The president of the United States just threatened to end all trade with China if the Chinese do not stop buying oil from Iran.  I realize that this sounds like something that Hollywood would dream up, but this isn’t a plot from an episode of your favorite television show.  This is really happening.  President Trump has decided to raise the level of economic pressure on Iran to the maximum in a last ditch effort to force the Iranians to make a deal to end their nuclear program.  The oil industry is the central pillar of the Iranian economy, and President Trump wants to make it impossible for them to export any oil at all.  So he is threatening to completely cut off all trade with any nation that purchases any amount of Iranian oil.

This is what a trade war looks like when it goes nuclear.

President Trump is pledging that any nation that buys Iranian oil “will not be allowed to do business with the United States of America in any way, shape, or form”.  He didn’t mention China specifically when he wrote this, but Trump knows that China buys far more oil from Iran than anyone else.

For some reason, the mainstream media is mostly ignoring this story.  But State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce has confirmed that this is now U.S. policy and that China in particular is being targeted…

“These sanctions are being imposed pursuant to President Trump’s maximum pressure campaign to drive Iran’s oil exports, including to China, to zero. China is by far the largest importer of Iranian oil. The Iranian regime uses the revenue it generates from these sales to finance attacks on U.S. allies, support terrorism around the world, and pursue other destabilizing actions,” State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said.

This is it.

We really have reached a moment of truth.

In 2025, approximately 90 percent of all Iranian oil exports have been purchased by China…

Shipping data from cargo tracking company Vortexa shows that 90 percent of Iranian oil exports are purchased by China, and Iranian oil exports to China hit a record high of 1.8 million barrels per day in March, Reuters reported, citing ship tracking data.

China isn’t going to stop buying oil from Iran.

I hope that I am wrong about that, but I do not believe that I am.

And I do not believe that Trump is bluffing either.

So it appears that we are about to see a full shutdown of all trade with China.

Most Americans have absolutely no idea what that will mean for us.

It is being reported that “90% of the inputs in prescription drugs consumed in the US are imported”, and a “significant portion” of those inputs are produced by the Chinese…

“Estimates show that 90% of the inputs in prescription drugs consumed in the US are imported,” said Torsten Sløk, chief economist at Apollo. A significant portion of that comes from China, making it a major supply chain risk.

Ongoing tariff disputes between Washington and Beijing have investors on edge, especially in healthcare and pharmaceuticals, where any price shock could ripple across the industry and impact both investors and patients.

This is a really big deal, because as I have discussed previously, more than 60 percent of all U.S. adults are currently taking at least one pharmaceutical drug.

According to supply chain analytics company Exiger, about 80 percent of the active ingredients in our pharmaceutical drugs come from China…

According to a report from the supply chain analytics company Exiger released last week, the US relies on China for as much as 80 percent of active pharmaceutical ingredients. For generic antibiotics, in particular, the dependence is much higher at 90 percent.

If there is a complete shutdown of trade with China, you are going to see drug shortages like you have never seen before.

I wish that I was exaggerating, but I am not.

Even 95 percent of our ibuprofen comes from China.

Good luck getting ibuprofen when none is coming across the Pacific Ocean.

Of course there will be shortages in countless other industries as well.

Right now, most of our computers and phones are made in China…

According to Bloomberg, the U.S. relies on imports from China for a majority of the following products by value: game consoles (86%, $6 billion), PC monitors (79%, $5 billion), smartphones (73%, $41 billion), lithium-ion batteries (70%, $16 billion), and laptops (66%, $32 billion).

This means consumers and businesses that need these products will have few to zero alternatives for products that do not come from China.

Our stores are filled with televisions, appliances, toys and other products that are made in China.

I hate to say it, but our economy literally cannot function normally without Chinese-made goods.

We should have never allowed this to happen, but this is the reality of the scenario that we are now facing.

The good news is that it appears that the Chinese are still leaving the door open for a potential deal…

China has said it’s evaluating approaches from US officials to start negotiations about tariffs, a potential deescalation in the trade war that has raised hopes formal trade talks could start soon.

“If we fight, we will fight to the end; if we talk, the door is open,” China’s commerce ministry stated on Friday. “The tariff war and trade war were unilaterally initiated by the United States. If the United States wants to talk, it should show its sincerity and be prepared to correct its wrong practices and cancel the unilateral tariffs.”

Hopefully the U.S. and China will sit down and talk, and hopefully both sides will be in a mood to make significant compromises.

Because if we stay on the path that we are currently on, it will be a nightmare.

Even before the trade war erupted about a month ago, many U.S. consumers were stocking up in anticipation of the coming tariffs…

Similarly, according to a survey of 1,000 consumers by NielsenIQ done in March, 31% of consumers said they were stocking up on groceries in anticipation of tariffs while others said they were expediting non-grocery purchases before tariff-related price increases took effect.

Have you been stocking up?

I hope so.

If there are any Chinese-made products that you will need in the months ahead, get them now.

If all trade with China is suddenly brought to a screeching halt, it is going to throw our society into a state of great chaos.

