, now in audio, read by the author himself.

[Parker Lewis just announced](https://x.com/parkeralewis/status/2028947233937264744?ref=tftc.io) that "Gradually, Then Suddenly: A Framework for Understanding Bitcoin as Money" is now available as an audiobook, read by Parker personally. The foreword is read by yours truly. Published by Saifedean Ammous's Saif House with cover art by Proof of Paint. A fully Bitcoin production with no AI involved. If you have not read the book yet, the audiobook is a great way to absorb what is arguably the clearest articulation of why Bitcoin is money ever written. Highly recommend.

### Strike Goes Live in New York and Launches Bitcoin Line of Credit

Why it matters: Borrow against your bitcoin without selling. The Bitcoiner's life hack goes live.

[Jack Mallers announced](Strike is also now live in New York(https://x.com/jackmallers/status/2028973728567312550?ref=tftc.io) after securing its BitLicense, opening access to millions of New Yorkers who were previously locked out.

### House Votes 357-65 to Kill Effort to Release Congressional Sexual Misconduct Records

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