Investigative journalist and founder of 21st Century Wire.com Patrick Henningsen addresses the growing number of Ebola conspiracy theories, including one that links the deadly virus to ISIS.
“There’s a huge, kind of a staged outbreak hype, which has gone on in America,” Henningsen says about the Ebola hysteria that’s hit the U.S. media. “On one hand it’s a hype, on the other hand, they could not be telling us the full extent or danger involved with this particular pathogen.”
It is pointed out that while thousands have already died of Ebola in West Africa, the United States has only seen a few cases, so there is no pandemic yet in the United States despite the saturated news coverage. Henningsen also cites some of the “bombastic” news stories being put out by FOX News and other right-wing media sources. “They’re trying to link Ebola to ISIS.”
He gives the example of Albert Shimkus – a professor and retired colonel who teaches intelligence at the U.S. Navy Academy – who first floated the ISIS-Ebola danger. “He said ISIS terrorists could go to West Africa, intentionally infect themselves with Ebola, and then get on a plane to the United States and fly around to as many cities as they can to spread Ebola around America.
“The wildest conspiracy theories right now are not coming from the mainstream media, they’re coming from official sources now, and that’s the incredible paradigm shift that I’ve witnessed in the past year.”
He notes that former U.S. senator Scott Brown suggested the same thing, that ISIS fighters could go over to West Africa and get infected with Ebola and then enter the United States via Mexico to spread the disease throughout the country.
Watch the full episode to also hear Henningsen outline his theory that the man involved in the recent Canadian shootings might be the victim of government mind control, plus an assessment on the current state of ISIS as a terrorist “brand.”
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