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This article was originally published by Mike Adams at Natural News under the title: U.S. Government’s Bio-War Against America: 15 Historical Medical Horrors Inflicted on the American People by the Government Itself

As this research article reveals, the U.S. government has routinely unleashed bioweapons on its own people. It has weaponized medicine, dropped aerosolized bioweapons on civilian populations in the USA and subjected American civilians—especially Black and marginalized populations—to horrific medical torture under the guise of “science.”

From forced sterilization to aerosolized biowarfare attacks, history exposes a government that views its citizens as disposable guinea pigs rather than free human beings. And as you read these words, the same corrupt agencies—CDC, NIH, DOD, FDA—are pushing bird flu hysteria, flu season propaganda, and forced vaccine mandates designed to inject you with engineered bioweapons that seek to accelerate global depopulation of the human race.

The evidence is undeniable. Each of the 15 events listed below can be independently verified through multiple historical sources.

1. J. Marion Sims’ Experiments on Enslaved Black Women (1845–1849)

Year: 1845–1849

Location: Alabama

Agency/Entity: None (governmental institutions later funded Sims’ work)

Details: The “father of gynecology” tortured enslaved Black women with repeated agonizing surgeries—without anesthesia—to develop surgical techniques. Many died in agony. No compensation, no justice.

Health Ranger commentary: This monstrous cruelty laid the foundation for the medical establishment’s systemic abuse of Black Americans. These women were raped, mutilated, and discarded—yet medical elites still celebrate Sims as a pioneer. The racist sadism of American medicine begins here.

2. Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932–1972)

Year: 1932–1972

Location: Tuskegee, Alabama

Agency/Entity: U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), CDC

Details: 400 Black men infected with syphilis were intentionally denied penicillin (even after it was available) to study disease progression. Over 100 died. Families were never told the truth.

Health Ranger commentary: A 40-year genocide sanctioned by the CDC. This was not “medicine”—it was race-based extermination. If this isn’t proof that the U.S. government is thoroughly evil, nothing is. The CDC continues to murder Americans to this day, except that the medical experiments have been upgraded to nationwide vaccine injection psyops.

3. Puerto Rico Pill Trials (1950s–1960s)

Year: 1950s–1960s

Location: Puerto Rico

Agency/Entity: U.S. government, G.D. Searle & Company

Details: Poor Puerto Rican women were given high-dose, untested birth control pills. Severe side effects—blood clots, tumors, death—were ignored. At least three women died, and countless suffered.

Health Ranger commentary: The globalist eugenics agenda was already in full swing. The U.S. uses poor and minority women as lab rats—now they’re doing it with COVID vaccines and mRNA infertility drugs, among other methods.

4. Mustard Gas Experiments on Soldiers (1940s)

Year: 1942–1945

Location: Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland

Agency/Entity: U.S. Army, Chemical Warfare Service

Details: 60,000+ U.S. soldiers were gassed with mustard gas and nerve agents without their consent. Skin melting, lung damage, lifelong agony—all covered up.

Health Ranger commentary: Your own government weaponized its troops—and VA benefits were denied to victims. Modern vets face similar betrayal with toxic burn pits, Gulf War Syndrome, and the anthrax vaccine cover-up.

5. Operation Sea-Spray (1950) – Biowarfare on San Francisco

Year: 1950

Location: San Francisco

Agency/Entity: U.S. Navy, U.S. Army

Details: The military sprayed Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii over the city. Pneumonia-like illnesses surged, and at least one death was linked.

Health Ranger commentary: The U.S. willingly infected its own people to test bioweapons. Now, Bill Gates and the Pentagon fund “gain-of-function” research using mosquitoes and other forms of bioweapons delivery. Where do you suppose this goes next?

6. CIA’s MK-Ultra & LSD Mind Control (1950s–1970s)

Year: 1950s–1970s

Location: Nationwide (hospitals, prisons, military bases)

Agency/Entity: CIA, U.S. Army, NIH

Details: Prisoners, soldiers, and civilians were drugged with LSD and subjected to psychological torture. Many suicided, went insane, or died.

Health Ranger commentary: The global deep state still uses mass medication to suppress consciousness. Fluoride in water, SSRIs, vaccine neurotoxins—it’s the same agenda. Wake up. Protect your neurology and reject the jabs that damage your brain.

7. Human Radiation Experiments (1945–1974)

Year: 1945–1974

Location: Nationwide (Oak Ridge, TN)

Agency/Entity: AEC (Atomic Energy Commission), DoD

Details: Pregnant women, children, and prisoners were injected with plutonium to study radiation effects. Tumors, genetic defects, and early deaths followed.

Health Ranger commentary: The same government that destroyed Hiroshima then melted its own citizens from the inside. Do you still trust their “safe and effective” lies about mRNA? They have no hesitation in killing their own people, and we are all being targeted right now by our own government and its so-called “health” departments like the CDC and NIH.

8. U.S. Government Infected Guatemalans with STDs (1946–1948)

Year: 1946–1948

Location: Guatemala

Agency/Entity: NIH, PHS

Details: Doctors deliberately infected prisoners, soldiers, and mental patients with syphilis and gonorrhea. No treatment was given.

Health Ranger commentary: The medical-industrial complex operates on genocide. From Tuskegee to COVID, they see human beings as lab rats. They have zero recognition of the value of human life, and they will sacrifice any number of human beings in the name of “science!”

9. Operation Big Buzz & Operation Drop Kick (1950s) – Mosquito Bioweapons

Year: 1950s

Location: Georgia, Florida

Agency/Entity: U.S. Army

Details: Military dumped diseased mosquitoes on civilians to test vector-borne warfare.

Health Ranger commentary: The same Pentagon that weaponized mosquitoes now funds DARPA biotech—climate lockdowns, bird flu fearmongering, lab-made pandemics, and mass vaccine injection campaigns are their new weapons.

10. Operation Whitecoat (1954–1973) – Soldier Bioweapon Guinea Pigs

Year: 1954–1973

Location: Fort Detrick, Maryland

Agency/Entity: U.S. Army

Details: Conscientious objectors were infected with Q fever and other bioweapons. During the program, volunteers were exposed to Q fever in open-air tests in the Utah desert, where they sat alongside caged guinea pigs as Q fever germs were released into the air.

Health Ranger commentary: The military still uses troops as test subjects—anthrax vaccines, mRNA shots—and denies VA coverage to the damaged.

11. Manhattan Project Radiation Experiments (1940s–1970s) – The U.S. Government’s Nuclear Poisoning of Innocents

Year: 1940s–1970s

Location: Nationwide (Chicago, Los Alamos, Hanford)

Agency/Entity: Manhattan Project, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

Details: Soldiers, nuclear workers, and even pregnant women were injected with plutonium or dosed with deadly radiation—all while being lied to about the extreme dangers. These human guinea pigs suffered agonizing deaths from cancer, organ failure, and radiation sickness.

Health Ranger commentary: The U.S. government has no right to decide who lives and dies for “science.” Those responsible for these atrocities should have been prosecuted at Nuremberg.

12. Congressional Investigation on Lyme Disease as a Bioweapon (2019 Hearing, Rep. Chris Smith) – The Pentagon’s Tick-Borne Plague

Year: 1950s–1970s

Location: Plum Island, NY (secret DoD biolab)

Agency/Entity: DoD

Details: Whistleblowers reveal how Lyme disease was engineered on Plum Island, weaponized through infected ticks. Millions now suffer from chronic illness—while the Pentagon denies everything.

Health Ranger commentary: If the U.S. military created Lyme disease, it’s biological warfare against its own people—and treason against America.

13. Anthrax Vaccine Experiments (1990s–2000s) – The Gulf War Syndrome Cover-Up

Year: 1990s–2000s

Location: Military bases worldwide

Agency/Entity: DoD, FDA

Details: Soldiers were forced to take untested anthrax vaccines, leading to autoimmune disorders, neurological damage, and deaths. When victims spoke up, they were silenced as “conspiracy theorists.”

Health Ranger commentary: This is medical murder—yet no one was held accountable. Now, the same military-pharmaceutical complex pushes COVID-19 vaccines with similar disregard for human life.

14. COVID-19 Vaccine Trials (2020–Present) – A Mass Depopulation Experiment

Year: 2020–Present

Location: Worldwide

Agency/Entity: NIH, DoD, CDC

Details: Under Operation Warp Speed (President Trump), Big Pharma skipped long-term safety trials. VAERS reports reveal thousands of deaths, heart attacks, and autoimmune disorders—but the CDC buried the evidence and silenced the truth-tellers. Now, whistleblowers warn these shots contain graphene oxide, prions, and infertility agents.

Health Ranger commentary: The U.S. government is running the largest human experiment in history—and immediate Criminal tribunals must indict those pushing these lethal injections. Where is the criminal prosecution against Fauci?

15. Pentagon’s Ongoing Biodefense Experiments (2000s–Present) – Gain-of-Function & Genetic Warfare

Year: 2000s–Present

Location: Fort Detrick, Military Bases

Agency/Entity: DoD, DARPA

Details: Gain-of-function research on viruses like COVID-19 continues unchecked. DARPA funds secret biolabs worldwide, while Pentagon documents confirm engineered “super-pathogens” to target populations.

Health Ranger commentary: This is Nazi-tier science—the same evil that weaponized disease in WWII. Where are the criminal tribunals and mass arrests?

And They’re Still Killing You in 2025

The same agencies that murdered Black men in Tuskegee, sprayed cities with bioweapons, and drugged soldiers are now pushing vaccine mandates, bird flu terror, and mRNA gene-editing drugs.

This isn’t “public health.” It’s population extermination to make way for the rise of AI robots to replace human labor.

If you think COVID was bad, wait until they roll out bird flu lockdowns. If you think mRNA injections are safe, wake up—they’re part of a long history of medical atrocities.

Your own government wants you dead. But they don’t want you to resist, which is why they use psyops to convince gullible, obedient people to line up and be injected with death jabs.

Don’t be gullible. Be informed, alert, aware. Stay alive with knowledge and resistance. Arm yourself with nutrition: Superfoods, anti-viral herbs and extracts that protect you against shedding. Use today’s best remedies and natural cures to stay alive.